Samuel T. Hallock    

SAMUEL T. HALLOCK (deceased) was born in the Empire State, July 4, 1812, and received his schooling in his native State. His parents were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers). His early life was spent as a merchant in New York State. For a time he was a commission merchant in New York City, subsequently a merchant at Dentville, N. Y., and in 1847 came to Riceville, this county, where he carried on a store, grist-mill and saw-mill in company with Jesse Smith, until 1856, when he retired to a farm. His wife’s maiden name was Sarah C. Bailey, a native of Massachusetts. Their union was blessed with eight children, of whom five now survive: Dr. W. B. Hallock, of Cromwell, Conn.; B. N., an oil dealer of Bradford, Penn.; Martha, wife of N. A. T. Carroll, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Hannah S.; P. F., an attorney of Meadville, the only representative of the family now in Crawford County. He was born in Crawford County, March 30, 1849, and choose law as his profession, studying in the office of Joshua Douglass in Meadville, and was admitted in 1878; to the Supreme Court in 1881. In politics he is Democratic. He was married in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1878, to Miss Julia A. Barto. Their children are Robert P. (deceased) and Edith, now two years old. The subject of this sketch was a conductor on the “underground railroad,” being among the early Abolitionists, and always took an active interest in public affairs. 

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 742

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