The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-14

Few men who are so we'll known
| have had as little said of them in the
public press as E. S. jackson, for many
| years receiving teller at the First Ma
| tional bank. Mr.. jackson is a gradu-
ate of Ann Arbor university and is
probably one of the best educated men
in the city. He is first an American
and next q Republicans partisan of
partisans Mr.. Jackson served in the
army during the Rebellion, and was
also one of the first members of the
Scranton City Guard. In his position
at the bank he is invaluable, and at
the teller's window he has made for
himself and for the bank a host OF
| friends from the whole length and
! breadth of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
He is a great lover of outdoor life,
| and most of his spare hours are spent
in tramping the mountains of this re-
gion. His companion on these rambles
for many years was a Scotch collie,
named Prince" who was almost as
well known as his masters and for years
accompanied him to and from the bank.
Prince is now buried in a beautifully
wooded dell on the mountain back OF
the Richmond farm, and it is believed
by many that he was walked to death.
Though he has been dead for many
years, he is not forgotten. A magnifi-
cent portrait of himself hangs in Mr..
Jacksons library, and many are the
visits that have been made to. the
mountainsdc grave.
Mr.. Jackson has four sons, who have
many of their fathers characteristics.
Orton, a lieutenant in the United states
navy; George, civil engineer in
Michigan; Edward, who graduates
from Annapolis Naval academy next
month, and Harry, an employe of the
First National bank, who will enter
college next year.
Rev. William Davis, who has been
called to the pastorate of the Bellevue
Welsh Calvnistic Methodist church,
began his duties yesterday, preaching
to large congregations both morning
and evening. In the afternoon the new
pastor participated in the Sunday
school exercises and made a very
favorable impression, both as a preacher
and a teacher His morning sermon
was based on the text taken from the
first chapter of John, sixteenth verse.
the theme being "Fullness of Grace in
Christ" In the evening the subject
was ITO Know God" based on the
ninth and tenth verses in Psalm. Both
discourses were in the Welsh language,
and were attentively listened to by the
parishioners.
Rev. Mr.. Davis arrived in this city a
week ago with his wife, three children
and sister-in-law, Miss Maggie David.
They are now comfortably located on
Corbett avenue, near the church, and
thus far are well pleased with their
reception and advent to a strange land.
The new pastor is a native of Swan
sea, South Wales, Is thirty-seven years
of age, and has been fifteen years in
the ministry. He is a scholarly gentle
man, very refined, and will undoubt-
edly prove valuable acquisition to
the ministerial forces of the city.
Mr.. Davis was born in Carmarthon-
shire, South Wales, and after a thor
ough common school education entered
the Trevecca Theological college at
Breconshire, South Wales, where he
remained four years under the tuition
Of the late principal, David Charles
Davis who was one of the most learned
men of Wales. a deep thinker and an
authority on Biblical study. Owen
Prys, the present principal, at Tre-
vecca was also one of Mr.. Davis tutors.
During his college course the subject
of this sketch was one of the principal
prize winners in Hebrew, classics. the
ology and philosophy.
After his graduation, Mr.. Davis as
sumed charge of two churches at the
Vale of Glamorganshire, the "Llantwit
Major" and "Broughton," English and
Welsh Caivinistic Methodist churches
He remained there three years and
afterwards went to the "Rhyddings"
English Calvinistic Methodist church
at Swansea, where he spent two years.
He was then called to the pastorate of
the Aberavon Carmel Welsh Calvinistic
Methodist church, one of the best
charges in Wales, where he remained
for four years.
He was called to the Bellevue Welsh
Calvinistic Methodist church about
three months ago, and enters upon his
new field of labor with excellent pros
poets for success. The church is one
Of the Oldest established in Northeast
ern Pennsylvania, and the former pas
tor, Rev. j. IT. Norris resigned two
years ago, after fourteen years of act
i've service.
1t is everywhere conceded that Scran-
ton never had a more efficient, careful
or painstaking food inspector than it
has now in the person of Fred j. Wild
mayer, former city controller When