mings, who settled in Eldred township, McKean Co., Penn., in 1840. His father, who was a farmer and lumberman by occupation, cleared several farms in Eldred township, where he died. His children who grew to maturity were: Almira (Mrs. William Pendleton). George, Willard, Chester and Albion. Willard Cummings was reared in Eldred township, where he has resided since infancy; and after attaining his majority followed farming and lumbering as an occupation. He has cleared two farms in Eldred township, one of which he now occupies. He was in the war of the Rebellion, enlisting August 18, 1862, in Company G, One Hundred and Fiftieth P. V. I.; was captured at Gettysburg, and was confined in Libby and Belle Isle prisons thirty-three days; was honorably discharged from the service June 25, 1865. He married, in 1874, Mrs. Mary J. (Payne) Wright, daughter of Isaac Payne, of Eldred. Mr. Cummings is a member of the G. A. R.; politically he is a Republican.

GEORGE T. DENNIS, proprietor of botanical laboratory, and manufacturer of botanical remedies, Eldred, Penn., was born in Masonville, Delaware Co., N. Y., September 22, 1819, a son of Nathan and Tirzah (Knapp) Dennis, who settled in this township (then Ceres) in 1822. George T. Dennis was reared and educated in Eldred, and at eighteen years of age taught school, during the succeeding winter term, and followed that business summer and winter more or less after he had finished his education at Smethport Academy in 1840, under the tuition of Martin V. Adkins. March 13, 1844, he married Mary Ann, daughter of Matthew M. and Prudence (Maxon) Crandall, of Ceres, N. Y. She was born at Truxton, Cortland Co., N. Y., May 12, 1821, and became the mother of seven. children: Mason G., Matthew N., Clark W., William B., Joseph B., Rosa P. (Mrs. H. J. Doolittle) and Matie (Mrs. William Boone). After his marriage Mr. Dennis settled, cleared and improved a farm in the wilderness of Eldred township which he still owns. He was in the Rebellion, enlisting in the fall of 1864, in Company A, Eighty-fifth New York Volunteer Infantry, participated in the battle of Wise Forks, N. C., and was honorably discharged at Elmira, N. Y., in July, 1865. In his twentieth year Mr. Dennis united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1846 he went to Iowa, where he resided three years; taught school and received a license to preach, and is now an ordained,. licensed, local preacher, residing at Eldred, where he has lived since 1886. Mr. Dennis began the manufacture of his botanical remedies in a small way in 1874, and since 1879 he has given his sole attention to the business, and as his remedies have the rare merit of being all they claim to be, he has succeeded in building up a lucrative business that is increasing daily. August 16, 1889, Mrs. Mary A. Dennis passed from earth, and January 1, 1890, Mr. Dennis married Mrs. H. Eliza Barrett, of Eldred, at the home of the bride on Edson street, the ceremony being performed by Rev. T. J. Bissell, presiding elder of Olean District. General Conference, N. Y. For a number of years Mr. Dennis was connected with the reportorial staff of the Bradford daily Era, as well as being correspondent for several leading papers of this county and section. He is an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and in politics is a temperance Republican.

REUBEN DENNIS, proprietor of the "Central House," Eldred, was born in Eldred, McKean Co., Penn., August 27, 1826, a son of Nathan and Theresa (Knapp) Dennis. His paternal grandfather, James Dennis, was a soldier in the Revolution. He was captured by the Indians, but in three months' time effected his escape, the opportunity of doing so being given him by the Indians. holding a pow-wow, and indulging too freely in "fire-water," thus forgetting all about their prisoner, who, taking with him about a quart of pop-corn, silently stole away in the darkness, and started on his long and tedious jour

ney homeward. During his three months' tramp homeward he had nothing to subsist on but the pop-corn he had taken from the Indians, and such roots and herbs as he could find. He suffered so severely from wounds received at the hands of the English, and from want of food, that he lived but a short time after his arrival home. Jacob Knapp, who was one of the three original settlers of Eldred township, came from Delaware county, N. Y., with a team of horses, which he turned out to browse the following winter, but the snow becoming too deep, he had to take the straw out of his bed ticks wherewith to feed them and keep them from starving; but his efforts to save his horses were in vain, for both perished. He cleared and improved a farm in Eldred township, on which he lived until his death. He was the father of twenty children, all but one of whom grew to maturity, and of whom Jacob Knapp, Jr., was one of the most renowned Baptist revival preachers of his day. Nathan Dennis was a soldier in the war of 1812, and settled in Eldred township in 1822, where he cleared and improved two farms; was also engaged in the mercantile and hotel businesses, and was postmaster at Allegany Bridge (now Eldred) for thirty years. He came from Delaware county, N. Y., to Eldred, with his family, team and household goods, and the last night of their journey they stopped with a family consisting of husband and two wives in Potter county, Penn., who, having but one bed, gave that up to their guests, while they made themselves as comfortable as they could on the floor. Nathan Dennis was the father of eleven children: George T., Lucinda (Mrs. M. G. Knapp), Susan (Mrs. Daniel Crandall), James N., Reuben, Lewis L., Jerusha (Mrs. C. C. Wright), Jane (Mrs. Daniel Blanchard), Washington, Martha (Mrs. Thaddeus Royce) and Virtue Dennis (deceased at six years). Reuben Dennis was reared on his father's farm, in Eldred township, and began life as a farmer and lumberman. He has been married three times, his first wife having been Ruth, daughter of Ebenezer and Deborah (Dean) Barden, of Eldred, by whom he had four chil dren, two of whom are living: May (Mrs David A. Parsells) and James F. His second wife was Helen Beardsley, by whom he had one daughter, still living, Helen (Mrs. D. Hastings), and one son, deceased. His present wife, Emma J., is a daughter of Eleazer Belknap, of Havana, N. Y. This last marriage has been blessed with two children: Charles R. and Lulu E. (Mrs. D. T. Horton). Mr. Dennis has been in the hotel business twelve years. In 1879 he erected the "Central Hotel," of which he has since been the successful and popular landlord. He served one term as commissioner of McKean county. Politically he was a Democrat until the election of James Buchanan, when he voted with the Republican party, and continued with same until 1884, since which time he has been a strong advocate of the Prohibition party.

MICHAEL DOYLE, merchant, lumberman and postmaster, Sartwell, was born in County Cork, Ireland, October 28, 1835, a son of Cornelius and Ellen (Callaghan) Doyle, who settled in what is now Annin township, McKean Co., Penn., in 1846, where his father cleared and improved a farm, on which he lived and died. They had seven children: Michael, Ellen (Mrs. James Mahoney), James, Margaret (Mrs. Thomas McMann), Hannah (Mrs. John Rice), Rose A. (Mrs. Robert Magner) and William. The subject of this sketch was reared in McKean county from eleven years of age, began life as a farmer, and cleared and improved the farm in Eldred township he now owns and occupies. He has been engaged in mercantile business at Sartwell twelve years, and fourteen years in lumbering. His wife was Helen, daughter of Dennis and Mary (Dunn) Keefe, of Steuben county, N. Y. They have six children: John, William, Minnie, Augustin, Arthur and Leonard. Mr. Doyle is a prominent and representative citizen of Eldred. He is a member of St.

Mary's Catholic Church; has held the office of school director two terms, and has been postmaster at Sartwell fourteen years. Politically he is a Democrat.

WILLIAM DUNBAR, lumberman, Larrabee, was born in Keating township, this county, January 24, 1832, a son of Jonathan D. and Catherine (Potter) Dunbar (formerly of near Utica, Tompkins Co., N. Y.), who settled in Farmers Valley, Keating township, in 1819. His father, who was one of the pioneer lumbermen of McKean county, followed lumbering nearly all his life. Amos Dunbar, the paternal grandfather of the subject of these lines, a native of New York State, and of Scotch parentage, built at Farmers Valley, along with his son, Jonathan D., the first grist mill erected in McKean county. Amos Dunbar had seven children: Israel, David, Jonathan D., Betsey (Mrs. Joseph Dunbar), Peggy (Mrs. Henry Kingsley), Anna (Mrs. William Cornelius) and Sally (deceased). Of these Jonathan D. carried on the lumber business at Farmers Valley for many years. His children were Sally (Mrs. Hiram Ault), William and Catherine (Mrs. John R. Hall). By his second wife, nee Alfa Hatch, he had one son, Amos. William Dunbar was reared in his native town and educated in the common schools. He began life as a lumberman when fifteen years of age, and was a partner with his father as lumberman and contractor up to 1857, from which time up to 1880 he was in business alone. He then engaged with J. J. Newman, of Buffalo, as contractor and superintendent of his milling business in McKean county. Mr. Dunbar is one of the oldest lumbermen in the district, having been in the business forty-two years, and has done more than any other to systematize the manufacture of lumber, by his invention of the "Dunbar Automatic Lumber Trimmer," for equalizing lengths of lumber, the first of the kind ever introduced into the Pennsylvania lumber districts. Mr. Dunbar has resided in Larrabee since 1880, and was postmaster three years, 1886-87-88. He is a member of the F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F.; in politics he is a Democrat. He was married July 10, 1856, to Olive M., daughter of Elisha and Fanny (Potter) Bishop, of Ceres township, McKean Co., Penn., and they have had two children: Florence (deceased) and George F.

A. R. FOWLER, farmer, P. O. Eldred, was born in Cortland county, N. Y., July 16, 1828, a son of Jefferson and Maryette (Rice) Fowler. They settled in Eldred township about the year 1837, locating on the land now occupied by A R. Fowler, where, after a few years, the father died, leaving a family of six children: A. R., Clara (now Mrs. George W. Lowe), Mary J. (Mrs. Thomas K. Wilcox), William P. (who died of wounds received at Point of Rocks, in the Rebellion), Harriet E. (Mrs. A. K. Riant) and Angelina A. (deceased.) A. R. Fowler was reared in Eldred from nine years of age, and after the death of his father became the main support of the family. His mother married, for her second husband, C. P. Humphrey, by whom she had four children: Corel P. (who died of disease contracted in the Civil war), Edwin D., Eveline J. (Mrs S Welland) and Thomas H. Mr. Fowler cleared and improved the farm he now occupies, and for many years was in the employ of Buffalo people as agent and buyer of lumber and timber lands. In April, 1859, he married Sarah A., daughter of Smith and Jerusha (Aldrich) Beers, who settled in Farmers Valley, this county, in 1848, and to this union were born three children: Rosabel J. (deceased), Rice J. and Maud E. (Mrs. Pelton Crosby.) For seven years Mr. Fowler worked in the interest of McKean county by inducing Buffalo capitalists to build the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; politically he is a Democrat.

JOHN M. GEUDER, farmer, P. O. Eldred, was born in Bavaria, Germany, September 29, 1825, a son of George M. and Margaret (Eberline)

Geuder. He was reared in his native land, and came to America in 1847, locating in Mercer county, Penn., where he worked in the coal mines two years. In 1851 he revisited Germany, remaining one year, then returned to America, in 1852, and settled in Eldred township, on the farm he now owns and occupies, comprising 181 acres, about eighty of which he cleared and improved. Mr. Geuder married, in 1849, in the State of Ohio, Mary, daughter of Jacob and Katrina (Wagner) Miller, of Bavaria, Germany, who came to America with J. M. Geuder in 1852, and died in Eldred in 1866 and 1868, respectively. The issue of Mr. Geuder's marriage was twelve children: Elizabeth (Mrs. John Koeblin), Margaret (Mrs. Henry Cordes), Caroline, Maria (deceased), George, John, Mary B. (Mrs. Dan Miller), Jacob M., Catherine (Mrs. Gottleib Reitz), Godfried G., Anna and Michael C. Of the sons, George, John and Jacob M. are married, and they, with their five married sisters, reside in Olean, N. Y., and have among them twenty-four children. During the first ten years of his residence in Eldred township, Mr. Geuder was the only German living there. Mr. Geuder has had all his children educated to read and write both the English and German languages. He is a progressive farmer, and enterprising citizen. He is a member of the German Lutheran Church of Olean, N. Y., and in politics a Democrat. Mr. Geuder was elected road commissioner once, and supervisor twice. Being a musician he has had a melodeon, since the year 1861, in the house. It was the only one in Eldred township for ten years.

A. D. GOULD, editor and proprietor of the Eldred Eagle, was born at Utica, N. Y., July 15, 1856, a son of C. B. and Mary (Scranton) Gould. His maternal grandfather, Lyman Scranton, was a native of Utica, an architect and builder, and with John Devereaux built the original St. Bonaventure College in Allegany, Cattaraugas Co., N. Y. A. D. Gould was reared in Utica, Homer and Binghamton, N. Y., and Emporium, Penn., and was educated at the academies of Homer and Franklinville, N. Y. In the spring of 1876 he began the study of law with Newton & Green, of Emporium, Penn., at which he continued until the fall of 1877. Prior to that he learned the printer's trade with his father, and on account of the latter being burned out he was compelled to resume the printing business. He started a job-office in Tarport in the spring of 1878. The same year Eldred came into prominence as an oil center, and in the summer of that year he removed to that point, and established the Eldred Eagle, which he has since successfully conducted. He married, September 4, 1883, Emma, daughter of John D. Schwab, of Utica, N. Y., and they have one son, Carl D. Mr. Gould is a member of the Masonic fraternity and Knights of Pythias. Politically he is a Republican.

DANIEL J. KEYES, farmer, lumberman and oil producer, Eldred, was born in Eagle township, Allegany (now Wyoming) county, N. Y., January 17, 1821, a son of Peter and Abigail (Beede) Keyes, natives of Vermont, and pioneers of Allegany county, N. Y. His father, who died in Eldred township, reared a family named as follows: Adeline (Mrs. Platt Gage), Peter, Abigail (Mrs. George Stevens), Jane (Mrs. William Foster), Betsey (Mrs. Calvin Combs), Daniel J., Aurilla (Mrs. George Stevens), Rhoda and Augustus F. Daniel J. Keyes was reared in Allegany county, N. Y., and settled in Eldred township, McKean Co., Penn., in 1847, locating on the farm he now occupies, most of which he cleared. He has also been extensively engaged in the lumber business, and has worn out two saw-mills on his premises. He has also been in the oil producing business, and now has six producing wells on his farm. In February, 1842, he married Almina, daughter of Huldah (Steele) Potter, of Allegany county, N. Y., and to them were born four children: Mar

tha (Mrs. A. B. Loop), Mary (Mrs. John S. Cotton), Almina (deceased), and Eva (Mrs. J. B. Dennis). Mr. Keyes was elected twice to the office of county commissioner of McKean county, and during his second term enlisted in the war of the Rebellion in the fall of 1862, was mustered into the service as firstlieutenant in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Pennsylvania (Bucktails), and was honorably discharged on account of disability in June, 1863. He has served as justice of the peace of Eldred township several terms. Politically he is a Republican.

BENJAMIN H. LAMPHIER, farmer, P. O. Eldred, was born in Chenango county, N. Y., November 18, 1819, a son of William and Calista (Hazen) Lamphier. His paternal grandfather, Benjamin Lamphier, was a native of New England, and a pioneer of Chenango county, N. Y., and of Eldred, this county, settling at the latter place in 1837, where he resided until his death. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He was the father of two children: Manema (Mrs. Liberty White) and William. The latter with his family settled in Eldred in February, 1835, and improved the farm now known as the Lamphier estate, and died there. In the early days of Chenango county, N. Y., he was a captain of a rifle company belonging to the New York State Militia. His children were six in number: Benjamin, Lucy (Mrs. G. B. Booth), William, Mary (Mrs. Oscar Carpenter), Calista (Mrs. R. A. Rice) and Sylvester G. B. H. Lamphier was reared in Chenango county, N. Y., until fifteen years and three months of age, when he removed to Eldred with his parents. He began life as a lumberman, which he has always more or less followed. October 11, 1845, he married Cynthia L., daughter of Timothy and Bethenia (Trumbull) Carpenter, of Eldred, by whom he has seven children: Egbert R., Albert, Daniel, Lucy E., Edward H., A. Timothy and Mary B. (Mrs. John Robson.) Mr. Lamphier has served one term of three years as auditor of McKean county, and has held several local offices in Eldred. He is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

RANSOM LARRABEE, hotel keeper, Larrabee, was born in Eldred township, McKean Co., Penn., March 28, 1822, and is a son of Ebenezer and Lucinda (Knapp) Larrabee, the latter a daughter of Jacob Knapp, who had been twice married and was the father of twenty-one children. Ebenezer Larrabee was a native of Vermont, of French descent, who settled in Eldred in 1819, where he followed farming for a time. In 1859 he removed to Wisconsin, where he died. His children were Ebenezer, William, Ransom, Jacob, Abijah, Chester, Edward, Asa, Jackson, Jane, Addelia and Milliasa. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Jacob Knapp, one of the three original settlers of Eldred township. Ransom Larrabee was reared in Eldred, where he has always resided, and has been more or less engaged in farming, lumbering and hotel keeping. His wife, Clarissa, was a daughter of Robert Barten, a pioneer of Eldred. They have one daughter, Anna Vernett Larrabee (wife of Erven Carpenter); also had one son, Alreck Ransom Larrabee (son of Ransom and Clarissa Larrabee, died at the age of twenty-three years). Mr. Larrabee is one of the oldest native-born citizens of the county. He was postmaster of the office now known as Larrabee, twenty years. In politics he is a Democrat.

FRANCIS LOOP, farmer, P. O. Eldred, was born in Eldred July 13, 1856, a son of Lewis and Nancy (Cook) Loop. His paternal grandfather, John Loop, formerly of Chautauqua county, N. Y., settled in Eldred prior to 1840, and cleared and improved a farm on which he resided until his death, which occurred in 1887. Mr. Loop's maternal grandparents, John J. and Mary (Hamilton) Cook, settled in Eldred prior to 1850, and Mr. Cook gave the name "Indian Creek to the stream which bears that name. Lewis Loop was a farmer and lumberman