Hi All, I've had this article for a while but just hadn't gotten time to send it to the list. There is a ton of family groups in this article for those of you looking for ancestors in the Luzerene/Lackawanna area. It's worth reading. Someone always knows someone else looking for a certain name. from The Scranton Republican, Tuesday, September 1, 1908 THE BENJAMIN FAMILY REUNION The fifth annual reunion of the Benjamin Family was held in the maple grove on the farm of the late Jesse Benjamin. The morning being rather cool the company was rather slow in assembling, but when all had arrived it was found the company had numbered 116. Dinner being disposed of the meeting was called to order by the Vice President and the following programme was rendered: Singing by audience. Prayer by Wesley Benjamin Reading of Minutes. Song by Rena Bennett. Song by Dorthy Hardy. Recitation by Marjorie Hardy. Singing by Mrs. W. P. Hoppe and Vida Little. Singing by Mrs. G.M. Nicholls. Recitation by Lloyd Coil. Song by Gertrude Squires. Song by Howard Squires. Closing song. Then followed the election of officers, which resulted as follows: President, S.C. Benjamin; vice-president, Wesley Benjamin; secretary, Mrs. Lizzie Osmun; treasurer Celia Benjamin; commitee on programme, Mrs. E.L. Coil; commitee to prepare frounds, Ernest Benjamin, G.W. Benjamin, E. Quick and E. Coil. Then followed a brief time for visiting, after which all departed for thier homes to meet again the following year at the same place on the third Thursday in August. Those present were: Mrs. Mary Benjamin and sons, Ernest and George and daughter Celia; Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Coil and sons, Lloyd and Sherwood; Mr. and Mrs. C.D. Bennett and son Lambert and daughters Belle and Rena; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Quick and sons Dexter and Ivan and daughters Kate, Clara, and Alice; Mrs. Farris Pratt and daughter Pearl; Mr. and Mrs. Byron McDonald and son Paul; Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Hardy and son, Fred, and daughters Lena, Marjorie, and Dorothy; Mr. and Mrs. T.A. Snyder and son Ralph; Mr. and Mrs. G.M. Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Squires and daughter Gertrude and son Howard; Mrs. C.W. Hoppe and daughter Blanche; Mrs. Walter Hoppe; Mrs. H.M. Stephens; Mr. and Mrs. John Hinkley; Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Smith; Mr. and Mrs. George Wright; Mr. and Mrs. Morris Tingley; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert McDonald and son Glen, and daughters Gladys and Mildred; Miss Ethel McDuffie, Harry Smith, Philip Sears, of Lenox; Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Benjamin and son Alden; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Quick; Marion Smith, Mrs. Asa Crandall, Hopbottom; Charlie, Joseph and Florence Benjamin, Lathrop; F.M. Benjamin, Wesley Benjamin, Mrs. George Norton and daughter Nellie, and son Ray, Halstead; Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Waterman, Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Wescott and son Ivan, Mrs. Gertie Bennett and daughters Marjorie and Mildred; Mr. and Mrs. O.O. Finn, Mrs. Lena Packer, J.A. Nichols, Mamie Wescott, Nicholson; Mr. and Mrs. E.D. Benjamin and daughter Lena and sons Alpheus and Ralph; Mr. and Mrs. Merle Benjamin and son Robert; Mrs. R. Coleman, Kingsley; Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Nichols; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wescott and son Roy, Fleetville; Mrs. Mart Osmun and sons Merle, John, Wilson, and Roy, La Plume; Mrs. Eugene Miller, Scott; Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt; Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Clark, Scranton; Mrs. H.E. Tingley, Mrs. W.T. Bennett, Lenoxville; Miss Vida Little, Mrs. E.L. Coil, Hartford.