Sullivan-Monroe-Luzerne County PA Archives Biographies.....Gorgg, James P. 1869 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
   JAMES P. GORGG has had to take care of himself since a boy of tender years, and
  whatever success he may have achieved is due to his own unaided efforts and
  industrious habits. His father, George W. Gorgg, was employed in a sawmill in
  Carbon county, Pennsylvania, and died the year our subject was born. His mother,
  formerly Miss Lucinda Keiper, is a resident of Long Pond, Monroe county, this
  state.
  
      Mr. Gorgg was born in that county July 12, 1869, and was raised in
  Tunkhannock township, Monroe county, although he lived a short time in Luzerne,
  Lackawanna and Wyoming counties. His opportunities for obtaining an education
  were very meager, and at the age of twelve years, when most boys are playing at
  marbles or ball, he secured work in the clothes-pin factory at Houser's Mills,
  where he remained several years. When he attained his majority he came to
  Ricketts, this county, and remained one year as a lumber hand. Hoping to find as
  pleasant and more profitable occupation, he rented a farm and tried agriculture
  for a year in Monroe county. A year convinced him that farming was not his
  "forte" and he returned to this county and worked in a sawmill for another year.
  In September, 1896, he bought a business consisting of a billiard hall,
  confections, groceries, cigars and tobacco, at Lopez. He did a flattering
  business here until he sold out, about December 1, 1898. Mr. Gorgg enjoys a wide
  popularity in the entire community.
  
      In 1890, he was joined in matrimony to Miss Catherine Altemose, in Cortland,
  New York. She also was a native of Monroe county. Three bright children have
  been sent to brighten their home. They are Calvin, born July 29, 1891; Edith
  Edna, born May 23, 1893; and an infant daughter, Beatrice, born in September,
  1898. Mr. Gorgg is an unyielding Republican. In 1897 he became a member of Lopez
  Lodge, No. 286, Knights of the Maccabees.
  
  
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  Extracted from: 
                
              History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
                        by Thomas J. Ingham
                
                             Compendium of Biography
                
              The Lewis Publishing Company
    Chicago: 1899
  
  
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