History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . rried Nov. 21, 1900 to MissSarah Stout, daughter of John and Lydia J.(Harris) Stout of Ransoin. Mrs. Taft was bornAug. 28, 1880. Mr. and Mrs, Taft are tlie ]va-rents of four children, namelv: Martha Ah, bornOct. l;L 1901: Mildred AL, iKirn June 30, 190;l:Freddie J., born Nov. 14, lOO,! and AVilliam R.,liorn July 7, 1908. Mrs. Thompson was born in Pittston and isone of seven children of Richard and Maria(Bates) Smith. Mrs. Thompson taught five successive terms<if school in Newton township before her mar-
History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . rried Nov. 21, 1900 to MissSarah Stout, daughter of John and Lydia J.(Harris) Stout of Ransoin. Mrs. Taft was bornAug. 28, 1880. Mr. and Mrs, Taft are tlie ]va-rents of four children, namelv: Martha Ah, bornOct. l;L 1901: Mildred AL, iKirn June 30, 190;l:Freddie J., born Nov. 14, lOO,! and AVilliam R.,liorn July 7, 1908. Mrs. Thompson was born in Pittston and isone of seven children of Richard and Maria(Bates) Smith. Mrs. Thompson taught five successive terms<if school in Newton township before her mar-riage and one term after. j\Ir. and Mrs. Thomp-son have two children, one son, William E.,born Ahuch 22, 1902, and one daughter, AltaF., btirn October 19, 1909. Both were born inNewton. Richard Smith was born in England , 1846, and came to this country when aboutten years old. He is a jeweler by trade, butfor over twenty years has been a C. S. B. in theChristian Science Church, and is now locatedat Lancaster. Pa. Mrs. Smith was a daughterof Solomon G. and Angeline (Ward) Bates,. RESIDENCE OF WILLIAM J. TAFT FRANK C. THOMPSON Mr. Thomiason is a son of William E. andElizabeth (Klipple) Thompson, and a grandsonof John anct Harriet (Smith) C. was born in Newton township Sept. 3, 1872. He attended school at Newton until about sixteen years of age. He then enteredKeystone Acaclemy, where he attended two win-ter terms,. He helped his father on the farmuntil twentv-six vears of age. He was marriedMay 31, 1899 to Miss Minnie W. Smith. In April, 1905, Mr. and Mrs. Thompsonmoved to Clarks Sunnnit where he eecvu-ed aposition as foreman of the Newton, Ransom andLake Winola Telephone Company (now theMerchants). On March 27, 1906 he was em-ployed by the Lehigh Aalley Coal Company attheir Storage Plant at Ransom, working firstas helper, and later was ]>r()motod to for over n year has been electrician. and was born in Tunkhannock, Feb. 12, 1857and died ui Sc
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