Wyoming County Court House, Tunkhannock, PA
Benjamin Slocum: About 1830 he removed to the township of Tunkhannock (which comprehended a part, or the whole, of the old township of Putnam), in what is now Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, where he took up his residence on the farm which had formerly been in the possession of his brother Isaac. When the borough of Tunkhannock was erected in 1841 a large part of the Benjamin Slocum farm was included within its limits; and in May, 1842, Thomas Truxton Slocum, son and heir of Benjamin Slocum, donated two acres of the farm as a site for the Wyoming County court-house. [Source: A history of Wilkes-Barré, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, by Oscar Jewell Harvey, Ernest Gray Smith, Wilkes-Barre, 1909]