Excerpt from the book: “In the spring of 1797 the former assisted in opening a shad fishery on the river a little below Wyalusing village, the first opened in this part of the country. In 1801 he rafted the first platform of boards at Town's mill that ever went out of the Wyalusing creek. After his settlement hpre, he was for many years prominent in the business of the place, which, so far as he was concerned, was conducted with great energy. In the year of Mr. Hollenback's removal here, (1801), there was a grand 4th of July celebration at Wyalusing. Several things contributed to give it interest. First there was the conflict about land titles. And then it was the year of Mr. Jefferson's accession to the Presidency. From the adoption of the Federal Constitution there had been two great political parties in the country, and in 1800 the party which elected Mr. Jefferson had for the first time been successful at the ballot box”.