The Honesdale citizen. [volume] (Honesdale, Pa.) 1873-1908, 1908-07-23
Additional Yearly Forgotten Facts.


now perched on blocks and awaiting the |
finish of its foundation walls at the north !
east corner of Church and Eleventh
streets, lie something Of q traveller. 1t
was first built on the opposite, or south
east corner OF the same streets, some
thing like half a century ago, BY DR..
Consider King. The lot on which the
building then stood was sold BY the ex-
ecutors of Jason Torrey to George L.
Mores in May, 1880, and BY him decided
TO Mre. Lucina King, wife Of DIR. King,
on the 25th Of March, 1865.
DR.. Consider King was born in Rens-
salaerville, Albany county, y. Y, March
Is, 1877. After liberal education, and
g course OF study for the profession. be
commenced the practice OF medicine and
surgerS in Milford, Otsego county. n.
Y. Some years later he moved to Wind
ham, Greene county, n. Y. and subee-
quently to Cooperstown, n. Y. From
that place he came to Honesdale in the
summer Of f1ssl. where, notwithstanding
q peculiarly brueque and, to some peo-
pie, forbidding manner. his evident
ability soon secured him q large and lu-
crative practice. His house was direct
ly adjacent to the old Honesdale Acad-
envy, and some OF the now ancient pu-
pills of that institution will recall, as O
sample Of his grim humor, his shaking a
dismembered leg at them on one occa-
sion after he had performed an amputa-
tion on an unfortunate resident Of Cher
~ Ridge. When preparations were be-
ing made for the first draft for Wayne
county, in 1862, DIR. King was q mem
ber Of the examining board. which held
its eeesious 10 the court house. The
writer hereof. who bad but recently re
covered from protrscted and serious
illuese, passed IN his turn under the IL
epection of the board. and well remem-
bers the cheerful greeting accorded him
by the all too frank physician. "Pess
| on T. said he; and then to the Secretary
OF the board, "Strike out Eis name; hell
be dead before Christmas. anyway
Aud yet every one connected with tie
management of that draft long since
passed to his reward. including the gruff
doctor, while the eubject of his dishesrt-
ening prediction sits here forty Six years
afterward, pennipg these nearly for
gotten facte."
DR.. King wac an invalid for two years
and q half before a painful illness re-
suited IN hie death on Wednesday morn
ing, February 9th. 1867. He was eur
vived by his wife and one daughter. q
very gifted lady, the wife Of Edgar +.
Brown, q New York lawyer. Mrs. King
sold the property to Clarissa, wife Of
Edwin Z. Gilbert, OF the original tsr-
ming firm OF Hard, Gilbert & Palmer,
who in lSl7 bought tract of a thousand
acres OF hemlock timber land lying along
Csrlcy Brook in Oregon township and
in 1si? built tannery there. f + Gil
bert and Jacob X. Palmer we're brothers
n-law, and for several years lived in
| sdjoining ho' in what is now East
Honesdaie. tanning firm finally
became GilbeIt, Palmer & Reeds, AID
eventually included the mercantile es
tablishment in Honeedale, originally
started by the Reed Brothers, In what
was known as The Arcade. Though for
a long time very prosperous, business
reversee, following the panic Of 1857
brought the firm to grief, and Mr. Gil
bert, later on, became one OF the pro.
prietore OF tannery at Little Equinunk,
10 Manchester township, maintaining
| the family residence in Honesdale in the
house bought OF Mrs. King. While 81
L,ttle Equinunk Mr. Gilbert was found
dead, kneeling at the bedside in his
room, on Thureday, February %. 1871.
He was 65 years Of age. and 80 far Of
wss koown had been in good health uI
to the time of his sudden demise. The
remains were fret brought to the Homes
dale home, aud tnen taken to Morris
Otsego Co., n. Y, for intermant. Three
months before his death Mr.. Gii0er
contracted TO sell the Church and Z ev
enth streets property to the MethodIs
Episcopal Society OF uonesdale for g.,
600. but 1t was not until ten yeare latel
that the church people acquired tul
title. The original agreement was made
December l, 1870, and during the Christ
mas holidays following the ladies Of tn
congregation held fair in the Cour
House from which the church netseC
$500 As soon az weather permitted tn
house was moved from the cnrEer Il
toe southern half OF the lot, which wa
100 feet in front on Church street by ~
feet deep ON Eleventh. 10 July, 1Ssu
the late Justus Sears. q friend and cree
itor Of the church, made the final pay
ment on the original lot TO Mrs. Gilbert
and the same day bought Of Frank Ii
Rock well and lamar, his wife, "a daugt
ter OF Mrs Gilbertl for 81 900, fifteel
feet adjoining on the llth street eide
thus making the church lot 100 by liz
ieet. This was all done 10 order ths
the church could receive from him ful
title to the real estate,
By the 4Ih of July, lS12. the neN
church had reached the point Of th
lay ing OF it's corner stone, an even
which made that particular Independ
ence Day quite memorable. Rev. J. NJ
Reid, ID. D., of New York. one OF tn
Missionary Secretaries of the denomins
ton, delivered a most eloquent address
aud the services included approprial
remarks, aud ceremonies III which ID
tPresidlug Elder, Rev. ID. {. Olmslead
the pastor, Rev. J. y. Woodruff, an
Rev r. J. Kellogg, OF the Waymart n
Z church, and Rev. Walter Gallant, c
the Hunesdale Baptist church, partIc
pAted. Hawess Cornet Band and th
cnurch choir furnished the music.
lpper box was sealed IN the corne
stone, containing the names OF the loci
church dighitaries, and borough an
bank officials, various Methodist publ
cations, copies OF the county papers,
! report Of the managers OF the ID. & l.
G. Co, for the current year, specimen
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