. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. .As a tiller of the soil he is thorough and skillful,and has been uniformly fortunate in his invest-ments. Mr. Ayres was born in the old Dundaff Hotel,May 3, 1835, and is a worthy representative of oneof the most prominent families of Susquehannacounty, being a son of Benjamin and Margaret(Lepper) Avres, the former a native of Bergencounty, N. J., the la
. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. .As a tiller of the soil he is thorough and skillful,and has been uniformly fortunate in his invest-ments. Mr. Ayres was born in the old Dundaff Hotel,May 3, 1835, and is a worthy representative of oneof the most prominent families of Susquehannacounty, being a son of Benjamin and Margaret(Lepper) Avres, the former a native of Bergencounty, N. J., the latter of Dublin, Ireland. Butlittle is known of his mateThal grandparents ex-cept that they were lifelong residents of Dunmore,Ireland, and were Protestants in religious paternal grandparents were Elihu and Susan(Terhune) Ayres, the grandfather a native ofSouthampton, England, whence, in 1780, he cameto \merica with a brother. After a year spent inNew Bedford they separated, the former going toBergen county, X. J., the latter to Pennsylvania,where he died shortly afterward. For many yearsMr. Ayres grandfather operated the first cableferry between Manhattan Island and Jersey City,X. J. He died in 1825, at the age of sixty-eight.
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