Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....CHILSON, Manning 1858 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      MANNING CHILSON. - Among the charming summer resorts which annually attract
  to this region a host of visitors is the North Mountain House, at Ganoga lake,
  near Ricketts, Sullivan county, which the subject of this biography has lately
  opened to the public. The natural advantages of the locality are the best, the
  lake and numerous streams affording unusually fine fishing and the buildings
  having been improved to suit the requirements of a refined class of guests. The
  house accommodates about a hundred visitors and many of the best people of
  Wilkesbarre have chosen it as their favorite resting place during their vacation
  season, while a daily passenger train in each direction makes it easily
  accessible from all points. The enterprising proprietor is a native of the
  Keystone state and belongs to a well-known Bradford county family.
  
      Hiram Chilson, our subject's father, was born in 1833 in Bradford county and
  is now residing upon a farm of seventy-four acres on the river flats near Owego,
  New York, where he is engaged in the cultivation of tobacco, celery, vegetables
  and small fruits. He was married in Bradford county to Miss Jane Neiley, a
  native of that county, and both are held in high esteem among their circle of
  friends. They have had five children: Manning, our subject; Horace, a mechanic
  in Athens, Pennsylvania; Celia, the wife of Charles Patterson, a mechanic in
  Elmira, New York; Burley, a telegraph operator on the Lehigh Valley Railroad at
  Falls, Pennsylvania; and Stuart, now residing at Owego, New York.
  
      Manning Chilson was born January 13, 1858, in Frenchtown, Bradford county,
  and at the age of fourteen went to Towanda, Pennsylvania, where he attended the
  grammar school for some time. At twenty-four he entered the employ of the
  Barclay Railroad as brakeman, remaining eight years and a half, and on April 14,
  1890, he took a position as brakeman on a freight train on the Lehigh Valley
  Railroad. On August 14 of this same year he was promoted to the post of brakeman
  on a passenger train, and this he held until October 1, 1898, when he left the
  employ of the company to engage in the hotel business. He rented his present
  hotel for one year, together with the fishing rights in the lake and neighboring
  trout streams, and has the privilege of renewing his lease for five or eight
  years. He has made extensive preparations for an enlarged business and his plans
  will doubtless be realized.
  
      Mr. Chilson is a Republican, his father being also affiliated with that
  party. Socially he and his wife are prominent in society and both are members of
  the Episcopal church at Towanda. He is also identified with the I. O. O. F.,
  having joined Towanda Lodge, No. 167, in December, 1892, and in 1896 he united
  with the Knights of the Maccabees, Towanda Lodge.
  
      On September 6, 1882, Mr. Chilson was united in marriage to Miss Frances L.
  Northrup, who was born in Bradford county, November 4, 1862, the daughter of
  Marion Northrup. Three children have been born of this union, namely: Lena, born
  July 23, 1887; Walter, May 2, 1893; and Margaret, January 12, 1896.
  
  
  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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