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 | Benjamin SPEARBECK
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 | Elizabeth SHAFELT
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| Ida A (SPERBECK) |
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p. 549-550 Commemorative and Biographical Records
of NorthEastern Pennsylvania
Lee D. Spearbeck is one of the active young farmers and dairymen of Great Bend
township. He has been identified through life with the agricultural interests of this
fertile and beautiful locality, and his forbearers for two generations before him
cultivated the same soil, clearing the land of its primeval forest growth and ever since
retaining possession.
Mr. Spearbeck was born on his present farm February 10, 1855, the son of Benjamin and
Eliza Shufelt Spearbeck, and grandson of Michael Spearbeck, a native of Greenbush, New
York, who, in 1839, removed to Great Bend township and made the first improvement on our
subjects present farm.
There he died on October 27, 1897, aged 84 years. His children were as follows:
ALPHA, who married Kilborn Roberts, and moved to Cass County, Michigan, where she died,
leaving one son, Frederick Henry, who lived in Harford township, Susquehanna County;
ANDREW, a farmer of Windsor township, Broome County, New York, he served during the
Civil War as a member of Company M, 1st New York Regular Cavalry; MICHAEL, now a
resident of Binghampton, New York; THEODORE, who was a soldier in the Civil War,
serving as a member of Company E of a Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment, and now resides
in Great Bend; MARY, widow of Charles Snedeker, of Binghampton, New York; CATHERINE, who
married Russell Thatcher, of Harford township, and died, leaving a family; NANCY, who
married Alonzo Andrews, and settled in Broome County, New York; AMANDA, wife of Ralph
McLeod, of Conklin, New York; and BENJAMIN, the father of our subject.
Benjamin was born in Conklin, Broome County, New York in 1822 and came with his
father to the wilderness home in Great Bend township. He married Elizabeth Shafelt who
was born near Albany, New York in 1832 and after his marriage purchased his father's
farm, adding to it by purchases until he had 200 acres. He cleared up a large farm,
erected good, substantial buildings and built one of the old fashioned sash sawmills,
which later he improved by substituting a circular saw. The mill as thus improved is
yet in operation by our subject. Benjamin Spearbeck died on this farm in 1897, his
worthy wife passing away in 1895.
They left two children, LEE D. our subject; and GEORGIA, the daughter, still living
on the old homestead. Lee grew up on the old homestead and recieved a good common
school education. He remained on the homestead, managing his father's farm for many
years. In 1877 he married IDA A. BAKER, of Windsor, who was born in the town of Barker,
Broome County, New York in 1857, the daughter of Jerome and Jane Baker. Our subject and
wife began housekeeping on the old homestead, which he purchased in 1878(?). They have
a family of three children; namely LENA, born in 1879, who in march 1899 married Elmer
E. Lockwood, a farmer of Marydell, Maryland; BERTHA, born in 1882, a student in the
home schools; and DUANE E. born in 1890.
Politically Mr. Spearbeck has always been identified with the Republican party and
for three years he served as Supervisor in Great Bend township. He is a member of the
Order of Red Men at Great Bend, and is a Protestant in his religious faith. He is
highly esteemed by those who know him, and is intimately identified with the best
interests of the township.
(Articles submitted in 1899/1900 as publication date was 1900)
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