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Note: c shcools and Wyoming Seminary. For many years, he was a farmer on the parental estate. In aboout 1870, he embarked in the baking business in Kingston, Pennsylvania. This business was highly successful. He was active in political affairs, and in 1884 was elected county commissioner. Later, he was appointed postmaster of Kingston, a position he held for eight years. " . . . in the opinion of its patrons, his incumbancy of office was noted for faithfulness and efficency, he being the most capable and best postmaster Kingston ever had." Henry was a Mason, and he and his wife attended the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Wyoming & Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania Genealogies & Family Histories, Volume I-II, Edit Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906, p. 368.
Note: Henry was reared on his father's farm in Wyoming, Pennsylvania. He was educated in the publi
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