Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania . ly a resolute man and full of moral courage,but he was an excellent lawyer. He was alsoa scholarly man and a great reader of goodbooks. T. H. Atherton said: He was intensely inearnest in desiring and working for the bestdevelopment and progress of the community andcommonwealth in which he lived, whether thatprogress and improvement was social and intel-lectual, material or political, and to aid and ac-complish it he gave freely of his thought, timeand means. E. G. Scott said: Mr. Dickson was one ofour good ex
Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania . ly a resolute man and full of moral courage,but he was an excellent lawyer. He was alsoa scholarly man and a great reader of goodbooks. T. H. Atherton said: He was intensely inearnest in desiring and working for the bestdevelopment and progress of the community andcommonwealth in which he lived, whether thatprogress and improvement was social and intel-lectual, material or political, and to aid and ac-complish it he gave freely of his thought, timeand means. E. G. Scott said: Mr. Dickson was one ofour good examples—let it be borne in mind andcarried in the heart, that the reason he was agood example to others is, that he had a standardof his own, and that he lived up to it. H. E. H. MIXER FAMILY. In Pennsylvania historythe Miners of the Wyoming valley trace their an-cestry to pioneers Asher and Charles Miner. InAmerica the family dates back to the time ofThomas Miner, the immigrant ancestor wholanded at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1630, in thetime of the colony. In England, from whence. £^CS<cc«^ /Y. s£h-JZYC^^D~<, , V THE WYOMING AND LACKAWANNA VALLEYS. 9i Thomas, the immigrant, came, the history of thefamily is traced from Henry Miner, who died , 1359. Among the ancient archives of theMiner family there is preserved a document whichshows something of the history of Henry, hisloyalty to his sovereign, Edward III, and alsogives an account of the origin of the Miner arms,and how the distinction accompanying them wasearned in Edwards time. He had his coatahmorial gules, * * * fesse id est., cin-guluin militarc, because obtained by valour) be-twixt three plates Argent, * * * the crestbeing a battle axe, armed at both ends Minerall.(From An Herauldical Essay upon the Surnameof Miner.) (See N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg.,vol. XII, p. 161). This Henry died in the year 1359,leaving behind him Henry, Edward, Thomas, andGeorge Miner, of whom little is to be said, saveonly that Henry
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