Bios: F. B. Pomeroy, 1826 - 1898, Bedford County, PA

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Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)

      HON. F. B. POMEROY, deceased, was for many years one of the leading
business men and prominent citizens of Dushore, Pennsylvania. He was a native of
this state, born at Troy, Bradford county, April 24, 1826, and traced his
ancestry back to Eltweed Pomeroy, who came from England to America in 1630 and
settled in Northampton, Massachusetts, and later at Windsor, Connecticut. His
son Joseph was the father of Noah Pomeroy, who married Elizabeth Sterling. Their
son Daniel married Naomi Kibbs and had a son Eleazer, who married Priscilla
Kingsbury, and had a son Ebenezer, the father of our subject. Ebenezer Pomeroy
became a resident of Troy township, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, about 1818,
and for some years carried on carding and cloth-dressing works, but afterwards
purchased a large tract of land in that section, cleared it and resided thereon
until his death, which occurred in 1878. He married Laura Brewster, and to them
were born ten children, as follows: Edwin S., Emily, Kingsbury, Fayette B.,
Augustus, Chauncey N., Sybil M., Mary, Frances and C. Burton.

    Fayette B. Pomeroy, of this review, attended the local schools, and after
completing his education traveled as a commercial salesman for H. J. Grant, of
Ithaca, New York, for eighteen years. In 1870 he came to Dushore and embarked in
the drug business, which he successfully carried on for over a quarter of a
century. He met with marked success in all his undertakings and was recognized
as one of the representative business men of the town. He took an important part
in the organization of the First National Bank of Dushore, was elected a member
of its first board of directors, which position he continued to hold, and for
two years prior to his death served as its president. He was a man of good
executive ability, sound judgment and superior business tact, and was always
cool and collected. In 1876 he was elected associate judge and served for one
term, while he also at different times filled the offices of burgess, councilman
and school director. It is but just and merited praise to say of Mr. Pomeroy
that as a business man he ranked among the ablest; as a citizen he was
honorable, prompt and true to every engagement; and as a man he held the honor
and esteem of all classes of people; while as a husband and father he was a
model worthy of all imitation, unassuming in his manner, sincere in his
friendships, steadfast and unswerving in his loyalty to the right. He died on
the 15th of September, 1898, and his death was widely and deeply mourned by the
entire community.

    In 1866 he married Miss Elizabeth Ellis, of Troy, Pennsylvania, who survives
him with three daughters - Mrs. Walter Appleman, of Wilkesbarre, Mrs. William
Waddell, of Dushore, and Miss Emily Pomeroy, of New York city.


Additional Comments:
    Extracted from: 
      
    History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
    by Thomas J. Ingham
      
    Compendium of Biography
      
    The Lewis Publishing Company
    Chicago: 1899


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