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Note: 1850 U.S. Census, Hazle, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania* Henry Taney,m, 30, Pennsylvania, Laborer Catherine Taney ,f,21, Pennsylvania Sabella Taney,f, 3, Pennsylvania Martha Taney,f, 1, Pennsylvania Betty Mooney,f, 19, Ireland Lewis Oxnder,m, 14, Pennsylvania *last name misspelled
1870 U.S. Census, Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Henry Tinney,m, 51, Pennsylvania, Personal Value $600.00, Butcher Catharine Tinney,f, 41, Pennsylvania, Wife Sevilla Tinney,f, 22, Pennsylvania, At Home Martha Tinney,m, 20, Pennsylvania, School Teacher Henry J Tinney,m, 16, Pennsylvania, Teamster
1880 U.S. Census, Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Name: Henry Tenney Home in 1880: Hazleton, Luzerne, Pennsylvania Age: 63 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1817 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's Name: Cathrine Father's birthplace: Ireland Mother's birthplace: Pennsylvania Occupation: Huckster Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members Henry Tenney 63 Cathrine Tenney 53 Henry J. Tenney 26 Dortha Bittenner 13
From Hazleton PA Sentinel Newspaper, Tues. July 10, 1906
Hazleton's Early Days When The Town Was a Small Village and some of the People Who Lived Here. A gentleman living out of town, who as a boy and young man was a resident of Hazleton when it was a small village, writes of some who then resided here. In the early days of Hazleton he writes, there were only three collieries, one at what was then called Sugarloaf, one at HazleMines and one at Laurel Hill. The first colliery was operated by the Sugarloaf Company, and after it failed it came into the possession of the Hazleton Coal Company, which then operated the other two mines. Hazleton was then surrounded by an immense forest of timber, especially so on the north and south sides of town. The waters from the south side flowing west, and the north side east. No saw mills were in existence in the thirties. Timber for building, especially for the mines, was cut down, hewed and prepared for erection in the swamps on either side of the town. A railroad branch from the Sugarloaf mine to the main line was built by Andrew Straw and William Jayne, brother to the late Dr. Jayne, the manufacturer of Jayne's famous medical preparation. Casper Horn, a gunsmith, and his brother Thomas, also a gunsmith, located in what is now known as Landmesser's Hotel in West Hazleton. The inhabitants in those days, as near as the writer can recall it, were Levi Jones, stationary engineer; Daniel Jones, tailor; Daniel Durst, shoemaker; Samuel Wagoner, carpenter; William Kisner, superintendent of Company Store; Thomas Voyle, bookkeeper for company; Ario Pardee, general manager for the company; John Moister, stone mason and local preacher, known as Father Moister; Lewis Davenport, hotel, where now is the Hazleton House; William Blanchard, contractor; Lawring Blackwell, stationary engineer Sugarloaf mines; Charles Morgans, miner at Sugarloaf; John Schreck and John Brown, carpenters; HENRY TINNEY and Anthony Fisher, butchers; Henry Lawall, real estate and hotel; Dr. Beers, physician; Henry Moore, foundryman, stoves a specialty; Chas. Meyers, miner, afterwards chief clerk in Company store; W. Evans, track walker; Mr. Fitzpatrick, trackman; M. Eckroth, miner, afterwards had first candy shop in town; William Tubbs and Henry Bowman, boarding houses, at shops; Joseph Doud and Fred Roostey, locomotive engineers; Henry Oxrider, teamster for company; Adam Will, machinist; Adam Stair, gate tender for turnpike company, between Berwick and Mauch Chunk; John Hutton, foundryman; John Giles, foundryman for company; William Evans, chief blacksmith for company; "Doc" Bird, machinist; John Schutter, stationary engineer at Laurel Hill; John Weir, mine foreman at Laurel Hill; Hon. W.L. Connell, stationary engineer now living at Scranton; Frederick Krapf, blacksmith at Hazle Mines; William Hunt, foreman Hazle Mines; Robert Boston, mine boss Hazle Mines; Philip Hess, outside foreman Hazle Mines; William James, stationary engineer Hazle Mines; Jacob Berger, woodsman Hazle Mines; Anthony Brown, Con Kelly, miners Hazle Mines; William Jayne, contractor Hazle Mines; Andrew Straw, foreman for all work in his department for the company; George Fenstermacher, blacksmith, specially in making carpenter tools, also active in opening up Cranberry mines; John Gorman, foreman of breaker; Mr. Smith, inside foreman; Owen Gorman, machinist. There were many more whom the writer could not name, but with those mentioned he was familiar in those days, showing that in his advanced years, the memory is still good.
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