Chauncey Thomas (August 13, 1813 in Damascus, Wayne County, Pennsylvania – October 5, 1882 in Shohola Glen, Pike County, Pennsylvania), was one of eleven children born to mill owner and entrepreneur Moses Thomas and his wife, Rebecca Monington. On his father's side of the family, his grandfather Moses Thomas had been killed by Indians near Narrowsburg during the

French and Indian War The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. At the ...

. On his maternal side, the Monington family of Philadelphia had come to the Delaware valley from

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, England in the early 18th century.Chauncey Thomas
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He is probably best known as the owner of the four of erstwhile Barryville–Shohola Bridges over the

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, and as the father of Rear Admiral and Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet,

Chauncey Thomas Jr. Chauncey Thomas Jr. (April 27, 1850 – May 12, 1919) was a Rear admiral (United States), rear admiral of the United States Navy. The son of Chauncey Thomas, a farmer and entrepreneur, who built four bridges across the Delaware River at Shohola Gl ...

, USN.

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