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Spouse: Lydia ?
Marr: ?
Children: Lydia
Joseph (1669-1727)
Notes: He arrived from England in 1635. Of Boston
in 1669, and soon moved to Fairfield, CT in 1669 or 1670.
(2) Joseph WALLER II
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Birth: 3 Feb 1669,
Boston,Suffolk, MA
Death: 17 Apr 1727, Woodbury,
Litchfield, CT
Occ: Proprietor
Spouse: Abigail ?
Marr: ?
Children: Joseph (1701-)
Samuel (1703-)
Daniel (1714-)
Phineas (1717-)
Sarah
Lydia
Abigail
Martha
Mary
Bethsheba
Esther
(3)
Phineas WALLER I
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Birth: 31 Oct 1717,
Connecticut
Spouse: Rhoda
TAYLOR
Father: Nathan TAYLOR (ca1682-1782)
Mother: Hannah BAREDICK (Or BENEDICT)
Marr: ?
Children: Nathan (1753-1831)
Daniel (-1847)
Levi (1758-1778)
Asbel (Or Ashbel) (1759-1849)
Joseph (1764-)
Notes: He was original proprietor of Cornwall, CT in 1738.
He was deacon successively of the First and Second churches of Cornwall,
and later removed into the western country. Some years thereafter his widow
Rhoda died at the home of her eldest son, Nathan, at Oquago, upon the Susquehanna.
(4) Nathan
WALLER
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Birth: 7 Mar 1753, Cornwall, CT
Death: 11 Jul 1831, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne,
PA
Burial: Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, PA
Spouse: Elizabeth (Or
Betsey) WEEKS
Birth: 6 Mar 1754, Fairfield,
Fairfield, CT
Death: ca 16 Sep 1822, Windsor,
Broome, NY
Father: Jonathan WEEKS (1705-1781)
Mother: Abigail WILDMAN (1714-1796)
Marr: 4 May 1773, Wilkes-Barre,
Luzerne, PA
Children: Phineas (1774-1859)
Elied
Lydia
Lucy
Elizabeth
Notes: Nathan, born in 1753 in Cornwall, Connecticut,
was the fifth of eleven children. The prospects weren't too good for a
young man in that setup, so he moved west to Wilkes-Barre where he married
Betsy Weeks in 1763, when she was nineteen and he twenty.
When the Revolutionary War broke out
Nathan, Betsy, and baby Phineas returned to coastal Connecticut where Nathan
joined the militia, was wounded, and did not return to Wilkes-Barre until
after the war was over.
(5) Phineas
WALLER II
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Spouse: Elizabeth
JEWETT
Birth: 9 Oct 1780,
New London, New London, CT
Death: 21 Feb 1859, Wilkes-Barre,
Luzerne, PA
Burial: Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne,
PA
Father: Dr. David Hibbert JEWETT
(1745-1814)
Mother: Patience BULKELEY (1749-1830)
Marr: 31 Mar
1814
Children: David Jewett (1815-1893)
Harriet M. (1817-1887)
Hon. Charles Phillips (1819-)
George Grant (1821-1888)
Martha Hannah (Died in Youth) (1823-1826)
Other spouses Hannah BRADLEY
(6) Rev.
David Jewett WALLER Sr.
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Birth: 16 Jan 1815
Death: 7 Dec 1893
Burial: Bloomsburg, Columbia,
PA
Occ:
Minister, Businessman, Educator
Educ: Williams
1834; Princeton Theological Seminary 1837
Spouse: Julia
ELLMAKER
Birth: 11 Oct 1817
Death: 25 Sep 1905
Burial: Bloomsburg, Columbia, PA
Father: Levi ELLMAKER (1788-1835)
Mother: Hannah HOPKINS (1788-1866)
Marr: 23 May 1839
Children: Hannah Ellmaker (1840-)
Rev. David Jewett (1846-1941)
Levi Ellmaker (1851-1934)
Dr. George Phillips (1854-)
Julia Ellmaker (1855-1912)
Laura Pettit (1858-1936)
Notes: He was a charter member and helped
organize the Beta Chapter of Kappa Alpha at Williams. He was a trustee
of Lafayette College for 30 years, and the college considered moving
to Bloomsburg, PA at one time. He was instrumental in the founding of the
Classical School in Bloomsburg in 1839.
A year after leaving the Seminary (1838),
he assumed the duties of minister of the Presbyterian Church in Bloomsburg,
PA.
In 1871, Waller suffered a serious accident
while driving, and walked with the aid of crutches for the rest of his
life. He gave up the pastorate at this time after 33 years of service,
and devoted his talents to other pursuits.
He was a Republican candidate for Congress
in 1876, and although he lost, he ran 500 votes ahead of the Hayes ticket
in his district.
It was he who in 1881 founded and built the
branch of the railroad running along the Susquehanna River from Wilkes
Barre to Catawissa. This "North and West Branch Railroad Company" was later
bought by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
(7) Julia
Ellmaker WALLER
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Birth: 12 Dec 1855, Bloomsburg,
Columbia, PA
Death: 19 Aug 1912, New York, NY
Burial: Honsdale, Wayne, PA
Spouse: Charles Waller HAND
Birth: 22 Oct 1856, Honesdale,
Wayne, PA
Death: 28 Oct 1915, Brooklyn, Kings,
NY
Burial: Honesdale, Wayne, PA
Father: Horace Chapman HAND (1830-1909)
Mother: Charlotte Niven STONE (1831-1909)
Marr: 26 Apr 1882, Bloomsburg,
Columbia, PA
Children: Helen Chapman (Died in Youth) (1883-1885)
Laura Waller (1885-1975)
Charlotte Stone (1887-)
Julia Ellmaker (1890-1980)
Dorothy (1895-)
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