. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . ly settled in Dyberry township, WayneCounty. Here he engaged in farming and lumber-ing. He continued there in the lumber businessfor five years, rafting his lumber from the head-waters of Dyberry Creek to Honesdale, thence lie :ht oy WAYNE COUNTY. 829- down the Lackawaxen to its confluence with theDelaware, and via that water route to Philadel-phia, the great market for the large quantities oflumber of Eastern Pennsylvania. In 1858 he removed to Cherry Ridge town-ship, at what is now called Collins Mills, and ship. Mr. Ferguson w:is
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . ly settled in Dyberry township, WayneCounty. Here he engaged in farming and lumber-ing. He continued there in the lumber businessfor five years, rafting his lumber from the head-waters of Dyberry Creek to Honesdale, thence lie :ht oy WAYNE COUNTY. 829- down the Lackawaxen to its confluence with theDelaware, and via that water route to Philadel-phia, the great market for the large quantities oflumber of Eastern Pennsylvania. In 1858 he removed to Cherry Ridge town-ship, at what is now called Collins Mills, and ship. Mr. Ferguson w:is originally identified withthe Democratic party, hut allied himself with theRepublican party soon after its organization. Hischildren are Harvey H., of Mount Pleasant town-ship, and Elmer E. and Flora, at home. father died in Waterford, where he had was there engaged in manufacturing and shipping spent his life, a farmer, in 1859, aged sixty-twolumber for twelve years. In 1870 he settled in J years, and her mother died four years later, at the. Equinunk, and continued for fifteen years more inthe same business. He was therefore engaged inthe lumber trade in Wayne County for a period ofthirty-two years, and is well known throughoutthis section of the State as an active and through-going businessman. In 1885 Mr. Ferguson settledat Seelyville and retired from active a resident of Buckingham and Dyberrytownships he served several terms as school director,and he also served as supervisor of the former town- age of sixty-one years. Their children areSophro-nia, wife of Nathaniel Olcott, of Concord, Vt. ;John W., of St. Johnsbury, Vt.; Laura L.; Cur-tis R., of Lunenburgh, Yt.; and Martha Jane, wifeof Samuel P. Kneeland, a civil engineer in theSouth, who served in the laying out and construc-tion of railroads during the late Civil War; andone son, Oliver T. Spalding, Jr., who died a youngman, in 1863. HISTORY OF PIKE COUNTY. CHAPTER I. Civil History—Taxabl
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