History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . , Barbary, was born April 20,1769 and died August 9, 1840. DAVID H. BEDELL. Mr. Bedell is a son of Abram H. and Ellen(Swartz) Bedell of Milwaukie. He was bornSept. 9, 1872. When about five years of agehis father purchased and moved to a farm atSquare Top, in Falls township. When aboutseventeen he attended Kev.^toue Academv oneterm. He was married Julv IS, 189:1 to ]»Iiss son. Mr. Bedell was married April lo, 1804to Miss Ellen A., daughter of Henry and Ma-lissa (Miller) Swartz ol Newton township. Tothis uni
History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . , Barbary, was born April 20,1769 and died August 9, 1840. DAVID H. BEDELL. Mr. Bedell is a son of Abram H. and Ellen(Swartz) Bedell of Milwaukie. He was bornSept. 9, 1872. When about five years of agehis father purchased and moved to a farm atSquare Top, in Falls township. When aboutseventeen he attended Kev.^toue Academv oneterm. He was married Julv IS, 189:1 to ]»Iiss son. Mr. Bedell was married April lo, 1804to Miss Ellen A., daughter of Henry and Ma-lissa (Miller) Swartz ol Newton township. Tothis union eleven children were born, namely:Caroline, Gertrude, Eva, Kate, David, Arthur,Adalade, Temple, Brice, Robert and and Dolly died in youth. THEODORE G. BEHLKE Mr, Behlke was born Sept. 7, 1854 in roni-ern, Prussia, Germany, where he lived untileighteen years of age, sailing for this country inMay, 1872, arriving in New York .Tunc 2, l)eingabout thirty days on the water. He went toOxford, N. J., where he worked in the iron millsfor twcl\-c years. In October, 1884 he moved. DAVID H. BEDELL AND FAMILY Mary C, daughter of Nicholas and Alzaua(Dailey) Klingle of Abington. She was bornNov. 21, 1873. Mr. Bedell has devoted much of his life tofarming, excepting a few months while employ-ed in the Dickson boiler shop at Scran ton. When Rural Route No. 2 was established atRansom, March 16, 1907, Mr. Bedell was ap-pointed mail carrier. Mr. and Mr,«. Bedell have one son, Walter A.,born Feb. 5, 1894. Abram H. Bedell, the father of our subject,was born April 28, 1844 in Milwaukie. He isa son of Zachariah Bedell. Mr. Bedell is ablacksmith by trade. He and Jacob Bedell con-ducted a shop in Milwaukie for several Mr. Bedell kept a store in the same vil-lage. About 1877 he purchased a farm atSquare Top, where he lived several years. InAugust, 1900 he sold his farm to Ehner Thomp- to Scranton, working nearly three years in astone quarry, and September, 1887 he beganworking
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