. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . descendant of Phineas Les-ter, who settled in the year 1786 in the Wallen-paupack settlement, Pike County, Pa., and <;i;g WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. there passed his life engaged in arduous toil, andin the performance of those trying duties whichfell to the lot of the early settlers of that wildregion. Among his children who are best re-membered are Andrew Lester, father of thesubject of this sketch; Orrin, who resided inSusquehanna County, Pa., near Montrose ; John,who removed to the West; aud a daughter, whom
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . descendant of Phineas Les-ter, who settled in the year 1786 in the Wallen-paupack settlement, Pike County, Pa., and <;i;g WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. there passed his life engaged in arduous toil, andin the performance of those trying duties whichfell to the lot of the early settlers of that wildregion. Among his children who are best re-membered are Andrew Lester, father of thesubject of this sketch; Orrin, who resided inSusquehanna County, Pa., near Montrose ; John,who removed to the West; aud a daughter, whomarried Captain Arnold, an old resident of time owned by Porter Kennedy, he exchangedfor one now owned by his son, Orrin Lester,situate two miles east of Pleasant Mount village,and there, with his faithful wife, he lived and begat sons and daughters as follows : Eunice,who married Josiah Goodsell, of Connecticut,and left descendants there ; Betsy, who becamethe wife of Elisha Tooker, aud now resides inIowa : Anna W., who married Rufus Tuttle, # iroF ^pf^i I. QMaa^l OCjZA. >AjlAj Wayne County, and father of the late JudgePhineas Arnold. Andrew Lester was born at Canterbury,Conn., May 29, 1778. In January, 1803, hemarried Sallie, daughter of David Kennedy,and the following month removed to MountPleasant township, Wayne County, Pa., wherehe purchased one hundred acres of land, onwhich he built a log house and barn. Hecleared about forty acres of this tract and plant-ed a small orchard. This farm, at the present of Connecticut ; Asa A.; David K., who re-sides in Crawford County, Wis.; Sarah M.,who married Merrels Stephens, of Lebanontownship, and has resided in Illinois for fiftyyears past; Orrin, the subject of this memoir ;and Emeline, wife of Dr. Rodney Harmes, ofPleasant Mount. To provide for so large a family, AndrewLester and his wife were under the necessity ofexercising industry and economy. It was neces-sary to clear and cultivate his land and to sub- WAYNE COUNTY. 667 s
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