The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-22
TWO-SCORE YEARS
AGO-AND NOW
Time Works Some Great
Changes in HOneSdaIe
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL |
MEN OF THE SEVENTIES
NEARLY ALL GONE.

1t takes but few years to make
complete change in the resident
population of any given place. The
whole personnel of the town of
Honesdale, for example, has chang
ed completely during the past forty
years. Nearly all who were in busi-
ness two-score years ago are gone,
save Hon. c. G. Jadwin, who is
about the only man left who was in
business at that time. Those that
are here now, forty years hence,
will be known no more.
A cursory examination of a Wayne
County Atlas, issued in 1872, gives
startling confirmation to these facts.
Take the doctors for example.
There was DR.. C.. A. Dusinberre, and
Drs. j. M. Doetsch and H. G. Keefer.
None are living now.
Of the four insurance agents
then doing business in the county
seat, viz. Messrs. Stephen G. Cory,
H. w. Kalisch, L. D. Tryon, H. A.
Woodhouse, not single one re-
mains.
Of the nine attorneys then prac-
ticing at the Wayne County Bar,
F. B. Brown, F. M. Crane, S. E.
Dimmick, w. H. Dimmick, c. F.
Eldred, c. S. Minor, H. NJ Seeley,
Walters and Bentley, the only one
living is Hon. William H. Dimmick.
S venteen firms were engaged in
the early seventies in manufacturing.
They were Beers, Read & Co., A.
Blood, Philip Boos, Henry Dunkout,
Durland and Torrey, VIM. c. Doney,
Edgett and Smith, L. Grambs, w. H.
Ham, Knapp and Charlesworth, Jas.
Matthews, G. H. Mayhem, p. McKan-
ma, Ed, F. Torrey, j. c.. Vetter, Hor-
ace Weston. Messrs. w. C. Doney,
w. H. Ham and E. F. Torrey are
still living, but none of the seven
teen firms are in existence. Squire
w. H. Ham, by the way, built all the
boats for the Delaware and Hudson
Canal.
Thirty-nine merchants were active
ly engaged in buying and selling in
1871. Only two of these firms are
still in business, viz. H. T. Menner
& Co., successors to R. ]. Menner G.
Co., and G. c. Jadwin, and Mr. Jad-
win is the only one of the thirty-nine
who is still doing business under the
old name and at the same stand,
Eighth and Main streets. These are
the names of the well-nigh forgot
ten merchants: j. w. Baker, James
Brown, DR.. R. w. Brady, John Bone,
j. P. Chambers, A. Cummings, ]. H.
Dunning, Fred DIETRICH, w. H. & ].
n. Foster, F. B. Goodman, w. E.
Greeley H. P. Hamlin, G. w. Hoyt,
c. c. Jadwin, Knapp G. Jenkins,
John Lerch, F. Lasher, R. j. Menner
& Co., e. Muller, l j. dinner, John
and c. B. O'Neill, S. w. Powell,
Chas. Petersen, VIM. H. Stanton,
Isaiah Snyder, B. B. Smith, Samuel
Bros, Salmon and Delezenne, VIM
Seaman, Patrick Stanley, F. Seelig,
]. o. Terrell, S. H. Terrell, Thos. H.
R. Tracy, R. H. Tobin, H. Watts G
Co., w. w. Weston, w. Weiss, Wef-
ferling and Millhauser.
In those days, four hotels catered
to the wants of the travelling pub
lie. They were the Allen House, NJ.
B. Allen, proprietor; Keipel House,
R. w. Keipel, proprietor; National
Hotel, William Weaver, proprietor;
Texas House, c. F. Meyer, proprie-
tor, NJ B. Allen is the only one of
the four hotel men still in the land
of the living.
Two banks looked after the finan-
cial wants of the citizens of the
county, viz. the Honesdale National
Bank and the Wayne County Savings
Bank. They still continue to do
business, but under different manage
ments.
Great changes have been wrought
in the past forty years by the ruth
less hand of Time. And forty years
hence who knows but that the very
names of those now in business will
disappear from the marts of trade as
completely as those of the men who
bargained and trafficked in mer-
chandise in the days when our dad
dies were boys.