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Title: History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Mathews, Alfred, (from old catalog) ed Peck, R. T., & co., pub. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, R. T. Peck & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Judge Thomas J. Ridgeway.—His grand-father, Thomas J. Ridgeway, who was of Scotchextraction, and a tailor by trade, and wife,who was a Miss Mathews, settled at Milford,Pike County, Pennsylvania, from HuntingdonCounty, New Jersey, in the early part of thepresent century, where they spent the remain-der of their lives and were buried. Amongtheir children was a son, Charles B. Ridgeway history, and during his life sought to do hispart well in the interest of all measures calcu-lated to improve the social, moral and religiousstanding of the community in which he resided.His wife, Elizabeth Barnes (1790-1832), anative of Lackawaxen, was a zealous memberof the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a de-voted wife and mother. She died of cholerain middle life.
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PIKE COUNTY. Thomas J. Ridgeway, their sou, was born inLaekawaxen township, where his father resided,October 25, 1811. He had limited opportu-nities for book knowledge in his boyhood, butearly in life got practical ideas of lifes work,and the necessity of a proper development ofthe faculties to be successful in business or pro-fession. About the time of reaching his major-ity he began for himself as a lumberman, as atthat time the largest and one of the most im-portant and profitable in Wayne County wasthe lumber interest, and a large number of itspeople were engaged in the manufacture oflumber, and its shipments down its variousstreams to their confluence with the Delaware,and thence down the Delaware to Philadelphia,the great natural lumber market of Eastern Penn-sylvania. Hecontinued the lumber business until1844, when he engaged in farming and mer-chandising, which he carried on successfully inLaekawaxen township until 1.S70, and thenentered the official employ of the Delaware and

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