^t— —FAMILIESValley\A/yomingBiographical, Genealogical, and Historical.Sketches of the Bench and Bar'} /.>c;/ ¥ 4OF LUZERNE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.. \/[ .KULP,GEO. B.Hl.STOKIOGR.\l'HRK OF THE WYOMINC HISTORICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY."" Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us."" Which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children." That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born, who"should arise and declare them to their children. Psalms Ixxviii : 3, 0.j,' Those who do not treasure up the memory of their ancestors, do not deserve to be remembered"posterity. Edmund Burke.kyINTHREE VOI^UMES.VOL. II.WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA.1889.J J J J J J ,JCopyright 1889 byGEORGE B. KULP.ii^///E. B. YoRDY. Printer,Wilkes-Barre, Pa.•» • • •T »• • •»• ••• •• •• ••^ •*• * • • •• • • • « •• •• •• • »•• .•• • •To MY FEIENDHon. LAZARUS DENISON SHOEMAKER.WHO.SE PATEENAL GKAXDFATHEE, LIEUTENANT ELIJAH8H0EMAKEE, WAS SLAIN, AND WHOSE MATEENAL GEAND-FATHEB, Colonel Nathan Denison, gallantly led theLEFT WING OF THE AMEEICAN AEMY' AT THE EVEE JIEM-OEABLE BATTLE AND MASSACEE OF WYOMING; AN HON-OEED MEMBEE OF THE LlZEENE BAE, WHOSE PUBLIC ANDPEIYATE LIFE HAS SO CEEDITABLY FULFILLED THE PEOM-ISES OF SO DISTINGUISHED AN ANCESTEY", THIS VOLXtmEIS EESPECTFT'LLY DEDICATED BYThe Author.PREFACE."In continuation of the design of the author of Families ofthe ...