Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....LONG, Hiram 1826 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      HIRAM LONG, a prosperous general farmer residing in Cherry township, was
  there born December 26, 1826, being a son of Hiram and Barbre (Hartzigg) Long.
  His father was of English extraction and was born in Venango county, New York,
  where he died in 1840, at the age of forty years. He conducted a hotel and also
  carried on a general merchandise business. The mother died in 1861, at the good
  old age of eighty-six years.
  
      When two years old our subject was taken to raise by his grandfather
  Hartzigg, with whom he made his home until reaching his majority. He then went
  to Monroeton, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a hostler
  in a hotel for a short time, then removed to Towanda, Pennsylvania, where he
  worked for a Mr. Fowler at rafting on the Towanda creek. From this place he went
  to Laporte and was in the employ of Michael Millett, working in the lumber
  woods. From Mr. Millett he purchased a farm of one hundred acres, agreeing to
  work out the price of it at fifty cents a day, but at the end of two months he
  became discouraged, and feeling that at that rate it would take a long time to
  earn the purchase money, he threw up his job and returned to Monroeton. He spent
  the following nine months in lumbering, and then, his grandparents desiring him
  to return, he went back to his old home and ran the farm one year on shares.
  
      On June 23, 1850, Mr. Long was married, in Cherry township, to Miss Victoria
  Ritchlin, and soon afterward bought his present farm. There were at that time
  but two acres of it cleared, and in this stood a poor log cabin built by the
  former owner of the place, Solomon Hunsinger. In no way daunted by the prospect
  of hard work, Mr. Long repaired the humble home and made it as comfortable as
  possible, and at once began the improvement of his land. Later he put up a
  better house of logs, and in 1870 built his present comfortable residence. By
  constant industry, coupled with economy and with never-failing persistence and
  energy, Mr. Long has conquered all difficulties and has prospered in his
  undertakings. To-day he owns three profitable farms, has money at interest, and
  is able to sit down and rest, with the pleasant conviction that his work has
  been well done and that the closing days of his busy life may be passed in the
  bosom of his family, peacefully and happily.
  
      Mr. Long has been twice married, and by his first wife had ten children:
  Louis F., born January 4, 1852; Julia A., born March 14, 1854, deceased; Edward
  W., born November 1, 1855, is a hotel-keeper at Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania; Ellen
  L., born November 19, 1857, married Harry Carson, who keeps a hotel at Kane;
  Mary J., born March 5, 1860, deceased; Julius, born May 28, 1862, married Miss
  Mary Barth and is in the laundry business at Dushore, Pennsylvania; Loretta,
  born January 20, 1865, deceased; Charles F., born May 5, 1866, deceased; Amelia,
  born September 25, 1868, married Fred Stark and is deceased; Alice A., born May
  26, 1872, married Walter Matthews.
  
      Mrs. Victoria (Ritchlin) Long was born June 16, 1830, at Dayton,
  Switzerland, and came with her parents to America and settled in Sullivan county
  at an early day. She died December 4, 1893, at the age of sixty-three years.
  
      Mr. Long was married the second time on December 16, 1896, when he wedded
  Mrs. Sarah (Kaye) Wilkinson, a native of Yorkshire, England. She is the daughter
  of Henry and Ruth (Crawshaw) Kaye, of Yorkshire, where they still reside, her
  father now being seventy years old and her mother seventy-five years old. They
  had three children, Sarah; Harriet, who died in infancy; and Albert, who married
  Miss Mary A. Taylor, and is carrying on coal-mining in his native land. Mrs.
  Long's paternal grandparents, Henry and Ann (Bedford) Kaye, came to this country
  from England in 1850, and settled in Sullivan county, where they spent the
  remainder of their lives. By her marriage to Albert Wilkinson, in England, Mrs.
  Long had two children: Ruth Alice, deceased, and Carrie, born October 15, 1883.
  Mrs. Long came to America in 1885 with relatives, who settled in Elkland
  township, where she made her home until her marriage to our subject.
  
      Mr. and Mrs. Long are members of the Lutheran church and in politics he is a
  Democrat. They have one child, Elizabeth Winifred, born November 7, 1897.
  
  
  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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