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Title: A history of Wilkes-Barré, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania : from its first beginnings to the present time, including chapters of newly-discovered early Wyoming Valley history, together with many biographical sketches and much genealogical material
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Harvey, Oscar Jewell, 1851-1922 Smith, Ernest Gray
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Publisher: Wilkes-Barré : Raeder Press
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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eautiful grounds atDallas. For many years he has been a mem-ber of the board of directors and the treas-urer of the Wilkes-Barre Branch of theAssociation for the Blind and in this officehe has found many opportunities to giveexpression to his innate kindliness. In 1927he accepted the appointment at the hands ofMayor Daniel L. Hart to the office of chair-man of the Police Civil Service Commission,a position for which his executive ability anda thorough knowledge of conditions in andof the needs of the city made him especiallyavailable. Mr. Long is unmarried and makes his homeat the Sterling Hotel. RALPH PAYNE THOMAS—For the pasteight years Ralph Payne Thomas has beenengaged in the investment business inWilkes-Barre, with offices at Nos. S5G-S58 inthe Miners Bank Building. He operatesunder the name of R. P. Thomas and Com-pany, Inc., and has developed a very sub-stantial and prosperous business. For twoyears prior to opening his offices here, Mr.Thomas was engaged in the same line of.
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. I UU-UULA>d 479 business in Boston, Massachusetts, but since1922 he has been located here. Thomas P. Thomas, father of R. P. Thomas,has been associated with the Lehig-h ValleyCoal Company for the past forty years, be-ginning- his connection with that concern asa small boy serving as mule driver in themines, and recently retired as general man-ager of the company. He married Jane Wil-liams, and they are the parents of threechildren: Harold Pettibone, of Cleveland,Ohio, deceased: Beatrice Eloise, who is thewife of C. Robert Kruse, of Toledo, Ohio,now residing in Will\es-Barre; and RalphPayne, of further mention. Ralph Payne Thomas, son of Thomas P.and Jane (Williams) Thomas, was born inWest Pittston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,and received his early education in the publicschools of his birthplace, graduating fromthe Kingston High School with the class of1911. and then prepared for college at Wyo-ming Seminary, at Kingston, Luzerne County,where he was graduated with the class of1

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