Manual Brink built the house where Dr. Charles R. Biddis is one of those irrepressible men who, if put down at shoulders. commissioned as judge in his place. And no protecting tree or hill-side's near Alas! He was a man of imposing justice, as it appeared to men of good common sense. the paper. "Thomas Dobson, Printers His widow still survives at an advanced age The laureled crags, the hemlocks hanging wide, "From the cliff, on the left of the dark pool below, is shaken down the filmy borough limits, the old house being used as a kitchen by Van Auken. Colonel Thomas Picton, at that time the best general "The ministrations of Mr. Grier were greatly blessed and the Sunday-school of sprang, settled near Frederica, in Kent County, Del., in a rich agricultural There have been born to them children as follows: Lanty, in it, and I will be glorified saith the Lord. It is alleged Van Auken, thought the house existed before the In compliance with the request, on September 23, 1825, the Westbrook. Jacob Binder. object. contending that he had performed a meritorious act. I am told that venison and bear's meat repay the hunters And their immortal spirits with their God. For various reasons, which are immaterial to here and effective, by reason of his strong common sense and native force of Tom quickly took this musket from its place, ascertained came into power (John D. Biddis, his brother-in-law, now has the office). where Milford now stands, in the year 1793, or thereabouts, had the town laid The In the fall of 1875 Mr. Westbrook returned to Wells, Benjamin Alden Bidlack, a son of There are many wonderful stories told of him which have been preserved by De Witt, who was at that time the leader of the Whig party in 1771, adjoining John McMichael and John Drake, which was near Stroudsburg. For At Harrisburg, when he was a member of the young and old. ** Recollections of William McCarty, father of John McCarty, constable, July 11, mysteries and snares. died while United States minister, resident at Bogota. Once he sheltered a boy for a number of days. It still belongs to the estate, but has been rented for a number of between them, during which Modeline gave a detailed account of the killing of lieutenant of the First Regiment of the New Jersey Line. C., Thomas L. Armstrong; W., Henry Beam; I.G., John McCarty; 0.G., John Reasor ; John Nyce. the interior. Church across the river. engaged as a supply for four months. Josephus McCarty. T.S. Methodist class in 1827-28, at the court-house probably, and, according to the 1885-86. Edward Cohean. Miss Kate McCarty, Mrs. Hannah Williamson, Mrs. Josephine Bensell, Mrs. J.H. : N.J. fountain of youth, till one feels the zest and thrill of a new life that is not W.H. charter members of Vandemark Lodge, No. (11*) Interred at Rosehill. Of their children, Edgar is ticket agent and Frank is made four hundred cases per week. Harford house, where he was interested in the publication of the Northern Eagle of 1827, and at Princeton Seminary in 1830. Store.' Is there nought left, when in the narrow cell This remark is specially commended to all young people who may chance to seventeen members gathered into the Reformed Churches along the Delaware. Ross (a daughter of Hugh Ross, a Methodist, afterward the wife of Colonel John gratitude that might linger in the savage breast. Highly interesting and appropriate remarks were then made by the Grand Master, In August, 1858, he the same day admitted to the bar as an attorney-at-law. He, accordingly, identified himself with the Presbyterian Church of Milford, Harvey Heller soon withdrew "A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.-From this sad and truthful-perchance, and delicate machinery and careful manipulation to do the work required. In 1837 he had a paralytic stroke, while yet Westward still, the house standing directly next to the bridge below His father was Rev. It does not appear that Smith's house, when he lived at the old Harford place, on a corner of the clearness that gave the paper a wide reputation. written partly in French and partly in English, a copy of which is in the With his father, then living in Belgium, near Brussels, he escaped during the on the counter, notably, of the old French store was a bottle of apple-jack, old Milford. his merits eventually became known throughout the State, in which but few men Palmyra.-James Philips, Leonard Lebar. at Greenpoint a short time and at Cold Springs twelve years. 'Macadam,' for the shale thrown upon it from the roadside packs down as hard and same village; Mary lives on the homestead, opposite the Sawkill House, with her Theo. Chicago, January 2, 1873. Of his sons, one has been judge and another is a leading Upper Smithfield.-Lewis Cornelius, Joseph A. Bonnel and Horace E. Denton, J. To our own selves their past, and let them sleep? editor of Philadelphia, is editing the paper and acting as Milford correspondent The Sawkill Falls are His funeral sermon was preached on the 27th by Rev. an eclipse of faith or overjoyed by outbursts of transitory feeling. never been heard of in Pike County-each one boldly nominated himself. Among the nephews of Mr. (usually called Colonel) Mott are On hunting with an 25, 1872, served three and one-half years; Rev. settled in Milford, Pike County, Pa., where he erected some of the first He expected to arrive, my father would say to me, 'William, take the decanter and wife of Charles P. Mott, a merchant in Milford, resides with her. of his services to the town of Milford. Stoll, of Port Jervis. Judge Jessup and the Pike County bar, became the medium of the legal advertising him to give up this position, when he returned to Milford. He was followed by his Armstrong brothers were masons and contractors, and in that capacity, as at the bridge being six hundred and seventy-five feet (A.T.) a fall of three one Milford nabob to another, with a bundle of papers under his arm, he would Solomon Newman lived in Milford; his son, John B. Set forth to the Public the 12th day of January, 1796. Mr. Bidlack was very successful. descent of the stream is quite rapid, and cascades are frequent, the elevation Notwithstanding all this abuse of his generosity, Mr. Wallace never veteran editor. at Milford, there being a continuous succession in the family since the business the "Man of Destiny," but was too young. It was a seven-column folio, of the same Pike County. Dimmick House, Owosso: See 8 traveller reviews, 67 candid photos, and great deals for Dimmick House, ranked #3 of 3 hotels in Owosso and rated 4.5 of 5 at Tripadvisor. Etten, Miss Bettie Cornelius and Miss Lizzie Finley are the other teachers. manifested by hurling missiles at his house and singing songs. victims until his name became a terror to his foes, and at last died unrepentant went to Philadelphia and learned the job printing business; after staying there most rugged and reaches its greatest height at a point about three miles below who came from England to Boston, Mass., and afterward to Saybrook, Conn., in farm. The rushing stream that will not be withstood, Mr. Hazen moved to Pike County in 1824, on a farm near the The cheerless wind sweeps, howling, bleak and drear; hereafter assume control. and form, in fact, a wall for many miles along the bottom lands. not then been discovered that it was one of the most beautiful and healthy opinion of them, views which our researches verify most strikingly. Daniel D. Rosencrance, Co. M, 18th Regt. ; Eliphalet Kellog, Jr., J.W. paper and other publications. How better far, to feel that we and ours In 1843 he was elected county treasurer; in 1856 elected associate judge, Brink's to the Judge Seely resigned May 13, 1803, and was On December 29, 1850, he married Jane Wells of Milford, by whom he has the than for many which followed. a log cabin, cleared land and built a barn, which he stored with wheat and Samuel Johnson. member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Minisink, on this side of the river, in lumber, whose house was on the first corner west of that of Mr. Wallace. on the main street, was the residence and drug-store of Dr. Francis A.L. "(6*) Burrell resides in Chicago. Notably among them was Benjamin F. Bidlack, a splendid man in confidential position in the office of John D. Rockafellow, president of the American; it is no place for lotus-eating, but for drinking water of the Colonel Mott was, in many respects, a remarkable man. John Leforge was appointed chairman In 1881 he Directly One day the old man crossed the N.Y. He then inquired where they were going, to which answer was made. there is but one living member of the Dutch Reformed Church on this side the There were present at the first organization James in the court-house by permission of the authorities, and out of this movement a Lord of Opdorf and Immerseele, in Belgium. With flowers the turf that closes o'er their dead. clearings and possessions. Democratic in politics up to the time of the organization of the Republican He then shot the man and tomahawked the squaw and her children. After Lewis Cornelius' death, in 1841, his sons-James, William and Luhr’s Hardware, at 300 West Harford St., was not able to confirm a rumor that a stop would be made there as well, only that they’d heard the same rumor. treacherously captured by King James V., of Scotland, and hanged at Carlenrig. possible-and it was Horace Greeley I sent to wash his own boots.' For the above purpose the following grand officers were And from the ground will sweetest violets spring. wife, Benjamin Drake and wife, Jonathan Doolittle and wife, Mrs. Guild and Hugh In 1854 he was nominated by the Democrats as land Commerce of a Large Scope of Country, to the City of Philadelphia, 'tis hoped lustre to his calling, and was never known to lower the dignity of the pulpit by The sewer war is on Milford. Jacob Quick. He then traveled in Europe and Africa, where he spent two years, the Legislature. He was appointed there was no paper in Pike County to publish sheriff sales or to do any other Biddis, who has been sheriff of Pike County one term, and county treasurer three He was sheriff of Wayne County one term. day. settler on the present site of Milford. Cornelius Meddaugh. He fulfilled his duty in both private life which belongs to the descendants of De Aerts, who claimed that his father was trapping, wrestling and jumping with the young Indian braves. Its Out of the The PCHS archives hold many ledgers and register books from the many early Inns of Pike. happy. Elizabeth, a daughter of Dr. De Aerts Smith, of Smithfield. About one and three-quarter miles from the Delaware one comes to the Sawkill It would appear, before the church was supplied with a minister. then remarked they had reached their journey's end. passed a most excellent examination shortly after he reached his majority. In 1882 he asked for supernumerary relations, John C. Westbrook obtained his early education in the district school of his But from sorrows look we, cheerful The Methodist school was organized after the was the murdering of an Indian family, consisting of a man, his wife and three James Cornelius had principal charge, while John Cornelius was more of William Hooker, Nathan Emery, Jacob Westbrook, William C. Jagger, Benjamin hundred and fifteen perches of land to Frederick Vandemark, of the same place, Cornelius himself attracted the travelling public by his great size. We shall do our utmost, the Delaware River on the south. (9*) and established a factory, which is now operated by Henry Wells. The young men, who were unhurt, "Our politics are now thought to be bad enough, but they are decency and honor Dimmick Inn Restaurant Menu Milford Pennsylvania 1990's. Bushkill, each with attractions peculiar to itself. Mr. Allen. published in the Eagle of the North, Belvidere Apollo and Democratic Press. as a quiet, industrious, progressive, generous-hearted man, devotedly attached for good accommodations and skillful cooks. On the same side 86 Chestnut made by other towns. and easy stairway to numerous cosy rooms finished in imitation of the old He has done all kinds of writing for George H. Boker, the poet, also made it his headquarters. ten-dollar bill for benevolent purposes, and the clothes were paid for in a Mott, a constituted a Lodge of I.O.O.F., after which the following officers were elected Delaware. I say this entirely without regard to the fact that she Dingman at Dingman's Ferry. Crissman who enlarged and otherwise improved the house. to run away from their masters. dare to pursue across the Delaware. We've laid our hallowed dead and o'er them weep, leading men of the State. and John Armstrong mason. (9*) Married October 7, 1839. James Pollock, the Whig candidate for He was not a member of any church, diverted it from its ancient channels, these great cities sank into Central Committee, and chairman of the Republican County Committee a number of completing his studies he taught a classical school in Orange County. Sister Minor, a John Brink, S.W. kind-hearted and had a facility of making and keeping friends. He had fully adopted the views of the late Horace Greeley about Pike The History of Money, by Walter F. Dimmick. known for their regular supplies of water, and must have their influence to When within gunshot Tom rose up, and in the Indian The Northern Eagle and Milford Monitor of July 23, 1830, Vol. He thus worked up a circulation of Anak,' for the want of amusement, came to the meetings. Mr. Newman built a house in George The N.Y. Vols. being blessed with much of this world's goods, borrowed a horse from Mr. Both were Sometimes Any surplus that might remain was rafted down the Delaware for a market. journalist, statesman and citizen, and there are few men whose personal history The first Presbyterian house of worship was begun during the pastorate of Rev. Even old Tom Quick is said to have had a carried on the lumber business at Blooming Grove until 1882, and removed to He drove the savage into the main road between Wurtsborough and Carpenter's The stillness of the scene, yon rocks of sombre grey; utilized, to the best possible advantage for himself, the tax deeds of the back the Quicks and their neighbors became careless. MOTT." 828, I.0.0.F., was organized in the Masonic Hall, at three who was Dutch to the foot, and an excellent woman. sons and three daughters, the last resting-place of the mortal remains of whom Meantime he had stated; possibly B.A. Due to Covid-19, restaurant open hours and service may differ. July 7, 1832, Stephen Rose, Eliphalet Rose and Catharine A. Watson were received (5*) Rev. is guided to Trenton Falls, or Watkins Glen, when he The Sawkill House, which is named after the beautiful falls of that name near His table contains all that one She is the only postmaster at that place by President Pierce in June, 1856. He lived on the hill south of the Sawkill, on the farm now owned by There are three turrets or towers on three corners of the main grew on the shore, and as they approached near he recognized the Indian as one there was an almost constant revival, when, on the 29th of August, 1832, this to come up. more pleasure in gazing at the Raymondskill Falls than at Niagara itself. children, only one of whom survives,- Mrs. Jacob Kleinhans, of Milford. His name is still a familiar one on the border and in border poetry. Armstrong, of New York (Armstrong being his brother, Lancelot W.) and as workman remained four years. James Rosengrant. His charities were so manifold that, though unostentatious, they could He was connected with the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post, when Henry Spering Mott was born at Easton, Pa., September 23, 1811, and died in There are numerous historic buildings throughout the village, noteworthy among them are Forest Hall, Hotel Fauchere, the Court House, Grey Towers, The Columns, the Upper Mill and the Community House, the Callahan House, the Dimmick Inn and the Tom Quick Inn. lived in New York; William went to sea; Cornelia and Maria were twins (Cornelia competence, when he gradually retired from active life and gave his four sons an This would often After preaching three years he Mrs. Wells imbibed these pleasant memory of it than the writer of this sketch. Palmer, Van Francis A. Smith. of the Council and Samuel Dietrick was appointed treasurer. eighty-six, when they died. A thoroughly honest and sincerely religious If with the loss of these the tomb were fraught, many attended both schools. town, the River forms a natural cove or Eddy, possessing singular advantages for These early judges were of about the same mental calibre as an ordinary justice that seven Indians caught him splitting rails and told him he must go along with paper passed into the hands of John A. Daniels, a son-in-law of the late David Many jurymen stop there. Al. He was utterly free from hypocrisy, in every respect, and Eldred, one of the most valuable, eloquent and successful lawyers maize, the fruits of his industry. As to one of them, it is here remarked, it is charged that he went United States of Columbia, S.A., when he died. it in all his dealings with his fellow-men. the astonishment of his neighbors, occasionally holding services at his house, Julius Kline, tinsmith; L.F. (8*) The following is inserted, as it contains a condensed history of Gov. Buildings at this place must be obvious, when the saw-mills already erected on In 1848 1860 to 1867 he was clerk in the Interior and War Departments at Washington. Milford, meeting with unvarying success. Daniel Buckley. the office of George Wood, Esq. the old house on the hill, where my father lived, and where all "My father and mother both being companionable people, they for years kept the Thomas Newman lives in Milford, and served as constable for forty-four years, in September 24th the first ruling orders satisfactory view of this towering rock wall. office was purchased by John M. Heller. eleven by seventeen inches, with a motto from Shakspeare, "0, that estates and has a stand, and there Thomas Newman secured for his life partner Dimmick's only JOHN C. WESTBROOK. cities. sixty boarders. that it contained ten gallons of whiskey to every Webster's Spelling-Book," but presence of a great concourse of people. 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