{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3926", "width": "2241", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "^0^\\nll^^r.\\n--^fc", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "HISTORY\\nOF\\nCLARION COUNTY\\nPENNSYLVANIA\\nWITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES\\nOF SOME OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS\\nEDITED BY\\nA. J. DAVIS\\nSYRACUSE, N. Y.\\nD. MASON CO., PUBLISHERS\\n1887", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "PRESS OF D. MASON CO.\\n63 WEST WATER ST.,\\nS YRACUSE, N. Y.\\n3f3", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nJOSEPHUS says, Those who undertake to write histories, do not, I per-\\nceive, take that trouble on one and the same account but for many and\\nvarious reasons. For some apply themselves to this part of learning to show\\ntheir great skill in composition and that they may therein acquire a reputa-\\ntion. Others write histories in order to gratify those who happen to be con-\\ncerned in them But there are others who of necessity are\\ndriven to write history, because they are concerned in the facts, and so cannot\\nexcuse themselves from committing them to writing, for the advantage of pos-\\nterity.\\nThe editor of the following pages can not profess any of these motives, but\\nin analyzing his own emotions he finds that he must have been impelled to this\\nlabor of love by a desire to wrest from oblivion the annals of a people un-\\npretentious in their manners, simple in their habits, but strong in manly virtues.\\nNot many thrilling adventures are related in this narrative of the doings of\\nthe people of Clarion county, but here and there we are afforded glimpses of\\nthe sterling patriotism, the noble daring, and the lofty courage of those whom\\noccasion afforded the opportunity to display these virtues.\\nThe record of the settlement and development of Clarion county contains\\nfew startling incidents. Peaceful and quiet has been the history of this people,\\nand while our fathers and brothers bear a record of loyal devotion to their\\ncountry in at least two wars, no spot within the borders of our county can be\\npointed out with certainty as the scene of sanguinary battle. So may it be\\nevermore.\\nOwing to many pressing duties the editor has been able to write but a\\nsmall portion of this work, and he is indebted to George J. Reid, Esq., of\\nClarion, for the preparation of all of the county history, excepting the annals\\nof the civil war, which were compiled and written by Hon. W. A. Beer, of Cal-", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "2 Preface.\\nlensburg. Besides these gentlemen the following persons each wrote the local\\nhistory of one or more townships or boroughs C. E. Rugh, Benton Price, L.\\nL. Himes, Miss Clara Campbell, S. C. Hepler, W. W. Deatrick, M. E. Hess,\\nC. F. McNutt, David Bryner, John Beer, Miss Alice Allen, and John Graham.\\nThe compiler of the general part of the county history desires the editor\\nto make his acknowledgments to the many who lent him their assistance\\nbut he is particularly indebted for kind aid and co-operation to Samuel D.\\nIrwin, Esq., of Tionesta, Hon. J. B. Lawson, Hon. D. McClay, Hon. James\\nCampbell, B. J. Reid, Esq., C. A. Rankin, Benjamin Gardner. For the his-\\ntory of the Clarion township settlements, Mr. Joseph M. Owens rendered val-\\nuable assistance. Reynolds Laughlin, P^sq., furnished useful data concerning\\nthe early military affairs, as well as other subjects and to the courtesy of Mr.\\nM. E. Hess the compiler is indebted for many of the facts of the oil develop-\\nment in our county. Mr. Joseph W. Long furnished a list of county officials,\\nwhich was valuable in making up the political history.\\nIn a work so comprehensive, a few omissions and inaccuracies are unavoid-\\nable. In spite of great caution and diligent research, some errors have found\\ntheir way into the work. To obtain accurate data of long-past local events is\\none of the most difficult among the labors of the historian and it will not be\\nsurprising if some mistakes are found in this volume, which, with all its imper-\\nfections, as well as such merits as it may possess, is respectfull,v dedicated to\\nthe people of Clarion county. A. J. D.", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nCHAPTER I.\\nPENNSYLVANIA FROM FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE REVOLUTION.\\nIntroductory\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Natives \u00e2\u0080\u0094Hudson \u00e2\u0080\u0094Dutch Settlements \u00e2\u0080\u0094Settlement by the Swedes\\nConquest of the Swedish Colony by the Dutch Conquest of the New Netherlands\\nby the British Re-conquest by the Dutch Final Cession to England New Jer-\\nsey\u00e2\u0080\u0094 WilUam Penn\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charter of Charles II Settlers sent to Pennsylvania Phila-\\ndelphia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Penn in America\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Disputes with Lord Baltimore\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Treaty with the Indians\\nRapid Immigration Division into Counties Troubles with Maryland Penn\\nReturns to England Death of Charles II Dissensions in the Colony Public\\nSchools in Philadelphia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Penn Arrested in England\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Governor Fletcher Penn Re-\\nturns to America Sails for Europe Death of King William Discord in the Col-\\nony\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Death of Penn Hannah Penn French and Indians Trouble with Mary-\\nland\u00e2\u0080\u0094Logan Whitefield War with France Peace of Aix French Encroach-\\nments in the West Celeron Ohio Company Washington Fort Necessity\\nFirst Congress\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Braddock s Defeat\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Battle at Kittanning Capture of Fort Du\\nQuesne Death of George II Pontiac s War 13\\nCHAPTER n.\\nFROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE PRESENT TIME.\\nMason and Dixon Indian Troubles Stamp Act Connecticut and Virginia Claims\\nFirst Continental Congress Second Continental Congress Declaration of Inde-\\npendence New Constitution for Pennsylvania Retirement of Governor Penn and\\nthe Proprietary Assembly Evacuation of Boston Attack on Charleston British\\ntake New York Battle of Trenton Princeton Assembly of the New Legislature\\nBrandy wine The British Occupy Philadelphia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Attack on Fort Mercer Battle\\nof German town Valley Forge Aid from France Evacuation of Philadelphia\\nBattle of Monmouth Abolition of Slavery in Pennsylvania \u00e2\u0080\u0094Wyoming Massacre\\nOvertures of Peace Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line Disaster of Colonel Craw-\\nford Peace Revolt of Pennsylrania Troops Treaty of Fort Stanwix Constitu-\\ntion of United States Framed and Adopted New Constitution for State Whisky\\nInsurrection War of 1812 Coal Public Schools Revision of Constitution\\nBuckshot War Mexican War Sale of Public Works\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Petroleum and Gas Se-\\ncession\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Invasion of Pennsylvania Battle of Gettysburg Burning of Chambers-\\nburg Soldiers Orphan Schools Revision of the Constitution Centennial Exposi-\\ntion\u00c2\u00b0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Riots of 1877 \u00e2\u0080\u0094Extra Session of the Legislature 27\\nCHAPTER in.\\nTOPOGRAPHY OF CLARION COUNTY.\\nTable-Land Character Drainage Streams Elevations General Description For-\\nests Scenery Ancient Channels 38", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Contents.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nGEOLOG-Y AND MINERALOGY.\\nDefinition Anticlinals and Synclinals Geologic Column Surface Rocks Measures\\nFreeport Group Kittanning Group Ore and Limestone Analyses Clarion\\nG-roup Brookville Coal Homewood Sandstone\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rocks Beneath Other Minerals\\nPetroleum Theories Natural Gas Fuel Value 42\\nCHAPTER V.\\nFROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PURCHASE OF 1784.\\nAborigines, Senecas, and Delawares Indian Remains Petroleum Christian Frederick\\nPost Tobeco and Toby Redbank Creek Brodhead s Expedition Captain Sam-\\nuel Brady 57\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nFROM THE PURCHASE OF 1784 TO THE SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY.\\nThe Purchase Pickering Co. Small Warrantees The Fox Estate Lewis and\\nPeters The Holland Land Company The Bingham Lands Mifflin Warrants\\nFranklin College Northumberland and Lycoming David Mead The State Com-\\nmissioners 63\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nFROM THE SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY TO THE WAR OF 1812.\\nAbsalom Travis Securing Warrants John Laughlin Settlers from Westmoreland\\nFrom Centre County Character of Pioneers Pioneer Life Mills Churches\\nSchools Pastimes First Things 76\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nTHE WAR OF 1812.\\nAlarms on the Frontier Drafts Captain Wallace s Company Incidents of the March\\nto the Maumee Fort Meigs Neely s Company Proceedings at Erie Volunteers 87\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nFROM THE WAR OF 1812 TO THE ERECTION OF THE COUNTY.\\nLand Changes Lancaster Land Company The Bingham Estate Fox Postal Facih-\\nties Roads and Steamboats Clarion River Early Mihtia Prices of Land,\\netc. General Progress 92\\nCHAPTER X.\\nFROM THE ERECTION OF THE COUNTY TO THE IRON ERA 1839-1845.\\nLegislation, etc., Previous to Organization The Act Change of Boundaries Selection\\nof Site of County Seat Public Buildings Militia Pohtics Statistics County\\nFinances 101\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nTHE FURNACES.\\nThe Pioneer Furnace Structure of the Stacks Methods of Manufacture Review of\\nthe Industry List of Furnaces 112", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Contents. 5\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nFROM THE IRON ERA TO THE CIVIL WAR. 1845-1861.\\nMexican War The Underground Railway The Tornado of 60 Floods War Senti-\\nment Politics Statistics County Finances Old-Fashioned Temperance A\\nFourth of July Celebration Fox Hunt A Mass Meeting in 60 121\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nTHE SOLDIERS OF CLARION COUNTY IN THE REBELLION.\\nIntroductory 142\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nCOMPANY H, THIRTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT EIGHTH RESERVE.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Organization Service in the Field Roll of the Company 145\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nCOMPANY E, THIRTY-NINTH REGIMENT TENTH RESERVE.\\nOrganization Route to the Field Service in the Field Losses Record of Hugh\\nWilson Roll of Company 152\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nCOMPANIES OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT MILITIA OF 1863.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Company D Recruiting Service in the Field Roll. Company H Enlistment\\nService Roll. Company I Recruiting Familiar Names Roll of Company.\\nCompany K Where Recruited Service Roll of Company 164\\nCHAPTER XVII.\\nCOMPANY C, SIXTY-SECOND REGIMENT, P. V.\\nWhen Recruited Organization and Muster Service in the Field Death of Colonel\\nBlack Roll of Company 167\\nCHAPTER XVIII.\\nCOMPANY E, SIXTY-SECOND REGIMENT.\\nWhen Recruited Captain Kerr s Dismissal Service in the Field Roll 178\\nCHAPTER XIX.\\nCOMPANY F, SIXTY-THIRD REGIMENT.\\nWhen and By Whom Recruited Officers Service on the Field Roll of Company 189\\nCHAPTER XX.\\nCOMPANY F, SIXTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT, P. V.\\nWhen Recruited Familiar Names Roll of Company 209\\nCHAPTER XXI.\\nCOMPANY C, SEVENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. V.\\nRecruiting Service Roll of Company 218\\n1", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6 Contents.\\nCHAPTER XXII.\\nCOMPANY E, SEVENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. V.\\nRecruited Mustered Service Familiar Names Roll of Company 225\\nCHAPTER XXIII.\\nCOMPANY A, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD REGIMENT, P. V.\\nEnlistment Route to the Field Services Roll 232\\nCHAPTER XXIV.\\nCOMPANY B, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD REGIMENT, P. V.\\nEnlistment Route to the Field Services Death of Captain Gillespie Roll 243\\nCHAPTER XXV.\\nCOMPANY F, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD REGIMENT, P. V.\\nEnlistment To the Field Services Roll 250\\nCHAPTER XXVI.\\nCOMPANY H, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD REGIMENT P. V.\\nRecruiting To the Field Services Roll 257\\nCHAPTER XXVII.\\nCOMPANY C, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH REGIMENT P. V.\\nRecruiting To the Front Services Severe Losses Distinguished Names Roll. 264\\nCHAPTER XXVIII.\\nCOMPANY L, ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. V.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ELEVENTH\\nCAVALRY.\\nEnlistment To the Field Services Captain Loomis s Death Roll 277\\nCHAPTER XXIX.\\nCOMPANY K, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. V.\\nEnlistment To the Field Services Roll 289\\nCHAPTER XXX.\\nCOMPANY H, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINTH REGIMENT P. V.\\nEnrollment Route to the Field Services Roll 299\\nCHAPTER XXXI.\\nCOMPANY G, ONE HUNDRED xVND FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT P. V.\\nEnlistment To the Field Services Roll 308\\nCHAPTER XXXII.\\nCOMPANY H, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT P. V.\\nEnrollment Services Casualties Roll 318", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Contents.\\nCHAPTER XXXIII.\\nCOMPANY K, ONE [HUNDRED AND FIFTY -NINTH REGIMENT P. V.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FOUR-\\nTEENTH CAVALRY.\\nFirst Enlistment Recruits Other Recruits In the Field Record of the Men 327\\nCHAPTER XXXIV.\\nCOMPANY B, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT.\\nEnlistment Remarkable Number of Desertions Roll 329\\nCHAPTER XXXV.\\nMISCELLANEOUS ENLISTMENTS.\\nCaptain Tanner s Independent Company Muster Service Roll. List of Soldiers En-\\nrolled in Various Other Organizations Than Those Already Named 334\\nCHAPTER XXXVI.\\nFROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE OIL ERA\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1865-1877.\\nOil Mania Apprentices The Allegheny Valley Railroad The Low Grade Telegraphic\\nAttempt to Move County Seat Politics Statistics County Finances 343\\nCHAPTER XXXVII.\\nTHE DEVELOPMENT OF PETROLEUM.\\nDeer Creek Oil Spring The Pocohontas Early Operations Graham s Landing Fox-\\nburg First Pipe Line Grass Flats St. Petersburg -Turkey City and Monroe ville\\nThe St. Lawrence- Edenburg Beaver City Elk City Pipe Lines Cogley\\nField Reidsburg Statistics 347\\nCHAPTER XXXVIII.\\nTHE LUMBER AND COAL INDUSTRIES.\\nEarly Lumbering Hahn Metzgar Marvin, Rulofson Company Penn Mills\\nShoup Siegworth Cobb Sons Paint Mills Star Mills P. Haskell Byrom,\\nMinor Gordon Higby Tract Arthurs Coal and Lumber Company Blake Tract\\nF. Vowinckel T. Raine Observations Statistics Fairmount Mines Mineral Ridge\\nNew Catfish Hardscrabble Pine Run Clarion Shaft Star and Long Run\\nChurch Hill Shgo Branch Western Shaft 359\\nCHAPTER XXXIX.\\nFROM THE OIL ERA TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1877-1887.\\nRailroads Politics Statistics County Finances Civil List Newspapers Post-\\noflfices Agricultural Association Public Buildings 367\\nCHAPTER XL.\\nTHE BENCH AND BAR.\\nThe First Court Judge Alexander McCalmont The First Attorneys Later Ones\\nJudges Buffington, Knox, and J. S. McCalmont The Logue Trial Murder Cases\\nJudges Scofield and Campbell Additional Sketches Judge Jenks The Standard\\nProceedings Hons. Corbett and Wilson History of the District List of Attor-\\nneys First Records County Officers 387", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8 Contents.\\nCHAPTER XLI.\\nSCHOOLS.\\nFirst Schools Free Schools The County Superintendency Superintendent Orr\\nThe First Institutes Superintendent Magonagle Superintendent Walker Super-\\nintendent Kelly Superintendent Wood Superintendent Davis Superintendent\\nAnderson Superintendent McNutt Parochial Schools 411\\nCHAPTER XLII.\\nCHURCHES 420\\nCHAPTER XLHI.\\nHISTORY OF ASHLAND TOWNSHIP 432\\nCHAPTER XLIV.\\nHISTORY OF BEAVER TOWNSHIP 441\\nCHAPTER XLV.\\nHISTORY OF BRADY TOWNSHIP U9\\nCHAPTER XLVI.\\nHISTORY OF EAST BRADY BOROUGH 452\\nCHAPTER XLVII.\\nHISTORY OF CALLENSBURG BOROUGH 45^\\nCHAPTER XLVni.\\nHISTORY OF CLARION TOWNSHIP 467\\nCHAPTER XLIX.\\nHISTORY OF CLARION BOROUGH 474\\nCHAPTER L.\\nHISTORY OF CURLLSVILLE BOROUGH 496\\nCHAPTER LI.\\nHISTORY OF EDENBURG BOROUGH 49\\nCHAPTER LH.\\nHISTORY OF ELK TOWNSHIP 506\\nCHAPTER LHI.\\nHISTORY OF FARMINGTON TOWNSHIP 5ia\\nCHAPTER LIV.\\nHISTORY OF HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP 516", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Contents. 9\\nCHAPTER LV.\\nHISTORY OF KNOX TOWNSHIP 5m\\nCHAPTER LVI.\\nHISTORY OF LICKING TOWNSHIP 524\\nCHAPTER LVU.\\nHISTORY OF LIMESTONE TOWNSHIP 531\\nCHAPTER LVni.\\nHISTORY OF MADISON TOWNSHIP 536\\nCHAPTER LIX.\\nHISTORY OF MILL CREEK TOWNSHIP 543\\nCHAPTER LX.\\nHISTORY OF MONROE TOWNSHIP 546\\nCHAPTER LXI.\\nHISTORY OF NEW BETHLEHEM BOROUGH 551\\nCHAPTER LXn.\\nHISTORY OF PAINT TOWNSHIP 562\\nCHAPTER LXni.\\nHISTORY OF PERRY TOWNSHIP 565\\nCHAPTER LXIV.\\nHISTORY OF PINEY TOWNSHIP 569\\nCHAPTER LXV.\\nHISTORY OF PORTER TOWNSHIP 573\\nCHAPTER LXVI.\\nHISTORY OF REDBANK TOWNSHIP 582\\nCHAPTER LXVn.\\nHISTORY OF RICHLAND TOWNSHIP 588\\nCHAPTER LXVin.\\nHISTORY OF RIMERSBURG BOROUGH 592\\nCHAPTER LXIX.\\nHISTORY OF ST. PETERSBURG BOROUGH 600", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "lo Contents.\\nCHAPTER LXX.\\nHISTORY OF SALEM TOWNSHIP 606\\nCHAPTER LXXI.\\nHISTORY OF SLIGO BOROUGH 611\\nCHAPTER LXXn.\\nHISTORY OF STRATTANVILLE BOROUGH 613\\nCHAPTER LXXni.\\nHISTORY OF TOBY TOWNSHIP 617\\nCHAPTER LXXIV.\\nHISTORY OF WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP 622\\nCHAPTER LXXV.\\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 631\\nBRIEF PERSONALS i\\nINDEX Ixv", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Contents.\\nII\\nILLUSTRATIONS.\\nAndrews, Charles E., facing 552\\nArnold, Frank M., facing 494\\nArnold, G. W., facing 492\\nArnold, M., facing 484\\nBarr, W. W., facing 396\\nBerlin, George N facing 508\\nBowman, David, facing 514\\nBlack, Jacob, facing 658\\nCampbell, James, facing 402\\nClarion County Map of Larger\\nLand Patents facing 64\\nCollner, W. F., facing 408\\nCraig, Colonel C. A facing 264\\nCresswell, John, facing 580\\nDavis, A. J., facing 410\\nEaker, P. K., facing 534\\nFox, J. M., between 634-635\\nFox, S. M., between 634-635\\nFox, William L facing 636\\nFoxburg Memorial Church facing 637\\nHamilton, William R., facing 554\\nHess, Michael E., facing 500\\nKahle, Hon. John W facing 628\\nKaufman, C facing 480\\nKeating, H., facing 590\\nKlingensmith, John, facing 542\\nKnox, Hon. James B facing 156\\nLeeper, C, facing 468\\nLowry, Samuel, facing 218\\nPayne, T. J., facing 652\\nReynolds, David, facing 120\\nRitts, Elias facing 602\\nRitts, John V., facing 604\\nRobinson, Robert facing 456\\nRoss, J. Frank, facing 476\\nRulofson, R., facing 360\\nSiegwarth, A. L facing 512\\nShanafelt, William, facing 576\\nSloan, W. C, facing 584\\nStrattan, John R., facing 614\\nSweny, James, facing 404\\nWilson, J. H., facing 548\\nYeany, John, facing 662\\nBIOGRAPHICAL.\\nAndrews, Charles E., 642\\nArnold, Frank M., 650\\nArnold, George W.,, 632\\nArnold, Manasseh 661\\nBarr, Hon. W. W., 657\\nBerlin, George N 648\\nBowman, David, 653\\nBlack, Jacob, 659\\nCampbell, Hon. James, 631\\nCollner, W. F., 658\\nCraig, Colonel C. A 655\\nCresswell, Dr. John, 648\\nDavis, A. J., 647\\nEaker, Philip K., 644\\nFox, J. M 635\\nFox, S. M., 635\\nFox, William L., 635\\nHess, M. E., 639\\nKahle, Hon. John W., 643\\nKaufman, Charles 633\\nKeating, John, 662\\nKlingensmith, John 660\\nKnox, Hon. James B., 638\\nLowry, Samuel 634\\nPayne, T. J., 653\\nReynolds, David, 654\\nRitts, Elias, 637\\nRitts, John V., 651\\nRoss, J. Frank, M. D., 649\\nRulofson, R., 641\\nSiegwarth, A. L., 650\\nShanafelt, William, 645\\nSloan, William C, 642\\nStrattan, John R., 663\\nSweny, James, 664\\nWilson, Hon. J. H., 662\\nYeany, John, 663", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "_.___A", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "HISTORY\\nOF\\nCLARION COUNTY.\\nCHAPTER I.i\\nPENNSYLVANIA FROM FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE REVOLUTION.\\nIntroductory The Natives Hudson Dutch Settlements Settlement by the Swedes\\nConquest of the Swedish Colony bj^ the Dutch Conquest of the New Netherlands by the\\nBritish Re-conquest by the Dutch Final Cession to England New Jersey William Penn\\nCharter of Charles II Settlers sent to Pennsylvania Philadelphia Penn in America\\nDisputes with Lord Baltimore Treaty Avith the Indians Rapid Immigration Division into\\nCounties Troubles with Maryland Penn Returns to England Death of Charles II Dis-\\nsensions in the Colony Public Schools in Philadelphia Penn Arrested in England Gov-\\nernor Fletcher Penn Returns to America Sails for Europe Death of King William\\nDiscord in the Colony Death of Penn Hannah Penn French and Indians Trouble with\\nMaryland Logan Whitefield War Avith France-- Peace of Aix French Encroach-\\nments in the West Celeron Ohio Company Washington Fort Necessity First Con-\\ngress Braddock s Defeat Battle at Kittanning Capture of Fort Du Quesne Death of\\nGeorge II Pontiac s War.\\nTHE surface of what is now known as Pennsylvania was, at the time of the\\ncoming of the white men, one vast forest of hemlock, and pine, and beech,\\nand oak, unbroken except by an occasional rocky barren upon the precipitous\\nmountain side, or by a few patches of prairie, which had been reclaimed by\\nannual burnings, and was used by the indolent and simple-minded natives for\\nthe culture of a little maize and a few vegetables. The soil, by the annual ac-\\ncumulations of leaves and abundant growths of forest vegetation, was luxurious,\\nand the trees stood close and were of gigantic size. The streams swarmed\\nwith fish, and the forest abounded with game. Where now are cities and ham-\\nlets filled with busy populations intent upon the accumulation of wealth, the\\n1 Chapters I and II are compiled and condensed from Bates s History of Pennsylvania, and\\nfrom the State Archives.\\n2", "height": "3603", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14 History of Clarion County.\\nmastery of knowledge, and the pursuits of pleasure, the deer browsed and\\nsipped at the water s edge, and the pheasant drummed his monotonous note.\\nWhere now is the glowing furnace, from which day and night tongues of flame\\nare bursting, and the busy water-wheel sends the shuttle flashing through the\\nloom, half- naked, dusky warriors fashioned their spears with rude implements\\nof stone, and made themselves hooks out of the bones of animals, for alluring\\nthe finny tribe. Where now are fertile fields, upon which the thrifty farmer\\nturns his furrow, which his neighbor takes up and runs on until it reaches from\\none end of the broad State to the other, and where are flocks and herds re-\\njoicing in rich meadows, gladdened by abundant fountains, or reposing at the\\nheated noontide beneath ample shade, not a blow had been struck against the\\ngiants of the forest, the soil rested in virgin purity, the streams glided on in\\nmajesty, unvexed by wheel and unchoked by device of man.\\nWhere now the long train rushes on with the speed of the wind over plain\\nand mead, across streams and under mountains, awakening the echoes of the\\nhills the long day through, and at the midnight hour screaming out its shrill\\nwhistle in fiery defiance, the wild native, with a fox skin wrapped about his\\nloins and a few feathers stuck in his hair, issuing from his rude hut, tro ted on\\nin his forest path followed by his squaw with her infant peering forth from the\\nrough sling at her back, pointed his canoe, fashioned from the barks of the\\ntrees, across the deep river, knowing the progress of time only by the rising\\nand setting sun, troubled by no meridian for its index, starting on his way\\nwhen his nap was ended, and stopping for rest when a spot was reached that\\npleased his fancy. Where now a swarthy population toils ceaselessly deep\\ndown in the bowels of the earth, shut out from the light of day in cutting out\\nthe material that feeds the fire upon the forge, and gives genial warmth to the\\nlovers as they chat merrily in the luxurious drawing-room, not a mine had been\\nopened, and the vast beds of the black diamond rested unsunned beneath the\\nsuperincumbent mountains, where they had been fashioned by the Creator s hand.\\nRivers of oil seethed through the impatient and uneasy gases, and vast pools\\nand lakes of this pungent, parti-colored fluid, hidden away from the coveting\\neye of man, guarded well their own secrets. Not a derrick protruded its well-\\nbalanced form in air. Not a drill with its eager, eating tooth descended into\\nthe flinty rock. No pipe line diverted the oily tide in a silent, ceaseless current\\nto the ocean s brink. The cities of iron tanks, filled to bursting, had no place\\namidst the forest solitudes. Oil exchanges, with their vexing puts and calls,\\nshorts and longs, bulls and bears, had not yet come to disturb the equanimity\\nof the red man as he smoked the pipe of peace at the council fire.\\nWhen the Europeans came this territory was occupied by some of the most\\nbloody and revengeful of the savage tribes. They were known as the Lenni\\nLenapes, and held sway from the Hudson to the Potomac. They came to be\\nknown to the Europeans as the Delawares, after the name of the river along", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania. 15\\nthe numerous branches of which they principally dwelt. The Monseys, or\\nWolves, another tribe of the Lenapes, dwelt upon the Susquehanna and its\\ntributaries, and, by their warlike disposition, won the credit of being the fiercest\\nof their nation.\\nThe Five Nations the Senecas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Cayugas, and the\\nOnondagas occupied the greater part of the territory now known as New\\nYork, and from their hearty union came to exercise a commanding influence.\\nThe Tuscaroras, a tribe which had been expelled from their homes in North\\nCarolina, were adopted by the Five Nations, and from this time forward were\\nknown by the English as the Six Nations by the Lenapes they were called\\nMingoes, and by the French Iroquois.\\nIn 1609 Henry Hudson, an English navigator then in the employ of the\\nDutch East India Company, discovered and partially explored the Delaware\\nBay and the Hudson River. The adjacent country was subsequently claimed\\nby Holland, and the States General designated it as New Netherlands. A\\npermanent settlement was made on the Hudson, and in 1623 a settlement was.\\nmade by a party of Walloons, Protestant fugitives from Belgium, under Cor-\\nnells Jacobson Mey, on the eastern shore of the South. or Delaware River^\\nabout fifty miles above the mouth. A fort was built which was called Nassau^\\nbut after a few months it was abandoned and the settlers returned to their\\nfriends on the Hudson. Nassau afterward became a trading-post between the\\nDutch and the Indians.\\nSeven or eight years later a Httle settlement (consisting of about thirty per-\\nsons) was made by the Dutch near the mouth of the Delaware River on the\\nwestern shore, but in a short time every one of the settlers was massacred by\\nthe Indians, and their skulls and bones were found bestrewing the ground by\\ntheir countrymen who came in a vessel to succor them in 1632.\\nThe first permanent settlement in Pennsylvania was made by a company of\\nSwedes and Fins in 1638, and was called by them Christina, after the name of\\nthe youthful queen of Sweden. The Dutch still held Nassau when the\\nSwedes arrived, and their government at Manhattan looked with envious eyes\\nupon the new colony. In a few years the Dutch secured a grant of land on\\nthe west bank of the Delaware, and a conflict of authority arose between the\\nsettlers of the two nationahties.\\nIn 1654 the Swedes took forcible possession of one of the Dutch forts.\\nThe next year Governor Stuyvesant conducted a band of troops from Man-\\nhattan and not only retook the fort but forced the capitulation of the entire\\nSwedish colony, which thus came to an end after an existence of a little more\\nthan seventeen years.\\nThe English had always claimed the entire Atlantic seaboard. On March\\n22, 1664, Charles II, of England, made a grant of the whole country, at\\nthe time in possession of the Dutch, to his brother James, the duke of York.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "i6 History of Clarion County.\\nJames sent four men-of-war, which he borrowed from the king, under com-\\nmand of Colonel Richard Nicholls, to wrest the New Netherlands from the\\nHollanders. The settlements along the Hudson surrendered without firing a\\ngun, but those on the Delaware made a gallant but fruitless resistance, and\\ntheir fort was taken by assault. Nicholls was succeeded by Colonel Francis\\nLovelace, who was appointed governor in 1667.\\nIn 1673 war broke out anew between the French and English on one side\\nand the Dutch on the other. The Hollanders repelled the French army of\\n200,000 men by cutting the dikes which held back the sea and inundating the\\nland. The Dutch fleet, in three great naval battles, repulsed the English fleet\\nthat was acting in concert with the French army, and drove it from the coast\\nof Holland. Deeming this a favorable opportunity to regain their possessions\\nwrenched from them in the New World, the Dutch sent a small fleet to New\\nYork and compelled the surrender of the country. The possessions along the\\nDelaware also fell into the hands of the Dutch; but when peace was concluded\\nbetween England and Holland, in 1674, the whole country was restored to\\nEngland, and Sir Edmund Andros was sent to govern the ceded territory.\\nThe Friends, or Quakers, settled in New Jersey, and, through the financial\\nembarrassment of one of the proprietors (named Byllinge), William Penn became\\ntrustee about 1675-76, and finally part owner of the territory, calling his share,\\nwhich lay along the Delaware, New West Jersey, that on the ocean shore being\\ncalled New East Jersey. Thus we see how Penn first became involved in the\\naffairs of the New World. He instituted a liberal form of government for his\\npeople, and in every way disclosed a noble disposition toward the settlers.\\nWilliam Penn became more and more interested in the subject of col-\\nonization in America. His father had risen to distinction in the British navy,\\nhaving served under the Commonwealth and also after the Restoration. Under\\nJames, duke of York, Admiral Penn commanded the English fleet which de-\\nscended upon the Dutch coast, and gained a great victory over the naval forces\\nled by Van Opdam. For this service to his country Penn was knighted, and\\nbecame a favorite at court. At his death there was due him from the crown\\nabout $80,000, a portion of which he himself had advanced for sea service.\\nThe son, William Penn, petitioned King Charles H to grant him, in liquidation\\nof this debt, a tract of land in America, lying north of Maryland, bounded\\neast by the Delaware River, on the west limited as Maryland, and northward\\nto extend as far as plantable. The government granted to Penn a larger tract\\nthan he had asked for, and the charter was drawn up with unexampled liberal-\\nity. He was invested with almost dictatorial power over a country as large as\\nEngland itself, destined to become a populous empire. Penn wanted to name\\nthe land New Wales, but the king insisted on Pennsylvania, in honor of the\\nadmiral, William Penn s father.\\nThe charter of King Charles H was dated April 2, 1681, and next year", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania. 17\\nPenn obtained a deed for the territory embraced in the charter. He also ob-\\ntained in 1682 two grants of a tract of land extending to Cape Henlopen, on\\nDelaware Bay, embracing the three counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex,\\nwhich were for many years a part of Pennsylvania, but subsequently consti-\\ntuted the State of Delaware.\\nPenn now relinquished his share in West New Jersey and gave himself to\\nreclaiming and settling his new province. The publication of the royal charter\\nand his description of the country attracted attention, and many purchases of\\nland were made of Penn before he left England. That these purchasers might\\nhave something binding to rely upon, Penn drew up what he termed condi-\\ntions or concessions between himself, as proprietor, and purchasers in the\\nprovince. These related to the settling of the country, laying out towns, and\\nespecially to the treatment of the Indians, who were to have the same rights\\nand privileges, and careful regard as the Europeans. And, what is perhaps a\\nremarkable instance of provident forethought, the eighteenth article provides\\nThat in clearing the ground, care be taken to leave one acre of trees for every\\nfive acres cleared. It might have been well if such a provision had remained\\noperative in the State for all time.\\nThe articles and laws which Penn drew up for the government of his colony\\nwere unexampled for fairness and liberality, and gave impress to the character\\nof the early government. They implanted in the breasts of the people a deep\\nsense of duty, of right, and of obligation in all public affairs, and the relations\\nof man with man, and formed a framework for the future constitution. ReHg-\\nious freedom was guaranteed to every one, and thus an asylum was afforded\\nto all who were oppressed for conscience s sake.\\nNot being in readiness to go to his province during the first year, Penn dis-\\npatched three ship loads of settlers, and sent his cousin, William Markham, to take\\nformal possession of the country and act as deputy governor. With him he sent\\ncommissioners who, in conjunction with the governor, were to preserve friendly\\nrelations with the Indians and acquire lands by actual purchase, and to select\\nthe site of a great city. Penn s instructions as to the treatment of the Indians\\nwill be handed down the ages as a model of justice, humanity, and wisdom.\\nPurchases of lands from the Indians were made on the west bank of the Dela-\\nware, and above the mouth of the Schuylkill, and after considerable trouble in\\nsearching for an eligible site for a city, the present site of Philadelphia was\\nfinally adopted, at the junction of the Schuylkill and the Delaware.\\nHaving settled his affairs in England, Penn embarked on board the ship\\nWelcome, August, 1682, in company with about a hundred planters, for the\\nNew World. The voyage lasted nearly six weeks, and they had not been on\\nthe ocean long before the small-pox broke out, and thirty of the company died.\\nHis arrival was hailed with demonstrations of joy by all classes English,\\nDutch, and Swedes. On his arrival at Upland, now Chester, he called an as-", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "1 8 History of Clarion County.\\nsembly of the people, in which an equal number of votes was allowed to the\\nprovince and the three lower counties, now constituting Delaware. The assem-\\nbly was in session only three days, but over sixty subjects were treated in the\\nlaws they enacted.\\nPenn also visited New York, and, as the boundaries between his province\\nand Maryland were in dispute, he paid a visit to Lord Baltimore to adjust the\\ndifficulties arising from the disputes, but his mission proved fruitless. Penn s\\ncharter limits were all that tract of land, or part of land, in America, with\\nthe islands therein contained as the same is bounded, on the east by Delaware\\nRiver, from twelve miles distance northwards of New Castle town, unto the\\nthree and fortieth degree of northern latitude The said land to\\nextend westward five degrees in longitude, to be computed from the said east-\\nern bounds and the said lands to be bounded on the north by the beginning\\nof the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, and, on the south, by a\\ncircle drawn at twelve miles distance from New Castle northward and westward\\nunto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude and then by a\\nstraight line westward to the limits of the longitude above mentioned. As\\nwe have seen, Penn afterward obtained a grant of the three counties of Dela-\\nware called the territories or lower counties. By reference to a map it\\nwill be seen that the southern boundary of Penn s lands cuts the District of\\nColumbia, and includes Baltimore and the greater part of Maryland, together\\nwith a good slice of Virginia. Lord Baltimore claimed the country as far\\nnorth as Philadelphia, or to the fortieth parallel of latitude. These conflicting\\nclaims gave cause for grave disputes.\\nPenn next made his celebrated treaty with the Indians, in which the Lenni\\nLenape, the Shawnees, and the Mingoes are said to have participated, and\\nwhich, we are told, the Indians kept sacred for one hundred years.\\nThe fame of the colony and the desirableness of settlement therein spread\\nrapidly, and the numbers coming hither were unparalleled in the history of\\ncolonization. People came from England, Ireland, Wales, Holland, and Ger-\\nmany. Their first care on landing was to bring their household goods to a\\nplace of safety, often to the simple protection of a tree. Some made for them-\\nselves caves in the earth until better habitations could be secured.\\nPenn divided the colony into counties, three for the province (Bucks, Phila-\\ndelphia, and Chester) and three for the territories (New Castle, Kent, and\\nSussex). A General Assembly was elected, eighteen for the Council, or Up-\\nper House, and fifty-four for the Assembly, or Lower House. This Assembly\\nconvened January lo, 1683. The first grand jury in Pennsylvania was sum-\\nmoned for the 2d of February, 1683. In less than a year the number of\\nhouses in Philadelphia numbered about eighty.\\nEarly in the year 1684 a party from Maryland made forcible entry upon\\nthe plantations in the lower counties and drove off the owners. Indications", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania. 19\\narising that a struggle was likely soon to be precipitated before the crown for\\npossession of the disputed territory, Penn decided early in the summer to\\nreturn to England to defend his interests. He accordingly arranged his affairs\\nin the colony, issued an affectionate address to his people, and sailed for\\nEurope on the 6th of June.\\nCharles II died this year and was succeeded by his brother James, duke of\\nYork, under title of James II. Penn enjoyed the friendship of the new\\nking and soon obtained a temporary settlement of his disagreement with Lord\\nBaltimore touching the boundaries of their provinces, which was effected by a\\ncompromise. The matter was finally determined in 1732.\\nJuly 27, 1688, John Blackwell was appointed lieutenant-governor, but ow-\\ning to dissensions his term was short, and in January, 1690, he left the colony\\nfor England.\\nThree forms of administering the executive department of the government\\nhad now been tried, by a council consisting of eighteen members, a commission\\nof five members, and a lieutenant-governor. A disagreement as to the form\\nof government caused a secession of the lower counties, which eventuated in\\nthe formation of Delaware as a separate commonwealth.\\nIn 1689 the Friends Public School in Philadelphia was first incorporated,\\nconfirmed by a patent from Penn in 1701, and another in 1708, and finally,\\nwith greatly enlarged powers from Penn personally, November 29, 171 1. The\\npreamble to the charter recites that as the prosperity and welfare of any peo-\\nple depend, in great measure, upon the good education of youth, and their\\nearly introduction in the principles of true religion and virtue, and qualifying\\nthem to serve their country and themselves, by breeding them in reading,\\nwriting, and learning of languages and useful arts and sciences suitable to\\ntheir sex, age and degree, which cannot be effected in any manner so well as\\nby erecting public schools, etc. George Keith was employed as first master,\\nand served one year. A school of a primary grade had been established as\\nearly as 1683 in Philadelphia, and was taught by Enoch Flower.\\nPenn s favor at court during the reign of James II caused him to be sus-\\npected of disloyalty to the government when William and Mary had come to\\nthe throne. Accordingly from 1688 to 1690 he was arrested four times on sus-\\npicion of adhering to the Stuarts, and his fourth arrest prevented him from\\nprosecuting a voyage with a large party of settlers to Pennsylvania. Political\\nand religious troubles vexed the colony, which, coupled with the disfavor into\\nwhich Penn had fallen in England, served as a pretext to wrest his province\\nfrom him. The French and Indians from the north were threatening the Eng-\\nlish. Already the expense for the defense had become burdensome to New\\nYork. It was believed that Penn, with his peace principles, would refuse aid\\nfor the common defense. Accordingly, on the 21st of October, 1692, Benjamin\\nFletcher, governor of New York, was commissioned by William and Mary to", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20 History of Clarion County.\\ntake the province and territories under his government. The following April\\nhe came with great pomp to assume authority. He summoned the Assembly,\\nand soon differences arose between the members and the governor. William\\nMarkham was appointed lieutenant-governor, and Governor Fletcher departed\\nto New York.\\nThe following year Governor Fletcher again met the Assembly, and again\\nattempted to persuade that body to vote money to provide for the common\\ndefense but the Assembly persistently refused, and September, 1694, closed\\nFletcher s governorship of Pennsylvania. Penn was reinstated in his govern-\\nment the same year.\\nIn July, 1699, Penn set sail for America, and was tossed about on the ocean\\nby adverse winds for three months. Great joy was everywhere manifested\\nthroughout the province at his arrival. He at once set about the affairs of\\nhis people. The following February he met the Indians in formal treaty of\\nfriendship. Several sessions of the Legislature were held, in which great har-\\nmony prevailed, and attention was given to revising the constitution.\\nIn the midst of these labors intelligence came that a bill had been intro-\\nduced in Parliament for reducing all proprietary governments in America to\\nregal ones. The case was urgent, and Penn reluctantly resolved to return to\\nEngland in order to protect his interests. He appointed Andrew Hamilton as\\nhis deputy, and on the ist of November, 1701, set sail for Europe.\\nSoon after Penn s arrival in England King William died, and Anne of Den-\\nmark succeeded him.\\nPenn now found himself in favor at court, and the bill which had been\\npending before Parliament, that had given him so much uneasiness, was at the\\nsucceeding session dropped entirely, and was never again called up.\\nGovernor Hamilton died December, 1702, and was succeeded by Edward\\nShippen, president of the Council. John Evans was appointed deputy gover-\\nnor, and assumed his duties December, 1703. He attempted to reunite the\\nprovince and lower counties, but insurmountable difficulties arose, and the ter-\\nritories, or lower counties, remained separate in a legislative capacity, though\\nstill a part of Pennsylvania under the claim of Penn, and ruled by the same\\ngovernor, until September 20, 1776, when a constitution was adopted, and\\nthey were proclaimed a separate State under the name of Delaware.\\nDiscord between Council and the Assembly marked the two years of the\\ngovernment of Evans, and little legislation was effected. The governor is-\\nsued a proclamation calling for the organization of the militia, but no one en-\\nlisted. Next he attempted to frighten the Quakers into taking up arms by\\ncausing a false alarm of approaching enemies to be circulated, but without\\navail few of these people showed any disposition to falsify their faith. Fail-\\ning in other measures, he was relieved in 1709, and Colonel Charles Gookin\\nwas appointed to succeed him.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania. 21\\nContentions arose between the new governor and his Council and Assem-\\nbly, which continued during the greater part of his administration. These\\ntroubles, and debts and litigations at home, caused Penn to think seriously of\\nselling his interest in the colony, and in 171 2 he offered it for 20,000. The\\nsum of ;^i 2,000 was offered on the part of the crown, which was agreed upon;\\nbut before the necessary papers were executed he was stricken down with apo-\\nplexy, by which he was incapacitated for transacting any business, and a stay\\nwas put to further proceedings. After a lingering illness for six years he died\\non May 30, 171 8, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.\\nWith great power of intellect, and a religious devotion scarcely matched in\\nall Christendom, he gave himself to the welfare of mankind, by securing civil\\nand religious liberty through the operations of the organic law. Though not a\\nlawyer by profession, he drew frames of government and bodies of laws which\\nhave been the admiration of succeeding generations, and are destined to exert\\na benign influence in all future time, and by his discussions with Lord Balti-\\nmore and before the Lords in Council, he showed himself familiar with the\\nabstruse principles of law. He sought to know no philosophy but that pro-\\nmulgated by Christ and his disciples, and this he had sounded to its depths,\\nand in it were anchored his ideas of public law and private and social living.\\nThe untamed savage of the forest bowed in meek and loving simplicity to his\\nmild and resistless sway, and the members of the Society of Friends all over\\nEurope flocked to his city of Brotherly Love. His prayers for the welfare of\\nhis people are the beginning and ending of all his public and private corres-\\npondence, and who will say that they have not been answered in the blessings\\nwhich have attended the commonwealth of his founding And will not the\\nday of his greatness be when the inhabitants throughout all its borders shall\\nreturn to the peaceful and loving spirit of Penn In the midst of a licentious\\ncourt, and with every prospect of advancement in its sunshine and favor, inher-\\niting a great name and an independent patrimony, he turned aside from this\\nbrilliant track to make common lot with a poor sect under the ban of govern-\\nment; endured stripes and imprisonment and loss of property; banished him-\\nself to the wilds of the American continent that he might secure to his people\\nthose devotions which seemed to them required by their Maker, and has won\\nfor himself a name by the simple deeds of love and humble obedience to Chris-\\ntian mandates which shall never perish. Many have won renown by deeds of\\nblood, but fadeless glory has come to William Penn by charity.\\nAfter his death his wife Hannah assumed proprietary powers, issued instruc-\\ntions to her lieutenant-governors, heard complaints and settled difficulties with\\nthe skill of a veteran diplomatist. A suit in chancery, after litigation for nine\\nyears, resulted in declaring the sale of the province to the crown void, and\\nPenn s three surviving sons, John, Thomas, and Richard, became the joint pro-\\nprietors.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22 History of Clarion County.\\nGovernor Gookin becoming insane, was succeeded a year before the death\\nof Penn by Sir WiUiam Keith, who was possessed of many good traits, and\\nadministered the executive power with skill. He made a treaty with the Five\\nNations and evinced a disposition to treat the Indians with fairness. However,\\nfactional troubles arose in the colony, and, having refused the request of Han-\\nnah Penn to reinstate James Logan, president of the Council and secretary of\\nthe province, whom he had dismissed from office, he was himself removed in\\nJuly, 1726, after an eminently successful administration of nine years.\\nPatrick Gordon was appointed lieutenant-governor in place of Keith. By\\nthe decision of the Court of Chancery in 1727, alluded to in a foregoing para-\\ngraph, Hannah Penn s authority over the colony was at an end, the proprietary\\ninterests having descended to her sons. The period from the death of Penn, in\\n17 18, to 1727, one of the most prosperous in the history of the colony, was\\nfamiliarly known as the Reign of Hannah and the Boys.\\nThe Indians now began to grow more troublesome. As early as 1732 the\\nFrench, who were claiming all the territory drained by the Mississippi and its\\naffluents, on the ground of priority of discovery of its mouth and exploration\\nof its channel, commenced erecting trading-posts in Pennsylvania, along the\\nAllegheny and Ohio Rivers, and invited the Indians living on these streams to\\na council for concluding treaties with them at Montreal, Canada. To neutralize\\nthe influence of the French, these Indians were summoned to meet in council\\nat Philadelphia, to renew treaties of friendship. A treaty was also concluded\\nwith the Six Nations, in which they pledged lasting friendship for the English.\\nHannah Penn died in 1733. King George II had been on the British throne\\nsince June, 1727. He now reserved to himself the government of the lower\\ncounties, which act of the king was the beginning of those series of encroach-\\nments which finally culminated in the independence of the States of America.\\nThomas Penn arrived in the province in 1732, and John Penn came over\\nin 1734- Soon after the arrival of the latter news was brought that Lord Bal-\\ntimore had made application to have the provinces transferred to his colony,\\nand John Penn returned to England to defend the proprietary rights. In Au-\\ngust, 1736, Governor Gordon died. His term had been one of prosperity, and\\nthe colony had grown rapidly in numbers and in the industries. James Logan,\\npresident of the council, was, in efiect, governor during the two years following\\nthe death of Gordon. During this period serious trouble broke out near the\\nMaryland border, west of the Susquehanna, in which several skirmishes took\\nplace between parties of Marylanders and Pennsylvanians, resulting in the\\ndeath of some of the participants. Learning of these troubles, the king in\\nCouncil issued an order restraining both parties from further acts of violence,\\nand afterwards adopted a plan of settlement of the vexed boundary question.\\nLogan had been an active participant in the affairs of the colony for nearly\\nfifty years, and had now been acting governor for two years. At his death he", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania. 23\\nbequeathed his large library of standard works to the people of Pennsylvania,\\nwhich is known as the Loganian Library. George Thomas assumed the office of\\ngovernor in 1 738, having been appointed the preceding year. War between Great\\nBritain and Spain was declared in 1739, and eight companies of volunteers were\\nfurnished for coast defense. Whitefield, the great evangelist, visited the colony\\nthe next year and created a deep religious interest among all denominations.\\nIn March, 1744, war was declared between Great Britain and France. Vol-\\nunteers were called for, and lO.OOO men were soon enlisted and armed at their\\nown expense. Benjamin Franklin was elected colonel of one of the regiments,\\nbut soon resigned. John Penn died in 1747, and Governor Thomas retired\\nfrom the duties of his office on account of declining health. Anthony Palmer\\nbecame acting governor.\\nThe French were now deeply intent on securing firm possession of the Mis-\\nsissippi valley, even to the summits of the Alleghenies in Pennsylvania, and\\nused every artful means to win the simple natives to their interests. By mak-\\ning large presents of most serviceable goods, the friendship oi the Indians was\\nretained by the Pennsylvanians. The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. concluded in\\n1748, between Great Britain and France, brought about a temporary cessation\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of hostilities between their representatives in America.\\nPalmer retired, and James Hamilton arrived from England in 1748, bearing\\nthe commission of lieutenant-governor. Though the treaty of Aix was sup-\\nposed to have settled all difficulties, yet the French were determined to occupy\\nthe whole territory drained by the Mississippi. Marquis de la GaUssoniere,\\ngovernor- general of Canada, dispatched Captain Bienville de Celeron, with a\\nparty of two hundred and fifteen French and fifty-five Indians, to publicly pro-\\nclaim possession, and bury at prominent points plates of lead bearing inscrip-\\ntions declaring occupation in the name of the French king. Celeron started\\nfrom La Chine in 1749, and, having arrived at Warren, near the confluence of\\nConewango Creek with the Allegheny River, he caused a leaden plate, eleven\\ninches long, seven and a half wide, and one-eighth of an inch thick, to be buried,\\nbearing an inscription in French, claiming all the lands on both sides of the\\nriver to its source. A plate, on which was inscribed the arms of France, was\\naffixed to the nearest tree. A second plate was planted a few miles below\\nFrankHn, at the rock known as the Indian God, on which are ancient and\\nunknown inscriptions a third at the mouth of WheeHng Creek, a fourth at the\\nmouth of Muskingum, a fifth at the mouth of the Great Kanawha, and the sixth\\nand last at the mouth of the Great Miami. They returned to Canada by the\\nMiami, the Maumee and Lakes Erie and Ontario. The Indians viewed the\\nplanting of these plates with great suspicion, and by some means got posses-\\nsion of one of them. They immediately dispatched some Cayuga chiefs to\\nGovernor George Clinton, at New York, with it, and he sent the plate to the\\nLords of Trade in London about the last of December, 1750. When the in-\\nscription was explained to the Indians they were greatly alarmed.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24 History of Clarion County.\\nThe French laid out a Hne of military posts on nearly the same line as that\\npursued by the Celeron expedition. A fort was established at Presque Isle\\n(now Erie), another at Le Boeuf (now Waterford), a third at Venango (Frank-\\nlin), and a fourth at Pittsburgh, which was called Fort Du Quesne, and so on\\ndown the Ohio.\\nTo counteract this activity of the French, the Ohio Company was chartered,\\nand a half million acres was granted by the crown, to be selected mainly on\\nthe south side of the Ohio, between the Monongalia and Kanawha Rivers.\\nThe company consisted of a number of Virginia and Maryland gentlemen, of\\nwhom Lawrence Washington was one. Securing the right of occupancy from\\nthe Indians, Captain Gist led twelve families and settled on the Monongalia and\\nsubsequently began the erection of a fort where the French afterward con-\\nstructed Fort Du Quesne.\\nThese proceedings hastened the erection of the forts by the French at Ve-\\nnango and Le Boeuf. Governor Dinwiddle, of Virginia, determined to send an\\nofficiarcommunication protesting against the encroachments of the French\\nto the commandant of the French at Fort Le Boeuf George Washington, then\\na youth twenty- one years of age, accepted the appointment to bear the mes-\\nsage. He set out on the last day of November, 1753, and pushed on through\\nthe forests to the settlements on the Monongalia, where he was joined by Cap-\\ntain Gist, and followed up the Allegheny to Fort Venango, thence up French\\nCreek to Fort Le Boeuf, where he held a formal conference with the French\\ncommandant, St. Pierre. On his return Washington was twice fired at by hos-\\ntile Indians, and came near losing his life by being thrown into the freezing\\nwaters of the Allegheny. His report of the embassage had the effect to excite\\nthe English to action, and Colonel Fry was sent with a body of 150 men to\\nthe support of the settlers. The French, having the Allegheny River on which\\nto move, dropped down that river with 1,000 men supplied with artillery, and\\neasily seized the fort then being constructed by the Ohio Company, greatly\\nstrengthened it, and called it Fort Du Quesne. The small band of Virginians\\npushed on and encountered a body of the French under Jumonville, routed\\nthem, killing ten men including the commander, and capturing twenty-one\\nprisoners. Only one of the French party escaped. Colonel Fry, the com-\\nmander of the Americans, having died at Will s Creek, the command devolved\\non Washington. A company of lOO men from South Carolina came to the\\nsupport of Washington. Knowing that he was confronted by a vastly superior\\nforce, well supplied with artillery, he threw up works at a point called Great\\nMeadows, and named the hastily built post Fort Necessity.\\nThe French soon invested the place. The action opened July 3, 1754, and\\nlasted till late at night. The artillery of the French commanded a part of the\\nfort and Washington was forced to capitulate. On the 4th of July he marched\\nout with honors of war and fell back to Fort Cumberland. The Pennsylvania", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania. 25\\nAssembly was slow to vote money for even defensive warfare, while large\\namounts were voted to buy peace from the Indians.\\nThe English government recommended a congress of all the colonies, to-\\ngether with the Six Nations, for the purpose of concerting plans for defense.\\nThis congress met at Albany on the 19th of June, 1754, the first ever con-\\nvened in America. Franklin, who was a representative from Pennsylvania,\\noffered a scheme for union among the colonies, which was adopted substan-\\ntially as it came from his hands. The plan was rejected, however, by both the\\nking and the colonies when it was referred to them for ratification.\\nGovernor Hamilton resigned, and was succeeded in 1754 by Robert H.\\nMorris. The British government called for 3,000 volunteers from Pennsyl-\\nvania, with subsistence, camp equipage, and transportation, and sent two regi-\\nments of the line under General Braddock, who landed at Alexandria, Va.,\\nand marched to Frederick, Md., where, finding no supplies, he halted. Frank-\\nlin, by strenuous exertion, secured the necessary wagons andibeasts of burden.\\nBraddock had little conception of making war in the wilderness against\\nwily savages. His progress through the forests as he moved toward Fort Du\\nQuesne was so slow that the French were kept advised of every movement.\\nWashington, who had accepted a position offered him by Braddock as aide-de-\\ncamp, advised rapid movement to forestall preparation, but the advice was not\\nheeded. On the morning of the 9th of July the army of Braddock marched\\nacross the Monongahela, and, having gone only a short distance, fell into an\\nambuscade skillfully laid by the French and Indians. The advance was checked\\nand thrown into confusion. Every tree on the front and flanks of the line con-\\ncealed a murderous foe who, with unerring aim, picked off the officers. Brad-\\ndock fell mortally wounded. All the mounted officers having fallen, the com-\\nmand devolved on Washington, who, though sick, was in the midst of the hot-\\ntest fighting. Of 1,460 in Braddock s army, 456 were killed and 421 wound-\\ned. Panic seized the survivors, which carried them back upon the reserve,\\ncommanded by General Dunbar, and the flight was continued until Fort Cum-\\nberland was reached.\\nThis defeat left the frontier exposed to the merciless savage from the Hud-\\nson to the Potomac. The unprotected settler in his wilderness home was the\\neasy prey of the torch and scalping-knife, the burning cabin lit up the somber\\nforests by their continuous blaze, and the shrieks of women and childen re-\\nsounded along the entire frontier. Franklin accepted the command upon the\\nPennsylvania frontier, and by his exertions stayed the hand of the treacherous\\nsavage.\\nGovernor Morris was superseded by William Denny, who assumed author-\\nity in August, 1756. Twenty-five companies of militia were recruited, and\\nColonel Armstrong was dispatched with a force of three hundred men, in Au-\\ngust of the same year, to disperse the Indians at Kittanning, on the Allegheny", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26 History of Clarion County.\\nRiver, where Chief Jacobs had one of the largest towns in the State. At\\ndawn on the morning of the 7th of September Colonel Armstrong surprised\\nthe Indians, killed Jacobs and most of his followers, and captured arms, pow-\\nder, and valuable goods which had been distributed to them only the day\\nbefore by the French.\\nThe campaign of 1757 was disastrous to the English, but in 1758 General\\nAbercrombie was given chief command. Wolf and Amherst were directed to\\noperate against Louisburg and the posts on the lakes, and General Forbes was\\nsent against Fort Du Quesne. With a detachment of royal troops and militia\\nfrom Pennsylvania and Virginia, under command of Colonels Bouquet and\\nWashington, he set out in July, 1758. Arriving in front of the fort a sharp\\nbattle was fought, in which the French were routed and the fort was surren-\\ndered to the victors. All the expeditions against the French being successful\\nthis year, the war was brought to a close, and the French possessions in Amer-\\nica were ceded to Great Britain by the peace declared in 1762.\\nIn October, 1759, James Hamilton was again appointed governor. George\\nII died the same month of the following year, and was succeeded by his grand-\\nson, George III.\\nPontiac s War occurred in 1763, when the Indians of the West entered into\\na secret league, and in the month of May fell upon the forts held by the colo-\\nnists. Nine posts, including Presque Isle, Le Boeuf, and Venango, fell into their\\nhands, and their garrisons put to the slaughter. Only three. Fort Pitt (Du\\nQuesne), Niagara, and Detroit, were able to hold out. The last named post\\nwas besieged by Pontiac in person from May until October. The Pennsylvania\\nsettlers were driven back to the line of the Susquehanna. Colonel Armstrong\\nled a force into the Indian country to punish them, and relieved Fort Pitt,\\nrouting the Indians with slaughter.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania. 27\\nCHAPTER II.\\nFKOM THE REVOLUTION TO THE PRESENT TIME.\\nMason and Dixon Indian Troubles Stamp Act Connecticut and Virginia Claims First\\nContinental Congress Second Continental Congress\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Declaration of Independence New\\nConstitution for Pennsylvania Retirement of Governor Penn anrl the Proprietary Assembly\\nEvacuation of Boston Attack on Charleston British take New^ York Battle of\\nTrenton Princeton Assembly of the New Legislature Brandy wine The British Occupy\\nPhiladelphia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Attack on Fort Mercer Battle of Germantown Valley Forge\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Aid from\\nFrance Evacuation of Philadelphia Battle of Monmouth Abolition of Slavery in Penn-\\nsylvania Wyoming Massacre Overtures of Peace Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line\\nDisaster of Colonel Crawford Peace Revolt of Pennsylvania Troops Treaty of Fort\\nStanwix Constitution of United States Framed and Adopted New Constitution for State\\nWhisky Insurrection War of 1812 Coal Public Schools Revision of Constitution\\nBuckshot War Mexican War Sale of Public Works\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Petroleum and Gas Secession\\nInvasion of Pennsylvania Battle of Gettysburg Burning of Chambersburg Soldiers\\nOrphan Schools Revision of the Constitution Centennial Exposition Riots of 1877\\nExtra Session of the Legislature.\\nTHE boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland had been a source\\nof vexation between the two proprietaries for many years. Charles Ma-\\nson and Jeremiah Dixon, two able mathematicians and surveyors, were ap-\\npointed by the proprietors to survey the line. They arrived in Philadelphia in\\nNovember, 1763, carrying with them the most perfect instruments then known\\nto science, and at once entered upon their work. After about three years la-\\nbor they had reached a point 244 miles from the Delaware, and within thirty-\\nsix miles of the western limit of the State, when the Six Nations gave notice\\nthat the survey should proceed no farther. So the party returned to Philadel-\\nphia. The remainder of the line was finished in 1782-84 by other surveyors.\\nFrom the fact that this was subsequently the mark of division between the free\\nand slave States, Mason and Dixon s line became familiar in American politics.\\nJohn Penn, grandson of the founder, had come to the colony in 1753, and,\\nhaving acted as president of the Council, was in 1763 commissioned governor\\nin place of Hamilton.\\nIndian barbarities still continuing along the frontier, Governor Penn sent\\nColonel Bouquet against them. Bouquet marched his Pennsylvanians as far as\\nthe Muskingum and compelled the Indians to sue for peace and to give up all\\nthe English captives who had been carried away during the years of trouble.\\nThe Stamp Act was passed by the British ParHament in 1765. This was\\nan act to lay a uniform tax on stamped paper in all the colonies, to realize\\nfunds for the common defense. Prior to this Parliament had adopted a tax on\\nimports, to be paid in coin. These acts excited bitter opposition. A congress\\nof delegates assembled in New York in October, 1765. Messrs. Fox, Morton,", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "History of Clarion County.\\nBryan, and Dickinson were the delegates from Pennsylvania. A petition was\\nsent to the king, and a memorial to Parliament. So strong was the opposition\\nof the colonists to the measures of Parliament, that the Stamp Act was re-\\npealed the following year. A duty on tea, paper, etc., was the next step taken\\nby the British government to raise revenue off the colonies. This measure was\\nopposed as strenuously by the people and their assemblies as the former acts\\nhad been, and in 1770 this tax was abolished, except three pence a pound on\\ntea. The effect on the people, however, was the same, as it was the principle\\nof taxation without representation that they objected to.\\nOn the death of his father, Richard (177 1), Governor John Penn returned\\nto England, and his younger brother, Richard, was appointed governor. He\\nwon the esteem of the people during the two years of his service, when he was\\nsuperseded in 1773 by his brother John.\\nMaryland was not the only claimant of the territory embraced in Penn s\\nprovince. Connecticut claimed and actually colonized a large part of the\\nnorthern section of Pennsylvania, including the Wyoming valley, and Virginia\\nclaimed the section in the neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The Connecticut claim\\nwas not finally adjusted until 1802, when Congress decided in favor of Penn-\\nsylvania.\\nTrouble with the mother country now became imminent. The principle of\\ntaxation was maintained by the government and as stoutly resisted by the col-\\nonies. On the 4th of September, 1774, the first Continental Congress assem-\\nbled in Philadelphia. It was resolved that no more goods be imported from\\nEngland, and that, unless a pacification was effected previously, no more col-\\nonial produce of the soil be exported thither after September 10, 1775. A\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0declaration of rights was adopted and addresses to the king, the people of\\nGreat Britain, and of British America were adopted.\\nThe government of Great Britain determined with a strong hand to compel\\nobedience to its behests. The battle of Lexington was fought on the 19th of\\nApril, 1775. The colonies were aroused by the blow. A public meeting was\\nheld in Philadelphia and it was resolved to organize military companies in all\\nthe counties. The second Continental Congress met in May, and provided for\\norganizing an army, fixing the quota for Pennsylvania at 4,300 men. The\\ncapture of Ticonderoga on May 10, and the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17,\\nfollowed. Washington was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental\\narmy. Congress recommended action by the several colonies, which meant the\\ndeposition of the royal governors. A new constitution was resolved upon by\\nthe delegates at a colonial meeting in Philadelphia.\\nA resolution was introduced in Congress June 7, 1776, declaring that the\\nUnited Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent States. A\\ncommittee (consisting of Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Livingston, and Sherman)\\nwas appointed to draft a declaration. It was reported June 28, and adopted", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania. 29\\nJuly 4. An engrossed copy of the declaration was made, which was signed\\non the 2d of August following. The convention for framing a new constitu-\\ntion for Pennsylvania met on the 15th of July, elected Franklin president,\\nframed a new organic law, and made all necessary provisions for putting it in\\noperation. The old proprietary Assembly adjourned on the 28th of September\\nnever to meet again, and with it ended the power of Governor Penn. He\\nremained in this country, living at his country seat in Buck s county, until his\\ndeath, which occurred in 1795. In 1779 the Legislature passed an act vest-\\ning the estates of the proprietors in the commonwealth, but paying them a\\ngratuity of 130,000 pounds, in remembrance of the enterprising spirit of the\\nFounder. This act did not touch the private estates of the proprietors.\\nEngland still pays the heirs of Penn an annuity of 4,000 pounds.\\nThe British government raised an army of 72,000 men, 17,000 of whom\\nwere hired Hessians. Congress issued bills of credit amounting to $6,000,000.\\nWashington compelled Howe to evacuate Boston in March, 1776. The follow-\\ning June Sir Henry Clinton and Sir Peter Parker made a combined land and\\nnaval attack on the defenses of Charleston harbor, and were repulsed by the\\nCarolina militia under General William Moultrie.\\nThe British forces withdrew to New York, where they were met by rein-\\nforcements under Lord Howe, and compelled Washington to withdraw from the\\ncity. The patriot army retreated across New Jersey and took position on the\\nright bank of the Delaware, on Pennsylvania soil. Cornwallis followed with a\\nheavy detachment. On the night of the 25th of December Washington\\nrecrossed the Delaware with a picked body of men, surprised the Hessians\\nposted at Trenton, killed some fifty, and took over a thousand prisoners with\\ntheir stores, arms, and ammunition. This success inspired the little army with\\nnew courage and saved Philadelphia from falling into the hands of the enemy.\\nA second action, at Princeton, N. J., gave Washington a partial success; but\\nbeing outnumbered he withdrew and went into winter quarters at Morristcwn.\\nOn the 4th of March, 1777, the two houses of the Legislature, elected under\\nthe new constitution, assembled, and in joint convention chose Thomas Whar-\\nton, jr., president, under the high-sounding title of His Excellency, Thomas\\nWharton, Junior, Esquire, President of the Supreme Executive Council of\\nPennsylvania, Captain General, and Commander-in-chief in and over the\\nsame.\\nEarly in the spring indications pointed to Philadelphia as the point of attack\\nby the British army. Enlistments were urged, and General Benedict Arnold\\nwas put in command of a camp opened in Pennsylvania for drilling recruits.\\nIn midsummer Lord Howe embarked a force of 19,500 men on a fleet of 300\\ntransports, and sailed southward from New York to Chesapeake Bay and up\\nthe bay to within fifty-four miles of Philadelphia, where he debarked. Wash-\\nington had meanwhile crossed the Delaware from New Jersey, passed through", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 History of Clarion County.\\nPhiladelphia, and confronted Howe near the Brandywine. After a brisk skir-\\nmish Washington withdrew across the Brandywine, taking position at Chad s\\nFord, where, on the iith of September, a pitched battle ensued. A detach-\\nment of the British moved up the river beyond the right flank of the Americans,\\nwhere they crossed, and returning took the army under Washington by sur-\\nprise. Overborne by numbers, the Americans were compelled to retire. La-\\nfayette was wounded in this battle.\\nThe British still advanced toward Philadelphia, and on the i6th Washington\\nmade another stand some twenty miles west of Philadelphia but a rain storm\\nwet the powder of the patriot soldiers, which prevented a general engagement.\\nOn the 20th General Wayne, who had a small detachment scouting in the rear\\nof the enemy, was surprised by the British, who gave no quarter, putting all\\nto the sword but a few whom chance favored to escape. This slaughter is\\nknown as the Paoli massacre. On the i8th of September Congress adjourned\\nfrom Philadelphia to meet at Lancaster, and on the 30th removed across the\\nSusquehanna to York, where it remained in session till the following summer.\\nThe Council adjourned to Lancaster. On the 26th the British army entered\\nPhiladelphia.\\nThe defenses on the Delaware were still in possession of the Americans.\\nAccordingly, on the 21st of October Count Donop, with a force of 2,500\\nmen, made an attack on Fort Mercer, at Red Bank but the resolute defenders\\ncompelled the British to retreat, with a loss of over 400 men, and their leader\\nmortally wounded. The British next bombarded the fort for six days, and, not\\nsucceeding in its reduction, they at last brought their large vessels close under\\nthe walls of the fort and manned the yard-arms with sharpshooters, who drove\\nthe gunners from their posts, and the fort fell into the hands of the enemy, leav-\\ning the navigation of the Delaware open to the British.\\nOn the 3d of October Washington s army attacked the British at German-\\ntown. At first the promise of victory was fair but the enemy proved too strong\\nin numbers and position, and Washington retired to his camp at White Marsh,\\nnearly sixteen miles away.\\nHere Howe endeavored to surprise him on the 4th of December, but Lydia\\nDarrah, a Philadelphia lady, brought the intelligence to Washington in time to\\nprepare to receive the British. Howe returned to the city without accomplish-\\ning anything. Washington now crossed the Schuylkill and went into winter\\nquarters at Valley Forge. The patriot army, half clad and poorly fed, suf-\\nfered severely, the prints of their naked feet in snow and on frozen ground being\\noften tinted with blood. Sir Henry Clinton was appointed by the ministry of\\nGreat Britain to succeed Lord Howe.\\nA treaty with France secured that government as an ally of the Americans\\nagainst the English. A fleet of four frigates and twelve ships was dispatched\\nunder command of Count D Estaing to shut up the British fleet in the Dela-", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania. 31\\nware. Intelligence of the sailing of the French fleet reached the English cabi-\\nnet, and the evacuation of the Delaware was immediately ordered. The fleet\\nwithdrew to New York, and Clinton evacuated Philadelphia, moving across\\nNew Jersey toward New York. Washington followed and came up with the\\nenemy at Monmouth, on the 28th of June, where a battle was fought, result-\\ning in a victory for the American troops. Congress returned to Philadelphia\\nfrom York, as did also the Colonial Legislature from Lancaster. General\\nArnold, who was wounded at Saratoga, was given command in Philadelphia,\\nand occupied the city with a regiment the day following the evacuation.\\nThe death of President Wharton made Vice-President George Bryan acting\\npresident. Bryan perfected a bill for the extinguishment of claims to slaves,\\nwhich was passed by the Assembly March i, 1780. It provided that no child\\nof slave parents, born after that date, should be a slave, but a servant till the-\\nage of twenty-eight years, when all claim for service should end. In this man--\\nner was slavery forever rooted out of Pennsylvania.\\nDuring the summer of 1778, twelve hundred Tories and Indians made a.\\ndescent from the north into the Wyoming Valley. Most of the able-bodied\\nmen were in the patriot army. The old men and boys, numbering about four\\nhundred, resolutely met the invaders, but were overborne by numbers and put\\nto the sword. A few escaped to Forty Fort. Humane terms of surrender\\nwere agreed upon, and the families returned to their homes but the savages\\ntreacherously fell upon them, and the night of the 5th of July was given to in-\\ndiscriminate slaughter. This bloody incident is known as the Wyoming Mas^\\nsacre.\\nEarly in this year the British government made overtures of peace, after\\nParliament had abolished the taxes which were so offensive to the colonies.\\nPromises were extended to forgive all past offenses, but Congress refused to\\nlisten to any proposals so long as the English armies remained on American\\nsoil. One of the committee sent by the British government, named Johnstone,\\nproposed to General Reed that if he would lend his aid to bring about terms of\\npacification, ten thousand guineas and the best office in the country should be\\nhis. The answer of the patriot general was, My influence is but small, but\\nwere it as great as Governor Johnstone would insinuate, the king of Great Brit-\\nain has nothing in his gift that would tempt me.\\nJoseph Reed was elected president of the Pennsylvania Legislature and in-\\naugurated on the 1st of December, 1778. At the request of Washington, Pres-\\nident Reed was invested with extraordinary powers in 1780, which he used\\nwith prudence and good effect. During the winter of this year some of the\\nsoldiers of the Pennsylvania line mutinied and marched on Philadelphia with\\narms. They had enlisted for three years or the war, meaning three years\\nunless the war closed sooner. The authorities had interpreted it to mean three\\nyears, or as much longer as the war should last. President Reed met the mu-", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32 History of Clarion County.\\ntineers, heard their cause, and pledged himself to have all discharged who had\\nhonorably served the full term of three years if they would return to camp.\\nThe soldiers agreed to this proposition. Before the arrival of President Reed,\\ntwo emissaries from the enemy came into camp, offering inducements for the\\nsoldiers to continue the revolt. The mutineers spurned the offer, and delivered\\nthem over to the officers, by whom they were tried and executed as spies. A\\nreward was offered the soldiers for this manifestation of patriotism, but they re-\\nfused it, saying that what they had done was for love of their country, and they\\nwould accept no reward.\\nWilliam Moore was elected president to serve from November 14, 1781.\\nA body of four hundred volunteers, from Washington and Westmoreland coun-\\nties, was called out, under command of Colonel William Crawford, to chastise\\nthe hostile Ohio Indians. The expedition was unfortunate, being defeated,\\ndispersed, and their leader captured and burned at the stake. Crawford county\\nwas soon after named in honor of this unfortunate soldier.\\nIn 1782 John Dickinson was chosen president of Pennsylvania. The fol-\\nlowing year the independence of the colonies was acknowledged, and the joy\\nat the return of peace was unspeakable. The soldiers of Burgoyne, who had\\nbeen confined in the prison camp at Lancaster, were sent to New York. In\\nJune another revolt occurred among the Pennsylvania troops, because of the\\ndelay in their payment and discharge. Congress demanded that the State\\nmilitia should be called out to quell the insurgents. The Council refused to\\nresort to this extreme measure, and Congress left Philadelphia in pique, estab-\\nlishing itself at Princeton, N. J., and afterward at Annapolis, Md.\\nIn October, 1784, the last treaty was concluded with the Indians at Fort\\nStanwix. All the land north of the Ohio River and the line of Pine Creek was\\npurchased from the natives. This purchase completed the entire limits of the\\nState, with the exception of the Erie Triangle, which was acquired from the\\nUnited States in 1792.\\nBenjamin Franklin was elected president of the Council in 1785. In May,\\n1787, the convention to frame a constitution for the United States met in\\nPhiladelphia. Upon the completion of their work the instrument was sub-\\nmitted to the several States for adoption. Pennsylvania adopted the constitu-\\ntion on the 1 2th of December. Thomas Mifflin was elected president of the\\nCouncil on the 5th of November, 1788. A convention assembled in Novem-\\nber, 1789, to prepare a new constitution for the State, which was adopted on\\nSeptember 2, 1790. The Council was abolished, and the executive duties were\\nvested in the hands of a governor. Legislation was intrusted to an Assembly\\nand a Senate.\\nThomas Mifflin was elected governor under the new Constitution, and\\nserved three successive terms. A system of internal improvements was\\nundertaken and a great debt was accumulated. The Bank of Pennsylvania", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania. 33\\nwas chartered in 1793, and continued to exist until 1857. Tlie yellow fever\\nvisited Philadelphia in 1793, and nearly 5,000 perished by the pestilence. The\\nwhisky insurrection in some of the western counties of the State occurred in\\n1794. The counties comprising the southwestern quarter of the State were\\nengaged almost exclusively in the production of grain. Being distant from any\\nmarket, a large proportion of the surplus grain was turned into distilled spirits,\\non which Congress laid a tax of four pence per gallon in 179 1. This tax bore\\nheavily on these people, and they formed a determination to resist its collec-\\ntion. Acts of violence followed. In 1792 the tax was reduced. President\\nWashington issued a proclamation commanding all persons to submit to the\\nlaw, but without effect. The insurgents organized for forcible resistance, and\\nassembled at Braddock s field to move on to Pittsburgh. Governor Mifflin\\ntook measures to ascertain the facts about the trouble and bring the leaders to\\njustice. President Washington called out the militia of Pennsylvania, New\\nJersey, Maryland, and Virginia, to the number of 13,000 men, to quell the\\ninsurrection. Governor Mifflin took command of the Pennsylvania troops,\\nand Washington himself accompanied the army. This had the effect to change\\nthe attitude of the insurgents. Washington proceeded as far as Bedford, but\\nthe submission of the people rendered it unnecessary to go any farther. A\\nnumber of arrests were made, but all were ultimately pardoned.\\nThe capital of the State was removed to Lancaster in 1799. Thomas Mc-\\nKean was elected governor the same year, and Simon Snyder in 1808. Har-\\nrisburg was made the State capital in 18 10. In 18 12 war was declared\\nagainst Great Britain. The national call for 100,000 men required 14,000\\nfrom this State; but so great was the enthusiasm that several times this number\\ntendered their services. Pennsylvania did not suffer from invasion during this\\nwar. Her troops and sailors participated in the various actions of the war, and\\nit was in Erie harbor that the fleet was organized that won the signal victory\\nunder Perry, on Lake Erie. General Smith, a Pennsylvania veteran of the\\nRevolution, repulsed the invading army under General Ross, near Baltimore,\\nwhere Ross was killed.\\nWilliam Findley was elected governor in 18 17, Joseph Hiester in 1820, and\\nAndrew Schulz in 1823. During this period the State -banks set a flood of\\npaper money afloat, lines of canals were opened and vast debts incurred.\\nCoal was discovered and used in the State as early as 1769, but little was\\nknown of its importance until an accident brought about a knowledge of how\\nto make it burn. In 1820, 365 tons were sent to Philadelphia, which amount\\nglutted the market. In 1885 the production of anthracite coal in the State\\nwas 31.750,546 tons, and of bituminous coal 20,647,720 tons. The bituminous\\ncoal was discovered and utilized a little earlier than the anthracite, a cargo\\nhaving been sent down the Susquehanna from Clearfield county in 1804.\\nIron ore was discovered and worked soon after Philadelphia was laid out.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34 History of Clarion County.\\nIt is not known when or where the first forge was erected. In 17 17 Jonathan\\nDickinson spoke of the great expectations of the iron works forty miles up the\\nSchuylkill. Where they were situated is not settled. It is supposed that the\\nreference was to the Coventry forge, on the French Creek, in Chester county,\\nwhich is said to have been built by a man named Nutt. It is said to have\\ngone into operation in 1720. But a forge is also mentioned in March, 17 19 or\\n1720, at Manatawney, now Montgomery county.\\nThe first mention of iron-making in Pennsylvania in Minutes of Council is\\nFebruary 24, 1726, where it is stated that several companies are already en-\\ngaged in carrying on iron- works. In 1728 Mr. Logan wrote that there were\\nfour furnaces in Pennsylvania in blast. In 1730 there were four furnaces,\\nnine forges, and two bloomeries, which manufactured 1,072 tons pig iron and\\nabout 300 tons bar iron. One hundred years later the product of forty- five\\nfurnaces was about 40,000 tons, which grew in the next seventeen years (1847)\\nto over 380,000 tons, from 522 establishments. The products of 810 estab-\\nlishments in the State, engaged in the manufacture of iron and its various\\nproducts during the year 1885 were valued at more than $120,000,000. This\\nsum is a decided decrease from that of some preceding years. Pennsylvania\\nhas long ranked first of the States in the Union in the production of iron.\\nDuring the administrations of George Wolf, elected in 1829, and Joseph\\nRitner, elected in 1835, a system of public education was established and\\nbrought into a good degree of successful operation. Attention had early been\\ngiven to education in the colony. In 1749 a charter was obtained for a\\ncollege, academy, and charity school of Pennsylvania. The University of\\nPennsylvania was chartered in 1752, Dickinson College in 1783, Franklin and\\nMarshall College in 1787, and Jefferson College in 1802. Charters were\\ngranted for academies at the county seats of forty-one counties, and appropri-\\nations were made of money, and in several instances of land grants. In 1809\\nan act was passed for the education of the poor, gratis. By the act of 1834\\na general system of education by common schools was established. It was\\ncomplex and unwieldy, and in 1836 a new bill was adopted; and from this\\ntime forward the system has been in efficient operation. In 1854 the system\\nwas improved by establishing the county superintendency, and in 1859 by\\nproviding for State Normal schools for the professional training of teachers.\\nThe constitution was revised in 1837\u00e2\u0080\u009438. The Buckshot War occurred\\nat the opening of Governor David R. Porter s term, who was chosen in 1838.\\nThe origin of this commotion was the attempt on the part of the Anti-Masonic\\nparty to revise the returns of the election, which gave Porter (the Demo-\\ncratic candidate) some 5,000 majority. Anarchy prevailed for a time at Har-\\nrisburg. Two speakers were elected. An infuriated lobby from Philadelphia\\nand other cities collected and took possession of the two Houses, driving the\\nmembers from the chambers. The militia were called out and supplied with", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania. 35\\nbuckshot cartridges. The capitol was cleared, but Governor Porter was duly-\\ninaugurated.\\nFrancis R. Shunk was chosen governor in 1845. The Mexican War occurred\\nduring his term of ofifice. Two volunteer regiments under Colonels Wynkoop\\nand Roberts were sent to the field. Colonel John W. Geary afterwards suc-\\nceeded Roberts in command of the second regiment. William F. Johnston\\nsucceeded Governor Shunk. William Bigler was elected in 185 i, James Pol-\\nlock, in 1854, and William F. Packer in 1857. During these administrations\\nthe lines of public works undertaken at the expense of the State were com-\\npleted. Their cost had been enormous, and a debt of over $40,000,000 was\\npiled up against the commonwealth. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company-\\npurchased them during Governor Pollock s administration for $7,500,000.\\nIn the administration of Governor Packer petroleum was discovered in\\nquantities in this State by boring into the bowels of the earth. From the ear-\\nliest settlement of the country it was known to exist. As early as 1627 Joseph\\nDelaroche Daillon, a French missionary, described it in a letter published in\\n1632. Fathers DoUier and Galinee made a map of this section of the country\\nin 1670, on which was marked, at about the point where the town of Cuba,\\nN. Y., is now situated, Fontaine de Bitume. The governor of New York\\ninstructed his chief engineer, Romer, in 1700, in his visit to the Six Nations,\\nto examine a spring that he was told blazed in a flame when fire was brought\\ninto contact with it. The French give an account of an Indian dance, near\\nwhere now is Oil City, at which oil was burned that had been gathered from the\\nsurface of the water in the creek.\\nIn nearly all geographies and notes of travel published during the early\\nperiod of settlement, this oil is referred to, and on several maps the word petro-\\nleum appears opposite the mouth of Oil Creek. Washington, in his will, men-\\ntions a bituminous spring on his lands on the Great Kanawha, and Jefferson, in\\nhis Notes on Virginia, gives an account of a burning spring on the same\\nriver. This oil seems to have been gathered in very early times. Upon the\\nflats a mile or so below the city of Titusville are many acres of cradle-holes dug\\nOut and lined with split logs, evidently constructed for the purpose of gathering\\noil. Trees of large size are growing in the midst of these cradles, so that they\\nmust have been operated long ago. This may have been the work of the\\nmound builders. Even in later times the oil was collected by throwing a woolen\\nblanket upon pools of water, where oil was floating on the surface, and then\\nwringing it into a tub.\\nBut it remained for Mr. E. L. Drake to open a new enterprise, by drilling\\ninto the earth, and, after many discouraging experiences, when about to give\\nup in despair, finally to strike a strong current of oil. From this time forward\\nthe business of drilling for oil has been rapidly developed, until it has extended\\nover a wide area of Western Pennsylvania, and into the adjoining States of New", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "2,6 History of Clarion County.\\nYork, Ohio, and West Virginia. The oil has been found in paying quantities\\nin McKean, Warren, Forest, Crawford, Venango, Clarion, Butler, Armstrong,\\nand Washington counties. It was first transported in barrels loaded on wagons\\nand drawn by teams. Flat-boats carried thousands of barrels down the Alle-\\ngheny River from Oil City to Pittsburgh in the early days of development.\\nLines of railway were soon constructed from the nearest trunk lines. Barrels\\ngave place to immense iron tanks riveted upon cars, and finally great pipe lines\\nwere extended from the wells to the seaboard and to the immense refineries on\\nthe Great Lakes, through which the fluid is forced by steam power to its dis-\\ntant destinations.\\nThe^production has been enormous, having reached a grand total of over\\nthree hundred million barrels up to January i, 1887, and seems as yet to show\\nno signs of diminution.\\nIn addition to the oil, the prodigious volume of gas that issues from the\\nwells in some parts of the territory has been utilized, and towns and cities are\\nnow lighted and heated by this product of the earth s interior. Manufactories\\nare supplied with this subtle fuel carried through pipe lines from the wells, and\\neconomy and convenience of its use bid fair to have a lasting beneficial influ-\\nence upon the business interests of this section of the country.\\nAndrew G. Curtin was elected governor in i860, and Abraham Lincoln\\npresident of the United States. Fifteen of the slave States seceded from\\nthe Union and established a separate government, under the name of the Con-\\nfederate States of America. On the 12th of April, 1861, an attack was made\\nupon a garrison of United States troops holding Fort Sumter. On the 15th\\nthe president summoned 75,000 volunteers, to serve for three months, calling\\nfor sixteen regiments from Pennsylvania. Instead of sixteen, twenty-five regi-\\nments were organized in this State. Governor Curtin obtained permission from\\nthe Legislature to organize a select corps of thirteen regiments of infantry, one\\nof cavalry, and one of artillery, to serve within the State for its defense against\\ninvasion; but at the time of the first Bull Run disaster, in July, 1861, the na-\\ntional government being without troops to defend its capital, the Pennsylvania\\nReserve Corps was called out of the State, and fought gallantly on many a\\nbloody field during the three years term of service. During the war Pennsyl-\\nvania furnished a grand total of more than 350,000 men to serve in the armies\\nof the republic.\\nIn 1862 the Confederates, under General J. E. B. Stewart, invaded Penn-\\nsylvania, and burned some buildings at Chambersburg. In June of the follow-\\ning year General Lee led his entire army (of Northern Virginia) into this State.\\nThe Army of the Potomac, under General Hooker, followed. General George\\nG. Meade was appointed to supersede Hooker while the army was on the\\nmarch. The vanguards of the armies met at Gettysburg on the ist of July.\\nFor three days the battle raged with relentless fury. General Reynolds fell on", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Pennsylvania. 37\\nthe first day, and the First and Eleventh Corps of the Federal army were forced\\nto retire after a desperate struggle, and to take position on the heights south of\\nthe town. During the night reinforcements continued to come up for both\\narmies, and preparations were made to renew the struggle. On the second day\\nthe battle opened on the extreme left of the Union army by an attack from the\\nConfederate right. After a bloody slaughter the Union troops lost ground,\\nbut still continued to hold Little Round Top, the key to their position. In the\\nevening of the same day a desperate charge was made on the center of the\\nUnion line, but the Confederates were repulsed with terrible loss. About the\\nsame time an attack was made on the extreme right of Meade s army, which\\nhad been weakened by withdrawing troops to other parts of the field, and the\\nline was occupied and held by the Confederates during the night. On the\\nmorning of the third, the battle opened for the recovery of this part of the line\\nand raged with great fury until ten o clock, when the Confederates were driven\\nfrom the position and the line of rifle pits was reoccupied by the Union\\ntroops.\\nAbout two o clock a heavy artillery fire was opened on the Union line, which\\nwas responded to for two hours. Rarely has such a cannonade been heard on\\nany field. A corps of 18,000 Confederates now advanced upon the Union line.\\nA concentrated artillery fire was opened upon the column, with fearful effect.\\nWhen the advance had come within musket range the Union troops poured\\nin a murderous fire. Still on came the brave Southerners, and actually crossed\\nthe Union lines; but the slaughter was too terrible to withstand. Many were\\nkilled or captured a small remnant staggered back, and the battle of Gettys-\\nburg was won for the Union.\\nThe losses on the Union side were 2,834 killed, 13,709 wounded, and 6,643\\nmissing, an aggregate of 23,186. Of the Confederates 13,621 prisoners were\\ntaken, and their loss in killed and wounded must have been equal to that on\\nthe Union side.\\nGett}^sburg was the culminating battle of the war, and from that time for-\\nward the fortunes of the Confederacy continued to wane. During the summer\\nof 1864 Pennsylvania was again invaded by a force of Confederates, and al-\\nmost the entire town of Chambersburg was laid in ashes.\\nThe w^ar ended in 1865. The State provided schools for the soldiers or-\\nphans, furnishing food, clothing, instruction, and care until the age of sixteen.\\nThe number thus cared for up to January i, 1887, been about 14,000, at\\nan annual expense of about $375,000.\\nJohn W. Geary was elected governor in 1866. A convention for a revis-\\nion of the constitution assembled in 1872, and the instrument was framed and\\nadopted in 1873. John F. Hartranft became governor in 1873. The first cen-\\ntennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was celebrated in 1876,\\nby holding an international exposition in Philadelphia. The exposition opened", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "38 History of Clarion County.\\non the loth of May and closed on the lOth of November, with a total attend-\\nance of 9,789,392. The largest number of people admitted on any one day\\nwas 274,919, on Pennsylvania Day, September 28. During Hartranft s admin-\\nistration occurred the great strike (1877), when travel and traffic were sus-\\npended for some time. At Pittsburgh and Scranton conflicts occurred, in\\nwhich a number of people lost their lives. An uneasy feeling prevailed for\\nseveral weeks, but the National Guard, assisted by the Regulars, at length suc-\\nceeded in restoring order, and business again assumed its usual course.\\nIn 1878 Henry F. Hoyt was chosen governor, and Robert E. Pattison was\\nelected in 1882. The Legislature which met in 1883, having adjourned with-\\nout passing a congressional apportionment bill, was reconvened by the gov-\\nernor in extra session, and remained in session from June to December without\\nagreeing upon a bill.\\nGeneral James A. Beaver was elected governor in 1886, and is the present\\nincumbent.\\nCHAPTER HI.\\nTOPOGRAPHY OP CLAPJON COUNTY.\\nTable-Land Character Drainage Streams Elevations General Description Forests\\nScenery Ancient Channels.\\nTHE surface of Clarion county has a sufficient general elevation above the\\nlevel of the large streams to merit the name of a table-land but its nu-\\nmerous water-courses, many of them with valleys of gorge-like depth and\\nabruptness, break it up into a succession of ridges and rolls, leaving little of\\nthe level associated with the idea of a table- land. A thickly intersected\\nundulatory plateau it is, therefore and a miniature of the great one of West-\\nern Pennsylvania, intersected by the Allegheny and its tributaries. Clarion\\ncounty occupies a central position in Western Pennsylvania, lying but six\\nmiles north of a line drawn east and west through the middle of the State.\\nA glance at the map will show three main systems of drainage The great\\ncentral one of the Clarion River, comprising three- fourths of the county; the\\nnorthern, where the edge is drained by streams falling into Tionesta Creek and\\nthe Allegheny and the southern, whose streams take their course to Red-\\nbank, with the exception of Catfish and Black Fox Runs, emptying into the\\nAllegheny. The great artery of the county, the Clarion River, is a clear,\\nbeautiful stream which, being formed by the junction, at Ridgway, Elk county,\\nof West Clarion and Elk Creek, enters the county at Cooksburg, and, traversing", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Topography of Clarion County. 39\\nit in a general southwest course, though with many serpentine bends, falls into\\nthe Allegheny about three-fourths of a mile below Foxburg a distance of fifty\\nmiles. It has an average fall of seven feet to the mile, but in the numerous\\nriffles, which alternate with the eddies, it often attains great swiftness, and\\nits fall is much greater.\\nBeginning at the east on the northern side, the noteworthy tributaries of\\nthe Clarion are as follows, in their order Tom s Run and Toby Creek, rising\\nin Farmington township Deer Creek, which receives water from every north-\\nern township with the exception of Highland, Salem, and Richland Canoe\\nCreek, Beaver Creek, and Turkey Run. Ritchey Run is a portion of the\\nwestern boundary, and flows into the Allegheny. These streams have an\\naverage fall of thirty-five feet to the mile. On the south: Blyson s Run;\\nMill Creek, an important lumber outlet Piney Creek, draining Limestone,\\nMonroe, and parts of Piney and Clarion townships and Licking Creek, which\\ntakes its rise in Piney township and receives Little Licking and Cherry Run.\\nIn the north, beginning at the east we have Waley s Run and Little Coon\\nCreek, which flow from Farmington township into Coon, or Raccoon Creek,\\na tributary of the Tionesta Hemlock, which skirts Washington township and\\ntakes a northwest course to the Allegheny at President and East Sandy,\\npassing through the northern part of Elk and Ashland,- west into the Alle-\\ngheny.\\nInto Redbank Creek, likewise beginning at the east, flow Pine Run, Town\\nRun Leasure, Long, Leatherwood, and Fiddler s Runs. These, with Catfish,\\nhave a rapid fall, ranging from fifty to one hundred feet per mile.\\nFrom the course of its affluents we may see that the general trend of the\\nbasin of the Clarion is, on the north, to the southwest, and on the south to the\\nnorthwest. The northernmost parts of Farmington, Washington, Elk, and Ash-\\nland townships lean slightly to the northwest while the southern part of the\\ncounty, with the exception of parts of Madison, Toby, and Perry, on the Alle-\\ngheny, have a directly southern slope. We have spoken of the basin of the Clar-\\nion this is so deceptive a term as almost to be a misnomer. The territory\\ndrained by the Clarion and its affluents is rather a plateau, deeply intersected\\nby numerous streams which have a gradual descent, while the land between\\nthese may be said to maintain its elevation almost to the verge of the Clarion,\\nwhere it breaks off precipitously and plunges down 300 to 400 feet to the\\nwater s edge, in rugged, wooded slopes, forming a picturesque gorge the entire\\nlength of the river.\\nThe northern divide between the Clarion and the AUehgeny and Tionesta\\nRivers is a continuation of the Big Level of McKean county, entering Farm-\\nington township a little south of its northeast corner, and passing southwest-\\nwardly by Tylersburg and Jamestown to Salem and Richland townships.\\nAnother notable level is that between Paint Creek, a branch of Deer, and", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 History of Clarion County.\\nToby Creek, extending in a north-northeast direction till it merges in the\\ndivide level near Tylersburg. It is now traversed by the Pittsburgh and West-\\nern Railroad.\\nThe descent of the northern slope of the county is very gradual so much\\nso as to be scarcely perceptible in northeastern Farmington. This is partially\\naccounted for by the smallness of its scope. If, however, we turn to the south\\nwe|shall find the Clarion- Redbank dividing ridge much more marked, as the\\ndepressions are greater, especially on the Redbank side. We shall also observe\\nthat as we pass from the river country toward the divide, the surface grows\\nless rugged and the hills less steep.\\nThe average elevation of the county above sea level is about 1,300 feet.\\nThe lowest point in the county is at the mouth of Redbank, 85 i feet the high-\\nest, the heights to the southeast of Fryburg, on Mr. Denslinger s farm, which\\nare 1,775 feet above ocean level. As a rule, however, the summits of the\\nnorthern half range lower than those of the south the former ranging from\\n1,500 to 1,600 feet, while the latter are from twenty-five to fifty feet higher.\\nThe highest point south of the river is the peak near St. Nicholas Church, in\\nLimestone township, which claims an elevation of 1,750 feet above sea level.\\nThe summits on the Clarion-Redbank divide range from 500 to 625 feet above\\nwater level in Redbank Creek.\\nThe general character of the surface is hilly almost mountainous near\\nthe water courses, and undulating in the uplands. Here and there on the line\\nof the dividing ridges rise bold, isolated knobs, usually stream sources. Their\\ncrests are in most cases cleared and cultivated to the summit some are capped\\nby a picturesque grove or orchard. Streams and springs are everywhere in\\nprofusion. The primeval forests of pine, hemlock {abies Canadensis), and oak\\nare fast disappearing. South of the river with one or two exceptions they\\nhave entirely vanished, and a secondary or tertiary growth taken their place.\\nThe ax of the pioneer, the mills and iron-furnaces have done their work well\\nthere. Still, in the southern division there is considerable woodland of a later\\nage, with oak predominating. Chestnut is abundant in almost every town-\\nship, intermixed with hickory, ash, and common and sugar maple. The north-\\neastern quarter of the county contains yet some forests of pine and hemlock,\\nbut they are being rapidly depleted. In many places forest fires have assisted\\nthe ax in the work, and many a spot where once stood a majestic forest pre-\\nsents the blackened, unsightly trunks rising from a dreary, profitless waste of\\nsaplings and undergrowth.\\nOf the lesser flora we cannot pass over the brilliant laurel or rhododendron,\\nwhich clothes the river hillsides luxuriantly.\\nScenery. The scenery of Clarion county is diversified, comprising the\\ncheckered undulations of the well-cleared and cultivated south, the wildness of\\nthe river country, and the flat stretches of alternate wood and farm land in the\\nnorth.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Topography of Clarion County. 41\\nBrady s Bend. Our county can boast of nothing unique in landscapes, but\\nit claims some very charming scenes. A magnificent view of the great horse-\\nshoe bend in the Allegheny, with East Brady and Phillipsburg in the distance,\\nis to be had from the heights, near the junction of the East Brady and Phillips-\\nburg roads in the neck where the silver Allegheny, after sweeping around the\\nprecipitous slopes below Catfish East Brady, and Phillipsburg a distance of\\neight miles doubles on itself, till less than a mile measures the isthmus.\\nThe Clarion from East Foxburg. A beautiful panorama of woodland\\nheights and the romantic gorges of the Allegheny and Clarion greets the eye\\nafter ascending from Foxburg on the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad. The\\nview of the Clarion, far below, is especially fine, and in mountainous grandeur\\nalmost equals the scenery of Kittanning Point, on the eastern slope of the Alie-\\nghenies, besides having the additional charm of water scenery.\\nAlum Rock. The stream that enters the Clarion at this point has, in the\\nlapse of ages, worn its way through the rock and formed a romantic glen whose\\nbeauties every year gain increased appreciation. Here verdure-capped cliffs\\narise perpendicular; detached bowlders of immense size and curious forms add\\na unique beauty to the scene and deep down in the shade the streamlet seeks\\nits way, plashing over the rocks, to pay its humble tribute to the river t^elow.\\nAncient Water Courses. Contrary to the general rule, Troutman and Lat-\\nshaw Runs, which empty into the Allegheny near Perryville, occupy broad, open\\nvalleys, disproportionate in width to the size of the streams. Geologist Chance,\\narguing from this and the similarity between the deposits here and in the chan-\\nnel of the Allegheny, maintains that the two valleys must have once formed\\nthe Allegheny s channel in place of the present one. His theory, then, does\\nnot lack foundation. He explains it thus: He assumes that the Clarion, pre-\\nvious to the glacial period, was as large as, if not larger than, the Allegheny\\nin other words a branch. The impetus of its current, flowing southwestwardly\\ninto the Allegheny, carried the main stream across the present stream bed over\\nthe high flats north of Parker, thence sweeping southward, and finally to the\\nsoutheast it entered the old channel at Perryville, around which it swept to\\nthe mouth of Bear Creek. The present channel was formed by the water-cut-\\nting, or erosion of, the loop at its neck, just as the river is slowly eating its\\nway through the neck at Brady s Bend. This is a plausible proposition,\\nalthough the recurvature of the loop would be extremely sharp for such a large\\nbody of water, and its compass small. Mr. Chance would have strengthened\\nhis theory, too, if he had given us the connecting link in the similar vacant\\nbend on the Armstrong side of the river. We publish his thesis for what it is\\nworth. The head of this valley is 250 feet above the Allegheny at Parker.\\nMr. Chance, therefore, consistently says that that stream has lowered its bed\\nby erosion 300 feet since the old channel was abandoned, and subsequently\\nrefilled it fift} feet with the detritus which forms its false bottom. This hap-", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42 History of Clarion County.\\npened since the glacial period. Of course the Clarion and other main tribu-\\ntary streams must have deepened their beds proportionately, unless, indeed,\\nthe Clarion was the main stream instead of an affluent, which is improbable.\\nWe can more unhesitatingly concur with Geologist Chance s opinion that\\nthe Clarion River has changed its channel at Callensburg. The isolation of\\nthe eminence on which Callensburg is situated, and the peculiarity of Licking\\nCreek, which empties itself into the river squarely against the current, point to\\nthe existence of a former channel which turned to the south where the bridge\\nnow is, and described an irregular horse-shoe bend about Callensburg. Lick-\\ning Creek, which now occupies the western half of this channel, then had its\\nmouth about two miles south of its present one, near Mr. Colwell s. The nar-\\nrow isthmus extending from the bridge to the present mouth of Licking was\\ncut through in the same manner as Mr. Chance describes that at Perryville.\\nThe elevation of this old Callensburg channel above the new one is less than\\nfifty feet. Assuming the Clarion to have kept pace with the Allegheny in\\nchannel lowering, the change here must have begun much later than that at\\nPerryville.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nGEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.\\nDefinition Anticlinals and Synclinals Geologic Column Surface Rocks Measures\\nFreeport Group Kittanning Group Ore and Limestone Analyses Clarion Group\\nBrookville Coal Homewood Sandstone Rocks Beneath Otlier Minerals Petroleum\\nTheories Natural Gas Fuel Value.\\nNO work treating of a region so rich in mineral deposits as is Clarion county\\nwould be complete without its geology. To the uninitiated this science\\nwith its learned terms and technical expressions is largely a sealed book. It\\nwould be a thankless and inappropriate task, in exhibiting local features, to\\nattempt an exposition of its fundamental and most recondite department, viz.,\\nthe origin and formation of the strata. It will suffice to take them as we find\\nthem and sketch their character, their effects and their positions, absolute and\\nrelative. We shall strive then to render this chapter on the geology of Clarion\\ncounty not altogether uninteresting to those who have the merest inkling of the\\nscience.\\nGeology is the science which treats of the origin, structure, and position of\\nIFor data for this chapter the writer is mainly indehted to Report of Progress, Second Slate Geo-\\nlogical Survey, Vol. VV, by H.^Martyn Chance.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Geology and Mineralogy. 43\\nthe rocks and minerals which form the hard crust of the earth. This crust is\\ncomposed of many distinct beds, or strata, which He at almost every angle\\n(when not horizontal) with the plane of a small circle passing through the\\nearth and forming an imaginary base. In many places where the strata\\noriginally lay in the normal horizontal, an upheaval has tilted them out\\nof their true position so as to form a local bend or ridge. This is an anti-\\nclinal, and its inclination is called the dip. The anticlinal axes commonly\\nlie in groups, and run parallel to and at comparatively short distances from\\neach other. The intervening basins, or troughs, are the synclinals. In\\nstudying anticlinals we must consider them apart from the topography of the\\nsurface, which has no conformity with them and is rarely affected by them.\\nAnticlinals. Five anticlinals traverse Clarion county northeasterly at an\\nangle of about 40 degrees, and with consequent northwest-southeast dips which,\\nfor convenience, we shall call by the greater inclination, viz., east and west.\\nThey have been named by the State geologists after localities in this or ad-\\njoining counties through or near which they pass.\\nBeginning at the west the first anticlinal is the Millerstown, crossing the\\nAllegheny a mile below Monterey, the Clarion at Callensburg, passing near\\nLucinda, and leaving the county near its northeastern extremity in Farmington\\ntownship its total western inclination is only forty feet or less. West of some\\nminor axes accompanying this anticlinal there is a Millerstown synclinal, and\\nwest of this there are slight local rolls and basins, but no well-defined anticlinal.\\nAbout four miles east of the Millerstown ridge we reach the axis of the trough\\nof the Brady s Bend synclinal. Professor Lesley, State Geologist, ascribes the\\ncurious bend of the Allegheny to the influence of this flexure. He explains as\\nfollows After the river, flowing southwestwardly down the dip, met the\\nresistance of the opposite side, it ate its way for a short distance into this, but\\nwas finally turned back westward to the opposite side of the trough, only to be\\ndirected again to the south, where it finally pierced the ridge. In the same\\nmanner the Millerstown anticlinal caused the bend at Callensburg. This syn-\\nclinal, after passing a mile east of Sligo, touches the corner of Monroe township,\\npasses a little to the east of Clarion, traverses Highland, underlying Scotch\\nHill, and enters Forest county two miles north of Cooksburg. It is a rather\\nshallow and slightly- marked basin.\\nBrady s Bend Anticlinal. This is one of the best-known axes in Western\\nPennsylvania, and has been traced from the Ohio River. It enters the county\\nnear the mouth of Redbank Creek and courses northeastwardly, at about north\\ni^6 east, through Madison, Monroe, Clarion, and Mill Creek townships, leaving\\nRimersburg and Reidsburg a little to the west and Cooksburg to the east. It\\nhas a western dip of thirty five feet to the mile, in the average, though some-\\ntimes much steeper its eastern fall is about the same.\\nThe Lawsonham synclinal is a gentle basin which, as its name indicates,", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44 History of Clarion County.\\nbegins at Lawsonham, truncates the corners of Madison, Porter, and Monroe\\ntownships passes through Limestone, Clarion, and cuts the southern end of\\nMill Creek township. It is difficult to detect its western rise, but it has a\\nmarked eastern one.\\nNext in order is the Kellersburg anticlinal, which has a steep ascent to its\\ncrest-line. This passes the Redbank near the dividing line between Madison\\nand Porter townships. It passes near Frostburg and through Greenville,\\nentering Jefferson county from Mill Creek it becomes obscure after leaving\\nLimestone township.\\nA gradual dip for a distance of two miles, which is the approximate length\\nof all these anticlinal slopes, brings us to the Centerville synclinal. It is a\\nshallow basin entering the county a little to the west of the mouth of Leather-\\nwood Run, and passing out a mile north of the lower corner of Mill Creek\\ntownship.\\nThere is only a total rise of forty feet to the Anthony s Bend anticlinal, but\\nit has a sharp decline to the Fairmount synclinal, averaging about seventy feet\\nto the mile. From near Anthony s Bend this ridge passes through the\\nvicinity of St. Nicholas Church and enters Jefferson county a mile north\\nof Corsica.\\nThe course of the Fairmount synclinal is through Redbank township from\\nthe mouth of Town Run, and across the corner of Limestone. Its western dip,\\nas before mentioned, is steep, but on the east it ranges from twenty to sixty\\nfeet per mile. It crosses the Redbank again at Troy, but beyond that\\nbecomes very shallow and scarcely recognizable.\\nThe last of the series in Clarion county is the Brookville anticlinal, which\\nenters the county near Patton Station and, truncating the southeast corner of\\nRedbank township, soon makes its exit into Jefferson county. It has a steep\\nwestern dip, raising the ferriferous limestone 350 feet above railroad level.\\nThe effects of these alternate elevations of the rock strata is most strik-\\ningly and familiarly seen in the variations of the coal veins which are pitched\\nnow high, now low, in a manner otherwise puzzling. A good instance exists\\nin the mines of Catfish and Redbank, both on the Allegheny, and the latter\\nplace, being down the river has, of course, a lower elevation. Yet the veins\\nat Redbank are seventy feet higher than at Catfish. The explanation is that\\nRedbank is near the crest of the Brady s Bend anticlinal. Besides these\\nlocal inclinations there is a gentle southwest-by-south dip of the strata over\\nthe whole surface of the county.\\nSurface Measures. Measures, groups, and series are terms indifferently\\nused by geologists to denote divisions of rock composed of several layers, but\\nall partaking of some common attributes or constructed by similar action.\\nThey are named after some salient characteristic, place of best exposure, or\\nsome particular stratum embedded in them. Thus the Conglomerate series", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Geology and Mineralogy.\\n45\\nis so named from the structure of some of its rock layers, which are composed\\nof particles or pebbles cemented by some foreign substance, usually silica or\\nclay. The origin of Coal measures is obvious. We append, in order, a\\nportion of the geological column of Pennsylvania, or the outcropping rocks\\nexisting in the State. The table begins with the highest\\nf No. XV. Upper Productive Coal Measures.\\nCarboniferous Age.\\nNo. XIV.\\nNo. XIII.\\nDevonian Age.\\nNo.\\nNo.\\nfNo.\\nNo.\\nXII.\\nXI.\\nX.\\nNo. VIII.\\nBarren Measures.\\nLower Productive Coal Measures.\\nConglomerate Measures.\\nMauch Chunk Red Shale.\\nPocono Sandstone.\\nIX. Red Catskill.\\nr Chemung and Portage.\\nHamilton.\\nL Corniferous Limestone.\\nThere are seven series yet beneath these. Of the above list the following\\nform the surface of Clarion county\\nBarren Measures.\\nLower Productive Coal Measures.\\nConglomerate Measures.\\nMauch Chunk Red Shale.\\nPocono Sandstone.\\nIt will be seen that the strata of Clarion county occupy a very high position\\nrelative to those of the rest of the State. Only the lowermost strata of the\\nBarren measures are found in the county in the Mahoning sandstone and shale\\ncovering of the Freeport upper coal, which cap the most of the isolated sum-\\nmits in the south. It is very probable that the Barren measures once ex-\\ntended all over the county, but they have been washed away by erosion almost\\nto a nullity. Erosion, or the wearing away by water, ice, and aerial influences,\\nhas played a great part in the formation of the present surface of this region.\\nWhen we speak of elevated veins of coal being caught in high hills, it is\\nonly a curt form of expressing the fact that this gigantic denudation was not\\nsufificient to carry those strata away from the highest points. This agency is\\nstill at work every day around us; we see it in a minor scale in the washing\\naway of banks and deepening of valleys. It is at work too on the surface of\\nthe country, but so slow that its influence is almost imperceptible. In prehis-\\ntoric periods, however, it had none of its present subtlety, but with floods and\\nglaciers washed away enormous slices in a comparatively short time.\\nThe Lower Productive coal measures cover three-fourths of the surface of\\nthe county. Near their base the ferriferous limestone crops out in a compar-\\natively attenuated vein, forming a labyrinth of over four hundred and fifty\\nmiles of exposure. In the north the erosion was relatively greater than in the", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 History of Clarion County.\\nsouth, and left bare the Pottsville Conglomerate series in extensive areas, though\\nsuffering the Lower coal measures to remain in some of the uplands and hills.\\nIt is accounted for by the greater thinness here of the coal measures, comple-\\nmented by a rise, in a northeastern direction, of the Conglomerate rocks. The\\ndeep beds of the Clarion and Redbank expose strips of Mauch Chimk red shale\\nfive feet in thickness, and a few feet above water level the former at Cooks-\\nburg, the latter at Patton Station. So far as discovered this rock underlies\\nonly about the eastern half of the county, being displaced elsewhere by a green-\\nish rock, found in drilling oil wells.\\nUnderneath the Mauch Chunk shale there are vestiges of Pocono sandstone,\\nbut of difficult identification.\\nDrift. There is some glacial drift in the county along the river beds, but\\nof small interest.\\nSoil. Soil consists of disintegrated particles of surface rock, mixed with\\ndecayed vegetable matter. The southern half of the county, with its large\\nareas of limestone outcrop and loose shales and sandstone, of the coal measures,\\naffords a much better natural soil than the majority of the northern townships,\\nwhere the cold, sandy soil of the Conglomerate series predominates. Happily,\\nhowever, this soil is capable of much improvement, so that a liberal use of\\nlimestone and manures has brought up farms in Farmington, Highland, and\\nElk townships to a pitch of fertility which rivals some of their better blessed\\nsouthern neighbors.\\nLower Productive Coal Measures. This group, lying between the Barren\\nand Conglomerate, covers all the southern county, except small belts along the\\nstreams, and about one- half of the northern. It is this important bed which\\ngives to our county its permanent mineral and agricultural wealth, and it is\\ntherefore worthy of our especial study. It has an average thickness of 335\\nfeet, and is divided into four minor groups, as appended, in their vertical order:\\nFreeport Group.\\nKittanning Group.\\nClarion Group.\\nBrookville Group.\\nIn the Freeport group, which is 135 feet in thickness, are found the Free-\\nport upper and lower veins of coal. The following is an analysis of this group,\\nwith average thickness of each layer given\\nFreeport upper coal 3 feet.\\nFire-clay 3\\nShale, sometimes tire-clay 5\\nFreeport upper limestone 5\\nShale, with ore balls 8\\nFreeport upper sandstone 20\\nShale 3\\nFreeport lower coal 5\\nFire-clay and shale 4", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Geology and Mineralogy. 47\\nFreeport lower limestone 3 feet.\\nShale 3\\nFreeport lower sandstone 70\\nAll of these members are never found together.\\nThe Freeport Upper Coal is found only in the summits of Madison, Toby,\\nPerry, Porter, and Redbank townships, having been eroded from the remain-\\ning country where it was once general. It is capped always, either by Mahon-\\ning sandstone or an intervening shale, underlaid by fire-clay, and has an aver-\\nage thickness of three and one-half feet, with extremes of two and five. It\\ncontains over eighty-nine per cent, of fuel matter and one-half per cent, of\\nsulphur. It is therefore good coal, but is too limited in area to be important.\\nThe limestone contained in this bed is a rare article. The iron ore stored be-\\ntween this limestone and the underlying sandstone occurs both as ball and\\nplate ore; in the former shape permeating several feet of fire-clay, and in the\\nlatter having a thickness of from one-third foot to three feet.\\nThe Freeport Upper Sandstone, a hard rock, lies between strata of shale^\\nand measures from twenty to thirty feet in thickness, but it is often entirely\\ndisplaced by shale.\\nFreeport Lower Coal. This bed is found in the same townships as its higher\\nneighbor, but in Madison, Toby, and Perry it is extremely thin and occupies\\nonly the highest hills. In Redbank and Porter, though limited in extent, it is\\nlargely worked, especially by the Fairmount and Northwestern Coal and Iron\\nCompanies. Here it is a splendid vein, in thickness from six to seven feet,\\nwith no slaty laminae and very little sulphur. It is found in largest quantities\\non the Fairmount and St. Charles Furnace properties. An average specimen\\ncontained the following\\nWater i 850\\nVolatile matter 38.510\\nFixed carbon 54 669\\nSulphur 1 046\\nAsh 3 925\\n100.000\\nCoke, per cent 59 640\\nColor of ash red-gray\\nFuel ratio i i .42\\nThe limestone accompanying this coal is very variable, and often wanting^\\nIt occurs in layers, or flags, easily parted, and with rough surfaces.\\nThe Freeport Lower Sandstone is a massive rock averaging seventy feet in\\nthickness. It juts out magnificently along the Allegheny at Brady s Bend, and\\ntops most of the isolated hills in Piney, Monroe, and Limestone townships.\\nThe Kittanning Group. This important group covers the largest area, and\\nhas a thickness of from no to 130 feet. Its various measures are shown in\\ntheir usual order, and with their average thickness, as follows\\nKittanning upper coal. 2 feet.\\nFire-clay or shale 2", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 History of Clarion County.\\nJohnstown cement bed 3 feet.\\nShale, sometimes contains sandstone 45\\nKittanning middle coal 2\\nFire-clay 3\\nShale 35\\nKittanning lower coal 4\\nFire-clay 5\\nSandy shale, ore balls near bottom 20\\nThe Kittanning Upper Coal is present in large areas in the southernmost\\ntownships, but owing to its comparative thinness and inferiority it is neglected.\\nIn the vicinity of New Bethlehem and Fairmount it is a good hard coal, from\\ntwo to three feet thick. It is separated by a strip of impure fire-clay from the\\nJohnstown Cement Limestone, which is here of ferruginous quality, of brownish\\ncolor, and breaks up in irregular masses. This is a rather obscure vein, one of\\nits rare exposures being upon Middle Run, one- fourth mile above the Fairmount\\nCoal Company s opening. So much iron does the bed contain in this vicinity\\nthat it may properly be termed an iron ore.\\nThe Kittanning Middle Coal lies about forty feet above the lower vein and\\nforty- five below the upper. It has about the same value as a profitable bed as\\nthe upper, and is said to yield an inferior coke.\\nKittanning Lower Coal. This seam stretches under the whole surface of\\nthe county, excepting Farmington, Paint, and Elk townships, and is the most\\nextensively mined coal in the county. It is practically inexhaustible, large\\nbeds of it lying yet untouched by the pick. While not equaling the Freeport\\nLower in excellence and freedom from sulphur, its general availability renders\\nit of far more economic value. At Redbank Furnace it lies forty feet above\\nthe ferriferous limestone, at Fairmount thirty- five, at Sligo from fifteen to\\ntwenty feet above, in Beaver township twenty, and in Knox and Highland it is\\nonly ten or fifteen feet above that stratum. The intervening space is occupied\\nby a thick bed of fire-clay and sandy shale.\\nThe Kittanning Lower coal decreases in thickness going north. At Fair-\\nmount, where it lies thirty feet aboVe water level, it measures five feet in thick-\\nness, at Catfish four and one-half, at the mines of the Sligo Branch Coal Com-\\npany near Rimersburg three and one-half feet, while in the northern town-\\nships it rarely exceeds two and one-half feet. By far the greater part of coun-\\ntry banks are opened into this coal. In appearance it is a deep black, lustrous,\\nwith very little slate and a thin veneer of iron pyrites. It makes a superior\\nsteam fuel. An analysis gives the following proportion of components\\nWater i 370\\nVolatile matter 41 575\\nI Fixed carbon 49 8 1 6\\nSulphur 2 824\\nAsh 4-415\\nI GO 000\\nCoke, per cent 57-055", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Geology and Mineralogy. 49\\nIn Porter and Redbank townships there are outcroppings of a seam lying\\nabout thirty feet below the Kittanning Lower, and ten above the limestone. It\\nhas been called the Extra Kittanning Lower, and is of the same quality as the\\nregular vein, but somewhat thinner. From all appearances it is a distinct bed,\\nand not a splitting off of the stratum above.\\nThe Clarion Group, so-called because it has its outcroppings at the horizon\\nof the county-seat after a gradual rise from the south, is met in geologic order\\nbelow the Kittanning, and has a thickness of about eighty feet.\\nIt furnishes the greater portion of the fuel to the townships bordering the\\nriver on the north, where it lies near the surface and is easy of access. It con-\\ntains the ferriferous limestone, the largest ore deposit, and the Clarion and\\nBrookville coals. In the north the Clarion is the uppermost vein.\\nThis group is an exceedingly variable one, partly by reason of a split in\\nthe Clarion bed, extending northward from a line through southern Monroe\\ntownship, and partly from an irregular rise in the Homewood sandstone.\\nThe column below represents the usual structure of the formation south of the\\nsplit\\nOre, carbonate of iron i foot.\\nFerriferous limestone 8 feet.\\nSlaty shale 30\\nClarion (upper and lower coal) 4\\nFire-clay 3\\nShale, containing Clarion sandstone 40\\nBrookville coal 3\\nFire-clay and shale 5\\n(Homewood sandstone) top.\\nThis formation is modified by the displacement of the Brookville coal by\\nthe Homewood sandstone. The same may be said of the group north of the\\nsplit. Its average arrangement is the following\\nOre, carbonate of iron i foot\\nFerriferous limestone 8 feet.\\nShale, variable 7\\nClarion upper (Scrubgrass) coal 2\\nSlaty shale 24\\nClarion lower coal 4\\nFire-clay 3\\nShale 30\\nBrookville coal 2\\nFire-clay 3\\n(Homewood sandstone) top.\\nIron Ore and Limestone. That comparatively thin strip of mineral, lying\\nall but immediately above the Clarion Upper coal, has played a capital part in\\nthe commercial and agricultural development of Clarion county. The ore,\\nwhich is carbonate of iron, limestone, or buhrstone ore, rests almost invariably\\ndirectly upon the limestone the exception is when a thin strip of shale inter-", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 History of Clarion County.\\nvenes. Generally there is a distinct line between the limestone and iron, but at\\ntimes the one merges into the other by a gradual shading. In favored locali-\\nties, as on the Fox farm near Sligo, the bed is three, four, or more feet in thick-\\nness, but it has an average size of ten inches. The ore proper is in the plate\\nform, but the superincumbent shale generally holds considerable ball or kidney\\nore. In external form it is bluish gray, rarely reddish in color cellular, con-\\ntaining calc-spar and varying in structure from coarse to fine grained. By\\nexposure and wetting this ore in some localities has become oxidized into\\nhematite. Clarion county ore makes an excellent iron for all ordinary pur-\\nposes, and some of its higher grades of hematite are well adapted for Besse-\\nmer steel.\\nThe following is an analysis of a specimen of carbonate ore obtained from\\nHindman s limestone quarry in Clarion township\\nProtoxide of iron 38.571\\nSesquioxide of iron 2 142\\nBisulphide of iron 009\\nProtoxide of manganese i .756\\nProtoxide of cobalt trace.\\nAlumina i 027\\nLime. 6.750\\nMagnesia i 992\\nSulphuric acid trace.\\nPhosphoric acid 2 333\\nCarbonic acid 29 403\\nWater 2 1 37\\nInsoluble residue 13. 880\\nI GO 000\\nMetallic iron 31. 500\\nMetallic manganese i 361\\nSulphur 005\\nPhosphorus i .019\\nThe following is from a test of hematite ore from Dale s old bank near Ship-\\npenville\\nCarbonate of iron\\nPeroxide of iron 83 00\\nPeroxide of manganese 2 .00\\nCarbonate of lime\\nAlumina\\nInsoluble residue 2.81\\nWater 1 2 50\\n100.31\\nMetallic iron 58 10\\nThe following is an analysis of iron ore from the St. Charles Furnace lands,\\nPorter township, made by Dr. Genth, of the University of Pennsylvania,\\nin 1881", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Geology and Mineralogy. 51\\nFerric oxide 72.21\\nManganic oxide 3-59\\nAlumina 0.02\\nLime o. 92\\nSilicic acid o 08\\nWater 14 1 5\\nMagnesia, c., not determined i 38\\n100.00\\nThis ore contained\\nMetallic iron 5\u00c2\u00b0- 55 per cent.\\nMetallic manganese 2 50\\nPhosphorus 0.035\\nIt is a fine quality of limonite, capable of producing excellent iron, and well adapted for\\nmaking Bessemer steel.\\nBog Ore. Deposits of this ore, which is also known as hmonite, red\\noxide of iron, exist in Farmington township along the river, a mile below Als-\\nbach s Run, and at several other places in that vicinity. The area of the beds\\nis tinknown, as they have never been mined. Bog ore occurs in red lumps of\\na clay-like consistency. These beds have at present no economic value.\\nLimestone. The ferriferous (iron-bearing) limerock is Clarion county s\\nchief reliance as a decomposer, and its lime par excellence. Its average thick-\\nness is eight feet in color it ranges from a light blue, through gray, to almost\\nblack. When it is found in any thickness it is often divisible into flags two or\\nthree inches thick, with undulating, rough surfaces. It contains fossils, though\\nthey are rarely found entire in the bed, owing to breakage in fracturing the\\nstone. Beautiful vegetable fossils are sometimes found on the surfaces when\\nexposed.\\nClarion county limestone contains\\nCarbonate of lime 95-532\\nCarbonate of magnesia 1.265\\nOxide of iron and alumina 1-529\\nPhosphorus 0.070\\nInsoluble residue 1.780\\nClarion Upper Coal. The upper bench of the Clarion is a fuel of good\\nquality, but its thinness about fifteen inches makes it unprofitable. It lies\\na few feet beneath the ferriferous limestone.\\nClarion Lower Coal is slightly thicker, as a rule, than the Upper, and a\\nmore valuable coal. It has a varying base sometimes the Homewood sand-\\nstone abnormally elevated, often shale, and again the\\nClarion Sandstone. This is a massive rock from fifteen to thirty-five feet\\nthick, and roofs the Brookville coal. It is frequently exposed along the road-\\nsides in Clarion, Millcreek, and Highland townships. It can be distinguished\\nfrom the Homewood or Tionesta sandrock by its position, its greater softness,\\nfriability, and pink color.\\nThe Brookville Coal, the lowest of the series, consists of one stratum. It is", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "52 History of Clarion County.\\na poor, sulphurous, and comparatively unused bed. It is found at its best in\\nthe eastern and northeastern townships bordering on Jefferson county, in which\\ncounty it has its best development. It is sometimes entirely displaced by the\\nHomewood sandstone, which, says Geologist Chance, elevated by anti-\\nclinal rolls, or irregularities of original deposition, lies higher than the level of\\nthe ancient marsh in which the bituminous matter of this coal bed accumulated.\\nResume. An inspection of the coal formations given above will show every\\nbed roofed by shale, occasionally mixed with sandstone, except the Brookville\\ncoal, where the shale is entirely displaced by sandstone. Each vein, too, is\\nunderlaid by a vein of pure fire-clay, except the Kittanning Upper coal, where\\nsome shale is intermixed, and the Clarion Upper, whose substratum is a slaty\\nshale. As a rule every coal has its limestone and sandstone, varied by shale.\\nThe maximum thickness nine feet is found in the Freeport Lower coal,\\nin Porter township the minimum one foot in the Clarion Upper coal at\\nEdenburg.\\nWe may readily perceive that, with eight workable coal beds underlying,\\nin due position, almost its entire surface, and without taking natural gas into\\nconsideration. Clarion county need never go begging for fuel.\\nIts agricultural demands are fully supplied by the limestone underlying\\ntwo-thirds of the county, and its hillsides contain iron ore of good quality\\nenough to supply a future industry with thrice the demand, on its mineral\\nresources, of the ante-bellum furnaces. The fire-clay, inseparable from the\\ncoal, supplies an abundance of plastic material for potteries and brick-kilns.\\nThe virtual inexhaustibility of these products gives them a permanence of\\nvalue superior to lumber and petroleum. In the case of oil, repeated ventures\\nhave failed to discover new territory and as for timber, the growth of centu-\\nries is disappearing, never to be renewed in its pristine luxuriance.\\nFor the future, then, its agriculture and its embosomed mineral wealth must\\nbe Clarion county s sources of income. Greater development only and home\\nmanufacture are needed to supplement our county s wonderful riches of nature.\\nConglomerate Series. The Conglomerate series. No. XII in the table, as\\nrepresented by the Pottsville division in this county, is characterized by alter-\\nnate layers of very variable shale and sandstone, generally of a gritty, and at\\ncertain depths, pebbly formation. The total thickness of the group is rarely\\nobtainable by actual exposure, and its determination by oil drillings is vague\\nand precarious. As near as can be ascertained it extends under the Productive\\nmeasures for 270 feet, the mean of variations. The strata underlying the\\nHomewood sandstone differ widely in thickness, but their combined measure is\\nalmost uniform. The following shows the formation of the Conglomerate with\\nmean thicknesses\\nHomewood sandstone (Tionesta) hard and coarse 40 feet.\\nShaly measures, containing an ore and sometimes coal bed 35\\nSandstone, massive, fine grained 40", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Geology and Mineralogy. 53\\nShale, very variable, source often of bog ore 25 feet.\\nSandstone, sometimes with shale 130\\n(Mauch Chunk Red Shale 5\\nThe Homewood or Tionesta sandstone, a coarse but hard rock, is found in\\nprecipitous ravines and valleys. It has its best development in Madison town-\\nship, where, along Pike and Wildcat Runs, it forms crags sometimes forty feet\\nthick. In the slaty measures subjacent to this rock there are thin, impure\\nbeds of ore and coal, corresponding in horizon to the Mercer beds. This\\ncoal seam has been worked at Catfish Run, in Paint township, and North Pine-\\ngrove, in Farmington township, but with indifferent results.\\nIt will be noticed that the massive basal rock of this series forms nearly\\nhalf of the whole. This is the rock that makes the precipitous sides of the\\nClarion River so rugged sometimes jutting out in bold, almost perpendicular\\nescarpments, but oftener broken up into bowlders. Colossal specimens of rocks\\ndetached from this stratum are found near water level at the mouth of Toby\\nCreek, and a little to the east, on the hillside in the Indian Cave rock.\\nWe have already sufficiently alluded to the Mauch Chunk Red Shale, and\\nthe Pocono Sandstone they are comparatively unimportant.\\nOther Minerals. Although a vague tradition obtains of lead having\\nbeen discovered within the county s limits by the Indians, the negative results\\nof search have established its falsity. It is safe to say that there exists no\\nlead in Clarion county outside of the isolated particles of galena, which are\\noccasionally found in the coal strata, whither they found their way in some\\nunaccountable manner.\\nAlum-shale or alumite is found near the surface in considerable quantities\\nat Alum Rock and vicinity. Whether enough exists to make the bed of\\ncommercial value remains to be seen.\\nPetroleum. The eccentricities of the petroleum deposits of northwestern\\nPennsylvania have so far baffled research. When science leaves the tangible\\nin the rocks of Mother Earth and would investigate the volatile and oily prod-\\nucts found in them, it seems to stray into a realm as capricious and slippery\\nas the substances themselves. All that can be done is to detail the conditions\\nand incidents of the finding of oil, and give the most plausible theories as to\\nthe lay of the oil-bearing rock.\\nPetroleum is found in the Clarion district at an average depth of 1,100\\nfeet, which would place it in the horizon of the Red Catskill formation. When\\nthe drill is started on a hill top, unless on the crest of an anticlinal, greater\\ndepth is needed; and, in a valley, less. The following table gives the usual\\norder and thickness of the oil sand group of Clarion county, which is geolog-\\nically known as the Venango group\\nSandstone, first sand 16 feet.\\nSlate 24\\nShell 2", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54 History of Clarion County.\\nRed rock i feet.\\nSlate 5\\nSandstone 21\\nDark gray slate 30\\nRed rock 3\\nDark slate 40\\nShells 4\\nSlate 32\\nBig Red rock 39\\nSlate 3\\nSandstone 9\\nSlate, sandy 13\\nRed rock 2\\nSlate; 21\\nShells 2\\nSlate II\\nSandstone, third sand 26\\nThe first sand is found at a depth of from 700 to 800 feet and is distin-\\nguished by its gas; the second is a very indefinite article and is scattered\\nbetween the first and third. Here, too, with a thickness of almost forty feet, is\\nfound the Red Rock, the distinguishing mark of the Venango group. Its\\nposition and attributes make its identity with the Pocono red sandstone prob-\\nable. The third and productive sand, which, as all the others, is not a real\\nsand, but a sand rock, is a yellow, porous rock, with little cement, and with its\\nparticles as they come from the pump ranging in size from a pinhead to a\\nsmall pebble. These cells, or pores, contain the precious fluid.\\nThe oil rock in Clarion county has, with the other strata, a noticeable dip a\\nlittle west of south, but its constancy is affected by local variations and anti-\\nclinals. Its total descent from Shippenville to Parker exceeds 300 feet.\\nRange of Development. The Clarion county oil fields were developed on\\nlines ranging from thirty to fifty degrees east of north. The former marks the\\nfirst developed, Parker-St. Petersburgh belt, and is a continuation of the Mill-\\nerstown belt in Butler county. Then a bend occurs, and from St. Petersburgh\\nto Shippenville the general trend is on forty-five degree lines. In the Cogley\\ndistrict, too, the latter line obtained.\\nTheory of Deposit. The excessive variability of the oil rock largely ac-\\ncounts for the uncertain and capricious nature of development. With a porous\\nrock the chances for oil are excellent, but this quality is by no means constant.\\nSometimes, unexpectedly in the midst of good territory, the sand changes to a\\nhard, close cemented formation and a grayish color, shutting out the oil entirely,\\nand puzzling the producer. Where the rock is coarsely cellular, and oil is found\\nin most paying quantities, the fluid is of a dirty greenish color, almost opaque,\\nand contains considerable bitumen. Where, however, as in the Armstrong\\nRun territory, the rock is of a firmer consistency and a clean white color, the\\npetroleum permeates it with difficulty and in small quantities the filtration it", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Geology and Mineralogy. 55\\nsuffers produces a clear yellow fluid called amber oil. So much for inci-\\ndentals. When, however, we would lay down a rule of deposit, and limit dis-\\ncovery to certain continuous lines, the constant variations, the streaks, wet\\nand dry, the pools, the abrupt limits of production, meet and baffle us at\\nevery turn. Among the latest and most plausible conjectures is the belt-line\\ntheory, and it seems especially well adapted to the facts of the Clarion produc-\\ntion. This is that the oil lies in the rock in a belt, or ribbon, stretching across\\nthe country in a northeast-southwest direction. Its comparative narrowness is\\nindicated by its name, as also the parallelity of its sides or slight divergence\\ntherefrom. Towards Shippenville, however, which marks the extremity of con-\\ntinuous development, the belt seems to gradually narrow down by a tapering\\nin the rock, till a little beyond that village, a point is reached where the line of\\nproduction is but a quarter of a mile in width and then disappears altogether^\\nto reappear in a narrow, hardly-paying streak at Halm s Mill. Along the\\nborders of a belt the open, prolific sand is invaded by patches of barren,\\ncausing production there to be very dubious. Beside the main belt, but with\\nno connecting branch, generally lie secondary side belts comparatively small in\\nscope. The Cogley field illustrates this. Such fields, however, form an argu-\\nment for the advocates of the pool theory, which comprehends only the exist-\\nence of oil in arbitrary deposits of irregular outline, and completely isolated\\nfrom each other.\\nA lower belt traversing the county from East Brady to Cooksburg and sup-\\nplementing the theory of a continuous oil area from Washington county to\\nKane, exists only on paper. Repeated failures have discouraged drilling along\\nthis line, the only venture that proved productive being the old Blyson well,\\nwhich yielded an oil heavy enough for lubricating purposes. The underlying\\nFourth, or Bradford, sand is yet an almost unexplored region. Perhaps\\nit is destined to duplicate the rich territory which Clarion county once pos-\\nsessed.\\nIt suffices here merely to mention the connection which some theorists main-\\ntain to exist between oil belts and anticlinals but this is merely a tentative\\nconjecture, lacking any confirmation. So much for the extension of petroleum\\ndeposits their origin is as yet a matter for mere scientific conjectures. Whether\\npetroleum is an excretion from organic matter embedded ages ago in the rocks\\nwhether it sprang immediately from carboniferous beds, was condensed from\\nnatural gas, or had its origin from some unimagined alembic these are all yet\\nunanswered queries, and the likelihood is that they will remain so; that the\\nProvidence that placed the oil where it is, has here set his bounds to the acquisi-\\ntions of the secular mind in this mysterious department of physical research.\\nNatural Gas. The best-grounded and most popular deposit theory of this\\nnew and remarkable fuel is the anticlinal, viz., that the rocks, finding their high-\\nest elevation in the anticlinal ridges, the gas, whose gravity is less than water", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56 History of Clarion County.\\nand oil, will seek the highest possible level and accumulate in greatest quanti-\\nties in the anticlinals. This to a certain extent is very reasonable, but there\\nare several conditions which make it invalid as a rule. We must bear in mind\\nthat while the surface of the country is (geologically speaking) intersected by\\nsynclinal valleys running in a northeast and southwest direction, there is, inde-\\npendent of these, a monoclinal or progressive dip of the strata to the south-\\nwest. Hence gas, in seeking the highest available level, should accumulate in\\nthe northeast, at the expense of the southwestern extremity or bottom of the\\ndip. The same cause places a larger deposit of gas where the rock resumes the\\nhorizontal, after the anticlinals have disappeared in the north, than in well-\\nmarked anticlinals which lie to the south and on a lower plane. This rock of\\ncourse must be an oil rock, whether productive or not. Again, a whole belt of\\noil or gas rock may lie in a broad synclinal basin and be almost unaffected by\\nthe tilt at either side. That the Lawsonham synclinal is of this nature, is a\\nplausible explanation of the fact that the Mechanicsville gas deposits are not\\nfound on an anticlinal. The New Bethlehem well is low down on the slope of\\nthe Anthony s Bend anticlinal.\\nInexhaustibility. Reason and experience both warn us of the transitory\\nnature of this fuel. There is no known inexhaustible reservoir of natural gas.\\nAs Geologist Carll says Inexhaustible wells must draw from inexhaustible\\nsources. Gas in Pennsylvania is only found in sand-beds of medium thick-\\nness and restricted geographical limits. Such beds in themselves cannot be\\ninexhaustible. Their productive duration depends entirely upon the drafts\\nmade upon them a simple problem if one well can exhaust one of the beds\\nin TOO years, how long will it take lOO wells to do it? To make such pools\\npermanent they must be constantly replenished from an unlimited source.\\nThis source it is claimed is some deep-seated laboratory of nature, capable of re-\\nsponding to all the demands that can be made upon it. But the existence of\\nthis deep-seated laboratory is yet to be demonstrated.\\nFuel Value. The fuel value of i.ooo feet of natural gas is equal to that of\\nabout 65 pounds of Clarion county coal. Therefore, when coal is worth $1.25\\nnet per ton, the value of gas is within a fraction of 4 cents per thousand feet.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "From the Earliest Period to 1784. 57\\nCHAPTER V.\\nFROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PURCHASE OF 1784.\\nAborigines, Senecas, and Delawares Indian Remains Petroleum Christian Frederick\\nPost Tobeco and Toby Redbank Creek Brodhead s Expedition Captain Samuel Brady.\\nThe Indians.\\nTHE aboriginal tribe who dwelt on the shores of the Allegheny were the\\nAllegwi, a people of gigantic stature who inhabited fortified towns. The\\nLenni Lenape, or Delawares, in navigating from the West sought a residence\\nwith them, but this was refused the Allegwi only granting them leave to cross\\nthe river and proceed eastward. While they were doing this the Allegwi,\\nalarmed at their numbers and strength, fell on those who had reached the east-\\nern bank and destroyed many of them. Eager for revenge the Lenni Lenape\\nentered into an alliance with the Mengwe, or Iroquois, a nation lying south\\nof Lakes Erie and Ontario, and engaged in a war with the Allegwi, which,\\nafter a desperate struggle of many years, ended in the defeat of the latter, who\\nretired down the Ohio and Mississippi, never to return. The Lenni Lenape\\nthen, together with the Iroquois, took possession of the valley of the Allegheny\\nand upper Ohio. In the lapse of years, however, they became enemies, and\\nthe different tribes of the Mengwe the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayu-\\ngas, and Senecas wisely increased their strength by a closer union styled the\\nFive, and, after the accession of the Tuscaroras, the Six Nations. They were\\nthus enabled to acquire an ascendency over the Delawares, which, though it was\\nweakened by the energy of their chief in 1756, was asserted at intervals. The\\nDelawares, Wyandots, and Shawanese occupied the upper Ohio, the lower Al-\\nlegheny, and the West Branch of the Susquehanna indiscriminately. The em-\\npire of the Senecas covered Southwestern New York and the northern half of\\nWestern Pennsylvania. The language of the Delawares was Algonquin, of the\\nSenecas, Iroquois. Clarion county was on the dividing neutral belt between the\\nSenecas on the north, and the Delawares on the south. The Senecas claimed it,\\nbut it was too far distant from their nearest long cabin, or village at Venango,\\nto be held in more than nominal possession by them. They hunted the deer and\\nthe elk over its wilds, and occasionally encamped for a while on a warlike or\\npredatory mission. In their absence the Delaware or Shawanese hunters would\\ntake their place. The Munsey, Loup or Wolf tribe, a disaffected branch of\\nthe Delawares, whose home was on the West Branch of the Susquehanna, had\\n1 Hereafter whenever I mention Clarion county, or speak of the county, before its organiza-\\ntion, I mean, of course, the territory embraced tlierein, calHng it Clarion county for the sake of\\n.brevity.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "58 History of Clarion County.\\nencroached on the territory of the Senecas as far as the Allegheny. They dwelt\\namong them by sufferance, along that river north of the Clarion. Celeron\\nfound some villages of them on the right bank of the Allegheny near the mouth\\nof Big Sandy Creek, and Zeisberger, the Moravian missionary, established him-\\nself among them on the Allegheny, in what is now Forest county, in 1767.\\nA considerable number of Indian relics have been found in this county,\\nindicating that it was once the habitat of some aboriginal tribe. Indian graves\\nwere discovered near Mr. Isaac Neely s, in Richland township in Clarion town-\\nship, a little east of Strattanville, and in considerable numbers in Limestone\\ntownship. They consisted of piles of stones loosely heaped together, and con-\\ncealing tomahawks, arrow-heads, and knives, which had been buried with the\\ndeparted brave. Vestiges of savage encampments were found in abundance\\nnear Clugh s Riffle, which appears to have been a regular camping-place for\\nwandering bands. Occasionally farmers have plowed up flint heads. On Mr.\\nJohn Crick s farm, on the west branch of Cherry Run, a large number of these\\nrelics were unearthed. They were confined to a particular spot, and must have\\nbeen the debris of some fierce conflict between the Senecas and Delawares.\\nHow the aborigines without the use of iron or hard instruments could fashion\\nflint hatchets and arrow-heads so well, and in such large numbers, is a mystery\\nthat can only be explained by the presumption that they were acquainted with,\\nand ingeniously took advantage of, the tendency of flint or quartz stone to split\\ninto layers.\\nThe Senecas were the most numerous and powerful of the Six Nations. In\\nwar they were fierce and treacherous, in common with their brethren. In times\\nof peace they displayed good nature and amity when treated with justice by\\nthe Caucasian there are several instances when they forebore revenge for inju-\\nries, when there was a chance of redress by legal means. The petroleum that\\nwelled up along the upper Allegheny and its branches furnished them unique\\nadornments and rites. They had a peculiar regard for it as great medicine,\\nand mixed it in their war-paint with a glistening, fantastic effect. Contrecoeur,\\nthe commandant at Fort Du Quesne, wrote to Montcalm, governor of Canada\\nI would desire to assure your excellency that this is a most delightful land.\\nSome of the most astonishing natural wonders have been discovered by our\\npeople. While descending the Allegheny, fifteen leagues below the mouth of\\nthe Conewango, and three above Fort Venango, we were invited by the chief\\nof the Senecas to attend a religious ceremony of his tribe. We landed and\\ndrew up our canoes at a point where a small stream entered the river. The\\ntribe appeared unusually solemn. We marched up the stream about half a\\nleague where the company a large band, it appeared had arrived some days\\nbefore us. Gigantic hills begirt us on every side. The scene was really sub-\\nlime. The great chief then recited the conquests and heroism of their ances-\\ntors. The surface of the stream was covered with a thick scum, which burst", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "From the Earliest Period to 1784. 59\\ninto a complete conflagration. The oil had been gathered and lighted with a\\ntorch. At the sight of the flames the Indians gave forth a triumphant shout\\nthat made the hills and valleys re-echo again.\\nThe French claimed this territory inasmuch as the preceding kings of\\nFrance have enjoyed it by their arms and by treaties, especially by those of\\nRyswick, Utrecht, and Aix la Chappelle, and in 1753 they erected a fort where\\nthe Seneca village of Venango stood, and Franklin now stands, naming it Fort\\nMachault. No post was erected in Clarion county, there being no necessity for\\nit, owing to the proximity of Venango.\\nThe first white man, of whom we have any record, who set foot within the\\nlimits of Clarion county, was Christian Frederick Post; the time, 128 years\\nago. Post was a sturdy, artless Moravian, a sort of lay missionary, who under-\\ntook in 1758 to bear a message from the Proprietary Council to the tribes on\\nthe Allegheny and to endeavor to win them over to the English. It was an\\narduous and perilous errand the long journey lay through an almost unex-\\nplored wilderness the French and Indian War was at a crisis the savage\\nallies of the French had been fierce and resolute the Shawanese and those\\nfavorable to the English, weak and wavering.\\nPost reached Fort Augusta (Sunbury) from Bethlehem on July 25, 1758;\\nhere he heard the news of the defeat at Ticonderoga, which he says in his\\njournal, discouraged one of my companions, Lappopetung s son, so much that\\nhe would proceed no further. From here he set out on the 27th, accompanied\\nby a couple of Indian guides and a chief, Pisquetumen. At Big Island he crossed\\nthe Susquehanna and took the trail up the Bald Eagle valley, leading to Ve-\\nnango, and after a journey of three days reached Shinglemuhee (Chinkla-\\ncamoose), a deserted Indian town on the site of Clearfield. From here the main\\ntrail led on to Redbank, crossing that stream at Port Barnett; but the Moravian\\nand his companions struck off on a northern branch, which crossed the upper\\npart of Jefferson county. On the next day, the 3d of August, he writes We\\ncame to a part that is, a branch of a river called Tobeco over a very bad\\nroad. This road of course was only a trail through the forest. Post had\\nnot mastered the nomenclature of the West, and some of his expressions savor\\nof a foreign simplicity. This part of a river called Tobeco was the present\\nLittle Toby, in Jefferson county.\\nOn the 5th We set out early this day, and made a good long stretch,\\ncrossing the big river Tobeco, and lodged between two mountains e., in the\\nvalley) I had the misfortune to lose my pocket-book, with three pounds five\\nshillings and sundry other things. What writings it contained were illegible\\nto any but myself The big river Tobeco is the Clarion, and Post must\\nhave crossed it in the vicinity of Cooksburg and thence traversed the northern\\npart of the county towards Franklin. After crossing all the mountains\\n1 From an inscription on a plate buried by Celeron at the mouth of French Creek.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "6o History of Clarion County.\\nand the big river Wesahawaucks, they came in sight of the French fort on\\nthe 7th.\\nThis simple chronicle is all that breaks the obscurity involving the condition\\nof this country at that remote period it is only a gleam, an incidental but inter-\\nesting mention in the note-book of a plain, practical man who took down only\\nthe most salient features of his journey, and then with a brevity we must regret.\\nHowever, in a negative way we may gather some information concerning the\\nstate of this country at that distant day. From the day Post left the Susque-\\nhanna till he arrived at Venango his little party appears to have traversed a vast\\nsolitude there is no mention of either white men or savages, except of their\\nown number. At Chinklacamoose there were some signs of Indians in some\\npoles painted red, which were stuck in the ground and served as stakes for\\nprisoners but here in Clarion county there is no mention even of a sign of red\\nmen. This was partly due to the war which occupied many at distant points;\\nbut it also serves to confirm the statement that, except in the hunting seasons\\nor in returning from an incursion to the Susquehanna, they were rare in the\\ndistrict embracing Clarion and northern Jefferson counties. No Indian villages\\nwere located in the county, the nearest being Goschgoschunk (near Tionesta),\\nVenango, Punxsutawney, and Oldtown, opposite the mouth of Town Run in\\nArmstrong county, and lying on the Venango trail. Oldtown was a prehistoric\\nvillage of the Shawanese, and in 1 790 there were only vestiges of it. The most\\ntangible part of Post s journal relates to the river. Nowhere else but here and\\nin Heckwelder do we meet with Tobeco. The French name was riviere\\nau Fiel, River of Hate.^ The circumstance which gave it this name is a\\nmystery. The oldest English maps and mentions, the two above excepted, are\\nunanimous m calling it Toby s, or Toby Creek. But Post and Heck-\\nwelder give us the clue to the true origin of Toby, and enable us to pro-\\nnounce false the popular legend which assigns it to a hunter and trapper of\\nthat name, who annually came up the river in pursuit of game. What hunter\\nascended the Clarion so long before 1758 as by that time to have identified\\nit with his name Toby is from Tobeco, which in turn is either a corruption\\nof Topi-hanne, i. e., alder stream, from whence Tobyhanna, a tributary of the\\nLehigh is derived; or it more probably comes from Tuppeek-hanne, the\\nstream that flows from a large spring an origin implied from the clearness\\nand sweetness of its waters.\\nThe Indian name for Redbank Creek was Lycamahoning, from leguai\\nwhich in the language of the Delavvares signifies sand, and mahonink, where\\nthere is a lick i. c, Sandy Lick Creek, which translation it actually bore, to-\\ngether with the original, up to about 1 820, when it was relegated to its southern\\nbranch. It was styled Redbank, too, at an early date at least as early as 1 798\\n1 Father Bonnecamp s map.\\nIndian Names.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "From the Earliest Period to 1784. 61\\nit is a descendant of riviere au Vermillion, or Red River, as this stream was\\ncalled by the French, How this name came to be applied to it is involved in\\ndoubt the most reasonable conjecture derives it either from its outcropping\\nred ore or the deposits of Mauch Chunk red shale in its banks.\\nPaint Creek, which has several companions in this State, comes from the\\nAlgonquin Wallamink, where there is paint, from the iron ore exposed\\nalong its edges, whence the aborigines in this vicinity got their pigment for war-\\npaint. Tom s Run received its appellation from an Indian who bore that Chris-\\ntian name Town Run, from the old Indian town opposite its mouth. The\\nWeshauwaucks spoken of by Post is East Sandy this designation is not\\nfound elsewhere, and its origin is unknown.\\nTo return to our Moravian: He crossed the river near the fort and recon-\\nnoitered circumspectly, being fearful of detection. I prayed the Lord, he\\nquaintly says, to blind them as he did the enemies of Lot and Elisha, that I\\nmight pass unknown. The Indians with him penetrated the works and re-\\nported a garrison of only six men. Finding no number of Indians near Ve-\\nnango, he proceeded down the right bank of the Allegheny or Ohio, as it was\\nthen called, to the Shawanese villages in Butler and Allegheny counties, where\\nhe held numerous conferences and harangued them, with varying results.\\nIn the same year Fort Du Quesne was captured by General Forbes, and in\\nthe following (1759) the French abandoned Venango and Le Boeuf in order\\nto strengthen Fort Niagara. In 1763 the little garrison at Venango shared the\\nfate of all the northern posts in Pontiac s war; the men were massacred and the\\nfortifications leveled by flame. Northwestern Pennsylvania then relapsed into\\nbarbarism, and its history from this period to the Revolution is, with one excep-\\ntion, a blank. It was abandoned by the authorities to the uncurbed sway of\\nthe wild denizens of its forests, and in many years except an occasional hunter\\nand fur trader, half savages themselves but one man had the courage to pen-\\netrate its depths. This was David Zeisberger, an intrepid Moravian missionary.\\nHe came into Forest county in 1767, and so rare had been a white face\\nthat on his arrival at the first Seneca village, in Warren county, a messenger\\nwas dispatched in haste to the neighboring town to notify the chief of the\\nstranger s appearance.\\nBrodhead s Expedition.\\nColonel Brodhead left Fort Pitt August 1 1, 1779, with a force of 600 men,\\nto chastise the Senecas and Munseys of the upper Allegheny. He met with\\nlittle opposition,! and succeeded in burning Conewango, Buchloons, and Yah-\\nroongwago, large Seneca villages in Warren county and Southern New York.\\nHe returned by way of French Creek, where he ravaged another town. At\\nthe mouth of that stream the army crossed the Allegheny and took the old\\n1 For Brady s Bend and Captain Brady, see appendix.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "62 History of Clarion County.\\nVenango road, which led them through Clarion county. They crossed the\\nClarion at Bullock s Ford, near Callensburg, so named from the circumstance of\\nthe cattle being driven over the river there, then, and during the war of 1812.\\nAt Bullock s Ford a soldier died and was buried on the river s bank. Snow\\nfell on the homeward march. The command reached Fort Pitt September 14.\\nColonel Brodhead writes of this expedition Too much praise cannot be\\ngiven to both officers and soldiers of every corps during the whole expedition.\\nTheir perseverance and zeal during the whole march through a country too in-\\naccessible to be described, can scarcely be equaled in history. Notwithstand-\\ning that many of them returned barefooted and naked, they disdained to com-\\nplain It is remarkable that neither man nor beast has fallen\\ninto the enemy s hands on this expedition, and I have a happy presage that\\nthe counties of Westmoreland, Bedford, and Northumberland, if not the whole\\nwestern territories, will experience the good effect of it.\\nAmong Brodhead s officers on this campaign were the noted partisans.\\nCaptains Jack and Brady. Adam Sheffer, grandfather of William and H. K.\\nSheffer, of Salem township, enlisted from Ligonier valley, with the W^estmore-\\nland militia, and took part in it as a private.^\\nTrails.\\nTwo important paths crossed Clarion county the Susquehanna (Big Isl-\\nand)-Venango, and the Venango-Kittanning, known as the old Venango\\nroad. The Susquehanna- Venango entered the county at about the same\\nplace as the turnpike does. It crossed the Clarion at Clugh s Riffle, about a\\nmile northwest of Strattanville. The Venango trail passed the county line in\\nnorthwestern Salem township crossed the river at Bullock s Ford, near Cal-\\nlensburg, and then striking southeasterly crossed the Redbank at the mouth of\\nTown Run. This was the route taken by Brodhead on his return. It inter-\\nsected the Kittanning path to Standing Stone (Huntingdon), in northern Indi-\\nana county.\\nThe Allegheny River was then the great highway between the southern\\nand northern part of Western Pennsylvania, as well as the route of French\\nvoyageurs from the lakes to the Ohio and Mississippi. It was regarded as con-\\ntinuous with the Ohio, and was so called, at least for a considerable distance up,\\nas late as 1790.\\nThere is no river in America, the Hudson excepted, linked with such stir-\\nring struggles and associated so intimately with the romance of the wilderness\\nas the Allegheny. And the scenes of that romance found a worthy setting in\\nthe beauty of its banks and the clearness and volume of its waters; issuing\\n1 Letter to Washington.\\n2 The following Revolutionary soldiers resided in this county: Adam Sheffer, Salem township;\\nJames Brown, Porter township; Thomas Meredith, Limestone township; Hugh Callen, Licking\\ntownship; John Buchanan, Perry township.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "From 1784 to Settlement of County. 63\\nfrom the untrodden forests of the north, drinking in many a shady creek,\\nrounding with bold curves many a sylvan promontory, now rippHng over a\\npebbly channel, and again expanded into a placid lake beauties of which\\nthe ax of the woodsman and the disfigurements of commerce have not alto-\\ngether robbed it. Its banks have seen the fleet canoes of the Delawares and\\nthe Senecas its clear waters have reflected the embattled bateaux of Celeron\\nand Contrecoeur, with bronze cannon and hundreds of gleaming bayonets,\\nwith the dark-skinned pilots and the black-robed Jesuit or Recollet; and, above\\nall, the lily flag of France to be planted in the wilderness alongside the cross\\nand proclaim the empire of Louis, his most Christian majesty of France t\\nAgain the solitary Moravian missionary, quaint and simple in manners and\\nattire, and his faithful Indian converts, have glided down on their way to the\\nhuts of peace, and perhaps roused the echoes from its rocks by a weird\\npsalmody in the tongue of the Algonquin. Its hillsides, too, have heard the\\ntramp of Brodhead s little army; have rung with rifle volley and the scream of\\nthe savage; and when danger in the form of the ruthless sons of the forest\\nwas abroad, the watch-fires of the yeomen guards and the challenge of the\\nsentinel cast a glamor over the valley.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nFROM THE PURCHASE OF 1784 TO THE SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY.\\nThe Purchase Pickering Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Small Warrantees The Fox Estate Lewis and Peters\\nThe Holland Land Company The Bingham Lands Mifflin Warrants Frankhn College\\nNorthumberland and Lycoming\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David Mead The State Commissioners.\\nTRUE to the principles of equity pursued by Penn in his dealings with the\\nnatives, the government of Pennsylvania extinguished the last claim of the\\nIndians by purchasing all the remaining territory in the original limits of the\\nState which had not been included in the treaty of 1768. That treaty made\\nthe northwest bounds of possession as follows The Ohio and Allegheny from\\nthe Ohio line to Kittanning, thence by a straight line to Upper Canoe place,\\non the head waters of the Susquehanna, now Cherrytree, in Clearfield county,\\nthence by that river to the mouth of Pine Creek, below Lockhaven, thence\\nnorth by Pine Creek to the New York line.\\nAt a treaty held at Fort Stanwix (now Rome, N. Y.), the chiefs of the Six\\nNations, by deed dated October 23, 1784, conveyed to this Commonwealth all\\nthe residue of the State lying north and northwest of this line. This treaty\\nwas confirmed at Fort Mcintosh (Beaver) by the Delawares and Wyandots,", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "64 History of Clarion County.\\nwho claimed the southern part of the included territory, and a deed was exe-\\ncuted by them January 21, 1785. The new acquisition covered the north-\\nwestern third of the State, and of course the present Clarion county. It was\\ncalled the Late Purchase, or New Purchase.\\nApril 8, 1785, the Assembly incorporated with Allegheny and Westmore-\\nland all the territory within the New Purchase not previously assigned to any\\ncounty. All west of the Allegheny and Conewango Creek, with Westmore-\\nland, and all on the east, including therefore Clarion county, with Northum-\\nberland.\\nIndividual property in Clarion county dates from the opening of the land\\noffice. May i, 1785. A rush ensued for warrants in the New Purchase.\\nTheir area at first was limited to 400 acres each, with the privilege of ten per\\ncent, excess; soon after the limit was widened to 1,000 acres and allowance.\\nThe consideration money at first was ;^30 for 100 acres, or 80 cents per acre,\\nand the surveyor s fees. From the 1st of March, 1789, to the 3d of April,\\n1792. iJ 20 ($53,333-) per 100 acres, exclusive of surveyor s fees; from April\\n3, 1792, to September i, 1817, ^5 ($13.33-5-); after that date ^10, or $26.66^.\\nBy an act passed in 1792, to encourage colonization on the extreme frontier\\nactual settlement was required to gain a title for land west of the Alleghe-\\nny, unless prevented by enemies of the United States. The determination\\nof the validity of titles under this proviso was a much-vexed question, and\\ngave rise to general and almost endless litigation. Happily Clarion county\\nescaped this by reason of its geographical position for by the time a similar\\nact went into effect east of the Allegheny, most of the land here had been\\nwarranted, the Indians were no longer a constant menace, and the frontier\\nwas comparatively secure. At the same time the absence of the settlement\\nproviso for warrants east of the Allegheny and Conewango, together with the\\nfact that the greater portion of the land was in the hands of a few, retarded\\ndevelopment of this country for fifteen years, and accounts for the paradox\\nthat Northern Armstrong, Clarion, Jefferson, Forest, and part of Warren\\ncounty remained in primitive savagery till 1800, while in 1790 Butler, west-\\nern Venango, and Crawford counties were comparatively populous.\\nThe deterrent effects of intermittent Indian warfare are also to be taken\\ninto consideration; but this extended equally to the east and west of the Alle-\\ngheny. In 1795 the law requiring applicants to make actual settlement was\\nextended to the new purchase lying east of that river, and remained in force\\ntill 18 1 7. Among the first to take out warrants in Clarion county were\\nPickering Co.\\nThese consisted of Timothy Pickering, Tench Coxe, Samuel Hogdon, Dun-\\ncan Ingraham, jr., Andrew Craiger, and Morris Fisher. Colonel Pickering\\nwas a native of Massachusetts, but was then a resident of Philadelphia. He", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Outline M/^p\\nof\\nClarion County\\nSKowincrlheTernior3r Covered\\nWarrant or Patentees. 2\\nExpressly prepared\\nDrawn by- Gko- J- RlED bcalp 3mUayiI.-.cK\\n153 JOMTviSTC\\n415\\n2 Washington\\n3 Ashlamq\\n5 1\\\\N0X If\\n6 Paint\\n7 Highland\\nMill Crecm,,\\nS TbtAVCR\\nNq 2.2 B-RADY Tp\\nNO It Limestone:\\n17 Perry\\n18 ToTjv\\nH Porter\\n20 RcOtJANN\\n21 MAT31SON", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "From 1784 to Settlement of County. 65\\nhad been commander of a Pennsylvania regiment in the Revolution, and be-\\ncame secretary of war during the same period. He bore a prominent part in\\nIndian difficulties and treaties concerning this State, and afterwards became\\npostmaster-general and secretary of State of the general government.\\nThroughout all he displayed executive ability. An article of agreement\\nwas drawn up by the company, April 6, 1785, stating that they were desirous\\nof purchasing considerable quantities of land in the New Purchase, on the\\nopening of the land office on the first of the succeeding month, and appointing\\nPickering, Coxe, Hogdon, and Ingraham a committee to procure warrants and\\nmanage the affairs of the company. It was likewise stipulated that the mem-\\nbers of the company should be joint tenants, that the lands purchased by\\ntheir committee should be conveyed to them as such in fee, and that a con-\\ntract should be made with General James Potter, of Centre county, to select\\ntheir warrants, show them to the surveyors, and see the proper returns made\\nto the surveyor-general s office. Of the 68,000 acres to be purchased by\\nthe company, Potter was to receive one-fourth for his services. This agree-\\nment was carried out. The warrants were taken early in May, 1785, and sur-\\nveyed late in October of the same year, and in the spring of 1786. Those in\\nClarion county are scattered two of them, 185 and 441 the latter contain-\\ning 1,137 acres cover respectively New Bethlehem, Fairmount, and West\\nMillville and vicinity. 1 The vicinity of Brinkerton was included. Taking in\\none in the northwestern corner of Porter township, Pickering territory extends\\nfor its full length, and on each side of the north and south dividing line be-\\ntween Piney and Monroe, and then veers off to the right, along Brush Run to\\nits head.\\nGeneral Potter having died, Pickering et al. conveyed his share, 1 7,000 acres,\\nMarch 3, 1795, to his sons-in-law and executors, Andrew Gregg and James\\nPoe, for the use of his heirs.\\nFrom the year 1785 to 1789 inclusive, a considerable number of four and\\nfive hundred acre tracts were taken up by various small holders, mostly re-\\nsiding in Philadelphia.\\nIn 1785 a tract of 300 acres called Troy, No. 559, situated on Lick\\nCreek, i. e., Licking, a branch of Toby s Creek, was granted to David Mc-\\nKeechan, of Philadelphia, who conveyed it in 1796 to John Wilson, also of\\nPhiladelphia. This warrant is now largely the property of Mr. E. Over, of\\nLicking township. John Wilson, the purchaser, was a banker, and bought out\\nabout the same period a number of the smaller owners he also purchased a\\nnumber of warrants from the Holland Company, but forfeited them by breach\\nof conditions. In 1785 warrant 382 now covered by the farms of Wilson Mc-\\nKee and H. Henry was drawn by Captain Miles, of Warren, and one in Piney,\\non the Licking township line. No. 404, was warranted to John Taylor. Patrick\\niSee map.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "66 History of Clarion County.\\nMoore in the same year purchased two warrants in eastern Licking, 323 and\\n327, now occupied in part by Michael Over these were sold by the sheriff of\\nLycoming county, and bought by Charles Huston, to whom they were pat-\\nented. The valley of Licking Creek and its tributaries seems to have been a\\nfavorite territory for the smaller speculators. In 1785 one tract on Lycama-\\nhoning Creek (Redbank) was warranted to Elias and Peter Miller, of Bedford\\ncounty; conveyed to James Coulter. Warrants 723 and 725 were conveyed in\\n1785 to Colonel Andrew Perter, afterward surveyor-general.\\nAmong other warrantees in Perry, Licking, and Piney townships are John\\nBuchanan, deputy surveyor James Hamilton, John Grier, and Philip and Jo-\\nseph Creigh, the latter on Cherry Run. William Amberson, James Amber-\\nson, and Henry Reid warranted considerable land in Perry, Porter, and\\nRedbank townships. In Perry township the Amberson tracts lie chiefly along\\nthe Allegheny, north of the Bingham lands. In 1786 two tracts in Richland\\ntownship on Turkey Run were surveyed to Walter McFarland and conveyed\\nby him to John Range, of Mt. Pleasant township, Adams county; in 1787\\none tract in Clarion township was issued to William Todd and by him con-\\nveyed to Joseph Baldridge 1787 Robert McLenahan conveyed tract 287,\\nElliot s Vale, to William ElHot it was situate at the first fork of Lick\\nCreek and includes the site of Callensburg 1787 one tract was warranted to\\nJohn Sloan, afterward sheriff of Armstrong county.\\nIn 1788 James Reed became owner of one tract in this county; and sev-\\neral patents were issued to Isaac Mason, John Cross, and Cornelia Cross, exec-\\nutors of Robert Cross, merchant of Philadelphia. A few were granted to Ed-\\nward Price, merchant of the same city, for lands near Licking Creek. About\\nthe same period John Duncan warranted several tracts in eastern Licking,\\nand John Clark one on the Clarion River, on the southern side, about one mile\\nfrom its mouth; sold by him in 1792 to Thomas Hamilton, of Kittanning.\\nThe Fox Estate.\\nMay 18, 1785, the brothers, George and Samuel Fox, and Leonard Dorsey\\nentered into partnership for the purpose of buying land in the New Purchase.\\nJohn Kelly, of Northumberland, afterward Union county, was to locate and\\nsupervise the surveying of the warrants and for this was to receive one- third\\ninterest in the property. Between the years 1785 and 89 a number of\\nsmall warrants were granted to them two in Perry township, along the Alle-\\ngheny, south of the junction of the Clarion, Nos. 184 and 139 one, 198, form-\\ning the northwest corner of Salem township some along the Clarion in Lick-\\ning township, and two, Nos. 424 and 434, covering the corner common to\\nLicking, Toby and Piney townships. Of these, in 1790, Kelly received one-\\nthird. About 1795 the Foxes took out eight one- thousand-acre warrants in\\nthis region of these seven lie along the Allegheny, north of the Clarion, and", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "From 1784 to Settlement of County. 6^\\nare connected the eighth, No. 5731, lies in northern apex of Toby township.\\nThese were patented in 1796 and became the sole property of Samuel Fox.\\nThe Fox estate was much enlarged by the purchase of the Millcreek Mifflin\\nlands in 1798, and those farther south in 18 16.\\nFranklin College Warrants.\\nIn 1787 the State appropriated large bodies of land in the west to Dickin-\\nson and Franklin Colleges the latter of Lancaster. About the western half of\\nSalem township and the corner of Ashland left out by the Holland line, are\\ncovered by these warrants, numbering twelve in all, 805 to 816 inclusive.\\nNext in order, in 1 789, come the\\nBrodhead and Thomas Lands.\\nThey were warranted except the Beaver-Salem tracts to Joseph Thomas,\\nin trust for Thomas and Daniel Brodhead, then surveyor-general, and embrace\\nland in Redbank, Porter, Monroe, Beaver, and Salem townships. The Beaver-\\nSalem tracts were purchased by Thomas and Brodhead from John Barron, the\\nwarrantee; these consist of nine four- and five-hundred-acre warrants, 3840\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n3848 the first two in the western part of Beaver township, south of the Hol-\\nland Company s line the balance forming a tier in eastern Salem, embracing\\nabout one- third of the township. The southern lands were warranted at a later\\ndate; there are seventeen tracts of 1,000 acres each, numbered 5581-5592,\\nand from 5596 to 5601. The Brodhead-Thomas territory in Clarion county\\ncovered an area of 27,300 acres. The latter tracts cover nearly the entire\\neastern half of Porter and western half of Redbank townships the Pickering\\nterritory invades it in the vicinity of New Bethlehem and West Millville, and\\nforms a hiatus about Brinkerton. In 1796 the territory was patented and di-\\nvided, Brodhead receiving the Beaver-Salem section (which he convej ed the\\nsame year, with the exception of warrant 3,841, to Robert Brown, of Kittan-\\nning); and warrants 5592, 5593, 5594, 5595, 5596, 5597 in Redbank and\\nPorter; and Thomas the remainder. Tracts 5601 and 5602 seem to have\\nbeen previously sold.\\nNext in the order of taking out warrants is\\nThe Holland Company.\\nThis was an unincorporated syndicate of wealthy citizens of Amsterdam,\\nwith whom Robert Morris had, about 1781, negotiated a large loan for t. \\\\e\\nuse of the colonies, to enable them to carry on the struggle for independent,\\nand for which he assumed personally a partial responsibility. In consequence\\nhe assigned an immense body of land in western New York to the agents of\\nthe company. It is said that the State of Pennsylvania had contracted a debt\\nto this company, which it liquidated by land but there is some mystery in this\\nregard. Holland was at that time distracted by the vicissitudes consequent on", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "68 History of Clarion County.\\nthe French Revokition, and her capitahsts may have sought investments in the\\ndistant and youthful repubHc, deeming them the safest. However this may\\nbe, on December 12 and 13, 1792, the Commonwealth granted 1,180 warrants\\nof 990 acres and allowance each in the New Purchase, and lying east of the\\nAllegheny River and Conewango Creek, to Wilhem Willink, Nicolaas Van\\nStaphorst, Christiaan Van Eeghen, Hendrick Vollenhoven and Rutger Jan\\nSchimmelpeninck. Subsequently, Pieter Stadnitzki was added to the company.\\nThis was under the law of 1789, enabling aliens, under certain conditions, to\\nhold and sell land in this State for a limited time a law which seems have been\\nspecially devised for the Holland Company. They held the land in joint ten-\\nancy with the right of survivorship. About the same time they purchased a\\nlarge number of West Allegheny warrants, and in order to secure them made\\nvigorous efforts to introduce settlers upon them a fact which accounts for the\\npriority of colonization in that section. Previously all warrants, from the man-\\nner of drawing the numbers, were styled lottery warrants, but in the case of\\nextensive purchasers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Holland Company, Bingham, and others\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the sys-\\ntem was changed to adapt it to their demands. Some of the Holland warrants\\nwere issued to Le Roy and Lincklaen, their New York agents. Their first\\nPennsylvania agent was Paul Busti, an Italian, who resided at Blockley s Re-\\ntreat, the present site of the Philadelphia almshouse. Busti had general super-\\nintendence of the property (the Hollanders never became citizens or exercised\\npersonal supervision), with power of conveyance and contract. Busti not only\\nbought and sold lands for the company, but also acquired an individual title to\\nmuch, as did Huidekoper, their local agent for the west Allegheny. Prior to\\n1811 Robert Beatty, of Armstrong county, was the sub-agent in this vicinity.\\nThe Holland Company s warrants east of the Allegheny were located in Mc-\\nKean, Warren, Forest, Clarion, Jefferson, and Armstrong counties. Most of the\\nClarion county tracts were surveyed in June and July, 1793. The hne enters\\nthe county at the north on the Washington- Farmington boundary, and after\\nfollowing that down to its extremity passes through Knox township due south,\\ntakes up the Paint-Highland line, pursues that, and crosses the river about one\\nmile above the county seat. Then it turns due west, truncates Clarion borough,\\ncrosses the river again a little below the Pike bridge, and continues due west\\ntill it reaches a point one and one-half miles southwest of Shippenville. There\\nit turns south to the Clarion River, a little below the mouth of Deer Creek\\nthe-^-e west again to a point a short distance southwest of Blair s Corners\\nthence north to Monroeville, where it retires eastward, forming a recess for two\\n^f Barron s warrants, and an irregular one of Fox s intervening. A broken line,\\ngenerally parallel to the northwestern line of Beaver township, carries it into\\nAth.^^.d in a due north course, where, a mile and a half east from Mt. Pleas-\\nant village, it turns westward till on a line with the western boundary of Ash-\\nland, into which it merges. From there the boundary of the Holland", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "From 1784 to Settlement of County. 69-\\nCompany s land in Clarion county is continuous with the county line to the\\nplace of beginning.\\nIt will be seen that these lines include fully one-fourth the surface of the\\ncounty, comprising all of Washington and all but a fraction of Elk township,\\nfive-sixths of Ashland, four-fifths of Paint, three-fourths of Beaver, two- thirds of\\nKnox, and a small section of Clarion township. They embrace seventy-four\\nwarrants representing over 74,000 acres.\\nIn the southern part of the county the territory of the company com-\\nprised about 10,000 acres, divided as follows: One section in southern Madi-\\nson, bordering on the Redbank, consisting of all the territory south of the\\nBingham line, which runs through the center of the township west of Mifflin s\\nwarrant 5086, which extends centrally from the Redbank till it intersects the\\nBingham line on the J. Mortimer farm, and east of a broken line running north\\nof Van Buren Furnace. Further east a Holland tier crosses Redbank Creek\\ninto Porter township, adjoining Mifflin s, and extending up the length of three\\n1,000 acre warrants. From the most southern of these three another one off-\\nsets eastwardlv. Both of these are interfered with by several narrow strips\\nrunning east and west. The last section of the Holland Company s land lies\\nin southern and eastern Redbank township, Nos. 3058-3063, including all\\nsouth of the east and west line running through Shannondale and east of the\\nThomas and Brodhead line, except a few parcels in the southeastern corner.\\nIn 1804 145 warrants in the purchase were seized by United States mar-\\nshal Smith for unpaid national taxes. They were purchased by Busti, as agent\\nfor the company; but the former owners, or their heirs Jesse Wain, Isaac\\nWharton, Samuel M. Fox, David Lewis, and John Adlum resisted its title.\\nAccordingly Smith filed a bill of interpleader to determine in whom was the\\nequitable ownership, in which the Holland Company and Le Roy and Bayard\\n(who had succeeded Lincklaen) were complainants, and the parties above men-\\ntioned defendants. The decree of the Circuit Court (October 31, 1807),\\ndecided in favor of Wain, Wharton, and the others, and ordered a conveyance\\nin proportionate shares. The lands in this county involved in this contest were\\nchiefly those of Samuel M. Fox. In 1805 Harm Jan Huidekoper was sent out\\nby the syndicate as general superintending agent in a local sense. Busti still\\nretained his former relations with the company. Huidekoper took up his\\nresidence at Meadville, and in the same year, March 19, purchased from the\\ncompany twenty-three of its east Allegheny tracts. This purchase covered -.11\\nits possessions in Beaver township, southern Ashland, southwestern Elk. and\\ntwo warrants 2801 and 2795, in central Washington, about Fryburg. By\\ntime Stadnitzki, Van Eeghen, and Van Staphorst had died.\\nThe Bingham Lands.\\nClose upon the heels of those to Willink and company came the Bingham\\nwarrants. They were issued December 14, 1792, to Robert Gilmor and", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "yo History of Clarion County.\\nThomas Willing, but patented and conveyed to William Bingham October 30,\\n1794. Willing was Bingham s father-in-law, a leading merchant of Philadel-\\nphia, and partner of Robert Morris. Robert Gilnior, of Baltimore, was a cor-\\nrespondent of Bingham s and Willing s, and ranked high in the early social and\\ncommercial world. He was co-partner of an American commercial house\\nestablished at Amsterdam, and resided there as agent. With the wealthy bank-\\ners Wilhem and Jan Willink, he had intimate business relations, and this, taken\\nin connection with the almost identical period of the Holland and Bingham pur-\\nchases, points to some connection between the two companies. William Bing-\\nham was a man of wealth and aristocratic connections, resident in the Quaker\\nCity. He was speaker of the first Pennsylvania House from 1791 to 1793, and\\nafterward filled the chair in the Senate in 1795. By a rather odd coincidence\\ntwo of the largest holders of land in Clarion county, William Bingham and\\nRichard Peters, filled the highest positions respectively in the first House and\\nSenate of Pennsylvania.\\nThe Bingham estate in northern Clarion county consisted of thirty-three\\nfull 1,000-acre warrants and eight halves of tracts cut by the Clarion-Jefferson\\nline, embracing about 46,000 acres in Farmington, Highland, Millcreek, and\\nClarion townships. The boundary of the connected warrants begins on the\\nForest county line about one mile southeast of the junction of Walley s Run\\nand Coon Creek. It is identical with the line between the P. Haskell and the\\nFord and Lacy property, and continues due north and south, bisecting Farm-\\nington township to its southern boundary. It follows this line westward to\\nthe offset from Highland township, having the Peters land on the north here,\\nand enters Knox. Near Mr. S. W. Wilson s saw- mill it again takes a southern\\ncourse, and penetrates Highland to a point a little below the cross-roads at\\nMiola Post-office, thence leads east the length of one warrant into Millcreek\\ntownship, thence north to the mouth of Blyson Run, where it turns due east,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2cutting Millcreek township into two sections, in the northern of which the Mifflin\\nwarrants lie and intervene between the Bingham lands in Farmington and those\\nin Millcreek. Arrived at the Clarion and Jefferson county line, the Bingham\\nboundary turns south on it to a point one-fourth mile north of Little Millcreek,\\nwhere it turns due west to the mouth of that stream, then jogs south, west, and\\nnorth in an irregular line, coming up again to the northwest corner of the\\nborough of Strattanville, then turning west to include warrant 3389, which\\ncovers the bend in the Clarion at Clugh s Riffle, and is isolated on the north\\nand east by Harrison s warrants. In Farmington township the county line\\nforms the limit to the Bingham territory on the east. All the tracts, except\\na few along the river, have due north and south lines.\\nThe Biiigham tracts were surveyed in August and September, 1793. The\\nsouth Clarion Bingham territory occupies connectedly parts of Perry, Madison,\\nand Toby townships, covering, roughly speaking, the southern half of Perry,", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "V\\nFrom 1784 to Settlement of County. 71\\nthe northern half of Madison, the western third of Toby, and a section in the\\nsoutheast on the Madison Hne, taking in Rimersburg twenty-two warrants, all\\nof 1,000 acres, except two of 500 in Perry township. The line is so zig-zag, so\\nbroken by gaps and interferences [i. e., previous warrant rights), that it is im-\\npossible to describe it except by projection. Its continuous boundaries are the\\nAllegheny from near the mouth of Troutman s Run to a point a little below\\nMonterey, and the well-known line in Madison township extending from a\\npoint a little north of the junction of Mortimer and Catfish Runs, due east to\\nWild Cat Run.\\nWilliam Bingham removed to England in the latter part of the last century,\\nand died there toward the close of 1804. His will, dated January 10, 1804,\\ndevised all his realty to five executors in perpetual trust for his son William\\nBingham, and his daughters, Anna, wife of Alex. Baring, and Maria Matilda,\\nwedded to Henry Baring. These trustees were Alexander and Henry Bar-\\ning, of the great London banking house of Baring Brothers Robert Gilmor,\\nThomas Mayne Willing, and Charles Willing Hare, of Philadelphia. The\\ndevisees had authority to dispose of portions of his property, and among them\\nthe warrants in the Late Purchase. Alex. Baring in 1842 became Lord Ash-\\nburton, and, having extensive commercial and landed interests in North Amer-\\nica, was selected as Great Britain s representative to perfect by treaty a settle-\\nment of the northeast boundary between the United States and the British\\nPossessions (1842).\\nThe alien Bingham devisees and Gilmor, resident in Amsterdam, appointed\\nas their attorneys in fact Thomas Mayne Willing and Charles W. Hare.\\nThe Harrison Lands\\nWere warranted to George Harrison December 26, 1792, and surveyed in the\\nearly part of July, 1794. They consist, in Clarion county, of a strip a mile, or\\na warrant, in width, extending north and south in Knox and Highland town-\\nships and two offsetting to the east. The strip contains two oblong one-\\nthousand-acre warrants, lying between the Bingham and Holland tracts, with\\nthe Peters on the north, and reaches down to tract 3389 of the Bingham. Here\\na jog eastward occurs, occupying two warrants which cover the mouth of Mill-\\ncreek and extend into Millcreek and Clarion townships.\\nLewis and Peters.\\nThis was a partnership composed of William Lewis and Richard Peters, of\\nPhiladelphia. The latter was a distinguished citizen of the early Common-\\nwealth he had served in the Revolution as a captain and as secretary of the\\nboard of war. Later he was elected speaker of the first Senate, and in 1792\\nwas appointed judge of the United States District Court, occupying the bench\\ntill his death. His residence was at Belmont, a beautiful villa, now a charming", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "72 History of Clarion County.\\nspot in Fairmount Park. On January 26, 1793, Messrs. Lewis and Peters took\\nout a large number of the largest warrants, which were surveyed late in July\\nof the same year. In the northern part of the county they occupy all the area\\nnot covered by Willink and Company, Bingham and Harrison, viz. the\\ntwo tiers between the Bingham and Holland lines, comprising the western\\nhalf of Farmington (except Biddle warrant. No. 5502, in the upper edge) the\\nnortheastern corner of Knox, and the northern neck in Highland, though con-\\ncerning the latter there was a dispute, arising from an alleged overlapping of\\nthe Bingham purchase. In these tiers there are 16,500 acres. On June 20,\\n1794, Lewis and Peters conveyed all these warrants and several more in For-\\nest county to Peter Benson and wife, who the same day deeded them to\\nRichard Peters, Francis Johnston, and David Kennedy, and they became\\nfinally vested in Peters alone. The Dallas and Ingersoll warrants did not be-\\ncome a part of the Peters estate till after 1820.\\nThe Mifflin Warrants.\\nIn 1786 Jonathan Mifflin, of Philadelphia, and Colonel Francis Johnston, of\\nRevolutionary fame, living at Blockley Retreat, and then receiver-general of\\nthe land office, bought ten small tracts in the vicinity of Lick Creek. In\\n1794 surveys were made to Mifflin and Johnston for a number of large tracts\\nin Madison and Toby, and in Millcreek townships. Those in Madison and\\nToby numbering 5081-5088, extend on the eastern line lapping over it\\nslightly the width of the two townships the northernmost one is interfered\\nwith considerably on the north. No. 5086, offsetting, embraces Lawsonham and\\nvicinity. The Millcreek warrants contain the half of the township north of\\nthe Bingham line. In 1798 Mifflin (having bought out Johnston) sold some\\nof the Millcreek lands to George and Samuel Fox, and in 1799 the remainder\\nto the Bank of Pennsylvania.\\nIn 1795 Charles Cist, of Philadelphia, took out warrants for two tracts on\\nToby s Creek.\\nThe first surveyors in this region were the skirmish line of civilization, the\\nfirst white men to leave the beaten paths and penetrate the interior. Their\\nwork bore a large share in the development of the wilderness and formed the\\nbasis of the later subdivision lines in our county. The surveyors, therefore,\\nand their methods merit our attention in a historical work of this kind.\\nClarion county belonged to surveyor s districts Nos. 6 and 7. All east of\\nthe north and south boundary line common to Madison, Porter, Toby, Piney,\\nand Monroe townships, and a continuation of it to the river, and north of a\\nline thence due west, belonged to No. 6 all south and west of it, to No. 7.\\nThe first deputy-surveyor assigned to No. 6 was Samuel Johnston, who was\\nsucceeded in 1786 by George Woods. Johnston and Woods surveyed the\\nPickering tracts. In 1789, on the accession of Colonel Brodhead to the sur-", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "From 1784 to Settlement of County. 73\\nveyor-generalship, Ennion Williams was appointed. Williams had been com-\\nmander of a battalion of riflemen during the Revolution, and, like a great many\\nmilitary men, when his services were no longer required on the line of battle,\\nwas selected for a position only second in its arduous and hazardous charac-\\nter to the life of a soldier. Williams acted till 1794 and was replaced by John\\nBrodhead, a relative of the general s. Williams therefore surveyed the greater\\npart of the Holland and all of the Harrison and Peters warrants, and Brodhead\\nthe upper Bingham and Mifflin tracts.\\nThe first, and, until about 1800, apparently the only surveyor of District\\nNo. 7, was John Buchanan, of Philadelphia. Occasionally the deputy-sur-\\nveyors sub-deputed others to do work.\\nThe rugged and unexplored nature of the country in those days required\\nsurveying to be carried on in campaign style. Each surveyor was accompa-\\nnied by a party, generally numbering a dozen, consisting of assistants, ax-men,\\nand drivers, who brought up the rear with the pack-horses bearing provisions,\\ntents, etc. The corps was always armed, for danger was ever possible, either\\nfrom wild beasts or Indians. Surveying was extremely hazardous between\\n1790 and 1793, owing to the Indian outbreaks and the war which culminated\\nin the defeat of St. Clair and very little of it was done. The severe punish-\\nment inflicted by General Wayne, in Ohio, awed the western tribes, and thence-\\nforth the work of both subdivision and settlement advanced with comparative\\nsecurity. Yet, notwithstanding, there were continual alarms among the inhab-\\nitants of the frontier, owing to threatening hostilities arising from the dissatis-\\nfaction of the Indians with the treaties; militia-men were consequently pick-\\neted along the Allegheny. Cornplanter, the well-known Seneca chief, cautioned\\nthe surveyors to leave the woods, as they might expect attack after the 13th\\nof December, 1794 However, nothing serious transpired.\\nThe surveyors went in advance of the slow provision-train, blazing their\\nroute as they went along, to enable the packmen to follow. In after times\\nthese lines were sometimes mistaken for warrant lines, and caused confusion.\\nWhen the corps at work on a line arrived at a place, almost impassably dense\\nor rough a rugged ravine, for instance instead of maintaining their straight\\nline, they would turn to the right or left at right angles till a practicable course\\nwas found, and, on arriving at the bottom or opening, would return to a spot\\non a line with the break-off These breaks were ignored in the returns, but\\nwere puzzling to future land litigants; the courts decided that the ground, and\\nnot the air lines, controlled.\\nIn laying out a block or tier of warrants, the surveyors by no means ran\\nall the warrant lines by actual measurement. They would measure lines for\\ntwo or three sides of a block of warrants, deduce the remaining side or\\nsides, and then project imaginary lines of division across the parallelogram,\\nsplitting it into tracts of equal area. The corners along the actual line would", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74 History of Clarion County.\\nbe specifically designated as by a white oak, a gum, etc. the imaginary\\ncorners were indicated by imaginary posts.\\nMost of the larger warrants were regular rectangles with lines running true\\nto the cardinal points the exceptions were where previous warrants, overlap-\\nping, made irregularity of outline necessary, and along the Allegheny, across\\nwhich warrants could not extend on account of the difference of tenure. Each\\ntract had a name, generally fanciful or imitative, as Troy, 559; Busti\\nFarm, 2710; sometimes incidental or descriptive, as 3675 on Knapp s Run,\\nin Northwestern Farmington, called Hickory Dale the adjoining warrant\\nsouth, Saw-mill Run Wild Cherrytree Plain (5081), in Madison town-\\nship, east of the junction of Wildcat and Fiddler s Runs Han o yought,\\nwhere the stream is crooked (5629).\\nThere is scarcely any data for determining the value of warrant lands in the\\nearliest days. Conveyances were usually made only from warrantees to pat-\\nentees, and in case of small tracts the consideration, nominal, was five shillings\\nper tract.\\nIn 1788 David and John Mead, the Randolph brothers, Stophel Seiverling,\\nJames Miller, and Cornelius Van Horn passed through Clarion county on the\\nSusquehanna trail. They had come from the far distant Wyoming valley,\\nwhere they had been driven from their possessions by the contentions of the\\nConnecticut claimants. From Venango they ascended FVench Creek to the\\nmouth of the Cussewago, and erected cabins in that fertile vale the future city\\nof Meadville.\\nIn 1790 the Supreme Executive Council appointed a commission to survey\\nthe Upper Allegheny and its tributaries and examine the capabilities of the Late\\nPurchase. It consisted of Colonel Timothy Matlack, Samuel Maclay, and John\\nAdlum. Matlack had been, with General James Potter, a member of the State\\nResolutionary Committee of the Frame of Government, and was subsequently\\nsecretary of the Commonwealth and master of rolls. Maclay, the grandfather\\nof Hon. David Maclay, of Sligo, was a veteran surveyor of Eastern and Central\\nPennsylvania, and was president of the State Senate from 1802 to 1804. John\\nAdlum was a State commissioner, resident in Centre county, who afterwards\\nremoved to Maryland. He had some interest in Clarion county property.\\nOne of the objects of their expedition was to explore a route for a wagon road\\nthrough the Purchase to the head waters of the Allegheny. They left Lebanon\\nMay I, 1790, their intention being to ascend the West Branch as high as it\\nwill admit canoes and then examine what kind of communication the country\\nv/ill admit of between it and Toby s Creek. On June 18 they (Matlack\\nand Maclay) crossed from the Sinnemahoning to Little Toby in Jefferson\\ncounty Adlum had previously left with a party of ax- men to run a line to the\\nhead- waters of the Alegina, near Warren, and construct canoes. This point\\nhis colleagues reached from the Sinnemahoning by a circuitous northern route.\\n1 Diary of Samuel Maclay.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "From 1784 to Settlement of County. 75\\nFrom hence, after passing up Conewango to Lake Chadokin, they descended\\nthe river in canoes, stopping to explore several affluents for some distance up, on\\ntheir way. August 5 Mr. Maclay writes Started the surveying party\\nfrom Fort Franklin early in the morning, as we were obliged to remain\\nawhile to bake some bread. As soon as that was done we followed and over-\\ntook them and gave them some provisions, and then made the best of our way\\nfor Toby s Creek. At one o clock we had a heavy shower. After it was over\\nwe proceeded down the river and came to the mouth of Toby s Creek about\\nfive o clock, and before we had time to pitch our tent we had another heavy\\nshower, followed by a rainy night.\\nFriday, August 6. The morning showery, and continued until twelve\\no clock, when it cleared up a little, but does not yet promise fair weather.\\nOur surveying party has not yet reached us, although it is now past four\\no clock. The surveying party came in before night, and after them John Ria\\nand Frederick Bavvm came to our camp. It was therefore agreed that Bawm\\nand Ria^ should be taken into pay for four days, and that I, with one hand in\\naddition, should survey the river down to the Kishcaminitas, while the other\\ncommissioners were to be employed in exploring the Toby s Creek.\\nUnfortunately no record of this exploration exists. The commissioners\\nmust have ascended the stream for a considerable distance for almost a week\\nelapsed before they returned to Maclay, at his camp on the Kiskiminetas.\\nThe line known to the earliest settlers as Adlum s line was one made\\non their overland return to the Allegheny. Mr. Maclay evidently thought\\nthat at the junction of Toby s Creek the Alegina becomes the Ohia, for\\nabove that he mentions the stream by the first, and below, by the latter name.\\nWe take up his diary again: August 7. Started with my party and sur-\\nveyed nine miles and one half, and took up our quarters.\\nAugust 8. Continued our survey eleven miles further down the river.\\nSo he continued down to the Kiskiminetas.\\nOn April 13, 1795, the western part of Northumberland, including, of\\ncourse, the present Clarion county, was erected into Lycoming. There was\\nno township organization here but the western frontier was mentioned as\\nthat part of Lycoming county lying in the New Purchase.\\nAs a tardy result of the exploration by the commissioners, an act of March\\n21, 1798, declared public highways the Allegheny and several of its tribu-\\ntaries, including Toby s Creek from the mouth up to the second fork, and\\nSandy Lick or Redbank Creek from the mouth up to the second fork.\\nMarch 12, 1 800, all of Clarion county lying north of the river was taken\\nfrom Lycoming to form part of the new county of Venango, and all south of\\nthe river was likewise cut off from Lycoming and annexed to the new county\\nof Armstrong. There was no township organization of these sections till 1801\\nfor Armstrong county, and 1806 for Venango.\\nProbably Baum and Rhea is the correct version ofthe.se names.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "^6 History of Clarion County.\\nCHAPTER Vn.\\nFROM THE SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY TO THE WAR OF 1812.\\nAbsalom Travis Securing Warrants John Laughlin Settlers from Westmoreland\\nFrom Centre County Character of Pioneers Pioneer Life Mills Churches Schools\\nPastimes First Things.\\n1792-1812.\\nOF the settlement of Absalom Travis, the pioneer of Clarion county, few\\nparticulars have reached us. All that is known of him is that about 1790\\nhe removed from New York, his native State, to the Black Lick settlement,\\nIndiana county. There he remained but a short time, and about 1792 it is\\nimpossible to fix the date exactly he came with his three sons, Robert,\\nJames, and Stephen, and squatted or settled on the spot now occupied by the\\nfarm of J. Barnhart, in the southeastern corner of Monroe township, Brodhead-\\nThomas tract No. 5589. He did not live long enough to reap the profit of\\nhis enterprise and labors; he died on his humble homestead in or before 1795.\\nHis grave is still discernible.\\nWe cannot but admire the hardihood of this, the first settler of Clarion\\ncounty, in going forth at an advanced age, accompanied only by his family, to\\nseek a home solitary, in the wilds, where the half-conquered savage yet roamed\\nat will where the sound of the pioneer s ax had never disturbed the forest s\\ndepths, and nature in her most uncouth garb frowned at the efforts of man to\\nsmooth her ruggedness. He was many miles in advance of the northernmost\\nsettlements of Armstrong (then Northumberland and Westmoreland) county,\\nand outstripped organized colonization by eight years.\\nIt is not difficult to imagine what a panorama of Clarion county at the\\ntime of the arrival of Absalom Travis, would have presented. A vast expanse\\nof forest, rugged and tangled, yet majestic, unbroken save by rare openings\\nfrom which the smoke of the Indian camp ascended, or by windfalls where a\\nstorm had hurled the monarchs of the forest in impassable confusion. Here\\nand there a dimly discernible Indian path traversed the waste sometimes the\\nvivid rattlesnake darted across it. The deer, the bear, the wolf, and panther\\nroamed everywhere a few elk were yet here the pheasant and wild turkey,\\nand at night the dismal baying of wolves, made the air resonant at times.\\nOtherwise the silence was only broken by the swaying of the limitless forest,\\nthe murmur of the streams, and an occasional shot from an Indian s rifle.\\nSuch was this region when this bold pioneer broke the spell of its vacancy\\nand penetrated its unhospitable bosom.\\nThe Travis family remained and have resided continuously in the county\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ever since. The sons of Absalom continued their father s work and culled out", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "From Settlement of County to War of 1812. t j\\na home and a little plantation in the wilderness. Their sojourn must have\\nbeen an isolated one for a long time. The earliest settlers of Limestone town-\\nship remembered the Travis farm as being the only one in the county for a\\nnumber of years which produced apples, it alone having been long enough\\nunder cultivation. Robert and his brothers about 18 14 (having either sold\\nthe homestead or been ousted therefrom) moved away, some going to Green-\\nville and others to the settlement in Clarion township.\\nThe law of 1794 required that applications for warrants on vacant lands in\\nthe east Allegheny territory should be received, provided only that on each\\nseparate tract called for, settlements had been made, grain raised, and the im-\\nprovement occupied by living thereon. Of this it was necessary to furnish\\nsworn certificates of two disinterested parties.\\nThis act for some years failed to accomplish the end designed. True, set-\\ntlements were made, but they were of the rudest and most ephemeral kind\\nformal and barely sufficient to meet the letter of the law. A rude hut would\\nbe thrown together, a little patch burnt, cleared and strewn with corn The\\nwoodsman slept under the cover of the roof and waited until the blades sprouted\\nand the surveys were issued, when, presto the settler vanished to more salu-\\nbrious climes, and the scene of his labors relapsed into decay and solitude,\\nthe bantling settlement stillborn.\\nIn this way the Ingersoll, Dallas, and Adlum warrants No. 795 in Rich-\\nland and Licking townships, and a few other isolated tracts in the county were\\nlaid.\\nIn 1798 John Laughlin (father of Reynolds Laughlin, esq.) and William\\nWilkins, of Indiana county, came here to secure warrants. Laughlin erected\\na cabin and made a clearing in northern Piney township for a 440 acre tract,\\nwest of the mouth of Piney, and now owned by heirs of Martin Kearny, Arm-\\nstrong and others. At the same time William Wilkins settled a tract in west-\\nern Piney township, returned home with Laughlin and sold his warrant right\\nto Colonel John Sloan.\\nAfter obtaining a patent for the above tract (1800) John Laughlin made a\\nsimilar improvement on the adjacent one, shut up the cabin and returned home\\nfor the winter. In his absence one Riley took possession, had the land sur-\\nveyed and sold it to Keefer, of Westmoreland county, who sometime after-\\nward removed here and took up his residence on it.\\nBut these are transitory instances. No one followed on the footsteps of\\nAbsalom Travis, with the intention of permanent settlement, till 1800. Then\\noccurred the effectual colonization of Clarion county. In the autumn of that\\nyear four sturdy young men crossed Redbank to view the land and build\\na shelter provisionally to permanent immigration. They were Alexander\\nGuthrie, John Guthrie, Thomas Guthrie, brothers, and William Maffet, a\\n1 Absalom Travis was the grandfather of S. R. Travis, of Greenville, and T. T. Travis, of Edenburg.\\n6", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "78 History of Clarion County.\\nbrother in-law, all of New Derry, Westmoreland county. Picking their way\\nover the dubious trail with rifles in hand and driving a pack-horse laden with\\ntools and flour, they ascended the valley of Town Run and then struck north\\nthrough the unbroken woodland. They had come via the path from Black\\nLick, which intersected the Venango trail. i This they followed, as far as it ran,\\nalong Town Run. Having penetrated the wilderness to a point a mile east of\\nStrattanville, they halted, made a clearing, and built a cabin on the present\\nfarm of Samuel Johnson. They then returned, after having lowered a sap-\\nling, tied a sack of flour left over to its top, and let it spring back. They\\nfound it unharmed when they came back.\\nThe circumstances that brought about the emigration from Westmoreland\\ncounty to the banks of the Clarion are involved in almost hopeless obscurity.\\nThe tradition of the settlement makes them come out under the patronage of\\nSurveyor- General Daniel Brodhead. The land was supposed to be vacant,\\nand each settler was to take up four hundred acres, of which Brodhead was to\\nhave the half. It is very strange that a man of his official position should in-\\ntroduce a colony on land belonging to another, for it was afterwards discovered\\nthat they had settled on Bingham territory; and they were obliged to purchase\\ntheir right to the soil.\\nThe Guthries and Maffet returned in May of the following year, bringing\\ntheir families and additional utensils. They were guided on their route by the\\ntrees they had blazed the previous year. With them also came James Maguire,\\nHerman Skiles, Mrs. Fulton, a widow, and her son James, James McFadden\\nand a few others.\\nMore cabins were built, and the nucleus of Clarion county sprang into\\nexistence.\\nThe Centre county colonists press hard upon the Westmorelanders for the\\nhonor of being the first on the ground, but the little improvement made by\\nthe Guthries and Maffet in 1800 establish their priority beyond a doubt.\\nThe first immigrants from the center of the State were William Young,\\nPhilip Clover, John Love, James Potter, John Roll, John C. Corbett,\\nSamuel Wilson, William Smith, and Philip Clover, jr. They resided in\\nPenn s Valley and neighborhood. About 1800 the tide of emigration to the\\nundeveloped West set in strongly. They caught the infection, and purchased\\nland from James Potter, the heir of the Pickering lands in this vicinity. In\\n1 80 1 they set out for their yet unseen home in the wilderness A long and\\narduous journey it was over the Susquehanna trail through an otherwise un-\\nbroken solitude, the women and children mounted upon horses, the cooking\\nutensils, farming implements, such as hoes, axes, plows, and shovels, together\\nwith bedding and provision, placed in what was called pack-saddles; while fol-\\nlowing on foot were the men with their guns upon their shoulders, ready to take\\n1 This was the usual route taken l)v the earliest Westmoreland and Indiana immigrants.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "From Settlement of County to War of 1812. 79\\ndown any small game that might cross their path, which would go towards\\nmaking up their next meal. William Young had a cart and a span of oxen\\nthey stalled upon the mountain, and were only brought to ascend by Mrs.\\nYoung going before and scattering feed in front of them. Port Barnett, near\\nBrookville, was the only habitation of man encountered on their journey, and\\nits lowly hut and rude mill must have met their weary gaze, after their strug-\\ngle through wilds, as the very acme of comfort and hospitality. Here they\\nrested, re-shod their horses, and purchased additions to their outfit.\\nTheir lines were cast on the banks of Brush Run, but a mile south of the\\nhabitat of the pioneers from the south, and their improvements extended from\\nits source to Williamsburg. Samuel Wilson returned to Centre county to pass\\nthe winter, and died there. In the following spring his widow and her five\\nsons Robert, Samuel, William, John, and David came out and occupied his.\\nimprovement.\\nIt is impossible now to tell whether the colony from Westmoreland or that\\nfrom Centre county was the first to be permanently on the ground. In all\\nprobability they came almost simultaneously. There was little difference ia\\nthe distance traversed, and the starting time would be about the same. A\\nsingular and interesting fact concerning these twin settlements is that they\\nwere unaware of each other s existence for some time, though in places within\\ngun-shot of each other. It is significant of the density of the forest at that\\ndate. The discovery was made in this wise One day Alexander Guthrie\\nheard the sound of an ax on a hillside to the southwest. Knowing that none\\nof his neighbors were at work in that vicinity, he went over to ascertain who\\nthe woodsman was. Judge of his amazement when he discovered an entire\\nstranger in the person of William Young, who was splitting rails. A similar\\nincident is related by Judge Clover: One morning, he says, early, my\\nfather was out in pursuit of wild game, when much to his surprise he heard a\\ncow-bell. Starting immediately, he traced the sound, and soon came upon a\\nsmall clearing and cabin together with the widow s (Fulton) family. They\\nwere as much surprised as he was, not knowing that any one was living near\\nthem.\\nIn 1 801 Samuel C. Orr, Tate Allison, William Cochran, Robert Warden,\\nPeter Pence, Thomas Meredith, John Sloan, and Mark Williams, all from West-\\nmoreland, made improvements further south, in what is now Limestone town-\\nship.\\nIn the same year Thomas Pollock and James Elder improved land in\\nnorthern Perry township. In 1802 Hugh Reid and Robert McGarrah, from\\nFayette county, removed to this part of Armstrong county.\\nAbraham, John, and Isaac Stanford, John Magee, William Courson, Henry\\nBenn, William Munks, and others settled the vicinity of Curllsville in 1 804-5.\\n1 Judge Clover in Caklweirs Atlas.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "8o History of Clarion County.\\nThe first settlements made on Redbank Creek were between 1809-18 15, by\\nHenry Nulph, Colin McNutt, sr., the Doverspike family (originally Dauben-\\nspeck), John Ardery, and others.\\nSettlements were made on Leatherwood Creek between 18 10 and 181 5 by\\nRobert Travis, the Beattys, Malachi Buzzard, and others. Capt. William Guth-\\nrie and David Shields squatted on vacant land at its mouth in 18 10. Tradi-\\ntion, apparently well authenticated, tells that Shields s son had been kidnapped\\nby a band of Indians at a very tender age, and taken to some northern point on\\nthe shores of Redbank. After many years, and having moved in the mean time,\\nthe father discovered his whereabouts and rescued him; but the wild propensi-\\nties he had imbibed in his long sojourn among the Indians made the tameness\\nof the paternal roof galling to him. He married an Indian maiden, and one\\nnicrht, when a gang of Senecas were roystering about the house, he joined them,\\nand never returned.\\nMathew Hosey, and the Rankins, in Toby township, came about 1805.\\nRegarding Alexander Moorhead, who settled at a very early date on the\\nwest branch of Cherry Run, there is a picturesque legend. He was a mighty\\nhunter, and rivaled only by an Indian in that vicinity. The two met one day\\nat a deer-lick, and picked off the deer as they came to drink. As it grew dusk\\nthe Indian wagered Moorhead that he would kill the last deer. The bet was\\naccepted, and as the next stag approached, Moorhead leveled his rifle at the\\nred man, shot him dead, and then killed the deer. The wager was won.\\nIn 1803-05 came the Everets, Hagans, McKibbens, Jonathan and Daniel\\nMortimer, and Alex. McCain, along the Allegheny. Between 1805 and 18 10\\nthe valleys of Beaver and Canoe Creeks were colonized by Westmorelanders\\nof German extraction, the Bests, Berlins, Knechts (now Knights), Keefers,\\nShoups and others.\\nThe earliest pioneers of Clarion county settled in clusters, as we have seen,\\nand they may be classified as follows: The Clarion township (Westmoreland), the\\nClarion township (Centre), Limestone township, Redbank Creek, Leatherwood,\\nCurllsville, Toby township, Madison, Perry township, and Beaver township,\\nnine in all. The Centre county pioneers were of English ancestry; the great\\nmajority of the others were either of north of Ireland extraction or Pennsyl-\\nvania Germans two sturdy races, to whom Pennsylvania owes so much of her\\ngreatness and prosperity.\\nThe pioneers of Clarion county were, as a rule, pious, upright, sincere in\\ntheir religious convictions, and church members almost to a man. Theirs was\\na o-enuine manhood, both moral and physical, which, though disguised under\\nan uncouth exterior and an unlettered intellect, was well fitted to conquer\\nthe wilderness and build up prosperous communities on a permanent basis.\\nThey are the foundation stones of the structure, rough dressed, but true as\\nsteel.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "From Settlement of County to War of i 812. 81\\nPioneer Life.\\nThe founder of a college deserves and obtains the gratitude and honor of\\nthe generations who profit by his munificence. The founders of a community\\nmerit in some measure, a similar fame they who live and thrive in a spot re-\\nclaimed from savage nature by the toil and hardihood of the first settlers, owe\\nthem a debt of gratitude. The uncouth woodsman who built a rude hut which\\nwas the nucleus of a town, is a creditor of civilization. True, the early colonists\\nmay not have had single in their minds such elevated motives. A desire of\\nbettering their condition and acquiring independence was the preponderating\\nidea which urged them to leave their comparatively civilized homes and take\\nup their march for the wilderness. Alone, this mere selfish spur does not de-\\ntract from their usefulness. But they had that noble instinct, too, though per-\\nhaps unconscious of it an instinct inborn in each of us to go where no one has\\nbeen before us, to improve uncultivated nature, and make the wilderness blos-\\nsom like the rose.\\nThis is the criterion of the character of these pioneers the hardships of\\nmany years, foreseen by them to be inevitable before anything like the comforts\\nof a populous community would surround them.\\nWe of the present age the age of railroads, of rapid communication, with\\na store at every corner or cross-roads, and who enjoy the innumerable little\\nconveniences of modern life cannot realize the difficulties and privations, not\\nto mention dangers, which the pioneers of Clarion county had to encounter.\\nImagine yourself traveling twenty-five miles to bring a doctor, going to Kit-\\ntanning for groceries, and toiling seventy-five or a hundred miles through the\\nforest over a clearance dignified by the name of a road, to visit your parents,\\nand you may form some idea of it.\\nThe first object of the immigrant, of course, was to secure a roof for his\\nhead as soon as possible. A place near a spring was selected, an opening made\\nin the woods, and a log cabin was built. Often this was done at a preliminary\\nvisit the previous year. These cabins, in height about eight feet, were made of\\nround logs, with a floor and roof of hewed plank or puncheon. A recess\\nwas formed for a fire-place, in which the back-log supplied the place of\\nthe modern fire-brick. Later the familiar chimney of natural stones cemented\\nwith clay was constructed. Stoves and stove-pipes did not come until about\\n18 1 8. The spaces between the logs forming the walls were chinked with wood\\nand then daubed with clay. At the approach of every winter the walls were\\nre- daubed in order to keep out the frosts. A piece of oiled paper sufficed for\\na window. The primitive colonist was satisfied with one room, partitioned into\\napartments at night by a blanket his more fastidious successor preferred the\\nluxury of two. A deal table, a trundle bed, a few rough made stools,\\nsome pieces of pewter- ware, a kettle or two, a carding- machine, spinning-wheel,\\nand the omnipresent rifle and pouch these comprised the furniture.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 History of Clarion County.\\nThe hewn house-log was the first improvement on tlie round, and on the\\nintroduction of saw-mills they were clapboarded and furnished with a clapboard\\nroof. The first saw- mill in the county was erected by James Laughlin and\\nFrederick Miles, from Center county, at the mouth of Piney, in 1805. Very\\ngood, substantial roofing was made by splitting shingles of red oak by hand,\\nin which branch of carpentry a few were very quick and expert. They ex-\\nposed ten inches to the weather and were held down by cross-pieces, weight-\\npoles. A few remembered the thatched roofs of their European ancestors, and\\nbuilt them of long rye straws; these had to be renewed and repaired frequently.\\nVenison and bear meat, potatoes, turnips, milk, and a little butter were the\\nstaples of the bill of fare. Coffee made from rye or wheat was good enough\\nwhen the regular article was exhausted. Maple sugar was the only sweetener.\\nThe supply of fresh meat depended on the skill of the hunter when the\\nmeat ran short the Nimrod would take down his rifle, take a perch at a\\ndeer-lick, and seldom fail to come home loaded with a quarter. In the earliest\\nyears the few who were unpracticed or timid in the chase fared miserably, un-\\nless they could prevail on their more skillful neighbor to act as their purveyor.\\nIf not, during the long winter months they were doomed to an unvaried diet\\nof milk and potatoes. Mr. Jesse Berlin, who resided in Elk township, remem-\\nbers of one family who were in such straits for food that they followed the cows\\nto see what they got as forage.\\nIn those days the virgin soil gave bountiful, hardly-ever- failing harvests to\\nthe thrifty. Almost every season a new patch would be cleared and seeded.\\nShear plows were in general vogue. The staple crops were potatoes, turnips,\\nmaize, wheat, rye, and grass. The latter three, however, were not cultivated\\ntill a later date, and the first hay produced in the county is said to have been\\ngrown on the clearing where Sligo stands, by Peter Delp and Stanford.\\nThe primitive fanning-mill was a very simple institution. It consisted of a\\nsheet suspended in the barn, and a sieve. One person waved the sheet, and\\nanother threw the grain and manipulated the sieve.\\nMills.\\nIn 1803 the first grist-mill in the county was built by Jonathan Mortimer,\\non Catfish Run. It was a simple tub-mill, as were all the earliest mills. The\\nnext, about 1804, was constructed at the mouth of Mill Creek, by Thomas\\nGuthrie. James Laughlin (a brother of John) and Frederick Miles built a\\ntub-mill, about 1805, in connection with their saw-mill on Piney Creek. Hugh\\nReid had one of the first mills on the spot now occupied by Reidsburg. The\\nnext mill was built by John and Isaac Corbett on Brush Run at Corbett s dam.\\nHenry Best, with the assistance of the neighbors, built a mill on Beaver Creek\\nabout 1 8 12, :the first north of the river Before the existence of mills in this\\ncounty the settlers had long distances to carry their grain. Parker s mill at", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "From Settlement of County to War of 1812. 83\\nthe mouth of Bear Creek, one on Mudick, in Armstrong county, and on\\nFrench Creek, in Venango county, were the nearest.\\nStores.\\nIn those primitive times the remoteness of towns, and the scarcity of money\\nstimulated home manufacture and made few purchases necessary. Iron, plas-\\nter, and salt were the most important. For these it was necessary to go either\\nto Erie or Kittanning. When Franklin rose in commercial importance it took\\nthe place of Erie. The salt wells on the Kiskiminetas produced large quantities\\nof that article. Coffee was fifty cents a pound, salt one dollar per bushel, flour\\nwas brought up in flat boats from Pittsburgh at the expense of twelve dollars\\na barrel; calico was fifty cents a yard.\\nThe first store opened in the limits of the county was James Pink s at\\nCurllsville, in 18 12. For a while his only wares were tobacco, powder and\\nsalt. A little while after Hagan entered the mercantile business in Perry town-\\nship near Perryville.\\nWhisky was an indispensable article, and a staple of commerce and con-\\nsumption. Unburdened by revenue, it was a pure, copious, and almost uni-\\nversal beverage its price averaged seventy-five cents per gallon. Innumer-\\nable little distilleries were scattered over the country. Whisky and furs largely\\ntook the place of currency in trading for salt, etc.\\nWhen cash was particularly scarce and desirable, some gathered pine tar,\\nboated it to Pittsburgh, and turned it there into money.\\nEvery cabin was supplied with a carding-machine and spinning-wheel, and\\nthe weavers of the neighborhood converted the home- produced linen and wool\\n(mixing a little tow) into the compound termed linsey-woolsey. The mascu-\\nhne garb of the pioneers in the winter consisted of a hunting-shirt of Hnsey-\\nwoolsey (those fancifully inclined trimmed it with fur), breeches of the same\\nmaterial, or deerskin and moccasins. These were replaced in summer by home-\\nmade knickerbockers, deerskin gaiters, and linsey or coarse linen shirts, with\\ncollars four inches wide turned over their shoulders. A plain skirt and upper\\nshort gown resembling a modern sack, with the single adornment of a\\nhome-made neckerchief, formed the usual feminine gear. The children s cloth-\\ning was simplicity itself, and during the summer months was often but a single\\nshirt covering but half their nakedness.\\nThe men folk were suppHed with felt hats by a few hatters throughout the\\ncounty; the Clarion settlement by Joseph McMasters, who plied the trade on\\nhis farm, now Samuel Frampton s. The women made their own head-dresses\\nout of rye straw, and became dexterous miUiners. In course of time the more\\nfine and fashionable home-made leghorns, fashioned of wire-grass, were in-\\ntroduced. Shoes were luxuries of once a year in warm weather, barefoot\\nwas the rule for men and women, young and old, sometimes even to school\\nand church.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "84 History of Clarion County.\\nThe first tailors and cobblers were itinerants, brought from a distance by ar-\\nrangement of the community. Useful tradesmen in other branches were found\\namong the settlers James Maguire was a scythe maker, Philip Clover was the\\nfirst tanner and weaver. The first blacksmith shop in the county was kept by\\nPhilip Clover, jr., where the Stone House, near Clarion, stands; Philip Jones, of\\nthe Clarion, and John Cherry, of the Beaver settlement, were the first gun-\\nsmiths, and their houses were largely resorted to by Indians with firelocks out\\nof repair Jacob Herroldt, of Beaver, was a basket maker. Surveying was one\\nof the most lucrative, but at the same time most arduous employments of that\\nday. John Corbett, David Lawson, and John Sloan were the first resident\\nsurveyors.\\nThe Indians\\nWere of Cornplanter s tribe, of the upper Allegheny, and were friendly. They\\nroamed around in twos and threes, clothed in blankets and deerskin breeches.\\nThey were very familiar in the cabins of the whites, and would enter without\\nknocking or ceremony, often to the consternation of the children. One of\\ntheir first demands would be whisky. The pioneers generally treated them\\nwith hospitality and fairness, though this was diie not so much to love for the\\nred man as to the fear of arousing his belligerent propensities. There is no\\nknown incident of treachery or violence on the part of the Indians towards the\\nsettlers of Clarion county.\\nWe take the following from Caldwell s Historical Atlas An Indian by\\nthe name of Jack Snow was for many years in the habit of coming up the Clar-\\nion River to hunt and trap. Sheriff Delo recollects the last time he ever came\\nhere. It was in the fall of 1809. He and his party of hunters and squaws\\nstopped and built a camp at the mouth of Deer Creek. After they had been\\nthere some time, Snow got into a quarrel with some white men who had gone\\nto his camp. After the white men left, one of them (whose name I will not\\nmention) threatened to shoot Snow the first opportunity that offered. Sheriff\\nDelo s father, who then lived at the mouth of Piney, went over the river and\\nadvised Snow to leave, informing him at the same time of the threat made\\nagainst his life. This had the desired effect, and in a short time the camp was\\nbroken up, the meat, furs, and all the camp fixtures packed, the canoes loaded\\nand pulled out, and started down the Clarion River. The author adds:\\nThe last hunting part)^ of Indians that ever visited Clarion county, but this\\nis an error. They continued to encamp regularly till a later date at a spot on\\nTown Run, Farmington township. The advance of civilization, however, cur-\\ntailed their hunting ground and gradually hemmed them into the wilds of For-\\nest and Warren counties. From the time of the arrival of the pioneers they\\ngrew yearly rarer in Clarion county, till about 183b they disappeared altogether.\\nThe settlers were greatly annoyed by wolves in the fall and winter. The", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "From Settlement of County to War of 1812. 85\\nlighting of a brush fire at night would be the signal for a terrific howl from the\\nneighboring hillsides in winter they increased in numbers, boldness, and vo-\\nracity, and pressing around the houses, made night hideous. It was unsafe\\nthen to venture out of doors after nightfall, and stock and fowl had to be se-\\ncurely housed. Panthers, wild cats, and bears were so plentiful as to make a\\nrifle necessary for protection in a journey of any distance. Of smaller game\\nthere was a surfeit, and hunting did not begin to be a sport till about 1820.\\nRattlesnakes were in alarming numbers, and many an adventure and narrow\\nescape from their deadly fangs occurred.\\nAmusements.\\nThe settlers were an extremely social folk, almost necessarily so, for other-\\nwise, their life toilsome and solitary enough would have been intolerable.\\nTheir struggle with the rude soil allowed little time to be thrown away in pleas-\\nures, pure and simple, and they generally combined work and play under the\\nname of a frolic. Barn-raising was among the first of these diversions.\\nWhen a barn was to be elevated, the people would gather from a radius of ten\\nor fifteen miles. The inevitable keg of spirits was always on hand. Out-of-\\ndoor banquets of bacon, dodgers, maple molasses, and gingerbread were served\\nby the females of the place; the broad joke ran round the latest news was\\ndiscussed, and a general exchange of ideas took place. Parties would go from\\none raising to another, and were sometimes absent from home for two weeks\\non such expeditions. Log-rollings were next in importance. Then there were\\nfulling or kicking frolics, the most unique in the series. The purpose was\\nto give a nap and firmness of texture to home-made blankets. These were\\nsuspended, in the proper state of wetness from a rack, the men ranged them-\\nselves on opposite sides, squatting on benches, and with bare feet pounded the\\nblankets vigorously, amid much hilarity and merriment. Flax-scutchings,\\nand grubbing-bees were important elements of pioneer life. Dances were\\nrarer on account of lack of sufficient space, but when indulged in, they were\\nkept up with remarkable vigor to the inspiring strains of a solitary fiddle, and\\nenlivened by frequent draughts on the whisky keg on the part of the swains.\\nShooting-matches were a favorite masculine pastime. With these festive\\ngatherings the pioneers diversified their toilsome lot, and in the constant acces-\\nsions to their ranks, and ever-increasing conveniences and comforts, both largely\\ndue to their own enterprise and labor, they must have found additional sources\\nof compensation and pleasure.\\nChurches and Schools\\nFor the first several years were wanting, and the first ones were rude log edi-\\nfices, differing only from the cabins in size and interior. The first church\\n1 Hunting parties did not come into vogue till about 1825. From 1828 to 30 there was a mania for\\ncircular hunts, and immense quantities of game were slaughtered.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86 History of Clarion County.\\nerected in the county was by the Clarion settlers, about i8o8, on the site of the\\nSeceders Church, near Mechanicsville. It was called Rehoboth, and used both\\nby the regular Presbyterians and Seceders. Its pastor was Rev. Robert Mc-\\nGarrah, a Presbyterian, who had been preaching in private houses for several\\nyears before. The first church north of the river was the German Reformed\\n(Lutheran), which stood on the site of Stone Church of the same denomination*\\nnear Jefferson. Heniy Koch was its first pastor. The Methodists were the\\nonly other denomination existing in the county before i8i2, and for a short\\nwhile after. One of its first places of worship was Asbury Church on the pike;\\nthe first minister was Francis Asbury Montjar.\\nOf schools. Judge Clover writes: Our teachers happened to be Scotch-\\nIrish, very unfortunately for us, as their accent was rather broad for the Eng-\\nglish language. Among the first teachers were Gabriel Glenn, William Kelley,\\nJob Johnson, Joseph Reid, and John Ball. Schools were supported by sub-\\nscription, at the rate of six dollars per year, the teachers boarding around\\namongst the scholars. For the benefit of young teachers I will give the mode\\nof correction. The teachers invariably kept what was called Tom, or more\\nvulgarly, cat-o -nine-tails, all luck being in odd numbers. The instrument of\\ntorture was made with an oaken stick about twelve inches long, and to which\\nwas attached a piece of rawhide, cut in strips and twisted while wet, and then\\ndried. This instrument was freely made use of for correction, and those who\\ngot thus corrected did not soon forget it, and not a few carried the marks dur-\\ning life. Another, and no less cruel instrument was a green cow-hide, which\\nI remember, still carrying marks made by the same. Comment on the above\\nis useless, as the words cruelty and barbarity will suggest themselves to the\\nminds of all who read it. For our text-books we had Dilworth s and the United\\nStates Speller, and our readers were the good old Bible and Testament. The\\nWestern Calculator was all the arithmetic that was in use, and the one who got\\nthrough the rule of three was called tolerably good in figures, and the lucky\\nwight who got through the book was considered a graduate in mathematics.\\nGrammar and geography were not taught in the common schools, being consid-\\nered higher branches,\\nThe first school erected in the county stood on the Furgeson farm, one-half\\nmile southwest of Strattanville. Here Job Johnson earliest held pedagogic\\nsway. The Beaver township settlers also had a school at a very early date\\nboth English and German were taught. William McGinnis was the first teacher,\\nand Lawrence the second. Lawrence was fond of the bottle, and unpop-\\nular with the scholars. This school, together with the school books, was burnt,\\nand not rebuilt for two or three years. In the mean time the settlement was\\ndeprived of all educational advantages.\\nDr. Simon Hovey, living near Parker, was for years the only physician in\\nthe country. Dr. Rankin, near Curllsville, was the next, and the first resident\\nwithin the county.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "The War of 1812. 87\\nThe visits of the settlers to their distant homesteads were angeHc in rarity.\\nThey left them with the feelings of one who in our day leaves the paternal\\nroof to take up a residence in the Far West, knowing that vast stretches of for-\\nest, unbridged streams, and rugged hills would intervene between their old and\\nnew homes. To many, especially of the tender sex, this was one of the sorest\\ntrials of frontier life, and could only be alleviated by a refusal to allow one s\\nself to revert to the scenes of home and comfort.\\nThe First.\\nThe first casualty in Clarion county was the drowning of Daniel Gregg in\\nlanding from a raft at Furman s Eddy in 1804. The first fire destroyed the\\nhouse of James Maguire, father of Hon. Hugh Maguire, in 1803. The first\\nwhite male child born was Thomas Young, in a house which stood beneath\\nthe shade of the old wide-spreading oak, near the residence of Mr. William\\nYoung on the turnpike. The first female child who saw the light in Clarion\\ncounty was Mary Guthrie, lately deceased. The first marriage was celebrated\\nbetween William Bloom and Mary Roll in 1802. The first death was that\\nof James McFadden, of the Westmoreland settlement, in 1802.\\nCHAPTER Vni.\\nTHE WAR OF 1812.\\nAlarms on the Frontier Drafts Captain Wallace s Company Incidents of the March to\\nthe Maumee Fort Meigs Neely s Company Proceedings at Erie Volunteers.\\nIN the spring of 18 12, the wonted quiet and routine of the infant settlements\\nwere disturbed by rumors of war with Great Britain, and in August of the\\nsame year the surrender of General Hull threw open the northwestern frontier\\nto the enemy, and rendered prompt measures for its defense necessary. Ac-\\ncordingly, volunteer companies were ordered to hold themselves in readiness,\\nand militia drafts were made by the State authorities. On the lake shore,\\nespecially at Erie, there were continual alarms on account of the movements\\nof a force of British and Indians on the Canadian side, and in the summer of\\n1812 Governor Snyder ordered out a portion of the Sixteenth Division in this\\nsection of the State, for the defense of Erie. In September, large numbers of\\ntroops, comprising Dearborn s Volunteers, and others from the central and east-\\nern part of the State, passed over the State road e7i route to Meadville, the\\nplace of rendezvous, and thence to Black Rock and Chippewa.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "88 History op^ Clarion County.\\nIn the autumn, seeding time, of 1812, a draft for a six months term was\\nmade on the settlements south of the river. On the 25th of September, John,\\nAlexander, Thomas, and James Guthrie, Robert Allison, Joshua Rea, John\\nWilson, John Jones, and a few others met at Philip Clover, sr. s house, and\\nafter having made a temporary organization, with John Guthrie as captain, left\\nfor the south. Judge Clover says: It was a sad day for all. I well remem-\\nber, as a boy, the morning they started. When they were all ready\\nto go they discharged their guns into a tree-top that stood near by, and amid\\nmany tears they marched away. On their way they were joined by many\\nothers, and then proceeded to Pittsburgh. They encamped on the site of\\nAllegheny, then a mere thicket, with one hut on it, and on October 2 a per-\\nmanent organization was effected. The company was complemented by a body\\nof men from Indiana county, and was incorporated with the First Regiment\\nPennsylvania militia, John Frees, colonel. Second Brigade, commanded by Gen-\\neral Crooks. Robert Orr, of Kittanning, was elected major of the battalion,\\nand William Robinson of Pittsburgh, quartermaster John Wallace, of Indiana\\ncounty, was chosen captain John Guthrie returned home on a discharge. The\\ncompany as completed, stood as follows Those from Armstrong county,\\nnearly, if not quite all, came from north of the Redbank. Captain, John\\nWallace, Indiana county lieutenant, John McCormick, Armstrong county\\nAbram Smith, sergeant Thomas Meredith, corporal Lewis Wilson, corporal;\\nJohn Jack, corporal John Mann, fifer Thomas Guthrie, drummer, (sick ab-\\nsent); Robert Allison, Peter Bartlett, William Bell, Jacob Bruner, discharged\\nDavid Callen, Peter Delp, sick absent; Peter Everett, Peter Fidler, sick absent\\nJacob Fiscus, Charles Foreman, Alexander Guthrie, James Guthrie, Henry\\nGraham, John Girt, substitute for David Girt Matthew Hosey, discharged\\nDecember 31, 181 2 George Hyme, John Jones, Andrew Kiers, Isaac Len-\\nnington, Peter Latshaw, Owen Meredith, deserted December 19, 1812 Jacob\\nMcLane, James Milligan, substitute for Patrick Reed; Daniel Mortimer, David\\nMcKibben, Valentine Myers, served till December 2, 1812; Philip Myers, Henry\\nNulph, absent from December 31, 18 12, on account of sickness John Painter*\\nsr., John Painter, jr., subsitute for Nicholas Best Nicholas PoUiard, sick ab-\\nsent Joshua Rhea, James Stevenson, Timothy Titus, George Titus, John Wil-\\nson, William Wilson. Indiana James Stewart, ensign John Brady, sergeant\\nBenoni Williams, sergeant; John McDowell, sergeant, sick absent; James\\nKirkpatrick, corporal William Evans, corporal Hugh Cannon, deserted De-\\ncember 10, 1812; James Evans, John Faloon, James Findley, Stephen\\nGaston, Henry Kinter or Kintner, James Luke, William McCulloch, Patrick\\nMcNulty, Amos Parsons, corporal Samuel Reading, substitute for Charles\\nReading Joel Stout, Joseph Shields, Thomas Stephens, Stephen Talkington,.\\nThomas Thompson, George Wilson, James Williams. Not assigned George\\n1 Resident in Westmoreland, went as a substitute for Wm. Moffat.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "The War of 1812. 89\\nMabon, sergeant John McDowell, sergeant sick, absent James Kirkpatrick,\\ncorporal; Peter Brewer, deserted December 11, 18 12; James Coulter, deserted\\nDecember 10, 1812; Benjamin Dyke, deserted December 11, 18 12; Christo-\\npher Gillespie, deserted December ii, 1812; Michael Harron, served till De-\\ncember 31, 1812 Charles Henry, discharged James Hutchinson, deserted\\nDecember 10, 1812 Jacob Hess, deserted December 10, 1812; Joseph Kerr,\\nsick absent James Lydick, sick absent William McKee. served till Decem-\\nber 31, 18 12; James Mabon, served till December 2, 1812 David Phillips,\\nJames Smith, discharged; Henry Treece, served till December 2, 181 2; Alex-\\nander Vanhorne, deserted December 10, 18 12; Elisha Weeks, sick absent.^\\nForty-two from Armstrong county, twenty-five from Indiana, twenty not as-\\nsigned; in all eighty-seven, including officers. The privates furnished their own\\nequipments, consisting of gun, tomahawk, knife, knapsack and blanket. They\\nwere to be allowed eight dollars a month, but never received more than a frac-\\ntion of it.\\nThe command was ordered to join the Army of the Northwest in Ohio\\nunder General, afterwards President Harrison. At Upper Sandusky they were\\njoined by Leftwich s brigade of Virginia militia. Here Major Orr and his bat-\\ntalion about two hundred men was detached to convey the artillery and\\nstores to General Harrison, at the rapids of the Maumee. While on the way\\nan express from General Harrison brought the disheartening news of the defeat\\nof Winchester by the British and Indian allies on the river Raisin, in Michigan,\\nand a request to hurry forward. The march was a painful one. James W.\\nGuthrie, who got his intelligence from his father, in a letter to Robert Allison,\\nsr., recalling incidents of the campaign, says The country through which\\nyou had to march was new and swampy, roads all to be opened as you passed\\nalong, and stopping at night, as a general thing, in swamps where you had to\\ncut spice-wood brush and pile it up to lie down to keep from sinking into the\\nmire, after traveling all day in mud and water from the ankles to the knees.\\nDo you recollect the afternoon when you were drawing a cannon on a log-\\nsled, the bench of the sled caught on a stump, and attempting to get it off it\\nonly went down deeper, and you continued to add more horses to the sled\\nuntil you got sixteen horses to the one cannon, and after all you had to aban-\\ndon sled, cannon and all The longer you worked the deeper it sunk into the\\nmud; you lost your shoes in the swamp, and when you stepped on the cannon\\nyour feet froze it. Aboift fifteen years ago, when this swamp was being ditched,\\nyour cannon was found at a depth of fourteen feet beneath the surface. There\\nwas no one in that country could form any idea as to how it came there.\\nJohn Wilson, who was not only a good soldier, but a very ingenious man,\\nand could turn his hand to almost anything, was taken sick and left with a fam-\\n1 Captain John Sloan and Hugli Callen, sr., were soldiers of l8i2, but must have belonged to an-\\nother company, as their names do not appear on tliis list.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "90 History of Clarion County.\\nily found in the woods, to be taken care of. As soon as he recovered so as to\\nbe around, the man he stopped with gave him some leather, which he made\\ninto moccasins for himself and the other soldiers. The lady of the house pre-\\nsented him with two new blankets, which he cut up and made into womuses.\\nHe was taken on a horse to his company by this kind man. His arrival with\\nthe moccasins and womuses, was hailed with delight by his fellow-soldiers.\\nOld wagon covers were then cut up and made into shirts and pants.\\nThe winter was spent in building Fort Meigs, at the Rapids, near the scene\\nof the Indian defeat by Wayne in 1794. The troops were subjected to great\\nprivation and sufferings during the winter; they were half clothed and poorly\\nfed. A great deal of discontent arose, and some deserted. General Har-\\nrison knowing this state existed, brought his army into a solid column around\\nhim in the woods, mounted a large log, and made a beautiful address, satisfy-\\ning them that it was not his fault nor the fault of his officers that they did not\\nreceive food and clothing as was promised them. He exhibited himself as a\\nsample of their sufferings, and appealed to their sympathy to stand by him. I\\nhave often heard my father speak of this address and its salutary effects. This\\nand the influence of General Orr (of whom I shall speak hereafter) was all that\\nkept the army together. Leftwich commanded the post a considerable time\\nwhile General Harrison was absent in Cincinnati urging reinforcements.\\nApril I, 18 13, their term having expired, the Clarion men left for their\\nhomes, being allowed seventeen days to reach them. They received a portion\\nof their pay from Major Orr, who distributed it from his own private funds\\ncertificates were given for the balance. Major Robert Orr appears to have been\\na very amiable and considerate as well as patriotic officer the troops under\\nhis command were loud in praise of his many acts of kindness to them.\\nHe, with a number of other Pennsylvanians, volunteered to extend their\\nterm till the arrival of the expected reinforcements from Kentucky. The Ken-\\ntuckians and some regulars arrived on April iith. On the 28th Fort Meigs\\nwas besieged by the British and Indians; on May 5th a valiant sortie was made,\\nand on the 9th the siege was raised.\\nIn July, 1 8 13, a company was drafted for three months, from southern\\nVenango, then populated only by the Beaver- Richland settlement. Henry\\nNeely (originally Nelig), was chosen captain he had come from Westmoreland\\ncounty in 1808, and settled north of Edenburg, on the spot now occupied by\\nthe Mony farm here he exercised the local agency of the Huidekoper lands.\\nOn the 25th, in the midst of the harvest, the summons came to march to\\nthe defense of the lake shore. Instantly everything was dropped; bullets were\\nmoulded, old flintlocks and rifles furbished up, and the primitive community\\nwas the scene of excitement unprecedented in its annals. Their destination\\nwas Erie, and the men set off through the woods to join their regiment at\\n1 A womus was a sort of jacket, warm-us.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "The War of 1812. 91\\nFranklin. The wives and daughters took the places of the departed ones cradled\\nthe wheat, and finished the harvesting. The company mustered twenty-seven\\nmen, as follows 1; Captain, Henry Neeley lieutenant, James Thompson ensign,\\nJacob Small sergeants, Gideon Richardson, Nicholas Keeley Jacob Hale,\\nquartermaster; privates, Joseph Coucher (Kutzer), Samuel Fry, Michael Best,\\nWilliam Crow, George Delo, John Potts, James Downing, George Keefer, Adam\\nSharrer, Jacob Herroldt, Robert Armstrong, Henry Hummell, Barnhart Martin,\\nJohn Thummer, John Maize, Andrew Ashbaugh, Nathan Phipps, Robert Phil-\\nlips, James Maize, Jacob Sweitzer, Jacob Kifer, John Sweitzer.\\nThese comprised nearly all the able-bodied young men in the community\\nand resided, with perhaps one or two exceptions, in the Clarion part of Venango\\ncounty. At Franklin they joined their regiment, the One Hundred and Thirty-\\nsecond, under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel Dale, which was attached to\\nthe Sixteenth Division, General Mead. Hither Cornplanter came with a num-\\nber of braves, inquired the cause of the war, and offered to accompany the\\nregiment with two hundred warriors. Colonel Dale could only placate him by\\npromising that he should be called upon in case his assistance were needed.\\nThe company arrived at Erie, then a mere village, after a march of three\\ndays from home. There was not sufficient provision for housing them at first,\\nand Captain Neely took possession of a large barn, which he occupied till the\\nbarracks were completed. The troops had been mustered at Erie to cover the\\nconstruction of Perry s fleet, then almost completed, and to guard against the\\nthreatened descent of the British, under Captain Barclay, whose ships hovered\\nabout in the offing. There were occasional alarms when they approached the\\nmouth of the harbor, and the men would be ordered out under arms. Some\\nrandom shots were exchanged, but there we no fatalities. Captain Neely used to\\nnarrate the ludicrous trepidation of P and K of his company, who, when\\nthey were turned out on these occasions, were scarcely able to stand from fright.\\nCommodore Perry was a familiar figure to the troops Captain Neely was\\nseveral times on board his flagship, La7iJre/ice. On the 3d of August the squad-\\nron moved down the bay, and the work of getting the vessels over the bar be-\\ngan. They were buoyed over by large scows called camels. The task was\\nboth a heavy and a hazardous one, as it was carried on almost under the guns\\nof the British every precaution was taken to ward off an attack. The work\\nwas safely and successfully accomplished in two days. Captain Neely s men\\nassisted in it.\\nOn the 8th Perry sailed in pursuit of the enemy, and returned on the 12th\\nwithout having encountered him. On that day, the necessity of their presence\\nhaving expired, the militia were discharged, and Neely s company returned\\nhome, after a service of eighteen days. A few had left on the 9th.-\\n1 From the official roll.\\n2 The famous battle of Put-in-Bay, in which Perry won a brilliant victory, occurred September lO,\\n181-,.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "92 History of Clarion County.\\nThis bloodless diversion stimulated the warlike spirit of the settlement.\\nThe company had gone out destitute of uniform and regular arms. The uni-\\nformed militia, in picturesque frontier attire, which he had seen at Erie, inspired\\nCaptain Neely with the idea of organizing a company after their pattern. A\\nband of volunteer riflemen was raised and equipped. Their uniform was a blue,\\nbelted hunting-shirt, fringed with white, red leggins of the same style, and a\\nflap wool hat with cockade. They were styled minute-men, and always held\\nthemselves ready for service.\\nOn January 3, 1814 Captain Neely s men were called again to the defense of\\nErie by General Mead, in anticipation of an attack on the fleet, then building\\nand collecting (Erie had become a naval station), by the British, who were\\nmoving on the opposite shore. The following went: Captain, Henry Neely;\\nlieutenant, James Thompson; sergeants, Barnhart Martin, Nicholas Keeley\\ncorporal, James Downing Jacob Keefer, George Keefer, Adam Sharrer,\\nThomas Thompson, George Delo, William Crow, Michael Best, William More,\\nDaniel Keeley, Andrew Downing, John Thummer, Henry Hummel. Nothing\\nof interest transpired, however the troops were only employed in guard duty\\nand drill. February 1 1 they were relieved by a contingent from Cumberland,\\nAdams and York counties, numbering a thousand men. William Moore, a rel-\\native of Captain Neely, remained behind, and enlisted on the fleet as a marine.\\nHe was killed in a subsequent naval engagement.\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nFROM THE WAR OF 1812 TO THE ERECTION OF THE COUNTY.\\nLand Changes Lancaster Land Company The Bingham Estate Fox Postal Facilities\\nRoads and Steamboats Clarion River Early Militia Prices of Land, etc. General\\nProgress.\\n18 1 2- 1839. Land Changes.\\nHARM JAN HUIDEKOPER having purchased a large section of the Hol-\\nland territory, it was subdivided into rectangular tracts, averaging three\\nhundred acres, by Robert Beatty in 1804. It was mainly through Huidekoper s\\ninfluence that the Beaver colony was established. Currency was scarce, and a\\nlong time was given for payment. Articles of agreement enabled the settler\\nto enter upon the land (a similar practice prevailed with the other large own-\\ners), and from five to ten j^ears elapsed before he obtained title by deed.\\nIn 1812 David Lawson, father of J. B. Lawson, removed to the present\\nsite of Lawsonham, as sub- agent and surveyor for the Holland Company. In", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "From War of 1812 to Erection of County. 93\\n18 1 8 Charles C. Gaskill, of New Jersey, was empowered attorney of the com-\\npany for the property in Jefferson and Armstrong counties; he had personal\\nsupervision and resided in Jefferson county, at Troy, until 1850. Gaskill also\\nacted for Benjamin Cooper, of Gloucester, N. J., connected with the company\\nas a contractor, and by variety of complicated transactions.\\nOn May the 26th, 18 16, the Lancaster Land Company, for the considera-\\ntion of $73,280.77, and the payment of taxes for a number of years, purchased\\nthrough Paul Busti, from Wilhelm Willink, Hendrick Vollenhoven, and Rutger\\nJan Schimmelpeninck, the survivors of the Holland Land Company, 187,110\\nacres of land in Venango and Jefferson counties, including therefore all their tracts\\nin Clarion county, not purchased by Huidekoper, north of the river. This trans-\\naction had an important bearing on the future of the county, as will be seea\\nlater. The Lancaster Land Company was composed of substantial citizens of\\nLancaster county, desirous of investing in western lands. Their names are-\\nChristian Kaufman, J. Sherer, D. Le Fevre, Christian Huber, John Bachman^\\nDaniel Reigart, Benjamin Long, Chris Stauffer, jr., George Morry, Lewis Ur-\\nban, Henry Shippen, Samuel Miller, Gerhardt Buback, Daniel Reyner, George\\nSnyder, John Houtz, James Humes, Joseph Ogilby, Thomas Crawford, Henry\\nCarpenter, jr., Jacob Miller, Henry Bear, Benjamin Bear committee, Henry\\nShippen, James Humes, John Bachman.\\nSeptember 16, of the same year, the purchase was divided into fifteen\\nshares of five and six warrants eacli. The shares were drawn by lot. The fol-\\nlowing drew in Clarion county: D. Le Fevre, Nos. 2454,2498,2505, 2526, 2525\\ncomprising western and a portion of northern Ashland township. Christian\\nStauffer, jr., George Morry, and Lewis Urban, Nos. 2508, 2519, 2536, 2538, in\\nnortheastern Ashland and northwestern Elk. Gerhardt Buback and Daniel\\nReyner. No. 2803, in northwestern Washington. George Snyder, Nos. 2822\\nand 2805, in northwestern Washington. John Houtz, Nos. 2829, 2832, 2819,\\n2817, composing the neck that forms northeastern Washington. Christian\\nHuber, John Bachman, Nos. 2815,2816, 2786, 2787, 2788, a southeastern sec-\\ntion of Washington township. James Humes, No. 2782, in southern Wash-\\nington Nos. 2783, 2784, 2785, 2772, being the northern half and southeastern\\nsection of the Holland Company s land in Knox township. Joseph Ogilby,\\nNos. 2779, 2778, 2776, 2774, 2773, a tier in northeastern Elk, and taking up\\nthe remaining portion of Knox township. Thomas Crawford, Nos. 2740, 2741,\\n2739, 2738, 2706, 2707, the remaining eastern half of Elk. Daniel Reigart,\\nBenjamin Long, Nos. 2766, 2767, 2737, 2715, 2709, 2710, in western Paint,\\nextending down to the company s line. Henry Carpenter, jr., Jacob Miller,\\nHenry Bear, and Benjamin Bear, Nos. 2769, 2771, 2713, 2714, 271 1, 2712, all\\nthe rest of Paint township on the east, crossing the river, and taking in the\\nnorthern corner of Clarion borough.\\nIn 1 8 16 the company employed Colonel Samuel Dale to subdivide and re-\\nnumber the warrants.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "94 History of Clarion County.\\nJohn Houtz assigned his purpart in northern Washington township to Henry\\nShippen. In 1819 Henry Shippen purchased two warrants, Nos. 2706 and\\n2707, in the vicinity of Shippenville, from Thomas Crawford.\\nJuly 7, 1 8 16, Paul Busti conveyed sixty- five tracts, embracing nearly all\\nthe Holland Company s remaining Jefferson-Armstrong territory, to Somers\\nBaldwin, of Troy, Jefferson county. The purchase money was secured by\\nmortgage, and after Baldwin s death, the mortgages being unsatisfied, the\\nlands were sold by sheriff sale, and bought in by Vanderkemp for the company.\\nApril 26, 1849, the successors and survivors of the Holland Company,\\nWilhelm Willink, Walrave Van Henkelom, Wilhelm Willink, jr., and Gerret\\nSchimmelpeninck sold the last of their east Allegheny territory uncontracted\\nfor, consisting of 23,083 acres, to a syndicate composed of Alexander Colwell,\\nDr. John Gilpin, Horatio Lee, Alexander Reynolds, and David Richey, all\\neither of Armstrong or Indiana counties Reynolds and Richey entered into\\npartnership and obtained all the land north of the Redbank, except the easter-\\nmost division in Redbank township.\\nThus were extinguished the claims of a great company one which had\\nbecome a household word.\\nIngersoll, Dallas, and Adlum assigned their warrants in Richland township,\\nthis county, to Richard Peters, jr., and Thomas, his brother, attorneys-at-law.\\nThomas Peters s share was sold by the sheriff in April, 1819, and was purchased\\nby his brother. Thomas was excessively addicted to strong drink, and, parti-\\nally in the hopes of removing him from the scene of temptation, and partly to\\npersonally attend their land business, Richard sent him out in 1820. He took\\nup his residence near Richmond station, but, alas if not the gay company,\\nthe intoxicating glass was almost as easily available in the backwoods as in the\\ncommercial capital of the State. His death, which occurred in 1825, was\\nhastened by his habit. Richard Peters was a generous fosterer of improve-\\nments and patron of schools and churches in the Richland settlement. In May\\n1820, Richard Peters conveyed the largest portion of his territory in the north-\\nern part of the county to Thomas Kittera (afterwards of Venango county), and\\nRichard Renshaw, of Philadelphia. Judge Keating was the most extensive\\npurchaser of the Richland lands.\\nIn 1804, the devisees of the Bingham estate empowered*Robert H. Rose,\\nof Silver Lake, Susquehanna county, their attorney in fact. Some time after-\\nward he removed to Clarion county. On May 7, 181 1, the devisees of the\\nBingham estate executed deeds for 200 acre tracts, consideration five shillings,\\nand a mortgage to secure the balance of the purchase money, to Thomas Guth-\\nrie, John Wilson, William Moffet, Robert McGarrah, Job Johnson, Joshua Rea,\\nBenjaimin Coe, Alexander Guthrie, Stephen Travis, John McNutt, Joseph\\nCathcart, John Jones, John Guthrie, John Parr, and Jesse McConnell, of the\\nClarion township settlement. Likewise on the same day, for the same con-", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "From War of 1812 to Erection of County. 95\\nsideration, to Joseph Smith, Joseph Greenawalt, Joseph Everett, Peter Snyder,\\nVal. Snyder, Jacob Watterson, Henry Girts, Thomas McKibben. and John Mc-\\nKibben, early settlers in Perry township. The subdivision of the Bingham\\nlands, north of the Clarion, was not till a much later date (1836), by Elihu\\nChadwick, of Venango county there was slight demand for farms there previ-\\nously, and settlement was retarded. Algernon Howe, of Maine, was the most\\nextensive purchaser of the north Clarion territory.\\nRobert Gilmor having died, and Charles Hare becoming insane, the rest of\\nthe devisees, Alexander Ashburton, Henry Baring, and Joseph R. Ingersoll,\\nas provided bj will, appointed John G. Elliot, of Boston, and William Miller in\\ntheir place. These appointments were confirmed by an act of Legislature,\\nMarch 11, 1822. Thenceforth they were styled trustees.\\nJ. W. Guthrie succeeded Dr. Rose in the agency of the Bingham lands in\\nthis and adjoining counties.\\nAll the remnants of the Bingham lands in this county were purchased\\nthrough the attorneys in fact, July 12, 185 i, by Samuel A. Purviance, A. N.\\nMylert, and John Bredin, of Butler county. It comprised much subject to\\ncontract.\\nThe Bingham trustees, and their wives or husbands, had by that time\\ngrown to a list that presents a glittering and aristocratic array of names Ash-\\nburton, H. M. Ashburton, Henry Bingham Baring, Augusta Baring, John\\nEvelyn Dennison, J. Stuart Hippesley, Francis Baring, H. Bridgeman Simp-\\nson, F. Emily Bridgeman Simpson, Antonio de Noailles, A. M. Helena de No-\\nailles, W. F. Baring, Emily Baring. Attorneys-in-fact, Joseph Reed Ingersoll,\\nJohn Craig Miller.\\nIn 1857 Mylert, Lane, and Purviance sold to James Bredin, of Butler, and\\nJames Campbell, of Clarion.\\nGeorge Ross, of Kittanning, an extensive land jobber, was Fox s attorney\\nfrom 1808. Samuel Fox, by will, conveyed all the real estate remaining in\\nhis hands, consisting chiefly, in this county, of warrants north of the mouth of\\nClarion, to Hugh Roberts, Joseph Parker Norris, Robert Ralston, and Jonathan\\nSmith, in trust for his heir, Joseph Fox. It became vested in him in 18 16.\\nIn 1 8 16 Jonathan Mifflin sold seven 1,000-acre warrants in Madison, Toby,\\nand Porter townships, to Joseph and Hannah Fox.\\nThe Fox estate at present (1887) is in the hands of Mrs. Mary Fox, relict\\nof Samuel M. Fox, the son of Joseph M., in trust for the heirs, who by articles\\nof December 16, 1884, agreed to let the property remain undivided for five\\nyears. None of the property in the vicinity of Foxburg has been sold, and\\nthe village of Foxburg belongs entire to the estate. Joseph Fox, the oldest\\nheir, is superintendent of the estate.\\nMuch of the Pickering lands, then split up into a number of hands, was\\nseized for taxes, and sold in warrants by the sheriff of Armstrong county in", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "96 History of Clarion County.\\n1808. Thomas Hoge and Matthew Ringle were the largest buyers. In those\\ndays sheriff sales were advertised in \\\\.\\\\\\\\e Freeman s Journal oi Philadelphia, the\\nGazette and Daily Advertiser of the same city, and the Farmer s Register oi\\nGreensburg.\\nThe price of land, between 1800 and 18 15, varied of course with locality\\nand quality of timber. All the sales occurring were for unimproved land.\\nHuidekoper obtained from one to two dollars per acre, on easy terms, for\\nhis land between the years 1808 and 181 5. The average price, quick pay-\\nment, at the earliest date, was about sixty cents per acre. In 1806 John\\nBoney sold to George Ross 440 acres in Toby township for $160.00. George\\nDelo sold a 400-acre tract on the Clarion river, in 1808, for $210.00. Elliot\\nand Henderson, of Huntingdon county, sold three 400-acre warrants in 1808\\nto Angus Sinclair for ^^25 5, who assigned it to Hugh Callen for;^352 (a\\nPennsylvania currency was $2.66-|). These tracts include the ground which\\nCallensburg stands on. In 1812 and 18 15 land had advanced to one dollar\\nand one dollar and a half per acre. Hon. James Buchanan, President of the\\nUnited States, was the last in the list of distinguished men who held land in\\nClarion county a list which contains a Peters, a Pickering, an Ashburton, a\\nBrady, and a Buchanan.\\nPostal Facilities, Roads, and Steamboats.\\nClarion county s first post-office was opened in 1818, at the house of James\\nMcGonagle, two miles east of Strattanville. It was shortly afterward removed\\nto a point a mile east of that village, north of the pike, where a prospective\\ntown named Rosebilrgh (and Clarion) after Dr. Rose, had been laid out on the\\nfarm of Alexander Guthrie. Josiah Copley, a prentice printer of Indiana,\\ncarried the mail on horseback for James McGahan, the contractor and his mas-\\nter his route lay from Indiana via Greensburg, Freeport, Roseburg, Lawrence-\\nburg (Parker), to Butler, and thence back to Indiana by way of Kittanning.\\nA mail line from Meadville to Kittanning, passing through this county, ex_\\nisted much earlier, but there was no postal service here. It crossed the Clarion\\nat Gardner s Ferry.\\nBefore the turnpike was completed a route was opened between Bellefonte\\nand Meadville. The first contractor on this line was Randolph, of Meadville,\\nand Clark, of Perry county, took the first stage contract. The second post-\\noffice within the limits of the county was at the present Curllsville.\\nPrevious to the opening of post-offices here, people north of the river went\\nto Franklin for their news, and those south to Kittanning, twenty and thirty\\nmiles distant. County postmasters then sold postage on time newspapers\\nwere not brought by the mail, but delivered by the carrier. The earliest me-\\ndiums of intelligence were the Western Eagle, of Kittanning, and the Craivford\\nWeekly Messenger, of Meadville.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "From War of 1812 to Erection of County. 97\\nThe State road, which crosses the Clarion in Millcreek township, was the\\nfirst highway to enter Clarion county. It was surveyed by the State as a mil-\\nitary road from Sunbury to Erie, in 1803 or 1804, and its course is almost\\nidentical with that of the Susquehanna -Venango trail. Robert, John, and\\nHenry Allison, and Thomas Guthrie were the contractors for opening the\\nClarion section of the road. It was finished in 1806. The next pubUc road\\nwas one leading from Watterson s Ferry to Gardner s Ferry, near Callensburg,\\ncalled by early settlers the old State road. It was originally laid out under\\nState auspices, but was neglected, till, by order of the court of Armstrong\\ncounty in 1805, viewers were appointed and the road opened.\\nThe earhest local road was one leading from Samuel Frampton s farm,\\nthrough Curllsville and Callensburg to Parker s mill, now Parker.\\nThe Olean road was laid out in 18 19. The viewers were David Lawson\\nand Samuel Matthews, of Armstrong county John Sloan, jr., John Lucas, of\\nJefferson and Joseph Otto, and Brewster Freeman, for McKean county. The\\nchain-carriers for Lawson and Matthews were William Nelson and Hamilton\\nHenry axman, Samuel Freeman packman, Daniel Gold. The latter was a\\ngood shot, and supplied the party with fresh meat.\\nAs early as 18 12 an act was passed empowering the governor to incorpo-\\nrate a company for the erection of a turnpike from the Susquehanna, at the\\nmouth of Anderson Creek, in Clearfield county, through Franklin to Waterford,\\nconnecting at Anderson s Creek with a road from Bellefonte and Northumber-\\nland. A preliminary survey was made by General Mead, but the work was not\\nbegun in earnest till 18 18, nor completed till 1822. The Holland Land Company\\nwere its chief promoters, and gave the direction of the enterprise to Benjamin\\nCooper, of Gloucester, N. J. Cooper organized the company, and the stock-\\nholders elected commissioners to survey and grade the road. The work was\\naided by a State appropriation. Joseph Barnett, of Jefferson Philip Clover,\\nof Armstrong and Martin, of Venango county, were commissioners of this\\ndistrict John Sloan was employed by the commissioners to survey and grade.\\nThe work of clearing and building was let in sections of from ten to twenty\\nmiles. James Harriet was contractor for the eastern half of the road in Clarion\\ncounty Benedict Anderson, a New York State firm, executed the western\\npart. They employed forty hands. Trees of small and middle size were\\nnotched at the roots, five and six at a time, compassed by a chain, and all\\npulled out together by mules and windlass. The first bridge over the Clarion,\\na single span, was constructed in 1 821, by Moore, of Northumberland. As\\nsoon as five miles of the road were completed, toll-gates were put up to defray\\nexpenses.\\nIn i860 the turnpike between Brookville and Franklin was re-chartered,\\nand purchased by Messrs. J. Black, H. Maguire, G. W. Arnold, and James\\nCampbell, who retired from the partnership the road was divided into sec-", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98 History of Clarion County.\\ntions, each shareholder taking one. In 1883 the Frankhn end, beyond Ship-\\npenville, was abandoned.\\nThe first stage hne was put upon the pike in 1823, by Bennet Brothers, of\\nBellefonte and Meadville. They had five relays on the line two in Clarion\\ncounty, one between Berlin s and Franklin, the other between that place and\\nCorbett s the present Corsica. Mr. Jesse Berlin, now of Clarion, was one of\\nthe first]^drivers over both of these stages, and from the top of a Concord coach\\ncracked his whip at the pine-needles along the road where the flourishing\\ncounty-seat now lies. Henry Laus, of this county, was another of the earhest\\nJehus.\\nAbout 1828 a stage line was opened between Kittanning and Strattanville.\\nOn February 23, 1829, the first steamboat to ascend above Kittanning,\\npassed up the Allegheny to a little above the mouth of the Clarion, where it\\nswung to, remained all night, and then proceeded on to Franklin and Warren.\\n(The county being well timbered, the current then was of a larger and steadier\\nvolume.) It was the Wm. D. Duncan, a side-wheeler; Benjamin Brooks, cap-\\ntain, and James P. Murphy, pilot.\\nIn the following year steamers began to make regular visits, and from thence\\nto the completion of the Allegheny Valley Railroad in 1868, the river traf-\\nfic, both freight and passenger, between Pittsburgh and Franklin was large.\\nWaterson s Ferry and Emlenton were the regular landing places for Clarion\\ncounty people; sometimes the boats stopped at Brady s Bend and Miller s Eddy.\\nStreams.\\nBy an act of March, 18 17, two hundred dollars was appropriated for im-\\nproving the navigation of Toby s Creek, and one hundred dollars for Redbank.\\nLevi Gibson and Samuel C. Orr were appointed commissioners to superintend\\nthe outlay of these grants.\\nIn 18 19 we have the first official mention of the Clarion River, in an act\\nempowering the governor to appoint three commissioners, one of whom shall\\nbe a practical surveyor, to lay out and mark a road, beginning at the town of\\nMilesburg, in Centre county, thence on the nearest and best route, to Kart-\\nhouse and Kersey settlements in Clearfield county, and thence to Clarion river,\\nat or near the mouth of Little Toby s Creek in Jefferson county. Previously\\nit had always been called either Toby s or Stump Creek, which latter it\\nobtained as early as 1809. How was the change made An interesting query,\\nand one now for the first time extricated from the obscurity and contradictions\\nwhich have involved it.\\nIn 1 8 17 an act was passed authorizing the survey of a State road from\\nBedford, through Indiana town to Franklin. Three viewers were appointed for\\nthis purpose, and among them, Daniel Stanard, a lawyer and surveyor, of In-\\ndiana; David Lawson, who was very familiar with the country, was employed", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "From War of 1812 to Erection of County. 99\\nas assistant surveyor. They camped on the banks of the river, and while lying\\nin their tent they were struck by the clear sound of the distant ripples. The\\nriver s current was then fringed by a wall of close and massive timber, which con-\\ndensed and reflected the murmur, giving it a silvery mellowness which it has\\nalmost lost by the stripping of the banks. One of the party, Stanard, remarked\\nthat the water sounded like a distant clarion. Why not call it the Clarion\\nRiver said Mr. Lawson. The suggestion was not acted on, as the return,\\nfiled in the clerk s office of Armstrong county, indicates it as Stump Creek.\\nYet the name Clarion gained favor, and was introduced by one of the\\nframers of the Olean road act and the accompanying section, given above\\nvery possibly Lawson or one of his colleagues and thus received the pres-\\ntige of official saction. Messrs. Lawson and Stanard deserve the gratitude of\\nthe modern denizens on its banks for the refreshing change from the vulgar\\nToby and the unmusical Stump to euphonious and graceful Clarion,\\na name appropriate, not only on account of its clearness of sound, but also the\\nlucidity of its current, an idea not comprehended by its christeners.\\nThe change, however, was very gradual, and the old inhabitants clung to\\nthe former titles with considerable tenacity. It was not till about 1840 that\\nStump and Toby disappeared altogether.\\nIt is mentioned as the latter in the report of the Supreme Court in 1833, con-\\ncerning an action of trespass brought by John Clugh against Robert Criswell and\\nothers for tearing down a mill-dam across Toby s Creek. Clugh recovered\\ndamages, and the higher court affirmed the judgment.\\nIt will be noticed that the river has been blessed with an abundance of\\nnames the Indian Tobeco the French Riviere au Fiel, the pioneer Toby and\\nStump, and finally Clarion.\\nThe earliest militia in the backwoods were rude and raw in arms indeed\\nAlthough existing under the law of 1807, requiring regular organization, uni-\\nform and arms, there was Httle of any of those adjuncts. On parade they pre-\\nsented a sorry appearance, rivaling General Von Poffenburgh s battalion 1 in di-\\nversity of array. The militia held their reviews at Abram Standford s, near\\nCurllsville, twice a year, and a gay time it was, with plenty of whisky and gin-\\ngerbread. The uniforms were not all uniform, neither were the arms all arms,\\nas some marched with one kind of clothing on and some with another, and\\nwhile some had guns, others marched with sticks, corn-stalks, or anything that\\nlooked like guns at a distance. The field-officers were well uniformed, and\\nlooked well such as brigade inspectors, generals, colonels, etc., etc. The free\\ncirculation of the above named whisky caused any amount of black eyes and\\nbloody noses, for there were men then, as now, we are sorry to say, who only\\nneeded some whisky to stir up all that was evil within them.\\n1 Irving s Knickerbocker.\\nI ^g^ 2 Judge Clover in Atlas.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "loo History of Clarion County.\\nThe first and for a long time the only uniformed company in the county\\nwas Captain Neely s Richland Rifles. George Kribbs succeeded Captain Neely\\nin command Michael Weaver was first lieutenant, and Daniel Wingard, sec-\\nond. Their uniform was the same as that of 1814, with a few elaborations.\\nIn 1830 the company numbered sixty-nine men.\\nThe Washington Rangers, of Callensburg and vicinity, Captain John L.\\nReed, was one of the earliest volunteer companies in the south.\\nThe mustering places north of the river were at Neely s, now the Mong\\nfarm south, at Stanford s, Curllsville, and Colonel John Sloan s.\\nThe polling places for Redbank and Toby townships were at John Sloan s\\nand Thomas McKibben s respectively. For the southern county Joseph\\nRankin, of Toby township, and David Lawson were the most prominent\\npoliticians, and both were elected to the Legislature several times. North of\\nthe river the voting places were at Alexander McDonald s, Richland township;\\nlater at Best s mill, and George Kapp s.\\nThe years between 1820 and 1840 saw great advances, both material and\\nintellectual, in the county. It was a period of road-making, of bridge-build-\\ning, and of the opening of churches and schools of the introduction, too, of\\nmany conveniences and ameliorations in modes of life. The country became\\ncomparatively populous the most remote and savage parts of it became the\\nhabitation of man. In 1826 John Anderson culled a home from the wilds of\\nMillcreek; he was soon followed by the McNaughtons. Highland township,\\nthe home of Alexander McNaughton, as early as about 18 12, was colonized\\nby the Reeds and others. George Kapp and John Siegworth were the pio-\\nneers of the northwestern extremity of the county, and were followed by a\\ncolony of Germans, 1825-30. In 1835 John Voglebacher gave his name to the\\nsettlement in Knox township, and about the same time the wilderness of Farm-\\nington township was peopled by the Alsbachs, the Blacks, the McCloskeys, Wil-\\nkinsons and others. These are the latest settled parts of Clarion county.\\nBetween 1826 and 1828 Shippenville, Callensburg, and Strattanville came\\ninto existence in the order named the first villages in the county. For a\\nwhile Shippenville boasted the only inn.\\nSeptember 18, 1806, the original township of Toby was subdivided into\\nRedbank and Toby. By the year 1839 Redbank had produced Redbank, Mon-\\nroe, and Clarion townships Toby, Madison, Toby, and Perry.\\nThe original northern townships (erected in 1 806) were Richland, Elk, Beaver,\\nPaint, Toby s Creek, and Farmington. These were not regularly subdivided as\\nin Armstrong county, but new townships were formed from portions of several.\\nThe townships taken from Venango county were Richland, Beaver, Pine Grove\\n(mainly Washington), Paint, Elk, and Farmington.\\nAbout 1830, frame-houses, plaster, glass-windows, and carriages were in-\\ntroduced. Clumsy Dearborns were the precursors of the graceful and light\\nvehicles of the present day, yet they were none too substantial for the roads.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "From Erection of County to Iron Era. ioi\\nIn and before 1830 flour was three dollars a barrel, beef three cents per\\npound, venison hams one and a half cents per pound, fowls six cents each, but-\\nter six to eight cents a pound, eggs six cents a pound.\\nIn 1825 Charles Gaskell, agent of the Holland Land Company, sold un-\\nseated land in the southern part of the county, at from one dollar and fifty\\ncents to two dollars per acre, but this was remarkably low.\\nThe price of real estate in the more settled parts of the county doubled be-\\ntween 1820 and 1830. About the time of the organization of the county im-\\nproved land was worth ten dollars per acre.\\nIn 1829 the construction of the first furnace by Myers and Bear marked the\\nbeginning of a new era in the history of Clarion county.\\nCHAPTER X.\\nFROM THE ERECTION OF THE COUNTY TO THE IRON ERA\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1839-1845.\\nLegislation, etc., Previous to Organization The Act Change of Boundaries Selection of\\nSite of County Seat Public Buildings Militia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Politics Statistics County Finances.\\nAS early as 1835 the inhabitants of upper Armstrong and lower Venango\\ncounties, then filling up rapidly on account of the development of the iron\\nindustry, began to feel the inconvenience of the distance of their county seats,\\nand petitions were signed for the erection of a new county from parts of each.\\nIn the session of 1835-36 Senator Kelly, representing the district affected,\\npresented a bill for the erection of a new county out of Venango and Arm-\\nstrong, to be called Stark. At the same period Clarion is mentioned in\\nsome petitions. This bill was tabled. In the following session, 1837-38, Mr.\\nKelly introduced another bill to the same effect, which reached second read-\\ning again Clarion was mentioned in petitions.\\nHouse.\\nIn the House, December 15, 1838, Mr. Snowden, of Venango county, pre-\\nsented a petition from the inhabitants of Armstrong and Venango counties for\\nthe erection of a new county out of parts of said counties. (Referred). Decem-\\nber 19, Mr. Yost, of Montgomery, presented a similar petition. (Referred).\\nMonday, January 15, 1839, Snowden presented the proceedings of a\\nmeeting of citizens of Beaver township, Venango county, asking for the erec-\\ntion of a new county out of parts of Venango and Armstrong. January 22,\\n1 Senate and House Journal.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "102 History of Clarion County.\\nMr. Snowden, from the committee to whom were referred the petitions on the\\nsubject, reported a bill (No. 54) entitled, An act erecting parts of Armstrong\\nand Venango counties into a separate county to be called Clarion. (Read,\\nand laid on the table.) January 25, Mr. Evans, of Armstrong, presented a\\npetition from inhabitants of Armstrong and Venango counties for the erection\\nof a new county out of parts, etc., to be called Clarion Mr. Snowden one of\\nlike import. (Tabled).\\nJanuary 28, Mr. Purviance (Butler) presented two petitions from inhabitants\\nof Butler, Armstrong, and Venango counties, praying for the erection of a new\\ncounty out of parts of said counties to, be called Jackson. (Referred).\\nJanuary 31, petition of like import to that of the 25th. (Tabled).\\nFebruary 4, on motion of Mr. Snowden, the House resolved itself into a\\ncommittee of the whole on the bill No. 54, entitled an act erecting parts of\\nArmstrong and Venango counties into a separate county to be called Clarion.\\nOn motion, the said bill was read the second time, considered and agreed\\nto and ordered to be transcribed for third reading. On motion of Mr. Wil-\\ncox (Jefferson, McKean and Warren), the rule which prohibits the reading of\\nbills twice on the same day being in this case dispensed with, the said bill was\\nread the third time, when a motion was made by Mr. J. Cunningham, of Hunt-\\ningdon, to postpone thfe further consideration of the same for the present, which\\nwas disagreed to and, on the question. Shall the bill pass it was determined\\nin the affirmative, and ordered that the clerk present the same to the Senate\\nfor concurrence.\\nSenate.\\nOn Friday, December 21, 1838, Mr. Hays, senator from Twenty-second\\nDistrict, composed of Jefferson, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Venango, and Warren\\ncounties, presented two petitions from citizens of Venango and Armstrong,\\npraying for the erection of a new county out of parts of said counties.\\nTuesday, February 5, 1839, House bill, act for organization of a new county\\nfrom parts of Venango and Armstrong to be called Clarion committed to\\nMessrs. Hays, Carpenter, and McConkey.\\nFebruary 6, Mr. Hays presented a petition of citizens of Armstrong, Butler,\\nand Venango praying for the erection of a new county out of parts of said\\ncounties.\\nFebruary 20, Mr. Hays reported from committee House and Senate bill\\n(Clarion) with amendments.\\nFebruary 25, Mr. Fullerton presented a petition of citizens of Armstrong\\nand Venango counties, etc.\\nMarch 5, 1839, the speaker (Charles B. Penrose) presented a memorial of\\ncitizens of the counties of Armstrong, Butler, and Venango, remonstrating\\nagainst the contemplated new county to be called Clarion, and praying for\\nerection of a new county out of parts of each to be called Jackson.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "From Erection of County to Iron Era. 103\\nMarch 6, on motion of Mr. Hays and Mr. Strohm, the Senate resolved\\nitself into a committee of the whole, to consider bill from House, entitled, an\\nact for the organization of a new county from parts of Armstrong and Venango,\\nto be called Clarion. After some debate the committee rose and the chair-\\nman reported bill with amendments.\\nMarch 7, bill No. 197 from House, entitled, an act for the erection, etc.,.\\nwas read the second time the several sections and title were agreed to and,\\non motion of Mr. Hays and Mr. Fullerton, the rule which prohibits the read-\\ning of bills twice on the same day was in this case dispensed with, and said bill\\nwas read the third time and passed. Ordered, that the clerk return said bill to\\nHouse, with the information that the Senate had passed the same with amend-\\nments, in which the concurrence of the House is requested. The House con-\\ncurred in the amendments on the 8th. Saturday, March 8, the bill was pre-\\nsented to the governor, David R. Porter; approved March ii.\\nIt appears that the citizens of eastern Butler and western Armstrong and\\nVenango counties, still clung to the idea of a tripartite county. On March 19\\nMr. Pearson presented a petition of citizens of Armstrong, Butler and Venango\\ncounties, praying that parts of said counties, west of the Allegheny, be annexed\\nto Clarion county. Referred to judiciary committee reported adversely.\\nJune 8, Mr. Pearson presented a petition of citizens of Venango county,\\npraying for a repeal of the law erecting Clarion county. (Tabled). June 1 1, Mr.\\nPearson presented a petition of Venango county, praying for the repeal of the\\nlaw erecting Clarion county, or that Venango county may be attached to said\\ncounty of Clarion.\\nJune 18, Mr. Hays presented as above, praying that the boundary lines of\\nClarion county may be enlarged. (Tabled).\\nThe Act\\nFor the organization of a new county from parts of Venango and Arm-\\nstrong to be called Clarion.\\nSection i. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of\\nthe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met, and it is hereby\\nenacted by the authority of the same, That all those parts of Armstrong and\\nVenango counties, lying and being within the following boundaries to wit\\nBeginning at the junction of Redbank Creek with the Allegheny River, thence\\nup said creek to the line dividing Jefferson and Armstrong counties, thence\\nalong said line to the line dividing Toby and Saratoga townships in Venango\\ncounty, thence along said line to the corner of Farmington township, in Ve-\\nnango county, thence a straight line to the mouth of ShuU s Run on the Alle-\\ngheny River, thence down said river to the place of beginning, be and the\\nsame is hereby declared to be erected into a county, henceforth to be called\\nNow Ritchie s.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "I04 History of Clarion County.\\nClarion, the seat of justice to be fixed by the commissioners hereinafter ap-\\npointed.\\nSection 2. That from and after the first day of September, one thousand\\neight hundred and forty (1840), the inhabitants of the said county of Clarion\\nbe entitled to and shall have all and singular, the courts, jurisdiction, officers,\\nrights and privileges to which the inhabitants of other counties of this State\\nare entitled by the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth.\\nSection 3. That the several courts of the counties of Venango and Arm-\\nstrong shall continue to exercise jurisdiction within their former limit until the\\nfirst day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty (1840).\\nSection 4. That no suit or prosecution which has been commenced or\\nwhich shall be commenced in the courts of the counties of Armstrong and\\nVenango before the first day of September, shall be delayed, discontinued or\\naffected by this act, but the same process shall be issued, and the same acts\\ndone on all such suits and prosecutions, and on all judgments thereon by the\\nsheriff and coroner of Venango and Armstrong counties as if this act had not\\nbeen passed.\\nSection 5. That all taxes and arrears of taxes laid, or which have become\\ndue within the counties of Armstrong and Venango before the first day of\\nSeptember, one thousand eight hundred and forty (ist of September, 1840),\\nand all sums of money due to this Commonwealth for militia fines in the said\\ncounty of Clarion, shall be collected and recovered as if this act had not been\\npassed.\\nSection 6. That the sheriff, treasurer, and prothonotary, and all such of-\\nficers as have heretofore usually given security for the faithful discharge of the\\nduties of their respective offices, who shall hereafter be appointed or elected in\\nthe said county of Clarion, before they or any of them shall enter into execu-\\ntion thereof, shall give sufficient security in the same manner and form, and for\\nthe same uses, trusts and purposes as such officers for the time being are by\\nlaw obliged to do in the county of Armstrong.\\nSection 7. That the sheriff, coroner and other officers of the counties of\\nArmstrong and Venango shall continue to exercise the duties of their respect-\\nive offices within the county of Clarion until similar officers shall be appointed\\nagreeably to law within the said county.\\nSection 8. That James Thompson, John Gilmore and Samuel L. Carpenter,\\nbe and are hereby appointed commissioners, whose duty it shall be to fix upon\\na proper and convenient site for a seat of justice for said county of Clarion, a\\ncourt-house, prison, and county offices within the aforesaid county, as near the\\ncenter as the situation thereof will admit, and the said commissioners, or a ma-\\njority of them, having viewed the relative advantages of the several situations\\ncontemplated by the people, shall on or before the first day of September next,\\nby a written report under their hands and seals, or under the hands and seals", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "From Erection of County to Iron Era. 105\\nof a majority of them, certify, describe and limit the site or lot of land which\\nthey shall have chosen for the purpose aforesaid, and shall transmit the said\\nreport to the governor of this Commonwealth, and the persons so as aforesaid\\nnamed as commissioners shall receive three dollars per diem for their services\\nout of the money raised in pursuance of this act.\\nSection 9. That it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners of the\\ncounty of Clarion, which shall be elected at the next annual election after the\\nfirst day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty, to take assur-\\nances of them or their successors in office, of such lot or piece of ground as\\nshall have been approved of by the persons appointed as aforesaid, or a ma-\\njority of them, for the purpose of erecting thereon a court-house, jail and of-\\nfices, and other buildings and reservations, for the safe keeping of the records,\\nand for public grounds, and that for defraying the expenses thereof, the county\\ncommissioners are hereby authorized to assess, and levy and collect in the\\nmanner directed by the acts for raising county rates and levies, a sufficient sum\\nto defray the expenses thereof.\\nSection 10. That the judges of the Supreme Court shall have like powers,\\njurisdictions, and authorities within the said county of Clarion, as by law they\\nare vested with and entitled to have and exercise in other counties of this State,\\nand the said county is hereby annexed to the western district of the Supreme\\nCourt.\\nSection 1 1. That two persons shall be commissioned associate judges of the\\nCourt of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Clarion, and that the\\nCourts of Common Pleas and General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to be\\nholden in and for said county of Clarion shall be opened on the third Mondays\\nafter the week of the courts of Venango county, and the said county of Clarion\\nshall be and is hereby declared to belong to the sixth district, consisting of the\\ncounties of Erie, Venango and Crawford.\\nSection 12. That in all cases where it would be lawful for the sheriff, jailor,\\nor prison-keeper of the county of Clarion, to hold in close custody the body of\\nany person in the common jail of the county of Clarion, that all such persons shall\\nbe delivered to, and kept in close custody by the sheriff, jailor or prison-keeper\\nof the county of Venango, who, upon delivery of such prisoner to him or them at\\nthe common jail of said county of Venango, shall safely keep him, her or them,\\nuntil they be discharged by due course of law shall also be answerable in like\\nmanner, and liable to the same pains and penalties as if the persons so deliv-\\nered were liable to confinement in the common jail of Venango county, and the\\nparties aggrieved shall be entitled to the same remedies against them, or any\\nof them, as if such prisoner had been committed to his or their custody by\\nvirtue of legal process issued by proper authority in the said county of Ve-\\nnango pfovided always, that the sheriff of Clarion county be allowed out of\\nthe county stock of Clarion county ten cents per mile as a full compensation", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "io6 History of Clarion County.\\nfor every criminal he may deliver to the jail of Venango county by virtue of\\nthis act, in orders drawn by the commissioners of Clarion county on the treas-\\nury thereof\\nSection 13. That the sheriff, jailor, and prison-keeper of the county of Ve-\\nnango shall receive all prisoners as aforesaid, and shall provide for them ac-\\ncording to law, and shall be entitled to the fees for keeping them, and also to\\nsuch allowance as is by law directed for the maintenance of prisoners in sim-\\nilar cases, which allowance shall be defrayed and paid by the commissioners of\\nthe county of Clarion out of the county stock.\\nSection 14. That the twelfth and thirteenth sections of this act shall be and\\ncontinue in force for the term of three years, or until the commissioners of\\nClarion county shall have certified to the court that a jail is erected and ready\\nfor the reception of prisoners and approved of by the court and grand jury,\\nwho shall enter their approbation, signed by them on record of said court, and\\nfrom henceforth it shall be lawful for the sheriff of Clarion county to receive all\\nand every person or persons who may then be confined in the jail of Venango\\ncounty in pursuance of this act, and convey them to the jail of Clarion county,\\nand to keep them in custody until they be discharged by due course of law.\\nSection 15. That the qualified electors of the county of Clarion shall at\\nthe next general election after the first day of September, one thousand eight\\nhundred and forty (ist of September, 1840), for members of the House of Rep-\\nresentatives, elect three persons for commissioners of the said county, and shall\\ndesignate on their ballots respectively, the individual who shall serve for one\\nyear, for two years and three years, and annually thereafter shall elect one\\nsuitable person to serve as commissioner in place of the commissioner whose\\ntime may have thus expired.\\nWm. Hopkins,\\nSpeaker of the House of Representatives.\\nJno. J. Pearson,\\nSpeaker of Senate, pro tempore.\\nApproved, The eleventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and\\nthirty- nine (March 11, 1839).\\nDavid R. Porter.\\nThe county of course took its name from the river.\\nJames Thompson was then president-judge of the Sixth District, and re-\\nsided at Erie he was subsequently elected to Congress John Gilmore was\\nfrom Butler county; Carpenter was a surveyor, residing at Greensburg, West-\\nmoreland county. Mr. Thompson resigned shortly after his appointment, and\\nby act of June 25, 1839, John P. Davis, afterwards associate judge of Crawford\\ncounty, was delegated in his stead.\\nNaturally a contest arose between the leading villages of the county to se-\\ncure their adoption as the county seat. The citizens of Callensburg and those\\nliving in the western part of the new county pressed the claims of the flat", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "From Erection of County to Iron Era. 107\\nalong the river, at Bullock Ford, near Callensburg. Shippenville and vicinity,\\nbacked by the Shippens, claimed the seat of justice on account of its extensive\\niron interests and central position. Strattanville offered its advantages, too.\\nChristian Myers, the proprietor of Clarion furnace at Penn Mills, Philip\\nClover, of Strattanville, and his sons and son-in-law, Levi G. Clover, Peter\\nClover, and James P. Hoover, owned the land now occupied by the county seat.\\nThey offered it to the commissioners on condition of receiving half the proceeds\\nof the sale of lots.\\nThis had the advantage of being a neutral site the surface of the land was\\nelevated and level it was near the river, centrally situated, and on the Belle-\\nfonte and Meadville turnpike. All these considerations, taken with the offer of\\ndonation, determined the site.^\\nThe commissioners received three dollars per day for their work, and from\\nthe amount paid them it appears that they averaged twelve and one-half days\\neach in locating the county seat.\\nGeorge B. Hamilton, Lindsay C. Pritner, and Robert Potter were appointed\\ncommissioners by the governor to take deeds of trust from the donors, to lay\\nout the town into lots, to sell the same, and make contracts for the public build-\\nings. The town was laid out in the fall of 1839 in the spring of 1840 work\\nbegan on the court-house and jail, which were completed in the winter of 1842.\\nCommissioners Hamilton, Pritner and Potter surveyed the county boundary.\\nIt was seen that the straight line which formed the northwestern boundary\\nof the county would operate inconvenienly by arbitrarily dividing tracts and\\nfarms between Clarion and Venango counties causing needless complications\\nin taxation and jurisdiction. Accordingly the Legislature, April 16, 1840,\\nestablished a new line as follows Beginning at the northwest corner of tract of\\nland, number three thousand three hundred and thirty-nine (3,339), being a\\ncorner of Farmington township thence by the northern boundary of tracts\\nnumbers five thousand five hundred and two, three thousand six hundred and\\nseventy- four, two thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and two thousand\\neight hundred and twenty-nine (5,502, 3,674, 2,832, 2,829), westwardly to the\\nnorthwest corner of the latter thence by the western boundary of the same\\nand tract number two thousand eight hundred and nineteen (2,819), south-\\nwardly to the southwest corner of the latter; thence by the northern boundary\\nof tracts number two thousand eight hundred and ten, two thousand eight hun-\\ndred and seven, two thousand eight hundred and five, and two thousand eight\\nhundred and three, (2,810, 2,807, 2,805, 2,803), westwardly to the northwest\\ncorner of the latter thence by the western boundary of the same and tract\\nnumber two thousand eight hundred and two (2,802), southwardly to the north-\\neast corner of tract number two thousand five hundred and thirty-eight (2,538);\\n1 Jt is not improbable, too, that Hon., afterwards Judge Charles Evans, whose lands adjoined\\nsouth, used his influence with the commissioners in the selection of the spot.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "io8 History of Clarion County.\\nthence by the northern boundary of the same and tract number two thousand\\nfive hundred and thirty-six (2,536), westwardly to the northwest corner of the\\nlatter; thence by the western boundary thereof, southwardly to the southwest\\ncorner of the same; thence by the northern boundary of tracts numbers two\\nthousand five hundred and twenty-five and two thousand five hundred and\\ntwenty-six (2,525, 2,526), westwardly to the northwest corner of the latter\\nthence by the western boundary of the same and tracts number two thousand\\nfive hundred and five and two thousand four hundred and ninety-eight (2,505,\\n2,498), southwardly to the southwest corner of the latter; thence by the south-\\nern boundary of tract number two thousand four hundred ninety-nine (2,499),\\nwestwardly to the corner of a tract granted to William Nickle thence by the\\neastern boundary of the same and tract number eight hundred and six (806),\\nsouthwardly to the southeast corner of the latter thence by the southern\\nboundary of the same westwardly to the northeast corner of tract number two\\nhundred and twenty-two (222); thence by the eastern boundary of the same\\nsouthwardly to the southeast corner thereof; thence by the southern boundary\\nof the same and tract number seven hundred and sixty-five (765), westwardly\\nto the northeast corner of tract number four hundred and forty-five (445);\\nthence by the eastern boundary of the same and tracts number two hundred\\nand fifty-eight and eight hundred and fifteen (258, 815), southwardly to the\\nsoutheast corner of the latter thence by the southeastern boundary of the\\nsame and tracts number eight hundred and twenty and eight hundred and\\nthirty-one (820, 831) southwestwardly to the northeastern boundary of tract\\nnumber eight hundred and twenty-two (822); thence by the same southeasterly\\nto the corner thereof; thence by the southeastern boundary of the same, south-\\nwestwardly to the corner of tract number five thousand seven hundred and\\ntwenty-seven (5,727); thence by the northeastern boundary thereof southeast-\\nwardly to Richey s Run thence down and along said run to the Allegheny\\nRiver, opposite, or nearly opposite to the northeast corner of Butler county.\\nThis line was run by Richard Irwin and G. B. Hamilton.\\nThe act of organization provided that Clarion county should become judi-\\ncially separate September 10, 1840. It was attached to the Sixth Judicial\\nDistrict, previously consisting of the counties of Erie, Crawford, and Venango,\\nof which James Thompson was president-judge. But. May 21, 1840 before\\nany court was held this was changed, and the county was attached to the\\nEighteenth District, Alexander McCalmont, judge, consisting then of the\\ncounties of Potter, McKean, and Jefferson. Christian Myers and Charles\\nEvans were commissioned associates. The first court was held in an unfin-\\nished room in the house now belonging to A. H. Alexander, the first Monday\\nof the following November.\\nThe organization of the county for financial purposes was simultaneous\\nwith the judicial establishment, but it did not effectually begin until the inaugu-", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "From Erection of County to Iron Era. 109\\nration of the regular commissioners. The first election took place October 13,\\n1840. A warm contest arose out of the action of the preliminary Democratic\\nconvention some declaring the nominations illegal on the ground that the\\nnominees were delegates. An opposition ticket was put in the field. The\\nClarion Republican, the first paper, published by William T. Alexander, opposed\\nthe straight-out nominees. The Visitor, an ephemeral sheet, imported from\\nButler to neutralize the Republican s influence, championed the regular ticket.\\nThe independent candidates emerged victorious. Joseph Goe was chosen pro-\\nthonotary John Reed, coroner George L. Benn, Jacob Miller, and Gideon\\nRichardson, commissioners John Elliot, Joseph C. King, and George Means,\\nauditors. The regular candidate for sheriff, Jarnes Hasson, alone escaped de-\\nfeat by two votes. The commissioners appointed Amos Williams, treasurer,\\naccording to the old constitution.\\nMilitia.\\nUnder the old organization all able-bodied persons between the ages of\\ntwenty- one and forty- five, with several exceptions, were bound to militia ser-\\nvice, and were organized into companies, regiments, brigades, etc. They were\\nto drill one day in the year by companies, and one day by battalions or regi-\\nments. A service of seven years entitled to exemption from further service.\\nThose who did not chose to serve were subject to a militia tax, exoneration, or\\ncommutation, as it was called.\\nThe citizen soldiery were divided into two classes the ununiformed, com-\\nmonly known as militia simply, and the uniformed or volunteers. The\\nfirst were those who shouldered the gun or broomstick, as the case might be, not\\nout of love for the martial field, but perforce, to escape the alternative fine.\\nWhen called into service they were drafted singly and not by companies. This\\nbranch was always absurdly defective in equipments and organization they\\nwere dubbed the cornstalk militia, and were the subject of much ridicule\\nand pleasantry. Once a year they met to go through the form of a drill and\\nreview the whole was a huge farce.\\nThe volunteers where those who were regularly equipped and disci-\\nplined, and made a virtue of a military necessity. They disdained to be classed\\nwith the common herd of militia, and were supposed to be always ready for\\nthe field. Three companies formed a battalion the commander of a battalion\\nof five companies ranked as lieutenant-colonel, and seven were a full regiment.\\nThe volunteers held battalion encampments of three days duration every May,\\nmeeting the previous day for drill and preparation. This was the only time\\nduring the year at which they were required to meet for duty. The militia of\\nClarion county belonged originally to the Fifteenth Division those south of\\nthe river were attached to the Second Brigade of which General Robert Orr,\\nof Kittanning, was the first commander those north, to the First Brigade.\\n8", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "no History of Clarion County.\\nIn 1849 the militia organization was entirely overhauled the old system of\\nununiformed militia was abolished, and each citizen subject to militia duty was\\nobliged to furnish himself with a suitable uniform. According to this act, each\\ncounty possessed a separate brigade. Clarion county became the Second\\nBrigade, and with McKean, Elk, and Forest counties formed the Twelfth\\nDivision.\\nThe uniforms varied the predominating color was blue with white facings\\n(for artillery yellow) white pantaloons were the rule for dress parade. Two\\nof the most notable companies were the Clarion Artillerists, of Rimersburg and\\nvicinity, and the Clarion Guards of Strattanville. On festive occasions they\\nappear to have been favorites, and called forth the most glowing and patriotic\\ntoasts. The artillery company was only nominally so, their battery consisting\\nof one small gun they had very gay uniforms of blue coat and buff vest, the\\nstanding collar of the coat turning yellow trimmings of cap-cord, and pompon\\ntassels; brass shoulder plates. The uniform of the Clarion Guards was gray\\nswallow-tailed coats, with white facings and golden epaulettes, pants of the\\nsame, and high- crowned grenadier caps, with white cockade and cord.\\nCaptain Feely s Shippenville company was the best uniformed in the county\\nnorth of the river. Their equipments were of the U. S. Army standard, viz.,\\nblue coat and waistcoat, etc.\\nThe^field and staff officers in full uniform, with tinsel broidery, chapcans de\\nbras and gold epaulettes, presented a glittering spectacle.\\nAbout 1845 interest in militia matters began to abate there was a tempo-\\nrary revival in 1849 upon the reorganization, but in a few years indifference\\nand disorder again thinned the ranks. The organization, however, was pre-\\nserved, and at the annual May encampment at Curllsville, in 1861, the com-\\nmander of the brigade. General Reynolds Laughlin, offered the services of his\\ncommand to Governor Curtin. The governer replied that he had no authority\\nfrom the national government to send a brigade into the field, but requested\\nhim to hold the companies together. General Laughlin put the question to\\nthe company offices, but there were differences of opinion, and difficulties arose\\nmany of the officers and men were anxious to join the army, and the brigade\\ndissolved.\\nThere was practically no militia, except the three months men of 6^, during\\nthe war. The present effective and uniform system of volunteer militia was\\ncompleted by the act of June 12, 1878.\\nThe battalion encampment places for the companies of the First Brigade\\nwere on the George Berlin farm on the turnpike, and at Jacob Sweitzer s near\\nEdenburg. The most usual camps of the southern battalions were at Curlls-\\nville, and at Colonel John Sloan s, Limestone township. Under the system of\\n1849 the whole brigade met annually at Curllsville for a three days review and\\ninspection encampment.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "From Erection of County to Iron Era. hi\\nThe following is a list of Clarion county volunteer companies and captains,\\ncompiled as perfectly as possible\\nFifth Battaltion, One Hundred and Ninety-eighth Regiment, Majors, Colin\\nMcNutt and J. Bittenbender\\nClarion Guards, Strattanville and vicinity. Captains, Robert Barber, Ar-\\nchibald Borland, S. S. Burnham, William Lemon.\\nTown Creek Rangers, Redbank township. Captain, J. Algeo.\\nJackson Blues, Porter township. Captain, F. Case.\\nRedbank Artillerists, Redbank township. Captain, A. Space.\\nSixth Battalion, Majors, R. D. Laxvson and Peter Reed.\\nWashington Rangers, Callensburg and vicinity. Captains, John L. Reed,\\nKirk, George Means, Reynolds Laughlin, James Galbraith.\\nPerry Guards. Captains, Nichols, Robert Stuart.\\nClarion Artillerists, Rimersburg and vicinity. Captains, George Means,\\nPeter Reed, R. Huey.\\nWashington Blues. Captain, I. S. Thompson.\\nSecond Battalion, Venango Volunteers, Major, P. Neely Lieutenant-colonels,\\nB. Junkin, William Wilson, C. Neely.\\nClarion Blues, Beaver township. Captains, William Wilson, Joseph Myer.\\nRichland Rifles, Richland township. Captains, John Kribbs, Paul Neely,\\nPrior.\\nBeaver Riflemen, Beaver township. Captain, D. Feely.\\nShippenville Riflemen, Shippenville and vicinity. Captains, Jacob Kahl,\\nD. Feely, J. Thompson, William Nickles.\\nGreenwood Rangers, Highland and Farmington. Captain, John Hulings.\\nThe Perry Infantry, Perry township, was organized in 1872, with A. J.\\nDavis, captain, succeeded by Captain J. W. Roney, he by O. E. Nail. They\\nwere mustered out in 1877. At present the only militia company of Clarion\\ncounty is Company D, of Clarion, Fourteenth Regiment, N. G. P., M. A. K.\\nWeidner commanding.\\nPolitics.\\nAlex. Holman, of Venango, represented the Clarion-Venango district in\\n1 840. David B. Long was Clarion county s first native representative and served\\ntwo terms, 1842-43. In 1844 the Democratic State ticket, Shunk for gov-\\nernor against Markle, Whig, was amalgamated with the national, James K.\\nPolk and George M. Dallas, against Clay and Frelinghuysen. Polk, Dallas,\\nand Shunk, and the tariff of 42 was the battle cry of the locofocos.\\nThe contest v/as a fierce one, as all the early State and presidential ones were.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "112 History of Clarion County.\\nEverybody was then terribly in earnest over politics the local newspapers\\nof that day are burdened with vituperations, protestations, and editorial appeals,\\nliberally spiced with italics, and with large capitals, as heavy artillery. Then,\\nas now, there was no lack of personalities.\\nClarion was a strong Democratic county from the start. In 1840 Harri-\\nson had 1366 votes against 648 for Van Buren.\\nFor governor David R. Porter, Democrat, 1500; J. Banks, Whig, 555.\\nPolk, Dallas, and Shunk s majority averaged 1069.\\nStatistics.\\nThe census of 1840 did not take cognizance of the new county and there-\\nfore the population for that year cannot be exactly given. It was estimated at\\n12,500.\\nIn 1841 there were 8 sheriff sales; in 1842, 10; the lowest and highest\\nnumber before 1846.\\nCounty Finances.\\nTaxation for county purposes during the period 1840-45 was very light, as\\nalmost enough was realized by the sale of lots to defray the expense of the\\npublic buildings. By the 1st of January, 1844, nearly all the borough lots\\nwere sold and the total proceeds to that date, including interest, was $27,53 1.64.\\nOf this the donors obtained half, leaving a net sum of $13,765.82 to the\\ncounty.\\nDuring and after the construction of the first court-house and jail, the com-\\nmissioners issued county scrip, viz., small notes redeemable by the county,\\nand which passed for currency. The issuing of such notes was contrary to the\\nU. S. statutes, but was connived at.\\nIn 1845 orders to the amount of $48.98 were issued for fox and wild- cat\\nscalps 50 cents for each fox, and 87 for each wild-cat scalp.\\nDecember 31, 1845, the debt of the county was $1,653.51. Balance in the\\ntreasury $368.12.\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nTHE FURNACES.\\nThe Pioneer Furnace Structure of the Stacks Methods of Manufacture Review of the\\nIndustry List of Furnaces.\\nCLARION county s abundant mineral riches were early apparent. In 1828\\nChristian Myers, of Lancaster, then half owner of the Bear- Carpenter-\\nMiller purpart of the Lancaster Company s purchase, including a slice of Clar-", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "The Furnaces. 113\\nion and the greater part of Paint townships and his partner, Henry Bear, came\\nto this county with the intention of developing the mineral resources of their\\nproperty. The natives were very distrustful of the strangers, and having no\\ncredit with the farmers, they were sometimes reduced to desperate straits for\\nprovisions. Judge Myers wrote home, with a melancholy account of the fare\\nBones cooked for soup, and then ground up and cooked over.\\nAfter many difficulties Clarion furnace was erected on Little Toby, near its\\nmouth the spot is now known as Penn Mills. This was the pioneer stack of\\nClarion county.\\nClarion furnace was soon followed by Shippenville and Lucinda furnaces\\nthe industry gained great impetus, and every year saw the erection of new\\nstacks, till the climax was reached in 1845, when eight were erected in that\\nyear. A few were built after that, making thirty- one in all.\\nClarion s furnaces were with few exceptions of the half-stack size. They\\nwere built from rough stone dressed at the edges, and keyed with wooden cross-\\nbeams. The interior of the stack was lined with fire-brick, which required to\\nbe replaced about every two years for this purpose an entrance was left in\\nfront of the furnace, which was kept walled up while the furnace was in blast.\\nThe bosh is the widest part of the interior or hearth.\\nCharcoal was the basis of iron manufacture in Clarion, as well as in Ve-\\nnango and Mercer counties. Almost every wood except hemlock was available;\\nit was burnt in small clearings called coalings and hearths. Chestnut\\nproduced the most char to the wood employed birch, the least. As a me-\\ndium two hundred bushels of charcoal were consumed to each ton of metal\\nproduced.\\nThe ore was mined generally from drifts or banks sometimes when it lay\\nnear a level surface open excavations were made called strippings. It was\\nhauled to the furnace yard, which lay about on a level with the top of the\\nstack. The furnaces were always constructed at the foot of a little bluff or on\\na hillside, to facilitate the conveyance of the ore to the tunnel-head. After a\\npreliminar)^ burning by slack coal to free it from dross and dirt, it was wheeled\\non a bridge to the mouth of the furnace, tunnel-head, and dumped in with\\nthe necessary amount of flux. After a proper interval of time a layer of fuel\\nwas placed on top of this, then another deposit of ore, and so on. These alter-\\nnate layers were called the charges, and he who had supervision of this work,\\nthe founder. The blast, cold or hot, as the case might be, was forced into one\\nor more apertures in the sides styled tuyeres, by means of pistons and drums\\noperated either by steam or water power. The molten metal percolated\\nthrough the fire, and made its exit through four openings at the bottom, called\\nnotches, one at each side (previously luted), into the moulds.\\nTo produce one ton of iron required three and one-half tons of ore, and\\nabout five hundred pounds of limestone as flux. The furnaces at first produced", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "114 History of Clarion County.\\nfrom fifteen to twenty-five tons of pig metal a week, according to their capacity,\\nbut in later years, by improved processes and larger and stronger blasts, the\\nweekly output often reached fifty tons.\\nSt. Charles and Redbank were the first furnaces in the county to employ\\ncoke it was made in pits at their own yards. The former for a couple of\\nyears previous used the raw coal of the upper Freeport vein very successfully.\\nThe Sligo and Madison company was the only one to introduce chills,\\ne., iron moulds all the other furnaces ran their metal into sand.\\nThe pigs were transported to Pittsburgh in flat boats, sided up they were\\nsomewhat smaller than the present boats, and generally held from seventy- five\\nto one hundred tons. The lower bridge at Clarion was one of the chief load-\\ning places; here Clarion, Lucinda, Shippenville, Washington, and Martha fur-\\nnaces brought their iron for transportation; it was the scene of much life and\\nbustle, for often one hundred men were at work together, loading the boats\\nthose were halcyon days Beaver furnace and Madison loaded at Hahn s Ferry\\nat the mouth of Piney the wharf at Callensburg was the lading point for\\nSligo, Prospect, Buchanan, and the other furnaces in that vicinity. Those fur-\\nther south and west sent their products to the Redbank and Allegheny.\\nThe larger furnaces, such as Lucinda, Madison, and Shippenville, employed\\nfrom seventy-five to one hundred hands; the smaller, as Washington, Wild\\nCat, and Mary Ann, from twenty-five to fifty the workmen were ore-diggers,\\nteamsters, wood-choppers, charcoal-burners, and furnace men. The wages\\nranged from twenty to twenty-six dollars per month good compensation for\\nthose days of this, from one-fourth to one-half was payable in cash the bal-\\nance in orders on the operators store.\\nBetween 1845 ci 1854 fully one-half of the pig metal produced in north-\\nwestern Pennsylvania was manufactured in Clarion county, and it deservedly\\nwon the name of the Iron County. From 1856 to i860 the ratio was\\nabout one-third. In 1849 the production was 24,620 tons, in 1856 eighteen\\nfurnaces smelted 20,368. Taking the low estimate of twenty as being the\\naverage number of furnaces simultaneously in blast during the most prosper-\\nous periods of the iron trade, viz.: between 1842 and 1846, and between 1852\\nand 1858; and averaging the weekly production at twenty-eight tons, or\\nyearly (for a year of forty-five weeks), 1,160, and the price at thirty dollars\\nper ton Clarion county s iron exports in those years realized an income of\\n$696,000 per year; in round figures $700,000. Of this we may allow\\n$100,000 to non-resident operators. The most extensive iron manufactur-\\ners in Clarion county were Jacob Painter, Samuel F. Plumer, and Lyon, Shorb\\nCo. Painter resided at Pittsburgh, Plumer at Jefferson furnace. Clarion\\ncounty, and J. Patton Lyon, of Lyon, Shorb Co., at Sligo.\\nNotwithstanding the figures (large for that period) given above, it cannot\\nbe said that the operators were uniformly successful, and amassed fortunes.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "The Furnaces. 115\\nOn the contrary, the majority of them failed. The profits reahzed in prosper-\\nous times were not sufficient to tide them over the crises in the trade. Still,\\nthe county in general was decidedly the gainer by this industry. It may be\\nsaid to have developed our resources it was the means of colonizing waste and\\nrugged spots it doubled the population, and for some time kept money in\\nbeneficial circulation.\\nThe repeal of the tariff of 1842 in July, 1846, was a severe blow to the in-\\ndustry, and one from which it never fully recovered. One of the Clarion\\npapers framed in mourning the news, and the announcement that the bill\\npassed by the deciding vote of George M. Dallas, whose name had always been\\ncoupled with the tariff of 1842, in shouting for the ticket. The effects of the\\nrepeal were not fully felt till 1850, when a number of Clarion firms succumbed\\nin consequence and prices dropped from twenty-eight dollars per ton to\\ntwenty dollars, which hardly covered cost of production. However, enterprises\\nin which so much money was invested could not be lightly abandoned, and the\\nindustry lingered several years from hand to mouth.\\nFrom 1852-54, in consequence of the mania for railroad construction and\\nthe extraordinary demand for iron, there was a general revival, and in March,\\n1854, iron brought the extraordinary figure of forty-two dollars per ton. The\\npanic of 1857 again prostrated the business; many stacks were abandoned;\\nonly those having the firmest financial basis stood the ordeal. A second, but\\ntransitory revival was created by the war, and from 1862 to 1865 iron com-\\nmanded booming prices. In 1866 and 1867, however, the reaction came,\\nand with it the final decay of furnaces in Clarion county Madison survived\\ntill 18/3, Monroe continued making a little iron at intervals till 1882, and Red-\\nbank went out of blast in January, 1883.\\nOf the thirty-one furnaces once flourishing here, and maintaining an in-\\ndustry which immensely increased the population, prosperity and wealth of\\nthe county, all except Redbank and Monroe are now no more. Some have\\nbeen leveled to the ground others remain as ruins, their venerable walls re-\\nsembling dismantled fortresses the ivy clad memorials of bright and busy\\ndays.\\nThe primary causes of the extinguishment of the iron industry in Clarion\\ncounty were 1st, The ill effects of the repeal of the tariff of 1842; 2d, De-\\ncline in the price of iron by competition of large coke and anthracite stacks.\\nThe following minor incidents conspired to the same end 3d, Depletion of\\ntimber; 4th, Increasing cost of ore from long drifts and hauls.^\\n1 In connection with the iron industry it is proper to mention here the almost forgotten fact that\\nClarion was once a shipping point, to which the forges in the central part of the State sent their bar iron\\nto be transported by water to Pittsburgh and the West. For this purpose Isaac Corbett built a wharf\\nand warehouse at Warehouse Riffle, a few hundred yards above the pump station. This traffic was\\ncarried on between 1830 and 35 the iron being hauled from Bellefonte by contractors living in Clarion\\ncounty, the owners, Shippen, Black, and others.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "ii6 History of Clarion County.\\nList of Furnaces.\\n1. Clarion Furnace, cold blast, on the Clarion River, a little west of the\\nmouth of Little Toby, built in 1829 thirty feet high by eight feet bosh own-\\ners Henry Bear and Christian Myers, afterward Myers alone, who in 1851 as-\\nsigned to Nelson Hetherington. Produced about 1,300 tons a year. Aban-\\ndoned in 1852 on account of difficulty of reaching ore and financial consider-\\nations.\\n2. Shippenville Furnace, hot blast, at the junction of Deer and Paint Creeks,\\none mile southeast of Shippenville. Owned by Richard Shippen and Jacob\\nBlack; erected in 1832; managed by Robert Montgomery and David Mc-\\nKim nine feet across the bosh by thirty- two feet high production, 1845?\\nabout 1,200 tons; 1856, 1,500; abandoned in 1859.\\nIn connection with Shippenville furnace there was a forge the only one\\nin the county. It stood a mile further down Deer Creek, and made altogether\\nfifty tons of bar iron.\\n3. Lucinda Furnace, built in 1833, on Paint Creek in Knox township, by\\nJames Humes and George B. Hamilton Humes became sole owner and failed.\\nThe furnace was purchased from John F. Steinman, Humes s assignee, in\\n1843, by Hon. James Buchanan, afterward president, and John Reynolds, of\\nCornwall, Lebanon county. They purchased at the same time 4,351 acres in\\nKnox township, consideration $20,500. Buchanan visited the furnace in\\nJune, 1843. It was afterwards leased to Reynolds and Nathan Evans; the\\nlatter managed it. The iron made at this furnace had a high reputation with\\nmill and foundrymen. The stack was hot blast eight feet bosh by thirty feet\\nhigh; produced in 1845 1,200 tons per year in 1856, about 1,500; abandoned\\nin 1858 on account of low prices and scarcity of timber.\\n4. Beaver Furnace, 1835, on Deer Creek, two miles from its mouth steam\\nand water hot and cold blast, the last blast was hot nine feet bosh, thirty-\\nthree feet high owned by Long, Blackstone Co.; output 1845, 1,200 tons;\\nin 1852, 1,500; abandoned in 1854.1\\n5. Madison Furnace, 1836, steam cold blast, situate on Piney Creek, two\\nmiles from the Clarion nine feet across the bosh thirty- two feet high owned\\noriginally by Mathiot, Miller Co., bought by Lyon, Shorb Co., managed\\nby Thomas McCulloch, Samuel Barr, Calvin Rankin, and M. Conrad pro-\\nduced, 1845, 1,000 tons; 1856, 2,500 tons of mill metal, out of argillaceous\\ncarbonate ores of the coal measures close by; in 1872, made 3,048 tons. Used\\nchills; abandoned, 1873, in consequence of^the panic of that year.\\n6. Jefferson Furnace, 1838, eight feet bosh, thirty feet high on Beaver\\nCreek at Jefferson Station built by Arnold Plumer and S. F. Plumer, the lat-\\n1 While in the Legislature Mr. D. B. Long, one of the firm, procured the passage of an act, for-\\nbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors within a radius of three miles from this furnace.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "The Furnaces. 117\\nter became sole proprietor managed by John Haslett. It was run very irreg-\\nularly produced, in 1845, 800 tons; in 1856, about 600 tons of forge metal\\nout of limestone and bog ores abandoned in 1858, chiefly on account of lack\\nof timber.\\n7. Clinton Furnace, 1841, on Hemlock Creek, in the extreme northwest\\ncorner of Washington township owned first by Clapp and Seymour after-\\nward by Samuel F. Plumer, manager, William HoUis nine and one- half feet\\nacross the bosh, thirty- three feet high; production, 1845, i,000 tons; 1856,\\n2,000; forge metal, out of fossil buhr-stone and fossil limestone, lower coal\\nmeasure ore, mined two miles south of the furnace.\\n8. Elk Smearkase Furnace, 1842, a small stack on Deer Creek one mile\\nabove Deer Creek furnace. First operator, William B. Fetzer, later, Kahl and\\nCall; bosh, seven feet,, height, twenty- two feet; production, 1845, about 700\\ntons 1854, 400 tons abandoned in the fall of 1855. At the time of its aban-\\ndonment its timber was exhausted.\\n9. Buchanan Furnace, cold blast. 1844, on the north bank of the Clarion\\nRiver, opposite Callensburg eight feet across bosh, thirty feet high owned\\nby Plumer, Crary Co., S. F. Plumer, F. G. Crary, of Kittanning, and Arnold\\nPlumer, of Franklin. F. G. Crary became sole proprietor about 1857. Aver-\\naged 1,200 tons a year abandoned 1858 its timber was then exhausted.\\n10. Tippecanoe Furnace, steam cold blast, named after Tippecanoe and\\nTyler too; built in 1844, by Black and Maxwell, and run by King and Max-\\nwell; situated on Canoe Creek, one and one- half miles above Eagle furnace\\nmade, in 1845, i.ooo tons of metal abandoned in 1851.\\n11. Mary Ann Furnace, cold blast, 1844, on Paint Creek, at the crossing\\nof the Franklin-Brookville turnpike built by John Black, Daniel Brenneman,\\nDavid McKee, and John Thom sold to John and Adam Black was eight\\nfeet across the bosh; produced in 1846, 1,100 tons of iron; abandoned in\\n1851.\\n12. Deer Creek Furnace, 1844, cold blast, on Deer Creek, at the pike\\ncrossing immediately west of Shippenville. First proprietors, Kerr and Hasson,\\nafterwards Mease Co.; abandoned, 1851.\\n13. St. Charles Furnace (originally Cocheco), 1844. ten feet across the bosh,\\nthirty-three feet in height situated on Leatherwood Creek, about two miles\\nfrom the Low Grade Railroad built by John and Samuel Wilson purchased\\nin the spring of 1846 by J. and P. Kerr, of Clarion leased in 1861 to Michael\\nMcCue, who operated it till 1865, when it was dismantled. Hot blast intro-\\nduced in 1857.\\nThis is the only furnace that employed raw coal, concerning which the\\nPennsylvania Second Geological Report, for Clarion county, says Though\\nessentially a charcoal stack, this furnace was run for one year on coke, made\\nfrom the Freeport lower coal, and for nearly a year on raw coal from the Free-", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "ii8 History of Clarion County.\\nport upper bed, which in this vicinity is of a block character. Innumerable\\nthin layers of mineral charcoal disseminated through the bed, divide the bitu-\\nminous portion into such thin laminae that any appreciable swelling or melting\\nof the mass is rendered impossible, and each lump preserves its shape until it\\nis entirely consumed. Production, 1845. i.oootons; 1 850, 2, ooo tons.\\n14. Wildcat Furnace (this was sometimes called Franklin), 1843, steam\\ncold blast on Wildcat Run, one mile southeast of Rimersburg seven and\\none-half feet across the bosh by twenty- eight feet high; built by Flick and\\nLawson sold to John L. Miller, of Pittsburgh, and James M. Freeman, of\\nClarion county. Production of 1845, about 1,000 tons of 1847, 1.380. Blown\\nout in 1857, but not abandoned till 1863.\\n15. Black Fox Furnace, 1844, steam hot blast; one mile from Allegheny\\nRiver on Black Fox Run, Perry township nine foot bosh, thirty feet high\\nbuilt by Welsh Co., subsequently owned by Adams Varnum (1848), Jones\\nCo., Joseph M. Thompson, I. M. Boyd and others. They failing in 1850,\\nthe furnace was bought at sheriff sale by Jacob Painter and others Samuel\\nBarr, superintendent. Production, 1845, 1,000 tons 1856, 2,000 tons. About\\n1858 the boiler exploded, killing one man and severely injuring several others.\\nThe furnace never resumed.\\n16. Pike Furnace, 1845, steam hot blast, near Wildcat Run, three-fourths\\nof a mile north of Lawsonham eight foot bosh by thirty feet high originally\\nbuilt as|^: a cold blast stack. First owned by Lawson, Duff Orr, afterward\\nowned and managed by Hunter Orr. Production of 1845 period, 1,700 tons;\\nof 1856, about 1,500 tons. Iron made from limestone ore, soft brown and hard\\nblue, in beds which crop out among the coal measures horizontally around the\\nfurnace. Suspended in 1858 for a while, blown out in 1868\u00e2\u0080\u009469; now entirely\\ndismantled.\\n17. Prospect Furnace, steam cold blast; built in 1845, o Cherry Run,\\none mile south of Callensburg, by H. Alexander and McElroy bosh\\neight feet, height, thirty feet sold to Moore, Painter Co.; managed by Will-\\niam Moore, one of the company manufactured in thirty-nine and one-fourth\\nweeks of 1856, 1,450 tons of mill- iron out of blue coal measure limestone ore\\nfrom many banks within three and one-half miles round abandoned in 1862.\\n18. Sligo Furnace, 1845, steam cold and hot blast; on Licking Creek near\\nSligo, in Piney township; owned by Lyon, Shorb Co.; William Lyon, of\\nPittsburgh, J. P. Lyon, resident at Sligo, Anthony Shorb, and Thomas Mc-\\nCuUoch, of Sligo. The furnace received its name from Sligo, near Pittsburgh,\\nwhere the company s iron works were situated changed to hot blast in 1857\\nemployed chills produced in 1845 1,500 tons; in 1856, 2,400 tons of rolling-\\nmill iron; abandoned in 1871.\\n19. Monoe Furnace, cold blast eight foot bosh by thirty feet high (inside);\\non Piney Creek in eastern Monroe township, on the road between Reidsburg", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "The Furnaces. 119\\nand Greenville original operator, Cochran Fulton, afterwards W. B. Fetzer\\nCo., now owned by Cochran Timblin eight by thirty feet inside produc-\\ntion of 1845, 1,000 tons of 1855, 1,250. This stack still stands went finally\\nout of blast in 1882.\\n20. Limestone Furnace, cold blast; built in 1845; eight feet wide across\\nthe bosh situated on Piney Creek in Limestone township owned by Jacob B.\\nLyon Co., and J. Painter, and G. B. Smith; it was abandoned in 1853 pro-\\nduced about 1,000 tons per year.\\n21. Martha (Polk 1) Furnace, 1845; steam cold blast; built by Christian\\nMyers it lies near Reidsburg, Monroe township Nelson Hetherington owned\\nand managed it most of the time. It was erected as a successor to Clarion\\nfurnace, where ore and timber were growing scarce. Martha furnace was pur-\\nchased by Lyon, Shorb Co., but never put in blast by them timber in its\\nvicinity grew scarce, and the stack was dismantled in 1856. Its approximate\\nproduction at first was 1,000 tons in 1854 it made 1,260 tons.\\n22. Hemlock Furnace, 1845 steam cold blast built by W. B. Fetzer and\\nMcGuire owned later by Horner Eaton, and finally by F. W. M. Faber,\\nof Pittsburgh seven and one-half feet across the bosh thirty feet high (in-\\nside) it was very close to Clinton furnace, on Hemlock; production of 1846,\\n2,000 tons; 1856, 1,200; abandoned about i860.\\n23. Licking Furnace, 1845 cold blast; on Licking Run near Lickingville,\\nWashington township seven and one-half feet by thirty feet high owned by\\nOhler Co., viz William Ohler, John G. Seigworth, John Myers, and John\\nKapp product of 1846, 1,200 tons later about 400 tons per annum; aban-\\ndoned in 1856.\\n24. Helen Furnace, cold blast; built in 1845, by Robert Barber eight foot\\nbosh, thirty- two feet high it was eight miles from Clarion, on the Scotch\\nHill road. On Barber Packer s failure the property for a short time was in\\nthe hands of David Richey, and was finally purchased by Samuel Wilson, with\\nwhom D. McKim was a partner for a while. Made in twenty- six weeks of\\n1856 756 tons of iron, from ore mined back of the tunnel head stopped man-\\nufacture in 1856 or 57.\\n25. Catfish Furnace, 1846, steam cold blast; eight feet across the bosh;\\nthirty feet high built by Over, Reichart and Lobaugh, on the Allegheny, at\\nthe mouth of Catfish, who failed in 185 1. The property was purchased by\\nAlexander Miller, and leased by J. L. Miller; managed by J. H. Kahl. It\\nmade in thirty- three weeks of 1856, 925^ tons of metal from carbonate and\\nred ores, taken from within a mile to the north.\\n26. Washington Furnace, 1846, steam cold blast; bosh eight and one- half\\n1 Judge Myers, the first proprietor, was an enthusiastic Polk man, and called his furnace after him.\\nWhen the tariff of 42 was repealed, and the change sanctioned by President Polk, Myers became dis-\\ngusted and would not suffer the furnace to longer bear his name. He therefore re-christened it after\\nhis wife, Martha.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "I20 History of Clarion County.\\nfeet thirty feet high (inside) owned at first by D. B. Long and H. Black-\\nstone subsequently by Lanier Co., of New York production of 1846, 1,000\\ntons blew out in the spring of 1855, having made 706 tons that year Wash-\\nington furnace stood on the southwest corner of Clarion township, a little north\\nof Monroe.\\n27. Richland Furnace, 1846, steam cold blast built by John Keating, of\\nPhiladelphia J. Vensel had an interest in the business for a while eight foot\\nbosh thirty feet high it is situated on a small branch of Turkey Run, in Rich-\\nland township made in 1854, 55, and 56, an average of 550 tons per year.\\n28. Eagle Furnace, cold blast, 1846; on Canoe Creek, a mile from the\\nClarion River was eight feet in bosh by thirty feet high built by Kribbs,\\nReynolds Curll operated by George Kribbs and Joseph B. Reynolds pro-\\nduced from 700 to 800 tons per annum abandoned in 1858.\\n29. Corsica Furnace (formerly Mt. Pleasant), built in 1849, by G. W. Cor-\\nbet, Solomon Cyphert, and George Reynolds; sold in 1850, to Gates Co.,.\\nof Kittanning, who in turn sold it to J. P. Brown eight feet across the bosh\\nthirty feet high; situate in Clarion township, northwest of Corsica, and a little\\nnorth of the pike made about 500 tons yearly out of ore close by.\\n30. Redbank Furnace, at the mouth of Redbank built by Thomas Mc-\\nCulloch, formerly of Lyon, Shorb Co., in 1859 Alexander Reynolds shortly\\nbecame a partner; McCulIoch was replaced by Moorhead, and the firm became\\nReynolds Moorhead. This stack was a successor to the old Redbank fur-\\nnace across the creek in Armstrong county. The first stack on the present site\\nof Redbank furnace was thirty-nine feet high, and eleven feet across the bosh;\\nsince it has been raised to a height of sixty-four feet, and its equipments have\\nbeen much improved and modernized. The old furnace used coke made in pits,\\nand produced an average of ninety-five tons a week at present there are forty\\ncoke ovens in connection with the plant, and the capacity is 150 tons of metal\\nper week.\\nThe ore, coal, and limestone are all found together on the river hillside\\nabove the furnace, and are carried down an inclined plane tramway to the ter-\\nrace or yard. The coal is prepared for coking by a machine capable of crush-\\ning and washing eighty tons per day. The hearth is of flagstone, and the tun-\\nnel mouth has a bell and hopper cover; the gases are conducted down a\\npipe called the down-comer, and distributed between the boiler and hot-\\nblast. An upright engine 225 horse power, sixty feet pressure, and five feet\\nstroke forces the air into the hot-blast and fan, and thence to the furnace there\\nare six boilers in a double-decked battery, three feet wide, and thirty and\\nforty-four feet in length.\\nRedbank Furnace, from the hands of Reynolds Moorhead, passed into\\nthose of Alexander Reynolds, and finally to Alexander Reynolds s Sons, the\\npresent proprietors. It suspended operations in January, 1883, but is expected\\n(February, 1887) to resume in a few months.", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Zi:yZJ^(P(^ [//^.^^I^^J^", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3603", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "From Iron Era to Civil War. 121\\n31. Sarah Furnace was completed in i860; erected by S. F. Plumer after\\nhis retirement from Prospect. It took its name from the wife of the proprietor.\\nSarah furnace stood on the Allegheny, at the bottom of the bend, about one\\nmile above Catfish; it used coke as fuel. Passed into the hands of Jennings,\\nMorey Co., and was abandoned about 1867.\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nFROM THE IRON ERA TO THE CIVIL WAR.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1845-1861.\\nMexican War The Underground Railway The Tornado of 60 Floods War Senti-\\nment Politics Statistics County Finances Old Fashioned Temperance A Fourth of\\nJuly Celebration Fox Hunt A Mass Meeting in 60.\\nTHE Mexican war excited little interest and less enthusiasm in Clarion\\ncounty. T. S. McCalmont, then a lawyer of Clarion, who was a West Point\\ngraduate, attempted to raise a company, but failed. Colonel Joseph W. Coul-\\nter obtained about fifteen signers to a volunteer paper not sufficient to effect\\nan organization. 1\\nThe Underground Railroad in Clarion County.\\nThe Underground Railroad was the title given by Southerners to the\\nsecret organized dispatch of escaped slaves, through the north to Canada, and\\nsafe northern points. Few, even among the oldest citizens, have known that\\nfor years there was a systematic transportation of fugitive slaves through Clar-\\nion county, in other words, that one of the main lines of the Underground Rail-\\nroad passed through this county that there were no fewer than four stations\\nhere, and that the conductors were among the most respected and substantial\\ncitizens of the county.\\nThe harboring and aiding of fugitive slaves was illegal (penalty by act of\\nCongress, 1850, fine not exceeding $1,000, and imprisonment not exceeding\\nsix months, also civil damages), and the greatest care was exercised to conceal\\nthe operations of the movement the conveyance of the slaves from point to\\npoint was necessarily done by night, and so circumspectly and secretly was\\nthe work carried on that it was rare for those engaged in it to know who the\\nagents were beyond their immediate stations.\\nThe slaves who passed through western Pennsylvania were all from Vir-\\n1 The following are all I have been able to di cover who went to the Mexican war from Clarion\\ncounty: Joseph Shaw, of Clarion James .\\\\Iooney, of Strattanviile, now of Clarion Rodebaugh,\\na boy drummer, of Monroe township Burns, near Curllsville.", "height": "3603", "width": "2325", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "122 History of Clarion County.\\nginia, and of the male sex. In escaping from their masters, they would start\\nsoon after nightfall, provided with horses whenever possible, and by the time\\ntheir absence would be discovered they would have considerably handicapped\\ntheir pursuers.\\nThe first assisted fugitives (six in number) arrived in Clarion county in\\nJune, 1847, from thence to 1855 they came from time to time, in num-\\nbers from two to seven. For our purpose it suffices to trace the links of this\\nmysterious chain back to Armstrong county.\\nRev. John Hindman was an Associated (Seceder) minister, resident near Day-\\nton he received and forwarded the negroes to William Blair, of Porter town-\\nship, this county. Mr. Blair in turn sent them on to Rev. John McAuley,\\na Seceder clergyman, of Rimersburg. It appears that the majority oi active\\nabolitionists in this vicinity belonged to that denomination, a sect whose mem-\\nbers, of the old school, were noted as men of strong and decided views, and\\nresolute in carrying out their principles.\\nMr. McAuley kept the contrabands in his barn, and under cover of dark-\\nness generally, sometimes in the twilight through by paths he, or his eldest\\nson, brought them to the house of James Fulton, a member of his congrega-\\ntion, who lived a little north of Rimersburg. Mr. Jackson Fulton, his son, in\\nspeaking of the first party, says One of these was a powerful man stood\\nsix feet, three or four inches, and weighed 240 or 250 pounds he told me that\\nfrequently when his master would go to whip him, he would catch him and\\nhold him, and thereby he escaped many a whipping. The last, a twain, came\\nin the spring of 1855. Mr. Fulton says One of these left a wife he told\\nme if the Lord spared him to get through he would return and steal her. I\\nsaid to him he would certainly be running a great risk. He said he would risk\\nhis life that they might enjoy their freedom together. Mr. James Fulton {^d\\nand cared for the fugitives, and then conveyed them by wagon to Benjamin\\nGardner, sr., of Licking township, two or three miles north of Callensburg.^\\nMr. Gardner was an ardent abolitionist.\\nThe next station was Elihu Chadwick s, of Rockland township, Venango\\ncounty, sixteen miles away. Mr. Chadwick had several rooms in his commo-\\ndious barn fitted up specially for the reception ol his dusky proteges. The ven-\\nerable Benjamin Gardner, jr., enables us to follow the fortunes of the last pair,\\nmentioned by Mr. Fulton. He writes He (his father) concealed them in\\none compartment until dark, and then escorted them by the underground train\\nto next station, but Mr. Chadwick was absent and father put them through\\nthat night to Franklin, twenty- five miles. He left his passengers at this end\\nof the bridge and went over to see if the coast was clear, and on returning\\nthe darkies were missing, but upon reconnoitering the place he found them\\nbehind the abutment near the water s edge. Poor fellows they thought they\\nwere abandoned.\\n1 Once or twice Mr. Fulton was bold enough to conduct them in liaylight.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "From Iron Era to Civil War. 123\\nThe Tornado of Redbank Valley.\\nOn the morning of May 30, i860, a tornado swept up the valley of the\\nRedbank, on its northern side, with disastrous effect, leveling houses and barns,\\nuprooting trees and causing considerable loss of life. In appearance it was a\\nlarge storm cloud of dense blackness, discharging little water, except along its\\nborders, where there were heavy showers of rain and hail accompanied by con-\\ntinuous flashes of lightning. The tornado varied in width from thirty rods to\\nhalf a mile. Where it was narrowest its force was greatest, and it ploughed\\nup the earth to the depth of two feet, hurled large stones through the air, forc-\\ning smaller ones into trees and wood to such a depth that they could not be ex-\\ntricated. The tempest had a rolling, bounding movement, vaulting through the\\nair at the height of about one hundred feet, and thus skipping portions of its\\nterrestrial path.\\nIt took its rise on the farm of Christopher Foster, in Sugar Creek township,\\nArmstrong county; ricocheted northeasterly over Madison township, that\\ncounty, doing comparatively little injury there, and crossed the Redbank near\\nthe mouth of Leatherwood Creek. Its dire force was first felt in Clarion\\ncounty, here, at the store of J. B. Hassen, which it wrecked. Hence it passed\\nup the valley of the small tributary of Leatherwood in a northeast by east direc-\\ntion. Mr. William Shoemaker s house was the next to suffer; it was swept\\naway with the exception of the rafters and the lower floor. Mr. Shoemaker\\nhad both legs broken; an infant was saved by being lowered through an open-\\ning in the floor. Neither the cradle in which the child had been lying, nor\\nany parts of the house, barn or spring- house were ever found. The orchard\\nwas uprooted and carried off, and stones driven into some stumps.\\nThe current seemed to follow the upper edge of the valley, hugging the\\nfirst range of heights, and maintaining a general parallel course with Redbank.\\nFlying embers from ruined houses set fire to barns, hay- mows, and stacks.\\nThese airy conflagrations were caught up by the cyclone and shot through the\\nair in streams, in many places blasting vegetation and burning woodwork.\\nThe awe- stricken people mistook these fiery meteors for electric flames, and\\ntheir appearance added to the terrors of the situation.\\nAnother peculiarity of the storm was, that as a rule, where it passed a few\\nfeet above the ground, groves of trees were prostrated with their tops turned\\ntowards the quarter from whence the tempest came, having been snapped off\\nnear the earth and wrenched around, so as to make it appear to the casual ob-\\nserver that the tornado had come from a diametrically opposite direction. This\\nwrenching effect, occasioned b}^ the revolving motion of the cloud, was also\\nseen in the moving of buildings from their foundations.\\nThe next victim of its rage was Valentine Miller. The superstructure of\\nhis log house was blown awa) but the family, huddled about the chimney.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "124 History of Clarion County.\\nescaped unhurt. The daughter of Thomas Dougherty, about sixteen years of\\nage, was killed by a falling log in attempting to escape from her father s house.\\nContinuing on its course, the destructive element leveled the homes of J.\\nM. Henry, Joseph Smith and John McMillen, wounding the occupants more\\nor less. Here the storm deflected slightly to the south, as the stream does.\\nNew Bethlehem fortunately escaped, the tempest passing half a mile north of it,\\ndestroying Charles Stewart s house and burning the barn. As the storm ap-\\nproached it burst the door open. Mrs. Stewart exclaimed What a storm is\\ncoming and attempted to close the door, but while so doing the full fury of the\\ntornado fell on the house and removed it some distance from its foundation. She\\nwas found lying between two rafters and beneath a heavy oak timber, whose\\ncrushing weight caused her death in a few hours. Her child, with its cradle,\\ndropped into the cellar and miraculously escaped the rest of the family were\\nhurled about in various directions, but not fatally injured. Stewart s barn was\\nignited by what appeared to be a fluid, two feet thick, borne along by a dark\\ncloud.\\nJohn Hilliard s house and barn were in turn destroyed. The family es-\\ncaped death by taking refuge under a bed, and were rescued from the ruins of\\na stone chimney, which had tumbled around them. From Hilliard s the tor-\\nnado appears to have leaped to John Mohney s, two miles distant, as we can\\ntrace no disasters in the interval. Mr. Mohney and his wife were absent at\\nthe time the children gathered in the cellar, the house was torn away from\\nabove their heads, but they escaped injury. A wheelbarrow here was found\\nlodged unbroken in the top of a maple tree seventy-five rods distant. John\\n-Shick and his horses were blown over and over through a field about half a\\nmile east of Mohney s, without serious harm. Jacob Hartzell s barn was razed,\\nand his house to the first story.\\nMaysville, then a village of about twenty buildings, is situated on a flat at\\nthe foot of a precipitous hill bordering the Redbank. But its sheltered location\\nwas of no avail. The tornado, as if endowed with a perverse, demoniac in-\\nstinct, instead of leaping over the stream from hilltop to hilltop, plunged sheer\\nover the bank, tearing up the ground as it went, into the doomed village. It\\nreached it about half past eleven A. M., and passed in a few minutes up the op-\\nposite heights, leaving ruin and death behind it. Not a structure escaped.\\nMrs. Irvin McFarland was fatally injured by a jagged timber driven into her\\nbreast. Ida McFarland, her two-year old child, was lying in her cradle when\\nthe storm struck the house, and afterwards could be discovered nowhere. A\\n_great mass of brick lay where the cradle had been, and the work of removing\\nthem began. After a number had been thrown off, a smothered cry under-\\nneath urged the frantic father to redouble his efforts when, lo the cradle was\\ndiscovered bottom up, and underneath lay little Ida, alive and unhurt, except\\nfrom a stray brick which had burned her arm. The wife of Mr. Haines, pro-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "From Iron Era to Civil War. 125\\nprietor of the inn, was severely injured and her child killed. David Bachman\\nwas struck by a wagon and killed. Mr. John Hess and family, Mary Farris, and\\nMathew Light (an itinerant daguerreotypist) were severely injured.\\nThe bridge across the Redbank here was torn away. Hess s grist-mill was\\ndestroyed one of the heavy buhrs was turned upside down, another carried to\\nthe dam, and the third fell into the mill pit.^ Mr. Haines s hotel was borne\\ndiagonally across the street and precipitated over the bank into the creek,\\nabove the bridge. The residence of Joseph Grabe was taken up bodily into\\nthe air.\\nThe tornado, after leaving Maysville, continued up the valley of the Red-\\nbank, but with abated violence, crossed the turnpike at Roseville, thence turned\\neastward, passed three miles south of Brookville, through Clearfield, Centre,\\nand Union counties, and reached the ocean on the Jersey coast. It was only\\nin Armstrong, Clarion, and Jefferson counties that it had the intensity of a tor-\\nnado elsewhere it was only a violent storm.\\nThis calamity, happily the only one of the kind in our annals, is estimated\\nto have destroyed $125,000 worth of property in Clarion county.\\nThere was a destructive flood in the Clarion and Redbank the second week\\nof October, 1847. -^11 the bridges over those streams were swept away.\\nThe greatest flood that ever occurred on the Clarion was that of Septem-\\n28-30, 1 86 1. All the bridges then existing on the river two near Clarion\\nand the Callensburg, were carried off, and an immense quantity of rafts and\\ntimber were floated down. Beech Bottom mill, in Elk county, and a dwelling\\nhouse were swept down by the waters, which ran at the rate of fourteen miles\\nan hour.\\nThe great frosts occurred on the nights of June 4 and ii, 1859, killing\\nnearly all vegetation, even to the leaves of trees. It was general over the\\ncountry, and for a while caused great distress. For a time flour commanded\\n$14 to $16 per barrel.\\nThe feeling on the outbreak of the war is best illustrated by an account of\\nthe proceedings of a mass-meeting, held at the county seat, as reported in the\\nBanner of April 26, 1861\\nAdjourned Meeting. The war meeting met according to adjournment,\\non Monday evening, 22d, in the Presbyterian Church. The crowd was very\\nlarge and enthusiastic. The opening address was made by Colonel Lamber-\\nton. A committee of nine was appointed to draft resolutions, and consists of\\nMessrs. Lamberton, Reid, Campbell, R. D. Lawson, Samuel Wilson, Jacob\\nBlack, Rulofson, Maj. Turney, and W. J. Reynolds. During the absence of the\\ncommittee, Amos Myers, esq., addressed the meeting and his remarks were re-\\nceived with applause. The committee on resolutions reported the following,\\nwhich were read and adopted\\n1 One account says that the book kept by the miller was found in Union county, one hundred miles\\ndistant. 9", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "126 History of Clarion County.\\nWhereas, Rebellious hands have been raised in armed violence against\\nthe legally constituted authorities of that Government, purchased with blood\\nand framed by the wisdom of our forefathers. Therefore,\\nResolved, That believing we truly represent the unanimous feelings of a\\npeople devoted in their loyalty to the Union and its government, we hereby\\npledge ourselves without reservation, to the maintenance of that Union and\\nGovernment, with all the means that God and nature have placed in our\\npower.\\nResolved, That prompt and effective measures should be at once taken, to\\norganize military companies in Clarion county, to respond to the wants and\\ncall of the government and we hereby recommend that means should be\\nraised to give aid and comfort to the families of those who gallantly march\\nto the call of their country.\\nResolved, That for the purpose of aiding the patriot cause in our midst,\\nof repressing lawless violence, of assisting in the military organization of the\\ncounty and, in short, of adopting such measures as circumstances may war-\\nrant, the following named citizens be constituted a committee of safety, who\\nshall be invested with all needful and necessary powers for the advancement of\\nthe public good.\\nThen follows a long list of the members of this committee.\\nThe said Committee to have power to add, alter or change the names\\nthereof as circumstances may warrant, and to organize immediately,\\nIt was suggested that all persons desiring to become members of either\\nof the companies now forming, should come forward and sign the roll. Sev-\\neral additional names were received. After the transaction of some unim-\\nportant business, the meeting adjourned in order to allow the companies to\\ncomplete arrangements.\\nMeeting of the Committee of Safety. In accordance with the meeting held\\non the 22d, the Committee of Safety met on the morning of the 23d and elected\\nthe following officers and Committees\\nJames Campbell, president; J. B. Loomis, vice-president; G. W. Arnold^\\nsecretary W. L. Corbett, treasurer.\\nFinance Committee. Amos Myers, C. L. Lamberton, James Sweney, R.\\nThorne, J. M. Freeman.\\nExecutive Committee. Geo. W. Arnold, B. J. Reid, D. B. Curll, J. B.\\nLyon, Chas. M Laughlin, Jas. Ross, Saml. Wilson, Jacob Black, J. P. Lyon.\\nRelief Committee. J. B. Knox, C. Kaufman, W. Alexander, W. T. Alex-\\nander, J. W. Coulter.\\nThe executive committe issued the following\\nCircular.\\nClarion, April 24, 1861.\\nSir War is upon us. Civil war, in stern and awful reality, already rages", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "From Iron Era to Civil War. 127\\nin our midst, and threatens to devastate the borders of our beloved Common-\\nwealth, Our revered our glorious flag has been fired upon and struck\\ndown by traitors to their country, and an insurgent army, headed by a rebel\\nchief, is marching against the Capitol itself The very existence, as well as\\nthe honor of our country, is at stake, and it behooves every citizen to be a pat-\\nriot, and to act a patriot s part now when our country demands, in an especial\\nmanner, our love, our fidelity, and our services.\\nClarion County should not be behind any of her sister counties in this mo-\\nmentous crisis. The love of country beats as warmly in the bosoms of her\\nher sons as it does in those of Jefferson or Armstrong. Yet the noble youth\\nand manhood of these and other counties have set us an example, in the alac-\\nrity with which they have responded to their country s call. Let us not sleep\\nat our post. Let us emulate their chivalrous conduct. Let it never be said\\nthat Clarion County has faltered in her duty, or hesitated in her action in such a\\ncrisis. Let us prove now, in the hour of trial, that we value as dearly as any\\nthe priceless legacy bequeathed to us by the patriots of the Revolution, and\\nthat we are ready to do our full share in protecting and defending it, and hand-\\ning it down unimpaired to posterity. Let us arouse to deliberation and to ac-\\ntion, each in his own sphere, and according to his means and opportunities,\\nand laying aside all former distinctions let us be united as one man under our\\ncountry s banner, and animated by one spirit, the spirit of earnest, patriotic,\\nself-sacrificing devotion to the Government, the Constitution and the Union.\\nIt is therefore, that the undersigned Executive Committee, acting under the\\nauthority of the County Committee of Safety, address this circular to you, con-\\nfident that you take an active interest in our country s cause, and that from\\nyour position and influence in your locality you can render efficient aid in pro-\\nmoting the objects for which the Committeee of Safety was appointed. These\\nobjects are\\nI. To call the attention of every citizen to the urgency of the crisis, and the\\nimportance of showing his fidelity and rendering his services to the country, in\\none shape or another.\\n2. To canvass every locality for efficient and patriotic volunteers, to form\\nthemselves into military companies in their own or adjoining neighborhoods,\\nfor drill and practice, so as to be in readiness for answering the call of the\\nGovernor whenever more troops may be needed.\\n3. To give assurance that ample arrangements will be made by the proper\\nCommittees for the support of the families of all who may enter the service.\\nIn addition to the Executive Committee, the County Committee of Safety\\nhave appointed a Finance Committee, to raise funds for this and other necessary\\npurposes, and a Relief Committee, to apportion the supplies of money, provisions,\\nclothing, c., among the families of volunteers. These Committees will ap-\\npoint and duly notify sub-committees in the different election districts, and you", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "128 History of Clarion County.\\nwill please request the citizens of your vicinity to contribute only at the call of\\nthose duly commissioned for that purpose by the Finance Committee.\\nWe enclose you herewith some blank muster-rolls to take charge of your-\\nself, and to put in the hands of active and earnest volunteers or military men\\nof your neighborhood, at your discretion. Let each man who holds a muster-roll\\nreport to Geo. W. Arnold, Secretary of this Committee, by mail or otherwise,\\nthe names of the persons enrolled, at the close of every week. This is impor-\\ntant. Where companies are formed or started, no matter how few in numbers,\\nthey should be urged to meet frequently for drill. The Secretary or any mem-\\nber of this Committee may be corresponded with or called upon at any time,\\nfor further information upon anything connected with these and kindred matters.\\nRelying upon your hearty co-operation in this important juncture, we are,\\nVery respectfully yours,\\nJames Campbell, President, George W. Arnold, Secretary,\\nB. J. Reid, J. Patton Lyon,\\nDaniel B. Curll, Jacob Black,\\nJames Ross, Samuel Wilson,\\nJacob B. Lyon, Charles M Laughlin.\\nExecutive Committee.\\nPolitics.\\nIn 1854 the Native American movement revived. George W. Zeigler, of\\nJefferson county (and Thomas McGee, of Clarion) were nominated by the\\nDemocracy of the district for the Legislature. Zeigler was elected by a sur-\\nprisingly heavy majority, and it transpired that the Democrats had been duped\\ninto voting for a man of Know- Nothing proclivities, and who had been secretly,\\nbut strongly supported by the Know-Nothing element. In 1855 the Whig\\nparty became completely merged in the Native American, and came out openly\\nas such. Their county ticket polled 1,630 votes, against an average of 2,075\\nDemocratic. 1856 saw the birth of the Republican party.\\nThe Free Soil, or Anti-Lecompton wing of the Democratic party, did not\\ngain large accessions in Clarion county. The majority of the leaders, the press,\\nand the machinery of the party were with Buchanan and the Lecompton con-\\nstitution and at the polls the masses fell into line. Even the leaders who took\\ncourage to proclaim themselves Anti-Lecompton, with a {q^n exceptions fin-\\nally succumbed to partisan pressure. Temporarily, though, the dissenters\\nwere respectable in numbers and influence. Judge Gillis, of Ridgway, had\\nbeen elected to Congress from this district. In canvassing the county he made\\nrepeated and emphatic pledges of his intention, if elected, to resist the admis-\\nsion of any more slave States to the Union. When President Buchanan, in\\n1858, sent in a message to Congress, recommending the admission of Kansas,\\nwith a slavery constitution, Gillis wavered between allegiance to the administra-\\ntion and fidelity to his pledges. In this dilemma he consulted his constituents.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "From Iron Era to Civil War. 129\\nHe addressed a letter, stating the difficulties of his situation, to Charles L.\\nLamberton, a leading politician of Clarion. Lamberton hastily summoned J.\\nB. Knox, J. C. Reid, James Sweny, B. J. Reid, and a few other local Democrats\\nof prominence to consult they unanimously agreed that Gillis s only course\\nwas to stand firm, and so advised him. The mail was kept open till a late hour\\nthat night in order that the reply might go the next morning. It appears that\\nGillis had similar advices from his other lieutenants but all in vain. The news\\nsoon came that Congressman Gillis had voted pro-slavery, and it aroused con-\\nsiderable indignation. When he ran the second time he was rebuked by de-\\nfeat. Chapin Hall, of Warren, was his successful opponent. The opposition\\nticket in this county ran as an independent one. B. J. Reid, of Clarion, and\\nR. S. McCormick, of Franklin, both Democrats, stumped Clarion county against\\nGillis.\\nOn September 7th, 1858, Senator Bigler addressed a Democratic mass-meet-\\ning in a speech, which was widely quoted.\\nThe leading Democratic politicians of Clarion county, in ante-bellum times,\\nwere Christian Myers, Amos Myers (till 1846) Charles Evans, Charles L.\\nLamberton, John Klingensmith, J. M. Fleming, Reynolds Laughlin, John\\nKeatly, J. S. Turney, D. B. Hamm, Patrick Kerr, Seth Clover, Peter Clover,\\nJames Sweny, Thomas Sutton, D. B. Long, Robert Barber (very active), John\\nKeating, Hugh A. Thompson, William T. Alexander, William L. Corbett\\n(Whig till 1857), David Morrell (a great worker and whipper-in), B. J.\\nReid, J. C. Reid, Daniel Delo, Rev. William McMichael, William Curll, J. B.\\nKnox.\\nProminent Whigs and Republicans James Campbell, D. W. Foster, G.\\nW. Arnold, Samuel Wilson, Jacob Black, Richard Shippen, G. W. Lathy,\\nGeorge Means, J. R. Strattan, J. B. Lawson (until Know-Nothingism).\\nIn 1848, for Congress, Joseph Thomas, Democrat, had 2,160 votes in Clar-\\nion county; James Campbell, Whig, 1,286; for president, 1848, Cass, Dem-\\nocrat, 2,306; Taylor, Whig, 1,372.\\nIn 1852, Pierce, Democrat, 2,642 Scott, Whig, 1,218. In 1854, Bigler,\\nDemocratic candidate for governor, polled 2,173 votes in Clarion county;\\nPollock, Native American, 2,015.\\nIn 1856 Buchanan had a majority of 938 in this county. 1859, Gillis polled\\n2,019 votes here Hall, 1,558, a falling off of 439 votes for Gillis, from his pre-\\nvious election.\\nIn i860 the Fusion ticket (a provisional Breckenridge-Douglas affair, which\\ndissatisfied many Democrats), had 2,030 votes Lincoln, 1,833.\\nBy a supplemental act, passed on the i6th of April, 1840, Clarion county\\nwas annexed to the Twenty-fifth Congressional District, composed of the coun-\\nties of Erie, Crawford, Venango and Warren and the same provided for its\\nrepresentation in the State Legislature with Venango county.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "130 History of Clarion County.\\nIn 1850 the Twenty-third Senatorial District was formed out of Armstrong\\nIndiana and Clarion counties, who were to elect one member.\\n1 1 In^i858 Clarion county became a part of the Twenty-eighth Senatorial Dis-\\ntrict, with Jefferson, Forest and Elk and at the same time Clarion and Forest\\ncounties were united to elect one member of the Legislature.\\nStatistics.\\nI Cc Population, 1850, 23,565. Acres of improved land, 1850, 107,317. Acres\\nof unimproved land, 111,504. Cash value of farms, $2,779,989. Value of\\nfarming implements and machinery, $160,202.\\nNumber of horses, 4,157 cows, 6,122; sheep, 26,868; swine, 13,150.\\nValue of live stock, $402,946.\\nWheat, [number of bushels raised, 165,060; rye, II2,0I0; Indian corn,\\n111,534; oats, 279,287; pounds of wool, 6 J }iO\\\\ potatoes, 42,936 bushels;\\nbuckwheat, 56,575 pounds of butter, 422,081 hay, 17,086 tons.\\nChurches, 1850: Baptist, 3 German Reformed, 8; Lutheran, 13; Pres-\\nbyterian, 12,; Roman Catholic, 4; Total 40.\\nPopulation, i860, 24,988.\\nThe lowest and highest number of actual sheriff sales between 1845 i 1861,\\nwere, 1846, ii 1852,36.\\nCounty Finances.\\nIn 1852 the militia fines received amounted to $788.50 1856, $172.07 were\\npaid for scalps; January i, 1861, the county treasury contained $9,882.83.\\nThe county debt was $875.05.\\nCounty finances between 1845 d 1862 were in a weak condition. The\\ntreasury was frequently unable to meet the demands on it, and county orders\\nwere for a while below par and liable to interest. Money was borrowed to\\npay for the erection of the court-house and jail, and to meet the current ex-\\npenses of the county.\\nClippings from Old Weeklies.\\nThe following thesis on total abstinence societies, from the pen of Rev. J.\\nM of this county, exhibits some curious reasoning r^ But if we discuss\\nthe character of the temperance society at all, we are under the necessity of\\nrunning into politics and religion both, from the original or proteus-like char-\\nacter of the Temperance Society, it having neither a civil nor ecclesiastical char-\\nacter, yet pretending to reform both Church and State. When struck at by\\nthe civil power, it contends that it is a blow struck at nothing, for they are\\nnot a civil body, when assailed by the Church, it denies that it is an ecclesias-\\ntical body, and that it is only a piece of wanton hostility. Thus you see, that\\n1 From Clarion Republican of March, 1842.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "From Iron Era to Civil War. 131\\nthe Temperance Society is perfectly amphibioics. When attacked on the land,\\nit will run to the sea. Then you know, that in catching such animals, we must\\ntrap on land and harpoon at sea, or they will escape us.\\nI have been led to beHeve that both Church and State are Divine insti-\\ntutions, and that they are as much superior to human institutions, as God is to\\nman because human institutions derive their character from man, but Divine\\ninstitutions derive theirs from God.\\nAgain I believe that God has given both to Church and State their own\\nappropriate duties and prerogatives, and has forbidden either to interfere or\\nmeddle in any way with the duties and prerogatives of the other.\\nNow let it be remarked, that although the Church and State are entirely\\ndistinct bodies, yet they are homogeneous bodies, that is, have a common origin,\\nand a common design or end. God is the author and giver of both, and God s\\nglory and the good of man, the end of both. But the Temperance Society is\\nnot of the same genns, it is perfectly heterogeneous. God is not its author, has\\nnot chosen it for the promotion of his glory or our good.\\nAnd now, if God does not suffer the Church to interfere with any of the\\nduties and prerogatives of the State, nor the State to interfere with any of those\\nof the Church, both being species of the same genus, can it be supposed that\\nhe will either acknowledge or bless the rude and rash meddUng of this amphib-\\nious heterogeneous progeny thdit is springing up in the nineteenth century, as\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2rampant as the locusts of Egypt and as fierce as the tigers of Bengal\\nNow, I suppose that the reason why God gave only two institutions to\\nman, is because he required only two kinds of duties, civil and religious, and\\nhe divided these duties between these institutions. assigning civil duties to\\nthe State, and religious duties to the Church. Each has plenty of its own kind\\nof duties to discharge and nothing more, and neither can attend to the duties\\nof the other, without neglecting its own. If He had required a third kind of\\nduties. He would doubtless have given a third institution.\\nHe then appends the constitution of the Self Examining Society, as organ-\\nized by himself, with one hundred members.\\nConstitution of the Self-Examining Society.\\nArticle ist. This society shall be known by the name of the Self- Ex-\\namining Society, and shall be composed of both sexes, whose heads and hearts\\nare capable of moral improvement, and to be auxiliary to the Germantown,\\nPhiladelphia county. Society of the same name.\\nArt. 2. This society shall adopt as its motto,\\nPractice before Precept.\\nArt. 3. The object of this society shall be, while we may see all other s\\nfaults, to feel and correct our own, to depress all manner of deceit and hypoc-\\nrisy, slander, and defamation, back-biting and evil speaking, with all that\\ntends to injure or defraud our neighbor, either in property or character.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "132 History of Clarion County.\\nArt. 4. This society shall be independent of all other societies, each\\nmember shall be vested with full powers and privileges to attend to his own\\nconcerns and that he make it his duty to mind his own business, and to let\\nothers mind their business. And no Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries,\\nSpies, Informers, or Committees of delegates shall ever be chosen by the so-\\nciety to watch over the conduct of others, or to make report upon their neigh-\\nbor s misdoings, until a thorough reformation shall have been commenced, first\\nat home.\\nArt. 9. Every member of this society shall be allowed to drink tea or\\ncoffee, cold water or hot water, rum, gin, brandy, wine, Jamaica, old West In-\\ndia, whisky, lemonade or butter-milk, as suits him best, or to chew or smoke\\ntobacco, or take snuff, when not offensive to the company he is in, without\\nbeing excommunicated from good society, or delivered over to the buffeting of\\nthose long faced Pharisees, or in other words, to those ravenous wolves in sheep s\\nclothing, (or sheep-skins).\\nArt. 10. No member of this society shall ever set himself above his fel-\\nlows, building his own character and consequence upon the ruins of a neighbor s\\ngood name. True it is, that two blacks will not make one white, and no mem-\\nber must ever attempt to hoist his own dingy character on the society of white,\\nby meddling with his neighbor s character, which may happen to be a shade\\nblacker than his own.\\nArt. 1 1. This society shall form no christian party in politics, and no po-\\nlitical party under the name of the self-examining society. And again, it\\nshall have nothing to do with free masonry or anti-masonry, colonization or\\nanti-colonization, missionary, bible, or tract societies, as being in any manner\\nconnected with it. Nor shall any religious creed, test or inquisition, council or\\nsynod, ever be established or countenanced by this society, but every member\\nshall enjoy his own religion, and allow all others the same liberty he claims for\\nhimself, without being pointed at as a heretic or branded as an infidel.\\nArt. 12. Good society shall not be formed out of the aristocracy of wealth\\nexclusively, nor made out of the popularity of swindling speculators, or of\\ncivil or religious professions but it shall include the poor, who are honest, in-\\ntelligent and industrious, as well as the rich.\\nArt. 13. The members of this society shall seek to do good and not evil\\nlove, and not hate each other and when reviled they shall not revile again,\\nbut they shall bear with the faults and infirmities of others, know that they\\nthemselves are men of like passions and imperfections. They shall respect the\\nvirtues and talents of all men, nor shall the honor and deference be overlooked,\\nwhich is justly due to the working part of the community, to the farmers and\\nmechanics, and to all whose honest labor is a public as well as a private benefit.\\nArt. 14. That every member of this society (if his conscience shall tell him\\nso) may cultivate and raise as much rye or other grain as he pleases, distilleries", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "From Iron Era to Civil War. 135\\nor not get his rye distilled and use his home-made whisky as a medicine, or\\ncommon antidote, and thereby depress the duty on foreign liquors. And if he\\nwishes to take a social drink, or to use it as a beverage, or in his harvest field,\\nor wherever he pleases, not to be daunted or in any way backward on account\\nbecause that his neighbor is a long faced Pharisee, or Teetotal disciple, but to\\ndrink when he sees fit so to do, and in the presence of any one, and not act the\\ninfernal hypocrite.\\nMajor John Camp struck out on a bold line in offering himself for the suff-\\nrages of the people, as follows\\nSheriffalty.\\nOflicers, soldiers, and fellow-citizens: The usual custom of advertising for\\nany office is to commence by being induced by a number of friends to offer\\noneself as a candidate for the office, c. But this is not the case with me I\\ncome out with my own free will and accord, and offer myself as a candidate for\\nthe office of SHERIFF, at the ensuing election. And as regards my claims to\\nthis office, I would say to the citizens of Clarion county that I have been a\\nresident of the county since it was organized, and a resident of that part of\\nVenango county now called Clarion, for nine years. I was also a regular\\nUnited States soldier for five years, and received an honorable discharge, and\\nI now offer^myself to the public for the above office, and if elected, I do not\\nsay, or pledge myself, that I shall perform any extrordinary duties of the office\\nwith favor, c., but will discharge the duties of the office according to the law.\\nYours Respectfully,\\nMaj. John Camp.\\niV. B. The custom has been heretofore for candidates to ride through the\\ncounty, electioneering. As drinking has become unfashionable, and being a tee-\\ntotaler myself, I do not intend to electioneer any in this way.\\nThe postscript indicates an attempt to inaugurate a praiseworthy reform,\\nbut, alas it was crushed under the heel of iron custom. Daniel Delo was\\nelected in this contest.\\nBy Mutual Consent.\\nCaution. Whereas, my wife R has, on sundry occasions, taken the\\nliberty of leaving my bed and board, to wander, I know not whither, and\\nwhereas, she still persists in going where she will, and doing what she will,\\nwithout giving any just reason for such obstinate, wild goose-like conduct and\\nwhereas, it is not in human nature to bear such growing ills without complaint\\nthis is therefore to notify those concerned that all partnership heretofore ex-\\nisting between the subscriber and the said R his wife, is this day dissolved\\n1 Iron County Democrat, June 8, 1843.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "134 History of Clarion County.\\nby mutual consent, and to caution the public against harboring or trusting either\\nof us on the other s account, from this date forth without further notice.\\nG G\\nRedbank tp., April 1st, 1843.\\nAn Old Time Fourth.\\nToby Township Celebration of the 4TH of July. The 67th anni-\\nversary of American Independence was appropriately celebrated at Cherry Run,\\nin Toby township, by the 6th Battalion of Volunteers, and a large number of\\nladies and gentlemen from the neighborhood and from the more distant parts\\nof the country. Some came on foot, some on horseback, and many in wag-\\nons, buggies, etc.\\nThomas F. Riley acted as President of the day, assisted by Daniel Ful-\\nmer, James Foster, William Means, and Francis Hilliard, Vice Presidents, and\\nRobert D. Lawson and George Means, Secretaries.\\nThe Battalion paraded at 1 1 o clock under the orders of Major P. Reed,\\nand performed a number of evolutions in its usual style of correctness and\\npromptitude. At 2 o clock the whole party, numbering about five hundred,\\npartook of an excellent dinner, prepared by the Battalion s committee of ar-\\nrangement.\\nWhen the table was cleared the Declaration of Independence was read by\\nJames B. Lawson after which a set of regular toasts, prepared for the occa-\\nsion, were read by one of the secretaries, and a number of individual toasts\\nand sentiments, accompanied by the firing of the artillery and the rifles of the\\nBattalion and the cheering of the multitude. During the proceedings, ani-\\nmated and spirit-stirring extempore addresses were delivered, by Messrs. David\\nR. Craig, James B. Lawson, and George Means, Esq.\\nAt an early hour in the evening the company separated, well pleased with\\nthe day s performance.\\nRegular Toasts.\\nI. The 4th of July ]6 The birth day of our national freedom a\\nproper observance of its anniversary is well calculated to keep alive the remem-\\nbrance of those who, in the time that tried men s souls, did by their united\\nwisdom, bravery, and patriotism, lay the foundation of our glorious republic.\\nThey only who feel no interest in recollections, will neglect the day.\\n2. The Heroes and Sages of the Revolution They achieved their coun-\\ntry s independence, and earned for themselves an imperishable renown.\\n3. The Memory of Washington He found his native country a mere ap-\\npendage to England he left her a glorious, free, and independent empire.\\nHis character is admired by all. But few, indeed, are his imitators.\\n4. The Memory of Adams and Jefferson They outlived the storms of the\\nRevolution they lived to see the full fruition of their hopes in the independent", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "From Iron Era to Civil War. i35\\nhappiness of their country, and on the anniversary of this most glorious day\\ntheir pure spirits ascended to receive the reward of their virtues.\\n5. The Union of the States\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Upon this depends our safety and our glory\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Seared be the eyeballs of him who would look with complacency upon any\\nproject for its dissolution.\\n6. The Rights of Conscience, of Suffrage, and of Opinion\u00e2\u0080\u0094 May they ever\\nbe cherished as the main elements of civil and religious liberty.\\n7. The Army and Navy of the United States.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In the support of the just\\nrights of their country they will never shrink from danger nor suffer a blot to\\ntarnish the National Honor.\\n8. West Point Military Academy\u00e2\u0080\u0094 An aristocratic institution which ought\\nto be abolished. It is anti-republican to confine the army appointments to\\nthose only who have received their education at the public expense.\\n9. The Militia System\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The main constitutional defense of our country\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Withered be the arm and palsied the hand that attempts to bring it into\\nridicule.\\n10. Agriculture, Domestic Manufactures, Foreign Commerce\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The first\\nsupplies us with necessaries, the second with comforts, and the third with lux-\\nuries. May they be fostered by Government in proportion to their intrinsic\\nmerits.\\nII. A General System of Education\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The foundation and pillar of civil\\nand religious liberty a properly educated people cannot be enslaved.\\n12. The Land we Live in\u00e2\u0080\u0094 It is our birthplace, our home, our country-\\nmay we be ever ready to defend it against foreign enemies and domestic traitors.\\n13. The Ladies.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Our patriotism is warmed by their approbation, and\\nour gratification increased by their presence at our national festivities.\\nVolunteer Toasts.\\nBy E. F. Lerch May the general mass of office-holders and office seek-\\ners in Clarion county be as zealous for the welfare of the county hereafter, as\\nthey have been for personal interest, and political popularity heretofore.\\nBy T. I. Elliott The memory of that gallant band, who, in that trying\\nhour, proclaimed our Independence in spite of British power.\\nBy Isaiah Fetzer May the numerous candidates for office in Clarion\\ncounty\\nStand firmly on their own feet,\\nAnd staunch in their own knees,\\nAnd in spite of unmanly strife\\nWe will vote for who we please.\\nBy Harvey Philips Education the balm of consolation, the mother of\\npeace, the foundation of civil society, preserver of liberty, the sword of religion,\\nand the safe defense of a nation may we ever see it prosper, and the time ar-\\nrive when its present enemies will all be its friends.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "136 History of Clarion County.\\nBy James Stitt The three greatest and best Generals General Peace,\\nGeneral Plenty, and General Satisfaction.\\nBy T. F. Riley The members of the 6th Battalion of Volunteers. Their\\nstrict discipline and correct moral deportment give a fair promise of future use-\\nfulness, whenever their services are required by their country.\\nBy J. B. Lawson A Protective Tarijf The sheet anchor of our pros-\\nperity to be truly independent we must protect the industry of our own\\ncountry.\\nBy D. R. Craig The Hon. John Q. Adams His history is the history\\nof his own country posterity will wonder at the ingratitude of his own gen-\\neration.\\nBy James Colwell.\\nAn independent nation with independent right\\nSecures to each a blessing, and gives to each delight,\\nAn independent dinner as we have had to-day,\\nWith the fairest of the fair that grace America\\nWe here do celebrate in peace and harmony.\\nThe 4th day of July, the 67th anniversary.\\nBy R. R. Means Citizen soldiers, the best safe-guard of republics as cit-\\nizen soldiers our fathers gained our liberties and as citizen soldiers we will\\nmaintain them.\\nBy James Pollock The Public Lands A fund provided by the wisdom\\nand foresight of our ancestors for the people. It is high time to apply it to\\nits legitimate object, and no longer suffer it to be used to corrupt the general\\nGovernment.\\nBy George Means Our Republican Institutions Founded by the wis-\\ndom and virtue of our ancestors upon the broad basis of equal rights it is a\\nsacred duty imposed upon us to guard them from pollution and transmit them\\nunimpaired to our posterity.\\nBy Emanuel Over May Virtue, Liberty and Independence continue to\\ncharacterize our happy nation, until the last shock of time shall bury the king-\\ndoms of the world in undistinguished ruin.\\nBy Washington Stitt Peace and honest friendship with all nations, en-\\ntangling alliances with none.\\nBy R. D. Lawson, Esq. The Ladies of this vicinity Theirs is the hon-\\nor of following the example of their Revolutionary mothers, by cheering the\\nsoldiers with their presence on all proper military occasions.\\nBy Francis Hilliard The 6th Battalion of Volunteers, gentlemen and\\ntacticians; may they always maintain their high standing as soldiers so mer-\\nitoriously gained.\\nBy Dr. J. M. Rankin The memory of the illustrious dead.\\nBy E. F. Lerch May temperance, morality, and true repubHcanism ever\\npervade the minds of American people.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "From Iron Era to Civil War. 137\\nBy Dr. J. A. Graff American jurisdiction, American rights, and Amer-\\nican liberty may these glorious privileges ever be defended with American\\nspirit.\\nBy Jonas Flick United independence of liberty, no submission of tyran-\\nnical integrity, free-trade or eternal war.\\nBy Adam Kester.\\nThe best of all business is this, when we find\\nEach man his own business himself for to mind,\\nThis carefully done each finds it is true,\\nTo mind his own business he s enough for to do\\nIhen take this advice, Independence prize high,\\nAnd celebrate always the fourth of July.\\nBy John Beck The people of our glorious Union may Liberty and In-\\ndependence run through and fill our breasts as the water fills the sea, and may\\nall that are opposed to liberty be lathered with aquafortis and shaved with a\\nhandsaw. 4 cheers and 100 guns.\\nGrand Circular Fox Hunt. We, the committee appointed at an ad-\\njourned Circular Hunt, held at Brinkerton, Saturday, 28th of January, i860,\\nhave agreed upon the following arrangement for a Grand Circular Fox Hunt/\\nto come off and be held and centre at John Brinker s, senr., on Saturday, loth\\nMarch next. First it is agreed that the former boundaries be established, and\\nfurther that the following persons be and were chosen Marshals of the day.\\nCol. P. Kerr, Grand Marshal, Assis t G. M., J. Y. McNutt, Wm. M. Ab-\\nrams, T. F. Newell, J. Alexander, Dr. W. Reicherdt, J. P. Lyon, D. Maclay,\\nW. T. Alexander, S. Young, C. L. Lamberton, Dr. J. T. Pritner, J. S. Turney\\nJ. Keatley, S. S. Jones, E. B. Orcutt, Dr. Jones, J. W. M Nutt, Evans R. Brady.\\nBrookville.\\nMarshals for the different points\\nPoint 1st Greenville. J. K. Lowry, Jos. Craig, C. E. Patton, D. John-\\nston, D. Craig, Aug. Craig, G. C. Harvey, J. A. Ogden, J. Sloan, jr., H. Say-\\ners, H. Rhodes, Thos. Sloan, S. Baird.\\nPoint 2d Rynard s. Jos. Cochran, J. Orr, D. Henry, Jos. Aaron, jr., W.\\nCyphert, A. C} phert, jr., J. Aaron, J. J. Orr, J. Rynard, H. Shultz, G. B.\\nMohney, G. Miller, D. Weckerly, P. Shingeldecker.\\nPoint 3d A. Rhodes s. Capt. Geo. Frazier, Jno. Wilson, J. Bish, J. S.\\nStahlman, A. Rhodes, A. Moore, J. Sayer, T. M llheny, J. Rocky, S. Stewart,\\nPoint 4th Brown s. S. Peoples, Jas. Mercer, J. Shick, M. Lucas H.\\nEader, jr., J. M. M WiUiams, H. Grube, A. Brown, N. Brown, H. Shick, F. D.\\nCampbell, S. dinger, P. Ferringer, P. Myers, I. M Farland.\\nPoint 5th\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bowersock s. J. Hilliard, D. Silvis, J. Mohney, N. B. McWill-\\nams, G. Bowersock, Jos. Hilliard, A. Hilliard, J. W. Shaffer, L. Bigley, J. Big-\\nley, Jno. Sayers, jr., Chas. Sayers.\\n1 Demoa-atic RegisUr, July 19, 1S43.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "138 History of Clarion County.\\nPoint 6th\u00e2\u0080\u0094 R. W. Nutt s. Jos. Appel, W. M Nutt, A. Slagle, W. Slagle,\\nJ. A. Magee, D. Mohney, Jno. Himes, Jos. Conger, A. Shankle, Wm. Moore^-\\nF. M Nutt, S. Lowrie, J. Beaty, Sol. Silvis, Craig Sayers.\\nPoint 7th Musser s. A. Payne, Dr. Criswell, I. Musser, M C. Henry, J.\\nLatimer, J. Tosh, Jas. Goheen, W. Michael, W. Kirkpatrick, D. Goheen, Jas.\\nGoheen.\\nPoint 8th S^. Charles Furnace. Dr. H. M. Wick, R. M. Corbett, Jos.\\nHutton, Guyer Delp, R. M Cue, J. Kew, T. Helper, G. Pence, P. Knight, Wm.\\nM Clelland, J. Laughlin, Ab. Wyant, G. T. Henry, T. Armagost.\\nPoint 9th Bittenbender s. H. Male, T. Henry, H. Boyles, P. Bittenbender,\\nN. Lerch, W. S. Beck, C. Brinker, G. Hamm, P. K. Hamm, W. L. Johnson,\\nJ. Bittenbender, C. M Nutt.\\nPoint lOth Churchville. W. Miller, J. Armstrong, J. Edmonds, J. E.\\nKaster, J. Lee, Jos. Hamm, D. B. Hamm, L. Pritner, M. Turney, A. Fox, S.\\nNewell, D. Sarby, J. Hamm.\\nPoint iith Delp s Cross Roads. Jos. Kuhns, T. Brown, G. K. Magee,\\nH. R. Frampton, Maj. Keever, Robt. Henry, M. Fulton, G. W. Fulton, Wm.\\nIrwin, P. Kribbs, Jacob Kifer, T. Parsons, sr., D. H. Parsons, David Small, J.\\nDelp, Wm. Beaty, Jno. Bigley, R. Shirey.\\nPoint 1 2th Smith s Mills to place of beginning. Callen Painter, R.\\nM Cormick, Jno. Connor, J. G. M Cammont, L. Guthrie, S. Pierce, G. Smith,\\nT. Allison, B. Allison, T. Williams, Alf. Strickler, P. Williams, L. Gibson, H.\\nBaker, Henry Eader, C. M. Sloan, Wm. C. Sloan, S. W. Jones.\\nThe duty of each Grand Marshal shall be to confer with their assistants\\nfrom each of the different points most convenient to their appointees, so as to\\nstart precisely at 10 o clock, and scatter so as to form as perfect a circle as pos-\\nsible, and travel in good order, stopping at straw circle within half a mile of\\nclosing point. Every person is prohibited from using fire-arms no dogs are\\nallowed to run loose until the inner circle is closed. A signal will be given at\\nthe proper time for closing, as well as starting in the morning.\\nThe Bugle will commence sounding at Greenville, and sound both ways\\nfor the time of starting.\\nThe lovers of sport are determined to have it, independent of what may\\nbe procured in the circle, having now on hand three live Foxes and offer two\\ndollars a head for four more delivered uninjured, within a week of the chase, to\\nthe Committee. 1\\nJames Steuart.\\nJohn C. M Nutt.\\nJohn M. Brinker.\\nTo complete the series we will illustrate Politics (and the Art of Reporting)\\nin 60\\n1 Clarion Democrat, February 24, i860.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "From Iron Era to Civil War. 139\\nStrattanville Mass Meeting. Decorations, Banners, Speeches, c.\\nOne of the greatest political gatherings ever witnessed in this county was\\nheld at Strattanville on Thursday, Oct. 25th. The weather for a few days pre-\\nvious presented unfavorable indications, but that morning the Eastern horizon\\nwas illuminated by the rays of an October sun casting its shadows over the\\nAutumnal scenery, rendering to the expectant people the pleasing knowledge\\nthat the smiles of an all-wise Providence favored on this occasion their wishes.\\nIn point of numbers as well as enthusiasm it has never been excelled in\\nthis county, even by the grand, unterrified Democracy of this Berks of the\\nWest It was the inauguration of a series of meetings, that is destined to carry\\ndismay into the ranks of the dissatisfied, discordant and belligerent nigger-\\ndriving Democracy of this county. This was the place of universal consent,\\nwhere the great Republican Rally should be held, being the borough in the\\ncounty giving the largest majority for the Gubernatorial and Congressional\\ncandidates.\\nThe following call was published in the Banner, aside from a printed bill^\\nextensively circulated throughout this and the adjoining county\\nLincoln, Hamlin and Victory\\nGrand Mass Convention at Strattanville, on Thursday, October 25th, i860.\\nAll persons in favor of Free Homes, Free Men and Free Speech, turn\\nout in your might for Lincoln and Hamlin. The Wide Awakes of the whole\\ncountry will be present. And a Grand Torch Light Procession will take place\\nin the evening, c.\\nIt was the most impressive, spirited, dignified and picturesque manifesta-\\ntion that has ever been made by the people of this county to the hearty devotion\\nof the interests of that party which will protect the laboring man in all branches\\nof industry. The very appearance of so many true, honest voters, avowing\\ntogether their adherences to that mighty man of Springfield, Illinois, who will\\nguide the Ship of State for four years, hereafter, was calculated to excite in\\nthe minds of earnest Republicans and liberal Democrats, great enthusiasm.\\nGreat credit is due to the citizens of Strattanville for the manner in which\\nthey acquitted themselves. By persistent, hard work, they accomplished what\\nis done in few towns of the same population. Despite the unfavorable reports\\nas to numbers, they prepared to receive all in such a manner that demonstrated\\ntheir feelings were enlisted in the cause and we are glad to announce they\\nrendered universal satisfaction. From personal observation, we can attest to\\ntheir ceaseless working on the day and night of Wednesday not to mention\\nthe preceding days, of which we are credibly informed were wholly occupied\\nin preparing devices, emblems and decorations, which we will describe here-\\nafter.\\nAt an early hour the different avenues leading to the village were thronged", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "140 History of Clarion County.\\nwith gaily dressed men and women (in their holiday attire), to witness the gor-\\ngeous spectacle existing in their imaginations, which was soon after exempli-\\nfied in reality. By 10 o clock the different delegations approached, added con-\\ntinually to the increasing procession and the never ceasing shouts that went\\nup from thousands of voices, greeting their brother Republicans in thunder-\\ntones, bespoke in stronger Saxon than we can indite with the feeble pen, that\\nthe people of Clarion county, in sympathy with other Democratic strongholds,\\ndesired to relieve that old Corrupt Public Functionary from his position, and\\nsubstitute a man capable of administering the Government on principles not\\nsectionally. The display confirmed it. It was a scene that will not be eradi-\\ncated from the minds of those who witnessed it until they cross the deep valley\\nwhose shadow is death.\\nThe streets were lined with ladies, attired in costume most becoming for\\nthe day, presenting a sight of rare beauty and the bevy of ladies congregated\\nin different places added animation to the scene, and this gave an emphatic\\nrecognition to the claims of Abraham Lincoln from the ladies of Clarion county,\\nwhose waving handkerchiefs gave an impetus to the gathering. With excus-\\nable inefficiency the marshals were unable to get the vast crowd together be-\\nfore the hands of the clock pointed to the hour of one. Before giving an outline\\nof the procession, we will briefly describe the decorations of the town At the\\nWestern end there was a wreath suspended across the street, on which were\\nfive circular wreaths, and Lincoln in letters 14 inches in length, composed of\\nevergreens. Farther down, near the center of the town were two beautiful\\narches extending across the street, with round wreaths hanging to the middle\\nand sides. Below this is a 40 foot flag inscribed Lincoln and Hamlin, Presi-\\ndent and Vice President. In the Eastern portion of the town there was an\\narch differing from the others in regard to shape, they all being composed of\\nhemlock branches. Also a wreath with no inscription another arch beauti-\\nfully prepared, requiring much labor to get it up, with Lincoln in letters\\ncomposed of spruce. Several private houses were adorned in a manner highly\\ncreditable to the cause. The speaker s stand in the centre of town was embel-\\nlished by a long wreath, two circular wreaths and an arch, composed of ever-\\ngreens and Autumnal flowers. One full length steel engraving of Washington,\\none of Henry Clay, a bust of Washington, c.\\nAt last Grand Marshal Barber succeeded in bringing into line the follow-\\ning delegations (assisted by 21 marshals.) Sligo and Curllsville Wide Awakes,\\nunder command of H. W. Longwell, drawn by six two horse teams one team\\nof four horses. Caps, capes, lamp posts, miner s lamps, c., preceded by the\\nClarion brass band. Then came the Clarion township delegation drawn by\\none six horse team two wagons forty-four one horse buggies three two-\\nhorse carriages, bearing banners with various mottoes, which, in the hurry of\\nihe moment we were unable to procure. Next followed the Jefferson county", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "From Iron Era to Civil War. 141\\ndelegation, which consisted of nine yoke of oxen drawing one wagon, contain-\\ning two men making shingles, which were distributed along the streets, calling\\nforth the loudest plaudits from the assembled thousands; one four-horse team\\nsix two horse wagons two Phaetons; one rockaway; two one horse carriages\\ntwenty- three horseback riders. We might just here say, that on account of\\nall appearing equally well, it would be difficult to bestow praise on any one\\ndelegation.\\nNext followed the Porter and Limestone township delegations (majority\\nbeing from Porter). This consisted of five assistant marshals four, four-horse\\nteams, finely decorated with evergreens, bearing flags with appropriate mottoes,\\namong which we noticed Hurrah for the Rail-Splitter. Two teams of two\\nhorses each one buggy then came in order ten ladies on horseback from\\nStrattanville Helen and Mill Creek townships came in with a band of music\\nten men on foot four marshals fifteen yoke of oxen, driver for each yoke.\\nThe Garibaldi Wide Awake Club, of Strattanville next appeared, drawn by six\\nhorses, in three teams, without uniform. (This company having sent off for\\nthe regalia, were disappointed in receiving it in time for this occasion). The\\nStrattanville brass band drawn by four horses was followed by two wagons,\\nfilled with the precious freight of thirty-three little girls, in snow white dresses,\\nrepresenting the several States and one other larger girl on horseback, dressed\\nin mourning, emblematical of Kansas, entirely deprived of admittance into the\\nGlorious Confederacy of these United States on account of her hostility to\\nDemocracy twelve young ladies did a considerable quilting, which attracted\\nmuch attention, and they were frequently greeted with cheers. A regular\\nblacksmith shop was erected on a wagon drawn by two horses. Another\\nwagon contained a saddler making girths, and during the time consumed in\\nmarching and counter-marching, we learned twenty-two were manufactured\\nalso in this conveyance was a boot and shoemaker, who endeavored to keep\\nup the reputation of the craft for work. Five men in one wagon following\\nwere engaged at the various trades enumerated below. One geared a wheel\\nanother put together a bedstead, with an assistant while the fourth prepared\\na threshing machine cylinder with a chisel, the crank being turned by the fifth.\\nAll the mechanics in the last wagon described wore white hats, to the infinite\\namusement of the entire party. Immediately following was represented an oil\\nderrick, in full tide of successful operation, attracting from its novelty much\\nattention. The grand feature of the day was thirty-two yoke of oxen, drawing\\na wagon containing the rail- splitters, who mauled plenty of rails and distrib-\\nuted them along the streets, each yoke of oxen attended by a driver, with\\nchapeaus a la Napoleon. For want of space we are compelled to omit a de-\\nscription of several wagons. The Pike Furnace Wide Awakes made a very\\ncreditable display, belated it is true, but on account of the distance they came\\nwere received more cordially. In the evening, after the torch-light procession\\n10", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "142 History of Clarion County.\\nthe citizens of Strattanville tendered them a supper, which was accepted and\\npassed off finely. They were forty-eight in number, accompanied by a mar-\\ntial band five two horse teams one four horse wagon horses adorned with\\nplumes tipped with red. They counted ninety-six wagons and buggies as the\\nseveral delegations came in, but in the large procession they were not all out,\\nas the more timid expressed their fears of accommodations in the thronged\\ncondition of the town.\\nThe crowd was variously estimated, and conflicting opinions expressed in\\nregard to the number of thousands, but we will not discuss that point here.\\nAt length after the inner man was bountifully supplied, the assembled thou-\\nsands congregated about the stand Sanmel Wilson, of Strattanville, called the\\nmeeting to order by appointing Hon. C. Myers, President, who was assisted by\\na large number of Vice Presidents several Secretaries were nominated, and\\ntook their respective stations. The President returned thanks for the honor of\\npresiding over so vast an assemblage of Republicans, and congratulated them\\non the result of the last election he would not make a speech (cries of go on)\\nto the great crowd here if there were but twenty of them present in a log\\nschool-house he could do better. He then introduced G. W. Lathy, Esq., who\\nwas received with three hearty cheers. He delivered in an hour one of his\\nlearned, powerful and pleasing speeches on the various topics of the day, which\\nwas listened to with great attention we are sorry our space will not permit\\nus to publish it entire, as furnished us together with the synopsis of the other\\nspeeches. Mr. Hickok, Ex-State Superintendent, then followed. The balance\\nof the speakers were Messrs. Finley, Craig, Amos Myers, C. Myers, of Clarion,\\nand M. A. Dowling, of Jefferson.\\nThe torch-light procession was a brilliant display, although it was not so\\nlarge as expected, being one hundred and sixty lamps and twenty-two trans-\\nparencies. The proceedings did not terminate until a late hour.\\nCHAPTER Xni.\\nTHE SOLDIERS OF CLARION COUNTY IN THE REBELLION.2\\nIntroduction.\\nIT has been said that human history never has been and never can be written.\\nLet this sentiment here apply. The history of Clarion county s soldiers\\nnever has been written, and it never can be written in such a manner as justly\\n1 Clarion Banner November 2, i860.\\n2 This and the following chapters, giving the history of Clarion County military organizations in\\nthe War of the Rebellion, are ]ireparecl by Mr. W. A. Beer.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "Clarion County in the Rebellion. 143\\nto pass down to future generations all that was done by them worthy of emu-\\nlation, or deserving of condemnation.\\nEvery community has a history which history, if written, would not all be\\nclean, honest, noble, and inspiring. It could not be. A true history is a record\\nof motives and purposes that bring about events, as well as a record of tran-\\nspired events. Alas too often, therefore, history, if truly written, would bear\\nupon its pages the sophistical palaver of the knave, and the untempered har-\\nangues of the fool the unjust murmurings of disappointed ambition, and the\\nunwept tears of broken-hearted love the midnight skulkings of the coward^\\nand the inhuman acts of the villain and the murderer.\\nConcerning a community of 24,988 souls, which was the population of\\nClarion county in i860, posterity would .scarcely expect to find the history of\\nthat community s nearly three \u00e2\u0080\u00a2thousand soldiers to be entirely without some\\nof those darker pages. As they went forth to the struggle well might it be\\nsaid\\nSome few may cause a noble wife to weep\\nSome few may break a mother s Spartan heart\\nSome few may fail their martial vows to keep\\nSome few, too weak, may play the coward s part\\nBut see the Heroes in that band\\nHeroes, indeed The writer has in mind instances of suffering and devotion,\\nof patriotism and bravery, and of complete and perfect manliness as exempli-\\nfied by the lives of some Clarion county soldiers, that would stand in splendor\\non history s page side by side with the most notable exploits of the soldiers of\\nMiltiades at Marathon, or those of Leonidas at Thermopylae, or of those of\\nNapoleon at Austerlitz. It is a truth of history, for which every true son of\\nClarion county has cause to be proud, that the number of dishonest men, cow-\\nards, or worse men, who went to the war from Clarion county was exceedingly\\nsmall.\\nBelieving that human inspirations and aspirations are identical the world\\nover, when human beings stand on the same plane of civilization and enlio-ht-\\nenment, it is reasonable to conclude that soine of our soldiers entered the army\\nfor gain, and some for mere adventure. It has been so in all time. Men have,\\nin other times, walked over the ground sanctified by the blood of the slain, to\\ngather indications of a deal, and why not some of these Men have, in\\nother times, shared the prison of comrades and intensified that prison s damnable\\nmemories by setting unnatural and unholy prices upon that which they had\\nto sell to a suffering companion, and why not some of these Men Have\\nin other times, stolen a fellow soldier s meager pay, or stolen away from duty\\nwilling to be known as a deserter, and why not some of these\\nSome did make for themselves records like these in the memories of their\\ncomrades, and that fact emphasizes the grandeur of the lives of the great ma-\\njority, who had kindled upon their hearthstones the fires of patriotism long\\nbefore they ever thought of seeing them burn upon the battle-field who would", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "144 History of Clarion County.\\nscorn to traffic for profit where the dead were buried or where the wounded\\nsuffered, while they were not armed and equipped to defend the flag who\\nshared their last pinch of salt, for nothing, with a comrade who would sooner\\ndie than rob a soldier and who would rather stand by the flag and suffer than\\nforsake it.\\nThe following rolls are an eloquent tribute to the twenty-nine hundred men\\nand more whose names constitute the honor roll of Clarion county. The man\\nwho deserted because he expected to get bounty by returning, certainly de-\\nserved a death ignominious. The man who fled the carnival of death because\\nof mortal terror, deserved to be pitied. God made him as he was. The man\\nwho forsook the flag, fearing that his loved ones at home would not be cared\\nfor, might well renounce his share of the government in which he had not faith\\n.enough to trust it with his all. These things are all a part of the history of\\nthe wars in which mankind participates.\\nTo judge of the deed, the motive should be known, so if by the following\\npages any one soldier is shown in the light of facts to have been not a true sol-\\ndier, it is hoped that the mantle of charity will be thrown over the errors of\\nboth the living and the dead, to the end that the descendants of the dead may\\nnot feel the iron in their souls, but may be loyal, patriotic, brave and useful\\ncitizens and that the undutiful living may live down the mistakes of the past\\nand bequeath to their children a correct conception of duty to our country.\\nThe noble women of Clarion county who kept watch by day and vigil by\\nnight during these four deathless years, deserve a more fitting tribute than this\\npoor pen can give. Their reward is for the future.\\nThe sturdy yeomanry who remained at home to work and to encourrge the\\nbereaved ones, and care for the widow and the orphan, and do the duties that\\ndevolved upon them as civilians, are worthy of commendation, and no true history\\nwill question the motives or challenge the sentiments of that honorable class of\\nour population, unless perhaps it might be to call in question the loyalty of some\\nparticular individual or individuals. With the hope that this sketch of the mil-\\nitary achievements of the men of Clarion county may have a correct influence\\nupon posterity, it is respectfully dedicated to the soldiers of Clarion county, by\\ntheir friend, THE Author.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "Company H, 37TH Regiment. 145\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nCOMPANY H, THIRTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT EIGHTH RESERVE,\\nOrganization Service in the Field Roll of the Company.\\nCOMPANY H, of the Eighth Reserve, was the first company recruited in\\nClarion county with a view to entering the war. It was recruited at Strat-\\ntanville April 30, 1 861, by Captain William Lemon, at which time fifty-four men\\njoined the company. Before being mustered into the State service at Pitts-\\nburgh, about the 28th of June, the company was increased to seventy-five men,\\nand when mustered into the United States service at Washington on Meridian\\nHill, July 27, 1861, it numbered eighty-four men.\\nCompany H was recruited for the three months service and proceeded from\\nClarion to Camp Wilkins near Pittsburgh. It was not accepted. It removed\\nfrom Camp Wilkins to Camp Wright, twelve miles above Pittsburgh on the\\nAllegheny River. Here it remained with forty-two other companies, which\\nhad been recruited for three months service, but not accepted. None of the\\ncompanies, except those belonging to the Erie Regiment, had any regimental\\norganization. Colonel John W. McClane was in command of the camp. Early\\nin June General McCall visited the camp and selected the companies to form\\nthe Eighth Regiment. Captain Lemon s company was designated as Company\\nH of this regiment, and on the 28th of June it was organized and officered as\\nfollows George S. Hays, M. D., of Allegheny county, colonel S. D. OH-\\nphant, lieutenant-colonel, and J. B. Gardner, major.\\nThe regiment having been armed and uniformed at Camp Wright, it was\\nordered to Washington on the 20th of July. By rail it went to Harrisburg;\\nthere it received other equipments, and proceeded thence to Baltimore. At\\nBaltimore it received tents, and then went on to Washington, where it arrived\\nJuly 23, and went into camp on Meridian Hill, where it was mustered into the\\nservice of the United States, July 27.\\nIt remained here till August 2, when it was ordered to the Reserve Camp\\nat Tenallytown. At Tenallytown the Eighth was assigned to the First Brigade,\\ncommanded by Brigadier General John F. Reynolds. At this time the Eighth\\nnumbered eight hundred and ninety men, armed with muskets of improved\\npattern and with rifles. Company H numbered eighty-two men it had eighty-\\nfour when mustered in July 27, but two had deserted July 29, leaving the num-\\nber stated. Soon after being assigned to the First Brigade the regiment was\\nordered to support the Seventh, which was on picket duty at Great Falls, and\\nwas being shelled vigorously by the enemy. The Eighth remained on duty in\\n1 Bates says in roster of Company H, on page 778 that John H. Beck was recruited April i. This\\nseems to be an error; however, it is not important, and if correct the company numbered fifty-five on\\nthe 30th of April.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "146 History of Clarion County.\\nthat vicinity several days, and during that time Company H was initiated into\\nthe hardships, but not into the horrors of war; that ordeal was reserved for it\\ntill after having experienced the vicissitudes of a winter in camp, as a part of\\na mighty invading army an army destined to be a triumphant and magnani-\\nmous army, in the achievements of which Company H, with the other twenty-\\nfive companies recruited wholly or in part in Clarion county, was to bear such\\na part as could only be borne by an efficient organization of patriotic men.\\nOn the 9th of October the regiment crossed the Potomac to Langley, Va.,\\nand took position, with the division, in line with the Army of the Potomac.\\nHere it went into winter quarters. While in its winter camp the Eighth was\\nthoroughly drilled and instructed by its officers. On the 20th of December,\\nthe regiment, with the brigade, marched five miles to Difficult Creek, but hear-\\ning the guns of the enemy who had engaged the Third Brigade at Dranesville,\\nGeneral Reynolds started with his brigade on a double quick to assist General\\nOrd. He reached the field in time to see the steady fire of Ord s victorious\\ntroops scatter the rebels and drive them from the field.\\nAfter breaking up winter quarters the regiment moved to Hunter s Mills,\\nand, under orders to concentrate to embark for the Peninsula, thence to Alex-\\nandria. While encamped at Alexandria the division was attached to McDow-\\nell s First Corps, and remained in front of Washington, going from Alexandria\\nto Manassas, thence to Warrenton Junction, and thence to Falmouth. From\\nFalmouth, Reynolds moved across the river and occupied Fredericksburg, and\\nthen commenced an advance on the Richmond and Potomac Railroad. The\\nbrigade was then recalled, and sent by water to the Peninsula. The regiment\\nlanded at White House, and joined McClellan s army at Gaines s Mill.\\nMeantime on the 20th of May, 1862, before embarking. Lieutenant Wetter,\\nof Company H, was promoted to adjutant. Adjutant Wetter was well known\\nthroughout Clarion county as Major Wetter.\\nJune 26, 1862, at Mechanicsville, the Eighth entered upon its stern work of\\noffering human life upon its country s altar. On that day began the terrible\\nexperience of guard, and march, and struggle^ and bivouac for Company H.\\nDuring the Seven Days fight Company H had some severe fighting at Me-\\nchanicsville, Gaines s Mill, White Oak Swamp, and Charles City Cross Roads.\\nColonel Lemon, Adjutant Wetter, and Lieutenant A. H. Beck were wounded\\nat Charles City Cross Roads, June 30, 1862. Adjutant Wetter was subse-\\nquently wounded, with loss of leg, at Thoroughfare Gap, August 18, 1862, and\\nhe resigned December 28, r863. Colonel Lemon was mustered out with the\\nregiment. May 24, 1864.\\nAt Bull Run, Hiram McKendree was killed August 29. At South Moun-\\ntain the company was engaged, and Wolfgang Heppinger was killed Septem-\\nber 14. At Antietam the Eighth occupied the center, being with General\\nMeade. The artillery fire of the enemy beat back the Reserve with severe loss.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "Company H. 37TH Regiment. 147\\nCompany H had Daniel Barr killed, and Jacob Noll and William A. Sipler\\nwounded, September 17.\\nAt Fredericksburg, December 13, the loss of the company was as follows:\\nColonel Lemon, Captain Keatley, Wilson M. Dorey, Joseph Owen, and Joseph\\nHoover, all wounded. Owen lost a leg, and Hover died from his wounds.\\nDuring the battle of the Wilderness Company H had the following wounded\\nStephen D. Myers, William Crooks, Daniel McNany, William O Brien, and\\nWarren Whitehill. George W. Stover was wounded at Spottsylvania Court\\nHouse, May 12, 1864.\\nDuring the time the company was in service the following died from wounds\\nreceived in battle. The dates and names of the battles are unknown to the\\nwriter Robert Cunningham, John Peters, and William B. Showers. The fol-\\nlowing were discharged for wounds date and battle not known A. J. Gallo-\\nway, A. M. Brenneman, Carson R. Crisman, Calvin Basim, loss of leg Albert\\nJ. Goble, J. W. Henderson, William Maloney, John M. Ross, John H. Sweeney,\\nJohn H. Vensil, Daniel Walters, and John Young.\\nThe company went out with eighty-four men. It received six recruits.\\nCaptain William Lemon and Lieutenant Wetter were promoted to field offi-\\ncers. Twenty-nine were wounded, four were killed one accidentally and\\nthree in battle four died from wounds eleven died of disease twelve were\\ndischarged for wounds, and seven for other causes twenty-five were trans-\\nferred one was taken prisoner one was not on the muster-out roll five re-\\nsigned three deserted and twenty-one, including the one prisoner, were mus-\\ntered out with the regiment May 24, 1864. Lieutenant Beck and Lieutenant\\nDunkle have both been sheriff of Clarion county.\\nThe following roll of Company H is from Vol. I of Bates s Pennsylvania\\nVolunteers\\nRoll of Company H, Thitry-seventh Regiment Eighth Reserve. 2\\nWilliam Lemon, captain, April 30, 1861, three years; wounded at Charles\\nCity Cross Roads and Fredericksburg promoted to lieutenant-colonel March\\n10, 1863.\\nJames Keatley, captain, April 30, 61, three years; promoted from private\\nto sergeant August 20, 1861 to captain March 10, 1863 wounded at Fred-\\nericksburg December 13, 1862 mustered out with the company May 24, 1864.\\nJ. N. Hetherington, first lieutenant, April 30, 1861, three years; resigned\\nOctober 10, 1861.\\nAlfred T. Clark, jr., first lieutenant, April 30, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom sergeant-major October 10, 1861 resigned October 25, 1862.\\nAnthony H. Beck, first lieutenant April 30, 186 1, three years; promoted\\n1 In these rolls of the companies the name is followed by a brief record which gives rank, date of\\nmuster, term of service, promotion, wounds, c.\\n2 Copied from Bates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "148 History of Clarion County.\\nto sergeant May 2, 1 861, to first lieutenant March i, 1863 wounded at Charles\\nCity Cross Roads June 30, 1862 mustered out with company May 24, 1864.\\nB. B. Dunkle, second lieutenant, April 30, 1861, three years; resigned\\nNovember 16, 1861.\\nHenry Wetter, second lieutenant, April 30, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom first sergeant to second lieutenant November 16, 1861, to adjutant May\\n20, 1862.\\nJoseph M. Owens, second lieteunant, April 30, 1861, three years promoted\\nfrom private to sergeant July 29, 1861 to second Heutenant August i, 1862;\\nwounded, with loss of leg, at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862; resigned\\nApril 14, 1863.\\nH. R. Brenneman, second lieutenant, April 30, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted from sergeant, July i, 1863; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.\\nGeorge E. Cowan, first sergeant, April 30, 1861, three years promoted to\\nfirst sergeant, transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V.,\\nMay 15, 1864, veteran.\\nA. J. Galloway, sergeant, April 30. 1861, three years; discharged January\\n15, 1863, for wounds received in action.\\nJohn Monace, sergeant, April 30, 1 861, three years; promoted to sergeant,\\ntransferred to the One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15,\\n1864, veteran.\\nJ. M. Rankin, sergeant, June 24, 1861, three years; promoted to sergeant,\\ntransferred to the One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15,\\n1864, veteran.\\nStephen D. Myers, sergeant, April 30, 1861, three years; wounded at Wil-\\nderness May 8, 1864; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.\\nGeorge W. Stover, sergeant, April 30, 1861, three years; wounded at\\nSpottsylvania Court House mustered out with company May 24, 1864.\\nA. M. Brenneman, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged Feb-\\nruary 4, 1863, for wounds received in action.\\nS. R. Stratton, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years; transferred to Reg-\\nimental Band, July 20, 1861.\\nJoseph Dolby, corporal, April 30, 186 1, three years; accidentally killed\\nOctober 10, 186 1.\\nJ. R. Whitman, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years discharged July 11,\\n1862.\\nJasper N. Maxwell, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged July\\nII, 1862.\\nCarson R. Crisman, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged\\nMarch 30, 1863, for wounds received in action.\\nWilliam Crooks, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years wounded at Wilder-\\nness May 6, 1864; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "Company H, 37TH Regiment. 149\\nJames Greer, corporal, April 30, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany May 24, 1864.\\nAnderson, Robert, private, April 30, 1861, three years transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nAgnew, John, private, July 21, 1861, three years; deserted, date unknown.\\nBender, Henry, private, July i, 1861, three years mustered out with com-\\npany May 24, 1864.\\nBurns, Samuel R., private, July 24, 1861, three years transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps, December 14, 1863.\\nBrua, Henry W., private, April 30, 1861, three years; transferred to the\\nOne Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nBoyles, Irwin, private, February 26, 1 864, three years transferred to the\\nOne Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864.\\nBasim, Calvin, private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged December\\n6, 1862, for wounds received in action.\\nBeck, John H., private, April i, 1861, three years; died August 7, 1862.\\nBarr, Daniel, private, July i, 1861, three years killed at Antietam Sep-\\ntember 17, 1862.\\nCallihan, Harvey, private, April 30, 1861, three years; died October 10,\\n1861 buried in the Military Asylum Cemetery at D. C.\\nCunningham, Robert, private, June 14, 1861, three years; died September\\n17, 1862, from wounds received in action.\\nDavis, Andrew J., private, June 24, 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany May 24, 1864.\\nDorey, Wilson M., private. May 18, 1861, three years; wounded at Fred-\\nericksburg December 13, 1862 mustered out with company May 24, 1864.\\nDolby, Charles, private, April 30, 1861, three years died October 8, 1861.\\nFurman, W. W., private, April 20, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nFrazier, George W., private, June 24, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninety- first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nFrazier, Philip, private, July 21, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nFree, Benjamin, private, July i, 1861, three years transferred to One Hun-\\ndred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nFox, Jacob D., private, April 30, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nFulton, Reed W., private, March 4, 1864, three years transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninety- first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864.\\nFulton, Wm. T., private, March 4, 1864, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., May 15, 1864.\\nGoble, Albert J., private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged April\\n22, 1863, fo^ wounds received in action.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "I50 History of Clarion Count v.\\nGirt, David, private, June 22, 1861, three years; deserted July 29, 1861.\\nHall, James, private, April 30, 1861, three years; mustered out with com-\\npany May 24, 1864.\\nHenderson, J. W., private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged Febru-\\nary 7, 1863, for wounds received in action.\\nHenderson, John W., private. May 6, 1864, three years not on muster out\\nroll.\\nHorton, James, private, April 30, 1861, three years; transferred to Battery\\nE, Fourth U. S. Artillery, September i, 1862.\\nHepinger, Wolfgang, private, April 30, 1861, three years; killed at South\\nMountain September 14, 1862.\\nHoover, Joseph, private, April 30, 1861, three years; died January 4, 18631\\nfrom wounds received at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1861.\\nKilgore, Hugh L., private, April 30, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany May 24, 1864.\\nKelly, Thomas, private, July i, 1861, three years; transferred to One Hun-\\ndred and Ninty-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nLinegrover, James, private, May 18, 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany May 24, 1864.\\nLaughner, Nathan, private, June 14, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nMcNany, Daniel, private, June 14, 1861, three years wounded at Wilder-\\nness May 8, 1864; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.\\nMcKibbens, John, private, April 30, 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany May 24, 1864.\\nMcNaughton, Dun, private, July 21, 1861, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate November 26. 1862.\\nMaloney, William, private, June 24, 1861, three years; discharged Decem-\\nber I, 1862, for wounds received in action.\\nMortimer, John R., private, June 24, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nMoody, Silas D., private, June 24, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninty-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nMcKendree, Hiram, private, April 30, 1861, three years killed at Bull Run\\nAugust 30, 1862.\\nNoll, Jacob, private, April t,o, 1861, three years; wounded at Antietam\\nSeptember 17, 1862 mustered out with company May 24, 1864.\\nNoll, George, private, September 26, 1861, three years transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninty-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nO Brien, William, private, June i, 1861, three years; wounded at Wilder-\\nness May 8, 1864 mustered out with company May 24, 1864.\\nPotter, George, private, April 30, 1861, three years; transferred to regi-\\nmental band July 12, 1861.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "Company H, 37TH Regiment. 151\\nPotter Henry, private, April 30, 1 861, three years died at Camp Pierpont,\\nVa., November 9, 1861.\\nPritner, Camden A., private, April 30, 1861, three years; died at Camp\\nPierpont, Va., February i, 1862.\\nPeters, John, private, July i, 1 861, three years; died October 3, 1862, of\\nwounds received in action buried in National Cemetery, Antietam, sec. 26,\\nlot F, grave 568.\\nRoss, James, private, June i, 1861, three years; discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate September 24, 1862.\\nRoss, John M., private, June 20, 1861, three years discharged January 22,\\n1863, for wounds received in action.\\nRheese, Samuel H., private, March 3, 1864, three years transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninty-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864, veteran.\\nSipler, William A., private, June 14, 1861, three years wounded at Anti-\\netam September 17, 1862; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.\\nShowers, Lewis, private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate October 9, 1 86 1.\\nSweeny, John H., private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged Janu-\\nary 27, 1863, for wounds received in action.\\nShaner, Leander, private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate February 16, 1863.\\nShull, John, private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate February 14, 1863.\\nStroup, James, private, April 30, 1861, three years transferred to Company\\nB, Sixth U. S. Cavalry. September i, 1862.\\nSample, James, private, June 14, 1 861, three years; died at Camp Pierpont,\\nVa., December 21, 1861.\\nShowers, William B., private, April 30, 1861, three years; died July 5,\\n1862, of wounds received in action.\\nStover, Thomas, private, June 14, 1861, three years deserted July 29, 1861.\\nTempleton, William, private, July 21, 1861, three years prisoner from May\\n8, to May 12, 1864; mustered out with company May 24, 1864.\\nVensel, John H., private, April 30, 1861, three years discharged February\\n20, 1863, for wounds received in action.\\nWilson, Harrison B., private, April 30, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company May 24, 1864.\\nWhitehill, Warren, private, April 30, 1861, three years; wounded at Wil-\\nderness May 8, 1864 mustered out with company May 24, 1864.\\nWalters, Daniel, private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged January\\n15, 1863, for wounds received in action.\\nWilson, Sylvester, private, April 30, 1 861, three years; died at Camp Pier-\\npont, Va., December 14, 1861.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "152 History of Clarion County.\\nYoung, John, private, April 30, 1861, three years; discharged December\\n22, 1862, for wounds received in action.\\nYingling, John, private, January 5, 1864, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., May 15, 1864.\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nCOMPANY E, THIRTY-NINTH REGIMENT \u00e2\u0080\u0094TENTH RESERVE.\\nOrganization Route to the Field Service in the Field Losses Rocord of Hugh\\nWilson Roll of Company.\\nON Friday of the May court in 1861, Brigadier- General R. Laughlin, com-\\nmanding the First Brigade of the Twelfth Division of the Pennsylvania\\nMilitia, organized a company at Clarion under the militia act of 1849. The com-\\npany was named the Clarion River Guards, and J. B. Knox, esq., was chosen\\ncaptain. General Laughlin had letters from the brigade inspector to proceed with\\nthe organization of companies in the absence of that officer. The Clarion River\\nGuards encamped at Curllsville with other companies of the brigade early in\\nJune, 1 86 1. Captain Knox was commissioned in the State service on the 14th\\nof June, and on the 24th of June he sent out written orders from Clarion to the\\nmembers of the company which he had recruited, notifying them to report at\\nthat town, and be ready to move to Pittsburgh on the 1st of July. Almost\\nthe entire company reported, and they proceeded by way of Reidsburg and\\nCurllsville to Watterson s Ferry, where they got aboard an old canal boat, and\\nfloated down the Allegheny River to Kittanning. From there they proceeded\\nby rail to Camp Wright, where they arrived on the 3d of July. On the 4th\\nthe company took a holiday, and most of the men spent the day in Pittsburgh,\\nas Camp Wright was only twelve miles above the city. On the 5th of July\\neighty-one men of the Guards were sworn into the service of the State, making\\nwith Captain Knox, a total of eighty-two men.\\nOn the 15th of July the company was joined by fifteen other members, who,\\nbeing mustered in, increased the roster of the company to ninety- seven men\\nofficered as follows J. B. Knox, captain David R. Craig, first lieutenant Val-\\nentine Phipps, second lieutenaut; and other officers as noted in the roster which\\nfollows this sketch.\\nAt Camp Wright the Clarion River Guards were assigned to the Tenth\\nRegiment Pennsylvania Reserves, and designated as Company E. The Tenth\\nhad been partly organized in the latter part of June at Camp Wilkins, also near\\nPittsburgh. Camp Wilkins was very unhealthful on account of its uncleanli-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "Company E, 39TH Regiment. 153\\nness however, good, wholesome rations were plentifully and regularly supplied,\\nand immediately after entering camp the men were supplied with a superior\\ngrade of blankets. That portion of the regiment which had assembled at Camp\\nWilkins removed to Camp Wright on the 1st of July, and on the arrival of\\nthose troops which completed the regiment, the organization was perfected, and\\nthe officers who had been elected at Camp Wilkins proceeded to drill and dis-\\ncipline the troops. The officers were, colonel, John S. McCalmont, a regular\\n^army officer, from Venango county, also a West Point graduate; lieutenant-\\ncolonel, James T. Kirk, formerly captain of Company D and major, Harrison\\nAllen, formerly captain of Company H.\\nThe regiment was ordered to Cumberland, Md., July 18. It proceeded to\\nHuntingdon, thence to Bedford Springs, by rail. Here the order was counter-\\nmanded and the regiment was dispatched hastily to Harrisburg where it was\\nmustered into the United States service July 21, antedating all other Clarion\\ncounty companies in that respect. Captain Lemon s company was the first\\nrecruited, the first in camp, the first to enter the State service, and the first to\\nreach Washington, but Captain Knox s company was the first to enter the\\nUnited States service. It was mustered in the same day the battle of Bull Run\\nwas fought, and on account of the anxiety and suspense, it was hurriedly taken\\nto Baltimore late in the afternoon of July 22. It took possession of the open\\nsquare near the depot and bivouacked there till the evening of July 23, when\\nwith loaded guns and fixed bayonets it marched to the common south of the\\ncity. July 24 it went on to Washington. At the depot it met some New\\nYork troops who had been in the battle of Bull Run. The sight of these\\nwounded and maimed men produced a profound impression on the members of\\nthe Tenth, and they then began to realize the terrible work upon which they\\nwere entering.\\nThe regiment marched about a mile east of the capitol and encamped. On\\nthe 1st of August it left this place and proceeded to the reserve camp at Tenal-\\nlytown. It served a week on picket duty at Great Falls early in September.\\nThe regiment was drilled at Camp Tenally, and it also observed the usual camp\\nduty. General McCall pronounced it well drilled. It was assigned to the\\nThird Brigade. Colonel McCalmont first commanded the brigade, but was suc-\\nceeded by Brigadier- General E. O. C. Ord. The regiment marched into Vir-\\nginia and took position in line with the army October 10. On the 20th of\\nDecember the brigade engaged the enemy, under Stuart at Dranesville. The\\nskirmish began a little past noon and resulted in a Federal victory, which had\\na good effect on the army, as it served to counteract the bad effect produced\\nby the Union disaster at Ball s Bluff, October 21. The Tenth sustained no loss\\nat Dranesville. Major Allen resigned February 14, on account of ill health,\\nand Adjutant Sion B. Smith was elected major. He was succeeded by Ser-\\ngeant-Major O. H. Gaither, who was appointed adjutant.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "154 History of Clarion County.\\nAfter several weeks spent in moving from place to place in the early springy\\nof 1862, the Reserves were attached to General McDowell s command, which\\nwas charged with the defense of Washington. They were now lying in the vi-\\ncinity of Fredericksburg, which place they had reached via Alexandria, Fair-\\nfax, Centreville, and Manassas. While in the neighborhood of Fredericksburg\\nGeneral Ord was transferred from the command of the Third Brigade to the\\ncommand of a division, and Brigadier-General Truman Seymour succeeded to\\nthe command of the Third Brigade. Colonel McCalmont resigned May 9, and\\nLieutenant- Colonel James T. Kirk was elected to succeed him. Captain A. J.\\nWarner, of Company G, was elected lieutenant-colonel. The regiment was de-\\ntached from McDowell s Corps, and ordered to reinforce General McClellan on\\nthe Peninsula. It went by water to the White House on the Pamunky. Hav-\\ning marched from the White House to the vicinity of Mechanicsville, the Tenth\\nwas attached to the corps commanded by General Fitz John Porter, which oc-\\ncupied the left bank of the Chickahominy. The battle of Mechanicsville was\\nfought on the 26th of June. In that sanguinary struggle Company E received\\nits first baptism of fire, and was consecrated to the cause of the Union by the\\nblood of the first of its members who were killed in battle.\\nDuring the battle of Mechanicsville the Tenth lay close to the right of the\\nroad leading into Mechanicsville. It faced up the Chickahominy, and looked\\ndown into Beaver Dam Creek, which flows into the Chickahominy a short dis-\\ntance below the bridge over which the road passes which has just been men-\\ntioned. The Ninth lay on the left of the Tenth and connected with it at the\\nroad near the bridge, where there was an embankment by an old mill. The\\nUnion troops were on this side of Beaver Dam Creek facing Mechanicsville, and\\nthe Confederates on the Mechanicsville side. The creek is here sluggish. On\\nboth sides of it the ground is swampy, and was at that time covered with a\\ngrowth of underwood. On the Mechanicsville side the distance from the brow\\nof the hill down the slope to the creek bottom is about eighty rods. Down\\nthis slope the enemy would have to march to attack the Federal troops.\\nMeantime the Tenth had improved its time by digging rifle pits along the slope\\non its side of the creek. This was its first experience in that line of duty.\\nThe work was directed by Captain McDaniel, of Company D, and Lieutenant\\nJoseph B. Pattee, of Company B. As soon as they were completed a portion\\nof the regiment was posted in these pits, while another part was placed in posi-\\ntion in the woods to the right of them. Company C and Company I were put\\nforward as skirmishers. Just in the rear of the Tenth was stationed Easton s\\nBattery. Thus stood facing each other, these two portions of two great armies.\\nThey were soon to enact the first carnival of death in which many of them had\\never borne a part, and as the men nervously, fearfully, resolutely, and bravely\\ngrasped their weapons of death and anxiously awaited the moment when the\\nawful silence would be broken, it indeed seemed to many of them the pause\\nof carnage the brink of fate.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "Company E, 39TH Regiment. 155\\nThe Confederates advanced down the slope on the Mechanicsville side of\\nthe creek, along the road and through the fields but scarcely had they began\\nthe descent when Easton s Battery belched forth its iron hail and poured into\\ntheir ranks a rapid and constant fire. Still on they came until within rifle range,\\nwhen they were met with a terrible fire from the rifle pits and from the banks\\nalong the old mill dam.\\nThey fought hard, but human flesh and blood could not endure such terrible\\nslaughter, and they were forced back up the slope. They rallied and came on\\nagain to the attack struggling desperately and frantically to turn the tide of\\nvictory toward their hoped for Confederacy. They concentrated their efforts\\nto pass the bridge and break the Union line, but they were met by men as\\nbrave and efficient as themselves. Every attack was repulsed with remarkable\\nvigor by the Ninth and the Tenth, and with broken columns and slaughtered\\nwarriors, the enemy was driven from the field, when night mercifully put an end\\nto the conflict. The enemy had gained nothing in this battle, and the result\\nwas due largely to the Reserve and to Easton s Battery. Schmucker says\\nThe Pennsylvania Reserves on the left, commanded by Seymour and Rey-\\nnolds, also fought with much heroism, and succeeded in defeating the attempts\\nof the rebels to cross the bridge over the Chickahominy.\\nIn this battle the Tenth preserved its line intact, and the troops were in an\\nexultant mood when night brought the battle to a close.\\nCaptain Knox s Company E lost two men. Both were killed. They were\\nJohn C. Phillips and James G. Treyzulany. This being the first battle for\\nCompany E, the sketch details the movement of the regiment. Notes of sub-\\nsequent battles will be made mainly, with reference to the company only.\\nAbout half past three o clock P. M., June 27, the company became engaged\\nin the bloody battle of Gaines s Mill. During the struggle it had two men\\nkilled Alpheus Reynard and Amos Kieser. The following were wounded\\nLieutenants Valentine Phipps, James L. Wray, and Charles McLaughlin Cor-\\nporals Samuel Waley and Samuel S. Wilson Privates Mathew Black, Thomas\\nHenderson, Daniel Keely, Patrick McLaughlin, George Stiner, John H. Sloan,\\nDavid Whitehill, Elliott G. Walter, and David Yates fourteen in all. The\\nwounds of Mathew Black, Thomas Henderson, and John H. Sloan proved fatal.\\nLieutenant Charles McLaughlin, Sergeant F. M. Lewis, and Private Elliott G.\\nWalter were taken prisoners. The regiment made a valiant and effective charge\\nabout five o clock, and when the battle ceased, it closed its broken ranks and\\nretired across the Chickahominy.\\nIn the fighting at Charles City Cross Roads, June 30, Sebastian Cook, Henry\\nMiller, and George W. Wilson were wounded. On account of their wounds\\nCook and Wilson were discharged. No further losses were sustained by the\\ncompany during the Seven Days fight.\\nThe regiment was at Malvern Hill, but was not seriously engaged in the", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "156 History of Clarion County.\\nfight. Burton Turney was taken prisoner July i, 1862. From Malvern Hill\\nit went to Harrison s Landing, where Major Sion B. Smith resigned, and Cap-\\ntain Knox, of Company E, was promoted to major, August 15, 1862, and on\\nthe same day Lieutenant Phipps became captain of the company.\\nDuring the second battle of Bull Run, on the 29th of August, Company\\nE had the following wounded Second Lieutenant N. B. McWilliams, and\\nPrivates Celin S. Kapp and Davis McBride. Kapp s wounds proved fatal. The\\nregiment was now under Pope in the Army of Virginia. On the 31st of\\nAugust Hugh Wilson 1 was taken prisoner.\\nWhile joining in the stubborn contest which the Tenth sustained at South\\nMountain, September 14, Company E had three wounded Sergeant George\\nF. Kapp, and Privates Fred Brenneman and David Yates.\\nImmediately after the battle of Antietam, in which the company took part\\nwithout loss of any kind. Major Knox was promoted to lieutenant-colonel,\\nand Captain Ayer, of Company I, succeeded him as major. On the hard-fought\\nfield of Fredericksburg, Lieutenant-Colonel Knox led the Tenth, and was\\nhighly commended for his skill and bravery. Fredericksburg was fought De-\\ncember 13, and in this engagement Company E suffered severely. Sergeants\\nAllen W. Corbett and Thomas Vausden, and Privates John Disel and Daniel\\nV. Jones were killed. The following fifteen were wounded First Sergeant F.\\nM. Lewis Sergeants John D. Lyon and Samuel D. Grable Corporals George\\nB. Kieser, David Craig, and Harrison Whitehill, and Privates Fred Brenneman,\\nHenry C. Barr, James K. Clark, William R. Livingstone, Henry Miller, George\\nStiner, David Smith, Robert Whitehill, and James W. Ganoe. James K. Clark\\nI In volume I of Bates s History of Pennsylvania Volunteers on page 834 the remark opposite\\nthe name Hugh Wilson reads, Deserted August 26, 1862. Hugh Wilson did not desert. In the\\nautumn of 1861 he was prostrated with typhoid fever. In December he joined the regiment and went\\ninto active service. The effect of the fever and subsequent exposure rendered him unfit for service dur-\\ning a portion of the spring and summer of 1862. While suffering from yellow jaundice he was offered\\na discharge, but refused to accept it. At Harrison s Landing, being much worse, he applied for a dis-\\ncharge, but did not get one. He continued to grow weaker, until at the time of the series of battles\\nbeginning August 24 and ending September i, he was so worn down and exhausted by chronic diarrhea\\nthat he could not endure the fatigue of that succession of engagements. On the 29th, while the regi-\\nment was making a rapid march toward Washington, Wilson found it impossible to keep pace with it,\\nand he was left on its line of march. He wearied along to the water, drank, seemed revived, and tried\\nto get back into the Union lines. He tramped around and hid from the enemy until some time in the\\nmorning of the 31st of August, when a body of Confederates came upon him, and he was captured. He\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was paroled and sent to Harper s Ferry; thence to Parole Camp, at Columbus, Ohio, About the 1st of\\nDecember, 1862, he was exchanged, and being considered incapacitated for infantry service, he was\\ntransferred on a special order from the War Department to the mounted service, and assigned to Battery\\nC, Third United States Artillery, and mounted in General Custer s Brigade, Kilpatrick s Division of\\nCavalry, Army of the Potomac. The officer commanding Company E certified Wilson to the com-\\nmander of Battery C as having a correct record. In 1867 or 1868 Wilson applied for the one hundred\\ndollars additional pay due him. He was astonished to receive notice from the War Department that he\\nwas on the rolls as a deserter. He applied to the commissioned officers of Company E, who promptly\\nmade affidavit that Wilson 7vas not a deserter. He thereupon received his additional pay, and is now a\\npensioner. The subject of this note is known throughout Clarion county as Cal. Wilson. He is a re-\\nspected resident of Cullensburg borough, and is now a justice of the peace. W. A. Beer.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "^l^/^i", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0173.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0174.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "Company E, 39TH Regiment. 157\\nwas discharged for wounds here received. David Smith, Robert Whitehill, and\\nWiUiam Young were captured. May i, 1863, WiUiam R. Shippen was pro-\\nmoted to regimental quartermaster.\\nThe Tenth reached Gettysburg at nine o clock, July 2, 1863, having spent\\nthe winter and spring in and around Washington, and having been ordered to\\njoin the Fifth Corps in its northward march to assist in repelling the rebel inva-\\nsion of Pennsylvania. In the afternoon of July 2 the regiment was engaged\\nnear Round Top and between that point and Little Round Top. It was also\\nengaged on the 3d. The regiment lost two killed and four wounded. James\\nG. Wyon, of Company E, was one of the wounded.\\nOn account of ill health, Lieutenant-Colonel James B. Knox resigned No-\\nvember 23, 1863, and Major Ayer took command. On the 27th of February,\\n1864, Major Ayer was commissioned lieutenant-colonel.\\nOn the 6th of May, 1864, in the Wilderness, Jacob Raifsnider was killed, and\\nReynolds Bole wounded. On the 9th of May Reed M. Mills was wounded,\\nand on the same day, at Laurel Hill, Silas Davis was mortally wounded. On\\nthe 6th, Colonel Ayer was severely wounded, and being borne from the field,\\nCaptain Phipps commanded the regiment. Raifsnider was the only one of the\\nregiment killed. On the 30th of May, 1864, Corporal David Craig was wounded.\\nCaptain Phipps was breveted major on the field at the Wilderness. The com-\\npany was mustered out at Pittsburgh June 1 1, 1864. Of Company E, the fol-\\nlowing are known to have died since the war Colonel Knox, Tolbert Dale,\\nJohn D. Lyon, Reed Mills, Clarence Wilson, Adam Rankin, William Vesey,\\nJohn M. Laughlin, and Davis McBride. Of these Lyon, Mills, and McBride\\ndied violent deaths. Lyon was killed by a log rolling on him; Mills by a\\nchain breaking and hitting him on the head, and McBride by a horse falling\\non him.\\nColonel Knox was elected president-judge in 1881, for the Clarion- Jefferson\\ndistrict. He died at Brookville, where he had been holding court. Captain\\nPhipps was once elected county commissioner for Clarion county.\\nOf this company, let it be observed, it numbered all told one hundred and\\nsixteen men two of its members were promoted to field officers one was\\nbreveted; three resigned ten were killed in battle thirty-eight were wounded\\nfive died from wounds six died of disease four were discharged for wounds\\ntwenty-two were discharged for sickness and other causes; two were discharged\\nby sentence of court martial two deserted eight were taken prisoners thirty\\nwere transferred and forty were mustered out with the regiment.\\nBates says of the regiment The remnant of this brave and once strong\\nbody of men, which had fought in nearly every battle in which the Army\\nof the Potomac had been engaged, and which was not excelled in valor by\\nany other organization of the division, was mustered out of service at Pitts-\\nburgh.\\n11", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0175.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "158 History of Clarion County.\\nRoll of Company E, Tenth Reserve.\\nJames B. Knox, captain, June 14, 1861, three years; promoted to major\\nAugust 15, 1862.\\nValentine Phipps, captain, July 5, 1861, three years; promoted from sec-\\nond to first lieutenant August 12, 1861 wounded at Gaines s Mill, June 27,\\n1862 promoted to captain August 15, 1862 to brevet major mustered out\\nwith company June 11, 1864.\\nDavid R. Craig, first lieutenant July 5, 1861, three years resigned August\\n7, 1861.\\nJames L. Wray, first lieutenant, July 5, 1 861, three years; wounded at\\nGaines s Mill June 27, 1862 resigned December 10, 1862.\\nCharles McLaughlin, first lieutenant, July 5, 1861, three years; wounded\\nand taken prisoner at Gaines s Mill June 27, 1862; promoted from first ser-\\ngeant to first lieutenant June 4, 1863; mustered out with company June li,\\n1864.\\nN. B. McWilliams, second heutenant, July 5, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom sergeant to second lieutenant August i, 1862; wounded at Bull Run\\nAugust 29, 1862 mustered out with company June ii, 1864.\\nCharles McLaughlin, first sergeant, July 5, 1861, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate March 12, 1863.\\nFrancis M. Lewis, first sergeant, July 5, 1861, three years; taken prisoner\\nat Gaines s Mill June 27, 1862; wounded at Fredericksburg December 13,\\n1862 mustered out with company June ii, 1864.\\nSamuel D. Grable, sergeant, July 5, 1861, three years wounded at Fred-\\nericksburg December 13, 1862; mustered out with company June ii, 1864.\\nJ. J. Greenawalt, sergeant, July 5, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 11, 1864.\\nTolbert Dale, sergeant, July 5, 1861, three years; discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate June 21, 1862.\\nSmith Strickler, sergeant, July 5, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate December 31, 1863.\\nDaniel Black, sergeant, July 5, 1 861, three years discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate August 22, 1862.\\nWilliam H. Fetzer, sergeant, July 5, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate December i, 1861.\\nJohn D. Lyon, sergeant, July 5, 1861, three years wounded at Fredericks-\\nburg December 13, 1862 transferred to One Hundred and Ninety-first Regi-\\nment P. v., May 31, 1864, veteran.\\nGeorge F. Kapp, sergeant, July 5, 1861, three years; wounded at South\\nMountain September 14, 1864; transferred to One Hundred and Ninetieth\\nRegiment P. V., May 31, 1864, veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0176.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "Company E, 39TH Regiment. 159\\nGeorge B. Kieser, corporal, July 15, 1861, three years; wounded at Fred-\\nericksburg December 13, 1862 mustered out with company June ii, 1864.\\nSamuel Kieser, corporal, July 15, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June ii, 1864.\\nSamuel Waley, corporal, July 15, 1861, three years; wounded at Gaines s\\nMill June 27, 1862 mustered out with company June ii, 1864.\\nDavid Craig, corporal, July 15, 1861, three years wounded at Fredericks-\\nburg December 13, 1862, and at Bethesda Church May 30, 1864; mustered\\nout with company June ii, 1864.\\nSimon Mohney, corporal, July 15, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June ii, 1864.\\nHugh Carson, corporal, June 15, 186 1, three years discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate October 31, 1862.\\nWilliam Vesey, corporal, July 15, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate, date unknown.\\nWilliam R. Shippen, corporal, Juh 3, 1861, three years promoted to first\\nlieutenant and regimental quartermaster May i, 1863.\\nHarrison Whitehill, corporal, July 5, 1861, three years; wounded at Fred-\\nericksburg December 13, 1862 transferred to One Hundred and Ninetieth\\nRegiment P. V., May 31, 1864, veteran.\\nSamuel Wilson, corporal, September i, 1861, three years; wounded at\\nGaines s Mill June 27, 1862 transferred to One Hundred and Ninetieth Regi-\\nment P. v., May 31, 1864.\\nAllen W. Corbett, corporal, July 5, 1861, three years killed at Fredericks-\\nburgh December 13, 1862.\\nThomas Vausden, corporal, July 5, 1861, three years killed at Fredericks-\\nburg December 13, 1862.\\nAlsbaugh, Oliver P., private, September i, 1861, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate, date unknown.\\nAgnew, Joshua B., private, July 5, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864, veteran.\\nAgnew, Samuel, private, August 20, 1862, three years transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nAyres, James, private, July 5, 1861, three years transferred to One Hun-\\ndred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 30, 1864, veteran.\\nAllen, Isaac, private, September i, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nBreneman, Fred, private, July 5, 1861, three years; wounded at South\\nMountain September 14, 1862, and at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862\\nmustered out with company June 1 1, 1864.\\nBrush, George, private, July 5, 1861, three years; mustered out with com-\\npany June II, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0177.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "i6o History of Clarion County.\\nBole, Reynolds, private, July 5, 1861, three years; wounded at Wilderness\\nMay 6, 1864 mustered out June 23, 1864.\\nBest, William, private, July 5, 1861, three years; discharged May 4, 1864,\\nby sentence of general court martial.\\nBales, John W., private, August 4, 1862, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nBarr, Henry C, private, August 20, 1862, three years; wounded at Fred-\\nericksburg December 13, 1862; transferred to One Hundred and Ninetieth Regi-\\nment P. v., May 31, 1864.\\nBlack, Mathew, private, July 5, 1861, three years died of wounds received\\nat Gaines s Mill June 27, 1862.\\nCallihan, Robert, private, July 5, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June ii, 1864.\\nCook, Sebastian, private, July 5, 1861, three years; discharged January 15,\\n1863, for wounds received at Charles City Cross Roads June 30, 1862.\\nClark, James K., private, July 6, 1861, three years; discharged June 3,\\n1863, for wounds received at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862.\\nCyphert, George, private, March 20, 1862, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nCraig, Adam, private, August 12, 1862, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nDixon, George, private, July 5, 1861, three years discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate February 9, 1863.\\nDisel, John, private, September i, 1861, three years; killed at Fredericks-\\nburg December 13, 1862.\\nDavis, Silas, private, August 20, 1862, three years died of wounds received\\nat Laurel Hill May 9, 1864.\\nEminger, John H., private, July 15, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nEminger, Daniel B., private, July 15, 1861, three years transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nForeman, Miles, private, July 5, 1 861, three years mustered out with com-\\npany June 1 1, 1864.\\nFerry, Patrick T., private, July 5, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate May 15, 1863.\\nFarringer, William, private, September i, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nGates Henry, private, July 15, 1861, three years; mustered out with com-\\npany June 1 1, 1864.\\nGanoe, James W., private, July 15, 1861, three years; wounded at Fred-\\nericksburg December 13, 1862 discharged on surgeon s certificate March 16,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0178.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "Company E, 39TH Regiment. 161\\nGrace, George, private, July 15, 1861, three years transferred to One Hun-\\ndred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V,, May 31, 1864, veteran.\\nHenry, Calvin B., private, July 5, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate December i, 1861.\\nHolmes, Alvin B., private, July 5, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864, veteran.\\nHenderson, Thomas, private, June 5, 1861, three years; died of wounds\\nreceived at Gaines s Mill June 27, 1861.\\nJames, Jasper N., private, July 5, 1861, three years; discharged February\\nII, 1864, by sentence of general court martial.\\nJones, Daniel V., private, July 5, 1861, three years; killed at Fredericks-\\nburg December 13, 1862.\\nKeely, John, private, July 5, 1 861, three years; discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate, date unknown.\\nKapp, Celin S., private, July 5, 1861, three years died of wounds received\\nat Bull Run August 29, 1862.\\nKieser, Amos, private, July 5, 1861, three years; killed at Gaines s Mill\\nJune 27, 1862.\\nKeely, Daniel, private, July 5, 1861, three years; wounded at Gaines s\\nMill June 27, 1862 transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nLivingston, William R., private, July 5, 1861, three years; wounded at\\nFredericksburg December 13, 1862; mustered out with company June il,\\n1864.\\nLewis, John A., private, July 5, 1861, three years; mustered out with com-\\npany June 1 1, 1864.\\nLewis, Thomas E. H., private, July 5, 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany June 11, 1864.\\nLewis, Thomas E., private, July 5, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 11, 1864.\\nLowe, Henry A., private, July 5, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June ii, 1864.\\nLindsay, John, private, August 20, 1862, three years; transferred to One-\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nLaughlin, John M., private, July 5, 1861, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany A, One Hundred and Third Regiment P. V., by promotion to second\\nlieutenant June 12, 1862.\\nMiller, Henry, private, July 5, 1861, three years wounded at Charles City\\nCross Roads June 30, and at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862; mustered\\nout with company June 1 1, 1864.\\nMorgan, William, private, July 5, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June ii, 1864.\\nMorris, Harvey, private, July 5, 1861, three years; discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate December 6, 1861.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0179.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "i62 History of Clarion County.\\nMagee, John A., private, July 5, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate January 7, 1863.\\nMills, Reed M., private, August 12, 1862, three years; wounded at Wilder-\\nness May 9, 1864; transferred to One Hundred and Ninetieth Regiment P.\\nv., May 31, 1864.\\nMcCoy, Joseph, private, July 5, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 11, 1864.\\nMcBride, Davis, private, July 5, 1861, three years; wounded at second\\nBull Run; mustered out with company June ii, 1864.\\nMcKenzie, Thomas, private, July 5, 1861, three years; transferred to Bat-\\ntery C, Fifth U. S. Artillery, April i, 1862.\\nMcLaughlin, Patrick, private, July 5, 1 861, three years wounded at Gaines s\\nMill June 27, 1862 mustered out with compan}^ June il, 1864.\\nMcLaughlin, Edward, private, July 5, 1861, three years discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate December 6, 1861.\\nMcClune, Charles R., private, August 12, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nOgden, James C, private, July 5, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June ii, 1864.\\nParsons, Silas W., private, July 15, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nPhillips, John C, private, July 15, 1861, three years; killed at Mechanics-\\nville June 26, 1862.\\nRandolph, Harmon, private, July 5, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 11, 1864.\\nRankin, Adam A., private, July 5, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864, veteran.\\nRaifsnider, Jacob, private, July 5, 1861, three years; killed at Wilderness\\nMay 6, 1864, veteran.\\nReynard, Alpheus, private, July 5, 1861, three years; killed at Gaines s\\nMill June 27, 1862.\\nReeser, Charles A., private, July 5, 1861, three years; deserted August\\n12, 1862.\\nStiner, George W., private, July 5, 1861, three years wounded at Gaines s\\nMill June 27, 1862, and at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862 mustered out\\nwith company June 11, 1864.\\nSpence, Ashabald, private, July 5, 1861, three years; prisoner at Freder-\\nicksburg December 13, 1862 mustered out with company June ii, 1864.\\nSmith, David, private, July 5, 1861, three years; wounded and prisoner\\nat Fredericksburg December 13, 1862; mustered out with company June II,\\n1864.\\nStrickler, David E., private, July 5, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July ii, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0180.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "Company E, 39TH Regiment. 163\\nSloan, David P., private, July 5, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate December i, 1861.\\nStigers, John, private, July 5, 1861, three years transferred to One Hun-\\ndred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864, veteran.\\nStover, Aquilla, private, September i, 1 861, three years transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nSloan, David A., private, July 5, 1861, three years; died February, 1862,\\nat Camp Pierpont, Va.\\nSloan, John H., private, July 5, 1861, three years; died of wounds received\\nat Gaines s Mill June 27, 1862.\\nSample, James C, private, July 5, 1861, three years; deserted August 2,\\n1862.\\nTurney, Burton, private, July 5, 1861, three years; prisoner July i, 1861\\nmustered out with company July ii, 1864.\\nTrainer, James A., private, July 5, 1 861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864, veteran.\\nTravis, Samuel L., private, July 5, 1861, three years killed at Gaines s\\nMill, June 27, 1862.\\nTreyzulina, Jas. G., private, July 5, 1861, three years killed at Mechanics-\\nville June 26, 1862.\\nWhitehill, David, private, July 5, 1861, three years; wounded at Gaines s\\nMill June 27, 1862 mustered out with company June 1 1, 1864.\\nWalter, Elliott G., private, July 5, 1861, three years; wounded and pris-\\noner at Gaines s Mill June 27, 1862; mustered out with company June 11,\\n1864.\\nWilson, George W., private, July 5, 1861, three years discharged October\\n17, 1862, for wounds received at Charles City Cross Roads, June 30, 1862.\\nWilson, Clarence B., private, September i, 1861, three years; transferred\\nto One Hundred and Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nWyon, James G., private, July 15, 1861, three years; wounded at Gettys-\\nburg July 2, 1863; transferred to One Hundred and Ninetieth Regiment P.\\nv.. May 31, 1864.\\nWhitehall, Robert, private, August 20, 1862, three years; wounded and\\nprisoner at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862; transferred to One Hundred\\nand Ninetieth Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864.\\nWilson,! Hugh, private, July 5, 1861, three years transferred to Battery\\nC, U. S. Artillery.\\nYates, David, private, July 5, 1861, three years; wounded at Gaines s Mill\\nJune 27, 1862, and South Mountain September 15, 1862 mustered out with\\ncompany June ii, 1864.\\nYoung, Robert, private, July 5, 1861, three years mustered out with com-\\npany June II, 1864.\\n1 See foot note, page 156.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0181.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "i64 History of Clarion County.\\nYoung, William, private, July 5, 1861, three years prisoner at Fredericks-\\nburg December 13, 1862; mustered out with company June 11, 1864.\\nYoung, Jerome W., private, July 5, 1861, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate March 24, 1863.\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nCOMPANIES OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH EEQIMENT MILITIA OF 1863.\\nCompany D: Recruiting Service in the Field Roll. Company H: Enlistment\\nService Roll. Company I: Recrmting Familiar Names Roll of Company. Company\\nK Where Recruited Service Roll of Company.\\nCompany D, Fifty-Seventh Regiment.\\nIN obedience to the call of the president for fifty thousand Pennsylvania\\nvolunteers, Captain B. J. Reid recruited Company D at Clarion in the latter\\npart of June, 1863, for the emergency service, to repel Lee s invasion of\\nPennsylvania. It numbered fifty- eight men. On the 7th of July it marched\\nfor Pittsburgh, officered as follows captain, B. J. Reid first lieutenant, B. B.\\nDunkle second lieutenant, J. M. Alexander. At Pittsburgh Company D\\njoined the Fifty-seventh Regiment of three months volunteers, commanded by\\nColonel J. R. Porter, of Indiana. Cyrus Butler, of Brookville, was lieutenant-\\ncolonel, and on the 8th of July Captain Reid was elected major. Lieutenant\\nDunkle became captain of the company, J. M. Alexander, first lieutenant, and\\nAlbert J. Goble second lieutenant. Meantime Lee had been defeated at Get-\\ntysburg and had retreated into Virginia. The company was armed and drilled,\\nbut the only active service it performed was in assisting to head off and cap-\\nture the rebel General Morgan and his raiders, which was accomplished, after\\nseveral days of watching and chasing near New Lisbon, O., Sunday, July 26,\\n1863. The company returned to camp at Pittsburgh and was mustered out\\non the 17th of August, 1863. The regiment was in the department of the Mo-\\nnongahela, commanded by Major-General William T. H. Brooks, whose head-\\nquarters were at Pittsburgh. The following company roster is copied from\\nBates. Captain Dunkle has been mentioned under Company H, of the Eighth\\nReserve, as having been honored by being elected sheriff. Joseph H. Patrick\\nis a leading attorney at the Clarion bar, and Frank Ross one of the most pop-\\nular physicians in Clarion county both reside in Clarion.\\nA number of the company afterward enlisted and saw hard service in\\nthe army.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0182.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "Company H, 57TH Regiment. 165\\nRoll of Company D, Fifty-Seventh Regiment.^\\nMustered in at Pittsburgh July 8, 1863 discharged August 17, 1863.\\nBernard J. Reid, captain, promoted to major July 8, 1863 Bartlett B,\\nDunkle, captain James M. Alexander, first lieutenant Albert J. Goble, sec-\\nond lieutenant Landis T. Dufif, first sergeant Joseph H. Patrick, James W.\\nMcClune, Robert Shippen, and Bordley S. Black, sergeants Marion Whitehill,\\nJacob W. Kahle, James M. Potter, Herbert A. T. Loomis, Thomas Callen,\\nFrank Ross, James T. Arnold, and Daniel A. Delo, corporals John F. Por-\\nter, and Thomas M. Alexander, musicians and privates, Miles Brenneman,\\nWm. Brenneman, Josiah B. Black, John Dolby, Andrew J. Donaldson, Benja-\\nmin Evans, Wm. Flack, Hiram S. Goble, Lewis Gathers, Wm. Hagan, John\\nW. Hagan, Henry Hight, Jeremiah Harkles, George W. Haun, Charles Jones,\\nWm. Kirkwood, Abner Kelly, Benjamin S. Long, Joseph C. Long, Edward\\nMarlin, George Magnus, Thomas Mills, Leonard Mong, Samuel W. McCamant,\\nJames McEntire, Thomas McCoy, Daniel McElvy, Samuel B. McLane, Jere-\\nmiah Phipps, John Randolph, Gideon F. Richardson, Frank Smith, Moses\\nStickler, David Sheets, John F. Wedekin, James H. Wentling, John T. Wilson,\\nand Samuel Young.\\nCompany H, Fifty-Seventh Regiment.\\nWhen the president called for volunteers to protect the border States, Cap-\\ntain John C. McNutt recruited a company of sixty-two men in the eastern\\npart of Clarion county. This company was assigned to the Fifty-seventh Reg-\\niment under Colonel Porter. It took part in the capture of Morgan near New\\nLisbon, in Ohio. The company was recruited between the 3d and 8th of\\nJuly, 1863, and the men were discharged August 17, 1863.\\nFirst Lieutenant Martin H. Shannon was promoted quartermaster of the\\nregiment July 18, 1863. Rev. Wm. J. Wilson, of Callensburg, was a member\\nof this company. A number of these men afterward enlisted in the regular\\nservice and had some hard experience.\\nRoll of Company H, Fifty-seventh Regiment.\\nJohn C. McNutt, captain Martin H. Shannon first lieutenant James E.\\nLong, first lieutenant J. N. Garrison, second lieutenant Henry Keihl, first\\nsergeant David Milliron, George Richards, and Daniel Hoy, sergeants John\\nW. Alcorn, Joseph Heazley, John J. Fisher, Elijah H. Clark, Joseph Gloutz,\\nAlvin Startzel, Jacob Smith, and Hiram McAninch, corporals; Samuel Gear-\\nhart and Amos Lerch, musicians and privates, Wm. W. Alcorn, James G.\\nAverell, Silas R. Anderson, Louis A. Brady, Amos Cailor, A. H. Divines,\\nFranklin Dubels, John B. Farr, P. H. Freas, Robert Geist, James Geist, Wm.\\n1 Copied from Bates. lb.-\\n12", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0183.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "i66 History of Clarion County.\\nJ. Geist, G. M. Gibson, Edward Henderson, George B. Hane, Wm. Jenkins,\\nC. N. Jackson, Thomas Jones, Israel Johnston, Elijah Keller, John Lash, James\\nLang, Wm. R. Loder, George Mauk, J. J. Montgomery, G. S. Montgomery,\\nWm. Milliron, John McFarland, Joseph Neal, J. G. Porterfield, Amos Rabuck,\\nJohn Ross, George J. Reitz, F. S. Spankle, Henry Shilling, M. Smith, Wm. R.\\nShafer, Henry Snyder, Wm. Swaub, Abraham Thomas, Wm. Wonderling,\\nWm. J. Wilson and James Walmer.\\nCompany I, Fifty-seventh Regiment.\\nIn response to the call for troops to enter the service to repel the invasion\\nof the Border States in 1863, Captain Wilbur Orr recruited a company early\\nin July, 1863, principally from the southern and southeastern townships of\\nClarion county. The men assembled at Kittanning and]proceeded to Pittsburgh,\\nwhere the company was designated Company I, and assigned to the Fifty- sev-\\nenth Regiment. It took part in the campaign which resulted in the capture\\nof Morgan, and was discharged August 17, 1863.\\nGeorge W. Parker was promoted to hospital steward July 8. The com-\\npany numbered sixty-six men. Many of the readers of this note will recog-\\nnize many familiar names on the roll of this company. For instance, Wilbur\\nOrr, F. A. Detrich, Neal Lawson, Thomas A. Brinkley, Rev. O. A. Elliott, Jo-\\nseph F. Lobaugh, John H. Craig, and O. E. Nail, are names well known to\\nmost of the people of Clarion county.\\nRoll of Company I, Fifty-seventh Regiment.^\\nRobert W. Orr, captain F. A. Detrich, first lieutenant Neal Lawson,\\nsecond lieutenant Samuel C. Lawson, first sergeant; George W. Parker, John\\nSnyder, Joseph M. Foster and Samuel B. Gray, sergeants John Reed, C. J.\\nBlair, Henry Dougherty, T. A. Brinkley, Joseph McGregor, Orin A. Elliott,\\nGeorge W. Yingling, and David McKibben, corporals Joseph F. Lobaugh\\nand Matthew H. Dunkle, musicians privates, J. W. Armstrong, J. H. Albert,\\nD. R. Blair, Alfred Bitters, C. Bcnninger, J. D. Burns, Emery Boyles, John\\nCampbell, John H. Craig, James E. Craig, John Crissman, Jacob Detwiler, M.\\nL. Eshbaugh, W. G. Elder, J. A. Fox, J. S. Ferguson, John Hawk, J. C. Jack-\\nson, John Livermore, Wallace Mortimer, L. A. Mortimer, Samuel Maize, Wm.\\nMcCauley, S. W. McCalmont, O. E. Nail. Wm. Wolf, J. H. Patton, Wm. W.\\nPatton, George W. Perry, H. C. Piatt, J. W. Risher, W. P. Rupert, John\\nRider, Wm. Smathers, James Simpson, Abram Sampsell, R. A. Stewart, M.\\nS. Stewart, James Summerville, Wm. Stewart, Wm. Snyder, Wm. Travis, John\\nA. Wise, Casander Wise, H. H. Wilson, Abram C. Wiant, and Wm. Wolf\\n1 Copied from Bates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0184.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "Company C, 62d Regiment. 167\\nCompany K, Fifty-seventh Regiment.\\nCaptain Jacob Shick, of Redbank township, was one of the leading citizens\\nof Clarion county, ready to respond to the call of our president in 1863. He\\nrecruited a company of sixty-five men in the vicinity of New Bethlehem, which\\nwas designated Company K, and attached to the department of the Monon-\\ngahela in the Fifty- seventh Regiment, and shared in the campaign against\\nMorgan. The company was mustered between the 3d and 8th of July, and\\nmustered out of service August 17, 1863. This company, like others of the\\nFifty-seventh Regiment, which were recruited in Clarion county, was composed\\nof the best citizens of the respective communities from which they went. Their\\nreadiness to serve their country, though some were young and some old, is a\\nnoble expression of their patriotism and devotion to their country and their\\nhomes.\\nRoll of Company K, Fifty-seventh Regiment.^\\nJacob Shick, captain James McWilliams, first lieutenant J. F. McNutt,\\nsecond lieutenant Joseph T. Shoemaker, first sergeant; R. G. Heiner, J. S.\\nSloan, J. E. Hamilton, and J. R. Sarvey, sergeants Joseph Shick, John Cole-\\nman, M. Hankey, D. S. Paine, George Renard, S. Sherman, Joseph Himes,\\nand Jacob Coleman, corporals privates, Daniel Baughman, Wm. Bradley, H.\\nCase, Wm. Copenheifer, H. Coleman, T. Clark, Wm. Drain, S. Evans, W. Far-\\nringer, D. F. Ferden, G. W. Ferden, C. C. Gibson, J. E. Gruber, J. F. Gruber,\\nGeorge Hilliard, John Harriger, G. W. Hankey, A. G. Hartzell, J. F. Himes,\\nS. H. Hoffman, T. S. Johnston, I. J. Keck, D. Lankert, Wm. Long, John May,\\nD. Mercer, H. Myers, Lewis Mohney, James McClain, A. McKee, G. W.\\nPainter, J. M. Paine, James Peoples, L. Reed, Jacob Reynard, John Retinger,\\nWm. D. Rites, James Reynolds, V. Shingledecker, J. Shreckenghost, George\\nShick, D. Shick, J. C. Shafer, John H. Snyder, J. P. Smith, L. C. Shaffer, J.\\nWatterson, Charles White and Wm. Yost.\\nCHAPTER XVn.\\nCOMPANY C, SIXTY-SECOND REGIMENT, P. V.\\nWhen Eecruited Organization and Muster Service in the Field Death of Colonel\\nBlack Roll of Company.\\nON the 4th of July, 1861, Thomas B. Monks recruited a company at Curlls-\\nville and Sligo, Clarion county, which was officered as follows Captain,\\nThomas B. Monks first lieutenant, Benjamin Huey second lieutenant, Wm.\\n1 Copied from Bates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0185.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "i68 History of Clarion County.\\nG. Lowry first sergeant, John E. Myers, and other company officers as shown\\nin the accompanying roll.\\nAuthority to recruit a regiment was given Colonel Samuel W. Black by\\nthe secretary of war, on the 4th of July, and when Colonel Black was ready to\\nreceive recruits Captain Monks s company was ready to enter the regiment.\\nIt was taken in wagons to Kittanning, from that place it went on the cars to\\nPittsburgh. It was mustered into the United States service in Lafayette Hall,\\nPittsburgh, on the 25th of July, i86i,and soon after proceeded to Camp Cam-\\neron, near Harrisburg. At Pittsburgh the company was designated Company\\nC, of Colonel Black s regiment, which was at this time designated the Thirty-\\nthird Independent Regiment, and was organized as follows Samuel W. Black,\\nof Pittsburgh, colonel F. T. Lehman, of Pittsburgh, lieutenant-colonel, and\\nJ. B. Switzer, of Pittsburgh, major. Colonel Black had served in the Mexi-\\ncan war as lieutenant-colonel, and Lieutenant- Colonel Lehman was afterward\\nmade colonel of the One Hundred and Third.\\nThe war department issued orders to recruit troops, but the governor of\\nthe States claimed the right to commission all the officers of the troops raised\\nin their respective Commonwealths. This controversy between the national and\\nState authorities was not settled till late in the fall of 1861. On the 19th of\\nNovember the war department issued an order placing all independent regi-\\nments on the same footing as other State troops. The governor then imme-\\ndiately commissioned the officers of the Thirty-third, and on its being\\nadopted as a State organization, it was designated the Sixty- second Pennsylvania.\\nThe commissions bore date July 4, 1861. After spending a few weeks at\\nCamp Cameron the regiment proceeded to Baltimore, and thence to Washing-\\nton. It took up quarters at Camp Rapp, on Kendall Green, in the northern\\nsuburbs of the city. Here the regiment was armed and equipped for service.\\nSix companies were furnished with the improved Springfield rifles. The other\\nsix had smooth-bore muskets. Company C had muskets at first, but were\\nafterward supplied with rifles. The regiment crossed the Potomac on the iith\\nof September, and was assigned to the Second Brigade of Porter s Division. It\\nwas camped near P ort Corcoran. The officers immediately began to drill the\\ntroops, but little progress was made in this line, as the men were almost con-\\nstantly on duty, making roads and entrenchments, and in cutting away the pine\\nforests in the vicinity of Arlington Heights. The Confederates had occupied\\nMunson s Hill, but they fell back and the lines of our army were advanced and\\nre-formed. In the new line the camp of the Sixty-second was located near\\nFalls Church on the Alexandria, Loudon and Hampshire Railroad. It lay\\nhere a few weeks, when it moved to Minor s Hill and went into winter quarters,\\nin Camp Bettie Black, named in honor of the colonel s youngest daughter. At\\nCamp Bettie JBlack drill and discipline were rigidly enforced. The routine ob-\\nserved was squad drill from six to nine A. M., company drill from ten A. M. to", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0186.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "Company C, 62D Regiment. 169\\ntwelve M., and battalion drill from one to five P. M., daily. The entire division\\nwas also drilled, and occasionally a sham battle was had. Other exercises were\\nobserved, and the soldiers felt relieved when spring came with its duties in the\\nfield. Before leaving Pittsburgh the regiment received a present of a flag from\\nthe ladies of that city. It received the State colors at Hall s Hill in December.\\nOn the 6th of November First Lieutenant Benjamin Huey, of Company C, re-\\nsigned, and on the 1 2th of that month Second Lieutenant Wm. G. Lowry suc-\\nceeded him. The company lost a number of other men during the fall of 1861\\nand the winter of 1861-62. On the 3d of August John Hilbert and Wm.\\nFlick deserted. On the 20th of August Abraham Mock and Alexander Craig\\nwere discharged. Wm. Ong deserted from the company on September i and\\njoined Company K, of the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth P. V. George W.\\nSpringer deserted on the 28th of September. John Karns died at Washing-\\nton, D. C, October 5. John Barlett died at Georgetown, D. C, November 6,\\nand Andrew Barlett died near Hall s Hill on the i6th of the same month.\\nSimeon Callen was discharged on surgeon s certificate December 16. Jackson\\nMcCannaha died at Washington, D. C, October 15. and Tate Henry was dis-\\ncharged March 10, 1862. Corporal Robert A. Lowry accidentally shot him-\\nself with his brother Wm. G. Lowry s revolver, February i, 1862. The greater\\npart of this loss was sustained as a result of a malignant form of camp fever\\nwhich prevailed in the camp in the early part of the winter. From the date of\\nits entering the service to March 10, when the army moved upon the enemy,\\nCompany C had lost fourteen men. When armed and equipped the com-\\npany numbered loi men. It received two recruits August 20, 1861 five Jan-\\nuary 28, 1862, and one on the 7th of February, 1862, making a total enroll-\\nment of 109 men. March 10, 1862, it numbered ninety-five men, some of\\nthem sick.\\nWhen the army moved upon the works of the enemy at Manassas, March\\n10, it found them abandoned. The Sixty-second was halted at Fairfax Court\\nHouse. The army was to be transferred to the Peninsula, so the regiment left\\nFairfax on the 15th of March and proceeded to Alexandria. It embarked\\nupon transports and proceeded to Fortress Monroe, where it went into camp\\nnear the little village of Hampton, which Magruder had destroyed. It was\\nsoon put on duty in a reconnaissance toward Yorktown. The troops returned\\nto camp after having gone as far as Big Bethel. When the army moved upon\\nYorktown on the 3d of April, the Sixty-second marched up near the enemy s\\nworks, and the men of Company C got their first sight of Confederate troops\\nuniformed in gray.\\nSkirmishing ensued, and the Sixty-second marched forward and took its\\nplace in line of battle under fire. The enemy was soon obliged to evacuate.\\nBates says Colonel Black was first apprised of the evacuation by three de-\\nserters, who came in with a flag of truce the regiment happening to be on", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0187.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "I/O History of Clarion County.\\npicket near the river on the night in which it was made. The regiment had\\none man killed and three wounded. Company C suffered no loss. It remained\\nnear Yorktown, as did all of Porter s division, till May 8th, when it moved on\\ntransports up the York River to a place opposite West Point, where the divi-\\nsion landed and went into camp. Here Porter was placed in command of the\\nFifth Provisional Corps, which was then formed. Morrell assumed command\\nof Porter s division and Brigadier- General Charles Grififin became commander\\nof the Second Brigade. When the army advanced up the Chickahominy,\\nPorter s Corps moved up on the left bank. On the 27th of May Porter s Corps\\nencountered the enemy at Hanover Court House, defeating him and capturing\\na number of prisoners and arms. Colonel Black earnestly commended the\\nSixty-second for its conduct in this engagement. The loss was small. At Me-\\nchanicsville the regiment moved to support the Pennsylvania Reserves, and was\\nunder fire for an hour, but was not actively engaged and sustained no loss.\\nOn the morning of the 27th of June, Porter withdrew his troops from Beaver\\nDam Creek, where the Reserves were engaged, and posted them on an eleva-\\ntion south of Gaines s Mill. Here he awaited the advance of the enemy. The\\nenemy came on and opened the battle about 2 P. M., on the 27th. The Sixty-\\nsecond Pennsylvania, with the Ninth Massachusetts, was ordered forward to\\ncharge across a ravine in front. They advanced under a terrific infantry fire,\\nand driving back the enemy with frightful slaughter, they gained the woods on\\nthe opposite side of the ravine. Before the regiment reached the woods Col-\\nonel Black was instantly killed. Under the lead of Lieutenant-Colonel Switzer\\nthe men pressed on, drove the enemy back, and gained a position considerably\\nin advance of the main line of battle. In this position they were soon discov-\\nered, and the enemy pressing hard upon their flank, poured into their ranks\\na withering enfilading fire, which forced them to withdraw. The Sixty-second\\nre-formed in an open field to the right of the woods. The battle was raging furi-\\nously. Their ammunition was exhausted. The men had scarcely got into po-\\nsition when General Seymour rode up, and ascertaining that they had no ammu-\\nnition he directed that their cartridge-boxes be filled at once. He then ordered\\nColonel Switzer to proceed immediately to the extreme left of the line to help\\ncheck the furious onset of the enemy at that point. Colonel Switzer led his\\ngallant men on a double quick, over swampy ground towards the Chickahominy,\\nto the point indicated. The ranks of the regiment were sadly thinned, but it\\nwas immediately formed and bravely charged up the hill and into the woods,\\nupon entering which, it received a most frightful volley of musketry. It re-\\nturned the fire, and the battle at this time was most terrible all along the entire\\nline. The right gave way. The Sixty-second was again flanked, and unable\\nto sustain the shock of such vastly superior numbers, it was carried back with\\nthe entire army toward the Chickahominy. Desperately fighting to hold his\\nground. Colonel Switzer was captured and taken away to Libby Prison. In", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0188.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "Company C, 62D Regiment. 171\\nthis terrible conflict Company C had James H. Craig, Thomas B. McEwen,\\nHenry Stewart, and John H. Boyles killed. William H. Myers was wounded,\\nand Stephen McTigue was captured.\\nThe Sixty-second reached Malvern Hill June 30. It had no field officers.\\nIt was commanded by Captain James C. Hull, of Company A, and supported\\nBattery D, of the Fifth United States Artillery. The Confederates gave\\nspecial attention to the battery. It sustained a fearful cannonading, which was\\npoured upon it in return for its rapid and effective work. When the enemy s\\nartillery failed to silence the battery, his infantry charged it with frantic bravery,\\nand in the fiery ordeal the Sixty- second suffered severely. Company C s list\\nof killed at Malvern numbered three, viz.: Corporal Andrew Jenkins, Decatur\\nS. Wyman, and William A. Winkett. William B. Wyman, James C. Meanor,\\nWilliam H. Hileman, Andrew Loux, George Rockafellow, Christian Chromer,\\nJohn Freeman, George Kribbs, Daniel D. Smith, and John Stover were wounded.\\nThe regiment took part in the engagement at Harrison s Bar on the 31st of\\nJuly, without much loss. At Gainesville, on the 27th of August, the regiment\\nengaged the enemy, had two men wounded, one of whom was George W.\\nBoyer, of Company C, who was also captured. The regiment was held in re-\\nserve during the remaining two days of the disastrous second Bull Run. On\\nthe 4th of September the Sixty-second went into camp at its old camp near\\nMinor s Hill, Camp Bettie Black. Few in number and worn down, it presented\\na strong contrast to the full ranks of strong men who encamped here before\\nstarting to the field. At Antietam, on the 17th, Company C suffered no loss-\\nOn the 20th of September the regiment crossed the Potomac at Blackford s\\nFord, captured a few stragglers and returned to the army without loss. It\\njoined the corps, moved to follow up the retreating army. The corps had\\nscarcely started when the enemy attacked the head of the column and the en-\\ngagement became general. The Union troops were routed. Company C came\\nout without any loss. On the 29th of September the company was in the en-\\ngagement at Kearneysville, Va., but had no loss.\\nOn the lOth of September, 1862, Lieutenant W. G. Lowry, of Company\\nC, was promoted to major of the regiment. When Burnside re-organized the\\narmy, Colonel Switzer became commander of the Second Brigade, and Lieu-\\ntenant Colonel Hull took charge of the Sixty- second.\\nAt Fredericksburg the company, in common with the brigade, were in the\\nfront and thickest of the fight from Saturday noon, December 13, to Sunday\\nnight, when the troops were relieved. Monday they again went to the front.\\nThe regiment was reported to have had two officers and five men killed; seven\\nofficers and fifty-six men wounded. Samuel H. Moore and William Timms, of\\nCompany C, were killed and Charles Glaze and Joshua Knox were wounded.\\nThe company next took part in the battle of Chancellorsville, escaping\\nwithout loss, but participating in some of the most desperate fighting during", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0189.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "172 History of Clarion County.\\nthe progress of the battle. At Middleburg the company was also engaged.\\nThe Sixty-second reached the bloody field of Gettysburg before daylight, July\\n2, 1863. It fought hard all day, and maintained its reputation for bravery and\\ndevotion. During the 3d it occupied a position along the stone wall. Major\\nLowry, Samuel Dearmott, and William H. Myers, of Company C, were killed\\nCharles Glaze, Milton C. Goheen, James C. Meanor, Thomas H. Bowser, Will-\\niam Geer, John Konkle, William B. Larimer, and James Pence were wounded,\\nand Thomas H. Bowser, John Konkle, David Fink, and Thomas Kiskaddon\\nwere taken prisoners.\\nOn the 1 2th of July the regiment encountered the enemy at Funkstown,\\nMaryland. The company had no casualties. Returning to Virginia, the troops\\nwere engaged at Rappahannock Station, Grove Church, and Mine Run. Thus\\nclosed the year, and they went into winter quarters at Licking Run. In 1864,\\nduring the Wilderness campaign, the regiment lost heavily. On the I2th of\\nMay, at Spottsylvania, Adjutant John E. Myers and Lieutenant William H.\\nJohnston, of Company C, were killed. On the 8th of May George Coursin was\\nwounded, and Leroy Abbott on the I2th.\\nColonel Hull being mortally wounded. Captain McClay, of Compay C, as-\\nsumed command. On the night of the 13th the regiment took position in front\\nof Spottsylvania. It was almost constantly under fire here till the 21st of May.\\nIt engaged the enemy at North Anna about noon of that day. On the 2d of\\nJune it engaged the enemy at a place near Tolopotomy Creek. On the 3d it\\nperformed signal service duty, and lost heavily. In this series of engagements\\nCompany C sustained no loss. On the i8th of June it was hotly engaged be-\\nfore Petersburg. Company C had Milton C. Goheen killed. The company\\nwas again in battle on the 2ist of June at Jerusalem Plank Road, without loss.\\nIt served on picket and fatigue duty until the 2d of July, when, its term of\\nservice having expired, it was ordered to the rear. On the 4th of July it\\nstarted from City Point for Pittsburgh, and having reached that city, it was\\nmustered out of service July 13, 1864. Not to particularize further, be it said\\nthat Company C was a worthy representative of the patriotic organizations\\nof Clarion county. Its officers were men who led. They were found with\\ntheir men, and the death of Lowry, Myers, and Johnston emphasizes this\\ndeclaration.\\nThe writer is indebted to Sergeant David R. Lobaugh for valuable assist-\\nance in correcting the attached roll also in procuring some dates of decided\\nimportance. It is not too much to say that Company C, of the Sixty-second\\nPennsylvania Volunteers, has every reason to be proud of its record. The few\\nwho failed to do their whole duty are entirely lost sight of in contemplation\\nof the great majority who won enviable distinction by their devotion and\\nvalor. I. M. Shannon, of this company, was elected sheriff of Clarion county\\nin 1882.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0190.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "Company C, 62D Regiment. 173\\nCorrected Roll of Company C, Sixty-Second Regiment.\\nThomas B. Monks, captain, July 25, 1861, three years; resigned October\\n17, 1862.\\nWilliam P. McClay, captain, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted from\\nfirst sergeant to second lieutenant November 12, 1861 to captain October 17,\\n1862 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nBenjamin Huey, first lieutenant, July 25, 1861, three years; resigned No-\\nvember 6, 1 86 1, re-enlisted August 8, 1862 transferred.\\nWilliam G. Lowry, first lieutenant, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom second to first lieutenant November 12, 1861 to major September 10\\n1852 killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863.\\nJohn E. Myers, first lieutenant, July 25, 1861, three years promoted from\\nfirst sergeant to first lieutenant September 10, 1862 to adjutant June 20, 1863\\nkilled at Spottsylvania March 12, 1864.\\nWm. H. Johnston, first lieutenant, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom sergeant to second lieutenant October 17, 1862 to first lieutenant July\\n20, 1863 died May 17, 1864, of wounds received in action May 12, 1864.\\nCharles Glaze, sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted from cor-\\nporal October 17, 1862 wounded at Fredericksburg, and also at Gettysburg,\\nJuly 2, 1863 transferred to Invalid Corps.\\nJacob M. Conrad, sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted from\\ncorporal October 17, 1862 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nReuben Dunkle, sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted from cor-\\nporal November 12, 1861 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nDavid R. Lobaugh, sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted from\\ncorporal March 10, 1862 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nMilton C. Goheen, sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Get-\\ntysburg, Pa.; killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864.\\nTate Henry, sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years discharged March 10,\\n1862.\\nWilliam B. Wyman, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Mal-\\nvern Hill; mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nJames C. Meanor, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal May 20, 1862; wounded at Malvern Hill and Gettysburg; mustered\\nout with company July 13, 1864.\\nThomas Stover, corporal July 25, 1861 promoted to corporal July 5, 1862\\nmustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nWm. H. Hileman, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal July 3, 1863; wounded at Malvern Hill; mustered out with company\\nJuly 13, 1864.\\nWm. J. Sample, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal July 3, 1863 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\n13", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0191.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "174 History of Clarion County.\\nCharles Bicehouse, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal July 3, 1863 absent, sick, at muster out.\\nJoshua Knox, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to corporal\\nJuly 3, 1863 wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862 mustered\\nout with company July 13, 1 864.\\nThos. H. Bowser, corporal, July 25, 186 1, three years; promoted to corporal\\nOctober 4, 1 863 wounded and taken prisoner at Gettysburg; mustered out\\nwith company July 13, 1864.\\nAndrew Loux, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Malvern\\nHill discharged January 23, 1863.\\nHenry Z. Wilhelm, corporal, July 25, 1 861, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate June 5, 1862.\\nAndrew Jenkins, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal March 15, 1862 killed at Malvern Hill July i, 1862.\\nGeorge Rockafellow, ^corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal March 15, 1862; wounded at Malvern Hill transferred to Invalid\\nCorps October 15, 1863.\\nRobert A. Lowry, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal November 12, 1861 killed by accidental shot February i, 1862.\\nLewis Coursin, musician, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged for disa-\\nbility February 9, 1863.\\nJames Low, musician, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with com-\\npany July 13, 1864.\\nAbbott, Leroy, private, August 20, 1861, three years; wounded at Spott-\\nsylvania May 12, 1864; in hospital when discharged.\\nBartlebough, Jos., private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nBoyles, John H., private, July 25, 1861, three years; killed at Gaines s Mill\\nJune 27, 1862.\\nBarnes, Joseph, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged October\\n23, 1862.\\nBoyer, George, private, January 28, 1861, three years; wounded and pris-\\noner at Gainesville August 27, 1862 transferred to Invalid Corps September\\nI, 1863.\\nBarlett, Andrew R., private, July 25, 1861, three years; died near Hall s\\nHill November 16, 1861.\\nBarlett, John, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died at Georgetown, D.\\nC, November 6, 1 86 1.\\nClugh, Thomas, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nCaldwell, James A., private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0192.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "Company C, 62d Regiment. 175\\nCraig, William, private, July 25, 1861, three years mustered out with com-\\npany July 13, 1864.\\nColeman, Henry, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nCarson, Samuel, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nChromer, Christian, private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Mal-\\nvern Hill; mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nCoursin, George, private, July 15, 1861, three years; wounded in action\\nMay 8, 1864; discharged, date unknown.\\nCraig, James H., private, July 25, 1861, three years; killed at Gaines s\\nMill June 27, 1862.\\nCarson, James, private, July 25, 1861, three years discharged January 14,\\n1863.\\nCraig, Alexander, private, July 25, 186 1, three years; discharged August\\n20, 1861.\\nCallen, Simeon, private, July 25, 186 1, three years discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate December 16, 1861.\\nDunkle, Anderson, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nDearmott, Samuel, private, July 25, 1861, three years; killed at Gettys-\\nburg July 2, 1863 buried in National Cemetery, section E, grave 22.\\nElder, Marion, private, August 16, 1862, three years mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nElder, William, private, August 16, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nFox, Obed E., private, July 25, 186 1, three years mustered out with com-\\npany July 13, 1864.\\nFisher, James M., private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nFreeman, John, private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Malvern\\nHill mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nFink, David, private, July 25, 1861, three years; prisoner at Gettysburg;\\ndied at Pittsburgh October 11, 1864.\\nFrank, Martin, private, July 25, 1861, three years; re-enHsted, veteran,\\nDecember 27, 1863.\\nFlick, William, private, July 25, 1861, three years; deserted August 3,\\n1861.\\nGeer, William, private, August 16, 1862, three years wounded at Gettys-\\nburg mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nHagan, David, private, August i6,|i862, three years died in Philadelphia\\nJune 19, 1863.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0193.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "1/6 History of Clarion County.\\nHagan, Bartlett C, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nHariger, Andrew, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nHenry, Robert J., private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged July 24,\\n1862.\\nHilbert, John, private, July 25, 1 861, three years deserted August 3, 1861.\\nJames, John, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with com-\\npany July 13, 1864.\\nKonkle, John, private, July 25, 1861, three years wounded at Gettysburg\\ndischarged April 12, 1864.\\nKisskaddon, Thomas, private, July 25, 1861, three years; prisoner at Get-\\ntysburg; re-enlisted, veteran, January 30, 1864.\\nKribbs, George, private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Malvern\\nHill discharged.\\nKarns, John, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died at Washington, D.\\nC, October 5, 1861.\\nKeller, John M., private, August 18, 1862, three years.\\nLarimer, William B., private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Get-\\ntysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863 discharged.\\nLewis, John, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged February,\\n1863.\\nLewis, James, private, July 25, 1861, three years; transferred to Invahd\\nCorps December i, 1863.\\nLevan, Elias, private, January 28, 1862, three years; recruited January\\n28, 1862; discharged October 20, 1862.\\nLevan, Lorenzo S., private, January 28, 1862, three years; recruited Jan-\\nuary 28, 1862; transferred to Invalid Corps September i, 1863.\\nMaitland, Jeremiah, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nManly, George B., private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nMuhnkarn, John, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nMyers, WilHam H., private, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal wounded at Gaines s Mill, Va.; killed at Gettysburg, Pa.\\nMyers, Samuel, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died at Philadelphia,\\nPa., January 12, 1863.\\nMoore, Jacob K., private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Decem-\\nber 20, 1862.\\nMoore, Samuel H., private, July 25, 1861, three years; killed at Fred-\\nericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0194.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "Company C, 62d Regiment. 177\\nMock, Abraham, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged August\\n20, 1 86 1.\\nMcBride, Samuel, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nMcMillen, Shrader, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nMcTigue, Stephen, private, July 25, 1861, three years; prisoner at Gaines s\\nMill, Va., June 27, 1862; mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nMcCartney, Jacob, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nMcMillen, Thomas, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Octo-\\nber 20, 1862.\\nMcE wen, Thomas B., private, July 25, 1861, three years; killed at Gaines s\\nMill June 27, 1862.\\nMcGarvey, Hugh, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Novem-\\nber 15, 1862.\\nMcCannaha, Jackson, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died at Wash-\\nington, D. C, October 15, 1861.\\nOng, WiUiam, private, August 20, 1861, three years; deserted from com-\\npany and joined Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth P. V., September\\nI, 1861.\\nPoHn, Henry, private, July 25, 1861, three years; transferred to Invalid\\nCorps September i, 1863.\\nPysher, Stephen G., private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Octo-\\nber 23, 1862.\\nPence, James, private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Gettysburg,\\nPa.; re-enhsted as veteran volunteer February 8, 1864.\\nReynolds, W. N., private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nRedick, Alexander, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died January 3,\\n1863; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C.\\nRiley, John, private, March 26, 1864, three years; transferred to Company\\nG, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment.\\nSnyder, Samuel T., private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nSampson, Charles, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nSage, Joel, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with company\\nJuly 13, 1864.\\nSalade, Harvey J., private, July 25, 1861, three years; absent at muster\\nout.\\nStewart, Henry, private, July 25, 186 1, three years; killed at Gaines s Mill,.\\nVa., June 27, 1862.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0195.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "178 History of Clarion County.\\nSmith, Daniel D., private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Novem-\\nber 15, 1862, for wounds received at Malvern Hill July i, 1862.\\nShick, Joseph, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged July 24,\\n1862.\\nStover, John, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged on account\\nof wounds received at Malvern Hill.\\nShannon, Irwin M., private, January 28, 1862, three years; discharged De-\\ncember 10, 1862.\\nShannon, Philip M., private, January 28, 1862, three years; discharged De-\\ncember 10, 1862.\\nSpringer, George VV., private, July 25, 1861, three years; deserted Sep-\\ntember 28, 1 86 1.\\nTimms, William, private, July 25, 1861, three years; killed at Fredericks-\\nburg, Va., December 13, 1862.\\nTurney, Simon P., private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Febru-\\nary 24, 1863.\\nWyman, Samuel, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nWagoner, Solomon, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nWyman, Decatur S., private, July 25, 1861, three years; killed at Malvern\\nHill, Va., July i, 1862.\\nWilliams, Walter L., private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nWilliams, John L., private, July 25, 1861, three years; died June 9, 1864;\\nburied in the National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.\\nWilson, Joseph, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged April 16,\\n1863.\\nWinket, William A., private, February 7, 1862, three years; killed at Mal-\\nvern Hill, Va., July i, 1862.\\nCHAPTER XVni.\\nCOMPANY E, SIXTY-SECOND REGIMENT.\\nWhen Recruited Captain Kerr s Dismissal Service in the Field Roll.\\nCOMPANY E was recruited at Rimersburg, July 4, 1861, by Captain Thomas\\nKerr. The organization proceeded by wagons to Kittanning, thence by rail\\nto Pittsburgh, where it was mustered into the United States service July 25, 1861.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0196.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "Company E, 62D Regiment. 179\\nThe movements of the company, in common with the regiment, are detailed\\nunder the title Company C, Sixty-second Regiment, which chapter imme-\\ndiately precedes this. On account of some trouble relative to the rent of re-\\ncruiting office at Rimersburg Captain Kerr was dismissed April 5, 1862, and\\nSergeant FrankHn Sweet succeeded to the command of the company. The\\nfirst loss in battle which the company suffered was at Gaines s Mill, June 27,\\n1862. In that struggle James Frier (or Friar), and Joseph McCray were killed;\\nWilson Crick and James E. Elder were missing. Both are supposed to have\\nbeen killed. Bates says, Thomas Irvin was discharged March 19, 1862. Some\\nsurviving members of the company say he was killed in this battle.\\nSamuel W. Lobaugh was wounded in the head, being shot through from\\nthe back of his head when the regiment was beaten back at the time when\\nColonel Black was killed. (See preceding chapter.) John B. Fox was wounded\\nin the foot, Neal Lawson in the thigh, Thomas Gatings in the neck, Henry Bu-\\nchanan in both legs Lot M. Anderson, George O. Carson, Henry Beer, John\\nA. McKee, and David Mortimer also were wounded Thomas Gatings, Sam-\\nuel W. Lobaugh, and Henry Buchanan were captured.\\nAt Malvern Hill, July i, 1862, Lawson D. Reed was mortally wounded.\\nSamuel Benn, William Boyd, Thomas Baker, Jonathan Buzzard, Samuel L.\\nMortimer, and Daniel Punkhard were also wounded James H. Thomas was\\nmissing.\\nIn the attack on Fredericksburg, December 13, William H. Hillis and Rob-\\nert P. McFadden were wounded. George W. Devore died at Sharpsburg, Md.,\\nDecember 26, 1862. The company did some hard fighting at Gettysburg,\\nJuly 2 and 3, 1863. James McKinley was mortally wounded. The others\\nwounded were Captain Franklin Sweet, First Sergeant Martin Hartzell Ser-\\ngeant William Ransel and Privates William F. Ferguson, Eli Hastings, Sam-\\nuel Hours, Alexander Mohney, John Miller, Daniel Punkhard, Samuel Varner,\\nand Thomas A. Work Corporal John W. Paine was taken prisoner George\\nMcCoy was accidentally shot in the foot by a comrade in camp he was sent\\nto the hospital. His wound took a serious turn, causing his foot to be ampu-\\ntated, from the effects of which he died February 25, 1864. Punkhard (or\\nPrunkhard) returned to the company June 6, 1864. During the Wilderness\\ncampaign Robert T. Barr and Samuel Carson were killed at Spottsylvania\\n1 Captain Kerr had rented a room from Mr. Henry Fox at Rimersburg, which he used as a recruiting\\noffice. Not knowing how much the government allowed for rent of office, he negotiated with Mr. Fox\\nto pay a certain sum. When the captain submitted his report his superior officer mformed him that the\\ngovernment paid more than the amount agreed upon with Mr. Fox. Accordingly the larger amount\\nwas inserted in the report, with the intention to pay Mr. P ox the full amount allowed. Captain Kerr\\nreported to his regiment for duty, after forwarding the account to the Adjutant-General s office in Har-\\nrisbug. Meanwhile Mr. Fox, learning that the captain had submitted a larger amount of rent than he\\n(Mr. Fox) had received, at once reported the matter, while Captain Kerr was on duty at the front, all\\nunconscious of having committed any wrong act, the case was made up against him. Military law\\nis relentless, and he had to sutler its penalties.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0197.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "i8o History of Clarion County.\\nCourt House, May 12, 1864. William Storey was wounded May 5, Henry\\nBuchanan May 8, Francis Cook, Samuel L. Mortimer, and D. L. McGregor, at\\nSpottsylvania, May 12. Thomas Gatings, James Probasco, and James F. Stew-\\nart were wounded at North Anna River. On the 2d of June Martin V. Hart-\\nzel was wounded at Bethesda Church Hugh Fackender was killed at Cold\\nHarbor June 3, 1864. In addition to those already mentioned, the company\\ntook part in the battles of Chancellorsville, Funkstown, Rappahannock Sta-\\ntion, New Hope Church, and Mine Run. The original members of the com-\\npany, with the original enlistment of the other companies, were ordered to City\\nPoint at four P. M., July 2, 1864. Before eight P. M. the remaining twenty-three\\nmen of Company E, Sixty- second Pennsylvania Volunteers were turned over to\\nCompany D, of the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers.\\nIn a well written diary of Private Joseph W. Graham, is found the follow-\\ning entry:\\nTuesday, May 10, 1864. Weather hot. Skirmishing again this morning.\\nAbout eight A. M. Corporal Thomas Barr, of Company E, killed in front of the\\nworks. Ten A. M. our skirmishers advanced in force and drove the enemy out\\nof their rifle pits and took possession of them. When this advance was made\\nwe got the body of Corporal Barr and consigned it to its long home. Heavy\\nartillery and infantry firing in front, and the enemy held in check. 7:15 P. M.\\nthe enemy made an advance, and our artillery and infantry drove them back.\\nRelative to the disappearance of Jonathan Buzzard, the same soldier notes\\non the 9th of May\\nJonathan M. Buzzard, brigade pioneer of Company E, 62d P. V., is miss-\\ning. Supposed to be killed. He was out digging rifle pits for the pickets.\\nAnd again, May 12. This day wet all day. At nine A. M., after a short\\ncannonading, the 9th and 3 2d Regt s, Mass. Vols, and the 62d P. V. made a\\ncharge on the enemy s works in our front but were repulsed. The 62d P. V.\\nhad their Lieut.-Col. J. C. Hull and Adjutant John E. Myers severely wounded,\\nand Co. E had privates Samuel Carson, Sam Mortimer, Daniel McGregor, and\\nFrancis Cook wounded.\\nOn the 14th of May Graham noted Adjt. John Myers, and Samuel Car-\\nson dead from wounds.\\nOn the 25th of May he notes Hugh Pastorius, of Co. E, wounded in\\nthe foot.\\nIn the following roll under remarks, the transfers to the One Hundred\\nand Fifty-fifth are noted January 3, 1864. This seems to be an error, but in\\ndeference to Bates we leave it unchanged, and give below memorandum in full\\nmade by J. W. Graham in his diary\\nSaturday, July 2, 1864. This day, as usual, hot. Six o clock A. M. some\\nshelling done on our part from the mortars, but when it got hot there was a\\ncessation till evening, when it was again resumed. After dark there was some", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0198.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "Company E, 62d Regiment. i8i\\npicket firing done. The old men of the 62d P. V. are getting ready to go\\nhome. Four P. M. they are relieved and ordered to City Point, and by 8 P.\\nM. the remaining men of Co. E, 62d P. V., are turned over to Co. D. 155th\\nP. v., twenty-three being present 1 1 30 the old company regiment leave for\\nCity Point.\\nOn Sunday the orderly sergeant of Company D, of the One Hundred and\\nFifty-fifth, assisted by Mr. Graham, made a return of the men which had been\\ntransferred, and this return probably gave the date to the record of the trans-\\nfer. It is with pleasure the writer acknowledges the courtesy and valuable\\nassistance extended to him by Corporal Thomas Gatings and Private Williant\\nM. Pollock, who have been the means of presenting a comparatively correct\\nroll of the company. The diary of Private Graham, now dead, is indeed valu-^\\nable, but lack of space prevents expansion on topics therein carefully noted.\\nThe company saw hard service. Some of its members were not the most con-\\nstant, but the great majority were earnest, loyal, and courageous men.\\nCorrected Roll of Company E, Sixty-second Regiment.\\nThomas Kerr,i captain, July 25, 1861, three years; dismissed April 5,\\n1862.\\nFranklin Sweet, captain, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted from first\\nsergeant December 22, 1863 wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; mustered\\nout with company July 13, 1864.\\nW. B. Montgomery, first lieutenant, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged\\nAugust 3, 1863, by order of Major-General Sykes.\\nPhilip Arner, first lieutenant, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted from\\nsergeant September 30, 1863 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nDaniel Rivers, second lieutenant, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged\\nAugust 8, 1863, by order of Major- General Sykes.\\nMartin V. Hartzel, first sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to\\nsergeant December 22, 1863 wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863, and at\\nBethesda Church June 2, 1864; mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nWilson Crick, first sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years missing at Gaines s\\nMill, Va., June 27, 1862.\\nWilliam H. Hillis, sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to ser-\\ngeant August I, 1862; wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862;\\nmustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nWilliam Ransel, sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Gettys-\\nburg, Pa., July 2, 1863 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nGeorge Miller, sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years; appointed sergeant\\nNovember i, 1863 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nWilliam F. Furgeson, sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years; appointed cor-\\n1 See fool-note at the beginning of this chapter.\\n14", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0199.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "1 82 History of Clarion County.\\nporal July i, 1862; sergeant December 22, 1863; wounded at Gettysburg;\\nmustered out with company.\\nSylvester D. Hamler, sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Jan-\\nuary 21, 1862.\\nJackson McPherson, sergeant, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged.\\nJohnson C. Gardner, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; appointed cor-\\nporal July I, 1862, color guard mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nThomas J. Springer, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; appointed cor-\\nporal September 4, 1862 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nC. R. Armstrong, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; appointed corporal\\nSeptember 4, 1862 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nJohn W. Paine, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years appointed corporal De-\\ncember I, 1862; prisoner at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 mustered out with com-\\npany July 13, 1864.\\nWilliam Hays, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; appointed corporal,\\nNovember i, 1863; mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nJohn L. Gilbert, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; appointed corporal\\nAugust 12, 1 86 1 discharged to accept promotion February 22, 1862.\\nNeal Lawson, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to corporal\\nOctober 25, 1863; discharged November 17, 1862, for wounds received at\\nGaines s Mill June 27, 1862.\\nThomas Gatings, corporal, August 30, 1861, three years; wounded and\\nprisoner at Gaines s Mill, June 27, 1862; also at North Anna in May, 1864;\\ntransferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864,\\nveteran.\\nJohn M. Shaffer, corporal, February i, 1864, three years promoted to cor-\\nporal December 22, 1863 transferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regi-\\nment P. v., July 3, 1864, veteran.\\nRobert T. Barr, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years promoted to corporal\\nMarch 12, 1863; killed at Spottsylvania Court House May 10, 1864.\\nHenry W. Mahey, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal October 25, 1861 died at Philadelphia, Pa., March 24, 1862.\\nLawson D. Reed, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; captured; died at\\nRichmond, Va., July, 1862, of wounds received at Malvern Hill, July i, 1862.\\nJames McKinley, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal July I, 1862; died July 15, of wounds received at Gettysburg July 2, 1862.\\nDaniel Mitchell, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years; deserted July 30,\\n1861.\\nWilliam J. Gifford, corporal, July 25, 1861, three years appointed corporal\\nApril 15, 1862 deserted June 20, 1862,\\nAnderson, Lot M., private, July 25, 1861, three years wounded at Gaines s\\nMill June 27, 1862 discharged November 17, 1862.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0200.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "Company E, 62D Regiment. 183\\nAddleman, Eph. W., private, July 25, 1861, three years; died at Minor s\\nHill, Va., March 17, 1862.\\nBuchanan, Henry, private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded and pris-\\noner at Gaines s Mill June 27, 1862; wounded at Wilderness May 8, 1864;\\nmustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nBenn, Samuel, private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Malvern\\nHill July I, 1862 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nBoyd, Levi, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged September 5,\\n1861.\\nBoyd, William, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged February\\n20, 1863, on account of wounds received at Malvern Hill July i, 1862.\\nBarr, Thomas, private, July 25, 1861, three years discharged July 30,\\n1862.\\nBaxter, John, private, September 2, 1862, three years; substitute; trans-\\nferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864 burial\\nrecord died at Alexandria, Va., June 24, 1864; grave 2,233.\\nBeer, Henry, private, July 25, 186 1, three years; wounded at Gaines s\\nMill June 27, 1862 transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps September i, 1863.\\nBaker, Thomas, private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Malvern\\nHill July I, 1862 transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps September i, 1863.\\nBarrett, John T., private, July 25, 1861, three years; died at Minor s Hill,\\nVa., February 12, 1862.\\nBuzzard, Jonathan, private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Mal-\\nvern Hill, Va., July i, 1862; missing at the Wilderness Va., May 9, 1864;\\nsupposed to be killed.\\nBuzzard, Thomas, private, three years not on muster-out roll.\\nBell, James, private, three years not on muster-out roll.\\nCurry, Jacob P., private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nCooper, John H., private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nCulberson, William, private, July 25, 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nCribbs, John L., private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nCunningham, M., private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged June i,\\n1862.\\nCowan, Robert, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged ^Novem-\\nber 21, 1862.\\nCook, Francis, private, July 10, 1861, three years; drafted; wounded at\\nSpottsylvania Court House May 12, 1864; transferred to One Hundred and\\nFifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0201.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "1 84 History of Clarion County.\\nClark, Wm, M., private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nCurie, James, private, July 25, 1861, three years died on steamer Commo-\\ndore August, 1862.\\nCarson, Geo. O., private, July 25, 1861, three years; died at Philadelphia,\\nPa., August 4, 1862, of wounds received at Gaines s Mill, Va., June 27, 1862.\\nCarson, Samuel, private, September or August, 1862, three years; killed\\nat Spottsylvania C. H., May 12, 1864.\\nCowan, John, private, three years; deserted August, 1861.\\nDelistatious. Walter, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Jan-\\nuary 27, 1863.\\nDougherty, John O., private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; trans-\\nferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1863.\\nDevore, Geo. W., private, July 25, 1861, three years died at Sharpsburg,\\nMd., December 26, 1862.\\nDavidson, Samuel, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died at Philadel-\\nphia, Pa., July 8, 1862.\\nElder, William, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged February\\n10, 1863.\\nErbaugh, Francis M., private, December 27, 1863, three years transferred\\nto One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864; veteran; re-en-\\nlisted December 2 1863.\\nElder, James E., private, July 25, 1861, three years; missing at Gaines s\\nMill, Va., June 27, 1862.\\nElliot, William, private, three years not on muster-out roll.\\nFox, John B., private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Gaines s\\nMill, Va., June 27, 1862 discharged November 17, 1862.\\nFlack, Henry, private, three years discharged, date unknown.\\nFreeman, George W., private. August 30, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nFord, John P., private, July 10, 1863, three years; drafted transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nFoster, Robert, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died December 26,\\n1 861 buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C.\\nFackender, Hugh R., private, July 25, 1861, three years; killed at Cold\\nHarbor, Va., June 3, 1864.\\nFrier, James, private, July 25, 1861 three years, killed at Gaines s Mill,\\nVa., June 27, 1862.\\nFair, Isaac, private, July 25, 1861, three years; deserted at Chancellors-\\nville, Va.\\nGalbraith, John W., private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Sep-\\ntember 5, 1 86 1.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0202.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "Company E, 620 Regiment. 185\\nGraham, Joseph W., private, September 13, 1862, three years; promoted\\nto corporal June 28, 1864; transferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regi-\\nment P. v., July 3, 1864.\\nGuntrum, David, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nGuntrum, Martin, private, March 29, 1864, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nGirts, William H., private, February 24, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nGarvin, George, private, three years not on muster-out roll.\\nHimes, John A., private, three years; re-enlisted December 27, 1863;\\ntransferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864,\\nveteran.\\nHastings, Eli, private, August 20, 1862, three years; wounded at Gettys-\\nburg, Pa., July 2, 1863 transferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment\\nP.V., July 3, 1864.\\nHull, Isaac A., private, August 20. 1862, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nHours, Samuel, private, September 13, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nGettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863 transferred to One Hundred and Fifty- fifth\\nRegiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nHarden, Bonaparte, private, September 16, 1863, three years; substitute;\\ntransferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nHoffman, Sylvester H., private, February 24, 1864, three years transferred\\nto One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nHarringer, Robert, private, July 25, 1 861, three years; deserted August,\\n1861.\\nHuey, William, private, July 25, 1861, three years not on muster-out roll.\\nIrvin, Thomas, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged March 19,\\n1862.\\nJones, Thomas, private, August 30, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nJellison, Robert, private, 1863, three years; deserted August 14, 1864; re-\\nturned transferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3,\\n1864.\\nKratzer, Reuben, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nKerr, Samuel L., private, July 25, 1861, three years; deserted September\\n12, 1862.\\nLookabaugh, Jacob, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Sep-\\ntember 5, 1 86 1.\\nLobaugh, Samuel W., private, July 25, 1861, three years discharged Jan-\\nuary 29, 1863, for wounds received at Gaines s Mill June 27, 1862.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0203.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "1 86 History of Clarion County.\\nLancaster, James H., private, July i6, 1863, three years; drafted; trans-\\nferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nMohney, Alexander, private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Get-\\ntysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nMiller, John, private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Gettysburg,\\nPa., July 3, 1863 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nMonigan, Dennis, private, July 25, 1861, three years absent, sick, at mus-\\nter out.\\nMohney, Gibson, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged October\\n22, 1862.\\nMortimer, David, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Novem-\\nber 17, 1862, for wounds received at Gaines s Mill, Va., June 27, 1862.\\nMortimer, David B., private, July 25, 1861, three years discharged Febru-\\nary 9, 1863.\\nMohney, Isaac, private, February 29, 1864, three years transferred to One\\nHundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nMortimer, Samuel L., private, December 28, 1863, three years; wounded\\nat Malvern Hill, Va., July i, 1862 re-enlisted December 13, 1863 wounded\\nat Spottsylvania Court House May 12, 1864 transferred to One Hundred and\\nFifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nMossburg, Thomas D., private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted trans-\\nferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nMcGregor, Daniel, private, July 25, 1861, three years wounded at Spott-\\nsylvania Court House May 12, 1864; mustered out with company July 13,\\n1864.\\nMcKee, John M. E., private, July 25, 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nMcCoy, William H., private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged July\\n6, 1862 burial record died at Philadephia, Pa., July 19, 1862.\\nMcFadden, Robert P., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged\\nFebruary 28, 1863, for wounds received at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13,\\n1862.\\nMcKee, John A., private, July 25, 1 861, three years; discharged October\\n25, 1862, for wounds received at Gaines s Mill, Va., June 27, 1862.\\nMcLeary, James, private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; discharged\\nNovember 18, 1863.\\nMcKisson, John D., private, August 31, 1863, three years; substitute;\\ntransferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nMcCauly, Thomas, private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; transferred\\nto One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nMcCormick, James, private, August 29, 1863, three years; substitute; trans-\\nferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0204.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "Company E, 62D Regiment. 187\\nMcCool, Thomas, private, March 29, 1864, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V.. July 3, 1864.\\nMcCoy, James, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died at Minor s Hill,\\nVa., October 21, 1861.\\nMcCoy, George, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died February 25,\\n1864, of wounds received in camp; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D.\\nC; veteran.\\nMcElroy, Joseph, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died July i, 1862,\\nof wounds received at Gaines s Mill, June 27, 1862.\\nMcCoy, Thomas, private, July 25, 1861, three years; not on muster-out\\nroll.\\nNicklow, John, private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; discharged\\nNovember 19, 1863.\\nNewell, William M., private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Janu-\\nary 9, 1864.\\nNail, Levi, private, March 29, 1864, three years; transferred to One Hun-\\ndred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nNeal, Henry W., private, July 25, 1861, three years; died at Minor s Hill,\\nVa., November 4, 1861.\\nPunkhard, Daniel, private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Malvern\\nHill, Va., July i, 1862; wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; mustered out\\nwith company July 13, 1864.\\nPollock, William M., private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at\\nPetersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nPinks, Samuel B., private, July 25, 1861, three years discharged Septem-\\nber 5, 1861.\\nPalmer, Valentine, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged July 11,\\n1863.\\nPeaden, James F,, private, July 25, 1861, three years; transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps date unknown.\\nProbasco, James, private, December 28, 1863, three years; re-enlisted De-\\ncember 27, 1863 transferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V.,\\nJuly 3, 1864; veteran wounded at North Anna River in May, 1864.\\nPastorius, Hugh, private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; wounded\\nMay 25, 1864; transferred to Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Reg-\\niment, July 3, 1864.\\nPayne, George, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died May i, 1862;\\nburied in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C.\\nPollock, John C, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died at Philadelphia,\\nPa,. December 2, 1862.\\nRusk, John, private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with com-\\npany July 13, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0205.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "i88 History of Clarion County.\\nRobins, George, private, July 25, 1861, three years; captured; date un-\\nknown; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 30, 1864; grave 7293.\\nReddick, Quincy A., private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; trans-\\nferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nRossenberger, John B., private, July 12, 1863, three years; drafted; trans-\\nferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nRankin, James L., private, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nSteward, James F., private, July 25, 1861, three years wounded at North\\nAnna, May, 1864; mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nShirk, Daniel, private July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with com-\\npany July 13, 1864.\\nSharp, Evelyn D., private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 13, 1864.\\nSaggerser, William R., private, July 25, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 13, 1864.\\nSloan, John S., private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged November\\n27, 1861.\\nStewart, Robert A., private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged July\\n30, 1862.\\nSmathers, Jacob, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged February\\n19, 1863.\\nShirk, John M., private, September 13, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nSharp, Hanford R., private, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nStewart, Robert A., private, March 29, 1864, three years transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nShyrock, John O., private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; transferred\\nto One Hundred and Ffty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nStory, William, private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; wounded at\\nthe Wilderness May 5, 1864; transferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Reg-\\niment P. v., July 3, 1864.\\nThomas, Mathew, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged April 22,\\n1862.\\nThompson, Henderson, private, July 25, 1861, three years; not on muster-\\nout roll.\\nTruby, Andrew J., private, September 13, 1862, three years; transferred\\nto One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nThomas, James H., private, July 25, 1861, three years; missing at Malvern\\nHill, Va., July i, 1862.\\nVarner, Samuel, private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Gettys-\\nburg, Pa., July 2, 1863 discharged March 3, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0206.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "Company F, 63D Regiment. 189\\nWork, Thomas A., private, July 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Gettys-\\nburg, Pa., July 2, 1863 mustered out with company July 13, 1864.\\nWhite, Robert, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged July 30,\\n1862.\\nWarner, Sylvester, private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged Sep-\\ntember II, 1862; re-enlisted March 31, 1864; transferred to One Hundred\\nand Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nWatson, James H., private, July 25, 1861, three years; discharged April\\n18, 1863.\\nWhipkey, WiUiam, private, July 16, 1863, three years; substitute; trans-\\nferred to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nWilson, John B., private, February 24, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment P. V., July 3, 1864.\\nWork, Joseph, private, July 25, 1861, three years; died at Licking Run,\\nVa., January i, 1864.\\nWinters, John, private, March 31, 1864, three years; not on muster-out\\nroll.\\nCHAPTER XIX.\\nCOMPANY F, SIXTY-THIRD REGIMENT.\\nWhen and By Whom Recruited Officers Service on the Field Roll of Company.\\nIN July, 1 861, immediately after the battle of Bull Run, Bernard J. Reid,\\nesq., acting under written authority from Colonel Alexander Hays,- began\\nto recruit a company of volunteers for the war. Captain Reid s head-\\nquarters were at Clarion. On the 5th of September, 1861, he left Clarion\\nwith forty-seven recruits, marched overland to Kittanning, and thence by rail\\nto Pittsburgh, where he with his company joined Colonel Hays s regiment in\\nCamp Wilkins. Captain Reid was ordered to return immediately to Clarion\\ncounty, accompanied by Sergeant George W. McCullough, to enlist more men.\\nOn the 17th of September they again marched with forty-six new recruits.\\nWhen they reached Camp Wilkins they learned that the regiment had gone on\\nto Washington. They followed by rail via Harrisburg and Baltimore, and\\njoined the regiment September 21, at Camp Hays, in the eastern suburbs of\\nWashington. At Camp Hays the regiment was armed and equipped for active\\nservice, and was numbered and designated the Sixty-third Regiment Pennsyl-\\nvania Volunteers. Captain Reid s company was designated Company F. It\\nwas given position at the center of the left wing of the regiment.\\n15", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0207.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "190 History of Clarion County.\\nThe company election was held September 23, 1861, when Bernard J. Reid\\nwas elected captain, John G. McGonagle, first lieutenant, Lawrence Eagan,\\nsecond lieutenant, and Joshua H. Delo, first sergeant. Curtis C. Zink, George\\nW. Fox, John R. Guthrie and ^George W. McCullough, were appointed ser-\\ngeants John Kuhns, Robert S. Elgin, James Waley, David R. Dunmire, Da-\\nvid Irwin, Thomas H. Martin, Adam Potter and John Stewart, corporals Ami\\nWhitehall and Samuel K. Richards, musicians Joseph Lichtenberger, bugler,\\nand Preston H. Moodie, teamster.\\nOther recruits came into camp and the complement of the compan)^ was\\nfilled. On the 28th of September the regiment crossed the Potomac and\\ncamped on the Leesburg turnpike near Fairfax Seminary, at which point were\\nthe headquarters of General Franklin, to whose division the Sixty- third was\\nassigned. The camp here was called Camp Shields. President Lincoln and\\nhis wife visited Camp Shields October 4th, and on this occasion Arnold s Bat-\\ntery gave them a salute of fifteen guns. On the 8th of October an election\\nwas held under State law in every company of the regiment. This was the first\\nand only time that the soldiers voted in the army, as the Supreme Court de-\\ncided in the spring of 1862 that soldiers could not legally vote away from their\\ndomicile.\\nOn the 9th of October, 1861, the ceremony of formally mustering the reg-\\niment into the service of the United States was performed by Lieutenant C.\\nW. Tolles, of the Thirteenth U. S. Infantry. The regiment broke camp Octo-\\nber 14th, and moved to a point on the Alexandria and Richmond turnpike, a\\nmile south of Fort Lyon, and five miles from Mount Vernon. This camp was\\ncalled Camp Johnson. Here the regiment was placed in Brigadier- General C.\\nD. Jamison s Third Brigade of the Second Division, which was commanded\\nby Major- General Heintzelman. The brigade included the following regiments:\\nThe Fifty- seventh Pennsylvania, commanded ^by Colonel Charles Campbell\\nthe Sixty-first Pennsylvania, by Colonel Rippey the Sixty- third Pennsyl-\\nvania, by Colonel Alex Hayes; the Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania, by Lieutenant-\\nColonel Lujeane and the One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania, by Colonel\\nMcKnight. Soon after this the Sixty-first and the Ninty-ninth were trans-\\nferred to other divisions, and the Eighty-seventh New York and the Twentieth\\nIndiana Volunteers were put into the Third Brigade. In each camp the troops\\nwere daily exercised in company and battalion drill also in camp guard and\\npolice duty. After being brigaded the troops entered upon brigade drill,\\nfatigue duty on the earthworks at Fort Lyon, in addition to the exercise and\\nduty previously mentioned. They were also given regular terms at picket\\nduty out in front about nine miles from camp. They were also engaged in an\\noccasional reconnaissance in force to keep in check raiding parties of the enemy.\\nCompany F s first experience in picket duty was on Hallow Eve in 1861,\\nand continued three days. The company picket line was over a mile in ex-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0208.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "Company F, 63D Regiment. 191\\ntent. By the default of the officer of the day the company was left on duty\\nwithout the countersign or any specific instruction, but the men were cool and\\nvigilant and acquitted themselves well for beginners, considering the diffi-\\nculties.\\nAfter the company had gone into winter quarters at Camp Johnson Cap-\\ntain Reid, with other officers, was ordered to return to Pennsylvania on re-\\ncruiting service. They were placed under orders of Major Dodge, superintend-\\nent of recruiting service at Harrisburg. Captian Reid was ordered to Clarion,\\nwhere, during the month of February, 1862, he recruited and turned over to\\nMajor Dodge about twenty men to be mustered in and forwarded to the regi-\\nment. March 13, Captain Reid was ordered to close his recruiting office and\\nreport to Major Dodge at Harrisburg, where, after settling his accounts, he was\\nordered to join the regiment. March 17, he reached his company at Alexan-\\ndria, Va., and the regiment embarked that same day for Fortress Monroe,\\nwhich place it reached on the i8th. The regiment landed alongside the Mon-\\nitor which had vanquished the Merrimac in a terrible conflict nine days before.\\nThe troops went into camp near the ruins of Hampton, which had been burned\\nby the Confederates to prevent the Federal soldiers from occupying it. The\\nwhole army was to concentrate here for the advance up the Peninsula to Rich-\\nmond. It had just been divided into corps. Company F belonged to the\\nThird Corps. Heintzelman commanded the corps and General S. C. Hamil-\\nton had succeeded to the command of the division. He was succeeded April\\n4 by General Phil Kearney, when the army took up its line of march to York-\\ntown. In the afternoon of April 5, Company F encamped in an open field in\\nplain sight of the fortifications at Yorktown. The whole division had halted and\\nwas encamped within easy cannon range of the enemy. The infantry rested\\non their arms. Meantime some of our artillery became engaged with the en-\\nemy, whose return missiles killed several of our artillery horses and men. A\\ndetail of Berdan s sharpshooters soon put our troops in comparative safety for\\na few days. They picked off the enemy s gunners and almost silenced his guns.\\nLittle demonstration was made by the rebels until toward evening on Sunday,\\nApril 6, when they sent some solid shot down into the clover fields to remind\\nthe Union troops that the fortifications were still occupied. Being saluted with\\nthese unwelcome visitors. Colonel Hays, seeming to desire to express his con-\\ntempt for the proceedings, ordered the Sixty-third out for dress parade in plain\\nsight of the rebels. The ceremony was performed in detail, the band beat\\noff with the Star Spangled Banner and Yankee Doodle, the salutes were given\\nand parade dismissed, then the rebels acknowledged the compliment by send-\\ning a large conical shell over the heads of the regiment into a piece of woods\\nhalf a mile beyond it. That was the regiment s last dress parade. On the 8th\\nof April the cannonading continued and some picket firing took place. On\\nthe 9th General Jamison took the Sixty- third on a reconnaissance along the", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0209.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "192 History of Clarion County.\\nwooded banks of Warwick River, where the enemy was constructing earth-\\nworks. A brisk skirmish ensued, in which Sergeant David Irwin, of Company\\nF, was killed. He was the first soldier in the Clarion county companies to be\\nkilled in battle, and the first of the Third Brigade to fall in the Peninsular cam-\\npaign. On this occasion the company s conduct deserves special mention. It\\nwas marching parallel with the wooded bank of the stream and probably sev-\\nenty-five yards from it. The two rear companies had been left some distance\\nback on the main road. Thus company F was the last in the line. As the\\ncompany advanced in this position the rebels on both sides of the stream opened\\nfire upon the regiment from their concealment in the timber. By that volley\\nSergeant Irwin was mortally wounded. The regiment was halted and faced to\\nthe front. By this movement Company F occupied the extreme left of the\\nregiment. Captain Reid was at his place in front of the center of the com-\\npany. Suddenly all of the companies to the right of Company F broke ranks\\nand took to the nearest trees. This action seemed contagious, and Company\\nF also broke ranks and hurried to the shelter of the timber. Captain Reid\\nthinking this the effect of a sudden panic, and not approving of that kind of\\nconduct in face of the enemy, shouted Company F stand your ground In-\\nstantly every man came back to his place in line as if on parade. Just then\\nthe colonel came down the line from the extreme right. He complimented\\nCompany F for its gallantry, and said that he had ordered the regiment to\\nbreak ranks. Captain Reid had not heard the order. After further exchange\\nof shots, rebel reinforcements were seen to arrive, and the regiment was marched\\nback to camp, Company F bearing its dying sergeant with it. That afternoon\\nthe Union camps were withdrawn to the swampy woods, out of reach of the\\nenemy s lighter guns, but still within range of their heavy ones.\\nFor four weeks the regiment occupied this new camp. During their stay\\nhere the soldiers became very familiar with the hideous music of screaming\\nshells and crashing tree tops. The company performed picket duty, dug\\ntrenches, and stood under arms for the protection of others so engaged. It\\nwas almost constantly under artillery fire and frequently skirmished with the\\nenemy s infantry. Many suffered from disease while here, as there was a dearth\\nof pure water, and the camp had not adequate drainage.\\nOn the night of May 3, 1862, General Jamison selected the left wing of the\\nSixty-third for an important and perilous duty. The general desired to place\\na squad of picked sharpshooters in a rifle pit to be dug within five hundred\\nyards of the principal rebel fort. This had been twice attempted on a previ-\\nous night. It must be done now. The grand bombardment was to begin May\\n4, by the Federal gunboats and the heavy siege guns. General Jamison was\\nofficer of the trenches for that day. The sharpshooters must be in the pits to\\npick off the gunners and silence their heaviest guns, and it devolved on him to\\nsee that the pits were dug at the point previously determined upon, and that", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0210.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "Company F, 63D Regiment. 193\\nthe sharpshooters were in them ready for duty on the morning of the 4th.\\nThe left of the Sixty-third was selected for this point, and the right for a sim-\\nilar duty at another point. Company F was a part of the left. The five com-\\npanies were commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Morgan, and they were led by\\nGeneral Jamison in person to a sheltered nook near the place selected for the\\npits. Here they waited till the moon went down, about midnight. The shells\\nof the enemy screamed over their heads, and the air was made livid by burn-\\ning fuses. When he deemed it dark enough the general led them silently up\\na gentle slope, on the top of which the work was to be done. Three compan-\\nies halted below the crest of the slope and stood there under arms. Company\\nB, commanded by Captain Kirkwood, were armed with picks and spades to\\ndig the pit. Company F was given the post of honor. It was ordered to de-\\nploy a little beyond the crest and to hold the ground at all hazards, till the pit\\nwould be finished. The company numbered about seventy men. When it\\nstarted on what seemed a march to almost certain death General Jamison said\\nto Colonel Morgan O, God it is hard, but it has to be done Company\\nF marched forward to its post of duty without flinching. It lay, and waited,\\nand watched for two hours with fifty men on the ground designated by General\\nJamison, and twenty picked men led forward by Captain Reid as skirmishers.\\nAs they lay and watched, the rebels were sweeping the horizon in all directions\\nwith the fiercest cannonading that had been witnessed thus far in the campaign.\\nCompany F was so close to the enemy s fort that the men could distinctly hear\\nthe commands given to the gunners. At length the pit was completed, the\\nnew made embankment was disguised with pine bushes, and half a dozen sharp-\\nshooters entered the pit and were left to their fate, out of reach of help when\\nthe general bombardment would begin. Company F was called back, and on\\nits way to camp General Jamison warmly congratulated the troops for their suc-\\ncessful and bloodless work. The men did not retire. When about to do so\\nthe daylight came, and with it loud and wild cheering. The enemy had evac-\\nuated their fortifications. The furious cannonading was done merely to divert\\nattention from their departure, which began on the previous day and was com-\\npleted in the early morning. The guns had been manipulated by a small rear\\nguard. Our army pursued the enemy on the 4th of May, and that evening\\nour cavalry found him entrenched at Williamsburg. On the 5th a portion of\\nour troops gave him battle at that place. The Sixty-third was under artillery\\nfire in the afternoon for some time. It was deployed to relieve some troops in\\nfront just about dusk. It was under infantry fire only a short time when dark-\\nness caused the firing to cease. The troops lay on their arms that night ready\\nfor the fray next morning. During the afternoon the regiment had unslung\\nand stacked their knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, and blankets, as some fast\\nmarching had to be done. When Company F halted, its equipments were\\nthree miles in the rear, and the mud on the road was knee deep, as it had rained", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0211.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "194 History of Clarion County.\\nall the night before. The men had no supper and no means of getting break-\\nfast. Captain Reid called for ten volunteers to go with him to get their out-\\nfits. These eleven went back and loaded up with all they could carry. They\\ngot back to the front some time before day, and Company F was enabled to\\nsatisfy both hunger and thirst, while the other companies had to wait till the\\nwagons came up. The morning revealed the fact that the enemy had evacu-\\nated Williamsburg. The One Hundred Fifth and the Sixty-third were the\\nfirst regiments to enter the city. The march into Williamsburg was a sad one.\\nThe soldiers passed over the dead and dying of both armies. The dead were\\nburied and the wounded taken to William and Mary College, where they were\\ncared for. The unfortunate blue and gray were mercifully treated side by side.\\nCompany F was next engaged May 31st at Fair Oaks or Seven Pines, one\\nof the bloodiest battles of the war. At two o clock that day, Saturday, May\\n31st, the company was engaged in burying Corporal Dummire, who died the\\nnight before. When Rev. Captain Danks, acting chaplain, was reciting the fu-\\nneral rites at the yet unfilled grave, the wind from the west bore to the ears of\\nthe men the crack and roar of a furious battle in the direction of Richmond.\\nThe company was convinced that desperate work had taken the place of the\\nlight skirmishing of the past few days, so they hastily filled the grave and re-\\nturned to camp, where they found Colonel Morgan and seven companies under\\narms and ready for orders to march. Orders soon came. The regiment was\\nthen near Meadow Station, eleven miles from Richmond and four from Fair\\nOaks, where Casey s division of Keyes s Corps had been assaulted by over-\\nwhelming numbers, and after a gallant resistance was falling back before the\\nenemy.\\nThe Third Brigade marched on a double quick up the railroad track two\\nmiles, then along the Williamsburg road through the mud another mile. On\\nthe last mile the brigade met a stream of wounded men and fugitives, driven\\ndown the road by the shot and shell of the enemy. Disabled artillery with\\nempty caissons was hurried toward the rear, while fresh guns and full caissons\\nwent rolling forward to take their places. A short distance beyond the forks of\\nthe road at Seven Pines, General Jamison, amid a perfect storm of shot and\\nshell, deployed the eight companies of the Sixty- third on the west of the\\nWilliamsburg road, and the One Hundred Fifth on their right, extending\\nacross the road, and gave the order to advance. It should here be observed\\nthat the other two companies of the Sixty- third were with Colonel Hays on\\nfatigue duty when the march up the railroad began, and had not joined the main\\nbody when this advance was ordered. The troops moved forward through\\na difficult abatis and a belt of standing timber, and soon reached the edge of\\nthe open ground where Casey s tents still stood, and where his redoubt and its\\nbattery of artillery had been captured, and its guns added to the rebel artillery,\\nwhich was disputing Jamison s advance. The artillery was supported by heavy", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0212.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "Company F, 63D Regiment. 195\\nmasses of infantry posted behind rifle pits, and long ranks of cord wood, from\\nthe shelter of which they kept up a furious fire of small arms at short range.\\nThe Union side of the open ground was held by a weak line formed by some\\ncompanies from the Third and Fifth Michigan, of Berry s Brigade of the same\\ndivision, with the Sixty-third. These troops had gone in only a short time be-\\nfore the Sixty-third, which reinforced their line and mingled with them in the\\nconflict. Company F had only forty-four men in this battle; the others were\\non detached duty or sick in camp and at various hospitals. During the first\\nhalf hour after reaching the front Orderly J. H. Delo, Sergeant R. S. Elgin,\\nand George W. Rhees were killed, and Private F. P. McClosky mortally wounded.\\nDuring the afternoon Private James McCammon, Peter O Neill, and Peter Nu-\\ngent were seriously wounded James McDonald, Andrew McDonald, and Jon-\\nathan McCurdy, all privates, were captured. All the Federal troops on the\\nright of the Williamsburg road were forced from their position, and fell back\\nalong that road, contesting every inch of the ground but long before dark\\nthe enemy had possession of the road as far back as Seven Pines, which was\\nnearly a mile in the rear of the point occupied by the Sixty-third. General\\nJamison sent couriers to order the regiment back, to save it from imminent\\ncapture, but the orders were not received. The Sixty- third, with the Michigan\\nsoldiers, held its line and kept up a constant fire upon the opposing infantry\\nuntil night came. It had used all of its ammunition, including that of the\\ndead and wounded, which was used to replenish the cartridge boxes of the\\nliving. After seeing Elgin, Rhees, and a Michigan soldier shot at his side,\\nCaptain Reid took up the rifle and ammunition of the latter and used the\\nweapon until the last cartridge was gone. The last sounds of the conflict in-\\ndicated to the small body of men here contending that the enemy in force held\\nthe turnpike behind it, and that it was enveloped on three sides by the rebel\\ntroops. When darkness came the regiment withdrew from the field through\\nthe woods diagonally to the left and rear, to avoid encountering the enemy.\\nCaptain Kirkwood was the senior captain. The regiment had no field officer,\\nColonel Morgan having been wounded and borne from the field early in the\\nfight. Captain Kirkwood gave Captain Reid the lead. Aided by a small\\npocket compass, read by the light of friction- matches, these officers led the\\ntroops safely through the dark woods, and about midnight they rejoined their\\ndivision, which was holding a second line, with the rest of the army, two miles\\nin the rear of the place where the little fragments of the two Michigan regi-\\nments and the Sixty-third Pennsylvania had solitary and alone held the left of\\nthe Union front line till darkness closed that day s scene of carnage.\\nOn the next day, June ist, fresh troops that had arrived in the night took\\nthe advance, and the enemy fell back toward Richmond after a short struggle.\\nThe division to which the Sixty- third belonged was held in reserve, so Com-\\npany F was not engaged the second day. The army was kept under arms", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0213.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "196 History of Clarion County.\\nthree or four days, expecting a renewal of the attack, and then the corps took\\nposition on the extreme left of the advance line which Casey had held before\\nthe battle, and which was strongly entrenched by the Union troops during the\\nfirst three weeks of June.\\nThen came the Seven Days Battle, commencing June 25th, and ending\\nwith the battle of Malvern Hill, July i, 1862, The battle was opened in our\\nimmediate front on the 25th by Kearney s and Hooker s divisions being thrown\\nforward to feel the enemy s position on the right wing in the direction of Rich-\\nmond. General John C. Robinson had succeeded to the command of the Third\\nBrigade, in the place of the gallant General Jamison, who was fatally stricken\\nwith fever after the battle of Fair Oaks. The Sixty-third advanced some two\\nor three miles, mostly through swampy woods, and had several lively skir-\\nmishes with the enemy s infantry. The artillery on both sides of the advanc-\\ning Union troops was also giving them attention. When night came the brig-\\nade was drawn back about half way to its entrenched camp, and held its line\\nof battle there all night in the woods, occasionally receiving a volley in the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2dark from the enemy, who had followed it up closely. When daylight came it\\nwas ordered back to camp. In that day s skirmishes Company F had Private\\nWilliam Greenawalt killed and Privates P. D. Griffin, John Johnson, and An-\\nthony Greenawalt wounded, each of the last two losing an arm.\\nIn this action, and during the remaining battles of the Seven Days Fight,\\nCaptain Reid acted as major of the regiment, as there was no field officer pres-\\nent for duty but the colonel. From the 26th to the 29th inclusive, during\\nthe temporary indisposition of Colonel Hays, Captain Reid was in command\\nof the regiment. Company F was commanded by First Lieutenant George W.\\nMcCullough, who, during the previous winter, had been promoted to second\\nlieutenant in place of Lieutenant Eagan, who had resigned, then to first lieu-\\ntenant on the death of Lieutenant McGonagle, from typhoid pneumonia, June\\n21, 1862.\\nOn the 26th of June Captain Reid was in command of the Sixty-third.\\nThe battle of Mechanicsville was raging on the extreme right of the Union\\nline across the Chickahominy. The Sixty-third was led on a reconnaissance\\nin our front, but did not encounter the enemy. It passed over its battle-ground\\nof the previous day. On the 27th the right wing fell back to Beaver Dam,\\nand there fought the bloody battle of Gaines s Mill. The Sixty-third was not\\nengaged on the 27th. On tiie 28th Captain Reid was ordered to report with\\nthe Sixty-third to General Fitz John Porter, at Trent House, on the south side\\nof the river, to which point he had withdrawn the whole right wing of the\\nUnion army during the night. The Sixty-third was stationed to guard the\\ntwo bridges over which Porter had crossed the stream, and while Reid, with\\nhis regiment, held these points, that officer took up his line of march towards\\nJames River the first step in the celebrated change of base determined", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0214.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "Company F, 63D Regiment. 197\\nupon by the general in command, but which none then yet knew of except the\\ncorps commanders. The Sixty-third held the bridges and the shores of the\\nChickahominy that day and in the evening returned to its post on the extreme\\nleft of our entrenched front. While the men were at their coffee and hard tack\\nGeneral Kearney visited the camp on foot, and told Captain Reid to have the\\nmen supplied with three days cooked rations and 150 rounds of ammunition\\nduring the night. The captain thinking Kearne) had made a mistake as to\\nthe number, ventured to ask him where the men could put so many. Kearney\\nreplied Anywhere, captain, anywhere in their knapsacks, their pockets, or\\ntheir boots Anywhere so they have them We will have a good deal of\\nmarching to do and they may need them. He also ordered the captain to see\\nthat every officer and man of the regiment sewed a red patch on his hat or cap\\nin a conspicuous position, so that the general could recognize his own troops..\\nThat was the origin of the famous red diamond or Kearney Badge. That night\\nthe incessant rumbling of artillery wagons and other vehicles over cordurojr\\nroads near our camps told very plainly that some general movement was on\\nfoot. At daylight of Sunday, June 29, the regiment left the front and fell back\\nnearly a mile, when it halted to make coffee. While breakfasting the soldiers\\nheard the prolonged cheering of the rebel troops, who had taken possession of\\nthe earthworks abandoned by McClellan s army. The Third Corps fell back\\nslowly to its old second line, and halted there as a rear guard across the Will-\\niamsburg road till the middle of the afternoon, exposed to the shells of the en-\\nemy, who was cautiously feeling his way on our track. General Kearney finally\\nled his troops by a cross road to the upper crossing of the small stream called\\nWhiteoak Creek, which lay between his division and the James River. The\\nother and greater part of the army was to cross lower down. Between the dry\\nbanks of this stream was a flat swamp of one hundred yards in width, exceed-\\ningly miry and almost impassable by man or beast. A single string of logs\\nenabled foot soldiers to cross single file, and mounted officers had to take the\\nchances of losing their horses in the miry stream. Captain Reid rode one of\\nColonel Hays s horses, called Shellbark. When he reached the stream two\\nhorses were already dead, having drowned while struggling to get out of the\\nslough. Several others had crossed in safety. Sliellbark stuck midway,\\nand the captain dismounted in the mire, into which he sank to the waist. He\\nheld the horse s nose above water while he plunged and floundered. Mean-\\nwhile the division had passed over, and while Reid and Shellbark were bat-\\ntling with the mire, the head of the column encountered a body of the enemy,\\nand the rattle of musketry began. Very soon the division returned to the\\ncreek in single file and crossed over on the string of logs. General Kearney,\\nrather than risk a general engagement before the trains were all safe, had or-\\ndered a countermarch. Soon ail the troops had recrossed to take the road to\\na bridge farther down, and rather than see his horse drown. Captain Reid stayed\\n16", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0215.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "198 History or Clarion County.\\nwith him at the risk of capture, and finally succeeded in getting him safe to\\nshore. By this time it was dark, but both found their way to where the corps\\nwas bivouacking, on the high grounds beyond the swamp, having crossed be-\\nlow. Monday the corps moved forward at intervals and reached Charles City\\nCross Roads about noon. It halted in a clover field, where a fierce battle was\\nsoon to rage. During the forenoon another portion of the Union army had a\\ncontest with Jackson s corps at the lower crossing of the swamp. At Charles\\nCity Cross Roads, about two o clock, heavy masses of the enemy, from the di-\\nrection of Richmond, deployed in the edge of the woods facing Kearney s\\ntroops, and kept up till dark a succession of determined onsets of infantry, aided\\nby numerous batteries of artillery posted advantageously. Thompson s battery\\nof the regular artillery was posted in the clover field occupied by Kearney s\\ndivision, and the Sixty-third was ordered to support it. Colonel Hays had\\nthat morning resumed command, and gallantly did he perform the task allotted\\nto him. Repeated charges of the enemy were repulsed at the point of the\\nbayonet, and the battery was saved from the most desperate attempts to cap-\\nture it. General Kearney in his official report of this battle says: I have here\\nto call attention to this most heroic action of Colonel Hays and his regiment.\\nThe Sixty- third has won for Pennsylvania the laurels of fame. General Berry\\nwrote concerning the same affair: Never was task better done or battery bet-\\nter supported. In this action Company F had privates John Thompson,\\nCharles Harbst and Jacob I. Delo wounded, the latter mortally. Our troops\\nheld their ground till night, and before morning moved on to Malvern Hill,\\nwhere the last battle of the memorable seven days fight took place. The bat-\\ntle was fought on the Union side principally by the artillery. The Sixty-\\nthird was posted in a depression in the ground, ready to support a battery if\\nneeded, but it was not called into action and suffered no loss.\\nThis in brief is the history of Company F to the close of the Peninsular\\ncampaign. From Malvern it went to Harrison s Landing.\\nIt is here proper to give an account of Captain Reid s resignation. For a\\nmonth before arriving at Harrison s Landing he had been suffering with chronic\\ndiarrhoea and camp malaria. He was daily growing more feeble. At the\\nbattle of Glendale or Charles City Cross Roads he stood for two hours beside\\nthe guns of Thompson s battery, while the Sixty-third was lying low, right in\\nfront of it, ready to repel charges, and assisted the exhausted gunners in push-\\ning forward their guns after each recoil, so that the flying particles of the shell-\\nflanges, when the guns were discharged over the backs of our men, would not\\ninjure them as some had done. The heat of the day and the over exertion\\nimder excitement reacted, and Captain Reid became so weak before night that\\nhe had to be assisted from the field. However, he remained with the regiment\\nnext day at Malvern till towards evening, when by order of the brigade sur-\\ngeon he was taken with other sick to the field hospital. The next day, for", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0216.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "Company F, 63D Regiment. 199\\nwant of ambulances, nearly all the sick at Malvern had to drag through rain\\nand mud as best they could to Harrison s Landing. By the advice of Colonel\\nHays, and with the approval of General Kearney, Captain Reid tendered his\\nresignation, which was accepted, and he was honorably discharged August i,\\n1862, and he left for home on one of the James River transports August 4,\\n1862.\\nCaptain Reid informed the writer that his sickness alone would not have\\ninduced him to resign. Two years before the war he had been appointed\\ntrustee of the Hetherington lands, and was under $30,000 bonds for the faith-\\nful application of the proceeds of the sale. When he entered the army he left\\nall this business with his law collections in the hands of his then law partner,\\nwho had just been admitted to the bar and who gave no security, as no secur-\\nity was asked by the senior member of the firm. In the spring of 1862 this\\nparty wrote the captain that his mind was becoming affected, and that he\\nthought he would have to abandon the profession. Reid was soon informed\\nby clients and others at home that his partner had closed the office and gone,\\nno one knew where, leaving collections made by him unaccounted for, and all\\nthe business going wrong. These matters were laid before his superior officers,\\nand the captain was advised that under the circumstances it was his duty to re-\\nsign and set matters straight. The absent partner subsequently returned and\\nsatisfactorily settled his accounts. First Lieutenant George W. McCullough\\nsucceeded to the command of the company, and Second Lieutenant George W.\\nFox was promoted to first lieutenant, and Corporal David Shields to second\\nlieutenant, all on the 4th of August, 1862.\\nCompany F was next engaged at Bull Run, August 29, 1862. Kearney\\nreported the Sixty- third Pennsylvania and the Fortieth New York to have\\nsuffered the most loss. Company F had John R. Guthrie, John Thompson,\\nHenry Shoup, killed and Lieutenant George W. Fox, First Sergeant James\\nWaley, Corporal Thomas H. Martin, and Privates J. Shugart Elder, Martin\\nCastner, E. Highbarger, Daniel O Neill, Alfred T. Ranee, John G. Richards,\\nand James Sample wounded. Fox, Martin, Castner, Highbarger and Rich-\\nards were discharged afterwards on account of wounds here received.\\nAfter the fatal Chantilly, where the heroic Kearney fell, Colonel Hays was\\npromoted to brigadier-general on the 29th of September, and Lieutenant- Col-\\nonel Morgan became colonel. Hays won his promotion by his gallant conduct\\nat Bull Run. The company assisted in the defense of Washington till after\\nAntietam. It joined the army near Leesburg, and moved with it to Warren-\\nton. At Fredericksburg it went to the front on the 13th of December, and\\nremained there forty-eight hours under fire till the 15th, when it was relieved,\\nand late at night fell back with the entire army across the river. Its loss was\\nlight. William M. Thompson was captured, and Benjamin P. Hilliard, one of\\nthe musicians, was wounded. In the battle of Chancellorsville the company", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0217.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "200 History of Clarion County.\\nwas less fortunate. Captain McCullough, First Lieutenant Fenstermacher, Cor-\\nporals Joseph Loll and Stewart Fulton, and Private James McDonald were\\nwounded on the 3d of May. McDonald was discharged on account of wounds.\\nThe company next took part in the battle of Gettysburg. General Sickles\\nnow commanded the corps. On the 1st of July the men could hear the can-\\nnon in the contest where the braye Reynolds fell. On receiving the news of\\nthe death of Reynolds, Sickles hastened his men forward and reached the battle\\nfield at ten o clock that night. The corps went into bivouac on the Emmitts-\\nburg Pike. Scarcely had the men lain down when an order came for the Sixty-\\nthird to go on the picket line. On the 2d the brigade was brought into posi-\\ntion on the pike to the right of the cross road leading to Round Top. The\\nSixty-third was thrown forward on the skirmish line, and was hotly engaged\\ntill five o clock in the afternoon, when it was ordered to the rear to replenish\\nits ammunition, which had been expended. It also needed rest, as it had been\\non the extreme front and constantly engaged for seven terrible hours. The\\nregiment spent the night of the 2d on picket to the right of Little Round Top.\\nThe dead of our soldiers lay thick around. On the 3d at ten o clock the regi-\\nment was double-quicked to support a battery in the immediate front of Meade s\\nheadquarters, where it remained till the battle closed. The loss was slight when\\nwe take into consideration its exposed position and the length of time it was\\nengaged. Company F had Lieutenant Fenstermacher, Sergeant John A. Grif-\\nfin, Corporal Adam Potter, and Private P. D. Griffin wounded. At Kelly s\\nFord and Mine Run the company met with no casualties.\\nIn the spring of 1864 the regiment became a part of General Hays s Sec-\\nond Brigade, Third Division of the Second Corps. The regiment marched at\\nmidnight. May 3d, and camped on the 4th at evening on the old battle ground\\nof Chancellorsville, where the men saw the unburied skeletons of soldiers who\\nfell in that battle one year before. It advanced to the front at 3 P. M., May 5,\\nand was at once engaged, and the battle raged with great fury till after dark.\\nGeneral Hays was killed. Colonel Danks was wounded. The command of the\\nregiment fell upon Major George W. McCullough, late captain of Company F,\\nwho had been promoted major April 5, 1864. On the 6th of May the battle\\nwas renewed, and in a counter charge sustained by the Third Division Major\\nMcCullough was mortally wounded. He died the following day, and added\\nanother illustrious name to the long list of Clarion county heroes who had been\\nslain in battle. During these two days the Sixty-third had lost one hundred\\neighty-six rank and file. It was temporarily consolidated with the One\\nHundred and Fifth, with Captain Weaver, of Company C, in command. This\\nnew body was led through the exciting experiences of the 7th, 8th, 9th, and\\nloth, by this officer. On the iith he was wounded, and Captain Hunter took\\ncommand. He led the regiment during the severe fighting of the 12th, and\\nassisted in the final and decisive repulse of the enemy at Spottsylvania Court\\nHouse.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0218.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "Company F, 63D Regiment. 201\\nOn his return from detached service, Captain Isaac Moorhead assumed com-\\nmand of the regiment. During the Wilderness campaign Company F sus-\\ntained the following losses On the 5th First Sergeant James Waley and Cor-\\nporal James Hamilton were killed. The same day Sergeants Anthony R.\\nRefner and William Hall, Corporals Joseph Loll, James McBride, and William\\nBlair, and Privates Andrew Basom, John Cyphert, Gregory Lawrence, Anthony\\nTorry, and Hugh P. McKee were wounded. Sergeant John A. Griffin was\\nwounded on the 6th, Private William Thompson on the 7th, and Private Jonas\\nHighbarger on the I2th. After the battle Jonas Highbarger and John Den-\\nslinger were missing. Andrew Basom having lost a leg, his wound proved\\nfatal on the i8th of May. William Blair s wounds caused his death on\\nthe 2 1 St.\\nThe regiment was later engaged at North Anna River, and again after it\\ncrossed Pole-cat River, but Company F sustained no loss. On the i6th of\\nJune, before Petersburg, Lieutenant Fenstermacher was wounded. At Peters-\\nburg also Anthony Torry was wounded with loss of leg. The regiment suf-\\nfered severely. Captain Moorhead was among the slain. Colonel Kiddoo,\\nformerly of Company F, commanded a regiment of colored troops, and won\\ndistinction by capturing a fort from the enemy, in front of Petersburg. After\\nthis no casualties were sustained by the company, and it was mustered out on\\nthe 8th of September, 1864.\\nDuring its eventful career, this brave body of Clarion county s sons won\\nenduring laurels for themselves, and made for us a page of history of which we\\nmay well be proud. The company all told numbered one hundred twelve\\nmen, of whom forty-two were wounded in battle, five of which died from their\\nwounds. Eleven were killed in battle. Captain McCuUough was promoted to\\nmajor of the regiment April 5, 1864, and he was killed in action at the Wilder-\\nness, May 6, 1864. That made eleven of the company who were killed in ac-\\ntion, but only ten are shown on roster.\\nJoseph B. Kiddoo entered the service as a private of Company F. He rose\\nto corporal, then to first sergeant of his company. He was next promoted to\\nlieutenant-colonel of the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Regiment Pennsyl-\\nvania Volunteers on the 25th of August, 1862. Later he was promoted to\\ncolonel of the Twenty-second colored regiment, and finally to brigadier- general\\nin the regular army, which rank he held at the time of his death, about the year\\n1880. Joseph Lichtenberger was promoted to principal musician and trans-\\nferred to the One Hundred and Fifth. William McCaskey, after being dis-\\ncharged for sickness, re-enlisted in February, 1864, in the Second Pennsylvania\\nHeavy Artillery, and died in service September 30, 1864. Michael Kemp re-\\nenlisted in December, 1863, and rose to first sergeant in Company H, One\\nHundred and Fifth. Andrew McDonald was promoted to sergeant in the One\\nHundred and Fifth, and he was discharged November 5, 1865. Barney Mc-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0219.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "202 History of Clarion County.\\nCann re-enlisted January 19, 1 864, in Company A, Seventy- eighth Pennsylvania\\nVolunteers. Andrew E. Russell was detailed into the Signal Corps in 1862.\\nJohn Vorhauer was detailed at brigade headquarters in 1862. Lieutenant David\\nShields was assigned as aid to Brigadier- General Hays in 1862, and Lieutenant\\nGeorge W. Fox re-enlisted in Veteran Reserve Corps in 1864.\\nSince their discharge, the following members of Company F have died.\\nThis list may not be complete, but it is given in full as far as known now (Jan-\\nuary, 1887): Lieutenant Lawrence Egan died in Baltimore in 1862; Joseph\\nLichtenberger, bugler, died in Licking township, Clarion county, May 18, 1875;\\nFirst Lieutenant Isaac Fenstermacher died at Clarion December 27, 1877;\\nSergeant John A. Griffen died at Red Bank Furnace, Clarion county, in April,\\n1866; Sergeant William L. Hall died in Piney township, Clarion county, about\\n1864. Privates John Johnston died at Strattanville, Clarion county, February\\n14, 1865; Gregory Lawrence died at Jamestown, N. Y., in 1881 Daniel\\nO Neill died in the West somewhere about 1875 Anthony Torry died at\\nClarion April 22, 1884; Sergeant Andrew McDonald died at North Pine Grove,\\nClarion county, March 9, 1883. General Joseph B. Kiddoo died in New York\\nCity August 20, 1880. The readers of this sketch will recognize many of the\\nsurvivors of this company among their friends and neighbors.\\nOnly seven of the company were ever captured. One was left in hospital\\nsick and unaccounted for. Two were missing. Only one deserted. Two re-\\nsigned, both on account of ill health. Only tJiirteen were mustered out with\\nthe company.\\nRecapitulation. Original enlistment, 94 men enlisted recruits, 1 1 men\\ndrafted recruits, 7 men total. 112 men. Killed in battle while in company,\\n10 die I of disease, 20 died of wounds, 5 discharged for wounds, 9 dis-\\ncharged for other causes, 27 resigned, 2 missing and unaccounted for, 3\\ndeserted, i promoted out of the company, 3 transferred, 19; mustered out\\nwith company, 13 total, 112.\\nCaptain Reid, who recruited the company and to whom the writer is\\nindebted for valuable memoranda concerning this company, lives in Clarion\\ntown. He is well known throughout Clarion county as one of the most able\\nattorneys at the Clarion bar. Many passages in the foregoing pages are\\ntaken verbatim from Captain Reid s notes, as tlie writer felt that to change\\nthem would be to render less acceptable this narrative. This sketch of\\nCompany F has been penned with earnest admiration for the talented gentle-\\nmen who bore its titles. The deeds of its heroic men, led by heroic officers,\\ntogether with the memory of its battle-slain and oth^r dead warriors, should\\ninspire the children of these men, and in turn their children s children, to\\npatriotic and earnest lives.\\nIt is believed that the roster of Company F, Avhich follows, is as free from\\nerrors as one can be compiled.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0220.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "Company F, 63D Regiment. 203\\nCorrected Roll of Company F, Sixty-third Regiment.^\\nBernard J. Reid, captain, August i, 1861, three years; resigned August i,\\n1862.\\nGeorge W. McCulloch, captain, August i, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom sergeant to second lieutenant November 22, 1861 to first Heutenant\\nJune 23, 1862 to captain August 4, 1862 to major April 5, 1864 wounded\\nat Chancellorsville May 3, 1863.\\nDavid S. Shields, captain, October 15, 1 861, three years promoted to cor-\\nporal June I, 1862 to second lieutenant August 4, 1862 to captain April 5,\\n1864; wounded at Rapidan, Va., November, 1863; discharged June 9, 1864.\\nJohn G. McGonagle, first lieutenant, August i, 1861, three years; died in\\nhospital of pneumonia June 21, 1861.\\nGeorge W. Fox, first lieutenant, August i, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom sergeant to second Heutenant June 23, 1862 to first lieutenant August\\n4, 1862 discharged March i, 1863, for wounds received at Bull Run, Va.,\\nAugust 29, 1862.\\nI. N. Fenstermacher, first lieutenant, August i, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted to corporal June 30, 1862 to first sergeant August, 1862 to first lieu-\\ntenant May 19, 1863; wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863 Gettys-\\nburg July 3, 1863; Petersburg June ii, 1864; discharged July 23, 1864.\\nLawrence Egan, second lieutenant, August i, 1861, three years; resigned\\nNovember i, 1861.\\nJames Waley, first sergeant, August i, 1861, three years; promoted from\\ncorporal to sergeant July 15, 1862 to first sergeant November, 1863 wounded\\nat Bull Run August 29, 1862; killed at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; veteran.\\nJoseph B. Kiddoo, first sergeant, November i, 1861, three years promoted\\nto corporal November 2, 1861 to first sergeant June i, 1862; to lieutenant-\\ncolonel One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Regiment P. V., August 25, 1862.\\nJoshua H. Delo, first sergeant, August i, 1861, three years; killed at Fair\\nOaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nCurtis C. Zink, first sergeant, August i, 1861, three years; promoted to\\nfirst sergeant June i, 1862 died at Harrison s Landing, Va., August 10, 1862.\\nJohn R. Guthrie, sergeant, August i, 1861, three years killed at Bull Run,\\nVa., August 29, 1862.\\nMichael Kemp, sergeant, August i, 1861, three years; promoted to ser-\\ngeant July 18, 1863 transferred to Company H, One Hundred and Fifth Regi-\\nment P. v., veteran.\\nAnthony P. Refner, sergeant, August i, 1861, three years; wounded at\\nWilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; transferred to Company K, One Hundred and\\nFifth Regiment P. V. veteran.\\n1 Company F was principally enlisted August I, l86l. All dates after October 9 show the time of\\njecruits entering the company. ,..v,^.i,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0221.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "204 History of Clarion County.\\nJohn A. Griffin, sergeant, August i, 1861, three years; wounded at Get-\\ntysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863; Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864; mustered out with\\ncompany September 8, 1864.\\nWilliam L. Hall, sergeant, August i, 1861, three years; wounded at Wil-\\nderness, Va., May 5, 1864; discharged October 25, 1864.\\nJohn Kuhns, sergeant, August i, 1861, three years; promoted from cor-\\nporal June I, 1862; died at Philadelphia, Pa., September 26, 1862.\\nRobert S. Elgin, sergeant, August i, 1861, three years; promoted from\\ncorporal April 12, 1862; killed at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nDavid Irwin, sergeant, August i, 1861, three years; promoted from cor-\\nporal November 22, 1861 killed at Yorktown, Va., April 9, 1862.\\nDavid R. Dunmire, corporal, August i, 1861, three years; died at Meadow\\nStation, Va., May 30, 1862.\\nThomas H. Martin, corporal, August i, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal April 12, 1862 discharged October 31 for wounds received at Bull\\nRun, Va., August 29, 1862.\\nAdam Potter, corporal, August i, 1861, three years; wounded at Gettys-\\nburg, Pa., July 3, 1863 transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps April i, 1864;\\ndischarged October 10, 1864.\\nJohn Stewart, corporal, August i, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate 1862.\\nJohn B. Denslinger, corporal, August i, 1861, three years missing at Wil-\\nderness, Va., May 5, 1864; veteran,\\nJoseph Loll, corporal, August i, i86r, three years; promoted to corporal\\nApril, 1863 wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863 Wilderness May\\n5, 1864; discharged February 6, 1865; veteran.\\nJames McBride, corporal, August i, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal October 18, 1862; wounded at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; trans-\\nferred to Company H, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment P. V.; veteran.\\nStewart W. Fulton, corporal, October 15, 1861, three years; wounded\\nat Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863; promoted to corporal December i,\\n1863; transferred to Company H, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment P. V.\\nveteran.\\nWilliam Blair, corporal, August i, 1861, three years; promoted to corpo-\\nral 1863 died at Fredericksburg, Va., May 21, 1864, of wounds received at\\nWilderness May 5, 1864.\\nJames Hamilton, corporal, August i, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal 1863 killed at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864.\\nJoseph Lichtenberger, musician, August i, i86r, three years; promoted\\nto principal musician, date unknown veteran.\\nAmi Whitehill, musician, August I, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany September 8, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0222.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "Company F, 63D Regiment. 205\\nBenjamin P. Hilliard, musician, August i, 1861, three years; wounded at\\nFredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862; mustered out with company Sep-\\ntember 8, 1864.\\nBarr, James, private, August i, 1 861, three years discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate December 10, 1862.\\nBasom, Andrew, private, August i, 1861, three years; wounded, with loss\\nof leg, at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; died at Fredericksburg, Va., May\\n18, 1864.\\nBaumgardner, John, private, August i, 1861, three years; died near Fair\\nOaks, Va., June 30, 1862.\\nBeer, Henry, private, August i, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate October 31, 1862.\\nBolton, Thomas, private, August i, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate 1862.\\nBouch, Joseph, private, January 28, 1864, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B, Ninety-ninth Regiment P. V.\\nCathers, Franklin, private, August i, 1 861, three years; died at Yorktown,\\nVa., April 22, 1862.\\nCampbell, William, private, August i, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate 1862.\\nCrooks, John S., private, August i, 1861, three years; died June 3, 1863.\\nCussins, Emanuel, private, August i, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate 1863.\\nCyphert, John, private, August i, 1861, three years; wounded at Wilder-\\nness, Va., May 5, 1864; mustered out with company September 8, 1864.\\nCastner, Martin, private, March 4, 1862, three years; discharged 1863 for\\nwounds received at Bull Run, Va., August 29, 1862.\\nDale, Isaiah K., private, August i, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany September 8, 1864.\\nDaum, Philip, private, August i, 1861, three years; died 1863.\\nDelp, James O., August i, 1861, three years; wounded in action May 23,\\n1864; transferred to Company A, date unknown veteran.\\nDelo, Jacob I., private, August i, 1861, three years; wounded and cap-\\ntured June 30, 1862; died, date unknown.\\nDunlap, William I., private, August i, 1861, three years; wounded at\\nPetersburg, Va., with loss of eye, November i, 1864; transferred to Company\\nH, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment P. V. veteran.\\nElder, J. Shugart, private, August i, 1861, three years; wounded at Bull\\nRun, Va., August 29, 1862; discharged November 22, 1862.\\nEshleman, Finady, private, August i, 1861, three years; died April 25,\\n1863 buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C.\\nFaroust, Bernard, private, August i, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps 1864. i", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0223.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "2o6 History of Clarion County.\\nFrazier, Thomas M., private, August i, 1861, three years; died April 15,\\n1862.\\nFurgeson, Michael, private, March 28, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany H, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment P. V.\\nGilford, John, private, August i, 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany September 8, 1864.\\nGoble, Alexander, private, August i, 1861, three years; re-enlisted as\\nveteran December, 1863 wounded in leg at Hatcher s Run, Va., October 27,\\n1864; transferred to Company H, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment P. V.\\nGreenawalt, William, private, August i, 1861, three years; killed near\\nRichmond, Va., June 25, 1862.\\nGriffin, Philip D., private, August i, 1 861, three years; wounded near\\nRichmond, Va., June 25, 1862; Gettysburg, July 3, 1863; discharged May\\n20, 1864.\\nGreenawalt, Anthony, private, November 25, 1861, three years; discharged\\nAugust 8, 1862, for wounds, with loss of arm, received near Richmond, Va.,\\nJune 25, 1862.\\nGilchrist, John, private, January 28, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany H, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment P. V. veteran.\\nGeorge, Alpheus, private, April 13, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate 1862.\\nHarbst, Charles, private, August i, 1861, three years; wounded at Charles\\nCity Cross Roads, Va., June 30, 1862; discharged February 18, 1863.\\nHighbarger, H. L., private, August i, 1861, three years; died September\\n3, 1862.\\nHighbarger, Jonas, private, August i, i86r, three years; wounded and\\nmissing at Wilderness, Va., May 12, 1864; veteran.\\nHichbarger, E., private, October 15, 1861, three years; discharged Feb-\\nruary 7, 1863, for wounds received at Bull Run, Va., August 29, 1862.\\nJohnston, John, private, August i, 1861, three years; discharged August\\n8, 1862, for wounds, with loss of arm, received near Richmond, Va., June 25,\\n1862.\\nKeiser, David S., private, August i, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nJune 30 to September i, 1862; discharged on surgeon s certificate 1863.\\nLawhead, John, private, August i, 1861, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate May 28, 1862.\\nLawrence, Gregory, private, August i, 1 861, three years; wounded at\\nWilderness May 5, 1864 North Anna, Va., May 23, 1864; mustered out with\\ncompany September 8, 1864.\\nMentzer, Jacob, private, August i, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate 1862,\\nMoodie, Preston H., August i, i86r, three years; discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate 1862.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0224.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "Company F, 63D Regiment. 207\\nMenser, William, private, February 27, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nFebruary 27, 1865 expiration of term.\\nMcCloskey, Francis P., private, August I, 1861, three years; died July\\n24, 1862, of wounds received at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862 buried in Mili-\\ntary Asylum Cemetery, D. C.\\nMcCammon, James, private, August i, 1861, three years; wounded at\\nFair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862; discharged September 22, 1862.\\nMcCaskey, William, private, August i, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate 1862.\\nMcDonald, James, private, August i, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nMay 31 to September 13, 1862 promoted to corporal May, 1863 discharged\\nAugust 28, 1863, for wounds received at Chancellorsville, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nMcKee, Hugh P., private, August i, 1861, three years; appointed cor-\\nporal June I, 1862 wounded at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; mustered out\\nwith company September 8, 1864.\\nMcLaughlin, M. J., private, August i, 1861, three years; died at Harri-\\nson s Landing, Va., July 3, 1863 buried in Glendale National Cemetery, sec-\\ntion D, grave 5.\\nMcMichael, George W., private, August i, 1861, three years; captured\\nJune 30, 1862; died at Richmond, Va., September 20, 1862.\\nMcCurdy, Jonathan, private, February 25, 1862, three years; prisoner\\nfrom May 31 to September 13, 1862; transferred to Company H, One Hun-\\ndred and Fifth Regiment P. V.\\nMcMumm, Thomas, private, February 27, 1864, three years; transferred\\nto Company H, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment P. V.\\nMcDonald, John, private, February 25, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany H, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment P. V,\\nMcBride, Robert, private, February 25, 1864, three years; died near Or-\\nange and Alexandria Railroad and fords of the Rapidan April 9, 1864.\\nMcDonald, Andrew, private, March 14, 1862, three years; prisoner from\\nMay 31 to September 13, 1862; transferred to Company G, Second U. S.\\nCavalry, November 5, 1862.\\nMcCann, Barney, private, February 27, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate 1863.\\nNewhouse, John, private, August i, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal December 28, 1863; re-enlisted December 30, 1863; veteran; trans-\\nferred to Company G, Second U. S. Cavalry, November 5, 1862.\\nNugent, Peter, private, August i, 1861, three years; discharged Septem-\\nber 26, 1862, for wounds received at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nO Neill, Daniel, private, August i, 1861, three years; wounded at Bull\\nRun, Va., August 29, 1862; mustered out with company September 8, 1864.\\nO Neill, Peter, private, August i, 1861, three years; discharged Novem-\\nber 9, for wounds received at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0225.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "2o8 History of Clarion County.\\nPaup, William A., private, August i, i86i, three years; died near Meadow\\nStation, Va., November 12, 1862.\\nRanee, Alfred T., private, August i, 1861, three years; u^ounded at Bull\\nRun, Va., August 29, 1862; discharged August 8, 1864.\\nReed, John, private, August i, 1861, three years; died at Meadow Station^\\nVa., June 24, 1862.\\nRemel, George W., private, August i, 1861, three years; deserted 1862.\\nRhees, George W., private, August i, 1861, three years; killed at Fair\\nOaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nRichards, S. K., private, August i, 1861, three years; transferred Septem-\\nber, 1862, to First New Jersey Artillery; returned to regiment April, 1864;\\nmustered out with company September i, 1864.\\nRichards, John G., private, August i, 1861, three years; discharged 1862\\nfor wounds received at Bull Run, Va., August 29, 1862.\\nRussell, Andrew E., private, August i, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company September 8, 1864.\\nRynard, Jacob, private, November 25, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate 1862.\\nSample, James, private, August I, 1 861, three years; wounded at Bull\\nRun, Va., August 29, 1862 transferred to Company H, One Hundred and\\nFifth Regiment P. V. veteran.\\nShoup, Henry, private, August I, 1 861, three years; killed at Bull Run,\\nVa., August 29, 1862.\\nSlocum, Alden, private, August i, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate 1862.\\nSmathers, Christian, private, August i, 1861, three years; died at Alex-\\nandria March 18, 1862 buried at Alexandria, Va., grave 1 302.\\nStraub, Sylvester, private, August i, 1 861, three years; died April 28,\\n1863 buried in Strangers burial ground, Pittsburgh, Pa.\\nStroup, John A., private, August i, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate 1862.\\nThompson, John, private, August I, 1861, three years wounded at Charles\\nCity Cross Roads June 30, 1862; killed at Bull Run, Va., August 29, 1862.\\nThompson, William M., private, August I, 1861, three years; captured at\\nFredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862; wounded at Wilderness May 7,\\n1864; mustered out with company September 8, 1864.\\nTorry, Anthony, private, August i, 1861, three years wounded at Wilder-\\nness, Va., May 5, 1864; wounded, with loss of leg, at Petersburg June, 1864\\ndischarged June i, 1865.\\nTyler, John, private, August i, 1861, three years; left sick at hospital\\nMay 18, 1862.\\nVorhauer, John, private, August i, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\n^ompany September 8, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0226.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "Company F, 67TH Regiment. 209\\nWiles, Abraham, private, August i, 1861, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate 1862.\\nWilkinson, William, private, August l, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate February 3, 1863.\\nWoodruff, David, private, August I, 1861, three years; died near Meadow\\nStation, Va., June 11, 1862.\\nCHAPTER XX.\\nCOMPANY F, SIXTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS.\\nWhen Recruited Familiar Names Roll of Company.\\nTHIS company was recruited in Jefferson, Clarion, and Indiana counties by\\nSamuel C. Arthur, with a recruiting station at Brookville, and Martin Flick,\\nwith a recruiting station at Rimersburg. The company was mustered in at\\nPhiladelphia December 19, 1861, by Lieutenant- Colonel Ruff. The first fight\\nin which the company engaged was at Winchester, July 15, 1862, when a great\\nmany of the company were captured. Company F participated in the battle\\nof Cedar Creek, made famous by Sheridan s ride. The only reliable data\\nthat has been collected is embraced in the roll of this company. It had some\\nexciting experiences, and participated in several brilliant exploits. It was mus-\\ntered out of service at or near Washington July 14, 1865.\\nAmong the better known of its members, the reader will recognize the\\nnames of Martin Flick, once a justice of the peace at Edenburg; E. W. Haines,\\ncandidate for Legislature in 1882, and Levi Switzer, a fifer of some fame in the\\nsouthern part of the county, who, it will be observed, was promoted to princi-\\npal musician of the regiment.\\nGeneral Harry White, ex-congressman of this district, and now president\\njudge of Indiana county, was major of the Sixty-seventh.\\nRoll of Company F, Sixty-seventh Regiment P. V.\\nSamuel C. Arthur, captain, February 27, 1862, three years; prisoner from\\nJune 15, 1863, to expiration of term mustered out March 11, 1865.\\nMartin Flick, captain, May 3, 1865 mustered out with company July 14,\\n1865.\\nMartin Flick, first lieutenant, January 27, 1862, three years; prisoner from\\nJune 15, 1863, to expiration of term mustered out February 10, 1865.\\n1 Copied from Bates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0227.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "2IO History of Clarion County.\\nGeorge W. Sloan, first Lieutenant, April lo, 1863, three years; promoted\\nfrom hospital steward May 16, 1865 mustered out with company July 14,\\n1865.\\nJoseph Ruff, second lieutenant, February 27, 1862, three years; commis-\\nsioned first lieutenant Company E May 20, 1863; not mustered; prisoner from\\nJune 15, 1863, to expiration of term mustered out April 13, 1865.\\nJacob B. McCracken, first sergeant, December 19, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted to corporal February 27, 1862 to sergeant February 3, 1864; to first\\nsergeant March 20, 1865; mustered out with company July 14, 1865; veteran.\\nAsaph M. Clark, first sergeant, December 19, 1861, three years; commis-\\nsioned second lieutenant July 27, 1863 not mustered; promoted to first lieu-\\ntenant Company K February 5, 1865 veteran.\\nGeorge VV. Mohney, sergeant, December 19, 1861, three years; promoted\\nto corporal February 27, 1862 to sergeant May 20, 1865; mustered out with\\ncompany July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nWilliam H. Switzer, sergeant, December 19, 1861, three years; promoted\\nto sergeant February 27, 1862; mustered out with company July 14, 1865;\\nveteran.\\nDavid H. James, sergeant, September 2, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal June i, 1862 mustered out with company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nJustus G. Walton, sergeant, October 22, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nElias W. Haines, sergeant, December 19, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate, 1862.\\nMilbre V. Douglas, sergeant, December 19, 1861, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate date unknown.\\nThomas J. Proctor, sergeant, February 4, 1862, three years mustered out\\nFebruary 4, 1865, expiration of term.\\nH. Slaughenhaupt, sergeant, December 19, 1861, three years; killed at\\nLocust Grove, Va., November 27, 1863.\\nFred Hilliard, corporal, December 19, 1861, three years promoted to cor-\\nporal February 3, 1864; mustered out with company July 14, 1865; veteran.\\nWilliam Nutall, corporal, September 14, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nThompson McAninch, corporal, December 19, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nAlexander F. Flick, corporal, January 13, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal May 8, 1865 mustered out with company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nDavid Clepper, corporal, December 19, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal May 8, 1865 mustered out with company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nJohn Dougherty, corporal, September 23, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal June 15, 1865 mustered out with company July 14, 1865 veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0228.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "Company F, 67TH Regiment. 211\\nMichael Cauler, corporal, September 23, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal June 21, 1865 mustered out with company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nSamuel Irwin, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; wounded in action\\nSeptember 19, 1864; absent at muster out.\\nDavid Altman, corporal, December 19, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nJanuary 7, 1865.\\nDaniel Armstrong, corporal, December 19, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout December 23, 1864 expiration of term.\\nThomas Black, corporal, December 19, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nDecember 31, 1864 expiration of term.\\nSolomon Crumm, corporal, December 19, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nDecember 19, 1864 expiration of term.\\nRobert Adams, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate, date unknown.\\nJohn R. Bryan, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order, June 20, 1865.\\nWilson Ludwick, musician, February 27, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nWilliam H. Morris, musician, February 27, 1862, three years; mustered\\nout February 22, 1865 expiration of term.\\nAylor, Christopher, private, December 19, 1 861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nAustin, John, private, September 2, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nAskey, Henry, private, September 3, 1864, three years; substitute; dis-\\ncharged by general order June 20, 1865.\\nAdams, James R., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order June 20, 1865.\\nAlexander, August, private, January 23, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nJanuary 25, 1865 expiration of term.\\nAlstead, Charles, private, December 29, 1864, three years substitute de-\\nserted June 15, 1865.\\nBurns, Edward, private, October 26, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 14, 1865; veteran.\\nBlair, Robert R., private, December 19, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865; veteran,\\nBennett, Edward, private, October 5, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nBurge, Lafayette, private, January 16, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith coiiipany July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nBates, John, private, October 10, 1861, three years; deserted August 9,\\n1864; returned October 6, 1864; mustered out with company July 14, 1865\\nveteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0229.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "212 History of Clarion County.\\nBrown, Thomas, December 24, 1864, one year; substitute; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865.\\nBright, Richard B., December 8, 1864, one year; drafted; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865.\\nBaxter, John, December 28, 1864, three years substitute; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865.\\nBracelin, Patrick, September 14, 1861, three years; captured mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nBole, Clarence B., private, January 13, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate March 3, 1864.\\nBarry, David, private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate April 3, 1865.\\nBurkepile, Noah, private, September 26, 1864, one year; drafted; dis-\\ncharged by general order May 26, 1865.\\nBridenstine, Joseph, private, September 29, 1864, one year; drafted; dis-\\ncharged by general order June 20, 1865.\\nBates, William, private, December 7, 1864, three years; substitute; dis-\\nhonorably discharged, 1865.\\nBrown, Samuel A., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order June 20, 1865.\\nBennett, Daniel, December 19, 1 86 1, three years transferred to Veteran\\nReserve Corps December 15, 1864.\\nBerry, Orman, private, December 19, 1861, three years; transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps November 15, 1863.\\nBarger, Jeremiah, private, January 13, 1862, three years; died at Brandy\\nStation, January 8, 1864; veteran.\\nBranson, William W., private, September 28, 1861, three years; captured;\\ndied, date unknown veteran.\\nBrown, William H., private, December 19, 186 1, three years deserted Jan-\\nuary 16, 1862.\\nCarson, Michael, private, September 24, 1 861, three years mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nCenft, Cornelius, private, December 28, 1864, one year; substitute; mus-\\ntered out with company July 14, 1865.\\nCarlew, David, private, November 21, 1864, one year substitute; mus-\\ntered out with company July 14, 1865.\\nCrick, Johnston, private, December 19, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate August, 1862.\\nCox, John H., private, February 8, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate February i, 1864.\\nCrick, Uriah F., private, December 19, 186 1, three years; died at Berry-\\nville, Va., April 14, 1863; buried in National Cemetery, Winchester, Va., lot\\n18 burial record April, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0230.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "Company F, 67TH Regiment. 213\\nDickey, John, private, February 15, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nDownes, John, private, December 30, 1864; substitute; absent on detached\\nservice at muster out.\\nDavis, James A., private, December 19, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate February i, 1864.\\nDouglas, Thomas A., private, August 28, 1862, three years discharged by\\ngeneral order June 20, 1865.\\nDaughenbaugh, I., private, January 13, 1862, three years; died July 12,\\n1864, of wounds received in action June 17, 1864; buried in National Ceme-\\ntery, Arlington, Va.; veteran.\\nDunkelburg, Daniel, private, December 19, 1861, three years died, date\\nunknown veteran.\\nDecker, Hiram F., private, December 9, 1864, one year; substitute; de-\\nserted June 15, 1865.\\nDeveling, Edward, private, December 8, 1864, one year substitute; de-\\nserted June 16, 1865.\\nEnglart, Joseph, private, December 13, 1864, one year; substitute; dis-\\ncharged by general order June 17, 1865.\\nFisher, Edward, private, December 29, 1864, three years; substitute;\\nmustered out with company July 14, 1865.\\nFox, Robert A., private, January 18, 1862, three years wounded in action\\nApril 6, 1865 absent at muster out veteran.\\nFreedline, George, private, February 4, 1862, three years mustered out\\nFebruary 5, 1865 expiration of term.\\nFlick, Jesse, private, December 19, 1861, three years; mustered out De-\\ncember 31, 1864 expiration of term.\\nFairbanks, Edwin J., private, December 8, 1864, one year substitute dis-\\ncharged by general order June 15, 1865.\\nFisher, George, private, August 28. 1862, three years; discharged by gen-\\neral order June 20, 1865.\\nFisher, Henry A., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order June 20, 1865.\\nFisher, Jacob, private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged by gene-\\nral order June 20, 1865.\\nFry, John, private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged by general\\norder June 20, 1 865.\\nFisher, Benwell, private, December 19, 1861, three years; died December\\n21, 1864.\\nGrove, Peter, jr., private, January 12, 1862, three years mustered out with\\ncompany July 14, 1865; veteran.\\nGillen, Thomas, private, September 26, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865 veteran. is", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0231.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "214 History of Clarion County.\\nGay, Edward W., private, September 2, i86i, three years; deserted; re-\\nturned mustered out with company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nGiroux, Frank, private, December 24, 1864, three years substitute mus-\\ntered out with company July 14, 1865.\\nGalloway, John, private, December 13, 1864, one year; substitute; mus-\\ntered out with company July 14, 1865.\\nGailey, James R., private, August 28, 1862, three years .wounded in ac-\\ntion April 6, 1865 absent at muster out.\\nGlass, Andrew C, private, February 6, 1862, three years discharged Feb-\\nruary 7, 1865 expiration of term.\\nGraham, James W., private, September 10, 1862, three years; discharged\\nby general order June 20, 1865.\\nGreenwalt, John W, private, December 19, 1861, three years; transferred\\nto Veteran Reserve Corps March 2, 1864.\\nGeesey, Henry, private, February 6, 1862, three years; deserted January,\\n1863.\\nHendericks, Aaron, private, September 2, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nHerron, John, private, September 10, 1861 three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nHilliard, Samuel, private, January 31, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 14, 1865.\\nHay worth, John, private, March 12, 1862, three years; deserted; returned;\\nmustered out with company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nHilliard, George M., private, January 13, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nJanuary 16, 1865 expiration of term.\\nHarriger, Michael, private, December 19, 1861, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate 1862.\\nHall, Silas E., private, December 30, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate 1862.\\nHadden, John M., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order June 20, 1865.\\nHart, William, private, October 26, 1 861, three years; missing in action\\nSeptember 19, 1864.\\nHosey, Daniel S., private, December 19, 1861, three years; deserted Au-\\ngust, 1862.\\nHutcheson, Perry, private, January 13, 1862, three years; deserted May 5,\\n1864 veteran.\\nKrotzer, Henry J., private, October 9, 1862, three years; mustered iout\\nwith company July 14, 1865.\\nKeys, George W., private, December 19, 1861, three years mustered out\\nDecember 19, 1864 expiation of term.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0232.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "Company F, 67TH Regiment. 215\\nKerr, James W., private, February 17, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps April 6, 1864; discharged March i, 1865 expiration\\nof term.\\nLewis, Hiram H., private, January 31, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nLewis, Leander, private, January 31, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nLucus, John B., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged by gen-\\neral order June 20, 1865.\\nLivermore, John, private, January 31, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps April 3, 1864.\\nMarra, William, private, September 30, 1861, three years; mustered out wi*^h\\ncompany July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nMessner, John, private, December 19, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nMohney, Elias, private, December 19, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nJune 15 to July 19, 1863 mustered out with company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nMiller, Albert, private, September 2, 1861, three years; wounded in action\\nSeptember 19, 1864 absent at muster out veteran.\\nMohney, Stanford H., private, December 19, 1861, three years; discharged\\nfor wounds received at Winchester, Va., June 15, 1863.\\nMilliron, Henry B., private, January 13, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate, February i, 1864.\\nMahon, James, private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged by gen-\\nral order June 20, 1865.\\nMimm, John H., private, December 19, 1861, three years; captured; died\\nat Annapolis, Md., September 5, 1863 burial record, September 21, 1863.\\nMcCuen, Thomas, private, February 16, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nMcDonough, James, private, September 2, 1 861, three years; deserted,\\nreturned; mustered out with company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nMcClure, Thomas, private, September 10, 1862, three years; discharged\\nby general order June 20, 1865.\\nMcAdoo, Daniel, private, January, 13, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps 1862 discharged February 28, 1865 expiration of\\nterm.\\nMcArdle, John, private, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted to prin-\\ncipal musician January 20, 1864; veteran.\\nMcCutcheon, R. D., private, December 19, 1861, three years; died at Bal-\\ntimore, Md., November, 9, 1864; veteran.\\nO Kain, Quinton, private, February 4, 1862, three years discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate February 20, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0233.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "2i6 History of Clarion County.\\nO Keif, Michael, private, February 6, 1862, three years; killed at Peters-\\nburg, Va., April 2, 1865.\\nOverdorf, Henry, private, Feberuary 6, 1862, three years; died at Ann-\\napolis, Md., September, 1862 burial record, October 17, 1862.\\nPeak, Thomas R., private, September 28, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nPrichard, William, private, March 14, 1862, three years; deserted, re-\\nturned mustered out May 23, 1865 expiration of term.\\nPatterson, Samuel D., private, August 28, 1862, three years prisoner from\\nJune 20, 1864, to April 28, 1865 mustered out June 13, 1865.\\nPorter, Theodore, private, December 19, 1861, three years; died at Phila-\\ndelphia, Pa., October 23, 1863.\\nRiley, George, private, December 12, 1864, one year; substitute; mus-\\ntered out with company July 14, 1865.\\nRamsey, John A., private, February 17, 1862, three years*; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865; veteran.\\nShadle, John, private, December 19, 1861, three years prisoner from June\\n15 to July 19, 1863 mustered out with company July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nSnyder, Henry, private, January 13, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 14, 1865 veteran.\\nSullivan, Patrick, private, August 30, 1861, three years; absent, sick, at\\nmuster out.\\nShuster, Henry C, private, October 24, 1861, three years; captured; mus-\\ntered out with company July 14, 1865, veteran.\\nStitt, Jesse J., private, December 19, 1861, three years; mustered out De-\\ncember 31, 1864 expiration of term.\\nSnyder, Henry C, private, December 19, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nDecember 31, 1864 expiration of term.\\nSnyder, John W., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate March, 1865.\\nSickenberger, Seb n, private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order June 20, 1865.\\nStephens, Thos. P., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order June 20, 1865.\\nSwitzer, Levi, private, October 9, 1862, three years; promoted to principal\\nmusician May i, 1865.\\nScott, Benj. R., private, January 13, 1862, three years; killed at Winches-\\nter, Va., June 15, 1862; buried in National Cemetery, lot 10.\\nStewart, Benj. C, private, January 25, 1862, three years; deserted Janu-\\nary, 1863.\\nTaylor, David, private, December 19, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865, veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0234.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "Company F, 67TH Regiment. 217\\nTufts, William, private, September 27, 1 861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865, veteran.\\nThompson, E. B., private, January 23, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865, veteran.\\nTaylor, William C, private, September 14, 1 861, three years; mustered\\nout with company July 14, 1865, veteran.\\nTaylor, Abijah, private, December 31, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate 1862.\\nTruman, Henry, private, February 10, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nFebuary ii, 1864 expiration of term.\\nVoinchet, John B., private, December 19, i86r, three years mustered out\\nwith company July 14, 1865, veteran.\\nWilliams, Daniel, private, February 15, 1862, three years; deserted July\\n10, 1864; returned May 18, 1865; mustered out with company July 14, 1865,\\nveteran.\\nWalker, John R., private, February 26, 1864, three years absent, sick, at\\nmuster out.\\nWalters, William, private, December 19, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nDecember 19, 1864 expiration of term.\\nWalters, Joseph, private, January 15, 1862, three years; prisoner from\\nJune 21 to November 24, 1864; discharged April 26, to date January 13,\\n1865.\\nWerner, John, private, February 4, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate, 1862.\\nWilliams, Robert D., private, August 18, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order, June 20, 1865.\\nWatson, Alexander P., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged\\nby general order June 20, 1865.\\nWoodington, G. G., private, February 11, 1862, three years; deserted\\nMay 5, 1864, veteran.\\nYoung, Edward W., private, January 17, 1862, three years discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate, 1862.\\nYoleman, Samuel, private, December 9, 1864, three years; substitute; de-\\nserted May 3, 1865.\\nZantz, Jacob, private, December 19, 1861, three years; transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps, 1863.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0235.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "2i8 History of Clarion County.\\nCHAPTER XXI.\\nCOMPANY C, SEVENTY-BiaHTH REQIMENT, P. V.\\nRecruiting Service Roll of Company.\\nTHE Seventy-eighth Regiment had the reputation of being one of the best\\nregiments in the war, and Captain Drinker s was one of its best companies.\\nIt was recruited in Clarion county by John M. Brinker, afterwards its cap-\\ntain, and mustered into service September i6, 1861. The regiment was in the\\nArmy of the Cumberland. It did some hard service, and it is with regret that\\nthe writer finds it impossible to give Company C more than a very brief sketch,\\non account of not being supplied with particular data with regard to the com-\\npany. After sharing the hardships and. triumphs of the regiment in many a\\nwell-fought field, the company was mustered out on the iith of September.\\n1865.\\nSome of the best known names on the roll of this company are Captain\\nBrinker, David Mohney, George D. Hamm, C. W. Allebach, and David\\nGoodman.\\nThe company deserves a more extended notice than this, and it is hoped\\nthat some time its achievements may be duly chronicled.\\nRoll of Company C, Seventy-eighth Regiment P. V.i\\nJohn M. Brinker, captain, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nDavid Mohney, first lieutenant, September 16, 1 861, three years; resigned\\nJanuary 30, 1863.\\nJohn Girts, first lieutenant, September 16, 1861, three years promoted from\\nsecond lieutenant April 16, 1863 resigned June 13, 1863.\\nDavid R. Brinker, first lieutenant, September 16, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted from sergeant to second lieutenant April 21, 1863 to first lieutenant\\nJuly 22, 1863 mustered out with company November 4, 1864.\\nA. S. McCulloch, second lieutenant, September 16, 1 861, three years; pro-\\nmoted from first sergeant July 22, 1863 mustered out with company Novem-\\nber 4, 1864.\\nAndrew Brown, first sergeant, September 29, 1861, three years; transferred\\nto Company B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nWilliam H. Thomas, sergeant, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nJohn G. Wiant, sergeant, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\n1 Copied from Bates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0236.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "LP\\nV\\njo-ocruy", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0239.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0240.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "Company C, 78TH Regiment. 219\\nGeorge D. Hamm, sergeant, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nBernard Keigan, sergeant, September 29, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nHarrison Stahlman, sergeant, September 16, 1861, three years; killed at\\nDallas, Ga., May 27, 1864.\\nReuben Mohney, corporal, September 16, 1 861, three years mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nCaleb W. Allebach, corporal, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nSolomon Altman, corporal, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate June 27, 1862.\\nHenry J. Gray, corporal, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate February 12, 1864.\\nWilliam H. Miller, corporal, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged\\nMay 14, 1863, for wounds received in action.\\nPeter Keck, corporal, February 8, 1864, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nGeorge J. Reese, corporal, February i, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nDavid Goodman, corporal, September 29, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nF. S. Hoffman, corporal, September 29, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nJames C. McBride, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nJohn H. Schick, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nA. G. Workman, corporal, September 16, 1861, three years; died at Nash-\\nville, Tenn., December 16, 1863.\\nSamuel Lankard, corporal, September 16, 1 861, three years; died at Chat-\\ntanooga, Tenn., January 27, 1864; grave 20.\\nB. Slaugenhaupt, corporal, September 16, 1861, three years; died at Camp\\nWood, Ky., January 21, 1862.\\nJacob Shaffer, musician, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nPhineas F. Hatzell, musician, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nAltman, Levi, private, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate December 4, 1862.\\nAmes, James, private, August 15, 1864, three years; not on muster-out\\nroll.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0241.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "220 History of Clarion County.\\nBrinker, William, private, September i6, i86l, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nBaird, William, private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nBartley, William, private, August 28, 1862, three years transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nBurkhouse, Solomon, private, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nBell, Leander, private, February 24, 1864, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B October 18, 1864.\\nBurket, Peter, private, September 30, 1864, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate August 5, 1865.\\nCouncil, Owen, private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nCramer, Martin V., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nCopenhaver, John, private, February 2, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nCampbell, F. W., private, September 29, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nCurry, William B., private, September 16, 1861, three years; died in\\nClarion county. Pa., June 22, 1863.\\nDervire, John, private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nEvans, Thomas, private, September 29, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nFrasier, John, private, September 16, 1 86 r, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nForney, Abraham, private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nFrasier, William H., private, September 13, 1862, three years; discharged\\nOctober 26, 1863, for wounds received in action.\\nFerry, Patrick T., private, September 16, 1863, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nFriel, Daniel, private, January 27, 1864, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B October 18, 1864.\\nP ranklin, Adam, private, February 24, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nFarr, George W., private, March 21, 1864, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B October 18, 1864.\\nGuyer, John, private, September 16, 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0242.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "Company C, 78TH Regiment. 221\\nGirts, John M., private, September 16, 1 86 1, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nGould, Henry, private, September 29, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nGirts, James R., private, September 16, 1861, three years; died at Nash-\\nville, Tenn., April 14, 1862.\\nGirts, John B., private, September 13, 1862, three years; died September\\n15, 1863, of wounds received in action.\\nHepler, Samuel, private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nHoffer, Samuel A., private, Septem.ber 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nHoffer, William W., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nHepler, Thomas, private, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate April 27, 1863.\\nHilliard, Reuben, private, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate October 2, 1863.\\nHimes, Levi, private, August 28, 1862, three years transferred to Com-\\npany B, October 18, 1864.\\nHetrick, Adam, private, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B, October 18, 1864.\\nHoffer, John, private, January 15, 1864, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B, October 18, 1864.\\nHimes, Joseph C, private. May 7, 1863, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B, October 18, 1864.\\nHenry, Patrick, private, September 13, 1862, three years; died at Chatta-\\nnooga, Tenn., July 15, 1864, of wounds received in action. Grave 140.\\nHoffman, Zeph h H., private, September 21, 1864, three years discharged\\nby general order August 5, 1865.\\nHorn, John L., private, September 21, 1864, three years; not on muster-\\nout roll.\\nJones, Thomas, private, September 1 16, 1861,^ three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nKeller, John H., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nKennedy, Robert E., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nKeller, Samuel W., private, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2on surgeon s certificate February 12, 1864.\\nKennedy, Philip, private, February 4, 1862, ^three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\n19", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0243.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "222 History of Clarion County.\\nKeel, Henry H., private, March 31, 1864, three years transferred to Com-\\npany B October 18, 1864.\\nKeller, Elijah, private, March 24, 1864, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B October 18, 1864.\\nKlutz, George, private, September 16, 1 861, three years; deserted Decem-\\nber 9, 1 86 1.\\nKelly, Oliver, private, February 29, 1864, three years; not on muster-out\\nroll.\\nLatimer, William, private, September 16, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nLowry, Samuel, private, August 28, 1862, three years transferred to Com-\\npany B October 18, 1864.\\nMohney, Joseph, private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nMohney, Samuel, private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nMohney, Adam, private, September 16, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nMohney, Samuel G., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nMohney, Jacob G., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nMiller, Jacob, private, September 16, 186 1, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate June 26, 1862.\\nMyers, David R. P., private, September 29, 1861, three years; transferred\\nto Company B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nMaitland, Alfred, private, September 29, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nMiller, Henry, private, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B October 18, 1864.\\nMohney, Lewis, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nMarkle, Francis, private, September 16, 1861, three years; died at Louis-\\nville, Ky., December 14, 1861 buried in National Cemetery, section A, range\\n2, grave 19.\\nMontgomery, Gil. S., private, March 31, 1864, three years; died at Nash-\\nville, Tenn., July 21, 1864, of wounds received at Dallas, Ga.\\nMallison, Eli, private, September 16, 1861, three years; died at Camp\\nWood, Ky., January 11, 1862.\\nMcMiller, James M., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nMcClelland, Jer. C, private, January 14, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864; veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0244.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "Company C, 78TH Regiment. 223\\nMcCue, Martin, private, October 22, 1862, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B October 18, 1864.\\nMcBride, Ed. H. C, private, September 22, 1863, three years; transferred\\nto Company B October 18, 1864.\\nMcMillan, Harvey M., private, September 16, 1861, three years; died at\\nLouisville, Ky., November 12, 1861 buried in National Cemetery, section A,\\nrange i, grave 5.\\nMcMillan, William, private, September 13, 1862, three years; died Jan-\\nuary 15, 1863, of wounds received at Stone River, Tenn.\\nNolf, David H., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nNichols, Albert G., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nNolf, Isaac, private, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate December 17, 1863.\\nNichols, Andrew J., private, March 10, 1863, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nNichols, William A., private, January 12, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nOrr, William, private, September 13, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate April 14, 1863.\\nPrice, John, private, September 16, 1861, three years; died at Nashville,\\nTenn., October 19, 1864, of wounds received in action.\\nPeoples, James, private, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate June i, 1862.\\nPolliard, Daniel, private, September 16, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps October i, 1863.\\nPalmeter, Luman, private, September 15, 1863, three years transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nPence, Benjamin J., private, September 16, 1861, three years died at Camp\\nWood, Ky., February 6, 1862.\\nQuinn, Michael, private, September 16, 1 861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate December 4, 1862.\\nRothrock, R. K., private, September 16, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nSeptember 8, 1863, to November 25, 1864; discharged January 18, 1865, to\\ndate November 25, 1864.\\nReese. Lewis, private, September 16, 1 86 1, three years mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nRader, Isaac, private, September 16, 1861, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate December 4, 1862.\\nReese, Edward M., private, August 21, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0245.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "224 History of Clarion County.\\nReed, George, private, February 4, 1862, three years died at Nashville,\\nTenn., January 16, 1864.\\nRoper, William B., private, September 16, 1861, three years died at Chat-\\ntanooga, Tenn., March 11, 1864.\\nRader, William H. A., private, July 2, 1863, three years; died at Nashville,\\nTenn., date unknown.\\nRichards, George, private, September 21, 1864, three years discharged by\\ngeneral order May 30, 1865.\\nShellenberger, G. W., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nShlaugenhaupt, G., private, September 16, 1 861, three years mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nShultz, Henry J., private, September 16, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nSchick, Adam M., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nSilvis, William, private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nStorvers, Simeon, private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1 864.\\nShannon, John S., private, September 16, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nSchick, Reuben M., private, September 16, l86l, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate June i, 1862 re-enlisted March 29, 1864; transferred\\nto Company B October 18, 1864.\\nSchick, John, private, September 16, 1861, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate May i, 1862.\\nShannon, James E., private, September 16, 1 861, three years discharged\\non surgeon s certificate April 11, 1862.\\nStokes, Simon, private, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate May 13, 1863.\\nSilvis, Amos, private, September 13, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate February 18, 1864.\\nSchick, Adam, private, September 29, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nSilvis, Jeremiah, private, September 29, 1 861, three years transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nShindledecker, A., private, August 21, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nSherman, John, private, August 21, 1862, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B October 18, 1864.\\nSchick, John R., private, August 21, 1862, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany B October 18, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0246.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "Company E, 78TH Regiment. 225\\nSlocum, A. G. C, private, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nShannon, George B., private, March 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nSchick, WilHam F., private, March 9, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nSmith, George M., private, January 23, 1864, three years transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nStone, Sylvester C, private, March 21, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nSpiker, Christian, private, September 16, 1861, three years; died at Nash-\\nville, Tenn., August 31, 1862.\\nSaegers, Lewis, private, September 16, 1861, three years; died January 5,\\n1863, of wounds received at Stone River, Tenn.\\nShindledecker, F., private, September 21, 1864, three years discharged by\\ngeneral order August 5, 1865.\\nThompson, David, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nThomas, Jacob, private, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nTurney, George W., private, October 23, 1863, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order October 13, 1864.\\nThompson, McClain, private, March 31, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nWoodward, West, private, September, 16, 1 861, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate December 17, 1862.\\nWiant, Frederick, private, September 16, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps October i, 1863.\\nWiant, Jacob, private, September 16, 1861, three years; killed at McLam-\\nor s Cove, Ga., September 11, 1863.\\nYoung, John P., private, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nCompany B October 18, 1864.\\nCHAPTER XXII.\\nCOMPANY E, SEVENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. V.\\nRecruited Mustered Service Familiar Names Roll of Company.\\nTHIS is another noble company, composed of Clarion county s gallant\\nsons, that can be given only a short sketch at the writer s hands. It de-\\nserves a volume. It was mustered into service on the 12th of October, 1861,.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0247.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "226 History of Clarion County.\\nat Kittanning. This company was organized at West Freedom, Clarion\\ncounty, Pa. It left that place August 19, 1861, and proceeded to Pittsburgh,\\narriving there on the 2 1st of the month then it came back as far as Kittan-\\nning, and was there mustered into the service as Company E, of Colonel Sir-\\nwell s Seventy- eighth Regiment. With the Army of the Cumberland it\\nshared in the struggles and victories of our troops, and was mustered out of ser-\\nvice November 4, 1864, at Kittanning, Pa.\\nThe following names are familiar to many people of Clarion county: James\\nG. Briggs, T. M. Graham, Allen Anchors, William J. Ramsey, David R.\\nElliott, Joseph R. Painter, Chambers Yingling, and many others on the follow-\\ning roll.\\nRoll of Company E, Seventy-eighth Regiment.^\\nJames N. Hose}- captain, October 12, 1861, three years; commissioned\\nmajor April 9, 1864; not mustered mustered out with company November\\n4, 1864.\\nThomas J. Elliott, first lieutenant, October 12, 1861, three years resigned\\nAugust 30, 1862.\\nJames H. Anchors, first heutenant, October 12, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted from second lieutenant April 27, 1863, mustered out with company No-\\nvember 4, 1864.\\nWilliam F. Elliott, second lieutenant, October 12, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted from first sergeant September i, 1863 mustered out with company\\nNovember 4, 1864.\\nJames G. Briggs, first sergeant, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom sergeant September i, 1863 mustered out with company November 4,\\n1864.\\nPeter Wender, sergeant, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted from\\ncorporal May 20, 1863 mustered out with company November 4, 1864.\\nT. M. Graham, sergeant, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nHenry A. Crick, sergeant, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted from\\ncorporal March i, 1863 mustered out with company November 4, 1864.\\nJefferson B. Henry, sergeant, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal November i, 1863 to sergeant October 31, 1864; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nWm. H. Pritchard, sergeant, October 12, 1 861, three years promoted from\\nprivate December 16, 1861 died at Nashville, Tenn., October 31, 1862.\\nReuben Latshaw, sergeant, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted from\\ncorporal November i, 1862; killed at Stone River, Tenn., January 2, 1863;\\nburied in National Cemetery, grave 240.\\nCopied from Bates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0248.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "Company E, 78TH Regiment. 227\\nJeremiah Hummel, corporal, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nJames McNutt, corporal, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal September 17, 1863; mustered out with company November 4, 1864.\\nJohn Grunden, corporal, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nAllen Anchors, corporal, October 12, 1861, three years promoted to cor-\\nporal November i, 1862, mustered out with company November 4, 1864.\\nHarrison Adams, corporal, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal April 6, 1863; mustered out with company November 4, 1864.\\nJohn Lusher, corporal, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal April 27, 1863 mustered out with company November 4, 1864.\\nWm. J. Ramsey, corporal, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal May 21, 1863 mustered out with company November 4, 1864.\\nW. M. YingUng, corporal, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal February i, 1864; mustered out with company November 4, 1864.\\nArmstrong, Charles, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nArmstrong, Jackson, private, August 28, 1862, three years transferred to\\nCompany A October 18, 1864.\\nBrady, John, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompan}^ November 4, 1864.\\nBoyer, Levi, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864,\\nBartley, Daniel W., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nBlair, Isaiah, private, October 12, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate October 20, 1862.\\nBoyer, Ralph, private, October 12, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate August 13, 1863.\\nBaker, Marion, private, October 12, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany I, November 16, 1861.\\nBarnaby, A. M., private, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted to hos-\\npital steward November i, 1863.\\nBarrackman, E. S., private, September 18, 1862, three years; transferred\\nto Veteran Reserve Corps May i, 1864-\\nBurns, Thomas L., private, October 12, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps November 10, 1864.\\nBierey, Jeremiah, private, January 26, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany A October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nBarnett, Daniel, private, March 31, 1864, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany A October 18, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0249.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "228 History of Clarion County.\\nBerger, William, private, October 12, 1861, three years; died at Louis-\\nville Ky., December 10, 1861 buried in National Cemetery, section D, range\\n4, grave 92.\\nBoyer, Martin L., private, October 12, 1861, three years died at Louis-\\nville, Ky., December 13, 1861 buried in National Cemetery, section A, range\\n2, grave 4.\\nBurford, Samuel, private, October 12, 1861, three years; died at Stone\\nRiver, Tenn., January 8, 1863, of wounds received in action; buried in Na-\\ntional Cemetery, grave 211.\\nCorbett, William, private, October 12, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nCallender, James, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nCollar, George, private, October 12, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate June 28, 1862.\\nChamber, James B., private, October 12, 1861, three years discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate December 14, 1862.\\nDaniels, Harrison, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nDisler, Joseph M., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nDavis, William, private, October 12, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany I November i, 1863.\\nDebo, Simon A., private, March 31, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany A October 18, 1864.\\nDaniels, David, private, October 12, 1861, three years; died February 25,\\n1863, of wounds received at Stone River, Tenn.\\nEdinger, Henry, private, October 12, 1861, three years; captured near\\nChattanooga, Tenn., September 8, 1863.\\nEnbody, Davis, private, February 19, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany A November 18, 1864.\\nElliott, David R., private, March 31, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany A November 18, 1864.\\nFox, George, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1 864.\\nFox, John L., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nFlick, David R., private, October 12, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate July 2, 1862.\\nFerguson, C. D., private, March 31, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany A October 18, 1864.\\nGeorge^ Martin W., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0250.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "Company E, 78TH Regiment. 229\\nGeorge, Christian, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nGraham, OHver, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nGrant, Joseph, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nGeorge, Reuben, private, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to\\ncompany A October 18, 1864.\\nHogan, Benjamin F., private, October 12, 1 861, three years mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nHunter, William M., private, October 12, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nHummel, Samuel, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nHogan, George W., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nHagan, James, private, October 12, 1861, three years; transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps November i, 1862.\\nHowe, Horatio S., private, March 31, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany A October 18, 1864.\\nHuffman, John F., private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany A October 18, 1864.\\nHays, William, private, October 12, 1861, three years; died January 24,\\n1863, of wounds received at Stone River, Tenn.\\nIrvin, Joseph, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nKelly, Samuel, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nKnox, James, private, October 12, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate June 30, 1862.\\nKarnes, Alexander, private, August 23, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nCompany A October 18, 1864.\\nLytle, David S., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nLatshaw, Ebenezer J., private, October 12, 1861, three years; died in\\nClarion county. Pa., August 2, 1862.\\nMyers, Charles, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nMeeker, Heber B., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nMarshal, Henry M., private, October 12, 1861, three years; captured near\\nChattanooga September 8, 1863.\\n20", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0251.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "230 History of Clarion County.\\n^_j\\nMarkle, William, private, October 12, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate December 14, 1862.\\nMoore, Gibson G., private, October 12, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps February 14, 1862.\\nMartin, Lewis, private, October 12, 1861, three years; promoted to quar-\\ntermaster-sergeant March i, 1862.\\nMarsh, George, private, October 12, 1861, three years; died March i,\\n1863, of wounds received at Stone River, Tenn. burial record, P. Marsh,\\nNational Cemetery, Stone River, grave 217.\\nMortimer, William S., private, October 12, 1861, three years; died March\\n5, 1863, of wounds received at Stone River, Tenn.\\nMcCool, Jasper, private, October 12; 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nMcCoy, Andrew, private, October 12, 1 861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nMcllwaine, James A., private, October 12, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nMcPherson, James A., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nMcllwaine, Josiah, private, October 12, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate March 5, 1862.\\nMcElroy, James, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany A October 18, 1864.\\nMcCall, Eli, private, January 3, 1862, three years; transferred to Company\\nA October 18, 1864.\\nMcCain, Alexander, private, October 12, 1861, three years; died at Free-\\nport, Pa., April 24, 1864.\\nNichols, James G., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nNichols, George W., private, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to\\ncompany A October 18, 1864.\\nOver, Christian, private, October 12, 1861, three years missed in action at\\nStone River, Tenn., January i, 1863.\\nPhinici, Samuel, private, October 12, 1861, three years prisoner from Sep-\\ntember 23, 1863, to November 20, 1864; discharged January 17, 1865, to date\\nNovember 20, 1864.\\nPainter, Joseph R., private, March 31, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany A October 18, 1864.\\nReese, Thomas, private, October 12, 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nRamsey, John W., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0252.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "Company E, 78TH Regiment. 231\\nReichert, Thomas L., private, October 12, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nReardon, Andrew J., private, February 17, 1864, three years; transferred\\nto company A October 18, 1864; veteran.\\nRupert, S. M., private, October 12, 1861, three years; died February 17,\\n1862.\\nSlaugenhaupt, J. A., private, October, 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nSay, Thomas, private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nSnyder, John, private, October 12, 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nSeip, James H., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nShaner, Samuel R., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nSmith, Henry C, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out with com-\\npany November 4, 1864.\\nShafer, Henry S., October 12, 1861, three years; transferred to Veteran\\nReserve Corps September i, 1863.\\nSewart, Allen, private, January 3, 1862, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany A October 18, 1864.\\nSlaugenhaupt, J. D., private, October 12, 1861, three years; killed at Dal-\\nlas, Ga., May 21, 1864.\\nSnyder, Christian, private, October 12, 1861, three years; missing in ac-\\ntion at Stone River, Tenn., January i, 1863.\\nSternts, Peter, (or Peter Stauts), private, March 21, 1864, three years;\\ndied at Nashville, Tenn., July 9, 1864.\\nSlater, Evan W., private, October 12, 1861, three years paroled prisoner;\\ndeserted 1863.\\nTurner, John H., private, October 12, 1 861, three years mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nTeitsworth, James R, private, October 12, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nTurner, John M., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.\\nThorn, Samuel, private, October 12, 1861, three years; killed on picket\\nNovember 13, 1862; buried in National Cemetery, Louisville, Ky., sec. D,\\nrange 4, grave 93.\\nWilliams, Jonathan N., private, October 12, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company November 4, 1864.\\nWhitling, Edward, private, October 12, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0253.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "232 History of Clarion County.\\nWormer, Jacob, private, October 12, 1 861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nWenner, WilHam, private, October 12, 1 861, three years; died December\\n7, 1 86 1, buried in National Cemetery, Louisville, Ky., sec. D, range 4, grave\\n98.\\nWhitehill, Henry H., private, October 12, 1 861, three years died January\\n9, 1863, of wounds received at Stone River, Tenn.; burial record H. H. White-\\nhill, National Cemetery, grave 128.\\nYingling, John, private, October 12, 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany November 4, 1864.\\nYingling, Chambers, private, October 12, 1 861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company November 4, 1 864.\\nYingling, Joseph R., private, March 31, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany A October 18, 1864.\\nYohe, John, private, October 12, 1861, three years killed on picket at\\nCamp Rutherford, Tenn., April 16, 1862.\\nYingling, David M., private, March 21, 1864, three years; died at Chat-\\ntanooga, Tenn., July 21, 1864.\\nYingling, Emory, private, March 31, 1864, three years; captured; died at\\nAndersonville, Ga., August 18, 1864, grave 6,103.\\nCHAPTER XXni.\\nCOMPANY A, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD REGIMENT, P. V.\\nEnlistment Route to the Field Services Roll.\\nIN August, 1 86 1, Captain R. Laughlin, assisted by A. H. Alexander, W. C.\\nMobley, and James R. Haun, recruited a company of volunteers at Callens-\\nburg. Clarion county. Pa. It went into camp at Camp Orr, Kittanning, Pa.,\\nwith fifteen men, who were left there, and the recruiting continued till the num-\\nber reached about one hundred and fifty men, which was reduced by assign-\\nment to other companies, so that at the time of muster into the United States\\nservice, September 7, 1 861, it numbered one hundred and eleven men. It was\\nmustered in by Captain Henry B. Hays, of the United States Army, and de-\\nsignated Company A, of the One Hundred and Third Regiment, P. V. The\\ncompany then elected R. Laughlin, captain A. H. Alexander, first lieutenant\\nGeorge D. Schott, second lieutenant. The enrollment papers had, however, pre-\\nviously designated R. Laughlin, captain.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0254.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "Company A, 103D Regiment. 233\\nIn February, 1862, the company, with the regiment, left Camp Orr, and\\nproceeded by rail to Harrisburg, where the regiment received clothing, and\\nwent at once to Washington, under command of Colonel T. F. Lehman. It\\nwent into camp north of the Capitol, but soon left there and moved to Meridian\\nHill, where it arrived about the first of April, 1862. At this place the One\\nHundred and Third was placed in General Keim s Provisional Brigade of Casey s\\nDivision of Keyes s Corps, and ordered to the Peninsula. The troops went to\\nFortress Monroe, and into camp near Hampton. After staying in camp a\\nshort time the corps moved forward, and the company of which this sketch is\\nwritten, participated in the siege of Yorktown. When the enemy evacuated\\nYorktown the One Hundred and Third led Keim s Brigade in its approach to\\ntha battle-field at Williamsburg. In the battle of Williamsburg Company A\\nsustained no serious loss. It next took part in the terrible battle of Fair Oaks\\nor Seven Pines. Before entering upon this campaign, however, the number of\\nthe company had been somewhat reduced. It was over-full at time of muster,\\nand some of the men were transferred to other organizations, as noted in roll.\\nIn the battle of Fair Oaks the company had two men killed, nine wounded\\nand one prisoner. In this battle Captain R. Laughlin was officer of the day for\\nthe regiment. Major Gazzam was in command of the regiment. Lack of\\nspace compels us to omit Captain Laughlin s well-written description of the\\nbattle.\\nAfter the battle of Fair Oaks the company, with the brigade, was posted\\nat White Oak Swamp, where the men built fortifications. Exposed to the\\nheat and to the malaria of the swamp, many were taken sick, and at times it\\nwas difficult to get enough well men to relieve the pickets. On the 28th of\\nJune the troops began their march, and what was fit for duty of the company\\narrived at Malvern Hill July i, 1862, and took part in that battle, supporting a\\nbattery on the left. The brigade, now commanded by General Wessels, covered\\nthe retreat of the army to Harrison s Landing on the James. On the march\\nthe enemy made frequent attacks, but were repelled by Wessels. At Harrison s\\nLanding the company went into camp, but soon went down the Peninsula to\\nFortress Monroe. It was ordered to Antietam, and embarked on transports\\nfor that point, when it was ordered to Norfolk, thence to Suffi^lk. The com-\\npany remained at Suffolk till December 5, 1862, when it marched to the Chowan\\nRiver, and proceeded by transports to Newbern, N, C, where the troops made\\na raid into the interior as far as Goldsboro, N. C. On this raid they had three\\nhard fights, one at Kingston, N. C, one at White Hall, and one at Goldsboro.\\nThe battle of Kingston was fought on the 14th of December, 1862.\\nIn this struggle Captain Laughlin distinguished himself by his bravery. He\\ncommanded the left wing of the regiment, and led it with other troops across\\na swamp to the attack of the enemy after the swamp had been declared impas-\\nsable. Laughlin plunged into the water to the waist and was followed close by", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0255.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "234 History of Clarion County.\\nhis fearless men. It was a brilliant dash, and his followers attested their ap-\\nproval by patriotic cheers. Here Laughlin earned a promotion, but never re-\\nceived one. The credit was given to Colonel Hunt, who supported Colonel\\nMaxwell, who commanded the right of the One Hundred and Third. Colonel\\nHowell, with the Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, supported Laughlin,\\nand justice to a brave man would have given him a new title but while the\\nsoldiers all knew to whom the credit was due, the service was never recognized.\\nThe company fought at White Hall December i6, and at Goldsboro the\\n17th. After the battle of Goldsboro the troops returned to Newbern, N. C.\\nCaptain Laughlin sent in his resignation on the 20th of January, 1863.\\nThe following is a copy:\\nHeadquarters One Hundred and Third P. V.,\\nNewbern, N. C, January 20, 1863. 5\\nTo Colonel Southard Huffman, A. A. General Eighteenth Army Corps\\nHaving served as a line officer in the 103d Penna. Vol. for over eighteen\\nmonths, and having been exposed to all the vicissitudes of the campaign on\\nthe peninsula, and being in my fifty-sixth year, my decHning health admon-\\nishes me that to attempt to do the duties of a line officer any longer would be\\ninjustice to myself, as well as injurious to the service to which I have been so\\nlong attached I therefore, for the above and many other reasons, do hereby\\ntender to you my resignation of the office of captain Co. A, 103d Reg t. Penna.\\nVol. R. Laughlin.\\nIfVas accepted and Captain Laughlin discharged January 24, 1863.\\nLieutenant A. H. Alexander was promoted to captain January 25, 1863.\\nThe company was sent to Plymouth, N. C, soon after. This was the Union\\narmy s farthest outpost. Company A was assigned to Fort Williams, the main\\nfort in the center of the line of works. It mounted six guns four thirty-two\\npounders and two six pounders. While in Fort Williams, Company A and the\\nremainder of the One Hundred and Third re-enlisted as veterans January i,\\n1864.\\nOn the afternoon of April 17, 1864, the enemy in force attacked the fort.\\nThe garrison fought day and night till about 1 1 A. M. April 20, when, being\\noverpowered, the troops were compelled to surrender, having used all their\\nammunition. The rebels numbered 15,000. The garrison had 1,922 men fit for\\nduty. One hundred officers and 2,198 enlisted men were taken prisoners. Our\\nloss in the conflict was about 200 killed and wounded. The enemy acknowl-\\nedged a loss of 1,800 men. The roll of the company gives the names of the\\nprisoners.\\nFort Williams had been mainly constructed by Company A, and at the\\ntime of the capture the fort was occupied by it and a company of the Second\\nMassachusetts.\\nThe prisoners camped outside the works till noon, April 21, when they took", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0256.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "Company A, 103D Regiment. 235\\nup their line of march for Tarboro, N. C, about sixty miles distant, under\\nguard, where they arrived about noon April 25.\\nThe next day they were shipped in box cars for Andersonville, Ga., where\\nthey arrived April 30, 1864. The enlisted men were sent into the stockade\\nthe officers were kept in a church over night, and the next morning sent back\\nto Macon, Ga., where they remained till August ii, when 600 of them, includ-\\ning the officers of Company A, were sent to Charleston, S. C, and put under\\nfire of the Union guns, the rebels thinking that would stop the firing upon the\\ncity. On the 5th of October these officers were put aboard cars for Columbia,\\nS. C. When about ten miles from Columbia, Captain Bascom, of the Fifth\\nIowa, and Lieutenant William H. Keister, of Company I, One Hundred and\\nThird Pennsylvania Volunteers, with Captain Alexander, of Company A,\\njumped from the cars and attempted to escape, but were recaptured.\\nThe surviving members of Company A were released from Andersonville\\nFebruary 28, 1865, and from Florence, S. C, February 24, 1865, but quite a\\nnumber were discharged soon after, and never rejoined the company. Fifteen\\nof the prisoners belonging to Company A died in prison or on the way out.\\nThe company and regiment were mustered out at Newbern, N. C, June 25,\\n1865, by the general order disbanding the army. The troops proceeded to\\nHarrisburg, where they were paid off and finally discharged July 12, 1865. The\\ncompany participated in twenty-four engagements.^\\nCaptains Laughlin and Alexander corrected this roll and furnished valu-\\nable data, for which they have our thanks.\\nCorrected Roll of Company A, One Hundred and Third Regiment.\\nReynolds Laughlin, captain, September 7, 1861, three years; resigned\\nJanuary 24, 1863.\\nA. H. Alexander, captain, September 7, 1861, three years promoted from\\nfirst lieutenant January 25, 1863; prisoner from April 20, 1864, to February\\n21, 1865 mustered out with company June 25, 1865.\\n1 Bates has James H. Lobaugh, of Company A, One Hundred and Third P. V., marked Deserted\\ndate unknown. This to the writer seems an unjust record. He received a discharge January 20,\\n1863. Having been examined three times to go to his regiment and each time sent back to his quarters,\\nLobaugh was finally examined for a discharge by a Dr. Thompson, who said he ought to be sent home.\\nLobaugh went, as ordered, to the detail tent on the 20th, and received his discharge from Charles\\nHolden, the confidential clerk of Charles A. McCall, M.D., the surgeon in charge of Mt. Pleasant\\nHospital. On this discharge he was paid in full some ninety odd dollars, and also received a special\\nrate card for transportation home. In 1884 the adjutant- general wrote Lobaugh that the paper purport-\\ning to be his discharge, which he had.presented to that office, was a forgery, perpetrated by an employee\\nof Mt. Pleasant Hospital, that it had been stamped and retained in that office. Forgery or not, it is\\nthe settled conviction of the writer that it was received by the soldier in good faith, and if a forgery,\\nthat he was not a party to it. The case implies bribery and that offense could not have been committed\\nwithout money. Lobaugh always had been, was then, and is now, a poor man. If he be the victim\\nof a forgery, this record refuses to hold him as a deserter. It accepts the paper in question to be, as\\nfar as James H. Lobaugh is concerned, an honorable discharge.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0257.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "236 History of Clarion County.\\nJohn M. Laughlin, first lieutenant, May i, 1862, three years promoted to\\nsecond lieutenant June 12, 1862, to first lieutenant January 25, 1863; prisoner\\nfrom April 20, 1864, to March i, 1865 mustered out with company June 25,\\n1865.\\nGeorge D. Schott, second lieutenant, September 7, 1861, three years; killed\\nat Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nOliver McCall, second lieutenant, September 7, 1 861, three years pro-\\nmoted from first sergeant January 25, 1863 wounded at Kingston December\\n14, 1862 discharged by special order March 30, 1865.\\nSamuel F. Shields, first sergeant, September 7, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted to sergeant January I, 1864, to first sergeant May i, 1865 captured\\nApril 20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865 veteran.\\nWatson C. Mobley, first sergeant, September 7, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted to first sergeant January i, 1864, to sergeant-major April 19, 1865\\nveteran.\\nWashington Gathers, sergeant, September 7, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom corporal January i, 1864 captured April 20, 1864 absent, sick, at mus-\\nter out veteran.\\nJos. M. Whitehill, sergeant, September 7, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom private January i, 1864; prisoner from April 20, 1864, to February 24,\\n1865 discharged by general order June 17, 1865 veteran.\\nAlbert Meeker, sergeant, September 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to February 25, 1865 discharged by general order April 12,\\nto date March 2, 1865.\\nDavid I. Wallace, sergeant, September 7, 1861, three years discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate December 5, 1862.\\nJoseph B. Pollock, sergeant, September 7, 1861, three years promoted to\\nquartermaster-sergeant January i, 1864; captured April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nJoseph Kremp, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to February 25, 1865 wounded April 20, 1864; discharged\\nby general order April 12, to date March i, 1865.\\nJohn F. Rupert, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal January i, 1864; prisoner from April 20, 1864, to February 24, 1865;\\ndischarged by general order June 16, 1865 veteran.\\nJoseph Moyer, corporal, September 7, 186 1, three years promoted to cor-\\nporal January I, 1864; captured April 20, 1864; mustered out with company\\nJune 25, 1865 veteran.\\nJames Cooper, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal January 25, 1864; captured April 20, 1864; mustered out with com-\\npany June 25, 1865 veteran.\\nC. G. W. Stover, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal February 26, 1863 I captured April 20, 1864; absent on furlough at\\nmuster out veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0258.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "Company A, 103D Regiment. 237\\nSmith Judson, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal January i, 1864; captured April 20, 1864; mustered out with company\\nJune 25, 1865 veteran.\\nAlvin C. Grandy, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; killed at Fair\\nOaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nJoseph B. Stewart, corporal, December 25, 1 861, three years promoted to\\ncorporal January I, 1864; captured, died at Andersonville, Ga., June 28,\\n1864. Grave 2650; veteran.\\nJohn B. Wallace, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged\\nJune 20, 1862.\\nEnoch Luther, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged April\\n7, 1863.\\nElias Myers, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown, for wounds received at Kingston, N. C, December 14, 1862.\\nRobert C. McCall, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged\\nFebruary 26, 1863.\\nJacob Weaver, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany G, January 3, 1862.\\nThomas Moore, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany G, January 3, 1862.\\nThomas G. Pollock, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years died at York-\\ntown, June 9, 1862 buried in National Cemetery, section C, grave 113.\\nAlt, Calvin B., private, September 7, 1 861, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out, veteran.\\nAnderson, David, private, September 7, 1 861, three years transferred to\\nCompany F, December 7, 1861.\\nBarnacle, Daniel, private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out, veteran.\\nBeggs, Reed G., private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865, veteran.\\nBarr, Jacob, 1st, private, September 7, 186 1, three years; died of wounds\\nreceived at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nBarr, Stephen, private, December 25, 1861, three years; died, date un-\\nknown.\\nBowman, Martin, private, September 7, 1 861, three years; died at Suffolk,\\nVa., October 20, 1862.\\nBowman, John R., private, September 7, 1861, three years; died at Mill\\nCreek, W. Va., July 27, of wounds received at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nBarr, Jacob, 2d, private, September 7, 1861, three years; deserted Febru-\\nary I, 1862.\\nBarlett, Lewis, private, September 7, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany C, December 7, 1861.\\n21", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0259.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "238 History of Clarion County.\\nCaldwell, Oliver W., private, December 25, 1861, three years; captured\\nApril 20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865, veteran.\\nCallen Thomas J., private, March 3, 1864, three years mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865.\\nCampbell, William, September 7, 1861, three years; transferred to One\\nHundred and Twelfth Regiment P. V., May i, 1862.\\nCunningham W. B., private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured\\nApril 20, 1864; died at Callensburg, Clarion county. Pa., December 28, 1865,\\nveteran.\\nCarroll, James, private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate February 17, 1863.\\nCooper, J. F., private, September 7, 1861, three years discharged, date un-\\nknown.\\nCol well, William E., private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate January 30, 1863.\\nDunkle Peter M., private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865, veteran.\\nDunkle, Watson, private, September 7, 1861, three years; died, date un-\\nknown.\\nDavis, William G., private, September 7, 1861, three years captured April\\n20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 20, 1864; grave 6316, veteran.\\nDunkle, Mathew H., private, December 17, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nDunkle, Preston, private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged Sep-\\ntember 24, 1862.\\nDehart, David, private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged June\\n16, 1862.\\nDunkle, Thomas, private, September 7, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nEverett, Philander, September 7, 1 861, three years captured at Plymouth,\\nN. C, April 20, 1864, veteran.\\nElder, Reed C, private, February 27, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 25, 1865.\\nEchelbarger, George, private, August 18, 1862, three years captured April\\n20, 1864, and died at Charleston, S. C, September 27, 1864.\\nFrampton, David R., private, three years; captured April 20, 1864; ab-\\nsent on furlough at muster out veteran wounded day of his capture.\\nGeorge, Justus, private, September 7, 1861, three years; wounded at Fair\\nOaks, May 31, 1862; discharged, expiration of term.\\nGeorge, Thomas M., private, August 18, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died September 13, 1864.\\nGuiher, Clark, private, September 7, 1 861, three years; captured April 20^\\n1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865, veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0260.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "Company A, 103D Regiment. 239\\nGuiher, John C, private, September 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1 864 to February 24, 1865; discharged by general order June 28,\\n1865, veteran.\\nGuiher, Andrew, private, September 7, 1861, three years; wounded in the\\nface, and captured at Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865, veteran.\\nGuiher, Jacob B., private, February 27, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 25, 1865.\\nGilgher, David P., private, February 29, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 25, 1865.\\nGuiher, Isaac, private, September 7, 1861, three years; died, date unknown.\\nGoe, Reed, private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged July 14,\\n1862.\\nGoe, James, private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged June 20,\\n1862.\\nGoe, Norval D., private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C., April 20, 1864; promoted to hospital steward May 31, 1865,\\nveteran.\\nHaun, James R., private, September 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864 to February 28, 1865 discharged by general order June 30,\\n1865, veteran.\\nHahn, George, private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; died at Annapolis, Md., December 26, 1864, veteran.\\nHughes, Israel, private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; died at Florence, S. C., October 21, 1864, veteran.\\nHighbarger, Amos, private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate February 24, 1862.\\nKeifer, Andrew S., private, September 7, 1861, three years captured April\\n20, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out, veteran.\\nKiester, Simeon H., private, September 7, 1861, three years; absent on\\ndetached service at expiration of term.\\nKiester, John N., private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 13, 1864; burial record, August\\n15, 1864; grave 5718, veteran.\\nKremp, Edward, private, February 2, 1862, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., July 16, 1864; grave 3471, veteran.\\nLogue, Clarion J., private, March 9, 1864, three years mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865.\\nLogue, Oliver R., private, March 9, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865.\\nLogue, John H., March 3, 1864, three years never joined company died\\nat Philadelphia, Pa., May 9, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0261.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "240 History op^ Clarion County.\\nLuther, George W., private, March 3, 1864, three years died at Roanoke\\nIsland, N. C, October 15, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Newbern; plot\\n7, grave 85.\\nLoughner, Edward W., private, September 7, 1861, three years; died De-\\ncember 18 of wounds received at Kingston, N. C, December 14, 1862.\\nLoughner, John, private, September 7, 1861, three years died at Annap-\\nolis, Md., May 8, 1865, veteran.\\nLobaugh, James H., private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged\\nJanuary 20, 1863.\\nLaughlin, Thos. J., private, September 7, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany G December 7, 1861.\\nLecky, Jacob, private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate November 16, 1861.\\nMyers, Adam, private, September 7, 1 861, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out.\\nMiller, William R., private, March 3, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865.\\nMyers, Conrad R., private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate, date unknown.\\nMiller, George W., private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate December 7, 1861.\\nMyers, John, private, September 7, 1861, three years transferred to com-\\npany E December 7, 1861.\\nMooney, Sam l A., private, September 7, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany F December 7, 1861.\\nMcCall, Sylvester, private, September 7, 1861, three years; wounded at\\nFair Oaks May 31, 1862 mustered out with company June 25, 1865, veteran.\\nMcCoy, John L., private, March 8, 1864, three years; died June 8, 1865\\nburied in National Cemetery, Newbern, N. C; plot 7, grave 12.\\nNeely, John M., private, September 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to February 24, 1865 discharged by general order June i,\\n1865.\\nPower, George R., private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate, date unknown.\\nPaup, George W., private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged\\nOctober 8, 1862.\\nReese, Isaiah, private, March 3, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865.\\nRichardson, Jas. W., private, September 7, 1861, three years; prisoner\\nfrom April 20, 1864, to February 28, 1865 discharged by general order June\\n6, 1865, veteran.\\nRosansteel, Sylve s G., private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured\\nApril 20, 1864; died at Florence, S. C, November i, 1864, veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0262.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "Company A, 103D Regiment. 241\\nReedy, George W., private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate November i, 1861.\\nReese, Andrew, private, December 25, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; discharged by general order May 27, 1865,\\nveteran.\\nRider, John, private, September 7, 1861, three years; deserted November\\nI, 1861.\\nReedy, Samuel, private, September 7, 1861, three years; deserted Novem-\\nber 13, 1861.\\nRussell, Albert M., private, September 7, 1861, three years; transferred\\nto Company G December 7, 1861.\\nSmall, Walter R., private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out, veteran.\\nSmith, James, private, March 3, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865.\\nSmith, John M., private, March 3, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865.\\nSmith, Patrick, private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; discharged by general order August 3, 1865,\\nveteran.\\nStewart, Gazzam, private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865, veteran.\\nSaxton, Amaziah, private, September 7, i86r, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; died at Florence, S. C, October 24, 1864, veteran.\\nSchorman, Henry, private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured\\nApril 20, 1864; died at Florence, S. C, December 8, 1864, veteran.\\nSheffler, Joseph, private, September 7, 1 861, three years; died, at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C; date unknown.\\nSweetwood, Daniel, private, September 7, 1861, three years; died at Phil-\\nadelphia, Pa., July 31, 1862.\\nStants, Isaac, private, September 7, 1861, three years; died date un-\\nknown.\\nSmith, Hiram, private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged Feb-\\nruary 27, 1862.\\nSaxton, Uriah, private, September 7, 1 861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate December 7, 1861.\\nSaxton, Hezekiah, private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate March 28, 1863.\\nSay, William H., private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged\\nJune 16, 1862.\\nStanford, James, private, September 7, 1 861, three years discharged on\\non surgeon s certificate February 18,1862.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0263.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "242 History of Clarion County.\\nShakley, George, private, September 7, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany G December 7, 1861.\\nTimms, Absalom S., private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured\\nApril 20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865, veteran.\\nThomas, Wm. H. H., private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured\\nApril 20, 1864; absent, sick, at muster out, veteran.\\nThom, Robert C, private, September 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, to December 14, 1864 discharged by general order April 12, 1865,\\nto date December 21, 1864.\\nTitus, William, private, September 7, 1861, three years died at Camp Orr,\\nPa., February 5, 1862.\\nTitus, Daniel, private, September 7, 1861, three years; died at Beaufort,\\nN. C, December 17, 1863 buried in National Cemetery, Newbern, plot 7,\\ngrave 59.\\nTexter, John, private, September 7, 1861, three years discharged Septem-\\nber 26, 1862.\\nThompson, Milton, private, September 7, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany F December 7, 1861.\\nTaylor, William, private, September 7, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nVaughn, Joseph K., private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nVandyke, David L., private, August 18, 1862, three years; captured April\\n20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., October i, 1864, grave 10158.\\nWatson, Thomas J., private, September 7, 1861, three years died April\\n14, 1862.\\nWyon, William, private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured; died\\nat Florence, S. C, November 25, 1864; veteran.\\nWilson, Newton, private, December 25, 1861, three years died, date un-\\nknown.\\nWishard, Alexander, private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured\\nApril 20, 1864; died at Richmond, Va., December 20, 1864; veteran.\\nWilhelm, Henry B., private, September 17, 1861, three years; discharged\\nJuly 19, 1862.\\nWilliams, John, private, September 7, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate, date unknown.\\nWhitman, William, private, September 7, i86r, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate, November i, 1861.\\nWilson, Jeremiah P., private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured\\nApril 20, 1864; wounded same day; mustered out with company June 25,\\n1865 veteran.\\nWilson, William A., private, March 3, 1864, three years mustered out\\nwith company, June 25, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0264.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "Company B, 103D Regiment. 243\\nWilliams, George R., private, March 3, 1864, three years mustered out\\nwith company June 25, 1865.\\nWilhelm, James S., private, September 7, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nCHAPTER XXIV.\\nCOMPANY B, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD REGIMENT, P. V.\\nEnlistment Route to the Field Services\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Death of Captain Gillespie Roll.\\nTHIS company was recruited during the months of August and September,\\nin the counties of Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, and Venango. It will be\\nremembered that the Seventy- eighth regiment had been recruited in the same\\nterritory principally. The vigorous campaign for enlistment carried on by\\nCaptain Hosey, Captain Brinker, and Captain Laughlin, of whom we have writ-\\nten, had gathered in those most eager to enlist, before Captain Gillespie began\\nto recruit his company. In fact Company C and Company E of the Seventy-\\neighth, had really gathered up the eager ones before any of the companies of\\nthe One Hundred and Third were begun but the recruiting officers of that\\nregiment worked away earnestly and patiently, and when Company B was\\nmustered into the United State s service at Camp Orr on the 24th of Septem-\\nber, its ranks were overfull. It shared the vicissitudes of the regiment, being\\nengaged in numerous battles, and suffering much from exposure and disease,\\nand finally gave up the lives of many of its bravest and best men in filthy\\nprison pens.\\nCaptain Gillespie was killed at Fair Oaks. He expressed the belief when\\nentering the fight that he would not come out, but would be killed. The com-\\npany suffered little in battle after Fair Oaks. At Plymouth, N. C, about fifty\\nmen of the company were on duty, and all were captured April 20, 1864.\\nMost of these were confined at Andersonville, and during their imprisonment\\nand immediately after their release, more than twenty of this number died.\\nThe company was mustered out of service June 25, 1865, when not more than\\nfifteen were present.\\nRoll of Company B, One Hundred and Third Regiment. 1\\nGeorge W. Gillespie, captain, September 24, 1861, three years; killed at\\nFair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862 buried in National Cemetery, Seven Pines.\\n1 Copied from Bates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0265.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "244 History of Clarion County.\\nJoseph Rodgers, captain, September lo, i86i, three years; promoted from\\nfirst Heutenant June 5, 1862 resigned January 24, 1863.\\nDaniel L. Coe, captain, September 12, 1861, three years; promoted from\\nsecond to first Heutenant January 5, 1862 to captain January 25, 1863 re-\\nsigned November 9, 1863.\\nSolomon Barnhart, first lieutenant, September 24, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted from sergeant to second lieutenant January 25, 1863; to first lieutenant\\nJuly I, 1863 resigned November 3, 1863.\\nGeorge W. Stoke, second lieutenant, November 13, 1861, three years;\\ntransferred from Company D October 31, 1863 mustered out with company\\nJune 25, 1865.\\nG. W. Swartzlander, first sergeant, September 24, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted from corporal February 7, 1862 commissioned second lieutenant July\\n16, 1863; not mustered; captured at Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864.\\nJames Adams, first sergeant, September 24, 1861, three years; promoted\\nto captain Company K February 22, 1862.\\nWilliam T. Bair, sergeant, September 24, 1861, three years; promoted to\\nsergeant January 2, 1864 prisoner from May 6, 1864, to February 20, 1865\\ndischarged by general order June 8, 1865 veteran.\\nThomas Hart, sergeant, September 24, 1861, three years; promoted to\\nsergeant January 2, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out veteran.\\nC. M. Rumbaugh, sergeant, September 24, 1861, three years; promoted\\nto corporal January 2, 1864; prisoner from April 20, 1864, to February 20,\\n1865 discharged by general order June 8, 1865 veteran.\\nDaniel L. Rankin, sergeant, September 24, 1861, three years promoted to\\ncorporal January 2, 1864; to sergeant May i, 1865; absent on furlough at\\nmuster out veteran.\\nSher n M. Criswell, sergeant, September 24, 1861, three years captured\\nat Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Florence, S. C, November 10,\\n1864; veteran.\\nCyrus K. McKee, sergeant, September 24, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864 died at Charleston, S. C, December 7, 1864;\\nveteran.\\nRobert M. Crawford, sergeant, September 24, 1861, three years; transferred\\nto Veteran Reserve Corps, date unknown veteran.\\nGeorge Waterson, corporal, September 24, 1861, three years captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; promoted to corporal May i, 1865 mus-\\ntered out with company June 25, 1865 veteran.\\nIsaac Shakely, corporal, August 15, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; promoted to corporal May i, 1865 mustered\\nout with company June 25, 1865.\\nJames M. Carson, corporal, September 24, 1861, three years; died, date\\nunknown.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0266.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "Company B, 103D Regiment. 245\\nJohn S. McElhany, corporal, September 24, 1861, three years; prisoner\\nfrom April 20, 1864, to February 24, 1865; discharged by general order April\\n24 to date March i, 1865.\\nSamuel J. Gibson, corporal, November i, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20 to December 16, 1864; discharged by general order March 14, 1865,\\nto date December 22, 1864.\\nIsaac Swartzlander, corporal, September 24, 1861, three years; captured\\nat Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died; buried in National Cemetery, Wil-\\nmington, grave 984.\\nJames H. Crawford, corporal, September 24, 1861, three years; captured\\nat Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., September 7^\\n1864 grave 81 17.\\nWilliam Harrison, corporal, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nThomas Hayes, corporal, September 24, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nFourth Regiment U. S. Artillery, date unknown.\\nAndrew Rodgers, musician, August 13, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.\\nHarrison W. Coe, musician, September 24, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out; veteran.\\nAdams, Abram, private, September 24, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to February 24, 1865 discharged by general order March 28,\\nto date March i, 1865.\\nAbel, Augustus, private, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged Sep-\\ntember 23, 1864 expiration of term.\\nBarr, Robert, private, September 24, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20 to December 11, 1864; discharged by general order March 2, 1865,\\nto date December 17, 1864.\\nBenninger, Henry L., private, September, 24, 1861, three years; captured\\nat Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nBish, John B., private, September 24, 1861, three years; missing in action\\nat Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nBurford, Reuben, private, September 24, 1 861, three years; captured; died\\nat Andersonville, Ga., June 4, 1864; grave 1601 veteran.\\nBeamer, Matthias C, private, September 24, 1861, three years discharged\\non surgeon s certificate December 4, 1861.\\nBoyle, Owen, private, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate December 4, 1861.\\nBrenneman, L. A., private, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate December 4, 1861.\\nBarnhart, Isaac, private, September 24, 1861, three years discharged ex-\\npiration of term.\\n22", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0267.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "246 History of Clarion County.\\nBrenneman, James, private, September 24, 1861, three years; prisoner\\nfrom April 20 to December 11, 1864; discharged by general order March 28,\\n1865, to date December 17, 1864.\\nBurford, William, private, September 24, 1861, three years; deserted, date\\nunknown.\\nCampbell, Alfred, private, September 24, 1861, three years; died, date\\nunknown.\\nCrawford, John A., private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died September 8, 1864, at Andersonville,\\nGa. grave 8 11 7.\\nCoe, Benjamin F., private, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nCraig, Alexander, private, October 12, 1 861, three years discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nCumberland, James, private, December 10, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nCampbell, Joshua A., private, September 24, 1861, three years; deserted,\\ndate unknown.\\nDay, James, private, March 30, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865 veteran.\\nDovenspeck, David, private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured\\nat Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out; vet-\\neran.\\nDevenny, Thomas J., private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured;\\ndied December 17, 1864; veteran.\\nDunlap, Alexander, private, September 24, 1861, three years; died at\\nPhiladelphia, Pa., October 24, 1862.\\nDeany, Barney, private, September 24, 1861, three years; killed at Fair\\nOaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nErVv in, John P., private, September 24, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to March 13, 1865 discharged by general order June 29,\\n1865 veteran.\\nEminger, Michael C, private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured\\nat Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nFrantz, Lorenzo W., private, September 24, 1861, three years; killed at\\nFair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nFoster, John, private, August 25, 1862, three years; captured at Plymouth,\\nN. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 28, 1864; grave\\n7097.\\nGibson, Gideon W., private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured\\nat Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out.\\nGranville, Samuel, private, November 13, 1863, three years; missing in\\naction at Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0268.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "Company B, 103D Regiment. 247\\nGibson, John A., private, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nGilchrist, Stewart, private, August 25, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nHayes, Hezekiah, private, September 24, 1 861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to February 24, 1865 discharged by general order April 5,\\nto date March i, 1865.\\nHilliard, Peter, private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out.\\nHilliard, Jackson, private, September 24, 1861, three years; died, date\\nunknown.\\nHaper, Robert, private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., September 30,\\n1864, grave 10109; veteran.\\nHankey, Ephraim, private, September 24, 1 861, three years; died March\\n9, 1862; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C.\\nHankey, John B., September 24, 1861, three years; captured; died at\\nSahsbury, N. C, July 9, 1862.\\nHayes, Robert, private, August 25, 1862, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nHile, Simon, private, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nHayes, John M., private, September 24, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nFourth Regiment U. S. Artillery, date unknown.\\nHile, John L., private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nJordan, David W., private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., July 5, 1864;\\ngrave 2914; veteran.\\nJackson, Alexander C, private, September 24, 1 861, three years died,\\ndate unknown.\\nJones, John M., private, September 24, 1861, three years captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died, date unknown.\\nJudson, Andrew, private, November i, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nFourth Regiment U. S. Artillery, date unknown.\\nKennedy, William, private, September 24, 1861, three years; died, date\\nunknown.\\nKelley, Richard, private, September 24, 1 861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nKeefer, William D., private, September 24, 1861, three years; transferred\\nto Company F December 31, 1863 veteran.\\nLang, Aaron, private, August 25, 1862, three years; prisoner from April\\n20, 1862, to February 26, 1865 discharged by general order July 5, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0269.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "248 History of Clarion County.\\nMontgomery, H., private, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nMcCay, Matthew J., private, September 24, 1 861, three years captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died June 24, 1864; veteran.\\nMcCay, Joseph, private, September 24, 1861, three years; died January\\n3, or June 30, 1862, buried in National Cemetery, Yorktown, Va., section D,\\ngrave 257.\\nMcClure, Harvey B., private, September 24, 1861, three years captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died March 15, 1865 buried in Camp Pa-\\nrole Hospital Cemetery, Annapolis, Md.; veteran.\\nMcClure, Thos. L., private, September 24, 1861, three years died at An-\\nnapolis, Md., December 5, 1864; buried in U. S. General Hospital Cemetery;\\nveteran.\\nMcCleary, Robert, private, December i, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nMcCool, Wesley, private, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nNewton, Joseph, private, September 24, 1861, three years; killed at Fair\\nOaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nPetzinger, Conrad, private, September 24, 1861, three years prisoner from\\nApril 20, to December 10, 1864; discharged by general order June 12, 1865\\nveteran.\\nPenburthy, Wm., private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out; veteran.\\nPayne, Orrin, private, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nPierce, William G., private, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nPool, Samuel, private, December i, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nRumbaugh, Jos., private, August 25, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.\\nRankin, James, private, February 25, 1864, three years mustered out with\\ncompany July 25, 1865.\\nReeser, Nehemiah, private, March 16, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 25, 1865.\\nRankin, Benjamin, private, September 24, 1861, three years; died, date\\nunknown.\\nReese, William, private, September 24, 1861, three years; died at Phila-\\ndelphia, Pa., August 25, 1862.\\nReese, Jacob, private, September 24, i86(, three years; captured, died at\\nAndersonville, Ga., August 17, 1864. Grave 5389.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0270.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "Company B, 103D Regiment. 249\\nRegus, Alexander, private, September 24, i86r, three years; died, date\\nunknown.\\nRegus, Henry, private, September 24, 1861, three years; died, date un-\\nknown.\\nRobb, Hamilton, private, September 24, 1861, three years; died, date un-\\nknown.\\nRitchey, James, private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured, died\\nat Andersonville, Ga., August 6, 1864. Grave 4844; veteran,\\nRoss, David, private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured, died at\\nAndersonville, Ga., August 12, 1864. Grave 5389; veteran.\\nRosansteel, Sylv. G., private, September 24, 1861, three years; transferred\\nto Company K February i, 1863.\\nSweet, John, private, March 16, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865.\\nSowers, John, private, April 14, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865.\\nSowers, Joseph, private, April 14, 1864, three years mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865.\\nSloan, Uriah, private, September 24, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to February 24, 1865 discharged by general order March 28,\\nto date March i, 1865.\\nSnyder, Abram, private, September 24, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, to December 10, 1864; discharged by general order March 15, 1865,\\nto date December 16, 1864.\\nSmith, Albert W., private, September 24, 1861, three years prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to April 22, 1865 discharged by general order June 12, 1865.\\nSmith, Abram W., private, September 24, 1 861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to February 24, 1865 discharged by general order April 28,\\nto date March i, 1865 veteran.\\nShakely, Geo. W., private, September 24, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to February 24, 1865 discharged by general order June 1910\\ndate March i, 1865 veteran.\\nSweet, James, private, September 24, 1 861, three years; absent on fur-\\nlough at muster out veteran.\\nShakely, Henry C, private, September 24, 1861, three years; killed at\\nFair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nSnow, Nicholas, private, September 24, 1861, three years; died at Annap-\\nolis, Md., March 11, 1865 I buried in U. S. General Hospital Cemetery; vet-\\neran.\\nSanderson, Sam l S., private, September 24, 1861. three years; died, date\\nunknown.\\nShakely, Daniel K., private, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0271.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "250 History of Clarion County.\\nSherlock, Matthew, private, September 24, 1861, three years; captured,\\ndied December 29, 1864; buried in Camp Parole Hospital Cemetery, Annap-\\nolis, Md.\\nSchields, James, private, September 24, 1861, three years discharged ex-\\npiration of term\\nSloan, Presley, private, September 24, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nSowers, Wiliam, private, September 24, 1861, three years discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nScharem, John, private, September 24, 1861, three years captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nTruby, Charles M., private, September 24, 1864, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to February 24, 1865 discharged by general order June 19,\\n1865 veteran.\\nWhite, Michael, private, September 24, 1861, three years prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to March 18, 1865 discharged by general order May 8, to\\ndate March 18, 1865.\\nWoodruff, William D., private, September 24, 1861, three years captured\\nat Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864, died at Andersonville, Ga., July 16, 1864,\\ngrave 3384.\\nWalley, David, private, September 24, 1861, three years discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nWolf, James, private, September 24, 1861, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate December 4, 1861.\\nWilliams, Peters, private, August 25, 1862, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nCHAPTER XXV.\\nCOMPANY F, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD REG-IMENT, P. V.\\nEnlistment To the Field Services Roll.\\nCAPTAIN McDowell, who recruited this company in the fall and early\\nwinter of 1861, from the counties of Allegheny and Clarion, found the\\nsame difificulty that the other recruiting officers of the One Hundred and\\nThird did. However, on the 7th of December, 1861, the company was mus-\\ntered into the United States service with an enrollment of 107 men, many of\\nwhom were transferred from Company A. The company s history is almost\\nidentical with that of the regiment. At the battle of Fair Oaks Sergeant", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0272.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "Company F, 103D Regiment. 251\\nHenry H. Neely, with about fifteen men, was with Company A, the remainder\\nof the company was on fatigue duty, slashing timber, till Casey s troops were\\ndriven back. These then discarded their axes and took to their guns. During\\nthe fight no casualties occurred to this company.\\nAt Plymouth, N. C, the company was commanded by Captain John Don-\\naghy. It numbered about fifty men all told, and all were captured. Of these,\\nabout twenty-five died in prison, or after release. The information relative to\\nthis company is limited, therefore this sketch is necessarily brief\\nSecond Lieutenant Henry H. Neely of this company is well known through-\\nout Clarion county, having been once elected sheriff. In 1886 he renounced\\nhis faith in the Democratic party, with which he had always acted, and united\\nwith the Prohibition party, being its candidate for member of the House of\\nRepresentatives in the Legislature of Pennsylvania.\\nRoll of Company F, One Hundred and Third Regiment.^\\nMath. B. McDowell, captain, December 7, 1861, three years; resigned\\nJune 21, 1862.\\nJosiah Zink, captain, December 7, 1861, three years; promoted from first\\nlieutenant June 22, 1862; resigned February 13, 1863.\\nJohn Donaghy, captain, December 7, 1 861, three years; promoted from\\nsecond to first lieutenant June 22, 1862; to captain May i, 1863 captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; mustered out December 9, 1864.\\nJames H. Chambers, first lieutenant, September 16, 1 861, three years;\\npromoted from sergeant-major to second lieutenant May i, 1863 to first lieu-\\ntenant July 4, 1863 captured at Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; mustered\\nout March 15, 1865.\\nHenry H. Neely, second lieutenant, December 7, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted from first sergeant June 22, 1862 resigned March 12, 1863.\\nAllen B. Cross, first sergeant, December 7, 1861, three years; prisoner\\nfrom April 20 to November 27, 1864; promoted to first sergeant May i, 1865;\\nmustered out with company June 25, 1865, veteran.\\nDavid Rimer, first sergeant, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nEli Armagost, first sergeant, December 7, 1861, three years; commissioned\\nsecond lieutenant July 4, 1863; not mustered; captured at Plymouth, N. C.^\\nApril 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., July 6, 1864; grave 2956, veteran.\\nWm. R. Graham, first sergeant, December 7, 1861, three years; captured\\nat Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 14,\\n1864; graye 5737, veteran.\\nJohn H. White, sergeant, December 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to April 22, 1865 discharged June 7, to date May 24, 1865,\\nveteran.\\n1 Copied from Bates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0273.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "252 History of Clarion County.\\nHenry G.Reese, sergeant, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nJacob S. Delp, sergeant, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864, veteran.\\nMichael Hawk, sergeant, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864, veteran.\\nWm. McElhany, sergeant, December 7, 1 861, three years; killed at Kings-\\nton, N. C, December 14, 1862.\\nSamuel H. Stewart, corporal, December 7, 1861, three years; prisoner\\nfrom April 20, 1864, to April, 1865; absent, with leave, at muster out, veteran.\\nJacob Brock, corporal, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864, veteran.\\nRobert W. McGarrah, corporal, December 7, 1861, three years; captured\\nat Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., March 21,\\n1865 grave 12806, veteran.\\nBenjamin Mortimer, corporal, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864, veteran.\\nJohn Smuthers, corporal, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864, veteran.\\nBenjamin Edwards, corporal, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Annapolis, Md., March 9, 1865,\\nveteran.\\nCollins Boyd, corporal, December 7, 1861, three years; missing, date un-\\nknown.\\nGeorge E. Frill, corporal, December 7, 1861, three years; died at York-\\ntown, Va., July I, 1862; section C, grave 150.\\nCharles Stewart, corporal, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Annap-\\nolis, Md., March 19, 1865, veteran.\\nWilliam Bowstaff, corporal, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nRobert G. Dill, corporal, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged for\\npromotion in U. S. C. T. April 4, 1864.\\nWeldon S. Zilefro, corporal, December 7, 1861, three years; not on mus-\\nter-out roll.\\nWilliam D. Keefer, musician, September 24, 1861, three years; prisoner\\nfrom April 20, 1864, to February 26, 1865 discharged June 12, to date May\\n16, 1865, veteran.\\nSamuel A. Mooney, musician, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nDavid Anderson, musician, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., June 27, 1864;\\ngrave 2547, veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0274.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "Company F, 103D Regiment. 253\\nAnderson, Sam l W., private, December 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to April 21, 1865 discharged May 31, to date May 15, 1865.\\nAnderson, Samuel, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nAtkins, William, private, October 5, 1863, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864.\\nBorts, William, private, December 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from April\\n20, 1864, to March, 1865 mustered out with company June 25, 1865, veteran.\\nBoyle, Wilder M., private, August 25, 1862, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to March, 1865; mustered out with company June 25, 1865.\\nBoyle, Hardin W., private, December 7, 1 861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nBeabout, Barney, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nBarr, David M., private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nBruner, John F., private, December 7, 1 861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany G January i, 1862.\\nBoyle, J. Rankin, private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at George-\\ntown, D. C, August 17, 1862; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery.\\nBurns, James, private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., July 16, 1864; grave\\n3294 veteran.\\nBorts, John, private, December 7, 1861, three years died at Washington,\\nX). C, date unknown.\\nBish, Jacob, private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Plymouth,\\nN. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., July 5, 1864; grave 2913;\\nveteran.\\nBorts, George, private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Baltimore,\\nMd., date unknown.\\nCarson, James, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nCopic, James W., private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Harri-\\nson s Landing, Va., date unknown.\\nDearmont, Jesse, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nDahle, Evans, private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Newport\\nNews, Va., date unknown.\\nDahle, Sylvester, private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Annap-\\nolis, Md., December 20, 1864; veteran.\\nDuncle, Harman, private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864.\\n23", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0275.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "254 History of Clarion County.\\nEmehizer, Absalom, private, December 7, 1861, three years; transferred\\nto Company G January i, 1862.\\nEmehizer, Samuel, private, December 7, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany G January i, 1862.\\nFriel, John H., private, December 7, 1861, three years prisoner from April\\n20 to December 11, 1864; discharged May 7, 1868, to date June 25, 1865\\nveteran.\\nFulton, John M., private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nFulton, William A., private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; discharged by general order August 15,\\n1865 veteran.\\nFritz, Joseph, private, December 8, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nGraham, Benjamin, private, March 31, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 25, 1865.\\nGrant, Artemus G., private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nHartman, David, private, December 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20 to November, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865\\nveteran.\\nHerr, Adam, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date un-\\nknown.\\nHunter, Robert, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nHengus, Robert, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nHough, Joseph, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nJones, Daniel, private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nJohnston, David, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nKeith, Alexander, private, December 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20 to December, 1864; discharged by general order June 19, 1865;\\nveteran.\\nKness, Harvey, private, December 7, 1861, three years; absent, sick, at\\nmuster out\\nKerns, Anthony, private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Annap-\\nolis, Md., March 12, 1865 veteran.\\nKarns, Henry, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0276.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "Company F, 103D Regiment. 255\\nKeth, George W., private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nKissinger, Michael, private, December 7, 1861, three years; not on muster-\\nout roll.\\nLowers, John, private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nMohney, Franklin, private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died, date unknown; buried in National\\nCemetery, Millen, Ga., section A, grave 107.\\nMohney, Henderson, private, December 7, 1861, three years captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 10, 1864;\\ngrave 5266.\\nMayhood, John, private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Charleston, S. C, December 14, 1864;\\nveteran.\\nMiller, James P., private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Annap-\\nolis, Md., November 30, 1864; veteran.\\nMortimer, Thomas, private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Roan-\\noke Island, N. C, September 21, 1863 buried in National Cemetery, New-\\nbern, plot 7, grave 84.\\nMyers, John, private, December 7, 1861, three years died at Washington,\\nD. C, May 22, 1862 buried in Military Asylum Cemetery.\\nMarsh, Adam H., private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Pitts-\\nburgh, Pa., date unknown.\\nMohney, George B., private, December 7, 1861, three years died at Phil-\\nadelphia, Pa., date unknown.\\nMcNanny, Michael, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown,\\nMcGregor, Joseph, private, December 7, 1 861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nMcCoy, James, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nMcPherson, David, private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 17,\\n1864, grave 6014; veteran.\\nOler, John, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date un-\\nknown.\\nPence, George, private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 17, 1864;\\ngrave 5910; veteran.\\nPiatt, Robert C, private, December 7, 1861, three years died at Yorktown,\\nVa., December 15, 1862 buried at Point Lookout, Md. [unknown.\\nPiatt, Robert, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0277.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "256 History of Clarion County.\\nReed, William L., private, December 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20 to December 11, 1864; discharged March 24, 1865, to date Decem-\\nber 17, 1864.\\nRankin, David, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nReed, Thomas, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nRandolph, James, private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Wash-\\nington, D. C, date unknown.\\nReed, Thomas B., private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Wash-\\nington, D. C, May 31, 1862 buried in Military Asylum Cemetery.\\nRuff, Jacob, private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 29, 1864;\\ngrave 7202.\\nRamsey, James, private, August 28, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., June 9, 1864.\\nSaliards, Andrew J., private, December 7, 1861, three years; absent, sick^\\nat muster out.\\nSlagle, Lemuel C, private, December 7, 1861, three years wounded in\\naction January 27, 1864; transferred to Company A, Eighteenth Regiment\\nVeteran Reserve Corps discharged on surgeon s certificate March 27, 1865,\\nveteran.\\nSloan, Theodore G., private, December 7, 1861, three years prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to March 24, 1865; discharged by general order June 7, 1865,\\nveteran.\\nSnyder, George, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nSweeny, Patrick, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nSanford, Wm. W., private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at New-\\nbern, N. C, December 28, of wounds received at Kingston December 14,\\n1862.\\nSloan, Houston J., private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at White\\nHouse, Va., date unknown.\\nSpringer, John, private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 28, 1864,\\ngrave 7 141.\\nSaxton, James W., private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Phila-\\ndelphia, Pa., date unknown.\\nSampson, Joseph, private, December 7, 1861, three years died at Roanoke\\nIsland, N. C, September 6, 1863; buried in National Cemetery, Newbern,\\nplot 7, grave 89.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0278.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "Company H, 103D Regiment. 257\\nSmith, William B., private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Fortress\\nMonroe, Va., date unknown.\\nThompson, Milton, private, December 7, 1861, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to April 21, 1865 discharged by general order June 2, 1865\\nveteran.\\nTaylor, Robert, private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Washing-\\nton, D. C, date unknown.\\nThompson, Reese, private, December 7, 1 861, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., July 7, 1864;\\ngrave 3003 veteran.\\nVaughn, Joshua, private, December 7, 1861, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nWatterson, William B., private, December 7, 1861, three years; prisoner\\nfrom April 20, 1864, to April 21, 1865 discharged by general order June 2,\\n1865 veteran.\\nWenner, Michael, private, August 25, 1862, three years; killed at King-\\nston, N. C, December 14, 1862.\\nYockey, John, private, December 7, 1861, three years; died at Annapolis,\\nMd., January 9, 1865 veteran.\\nYoung, Loy B., private, December 7, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany G January i, 1862.\\nZirl, Sebastian, private, December 7, 1861, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 25, 1864;\\ngrave 6818.\\nCHAPTER XXVI.\\nCOMPANY H, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD REGIMENT P. V.\\nRecruiting To the Field Services Roll.\\nTHIS company was recruited principally in the western part of Clarion\\ncounty, by Captain James F. Mackey. It was mustered into the United\\nStates service at Kittanning February 22, 1862. Captain Mackey rose to be\\nmajor, but was never mustered, and First Lieutenant George W. King was com-\\nmissioned captain, but not mustered. Bearing an active and honorable part in\\nthe various engagements in which the regiment participated, Company H suf-\\nfered various losses.\\nNot being able to present a completely correct roll of the company, it is\\ncopied just as Bates gives it.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0279.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "258 History of Clarion County.\\nAt the time of its capture at Plymouth the company mustered about fifty\\nmen, of whom twelve or fourteen died in prison, or immediately after being\\nreleased. The company was mustered out June 25, 1865.\\nRoll of Company H, One Hundred and Third Regiment P. V.^\\nJames F. Mackey, captain, February 22, 1862, three years commissioned\\nmajor November i, 1863, not mustered; captured at Plymouth, N. C, April\\n20, 1864; discharged May 12, 1865 expiration of term.\\nGeorge W. Kelly, first lieutenant, February 22, 1862, three years com-\\nmissioned captain November i, 1863, not mustered discharged February 21,\\n1865 expiration of term.\\nJ. M. Alexander, second lieutenant, February 22, 1862, three years re-\\nsigned February 13, 1863.\\nStephen D. Burns, second lieutenalnt, Febrary 22, 1862, three years; pro-\\nmoted to first sergeant August i, 1862 to second lieutenant May i, 1863\\ncaptured at Plymouth N. C, April 20, 1864; mustered out with company,\\nJune 25, 1865.\\nSebastian Cook, first sergeant, February 22, 1862, three years; promoted\\nto sergeant August i, 1862; to first sergeant May i, 1863; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865\\nveteran.\\nSamuel Rupert, sergeant, February 22, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal September, 1862 to sergeant. May i, 1863 captured at Plymouth,\\nN. C, April 20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865; veteran.\\nJacob Rupert, sergeant, February 22, 1862, three years promoted to cor-\\nporal February, 1862 to sergeant May i, 1865 captured at Plymonth, N.\\nC, April 20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865 veteran.\\nJohn Walters, sergeant, March 23, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; discharged by general order June 8, 1865;\\nveteran.\\nWilliam Johnson, sergeant, February 22, 1862, three years killed at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nSamuel P. Gilger, sergeant, February 22, 1862, three years; died at Da-\\nvid s Island, N. Y., October 12, 1862; buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, L. I.\\nEdwin Terwilliger, sergeant, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., July 5, 1864,\\ngrave 2899.\\nThomas B. Potter, sergeant, February 22, 1862, three years died at White\\nOak Swamp, Va., June 23, 1862 buried in National Cemetery, Seven Pines,\\nsec. D, lot II.\\nSamuel D. Rumbine (or Grumbine), sergeant, February 22, 1862, three\\nyears discharged, date unknown.\\n1 Copied from Bates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0280.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "Company H, 103D Regiment. 259\\nAndrew J. Maze, corporal, February 22, 1862, three years died at Ander-\\nsonville, September 5, 1864; grave 7925.\\nWilliam A. Jameson, corporal, February 22, 1862, three years; captured\\nat Plymouth, N. C, April 20 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 2,\\n1864; grave 4590 veteran.\\nGeorge Shafer, corporal, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C., April 20, 1864 absent with leave at muster out; veteran.\\nRobert R. Reardon, corporal, February 22, 1862, three years; prisoner\\nfrom April 20, 1864, to February 24, 1865 discharged by general order June\\n16, 1865 veteran.\\nWilliam E. Gray, corporal, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; discharged March 3, 1865, to date January\\n22, 1865.\\nAlexander Piatt, corporal, February 22, 1862, three years; died at White\\nOak Swamp, Va., date unknown.\\nJohn Wion, corporal, March 23, 1862, three years; captured at Plymouth,\\nN. C, April 20, 1864; died at Annapolis, Md., December 29, 1864.\\nSamuel McCoy, corporal, March 23, 1862, three years; prisoner from April\\n20, 1864, to February 24, 1865 discharged by general order June 5, 1865\\nveteran.\\nIsaac Terwilleger, corporal, March 23, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps October 29, 1863; discharged March 23, 1865 expi-\\nration of term.\\nJohn J. Ashbaugh, musician, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; absent, on furlough at muster out; veteran.\\nDaniel Grim, musician, February 22, 1862, three years; died at Alexan-\\ndria, Va., date unknown.\\nEden H. Graham, musician, February 22, 1862, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to March 2, 1865 discharged by general order June 5, 1865\\nveteran.\\nBoyd, Jackson, private, February 22, 1862, three years; killed at Kingston,\\nN. C, December 14, 1862.\\nBurkholder, S. C, private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; discharged on surgeon s certificate May 13,\\n1865.\\nCochermire, Peter, private, February 22, 1862, three years died at Wash-\\nington, D. C, date unknown.\\nCarll, John L., private, February 22, 1862, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nChase, George A., private, December 10, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany G, Ninety-ninth Regiment P. V., date unknown.\\nClauser, William, private, February 22, 1862, three years; not accounted\\nfor.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0281.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "26o History of Clarion County.\\nDavis, Thomas, private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865;\\nveteran.\\nDunn, Richard, private, February 22, 1862, three years; deserted, date\\nunknown.\\nDeitty, Alexander A., private, February 22, 1862, three years transferred\\nto Veteran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nEshleman, Adam, private, February 22, 1862, three years; deserted Feb-\\nruary 22, 1862.\\nFaust, Philip, private, February 22, 1862, three years; discharged February\\n28, to date February 22, 1865 expiration of term.\\nFulton, Thomas D., private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., June 17, 1864;\\nveteran.\\nFurree, Ephraim, private, February 22, 1862, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nGirts, David W., private, March 23, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864.\\nGirts, Hermin, private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., July 7, 1864; grave\\n2996.\\nGroce, Joseph C. K., private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Annapolis, Md., December 8, 1864;\\nveteran.\\nGlasser, Joseph, private, February 22, 1862, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nGlasser, William, private, February 22, 1862, three years discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nGinkle, William, private, February 22, 1862, three years discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nGreen wait, David, private, February 22, 1862, three years; discharged,\\ndate unknown.\\nGroce, Henry, private, February 22, 1862, three years transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nHaney, John, private, February 22, 1862, three years; died, date un-\\nknown.\\nHenderson, Daniel, private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Annapolis, Md., January 14, 1865\\nveteran.\\nHull, George, private, February 22, 1862, three years; died at Annapolis,\\nMd., date unknown.\\nHallman, William, private, February 22, 1862, three years discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate May 13, 1864; veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0282.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "Company H, 103D Regiment. 261\\nHenry, John, private, February 22, 1862, three years; deserted February\\n22, 1862.\\nIrwin, Hiram, private, February 22, 1862, three years prisoner from April\\n20, 1864, to February 23, 1865 discharged by general order June 19, 1865.\\nIrwin, Benjamin, private, February 22, 1862, three years; died at Beaufort,\\nN. C, date unknown.\\nIrwin, Hezekiah, private, February 22, 1862, three years; died of wounds\\nreceived at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nIrwin, Perry, private, March 23, 1862, three years; deserted September\\n17,1863.\\nJohnson, Joseph, private, April 17, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 25, 1865.\\nJackson, Andrew, private, February 22, 1862, three years; discharged date\\nunknown.\\nJudy, Francis, private, February 22, 1862, three years; missing in action\\nat Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nKing, WilHam, private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865\\nveteran.\\nKiskaden, Horace, private, February 22, 1862, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864 to February 28, 1865 discharged April 28, to date March 5,\\n1865.\\nKleck, WilHam, private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864 absent on furlough at muster out veteran.\\nKlingler, Peter, private, March 23, 1861, three years; prisoner from April\\n20, 1864 to March 2, 1865; discharged by general order June 20, 1865;\\nveteran.\\nKizer, Harrison, private, February 22, 1862, three years, died at Camp\\nCasey, Va., date unknown.\\nKHne, James, private, February 22, 1862, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nKendy, Henry, private, February 22, 1862, three years; transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nji^ Lower, John, private, February 22, 1862, three years prisoner from April\\n20 to December 10, 1864; discharged by general order June 6, 1865 veteran.\\nLoll, John, private, February 22, 1862, three years; died at Washington,\\nD. C, July 10, 1862 buried in Military Asylum Cemetery.\\nLandis, Joseph R., private, February, 1862, three years transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nLawrence, Ethelbert, private, February 22, 1862, three years; transferred\\nto Fourth Regiment U. S. Artillery, date unknown.\\nMartin, James, private, February 22, 1862, three years; deserted February\\n22, 1862. 24", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0283.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "262 History of Clarion County.\\nMartin, John, private, February 22, 1862, three years; deserted February\\n22, 1862.\\nMull, Samuel, private, February 22, 1862, three years deserted February\\n22, 1862.\\nMaze, John H., private, February 22, 1862, three years transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps September 16, 1863; discharged February 23, 1865 ex-\\npiration of term.\\nMannon, John, private, February 22, 1862, three years; not on muster out\\nroll.\\nMcPherson, Theo re, private, April 30, 1862, three years captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; mustered out with company June 25, 1865\\nveteran.\\nMcElhatten, John, private, February 22, 1862, three years; discharged,\\n(date unknown.\\nNidderriter, Sebas n, private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864 absent on furlough at muster out; veteran.\\nPlilor, Eli, private, February 22, 1862, three years transferred, date and\\nregiment unknown.\\nRodgers, Samuel F., private, February 22, 1862, three years; prisoner\\nfrom April 20, 1864, to March i, 1865 discharged April 12, to date March 17,\\n1865.\\nRedick, John A., private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nReed Robert, private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864 died at Andersonville, Ga., September 24, 1864,\\ngrave 9656 veteran.\\nReed, Hiram, private, February 22, 1862, three years; killed at Kingston,\\nN. C, December 14, 1862.\\nReed, Alexander, private, February 22, 1862, three years; died at Beau-\\nfort, N. C, date unknown.\\nRaffarty, James, private, February 22, 1862, three years; deserted Febru-\\nary 22, 1862.\\nSlocum, Emory, private, February 22, 1862, three years; prisoner from\\nApril 20, 1864, to February 27, 1865 discharged May 9, to date March 5,\\n1865.\\nStroup, William L., private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nSheets, William W., private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864 died at Florence, S. C, November 23, 1864;\\nveteran.\\nSwatsfager, George, private, February 22, 1862, three years discharged,\\ndate unknown.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0284.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "Company H, 103D Regiment. 263\\nShill, Joseph, private, February 22, 1862, three years; discharged Febru-\\nary 21, 1865 expiration of term.\\nSmith, John, private, February 22, 1862, three years transferred, date and\\nregiment unknown.\\nThompson, James, private, December 9, 1863, three years; never joined\\ncompany.\\nThomas, David, private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864.\\nTravis, James L., private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at Ply-\\nmouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; veteran.\\nThompson, James, private, February 22, 1862, three years; died at Wash-\\nington, D. C, date unknown.\\nTurney, Adam, private, February 22, 1862, three years; died at Philadel-\\nphia, July 18, of wounds received at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nWidel, Eugene E., private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864 mustered out with company June 25, 1865\\nveteran.\\nWilson, Samuel P., private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; mustered out by general order March 3, to\\ndate January 22, 1865.\\nWarner, Lester R., private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out; veteran.\\nWetzel, George H., private, February 22, 1862, three years; killed at\\nKingston, N. C, December 14, 1862.\\nWalters, George W., private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Charleston, S. C, October 24, 1864.\\nWardenorth, Samuel, private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Annapolis, Md., April 14, 1865.\\nWillman, Frank, private, February 22,fi862, three years; discharged, date\\nunknown.\\nWaterson, Peter D., private, February 22, 1862, three years transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nWilliams, Jacob, private, February 22, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nFourth Regiment U. S. Artillery, date unknown.\\nYoung, Horace, private, February 22, 1862, three years; died at White\\nHouse, Va., date unknown.\\nZimmerman, Daniel, private, February 22, 1862, three years; captured at\\nPlymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864; died at Florence, S. C, October 7, 1864;\\nveteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0285.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "264 History of Clarion County.\\nCHAPTER XXVn.\\nCOMPANY C, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH REGIMENT P. V.\\nRecruiting To the Front Services Severe Losses Distinguished Names Roll.\\nCAPTAIN Calvin A. Craig recruited a company at Greenville, Clarion\\ncounty, Pa., in July and August, 1861. The company enrolled, during its\\nterm of service, two hundred and nineteen men, principally of Clarion county.\\nA few of the men were from Clearfield county. Several others were from the\\nvicinity of Oil City.\\nThe regiment was organized at Pittsburgh September 9, 186 1, and im-\\nmediately proceeded to Washington City, and encamped at Kalorama Heights,\\nwhere the troops were provided with blankets, tents, etc. Here the regiment\\nreceived its full complement of companies, and, by order of General McClellan,\\nit crossed the Potomac and encamped on the farm of one Hon. George Mason,\\ntheir camp being named Camp Jameson, in honor of their brigade commander,\\nGeneral Charles D. Jameson. At Camp Jameson the regiment went into winter\\nquarters, being supplied with Sibley tents and sheet iron stoves. Here it was\\ndrilled constantly.\\nOn the 1 8th of December, 1861, the regiment was hastily marched to\\nPohick Church, expecting to engage the enemy, who had raised his flag over\\nthe church. When the Union troops reached the church they found that the\\nenemy had retired across Ocquoquon Creek, and the church was left alone with\\nits memories of the Washingtons, the Lees, and the Fairfaxes, who had erected\\nit, and who had worshiped there. The soldiers who made that march, and\\nthose who watched there on picket, will remember that spot with feelings of\\nveneration.\\nOn the 1 8th of February, 1862, the regiment was ordered out on picket.\\nPrior to this date, on the 5th of January, 1862, the regiment received, by the\\nhand of Colonel J. K. Moorhead, on behalf of the State, a beautiful stand of\\ncolors, which was accepted by Colonel McKnight, on behalf of the regiment.\\nThe troops moved on the 17th of March, 1862, and proceeded by steamer\\nto Fortress Monroe. Here the regiment entered upon its first field duty. The\\nregiment lay before Yorktown until it was evacuated. It advanced on the\\nafternoon of May 4, and encamped on the other side of Yorktown. The reg-\\niment took part in the battle near Williamsburg.\\nThe One Hundred and Fifth was the first to move on the 6th. Company\\nC and two other companies were deployed as skirmishers to enter Williams-\\nburg. Company C occupied the center of the advance. General Jameson and\\nColonel McKnight accompanied these three companies. Company C was the", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0286.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "^r^6^lI^S^", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0289.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0290.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "Company C, 105TH Regiment. 265\\nfirst to enter the town, and the regimental flag was hoisted over the court-\\nhouse by Sergeant WiUiam McNutt. Sergeant Joseph Craig, of Company C,\\ncaptured a rebel cavalryman himself, taking man, horse, carbine, and revolver.\\nOther prisoners were taken.\\nThe company was constantly on the move now, and on the 31st of May,\\nwhen the regiment went into the battle of Fair Oaks, it was on fatigue duty\\nwith Company I.\\nComing up to the scene of battle as soon as possible, they were formed by\\norder of General Heintzelman on the right of the Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania.\\nIn the severe fighting that followed, Company C had four men wounded. The\\ncompany joined the survivors of the other companies during the night. The\\nregiment won its first laurels at a fearful price at Fair Oaks, having lost\\ntwo officers and forty-one men killed, one hundred and seventeen wounded,\\nand seventeen missing. It was engaged on the 25th of June, losing two\\nmen killed and six wounded. On the 30th of June it was engaged at\\nCharles City Cross Roads, with a loss of fifty-six killed and wounded. That\\nnight it retired to Malvern Hill and was hotly engaged there July i, 1862. The\\nregiment went in with two hundred men, and lost one hundred and three in\\nkilled, wounded, and missing. This severe loss was caused by the regiment\\nbeing under a constant fire of musketry and artillery for four hours, with no\\nprotection but a rail fence.\\nColonel McKnight resigned July 25, and in the absence of Lieutenant-\\nColonel Corbet, Captain Craig, of Company C, assumed command of the reg-\\niment. From Harrison s Landing the regiment went to Alexandria, arriving\\nthere August 22.\\nOn the night of the 28th of August the little force under Captain Craig\\nwas attacked by a superior force of confederates under General Gordon, and\\nafter a brave struggle Captain Craig and about one-half his men were captured,\\nthe others escaped in the darkness. Captain Craig was found in the hospital\\nat Manassas the following _ Friday. The captured men were returned to our\\nlines the next day, August 29. The One Hundred and Fifth at the Second\\nBull Run was commanded by Captain Craig, who was wounded in the ankle.\\nColonel McKnight returned to the regiment on the 20th of September and\\nwas recommissioned Colonel.\\nOn the 13th of December the regiment crossed the river at Fredericksburg\\nand remained under fire forty-two hours, losing two officers and eleven men.\\nAt Chancellorsville, May 3, the regiment played an honorable part. In\\nthat terrible battle Colonel McKnight was shot through the head and killed.\\nColonel Craig then took command. The regiment went into the Chancellors-\\nville fight with twenty-seven officers and three hundred and twenty men. It\\ncame out with sixteen officers and two hundred and twenty men. Lieutenant-\\nColonel Craig was commissioned Colonel on the 21st of May. On the 27th", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0291.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "266 History op^ Clarion County.\\nof May General Sickles presented the Kearney Badge of Honor to those of\\nthe regiment who by bravery and good conduct had merited it. The mem-\\nbers of Company C who received the Cross of Honor were Corporal An-\\ndrew A. Harley, and privates Charles C. Weaver, and Samuel H. Mays.\\nIn the battle of Gettysburg the regiment lost one officer and fourteen killed,\\nthirteen officers and one hundred and eleven men wounded, and nine missing,\\na total of one hundred and sixty-eight out of two hundred and forty-seven\\nwho went in. Colonel Craig was here again wounded.\\nThe regiment was engaged at Auburn, at Kelly s Ford, at Locust Grove,\\nat Mine Run, and in the Wilderness campaign, in which Colonel Craig was\\nagain seriously wounded and was only saved from death by his devoted men\\nholding the artery so that it could not bleed. At Spottsylvania Sergeant Har-\\nley of Company C, color bearer, was wounded and the colors passed to Com-\\npany F.\\nOn the 1 6th of August, at Deep Bottom, Colonel Craig was mortally\\nwounded and died on the 17th.\\nAt the battle of Boydton Plank Road Captain Patton, of Company C, was\\nkilled while fighting against superior numbers. Lieutenant Joseph B. Brown\\nthen took command of Company C and was mustered out with the company\\nJuly II, 1865. The company participated in the campaign which terminated\\nat Appomattox.\\nThe regiment of which this company was a part the One Hundred and\\nFifth Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers is one of which Pennsylvania is justly\\nproud. Space would not permit as full an account of their trials and triumphs\\nas they deserve.\\nRoll of Company C, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment P. V.^\\nCalvin A. Craig, captain, August 28, 1861, three years; wounded at Bull\\nRun, Va., August 29, 1862; promoted to lieutenant-colonel April 20, 1863.\\nCharles E. Patton, captain, August 28, 1861, three years; promoted from\\nfirst lieutenant April 20, 1863; killed at Boydton Plank Road, Va., October\\n27, 1864.\\nJoseph B. Brown, captain, October 21, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal December i, 1861 to sergeant January i, 1862; to first sergeant\\nOctober 3, 1863 to first lieutenant March i, 1864; to captain November 7,\\n1864; mustered out with company July ii, 1865.\\nJoseph Craig, first lieutenant, September 15, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom first sergeant to first lieutenant July 29, 1862; to adjutant March 28,\\n1863.\\nWilliam H. Hewitt, first lieutenant, August 31, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted to first lieutenant May 14, 1863 discharged by general order May 19,\\n1865.\\n1 Copied from Bates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0292.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "Company C, 105TH Regiment. 267\\nRichard G. Warden, first lieutenant, August 26, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted from sergeant to first sergeant November i, 1864; to first lieutenant\\nJune 8, 1865 mustered out with company July 11, 1865 veteran.\\nIsaac A. Dunston, second lieutenant, October 25, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted from first sergeant July 29, 1862 to second lieutenant May i, 1863\\ndied August 2d of wounds received at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863.\\nHenry H. Micheals, second lieutenant, October 25, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted to corporal April i, 1864; to sergeant November i, 1864; to second\\nlieutenant June 8, 1865 mustered out with company July ii, 1865 veteran.\\nJohn R. Osborn, first sergeant, January 4, 1864, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal January i, 1865 to first sergeant June 8, 1865 mustered out with\\ncompany July li, 1865; veteran.\\nAddison Law, first sergeant, September 12, 1861, three years; died June\\n17th of wounds received at North Anna River, Va., May 23, 1864; veteran.\\nGeorge Laing, first sergeant, December 24, 1863, three years; promoted\\nfrom sergeant September 15, 1864; commissioned second lieutenant October\\n22, 1864; not mustered; discharged by general order May 17, 1865 veteran.\\nDavid H. McCauley, first sergeant, December 24, 1863, three years; pro-\\nmoted from sergeant March i, 1864; discharged February 22, 1865; veteran.\\nCharles C. Weaver, sergeant, October 25, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal April i, 1864; to sergeant August 28, 1864; mustered out with\\ncompany July li, 1865 veteran.\\nSamuel H. Mays, sergeant, October 25, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal August 28, 1864; to sergeant May 17, 1865; mustered out with\\ncompany July ii, 1865 veteran.\\nJames E. Lafferty, sergeant, October 25, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal August 28, 1864; to sergeant May 29, 1865; mustered out with\\ncompany July ii, 1865; veteran.\\nCharles Rodgers, sergeant, September 9, 1863, three years; drafted; pro-\\nmoted to corporal January i, 1865 to sergeant June 8, 1865 mustered out\\nwith company July 11, 1865.\\nSamuel Lattimore, sergeant, December 24, 1863, three years; wounded at\\nPetersburg, Va., June 21, 1864; discharged February 22, 1865; veteran.\\nHorace H. Ferman, sergeant, December 24, 1863, three years; promoted\\nfrom corporal June i, 1864; discharged February, 22, 1865 veteran.\\nJohn H. Peirsall, sergeant, December 24, 1863, three years; promoted\\nfrom private June i, 1864; discharged February 22, 1865 veteran.\\nWilliam D. Lytle, sergeant, December 24, 1863, three years; promoted\\nfrom private January 24, 1864; discharged February 22, 1865 5 veteran.\\nStewart Orr, sergeant, October 25, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal April I, 1864; to sergeant August 28, 1864; discharged by general\\norder May 29, 1865 veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0293.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "268 History of Clarion County.\\nWilliam McNutt, sergeant, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate February 4, 1863.\\nJohn Clary, sergeant, August 28, 186 1, three years; promoted from cor-\\nporal April I, 1863 discharged August 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nAndrew A. Harley, sergeant, August 28, 1861, three years promoted to\\ncorporal April i, 1863; to sergeant May i, 1863; discharged August 28,\\n1864 expiration of term.\\nJames H. Craig, sergeant, October 24, 1861, three years; promoted to\\nprincipal musician August 28, 1864; veteran.\\nWilliam P. Lowry, sergeant, October 24, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps December i, 1864; veteran.\\nIsaac G. Miller, corporal, October 21, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal June, 1864; mustered out with company July ii, 1865 veteran.\\nJohn Ashbaugh, corporal, July 17, 1863, three years; drafted; promoted\\nto corporal January i, 1865 mustered out with company July 11, 1865.\\nEli H. Chilson, corporal, October 21, 1861, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal June I, 1864; mustered out with company July ii, 1865 veteran.\\nIsaac Lyle, corporal, October 16, 1861, three years promoted to corporal\\nMay 29, 1865 mustered out with company July ii, 1865 veteran.\\nAaron Young, corporal, February 12, 1864, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal June 8, 1865 mustered out with company July 1 1, 1865.\\nTames W. Watkins, corporal, February 18, 1864, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal June 8, 1865 mustered out with company July ii, 1865.\\nJohn Hager, corporal, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; promoted to\\ncorporal June 8, 1865 mustered out with company July ii, 1865.\\nJames B. Allison, corporal, October 24, 1861, three years; died at White\\nOak Swamp, Va., June 28, 1862.\\nRichard M. Rockey, corporal, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate June 16, 1862.\\nSamuel James, corporal, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate August 7, 1862.\\nEdward Keefer, corporal, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate September 26, 1862.\\nJames W. Spears, corporal, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate September i, 1862.\\nAndrew G. Eager, corporal, October 24, 1861, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal August 28, 1864; discharged by general order June 6, 1865; veteran,\\nGeorge Warden, corporal, January 4, 1864, three years transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps December 28, 1864; veteran.\\nWilliam Nipple, corporal, August 28, 1861, three years; not on muster-\\nout roll.\\nAndrew Stedham, musician, December 25, 1863, three years; mustered\\nout with company July 1 1, 1865 veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0294.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "Company C, 105TH Regiment. 269\\nCharles F. Cross, musician, December 25, 1863, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July ii, 1865 veteran.\\nAllen, Robert, private, April 22, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July ii, 1865.\\nArmagost, T. T., private, October 24, 1861, three years; died at Savage\\nStation, Va., July i, 1862.\\nArdery, James A., private, October 24, 1861, three years; deserted De-\\ncember 15, 1862.\\nAllshouse, William, private, August 28, 1861, three years; discharged\\nAugust 27, 1864 expiration of term.\\nAllison, David, private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate August 13, 1862.\\nAllshouse, Levi, private, July 17, 1863, three years; drafted; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate May 24, 1865.\\nAlexander, Robert E., private, February 29, 1864, three years; absent,\\nsick, at muster out.\\nBookwalter, T. M., private, February 15, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July 11, 1865.\\nBrown, George A., private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; mustered\\nout with company July ii, 1865.\\nBush, Levi, private, September 7, 1863, three years; drafted; mustered out\\nwith company July ii, 1865.\\nBiggins, James, private, March 31, 1864, three years; wounded in action\\nJune 16, 1864; absent at muster out.\\nBennett, George W., private, December 31, 1861, three years; died at\\nChester, Pa., August 5, of wounds received at Charles City Cross Roads, Va.,\\nJune 30, 1862.\\nBurton, John, private, July 30, 1864, three years; drafted; missing in\\naction near Hatcher s Run, Va,, March 29, 1865.\\nBookwalter, Wm. H., private, April 8, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate December 20, 1862.\\nBookwalter, Frs. O., private, April 8, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate January 6, 1863.\\nBunnell, William, private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate March 28, 1863.\\nBrooks, Charles L., private, September 9, 1863, three years; drafted dis-\\ncharged January 21, 1865, for wounds received in action September 4, 1864.\\nBowser, Hezekiah, private, February 11, 1864, three years; discharged\\nby general order June 5, 1865.\\nBannister, Benn, private, September 5, 1 861, three years; deserted, re-\\nturned discharged by general order May 17, 1865.\\nCrick, WiUiam J., private, October 25, 1861, three years; deserted, re-\\nturned; mustered out with company July li, 1865. 25", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0295.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "270 History of Clarion County.\\nCrandall, Simon, private, March 29, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July ii, 1865.\\nCochran, E. P., private, February 22, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\nwith company July il, 1865.\\nCarnery, Craig, private, July 13, 1863, three years; drafted mustered out\\nwith company July ii, 1865.\\nChurch, John C, private, July il, 1863, three years; drafted; mustered\\nout with company July li, 1865.\\nCoursin, Benj. F., private, July 18, 1863, three years; drafted; discharged\\nby general order July 27, 1865.\\nCyphert, A. J., private, April 12, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate November 25, 1862.\\nCraig, Jesse R., private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate January 29, 1863.\\ndinger, George, private, April 8, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate March 28, 1863.\\nCyphert, David K., private, April 8, 1862, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate August 17, 1863.\\nCyphert, George G., October 24, 1861, three years; discharged May 27,\\n1864, for wounds received at Chancellorsville, Va., May 2, 1863.\\nCyphert, James K., private, April 12, 1862, three years; discharged April\\n18, 1865 expiration of term.\\nCamp, George, private, July lO, 1864, three years; drafted; discharged by\\ngeneral order June 13, 1865.\\nDe Vallance, M. G., private, April 9, 1864, three years; wounded in action\\nJune 16, 1864; mustered out with company July il, 1865.\\nDugan, George, private, October 25, 1861, three years mustered out with\\ncompany July ii, 1865; veteran.\\nDivinne, John, private, July 14, 1864, three years; drafted; mustered out\\nwith company July ii, 1865.\\nDavis, George W., private, October 24, 1861, three years; died at Camp\\nFranklin, Va., December 5, 1861.\\nDay, James,Tprivate, September 8, 1863, three years; drafted; deserted\\nMay 3, 1864.\\nDivine, John, private, April 14, 1864, three years; discharged by general\\norder May 29, 1865.\\nDugan, David, private, August 28, 1861, three years; discharged May I,.\\n1865, for wounds received at Deep Bottom, Va., August 16, 1864; veteran.\\nDevanny, James, private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; transferred\\nto company D, February 26, 1864.\\nDougan, Andrew, private, February 29, 1864, three years; not on muster-\\nout roll.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0296.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "Company C, 105TH Regiment. 271\\nEaston, William O., private, March i, 1864; mustered out with company\\nJuly II, 1865.\\nEicher, Andrew, private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; transferred\\nto company D February 26, 1864.\\nFloyd, Edward, private, April 13, 1864, three years wounded at Opequan,\\nVa., September 19, 1864; mustered out with company July ii, 1865.\\nFelt, Alanson R., private, April 9, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July ii, 1865 veteran.\\nFunkhouser, George D., private, January 4, 1864, three years mustered\\nout with company July ii, 1865; veteran.\\nFetter, William H., private, February 27, 1864, three years mustered out\\nwith company July ii, 1865.\\nFry, Jacob, private, October 24, 186 1, three years; killed at Gettysburg,\\nPa., July 3, 1863 buried in National Cemetery, sec. C, grave 90.\\nFry, John M., private, October 24, 1861, three years died at Alexandria,\\nVa., December 18, 1861 burial record, died at Alexandria, Va., December ii,\\n1863 grave 1 164.\\nFleck, David, private, October 24, 1861, three years died at Camp Jame-\\nson, Va., January 18, 1862; burial record, Alexander, Va., December 9, 1863;\\ngrave 1139.\\nFox, Perry C, private, April 9, 1861, three years; missing in action near\\nPetersburg, Va., June 22, 1864.\\nGirt, David, private, February 4, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 1 1, 1865 veteran.\\nGeorge, William, private, July 18, 1863, three years; drafted; mustered\\nout with company July ii, 1865.\\nGeorge, Archibald, private, October 25, 1861, three years; absent on fur-\\nlough at muster out veteran.\\nGooderham, E. A., private, October 24, 1861, three years; killed at Mal-\\nvern Hill, Va., July i, 1862.\\nGoodman, John, private, October 24, 1861, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate February II, 1863.\\nGould, John, private, June 17, 1864, three years; drafted; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate May 18, 1865.\\nGordon, Albert, private, July 28, 1864, three years; discharged by general\\norder May 22, 1865.\\nHolland, Richard, private, July 29, 1864, three years; substitute; mus-\\ntered out with company July 11, 1865.\\nHileman, Lee, private, September 16, 1863, three years; drafted; mus-\\ntered out with company July ii, 1865.\\nHarrison, Samuel, sr., private, July 10, 1863, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July ii, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0297.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "272 History of Clarion County.\\nHaden, Miles, private, February 24, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July ii, 1865.\\nHetrick, Lebanah H., private, July 18, 1863, three years; drafted; mus-\\ntered out with company July ii, 1865.\\nHarley, James A., private, October 25, 1861, three years; deserted; re-\\nturned; mustered out with company July 11, 1865.\\nHammond, Charles, private, June 10, 1864, three years; substitute; absent,\\nsick, at muster out.\\nHilbert, George, private, October 25, 1861, three years; wounded at Wil-\\nderness, Va., May 5, 1864; absent at muster out; veteran.\\nHamma, Henry, private, January 4, 1864, three years wounded at Boyd-\\nton Plank Road, Va., October 27, 1864 absent at muster out veteran.\\nHarrison, Edward, private, October 24, 1861, three years; died at Phila-\\ndelphia, Pa., December 12, 1862.\\nHarley, Joseph L., private, August 28, 1861, three years; discharged Au-\\ngust 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nHoUopiter, J. W. T., private, August 28, 1861, three years; discharged\\nAugust 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nHetrick, David, private, April 8, 1862, three years; discharged April 8,\\n1864 expiration of term.\\nHager, Ami, private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; discharged by\\ngeneral order May 28, 1865.\\nHamma, William, private, October 9, 1861, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D February 26, 1864; veteran.\\nHunter, Robert, private, August i, 1861, three years transferred to Com-\\npany D February 26, 1864; veteran.\\nIsaman, John, private, July 18, 1863, three years; drafted; mustered out\\nwith company July 11, 1865.\\nIngham, John, private. May 10, 1864, three years; wounded at Wilderness,\\nVa., May 5, 1864 absent at muster out.\\nJohnson, John C, private, April 9, 1864, three years; wounded at Wilder-\\nness, Va., May 6, 1864; absent at muster out.\\nKearnighan, Jesse, private. May 29, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July ii, 1865.\\nKiddie, David, private, July ii, 1863, three years; drafted; mustered out\\nwith company July 11, 1865.\\nKeifer, Samuel, private, October 25, 1861, three years; absent on furlough\\nat muster out veteran.\\nKirkpatrick, M. S., private, April 8, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate February 11, 1863.\\nLong, Patrick, private, March 9, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 11, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0298.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "Company C, 105TH Regiment. 275\\nLinas, Thomas B., private, March 16, 1864, three years missing in action\\nat Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864.\\nMott, John, private, October 16, 1861, three years mustered out with com-\\npany July II, 1865; veteran.\\nMoore, Robert, private, March 24, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July ii, 1865.\\nMattis, William, private, March 20, 1865, one year; substitute; mustered\\nout with company July 1 1, 1865.\\nMays, John, private, October 24, 1861, three years; died September 8 of\\nwounds received at Bull Run, Va., August 29, 1862.\\nMichael, David, private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate August 10, 1862.\\nMills, John, private, February 26, 1864, three years; discharged by general\\norder May 29, 1865.\\nMiles, Obediah, private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate January 19, 1862.\\nMitchell, Thomas M., private, August 28, 1861, three years; discharged\\nAugust 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nMitchell, David, private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate April 11, 1863.\\nMarquis, Edwin, private, July 24, 1863, three years; drafted; transferred\\nto Company D February 26, 1864.\\nMorrison, Allen, private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate January 11, 1863.\\nMaloy, James, private, October 24, 1861, three years discharged October\\n24 for wounds received at Charles City Cross Roads, Va., June 30, 1862.\\nMcCormick, John W., private, October 24, 1861, three years; killed at\\nSpottsylvania, C. H., Va., May 12, 1864.\\nMcCormick, Henry, private, October 24, 186 1, three years; died of wounds\\nreceived at Bull Run, Va., August 29, 1862.\\nMcGlaughlin, George, private, October 24, 1861, three years died July\\nII of wounds received at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862.\\nMcGlaughlin, Abraham, private, October 24, 1861, three years; died at\\nPhiladelphia, Pa., June 25, 1862 burial record, September 28, 1862.\\nMcFadden, Robert, private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate October 4, 1862.\\nMcKown, David, private, July 17, 1863, three years; drafted; discharged\\nby general order May 29, 1865.\\nMcCoy, Ross, private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate November 8, 1862.\\nMcKown, Hillis, private, October 24, 186 1, three years; promoted to ser-\\ngeant-major February 10, 1863.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0299.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "2/4 History of Clarion County.\\nMcCullough, Isaac, private, September 9, 1861, three years; not on mus-\\nter-out roll.\\nNail, David P., private, October 24, 186 1, three years; killed at Auburn,\\nVa., October 13, 1863.\\nNulf, Adam, private, April 8, 1862, three years; discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate October 22, 1862.\\nNeugant, William J., private, September 9, 1861, three years; not on mus-\\nter-out roll.\\nOburn, Jacob S., private, July 29, 1864, three years; substitute; mustered\\nout with company July 11, 1865.\\nOgden, Joseph R., private, February 26, 1864, three years; absent, sick,\\nat muster out.\\nOwens, Robert, private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate January 20, 1865 veteran.\\nPotter, David, private, October 23, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 11, 1865 veteran.\\nPeck, George W., private, March 29, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 11, 1865.\\nPhillips, Michael, private, March 29, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 11, 1865.\\nParris, Coleman E., private, April 9, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 11, 1865.\\nPike, William, private, April 29, 1864, three years; wounded at Petersburg,\\nVa., June 15, 1864; absent at muster out.\\nPeters, Frederick, private, December 24, 1863, three years; killed at\\nHatcher s Run, Va., May 25, 1865.\\nPierce, Jonathan, private, October 24, 1861, three years; died June 23 of\\nwounds received at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; veteran.\\nPowell, Oliver N., private, October 24, 186 1, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate August 6, 1862.\\nPhillips, Jacob F., private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate February 20, 1863.\\nPalmer, John, private, September 9, 1863, three years; drafted; transferred\\nto Company D February 26, 1864.\\nPhelps, Lewis M., private, July 29, 1864, three years; substitute; dis-\\ncharged by general order May 29, 1865.\\nRumbarger, F., private. December 24, 1863, three years; deserted; re-\\nturned; mustered out with company July ii, 1865 veteran.\\nRiggles, Abraham J., private, July 27, 1863, three years; drafted; mus-\\ntered out with company July 11, 1865.\\nRiddell, Edgar E., private, September 30, 1861, three years; wounded at\\nWilderness, Va., May 6, 1864; absent at muster out; veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0300.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "Company C, 105TH Regiment. 275\\nRichards, David, private, March 10, 1864, three years; wounded at Spott-\\nsylvania C. H., Va., May 10, 1864 absent at muster out.\\nReich, George, private, April 18, 1862, three years; wounded at Mine\\nRun, Va., November 27, 1863 discharged April 10, 1865.\\nRhodes, Jeremiah, private, October 24, 1861, three years died July 16 of\\nwounds received at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863 buried in National Ceme-\\ntery, sec. A, grave 6\\nRocky, William, private, August 28, 1861, three years discharged August\\n27, 1864 expiration of term.\\nRainey, Isaac N., private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate January 24, 1863.\\nRockey, John S., private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate August 20, 1863.\\nReich. David P., private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate November 3, 1862.\\nReinsel, Joseph, private, March 23, 1864, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany D February 26, 1865.\\nScott, John, private, October 25, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July 11, 1865.\\nStitt, Emery E., private, July 17, 1863, three years; drafted; mustered\\nout with company July li, 1865.\\nSmith, William C, private, July 17, 1863, three years; drafted; mustered\\nout with company July li, 1865.\\nSaunders, Geo. W., private, September 30, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July ii, 1865 veteran.\\nShartraw, Michael, private, September 30, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company July il, 1865 veteran.\\nShannon, David R., private, February 13, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nWilderness, Va., May 6, 1864; absent at muster out.\\nShagel, David, private, July 18, 1863, three years; drafted; wounded at\\nWilderness, Va., May 6, 1864; discharged by general order July 19, 1865.\\nSibly, Ami, private, April 7, 1864, three years; wounded at Wilderness,\\nVa., May 5, 1864; absent at muster out.\\nSmith, Barnard, private, March 10, 1864, three years; wounded at Wil-\\nderness, Va., May 5, 1864; absent at muster out.\\nSmith, Philip, private, October 24, 1861, three years; killed at Wilder-\\nness, Va., May 5, 1864; veteran.\\nSayers, Templeton, private, October 24, 1861, three years; died at Camp\\nJameson, Va., November 30, 1861.\\nSoUinger, James, private, October 24, 1 861, three years; died at Harri-\\nson s Landing, Va., July 8, 1862.\\nSchofield, James E., private, October 24, 1861, three years died near Al-\\nexandria, Va., October 7, 1862.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0301.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "2^6 History of Clarion County.\\nSealor, Jacob, private, October 24, 1861, three years; died at Point Look-\\nout, Md., August 16, 1862.\\nShields, John, private, April 27, 1864, three years; missing in action near\\nPetersburg, Va., June 22, 1864.\\nStephenson, James, private, July 2, 1863, three years; drafted; deserted\\nJanuary 10, 1865.\\nSpeady, William, private, August 28, 1861, three years; discharged Au-\\ngust 27, 1864 expiration of term.\\nSarver, Daniel, private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged by gen-\\neral order May 29, 1865.\\nSnyder, F rancis, private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; discharged\\nJanuary 2, 1865, for wounds received at Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864.\\nSmith, Francis, private, April 8, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate August 7, 1862.\\nSettlemoyer, George, private, December 31, 1861, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate August 7, 1862.\\nSollinger, John, private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate December 18, 1862.\\nStephens, Palmer J., private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate January 15, 1863.\\nSpears, Jackson, private, October 24, 1 861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate May 29, 1863.\\nShreckengost, H., private, October 24, 1861, three years discharged De-\\ncember 22 for wounds received at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863.\\nStokes, George, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D February 26, 1864; veteran.\\nSmith, John, private, July II, 1863, three years; drafted; transferred to\\nCompany D February 26, 1864.\\nStedham, John, private, August i, 1861, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany D P ebruary 26, 1864.\\nSmith, Peter L., private, September 9, 1861, three years; not on muster-\\nout roll.\\nTantlinger, Thomas M., private, August 2, 1864, three years; substitute;\\ndied at Washington, D. C, April 4, 1865; burial record March 27, 1865;\\nburied in National Cemetery, Arlington Va.\\nTwining, John H., private, March 26, 1864, three years; missing in action\\nat Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864.\\nTurner, Isaac, private, June 7, 1864, three years; substitute, transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps September 25, 1864.\\nVaneps, Wm. W., private, March 11, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany July II, 1865.\\nWelch, Philip W., private, June 22, 1864, three years; substitute; mustered\\nout with company July ii, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0302.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "Company L, io8th Regiment. 277\\nWalker, Alexander, private, September 9, 1863, three years; drafted;\\nmustered out with company July ii, 1865.\\nWilliams, Samuel F., private, September 30, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company July ii, 1865.\\nWilson, William C, private, June 30, 1864, three years substitute; killed\\nat Deep Bottom, Va., August 16, 1864; burial record, died at Philadelphia,\\nPa., September 16, 1864.\\nWilson, John A, L., private, March 25, 1864, three years; died at City\\nPoint, Va., January 24, 1865.\\nWoods, James, private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate September 26, 1863.\\nWalker, Samuel, private, October 24, 1861, three years discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate April 4, 1862.\\nWestover, William, private, October 24, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate February 17, 1863.\\nWitherow, John, private, August 28, 1861, three years; discharged August\\n27, 1864 expiration of term.\\nWilson, Thomas F., private, February 29, 1864, three years transferred to\\nCompany D, February 26, 1865.\\nYoung, Abraham, private, August 28, 1861, three years; discharged Au-\\ngust 27, 1864 expiration of term.\\nCHAPTER XXVIII.\\nCOMPANY L, ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. V.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ELEVENTH\\nCAVALRY.\\nEnlistment To the Field Services Captain Loomis s Death Roll.\\nCOMPANY L was recruited at various points throughout Clarion county in\\nAugust and September, 1861, by Captain John B. Loomis. A part of the\\ncompany was mustered into service at Philadelphia, Pa., September 13, 1861,\\nby Captain Starr, of the U. S. Army. On the i6th of September, at the same\\nplace, fourteen other members were mustered in by Captain Dye, of the U. S.\\nArmy.\\nCompany L went into camp near Hestonville, West Philadelphia. They\\nbroke camp October 7, 1 861, and started to Washington, where they arrived at\\n7 o clock October 9th. They went into camp and remained there till October\\n14, when they crossed into Virginia, going into camp at Ball s Cross Roads near\\n26", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0303.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "278 History of Clarion County.\\nFairfax Court House, Va. On the i8th of November they broke camp and\\nrecrossed the Long Bridge, passed on through Washington to Annapoh s, Md,,\\nwhere they boarded the steamer George Washington, on the 22d of Novem-\\nber, and arrived at Old Point Comfort, Va., on the 25th of November, 1861.\\nThey went into camp at Camp Hamilton, Fortress Monroe, Va. The company\\nremained at Camp Hamilton, drilling and scouting on the Peninsula to York-\\ntown, till May 15, 1862, when it crossed over to Norfolk, Va., on the steamer\\nSouth America, and occupied Portsmouth, Va.\\nBefore Company L crossed to Norfolk, the vanguard of McClellan s army\\nlanded at Fortress Monroe. Company L crossed to Norfolk on the 15th of\\nMay, and on the 5th of June it went into camp at Suffolk, Va., twenty-eight\\nmiles from Norfolk, with companies A, E, G, and H, which companies had also\\nbeen stationed at Portsmouth with Company L. It remained at Suffolk till\\nJune 22d, scouting on the Blackwater, and in North Carolina. On the 23d of\\nJune, 1863, these troops took transports at Portsmouth, Va., and started for\\nWhite House, on the Pamunkey River, in Virginia, where they arrived June\\n25, 1863. Companies B, L, and M had been detached from the regiment,\\nbeing at South Mills, a little below Suffolk. These three companies at South\\nMills rejoined the regiment on the 4th of June, 1863. Before embarking for\\nWhite House the regiment, on the 30th of January, 1863, took a prominent\\npart in the battle of Deserted House or Kelly s store. On the i6th of May,\\n1863, Company L was attacked at Woodville, N. C, by two hundred gueril-\\nlas, and Lieutenant Miller Beatty was wounded and left in the rebel lines.\\nPrivate Amos W. Delp was wounded and died June loth from the effects of\\nhis wounds. Private Thomas McDowell was also wounded.\\nThe regiment reached White House on the 25th of June, and on the 26th\\nit captured General William F. H. Lee and eighty-four men, five hundred\\nmules and horses, also a wagon train and ammunition.\\nOn the 4th of July, 1863 the company was engaged at Hanover Junction,\\nand on the 28th of July it was hotly engaged at Jackson, N. C. The com-\\npany was with the regiment in the fight at Bottom s Bridge on the Chickahom-\\niny, Sunday, February 7, 1 864. The company marched from Portsmouth May\\n5, 1864, and on Sunday, the 8th of May, it skirmished with the enemy for\\nthree miles along the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad. At Jarrett s Depot\\nthe Eleventh, assisted by the First District of Columbia Cavalry, defeated the\\nenemy, and captured two hundred and fifty-nine prisoners.\\nOn Monday, the 23d of May, 1864^ the company went to the front with\\nGeneral Butler, between the James and Appomattox Rivers. On Thursday,\\nthe 26th of May, 1864, the company was dismounted and placed in the forti-\\nfications in Butler s front. It skirmished with the enemy daily till June 8, 1864.\\nOn the 9th of June the company participated in the action in which the rebel\\npickets were driven in, and the Eleventh was in the streets of Petersburg.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0304.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "Company L, io8th Regiment. 279\\nCompany L, with its regiment, joined Wilson s Cavalry Division June 21st on\\na raid down the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, and struck the Petersburg\\nand Lynchburg Railroad at Reams s Station. On the 25th they fought the\\nenemy for three hours at Roanoke River. On the 28th they crossed the Not-\\naway River, met the enemy at Stony Creek, and fought nearly all night.\\nOn the 29th of June, 1864 Company L passed through its most terrible\\nordeal of the war. The Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry was in advance when\\nthe charge was made upon the rebels. The battle lasted from early in the\\nmorning till two o clock in the afternoon. In the charge made by the Eleventh\\nmany gallant officers and brave men fell. The regiment lost one hundred and\\nthirty in killed, wounded, and missing. Company L had Captain John B.\\nLoomis, Sergeants Amos Weaver, and Henry O. Gilger, and Privates John\\nRandolph, and Jesse Evans killed in the charge. Sergeants Aaron Fulmer\\nand David Zillafro were wounded, and forty of the company were missing.\\nThe regiment had to bear the brunt of the fight, and it also covered the re-\\ntreat of General Wilson s cavalry.\\nOn the nth of July Company L was ordered to the eastern shore of Vir-\\nginia. It relieved Company G of provost duty. It remained on duty on the\\neastern shore at Accomac Court House until discharged by reason of expira-\\ntion of term of service, at Fortress Monroe, Va., September 28, 1864. The\\nveterans of the regiment and the recruits served till the close of July, 1865.\\nThe remnant of Company L shared the vicissitudes of the regiment during the\\nclosing scenes of the war. The Eleventh Regiment had the honor of opening\\nthe battle which terminated with Lee s surrender. Major John S. Nimmon, of\\nLancaster county, and Samuel R. Strattan, of Clarion county, led the first\\nsquadron of cavalry, which were the first troops in sight at Appomattox Court\\nHouse on the day of the surrender of the Confederate army under General\\nR. E. Lee, April 9, 1865. And it is worthy of note, that at Appomattox, a\\nClarion county boy, Lieutenant James H. Clover, in charge of the commissary\\ndepartment was the first man on the field with his wagons, and distributed\\ntwenty-five thousand rations to the hungry and defeated Confederates. Jim,\\nas he was familiarly called by his comrades, received great praise for this act.\\nThe regiment, the Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, attained considerable\\ndistinction during tlie war, mainly through the reckless dash and dare-devil\\ncharges so frequently made by it, under the leadership of the inimitable\\nColonel Sam Spear, known familiarly amongst the boys as Old Spud.\\nWhen Spear was struck by a rebel bullet at the battle of White Oak Road he\\nheld on to the pommel of the saddle and shouted Go on, boys go on just\\nthe same as if old Sam were with you. And it is but just to say here that\\nColonel Spear was a gallant soldier, well trained, having spent twenty-three\\nyears in the regular service before the war, and had he been able to remain in the\\nservice he would, no doubt, have ranked high as a cavalry officer. Company", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0305.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "28o History of Clarion County.\\nL probably had fewer men on the sick Hst than any other company of the same\\nnumber of men in the service. It was the company s boast a pardonable\\none it is beheved that there was not a coward in the company.\\nCaptain Loomis s memory is revered by having the G. A. R. Post at\\nClarion named for him.\\nThe dates herein differ somewhat from those on the Company Memorial in\\npossession of various members of the company. In view of this fact it is well\\nto note my reasons for the dates given. In reply to an inquiry, William C.\\nPritner, a well-informed and careful member of the company, says that when\\nthe memorial was prepared, the motto, Our country, may she ever be right,\\nbut right or wrong, our country, and the date of enlistment and muster and\\nplace of muster was given by Captain Loomis, in which he says And mus-\\ntered into service at Clarion, Pa., September 12, 1861, while I positively know\\nthat the company was mustered into service at Philadelphia, Pa., by Captains\\nStarr and Dye, U. S. Army. My records say September 13, i86i,as to part,\\nand my discharge says: Enrolled September 16, 1 861, and discharged at\\nFortress Monroe, Va., September 28, 1864, as do also the discharges of Darr,\\nCraig, Bole, Ritz, Hosey, etc., in all fourteen men in that squad, as I made out\\nthe discharges myself while the company was on duty, stationed at Accomac\\nCourt House, Va., (Eastern Shore.) I may be wrong as to the 13th of Sep-\\ntember, 1861, being the date of muster of some of part of the company, but as\\nto the men enrolled on the i6th of September, 1861, I am positive I have yet\\npasses from the provost at Fortress Monroe, which say Guards, pass Pritner\\nand thirteen men to Fort and Return. So for this reason the dates given in\\nthe following roll are adopted. Bates says, Discharged September 13, 1864,\\nand Discharged September 25, 1864. Mr. Pritner has given conclusive data\\nthat the men mu-stered in September 13, 1861, were discharged September 18,\\n1864, and those mustered September 16, 1861, were discharged September 28,\\n1864.\\nThe thanks of the writer is due to Milton Strattan, of Strattanville, for\\nbooks and papers, and to Hon. John T. Strattan, of Washington, D. C, for\\nvaluable information concerning the company. He is also under many obliga-\\ntions to William C. Pritner, esq., of Curllsville, for the very careful correction\\nof the roll of the company and for a sketch of the same. Some dates in the\\naccompanying roll may still be wrong, but it is believed that most of them are\\ncorrect.\\nIn connection with our sketch of the company we give the following ac-\\ncount of Captain Loomis s death, by Adjutant Samuel R. Strattan, of the\\nEleventh Cavalry. His letter is also here given\\nNo. 131 Third street, N. E.,\\nWashington, D. C,\\nFebruary 7th, 1887.\\nW. A. Beer, Esq. My Dear Sir While in Harrisburg last week Mr.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0306.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "Company L, io8th Regiment. 281\\nA. J. Davis requested me to write out a brief sketch of the details connected\\nwith the death of Captain J. B. Loomis. The sketch aforesaid, hastily written,\\nis forwarded you herewith, in order that it may reach Mr. Davis safely. Trust-\\ning you are getting along well with your history. I am, Sir,\\nYours sincerely, Sam l. R. Strattan.\\nDeath of Captain Loomis By S. R. Strattan.\\nAmong the many brave and gallant soldiers from Clarion county who lost\\ntheir lives in the War of the Rebellion, there is no name, perhaps, deserving of\\nmore conspicious mention than that of John B. Loomis, captain of Company\\nL, Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry Vols. The details connected with his death\\nbeing somewhat of a tragic nature, and having been an eye-witness, I give\\nthem herewith as briefly as possible.\\nFrom the 2ist to the 30th of June, 1864, the regiment was engaged in the\\ncelebrated raid of Kautz s and Wilson s divisions, having for its object the de-\\nstruction of the Danville Railroad, Va. This object had been successfully ac-\\ncomplished. On the return march, however, a strong force of the enemy s in-\\nfantry and cavalry was encountered at Stony Creek, Va., on the night of the\\n28th, and at Reams s Station, Va., on the 29th. Heavy engagements took\\nplace in which both divisions suffered severely. Prior to the opening of the en-\\ngagement on the 29th, I noticed that Captain Loomis had lost his hat and was\\nwearing a white handkerchief around his head. I remarked to him that I was\\na little superstitious, and looked upon this head covering as a bad omen, aside\\nfrom its affording a very conspicious target. He replied in his quiet way, Oh,\\nI guess there is not much significance in your theory. Yet in one short hour\\nafter that I saw him borne to the rear in the arms of the stalwart Second Lieu-\\ntenant Shannon McFadden, of Richardsville, Pa., his body being pierced with\\nseveral bullets, and quite dead. All being in confusion at that moment, and\\nthe retreat to Stony Creek Bridge already begun, I have often wondered how\\nMcFadden, in the short time allowed him, could possibly dig even a shallow\\ngrave, and deposit the remains of the captain, and then get away. Yet by a\\nsuperhuman effort he did it, and made his escape, while hundreds of the com-\\nmand were being captured around him.\\nIn the fall of 1865, shortly after our return home, Mrs. Loomis asked me\\nconcerning what I knew of the details connected with the death of the cap-\\ntain. I informed her of the circumstances above related, and she, in company\\nwith Lieutenant McFadden, repaired to the battle-field, exhumed the remains,\\nwhich were found in such a state of preservation as to be easily recognized,\\nbrought them to Clarion, where after appropriate funeral ceremonies at the\\nLoomis House, they were escorted to the cemetery by Guth s Brass Band, to\\nthe sound of mournful dirges, and followed by a large concourse of citizens and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2comrades, and finally deposited in their last resting place, with Masonic and\\nmilitary honors.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0307.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "282 History of Clarion County.\\nCorrected Roll of Company L, One Hundred and Eighth Regi-\\nment P. V. Eleventh Cavalry.\\nJohn B. Loomis, captain, September 28, 1861, three years; killed at Reams s\\nStation, Va., June 29, 1864.\\nJames D. Mahon, captain, September 25, 1 861, three years promoted from\\nfirst lieutenant January 29, 1864; resigned January 28, 1865.\\nJohn C. Sample, captain, August 5, 1861, three years; promoted to adju-\\ntant from Company D December i, 1864; to captain of Company L, from ad-\\njutant February 9, 1865 mustered out with company August 13, 1865.\\nRobert I. Robinson, first lieutenant, September 12, 1861, three years pro-\\nmoted from first sergeant to second lieutenant April 30, 1864 to first lieuten-\\nant November 11, 1864, to date June 29, 1864; mustered out with company\\nAugust 13, 1865; veteran.\\nMiller Beatty, second lieutrnant, September 12, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom first sergeant March 24, 1862 wounded in action at Woodville, N. C,\\nMay 16, 1863; resigned May 31, 1864.\\nJohn L. Roper, second lieutenant, September 25, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted from commissary-sergeant in 1862 to first sergeant and regimental\\ncommissary in 1863 to captain and brigade C. S. in 1864.\\nWilliam F. Stewart, second lieutenant, September 12, 1861, three years;\\nresigned January, 1862.\\nShannon McFaddden, second lieutenant, September 9, 1861, three years;\\npromoted from commissary- sergeant November 11, 1864; mustered out with\\ncompany August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nThos. C. Wilson, second lieutenant, September 13, 1861, three years; pro-\\nmoted to Reg. C. S. September 25, 1863; mustered out with regiment August\\n13, 1865.\\nWilliam K. Shafer, first sergeant, September 13, 1861, three years; mus-\\ntered out with company August 13, 1864.\\nEdwin R. Meeker, quartermaster-sergeant, September 13, 1861, three years;\\nmustered out with company August 13, 1864.\\nThos. McDowell, commissary- sergeant, September 13, 1861, three years\\nwounded in hip at Woodville, N. C, May 16, 1863 mustered out with com-\\npany August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nEnos G. Nolph, sergeant, September 13, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nChristian C. Fleck, sergeant, September 13, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company August 13, 1865.\\nWilliam N. George, sergeant, September 16, 1861, three years; absent,\\nsick, at muster out.\\nCharles Sipler, quartermaster-sergeant, September 13, 1861, three years\\ndischarged September 18, 1864 expiration of term.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0308.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "Company L, io8th Regiment. 283\\nAaron Fulmer, sergeant, September 13, 1861, three years; promoted to\\nfirst sergeant wounded at Reams s Station June 29, 1864; discharged Sep-\\ntember 28, 1864.\\nJames Baldwin, sergeant, September 16, 1 861, three years; promoted from\\ncorporal; discharged September 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nCharles Kline, sergeant, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order May 31, 1865.\\nSamuel R. Strattan, sergeant, January i, 1864, three years; promoted to\\nsergeant-major February 3, 1865.\\nHenry O. Gilger, commissary-sergeant, September 13, 1861, three years;\\nwounded and captured at Reams s Station, Va., June 29, 1864 died at Peters-\\nburg, Va., July 10, 1864; veteran.\\nAmos Weaver, sergeant, September 13, 1861, three years killed at Reams s\\nStation, Va., June 28, 1864; veteran.\\nJohn Sampson, corporal, December 12, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nSamuel B. Corbett, corporal, August, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nJohn H. Shaw, corporal, September 13, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nJacob Rossee, corporal, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged Sep-\\ntember 28, 1864.\\nJames M. Mathews, corporal, September 13, 1861, three years mustered\\nout with company August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nDavid B. Zilafro, corporal, September 13, 1861, three years; wounded at\\nReams s Station June 29, 1864; discharged September 18, 1864 expirajtion of\\nterm.\\nSamuel Bole, corporal, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged Sep-\\ntember 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nTheodore F. Corbett, corporal, August, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order May 31, 1865.\\nPaul Hetrick, corporal, September 13, 1861, three years; died at Drum-\\nmondtown, Va., November 25, 1864; veteran.\\nSolomon Stover, blacksmith, October 2, 1862, three years mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nMatthias CoUings, blacksmith, September 13, 1 861, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate June 30, 1862.\\nSamuel S. Moorhead, farrier, September 16, 1861, three years; mustered\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2out with company August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nCharles Fulmer, saddler, September 13, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nCharles B. Evans, trumpeter, February 28, 1864, three years; mustered\\nout with company August 13, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0309.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "284 History of Clarion County.\\nJohn Booker, trumpeter, June 15, 1862, three years; discharged by gen-\\neral order May 31, 1865.\\nPeter White, trumpeter, June 15, 1862, three years; discharged by general\\norder May 31, 1865.\\nJeremiah Hoover, sergeant, September 13, 1861, three years; promoted\\nfrom corporal absent, sick, at muster out veteran.\\nThomas Beale, sergeant, September 13, 1 861, three years mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nBenjamin Divler, corporal, September 13, 1 861, three years prisoner June\\n24, 1864, to April 29, 1865 discharged by general order June 5, 1865 vet-\\neran.\\nRobert N. Craig, corporal, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 28, 1864.\\nJosiah Clark, corporal, December 16, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany August 13, 1865.\\nCharles Barnard, corporal, September 13, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nArmstrong, Robert, private, September 13, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company August 13, 1865.\\nArmstrong, George R., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mus-\\ntered out with company August 13, 1865.\\nAlberson, James McM., private, September 16, 1861, three years; mus-\\ntered out with company August 13, 1865.\\nArentrue, William, private, February 26, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nAnderson, Samuel, private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged\\nFebruary 14, 1865 expiration of term.\\nAnderson, Charles E., private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 18, 1865 expiration of term.\\nAndrews, David, private, September 13, 1861, three years; died at Camp\\nHamilton, Va., December, 1861.\\nAllen, Henry, private, September 13, 1861, three years killed at the siege\\nof Suffolk, Va., April 15, 1863.\\nBice, William T., private, March 2, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany August 13, 1865.\\nBennett, Charles B., private, February 29, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nBaumister, Frederick, private, March 16, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nBurtnet, John R., private, February 24, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nBall, Ebenezer, private, March 10, 1863, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany August 13, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0310.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "Company L, io8th Regiment. 285\\nBorchert, Henry J., private, September 13, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nBorchert, Christian, private, September 13, 1861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nBennyhoof, Daniel, private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 18, 1864 expiration of term.\\nBeers, WilHam F., private, February 27, 1864, three years; died at Point\\nof Rocks, Va.; burial record, died at Hampton July 18, 1864.\\nBarr, Samuel C, private, September 16, 1861, three years; not on muster-\\nout roll veteran.\\nChristie, James, private, September 13, 1 861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nConfer, William P., private, September 13, 1861, three years mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nCorbett, James M., private, August 27, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order May 31, 1865.\\nCorbett, James, private, August 27, 1862, three years; discharged by gen-\\neral order May 31, 1865.\\nCannon, James T., private, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 25, 1864 expiration of term.\\nClover, James H., private, August 27, 1862, three years promoted to reg-\\nimental commissary-sergeant May i, 1864.\\nCampbell, John F., private, September 13, 1861, three years; died at Wash-\\nington, D. C, October 24, 1861.\\nCorbett, Frank C, private, September 13, 1861, three years wounded and\\nmissing at South Anna Bridge, Va. captured died at Andersonville, Ga.,\\nAugust 27, 1864; grave 7045.\\nCorbett, John W., private, August 27, 1862, three years killed at Roanoke\\nRiver, Va., June 25, 1864.\\nDouglass, James L., wagoner, September 13, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nDillman, James R., private, September 13, 1861, three years; taken prisoner\\nat Hanover Court-house, Va., July 4, 1863 mustered out with company\\nAugust 13, 1865.\\nDoan, Charles M., private, February 29, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nDelp, Amos W., private, September 16, 1861, three years died at Suftblk,\\nVa., June 10, 1863, of wounds received at Woodville, N. C, May 16, 1863.\\nDarr, George W., farrier, September 16, 1861, three years not on muster-\\nout roll.\\nEvans, Jesse, private, September 16, 1861, three years; killed at Reams s\\nStation, Va., June 29, 1864; veteran.\\n27", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0311.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "286 History of Clarion County.\\nFulton, Aldridge S., private, August 27, 1862, three years; discharged by-\\ngeneral order May 31, 1865.\\nFelmlee, John D., private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 18, 1864 expiration of term.\\nFulmer, Friend, private, August 27, 1862, three years; prisoner from June\\n29, 1864, to February 26, 1865; discharged by general order June 13, 1865.\\nFitzgerald, Peter J., private, August 27, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order May 31, 1865.\\nFrazier, George W., private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 18, 1864 expiration of term.\\nFlattery, James P., private, January 21, 1864, three years; promoted to\\nsergeant-major March 13, 1865.\\nForker, Hugh, private, February 17, 1864, three years not on muster-out\\nroll.\\nGood, Jacob, private, September 13, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany August 13, 1865; veteran.\\nGilger, John W., private, February 29, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nGlenn, Jesse, private, three years; deserted at Suffolk, Va., August 9, 1862;\\nreturned January 20, 1865 mustered out with company August 13, 1865.\\nGates, Joseph, private, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged Sep-\\ntember 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nHoover, Jacob, private, December 17, 1863, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nHorton, Joseph W., private, March 2, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nHosey, John A., corporal, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nHetrick, Darius, private, September 3, 1864, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order May 31, 1865.\\nHetrick, John C, private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate September 30, 1862.\\nHeckathorn, J. S. H., private, September 13, 1861, three years deserted\\nat Suffolk, Va., July 28, 1862.\\nKlingelsmith, Joseph, private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 18, 1864 expiration of term.\\nLavery, John J., private, August 27, 1862, three years; captured at Reams s\\nStation, Va., June 29, 1864; discharged by general order June 16, 1865.\\nLucas, Calvin, private, September 13, 1 861, three years killed at Roanoke\\nRiver, Va., June 27, 1864; veteran.\\nMyers, George S., private, March 2, 1864, three years deserted returned\\nmustered out with company August 13, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0312.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "Company L, io8th Regiment. 287\\nMinahan, Owen, private, August 30, 1861, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nMoore, Warren C, private, March 2, 1864; three years; wounded at\\nReams s Station, Va., June 29, 1864; absent at muster out.\\nMackey, James E., private, March 9, 1863, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany August 13, 1865.\\nMathews, George J., private, August 25, 1862, three years discharged by\\ngeneral order May 31, 1865.\\nMathews, Moses W., private, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nMyers, Alfred J., private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 18, 1864 expiration of term.\\nMeagher, Thomas B., private, September 16, 186 1, three years discharged\\non surgeon s certificate March i, 1862.\\nMackey, Charles W., private, September 13, 1861, three years transferred\\nto Company D, date unknown veteran.\\nMilford, George W,, private, September 13, 1861, three years; died at\\nCity Point July nth of wounds received at Reams s Station, Va., June 29,\\n1864.\\nMcAuley, Robert T., private, September 13, 1861, three years; mustered\\nout with company August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nMcDowell, George, private, February 25, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nMcFadden, John R., private, December 16, 1863, three years; mustered\\nout with company August 13, 1865.\\nMcAmmon, William, private, March 2, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nMcAmmon, Alexander, private, February 29, 1864, three years; mustered\\nout with company August 13, 1865.\\nMcMasters, Samuel D., private, September 16, 1861, three years; dis-\\ncharged September 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nMcCullough, D. R., private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 13, 1864 expiration of term.\\nMcDonald, John, private, September 13, 1861, three years; died at An-\\nnapolis, Md., January 15, 1862.\\nMcElroy, David A., private, February 25, 1864, three years; died at\\nEastville, Va., June 3, 1865.\\nMcCann, James, private, September 16, 1861, three years; captured; died\\nat Andersonville, Ga,, October 31, 1864; grave 11684.\\nNoble, Daniel R., private, September 16, 1 861, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865; veteran.\\nNolph, Thomas C, private, January i, 1864, three years killed at Reams s\\nStation, Va., June 29, 1864,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0313.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "288 History of Clarion County.\\nOrcutt, David S., private, September i6, 1861, three years; captured at\\nReams s Station, June 29, 1864; re-enlisted; transferred to First Battalion,\\nVeteran Reserve Corps, 1865 discharged August 24, to date August 13,\\n1865 veteran.\\nPiatt, John C, private, September 16, 1 861, three years mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865 veteran.\\nPretorious, Daniel, private, February 16, 1864, three years mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nPritner, William C, private, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nPritner, John T., private, September 25, 1861, three years; discharged pn\\nsurgeon s certificate March 29, 1862.\\nPotter, George W., private, February 22, 1864, three years; not on mus-\\nter out roll.\\nRitz, David, private, September 16, 1 861, three years discharged SejDtem-\\nber 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nRandolph, John, private, September 13, 1861, three years; killed at\\nReams s Station, Va., June 29, 1864; veteran.\\nRosse, Charles, private, September 16, 1861, three years; killed in action\\nDecember 12, 1862.\\nStone, Edward, private, February 29, 1864, three years mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nSquires, Thomas G., private, September 27, 1861, three years; missing at\\nReams s Station June 29, 1864 mustered out with company August 13, 1865.\\nSarvey, Henry, private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order May 31, 1865.\\nShoup, Jacob, private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged Sep-\\ntember 18, 1864 expiration of term.\\nSlick, Alfred J. L., private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged\\nSeptember 18, 1864 expiration of term.\\nSahms, John, private, September 16, 1 861, three years; discharged Sep-\\ntember 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nStrattan, Milton, private, September 13, 1861, three years; discharged\\nJanuary 31, 1864; re-enlisted; discharged on surgeon s certificate June 24,\\n1865.\\nSmith, Wesley B., private, September 13, 1861, three years died at Camp\\nHamilton, Va., February 15, 1862.\\nSmith, James, private, February 23, 1864, three years; died at Thomas-\\nville, Ga., date unknown.\\nSmith, Samuel, private, February 4, 1864, three years; not on muster-out\\nroll.\\nTaylor, Jacob, private, September 13, 1861, ^three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865 veteran.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0314.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "Company K, 148TH Regiment. 289\\nTipton, Richard, private, September 16, 1861. three years; discharged\\nSeptember 28, 1864 expiration of term.\\nThomas, A. W., private, April i, 1863, three years; died at Suffolk, Va.,\\nMay 13, 1863.\\nTracy, Frances N., private, September 13, 1861, three years; transferred\\nto Company G, date unknown veteran.\\nVandervoort, Albert A., private, February 24, 1864, three years; mus-\\ntered out with company August 13, 1865.\\nVanweigh, Samuel, private, March 2, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nVandervoort, James R., private, September 16, 1861, three years; prisoner\\nfrom June 29, 1864, to April 28, 1865 discharged by general order June 21,\\n1865.\\nWilbrough, Chas., private, February 16, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company August 13, 1865.\\nWallace, John, private, September 16, 1861, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order May 31, 1865.\\nWilliams, David, private, August 25, 1862, three years; prisoner from June\\n29, 1864, to April 28, 1865 discharged by general order June 21, 1865.\\nWhite, Austin, private, September 16, 1861, three years; captured; died\\nat Andersonville, Ga., date unknown.\\nWise, Isaac, private, February 29, 1864, three years; captured; died at\\nAndersonville, Ga., September 21, 1864; grave 9424.\\nCHAPTER XXIX.\\nCOMPANY K, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. Y.\\nEnlistment To the Field\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Services Roll.\\nIN August, 1862, Thompson Core recruited a company at Curllsville. Au-\\ngust 26 was the day appointed to start for the army, and on that day forty-\\ntwo men left Curllsville in wagons for Kittanning, which place they reached at\\nsix o clock, P. M. On the 27th the company went on the cars, A. V. R. R.,\\nto Pittsburgh, reaching that city about noon. August 29 the men were mus-\\ntered into the United States service. Captain Core, A. C. Coursin, and J. Z.\\nBrown then returned to Clarion county to recruit the company having been\\ngiven quarters at Camp Howe. On the 4th of September the men were uni-\\nformed, and taking the train that evening, they reached Harrisburg next", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0315.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "290 History of Clarion County.\\nmorning, September 5, about five o clock, and proceeded at once to Camp\\nCurtin. On the 7th of September Captain Core, J. Z. Brown, and A. C.\\nCoursin arrived at Camp Curtin with sixteen men for the company, and by\\nreason of Lieutenant Ferguson not having a receipt to show that the other\\nmen had been sworn in at Pittsburgh, they were all re- sworn at the time the\\nnew men were mustered. On the 9th the company was armed with Vin-\\ncennes rifled m.uskets, and assigned to the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Reg-\\niment, as Company K. That evening the regiment, under command of Col-\\nonel James A. Beaver, started to the field. Captain Core started back to\\nClarion county to recruit. He returned to the regiment on the 27th of Sep-\\ntember with twenty-two recruits for Company K, nineteen of whom were from\\nMontgomery county, the captain having recruited them at Harrisburg with the\\ncondition that Henry H. Dotts, one of their number, should be second lieu-\\ntenant of the company. At this time the regiment s headquarters were\\nat Cockeysville, and Company K was at Glencove, five miles above, all in\\nMaryland. On the 17th of October the company received the advance\\nbounty, twenty-five dollars to each man and two dollars premium. They were\\npaid in bonds. On the i8th the bonds were sent to Baltimore and cashed by\\nthe Maryland bank. Rev. Elder, of Clarion, preached to the boys in Camp\\nBeaver on the 3d of November, 1862. November 14 Assistant Secretary of\\nState, Mr. Thomas, presented a flag to the regiment.\\nOn the 9th of December the regiment broke camp and went to Baltimore,\\nthence to Washington, thence to a point opposite Alexandria, ten miles from\\nWashington. After marching, and camping, and enduring wet and cold, the\\ntroops reached the army headquarters near Fredericksburg, and were placed in\\nthe First Brigade, First Division of Second Corps, and went into winter quarters.\\nThe horse racing and other amusements of St. Patrick s Day, March 17, 1863,\\nwas brought to a sudden close by the rebels opening up a sharp cannonade on\\nour right. The company broke camp, with the regiment, on the 28th of April,\\nand marched to Chancellorsville, where it took part in that terrific struggle.\\nAfter this Company K attested its valor on many a well-fought field. The\\ncasualties to the company are carefully noted in the roll, having been corrected\\nby Corporal Dennis Conner, to whom the writer is indebted for valuable data.\\nLieutenant J. Z. Brown was promoted captain July 7, 1864, and on the 27th\\nof October, 1864 Captain Brown with a detachment of one hundred men from\\nthe regiment, performed one of the bravest and most successful exploits of the\\nwar. They were ordered by General Miles to assault a position of the enemy s\\nline in front. Bates says Having formed his men for the desperate work,\\njust at dusk he dashed forward, thrust aside the dense abattis, drove in the\\npickets, and scaled the ramparts, carrying a strong work, capturing four com-\\nmissioned officers and more men than he had led to the encounter. The enemy\\nrallying and turning his artillery upon it from the other forts, finally compelled", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0316.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "Company K, 148TH Regiment. 291\\nhim to retire, occasioning him considerable loss. For his gallant conduct Cap-\\nBrown was highly commended, and breveted major. The company was mus-\\ntered out June I, 1865.\\nCorrected Roll of Company K, One Hundred and Forty-eighth\\nRegiment P. V.\\nThompson Core, captain, August 27, 1862, three years died June i, 1864,\\nof wounds received at Po River, Va., May 10, 1864.\\nJeremiah Z. Brown, captain, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted\\nfrom first sergeant to first lieutenant September 8, 1863; to captain July 7,\\n1864; breveted major October 27, 1864; mustered out with company June\\nI, 1865.\\nJ. B. Ferguson, first lieutenant, September 7, 1862, three years; discharged\\nby order of the president for incompetency, September 8, 1863.\\nAlexander C. Sloan, first lieutenant, September 7, 1862, three years; pro-\\nmoted from sergeant to first sergeant November 15, 1863 to second lieuten-\\nant July 7, 1864; to first lieutenant September 14, 1864; mustered out with\\ncompany June i, 1865.\\nHenry H. Dotts, second lieutenant, September 26, 1862, three years; dis-\\ncharged on surgeon s certificate September 7, 1863.\\nWilliam S. Mortimer, second lieutenant, September 7, 1862, three years;\\nwounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863; promoted from sergeant September 8,\\n1863 wounded at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864; commissioned first lieutenant\\nJuly 7, 1864; discharged on surgeon s certificate September 13, 1864.\\nJohn Ward, second lieutenant, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted\\nfrom sergeant September 14, 1864; wounded at Auburn Mills October 14,\\n1864; mustered out with company June i, 1865.\\nHenry H. Henry, first sergeant, September 7, 1862, three years promoted\\nfrom corporal to sergeant December 9, 1862; to first sergeant October 31,\\n1864; mustered out with company June i, 1865.\\nAbram S. Coursin, sergeant, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted\\nfrom corporal August i, 1864 wounded at Po River May 10, 1864; mustered\\nout with company June I, 1865.\\nJames F. McNoldy, sergeant, September 26, 1862, three years; promoted\\nto corporal October 27, 1863; to sergeant August 31, 1864; taken prisoner\\nat Reams s Station August 29, 1864; absent, sick, at muster out.\\nJames F. George, sergeant, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal November 15, 1863; to sergeant Jannary 31, 1865 wounded at Po\\nRiver May 10, 1864; mustered out with company June i, 1865.\\nDavid R. Crick, sergeant, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal November 15, 1863; to sergeant May 19, 1865 mustered out with\\ncompany June i, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0317.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "292 History of Clarion County.\\nJames F. Weidner, sergeant, September 26, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal November 15, 1863 to sergeant October 31, 1864; transferred to V.\\nR. C, Jan. 30, 1865 discharged by general order June 29, 1865.\\nIsaac N. Sloan, sergeant, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted cor-\\nporal December 9, 1862 to sergeant September 15, 1864; to sergeant-major\\nMay 18, 1865 wounded and taken prisoner at Spottsylvania Court House\\nMay 12, 1864.\\nJacob F, Mast, sergeant, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted from\\ncorporal November 15, 1863 killed at Po River, Va., May 10, 1864.\\nWilliam C. Sloan, sergeant, October 2, 1862, three years; promoted from\\ncorporal November 15, 1863; killed at Spottsylvania Court House May 12,\\n1864; buried in Wilderness Burial Ground.\\nJohn Fackender, corporal, September 7, 1862, three years promoted to\\ncorporal August i, 1864; taken prisoner near Fort Morton, Va., October 27,\\n1864; absent at Camp Parole, Annapolis, Md., at muster out.\\nDaniel M. Hersh, corporal, September 26, 1862, three years promoted to\\ncorporal August l, 1864; discharged by general order May 15, 1865.\\nGeorge G. Walters, corporal, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal August 15, 1864; mustered out with company June i, 1865.\\nWilliam Barlett, corporal, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal October 31, 1864; mustered out with company June i, 1865.\\nSamuel H. Sloan, corporal, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal October 31, 1864; wounded at Po River May 10, 1864; mustered\\nout with company June i, 1865.\\nHenry Swartsfager, corporal, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal January 31, 1865; wounded at Po River May 10, 1864; mustered out\\nwith company June i, 1865.\\nDennis Conner, corporal, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal April 20, 1865 mustered out with company June i, 1865.\\nAnthony Divins, corporal, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal May 19, 1865 mustered out with company June i, 1865.\\nRoss C. Kirkpatrick, corporal, September 7, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nChancellorsville, Va., May 2, 1863 transferred to Company D, Fourteenth\\nRegiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, February 15, 1864; discharged by general\\norder June 27, 1865.\\nJohn E. Carson, corporal, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal March 15, 1863; died at Point Lookout, Md., June 18, 1863.\\nLevi W, Gibson, corporal, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal August 13, 1863 killed at Deep Bottom, Va., August 15, 1864.\\nIsaac F. Swartsfager, corporal, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted\\nto corporal November 15, 1863; wounded at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864; died\\nat Washington, D. C, April 15, 1865, of wounds received in action.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0318.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "Company K, 148TH Regiment. 293\\nHugh S. Neal, corporal, September 7, 1862, three years; killed at Chan-\\ncellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863.\\nAbraham R. Coursin, musician, September 7, 1862, three years; mustered\\nout with company June i, 1865.\\nJohn A. Lee, musician, September 7, 1862, three years; died at Falmouth,\\nVa., March 15, 1863.\\nHenry B. Fox, wagoner, September 7, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June i, 1865.\\nArmagost, Christ, private, February 26, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany K, Fifty-third Regiment P. V. June i, 1865.\\nBaird, John F., private, September 7, 1862, three years; absent, sick, at\\nmuster out.\\nBartley, John, private, September 7, 1862, three years; transferred ta\\nVeteran Reserve Corps February 15, 1864.\\nBerkey, Jacob J., private, September i, 1863, three years; drafted; died\\nat Stevensburg, Va., December 30, 1863.\\nBoarts, Philip, private, September 7, 1862, three years; died at Washing-\\nton, D. C, February 15, 1864; buried in Military Asylum Cemetery.\\nBotorf, John, private, October 20, 1863, three years; killed at Po River\\nMay 10, 1864.\\nCullens, Owen, private, September 7, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany.\\nClover, John C, private, October 16, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps March 3, 1864; discharged on surgeon s certificate\\nJune I, 1864.\\nCarle, Hiram, private, October 29, 1863, three years; substitute; wounded\\nat Petersburg, Va., October 27, 1864; transferred to Company K, Fifty- third\\nRegiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nCarle, Bennival, private, October 22, 1863, three years; killed at Po River\\nMay 10, 1864.\\nCorbett, Walter L., private, September 7, 1862, three years; killed at\\nDeep Bottom, Va., August 14, 1864.\\nCorbett, Munson, private, September 7, 1862, three years; died at Fal-\\nmouth, Va., December 28, 1862.\\nCarnathan, Hugh, private, September 7, 1862, three years; taken prisoner\\nat Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863; deserted from Parole Camp, Md., Octo-\\nber 2, 1863.\\nDonahue, John, private, September 7, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June i, 1865.\\nDerr, Jacob, private, September 16, 1863, three years; drafted; wounded\\nand taken prisoner at Po River May 10, 1864; transferred to Company K,\\nFifty- third Regiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\n28", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0319.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "294 History of Clarion County.\\nDeihl, Josiah, private, October 19, 1863, three years; drafted; taken pris-\\noner at Spottsylvania Court House May 12, 1864; held till April 28, 1865\\ntransferred to Company K, Fifty-third Regiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nDivins, William H., private, February 26, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany K, Fifty-third Regiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nDivins, Thomas M., private, February 26, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany K, Fifty-third Regiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nDivins, James P., private, February 26, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany K, Fifty-third Regiment, P. V., June i, 1865.\\nDivins, David, private, March 30, 1864, three years; died at New York\\nAugust 8, 1864; buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long Island.\\nDorworth, John C, private, February 26, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany K, Fifty-third Regiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nDorworth, William H., private, February 26, 1864, three years; transferred\\nto Company K, Fifty-third Regiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nDoney, George, private, October 22, 1862, three years; drafted; captured\\nat Spottsylvania Court-house, Va., May 12, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga.,\\nDecember i, 1864, grave No. 6568.\\nEvalin, John, private, August 26, 1862, three years; transferred to Company\\nG, Nineteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps discharged by general order\\nJuly 24, 1865.\\nFox, Jacob, private, September 7, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June i, 1865.\\nFaul, Edward, private, September 26, 1862, three years; wounded at Po\\nRiver May 10, 1864; discharged by general order June 9, 1865.\\nFlick, John, private, September 7, 1862, three years; died at Windmill\\nPoint, Va., January 30, 1863.\\nFox, John N., private, September 26, 1862, three years; killed at Deep\\nBottom, Va., August 15, 1864.\\nGries, Joseph, private, September 26, 1862, three years; wounded at Spott-\\nsylvania Court-house, Va., May 12, 1864; absent, in hospital, at muster out.\\nGreen, James, private, March 26, 1864, three years; deserted May 3, 1864;\\ntransferred to Company K, Fifty-third Regiment P. V.; returned to that com-\\npany and mustered out with it June 30, 1865.\\nHuey, Robert, private, September 7, 1862, three years; taken prisoner at\\nChancellorsville May 3, 1863 mustered out with company June i, 1865.\\nHarriger, John, private, September 7, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order June 5, 1865.\\nHillegass, Henry, private, September 26, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nPo River, Va., May 10, 1864; discharged by general order June 5, 1865.\\nHamm, Joseph, private, September 7, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate February 12, 1863.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0320.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "Company K, 148TH Regiment. 295\\nHerrington, Silas H., private, October 30, 1863, three years; substitute;\\nwounded at Spottsylvania C. H., May 12, 1864; transferred to Company K,\\nFifty-third Regiment, P. V., June i, 1865.\\nHoffman, Thomas J., private, October 27, 1863, three years; substitute;\\ntransferred to Company K, Fifty-third Regiment, P. V., June I, 1865.\\nHessert, George, private, September 26, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nPo River May 10, 1864; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps January i,\\n1865.\\nJacobs, Josiah H., private, September 26, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nPo River May 10, 1864; died at Washington, D. C, June 16, 1864, of wound\\nreceived in action at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864.\\nKeys, Evans, private, September 7, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June i, 1865.\\nKrauss, Enos, private, September 26, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nSpottsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864; absent in hospital at muster out.\\nKluck, Peter, private, October 22, 1863, three years; drafted; transferred\\nto Company K, Fifty-third Regiment, P. V., June i, 1865.\\nKrotzer, David A., private, February 26, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nPo River May 10, 1864; transferred to Thirty- sixth Company, Second Bat-\\ntalion Veteran Reserve Corps discharged by general order September 4,\\n1865.\\nKifer, Andrew J., private, September 7, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nChancellorsville May 2, 1863 transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps February\\nIS, 1864.\\nLong, Harrison, private, October 28, 1863, three years substitute trans-\\nferred to Company K, Fifty-third Regiment, P. V., June i, 1865.\\nLintaman, Josiah, private, October 29, 1863, three years; substitute; taken\\nprisoner at Po River, Va., May 10, 1864; transferred to Company K, Fifty-\\nthird Regiment, P. V., June i, 1865.\\nLatimore, John W., private, September 7, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps February 15, 1864; discharged\\nby general order July 25, 1865.\\nMyers, John, private, September 7, 1862, three years; wounded at Spottsyl-\\nvania, Va., May 12, 1864; mustered out with company June i, 1865.\\nMagee, Preston M., private, September 7, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June i, 1865.\\nMiller, Andrew J., private, September 7, 1862, three years; captured at\\nReams s Station, Va., August 25, 1864 discharged by general order July 20,\\n1865.\\nMiller, George W., private, September 7, 1862, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate February 2, 1863.\\nMahle, Solomon, private, September 7, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate April 24, 1863.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0321.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "296 History of Clarion County.\\nMilligan, William, private, February 26, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nSpottsylvania, C. H., May 12, 1864; discharged on surgeon s certificate March\\n18, 1865.\\nMilHgan, Joseph private, February 26, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany K, Fifty-third Regiment, P. V., June i, 1865.\\nMerley, Samuel, private, September i, 1863, three years; drafted; taken\\nprisoner at Boydton Plank Road, Va., October 27, 1864; transferred to Com-\\npany K, Fifty-third Regiment, P. V., June i, 1865.\\nMyers, Leander, private, September 7, 1862, three years; killed at Peters-\\nburg, Va., June 16, 1864; buried in Poplar Grove National Cemetery, division\\nA, sec. D, grave 75.\\nMcKinney, Anthony, private, March 31, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany K, Fifty-third Regiment, P. V., June i, 1865.\\nMcCormick, Jones, private, September 24, 1863, three years; prisoner at\\nReams s Station August 25, 1864; discharged by general order May 24, 1865.\\nMcBride, William, private, February 26, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany I, Twelfth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, January i, 1865 dis-\\ncharged by general order July 21, 1865.\\nMcClure, David, private, March 3, 1864, three years; not on muster-out\\nroll.\\nNeil, John, D., private, September 7, 1862, three years mustered out with\\ncompany June i, 1865.\\nNulph, Abraham W., private, February 26, 1864, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate February 23, 1865.\\nPolliard, David, private, September 7, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nSpottsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864; absent in hospital at muster out.\\nPettet, Oliver W., private, September 7, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nTolopotomy Creek, Va., May 30, 1864; absent in hospital at muster out.\\nPysher, William E., private, September 7, 1862, three years; discharged\\nby general order May 30, 1865.\\nPhillips, Michael, private, March 31, 1864, three years; missing in action\\nat Reams s Station, Va., August 25, 1864; transferred to Company K, Fifty-\\nthird Regiment, P. V., June i, 1865.\\nPritner, George W., private, October 20, 1863, three years transferred to\\nCompany K, Fifty- third Regiment, P. V., June i, 1865.\\nPrice, George, private, September 7, 1862, three years; died May 21,\\n1863, of wounds received in action May 3, 1863.\\nOuillman, Reuben, private, September 7, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June i, 1865.\\nQuillman, Daniel, private, September 26, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June i, 1865.\\nRathfon, John N., private, September 26, 1862, three years; wounded at", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0322.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "Company K, 148TH Regiment. 297\\nChancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps;\\ndischarged by general order June 27, 1865.\\nReynolds, Stern, private, September 7, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nSpottsylvania Court House, Va., May 12, and at Reams s Station August 25,\\n1864; discharged by general order July 8, 1865.\\nRandolph, James, private, September 7, 1862, three years; taken prisoner\\nat Reams s Station August 25, 1864; mustered out with company June i, 1865.\\nReedy, George W., private, September 7, 1862, three years mustered out\\nwith company June i, 1865.\\nReichart, John W., private, February 26, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany K, Fifty-third Regiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nReese, Daniel, private, October 28, 1863, three years; substitute; cap-\\ntured; died at Andersonville, Ga., August 25, 1864; grave 6838.\\nRothermel, Am b, private, October 21, 1863, three years substitute; cap-\\ntured at Reams s Station August 25, 1864; died at Salisbury, N. C, Novem-\\nber 7, 1864.\\nShaffer, Lavinus W., private, September 26, 1862, three years; taken\\nprisoner at Tolopotomy Creek May 30, 1864; mustered out with company\\nJune I, 1865.\\nStewart, John, private, September 26, 1862, three years; sent to insane\\nasylum November i, 1862; absent at muster out.\\nSlagle, W. L., private, September 7, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate January 16, 1863.\\nSmith, Martin, private, September 7, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nCompany E, Nineteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, November i, 1863\\ndischarged by general order July 13, 1865.\\nSwitzer, James H., private, September 7, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nCompany E, Nineteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, February 15, 1864.\\nStout, John M., private, September 26, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D, Nineteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, March 14, 1864;\\ndischarged by general order July 13, 1865.\\nSloan, William J. M., private, September 7, 1862, three years died at\\nMorrisville, Va., September 9, 1863.\\nSwitzer, John, private, October 29, 1863, three years; died at Stevens-\\nburg, Va., February 26, 1864.\\nSalyards, Napoleon B., private, September 26, 1862, three years; wounded\\nat Tolopotomy Creek May 30, 1864; died at City Point, Va., April 2, 1865,\\nof wounds received in action.\\nTschopp, Bennival, private, October 20, 1863, three years; substitute;\\ntransferred to Company K, Fifty-third Regiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nThompson, Denton L., private, September 7, 1862, three years; killed at\\nGettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0323.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "298 History of Clarion County.\\nThomas, Christian, private, September i, 1863, three years; drafted; died\\nat Stevensburg, Va., January 7, 1864.\\nThompson, Benjamin, private, September 7, 1862, three years; killed at\\nPo River, Va., May 10, 1864.\\nVarner, James, private, September 7, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate February 18, 1863.\\nVanhouter, John, private, February 26, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany H, Fifty-third Regiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nVanhouter, M Comb, private, February 26, 1864, three years; died at\\nWashington, D. C, October 30, 1864, of wounds received in action at Reams s\\nStation buried in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.\\nWoods, Lebbeus B., private, September 26, 1862, three years; wounded\\nand captured at Spottsylvania Court House, Va., May 12, 1864; discharged by\\ngeneral order June 21, 1865.\\nWilson, Robert H., private, September 7, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June i, 1865.\\nWilson, Uriah, private, September 7, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June i, 1865.\\nWoods, David D., private, September 7, 1862, three years; absent, sick,\\nat muster out.\\nWiant, Henry C, private, September 7, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate April 2, 1864.\\nWentzel, Henry W., private, February 26, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nCold Harbor, Va., June 15, 1864; transferred to Company K, Fifty-third\\nRegiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nWiant, George F., private, February 26, 1864, three years wounded at\\nSpottsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864; transferred to Company K, Fifty- third\\nRegiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nWeckerley, William E., private, February 26, 1864, three years; trans-\\nferred to Company K, Fifty-third Regiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nWasser, Melcher, private, September 26, 1862, three years; wounded and\\ncaptured at Gettysburg; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps February 15,\\n1864; discharged by general order July 14, 1865.\\nWiant, William, private, September 7, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nChancellorsville May 3, 1864 transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps February\\n15, 1864.\\nWiant, Abraham C, private, February 26, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nPo River May 10, 1864, and at Petersburg, Va., June 16, 1864; transferred\\nto Veteran Reserve Corps January 15, 1865.\\nWoods, John, private, September 7, 1862, three years; died at Stevens-\\nburg, Va., March 8, 1864; buried in Culpepper National Cemetery, block i,.\\nsection A, row 4, grave 119.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0324.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "Company H, 149TH Regiment. 299\\nWonsetler, Adam, private, September 26, 1862, three years; killed at Po\\nRiver, Va., May 10, 1864.\\nZeigenfuss, William, private, September 26, 1862, three years; wounded\\nat Spottsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864; absent, in hospital, at muster out.\\nCHAPTER XXX.\\nCOMPANY H, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINTH REGIMENT P. V.\\nEnrollment Route to the Field Services Roll.\\nSOME time in July, 1862, Dr. Charles B. Strattan, of Strattanville, received\\na letter from Colonel Roy Stone, of Warren, Pa., asking him to enlist a\\ncompany for his Bucktail Brigade, then being formed at Camp Curtin. Dr.\\nStrattan consented, and soon received the proper authority. He secured the\\nservices of James E. Johnston and William S. Hamler, of Strattanville, and\\nbegan recruiting, making Strattanville headquarters. When fifty-four men had\\nbeen enlisted the company was unexpectedly called to Harrisburg, without the\\nrequisite number of men. They proceeded in wagons to Kittanning and on\\nthe cars to Pittsburgh. From there they went to Harrisburg, and were there\\nconsolidated with thirty- four men from Lewistown, Mifflin county, under\\nGeorge W. Soult, and designated Company H of the One Hundred and Forty-\\nninth Regiment, with Dr. Strattan as captain, and George W. Soult as first lieu-\\ntenant, being mustered into the United States service August 30, 1862.\\nThe regiment was at once forwarded to the field via Washington, where it\\nremained till after the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. Company H\\nwas detached and sent to Georgetown, D. C, and put on guard at Union Hotel\\nHospital, and also at Catholic College Hospital, where it served all winter.\\nWhen the company was at Georgetown it was commanded by Lieutenant\\nSoult, Captain Strattan being on detached duty. On a trip to Harper s Ferry\\nwith some prisoners, Captain Strattan contracted a severe cold, which termi-\\nnated in a violent typhoid fever. He recovered, but being in an emaciated\\ncondition, he resigned and was discharged December 18, 1862, and Lieutenant\\nSoult was promoted to captain January i, 1863.\\nThe company boarded a steamer and started for the front on the 15th of\\nFebruary, and landed at the mouth of Potomac Creek on the Potomac River.\\nFrom there the troops marched to Belle Plain. The day they arrived there it\\nsnowed six inches. The soldiers had no tents or covering of any kind. They\\nsuffered severely, but not a murmur was heard from Company H. At the sec-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0325.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "300 History of Clarion County.\\nond battle of Fredericksburg, April 28th, the regiment moved to a position\\nnear Pollock s Mills and halted. Next morning it moved down to the banks\\nof the Rappahannock, and was subjected to a rapid fire of shot and shell from\\nthe batteries of the enemy on the opposite side of the river. This was the com-\\npany s first interview with the enemy. To steady the nerves and give courage\\nto the men, each one was given a small quantity of whisky mixed with gun-\\npowder. Some relished it and others cast the drug away. This was the open-\\ning of the Chancellorsville campaign, through which the company passed with-\\nout loss, and then came the Gettysburg campaign, in which the company\\nfought three days on the extreme right of the Union line. Captain Soult led\\nthe company in and fought valiantly until disabled by a bullet from the enemy,\\nJuly I but his gallant soldiers fought on, and during the struggle captured\\ntwo field pieces and took them off the field. The company were almost anni-\\nhilated, only nine men being fit for duty after the third day s fight, James E.\\nJohnston, second lieutenant, and Jno. D. Smith being two of the nine.\\nBy the time the army entered upon the Wilderness campaign Company H\\nagain presented a respectable force. It lost heavily in the Wilderness. It\\ntook part in the battles of Spottsylvania, North Anna, Weldon Railroad, also\\nHatcher s Run and Petersburg. On the i8th of February, 1865, the One\\nHundred and Forty-ninth was detached from the Army of the Potomac, and\\nordered north on duty. It proceeded to Elmira, N. Y., where Company H did\\nguard duty over Confederate prisoners. It filled out its term there, and was\\nmustered out of service June 24, 1865.\\nThe writer is under obligations to Captain Stratton, John D. Smith, and J.\\nC. Young, for information concerning this company.\\nRoll of Company H, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment.^\\nCharles B. Stratton, captain, August 30, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate, November 18, 1862.\\nGeorge W. Soult, captain, August 30, 1862, three years promoted from\\nfirst lieutenant January i, 1863; wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July i, 1863;\\ndischarged June 24, 1865.\\nSylvanus D. Hamler, first lieutenant, August 30, 1862, three years; pro-\\nmoted from second lieutenant January i, 1863; wounded at Gettysburg, Pa.,\\nJuly I, 1863; killed at Spottsylvania Court House, Va., May 10, 1864.\\nMatthias R. Moser, first lieutenant, August 26, 1862, three years; pro-\\nmoted from sergeant to first sergeant to second lieutenant, April 26, 1864 to\\nfirst lieutenant June 26, 1864; mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nJames E. Johnston, second lieutenant, August 30, 1862, three years; pro-\\nmoted from first sergeant January i, 1863 discharged on surgeon s certificate\\nApril 4, 1864.\\n1 Copied from Bates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0326.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "Company H, 149TH Regiment. 301\\nJames Russell, second lieutenant August 30, 1862, three years; promoted\\nfrom sergeant July i, 1864; mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nJohn A. Bamber, first sergeant, August 30, 1862, three years; mustered\\nout with company June 24, 1865.\\nJames W. Henry, sergeant, August 26, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nGettysburg, Pa., July i, 1863 mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nJames C. Wilson, sergeant, August 30, 1862, three years; promoted from\\ncorporal April i, 1865 mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nLewis Statzler, sergeant, August 26, 1862, three years; wounded at North\\nAnna River, Va., May 23, 1864; promoted from corporal April i, 1865 mus-\\ntered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nJ. G. Rifenberrick, sergeant, August 30, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nGettysburg, Pa., July i, 1863 promoted from corporal May i, 1865; mus-\\ntered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nJoseph J. McMillen, sergeant, August 30, 1862, three years discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate July 18, 1863.\\nAustin Gro, sergeant, August 26, 1862, three years wounded at Get-\\ntysburg, Pa., July I, 1863; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps January i,\\n1865.\\nThomas D. Hummel, corporal, August 26, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nLaurel Hill, Va., May 8, 1864; absent at muster out.\\nNathaniel Kennedy, corporal, August 26, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nLaurel Hill, Va., May 8, 1864, and at Hatcher s Run February 7, 1865 mus-\\ntered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nAndrew O. Johnson, sergeant, August 30, 1862, three years prisoner from\\nMay 5, 1864, to February 26, 1865 promoted to corporal May i, 1865 mus-\\ntered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nJas. B. Crawford, corporal, August 26, 1862, three years; promoted to cor-\\nparal May i, 1865 mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nWoodroe Douglass, corporal, August 30, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal May i, 1865 mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nWm. Cornelius, corporal, August 30, 1862, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal May I, 1865 mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nAlex r K. Shimer, corporal, October 16, 1863, three years; drafted; pro-\\nmoted to corporal May i, 1865 mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nWilliam K. Murphy, corporal, July 11, 1863, three years; drafted; pro-\\nmoted to corporal May i, 1865 mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nW. M. Rifenberrick, corporal, August 30, 1862, three years; wounded with\\nloss of leg at Spottsylvania C. H., Va., May ii, 1864; discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate January 26, 1865.\\nWilliam A., Guthrie, private, August 30, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nSignal Corps September i, 1863.\\n29", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0327.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "302 History of Clarion County.\\nPaul Bickel, corporal, August 26, 1862, three years; died at Philadelphia,.\\nPa., August 2 of wounds received at Gettysburg July i, 1863.\\nJacob Landis, corporal, August 26, 1862, three years; died June 17,\\n1864.\\nJas. W. McCartney, private, August 26, 1862, three years; died February\\nII, 1865, of wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864.\\nHenry Rothrock, corporal, August 26, 1862, three years; died June 25\\nof wounds received at Laurel Hill, Va., May 8, 1864; buried in National Cem-\\netery, Arlington.\\nRobert A. Stroup, corporal, August 30, 1862, three years; captured at\\nWilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; died on steamer 5. R. Spaiilding March 4,\\n1865 buried in U. S. Gen. Hos. Cem., No. 2, Annapolis, Md.\\nJohn Smith, musician, August 30, 1862, three years; transferred to Signal\\nCorps September i, 1863.\\nGeorge W. Conser, musician, August 30, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nSignal Corps September i, 1863.\\nApplebaugh, R. T., private, August 26, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate March 13, 1863.\\nAllen, David, private, August 26, 1862, three years; transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nBlanco, Charles W., private, August 30, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 24, 1865.\\nBeegle, William A., private, September 28, 1863, three years; drafted;\\nwounded at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1865 mustered out with company June\\n24, 1865.\\nBaumgardner, E. A., private, August 19, 1863, three years; drafted; cap-\\ntured at Weldon Railroad, Va., August 21, 1864; died at Salisbury, N. C,\\nDecember 13, 1864.\\nBottorf, David, private, October 5, 1864, three years; drafted; absent,\\nsick, at muster out.\\nBratton, Samuel G., private, August 26, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 24, 1865.\\nBarkley, Wm. H., private, March 8, 1865, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 24, 1865.\\nBobb, Moses, private, August 26, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate June 2, 1863.\\nBaumgardner, Jno., private, August 26, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate December 26, 1863.\\nBaumgardner, E., private, September 11, 1863, three years; drafted;\\nwounded at Laurel Hill, Va., May 8, 1864; discharged on surgeon s certificate\\nJanuary 18, 1865.\\nBaumgardner, Jos., private, February 29, 1864, three years; wounded and", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0328.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "Company H, 149TH Regiment. 303\\ncaptured at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; died at Andersonville, Ga., Au-\\ngust 25, 1864; grave 6^]^.\\nBousch, Christian, private, August 20, 1863, three years; drafted; died\\nJune 23 of wounds received at North Anna River, Va., May 23, 1864 buried\\nin National Cemetery Alexandria grave 2230.\\nBarcus, Lewis, private, August 26, 1862, three years; died November 25,\\n1862.\\nBeatty, Miles H., private, August 30, 1862, three years; died June 21,\\n1863 buried near Guilford Station, Va.\\nButler, Charles, private, August 19, 1863, three years; drafted; deserted\\nDecember 5, 1863.\\nCrotzer, Daniel, private, August 26, 1862, three years; wounded at Get-\\ntysburg, Pa., July I, 1863 prisoner from February 6 to March 25, 1865; dis-\\ncharged by general order June 21, 1865.\\nCanady, Boyd R., private, September 26, 1863, three years; drafted;\\nwounded at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; mustered out with company June\\n24, 1865.\\nCoover, Samuel H., private, March 21, 1865, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 24, 1865.\\nCanaan, Richard, private, August 30, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate January 28, 1863.\\nCruse, William, private, August 20, 1863, three years drafted; discharged\\nDecember 5, 1863.\\nDisart, Samuel G., private, September 1 1, 1863, three years drafted; mus-\\ntered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nDreese, Henry J., private, February 26, 1864, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 24, 1865.\\nDeviney, David P., private, September 28, 1863, three years; drafted;\\nmustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nDecker, Thomas, private, August 19, 1863, three years; drafted wounded\\nat Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864 mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nDunmire, Daniel, private, August 30, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate March 21, 1863.\\nDunkle. John K., private, August 30, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate June 30, 1863.\\nDavis William H., private, August 30, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nGettysburg, Pa., July i, 1863 discharged on surgeon s certificate March 26,\\n1864.\\nDavis, John, private, August 30, 1862, three years; killed at Gettysburg,\\nPa., July I, 1863.\\nFuller, William, private, August 26, 1862, three years; wounded at Get-\\ntysburg, Pa., July I, 1863 mustered out with company June 24, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0329.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "304 History of Clarion County.\\nFitchthorn, Aug., private, September 12, 1863, three years draftfd\\nwounded at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; mustered out with company June\\n24, 1865.\\nFink, Jacob F., private, September 26, 1863, three years; drafted; mus-\\ntered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nFay, Patrick, private, September 28, 1863, three years; drafted; wounded\\nat Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864 discharged by general order March 31, 1865.\\nForsyth, James, private, August 26, 1862, three years; killed at Gettys-\\nburg, Pa., July I, 1863.\\nFultz, Jackson, private, August 20, 1863, three years drafted died July\\n23, of wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864 buried in National\\nCemetery, City Point.\\nFleming, James H., private, August 30, 1862, three years; deserted Au-\\ngust 6, 1863.\\nGalbraith, Wash n, private, August 30, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nGettysburg, Pa., July i, 1863 mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nGrenour, John, private, September 26, 1863, three years; drafted; wounded\\nat Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; discharged on surgeon s certificate June 24,\\n1865.\\nHanould, Jos. T., private, August 30, 1862, three years wounded at Wil-\\nderness, Va., May 5, 1864; mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nHow, John W., private, September 12, 1863, three years; drafted; wounded\\nat Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps;\\ndischarged by general order July 13, 1865.\\nHand, James, private, September 28, 1863, three years drafted mustered\\nout with company June 24, 1865.\\nHaux, Jacob, private, September 29, 1863, three years drafted missing\\nin action at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864.\\nHarshberger, Christian, private, August 30, 1862, three years; drafted;,\\nmissing in action at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864.\\nHolt, John D,, private, September 11, 1863, three years; drafted; trans-\\nferred to Department of Northwest August 1 1, 1864.\\nHarrington, James T., private, August 26, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nGettysburg, Pa., July i, 1863 transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps January\\nI, 1865.\\nHarkless, George, private, August 30, 1862, three years; died May 23,\\n1863.\\nHanould, Daniel L., private, August 30, 1862, three years died July ii,\\nof wounds received at Gettysburg, Pa., July i, 1863.\\nHister, Franklin G., private, August 20, 1863, three years; drafted; died\\nJanuary 9, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, O. A. R. R., Fords of\\nRapidan, Va.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0330.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "Company H, 149TH Regiment. 305\\nJumper, Barnett, private, September 28, 1863, three years; drafted;\\nwounded at Weldon Railroad, Va., August 21, 1864 discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate May 4, 1865.\\nJohnson, George, private, March 3, 1864, three years; prisoner from May\\n5, 1864, to February 28, 1865 discharged by general order June 6, 1865.\\nKauffman, John S., private, August 26, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nWilderness, Va., May 6, 1864; mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nKercher, John, private, September 21, 1863, three years; drafted; cap-\\ntured at Bristoe Station, Va., October 18, 1863; absent, at Camp Parole, at\\nmuster out.\\nKnapp, Peter, private, September 20, 1863, three years; missing in action\\nat Weldon Railroad, Va., August 21, 1864.\\nKoon, John J., private, August 26, 1862, three years; transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nKeeley, Francis P. A., private, August 30, 1862, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate April 14, 1863.\\nKearnes, George W., private, August 26, 1862, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate December 12, 1862.\\nKeever, William A., private, August 26, 1862, three years; died Decem-\\nber 4, 1862.\\nKline, David C, private, August 26, 1862, three years; killed at Gettys-\\nburg, Pa., July I, 1863 buried in National Cemetery, section B, grave 15.\\nLane, Benjamin H., private, August 30, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 24, 1865.\\nLivingston, Michael, private, September 29, 1863, three years drafted;\\nmustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nLacy, Job, private, August 17, 1862, three years; drafted; wounded at\\nSpottsylvania Court House, Va., May ii, 1864; mustered out with company\\nJune 24, 1865.\\nMathers, Richard H., private, missing in action at Wilderness, Va., May 6,\\n1864.\\nMyers, William H., private, August 20, 1863, three years; drafted; de-\\nserted; returned discharged by general order July 8, 1865.\\nMayben, William, private, October 5, 1863, three years drafted; wounded\\nat North Anna River, Va., May 23, 1864; mustered out with company June\\n24, 1865.\\nMaben, James F., private, October 15, 1863, three years; drafted; cap-\\ntured at Hatcher s Run, Va., February 7, 1865 mustered out with company\\nJune 24, 1865.\\nMetz, Alexander, private, March 21, 1865, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 24, 1865.\\nMiller, Anderson P., private, August 30, 1862, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate April 7, 1863.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0331.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "3o6 History of Clarion County.\\nManning, Robert A., private, October 5, 1863, three years; drafted; dis-\\ncharged on surgeon s certificate March 10, 1865.\\nMaxwell, George W., private, August 30, 1862, three years; transferred\\nto Veteran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nManson, John W., private, August 30, 1862, three years; died at Phila-\\ndelphia, Pa., May 15, 1865.\\nMarvin, William, private, September 28, 1863, three years; drafted; died\\nMay 7, of wounds received at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864.\\nMaxwell, Adam P., private, August 30, 1862, three years; died February\\n28, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Culpepper Court House, Va., block\\nI, section A, row 6, grave 181.\\nMcMunn, Samuel, private, August 30, 1862, three years; wounded and\\nmissing in action at Weldon Railroad, Va,, August 21, 1864.\\nMcQuilkey, George, private, August 30, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 24, 1865.\\nMcManany, Samuel, private, February 26, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nWilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nMcEntire, Thomas, private, March 3, 1864, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 24, 1865.\\nMcCanna, Francis, private, August 30, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps, date unknown.\\nMcNaughton, H., private, August 30, 1862, three years; wounded at Get-\\ntysburg, Pa., July I, 1863 transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps February,\\n1865 discharged by general order June 28, 1865.\\nMcGrew, M. Frank, private, September 26, 1863, three years; drafted;\\ndied May 3, 1865.\\nPort, Winfield S., private, August 30, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order July 15, 1865.\\nPrice, Sylvester F., private, August 28, 1863, three years drafted mus-\\ntered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nPort, Jones C, private, August 30, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate December 24, 1863.\\nPotter, Calvin, private, August 30, 1862, three years; killed at Gettysburg,\\nPa., July I, 1863 buried in National Cemetery, section D, grave 3.\\nQuary, Jacob, private, August 20, 1863, three years; drafted; deserted\\nMay 5, 1864.\\nRutherford, John C, private, August 30, 1862, three years; missing in\\naction at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864.\\nRamsey, Albert, private, September 10, 1863, three years; drafted; mus-\\ntered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nRothermal, Daniel, private, September 10, 1863, three years; drafted;\\nmustered out with company June 24, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0332.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "Company H, 149TH Regiment. 307\\nReninger, James, private, March 8, 1865, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 24, 1865.\\nRoland, Samuel, private, August 26, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate October 14, 1862.\\nReed, W. H., private, August 26, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate Janiiary 2, 1864.\\nReed, Albert J., private, August 26, 1862, three years; wounded at Laurel\\nHill, Va., May 8, 1864; discharged on surgeon s certificate March 24, 1865.\\nRutherford, John, private, August 30, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate May ii, 1863.\\nRifenberrick, G. M. D., private, March 3, 1864, three years; died July 23,\\n1864.\\nShrum, Henry, private, August 30, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 24, 1864.\\nStewart, Alcana S., private, August 30, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nGettysburg, Pa., July i, 1863 missing in action at Wilderness, Va., May 5^\\n1864.\\nStroup, Joseph, private, August 30, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 24, 1865.\\nSpencer, Thomas D., private, August 30, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nWilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; mustered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nStumpff, Reuben, private, August 26, 1862, three years; wounded at Get-\\ntysburg, Pa., July I, 1863; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps; discharged\\nby general order July 29, 1865.\\nShroyer, Lewis, private, September 11, 1863, three years; drafted; mus-\\ntered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nSteel, Samuel G., private, September 28, 1863, three years; drafted;\\nwounded, with loss of leg, at Laurel Hill, Va., May 8, 1864 absent at muster\\nout.\\nShire, Lewis, private, September ii, 1863, three years; drafted; captured\\nat Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864; absent, at Camp Parole, at muster out.\\nSeabrooks, Harrison, private, October 14, 1863, three years; drafted;\\nwounded at Spottsylvania Court House, Va., May 12, 1864; discharged by\\ngeneral order May 30, 1865.\\nStrate, Dennis, private, March 20, 1865, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 24, 1865.\\nStine, Peter, private, September 29, 1863, three years; drafted; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate October 7, 1863.\\nSmith, Anson, private, August 30, 1862, three years died January 20,\\n1863 buried at Clarion, Pa.\\nStover, Reuben, private, August 30, 1862, three years; killed at Gettys-\\nburg, Pa., July I, 1863.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0333.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "3o8 History of Clarion County.\\nSnook, Simon, private, August 26, 1862, three years captured at Wilder-\\nness, Va,, May 5, 1864; died December 18, 1864.\\nStephenson, William, private, August 26, 1862, three years died June 18,\\n1863 burial record, June 28, 1863 buried in Military Asylum Cemetery,\\nD. C.\\nSage, Charles W., private, August 30, 1862, three years; deserted July 8,\\n1863.\\nSmith, John, private, August 26, 1862, three years; deserted September 25,\\n1862.\\nTeats, William A., private, August 30, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 24, 1865.\\nTerwillegard, William, private, August 30, 1862, three years prisoner\\nfrom May 5, 1864, to February 25, 1865 mustered out with company June\\n24, 1864.\\nTaylor, William A., private, August 20, 1863, three years; drafted; mus-\\ntered out with company June 24, 1865.\\nVandusen, Stephen, private, March 3, 1865, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 24, 1865.\\nVasbinder, Frank, private, March 3, 1865, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 24, 1865.\\nWeber, Charles, private, August 17, 1863, three years drafted; wounded\\nat Spottsylvania C. H., Va., May 12, 1864; discharged by general order June\\n16, 1865.\\nWagner, Elias, private, February 26, 1864, three years mustered out with\\ncompany June 24, 1865.\\nWilliams, John, private, August 30, 1862, three years; wounded at Get-\\ntysburg, Pa., July I, 1863 discharged on surgeon s certificate October 12,\\n1865.\\nZimmerman, B. F. G., private, March 23, 1865, three years mustered out\\nwith company June 24, 1865.\\nCHAPTER XXXI.\\nCOMPANY G, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT P. V.\\nEnlistment To the Field Services Roll.\\nIN July, 1862, Dr. Klotz recruited a company known as the West Clarion\\nGuards. The men were enlisted in Richland, Salem and Washington\\ntownships. The company met at Blair s Corners August 14, and proceeded by", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0334.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "Company G, i 55x11 Regiment. 309\\nwagons to Kittanning via Callensburg and Rimersburg, reaching Kittanning\\nthat night. They immediately got aboard the cars and proceeded that night\\nto Pittsburgh, where for a while the men were quartered in Lafayette Hall.\\nThe company went into camp at Camp Copeland, and was mustered into the\\nUnited States service August 28, 1862. In September the company pro-\\nceeded by rail to Harrisburg and was placed in the One Hundred and Fifty-\\nfifth Regiment and designated Company G. At Harrisburg it was armed and\\nclothed, and then it was hurried forward to Washington and placed in the de-\\nfenses across the Potomac, being assigned to the Second Brigade, Third Di-\\nvision of the Fifth Corps. The regiment advanced to Antietam, but was not\\nengaged. The first duty of Company G was on the i8th of September, 1862.\\nAfter the battle of Antietam Company G and Company C were detached from\\nthe regiment and, with the One Hundred and Eighteenth Pennsylvania, ordered\\nto cross the Potomac and take possession of the opposite heights. The com-\\npany advanced to the river bank and unslung their knapsacks and haversacks,\\npreparatory to fording the stream. When this was done Captain Klotz volun-\\nteered to stay and guard the impedimenta till the boys crossed the stream and\\nattended to the work on the other side. Under command of Lieutenants\\nMeeker and Kribbs the boys plunged into the water up to their waists,\\ncrossed over, engaged the enemy and were beaten back, recrossing the stream\\nwithout loss.\\nThe company took part in the battle of Fredericksburg. In the spring of\\n1863 the regiment was assigned to the Second Brigade, Second Division of\\nthe Fifth Corps. The regiment did desperate fighting at Gettysburg on the\\n2d of July. It fought its way to the very crest of Little Round Top, which\\nposition it held against the most furious assaults of the enemy, and viewed\\nunmolested from its rocky fortress the magnificent struggle on the following\\nday. Meantime Captain Klotz had been discharged, January 10, 1863, and\\nthe company was commanded by Capt. George F. Morgan. From this time on\\nthe fortunes of the regiment were shared by Company G. The accompanying\\nroll has been carefully corrected by Sergeant W. F. Collner, who at various\\ntimes commanded the company, and who had the honor of being in command\\nat Appomattox. The company was mustered out June 2, 1865. It should\\nbe observed that the following names on the roll were carried on to the rolls of\\nCompany G from the rolls of the Sixty-second Pennsylvania, but that they\\nneverjoined the company, viz.: Thomas Hamilton, William Vandiver, William\\nWenner, James White, Philip Baumgard, Charles Blume, John Burns, Joha\\nEshelman, William H. Fortune, Squire H. Hayden, William Hall, John W.\\nJones, George Mingflower, Charles Osburne, John Reily, and Solomon Smith.\\nSome of these are marked deserted, when, no doubt, they should not be, as\\ntheir presence elsewhere may have been as carelessly noted as it was in this\\ncompany they never having been with the company at all.\\n30", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0335.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "3IO History of Clarion County.\\nCorrected Roll of Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth\\nRegiment.\\nCharles Klotz, captain, September 2, 1862, three years; discharged Janu-\\nary 10, 1863.\\nGeorge F. Morgan, captain, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted from\\nsergeant-major to captain January 10, 1863 brevet major April 9, 1865 ab-\\nsent on detached service at muster out.\\nMiles P. Sigworth, first lieutenant, September 2, 1862, three years; dis-\\ncharged December 15, 1862.\\nJohn A. Kribbs, first lieutenant, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted\\nfrom first sergeant January 10, 1863 mustered out with company June 2,\\n1865.\\nEdwin Meeker, second lieutenant, September 2, i8$2, three years; dis-\\ncharged January 10, 1863.\\nArthur W. Bell, second lieutenant, August 22, 1862, three years; pro-\\nmoted from sergeant-major January 10, 1863 mustered out with company\\nJune 2, 1865.\\nWilliam F. CoUner, first sergeant, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered\\nout with company June 2, 1865.\\nOliver Paup, sergeant, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nFranklin Shoup, sergeant, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nAlonzo McMichael, sergeant, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nJosiah Fillman, sergeant, August 28, 1862, three years; promoted from\\ncorporal May 21, 1865 mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nFranklin H. Cope, sergeant, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate November 30, 1862.\\nDaniel Whitling, sergeant, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate January 25, 1863.\\nThomas H. Hall, sergeant, January 24, 1862, three years; discharged by\\nspecial order September 20, 1864; veteran.\\nGeorge W. Paup, sergeant, August 28, 1862, three years; died December\\n9, 1862.\\nDaniel Imbody, sergeant, August 28, 1862, three years; died of wounds\\nMay 20, 1862 buried in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.\\nEdward Alexander, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nEmanuel Sloughenhoupt, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; mus-\\ntered out with company June 2, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0336.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "Company G, 155TH Regiment. 311\\nWilliam Fowles, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; wounded; pro-\\nmoted to corporal March i, 1865 mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nGeorge F. Piatt, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; wounded May\\n5, 1864; promoted to corporal May 21, 1865 mustered out with company\\nJune 2, 1865.\\nCharles Alt, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate May 18, 1863; died after being discharged burial record,\\ndied March 28, 1863 buried in Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C.\\nMatt. M. Eshleman, corporal, August 28. 1862, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate December 24, 1862.\\nJohn Morgan, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged Janu-\\nary 17, 1863.\\nJohn G. Sherline, corporal, August 23, 1862, three years; discharged by\\nspecial order November 5, 1864.\\nDaniel M. Delo, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate January 30, 1863.\\nWm. H. Smithman, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate April 3, 1865.\\nJames L. Black, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nSpottsylvania May 12, 1864; discharged by general order May 30, 1865.\\nPaul Mahle, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; wounded at Wilder-\\nness, Va., May 5, 1864; discharged by general order, date unknown.\\nJohn Konkle, corporal, July 10, 1863, three years; drafted; promoted to\\ncorporal March 15, 1865 discharged by general order June 2, 1865.\\nAndrew Jackson, corporal, March 24, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nNorth Anna, May 23, 1864; promoted to corporal May i, 1865; discharged\\nby general order June 9, 1865.\\nEdward Swartz, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps September i, 1863.\\nWilliam Vensel, corporal, March 24, 1864, three years; died February 24,\\n1865, of wounds received in action at Hatcher s Run February 6; buried in\\nNational Cemetery, Loudon Park, Baltimore, Md.\\nCharles Wiles, corporal, August 28, 1862, three years; deserted 1863.\\nAmsler, John, private, August 28, 1862, three years; wounded December\\n13, 1863 transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps September 30, 1863.\\nBeals, Jacob, private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nBeals, Hiram, private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nBowser, Emanuel, private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate April 2, 1863.\\nBish, Abraham, private, March 24, 1864, three years; wounded with loss", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0337.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "312 History of Clarion County.\\nof leg at first Hatcher s Run October 29, 1863 discharged on surgeon s cer-\\ntificate March 9, 1865.\\nBest, Wilh am F., private, August 28, 1862, three years; wounded at Pe-\\ntersburg, Va., March 25, 1865; discharged by general order, date unknown.\\nBaumgard, Phihp, private, August 18, 1864, three years; substitute; dis-\\ncharged by general order June 3, 1865.\\nBoyd, William J., private, February 29, 1864, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order May 31, 1865.\\nBuhle, William, private, August 9, 1864, three years; substitute; trans-\\nferred to Company C, 191st Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nBlume, Charles, private, March 2, 1865, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany C, 191st Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nBish, James, private, March 24, 1864, three years; wounded four times;\\ntransferred to Company C, 191st Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nBaker, Marion M., private, August 28, 1862, three years; died October 3,\\n1862 buried in National Cemetery, Antietam, Md., sec. 26, lot B, grave 120-\\nBoyer, Richard W., private, August 28, 1862, three years; deserted De-\\ncember 14, 1862.\\nBest, Peter W., private, August 28, 1862, three years; deserted July i,\\n1863.\\nBest, Gottlieb, private, March 31, 1864, three years; deserted October\\n1864.\\nBurns, John, private, August 28, 1863, three years; substitute; deserted\\nMay 4, 1864.\\nCleeland, William, private, August 22, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps July i, 1863 discharged by general order June 24,\\n1865.\\nDehner, Leonard, private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nDittman, Adam, private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nDarnell, Edward, private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 5, 1865.\\nDower, Peter, private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nDisher, John, private, August 28, 1862, three years; wounded at Fred-\\nericksburg December 13, 1863 transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps April\\n22, 1863.\\nDisher, Nathan, private, August 28, 1862, three years; died April i, 1863.\\nEdinger, George W., private, August 28, 1862, three years mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nEdinger, Andrew J., private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0338.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "Company G, issth Regiment. 313\\nEiserman, Miles, private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nEdinger, John, private, March 18, 1864, three years wounded at Wilder-\\nness May 5, 1864; discharged December 12, 1864, for wounds received in\\naction.\\nEdinger, Andrew, private, August 28, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nPetersburg, Va., March 25, 1865 discharged by general order May 24,\\n1865.\\nEshelman, John, private, March 2, 1865, three years; discharged by gen-\\neral order June 7, 1865.\\nEiserman, Ferdinand, private, August 28, 1862, three years; died March\\n12, 1865, of wounds received in action at Hatcher s Run buried in National\\nCemetery, Loudon Park, Baltimore, Md.\\nFries, John G. A., private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nFrench, William, private, September 22, 1864, three years; substitute;\\nmustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nFulmer, Henry, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany C, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nFowles, Erred, private, August 28, 1862, three years; died October 6,\\n1862, of wounds received in action; buried in National Cemetery, Antietam,\\nMd., section 26, lot B, grave 197.\\nFortune, William H., private, July 16, 1863, three years; substitute; de-\\nserted, date unknown.\\nGreer, John P., private, August 29, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nGilner, Peter, private, July 22, 1861, three years; discharged by general\\norder January 28, 1865.\\nGordon, John, private, March i, 1864, three years; wounded at Spottsyl-\\nvania C. H., Va., May 12, 1864; absent in hospital at muster out discharged\\nat Philadelphia.\\nGroner, Jacob, private, August 28, 1862, three years; died Januarv 6,\\n1863.\\nGoughler, Joseph, private, August 28, 1862, three years; deserted Decem-\\nber 14, 1862.\\nHunsbarger, Jacob, private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nHess, William, private, August 28, 1862, three years; wounded at Laurel\\nHill May 8, 1864; mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nHeeter, Franklin, private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate January 25, 1863.\\nHughes, John, private, August 28, 1862, three years discharged March 6,\\n1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0339.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "314 History of Clarion County.\\nHybarger, Amos, private, August 28, 1862, three years wounded at Five\\nForks, April i, 1865 discharged by general order May 31, 1865.\\nHarris, Sylvester, private, March 31, 1864, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order June 22, 1865.\\nHunsicker, Peter, private, March 24, 1864, three years transferred to Com-\\npany C, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nHagan, James, private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; wounded in\\naction May 15, 1864; transferred to Company C, One Hundred and Ninety-\\nfirst Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nHondle, George, private, August 28, 1862, three years; killed at Fred-\\nericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862.\\nHummel, Henry J., private, August 28, 1862, three years; died June 5,\\n1864, of wounds received in action May 5, 1864 buried in National Cemetery,\\nArlington, Va.\\nHunsbarger, Henry, February 29, 1864, three years; killed at Hatcher s\\nRun, Va., February 6, 1865.\\nHayden, Squire H., private, July 16, 1863, three years; snbstitute de-\\nserted March 25, 1864.\\nHall, William, private, August 13, 1863, three years; substitute; deserted\\nOctober 13, 1863.\\nHamilton, Thomas, private, March 26, 1864, three years; not on muster-\\nout roll.\\nImhofif, Henry, private, August 28, 1862, three years discharged by gen-\\neral order July 13, 1865.\\nIsensee, Frederick, private, August 5, 1864, three years; substitute; killed\\nat Gravelly Run, Va., March 31, 1865.\\nJones, John W., private, November 19, 1863, three years; substitute; de-\\nserted April 15, 1864.\\nKeefer, George J., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order June 24, 1865.\\nKeefer, David, private, July 16, 1863, three years; drafted; transferred to\\nCompany A, Twenty-second Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps discharged\\nby general order August 4, 1865.\\nKeefer, Jacob M., private, February 25, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany C, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nKing, Christian, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany C, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nKline, Gustavus, private, July 27, 1864, three years; substitute; trans-\\nferred to Company C, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2^\\n1865.\\nKeely, Jeremiah, private, August 28, 1862, three years; killed at Peters-\\nburg, Va., June 18, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0340.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "Company G, 155TH Regiment. 315\\nLittle, William B., private, July 18, 1863, three years; substitute; dis-\\ncharged by general order May ii, 1865.\\nLilly, Richard S., private, August 28, 1862, three years; died December\\n25, 1865.\\nMong, Joseph, private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nMong, Isaac W., private, August 28, 1862, three years wounded at Peters-\\nburg June 18, 1864; mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nMeeley, Alexander, private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate January 10, 1863.\\nMyres, John W., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate January 21, 1863; died after discharge at Washington,\\nD. C.\\nMartin, Edward M., private, August 20, 1 861, three years; discharged\\nAugust 23, 1864 expiration of term.\\nMartin, Charles W., private, February 8, 1862, three years; discharged\\nFebruary 8, 1865 expiration of term.\\nMahle, Jerry, private, August 25, 1862, three years discharged by gene-\\nral order May 31, 1865.\\nMarsh, John N., private, August 28, 1862, three years; wounded at Quaker\\nRoad, Va., March 29, 1865 discharged by general order, date unknown died\\nfrom wound.\\nMahle, Levi J., private, August 28, 1862, three years; died January 13,\\n1863.\\nMortimer, William F., private, August 28, 1862, three years; died April\\n28, 1864.\\nMiller, John, private, August 28, 1862, three years; killed at Laurel Hill,\\nVa., May 8, 1864; buried in Burial Grounds, Wilderness.\\nMiller, Henry W., private, August 28, 1862, three years; deserted Decem-\\nber 14, 1862.\\nMingflower, George, private, March 26, 1864, three years; not on muster-\\nout roll.\\nMcGary, Augustus, private, July 28, 1864, three years; substitute; mus-\\ntered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nMcKee, John H., private, August 10, 1863, three years; transferred to\\nCompany C, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nMcFarland, John, private, July 22, 1861, three years; missed in action at\\nHatcher s Run, Va., February 6, 1865 veteran.\\nMcCabe, Alexander, private, August 20, 1861, three years; discharged\\nAugust 23, 1864 expiration of term.\\nNeely, John, private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0341.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "3i6 History of Clarion County.\\nNevil, John A., private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865 wounded at Petersburg June 18, 1864.\\nNeiderlander, Joseph, private, August 19, 1864, three years; substitute;\\nabsent, in hospital, at muster out.\\nNeil, Thomas, private, July 22, 1863, three years; drafted transferred to\\nCompany C, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nOler, John, private, August 28, 1862, three years; killed at Chancellors-\\nville, Va., May 3, 1863.\\nOsburne, Charles, private, September 2, 1863, three years; substitute; de-\\nserted October 13, 1863.\\nPauchert, John A., private, August 19, 1864, three years; substitute; mus-\\ntered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nPiatt, John S., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate November 26, 1862.\\nPiatt, George O., private, August 28, 1862, three years wounded at Five\\nForks, Va., April i, 1865 discharged by general order June 7, 1865.\\nPiatt, Hugh P., private, August 28, 1862, three years; died December 21,\\n1862, of wounds received in action December 13 buried in Military Asylum\\nCemetery, D. C.\\nPoler, Joseph, private, January 18, 1864, three years; missing in action at\\nWilderness, Va., May 5, 1864.\\nReichner, Jeremiah, private, March 24, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nLaurel Hill May 8, 1864; discharged on surgeon s certificate March 23, 1865.\\nReily, John, private, March 26, 1864, three years transferred to Company\\nC, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nSwab, George, private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nStagley, David E., private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nSheets, Samuel C, private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate April 14, 1863.\\nSmidth, Casper, private, August 18, 1864, three years; wounded at Five\\nForks April i, 1865 substitute; absent, in hospital, at muster out.\\nStitt, William H., private, August 23, 1864, three years; wounded at Five\\nForks, Va., March 31, 1865 discharged by general order June 5, 1865.\\nShaffer, John, private, December 3, 1863, three years wounded at Peeble s\\nFarm, Va., September 30, 1864; discharged by general order June 2, 1865.\\nStewart, Robert, private, April 11, 1864, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany C, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nSmith, William B., private, August 20, 1863, three years; drafted; trans-\\nferred to Company C, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2,\\n1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0342.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "Company G, 155TH Regiment. 317\\nStringfellow, J. W., private, August 28, 1862, three years died November\\n28, 1862.\\nSnyder, John, private, August 28, 1862, three years killed at Fredericks-\\nburg, Va., December 13, 1862.\\nSwab, Jonas P., private, August 28, 1862, three years; died December 29,\\n1862.\\nSmith, Solomon, private, August 6, 1864, three years substitute; deserted\\nSeptember 2, 1864.\\nTaylor, William, private, August 5, 1864, three years; substitute; mus-\\ntered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nToman, Amos, private, August 28, 1862, three years discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate November 30, 1862.\\nTaylor, Thomas, private, August 28, 1862, three years; wounded at Pee-\\nble s Farm, Va., September 30, 1864 absent, in hospital, at muster out.\\nTimmons, Joseph, private, August 22, 1864, three years; substitute; dis-\\ncharged by general order June 3, 1865.\\nThomas, John G., private, January 29, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nSpottsylvania Court House, Va., May 12, 1864; absent, in hospital, at muster\\nout.\\nToman, John, private, August 28, 1862, three years; died November 12,\\n1862 buried in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., block 2, section E, row 4,\\ngrave 73.\\nTexter, John, private, August 28, 1862, three years; killed at Fredericks-\\nburg, Va., December 13, 1862.\\nToman, Isaac, private, August 28, 1862, three years; missing in action at\\nWilderness, Va., May 5, 1864.\\nVensel, Jacob, private, February 29, 1864, three years transferred to Vet-\\neran Reserve Corps November, 1864.\\nVandiver, William, private, July 13, 1863, three years; drafted; deserted\\nApril 15, 1864.\\nWill, Franklin, private, August 28, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nWeber, John, private, August 17, 1864, three years substitute; mustered\\nout with company June 2, 1865.\\nWenthng, James H., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate, October 12, 1862.\\nWeaver, James G., private, August 28, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate, November 26, 1862.\\nWentling, Eli, private, August 28, 1862, three years discharged by gene-\\nral order June 15, 1865.\\nWoodward, William, private, August 19, 1864, three years discharged by\\ngeneral order June 3, 1865.\\n31", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0343.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "3i8 History of Clarion County.\\nWenner, William, private, July 26, 1864, three years; discharged by gen-\\neral order June 7, 1865.\\nWentling, Joshua, private, March 17, 1864, three years; transferred to\\ncompany C, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volun-\\nteers, June 2, 1865.\\nWingard, Jos. G., private, August 28, 1862, three years; transferred to\\nFourteenth Company, Second Battery Veteran Reserve Corps, September 16,\\n1863 discharged by general order June 30, 1865.\\nWetzel, Henry H., private, August 28, 1862, three years; died December\\n21, 1862.\\nWentling, Isaac, private, March 24, 1864, three years; wounded at Wil-\\nderness May 5, 1864; captured; died at Andersonville, Ga., September 28,\\n1864, grave, 9909.\\nWhite, James, private, March 9, 1864, three years not on muster-out roll.\\nYeager, Thomas, private, August 17, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany C, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volun-\\nteers, June 2, 1865.\\nCHAPTER XXXn.\\nCOMPANY H, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT P. V.\\nEnrollment Services Casualties Roll.\\nNO company in the whole number of Clarion county companies deserves a\\nhigher place in the estimation of the reader than Company H, of the One\\nHundred and Fifty-fifth. It was recruited at Rimersburg, by Professor John\\nEwing, in August, 1862, and was mustered into the United States service Au-\\ngust 22, 1862, being designated as shown by title, and assigned to the Second\\nBrigade, Third Division of the Fifth Corps. It proceeded to the field by way\\nof Kittanning, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg to Washington. The Regiment went\\ninto the field at once, lying in reserve at Antietam. At Gettysburg it did\\nmagnificent service as noted under Company G.\\nAt Petersburg the regiment lay in reserve on the i6th and 17th. On the\\n1 8th the Fifth Corps relieved the Ninth Corps in the morning and moved upon\\nthe enemy, capturing a cut in the railroad, the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth\\noccupying a position about the center of the corps. At five P. M. a charge was\\nordered, and the troops moved forward under the most fearful and destruct-\\nive fire that ever greeted brave men on a mission of death. In this terrible", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0344.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "Company H, 155TH Regiment. 319\\nordeal Company H lost twenty-two men in killed and wounded. Milton\\nStewart and William Travis were slain upon the field, and seven afterward died,\\namong whom were John Cowan, Frank Lyon, Will Horner, and William J.\\nMarks. Travis was the first man killed of the company. Milton Stewart was\\ncarried off the field and buried by A. J. White, Philip Over, and Abner Hark-\\nless. On the 22d of June General Birney commanded the Second Corps, as\\nGeneral Hancock s Gettysburg wound had re-opened. General Birney ad-\\nvanced for an extension of his line, and left an open space between his corps\\nand the Sixth corps which lay on his right. The enemy, perceiving his oppor-\\ntunity, advanced between the two corps and attacked each in the rear. The\\nFifth Corps had been held in reserve it was now ordered to charge the enemy.\\nIt drove him back across the Jerusalem Plank Road and reinstated the Union\\nline. Here Colonel Ewing, late captain of Company H, was severely wounded\\nin the foot, and Andrew J. White lost his left leg. Each was struck by a Min-\\nnie ball. In this campaign George Kerns, William Marks and John Cowan\\neach lost a leg on the i8th, and A. J. White on the 22d Lewis Gathers, also\\nof Company H, lost a leg February 6, 1865, and J. D. Burns lost an arm, date\\nunknown to the writer.\\nCaptain Ewing of Company H rose rapidly on his own merit, being pro-\\nmoted to major, to lieutenant-colonel and breveted colonel. Lieutenant D. E.\\nLyon, born of wealthy parents, entered as lieutenant and became captain, ac-\\nquitting himself with honor, and upon his discharge for sickness, Wilson E.\\nAllen became captain.\\nThe company had more than an ordinary share of brave men. At Fred-\\nericksburg, when Company C the color company was beaten back, it left\\nthe colors on the field. Captain D. E. Lyon seeing this, rallied Company H,\\nand Corporal Chalmers Lawson rushed forward, seized the colors and bore\\nthem from the field. The company was mustered out June 2, 1865. Moses D.\\nAnderson, C. W. Fulton, and A. J. White have our thanks for valuable data.\\nCorrected Roll of Company H, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth\\nRegiment P. V.\\nJohn Ewing, captain, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted to major\\nNovember i, 1863.\\nD. E. Lyon, captain, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted from first\\nlieutenant April 25, 1864; discharged on surgeon s certificate December 9,\\n1864.\\nWilson E. Allen, captain, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted from\\nsergeant to second Heutenant January 20, 1863 to first lieutenant April 25,\\n1864; to captain January 7, 1865 mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nSamuel Q. Blair, first lieutenant, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted\\nfrom corporal to sergeant October 12, 1862; to first sergeant January 20,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0345.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "320 History of Clarion County.\\n1863; to second lieutenant April 25, 1864; to first lieutenant January 10^\\n1865 mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nJohn Mooney, second lieutenant, August 22, 1862, three years discharged\\nJanuary 20, 1863.\\nElijah M. Lee, second lieutenant, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted\\nfrom corporal to sergeant October 24, 1862 to first sergeant April 25, 1864;\\nto second lieutenant January 10, 1865 mustered out with company June 2,\\n1865.\\nThomas C. Lawson, first sergeant, August 22, 1862, three years; pro-\\nmoted from corporal to sergeant March 24, 1863 to first sergeant January 10,\\n1865 mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nDavid T. Orr, first sergeant, August 22, 1862, three years; died at Law-\\nsonham, Pa., March 24, 1863.\\nWash. A. Craig, sergeant, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal March 24, 1863; to sergeant April 25, 1864; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nJohn R. Jackson, sergeant, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal October 24, 1862; to sergeant December 11, 1864; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nJames M. Lyon, sergeant, August 22, 1862, three years promoted to cor-\\nporal January 20, 1863 to sergeant January 10, 1865 mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865 wounded, date unknown.\\nT. T. Montgomery, sergeant, August 22, 1862, three years discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate April 6, 1863.\\nAlfred G. Thomas, sergeant, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate December 13, 1862.\\nDavid J. Stewart, sergeant, August 22, 1862, three years; wounded De-\\ncember 13, 1862, and at North Anna River, Va., May 24, 1864; absent, in\\nhospital, at muster out.\\nWilliam R. Whitmer, sergeant, August 22, 1862, three years; died at\\nSharpsburg, Md., October 12, 1862.\\nJames J. Irwin, sergeant August 22, 1862, three years captured died at\\nAnderson ville, Ga., October 15, 1864.\\nDavid R. Curll, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal September 11, 1863; mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nJohn Anderson, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal April 25, 1864; mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nPhilip Over, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years promoted to corporal\\nSeptember i, 1864; mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nJohn Reedy, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years promoted to corporal\\nJanuary 10, 1865 mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nJohn G. Rutherford, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged\\non surgeon s certificate March 25, 1863.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0346.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "Company H, 155TH Regiment. 321\\nIsaac N. Hagan, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted to cor-\\nporal January 15, 1865; wounded February 6, 1865; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nJohn V. Reed, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate July 15, 1863.\\nMoses D. Anderson, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nFive Forks, Va., April i, 1865 absent, in hospital, at muster out.\\nJulius P. Wilkins, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted to\\nsergeant September 11, 1863 mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nSamuel Weight, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nPetersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; transferred to Third Regiment Veteran Re-\\nserve Corps; discharged by general order April 14, 1865.\\nJacob Bruder, corporal, February 27, 1864, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order June 9, 1865.\\nAlexander Fox, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years; died at Beverly^\\nN. J., November 26, 1864.\\nWilliam Roihan, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years; died January\\n31, 1864.\\nReuben Harriger, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years; died at Phila-\\ndelphia, Pa., July 29, 1864, of wounds received in action.\\nHortio S. Harnish, corporal, August 22, 1862, three years; killed at Wil-\\nderness, Va., May 5, 1864.\\nH. Thompson, musician, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nWilkins B. Newell, musician, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nAshbaugh, Andrew, private, September 20, 1864, three years; discharged\\nby general order June 27, 1865.\\nAlexander, T. M., private, February 25, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nBell, William S., private, August 22, 1862, three years mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nBussman, George J., private, January 26, 1864, three years transferred to\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nBadger, Uriah J., private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged Sep-\\ntember 18, 1863.\\nBrown, Cooper, private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate P ebruary 24, 1863.\\nBartoe, Amos, private, February 25, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nBell, George, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0347.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "322 History of Clarion County.\\nBell, Oliver, private, February 29, 1864, three years transferred to Com-\\npany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nBurns, Richard, private, August 22, 1862, three years; died at Curllsville,\\nPa., September 13, 1864.\\nBordenstein, George, private, August 16, 1864, three years; died at Wash-\\nington, D. C, November 16, 1864, of wounds received in action; buried in\\nNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.\\nBurns, James D.. private, February 29, 1864, three years; died at Wash-\\nington, D. C, November 30, 1864, of wounds received in action buried in\\nNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.\\nBaumeister, Michael, private, August 10, 1864, three years; substitute;\\nwounded and captured at Hatcher s Run, Va., February 6, 1865 died May i,\\n1865; buried in Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Petersburg; division A,\\nsection B, grave 7.\\nConrad, Daniel F., private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nCorbett, Jerry M., private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate December 15, 1862.\\nCraig, David M., private, August 22, 1862, three years; died at Falmouth\\nVa., December 27, 1862.\\nCowan, John, private, August 22, 1862, three years; died at Alexandria,\\nVa., July II, 1864, of wounds received in action June 18 grave 2375.\\nDrittenbach, Joan, private, August 6, 1864, three years; substitute;\\nwounded at Five Forks, Va., April i, 1865 transferred to Company D, One\\nHundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nDalgauer, Albert, private, August 17, 1864, three years substitute trans-\\nferred to Company D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2,\\n1865.\\nDelp, Peter, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to Com-\\npany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nEaton, Alexander, private, August 22, 1862, three years; killed at Five\\nForks, Va., March 31, 1865.\\nFinefrock, William, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nFulton, Charles W., private, August 22, 1862, three years; promoted to\\ncorporal May 5, 1864; mustered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nFlick, John, private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate July 15, 1863.\\nFox, Leonidas, private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate September 8, 1863.\\nFox, Isaac, private, August 22, 1862, three years; wounded at Wilderness\\nVa., May 5, 1864; transferred to Company 5, Second Battery Veteran Re-\\nserve Corps; discharged by general order August 22, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0348.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "Company H, 155TH Regiment. 323\\nFox, Reynolds, private, August 22, 1862, three years; captured, died at\\nAndersonville, Ga., August 23, 1864; grave 6649.\\nForkum, William, private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate February 2, 1864.\\nFreeman, Adam, private, February 29, 1864, three years; died at Alex-\\nandria, Va., May 28, 1864, of wounds received in action grave 1948.\\nFox, William A., private, August 22, 1862, three years; died at Wash-\\nington, D. C, September 4, 1864, of wounds received in action; buried in\\nNational Cemetery Arlington, Va.\\nGourley, George B., private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nGathers, Lewis, private, February 24, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nHatcher s Run, Va., February 6, 1865 transferred to Company D, One Hun-\\ndred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nGriffith, John, private, August 22, 1862, three years; wounded and pris-\\noner May 5, 1864; discharged by general order June 18, 1865.\\nGathers, S. Ross, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June i, 1865.\\nGourley, John, private, August 12, 1862, three years; died at Falmouth,\\nVa., January 12, 1863.\\nGray, WiUiam O., private, August 22, 1862, three years; died at Wash-\\nington, D. C, February 17, 1863.\\nHartman, Wm. D., private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nHartman, Lewis, private, August 22, 1862, three years mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nHarriger, Henry, private, August 22, 1862, three years mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nHilliard, John, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nHite, Henry, private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate October 15, 1862.\\nHarkless, Abner, private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged June\\n20, 1865.\\nHamilton, David, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nHess, Henry, private, August 18, 1864, three years; substitute; transferred\\nto Company D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nHorner, William, private, August 22, 1862, three years died at City Point\\nJune 28, 1864, of wounds received in action June 18; buried in National\\nCemetery; section C, division 4, grave 175.\\nHermansdefifer, J. A., private, September 22, 1864, three years; suicided\\nOctober 7, 1864.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0349.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "324 History of Clarion County.\\nHayden, James, private, August i8, 1864, three years; transferred to Forty-\\neighth Company, Second Battery Veteran Reserve Corps discharged by gen-\\neral order September 12, 1865.\\nJordan, David, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nJohnson, Joseph R., private, August 22, 1862, three years discharged on\\nsurgeon s certificate September 25, 1863.\\nKerr, George R, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nKoler, Jacob, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nKerns, George D., private, February 29, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nPetersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; discharged December 30, 1864.\\nKerr, James, private, August 17, 1864, three years discharged by general\\norder May 19, 1865.\\nKirkwood, James J., private, February 29, 1864, three years; discharged\\nby general order June 27, 1865.\\nKifer, Joseph M., private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order May 16, 1865.\\nKorpeng, Edward, private, August 15, 1864, three years; discharged by\\ngeneral order May 19, 1865.\\nKaster, James M., private, August 22, 1862, three years died near Fal-\\nmouth, Va., January 14, 1863.\\nKuhns, Solomon, private, February, 25, 1864, three years; died August\\n22, 1864, buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, L. I.\\nLash, Jacob, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nLewis, Edward, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nLewis, John, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nLewis, John A., private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nLewis, Peter, private, August 22, 1862, three years; killed at Wilderness,\\nVa., May 5, 1864.\\nLyon, B. F., private, February 29, 1864, three years; died at Alexandria,\\nVa., July 6, 1864, of wounds received in action June 18 at Petersburg.\\nLong, B. Sloan, private, February 25, 1864, three years; died at Pitts-\\nburgh, Pa., September 11, 1864.\\nMyers, James A., private, August, 22, 1862, three years discharged by\\ngeneral order June 3, 1865.\\nMarks, William J., private, November 25, 1863, three years; died at City\\nPoint, Va., June 28, 1864, of wounds received inaction June 18.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0350.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "Company H, 155TH Regiment. 325\\nMeeker, Harnett E., private, February 25, 1864, three years; captured;\\ndied at Andersonville, Ga.,.July 17, 1864, grave 3467.\\nMoss, George, private, January 16, 1864, three years; not on muster-out\\nroll.\\nMcPherson, David, private, August 22, 1862, three years mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nMcCain, Thomas C, private, August 22, 1862, three year; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nMcTigue, Stephen, private, September 22, 1864, three years mustered\\nout with company June 2, 1865.\\nMcElravy, Charles W., private, August 22, 1862, three years discharged\\non surgeon s certificate March 25, 1863.\\nMcCall, John D., private, February 29, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nHatcher s Run, Va., February 6, 1865 transferred to Company A, One Hun-\\ndred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nMcKee, Hugh, private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged by gen-\\neral order June 12, 1865.\\nMcMullen, H. M., private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nMcMullen, Samuel A., private, February 29, 1864, three years; trans-\\nferred to Company D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2,\\n1865.\\nNail, Daniel, private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate May 20, 1864.\\nOldekop, Henry, private, August 7, 1864, three years; substitute; trans-\\nferred to Company D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2,\\n1865.\\nPernal, Adolph, private, August 23, 1865, three years; substitute mus-\\ntered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nPeters, Elias, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nPowell, John, private, August 23, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nPalmer, Absalom W., private, February 12, 1864, three years; transferred\\nto Company D, One Hundred and Ninty-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nPeters, Amos, private, February 29, 1864, three years transferred to Com-\\npany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nPorter, John T., private, February 25, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nRankin, Joseph, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nRhodes, Fullerton, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0351.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "326 History of Clarion County.\\nRipple, Adam, private, August 20, 1864, three years; substitute; mus-\\ntered out with company June 2, 1865.\\nRisher, Simeon, private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate January 13, 1863.\\nRiver, John, private, November 10, 1863, three years transferred to Com-\\npany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nRiley, James Q., private, February 29, 1864, three years; wounded May\\n5, 1864; captured; returned; died at Curllsville, Pa., January 15, 1865.\\nReedy, William, private, August 22, 1862, three years died at New York\\nJuly 16, 1864, of wounds received in action buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery,\\nL. I.\\nStewart, John A., private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nStewart, Nathan, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nSwarm, John, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nSwitzer, William, private, August 22, 1862, three years; discharged on sur-\\ngeon s certificate June 6, 1863.\\nSwires, Joseph W., private, February 25, 1864, three years; wounded at\\nHatcher s Run, Va., February 6, 1865 transferred to Company D, One Hun-\\ndred and Ninety first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nSeckengost, Daniel, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nSmith, Francis, private, February 25, 1864, three years transferred to\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nStewart, Milton, private, August 22, 1862, three years; killed at Peters-\\nburg, Va., June 18, 1864.\\nSnyder, Ira, private, Februay 9, 1864, three years; died at Point Lookout,\\nMd., March 3, 1865.\\nThornley, Charles, private, February 15, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1865.\\nTravis, William, private, February 29, 1864, three years; killed at Peters-\\nburg, Va., June 18, 1864.\\nWelsh, John, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered out with\\ncompany June 2, 1865.\\nWhitmer, Samuel, private, August 22, 1862, three years; mustered oyt\\nwith company June 2, 1865.\\nWhite, Andrew, private, August 22, 1862, three years; wounded in action\\nJune 22, 1864; discharged November 10, 1864.\\nWatterson, Samuel, private, February 29, 1864, three years; discharged\\nby general order May 16, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0352.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "Company K, 159TH Regiment. 327\\nWhitmore, Eli, private, August 22, 1862, three years; wounded at\\nHatcher s Run, Va., February 6, 1865 discharged by general order.\\nWilson, Joseph, private, February 29, 1864, three years; transferred to\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment P. V., June 2, 1862.\\nWeiser, George B., private, February 25, 1864, three years; died near\\nPetersburg, Va., June 19, 1864, of wounds received in action; buried in\\nNational Cemetery, City Point, section D, division i, grave 149.\\nCHAPTER XXXHI.\\nCOMPANY K, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY -NINTH REGIMENT P. V.- FOUR-\\nTEENTH CAVALRY.\\nFirst Enlistment Recruits Other Recruits In the Field Record of the Men.\\nTHE following named Clarion county men enlisted in September, 1862, at\\nNew Bethlehem, Pa., in Captain David K. Duff s cavalry company, viz: John\\nW. McNutt, recruiting officer Robert Simes, Joseph Case, James J. Frazier,\\nPeter Angle, Simon P. Cravenor, Noah H. Brown, James M. Goheen, and\\nSolomon C. Rhodes.\\nThe following recruits from Clarion county joined the company at Martins-\\nburg, Va., in 1864: William M. IV IcNutt, Chalkley C. Brocius, Jesse S. Mc-\\nElhoes, John F. Gruber, Amos P. Brocius, Lewis R. Coursin, Michael Craw-\\nford, Milton Hepler, Philip Hamm, Elias S. Lavan, Abraham Moore, Robert\\nMcNutt, and Tate M. Henry. Philip Farringer, Jacob S. Miller, and Richard\\nMiller joined the company at Camp Montgomery, near Pittsburgh, in November,\\n1862, and were mustered into the service with the company, but these three\\nsoon joined the Second United States Cavalry, and are noted in the miscella-\\nneous list.\\nThese men, twenty- two in all, with their regiment, left Pittsburgh Novem-\\nber 24, 1862, and went to Hagerstown, Md., thence to Harper s Ferry on the\\n28th of December, 1862, where they went into active service, doing picket duty\\nand scouting in that part of Virginia. They were almost constantly employed\\nfrom the time of the regiment s entering Virginia to the close of the war.\\nEarly in May, 1863, they were sent to Grafton, West Va., on the Baltimore and\\nOhio Railroad, where their regiment was attached to the mounted command of\\nGeneral W. W. Averell, known as Averell s Brigade of Cavalry, which belonged\\nto the Army of West Virginia. Their field of operations was in West Virginia\\nand the Shenandoah valley.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0353.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "328 History of Clarion County.\\nRoll of Clarion County Men of Company K.\\nJohn W. McNutt, first lieutenant, November i8, 1862; wounded at White\\nSulphur Springs or Rocky Gap, Va., August 26, 1863; discharged November\\n8, 1864.\\nWilliam M. McNutt, first sergeant, February 25, 1864; transferred to\\nCompany B July 31, 1865 mustered out with Company B August 24, 1865.\\nChalkley C. Brocius, sergeant, February 25, 1864; promoted to sergeant\\nJune I, 1865 to sergeant-major July 3, 1865 wounded and taken prisoner\\nat Millwood, December 17, 1864; date of discharge not known.\\nJesse S. McElhose, corporal, February 29, 1864; transferred to Company\\nB July 31, 1865; veteran; wounded at New Market, Va., May 15, 1864;\\nmustered out with Company B August 24, 1865.\\nJames J. Frazier, corporal, November 23, 1862; discharged May 31, 1865;\\nnow major Fifteenth Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania.\\nJohn F. Gruber, bugler, February 24, 1864; transferred to Company B\\nJuly 31, 1865 mustered out with company August 24, 1865.\\nPeter Angle, November 23, 1862; captured at Jackson River, Va., on\\nSalem Raid. December 20, 1863 died at Andersonville, Ga., May 28, 1864,\\ngrave No. 1436.\\nNoah H. Brown, November 23, 1862 discharged, date unknown.\\nAmos P. Brocius, February 25, 1864; lost, supposed to have been captured\\nat Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864, and to have died in prison.\\nJoseph Case, November 23, 1862 mortally wounded and died in an en-\\ngagement at Liberty, Va., June 19, 1864.\\nLewis R. Coursin, February 25, 1864; discharged by general order May\\n25, 1865.\\nSimon P. Cravenor, November 23, 1862 captured at Rocky Gap, Va.,\\nAugust 26, 1863 died at Andersonville, Ga., May i, 1864; grave 837.\\nMichael Crawford, February 19, 1864; captured and died at Anderson-\\nville, Ga., October 29, 1864; grave 11614.\\nPhilip Farringer, November 23, 1862; transferred to 2d U. S. Cavalry.\\nJames M. Goheen, November 23, 1862 discharged, date unknown.\\nMilton Hepler, February 25, 1864; transferred to Company B July 31,\\n1865 mustered out with Company B August 24, 1865.\\nPhilip Hamm, February 24, 1864; killed in cavalry engagement at Mill-\\nwood, Va., December 17, 1864.\\nElias S. Lavan, February 29, 1864; transferred to Company B July 31,\\n1865 mustered out with Company B August 24, 1865.\\nJacob S. Miller, November 23, 1862; transferred to 2d U. S. Cavalry.\\nRichard Miller, November 23, 1862; transferred to 2d U. S. Cavalry.\\nAbraham Moore, March 9, 1 864 killed at Ashley s Ford on Shenandoah\\nRiver, Va., February 19, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0354.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "Company B, 169TH Regiment. 329\\nRobert McNutt, February 26, 1864; discharged by general order July 5,\\n1865.\\nTate M. Henry, February 25, 1864; discharged, date unknown.\\nSolomon C. Rhodes, November 23, 1862; discharged, date unknown.\\nRobert Simons (or Simes), November 23, 1862 discharged, date un-\\nknown.\\nCHAPTER XXXIV.\\nCOMPANY B, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT.\\nEnlistment Remarkable Number of Desertions Roll.\\nCONCERNING this company we know little. It was recruited in Clarion\\ncounty; was mustered in October 16, 1862, at Camp Howe, near Pitts-\\nburgh, and mustered out July 26 (or 27), 1863, at Harrisburg, having been in\\nthe field from December 5, 1862, to the time stated. Its service was brief and\\ncomparatively light, suffering somewhat, however, from disease.\\nIt is with feelings of regret that we append the roll of this company,\\ncopied from Bates s Pennsylvania Volunteers, page 1152, of vol. IV, as it\\ncharges the company with the almost incredible number of thirty -one deser-\\ntions, all of which are dated prior to the regiment s start to the field. In jus-\\ntice to these men, the opinion is ventured that something was wrong in the\\nconduct of the regiment. The thirty-one men said to have deserted from the\\ncompany must have been subject to conditions different from the other Clarion\\ncounty companies, whose rank and file in the aggregate represented both con-\\nstancy and devotion. Company B, of the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth,\\nmust have been somewhat sinned against; otherwise, why this sinning?\\nRoll of Company B, One Hundred and Sixty-Ninth Regiment. 1\\nHenry J. Shortts, captain, November 20, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nJohnson Mercer, first lieutenant, November 19, 1862, nine months mus-\\ntered out with company July 26, 1863.\\nHarmon Phipps, second lieutenant, November 19, 1862, nine months;\\nmustered out with company July 26, 1863.\\nWiHam Totten, first sergeant, October 16, 1862, nine months; promoted\\nfrom private December 8, 1862 absent, sick, at muster out.\\n1 Copied from Bates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0355.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "330 History of Clarion County.\\nJesse E. Hepler, sergeant, October i6, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nWilHam A. Wilson, sergeant, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered\\nout with company.\\nJohn C. Shunk, sergeant, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nJacob R. Shull, sergeant, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nAndrew Sippey, corporal, October 16, 1862, nine months; promoted to\\ncorporal December i, 1862; mustered out with company July 26, 1863.\\nMoses A. Porter, corporal, October 16, 1862, nine months; promoted to\\ncorporal December i, 1862; mustered out with company July 26, 1863.\\nDaniel Walters, corporal, October 16, 1862, nine months; promoted to\\ncorporal December i, 1862 mustered out with company July 26, 1863.\\nJoseph Bryner, corporal, October 16, 1862, nine months; promoted to\\ncorporal December i, 1862 mustered out with company July 26, 1863.\\nGeorge A. Clark, corporal, October 16, 1862, nine months; promoted to\\ncorporal December i, 1862; mustered out with company July 26, 1863.\\nJames R. Right, corporal, October 16, 1862, nine months; promoted to\\ncorporal December i, 1862 mustered out with compan} July 26, 1863.\\nJohn Barker, corporal, October 16, 1862, nine months; promoted to cor-\\nporal December i, 1862; mustered out with company July 26, 1863.\\nJoseph Hank, corporal, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nHenry Kalp, musician, October 16, 1862, nine months mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nAllison, Harvey, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nAllsbach, John, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nAllsbach, Levi, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nAllshouse, And. J., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted No-\\nvember ID, 1862.\\nBlack, John R., private, October 16, 1862, nine months mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nBlack, Wilham F., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nBarger, Abraham, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nBerlin, Uriah, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0356.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "Company B, 169TH Regiment. 331\\nBirch, Besin, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nBarger, Jacob, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nCopp, Isaac C, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted December i, 1862.\\nDegoust, George, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nDelph, Peter, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nDunklee, Daniel W., private, October 16, 1862, nine months died at Glou-\\ncester Point, Va., March 12, 1863.\\nEly, Christopher, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nEdmiston, Joseph, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; died at Glou-\\ncester Point, Va., February 21, 1863.\\nFey, Henry, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nFarringer, William, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nFribley, Henry, private, October 16, 1862, nine months drowned at Fort\\nKeys, Va., June 24, 1863 buried in National Cemetery, Yorktown.\\nGraham, George, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nGraff, David, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nGrants, John, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Novem-\\nber II, 1862.\\nHoupt, Elias, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nHall, Henry, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany, July 26, 1863.\\nHancock, Lewis, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nHartman, George, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nHeckman. Jacob, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nHankey, John, private, October, 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Novem-\\nber 12, 1862.\\nKean, John, jr., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nKittering, Adam, private, October 16, 1862, nine months mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0357.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "332 History of Clarion County.\\nKHngensmith, I., private, October i6, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nKepper, Reuben, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nKale, Jerome, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted October\\n29, 1862.\\nLewis, Reuben, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nLewis, Anthony, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nLinn, William, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nLilHg, George, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Novem-\\nber 16, 1862.\\nMiller, William C, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nMong, Harrison, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nMitchell, Joseph, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nMusser, John, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nMyers, John, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nMong, William, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nMoyer, Alonzo, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nMyers, Cyrus, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nMail, Adam, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted December\\nI, 1862.\\nMealy, Abraham, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted No-\\nvember 16, 1862.\\nMontgomery, John, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted No-\\nvember 12, 1862.\\nMcCall, Robert, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nMcCafferty, David, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted No-\\nvember 22, 1862.\\nNolan, Charles, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Decem-\\nber I, 1862.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0358.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "Company B, 169TH Regiment. 333\\nRigts, William D., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nRigle, David, private, October 16, 1S62, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nRumberger, Levi G., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted\\nNovember 12, 1862.\\nRowan, David, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Decem-\\nber I, 1862.\\nSeipe, Charles, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nSayers, Harvey, private, October 16, 1862, nine months mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nSlatterly, Patrick, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nShoup, John A., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nSaltgiver, Daniel, private, October 16, 1862, nine months mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nShoop, John A., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nSwartz, Jacob, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Novem-\\nber 2, 1862.\\nStoops, Daniel, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Novem-\\nber 22, 1862.\\nSheasley, Andrew H., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted\\nNovember 16, 1862.\\nSmith, John, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted November\\n12, 1862.\\nShultz, Frederick, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted No-\\nvember 12, 1862.\\nSimmons, Oliver H., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted No-\\nvember 12, 1862.\\nSalts, Richard, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Novem-\\nber 14, 1862.\\nShade, Joseph, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Novem-\\nber 12, 1862.\\nWalters, George W., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nWetzel, Aaron, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nWalters, David R., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\n33", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0359.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "334 History of Clarion County.\\nWairham, William, private, October i6, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nWolf, Lemuel S., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out\\nwith company July 26, 1863.\\nWeiter, Levi, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nWales, Alexander, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted No-\\nvember 12, 1862.\\nWaite, John D., private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Novem-\\nber 14, 1862.\\nWallace, James, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Novem-\\nber 16, 1862.\\nWalker, Samuel, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted October\\n16, 1862.\\nWright James, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Novem-\\nber 26, 1862.\\nWeiser, Benjamin, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted No-\\nvember 20, 1862.\\nWilson, Albert, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Novem-\\nber 20, 1862.\\nWeller, John, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted November\\n20, 1862.\\nWest, John, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted November\\n20, 1862.\\nWright, Charles, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; deserted Novem-\\nber 20, 1862.\\nYoder, Nathan, private, October 16, 1862, nine months; mustered out with\\ncompany July 26, 1863.\\nCHAPTER XXXV.\\nMISCELLANEOUS ENLISTMENTS.\\nCaptain Tanner s Independent Company Muster Service Roll. List of Soldiers En-\\nrolled in Various Other Organizations Tlian Those Already Named.\\nCAPTAIN Tanner s company was not entirely of Clarion county men. The\\ncompany was composed of lOO-day men. It was mustered in August SO,\\n1864, and discharged December 10, 1864. Its principal service was acting as\\ntrain guards conveying drafted men to the front at Petersburg and other points.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0360.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "Miscellaneous Enlistments. 335\\nThe following thirty-three names represent the Clarion county men in this\\ncompany. The hst was made out by one of the number, Mr. A, R. Cyphert,\\nof Clarion, who kindly gave his assistance in the matter.\\nGeorge W. Wilson, first lieutenant I. S. Orcutt, sergeant; Samuel Critch-\\nlow, sergeant J. T. Patton, sergeant D. K. Cyphert, corporal C. M. Sloan,\\ncorporal John W. Baker, drummer and the following privates A. R.\\nCyphert, Joseph S. Bollman, Win Fisher, C. L. Fulton, James L. Harriger,\\nJackson Harriger, D. C. Hilliard, Clinton Hindman, George W. James, Clinton\\nJones, John M. King, O. W. Kapp, A. W. Loux, J. F. Lucas, Thomas Mil-\\nler, George W. McCammant, Thomas McCoy, William C. Orr, W. H. Rear-\\ndon, R. R. Richardson, Lewis Richardson, M. F. Rifenberick, J. W. Sloan,\\nRobert Williams, Jonas Wentling, and Henry Whitehill.\\nThese men enHsted June 18, 1864, at Greenville, Strattanville and Clarion.\\nThe compiler made an effort to get a complete list of all the soldiers resid-\\ning in the county as well as of those who went from the county. So far as\\nreported the following list is composed of those names. The names of sol-\\ndiers not known to have entered the service from Clarion county are marked\\nwith an asterisk No doubt the names of many Clarion county soldiers do\\nnot appear in this work. Any one whose name is omitted will please report\\nthe omission to the author.\\nAddleman, Benjamin P., enlisted at Franklin, Pa., June 23, 1861, in Com-\\npany C, 39th Regiment P. V. (Tenth Reserve) promoted to corporal July\\n15, 1863 mustered out with company, June 11, 1864.\\nAlexander, E. B., mustered into service in Company D, 131st Regiment\\nP. v., August 12, 1862; mustered out with company May 23, 1863; re-en-\\nlisted in Company H, 36th Regiment Pennsylvania Militia, June 29, 1863;\\ndischarged August 11, 1863.\\nBartley, W. F., drafted March 15, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment\\nP. V. mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\n*Barnett, P. S., enlisted March 4, 1865, in Company A, looth Regiment\\nP. V. discharged by general order June 30, 1865.\\nBaum, Henry, drafted March 15, 1865 served in Company F, 46th Regi-\\nment P. V. mustered out with company July 16, 1865.\\n*Bruner, Samuel, company and regiment not known.\\nBeals, Wm., drafted March 15, 1865, in Company G, 56th Regiment P. V.;\\nmustered out with company July i, 1865.\\nBoyer, Neri J., substitute in Company A, 98th Regiment P. V., April 6,\\n1865 mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\n*Benner, Geo., company and regiment not known.\\nBlair, Jno. C, drafted in Company A, 98th Regiment P. V., March 15,\\n1865 mustered out with the company June 29, 1865.\\nBlair, John W., enlisted in Company G, 78th Regiment P. V., February 2,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0361.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "336 History of Clarion County.\\n1864; promoted to corporal of Company G; transferred to Company A as\\ncorporal October 18, 1864; mustered out with company A September 11,\\n1865.\\nBlair, David R., drafted March 15, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment\\nP. v.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nBlair, Robert, company and regiment not known.\\nBrinkley, J. A., substitute in Company A, 58th Regiment P. V.; mustered\\ninto service November 2, 1864; mustered out November 9, 1865 expiration\\nof term.\\nBurns, T. B., mustered into Company K, 103d Regiment P. V., at Kittan-\\nning, Pa., October 28, 1861 mustered out at Newbern, N. C, December 30,\\n1864, having served three years and two months, and yet was not nineteen\\nyears old when he reached home.\\n*Camp, Benjamin F., enlisted at Franklin, Venango county, Pa., July 25,\\n1 861, in Company C, 39th Regiment P. V. (loth Reserve); transferred to\\n191st Regiment P. V., June i, 1864; wounded at Petersburg, Va., June 18,\\n1864; discharged by general order July 25, 1865.\\n*Callender, Wm., enlisted August 12, 1862, in the 91st Ohio Regiment,\\nCompany K; discharged June 30, 1865.\\n*Campbell, W. B., enlisted November 23, 1862, in Company K, 14th\\nPennsylvania Cavalry (159th Regiment P. V.); discharged by general order\\nMay 31, 1865.\\n*Clark, G. A., company and regiment not known.\\nClark, Alfred, enlisted August 28, 1862, in Company F, 12 1st Regiment\\nP. v.; discharged at close of war at Philadelphia.\\nClover, Philip S., enlisted January 16, 1864, in Company L, 15 2d Regi-\\nment P. V. (3d Artillery); mustered out with the battery November 9, 1865-.\\nColwell, W. H., mustered into Company K, of the 103d, at Kittanning,,\\nPa., October 28, 1861 died at Fortress Monroe, Va., July 5, 1862.\\nColwell, James, drafted March 15, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment\\nP. v.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nConver, Aaron, drafted March 15, 1S65, in Company G, 56th Regiment\\nP. v.; mustered out with company July i, 1865.\\nCope, Joel, drafted in Company A, 98th Regiment P. V., March 15, 1865;\\nmustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nCraig, Robert, drafted in Company A, 98th Regiment P. V., March 15,\\n1865 mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nCase, Ben. P., enlisted February 25, 1864, in Battery E, Third Artillery\\n(l52d Regiment P. V.) mustered out with battery November 9, 1865.\\nCarson, Robert, drafted August 27, 1863; served in Company B, 76th\\nRegiment P. V.; killed at Petersburg, Va., July 4, 1864.\\n*Crawford, Wm., enlisted in Company I, 105th Regiment P. V., October\\n23, 1 861 discharged on surgeon s certificate February 15, 1863.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0362.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "Miscellaneous Enlistments. 337\\nCribbs, David, enlisted August 26, 1862, in Company F, 12 1st Regiment\\nP. v.; killed at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862.\\nCrum, Oliver J., drafted March 15, 1865 mustered into service in Com-\\npany A, 98th Regiment P. V.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nCrick, James H., drafted March 15, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment\\nP. v.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nDavis, A. J., enlisted in Company B, I52d Regiment P. V. (3d Artillery),\\nFebruary 20, 1864; discharged July ii, 1865; living at Clarion; vice presi-\\ndent of the association of the twin regiments, the 15 2d and the i88th.\\nDearolph, John, drafted March 15, 1865 served in Company A, 98th\\nRegiment P. V.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\n*Doverspike, Joseph, drafted March 15, 1865, in Company B, 56th Regi-\\nment P. v.; discharged with company July I, 1865.\\nElslager, F. J., enlisted in Company E, 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry, October\\n25, 1862; transferred to Company D July 17, 1865 mustered out with Com-\\npany D August 24, 1865, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.\\nEdinger, Henry, substitute, enrolled April 8, 1865, Company A, 98th\\nRegiment P. V.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\n*Emery, J. H., enlisted in Company D, 109th P. V., March i, 1862; not\\naccounted for on muster-out roll.\\nEckenberger, Myers, enlisted at Franklin, Pa., June 23, 1861, in Company\\nC, 39th Regiment (lOth Reserves); promoted to corporal July 15, 1863 mus-\\ntered out with company June 11, 1864.\\nElliott, Orin A., drafted March 15, 1865; served in Company F, 46th Regi-\\nment P. v.; mustered out with company July 16, 1865.\\nFair, John Wesley, enrolled April 10, 1865, in Company A, 98th P. V.\\nsubstitute; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nFerringer, Philip, enlisted at Pittsburgh, Pa., November 20, 1862, in Com-\\npany L, 2d United States Cavalry; discharged November 20, 1865, at Fort\\nLeavenworth, Kan.\\nFowler, Thomas, enlisted February 25, 1864, in Battery F, Third Artillery\\n(i52d Regiment P. V.); discharged on general order July 8, 1865.\\nFrampton, H. C, enlisted in Company F, I52d Regiment P. V. (3d Artil-\\nlery), June 25, 1864; mustered out with battery November 9, 1865.\\nFrederick, D. E., drafted March 15, 1865; served in Company F, 46th\\nRegiment P. V.; mustered out with company July 16, 1865 died at Blair s\\nCorners January 4, 1880.\\nFulmer, George, drafted March 15, 1865 served in Company G, 56th\\nRegiment P. V.; mustered out with company July i. 1865.\\nGanoe, William S., enlisted June 18, 1862, at Pittsburgh, Pa., in Company\\nA, 2d Battalion 17th United States Infantry; wounded at Chancellorsville,\\nMay 3, 1863 served three years discharged at Fort Preble, Maine, June 18,\\n1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0363.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "338 History of Clarion County.\\nGrable, William J., enlisted at Franklin, Pa., in Company C, 39th Regi-\\nment P. V. (loth Reserve), June 23, 1861 absent, wounded, at muster out,\\nGreenland, W. W., enlisted in Company D, 5th Pennsylvania Reserve Corps\\nJune 15, 1 861 mustered into State service at Harrisburg, Pa.; discharged by\\nGovernor Curtin on account of age (fifteen years, five months and nine days)\\nat time of enlistment enlisted again and mustered into the United States ser-\\nvice at Harrisburg, Pa., as private in Company C, 125th Regiment P. V. pro-\\nmoted to 5th sergeant August 18, 1862 to color sergeant on the battle-field\\nat Antietam September 17, 1862 mustered out May 18, 1863.\\nGoodman, Henry, substitute, April 8, 1865 enrolled in Company A, 98th\\nRegiment P. V.; died at Alexandria, Va., July 28, 1865.\\nGufifey, John A., enlisted in band of the 105th Regiment P. V., October\\n10, 1861 discharged by general order discharging regimental bands August\\n13, 1862 re-enlisted a veteran in Battery C, 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artil-\\nlery; mustered out with company November 9, 1865.\\nGinkle, William, substitute, April 8, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment\\nP. v.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\n*Hall, Ellis, enlisted May 29, 1861, in Company K, 42nd Regiment P. V.;\\nmustered out with company June 11, 1864.\\nHancock, O., enlisted at Pittston, Luzerne county, April 27, 1 861, in Com-\\npany C, 15th Regiment P. V.; mustered out with company August 7, 1861\\nserved in 3d New Jersey Cavalry, in which he was promoted sergeant-major.\\nHarbst, George, enlisted August 27, 1861, in Company I, 83d Regiment\\nP. v.; mustered out with Company C June 28, 1865.\\nHagan, William, drafted March 15, 1865, in Company F, 46th P. V.; de-\\nserted June 5, 1865.\\nHansom, H, E., enlisted January 18, 1862, in Company L, 12th Pennsyl-\\nvania Cavalry (ri3th Regiment P. V.); promoted from corporal to sergeant\\nMarch 20, 1865 5 mustered out with company July 20, 1865 veteran.\\nHariff, John, drafted March 15, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment P. V.;\\ndischarged by general order June 15, 1865.\\nHenry, J. C, enlisted at Lock Haven, Pa., October 17, 1861, in Company\\nC, 5 2d Regiment P. V. wounded in head and shoulder at White Oak Swamp;\\ndischarged at expiration of term, November 5, 1864; native of Clarion county.\\nHorton, James, a member of Company H, 37th Regiment; transferred to\\nthe 3d U. S. Artillery horse shot under him several times, hat and spur shot\\noff, never injured; died at East Liverpool, O., January 5, 1885.\\nHoon, Francis, substitute April 8, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment P.\\nV. mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nHours, Samuel W., enlisted September 13, 1862, in Company E, 62d P.V.;\\ntransferred to Company D, 155th P. V., July 3, 1864; mustered out with\\nCompany D June 2, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0364.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "Miscellaneous Enlistments. 339\\nHolbrook, H. H., private in Company F, 2d New York Cavalry.\\nHorner, Andrew, drafted March 15, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment\\nP. v.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nHosey, M. M., entered Company L, 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry, March 18,\\n1864, for three years; discharged by general order July 18, 1865.\\nHogan, J. A., enlisted October 16, 1862 discharged July 23, 1863 J be-\\nlonged to Company A, unattached Pennsylvania Volunteers served as a\\nmusician.\\nHilliard, David, company and regiment not known.\\nJennings, William B., drafted March 15, 1864, in Company A, 98th Regi-\\nment P. v.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nJolly, T. H., company and regiment not known.\\nKahl, N. L., enlisted in Company F, I2ist Regiment P. V., August 29,\\n1862 transferred to Invalid Corps April 6, 1864; discharged July 3, 1865.\\nKriebel, Samuel, enlisted August 12, 1862, in Company K, 91st Ohio Reg-\\niment; discharged June 30, 1865.\\nKuhns, Emanuel B., drafted March 15, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regi-\\nment P. v.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nKinch, E. S., enlisted May 21, 1861, in Company I, 34th Regiment P. V.;\\ntransferred to Signal Corps, date unknown.\\nKeatley, John, major and paymaster.\\nKirkpatrick, John C, enlisted at Franklin, Pa., June 23, 1861 sergeant in\\nCompany C, 39th Regiment P. V. (loth Reserve); discharged on surgeon s\\ncertificate December 14, 1861.\\nKirkpatrick, W. H., enlisted at Franklin, Pa., June 23, 1861 corporal in\\nCompany C, 39th Regiment P.V. (loth Reserve); discharged on surgeon s cer-\\ntificate October 14, 1861.\\nKifer, Levi, drafted March 15, 1865, in Company A, 56th Regiment P. V.;\\nmustered out July i, 1865.\\nKifer, Henry, drafted March 15, 1865 assigned to Company A, 56th Regi-\\nment P.V. deserted June 15, 1865.\\nKriebel, John, drafted March 15 in Company A, 98th Regiment P. V.; mus-\\ntered out June 29, 1865.\\nLeech, Lot C, enlisted in band of the 105th P. V. October 10, 1861; dis-\\ncharged by general order discharging regimental bands August 13, 1863 en-\\nlisted January 4, 1864, in the i88th Regiment; promoted to commissary\\nsergeant April i, 1864; to quartermaster January 6, 1865; mustered out with\\nregiment December 14, 1865.\\nLogan, George, drafted March 15, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment P.\\nv.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nLogue, James B., enlisted in Venango county, Pa., September 27, 1862,\\nin Company E, i6th Pennsylvania Cavalry (i6ist Regiment P.V.); participated", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0365.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "340 History of Clarion County.\\nin all the battles fought by the Army of the Potomac; discharged June 17,\\n1865 native of Clarion county.\\nLogue, Joseph L., drafted March 15, 1865 served in Company A, 56th\\nRegiment P. V.; mustered out with company July i, 1861.\\nLongwell, M. V. W., drafted March 15, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regi-\\nment P. v.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nMagee, Adam H., enlisted in Company H, I52d Regiment P. V. (3d Ar-\\ntillery), January 16, 1864; mustered out with battery July 25, 1865.\\nMeager, George, enlisted at Franklin, Pa., June 23, 1 861, in Company C,\\n39th Regiment P. V. (loth Reserve); mustered out with company June ii,\\n1864.\\nMcGonagle, William C, corporal, enlisted June 21, 1861, in Company C,\\n34th Regiment P. V.; mustered out with company June ii, 1864.\\nMcKinley, Sylvester, enlisted June 7, 1861, in Company K, 40th Regiment\\nP. V. (nth Reserve); died October 22, 1862, of wounds received at Antietam.\\n*Maitland, William S., enlisted February 20, 1865, in Company H of the\\n1 6th Ohio Cavalry; mustered out August 1 1, 1865 discharged at Harrisburg,\\nPa., August 19, 1865.\\nMcClelland, James, enlisted October 10, 1861, in regimental band of the\\n105th P. V. discharged by general order discharging regimental bands Au-\\ngust 13, 1862.\\nMcEntire, B. M., drafted March 15, 1865; served in Company G, 56th\\nRegiment P. V. absent, sick, at muster out.\\nMiller, R. P., enlisted at Pittsburgh, Pa., November 20, 1862, in Company\\nL, 2d U. S. Cavalry promoted to first sergeant discharged at Fort Leaven-\\nworth, Kansas, November 20, 1865.\\nMiller, Jacob, enlisted at Pittsburgh, Pa., November 20, 1862, in Company\\nL, 2d U. S. Cavalry discharged at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, November\\n20, 1865.\\nMiller, John L., drafted March 15, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment\\nP. V. mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nMiles, Jacob, mustered in in Company L, I2th Pennsylvania Cavalry, March\\n28, 1864; discharged July 20, 1865.\\nMooney, James, enlisted October 10, 1861, in band of the 105th Regiment\\nP. V. discharged August 13, 1862, by general order discharging regimental\\nbands.\\nMong, Leonard M., drafted March 16, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regi-\\nment P. V. mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nMong, Leonard, substitute April 10, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment\\nP. V. mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nMoyer, Charles, substitute in Company F, 98th Regiment P. V. enrolled\\nApril 8, 1865 mustered out with company June 29, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0366.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "Miscellaneous Enlistments. 341\\nMurray, William Parks, drafted March 15, 1865; served in Company F,\\n46th Regiment P. V. mustered out with company July 16, 1865.\\nNeiderreiter, William, substitute April lO, 1865, in Company A, 98th Reg-\\niment P. V. mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nNolph, Thomas C, enlisted at ^Brookville, Pa., in Company K of the nth\\nReserve June 7, 1861 discharged on surgeon s certificate January i, 1863;\\nre-enlisted in the nth Cavalry; killed at Reno Station, Va., (see Company L,\\nnth Cavalry).\\nPatton, W. H., enlisted February 20, 1864, in Company B, I52d Regiment\\nP. V. (3d Artillery) discharged July ii, 1865.\\nPatrick, John B., enlisted July 23, 1863, in Captain John McClain s Com-\\npany B of Colonel Lininger s Independent Battalion; discharged January 21,\\n1864; enrolled again July 15, 1864, and discharged September 21, 1864, be-\\ncause of re-enlistment for one year in an Independent company of the 97th\\nRegiment P. V.; mustered out with company June 17, 1865.\\nPatton, W. M., enlisted at Franklin, Pa., July 21, 1861, in Company C,\\n39th Regiment P. V. (loth Reserve); promoted from ist sergeant to 1st lieu-\\ntenant, April 26, 1864; mustered out with coumpany July ii, 1864.\\nPhipps, John, enlisted August 29, 1862, in Company F, 121st Regiment P.\\nv.; wounded at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862 died of said wounds in\\nhospital at Washington, D. C, January 15, 1863.\\nPhilips, J. B., enlisted in Company G, 149th Regiment P. V., August 26,\\n1862 discharged on surgeon s certificate January 21, 1864.\\nPollock, Thomas, H., enlisted at Franklin, Pa., June 23, 1861, in Company\\nC, 39th Regiment P. V. (loth Reserve) discharged for wounds February 12,\\n1864.\\nRankin, George W., substitute April 8, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regi-\\nment P. v.; mustered out with Company June 29, 1865.\\nReeseman, Thomas C, enlisted January 5, 1862; died at Point Lookout,\\nMd., June 5, 1862.\\nRevir, John, substitute April 8, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment P. V.;\\nmustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nRitchey, P. J., enlisted September 10, 1862, in Company L, 4th Pennsyl-\\nvania Cavalry commanded for a time the dismounted camp near Washington\\nCity; served as orderly for General U. S. Grant; discharged July i, 1865\\npromoted from private to corporal drowned April 4, 1866, in Tionesta Creek\\nwhile running out a raft.\\nRichter, Boniface, drafted March 15, 1865 served in Company F, 98th\\nRegiment P. V.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nRider, John, drafted March 15, 1865 served in Company A, 56th Regi-\\nment P. v.; mustered out July i, 1865.\\nRugh, Solomon, sergeant in Company F, 12 1st Regiment P. V.; enlisted\\n34", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0367.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "342 History of Clarion County.\\nAugust 25, 1862 discharged at Finley Hospital near Washington, D. C, on\\nsurgeon s certificate May 25, 1863.\\nSay, LesUe L., enhsted August 28, 1862, in Company F, 121st Regiment\\nP. v.; lost at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862.\\nSaylor, H. E., company and regiment not known.\\nSharrow, Peter, enlisted May 21, 1861, in Company I, 34th Regiment P.\\nv.; transferred to Battery C, 5th U. S. Artillery; killed at Fredericksburg.\\nSheridan, William, substitute April 8, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment\\nP. v.; mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nShowers, George A., enlisted August 29, 1862, in Company F, I2ist Reg-\\niment P. v.; deserted at Sharpsburg, Md., October 26, 1862.\\nShirley, Washington, company and regiment not known.\\nSimpson, Milton, company and regiment not known.\\nSilvis, S. D., enlisted September 3, 1864, in Company M, 203d, Regiment\\nP. V. (5th Artillery) mustered out with the battery June 30, 1865.\\nSmith, James M., drafted March 15, 1865, in Company F, 46th P. V.; de-\\nserted June 7, 1865.\\nSmith, William, served in the 103d Ohio Regiment died at Andersonville,\\nGa., dates unknown.\\nStanford, John W., drafted March 15, 1865 served in Company K, 56th\\nRegiment P. V. discharged July 19, 1865.\\nSteele, Samuel S. W., enlisted September i, 1862, in Company C, 139th\\nRegiment P. V. promoted to first sergeant June i, 1865 wounded at Flint s\\nHill, Va., September 21, 1864; discharged on surgeon s certificate April 20,\\n1865.\\nSterner, John, company and regiment not known.\\nStover, William H., drafted March 15, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regi-\\nment P. V. mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nStratton, John T., enlisted October 10, 1861 leader of the 105th Regi-\\nment band; discharged August 13, 1862, by general order discharging regi-\\nmental bands re- enlisted as a veteran August 13, 1863, i Company D, 3d\\nPennsylvania Artillery; transferred to the war department in October, 1864;\\nmustered out with the regiment at Philadelphia November 9, 1865.\\n*Thompson, A. L., enlisted August 16, 1861, in Company I, I02d Regi-\\nment P. v.; wounded at Wilderness Ma} 5, 1864; promoted to sergeant June\\n10, 1865; commissioned second lieutenant, but not mustered; mustered out\\nwith company June 28, 1865.\\nVarner, William A., enlisted at Franklin, Pa., June 23, 1861, in Company\\nC, 39th Regiment P. V. (lOth Reserve); mustered out June ii, 1864.\\nWeaver, Coon, company and regiment not known.\\n*Wenner, Jacob, company and regiment not known.\\nWiant, George P., substitute April 8, 1865, in Company A, 98th Regiment\\nP. V. mustered out with company June 29, 1865.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0368.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "From the Civil War to the Oil Era. 343\\nWilson, Rev. W. J., enlisted February 12, 1864, in Company D, 105th\\nRegiment P. V. mustered out with company July 11, 1865 native of Clarion\\ncounty, enlisted in Jefferson county, Pa. (See also Company H, 57th Regi-\\nment, militia of 63, Wm. J. Wilson).\\n*Wilson, James, belonged to a colored regiment; lives at Clarion.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Williams, John, company and regiment not known.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Wise, George W., enlisted in October, 1861 mustered into United States\\nservice December 13, 1861, in Company K, 64th Regiment P. V. (4th Cav-\\nalry) promoted from second lieutenant to first lieutenant December 13, 1864;\\nmustered out with company July i, 1865.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Wright, Henry, drafted September 26, 1863; enrolled in Company K,\\n76th Regiment P. V., as Henry Reich discharged June 29, 1865.-\\nYingling, John, enlisted at Frankhn, Pa., July 21, 1861, in Company C,\\n39th Regiment P. V. (loth Reserve); discharged for wounds April 11, 1863.\\nYingling, G. W., drafted March 15, 1865; served in Company A, 98th\\nRegiment P. V. mustered out with company June 29, 1865.\\nYingling, Harrison, drafted in Company F, 98th Regiment P. V., March\\n15, 1865 mustered out June 29, 1865.\\nCHAPTER XXXVI.\\nFROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE OIL ERA\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1865-1877.\\nOil Mania\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Apprentices\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Allegheny Valley Railroad\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Low Grade\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Telegraphic-\\nAttempt to Move County Seat Politic. Statistics County Finances.\\nIN 1864 and 1865 Clarion county was the scene of the wildest speculation in\\nhypothetical oil lands. Then almost every point wathin fifteen miles of a\\nproducing well was considered good territory, and available tracts were seized\\nupon with great eagerness. A host of fancy oil companies most of them\\nhaving headquarters in Philadelphia sprang up, their object being to buy up\\nand operate the prolific petroleum deposits, which, in their ardent imaginations,\\nwere to be found in the bosom of every rugged Clarion river hillside. Real\\nestate changed hands at fabulous prices, and many a farmer, whose stony acres\\nhad been just sufficient to supply him with the necessaries of life, received five\\nor tenfold their real value. Leasing was almost unheard of, such was the reck-\\nlessness and confidence of the times. Buy first and test afterwards, was the\\nrule.\\nThis craze, excited mainly by the discovery of oil at Deer Creek, reached\\nits height in December, 1864, and in a year had entirely subsided. The spec-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0369.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "344 History of Clarion County.\\nulators retired from their Clarion county experience with Hght purses and heavy-\\nhearts sadder but wiser men.\\nThe apprentice system was yet in vogue, in 1865, as the following adver-\\ntisement in a newspaper of that date shows\\nSix Cents Reward. Ran away from the subscriber in Licking tp., Clarion cc, an indentured\\napprentice named on the loth day of May, inst. All persons are hereby warned not to harbor\\nor trust the said on my account, as I will prosecute any person who shall be known to harbor\\nhim about their premises, and I will hold such person or persons to pay to me his wages if hired by\\nany person to work during his minority. The said is about twelve years old, large growth,\\ndark hair, dark complextion and black eyes. Any person returning said apprentice to the subscriber\\nwill receive the above reward for his trouble.\\nLicking tp.. May 12, 1865\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3t.\\nTwo other runaway notices appear in the same number.\\nA destructive flood on Thursday, March 15, 1865, carried off the bridges\\nover the Clarion, and there was a general severance of communication between\\none town and another for awhile.\\nAt an early period in the fifties the much wished for railroad through Clar-\\nion coimty was discussed. Prominent among the schemes afoot was the Phil-\\nlipsburg and Waterford Railroad. Later came the Clarion County Rail-\\nroad, which was to connect Clarion with some point on the Allegheny valley,\\nand which finally materialized in the Sligo Branch.\\nThe Allegheny Valley road was completed as far as Kittanning in 1856,\\nand to the mouth of Mahoning in 1865. Work on its extension to Oil City\\nstarted in the autumn of 1866, and trains began running in June 1867.\\nIn 1852, when the Allegheny Valley Railroad (then called the Pittsburgh,\\nKittanning, and Warren) was projected, an act of assembly authorized the\\ncounties through which it was to pass to subscribe stock. The route, as origi-\\nnally planned, was either to leave the Allegheny River below the mouth of the\\nClarion, or to follow its border along Redbank Creek, on the line of the present\\nlow-grade. By the act of 1852, the commissioners of this county (or a major-\\nity of them) were empowered to take stoclc for the county, and issue bonds to\\nthe railroad company in pa} ment therefor, -provided, that the amount of\\nsubscription by any county shall not exceed ten per cent, of the assessed valu-\\nation thereof, and that before such subscription is made, the amount thereof\\nshall be fixed and determined by one grand jury of the proper county, and\\nupon the report of such grand jury being filed, it shall be lawful for the county\\ncommissioners to carry the same into effect, by making in the name of the\\ncounty, the subscription so directed by said grand inquest. Provided farther.\\nThat whenever bonds of the respective counties are given in payment of sub-\\nscription, the same shall not be sold by said railroad company at less than par\\nvalue.\\nThe grand jury of Clarion county, at the September sessions of the same\\nyear, recommended a subscription of $168,000, and on the lOth the commis-\\nsioners executed a written agreement with the company to that effect. This", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0370.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "From the Civil War to the Oil Era. 345\\nwas signed by Daniel Bostaph and Peter B. Simpson, James T. Burns dissent-\\ning. For some reason there was a delay in closing the negotiations the bonds\\nwere not issued, and the stock was not delivered. The route of the railroad\\nwas changed so as to run along the western edge of the county and terminate\\nat Venango (Oil) City, instead of passing centrally through the county towards\\nWarren, as originally intended. This was considered a breach of the contract,\\nand to release the county from its former obligations.\\nIn 1 87 1, after a lapse of nineteen years, the company wished to enforce the\\nissuing of the bonds, but there was a general aversion against compliance, and\\nthe commissioners demurred. Their counsel published an opinion unfavorable\\nto the claims of the railroad, and the company let the matter drop.\\nThe next road to enter the county was the Low Grade division or Bennett s\\nBranch of the A. V. Railroad, intersecting the Philadelphia and Erie at Drift-\\nwood. Grading began in 1872, and the road was completed through Clarion\\ncounty in March, 1873. William Phillips, then president of the A. V. Rail-\\nroad, was the prime mover in this enterprise John A. Wilson, chief engineer\\nJ. J. Lawrence, superintendent. A considerable section in this county was con-\\ntracted for by Jones Brlnker.\\nThe road derives its name from the gradual ascent of Redbank valley; its\\nmaximum grade being twenty-six feet to the mile. The Anthony s Bend tun-\\nnel is a notable one, piercing the solid rock it is five hundred and five feet\\nlong, twenty-nine wide, and twenty-two feet high. The Sligo Branch, styled\\nat first the Clarion County Railroad, was built in 1873-74, to reach the rich\\nore beds in the vicinity of Rimersburg and Sligo.\\nThe first telegraph line in the county was that connecting Franklin and\\nKittanning by way of Clarion. It was constructed in November, 1864, by\\nBaldwin. The second wire was strung in the spring of the following year.\\nThe line to Brookville was built in 1865. At present there are about two\\nthousand miles of telegraph wire in Clarion county, three-fourths of which is\\ncontrolled by the Western Union, the balance by the United Pipe Line.\\nIn the winter of 1872-73 a strong attempt was made to have the seat of\\njustice removed to Sligo. It had become apparent that the old county jail\\nwould have to be replaced by a new one, and the Sligoites seized upon the\\ninterval to make the change, knowing that the erection of another jail at the\\ncounty seat would considerably diminish their chance of success.\\nThe movement was initiated by the proprietors of Sligo furnace, J. Patton\\nLyon, in particular, and William Phillips, president of the Low Grade, then\\ncontemplating a branch to Sligo. Sligo was a promising place, newly laid out,\\non an excellent site, by Mr. Lyon, and was rapidly filling up.\\nHon. David Maclay, the newly-elected senator (Republican) from this dis-\\ntrict, resident near Sligo, favored the change, and these influential advocates\\nhad the majority of the citizens of the lower portion of the county at their\\nback.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0371.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "346 History df Clarion County.\\nOn the other hand, the inhabitants of the north and the people of Clarion\\nborough strenuously opposed the measure. Petitions pro and co7t flew about\\nthick meetings of both factions were held, and the agitation reached a white\\nheat. It was understood that Senator Maclay would introduce a bill in the\\nLegislature which met January, 1873. The Clarionites held a meeting and\\nselected a committee to go to Harrisburg and fight the proposed removal.\\nTheir expenses were defrayed by the citizens. The delegation consisted of\\nHon. James Campbell, Theo. S. Wilson, VV. W. Barr, Joseph H. Patrick, and\\nJ. B. Knox. They interviewed the Senate committee on counties and county\\nseats, which was composed of Hons. D. Maclay, Alexander McClure, Elisha\\nDavis, B. B. Strang, and\\nThe Sligo advocates sent no regular representation, although Colonel Lyon\\nand others visited the capital in the interest of that town. There was a pro-\\ntracted struggle in the committee, but the bill was finally returned with a neg-\\native recommendation, and the matter thus settled. Colonel McClure, Elisha.\\nDavis, and another formed the majority in the committee unfavorable to the\\nbill.\\nPolitics. In the spring of 1863 what was known here as the Union party\\nwas organized for the purpose of supporting the administration in its war pol-\\nicy, and to enlist the sympathy of War Democrats. This was really the\\nRepublican party, with the addition of some liberal Democrats. It maintained\\nits organization till Grant s first nomination in 1868, and then its nominal dis-\\ntinction from the Republican party disappeared.\\nIn the presidential campaign of 1868 Seymour and Blair had a majority of\\n930 in this county over Grant and Colfax; 1872, Greeley and Brown had\\n2,558 votes. Grant and Wilson 2,304, a pretty narrow majority for the Demo-\\ncrats.\\nUnder the local option law in 1873 twenty-one precincts in Clarion county\\nvoted against license and eight for. Those in favor of license were Ashland,\\nBeaver, Elk, Farmington, Knox, Paint, St. Petersburg, and Washington. The\\ngeneral majority against license was 597. The voting was light.\\nIn 1876 Tilden had a majority here of 1,107.\\nIn 1862 Crawford, Mercer, Venango, and Clarion became the Twentieth\\nsenatorial district, and by the apportionment of 1864, the Twenty-third sena-\\ntorial district was formed out of Clearfield, Cameron, Clarion, Forest and Elk.\\nIn 1 87 1, Twenty- seventh senatorial district. Clarion, Armstrong, Jefferson,\\nand Forest counties Clarion and Forest to elect one member of the Legisla-\\nture.\\nIn 1873 Clarion county was placed in the Twenty-fifth congressional dis-\\ntrict, with Armstrong, Indiana, Forest, and Jefferson.\\nIn 1874, Twenty-eighth senatorial district, Cameron, Elk, Clarion and\\nForest Clarion county to have two representatives.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0372.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "The Development of Petroleum. 347\\nStatistics. 1870; population 26,537.\\nValue of farm products, $1,568,836\\nhome manufactures, 6,932\\nanimals slaughtered or sold for slaughter, 311,902\\nlive stock 1,317,708\\ndairy products, 188,556\\nwool, 44,398\\nall other products (garden, etc.), 3i35^\\nTotal value of products, $3,441,690\\nThere were coiriparatively few sheriff sales during the war: In 1862,\\nthirty; in 1864, ten. The minimum and maximum of sheriff sales between\\n1865 and 1887 were: For 1866, 9; 1878, 459.\\nComity Finances. In 1863 relief orders for the families of absent volun-\\nteers (under the act providing therefor) were issued to the amount of $5,-\\n066.70,\\nTo liquidate the debt contracted by the building of the new jail the com-\\nmissioners, in 1875, issued bonds for $70,000, bearing six per cent, interest.\\nThese were refunded and the interest reduced to four per cent. November\\n20, 1882, the last of these bonds were funded. The rate of taxation was\\nraised to fifteen mills, and reduced after several years to ten.\\nAt the 1st of January, 1878, the liabilities of the county were $56,535.98\\nassets $14,678.32. There was $1,429.28 in the treasurer s vaults.\\nCHAPTER XXXVII.\\nTHE DEVELOPMENT OF PETROLEUM.\\nDeer Creek Oil Spring The Pocohontas Early Operations Graham s Landing Foxburg\\nFirst Pipe Line Orass Flats\u00e2\u0080\u0094 St. Petersburg Turkey City and Monroeville The St. Law-\\nrence Edenburg Beaver City Elk City Pipe Lines Cogiey Field Reidsburg Statistics.\\nCOLONEL THOMAS WATSON, grandfather of J. B. Watson, esq.,i about\\n1 8 10 began to operate for salt at the mouth of Deer Creek. He sank a\\nwell there and manufactured some salt, but the supply of water failing,\\nhe undertook to drill deeper. The rig of that day consisted chiefly of a\\nspring pole, with one end fixed the ground and supported about midway by\\na prop. The tools were attached to li. -^^ler end; a loop, or stirrup, was made\\nin a rope suspended from near the tool end, and with his foot in this, the oper-\\nator swung the flexible beam up and down to good eftect.\\n1 Colonel Watson was a soldier from this county in the War of 1812, and participated in the Black\\nRock Campaign. He was not a member of either of the companies organized here.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0373.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "348 History of Clarion County.\\nAfter they had penetrated past the upper water veins, Abraham and James\\nWatson, sons of Thomas, were working at night with a lamp or torch, when\\nto their alarm and amazement, the well took fire, burning the rig and the sur-\\nrounding structure. The drillers had a narrow escape from the flames. Not\\ndiscouraged, Mr. Watson rebuilt the drilling apparatus and continued the work,\\ntill he struck a stream of salt water mixed with a mysterious yellow fluid of a\\nstrong odor, and very inflammable. Of course this made the salt water worth-\\nless, and the enterprise was abandoned.\\nSome time after Job Packer came into possession of the property, gathered\\nfour or five barrels of the fluid and boated it to Pittsburgh for examination.\\nIts light color and salty admixture condemned it as lacking the good qualities\\nof the Seneca oil found in springs and it was dumped into the river as a\\nnuisance. Mr. Allen Wilson, at one time owner of the Piney mill, collected\\nsome of the stuff and used it in lamps and torches for light. The property\\npassed into the hands of David Whitehill, and the hole was plugged.\\nIn i860, when petroleum was discovered in large quantities along Oil\\nCreek, the well and the tract on which it was situated rough hill- side land\\nwas leased by Messrs. Jacob Hahn, Charles Hahn, and Jesse Thompson. The\\nplug was removed and a few barrels of clear oil of light color and gravity\\nfloated to the surface. This was hailed as a great discovery the hole was\\ncleaned out and pumping apparatus put in about 200 barrels were obtained\\nand the well then failed. The war, which then arose, checked further specula-\\ntive investments.\\nOn the revival of the oil furore in 1864, nine companies of eastern parties,\\nforming really one composite syndicate, were organized to develop the rich\\nterritory along the Clarion, which the Whitehill well and the springs along the\\nClarion (in which the drainings of iron pyrites were often mistaken for oil) in-\\ndicated as existing there. These were the Davenport Oil Company John\\nLyon tract; 318 acres; on Little Toby Creek, Highland township. Little\\nToby River Oil Company; Samuel Dufl tract 318 acres; on Little Toby\\nCreek, Highland township. Black Diamond Oil Company Breneman tract\\n336 acres; on west side of Clarion River, Highland township. Highland Oil\\nCompany; William Reed tract; 212 acres; on west side of Clarion River,\\nHighland township. Greenland Oil Company; Daniel Gilmore tract; 212\\nacres; on Little Toby Creek, Highland township. Deer Creek Oil Company;\\nat mouth of Deer Creek; 228 acres; on west side of Clarion River, Beaver\\ntownship. Whitehill Oil Company; 228 acres; adjacent to the former tract.\\nClarion River Oil Company Seth Clover tract 286 acres on west side of\\nClarion River, Highland township. Pennsylvania Oil Company Columbus\\nReed tract 318 acres on west side of Clarion River, Highland township.\\nOf these companies, W. P. Schell, of Bedford, was president; J. Simpson\\nAfrica, of Huntingdon, secretary and treasurer; Walter W. Greenland was\\nsent out as superintendent.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0374.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "The Development of Petroleum. 349\\nThe Deer Creek Oil Company, as we have seen, bought the Whitehill\\nproperty at the mouth of Deer Creek, consisting of 225 acres and the White-\\nhill Oil Company, 228, adjoining this on the north. Early in May, 1865, oil\\nwas discovered at a depth of 308 feet by a well on the Whitehill Company s\\ntract, half a mile above the mouth of Deer Creek at first only a showing, the\\nproduction increased without deeper drilling to ten barrels per day Clarion\\ncounty s first producing well. Shortly after this the Deer Creek Oil Com-\\npany s Pocohontas came in, gushing at the rate of fifty barrels a day the\\nfluid came from a second or salt water sand.\\nThese strikes sent a thrill of excitement through Clarion county speculative\\ncircles and May saw a number of derricks spring up along the Clarion in that\\nvicinity, and on the banks of its tributaries, Piney, Canoe, Deer and Beaver\\nCreeks. But these high raised hopes were destined to bedashed to the ground.\\nThe Whitehill well survived about a month, and the Pocohontas two; five hun-\\ndred barrels of petroleum were shipped in barges from both. These wells had\\nmerely happened on one of those small, easily exhausted pools of amber petro-\\nleum which have occasionally been found here in extra- belt territory.\\nAbout the same time as the Pocohontas strike the Pennsylvania Salt Manu-\\nfacturing Company s well in Millcreek township, near the mouth of Blyson Run,\\nof which Colonel J. B. Knox was superintendent, found heavy oil at nearly five\\nhundred feet. The vein proved a profitable one, as the oil answered well for\\nlubricating, and about one thousand barrels were shipped to Pittsburgh by flat\\nboat. Abner James, the spiritualistic oil theorist, conceived faith in the Bh son\\nterritory, and from 1872 to 1874 put down several wells there, but the search\\nwas fruitless, except to show the meagerness of the deposit there. Not satis-\\nfied with these experiments, Judge A. Cook, in 1885, again tested the mouth\\nof Blyson, and found only a small showing of lubricating oil. It was obvious\\nthat the first well had drained the pocket\\nAs may be imagined, the machinery of these early wells was primitive\\nenough much of it being the handicraft of home machinists. Portable boil-\\ners were unknown; the string of tools then weighed about eight hundred\\npounds the auger stem was from one and a half to one and three-fourths\\ninches in diameter; derricks forty- four feet high. For the first several years\\nnone but copper tubing was used; the seed-bag took the place of casing.\\nThe improved machinery came from Pittsburgh, most of it from Fisher Bros.\\nthe home-made rigging was antique and cumbrous, with cog-wheels, etc. The\\nart of tool-dressing was then a minor item the engineer s was the most im-\\nportant station at a well there was no apparatus to regulate the engine from\\nthe derrick. These old wells averaged nine hundred feet in depth rarely one\\nthousand feet was attained. The Black Diamond on the Highland township\\nside of the State road crossing was one of the deepest, 1,300 feet. It required\\nfrom two to four months to sink a well of average depth seven feet a day was\\nconsidered fair speed.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0375.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "350 History of Clarion County.\\nA universal belief, founded on the Oil Creek developments, obtained then,\\nthat the oleaginous fluid was to be found only in the bottom of valleys on the\\nflats near the water s edge. Consequently operations were confined to the brink\\nof the Clarion and its chief affluents for a short distance up. If some bold\\nwild catter had left the barren flats near the mouth of Beaver or Canoe Creeks^\\nand started to bore on the uplands of those streams, with the determination of\\ndrilling to the maximum depth, he would have been scouted as a visionary or a\\nmadman but his enterprise would in all probability have been rewarded by a\\nrich discovery of the desired fluid, and the Clarion district would have been\\ndeveloped ten years earlier.\\nThe ill success of these ventures dampened further attempts of the like\\ncharacter, and people had settled down to the belief that the golden age was\\nas far off as ever which would see the earth respond to the persuasive touch of\\nthe drill, and the coveted fluid burst forth to enrich the vales of Clarion county,\\nwhen it appeared in an unexpected quarter; and the operations begun there,\\nslowly and obscurely at first, and afterwards with gradual and swifter advance,\\ntook up their march of discovery. The derricks first seen at Graham s Landing\\nand Foxburg were to mark the progress of a new Eldorado into (perhaps\\nthrough) the heart of Clarion county.\\nWe will follow this interesting advance step by step, noticing in particular\\nonly the pioneer wells, those which defined the belt, and those whose extraor-\\ndinary production is worthy of special remark.\\nIn the May of 1869, on the outbreak of the Parker s Landing excitement,\\nthe Graham s Landing Oil Company, consisting of R. L. Brown, Simon Truby,\\nW. H. H. Piper, William Robinson, and Robert Crawford, sank a hole at Gra-\\nham s Landing, immediately opposite Parker s, and obtained a three-barrel\\nwell, which increased spontaneously to eleven. It was situated in the gulch at\\nthe mouth of the streamlet that falls into the Allegheny there. This was the\\nfirst permanent paying well struck in Clarion county. Soon after Duncan\\nKarns met with success on the the James Pollock farm on the heights back\\nfrom the river. The well produced fifteen barrels. The Buckeye, forty bar-\\nrels, below Graham s Landing, was opened the same season. But the attempts\\nto extend the territory inland, northeasterly, failed. A small well on the Mc-\\nIlwain farm marked the limit of production in that direction.\\nAttention was then directed to a more northern line toward Foxburg, where\\na few pumping- wells of small importance, on the Fox estate, were known to\\nexist. Drilling on the Simpson farm yielded only barren results; it was evi-\\ndent that a dry interval lay between Parker and the mouth of the Clarion.\\nIn the fall of 1865 Messrs. Samuel Fox and Joel Fink commenced their\\nwell No. I, on the east side of the Allegheny, on the upper or Reed tract.\\nOil was found of good quality but in small quantity in those days of Pithole\\nwith its 500 and 1,000 barrelers, a well which pumped four or five barrels was", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0376.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "The Development of Petroleum 351\\ndeemed almost worthless, and this received little attention. It must, however,\\nbe classed as Clarion county s first stayhig vj W of illuminating petroleum. In\\nthe succeeding summer No 2 was put down by the same firm and also proved\\na small producer. No. 3 was drilled in 1867, and was shortly abandoned. Its\\nmachinery was taken down the river below the Stone House and near the\\nmouth of the Clarion, and on the 30th of September, 1869, No. 4 was struck\\nwith paying results about fifteen barrels per day. About the same time the\\nGailey well on the south side of the Clarion, one-fourth of a mile above its\\nmouth, commenced to pump the same quantity. These ventures created some\\nexcitement and activity in that vicinity, and soon quite a number of wells were\\nunder way.\\nIn October A. S. Palmer obtained a lease from Mr. Fox, on the hillside\\nabove the station, and assigned it to Fertig and Hammond. Fertig No. i struck\\npetroleum in paying quantities. About this time operators began to see the\\nfallacy of the theory that oil would be found only in river bottoms and rigs\\nbegan to climb the hillsides. In the season of 1869 also the Mead Bros, sank\\na well at the river s mouth on the south, near the end of the A. V. Railroad\\nbridge, and found oil the Elephant well, farther up on the hillside, was struck\\nabout the same time, and the Island Queen, on Stump Island, astonished the\\noperators with a production of over 100 barrels a day. This well was first\\nowned by O. E. Shannon, Hartley, Washabaugh, Jno. Gailey, and E.\\nH. Long, and became the property of Robert Gailey. Nearly all these old\\nwells about Perryville and the mouth of the Clarion are still pumping.\\nThe Original Pipe Line.\\nGus R. Harms, of Petroleum Centre, and M. C. Martin, of Foxburg, had\\nentered into partnership in September, 1869, to engage in the business of trans-\\nporting petroleum from wells to the railroads. On October 19th they signed\\nthe following agreement with Samuel Fox\\nFor and in consideration of the sum of one dollar in hand paid, the receipt\\nof which is hereby acknowledged, I, Samuel M. Fox, of Richland township.\\nClarion county, Pennsylvania, do hereby sell and assign, and by these presents,\\nset over to M. C. Martin and Gus R. Harms, their heirs and assigns, for the\\nperiod of five years from the date hereof, the exclusive right of way over my\\nland in Perry township, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, and my lands in\\nRichland township, Clarion county, lying near the mouth of the Clarion River,\\nfor the purpose of piping, transporting and shipping petroleum oil over and\\nacross said lands for shipment on cars provided always, that the rate of trans-\\nportation charged by said M. C. Martin and Gus. R. Harms, shall never exceed\\ntwenty-five cents per barrel. Should said rate at any time be exceeded, this\\nsale and transfer shall have its legal termination otherwise, I bind myself, my\\nheirs and assigns, to protect said M. C. Martin and Gus. R. Harms, in exclusive", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0377.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "552 History of Clarion County.\\npossession of said right of way for said term of five years nevertheless the said\\nS. M. Fox reserves for himself and his lessees on the east side of the river, the\\nright to ship oil of their own production, by car or otherwise, as they may see\\nfit, and to lay a pipe for that purpose. In witness whereof I hereunto set my\\nhand and seal this 19th day of October, 1869.\\nSamuel M. Fox. [l. s.]\\nThe other part of the agreement is as follows, viz.\\nIn consideration of Samuel M. Fox having granted us the right of way\\nthrough certain lands of his, for the purpose of piping petroleum, we agree to\\nlay a pipe across the Allegheny River, and to extend the same through his\\nlands in Perry township, Armstrong county, within two months from the date\\nhereof, and to lay pipe to the tanks of his lessees as soon after their wells be-\\ncome productive as conveniently practicable, and to allow him a drawback of\\nfive cents per barrel on his oil piped over the river, unless our general charge\\nshould be reduced to fifteen cents per barrel, when the drawback shall only be\\ntwo and a half cents. We also agree, in case the oil passed through our pipes\\nshall amount to five hundied barrels per diem, to build an iron tank of not less\\nthan eight thousand barrels capacity, for its reception. And at the end of\\nevery four months, to divide among our customers, pro rata, any excess of oil\\nthat we may have received over and above what we may have given credit for.\\nWitness our hands and seals this 19th day of October, 1869.\\nM. C. Martin. [l. s.]\\nGus R. Harms, [l. s.]\\nAugust 1870, Soult and Dower struck a fifteen barrel well, on the hill-top,\\nRupert tract, adjoining Fox s on the northeast; the well was a short distance\\noff the road to St. Petersburg. Martin and Harms laid a line from the rack at\\nthe railroad to this well, necessarily across the Fox land the Foxes construed\\nthis as a privilege not accorded by the agreement, and their employees tore\\nup the pipe. A suit ensued which resulted in mutual concessions. In the\\nmean time, about the close of 1870, Martin and Harms had joined with James\\nBishop and C. Myer, under the name of the Mutual Pipe Line Company,\\nwith headquarters at Foxburg.\\nGrass Flats is the name applied to the strip of level land lying along\\nthe Clarion between the hillside and the river, directly south of St. Petersburg.\\nMost of this land belonged to Hon. J no. Keating. In 1870 there had been\\nsome isolated drilling done in this direction, with small results till on June 3,\\n1871, the Bovard Palmer well, Nettie, at the southwestern extremity of\\nthe Flats near the bend, opened up this prolific field with seventy-five barrels.\\nThis marks the beginning of a new era in the history of Clarion county oil\\nproduction. A great number of wells were soon under operation, and in July\\nthe Tillman Jackson well No. i, further up the river, came in with a good pro-\\nduction. Back from the Clarion the Lewis Collner farm, and the Shoup farm", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0378.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "The Development of Petroleum. 355\\nadjoining, proved to be very rich territory. In January, 1872, the Fleming\\nand Salsbery wells on the CoUner farm were completed and yielded between\\n400 and 500 barrels per day. In April Lady Harris No. i, on G. R. Harris s\\nlease from Collner, added to the list of large producers.\\nBy April, 1872, Grass Flats for its entire length, and the country between\\nthe river and St. Petersburg, were covered with wells, yielding a product of\\nbetween 30 and 400 barrels each. In the succeeding summer St Petersburg\\nreached the climax of its prosperity, and was the scene of stirring activity and\\nexcitement unprecedented in Clarion county.\\nOn October 23, 1871, the first well east of St. Petersburg, Marcus Hulings s\\nfamous Antwerp, on the Ashbaugh farm, was finished and proved a fountain\\nof the first quahty, flowing two hundred barrels of oil through the casing at\\nfirst, and subsiding to the very respectable production of seventy-five barrels\\ndaily. This strike indicated the existence of petroleum in large quantities in a\\nnew quarter, and whetted the zeal of speculators. In a short while every avail-\\nable foot lying on a forty-five degree hne between St. Petersburg and Turkey\\nRun was in the hands of eager operators. The fee simple of farms commanded\\n$300 and $400 per acre, and Pennsylvania Dutch farmers, who had toiled\\nfor years on their paternal acres without amassing affluence, suddenly found\\nthemselves wealthy.\\nHitherto, with Parker as a starting point, the general drift of development\\nhad been on hnes ranging between twenty-two and thirty degrees east of\\nnorth. It was soon discovered that a bend occurred at St. Petersburg. A\\nmonth from the striking of the Antwerp, the well on the Hiram Neely farm\\n(Richmond), owned by Patterson Dickey, W. H. Nicholson and others,\\ncame in with a large showing and confirmed confidence in the new territory;\\nat that time these were the only wells east of St. Petersburg. Soon after M.\\nE. Hess s fine well on the D. Shoup farm advanced discoveries one step north-\\neast from the Antwerp. This was followed in March, 1872, by Smith, Cook\\nCo .s 150 barreler, in the same neighborhood; and on April loth Harring-\\nton Co. got a twenty-five barrel well on Turkey Run, far ahead of devel-\\nopments. Operations in this direction soon became extensive and covered so\\nwide an area that it is impossible to trace them, except generally. Among\\nthose completed in 187 1-2 between St. Petersburg and Turkey we may men-\\ntion as notable M. Hulings s well, on the Stubble farm, north of Richland fur-\\nnace J. W. Irwin s, 200 barrels, on Little Turkey, Edinger farm. On the\\nextreme northwest were the wells on the land of Charles Masters and Daniel\\nHeeter.\\nOn the east the belt extended to the Isaac Neely farm, across Turkey Run,\\nnear its mouth, but northeast from that point was uncertain and streaky, retir-\\ning in the direction of Richmond. On the Fillman place, however, consider-\\nably east of Richmond, petroleum was found. On the west, or more correctly.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0379.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "354 History of Clarion County.\\nnorthwest, the producing region did not advance beyond the valleys of the\\nsmall tributaries of Turkey Run, narrowing down north and northwest of St.\\nPetersburg. Dry holes on D. Hale s heirs, Salem township, and on the upper\\nend of the farm of D. Knight marked the northern limit, and inclined opera-\\ntions to the east, where good wells were found on the J. Hale and Knappen-\\nberger farms, opening the Monroeville field. The maximum width of the belt\\nwas three miles, and so continued to Edenburg.\\nIn June, 1872, Hess Veary s well, on the D. Knight farm, opened up at\\nthe rate of two barrels an hour, and on August 30, M. Hulings again led the\\nstar of empire northeastward by a seventy-five barreler on the farm of George\\nDelo, in southern Salem township.\\nJuly 20, 1872, there were 233 producing and 106 drilling wells in the\\nClarion (third) district; by the middle of September the producing wells num-\\nbered 300. About this time the Clarion producers met at St. Petersburg and\\nresolved on a month s shut down, and suspension of drilling, in conjunction\\nwith the outside fraternity, on account of overstock and depression in the crude\\nmarket as a consequence, all but sixteen wells in the Clarion district closed\\noperations. When they resumed, November i, it was with a decreased pro-\\nduction.\\nJanuary, 1873, Lee Plummer s one hundred and fifty barrel well on the\\nPlummel farm was struck, and soon after Hammer and Geyer marked an ad-\\nvance by success on the Exley farm, Beaver township. These were pioneer\\nstrikes in new territory, yet notwithstanding the incitement they gave to opera-\\ntors, it was almost a year before the Turkey City, Monroeville and Paris City\\n(Pickwick) fields rose into prominence. Clarion oil operations made slow head-\\nway, as a rule, before a field reached full development. The belt was a wide\\none, its length indefinite, and it required a succession of rich finds to concen-\\ntrate activity in a particular district. In this w^ay the field was developed by\\npatches.\\nOn June 27, 1873, attention was suddenly diverted to northern Beaver\\ntownship by a strike by John Turner and Walter Lowry, at Bowers, three-\\nfourths of a mile north of Edenburg the St. Lawrence well, opening with sixty\\nbarrels. This was miles ahead of previous developments, and in the furore\\nover this discovery many producers left Turkey City, IVIonroeville, and Pick-\\nwick before the lateral limits of that portion of the belt had been reached, and\\nwith much advance territory untested. Shortly after the St. Lawrence, Hulings\\nfound oil on Canoe Creek, and September 9, 1873, Lee and Balhet brought in\\nanother large producer, a two hundred barrel well on the Bowers farm. This\\nprolific tract was bought by Wetter and Bleakly.\\nIn January, 1874, Gray Bros, and Spargo on the Mendenhall property,\\nclose to Edenburg, brought the developments a step farther south, while early\\nin February, Smith, Cook Go s., producing eighty barrels, following the dis-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0380.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "Development of Petroleum. 355\\ncovery at G. Exley s on Switzer Run widened the territory westward, and\\nformed a link between Pickwick and Edenburg.\\nAt this period there seemed to be no Hmit to the possibiHties of the terri-\\ntory, except in Salem, where upper Turkey Run formed a barrier on the west,\\nand confined production to the corner. The summer of 1874 was an era of\\ngreat activity in the field around Edenburg, and that village rose into notoriety\\nas a petroleum centre. Producers began to discover, too, that a prolific field\\nstretched southwestwardly, and started to retrace their steps to complete the\\nconnection between the St. Petersburg and Edenburg regions. The oil trade,\\nhowever, was very much depressed, and operations progressed in the face of\\ndiscouragements. Petroleum dragged along between forty and sixty cents,\\nand not till the spring of 1875 did the advance begin which culminated in the\\nboom of 1876. To add to this difficulty the producers who held their oil for a\\nbetter market, were burdened with a storage rate of five cents per month for\\nevery barrel.\\nPetroleum was found at Jefferson Furnace,^ and in the middle of July a\\nsixty-barrel find on the farm of George Kribbs the future Beaver City\\nopened a prolific section. The belt now began to be defined on the northwest\\nand southeast. It was apparent that it would only truncate the corner of Ash-\\nland township, as it had done in Salem. On the south it was less distinctly\\n-outlined, as it ran northeast in streaks, and was very touchy territory. But\\nbeyond Blair s and Wentling s corners, and east of the Hanst and Ditman farms,\\non Canoe Creek, the most enterprising wild-catting failed to show up oil terri-\\ntory.\\nIn June, 1874, fifty- nine rigs were up around Edenburg, and the average\\nof production was twenty- nine barrels to each well.\\nThe year 1875 saw little extension southwest, but opened up rich fields in\\nthe front, and brought the Clarion district to a pretty high stage of develop-\\nment. The field obtained prominence, but the daily average of the wells was\\nlowered doubtless by reason of their increased numbers. The St. Petersburg\\nregion had begun to decline materially, but Edenburg and Beaver City daily\\nincreased their production. The Kribbs well (Sept.), on the Beck farm, a mile\\nsouth of Edenburg, unexpectedly broadened the belt. Outside of this, the\\nonly discovery in the south worthy of notice, was that on the farm of Eli Logue,\\nnear the Clarion, in northern Perry township. August, 1875, the Logue,\\nGailey Smullen well started off with two hundred barrels, and in 1876 the\\nproducing wells on this farm numbered thirty.\\n1 A map of Clarion county, published in 1865, marks Oil Company on Turkey Run, near the\\nsite of Turkey City. Two wells are indicated at Jefferson. Kribbs Company have a well a little\\nsouth of the Hanst farm, on Canoe Creek. There is also the Lehigh Oil Company, west of Shippen-\\nville, where the Elk City district was developed, and a well north of that point, near Baker \u00c2\u00bbS: Rich-\\nardson s well. The Lehigh Company did not put down a well till 1876 or 1877.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0381.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "356 History of Clarion County.\\nIn 1875 one hundred and eighty-one wells were completed in the Clarion\\ndistrict, with a new daily production of 2,556 barrels.^\\nIn 1872 the Antwerp Pipe Line Company entered the field, and in the\\nsame year a line was laid to Oil City by way of East Sandy, adopting the latter\\nas its name. The Antwerp line discharged their oil at Tylerton, on the Alle-\\ngheny Valley Railroad, between Foxburg and Emlenton. In 1874 the Emlen-\\nton line was laid. The iMutual was merged into the Atlantic Pipe Line Com-\\npany, of which Charles P. Hatch, of Titusville, was president, and A. W.\\nSmiley, of Foxburg, superintendent. In April, 1875, this company began\\npiping oil to Sligo afterward the terminus was changed to Foxburg.\\nFourth Sand.\\nThe only prolific fourth sand ever found in the Clarion field was that\\nstruck by J. W. Taj lor, on the Knappenberger farm, north of Monroeville,\\nJuly I, 1876. Oil showed up abundantly, flowing for a short period, and\\npumping 400 barrels per day for some time.\\nIn 1876 an important well, owned by Gates Vensel, doing fifty barrels\\nper day, was struck near the Stone Church, Jefferson Station. Major Henry\\nWetter got a 125-barrel well on the Beals farm, Beav^er City, the largest of the\\nseason, except Taylor s fourth sand well. But the most active drilling was on\\nthe extreme northeast front. Hess Bradley s small well, on the Dale farm,\\nwest of Shippenville, had first attracted notice to that quarter. This was fol-\\nlowed by a twenty-five barrel producer in the same vicinity, owned by Jacob\\nHahn, and a fifty barreler by Jacob Black. In March, 1876, Leedom Pat-\\nterson struck oil northwest of Shippenville, far in advance; the Lehigh Com-\\npany s hole, between Elk Cit} and Shippenville, filled up with seventy-five\\nbarrels a day.\\nWells completed, 804 new production, 10,015.\\nIn the spring and summer of 1877 the Elk City field reached its height.\\nLarge wells were found on Joseph Riser s farm, Tyler s Mudlark, near Elk\\nCity, May, 1877, produced seventy-five barrels, and on A. R. Black s farm\\nadjoining were a number of paying wells. To the northwest some aston-\\nishing gushers, rarities in the Clarion district, were found. The Antwerp Com-\\npany s (afterwards Oak Shade) well on the Johnston farm spouted 400 barrels\\na day after torpedoing, and for a considerable time maintained a production of\\n140 barrels. The Jerusalem tract, J. M. Gufte}^, north of Johnston s, proved\\nsimilarly lucrative. A fountain on the G. Howe farm, on the southern bound-\\nary of Ashland township, flowed for a time 400 barrels per day this well was\\nowned by Baker Howe, A. Rittenhouse, William S. Hess, and J. S. Oliver.\\nIn the southwest a few large wells developed some additional territory or\\n1 These figures do not afford an accurate criterion of Clarion county s yearly average increase, as\\ntliey represent the output of the wells immediately or shortly after being struck, when they were at\\ntheir best.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0382.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "The Development of Petroleum. 357\\nrevived the old. Cram Company struck a large well on the Fisher farm\\nin July, and later Hukill Davis brought in a hundred-barrel well on the farm\\nof Mrs. Wentling. A mushroom town, styled Slam Bang, at the cross-\\nroads, was the result of these discoveries.\\nThe year 1877 was the banner year of Clarion s petroleum annals it was\\nat the same time a year of expansion, and one of exhaustion. The older por-\\ntions of the field were thoroughly overhauled, and the new territory found its\\nlimits these combined influences forced the production to its highest point.\\nAs Edenburg loomed into prominence all the pipe lines, the United, Sandy,\\nAntwerp, Oil City, American Transfer, and Atlantic centered there, and as a\\nconsequence carrying rates became ruinously low; for a while five cents per\\nbarrel. This competition very welcome to the producers was ended on\\nMarch 12, 1877, by their consolidation with the United Pipe Line, controlled\\nby the Standard Oil Company, with central office at Oil City and branches in\\nall the prominent fields. There are two pumping stations in this county; one\\non Canoe Creek, near Edenburg, and one at Turkey City.\\nIn 1876 the Clarion district ranked first, with Butler county a close second,\\nand in 1877, while ours fell below the total production of Butler, it surpassed\\neither the Bullion or Millerstown fields taken separately.\\n1877, 1,228 finished wells gave a new production of 13,944 barrels.\\n1878 saw a great falling oft the rising Bullion and Bradford regions at-\\ntracted many from Clarion, and left the field comparatively deserted. Many\\ntook with them the rigs and machinery from exhausted or unprofitable wells.\\nActivity was confined to efibrts to discover an extension of the belt, but with\\nmeager results. A few small wells were found about Shippenville, but the\\nmore numerous dry holes dampened ardor, and demonstrated the unreliability\\nand narrowness of the streak. So operations rested there.\\n1878, 325 wells completed; production 3,880 barrels; 1879, eighty-two\\nwells, 720 barrels.\\nThe period between 1878 and 1885 is an unrelieved blank as regards devel-\\nopments in this county. In February of the latter year, Dietrich, Berlin,\\nYoung, Star and Maxwell, composing the Cogley Oil Company, sank a well\\non G. N. Berlin s tract, Cogley s Run, in northern Ashland township it yielded\\nabout ten barrels daily. This was the beginning of the Cogley pool. It ap-\\npeared afterwards that this well tapped the deposit near its northeastern edge\\nsubsequent developments retrograded to the southwest, reversing the general\\norder in the Clarion field. Oil was found north on the Fisher, Young and\\nExley farms, but on pushing further, on the Shippen, Kahle and Rickenbrode\\ntracts, the drilling was brought to a halt by dusters.\\nAbout a mile southwest from the Cogley well Hess and Sackett struck oil\\non land of E. F. Heeter, Little Sandy. The intervening country was opened\\nby Koch Brothers 100 barrel well, the largest of the field, on the farm of Mar-\\n30", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0383.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "358 History of Clarion County.\\nvin Hess. The pike at Kossuth marked the southern hmit, but few paying\\nwells were found beyond it.\\nCogley was a field of small operators and small wells it was not long be-\\nfore it was seen that its days were numbered. It reached its climax in Novem-\\nber, 1885, with an average daily production of 5,416 barrels. In December,\\n1886, Cogley s production was 1,361 barrels. During twenty months, com-\\nmencing with May, 1885, and ending December 31, 1886, the Cogley field\\nproduced 1,723,295 a daily average of 2,895 barrels.\\nThe striking of the Swartzfager well, June, 1886, south of Shippenville,\\nwhich yielded at the start one hundred barrels a day, awakened interest in that\\nspot and stimulated wild catting. Previously a very few operators had succeeded\\nin successfully crossing the pike. Gradually an extremely narrow belt, or rather\\na line, running northeasterly from that road, was opened. After much testing\\nHahn and Wagner procured a few small wells in the neighborhood of Paint\\nMills, and thereby established an extension of the Shippenville streak. Be-\\ntween Shippenville and Paint Mills, however, there is an unproductive break\\nof half a mile. There are at present sixteen oil producing wells east of the\\npike at Shippenville, averaging tw^o and one-half barrels each.\\nThe Clarion oil belt, taken in connection with the Butler county continua-\\ntion, is in many respects the most remarkable deposit of petroleum yet devel-\\noped, extending as it does from Paint Mills here to St. Joe in Butler county.\\nAlong this, oil-yielding farm joins farm continuously with but a single gap for\\na distance of thirty miles, and with a width varying from one-fourth to three\\nmiles. In Butler county a rich cross-belt of fourth sand underlies this line.\\nOn March i, 1887, Messrs. Hess and Sackett found oil on the farm of A.\\nJ. Kifer, about a mile south of Reidsburg, in a second or stray sand. The well\\nhas been since yielding fifteen barrels daily of clear petroleum much resem-\\nbling that of Washington county. This strike has awakened interest in this\\ncomparatively untested territory, but until the completion of more wells its\\nvalue is only a matter of conjecture. The deposit appears to be a 45 degree\\nprolongation of the Armstrong Run (Arm. Co.) amber oil.\\nIn connection with the Reidsburg field, tradition says that Marcus Hulings,\\nformerly of Franklin, was a paymaster in the War of 18 12, absconded with\\nthe funds in his possession and came to the vicinity of the present Reidsburg.\\nIt is certain that he purchased land from Hugh Reid in 181 5. In 18 18 he\\nsank a well on what is known as the old Reid farm, back of the academy a\\nshort distance. When he reached the depth of six hundred or seven hundred\\nfeet, he was astonished by a strong flow of gas, which blew out the salt water.\\nA little oily substance floating iridescent on the water came with it too, which\\nthe owner and the neighbors recognized as Seneca oil or petroleum. It ap-\\npears that it came up in sufficient quantity to make the saline flow worthless,\\nand the well was abandoned. The spot is still marked, and on the water wdiich\\nbubbles up through the hole a thin coat of oil may be detected at this day.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0384.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "The Lumber and Coal Industries.\\n359\\nProduction.\\nIt was impossible to obtain the exact statistics of total production before\\n1878. The fragmentary records of the various pipe lines were not preserved,\\nand it was not till the United Pipe Line Co. in 1877 assumed control of the\\ntraffic that a systematic tabulation was adopted. The pipe-line runs of the\\nClarion district were given separately only for the years 1878 and 1879; there-\\nafter, on account of their small production, Butler and Clarion were imited\\ninto the Lower District, and so remained till 1884, when the Wardwell and\\nBaldridge fields entitled Butler county to distinct reports. During these years\\nClarion and Butler s production maintained about an equal pace. The annexed\\ntable shows the daily average production of Clarion county for the years\\n1866-1883:\\nestimated 1876 9,000 barrels, estimated\\nestimated 1877\\nestimated 1878\\nestimated 1879\\nestimated 1 880\\nestimated 1881\\nestimated 1882\\nestimated 188^\\n1866 8 barrel\\n1869 100\\n1870 200\\n1871 500\\n1872 3,000\\n1873 4,000\\n1874 4,500\\n1875 5 90o\\n12.000\\nestimated\\n8,440\\nofficial\\n5,089\\nofficial\\n4,467\\nestimated\\n3 33^\\nestimated\\n2,776\\nestimated\\n2,500\\nestimated\\nCHAPTER XXXVIII.\\nTHE LUMBER AND COAL INDUSTRIES.\\nEarly Lumbering Hahn Metzgar Marvin, Rulofson Company Penn Mills\\nShonp Siegwoith Cobb Sons Paint Mills Star Mills- P. Haskell Byrom,\\nMinor Gordon Higby Tract Arthurs Coal and Lumber Company Blake Tract F. Vo-\\nwinckel T. Raine Observations Statistics Fairmount Mines Mineral Ridge New Catfish\\nHardscrabble Pine Run Clarion Shaft Star and Long Run Church Hill Sligo Branch\\nWestern Shaft.\\nLumber.\\nJAMES LAUGH LIN and Frederick Miles, at the mouth of Piney Creek, in\\n1805, built the first saw-mill in the country, and it is probable rafted some\\ntimber to Pittsburgh.\\nIn 181 1 Benjamin Gardner, sr., a carpenter by trade, attracted by the\\nwealth of virgin pine on the banks of Toby s Creek, came from Philadelphia to\\nengage in the business of lumbering on the homestead tract and on Turkey\\nRun. The work of stripping the steep and rugged hillsides, even now an\\narduous one, was then, when so many labor-saving appliances were lacking,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0385.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "360 History of Clarion County.\\nexceedingly toilsome. Early lumbering was accompanied by hardships, test-\\ning severely the stoutest frames and the most robust constitutions.\\nMr. Gardner continued in the business till his death, and introduced the\\nuse of steam into the Clarion region at his double upright mill, at the mouth\\nof Beaver Creek.\\nThe first circular steam mill in the county was the Jamestown Company s\\nat the mouth of Mill Creek, built in 1853.\\nThomas Peters, in 1822, erected a dam for lumbering purposes across the\\nClarion at the mouth of Turkey Run, under the following act:\\nBe it enacted by the Se?iate and House of Representatives, etc. That from\\nand after the passing of this act, it shall and may be lawful for Thomas R.\\nPeters, his heirs, executors, and assigns, to construct, erect, support, and main-\\ntain forever, a dam or dyke across Toby s Creek (or Clarion River), at or near\\nthe mouth of Turkey Run, emptying into the said creek (or river) in Venango\\ncounty, in the Commonwealth aforesaid Provided, That the said Thomas R.\\nPeters, his heirs and assigns, shall at all times keep, support, and maintain a\\nrace or canal, at least sixteen feet wide, with a lock or locks if necessary, the\\ngates of which shall not be less than eighty feet apart, which lock or locks\\nshall be effectually supplied with water for boat and canoe navigation, out of\\nand from the said creek or river, in such a manner as that boats and canoes\\nmay pass along and through the same, both ascending and descending, with as\\nmuch ease and as little impediment to the navigation as may be And pro-\\nvided fiirthcr, That the said Thomas R. Peters, his heirs and assigns, shall\\nconstruct and maintain a slope of at least forty feet wide and two feet below\\nthe summit level of the dam, over a convenient part of the said dam, for the\\npassage of rafts descending the said river, and that the slope shall have an\\napron or inclined plane of six feet for every foot of the said dam above the\\nordinary level of the water in the said creek or river.\\nThe succeeding section provides that if complaint be made that the dam\\nseriously obstructs navigation, viewers shall be appointed by the court to pass\\njudgment from whose report an appeal may be taken, and the issue tried be-\\nfore a jury.\\nThe richly wooded slopes about Turkey Run and Callensburg were the\\nscenes of the first active lumbering operations. The southern half of the\\ncounty never possessed the pine and hemlock in the abundance found in the\\nnorth and the furnaces stripped it of nearly all that it had.\\nPrior to i860 one or two steam mills, and a multitude of small water mills\\nof the upright style, on the tributaries of the Clarion, supplied the moderate\\n.demands of the market with their quota of sawed product. We may instance\\nPorter s, Gilmore s, Walter s, Sarvey s, Griebel s, all on Little Toby.\\nThe first mills had single sash saws; muley and gang saws were the next\\nimprovement.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0386.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0389.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0390.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "Lumber and Coal Industries. 361\\nHahn Metzgar. In 1848 Jacob and Charles Hahn, of Philadelphia, pur-\\nchased the old mill at Piney, together without about lOO acres, from Mr. Al-\\nlen Wilson. The mill was of the primitive order, with two upright saws and\\nworked by water-power. At that time the timber had already been pretty\\nwell culled from the country about the mouth of Piney Creek. The Hahn\\nbrothers were chiefly engaged in turning out heavy timber, and the manu-\\nfacture of boats for the iron trade. The mill was capable of cutting about a\\nmillion yearly.\\nIn 1853 the property was sold to Corbett and Wynkoop, and rebought the\\nnext year by Mr. Hahn, who retired again in 1867, but on starting Paint mills\\nin 1870 with John Metzgar and others, he regained a half interest in this mill,\\nwhich he retained a few years, and then sold to Mr. Krause. This mill has\\nbeen a singularly fatal one to two of its proprietors. Mr. Metzgar was drowned\\nin the dam during an ice gorge and Mr. Krause some years after met his\\ndeath by drowning in the river, at the loading place. The mill was converted\\ninto a steam one, under Mr. Krause s management it now belongs to Messrs.\\nM. Wagner and J no. Hahn.\\nMarvin, Rulofson Company. This extensive and enterprising firm own\\nabout 8,000 acres along both sides of Mill Creek, much of which, however, has\\nbeen cleared of valuable timber. The first saw-mill was erected at the mouth\\nof Mill Creek about 18 17, by Thomas Guthrie, in connection with his grist-\\nmill there. It was a small one, with a flutter-wheel of the oldest style. It\\nwas sold to John and Herman Girts, who ran it a short while, when it was\\npurchased by the brothers W^orkman, with about 1,000 acres of timber land.\\nThey built a larger mill, and rebuilt it twice, but were unsuccessful. In 184-\\nJ. W. Guthrie became proprietor, and constructed a large double water-power\\nsaw-mill on the river immediately below the mouth of Mill Creek, but Mr.\\nGuthrie met with similar misfortunes as his predecessors the mill was repeat-\\nedly destroyed and damaged by freshets and ice gorges.\\nThe property not realizing the investment, was sold in 1850 to Nathaniel\\nLowry, of Jamestown, N. Y., and on his death, in the following year, passed\\ninto the hands of Benjamin Davis, W. Wheeler, M. Burnell, Marvin,\\nand others of that vicinity. These gentlemen had scarceh finished repairs on\\nthe mills when they were again swept away. Convinced that the old site was\\nan impracticable one, they moved up the stream, a short distance above its\\nmouth, the site of the present mill, and in 1853 built a double circular steam\\nmill, which was operated till 1857, and ceased running, till September, 1858,\\nwhen Mr. Rulof Rulofson purchased an interest in it and revived business. By\\nthe death of several members of the company, the property became vested in a\\nfew who compose the present firm of Marvin, Rulofson Company, Mr.\\nRulofson, manager. The latter, on assuming charge in 1858, put in a gang\\nmill. In 1883 the mill was remodeled and equipped with the latest improve-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0391.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "362 History of Clarion County.\\nments in machinery, increasing its capacity to 3,000 feet per hour. It is now,\\nif not the largest, one of the largest and most complete mills in the lumber\\nregion.\\nThe land at the time of Rulofson s purchase had been enlarged by various\\nconveyances to about 8,000 acres a large portion of this was sold off in farms,\\nand 4,000 acres purchased from the Blake lands, so that the area of the tract\\nremains about the same. The bulk of the tract consisted originally of Bing-\\nham warrants, purchased by Algernon S. Howe, and which from Howe passed\\nto Thomas Perley, Marshall Cram. G. Blake, and others, of Cumberland county,\\nMe., his co-partners in the Maine Lumber Company, a syndicate of lumber-\\nmen, who invested in large timber tracts along the upper Clarion and its\\ntributaries.\\nMr. Rulofson estimates the amount of timber cut before the beginning of\\nthe present ownership in 1853, as 20,000,000 of feet; since then 80,000,000\\nof pine have been manufactured. There yet remain on the tract 50,000,000\\nfeet of pine, 30,000,000 feet of hemlock, 10,000,000 feet of oak.\\nPenn Mills, a short distance from the mouth of the Toby, was one of the\\nearliest steam saw-mills in the country. It was built in 1858 on a large and\\ncomplete scale for that date, with a cutting power of 15,000 a day. The pro-\\nprietors were Reynolds, Pritner, Curll and Myers. In 1865 a water- spout\\ndevastated the valley of Little Toby, undermining the mill, carrying away the\\nboiler, and destroying the road and tramway to the river. The mill was not\\nrebuilt.\\nShoup Seigworth owned a large tract of timber land, about 500 acres,\\non the headwaters of Paint Creek, between Tylersburg and Lickingville; and\\nin the sixties had a steam mill on it, but cut comparatively little. Before 1865\\nthey sold to Ludlow Verman, an eastern firm, but rebought in a few years,,\\nand pretty eftectually rid the land of timber between 1868 and 1875, sawing\\nabout 10,000,000 feet of pine.\\nCobb Sons. Jno. Cobb and sons were among the earliest of the exten-\\nsive operators in the lumber region of Farmington. They stripped the Guth-\\nrie and Fleming lands on Tom s Run in 1873-75. Later they built Red Hot\\nMills, on Little Coon Creek, on the Ford and Lacy tracts warrant 5502, and\\nabout 800 acres adjoining east. Five years were spent in clearing this of pine,\\nat the rate of 3,000,000 a year. All this product was taken into Forest county\\nand marlceted there. Cobb Sons also had an extensive tract on Hemlock\\nCreek, part of which extended into Clarion county.\\nPaint Mills. In 1870 Jacob Hahn, Martin Wagner and Jno. Metzgar pur-\\nchased 1,600 acres in Paint township from Jacob Black, esq., for $37,000, and\\nestablished Paint Mills, which are capable of sawing 20,000 feet per day. They\\nhave been marketing lumber yearly ever since their boat wharf and rafting\\nground being on the Clarion River, a little above the pike bridge. In oil times", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0392.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "Lumber and Coal Lxdustries. 363\\nthey disposed of the most of their timber at Elk City and Edenburg. The\\ntimber is now all but exhausted, and the year 1887 shall probably see the com-\\npletion of the work. Metzgar s interest was purchased by D. B. Curll about\\n1878. Mr. Hahn retired from the partnership in 1883, Mr. Wagner taking\\nhis interest.\\nStar Mills. Leeper Co. (Leeper, Bowman and Curll), was situated on\\nland purchashed from C. Osterreid in southern Knox township, on Paint Creek,\\nin extent about 300 acres. The mill was built in 1875, and is now abandoned,\\nthe timber tract being stripped.\\nP. Haskell, originally Leeper Haskell. This timber tract lies in north-\\nern Farmington township and consists of about 7 50 acres. The mill, erected\\nin 1 87 1, has a capacity of 20,000 feet a day. About 15,000,000 have been\\nalready cut. Adjoining this property H. H. May operated some years for\\nRoot Gillespie, of Forest county, taking off about 7,000,000 feet.\\nByrom, Minor Gordon. This firm lumbered on Blyson Run, their tracts\\nembracing 1,300 acres. The mill was situated at the mouth of the run. They\\nbegan operations in July, 1872 cut about 5,000,000 feet, and ceased in 1878.\\nHigby Tract. This contained 1,453 acres, situated southeast of Tylers-\\nburg, and joined Arnold, Leeper Co. on the northwest. It was originally\\nPeters land, and was bought by Zara H. Coster, of Allegheny. In 1846 Cos-\\nter conveyed it for the consideration of $15,000 to Henry, Enoch I. Higby\\nand George Higby, also of Allegheny. Enoch I. and George assigned their\\ninterests to Henry. It was purchased in October, 1879, by Charles Leeper,\\nDavid Bowman, M. Arnold, and F. M. Arnold, for $38,000. They obtained\\n35,000,000 feet from it. It is now entirely stripped.\\nThe Blake Tract. After Marvin, Rulofson Co. s, this the largest and\\nmost valuable piece of timber land in the county, contains 1,500 acres. It\\nHes in Farmington township on both sides of Toby Creek, and consists chiefly\\nof portions of Lewis and Peters s warrants, Nos. 3683, and 3684 and two\\nirregular strips of Bingham territory, extending from these to the north and\\neast, comprising about 900 acres. An offsetting tract, called the Wing\\nTract, lies to the west this was originally owned by Elliot Gray, who had\\na small mill on it at an early date. It was purchased by G. Blake. The Peters\\nportion of the tract was sold in 1846 by Richard Peters to Zara Coster, and\\nthence passed to Henry Higby in the same manner as described in the Hig-\\nby tract. Higby shortly sold warrants 3683 and 3684, embracing 2,005 acres,\\nto Robert Barber and W. L. Packer. On their failure in 1848 it fell under\\nthe sheriff s hammer to Tobias Myers, and through him to David Richey,\\nwho sold in January, 1856 to Grinfil Blake for $9,000. The Bingham por-\\ntion was conveyed in 1840, by the Bingham trustees, to Algernon Howe, one\\nof the Maine company; by him to Elizabeth Blake and Grinfil Blake, her hus-\\nband, and finally became the sole property of the latter.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0393.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "364 History op^ Clarion County.\\nIn the winter of 1880 Blake began preparations to put a mill on the tract,\\nbut on May 6th a sale was effected, whereby, for the amount of $100,000 Elias\\nRitts obtained a one-third interest, and P. Graham and R. Buzard, a third.\\nGraham really owned but a twelfth interest, the other twelfth belonging to P.\\nMcCullough, of Pittsburgh, but nominally held by Graham. May 31, 1880,\\nHon. James Campbell purchased the remaining third from Blake for $50,000.\\nOctober 14, 1884, Chas. Leeper purchased R. Buzard s interest (one-sixth)\\nfor $40,000, and shortly after G. W. and F. M. Arnold became the owners of\\nRitts s third (including some finished lumber) for $85,000. In January, 1886,\\nHugh McCullough, heir of P., conveyed his one-twelfth share in the property\\nto Manasseh Arnold. The proprietors now are James Campbell, one-third,\\nG. W. and F. M. Arnold, one-third, Charles Leeper, one-sixth, M. Arnold,\\none-twelfth, Graham heirs, one-twelfth. The firm is known as Leeper, Arnold\\nCo. The first mill was built in 1880, and replaced by a new one in 1883,\\nwhich has a capacity for cutting 30,000 feet per day there is a lath mill in\\noperation also. The boat wharf is at Porter s landing, two miles distant from\\nthe mill. About 50,000,000 feet of pine have been taken off this splendid\\ntract; as much yet remains; the total stumpage exceeds the estimate at the\\npurchase from Blake, by 25,000,000 feet. There is about 50,000 feet of oak.\\nArnold, Leeper Co. employ thirty hands. Mr. Leeper is superintendent,\\nwith pay.\\nThe Arthurs Coal and Lumber Company, held i,ioo acres of land in the\\nnortheast corner of Paint township, purchased from Ralph Bagaley and J. C.\\nReid. The company were Ralph Bagaley, Robert Arthurs, S. E. Gill and\\nElisha Mix, all except the latter, who was manager, residing in Pittsburgh and\\nvicinity. They began operations early in 1880, and ceased in 1886, having\\nexhausted the timber. About 16,000,000 feet were sawed. This company\\ntook the initiative in introducing railroad facilities into the lumber region. In\\n1 88 1 they constructed a branch from Clarion Junction to their mill, five miles\\ndistant.\\nT. W. Raine. In 1882 Messrs. Carrier and Raine, of Troy, Jefferson county,\\npurchased the Corbett and Wilson tract, 913 acres, along both sides of the\\nriver near Clarion, and also 263 acres four miles above on Toby. March, 1885,\\nMr. Thos. Raine bought out Carrier s interest. The mill, first built by Thos.\\nBaker, about 1863, has a present capacity of about 20,000. Carrier and Raine,\\nand T. W. Raine have cut about 10,000,000 feet of pine.\\nF. Vowinckel. In the northeastern corner of Farmington township, on\\nthe P. and W. Railroad, Mr. Frederick Vowinckel s tract is situated, being\\nland purchased from Rick, Taylor and Zagst, and comprising about 1,100 acres.\\nThe mill is a modern one, having a daily capacity of 30,000. It was erected\\nin March. 1883. Since that time Mr. Vowinckel has turned out 7,000,000 feet\\nof finished product.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0394.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "Lumber and Coal Interests. 365\\nThe construction of the Kane extension of the Pittsburgh and Western Rail-\\nroad revolutionized the lumber trade of Clarion county. The river is no longer\\nthe great highway for the traffic with the exception of Marvin, Rulofson\\nCompany, and Raine, all the larger firms have sidings and ship their products\\nby the more convenient and always available rail, sending only empty coal\\nboats by water. The increased cost of transportation is compensated by ship-\\nping to order, thereby saving the delay and expense of waiting for purchasers.\\nIt requires no degree of foresight to see, from the facts and figures given\\nabove, that seven years hence Clarion county shall be completely stripped of\\nits pine and oak timber of value. Already there is a demand for stray lots of\\ntimber, previously overlooked on account of their comparative insignificance.\\nThe age of the portable mill is upon us.\\nThe stave-mill industry has assumed prominence of late years, and many\\nportable stave mills are scattered over the country, especially in the south where\\noak is more abundant. The only large lumber areas of any kind there are the\\nW. Craig pine tract, near Greenville, and Hovvley, Reid Company s tract of\\noak on Leasure s Run, Porter township.\\nClarion is the third lumber county in the State, being second only to Ly-\\ncoming and Clearfield in the amount of pine lumber manufactured, and ex-\\nceeded by Allegheny and Northumberland in oak. In 1873 there were\\n93,394 acres of unimproved woodland in this county. In 1885 there were\\nfifteen saw-mills in Clarion county, employing 369 persons. Of the mills, thir-\\nteen were steam. Saws, twenty- two. These cut, during that year, 17,110,000\\nfeet of pine, 2,388,000 of hemlock, 1,000 feet of ash, 60,000 of chestnut,\\n2,455,000 of oak; other timber, 50,000 feet; shingles, 30,000; pickets, 29,-\\n000. Value of products, $273,998.\\nCoal.\\nThe collieries of Clarion county\\nThe Fairmount Mines. In 1873, on the completion of the Low Grade\\nRailroad, R. W. Jones and J. M. Brinker, composing the Fairmount Coal Com-\\npany, opened drift No. i on land purchased from John Hilliard. This was\\nworked until 1879, when the present No. 2 was opened on the farm of Philip\\nDoverspike. J. M. Brinker was the general manager of the mines. In 1882\\nthe property changed hands, and is now operated by the Fairmount Coal and\\nIron Company, of which B. K. Jamison, of Philadelphia, is president; John\\nA. Wilson, of the same city, vice-president Ensign Bennet, of Buffalo, gen-\\neral manager S. Taylor Sheafifer, of Fairmount City, superintendent.\\nIn 1876 Brinker Jones produced 55,044 tons, of the value of $77,522.\\nOne hundred and twelve persons were employed, and the mines were operated\\nevery day. At present the company have 250 miners and about fifteen mules\\nand horses in their employ, and the average daily output is fifty cars. The", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0395.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "366 History of Clarion County.\\ngreater part of the coal is sent to Canada by way of Buffalo. No. 2 is an\\nextensive opening on the double-heading system. The upper Freeport, and\\nthe Kittanning lower, or Catfish vein, are worked. The first is about six, the\\nlatter four feet in thickness. The furnace system supplies air, and the drainage\\nand ventilation are good. In 1885 there were two fatal accidents.\\nThe Fairmount Company contemplates making another opening soon, and\\nincreasing the capacity of the collieries to double the present. In connection\\nwith the mines, there are fifty coke ovens in operation, employing a number of\\nmen.\\nMineral Ridge. This company have had two drift openings at West\\nMonterey. The Mineral Ridge Coal Company at present consists of Messrs.\\nThomas Skidmore, of Fredonia, N. Y., and W. H. C. Eicke. The latter is\\nsuperintendent. In 1876 they employed 100 miners, and dug 51,390 tons^\\nof the value of $81,056.99. In 1885 109 men were at work, and the colHery\\nwas operated 267 days out of the year mules, 7 Z^S17 tons of bituminous\\ncoal were mined, and 20,412 shipped. Drift No. i is ventilated by a furnace,\\nand No. 2 by natural means.\\nNew Catfish. This is a drift and connected by an inclined plane with the\\ntipple at the railroad. It is owned and operated by the Pittsburgh Coal and\\nIron Company, Wm. Mullen, superintendent. This company opened three\\ndrifts, but all but one are now abandoned. About ten years ago they also op-\\nerated mines at Lower Hillville, further up the Allegheny. In 1876 these\\nmines gave employment to 116, and produced about 50,000 tons per year.\\nIn 1885 their one opening employed twenty-six men, was worked 160 days^\\nand put out 18,564 tons, of which 16,521 were exported. It is ventilated\\nnaturally.\\nHardscrabble. Operated by the Brady s Bend Mining Company, of East\\nBrady, C. F. Hartwell, superintendent. Hardscrabble is a drift opening, imme-\\ndiately above East Brady, and in 1885 employed about ninety men, and five\\nmules approximately 50,000 tons were excavated that year, and 30,000\\nmarketed.\\nClarion Shaft. This was fifty feet in depth, and was opened in 1877 to\\nreach the Lower Kittanning coal, by the Clarion Coal Company, W. W. Green-\\nland, manager. Operations ceased some years ago, and the shaft is now aban-\\ndoned.\\nPine Run, near East Brady, owned by Stephenson Mitchell, Thomas\\nMitchell, superintendent. This is a drift. In 1885 it gave work to ninety-six\\nmen, and seven mules. It was operated 145 days out of the year, produced\\n43,146 tons, and shipped 34,390. Ventilated by a furnace.\\nChurch Hill. Operated by Church Hill Coal Company, J. McCollum, and\\nothers. West Monterey; George Horner, superintendent. Formerly Monterey\\nCoal Company, Samuel Sherwin Sons. This is a drift opening, and in 1885", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0396.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "From the Oil Era to the Present Time. 367\\nemployed seventeen hands, and worked sixty days, producing 5,040 tons and\\nshipping 3,600.\\nShgo Branch. Rimersburg, a drift. Coon Craig, proprietors, S. Coon,\\nmanager. In 1885 they employed eight men, working sixty days, 2,500 tons\\nwere mined, and 2,109 marketed. Work is now suspended.\\nStar and Long Run. These mines, both drifts, are situated on Long Run,\\nand are near each other. They are operated by the Northwestern Coal and\\nMining Company, which likewise controls the Fairmount mines, though there\\nis a separate organization. S. T. Sheaffer is superintendent. The Star, the\\nfirst opening, was made in 1882. In 1885 these mines employed I72fmen,\\nand ten mules operating 232 days in the year, 109,828 tons were produced\\n74,545 tons of lump coal shipped. Both coUeries are ventilated by furnaces.\\nWestern Shaft. This shaft, the only one in operation in the county, is\\nabout thirty-five feet deep sunk in the property of Isaac Hicks, at^Arthur s,\\nin 1883. The proprietors are W, C. Mobley and J. D. Callery, of Pittsburgh,\\nowners of the Western Drift near Karns City J. W. Dawson, superintendent.\\nIt supplies the northern division of the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad with\\nfuel. In 1885 it employed nineteen men and produced 7,000 tons of coal;\\nshipped 4,200. In 1886 the tipple was destroyed by fire and rebuilt. Subse-\\nquently one man was killed b} a boiler explosion. The mine is ventilated by\\na steam exhaust.\\nIn 1876 Clarion county s mines produced about 150,000 tons, representing\\nin value a little over $175,000.\\nIn 1885 in Clarion county there were nine mines in operation, averaging\\n200 days of the year, employing 611 persons; $185,831 was paid in wages;\\n373,504 tons were mined 6,127 tons of coke produced from forty ovens;\\ntwenty-five ovens were idle. The introduction of natural gas has affected only\\nthe country banks which supplied the towns now using it.\\nCHAPTER XXXIX.\\nFROM THE OIL ERA TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1877-1887.\\nRailroads Politics Statistics County Finances Civil List Newspapers Post-\\noffices Agricultural Association Public Buildings.\\nRailroads.\\nTHE Emlenton, Shippenville and Clarion Railroad was built as an outlet\\nto the rich oil territory then existing in the heart of Clarion county, and\\nto afford communication with the county seat. The company was organized", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0397.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "368 History of Clarion County.\\nwith the following officers: President, James Bennet, Emienton vice-presi-\\ndent, J. M. Dickey, Franklin secretary and treasurer, J. W. Rowland, Em-\\nienton chief engineer, C. K. Lawrence, Emienton general superintendent,\\nJohn V. Patton, Emienton directors, James Bennet, M. Hulings, W. J. Mc-\\nConnell, J. W. Rowland, C. W. Mackey, J. M. Dickey, P. F. Kribbs, Jacob\\nBlack, jr., Henry Wetter.\\nConstruction began in the fall of 1876, and the road was completed to\\nEdenburg early in January, 1877. In the spring the road was continued to\\nClarion, and trains began running to that point in December, 1877. The\\nnumerous trestles and heavy grades to be overcome made this road an expen-\\nsive one the total cost was $271,666, an average of $9,722.21 to the mile.\\nIn March, 1877, another narrow gauge was built, from Foxburg, connect-\\ning with the E., S. and C. at Turkey City. It was called the Foxburg, St.\\nPetersburg and Turkey City Railroad. Wm. M. Fox, president J. M. Gufify,\\nvice-president W. S. Watson, secretary and auditor J. V. Ritts, treasurer\\nconstructing engineer, Charles Graham directors, Jos. Blakeslee, J. B. Mac-\\nElwaine, B. Vensel, S. G. Bayne, of St. Petersburg F. H. Ball, A. W. Smiley,\\nP. Boardman, of Foxburg. The terminus was shortly after changed to Jeffer-\\nson.\\nWhile the Foxburg people were contemplating the construction of this\\nroad, in February, the Emienton and Shippenville excited them by sending\\nsurveyors over the proposed route, and threatening, by virtue of some alleged\\nright, to occupy it to the exclusion of the Foxburg company, who had yet no\\ncharter. That necessary document was hastily procured and the imminent\\nrailroad war averted.\\nThese roads were consolidated March 14, 1881, under the name of the Fox-\\nburg, St. Petersburg and Clarion Railroad, and the Fox estate having obtained\\nthe controlling interest, the Emienton branch was abandoned and the track\\ntorn up. Not long after this change the road became the Pittsburgh, Bradford\\nand Buffalo, of which the following composed the officers C. M. Mackey, pres-\\nident J. M. Dickey, vice-president; W. J. Welsh, secretary; J. W. Rowland,\\nEmienton, treasurer B. E. Cutler, Emienton, chief engineer J. M. Dickey,\\ngeneral manager; W. D. Reed, general superintendent, Foxburg; A. D. Cowell,\\nsuperintendent of bridges and way.\\nIn the summer of 1881 this company began the Kane extension at Arthurs,\\nwhere a branch had been laid the previous year by the Arthurs Coal and Lum-\\nber Company. This branch left the main line west of the river, and the short\\ntrack to Clarion thus in turn became a branch. The Kane extension was not\\nbuilt by contract the work was done under the supervision of B. E. Cutler,\\nchief engineer, and A. D. Cowell, superintendent of bridge and way construc-\\ntion. The line was finished to Sheffield Junction, Forest county, in the sum-\\nmer of 1 88 1, and to Kane in the autumn of the same year.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0398.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "From the Oil Era to the Present Time.\\n369\\nOctober i, 1883, the Pittsburgh, Bradford and Buffalo was merged into the\\nPittsburgh and Western system, and by the purchase of the Butler, Karns City\\nand Parker, and the construction of a connecting link between Butler and Gal-\\nlery Junction, a through line between Pittsburgh and Kane, and Pittsburgh and\\nClarion was soon perfected. By subsequent northern extensions, there is also\\ndirect communication with Bradford over the Bradford, Bordell and Kinzua.\\nThe Pittsburgh and Western is under the control of the Baltimore and Ohio\\nCompany. It is in the hands of receivers, Messrs. J. D. Chalfant and James\\nW. Callery. Its present officers are James W. Callery, president Thomas M-\\nKing, vice-president H. D. Campbell, secretary and treasurer C. W. Basset,\\ngeneral passenger agent; J. T. Johnson, superintendent; W. L. Cromlest,\\nfreight agent all the above of Pittsburgh or Allegheny. In Foxburg G. S.\\nLewis, trainmaster northern division E. Kennerdell, master mechanic. The\\nshops of the northern division are at Foxburg.^\\nPolitics.\\nIn 1880 Hancock polled 4,333 votes in this county; Garfield 2,933 Wea-\\nver, Greenback, 322.\\n1884, Cleveland, 3,822; Blaine, 2,679; Butler, National-Labor, 394; St.\\nJohn, Prohibition, 139.\\nStatistics.\\n1880, population, 40,328. Of these 37,912 w^ere native, and 2,416 foreign\\nborn 97 were colored, and there was i Indian.\\nIn connection with the census I will quote some observations in the Second\\nGeological Report of Clarion county, with some corrections, and changes to\\nbring them to date.\\nTabulating the above dates and figures (population) thus\\nDate.\\nPopulation.\\nIncrease.\\nYears.\\nGain per Year.\\nI8CXD\\n1835\\n1850\\n1870\\n1880\\n11,000\\n23.565\\n26,537\\n40,328\\n11,000\\n12,565\\n2,972\\n13.791\\n35\\n15\\n20\\n10\\n314\\n838\\n148\\n1.379\\nIt becomes at once evident that the very large gain per year from 1835\\n1850, and from 1870 to 1880, must have been due to some other agency than\\nthat of bona fide agricultural settlement. If a further analysis of the gain per\\nyear be made by assuming that from 1835 ^o 1850 the increase from agricul-\\ntural settlement was equal to that from 1800 to 1835, ^1 that from 1850 to\\n1870 this gain was but 148 per year, the table then stands thus\\n1 Clarion county has an extraordinary number of wagon roads; too many to be well kept.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0399.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "370 History of Clarion County.\\nAgricultural\\nPeriod. Gain and Iron and Oil. Total Gain.\\nNatural Increase.\\n1800-1835 314 +0 =314\\n1835-1850 314 524 838\\n1850-1870 148 +0 =148\\n1870-1S80 148 -^1,231 1,379\\nShowing an average gain, aside from that of the farming community and\\nfrom natural causes, from 1835 to 1850, of 524 per year; and from 1870 to\\n1880 of 1,231 per year. The rapid growth from 1835 to 1850 is plainly at-\\ntributable to the iron and lumber manufactures; while that of 1870-80 has\\nbeen entirely due to the rapid development of the oil territory.\\nOf live stock, in 1880, Clarion county had 6,997 horses, loi mules and\\nasses, 199 working oxen, 10,100 milch cows, 12,653 other cattle, 16,824 sheep,\\nand 18,823 swine; 81,310 barnyard fowls and 3,895 others produced 323,450\\ndozen of eggs.\\nSixty-five thousand five hundred and ninety-six pounds of wool were pro-\\nduced, 28,651 gallons of milk, 780,292 pounds of butter, 604 pounds of cheese,\\n18,692 of honey, 568 of wax.\\nThe assessed valuation of real estate was $3,128,201 of personal property,\\n$755,497- Total, $3,883,698.\\nThe amount of barley raised was 265 bushels; buckwheat, 775,387; Indian\\ncorn, 459,435; oats, 645,134; rye, 53,839; wheat, 121,833; potatoes, 208,551\\nbushels.\\nThere were 3,147 farms, a total of 288,558 acres. Of these, 181,818 acres\\nwere improved, and 106,740 unimproved.\\nValue of farms, including buildings and fences, $10,375,428; value of farm-\\ning implements and machinery, $359,898; value of live stock, $962,771 value\\nof building and repairing fences {1879), $60,996; value of fertiHzers used (1879),\\n$39,821. Estimated value of all farm productions (1879), $1,204,072.\\nOf the farms, 14 were under 3 acres; 159 over 3 and under 10; 180 over\\n10 and under 20; 449 over 20 and under 50; 1,066 over 50 and under 100;\\n1,263 over 100 and under 500; 11 over 500 and under 1,000; 5, 1,000 acres\\nor over. Average size, 92 acres. In 1879 Clarion county had 28,740 acres\\nin grass, from which a crop of 25,347 tons of hay was harvested.\\nValue of manufactured products, $992,582; flouring and grist-mill products,\\n$340,318; foundry and machine shop, $24,900; lumber, sawed, $390,378;\\nship (boat) building, $28,580. Total, $784,176.\\nSince the organization of the county, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania\\nissued 1 16 warrants for vacant land within its limits. The last was a strip\\nalong the county line, in Ashland township, containing fifty acres surveyed\\nin 1884 to William Swartzfager, of McKean county.\\nIn 1882 Clarion county had a pension list of 389. For the year ending\\nJune 30, 1886, there were 449, drawing in all $3,794.25 monthly.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0400.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "From the Oil Era to the Present Time. 371\\nCounty Finances.\\nJanuary 3, 1887, the county s liabilities were $66,958.00; assets, $46,-\\n861.53. $62,600 in 3-5- per cent, bonds were yet outstanding; balance in the\\ntreasurer s hands, $21,243.45. $896 were paid on extermination (scalp, etc.)\\norders.\\nCitizens of Clarion County who Held National and State\\nPositions.\\nMembers of Congress. Amos Myers, of Clarion, Whig, was elected a\\nmember of Congress from the Twenty-fourth District in 1862 James T. Maf-\\nfett, elected in 1886 from the Twenty-fifth District.\\nState Senators. Christian Myers, of Clarion, elected a member of the State\\nSenate in 1850 from the district composed of the counties of Armstrong, In-\\ndiana, and Clarion, served to 1853; Charles L. Lamberton, Democrat, elected\\nin 1 86 1, Twenty- seventh District, Clarion, Jefferson, Forest, and Elk; David\\nMaclay, Republican, elected from Twenty-eighth District, Armstrong, Clarion,\\nJefferson, and Forest, in 1872; W. L. Corbett, Democrat, elected 1876 from\\nTwenty-eighth District, Cameron, Clarion, Elk, and Forest; John H. Wilson,\\nDemocrat, elected from Twenty-eighth District, Cameron, Elk, Clarion, and\\nForest, 1886.\\nAssembly. D. B. Long, elected a member of the Legislature in 1842 from\\nthe district composed of the counties of Clarion, Venango, and Jefferson re-\\nelected in 1843 Robert Barber, elected from same district in 1844; re-elected\\nin 1845 John Keatly, elected from same district in 1846 re-elected in 1847\\nReynolds Laughlin, elected from Clarion, Armstrong, and Jefferson District in\\n1850; re-elected in 1851 Thomas Magee, elected from same district in 1852;\\nre-elected in 1853; Philip Clover, elected from same district in 1854; re-\\nelected in 1855 William M. Abrams, elected from same district in 1856; re-\\nelected in 1857 iri the district composed of Clarion and Forest counties John\\nM. Fleming, elected in same district in 1858; re-elected in 1859; William\\nDivins, elected in same district in i860; re-elected in 1861 William T. Alex-\\nander, elected in same district in 1862; re-elected in 1863; W. W. Barr,\\nelected in same district in 1864; re-elected in 1865 R. B. Brown, elected in\\nsame district in 1868; re-elected in 1869; James B. Lawson, elected from\\nClarion and Forest counties in 1871 re-elected in 1872; Martin Williams,\\nelected in same district in 1873 re-elected in 1874 from Clarion county, along\\nwith John H. Wilson for two years Joseph A. Summerville and M. L. Lock-\\nwood, elected in 1876; J. W. Kahl and Jacob Truby, elected in 1878; S. H.\\nHamm and M. L. Lockwood, elected in 1880; W. A. Beer and A. M. Neely,\\nelected in 1882 Bernard Vensel and A. M. Neely, elected in 1884 Christian\\nBrinker and A. W. Smiley, elected in 1886.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0401.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "372 History of Clarion County.\\nDelegates to Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania, 1873. William L.\\nCorbett was elected a member at large in 1872.\\nPi^esidential Electors. John S. McCalmont, Democrat, 1852 John Keatly,\\nDemocrat, 1856; George W. Arnold, Republican, 1856; J. N. Hetherington,\\nNative American, 1856; R. B. Brown, Democrat, 1876; James T. Mafifet,\\nRepublican, 1880.\\nCanal Commissioner. Seth Clover, elected in 1851.\\nPeriodicals.\\nA complete list of all ever published in this county.^ Clarion Republican\\n(Dem.), Clarion Visitor, Clarion Democratic Register, Iron County Democrat\\n(Clarion), Clarion Democrat, Clarion Banner, Clarion Republican (Rep.), Clarion\\nIndependent Democrat, Clarion Jacksonian, Clarion Republican Gazette, New\\nBethlehem Press, Nezv Bethlehem Vindicator, East Brady Independent, East\\nBrady Index, East Brady Spirit, East Brady Review, St. Petersburg Progress,\\nSt. Petersburg Oil Field Record, St. Petersburg Crude Local, Edenburg Herald\\n(Daily), Edenburg Herald (Weekly), Edenburg Evening News, Gatling Gun\\n(Edenburg), Edenburg Spirit, Edenlnirg National, Edenburg Observer, Laborer s\\nFriend (Edenburg), Foxburg Gazette, Lawsonham Torchlight, Cogley Sunday\\nNews, Fern City Illuminator, Callensburg Visitor.\\nClarion County Post- Offices (Present).\\nAlum Rock, Arthurs, Asbury, Blair s Corners, Brinkerton, Broken Rock,\\nCallensburg, Catfish, Church, Clarion, Curllsville, East Brady, Elk City, Fair-\\nmount City, Fern City, Fisher, Foxburg, Frampton, Frogtown, Fryburg,\\nHaynie, Helen Furnace, Kingsville, Knox, Kossuth, Lamartine, Lawsonham,\\nLeatherwood, Leeper, Lickingville, Limestone, Lucinda Furnace, Miola, Mon-\\nroe, New Athens, New Bethlehem, Newmansville, New Maysville, North Pine\\nGrove, Philipston, Piny, Piollet, Pollock, Redbank Furnace, Reidsburg, Ri-\\nmersburg, St. Petersburg, Scotch Hill, Scrubridge, Shannondale, Shippensville,\\nSligo, Strattanville, Strubleton, Toby, Truittsburg, Turkey City, Tylersburg,\\nValley, Vowinckel, West Freedom, West Millville, West Monterey.\\nThe Clarion Fair Association.\\nIn the summer of 1854 the Clarion Agricultural Association was\\norganized, and in the autumn of that year held its first exhibition in\\nthe public squares and court-house. Considering the circumstances, the\\ndisplay was a creditable one. The association was chartered May 2, 1855,\\nwith the following incorporating members George Means, S. T. Cor-\\nbett, J. M. Fleming, Robert Sutton, William Frampton, R. Laughlin, G.\\nW. Conser, Isaiah Corbett, A. Myers, Emmanuel Over, Patrick Slattery, C.\\n1 Those in italics are now being published.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0402.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "From the Oil Era to the Present Tiaie. 373\\nMyers, Hugh Craig, James B. Knox, Joseph W. Anderson, Charles L. Lam-\\nberton, C. E. Beman, W. W. Barr, A. Probasco, John Klingensmith, John B.\\nLyon. The shares were one dollar annually. The payment of five dollars at\\nonce obtained a life membership without annual dues. The first officers were:\\nC. Myers, president; William T. Alexander, treasurer; W. W. Barr, secretary.\\nNovember 8, 1855, the association purchased four acres at the west end of\\nClarion town, from the assignees of Christian Myers, for one hundred dollars.\\nThe lot was fenced, suitable buildings and sheds erected, and a small one- eighth\\nmile race-track made. Here the fair of 56 was held. In 1866 an additional\\nthree and one-third acres was purchased from the Tanner heirs, in whom the\\nMyers property had vested.\\nJudge Myers was succeeded in the presidency by John L. Fleming, with\\nW. W. Barr and David Lawson secretaries, and Miles Beaty treasurer. In 1858\\nJ. B. Lawson became president T. B. Barber and George W. Arnold, secre-\\ntaries C. E. Beman, treasurer.\\nDuring the years 1862\u00e2\u0080\u00943\u00e2\u0080\u00944 no fairs were held. The association resumed\\nin 1865, with George Kribbs at its head T. B. Barber, secretary (succeeded\\nby F. G. Keatly); David Lawson, treasurer (succeeded by Theo. S. Wil-\\nson). In 1870 G. T. Henry became president; T. B. Barber, secretary. In\\n1875 H. L. McClure, president; Samuel K. Clarke, secretary. In 1876 Cul-\\nbertson Orr, president George F. Kribbs, secretary A. S. Jones, treasurer.\\nJune 12, 1877, the society was reorganized under the name of the Clarion\\nAgricultural and Driving Park Association. The first set of officers were\\nPresident, Henry Wetter secretary, W. W. Greenland treasurer, J. Frank\\nRoss. The second, Samuel Pierce, A. H. Alexander, G. W. Arnold. The\\nfollowing were its original members Frank Ross, W. W. Barr, J. H. Patrick,\\nJ. P. Elss, J. B.Watson, Henry Wetter, T. C. Wilson, W.W. Greenland, L. G.\\nCorbett. J. C. Reid, A. S. Jones, R. Rulofson, S. M. Pierce, R. L. Buzard, E. B.\\nLoomis, Edward Wilson, G. W. Arnold, A. H. Beck, C. J. Rhea, A. S. Bell,\\nG. W. Stewart, F. R. Hindman, I. H. Allen, O. E. Nail, S. W. Loomis, J. F.\\nMaffbt, B. B. Dunkle, C. A. Rankin, H. Sandt, Thomas Slater, D. B. and H.\\nV. Curll, C. Kaufman, F. M. Arnold, A. W. Corbett, C. Leeper, J. F. Brown,\\nH. Kimble, A. H. Alexander, Joseph Shettler, Kribbs and Hindman, Isaac\\nFarnsworth, A. B. Thomas, C. E. Shaw, Jacob Black, S. Mendenhall, Jacob\\nHahn, J. H. Barber, S. G. Sloan, F. J. Elslager. Capital stock, $5,000; shares,\\n$50 each. The new association leased twenty-five acres adjoining from the\\nTanner heirs, put it under fence, and in the summer of 1877 opened the pres-\\nent one-half mile tract, at great expense.\\nThis institution did not prosper, and finally, in 1880, sank under the load\\nof its indebtedness. Its property passed into the hands of the First National\\nBank, who had purchased its notes, and for three years exhibitions were dis-\\ncontinued.\\n38", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0403.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "374 History of Clarion County.\\nIn 1883, another, the present Clarion Fair Association, was estabhshed. It\\nwas incorporated August 30, 1883, with a capital stock of $3,000; shares,\\n$30 each. The objects, as stated in the articles of incorporation, are to en-\\ncourage and foster among the citizens of Clarion county a spirit of improve-\\nment in agricultural productions, mechanical arts, the breeding and raising of\\nall kinds of stock, and to hold fairs for said purpose also to afford a pleasure\\npark for all kinds of innocent sports and amusements. The signing stock-\\nholders were G. W. Arnold, A. S. Jones, W.W. Greenland, R. Rulofson, Jacob\\nBlack, jr., J. H. Patrick, W. A. Cooper, C. Kaufman, I. M. Shannon, Margaret\\nE. Beck, T. M. Arnold, C. V. Reid, James A. Murphy, Thomas A. Spence,\\nP. J. Shoemaker, William C. Sloan, I. H. Allen, W. F. Collner, A.W. Corbett,\\nLan, G. Corbett, W. I. Brush, C. C. Brosius, W. Day Wilson, John A. Magee,\\nCharles Weaver, Curll and Corbett, J. B. Patrick, J. B. Knox, jr., H. J. Klahr,\\nand G. F. Kribbs. I. M. Shannon was elected president C. V. Reid, secre-\\ntary and Charles Kaufman, treasurer.\\nThe new society took a fresh and vigorous start. The park was redeemed\\nout of the bank s hands. A commodious new main building was erected, the\\nold buildings repaired, an annex built to the grand stand, and various new\\nsheds put up. The fence was also repaired and extended so as to include\\nconsiderable more ground. The cost of these improvements exceeded $5,000.\\nThe enclosed area of the fair ground is now twenty- five acres. The track is\\none of the finest in Western Pennsylvania.\\nThe Association increased their capital to $6,000, divided into 300 shares,\\nof which 132 have been taken up. C. A. Wheelock and Jos. H. Patrick suc-\\nceeded I. M. Shannon and C. V. Reid, in their respective stations. The ex-\\nhibitions under the new organization have been well patronized, and the last\\none (September, 1886), notwithstanding the unfavoring weather, was one of the\\nmost creditable and successful yet held on the grounds. Over $1,500 were\\npaid in premiums. At the last election the following officers were chosen\\nPresident, L. G. Corbett vice-presidents, P. J. Shoemaker, A. J. Parsons\\ntreasurer, C.Kaufman; secretary, J. H. Patrick; directors, Cyrus Neely, Geo.\\nT. Henry, Paul Black, P. M. Kahle, Wash. Logue superintendent of grounds,\\nJno. Aldinger. The financial status of the Association is yearly improving,\\nand all indications point to a bright future for it.\\nPublic Buildings.\\nFirst Court-House. The contract was let to the firm of Derby Clover,\\nEdward Derby, of Ridgway, and Levi G. Clover, of Clarion. Derby was the\\nsuperintending partner. The contract price was $8,500, which, it appears,\\nexceeded the lowest bid by $2,700. The extras brought the cost up to $10,-\\n636.16. The building was commenced in the spring of 1841 and was ready\\nfor occupation in the winter of 1842, but not entirely finished till the spring\\nof the succeding vear.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0404.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "From the Oil Era to the Present Time. 375\\nThe old court-house was brick, two storied, and divided by a slight offset\\nfrom which there were two narrow recesses into two longitudinal wings.\\nThe rear annex was slightly lower than the front part of the building the\\nmain building was surmounted by a wooden cupola in the center of the roof;\\nthere was no clock. The main entrance was through a portico, in the Grecian\\nstyle, reached by four low steps. The roof of the porch was supported by\\nby two wooden, fluted pillars with plain capitals, and two pilasters, one at either\\nend all painted white. The county offices were on each side of the corridor,\\nin the body of the building the story above contained four jury rooms. The\\ncourt-room occupied the ground floor of the rear department; two doors, one\\nin each of the recesses before mentioned, opened into the entry leading to it.\\nThe hall above the court-room was used for public meetings, drill, etc.\\nThe circumstances attending the destruction of the first court-house were\\nvery similar to those of the second burning. About nine o clock on the morn-\\ning of the loth of March, 1859, smoke and flames issued from the roof, near\\nthe cupola they had come from a faulty flue. The citizens of the town had\\nno means of getting water up, and in two hours the building was a ruin. The\\nrecords were all preserved. The loss was about $10,000; insurance in the\\nLycoming and York Companies $7,000.\\nThe Presbyterian Church was used as a court-room till the completion of\\nthe new building, and the county officers occupied Arnold s block.\\nThe First Jail. The contract for the first jail was awarded simultaneously\\nwith that for the court-house, to Jonathan Frampton, of Clarion county, at the\\nsum of $2,834. Difficulties arose in settling an account of extras, etc., and\\nFrampton Craig (as the firm had become) sued the county. The venue was\\nchanged to Armstrong county, where judgment was obtained to the amount\\nof $3,097.70, exclusive of costs, making the total cost of the jail about $7,000.\\nThe first jail was a plain structure of square cut sandstone, with a small\\nyard, surrounded by a stone wall in the rear. In 1847 the building was re-\\nmodeled, and a new front put in. After the completion of the new prison, it\\nwas finally torn down in 1883, and its stones used in the foundation of the\\ncourt-house. The old jail stood a few rods west of the present one.\\nTJie Second Cow t-Hoiisc was built by Daniel and Edmond English, of\\nBrookville, and completed in 1863. It was necessary that a special act of the\\nLegislature be passed, empowering the commissioners to erect a new structure.\\nThe contract stood at $15,720 extras to the amount of $1,500 were allowed.\\nJohn R. Turner, of Carlisle, was the architect; commissioners, Daniel Mercer,\\nC. Seigworth, Benjamin Miller. The undertaking was a losing one for the con-\\ntractors.\\nThe second court-house was a substantial brick building with wooden roof;\\nits dimensions were sixty feet front by ninety-eight depth the height of the\\nfirst story was thirteen feet, of the second twenty-one average height of the", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0405.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "376 History of Clarion County.\\nbuilding (exclusive of belfry) sixty-five feet. It was extremely cheap, consid-\\nering its size and solidity.\\nAbout one o clock on the morning of September I2, 1882, fire, which had\\nbeen smouldering in the loft, burst through the roof The water pressure was\\nnot enough to force the stream to the top, and the flames gained resistless\\nheadway. The building was gutted in a few hours, leaving the walls standing\\ncomparatively intact. Insurance received, $25,000. Between the destruction\\nof the old and the completion of the new court-house, the Methodist Church\\nwas used for holding court, and the residence part of the jail for offices.\\nThe Present Jail. The old jail became dilapidated and insecure, and a new\\nbuilding was deemed necessary. After the proper recommendations, the con-\\ntract was awarded, April 7, 1873, to Messrs. Samuel Wilson and W. W. Green-\\nland, at the price of $96,737, to which extras to the amount of $23,527.50\\nwere added, making the total cost $120,274.50. James McCullogh, jr., of Al-\\nlegheny, was the architect commissioners under whom the work was done,\\nIsaac Mong, John Stewart, Chris. Brenneman. The interior was not completed\\ntill the spring of 1875.\\nThe structure is imposing in appearance, and is half brick and half stone.\\nThe front, comprising the sheriff s residence is of brick, with semi-octagonal\\nprojecting wings, and basement walls of dressed sandstone a square battle-\\nmented tower arises from the front section it is ninety-seven feet in height\\nfrom the ground, eighteen feet square at the base, and ten feet at the top.\\nThe outside walls of the prison proper are of ashlar sandstone, rough dressed,\\ntwo and a half feet in thickness. It contains twenty cells, eight and two-thirds\\nby fourteen feet each, ranged in two tiers on each side of the interior court or\\ncorridor, which is fifteen and one-sixth feet wide by fifty- six feet long, and the\\nfull height of the prison. Iron balustrades extend the length of the corridor\\nbefore the upper tiers of cells. There are two bath cells each cell is provided\\nwith a water faucet, etc.; the doors are of iron grating, with outside doors of\\noak two and a half inches thick. The jail is heated by steam.\\nIn 1885 the interior of the jail was repaired and renovated, and steam-\\nheating apparatus put in.\\nTJie Present Conrt House. There were sixteen bidders, July 3, 1883, when\\nthe contract for the third court-house was awarded. John Cooper s bid, $135,-\\n000, was the highest, and P. H. Melvin s $88,370, the lowest. This allowed\\n$5,000 for materials from former court-house and jail. Mr. Melvin obtained\\nthe contract. The building was to be finished by November 16, 1884. Work\\nbegan July 16, 1883, but the building was not handed over to the commission-\\ners till October 14, 1885.\\nE. M. Butz, of Allegheny, was the architect he delegated D. English of\\nBrookville, supervising architect. The commissioners who granted the contract\\nwere John Keatly, Aaron Kline, and Johnson Wilson. The present board,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0406.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "From the Oil Era to the Present Time. 377\\nSamuel Bell, David Heffron, Emmanuel Over, took possession. Henry War-\\nner, of Allegheny, executed the fresco work. The painting was under the\\nsupervision of H. H. Holbrook, of Clarion and D. Dunkelbarger, of Brookville.\\nThe tile floors were laid by the Star Encaustic Tile Company, of Pittsburgh.\\nThe clock dial, nine feet in diameter, and bell, weight 1,313 pounds, were\\nfurnished by the Howard Clock Company, New York.\\nP. H. Melvin, the contractor, failed January 27, 1885, and assigned to his\\nbondsmen, Augustin Dietz, Edward Denneny, and Edward Lyman, who there-\\nupon became the acting contractors. Melvin was retained as superintendent\\nof construction.\\nThe building is a variation of the Queen Anne order of architecture. Its\\ngeneral dimensions are 78 feet, 8 inches front; 134 feet deep; elevation from\\nthe ground to the top of the tower figure, 213 feet. The tower rests on found-\\nation walls 4y feet thick, which in turn are supported by three graded courses\\nof stone the tower is carried up on the three internal sides by stone columns\\nin the corners of the vestibules, and iron cross-girders. It is surmounted by\\na galvanized iron figure of justice 11 feet in length. The interior of the clock\\nloft is fitted with gas pipes for illumination. The tower is twenty-five feet\\nsquare; its elevation above the roof is 139 feet; that of the tapering part 56\\nfeet. The height of the highest part of the body of the structure is 90 feet, 9\\ninches. The walls of the main part are 22 inches thick. The roof is of tin and\\nslate.\\nThe basement extends the whole length and width of the building and is\\n10 feet in height. It contains the engine and boiler rooms, fan-rooms, apart-\\nments for old archives, and closets. A 20 horse-power engine (run by natural\\ngas), forces steam from the generating boiler to two radiators containing each\\n1,400 lineal feet of one and one-fourth inch pipe, inclosed in boxes of galvan-\\nized iron. Air is conveyed, from the roof in shafts, and blown by two revolv-\\ning fans through these shells or boxes, where it is heated by the steam-pipes,\\nand thence ascends to various parts of the building through tin ducts.\\nThe building is ventilated on the vacuum principle. The vitiated air is\\nexhausted from all parts of the house by a large fan 62 inches in diameter and\\n27 inches wide, placed in a room in which the exhaust pipes center. From here\\nit escapes up the foul air flue. All the heating and ventilating is done by one\\nengine. The basement is also furnished with a gas regulator and water-meter.\\nIn the first story are the county offices on each side of a corridor 16 feet\\nwide. This story is 14 feet, 9 inches high, has a vaulted brick ceiling, and is fire-\\nproof The second story is 21 feet in height, and the third or mezzanine story\\n12 feet. Each has a lobby in front 21 feet square. The corridor and the lob-\\nbies are paved with ornamental tile. On the second floor are the court-room,\\nin front of which on either side the lobby, are two waiting-rooms for ladies,\\nand in the rear, the judges and attorneys room and two rooms for petit", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0407.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "-^yd History of Clarion County,\\njuries. The third story contains the apartments of the county superintendent\\nand surveyor, opening from the front vestibule. From the rear, the grand\\njury room and two witness waiting rooms.\\nThe court- room is seventy-four feet long, fifty-five feet wide, and forty- five\\nfeet high. It is lighted by twelve double windows and four chandeliers of\\neighteen lights each.\\nThe heating and ventilating apparatus were included in the contract. The\\nfollowing shows the cost of the furnishings, etc., exclusive of this:\\nArchitect 4,418\\nFurniture 4,248\\nBell and clock 2,800\\nGas and plumbing 1,500\\nCarpet 510\\nTotal $13,466\\nAn allowance of $661.50 was made for a drain; for neglected and defective\\nwork the commissioners deducted $949.77. The total cost to the county,\\ntherefore (not counting material on hand), was $97,124.27 $18,000 was sunk\\nby contractor and sub-contractors; $3,500 by bondsmen. Total cost of build-\\ning (counting old material), $126,936.\\nP. H. Melvin, on February 12, 1886, brought suit against Clarion county\\nfor $40,000 damages. His complaint sets forth that the commissioners failed\\nto comply, on their part, with several of the contract stipulations that the\\nestimates were not advanced at the time agreed that the work was delayed\\nby failure to furnish him with plans promptly that the commissioners com-\\npelled him to purchase new brick at great loss, and that he was harassed and\\nhindered in the work by the objections of the supervising architect.\\nAlthough the undertaking has been an unfortunate one to the contractor\\nand sub- contractors, the citizens of Clarion county may congratulate them-\\nselves on possessing a creditable, solidly constructed court-house, at a compara-\\ntively small expenditure.\\nAppendix.\\nBrady s Bend and Captain Brady. A warrant was issued by the Land\\nOffice of Pennsylvania in 1785, for 502 acres and allowance, to Captain Samuel\\nBrady. The tract was situated in the great bend of the Allegheny, embracing\\na large portion of the peninsula its southwestern boundary line strikes the\\nriver a little west of Phillipsburg, and includes, therefore, the site of East\\nBrady. It was surveyed in 1786. In 1791 Brady gave this land to Judge\\nRoss, of Pittsburgh, as a fee for defending him when tried for murdering In-\\ndians. In 1859 300 acres were purchased by the Brady s Bend Iron Company,\\nand 200, the lower section, by James Cunningham, from William Denny, Ross s\\nadministrator.\\nCaptain Brady also had a one-third interest in two 400-acre warrants, num-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0408.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "From the Oil Era to the Present Time. 379\\nbers 132 and 415, south of Callensburg, on Cherry Run. The latter is the site\\nof the camp-meeting ground. Colonel Johnston owned the remaining interest.\\nThey were warranted October 8, 1785, and Brady conveyed his title January,\\n1790, to John Hart.\\nThis is all we know with certainty of Captain Samuel Brady s connection\\nwith the history of Clarion county. Whether any of these tracts were donated\\nby the State is doubtful the presumption is that they were not, for gifts of\\nland in requital for military services were, as far as we know, confined to the\\ndonation territory, none of which existed in this county.\\nIt is evident, therefore, that Captain Brady s ownership of land here will\\nthrow little light on the question; did an engagement between the Indians\\nand Brady occur in this county And in this regard popular tradition, resting\\non no continuous local basis, and therefore very unreliable, has handed down\\nso many absurd and contradictory stories, so deeply tinged with the romance,\\nwhich vulgar legends seems determined to associate with every part of a back-\\nwoods hero s career, that from the tangled fantastic mass it is very difficult to\\nextract the clue to the truth.\\nThe consensus of tradition in the vicinity of East Brady is to the effect that\\na fight occurred between Brady s rangers and a band of Indians a little below\\nEast Brady, on the spot occupied by the Pine Run Company s coal tipple, be-\\ntween the river and the hillside. A rock nearly opposite is pointed out as where\\nCornplanter found shelter from the enemy s bullets, after swimming the Alle-\\ngehny under fire. Yet, in striving to arrive at the facts, little regard should be\\npaid to legends of this kind. Their only value is to indicate the long existing\\nand universal belief that Captain Sam Brady did signalize himself by a vic-\\ntorious encounter with Indians, somewhere on the bend on the eastern side of\\nthe river.\\nThat the curve of the river bears the name of the hero of this legend may\\nhave arisen simply from the circumstance that Captain Brady owned consider-\\nable of the territory included in the bend. If we go back further it is a pre-\\nsumption in favor of the local tradition that the warrant included the spot as-\\nsigned by popular belief as the scene of Brady s achievement, and was pur-\\nchased by him on that account, or presented by the State as an appropriate gift\\nyet, after all, this is mere conjecture, and requires material support.\\nBut laying aside local coloring, let us examine the matter in the light of\\noutside history. Hitherto all the accounts of the affair at the Bend contained\\nin the sketches of Clarion county in the State histories and elsewhere, have\\nbeen copied, without question, from the sketches of Captain Brady in the Kis-\\nkiminetas Papers, published over fifty years ago by Richard McCabe, a rela-\\ntive of the Brady family. As historical data these productions are utterly\\nworthless their aim is the glorification of Captain Brady, often at the expense\\nof truth. Many of McCabe s statements are flatly contradicted by official ar-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0409.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "38o History of Clarion County.\\nchives, and among these apocryphal narratives must be classed his account of\\nthe action at Brady s Bend, so widely and trustfully copied.\\nAccording to this writer, Brady commanded the advance guard of Colonel\\nBrodhead s corps in the expedition up the Allegheny in August, 1779. The\\ntroops proceeded up the Allegheny River and had arrived near the mouth of\\nRedbank Creek, now known by the name of Brady s Bend, without encoun-\\ntering an enemy. Brady and his rangers were some distance in front of the\\nmain body, as their duty required, when they suddenly discovered a war party\\nof Indians approaching them. Relying on the strength of the main body and\\nits ability to force the Indians to retreat, and anticipating, as Napoleon did in\\nthe battle with the Mamelukes, that\u00c2\u00abwhen driven back they would return by\\nthe same route they had advanced on, Brady permitted them to proceed with-\\nout hindrance, and hastened to seize a narrow pass higher up the river, where\\nthe rocks, nearly perpendicular, approached the river, and a few determined\\nmen could successfully combat superior numbers.\\nIn a short time the Indians encountered the main body under Brodhead,\\nand were driven back. In full and swift retreat they passed on to gain the\\npass between the rocks and the river, but it was occupied by Brady and his\\nrangers, who failed not to pour into their flying columns a most destructive\\nfire. Then follows a poetical quotation describing the shock of the fray and\\nthe panic that befell the savages. This is supplemented by an episode in which\\nCaptain Brady fires over the head of a mocking brave, across the stream. On\\nhis disappearance, Brady and some of his men cross the river in a canoe to di-\\nvine the cause; the Indian springs up from behind a bush, strikes his breast,\\nand says, I am a man, whereupon one of Brady s companions buries his\\nhatchet in the savage s brains.\\nThis is all fictitious trash. The skirmish on which this pretty tale is based\\ntook place some seventy- five or hundred miles further up the Allegheny, near\\nPresident.^ Captain Brady is not mentioned as in command of the advance\\nguard, or in any other capacity that honor belonged to Lieutenant Hardin.\\nSince the Kiskiminetas fable must be discarded, it behooves us to look else-\\nwhere for confirmation of the tradition and we find no event recorded which\\nmight have occurred within the limits of Clarion county except an encounter\\nbetween the scout and his savage enemies, and the rescue of two white persons\\non the Allegheny in June, 1779, before the Brodhead campaign. McCabe\\nplaces this near the mouth of the Mahoning, but, as usual, gives no authority\\nfor that location. There is a tradition or quasi tradition in that neighborhood\\nthat the fight and recapture occurred there, although tradition and McCabe s\\nbrother differ by two miles as to the spot. Colonel Brodhead sent the follow-\\ning official report of this affair to President Reed :2\\n1 Brodhead s letter to Washington, Pennsylvania Archives, Old series, Vol. XII.\\n2 Pennsylvania Archives, O. S., Vol. VII., p. 505.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0410.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "From the Oil Era to the Present Time. 381\\nHead Quarters, Pittsburgh, June 24, 1779.\\nDear Sir About a fortnight ago three men which I had sent to re-\\nconoitre the Seneca Country, returned from Venango, being chased by a num-\\nber of Warriors who were coming down the River in Canoes they continued\\nthe pursuit until they came to this side of Kittanning, and the White Men nar-\\nrowly escaped. A few Days after they returned, Captain Brady, with twenty\\nwhite Men and a young Delaware Chief, all well painted, set out towards the\\nSeneca Country, and the Indian warriors proceeded towards the settlements.\\nThey killed a Soldier between Forts Crawford Hand, proceeded to\\nSawickleyi Settlement, where they killed a Woman and her four Children, and\\ntook two children prisoners. Captn Brady fell in with seven Indians of this\\nparty, about 15 Miles above Kittanning, where the Indians had chosen an\\nadvantageous situation for their Camp. He, however, surrounded them, and\\nattacked at the break of Day. The Indian Captain, a notorious Warrior of the\\nMuncy Nation, was killed on the spot, and several more mortally wounded,\\nbut the woods were remarkably thick, and the party could not pursue the vil-\\nlians tracks after they had stopped their wounds, which they always do as\\nsoon as posssible after receiving them. Captain Brady, however, retook six\\nhorses, the two prisoners, the Scalps all their plunder, and took all the In-\\ndian s Guns, Tomahawks, Match Coats, Mocksins, in fine, everything they had\\nexcept their Breech Clouts. Captain Brady has great Merit, but none has\\nmore distinguished Merit in this enterprize than the young Delaware Chief,\\nwhose name is Nanowland or (George Wilson). The rest of the letter is de-\\nvoted to other topics.\\nIn another account of the same occurrence Brodhead writes Captain\\nBrady fell in with seven Indians of this party, about 15 Miles above Kit-\\ntanning, where they had chosen an advantageous situation for their Camp.\\nHe surrounded them as well as the situation would admit, and finding he was\\ndiscovered by break of Day, he attacked them, and killed the captain, a noto-\\nrious warrior of the Muncy Nation, and mortally wounded most of them, but\\nthey being encamped near a remarkable thicket, etc.\\nGeneral Hugh Brady, a younger brother of Samuel, in a narrative written\\nabout 1836, lays the scene of the rescue in Clarion county, on the Redbank,\\nunder the following circumstances\\nSoon after, my brother heard of his father s death and he waited with\\nimpatience for an opportunity to avenge it on the Indians. Nor was the\\nopportunity long delayed. The Indians had attacked a family and killed all\\nin it, except a boy aged twelve, and his sister, ten. These were taken pris-\\noners, and their father was absent from home at the time it occurred. The\\nplace was thirty miles east of Pittsburgh, and it so hapf)ened Sahiuel was out\\n1 Sewickley, in Westmoreland County.\\nThis would seem to indicate that they were encamped near the water.\\n39", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0411.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "382 History of Clarion County.\\nin that direction and hearing of it he started in pursuit, having with him a\\nfriendly Indian, very useful as a guide. The second evening of the pursuit the\\nparty stopped on the top of a high hill, and the Indian guide, pointing with\\nhis wiping stick to the foot of the hill, said: The Redbank runs there. The\\nmen sat down, while the captain consulted with the Indian about his future\\nmovements. Suddenly the Indian sprang to his feet and said he smelt fire;\\nand soon after they saw the smoke curling above the trees on the opposite side\\nof the Redbank.\\nThe Indian said: They will sleep by that fire to-night. And I will\\nawake them with a voice of thunder in the morning, replied the captain. The\\nIndian also said, After they smoke and eat, and the sun has gone to sleep,\\nthey will give the scalp halloo.\\nWith breathless impatience the party watched the setting of the sun, and\\nas its light disappeared from the tops of the trees in the east, they heard seven\\ndistinct scalp halloos, with the usual whoop between each. After it was over,\\nCole, the Indian, observed: There are fourteen warriors, and they have five\\nscalps and two prisoners. The night being clear and the weather mild, the\\ncaptain remained in his position till near morning, when he forded the stream\\nabove the Indians and posted his men to await the crack of his rifle as the sig-\\nnal of attack. As day broke, an Indian rose up and stirred the fire. The sig-\\nnal was given. The Indian standing pitched into the fire. The attack con-\\ntinued, and resulted in eight of the warriors being deprived of the pleasure of\\never again giving the scalp halloo. When the captain got back to the fire he\\nfound the children much alarmed. After quieting their fears, the boy asked\\nfor the captain s tomahawk, and commenced cutting off the head of the Indian\\nthat fell in the fire, observing that this was the leader of the party and the man\\nthat killed and scalped his mother. The boy was permitted to finish the job\\nhe had commenced.\\nThree days easy march brought the captain back to Pittsburgh. The\\nfather of the children was sent for to receive his lost ones. He showed much\\naffection and thanked the captain for having restored them and then asked the\\ncaptain what had become of his big basin. It appeared that the Indians had\\ncarried off or destroyed a big basin, from which Henry and his numerous family\\nate their sauerkraut. The honest Dutchman thought there could be no impro-\\npriety in asking for it of the man who had the best chance to know.\\nIn 1804 the writer met Henry (the boy) at a friend s house in Greenburg,\\nPa. Henry had stopped with a wagon before the door, and had a barrel of\\ncider for my friend, who, pointing to me, said, This gentleman is a brother of\\nCaptain Brady, who took you from the Indians. Henry was assisting to re-\\nmove the cider, and he gave me a side look for a moment, and then continued\\nhis work. I felt hurt at the coldness he showed towards the brother of a man\\nwho had risked his life to rescue him from death or bondage, and to avenge\\nthe murder of his family.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0412.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "From the Oil Era to the Present Time. 383\\nIt will be seen, leaving the question of locality aside, that although Brady s\\nnarrative is over-wrought, no grave discrepancies exist between his account\\nand Brodhead s, except in the number of redskins. At the distance of time\\nand under the circumstances he wrote, his errors are pardonable his version\\ntallies far better than McCabe s with the official one.\\nAnother version, published in the Knickerbocker for July, 1855 (author un-\\nknown), is analogous to local tradition. It makes the attack occur at night.\\nIn this Brady ascended the river on the opposite side, crossed at Truby s\\nRipple, above the camp of the war party, and then moved down stealthily on\\ntheir rear, hemming them in between the bank and the river. Cornplanter,\\ntheir chief.^ escapes across the Allegheny under a shower of bullets to the\\nfamous rock. We quote the end of the article The rock that sheltered\\nCornplanter from Brady s bullets was pointed out to mo by an old Indian in a\\nrecent trip down this river. It is known as Cornplanter s Rock. The old\\nIndian gave me the story, with a sad and dejected countenance, in broken\\nEnglish.\\nIt is evident that much of this story is derived from imaginative sources\\nits general tenor is foreign to the only reliable accounts we possess Colonel\\nDaniel Brodhead s and Hugh Brady s.\\nWe will return to these and scan them with regard to location, to determine,\\nif possible, whether this achievement of Captain Brady s occurred in Clarion\\nor in Armstrong county. As the result, it will be seen that the honors He\\neasy between the two sections, with a preponderance in favor of Clarion. Col-\\nonel Brodhead says, about fifteen miles above Kittanning. This indefinite\\nphrase is our only official authority for location. Elsewhere, in writing of his\\nmarch up the Allegheny, he speaks of a delay at a place called Mahoning,\\nabout fifteen miles above Fort Armstrong. Fort Armstrong was situated\\nabout three miles below the present and the old Indian town of Kittanning, and\\nwas frequently styled Kittanning in military documents of that date; therefore,\\nI infer that by the Kittanning mentioned by Brodhead, the fort is meant. At\\na place called Mahoning, taken in connection with the quarter mentioned in\\nthe letter giving the report of Captain Brady s success, would seem, then, to\\ncorroborate McCabe s and the generally-accepted locality for the mouth of\\nthe modern Mahoning is twelve miles above Manorville, the site of Fort Arm-\\nstrong, by river.\\nBut we must remember that the earliest name of the Redbank was Lycaw 7-\\nhoning,w\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\e that of Mahoning Creek was Mohulbucteetam. When the change\\nin the name of this stream took place is unknown, but probably not until the\\nsurrounding country became settled, about 1800. We find that Redbank is in\\none place called Licking Creek, whose Indian equivalent would be Maho-\\nning^\\n1 Cornplanter was a Seneca, while the leader, mentioned by Brodhead, and who was killed, was\\na Muncy. It is possible, though, that Cornplanter took part in the fray.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0413.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "384 History of Clarion County.\\nThe question then seems to hinge on the manner Brodhead calculated the\\ndistance whether by the windings of the river, or by a more direct, overland\\nroute. If by the former, then the claims of Mahoning are paramount but if\\nthe latter, the mouth of Redbank, or Brady s Bend, must have been the scene\\nof the engagement, because twelve miles measure the distance between Fort\\nArmstrong and the latter point, on an air line, which, allowing moderately for\\nthe deviations of an overland journey, would make about fifteen miles to\\nEast Brady, or, with wider digressions, fifteen miles to the mouth of Redbank.\\nNow, in the case of Captain Brady s expedition, where did Brodhead obtain\\nthe distance and the point of attack Doubtless from Captain Brady himself,\\nwho, in haste to overtake the savages, would not have lost time by following\\nthe river, but would have struck through the forest on a line only generally\\nparallel with the course of the Allegheny. But it may be said that Brodhead,\\non the march, kept by the water s edge. There is no evidence whatever as to\\nthat. Very possibly he shortened the route by traversing the interior, or\\ndivided his course between the stream and the country, wherever the most\\npracticable way was presented and in this way, after a march of about fifteen\\nmiles, arrived at the mouth of Redbank. However, the claims of Clarion\\ncounty do not depend on Brodhead s path.\\nThe strongest point in favor of this county is that the captives, then ten and\\ntwelve years old, and their descendants, some of whom afterwards lived there,\\nassert that the rescue took place at Brady s Bend} It is little likely that they\\nwould be mistaken at least, make the egregious error of ten or twelve miles.\\nAs between Brady s Bend and the Redbank (near its mouth), where the\\nrescue is said by General Hugh Brady to have occurred, I incline to the tra-\\nditional spot at the bend, as supported by the legend and the granting of the\\nland. General Brady, in his recollection of the affair as preserved in the fam-\\nily, was probably misled by the mention of the crossing of the Redbank.\\nSo this interesting dispute rests. The writer does not contend that he has\\nproved beyond a doubt that this historical incident occurred in Clarion county,\\nand while he challenges the claim of Armstrong county, is content to let the\\nvexed question hang in abeyance till the desirable, but almost hopeless certi-\\ntude is arrived at. He believes, though, that he has developed a strong case\\nfor Clarion county, and that it lacks but a featherweight more of evidence to\\ntip the scales decisively in favor of the latter.^\\nSamuel Brady was the son of John and Mary Brady, and was born in 1756\\nat Shippensburg, Cumberland county, Pa. He was therefore very youthful,\\ntwenty-three, at the time of this action. His parents moved in 1768 to Stand-\\ning Stone (Huntingdon), and finally to the West Branch near Muncy. The\\n1 See History of Armstrong County, page 261 Pittsburgh Chronicle, December 5, 1859; History\\nof East Brady.\\n2 These observations are the result of painstaking researches among records, official and unofficial,\\nas well as the oral traditions of the community.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0414.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "From the Oil Era to the Present Time. 385\\nperilous frontier life early accustomed him to arms, and at the age of nineteen\\nwe find him a volunteer in Captain Lowdon s company, of Thompson s Rifle\\nBattalion, which in August, 1775, joined the army before Boston. Thomp-\\nson s company dissolving at the expiration of its term, Samuel re-enlisted and\\nwas commissioned first lieutenant in Doyle s Independent Company, annexed\\nSeptember 5, 1776, to the First Pennsylvania, but he was shortly selected for\\nMorgan s corps of sharpshooters.\\nHe took part in the battle of Brandywine and the bloody affair at Paoli in\\nthe autumn of 1777, and the battle of Monmouth in 1778. Having been trans-\\nferred to Brodhead s command, the Eighth, stationed at Fort Pitt, he was pro-\\nmoted to captain-lieutenant, and became one of the colonel s favorite scouts,\\nbeing sent on various hazardous and difficult errands into the wilderness north\\nand west, and acquitting himself with skill and intrepidity. He signalized him-\\nself in particular by the rescue of the prisoners, and a mission of espionage to\\nSandusky, during which he wrested a captive woman and child from a band\\nof savage marauders.\\nWhile at Fort Pitt he heard the news of his father s and mother s massacre\\nin Lycoming by Indian raiders; and it is said that he then vowed vengeance\\nagainst the race, seizing upon the Sewickley affair as the first opportunity for re-\\ntaliation. Brady participated in Brodhead s sylvan campaigns, and in 1780 be-\\ncame captain. January 17, 1781, he was transferred to the Third Pennsyl-\\nvania at Easton, under Colonel Craig, and accompanied Wayne on his southern\\ncampaign. He was discharged January 14, 1783, and took up his residence\\nin the Chartiers Creek settlement, Allegheny county, spending most of his time\\nin the chase, when his services as an Indian fighter were not in demand.\\nAbout 1786 Captain Brady married Drusilla Swearingen, a daughter of\\nCaptain Van Swearingen, a gallant fellow-soldier in Morgan s Rifle Corps. It\\nis a tradition that the gentle Drusilla was first wooed by Dr. Bradford, of\\nWhisky Insurrection notoriety, but Brady returned from a long trip to Ken-\\ntucky just in time to secure the coveted prize. Her father objected at first to\\nhis daughter marrying Brady, on account of his roving and dangerous scout s\\nlife, but afterward gave his consent. There was some foundation for this ob-\\njection, for we learn that the fond and lovely wife suffered untold miseries when\\nher reckless husband was absent on distant scouts longer than the time agreed\\non for return. Dr. Darby once witnessed the meeting between husband and\\nwife on such an occasion, and states it to have been very affecting.\\nDuring a time of peace in 1 79 1 Brady, while hunting, it is said, encountered\\na party of Indians at the present Brady s Run, near the mouth of the Beaver\\nRiver. His inveterate feeling toward the race, which was then inflamed by al-\\ncoholic influences (he had grown over fond of strong drink) mastered his bet-\\nter nature, and he shot one of the savages dead. Even Captain Brady could\\n1 Our Western Border.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0415.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "3^6 History of Clarion County.\\nnot in times of peace kill a red man with impunity, and the interests of justice\\ndemanded his trial. Warrants were issued, and it is said a reward of three hun-\\ndred dollars offered for his capture, as his renown for prowess overawed the\\nofficers of justice. His brother says that, though an attempt was made, he was\\nnot taken, but subsequently voluntarily delivered himself into custody. He\\nwas arraigned for murder at Pittsburgh, and defended by James Ross, after-\\nward judge. In defense it was claimed that the savages had been on a raid\\nagainst the Chartiers settlement that Brady, with a few retainers, had waylaid\\nthem on their return at the Ohio crossing. The trial was a notable one, and\\nexcited great interest, but public sentiment was hostile to the Indians, and the\\nverdict was for acquittal.\\nShortly after his marriage. Captain Brady removed to Virginia (now West\\nVirginia), near Wellsburg, where his father-in-law lived in a fortified domicile.\\nOn General Wayne s arrival at Pittsburgh, in 1792, he engaged Brady as a\\nscout, which position he exercised till a short while before his premature end.\\nHe died of pleurisy on Christmas day, 1795, near West Liberty, W. Va. His\\ntwo sons died before 1850; his widow remarried, moved to Tyler county, Va.,\\nand lived to a good old age.\\nOf Samuel Brady s personal appearance, his brother s sketch furnishes all\\nwe know: He was five feet eleven and three- fourth inches in height, with a\\nperfect form. He was rather light, his weight exceeding at no time one hun-\\ndred and sixty- eight pounds. His arduous, exposed life told on him in his\\nlater years, and he looked older than he was. He walked lame from a hurt,\\nand was partially deaf from lying long in the water while hiding from the sav-\\nages.\\nCaptain Brady s career was doubtless a marvelously active, adventurous,\\nand in some respects useful one. He was a brave soldier and a skilled and\\nhardy partisan. Of the adventures, of which tradition has made him the cen-\\ntral figure, some are highly embellished others are wholly fictitious largely\\nthe products of a relative s facile pen and fervid imagination.\\nIn a moral and political aspect, Brady was far from heroic. The element\\nof self-control was lacking in his character. He appears to have yielded to a\\nlicentious passion, which discredited his race among the tribes of the Ohio, and\\ninflamed their hatred;^ and his revengeful instincts detract from the merits of\\nhis deeds.\\nGeorge Rote and his sister Rhody, aged about twelve and fourteen, were\\ntaken by Indians, in March, 1781, from their home at Mifflinburg, now Union\\ncounty, and carried prisoners to the Seneca country. After some time, when\\n1 Mr. Isaac Craig writes He caused much trouble to the Americans by his rascally conduct to a\\nShawanese woman whom he took prisoner, and it was with great difficulty that Colonel George Mor-\\ngan, the Indian agent at Fort Pitt, appeased the Shawanese tribe. It is difficult for us to understand\\nBrodhead s infatuation with Brady, in the light we now have.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0416.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "The Bench and Bar. 387\\npeace was proclaimed, they were liberated, met near where Clarion stands,^\\nand returned home together. Rhody married James Ben, and they moved to\\nCentre county. They were uncle and aunt to the late Captain John Rote, who\\nnever could hear of an Indian, in latter times, without getting into a passion.\\nAnnals of the Buffalo Valley, by John Blair Linn). This bit of history was\\nobtained too late to be inserted in the body of the work.\\nThe Bedford and Franklin Road, mentioned in chapter ninth as having\\nbeen surveyed through Clarion in 18 17, never went beyond that stage.\\nCHAPTER XL.\\nTHE BENCH AND BAR.\\nThe First Court Judge Alexander McCalraont The First Attorneys Later Ones Judges\\nBuflSngton, Knox, and J. S. McCalmont The Logue Trial Murder Cases Judges Scofield and\\nCampbell Additional Sketches Judge Jenks The Standard Proceedings Hons. Corbett and\\nWilson History of the District List of Attorneys First Records County Oificers.\\nCLARION county s judicial organization began the first of September,\\n1840, from which date, says the constituent act, the inhabitants of the\\nsaid county of Clarion, be entitled to and shall have all and singular the courts\\njurisdiction, officers, rights and privileges to which the inhabitants of other\\ncounties of this State are entitled by the constitution and laws of this Common-\\nwealth. The county was attached to the sixth district, then consisting of the\\ncounties of Erie, Venango, and Crawford but by a repealing act, passed before\\nany court was held (May 21, 1840), it was added to the eighteenth judicial\\ndistrict, composed of Potter, McKean, and Jefferson counties of which Hon.\\nAlexander McCalmont was presiding judge Christian Myers and Charles\\nEvans were commissioned associates.\\nJudge Alexander McCalmont was a man a little past middle life when he\\nbegan to preside over the courts of Clarion county. He was a native of\\nNittany Valley, Centre county; born October 22, 1785, died at Franklin,\\nAugust 10, 1857. -H^s parents moved to Franklin in 1803, and Judge McCal-\\nmont continued to reside there almost uninterruptedly till his decease. He\\nreceived a very limited education, but by self-application, became proficient\\nenough to teach school at Franklin in 1809 and 10. He held nearly all the\\noffices within the gift of his county, being successively commissioner, treas-\\nurer, recorder, sheriff, and justice of the peace. About 1828 he was admitted\\n1 Mr. Linn s informant, a Mr. Gill, who traveled afoot through this county many years ago, and\\nwho was very accurate as to dates and facts, says that the meeting took place at a furnace near\\nClarion, which must mean the site of Clarion Furnace, or Penn Mills.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0417.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "388 History of Clarion County.\\nto practice, having studied with David Irvine, esq., one of Venango county s\\nfirst lawyers. Mr. McCalmont was also engaged in the iron business, having\\nconstructed a furnace and forge; but he relinquished this in 1833, to devote\\nhimself entirely to the law, wherein he enjoyed a successful and lucrative prac-\\ntice, till he was appointed president judge by Governor Porter.\\nWhile he possessed some eccentricities, his magisterial learning and ability\\ncommanded respect. Judge McCalmont spent several summers in Clarion,\\nbringing his family and library with him.\\nChristian Myers was a prominent character of the early days, and an exten-\\nsive iron manufacturer. Charles Evans had represented Armstrong county in\\nthe assembly, and was very active in securing the erection of the new county.\\nThe first court was held November 4, 1840, the first Monday of the month,\\nin the house now occupied by A. H. Alexander. It was a mere preliminary\\nsession, to initiate the new judges and officers, and qualify the attorneys. The\\nfollowing description by an eye-witness will convey a more vivid picture of the\\nproceedings than the writer could otherwise furnish\\nThe house and store being built by Alexander Reynolds was up and\\nroofed, and partly weather-boarded, but the front was still open, and a large\\ncarpenter s bench was standing in what is now Captain Alexander s parlor.\\nThat apartment was secured in which to hold court, and the carpenter s bench\\nturned against the east wall. Three or four trestles were arranged in front of\\nthe bench, and boards laid across for seats for the bar; three large chairs were\\nmounted on the stand for the judges.\\nThe judges elect had to be sworn in, but there were no officers sworn in to\\nqualify the court that was the starting point, and till the court was in running\\norder, the entire machinery of the county was at a stand-still, and could not\\nstart. But this difficulty had been foreseen, and Governor Porter had sent out\\nto Jacques W. Johnson a dedimus potestatem to swear in the judges and\\nstart the machinery in motion. Jacques was no little elevated at the idea of\\nbeing made the receptacle of this amount of royal prerogative in the hands of\\na subject, and talked a great deal about the importance of this sacred trust.\\nThe people had elected Dr. Goe, prothonotary, and James Hasson, sheriff\\nUncle Jacob Zeigler, then prothonotary of Butler county, was brought over to\\nteach the new officers how to put on their official robes, and to see the court\\ninaugurated with becoming dignity. The old court-crier of Venango county,\\nMr. Morrison, came down to help on the show, and pick up the initiation fees\\nof the lawyers.\\nEarly on Monday morning the town began to fill up; the Franklin, Butler,\\nand Armstrong county lawyers had generally come on the Sunday evening\\nbefore. It was a pleasant, sunshiny November day, which was fortunate, as\\nwe had no means of heating the room. I believe more people came in to see\\nthe court, than come now although there was not a case on the list, either", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0418.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "The Bench and Bar. 389\\ncivil or criminal. The judges got Johnson into a room at the Western, and\\nwere sworn in before going to court. By ten o clock the judges got upon the\\nbench and at the intimation of Judge McCalmont, old Mr. Morrison opened\\nthe court. The seats in front of the judges by that time were pretty well filled\\nwith applicants for admission. Zeigler was a good officer, with a fine, manly\\nvoice, and after reading the commissions of the judges, commenced swearing in\\nfirst the prothonotary and sheriff, whose bonds had been approved, then the\\nconstables and justices of the peace. Then the certificates of the younger\\nlawyers were examined by the court, and the whole batch were told to stand\\nup and be sworn and all were on their feet and sworn in. By dinner time\\nnearly all the preliminary work was done. Though the court met in the after-\\nnoon there was little to do. Most of the old lawyers failed to put in an ap-\\npearance, but were seen walking around, or sitting at the hotels telling stories.\\nSeveral were up stairs playing euchre, or other games.\\nJacob K. Boyd was the first resident lawyer in the county. He came to\\nthe county seat in the spring of 1840. He was soon after followed by D. B.\\nHays, John B. Butler, Jacques W. Johnson, Alfred Gilmore, and James Camp-\\nbell; all these were admitted at the first session of court. In February, 1841,\\nD. W. Foster, John L. Thompson, Thomas Sutton, and George W. Lathy were\\nadmitted. Thomas M. Jolly came in the spring of 1841.\\nIt is fitting here to give a brief sketch of these pioneers in the legal field of\\nClarion. The great majority of them have passed away. Their names are\\nyet familiar, and their traits yet fresh in the memories of a very few to\\nothers they are dim figures in the long retrospect, and with the end of the\\npresent generation they would be entirely forgotten did not the kindly pen of\\nthe historian rescue their fame from this threatened oblivion.\\nJacob K. Boyd was from Butler county, and brought his family with him,\\nto a new house he had erected. He was an illiterate man and failed to gain\\nany standing at the bar. He remained only three or four years, and returned\\nto Butler county. Of his subsequent career nothing is known.\\nJacques W. Johnson was the second of the series. He was a young lawyer,\\nborn in Dauphin county, who had removed to Clarion from Carhsle. Of a\\nmercurial temperament, and a flippant tongue, he lacked solidity, and there-\\nfore attained no substantial success. Shortly after coming he entered into\\npartnership with George W. Lathy, and they opened the first office in Clarion,\\nwhere Dr. Ross s office now stands with the legend Johnson Lathy,\\nattorneys at law, in bright, gilt letters on the door. Johnson married an\\neastern lady, and about 1845 1^^ Clarion county.\\nDavid B. Hays was the^son of Sheriff Hays, of Venango county, and one\\nof Clarion s earliest lawyers. He had his office with James Campbell, in a\\nbuilding on the site occupied by Brown s barber shop. Davy Hays was tal-\\nented, witty, and of a lively and amiable disposition a universal favorite. ;;j His\\n40", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0419.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "390 History of Clarion County.\\ncareer here was a short one he departed for Mercer in the spring of 1842,\\nand died there. His death was hastened by his convivial habits, which over-\\nmastered him after he left Clarion.\\nJohn B. Butler hailed from Butler county, where he had been engaged in\\njournalism. His talents seemed better fitted for the sanctum than the bar. A\\nnervous, impetuous habit, which often overreached itself and marred work\\nwhich required circumspection, was a great hindrance in his forensic career.\\nAfter some years he went to Pittsburgh, where he edited a Know Nothing paper,\\nand after, by a marvelous transformation, became a Catholic. He had served\\nas a major during the rebellion, and is now living at the Fortress Monroe Sol-\\ndiers Home.\\nMr. Butler, while here, resided in a hewed log house, now the residence\\nof William Cramer. Lawyers were well content with log houses then.\\nAlfred Gilmore was a brother of Samuel A. Gilmore, of Butler, an attorney\\n^f high merit. Alfred was appointed first district attorney here, and while\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2considerably lower than his brother on the legal scale, was a lawyer of fair\\nability and pretty good practice. His manner was rather pompous and pe-\\ndantic. After remaining here five or six years, he returned to Butler, and\\nfinally settled in Philadelphia, where, at last accounts, he was still living. He\\nwas a member of the firm of Gilmore Thompson, who displayed their shingle\\nat the present office of Squire Sweny, then new, freshly painted with white,\\nand presenting a very neat appearance.\\nDavid W. Foster was also a citizen of Kittanning, and on his arrival here was\\nalready past the meridian of life. He was originally a cabinet-maker, and hav-\\ning been prothonotary s clerk at Kittanning, came here to act in the same cap-\\nacity, and to open the records of the county. He had improved his spare time\\nby the study of law, and was admitted here in February, 1841, but continued\\nto assist the clerk of courts, pursuing his profession in that office. Although a\\nmediocre lawyer, he acquired a respectable practice, especially as a collector.\\nMr. Foster remained in Clarion till his death in 1849.\\nJesse G. Clark, the son of William Clark, of the Forest (now the Loomis)\\nHouse, entered the bar here, but remained but a short time, before returning\\nwith his father to Brookville.\\nJohn L. Thompson was a young attorney from Lancaster, a thin, spare\\nman, with light hair, and a fluent talker. He did not abide in Clarion county\\nlong enough to warrant a further estimate, leaving in the spring of 42.\\nThomas Sutton, originally of Indiana, Pa., was one of the few among\\nClarion s early legal lights, who achieved a pronounced success a success due\\nto his high personal character and real professional merit. In argument he was\\nfair, but as a business attorney he excelled. Mr. Sutton practiced alone. He\\ndied, aged about forty, in 1853, leaving a wife and two children.\\nGeorge W. Lathy was an advocate of some experience when he cast his", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0420.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "The Bench and Bar. 391\\nlines in Clarion. He came from Northumberland, Pa. Lathy was an effective\\njury lawyer, but his indolent disposition led him to rely too much on his foren-\\nsic powers, to the neglect of the minutiae of preparation. In March, 1871, he\\nremoved to Erie, as a field where his talents would have wider scope a step\\nwhich proved an unfortunate one. He is now living in Philadelphia, though\\nnot engaged in practice. Mr. Lathy, while in Clarion, married a daughter of\\nEdward Derby, the builder of the first court-house. A large family was the\\nresult of this union. In the latter part of his career here, he took his eldest\\nson, William E., in partnership with him.\\nThomas M. Jolly was attracted to the new seat of justice from Norristown,\\nMontgomery county, and at his arrival here was pretty well advanced in life.\\nHe had served in the War of 18 12 when a mere boy, and was present at the\\nsiege of Fort McHenry. He always bore the title of General Jolly. Jolly\\nwas a man of ordinary attainments in the profession, and laid great stress on\\ntechnicalities. He was addicted to the convivial glass a fault common to sev-\\neral of the early sprigs of the law. General Jolly removed back to his native\\ncounty in 1845. He had a family of three children.\\nGeorge W. Carskadden, formerly of Clinton county, came in 1843, with a\\nhost of recommendations, which the event did not bear out. He is to be classed\\nwith the many other ephemera, remaining scarcely a year.\\nThe bar of the new county seat, was composed as we have seen of young\\nmen, freshly embarked in life, who sought the newly-erected county as a vant-\\nage ground, a comparatively free field, where they would not have to contend\\nagainst the overshadowing prestige of older and more experienced heads. In\\nthis they were doomed to disappointment. Although by the spring of 1841\\nthe resident lawyers numbered thirteen, nearly all the business was in the hands\\nof practitioners of adjoining counties, who had already achieved reputations\\nsuch men as Bufiington, of Kittanning; Howe and Snowden, of Franklin; the\\nPurviances, and Ayres, of Butler. Many became discouraged, contending\\nagainst such odds and did not long hold their ground. Those who stayed\\nowed their success to industry, genuine worth, and the courage which tided\\nthem over their dark and unproductive days.\\nThe winter of 1840-41 was a particularly dark and gloomy period for\\nthese first legal luminaries. Their surroundings were not such as tended to\\ncheer their minds. The place was isolated in the midst of a forest; everything\\nwas in an inchoate state. The unfinished and unpainted houses, the muddy\\nstreets, and the background of gloomy pines with their snow- laden branches,\\nformed a combination which had a depressing effect on the briefless barris-\\nters, as they sat around in their barely-furnished offices, vainly waiting for a\\nclient to lift the latch. It was necessary to kill time, however, in some man-\\nner. The industriously inclined conned the volumes of their scantily supplied\\nlibraries, and then joined their idle comrades at the Great Western, where the", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0421.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "392 History of Clarion County.\\nevening was spent in games of euchre or rounce, and trolling songs and\\ncatches. The moistening liquid was conveniently on hand in the tap-room.\\nA happy diversion was the occasional dance. What odds though the company\\nmight happen to be a trifle democratic in ton none relished the fun more keenly\\nthan the legal fraternity.\\nBoyd, Butler, and Foster were benedicts; Sutton, Hays, Johnson, and the\\nothers were yet untrammeled by matrimonial ties. Their circumstances nec-\\nessarily threw these young men together, and this social intercourse was one\\nof the agreeable amenities of those days. They were inclined to make the best\\nof things, and withal formed a gay coterie. In summer they rambled over the\\nhills together, pitched quoits, and tossed the bar.\\nA propos of the impecuniosity prevalent then among the resident lawyers,\\none of their number relates: As the summer (1841) advanced and harvest\\ntime came, times grew very dull indeed. Hays and I had paid out our last\\ndollar, and were both completely strapped. One day we happened to ask Sut-\\nton what was the state of his finances, and he pulled out ten cents and said\\nthat was every cent of money he had in the world. We took a hearty laugh\\nover it, and told him it was not fair for him to have such an advantage over us\\nwho had not a cent, and that he should hand the ten cents over to Hays, which\\nhe did, and we handed that ten cent piece back and forward, I should say at\\nleast two months.\\nI recollect one day Sutton and I had been up town. As we came down\\nwe saw Hays coming toward us, laughing and showing something over his head.\\nHe came up to us, saying, Look here, you poor rascals! and showed us a\\ntwo-dollar shinplaster he had just taken in as a fee, and we all started over\\nto Hysung s, who sold jumbles and small beer, and spent the most of Hays s\\nmoney. Hays s client wanted to bring a suit against a man who had shot his\\ndog. In passing along the road, the dog had run out and tried to bite him,\\nand having a gun on his shoulder, he took it down and cracked away and shot\\nthe dog. The owner was indignant, and so paid Hays two dollars for telling\\nhim that the dog had no business to attack a man on the public road, and that\\nthe man had a right to defend himself against man or beast, even if it resulted\\nin the death of the canine.\\nBy 1845 the resident lawyers of standing had succeeded in getting the\\nbulk of the local business in their own hands, and a few, such as Sutton and\\nCampbell, had reputations extending beyond the limits of their own bailiwick.\\nJudge Campbell was probably the best balanced, and the most generally pro-\\nficient of the early bar, and therefore entitled to be called its leader. Three-\\nfourths of the lucrative practice of those days was land litigation, ejectments,\\ndisputes over lines, etc. Of this kind, the Junkin vs. McGinnis was the most\\nnoted case. It was a series of controversies, involving titles and possession to\\na portion o{ a warrant in southwestern Salem township. This civil feud reap-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0422.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "The Bench and Bar. 393\\npeared with regularity in some form or other at every term for a number of\\nyears. Like Banquo s spectre, it would not down. The interminable liti-\\ngation in which J. W. Guthrie was a party, generally plaintiff, began early and\\nremained a fixture in Clarion county practice.\\nAt the February session, 1841, all the Commonwealth cases were continued,\\nand only civil business transacted. The first civil cause and the first jury trial\\nin Clarion county was Samuel Adams vs. William Chambers; trespass; an\\nappeal from the docket of Thomas B. Meager, esq., of Shippenville. It appears\\nthat the parties got into an altercation about the rent of a carding-mill, and\\nChambers struck Adams, who thereupon brought suit for damages and recov-\\nered before the justice. Campbell appeared for Adams; Johnson Lathy\\nfor the defendant. The jury were Jacob McClain, Samuel Zink, James Huey,\\nPhilip Corbett, sr., John F. Conver, Alex. Blair, jr., John Smith, John Benn,\\nEH H. Clapp, James Reed, William Elliot, Jno. Alt. They rendered a verdict\\nof ninety-five dollars damages. The defendant appealed to the Supreme\\nCourt, but failed to reverse the judgment.\\nAt this court the following tavern licenses were granted William Clark,\\nJames W. Coulter, George McWilliams, David Waiters, Philip Corbett. Then\\nthe law required license petitions and certificates to be published in the papers\\nfor several weeks previous.\\nIn the following May court the criminal suits were taken up The first one\\ndisposed of. May 3, 1841, was Commonwealth against Thomas McCamant, in-\\ndicted for keeping a tippling house, i. e., selling without license. McCamant\\nplead guilty, and was sentenced to pay one dollar to the Commonwealth, and\\nthe costs of prosecution. The next day. May 4th, the first criminal trial took\\nplace. Jacob Wilks had been charged by John Wilks with malicious mischief,\\nor in the wording of the bill did, unlawfully, wilfully, and maliciously, and\\nmischievously, burn, set fire to, waste and destroy shingling nails, a tin spoon,\\na cup and plate, two calico frocks, of the value of fifteen dollars. The panel\\nwere as follows Peter Armagost, James Laughlin, Joseph Guthrie, Fred.\\nMohney, Isaac Courson, Jno. Armstrong, Jacob Alsbach, Barnhart Martin,\\nWilliam Clugh, Lewis Switzer, Levi Stone, Henry Schotts.\\nWilks was acquitted because he was insane at the time of the offence\\ncommitted. The Court adjudged that he be kept in close custody in the\\ncounty jail during the continuance of his insanity, and till he was legally dis-\\ncharged. The first ordinary trial was the next, taken up on the same day,\\nCommonwealth vs. Maxwell, for assault Penninah Gibson, prosecutrix. This\\nwas a weighty case, and occupied several days. Both Gilmore for the Common-\\nwealth, and Jolly for the prisoner, were assisted by strong foreign counsel. The\\njury found a verdict of conviction. A new trial was granted, and when the\\ncase came up again, a nolle prosequi entered.\\nThe second court, February, 1841, was held in the upper story of the jail,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0423.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "394 History of Clarion County.\\nwhich had been hastened for that purpose. Here the sessions continued to be\\nheld till the completion of the court-house in the winter of 1842. The clerk\\nof courts occupied an humble frame building on the public square, immediately-\\nopposite the court-house. The commissioners managed affairs of state in a\\ntemporary shanty standing on its southeast corner.\\nAs soon as the lower story of the jail was finished, Sheriff Hasson got an\\nold man named Speer to move into the front part of it to act as deputy sheriff\\nand jailor. He was something of a character in his way, very clever and social,\\nbut not very smart as a county ofificer. In those days, when everybody was poor\\nand money scarce, it was not unusual when the sheriff got a J7cri -facias to\\nlevy on personal property, and take a bond with security for the production of\\nthe property at the court-house on the return day of the writ. The object of\\nthis was to procure time, and generally the defendant did not expect to either\\npay the money or deliver the goods and at the next term a judgment would\\nbe entered on the bond and a new writ issued or, if the plaintiff preferred to\\nlook to the sheriff for the money, he had the bond for his protection. Sheriff\\nSpeer, as he was called, generally sympathized with the defendant, and as it\\nmade more costs, was very liberal in taking bonds. One time he got a writ on\\na man across the Clarion, and as he had no personal property, levied on a hun-\\ndred acres of land, and took his bond for the delivery of it at the court-house\\non the first day of the next term. This was a standing joke on Sheriff Speer,\\nand it was a long time before he heard the last of it.\\nAssociate Hon. C. Myers was reappointed in 1846 and served to 1 850,\\nwhen he was elected to the State Senate, and James B. Lawson took his places\\nCharles Ev^ans was also reappointed, and died in office in 1849. Robert P.\\nMaclay was appointed to the vacancy. Maclay dying in 1850, James Ros\\nsupplied his place till 185 i. An amusing incident of Evans s judgeship will bear\\nnarration here: In February, 1847, George Wesner, the proprietor of a restau-\\nrant at Clarion, was brought to trial for keeping a tippling house. Judge\\nEvans was called down from the bench to testify for the defendant. Amid\\nirrepressible merriment on the part of the spectators and attorneys, he pro-\\nceeded to relate, with solemn face and upturned eye, that once he had hap-\\npened in at the defendant s house when some of the prominent citizens of the\\ntown were holding high carnival and indulging in a dance upstairs. The room\\nbeing small and cramped for space, they seized one of their number and began\\nusing him as a battering-ram to break down the partition. Then, that being\\nthe next heaviest person present, be feared that he would be next singled out\\nfor this ignominious treatment, and therefore retreated from the fray. Wesner\\nwas mulcted fifty dollars and costs.\\nHon. Alex. McCalmont s term having expired, Jos. Buffington was ap-\\npointed judge of the eighteenth district, by Governor William Johnston. He\\npresided first at the September term, 1849.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0424.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "The Bench and Bar. 395\\nJoseph Buffington was born at Westchester, Pa., in 1804, and when ten\\nyears of age his family moved to Allegheny county at eighteen he entered\\nthe Western University, was admitted to practice in Butler county in 1826,\\nand went to Kittanning in 1843. In the autumn of that year he was elected to\\nCongress as a Whig. He soon took a place in the front rank as a lawyer and\\npublic citizen. During the brief period in which he filled the bench of the\\neighteenth district he won encomiums as an upright and capable judge. In\\n1850 a law was passed providing for the election of judges by the people-\\nJohn C. Knox, the Democratic candidate, was chosen over Buffington, and took\\noffice in 185 i. After his retirement from this district, the latter was, in 1856,\\nelected president judge of the tenth district, embracing Westmoreland, Indi-\\nana, and Armstrong counties. He completed the term and was again elected,\\nbut in 1 87 1 his failing health induced him to resign. He died suddenly, Feb-\\nruary 3, 1872, full of years and honors, and enjoying the deserved esteem of\\nhis fellow citizens.\\nHon. John Colvin Knox was born November 4, 1820, at Knoxville, Tioga\\ncounty. Pa. He did not receive a day s schooling after his fourteenth year,\\nbeing emphatically a self-educated as well as a self-made man but the strain\\non his unaided intellect told sadly on him in later years. At an early age he\\nwas left an orphan, and went to live with an uncle. Finally adopting the legal\\nprofession, he soon made his mark as an attorney, and in 1849 his high repu-\\ntation was recognized by his appointment to succeed Hon. Thomas White as\\npresident judge of the Westmoreland, Indiana and Armstrong district, in place\\nof Judge Burrell, who had been nominated, and rejected by the Senate. While\\nacting as judge of that district he resided at Kittanning; and in 185 i, being\\nchosen president of the i8th judicial district by popular vote, he removed to\\nFranklin.\\nAs president judge of the courts of Clarion county he was excelled by\\nnone his rulings were marked by exceptional acumen and rectitude. In\\n1853 Judge Knox was promoted to the Supreme bench, which he resigned in\\n1857 to accept the attorney-generalship, under Governor Packer. The advent\\nof Curtin s administration in i860 displaced him from that office, and he went\\ninto the practice of law at Philadelphia, as a member of the firm of Knox\\nWebster. Shortly after softening of the brain set in his intellect waned, and\\nhe never recovered. He died at a hospital at Philadelphia in 1880. In person\\nJudge Knox was portly, handsome, and bore the stamp of a cultured gentleman.\\nJohn Swayze McCalmont, the eldest son of Hon. Alexander McCalmont,\\nwas appointed to succeed Judge Knox, and was elected in 1853. When fif-\\nteen he entered Allegheny College, and after remaining two years was ap-\\npointed to a cadetship at West Point. He graduated in 1842, and served in\\nFlorida till July 1843, when he resigned his lieutenancy to pursue the study of\\nlaw, previously commenced under the tuition of his father. Mr. McCal-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0425.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "396 History of Clarion County.\\nmont was admitted to practice at Brookville, November, 1844. He located at\\nClarion in 1845, as a partner of A. Myers, esq., was married in 1848, and\\nelected to the Legislature for the session of 1849-50, in the latter of which he\\nwas Speaker of the House. As an attorney he was successful, possessing in\\nparticular a grace and fluency of diction, and while he would sometimes wan-\\nder in apparently aimless digressions, he seldom failed to come finally and\\nstrongly to the point. He was the most youthful magistrate that ever pre-\\nsided over the eighteenth district, being only twenty-nine when he donned the\\nermine, and having been in practice only seven years. Yet, notwithstanding\\nhis fewness of years, his administration of justice was creditable and satisfactory;\\nfew reversals could be told against him.\\nJudge McCalmont was tall, thin, and striking in appearance, with an erect\\nmilitary bearing, which he brought with him from West Point, and always re-\\ntained. He resided at Clarion with his family during the time he occupied the\\nbench, till 1856, and then removed to Franklin. In 1861 he resigned his seat\\nto take command of the Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves, which he held till May,\\n1862, and was then honorably discharged. He resumed the practice of his\\nprofession at Franklin, and continued it until appointed Commissioner of Cus-\\ntoms, and now spends most of his time at Washington, engaged in his official\\nduties.\\nThe associates elected under the new system for five years, were Wihiam\\nCurll and D. B. Long; the latter became prothonotary in 1855, and Benjamin\\nJunkin filled his seat the remaining year. To these associates succeeded Peter\\nClover and Jacob Kahle, who served till 1861.\\nBetween 1844 and 1862 the second generation of lawyers, Amos Myers,\\nJ. S. McCalmont, Wm. L. Corbett, William Shaw, James Boggs, Robert Sut-\\nton, W. W. Barr, James B. Knox, C. L. Lamberton, B. J. Reid, David Lawson,\\nTheophilus S. Wilson, were launched into legal existence.\\nAmos Myers, the eldest son of Hon. Christian Myers, was born at Clarion\\nFurnace, graduated at Allegheny College, Meadville, and was admitted to\\npractice in the latter part of 1846, shortly after becoming of age. He studied\\nunder the preceptorship of James Campbell. Not long after his admission the\\nfirm of McCalmont Myers was formed. He was elected as a Republican to\\nCongress in 1862, and soon after left the law, and entered the Baptist ministry.\\nHe is still living in a suburb of Philadelphia. Mr. Myers was a man of con-\\nsiderable legal talent, of sprightly wit, and a ready speaker.\\nWilliam Shaw, a young married man, left his trade of cabinet-making, in\\nClarion, to study law under D. W. Foster, and was admitted December, 1847,\\nbut died soon after. Mr. Shaw was a bright beginner, and gave promise of\\nsuccess.\\nJames Boggs is a native of Plum township, Allegheny county. He took\\na Greek and Latin course at a select school, studied law under his brother,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0426.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "/tdz^", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0427.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0428.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "The Bench and Bar. 397\\nJudge Boggs, of Armstrong county, and was admitted at Kittanning in 1848.\\nHe immediately after took up his residence at Clarion. He was partner with\\nMr. Lathy from 1852 to 1855, with William L. Corbett from i860 to 1865,\\nbeing elected district attorney twice during these years. His present partner-\\nship with M. A. K. Weidner, esq., began in 1874. Mr. Boggs has had a large\\norphans court business.\\nRobert Sutton was a younger brother of Thomas, and was raised in Indi-\\nana. He received his education at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, and was\\nadmitted to the courts of Clarion in 1850. He practiced at New Castle, Pa.,\\ntill the death of his brother, when he removed to Clarion, and took charge of\\nthe office. In 1853 he entered into partnership with W. L. Corbett, and in\\n1857 with B. J. Reid. In i860 he retired from the legal profession, and became\\na Presbyterian clergyman. Mr. Sutton now resides in Cincinnati. Fle married\\nMiss Andrews, of Franklin, a sister of the wife of Amos Myers, esq. While\\nan attorney of no mean proficiency, he did not obtain the eminence of his\\nbrother in the law. He was possessed of a cultured intellect, and his tastes\\nwere of a refined and literary character.^\\nCharles L. Lamberton settled at Clarion in 185 i. He was from the eastern\\npart of the State, and previous to coming to Clarion county, had practiced a\\nshort time at Brookville. For some years he was a partner of Hon. James\\nCampbell, confining himself almost entirely to office business. Colonel\\nLamberton, as he was called, was a man of quick parts and great activity, but\\nhis bent was more to the ferment of politics than the quips and quiddities of\\nthe law. He was chosen State senator in 1861. After the expiration of his\\nterm he removed to Philadelphia without returning to Clarion. He is now\\npracticing in New York City.\\nBernard J. Reid was born at Youngstown, Westmoreland county, in 1823;\\ntaught school at an early age, and in 1842 came to Clarion for the purpose of\\nopening a select school, which he did, but soon relinquished the school to es-\\ntablish the Iron CoJinty Democrat, which, in 1844, was consolidated with the\\nRepublican. In the following year Mr. Reid retired. He had practiced sur-\\nveying occasionally while engaged in journalism, and in 1845 became county\\nsurveyor. In 1847 he left for St. Louis, and from thence went to California,\\nas a pioneer of 1849. returned in 1852, and after completing his studies\\nat the office of Thomas Sutton, was admitted in 1853. He was in partnership\\nwith Robert Sutton from 1857 to i860. He took James Craig into partner-\\nship in 1 86 1, and in the same year raised a company and went into the army,\\nreturning in August, 1862. In July, 1863, he raised another company for the\\nthree months service, and was elected inajor of his regiment. The firm of\\nReid Patrick (Joseph H. Patrick) existed from 1865 to 1869. In 1871 Mr.\\nReid removed to Titusville, and finally to Erie, and returned to Clarion in\\n1 For a sketch of W. W. Bair, esq., see Bio2;ranhical Sketches.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0429.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "398 History of Clarion County.\\n1877. Mr. Reid is a master of the legal science, abstract and applied. As\\nan analyst of evidence he has marked ability. In land suits of importance his\\nservices are almost invariably required, his experience as a surveyor rendering\\nhim especially fitted for such causes.\\nDavid Lawson, a son of Hon. James B. Lawson, was born in Madison\\ntownship, Clarion county, in 1833, d completed his education at Elder s\\nRidge Academy, Indiana county. In 1856 he began the study of law at the\\noffice of Campbell Lamberton, and was qualified an attorney in 1858. He\\nentered into a partnership with Mr. Lamberton in 1861, which continued for\\nsome time. In 1869 Mr. Lawson removed to Wisconsin, and returned in 1871.\\nHe has filled the office of district attorney twice, and assisted Messrs. Brinker,\\nEdinger and Sharrar in the county treasury during their respective terms. Mr.\\nLawson is an experienced and painstaking lawyer of unquestioned integrity.\\nIt was toward the close of Hon. J. S. McCalmont s administration that the\\nmemorable trial of Charles Curtis, alias Logue, for the murder of Jared Lewis\\noccurred. It was the first murder case in the annals of the county, and this\\nfact, and the circumstances attending the fatality, aroused the intensest interest\\nin it. With this there was mingled no inconsiderable degree of popular indig-\\nnation against the prisoner.\\nCharles Curtis, a native of Ohio, and of respectable family, had early fallen\\ninto a career of evil, which led him to become one of a band of organized\\nthieves and depredators, who made Ohio and the Western States their field.\\nAfter a while, finding themselves under dangerously close surveillance, the gang\\ndispersed, and Curtis, and one Ira Shotwell, came to Northwestern Pennsyl-\\nvania, hoping to ply their vocation here in comparative security. They con-\\nfined their operations to the smaller towns and rural districts, wandering about,\\nleading a lawless and vagabond life under the guise of farm hands, etc. About\\n1857 they came to Clarion county, assuming the name Charles Logue, and Ira\\nDavis. They remained in the neighborhood of New Bethlehem but for a short\\ntime, and left for other parts. In i860 they returned, and came to Toby\\ntownship as harvest hands in search of work. Logue was employed by Parker,\\nand Davis, by Milton Stewart. After working there a while they moved to the\\nvicinity of Callensburg, living most of the time at Major s, on the road lead-\\ning from Easton to the bridge. Major was an invalid pauper, and his daugh-\\nters, Harrietta and Lucetta, had a dubious reputation in the neighborhood.\\nIn August and September an alarming series of robberies and arsons excited\\nthat hitherto peaceful and secure community. Reynolds s store in Callens-\\nburg was robbed and his barn burned. The house of an old man named Camp\\nwas burglarized.\\nSuspicion began to attach to the strangers at Major s. Since leaving the\\nStewart s they had been engaged in no apparent occupation. At one time,\\nduring their absence, a store in Butler county had been robbed, and the mys-\\ntery connected with their movements did not tend to dispel these surmises.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0430.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "The Bench and Bar. 399\\nOn Sunday, the 2d of September, i860, the people of that locaUty were\\nstartled by two daring robberies, at McEwen s near Sligo, and Thomas Stew-\\nart s, in Toby township. At McEwen s, while the house was temporarily va-\\ncant, $125 were taken. The robbers then proceeded to Stewart s, and reached\\nthere about ten o clock A. M., while all but the aged Mrs. Stewart were absent\\nat church. Mrs. Stewart was silenced at the point of a revolver, and eighty-\\nfive dollars taken from a bureau. The plunderers were unmasked and she\\nrecognized one as Charles Logue. Mr. Stewart, on returning, and hearing\\nthe tale, immediately raised a hue and cry. He proceeded to Callensburg and\\nhad a warrant issued for the arrest of Charles Logue and Ira Davis. The\\nwarrant was given to W. F. Cartwright, constable of Callensburg. Cartwright\\ndeputed Jared Lewis, a citizen and ex-constable of Callensburg, about thirty\\nyears of age, to make the arrest. Lewis went the same evening to Canoe Rip-\\nple, where constable McCall, of Toby, and William Thomas had been watch-\\ning for the culprits, surmising that they would cross there that night in passing\\nto or from Major s to Boss Buck s, then living near Tippecanoe Furnace,\\nand whose house was suspected as being a rendezvous for the criminals.\\nAbout half past eleven, as Lewis and McCall lay in ambush by the roadside,\\ntwo men appeared walking down the road, one of whom was identified as\\nLogue. When they had approached within a few feet Lewis sprang up, pre-\\nsented his pistol and ordered the twain to halt. Almost immediately two\\nshots flashed from a weapon in Logue s hand. Lewis said, My friend, you ve\\nshot me I m shot through the side and through the thigh. The party then\\nscattered and ran, McCall receiving a wound in the leg. Lewis reached\\nThomas s house, which was close by, lay down on a bed, and after a few con-\\nvulsions expired, about ten minutes after receiving the shots.\\nOf course the tragedy aroused intense excitement. The commissioners\\noftered $500 for the arrest of the murderer; descriptions of the men were sent\\nout in all directions, and a number of detectives became interested in the case.\\nThe confederates escaped to Ohio, and, being hotly pressed by officers on their\\ntrail, separated, Shotwell going further west and Logue returning to Pennsyl-\\nvania. On the 28th of October he was traced to the house of one Thompson\\nin Crawford county, near Jamestown, by Sherift Smith and ex-Sheriff Leach,\\nof Mercer county, and after some show of resistance gave himself up. About\\nthe same time, Shotwell was captured by Robert Hague, chief of the Pitts-\\nburgh police, while husking corn at a relative s farm near Laporte, Ind. By a\\nstrange coincidence b6th parties arrived in Clarion with their prisoners on the\\nsame day, and within a few hours of each other. Neither had heard of the\\nother s coming.\\nCharles Logue was arraigned on December 4, i860. The trial took place\\nin the Presbyterian Church, then occupied as a court-room on account of the\\ndestruction of the court-house. It was filled with eager spectators from all", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0431.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "400 History of Clarion County.\\nparts of the county. The Commonwealth was represented by District- Attorney\\nBarr and Messrs. Corbett, Campbell and Lamberton. Myers Knox were\\nretained by Mr. Irwin, Lewis s father-in-law, and Reynolds Laughlin by other\\nparties. Defendant s counsel were John D. Mahon, of Pittsburgh, and B. J.\\nReid. The jury consisted of John Cummings, Irvin McFarland, Charles Beatty,\\nJohn Himes, B. J. Rankin, Luther Stone, Peter Knight, Jeremiah Best, D. R.\\nCraig, Thomas F. Riley, Jacob Brinker, and G. W. Arnold. The trial lasted\\na week. William L. Corbett and James Campbell made the closing argument\\nto the jury on the part of the prosecution; Mahon and Reid for the defense.\\nOn the iith the jury found the prisoner guilty of murder in the first degree,\\nand on the 13th, a motion for a new trial being overruled, he was sentenced\\nto be hung.\\nA writ of error was taken to the Supreme Court, and in February a new\\ntrial granted on the following assignment The Court erred in charging the\\njury, as follows The prisoner s counsel have contended that the homicide\\nmight be justifiable or excusable, if Logue, the prisoner, had reasonable cause\\nto apprehend danger to his life, and if it appeared imminent. I cannot so in-\\nstruct you, unless there was actual danger to his life, and not occasioned by his\\nown resistance or attempt to resist. Logue was tried again at the May ses-\\nsions, 1861 his counsel admitted his guilt of murder in the second degree, and\\nhe was sentenced to imprisonment for twenty-two years on three several\\nindictments, viz. murder in the second degree, robbery, and breaking into\\na dwelling-house. Logue lived only five years after his commitment.\\nDavis, or Shotwell, was brought to trial at the February term, 1861, con-\\nvicted of being accessory to murder in the second degree, and robbery, and\\nsentenced to sixteen 3 ears confinement in the Western Penitentiary.\\nAn incident arising out of this trial is of uncommon interest. Judge Camp-\\nbell was holding court at Mercer in the fall of 1862. At the supper table one\\nevening he noticed a girl who seemed to watch him anxiously. Her face was\\nsomewhat familiar to the judge, but he could not identify her. He soon dis-\\ncovered, through Sheriff Leach, that the girl was Lucetta Major, and that she\\nhad traveled all the way from Michigan to interview one of the attorneys who\\nhad taken part in the Logue trial, and inform him that the gang to which\\nLogue belonged, and with whom she was connected in some manner, were\\nplotting to kidnap the son of Governor Curtin, then attending school in Union\\ncounty, and extort Logue s pardon as a ransom. The Major girl had been\\nactuated in this revelation by fear of Logue, against whom she had testified.\\nIt appears that he had made dire threats against her, and she dreaded that if\\nreleased he would carry them out. Judge Campbell gave little credence to the\\nstory, aware of the light character of the girl, but on returning he met his former\\npartner, Lamberton, at Franklin, and communicated it to him. Lamberton\\nkept it to himself a few days, and then advised with Arnold Plumer, ex-State", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0432.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "The Bench and Bar. 401\\ntreasurer. Plumer counseled him to notify the governor, saying, If anything\\nhappens to that boy you ll never forgive yourself for not telling Curtin all about\\nit. Colonel Lamberton therefore wrote to the governor, giving him all the\\nparticulars of the story. A few weeks afterwards he chanced to be at Harris-\\nburg, and visited Governor Curtin as soon as the governor recognized him\\nhe advanced hastily to meet him, and grasping his hand cordially, exclaimed,\\nDo you know that you have saved my boy On receiving Lamberton s\\nletter Governor Curtin had promptly taken precautions for his son s safety,\\nand set a detective at work to ascertain the truth of the affair. The officer re-\\nported that a deeply laid plot had really existed, as the girl said, and in all\\nprobability, were it not for the warning, a loved child would have fallen into\\nthe hands of these desperadoes.\\nAfter Logue s, the most notable murder trial before the Clarion county\\nOyer and Terminer was that of Commonwealth vs. David L. King. February\\n5, 1887, James C. Davis was shot and instantly killed by King in a house of\\nill-repute at St. Petersburg. The tragedy arose out of mutual jealousy in\\nregard to their respective claims over the house and its mistress. The trial\\nbegan April 20, and occupied six days. W. D. Moore, esq., of Pittsburgh,\\nappeared as senior counsel for the prosecution John W. Reed and M. A. K.\\nWeidner were attorneys for the prisoner. A verdict of murder in the first\\ndegree was rendered. Its mysterious character, and the delicate questions of\\nfact and medical jurisprudence involved, made this one of Clarion county s\\ncelebrated cases. Fifteen murder trials have occurred in Clarion county.\\nSeven of these resulted in acquittal in two a verdict of murder in the first\\ndegree was rendered, but in one case, a new trial being granted, the verdict\\nwas changed to the second degree, making in all three convictions in that\\ndegree. There was one verdict of voluntary and one of involuntary man-\\nslaughter the latter was reversed on technical grounds by the Supreme Court.\\nGlenni W. Scofield, of Warren, was appointed in September, 1861, to fill\\nthe vacancy occasioned by Judge McCalmont s resignation. He held one, the\\nSeptember term of court, in Clarion. The judicial year began then in Decem-\\nber, and in that month, 1861, Judge Campbell ascended the bench. After his\\nshort judicial career, Mr. Scofield was elected to Congress, serving several terms\\nthere. He was subsequently appointed registrar of the national treasury, and\\nfinally judge of the Court of Claims, a life office. He resides principally at the\\ncapital, spending his vacation at his home in Warren.\\nThe Republican convention nominated William Stewart, of Mercer, for the\\neighteenth district judgeship. His nomination was received with great dissat-\\nisfaction by many Republicans, and they looked about for an independent can-\\ndidate. Campbell, of Clarion, a prominent member of the party, was selected.\\nThrough the exertions of Charles L. Lamberton, Campbell s law partner, the\\nDemocrats were induced to refrain from nominating, and to support Campbell,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0433.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "402 History of Clarion County.\\nand with the united aid of the Democrats and bolting RepubUcans, Judge\\nCampbell won, although the district, Mercer, Venango, Forest, Clarion and\\nJefferson, was strongly Republican. A notice of the life of Hon. James Camp-\\nbell will be found in another part of this work.\\nHons. P. Clover and J. Kahl were succeeded, in 1861, by Thomas Stewart\\nand John McCall, who both served out their terms. In 1866 Hugh Maguire\\nand John Keating were elected associates.\\nAmong the Clarion county attorneys admitted to practice since 1865, are\\nthe following\\nJoseph H. Patrick was born in 1840, at New Derry, Westmoreland county.\\nWhile he was a child his parents removed to Armstrong county. Mr. Patrick\\ngraduated from Glade Run Academy, near Dayton, that county. He began\\nto teach at the age of sixteen, and at the breaking out of the war was engaged\\nin that profession in the South. He came to Clarion in 1862, as principal of\\nthe public schools there, remaining so for two years. In June, 1863, he began\\nthe study of law in the office of B. J. Reid in July of the same year joined the\\narmy as a volunteer. December, 1865, he entered the bar, and immediately\\nbecame Major Reid s partner. In 1880 he formed a partnership with his\\nbrother, Jno. B. Mr. Patrick is ranked as an energetic lawyer; his bounty and\\npension clientage is extensive.\\nJohn T. Hindman, born in Clarion county, 1842. Took a course at Glade\\nRun Academy; read law with Corbett and Boggs, was admitted in 1865, and\\nentered into partnership with Mr. Corbett. His untimely death at Portsmouth,\\nOhio, in 1876, in returning from a Western trip, which he had taken to benefit\\nhis health, cut short a promising career.\\nWilliam E. Lathy, a son of George W. Lathy, studied with his father, and\\nwas admitted to the bar in 1866. Shortly before his father s removal he went\\nto Tidioute, and finally to Erie, where he served a term as city solicitor. Mr.\\nLathy is now a successful lawyer at Newton, Kansas.\\nJames T. Maffet, a son of John Maffet, was born on his father s farm in\\nClarion township, February 3, 1837. After graduating at Jefferson College,\\nCanonsburg, he went at the age of twenty- two to Missouri, and thence\\ncrossed the plains to California, where he married, taught school, held the posi-\\ntion of tax collector, and studied law, but irregularly. In 1870, on the death\\nof his sister, he returned home, and after remaining there awhile, started again\\nfor California, but upon reaching Indiana circumstances induced him to return\\nand settle at Brookville. Here he completed his legal studies with George A.\\nand W. P. Jenks. He removed to Clarion in 1872, and in the autumn of that\\nyear formed a partnership with Colonel James B. Knox; his integrity, assiduity,\\nand high professional acquirements soon winning deserved recognition. In\\n1881, when Mr. Knox was elevated to the judgeship, WilHam H. Ross, esq.,\\nbecame Mr. Maffet s partner, the firm being Maffet Ross. In 1886, Mr.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0434.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "J/^^^yf-Tu^ ^crry^f^-^-^^-^", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0437.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0438.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "The Bench and Bar. 403\\nMaffet was elected to Congress from the twenty-fifth district over St. Clair,\\nFusionist.\\nMartin Alonzo K. Weidner, born at Earlville, Lancaster county, Pa., in\\nJuly, 1839. Studied at the common school, and began to teach early in life,\\nand continued from 1857 to 1862, attending the Millersville Normal School\\nduring the summer vacations. In 1862 he entered Company B, One Hundred\\nand Twenty- second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, on nine months serv-\\nice. In 1865 he came to Clarion to clerk for Mr. N. Myers. Began to read\\nlaw with Theo. S. Wilson in 1869, and was admitted in November, 1874.\\nHe immediately entered into partnership with his last preceptor, James Boggs,\\nesq. Mr. Weidner has a facile tongue, and a fascinating address; his style is\\nmore oratorical than that of any of his fellows of the bar. He is about remov-\\ning to Wellington, Kansas, as a means of removing an asthmatic affection.\\nJohn W. Reed is a native of Clarion, having been born there in 1853. He\\ntaught school three terms at Lineville and Clarion studied Blackstone under\\nthe tutorship of Hon. James Campbell, and was admitted in August, 1875.\\nMr. Reed practiced two years at Brookville, in the office of Hon. A. C. White\\nreturned to Clarion and shortly after became a member of the firm of Wilson,\\nJenks Reed. In May, 1883, he removed to Grand Forks, Dakota, and\\nreturned the succeeding year, resuming partnership with Messrs. Wilson and\\nJenks, which partnership continued till January, 1886. In January, 1887, the\\nfirm of Reed Wilson was formed (John W. Reed and Harry R. Wilson). Mr.\\nReed is a leader among the younger lawyers. He has successfully grappled\\nthe large practice thrown upon his shoulders by the retirement of his senior\\npartners, and in argument is plain, but earnest and convincing.\\nJasper E. Wood, born in 1842, in Ashland township, Clarion county, fin-\\nished his education at the Edinboro Normal School. At seventeen he had\\nbecome a pedagogue between 1869 and 1875 two terms, he filled the office\\nof county superintendent; studied under William L. Corbett, and was admitted\\nin May, 1877.\\nMadison M. Meredith resided at Brookville originally, became a member\\nof this bar August 13, 1877, at first practicing at Edenburg, later at Clarion.\\nHe was the partner of George F. Kribbs for a short time. In 1883 he was\\nappointed corporation clerk in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth\\nat Harrisburg, where he still remains.\\nAmong the young attorneys of talent and rising fame we may mention\\nWilliam H. Ross, Samuel K. Clarke, William A. Hindman, Frank R. Hind-\\nman, A. B. Reid, F. J. Maftet, H. R. Wilson, G. G. Sloan, and G. F. Kribbs.\\nHon. James Campbell, was succeeded in 1871 by William P. Jenks.\\nWilliam Parsons Jenks was born at Punxsutawney, Jefferson county, and\\nis the son of Dr. John W. Jenks, of that place. In 1843 he went to Brook-\\nville to read law with his brother, D. B. Jenks, esq., and became an attorney", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0439.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "404 History of Clarion County.\\nin September, 1845. was elected to the Legislature from Clarion and Jef-\\nferson in 1866, and re-elected in 1867. Judge Jenks is still engaged in the\\npractice of law at Brookville, where he has his home, but devotes himself\\nalmost entirely to the legal management of the estate and business of John E.\\nDubois, which position he received when his brother, George A. Jenks, resigned\\nit to become solicitor- general.\\nJames Sweny and Alexander McCall were chosen associate judges in 1871.\\nChristian Brinker and James Sweny were elected in 1876 and served until\\n1881.\\nTJie Sta7idard Case. What promised to be a legal contest of extraordinary\\nmagnitude and national concern was the conspiracy suit against the Standard\\nOil Company, instituted before the court of Clarion county in 1879. The case\\ndid not reach the stage of actual trial, but the proceedings, so far as they went,\\nare of sufficient interest to merit preservation.\\nFor some time previous there had been mutterings against that great cor-\\nporation on the part of oil producers and refiners oppressive monopoly and\\nmerciless squeezing out were laid to its charge. As an outcome to this\\nhostility, it was determined to prosecute the Standard criminally, and Clarion\\ncounty was selected as the field of the attack. B. B. Campbell, of Parnassus,\\nPa., the president of the Producers Association, on April 24, 1879, made in-\\nformation before Esquire Shanafelt, of Clarion, setting forth that he was\\ninformed and expected to be able to prove that John D. Rockafeller, William\\nRockafeller, Jabez A. Bostwick, Daniel O Day, William G. Warden, Charles\\nLockhart, Henry M. Flagler, Jacob J. Vandergrift, Charles Pratt, George W.\\nGisty, and others, on the 17th of October, 1877, and at divers times before\\nand after that date, had conspired to cheat and defraud the citizens of the\\nCommonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the public, by confederating together to\\nsecure a monopoly, and prevent lawful and legitimate competition, and to injure\\nthe occupation and business of producing and selling crude petroleum, by com-\\npelling the owners and producers thereof to sell the same to the aforesaid de-\\nfendants and their confederates below its actual and market value. The next\\nsection specifies J. A. Vera as one of the victims of this conspiracy. The fol-\\nlowing ones complained that the defendants attempted to prevent competition\\nin the refining of petroleum by extorting rebates from various railroads that\\nthey had confederated to deprive the Pennsylvania and Allegheny Valley rail-\\nroads of their petroleum traffic; and lastly, that the company had corruptly\\nconspired to control the petroleum trade in all its branches producing, buy-\\ning, and selling, storing, transporting, and refining in the markets of the\\nUnited States, and the entire world.\\nUpon an affidavit from District Attorney W. A. Hindman, stating the\\nweighty nature of the case, and the distant residences of most of the defend-\\nants, leave was granted to present the indictment to the grand jury at the May", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0440.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "Jawks Swenv", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0441.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0442.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "The Bench and Bar. 405\\nterm without a preliminary hearing. The bill, as found, contained seven counts,\\nand is in substance an elaboration of the complaints which have been given in\\nthe affidavit of Campbell. Upon this inquest warrants were issued, and Warden,\\nof Philadelphia O Day, of Buffalo Vandergrift, of Oil City and Lockhart,\\nof Pittsburgh, arrested. All but O Day appeared at Clarion May 27, and\\ngave security for their appearance at the August session. O Day gave bail\\nAugust 1 1.\\nLewis C. Cassidy, of Philadelphia A. B. Richmond, of Meadville D. T.\\nWatson, of Pittsburgh S. C. T. Dodd and C. Heydrick, of Franklin and as\\nlocal counsel, James Campbell and B. J. Reid, were retained by the Standard.\\nGeorge A. Jenks, of Brookville, was senior counsel for the prosecution. He\\nwas assisted by Roger Sherman, of Titusville, and Knox and Mafifet and Will-\\niam L. Corbett, of Clarion.\\nIt was conceded by the attorneys on both sides that it would be impossible\\nto try the cause at the August term, and that a special session would be nec-\\nessary. The defendants, therefore, did not appear when that court met. In\\ntheir absence the president, Judge Jenks, ordered their local attorneys to plead\\nfor them, and Messrs. Campbell and Reid entered a plea of not guilty. The\\nsuit was continued till November. In the mean while the defendants obtained\\na rule on the Commonwealth to furnish a bill of particulars, specifying more\\ndistinctly the offenses and their circumstances and pending this, at the argu-\\nment court, October 2, it was mutually agreed to withhold the trial till Decem-\\nber 15. After considerable delay, the desired bill was furnished, but at [the\\nNovember sessions the Standard s attorneys asked for a further postponement,\\non account of its vague and unsatisfactory character. This was refused.\\nMonday, December 15, the day set for the commencement of the trial, the\\ndefendants, who had given bail, and their array of counsel were on the scene,\\nas also the representatives of the opposition. On December 11, Judge Jenks\\nhad been served with a writ, issued from Justice Paxon of the Supreme Court,\\neastern district, staying proceedings till a motion for a certiorari, that is, a\\ntransfer of jurisdiction in the cause from the District to the Supreme Court,\\ncould be argued. As a reason it was urged that the amount of prejudice,\\nheightened by inflammatory editorials, which existed in and around Clarion\\ncounty, precluded the prospect of a fair trial. To support this, affidavits from\\nvarious parties, and extracts from the hostile press, were produced.\\nJudge Jenks in deference to this writ, but imder protest, postponed the\\ntrial.\\nJanuary 8, 1880, after argument before the Supreme Court, a rule was\\nissued fixing a date for a final hearing on the certiorari before a full bench but\\nbefore this day a compromise was effected, a nolle pros, entered, and the great\\nsuit ended.\\nThe Clarion bar was at its best and strongest between 1876 and 1881, when\\n42", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0443.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "4o6 History of Clarion County.\\nMessrs. Campbell, Reid, Corbett, Knox, Maffet and George A. Jenks, were\\nall in the arena, and enjoying the full development and vigor of their powers.\\nIts aggregate ability then could scarcely be excelled by any provincial bar in\\nthe State.\\nIn 1 88 1 James B. Knox was elected president judge over A. C. White. A\\nbiographical sketch of Hon. J. B. Knox appears elsewhere.\\nIsaac Clover and Charles Weaver were elected to succeed Sweny and Brin-\\nker as associates, in 1881. Judge Clover died in office, 1883. R. D. Newell\\nwas appointed in his place, but before the next election the operation of\\nof the constitution abolishing the office of associate judge in counties which are\\nentire districts, went into effect. Hon. Charles Weaver served out his term,\\nand was Clarion county s last associate.\\nOn the death of Judge Knox in December, 1884, William L. Corbett was\\nappointed temporary president judge by Governor Pattison. His competitor\\nfor the honor was B. J. Reid.\\nWilliam Lucas Corbett was born on the paternal farm near Clarion, in 1826.\\nHe was educated at the common schools and Clarion Academy, and at the age\\nof eighteen commenced reading law with D. W. Foster, esq. He was admitted\\nto practice in February, 1847 served as district attorney from 1848-50.\\nHe was a member of the constitutional convention which formed the constitu-\\ntion of 1873. In 1876-78 he represented the thirty-eighth district in the State\\nSenate. William L. Corbett ranks deservedly high as a lawyer, especially as a\\nforensic lawyer. Forcible in argument, sometimes vehemently so his antago-\\nnist s armor must be well tried to withstand his hammer-like blows.\\nAt the election of November, 1885, Judge Corbett was defeated, after a\\nsharp contest, by Theo. S. Wilson, the Republican nominee, who took his\\nseat January 1886.\\nTheophilus Strattan Wilson, the oldest son of Samuel Wilson, was born at\\nStrattanville in 1837. He was educated at the Brookville Academy and Al-\\nlegheny College. For a short time he was engaged in the iron and mercan-\\ntile business at Helen Furnace. In 1857 M**- Wilson registered as a law\\nstudent at the office of George W. Lathy, esq., and was admitted to the bar in\\n1 86 1. He immediately entered the practice of law at Clarion, and in 1872 united\\nwith George A. Jenks, of Brookville. The firm enjoyed a lucrative business,\\nespecially in the collection branch. Mr. Wilson was never conspicuous as a\\npleader, but through an extensive office practice became thoroughly conver-\\nsant with the many ramifications of the legal science, and since his elevation\\nto judicial honors, has given promise by his systematic methods, his concise\\nand generally lucid diction, and his dignified bearing, that the traditional in-\\ntegrity and learning of the Clarion bench shall find in him no unworthy guardian.\\nA. A. Carlisle, of the Clarion Jacksonian, May 15, 1886, through his attor-\\nney, C. Heydrick, esq., of Franklin, made application at Philadelphia before", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0444.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "The Bench and Bar. 407\\nLewis C. Cassidy, attorney-general, for a writ of quo warranto on Hon. Theo.\\nS. Wilson, alleging at the same time the use of corrupt means in securing his\\nelection, and producing several affidavits to support the specific charges of bri-\\nbery. The hearing was fixed for June 17, and in the absence of Cassidy took\\nplace before his deputy, Mr. Snodgrass, at Harrisburg. The complainant was\\nrepresented by Messrs. Heydrick and D. F. Patterson, of Pittsburgh. Coun-\\nter affidavits, denying all the accusations, were presented by the defense, and\\nJudge Wilson s side argued by George A. Jenks, B. J. Reid, Lyman D. Gil-\\nbert, and C. Z. Gordon, esqs. On January 16, 1887, two days before the close\\nof Governor Pattison s administration, Attorney-General Cassidy announced\\nthat the writ was refused.\\nHistory of the Eighteenth District. By act of May 21, 1840, Clarion\\ncounty was added to the eighteenth judicial district, then embracing Potter,\\nMcKean, and Jefferson, and known as the Wild Cat District. Elk county was\\nadded by the act of April 18, 1843. By act of April 5, 1849, the eighteenth\\njudicial district was made to consist of the counties of Venango, Clarion, Jef-\\nferson, Elk, and Forest (but no courts were held in Forest county until 1857).\\nElk county w^as transferred to the fourth district by the act of April 15, 185 1.\\nClearfield county was added to this district by the act of April 5, 1852. By\\nthe act of April 9, 1853, Clearfield was transferred to the twenty-fifth district,\\nand Mercer county added to the eighteenth, which remained thus, consisting of\\nMercer, Venango. Clarion, Jefferson, and Forest, until Mercer and Venango\\nwere created into a separate district by the act of April 12, 1866. Forest\\ncounty was transferred to the thirty-seventh district by the general apportion-\\nment act of 9th of April, 1874, leaving the eighteenth district consisting of\\nClarion and Jefferson counties. The census of 1880 showed that Clarion had\\nmore than 40,000 inhabitants, and was, therefore, by the constitutional pro-\\nvision, entitled to be declared a separate judicial district. Accordingly on the\\n7th of August, 1883, it was enacted that the eighteenth judicial district should\\nconsist of the county of Clarion, to which the county of Jefferson is hereby\\nattached, and shall have one judge learned in the law. In consequence of\\nthe constitutional provision and this enactment, no associate judges are to be\\nelected in this county.\\nBelow is given a complete list, up to the present date, of all attorneys resi-\\ndent in Clarion county, together with place of practice, and year of admission\\nto the bar of Clarion county:\\nAdmitted in 1840, Jacob K. Boyd, Jacques W. Johnson, David B. Hays,\\nAlfred Gilmore, Jesse G. Clark, James Campbell, Clarion 1841, George W.\\nLathy, D. W. Foster, John L. Thompson, Thomas Sutton, Thomas M. Jolly,\\nClarion; 1842, Parker C. Purviance, Clarion; 1844, G. W. Carskadden, Clarion;\\n1845, J- S. McCalmont, Clarion; 1846, Amos Myers, Clarion; 1847, William\\nShaw, William L. Corbett, Clarion; 1848, James Boggs, Clarion 1850, Robert", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0445.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "4o8 History of Clarion County.\\nSutton, Clarion; 1853, A. S. Barber, W. W. Barr, J. B. Knox, C. L. Lamber-\\nton, B. J. Reid, Clarion; 1854, Paul Carnyun (Huntington county). Clarion;\\n1857, Reynolds Laughlin, Callensburg; 1858, David Lawson, Clarion; 1859,\\nJohn F. Craig, New Bethlehem i860, James Craig, William H. Fetzer, Clarion\\n1 86 1, James D. Mahon, Theo. S. Wilson, Clarion 1862, Wm. Hasson, Clarion\\n1865, Joseph H. Patrick, J. T. Hindman, Geo. S. Kelly; 1866, William E.\\nLathy, Clarion; 1868, Wm. Kinser, East Brady; 1870, J. McMurray; 1871,\\nWilliam H. Frampton, Clarion; 1872, D. S. Herron (Parker), J. S. McKay,\\nG. S. Crosby, O. E. Shannon, Charles F. Fay (Crawford county), St. Peters-\\nburg; R. B. Bell, West Freedom James T. Mafifet, Clarion; 1874, William D.\\nBurns, J. B. Patrick, Samuel K. Clarke, M. A. K. Weidner, Clarion T. F.\\nRitchey, New Bethlehem; 1875, G. F. Kribbs, John W. Reed, John F. Shana-\\nfelt. Clarion; 1876, William A. Hindman, A. C. McComb, William H. Ross,\\nFrank R. Hindman, James J. Frazier, Clarion O. P. Hopper, John F. Gealey,\\nW. A. Selby, John F. Selby, Edenburg; H. McSweeney, William A. McCor-\\nmick, St. Petersburg Harris Finley, Shippenville D. E. Brenneman, Elk\\nCity; 1877, S. M. Crosby, J. W. Walker (Jefferson county), John A. Wilson\\n(Venango county), John K. Wilson (Venango county), S. L. McGee, Eden-\\nburg; L. E. Johns, Elk City; Rodman F. Pugh, St. Petersburg; O. E. Tay-\\nlor (Erie county), Turkey City; Jasper E. Wood, M. M. Meredith, A. B. Reid,\\nClarion; 1878, W. M. Boggs (Washington county), Edenburg; Robert D.\\nCampbell, Samuel W. Calvin, Clarion; 1879, Lewis F. Barger, Edenburg;\\n1881, James O. Sweny, G. G. Sloan, Clarion; 1883, F. J. Maffet, Clarion;\\n1884, Samuel L. Glasgow (Huntingdon county), St. Petersburg; 1886, T. J.\\nVan Giesen, Edenburg Charles P. Craig, New Bethlehem H. R. Wilson,\\nClarion.\\nThe first deed on the Clarion county records is from Jonathan Mifflin to\\nthe Bank of Pennsylvania, dated July 30, 1799. It conveys a one-half interest\\nin twenty thousand-acre warrants, for one dollar and other considerations.\\nThe first transaction between Clarion county parties on record, is a deed from\\nthe county commissioners for borough lot No. 134, in Clarion, to Sophia G.\\nBenton; dated December 10, 1840; consideration, $40.\\nThe first will registered is that of Jacob Edenbun; dated October 31, 1840.\\nIt is a curious document, both in context and spelling. After providing for\\nhis debts and funeral expenses, it bequeaths his personal estate and a life inter-\\nest in the real to his wife Margret. Seventy-five dollars is reserved out of\\nthe former for William Huffman when he reaches twenty-two and at the\\ndeath of the testator s wife the realty is to revert to his nephew, Samuel Ed-\\ningburgh, provided he takes good care of her and supplies her with all the\\nnecessaries of life that is needful to make her comfortable in this life. He\\nappoints his wife executrix, and wills James Watson a piece of ground in ex-\\nchange for an equal amount off Watson s land. The will is witnessed by Jacob\\nWatterson, John Early, and James Watson.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0446.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "I^^lM^", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0449.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0450.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "The Bench and Bar. 409\\nCounty Officers.\\nProthonotary, etc. James Goe, 1840, re-elected 1843; Hugh A. Thomp-\\nson, 1846, re-elected 1849; John H. Boggs, 1852 D. B. Long, 1855, re-elected\\n1858, died in office July 16, i860; J. W. Long appointed, served to Decem-\\nber, i860; Daniel Delo. i860; Christopher Reichart, 1863, re-elected 1866;\\nJ. B. Watson, 1869, re-elected 1872 Manasseh Arnold, 1875 W. W. Green-\\nland, 1878, re-elected 1881 W. F. CoUner, elected 1884, term expires Janu-\\nary, 1888.\\nRegister and Recorders. This office was not separate from the protho-\\nnotary s till 1850. C. E. Beman, 1852, re-elected 1855 John Haslett, 1858,\\nresigned in i860; Jacob B. Lyon, i860; T. B. Barber, 1863, re-elected 1866;\\nJ. W. Long, 1869, re-elected 1872 O. E. Nail, 1875, re-elected 1878; S. J.\\nBurgoon, 1881, re-elected 1884, term expires January, 1888.\\nDistrict Attorneys. Before 1850 district attorneys were appointed by the\\nattorney-general, and styled deputy attorney-generals. Alfred Gilmore was\\nappointed deputy attorney-general 1840; John S. McCalmont, 1845 to 1848\\nW. L. Corbett, 1848 to 1850; William Shaw, elected district attorney in 1850;\\nJames Boggs, 1852; W. W. Barr, 1854, re-elected 1857; James Boggs, i860;\\nDavid Lawson, 1863 John T. Hindman, 1866 W. W. Barr, 1869, re-elected\\n1872; David Lawson, 1875; W. A. Hindman, 1878; F. R. Hindman, 1881,\\nre-elected 1884.\\nSheriffs. James Hasson, 1840; Daniel Delo, 1843; Seth Clover, 1846;\\nJohn Klingensmith, 1849; Daniel B. Hamm, 1852; J. S. Turney, 1855; James\\nC. Galbreath, 1858 S. Scott Jones, 1861 C. J. Rhea, 1864; Henry H. Neely,\\n1867; Samuel Johnson, 1870; A. H. Beck, 1873; B. B. Dunkle, 1876; W.\\nF. Collner, 1879; L M. Shannon, 1882; C. A. Wheelock, 1885, term expires\\nJanuary, 1889.\\nCounty Treasurers. Amos Williams, 1841 Benjamin Crisman, 1843;\\nGreenberry Wilson, 1845; William T. Alexander, 1847; Daniel Laughner,\\n1849; William T. Alexander, 185 i; David Morrell, 1853; John Keatly, 1855;\\nWilliam T. Alexander, 1857 James T. Burns, 1859; W. W. Barr, 1861 Samuel\\nJohnson, 1863; Daniel Mercer, 1865; Jeremiah M. Best, 1867; Bernard Ven-\\nsel, 1869; Christian Brinker, 1871 Andrew Edinger, 1873; J. B. Gwinn,\\n1875 P. Graham, 1878; Samuel Sharar, 1881 J. E. Fisher, 1884, term ex-\\npires January, 1888.\\nConnty Commissioners. Robert Potter, Lindsay C. Pritner, George B-\\nHamilton, provisional commissioners appointed by the governor, 1840; George\\nL. Benn, Jacob Miller, and Gideon Richardson, elected 1840; Joseph Young,\\n1 841 James Kerr, 1842; William Curll, 1843; Hugh Maguire, 1844; Henry\\nSloan, 1845; William Henry, 1846; Stephen D. Burns, 1847; Amos W. Owens,\\n1848; Daniel Bostaph, 1849; James T. Burns, 1850; Peter B. Simpson, 1850,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0451.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "4IO History of Clarion County.\\nre-elected 1851; Daniel Mercer, 1852; James Rankin, 1853; Samuel M. Zinkr\\n1854; William Divins, 1855; Daniel Mercer, 1856 Christian Seigwarth, 1857;\\nBenjamin Miller, 1858; Samuel Kifer, 1859; John McLain, i860; John F. Mc-\\nGinnis, 1861 William W. Rankin, 1862; William Frampton, 1863; Adam Black,,\\n1864; Isaac Neely, 1865 E. W. Haines, 1866; W. A. Henry, 1867; James\\nT. Burns, 1868; Valentine Shick, 1869; Isaac Mong, 1870; John Stewart,\\njr., 1871; Christian Breneman, 1872; Levi Shaner, 1873; George T. Henery,\\n1874; Samuel D. Sloan, J. T. Burns, and Valentine Phipps, 1875 James B.\\nLawson, John Keatly, and John J. Wilson, 1878 John Keatly, Aaron Kline,\\nand Johnson Wilson, 1881 David HefTron, S. A. Bell, and Emanuel Over,\\n1884.\\nCounty Auditors. John Elliott, Joseph C. King, and George Means, elected\\nin 1840; John Elliott re-elected 1841 William Henry, 1842; Stephen D,\\nBurns, 1843; Ephraim Armitage, 1843; Stephen D. Burns re-elected 1844;\\nDaniel Bostaph, 1845; Hugh .Kilgore, 1846; Peter B. Simpson, 1847; Rey-\\nnolds Laughlin, 1848; Samuel B. Reyner, 1849; William Divins, 1850; John\\nG. Fox, 1851; Samuel Winket, 1852; Samuel Johnson, 1853; J. J. Living-\\nston, 1854; William Thompson, 1855; James Martin, 1856; Samuel Garvin,\\n1857; Joseph Wood, 1858; Isaac Neely, 1859; George Callihan, i860; Geo.\\nHeeter, jr., 1861 John Elliott, 1862 E. W. Haines, 1863 A. K. Page, 1861.;\\nH. H. Neely, 1865; William C. Dunkle, 1866; Jeremiah Heeter, 1867; Ste-\\nphen Smith, 1867; James McCall, 1868; Stephen Smith re-elected 1869;\\nEdward Best, 1870; George Black, 1871; William B. Hamm, 1872; Jacob\\nKribbs, 1873; W. Reed Boyle, 1874; James Russell, H. E Best, and A. L.\\nSigworth, 1875; Jacob Kribbs, W. G. Allen, and A. G. Truitt. 1878, re-elected\\n1881 H. P. Elliott, W. H. Spangler, and W. L. Johnson, 1884, term expires\\n1888.\\nCounty Surveyors. John H. Groce was appointed in 1841 B. J. Reid in\\n1845; John K. Maxwell, elected 1850 Jesse Teats, 1853 Christopher Reichert,\\n1856, re-elected 1859; George A. Knight, 1862, re-elected 1865; Samuel\\nConner, 1867, re-elected 1875 and 1880; James M. Owens, appointed 1885\\nI. J. Keck, elected 1886.\\nCoroners. John Reed elected 1840; James Potter, jr., 1843 John S. Mc-\\nPherson, 1846; WilHam F. Keever, 1849; Joli i B. Loomis, 1852; John Vensel,.\\n1855 Jeremiah Whitman, 1858; Dr. C. Klotz, 1861 William Martin, 1867;\\nRobert Blair, 1871 Daniel Bostaph, 1873 J. J. Green, 1876 A. R. Cyphert,.\\n1879; J. D. O Donnel, 1882; William T. Alexander, 1885.\\nJury Commissioners. Aaron Kline and Thomas L. Burns, elected 1867;\\nThomas A. Brinkley and William Davis, 1870 Daniel Dele and William Kelly,\\n1873; John McLain and William Kelly, 1876; William Turney and W. A.\\nForkum, 1879; P. M. Dunkle and Jesse F. Gardner, 1882 C. F Near and J.\\nN. McCain, 1885.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0452.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "^SrA^i^^i^-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0455.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0456.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "Schools. 411\\nCHAPTER XLI.\\nSCHOOLS.\\nFirst Schools Free Schools The County Superintendency Superintendent Orr The\\nFirst Institutes Superintendent Magonagle Superintendent Walker Superintendent Kelly\\nSuperintendent Wood Superintendent Davis Superintendent Anderson Superintendent\\nMciSTutt Parochial Schools.\\nTHE early schools of the county have been adverted to in other parts of\\nthis volume, and we shall endeavor to avoid repetitions.\\nThe first settlers were sturdy and industrious pioneers, but they brought\\nwith them from their former homes ideas of progress and culture, and within\\na year from the time the first community was fairly settled in the new forest\\nhome, a school-house was erected, and in 1803 Gabriel Glenn was duly installed\\ntherein as teacher.\\nThis was within the territory now embraced in Clarion township. Other\\nsettlements followed, and with equal promptitude school-house and place of wor-\\nship were provided, sometimes in the same building, though not unfrequently\\nthe school was held in the house of some settler, where the children of the\\ncommunity could learn the rudiments of an English education.\\nSchools were established in the territory now included in the townships of\\nBeaver, Elk, Farmington, Licking, Limestone, Maidson, Monroe, Paint, and\\nToby between 1805 and 181 5. The first school-house in Richland township\\nwas erected about 18 17 or 18 18. The Shields school, near Smithland, and the\\nArdery school, near the head of Leatherwood Creek, Porter township, were\\nbuilt about 18 18 or 1820.\\nAmong the teachers during these early years were William Kelly, Wifliam\\nHopkins, John Cochran, Henry Black, William McGinnis, James Stuart, Mat-\\nthew Philips, Daniel Delo, Hugh Kilgore, Robert N. Craig, Peter B. Simpson,\\nJohn Gilleland, David Hays, Mr. McElwaine, Daniel Boyd, Thomas Thomp-\\nson, David Conver, Miss King, and J. J. Livingston. Some of these belong to\\na somewhat later period, and Mr. Livingston is the only one still alive.\\nThe early schools were supported by voluntary subscription, but practically\\nall the children in each community enjoyed the benefits of school wherever\\none was established. AH the people were almost equally poor, and the class\\ndistinctions and sectarian prejudices which affected older settlements had\\ngained no foothold here up to the time of the enactment of the common school\\nlaw in 1834. There was in consequence less marked opposition to the law in\\nthis new section of the State than in the southern and eastern counties how-\\never, several townships, either through indifference, or, in rare cases, through\\nactive opposition, failed to accept the provisions of the act for some years.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0457.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "412 History of Clarion County.\\nRichland township accepted the provisions of the school law at the first elec-\\ntion after its passage. Captain Henry Neely, Benjamin Junkin, John Alsbach,\\nJames Ritchey, Henry Gilger, and James Say were the first directors. Charles\\nH. Haas, John Cochran, John F. Conver, and William McGinnis were among\\nthe first teachers under the new system in that township.\\nIn Toby township David Lawson and George Means were ardent advocates\\nof the public school system, and were members of the first board of directors.\\nMr. Lawson had been one of the earliest supporters of schools in his neigh-\\nborhood, and contributed both time and of his means to support them.\\nRedbank township, then including Porter, accepted the new law in March,\\n1836, while Beaver tardily waited until 1839, before falling into line.\\nAlthough Clarion county was erected in 1839, yet the reports made to the\\nState department, up to and including 1842, still embraced the several town-\\nships of this county with those of Armstrong and Venango. The reports from\\nthese counties for 1842 exhibit all the districts as having accepted the provisions\\nof the public school law, or free school law, as it was then usually termed,\\nand as being in operation under the law but in 1844 Beaver, Paint, and Pine\\nGrove townships and Clarion borough were reported as non-accepting districts.\\nThe average length of the term in the county, in 1844, was four months; the\\naverage salary of male teachers was $14.39, of female teachers, $7.30.\\nThe number of schools was seventy-four. In 1850 the number of schools had\\nincreased to 119, but a decrease in length of term to three and one-half months\\nwas reported, while the teachers salaries had risen to $16.90 and $8.26 for\\nmales and females respectively. Boarding round was universal in those\\ndays, and when we consider the scarcity of money and the low wages paid in\\nother occupations, the teachers salaries of that period do not compare unfavor-\\nably with the amount paid them at the present time.\\nIn some districts teachers were paid in grain, and the miller was made col-\\nlector, taking from the cereals brought to the mill by farmers, in addition to\\nthe customary toll, an amount equal in value to the tax levied for school pur-\\nposes on the property of each citizen.\\nThe State appropriated $200,000 for the support of the schools in 1836,\\nand in 1837 the appropriation was increased to $700,000 only $300,000 less\\nthan was appropriated fifty years later, although the population of our Com-\\nmonwealth has increased more than threefold, and its material wealth many\\nfold, since that year. In 1838 the appropriation was less than the preceding\\nyear, though it still amounted to one dollar for each taxable, while for 1885\\nand 1886 it was only eighty-four and a half cents per taxable.\\nProgress was slow, in fact almost imperceptible, until 1854, when the act\\nestablishing the county superintendency was passed by the Legislature. Un-\\nfortunately, few records remain to show the growth of the school system of\\nour county, until the county superintendency made it possible to obtain full\\nand more accurate reports from the several districts.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0458.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "Schools. 413\\nThe office of county superintendent was unpopular over the entire State,\\nand while the people of Clarion county were less obtrusive in their opposition\\nthan those of other counties, yet there was a strong undercurrent of feeling\\nhostile toward the new office, which found vent in unreasonable complaints\\nagainst the person who filled it, and manifested itself in the beggarly salary\\nvoted the first officials by the conventions electing them. This feeling con-\\ntinued until a comparatively recent period.\\nRev. Robert W. Orr was elected the first county superintendent of Clarion\\ncounty on the first Monday of June, 1854. Mr. Orr was born January 18,\\n1808, near Greenville, Clarion county, and lived on a farm until he was twenty\\nyears of age. He entered Jefferson College in 1829, and graduated in 1833,\\ntaking l\\\\\\\\Q first Jwnor. He united with the Presbyterian Church the year be-\\nfore he graduated, and determined to devote himself to the ministry. He took\\nthe usual three years course at the Western Theological Seminary, in Alle-\\ngheny, and spent one session in Princeton Seminary. In 1837 he was ordained\\nas an evangelist by the Presbytery of Bedford, and the same year set sail with\\nhis young wife (whom he had married three months before) for Singapore.\\nFor over three and one-half years he remained in this mission field, when fail-\\ning health compelled him to return to his native land, which he reached in\\nJuly, 1 84 1.\\nHe was principal of Clarion Academy from the spring of 1842 to 1844.\\nThe latter year he became a member of the faculty in Jefferson College and\\ncontinued a member until 1852, when, his health again failing, he resigned.\\nWhen elected county superintendent, a salary of $300 a year was voted\\nhim. Although the salaries of county superintendents were paid directly out\\nof the State treasury, and were not an added burden to the tax- payers, yet the\\nconvention voted a mere pittance to this excellent man, to administer our\\nschool affairs, while the directors of Lancaster county, more wise, voted their\\nsuperintendent a salary of $1,500 a year.\\nIn his first report (1854) Mr. Orr states that in the greater part of the\\ncounty, schools of one kind or other are enjoyed from four to eight months in\\nthe year. The statistical reports for several years show an average of only\\nthree months public school. He also mentions as the greatest obstacle, in the\\nway of carrying out efficiently the common school system, a want of qualified\\nteachers. He reiterates this assertion in succeeding reports.\\nIn the superintendent s report for 1855 he mentions as obstacles, in the way\\nof progress in the schools, lack of interest on the part of the people, and too\\nlow an appreciation of the value of education want of uniformity of text-\\nbooks; wretched condition of school-houses; no school apparatus (some houses\\nhad not even a black-board) want of well-qualified teachers. The most\\nhopeful sign of all is that the idea is beginning to prevail that the com-\\nmon schools ought to be greatly improved, and that the qualifications of the\\nteachers imist be elevateds -^3", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0459.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "414 History of Clarion County.\\nOnly sixty teachers attended the pubhc examinations to supply one hun-\\ndred and fifty schools. Others afterwards visited the superintendent s house\\nfor private examination, and detained him until near Christmas from visiting\\nschools.\\nThe first teachers institute held in Clarion county met in the Clarion\\nAcademy on Wednesday, the 25 th of December, 1855. D. R. Craig was called\\nto the chair, and R. P. Reyner was appointed secretary. We find such names\\nas David Kirk, B. J. Reid, James Craig, James Speer, L. Guthrie, and R. Sut-\\nton among the active members. Hon. J. S. McCalmont, Amos Myers, esq,,\\nand Rev. John McAuley gave evening addresses. A constitution was adopted,\\nofficers for the ensuing year were elected and installed president. Superintend-\\nent Orr; recording secretary, B. J. Reid, esq.; corresponding secretary, Rob-\\nert Sutton, esq.; treasurer, Samuel C. Allison.\\nThe institute was in session two days and one evening. Other citizens be-\\nside teachers were active participants in the exercises of these institutes. It\\nwas resolved that the next meeting be held on the third Tuesday of the follow-\\ning October, and continue in session three days. On some account the organ-\\nization failed to meet its appointment, and we have no account of another insti-\\ntute until January 26, 1857. During the early part of the winter of 1856 the\\nsuperintendent held educational meetings throughout the county, lectured\\non the art of teaching and invited the teachers to give their experience. These\\nmeetings were instrumental in awakening a strong educational sentiment.\\nAmong the members of the institute held in 1857, we note in addition to\\nthose who attended the first institute, such familiar names as J. W. Porter, M.\\nL. Boyer, J. T. Maffet, S. K. Travis, J. H. Mehrten, James S. McGarrah,\\nThomas E. Thomas, Miss H. J. Wilson, Miss M. A. Guthrie, Miss M. J. Clover,\\nand Miss H. A. Keatley. Rev. Mr. Boyle delivered an evening address. The\\nexercises of the institute were conducted with spirit, mostly by members of the\\ninstitute.\\nJ. G. Magonagle, who had been acting as deputy during the illness of Su-\\nperintendent Orr, presided at this meeting.\\nSuperintendent Orr died in Mechanicsville, Clarion county, near the place\\nof his birth, March 30, 1857, of consumption. J. G. Magonagle was commis-\\nsioned county superintendent on the 6th of the following April. He was\\nelected to serve during the ensuing term of three years, at the triennial con-\\nvention which met on the 4th of May, 1857. The new superintendent, while\\nacting as deputy, held meetings throughout the county, and endeavored to\\norganize educational associations in the several districts few, however, out-\\nlived the presence of the deputy. One at Clarion and one at Strattanville were\\nkept in successful operation during the session of the winter schools.\\nOn the first Monday of September, a convention of directors met in Clarion\\nfor the purpose of recommending a uniform series of text-books to be used", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0460.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "Schools. 415\\nthroughout the county. J. R. Strattan was chairman of this convention. Os-\\ngood s Readers, Clark s Grammars, Ray s Arithmetics and Algebras, and\\nMonteith s and McNalley s Geographies were recommended to such boards\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of directors as have not adopted a regular series, and to such as have another\\nseries, the adoption of this one as soon as practicable. Wright s Analytical\\nOrthography was especially recommended to the consideration of teachers.\\nOsgood s Readers and Spellers and Ray s Arithmetics were used in most of\\nthe districts throughout the county for many years, and our county has never\\nsince those years enjoyed so nearly a uniformity of text-books.\\nAt the call of Superintendent Magonagle, about thirty teachers assembled\\nat Strattan vile on the 14th of October, 1857, for a drill of two weeks. This\\nwas carried on harmoniously and successfully. The school was closed on the\\n26th, and the county institute opened on the 27th of October. Near fifty\\nteachers attended the institute, and the sessions were continued until the close\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of the week. The exercises throughout were spirited and interesting. R. Sut-\\nton, of Clarion, addressed the association on Wednesday evening. Miss H. A.\\nKeatley read an essay on Physical Culture the following evening. The day\\nsessions were devoted chiefly to lectures on the branches taught in the schools.\\nMr. Meredith and a committee of ladies, on behalf the Normal class, presented\\nto the county superintendent a Webster s Unabridged Dictionary.\\nDuring the last days of the following January a teacher s institute held a\\nsession for three days at Callensburg. Hon. R. Laughlin moved a resolution\\nto call a county convention of teachers, directors, friends and enemies of the\\ncommon school system to take into consideration the necessity and utility of\\nestablishing a county normal school. Twenty-nine years later this idea ma-\\nterialized in the form of a State Normal School located in the county. Super-\\nintendent Magonagle, like his predecessor in the office, held that the pressing\\nneed of our schools was well- qualified teachers, and, with commendable zeal\\nand energy, he set about to supply the need. We find him again at Callens-\\nburg the 5th of the following October, conducting a normal institute for a\\nperiod of five weeks. State Superintendent Henry C. Hickok visited this insti-\\ntute, and addressed the public on several occasions, infusing new hfe into the\\nschool system of the county.\\nAbout fifty teachers were in attendance. Professor Thickstun, of Mead-\\nville, A. Myers, Rev. J. E. Chapin, and R. Sutton were among the helpers.\\nDuring the last week of the Normal, the Educational Association held a ses-\\nsion of five days. A third convention for the year met at Shippenville, and\\nheld a session of four days.\\nThe annual institute of 1859, met at Strattanville on October 24. The\\nexercises were varied and did not differ in any essential particular from those\\nof the institutes of the present day, except that the teachers participated\\nmore largely. William P. Jenks, of Brookville, was one of the evening lect-\\nurers.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0461.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "41 6 History of Clarion County.\\nThis was the year of the June frosts, and some hesitation was manifested on\\nthe part of a number of school boards as to the propriety of opening the\\nschools at all during the year. Finally, all but four, viz.: Curlsville, Highland,\\nKnox, and Washington, opened the schools for at least four months. The\\nprincipal of the Clarion borough schools received fifty dollars per month salary\\nduring this year of general scarcity and hardship, and the teacher of the ad-\\nvanced room in the Rimersburg schools received thirty dollars per month,\\nwhile these two districts, together with Licking and Piney each had a six\\nmonths term. It occurs to one that not much progress has been made since\\nthen in the matter of teachers wages and length of term, when we consider the\\nincrease of wages in other vocations.\\nIn October, i860, the county institute was held at Clarion. About forty\\nteachers were in attendance. Deputy Superintendent Bates and ex-Superin-\\ntendent Hickok rendered efficient aid as instructors at this institute.\\nSuperintendent Magonagle was re-elected in May of this year, and his\\nsalary was fixed at $500 a year. He continued to display the same energy\\nand efficiency that had characterized his labors during his first term. But we\\ncome now to a period in the history of our schools when the war-cloud is\\ndarkening the horizon, and they must inevitably suffer from the impending\\nstorm. Our county superintendent is a patriot as well as a zealous educator,\\nand now when his country needs men to go forth and do battle for her cause,\\nhe is one of the first to offer his services. On the 23d of September, 1861, he\\nis mustered into her service as first lieutenant of Company F, Sixty-third Regi-\\nment Pennsylvania Volunteers. The regiment joins the Army of the Potomac,\\nparticipates in the Peninsular campaign, and on the 21st day of June, 1862,\\nLieutenant John G. Magonagle dies from disease engendered in the miasmatic\\nswamps of Virginia, after having participated in the battle of Fair Oaks a few\\nweeks before.\\nFor a short time after Superintendent Magonagle entered the army, David\\nLatshavv, of Perry township, acted as deputy superintendent, but C. S. Walker,\\nA. M., of Shippenville, was appointed to succeed Superintendent Magonagle\\nfrom November i, 1861, until June, 1863.\\nThe civil war bore heavily upon the people, and the schools suffered in\\nconsequence from short terms and low teachers salaries. Hitherto a majority\\nof the teachers were males, but many young men enlisted a soldiers, and for\\nthe first time in the history of our schools the female teachers outnumbered\\nthe males, and they have held a majority ever since.\\nDuring the winter of 1862-3 fourteen district institutes were held regularly\\n(semi-monthly) throughout the county. In many cases two districts would\\nunite for this purpose, and the whole number of teachers in attendance was\\none hundred and thirty out of a total of one hundred and seventy engaged in\\nthe schools.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0462.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "Schools. 417\\nMost of the institutes were regularly attended by directors, who took part\\nin the exercises. The secretaries of the school boards of Madison, Piney, and\\nWashington townships acted as district superintendents with good results.\\nThe following year eighteen secretaries acted as district superintendents, and\\nreceived one dollar a day for their services in visiting the schools. Superin-\\ntendent G. S. Kelly, who was commissioned August i, 1863, commends this\\nfeature of school management, and states that he noted marked improvement\\nin the schools that were regularly visited by the district superintendents.\\nTwenty districts organized district associations, and two county institutes\\nof nearly a week s duration each, were held during the year. Mill Creek\\ntownship and Mount Pleasant, Ind., district did not open schools this year.\\nSeveral school boards appropriated portions of their school funds to the\\npayment of bounties to volunteers, to be credited to those districts, in order to\\nfill their quota for troops required by the government in prosecuting the war.\\nIn this way conscription was avoided for a time, but low wages of teachers and\\npoor schools resulted. Money was borrowed to pay bounties and the school\\nfunds were pledged to repay the debts thus contracted. Several years elapsed\\nbefore these debts were liquidated, and a much longer period was required to\\nremedy the injury done the schools.\\nIn 1867 an act became a law requiring the county superintendent to hold\\nan institute of at least five days annually, and providing for expenses for in-\\nstructors, lecturers, apparatus, books, and stationery for carrying on the work\\nof the institute. From this time the annual institute has been planted on a\\nfirm basis, and much good has resulted to the schools through the instruction\\ngained by the teachers in attendance upon its sessions.\\nSuperintendent J. E. Wood was commissioned in June, 1869. During his\\nterm the schools partially recovered from the effects of the Civil War, the in-\\nstitutes grew in interest and were attended by nearl)^ all the teachers in the\\ncounty. Hon. J. P. Wickersham, State superintendent, was present one day\\nat the institute held in 1871. All the institutes held by Superintendent Wood\\nwere well managed and were productive of much enthusiasm in the ranks of\\ntlie teachers.\\nThe six years administration of Superintendent Wood was an era, first, of\\nrecovery, and later, of marked educational growth. When Mr. Wood assumed\\nthe duties of the office, there were 171 schools in the county, ten of which were\\ngraded when he retired, in 1865, the schools numbered 194, twenty-one being\\ngraded. During this period the oil industry was developed in the county, and\\nthe population was largely increased. In the eager pursuit of wealth, the in-\\nterests of the schools were somewhat neglected, and education scarcely kept\\npace with the material growth of the county. A faithful superintendent, sus-\\ntained by a few earnest teachers and directors, did much to mitigate adverse\\ninfluences. New and more commodious school buildings were erected, the", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0463.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "41 8 History of Clarion County.\\nqualifications of teachers were advanced, and frequent visits of the schools by\\nthe superintendent had the effect to inspire a more friendly feeling toward the\\nsuperintendency.\\nIn June, 1875, A. J. Davis was commissioned county superintendent. He\\nwas twice recommissioned, serving eight years, or all but the last year of his\\nthird term. The year 1876 brought the International Centennial Exhibition,\\nheld in Philadelphia. The State superintendent of public instruction, J. P.\\nWickersham, issued a call to the schools to prepare manuscript and other\\nschool work for exhibition. The Clarion Collegiate Institute at Rimersburg\\nand the Foxburg public schools forwarded some work, which was placed in the\\nPennsylvania building for educational exhibits. Few other districts in the\\nState, outside the large cities, had any school work on exhibition.\\nA county teachers association was organized at Rimersburg on September\\n14, 1876, and P. S. Dunkle, principal of West Freedom Academy, was elected\\nfirst president. This association has been maintained, with some modifications\\nas to the organization, to the present time. Meetings have been held almost\\nevery month when the schools were in session, and occasionally during vaca-\\ntion, in different parts of the county. Public sentiment has been enlisted in\\nfavor of the schools, and principles and methods of teaching have been dis-\\ncussed at the meetings of the association.\\nA teachers reading circle was recommended by the county institute, which\\nmet in 1878, and a course of professional reading was adopted. Page s Theory\\nand Practice of Teaching was adopted as a text-book for the first year s course.\\nThe following year a new book was selected, and the plan has been followed\\nin a general way during all the years that have followed to the present time.\\nThe examinations in Theory of Teaching have been based each year on the\\ncourse of professional reading, pursued by the teachers during that year. The\\nresults have been satisfactory. A better knowledge of principles, and better\\nmethods of teaching, together with a more adequate conception of the dignity\\nand responsibility of the teacher s position, are among the benefits that have\\nfollowed. Before this course was adopted, scarcely twenty works on teaching\\ncould be found in the libraries of the teachers in the entire county. Five years\\nafter, more than one thousand volumes of professional works were known to\\nhave been purchased by our teachers, and more gratifying still to the mind of\\nthe educator, these books were studiously read by a majority of the purchasers.\\nThis was probably the first county organization of teachers for professional\\nreading ever formed in the United States. A graded course of study for\\npupils was outlined the same year.\\nThe first exposition of school work at the county fair in Clarion county was\\nheld in 1879. Children s day occurred on the second day of the fair, on\\nSeptemter 24th, and on that day several hundred school children, representing\\nalmost every district in the county, formed in line on the main street of Clarion", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0464.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "Schools. 419\\nand filed into the fair grounds, where they spent the afternoon pleasantly. In\\nthe main building on the grounds were the manuscripts collected from a num-\\nber of schools, also botanical and geological collections made by pupils, together\\nwith maps, charts, and apparatus devised by teachers and pupils in the county.\\nIn 1 88 1 a system of graduation for pupils in the elementary schools of our\\ncounty was adopted. Fourteen examinations were held that year from March\\nto June 175 pupils were examined, of whom 106 obtained a satisfactory grade\\nand received a diploma. On most occasions, after each examination, occupy-\\ning the whole day, there were evening exercises, and an address by the super-\\nintendent at the close the diplomas were conferred. These meetings were\\nlargely attended by teachers, directors, and others.\\nFive courses of reading and study beyond the elementary branches were\\nsubsequently outlined and published, with the object of affording opportunities\\nfor the young graduates to press beyond the common school course. It was\\nthought that by thus directing the energies of these young people into right\\nchannels of self-advancement, they might be prevented from falling into hab-\\nits of idleness and indifference, or into such reading as would lead to vice and\\nruin. Several have since taken one of these courses and passed successful ex-\\naminations in the same. Following out the plan, eleven examinations were\\nheld in March and April, 1882. Deputy State Superintendent Henry Houck\\nwas present at six of these, and Hon. E. E. Higbee, Superintendent of Public\\nInstruction, attended the other five. One hundred and twenty-four candidates\\nwere examined this year, of whom sixty-six were found qualified to pass.\\nSome who failed the preceding year were examined again this year and were\\nrewarded for their perseverance. The graduates held a meeting at the county\\ninstitute in 1 881, and formed an organization by electing officers. They lis-\\ntened to an address by A. L. Wade, of West Virginia, the originator of the grad-\\nuating] system for elementary schools. No general meeting of graduates has\\ntaken place since the first one.\\nThe two years ending June 1883, were spent by the superintendent in con-\\nducting written examinations in all the schools visited by him, and the manu-\\nscripts have been preserved for tabulation of the work done by the pupils, as\\nwell as for comparison with similar papers, which may at some future time be\\ngathered from our schools.\\nSuperintendent Davis s third term was terminated unexpectedly at the end\\nof the second year by his appointment to a position in the Department of Pub-\\nlic Instruction at Harrisburg, and J. G. Anderson was appointed superintend-\\nent for the unexpired term.\\nSuperintendent Anderson continued the graduating system substantially\\non the plan that had been introduced two years before, and the system is still\\nin successful operation.\\nAt the triennial convention of school directors in May, 1884, C. F. Mc-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0465.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "420 History of Clarion County.\\nNutt, a graduate of Edinboro State Normal School, was chosen to the super-\\nintendency, and is the present incumbent. Under his efficient administration\\nthe schools are advancing steadily. Superintendent McNutt is methodical and\\npainstaking. He will leave the impress of his own personality upon the schools.\\nHis is the work of erecting a fitting superstructure upon the foundation laid by\\nhis predecessors, and he is performing that work with fidelity.\\nArbor Day was established during Superintendent McNutt s first term, and\\ntrees have been planted by teachers and pupils in Rimersburg, East Brady,\\nBrady, Antwerp, St. Petersburg, Foxburg, Salem, Monroe, and other districts.\\nParochial Schools. There are four parochial schools, under the auspices of\\nthe Roman Catholic Church, in Clarion county; one at Clarion, in charge of\\nSisters of St. Benedict, with about eighty-two children in attendance one at\\nVogelbacher, Knox township, Benedictine nuns in charge; ninety-five chil-\\ndren one at St. Nicholas, Limestone township, Sisters of Mercy eighty chil-\\ndren and one at St. Mary s, Farmington township, Benedictine Sisters sev-\\nenty children.\\nThe history of the academies of the county is given in the local history of\\nthe townships and boroughs, and will not be repeated here.\\nCHAPTER XLH.\\nCHURCHES.\\nPresbyterian Church.\\nTHERE are twenty-two churches of this denomination in Clarion county,\\nwith a membership of 1,667. These churches are attached to the Clarion\\nPresbytery, embracing the counties of Clarion, Elk, and Jefferson, and the parts\\nof Forest and Venango counties lying east of the Allegheny River. The pres-\\nbytery is included in the Synod of Pennsylvania, which is composed of all the\\npresbyteries of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and the presbyteries of Mexico\\nand Zacatecas, old Mexico, and all are under the jurisdiction of the General As-\\nsembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, consist-\\ning of twenty-six synods and about 661,800 members.\\nThe first Presbyterian Churches in Clarion county were Licking and New\\nRehoboth the former is in Monroe township, and the latter in Clarion town-\\nship. Both churches are said to have been organized in 1802. Rev. John\\nMcPherrin preached probably the first sermon that was delivered in all this\\nsection, and it is known that he organized New Rehoboth Church in 1802.\\nHe probably organized Licking about the same time.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0466.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "Churches. 421\\nTheir first pastor was the Rev. Robert McGarrough, having been sent as a li-\\ncentiate of Redstone Presbytery in the spring of 1804. He began his labors in\\nthese churches in June of the same year, but was not ordained and installed\\nuntil 1807. Coming to this wilderness, carrying his family and all his worldly\\ngoods on a pack-horse, he occupied a rude cabin built of round logs, twelve or\\nfifteen feet square, for some years, in the midst of the forest, where woodland\\npaths served for roads, and where neighbors were sparsely scattered over the\\nhills and valleys of his extended field of labor. He supported himself largely\\nby cultivating a small patch of cleared land during week days, while on the\\nSabbath he ministered to the spiritual wants of his little band of Christians\\nuntil 1822, when his relation as pastor of these churches was dissolved. Dur-\\ning this period Mr. McGarrough organized Concord Church in Perry township\\nin 1807, Richland about 18 16; Callensburg Church was organized about 1825,\\nHe continued his labors at Concord and Callensburg until 1839, shortly before\\nhis death. The three first named were the earliest churches of any denomina-\\ntion organized within the limits of this county. Rev. John Core, Rev. James\\nMontgomery, Rev. David McCay, Rev. William McMichael, Rev. John Glenn\\nand Rev. E. D. Barrett were prominent among the ministers who served the\\nPresbyterian churches in this county prior to 1850.\\nThe Associate Presbyterian Church.^\\nAbout the year 1802 some members of the Associate Church settled in\\nwhat is now Clarion county, and were supplied by Rev. John Dicky. The\\ncounty being thinly settled, divine services were held at the houses of mem-\\nbers, some living near Cherry Run, and others on Licking. In a few years a\\nlog school-house was built on Cherry Run, and the members used it as a place\\nof meeting.\\nIn 1808 a congregation was organized, and designated as the Associate\\nCongregation of Cherry Run. Hon. Joseph Rankin and Clemens Davidson\\nwere chosen ruling elders, and Rev. Mr. Dicky preached as a supply until\\n1830, when Rev. James McCarrell took charge.\\nIn 1832 the place of meeting was changed to Rimersburg, where a log\\nbuilding was erected for a meeting-house. This building remained until 185 i,\\nwhen the present house of worship was built.\\nMr. McCarrell remained pastor of the congregation until 1837, when he\\nwas released. In July, 1838, Rev. John McAuley was ordained, and installed\\npastor of the congregation. He continued in this relation until August, 1867.\\nAfter spending the years of hi^ life in ministerial labors, principally in Clarion\\ncounty, he died at Sligo, Pa., on the i6th of August, 1883, in the seventy-sev-\\nenth year of his age.\\nThe Presbytery of Clarion was organized on the 4th of July, 1849, con-\\n1 By Rev. Robert Bruce.\\n44", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0467.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "422 History of Clarion County.\\nsisted of four ministers, viz.: Revs. John Hindman, John Tod, John McAuley,\\nand John Telford.\\nThe congregations within the Hmits of this county are Cherry Run, at Rim-\\nersburg, Hermon, near Smithland, and Upper Piney, in the vicinity of Me-\\nchanicsville. The last has no congregational organization at present. The old\\nbuilding in which services were held is still standing, and is known as the Se-\\nceder Church.\\nRev. Robert Bruce has been pastor of the congregation at Rimbersburg\\nsince 1875, and of the congregation of Hermon since 1877. Both these con-\\ngregations are under the care of Clarion Presbytery, subordinate to the Synod\\nof North America.\\nBaptist Church.\\nRev. William Shadrach is the oldest living Baptist minister of Western\\nPennsylvania. Almost sixty years ago he was associated with Deacon Abra-\\nham Shallenberger, father of J. Lloyd, of Clarion borough, at Mount Pleasant,\\nPa. Afterwards Dr. Shadrach was intimately associated with the ministers and\\nmembers of the Clarion Association.\\nHe was with the body when it was divided, and when the Indiana Associa-\\ntion was formed.\\nIn 1838 the undivided association met in Brookville in 1839 with Zion\\nChurch, now Reidsburgh. Amos Williams, Enoch Hastings, and William\\nKing are the first moderators, all men of sterling character. Thomas Wilson,\\nSamuel Miles, and Thomas E. Thomas are among the pioneer ministers, the\\nlast named, father of Dr. B. H. Thomas, now of Clarion county, and for more\\nthan thirty years an active minister. Some of these early preachers had piety\\nand power, although not favored with a classical education. Men living now\\nspeak of Thomas E. Thomas as a wonderful preacher. The grandson of this\\nsame man, with collegiate and theological training, is pastor of a church in\\nCleveland, Ohio.\\nThere are seven Baptist churches in Clarion county, with an aggregate\\nmembership of nearly six hundred. The estimated value of church property\\nis $20,000. These churches belong to the Clarion Association, embracing a\\npart of Jefferson, Armstrong, and Butler counties. The association comprises\\nnineteen churches and 1,500 members.\\nThe State Association, made up from these local bodies, meets once a year.\\nThe National gathering, made up from the States of the Union, convenes once\\na year to transact business that directly interests 257,200 regular Baptists in the\\nUnited States.\\n1 By J. L. S.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0468.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "Churches. 423\\nThe Reformed Church.^\\nAmong the early settlers of what is now Clarion county were emigrants,\\nnot only from Germany and Switzerland, but also from Lehigh, Berks, Bucks,\\nMontgomery, Lancaster, and other eastern counties. A large portion of these\\nwere confirmed members of the Reformed Church. Rev. John William Weber\\nthe pioneer Reformed minister in Western Pennsylvania, who, in 1783, came\\nto Westmoreland county, and later was the first regular minister of any kind\\nin Pittsburgh, in the early years of this century occasionally visited the\\nscattered members of the Reformed Church in Armstrong, Butler, Venango,\\nand other counties, conducted services, baptized the children, and held com-\\nmunions. As he was then already nearly eighty years of age, the labor and\\nexposure of these missionary journeys were too great for him. As early as\\n18 1 3 requests were sent from Western Pennsylvania to the synod of the Re-\\nformed Church for a young minister or ministers to be sent out to assist the\\naged pastor. In response to the request, in 181 5 Henry Hublistor and Will-\\niam Weinel, licentiates of the synod, were sent to Westmoreland and adjacent\\ncounties, the latter visiting the territory now in Clarion county. This led to\\nthe demand for more ministers in this section. In. response to this call two of\\nRev. Dr. Becker s students, N. P. Hacke and Henry Koch, offered themselves\\nand in the spring of 18 19 set out on horse-back from Northampton county for\\ntheir long and tedious journey over the mountains. On entering Greensbury,\\nWestmoreland county, they were surprised and disheartened to hear only the\\nEnglish language spoken on the streets. Mother Drum, a venerable matron\\nof Greensbury, however, allayed their fears by assuring them that the surround-\\ning country element was quite German enough to make their labors in that\\nlanguage acceptable, and no doubt useful. Student Hacke, then not twenty\\nyears old, preached in a number of organized congregations in that county,\\nand was chosen for their pastor, which holy office he filled for a period of fifty-\\neight years.\\nStudent Koch traveled northward to Armstrong and Venango counties,\\nwhere he found no organized congregations, but a number of members of the\\nReformed Church, many of them from his native county. Among them were\\nthe Millers, Mohneys, and Smiths, along Redbank, near Millville and the\\nBrinkers, Heplers, Hamms, Hilliards, Kasters, Rimers, Edmonds, and Wiants,\\nnear where Curllsville is now north of the Clarion River he found the Atts,\\nSwitzers, and Thomases, from Switzerland and Delos, Berlins, Captain Henry\\nNeely, the Ashbaughs, Shoups, Vensels, Beats, and others, from Westmoreland\\ncounty. After a canvass of the field, he and his fellow student, Hacke, returned\\nto the East and continued their studies a short time. Mr. Koch presented\\nhimself before the synod, which met in the city of Lancaster September 5, 18 19,\\n1 By Rev. J. F. Wiant.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0469.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "424 History of Clarion County.\\nas a candidate for license and ordination. As there were no regular organized\\ncongregations here to extend a call, it is recorded in the minutes of synod that\\ncommunications were received from Venango and adjacent counties request-\\ning that a young man named Koch be admitted to the ministry. He was\\naccordingly licensed and ordained to preach the gospel on September g, 1819.\\nIn the fall of the same year he pitched his tent in what is now Clarion county*\\nand began his labor of love and self-denial among the scattered German-speak-\\ning inhabitants.\\nOne of the first persons he baptized, if not the first, north of the Clarion\\nRiver, is still living. Her name is Mrs. Mary Fisher {nee Switzer), who was\\nbaptized December 5, 18 19.\\nThe St. Paul s Reformed congregation, in Beaver township, was organized\\nin 1820. The first baptisms recorded in this church are Samuel, son of John\\nand Margaret Smith Elizabeth, daughter of John and Rosanna Sigworth\\nGeorge, son of George and Elizabeth Berlin and Hiram, son of Henry and\\nBarbara Neely.\\nAbout this time the St. John s congregation, now Curllsville, was organized.\\nAt both these places there were log school-houses, in which worship was held\\nin winter. During summer services were held in the open air. Mr. Koch s\\nfield of labor, in addition to what is now Clarion county, extended over parts\\nof Jefferson, Armstrong, Butler, and Venango counties, a territory cut every\\nhere and there with streams, many of them wide and deep, too, over which\\nthere were no bridges. The difficulties he had to encounter can easily be in-\\nferred. The work he accomplished may be hinted at by giving some of his\\nstatistical reports recorded in the minutes of synod. In 1822 he reported 102\\nbaptisms, 187 communicants, and 6 deaths. In 1825 he reported 4 congre-\\ngations, 102 baptized, 39 confirmed, 210 communicants, 5 deaths, and 2 schools.\\nFrom these and other known facts it is safe to infer that during his pastorate\\nof over a quarter of a century he baptized at least from i,8oo to 2,500 persons,\\nand confirmed many hundreds, in addition to the other official duties of his\\nministry. He also supplied, in a large measure, the membership of the Lutheran\\nChurch, who were in an early day visited and supplied by a minister of their\\nown church from a distance.\\nEcclesiastical Meetings. Of the eight original classes of the Reformed\\nChurch the first regular meetings held in 1820, Western Pennsylvania was\\none. In 1836 this classis was given permission to unite with the synod of\\nOhio and adjacent States. The name of the classis was then changed to that\\nof the First or Eastern District of Ohio Synod. At a meeting of the Ohio\\nSynod in Canton, O., in 1842, in was ordered that the first district be divided\\ninto two classes, known as the Westmoreland and Erie classes Clarion was\\nmade a part of the former. The first meeting of this division, by appointment\\nof synod, was held at St. Johns, near Mount Pleasant, Pa., May 28 to 31,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0470.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "Churches. 425\\n1843. At a meeting held in Armstrong county in 1845, Rev. Koch was\\npresent and earnestly requested that classes should meet in his charge, which\\nwas finally agreed to, and St. John s Church was fixed as the place of meet-\\ning in 1846; but before the meeting he was taken from the church militant\\nto the church triumphant. In 1850 the synod of Ohio granted the pastors\\nand charges north of the Kiskiminetas River, and belonging to the Westmore-\\nland classis, permission to organize a new division to be called the Clarion\\nClassis.\\nA Few Crises. When St. John s Church was about to be rebuilt a sort of\\na union was formed by the Reformed and Lutherans. At the laying of the\\ncorner-stone of the new church a constitution, formed by the unionists, pro-\\nhibiting any one to be stated as pastor in this house who is unable to preach\\nin German and English, created some excitement when it was read. Rev.\\nKoch, the faithful servant, who had stood by his flock so long, and endured so\\nmany hardships in the service there, had to leave with tears in his eyes. He\\ndid not consider himself competent to officiate in the English language. As\\nthe congregation was unable to support a minister alone, for a short time the\\nmembers were as sheep without a shepherd. This led in the beginning of 1848\\nto the organization of Jerusalem Congregation, Rimersburg, and also a few years\\nlater led to the organization of the Salem Congregation in Limestone township.\\nThus the wrath of man was made to praise God in the establishing of new con-\\ngregations. During the pastorates of Hoffman, Leberman, and Wolff, the\\ntransition from the German to the English language set in with great force in\\nthis section. And as is generally the case in every new movement, there were\\nextremists on the side of progress, as also on the side of conservation and the\\nextremists on either side do not generally sympathize with the other side.\\nOnly those who have passed through such a crisis can fully appreciate what is\\nhere so briefly referred to. Some of the old German-speaking people honestly\\nbelieved that the perpetuation of true religion depended on the use of the\\nmother-tongue, while many of the progressives went to the extreme in insist-\\ning that all would be lost to the cause of Christianity if the English alone was\\nnot used. In some instances on both sides there were bitter prejudices, false\\npride, and narrowness of judgment and other things, that for these pages shall\\n-be left nameless.\\nAnother matter in the Reformed Church was also bitterly contested. It\\nwas whether the catechetical or emotional systems should prevail in the church.\\nRev. Leberman, who was an earnest advocate of the former system, was espe-\\ncially the subject of much bitter criticism and gross misrepresentation. It is\\nnecessary to remind the reader that forty years have very much softened the\\nsharp points between the two systems, and that to form a proper judgment the\\ntimes in which these things occurred must be considered.\\nHojfvian, Leberman, and Wolff. Rev. Henry Hoffman, who came to be\\nan assistant of Rev. Koch, after the death of the latter became regular pastor", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0471.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "426 History of Clarion County.\\nof the charge. He served the organized congregations about two years, during^\\nwhich time he organized the Salem congregation in Salem township (1846).\\nIn the year 1847 reported in his charge 450 members, seventy-five bap-\\ntisms, eighty-eight persons confirmed, and fifteen deaths. Toward the close\\nof the year 1847 Rev. L. D. Leberman came to this county and became pas-\\ntor of the portion lying south of the Clarion River, and Rev. Hoffman remained\\npastor of the portion north of the river, then known as the Petersburg charge,\\nserving until 1855. Rev. Leberman organized a number of congregations in\\nthe southern part of the county. Among them were Mt. Zion, Squirrel Hill,\\nand Shannondale, and also some in Jefferson and Armstrong counties. The\\nfield becoming too large for him to cultivate properly. Rev. George Wolff came\\nin the spring of 1848 and took charge of Licking, Salem (in Limestone town-\\nship), and others, which he served until 1853. The increase in the population,\\non account of the many furnaces in the county during these years, added\\ngreatly to the labors of the ministers.\\nSummary. Four ministers reside in the county, two charges are vacant,\\ntwelve organized congregations, nine have church buildings one in process of\\nerection, and two are owned jointly by the Reformed and Lutherans. The esti-\\nmated value of the church property is $45,000; there are 1,450 confirmed mem-\\nbers, and 1,050 baptized unconfirmed members.\\nThe amount given for benevolent and congregational purposes, exclusive\\nof building and repairing churches and parsonages, has, for a (ew years past,\\naveraged about $5,000 in this county.\\nProtestant Episcopal Church. 1\\nT/ie Memorial Chiircli of Our Father, Foxbiirg. This beautiful little\\nchurch was erected by the surviving members of the Fox family, To the\\nGlory of God and In Memory of Samuel Mickle Fox, deceased December 23,\\n1869; William Logan Fox, deceased April 29, 1880; Sarah Lindley Fox, de-\\nceased June 20, 1882. The names of the founders are Mrs. Samuel M. Fox,\\nMrs. William L. Fox, Miss Hannah Fox, and Mr. Joseph M. Fox. The cor-\\nner-stone was laid July 4, 1881, and the church opened for divine service No-\\nvember 26, 1882, by Right Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, D. D., bishop of the\\ndiocese of Pittsburgh, assisted by the Rev. Henry Purdon, D. D., of Titusville,\\nRev. Harry L. Yewens, of Franklin, and the Rev. Thomas A. Stevenson, rec-\\ntor of the parish.\\nThe rectory was completed and occupied two years later. The archi-\\ntecture of the church is Gothic; it is very beautifully finished, and is complete\\nin all its appointments. The rectory is a Queen Anne cottage, and is equally\\nbeautiful it its way.\\nThe parish is within the jurisdiction of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of\\niBy Rev. E. A. Angell.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0472.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "Churches. 427\\nPittsburgh, which embraces twenty-four counties in Pennsylvania, being all that\\nportion of the State lying west of the Allegheny Mountains.\\nWithin this territory are fifty-nine parishes and thirty-four missions, one\\nbishop and sixty-two other clergy, 7,298 communicants and 7,200 children in\\nthe Sunday-schools. The legislative body of the diocese is the convention\\nwhich meets annually, and is composed of all the clergy and three lay deputies\\nfrom each parish.\\nThe value of church property in this parish is, in round numbers, $40,000\\nnumber of communicants, 47; children in Sunday-school, 80; total number\\nof people attending services, about 250. The parish has had three rectors, as\\nfollows: Rev. Thomas A. Stevenson, 1880-83 Rev. Samuel Edson, 1883-85\\nRev. Edmund A. Angell, now (1886) in charge.\\nEvangelical Association.^\\nThis church extended her borders into Clarion county about the year 1849,\\nand now comprises a membership of nearly five hundred communicants, who\\nworship in three separate parishes, and eleven church edifices. These are situ-\\nated in the southwestern, central, northern, and northeastern sections of the\\ncounty.\\nThis association has camp-meeting grounds at West Millville and Licking-\\nville, where the members from adjacent localities assemble annually, and spend\\none week in public worship.\\nMethodist Episcopal Church.\\nThe early history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Clarion county is\\nobscure. From the most reliable information to be obtained, it appears that\\nthe first preaching place and organization of a society of Methodists was at Mr.\\nYoung s, on the turnpike, two miles east of Clarion. This was thirty years be-\\nfore the town of Clarion was thought of About the same time a preaching\\npoint was established at the house of Mr. Henry Myers, in wliat is called the\\nLoop, near the present site of Martin s mill on the Clarion River. The Balti-\\nmore Conference at that time embraced this territory. We first find recogni-\\ntion in the conference appointments as Mahoning Circuit, in 181 2. The other\\nplaces of preaching at this early date are given as Leiser s, John Law.son s, Sto-\\nner s, and Harold s. With the organization of the Pittsburgh conference in\\n1825, we have the beginning of a tolerably full history. At this time the ter-\\nritory was a part of the Erie District, William Swazie, presiding elder. In\\n1826 it was transferred to the Pittsburgh District, Thornton Fleming, presiding\\nelder. In 1827 it was transferred to the Erie District, William Swazie, presid-\\ning elder. It so remained with Wilder B. Mack, presiding elder, from 1828 to\\n183 1. In 1832 the Meadville District was formed, embracing as part of its ter-\\nritory what is now Clarion county, Zerah H. Coston, presiding elder. In 1833\\n1 By Rev. I. A. Smith. 2 By Rev. B. F. Delo.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0473.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "428 History of Clarion County.\\nit was embraced in Allegheny District, Zerah H. Coston, presiding elder. He\\nwas succeeded in the presiding eldership by Joshua Monroe, in 1835. In 1836\\nthe Erie Annual Conference was organized in districting the conference this\\nterritory became part of Meadville District, J. S. Barris, presiding elder re-\\nappointed in 1837. In order to brevity we give the year, and name of district\\nand presiding elder: 1838-9, Brookville Mission District, William Carroll, P. E.\\n1840-2, Meadville District, John Bain, P. E. 1843-4, Franklin District, John\\nRobinson, P. E. 1845-6, Franklin District, H, N. Stearns, P. E. 1847, Frank-\\nlin District, W. H. Hunter, P. E. 1848-9, Franklin District, E. J. L. Baker,\\nP. E. 1 850-1, Franklin District, W. F. Wilson, P. E. 1852-4, Franklin Dis-\\ntrict, Moses Hill, P. E. 1855-7, Franklin District was divided and Clarion\\nDistrict formed, Josiah Flower, P. E. 1858-9, Clarion District, J. E. Chapin,\\nP. E. 1860-3, Clarion District, R. A. Caruthers, P. E. 1864-7, Clarion Dis-\\ntrict, R. H. Hurlburt, P. E. 1868-71, Clarion District, O. L. Mead, P. E.\\n1872, Clarion District, J. R.Lyon, P. E.; 1873-5, Brookville District, J. R. Lyon,\\nP. E. 1876, Brookville District, B. F. Delo, P. E. 1877-9, Clarion District,\\nB. F. Delo, P. E. 1880-3, Clarion District, P. P. Pinney, P. E. 1884-6, Clar-\\nion District, D. Latshaw, who is the present presiding elder. He is a native\\nof Clarion county, a son of John Latshaw, late of Perry township. Rev. L.\\ntaught considerably in the public schools of the county, and was at one time\\nacting superintendent of the public schools of the county. Another of this\\nlist, B. F. Delo, was born in Beaver township, and reared to manhood from his\\ntwelfth year in the county seat. He learned the art preservative with Col-\\nonel W. T. Alexander, of Clarion. He is a son of ex-sheriff Daniel Delo. Of\\nthis list, H. N. Stearns, J. R. Lyon, W. F. Wilson, and B. F. Delo occupied\\nthe pastorate of the church of Clarion. From the first organization of Meth-\\nodism within this territory it has enjoyed a continued growth and prosperity.\\nMany of its early accessions were the result of camp-meeting conversions, and\\nnot a few from interest excited by the doctrinal controversies of forty and fifty\\nyears ago. A camp-meeting was held about 1826 at a spring now within the\\ncorporation limits of Clarion, near South Fifth Avenue.\\nFrom the statistics of 1886, reported to the annual conference, we gather\\nthe following as the strength of Methodism in the county at the present time.\\nThese figures may be relied on, having been taken from the records immedi-\\nately preceding conference\\nNumber of traveling preachers i8\\nNumber of local preachers 12\\nNumber of church members 2, 500\\nNumber of church buildings 39\\nNumber of parsonages 12\\nNumber of Sunday-schools 40\\nNumber of officers and teachers 452\\nNumber of Sunday-school scholars 3, 109\\nValue of church buildings 63, 700\\nValue of parsonages 11 ,000\\nTotal value of church property 74, 700", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0474.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "Churches. 429\\nOf the ministers having pastoral supervision in Clarion county, four, includ-\\ning the presiding elder, do not reside in the county.\\nThe church has been blessed with many laymen whose influence and wealth\\nhave helped largely in developing the resources of the county and in building\\nup its interests. During the Civil War no company went out to the front with-\\nout her representatives. Her members have taken an active part in the edu-\\ncational interests of the people. Although not accomplishing all she projected,\\nyet in educational interests she laid the foundation of enduring monuments,\\nfrom which the people of the county will reap lasting benefit.\\nRoman Catholic Church.\\nLittle could be learned of the early organization of the Catholic Church in\\nthis county. As far back as 1820, the head mission of St. Michael s at Fry-\\nburg, then known as Copp s Settlement, is known to have existed. The early\\nsettlers were John Deitz and Jacob Eisenmann. A fine church edifice took the\\nplace of the old house of worship one year ago, and the congregation now wor-\\nships in the most stately building in Clarion county.\\nSt. Nicholas Church comes second in order in date of organization. The\\nprecise date of the erection of this church is not known, but 1833 or 34 is the\\ntime generally assigned. The building was a little log house, as were the other\\nchurch structures at this early date of our county s history. The Aarons\\nJoseph, Thomas, Daniel, George and Conrad, Peter Ruffner, Henry Cyphert,\\nPhilip and Charles Crate, were the pioneer Catholics in this section.\\nA small congregation was formed at Clarion about 1841, and a church\\nbuilding was erected in 1854, which wa^ dedicated in 1856.\\nCongregations now exist at East Brady, Edenburg, North Pine Grove, New-\\nBethlehem, St. Petersburg, Sligo, and Vogelbacher, in addition to those at\\nFryburg, Clarion and St. Nicholas.\\nThese churches are in the diocese of Erie, comprising the counties of Erie,\\nCrawford, Mercer, Venango, Forest, Clarion, Jefferson, Clearfield, Cameron,\\nElk, McKean, Potter, and Warren. Present bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Mullen,\\nLutheran Church.\\nSt. Paul s Evangelical Lutheran Congregation (Best s, in Beaver township)\\nis one of the oldest in the county. As early as 18 16, a log building had been\\nerected by the pioneer settlers. In that year a man by the name of Hammer,\\nclaiming to be a Lutheran minister, desired to preach there. But at that early\\nday congregations had to be especially on their guard against irresponsible\\ncharacters wolves in sheep s clothing and as he had neither ordination nor\\nsynodical papers, the church was locked against him, and as an additional pre-\\ncaution, a log chain was put around the stove. About the same time Rev\\nRupert preached occasionally in Beaver and adjoining settlements. About the\\n45", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0475.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "430 History of Clarion County.\\nyear i8i8, the Pennsylvania synod sent the Rev. G. A. Richart on an explor-\\ning mission tour through Western and Northwestern Pennsylvania. He com-\\nmenced his journey in Indiana county, and traveled on horseback over territory\\nnow embraced in the counties of Armstrong, Clarion, Venango, Crawford and\\nErie, then turning his faithful steed eastward through the northern tier of coun-\\nties, he reached Germantown, Pa., the following year. In 1820, we find him\\naf^ain making regular trips on horseback through the northwestern counties^\\npreaching about once a month at St. Paul s, and also at the State road, Lick-\\n,*n?. Redbank, and from house to house. This arduous labor he continued for\\na number of years, and by paying special attention to the instruction of the\\nyoung, he succeeded in building up flourishing congregations at all these\\nplaces, and besides laid the foundation for many others. On the eighty-first\\nanniversary of his birth, this venerable father preached his last sermon in Kit-\\ntanning, Pa.\\nHe was succeeded in a portion of his field by Rev. David Henry Keyl,\\nabout 1827, coming from the State of North Carolina. He traveled through\\nthe counties of Armstrong, Clarion, and Crawford, preaching at various sta-\\ntions. He made one of his stopping places and preaching points at the house\\nof John Adam Schefler, in Salem township, making his missionary tours every\\nfour or six weeks. The place of holding religious services in this locality, for\\ngreater convenience, was changed to the house of William Herrington. This\\nhouse, a log building with the chimney on the outside, the place in which\\nwas organized the first congregation in Salem township, is still standing near\\nthe town of Salem, a relic of pioneer house-building, and a memorial of primi-\\ntive piety and devotion to the truth of the Gospel. A few years after the\\norganization of the congregation here, steps were taken toward the erection of\\na house of worship. A fine location was secured for this purpose, and deeded\\nto the church by James Guthrie. The building was completed and dedicated\\nin 1838. The Reformed Congregation united with the Lutherans in the erec-\\ntion of the church, and occupied it conjointly with the latter for twenty-five\\nyears. Rev. Keyl continued to preach for the Lutherans until 1840, when, after\\na temporary absence, he returned to Clarion county, and made his home with a\\nformer friend near Fryburg, where in a few years he departed this life. His\\nremains rest in the grave-yard at the site of the old log Lutheran Church, on\\nthe State road west of Fryburg.\\nAfter this more laborers entered the field, new congregations were organ-\\nized, and each one, or at least each charge, had an individual history of its own.\\nAt a meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Synod, in December, 1840, Rev.\\nGeorge F. Ehrenfelt was sent to visit Clarion county. He formed a charge\\ncomposed of the following congregations St. Paul s, St. Peters, Salem, and\\nState roads. This is the first pastoral charge in Clarion county, and at pres-\\nent embraces six separate charges. Mr. Ehrenfelt was the first regularly lo-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0476.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "Churches. 431\\ncated pastor in the county. At present there are nineteen congregations,\\neight charges, and 1,551 members in the Lutheran Church of Clarion county.\\nSocieties.!\\nPatrons of Husbandry. The first grange in Clarion county was organized\\nin 1874. In less than four years there were twelve subordinate granges and a\\nPomona, or county grange, within this county; the number of members was\\nabout six hundred. In 1879 the patrons organized a mutual fire insurance\\ncompany, insuring only farm property.\\nThis order has taught the farmers to reduce expenses, both individual and\\ncorporate, to buy less and produce more, to sell less in bushels and more on\\nhoof, to discountenance the credit and mortgage systems, to avoid litigation,\\nand politically, to let the office seek the man, and not the man the office.\\nMasonic Lodges. Clarion Lodge, instituted in 1853; Canby Lodge, St.\\nPetersburg Edenburg Lodge, New Bethlehem Lodge. The district deputies\\nwere R. L. Brown, Robert Thorn, C. L. Lamberton, W. W. Barr, M. M. Mere-\\ndith, and William B. Meredith.\\n0. O. F. Clarion Lodge, instituted in 1847; Sligo Lodge first organ-\\nized at Curllsville as Hobah Lodge Iron County Lodge, at Rimersburg; Ming\\nLodge, at Strattanville West Freedom Lodge, New Bethlehem Lodge, East\\nBrady Lodge, Fox Lodge, at Foxburg; Yokohama Lodge, at Lickingville\\nCallensburgh Lodge, Blair s Corners Lodge, Allegheny Valley Lodge, at West\\nMonterey Elk City Lodge, Knox Lodge, at Edenburg and West Millville\\nLodge there is one encampment Clarion, No. 9 Oil Dorado Lodge, at\\nPerryville, and Shippenville Lodge are defunct. The district deputy grand\\nmasters were Enoch Alberson, John L. Sample, R. Rulofifson (fifteen years),\\nCharles Kaufman, J. E. Wood (seven years).\\nGrand Army of tJie Republic. There are thirteen posts in the county, viz.:\\nColonel George Covode, No. 112, Edenburg; Captain J. B. Loomis, No.\\n205, Clarion, Captain Thompson Core, No. 239, Porter township; Fox-\\nburg, No. 249, Foxburg Colonel William Lemon, No. 260, New Bethle-\\nhem E. D. Sharp, No. 267, Rimersburg; Thomas M. Sedwick, No. 294,\\nEast Brady; Adjutant John E. Myers, No. 386, SHgo Major Henry\\nWetter, No. 391, Strattanville; Lookout, No. 425, St. Petersburg; Amos\\nKiser, No. 475, Shippenville; Captain Charles E. Patton, No. 532, Green-\\nville John C. Pollock, No. 278, West Freedom. The last named post takes\\nthe number of Lucas Post, Snow Shoe, Centre county, which is defunct.\\nThere are about four hundred members of the G. A. R. in Clarion county.\\n1 By James Elgin.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0477.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "432 History of Clarion County.\\nCHAPTER XLHI.\\nHISTORY OF ASHLAND TOWNSHIP.i\\nASHLAND township was formed from parts of Elk and Richland townships\\nin 1856.\\nAshland township is bounded on the north by Venango county on the east\\nby Elk township; on the south by Beaver and Salem townships; and on the\\nwest by Salem township and Venango county.\\nThe greatest length of the township is from north to south, five and one-half\\nmiles average length five miles. The greatest breadth is four and seven-\\neighth miles average, four and one-half miles.\\nThe surface of the township is greatly diversified, as the flow of the\\nstreams will show. No mountains rear their lofty heads within her limits, but\\nthe water course of every stream is lined with hills. The southern part is\\ncomparatively level, but the main part of the township is very hilly, abounding\\nin small, beautiful valleys. The one peculiar characteristic of its hills is, none\\nare precipitous, but all gently sloping, well rounded knobs. The most elevated\\nand beautiful are the Howe and Rhodes hills, which seem like twins.\\nIn this small scope of land the drainage is effected by two definitely marked\\nsystems of streams, which seem to be divided by the public road running from\\nMount Pleasant, north and east to the John Martin farm. The northern or\\ngreater system, draining the north and west, is carried by four streams west\\ninto the Allegheny River. The principal and most northern is East Sandy\\nCreek, which rises in Washington township, and in its southwestern course\\ncuts both corners of that arm on the northeast corner of the township, known\\nas Shippen land. It then flows across the corner of Venango county, and just\\na short distance up the stream from where it again enters the township, it re-\\nceives the drainage of the northwest through McCogle^^ s Run since the oil\\nexcitement known as Cogley Run this rises in Elk township, but is formed\\nin Ashland, and is carried west into the Allegheny. Little Sandy is the sec-\\nond stream in size, but first in importance, because it drains over half of the\\ntownship. In its western course it receives the water of at least a score of\\nsmaller streams. Pine and Kolp s Run take their rise in this township. Date\\nRun drains the western arm.\\nThe most productive portion of the township is drained into the Clarion\\nRiver by the headwaters of Beaver and Canoe Creeks. As a whole the town-\\nship is well watered and well drained.\\nThe pursuits of the people of the township have varied with changing\\ntimes and new industries, but in every case they have returned to the old\\n1 By C. E. Rugh.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0478.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "Ashland Township. 435\\nreliable occupation of farming and stock raising. The iron industry once\\nstirred her citizens. Twice have the citizens neglected their farms in search of\\nwealth through petroleum, but the natural features of the central, southern,\\nand western parts make farming profitable. There are some very fine farms\\nin this part of the township. No pains are spared in limeing and fertilizing.\\nA few of the farms that deserve mention are the Armstrong, Howe, Phipps^\\nRhodes, Hockman, Mongs, Millers, and Kribbs farms.\\nBituminous coal underlies most of the hills. The Shively bank was exten-\\nsively worked during both oil excitements. This bank is situated near the\\nStone House. In the few last years a considerable amount of coal has been\\nfound north of the pike in Germany.\\nThe Phipps and Howe limestone banks are w^orked, but these do not sup-\\nply the demands of the township.\\nAt one time the iron industry was extensively carried on in Ashland. A\\nbank on the Phipps farm was extensively worked. The ore was hauled to the\\nBlack and Hasson furnaces near Shippenville.\\nThe most extensive bank was opened on the Kutcher farm in 1840. The\\nwinter of 1841 was one of the most stirring in the history of the township.\\nOver sixty teams were employed at one time in hauling the ore to Dempsie s\\nfurnace.\\nThe ore on Mr. Kutcher s farm made him one of the wealthiest citizens in\\nthe township, or in the county, for some time. Four culprits determined on\\nrelieving him of part of his money. They entered his house, and after beating\\nhim and his wife till they were almost dead, ransacked the house from cellar\\nto loft, emptying every thing. They secured only thirty-five dollars and a\\ngun. The gun was afterward found.\\nThe finding of petroleum in the northern part of the township has, within\\nthe last three years, given rise to an industry that has made Ashland one of\\nthe richest townships in the county. The history of the oil development of\\nthe township is quite broken. M. E. Hess drilled the first well on the Moon\\nfarm in 1872, and found oil in a paying quantity. Soon after, a few wells were\\ndrilled on the Kribbs farm, finding a little oil. This was about the time of the\\nEdenburg excitement, but there was no general excitement until the finding\\nand development of\\nThe Cogley Oil Field. 1\\nThe Cogley oil field was named after the McCogley Run in the northern\\npart of the township. Acknowledgment is due Mr. George Koch, of East\\nSandy, who furnished the facts concerning the Cogley field. He was also one\\nof the prominent men in bringing about the proper development of this field,\\n1 This was by no means the most important or productive oil field in the county, but the account\\nhere given is a fair type of the developments of all oil territories.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0479.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "434 History oy Clarion County.\\nas the facts will show. We give below the facts and wells that developed the\\nfield:\\nDuring the summer of 1873, J\\\\Ir. Peter Schreiber, of Oil City, drilled a well\\nupon the Strutman farm, finding twenty feet of oil sand and a showing of oil.\\nIt produced several barrels per day for some time, but was at last abandoned.\\nA second well was drilled on the Widican farm, southwest of the Schreiber\\nwell, finding the oil sand. The third well was drilled on the same line about\\na mile southwest, near the Dunkard Church, finding the oil sand and some oil.\\nTwo miles west, on the Abby farm, there was a well drilled in which was found\\nthe oil sand and a better showing for oil. The formation was good, and this\\ninduced Mr. J. M. Deitrich, a supervisor on the Western Union Telegraph line,\\nto make an eftort, in the fall of 1884, to further test that territory, as he\\nowned considerable land in that section. He talked with his neighbors\\nconcerning the possibilities of finding oil on their farms, and the result was that\\nThe Cogley Oil Company, consisting of Messrs. Deitrich, Young, Maxwell,\\nBerlin, Etzle, and Starr, was formed. This company obtained a number of\\nleases, ranging from ten to forty acres at one-eighth ro}-alty, from the farmers.\\nIn December a well was located on the Berlin farm and the drill started. The\\noil sand was struck January 3, 1885, at a depth of 985 feet, and after drilling\\nfour feet the hole commenced to fill up with oil. They immediately shut down,\\nbut resumed w^ork on the 6th, and on the 7th the well made a flow in the pres-\\nence of a number of oil men and farme- y found eighteen feet of pecu-\\nHar looking sand. It was dark, soft, fiucu n a fine pebbles, and resembled\\nthe stray sand of Venango. It differed from any pebble sand heretofore found.\\nThis well was tubed and started to pump on the 8th of Januar\\\\ and produced\\nabout eight barrels per da\\\\- for a nionth. It was then torpedoed, after which\\nit produced twent}^ barrels.\\nThe territory was not rated high, nor held first-class, on account of the\\nthin, dark-colored sand, but the Kahle Brothers, Young Farm Oil Company,\\nand the McKeever Compan)- started their drills on the Young farm.\\nBarber soon started on the Deitrich farm, and Patterson Ledom com-\\nmenced on the Berlin farm.\\nThe Kahle Brothers and Young Farm Oil Company both struck the oil\\nsand on March 12. The Kahle well produced sixty barrels per day, and the\\nYoung Farm Oil Company s well produced fift\\\\-five barrels.\\nThe ^IcKeever well was finished on March 24, and produced fifty barrels\\nper day. All these wells were close together, and did little in defining the\\nfield.\\nPatterson Ledom finished a thirty-barrel well April i, which widened the\\nfield to the west a quarter of a mile. Barber s location being close to Cogley\\nNo. I, was considered a prime location, but, to the surprise of all, came in on\\nthe 8th of April, after torpedoing, at twelve barrels per day.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0480.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "Ashland Township. 435\\nMay 1 6, Wood Company s well, on the Young farm, came in doing-\\nthirty barrels. May 30, Booth White s well was finished, and produced\\nthirty barrels per day. This widened the field to the south. June I, Howe\\nCompany struck a ten-barrel well on the Kennemuth farm. May 2, Yonkers\\nDeitrich struck an eight-barrel well on the Deitrich farm. These wells were\\non the southwest end of the belt as then developed, which led many to believe\\nthat the field was light in that direction, but Matison Colaron, Stayley\\nMcDonald, Wood McEntire, and Urquhart Levens on the Young farm,\\nand J. B. Smithman on the Fisher farm, all struck good wells, and June 6,\\nKoch Co. struck a fifty-barrel well on the Young farm June 7, Fertig\\nHenne finished up a one hundred and twenty-barrel well on the Rickenbrode\\nfarm Urquhart Levens drilled three wells on the Young farm, doing one\\nhundred barrels Roess Brothers, on the same farm, struck two wells doing sixty\\nbarrels Crawford Brother s well, on the Strutman farm, came in doing sixty\\nbarrels; Fertig Henne struck a sixty-barrel well on the Gibbs farm; and\\nthese caused the town of Cogley City to be built on the Young and Strutman\\nfarms.\\nJune 10, 1885, Koch Brothers Goettel struck a well on the M. P. Hess\\nfarm that produced one hundred and fifty-five barrels per day. This well was\\nlocated one mile southwest of the Young farm, in the territory that before was\\nconsidered dry or very light. It was a wild-cat well, and the best that has yet\\nbeen found in the Cogley field. It was visited by hundreds of people. Gil-\\nlespie Peters struck a fifty-barrel well on the same farm July 15 August 11,\\nJ. B. Smithman struck a seventy-five-barrel well on the Ben Hess farm Urqu-\\nhart Levens struck a fifty-barrel well on the M. P. Hess farm, and a seventy- five\\nbarrel well on the Henel lot August 12. On the 14th of August Koch and\\nGoettel, No. 2, on the M, P. Hess farm, came in doing thirty barrels per day, and\\nin one week after it was struck, fourteen wells were under way on the adjoining\\nfarms. North of the M. P. Hess farm, on the Deitrich place, Holt Morrison\\nfound a fifty-barrel well July 17; July 17, Stayley McDonald struck a sev-\\nenty-five-barrel well, and Koch, Swatzfager Co. a sixty-barrel well on the\\nsame farm; August 21, Koch Oil Co. struck a sixty-barrel well on the Will\\nHess farm August 14, Hunter Co. struck a thirty-five-barrel well on the\\nBeals farm, one mile southwest of the M. P. Hess farm Shaffer Co. struck\\na twenty-barrel well on the Miller farm, two miles southwest. The full length,\\nor nearly so, was now developed, and it was sure territory within the belt lim-\\nits. January, 1886, operations began to decHne on account of the full develop-\\nment of the territory. No dry wells were found inside of the limits of the\\nfield. The oil is of a superior quahty and has received a good premium, ranging\\nfrom seven to fourteen cents.\\nDuring November, 1886, the field produced 5,416 barrels per day, and the\\nwells do not decline as fast as those in other pebble territory. This field is", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0481.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "436 History of Clarion County.\\n1,400 rods long and 300 rods wide, containing about 2,625 acres. The north-\\nern end is the wider, but the southern end proved the most prohfic, and at-\\ntracted the most attention.\\nThe oil sand is soft, well filled with fine pebbles the drilling is hard, and\\ncost fifty cents a foot at the opening of the field, but soon advanced to sixty-\\ncents a foot. Most of the drilling was done at this price.\\nAn idea of the position and thickness of the strata may be had from the\\ncomplete record of the well of Koch Brothers, on the John Young farm, fin-\\nished July 16, 1885, producing fifty barrels per day:\\nName of Strata. Depth feet. Thickness feet.\\n1 Conductor 12\\n2 Coal 12 2\\n3 Black slate 14 2\\n4 Homewood sand i6 214\\n5 Slate 230 40\\n6 Sand 270 15\\n7 Red sand 285 5\\n8 Slate and shell 290 64\\n9 Salt-water sand 354 80\\nCased at 427 feet.\\n10 First sand 760 40\\nRed sand 800 10\\nGas sand Sio 20\\nSlate 830 63\\nRed rock 893 55\\nSlate 948 12\\nBoulder 960 20\\nSoft slate 980 28\\nThird sand 1,008 19\\nSlate 1,027 6\\nDepth 1 ,033\\nThe first settlers purchased their farms from Huidekooper, Bingham Land\\nCompany, Bear, or Wright, these iiaving bought land from the Holland Land\\nCompany.\\nThe facts concerning the history of the early settlers are quite as uncertain\\nas most legendary history, but will be given as related by their favored de-\\nscendants.\\nThomas Washington Mays was one of the earliest settlers. He purchased\\nsome land from Huidekooper, upon which he settled in 1804. His son, Will-\\niam Mays, in company with his brother, carrying their provisions, and seed\\ncorn and beans upon their backs, drove their cattle from Westmoreland county,\\nthrough the wilderness, to the land now known as the Hockman farm. The\\nfamily did not arrive as soon as anticipated, and they were compelled to use\\ntheir seed corn and beans for food. This scanty supply was soon consumed,\\nand they were compelled to leave their cattle to go in search of food. They\\nhad the good fortune to find the home of an old Westmoreland acquaintance\\nin the person of Henry Best, on Beaver Creek. Their hunger was soon re-\\nlieved, and with heavy loads but light hearts they started back to their new", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0482.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "Ashland Township. 437\\nhome. On their way home they were pursued by a pack of wolves that\\nseemed as hungry as they had been. These wolves gave them no little uneasi-\\nness. The family at last arrived, and a rude house was hastily erected for their\\nshelter. This was the first building within the limits of the township. Mr.\\nMays also planted the first fruit tree in the township, which still stands by the\\ncorner of Mr. Hockman s house. The tree is about six feet in circumference,\\nand has borne fruit for over eighty successive summers, and is still fruitful. The\\ntitle to Mr. Mays s farm was not clear, and the land was bought out from in\\nunder him, as it was then expressed. He then moved on to the land now\\nknown as the Starr farm, where he died.\\nIn the early part of the year after Mays settled, a man by the name of Sam-\\nuel Fry settled on the farm now known as the Knight farm. In the same year\\nMr. Harold purchased the land now owned by Robert Armstrong.\\nIn 1806, Nathan Phipps, from Westmoreland county, settled on the farm now\\nowned by Nathan Phipps, the third. Soon after Mr. Phipps s arrival in these\\nparts Nathan Phipps, jr. was born, he being the first child born in the township.\\nMr. Barnhart Martin settled upon the Martin farm in 1807. ^^r. Martin was\\nborn October 12, 1786, in Germany, near the Rhine, but was educated in\\nFrance. He was a man of letters, and esteemed very highly by all the old\\nsettlers. He was their counselor. in all affairs, and was the first justice of the\\npeace, holding that ofifice till his death, which occurred February, 1866.\\nIn 1809 Mr. Robert Armstrong settled on the farm now owned by his son,\\nthe youngest of his twelve children, to whom acknowledgment is due for the\\ninterest he has taken in the history of tlie township. Robert Armstrong, sr.,\\nwas a native of Ireland. He was born near Innishillen, August 2, 1782.\\nEmigrating to America in 1795, he married Miss Sarah Harold May 8, 1808.\\nHe died August 4, 1854. Sarah Harold was born in Blacklick township, In-\\ndiana county, Pa., September 2, 1784, died April 22, 1865.\\nOne year after their marriage they moved to Ashland township, where\\nthey remained during their lives. Soon after arriving he turned his horses out\\nto pasture and they went back to Westmoreland county, where they had come\\nfrom. Among the many incidents of interest that are found in Mr. Arm-\\nstrong s history, the following deserve mention One quiet evening as he was\\npreparing his fuel for the night, for in those times we had to work at night\\nto make both ends meet, they said, a squad of Indians, twelve adults with\\ntwo or three papooses, were seen advancing up the hill towards the house.\\nWith the courage of a pioneer father he held a firm grasp upon his ax, and\\ntaking the sober second thought he chopped away in an unconcerned manner,\\nlooking up to show the red men that he knew they were coming. When the\\nIndians came up to him he laid down his ax, and offered each one his hand of\\nfriendship, which they kindly accepted. By signs he led them into the house,\\nand ordered Mrs. Armstrong to get them the best supper within her means,\\n4G", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0483.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "438 History of Clarion County.\\nwhich she hastily did. Tiie Indians were very bold, and searched every\\ncorner, and on finding a bottle, some of them asked for um others asked for\\nwhite man s yum, wanting firewater, or rum. Mr. Armstrong, to show\\nthat he trusted them, and wanted to be on friendly terms with them, put his\\nfirst born babe, which is always the dearest baby in the world, in the lap of\\nthe one he thought the leader. This gave Mrs. Armstrong such uneasiness\\nthat slie could hardly proceed with the supper. The chief played a few min-\\nutes with the baby, but soon laid it on the floor. Each of these victories gave\\nthe Armstrongs pleasure, but their very souls were filled with an aching uncer-\\ntainty, and such an anxiety, that they never forgot that night. After finishing\\ntheir supper the Indians passed on, leaving the Armstrongs to rejoice over this\\nfirst visit from the natives. The Indians frequently passed along the little\\nbrook below their house, but they were never molested by them.\\nMr. George Berlin settled on the farm now owned by his son, William, in\\n1810. Mr. Berlin was born September 12, 1782, in Little York, York county,\\nPa. He was a blacksmith by trade. All the people within a radius of ten\\nmiles came to his shop for their work to be done, yet he had tiriie to farm.\\nHe broke the land with a shear plow, himself acting as horse, while his wife\\nheld the plow.\\nThe first carding-machine in this section of the country was owned by Mr.\\nBerlin. It was run by horse-power. Wool was brought from sixteen miles\\naround to be carded, which fact leads us to judge that it was the first carding-\\nmachine in the county. Mr. Berlin kept tavern also, and the Susquehanna and\\nWaterford Turnpike was graded past his tavern in 18 18. Mrs. Berlin baked\\nevery day to supply the men working on this road. This is well remembered\\nby his oldest son, Jesse, who said he had to chop bake-wood.\\nMessrs. Joseph Kutcher, Henry Neely, Henry Swab, Henry Mong, John\\nMiller, and others, also settled soon after those mentioned above. The history\\nof the trials and hardships borne by these early settlers is the same story told\\nof all pioneer fathers, with the names changed.\\nThe need of a grist-mill was the source of most of their inconvenience, but\\nsometimes they had nothing to grind if they had had a mill. Some of these\\nearly settlers lived six weeks on milk and potatoes. Salt was a precious thing\\nto them. It cost four dollars per bushel, and had to be packed from east of\\nthe mountains. They manufactured their sugar and most of their cloth.\\nCalico cost fifty cents per yard. They had no wagons, but hauled everything\\non pin sleds. They tramped or flailed their grain out and cleaned it in a\\nsheet.\\nIn all wars in which the United States have been engaged, Ashland town-\\nship has furnished her full share of brave and gallant troops, and was especially\\nwell represented in the War of 18 12. On a quiet afternoon in July the citizens\\nof the township that were fit were summoned to be ready the next morning", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0484.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": "Ashland Township. 439\\nfor the march to Lake Erie. This draft came right in harvest, and was a try-\\ning time for them to leave everything to their wives. But Hke true patriots\\nthey started for the lake and arrived there before Perry s famous battle. They\\nreturned some time in the winter, and were drafted again in the spring and\\nmarched toward the northern boundary of the United States. They took part\\nin the battle of Lundy s Lane. All returned safe and sound, and found their\\nfamilies in good condition.\\nThe first mail received in Ashland township was carried and distributed by\\nDr. Powell. He carried it from Franklin, and after leaving the house of\\nThomas Mays, he saw or passed no other building till he reached Franklin.\\nThere was no road and he followed a path through the wilderness.\\nThe first post-office in the township was established at Kossuth, and opened\\nup by Mr. Ed. Heeter. It is now kept by James Lamberton, and is a fourth-\\nclass office; but Mr. Smith, postmaster during the oil excitement, says that\\nduring the greatest excitement he canceled stamps to the amount of $300 per\\nday. This same oil excitement caused a second office of the township to be\\nestablished at Fern City, under the name of Fern Post-office, September 12,\\n1885. The office was first kept by William Hockman. He resigned in April,\\n1886, and was succeeded by Mr. J. C. Berlin, the present master.\\nThe first town in the township was Mt. Pleasant, more commonly called\\nNinevah.\\nCogley Cit}^ was located on the Young and Strutman farms, and like\\nmost oil towns, had a mushroom growth. The building was begun in May,\\n1885, and it soon contained a machine shop, a blacksmith shop, two livery\\nstables, eight stores, three hotels, six boarding-houses, and a billiard saloon\\nand skating rink. All these did a thriving business, but as soon as Fern City\\nbegan to build, Cogley declined, and by January, 1886, little was left to show\\nits location.\\nKossuth was located on the Pike. It was named after the post-office at\\nthis place. It was built with the hope that it was on the oil belt, and by Jan-\\nuary, 1886, it had a population of 400. It contained three hotels, two hard-\\nware stores, one machine shop, one drug store, nine stores, one blacksmith\\nshop, two oil offices, five saloons, one billiard saloon, and the post-office. Sev-\\neral wells were drilled near the town. They were all dry and this caused the\\ntown to decline. At present, January, 1887, there is little more of a town\\nthan before the oil excitement.\\nFern City is built on the M. P. Hess and Fern farms, and was named after\\nthe latter.\\nJune 10, 1885, Koch Goettell struck the greatest well in this field. It\\nproduced one hundred and fifty-five barrels per day. This caused a town to\\ncommence to build. Mong Hockman s hardware store was the first build-\\ning. One month after they built, the town had a population of three hundred,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0485.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "440 History of Clarion County.\\nand at the end of the second month the population was six hundred. It then\\ncontained one hardware store, nine stores, three meat-markets, four hotels,\\nseven boarding-houses, one drug- store, one post-office, one harness-shop, one\\nlivery- stable, two blacksmith shops, five barber- shops, three oil offices, one gas\\noffice, two news-rooms, one newspaper, and thirteen saloons.\\nIt was said by those who followed the oil excitement that this was one of\\nthe wickedest towns ever built. The Sabbath day was made hideous by\\ndrunken fights. After the drilling was done the town became quite respecta-\\nble. At present, January, 1887, the population is 350. This town will likely\\nlast as long as the wells in this section produce.\\nThe first school-house was built on the Armstrong farm some years before\\n1820. This house served as church and for all public meetings. The first\\nteacher was Thomas Thomson. In 1833 a man by the name of Thomas Barr\\nwas keeping school in this house. He got drunk one day and slept in the\\nschool-house the after part of the day and in the evening. Some time in the\\nnight Mr. Armstrong saw the house on fire. He hurried down, expecting to\\nfind the master burned, but he had crept out and was lying in a fence corner\\nnear by. Another house was built on the same location, which is still standing.\\nOn the wall within is written, Evacuated in 1839. The next school was\\nheld in the public school-house called the Shivelie school-house. This was\\nthe first school under the public school system. Soon after a school was started\\non the Miller farm. These houses were built by the citizens of the district, but\\nthe teachers were paid out of tax. The first teachers under the public system\\nwere Mr. Ab. Teats and Mr. Neri Boyer.\\nThe township at present supports seven schools.\\nThe first religious meeting w^as a Methodist meeting held in Mr. Robert\\nArmstrong s house in 1810. One of the first preachers was a Rev. Bear, from\\nthe Baltimore Conference.\\nThe first German Reformed preacher was a Rev. Henry Koch, who was the\\nfirst pastor to preach in the first church in the county for miles around.\\nMany congregations were formed in the township, sometimes preaching in\\nthe open air. The school-houses were used for many years. Prayer-meetings\\nwere frequently held in private houses.\\nThough the people were active in their religious matters, yet there were no\\nchurches built within the township until about the time of the organization of\\nthe township. This was an Evangelical Lutheran Church, known as the St.\\nMark s Church. Their first minister was Rev. Witt, who organized a congre-\\ngation many years before this church was built. The first pastor to preach in\\nthe new church was Rev. Bachtle.\\nThis church was replaced by a magnificent building in 1882. This is one\\nof the finest country churches in the county. It has a Sunday-school room,\\nthat by folding doers can be thrown into the auditorium. It was built through\\nthe efforts of Rev. J. M. Wouders.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0486.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "Beaver Township. 441\\nThere are besides this church a German Reform Church, an EvangeHst\\nChurch, and a Dunkard Church.\\nCHAPTER XLIV.\\nHISTORY OF BEAVER TOW^SHIP.i\\nBEAVER township is bounded on the north by Salem, Ashland, and Elk,\\non the east by Elk, Paint, and the Clarion River, which forms the Beaver-\\nPiney line, south by the river and Licking township, and west by Richland and\\nSalem. It lies in the west central part of the county. Its shape is irregular.\\nIts greatest length from east to west is about nine miles its greatest width is\\nabout seven miles.\\nThe surface of the township is very hilly, but not rough, being broken into\\nnumerous ridges by many small streams passing through it. The highlands\\nare divided into three main ridges, the principal one of which comprises all\\nthat portion of the township lying between Beaver Creek on the west and\\nCanoe Creek on the east. It is in fact a watershed separating the small streams\\nwhich supply these two larger streams. It extends from Ashland township\\nline on the north to the Clarion at Canoe Ripple, on the south. This range\\nhas numerous cross-ridges jutting out from the main elevation, and terminat-\\ning at the creeks which run on either side of it. The second range in elevation\\nand area lies across Canoe, or more definitely speaking, it comprises all that\\nportion of the township lying east of Canoe Creek except the small portion ly-\\ning east of Deer Creek. This Canoe ridge extends from the vicinity of Elk\\nCity southward until it terminates in the Clarion River at Delo s Eddy. The\\nportion of the township east of Deer Creek is a high ridge, sloping down from\\nthe east to that stream.\\nThe third and last main elevation comprises all that portion of the town-\\nship lying west of Beaver Creek, and forms the watershed between Beaver\\nCreek and Turkey Run. The highest part of this elevation is the ridge run-\\nning from the Licking line to the Salem line, and probably the highest point is\\nnear the store of William Lorah Son, at Monroeville. The lowlands of the\\ntownship are limited in area, but a few splendid level tracts lie among the hills;\\nthose in the vicinity of Edenburg and Beaver City being the finest in the town-\\nship. The Clarion River flows along the southeastern edge of the township for\\nseveral miles, striking the township line east of the mouth of Deer Creek, and\\nleaving it between the mouth of Canoe and the mouth of Beaver. Deer Creek\\n1 By B. M. Price.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0487.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "442 History of Clarion County.\\nenters the township from Elk township, near the Paint township Hne, and\\nempties into the Clarion in the southeastern part of the township. Canoe flows\\nout of Ashland township into Beaver immediately northeast of Edenburg, and\\nflowing through the township to the southward, it empties into the Clarion at\\nCanoe Ripple. Beaver Creek enters the township from Salem township near\\nBeaver City. It flows southward and into Licking township about one mile\\nwest of the mouth of Canoe. These streams with their tributaries furnish good\\nwater power, good water for stock, and good drainage to carry off the surplus\\nrain fall. A portion of the extreme western part of the township is drained\\nby a tributary of Turkey Run.\\nOriginally the land was covered with a heavy growth of oak timber. The\\nprincipal part of the the township has been cleared, though a number of good\\ntracts of timber yet remain. Much of the present standing timber, however,\\nis of second growth the original forests having been cut off for charcoal.\\nThe lands lying west of Canoe Creek produce fine crops of wheat, corn,\\nand oats. This more than ordinary yield of grain is not due to the natural fer-\\ntility of the soil, but rather to the energy of the thrifty land owners, who have\\nmade a special effort to fertilize their farms. East of this creek are some good\\nfarms the enterprising land owners on that side having many more difficulties\\nto contend with in procuring fertilizers than their more favored neighbors to\\nthe west of them.\\nThe principal productions of Beaver are the usual farm products, petroleum,\\ncoal, ore, limestone, and lumber. In early days when the iron industry was\\nthe principal one of the county, large quantities of iron ore were mined. When\\nthe iron excitement died away the people generally gave their attention to\\nfarming, but little progress was marked for a number of years. In 1865 the\\nproduction of oil at Deer Creek introduced a new element into the commerce\\nof the township. But as the field was soon abandoned, this element had little\\ninfluence on the wealth or progress of the people, till the developments in the\\nwestern part of the township, which began in 1872. The excitement ran high\\nfor about six years probably being at its zenith in 1877. The production\\nwas large. Many land owners became wealthy from the oil produced on their\\nfarms. At present the yield of oil is somewhat limited. Since the oil excite-\\nment has subsided the farmers seem to vie with each other in the improvement\\nof their lands.\\nAs a general thing the breeding of first-class cattle has received little at-\\ntention. There are some worthy exceptions to this general condition. Cyrus\\nNeely, Israel Neely, W. J. Ramsey, and a few others, have made much im-\\nprovement in the cattle of the township. Eli Ritts has some fine cattle on his\\nfarm occupied by Peter Price. The horse stock has received much more at-\\ntention. Probably no township of the county has a better grade of draft-\\nhorses than Beaver. George Berlin, Jacob Graff, Levi Berlin, and others, have\\ndone much to improve the grade of horses.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0488.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "Beaver Township. 443\\nHistory and Early Settlements. Beaver township was a part of Richland\\ntownship, Venango county, previous to the formation of Clarion county. The\\noriginal Beaver township, at the organization of Clarion county, included the\\npresent Beaver township, also part of the present townships of Ashland, Elk,\\nand Salem, with a population of i,6ii. In 1880 the township, lessened in\\narea, had a population of 3,585. The population of the township during the\\noil excitement probably exceeded 5,000. The first settlement within the limits\\nof the township was made in 1801 by Henry Best and Harold Best. These\\ntwo pioneers left their homes in Westmoreland county to seek a new home\\nfarther west, and after several days travel they reached a place which seemed\\nto suit them, and they stopped and spent the night where John G. Snyder s\\nbarn now stands. Having looked the country over they concluded to settle\\nthere, and at once proceeded to erect a cabin. The place of location was near\\nthe site of the Stone Church. Not knowing who owned the land whereon\\nthey had located, each of the brothers proceeded to take possession of a tract\\nfor himself. Harold s cabin stood about where the Stone House now stands,\\nwhich is occupied by Henry Best, son of Harold. This son is now in his 87th\\nyear. The other brother, Henry, built his cabin at the head of the little valley\\nnortheast from the present residence of Michael Best. The following year the\\nmen returned to Westmoreland for their families, which they at once brought\\nto their new homes. Soon after this another brother, William, came and pur-\\nchased the tract upon which Henry had built.\\nAt this time there was no mill nearer than at Oil Creek, or at Bear Creek,\\nand Henry looked around for a suitable place to erect a mill. He selected a\\nsite near the place where the dam of the present George Best mill now is.\\nThe prospect of having a mill was received with so much favor by the settlers\\nfar and near that men came many miles to help build it. About this time two\\nsettlements were made at or near the mouth of Deer Creek, one by Joseph\\nBrown and the other by John Orr. It is possible that these settlements ante-\\ndated the settlements made by the Bests, but a memorandum in possession of\\nCaptain R. Laughlin, of Callensburg, only shows positive proof that the Deer\\nCreek settlement was made as early as in 1802, at the latest. The memoran-\\ndum is as follows\\nMemorandum Robert Brown.\\nA Memorandum of A Bargin Between John Laughlin and Robt. Brown\\nSheweth that I, the Said Brown Doth hearby Sell unto the Said Laughlin A\\nPice or persel of Land containing Eight-Hundred Acres Lying on the waters\\nof Stump Creek with two small improvements in the Names of Joseph Brown\\nJohn Orr Bearing Date October 30th 1802, which I Do Ensure to be the\\nfirst upon the Land it Being for the sum of one Hundred Dollars to me in\\nhand paid which I am to pay Back if not vacant with Interest and reasonable", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0489.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "444 History of Clarion County.\\npay for his Trouble as witness my hand and Seal the i8th Day of January\\n1803.\\nAtst Jno Leard. Robert Brown, [Seal]\\nA man named Ritchey made a settlement south of Blair s Corners on the\\nland now owned by the Garis brothers, Wiles and Gilbert, at an early date.\\nRitchey died and his widow sold the improvement to a Mr. Knight, an early\\nsettler, and the ancestor of the families of that name now in the township.\\nThe Becks and the Armstrongs first settled the northern portion of the\\ntownship.\\nHenry Myers settled in 181 5 on the property now known as the Myers\\nMill property, near Blair s Corners. He built the saw-mill in 18 15, and the\\ngrist-mill in 181 7, and took up his residence in the upstairs of the last-named\\nstructure. This mill is now run by Joseph Myers, a son of its builder. Here\\nmay be seen the toll-box that did service in the old Alum Rock mill from 1811\\nto 18 17, and which has done service for seventy-six years.\\nIn 181- a man named Raines settled the land now owned by Cyrus Neely,\\nIsrael Neely, and Leonard Mong. John Neely, father of Cyrus, Israel, John,\\nand Frank Neely of this township, bought the Raines property, and then set-\\ntled the farm which George Texter now owns.\\nThe first settler east of Canoe was James McKisson, on the Regina Alt-\\nman farm.\\nFurnaces. There were four furnaces in the township Jefferson, Eagle,\\nBeaver, and Tippecanoe. Beaver was the first. It was erected in 1837 by\\nLeonard Sample. Jefterson was erected in 1839 by Plummer Co. Eagle\\nwas erected by Curll, Kribbs Co., and Tippecanoe by Black Maxwell.\\nJefferson was called the Quaking Asp Furnace. Being in a hurry to get the\\nfurnace in blast the stack was surrounded by a temporary wall of quaking asp\\npoles filled in with clay. The iron from these furnaces was boated to Pittsburgh\\non the Clarion and Allegheny Rivers.\\nGrist-mills. Henry Best s grist-mill erected, in 1806, was the first in the\\ntownship. A short distance below it on the same stream (Beaver Creek)\\nHenry Myers built his mill in 1817, and later the mill known as the StuU mill\\nwas built, still farther down. Henry Best s mill going into decay, a new one\\nwas erected, which is now owned by his son, George Best.\\nSaw-mills. The first saw-mill was the one now owned by Joseph Myers,\\nwhich he runs in connection with his grist-mill. It was erected in 18 15 by\\nHenry Myers. The old saw- mill at the mouth of Canoe was owned by George\\nDelo. Later James D. Shaw carried on business at that point. At present\\nGeorge W. Whitehill carries on boat-building there in connection with the mill,\\nwhich he repaired upon gaining possession of it. At an early date a small mill\\nwas built down the stream from Myers s mill, where the pump station now is,\\nand another near the site of the George Best mill. Near Edenburg, on the", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0490.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "Beaver Township. 445\\nWhitehill farm, is a saw-mill on Canoe, which has been in operation many-\\nyears.\\nOther Industries. Early in the history of the township Henry Myers built\\nan oil mill near the station at Blair s Corners, on the P. W. Railroad. The\\nmill was for the manufacturing of flax-seed oil, and was run a long time.\\nReuben Fowles had the first wagon- shop in the township, near the old\\nFowles homestead. Other tradesmen followed. George Texter, sr., built a\\nwagon-shop in 1824 where he now lives, being the oldest native workman in\\nthe township.\\nDuring the oil excitement an extensive carriage manufactory was erected\\nat Jefferson City by a Mr. Delo. It was the largest establishment of the kind\\nin the township. Many others came with the oil excitement, but the only-\\nestablishment that survived the reaction is the manufactory of O. J. Crum at\\nMonroeville, which, at present, is putting out first-class work.\\nThe shops incident to the excitement, such as machine-shops, boiler-shops,\\ntank-shops, etc., have disappeared, with one exception, that of the machine-\\nshop of Irvin Magee at Monroeville, vdiich shop yet does a great deal of work.\\nAs was noted under early settlements a man named Raines settled the I. S.\\nNeely farm and other lands. His cabin was built about six rods west of the\\nspot where I. S. Neely s house now stands, which spot is marked by two wal-\\nnut trees.\\nIn 1 82 1 John Neely came from Westmoreland county and bought Raines\\nout. Soon after this John Neely wounded himself with an ax. The cut was\\nso severe that Mr. Neely had to return to Westmoreland to receive treatment\\nfrom a doctor, under whose care he was kept for a year. He then came back\\nto his land that he had bought of Raines. His wound had somewhat disabled\\nhim for hard work, so he bought his father s stills and erected the first still-\\nhouse built in Beaver township. It stood below the spring, where E. J. Neely s\\nbarn now stands. It is noticeable that of John Neely s nine sons, brought up\\nin and about the distillery, not one of them is addicted to the use of liquor,\\nand only three use tobacco. After the still-house was built C. Kribbs built one\\nnear Edenburg, and a man named Armstrong built another not far from\\nKribbs s.\\nA few years ago George Knaell erected a jelly factory at Mongtown.\\nMany bushels of apples are here made into jelly by this new enterprise.\\nThe earliest blacksmiths of Beaver township were a man named Silvis, who\\nworked in a shop near the present site of Hunter s barn at Beaver City and\\na man named T. Lynn, who worked at the mouth of Canoe. After these\\ncame Henry Sterner, Samuel More, John Lorah, O. J. Crum, Samuel Stoner,\\nJohn Cope, and others.\\nMr. Coulter, at Jefferson, works in the old Delo carriage manufactory,\\nand for many years David Kline had a shop at Mt. Joy and Henry Sterner\\n47", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0491.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "446 History of Clarion County.\\nwas the first blacksmith to work at Monroe. John Beck, sr., once had a shop\\non the John Beck farm, near Edenburg. At an early day John Cherry, sr.,.\\nerected a gunsmith shop where the present shop of John Cherry now stands.\\nFor many years this iwas the only gun-shop within forty miles. Here Mr.\\nSilvis often came to do blacksmithing.\\nOil Wells. The oil excitement began in Beaver in 1872. In 1865 there\\nhad been five wells drilled at the mouth of Deer Creek, called the Pocahontas,\\nthe Brazil, the Coal Run, the Whitehill, and the Packer. All of these wells\\nhad some oil, the first being struck at a depth of about 313 feet. The oil was\\nof good quality, amber colored. The production was small, though the Poca-\\nhontas started off at a daily production of thirty barrels. The field was soon\\nabandoned, as the wells were wet holes, that is, not cased, and as the water\\nwas plenty, it soon drowned out the oil.\\nIn 1872 the first wells to strike oil were on the George Berlin, the George\\nTexter, and the Eli Ritts farms, in the western part of the township. The oil\\nhere found was the third sand, or green oil. Developments soon extended\\neastward through the township, and soon almost the entire portion lying west\\nof Canoe from the Ashland and Salem lines toward the river to Wentling s\\nCorners was covered with a forest of derricks. The total number of wells\\ndrilled in the township is unknown to the writer, but it must have reached\\neight hundred. Some of the wells were large producers and the total yield\\nwas enormous. Pump stations were erected at Forest Home, Slambang, Jef-\\nferson, and Blair s Corners to accommodate the field, which was soon covered\\nwith a net-work of pipe laid by the United Pipe Line Company and other\\ntransportation corporations. The production of the township has greatly de-\\ncreased, but still is quite valuable. An oil refinery was once in operation near\\nthe residence of William J. Ramsey, below Monroe. It was frozen out by\\nlarger corporations.\\nTowns. Previous to the excitement the villages of the township were\\nsmall. Edenburg was the largest. The developments in and around that\\ntown soon increased its population and business till it became a borough.\\nMonroeville, a small cross-roads village,-soon became a booming oil town, and\\nBlair s Corners increased considerably, but being on the edge of the belt, it\\nnever became very important. Jefferson City, Wentling s Corners, Beaver\\nCity, Forest Home, Fullerton, Mongtown, Moyer s Corners, Mehrtena and\\nSlambang sprang up almost in a day, and for a few years boomed, but\\nwhen the reaction came, the most of these towns disappeared, some leaving\\nnot even a sign to mark the spot where they once stood. Monroeville, now\\ncalled Monroe, Wentling s Corners, and Blair s Corners are the only remaining\\ntowns of importance. The larger of these oil towns were bad places, especially\\nJefferson City.\\nThe deviltry incident to the growth and decay of these towns was inesti-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0492.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "Beaver Township. 447\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0mable, and to write what could at this late day be set down would fill a vol-\\nume. But these scenes of unnatural and spasmodic uprising of little cities had\\na brighter side. The influx of population foreign to our soil brought with it\\nmany of the best people of this and other States, who devoted their money to\\nthe development of the wealth of the township, while their influence was ex-\\nerted to improve their social and moral surroundings.\\nAt Monroe, the present business houses consist of Lorah Son and A. J.\\nDearolph, in general merchandise S. F. Weiser, shoe store and shop Wm.\\nHenton, drug store; O. J. Crum, carriage manufactory; Charles McCafferty,\\nfurniture and undertaking. Here also are located Dr. J. F. Summerville and\\nDr. B. Richter, and John Lorah, justice of the peace. Here also is the machine-\\nshop of Irvin Magee. At Blair s Corners J. P. Lutz has a general store; John\\nLong, a hotel and Samuel Stoner, a blacksmith shop and Mr. Fisher, a\\nwagon-making shop. At Wentling s Corners, Mr. Deitrich has a store Mr.\\nThomas Wentling, a store; John Cope, a blacksmith shop; and Robert Taylor,\\na hotel. Isaac Mong, justice of the peace, is located here. At Jefferson Fur-\\nnace, Blair s Corners, and Forest Home the pump stations are still in use. At\\nthe Beck farm John Beck still has a grocery, and John Mehrten a store at\\nMehrtena.\\nSchools and Churches. In 18 14 a building was erected where the Stone\\nChurch now stands. It was a church and school-house combined. Soon after\\nthis building was erected another was built near the present site of Cyrus\\nNeely s brick house. After that a school-house, known as the Buckwheat\\nAcademy, was erected near Wentling s Corners, on the Jerry Best farm, and\\nthe next school-house was built where Edenburg now stands.\\nDuring the excitement in oil times the township sustained eighteen schools.\\nSince the floating population has gone out of the township, four of these\\nschools have been abandoned.\\nAfter the church building at the Stone Church others were erected through-\\nout the township. The first, known as the Emmanuel Church, stood near the\\nsite of the one-time town of Beaver City. It was abandoned in oil times and\\nthe Beaver City church was erected. The Mount Joy Church stands on the\\nridge above Canoe Ripple. The Evangelical Lutherans erected a church at\\nBlair s Corners in 1875. The Monroe St. Mark s Reformed Church was built\\nin 1876. The Brown Church, in Monroe, was built by the Presbyterians\\nabout the same time. One time there was a church at Jefferson Furnace.\\nThe only resident minister in the township is Rev. J. F. Wiant, of Monroe,\\nwho succeeded Rev. Henry Hoffman, the first pastor of St. Mark s.\\nRecollections, Notes, etc. The township at various times has had various\\nlodges of different benevolent orders. At Monroe the Royal Templars, the\\nKnights of Honor, and the Knights and Ladies of Honor have had lodges.\\nAt Blair s the I. O. O. F. had a lodge which is thriving. Beaver City and", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0493.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "448 History of Clarion County.\\nJefferson each had a lodge of the A. O. U. W.; the latter lodge has been\\nmoved to Wentling s Corners. Monroe K. of H. survives.\\nMonroe Academy was established about i88o, by Rev. S. W. Wilt. It\\nafterward fell into the hands of W. A. Beer. Since 1882 it has not been in\\noperation. The Knights of Honor having purchased the academy building, it\\nis now used for a public hall and lodge-room. In 1881 W. A. Beer and J. E.\\nReicherd began the publication of Common Sense, an educational semi-\\nmonthly. This ofifice was in Monroe. It suspended in 1882.\\nMr. Beer, during his residence in Monroe, was nominated for the Pennsyl-\\nvania House of Representatives, to which office he was elected by a large\\nvote.\\nWhile a resident of Monroe Mr. Beer had charge of the Monroe Academy,\\nand taught the public school during the term of 1881-2. His school work\\nwas earnest and aggressive. His pupils rallied to his standard with a will.\\nThe school not only made rapid strides forward, but during that term it pro-\\ncured a bell worth twenty-two dollars, a Webster s Unabridged Dictionary, a\\ntwenty-five dollar tellurian globe, and some maps, and blackboards. The\\npupils and citizens recognized in this teacher a character strong in its own\\nindividuality, and it left its impression upon the community. The school has\\nkept on accummulating apparatus and aids, and now has an organ, a set of\\nencyclopedias, and other helps; besides, a number of the students of 188 1-2\\nhave since become teachers of good repute.\\nForest Home was the headquarters of the United Pipe Lines, superin-\\ntended by Major J. B, Maitland, a gentleman of superior business abilities.\\nThis town was a sort of an educational center. The people built a school\\nbuilding helped pay a teacher, and gave a great deal of attention to reading\\nand study. This school has lately been abandoned. The first store in the\\ntownship was opened by Abram Allebach, near where C. W. Wiles now lives.\\nThe crimes and casulties of the township have been quite numerous, but\\nwe are unable here to give authentic data.\\nOn the 2d of October, 1885, Mrs. McKisson shot Patrick Forbes, danger-\\nously wounding him.\\nProbably the last wolf killed in the township was killed by J. P. Kiser, in\\ni860, near the Knight school-house.\\nThe first post-office was Myers, kept by Henry Myers in his mill. The\\noffice was afterward moved to Jefferson furnace, and the name was changed to\\nJefferson Furnace when it was moved to Blair s Corners through the influ-\\nence of R. F. Blair, the name was again changed and its present name, Blair s\\nCorners, was adopted. A post-office was established at Knox, and one at\\nTippecanoe called Canoe. In 1876 the Monroe post-office was established\\nwith W. C. Sherrick, as postmaster. About the same time an office was estab-\\nlished at Jefferson City called Church, with Donaldson as postmaster.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0494.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "Brady Township.\\n449\\nThis office is now located at Wentling s Corners. When Beaver City was a\\ntown, its office was called Kribb s Farm.\\nThe famous Captain Henry Neely, of Richland township, first located in\\nBeaver township near Edenburg s present site. He built his cabin near where\\nMr. Culbertson s house now stands. While living here Captain Neely s brother\\ndied and was buried on the knoll now the north end of the main street of Eden-\\nburg. This was probably the first white man buried in the limits of Beaver\\ntownship. Henry Neely then settled on the flat west of Alum Rock, There\\nare men living in Beaver who remember having sowed wheat between Christ-\\nmas and New Years, and raised a good crop.\\nThe first physician to practice in the township was a Dr. Meager.\\nThe sturdy citizens of this township deserve a more extended notice than\\nhere given, but space will not permit. The names most familiar throughout\\nthe township number among them the Becks, Masters, Neelys, Bests, Myerses,\\nTexters, Berlins, Delos, Alts, Knights, Kribbses, Bealses, Heeters, Garises, Arm-\\nstrongs, McKissons, Lorahs, Fritzes, Dearolphs, Foxes, Theisses, Heplers,\\nWentlings, Taylors, Whitehills, Hulingses, Klines, Mongs, Youngs, Bashlines,\\nCherreys, Eichners, Lutzes, and scores of others who have done their share to\\ndevelop the township.\\nOn Beaver Creek above Jefferson Furnace are a number of wells that were\\nabandoned, which seem to be artesian in their nature, as they now throw out a\\nconstant stream of water. One of these flowing wells is located at the head of\\nthe Myers mill dam. From this well Mr. Myers has laid a water line to the\\nhead of his mill race, and the action of the water keeps the race open during\\nthe winter, so that here we find a water-mill that can grind the whole year\\nround.\\nThe Pittsburgh and Western Railroad passes through the township. In oil\\ntimes there were station-houses at Ritt s Farm, Blair s Corners, Jefferson and\\nBeaver City. Now there is no ticket office in the township. The Emlenton\\nand Shippenville road also passed through the township, connecting with the\\npresent road at Jefferson. It was torn up about eight years ago.\\nCHAPTER XLV.\\nHISTORY OF BRADY TOWNSHIP.i\\nTHIS township was christened in honor of Captain Brady, of Indian fame.\\nHis venturesome career is so familiar to the people of Clarion county that\\nan extended recital of his daring deeds is unnecessary.\\n1 By L. L. Himes.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0495.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "450 History of Clarion County.\\nBrady township was formerly a part of Madison. In 1866 the will of the\\npeople was ascertained by a vote, and the new township of Brady was ordered\\nand decreed the township to contain all the land lying in the great bend of\\nthe Allegheny River southwest of Madison, and to be separated therefrom by\\na straight line connecting Catfish and Redbank, passing through the lands of\\nthe Pittsburgh Coal and Mining Company.\\nBrady township is connected to Madison by a very high and narrow strip\\nof land, which is quite famous in the early history of the county. On one\\noccasion the Indians had captured two whites down the river, and had brought\\nthem to their camp in the bend and secured them to stakes. Captain Brady\\ncame up on the Armstrong county side, and from the rocky cliff on that side\\ndiscovered the prisoners. At night he descended the cliff, swam the Alle-\\ngheny River, released the prisoners, and with them returned to the opposite\\nside of the river and escaped.\\nThis township contains about one thousand five hundred acres of land, five\\nhundred under cultivation, the remainder rough, but valuable on account of\\nthe great deposits of coal, iron ore, and limestone. The land lying next the\\nriver is low and level and valuable for farming purposes. The interior is very\\nrocky, and contains high elevations with abrupt descent, and cut through by\\ndeep hollows.\\nEarly Settlers. Captain Samuel Brady was not only the first white settler\\nin Brady township, but the first in Clarion county. He located near the\\npresent site of East Brady shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War,\\nand lived by hunting and fishing. No marks of improvement were made by\\nwhite settlers until many years after.\\nCaptain Thomas Phillips was among the first white settlers that made any\\nimprovement. He located a tract of land where Phillipston (Phillipsburg) now\\nstands, and built the first house ever built in this township. The first story\\nwas a studding frame and the second of hewed logs. About this time Captain\\nBrady conveyed to Judge Ross, of Pittsburgh, the Brady tract for defending\\nhim in the courts for the killing of an Indian. Some time after this Judge\\nRoss conveyed to J. M. Cunningham 1 a five hundred-acre tract, joining Phil-\\nlipston. Cunningham moved on the land, cleared it up, and divided it into\\nsmaller tracts, conveyed one hundred acres to W. J. Cresswell, which at\\npresent is owned by Mr. N. Myres, of Clarion.\\nAlexander Giffen was likewise an early settler. He was born in Irvine\\nAyershire, Scotland, March 5, 1809, and came here in 1830, and is to day the\\noldest person living in the township. He has been engaged in the mercantile\\nbusiness for a long time.\\nAdam McGee was among the early settlers he followed the river as a\\npilot, and died at the age of eighty-four years.\\n1 See history of East Brady.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0496.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "Beaver Township. 451\\nWhile nature has been lavish in mineral deposits in this township, she has\\nbeen niggardly in her gifts of forests. A few ridges of white oak are the only-\\nforests to which Brady can lay claim.\\nEast Brady (see history of) and Phillipston are the only towns of note in\\nthis township. Phillipston, situated on the Allegheny River, is a thriving vil-\\nlage, named after the pioneer, Captain Thomas Phillips. No regular survey\\nof lots was ever made, but pieces of land were sold to purchasers as desired.\\nThe first M. E. Church was built in 1852, and this one was replaced by a\\nnew one in 1876.\\nThe first school-house was built in 1852, and the teacher s desk therein was\\nsuccessfully occupied by Messrs. Giffin, Martin, Edward and Burns. In those\\ngood old days they did not have lady teachers. Much of the instruction was\\ngood and forcible, and laid the foundation for the character of many of the\\npresent citizens of Phillipston. The old school-house gave way to a new and\\nmore modern one in 1873, and has been no less fortunate in the character of\\nits teachers, but, on the contrary, as the house was a modern improvement, so\\nthe teachers that have occupied it were modern teachers, and stand high\\namong that class in the county. Those especially worthy of mention are the\\nfollowing: James Pinks, in 1879; H. S. Lerch, in 1880; Nannie Cochrane,\\n1881 and 1883 Lizzie Hull, 1882 and 1887; J. G. Conners, 1883; Miss S. H.\\nHosey, 1884; L. A. Cowan, 1885 S. G. Hover, 1886.\\nThe school has ever kept pace with the rapid advancement of the times, and\\nhas been the means of great good.\\nThe Green Line tank and repairing shops of the A. V. Railroad, are a val-\\nuable part of the town, furnishing employment for a number of men at good\\nwages. These shops burned down in 1886, but were immediately rebuilt.\\nThe only county officer ever elected from Brady township was Mr. Jacob\\nTurney, to the office of sheriff, which office he filled with credit to himself and\\nto the entire satisfaction of the people.\\nThe following named persons served in the army during the late civil war\\nMessrs. Andrew Mock, William McCoy, Alexander Giffen. J. W. Gannoe, W.\\nS. Gannoe, Henry Templeton.\\nIn 1879 the firm of Stephenson Mitchell leased the old Martin farm and\\ndeveloped the celebrated Pine Run coal mine, which gives employment to one\\nhundred and fifty hands, producing one hundred thousand tons of coal annually,\\nand is considered one of the best mines in Western Pennsylvania.\\nThe Hardscrabble Mines, on lands formerly owned by Brady Bend Iron\\nCompany, are owned and operated by the Hon. G. A. Grow, and Mr. Hartwell.\\nThey give employment to over one hundred men and add materially to the\\nwealth of the township. The mines owned by the Pittsburgh Coal and Mining\\nCompany, a few years ago, employed several hundred men, and shipped more\\ncoal than any other mine along the Allegheny River, but the coal is exhausted", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0497.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "452 History of Clarion County.\\nand the mines abandoned. Brady township has the best railroad facihties of\\nany township in the county. The Allegheny Valley Railroad almost encircles\\nit, and has been of much benefit, giving an outlet for the great mineral wealth\\nof the township.\\nE\\nCHAPTER XLVI.\\nHISTORY OF EAST BRADY BOROUGH.^\\nARLY History of the Site of East Brady. Brady s Bend proper is that\\nloop or bend in the Allegheny River, commencing just below Catfish, and\\nreaching almost to the mouth of Redbank. It embraces a circuit of about\\neight miles by the river, and is less than one mile across its narrowest part.\\nThe surface is hilly, almost mountainous. The hills rise to the height of seve-\\nral hundred feet, and in many places fronting the river are very rocky and pre-\\ncipitous. Those who have been brought up in this neighborhood do not ap-\\npreciate the beauty and grandeur of the scenery, and it is also strange that so\\nfew know of the romantic interest attached to the early history of the place\\nfor here was a favorite camping- place and battle-ground for the dusky deni-\\nzens of the primeval forests. The Bend received its name from the famous\\nscout and Indian fighter, Captain Samuel Brady. In 1782 Captain Brady pur-\\nsued a party of Indians who were on their way north with a number of pris-\\noners taken from Hannahstown, Westmoreland county. After nightfall their\\ncamp was discovered and Brady appeared and addressed them in their own\\ntongue. They supposing it to be another Indian party, gave him full particu-\\nlars as to their prisoners, strength of their band, etc. The pursuing party forded\\nthe river above, went down to the encampment, surrounded and killed the In-\\ndians, and rescued the prisoners. Among these prisoners were the father and\\naunt of the late Peter Henry, of this place, then children of ten and twelve\\nyears of age.\\nEast Brady, the second largest town in the county, is situated in this bend in\\nthe Allegheny River, at a point opposite to what was formerly known as The\\nGreat Western. The main portion of the town lies in a valley, but a number\\nof houses are built on the surrounding hills. Some of the most picturesque\\nscenery of the Allegheny may be viewed from the town. The sides of the\\nhills are covered with trees, shrubs, and projecting rocks. These combined\\nform one of nature s grandest displays. It is the half-way point between the\\ncities of Pittsburgh and Oil City, which makes it an important railroad station.\\n1 By Miss Clara Campbell.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0498.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "East Brady Borough. 453\\nIt is also the starting-point of the trains of the Low Grade division of the Alle-\\ngheny Valley Railroad, and is always thronged with trains arriving from or\\nstarting for that route. Its religious, educational, and mining interests are\\nquite extensive and will be treated of under their proper heads. The popula-\\ntion, composed principally of the laboring classes, in 1880, numbered over fif-\\nteen hundred.\\nName, Early Settlements. During the days of the prosperity of the iron\\nworks, boats stopped at this side of the river, at what was then called Cunning-\\nham s Landing. Nothing was here at this time except the farm-house of J.\\nM. Cunningham, and a few other buildings occupied by men who toiled among\\nthe farmers or kept the ferry leading to Brady s Bend. As the town is on the\\neast side of the river, it has since received the name of East Brady. The rea-\\nsons that the town is built where it is are, first, the necessity of homes for the\\nemployees of the Brady s Bend Iron Company, who could not be provided for\\non the west side of the river second, the building of the Allegheny Valley\\nRailroad through this section of country. The land upon which the town is\\nbuilt was all formerly owned by J. M. Cunningham, esq., and by the iron com-\\npany. Mr. Cunningham was born April 21, 1820, at a point opposite Kittan-\\nning, Armstrong county. He first came here in 1854 and built the house in\\nwhich he still lives, and which now stands on the outskirts of the town. Al-\\nthough having undergone repairs several times, it presents very much the same\\nappearance that it did over thirty years ago. He is the father of five children,\\none son and four daughters, all of whom are living. Mr. Cunningham opened\\na hardware store in 1867, and still does quite an extensive business in that line.\\nThe town, as it now appears, is of comparatively recent origin, having sprung\\nup within the past twenty years. A house was built where the Round House\\nnow stands in 1853 in 1854 the large house facing the river, known in later\\ndays as The Temperance Hotel, (the only one in the town) was built and\\noccupied by M. Sedvvick. About the same time another was built, near this,\\nand used as the residence of the ferryman, Thomas Horton, for many years.\\nThe town was regularly laid off in lots in 1866. The first house built after this\\nwas by P. McKenna, near where the St. Cloud Hotel now is. The growth of\\nthe town was very rapid, and when, in 1867, the railroad was completed to\\nthis point, quite a little village was here. The first engine, No. 17, came up\\nthe road June 25, 1867, and great was the excitement among the pioneers\\nwhen they saw the huge monster steaming up the iron track. The report had\\ngone forth that it might be expected on that day, and the country people from\\nfar and near flocked to see it. Ones who were present say that there was none\\nof the small boy curiosity exhibited on the occasion, but that the fathers of\\nthe town kept at a respectable distance from their distinguished visitor. The\\nroad did not extend further than this point till in 1869, when the line was com-\\npleted from Pittsburgh to Oil City. The post-office was established in the\\n48", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0499.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "454 History of Clarion County.\\nyear 1867. In 1869 a bridge was built across the Allegheny here. It was\\nthe property of the Brady s Bend Iron Company. For several years it was\\nunsafe for travel, and in 1884 it fell. It has been replaced by an iron one,\\nowned by the citizens of the town. The first store was that of J. M. Brown,\\nopened in 1867. It was soon followed by that of J. C. Wallace Company.\\nA planing-mill was started, small coal mines were opened, doctors took up\\ntheir residences here, churches and school-houses were built, secret societies\\nwere organized, and the interests and population of the town steadily increased.\\nIt reached its height of prosperity before the closing of the iron works, and\\nsince then has grown very little. It owes its present standing to the railroad\\nand two large coal mines, which now give employment to the majority of the\\npopulation of the place.\\nCoal Mines. The Brady s Bend Mining Company opened the first large\\nmine in 1878, just above the town, under the direction of Hon. G. A. Grow.\\nIn just ninety days after the work began the men went inside and began taking\\nout the coal, at the price of eighty cents per ton. The mine has ever since\\ngiven employment to a large number of men, one hundred and sixty being\\nthe most engaged at one time. C. F. Hartwell, of Oil City, is general man-\\nager, and George Henry, esq., has the contract under him of taking out the\\ncoal. Large quantities of coal are shipped daily to northern markets.\\nPine Run Mines were opened by Messrs. Stephenson and Mitchell, the\\nfollowing year, 79. They were located on land leased from what was in\\nearlier days known as the Martin farm. Work began here July 3, and by\\nAugust 27 (thirty days), the mines were ready for inside work. Looking after\\ntheir interests themselves, the proprietors of these mines have spared nothing\\nto make and keep everything in the best working order, and the mines have\\nbeen very productive. The highest number of men employed at a time was one\\nhundred and forty.\\nStrikes. The employees of the mines have a number of times become dis-\\nsatisfied, either with the price paid or the manner of weighing the coal, and\\nhave gone out on strikes. Sometimes the strikes lasted only a few weeks\\nother times for months. They have always been compelled to come to the\\ncompanies terms. They have gained nothing, but have lost their time, injured\\nthe business of their employers by not furnishing coal to fill their contracts, and\\nhave at times become charges upon the public.\\nSchools. Soon after the first settlement of the town a small school-house\\nwas built, and a public school opened under the management of H. M. Burns,\\nnow a minister in the Erie M. E. Conference. In 1872 the town had become\\nso populous that a larger building was necessary. A substantial one, contain-\\ning four rooms, was erected at a cost of $4,700. This school at first was not\\na success, but when, in 1876, Prof T. W. Orr, a graduate of Edinboro, took\\ncharge, it began to improve. By his interest and untiring zeal, he soon got", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0500.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "East Brady Borough. 455\\nthe school into better habits of study and recitation. He was principal for four\\nyears, and at the end of that period the school stood among the best, if not the\\nvery best in the county. In 1883 the number of grades was increased to five.\\nIn the past five years the school has given ten teachers to the county, all of\\nwhom are doing good, earnest, faithful work in behalf of the rising generation.\\nFor a number of years all the teachers except the principal have come out of\\nthe school. The principal has charge of the highest grade. The present in-\\ncumbent, Prof L. L. Himes, has occupied the position four years. He is a\\nman of large experience in school work, having had control of the New Beth-\\nlehem schools for nine years previous to his coming here. The professor is\\nalso one of the leading educators of the county, and well deseives the esteem\\nin which he is held by the people of East Brady.\\nOil and Gas. This is an important shipping point of the oil territory sur-\\nrounding the town. The oil is stored in large tanks and sent out when required.\\nSeveral wells have been drilled in and about the town, but only one of these\\nhas proved of any value. Within the past year two natural gas wells have\\nbeen put down, and an abundant supply of gas obtained. The Caloric Gas\\nCompany was formed by citizens of the town, and pipes are being laid, and\\nthe town fast becoming supplied with it for fuel and light.\\nCliurches. The first church built was intended as a union house of worship.\\nThis was soon after the settlement of the town. For some time it was used as\\nsuch, but as the United Presbyterians were the only people that sustained a\\nminister, it soon came to be under the exclusive direction of its members. Its\\nmembership was always small, and within the past years it has ceased to hold\\nservices at all. Shortly after this the other Protestant denominations formed\\nsocieties the Methodists early in 68, and the Presbyterians shortly after.\\nMethodist Episcopal. Up to 1876 the membership of this church did not\\nnumber over twenty-five. In the fall of this year, Rev. J. Boyd Espy came\\nhere as pastor, taking up his residence in the town. During the winter of ]6\\nand jj, under special services directed by him, more than one hundred and\\nfifty were converted and added to the church. From this date it became\\nthe leading church of the town. Its meetings had been held in a store-room,\\nfitted up for that purpose. In the same year, 1877, a large two-story church\\nedifice was erected at a cost of $5,000. In 1885, under the labors of Rev. J.\\nC. McDonald, more than one hundred were again brought into the church.\\nFrancis Murphy, the world-famous temperance lecturer, united with this church\\nin 1880, and held membership for several years. Prof E. O. Excell, the now\\nnational-famed singer, was among the first members of the organization. It\\nis the only one of the churches that holds regular Sabbath morning and even-\\ning services. The membership now is almost two hundred.\\nPresbyterian. This church was early formed, the first organization taking\\nplace in the old school-house. It continued in a prosperous condition for", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0501.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "45^ History of Clarion County.\\nmany years, under the efficient pastorate of Rev. T. S. Negley. In 1880 Rev.\\nNegley received a call to another place. A short time after this the building\\nused as a church was destroyed by fire. The people becoming divided, almost\\nnothing was done for several years. In 1885, again uniting their forces, they\\nbuilt a very beautiful little church, costing them about $3,500. Since then\\nthey have held services half time. Their minister. Rev. B. F. Williams, is a\\nrising young man, and is highly esteemed by his people. Membership now is\\neighty-five.\\nBaptist. This was the last of the churches to become established in the\\ntown. Their first organization was in 1882, with seventeen members. They\\nat once went to work and constructed a church, costing $3,000, which was\\ndedicated the following year, 1883. Its people are noted for the cheerfulness\\nand promptness with which they support the gospel. Rev. T. J. Collins has\\nbeen in charge of the church for the past three years, and is an earnest worker\\nfor the master.\\nSt. Eusebiiiss Roniaii CatJiolic Church was built in 1877. its comple-\\ntion the first pastor was settled in the town. Previous to this all members of\\nthis church attended at Brady s Bend. The church building is valued at $3,-\\n400, and the residence of the priest Father Brady at $1,500. The mem-\\nbership consists of forty-five families, embracing about three hundred persons.\\nPhysicians. The Drs. Wallace, residing at Brady s Bend, first practiced\\nhere for several years before establishing an office. Drs. R. S. and J. A. then\\nopened an office and drug store in the town. Dr. J. A. removed to Bradford\\nsome years since, but R. S. still attends to a large practice here and in neigh-\\nboring towns, besides being railroad doctor on a section of the A. V. R. R.\\nDr. R. Robinson, a graduate of Jefferson College, class of 62, came here in\\nDecember, 1870, and began jDrofessional service. He has ever since kept\\nquite an extended line of visits. Dr. F. X. Felix was early in the town. For\\nsome years he was away, but returned and continued to practice medicine here\\nuntil his death in 1878.\\nL, C. Longwell, dentist, came to town in 1871, and still remains the only\\none in his profession.\\nBanks. The present bank began business in December, 1878, under rather\\nunfavorable circumstances. The Citizens Savings Bank having failed to meet\\nits demands, closed the previous May. This had a tendency to make the peo-\\nple a little cautious about trusting their money to the keeping of the new bank,\\nwhich is a branch of the National Bank of Kittanning. The business here is\\nconducted under the direction of J. W. Hill, Esq., who is cashier and general\\nmanager.\\nFires. East Brady has been visited at different times by fire. The two larg-\\nest are of recent date, the first of them occurring October 27, 1882. The fire\\nbroke out at 6 o clock, P. M., in the store of D. Carmody. How, is not cer-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0502.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0505.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0506.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "East Brady Borough. 457\\ntainly known, but it is supposed to have caught from the explosion of a lamp\\nin an upstairs room. The family were all below, and the fire had made such\\nheadway before it was discovered that, with no better preventatives than the\\ntown then possessed, nothing could be done to stop its spreading very rapidly.\\nBuildings on either side quickly took fire, and it continued to spread until a\\ncrossing was reached broad enough to prevent its onward march of destruc-\\ntion. Thirteen buildings in all were burned. Some of the most important of\\nthese were the Presbyterian church, the drug- store of Dr. R. Robinson, a\\nlarge three-story block belonging to Mr. Hertwick, used for a meat market,\\nlodge rooms, and private dwellings, and the millinery store and residence of\\nMrs. M. I. Scott. Much property was destroyed, also many household goods\\nwere greatly damaged. As is usual in cases of this kind, little presence of mind\\nwas exhibited by the persons willing to aid. The bedding and wearing ap-\\nparel were carefully carried down stairs, while the looking-glasses, bedsteads,\\nwash-stands, c., were thrown from the windows. The estimated loss by fire\\nwas $25,000. Second fire, June 3, 1883. Scarcely had the people become\\nsettled again, when another great fire broke out. Dr. Robinson had almost\\ncompleted a new building on the site of the one destroyed by the previous\\nfire, and it was with great difficulty that it was prevented from taking fire\\nagain. The livery stable in which the fire started adjoined his building. Car-\\npets were thrown over it and kept wet during all the time the fire raged. This\\nfire began just where the last stopped, and burned an entire square. Its further\\nprogress was prevented by a large brick block. It is supposed to have been\\nan incendiary fire. The fire, which was discovered by the policeman about\\n1 1:30 o clock P. M., on a Sabbath evening, continued till morning. The Central\\nHouse, a large four-story building, the best hotel of the town, was among the\\nburned. A more picturesque sight than the burning of this house is not often\\nseen. The fire seemed to blaze from all the windows at the same time, then\\nit fell. The residence of Mr. Stephenson, the store of the Pine Run Mining\\nCompany, the bank, the East Brady House, and the home of Mrs. Martha\\nWallace, were among the property destroyed by this fire. The goods from\\nthe stores were carried into the street, and men, women and children might be\\nseen making their way hurriedly towards the bridge, carrying suspicious-look-\\ning packages. The loss was fully as great or perhaps greater than that caused\\nby the first fire. Most of the places destroyed have been rebuilt, some, per-\\nhaps, not so substantially as before. The stand of Dr. Robinson is the best of\\nthe new buildings. The Pioneer Drug Store is always ready to attend to\\ncustomers. Mr. Hertwick has a fine new building on the burnt district. The\\nCentral House, though not rebuilt, was moved into a large brick building\\nformerly used as a store, and the house, having undergone many improve-\\nments, is still the leading hotel of the town. Its old site is occupied by the\\nstore of the Klein Brothers.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0507.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "458 History of Clarion County.\\nFire Department and Companies. The hook and ladder was purchased\\nby some of the careful citizens of the town, Messrs. McCafiferty, Weiseman,\\nRiston, and Wahl, before either of the foregoing fires took place, but could\\nnot be used to great advantage in such large fires. The hook and ladder,\\nwith the building in which it is kept, cost them $1,300.\\nAfter the second fire, the community at large began to think it was time\\nto do something to prevent such ravages in the future. An effort was made,\\nfunds raised, and two extinguishers and a fire-bell purchased. Fire companies\\nwere organized, fires were built on the outskirts of the town and the strength\\nof the engines and working abilities of the companies fully tested.\\nAt present three companies are sustained; the Peerless, with Dr. Robin-\\nson as foreman the Jumbo, William Cunningham, foreman, and the Hook\\nand Ladder, William Pollard, jr., foreman. These companies are always on\\nthe alert, and a very few sounds from the fire-bell are sufficient to arouse\\nthem and start them on the fire-track. Although they have been called out\\na number of times when unnecessary, they never fail to respond, and deserve\\npraise for the manly spirit shown at all times. Their work is entirely gratuit-\\nous. They have so far succeeded in extinguishing all fires that have broken\\nout.\\nTJie Press. The first newspaper published in the town was the Indepen-\\ndent, by Colonel Samuel Young, in 1869. This was in the prosperous days\\nof the town, and was made a live sheet by its enterprising editor. It suc-\\ncumbed in about five years, and shortly after the same gentleman sent out a\\nsmall sheet, the Advertiser, which lived but a few months. The town was\\nthen without a paper until 1879, when C. M. Riley commenced the publica-\\ntion of a huge blanket sheet, the Argus. This died after a brief three weeks\\ncareer. In 1881 F. A. Tozer started the East Brady Times, and continued\\nto send it forth for about three years. Rev. J. W. Martin was next on the list\\nof newspaper adventurers. He issued the first number of the Church Index\\nin December, 1883. It was a small monthly, devoted to the church interests\\nof this place and Rimersburg. In July, 1884, he changed it to a weekly,\\nunder the name of East Brady Index, continued one year. Hastings and Gra-\\nham began the Review November 27, 1885. In June, 1886, N. E. Graham\\npurchased H. L. Hastings s interest and is the present editor and publisher.\\nThe Review is a successful journal. It is devoted principally to home in-\\nterests, and is a credit to the town, as well as to the editor.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0508.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "Callensburg Borough. 459\\nCHAPTER XLVII.\\nHISTORY OF CALLENSBURa BOROUGH.\\nCALLENSBURG was laid out in 1826, by Hugh Callen, sr. It was incor-\\nporated a borough in 185 i, by act of Assembly.\\nOrganization of the Borough Government. At the first election, March 21,\\n185 1, the following officers were elected, viz: Chief burgess, J. B. Reynolds;\\nassistant burgess, William Elliott, sr. town council, Allen Wilson, Abram\\nFrampton, W. A. Bowser, A. Kifer, and James H. Shaw; borough constable,\\nJames Carroll high constable, William J. Reynolds justice of the peace,\\nAbram Frampton assessor, John H. Boggs street commissioner, Asa Mes-\\nsenger overseers of the poor, J. H. Kernott and T. J. McCamant school\\ndirectors, for three years, William A. Bowser, David McKay, and Allen Wilson;\\nfor two years, John H. Boggs and J. B. Stuart; for one year, H. Redick; judge\\nof election, David Guthrie inspectors, Henry Alexander and William G.\\nMoore; auditors, R. C. Thom (for three years), David Guthrie (for two years),\\nand W. J. Reynolds (for one year).\\nWhen the council organized, on the 27th, its first act was to appoint W. F.\\nCartwright secretary, who at once took the oath of office, and entered upon\\nhis duties in that capacity. At this meeting George Daugherty was appointed\\ntreasurer, and the amount of his bond fixed at $500.\\nThe first assessment was made March 27, at the rate of ten mills on the\\ndollar, for borough and street purposes. On the loth of April this assessment\\nwas amended to five mills for road purposes, and three mills cash tax for\\nborough purposes. During the existence of the borough the following named\\ngentlemen have filled the office of chief burgess of Callensburg:\\nBurgesses of Callensburg 1851-1887. J. B. Reynolds, Samuel Kifer, John\\nC. Morrison, David Wilson, R. Laughlin, J. R. Widgeon, R. A. Hunter (dur-\\ning the year. May, 1859, to March, i860, Joseph Alexander acted instead of\\nHunter), Joseph Alexander, R. Laughlin (absent in army most of the time),\\nJames P. Parker, Peter Mobley, William Moore, Joseph Alexander, John\\nAustin, S. D. Meals, M.D., J. P. Shields, M.D., Joseph Alexander, Wihiam\\nL. Sedwick, John C. Hilliard, S. D. Myers, R. Laughlin, J. H. Elliott, John\\nC. Hilliard, Charles S. Shaw, G. W. Spencer, M. D., John C. Hilliard, A. J.\\nRarer, John Konkle, A. J. Rarer.\\nFoundation and Growth of Callensburg. A quarter of a century elapsed\\nfrom the laying out of the town to its incorporation as a borough. During\\nthese twenty-five years (1826 to 185 i) much progress had been made in the\\nvillage, as was also the case in the surrounding neighborhood.\\nIn attempting to chronicle a few of the important events connected with", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0509.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": "46o History of Clarion County.\\nthe founding and growth of Callensburg, no more just or appropriate topic\\ncould be selected as the subject of the introductory paragraph than that sturdy,\\nhonest people, whose name is incorporated in the name of the town.\\nTJie Callen Family. Hugh Callen, the founder of Callensburg, was born\\nin Westmoreland county June 5, 1773, of Scotch parents. He was the father\\nof nine children, viz., Thomas, John, Sarah, David, Mary, James, Samuel,\\nHugh, jr., and Watson.\\nJames, now living in Piney township, is the only survivor of these nine.\\nThe oldest two, Thomas and John, were known throughout Jefferson and Elk\\ncounties as great hunters, those regions being then an uninhabited wilderness.\\nJohn died near Clarion, Thomas in Jefferson county, Samuel near Reidsburg,\\nand Watson at Brockwayville. Sarah was married to Samuel Wilson, and\\nMary to Michael Reichart. Both are now dead.\\nHugh Callen, jr., well known by many persons now living in Callensburg\\nand vicinity, was born at the old Callen homestead, across Licking, in 18 13.\\nHe died March 17, 1881, aged sixty-eight years. He was a man of sterling\\nqualities, of great stability of character, firm in his convictions, a faithful friend,\\nand an unpretentious and exemplary Christian. All who knew him respected\\nhim, and now his memory is revered.\\nThe Old Poplar. In 1812, Hugh Callen, sr., bought three hundred acres\\nand allowances which plot included the greater part of the present site of\\nCallensburg. He settled here the same year, building a house south of Lick-\\ning, very near the spot where now stands a large poplar tree. This tree grew\\nfrom a twig used by Mr. Callen as a riding-whip. On his return from church\\nat Concord one Sunday he stuck the whip into the ground, and this lone pop-\\nlar stands to-day as a monument to the piety of him who planted it.\\nBefore relating the incidents pertaining to the laying out of the town, its\\nbuilding up, and business, it is but fit that this paragraph should close with\\nmaking note of the going out of that life, which, above all others, was so earn-\\nestly identified with the first sixteen years of the life of the village that he\\nplanned.\\nHugh Callen, sr., was not a particularly remarkable man, but, as has been\\nobserved in these lines, and as will be shown by the following account of the\\nlaying out of the town, he was a far-sighted, broad-minded, and generous man.\\nHe was a strong man in a moral sense an honorable man in his dealings with\\nmen a Christian and a patriot. He was a soldier of the War of 1812, and\\nwas a United States pensioner for services rendered in that struggle. He was\\ncalled to Clarion in 1842, as a witness on a land case, but he never gave his\\ntestimony. While eating supper February 10, he was taken sick, and died that\\nnight (February 10, 1842), in his sixty-ninth year. His remains lie in Callens-\\nburg Cemetery.\\nLaying out the Town. In 1826 Judge Gettis made a survey of the Clarion", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0510.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "Callensburg Borough. 461\\nRiver, then called Toby s Creek, or Stump Creek, with a view to locating the\\nPennsylvania Canal. Knowing that in case the canal were built, several locks\\nwould be necessary at this point to facilitate the movement of boats, Hugh\\nCallen, sr., conceived the idea of building a town. He set to work to lay it\\nout. Sidle Lobaugh, then twenty-seven years of age, was a skillful surveyor\\nand draughtsman, and he was employed by Mr. Callen to do the work. The\\noriginal plot extended from James H. Shaw s blacksmith shop to the westward\\nas far as the lots now occupied by W. A. Hindman Co. with their dwelling\\nand store. Before the town was laid out the hope for the canal had almost\\ngone, but Mr. Callen perceived the beauties of the place as well as the richness\\nof the soil, and felt that it would be a good town for county trade, even if no\\npublic works were erected.\\nIn laying out the town, Mr. Callen reserved three acres whereon to build a\\nPresbyterian Church. This plot included the cemetery. The open lot near\\nthe tanyard, north of Main street, whereon the town spring rises, was excluded\\nfrom the list of lots for sale. That never- failing fountain of clear, pure water\\nis a reminder of Hugh Callen s far-sightedness and public spirit. It was re-\\nserved for the public good, and to prevent its being purchased by any private\\nindividual, he deeded it to the town. To-day the spring is open and free to\\nevery inhabitant of the village, and to every passer-by.\\nThe first house in the town was erected by John L. Reed, on the lot now\\noccupied by Henry Alexander s dwelling house. It was built of logs, and was\\nraised by the members of the military company known as the Washington\\nRangers, after muster on the first Monday of May, 1827. John Colwell sawed\\nthe logs for the house, and when completed it had four rooms, two downstairs\\nand two upstairs. The Rangers at that time had an enrollment of one\\nhundred and ten men, with John L. Reed, captain, Hugh Kilgore, first lieu-\\ntenant, and A. Frampton, second lieutenant. There are now sixty-three dwell-\\nings in the town, sixty-one of which are inhabited.\\nStores. The second building erected in the town was a dwelling with a tan-\\nnery in the basement, built in 1830, near the site of the present tannery of\\nMrs. S. D. Myers. Abram Frampton, an enterprising citizen of the vicinity,\\nwas the builder and owner. The building fronted on the road which runs from\\nMain street at Alexander s store to the bridge. The main floor or dwelling\\npart had three rooms. In the south room of the dwelling Mr. Henry Alex-\\nander opened a store in 1831 he did business there one year. In 1832 he\\nmoved his store to the place of George Elliott, sr., where Thomas Elliott now\\nlives; he remained there till 1834, when he erected his present store building\\non Main street, and moved into it, where he has conducted a general store and\\ndrug business ever since a period of more than half a century; during which\\ntime he has seen more than a score of merchants in the town rise, flourish, or\\nfail and pass away.\\n49", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0511.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "462 History of Clarion County.\\nThe next store was that of J. B. Reynolds, in the building now owned by-\\nMrs. Gourley, which building stands almost opposite the hotel near the Odd\\nFellows Hall. This building has since been occupied by Patrick Kearney, with\\na general store, and Henry Rodgers with a drug store.\\nIn 1848 a Mr. Heslip opened a store on the lot east of the J. H. Elliott\\ndwelling. He was succeeded by Joseph Cathers, and later Mrs. E. A. McDowell\\nkept a millinery store there. The house occupied by James F. Davis is all that\\nremains of these store buildings.\\nLevi Redic once kept a grocery on the lot now occupied by James E. Crain,\\nnear the Dr. Meals property, and in 1 850 Levi Redic with John Wilson began\\nto do business at the site now occupied by W. A. Hindman Co. They were\\nsucceeded by Henlen Brewster in 1852. This building was occupied by\\nWilliam Moore in 1862. After doing business here a short time, Moore sold\\nout to Hilliard Owen, but re-purchased the store, and was succeeded by J.\\nB. Miller about 1866. Mr. Miller carried on an extensive and profitable busi-\\nness till 1878, when he sold out to Bushman Wakefield, who in a few years\\ndissolved partnership by the retirement of Mr. Wakefield. Mr. Bushman car-\\nried on business till 1881, when he sold out to the present owners, W. A. Hind-\\nman Co.\\nIn 1857 Lowe Guiher had a store in the house now occupied by J. C.\\nHilliard.\\nDr. W. A. Bowser opened a store in 1853, in the house now occupied by\\nMrs. Sarah Wilson, and about this time Henlen Brewster built the Elliott\\nstore building and occupied it. After they closed out, the building was occu-\\npied by Robert Cathers as a store-room, and by William Fenton as a whisky\\nstorehouse. The building was afterward occupied by J. H. Elliott, T. M. Kier\\nCo., S. Frampton Co., B. H. Frampton Co., E. E. Elliott, and last by\\nW. A. D. J. Beer, all of whom did a general merchandise business. A Mr.\\nGreer also had a tin-shop in this building. Mr. Moore sold his goods to Peter\\nMobley, who moved them to the Mobley store-room east of the hotel.\\nRobert Hunter once had a store where Captain R. Laughlin now lives. A\\nJew, named Wolf Adams, once kept a clothing store in the building now oc-\\ncupied by A. J. Rarer as a wagon-shop. The store was robbed, and Adams\\nclosed out.\\nJohn Stover, a photographer, kept a confectionery and jewelry store for a\\ntime where Mrs. E. Klingensmith now resides, and for a time north of Main\\nstreet, where the Sedwick cottage how stands.\\nDr. George W. Spencer kept a general assortment of drugs in his building\\nnow used as his office. He sold out to Madame De Graw, M. D., in 1882.\\nThe fine residence which Spencer had erected on the same lot in 1879 was\\ndestroyed by fire in 1883. A controversy ensued relative to insurance money,\\ntitle, etc., and on the recovery of the property by Spencer, he fitted up his", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0512.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": "Callensburg Borough. 463\\noffice without the drug store. Dr. N. M. Meals set up a drug and toy store\\nin the Odd Fellows Hall building in 1885.\\nIn 1880 Mr. C. Ebling, who had been in the tinware and hardware trade,\\nbrought on a general assortment of goods in his dwelling on the next lot west\\nof the Hindman property. Since then, with characteristic energy, he has, with\\nthe assistance of his accomplished wife, increased his business constantly, and\\nhe now has one of the best assortments of goods in the town.\\nIn 1885 W. A. Beer built a small store-room on his lot in the extreme east\\nend of the town. He began business with a small supply of stationery, cigars\\nand tobacco, to which he soon added groceries, boots, shoes, etc. In October,\\n1885, he bought out E. E. Elliott, and, in partnership with his brother, D. J.\\nBeer, opened up a general store in the Elliott building.\\nShops. The first wagon- maker s shop was erected by Joseph Alexander\\nin 1843. Mr. A. J. Rarer has worked at wagon-making here for twenty-eight\\nyears. Others who have worked at the same trade were David Payne, George\\nD. Schott, John Wilson, and Thomas McCamant.\\nThomas McCamant opened the first blacksmith shop here about 1836 or\\n1837. Other smiths were David Edmond, Robert Brown, Wilson McCamant,\\nWilson Colwell, William Stoner, James H. Shaw, Mansel Shaw, and Alvin\\nShaw, besides the smiths in Sedwick s carriage shop, and R. B. Dunkle, who\\nis quite apt in that line of work. J. H. Shaw has been the most constant and\\nfaithful of any smith the town has ever had. He has occupied his present shop\\nfor about forty years.\\nSedwick s carriage manufactory was built in 1874, and during its existence\\nhas employed such skilled workmen as C. W. Sedwick, Lewis Dettre, W. A.\\nCartwright, John Parker, W. H. Stoner, H, L. Grayson, William Blair, D.\\nA. Young and others; besides, the proprietor, J. S. Sedwick, is able to go\\ninto any department blacksmith shop, wood shop, paint room, trimming\\nroom and perform any and all kinds of work connected with the business.\\nUnfortunately for the town, the proprietor became involved, and for several\\nyears past the property has been in the hands of an assignee. R. B. Dunkle,\\nin the Vv^est end of the town, has erected a good-sized shop where he does\\nbuilding and repairing, also deals in factory made rigs, harness, robes, etc.\\nIn early days John Bell, R. Laughlin, John M. Laughlin, and Robert Bell\\nworked at the harness-maker s trade here. Later, Stephen D. Myers, James\\nM. French, and William S. Maitland had shops. Mr. French died in 1880,\\nand at present Mr. Maitland has a monopoly of the trade.\\nThe first shoemaker was a man named Day. Since his time, Henry Boyer,\\nIsaac Dehart, William Sedwick, John Jack, John L. Reed, William Holmes,\\nJohn Holmes, David Holmes, Al. Cartwright, Clark Rupert, W. F. Krauss,\\nand W. A. Varner have worked in the town. The last two have shops here\\nnow.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0513.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "464 History of Clarion County.\\nDavid Guthrie, Andrew Gourley, Asa Say, John Austin, Thomas Dunkle,\\nand WilHam L. Dunkle, at various times in the history of the town have been\\nengaged in the cabinet-making business and furniture trade. W. L. Dunkle\\nhas the only furniture establishment now in town.\\nMobley Ray once had a foundry here, which did good work. Mr,\\nGeorge Ray is the only survivor who was interested in this enterprise, and his\\nabsence prevents a more definite notice of this establishment.\\nChurches and Schools. In 1825 or 26 the people of the vicinity assem-\\nbled in the grove where the Presbyterian Church now stands, and had deliv-\\nered to them the first sermon ever heard in this town s limits. The minister\\nwas Rev. Robert McGarrah. In the summer the people worshiped in the\\ngrove, and in the winter at the houses of Mr. Callen, Mr. Elliott, and others.\\nIn 1 83 1 the frame of a building, intended for a church, was erected, but failing\\nto get shingles down the Clarion on account of low water, the building stood\\nthat winter without a roof When the summer came the people felt too poor\\nto finish the church, so they enclosed a small room in one corner for a chapel,\\nwhich was also used as the first school-house. In 1838 it was determined to\\nbuild a new church, and the old one was offered for sale. Buyers were scarce,\\nbut finally Mr. Henry Alexander paid the very liberal price of fifty dollars for\\nthe old structure, which was torn down and used for fences and outbuildings.\\nThe present building stands where the first one was started, and is consider-\\nably larger. It was completed in 1838.\\nUnder many difficulties a Methodist class was established in the public\\nschool-house, which had been erected in 1838 on the ridge in the northeast-\\nern part of the town. At first their annual contribution to the pay of a min-\\nister was only forty to fifty dollars, consequently they had little preaching, but\\nthe church grew until it was able to erect a substantial church edifice in the\\nwest end of the town. It was built about 1850 or 1852.\\nThe first school-house was built down northeast of the town in 1825, where\\nMcCamant s first shop was. The present building was erected in 1854, and is\\nlikely to do good service for a number of years yet.\\nCallensburg Academy was incorporated in 1858, and erected of brick in\\ni860. In 1883 it was repaired by W. A. Beer, who received a five-year lease\\nof it, receiving the proceeds of the lot attached, and all the income from the\\nschool, in return for the money invested by him. It is mentionable that the\\nresult at this date (March, 1887), is a net loss to the lessee of about one hun-\\ndred and fifty dollars. But the broken windows, plasterless walls, dingy stair-\\nway, and dirty hall, which called forth the severe censure of Dr. Higbee, State\\nsuperintendent, when he visited the town in 1882, have given place to a\\npleasant school- room, which has been the resort for many assemblies met for\\neducational purposes since the spring of 1883.\\nMinisters. Following Rev. McGarrah in the Presbyterian Church were", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0514.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "Callensburg Borough. 465\\nRev. John Turbitt, Rev. David McKay, who was chaplain of the One Hundred\\nand Third Regiment in the late war, and died on his way home, at Levvistown,\\nPa. His remains were brought home, and lie in the Callensburg Cemetery.\\nRev. Samuel Kinkaid came next. He was killed in his stable by a vicious\\nhorse, and his remains lie near Rev. McKay s. Then came Rev. James Mc-\\nIntire, Rev. T. J. Milford, Rev. Edgar, Rev. J. H. Hawk, and the present pop-\\nular and earnest pastor, Rev. William J. Wilson.\\nIn the M. E. Church we have the names of Revs. Keller, Whippo, Reeser,\\nMoore, and Rev. Carothers, who had the well known controversy with Rev.\\nWilliam McMichael Revs. Lyon, Crum, Steever, Burton, McEntire, Johnson,\\nSterrett, Hays, Clover, O. M. Sackett, E. M. Kernick, B. F. Delo, J. H. Lav-\\nerty, and at present, Rev. E. R. Knapp, under whose ministry during the\\nwinter of 1886-7 the unprecedented revival was held, whereby about four\\nscore were taken into the church.\\nTeacJiers. The Callensburg Academy was chartered in 1858, and was\\nopened in the common school building May 5, 1858. The first principal was\\nRev. Orr Lawson. After him came a long list of teachers who had control of\\nthe school, some of whom were gentlemen. of learning and culture, and others\\nwere men of limited attainments.\\nWe find the names of J. S. Woodburn, Mr. Sherard, George W. Chalfant,\\nJ. M. Foster, David Tappan, Rev. O. A. Elliott, T. D. Duncan, J. F. Lobaugh,\\nA. J. Davis, G. M. McFarland, A. S. Elhott, Professors Anderson and Storey,\\nJ. E. Jeffers, W. C. Reicherd, J. H. Barton, and W. A. Beer.\\nMany of these teachers are yet living. O. A. Elliott, A. S. Elliott, and J.\\nH. Barton are in the ministry. W. C. Reicherd is filling a responsible position\\nin a railroad shop office at Roanoke, Va. W. A. Beer still has control of the\\nschool.\\nThe brick building was contracted for in 1859 at $1,858. and finished in\\ni860. The total cost was $2,000.\\nIn the public school many of the best teachers of the county have been\\nengaged.\\nPhysicians. The first doctor in the town was Dr. Beggs. He came here\\nfrom Cherry Run, and soon after died of fever. Reed Goe, M. D., came to\\nwait on Dr. Beggs, and remained for some time practicing. After these the\\nphysicians were Drs. J. B. Stuart, Goe, Cummins, Anderson, Boyd, W. A.\\nBowser, Joseph Eckert, Gardner, Rankin, S. D. Meals, J. P. Shields, N. M.\\nMeals, G. W. Spencer, T. M. Jackson, Auley McAuley, and Madame De\\nGraw.\\nOf these. Dr. S. D. Meals had the longest and most successful term of\\npractice. He came here in 1859, and continued in constant practice till a shor\\ntime before his death, which occurred in 1884.\\nDr. G. W. Spencer and Dr. N. M. Meals are still in practice. Spencer is\\nalso a dentist.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0515.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "466 History of Clarion County.\\nThe Post-office. This is one of the most important institutions in our midst.\\nIt was estabHshed on the 15th of March, 1828, with Sidle Lobaugh as post-\\nmaster. He held the office almost four years. The subsequent appointments\\nwere as follows John Galbreath, William Elliott, Henry Alexander, Robert\\nA. Hunter, David Guthrie, Henry Alexander, John J. Broadhead, Joseph B.\\nReynolds, George A. Ehiott, jr., W. C. Mobley, Jacob B. Miller, Samuel H.\\nBushman, F. L. Shallenberger, William A. Beer, November 5, 1885.\\nThe first appointments were made while the office was in Armstrong\\ncounty, and Clarion county having been established in 1839, the title was soon\\nafter changed to Callensburg, Clarion county, but at what particular date is\\nnot recorded in the post-office department.\\nList of soldiers who resided in Callensburg when they went to the war:\\nCaptain R. Laughlin, Captain A. H. Alexander, Lieutenant George D. Schott,\\nLieutenant John M. Laughlin, Thomas Dunkle, William Vesey, M. L. Boyer,\\nD. R. Frampton, H. C. Frampton, Thomas Gatings, Charles Glaze, Abner\\nHarkless, Samuel Hours, William Davis, Reed Beggs, Justus George, Reed\\nGoe, Nerval D. Goe, Rev. David McKay, R. C. Thom, George Payne, Joseph\\nK. Vaughn, John Konkle, W. C. Mobley, S. H. Keister, Mat. Dunkle, Gazzam\\nStuart, John Williams, P. M. Dunkle, James Burns, Isaac Guiher, Samuel\\nSampsell, James Sampsell, Abram Sampsell, William Elder, David I. Wallace,\\nWilson McCamant. A total of thirty-seven men, or more than ten per cent,\\nof the entire population of the village.\\nPublic Men. In the early history of the village Henry Alexander was a\\nman of prominence, and was appointed census enumerator for Armstrong\\ncounty in 1840. R. Laughlin was a member of the Pennsylvania House of\\nRepresentatives in 185 i and 1852, representing Clarion, Armstrong, and Jeff-\\nerson counties. Samuel Kifer was elected county commissioner in 1859. W.\\nA. Beer was a member of the House of Representatives in 1883\u00e2\u0080\u009484, being a\\nresident of Monroeville in Beaver township when elected in 1882. He became\\na resident of Callensburg in 1883.\\nMiscellaneous Items. C. W. Sedwick, a workman in Sedwick Carriage\\nManufactory, has invented a scroll saw, which if properly put on the market,\\nwill rank second to no machine of the kind in use. The village has a brass\\nband which has maintained an organization under many difficulties. The I.\\nO. O. F., the A. O. U. W., and the E. A. U., all have lodges here to which\\nmany of the best people of the community belong.\\nIn 1878 Rev. W. A. Bowyer brought to town a small outfit for a printing\\nestablishment, and for a short time published a paper in the interest of temper-\\nance. It was called the Calle7isburg Observer. In 1886 Rev. W. J. Wilson\\nbegan the publication of the Callensburg Visitor, which he still issues, the\\nprinting, however, is done by contract by a foreign establishment.\\nMrs. Kuhns, once a resident of the village, died December 10, 1868, at the", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0516.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "Clarion Township. 467\\nremarkable age of one hundred and four years. Henry Alexander aged\\neighty-six years, at present writing is very active and conducts his store busi-\\nness as if he were nearer middle life.\\nThe town was the most populous in 1870, having then about four hundred\\ninhabitants; there being now not more than two hundred and seventy-five.\\nCHAPTER XLVni.\\nHISTORY OF CLARION TOWNSHIP.i\\nTHIS township is located in the eastern part of Clarion county, and is\\nbounded on the north by Paint, Highland and Miilcreek townships, on\\nthe east by Jefferson county, on the south by Limestone township, and on the\\nwest by Monroe township. It is in length about ten miles, and has an aver-\\nage width of about five miles. The portion lying in the northern part and\\nbordering on the Clarion River is the most rugged, and presents quite a variety\\nof scenery, being in some places very picturesque, while those sections lying\\nalong what are known as the Turnpike and the Waterson road, are level\\nenough to make beautiful farming land. The soil is, in some parts, quite fer-\\ntile, and in others it is rather thin, but is of a nature to bear fertilizing, and can\\nbe made quite productive.\\nThe township is well watered by numerous streams and springs. Along a\\ngood portion of its northern boundary is the Clarion River, while into this flows\\nthe stream known as Big Mill Creek, which also bounds the township on the north\\nand northeast. Little Mill Creek, a branch of Big Mill Creek, bounds it on the\\neast, and these three streams are fed by numerous tributaries from the interior\\nof the township, the most noted being Douglas s Run, White s Run, which is\\nfed by Olive Branch, Trout Run, in the western part of the township also\\nBrush Run in the southwestern part, which is perhaps the largest stream in the\\ntownship. This last named creek is fed by numerous branches, the chief of\\nwhich are North Branch and Frampton s Run. These and other smaller streams\\nform a perfect net-work of fresh water brooks, thus making the township suit-\\nable for grazing and agriculture. Along the above-named creeks lie fine sec-\\ntions of timber land, especially along Clarion River and Big Mill Creek. The\\ntrees indigenous to the climate and soil of the township are the different species\\nof the oak, maple, hickory, chestnut, pine and hemlock. The forests contain\\ntrees of finest growth, but the gray old monarchs of the wood are being rapidly\\nfelled by the woodman s ax, and converted into boards, lumber, and staves, to\\n1 By C. S. Hepler.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0517.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "468 History of Clarion County.\\nbe shipped away to other parts. Very Httle timber is used for fuel, as coal,\\nwhich will be noticed more fully hereafter, is so abundant and cheap that the\\ncustom of burning wood has long since given way to the burning of the black\\ndiamonds.\\nThe vegetable productions of the township are the small grains, such as\\nwheat, oats, barley, corn, etc. There are, on an average, about one thousand\\nacres of wheat harvested every year. What rye is grown is usually consumed\\nas feed for the stock on the farms, and not as breadstuff, consequently very little\\nattention is given to its cultivation. Oats are extensively raised. There are\\nperhaps twice as many acres of oats raised every year as there are of wheat.\\nCorn is as extensively raised as oats, and yields from fifty to sixty bushels to\\nthe acre. There are two principal grasses grown in this township, viz., clover,\\nbig and little, and timothy. Of these timothy is the more extensively grown,\\nalthough it is said that clover is a good fertilizer, thereby enriching the soil,\\nwhile timothy impoverishes it. The different kinds of fruit raised in the town-\\nship are apples, peaches, pears, plums, quinces, grapes, etc. The best species\\nof apples flourish, and are the most important of all the fruits. Summer, fall,\\nand winter varieties grow in abundance. Of peaches there are very few vari-\\neties grown, because the climate is too severe for them to flourish. Pears grow\\nin abundance.\\nThe numerous hills of the township are all underlaid with bituminous coal,\\nand many with limestone and iron ore. There are three difierent veins of coal\\nthe lower or bottom vein, the middle vein, and the upper or summit vein\\nthe different deposits will each average about three feet in thickness. There\\nare in operation at present about thirteen mines, in which are broken about\\nsix hundred bushels every day. This coal seils at the mines for from one to\\nfour cents per bushel, according to quality. It is delivered a distance of five\\nmiles for seven cents a bushel. Next to coal in importance is limestone. This\\nis found in great abundance in the southwestern part of the township. The\\nquarries on the farms belonging respectively to Messrs. S. M. Pierce and D.\\nConner, are especially worthy of notice.\\nHorses, cattle, sheep, and swine are the principal animals found in Clarion\\ntownship. There are many and fine breeds of horses represented, those known\\nas the Engli.sh draught and the Clydesdale being the most popular, from the\\nfact that they are large and strong, thus being well adapted to heavy w^ork,\\nwhich is much more requisite in this section than mere roadsters.\\nAt present writing, herds of Jerseys Guernseys, Alderneys, and the cele-\\nbrated Shorthorn breed may be seen grazing on the beautiful hillslopes, or ru-\\nminating beneath the boughs of some stately shade-tree. Sheep are perhaps\\nthe best paying animals reared on the farm. Many breeds are represented in\\nthis township, but the breed known as the Southdown is perhaps the best\\nadapted to the climate, and produces the most wool.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0518.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "C. Leeper.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0519.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0520.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "Clarion Township. 469\\nSwine are extensively raised, and furnish the chief article of meat diet. The\\nBerkshire is the most popular.\\nWithin the limits of this township there are four flouring-mills, several saw\\nand shingle-mills, and one or two stave-mills. The flouring-mills are situated,\\none in the eastern part of the township on Little Mill Creek, and belongs to J.\\nB. Jones, of Corsica, Jefferson county. Pa.; two in the northern part of the\\ntownship on Big Mill Creek, and are respectively known as the Dean grist-mill\\nand the Spangler mill the other one is in the southwestern part of the town-\\nship on Brush Run, and is now owned by a Mr. Shingeldecker, who recently\\npurchased it from Mr. Cover. These are not merchant-mills, but grind only\\nthe grain taken there for that purpose by the farmers. As they are supported\\nby people from neighboring townships as well as by those of Clarion, they all\\nare enabled to do a good business. They run by water power, and in seasons\\nof protracted drought do little work. The saw and shingle-mills are all situ-\\nated in the north and northeastern part of the township, on Mill Creek and\\ntributaries. The stave-mills are employed in sawing barrel-staves, which are\\nall shipped away, there being no cooperage in Clarion county.\\nThe only village not incorporated, within the limits of the township, is situ-\\nated near the southern boundary, and is called Mechanicsville, or Frampton P.\\nO. At present it contains a dry goods and grocery store, belonging to and\\nkept by Mr. J. P. Kahle, a hotel known as the McCullough House, a black-\\nsmith shop, a post-office, which has a daily mail, and is kept by Mr. Ed. M.\\nMclntire; a wagon shop, and office of the justice of the peace, A. J. Framp-\\nton, esq., also several private residences. The post-office was so named in honor\\nof William Frampton, esq., one of the oldest settlers of the place, and father\\nof the present justice.\\nEducation in Clarion township is given fair attention, there being within\\nits borders ten public schools. In the early history of the township schools\\nwere established and fostered. Judge Peter Clover gives the following de-\\nscription of one of the first buildings erected within the present limits of the\\ntownship for school purposes It was built of round logs, and about eight\\nfeet high, and with five corners, one of which was part of the chimney as far\\nup as the mantel-board, and from that to the square it had four corners, and\\nroofed with clap-boards, and logs laid crosswise to hold on the boards. The\\nbuilding was chinked, as they called it, between the logs, and then daubed\\nwith clay, or mud mortar. The fire-place was a large back- wall of stone, and\\nthe chimney was built out of small poles and clay as high as it was required.\\nThe floor was laid with hewed puncheons the upper floor was laid with the\\nsame kind, and covered with earth to keep out the cold. The seats were made\\nof long slabs, round side down, and about high enough to prevent the chil-\\ndren s feet from touching the floor. The writing desks were made by putting\\nsticks in the wall, said sticks having hooks on the ends, and a board lafd\\n50", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0521.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "470 History of Clarion County.\\nacross these. These boards were placed at an angle of about forty-five\\ndegrees. Instead of windows, a piece of log was taken out, and sticks put\\nacross, over which oiled paper was fastened in order to let in light. In such\\nhouses did the youth receive their education, being instructed by masters of\\nScotch-Irish descent, whose pronunciation was rather broad for good Eng-\\nlish. The first schools were supported by subscription, at the rate of about\\nfive or six dollars per year for each scholar. The teachers always boarded\\naround among the patrons of the schools. The text-books were the United\\nStates Speller, and the scriptures of the Old and the New Testaments for a\\nreader. The Western Calculator was the work on mathematics, and the stu-\\ndent who worked to the double rule of three was considered a graduate in\\narithmetic. But the world is progressing. The schools are no longer sup-\\nported by subscription, but by public money. There are used in the schools\\nat present the most approved series of text-books. Young men and women\\nespecially trained to teach are the instructors. True, there are some poor\\nschool-houses in the township, and we must say that there are none as good\\nas they ought to be, or even might be. Patent furniture has been placed in a\\nfew of the school-houses, while others are funished with mere benches. The\\nminimum length of the school term is five months,^ while the number of children\\nof school age will probably reach five hundred. The township has within its\\npresent limits, three religious denominations, with as many houses of worship.\\nThe first church building erected in whatsis now known as Clarion township\\nwas built on land bordering on Brush Run, in the southwestern part of the\\ntownship. The building was erected on land donated by the Rev. McGarrah,\\nof sacred memory, and was situated in the midst of a burial ground. This\\nburial ground was the only place of interment for many miles around. Occa-\\nsionally a body is laid to rest there even yet, but the fence that once enclosed\\nthe sacred spot has crumbled into ruin, and many of the beautiful white grave-\\nstones that marked the places where dear ones rest, awaiting the dawn of\\nresurrection morn, are leveled with the dust. In this old grave-yard lie buried\\nmany of the first settlers, who will be noticed hereafter. The name of this\\nfirst church was Rehoboth, and Rev. McGarrah was the first pastor. The\\ndenomination was Presbyterian. It is said that this good old man was very\\nhighly educated, and mighty in prayer but his speech was slow, and it often\\ntook him three hours to deliver a sermon. He used no notes while preaching,\\nand his sermons were delivered with great earnestness. It is related that he\\noften became so earnest while delivering discourses, that great drops of tears\\nwould fall from his eyes to the floor. I am told that he often preached more\\neloquently by his tears than by the power of his voice. No trace of this old\\nchurch remains, but a new Rehoboth church, situated about one mile south of\\n1 By a late act of the Legislature passed since the above was in type, the minimum school term has\\nbeen increased to six months.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0522.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "Clarion Township. 471\\nStrattanville, has taken its place. The denomination is Presbyterian, and is\\npresided over by the Rev. Britt. The building is a modest frame structure,\\noblong in form, one story high, and has a seating capacity of about four hun-\\ndred. Around this church is also a burial ground of about two acres. This\\nis the only Presbyterian Church within the limits of the township. The con-\\ngregation is composed of quiet, intelligent citizens, and numbers about one\\nhundred. Church services are held in the church every other Sunday, and\\nSunday-school on the first day of every week the entire year.\\nThe second house of worship erected within the township was built near\\nthe site of old Rehoboth, and is called the Seceder Church. It remains to this\\nday, and is sometimes used by the Methodists for church services. It is also\\na frame structure, and can seat about one hundred and fifty persons. The\\nRev. John Lickey was its first pastor. At present the Seceders do not have a\\ncongregation in this township. There are two M. E. Churches, known as the\\nAsbury and Fair Haven churches. Flourishing congregations worship in both,\\nand their influence for good is felt far and near.\\nThe number of inhabitants of the towaiship is about 1,200. The first set-\\ntlers of the precinct came from Westmoreland and Centre counties during the\\nyears 1801 and 1802. The Young, Maffet, Guthrie, Maguire, Potter, Clover,\\nand Corbett families were represented among the pioneer settlers. These brave\\npeople came all the way on horseback, having no road except Indian trails on\\nwhich to travel. They also brought with them on horseback as many personal\\nand household effects as possible. They endured all the hardships and priva-\\ntions that settlers of a new country usually encounter, there being at first but\\none thing plentiful, and that was game. But the land which they purchased\\nand on which they settled was new, and the soil being rich, the wilderness ere\\nlong was made to blossom as the rose. Farms were laid out, trees felled, houses\\nand barns erected, all of which was evidence that these people had sought a\\nnew section of country which they determined to make theii^ home. The first\\nwhite male child born in Clarion county was born within the present limits of\\nthis township, in a small house which stood beneath the shade of an old oak\\ntree, which stands by the side of the turnpike between Strattanville and Clarion\\nboroughs. The name of the child was Thomas Young, and his birth occurred\\nin 1802. This child lived, grew, and waxed strong, and his children are among\\nthe best citizens of the county. The Hon. Hugh Maguire, son of James Ma-\\nguire, one of the earliest settlers, is believed to have been the second white\\nmale child born within the limits of the township. The old gentleman is still\\nliving, and resides on his farm just east of Strattanville. His father was a scythe\\nmaker, and made the first scythes manufactured in Clarion county, thus being\\none of the most useful men among the early pioneers. Others who were also\\nvery useful were Philip Clover, jr., a blacksmith, his being the first shop in the\\ntownship, situated near where the Stone House now stands John Corbett, a", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0523.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "472 History of Clarion County.\\nsurveyor; John Roll, a cooper; John Love, a weaver; and Philip Clover, sr.,\\nwas a tanner and shoemaker. The remainder of the early settlers all followed\\nfarming. At that time these brave pioneers were compelled to travel to Kit-\\ntanning, Armstrong county, in order to reach the nearest store. This distance\\nis thirty- five miles, and the road on which they traveled was a mere pathway\\nin the forest. During the first two years of the settlement flour was brought\\nfrom Westmoreland county on horseback. Iron was also packed from this and\\nother counties, and cost fifteen cents per pound. Salt cost ten dollars a barrel.\\nAt that time coffee and tea, luxuries of life, were little used on account of their\\nexcessive price, tea being four dollars and coffee seventy-five cents per pound.\\nAs early as l8oo Alexander Guthrie, John Guthrie, Thomas Guthrie, and\\nWilliam Maffett, of New Derry, Westmoreland county, Pa., came to this town-\\nship and made settlements. They erected some small cabins, and made other\\nimprovements, returning to Westmoreland in the fall of i8oo, blazing trees as\\nthey went, to guide them on their return the following spring. The ancestors\\nof the Guthries and Maffetts above named were originally from Scotland,\\nwhence they fled to Ireland during a period of persecution; shortly after, they\\ncame to America. Mr. James G. Maffett, of this township, had in his posses-\\nsion (and it still remains in possession of the Maffett family) an old music book,\\nwritten by William Maffett, grandsire of the above named William Maffett, in\\n1 717, on one page of which is written\\nWritten by Me, By Me.\\nWilliam Maffett, April the 18, 171 7.\\nWilliam Maffett, his musick book.\\nJohn Maffett, father of William Maffett, the author, came to America from\\nIreland, about 1774, as the following certificates will show. The originals of\\nthese certificates are now in possession of the Hon. J. T. Maffett, of Clarion\\nborough. They read as follows\\nThat John Maffett hath lived in the bounds of this congregation from his Infancy, and allways\\nbehaived himself honestly, soberly and Inoffensively, free of any publick scandal known to us is\\ncertifyed at Drumareth this 12th day of April, 1767. James Birek.\\nThese are to certify that John Maffett and his wife Elizabeth have always behaved with strict sobri-\\nety and honesty, and maintained fair moral characters.\\nGiven at Dromore, Mar. 19, 1773. Wm. Henry.\\nWe next find him in what is known as York county, Pa., as the following\\nwill show\\nYork County ss. I do hereby certify that John Maffett hath voluntarily taken and subscribed\\nthe oath of Allegiance and Fidelity, as directed by an Act of General Assembly of Penn a, passed the\\n13th day of June, A. D. 1777.\\nWitness my hand and seal the 27th day of May, Anno Domini, 1778.\\nNo. 161. Wm. McClean. [l. s.]\\nA number of the first settlers of this township enlisted in the War of 18 12,\\nbut all returned home without a wound or a scar. Not so fortunate, however,\\nwere those brave men of this precinct who enlisted in the great struggle known\\nas the Civil War. Many upon setting out for the field of action bade their", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0524.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "Clarion Township. 473\\nfriends and relatives farewell for the last time. True, many returned, and those\\nyet living, and who reside at present within the limits of the township, have\\norganized themselves into a Grand Army Post, with headquarters at Strattan-\\nville, q. V. These living heroes annually decorate the graves of their dead\\ncomrades with flowers, thus cherishing the memory of those who have gone\\nbefore. The present inhabitants of the township are, generally speaking, a\\nsober and industrious people, striving to make their homes pleasant, and pro-\\nmote the general welfare of their country.\\nThe major part of the people are farmers, the remainder every- day labor\\ners, merchants, millers, miners, blacksmiths, carpenters and teachers. The total\\nnumber of farmers in the township is about one hundred and thirty- one. The\\nnumber of laborers, that is, those who work at whatever they can get to do, is\\nperhaps twenty or twenty-five. There are two merchants. The millers num-\\nber three or four, while perhaps there are not less than a dozen miners. Those\\nwho follow the remainder of the occupations above named are not numerous,\\nthere being but one blacksmith now actively engaged within the limits of the\\ntownship. Many of the resident teachers teach in adjoining townships, and\\nsome have gone to labor for the time being in neighboring counties.\\nAn association known as the Clarion District Camp-meeting Association\\nhas within the limits of the township, and situated one mile north of Strattan-\\nville, an enclosure of about twenty acres of woodland, which is devoted to the\\npurpose of holding annual religious gatherings denominated camp-meetings.\\nMany members of the association have erected fine cottages upon the grounds,\\nand other improvements are being made from time to time, so that the grounds\\npresent quite a respectable appearance. These camp-meetings are held by the\\nMethodist Episcopal denomination of Christians, and are always attended by\\nlarge numbers of people. A high board fence surrounds the entire ground.\\nAn auditorium, with a seating capacity of about one thousand, has been erected,\\nand on Sabbaths the hearers usually fill every seat. An endeavor will be made\\nto gradually merge this camp-meeting into an assembly, modeled somewhat\\nafter the great Chautauqua Assembly.\\nClarion TozvnsJiip in 18 16. The summer of 18 16 is memorable as being\\nthe coldest summer ever witnessed by the oldest citizens of Clarion township.\\nVegetation grew but little, and what little there was, was destroyed by repeated\\nhard frosts. There was but one man in the township that had any corn, and\\nthat was John Guthrie, now deceased. His corn grew, but did not harden in\\nthe ear. Mr. Guthrie thought he would endeavor to do what nature failed to\\naccomplish, and, accordingly he built a kiln for the purpose of curing it but\\none night the kiln accidentally caught fire, and burnt away, consuming corn\\nand all. In the words of Paine, These were times that tried men s souls.\\nFamine almost stared the early settlers in the face, but they quailed not. In\\norder to secure flour, Messrs. Samuel and John Jones, who have long since", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0525.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "474 History of Clarion County.\\npassed to that undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveler ever re-\\nturns, together with others of the early settlers, hewed out a canoe on the\\nbanks of Mill Creek, manufactured five barrels of pine tar, placed the tar in\\nthe canoe, then poled the cargo all the way to Pittsburgh, Pa., a distance\\nof one hundred and ten miles. Landing at Pittsburgh, they exchanged their\\nfive barrels of tar for as many barrels of flour, and then poled the flour\\nback home in their canoes.\\nCHAPTER XLIX.\\nHISTORY OF CLARION BOROUaH.i\\nFEW of the county seats of the Commonwealth arose under circumstances\\nsimilar to those of Clarion. It came into existence on a spot, which, a\\nyear previous, was destitute of a single occupied habitation its origin was\\npurely political, the very site having been determined by the commissioners.\\nA town erected under such circumstances, with a forced growth we may say,\\nis one of the rare exceptions to the rule which makes a rapid rise followed by\\na rapid decline. But its selection as the seat of the law s administration assured\\nfor it a permanency that will endure as long as the execution of justice remains\\na part of our social existence.\\nThe land on which the county seat now stands lay on each side of a notably\\nlevel stretch of the turnpike, which had been at times utilized by rural horse-\\nmen as a racing ground. On either side extended a thicket of pines of medium\\ngrowth, interspersed by some goodly oaks and chestnuts. There was a small\\nbut abandoned clearing on the old academy lot. The only opening beside\\nthe turnpike was a path which led ofl southwardly through the dense under-\\nwood to the old camp ground on the hillside, north of South street, and east\\nof 5 th avenue. 2\\nSome time in the fall of 1839 (the date cannot be exactly ascertained, but\\nit was probably early in October, soon after the deliver}^ of the deeds), the town\\nplot, containing two hundred acres, was surveyed by John Sloan, jr.\\nThe original bounds of the village rectangular in form were, on the\\nnorth, the line of the outlots north of Liberty street and parallel thereto, ex-\\ncept an offset fift}^ yards wide, and the length of an outlot, at the western end\\nof Liberty street, and another, the width and length of an outlot occurring at\\nthe corner of P. Slattery s Heirs on the east, the western side of 8th avenue;\\n1 By George J. Reid.\\n2 See Methodist Church in Clarion countv.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0526.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "Clarion Borough. 475\\non the south, a Hne parallel to and .the width of two outlots, or 32 rods back\\nof South street on the west, beginning at the southwest corner of the Prot-\\nestant cemetery, the eastern side of the yet unopened 1st avenue. The\\nstreets running lengthwise were Liberty, Main, Wood, South those crosswise,\\n2d East (7th avenue), 1st East (6th ave.), Market (5th ave.), ist West (4th\\nave.), 2d West (3d ave.), and 3d West (2d ave.) Main and Market streets\\nwere made 80 feet wide; 4th and 6th avenues 70 feet, and all the others 60.\\nThe alleys are each 20 feet in width. The inlots, 275 in number, measure one-\\nfourth an acre each, being 60 feet wide and 180 in length; the outlots, of\\nwhich there were 50, averaged an acre and a half in area. The lineal angle\\nof the town is 62 degrees west of north.\\nThe public sale of lots began October 30, 1839, d continued three days.\\nThe underbrush had been cleared out and the streets were opened through\\nthe trees. The commissioners and their crier proceeded along these avenues,\\nstopping at each lot and offering it for sale to the highest bidder. Many sales\\nwere made, a large crowd was present each day, and the bidding was spirited.\\nLots went off at what were considered very good figures for a town in embryo.\\nNo. 25, now covered by M. Arnold s block, brought the highest price; it was\\npurchased by William Jack, of Westmoreland county, for $757.50. No. i, the\\nKribbs corner, opposite, was the next in value, selling to Jonathan Agey for\\n$560. The town was named by Commissioners Pritner, Potter, and Hamilton.\\nEarly in IMay, 1840, people began to arrive and erect houses. The sud-\\nden advent of a population, composed chiefly of the mechanics and laborers\\nengaged by the jail contractors, prospective merchants, tradesmen, hotel and\\nboarding-house keepers, found the place unprepared to shelter them all.\\nThose who could not find accommodation at the four houses which I shall\\npresently mention, went to Strattanville for the night. After the frames were\\nup, rough boards were hastily clapped on, shanty fashion, to answer the demand\\nfor shelter, and the work of putting on weatherboards, then wrought by hand,\\nand requiring much time and labor, was deferred till more pressing wants\\nwere supplied. People were packed in half-finished houses, windowless, door-\\nless, and with the merest modicum of furniture everything much as in a new\\noil town so far as roughing it amid discomfort, mud and disorder were\\nconcerned the comparison extends little farther.\\nIn 1838 a rather large cabin, having two or three rooms on the ground floor,\\na loft, and with a log stable in the rear, stood on what is now the southwestern\\ncorner lot at South street and Sixth Avenue, near the spring on South street.\\nTraces of the foundation and chimney yet remain. Who built it and when it\\nwas built, is uncertain, but it probably dated back to camp- meeting times. In\\n1838 Philip Clover, sr., put James Brinkley into it to hold possession against\\nMcFadden and the Kellys who had set up a claim to the land. Brinkley and\\nhis family occupied it till the winter of 1839, and it gave accommodation to", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0527.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": "4/6 History of Clarion County.\\nsome of those who attended the sales. It appears then to have been deserted\\nuntil it fell into the hands of William Clark in the spring of 1840. Clark built\\na shed addition to it, to be used as a kitchen and dining-room. Under his\\nproprietorship and that of George Lightner, a German, besides the family of\\nthe host, this house sheltered between fifteen and twenty-five unhappy boarders.\\nSamuel Garvin, in the early 30 s, had taken down a small frame-house at\\nClugh s Mill, moved it and put it up on a little property he had purchased east\\nof the future town. It stood on the lot now belonging to nearly\\nopposite J. E. Wood s residence. Here Mr. Garvin plied his trade of shoe-\\nmaker, cleared a few fields for cultivation, and occasionally burnt a tar-kiln, and\\nboated the product to Pittsburgh. This house and the South street cabin were\\nthe first houses worthy of the name on the site of Clarion. It is doubtful to\\nwhich belongs the priority probably to the former.\\nAs soon as the county-seat had been located, a Mrs Kate Empy, who had\\nlived a short time in Strattanville, and kept a shrewd eye on the prospective\\ntown, began to erect a frame dwelling just outside of the town limits it is now\\nthe residence of Dr. Strickler. Here she opened a cake and beer shop, and\\nentertained many during the sales, realizing in the three days the snug little\\nsum of $roo, quite a bonanza for those days. This is the earliest new build-\\ning within the present limits of the borough. Subseqnently, when the town\\nactually began, Mrs. Empy sold this property and opened a public-house in a\\nmore central situation.\\nIn 1839, before the laying out of the town, Peter Clover built a log house\\nof one story and a half, at the west end of Main street, and soon after sold it\\nto John R. Clover, who with his family first occupied it It stood where Martin\\nMeisinger s dwelling now stands. Amid a number of new buildings that\\nsprang up almost simultaneously in May, 1840, it is difficult to ascertain the\\nvery first one. It was probably Empy s tavern, afterwards the residence of\\nColonel William T. Alexander, now the property of S. Frampton s heirs. The\\nfirst brick house was J. Kerr s block, now owned by J. C. Reid, commenced in\\n1840, and completed early in 41 the next was McLain s brick building near\\nthe corner of Third Avenue and Main street, since destroyed by fire. The first\\nhouse on Wood street was Jos. Kelly s, at the corner of Third Avenue, now the\\ndwelling of William Forkum. Money did not abound in those days none of\\nthe first comers were wealthy, and the majority were of very limited means.\\nAs a consequence a great many were compelled to begin at the wrong end in\\nbuilding houses, erecting a small building or shed first, back from the street,\\nas a rear win g, and leaving the front in expectancy. For the first year or so\\nmost of the private houses were small, mean structures of this sort, set back\\namong the pines and underwood. The uncouth appearance of the infant town\\nmay be gathered from the following description by an old citizen who arrived\\nin August, 1840", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0528.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "7/2^ ^H^-7^^: i\\n/T", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0529.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0530.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "Clarion Borough. 477\\nAs I had come one hundred and twenty-five miles to see the place with\\na view of making it my future home, I looked around with considerable inter-\\nest. Although disposed to take a favorable view of everything, there was very\\nlittle I could see to fascinate. Previous to the spring of 1840 it had been a\\npiece of poor pine wood land, and the only money that had ever been made\\noff it had been by John C. Corbett, who some years before had gathered up\\nthe pine knots on the site of the town and burnt a tar kiln, and realized out of\\nit eleven barrels of tar. The main street was the Waterford and Susquehanna\\nturnpike, and the sides were occasionally ornamented with piles of half-rotten\\nlogs that had been cut and piled when the turnpike was made.\\nQuite a number of houses were up along both sides, but if any were finished\\nI did not see them. Generally only enough land was cleared on which to set\\nthe building, and the back end was frequently lost in bushes and brush heaps.\\nThe town looked to me more like a camp-meeting than the metropolis of a\\nflourishing county. Mr. Clark s hotel (Loomis House) was open for the accom-\\nmodation of strangers and travelers, and I suppose had a bar for the spiritual\\nrefreshment of his customers. The house was up, roofed, and partitioned off\\ninto rooms and apartments, and the outside doors were hung but the carpen-\\nters and plasterers were still at work, the painters had not begun yet, and I\\nslept my first night in Clarion in a room with a sheet hung up for a door. The\\nwindow sash had not been put in, but there were sheets and garments hung up\\nso as to partially shut out the view from the outside.\\nDr. Ross had introduced me to Jacques W. Johnson, a young lawyer from\\nCumberland Valley somewhere about Carlisle. He was very polite, and in-\\ntroduced me to everybody we met. We walked out the west end of the town\\nas far as the turn of the road below where the fair ground now is. It was all\\nwoods with a thick undergrowth of bushes. The Diamond looked hard the\\npine trees had been grubbed out, and were lying on the ground with roots pro-\\ntruding up, some of them ten feet. The masons were building the wall of the\\njail yard the foundation was finished and the court-house had not been com-\\nmenced. A thick growth of young white pine extended all the way from the\\nAlexander House to the Loomis House. The streets had generally been cut\\nout and the brush burned, but logs and stumps were everywhere. On the west\\nend of the town a couple of fields had been cleared south of the turnpike, ex-\\ntending back of where the seminary now stands.\\nLiving in the town at that time seemed very much like camping out.\\nThose who had come to stay were generally young married people, starting in\\nthe world on small means, and were from all parts of the State, but in their\\nprimitive way of living soon formed acquaintances, and all were busy getting\\ntheir houses ready for the winter. Thomas Gahagan lived in a little house,\\nstill standing, east of the nunnery. Two other small, one-story houses were\\noccupied between that and 7th avenue one on Mr. Montgomery s lot and\\n51", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0531.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "478 History of Clarion County.\\none on the A. G. Corbett lot. Samuel M. McCamant had a blacksmith shop\\nwhere the Republican-Gazette office now stands, and the kitchen end of the\\nhouse was up and occupied by him. James McKee lived in the kitchen end\\nof J. T. Mafifet s house. The next building that I recollect was the Great\\nWestern Hotel (D. B. Curll s lot); it was up and roofed, but not far enough,\\nalong to occupy as a hotel. The next was a frame store-room, back off the\\nstreet on the east side of the Jones House lot. The Jesse D. Porter house was\\nup and occupied by a man named Sloan, a cabinet-maker. Between that and\\nDr. Pritner s house he had built a long shop and vvareroom, which long after-\\nwards was moved to the rear end of the Jones House and made into a kitchen\\nand dining-room. Dr. Pritner was in his house (now the post-office). Lindsay\\nC. Pritner was living in a frame house on the east side of the Kribbs block\\nlot, and had a store in front of it. In the upper end of the town the settlers\\nthat I recollect were Andrew Gardner, M. McMurtrie, Wilson S. Packer,\\nJoseph Kelly, William Black. Jonatham Frampton was living in the shell of\\na house on the lot now owned by Joseph H. Patrick. Ground was broken for\\nthe Kerr block, now John C. Reid s. Alexander Reynolds was having the\\nhouse and store built where Captain Alexander now lives. Wilson Barber\\nhad a store on where the Arnold block now stands. An old Mrs. Empy had\\nthe shell of the Colonel Alexander house up and was keeping tavern in it.\\nThe lot occupied by the Frampton block was covered with a growth of white\\noak timber, and the whole square beyond it was virgin forest.\\nEarly life in Clarion presented some curious features, necessarily when\\nan influx of people from the old and civilized communities came in contact\\nwith the raw and rude surroundings of an upstart town in the wilderness. For\\nsome time people were too much engrossed in securing a roof over their heads,\\nand comparative comfort, to unite in social intercourse beyond that of an\\nevery-day character. With the advent of the legal force, mostly pleasure-\\nloving younkers with plenty of spare time on their hands, a new element was\\ncontributed to the life of the place. The hotels became the social head-\\nquarters, but the round of gayeties was as circumscribed as the luxuries were\\nlimited. Card parties were the rule among the gentlemen. Dominoes were\\nindulged in by both sexes. Yet, hampered as it was, the spirit of polite and\\nsocial intercourse, centainly less artificial, was perhaps more general in the\\ntown s society then than it is now. A couple of balls at the Great Western in\\nthe first winters, which attracted a number from Brookville and Strattanville,\\nwent far to wrest the palm of social prestige from those older and more aristo-\\ncratic neighbors. The new jail, under the regime of Assistant Sheriff Speer\\nand his comely daughters, and while yet untainted by the presence of crim-\\ninals, enjoyed with the hotels the favor of pleasure seekers. Hither betimes\\nthe youth of the town gathered and merrily whiled the hours away with games\\nand dances. The vacant cells rang with innocent laughter, and the prisoa", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0532.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "Clarion Borough. 479\\nwalls and grated windows looked down on the mazes of the cotillion and Vir-\\nginia reel. Some laughable accounts are preserved of the mishaps of the\\nbeaux in piloting their fair partners through the brush and mud, and over the\\nlogs, debris, and various obstacles encountered on their return.\\nOne of the amenities of the early years were the house and barn raisings,\\nwhich were very numerous. No one went round to collect a crowd when the\\nstructure was ready the builder would raise a loud halloo, and every one\\ndropped his work, the clattering] of hammers ceased, and all ran to the\\nfrolic. While the full complement of workmen were on hand during the\\nconstruction of the court-house and jail, the village was a bustling one. In\\ntl:e pleasant evenings the men beguiled the time by throwing the sledge and\\nbar, wrestling, and pitching quoits, and Main street was enlivened by the\\nthrong of on-lookers, and participants in these impromptu sports.\\nIntercourse with the outer world was furnished by the stage line over the\\nBellefonte and Meadville turnpike. A daily coach passed through town, one\\nday east and the next west, thus bringing the eastern mail every alternate day.\\nPrior to 1845 Pittsburgh mail was carried on horseback from Freeport to\\nStrattanville, and thence brought to Clarion by stage. In July, 1845, James\\nMcElwaine, of Freeport, established a tri-weekly hack and mail line between\\nthat point and Clarion. A trip to Pittsburgh in those days was a tedious affair\\nof not less than forty-eight hours.\\nThe post-office was opened in 1840, in the store-room of Wilson Barber,\\nwhere G. W. Arnold s block now stands the building was frame and had a\\nportico front. David Wilson was the first postmaster he was succeeded by\\nJohn Lyon. Clarion s subsequent postmasters were Seth Clover, Hugh A.\\nThompson, J. N. Hetherington, Miles Beatty, Jesse D. Porter, Miles Beatty\\nagain, C. C. Brosius, who moved the office to the small brick building adjoin-\\ning the residence of N. Myers; Miller Beatty, and M. M. Kaufman. In 1841\\na voluntary census revealed a population of 714; probably one hundred of\\nthese were non-resident mechanics and laborers employed on the public build-\\nings 1842 saw a disproportionate increase in the town s numbers it became\\nevident that the new county seat had attracted more than it could support, and\\nas a consequence a reactionary exodus in 1842\u00e2\u0080\u00943 left the town with its normal\\nquota of inhabitants. In 1850 Clarion contained 719 souls. Mr. Sherman\\nDay, compiler of Historical Collections of Pennsylvania, visited Clarion in\\n1842, and thus flatteringly describes it: The court-house is an elegant struc-\\nture of brick, surmounted by a cupola, and the county prison is very neatly\\nbuilt of sandstone from the neighboring quarries. The land reserved for a\\npublic square was shaded by a beautiful grove of oaks part of the original\\nforest. But it was compelled to bow to the ax of modern improvement. The\\nneatness and good taste which mark both the private and public buildings, and\\na brisk air of enterprise along the street, make a forcible impression upon the", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0533.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "48o History of Clarion County.\\ntraveler. There is a spacious academy of brick at the eastern end of the vil-\\nlage. Presbyterian and Methodist churches are organized, and the Catholics\\nare about organizing, but none have hitherto erected a house of worship.\\nThe trees and bushes in the public squares were taken out by Lot Curll,\\nDavid Roll, and others, under the direction of the commissioners, in the fall of\\n1840 and the spring of 1841. Besides Frampton and Craig s sheds, three small\\ntemporary frame offices were put up on the Diamond, the prothonotary s and\\nJohn B. Butler s, immediately opposite the court-house, and a shed for the\\ncommissioners on its southeastern corner. These were removed soon after the\\ncompletion of the court-house. Gilmore s Row, a group of four humble\\noffices, adorned the eastern side of the north square, on the present property of\\nJ. H. Sweny, esq. The corner building was Gilmore Thompson s legal shop,\\nthe next was occupied by the Iron County Democrat its neighbor was D. W.\\nFoster s law office, and the old election house was sacred to the guardianship\\nof the peace in the person of George B. Hamilton, esq. Thomas Sutton had\\na one-story office on the Kribbs corner.\\nBy an act of April 6, 1841, the village was incorporated as a borough, with\\nlimits as originally described. The citizens had anticipated the legislative act,,\\nand held an election the previous month. Jas. Sloan was chosen burgess James\\nMcKee, high constable; S. M. McMurtrie, borough constable; George B. Ham-\\nilton and Jesse Teats, justices; Edward Derby, Hugh A. Thompson, A. Rich-\\nards, Joseph Shoemaker, J. W. Coulter, town council James Goe and John\\nLyon, school directors; the municipality met in one of the rooms of the court-\\nhouse, the general place for all kinds of assemblies.\\nFrampton and Craig, the jail contractors, on their arrival here, put up a\\nrude shanty near the northwestern corner of the public square, to be used as a\\nstore for trading with their employees this was the first mercantile stand in\\ntown. The first regular store was opened by John Potter on the east end of\\nthe Jones House lot. Potter sold dry goods, groceries, and a general assort-\\nment of merchandise. Lindsay Pritner started the next shop on the lot cov-\\nered in part by the annex to the Kribbs block. About the same time Wilson\\nand Barber erected a store-room one door west of the Forest House. Not long\\nafter Lyon and Thompson put in a general stock in the room of the Reynolds\\nbuilding, now occupied by J. K. Boggs Co. The two latter were the lead-\\ning firms during the first two or three years. Myers and Hetherington were\\nthe first to introduce an extensive line of hardware at their general store, now\\nRankin s. R. and J. McGuffy opened the earliest drug store in a lowly shop,,\\nnow the office of Hon. W. L. Corbett. John, familiarly known as Jerusalem\\nHysung, a German, started a bakery and pastry shop on Kiss s corner in 1841,\\nHe was a very ingenious man, going into the woods, hewing the timbers, and\\nconstructing the frame of the house himself Here the leading citizens used to\\ngather in the evenings and discuss the news, politics, jumbles and spruce beer.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0534.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "I\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0m\\nfeK\\nOc-VVyA\\\\CV\\\\^", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0537.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0538.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "Clarion Borough. 481\\nHysung s successor was George Wesner, who converted the stand into a restau-\\nrant and sort of grocery. It was under this administration that it acquired the\\nname of Brimstone Corner, and for many years the corner faithfully main-\\ntained its reputation. Wesner, although unlicensed, dispensed liquors on the\\nsly to his regular patrons and his stufty little rooms were the scene of many\\na jovial carousal, often ending in a free-for-all fight.\\nDrs. James Ross and John T. Pritner, previously of Strattanville, in 1840\\nentered into partnership and began practice at Clarion. John H. Boyd, a brother\\nof J. K. Boyd, the attorney, was another of the earliest representatives of the\\nmedical profession, but did not remain long. Dr. E. Greene practiced here a\\nshort time in 1845.\\nIn the mechanical arts Thomas Gahagan, Richard Wilson, A. Richards,\\nSamuel Whisner, were among the earliest resident carpenters and joiners. Geo.\\nDale was a plasterer. Provines and Hilbruner, west of Wilson and Barber s\\nstore, had the first tin-shop, starting in April, 1841. William Craig, a brother\\nof James M., of Frampton Craig, had an humble tailoring establishment in\\na shed adjoining their store on the Diamond and Robert Wood soon opened\\nanother shop, advertising an offer of ten dollars per month and board for jour-\\nneymen tailors. Thomas Newell was the town s first cobbler he was soon fol-\\nlowed by Robert Goble and E. W. Everding. J. A. Kerr kept the first sad-\\ndlery; Henry Gompers the next; the latter had his shop above Wilson and Bar-\\nber s store. Samuel McCamant, Samuel Holzberry, and Peter Aldinger were\\nClarion s first knights of the anvil. Aldinger had a shop on the former Leo-\\npold Guth property, at Sixth and Wood. Holzberry dressed the tools of the\\nstone-masons and mechanics, and clinked the iron in the lot immediately back\\nof the jail. Sam. Holzberry was one of the characters of the early village.\\nHis helpmate, assisted by himself in spare moments, acted as laundress for the\\nworkmen, and they might be seen on bright days, pounding away at the soaked\\ngarments of the vile mechanicals, after the primitive fashion, with sticks, in\\nthe vain attempt to extract all the dirt from them. It was one of the regular\\namusements of their patrons to load their pockets with stones and fusillade, with\\nhideous racket, the shanty of their tool-dresser and washerman.\\nJames Sloan and Adam Mooney started chair-making and painting shops\\nsimultaneously the former in a low building on the J. D. Porter lot the lat-\\nter two doors east of the Centennial House at the house still standing there.\\nSloan was succeeded by Nichols Ross, and they by Enoch Alberson, who\\nextended the line to general cabinet- making. D. K. Turney in 1842 opened a\\ncabinet and chair shop at the corner of Wood street and Third avenue, and Will-\\niam Shaw soon after opened another adjoining the Alexander House. Charles R.\\nWaters established Clarion s first foundry on the residence lot of James Boggs,.\\nesq. Thomas West and Jesse Love operated a pottery at a very early date on\\nthe northeast corner of Seventh avenue and Wood street. J. B. Loomis kept", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0539.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": "482 History of Clarion County.\\nthe first livery stable in the rear of the Great Western after him were Charles\\nR. Waters and A. Johnson. The original brewery, built about 1845 by a Ger-\\nman named Peters, stood near the head of Knapp s Run, on the east end of\\nMain street, north side. Mr. Tritsch followed Peters.\\nThe first barber shop was presided over by Alexander Johnson, a colored\\nman, who opened it in 1844, in one of the small frame buildings on Main\\nstreet, where Guth s brick now stands. Johnson had a versatile genius in\\nconnection with the tonsorial shop he ran a regular eating-house, supplying\\noysters, tripe, pigs-feet, etc. Later he went into the livery business. John\\nClark was a hatter, opposite the Porter house, previous to embarking in the\\nmercantile business. Miss Rebecca Corse, afterwards Mrs. J. B. Loomis, first\\nministered to feminine fashionable wants as milliner and mantua-maker, at the\\nForest House. John Beck was the first watch-maker his shop stood where\\nKaufman s block was afterwards built. In 186- James Brown fitted up an\\nhumble photograph (tintype) gallery in the upper story of Elss s block. He\\nwas succeeded by A. Bonnet, he by C. C. Brosius, and finally in 1876, came\\nthe present artist, Mr. F. M. Lewis. Much of the early work was done by\\ntraveling daguereotypists who had movable galleries.\\nHotels. The first pretense at a hostelry was the cabin and its frame wing,\\nat South street and Sixth avenue, before mentioned, as appropriated and used\\nby William Clark, pending the erection of the Forest House.\\nMrs. Empy s tavern and boarding-house was the first finished hostelry and\\nplastered house in the town this is now the property of Samuel Frampton s\\nheirs, formerly that of William T. Alexander. It was known as the Eagle\\nHouse. Mrs. Empy was succeeded in the management by William D. Louden,\\nand he, after a short time, by Joseph G. Shoemaker. In 1843 John S. McPher-\\nson, formerly of the Clarion Exchange, took charge of this house finally John\\nReed became landlord. It next became the property of William T. Alexander,\\nesq and ceased to be used as a hotel.\\nThe next hotel thrown open for the accommodation of the public was the\\nForest House, now the Loomis, in August, 1840. The Clarks only managed the\\nForest House a short time before they returned to Brook ville. Robert Barber\\ntook the place, ran it a year or so, and in 1843 Seth Clover became proprietor-\\nIn 1845 John B. Loomis purchased the property, and under his management\\nthe stand attained an excellent reputation. He added the third story. After\\nCaptain Loomis s death in 186-, the hotel was conducted for some years by\\nhis widow and sons.\\nThe Great Western, whose site is occupied by D. B. Curll s block, was\\nconstructed in 1840-1, by Colonel James W. Coulter, from Butler county, and\\nenjoyed with the Forest House the greatest share of patronage. After a short\\nlease to H. M. R. Clark, Sheriff D. Delo became next proprietor in 1847, s i\\nMcLain. In 1853 the house was burned down and not rebuilt, Mr. Curll\\nbuying the property.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0540.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "Clarion Borough. 483\\nWilliam Alexander and Greenberry Wilson came from Huntingdon county\\nin the spring of 1841, and camped out several weeks under some oaks near\\nStrickler and Ray s foundry, before finding more fixed accommodations. In\\n1 84 1 Mr. Alexander built the rear part of the Alexander, originally known as\\nthe Union House. In the succeeding spring he erected the brick half; the\\nframe end, formerly the residence of Robert Potter, was attached later. Mr.\\nAlexander remained as host here till his death in 1866 or 67. Mr. Joseph D.\\nThompson then managed it for three years. Since that time the hotel has\\npassed through a number of changes, and was finally destroyed by fire during\\nMr. F. Dietz s administration, in May, 1886.\\nThe Clarion Exchange, where the McLain dwelling stands, was one of the\\nearliest brick buildings, and was put up in 1840 and 41 by Joseph Foster. Its\\nfirst landlords were McPherson and McMurtrie, later McPherson alone. Subse-\\nquently Joseph Foster and Andrew Gardner managed it. When D. McLain\\noccupied it as a dwelling-house its existence as a hotel ceased. This building\\nwas burned January, 1878.\\nThe Oakland, now the Jones House, was built by WilHam Furgeson. At\\nfirst only the rear, the house was subsequently brought to the level of the\\nstreet it was two-storied. Mr. Furgeson failing, the property fell into the\\nhands of Rev. George Lyon, one of his creditors, and was purchased from him in\\n1847, by Mr. H. M. R Clark, who built up a reputation for it as an excellent\\nhostelry, and continued proprietor till 1866, being succeeded by ex-Sheriff S.\\nS. Jones. Under Mr. Jones s management it became the leading inn of the\\ntown he added the third story, the rear wing, and erected the present com-\\nmodious stable but these improvements involved Mr. Jones in financial diffi-\\nculties, and the stand was finally sold to A. H. Beck.\\nColonel Coulter, after retiring from the Great Western, purchased the upper\\nof the Kerr buildings, and opened a general store. In 1876 he converted this\\ninto a hotel, and erected a third story. Colonel Coulter conducted the house\\ntill his death in 1882, and afterwards Mrs. Coulter for a while. The Coulter\\nHouse had a number of managers after Mrs. Coulter s death in 1883, and was\\nsold to the present proprietor, M. Boyce, in 1885.\\nMr. Nicholas Tritsch, in 1876, built a new front to the dwelling house\\nerected by John McPherson, and converted the building into a hotel, the Cen-\\ntennial House. After running it a short time, Mr. Herman Sandt became\\nproprietor under lease. Since his exit this hotel has been successively con-\\nducted by Mrs. Tritsch, his reUct, Dietz Markley, Joseph Fasenmyer, Mrs.\\nTritsch again, and the present proprietor is Thomas Fleckenstein.\\nSocieties. Besides the political Hickory and Henry Clay clubs, the most\\nnoteworthy of the old non-secret associations of the town was the Clarion Ly-\\nceum. The Lyceum was a select literary and debating club, formed in De-\\ncember, 1843. The first officers were, president, Charles McCrea vice-presi-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0541.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "484 History of Clarion County.\\ndent, James M. Craig secretary, Amos Myers reviewer, B. J. Reid. They\\nmet weekly, and the quarterly debates held in the court-room were open to the\\npublic. This institution, though small in membership, represented no small\\namount of talent and brains. It lived four or five years.\\nWomen s Christian Temperance Union. The Clarion Union, the first in the\\ncounty, was organized March 14, 1884, with fifty-four members. The original\\nmembers were, president, Mrs. P. P. Pinney vice-presidents, Mrs. L. J. Shoe-\\nmaker, C. Smith, W. H. Mossman, Theo. S. Wilson, James Campbell. Present\\nofficers: President, Mrs. James Campbell; vice-presidents, Mrs. N. Myers,\\nW. I. Reed, Charles Leeper recording secretary, Mrs. Clara Coblentz cor-\\nresponding secretary, Mrs. S. Win Wilson treasurer, Mrs. J. L. Shallenberger.\\nAt present the Clarion W. C. T. U. numbers twenty members, its numerical\\nstrength having been diminished by the organization of the Young Women s\\nChristian Temperance Union, May 20, 1886. The Clarion division of the W.\\nC. T. U. in 1886, expended $626.40 in the cause of temperance. Meetings\\nare held the first Tuesday of each month.\\nThe county organization took form December 4, 1884, under the auspices of\\nMrs. Frances S. Swift, the State president. Since that time sixteen local\\nunions have been established, making seventeen in all. Mrs. J. S. Elder, of\\nClarion, is president Mrs. Keeley, Edenburg, corresponding secretary Miss\\nFinley, Lamartine, recording secretary Mrs. N. Myers, Clarion, treasurer.\\nThe La Coterie Club, a social organization, was chartered December 30,\\n1885. It has a suite of pleasant rooms in Kribbs s block. Its active members\\nnumber twenty. President, F. J. Maftet.\\nClarion Athletic Association, organized November, 1885, with John W.\\nReed, president. It rented Kribbs s Hall and fitted it up with a complete set\\nof gymnastic apparatus. The membership is about twenty.\\nJohn B. Loomis Post, No. 205, G. A. R., was established in May, 1881,\\nwith H. Wetter, post commander. There were twenty-eight charter members.\\nThe present number of members in good standing is forty-five. Present com-\\nmander, John B. Patrick. It meets the 2d and 4th Tuesday of each month in\\nArnold s (frame) block.\\nWoman s Relief Corps, whose object is to co-operate in the charitable and\\ndecorative work of the G. A. R., was organized in Clarion February, 1886,\\nwith fifty-one members. Corps number, 36. Mrs. Nettie Lewis was first\\npresident, Mrs. Lucy Alexander senior vice-president. The present officers\\nPresident, Mrs. A. H. Alexander; vice-president, Mrs. Maggie Campbell;\\ntreasurer, Mrs. J. H. Patrick. The W. R. C. meets semi-monthly in the G.\\nA. R. Hall.\\nKnights of Labor, Local Assembly 9881 (Local, i. e., not belonging to a\\ndistrict, and directly subordinate to the General Assembly) was organized in\\nClarion March 22, 1887, with about fifty members. The officers are not given\\nto the public.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0542.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "^a.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0543.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0544.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "Clarion Borough. 485\\nI. O. O. F. Clarion Lodge, No. 252, was organized in 1847.\\nClarion Encampment, No. 90, I. O. O. F., exists in connection with the\\nabove.\\nClarion Lodge (Blue) of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 277, was char-\\ntered in 1853, with J. P. Brown, worthy master; Wm. B. Brown, senior warden;\\nJames E. Johnson, first junior warden. Its present W. M. is A. H. Sarver.\\nClarion Lodge, No. 213, A. O. U. W., was organized by J. E. Fisher,\\nMarch, 1886, with thirty-one charter members. Past- master workman, J. E.\\nFisher master workman, Joseph H. Partrick. Meetings every Thursday\\nnight at G. A. R. Hall.\\nThe Knights of Maccabees have also an organization here. The Sons of\\nTemperance, Artisans Order of Mutual Protection, and Red Men, secret soci-\\neties, once existed in Clarion, but are now defunct.\\nCJinrcJies. Methodist Episcopal. The Methodist was the first organized\\ndenomination in Clarion. In 1840 Mr. John R. Clover formed a society of\\nthis church here. Strattanville was the name of the circuit of appointments,\\nand Mr. R. Peck was the preacher. Still it is supposed Dr. James Goe (the\\nfirst prothonotary) who was a local preacher, first preached for the Methodists\\nof Clarion. Before -the jail was finished the house of Mr. Jesse Teats, on Wood\\nstreet, now occupied by Samuel Pickens, and the Thomas school- house, now\\nA. G. Corbett s Main street residence, were the places of assembly. In July,\\n1 841, the appointment received conference recognition, and H. N. Sterns was\\nappointed pastor. A lot was purchased in 1842 from Jno. N. Purviance, for\\n$300, and in 1844 a brick structure Avas formally dedicated. The revivals of\\n1842, 1850, and 185 1, were marked periods in the history of this church.\\nThe church was incorporated December 5, 185 1. The trustees named in the\\narticles of incorporation are James Goe, John Beck, Miles Beatty, Enoch Al-\\nberson, Peter Conver, E. W. Everding, Jno. A. McCloskey, Samuel Whisner,\\nGeorge Dale. Present membership 130 communicants. The old building\\nhas become antiquated and a new church which will cost from $12,000 to\\n$16,000 is projected. For this purpose the lot at the corner of Wood street\\nand Sixth avenue has been purchased from L. Guth. The following have\\nbeen the pastors of this church since its beginning here: H. N. Sterns, J.\\nGraham, J. W. Klock, S. C. Churchill, J. W. Hill, D. H. Jack, J. K. Hallock,\\nR. M. Bear, W. F. Wilson, W. F. Day, E. B. Lane, J. R. Lyon, J. T. Boyle,\\nN. G. Luke, D. S. Steadman, T. P. Warner, J. J. Bently, T. Graham, R. F.\\nKeeler, D. A. Crowell, S. S. Stuntz, W. F. Warren, E. R. Knapp, C. C. Hunt,\\nO. M. Sackett, C. Wilson, M. Miller, H. Henderson, W. H. Mossman, C. M.\\nDarrow, B. F. Delo, present pastor.\\nPresbyterian. The Presbyterian Church at Clarion was organized in the\\nupper story of the jail building. May 15, 1841, by Revs. J. Core and D. Polk,\\nthe former of Licking church, the latter of Brookville. Sixteen members\\n52", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0545.jp2"}, "526": {"fulltext": "486 History of Clarion County.\\nwere present Hugh A. Thompson, Thomas Sutton, and John Clark were\\ninstalled as presiding elders. In 1844 the church building was completed.\\nRev. James Montgomery had been called to this ministry in February, 1842\\nMr. Montgomery was an exceptionally pious, amiable and scholarly pastor.\\nHe continued to officiate till January, 1868, when his failing health com-\\npelled him to resign. He died August 10, 1871. The present pastor. Rev.\\nJames S. Elder, took charge February 28, 1868. Mr. Elder is a native of El-\\nder s Ridge, Indiana county, a graduate of Jefferson College, and previous\\nto his installation here had filled the pastorate of the Greenville and Corsica\\nchurches. The present parsonage was secured in 1870. Some valuable im-\\nprovements and additions to the church property were made of late years. In\\n1884 a pipe organ and stained windows were put in, and in the succeeding\\nyear a water motor was attached to the organ. The membership is 176. In\\nconnection with this church are the Women s Missionary (Foreign and Do-\\nmestic) Society, and the Young Ladies American Missionary Society, organ-\\nized in 1873, and 1872 both are in active existence. For the past year the\\nformer expended $500 in missionary work.\\nRoman Catholic. St. Mary s Immaculate Conception Church. In 1842\\nthere was a mere handful of Catholics in the town, and their spiritual wants\\nwere first ministered to by Rev. Joseph Cody of Sugar Creek, Armstrong\\ncounty, who came once every two or three months, and held divine service in\\nthe private houses of various members of the church. Subsequently this mis-\\nsion was successively supplied by Rev. Fathers Kleineidam, Brown, Gallagher,\\nSkopez and finally in 1846, P. Hoy was sent out as the first resident pastor.\\nClarion, however, was only the central of a number of outlying missions which\\nhe attended. Father Hoy becoming enfeebled, his place was taken by Rev.\\nJos. F. Deane, June, 1847. the early part of 1850 Rev. James Slattery\\nsucceeded Mr. Deane as pastor here and at the Wilderness, in Farmington\\ntownship. During this pastorate the church was erected on a lot donated by\\nthe proprietors of the land at the instance of General Levi G. Clover, and con-\\nveyed by the commissioners, January 8, 1841, to Bishop Kenrick, of the See\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of Philadelphia, in trust for the future congregation. The church property\\nwas afterwards enlarged by the gift of an adjoining lot by J. C. Reid. Ex-\\nclusive of furniture, the cost of the church was $2,500. On Sunday, June\\nthe 15th, 1856, the structure was dedicated by Right Rev. Josue M. Young,\\nof Erie. Father Slattery having gone to the West, the church was attended\\nfor three or four years by priests from other points, among whom were Revs.\\nLedwith, A. Skopez and Mollinger. The latter was relieved of Clarion in\\nAugust, i860, by Rev. John Koch, as permanent pastor and visitor for the\\nWilderness, Voglebachers, Sligo and other points. Under Fr. Koch s admin-\\nistration the church, previously almost bare, was pretty thoroughly furnished\\nwith pews, organ, bells, etc. Rev. H. A. Deckenbrock, a native of Westphalia,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0546.jp2"}, "527": {"fulltext": "Clarion Borough. 487\\nPrussia, arrived here September i, 1876. No outside congregation was in-\\ncluded in his charge. Under his direction the parsonage was built, the church\\nextended, stained glass windows put in, and an elegant new altar purchased.\\nAn imposing front extension is to be executed in 1888. The congregation\\nnumbers about five hundred souls.\\nBaptist. The Reidsburg Church, of which Rev. Thomas E. Thomas was\\nminister, was the nearest place of worship for the few Baptists of the early town.\\nAbout thirty years ago there was an attempt at Baptist organization here, but\\nit proved only partially successful. Amos Myers, Samuel Frampton, C. E. Be-\\nman, and Nicholas Shanafelt were its promoters. There was occasional preach-\\ning in the upper story of the bank building by Rev. Wolf, and other for-\\neign clergymen. A Sunday-school was formed which met in the same room.\\nIn the course of a few j^ ears, on the death and departure of some of the leading\\nspirits, the movement died out. In 1875 a reorganization was effected, and in\\n1876 a new edifice erected at the cost of $9,000, on a lot donated by Rev.\\nAmos Myers. For some years the place could only support a pastor at half\\ntime. The resident pastors have been Revs. Swigart, Snyder, Shoemaker, and\\nA. J. King. The membership is one hundred.\\nSchools. Education received early attention in the infant burgh. The first\\ncommon school a free one was opened in the autumn of 1841, in the house\\nof its teacher, B. H. Thomas, which stood on the lot now occupied by A. G.\\nCorbett s residence on Main street. School was held only during the winter\\nterm the balance of the year the house was used as the temporary academy.\\nIn 1845 small one-room structure, the White School House, was built on\\nlot No. 21, fronting on South street. It stood near the upper end of the lot,\\nand was approached from Fifth avenue. The building is now used as a dwell-\\ning. School was held here till 1867, and then transferred to the academy.\\nThe academy became dilapidated, unsightly, as well as too small, and after\\na great deal of agitation, the citizens of the town, by popular vote, decided to\\nerect a new school -house. On September 6, 1885, the contract for a three-\\nstoried brick building was awarded to S. S. Wilson, at $15,000. School was\\nopened in the winter of 1886, with Prof. Yingling, principal, and all the pupils\\nfrom school No. 2, the engine-house, transferred to the new building. The\\nstructure is a very creditable one, and the architecture on the whole is pleas-\\ning. It contains ten rooms.\\nIn 1865 the first Catholic school was held in the sacristy of the church;\\nMiss Allebach was its teacher. The front of the school-house was erected in\\n1869, and the rear in 1878. Lay instructors were employed till 1876, when the\\nBenedictine Sisters took charge of the school, and have remained ever since.\\nClarion Academy was incorporated by an act of Assembly June 12, 1840,\\nwith Amos Williams, Hugh Maguire, Lindsay C. Pritner, Robert Potter, Geo.\\nB. Hamilton, Peter Clover, sr., John H. Groce, William B. Fetzer, and Charles", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0547.jp2"}, "528": {"fulltext": "488 History of Clarion County.\\nEvans, trustees. The treasurer, Judge Evans, received $2,000 as a State ap-\\npropriation. Lots Nos. 45 and 46 were purchased from the first regular com-\\nmissioners for $202.50. Early in 1841 Lyon and Thompson received the build-\\ning contract for $1,800. The building was not completed ready for use till\\nJanuary, 1843 5 i the mean time the sessions were held in B. H. Thomas s\\nframe school-house. Beside the ordinary branches, Latin and some of the\\nhigher mathematics were embraced in the school s curriculum. Rev. Robert\\nW. Orr was the first principal; he was succeeded by James V. Reid in 1845.\\nIn that year the annual State appropriations were discontinued, and the acad-\\nemy, unable to support itself, ceased to exist. The building was utilized for\\nvarious purposes; select-school, lodge-rooms, etc., till 1867, when it was con-\\nverted to the use of the common schools.\\nThe Clarion Female Seminary began in 1843, in an humble frame structure\\non Fifth avenue, previously a tailor shop, now the kitchen of the old B. J. Reid\\nhomestead. Miss Stebbins, a sister-in-law of attorney John B. Butler, was its\\nfirst teacher Thomas M. Jolly was president of the board of trustees. The\\ninstitution failed to realize the expectations of its projectors, and after a couple\\nof terms the Clarion Female Seminary became a thing of the past.\\nCarrier Seminary and the Normal School. 1866 being the centennial year\\nof American Methodism, the Erie Conference determined to commemorate it\\nby the inauguration of two educational institutions under the patronage of the\\nchurch one at Randolph, N. Y., and the other at Clarion, Pa. Rev. R. M.\\nBear was appointed financial agent to solicit donations. The first board of\\ntrustees was elected by the contributors March 18, 1867, and were George W.\\nArnold, Samuel Wilson, Jacob Black, John Keatly, James Ross, M. D., Hiram\\nCarrier, Nathan Carrier, jr., David Lawson, William Young, James B. Knox,\\nHutchman Torrence, John D. Coax, Nathan Myers, Martin Kearney, John R.\\nStrattan. The corner-stone was laid June 16, 1868, and the building, a mas-\\nsive three-storied brick structure, sixty feet wide by one hundred and ten in\\nlength, completed in the fall of 1871. The grounds comprised ten acres. The\\ntotal cost, inclusive of furniture, was about $75,000. In the mean time the\\nschool had been organized in the old academy building. The name Carrier\\nSeminary was adopted in honor of the Carrier family, who agreed to donate\\n$6,000 for the building. The first term of Carrier Seminary M^as opened Sep-\\ntember 10, 1867, with Rev. J. G. Townsend as principal, who remained one\\nyear. He was succeeded by Rev. S. Stuntz, who remained at the head of the\\nschool two years; in the fall of 1870 Miss E. J. Haldeman became principal,\\nremaining one year. The fall term of 1871 opened in the new building, Prof\\nJ. J. Steadman, principal. The institution started out prosperously, but after a\\nfew years a decline set in, from which it never revived.\\nIn 1874 some of the leading citizens of the borough stockholders, en-\\ndeavored to change the Carrier Seminary into a State Normal school, and sue-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0548.jp2"}, "529": {"fulltext": "Clarion Borough. 489\\nceeded in having the thirteenth district set apart for Clarion but the M. E.\\nConference, on discovering that in the event of the change, the institution\\nwould pass out of its control, opposed the project, and it consquently fell\\nthrough.\\nIn the summer of 1886 several teachers succeeded in getting the substan-\\ntial citizens of Clarion interested in the design of establishing a Normal School.\\nThe scheme soon took practical shape $40,000 were subscribed, and at the\\nsession of the Methodist Episcopal Conference, beginning September 15, 1886,\\nthe transfer of the seminary from that body to the provisional trustees of the\\nClarion State Normal School Association was effected for the consideration of\\n$25,000. Ground was immediately broken for the erection of two large dor-\\nmitories adjoining the main building; the work was rapidly pushed, and the\\nState committee, having examined the structures February 15, 1887, formally\\nrecommended them the same day, thus perfecting the establishment of the\\nschool as a State institution. The interior of the seminary building was re-\\nmodeled and renovated throughout the partitions of the third story were\\ntaken out and the whole converted into a magnificent hall. The ladies dormi-\\ntory consists of two wings, each forty by one hundred and twenty feet, and\\nthree stories high the lower story contains the dining-room, thirty- eight by\\nninety- six feet, and capable of seating 250. The main wing of the boys build-\\ning, likewise three stories in height, and with seventy rooms, measures forty by\\none hundred and two feet; the annex forty by sixty- four feet. All the build-\\nings are fitted with water, steam, and gas, and in interior arrangements and\\nfacilities are unsurpassed in the State. About $60,000 has already been ex-\\npended in improvements the total cost will exceed $90,000. School opened\\nApril 12, 1887 with 140 students. Prof A. J. Davis, the principal, is assisted\\nby a select faculty of eleven. While of course the art of teaching is made a\\nspecial feature, the school instructs in all the branches of a liberal education\\nclassic, scientific, commercial, the modern languages, music, painting and civil\\nengineering. The general management is vested in the principal, subject to\\nthe State regulations and the supervision of the State superintendent. The\\nprincipal is assisted in maintaining discipline by the teachers and commissary.\\nThe trustees have an indirect control of the institution, each department being\\nentrusted to one of the three committees, viz. on instruction, on finance, on\\nsupplies.\\nTJic Press. Clarion s first periodical was the Republican, established by\\nWilliam T. Alexander and Robert Barber, on the ruins of a sheet of the same\\nname, published at Strattanville for a few months by J. T. McCracken. The\\nfirst number of the Clarion paper, in size 14x21 inches a four- column double-\\nsheet, was issued in May, 1840. We will let the editor, Colonel Alexander,\\ndescribe its auspices in his own words When it was determined to issue the\\nfirst number of the paper, the building intended for the printing-office, 18 x 20", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0549.jp2"}, "530": {"fulltext": "490 History of Clarion County.\\nfeet, was still uncompleted and was minus a roof and a floor. It stood upon\\nthe site now occupied by Schott s meat market, and the old Ramage press,\\nwhich was either the one used by Ben Franklin, or its fac simile, was brought\\nfrom Strattanville and placed upon the ground within the walls of the building.\\nThe old, worn-out type from Strattanville, with a font of new ones, were laid\\nin cases, and the racks stood upon the then open ground, now occupied by\\nKlahe s hardware store, with a leafless oak tree and the blue sky for a roof,\\nand all out of doors for elbow room. There was set the first type for the\\nfirst paper printed in Clarion, and the first number was issued from the press\\nin the roofless and floorless building above referred to. It required from three\\nto five hours each week to tighten its props, retie the platen, renew the leather\\nused for springs, and make other necessary repairs about this Ramage press\\nbut for years it served all purposes in working off the paper, and doing all the\\njob work turned out by the office. The subscription list of the paper gradually\\nincreased from two hundred to five hundred, and its publishers were content\\nwith the assurance that the country produce taken in exchange would pay for\\nboarding, while the cash payments would keep up the stock of paper.\\nThe Republican (Democratic in politics) found a formidable, but transitory\\nrival in the Visitor, imported from Butler by a faction of the Democratic party,\\nto support their ticket, which was opposed by the Republican. It was pub-\\nlished by Charles McLaughlin, ably edited by one Lindsay, and was a com-\\nparatively handsome sheet. After the defeat of all its ticket except the sheriff,\\nthe Visitor remained long enough to print his official blanks and then de-\\ncamped.\\nThe Iron County Democrat was started in September, 1842, by B. J. Reid\\nand Samuel Duff and first saw light on the 27th of that month. It was cre-\\nated by a demand for a non-bolting Democratic organ. The Iron County\\nDemocrat in size was considerably larger than the Republican at its head was\\ndisplayed the legend, All kinds of marketable produce taken in exchange.\\nReid Duff were succeeded by B. J. and J. C. Reid, and in February, 1844,\\nthe conflicting wings having buried the hatchet, the Republican and Iron County\\nDemocrat were consolidated under the name of the Clarion Democrat, B. J.\\nReid and William T. Alexander, proprietors and editors Captain Barber hav-\\ning in the mean while retired. The old material of the Republican was disposed\\nof to start the EmlcjitoJt Gazette, and torture the eyes of the Emlentonians.\\nIn August, 1845, differences arose between the editors concerning the\\nchoice of two tickets presented by a disrupted county convention. Neither\\nyielding, a deadlock was the result, and the paper suspended publication. The\\ndifficulty was at length solved by Mr. Reid selling his interest to Alexander,\\nand after a break of six weeks the Democrat again appeared, October 1 1, 1845.\\nIn a few months Colonel Alexander took in Geo. W. Weaver, of Bellefonte,\\nand the firm so continued for about seven years for a succeeding period of", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0550.jp2"}, "531": {"fulltext": "Clarion Borough. 491\\nten years Alexander remained sole proprietor. July 10, 1858, the Democrat\\nwas enlarged from a five to a seven-column sheet, and other typographical\\nchanges made. Early in June, 1862, James T. Burns, esq., became a partner\\nin the paper, but in the following December his interest was purchased by R.\\nB. Brown, of Brownsville, Fayette county. In 1864 Mr. Brown became sole\\nproprietor. Colonel Alexander retiring after an editorship of twenty-four con-\\nsecutive years. Mr. Brown introduced the first steam press in the county, for\\nthe office of the Democrat, in January, 1872. In November, 1877, George F.\\nKribbs became owner and editor of the Democrat, and in September, 1885,\\nMr. W. I. Reed, formerly of Beaver, Pa., was taken into partnership. Under\\nthe present management the circulation of the Democrat has been much in-\\ncreased, extensive reforms made in its typographical appearance, and it is now\\none of the most substantial and prosperous country weeklies in Western Penn-\\nsylvania. In January, 1887, the old press was replaced by an improved Cot-\\ntrell Babcock, with a capacity of 1,500 copies an hour.\\nThe Democrat Register, the Whig organ, was inaugurated by D. W. Fos-\\nter, esq., and issued its first number April 26, 1843. It was inferior both in\\nmatter and make-up to the opposition journals. Foster, in 1845, resigned the\\neditorial chair to Parker C. Purviance, an attorney from Butler, and later it\\nwas conducted by his brother-in-law, A. J. Gibson.\\nThe Register was purchased in 1852 by Colonel Samuel Young, who in-\\nfused some life into its columns. In 1856 the sheet was enlarged and its name\\nchanged to the Independent Baimer. In 1869 C. W. Gilfillan, the Republican\\nnominee for Congress in this district, was opposed by Young in the Bamier.\\nTo get rid of this enemy and have the Republican press unanimous in his\\nfavor, Gilfillan bought out Young in the fall of 1869, changed the paper s\\nname to the Republican, and sent J. T. McCoy, of Franklin, to edit it. Mc-\\nCoy, after a few months was succeeded by George O. Morgan, of Meadville.\\nIn 1 87 1 the Repnblica7i was purchased by Jos. H. Patrick and William S.\\nAlexander, who edited it jointly for a few years, when Patrick retired. This\\nmanagement, in 1873, procured a steam press. William Alexander continued\\nto act as editor till 1876, when a handsome new office was erected, and the\\nconcern passed into the control of the Republican Printing Company, com-\\nposed of William S. Alexander, George W. Arnold, -Theo. S. Wilson Mr.\\nAlexander, business manager, and W. R. Johns, editor. In 1879 Johns left to\\nstart the Foxburg Gazette, owned by William L. Fox, and his place was filled\\nby A. A. Carlisle, till the consolidation of the Republican and Gazette, Sep-\\ntember 9, 1880. Mr. Johns remained editor for three years, and on Septem-\\nber 9, 1883, John B. Patrick, esq., having bought Theo. S. Wilson s interest,\\nand leased the others, assumed editorial charge.\\nThe Independent Democrat, started in 1854, by John S. Maxwell, was a\\nshort-lived sheet, expiring in about six months.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0551.jp2"}, "532": {"fulltext": "492 History of Clarion County.\\nA. Cameron Foster, assisted financially by J. B. Watson, esq., in 1872,\\nestablished the Clarion Jacksonian in 1872.\\nAfter some years it was leased by West Ray T. West, editor. Being\\nshortly sold at sheriff sale, the paper was purchased by West Ray, and in\\nJanuary, 1881, sold to A. A. Carlisle, who soon after brought it out in a new,\\nand much more attractive garb.\\nBanks. Clarion s first financial institution, the First National Bank, was\\nchartered January 18, 1865, with a capital of $100,000. William L. Corbett\\nwas first president, G. W. Arnold, cashier the latter has retained that posi-\\ntion ever since. The First National occupied the old building now leased by\\nEd. L. Fox, till 1882, when their present elegant fire-proof structure was com-\\npleted.\\nThe Discount and Deposit Bank was established in 1871, with James\\nCampbell, president, and T. B. Barber, cashier, succeeded by N. Myers. Cap-\\nital $100,000. In 1880 the institution was reorganized as the Discount and\\nDeposit Bank, limited, and the ofiice was removed to Kribbs s block. Sep-\\ntember, 1883, it became the Second National Bank of Clarion.\\nMilitafy. Back in the 50 s several ineffectual attempts were made in\\nClarion to raise a volunteer militia company. A number of the Perry Infantry\\nin 1876 were recruited from Clarion and vicinity, but no home organization\\nwas reached till November 15, 1878. The Perry township company, first com-\\nmanded by A. J. Davis, later by O. E. Nail, having disbanded, both those\\ngentlemen, on coming here to fill their respective offices, canvassed the forma-\\ntion of a military company and brought about the existence of Company G,\\nSixteenth Regiment, N. G. P.; A. H. Beck, first captain William S. Alexan-\\nder, lieutenant. Captain Beck was succeeded by O. E. Nail he by J. J. Fra-\\nzier, and on the latter s promotion, M. A. K. Weidner, was elected to the\\ncommand. On Weidner s resignation May 8, 1887, A. J. Davis was chosen\\ncaptain. In 1881 the company was transferred to the Second Brigade, Fif-\\nteenth Regiment, and became Company D. It took possession of the present\\narmory in the winter of 1878. The strength of the company is fifty-eight.\\nThe town grew very slowly between 1845 1875 in fact the advance-\\nment was scarcely perceptible. The population of the village in i860 did not\\nexceed that of 1850, while the census of 1870 showed a falling off of fifteen\\nfrom that of 1850. For the space of twenty-five years, improvements, too,\\nwere almost at a stand-still. Among the few notable additions in those years\\nwas the Myers mansion erected by Thomas Sutton about 1845 the Catholic\\nChurch in 1854; E. Alberson s residence (now J. L. Shallenberger s), about the\\nsame time; G. W. Arnold s residence and block in 1856; the latter was the\\nfirst three-story residence in the town.\\nFive comipanies mustered at the county seat and marched thence away to\\nwar Lemon s, Knox s, Reid s, Loomis s, and Mackey s, leaving in the order", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0552.jp2"}, "533": {"fulltext": "-^-:^^l-a-^^^^", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0553.jp2"}, "534": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0554.jp2"}, "535": {"fulltext": "Clarion Borough. 493\\ngiven. In those trying times Main street, the pubHc squares, and the fair\\ngrounds resounded to the drum, the spirit-stirring fife, and the martial tread\\nof the volunteers in drill and tactics. The panting recruits swept along the\\nchief thoroughfare of the village from end to end, marching, counter-marching,\\ncharging, and toilsomely but heroically performing all the evolutions of the\\ndrill. Sometimes they were armed with old muskets, oftener with sticks and\\ncanes. The Fair Ground was used for practice and as a camp. Captain Knox s\\nand Reid s companies underwent a three days drill encampment there, bi-\\nvouacking in the sheds. The companies on their departure would assemble in\\nfront of the court-house, listen to a patriotic address and receive the benedic-\\ntion of one of the ministers of the town. Then amid tears and cheers, they\\nwheeled down Fifth avenue, and the declivity of the road shut them out from\\nview some, forever.\\nThe close of the war was appropriately celebrated by the townspeople. The\\nfollowing extract is taken from the issue of April 15, 1865, of the Clarion Demo-\\ncrat, which, though it was hostile to the war, and bitterly attacked Lincoln s\\npolicy during its continuance, joined in fehe general rejoicing over the triumph\\nof the Union.\\nClarion Rejoicing Over the Good News.\\nOn Monday and Tuesday the news of the surrender of Lee s army was\\nreceived and confirmed. The court-house and church bells were rung, a\\nsalute fired, and preparations made for holding a meeting. On Tuesday even-\\ning almost every house in Clarion was brilliantly illuminated, and flags dis-\\nplayed in great numbers. A large meeting of ladies and gentlemen was held\\nin the court-house; William L. Corbett, esq., was chosen president. Dr. James\\nRoss and James Sweeny, esq., vice-presidents, and R. B. Brown and Samuel\\nYoung, secretaries. The exercises were opened by the audience standing up\\nand singing the doxology, Praise God from whom all blessings flow, etc., and\\nprayer by Rev. Graham. Appropriate and patriotic speeches were made by Cor-\\nbett, Reid, Graham, Montgomery, Barr, and Myers; Guth s brass band, and a\\ncompany of young ladies and gentlemen accompanied by a melodeon, enlivened\\nthe occasion by playing and singing patriotic airs. The rejoicing was general\\nand heartfelt, and all look forward with great hope to a speedy termination of\\nthe war, and a return of our brave soldiers to their homes and friends, so that\\nall may enjoy the blessings of peace and harmony.\\nThis intelligence, as well as all war news of importance for two months\\nprevious, was received by telegraph. The Democrat of February 18, 1865,\\nsays The telegraph office in Clarion is now open, and dispatches can be\\nsent to all parts of the country. When we get a railroad through the county,\\nwe will then be out of the woods. The first office was in one of the front\\nrooms of the upper story of the court-house, and there remained for a number\\nof years. Mr. Armstrong was the first operator.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0555.jp2"}, "536": {"fulltext": "494 History of Clarion County.\\nEarly Cycling. K Democrat of 1869 says: A couple of velocipedists\\nfrom Meadville, we are informed, attempted to raise a schaol of instruction in\\nthe art of riding the velocipede, in Clarion, but not meeting with sufficient en-\\ncouragement, gave up their efforts. Clarion has made wonderful progress in\\nrapid locomotion since, as the numerous cycles, of all descriptions, seen on our\\nstreets testify.\\nAbout 1868 there was a craze among the youth of the town for battles\\nwith fire balls, that is, balls of ignited paper, or rags, which could be picked\\nup and hastily thrown without burning the fingers. They were only indulged\\nin at night, and as the fiery projectiles streamed through the darkness, to and\\nfro between the contending lines, the effect was very striking. The sport\\nhowever picturesque, was too dangerous to life and property to be long tole-\\nrated. Main street was also the theatre of many a stubborn foot-ball contest.\\nConflagrations. ^Several times the forest fires, which blasted most of the\\nnoble timber along the hillside overlooking the river, threatened to wipe the\\ncounty seat out of existence and the citizens were compelled to turn out and\\nfight the flames. The most severe of these fires was that of 1865.\\nClarion has been singularly blessed in its exemption from epidemics, riots,\\nmurders, and disastrous storms. Large fires have been exceedingly rare.\\nThe only ones outside of the court-house, which may be dignified by the name\\nof conflagrations, were the fire of March 2, 1874, which destroyed the residence\\nand store of N. Myers, and the store of T. C. Wilson, involving a loss of\\n$30,000; and that of December 24, 1884, which burnt the store and dwelling\\nhouse of B. H. Frampton, and A. H. Sarver s store, destroying property to\\nthe amount of $15,000.\\nIn 1 87 1 the spirit of improvement reawakened, and stimulated by the\\nopening of the Clarion oil field and the increased prosperity of the community,\\nit has progressed favorably ever since. For the past fifteen years Clarion has\\nhad a gradual, but healthy and permanent development. In that time the\\nvalue of real estate has doubled. In 1870 Cottage Hill was a collection of\\nuninhabited outlots, and there was not a single house fronting on Seventh\\navenue. The years 1875 and 1886 were the leading years in building; in the\\nformer the aggregate value of improvements, exclusive of the new prison, was\\n$72,250 the buildings commenced and completed in the latter year represent\\nmore than $100,000. Among them are Frampton s Block and Opera House,\\nthe new public school and the Normal School structures.\\nA comprehensive ordinance, passed September 6, 1873, enacted a number\\nof reforms in town matters, the most notable being that section requiring each\\nproperty holder on Main street to maintain a brick pavement.\\nThe contract for the water works was awarded August 20, 1875, to P. H.\\nShannon, of Titusville, and completed in November of the same year, at a cost\\nof $25,000. At the station two Eclipse pumps force the water to the 2,400", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0556.jp2"}, "537": {"fulltext": "l2l}ia^Mtf n^^,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0557.jp2"}, "538": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0558.jp2"}, "539": {"fulltext": "Clarion Borough. 495\\nreservoir on Seminary Hill, a vertical height of 481 feet above the river level.\\nThe total length of the mains, composed of four and six-inch pipe, is above\\n9,000 feet average pressure on the mains, forty-three pounds to the square\\ninch. Ten Hutchinson fire-plugs were located throughout the town. The\\noriginal officers of the Clarion Gas and Water Company were James Campbell,\\npresident N. Myers, treasurer R. D. Campbell, secretary R. B. Thomas,\\nsuperintendent. The present officers of the organization are, president, Will-\\niam L. Corbett treasurer, N. Myers secretary, William H. Ross superin-\\ntendent, James Knox.\\nThe fire company was the natural outcome of the water works. It was\\norganized December 18, 1875, with A. H. Beck, captain. Major Henry Wet-\\nter s liberality furnished the company with a hook and ladder truck, and it\\nthereupon took the name of the Wetter Hose Company. The small hand-\\nengine, purchased by the town council the year before, was discarded for\\nhydrant power. The services of the company were first called upon in Febru-\\nasy, 1876, to quench a blaze at Mrs. Evans s house. John G. Meisinger is\\nthe present captain.\\nThe growth of the town, and the public and private improvements which\\n1875 saw, made that year an era in its history.\\nThe engine house and council hall was erected in the spring of 1877, by T.\\nC. Wilson, contractor.\\nThe first railroad train entered Clarion December 4, 1877. The formal\\nopening of the Emlenton, Shippenville and Clarion Railroad, on December 24,\\nwas a gala day for the good people of Clarion. About 400 excursionists, in-\\ncluding notable railway officials and editors, were met at Edenburg by a dele-\\ngation from the town, and on their arrival escorted to the music of several\\nbands to the court-house, where they were addressed by Colonel Knox, and\\nothers. The guests were then dined, and a return excursion started for Em-\\nlenton, the other terminus, where the festivities concluded with a ball.\\nThe Clarion Light and Heat Company was chartered in December, 1882,\\nwith a capital stock of $3,600 W. W. Greenland, president F. M. Arnold,\\ntreasurer; J. F. Brown, secretary; R. D. Campbell, superintendent. In July\\nthe stock was increased fivefold. After an ineffectual attempt to revive a\\nfamous old gasser at Black s Forge, the company struck a fair vein, August,\\n1883, near the Fountain Well, on the river, east of the town, and in No-\\nvember, 1883, the people of Clarion began using natural gas. In course of\\ntime, this supply proving insufficient, a number of fruitless endeavors were\\nmade to obtain an additional well five wells in all being drilled. In the\\nwinter of 1884 the gas was at a very low ebb, and a re-enforcement for the\\nnext winter was absolutely necessary. On August 25 Stewart Ogden s\\ngas well, near Mechanicsville, was purchased for $1,200 30,000 feet of three\\ninch casing purchased, and the gas piped to Clarion, a distance of five miles.\\nThis well yielded an abundant flow of the serial fuel.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0559.jp2"}, "540": {"fulltext": "496 History of Clarion County.\\nAugust, 1886, the Citizens Gas Company, a rival association, struck a\\nstrong vein of gas near the Stewart Ogden well. Negotiations resulted\\nfinally, October 27, 1886, in the union of the two companies, and a reduction\\nin rates. The company bears the old name, though controlled by the stock-\\nholders of the Citizen s Gas Company. Hon. James Campbell is president\\nF. M. Arnold, treasurer Samuel K. Clarke, secretary George Banner, super-\\nintendent. The corporation is about to issue their first dividend. There are\\nnow very few houses in the borough which do not use gas.\\nOn August 21, 1884, upon the petition of numerous citizens, and the\\nrecommendation of the grand jury, the borough limits were widely extended.\\nThe chief aim of this enlargement was to secure the better maintenance of the\\nroads leading to the town. The general outline of the present boundary is a\\nline embracing the Fair Ground, and thence taking a northeast course across\\nthe turnpike to the river, a little west of the upper bridge; thence up the river\\nto the mouth of Corbett s (or -Knapp s) Run thence by a broken line in a\\nsoutheastern course to the east boundary of E. Knapp thence through lands\\nof W. R, Curll and Samuel Sloan s heirs south to the northern boundary line\\nof the Agey farm thence a general western line through the Sloan lands to\\ntheir western boundary thence by the same north to the railroad thence\\nalong the railroad, west to 5th avenue crossing; thence northeast sixty degrees\\nto the 4th avenue extension thence by the same to the old southern boun-\\ndary line, and along that and the western one to the place of beginning.\\nPopulation, 1870, 709 1880, 1,169; present about 1,800.\\nCHAPTER L.\\nHISTORY OF CURLLSVILLE BOROUGH.i\\nCURLLSVILLE is a somewhat scattered village located in the southwest\\ncorner of Monroe township, and mainly on the right bank of the Big\\nLicking Creek.\\nAs far as can be learned the first settler here was James Pinks, the pioneer\\nmerchant of the county, who early in the present century built a log house\\nnear the creek.\\nThe town took its name from Mr. William Curll, who by some is regarded\\nas the first settler. It appears, however, that Bennsville would have been the\\nmore fitting name, as the lots were chiefly sold from the Benn farm, which lay\\non the right bank of the creek. Benn, however, lived a little out of town, and\\n1 By W. W. Deatrick.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0560.jp2"}, "541": {"fulltext": "CURLLSVILLE BOROUGH. 497\\nas Curll lived in the town and kept a store there, the place was called after the\\nlatter\\nAt an early day CurllsviUe was the only post-office in the southern part of\\nthe county, according to the statement of Judge Clover in the County Atlas (p\\ng) It is probable, however, that the post-office was not in CurllsviUe, but\\nabout a mile south of the town, where David Stoner, who was remarkable for\\nhis height, standing about seven feet in his boots, kept a store, and was post-\\nmaster at an early date, and for years after CurllsviUe was laid out. The store-\\nhouse is still standing on the west side of the Watterson road opposite the resi-\\ndence of Mr. Thompson. At that time the mail was carried from Greensburg,\\nWestmoreland county, to Strattanville, the round trip being made in a week.\\nThe post-offices on the route in our county then were Maple Grove, near Ri-\\nmersburg, at Stoner s, Reidsburg, and Strattanville.\\nThe village is well suppHed with stores. There are the general stores of\\nthe Patrick Brothers, L. C. Pritner, and E. M. Lee also the millinery estab-\\nhshment of Mrs. S. J. Pence. A. W. Hunter carries on an undertaking estab-\\nlishment, and manufactures and keeps in stock a good assortment of domestic\\nand city- made furniture.\\nAmong the industries of the town must be mentioned the pottery, operated\\nby Mr Hamilton; the brickyard by Thomas Lee smithies by John T.\\nSnyder and by S. T. Jones, the latter also being engaged in the manufacture\\nand repair of buggies and carriages and the wagonmaker s shop of E. B.\\nLewis A grist-mill is situated on the right bank of Licking Creek, at the\\neastern end of the town, generally known as the Keystone it is driven by\\nsteam, the water supply for this purpose being drawn from the creek near by.\\nThe mill was built by Philip Kaster, remodeled by Jeff. Lee and Andrew Lee,\\nand is now operated by Messrs. Aites and brother. Before the erection of this\\nmill there was a mill on the opposite side of the creek lower down. Near the\\ngrist-mill is an old saw-mill, which was formerly operated by Jeff T. Lee.\\nAbout 1846 the Keystone Foundry was established by Andrew Lee, Moses\\nand Daniel Conrad, and George Keller, some or all of the parties being from\\nHuntingdon county. It successively passed into various hands. Kaster s and\\nothers, and finally J. M. Turney s, under whose management it burned down.\\nFor some years there was a tannery, originally established and carried on\\nby John M. Reynolds, who was also engaged in harness-making and the sad-\\ndlery business.\\nThe public school of the borough is accommodated in a two-story trame,\\nweather-boarded building, originally erected by the Independent Order of Odd\\nFellows, and for some time used by them as a lodge hall.\\nCJmrches.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Methodist Church.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The town contains two churches. The\\nMethodist Church, at present served by Rev. Weldron, is near the edge of the\\nvillage on the Rimersburg road it is a neat wooden building, seating over", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0561.jp2"}, "542": {"fulltext": "498 History of Clarion County.\\nthree hundred worshipers, and surmounted by a belfry containing a sweet-\\ntoned bell. The church was erected in 1870.\\nGrace Reformed CJiurch. The other church is known as Grace Reformed\\nChurch. The building is on the south side of the Brookville road, near the\\ncenter of the village it is a wooden building, about thirty-eight by fifty-four\\nfeet, neatly furnished within, and glistening in its fresh coat of white paint, is a\\nconspicuous object as seen by the traveler as he crosses the brow of the hills\\nsurrounding the town. It is located in a yard of considerable size, in which\\nhave been planted numbers of trees which promise to afford a grateful shade\\nin the near future. The building is equipped with a bell. This church and\\ncongregation was formerly called Licking, and also St. John s. A num-\\nber of Reformed families moved to this section of the country in the beginning\\nof the century; the Brinkers among others were here in 1802. Occasionally\\na Reformed minister would visit these people and remain a short time, preach-\\ning the Gospel to them. At that time the church in the east was accustomed\\nto send candidates for the ministry on long missionary tours to North Carolina,\\nWestern Pennsylvania, and Ohio. In this way the people were kept together,\\nand had broken to them occasionally the bread of life. Rev. William\\nand Rev. H. E. F. Voight are remembered by some of the most aged among\\nthe present members. There was also a Rev. Ho who remained\\nhere for over a year, and served the people in spiritual things.\\nThe first settled minister was Rev. Henry Koch, who was pastor from 18 19\\nto 1838. Rev. Henry Hoffman, from the Seminary at Mercersburg, took charge\\nof a part of the field of labor about 1845. Shortly before this young brother\\nreached his destination the old servant of the Lord (Mr. Koch) laid down his\\narmor in death on the 7th of August, 1845.- At the end of two years Rev.\\nHoff man was succeeded by Rev. L. D. Leberman. A year afterward (1849)\\nRev. George Wolfif was called to this field. He remained about five years.\\nThe next minister was Rev. Nicholas E. Gilds, who began his work here in\\nMarch, 1854. He remained two years. His successor was Rev. Joseph G.\\nShoemaker, who served the charge eighteen years. After him came Rev. John\\nDotterer, July i, 1874. Rev. John M. Evans took charge November i, 1878,\\nand Rev. David B. Lady, March i, 1885. The latter is still pastor. There\\nwere organized out of material belonging to this congregation at different times\\nthe Salem congregation at Frogtown, Jerusalem congregation at Rimersburg,\\nSt. Luke s congregation at Squirrel Hill, and Zion s congregation at Mt. Zion,\\ntwo miles northeast of Callensburg.\\nThe first church was of logs, erected about 18 18. A brick edifice took its\\nplace in 1841. These buildings were owned jointly by the Reformed and Lu-\\ntherans. In 1873 the Reformed congregation built the present church at Curlls-\\nville, owned and occupied by them exclusively. At this time the name was\\n1 This sketch of the congregation has been largely|prepared by Rev. D. B. Lady.\\n2 Clarion Classis Minutes, Vol. i, p. 156.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0562.jp2"}, "543": {"fulltext": "Edenburg Borough. 499\\nchanged from St. John s to Grace. There is also a parsonage, owned by this\\nand the neighboring congregations served by the same pastor. This parson-\\nage is nearly opposite the church. It has lately been repaired. Services are\\nheld in the church every alternate Sunday. Sunday-school is held every\\nLord s day during nine months of the year. The membership of the congre-\\ngation at present is one hundred and twenty-five.\\nProfessional Men.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The professional men of the town are Dr. J. T. Rimer\\nand Dr. J. A. Brown. Dr. Reichard was for many years the physician in this\\ntown. Mr. William A. Curll at one time occupied the offices of commissioner\\nand associate judge of the county. William Pritner, sr., was one of the first\\ncommissioners of the county appointed by the governor.\\n//oul.\u00e2\u0080\u0094The town contains one hotel, the Sheridan House, a three-storied\\nbrick edifice, erected in the days when the road through Curllsville was more of\\na thoroughfare than it is now.\\nAnti-Horsethief Association.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Curllsville Anti-Horsethief Association\\nrequires some mention. The project, which has become so popular in this sec-\\ntion of country, was inaugurated by Robert Thome. The Curllsville Associa-\\ntion was the first of its kind in the county, and is now about thirty years old.\\nDuring all this time, while horses have been stolen on all sides from persons\\nnot members of the company, the members of the company have not suft ered\\nexcept in two instances. One of the animals stolen was Colonel Coulter s\\nold family horse, afflicted with all the ailments horseflesh is heir to. This ani-\\nmal suddenly disappeared and search failed to reveal its whereabouts. The\\ninsurance money was paid after quite a long time. The other animal stolen\\nwas a fine horse belonging to J. M. Turney. It was not recovered, and the\\ncompany promptly paid one hundred dollars to partly compensate for its loss.\\nThe value of the association thus appears to be rather a preventative of thiev-\\ning (as members have secured remarkable immunity from depredation), rather\\nthan an efficient detective force in recovering stolen property.\\nCHAPTER LI.\\nHISTORY OF EDENBURG BOROUGH.i\\nTHE history of Edenburg dates back to about 1840, at which time J. G.\\nMendenhall purchased from a man named Nefif the premises now known\\nas the Mendenhall farm. Later he purchased a part of the Attleberger farm,\\none mile west of the present site of Edenburg. He also owned another farm\\nBy M. E. Hess.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0563.jp2"}, "544": {"fulltext": "500 History of Clarion County.\\none mile east of his homestead. Possessing these three tracts of about i6o\\nacres each, with his dwelhng and barns located on the middle farm, he named\\nthe place Eden. The beauty of the place can be best understood by study-\\ning the peculiarity of its location. It lies immediately east of one of the high\\nridges that abound in this section, and nestles close under the hill which slopes\\ntoward Canoe Creek. The ridge curves around here, and thus protects the\\nplace from the strong winds that blow from the north and west. Here Mr.\\nMendenhall opened a place of entertainment and called it Eden Inn. Later\\nDrake Richardson opened a country store. After the store opened, a post-\\noffice was established. The name given it was Knox, by which it is still des-\\nignated. At a still later date Coulter Patrick kept a store, and they were\\nfollowed by John M. Kurtz, who was followed by P. F. Kribbs. Mr. Kribbs\\nopened an extensive general store in 1861. On the discovery of oil in the\\ncounty in 1871, the excitement soon reached Edenburg, by which name the\\nplace had been known for a number of years. Soon after oil had been struck\\nin the lower part of the county, a number of leases were secured by pioneer\\noil men, and operations here began. Among the pioneers we note the names\\nof Prentis, Baliett, Hahn, Kribbs, Fertig, Plummer, Gray brothers, Brundred,\\nTurner, Wetter, and others. The first well reached the sand in February,\\n1873. It was owned by Mr. Brundred, and was dry. It was located on the\\nOelschlager farm. In the following March Jacob Hahn and George Kribbs\\ngot a small producing well on the Kiser farm. In April Mr. Baliett finished a\\ndry hole on the J. I. Best farm. In anticipation of oil being found, some\\nbuildings had been erected, but developments indicating dry territory, a sort\\nof panic took possession of the new-comers, and many of them left. Some\\npulled down their buildings before going. Turner, Kelly, and others stuck to\\nthe field, and in June, 1873, were rewarded by striking oil in the St. Lawrence\\nwell, which proved a great producer. This strike was followed by others, and\\nthe fact soon became known that Edenburg was a paying territory, and the\\ntown at once began to grow. Building was begun in earnest. The structures,\\nhowever, were of a temporary nature, and very little time was necessary in\\nwhich to put up a house.\\nE. W. Northrop was the first physician, William Whitling the first to start\\na drug store, J. D. Wolf the first hardware store, and Harrington Irving the\\nfirst grocery. In 1874 T. J. Crawford secured the appointment of postmaster.\\nFormerly Mr. Mendenhall kept a park of deer, and on the advent of the\\noil excitement he still kept wild geese, but on the arrival of the zvild catters\\nthe wild geese disappeared.\\nHotels. An abundance of oil being assured in this vicinity in 1874, hotels\\nand saloons were established. The first hotel was erected by Page Maple-\\nstone. Robert Orr, of St. Petersburg, secured the Maplestone site by pur-\\nchase, and refitted it for the accommodation of the public, naming it the Ed-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0564.jp2"}, "545": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0565.jp2"}, "546": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0566.jp2"}, "547": {"fulltext": "Edenburg Borough. 501\\nenburg House. This hotel was twice swept away by fire, and the present\\nhouse is the third erected on the spot.\\nThe Bennett House, subsequently built on North Main street, afforded\\ngood accommodations, and was well patronized in its day. Among others we\\nrecall the Clarion House, Grand Central, Rialto, Moran, St. Cloud, United\\nStates, Ross, City, Apollo, and Petroleum Hotels.\\nMachine and Boiler Shops. J. F. H. Boles s was the most important.\\nSheridan s machine shop was among the first. P. V. Kinnear s, on State street,\\nand West Point, back in the field, together with the Novelty Iron Works of\\nSmith Brothers, constitute the principal works in this line. Of these, only the\\nNovelty Iron Works remain, and continue to manufacture and repair drilling\\ntools and other oil well supplies on a large scale. Of boiler repair shops\\nremaining at the present time, are Donovan s, Lincoln s, and Townley s, or\\nBoiler Jack s.\\nBanks. In the spring of 1876 developments for oil had proved so far suc-\\ncessful that it was evident a bank could be profitably conducted in Edenburg.\\nMessrs. F. Merrick and G. W. Conley were the first in the field, opening a\\nbank and naming it Edenburg Bank. They had little capital. Indeed it\\ndid not require much at this time. As soon as opened, capital in abundance,\\ncame into the bank, and it became a flourishing institution. The deposits ran\\nup to hundreds of thousands. Seeking employment for this money, it was\\nloaned in large Sums to operators and others. With depression in the price of\\noil and value of oil property, came the day of reckoning. The bank had in-\\nvested largely in oil property, some by purchase, and some as security for\\nmoney loaned. After a struggle the managers were compelled to succumb,\\nand made an assignment to S. M. Crosby, who unfortunately delayed settle-\\nment, hoping for a profitable turn in the fluctuation of values but these con-\\ntinued to decline, until financially, on closing the business of the bank, only\\nthirteen and a half on the dollar was realized by depositors, leaving about\\n$90,000 unpaid. This loss fell heavily on many who were unable to bear it.\\nThe Clarion County Bank was opened about November, 1876, with\\nHon. J. M. Dickey, Hon. C. W. Mackey, E. W. Echols, B. W. Braden, Isaac\\nRummeor, P. R. Gray, O. C. McCormick, J. D. Wolf, and E. G. Crawford as\\nstockholders. This- bank has lived through fire and flame, and has ac-\\nquired a reputation for stability.\\nHuff s Bank was first opened in Elk City, and on the decline of that\\nplace, came to Edenburg, to remove still later to Bradford.\\nChiircJies. Efforts had been made, years before the discovery of oil at\\nEdenburg, to organize a Methodist Church at this point, but without success.\\nThere were a few Winebrennerians in and about the place, and occasionally\\nthey had services in the school-house. They were the first to erect a church\\nedifice, under the leadership of Rev. Vaneman, on land of J. I. Best, on South\\n54", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0567.jp2"}, "548": {"fulltext": "502 History of Clarion County.\\nMain street, which was completed in the summer of 1876. Failing to pay the\\nindebtedness contracted in building, they sold to the Presbyterians.\\nDuring the summer of 1876 Rev. J. C. Hench preached in Edenburg, and\\nat the meeting of the Clarion Presbytery, held early in 1877, Revs. J. S. Elder\\nand D. W. Casset were appointed a committee to organize a Presbyterian\\nChurch in the town. A membership of twenty-eight was secured, and an\\norganization effected by electing A. Culberson, John Craighill, Robert Atwell,\\nand D. B. Wilhelm, ruling elders, and J. B. Painter, Leroy Mitchell, and Harry\\nCraig, trustees. Rev. Mr. Allen was installed pastor September 11, 1877, and\\nthe church prospered for a season. But the fires that swept the town scat-\\ntered the flock Rev. Allen resigned his charge for another field, and the pul-\\npit of this church has been irregularly filled by supplies until February i,\\n1887, when Rev. H. F. Earseman was installed as pastor.\\nThe Methodist Episcopal Church was in existence in the vicinity of Eden-\\nburg since 1832. Services were held as early as 1852 in the school-house, and\\nthe Edenburg charge was attached to the Shippenville circuit, consisting of\\neleven appointments, embracing a wide stretch of territory. With the advent\\nof oil, Rev. E. M. Kernick supplied Turkey City, Salem, Edenburg, Mount\\nJoy, and Perry Chapel. On taking charge of the circuit in 1875, Rev. Ker-\\nnick found that a liberal subscription had been raised for the erection of a\\nchurch and parsonage at Edenburg. The church was dedicated June 16,\\n1876. Seven months later, January 5, 1877, it was burned. Part of the\\npews and furniture and the parsonage were saved. The building had been\\npartly insured, and the members proceeded promptly to erect a new church,\\nwith basement for Sunday-school rooms, class rooms, and heater. The edifice\\nwas completed the following summer, and was the finest church in the county\\nat that time. Dr. Newman presided at the dedicatory services, October 17,\\n1877, and G. G. Howe, J. J. Bradley, W. W. Wingard, P. F. Kribbs, E. F.\\nHecter, W. B. Weaver, and M. E. Hess were^appointed trustees. The mem-\\nbership numbered 225, and the charge was one of the strongest of the Erie\\nConference.\\nThe great conflagration of October 13, 1878, swept away this fine church\\nand parsonage. They had cost the society almost $10,000, and were insured\\nfor $5,000. A site for a new church was secured, as was thought, remote from\\ndanger of fires, and a third church within the space of about three years was\\nbuilt. This church had been occupied less than a year, when, during evening\\nservice January, 1879, it was discovered to be on fire, but this time the flames\\nwere extinguished after damages to the amount of about one hundred dollars\\nhad been sustained.\\nE. M. Kernick was succeeded by Rev. P. P. Pinney, who served the charge\\nthree years, and shared with his flock the vicissitudes of the principal fires, in\\none of which he lost, among other property, a valuable library. Mr. Pinney", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0568.jp2"}, "549": {"fulltext": "Edenburg Borough. 503\\nleft Edenburg to serve as presiding elder of the Clarion District, and was suc-\\nceeded by Rev. William Martin, he by Rev. W. L. Riley. The next was Rev.\\nB. F. Delo, and Rev. J. H. Keely, the present pastor, followed Mr. Delo.\\nA Catholic Church was erected on the hill east of the town in 1876. James\\nSheridan, Michael Boyce, Patrick Moran, and Patrick Canning were prominent\\nin its establishment. The next year the present edifice was erected. Father\\nSmith and Father Mullen were the pastors of this congregation.\\nFires. In their frequency and extent the several conflagrations that laid\\nwaste this town, stand without parallel and in nearly every case the fire has\\nundoubtedly been caused by incendiaries.\\nThe first fire of considerable magnitude occurred January 13, 1877, on the\\ntwo principal streets, Main and State, which were compactly built with busi-\\nness blocks at that time. The flames were first discovered at eight o clock in\\nthe evening, bursting from a gambling den on State street, and were soon\\nbeyond control. The fire swept the north side of State street from the rail-\\nroad track to Main, and north on this street several blocks, and was arrested\\nby razing buildings, among which was the Wilber livery stable, which became\\nnoted in subsequent fires. In all, twenty-two buildings were consumed, en-\\ntailing a loss of $50,000. At this time Edenburg was experiencing the rapid\\ngrowth of a new oil town, and in a few months the great gap that was made\\nby the ravages of the flames was filled with better buildings than before.\\nOn Saturday afternoon, June 19, 1878, the dreaded cry of j^n again startled\\nthe people of Edenburg. This time Pennsylvania avenue was the scene of the\\nconflagration. Here many of the successful operators had built comfortable\\nhomes. A determined effort was made to fight the flames, but to no purpose.\\nThe wind drove the fire across the street, and pulling down houses was again\\nresorted to. By this means the east end of the avenue was saved from de-\\nstruction. Fifteen residences were consumed this time, valued at about\\n$20,000. Following this fire, the only arrest was made in connection with all\\nthe fires. The daughter of the proprietress of the boarding-house where the\\nfire originated was the person suspected, but nothing could be proven against\\nher, and she was released.\\nEarly in October of the same year it became evident that some miscreants\\npurposed again to burn the town. Two or three attempts had been made to\\nset fire to buildings, but the flames were discovered in time to be extinguished.\\nThe citizens became alarmed, however, and for protection organized a volun-\\nteer watch of one hundred and forty young men, who took turns in guarding\\nthe town, about six going on duty at a time. Notwithstanding this precau-\\ntion, on the night of October 13, 1878, at 3 o clock A. M., scarcely four months\\nhaving elapsed since the last fire, the tJiird and most destructive fire occurred.\\nThe flames started in the rear of Wilber s livery stable on Main street. Petro-\\nleum had probably been used to start the fire the flames spread rapidly, swept", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0569.jp2"}, "550": {"fulltext": "504 History of Clarion County.\\ndown State street and northward on Main, enveloping both sides, together with\\nRailroad and Ohio streets, and sweeping both sides of the railroad. Little\\ncould be done towards removing household and other goods. The hillside west\\nof the town was strewn with property of all descriptions rescued from the\\nflames. Many people barely escaped with their lives. Thirty acres of the\\nheart of the town was laid in ashes. Every hotel except one, banks, stores,\\npost-office, M. E. Church and parsonage, depot, thirteen oil wells, went up\\ntogether in flames. One hundred and seventy buildings, approximating a loss\\nof $400,000, were consumed. So speedily was the first building enveloped\\nthat it was impossible to get out the horses, and ten were roasted to death.\\nThe agonizing screams of the poor brutes added to the terrors of the horror.\\nThe beautiful Sabbath morning disclosed a scene which can never be effaced\\nfrom the minds of any who experienced that hour of distress. Soon the black-\\nened streets and smoldering ruins were thronged with visitors. Men, women,\\nand children, victims of the fire, that cold, gray, October morning stood shiv-\\nering, and tearfully contemplating the devastation of their homes. Despair\\nwas depicted on every countenance, but ere the electric flash had reached the\\noutside world, the sister towns of Elk City, Shippenville and St. Petersburg\\nopened their stores and with lavish hand, sent in needed supplies. When the\\nintelligence reached Oil City, Franklin, and Parker, the hand of charity was\\nwidely opened in behalf of the stricken town. The first flash of substantial\\nsympathy came from E. Hopkins, General Manager of the United Pipe Lines,\\nand was addressed to Mayor J. B. Maitland, as follows: From United Lines\\n$500 for immediate relief. W. P. Finley, a member of the Oil City Oil Ex-\\nchange and a resident of Clarion county, added $500, the contribution of the\\nOil Exchange. Parker Oil Exchange sent $175, and many individual contri-\\nbutions coming in swelled the cash donations to $1,700. A large amount of\\ngroceries and provisions was brought in with teams. This stream of sympa-\\nthy and aid gave encouragement to the sinking hearts. All were amply pro-\\nvided for, and soon the town began to assume an air of life and acitivity.\\nThe waste places were again filled with business blocks, when on Friday,\\nApril 19, 1879, only six months after the great conflagration, the incendiaries\\nfor the fourtJi time applied the torch. This time a portion of the town that\\nescaped before was chosen for the sacrifice. Crude oil was poured over the\\nfloor of a vacant building on the east side of South Main street. This blaze\\nburned ten buildings.\\nOn May 22, 1880, a little more than a year after the last fire, at 9 o clock,\\nP. M., in the United States Hotel near the depot, a light was observed in an\\nupper room. The hotel had been vacant for some time, and all the furniture\\nhad been removed. Soon the whole building was in flames. Many of the\\ntownspeople were attending the circus then exhibiting on the hillside. The\\nflames were soon discovered through the canvass, which was soon torn or", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0570.jp2"}, "551": {"fulltext": "Edenburg Borough. 505\\nripped to shreds by the excited crowd in their haste to get out This fire\\nswept away seventy buildings, including banks, offices, stores, post-office and\\nstores.\\nOwing to the depressed state of business at this time, many gave up in\\ndespair and removed from the town, but gradually buildings were erected over\\nthe burnt district, until it was nearly covered, some of which were barely occu-\\npied when, on the 23d day of August of the same year, the livery stable which\\nhad figured in other fires, now owned by Wheelock and Moore, was again dis-\\ncovered to be on fire. Two boys sleeping in the front end of the stable barely\\nescaped with their lives, and seven horses perished in the flames. One by\\nsome means effected his escape. A number of the newly erected buildings\\nwere burned. This had a discouraging effect upon the people in this part of\\nthe town, and the space made by the fire was slow in being rebuilt. The citi-\\nzens now raised a subscription amounting to $1,200, to which the town coun-\\ncil added $300, and with this fund water works have been erected that not\\nonly reflect credit upon the town, but establish renewed confidence in its future\\nprosperity.\\nThe Press. J. M. Gifford started the first paper in Edenburg in 1876, un-\\nder the title of The Edenburg Daily Herald. This was the first daily pub-\\nlished in Clarion county. On the occasion of the fire of January 5, 1877, his\\npress-room was hurriedly torn down to prevent the spread of the flames. The\\nact proved successful as to stopping the fire, but was disastrous to the printing\\nestablishment. His office was burned out twice after this event, and in 1880\\nMr. Gifford died of consumption.\\nIn 1877 Campbell Brothers started a daily called the Oil Times, but closed\\ntheir establishment after running two or three years.\\nAfter the suspension of the Edenburg Herald, Leslie started the Evening\\nNews, which he subsequently changed to a morning publication under the title\\nof Edenbui g Spirit, which was a diminutive sheet and had a short career.\\nThomas Whittaker and Samuel Tipton issued one edition of 3,000 copies of a\\npaper under the suggestive title Catling Gun, when they were summoned to\\nappear before the United States Court in Pittsburgh, on the charge of pub-\\nlishing an unlawful sheet. These proceedings spiked the Gatling Gun for all\\ntime.\\nHenry Price for years kept a job office, and published a paper under\\nvarious names. At first a daily and later a weekly. Now under the name of\\nThe Clarion County Observer.\\nWest and Son published the Clarion County National, a weekly paper de-\\nvoted to the principles of the National Greenback Labor party.\\nCasualties. The bursting of a bull-wheel on the J. D. Wolf oil well, on\\nMain street, resulted in the death of young Heckerthorn, the driller.\\nIn 1875 a boiler burst on the J. I. Best farm, killing Augustus Wilson and\\nAlonzo Goss, two citizens of Edenburg.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0571.jp2"}, "552": {"fulltext": "5o6 History of Clarion County.\\nO. P. Hopper, a young attorney, while cleaning his revolver on June i8^\\n1877, in a room by himself, accidentally shot himself, dying almost instantly.\\nPeter Spargo, postmaster of Edinburg, met with a similar fatal catastrophe\\nin the post-office, on March 16, 1885.\\nWilliam Groves was burned in a fire which occurred February 21, i\\non Main Street.\\nCHAPTER LH.\\nHISTORY OF ELK TOWNSHIP.i\\nELK township, taking its name from Elk Creek (now Deer Creek), a stream\\nflowing through its midst, was originally organized, in March, 1806, by\\nSamuel Dale, John Andrews, and Thomas Beard, commissioners, who about\\nthat time surveyed and organized all the townships in Venango county. Elk\\nthen embraced a much larger area than it does now, including a large part of\\nWashington, and all but the northwestern corner of Ashland, townships formed\\nafterwards, the former in 1843 ai^d the latter in 1856. Its southern boundary\\nline, however, was farther north than at present, being the southern line of\\nwarrants 2738 and 2739 to western boundary of 2324, thence north to the\\nnorthern boundary of that warrant, and west along it and its successive war-\\nrants to the eastern limits of Richland township.\\nSettlements. Mr. Growe, with his family, settled in what is now Elk town-\\nship, where Jacob W. Kahle lives now, in 1808. Mr. Hartman and family\\ncame at the same time and settled on an adjoining farm. These were the first\\nsettlers in the township. They cleared some land, but never obtained posses-\\nsion of it. Mr. Growe remained here several years, sometimes preaching for\\nhis neighbors on Sunday, and then went to Pittsburgh, where he afterwards\\ncommitted suicide. None of the descendants of either family are living in the\\ntownship at present.\\nGideon Richardson came from the State of New York to Elk township in\\n18 12, settling near Elk City (now) with his family, including then and after-\\nwards Richard, Charlotte (Hesley), Elizabeth (Jerrard), Caroline (Allen),\\nThomas and Henry. When he first came here he acted as land agent for Hui-\\ndekoper and Judge Shippen, but subsequently bought land and improved it.\\nHe was a member of the first board of commissioners of Clarion county. Sev-\\neral families of his descendants are still living in the township.\\nFrederick Black with his family, including William, Jacob, John, Lena\\n1 By C. F. McNutt.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0572.jp2"}, "553": {"fulltext": "Elk Township. 507\\n(Shippen), and Adam came from Maryland and settled at Canoe Riffle in the\\nedge of Beaver township in 1815. While here he was killed almost instantly\\nwhen cutting- down a tree. In 1820 Mrs. Black and part of the family came to\\nthe place where Jacob Black lives now, and here built a dwelling, grist-mill, and\\nsaw-mill all of logs. Some of the boys, then married, were left at Canoe Riffle\\nto attend to the carding-machine and saw-mill, which they had built there in the\\nmean time. Mrs. Black in a few years moved to where Paint Creek crosses the\\npike, and in company with her son, Jacob, built Mary Ann Furnace, so named\\nin honor of the lady who built it. William Chambers had built a saw-mill here\\nin 1820. Jacob Black has been especially active in the development of Elk\\ntownship, having had a controlling interest in two of the furnaces, a grist-mill,\\nthe turnpike, and two or three saw-mills. He has also been a heavy dealer in\\nreal estate, and was interested in the oil business during the excitement.\\nAdam Black served one term as commissioner of Clarion county. Several of\\nthe descendants of Frederick Black are living in the township at present, and\\nhave been closely connected with most of her improvements.\\nWilliam Rupert, who had come to Canoe Riffle with Blacks, bought the\\nfarms now owned by John R. Black and Charles Fisher, from Huidekoper, in\\nApril, 181 5. The property was afterwards transferred to William Black, who\\ncleared part of it and made some improvements.\\nIn 1 81 7 Peter Kiser came from Westmoreland county and settled in pres-\\nent locality of Elk City. His sons, Daniel and Joseph, own fine farms, and\\nare living near there yet. John Kiser, his brother, who had come with him but\\nremained only a short time, settled permanently on a farm, in 1820, in the val-\\nley south of Shippenville. His children, Henry, John F., George B., Peggy,\\nand Amos, were all born here. Henry, George B., and their father hearty\\nand strong at the age of ninety-two are living here and near by at present.\\nBoth Peter and John Kiser followed farming. Some of their descendants are\\nfarmers, and some have been engaged in the oil business a nd also in the mer-\\ncantile business.\\nWilliam Meade came from Crawford county and settled near Shippenville\\nin 1821, but soon became tired of pioneer life, sold his place, and left.\\nJohn Shippen, who had come from Lancaster county, built the first store in\\nShippenville, in 1822, near the present site of the Union Hotel. Richard Ship-\\npen, brother of John, became a partner in the store, and in company with Ja-\\ncob Black afterwards built Shippenville Furnace. The post-office was estab-\\nlished in Shippenville in 1825, and John Shippen was appointed postmaster.\\nIn 1827 Henry Shippen, then president judge of Crawford and Venango dis-\\ntrict, built a frame hotel where the Union House now stands.\\nDavid Robinson came from Huntingdon county and settled where Captain\\nPhipps now lives, in 1822. He was a potter by trade. Nathaniel Lang and\\nJerry Johnston were early carpenters in the township, and Harry Jenkins was\\na millwright and carpenter. Their families have all left the township.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0573.jp2"}, "554": {"fulltext": "5o8 History of Clarion County.\\nJacob Kahle came from Huntingdon county with his family and settled, in\\n1826, on the Fryburg road, about two miles north of Shippenville. His sons,\\nJacob W., and Thomas, are farmers, living in the township at present. A\\nsketch of the life of John W., another son, is given in connection with his por-\\ntrait in another place in this history. In 1857, Jacob Kahle, sr., was elected\\nassociate judge for one term in Clarion county.\\nJos. Berlin, with his family, came to the western side of Elk township, on the\\npike, in 1825. He has been a thrifty farmer, and is living at the same place at\\npresent. He is over ninety years of age. Valley post-office was established\\nat his place in 1870. G. N. Berlin is the present postmaster. James McDowell,\\na farmer, settled near by about the same time. Henry and Francis Swartsfager\\nsettled in same locality in 1832. They were farmers. Francis and several\\nfamilies of the descendants are living here at present.\\nJesse Berlin came from Ashland (now) to Elk township in 1836, and settled\\non the farm now owned by Paul Black. He lived there and farmed until 1877,\\nwhen he moved to Clarion.\\nBalthasar Hack, a tailor, came from Franklin county to Shippenville in\\n1838. Henry Sloan worked at the tailor trade in Shippenville before Hack\\ncame.\\nWilliam Johnston came from Centre county to Edenburg in 1844, and the\\nsame summer moved to Elk City, where he lived for seven years. He then\\nmoved to a farm one mile north of Elk City. His sons operated here for oil\\nduring the excitement. John Zellers settled in the vicinity of Pitch Pine at an\\nearly date.\\nAmong other early settlers that should be mentioned are the Whitehills,\\nDavid and Jacob Mong, Dales, living near Elk City, Hyskell, Thompsons and\\nSpades, settling in 1832, Lewis Near, who built the first carding-machine in the\\ntownship, Jos. Eiseman, Snyders, and others.\\nOil Developments. In 1875 Bradly Company drilled a well on the John-\\nston farm northwest of Elk City, and about the same time another well was\\ndrilled on the Jos. Kiser farm. The former produced about fifty barrels per\\nday the latter was also a good well. At the price of oil at that time, this was\\nsufficient to encourage extensive preparations for operating. Work was com-\\nmenced much in the same manner here as at Edenburg, Turkey City, St. Pe-\\ntersburg, and other points along the belt between Elk City and Foxburg, and\\nfully described in the local history of those places.\\nThe best producing wells in Elk territory yielded three hundred barrels per\\nday for a short time. Jerusalem No. i, and Johnson[^No. 2, drilled by Bradly\\nCompany, and taking their names from the farms on which they were\\nlocated, and a well drilled by Patterson Leedom, on the Jos. Kiser farm, were\\nthe best producing wells in this field. Farms owned by Paul Black, A. R.\\nBlack, Hughlings, Dale, Whitehill, Daniel and Jos. Kiser, Philip Gloss and", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0574.jp2"}, "555": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3AyOi^", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0575.jp2"}, "556": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0576.jp2"}, "557": {"fulltext": "Elk Township. 509\\nothers, were good oil farms. Miller Aikens, Bradly Company, and Pat-\\nterson Leedom were extensive operators in this territory. Most of the drill-\\ning was done in 1875\u00e2\u0080\u009476\u00e2\u0080\u009477.\\nIn 1885 it was discovered that a little belt running across the pike through\\nShippenville had not been fully developed. Soon afterwards about thirty wells\\nwere drilled here, some of which yielded five barrels, others forty and fifty bar-\\nrels and one or two gave one hundred barrels per day. In all there have been\\nover one thousand wells drilled in Elk township.\\nElk City, named from the township, has been strictly an oil town. It lite-\\nrally grew and dwindled away with the excitement. It was built on farms\\nowned by Daniel Kiser and Paul Black, nearly all on leased lots. The village\\nwas commenced in 1875 and reached the zenith of its glory in the winter of\\n\\\\Z j6- j, when it had a population of over 3,000. The buildings were of a\\nvery temporary kind, set on posts, no wall foundations under any of them.\\nThe Elk City post-office was established here in 1875, and soon rose to the\\nrank of presidential appointment, with a salary of $2,000. The postmasters in\\norder from the first are J. U. Heiniger, T. B. Galbraith, W. H. Kiser and Will-\\niam Hull, the present incumbent, with a salary of less than $140 a year. In\\n1877 there were ten or more hotels, numerous boarding-houses, saloons, and\\nstores of all kinds. There was a police force established in Elk City in 1876, but\\nthis measure seemed to be quite insufficient for the demands, and consequently\\nmuch lawlessness prevailed on the streets, in saloons and other places. At\\npresent there are here about two dozen houses and a population of less than\\none hundred. The oil excitement left very little wealth in this town.\\nShippenville was named in honor of Judge Henry Shippen, who owned the\\nland on which it was built. Most of the early settlers of this village have\\nalready been mentioned in connection with the early settlers of the township,\\nand need not be repeated in this topic. This town has been a business cen-\\nter in the township from the time the first settlements were made until the\\npresent. The two main roads in the township, the pike, and the road from\\nFryburg to Edenburg cross at this place, thus making Shippenville the favor-\\nable location for a central town, though it is near the eastern side of the town-\\nship.\\nJohn King, the first blacksmith in the township, came from Huntingdon\\ncounty, and built a shop near the present site of Woodburn s store in Shippen-\\nville in 1823. Frederick Kahle built the first hotel in the village in 1824,\\nhaving come here two years before with his father-in-law, George Hyskell.\\nJudge Henry Shippen built a frame hotel on present site of the Union House\\nin 1827. It was at first kept by Dr. Patton. John and Adam Black bought\\nthe property in 1835 and conducted the hotel in partnership. John became\\nsole owner afterwards. At his death it fell to his widow, who still owns it.\\nMr. Dahle is the present landlord. John and Adam Black also kept store in\\n55", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0577.jp2"}, "558": {"fulltext": "5IO History of Clarion County.\\ntown for several years. The second store here was built by Robert and John\\nPatton in 1828. Richard Richardson also had a store here at an early date.\\nOther stores of a later date that should be mentioned are J. Shull s furniture\\nstore, W. N. Wilson s hardware store and harness shop, Kiser s, Woodburn s,\\nand William R. Shippen s general store, Jones s and Ehler s grocery, and Dr.\\nIsaac Meas s drug store.\\nDavid Hosterman built a tannery in the east end of the town in 1829, and\\nRobert Ray built one near by a year or two afterwards. James Hassen, the\\nfirst sheriff of Clarion county, built a grist-mill just west of Shippenville. It\\nafterwards became the property of Mr. Baker, who owns it at present, and has\\nkept it in running order.\\nJames Wilkins built a hotel, known at that time as the American House,\\nin 185 1, and afterwards sold it to Hugh Carson. In 1863 Jacob Shaffer\\nbought it, and changed the name to Shaffer House. In 1884 Shaffer sold it\\nto Captain V. Phipps, the present owner and landlord. Shippenville, at\\npresent, has a population of over 300.\\nOrganized Societies. I. O. O. F. of Elk City Lodge, No. 948, was organ-\\nized in Elk City April 11, 1877, where meetings were held every Saturday\\nevening until October 2, 1883. Since then lodge meets every Saturday even-\\ning in A. O. U. W. Hall, on Main street, Shippenville. The following are the\\nnames of the first officers F. George Smith, noble grand S. M. Smith, V.\\nG.; W. M. Rogers, secretary; Michael Mayer, assistant secretary; and I. D.\\nMcDowell, treasurer.\\nMountain Lodge, No. 114, A. O. U. W., was organized July 24, 1877, in\\nElk City, where meetings were held every Tuesday evening until October 2,\\n1883, when place of meeting was changed to A. O. U. W. Hall, on Main\\nstreet, Shippenville. Officers are elected every six months. The first set\\nelected were H. S. Lynch, P. M. W.; J. F. Duncan, M. W.; George W. Marshall,\\nforeman John H. Eminger, overseer L. D. Thurston, recorder J. B. Mait-\\nland, financier John U. Heiniger, receiver, and George B. Quigley, guide.\\nEquitable Aid Union was organized in Shippenville, April 14, 1882. It\\nmeets in E. A. U. Hall, over W. N. Wilson s hardware store, every Friday\\nevening. Officers elected every six months. G. W. Marshall is president and\\nMiss Ada Shaw, vice-president.\\nAmos Kiser Post, No. 475, G. A. R., was organized in Shippenville, March\\n19, 1885, and meets on the second and fourth Saturdays in each month in E.\\nA. U. Hall, over Wilson s hardware store, in Shippenville. The first officers\\nwere as follows Com., V. Phipps sen. vice-com., James Richardson jr.\\nvice-corn., George F. Kapp O. M., G. B. Kiser; serg., A. M. Brenneman\\nchaplain, Rev. J. M. Wonders; officer of the day, A. M. Thomas; adj., H. J.\\nFisher; officer of the guard, Samuel McCoy; Q. M. S., Jno. M. Kepler;\\nserj. maj.; H. S. Lockart. Officers elected annually. V. Phipps, Samuel Mc-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0578.jp2"}, "559": {"fulltext": "Elk Township. 511\\nCoy, Rev. Wonders, and George B. Kiser have been retained in the offices to\\nwhich they were first elected.\\nAmos Kiser, W. R. C, No. 55, was organized in Shippenville October 18,\\n1886, and meets in E. A. U. Hall the first and third Mondays of each month.\\nOfficers at present are Mrs. H. S. Lockart, pres.; Mrs. W. N. Wilson, sen. vice-\\npres. Mrs. Jacob Shull, jr. vice-pres. and Maggie Black, sec.\\nW. C. T. U. of Shippenville was organized May 6, 1886, by Mrs. J. S. El-\\nder, of Clarion, and Mrs. Mayer, of Allegheny. It meets every two weeks\\naround in the neighbors houses.\\nSons of Veterans, No. 188, was organized in Shippenville April 27, 1887,\\nwith ten charter members organization meets in E. A. U. Hall the first and\\nthird Wednesdays of each month. Frank F. Fisher was elected captain at the\\nfirst meeting.\\nPitch Pine is a little village built on an eminence formerly covered over\\nwith pitch pine trees, from which it took its name, in the northwestern part of\\nthe township. It contains one blacksmith shop, two stores, and eight or ten\\ndwellings, all built within the last fifteen years. The post-office here, named\\nHaynie, was established in April, 1887, and J. R. Sandrock appointed post-\\nmaster. First house here was built by John Swab.\\nFurnaces. There were four furnaces in the township, named as follows\\nShippenville, Mary Ann, Deer Creek, and Elk.\\nSchools. The first school-house in what is now Elk township, was built of\\nlogs in 1825. It was located in Shippenville, just below the present site of the\\nShaffisr Hotel. In a few years this one was abandoned and another log build-\\ning erected on the hill near the grave-yard. There was also a log house built\\nabout two miles north of Shippenville, on Fryburg road, near Jacob Kahle s.\\nThese, like other early school-houses in the county, were used for holding pub-\\nlic worship, debating clubs, etc.\\nAt present there are ten public schools in the township. The buildings are\\nall in good repair and seated with patent furniture. At Shippenville there are\\ntwo buildings one for the primary and one for the advanced grade. During\\nthe winter of 1866-7, the highest average wages paid for teaching in the town-\\nships of the county was paid in Elk township. James Richardson, W. N. Wil-\\nson, Jno. R. Black and others, have for several years been actively interested\\nin the schools.\\nChurches. Lutherafi Congregation. On August 27, 1823, the site of the\\npresent cemetery was purchased from Henry Shippen. For thirteen years\\nservices were held in the grove by missionaries, or in the school-house built on\\nthe west side of the lot. In 1836 a rude church was erected here, but was\\nnever completed or dedicated. It was supplanted by the present commodious\\nbuilding, completed and dedicated in 1844. Though there were a few families\\nof Lutherans who arrived at an early date, yet no organization was effected", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0579.jp2"}, "560": {"fulltext": "512 History of Clarion County.\\nuntil 1836. The first regular located pastor here was Rev. G. F. Ehrenfelt,\\nwho remained four years. It was during this period that dissension took place\\nin the congregation, and most of the German element withdrew and organized\\nunder Rev. Brasch. This dissension, in connection with the financial depres-\\nsion in the iron interest at that time, left them with a church debt which\\nremained until 1852, when the church was sold by the sheriff to J. Black, sr.,\\nfor $500. It was re-purchased and deeded to the trustees of the congregation\\nin 1854.\\nOn June 5, 1845, the Pittsburgh Synod held its first convention here. Rev.\\nJacob Steck was president, and preached on the following Sabbath.\\nRev. Ehrenfelt s successor was Rev. S. D. Witt, who remained as pastor\\nnearly six years, and was removed by death while on a visit to Ohio. The\\nfollowing were the remaining successors: Rev. J. G. Ellinger, one year; Rev.\\nJ. B. Lawson, four years; Rev. Bechtell, three years; Rev. J. B. Fox, four\\nyears; Rev. J. F. Deittrich, four years Rev. P. Geen, one year; Rev. C. S.\\nCoats, three years; Rev. A. C. Felker, one year. On March 16, 1878, the\\ndivision of the Salem pastorate was effected, and the Shippenville charge\\nformed by uniting St. Mark s of Ashland and Zion s of Shippenville, and Rev.\\nJ. M. Wonders became their pastor. He is still serving them faithfully, being\\nthe tenth year of his pastorate. The Zion congregation at present numbers\\none himdred and thirty members, with a prosperous Sunday-school of one\\nhundred and seventy scholars.\\nM. E. Church. There are four M. E. congregations in the township. The\\none at Shippenville was organized first in 1844. The next one organized built a\\nchurch near Pitch Pine. When this building became dilapidated and a new one\\nwas to be built in 1882, the members could not agree on the location, and as a\\nresult two new congregations were organized, and each built a house of its own\\nin 1882. Pitch Pine congregation was organized by W. J. Barton, and church\\nwas built in their village. Rev. Mr. Gearhart is their present pastor. Haven\\ncongregation was organized by Rev. J. Bell Neff, and their church was built in\\nthe same year, a mile or so south of Pitch Pine. The M. E. church at Elk\\nCity was built in 1876. Of the circuit including Shippenville, Elk City, and\\nHaven, Rev. H. A. Teats is at present, and has been for the past two years,\\ntheir pastor, and Rev. J. Bell Neff served the three years immediately preced-\\ning Rev. Teat s pastorate.\\nU. P. ChiircJi, in Elk City, was built in 1876, and afterwards sold at sheriff s\\nsale. Rev. Mr. Robinson, of Brookville, has control of it at present, and is its\\npastor, preaching here only occasionally.\\nThe writer wishes to acknowledge the courtesy of Mr. John Kiser, Rev.\\nJ. M. Wonders, Captain Phipps, John R. Black, Jesse Berlin, and others, for\\nthe history of this township.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0580.jp2"}, "561": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0581.jp2"}, "562": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0582.jp2"}, "563": {"fulltext": "Farmington Township. 513\\nCHAPTER LIII.\\nHISTORY OF FARMING-TON TOWNSHIP.\\nFARMINGTON is the largest township in the county, containing over forty-\\nsquare miles, about one-fourteenth of its whole area. It is pre-eminently\\nthe lumber region of Clarion county, but is fast being stripped of its wealth of\\npine and hemlock, thus compelling the inhabitants to bestow more attention to\\nagriculture. Perhaps nature endowed it with this abundance of wood as a\\ncompensation for depriving it of mineral carbon. It enjoys the distinction of\\nhaving the most timber and the least coal of any township in the county.\\nFarmington township is abundantly watered by Paint Creek, Toby Creek,\\nand Tom s Run on the south and Coon Creek and Walley s Run on the north.\\nIn its northeastern and most elevated quarter the plateau or Big Level which\\ncharacterizes it, is most noticeable. This in many parts presents the rare spec-\\ntacle of a perfect level, without any familiar Clarion county hills climbing to\\nthe horizon.\\nTom s Run was so called after a Cornplanter of that name who used to en-\\ncamp on its banks. This camp was situated on the old Samuel Boyd farm, and\\nin 1837 it still remained in a state of good preservation. The course of this\\nrun was a favorite route for the Indians in traveling from the northern forests\\nto Jefferson county.\\nThe township (first called Deer) as erected in 1806, by the Venango county\\ncommissioners, Samuel Dale, John Andrews, Thomas Beard, was entirely differ-\\nent in scope from the present Farmington. Its northern boundary then was\\nan extension of the present north line from warrant 3337 west to the continua-\\ntion of the Paint-Elk boundary, which was its western limit as far south as the\\ntract line bisecting Knox township. That line to its end, thence north to the\\nnortheast corner of tract No. 3681, thence by its northern boundary and its\\nprolongation east to the northeast corner of 3682, formed its southern limit.\\nIts eastern was the north and south line extending thence to warrant 3337, the\\nplace of commencement.\\nSo it may be seen that the original township embraced the western half of\\nthe present, together with the northern half of Knox, and the eastern two-\\nthirds of Washington. The remaining half of the present Farmington was\\noccupied by Toby s Creek township. It will be perceived that the outlines of\\nthe old Farmington township have undergone extensive changes, the most im-\\nportant, that of striking out Toby s Creek township and annexing it to Farm-\\nington, as well as other alterations, occurred while they formed a part of Ve-\\n1 It probably received its name from Farmington, a town in Maine.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0583.jp2"}, "564": {"fulltext": "514 History of Clarion County.\\nnango county. Its subsequent curtailment by the erection of Washington and\\nHighland townships, was in Clarion county.\\nFarmington township, being the most remote from the bases of the civiliza-\\ntion of this county, and lying off the State road, was the last to be settled. Its\\nsettlements may be described as three, viz., Scotch Hill, Tylersburgh, and the\\nWilderness we will take them up in their order.\\nAbout 1815 James McNaughton moved out from the Highland homestead\\nand commenced an improvement on a spot immediately southwest of the vil-\\nlage of Scotch Hill, and now the property of D. Steiner.\\nJames Anderson, a native of Scotland, who had married a daughter of Al-\\nexander McNaughton, about 1820 cleared a little farm, and settled alongside of\\nhis brother-in-law. Anderson was a man of broad Caledonian accent, marked\\npersonality, and with a great deal of native force, which only lacked culture to\\nhave given him a more than local distinction. Joseph Porter and William\\nTownley came to that vicinity soon after Anderson.\\nIn 1836 George Alsbach, a native of Union county, purchased the Ander-\\nson tract for $1,500, and removed to it with his family from Shippenville. The\\nsurrounding country north, east, and south was a howling wilderness. Mr.\\nAlsbach soon replaced the two log cabins, and the half barn of the same ma-\\nterial, which required props to keep it from falling, by more comfortable\\nand modern frame dwellings. In the spring of 185 i Mr. Alsbach laid out a\\nportion of his farm in lots and called the prospective village Scotch Hill, to\\ncommemorate its former occupant, Anderson, and his neighbor, McNaughton.\\nAt the same time he erected a storehouse and opened a store in it, making\\nthe first sale July i, 185 i. In the following October a mail line was estab-\\nlished between Clarion and the new village. John Cook, on the east at the\\nmouth of Tom s Run, and David Gilmore, on the west at Little Toby, were\\npioneer lumber and mill men.\\nNicholas Waley, John Moore, and David Reyner were the pioneers of the\\nwestern and Tylersburgh section. The two former, brothers-in-law, came\\nfrom Madison township in 1824, and David Reyner in 1828, from the present\\nWashington township. He was originally from Lancaster county, and as a\\nmember of the Lancaster land syndicate had acquired large possessions in\\nWashington and Farmington townships. He resided on the farm now owned\\nby Mrs. C. Downing, a mile and a half south of Tylersburgh. Waley and\\nMoore settled in the same vicinity, a little further south, and formed the\\nadvance posts of the Vogelbacher settlement. Their farms now belong to their\\ndescendants.\\nFurther north the earliest were Robert Killen, Henry Cornish, John Wal-\\nters, A. J. Anderson, Jesse G. Butler, and William Chambers, all coming in\\nthe thirties and forties. William Chambers (formerly of Shippenville) owned", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0584.jp2"}, "565": {"fulltext": "5*^^ *^ssr\\nS_r\\na\\n/iTi /^cnAyyy\\\\ (^^yc", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0585.jp2"}, "566": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0586.jp2"}, "567": {"fulltext": "Farmington Township. 515\\na large tract of land in northwestern Farmington, and in 1844 he plotted a\\ntown on it, calling it Tylersburgh, after President Tyler, then at the head of\\nthe government, and whom Chambers greatly admired.\\nIn 1 83 1 the solitude of the wilderness in the northeastern portion of the\\ntownship was broken by James Black, who came from Sugar Creek, Armstrong\\ncounty, and settled on the homestead near North Pine Grove. The country\\nabounded in game of all sorts, deer, bears, wolves panthers, wild cats, wild\\nturkeys, and pigeons, besides the smaller species. The streams were alive with\\ntrout. Within a year or two came his brothers, John and Patrick Black\\nThomas Meagher, Charles and Dennis Boyle, David McDonald, Thomas Wal-\\nley, Robert and Archibald Haggerty, David Griffin, Henry McNairney soon\\nafter these, William Wilkinson and Arthur McCloskey the latter, with his\\nfamily, came from Philadelphia in 1835. These settlers were all Catholics, the\\nmajority of them from Butler and lower Armstrong counties.\\nThey erected a hewed log church on land bought from the Binghams\\nand adjoining the McCloskey farm, in 1836; but before it was completed\\na severe storm blew it down. No church was then built till 1848, when a\\nframe church was erected near the site of the present one. In the mean\\ntime Father O Neill, of Sugar Creek, and a few other priests attended\\nthe spiritual wants of the settlers at their cabins. In 1868 the present\\ncommodious brick edifice was commenced, under the instigation of Father\\nKoch. It was completed in 1871. There was no regular resident priest till the\\npresent one, Rev. P. Cosgrove, was appointed; the church being visited by the\\nvarious missionaries who attended the Catholic congregations in the county.\\nUnder Father Cosgrove s pastorate a neat parsonage was built, and the old\\nchurch converted into a school, taught by the Benedictines. Lepanto is the\\nname of the church and settlement, as designated by the bishop of the diocese.\\nThe now populous, although wide-spread, settlement presents now well cleared\\nand tilled farms. The country is well opened by rail and wagon roads. The\\nconveniences of life are easily within reach, and the name Wilderness, as\\napplied to it, has lost its significance.\\nTylersburgh is a pleasant village of about two hundred inhabitants. It\\ncontains a Presbyterian Church, which was organized in 1850. Leeper, or\\nTylersburgh Station, two miles distant from the village, is the most important\\ncommercial and shipping point in the township. It derives its name from Mr,\\nCharles Leeper, of Leeper, Arnold Co., whose lumber siding intersects with\\nthe P. and W. R.R. here.\\nScotch Hill has two large general stores, and its population is one hundred\\nand fifty. Vowinckel, the site of Vowinckel s mills, is a promising little rail-\\nroad station in the extreme northeast corner of the township; it took its rise\\nsimultaneously with the mill in 1883. Black s Corners (North Pine Grove P.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0587.jp2"}, "568": {"fulltext": "5i6 History of Clarion County.\\nO.) is a hamlet near its eastern Forest county line. Cooksburg lies partly in\\nClarion county, at the mouth of Tom s Run. In 1850 the census of Farming-\\nton township was 1,124; in 1870, 1,642, and in 1880, 2,185.\\nCHAPTER LIV.\\nHISTORY OF HIOHLAND TOWNSHIP.\\nTHE settlement of this township was clouded by a calamity which, however\\nobscure the victims and remote the scene, appeals to human sympathy as\\none of the most pathetic of backwoods incidents. Purcell was the first\\ninhabitant within the present limits of Highland township, building a cabin on\\nwhat was afterward the McNaughton farm. He came from the east, but little is\\nknown of him, and the date of his arrival cannot be ascertained. The family\\nconsisted of a wife and sister-in-law. He was killed by the falling of a tree,\\nnear where the corn crib on the Helen Furnace farm now stands. The soli-\\ntary women were of course unable to extricate his body, and the poor widow\\ntraveled on foot, over the State road, to the nearest white settlement, Hol-\\nman s^ on the Allegheny, nineteen miles distant, to get assistance for liberat-\\ning and burying her husband s corpse.\\nIt is likely that this ill-fated pioneer had been a resident of Centre county,\\nfor Alexander McNaughton, of that district, bought the widow s right it was\\nBingham land helped her to remove from the place, and in April, 1806, set-\\ntled with his family on Purcell s improvement, now the property of S. Wilson s\\nheirs, at Helen Furnace. He was a Scotchman by birth had emigrated, mar-\\nried an Irish woman in Philadelphia, and removed to Bald Eagle Valley, Centre\\ncounty, where he was engaged in transporting and marketing iron from the\\neastern furnaces and forges, and whence he came to the wilds of Venango\\ncounty. His family, at that time, was composed of his wife, five sons, Samuel,\\nJames, John, David, Daniel Alexander, and two daughters, Margaret and\\nAnne, and a domestic, Betsy Harris a splendid auxiliary force for pioneering.\\nThese are now all dead. Daniel, the last survivor, died a few years ago. The\\nfather, mother, three of the children, and Betsey Harris (Mrs. P. Drysler) sleep\\nin the little cemetery at Helen.\\nMcNaughton and his five sons cleared a large tract and prospered fairly.\\nThe father distributed portions of the homestead plantation among his sons.\\nN 1 Now Tionesta.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0588.jp2"}, "569": {"fulltext": "Highland Township. 517\\nThe Clarion township pioneers were not far distant and were reached by a for-\\nest trail; but along the State road for many years the nearest settlements were\\nHolmans on the west and Port Barnett on the east. The arrival of the Kapps\\nand Siegworths, Washington township colonists, brought civilization one step\\nnearer. Later came John Vogelbacher. All these immigrants halted awhile\\nat McNaughton s pioneer cabin, and it must have seemed a very haven of rest\\nafter their long and solitary journey over the wilderness-girt State road. And\\nhere we may remark the important bearing which the existence of this road\\nhad on the opening-up of the north.\\nThere were two Indian camps within the bounds of Highland township on\\nthe arrival of Alexander McNaughton. The largest was at the State Road\\nRipple the other stood on the present George Bittenbender farm. The rela-\\ntions of the early settlers with these dusky sons of the forest were amicable,\\nand they were not unpleasant neighbors. Betsey Harris once witnessed an\\nIndian wedding at the Ripple. Not long after the coming of the McNaugh-\\ntons, the Cornplanters all decamped. Occasionally after that Indians would\\npass along the road on hunting expeditions, and in 1820 a party of sixty men\\nand four squaws passed en route to Jefferson county to hunt, returning in the\\nwinter.\\nMcNaughton s cabin was a stopping-place and inn for travelers and immi-\\ngrants on the State road. During the War of 18 12 great numbers of militia\\nmen from the eastern part of the State, passed over this highway to and fro,\\nand many encamped on McNaughton s farm. Among these was the company\\nto which belonged James Bird, who was executed for desertion at Erie, Octo-\\nber, 1 8 14, just before the arrival of the messenger bearing a pardon, and whose\\nlamentable fate is the theme of a ballad well known in olden times. High-\\nland Alex, as was his familiar title, was also an auctioneer, and used to travel\\nmiles to act in that capacity.\\nMcNaughton, after some years, was followed by a man named Waterhouse,\\nwho settled near by, on the Henry farm. He did not remain. George Han-\\nhold, from New Jersey, came soon after to the farm of Samuel Gilmore. After\\nhaving raised a family there, he sold the farm and returned. David White-\\nhill, the next settler, originally of Centre county, came from Armstrong\\ncounty in the spring of 18 17, and cleared the farm on which his descendants\\nnow live. Alexander Criswell emigrated from Centre county to McNaughton s\\nMill in 1 8 19, but lived there a short time before departing for the State of Indi-\\nana. His eldest daughter, Hannah, married Daniel McNaughton, and is still\\nliving at the age of eighty- eight. In 1820 William Reed came from Holman s\\nIsland, in the Allegheny, to the present farm of Joseph Porter. Alexander\\nPorter removed the same year to the land now occupied by Louis Franz; and\\nabout the same time two Irish families, those of David and James Boyd, located,\\nthe former on the Duncan McNaughton farm, the latter on that of Paul Mahle..\\n56", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0589.jp2"}, "570": {"fulltext": "5i8 History of Clarion County.\\nJohn Reed, in 182 1, moved to a tract now occupied by the farms of Isaac Im-\\nhoof and others. The descendants of William and James Reed are very-\\nnumerous. Thomas Cathers settled in the township next, and after him came\\nJohn Callahan (a Dunkard) in 1827, from Bedford county. Then the region\\nbegan to fill up more rapidly.\\nChurches and Schools. The Methodists were the first to organize a church\\nhere. In 1828 or 29 one Johnson formed a class, but private dwellings and\\nthe open air were used for service and preaching till 1843, when a meeting-\\nhouse was erected near Criswell s, now Girts s mill, on Little Toby. Since a\\nMethodist Church was built at Helen Furnace. Rev. Frampton is the\\npresent pastor. The Presbyterians, having organized in 1841, built a place of\\nworship in 1842 and 43 on the J. Hulings farm, styled the Greenwood Church,\\nof which William McMichael was the first minister. This was destroyed by\\nfire and another erected a few Dunkards in the neighborhood assisted in its\\nconstruction, and sometimes held meetings in it. Later a church was built on\\nthe William Reed farm (Shiloh Church), and the old building was sold. The\\nShiloh Church has no regular pastor. These two, the Presbyterian and Metho-\\ndist, are the only churches in the township.\\nThe township s earliest school was built about 1823 on the present property\\nof Duncan McNaughton David Boyd, on whose farm it stood, was the first\\npedagogue. Boyd was succeeded by Joseph Reid, from near Reidsburgh.\\nThe next school- house was erected in 1833 on the farm of William Boyd, and\\nwas first presided over by Miss Mary Ann Arthurs. There are now four\\nschools in Highland township.\\nThe first flouring mill was erected by Alexander McNaughton about 181 5,\\non the Girts property on Little Toby. Alexander Criswell, from Centre county,\\nbuilt a saw-mill for McNaughton in 181 8. It stood near the grist-mill.\\nAfter the State road, the Clugh road, in 1822, was the first highway opened.\\nIt led from Clugh s Ripple to Helen Furnace, and afforded communication with\\nthe lower settlements. About the same time a road was made from Rupert s\\ngrist-mill in Elk township to Alexander McNaughton s farm.\\nAlexander McNaughton kept the first place of public entertainment.\\nAbout 1836 William Beers started a tavern on what is known as the Paul\\nNeely farm. The next was at Millcreek Eddy, about 1845, by Harrison Hall.\\nHighland township is at present destitute of hotels.\\nHelen Furnace was erected at the State and Clarion road crossing, on the\\nold McNaughton farm, by Robert Barker, and Wilson S. Packer, in 1845.\\nThe property passed into the hands of Samuel Wilson, who ran it till 1857.\\nThe Wilson family have been prominently identified with the material interests\\nof this section. The builders named it Highland Furnace in honor of Al-\\nexander McNaughton, who prided himself in being a Highlander, but the\\nword being pronounced after the Scottish dialect Hieland, the name was", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0590.jp2"}, "571": {"fulltext": "Knox Township. 519\\ncorrupted to Helen Furnace, leading to the erroneous supposition that it\\nwas christened with a feminine name. The name of the township has the same\\norigin it is commonly, but incorrectly, pronounced Helen township.\\nHighland township was politically erected in 1848, out of portions of Paint\\nand Farmington. The original Paint township included all but its northeast-\\nern angle, but afterward, in the reconstruction of the eastern Venango county\\ntownships, Paint was retrenched, and Farmington made to form a much larger\\nportion of the present township of Highland.\\nThe line as established in 1848 by Surveyor J. K. Maxwell, started from a\\npost at the Clarion River and was continuous for its full length with the pres-\\nent Paint-Highland line, which also divides the Holland and Harrison territory,\\nand with its extension into Knox township, till it reaches the northwest corner\\nof Warrant 3681, marked by a rock, thence ran due east by the Gray lands to\\na post, thence south by the same to a post, thence east by lands of Barber and\\nPacker and David Whitehill to a post, thence southeast to the Clarion River\\nat a post. A considerable section of Highland township was cut off in 1853,\\nto assist in forming Knox.^\\nAt the first election in 1848 Lester Warner and Charles McKerr were\\nchosen justices of the peace; Elias Emminger, constable; Harrison Hall and\\nWilliam McDonald, school directors and Wilson S. Packer, overseer of the\\npoor.\\nHighland township contains no large streams except Little Toby Creek,\\nwhich traverses its northwestern part. The greater part of the surface is drained\\nby a succession of small runs falling into the Clarion. The land facing the river\\nand along the western border is hilly, rough, and sterile, and most of it has\\nbeen stripped of its valuable timber. Back in the interior, however, in the\\nvicinity of Helen Furnace, the soil is tractable, and agriculture flourishes.\\nThe post-offices in the township are Helen Furnace and Miola. Smithport\\nand State Road Ripple are crossings and rafting points on the river. The\\nnearest approach to a village is the cross-roads at Helen Furnace.\\nThe population in 1850 was 648. The cessation of the furnace and the\\nreduction of its boundaries caused a falling off, and in 1870 we find it only\\n524; in 1880 it was 698.\\nCHAPTER LV.\\nHISTORY OF KXOX TOWNSHIP.\\nTHIS division of the county, in topographical character, is an undulating\\nupland, cut deeply from north to south in the center by Paint Creek.\\n1 For northwestern boundary, see Knox township.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0591.jp2"}, "572": {"fulltext": "520 History of Clarion County.\\nIt was formed from parts of Paint, Highland, and Washington, by a decree\\nof the Court, dated May 7, 1853, and was the result of a petition presented at\\nthe Quarter Sessions of February, 1853. Three commissioners, James Hasson,\\nB. J. Reid, and J. K. Maxwell, were appointed. They reported that a new\\ntownship was necessary, and submitted the following boundaries, which were\\nconfirmed by the Court Beginning at the Elk township line at the north-\\nwest corner of warrant No. 2770, thence along the Elk township line, to the\\nWashington township line, a distance of 5 60 perches, to a red oak, being the\\nnorthwest corner of warrant No. 2776, thence east along the Washington town-\\nship line, 318 perches, to a maple, being the southwest corner of warrant No.\\n2783, thence nortli along the dividing line of warrants No. 2783 and 2782,\\n525 perches to a post, the southwest corner of warrant 2788, thence east along\\nthe dividing line of warrants 2788, 2787 and 2806 on the north, and Nos. 2783,\\n2784 and 2785 on the south loio perches to a post at the Farmington town-\\nship line, it being the northeast corner of warrant No. 2785, thence south\\nalong said line by the eastern boundary of No. 2785, 388 perches to the north-\\nwest corner of warrant No. 3681, thence east to the middle of said tract, a\\ndistance of 319 perches to a post, thence south, 161 perches to a maple, thence\\neast 42 perches to a white oak, thence south by lands of Bingham 535 perches\\nto Robert Felton s corner, thence west by the line dividing land of Cook and\\nFelton from lands of Walter 182 perches to Little Toby Creek, thence north\\nfifty- eight degrees west 263 perches to the northeast corner of warrant No.\\n2771, thence west along the dividing line of warrants No. 2772, 2773, 2774\\nand 2776 on the north, and No. 2771, 2769, 2767 and 2766 on the north 13 18\\nperches to the Elk township line at the place of beginning.\\nAll east of warrants 2772 and 2785 was taken from Highland township\\nthe former warrant and three west of it were originally a part of Paint town-\\nship and the tracts north of these belonged to Washington. The township\\nwas named after Hon. John C. Knox, then presiding.\\nPrevious to 1820 the region now embraced by Knox township was entirely\\nunsettled. In that year John B. Vogelbacher came out on the State road\\nfrom Carlisle, Cumberland county, bringing with him his family, composed of\\nhis wife, his son Joseph, then five years old, who is still living, and his daugh-\\nter Mary. A native of the Black Forest, where he had served as a game-\\nkeeper, he had sailed for America in 18 15. The voyage was one of months,\\nand full of horrors. Of 300 passengers about one-half reached the port alive.\\nThe brutality and incapacity of the captain were incredible. The supply of food\\nand water ran short, and neglect and want brought on diseases which made\\nterrible ravages among the emigrants. The passengers were obliged to ob-\\ntain drinking water by hanging out clothing to catch rain. On their arrival at\\nNew York, Vogelbacher and two other men were alone able to crawl on shore.\\nThey complained of the captain s cruelty to an official, and he advised them", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0592.jp2"}, "573": {"fulltext": "Knox Township. 521\\nto lay in wait for him and shoot him dead. This lawless method of punish-\\nment, however, was not carried out, and whether or not the shipmaster was\\never brought to justice is unknown.\\nMr. Vogelbacher remained five years at Carlisle, working at the cooper\\ntrade, but becoming dissatisfied he resolved to seek independence amid the\\nwilds of the West. He purchased 114 acres from James Humes, of the Lan-\\ncaster Land Company, and with his family and some effects in a Conestoga\\nwagon, started for their unseen home, over the long and solitary road through\\nthe wilderness. On arriving at the place, he selected as the spot for his resi-\\ndence an eminence a little to the northwest of the road, where at present\\nstands the brick dwelling-house of his grandson, and built a cabin of two\\nground rooms and a loft.\\nUpon his arrival Mr. Vogelbacher discovered that there were several lodges\\nin the vicinity occupied in a desultory way by quite a number of harmless\\nCornplanter Indians, attracted by the excellence of the country for game. On\\nthe P. Gatesman farm, in the angle of the road intersection, they had con-\\nstructed a double and a single cabin of saplings. There was a camp of brush\\nand bark on the present Bastian Lauinger farm, and another of the same\\ndescription near the bridge, where the Lickingville road crosses Paint Creek.\\nOne of the most notable of these Lidians was Big John. He, with others of\\nhis tribe, came to Vogelbacher s house on one occasion, and asked him to\\naccompany them on a hunting expedition. He replied that he had no lead.\\nBig John said that he would soon bring lead started off toward the south,\\nand in three hours returned with a handful of the mineral wet and stained with\\ndirt. Mr. Vogelbacher thought he had brought it from the Clarion River.\\nWhen asked where he had obtained it, the Indian cocked his head to one side,\\nsmiled shrewdly, and replied, That s Big John s business. It is probable that\\nthe Senecas obtained their lead from a distance and secreted it in the earth at\\nconvenient spots, to spare them the labor of carrying it with them wherever\\nthey went. Big John told Joseph, Vogelbacher s child, that he would one day\\ntell him where to find the lead, but he and his comrades shortly disappeared,\\nand never returned.\\nMr. Vogelbacher was a famous huntsman, his experience as a forester stand-\\ning him in good need. The quantity of noble game he captured would make\\na modern Nimrod green with envy. Three hundred deer was the record of one\\nyear, among them a snow-white doe. It was very common for him, while at\\nwork in the clearing, to drop several of those animals during a day. When\\nlead was scarce, as it often was with him (his gun required an ounce ball), he\\ntook care to preserve his bullets, if possible firing while the game was between\\nhim and a tree or log, so that if the missile passed through the body it would\\neasily be found in the wood if it did not, he could extract it from the carcass.\\nIn this way he shot nine deer with the same bullet, remoulding it after each\\nshot.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0593.jp2"}, "574": {"fulltext": "522 History of Clarion County.\\nHe had several desperate encounters with stags at bay. In one of these,\\nafter badly but not mortally wounding a very large buck, it required an hour s\\ntime and the assistance of his son, before the animal could be taken at advan-\\ntage and dispatched with the tomahawk. One night, hearing the squealing of\\na hog, he took his trusty gun, ran out in undress and found a bear devouring a\\nstray porker. He wounded the bear, and on approaching closer the brute\\nsprang savagely at his leg, but encountered instead the down-hanging butt of\\nhis flint-lock, and tore the box out of the stock, leaving the marks of his\\nteeth in the surrounding wood. The gun is still in the possession of the\\nfamily.\\nVogelbacher was very familiar and popular with the Indians, his prowess\\nin the chase inspiring them with respect. They often hunted with him and\\ntaught him to tan deer- skins and make moccasins. Before the coming of other\\nsettlers, Mr. Vogelbacher s nearest civilized neighbors were the Kapps and\\nSiegworths at Fryburg on the north, and Alexander McNaughton on the south.\\nA short route to Kapp s Settlement was blazed through the forest. The hos-\\npitality of John Vogelbacher was almost as noted as his skill as a marksman.\\nTravelers along the road were always sure to find a warm and gratuitous wel-\\ncome at his cabin. The fire-place pot was kept replenished with fresh game\\nmeats, and wheat bread a rarity remarked by his neighbors could always be\\nfound on his table.\\nThe sterling traits of this pioneer were recognized when the country became\\nsettled. His superior character and intelligence preserved his ascendency over\\nhis neighbors and made him a leader in the community, being foremost in pro-\\nmoting improvements and building up the settlement, as he had been in lay-\\ning its foundation. He died in August, 1859, aged seventy- two. The cluster\\nof farms about his homestead and the neighboring church (which was erected\\non his farm) bespoke his pre-eminence in the name Vogelbacher s Settlement,\\nwhich it long bore, and by which it is still sometimes known.\\nJohn Vogelbacher was alone till about 1822, when Francis Tschurdi (now\\nJudy) and his family, from Switzerland, came to what is now the S. and P.\\nShillinger farm. George Walters and his two sons came soon after from\\nAllegheny county and built a one-room log house on the present farm of P.\\nGatesman, sleeping the year round in the log barn. Then followed Henry\\nImhoof, Frederick Shillinger, and about 1833 David Walters, Charles Kerr,\\nand James Lamb.\\nThe starting up of Lucinda furnace in 1833 by James Humes and George\\nB. Hamilton, who were foremost in the opening and developing of Knox town-\\nship, attracted many, and considerably increased the population. From 1830\\nto 1845 settlers came in great numbers, most of them being German Catho-\\nlics. The northeast corner of the township was settled by Joseph Snyder\\nthe northwest, a fertile and well-cultivated section, by William Strikenbarger,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0594.jp2"}, "575": {"fulltext": "Knox Township. 523\\nmany years later. Much of the land in the central and southern part was pur-\\nchased from President Buchanan and John Reynolds, who became the owner\\nof the furnace and Humes territory in 1843.\\nThe first saw-mill was constructed on Paint Creek in 1832 by Hamilton and\\nHumes. The first grist-mill was built by the same firm in 1834. Before its\\nerection the settlers had to carry their grain much longer distances. At first\\nthe nearest mill was Best s on Beaver Creek, twelve miles away. Hither the\\ngrain was hauled in home-made wagons, with wooden wheels fashioned out of\\nthe splitting off of a cross-cut, and with wooden axles, a combination which in\\nmotion produced a screech that could be heard two miles off, as it jolted over\\nthe rough roads.\\nShippenville was the earliest trading point. Before its existence the pio-\\nneers contented themselves with homespun fabrics, and lived entirely on the\\nabundant game and their little crops of cereals and produce. For five years\\nMr. Vogelbacher never saw a cent, except one which a passing traveler gave\\nto his son.\\nThe earliest road was of course the State road. The first local road was\\none connecting Lucinda post-office (that is the cross-roads at the church) with\\nthe Furnace. It took a more southerly course than the present way between\\nthose points, and is now disused as a public road. The road leading from Lu-\\ncinda Furnace to the river at Clarion Furnace was one of the earliest opened.\\nThe first inn was started in 1844 by Jacob Neuland, and occupied a part\\nof the residence of John B. Vogelbacher. In 1850 the present Union Hotel,\\nalso by Neuland. A store at the cross-roads was built by Joseph Vogelbacher\\nin 1869.\\nIn 1846 the Catholic congregation built a frame church, on the site of the\\npresent one. Before that time mass was celebrated about once a month in the\\nhouse of John Vogelbacher, by Father O Neill and others, but there was no\\nregular pastor. In 1850 the frame building was burned down, and replaced in\\n1856 by a brick church 39 x 70 feet. Before erecting this, the knob on which\\nit was to stand was cut down, leveled and regularly slaped. This church was\\nalso destroyed by fire (it is thought by an incendiary), January 3, i860, but\\npromptly rebuilt with the same dimensions, and in 1871 a rear extension of\\nthirty-five feet was added. When the first church was built, 1846, the con-\\ngregation was composed of about thirty- five families; at present there are one\\nhundred and forty families, and eight hundred souls. The following have\\nbeen the pastors: 1846, P. Hoy; 1849, Jos. Dean; 1850, Andrew Skopez\\n1854, Jas. Slattery; 1855, A. Skopez and others 1856, Charles B. Mayer (first\\nresident priest); 1857, various; 1858, Philip Schmidt and Thomas Ledwith\\n1859, various; i860, A. Skopez 1863, Andrew Andolshek 1864, up to the\\npresent time, Rev. John Koch. Rev. Patrick Smith assisted by Father Koch\\nin 1868 and 70.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0595.jp2"}, "576": {"fulltext": "524 History of Clarion County.\\nThere are no Protestant Churches in Knox township. The Protestants\\nhave a cemetery on the farm of P. Gatesman.\\nSchools. The first school was started by subscription in 1824, on the Bin-\\ndel farm. There are now one parochial and four public schools in the township,\\nwith a total attendance of about one hundred and ninety pupils. The Catholic\\nschool was commenced in the parsonage, in the autumn of 1866, with William\\nSchmidt teacher. In 1876 the Benedictine sisters arrived, and have been teach-\\ning since. A large brick convent was erected for them. The school building\\nis a two-story frame.\\nThe toil and untiring .industry of the German agricultural population have\\nsubdued the soil, naturally stony and untractable, and brought it to a creditable\\nstate of cultivation. Many good farms and pleasant farm-houses are to be\\nfound in this township, particularly in the Settlement, the vicinity of Snyders-\\nburg, and the northwest corner.\\nLucinda post-office (Vogelbacher), is a collection of houses about the\\nchurch, with two stores, a hotel, a blacksmith shop, etc. The Pittsburgh and\\nWestern Railroad has a station near by. The post-office was transferred here\\nfrom Lucinda Furnace shortly after the furnace was abandoned. Snydersburg\\nis a small village to the north, on the railroad. New St. Mary s is a thriving\\nsettlement of farmers in the western end of the township, and reaching into\\nnorthwestern Paint. It was named from St. Mary s in Elk county, from\\nwhence many of the settlers came.\\nPopulation. In 1870, 656; 1880, 767.\\nCHAPTER LVI.\\nt f HISTORY OF LICKING TOWNSHIP.\\nLICKING township lies next north of the southern tier of townships in\\nClarion county. It is bounded on the north by Beaver, east by Piney,\\nsouth by Toby, and west by North Perry and East Richland.\\nThe surface of the township is considerably broken by numerous ridges, but\\nalmost all the land can be cultivated. The township is divided by the Clarion\\nRiver passing through it, and is well watered. The Clarion River strikes it on\\nits northeast corner, where the Piney line comes in. The river forms the\\nboundary between Licking and Beaver, till just at the foot of Delo s Eddy the\\nline crosses the river, and from there to the Perry line, immediately below\\nEbling s saw-mill, the river flows within the township something it does not\\ndo in any other township of the county. From Ebling s Mill to the mouth of", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0596.jp2"}, "577": {"fulltext": "Licking Township. 525\\nthe Alum Rock Run, the river forms the Perry-Licking Hne, and at the mouth\\nof this Run the Licking-East Richland line begins. Licking, the next stream\\nin size, enters the township at Craig s saw-mill on the Callensburg-Sligo road,\\nand empties into the Clarion immediately below Callensburg. Cherry Run\\nenters the township at John Russell s place on the road to Millerstown, Toby\\ntownship, and empties into Licking at the grist-mill of W. Craig, jr., one-half\\nmile from the mouth of Licking.\\nThese are the only streams upon which water-power is now utilized, or\\nupon which lumbering is carried on. Licking and Cherry Run are not lum-\\nbering streams, but have good water-power.\\nSouth of the Mount Zion Ridge the numerous small streams flow into\\nLicking, except some west of the Thomas Elliott Ridge flow into the Clarion.\\nNorth of the Mount Zion Ridge the streams flow into the Clarion. North of\\nthe river the streams on the northeast slope of the main ridge flow into the\\nClarion above the mouth of Licking, while those on the southwest side flow\\ninto it below the mouth of Licking. This odd shaped portion of the township\\nis known as the Loop.\\nOriginally the township was covered with a fine growth of timber, princi-\\npally oak and chestnut on the ridges, with maple and walnut in the valleys.\\nSouth of the Clarion there was a strip of pine extending from the Piney town-\\nship line above Canoe almost to the mouth of Pifer s Run, near Callensburg.\\nThe climate is uniform with other sections of the county, only it is notice-\\nable that the snow does not accumulate as it does in the northern townships,\\nand perhaps the snow-fall is not so great.\\nGood crops of wheat, corn, oats, rye and buckwheat are produced. Many\\npotatoes, beans, and other vegetables are grown. Apples and cherries and\\nother small fruits are generally a bounteous crop. Peaches are uncertain.\\nAbove the limestone the crop is more uniform than on the lower lands. For-\\nmerly a considerable quantity of flax was raised, but of late little attention is\\ngiven to that industry. Some tobacco is cultivated. The hills are rich in\\nminerals, especially coal. The most important vein of coal, the four feet\\nvein, or the one next below the limestone, runs through every ridge in the\\ntownship, while the vein above the limestone is worked in several localities\\nand yields a good quality of coal.\\nThe supply of limestone is practically inexhaustible. On the slopes of the\\nMount Zion Ridge and its minor ranges, a vein of splendid iron ore lies imme-\\ndiately on top of the limestone. This vein has been profitably worked from\\nMount Zion to where the vein crops out toward Licking. This vein has also\\nbeen worked north of the Clarion, and other veins have been opened at various\\nplaces in the township.\\nWhether the Indians lived here at any time or not, is not known. Many\\nrelics of their presence have been found tomahawks, arrowheads, wampum,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0597.jp2"}, "578": {"fulltext": "526 History of Clarion County.\\nc., but this may have been only a hunting-ground. The writer has often\\ngathered flint arrowheads along the Clarion at the Bullock Ford, a short dis-\\ntance up stream from the mouth of Licking.\\nEarly Settlements. It seems to be a pretty well established fact that the\\nfirst settlement within the limits of Licking township was made in the extreme\\nnorthwestern part, on the farm known as the Old George Best farm, and\\nnow owned by Elias Ritts. A small brook runs from the ridge southwest of\\nCyrus Neely s residence, and flows almost southwestward into the Clarion at\\nAlum Rock. On tbe northwest side of this brook, about forty rods from the\\npresent farm-house on the farm referred to, a man named Range built a house\\nin 1802. This house stood close by a spring of water which joins the brook a\\nfew rods from where it comes from the earth. A solitary apple tree marks\\nthe spot where the cabin stood.\\nIn 1804 Thomas Morgan squatted on and made an improvement in the\\nnorthern part of the township. The tract on which he squatted was patented\\nby a man named Peters. This improvement was in the vicinity of the St.\\nJohn s or Loop church. The cabin into which Mr. Morgan moved stood\\nabout where Mr. Disher s house now stands. Jacob Allebach and his son\\nDavid settled on the tract and purchased it in 1834, the deed being made to\\nDavid. Bartley Clark settled where Lawson Morgan now lives; date not\\nknown.\\nIn 1804 Alexander Wilson, sr., settled on the Pine Hollow Road near the\\npresent home of Alexander Wilson, jr., on the tract known as the Samuel\\nMcCauley lot. A few old apple trees mark the location of the house.\\nJohn Elder settled in 1807, and built a house about forty rods east of the\\nOak Grove school-house.\\nIn 1808 Christopher Reicherd settled where Philip Over now lives.\\nIn 1809 Andrew Lowers built a house at the Bullock Ford, on the Kil-\\ngore farm, near Callensburg.\\nSamuel Lobaugh f settled in the present Oak Grove district in 18 11, and\\nJacob Whitmer in 181 5.\\nBenjamin Gardner, sr., settled at the mouth of Beaver in 1812.\\nHugh Callen came in 18 12.\\nJohn Colwell settled where Miles Colwell now lives. He and his family\\ncame in 1824,\\nJohn Elliott settled at;^W. D. Elliott s homestead, on the present Sligo road,\\nin 1824.\\nSidle Lobough settled in 1822 at the old tannery.\\nJohn Henry settled in the township in 1826.\\nIn 1 83 1 Paul Neely settled where William Neely now lives.\\nIn 1836 James L. Wilson settled where he now resides.\\nAmong the other early settlers were Christopher Over, George Heeter, sr.,.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0598.jp2"}, "579": {"fulltext": "Licking Township. 527\\nGeorge Elliott, sr., William Elliott, sr., John Dunkle, Hugh Kilgore, John L.\\nReid, Abram Frampton, Henry Alexander, and others, whose descendants still\\nlive in the township.\\nThe excellent water-power of the township and the mineral and forestry\\nresources have given considerable activity to the milling, lumbering, and iron\\nindustries from time to time.\\nGrist-AIills. As early as 18 14 Alexander Wilson built a grist-mill on the\\nClarion, a short distance from the mouth of Licking. This mill was burned,\\nand soon after being rebuilt it was again burned. A man named Myers had\\nbuilt a rival establishment about two hundred yards up Licking, and the fact\\nthat a controversy arose between Wilson and Myers gave currency to a rumor\\nthat Myers burned the mill, but the crime was never proven against him. The\\nmill was put up a third time, and it went to decay when Mr. Wilson became\\ntoo old to operate it. In connection with the first two structures a carding-\\nmachine was erected, which was operated by John Craig. The Myers mill\\nwas sold to Michael Reichart, late of Perry township, who sold it to Abram\\nFrampton. Mr. Frampton saw the advantage of being located on the pike,\\nwhich had been laid out from Graham s Landing (now Parker) to the place\\nwhere the pike now crosses the Jefferson county line, so he proceeded to build\\na new mill where the road crossed Licking. This mill has long been known\\nas Craig s mill, now owned by W. Craig, jr. The machinery of Frampton s\\nold mill was set up in a mill at Matildaville, and ran for a long time.\\nIn 1833 Benjamin Junkins built the Bell grist-mill, long known as Best s\\nmill, on the Clarion below Sassafras Point. The ice flood of 1885 tore the mill\\nfrom its foundation, and it was taken down soon after. William Bell had a\\ngrist-mill at Sassafras Point.\\nThe Buchanan furnace mill was erected to supply the wants of the furnace\\npeople, probably in 1850. It was afterwards torn down, and moved away.\\nSaw-Mills. There have been twenty saw-mills erected in the township\\nfifteen along the Clarion and five on the smaller streams out from the Clarion.\\nA water-mill, at the mouth of Beaver, erected in early days by Benjamin\\nGardner, sr., was rebuilt by Benjamin Gardner, jr., and converted into a steam-\\nmill. It was afterward owned and run by J. B. Reynolds, and at present it is\\nowned by J. B. Miller. For years a boat scaffold has been connected with\\nthis mill, and run by H. C. Heeter J. B. Miller.\\nNext down the stream above the present site of G. W. Heeter s mill was one\\nbuilt by Sidle Lobough. Some ruins of it still remain. The mill and scafibld\\nof G. W. Heeter Bro. were erected in 1877.\\nCrary s saw-mill, below the bridge, was built about the year 1850. It had\\ntwo boat scaffolds in connection with it, one above, and the other below the\\ndam. Samuel Stover afterward owned and operated the mill.\\nThe saw-mill at the mouth of Licking was built at an early date. At the", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0599.jp2"}, "580": {"fulltext": "528 History of Clarion County.\\ntime Prospect furnace was in blast William Moore had control of the mill\\nwith a boat scaffold on the Callensburg side of Licking, where they built\\nmany boats.\\nIn 1857 or 1858 G. W. Elder and Allen Fowler built a mill and scaffold\\nwhere Stover Neely now have their new mill. The new establishment was\\nerected in 1886 by C. G. W. Stover and Samuel Neely.\\nWilliam Bell once had a saw-mill at Sassafras Point Robert Bell had one\\nat the Turnip Holes, and Thomas Bell had one at the mouth of Best s Run.\\nA saw-mill stood for many years beside the Best grist-mill, and a steam\\nsaw-mill only a short distance below the grist-mill.\\nSouth of the river, at the mouth of Wilson s Run, Allen Fowler had erected\\na mill early in the history of our saw-mills, and in 1870 Isaac Shorman built\\nwhat is now known as Ebling s mill, being now owned by Charles Ebling, of\\nCallensburg. At Fowler s old mill the first boat was constructed that was\\nbuilt on the Clarion,\\nAnother mill on the Clarion, just above the Gardner mill, was erected in\\n1872 by William Thomas. This establishment was not very well equipped,\\nand it soon went into disuse.\\nOn the smaller streams, out from the river, we find that one saw-mill was\\nerected on Beaver, not far up the stream from the Gardner mill. One was\\nerected on Stoneham Run by Henry and Isaac Shorman. One was built on\\nAlum Rock Run by Samuel Sharrar, a short distance above the rock, and the\\nlast one by William McFarland, on Cherry Run, near the Prospect furnace\\nsite. This mill is still standing.\\nIn Prospect s time a mill was in operation here near the furnace. Besides\\nthese, before the war, John P. Stover built a fully equipped miniature saw-mill\\non Lewis s Run.\\nWoolen Mills. Alexander Craig built a carding-machine on the Clarion,\\nbelow Wilson s Bend, in 1827. It was afterward owned and run by Hugh\\nKilgore. It was taken away by the high water of 1847, which tradition says\\nwas the highest water ever seen in the Clarion River by white men.\\nWilliam Elliott, sr., had a carding-machine, or fulling-mill, on Licking, near\\nthe W. D. ElHott farm.\\nFiu naces. Buchanan Furnace was built in 1842 by Fred Crary and Sam-\\nuel Plummer. As it is intended to write up furnaces in a separate chapter, we\\nshall only observe here that the stack of the furnace is still standing.\\nProspect Furnace, on Cherry Run, was built by Henry Alexander and\\nJames McElroy, in 1845. Its site is marked by an immense pile of ore dust.\\nThe Buchanan wharf, where the pig iron was loaded in the boats for trans-\\nportation, was located below the furnace. The Prospect wharf was on the east\\nside of the mouth of Licking. Above Crary s Dam, on the south side of the\\nriver, was located the Sligo metal wharf, many of the timbers of which are still\\nto be seen.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0600.jp2"}, "581": {"fulltext": "Licking Township. 529\\nDistilleries. Within the Hmits of the township there have been four dis-\\ntilleries. Wooders s, on Thomas H. Elliott s farm Louis Wilson s, on Cherry-\\nRun Mr. Fenton s near the lot of W. C. Dunkle and Gould s, in Easton.\\nThe township has but one hotel, that of P. D. Painter, at Easton. There has\\nbeen no licensed hotel in the township for almost twenty years.\\nOther Industries. The first well for oil drilled in the township was drilled\\nto a depth of six hundred and fifty feet in 186 1. It was located below the Cal-\\nlensburg bridge, on the north side of the Clarion. J. B. Reynolds owned the\\nwell. It was drilled by C. G. W. Stover, and P. M. Dunkle, who both enlisted\\nin August, 1 86 1, and left the well with plenty of salt water and gas, but no oil.\\nSince then, at various times, wells have been drilled at different places through-\\nout the township. One was drilled at the mouth of Licking, one below that\\non the Point, one on C. Lobaugh s farm west of Callensburg, one on Harry Gar-\\nmer s farm northeast of the town, one on John W. Black s farm, one on John\\nBest s farm, and quite a number in the western part of the township. Two or\\nthree wells in the extreme western part of the township, on Mr. Neely s farm,\\nonce produced some oil, but now there is not a producing well in the township.\\nIn April, 1887, a well was drilled near the new mill of Stover Neely.\\nConsiderable attention is given to stock-raising, principally for the market.\\nSeveral farmers, however, are introducing blooded stock.\\nThe smaller timber and the saplings have of late been worked into pit-\\nposts, brace poles or hoops, affording quite an income to the people.\\nJohn Elliott had the first store in the township. He opened it in 1824,\\nwhere W. D. Elliott now lives. Abraham Allebach kept the first store in what\\nis now the Anderson school district. H. E. Best Company kept a store at\\nBest s Corners, where R. P. Hughes has his store. Solomon Shirey kept for\\nmany years at Easton. The furnace companies at Prospect and Buchanan\\neach had stores. Samuel Rhea kept once near the present homes of James M.\\nDunkle and R. M. Kilgore. He did business for a while at Easton, and later\\nat the bridge. He sold out to J. G. Wyon, who did business till the winter of\\n1886, when his building and goods were destroyed by fire. Thomas Purvi-\\nance kept the first store in the western part of the township. Various kinds\\nof shops are scattered over the township now, and have been since its early\\nsettlement. Among these workmen were Wilson Colwell, blacksmith Sidle\\nLobaugh, D. R. Lobaugh, and James H. Lobaugh, tanners; William Williams,\\nHenry Smith, Daniel Low, a Mr. Russell, and S. S. Whitmer, blacksmiths and\\nmany others too numerous to mention. W. Craig Son now have a store at\\nEaston.\\nChurches and Schools. There are three church buildings in the township\\nThe Mount Zion Lutheran, built in 1847; the Mount Zion German Reformed,\\nbuilt in 1883 and 84, and the St. John s, built at a date not known to the writer.\\nThe township has eight school districts with as many houses, viz., the Rock,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0601.jp2"}, "582": {"fulltext": "530 History of Clarion County.\\nthe Anderson, Union Hall, Prospect, Easton, Fairview, Oak Grove, and Pat-\\nterson. The buildings are all considered fair houses.\\nThe first school in the township was held in the Range cabin, in i8i8, by\\na man named John Wright (or Rite). Later Charles Haas, Hugh Kilgore\\nC. G. W. Stover, and William Cupples did pioneer work in education. It is\\nnoticeable that many of the teachers of the township became men of affairs.\\nHugh Kilgore was prominent in early military operations in the county. C.\\nW. Elliott is now a Methodist Episcopal minister S. W. Kuhns is a Lutheran\\nminister H. P. Elliott has been elected county auditor A. M. Neely twice\\nelected to the Legislature, and W. A. Beer once.\\nPublic- Officers. The township has produced the following county officers:\\nJ. M. Best, treasurer; J. C. Galbreath, sheriff; John Elhott, auditor; B. B.\\nDunkle, sheriff; C. Reichart, prothonotary (two terms); H. E. Best, auditor;\\nEmanuel Over, commissioner; H. P. Elliott, auditor, and R. Laughlin mem-\\nber of Legislature in 185 1 and 52. Besides these S. A. Bell, commissioner,\\nwas born in the township, as was also W. A. Beer, member of the Legislature\\nin 1883.\\nSidle Lobaugh was a colonel in the State Guards in 1829 and 30. Alex-\\nander Colwell was aid-de-camp to the major-general of the Twelfth Division\\nfrom April 28, 1855, to the first Monday of July, 1859, with the rank of major.\\nMr. Colwell has been a justice of the peace since 1864, holding five commis-\\nsions.\\nUnder Company B, One Hundred and Sixth- ninth Regiment, beginning\\non page 329, the reader will notice the name Andrew Sippey, corporal.\\nThis name should be Andrew Tippery, who is a respected and influential\\ncitizen of this township.\\nCrimes and Casualties. The town of Easton was laid out in and dur-\\ning the more stirring times of the iron and lumber industries, it became quite\\na village, and its reputation for good conduct was not the best. For many\\nyears this village was the home of a man called Jesse Major. His name was\\nsaid to be Jerry Johnson. Major s house was the rendezvous and refuge of a\\nbad set of characters, thieved, counterfeiters, robbers, and lewd women. Tw o\\nof the gang were Charley Logue and Ira Shotwell or Ira Davis, an account of\\nwhose crimes, capture and trial is given in the chapter on Bench and Bar.\\nVarious other lesser crimes from time to time serve to cloud the fair mem-\\nories of this people, but to the great credit of the township be it said, the\\nresident population is almost unrepresented on the criminal annals of the\\ntownship.\\nJohn Elliott, sr., in a fit of melancholy drowned himself in Crary s dam,\\nand Miss Mary Henry, an ancient maiden lady, drowned herself at the foot of\\nDelo s Eddy. Miss Clara Cupples a few years ago took her own life by shoot-\\ning herself. So far as known, this completes the list of suicides.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0602.jp2"}, "583": {"fulltext": "Limestone Township. 531\\nThere have been a number of accidental deaths. Many years ago John\\nGardner accidentally shot two of his sisters, killing both at one shot. The\\ntragedy had such an effect upon his mind that he laid the gun up in the barn\\nwhere it lay untouched for thirty-five years. A son of James Carroll was\\ndrowned in the Clarion, below the dam. A child of Mr. William Prosser was\\ndrowned in the Turn Hole. A Miss Wilson was drowned below the mouth of\\nLicking, as was also a Mr. Elgin. A man whose name is unknown to the\\nwriter, was thrown from a raft and drowned near the mouth of Licking. A\\nson of John Murray was drowned at the mouth of Cherry Run. A child of\\nMr. Clugh was drowned in a well in Callensburg. A Mrs. Hoveler was burned\\nto death at Buchanan furnace. A Mr. Stroup was killed by a part of Callens-\\nburg bridge falling on him in 1865. The ice had torn the bridge away, but a\\npart hung to the pier. The raft on which Stroup was, struck the pier and\\njarred the pendant structure, causing it to fall and strike him just as he passed\\nunder it. A Mr. Graham was killed by his horse at Easton. A son of John\\nP. Stover was killed by a log rolling on him, a few years ago, and James Cun-\\nningham was killed in an ore bank. This is the list of casualties of the town-\\nship since its settlement, so far as can be ascertained.\\nThe dam across the Clarion at Callensburg bridge, is said to have caused\\nthe greatest loss of lumber that was ever caused by any dam on the Clarion,\\nbut this obstruction to navigation was removed by the ice gorge in March,\\n1865, at the time the bridge was taken away.\\nCHAPTER LVn.\\nHISTORY OF LIMESTONE TOWNSHIP.i\\nTHIS township is located in the eastern part of Clarion county, and is, in\\nshape, almost a rhomboid. It is bounded on the north by Clarion town-\\nship, on the east by Jefferson county, on the south by Porter and Redbank\\ntownships, and on the west by Monroe township. This portion of the county\\nwas organized into a township in 1842. Its greatest length is about eight\\nmiles, and its width about six miles; its area is about forty-five square miles.\\nThe surface is nowhere level, but may be described as being in some parts very\\nhilly, in others undulating. The township is well watered by natural streams,\\nthe chief of which are Big Piney and Little Piney. Both these streams flow in\\na westerly direction, and traverse the township from its eastern to its western\\nboundary. They are fed by numerous smaller streams running north and\\nsouth.\\niBy S. C. Hepler.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0603.jp2"}, "584": {"fulltext": "532 History of Clarion County.\\nPrior to the year i8oo, Limestone township was one vast forest, along the\\nstreams and over the hills of which roamed the deer, the bear, and other wild\\nanimals. Since that time a steady transformation has been going on. The\\nvast forests have given away before the woodman s ax, and settlements, well\\nimproved, have been established. In the year above mentioned, the first white\\nman that set foot upon the soil of this precinct, together with his family, made\\na settlement on the premises now owned and occupied by J. W. Speer, in the\\nextreme southwestern part of the township. These people came from Chester\\ncounty, Pa., bringing with them all they could of their household effects and\\nfarming implements, on horseback. This energetic pioneer s name was Thomas\\nMeredith. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and fought bravely for\\nnational independence. Soon after the old man established his new home, he\\nmounted a horse and rode back to his native county Chester procured some\\nyoung apple trees, returned and planted them near his cabin home, and\\nafterwards had the satisfaction of seeing them nearly all grow. This was\\namong the first orchards established in Clarion county. The second settlement\\nmade within the present limits of the township was by Christian Rhodes, in\\nthe year i8oi, at a pla ce now known as the Stahlman settlement. A year later\\n1802 John Brown, an eccentric old bachelor, and a soldier of the Revolu-\\ntion, came into the precinct, and built a cabin, making other improvements also,\\nnear the Rhodes settlement. During the same year. Colonel John Swan the\\nnoted Indian fighter and Samuel C. Orr, came from the more eastern part of\\nPennsylvania, settled and made improvements in the western part of the town-\\nship. Colonel Sloan settled what are now known as the farms of Samuel Con-\\nner, George Smith, and the heirs of John Smith, deceased, while Orr settled\\nwhat is now known as the Orr homestead, at present owned and occupied by\\nCulbertson Orr. The farm now owned and occupied by Rev. Jacob Booth,\\nwas also settled in 1802 by Tate Allison. Thus homes in the wilderness were\\nestablished, and the country grew. It is not necessary to describe the hard-\\nships and privations of these early settlers suffice it to say they were severe\\nenough but pluck and energy prevailed, and ere long the wildernss blossomed\\nas the rose. Thus settlements grew, and nothing occurred to mar the happi-\\nness of the settlers till 1812, when the second war for independence broke out.\\nAmong those from Limestone who went forth to battle for their country s\\nrights were Thomas Meredith, jr., and his brother, Owen, both sons of the ear-\\nliest settler of the township. Robert Allison, son of Tate Allison, above named,\\nwas in the list also. None were killed, all returning home in due time.\\nAs the settlements grew and the population increased, the people began to\\nsee the necessity of schools for the education of their children accordingly a\\nhouse was constructed, and a school established. This first school-house was\\na mere log cabin with a chimney outside, and was built about 18 18, on the\\nfarm now owned by N. H. Sloan. Since then education has kept pace with", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0604.jp2"}, "585": {"fulltext": "Limestone Township. 533\\nthe improvements and increase of population. The inhabitants look upon the\\npublic schools with favor. At present there are ten public school structures in\\nthe township, in which are held as many schools, presided over by as many\\nteachers, and attended by about three hundred pupils. The houses are neat,\\nframe structures, the majority of which are furnished with the latest improved\\nfurniture. Besides the above, there is one Catholic school, situated in the east-\\nern part of the township, and well sustained by the Catholic citizens.\\nChurches were also early established, the first house being erected where\\nthe present Salem Church now stands. As the number of inhabitants increased,\\nso increased the number of churches, till at present there are within the town-\\nship one Presbyterian, one Baptist, two Methodist Episcopal, one Reformed,\\none Lutheran, and one Catholic Church, each society having its own church\\nedifice in which to worship. Most of these churches have burial-grounds at-\\ntached to them, all of which are pleasently located and well kept.\\nAt first the settlers had much diflSculty in getting their grain converted\\ninto meal. This lasted nearly a quarter of a century, when Colonel John Sloan\\nerected on Big Piney a small mill built of hewed logs. This mill was erected\\non the site of what is now known as Smith s saw-mill. The second-oldest\\nflouring-mill a frame structure was erected on Little Piney in 1833, by\\nSamuel C. Orr. This mill still does good work, and is at present owned by\\nHenry Edder. At a Httle village known as Greenville, which will be noticed\\nhereafter, Messrs. John Sloan and his brother Samuel erected a flouring-mill,\\nwhich was perhaps the third one erected within the township. Henry Smith,\\ndeceased, razed the old log-mill erected by Colonel Sloan, and built a new one\\na large frame structure a short distance below the site of the old one and\\nthe one built at Greenville was afterward torn down and a new one erected by\\nWashington Craig, now deceased. This is a large frame structure also, and is\\nin every respect a first-class mill. Thus there have been built on the waters\\nof Big Piney four flouring-mills, and upon the waters of Little Piney one,\\nmaking five in all.\\nThe settlers were not long in discovering the mineral wealth of the town-\\nship, the result of which was the erection of iron furnaces, foundries, etc.\\nThe first iron foundry was built about 1836, by Thomas Hurst, and was located\\nat Orr s Mill. Mr. Hurst also made fanning-mills, the first manufactured in\\nthe township. In 1837 Wan brothers erected an iron furnace and foundry on\\nLittle Piney, near the site of William McKinley s residence. Eight years after\\nthe erection of the above-mentioned furnace and foundry 1845 another\\nfurnace was built on Little Piney and denominated Limestone furnace. There\\nwas more iron cast at this furnace than at any of the others. At present noth-\\ning remains to mark the sites of these furnaces but a few cinders and portions\\nof the stone stacks, and silence now reigns where once industry prevailed.\\nThe hills of this precinct are also underlaid with a bountiful supply of bitumin-\\n58", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0605.jp2"}, "586": {"fulltext": "534 History of Clarion County.\\nous coal, but so far few mines have been opened up and worked. An almost\\ninexhaustible supply of limestone rock and flag underlies the greater por-\\ntion of the township, and is extensively used by the farmers as a fertilizer, the\\ngood effects of which may be seen by the heavy crops of grains and grasses\\nraised and harvested annually.\\nAs has already been noticed, the precinct was at an early day a vast forest,\\nthe trees indigenous being pine, hemlock, and oak in the valleys of Big and\\nLittle Piney, and in the lowlands, while on the highlands and ridges chestnut,\\nhickory, etc., prevailed. Lumbering was at one time, and is yet, extensively\\ncarried on. There have been erected within the present limits of the township\\ntwenty-one saw-mills eleven on Big Piney, of which nine were water-power\\nmills and two were steam-power on Little Piney there have been erected ten,\\nsix water-power mills and four of steam-power. There was also an ax fac-\\ntory built on Big Piney. Limestone township has furnished the major portion\\nof sawed lumber used for building and other purposes in Clarion county.\\nYears, at least a score, elapsed from the time the first settlement was made\\ntill the first post-office was established for the accommodation of the settlers.\\nThis first office was denominated Limestone, and was located at a place known\\nas Sloan s Gap. Captain James Sloan was the first postmaster. The office\\nwas supplied with mail once every two weeks, the mail route extending from\\nKittanning, Pa., to Olean, N. Y. At present there are four offices, viz., Crates,\\nKingsville, Frogtown, and Limestone. This last-named office is located at\\na village known as Greenville, which is situated in the western part of the\\ntownship on Big Piney. It is the largest village in the township, having a\\npopulation of about one hundred and twenty. One dry-goods store, one flour-\\nino -mill already mentioned one harness shop, one tannery, and one black-\\nsmith shop mark the business portion of the village. It also has two resident\\nphysicians S. C. Johnson, a graduate of Washington and Jefferson Medical\\nCollege, Philadelphia, and A. K. Carmichael, a graduate of the Baltimore Med-\\nical College. Two of the above-named churches Baptist and Presbyterian\\nare also located at this place. The next village of any importance is located\\nabout one mile southeast of Greenville, and is known as Frogtown. This little\\nvillage is situated in the midst of a delightful agricultural community and has\\na population of forty. It contains one store of general merchandise, owned by\\nJ. D. Laughlin and brother, the Frogtown post-office, and a blacksmith shop.\\nAbout the time the first post-office was established 1820 William Guthrie\\nerected a small log building on Little Piney, a short distance below Limestone\\nfurnace, designed as a carding-machine and fulling mill. The property passed\\ninto the hands of John Thom, Esq., and afterwards Joseph A. Ogden became\\nsole owner of the mill. Mr. Ogden erected a new mill a large frame building\\nwhich at the decease of the owner became the property of his son, J. C.\\nOgden, who is the present owner and proprietor. Craig Brothers also erected", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0606.jp2"}, "587": {"fulltext": "^XSa-Zn^", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0609.jp2"}, "588": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0610.jp2"}, "589": {"fulltext": "Limestone Township. 535\\na large woolen factory, one mile north of Greenville, on Big Piney. This fac-\\ntory at one time did an extensive business, but about the year 1873 it was\\nabandoned, and since that has been removed to New Bethlehem.\\nLimestone township is noted chiefly for the richness of its soil and for the\\nmany beautiful homesteads within its limits. It is clearly an agricultural com-\\nmunity, the quality of its farms not being exceeded by that of the farms of any\\nother township in the county. Many of the farmer citizens own and occupy\\nfine residences. Not only the residences attract the eye, but what are known\\nas the front door yards of many of the homesteads are very beautiful.\\nGrassy plots dotted with beautiful flower-beds, fine walks lined with trees indig-\\nenous and exotic, evergreen and deciduous, are not an infrequent scene around\\nfarm-houses, and go to show the taste the citizens have for the beautiful as\\nwell as for the useful.\\nAll the principal grains and grasses are growni in this township. The aver-\\nage yield of wheat per acre is about twenty bushels that of corn about sev-\\nenty-five bushels; oats, about forty-five bushels. Many of the farms produce\\nmore per acre than is stated above, while very few well-cultivated farms fall\\nbelow the above- quoted average.\\nMuch attention is given to the breeding of blooded stock, and the very best\\nbreeds of horses, cattle, sheep, and swine are represented in the precinct. The\\nfarmers seem to glory in the success they are meeting in their calling, and are\\nnot content with present progress, but have two grange organizations for the\\npurpose of aiding and instructing one another.\\nWhen the call To arms came at the beginning of the late war. Lime-\\nstone furnished her quota of men, and right well did they do their part. On\\nOctober 9, 1886, the surviving soldiers, residing in the township, met and or-\\nganized, with a membership of twenty, the Captain Charles E. Patton Post,\\nNo. 532, G. A. R. The following officers were chosen: Commander, T. D.\\nSpence S. V. C, Jesse Hepler; G. V. C, Samuel Hepler adjutant, R. P.\\nMiller surgeon, David Baughman chaplain. Rev. Jacob Booth O. D., J.\\nM. McCormick; O. G., E. M. Reese; quartermaster, J. C. Ogden.\\nOf late years several wells have been drilled for the purpose of obtaining\\npetroleum, but so far they have all proved what are styled dusters. Dur-\\ning the summer of 1885 Stuart, Ogden Co. drilled a well in the north-\\nwestern part of the township to a depth of twelve hundred feet, when what\\nat present seems an inexhaustible supply of gas was struck. This gas, as it\\nescaped from the well, produced a roaring noise, not unlike distant thunder,\\nwhich could be heard for miles around. The same year this well was pur-\\nchased by the Clarion Light and Heat Company, and the gas was piped to\\nClarion, where it is used as fuel, etc. In 1886 a second well was drilled near\\nthe site of the Stuart-Ogden well, by the Citizens Gas Company of Clarion,\\nwith equally good results. The gas from this well is also piped to Clarion, a", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0611.jp2"}, "590": {"fulltext": "536 History of Clarion County.\\ndistance of five miles, and is used as fuel. These are the only gas wells in\\nthe township.\\nThus we see that this precinct has been transformed from a vast forest into\\nwell cultivated farms. It has increased in population from one man and his\\nfamily, in i8oo, to about one thousand three hundred at the present writing.\\nMany of the oldest citizens of the township now Hving were born and raised\\non the farm they now live on. Among these old and highly respected citi-\\nzens may be mentioned James Riley, Culberson Orr, C. M. Sloan, and D. H.\\nParsons. Of these, Mr. Riley is the oldest, being seventy-four years of age.\\nBy indsutry and frugality he succeeded in retaining the old homestead, which\\nis one of the finest farms in the township. Although nearing four score years,\\nyet he is hale and supple, often walking a distance of ten or more miles,\\nwithout the least apparent fatigue, and although he is perhaps the oldest\\ncitizen of the community in which he lives, yet he has never been outside the\\npresent limits of Clarion county.\\nCHAPTER LVin.\\nHISTORY OF MADISON TOWNSHIP.i\\nTHIS township, lying in the southwest corner of the county, was formerly a\\nportion of Toby township, and before the formation of Clarion county,\\nextended into Armstrong county as far as the mouth of Mahoning Creek,\\nThis township has itself suffered some further diminution of territory since the\\nerection of the county, the present Brady township having been formed from\\nit not many years ago.\\nThe northern and eastern boundaries are straight lines, except a slight\\nindentation on the north, made by the borough of Rimersburg. The southern\\nboundary is very irregular, defined by the tortuous course of Redbank Creek.\\nThe township is underlaid by several beds of good bituminous coal, and\\nthe ferriferous limestone is largely exposed in the bluffs along the Redbank\\nCreek and its tributaries. Much of the land has been suffered to deteriorate,\\nbut by the liberal use of lime readily procurable from the above-mentioned\\nstratum, and burned by means of the coal so near by, progressive farmers are\\nfast restoring their fields to their pristine fertility.\\nThe limestone is largely quarried from the hills near Lawsonham, as well\\nas in many other places through the township. A short distance east of Law-\\nsonham are situated the lime quarry and kilns of James Brown, of Brookville,\\nestablished several years ago.\\n1 By \\\\V. W. Deatrick.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0612.jp2"}, "591": {"fulltext": "Madison Township. 537\\nEarly Settlements. This territory seems to have been settled about the\\nbeginning of the present century, possibly even before the close of the last\\ncentury some of the pioneers may have taken possession. In what is now the\\nConner school-house district, a log house was built in the year 1800 by\\nThomas Conner. It is also asserted that in this house his son, Mr. John Con-\\nner, still Hving, was born in the same year. According to some, Alexander\\nMcCain settled here, and made improvements on what is known as the old\\nMcCain farm, near the Redbank coke- yard, as early as 1801. Mr. McCain\\nwas one of the pioneer school-masters of this section of the country, working\\nin the summer, and teaching in the winter. He was justice of the peace for\\nseveral years. It was related of him that he was an excellent Biblical scholar,\\nquoting the sacred Word with rare aptitude. He was also known as an en-\\nthusiastic and extreme abolitionist.\\nAbout this time John McGee settled on the neck of the Great Bend. In\\n1705 a house was built by John and David Meek, near Rimersburg. About\\nthis time the road from Watterson s on the Allegheny River to Corsica, known\\nas the Watterson road, was laid out.i It was the first road in the county. In\\n1807 James Rankin erected a log house in what is now the Rankin school dis-\\ntrict. In 1812 David Lawson, a surveyor and land agent, located near what\\nis now Lawsonham, this name having been given by him to his home soon\\nafter^his settlement. Later in life he represented the county in the Legislature,\\nand figured prominently in county affairs.\\nIn 1813, or later, Fleming Davidson, who had previously resided near\\nCurllsville, built a log dwelling, two stories in height, thirty by fifty feet, on\\nwhat afterwards became known as the Reed farm. Davidson was at one time\\nmilitary brigade inspector. About the same time Mathew Hosey came into\\npossession of the property which had been improved at an earlier date i(uide\\nsupra) by David Meek. Mr. Hosey was a soldier in the War of 18 12, and\\nwas at Fort Meigs. Among the early settlers should be mentioned Peter Ben-\\nninger, a German. He took up land on the Allegheny River, above the\\nmouth of Catfish Run. He performed an unique feat w^iich must not be\\npassed by. W^ith no other assistance than that of his wife and his old mare,\\nhe erected their log barn, which was a fair size, and which, sheltering his crops\\nand stock, stood for many years. Another pioneer was Malachi Buzzard, who\\nsettled on the hill above Catfish, and was illustrious principally as a hunter.\\nThe Wattersons, too, likely settled on this side of the river early in the cen-\\ntury. About a hundred years ago the elder James Watterson made improve-\\nments on the west side of the Allegheny River. July 20, 1803, is the date of\\na land warrant to Elizabeth Watterson, a daughter of the same, later married\\nto John Bruner. February 17, 1827, Mrs. Bruner sold to James Watterson,\\nson of the James Watterson above mentioned, and father of James Watterson,\\n1 Judge Lawson. The county atlas says it was tlie third.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0613.jp2"}, "592": {"fulltext": "538 History of Clarion County.\\nsr., of Redbank, the tract of land lying east of the river, and now owned partly\\nby Redbank furnace, and partly by James Watterson, sr., and George Leon-\\nard. The second James Watterson lived early in the century in a shanty\\nwhich stood but a short distance above where the Watterson mansion now\\nstands. At that time the Indians were still about, and their huts occupied the\\nthe flat which is now the site of the furnace.\\nJoseph Rankin, afterwards for a number of years justice of the peace, then\\nassemblyman, and later associate judge of the county, was one of the early\\nsettlers. He and his brother Benjamin settled in what is now Toby township,\\nbut some time after he moved into Madison township. These two brothers\\nmarried two sisters, which was not so remarkable as the fact that the two fam-\\nilies lived amicably in the same house, strictly observing the following pecuHar\\narrangements: Joseph, being the eldest brother, did all the managing of\\naffairs in which the male portion of the household had any part on the other\\nhand, Mrs. Benjamin, being the elder of the two wives, had absolute control of\\nthe female portion of the family, their cares, and their belongings, even to\\nchastising all the daughters of both families, while Mr. Joseph did the whip-\\nping that was needed by the boys on both sides of the house.\\nVoting Places. When Madison township was first formed the elections\\nwere held at Lawsonham. At a later date the voting-place was changed to\\nNew Athens, where it still remains.\\nSchools. Perhaps the first school in the township was kept near Lawson-\\nham, about half a mile from John Lawson s. For a long time the teachers\\nwere hired by Mr. Lawson to give instruction to his children, and to such of\\nthe neighbors children as could attend. Later, about 1829, the teacher w^as\\nhired for a year, and was paid partly by the Lawsons, and partly by the par-\\nents of other children who attended.\\nFurnaces. No less than five iron furnaces have been in operation in this\\ntownship Pike Furnace, Wildcat Furnace, Catfish Furnace, Sarah Furnace,\\nand Redbank Furnace.\\nPike Furnace was located on P iddler s Run, a short distance above Law-\\nsonham. It was built in 1845 by Lawson, Duff, and Orr, under whose man-\\nagem.ent it was operated for five years. Then Duff and Orr had it in charge\\nfor ten years, w^hile from i860 to 1867, it was in the hands of Mr. Orr alone.\\nIn the latter year it was blown out. It is now entirely in ruins.\\nWildcat Furnace on Wildcat Run, something over a mile from Rimersburg,\\nwas built in 1843,1 by Lawson and Flick. Its ownership was various at differ-\\nent times. Lawson withdrawing from the firm, it was owned by Flick alone\\nlater it was operated by Thompson and Hutchinson. These parties failing in\\nthe business, it went out of blast for a time. It was afterward repaired and\\niron- making was resumed by Miller and Freeman. It was a steam cold- blast\\n1 So the Geological Report, p. 201. In 1845 according to judge Lawson.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0614.jp2"}, "593": {"fulltext": "Madison Township. 539\\ncharcoal furnace, and was finally abandoned in 1863. Its ruined stack still\\nstands near by the Sligo Branch Railroad. The geological survey report records\\nthat this was one of the most successful of all the Clarion county charcoal fur-\\nnaces.\\nCatfish steam cold-blast furnace stood at the mouth of Catfish Run. It was\\nbuilt in 1846, by Joseph Over and others. It was owned by Alexander Miller,\\nand leased by J. L. Miller, when in blast.^\\nSarah Furnace was built, in i860, by the Plummers. Originally a charcoal\\nfurnace, it was afterwards converted into a coke furnace, and operated as such\\nafter the other charcoal furnaces were abandoned. The furnace was located on\\nthe east bank of the Allegheny River and north of the mouth of Catfish Run.\\nRed Bank Furnace, situated at the junction of Redbank Creek with the Alle-\\ngheny River, is the only exclusively coke furnace ever operated in the county.\\nIt was built in 1859 by McCullough and Reynolds. When running at its full\\ncapacity, it produced one hundred and sixty-five (165) tons of iron per week,\\nand employed from three hundred and fifty to four hundred and fifty men,\\nincluding miners and cokers. It used the native carbonate ores dug from the\\nsurrounding hills, and also that brought from the Lawsonham and Sligo dig-\\ngings. The coke works were situated at the top of the hill. The coal for this\\nand for Sarah Furnace was mined from the Freeport Upper coal contained in\\nthe summits overlooking the river above Brady s Bend, and was coked in open\\nhives at the pit-mouth. There were twenty-four of these hives equivalent to\\nabout one hundred and fifty ovens. An inclined plane reached from the fur-\\nnace to a point on the ferriferous limestone, two hundred and fifty- five feet\\nabove the railroad station. From the plane-head a narrow guage railroad, laid\\nwith sixteen pound rails, ran off in opposite directions along the outcrop of\\nthe ore. One branch ran up to the coke pits and coal banks, a distance of\\nnearly two miles. The hills around are terraced by the enormous masses of\\nshale removed in mining the ore. In 1878 the furnace began making coke in\\nthe ovens at the base of the hill. Forty-two ovens were erected. Since De-\\ncember, 1883, the furnace has been out of blast. It blew out for repairs, and\\nowing to the low price of iron, and its inability to compete under such prices\\nwith larger furnaces and those mining ore at less expense, it has not resumed.\\nIn November, 1886, the furnace owners again began the manufacture of coke,\\nmining at present the lower vein of coal, known as the Catfish vein, averaging\\nthree and a half to four feet in thickness. The coal and coke are shipped\\nmainly to Buffalo and Rochester. Two hundred tons of coal and forty tons of\\ncoke are shipped daily from the works. One hundred and thirty men are em-\\nployed at present. In 1865 the firm became Reynolds and Moorehead. In\\n1878 the owners were Alexander Reynolds s sons, and since 1881 the company\\n1 This account of the furnaces is^taken largely from Report W., of the Second Geological Survey of\\nPennsylvania.\\n2 Geological Survey, VV., p. 71.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0615.jp2"}, "594": {"fulltext": "540 History of Clarion County.\\nhas been known as David and John D. Reynolds. Four thousand tons of\\npig iron are yet stored in the furnace yard, waiting an opportunity for a favor-\\nable sale. In connection with the furnace is a company store, managed since\\n1859 by David Reynolds, who, since 1867, has been superintendent of the entire\\nplant. The company owns houses sufficient to accommodate about one hun-\\ndred families. Formerly there were more, but many have become ruinous.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2About fifteen hundred acres of land, containing quite a field of ore, as yet un-\\ntouched, are in possession of the company. Just previous to going out of blast\\nthe furnace was most active.\\nOil and Gas. No profitable oil wells have been struck in this township^\\nalthough considerable prospecting has been done and a number of test wells,\\na dozen at least, have been sunk. About 1869 a well was drilled by the\\nBrookville Oil Company at the mouth of Turkey Run, near Lawsonham. At\\n1,050 feet some oil was found, but on going deeper a flow of salt water was\\nstruck that rendered the well worthless. At nearly the same time gas was\\nstruck in a well on the Kissinger farm. In 1877 a well was sunk on the A. B,\\nMcCain farm. This was a slight producer, for a while pumping four barrels of\\noil per day. At Catfish a well gave signs of oil, while another on Catfish Run\\nproved a dry hole. In 1875 several wells were sunk near New Athens, but\\nwith no results. In 1882 David Reynolds drilled a well near the furnace at\\nRedbank. Some little oil and considerable gas was found. The gas was\\nallowed to escape until recently, when it has been utilized in firing the engines\\nof the works, and in heating and lighting the store and adjacent houses. The\\nsame or the following year Mr. Reynolds sunk another well near Coppock s,\\nin Sandy Hollow. Gas was found which is allowed to waste, burning at the\\ndischarge pipe. In 1885 three wells were drilled one on the farm belonging\\nto Harrison Connor s heirs, which proved a dry hole a second on the A. B.\\nMcCain farm, which gave a small show of oil and gas, and had a good sand\\nthe third on the Wallace Mortimer farm, claimed to be dry.\\nFor years past natural gas springs have existed on Catfish Run, and have\\nbeen fired and allowed to burn at various times. One of these springs recently\\nburning exhibited a steady flame about two feet high and covering an area\\nthree or four feet in diameter. It issues from fissures in a rock lying just\\nbelow water level in the stream, but its source is undoubtedly in some much\\ndeeper stratum.\\nCoal Mines. A large quantity of coal has been mined from the Freeport\\nupper coal bed by the Sligo Branch Coal Company (Limited), whose works\\nare situated just east of Rimersburg. These works were opened in 1874, and\\nthe first coal was shipped in 1875. In 1887 the company employed about\\nseventy-five men. In January, 1880, the works were leased by William Sharpe\\nand F. W. Abrams, and operated by them until July of the same year, when\\n1 Geological survey, V V., p. 72.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0616.jp2"}, "595": {"fulltext": "Madison Township. 541\\na strike occurred and the operators left. In June, 1881, S. Coon and W. H.\\nCraig assumed control and worked the mines until April i, 1887. In working\\nthis mine a serious difficulty was experienced in the form of an unexpected\\ndip of the strata, which rendered the draining of the mine almost impossible.\\nA new company has now taken charge of the works. The water is being suc-\\ncessfully siphoned out of the flooded portions of the works. Additional tracts\\nof coal land have been leased, and the mines will be extended and operated\\nmore extensively than heretofore.\\nIn the latter part of 1886 Thomas Mitchell, of East Brady, secured exten-\\nsive leases of coal lands and began mining this same bed of coal, driving sev-\\neral entries into the hillside near the ruins of old Wildcat furnace. The new\\nmines are known as the Diamond Coal Works, and when fully opened will\\ngive employment to a large number of men. A number of cars of coal are\\nnow being shipped daily from these mines.\\nOperations have also been begun by another company, in which Hon. Ga-\\nlusha A. Grow is a prominent partner, further down the ravine on the opposite\\nside of the stream. The intention is to operate these works extensively also.\\nAt present writing no coal has yet been shipped from these mines.\\nMills. A grist-mill was built on the mouth of Catfish Run as early as\\n1807 or 1808, perhaps earlier, by John Mortimer. The Pike Furnace Mill,\\nnear Lawsonham, was erected by John Lawson about. 1824. This mill was\\nswept away by a flood. The property then passed into the hands of Jesse\\nFlick, who rebuilt the mill. He sold it to Henry Yeager, but before the lat-\\nter came into possession of it, Mr. Flick was accidentally killed, being caught\\nin the machinery and crushed to death. The mill, or parts of it, w^as several\\ntimes swept away by floods. After Henry Yeager, it passed into the hands of\\nthe owners of Pike furnace, by whom it was rebuilt and improved. It still\\ndoes a good country trade.\\nGuthrie s Mill, recently better known as Kissinger s Mill, was built by Wil-\\nliam Guthrie about 1830. It afterwards passed into the hands of the Kissin-\\ngers. For some time it was run as a steam mill, but is now in a dilapidated\\ncondition.\\nFor many years there was a saw-mill at Lawsonham. It was built in 18 12\\nor 1813, by David Lawson. It was in operation until a few years ago when\\nit was taken down to make room for the Low Grade or Bennett s Branch\\nRailroad, which passes over the site of the mill.\\nFrom early times Watterson s Ferry has been of considerable importance.\\nThe ferry was established by James Watterson, grandfather of James Watter-\\nson, sr., of Redbank. The present rope ferry was put up after the furnace\\nwas built, about i860. Until the building of the railroad, Watterson s Ferry\\nwas to a large extent the head of navigation on the Allegheny, and was the\\nriver depot for all the back country. When the river was up, the trade was\\n59", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0617.jp2"}, "596": {"fulltext": "542 History of Clarion County.\\ncarried on by steamboats when the waters were low the service was performed\\nby keel-boats. As an instance of the business done here in former times, it\\nmay be noted that in the year of the big frost eleven thousand barrels of\\nflour were stored here by James Watterson, sr. A large warehouse stood\\nwhere the Allegheny Valley Railroad yard now is. As high as thirty wagons\\nwere here loaded with goods in a single day. The products of the back\\ncountry, grain, seeds, tar, etc., were received here, and from this point shipped\\ndown the river. Before the lumber supply of the county was so greatly\\ndiminished, great numbers of rafts passed out of the Redbank Creek and\\ndown the river. At times the creek was jammed with rafts for half a mile from\\nits mouth, and some of the rafts piled on top of others. During the rafting\\nseason Watterson s was indeed a busy place. Eleven hundred meals have\\nbeen served to raftsmen in twenty-four hours. A large hotel, three stories in\\nheight, was built to accommodate the traveling pubhc, but it often proved\\ntoo small, every room being filled, and some of the wayfarers finding beds\\nin the barn. As might be imagined, quarrels and riots were not infrequent,\\nand for four or five knock-downs to occur in a single day was no uncommon\\noccurrence. When the railroad came, however, some twenty years ago, the\\nfame of Watterson s Ferry subsided.\\nChurcJics. A large portion of the church-going inhabitants of the town-\\nship worship at Rimersburg. The Methodist denomination, however, has two\\nchapels one at Lawsonham and one at Sandy Hollow. Rev. Clinton Jones,\\npastor at Rimersburg, also serves these two congregations.\\nSome of the sons of this township have attained to a greater or less degree\\nof celebrity. Among these may be mentioned Hon. J. B. Lawson, who was\\nelected to the offices of commissioner and associate judge of the county, and\\nalso was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly Rev. Thomas B. Lawson,\\na brother of the last, an Episcopal clergyman, now resident in Missouri Hon.\\nDavid Lawson, son of Judge Lawson, attorney at law, resident in Clarion\\nRev. Orr Lawson, of Dakota, and Dr. Chalmers Lawson, of Brookville, both\\nsons of Judge Lawson J. A. Summerville, formerly member of the Pennsyl-\\nvania Legislature his son. Dr. John Summerville, of Monroeville Captain\\nNewell Hosey, now probate judge of Green county, Missouri, a graduate of\\nAllegheny College at Meadville John Khngensmith, ex-sheriff of the county\\nJacob Truby, of Catfish, former assemblyman, and others.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0618.jp2"}, "597": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0621.jp2"}, "598": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0622.jp2"}, "599": {"fulltext": "Mill Creek Township. 543\\nCHAPTER LIX.\\nHISTORY OF MILL CREEK TOWNSHIP/\\nMILL CREEK township is situated in the eastern part of Clarion county,\\nbeing, as shall be seen by the boundary, one of the border townships.\\nIts shape along the northern, western, and southern sides is very irregular, its\\nnatural boundaries being Clarion River, and Big Mill Creek. The poHtical\\nboundaries are Jefferson county on the east, Clarion township on the south,\\nHighland township on the west, and Farmington on the north.\\nThe area of the township is about thirty square miles. The surface in some\\nparts is quite hilly, while in others it is pleasantly undulating. In the north-\\nern, western, and southern portions, the surface is principally covered with\\ndense forests of pine, hemlock, oak, chestnut, etc., while the cleared portions\\nof the township embrace the central and eastern parts. As has already been\\nnoticed, the township is bounded on the north, west and south by Clarion\\nRiver and Big Mill Creek. These streams are fed by numerous tributaries\\nhaving their sources in the township. Among the tributaries are Wood s Run,\\nStroup s Run, and Trap Run, which flow south into Mill Creek and Blyson\\nand Davis Run, Maxwell Run, and Pine Run, which flow west into Clarion\\nRiver.\\nThe soil is generally very fertile, owing to the fact that portions have been\\nbut recently settled and cultivated. The climate, like all of Clarion county, is\\nusually severe in the winter, and warm in the summer. The chief vegetable\\nproductions are corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, etc. The principal grasses grown\\nare timothy and clover.\\nThe different species of fruits, such as the apple summer, autumn, and\\nwinter varieties the peach, the pear autumn and winter varieties plums,\\nquinces, cherries black and red, and grapes, grow in abundance, the peach\\nperhaps, being the least extensively grown, on account of the severity of the\\nwinters.\\nGarden vegetables such as cabbage, tomatoes, beets, turnips, celery, rad-\\nishes, and onions, are grown by every family.\\nThe principal domestic animals are the horse, cow, sheep, and swine. Wild\\nanimals have almost entirely disappeared before the march of civilization how-\\never, a few deer and certain species of the fox still roam at will over the hills\\nand through the dense forests. Mill Creek has some fine teams of draught\\nhorses. Sheep are extensively raised.\\nThe hills of Mill Creek are all underlaid with veins of bituminous coal, but\\nthis valuable mineral has as yet remained undeveloped, wood fuel having been\\n1 By S. C. Hepler.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0623.jp2"}, "600": {"fulltext": "544 History of Clarion County.\\nchiefly used by the inabitants from the earhest settlements down to the present\\ntime. Iron ore is also found, but not to any great extent. Limestone exists\\nin abundance, and is extensively quarried, being used as a fertilizer.\\nThere are within the present limits of the township, two religious societies,\\na Methodist Episcopal, and a Presbyterian each society has its own church\\nedifice. These churches are located near each other, in about the centre of the\\ntownship, at a place known as Fisher Post-office, and are the only churches\\nerected within the present limits. They are both white frame structures, and\\nhave a seating capacity of each about three hundred.\\nEver since the first settlements, education has received fair attention, being\\nfostered by the inhabitants as something altogether indispensable. The first\\nschool-houses, of course, were rude log buildings. At present there are in\\nthe township six public schools, conducted by as many teachers, and attended\\nby about two hundred and fifty pupils. The structures are generally new, and\\nreflect great credit upon the township.\\nThe first dry goods and grocery store in the township still exists, and is\\nlocated at Fisher Post-office. It is owned and kept by Thomas Daugherty,\\nwho has control of the post-office also. This post-office is the only one in\\nthe township, and is supplied with mail tri-weekly. During the summer of\\n1884 Dr. J. H. Barber, of Strattanville, Pa., erected near the above named\\nstore, a fine edifice designed as a store-room and dwelling combined. The\\nstore-room has since been stocked with a fine selection of dry goods and gro-\\nceries.\\nAbout fifty years ago the first settlements were made in Mill Creek town-\\nship. Among the earliest settlers were Solomon Terwilliger, Neil Daugherty,\\nHenry Potter, Robert McCaskey, Thomas Johnson, John Fisher, Martin Mc-\\nCanna, Samuel Thompson, and Peter McLaughlin. These men, or their\\nparents, generally came from the eastern part of Pennsylvania, and were\\nchiefly agriculturists. Few, if any, of these first settlers are now living; their\\nbodies lie buried in the burial grounds of the above-named churches. The\\nearly settlers of Mill Creek did not have to undergo as many hardships as did\\nthe settlers of many of her sister townships, from the fact that they were not\\nso much isolated from neighbors. Their nearest neighbors the settlers of\\nClarion township were but from three to five miles distant. At that time\\nMill Creek was nearly all a vast forest, being covered by trees of prodigious\\nsize. The settlers, in order to prepare the soil for farming, were compelled\\nfrom the beginning to hew down these monarchs of the forest, thus clearing\\nthe land of all trees. The process of clearing, as it is termed, was attended\\nby much hard labor, and was done about as follows The trees and brush\\nwere all felled, being chopped ofi about two feet from the ground. After\\nlying till they became dry, they were set on fire, and all the brush and small\\nwood would be consumed, while the surface of the large trunks would only be", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0624.jp2"}, "601": {"fulltext": "Mill Creek Township. 545\\ncharred and turned black. These were then split into rails for the purpose of\\nfencing in the clearing. The fences built were called worm fences, and\\nare still used to the exclusion of wire or board fences. The process of clearing\\nfarms is still carried on in many parts of the township. The first houses and\\nbarns erected were built of logs, some hewed, and others left round, the bark\\nonly being taken off, but these ancient buildings have nearly all given way to\\nmore modern frame structures, many of which are very comfortable and well\\nbuilt. Here and there may still be seen a log house or log barn, but they are\\ndisappearing fast, and ere long not one will remain standing to remind the\\npeople of earlier days. From the period of the first settlement to the present\\ntime, the township has been gradually changing from a vast forest to a terri-\\ntory abounding in beautiful farms and pleasant houses. The population has\\ngradually increased till it now numbers about seven hundred. The people\\nare industrious. The survivors of the late war, residing within the township,\\nhave, with their comrades of Clarion township and Strattanville borough, or-\\nganized a G. A. R. Post, located at Strattanville. Lumbering has been exten-\\nsively carried on for a score or more of years, and it is the leading industry\\nto-day. There have been erected four saw- mills, three boat scaffolds, and one\\nstave-mill, all of which are yet in active operation. During the earlier stages\\nof the lumbering business the majority of the lumber then exported was felled,\\nand floated down the Clarion and Allegheny Rivers to Pittsburgh, Pa., in log\\nrafts. This is still carried on to a certain extent, but the majority of lumber\\nnow sent to market is first sawed into boards, shingles, etc., and then floated\\nin rafts. At the boat scaftblds are built boats, such as are used to float coal\\non the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers. The principal amount of lumbering\\nwithin the township is carried on along the stream known as Mill Creek. This\\nstream is some twenty- five miles in length. It rises in the northwestern part\\nof Jefferson county, Pa., and flows westerly, emptying its waters into the\\nClarion River, about forty miles from its mouth. In 1840 Algernon S. Howe\\nwas the owner of nearly all the timber land of the township. About this time\\nJames W. Guthrie, and others, secured by warrant and purchase a large tract,\\nbut the main body fell into the hands of Madison, Burnell Co., of James-\\ntown, N. Y., in the year 1853. The above-named gentlemen have all passed\\naway, and the present owners Messrs. Marvin Rulofson carry on an\\nextensive business, their mill, at the mouth of Mill Creek, being pronounced by\\ncompetent judges, one of the best in the United States. The mill is in size\\nforty by sixty- five feet, and was first designed as a gang-mill, but in 1883 it\\nwas changed to a circular, with all modern improvements complete. Logs\\ndesigned to be sawed are driven down the stream, and halted in the pond by\\nmeans of press booms; they are then floated into the mill in a flume, six by\\nthirty feet, the water being about two feet beneath the floor of the mill. A\\nchain passing under the logs is drawn up by friction wheels, and the logs are", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0625.jp2"}, "602": {"fulltext": "546 History of Clarion County.\\nrolled on to the skidway and in reach of the log-turner, which receives its\\npower from two steam cylinders. These cylinders work the turner very much\\nlike a human arm, the difterent motions being given it by gently handling a\\nlever. The power of this turner is simply wonderful. The logs are now\\non the carriage of one of Stearns Co s. best mills. This carriage is pro-\\npelled by a steam-engine, and is also controlled by gentle pressure on a\\nlever. The saw is sixty inches in diameter, and has a speed of six hundred\\nrevolutions a minute. Two of Stearns Co s. flue-boilers five by fourteen\\nfeet, furnish the power to the saw and its accompanying machinery. As each\\nboard is cut it drops on to a transfer, from which the edger receives it, and by\\neasily adjusted saws, each piece is neatly squared up, and is then placed on a\\ntrimmer, which trims the ends and passes it to the cars, which have the use of\\nforty rods of iron railing for distributing the boards to the piling and rafting\\ngrounds. The trimmer also cuts up all the refuse, and after the lath stuff is\\nselected, the debris is quietly carried by a chain -carrier to its final rest a\\nconstantly-burning fire. The saws are all kept in order for work by means of\\na self saw sharpener. So complete are the arrangements of the mill that when\\ncutting at the rate of forty thousand feet per day, the labor of the employees is\\nsimply a matter of careful attention, and not a back-aching, muscular service,\\nas in days of old. The piling grounds are neatly wharfed, and rafting made\\neasy by slack-water and sluices arranged for the reception of rafts, and the\\neasy handling of the same.\\nM\\nCHAPTER LX.\\nHISTORY OF MONROE TOWNSHIP. i\\nONROE township, lying slightly to the south and east of the center of\\nthe county, is of irregular form. Its greatest length is, from north to\\nsouth, about eight and one-half miles, its greatest breadth, from east to west,\\nnearly five miles, and its area is about twenty-five square miles. It is drained\\ntoward the west by the Clarion river on its northern boundary, and by Piney\\nCreek with its tributaries. Bush Run and Meadow Run, traversing its middle\\nterritory, and by Licking Creek near its southern boundary. It was formerly\\na part of Redbank township, but became a part of Clarion township in 1832,\\nand soon afterwards became a separate township.\\nWithin its limits are Curllsville borough, treated separately in this history,\\nthe villages of Reidsburg and Williamsburg, and the hamlets of Keeversburg\\nand Churchville.\\n1 By C. F. McNutt, and W. W. Deatric k.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0626.jp2"}, "603": {"fulltext": "Monroe Township. 547\\nSettlements. Lewis Doverspike, the first settler in the township, came to\\nwhat is now Churchville, took up some vacant land and built a rude shanty in\\n1800, or quite probably before that time. He had no family while here, but\\nfollowed trapping and hunting.\\nNicholas Baliett, now called Polliard, with his family, settled in 1801, on\\nfarm now owned by Reuben Shiry, his grandson. He cleared some land and\\nfollowed hunting in his spare moments, which included most of his time.\\nHugh Reid came from Ohio and built a log house on hill above Reidsburg\\nin 1 80 1. He took up four hundred acres of vacant land around and including\\nthe village now bearing his name. He was married twice, but left no children.\\nA little incident connected with his first marriage will serve to show some-\\nthing of his business traits. His intended, unfortunately, during his absence\\nengaged to wed another man, had the day set, and was about to be united.\\nMr. Reid heard of the arrangement and came to the house just in time to stop\\nthe ceremony. He explained matters, claimed the woman, and was then and\\nthere married in the presence of his rival. He was a mill-wright by trade, and\\nwas searching for mill seats when he came here. In about 1808 he built a log\\ngrist-mill in Reidsburg, at the mouth of Clugh Run. He then built a frame\\nmill on Piney Creek, just below Reidsburg, in 1820, and in 1840 built another\\none a little farther around the bend of the creek, each of the two latter taking\\nthe place of the one built before it. He built a saw-mill in Reidsburg in 1812.\\nDavid Craig bought the greater part of Reid s property here in 1855, built\\nthe present saw-mill during the same year. Mr. Reid died in 1864, at the age\\nof ninety-three years, within a few rods of where he built his first cabin.\\nJacob Brinker, with his family, came in 1802 to what is now Churchville,\\nbought Lewis Doverspike s tract of land and began to clear it and make im-\\nprovements. Mr. Doverspike then settled on the hill above New Bethlehem.\\nAdam and John Brinker afterwards moved into Porter township. Jacob\\nBrinker, the pioneer settler at Churchville, was instantly killed while helping\\nto raise a barn on farm now owned by Mr. Kerr, near Rimersburg. His son\\nJacob is at present living on a farm in western part of the township.\\nThomas Brown, with his family, came from Indiana county and settled\\nwhere his son Thomas now lives, in Monroe township, in 1804. His brother\\nAlexander came to an adjoining farm at the same time. Alexander, son of\\nThomas Brown, sr., who died at the age of ninety-three years, is at present\\nliving on a farm in same locality, having lived in the township for over eighty-\\nthree years. They were thrifty farmers.\\nJohn Clugh settled where Alexander Brown now lives, in 1804. The\\nstream running through the farm took its name from him. Several of his de-\\nscendants are still living in the township. David Frampton and Isaac Fetzer\\ncame from Mifflin county and settled near what is now Reidsburg, in 1804.\\nWilliam Frampton, father of David, with the rest of his family, all girls, settled", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0627.jp2"}, "604": {"fulltext": "548 History of Clarion County.\\nin this locality in 1814. He bought one thousand acres of land here, and\\ndivided it among his children. John Magee, with his family, came to the farm\\nnow owned by his son, Kiser, in 18 14. He had a woolen manufactory here in\\nan early day and also followed farming. He died in 1884, at the age of one\\nhundred years and one hundred days. He and his son Kiser lived together\\nfor seventy years, an unusual experience in the life of a father and son. Isaac\\nFetzer, David Frampton, John Clugh, John Magee, and John Conley were\\nbrothers-in-law through marriage in family of William Frampton. They were\\nfarmers. All came from Mifflin county, formed here a thrifty settlement,\\nwhich they have held ever since.\\nNicholas Shiry came from Westmoreland county to farm now owned by\\nhis son Reuben, in 1820; Richard Nisbit, Kuntz, William Adams, settling\\nnear Magees, Thomas Watson near Shiry s. Henry and John Delp, and oth-\\ners, most of whose descendants have gone out of the township, were early set-\\ntlers in this locality.\\nHamms were early settlers in vicinity of Churchville, coming four or five\\nyears after Drinkers came. Some of them afterwards moved into Porter town-\\nship, and some of the descendants are still living in the Monroe township.\\nDaniel Hamm served one term as sheriff of Clarion county. Stanford, Monks,\\nCoursons, Henry Been, John Anderson, Samuel and W^illiam Austen, William\\nWilson, and others, settled in vicinity of Curllsville in 1 802-3-4 and later.\\nTheir history, however, is given with Curllsville borough.\\nRobert Newell with his family, including John B., Mariah (Guthrie), James,\\nWilliam, Gillmer, Robert D., Susanna (Rimer), Elmer P., and Samuel, came\\nfrom Centre county and settled near Churchville, in 1821. Some of the family\\nand many of their descendants are still living here and near here yet. They\\nare farmers. Jos. McKee settled where his son Hugh now lives in 1823.\\nSeveral families are still living in the township. They are farmers, some of\\nthem taking an active interest in raising fine stock. Jacob Edmund came to\\nthe township in 1820. He was a mill-wright and carpenter, also lumbered\\nsome. His son Jacob afterwards lived on the same farm, followed droving,\\nand was engaged in various other speculations. Andy Fox settled in the west-\\nern side of the township in 1824. Others that should be mentioned are Myers\\nin 1847, Mr. Means, who was surveyor and justice of the peace several years,\\nCurlls, Lobaughs, Murphys, etc.\\nReidsburg was so named in honor of Hugh Reid, who first owned the land\\non which it is situated. John Avery was the first blacksmith in the village,\\nwhere he settled about 1820. Patrick Kerr built a storehouse and dwell-\\ning combined, on present site of Reidsburg Hotel in 1835, d kept the first\\nstore there. He sold the property to Samuel Wilson in 1845. George W.\\nArnold kept store in this building from 1847 to 51, after which it became a\\nhotel, and has been used as such ever since. Williams Brothers own it at", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0628.jp2"}, "605": {"fulltext": "-^Ay", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0629.jp2"}, "606": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0630.jp2"}, "607": {"fulltext": "Monroe Township. 549\\npresent, having bought it at sheriff sale, seized as the property of Mr. Lari-\\nmer. G. W. Fulton built the fourth grist-mill in Reidsburg in 1872. G. W.\\nArnold bought it at sheriff s sale in June 1883, and in March, 1884, sold it to\\nG. W. Fulton s wife, who subsequently sold it to Mr. Spangler, the present\\nowner. There have been several stores in Reidsburg, but not more than two or\\nthree at any one time. The post-office in this village has had three different\\nnames, though virtually the same office all the while. Mr. Hughlings, a pay-\\nmaster in the War of 18 12, came to the place now owned by Hon. J. H. Wil-\\nson, one mile above Reidsburg, soon after the close of the war, laid out a town\\nand called it Hulingsburg. He drilled a well and made preparations to start\\nsalt works. Through his influence the first post-ofifice was established here\\nand called Hughlingsburg. Hugh Reid was appointed postmaster, and kept\\nthe office at his house on the hill above Reidsburg. Samuel Wilson some-\\ntimes called Samuel Wilson Miller to distinguish him from the Samuel Wilson\\nw^ho bought P. Kerr s property, and to whom he was not akin afterwards\\nwas postmaster, and kept the office at Hughlingsburg for several years. In\\n1840 William F. Keever, who built a hotel on Reidsburg and Sligo road near\\nReidsburg, was appointed postmaster, moved the office to his place, and had\\nthe name changed to Keeversburg. When Lincoln was elected president the\\noffice was moved to Reidsburg, and the name was changed to that of the vil-\\nlage in which it was kept. There is a hotel and lumber yard at Keeversburo-\\nat present, owned by W. F. Keever s son.\\nThe salt works at Hulingsburg never were completed. Government offi-\\ncers came here to arrest Hughlings, whose accounts, as paymaster in the war,,,\\nseemed to indicate that frauds had been perpetrated. He suddenly left and\\nnever returned. At this place at present there are two or three dwellings and\\na saw-mill. Reidsburg is a village at present having about twenty dwellino-s,\\ntwo stores, one hotel, mill, blacksmith shop, church, academy, etc.\\nWilliamsburg, situated on the road about half way between Clarion and\\nReidsburg, was first settled by Amos Williams, for whom it was named, who\\ncame here from Miffiin county, in 1807. He had a family of nine daughters,\\nbut no sons. Rev, B. H. Thomas married one of the daughters, Amos Cor-\\nbett another, Charles McCafiferty, of Monroeville, another, W. H. Hunter an-\\nother, David Fulton another, and so on, all men well known in Clarion county.\\nMr. Williams built a carding-machine soon after his arrival, one of the first in\\nthe county, also owned some land which he cultivated. He was the first treas-\\nurer of Clarion county, and served for two successive terms. Philip Lewis with\\nhis family, including Zachariah, Enoch, Philip, jr., Nathaniel, Edward, and\\nWilliam, came to Williamsburg in 1 808. William Lewis started the first store\\nin this place in 1845. William H. Hunter built the first hotel in 1848, and sold\\nit to Reuben Shiry in 1855; it was burned in the following fall, but rebuilt\\nsome time since.\\nCO", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0631.jp2"}, "608": {"fulltext": "550 History of Clarion County.\\nOil Developments. In the spring of 1887, M. E. Hess Company drilled\\na test well on Kifer farm two miles south of Reidsburg. At first it produced\\nten or fifteen barrels per day. This made some excitement in the neighbor-\\nhood, land was leased extensively, and preparations were made for testing the\\nterritory more thoroughly. Three or four wells were drilled right away, but no\\noil was found in them. Parties are at present engaged in testing the territory.\\nFor a sketch of the furnaces in the township, see furnaces in general his-\\ntory of the county.\\nSchools. The first school- house in the township was built of logs on farm\\nnow owned by Alexander Brown. The exact date of its erection cannot be\\nascertained now, but John Magee moved into it when he first came to the\\ntownship in 18 14. School had been kept there before that. A log building\\nwas erected in Churchville in 1820, and another one near Williamsburg soon\\nafterwards. They, like other early schools in the county, were built and sup-\\nported by subscription. At present there are eight public schools in the town-\\nship.\\nReid Institute was established at Reidsburg in i860 by the Clarion Baptist\\nAssociation, prompted by a desire to meet the wants of young people of its own\\nterritory and surrounding associations who seek mental training above that\\nfurnished by our public schools. Its curriculum of instruction embraces col-\\nleo e preparatory, scientific, normal, commercial and musical departments. The\\nboarding hall, known also as Prescott Hall, was burned in 1877 rebuilt in\\n1880. Profs. Rittenhouse and S. C. Gilbert have had charge of the school as\\nprincipals nearly ever since it was established. Prof. J. T. Gallagher, the pres-\\nent principal, took charge of the institution in January, 1887.\\nChurches. The Licking Presbyterian congregation at Churchville was\\nthe first organized in Clarion county. An informal organization took place\\nhere in fall of 1802. There never was a formal action of Presbytery for the\\norganization of this congregation. Rev. John McPherrin preached the first\\nsermon in this locality, and was the officiating minister at the organization of\\nLicking congregation. Rev. Robert McGarrough was their first regular pas-\\ntor, sent there in 1804 as a licentiate of Redstone Presbytery. He was or-\\ndained November 12, 1807, the services being conducted at house of Thomas\\nBrown. This relation was dissolved April 23, 1822, and Rev. John Core was\\ninstalled as their pastor September 15, 1823. He served them faithfully until\\nhis death on May 7, 1854. Rev. Joseph Mateer was installed over this con-\\ngregation December 7, 1854; was released after a pastorate of over twenty\\nyears. Rev. J. M. McCurdy, the present pastor, was installed October 6,\\n1875. For a more extended sketch of this congregation and its ministers and\\ndivisions of the charge, see Presbyterian church in general history of the\\ncounty.\\nThe Reidsburg Zion Baptist congregation was organized in Amos Will-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0632.jp2"}, "609": {"fulltext": "New Bethlehem Borough. 551\\niams s barn, in what is now Williamsburg, on June 9, 182 1. It became at that\\ntime a branch of the Glade Run Baptist Church, Armstrong county. Rev.\\nNathaniel Tibots was the officiating minister. He was the first Baptist preacher\\nin what is now Clarion county, preaching here for some time before the church\\nwas organized. The congregation at first consisted of a small band of fifteen\\nmembers, among whom were Amos WiUiams, Phillip Lewis, Richard Reynolds,\\nJohn and Margaret Mitchell, Hannah Frampton, and others. Rev. Tibots was\\nhighly esteemed by his people. The sisters of the congregation would often\\nassemble together and arrange among themselves some expression of their ap-\\npreciation of his faithful labors. Among the gifts thus bestowed was a pair of\\nfine tow linen pantaloons, which, like Joseph s coat, was of many colors, and\\nwhich was frequently worn, in the proper season, at Sabbath services. He\\ncontinued as their pastor but one year after the organization of the church.\\nFrom 1822 to 1825 they had a stated pastor, Rev. James WiUiams and Rev.\\nGeorge McCleary preaching occasionally as supply. Rev. Samuel Frampton\\naccepted a call in August, 1825, and remained a faithful and beloved pastor\\nfor eleven years. In the autumn of 1837 ^ev. Mr. Thomas received and ac-\\ncepted a call, and soon after entered upon his arduous labors, which relation\\ncontinued until June, 1848, when the infirmities of age induced him to resign.\\nDuring his pastorate the church grew rapidly, some two hundred and fifty\\nmembers being added. His son, Rev. B. H. Thomas, began his labors in this\\nchurch in April, 1849, and was ordained on the 29th day of the following\\nSeptember. He served faithfully as pastor until the spring of 1886, when\\ninfirm health forced him to retire from active service. During his connection\\nwith this church he has become greatly endeared, not only to his own and\\nsister congregations, but to the people of Clarion county.\\nCHAPTER LXI.\\nHISTORY OF NEW BETHLEHEM BOROUGH.i\\nTHE town was first called Gumtown, in honor of Henry Nolf, jr., whose\\npopular name was Gum Nolf, and who located in the place in 1830.\\nAfterwards it was changed to Bethlehem, and again to New Bethlehem, to dis-\\ntinguish it from a place of the same name in Northampton county.\\nThe town is situated on the right bank of Redbank creek, the dividing line\\nbetween Armstrong and Clarion counties, twenty miles from its mouth and on\\nthe line of the Low Grade Division of the Allegheny Valley Railroad. It lies\\non a level scope of land, evidently the product of a secondary formation, beau-\\ntifully situated and large enough to contain a great city.\\n1 By L. L. Himes.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0633.jp2"}, "610": {"fulltext": "552 History of Clarion County.\\nThe land on which New Bethlehem now stands, was granted by warrant to\\nTimothy Pickering, Samuel Hodgden, Dwaean Ingram, jr., and Tench Cox.\\nThe warrant was dated May 17, 1785, and known as No. 185, situated in\\nBrodhead s former district. No. 6, containing 631 acres, 16 perches. Timothy\\nPickering, etc., above-named, conveyed the tract to William E. Hulings, by\\ndeed, dated December, 1821. Hulings on the same day conveyed said tract\\nto Anne Wikoff, of Philadelphia, Pa.\\nHenry Dovenspike located on an adjoining tract belonging to the Holland\\nLand Company in 1806, and built a log house where William Truitt lives.\\nHe purchased part of the Wikoff tract March i, 183 1, and at his death two of\\nhis heirs laid out part of the land which they inherited in town lots, the history\\nof which is preserved by the form of deeds they had printed, and which they\\nused in conveying the first lots. The following is a copy of the printed form:\\nTHIS INDENTURE MADE THE DAY OF in the year of our\\nLord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty-. between George Doven-\\nspike and Elizabeth his wife, and John Milliron, and Mary, his wife, of the town-\\nship of Redbank, county of Clarion, and State of Pennsylvania of the one part,\\nand of the other part WHEREAS, The said George Dovenspike and\\nJohn Milliron, by virtue of a deed of release from the heirs of Henry Doven-\\nspike, deceased, dated October 30, A. D. 1841, and recorded in the office for\\nrecording deeds for Clarion county, became seized and possessed of a certain\\nmessuage or tract of land, situate on Redbank township, Clarion county, and\\nbounded on the south by Redbank Creek, on the west by lands of Jacob\\nShankle, George Space, Gabriel Miller, John Himes, Thomas McKelvey, James\\nFleming and other lands of the parties of the first part, on the north by lands of\\nG. W. Trumble, and on the east by lands of John Dovenspike, containing tJiirty\\nacres, more or less. It being part of a larger tract of land, conveyed by Anne\\nWikoff to the said Henry Dovenspike, deceased, by deed, dated, March i, 1831,\\nand recorded in Armstrong county, in the office for Recording Deeds, vol. 7,\\npages 286 and 287. AND WHEREAS the said George Dovenspike and John\\nMilliron have laid out a town on the aforesaid tract of land, of thirty acres, called\\nNEW BETHLEHEM, consisting of In and Out Lots, with convenient streets\\nand alleys, which lots, in the general plan of said town are numbered from\\nNo. I to No. 70 inclusively, as by plan recorded in the recording office of\\nClarion county. NOW THIS INDENTURE Witnesseth, etc.\\nThen followed the No. of lot, consideration, etc.\\nChristian Himes located on a fifty acre tract of the Wikoff land that joined\\nthe original borough limits on the north, as early as 1808. He built a log house\\nnear the spring above the town. This was the first house built in the present\\nlimits of the borough. He died shortly afterward, leaving two sons, John and\\nJoseph, who were separated and sent to live with strangers. John returned in\\n1838, purchased a number of acre-lots, and worked at cabinet-making until his", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0634.jp2"}, "611": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0635.jp2"}, "612": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0636.jp2"}, "613": {"fulltext": "New Bethlehem Borough. 553\\ndeath. Joseph returned in 1848, purchased the old homestead and com-\\nmenced farming, which he has followed to the present. A part of this farm\\nhas also been laid out in town lots. Keek s addition of town lots was made in\\n1 87 1, and A. H. Allebach s in the same year.\\nHenry Nolf was intimately identified with the early business interests of\\nthe town. He established the first store, and built the first saw- mill as early\\nas 1815, and the first grist-mill in 1835. The storehouse stood near where\\nthe bridge is now located, and was the second building erected. In 1833 he\\ntook Mr. Thomas McKelvy in the store and sold out to him the following year.\\nMr. McKelvy continued in the business until 1858, when he sold to C. E. An-\\ndrews, whom he had taken in the store as clerk in 1849. Mr. Andrews still\\nconducts the same business, but in quite a dififerent and more successful man-\\nner.\\nThe second store was started by Mr. Philip Corbett. The third by Mr. A.\\nH. Allebach. Many others have been engaged in the same business. Large\\nstore buildings have been recently erected at immense cost by the Fairmount\\nCoal Company and by Messrs. Andrews and Craig.\\nThe early growth of the town was very slow. The first building was put\\nup in 1808, and in 1 833 the town consisted of one log house, one frame house,\\none stable, and one saw-mill.\\nIn 1834 George Space moved to the place and built a blacksmith shop.\\nAdam HiUiard, P. H. Hoffman, Gabriel Miller, Jacob Shankle, Joseph Conger,\\nmoved to the place soon after. One after another continued to locate and\\nbuild promiscuously until 1853, when a charter of incorporation was granted\\nby Clarion County Court, creating the town into a borough. John Himes was\\nelected burgess, and George Space, Joseph Conger, Frederick Mohney, and\\nJoseph Himes, councilmen. The first act of the council was to correct the\\nirregularities of the streets and alleys, and to arrange the lots in a regular plot.\\nHow well they succeeded may be known by the fact that almost every council\\nsince that time has been surveying and effecting changes for the purpose of\\naccomplishing the same thing, and there still exist many irregularities.\\nIndustries. As already stated, the first saw- mill was built by Henry Nolf\\nin 18 1 5. It stood where the present water-power saw-mill stands, and was a\\nprimitive affair, consisting of a single upright saw, operated by water-power.\\nYet it supplied a very great want of the early settlers, as it was the only mill\\nin that section from which sawed lumber could be obtained. The fact that\\nboards could be obtained there induced many to locate and build within reach\\nof it. The mill was washed away by high water, but was rebuilt by Arthur\\nO Donell in 1850. This one was burned down and was again rebuilt, and at\\npresent is owned by Craig Company.\\nC. E. Andrews built a steam saw-mill about i860, and at the same time\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2erected a scaffold on which to build flat-bottomed boats. These were floated", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0637.jp2"}, "614": {"fulltext": "554 History of Clarion County.\\nto the Pittsburgh market, and used for shipping coal from Pittsburgh to places\\nalong the Ohio River. In 1862 Mr. Andrews built a planing-mill, putting in\\nthe latest im.proved machinery. This mill supplied the town with all the\\ndressed lumber that was used until after the railroad was built, which was\\ncompleted in 1873, since which much of the dressed lumber that has been\\nused in building has been brought from the upper lumber districts.\\nThe first grist-mill was built in 1835; previous to this the farmers took\\ntheir grain to Hesse s mill at Maysville, which, at that time, was the only grist-\\nmill in all the country. It was a very common occurrence for twenty farmers\\nto be at the mill at the same time, each one waiting for his turn, when, with\\na few pounds of flour, he would go home, only to return in a day or two to\\nhave the same thing repeated. Henry Nolf conveyed the mill to Peter\\nSchlotterbeck, who afterwards sold it to Jacob Shankle. Mr. Shankle oper-\\nated the mill for several years and then sold it to A. B. Paine. Mr. Paine be-\\ning interested in some timber land in Jefferson county, sold the mill to Messrs.\\nCooper Williams before moving there. Cooper Sz: Williams conveyed their\\nentire mill interests, and several other properties to Craig Co. The firm of\\nCraig Co. having a long experience in manufacturing by water-power, be-\\ning owners and operators of several flouring and woolen mills in the county\\nand in Allegheny City, foresaw the excellent water-power and shipping ad-\\nvantages furnished by Redbank Creek and the railroad at this point, and\\ntherefore moved to the place immediately after purchasing the old grist-mill\\nand water right. They immediately repaired the old grist-mill, putting in new\\nmachinery, and thereby greatly increased its capacity. In 1 872 they pur-\\nchased of W. R. Hamilton, a mill seat on the Armstrong county side, and in\\n1873 erected one of the finest and best equipped flouring-mills in Western\\nPennsylvania. By the aid of the new machinery, which was purchased in New\\nYork city, they were able to manufacture a finer grade of flour than had ever\\nreached the town from the city mills. The mills has been kept running day\\nand night, almost constantly, since its erection.\\nA foundry was built by Fulton Jones in 1837. It was afterwards con-\\nveyed to Philip Corbett, who sold it to C. R. McNutt Son, and was pur-\\nchased by John Hilliard in 1868. Mr. Hilliard sold it to W. R. Hamilton\\nSon, the present owners, in 1872. They have added to it a machine shop for\\nmanufacturing plows and threshing-machines, and a hardware store. The\\nwhole business is superintended by S. VV. Hamilton.\\nRedbank Creek has been the Gift of the Nile to the settlers of New Beth-\\nlehem, not in the benefits derived from its inundations for it has many but\\nfrom its transporting power. By the act of Assembly, of March 21, 1798,\\nRedbank Creek was declared to be a public stream, from the mouth to\\nthe second or great fork, the place where what is now known as North Fork\\nempties into it. This stream was first used for the transportation of lumber in", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0638.jp2"}, "615": {"fulltext": "I\\n/it\\n**^N\\n^^7*^ /l M ^yi \\\\ytyU^^^^", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0641.jp2"}, "616": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0642.jp2"}, "617": {"fulltext": "New Bethlehem Borough. 555\\n1806 by Joseph Barnett, of Jefferson county. The first lumber floated down\\nthe stream was a timber raft belonging to Messrs. Barnett and Scott, consisting\\nof a single platform, and was propelled and directed by poles instead of oars.\\nThe pilot, hands, and entire crew was a Mr. Clark. For many years the\\nstream was rough, difficult, and dangerous on which to raft. Mr. Lewis Doven-\\nspike tells of a high flood in the stream in 1806, that covered the flat where\\nFairmount is, to the depth of ten feet. On October 8, 1847, the stream rose\\nto height of twenty-one feet at New Bethlehem dam. Nearly all the bridges,\\nand Hesse s, Knapp s and Robinson s mills and mill dams were swept away.\\nAnother great flood occurred September 28\u00e2\u0080\u009429, 1861, the water rising to the\\nheight of twenty- two feet. Many others of less height, but fully as destructive\\nto property, have occurred since, one in 1880, which caused one of the great-\\nest lawsuits ever brought before Clarion courts. The citizens owning property\\nalong Bethlehem dam were greatly damaged by the ice gorging in the dam\\nand changing the current of the stream. Amos Silvis, living near the stream,\\nhad a fine orchard, consisting of about fifty apple trees of twenty-five years\\ngrowth, every one of which was destroyed by the ice. John T. Girts and\\nMessrs. Jones and Brinker also suffered great losses from damages done by the\\nice and high water.\\nThose damaged claimed that Craig Company, in building the wharf that\\nleads the water to the new mill, narrowed the vent of the dam, and by keeping\\na bracket on the dam in winter, increased the quantity of ice within the bend\\nof the creek, and thereby contributed to the cause of the damage. Acting\\nfrom this belief, those damaged entered into an agreement to contribute their\\nshare of the expense of bringing suit against the Craigs for damages. The first\\nsuit brought was by John T. Girts and wife. This was to be a test suit, and\\nupon its success or failure depended the others. After repeated trials, the last\\none lasting nine days, the suit was decided in favor of the defendants. If all\\nthat was said of Redbank during the trial were true, it would, indeed, be difla-\\ncult to write its history. In the mind of one witness it would be an Amazon,\\na Mississippi, a raging torrent or a cataract, in another a brook or rivulet that\\nhad often been crossed during its greatest flood on trees which extended across\\nit at numerous places, or on the drift lodged against some stump, rock, or\\nbank. Nearly all of those who had built on the low ground have moved their\\nhouses on higher ground, or have abandoned them and rebuilt.\\nSchools. Education received early attention by the first settlers. A pay\\nschool, as it was called, was organized in 1828 by Mr. Meredith. It consisted\\nof four or five pupils, who attended part of the time, or as long as their money\\nlasted, which was never more than three months in a year. Of the pioneer\\nteachers, the following are still remembered by many of the oldest citizens\\nSmith Lavely, Mary Tom, Mrs. Alshouse, James Sheals, John Green, William\\nSloan, Mr. Vandike, Mr. and Miss Baker, Samuel Travis, Mr. Forbes, Adison\\nWilson, Joseph Galbreith.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0643.jp2"}, "618": {"fulltext": "556 History of Clarion County.\\nThe first school-house was built in 1848, and stood near where S. W. Ham-\\nilton now lives. It was a frame builing sixteen by twenty feet, ten feet high,\\ncontaining one room. The desks were high, and fastened to the walls. The\\npupils sat on high benches and faced the walls. The teachers of that day con-\\ncede that the house was not a modern beauty, but contend that it was a model\\nof convenience, and as proof called our attention to the fact that it was not\\nnecessary to call a pupil out on the floor in order to punish him with a rod.\\nThis house was afterward purchased by D. A. Hoy, who moved it on his lot\\non Penn street, and at present is using it as a wagon-shop.\\nOne of the present school buildings was built by C. R. McNut, in 1855, at\\na cost of $2,500. At present it is old, dilapidated, and bears the marks of\\ngreat service. It is wholly unbecoming a place that has kept pace with the\\ntimes. It is situated in a beautiful and healthy location, away from the noise\\nand bustle of the business part of the town. It has a large play-ground and\\nadmirable surroundings for school purposes. It is built of brick, thirty-two by\\nfifty feet, two stories high. The ceilings are each twelve feet high. The build-\\ning was purchased by Miss Tom shortly after its erection. She donated the\\nuse of the lower story to the Presbyterian congregation, in which to hold relig-\\nious meetings, and attempted to organize an academical school in the upper\\nstory. The school did not prove a success, and she sold it shortly afterwards\\nto the school board. At the time it was built it was far in advance of the other\\nschool buildings in the county. This building becoming too small to accom-\\nmodate all the pupils, the school board built another in 1883. It is a frame\\nbuilding, thirty by sixty feet, fourteen feet high, containing two rooms. It is\\nbuilt on the same lot, and in close proximity to the old one.\\nThe school is divided into five rooms, each room into three grades. Each\\nroom has a separate teacher, but the principal, who teaches room No. 5, has\\nsupervision of the entire school. The present corps of teachers is as follows\\nProf. L. T. Baker, principal Mr. U. S. Grant Henry, room No. 4 Miss Lulu\\nFoster, room No. 3 Miss Emma Reese, room No. 2 Miss Arietta Reese,\\nroom No. i. The school, for the last ten years, has been advancing very rap-\\nidly, and at present ranks second to none in the county. Many are the causes\\nthat may be cited for the recent advancement and excellent condition of the\\nschool. L. L. Himes took charge of the schools in 1875, and by faithful work\\nfor eight successive years, succeeded in creating a healthy educational feeling\\namong the people. The interest manifested by the pupils during this period\\nwas unprecedented, many attending every day during the term. The most\\nnoticeable improvement in attendance was that of John and Charley Hoy, who\\nattended six months for six successive years without being absent or tardy.\\nThe common school graduating system did much towards increasing the\\ninterest among the pupils, causing them to work for definite results. A class\\nof sixteen was examined in 1881, and a class of fifteen in 1883. received", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0644.jp2"}, "619": {"fulltext": "New Bethlehem Borough. 557\\ncommon school diplomas. The examinations of the pupils, and the exhibitions\\nin which they participated at that time, were creditable to all concerned. Ex-\\naminations have been held yearly since that time. Another praiseworthy\\nresult of the school is that it is largely self-sustaining in its teachers. Many of\\nthe teachers who have taught in the school have received all their education in\\nit. At present, three of the teachers have attended the schools in which they\\nnow teach.\\nCJmrcJies. Among the first settlers were zealous Christians, who sowed the\\nseed of piety from the foundation of the town, and have had the joyful satisfac-\\ntion of reaping an abundant harvest. P. H. Hoffman was the first member of\\nthe M. E. Church, and for many years entertained the minister whenever he\\nvisited the town. Mr. Hoffman at first attended church at Millville, Curllsville,\\nand Strattanville, an average distance of ten or twelve miles. By a continual\\neffort on the part of Mr. Hoffman, meeting was held occasionally at Smith s\\nschool-house, a distance of half a mile. At the time the first school-house was\\nbuilt in the place, quite a number of Methodists were then living there, and\\nthe meetings became regular. Mrs. Jacob Hilliard was the first^member of the\\nBaptist Church. Through her efforts, Rev. Thomas Wilson, a Baptist min-\\nister, preached occasionally in the school-house. J. B. Reese joined the church\\nsoon after. At this time joint revival meetings were held by the Methodists\\nand Baptists, the converts joining the church of their choice at the close of\\nthe meetings. This lovely state of affairs, as might be expected, could not\\nlast long. The one church received too many, or the other too few. The one\\nchurch blamed the other for proselyting, the mode of baptism being the rock\\nupon which they split. Religious rivalry ran high. Many were the public de-\\nbates on doctrinal points, the discussions lasting for weeks at a time. Revs.\\nGeorge Reeser, Ahab Keller, and others defended the doctrine of sprinkling,\\nwhile Revs. Thomas Wilson, B. H. Thomas, and others, with equal determina-\\ntion defended immersion. The feeling extended to churches in other local-\\nities. Memorable among these was the debate on baptism at Strattanville\\nshortly after. Whether these debates were productive of any great good, is\\nstill a question. One result was quite obvious. They gave to New Bethlehem\\ntwo very substantial churches at a very early period. The Baptist church was\\nbuilt in 1852. The carpenter work was done by John Hamm. It is a neat\\nand comfortable building, situated in the central part of the town, and is still in\\ngood condition. The workmanship and material from which it was built re-\\nflect credit on the builder and the congregation. A regular pastorate has not\\nalways been kept up, but services have been held by regular supplies. Rev.\\nCollins, of East Brady, being the present supply. The M. E. Church was built\\nin 1853 by the same architect that built the Baptist Church. While the mem-\\nbers of the two churches differed very much at that time on baptism, the two\\nbuildings still look very much alike. The Methodist congregation was small,\\n61", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0645.jp2"}, "620": {"fulltext": "558 History of Clarion County.\\nand not very well off in this world s goods. Several became financially em-\\nbarrassed from the expense of erecting the church, and did not recover for\\nlong years after.\\nThe congregation has maintained a regular pastorate since 1848. The fol-\\nlowing are the names of the pastors in order of their service Revs. George\\nReeser, Ahab Keller, John Lyon, Jared Howe, John Whipple, John Boils,\\nThomas McCreary, Robert Beaty, S. A. Milroy, N. G. Luke, Thomas Gra-\\nham, Joseph Weldon, G. Dunmire, A. P. Colton, Samuel Coon, O. M. Sacket,\\nJ. L. Mechlin, Clinton Jones, James Groves, J. B. Leedom, G. W. Anderson,\\nTresize, J. C. McDonald, S. E. Winger, Cyril Wilson, E. R. Knapp, A.\\nM. Lockwood, R. M. Felt, W. A. Baker.\\nThe congregation has always been very courteous and liberal to other\\ndenominations in the use of their house. The following is copied from a sketch\\nof the churches published in 1873, by a very worthy member of the Presbyte-\\nrian Church: This congregation has laid other denominations under deep\\nand lasting obligations to them, by the Christian liberality which they have\\nalways shown by throwing wide open their doors for the occupancy of all\\northodox bodies, and the writer of this, in behalf of the church to which he\\nbelongs, tenders them his grateful acknowledgment for such favors, and hopes\\nfor their kindness thus shown, they may as a church, and a people, prosper in\\nChristian labors in time, and at last receive a more sure and lasting reward.\\nThe third church was the Roman Catholic, built in 1872. It is beautifully\\nlocated on high ground on Wood street. The architectural appearance does\\ncredit to the designer and builder, Mr. Osborne. Cost $3,000. Father Mc-\\nGiveiny has had charge since its erection. The congregation is large, and the\\nchurch is in a prosperous condition. The fourth and last was the Presbyterian\\nChurch a two-story frame, erected in 1877, but was not finished until 1885.\\nThe designer and builder was Mr. Lewis Corbett. It is of modern architect-\\nure, and when completed cost $6,500. Rev. Joseph Mateer, D. D. now de-\\nceased a faithful and godly man, was the pastor during the time the church\\nwas being built. By his energy and zeal the church was pushed to completion,\\nand Presbyterianism well established. He was a plain, unassuming man, of\\nremarkable ability, and blessed with the gift of flowery eloquence.\\nMinerals. The town is surrounded by hills containing vast deposits of\\ncoal, iron ore, and limestone, but little was done toward developing the min-\\neral resources of the surroundings until after the railroad was built, which was\\ncompleted to the place in 1873. The first locomotive was run into the town\\non March 14, of that year. Messrs. Jones Brinker immediately went to\\nwork developing the P airmount Mines, which proved a success quite beyond\\ntheir greatest expectation. Land around the town immediately went up to one\\nand two hundred dollars per acre. In 1881 Jones Brinker sold their inter-\\nests at Fairmount to a New York coal company for $260,000, and moved to", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0646.jp2"}, "621": {"fulltext": "New Bethlehem Borough. 559\\ntown. They purchased several farms one mile west of the town, and developed\\nthe celebrated Long Run mines, building a large number of coke ovens, and con-\\nstructing three miles of railroad in connection with the mines they, at the same\\ntime, erected in the town one of the largest store-buildings in the county. Ev-\\nerything was constructed of the best material, and in the most substantial and\\nimproved manner. The works were just finished and operations commenced,\\nwhen they, too, were purchased by the New York company. Shortly after\\nJones Brinker moved to Buffalo, N. Y., and the town lost two of its wealth-\\niest and best citizens. In 1873 James H. Mayo, of Boston, Mass., moved to\\nthe place and commenced prospecting for coal on the Armstrong county side.\\nHe succeeded in developing the Bostonia Mines, which proved a natural curi-\\nosity in coal formation. Mr. Mayo received his first information of this coal\\ndeposit, from the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, made by Professor Rodg-\\ners, of Philadelphia. After coming here and satisfying himself of the correct-\\nness of the geologist s report, he purchased the land under which it is depos-\\nited, and succeeded in forming a company of a number of wealthy and influen-\\ntial men of the city of Boston. Among the number were Hon. Chester Snow,\\nHon. Judge Higgins, Messrs. Crosby, Lane, Perkins and Job. The company\\nwas chartered the same year, immediately after its organization. Hon. Ches-\\nter Snow was elected president, and Mr. Mayo, general superintendent. Work\\non a stupendous scale to properly develop the mine commenced immediately,\\nwhich revealed a coal formation never before known. In driving the main entry\\nthey developed a vein of cannel coal eleven feet thick, underlaid with three feet\\nof bituminous coal. Sixteen feet above the cannel coal vein is another vein of\\nbituminous coal four and one-half feet thick twenty feet above this is another\\nvein, five and one-half feet thick, all lying beneath the same hill, and of a qual-\\nity equal to any in the market. The company purchased several more farms\\nadjoining the mines, laid out a town, built a number of substantial houses, seve-\\nral of which were grand and expensive. The railroad bridge across Redbank\\nover which their shipments are sent, is condemned, and the mines are closed,\\nand work suspended.\\nOil Prospecting. Three test wells have been put down by the citizens of\\nthe place. The first one was drilled on the flat opposite C. O Donell s, on the\\nArmstrong county side in 1861. Philip Corbett, J. D. O Donell, James Mc-\\nBride, Adam Shankle, Jacob Shaffer, did the work, but at the depth of 164\\nfeet the greater part of those engaged on the well enlisted in the army, and\\nthe others abandoned it. The second one was put down by a company com-\\nposed of the citizens, in May, 1886. It is situated on Valentine Miller s farm,\\ntwo miles west of the town. At the depth of 1,350 feet they struck a vein of\\ngas of 200 pounds pressure to the square inch. The company immediately\\nlaid a four-inch main from the well to the town, and at present almost every\\nfamily is supplied with that most wonderful of modern conveniences, gas for\\nfuel, and that at less cost than coal.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0647.jp2"}, "622": {"fulltext": "56o History of Clarion County.\\nThe same company put down another well in the latter part of the sum-\\nmer of 1886 on William Truitt s farm. At 1,400 feet it was abandoned as a\\ndry hole.\\nWater Works. In 1882 the citizens organized a water company with a\\npaid up capital stock of ten thousand dollars. They purchased two acres of\\nland from Jos. Himes, and scooped out two great basins to the depth of six\\nfeet, lined the same with plank, and enclosed it with a frame building. The\\nwater is pumped into the cisterns from the creek, and then led from there\\nthrough the principal streets by a six-inch main, buried from three to four feet\\nunder ground. Twenty-five patent water-plugs are placed along the streets\\nto be used in case of fire. The basin has an altitude of two hundred feet\\nabove the streets, which gives a pressure sufficient to force the water from the\\nwater-plugs through hose three inches in diameter over the highest buildings.\\nThis has been very effective in extinguishing every fire since the completion\\nof the works. Besides this precaution against fire, the council has purchased\\nthree chemical fire extinguishers, one of one hundred gallons capacity, and two\\nof fifty-five gallons each.\\nDistilleries. The first distillery was built by George Trumble in 1840. It\\nwas a frame building forty by sixty feet, three stories high, and situated where\\nthe house of Jos. Himes, sr., now stands. The greater part of the product of\\nthe still was hauled by horses to Saint Mary s for market. Trumble sold the\\ndistillery to Mercer Slaughenhaupt, who operated it until the farm on which\\nit was located was purchased by Jos. Himes in 1848, who sold the machinery\\nand tore down the building. The second distillery was built by Arthur O Don-\\nell in i860; it was situated on the lot now occupied by the Catholic Church.\\nO Donell sold it to Simon Sherman and Levi Reese. Shortly after the sale\\nthe building and contents burned down. Various theories exist as to the cause\\nof the fire. A brewery was built on the same site in 1864. It, too, proved a\\nbad investment and was finally torn down. So ended the manufacture of\\nspirituous liquors within the town limits.\\nCemeteries. The first cemetery was laid on the corner of Wood and Penn\\nstreets and contained half an acre. The early settlers buried their dead at the\\nold cemetery at Millville. After the borough cemetery was filled the council\\npurchased of Jos. Himes three acres, in 1865, situated in the northwest part of\\nthe borough, and opened Liberty street to it. Since that time all the dead\\nhave been buried there, and many bodies have been taken out of the old one\\nand re-interred in the new. Samuel Lowry, in taking the body of his father\\nfrom the old cemetery, after being buried for forty years, found the trunk and\\nlower extremities to the knees of the body petrified, having a dark brown\\nstone color, and perfectly natural in all other appearances. It required five\\nmen to lift it.\\nMedical Profession. The first physician that practiced in this place was", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0648.jp2"}, "623": {"fulltext": "New Bethlehem Borough. 561\\nDr. James Irwin. He was succeeded by Drs. Shrader and Trumble, and they\\nby Dr. Smith, who is still practicing in Warsaw, Wis. Smith was followed by\\nDr. A. S. McDill, who was very eminent in the profession, and a man of great\\nmoral worth. He also went west about 1854. Since that time he has twice\\nbeen elected to the Legislature of his State, afterward appointed superintendent\\nof the insane asylum of Madison, Wis. This position he resigned in 1872,\\nbeing elected representative of the Forty-third Congress of United States. Dr.\\nJohn Creswell succeeded McDill, coming to the town in 1855. Being a physi-\\ncian of great ability, he has built up a large and lucrative practice, which he still\\nretains. Dr. H. M. Wick moved to the place in 1868, bringing with him the\\nknowledge gained by twenty-four years of successful practice at Rockville. In\\nhim New Bethlehem received a valuable acquisition, both as a physician and a\\ncitizen. In 1870 he associated with him in practice his son, J. Addison Wick,\\nwho had just graduated from Jefferson Medical College. The two built up a\\nlarge practice that was not confined to the town or county. In 1876 the elder\\nWick died, leaving the entire practice to his son, who, not being able to do the\\nincreased amount of labor, associated with him Dr. George Woods. Dr. B. F.\\nGoheen located in the town in 1872, Being a man of enterprise, as well as an\\nexcellent physician, he rented the McNutt store-room and started a drugstore,\\nand associated with him his brother Hugh. In 1874 he purchased from Philip\\nCorbett lot No. 1 1 on Broad street, and erected thereon the largest and finest\\nbuilding in the business part of the town. The building was fifty feet front,\\nand eighty feet back, three stories high. The front room on the first floor was\\nfitted and finished in the most approved style for a drug store. The remainder\\non the first floor was furnished in elegant style for his office the upper stories\\nfinished for offices and lodge rooms. During the oil excitement at Parker, the\\ndoctor sold out his interests and moved to that place.\\nNew Bethlehem Savings Bank was organized in 1872, with a capital of\\n$50,000. The first officers were: C. E. Andrews, president, and J. R. Foster,\\ncashier directors, A. H. Allebach, H. M. Wick, John Cooper, Martin Wil-\\nliams, M. Arnold. The building is twenty-five by forty feet, two stories high.\\nThe lower story is occupied by the bank. It consists of two rooms. The pri-\\nvate room is fifteen by fifteen feet. The front room is twenty-five by twenty-\\nfive feet. All the public business of the bank is carried on in this room. The\\nvault is ten by fifteen feet. It is built of solid masonry from the basement to\\nthe first floor. The walls and ceiling are of brick and are two feet thick. The\\nentrance from the banking room is guarded by double iron doors. Within\\nthe vault is the safe.\\nThomas McKelvy was instrumental in establishing the first post-office. The\\nmail was carried on horseback once a week from Kittanning to Brookville, Mr.\\nMcKelvy succeeded in having it stop at New Bethlehem during the trip going\\nand coming. He held the position of postmaster till 1854, when C. E. An-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0649.jp2"}, "624": {"fulltext": "562 History of Clarion County.\\ndrews was appointed, and, with the exception of two brief appointments of C.\\nF. McNutt and S. B. Corbett, held the position to 1885, since which time J. E.\\nWilUams has had the position.\\nThe town has given but one State and one county official to the public.\\nHon. Martin Williams served two terms in Pennsylvania Legislature and J. D.\\nO Donell, county coroner.\\nNew Bethlehem has a population of 1,500 inhabitants, composed of a\\nsocial, intelligent and religious people, representing nearly all the interests that\\nmake a great city good schools and good churches, four large hotels, elegant-\\nly furnished, more than twenty merchants doing a good business, excellent\\nrailroad accommodation, inexhaustible supply of pure water and wonderful\\nwater-power, abundance of natural gas, situated in the heart of the most pro-\\nductive land of the two counties, surrounded by four great coal mines that\\nemploy more than seven hundred men, connected to Fairmount City, Oak\\nRidge, and West Millville by level lands that will make beautiful homes, and\\nthat have advantages for all kinds of manufacturing. Who will predict the\\nprogress of the next century\\nCHAPTER LXn.\\nHISTORY OF PAINT TOWNSHIP. i\\nPAINT township lies east of Beaver and Elk townships, and north of the\\nClarion River, which separates it from Clarion borough, Piney, Monroe\\nand Clarion townships. It is drained by Paint Creek flowing west into Deer\\nCreek and Toby Creek, which flows southwest into the Clarion River. It was\\nfirst settled about the year 1820 by F. Eshleman, Andy Gardner, George Wal-\\nters and Daniel Brenneman. In 1828 John H. Groce, the father of John Groce,\\nwho is still a citizen of the township, settled on what is known as the Patrick\\nfarm, two miles west of the Clarion River on the turnpike. In 1830, Sebastian\\nCook emigrated from Germany, and settled on lands joining John H. Groce.\\nHe was the father of Mrs. I. C. Bryner, and George and S. Cook, who are still\\ncitizens of the township. About this time the McClains, Alexander Bell and\\na few others settled in different parts of the township.\\nAt that time the township embraced a wide territory, and belonged to Ve-\\nnango county. It was covered by a dense forest of pine and oak timber, and\\nwas inhabited by wild animals, such as deer, bears and panthers, which were\\nmore or less troublesome to the early settlers. As the population increased,\\n1 By D. A. Bryner.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0650.jp2"}, "625": {"fulltext": "Paint Township. 563\\nnew townships were erected, but the writer will only give the history for what\\nis now known as Paint township.\\nSchools. In 1828 a log school-house was built on the pike, near the lands\\nof John H. Groce. One of the first teachers was Jacob Phipps, and the series\\nof books was the United States spelling book and the Bible. A man who could\\nread and write well was considered a teacher fit to educate the children of the\\nearly settlers. Some children went to the school from a distance of five or six\\nmiles. They would board with their neighbors living near the school during\\nthe week, and return home on Saturday. A few years later a school-house\\nwas built in the southern part of the township on the lands of Daniel Brenne-\\nman. It was used for a school-house and church, and was afterwards aban-\\ndoned and a new one was built a mile farther south, known as the Manor\\nschool-house. It was built about the year 1850, and the first teacher was Miss\\nMessenger.\\nIn 1850 a school-house was built on the Pike, a mile west of the Clarion\\nRiver. The first teacher was Robert Livingston. The old house still stands,\\nalthough a new one was built in 1878 near the same place. In 1859 a school-\\nhouse was built in the northern part of the township on the land of Isaac Hicks\\nit was abandoned in 1877, and a new one was built a mile further south known\\nas the Goble school. In 1880 a school-house was erected at Paint Mills.\\nChurches. The township has but one church within its limits. It was\\nerected in 1880, near Paint Mill Station, on the line of the P. and W. Railroad,\\nand dedicated as a union church.\\nLumber. The principal lumber manufacturing was operated first at the\\nmouth of Little Toby on the Clarion River the mills were built by Myers\\nShippen about the year 1825. From 1825 to 1858, the writer cannot give the\\ndifferent names of the proprietors. From 1858 to 1864, it was owned and ope-\\nrated by Zigler and Baker. They were succeeded by Corbet Wilson, and in\\n1883 they sold the property to Thomas Rane, who is still engaged in the man-\\nufacturing of lumber and boat-building.\\nFrom 1857 to 1865 Curll, Pritner Company were engaged in the manu-\\nfacture of lumber, at a place known as Penn Mills, on Little Toby. The\\ncapacity of their mills was about thirty thousand feet of sawed lumber per day.\\nThe engine that drove their machinery was made by Nathan Myers, of Clarion,\\nand is still in use at the mills of Porter Haskell, at or near Tylersburg.\\nIn 1870, Hahn, Metzgar Wagner purchased of Jacob Black a tract of\\npine and oak timber, on Paint Creek. This was considered one of the finest\\ntracts of timber land in the township. The firm erected mills known as Paint\\nMills and engaged in the manufacture of lumber. They were succeeded by\\nWagner Curll, who are still in the business.\\nIn 1880 Arthurs Coal and Lumber Company purchased a tract of timber\\nland in the northern part of the township, on the line of the Pittsburgh and", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0651.jp2"}, "626": {"fulltext": "564 History of Clarion County.\\nWestern Railroad. Their timber has been all cut and shipped, and what was\\nonce a forest of pine and oak timber, has been reduced by the woodman s ax,\\nto a forsaken lumber camp, and is growing up with brush. A few more years\\nwill wipe out the lumber industry in Paint township. The rising generation\\nwill then have to look elsewhere for building material. What their forefathers\\nmanufactured and shipped to Pittsburgh and other markets, they will have to\\nbuy from other sources.\\nCoal. The first coal bank was opened in 1839 or^ the Sebastain Cook farm.\\nThe township is underlaid with different veins of coal, and of late years a num-\\nber of banks have been in operation.\\nOil. In 1864 Shandler Company drilled a test oil well on the John H.\\nGroce farm, better known as the Patrick farm. It was drilled a wet hole, and\\nwas tubed and pumped for weeks, but it could not be made to produce any\\noil. In those days a leather bag filled with flax seed was fastened around the\\ntubing at a depth of five or six hundred feet. In this way they could shut off\\nthe water from the oil-bearing rock so long as they did not need to pull the\\ntubing.\\nIn 1876 Jacob Black drilled a test well on the same farm. A small flow of\\ngas was found, but no oil, and the well was abandoned.\\nIn 1878 C. Leeper Company drilled a well on the Joseph Banner farm\\nin the northwestern part of the township. It produced five barrels of oil per\\nday, and was the first producing oil well in the township. Nothing more was\\ndone in oil until 1885 to 1887, when quite a number of producing wells were\\ndrilled in the same locality.\\nFarming. The early settlers did not turn their attention to farming. They\\nwere mostly engaged in boat-building, lumbering, and daily toil for the iron\\nmanufacturers, and they used their farms mostly for a home to live on, and\\nonly tilled them when work was scarce about these manufactories; but in later\\nyears the farmers have been turning their attention more to agriculture, and at\\npresent a number of well tilled farms may be seen in different parts of the town-\\nship.\\nArea of township, 13,511 acres. Population in 1887, 437-\\nTownship officers in 1887: Justice of the peace, George Cook and H. G.\\nVerstine judge of election, John M. Wagner inspectors, John Near and\\nAmos Wagner; constable, Sebastian Cook; assessor, S. D. Young; overseers\\nof the poor, George Cook and Joseph Heppinger; supervisors, Fred Stark and\\nWilliam Bish collector of tax, J. P. Rapp school directors, George Cook,\\nJoseph Heppinger, William Brenneman, Samuel Brenneman, Martin Wagner\\nand Christopher Shultz auditors, D. A. Bryner, C. G. Thompson and Martin\\nWagner.\\nWar Record. The little township of Paint furnished thirty-two men for the\\nlate rebellion, and there are still living in the township Sebastian Cook, who", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0652.jp2"}, "627": {"fulltext": "Perry Township. 565\\nenlisted January 19th, 1862; was discharged July 13th, 1865, having spent\\nnine months in a rebel prison. Alexander Goble enlisted November i, 1861\\nwas discharged June loth, 1865. John Smith enhsted February 13, 1862;\\nwas discharged June 29th, 1865. Frederick Brenneman enlisted in 1861, and\\nserved three years for his country s cause. J. W. Young enlisted July i, 1861,\\nand was discharged March 23, 1863. Wolff Heppinger was killed at the battle\\nof South Mountain. Alf Rynard and A. Whistner were killed at the battle of\\nGaines s mill. Joseph Groce died in prison. David Thomas and Horace Young\\ndied in the hospital. Horace Kiskadden, Andy Smith, John Young, John\\nGoble, Dock Goble, Burt Goble, John Shull, John McDonnell, David Sheets,\\nLewis Dolby, Charles Harps, Miles Brenneman, and some five or six others\\nwere credited to the township, as they were citizens at the time they enlisted.\\nThe population of the township at the time of the rebellion was about 330.\\nThe majority of her young men fit for military duty were in the army. Thus\\ncloses the chapter for Paint township.\\nCHAPTER LXni.\\nHISTORY OF PERRY TOWNSHIP.i\\nTHIS township lies in the extreme southern part of the county. It is\\nbounded on the north by the Clarion River, east by the Clarion River\\nand Licking and Toby townships, south by Toby township and the Allegheny\\nRiver, and west by the Allegheny and Clarion Rivers. The township con-\\nsists mainly of high ridges, broken by numerous small streams, which empty\\ntheir waters into the Allegheny and Clarion Rivers, and into Licking Creek.\\nThe principal small streams are Freedom, Camp, Black Fox, and Troutman\\nRuns. Perry township was originally a part of Armstrong county, and was\\nsettled soon after the land office opened. Tradition says that settlement was\\nmade as early as 1800, and it is a well, proven fact that one Gideon Gibson\\nsettled, built a house, and made other improvements on what is now known as\\nthe Allen McCall farm, and sold the same in 1802 to Mr. McCall, the ancestor\\nof Allen. In 1804 John Black built a house near the Licking- Perry Hne, east\\nof C. Lobaugh s present homestead. In the same year John Wilson built a\\nhouse on the Robert Pollock tract, and William Miller built on the Yingling\\ntract. Other early settlers were Joseph Everett, Benjamin Coe, the Hagans\\nand the Pollocks.\\nIndtcstrics. The industries of the township are varied. The southern part\\n1 By John M. Beer.\\nG2", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0653.jp2"}, "628": {"fulltext": "566 History of Clarion County.\\nis principally the site of the coal mining interests, the north of the oil interest,\\nand the other portions of the township are farming communities.\\nAlong in the forties a company began the erection of a furnace in the\\nsouthern part called Red Fox. This company sold to a Welsh firm, who fin-\\nished the work and called it Black Fox Furnace. This firm sold out to Ver-\\nnum Adams, who became involved, and a disputed title threw the property\\ninto the sheriff s hands, who sold it, and it was bought by Painter Graff,\\nThis company made iron here till 1859. In the summer of i860 William\\nMoore tried to start the furnance to use up some stock he had on hand, but\\nin attempting to get up steam, the boiler exploded, killing two men named\\nWilliam Kortz and Benjamin Kogan. Thus it has been truly said that Black\\nFox Furnace blozued out in i860, at least it blew up. It never made iron\\nafter that event. In its best days it made from fifteen to twenty tons of char-\\ncoal, or cold blast metal daily.\\nThere have been a number of grist-mills on the various streams in the\\ntownship, viz.: Elliott s, at Matildaville, built in 1843; Hagan s, on Hagan s\\nRun McGarrah s, on Rattlesnake Run the Dan Snyder mill, now owned by\\nCopes, and the Shaw steam-mill at Perryville.\\nIn 1855-6 Elijah Davis built a saw-mill near West Freedom, which is still\\nin use. Copes have a saw- mill near their grist-mill, and James Bell Son\\nhave a steam saw-mill on the Clarion River at Turkey Run Eddy, in connec-\\ntion with which they have a large boat scaffold whereat many men find em-\\nployment.\\nThe A. V. R. R. This important public highway passes through the town-\\nship along the banks of the Allegheny. It was built in 1866-67. Two\\nimportant stations, Parker and West Monterey, are on the township s seven\\nmiles of river front over which the road passes. In the early history of the\\nroad Bear Creek was also an important station. At Upper Hillville there is\\nalso a station.\\nOil Wells. In 1867 oil was found in a well at East Parker just above the\\nrailroad station. It was put down by James E. Brown, and is still producing.\\nIt is said that this well during its twenty years existence has produced $90,000\\nworth of oil. The Piper well has been producing for fifteen or sixteen\\nyears, and still yields twelve barrels daily. From 1873 to 1876 great excite-\\nment prevailed about the Logue farm development, and quite a town sprang\\nup on that tract. The Gailey fram, near Perryville, produced a great deal of\\noil, as did also the Fox farm, on the Clarion. The production at present has\\nfallen oft very much, and many of the oil kings are poorer than they were be-\\nfore the excitement.\\n7ron Tanks. With the advent of oil came the building of tanks. At first\\nshipments were made entirely by rail, but now it is principally by piping.\\nFour or five iron tanks were built at Perryville in 1873. Now there are about", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0654.jp2"}, "629": {"fulltext": "Perry Township. 567\\nforty, all the property of the United Pipe Lines, which is only another name\\nfor the National Transit Company, or Standard Oil Company. The capacity\\nof each tank is about 35,000 barrels. The township authorities assess these\\ntanks for local purposes. It is said the tax on each tank amounts to $150\\nper year, $50 each for school tax, poor tax, and cash road tax.\\nSchools. Little definite information has been obtained by the writer rel-\\native to the establishment of schools in the township. There are at present\\nfourteen schools (twelve houses) in the township. A graded school of two\\nrooms is located at West Freedom, and a similar school at Perryville. The\\nother schools are the Neff, Logan, Pine Hollow, Dutch Hill, West Monterey,\\nBlack Fox, Logue Farm, Pollock, McKibben and Fox. The latter was estab-\\nlished in 1854. The West Freedom Academy building was erected in 1 860-6 1.\\nIt was not completed when the war broke out. The academy has ceased to\\nexist from all appearances, but it left the names of the following gentlemen\\nwho conducted the institution: Prof Hosey, Rev. Burton, Prof Green, Prof\\nA. S. Elliott, A. J. Davis, Prof P. S. Dunkle, Prof J. V. McAninch, and Prof.\\nLynn.\\nOne of the old-time teachers of the township, Mr. James C. McKibben,\\nstill takes an active part in educational matters.\\nMany of the teachers who have taught in the Perry schools, have become\\nmen of affairs in the world. The following names will be recognized by many\\nDavid Latshaw, J. W. Dunkle, P. S. Dunkle, G. G. Sloan, W. A. Beer, A. M.\\nNeely, O. E. Nail, J. G. Anderson, H. H. Pollock, H. P. Elliott, C. W. EUiott,\\nA. S. Elliott, C. C. Poling, George W. Mathews, J. B. Bollman, J. C. Bryner,\\nW. W. Wolfe, and others. This list includes two county superintendents, and\\nall the others have in some way been prominently before the people, two\\nhaving been members of the Legislature at the same time, one a presiding\\nelder in the M. E. Church, and one led a company from this county through\\nthe civil war.\\nChiircJies. Concord Presbyterian Church is the oldest in the township,\\nhaving been organized in 1807. The Methodist Church building at Perry-\\nville and the Presbyterian Church building at the same place, were erected in\\n1 87 1. The congregations, however, were previously organized. For many\\nyears the Methodist congregation at West Freedom worshiped in a church\\non the hill east of the town, just above the cemetery, and later in the old\\nacademy. In 1876 the present fine structure was erected. There is also an\\nM. E. Church at West Monterey, and a Lutheran Church at Dutch Hill. The\\nM. E. Church also holds service at intervals at the Logue farm and at Pine Hol-\\nlow. At one time it had a class meet in the Pollock school-house. The West\\nFreedom and Perryville M. E. congregations belong to the Callensburg charge.\\nBenevolent Societies. The I. O. O. F. has two lodges in the township\\none at West Monterey and one at West Freedom. Formerly West Freedom\\nalso had an encampment, but it is now defunct.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0655.jp2"}, "630": {"fulltext": "568 History of Clarion County.\\nVillages. There are no incorporated boroughs in the township; but West\\nFreedom, West Monterey and Perryville are towns of importance, and sev-\\neral other small villages such as Matildaville, Hagantown, and Dutch Hill add\\nto the population. West Freedom is situated on the Parker-Clarion road, mid-\\nway between Parker and Callensburg. The first lots were sold by Joseph\\nYingling in 1848. The first buildings erected were a dwelling house and a\\nblacksmith shop, by John Baker, in 1848. The first merchants here were\\nPhipp McGuff. Later came H. W. Jordan and George Yingling in the gen-\\neral merchandise line, and they are still in business here. S. S. Jordan opened\\nup a drug and variety store, and did business till only a few years ago. He\\nwas also postmaster, one of the few Democrats who held such a commission\\nunder a Republican administration. John Coon, E. Slaughenhaupt, H. Y.\\nHowe, and others did business here. At present S. K. R. Smith does business\\nat the place once occupied by Coon. He is also postmaster. The fact that\\nJordan, a Democrat, held the office under a Republican administration, is off-\\nset by Smith, a Republican, holding it under a Democratic administration.\\nSmith was commissioned by President Arthur s postmaster-general, and has\\nnot been removed. The town also has a millinery store, a harness shop, two\\nblacksmith shops, and a carpenter shop, also two hotels. West Monterey, on\\nthe A. V. Railroad, is a thriving town. It is chiefly maintained by the coal\\nindustry. The Company s store, Steel s furniture store, Giles s general store,\\nand other places of business meet the wants of the people.\\nAt Perryville there was quite a town during the excitement, and a large\\namount of business was done but at present the general store of J. L. Fox,\\nthe grocery store and meat market of H. M. Best, the millinery store of Mrs.\\nLash, and the blacksmith shop of Miles Baker are the only places of business.\\nThe post-office (Pollock) is kept at Parker Station by S. C. Burkholder, also a\\nRepublican. Perryville was laid out in 1879 by Callen Reichard.\\nHagantown was settled by Paul Scheuster, who had an ashery there.\\nMatildaville was settled by Isaiah Elliott. Martin s Ferry connects Perry\\nand Richland township. A bridge was once built across the Clarion at this\\npoint, but it never was opened to traffic, and soon fell down.\\nPublic Officers. Benjamin Miller was once county commissioner J. B.\\nWatson, prothonotary Alexander McCall, associate judge S. D. Sloan, com-\\nmissioner from 1875 to 1878, and O. E. Nail, register and recorder from 1875\\nto 1881.\\nMiscellaneous Items. The prosperity of the township is largely due to the\\nenergy of such citizens as the McCalls, Stewarts, Pollocks, Terwilligers, Jor-\\ndans, Sloans, Yinglings and many others whose names call up the best memo-\\nries of the general thrift of the people.\\nIn 1840 the population of the township was 1,122.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0656.jp2"}, "631": {"fulltext": "PiNEY Township. 569\\nCHAPTER LXIV.\\nHISTORY OF PINEY TOWNSHIP.\\nTHIS township lies south of the central part of the county. It is bounded\\non the nortli by Beaver, east by Monroe, south by Toby, and west by\\nLicking and Beaver. The surface of the township is generally hilly, and por-\\ntions of it are very rough. The main elevation begins at the Licking line, at\\nthe Mount Zion Church, and passes through the township to the Monroe Hne\\nnear Reidsburg. This range of hills is broken up into cross ranges and spurs.\\nAt the Licking line for a considerable distance eastward the main elevation is\\nknown as Chestnut Ridge. One of these cross ranges starts from Chestnut\\nRidge and extends southward to Licking, near the mouth of Anderson s Run.\\nAnother extends from the James Callen farm to Licking at Sligo. This last\\nrange is considerably broken by small valleys.\\nNorth of the Wm. Wyman farm the territory lying between that place and\\nthe river at the mouth of Piney is a high ridge once covered with pine and\\noak timber. North of Piney Creek is another highland almost unbroken by\\nvalleys and principally covered with small growth timber. South of Licking\\nCreek a ridge terminates at Sligo, which ridge occupies all that portion of the\\ntownship lying between Licking and Little Licking. South of Little Licking\\nthe strip of land lying between that stream and the Toby line is a highland.\\nThe Clarion River forms the northwest boundary of the township, which bound-\\nary is the Beaver-Piney line. Piney Creek enters the township near the site\\nof the town of Reidsburg. It flows southwest and empties into the Clarion a\\nfew miles below where the Monroe- Piney line strikes the river. Licking Creek\\nenters the township near the town of Curllsville and flowing through to the\\nnorthwest passes into Licking township at the mouth of Sugar Creek Run.\\nMany other streams pass through the township, the principal ones being An-\\nderson s Run, Mineral Run and Little Licking, all of which flow into Licking-\\nPiney Creek has numerous tributaries, also, and these small streams make the\\ndrainage system of Piney township one of the best in the county.\\nThe wooded valleys retain the snow and ice in the spring much longer than\\nthe cleared lands do.\\nThe original growth of timber was oak and chestnut on the interior high-\\nlands, with heavy oak on the lowlands, while along the Clarion and Piney\\nCreek there was a considerable strip of pine and hemlock. The township has\\nyet a good portion of its territory in wild and uncleared land. The small wild\\nanimals common to this region still abound in these woods, and occasionally a\\ndeer passes through the woodland.\\nEarly Settlements. The first settlement within the limits of the township\\nwas made quite early.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0657.jp2"}, "632": {"fulltext": "570 History of Clarion County.\\nIt is a tradition in the Laughlin family, that in 1798 John LaughHn made a\\nsettlement on the tract of land now known as the James Callen farm. The\\nwarrant for said tract was issued October 19, 1803.\\nThe tradition to the effect that the settlement was made in 1798, is as fol-\\nlows John Laughlin, father of Captain R. Laughlin, of Callensburg, left his\\nfather s house in what is now Indiana county, to seek a home on^ Stump Creek.\\nHe came to the spring northwest of the hill where the Callen homestead now\\nis, and built a cabin there. He cleared some land and lived on the tract long\\nenough to give him a legal right to the warrant, which time was two years.\\nHe then prepared to go east and procure his warrant, but before doing so he\\nconcluded to squat on another tract, and to the end that he might get posses-\\nsion of this additional tract, he built a cabin on the Kifer tract, and moved his\\neffects into it. This second cabin is supposed to have been built at the large\\nspring in the woods, below the Thomas Reese homestead. Having made his\\nimprovement on this second tract, he proceeded to Indiana. Soon after reach-\\ning Indiana, he ascertained that a tract of 187 acres near his father s farm was\\nstill vacant, and he at once went upon that tract and began to improve it, and\\nfor it he afterward got the warrant and patent, and it became the beautiful farm\\nknown as the John Laughlin farm. Then, following up his settlement and im-\\nprovement on Stump Creek, he procured a warrant for that tract in 1803, and\\nhis brother, James Laughlin, came to what is now Piney township, and settled\\nat the cross roads known as the Laughlin place. In proof of this tradition, the\\nfollowing facts are submitted: John Laughlin was born in 1777. He left\\nhome for Stump Creek when he became of age. He returned and took up his\\nIndiana farm prior to receiving his warrant for the Callen tract. While at\\nhome in Indiana he purchased the Packer tract at the mouth of Deer Creek on\\nthe 1 8th of January, 1803, from Robert Brown (see Beaver township), while\\nhis Piney tract warrant was made in October, 1803.\\nPVom these facts, and as the story goes, it seems to be true that John\\nLaughlin settled in what is now Piney township prior to the year 1800, and\\nprobably as early as 1798, as has been claimed.\\nIn the western part of the township Louis Switzer settled and built a house\\nin 1804 on the land now owned by Hiram H. Whitmer. In 1801 Alexander\\nWilson settled on the farm near Curllsville, now occupied by Thomas D. Stoner.\\nIn 1 81 5 John Bole, sr., settled near Curllsville, on the land now occupied by\\nJohn Bole, jr. In 1816 John McKee settled near Bole s place The Arm-\\nstrongs came in 181 5. About the year 18 17 Richard Reynolds settled where\\nSligo now is. A man named Dyehammer settled the Kearney farm at an\\nearly date, and in 18 12 traded it to Alexander Beck for a yoke of oxen. John\\nMyers, Samuel Nelson, Joseph McEwen, Thomas Burns, and John Boyles\\ncame in 1822. Thomas Magee, Mr. Kifer, Allen Wilson and others came here\\nearly, but we are unable to give dates.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0658.jp2"}, "633": {"fulltext": "PiNEY Township. 571\\nOcaipatioiis and Products. Since its settlement the township has been\\ncultivated more or less, and at present there are some very good farms. It\\nproduced great deal of charcoal, iron ore, limestone, and bituminous coal, and\\nwithin the last twenty years a large quantity of fire-clay has been mined and\\nshipped.\\nAbout 1842 Mathias Co. built Madison furnace on Piney, a few miles\\nabove its mouth. Lyon, Shorb Co. built Sligo furnace on Licking Creek in\\n1845. Soon after this they bought Madison from Mathias Co. This firm\\nmade iron at Madison till a recent date, and also at Sligo till 1870.\\nMadison shipped its iron at Piney in boats, and Sligo shipped hers at Cal-\\nensburg, loading their boats at Crary s dam.\\nThe first grist-mill in the township was Fisher s mill, on Piney, below the\\nsite of Madison furnace.\\nGrist-mills were run in connection with the furnaces, and at Madison there\\nwas also a saw-mill. Both are now owned by Jacob Arner.\\nThe mill at the mouth of Piney was originally built by Allen Wilson.\\nLater it was owned and run, with boat scaffold in connection, by Jacob Hahn,\\nHahn Wagner, Wagner, Metzgar Co. etc. At present it is run by Betz\\nHahn.\\nBefore the war a Mr. Copely dug and shipped some fire-clay. After the\\nwar other firms began to operate. In 1867 and 1868 George Beer and Henry\\nReese began to dig on the lot then owned by Henry Reese. The miners at\\nthis bank were Henry Kifer, with his three sons, George, James, and David,\\nand Charles Beer, with his two sons, D. J. and W. A. The Star Fire Brick\\nCompany, managed by S. P. Harbison, soon made contracts for fire-clay, and in\\n1879 the miners named, with many others, were engaged by that firm, and\\nheavy shipments at once began.\\nBanks were opened on the Gathers farm, the Joe Myers farm, the Burns\\nfarm, the Alexander Armstrong farm, and the Joseph Slaugenhaupt farm.\\nJohn F. Dunkle superintended the digging and shipping of the clay, which\\nwas at first run to Pittsburgh in boats loaded at Piney, and at Gardner s Eddy,\\nwhere wharfs were built, which, at times, were burdened with probably 2,000\\ntons of clay at once. When the railroad came to Sligo in 1873, the boating\\nof clay was abandoned, and shipment was made on the cars.\\nLater, clay banks were opened on the farms of John Kifer, Levi Kifer,\\nJames Dixon, Jno. N. Whitmer, S. H. Smith, and Jackson Kirkwood. Nearly\\nall of these last named banks are operated at present by Mr. E. E. Finefrock.\\nMany other small banks are open.\\nSchools and Churches. The first school-house in Piney township was built\\nof logs in 1837. It stood where the eight-square school-house now stands.\\nAbout the same time a school-house was erected in the Mast district. These\\nrude log structures were replaced about two years later by better and more\\ncomfortable buildings.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0659.jp2"}, "634": {"fulltext": "572 History of Clarion County.\\nThe Means school-house was built about 1826. The No. 6, Sligo, and\\nothers of the township were built later. In 1832 an M. E. Church was erected\\nnear Curllsville, on land now owned by E, M. Lee. Mount Pleasant Church\\nwas built in 1854 by the M. E. congregation, and the Shamburg Church was\\nbuilt in 1871-72 by the Brethren in Christ. The ministers noted in Callens-\\nburg sketch have all preached at Mount Pleasant. The M. E. Church had\\ncongregations at Sligo and at Madison. They held their services in the school-\\nhouses at those places.\\nStores. The first store in the township was kept by David Stoner. Rich-\\nard Reynolds opened a store in 18 17 near the site of the present store of J. B.\\nMiller Sons.\\nMaxwell Odell built the long red house near where Craig s dam now is,\\nand opened a store in 1830. The house still stands, and is in good condition.\\nLater, stores were kept at Sligo Furnace, at Madison Furnace, at the mouth\\nof Piney, and at the Kearney farm. Mr. Peter Mobley erected the Kearney\\nstore in 1874. He did business about eighteen months, when he died. A. B.\\nKearney opened in 1877, ^^id sold out November 9, 1886, to E. E. Finefrock.\\nWhen the Madison furnace blowed out the store also closed. In 1885 M.\\nM. Altman opened a grocery store at Mount Pleasant Church, but soon aban-\\ndoned the business.\\nMiscellaneous Items. In 1872 David McClay, Republican, was elected to\\nthe State Senate over the Democratic nominee of this district. The township\\nhas had only two other county officers, viz.: William Henry, commissioner,\\nand P. M, Dunkle, jury commissioner.\\nThe old settlers have almost all disappeared. A few remain at advanced\\nages. Mrs. Whitmer, living with her son, H. H. Whitmer, on the Switzer\\nlands, has in her possession a clock which has done service in the family for\\nfifty-three years.\\nSeveral casualties have occurred in the township. John Metzgar was acci-\\ndentally drowned at the mouth of Piney, and only a few years later Jacob\\nKrauss was drowned at the same place.\\nIn 1865 two wells were drilled for oil at the mouth of Piney, on the point,\\nbut no oil was found. Stave-mills and portable saw-mills have been operated\\nin the township, but not long at a place.\\nA well was drilled opposite the mouth of Deer Creek for oil, by Daniel\\nReichart, some time about 1870, but it also proved a dry hole.\\nVillages sprang up at Sligo Furnace and at Madison Furnace, and also at\\nthe mouth of Piney. Three other very small villages, viz.: Shamburg, Bell-\\nville, and Logtown, are all the little towns of the township.\\nThe people at present are g^^nerally thrifty, and are devoting more atten-\\ntion to their farms and stock.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0660.jp2"}, "635": {"fulltext": "Porter Township. 573\\nCHAPTER LXV.\\nHISTORY OF PORTER TOWNSHIP.\\nPORTER township was so named in honor of David R. Porter, governor\\nof Pennsylvania in 1839-42, at the time it was struck off Redbank town-\\nship. It is bounded on the north by Monroe and Limestone, on the east by\\nRedbank, on the south by New Bethlehem and Redbank Creek, and on the\\nwest by Madison, Toby, and the southern corner of Piney. It contains,\\naccording to the assessor s account, 25,875 acres, nearly all of which is tillable\\nland. It probably contains more than that. Shortly after it became a town-\\nship it was laid off in school districts, each about two miles square. There are\\nrich veins of coal, iron ore, limestone and fire-clay lying within its limits.\\nLand Grants. At the close of the Revolutionary War a debt sprung upon\\nthe new government which was to be paid by the several States according to\\nthe population of each. Pennsylvania paid most of its share by the sale of\\npublic land belonging to the State. A company in Holland purchased land in\\nPennsylvania, some of which lies in the western part of what is now Porter\\ntownship. It was bought for twelve and one-half cents an acre. David\\nLawson, father of James Lawson, well known to our citizens, was one of their\\nagents. There was one thousand and two acres in the northwestern part of\\nthe township granted to George Latimer, of Philadelphia, being No. 3 of lot\\n162, granted to Timothy Pickering and others. May 17, 1785. In the Bitten-\\nbender settlement a five hundred acre tract, called Rural Felicity, was granted\\nby the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Frederick Watts, and afterwards\\ndeeded to Bittenbenders and others. A large tract of land was granted to John-\\nathan Mifflin, of Philadelphia. Part of it was afterwards deeded to Charles M,\\nStokes, and was known in an early day in this locality as the Stokes land.\\nFarms in the Wiant and Mohney settlement were of the Stokes land. Weister\\nland in the vicinity of Jacob Kratzer s, and west of that, was originally a part\\nof the Mifflin tract. William Clark obtained a patent in 1823, and deeded it\\nto James Henry (hatter). May ii, 1843. Part of this land is now owned by\\nJohn D. Henry, his son. A tract of land containing one thousand acres was\\ngranted to Joseph Thomas, esq., March 28, 1794, and deeded to Daniel Brod-\\nhead, March 20, 1795. Farms belonging to Ross Corbett, James Gourley,\\nJames G. Wilson, McClures and others, were of the Brodhead tract. It joined\\nland of Timothy Pickering. Archey Dickey owned considerable land in\\nPorter township, some of which he bought as unseated land, sold for taxes.\\nHis claims included some of the farms claimed by early settlers. About 1832\\nhe commenced a series of law suits, by which he gained farms claimed by Ad-\\n1 By C. F. McNutt.\\n63", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0661.jp2"}, "636": {"fulltext": "574 History of Clarion County.\\nam Brinker, Slagle, Washie, Wilkins and others. This made a panic among\\nthe land owners, and many of them obtained patents about 1838 from the\\nCommonwealth of Pennsylvania, to secure their land titles. Some of them had\\nowned their farms for years. General Craig, a surveyor by profession, and liv-\\ning in Westmoreland county, learned where the vacant land lay while running\\noff other tracts, in what is now Porter township. He took an active part in\\nhaving this vacant land settled, holding for his trouble a share of the territory\\nsecured by the settlers. John Henry, David Shields, William Guthrie and oth-\\ners obtained their farms from him. Daniel Brodhead owned several one thou-\\nsand acre tracts in the township.\\nEarly Settlers. It is somewhat difficult to find out just who was the first\\nsettler in the township, and also to get at what the first settlers did more than\\ntheir mere occupations. Much of their modes of life, manners, and customs are\\ncommon to all the townships in the county, and hence appears in the general his-\\ntory. The settlement of the locality now included within the limits of Porter\\ntownship, properly begins with the year 1800. So far as can now be ascer-\\ntained, no permanent settlements were made here before that. The whole tract\\nwas woods. John Henry came from Westmoreland county, and remained part\\nof the summer of 1799, near where George T. Henry, one of his grandsons, now\\nlives, but returned to his former home during the winter. The next summer\\nhe came back again, bringing his family including his sons Robert, William and\\nCharles. James was born here in 1805. They settled on what was known as\\nGeneral Craig s land. Henry Sayers came to Leasure s Run in 1799. From\\nhis boys, Charles, Aljo, and John, several families have descended, most of\\nwhom are identified with the history of other townships. Leasure s Run was\\nnamed in memory of Mr. Leasure, who was drowned in the run, and buried\\nnear its waters. David Shields settled on land of General Craig, where\\nSamuel Williamson now lives, near Smithland, in 1801. He was a copper-\\nsmith by trade, and made bells, pewter spoons, etc., also was engaged in\\nclearing the farm. One of his little boys following the girls when hunting the\\ncows, was captured by the Indians. A search was made, but the boy was not\\nfound. Several years afterwards, a company of Indians on a hunting expedi-\\ntion encamped near Troy, Jefferson county. Mr. Shields hearing that a white\\nman was with the crew, and that it was probably his son, took with him John\\nLawson and others, and started in search of the long lost child. Much to their\\nsatisfaction he was found, and identified by a scar on his leg left from a burn.\\nThe boy was persuaded to visit his former home. While there he told of play-\\ning with a string of bells and other toys well remembered by his parents.\\nAfter staying two or three months he became tired of civilized life, and said he\\nwanted to return to his squaw whom he had married. He soon left and never\\nreturned. A few of the oldest citizens living in the township remember of\\nseeing him after his father brought him home. Michael McComb, sometimes", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0662.jp2"}, "637": {"fulltext": "Porter Township. 575\\ncalled Malcom McComb, settled where William Sherridan lives in 1802. He\\nhad but one child. None of his descendants have lived in the township for\\nseveral years. In 1804 Moses Kirkpatrick settled on farms now owned by\\nTexter and D. W. Goheen. His sons, William and Alexander, lived on the\\nold place. None of the descendants bearing the name are now living in the\\ntownship. William Guthrie came from Westmoreland county and settled near\\nSmithland, on what is now the McDonald farm then land of General Craig\\nin 1806. He brought with him his family, including William, jr., James, and\\nJoseph. They were farmers. Mr. Guthrie was killed by falling off |a bridge,\\non his way home from Kittanning, where he had gone for a load of store\\ngoods.\\nA short time prior to the settling of this township, the Indians burned\\nHannastown, a village in Westmoreland county, and took some prisoners. On\\nthe same day a wedding party near by was routed, and some of the partici-\\npants captured by another crew of Indians. Among others taken were Cap-\\ntain Brown Lee and his wife. After wandering around for a few days, the\\ntwo crews with their prisoners met. An old lady with the Hannastown crew,\\non meeting, exclaimed, Why, Captain Brown Lee Have they got you, too\\nCaptain Lee was a terror to the Indians, fighting and killing them whenever he\\ncould. On learning his name, he was instantly killed and scalped. A child\\nhe was carrying on his back, was also killed and scalped. They then killed\\nthe old lady, supposing her to be connected with him. His wife was present\\nand saved her own life by conceaHng her name, and feeUngs that she would nat-\\nurally have under such circumstances. They compelled the other prisoners,\\nincluding Mrs. Lee, to tramp over the dead bodies and walk in the blood, ex-\\npecting in this way to discover which one was his wife. Mrs. Captain Brown\\nLee remained a prisoner for two years and afterward married William Guthrie,\\nand became one of the first settlers in the township, living to tell her painful\\nstory to her neighbors, her children, and her grandchildren, thus left a widow\\ntwice.\\nCollin McNutt, a weaver by trade, moved his family, consisting of William,\\nRobert, Margaret, Collin, jr., Katie and Charlotte from Westmoreland county\\nto land of General Craig, in this township, in 1806. His sons bought farms,\\nimproved them, raised large families and died in the township. William was\\nalso a carpenter, and made sleds, plows, cutting-boxes and other farming\\nutensils. Of his sons, Collin and James became carpenters. Many of the\\nbuildings yet standing show the skill of their work. Several families of the\\ndescendants of Collin McNutt are living in the township at present.\\nAmong other of the earlier settlers were Daniel Boyles, a farmer living in\\nRockville Peter Fiddler, a farmer, afterwards a lumberman, living in locality\\nof Robert Stewart s; John Nulph, some of whose descendants are still living\\nin the township; John Washie, a farmer living on land at present owned by", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0663.jp2"}, "638": {"fulltext": "576 History of Clarion County.\\nJ. Y. McNutt and Joseph Craig John Wilkins, generally called John Wilkie\\nEzekiel Mathews, a farmer, living on what was afterwards the Buzzard farm,\\nnow belongs to Phillips Richard James, a farmer, living on the Longwell\\nfarm Henry James, a stone mason, living near Brinkerton McCans, on part\\nof the old Kirkpatrick farm, and Mr. Shaw, living near Leatherwood post-office.\\nThese were the men and their wives were the women that endured the\\nhardships and labored under the disadvantages incident to early pioneer life.\\nMost of them came here poor in this world s goods, on foot, carrying their pro-\\nvisions, their household furniture and all they had on pack saddles, and settled\\nin the wilderness mid wild beasts and savages. Their houses were cabins built\\nafter they came here. Their ceremonies were few and simple. Their prayers\\nwere short. Their courtesies were genuine. The places where they located\\nare barely remembered by our oldest inhabitants at present. Here and there\\nan old stone chimney marking the spot, is all that remains relics of their early\\nimprovements. If they could talk, what tales they could tell struggling,\\nsorrow, joy, mirth, cooking, and sleeping all in one small room While the\\nmemory of their faces and most of their history have faded in oblivion; yet our,\\ncommunity owes them the remembrance of their names.\\nLater Settlements. William Latimer came with his family, including James,\\nDinan, Jane, Mary, and George to Leatherwood, in 1812. The latter three\\nhave lived on the same property, near Brinkerton, ever since. Mr. Latimer\\ncame from Northampton county to Licking, this county, in 1807. They were\\nfarmers. John Ardrey, a tanner, came to Leatherwood, near the eastern part\\nof the township, in 18 14. James, Betsy, Robert, Nancy, Susanna, John, Wil-\\nliam, and Mary were his children, some of whom are still living. Peter Wiant,\\nwith his sons, Abraham and Conrad, came to Porter township in 18 17, settling\\non part of the Stokes land, formerly a part of the Mifflin tract. Both sons were\\nfarmers, and Abraham is living yet in the township. Jacob Jack came to Leather-\\nwood in 1 8 1 8, settling near where his son Michael now lives. He came from Cen-\\ntre county. George and John Burns came to the eastern part of the township,\\nand settled on land still known as the Burns property, in 18 18. Philip Bitten-\\nbender came from Luzerne county and settled near Curllsville, this township, in\\n1822. His sons, Jacob and Philip, still living on the old property, have taken\\nsome interest in the raising of fine stock, also have been active in conducting\\ntownship affairs. Alexander Blair came to the western part of the township\\nand settled on Holland land in 1824. His children, William, Alexander, Sam-\\nuel, Betsey, and John R., all settled in the same locality. They and their de-\\nscendants form a thrifty settlement of farmers. Michael Buzzard came from\\nNorthampton county and settled on part of the Brodhead tract, now owned by\\nH. S. Phillips, in 181 8. He was a blacksmith, and the first one in the town-\\nship. His wife had some knowledge of medicine, and often performed the\\nduties of a family physician thus both were useful citizens in the commu-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0664.jp2"}, "639": {"fulltext": "fh./3\\n/vay)ij:u/", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0665.jp2"}, "640": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0666.jp2"}, "641": {"fulltext": "Porter Township. 577\\nnity. Mrs. Jacob Phillips, sr., one of their children, is now ninety years of age,\\nand is the oldest person living in the township at present. James Goheen,\\nalong with his children, Davis and James, jr., first settled where James G. Wil-\\nson now lives, in 1827. After living there about two years, they moved to the\\nGoheen farms, where they spent most of their lives. They were prosperous\\nfarmers, liberal, industrious, and energetic, and took an active interest in im-\\nporting and raising fine stock. James Reed, a blacksmith, came to the farm\\nnow owned by his son Samuel, in 1830, after living two years on one of the\\nGoheen farms. His sons, John, a carpenter, and Samuel, a farmer, are still liv-\\ning on the same property. Samuel Lowry came to Leasure s Run in 1824, and\\nsettled on the farm at present owned by Samuel Bovversox. Of his children,\\nRobert, John, Nancy, Samuel, and Susanna, only Samuel and Nancy (McNutt)\\nare living. Samuel was a farmer and lived near the old place until two years\\nago, at which time he moved to New Bethlehem. William Divins came to ths\\nfarm near Brinkerton where his son James now lives, in 1831. He was elected\\na member of the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1861, and re-elected in 1862.\\nHe was also county commissioner, county auditor, and for several years justice\\nof the peace. Some of his children are living in Porter township at present.\\nChristian Hamm came from Licking to Brinkerton in 1832, settling on the\\nfarm now owned by Jacob Hamm. He sold his farm to his brother John in\\n1837. Solomon H. Hamm, son of Christian, commenced his store at Brinker-\\nton in 1847. The post-ofiice there was established in 1855, taking its name\\nfrom the place named in honor of Brinkers, early settlers in that locality. S. H.\\nHamm was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1880, also\\nAvas first postmaster at Brinkerton, and justice of the peace one term in Porter\\ntownship.\\nNicholas Shanafelt, a gunsmith, moved his family from Huntington county\\nto Leatherwood, near Brinkerton, in 1835. Some of his sons became prom-\\ninent Baptist ministers. His son William, living at present near where they\\nfirst settled, cleared the place, improved the land, and has taken a live interest\\nin importing and raising short- horned cattle. Some of them are bred directly\\nfrom cattle brought from England. His herd at present is one of the finest in\\nthe county. He has also been an active worker in the Leatherwood Baptist\\nChurch ever since it was organized.\\nThe Pences came to the township and settled near Smithland in 1834.\\nThey were farmers. Some of the boys became carpenters, and have done\\nsome excellent work in Porter and other townships. George Polliard came to\\nthe Mays farm, near Rockville, in 1835. ^s a farmer. Most of his chil-\\ndren are connected with the later history of the township. Philip Seifrit came\\nto the Wiant settlement in 1836, and died in 1886, at the age of ninety-five\\nyears. Smithland took its name from Jacob Smith, who settled there in 1838.\\nGeorge McWilliams moved his family to Smithland in 1842. He kept a hotel", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0667.jp2"}, "642": {"fulltext": "5/8 History of Clarion County.\\nthere for several years. Several of his descendants are scattered over the\\ncounty.\\nThomas Armagost came to Squirrel Hill in 1840. He has lived there and\\nworked at the blacksmith trade ever since. There have been but (ew working\\ndays during that time that the sound of his hammer was not heard, and but\\nfew Sundays that he was not seen at church. Mohneys and Kratzers came\\nto Porter in 1835. They were farmers. James Mohney was afflicted with\\nrheumatism, and was confined to his bed for nearly a quarter of a century.\\nHe was relieved from his sufferings by death in 1882. During his early life\\nhe taught school. Among others of this period of settlers that should be men-\\ntioned are Abraham Slatterback, living on Leasure s Run, Samuel Bowersox,\\nGeorge Fox, and Thomas Elder in the Blair settlement, William Milligan,\\nPatterson Johnston, David Wilson, John Brinker, Browns, Whites, Toshes, and\\nmany others that have been good citizens.\\nChristian Brinker is at present living on the farm formerly owned by his\\nfather. He has been treasurer of Clarion county, associate judge, and in 1886\\nwas elected a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature. His liberality and\\ngood humor have made him popular.\\nGeorge T. Henry has served as county commissioner, and has been justice\\nof the peace for several years, an office he filled with credit. He has also been\\na useful man in the settling of estates. He is of decisive manner and bases his\\ndecisions on equity and justice rather than on legal technicalities.\\nAaron Khne was elected county commissioner in 1881, and has filled for\\nseveral years various township offices.\\nRockville, named from its exceedingly rocky surface, lies near the center of\\nthe township. Ross M. Corbett came here April 22, 1834, and built a saw-\\nmill that summer. The next summer he built a grist-mill, commencing to\\ngrind October 3, 1835. Farmers came a great distance to the mill. It was\\nconsidered first-class, and was run day and night. It has been repaired and kept\\nin running order ever since, and is at present a useful improvement in the com-\\nmunity. John Klingensmith, afterwards sheriff of Clarion county, was the first\\nmiller. Samuel Fagley is the present miller, having served for twenty years.\\nMr. Corbett built another saw-mill in 1866. Both are torn away now. He\\nhas been fortunate in raising a family potent for good Hunter, a missionary\\nin China for twenty-five years, Scott, a wholesale merchant in Wichita, Kan.,\\nLawson, a merchant in Dubois, and Samuel, a farmer, on Squirrel Hill, this\\ntownship. All have been quite successful. Dr. H. M. Wick came to Rock-\\nville in 1845. He remained here about twenty years, after which he moved\\nto New Bethelehem. His excellent judgment, kind and courteous disposition,\\nsympathy for the afflicted, along with his liberality and dignity, won for him\\na fond affection in the hearts of his neighbors.\\nThere have been stores kept in Rockville at different times. Archie Dickey", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0668.jp2"}, "643": {"fulltext": "Porter Township. 579\\nhad the first one, then Ross Corbett, and afterwards George T. Henry and\\nS. P. McNutt, S. P. McNutt and T. J. Henry, and T. J. Henry alone. Mr.\\nHenry also had a tannery there.\\nLaughlin s Mill and Store. The first mill in this locality was a rude log\\nbuilding, erected by John Shaw at quite an early date in the history of the\\ntownship. John Guyer afterwards became owner of the property, and built a\\nwoolen-mill. He obtained a patent for the land, including sixty acres, from\\nthe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1838, and sold it to Samuel, John, and\\nStewart Wilson, April 6, 1839. John and Stewart built the mill now owned by\\nW. A. S. S. Laughlin, the following summer. About the same time they,\\nin company with James Laughlin, who had come there in 1837, started a store.\\nLeatherwood post-office, taking its name from the stream, on the banks of\\nwhich a kind of shrub called leatherwood grew, was established in 1840, in\\ntheir store, and James Laughlin was appointed postmaster, which position he\\nheld until his death, in March, 1870. The office was granted a tri- weekly\\nmail in July, 1884, and daily, in 1886. Peter Rickard and S. P. McNutt each\\nserved as postmaster for five years, afterwards W. A. Laughlin, the present\\nincumbent, was appointed. James Laughlin bought the farm and their share\\nof the mill from Wilsons February 9, 1855, having bought their share in the\\nstore in 1846. He built the blacksmith shop in 1856. William P. Miller\\nworked in the shop the first two years, and immediately following Peter Rick-\\nard had charge of it for seventeen years.\\nManasseh Arnold came into the store as clerk, July 10, 1846, and became\\na partner in 1850. At the death of Laughlin in 1870, he became sole owner.\\nThe store was subsequently owned by S. P. McNutt and W. A. Laughlin, and\\nat present by W. A. S. S. Laughlin. Mr. Arnold was elected justice of the\\npeace in 1858, and held the office until 1873. He was also township treasurer\\nfor several years, and in 1875 was elected prothonotary of Clarion county.\\nThe mill, store, blacksmith shop, post-office, etc., made this a sort of a busi-\\nness center in the township. Credit is especially due James Laughlin for his\\nindustry and energy. He was liberal, strictly honest, courteous, and trusted\\nby all who knew him.\\nFurnace. Samuel and John Wilson purchased land and built St. Charles\\nfurnace in 1844-5. They sold it to Patrick Kerr in 1846. Here the process\\nof making metal by using raw coal instead of coke or charcoal was introduced\\nand successfully used. A store was also kept at the furnace. This industry\\nopened out the coal and ore veins in that locality, furnished employment for\\nmen depending on their daily earnings for their support, and for the spare mo-\\nments of farmers, and others, made a demand for produce, and brought wealth\\nand prosperity into the community. It continued to be a useful improvement\\nunder the management of Kerr until 1865, when it was abandoned. The land\\nis now owned by Reed, Howley Co.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0669.jp2"}, "644": {"fulltext": "580 History of Clarion County.\\nSchools. The first schools organized within the township are mentioned\\nin the general history of the county. Before the common school system was\\nestablished there was an academy near the Leatherwood Presbyterian Church.\\nAmong its earnest supporters were William Kirkpatrick, Daniel Beck, and\\nothers. The first public school-house was built by subscription in 1834\u00e2\u0080\u00945. ^t\\nwas located on the Olean road, near John Slagle s, and was called the Union\\nschool built of logs, poorly seated, but well ventilated. In addition to school\\npurposes it was used for singing schools, public worship, debating clubs, etc.\\nThe act of Assembly of 1834, establishing the free school system in Pennsyl-\\nvania, was popular from the first in Porter township. The provisions of the\\nact were accepted, and schools were established as rapidly as possible. Most\\nof the present sites were located after the township was struck oft Redbank.\\nSmithland school was established in 1842. Nearly all the rest were established\\nabout that time, or before it. The Oak Hall independent district became such\\nin 1858. It was taken from part of Monroe township and part of Porter, and\\nis under the care of three directors, elected by the citizens of the district. At\\npresent there are fourteen schools in the township, excluding the independent,\\nsix of which have lately been seated with patent furniture. None of the\\ngrounds are enclosed. Election is held in the Rockville House.\\nChurches. For a long time Churchville, commonly known as Licking, was\\nthe nearest church. The road was a path through the woods. The members\\npaid their preacher in grain, delivered at the mill. Rev. John Core was the\\nminister. At one time he was elected commissioner to the General Assembly\\nwhich met in the city of Philadelphia, and made the trip on horseback, taking\\nseveral days.\\nThe Leatherwood Presbyterian Church was organized the first Tuesday of\\nApril 1842. Rev. Elisha Barrett was the first preacher. He held the posi-\\ntion for six years, after which John Core preached six years. Rev Joseph\\nMateer was ordained in this church, and also preached his last sermon here,\\nserving faithfully as pastor for twenty-nine years, until his death in 1883. He\\nwas especially noted for his punctuality, studious habits, and for his natural\\nand easy gift of ready speech. Rev. L. W. Barr was his successor. Collin\\nMcNutt, sr., was the first person buried in this grave-yard.\\nThe Leatherwood Baptist Church, belonging to the Clarion Baptist Asso-\\nciation, was organized January 8, 1846, by Rev. Rockafellow and Rev. Thomas\\nE. Thomas, with ten members; whole number of members since organization,\\n155; present number, fifty- three. The house of worship was dedicated Au-\\ngust 8, 1854, by Rev. B. H. Thomas, D. D., who was for many years its faith-\\nful pastor. Father Thomas was much loved by his people, and all who knew\\nhim. The whole number of pastors in order from the first are Thomas Wil-\\nson, John Hunt, Runyon, Fish, Dean, and B. H. Thomas.\\nThe Squirrel Hill Lutheran Church was organized in 1846. Henry For-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0670.jp2"}, "645": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0671.jp2"}, "646": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0672.jp2"}, "647": {"fulltext": "Porter Township. 581\\ninger was one of the first leaders. Both the Methodist and Reformed congre-\\ngations assisted in erecting the building.\\nThe Squirrel Hill Reformed Church, belonging to Clarion Classis, Pittsburgh\\nSynod, was organized in 1848. Services were held in the Lutheran building\\nuntil 1870, when a new house was erected by the Reformed congregation.\\nRev. L. D. Leberman was their first pastor. He served three years. The\\nothers in order were George Wolf, four years Smith, three months Gilds,\\neighteen months; J. G. Shoemaker, eighteen years; John Dotter, three years;\\nJ. M. Evans, five years, and D. B. Lady, the present pastor, having served two\\nyears.\\nThe Squirrel Hill M. E. Church was organized in 1849. They held wor-\\nship in the Lutheran Church until 1873, when the new M. E. church was built.\\nThe Associated Presbyterian Church, located near Smithland, was organ-\\nized in 1854. Rev. Robert Bruce is the present minister.\\nThe Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, belonging to the Presbytery of Clar-\\nion, was organized January 11, i860, by Rev, William P. Moor, Rev. Joseph\\nMateer and Elder Ross M. Corbett. The pastors in order from the first are\\nJohn Sarrard, J. A. E. Simpson, and the present minister, J. M. McCurdy, as\\na supply.\\nGrange. The Leatherwood Grange was organized at Brinkerton, in Wil-\\nliam Shanafelt s old house, November 26, 1875. Among the leaders active in\\nits establishment were William Shanafelt, William Sherridan, J. Y. McNutt,\\nWilliam A. Henry, John D. Henry, and others. William Shanafelt was the\\nfirst master, after which John D. Henry was master for three years. Captain\\nJ. Z. Brown was master also. The Pleasant Grove Grange united with Leath-\\nerwood Grange in 1879. A hall known as Leatherwood P. of H. for the\\ngrange thus consohdated, was built near the residence of George T. Henry,\\nnow W. P. Henry, in 1879. A store is now kept in the hall by the Leather-\\nwood Co-operative Association, organized in the grange March 6, 1880.\\nPiolet post-office, named in honor of Victor E. Piolet, chairman of executive\\ncommittee, Pennsylvania State Grange P. of H., was established in the hall in\\n1886. It has now a daily mail. John D. Henry is postmaster.\\nRoss M. Corbett, James Lawson, Matthew McNutt, D. W. Goheen, Wil-\\nliam Shanafelt, and others assisted courteously in obtaining facts relating to the\\nhistory of Porter township.\\nGi", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0673.jp2"}, "648": {"fulltext": "582 History of Clarion County.\\nCHAPTER LXVI.\\nHISTOEY OF REDBAXK TOWNSHIP.\\nTHE present limits of Redbank township include a very small part of the\\noriginal township, which was organized September 18, 1806, and included\\nRedbank, Porter, Monroe, Limestone, Clarion, and Mill Creek townships in\\nthis county, and Redbank, Mahoning, and part of Madison in Armstrong\\ncounty.\\nThe township was named after Redbank Creek, which bounds it on the\\nsouth, and is also the boundary line between Clarion and Armstrong counties.\\nThe Indian name of this creek was Lycamihoning, but was changed to\\nSandy Lick, and in 1798 received the name of Redbank. The last change of\\nthe name was due to the red color of the soil along its banks.\\nThe first resident of the township was Henry Nolf, who settled on one of\\nthe Brodhead tracts in 1800. After various improvements, he obtained a\\npatent for 500 acres, contained in his improvement, founded on a warrant to\\nhim in 1806. Beside this tract, Mr. Nolf obtained patents for the land con-\\ntained in his improvements on the southeastern side of Redbank Creek, Arm-\\nstrong county, containing 634 acres. He lived for many years at Town Run,\\nand subsisted mainly by fishing and hunting. At this time Redbank Creek\\nabounded in fish, and the forest along the stream was filled with bear and deer.\\nMany are the tales still told of his hunting exploits.\\nJohn Mohney, sr., purchased of Pickering Company a five hundred-acre\\ntract adjoining Nolf s on the south, and built a log house near where Jacob\\nBrinker now lives, and in 1824 erected the stone house which still remains\\nstanding. The wisdom of Mr. Mohney s selection of land is now quite obvious,\\nas the best farms at the present time in Redbank township lie within this tract.\\nMr. Mohney became an extensive farmer, raising large crops of wheat,\\nwhich for want of a market was fed to the stock. At his death, the tract was\\ndivided into smaller farms, and occupied by his heirs. Adam and Abe located\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0on the eastern part, Isaac on that part lying north of Millville, and subse-\\nquently known as the Guyre farm, John on that which is now owned by Jacob\\nBrinker, Mrs. William Hoff man on what is now owned by James McWilliams,\\nMrs. Miller on the part joining Millville on the west, and Jacob located on a\\ntract in Armstrong county.\\nHenry C. Barrett purchased from Pickering Company part of tract 441\\nin April, 1801. He laid the land out in town lots, and on November 19, 1808,\\ntraded lots Nos. 3, 4, and half lots Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, n, 38, 46, 47, and 48, to-\\ngether with the water-right of Redbank Creek at that place, to Henry Nolf\\nfor one hundred and fifteen acres of the Thomas Brodhead tract. The tract was", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0674.jp2"}, "649": {"fulltext": "Redbank Township. 583\\nvalued at $450, and lots Nos. 3 and 4, $100; the nine half lots $200, and the\\nwater-right $150. Thus was laid out the foundation of the town of Millville,\\nbeing so called on account of the mill-seat at that point.\\nNolf conveyed all this right to Adam Mohney, April 9, 181 1, and he to\\nIsaac Mohney, October 28, 18 16.\\nAbout the time that John Mohney located in Redbank township, David\\nSilvis located on what is now Samuel Lowry s farm in Porter township. His\\nsons, Daniel and Conrad, took up land in Redbank. Daniel improved a piece\\nof land adjoining Hilliard s and Dovenspike s tracts, and resided there until his\\ndeath, after which it was sold to Jones Brinker, who after exhausting the\\ncoal sold the surface and their other interests to the Fairmount coal company.\\nDaniel Silvis was married to a daughter of Henry Nolf She died in 1886, at\\nthe age of ninety-three years. Conrad Silvis s farm joined Hilliard also, and\\nwas recently sold to the same coal company.\\nGeorge and Jacob Hilliard, brothers, were among the early settlers of the\\nnorthwestern part of the township. John and Elisah, sons of George Hilliard,\\ninherited their father s farm, and later sold to the coal company, a history of\\nwhich will be subsequently given.\\nLouis Doverspike (Daubenspike) purchased a four hundred acre tract, in-\\ncluding the flat where Fairmount now is, in 1808. After his death the land\\nwas divided among the heirs, John, William, Philip, and Henry Swanger, who\\nhad married the daughter. For many years these parties successfully farmed\\nthe land, but afterwards sold it to the coal company.\\nThe first settler in the eastern part of the township was Archibald McKil-\\nlip, who came to the country in 18 15, and took up three hundred acres. After\\nliving on it a few years and becoming dissatisfied on account of the lonesome-\\nness of the locality, he wrote to Mr. Chambers, a former acquaintance in North-\\nhampton county, and ofTered him one-half of his land if he would move on it.\\nMr. Chambers accepted the offer and in 18 18 Mr. McKillip got a neighbor,\\nand Mr. Chambers a farm.\\nJohn Shaffer squatted on a piece of land near where Millville now is, at a\\nvery early date, but was compelled to move off after the land was purchased\\nby Mr. Mohney.\\nChristian, Jacob, and Tobias Schick came from Northampton county, about\\n1820, and purchased of Pickering Company three hundred acres, lying be-\\ntween Millville and Shannondale.\\nDavid Mercer settled the land west of the McKillip settlement. At his\\ndeath the land was divided among his sons, Amos, George, Joseph, James, Da-\\nvid, Johnson, Daniel, and Washington. Johnson still owns and resides on\\nwhat is known as the old homestead.\\nZephaniah Space, of Luzerne county, N. J., purchased of Henry Nolf, fifty\\nacres north of Millville, for which he paid one dollar per acre. He moved on", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0675.jp2"}, "650": {"fulltext": "584 History of Clarion County.\\nthe land in 18 18, and besides farming, worked at blacksmithing, and for many\\nyears was the only blacksmith in the tow^nship.\\nDaniel Shannon, of Northampton county, landed at William Hoffman s in\\nthe spring of 1822, John Shaffer having died, Mr. Shannon attempted to pur-\\nchase of the heirs the Shaffer tract of 300 acres. After obtaining eight of the\\neleven shares, he sold his interest to Joseph Miller, and in 1843 purchased the\\nfarm at Shannondale, and besides farming kept a store for many years at that\\nplace. His son, Christopher, is still in possession of the property, and at pres-\\nent is one of the oldest and most respected citizens of the township.\\nThe land on which New Maysville is now situated was conveyed to George\\nGeist by Willink Company, who represented the Holland Land Company,\\nbeing a part of allotment 5, tract 254, warrant 3058, and adjoining Deer\\nPark on the north, containing 43 acres and 94 perches. The boundaries not\\nbeing well defined, caused much trouble.\\nGeorge Geist built a mill on this tract in 1833, which was afterward claimed\\nand proven to be on Brown and McConnell s land. The conflicting claims were\\nfinally adjusted by compromise. George Geist conveyed the land and mill to\\nDaniel Geist December 17, 1838, for $3,000, who sold it, December 26, 1839,\\nto John Hess for $1,500, who afterward conveyed the same to Andrew^ Wahl-\\nman.\\nNew Maysville was completely destroyed by the violent tornado that swept\\nover Armstrong and Clarion counties May 30, i860. The bridge across Red-\\nbank at this place was also blown down. The mill contained three sets of\\nbuhrs, one of which was carried up to the dam. Many persons were injured,\\nand several lives were lost by the storm.\\nWest Millville. The lands on which the town now stands were owned by\\nthe Pickering Land Company. The Pickerings were in the employ of the\\nHolland Land Company, and received land at six cents per acre for sur-\\nveying. They located tract 441 at this place. The town was laid out and\\nnamed at a very early period, but little w^as done in the way of building until\\nafter the death of Mr. Mohney, when the land was purchased by Mr. William\\nSl,oan, a re-survey was made, and part of the land owned by Mr. McWilliams\\nwas also laid out in lots.\\nThe first house was built by William Hoffman in 1803. It was a log house,\\nsituated on the land now owned by Mr. McWilliams, who moved it back and\\nnow uses it for shelter for stock, and recently erected in its stead a substantial\\nbrick dwelling, that is in keeping with the place, and which speaks the taste\\nof him who had it erected. Mr. Sloan, the other pioneer of Millville, has also\\nerected a beautiful brick dwelling, surrounded by a fine and tastefully kept\\nlawn, which adds much to the appearance of that part of the town.\\nBefore the building of the Low Grade Railroad, Millville was the chief\\nstopping place for teamsters who hauled merchandise from Mahoning to Brook-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0676.jp2"}, "651": {"fulltext": "JAi^^72^^?.-_", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0677.jp2"}, "652": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0678.jp2"}, "653": {"fulltext": "Redbank Township. 585\\nville. Mr. John Cribbs erected a large hotel for the accommodation of the\\ntraveling public and those engaged in hauling merchandise. It was a common\\nthing at that time for the streets to be lined on both sides by wagons loaded\\nwith goods, the stables crowded with teams, and the hotel filled with teamsters,\\nraftmen, and travelers. After the completion of the railroad, all hauling from\\nMahoning and traveling by stage coach ceased, and the large hotel remains a\\nsilent reminder of the past but the town immediately took on a new aspect.\\nStorehouses, dwelling houses, and work-shops sprang up, till at present the\\ntown contains one hundred and seven dwelling houses, six stores, seven work\\nshops of different kinds, two churches the first one was built in 1873 by\\nthe Evangelical denomination, the second in 1876 by the Presbyterians both\\nare neat and tasty edifices and have done much for the moral and religious\\ntendencies of the place.\\nTwo school-houses have been built the first one in 1868, which, becom-\\ning too small to accommodate all the children of school age, was replaced by a\\nnew one, containing two rooms, in 1885. The town has kept pace with other\\nplaces of the same size in educational matters, sustaining a pay school in the\\nsummer months in addition to the free term in the winter. Prof James Richey,\\nwho has become a celebrated linguist, has done much toward creating and\\ndirecting the educational interests of the place.\\nProf J. J. Wolf, besides being a very successful and enthusiastic teacher,\\nhas invented and had patented several very useful inventions.\\nZ. A. Space had charge of the schools during the last year, and did very\\neffective work.\\nStores. The first store was started by John Dougherty, a brother-in-law\\nof James Kerr, at what is known as the stone house, in 1825. Previous to this,\\nthe nearest store was at Kittanning. Mr. Dougherty moved the store to\\nBrookville in 1828.\\nMr. James Kerr started a store at the red house on Town Run. in i 830,\\nwhich he moved to Millville shortly after, and then sold the same to Messrs.\\nShannon and McFarland, and from, there Mr. Kerr moved to Clarion. Shan-\\nnon and McFarland divided the store, McFarland moving his part to Ringgold,\\nand Mr. Shannon in 1848 moved his to Shannondale.\\nMessrs. Abraham Fronk, Workman, and C. R. McNutt, kept store at Mill-\\nville at an early date.\\nMr. John Milliard started a store at Truittsburg, which he sold to Mercer,\\nand he to Truitt.\\nThe first church was built of logs in 1820, and was situated below^ the road,\\nopposite the present Lutheran Church. The second Lutheran Church was\\nbuilt by C. R. McNutt, in 1848, and still remains standing.\\nIndicstries. The early settlers were all engaged in farming, and as there\\nwas no grist-mill nearer than Kittanning, many of them would grind their own", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0679.jp2"}, "654": {"fulltext": "586 History of Clarion County.\\ngrain by hand mills, which was very slow and laborious work. The great need\\nof flour and sawed lumber, created an interest in the line of manufacturing\\nthem at an early period.\\nThe first grist-mill was built by Archibald McKillip shortly after settling in\\nthe township. It was built of logs and was a very primitive affair very often\\nthe water would get too low to grind, then the settlers would be compelled to go\\nto Kittanningto get their grain ground or resort to the hand mill. This state of\\nthings caused others to engage in the same business. Henry Nolf built a mill on\\nTown Run, in 1830, and Henry Nolf, jr., better known as Gum Nolf, built one\\non Sandy Creek. It was an improvement over the others, being arranged so\\nthat when the water was too low to grind, the buhrs could be turned by hand.\\nDuring the dry season all the farmers would flock to this mill, and each would\\nwait his turn, and grind his turn. It was a common thing fur farmers to be with-\\nout flour for weeks, and at the same time have great heaps of wheat garnered\\nin their barns. Many farmers took their wheat to Clough s mill on the Clar-\\nion River. Mr. Shannon relates that he took a few bushels of grain to the mill\\nat Patton s Station, and while waiting for it to be ground, he and the miller s son\\nwent out to skate on the pond. The miller s son had no shoes and his bare feet\\nwould stick to the ice. So Mr. Shannon would skate awhile and then lend his\\nshoes to the miller s son. Mr. John Cathers was the miller and, unlike the\\nmillers of the present day, was very poor, yet he lived in a land where flour was\\nin great demand, and grain plenty. After the building of George Geist s mill\\nat New Maysville, in 1833, niuch of this difficulty was obviated.\\nThe first saw-mill was built by Henry Nolf, on Town Run. In 1830 John\\nShaffer built a mill on Pine Run, and as sawed lumber was in demand and\\ntimber land could be had by moving on it, others engaged in the same busi-\\nness. David Mercer built another mill on the same Run in 1835. Later\\nJames McWilliams built a mill at Millville, putting in improved machinery.\\nThis was replaced by another, built on a more modern plan, by Henry Miller,\\nand is now owned and operated by Messrs. McAfoose and Miller. The latest\\nerected grist-mill was put up at Millville by Jacob Brinker. It is furnished\\nwith the latest improved machinery, including the patent process, and is a\\nmodel of neatness cost twenty thousand dollars. Wilson Jones and Captain\\nJ. M. Brinker associated together in business and formed the firm of Jones\\nBrinker. They purchased of Jacob Raymer, in 1857, a piece of land sit-\\nuated near where Fairmount City now is, on which was built a log hut and\\nbarn. They built a distillery on this in 1858, and commenced the manu-\\nfacturing of whisky the same year. The whisky was of a superior quality, so\\nmuch so, that Jones and Brinker Whisky became world famous. The dis-\\ntillery was run to its utmost capacity until 1871, when they took a contract to\\nbuild part of the Low Grade Division of the A. V. Railroad. Work was begun\\non the grade in June, 1871, and pushed to an early completion. The work", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0680.jp2"}, "655": {"fulltext": "Redbank Township. 587\\nwas accepted by the railroad company and the contractors complimented on\\nthe manner in which it was done. Immediately after the completion of this\\ncontract, they formed the Fairmount Coal and Iron Company, and purchased\\ntwelve hundred acres of valuable coal land adjoining the place where they\\nlived. They laid out the city of Fairmount, built several hundred houses for\\nminers, and entered actively on the work of developing the Fairmount mines.\\nThe first day s mining put out twenty-two tons, and the first shipment was\\nmade on the 4th of November, 1873. On account of the superiority of the\\ncoal, the demand for it in the Buffalo market rapidly increased, and in 1881,\\nthey were mining 900 tons daily.\\nBesides operating the mines they built a large number of coke-ovens, and\\nremoved the machinery from the distillery, and put in machinery for manufac-\\nturing facing-sand. The mill produced twenty tons of facing-sand per day.\\nThe old ware- room was changed, and stocked with merchandise for the accom-\\nmodation of the miners. This part was superintended by J. Frank McNutt, a\\nman of large experience, and decided business ability.\\nThe Fairmount Coal Company sold out their entire interests in 1881 to a\\nNew York syndicate of which Mr. B. K. Jamison was elected president. The\\nmines have since been running successfully under the supervision of Mr. Shaf-\\nfer. At the present time this company owns 5,000 acres of coal land in Red-\\nbank and Porter townships.\\nRedbank township is rich in mineral deposit, having an abundance of coal,\\niron ore, and limestone. The entire township is underlaid with two veins of\\ncoal. The one that is now being worked is known as the Kittanning vein,\\nand is four feet thick. Below this is the Freeport vein, which is six feet thick,\\nand which in the near future we expect to see mined.\\nAt the mouth of town Run was an Indian village the Indians remained\\nlong after the whites had settled in the townships, but they were always civil,\\nand no serious trouble ever occurred between them. Many vestiges of their\\ncamp, such as arrow heads, stone hammers, and stone basins are still found\\non the site.\\nThe early settlers suffered much loss from the frequent attacks of wolves\\nand bears upon their stock. Hunting days were frequent, in which all the\\nsettlers would engage, the object being to drive the bears and wolves away\\nfrom the settlement. In later years hunting parties were formed for sport.\\nOne of the last occurred in 1837. While skating on the dam at Patton s Sta-\\ntion, several parties discovered an old she bear and two cubs in a nest in the\\nlaurel at that place. The next morning George Milliron, Gilmor Montgom-\\nery, Daniel Geist, George Nolf, and several others, collected all the dogs in\\nthe neighborhood nine in all and started for the lair. They found her and\\nthe cubs in the nest, and the dogs made the attack but the old bear would\\nmake a rush at the dogs and then run back to the nest. In this way she killed", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0681.jp2"}, "656": {"fulltext": "588 History of Clarion County.\\nthe cubs. George Milliron shot at her, but his aim being imperfect, wounded\\nher in the foot. When the gun reported the dogs rushed in and took hold.\\nAs the bear was only slightly wounded she succeeded in killing five and wound-\\ning two of the dogs. Then she left the lair and started up the creek. After\\nan exciting chase of several hours Daniel Geist succeeded in killing her.\\nMany deer and wild turkeys were killed for years afterward.\\nCHAPTER LXVn.\\nHISTORY OF RICHLAND TOWNSHIP.\\nRICHLAND township lies in the western part of Clarion county. The\\nAllegheny River forms the western boundary. The township extends to\\nthe Clarion River on the south, and to Venango county on the northwest.\\nSalem township forms the northern boundary, and Beaver and Licking town-\\nships the eastern. It has an area of about nine thousand five hundred acres,\\nand contains about one hundred and twelve farms.\\nIt lies in the great oil-belt of Clarion county, and oil-producing and farm-\\ning form the chief occupation of the people.\\nBefore the organization of Clarion county, Richland township formed a part\\nof Venango county.\\nThe greater part of the land now included in Richland township belonged\\nto the Peters tract, which contained about ten thousand acres, embracing a\\nlarge part of Richland, and parts of Salem and Beaver townships. The first\\nsettlement within the present limits of the township was made by Daniel Ash-\\nbaugh. In the spring of i8o6 he came with his family from Sugar Creek,\\nArmstrong county, Pa., and settled near St. Petersburg. Here he purchased\\nfrom Richard Peters about three hundred and fifty acres of land, a part of\\nw^hich is now within the present limits of St. Petersburg borough. His son,\\nJacob Ashbaugh, and his grandsons, Henry, Abraham, and John Ashbaugh\\nare still living on the land which he settled.\\nAt the time of the settlement the land was all covered with woods, there\\nwere no roads, and traveling was very difficult. Mr. Ashbaugh and his family\\ntraveled in a wagon as far as the Clarion River. From there they proceeded\\non foot, carrying their household goods with them. They built a shanty,\\nwhich consisted of poles driven in the ground to support a roof of clap-boards.\\nThere were no sides, and snakes and other wild animals kept them continually\\nuneasy for their safety.\\nIn this way they spent the summer, and put in crops on the land which", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0682.jp2"}, "657": {"fulltext": "Richland Township.\\n589\\nthey cleared. After the fall seeding was done they began the erection of a\\nsmall log house, which they completed and moved into about Christmas.\\nIn 1807 Conrad Moyer came from Sugar Creek, Armstrong county. Pa\\nand settled on a tract of land south of St. Petersburg, now known as the Ritts\\nfarm. About this time William Porter settled on the land now owned by\\nHiram Neely. On this farm Richard Peters, the proprietor of the Peters\\nland, built a house where he lived by himself for many years.\\nMany early settlements were made in the vicinity of Chestnut Ridge.\\nJacob Hale settled there in 1812, Daniel Knight in 1818. Mathias Gilbert\\nsettled prior to 1829. and Jacob Heeter settled in 1829. Robert Mackelwaine\\nsettled on the Slicker farm early, but never received a title to the land. An-\\ndrew Porter settled in the Conver school district about 1831. In 18 14 Cap-\\ntain Henry Neely moved from near Edenburg, Clarion county, and settled on\\nthe Isaac Neely farm. He purchased four hundred and thirty-five acres, then\\nunimproved, from the heirs of Edward Butler.\\nDuring the early history of the township, the majority of the people at-\\ntended the Reformed Lutheran Church in St. Petersburg. Later, services\\nwere often held in the dififerent school-houses of the township.\\nThe first school-house was built on the Porter farm, now owned by Hiram\\nNeely, about the year 18 16. The house was built of round logs, and roofed\\nwith clap-boards. For a chimney, sections of several logs were cut out at one\\nend of the building. Then a stone foundation was made, and upon the stone\\na chimney was built (outside of the house) of poles with mud mixed with straw\\nfor mortar. For windows there was a section of a log taken out on each side\\nof the room, and about every three feet props were placed upright, and over\\nthe openings thus formed greased paper was pasted to serve as window-licrhts\\nRobert Mackelwaine was the first teacher. This house was afterwards vacated\\nand the residence of Richard Peters, located on the same farm, was used for a\\nschool-house. The next school-house built in the township was erected in\\n1824, where the Conver school-house now stands. In 1826 a school- house\\nwas built near where the old Bostaph school-house stood. There are now ten\\nschool-houses in the township, and three in the Independent Foxburg district\\nThe Allegheny Valley Railroad was the first in the township. This rail-\\nroad, extending along the western border of the township, was built in 1865\\nThe Foxburg, St. Petersburg, and Clarion Railroad was built in 1877 Soon\\nafter, it was sold to the Pittsburgh, Bradford and Buffalo Railroad Company\\nand finally the Pittsburgh and Western.\\nThe first store kept in the township was owned by Louis Collner, and was\\nlocated on the road between St. Petersburg and Emlenton. He afterwards\\nlocated in St. Petersburg, where his sons, the well known Collner Brothers\\nstill continue the business. Before the opening of this store, the people from\\nthe township went to Emlenton or Lawrenceburg to make their purchases.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0683.jp2"}, "658": {"fulltext": "S90 History of Clarion County.\\nIn 1818 the first grist-mill of the township was built on the Clarion river,\\nnear Alum Rock, by George Myers. This mill was burnt, and Mr. Myers\\nbuilt another one where Martin s mill now stands. The first saw- mill in the\\ntownship was built on Alum Rock Run by Henry and John Neely about 1820,\\nThe famous millwright, Harry Jenkins, performed the work.\\nIn 1862 the first post-office established in the township was located at\\nAlum Rock, in the house of Daniel Bostaph, who officiated as postmaster. At\\nthat time mail was received only once a week. The mail was carried from\\nEmlenton to Callensburg, via Agnew s Mills and St. Petersburg.\\nIn 1832 the land upon which Keating s furnace was erected was bought of\\nRichard Peters by Jacob Frederick, who sold to John Keating and John Ven-\\nsel. The land was found to contain much rich iron ore, and in 1846 the fur-\\nnace was built. In 1866 operations were suspended. It was never re- opened,\\nand is now a thing of the past.\\nAbout the time of the first oil excitement at Oil City, a company was\\nformed composed of Isaac Neely, William H. Neely, Daniel Bostaph, Alexander\\nWilson, Henry Barr, Edward Murray, and others. They began drilling a well\\nat Alum Rock, on the Isaac Neely farm. The tools and apparatus for drilling\\nwere then very crude, and progress was made very slowly. Now and then\\noperations were suspended for want of money to carry on the work. The first\\ndrilling was done by hand, then by horse-power, and finally, after the war,\\nwork was again resumed on the well. A set of tools was obtained, which\\nstuck in the well, and it was finally abandoned as a failure. Much gas\\nwas found, but no oil. This was the first well that was ever drilled in Rich-\\nland township. Oil operations were then suspended until about 1870. In the\\nspring of that year John Galey leased a piece of land belonging to Judge Keat-\\ning, situated on the Clarion River at a place called the Grass-flats. The well\\nwas a success, producing sixty or seventy barrels per day. Excitement spread\\nrapidly. Land was leased and other wells were drilled soon after.\\nIn 1 87 1 Hulings Company drilled a well at Antwerp, on the Ashbaugh\\nfarm. It produced three hundred barrels per day. This caused intense ex-\\ncitement, not only in the immediate vicinity, but throughout this and adjoining\\ncounties. People flocked from all parts of the State. Other wells were drilled\\nand found to be good producers, and in a short time a flourishing town had\\nsprung up.\\nIn the fall of 1872 the town was burnt. During the two short years of its\\nexistence, it had grown to be a town of about a thousand inhabitants. It was\\nnever rebuilt, and the few buildings which escaped the flames were afterward\\ntorn downfand moved away. The school-house, built in 1871, which stood on\\nthe hill above the town and escaped the flames, was moved down in the fall\\nof 1882, and is the only building left to mark the spot where the town once\\nstood.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0684.jp2"}, "659": {"fulltext": "John Keating.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0685.jp2"}, "660": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0686.jp2"}, "661": {"fulltext": "Richland Township. 591\\nIn 1872 oil was found on the Hiram Neely farm, a short distance east of\\nAntwerp. Soon after wells were drilled on the Isaac Neely farm, Keating\\nfarm, and around Turkey City.\\nFOXBURG.\\nThe history of this village properly commences with the oil excitement in\\n187a. It is built on land owned by the Fox heirs, all on leased lots, hence\\nthe name. The post-office was established in 1 870, and Colonel Gibson was\\nappointed postmaster. C. C. Bone opened a news-room and stationery store\\nabout the same time. Then followed other stores, a meat-market or two, dwell-\\nings, etc. Mr. Jos. Hart came here in 1870, building an oil refinery across the\\nriver in 1873. In 1876 he moved it upon the hill above Foxburg, and subse-\\nquently sold it to the Standard Oil Company.\\nFires. The first fire occurred here in 1876, when all the buildings on the\\nriver side of the A. V. Railroad were burned, including Porterfield MComb s\\nstore, express office. Smith s meat-market and other buildings, amounting in\\nloss to about $25,000. The same ground was again burnt over in 1881, tak-\\ning two restaurants, Wales s hardware store, Moore s grocery, express office,\\nbilliard-room and oil-well supply store.\\nIn the spring of 1883 the Fox Hotel was burned, and during the next two\\nyears the present fine building was erected by the Fox estate.\\nThe Valley depot was burned in 1884, and the present neat building\\nerected the next summer.\\nIn Jul}^, 1886, another fire occurred in this place, burning Smith s meat-\\nmarket, D. C. Hart s store, and Odd Fellow s Hall, a room above, Barnes s tin-\\nshop, and a millinery store. After all these fires most of the buildings were\\nrebuilt.\\nThere have been several societies organized in Foxburg from time to time,\\nincluding I. O. O. F. in 1871, A. O. U. W. about three years afterwards, and\\nlater the Knights of Honor, G. A. R., and others.\\nThe round-house and car- shop were built in 1880. The school-building\\nwas erected here in 1874, by heirs of the Fox estate. It is a neat, two-story\\nbuilding, containing three rooms, well furnished. Mrs. Samuel Fox has been\\na liberal contributor to the schools there ever since they were organized, giv-\\ning to their support $1,000, $1,500, and sometimes as much as $2,000 per\\nyear, besides taxes on the estate, which included the greater part of the public\\nfunds raised there.\\nThe Fox mansion is pleasantly situated on an elevation some distance\\nabove the town, and is a beautiful country residence.\\nTurkey City was at one time a flourishing oil centre, but is now on the\\ndecline.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0687.jp2"}, "662": {"fulltext": "592 History of Clarion County.\\nCHAPTER LXVIII.\\nHISTORY OF RIMERSBURG BOROUGH.\\nLOCATION. The borough and post-village of Rimersburg is situated in\\nthe southwestern part of the county, partly in Madison township, and\\npartly (the greater part) in Toby township.\\nPrevious to 1829 the site of the town was a barren, covered with a dense\\ngrowth of underbrush, through which deer and other wild animals roamed.\\nEarly History and Settlement. In the year named John Rimer built a rude\\ncabin on the lot of ground at present known as the Henry Crick property.\\nHere, in primitive style, an abundance of old-time rye whisky was served to\\nthe thirsty pioneers from the bar established by Rimer. The tavern became\\nquite a popular resort, and was often the scene of boisterous revelry.^\\nThe next building was slab cabin, which stood where James H. Abrams s\\nresidence now stands.\\nIt is on record 3 that in 1833 number of the pioneers celebrated the\\nFourth of July near one of these cabins. When the proposition was made that\\nit would be in order to have the Declaration of Independence read, the com-\\npany were considerably nonplused because of an inability to procure the his-\\ntoric document. James Pinks, however, came to the rescue, by producing a\\nchild s handkerchief, on which the Declaration was printed. D. R. Lawson,\\nas orator of the day, then read it in such a manner as to elicit the hearty ap-\\nplause of the assembled company.\\nIn 1839 Mr. Rimer and several other land owners laid out a number of\\ntown lots, and from the description given of the event by some of our older\\ncitizens, the sale must have been an unique affair. The lots were sold at\\ndollars apiece. At the consummation of the sale of each lot a good\\ndrink of whisky was taken by seller, buyer, and each of the by-standers.\\nDoubtless if the number of lots sold was at all considerable, the company must\\nhave been in a hilarious state by the time the auction was ended.\\nAs an inducement to settlers it was proposed to name the prospective\\nvillage in honor of the man who should, after the town was laid out, build the\\nfirst house. James Pinks purchased a lot and erected a house, rather a shanty,\\nof moderate diminsions, one and a half stories in height, upon the piece of\\nground lying at the intersection of the Lawsonham road with Main street,\\nwhere it stands at present-, the house owned by Mrs. William Abrams, and\\noccupied by Dr. J. H. Hepburn as a residence and office. Part of the original\\nbuilding is said to be included in the present structure. Here Mr. Pinks kept\\na little store. It is claimed by some that Mr. Pinks kept store here as early as\\n1 By W. W. Deati-ick. 2 See Caldwell s Atlas of Clarion County, p. 16. 3 jUd.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0688.jp2"}, "663": {"fulltext": "RiMERSBURG BOROUGH. 593\\n18 1 2, and that it was the first store in Clarion county.i A barrel of sugar, a\\nsack of coffee, a box of tea, and a few other articles were sufficient supplies for\\nnearly a year. Mr. Pinks became the first postmaster of Pinksville, as the\\nvillage was then called, the post-office having been removed from Maple\\nGrove, about a mile distant, where it had formerly been.\\nThe town grew rapidly at first, the location being elevated and pleasant,\\nbeing, moreover, on the Clarion and Watterson road. This was the third\\npublic road laid out in the county, and was for many years quite a thorough-\\nfare, traversed by stage-coaches and numerous teams. To accommodate the\\ntraveling public three hostelries were erected in Rimersburg, two being at\\nat present used as hotels, and now known respectively as the Sheridan and\\nBerlin Houses. The old Forest House is now used as a residence. The titles\\nof these hotels have varied from time to time as their proprietors have changed.\\nIncorporated a Borough.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In the year 1853 Rimersburg was duly incor-\\nporated as a borough. James Pinks was one of the first councilmen. The\\nborough, as originally laid out, was a rectangle three hundred rods long by\\none hundred rods wide, the general direction being south-southeast. Pre-\\nvious to 1862 the dead of the community were interred in the Bethesda grave-\\nyard of the Presbyterian Church, near town, and in the burying-grounds be-\\nlonging to the Methodist Reformed and Associate Presbyterian congregations\\nwithin the borough limits. In the year named Peter Switzer, Abram Pro-\\nbasco, Samuel Hosey, R. Klingensmith. David Crick, John Arner. sr., James\\nFeely, and perhaps some others, formed a company, bought a tract of land\\nnortheast of town, and laid it out in lots for a general cemetery. Shortly\\nafterwards the cemetery association was incorporated by law. and either by\\nthe incorporation act, or by a borough ordinance, further interments within\\nthe borough limits were prohibited. Many of the dead in the Methodist and\\nReformed grave-yards were raised and reinterred in the cemetery, since\\nwhich these grounds have not been used, and are now in a shamefu uy ne-\\nglected condition. As the burying ground of the Associate Presbyterian\\ncongregation was so near the borough limits the members of that denomina-\\ntion strongly objected to abandoning it. and made a strenuous effort to have\\ntheir grave-yard cut out of the borough. Considerable feeling and strife was\\nthereby engendered, the town council and the majority of the citizens strongly\\nopposing the proposed measure. To the surprise and chagrin of their oppo-\\nnents the Associate Presbyterians finally gained their point, securing a special\\nact of the Legislature (passed April 14, 1863), by which the fines of the\\nborough of Rimersburg are so changed as to exclude the grave-yard of\\nthe associate congregation of Cherry Run Church and the lot of John Boyls\\nfrom said borough limits, and include the said grave-yard and lot of John Boyls\\nwithin the township of Toby from which they were taken. This change\\n1 Caldwell s atlas, p. 9.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0689.jp2"}, "664": {"fulltext": "594 History of Clarion County.\\nrendered the northern boundary of the borough irregular in a very pecuHar\\nway.\\nSelection of Name. Originally, the southern part of the village was known\\nas Pinksville, and the northern end as Rimersburg. When a name was to be\\nselected for the whole town when incorporated, there arose quite a controversy\\nin the matter. One party desired to retain the name Pinksville. Others pro-\\nposed Sloansville, in honor of Colonel Levi Sloan. A third party claimed that\\nthe town should be called Rimersburg, after its earliest settler, John Rimer.\\nSeveral accounts are current explanatory of the final selection of the name.\\nSome say that it was a compromise between the claims of the Sloan and Pinks\\nfactions. Another, and probably the correct version of the matter, is that the\\nname Rimersburg was chosen because the consumers of Rimer s old rye whis-\\nkey were more numerous and influential than the patrons of the Pinksville\\npost-office and the customers at James Pinks s store. However that may be,\\nthe present generation of Rimers are among our most respected and temperate\\ncitizens, and our town has been for years an example of practical prohibition.\\nSchool-houses. In early times there were two school-houses in or near the\\npresent borough limits one was called Benn s school-house, and stood near\\nwhere Mr. Thomas Wilson s house now stands; the other, built in 1835, proba-\\nbly before the erection of Benn s school- house, was known as Jackson s school-\\nhouse. This occupied nearly the site of the present Reformed Church. It was\\na rude structure of logs, with a gable towards the Lawsonham road. In the\\none end was an immense fire-place. It had a rough puncheon floor, and seats\\nof slabs. Along the walls were ranged high seats for the writing pupils, part\\nof whom faced the walls, seated at rude desks made of a flattened log resting\\nupon pins inserted in the timbers of the building. This building had glazed\\nwindows, and not, as the County Atlas states, merely sashes filled with\\ngreased paper. The window in front was a regular double sash window, while\\nthe other sides were lighted by a double row of panes of glass, set in immov-\\nable sash extending nearly the whole length of the sides of the room.\\nIn the first public school was erected on the back street. It con-\\ntained two rooms, and was built of logs.\\nIn 1875 this building was replaced by a neat weather-boarded building,\\npainted white, containing two rooms, and equipped with patent desks. The\\nlocation, however, is most unfortunate, being on the back street, in close prox-\\nimity to stables and other uninviting surroundings.\\nClarion Collegiate Institute. Shortly prior to 1858, the people of the\\nReformed Church in this section of country, proposed the establishment of a\\nclassical academy. Several sites were proposed, among others Curllsville and\\nNew Bethlehem. However, as a larger amount of money was contributed for\\nthe proposed institution by the people of Rimersburg and adjacent neighbor-\\nhood, and as Rimersburg was then a thriving and growing village, being on", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0690.jp2"}, "665": {"fulltext": "RiMERSBURG BOROUGH. 595\\nthe principal thoroughfare of the county, the school was located here and\\nnamed Clarion Collegiate Institute.\\nIn the spring of 1858 the school was opened, with Rev. Lucian Cort, A. M.,\\nas principal, and until the Institute building was ready for occupancy, was con-\\nducted in the Reformed Church near by. In 1859 the Institute was incorpo-\\nrated under a liberal charter from the State. In 1871 a new charter was\\ngranted.\\nJuly 6, 1859, the corner-stone of the building was laid, on which occasion\\nRev. Henry Harbaugh, of blessed memory, delivered an address on Christian-\\nity and Mental Development. In i860 the building was completed, and was\\nimmediately occupied by the school. The first catalogue, issued in that year,\\nshows that one hundred and six pupils had been in attendance during the year\\n1859-60. At this time Rev. Abner Dale was associated with Mr. Cort as a\\nco-principal. In the winter of 1860-61, on account of failing health, Mr. Dale\\nsevered his connection with the school and congregation, and in the following\\nspring Mr. Cort also resigned, entering pastoral work for a while, but soon\\nengaging again in educational work elsewhere.\\nRev. Joseph H. Apple (now D. D.), was his immediate successor. For\\nnine years, years of discouragement and trial, for it was the time of the civil\\nwar, which depleted the attendance in institutions of learning everywhere, Dr.\\nApple stood at the head of the school, and during this time did noble and\\nsuccessful work. Many of his students exchanged their books and gowns for\\nswords and muskets, while many others turned their energies to the work of\\nteaching, or entered the gospel ministry.\\nRev. Charles Knepper was next entrusted with the care of the school.\\nFor a while the school prospered, and a paper, The Collegiate MontJily, was\\npublished. Serious difficulties between principal and students were engen-\\ndered, and these resulted in the establishment of a rival academy in the public\\nschool building, and finally in the retirement of Mr. Knepper from his position,\\nafter two years service.\\nFor about a year the regular management was temporarily suspended,^\\nand a private school was carried on by Mr. R. B. Huey, who rented the build-\\ning for this purpose.\\nIn the spring of 1873 Rev. J. J. Pennepacker, A. M., became principal, and\\nconducted the school successfully for several years until a severe personal\\ninjury compelled him to relinquish his work. He was succeeded in 1874 by\\nProfessor A. J. Davis, later superintendent of public schools of Clarion county,\\nand at present principal of the new State Normal School at Clarion. Mr. Da-\\nvis continued in charge until November i, 1880, and at times was assisted by\\nenthusiastic and able instructors, among whom may be mentioned Rev. Pen-\\nnepacker; Dr. J. T. Rimer, now of Curllsville Rev. A. Fleming, now rector of\\n1 At this time the Classis decided to abandon the school, and ordered the property to be sold.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0691.jp2"}, "666": {"fulltext": "596 History of Clarion County.\\nthe Episcopal Church at North East, Erie county Mr. W. A. Beer, of Cal-\\nlensburg, and others. During the incumbency of Professor Davis the school was\\nprosperous and considerable repairs were made. Rev. J. J. Pennepacker be-\\ncame principal again at the close of the year 1880, and occupied that position\\nuntil in January, 1882, he resigned and entered the pastoral work.\\nFor nearly a year the school was closed, and the buildings were becoming\\ndilapidated, and the grounds sadly neglected. In October, 1883, a call was\\nextended to Rev. W. W. Deatrick, A. M., to become principal. He accepted\\nthe call, reopened the institution January 7, 1884, and has remained at its head\\nfrom that time to the present.\\nThe school now enjoys an unusual degree of prosperity. Very extensive\\nrepairs have been made to the building, both on the exterior and on the inte-\\nrior. The beautiful natural grove in which the institute stands has been im-\\nproved and beautified. Within the last few years an extensive and valuable\\ncollection of mineral and other specimens has been gathered, a library of nearly\\nfive hundred volumes has been acquired, and other important improvements\\nhave been made.\\nThe institute building is a three-story structure, forty by sixty feet, sur-\\nmounted by a cupola. The lower floor is occupied as a residence by the prin-\\ncipal, the second is devoted to recitation-rooms, and the third contains the\\ndormitories of the students.\\nThe institution is owned and controlled by Clarion Classis of the Reformed\\nChurch, and is managed by a board of trustees appointed by that body, yet\\nthe school is not sectarian students are admitted irrespective of their denomi-\\nnational relations. As now constituted the board of trustees consists of Rev.\\nJ. F. Wiant, president Rev. W. W. Deatrick, secretary and treasurer Rev.\\nR. C. Bowling Rev. David B. Lady and Mr. Philip Bittenbender.\\nC/tJirches. There are four religious denominations represented in the town\\nby organized congregations and church edifices. There are the Associate\\nPresbyterians, Reformed, Methodist Episcopal, and Presbyterian.\\nAssociate Presbyterian Church. ^The Associate Presbyterian Church ad-\\njoins a pleasant grove in the northern part of the village. Rev. Robert Bruce,\\nresident within a short distance of Rimersburg, is pastor.\\nThe Reformed Church is a brick building situated on the west side of Main\\nstreet, just north of the ground of the Clarion Collegiate Institute. The con-\\ngregation known as the Jerusalem congregation, was organized early in 1841\\nby Rev. Henry Koch, out of material previously belonging to the church at\\nCurllsville. For some years the congregation worshiped at Arner s school-\\nhouse about three-quarters of a mile north of Rimersburg. Rev. Koch served\\nthem for several years until his death, August 7, 1845. I^i 1846 Rev. Hofi\\nman took charge. He was succeeded in 1848 by Rev. L. D. Leberman. The\\nchurch building was erected in this year. Rev. Leberman remained a year,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0692.jp2"}, "667": {"fulltext": "RiMERSBURG BOROUGH. 597\\nand was followed by Rev. George Wolff, who served this people some five\\nyears. Rev. N. E. Gills entered upon the pastorate as his successor, March,\\n1854. In June, 1856, Rev. J. G. Shoemaker became pastor, continuing in\\nthat relation until in June, i860, the congregation was erected into a separate\\ncharge. Rev. Abner Dale served the new charge for about six months. Early\\nin 1 86 1 Rev. Joseph H. Apple became pastor, and continued at the head of\\nthe church and of the Clarion Collegiate Institute, of which he was principal,\\nuntil near the close of 1869. Rev. C. Knepper ministered to the congregation\\nduring 1870 and 1871. For three years the charge was vacant until Decem-\\nber, 1874, when Rev. J. J. Pennepacker became pastor. This arrangement\\nheld until in 1879, when the congregation was again joined to the Curllsville\\ncharge, with Rev. John M. Evans, as pastor, who in his turn was followed by\\nRev. David B. Lady, who since the beginning of 1885 has ministered to the\\nspiritual necessities of the people. The congregation now numbers over one\\nhundred adult members.\\nMethodist Church.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 T\\\\\\\\q Methodist Episcopal Church, also on the west side\\nof Main street, is somewhat south of the center of town. This is a neat frame\\nstructure of considerable size, and surmounted by a cupola containing a sweet-\\ntoned bell.\\nThe history 1 of this society dates back to 18 17, when a class was organ-\\nized at the house of John Lawson on the road leading to Lawsonham, near the\\nlime quarry. Meetings were held in private houses until 1832, when a log\\nchurch was built about one-half mile east of Rimersburg, on lands then owned\\nby John Bingham, who gave to the society thirty acres of land. On part of\\nthis ground was a grave-yard used for many years, but of it there is now little\\nor no trace, the land having passed into other hands, and being under cultiva-\\ntion. In 1840, under the pastorate of Rev. R. Peck, a new church was com-\\nmenced near where the present church stands, but was not completed until\\n1848, under the pastorate of Rev. G. F. Reeser. In this building the congre-\\ngation continued to worship until 1871, when the present church was built and\\ndedicated under the pastorate of Rev. W. M. Taylor. The old building was\\nbought by Mr. Alfred Warren, who had it removed across the street and fitted\\nup for a town hall.\\nThe society has been served by the following named pastors James Bab-\\ncock, Nathan Callender, John C. Ayers, John Johnson, Job Wilson, Abner\\nJackson. A. C. Barnes, John Scott, C. Morrison, S. W. Ingram, Lewis Janney,\\nJ. W. Hill, J. K. Hallock, J. F. Hill, F. Guthrie, R. Peck, I. Mershon, j!\\nMortimer, John Graham, J. W. Klock, S. C. Churchill, D. H. Jack, Thomas.\\nBenn, H. M. Chamberlain, J. Hildebrand, G. F. Reeser, J. R. Lyon, A. Keller,\\nJ. Whippo, J. Crum, S. Hollen, R. A. Crathers, D. M. Stever, J. G. Thomp-\\nson, G. W. Moore, J. K. Mendenhall, R. Beaty, G. Dunmire, S. Coon, B.\\n66\\n1 This sketch is from data furnished by Rev, Clinton Jones.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0693.jp2"}, "668": {"fulltext": "598 History of Clarion County.\\nMarsteller, C. M. Heard, T. Graham, A. D. Davis, J. J. Bentley, R. B. Boyd,\\nP. W. Scofield, W. M. Taylor, J. M. Zelie, E. R. Knapp, R. Peete, J. C. Mc-\\nDonald, J. A. Hovis, Levi Beers, and since 1886, the present pastor, Clinton\\nJones.\\nThe congregation is united in a circuit with the societies at Lavvsonham,\\nSandy Hollow, Phillipsburg, and Wattersonville.\\nPresbyterian Church. The Presbyterian Church is near the southern end\\nof town on the west side of Main street also. It is a frame, weather- boarded,\\nwhite-painted building. The church is known as the Bethesda Church.\\nThe history of the congregation dates from 1834, when a Sunday-school\\nwas organized by a Rev. Mr. Andrews, a missionary of the American Sunday-\\nschool Union. The school was first held in a school-house near Sandy Hol-\\nlow, Madison township. Mr, Alexander McCain was the first superintendent.\\nThe Sunday-school was moved from place to place until the erection of the\\nBethesda Presbyterian Church, where it has been held ever since, except when,\\nfor a short time previous to the removal of the church edifice to Rimersburg,\\nit was held in the latter place. Though started as a union school, it has\\nalways been under Presbyterian management, and the school led to the organ-\\nization of the congregation.\\nMay 19, 1836, the Bethesda Presbyterian congregation was organized in\\nconnection with the Allegheny Presbytery, by Rev. John Core, with thirty-\\nfive members. In 1841 a church edifice, a frame building, was erected about\\na mile west of Rimersburg, where there is a burying ground which has been\\nused from that time to the present.\\nAbout 1862 the building was moved to Rimersburg and placed in its pres-\\nent position. In 1886 repairs were made which enhanced the appearance of\\nthe building quite considerably.\\nThe first trustees of the church were Isaac Hull, S. T. Kerr, John Morris,\\nand James L. Armstrong, and the first ruling elders were James Patton, Alex-\\nander McCain, and William Rankin.\\nThe following ministers have served the congregation Revs. John Core,\\nJ. Coulter (twice), John Glenn, Abram Boyd, Dr. Young, John Turbet these\\nfrom the organization to 1840; since then the following: Revs. McGarrah,\\nMontgomery, D. McCay, L. Greer, Crane, Moor, Sherrard, Simpson, Hawk,\\nW. C. Beebe, T. S. Negley, and W. J. Wilson, the last being in charge at\\npresent.\\nIn connection with this church there is a Women s Missionary Society,\\nwhich is deserving of notice as being in existence for over fifty years. Organ-\\nized February 27, 1837, it celebrated its semi-centennial in February, 1887.\\nMrs. Matilda Sawyers, the present president, has occupied that position unin-\\nterruptedly for twenty years.\\nIndependent Order of Odd Fellows. The Independent Order of Odd Fel-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0694.jp2"}, "669": {"fulltext": "RiMERSBURG BOROUGH. 599\\nlows have a lodge and hall in town. The lodge is known as Iron County\\nLodge No. 485, and was instituted May 20, 1853, in a room in the tan-house\\nowned by Major Reed. This room was occupied until December, 1865, at\\nwhich time the new lodge building was ready for occupancy. The hall, which\\nis a neat frame building on Main street, near the center of the town, was dedi-\\ncated January 17, 1866. From 1853 to 1887 about eight hundred members\\nhave been initiated into the order by this lodge. Six other lodges sprang into\\nexistence and drew a large part of their membership from this body. Some\\nprominent men, as Revs. O. M. Sacket, J. C. McDonald, J. C. Rhodes, and\\nJohn P. Norman, were initiated in this lodge; also the following gentlemen,\\nwho have held official positions in the county: Johnson Wilson, ex-commis-\\nsioner; David McClay, ex-State senator; J. H. Wilson, present State senator\\nalso Major Newlen, iron dealer and furnace master, as well as other business\\nand professional men.\\nIn the same building are held the meetings of Phoebe Lodge No. 123, of\\nthe Daughters of Rebecca. This lodge has been in existence some three or\\nfour years.\\nRimersburg is also the headquarters of the Rimersburg Anti-Horsethief\\nAssociation. This society was organized July 16, 1883, and meets annually\\non the afternoon of the first Tuesday in March. At the organization the\\nmembership was small the roll at present contains the names of eighty-seven\\nmembers.\\nBusiness Houses. Rimersburg now contains four general merchandise\\nstores, those of W. H. Craig Co., John Snyder, John Arner, and Alfred\\nWarren. Mr. J. R. Wick, for many years postmaster, deals in groceries S.\\nH. Raster Brother have a well stocked hardware store, and do an extensive\\nbusiness in the sale of farming implements drugs are dispensed by J. W.\\nKerr and by Samuel Arner, M. D. there is a millinery and mantua-making\\nestablishment carried on by Mrs. B. Mcllhenny. From September, 1876, to\\nSeptember, 1879, a bank, known as the Farmers Deposit Bank, was in opera-\\ntion but since the latter date the town has been without any institution of\\nthe kind. The Western Union Telegraph has lines passing through the town,\\nand an office located in John Snyder s store and operated by Mr. William D.\\nSnyder. William Stopp and William Ditty are justices of the peace.\\nManufactories. In former days there were two tanneries in active opera-\\ntion in the town, one where Squire Stopp s blacksmith-shop now stands,\\nerected by Reynolds Pinks, and afterwards owned and operated by Major P.\\nReed, lately deceased, and the other owned and operated by Mr. Pinks, on\\nthe lot of ground in the rear of the residence of Mr. George W. Wilson.\\nSome time in the sixties a steam grist-mill was built by James Dickey, at\\nthe eastern edge of the town, on the road leading to the coal works. After\\nrunning about eight years, and having passed into the possession of the Messrs.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0695.jp2"}, "670": {"fulltext": "6oo History of Clarion County.\\nAbrams, it was pulled down in 1873 and removed to Bear Creek, where it\\nshortly afterwards was destroyed by fire.\\nThe principal manufactories of the town are the furniture and undertaking\\nestablishment of John E. McGuigan, and the foundry of S. H. Kaster Brother.\\nThe foundry was established about 1855, and at present does a considerable\\nbusiness, producing a large annual output of plows, stoves, grates, and other\\ncastings. J. M. Steltzer carries on the manufacture of wagons in connection\\nwith his blacksmithing business.\\nMines. Underlying the town are thick veins of excellent bituminous coal,\\nwhich, outcropping in the ravines east of town, are extensively mined, both\\nfor home consumption and for shipment to foreign points. The nearest mine\\nis within half a mile of the borough limits, and is generally known as the Sligo\\nBranch Coal Company s mines.\\nProfessional Men. Besides Rev. Jones, pastor of the Methodist Church,\\nRev. Boyd McCullough, provisional pastor of the Cherry Run U. P. Church,\\nand Rev. Deatrick, principal of the Clarion Collegiate Institute, the professional\\nmen of the town are Rev. Samuel Coon, local preacher of the Methodist\\nChurch, and Messrs. John H. Hepburn and D. E. Wiles, doctors of medicine.\\nDr. Callihan for a number of years was a practicing physician here, until his\\nremoval to California several years ago. Dr. E. D. Sharpe also practiced\\nmedicine here for some years, until his death in 1876. The post of the Grand\\nArmy of the Republic of Rimersburg was named after Dr. Sharpe. Among\\nthe other physicians, resident and practicing in Rimersburg, were Drs. Elliott,\\nWilliam Wick, Skeer, Kelley, Graff, Norman, McDowell, McCandless, and\\nLimberg.\\nCHAPTER LXIX.\\nHISTORY OF ST. PETERSBURa BOROUGH. 1\\nTHE land now included within the limits of the borough of St. Petersburg,\\nin Clarion county, Pennsylvania, was granted by the Commonwealth of\\nPennsylvania by letters patent under the great seal of the State, in the year\\n1794 to Jared Ingersoll, John Adlum, Alexander James Dallas, Charles Swift,\\nand Benjamin Chew. They afterward sold it to Richard Peters, of Philadel-\\nphia. He sold it to Daniel Ashbaugh, Daniel Snyder, and Mr. Moyer. By\\nand by the place had several dwellings, and began to have the appearance of\\na village. It was then called Petersburg, in honor of Judge Peters, former\\n1 By C. F. McNutt.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0696.jp2"}, "671": {"fulltext": "St. Petersburg Borough. 6oi\\nowner of the land. This name it retained until the post-office was established\\nin 1862, when it was changed to St. Petersburg, to distinguish it from another\\npost-office in the State. The village is situated on the P. and W. railroad,\\nabout two miles east of Foxburg, and was a part of Richland township until\\nFebruary, 1872, when by a decree of the Court of Clarion county, it became a\\nborough. The court appointed Barney Vensel, judge, and Nelson Vensel and\\nDaniel Whitling, inspectors, to hold the first election in the borough on the\\n23d day of February, 1872. The following borough officers were elected at\\nthat time Burgess, Barney Vensel; councilmen. Nelson Vensel, G. H. Fur-\\nrel, Joel Fink, Daniel Whitling. and Charles Wilton school directors, Elias\\nRitts, M. C. Booth, Joel Fink, D. S. Herron, and Mr. Dittman justices of the\\npeace, William Steffe and C. Reichard poor overseers, J. Johnson and Mr,\\nWilcox constable, Charles Sipler judge of election. Till Jackson. D. S.\\nHerron, Joel Fink, and C. Wilton drafted the borough ordinances.\\nFirst Settlers. The first settler in what is now included within the limits\\nof St. Petersburg borough, was Daniel Snyder, who came from Westmoreland\\ncounty and built a log house in the northeastern part of the borough in 1820.\\nHe followed farming hpre until 1843, when he sold his place to Henry Steiner\\nwho afterwards sold it to John Boam. Philip Foust bought it from Boam in\\n1847. Daniel Ashbaugh and Mr. Moyer settled near here soon after Mr.\\nSnyder came.\\nIn 1836 Charles Sipler came from Allentown and settled where Fox s man-\\nsion now stands, and in 1843 came to St. Petersburg, where he still lives. He\\nis a stone mason by trade, but also followed farming and lumbering during\\npart of his time.\\nHis mother, Catharine Sipler, bought four acres of land in what is now the\\nborough, and erected thereon the first hotel in the town, in 1844. It was built\\non the present site of the St. Petersburg House. During the same year Samuel\\nLaughner, a carpenter, came to the town, but moved to Salem township in\\na few years. Charles Ritts also came to the borough that year, built a log\\nhouse, cleared some land, and afterwards engaged in farming.\\nLewis Collner was born at Eltman, Germany, in 181 1, and there in his\\nyouth worked at the shoemaker trade for forty cents a week. At the age of\\ntwenty-six he started to America with his kit of tools on his back, walking six\\nhundred miles to the seaport on the Mediterranean. When he arrived in New\\nYork with scarcely enough money to pay one night s lodging, he commenced\\nwork at his trade at fifteen dollars a month, and soon afterwards started west,\\narriving at St. Petersburg September 10, 1837, where he has lived and been an\\ninfluential citizen ever since. In 1849 built a stone house, with dwelling\\nand store-room combined. His was the second store in the place. The build-\\ning was destroyed by fire in 1873. During the same year, the brick store now\\nowned by his boys, was built. He had seven sons, all of whom are living at", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0697.jp2"}, "672": {"fulltext": "6o2 History of Clarion County.\\npresent in St. Petersburg, except William F., who was elected sheriff of Clarion\\ncounty in 1879, and prothonotary in 1884. Mr. Collner owned several farms\\nin the vicinity, and during the excitement operated extensively in the oil bus-\\niness. He has been quite successful financially.\\nJohn Vensel, with his family, which then and afterwards included Nelson^\\nCharley, Hannah (Ashbaugh), Amanda, Albert, John, jr., Phoebe, Agnes, and\\nWashington, came to Petersburg, erected buildings and started the first store in\\nthat place in 1848. His brother, Barney, became a clerk in the store in 1850,\\nand subsequently became owner of it. Barney Vensel was the first postmaster\\nin St. Petersburg; was elected county treasurer in 1870, and a member of the\\nPennsylvania Legislature in 1884; also has filled various borough offices, and\\nwas engaged extensively in the oil business during the excitement.\\nPeter Jackson came from Berks county. Pa., to Petersburg on December\\n10, 1836. He cleared thirty acres in part of the borough where Joel Fink\\nnow lives; was superintendent of the Sunday-school from 1851 to 1873, and\\nwas nineteen years an elder of the German Reformed Church of St. Peters-\\nburg. He organized and superintended the first Sunday-school in his village.\\nMr. Jackson kept a correct record of the dead buried in the Union grave-yard\\nuntil 1883. His record shows that the first person interred there was a child\\nin 1811, and from that time until 1883 eleven hundred persons have been\\nburied therein.\\nDaniel Whitling came to Petersburg in 1858, and started, the same year,\\nthe first jewelry store in the town. He has been engaged in that business ever\\nsince. At the time he started his store there were twenty-eight houses in the\\nvillage.\\nOil Movements. In 1871 the first oil well in this vicinity was drilled at\\nAntwerp by Hughlings Co. It produced three hundred barrels per day.\\nOn hearing this report people flocked to St. Petersburg from all directions,,\\nswelling the town to overflowing. Building was commenced extensively, and\\non a more substantial plan than in most oil towns. The first well in the\\nborough was drilled within the limits of the race course by Alonzo Goss and\\nTip Johnston in 1871. It produced about twenty barrels per day. Near the\\nsame time another well was drilled below the railroad depot, but not much oil\\nwas found in it, still drilling and testing was continued. The surrounding ter-\\nritory proved to be more productive than that included in the borough. The\\ngreatest producing well in the borough yielded eighty barrels per day. It was\\nlocated beside the school building.\\nThere were two boiler-houses erected, and also numerous stores, saloons,\\nboarding-houses, etc., kept in active operation for a few years, but many of\\nthem have since been abandoned. There were two papers printed here during\\nthe excitement, TJie Progress, edited by M. Goughler Bro., and the Daily\\nPress, edited by Mr. Tozer. Water works were completed in 1873, and a", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0698.jp2"}, "673": {"fulltext": "w", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0699.jp2"}, "674": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0700.jp2"}, "675": {"fulltext": "St. Petersburg Borough. 603\\nfire company had been organized a short time before. The outfit was found\\nto be incomplete without a lock-up for the tuffs. Accordingly one was\\nbuilt, and many a straggler got his lodging there and paid his bill in the morn-\\ning. The first victim was R. Houston, the man who built it. Oil was then\\nselling at about four dollars per barrel, with fluctuations. Common day labor-\\ners received three and four dollars per day. Drillers and mechanics received\\nfrom four to six dollars per day for their services. Money was plenty, and\\nbusiness was booming. In 1873 the town reached its maximum in popula-\\ntion, containing between four thousand and five thousand inhabitants, about\\nfour times the present population.\\nFires. The first fire occurred October 10, 1872, at eight o clock in the\\nmorning. It broke out at the east end of the town at the house of Mr. Patton,\\nwho had rented it to four families. There were nine houses burned, two torn\\ndown, and one rolled over the hill.\\nThe second fire broke out at the west end of the town, at half past six\\no clock on the evening of February 21, 1873, starting in Fred Hepp s saloon,\\nadjoining the opera house. In an instant the entire building was in flames,\\nwhich shot high into the air, enveloping the opera house in a sheet of fire from\\nend to end. The European House adjoining it took fire, also the Boston\\nclothing house. Hall s restaurant, Seymour Taylor s hardware store, Mat\\nColwell s billiard room, William Richard s barber shop, Michalisky s dry goods\\nstore, Wilson s dry goods store, Jamestown clothing store, Mr. Ritt s dwelling,\\nJohringer s jewelry store, Wilcox Butt s furniture store, J. H. Welsh s\\nwholesale liquor store, post-ofiice, and Smith Cook s new residence. On the\\nopposite side of the street the fire commenced with the Savings Bank, spread-\\ning eastward to Barney Vensel s office and residence, thence to the store of R.\\nW. De Haven, and to St. Petersburg Hotel, then jumped across a wide street\\nand caught Lewis CoUner s residence^ then leaped two hundred feet to D.\\nHerron s office, taking the entire row of buildings to the Progress ofifice. By\\nthe noble efforts of the fire department, and the aid of thousands of people\\nwho flocked from Antwerp, Turkey City, Richmond, and Foxburg, the fire\\nwas extinguished, but not until it had destroyed nearly the entire business\\npart of the town, together with many fine residences. In all about forty\\nhouses were destroyed. The loss amounted to $200,000. The burnt portion\\nof the town was rapidly rebuilt. So great was the business activity that new\\nlumber was hauled upon the dying embers.\\nAnother fire occurred in April, 1881. Several temporary houses, most of\\nthem vacant, were burned, but as no important buildings were included, the\\nloss was consequently not heavy.\\nIn May, 1884, the small school-house and the Presbyterian Church were\\nburned. They were not rebuilt.\\nBank. St. Petersburg Savings Bank, the first and only one in the bor-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0701.jp2"}, "676": {"fulltext": "6o4 History of Clarion County.\\nough, was established in February, 1872. Hon. John W. Hammond, of Erie,\\nwas president Hon. John Fertig, of Titusville, was vice-president and Chas.\\nHorton, of North East, was cashier. Horton died in July, 1873, at which time\\nJohn V. Ritts, was made cashier, and has held the position ever since. Ham-\\nmond died in 1880, and Elias Ritts became president, which position he still\\nholds. The bank was burned in the big fire of 1873, and immediately rebuilt\\non the same location. During the palmy days of the oil excitement, this bank\\ndid a large and profitable business their deposits ranging over $700,000 for\\na time, and their journal often footing over $i,000,000 daily. During the\\nfinancial panic of 1884, when the Marine Bank of New York, Penn Bank of\\nPittsburgh, and many others failed completely, this bank suspended for about\\nsixty days. The stockholders arranged with the creditors, and at the expira-\\ntion of that time re-opened the doors, and have since been doing a regular\\nbanking business.\\nHotels. There were several hotels in St. Petersburg at the time of the oil\\nexcitement, but for these pages, only the two existing at present will be\\ndetailed.\\nAs has already been referred to, Mrs. Catharine Sipler built on the present\\nsite of St. Petersburg House, the first hotel in the town, in 1844. She sold it\\nto Barney Vensel in 1855. It afterwards became the property of William\\nGoughler, who sold it to Daniel Whitling, in 1870. During the same summer\\nMr. Whitling sold it to Balliard Dutt. Balliard died soon afterward, and\\nDutt became sole owner. The old one being burned in 1873, he erected the\\nbuilding that is there now in 1874, and subsequently sold it to Aikens My-\\ners. Later Mr. Aikens became sole owner, and in 1885 sold it to Samuel\\nBostaph, in whose possession it remains at present. As it passed through the\\nhands of the different owners, important additions and improvements have\\nbeen made from time to time.\\nThe Adams House took its name from Charles Adams, the owner, who first\\nused the building for a hotel. He sold it to Blakeslee Brothers in 1871, and\\nthey afterwards sold it to King Myers. Prior to the fire of 1873, in which\\nit was consumed, King became sole owner. After the fire he built on the same\\nlocation a one-story house, and raised it another story in 1875. John Farr\\nbought it at sheriff s sale in 1880, and sold it in 1886, to Charles Crossgrove,\\nthe present owner^and landlord.\\nSchools. The first school-house in St. Petersburg was built of stone, in\\n1846, and stood on the present site of the Lutheran Church. However, school\\nhad been kept for two or^three years immediately preceding this in a log house\\nbuilt by Charles Sipler, for a dwelling. It stood where Myers s store now\\nstands. Reuben Delo and Charles Haas were the teachers therein. The sec-\\nond house was built on Church street north of the present building in 1859.\\nA second room was added thereto in 1873, and both were burned in the spring", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0702.jp2"}, "677": {"fulltext": "^S^It/SSBaTrs SoT-j. 2Si\u00c2\u00bb i", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0703.jp2"}, "678": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0704.jp2"}, "679": {"fulltext": "St. Petersburg Borough. 605\\nof 1875. During the ensuing summer the present building containing four\\nrooms was erected. In 1874 a school-house was built in the west end of the\\ntown, but was moved alongside the Presbyterian Church, near the large school-\\nbuilding, in 1 88 1, and used as room No. 5, for the advanced grade. It was\\nburned in May, 1884.\\nFor several years select schools have been taught here during the summer\\nvacations, usually under the supervision of the winter-term principals. Much\\nexcellent and thorough work has been done, and the schools have reached a\\nhigh degree of proficiency. Part of their success is due to the efforts of Dr. I.\\nJ. Wireback, a citizen and director, who has taken an active interest in their\\nwelfare. He delights in the study of mathematics, and has done much toward\\ncultivating in the school a taste for his favorite study. Other citizens and\\ndirectors have also been quite active in the interests of the schools.\\nCJiJirches. When Judge Peters sold his tract of land in what is now the\\nborough, he gave a portion of it to the German Reformed and Lutheran\\nChurches, for the sum of one dollar. The graveyard is included in this tract.\\nThe German Reformed and Lutherans built a union church on their property\\nin 1835.\\nThe Reformed congregation of Petersburg was organized in 1835 by Rev.\\nGeorge Koch. After a time, there being some dissatisfaction in the union, the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Reforms withdrew, and built a stone church in 1854. This building becoming\\nsomewhat dilapidated, it was torn down and the present brick building was\\nerected in 1877. After Rev. Koch died, Rev. H. Hoffman, was pastor during\\n1846-55 L. D. Leberman, 1856-58 J. S. Shade, 1858-65 D. O. Shoemaker,\\n1865-73 when the charge was divided into Beaver and St. Petersburg. Of\\nthe latter charge Rev. D. W. Wolf was pastor during 1873-76; W. C. Shall-\\nenbarger, 1876-83; and S. J. Beam, since March, 1885.\\nThe Lutheran congregation at St. Petersburg was organized in 1838 by\\nRev. George Ehrenfelt. They used the union church as a house of worship\\nuntil 1873, when they erected the building occupied at present. Their pastors\\nwere Revs. J. B. Fox, Kline, and Titzell,\\nThe Methodist congregation was organized in 1872 by Rev. Fay. Their\\nbuilding was erected soon afterwards. Among their prominent workers are\\nWelman, Murphy, Fritz, and others.\\nThe Catholic congregation at St. Petersburg M^as organized by Father J.\\nP. Smith, and their church was built in 1877. Father J. P. Smith, of Emlen-\\nton, is their present pastor.\\nThe Presbyterian congregation built a church in 1876 on the site of the\\nschool-house that had been burned. This church building was consumed by\\nfire, May i, 1884, and not rebuilt.\\nMiss Alice E. Allen, Charles Sipler, M. E. Lougnaker, and Peter Jackson,\\nassisted courteously in obtaining data relating to the history of St. Petersburg.\\n67", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0705.jp2"}, "680": {"fulltext": "6o6 History of Clarion County.\\nCHAPTER LXX.\\nHISTORY OF SALEM TOWNSHIF.i\\nSALEM township was erected in 1856, from parts of Richland and Beaver\\ntownships. It is bounded on the north by Venango county and Ashland\\ntownship on the east by Beaver township on the south by Beaver and Rich-\\nland townships, and on the west by Venango county. The length from east\\nto west is about five miles; the breadth is nearly four miles; area, about six-\\nteen square miles.\\nThe drainage is effected by five small streams. The northern part is\\ndrained by Mill Creek and its tributaries into the Allegheny River. The\\nsouthwestern arm is drained by a stream, in the act erecting the county called\\nShuU s Run, now called Richey Run. The central and eastern parts are\\ndrained by the head waters of Turkey and Beaver Creeks, into the Clarion\\nRiver. The drainage of the township is good, considering the lay of the land.\\nThe land is rolling, but there are only three high hills in the township.\\nTwo of these the Beels and Dittman hills are on the northwestern bound-\\nary. The other is a high knob in the northeastern part, called the Kline Hill.\\nThe Beels Hill is the highest point in the township, as leveled from the steeple\\nof the Salem Lutheran Church.\\nThe pursuits of the people have been very stable. The most of them have\\nalways been engaged in farming and stock raising. The finest and most pro-\\nductive farms of Clarion county He in the western and central parts of Salem\\ntownship. These farms are mostly small in extent, which perhaps explains\\nthe fact that they are under the most thorough state of cultivation. The yield\\nof oats is from forty to eighty bushels per acre. The corn yield is generally\\nabout one hundred bushels in the ear per acre. One season W. P. Finley\\nraised one hundred and fifty bushels of corn per acre. The wheat yield ranges\\nfrom fifteen to twenty-five bushels per acre. In 1884 P- M. Neely s thirteen-\\nacre field averaged thirty-four bushels per acre. This land also yields heavy\\ncrops of grass.\\nThe soil is of many different kinds. In the western part it is mostly lime-\\nstone clay. There are a few chestnut ridges and a few farms of slate-land.\\nGenerally, the soil of the township is naturally productive, as proven by the\\nmuch fine timber that has grown upon it, especially oak still much attention\\nis given to fertilizing. A great deal of lime is burned. All manures are care-\\nfully used. Some fertilizers are imported. The farmers have all taken advan-\\ntage of all the improvment and invention of agricultural implements. All\\nsowing and most reaping is done by machinery. There are six self-binders,\\nbeside many other reapers in the township.\\n1 By C. E. Rugh,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0706.jp2"}, "681": {"fulltext": "Salem Township.\\n607\\nIn minerals Salem township is not over-productive, yet she has the good\\nfortune of being able to supply herself for ages, perhaps forever. All the hills\\nare underlaid with thin viens of coal, and the banks as yet are only fairly\\nopened. The veins range in thickness from twenty inches to three feet. The\\nheaviest vein is that called the Wenner vein in the Kline Hill. The next heav-\\niest is the Dittman vein. The Cromer Bank deserves mention, especially for\\nthe fine specimens of ferns and leaves found in the slate above the coal.\\nThe township is abundantly supplied with limestone of a superior quality.\\nThe veins range from five to sixteen feet in thickness. The tract of land of\\nthe McKee farm, underlaid with limestone, was leased by James Bennett, and\\na branch of the Narrow Gauge railroad run into it. This bank was extensively\\nworked while this road was in operation, but now only supplies the farmers of\\nthe surrounding locality. The Rugh bank has been extensively worked for\\nmany years.\\nIn 1872 Rulings and Company drilled a well on the Delo farm, in the\\neastern part of the township, for oil. A forty-barrel well was struck, which\\nraised an extensive excitement. Soon a number of wells was under headway\\non the Exley, Hummel, and Knappenbarger farms. Some good wells were\\nstruck, especially on Hummel farm. Many of the wells are yet producing.\\nAbout the time of the Petersburg excitement, two wells were drilled on the\\nTroutner farm. There was a good show for oil in both wells, but they were\\nmismanaged and then abandoned. Other parts of the township have been\\ntested, but the Delo tract has proved the only prolific one.\\nA heavy gas well was struck on the Kurtz farm, but it was not used. The\\nNicholson well, on the Schefifer farm, had some oil, but was mismanaged in the\\ntorpedoing and had to be abandoned.\\nIn 1885 a well was drilled on the Cromer farm which produced only gas.\\nIt was bought by the Emlenton Gas Company. The same year (1885) Calvert\\ndrilled a well upon the P. M. Neely farm, which proved to be the most power-\\nful gas well then of the county. It was purchased by the Emlenton Gas Com-\\npany and carried to Emlenton in a three-inch line. The pressure now (1887)\\nis forty pounds per square inch on the open line.\\nIn 1886 Myers Brothers drilled a well on the Myers farm, 2,300 feet deep,\\nbut found no oil and very little gas.\\nThe history of the early settlers is wrapped up in the past, perhaps never\\nto be unfolded. Unfortunate for history the posterity of the most of the ear-\\nliest settlers can not be found. We have no knowledge of any Indian settle-\\nments within the township, but we are sure that they frequented these parts,\\nand reserved it for a hunting-ground. They camped along Sugar Run, espe-\\ncially near the spring called the Kelley spring on the Rugh farm. There\\nwere many little knolls between the springs along the brow of the hill and the\\nRun on these are little piles of stones called curly-backs, which have been", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0707.jp2"}, "682": {"fulltext": "6o8 History of Clarion County.\\nburned. There are also many arrow-heads found in this ravine, especially\\nsmall ones, which lead us to think that the Indians sometimes camped there.\\nThe early settlers remember when the Cornplanter Indians frequented this\\nplace.\\nMr. James B. McGinnis built the first house in 1803. Perhaps he was the\\nfirst settler. Mr. Alexander McDonald soon after settled on the Shaner land.\\nHe was succeeded by a Mr. Burns.\\nMr. Daniel Cook improved the land now owned by E. B. Scheffer.\\nMr. David Beels settled on the farm now called the Herman Snyder place,\\nin 1806. Mr. Beels was a German who smuggled his way on to a ship coming\\nto America, and was not discovered for several days. When the ship arrived\\nat Baltimore the captain sold him for his passage after serving out his time,\\nhe took up a home in Penn s Valley, where he was married. In 1806 he and\\nhis family, for they now had two children, emigrated to these parts on a wagon.\\nThe family stopped at Sligo, while Mr. Beels sought a location. Finding a\\nfine lay of land, and finding no deed or article to cover it, he soon landed his\\nfamily upon it, and began improving it. He afterwards was forced to abandon\\nit. He then commenced improving the northwestern corner of the tract now\\ncomprising Salem township.\\nAmong other ea-rly settlers who deserve mention are Mr. James Pratt,\\nthough his first location in these parts was not within the limits of the town-\\nship. He arrived on the Corwin land on Hallow-eve night, 1806. His son\\nWilliam was born the same night. He soon afterward settled in Salem town-\\nship also Mr. Porter, Mr. Peter Downing, Mr. John Scheffer, Mr. William and\\nPeter Hugh, and Mr. Snyder, et al.\\nThe history of the trials and hardships is the same as of all the pioneer\\nfathers. Salt was a luxury. Their nearest store for some time was at Kittan-\\nning. One spring Mr. Beels had to dig up and eat his potatoes that he had\\nplanted. One summer the settlers had to live on greens, wild fruit and game,\\nuntil the grain grew.\\nThe early settlers, like the Pilgrim Fathers, were conscious of the impor-\\ntance of early training, and up to the time when the law established free schools,\\nthey established schools where they could unite and support them. The houses\\nwere of long bricks, with paper windows, and a fire-place.\\nThe first school-house stood a little west from where Mr. William Scheffer s\\nbarn now stands. At present there are five districts Salem, Sugar Valley,\\nDelo, Pilgreheim, and Cross Roads, all furnished with fine new buildings, sup-\\nplied with patent furniture. Each school is supplied with a fine set of reading\\ncharts and an encyclopaedia. In 1880, through the efforts of Dr. G. A. Knight\\nand Mr. M. McGinnis, a building for a graded school was erected at Salem.\\nIt was a fine two-story building, well arranged and furnished. In the fall of\\n1880 Professor N. Scheffer, a graduate of Theil College, opened the first term.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0708.jp2"}, "683": {"fulltext": "Salem Township. 609\\nHis untiring efforts for two years placed his school on a good foundation.\\nHe left his school as principal to enter the ministry. Professor C. F. McNutt,\\na graduate of Edinboro, took charge of the school, and did splendid work.\\nHe resigned in the spring of 1884, to accept the office of county superintend-\\nent. During his last term he was assisted by Professor L. L. Himes, then of\\nEast Brady. Professor G. B. Johnston, of Lebanon, then took charge of the\\nschool. Under his management the school attained its maximum in numbers\\nand interest. Rev. J. F. Hershiser assisted by teaching Latin and Greek.\\nProfessor Johnston was appointed by the government to take charge of a school\\nin Alaska, which caused his resignation, taking effect January i, 1886. The\\nterm was finished by Professor S. W. McGarrah, of Grove City College. Pro-\\nfessor W Lincoln McClure taught the term of 1886-87.\\nThe Salem Institute is supplied with the finest library of any common\\nschool of the county. It has a fine cabinet, gathered by the pupils and friends,\\nalso finely mounted specimens of all native woods.\\nFor a religious history, the reader is referred to the church history of the\\ncounty, but the religious interest was apace with education. The first reli-\\ngious services were under the management of the Presbyterians. Their first\\npublic service was held in the grove where the Brick or Richland Church now\\nstands. Soon after the Methodists held services in Mr. Baker s barn and other\\nplaces.\\nIn 1838 the Lutherans and German Reforms built a large church in Salem.\\nThey were in union for over a quarter of a century, when the German Reforms\\nbuilt a fine church in the south end of Salem.\\nThe Evangelical Lutherans built the finest building in the township in\\n1875, at a cost of near $6,000.\\nDuring the years 1874-5 the Evangelists built a small church at the cross-\\nroads, in the northwestern part of the township.\\nIn 1873 the M. E. congregation built a large church.\\nSt. Luke s Evangelical Lutheran Church was built at Pickwick.\\nChurches and present pastors: Richland, Presbyterian, Rev. Elliot; Mt.\\nZion, Evangelist, Rev. Baumgardner Salem M. E., Rev. Laverty Salem,\\nGerman Reform, Rev. Mackley Salem and St. Luke s, Evangelical Lutheran,\\nRev. Hershiser.\\nThe Laughner grist-mill is the first and only mill in the township. At\\npresent it is owned by Stephen Porter.\\nW. B. M. Bashline and Samuel Sheakley operated a stave-mill, which was\\nset up by the Messrs. Gates for a couple of years, until it burned. It was put\\nin running order on the Conver place by Emanuel Lynn and Samuel Sheakley.\\nLong Weter erected a saw-mill near the first site of the stave-mill. Peter\\nSheakley and Harry King bought it and sawed a few seasons and then aban-\\ndoned it.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0709.jp2"}, "684": {"fulltext": "6io History of Clarion County.\\nIn 1886 S. H. C. H. Rossman built a saw-mill on Kurtz s land, near the\\nSugar Valley school-house, to saw up the hard wood timber in that section.\\nThey are doing a good thriving business.\\nAmong inventions deserving mention, are first, a cultivator by Mr. Philip\\nKribbs patented.\\nSecond, a plan for improved stabling, invented and patented in 1883 by Dr.\\nG. A. Knight, of Salem. It is so arranged as to save money, time and labor,\\nand shows thought and experience with cattle, and deserves the attention of\\nwide awake farmers.\\nRev. McMichael, a Presbyterian minister, has written a few novels, one en-\\ntitled The Minister s Daughter, and another entitled Conneaute Lake.\\nSalem township has furnished a county surveyor in the person of Dr. G. A.\\nKnight in 1864.\\nMr. W. F. Collner was elected county sherift and afterward prothonotary\\nfrom Salem township.\\nThe doctors that have practiced in Salem township are in order, five Dr.\\nMeaker, Dr. Bower, Dr. Knight, Dr. Clover, and Dr. Fitzgerald. Dr. Clover\\ndeserves special mention as a surgeon.\\nLamartine is the only post-office now within the limits of the township.\\nIt was established in 185 1 or 1852. The first postmaster was Mr. Samnel\\nEshleman. It has changed hands seven times, and is now kept by Mr. J. M.\\nKurtz.\\nPickwick and Triangle were flourishing oil towns in the northeast part of\\nthe township. Now only a trace is left to show their location. Pilgreheim\\nconsists of a number of dwellings on the Shippenville road.\\nSalem is the only town deserving of special mention. It has a population of\\n213, who live in forty-five dwellings beside these buildings there are one hotel,\\none drug store, one doctor s ofiice, one millinery shop, two blacksmith shops,\\none meat shop, three carpenter shops, three dry goods and notion stores, two\\nhalls, the public school building, three large churches, and the post-of^ce.\\nThe first cleared land about Salem was four acres near Mr. Michael Lough-\\nner s barn, owned by John Heasley. Mr. James Piatt soon built the first\\nbuilding on this land. Thomas Herrington started the town by building a\\nblacksmith shop about where Mr. J. M. Kurtz s dwelling stands.\\nMr. George Kribbs built the first store; Mr. Adam SchelTer, clerking. To\\nsay the least, Salem is a pleasant country town. The three churches furnish\\nreligious privileges unequaled in any town of the population of Salem. ]\\\\Iucb\\nattention is paid to education of all kinds.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0710.jp2"}, "685": {"fulltext": "Sligo Borough. 6ii\\nCHAPTER LXXI.\\nHISTORY OF SLIGO BOROUGH.i\\nTHE territory embraced within the present Hmits of SHgo borough was set-\\ntled at an early date, but by whom is not definitely known to the writer.\\nThe Craigs settled here early, and Richard Reynolds opened a store where\\nA. B. Miller s house now stands. The furnace being built in 1845, made the\\nfurnace bank a lively village. The furnace used charcoal. It shipped its metal\\nat Callensburg in boats on the Clarion. William Lyon, J. P. Lyon, and other\\ngentlemen of wealth owned the furnace. The company had a store in connec-\\ntion with the furnace and also several farms.\\nAbout i860 or 1 861 the Western Union Telegraph Company established\\nan office at this point, and in 1873 the Sligo Branch Railroad was built. Dur-\\ning war times, Sligo being a telegraph station, was a central point for gather-\\ning news from the field, and many an excited crowd assembled about the store\\nand office in those days.\\nThe Lyon family lived in lordly style, and their houses and grounds, now\\nowned by J. B. Miller, yet remain as monuments of their once proud state.\\nCompared with the usual dwellings of those days, these houses were palaces,\\nwhile their coachman and servants in attendance gave a southerly air to the\\nsurroundings, and even the employees of the store and offices affected to be\\nhke their employers. The Lyon family were a genteel people. The work-\\nmen respected them as such, and when D. E. Lyon, the oldest son of J. P.\\nLyon, went into the army with Captain Ewing s company, the boys who went\\nwith him and their friends felt that a barrier between wealth and labor had\\nbeen torn away.\\nThe new town of Sligo was laid out by the old furnace company in 187 1.\\nThomas Berrean, sr., built the first house in the new town. The company\\nsoon erected a new brick store building, now occupied by Hodil Company,\\nand in 1873 it erected the Sligo Hotel. Other buildings were soon erected,\\namong which were the M. E. Church in 1873, and the Presbyterian Church in\\n1873-4. About the same time the public school-house was erected.\\nIn 1878, on the 20th of September, the borough of Sligo was organized,\\nwith Dr. J. N. Bech as burgess, and John Anderson, D. C. Low, M. M. Con-\\nrad, A. J. Switzer, Conrad Hahn, and George Wagner as council. J. B. Ayres\\nwas high constable, and J. M. Craig justice of the peace.\\nThe business houses at present are J. B. Miller Son, Jacob Hodil, F. C.\\nMcEwen, J. F. C. Thomas, and George W. Craig in the general store business\\nN. S. Coulter, drugs and groceries Conrad Hahn, boots and shoes, and John\\nHartle, watchmaker.\\n1 By W. A. B.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0711.jp2"}, "686": {"fulltext": "6i2 History of Clarion County.\\nThe blacksmith shops are Low s and Silvis s. M. Anderson and John\\nShrum have wagon shops. John P. Greer Son, at the foundation of the\\nnew town, dealt extensively in hardware. J. B. Miller s new mill was erected\\nin 1879. In 1874 an Odd Fellows Lodge was established here, and held its\\nmeetings in the brick store. In 1886 the lodge fitted up a room in the Greer\\nbuilding and moved into it. The G. A. R. Post also meets in the same room.\\nNear the railroad J. B. Miller has a fire-brick factory, where he manufac-\\ntures and ships a great many fire-brick. These works were built in 1873.\\nIn 1864\u00e2\u0080\u00945 well was drilled for oil near the old furnace, and in 1886\\nanother was drilled up stream farther, near the railroad station. No oil was\\nfound, but a good vein of gas was struck, which is used for fuel and light.\\nThe well was purchased by J. B. Miller, who has laid lines to many of the\\nhouses in town.\\nRev. J. Mateer was the resident minister of the Presbyterian Church for\\nseveral years. He was succeeded by Rev. W. J. Wilson, and later by Rev.\\nJ. M. McCurdy. The M. E. Church has had the following ministers C. C.\\nHunt, Mr. Shepherd, D. C. Planett. S. J. Garnett, W. A. Baker, L. W. Show-\\ners, and Mr. Weldin.\\nThe medical men have been Dr. William Reichard, Dr. Fisher, Dr. J. N.\\nBech, Dr. McAuley, and Dr. Armstrong.\\nAt the time of Cleveland s election, Mr. Jaccb Hodil was postmaster at\\nSligo post-office. At the beginning of the new administration Mr. Hodil\\npromptly resigned his office. Mr. N. S. Coulter was appointed his successor.\\nThe Sligo Branch Railroad has been used for transporting pig iron, tan\\nbark, hoop poles, iron ore, timber, coal, and stock, all of these commodities\\nbeing shipped at this point.\\nOne of the oldest industries in the limits of the borough is Craig s woolen\\nfactory. In former times this factory wove a great deal, in addition to card-\\ning, spinning, and dyeing.\\nAt one time the Atlantic Pipe Line Company shipped oil at this point.\\nTheir iron tanks were located on the hill across Licking. The enterprise was\\nsoon abandoned and the tanks torn down. Work is now in progress to open\\na large coal mine here this summer.\\nAs a rule, the citizens of the town are industrious and intelligent, and much\\nmore attention is given to education than was formerly done. The town is\\npleasantly located on the Licking Creek, and embraces quite a large area. Its\\npossibilities are good for a first-class town.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0712.jp2"}, "687": {"fulltext": "Strattanville Borough. 613\\nCHAPTER LXXII.\\nHISTORY OF STRATTANVILLE BOROUGH.i\\nTHIS borough, a handsomely located village, is situated wholly within the\\nlimits of Clarion township, on the Turnpike, about three miles east of\\nClarion borough, and seven miles west of Corsica, Jefferson county. Pa. It is\\nbuilt upon a ridge, or watershed, about two miles south of the Clarion River.\\nIt is about one mile in length, and has a width of about one-fourth of a mile.\\nStrattanville is one of the oldest villages in the county, being eleven years\\nolder than the county itself The land on which the village is built was first\\npurchased by Philip Clover in 1817. Mr. Clover, in 1826, sold it to John\\nStrattan, sr. Two years afterwards, Mr. Strattan laid out the village, which\\nreceived its name in his honor. At that time the village was in Armstrong\\ncounty, and so remained till March, 1839, period of eleven years. In 1850\\nthe town was incorporated as a borough, and came under the general borough\\nact of 1 85 1, by decree of court in 1877. The first building erected on the site\\nof the town was built by John Ray the second by Captain Barber the third\\nby W. H. Lowrey the fourth by J. R. Strattan and the fifth by Samuel\\nWilson. The first store was opened by Samuel Wilson, esq., in June, 1834.\\nThis was the only store between Brookville and Franklin, except one at Shippen-\\nville, opened by Richard Shippen in 1822. Goods were brought here from Phil-\\nadelpha. Pa., in Conestoga wagons drawn by six horses. These wagons always\\nreturned laden with flax, clover seed, rags, and deer and bear skins. People\\ncame to this store from what are now Armstrong, Jefferson, Forest, Venango,,\\nand Clarion counties. This village is regularly laid out three long streets,\\nrunning directly east and west, while shorter ones cross these three and extend\\nnorth and south. The central street, extending east and west, is known as\\nCentral avenue, and is in width about fifty feet. The avenue is kept in good\\ncondition, and on either side is a banquette about six feet in width, for the\\naccommodation of pedestrians. The other streets are also lined with side-\\nwalks, built of solid plank. Beautiful shade trees Hue its streets. The popu-\\nlation numbers at present about three hundred. The vocations of the people\\nare many. There are merchants, carpenters, mechanics, lumbermen, etc.\\nThe citizens are generally industrious, enhghtened, and moral. The private\\nhomes are, many of them, handsome, and all tastily furnished. The private\\nresidence of R. Rulofson, esq., who is one of Clarion county s best busi-\\nness men, and one of the most useful citizens of this section of country, is\\nespecially worthy of mention. The building itself is one of the handsomest in\\nthe county, and is built in the midst of a beautiful park in the west end of the\\nI By S. C. Hepler.\\n68", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0713.jp2"}, "688": {"fulltext": "6i4 History of Clarion County.\\ntown. The park is laid out in walks, while the great number of trees it con-\\ntains, indigenous and exotic, evergreen and deciduous, illustrate Mr. Rulofson s\\ntaste. The large handsome brick dwelling, erected by Samuel Wilson and\\nnow occupied by his son, H. B. Wilson, is also worthy of note as is also the\\nhandsome new residence of Mr. and Mrs. James Cochran. Other residences\\nthat will compare favorably with the above are those belonging to and occu-\\npied by Dr. Barber and J. P. Jones, esq. The business portion of the town\\ncomprises four dr} goods and grocery stores, a post-office, one drug store, one\\nhardware store, one foundry, two boot and shoe shops, two millinery estab-\\nlishments, one blacksmith-shop, one tannery, one furniture store and undertak-\\ning establishment, one barber- shop, a Western Union telegraph office, two\\nhotels, one livery stable, and a lumber office. Our merchants, viz., J. A.\\nCochran, H. L. Young, Charles Strattan, M. D., and J. P. Jones, esq., are all\\ncourteous, enterprising men, and all have a splendid custom. Of the above\\nnamed gentlemen, Mr. Cochran is a son of one of the earliest settlers of the\\ncounty. Mr. H. L. Young, one of our most charitable and best business\\nmen, is a son of Thomas Young, deceased, who was the oldest male child\\nborn in the county of Clarion. Dr. Strattan is a direct descendant of the\\nfounder of this village. His store-room is commodious. Mr. Strattan is\\nalso proprietor of the drug store. Mr. Jones has, in connection with his dry\\ngoods and grocery store, a hardware store; he is also postmaster, being as-\\nsisted by his son, James Jones. The foundry is owned and operated by Stew-\\nard Wilson, esq. Several men are given permanent employment in this\\nfoundry, and threshing machines, plows, stoves, etc., are manufactured. An\\nexcellent plow was invented by the proprietor of this foundry, and is called the\\nS. Wilson plow. The boot and shoe shops, the proprietors of which are re-\\nspectively J. W. Crooks and J. D. Smith, esq., do a large business. Mr. Crooks\\nis also proprietor of the livery stable. The only blacksmith-shop is situated in\\nthe east end of the town, and is owned and managed by Mr, J. F. Green.\\nMrs. John Strattan and Mrs. Benjamin Hurley are each proprietresses of a first-\\nclass millinery store there are also several mantua-makers in the village.\\nCharles Warner is the owner of the tannery. He keeps for sale leather of all\\nkinds. The Messrs. Fulton are the owners and proprietors of the furniture\\nand undertaking establishment. The barber-shop, of which Mr. B. M. George\\nis proprietor, was but recently established. The telegraph office is presided\\nover by Messrs. Clyde, T. S. Young and G. G. Williams. The two hotels\\nare large, commodious frame structures, located on Central avenue, and are\\nknown as the American House and the Clover House. Charles Beatty, esq.,\\nis the proprietor of the American House, and Mrs. Clover, widow of Judge\\nClover, deceased, owns and keeps the Clover House. The lumber office be-\\nlongs to Mr. Rulofson above named, and is connected by telephone with his\\nextensive lumber mill at the mouth of Big Mill Creek.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0714.jp2"}, "689": {"fulltext": "I\\n^-c^\\n(^^^s:;::.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0715.jp2"}, "690": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0716.jp2"}, "691": {"fulltext": "Strattanville Borough. 615\\nThere are within the limits of the borough two church edifices, one a\\nMethodist Episcopal Church, the other a Baptist Church. The M. E. build-\\ning is a modest, white frame structure, situated about the center of the town,\\non the north side of Central avenue. It is one story in height, and has a seating\\ncapacity of about two hundred. The building is surmounted by a handsome\\nsteeple in which is a large bell, used to call together the people during hours\\nof worship. Church services are held every alternate Sunday by the pastor,\\nRev. Wharton. Sunday-school is also held every Sunday at two o clock P. M.,\\nand is usually attended by a goodly number of people, large and small. The\\npresent superintendent of the school is Mr. J. W. Crooks. The Baptist edifice\\nis also a frame structure, painted white, and is located at the west end of the\\ntown. It is somewhat larger than the M. E. Church, having a seating capa-\\ncity of perhaps two hundred and fifty. Its height is but one story, while it is\\nsurmounted by a spire containing what is said to be the best toned bell in\\nClarion county. Its beautiful peals as they ring out on a clear Sabbath morn,\\ncan easily be heard a distance of five miles. This church, at present, has no\\nregular pastor, but services are held occasionally by the Rev. Jacob Booth, of\\nLimestone. A Sabbath-school is also held in this building every Sunday at\\nten o clock A. M., so as not to conflict with the M. E. school. The school is\\nnot very large, but it is quite interesting and is well conducted. Mr. Steward\\nWilson is superintendent of this school.\\nThe cemeteries, two in number, are nicely located, and well kept. The\\none near the M. E. Church is the older, and is pretty well filled up with graves,\\nwhile the one lying west of the town is not so full of graves, on account of its\\nmore recent existence. Both cemeteries contain fine monuments.\\nThe Independent Order of Odd Fellows has an organization here which is\\none of the most flourishing in the county. Their building is of brick, and is\\nin size about thirty by forty-five feet, and two stories high. The upper part\\nis exclusively used by the lodge, while the lower room, or basement, is the\\ntown hall. It is neatly furnished with benches and chairs, and has a speaker s\\nstand. In it religious services are sometimes held by the Presbyterians. Lo-\\ncal amateurs give entertainments in the hall for their own benefit, and for the\\namusement of the people. Two physicians and surgeons, viz.: Drs. Shirley\\nand Barber are located in this village. Both are graduates of the best medical\\nschools in the country, and are meeting with success in their profession. Dr.\\nBarber has been permanently located in this village for many years, and Mr.\\nShirley has purchased property with a view of erecting thereon new buildings,\\nand permanently locating also.\\nThe schools are under the direct control of a board of six directors: Messrs.\\nC. Basim, president, H. Corbett, secretary, J. D. Smith, H. L. Young, J.\\nFrazier, and J. F. Green. The building in which the schools are held is a\\nframe structure two stories in height, and fifty by forty feet. There are three", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0717.jp2"}, "692": {"fulltext": "6i6 History of Clarion County.\\nrooms, two below and one above. The building is surmounted by a belfry.\\nThe rooms are furnished with patent furniture, the upper one, known as room\\nNo. I, having seating capacity for seventy-two students. It is also plastered,\\nthe walls being papered, and hung with pictures. This room has a library.\\nAmong the books of the library may be mentioned the complete Library of\\nUniversal Knowledge, fifteen volumes, which is a reprint of Chambers sency-\\nclopedia, with an addition of eighty thousand American topics, a Webster s\\nUnabridged Dictionary, with patent index, and a large family Bible. In\\njustice to the pupils of this room it must be remembered that through their\\nexertions this room was papered and the walls beautified by pictures they\\nalso placed in the room the above mentioned books. The citizens of the\\nborough are generally interested in the education of their children. They tax\\nthemselves heavily in order to pay good salaries. That they appreciate good\\nwork is evidenced by tlie fact that when they employ a teacher who does good\\nwork, they do not turn him oft for a new man, but keep him as long as he\\ncontinues to do well. The courses of instruction are thorough, being the same\\nas those used by all graded schools of the county, viz.: The Primary, the Red\\nSeal, the Yellow Seal, the Blue Seal, the Gold Seal, and the White Seal\\ncourses. Since the adoption of these courses, about six years since, several\\nof the young people of the village have received diplomas from the county\\nsuperintendent, evidencing the fact that they had finished the prescribed\\ncourse. Among the gentlemen graduates may be mentioned James Jones,\\nwho is now a successful merchant T. S. Young, who will engage in the med-\\nical profession G. G. Williams, a successful telegrapher S. J. Williams, who\\nwill enter the profession of law, and J. B. Neil, who is a successful teacher.\\nThe lady graduates, two of whom. Miss Ora Gahagan and Miss Jones, are teach-\\ners.\\nThe surviving soldiers of the late war have, with their surviving comrades\\nwho reside in Clarion and Mill Creek townships, organized a Grand Army\\nPost, having a good membership, the roster of which is as follows Com-\\nmander, George Johnson adjutant, U. L. Boyles quartermaster, J. D. Smith;\\nchaplain, B. H. Hutley officer of the day, H. B. Wilson; junior vice-com-\\nmander, Henry Shrum senior vice-commander, John Sherman.\\nThe sons of the veterans of the late war have also an organization of thirty\\nmembers, known as the Rankin Guthrie Camp, No. 70, the officers of which\\norganization are as follows Captain, S. W. Wilson first lieutenant, M. M.\\nStrattan second lieutenant, S. J. Sherman orderly sergeant, S. J. Williams\\nchaplain, E. C. McCoy quartermaster, J. F. Green sergeant of the guard, F.\\nF. Fisher; principal musician, M. M. Strattan; picket guard, J. F. Sherman;\\ncamp guard, M. E. Showers.\\nStrattanville has a brass band containing twelve pieces. There is also a\\nmartial band which was but recently organized.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0718.jp2"}, "693": {"fulltext": "Toby Township. gi-\\nThe town is lighted by petroleum, and heated by bituminous coal but we\\nbelieve the day is not far distant when natural gas will take the place of coal\\nand oil. Some of the most influential citizens are at present considering the\\nadvisability of purchasing gas, and the supposition is that they will ere long\\ndecide so to do.\\nThe village is noted for its healthfulness, the sanitary regulations being\\ngood. The supply of water, which is freestone, and the best and coolest of its\\nkmd, is supplied from wells, which are sunk into the earth to a depth of from\\ntwelve to twenty feet.\\nCHAPTER LXXIII.\\nHISTOEY OF TOBY TOWNSHIP.\\nTOBY township was one of the first townships in what is now Clarion\\ncounty. It is extended from the present Hne of Porter and Monroe town-\\nships westward to the Allegheny River, and from Mahoning Creek northward\\nto the Clarion River, or, as it was then called, Toby s Creek, from which stream\\nthe township derived its name. Some time prior to the erection of Clarion\\ncounty this territory was divided by an east and west line, making two town-\\nships, Madison and Toby. Since then the territory of this mother of townships\\nhas been from time to time reduced by division, until it has acquired its pres-\\nent moderate dimensions of some twenty-eight square miles.\\nPeter Walley and Joseph Greenwald came to what is now the Independ-\\nence school district before the close of the last century. According to the state-\\nment of some old residents, Greenwald settled on what is now the McClure\\nfarm, and in 1797 erected a dwelling-house of logs. About 1831 when Mr\\nJohn McGarrah purchased his present home from Mr. Walley, he boarded for\\na while with the Walley family, who told him that they had cleared and\\nseeded about three acres in wheat, in the year 1797. Mrs. Walley was a sister\\nto Peter- Greenwald.\\nJohn Miller, an honest old German, better and more familiarly known as\\nHonnes (Johannes) Miller, was here at a very early date, at or before the\\nbeginning of the century. He first squatted on the tract of land later owned\\nby Rev. Henry Koch, and now by Mr. William Koch, and also was for a while\\non the old Thompson farm. He took up in all a tract of seven hundred\\nacres. The upper (southern) half of this he soon sold to William Thompson\\nretaining the lower end. On this, in 1807 or 1808, he built a grist-mill, long\\niW. W. Deatrick.\\n2 Is it not Joseph Greenwald vide supra.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0719.jp2"}, "694": {"fulltext": "6i8 History of Clarion County,\\nknown as Honnes Miller s mill, and occupying the site of the present Mill-\\nerstown mill.\\nWilliam Thompson came in about 1803 or 1804, emigrating from Indiana\\ncounty. For twenty-two years he served as constable. He was a boatman,\\nand was on the river a large part of his time, running keel-boats up and down\\nstream to quite a distance. The old log house in which he lived is still stand-\\ning on the old Thompson farm, as it is called, though now owned by Alex-\\nander Bole.\\nThe Mooreheads, David and John, were early settlers, or rather squatters,\\nfor they remained only a short time.\\nPeter Wiles, an early settler, lived about half a mile from Miilerstown, and\\nmust have come in about the same time as Miller and Thompson. His sister\\nwas married to Honnes Miller. Joseph Whitmore at an early date made\\nimprovements on what is now the Elder farm. John Hepler came in probably\\nabout 18 1 2 or 18 1 5. In the latter year Jacob Rimer, father of Major David\\nRimer, moved into the township. He and several of his sons were itinerant\\ntailors.\\nCaptain J. C. Kissinger was here in the year 18 19, having moved from\\nButler county. His first wife {iice Mary Steel) bore him nineteen children.\\nMarrying again, several years after, he had by his second wife {ncc Mary Ste-\\nvens), fifteen more children, in all thirty-four. Some time after the birth of\\nthe eleventh child, Mr. and Mrs. Kissinger left home on a business trip to But-\\nler county, leaving one of the children with Mrs. Kissinger s brother, and tak-\\ning the babe with them. During their absence their house took fire, and not\\nonly were their house and barn with their contents consumed, but their nine\\nchildren also were burned to death in the awful holocaust, their bones being\\nfound amid the ashes of their home.\\nIn 1820 Adam Crick, father of the venerable John Crick, moved from\\nHuntingdon, now Blair county, to a piece of land near Honnes Miller s milk\\nSoon afterwards he moved to the William Courson farm, and thence to the\\nFullmer farm near Mount Airy. From that place he moved to the farm now\\nowned by his son. John Hepler was also one of the early settlers, coming\\nperhaps as early as 18 12 or 181 5.\\nAmong the first improvements were distilleries, of which there were\\nseveral in this township. There was one about a mile and a half below Mii-\\nlerstown operated by a man named Byers. Another was on the farm now\\noccupied by G. W. Ramsey. In those days a bushel of rye could be ex-\\nchanged for six quarts of whisky, or for thirty cents in cash. The whisky was\\ngenerally taken. When the harvest was ready to cut, the neighbors would\\ngather in from far and near with their sickles and help their comrade to reap\\nhis field. As now-a-days at a vendue, a large supply of provisions and refresh-\\nments were necessary, and of these at that time an abundant supply of whis-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0720.jp2"}, "695": {"fulltext": "Toby Township. 619\\nky was regarded as entirely indispensable. The farmer whose field was to be\\nreaped would rise long before daylight, and with a one-horse sled, or a hand-\\nsled (for other vehicles they had none) he would start for the nearest distillery\\nto obtain his supplies. He would take with him a six or eight-gallon cask,\\nand getting it filled would be back before breakfast. A quart was the regular\\ndaily rations of each man. Whisky was used in large quantities at log-\\nrollings, at raisings, sales, hutchings, in fact everywhere and by everybody.\\nThe Ramsey distillery was subsequently converted into a pottery, and still\\nlater it was, for a while, used as a school-house. Of the school-teachers of\\nthat early time, many were hard drinkers. The following is told of one of the\\nold masters who wielded the birch in the distillery school-house He was\\naccustomed to get on a spree about once a week. The next day he would be\\nvery cross, and instead of giving the boys their usual recess, he would devote\\nthat time to the exercise of discipline, flogging the scholars for misdeeds actual\\nor imagined, and doing it all without respect to person, inasmuch as he would\\nflog a whole seat full at a time. On one occasion he got drunk, and while in\\nthe school-room he fell off his seat in a drunken stupor. While he was lying\\noutstretched on the rough puncheon floor, two of the boys in a caper of fun\\nseized him by his heels and dragged him at a lively rate around the room.\\nWhen it became apparent that this rough usage was restoring him to con-\\nsciousness, the boys abruptly fled, and prudently remained in concealment until\\ntheir master s wrath had subsided.\\nThe school-houses, even when erected for that purpose, were primitive in\\nstyle. Over sixty years ago one was built on the Riegel farm. It was of\\nround rough logs. The floor was made of puncheons, and there were pun-\\ncheon desks along the walls supported by pins let into the latter. The fire-\\nplace was immense, and the front of the chimney being supported by posts,\\nthere being no jambs, logs as long as eight feet were easily admitted into the\\nfire-place. The chimneys were constructed beaver-like, of sticks and mud.\\nEarly in the century the manufacture of salt was carried on by the Robin-\\nsons near Upper Hillville, for many years. From this place the country for\\nmany miles around was supplied with salt.\\nThe first good grist-mill in this section was Craig s Mill, on Licking Creek.\\nIt was built about 1829; was a frame building erected by James Craig and\\nChristopher Over, practical mill-wrights. It has been remodeled and repaired\\nseveral times, and now does the grinding for quite a considerable section of\\ncountry.\\nThe abundant supplies of coal, limestone, and iron ore which underlie this\\ntownship, are practically untouched. There has been no mining except of\\ncoal and limestone for home consumption.\\nSome prospecting for oil has been done, but so far without profitable re-\\nsults. In 1877 well was drilled near Rimersburg by Watson and Brosius.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0721.jp2"}, "696": {"fulltext": "620 History of Clarion County.\\nSalt water was struck at 500 feet, and the well cased at 540 feet. Gas was\\nstruck in what was called the First sand, at about 800 feet its quantity-\\nwas small, not enough being obtained to fire the boiler. The well was drilled\\nto 1,350 feet without finding oil in paying quantities. In May, 1878, a well\\nwas drilled along Cherry Run, on the Plyer farm, near the Methodist camping-\\nground. A large flow of gas was struck and some little oil, but not enough\\nto pay for pumping. Several other wells have been sunk, two in 1886, one\\non the John Myers farm, near Amos PoUiard s, and the other on a farm a\\nmile or two distant. Both ventures were failures.\\nChurches. At present there are in the bounds of the township three houses\\nfor religious worship. These are the Methodist Episcopal Church, on Cherry\\nRun, built shortly before the war, served by the pastor of the Sligo Circuit,*\\nand the Independence M. E. Church, located in the southwest corner of the\\ntownship. This latter church was built in 1876. Near the Watterson road,\\nabout two and a half miles northeast of Rimersburg, is the United Presbyterian\\nChurch of Cherry Run. The following account of this congregation has been\\nfurnished by Rev. Boyd McCullough, at present acting pastor:\\nThis congregation originated in a division of the Seceder Church of this\\nplace (Rimersburg) in 1858. Strange to say, this separation was caused by a\\nunion. It was in this year that different small bodies of Presbyterians coalesced\\nto form the United Presbyterian Church of America. These small bodies\\noriginated mostly in Great Britain, and their division sprung from the evils of\\nthe union of church and state.\\nThe main body of Presbyterians used to accept the royal bounty in the\\nNorth of Ireland, and still depend on state support in Scotland. But they\\nreceive it on conditions which interfere with their spiritual liberty. In short,\\nthe sovereign is the head of the church, to the dishonor of Christ who has the\\nonly right to rule.\\nThe Reformed Presbyterians for this reason refused to take the oath of\\nallegiance, or to hold office under the king, because they considered this would\\nbe acknowledging his claim of supremacy over the church.\\nThe Associate Presbyterians pursued a middle course. They accepted\\nno royal bounty, but they held office and took the oath of allegiance, at the\\nsame time explaining that they acknowledged the king as sovereign of the\\nstate, but not of the church.\\nBut the Associate Church divided again on the Burgess oath in Scotland,\\nwhich all must take to enjoy all the privileges in a borough. The Anti-\\nBurghers, while they took a general oath of allegiance, would not take this.\\nThe Burghers found their way clear to take it.\\nEmigrants settling in America generally sent back to the mother country\\nfor ministers. The result was that the different persuasions of the Presbyterian\\nfamily soon had their counterparts in America.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0722.jp2"}, "697": {"fulltext": "Toby Township. 621\\nWhen the independence of the United States was acknowledged in 1783,\\na union was effected among these churches here. As was natural, Christians\\nin this country still retained their attachment to and connection with churches\\nin the old country. These did not all approve of the arrangement. The off-\\nspring of this union, known as the Associate Reformed Church, was, in the old\\ncountry, only acknowledged by the Burgher Church. The Reformed Presby-\\nterians and Associate Presbyterians of the Anti-Burgher school continued to\\nsend over ministers to preach to their members who emigrated to America.\\nIn 1840, when the old generation had all passed away, a movement was\\nmade for union again. They were so particular about the conditions, however,\\nthat eighteen years were spent in discussion and negotiation. In 1858, to\\nthe great joy of many, the union was effected. Rev. John McCauley, the pas-\\ntor of Cherry Run, was opposed to the course. But forty-two of the members\\nleft a pastor whom they loved and respected to follow their presbytery and\\nsynod. They asked no division of the church property, but built a house of\\nworship for themselves. Their pastors have been Revs. S. C. Reed, William\\nA. Black, and M. S. Telford. Rev. Boyd McCuUough is at present provisional\\npastor.\\nThe Reformed people of the township now worship at Rimersburg and\\nCurllsville, but to them must be ascribed the honor of erecting the first church\\nin Toby township. Some fifty-eight or sixty years ago they built a church\\nabout three-fourths of a mile north of Mt. Airy, and about forty rods to the\\nwest of where Nail s school-house now stands. A school- house was also built\\nat the same place. Rev. Henry Koch wa^ their minister at that time. The\\nchurch was used, however, for but a short time, for almost before it was en-\\ntirely finished it, with the school-house, was destroyed by fire. There were\\nsome dead buried at this place. Now, however, the passer-by would fail to\\nnote their resting place. After the loss of their church the most of the people\\nworshiped at Churchville. At last a number uniting with others living about\\nRimersburg organized a new congregation, which, after holding service for\\nsome years in Arner s school-house, finally built the brick church in Rimers-\\nburg, where now the Reformed people of Toby township generally attend.\\nPrior to 1864 several camp-meetings were held by the Methodists at vari-\\nous places. It was then determined to establish a permanent camp ground.\\nThis has been successfully accomplished and the Cherry Run camp-meeting is\\na matter of annual interest to the people of the township. Under the name of\\nthe Cherry Run Union Camp Ground the association was chartered in 1864.\\nThe grounds embrace ten acres. In 1873 they were enclosed by an eight foot\\nboard fence. There are in the enclosure one hundred and three lots, a num-\\nber of private cottages, several boarding-houses, four two-story cottages, and\\none stable three hundred feet long, owned by the association. The amphi-\\ntheatre, eighty by one hundred feet, was erected in the spring of the present\\n09", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0723.jp2"}, "698": {"fulltext": "622 History of Clarion County.\\nyear (1887). The association is controlled by nine trustees; of these three are\\nare elected from each of the neighboring Methodist congregations, Rimers-\\nburg, Curllsville, and Sligo.\\nThe original election place (about 18 12) for Toby township was at McKib-\\nben s, now in Perry township. When the first election was held there were\\nnot enough voters present to form the board at the opening of the polls. So,\\nas it is related, McKibben, who was plowing, was called from his work to be-\\ncome a member of the board. The next election place was on the farm now\\nowned by the heirs of Michael Reichard. Subsequently elections were held at\\nMcElvey s, near the present Gardner Station. Thence they were moved to\\nDaniel Fullmer s, at Mount Airy. Then (about 1855) John Crick s house be-\\ncame the place. After some twelve years the polling place was removed to\\nMyers s school-house, where the elections have been held ever since.\\nToby township has produced some men who have attained to prominence.\\nAmong these may be mentioned Rev. Huey Newell, a Presbyterian minister,\\nnow resident in Venango county; Dr. D. L. McAninch, of West Freedom, and\\nDr. J. T. Rimer, practicing physician at Curllsville Dr. Robert N. Huey, at\\none time principal of the C. C. I. at Rimersburg, but now in the West, and\\nThomas Stewart, associate judge.\\nCHAPTER LXXIV.\\nHISTORY OF WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.\\nTHIS township is situated in the northwest corner of Clarion county. It\\nwas formed in the year 1843 from ten warrants of Pine Grove, two of\\nElk and ten of Farmington townships afterwards, in 1854, three warrants\\nwere taken off when Knox township was formed.\\nThe first settlers were Christian Henlen, George Kapp, and John Siegwarth,\\nin 181 5, in the part that was then Pine Grove township. Christian Henlen\\nwas born in the northern part of France, September 8, 1787, and when about\\neighteen years of age emigrated to Lancaster county. Pa. George Kapp was\\nborn in Lancaster county in 1784. John Siegwarth was born in Germany in\\n1787, and in early age emigrated with his parents to Lancaster county. Pa.\\nThese three parties, with their wives and families, started from Lancaster\\ncounty for the wilds of the western part of the State. They came by Harris-\\nburg, Indiana, and the State road from Brookville, stopping the last night at\\nAlex. McNaughton s (Highland Alex.), now Helen Furnace.\\nMr. Henlen bought a yoke of oxen and two cows, and Mr. Kapp two cows", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0724.jp2"}, "699": {"fulltext": "Washington Township. 623\\nfrom Mr. McNaughton, and the two oldest children in each of the two families\\nwere selected to drive the stock to their destination. Each of the families had\\na covered wagon. They first encamped within a few rods of where now stands\\nthe residence of Seward E. Henlen, a grandson of Christian Henlen, having\\nbeen four weeks on the way. One year before the War of 18 12, the three\\nfirst settlers had been on the spot and selected their land, so that on coming\\nwith their families they immediately went to work. And here I would remark\\nthat they would have come sooner but they were drafted into the service from\\nLancaster county and served through the war. They lived in their wagons\\nwhile they built log houses. Kapp s house was built first. All the tools they\\nbrought with them were axes, hand-saws, and a few augers. They made\\nwooden plows and wooden tooth harrows.\\nTheir first years were the same as are common to most pioneers, but as\\ntheir land became cleared they prospered. Most of their land was well tim-\\nbered, as were the lowlands generally; the hills and ridges, however, were cov-\\nered with low brush, being burnt over annually by the Indians to make open\\nwoods for hunting. Near to where they camped was what was called Hicks s\\ncabin, built for an hospital for sick and disabled soldiers in the War of 18 12.\\nThis shanty and about a dozen others within a mile or so on Hemlock Creek\\nwere occupied by Indian hunters of the Cornplanter tribe every winter for\\nseveral years afterwards. The Indians being friendly while kept in good\\nhumor were a source of great amusement to the new settlers, as they would\\noften get on a drunk, go through their war dance, and dangerous looking\\nexercises with knives and tomahawks, but would always have one sober Indian\\nin all of their sprees. They took away large quantities of game, Henlen haul-\\ning it to the Allegheny River for them, then they would canoe it up the river.\\nThe squaws did all the trading with the white settlers. They would have their\\npapooses strapped on a board hung on their back, and would set them down\\noutside until asked to bring them in. They would have venison, or other\\ngame, and sometimes wreaths and other trinkets to trade for potatoes, garden\\ntruck, or bread.\\nThe Indians would come every fall, fifteen to thirty in number, and remain\\nall winter. They had another camp on Step Creek, in the eastern part of\\nWashington township, which was their last place of resort. Finally they quit\\ncoming when the township became more settled.\\nThis colony of settlers brought with them from Lancaster county three\\ngood dogs, guns, and ammunition, and being good marksmen, they supplied\\ntheir tables with plenty of meat, as deer, wild turkeys, and game of all kinds\\nwere plenty. The streams also abounded with fish, which made up for other\\nprovisions that were difficult to obtain.\\nSome five miles distant from the location of the first settlers on the west,\\nwas a large strip of low, marshy land, free from brush, extending two miles in", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0725.jp2"}, "700": {"fulltext": "624 History of Clarion County.\\na north and south line, and one-fourth of a mile wide, where the first settlers\\nmowed grass to winter their stock for several years, until they had their land\\nin condition to raise hay on their own farms. This land was called the Glades\\nor Big Meadows. It was a source of great benefit to the early settlers, who\\nwould each have their certain place to cut as much as they wanted, and noth-\\ning to pay for the privilege.\\nThe Glades were badly infested with snakes, and when loading hay on the\\nwagons, sometimes the snappers would be forked up with the hay however,\\nthey rarely suffered any injury from the snakes.\\nChristian Henlen raised a family of seven children four boys and three\\ngirls. The only one of the sons that made his permanent residence in the town-\\nship was John Henlen, the third oldest. In his father s declining years he pur-\\nchased the homestead, also owning a large adjoining farm, and by industry and\\neconomy succeeded in laying up a competence, besides improving and leaving\\nthe two farms in good condition. Christian Henlen died January 25, 1852.\\nMargaret Henlen, his wife, died April 22, 1854. John Henlen, their son, died\\nJuly 8, 1884, being sixty-eight years old at the time of his death.\\nIn George Kapp s family there were eight children four when they\\narrived, and four born to them afterwards. The boys were great hunters, and\\nby their industry became well-to-do farmers, and useful members of the com-\\nmunity George Kapp in his time, and most of his descendants, being very\\nskillful in the treatment of diseases of human beings, horses, and cattle. In\\nthose times bleeding was considered the principal remedy for all the ills that\\nflesh was heir to, and the generosity of George Kapp will be shown further on\\nin this sketch by the number of his country people whom he sheltered and\\nbefriended on their arrival in this wild country. George Kapp died in the year\\n1836, being then fifty-two years of age.\\nJohn Siegwarth s family consisted of himself and wife and nine children\\none son and four daughters when he moved here, and three sons and one\\ndaughter born to them afterwards. None of the family occupy the old\\nhomestead, they having gone into business, or owned farms of their own dur-\\ning the life-time of Mr. Siegwarth. There are several of his descendants in\\nthe township, and in good circumstances. The first birth in the township was\\nRosana, daughter of John Siegwarth, in 1817. The first wedding in the\\ncommunity was Henry Imhoof to Sarah, daughter of George Kapp, in 1828.\\nAmong the obstacles those settlers had to contend with was the difficulty in\\nraising wheat at first, and in getting wheat or corn ground. They had to go\\ntwelve miles to mill, and sometimes could not get anything ground when they\\nwould go sometimes they would grind some corn in a coffee-mill, and some\\nwould hollow out a stump of a tree, and pound the corn with a stone.\\nIn 1824 Christian Henlen got a still started for the manufacture of whisky\\nwhich was an indispensable commodity with the early settlers. In a few year", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0726.jp2"}, "701": {"fulltext": "Washington Township. 625\\nthere were four small distilleries started within a radius of two miles. In\\n1823 Christian Henlen s house burned with all its contents, but in one week he\\nwas living in a new house. The pioneers from Clarion township came to the\\nraising.\\nDavid Reyner was agent for lands and lived in Kapp s settlement, near\\nHicks s cabin. He came soon after the Kapps, and subsequently moved to\\nTylersburg. Two of his children were buried about where the Henlen school-\\nhouse now stands.\\nAbout a year after Henlens, Samuel Zink came from Lancaster county,\\nvia Brookville and Clarion crossed the Clarion River at Bullock s fording,\\nthence by Berlin s on old turnpike and John Zeller s across the country to\\nState Road, at Kapp s settlement, then called Hicks s Cabin, which was occu-\\npied by Indians, there being a couple of squaws and some children there at\\nthe time. Kapps, Henlens, and Siegwarths were then living there. The In-\\ndians told him the nearest neighbors from the settlement were on the east\\nMcNaughtons, and on the west, Franklins. Mr. Zink then went to Franklin s,\\nbut stayed only a short time, returned and traded a set of blacksmith tools to\\nDavid Reyner for fifty acres of land. Mr. Zink then did the blacksmith work\\nfor the neighborhood. He had served in the war of 18 12, and also held a\\ncommission as militia captain under Governor Snyder. He served three years\\nas county commissioner, and died at the age of eighty-nine years had three\\nchildren when he came from Lancaster county, and eight more were born to\\nhim here.\\nAdam Yale came about 1820, and settled near where Clinton furnace after-\\nward stood. He built chimneys around through the neighborhood. He had\\nseven sons and two daughters. His boys were noted hunters, and they gen-\\nerally kept seven guns and an equal number of dogs. They moved away about\\nthe time the furnaces started up. Mr. Henry Zink, son of Samuel, went to\\nYale s once, and found the old man beating his horse with a large club. The\\nhorse had bitten a piece out of his shoulder.\\nThe first school-house was built in 1821. Mr. Steelsmith taught German\\nand English. Rev. Koch first preached in Kapp s barn, and afterwards in the\\nschool-house. Later Rev. Kile came and preached once in two months.\\nFrederick Rickenbrode, his wife, two sons Jacob and John and three\\ndaughters came from Lancaster county in 1820, and bought a farm adjoining\\nlands of all three of the first settlers, and although his land had been rejected\\nfrom the first settlers purchase, it proved to be the most valuable, having an\\nabundance of iron ore and limestone. They soon got to be well-to-do farmers.\\nJacob Lilligh started from Lancaster county with Frederick Rickenbrode,\\nbut came through Westmoreland county, rented a farm and sojourned there\\ntwo years, and arrived at Kapp s in 1822 in a covered wagon, afterwards going\\nthrough some hard times, on one occasion not having much of anything to eat", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0727.jp2"}, "702": {"fulltext": "626 History of Clarion County.\\nexcept lettuce for four weeks. They stayed two weeks at Kapps, until they\\nbuilt a log house on their farm adjoining Frederick Rickenbrode s. Their\\nfarm also turned out to be valuable, abounding in minerals which were util-\\nized by furnaces which started later on.\\nJacob Eisenman, a native of Baden, Germany, arrived in 1820. They\\ntook a wagon from home, and when they landed in New York they bought a\\nhorse and drove through to Harrisburg, and stopped there a while with a\\nfriend. Mrs. Frances Ditz, formerly Eisenman, says that she, in company\\nwith a little girl of the party they were stopping with, went to the State cap-\\nitol building, which was then being erected, and picked shavings. They were\\ntold that there was good land along the State road, where Washington town-\\nship now is. They then decided to go out. After being on the way a few\\ndays, Mrs. Ditz says her mother, herself, and another sister started ahead of\\nthe wagon, thinking to find a house to stop at. Towards evening, not finding\\nany habitation, they went back, but failed to get to the wagon before dark, so\\nthey sat on a log during the night. Occasionally they would fall asleep and\\nroll oft the log. They yelled repeatedly, and a couple of men encamped on a\\nneighboring hill heard them and started to hunt them up, but thinking it might\\nbe a panther, returned to their camp. In the morning the rest of the party\\narrived, they having encamped at a forks of the road, some distance back, fear-\\ning they might take the wrong road. After a tedious and wearisome journey,\\nthey arrived at George Kapp s, and stayed there two weeks until they erected\\na house on a piece of land which they bought from Huidekooper. In 1822\\nthey built a barn which still remains, and is the only building erected by the\\nfirst settlers that is left standing. It is now the James Eisenman barn. The\\nEisenman family, like the rest of the first settlers, suffered many privations.\\nThey had but one pair of shoes among them, which were worn by any of\\nthem going from home. Jacob Eisenman died in 1862 at the age of eighty-\\nfour years. Frances, now the widow of Ferdinand Ditz, is seventy-nine years\\nof age, being the oldest of the first settlers living.\\nHenry Mahle, with his family, arrived in 1824 from the eastern part of the\\nState of Pennsylvania, having come from Germany a few years previous. He\\nbought a farm about one half a mile east of where Fryburg now is, which still\\nremains in the Mahle famil)^\\nJohn Ditz and family arrived in 1825 from Fryburg, Germany. They\\nbrought a wagon from home, arrived in New York, hired their wagon and\\ngoods hauled to Philadelphia, where they bought a horse to haul them, and\\nthen went to Ohio with some emigrants who had relatives there, after which\\nthey came to Kapp Settlement. The family consisted of John Ditz and wife,\\nfour sons and two daughters. One of the girls died in 1826, being the first\\ndeath among the early settlers and the first corpse buried in the Catholic\\nburying-ground in Fryburg. After arriving and resting from the fatigue of", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0728.jp2"}, "703": {"fulltext": "Washington Township. 627\\nthe journey hither, the Ditz family packed up to leave, and after starting on\\nthe road about seven miles, their wagon broke down, so they returned and\\nlocated permanently. They bought a farm, went to work, and became pros-\\nperous farmers. Two other sons were born to them in their new home, viz.,\\nJohn and Frank. John Ditz, sr., died in 1865, at the age of seventy-five years.\\nFerdinand Ditz died in 1883, and John Ditz, jr., died in 1887. Augustus\\nDitz, grandson of John Ditz, sr., is the successor of his father, Ferdinand Ditz,\\nas proprietor of the Washington Hotel in Fryburg.\\nThe Fasenmyer family was the next to arrive from Germany Balthasor\\nand wife and four children, two sons and two daughters, in 1828. They after-\\nward had three children. Balthasor Fasenmyer was a soldier in Napoleon s\\narmy until Napoleon was taken prisoner, in 181 5, and used to tell of many\\nthrilling adventures and severe hardships endured by the soldiers in their cam-\\npaigns. His children are all in good circumstances. Joseph owns the old\\nhomestead and also is proprietor of the Jamestown Hotel Jacob is a prominent\\nmerchant in Fryburg. The Denslinger family came from Germany in 1827\\nand bought land adjoining Fasenmyer s, which still remains in the possession\\nof their descendants. The Weaver family came in 1827 from Redbank town-\\nship, having emigrated from Germany a few years previous. The family con-\\nsisted of Anthony Weaver and wife, five boys and three girls. Sebastian, the\\noldest of the children, married a Miss Greenwalt, of Toby township. Clarion\\ncounty. They are both living, and in their eighty-fourth year, being sixty\\nyears married.\\nHenry Amsler, a native of Switzerland, wife and three children, moved to\\nthis township in 1830, from Big Meadow, having lived there seven years, and\\npreviously three years at Powel s, in Venango county, and three in Lancaster\\ncity, Pa. Two of the boys, Henry and Rudolph, are still living on adjoining\\nfarms.\\nAbout the year 1830 other settlements were started. The Walters,\\nKniselys, Fulmers and Fellows in the northeast of the township, and the Mealys,\\nStrubles, Leeches and Everharts south and east of them. Also the Lymans,\\nFullers, Lichts, Nicks, Strickenbargers, Groners, Siegels, and Sutters, all of\\nwhom, or their descendants, occupy farms in the township, together with many\\nothers who came later.\\nFryburg, the principal village in Washington township, has a population\\nof about 175. It derived its name from Fryburg in Germany, from whence a\\nnumber of settlers in the immediate vicinity came. When the name was given\\nit, some were in favor of calling it Kappsheim, and others in favor of Fryburg.\\nIt was left to a vote, which resulted in favor of Fryburg. It is situated in the\\nnorthern part of the township on the State road, and the intersection of the\\nShippenville road, and is surrounded by hills, one of which is the highest point\\nin Clarion county. The first building in the village was erected by John Mark-\\nley in the year 1835, where now stands the residence of John Graham.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0729.jp2"}, "704": {"fulltext": "628 History of Clarion County.\\nThe next building was built by Keyler, long known as the Grable house,\\nnow owned by Joseph Siegel, and standing yet. Simon Ullman had the first\\nstore in Grable s house. Ditz s Hotel was built in 1849. It burned down in\\n1879, and was replaced the same year by a large, substantial brick hotel build-\\ning. There are now three general stores, one furniture and undertaking estab-\\nlishment, two hotels, one drug store, foundry and steam grist-mill, two black-\\nsmith shops, wagon maker shop, grocery, and millinery. For business the\\ntown will compare favorably with towns similarly situated. The climate is\\nhealthy, and the water good and pure.\\nLickingville, situated on the road from Fryburg to Tylersburg, at the inter-\\nsection of the road to Newmansville and Tionesta, is a quiet village of one hun-\\ndred inhabitants, having one hotel, four stores, two churches, and one school-\\nhouse. The two first houses were built in 1861 and 62 by Solomon Sieg-\\nwarth. The next two and one store were built in 1862 by Shoup and Sieg-\\nwarth. The name was derived from Licking Creek.\\nLineville (now Venus P. O.). The name Lineville originated from the town\\nbeing on the county line between Clarion and Venango counties. The first\\nhouse was built in the year 1845, by Henry Zink, who afterwards disposed of\\nit to Amos Owens, and is now owned by John Zigler. The business part of\\nthe town is now in Venango county.\\nNewmanville is a village at the northeast corner of Washington township.\\nThe first building was a store-house built by David Bowman, in 1867, now\\nowned by his son, J. C. Bowman. The name was given it by the post-office\\ndepartment. They refused to call it Bowmanville, and named it Newmanville.\\nIt also contains one hotel, one blacksmith shop, one stave mill, and one Free\\nMethodist Church, built four years ago.\\nJamestown, a village one mile south of Fryburg on the Shippenville road,\\nwas started in the year 1873. Jacob Weaver built a store and commenced\\nbusiness. Joseph Fasenmyer built and started a hotel in 1874. Anthony\\nMarkley built and started a planing-mill in 1875. The planing-mill was after-\\nterward moved to the Pittsburg and Western Railroad, near Tylersburg. The\\nvillages of Fryburg and Jamestown are connected by plank and board sidewalk.\\nIn the year 1843 44 three furnaces were started in Washington township.\\nClinton furnace, started by Moore and Seymour, afterward owned by Samuel\\nPlumer Hemlock furnace, also on Hemlock Creek, started by Fetzer and Ma-\\nguire, owned next by John Horner, and afterwards by Faber and Licking fur-\\nnace, started by Ohler Siegwarth and Company, on Licking Creek. There\\nwere about two thousand acres of land owned by the Clinton Furnace Com-\\npanies, on which they burned their charcoal. The other companies got theirs\\nburnt through the country. The ore was taken from lands of Henlen, Sieg-\\nwarth, Kapp, Jacob Lilligh, David Dahle, and Jacob Ditz. The furnaces while\\nthey ran were a great help to the new settlers brought in a great many oth-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0730.jp2"}, "705": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0731.jp2"}, "706": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0732.jp2"}, "707": {"fulltext": "Washington Township. 629\\ners, and times were livelier than they have been since. Clinton shut down\\nafter the frost in 1859, and the others about the same time.\\nThe streams that take their rise in Washington are Hemlock and Sandy,\\nthe source of both being near Fryburg. Hemlock flows into the Allegheny\\nRiver at President, and Sandy, at East Sandy.\\nThe first church building erected in the township was a Catholic log church,\\nnear Fryburg, in the year 1836. It was raised on the 4th of July. After\\nsome years this was replaced by a large frame structure, and in 1882 a new\\nchurch was commenced which was five years in building. The dimensions are\\none hundred and fifteen feet long and sixty feet wide, and briefly described as\\nfollows On a beautiful knoll in Washington township, overlooking the quiet\\nvillages of Fryburg and Jamestown, stands a massive stone structure. The\\nbuilding is constructed on the early Gothic plan, of native white sandstone, and\\nthe walls built in broken ashler style and irregular courses, backed by brick.\\nThe tower is one hundred and sixty feet high. A statue of St. Michael in a\\nniche of the outside wall, is the work of H. Flige, of Munster, Westphalia. It\\ncost $450; eight feet high; is made of one solid stone, and weighs 3,200\\npounds. The interior of the building presents a picture of artistic arrange-\\nment and magnificence seldom seen inside of the walls of the finest city\\nchurches. The style is of the basilica order, with three naves, the center nave\\nbeing twice the height of those on the sides height of center nave, fifty-six\\nfeet, and the side naves twenty-eight feet. The ceilings, with all their naves^\\nrest on arches usually called arcades, and between each four columns is a com-\\nplete system with groined arches, diagonal ribs, and an ornamental keystone..\\nTwo rows of columns, six in each row, carry the ceiling and support the roof.\\nPews, wainscoting, doors, etc., are of oak with cherry trimmings. The cost of\\nthe church can only be approximated, as the members of the congregation did\\nall the hauling and work they could do themselves without any charge. If\\neverything was counted, it would amount to about seventy thousand dollars\\nand, notwithstanding several liberal donations were received from outside the\\ncongregation and from members of other denominations, the building is a\\ncredit to the united efforts of the congregation and an honor to Clarion county.\\nIn 1842 a large frame church was built one mile east of Fryburg, calcu-\\nlated to accommodate the different Protestant denominations of the township,,\\nthe location being central, and the site being in every way desirable, but in\\nfive years after the Walters settlement for some cause withdrew and built a\\nchurch of their own. Then the members of the western part of the township\\nalso built a church in Fryburg, and left the large church vacant. It was taken\\ndown in 1872, the grave-yard only remaining.\\nThere are now nine churches in the township of the different Protestant\\ndenominations: At Lineville, one Methodist and one AUbright; one half mile\\nsouth of Lineville, on the Fryburg road, one Old Lutheran in Fryburg, one", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0733.jp2"}, "708": {"fulltext": "630 History of Clarion County.\\nNew Lutheran at Lickingville, one Allbright and one United Brethren at\\nMcMichaels, between Lickingville and Newmanville, one Methodist at New-\\nmanville, one New Lutheran and one Free Methodist.\\nThere are nine public schools in the township, all having patent furniture\\nbesides there is a large parochial school, of two rooms, in which are taught\\nvocal and instrumental music in addition to the usual branches taught in com-\\nmon schools.\\nThere were fourteen oil wells drilled in the township at different times.\\nOne well on Hemlock Creek, drilled by Richard Hunt on lands of Kendig and\\nHunt, pumped eighty barrels of oil, which was hauled to the Gas City pipe line;\\nbut being a small producer, and not warranting the laying of a pipe line, it was\\nabandoned. Among the others, one was a strong gas well drilled by Kahl\\nBrothers in 1878 on lands of J. W. Kahl. As gas at that time was not used\\nmuch for fuel, there was no use made of it. The gas was struck at a depth of\\none thousand feet.\\nERRATA.\\nThe State road, connecting Bald Eagle s Nest, near Bellefonte, with Erie,\\nwas surveyed and partially opened in 1797 by General Andrew EUicot. In\\n1799 the assembly authorized its completion and granted five thousand dollars\\nfor that purpose. The road was then finished in 1801 or 2. It was this road,\\nand not the Bellefonte and Waterford turnpike, that was subsidized by the\\nHolland Company.\\nNo stage line was established between Kittanning and Strattanville about\\n1828, as stated on page 98. It was not till 1845 that one was started between\\nClarion and Freeport.\\nOn page 5 16 it is implied that Alexander McNaughton had settled in High-\\nland township about 1812 it should be 1806.\\nFor T. S. Calmont, on page 191, read J. S. McCalmont for Joseph\\nW. Coulter, on same page, read James W. Coulter.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0734.jp2"}, "709": {"fulltext": "Hon. James Campbell. 631\\nCHAPTER LXXV.\\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nCAMPBELL, HON. JAMES.^ In the year 1774 Robert Campbell, a Scotch-Irish-\\nman, together with his wife and family, emigrated from the State of Delaware and\\nsettled in what at that time was the Backwoods, Kishacoquillas Valley, Cumberland\\n(now Mifflin) county. Pa. The valley at that time was covered with a dense growth of tall\\ntimber, consisting of oak, chestnut, walnut, and hickory. Here he made himself a home,\\nput up buildings, began farming, and raised his family. On the loth day of July, 1824,\\nhe died, at the age of almost ninety-four years, leaving four sons and two daughters sur-\\nviving him.\\nOf these, the eldest son, John Campbell, inherited the mansion farm. He was seven\\nyears of age when his father came to the valley. At the age of forty years he married\\nRachel, the eldest daughter of John Oliver, one of the early settlers on the Juniata\\nRiver, near McVeytown. She was fully seventeen years younger than her husband.\\nThey commenced house-keeping in a double log story-and-a-half house, located\\nnear the mansion house. In this they lived until the decease of their father, and in it\\ntheir three sons and two daughters were born.\\nJames Campbell, the youngest of the sons, and the youngest but one of the family,\\nwas born on the 25th day of July, 18 13, and named after an uncle James Campbell,\\nwho was drowned in the Chemung River, while traveling in New York State many\\nyears before.\\nFrom a puny, sickly child, he gradually developed into a healthy, stirring boy. As\\nhe increased in years he grew strong, and like other farmers boys in those days he was\\nput to work, and educated to steady, every-day labor learned the shorter catechism\\nattired in home-made clothes and home-spun Hnen he attended school in the winter and\\nthe Presbyterian Church on Sundays.\\nFrom his father, who was a well informed man, he acquired a taste for reading,\\nespecially historical works. Being dissatisfied with farming, he resolved that he would\\nearn a livelihood in some other manner; the result of which was, that at the age of\\neighteen years, he started to school at Germantown, Pa., with the intention of acquiring\\na classical education. The academy was under the care of George Junkin, D. D. In\\nthe spring of 1832 Dr. Junkin was made president of La Fayette College at Easton, Pa.,\\nand nearly all the pupils went witli him to Easton and started the new college with\\nabout one hundred students.\\nWhile here the subject of this sketch read Latin, and began the study of Greek. In\\nthe fall of 1832 the bilious fever broke out in the college; he, with others, had an at-\\ntack of the disease, and as soon as able he returned to his home. In the latter part of\\nthe year 1832 he went to Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pa., where he graduated in\\nthe class of 1837 then returned to Mifflin county and began the study of law at Lewis-\\ntown, Pa., under E. L. Benedict, and was there admitted to the bar in the spring of\\n1840. In the same year he came to the new town of Clarion, which had just been\\nmade the county seat.\\n1 By F. J. Maffett.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0735.jp2"}, "710": {"fulltext": "632 History of Clarion County.\\nOn the first Monday of November, 1840, he, with twenty-five others, was admitted\\nto the bar at the first court held in the county.\\nAt first the prospect was not flattering to a young lawyer, as the principal business\\nwas controlled by the older lawyers of Kittanning, Butler, and Franklin. Nevertheless,\\nMr. Campbell was counsel for one of the parties to the first suit tried in the courts of\\nthe county, and by patience and perseverance established a reasonably paying practice,\\nwhich continued to grow to such an extent that a partner was necessary to assist in the\\nbusiness.\\nHe was a member of the committee who built the First Presbyterian Church of\\nClarion we would infer a working member, as we have heard that he rolled stone,\\nshoveled sand, and as a lawyer, kept off creditors until money could be raised to pay\\nfor the church. In 1847 he married Nancy J. Hallack, daughter of Rev. J. K. Hallack,\\nand raised a family of five children, all of whom, except the youngest, are married and\\nhave families.\\nIn the fall of 1861, without solicitation on his part, he was made an independent\\ncandidate for president judge of the Eighteenth Judicial District, composed of the\\ncounties of Mercer, Venango, Clarion, Jefferson, and Forest, and was elected by a\\nhandsome majority. This was a large and laborious district, Venango county at that\\ntime being the center of oil development, that occasioned a vast increase of population\\nand much litigation. Judge Campbell held as high as thirty-two weeks court in a year,\\ntraveling hundreds of miles by stage-coach, between the various county seats in his\\ndistrict.\\nIn 1866 the counties of Mercer and Venango were created into a separate judicial\\ndistrict, Judge Campbell remaining in the original district. At the close of his term, in\\n187 1, he returned to the practice of law, and continued therein until the spring of 1886,\\nwhen he retired from the practice to give his whole attention to his private business.\\nIncluding the ten years on the bench, he was at bar forty-six years. As a lawyer he\\nstood at the head of his profession. As a judge he acquired a wide-spread reputation.\\nBy those who knew him, he is esteemed for his ability as a lawyer, his honesty as a\\njudge, and for his sterling integrity of character. He has prospered with the growth of\\nthe town and county. He has ever identified himself with the best interests of the com-\\nmunity in which he lives. At the age of seventy-three years, he is an active business\\nman, retains all his early love for reading, enjoys the society of business men, and is hale\\nand hearty, with a constitution but little impaired by a long and arduous business life.\\nHe is one of not more than five who remain of the first settlers of the town in 1840.\\nAt the organization of the Clarion State Normal School, Judge Campbell was elected\\npresident of the Board of Trustees, and has ever been one of the most active and labo-\\nrious members of the board. His contributions to, arid labors in behalf of this institu-\\ntion of learning are a fitting climax to a life of usefulness and beneficence in a com-\\nmunity where he cast his lot so many years ago.\\nA RNOLD, GEORGE WASHINGTON, cashier of the First National Bank of\\ni\\\\ Clarion, was born on a farm in York county. Pa., November 5, 1820. At the age\\nof seven years he was entrusted with the marketing at the neighboring stores of the lighter\\nproducts of the farm. About the same lime he began his school life, attending such\\nschools as were at that time maintained in the county by individual subscription, before\\nthe establishment of the common school system of the State. As there were but three", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0736.jp2"}, "711": {"fulltext": "George Washington Arnold. Charles Kaufman. 633\\nmonths school in the year, young Arnold s educational advantages were very much Um-\\nited, nevertheless by energy and perseverance, he acquired in a few years a good Eng-\\nlish education. The nine months of the year out of school were spent in the usual oc-\\ncupations of a farmer s son. At the age of twelve years he followed the plow day after\\nday in season. Thus alternating between three months schooling and nine months hard\\nwork, he remained on his father s farm until sixteen years of age. In the fall of 1836 he\\nbecame assistant teacher in the common schools, and receiving as recompense therefor\\nthe sum of three dollars per week. He paid for his boarding by working morning and\\nevening.\\nIn the spring of 1837 he removed with his parents to Clearfield county, Pa., and the\\nfollowing summer worked on the Musshannan and Packersville turnpike at one dollar\\nper day and board. On the 7th of February, 1838, he left his home and went to Kart-\\nhaus furnace in the northwestern part of Clearfield county, and engaged with Peter Rit-\\nner, the then superintendent of the furnace, as teamster and expressman. In July of\\nthe same year he was promoted to the position of weighmaster, and in the following De-\\ncember to that of salesman for the same firm. In February, 184.0, he came to the vil-\\nlage of Strattanville, Clarion county, and entered the employ of W. H. Lowry, with\\nwhom he remained until 1843.\\nIn March, 1843 he married Hannah Smith, of Strattanville. They had born to them\\ntwo sons and one daughter. The eldest son, James Turnar Arnold died July 18, 1877.\\nMrs, Arnold died January, 1879. From the date of his marriage in 1843, Mr. Arnold\\nengaged in the hotel business at Strattanville. He removed to Clarion March, 1846,\\nwhere he followed the mercantile business until January, 1865, when the First National\\nBank of Clarion was organized and chartered. Mr. Arnold was elected a director, and\\nappointed cashier, a position which he has held continuously ever since. By his eftbrts\\nand financial ability the institution has prospered, has paid five per cent, semi-annually on\\nthe capital stock, and has the confidence of its depositors and the public in general.\\nIn the year 1867 the Carrier Seminary of Western Pennsylvania was chartered, and\\nMr. Arnold appointed one of the trustees, and made treasurer. He was largely instru-\\nmental in the procuring of fine grounds and the erection of a large and commodious\\nbuilding for the seminary, and still takes an active interest in the educational and mate-\\nrial interests of the town. The extension of the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad from\\nEdenburg to Clarion was largely due to the energy and financial aid of Mr. Arnold. In\\nJune, 1883 he married Mrs. Maggie E. Barnett, of Pittsburgh, Pa., with whom he is still\\nlivina;.\\nKAUFMAN, CHARLES. Perhaps no man in Clarion borough has been more\\nclosely connected with the material prosperity and advancement of the place than\\nthe subject of this sketch. Born on the i8th day of November, 1832, in the village of\\nNeckar Binau, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, of Jewish parents, where he resided\\nuntil his twentieth year. At the age of fourteen years he taught a private school, and\\nat sixteen a public school in his native place. This early training in the educational\\nwork no doubt infused into him that spirit of vigor in working for the advancement of\\nthe public schools of the borough which he has always shown, and that so frequently\\nhas received the recognition of his fellow-citizens.\\nIn his twentieth year he emigrated to the United States, arriving at Pittsburgh in\\nAugust, 1852. He remained in that vicinity until 1853, when he settled in Clarion. In", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0737.jp2"}, "712": {"fulltext": "634 HiSTORv OF Clarion County.\\nNovember of that year he started a clothing store on Main street, where he continued in the\\nbusiness until the war, when he engaged in general merchandising, to which he added a\\nlumber yard in 1865, and in 1879 still further expanded his already extensive business\\nby adding tobacco and cigars at wholesale, supplying many of the merchants of this\\nand surrounding counties with these articles. Indeed it has long been a common say-\\ning that there is nothing he cannot sell you, nor is there anything that he will not buy.\\nIn 1854 he joined Clarion Lodge I. O. O. F., and in 1856 the Masonic Lodge. In\\nboth of these lodges he still retains an active membership, having been frequently elected\\nto offices of honor and trust in both. At present he is, and has been for fifteen years,\\nsecretary of the Masonic Lodge and treasurer of the lodge of Odd Fellows.\\nHe has been connected with the First National Bank of Clarion since its organization\\nin 1865, as one of its directors, and for years its vice-president. He has been the president\\nof the Clarion County Mutual Fire Insurance Company since 1875, and also president\\nor director of the Clarion Water Company since its organization in 1875. stock-\\nholder in the Natural Gaslight and Heat Company, and in the Agricultural Association,\\nbeing treasurer of the latter company. He was the only agent for the different express\\ncompanies that transacted business at Clarion until 1884, when the P. and VV. Railroad\\nCompany went into the express business itself and refused to carry for other companies.\\nHe has been an acting member of the school board for a number of years, and has fre-\\nquently served as a member of the town council. He is usually court interpreter in\\ncauses where witnesses are able to use only the German language, and attorney in fact\\nfor the majority of those here having business to transact in Germany, or for those there\\nhaving personal or business interests here.\\nAlthough a very busy man, Charley Kaufman, as he is familiarly known throughout\\nthe county, is always ready to do a favor or accommodate a friend or customer. He\\nhas made his adopfed country completely his own, and has never been found wanting\\nby voice or deed in any public enterprise or good work. His large family has been\\nbrought up in accordance with the spirit of American free institutions, and with the cus-\\ntoms of the land.\\nLOWRY, SAMUEL, 1 was born in County Down, Ireland, May 9, 1809. On his\\nfourteenth birthday. May 9, 1823, he set sail, in company with his parents, for\\nAmerica. After a very tempestuous voyage upon the sea, and encountering many dif-\\nficulties in crossing the State, they landed in Redbank township, now Clarion county,\\nApril 8, 1824. His father purchased the farm now owned by Samuel Bowersox, and\\nlocated in Porter township. Samuel Lowry passed his youth at this place, working\\nupon the farm. He was bound out as an apprentice to a carpenter in Kittanning.\\nAfter completing his trade he worked in Pittsburgh for six weeks, and went from there\\nto Butler, Pa. While there he married Eliza Barnhart, March 12, 1835. Three children\\nhave been born to them, Mary Ellen, Susannah, and Ann Eliza. Susannah died Jan-\\nuary 3, 1845, and Ann Eliza April 15, 1858.\\nHe purchased 185 acres of land adjoining his father s farm, from John H. Brodhead,\\nNovember 9, 1835. After purchasing the farm, he worked at Butler and the Great\\nWestern until the farm was paid for, when he moved on it and followed farming until\\nthe breaking out of the Rebellion. He enlisted in the Seventy-eighth Regiment of\\nPennsylvania Volunteers, and remained with the army during the war. He was severely\\n1 By L. L. Himes.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0738.jp2"}, "713": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0739.jp2"}, "714": {"fulltext": "^O:^^", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0740.jp2"}, "715": {"fulltext": "^i %\u00c2\u00a5SjS.\\nCk^-T-n^-^\\nLy^", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0741.jp2"}, "716": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0742.jp2"}, "717": {"fulltext": "Samuel Lowrv. The Fox Family. 635\\nwounded between two mules, and suffers yet from the effects also slightly wounded at\\nthe battle of Stone River. At the close of the war he returned to the farm and con-\\ntinued farming until after the death of Mrs. Lowry, which occurred March 14, 1882.\\nHe purchased property in New Bethlehem, and moved there March 17, 1885, living\\nwith his daughter, the only remaining member of his family. One sister is the only\\nremaining member, besides himself, of his father s family.\\nFOX. The Fox family has been more or less identified with lands lying within what\\nis now the boundary of Clarion county for nearly a hundred years warrants for\\nseveral tracts of land, including those at the junction of the Allegheny and Clarion Riv-\\ners, having been taken out by Samuel M. Fox in 1796. A little over a quarter of a\\ncentury later his son, Joseph M. Fox, went to live there, and the family has since made\\nthat place their home for a part of the year. Having been thus interested in the county\\nsince its formation, it seems not unsuitable that a short memoir of the family should\\nappear in this book. Justinian Fox, who, tradition says, was a doctor, came from Ply-\\nmouth, England, to Philadelphia, a few years after William Penn. He married Eliza-\\nbeth Yard, whose father emigrated from Devonshire, England, about 1688. Justinian\\nFox had seven children, Joseph being the only one who need be mentioned here. His\\nfather having died very poor (the inventory of his estate amounting to but sixty-seven\\npounds, and five shillings), Joseph was apprenticed to a carpenter. He afterwards be-\\ncame possessed of some means through a legacy left him in 1737, and married on Sep-\\ntember 25, 1746, in Quaker meeting in Philadelphia, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and\\nThomazine Mickle [)ice Marshall). He built the large double house, now standing, Nos.\\n46 and 48 North Third street, Philadelphia, which is still in possession of his descend-\\nants. On January 10, 1765, he was elected Speaker of the Colonial Assembly, at that\\ntime an office of high trust and distinction. He died on December 10, 1779. He had\\nthirteen children, among them Samuel Mickle (born October 4, 1763, died xA.pril 30,\\n1808), who married on November 27, 1788, at the Market Street meeting-house, in Phil-\\nadelphia, Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Mary Pleasants {nee Pemberton). With a be-\\nlief in the future value of lands in the interior of the State, he sold properties in Phila-\\ndelphia, and bought back lands, including the land in Clarion county on which his de-\\nscendants now live. At his death one hundred and eighteen thousand acres, not includ-\\ning his land in then Venango, now Clarion county, were divided. He had thirteen chil-\\ndren, of whom the oldest was Joseph Mickle (born October 25, 1779, died February 12,\\n1845). He bought from the trustees under his father s will twelve tracts of land inAvhat\\nis now Clarion county, containing thirteen thousand two hundred and eighty-four acres,\\nthe consideration paid being eleven thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and\\nforty cents. He married on April 6, 1820, Hannah Emlen, daughter of George and\\nSarah Emlen, [iiee Fishburne.) From her the borough of Emlenton derived its name,\\nit being built on land owned by her husband. At the time of his marriage he was prac-\\nticing law at Bellefonte, Pa., and shortly after moved to Meadville. In the year 1827\\nhe decided to settle on and improve some of the land belonging to him, and with this\\npurpose went to Foxburg, since then the summer home of his family. The county was\\nthen very sparsely settled the farmers (and there was no other occupation in the vicinity\\nat that time) were Pennsylvania Dutch, far scattered, and, owing to the difficulty of\\ntransportation, almost entirely self-supporting. An old servant still with the family,\\nwho, as a boy, went with Mr. Fox to Foxburg in 1832, states that he was the first to in-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0743.jp2"}, "718": {"fulltext": "636 History of Clarion County.\\ntroduce coffee into the district. The nearest post-office was Shippenville, sixteen miles\\naway. Later Mr. Fox was instrumental in having one established on his own land, and\\nwas himself for a time postmaster. He served as State senator through an election held\\nin 1829 to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Eben Smith Kelly, his district\\n(the twenty-fourth) then comprising the counties of Venango, Warren, Armstrong, Indi-\\nana, Jefferson, and Cambria. He died in 1845, leaving one child Samuel Mickle Fox,\\nthen twenty-four years of age.\\nSamuel Mickle Fox was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and had been\\nadmitted to the bar at Philadelphia, where he was entering upon the practice of the law,\\nwhen his father s death brought to him other duties in the management of his and his\\nmother s affairs. He married at Wakefield, near Germantown, Philadelphia, Mary Rodman\\nFisher, daughter of William Logan and Sarah Fisher [?ice Lindley). He was a man of\\nscholarly instincts and great culture, of a retiring and contemplative disposition he had no\\ndesire for the notoriety of public life, and was devoid of political ambition, although during\\nthe civil war his pronounced views made him in his district a leader and strong advocate\\nfor the cause of the Union. In 1861 he was the Republican candidate for State senator\\nfrom the twenty-eighth district, composed of Jefferson, Forest, Elk, and Clarion counties,\\nand although running far ahead of the rest of the party ticket, was defeated in his district,\\nwhich was heavily Democratic. It is difficult to measure his life with words, as no great\\ndeeds marked it, and its worth and usefulness lay in the small acts of every day, of which\\nno record can be made. It was a life of unobtrusive well-doing, and was passed with the\\ncalm quietness of a gentle nature in benefiting in many ways those with whom he came\\nin contact, and whom, with his larger means, he was often able to assist. He was de-\\nsirous for the improvement of his neighborhood, and was among the first to introduce\\nthe newer agricultural implements and the better breeds of stock into Clarion county.\\nHis manners were quiet and retiring, and he had a strong personal magnetism which\\ncommanded confidence and gained friends without effort. Once he bought a large tract\\nof land which had long been in litigation and had been largely taken possession of by\\nsquatters, who declared that the land was theirs, and that they would shoot any one who\\nclaimed it. He quietly went alone on horseback among them, meeting no resistance,\\nand some of the squatters became afterward his devoted friends. He died at Foxburg,\\non Christmas day, 1869, and his epitaph was not unaptly spoken by one of his friends,\\nwho, when he heard of it, said, A gentleman has died. A short time previous to his\\ndeath petroleum was discovered on his lands. The Allegheny Valley Railroad had been\\nbuilt through them, and building was begun on the land where the village of Foxburg\\nnow stands. The face of the country rapidly changed, and while it grew in wealth it\\nlost its isolation, which to him had been one of the chief pleasures in his home.\\nHe left four children WiUiam Logan, Joseph Mickle, Sarah Lindley, and Hannah,\\nof whom Joseph and Hannah survive. William Logan Fox was eighteen years old at\\nthe time of his father s death. He had passed through the Junior class of the Univer-\\nsity of Pennsylvania, and was then at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, N.\\nY., from which he graduated as a civil engineer four years later. He then spent a year\\nin Europe, and on his return assumed, in conjunction with the trustees under his father s\\nwill, the active management of the business at Foxburg, then of some magnitude, owing\\nto the recent developments of petroleum in the vicinity. About this time, and furthered\\nby his energy and moneyed aid, the bridge across the Allegheny River at Foxburgh, and", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0744.jp2"}, "719": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0745.jp2"}, "720": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0746.jp2"}, "721": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0747.jp2"}, "722": {"fulltext": "u", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0748.jp2"}, "723": {"fulltext": "The Fox Family. Elias Ritts. 637\\nthe one across the Clarion, were built, and the turnpike from Foxburg to Petersburg\\nwas made.\\nEarly in 1879 the Foxburg, St. Petersburg and Clarion Railroad was projected, and\\nhe, believing it would be of material benefit to the village of Foxburg, entered into\\nits construction with his usual energy. He was made president, and the road was vig-\\norously pushed toward completion. Later he bought a controlling interest in the Em-\\nlenton, Shippenville and Clarion Railroad, running from Emlenton to Clarion, the total\\nlength of both roads being about fifty miles. He had in contemplation the enlarging of\\nhis railroads, and had acquired a charter to Kane, intending to make connection with\\nthe Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. This has been done since his death, and the roads\\nare now part of the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad.\\nWilliam L. Fox took a deep interest in politics, and was strong in his belief in and\\nsupport of the Republican party, and in its interest started at Foxburg a weekly news-\\npaper. The Republicayi Gazette. He was a member of the Electoral College of Pennsyl-\\nvania, which voted for Garfield in 1880, but died before it met, and at the time of his\\ndeath was chairman of the Republican County Committee. He died at Foxburg on\\nApril 29, 1880, leaving a widow, Rebecca Clifford, daughter of Samuel F. and Anna C.\\nHollingsworth {iiee Pemberton). He left no issue. His death was a distinct loss to the\\ncommunity about Foxburg, and indeed to his county, for already at the age of twenty-\\neight his enterprise in business matters had made itself felt, and his ambition and zealous\\nwork in the political field had stamped him as one who might in the future hope to re-\\nceive broad recognition.\\nTo his and to his father s memory the Memorial Church of our Father was built,\\noverlooking the village of Foxburg, and serves not unfitly as a monument to two men\\nwhose life work was done, and whose death took place near where it stands and it is\\nearnestly hoped that as in their time their influence was for the good, it may perpetuate\\ntheir work by being a benefit to the community, and that the love for the dead which\\nbuilt it may be of lasting help to the living. It is dedicated to the services of the Prot-\\nestant Episcopal Church, the first one in the county belonging to that denomination.\\nWhile it was building another memory was added to it through the death of Sarah Lind-\\nley Fox, on June 20, 1882. She was deeply interested in its success, and her death was-\\nthe loss of an ardent worker in its cause. On the death of William L. Fox the manage-\\nment of the family property devolved on his brother, Joseph M. Fox, who married at\\nCharleston on May 10, 1883, Emily A. Reed, daughter of Benjamin Huger and Julia\\nRead {nee Middleton); issue, Mary Lindley, born December 12, 1884. j. m. f.\\nRITTS, ELIAS. How far a man is made by his environments is perhaps an unsolved\\nproblem but there is no doubt a strong character is greatly influenced, developed\\nor modified by the outside world with which he comes in contact. Had the subject of\\nthis memoir remained with his father and learned the trade of jeweler, in the respectable\\nold county of Berks, he would probably have grown gray repairing his neighbors watches.\\nBut he was destined to occupy another field.\\nElias Ritts was born in Berks county, Pa., on the 5th day of November, 1822. The\\nfamily moved to Lehigh county in 1830, and in 1836, while Elias was still a boy, came\\nto Richland township, Venango county (now Clarion). Here he grew to manhood\\namong the Vensels, Shoups, Neelys, and other pioneers of that new settlement. His.\\n71", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0749.jp2"}, "724": {"fulltext": "638 History of Clarion County.\\nproximity to the Allegheny and Clarion rivers seemed to have determined his vocations\\nin life. At an early period in his history he became familiar with the upper waters of\\nthe Clarion, and with a limited education, but full of energy, engaged in the trade of that\\nriver, building flat-boats and freighting metal to the Pittsburgh market as early as 1840.\\nBy care and skill Mr. Ritts became a successful carrier of freight, and a heavy dealer on\\nthe river and in Pittsburgh for many years. He carried all the metal made by Judge\\nKeating s furnace, and had a still larger contract of freighting metal for Lyon, Shorb\\nCo., for a number of years. He also freighted a large amount of metal for Plumer\\nCrary from Buchanan and Jefferson furnaces. Few of his boats were wrecked or sunk,\\nand by him no man lost a ton of metal, though the business was by no means free\\nfrom risk. While thus engaged he became extensively acquainted along the river, and\\naccumulated considerable property.\\nIn March, 1849, he married Elizabeth Vensel, by whom he had four children all but\\nthe youngest are still living. Plis wife dying in 1863, he married his second wife in\\n1866, by whom he has had five children, all living. His active out-door life and ex-\\ntended business relations gave him a strong constitution, and has made him prominent\\nas a leading property owner and business man of the county. He retained nothing\\nthat he brought with him from Berks county but his pohtics and religion. He was never\\na noisy politican or an office seeker, but has quietly voted the Democratic ticket ever\\n:since he became of age. In early life he connected with the German Reformed Church,\\nand has ever since been one of its liberal supporters, and an officer therein.\\nMr. Ritts is tall and slender, with a well knit form, a pleasant face, social habits, and\\na kind disposition. In 1880 he bought a third interest in the Blake lumber lands for\\n$50,000, and sold it in 1884 for about $85,000. He still holds considerable real estate\\nin Richland and Beaver townships, also in other parts of the county, besides personal\\nproperty of value.\\nIn the early days of the oil excitement near the mouth of the Clarion River, he be-\\ncame an oil operator and producer, a business he has made pay handsomely. Since\\nselling his lumber lands he has to some extent retired from active work on the river,\\nto rest on an ample competency secured by a life of industry. At the age of sixty-\\nfive he is still living where he started his business life, one of the respected patriarchs of\\nSt. Petersburg, with his family around him. He is still enjoying excellent health, with\\nerect frame, and his chances are fairly good for several years more to live and quietly\\nlook back over a long and well spent life.\\nKNOX, HON. JAMES B., son of William and Sarah Knox, was born at Knoxville,\\nTioga county. Pa., November 4, 1831. After obtaining a liberal education he be-\\ngan the study of law in Franklin, Pa., with Hon. John C. Knox, his only brother. He\\nwas duly admitted to the bar, came to Clarion in 1853, and commenced life actively in\\nhis chosen profession. In 1855 he married Jennie Z. Stehley, of Harrisburg, Pa. Their\\nunion was blessed with six children, five of whom are yet living, and reside in Clarion.\\nAt the beginning of the Civil War Mr. Knox left his family and a lucrative law prac-\\ntice to bear arms for his country. On the 14th of June, 1861, he was mustered into the\\nservice of the Union army as captain of Company E, of the Thirty-Ninth Regiment,\\nTenth P. R. V. C. He was promoted to major August 15, 1862, and later to command-\\ning officer of his regiment. On account of his health failing he resigned his position, ob-\\ntained his discharge November 23, 1863, and returned to his family and practice in Clar-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0750.jp2"}, "725": {"fulltext": "Hon. James B. Knox. Michael Edic Hess. 639\\nion. During his service in the army he participated in the following battles Dranes-\\nville, Mechanicsville, Gaines s Mill, Newmarket Cross-roads, Malvern Hill, Fredericks-\\nburg, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, and Mine Run. During the battle of Gettysburg a\\nlittle incident occurred which will serve to show how regardless he was of his own life,\\nand how he sought to save the lives of his comrades. He wanted to see the position of\\nthe Confederates in the Devil s Den, and for this purpose stood on a rock exposed to\\nthe enemy s fire, but told his men to keep down, that it was dangerous. While stand-\\ning there a shell struck a branch of a tree only a few feet from his head. This he\\ntreated as a trivial affair, making motions to the rebels, and still standing in his position,\\na target for their marksmen. His farewell address to his men at the close of his last\\ndress parade was quite a touching scene. His remarks were full of pathos and patriotism.\\nIn 1873 he entered into a law partnership with Hon. James T. Maffett, which con-\\ntinued until he took his seat on the bench, January 1, 1882, having been elected to the\\njudgeship of the Eighteenth Judicial District in the fall of 1881. He performed the\\nduties of his office faithfully until his death on December 22, 1884. He died at his post\\nwhile holding court in Brookville. The disease, asthma, which carried him away, was\\ncontracted during his military services in the army.\\nAs a citizen, Mr. Knox was greatly respected, and regarded as stricdy honest and up-\\nright in all his dealings. His intentions were good, and his private character exception-\\nally pure and above suspicion. As a soldier he was brave and daring almost to reckless-\\nness, and much loved by his comrades. In his profession he stood high in ability, integ-\\nrity, and gentlemanly deportment; as a judge he was popular, sympathetic, and impartial;\\nas a husband and father he was a model of devotion and affection.\\nHESS, MICHAEL EDIC, the subject of this sketch, was born in South Columbia,\\nHerkimer county, N. Y., September 25, 1826. He is descended from John Hess\u00c2\u00bb\\nwho, with others, called Palatinates, came from Hesse Cassel, Germany, in 17 10, and\\nsettled on the Mohawk River in Montgomery county, N. Y. The locality taking its\\nname from the settlers was called Palatine. Subsequently the family of John Hess moved\\nfarther up the river, and became one of the first settlers of Herkimer county, N. Y. The\\nsurrounding vicinity was then inhabited, by the Mohawk Indians, and Fort Herkimer\\nwas built as a refuge for the settlers. In an Indian raid on the fort in 1782, Augusden-\\nnis Hess, son of John Hess was killed while driving cattle into the enclosure. Hanyost\\nHess, son of Augusdennis Hess, enlisted in the War of the Revolution in 1776, and\\nserved to the close, being under Alexander Hamilton in the battle of Yorktown.\\nGeorge Hess, son of Hanyost, and father of the subject of this sketch, was born and\\nreared in Herkimer county, and moved to Cortland county, N. Y., about 1830, thence to\\nDewitt Center near Syracuse, and about 1842 to Cattaraugus county, N. Y., where he died\\nin 1857. He served in the War of 1812, was a farmer by occupation, and reared a family\\nof nine children, the other three dying in infancy. Of the twelve the last three were\\ntriplets, named respectively George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van\\nBuren, thus plainly indicating his political proclivities. M. E. Hess drove a team on the\\nErie Canal in 1840-1-2. The summer of 1843 he worked on a farm near Syracuse, N*\\nY.,and the following winter attended district school, doing chores for his board. In\\nMarch, 1843, i- ^der the preaching of Rev. Cleveland, he received the word which\\ngave bent to his after life. He afterwards worked for Joseph, his elder brother, at Fay-\\netteville, N. Y., and attended the Fayettville Academy, being a school-mate of William", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0751.jp2"}, "726": {"fulltext": "640 History of Clarion County.\\nCleveland, elder brother of President Cleveland. Grover, then a lad of nine or ten\\nyears, was attending a district school near by, and was often at the academy in company\\nwith his brother William. Mr. Hess afterwards taught district school, and in 1847 came\\nto the lumber country in Cattaraugus county, N. Y., where he took a saw-mill to run by\\nthe thousand. He subsequently bought the mill, and continued in the lumber business for\\nten years.\\nIn 1849 he married CaroHne Shaver, of Jamestown, N. Y. He enlisted in the One\\nHundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in August, 1862, and fought in the batde\\nof Perryville, Ky., October 8th. Soon afterwards he became disabled by an attack of\\ntyphoid fever, and at the suggestion of his attending physician was discharged in order\\nto regain his health. In the fall of 1863 he was elected drill-master in the Ohio Na-\\ntional Guard, at Camp Cleveland. He received from Governor Tod, of Ohio, two\\ncommissions, the first for lieutenant, and the second for major.\\nIn the spring of 1861 Mr. Hess engaged in the oil business at Mecca, Ohio. In the\\nsummer of 1864 he came to Oil Creek, and operated for oil on Cherry Run, at Pithole,\\nPetroleum Center, Shamburg, and McClintockville. In 1872 he moved to Franklin,\\nVenango county, thence to Shippenville in 1874, and in 1877 to Edenburg, Clarion\\ncounty, where he lives at present. He commenced operating for oil in Clarion county\\nin 1873, putting down the first well on the David Shoup farm, also the first one on Dan-\\niel Knight s farm. In 1874 he drilled the first well on the Moon farm in Ashland town-\\nship, the first successful well on the R. J. Dahle farm, in Elk township, in 1875 one of\\nthe first wells on the J. I. Best farm at Edenburg, and in 1876 the first well on the Camp\\nRidge and David Whitehill farm. The same year, he, in company with E. C. Bradly\\nesq., put down the first wells on Egypt farm in Beaver township. At the assignment of\\nMr. Bradly, Hess became liquidating partner, and settled all the claims against Hess\\nBradley. Mr. Hess brought with him to Clarion county $60,000, but testing so exten-\\nsively for oil, and in consequence of endorsements he became financially embarrassed.\\nHowever, he was afterwards able to make satisfactory settlements. He in company\\nwith others in 1887 secured extensive leases in Monroe township, and struck the first\\nsuccessful well in the Reidsburg field. In Edenburg he has been elected burgess twice,\\nand has filled various other borough offices.\\nHe had a family of three boys and three girls. The eldest son, Eugene, is West\\nthe younger, Frank and Earnest, are minors at home. The eldest of the girls, Ida, mar-\\nried F. G. Sacket, the next. Bell, married G. S. Hamm, and the youngest, Mary, died\\nin Franklin at the age of nine years. His wife and mother of his children died of can-\\ncer at Edenburg. In September, 187S, he married Margaret E. Klotz, widow of Dr.\\nCharles Klotz, of Richland townshi]).\\nMr. Hess has superintended the Methodist Sunday-schools of Petroleum Center,\\nFranklin, Shippenville, and for the last ten years at Edenburg.\\nAt the age of twelve years the subject of this sketch had two hairbreadth escapes\\nfrom death. The first was while sitting partly concealed under the bank beside the canal.\\nA boat passing by had on deck a hunter looking for game. Seeing only the top of the\\noy s muskrat cap, and supposing it to be a genuine rat took aim and fired at it, just\\ngrazing the crown of Michael s head. The second was on board a canal-boat in enter-\\ning a lock near Syracuse. As the boat approached the foot of the lock the gates were\\nopened in order to empty it. The sudden gush of water moved rapidly the tiller by\\nwhich he was standing, and pitched him overboard, and the rapidly discharging waters", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0752.jp2"}, "727": {"fulltext": "Michael Edic Hess. Ruloff Isaac Allen Rulofson. 641\\nswept him under the boat. After passing under it for near its entire length he got his\\nfoot on the gravel, pushed himself out, and unaided waded ashore.\\nIn the fall of 1886 he edited the Prohibition column of the Clarioti County National,\\nand in 1887 wrote The Early Recollections of Edenburg, published in the same paper.\\nRULOFSON, RULOFF ISAAC ALLEN, was born in Hampton, King s county.\\nNew Brunswick, B. N. A., October 18, 1822, and received a substantial education\\nin the city of St. John, in his native province. Following the advice of Greeley, at the\\nage of twenty-one he started west, crossed the St. Croix River, and began life actively\\nas a self-made millwright. In the fall of 1843, ^t Milltown, Me., on the St. Croix River,\\nhe built the first successful live gang saw-mill in the United States. He afterwards mar-\\nried Amanda J. Emerson, and continuing his course westward came to Saccarapa, near\\nPortland, Me., thence to Elk county. Pa., bringing with him considerable mill machin-\\nery. He remained in Elk county several years, engaging extensively in the lumber\\nbusiness.\\nIn 1858 he came to Strattanville, Clarion county, Pa., near where he had purchased\\nan interest in a large tract of timber land. Here he became the managing member of\\nthe firm known as Marvin, Rulofson Co., and built a large saw-mill, which has been\\nimproved and is still in active operation on the Clarion River at the mouth of Mill\\nCreek, also a beautiful residence in Strattanville, in which he lives at present. His time\\nbeing occupied closely, and being a man of few words, he found it necessary to abridge\\nhis name, and instead of writing it as at first given, adopted R. Rulofson as his signature.\\nIn the early part of his life he was in the British volunteer service, and acted as\\ncourier through snow seven feet deep during the Aroostook War, and was on the line of\\nduty the day Queen Victoria was crowned.\\nAs a youth he had good habits, was healthy, active, and untiring an expert fisher-\\nman, a skillful hunter, and was very fond of horses. In his twentieth year he was nursed\\nin the arms of a bear, and at another time was buried in the snow in consequence of a\\ndeer getting fast in one of his snow shoes. While in Elk county he caught a live, sound\\nbuck by the horns, and held him in the water on logs and gravel until a friend went\\na good distance for a knife. He says, I dare not let go.\\nThe night of April 16, 1851 was made memorable to him by a perilous trip on the\\nocean. He with his wife and three children, at 8 o clock p. m., on that evening, went on\\nboard the steamer Admiral. After leaving the harbor of Portland, Me., the ship was\\nunable to take her course on account of a terrific storm, and was compelled to put to\\nsea for twenty-four hours. The fright of that trip baffles description. Many of the\\nseamen became unable for duty; no food was eaten there for forty-eight hours. In his\\nown words, The water, ah, me it rolled mountains high, often covering the entire\\nvessel.\\nIn 1842 Mr. Rulofson became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows\\nand also a Free and Accepted Mason. He was elected for fifteen successive years Dis-\\ntrict Deputy Grand Master of the I. O. O. F., of Clarion county, but resigned before\\nserving the fifteenth year, in order to have more time to spend with his family, to whom\\nhe was affectionately devoted. He served four or five years as Worshipful Master of\\nClarion Lodge A. Y. M., and received from its members a valuable past-master jewel\\nas a token of the high esteem in which he was held by his brethren. He also received\\nsimilar tokens from the O. F s. of the county, and from Clarion Lodge I. O. O. F.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0753.jp2"}, "728": {"fulltext": "642 History of Clarion County.\\nMr. Rulofson s adventures in hunting, fishing, travel, etc., and his services in organ-\\nized societies are far ecHpsed by his brilHant business career. His business transactions\\nhave amounted to several million dollars. He has been a lumberman in every sense of\\nthe term he has erected large saw-mills, and managed their operations, cut and trans-\\nported a great deal of lumber, dealt extensively in timber tracts, and constructed\\nmachinery to work as desired. His thorough business qualities, sound judgment and\\ngood intentions have won for him the confidence and good-will of all with whom he\\nhas dealt. He has always been liberal, energetic, and courteous.\\nSLOAN, WILLIAM C, was born in Clarion township, Armstrong county. Pa., now\\nClarion county, in 1827. His father, James Sloan, settled in this county in 1818,\\nand for several years contracted for the transportation of iron, hauling it from Center\\ncounty. Pa., to the Clarion River, near where Clarion is now, and boating it from there\\nto Louisville, Ky. His grandfather, John Sloan, was one of the first settlers in West-\\nmoreland county. Pa., and had his share of fighting the Indians, hunting, clearing, etc.,\\nalong with other new-comers. Sarah Sloan, daughter of William Corbett, who had\\nbrought her to Clarion county from Mifiiin county, Pa., when a child nine years old, was\\nhis mother.\\nJames and Sarah Sloan had a family of four boys and three girls. Three of the sons\\nserved in the Union army during the entire Civil War. One of them has since died in\\nClarion county of sun-stroke received in Richmond, Va., at the time of its capture; one\\nis now living in San Francisco, Cal., and the other is living in Lancaster City, Pa.\\nWilliam C. Sloan learned the carpenter trade, and contracted for building when he\\nwas quite young, an occupation which he followed for several years. He also taught\\nseveral terms of school, and rafted and ran boats on the river when not otherwise em-\\nployed, always making it a point never to be idle. In 1865 he purchased his farm in\\nWest Millville, and married Sarah J. Hepler, daughter of Jacob and Mary Hepler. They\\nhave since had five children, named respectively Carrie Bee, Flora M., J. Frank, Norman\\nJay, and Myra Pearll.\\nHe laid out the village of West Millville, Pa., in 1870, and has ever since taken an\\nactive interest in its improvement. From the time he bought his farm until 1872 he\\nwas engaged in the store business and improving his farm. Since that time, with the\\nexception of the year 1852, which he spent among the Indians and buffaloes of British\\nAmerica and Dakota, he has devoted his entire attention to farming, and raising Jersey\\ncattle and fine horses. Mr. Sloan has been an active worker in the Presbyterian ChurcK\\nat West Millville. He has always been industrious and economical, and is a useful citi-\\nzen in the community in which he lives.\\nANDREWS, CHARLES E., was born in the city of Philadelphia, October 9, 1828.\\nHis father was a merchant, and died soon after Charles was born. His mother re-\\nmarried, and when Charles was eight years old the family came to Clarion county, settling\\non a farm. When about eighteen years of age Charles accepted a clerkship in the store\\nof Thomas McKelvey, a merchant in New Bethlehem, at a salary of forty dollars a year.\\nAfter serving faithfully for four years he was taken into partnership by his employers,\\nwhich partnership continued for three years.\\nIn 1854 he started a small store in the same town on his own account, and soon\\nafter married Miss Catharine Duff daughter of Samuel Duft then a prominent iron", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0754.jp2"}, "729": {"fulltext": "Charles E. Andrews. John W. Kahle. 643\\nmanufacturer in Clarion county. From this time forward Mr. Andrews has prospered,\\nand has been identified with every enterprise of note in New Bethlehem.\\nIn i860 he built a large saw-mill and boat-yard, and in 1863 he added a planing-mill,\\nand became largely interested in the lumber business, both in his own town and in Jef-\\nferson county. Pa.\\nFive children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrews three girls and two boys. Two\\nof the daughters died in 1872. The two sons. Firman L. and William M., are engaged\\nin business with their father. Firman is a partner in the lumber business, composing\\nthe firm of C. E. Andrews Son. They have a saw and planing-mill in New Bethle-\\nhem, and are interested in and handle the production of two large saw and shingle-\\nmills in Jefferson county. They manufacture and ship lumber to various parts of\\nseveral States of the Union. William is a young merchant and partner in a general\\nstore, comprising the firm of C. E. W. M. Andrews. They have an extensive busi-\\nness, which they manage with prudence and skill. The daughter, Carrie, is married and\\nlives in Reynoldsville, Jefferson county.\\nIn the year 1872 the subject of this sketch built a banking-house, and started the\\nNew Bethlehem Savings Bank. He was elected the first president of the bank, and has\\nbeen re-elected annually ever since. John R. Foster is cashier, and the bank is one of\\nthe soundest institutions of its kind in Western Pennsylvania.\\nMr. Andrews, by his prudence and energy has secured a handsome competence and\\nthis coupled with his qualities as a gentleman, has won for him the respect of his neigh-\\nbors, and he is regarded as a substantial and worthy citizen.\\nKAHLE, JOHN W. Jacob Kahle and his wife Sarah, with the rest of the family,\\ncame from Huntingdon county to what is now Clarion county, and settled about\\ntwo miles north of Shippenville, in Elk township, in 1826, and began clearing and im-\\nproving a farm,. At that time this locality was somewhat of a wilderness. Bears were\\nquite numerous, and would sometimes come into the yard in broad daylight. At one\\ntime the family was interrupted, while eating dinner, by the squealing of a pig, strug-\\nghng in the clutches. of bruin, who wanted some dinner also. At another time, while on\\nthe road to Shippenville, then a little village of four or five houses, Mr. Kahle, accom-\\npanied by his sons George and John W., was again called to the rescue of a pig, squeal-\\ning for life, at the mercy of two bears. After being chased away from the pig, the bears\\ncame out on the road near where the boys were standing. The situation became fright-\\nful. The boys began to utter such terrific cries, which were mistaken for fierceness, that\\nthe bears soon made their way into the forest. Wolves, deer, and other wild animals\\nfrequently made their appearance on the premises.\\nJohn W. Kahle, the subject of this sketch, was born in Huntingdon county. Pa.,\\nDecember 28, 182 1, and lived with his parents until 1844. That spring he was em-\\nployed as book-keeper by William B. Fetzer, at Elk Furnace, and at the end of the first\\nmonth was given the general management of the furnace. In 1859 he built on the\\nAllegheny River, a few miles above Brady s Bend, for Samuel F. Plumer, the first coke\\nfurnace in the county. He has served as manager of furnaces for fifteen years.\\nIn 1845 he married Ann Cheers, and has since raised a family of eight children, four\\nboys and four girls, all of whom are living at present. He moved with his family to\\nLineville, in the northwestern corner of Clarion county, in i860, and there engaged in\\nmercantile business, and also in farminsr.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0755.jp2"}, "730": {"fulltext": "644 History of Clarion County.\\nA company of bankers in New York city had purchased a large tract of land along\\nthe Allegheny River, between Oil City and Franklin, and in 1864 employed Mr. Kahle\\nto superintend the development of the property for oil. During his connection with the\\ncompany he was loyal to their interest. At one time he was offered one hundred thou-\\nsand dollars if he would give certain facts concerning the wells tested to the party offer-\\ning the money one week before he gave them to the company employing him. He was\\nurged by some of his friends to accept the offer, and become rich at once. His reply\\nwas, The company are paying me a large salary to attend to their business. If there\\nis anything to be gained by the first information given, the company shall have the ben-\\nefit of it, a reply, under the circumstances, worthy of being repeated for ages. In\\n1865 he recommended the company to bring the operations for oil in that territory to a\\nclose. The company urged him to continue. After satisfying himself that the income\\nwould not pay expenses he resigned.\\nIn 1878 Mr. Kahle was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature. He\\nwas there, as elsewhere, faithful and true to his constituents. He served eighteen years\\nas school director, and also was postmaster for several years his last appointment\\nbeing March 30, 1870. He resigned in October, 1880, and his daughter Mary was\\nappointed to the vacancy October 25, 1880, and continued the office in his store until\\nher resignation. He was a delegate to the National Convention of the Anti-Monopoly\\nand Greenback parties, which met in Chicago in 1883, and served on the committee to\\nadopt a platform also was a delegate to a National Convention of Greenback-Labor\\nparty, which met in Indianapolis, Ind., in 1884, and State delegate to the convention\\nof Greenback- Labor party, which met in Erie, Pa., in 1885, serving again on platform\\ncommittee.\\nMr. Kahle has always been a faithful worker in the church; before 1862 in the M.\\nE. Church, and since then in the Evangelical Association. His wife and all his chil-\\ndren are faithful servants of their Master.\\nEAKER, PHILIP K., was born in Northampton county. Pa., June 11, 1831. When\\nfive years of age he was brought by his grandparents to what is now Clarion county,\\nand soon after was bound out to Philip Kratzer, who lived near Rimersburg, Pa. After\\nserving as bound boy for seven years, he lived three years with his mother, who had, in\\nthe mean time, been unfortunate in marrying a man of intemperate habits. Owing to\\nthese circumstances, the boy s opportunity of an early education was limited to four\\nmonths in the common schools. After leaving his step-father, he followed chopping\\ncord-wood, and driving team until 1849, when he engaged in mining ore for C. Myres,\\nat Polk Furnace. In 1852 he went to Warren county and worked in the lumber woods\\nfor a short time. He then came back to Polk Furnace and engaged with J. N. Heth-\\nrington, at that time owner and manager of the furnace.\\nIn 1854 Mr. Eaker left this place with five hundred dollars in money, and purchased\\na yoke of cattle, a wood sled, and a tract of wildcat land on the east bank of the Alle-\\ngheny River, near where Oil City is now. While here he was engaged in clearing his\\nfarm and rafting on the river until 1857. About this time his step-father died, leaving\\nhis mother a poor and helpless widow. PhiHp then erected buildings on his property,\\nmoved his mother there and tenderly cared for her until her death, in 1863. He mar-\\nried Mary E. Sager, of Venango county, Pa., January 4, 1859. They have since had\\neleven children, only seven of whom are living at present.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0756.jp2"}, "731": {"fulltext": "Philip K. Eaker. William Shanafelt. 645\\nMr. Eaker s wildcat farm proved to be oil territory. He afterwards sold it as such\\nand bought, for $14,500, the property known as the James Sloan farm in Limestone\\ntownship, where he is living at present. He moved on this farm in March, 1865, and\\nhas since bought in that vicinity three other farms, amounting to about seven hundred\\nacres in all, and also has purchased considerable property in New Bethlehem.\\nHe united with the Salem Reformed Church in 1866, and has ever since been one\\nof its most liberal supporters. He has also contributed liberally to the building of other\\nchurches, both at home and abroad, and to home and foreign missions. He has always\\nbeen good to the poor, and was never known to turn the hungry from his door without\\nsomething to eat. He is an excellent farmer, and takes an active interest in raising\\nfine stock. He has a choice outfit of the latest and most improved farm implements,\\nand has cultivated his orchard and planted trees in his yard until he has an abundance\\nof elegant fruit and a beautiful home.\\nSHANAFELT, WILLIAM, was born in McConnellstown, Huntingdon county, Pa.,\\nMarch 4, 1825. His father, Nicholas Shanafelt, was born in Centre county, Febru-\\nary 4, 1799. His grandfather, Nicholas Shanafelt, was of German ancestry. He was\\na soldier in the Revolutionary War; was with Washington at Valley Forge, and while\\nserving under General Wayne, near Wilmington, Del., was wounded in the neck, and\\nreported on the army records as among the killed. He recovered, however, and lived\\nin Centre county until 1820. His wife lived with one of her sons until her death at\\nEdwardsburg, Mich., in 1846. He had six sons and several daughters. One of the\\ndaughters married Mr. Shough, and settled in the western part of Ohio. Three of the\\nsons, William, John, and George, were soldiers during the War of 18 12, and the first two\\nwere in the army of General Hull when he surrendered to the British General Brock.\\nNicholas Shanafelt, the father of the subject of this sketch, was married March 30,\\n1823, to Keziah Greenland, in Trough^Creek Valley, Huntingdon county. Pa. Their\\nearly home was at McConnellstown, where he labored industriously at his trade, that of\\ngunsmith, and acquired considerable property. In 1835 he removed to what was then\\nRedbank township, Armstrong county, and is now Porter township, Clarion county.\\nThe farm which he purchased is on Leatherwood Creek. Being among the early set-\\ntlers, only a few acres were under cultivation. The land was cleared, and suitable build-\\nings erected. While superintending the development of the farm he continued success-\\nfully his trade as gunsmith. In the spring of 1850 he removed to the village of Clarion,\\nand erected and occupied until his death the residence now occupied by John Reid, esq.\\nHis wife, Keziah Shanafelt, died in Clarion, August 18, 1867, aged over sixty-six years.\\nAfter this event he spent much of his time visiting his children in Pennsylvania, Michi-\\ngan, and Iowa. Having lived a useful life he died at Clarion, October 13, 187 1, aged\\nnearly seventy-three years. He was widely known and respected as a citizen. He had\\nthe confidence of all who knew him as a consistent Christian. In early life he became\\na Baptist, and for nearly forty years held the office of deacon.\\nThe children of Nicholas and Keziah Shanafelt were five sons and two daughters\\nWilliam, born March 4, 1825 Ezra, born May 18, 1827; John R., born October 27,.\\n1829; Andrew F., born March 10, 1832 Sarah A., born October 18, 1834; all at Mc-\\nConnellstown, Huntingdon county. Pa.; Thomas M., born April 30, 1840; Mary J.,,\\nborn October i, 1842; in Porter township Clarion county. Of these Ezra and Sarah", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0757.jp2"}, "732": {"fulltext": "646 History of Clarion County.\\nA. died in 1839. Three of the sons John R,, Andrew F., and Thomas M., having\\ngraduated at Bucknell University at Lewisburg, Pa., and Rochester and Crozer Theolog-\\nical Seminaries, entered the Baptist ministry, and have been successful pastors on im-\\nportant fields. Rev. John R. Shanafelt has been pastor at Berwick, Pittston, Shamokin,\\nand Pittsburgh, in this State, and also in Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. He is now liv-\\ning in Lawrence, Kansas. He married Miss Hannah Teressa Smith in Moreland, Mon-\\ntour county. Pa. They have six children. Rev. Andrew F, Shanafelt was until his\\ndeath one of the leading Baptist ministers in this State. He was pastor at White Hall,\\nSabbath Rest, and Chester. He was president of the Knight Templars excursion to\\nEurope in 1873. Before returning he made an extended tour through Egypt and Pal-\\nestine. He baptized his dragoman or guide in the River Jordan. He was married to\\nMiss Eliza Potter, of this county. They have had five children three are living two\\ndaughters and a son, Newton, who is one of the leading attorneys of Chester. Andrew\\ndied while pastor at Chester, March 16, 1875. Rev. Thomas M. Shanafelt, D.D., was\\nordained at Muncy, Pa., in 1864; served during the war in the Twenty-eighth Regi-\\nment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Became pastor at White Pigeon, Mich., in 1867. Has\\nbeen pastor at Monroe, Hudson, and East Saginaw; was for several years secretary and\\ntreasurer of the Michigan Baptist Education Society. Has been since 1874 secretary\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of the Michigan Baptist State Convention. Has been sent by the Michigan Depart-\\nment of the G. A.R., to the National Encampment held at Minneapolis, Minn., Port-\\nland, Me., San Francisco, Cal., St\u00e2\u0080\u009e Louis, Mo. Was elected at Minneapolis in 1884\\nchaplain-in-chief of the national organization. He is a member of all the Masonic\\nbodies in existence, and is a thirty-second degree member of the Scottish Rite. He is\\nnow pastor at Three Rivers, Mich.; was married October 23, 1866, to Miss Phebe Gil-\\nday, of Jersey Shore, Pa. They have had two children, one living, a son, William C,\\nwho is a stenographer. Mary J. was married in Clarion, to C. Jackson Rhea, of Clar-\\nion. They have four daughters and one son. Having served one term as sheriff of\\nClarion county Mr. Rhea has been for a number of years superintendent of the con-\\nstruction department of the United Pipe Line Company present residence, Oil City.\\nWilliam Shanafelt, the eldest of the family, a farmer by profession, owns and resides on\\nthe old homestead, purchased in 1835, of which he bore the principal part in clearing\\nand bringing under cultivation. He was married May 2, 1844, to Catharine Thomas,\\ndaughter of Rev. Thomas E. Thomas, from Glamorganshire, Wales, for many years pas-\\ntor of Zion Baptist Church, and sister of B. H. Thomas, D.D. She was a devoted and\\nfaithful wife and mother. She died October 26, 1876. Of fourteen children eight died\\nin infancy five are living. William Lewis, the eldest son, married Emma Sample, of\\nClarion county, and removing to theAVest, they were among the first settlers in Platte\\nValley, Dawson county, Neb. He died there October 8, 1882. He had three chil-\\ndren Lottie, Ralph, and Lulu. Arminda, the eldest daughter, married Curtis Sloan,\\nof Clarion county, and they reside in Limestone township. They have five children\\nWilliam, Catharine, Annie, John J., and Edna. John was married to Minnie Arthur, of\\nJefferson county, and for a number of years was an attorney and justice of the peace in\\nthis county. They have two children Carl and Maun. Margaret E. is married to Her-\\nbert Phillips. They^have one child Earl. H. Wick married Annie Martin, of Porter\\nownship, and is living in Platte Valley, Dawson county. Neb. They have four children\\nBenjamin, William, Merle, and Pearl. Keziah P- is living at home.\\nMr. Shanafelt s second marriage was to Armina Jane McNutt, daughter of Robert", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0758.jp2"}, "733": {"fulltext": "William Shanafelt. A. J. Davis. 647\\nMcNutt, and granddaughter of Colon McNutt, an early pioneer, who settled in this\\ntownship in 1806. To the old homestead he has added what was formerly the W. D.\\nLatimer farm, and other additions, making 250 acres. He and his wife also own an-\\nother tract of 112 acres. He has always been a progressive farmer, and was among the\\nfirst in this county to adopt improved methods and implements of farming. He has de-\\nvoted much attention to raising blooded stock, especially Shorthorn cattle, adding at dif-\\nferent times to his herd selections from the best known stock growers of Ohio and Ken-\\ntucky. All of his herd are registered in the American Shorthorn Herd Book.\\nMr. Shanafelt s early education was obtained in the common school. He taught\\nsome has been a diligent reader of the Bible, history, and current literature, and has\\nalways been strictly temperate. In early life he united with the Baptist Church, and for\\nmany years has held the office of deacon.\\nHis maternal ancestors were Nathan Greenland and Sarah Corbin, his wife. They\\ncame from Maryland to Huntingdon county, Pa., about the beginning of the present\\ncentury. They were descended from Richard Greenland and Benjamin Corbin, of Eng-\\nland.\\nDAVIS, A, J.^ Professor Davis is probably more fully identified with the educational\\ninterests of the county than any other man. He was born in the county June 21,\\n1847, attended the public schools until fifteen years of age, and then a term at the\\nClarion Collegiate Institute at Rimersburg. In 1863 he was employed as a farm hand\\nat six dollars per month, working from early morn to evening twilight.\\nOn the 20th of February, 1S64, he enlisted as a private in the Civil War, and was\\nassigned to Battery B, Third Pennsylvania Artillery, One Hundred and Fifty-second\\nRegiment Pennsylvania Volunteers was attached to the Naval Brigade, and did\\ngunboat service in Eastern Virginia and Eastern North Carolina was with the armies\\nof the James and the Potomac during the siege of Richmond and Petersburg. On his\\ndischarge, in July, 1865, he returned home and again took up his studies at the school\\nin Rimersburg; then taught in the public schools of the county, alternately teaching and\\nattending schools, among others the State Normal School, until the summer of 1869,\\nwhen he took charge as principal of the West Freedom Academy, which position he\\nheld for three years, conducting the institution with marked success.\\nIn 1874 Mr. Davis was elected principal of the Clarion Collegiate Institute,\\nwhere he remained until chosen superintendent of public schools of Clarion county, May,\\n1875. He entered upon the duties of his office with a degree of energy, perseverance\\nand tact, that merited the two re-elections to the same position that followed in succes-\\nsion, and during the eight years and fifteen days that he remained superintendent it is\\nsafe to say that no other county in the State experienced a more rapid advancement in\\nthe grade of her common schools or in the proficiency of her teachers.\\nWhile at West Freedom Professor Davis organized the first company of the National\\nGuard of Pennsylvania in the county, and was elected captain of the same. In May,\\n1876, he was elected major of the Seventeenth Regiment National Guard of Pennsyl-\\nvania, and in 1877 was appointed judge advocate of the Seventh Division on the staff\\nof General Huidekoper.\\nHe was married December 23, 1875, to Miss Anna M. Kerr. In March, 1883, he\\nwas tendered a position as statistic clerk in the department of public instruction, which\\n1 By F. J. MatTett.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0759.jp2"}, "734": {"fulltext": "648 History of Clarion County.\\nhe accepted after some deliberation, and was appointed April ist. During the incum-\\nbency of this clerkship he was sent to Alaska under the joint auspices of the National\\nBureau of Education and the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, and\\nspent several months in that territory, organizing industrial and training schools for native\\nchildren at Sitka. On his return he resumed his position in the department of public\\ninstruction, and continued to hold the same until February, 1887, when he resigned,\\nhaving accepted the position of principal of the State Normal School at Clarion, Pa.\\nHe is a regular graduate of Edinboro State Normal School, and holds an honorary\\ndiploma from the National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio. In 1886 he was ten-\\ndered the nomination for Congress in his district, which he declined.\\nCRESSWELL, Dr. JOHN, was born in Indiana county. Pa., November 8, 1830.\\nHe taught in the public schools of his native county about six years. While en-\\ngaged in teaching he educated himself by attending school during the summer vacations;\\none term being spent in Indiana Academy, and the remainder of his academic course\\nwas acquired in Jacksonville Academy, same county. In 1852 he commenced the\\nstudy of medicine, completing his course in the medical college in Cleveland, O., in\\n1855-56. He then came directly to New Bethlehem, Clarion county, Pa., where he\\nhas ever since resided, and been continually engaged in the practice of medicine.\\nDecember 24, 1856, Dr. Cresswell wedded Eliza Ellen Wilkinson, of West Lebanon,\\nIndiana county, Pa. She bore him one child, John Ackley, who died in 1880, at the\\nage of twenty-three. Two weeks later- the wife and mother also found rest from the\\ncares of this world. On February 7, 1882, he married Lallia M. Boyd, by whom he\\nhas a son, Austin B., born July 17, 1883.\\nAs a physician, Dr. Cresswell has been quite skillful and successful, and has always\\nhad the confidence of his patrons. He is a man of liberal views and excellent judg-\\nment and his cool and deliberate manner of expressing himself always gives weight\\nto what he says, and leaves no doubt about what he intended to convey.\\nHe has been connected with the Presbyterian Church since 1852, part of the time\\nhaving; served as elder.\\nBERLIN, GEORGE NEELY, was born near the present site of Valley post-office,\\nAugust 15, 1820, and lived with his parents until his marriage.\\nHis father, George Berlin, was born in York county. Pa., September 12, 1782. Dur-\\ning his youth he learned the blacksmith trade. He married Elizabeth Neely, of Greens-\\nburg, Westmoreland county, in 1805. He settled and built the first blacksmith shop in\\nEast Liberty (now Pittsburgh), Pa., the same year. Their children are Jesse, now liv-\\ning in Clarion; Sarah, who married William Black; Mary Ann (Booth), Henry Nich-\\nolas, a hotel-keeper in Rimersburg; Fanny (Hugus), George N., Margaret, Hezekiah,\\nSolomon, Jeremiah, William M., and Paul; also a daughter dying in infancy. In 1810\\nhe moved to the wilderness in Venango county, settling near where his son George now\\nlives. Part of his time was spent in clearing and improving his land, and during wet\\nand cold days he worked at his trade. Men would often plow or grub for him while\\nhe would sharpen their mattocks and do other smithing for them. During the War of\\n181 2 most of his neighbors left their work and bore arms for their country. Mr. Berlin\\nhaving lost the sight of his right eye was left at home, but made himself useful in har-\\nvesting his neighbors crops, working day and night, and to increase his burdens mid\\ndisadvantages his wife was bitten by a rattlesnake while assisting in the harvest-field.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0760.jp2"}, "735": {"fulltext": "George Neely Berlin. J. Frank Ross, M. D. 649\\nDuring the grading of the turnpike which crossed their farm, Mrs. BerUn did the\\nbaking for the graders, receiving one dollar a barrel for converting twenty-six barrels of\\nflour into bread. Mr. Berlin kept hotel after the pike was finished for fifty-three years,\\nand at the time of his death owned five hundred acres of land, which is now as good\\nfarms as are in the county. He died November i, 1844, and his son Henry, then the\\nmain helper at home, died shortly afterwards. His wife and mother of his family died\\nFebruary 5, 1879, at the age of ninety-three years.\\nGeorge N. Berhn wedded Susan Cook, of Forest county. Pa., January g, 1848, and\\nmoved to present site of Valley post-office, where he has lived ever since; living at first\\nin a log-house ten by twelve feet. The farm at that time was all woods but three acres.\\nSince then it has been nearly all cleared, and is at present under a good state of cultiva-\\ntion. In 1849 built the present brick building in which he has kept hotel nearly ever\\nsince. In 1856 he had the contract for carrying the mail from Warren to Franklin,\\nusing twelve horses and six men. Mr. Berlin has been engaged in the oil business ever\\nsince the first excitement about Oil Creek and Oil City. His first adventures did not\\nprove profitable. He devoted most of his time to testing territory, but found no oil.\\nIn 1872 he had a test-well drilled on his own farm at Valley. The well is yielding some\\noil yet. He was subsequently interested in the locality of Elk City, and was one of the\\nfirst persons to open the Cogley field. He has profited by his early experience in the\\nbusiness, and of late years has operated quite extensively and with much success. He\\nhas some thirty producing wells at present.\\nBesides the farm containing two hundred acres on which he lives he has three other\\nfine farms.\\nThe Kossuth post-office was moved to his place during Buchanan s administration,\\nand Mr. Berlin was postmaster. He is at present postmaster at Valley, an office kept\\nat his place. He sold farm machinery for twenty-five years. He has raised a family of\\nseven children William H., an oil merchant living near Eik City; Harriet L.\\n(Phipps), Lizzie J., who married J. H. Marten John C, an oil merchant, also has a\\nhardware store and the post-office at Fern Lettie S. Milton, their first child, and\\nJacob, their youngest, each died at the age of three years.\\nMr. Berhn has always been active and industrious. He will be gratefully remem-\\nbered by the many friends he has made during his active and successful business and so-\\ncial life.\\nROSS, J. FRANK, M. D., was born in Clarion, Pa., January 27, 1844. After acquir-\\ning such an education as was afforded by the public schools of Clarion, he took an\\nacademic course at Elder s Ridge Academy, Indiana county. Pa., and upon graduating\\nfrom this institution returned home and began the study of medicine in the office of his\\nfather. Dr. James Ross. Later he attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania,\\ngraduating in March, 1868, and entering upon his professional career in his native town\\nthe same year. Here he has remained ever since, enjoying a large and lucrative prac-\\ntice, extending over the greater portion of the county.\\nDr. Ross is a member of the Clarion County Medical Society, also of the State Med-\\nical Society, and the American Medical Association. During the Centennial year he\\nwas elected vice-president of the State Medical Society at its meeting held in Philadel-\\nphia. He is Assistant Medical Director of the P. and W. R. R., and has been presi-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0761.jp2"}, "736": {"fulltext": "650 History of Clarion County.\\ndent of the Board of Examining Surgeons for Pensions, located at Clarion, ever since\\nthe organization of the board.\\nJune 12, 1877, Dr. Ross was married to Miss Sadie Markillie, of Hudson, O. This\\nunion has been blessed with two interesting daughters Alice B. and Mary M. Ross.\\nARNOLD, FRANK M., was born in the village of Reidsburg, Clarion county, Pa.,\\non the 14th day of October, 1847. March, 1848, with his parents, he moved to\\nthe borough of Clarion, Pa., the county seat, and has resided there ever since.\\nIn July, 1865 he became teller in the First National Bank of Clarion, and is at pres-\\nent acting as assistant cashier in the same bank, making nearly twenty-two years in the\\nbanking business. In 1869 he was commissioned by Governor Geary as notary public,\\nand was re-commissioned in 1872, and has held the same position during the adminis-\\ntrations of Governors Hartranft and Hoyt, continuously until 1884. He was elected the\\nfirst president of the Clarion Fish and Game Association in and has held the po-\\nsition to the present time. He has been engaged in the lumber business in the firm of\\nLeeper, Arnold Co., and he has been very successful. He is also one of the firm of\\nC. Leeper Co., which is a lumbering firm, and has over forty million feet of pine\\ntimber.\\nMr. Arnold by his industry and business sagacity has acquired a handsome compe-\\ntence, and is now one of the substantial and enterprising citizens of Clarion. He is lib-\\neral in his gifts to worthy charitable institutions, and his beautiful homestead attests his\\ntaste, which his ample means enables him to gratify.\\nHe has a family of five interesting children Frank M., George E., Turner S., Al-\\nvin F., and Clara.\\nSIEGWARTH, ANTHONY L., was born near Fryburg, in what is now Clarion\\ncounty. Pa., January i, 1826.\\nHis father, John David Siegwarth, was born in Metzingen, Province of Wurtemburg,.\\nGermany, May 16, 1786. When seventeen years of age he started to America without\\nany money. At that time emigrants who had no money to pay their passage were sold\\non reaching America, to the highest bidder, and in this way their passage was paid.\\nJohn Siegwarth was one of those emigrants, and worked to pay his ship-fare three years\\nin Lancaster county. Pa., for the party to whom he was bound. This obligation being\\nfulfilled, he married Rosanna Henlen, of Lancaster county, started West, and became\\none of the early settlers in the present locality of Fryburg, Clarion county. Pa., where he\\nbought a tract of land, improved it, and endured the many hardships along with the dis-\\nadvantages of early pioneer life. He had a family of eleven children, four sons and\\nseven daughters. Mr. Siegwarth took an active interest in organizing the Fryburg Lu-\\ntheran Church, and during his subsequent life was one of its earnest and liberal support-\\ners he also took an active part in establishing schools, and gave a helping hand to va-\\nrious other improvements. He died January 30, 1858, and his wife died ten years after-\\nwards.\\nA. L. Siegwarth was educated in the schools of his native township, and spent his\\nyouth on the farm with his father. Soon after he set out for himself he became a part-\\nner in Licking Furnace, and kept the books of the firm. He was afterwards book-\\nkeeper for two years at Hemlock furnace, for F. W. M. Faber, who owned the furnace\\nbut lived in Pittsburgh.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0762.jp2"}, "737": {"fulltext": "Anthony L. Siegwarth. John V. Ritts. 651\\nIn May, 185 1, he wedded Eliza Moore, of Farmington township. They have had five\\nsons and five daughters Mary (Magee), Rose A., Horace G.,now clerking in the store of\\nM. Arnold, in Clarion Elizabeth A., John M., telegraph operator in Columbus, O., An-\\nthony J., Jacob, Loretta J., Alice C, and Lewis F. Three of the children Jacob, Lo-\\nretta, and Lewis were called home before they reached the age of five years.\\nMr. Siegwarth was book-keeper for Judge Cook ten years for Buzard, Ritts Co.\\nthree years; and for C. Leeper Co. one year. He was commissioner of Forest county\\nfor six years, being elected in 1859; was auditor of Clarion county, the first Repubhcan\\nelected to that office in the county was also engaged in the lumber business. At pres-\\nent he is a well-to-do merchant in Scotch Hill, and owns and superintends the cultiva-\\ntion of a fine farm where he lives. It is located near Scotch Hill. As a book-keeper\\nhe is neat, careful, and painstaking, and has always had the entire confidence of his\\nemployers. He has always been strictly honest and straightforward in all his dealings\\nwith his fellow-men believed, trusted, and respected by all who know him. His cour-\\ntesy and liberal hospitality also are deserving of special mention.\\nRITTS, JOHN v., a son of Mr. Elias Ritts, one of the leading pioneers, and an esti-\\nmable and successful business man of Clarion county, was born in St. Petersburg,\\nin the year 1852. His early life, outside of school days, was devoted to agricultural em-\\nployments on one of his father s farms. He received an academic education, and after-\\nwards entered the Iron City Commercial College, at Pittsburgh, Pa. His aptitude and stu-\\ndious habits won for him not only class honors, but the esteem of the faculty and patrons\\nas well. Upon his graduation he was tendered, without solicitation, a special profess-\\norship in book-keeping and banking in the institution, which he accepted and filled with\\nmarked ability for nearly two years. Desiring to complete a classical education, he\\ndetermined to enter Yale College and resigned his position, notwithstanding persistent\\nefforts made to induce him to remain permanently in the faculty of the Iron City Com-\\nmercial College.\\nBut fate determined otherwise, and the crisis was precipitated by the discovery,\\ndevelopment, and large production of petroleum in territory contiguous to St. Peters-\\nburg. The necessity of banking facilities was soon apparent, and resulted in the estab-\\nlishment of the St. Petersburg Savings Bank, in the year 1872. Its organization was\\neffected by the election of the officers named Hon. Jno. W. Hammond of Erie, presi-\\ndent Hon. Jno. Fertig of Titusville, vice-president and Charles Horton of Erie county,\\ncashier.\\nYoung Ritts, who was then not twenty years old, was called home, and assumed\\ncharge of the books and accounts. The business rapidly increased, and within a year\\nhe was promoted by the unanimous vote of the board of directors, to fill the vacancy\\noccasioned by the death of the then cashier. The original stockholders, in obedience to\\nthe demand, established additional banking houses at Foxburg and Turkey City. The\\nbusiness at the St. Petersburg bank exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the\\nparties in interest, and required the employment of several assistants. During the years\\n1876 and 1877 the price of oil advanced from below one dollar to four dollars and\\ntwenty-five cents per barrel. Deposits increased in proportion until the amounts exceeded\\nseven hundred thousand dollars daily.\\nThe resources of the Boy Cashier responded to this volume of business, which\\nculminated in a daily aggregation in excess of one million of dollars. This immense", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0763.jp2"}, "738": {"fulltext": "652 History of Clarion County.\\nbusiness continued down to the year 1878, when the owners of the three banks men-\\ntioned conferred on Mr. Ritts the honorable and responsible post of general mana-\\nger of their banks. After the first few years the personal attention of the stockholders,\\nwho were non-residents of the county, gradually decreased until after the year 1878,\\ntheir visits were limited to the semi-annual dividend periods, and they recorded on the\\nminute books of the banks resolutions attesting their approval of all the efforts made by\\nMr. Ritts to advance the welfare and prosperity of the several banks, and expressing\\ntheir personal regard for his integrity and ability in management. Certainly few men of\\nhis age in the State were ever more rapid in advancement, more implicitly relied on by\\nthe commercial community, or more deserving of that advancement and reliance. After\\nthese years of prosperity the oil production declined in Clarion county, and active ope-\\nrations were transferred to the Bradford and Richburg regions. Many of the bank s\\nlargest customers removed, but continued their banking business with Mr. Ritts. The\\nTurkey City and Foxburg banks were disposed of, and subsequently the stock in the St.\\nPetersburg bank was purchased by Elias Ritts, J. V. Ritts, C. H. Martin, J. J. Ashbaugh,\\nS. Foust, W. S. Blakslee, and others, and Elias Ritts was elected president, J. V. Ritts\\ncontinuing as cashier, and C. H. Martin assistant cashier. The retiring shareholders\\nexpressed their satisfaction with the result of their financial ventures, and indorsed the\\nhigh reputation of their cashier for business knowledge, justice, and economy.\\nPrior to this time Mr. Ritts became largely interested in the field production of oil in\\nthe upper oil districts, and having opportunities to sell, disposed of the greater part of\\nhis interests, realizing a handsome competency. He is yet extensively engaged in pro-\\nducing oil in Pennsylvania and Ohio.\\nEnterprises of importance were constantly seeking his advice and co-operation. In\\nrailroad interests he was identified with the Foxburg, St. Petersburg and Clarion Rail-\\nway (now the Pittsburgh and Western) as its treasurer, and was for many years a director\\nof the company, and was also treasurer of the Foxburg, Kane and Bradford Railroad a\\nlarge stockholder in the Parker, Karns City and Butler Railroad, and in the Parker\\nBridge Company, and secretary and treasurer of the Foxburg and St. Petersburg Turn-\\npike Company.\\nHe was interested in, and assisted in organizing, the following banks the Eldred\\nBank; First National Bank, of Salina, Kansas; Seaboard National Bank, New York;\\nDallas National Bank, of Texas Meridian National Bank, of Mississippi, and the Key-\\nstone Bank, of Pittsburgh. None of the banks mentioned in Clarion county were in-\\nvolved in unsuccessful litigation, and their per centage of uncoUectable assets was the\\nlowest average known in the history of banking. The counsel retained for the banks\\nwere Hon. Theophilus S, Wilson, now president judge, Hon. George A. Jenks, solicitor-\\ngeneral of the United States, and John W. Reed, whose successors are Reed Wilson.\\nIn the year 1884 the St. Petersburg Bank had hundreds of thousand of dollars loaned\\nout, principally on oil collaterals, and when the financial panic of that year caused a\\nrapid and ruinous decline in the price of oil, the safety of the institution seemed endan-\\ngered, and it was deemed prudent by the management to withhold general payments for\\ntwo months at the end of that period business was resumed, and has continued unin-\\nterruptedly in the usual way.\\nDuring this time it was fully developed that Mr. Ritts was possessed of an energy\\nwhich no ordinary impediment could resist, and an ambition that difficulties only served\\nto strengthen.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0764.jp2"}, "739": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0765.jp2"}, "740": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0766.jp2"}, "741": {"fulltext": "John V. Ritts. David Bowman. T. J. Payne. 653\\nIn August, 1882 he was united in marriage to Irene C. Blakslee, daughter of the late\\nW. Z. Blakslee, of New York City, an amiable and accomplished lady. Their conjugal\\nrelations have been most happy, and the union blessed with two lovely and interesting\\nchildren. For the past fifteen years Mr. Ritts has been a member and officer of the\\nMethodist Episcopal Church. To this, as to all other Christian churches in the neigh-\\nborhood, he has been generous, and his liberal contributions have established a record\\nthat has endeared his name and acts as worthy of emulation.\\nBOWMAN, DAVID, was born in Scotland, May 24, 1814. When he was ten years\\nold his father, Thomas Bowman, died, and his mother died one year afterwards.\\nDavid was one of a family of eight children, all of whom died before the age of matu-\\nrity, except himself and his brother John, who came to Canada in 1833, where he lived\\nuntil his death in 1880. David Bowman came to America in the spring of 1834, land-\\ning in Quebec, Canada, but went to Pittsburgh the following October. After staying\\nin Pittsburgh about two years he went to Pottsville, Schuylkill county. Pa. While here\\nhe married Ellen Robinson, a resident of Pottsville, June 22, 1839, and the following\\nOctober came to Lucinda Furnace, Clarion county, Pa. He was a coal miner and fol-\\nlowed that occupation in Scotland and in America until 1843, when he bought a farm\\nof one hundred acres near Tylersburg, in Farmington township. He dug coal and ore\\nfor three years at Beaver Furnace before coming to Tylersburg. After spending some\\ntwenty years on his farm he built a store at Newmanville, in Washington township, in\\n1866. He came to Tylersburg in 1871 and engaged in the mercantile business, which\\nhe has followed in that place ever since.\\nIn 1873 he, in company with C. Leeper, Porter Haskell, and Daniel Curll, purchased\\na fourteen-hundred-acre timber lot, known as the Higbee tract, at and around Leeper.\\nAfter he sold his interest in this tract he bought a one-fourth interest in a seventeen-\\nhundred-acre tract of timber land in Forest county in 1881. He is at present a stock-\\nholder and director in the Second National Bank of Clarion. He has lately taken six\\nthousand dollars stock in the Clarion State Normal School, and is one of its trustees.\\nHe is now postmaster at Tylersburg, and was the first postmaster at Newmanville, an\\noffice established through his influence.\\nHe was blessed with a family of thirteen children ten boys and three girls.\\nThomas, James C, Frank S., William W., Edward, Charles R., and Jane (Alt), are liv-\\ning at present, most of them near Tylersburg.\\nMr. Bowman has profited by the adage, Industry and economy means thrift.\\nWhen he reached Pittsburgh in 1834 he had but one English sovereign left, was in a\\nstrange land with not a relative in this great republic. His excellent judgment and\\nforce of character, along with his successful business career, has won for him a promi-\\nnent place in the community in which he lives.\\nPAYNE, T. J. Mr. T. J. Payne was born in Norwich, Chenango county, N. Y., in^\\n1839. received his education in the public schools of his native city, and at the\\nage of eighteen he began an apprenticeship at carriage manufacturing, completing his\\nterm in three years. He then worked at his trade as journeyman until the breaking out\\nof the Civil War. During the years of 1862-64 Mr. Payne served the government in a\\ncivic capacity, building bridges for the Army of the Cumberland, having fifty men un-\\nder his charge.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0767.jp2"}, "742": {"fulltext": "654 History of Clarion County.\\nIn December, 1864, he removed to Warren county, Pa., where he engaged hi the\\nlumber business. Three years later he came to Tylersburg, Clarion county, where he\\nhas been engaged in the lumber business, and along with the same has conducted a mer-\\ncantile business during most of the years of his residence in this county.\\nHe has been interested in the oil business since 1S72, and since 1880 has had inter-\\nests in the Bradford oil field, which have engaged a portion of his attention up to the\\npresent time.\\nIn 1858 Mr. Payne married Miss L. L. Lewis, of Broome county, N. Y., who con-\\ntinued to share with her husband the vicissitudes of life until her death in October, 1885.\\nWhile at Tylersburg, Mr. Payne erected a fine residence, but after occupying it two\\nyears he sold it on account of the ill health of Mrs. Payne, and in company with his wife\\nvisited a number of cities and watering-places in the hope of restoring her health. In\\nAugust, 1886 he married Miss M. E. Hicks, of Clarion county. During the present year\\n(1887) he purchased from the Arthurs Coal and Lumber Company their extensive prop-\\nerty in Paint township, and on the first of x\\\\pril moved to Arthurs to take personal\\n:harge of this business. Mr. Payne has been successful in his business career, and by\\nhis integrity and executive ability has attained a high position in the estimation of his\\nneighbors.\\nREYNOLDS, DAVID, was born in Kittanning, Armstrong county. Pa., October 12,\\n1840, and received bis education in Turtle Creek, and Sewickly ^Academy in Alle-\\ngheny county. His father, Alexander Reynolds, was born in Huntingdon county. Pa.,\\nin 1808, and married Martha Deniston, of Indiana county, Pa., in 1838, to whom\\n-were born David, Sarah D. (Cunningham), John D., at present a partner in Redbank\\nFurnace), Ellen T. (Thompson), Ehza P., who married Captain Mays, now in the regu-\\nlar army and Alexander, jr., living in Kittanning. He, in company with Ritchey, built\\nRedbank Furnace, in Armstrong county. It is located about eight miles above the\\nmouth of Redbank Creek. He afterwards became a partner in Redbank Furnace, in\\nClarion county. Pa. He was a substantial business man, and thoroughly understood the\\nmanufacture of iron, and the management of furnaces. Died in October, 1881.\\nDavid Reynolds married Martha M. Detrich, of Birmingham, Huntingdon county.\\nPa., January 31, 1867, by whom he has had two sons and two daughters, all Hving Sa-\\nrah D., Harry A., Kizzie D., and David, jr. In 1859 Mr. Reynolds came to the present\\nsite of Redbank Furnace, where he has lived ever since, taking charge of the store and\\nsuperintending the building of the furnace, in which he was a partner. He has had the\\ngeneral management of all connected with the furnace through all its changes in own-\\nership, improvements, etc., a position which he still holds.\\nThe firm known as McCuUough Reyonlds purchased at and about the mouth of\\nRedbank, in 1859, fifteen hundred acres of land rich in iron ore, coal, and fire-clay, and\\nbuilt the furnace during the same year. McCullough retired from the firm in 1865,\\nJohn Moorhead buying his interest. Moorhead retired in 1879 and the firm became\\nAlexander Reynolds :^Sons. After the death of the senior member of the firm, it be-\\ncame David and John D. Reynolds, the present owners and managers. During the panic\\nof 1873, and during all the fluctuations in the iron industry, this furnace under the effi-\\ncient management of David Reynolds has stood the severest tests. During the Parker\\noil excitement he was engaged to some extent in the oil business, and is at present deal-\\ning in real estate in West Virginia. Though scarcely in the prime of life, yet he has", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0768.jp2"}, "743": {"fulltext": "David Reynolds. Col. Calvin Augustus Craig. 655\\nalready accomplished a fair life s work. He is courteous to everybody, always trusted\\nby the other members of the firm and all persons with whom he has dealt; his word is\\nnever questioned. His modesty, untiring energy, and excellent judgment, have been of\\nvalue to him and all others with whom he has had business relations.\\nCRAIG, COLONEL CALVIN AUGUSTUS, One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania\\nVeteran Volunteers. Calvin Augustus Craig, third son of Washington and Nancy\\n(Thompson) Craig, was born in Clarion county December 7, 1833. At an early age he\\ngave evidence of an unusually active and studious mind, and, with only the advantages\\nof the public schools, made rapid progress in learning, soon mastering the branches there\\ntaught. He was a careful reader, profiting by what he read, and was more intelligent\\nand cultivated than many who possess all the advantages of a collegiate course. In the\\nfall of 1858 he graduated from Duff s Commercial College, Pittsburgh, Pa., having de-\\ntermined to devote himself to a business career, for which he was eminently fitted.\\nAfterwards, in the spring of 1859, he spent some time in traveling in the South and\\nSouthwest, with a view to enlarging his knowledge by coming in contact with the citi-\\nzens of these localities. Rev. James S. Elder (now pastor of the Presbyterian Church\\nof Clarion), his friend and pastor, in the address delivered at Colonel Craig s funeral,\\nsays of this trip\\nHis opinions and criticisms showed how closely and narrowly he scanned the cus-\\ntoms and views of the people among whom he sojourned, and proved him to be a shrewd\\nand careful observer. He closely scrutinized the workings and influence of the institu-\\ntion of slavery. His observations, confirming what every intelligent man knows to be\\ntrue, that whoever seeks to degrade the low himself must sink He had\\nwitnessed the evil workings of slavery himself, and ever afterwards cherished an in-\\ncreased antipathy to the inhuman institution.\\nOn his return from this trip he engaged in lumbering, afterwards engaging in the\\nmercantile business with his father, at Greenville, Clarion county. His success in both\\nthese enterprises showed him eminently fitted for a business career. But when the\\ntocsin of war rang through the land, his soul was filled with patriotic ardor, and he at\\nonce enlisted in Captain A. A. McKnight s company of three months men, and at the\\nclose of that term of service he returned home and recruited a company in Clarion county\\nfor Colonel McKnight s regiment, which company was known as Company C, of the\\nOne Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, his commission as captain bearing\\ndate of September 6, 1861. On the 2gth of May he was promoted to the lieutenant-\\ncolonelcy, made vacant by the resignation of Colonel Corbet, and to colonel. May 4,\\n1863, upon the death of the gallant McKnight, his friend and cousin, whom he deeply\\nmourned. In asking his promotion, General Graham, commanding the First Brigade,\\nFirst Division of the Third Corps, to which the One Hundred and Fifth was attached,\\nwrote to Governor Curtin as follows\\nColonel A. A. McKnight, of the 105th Reginent Pa. Vols., having been killed\\nwhile gallantly leading his men in a charge against the enemy, on which occasion Lieu-\\ntenant-Colonel Calvin A. Craig succeeded him in command, and behaved with equal\\ncoolness and courage, I consider it a duty to the service to recommend that Lieutenant-\\nColonel Craig be promoted to the vacancy occasioned by the death of the heroic Mc-\\nKnight. In soliciting this promotion, I am influenced alone by a desire to keep up the", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0769.jp2"}, "744": {"fulltext": "656 History of Clarion County.\\nhigh standard of the 105th Regiment, one of the noblest regiments in the United States\\nservice.\\nThat he was worthy of this confidence and capable of fiUing this responsible posi-\\ntion, the conduct of Colonel Craig on many desperately fought fields bore witness. His\\nheart was ever true to his country his letters to his friends all breathed of this great\\ndevotion to the cause for which he was fighting. With him, duty was a watchword,\\nand duty to his country paramount to all other considerations. This is exemplified in\\nthe following extract from a letter received from him by the writer, just after the fall of\\nColonel McKnight, and his own promotion\\nWhen I entered the army, during the three months service as a private, I did so\\nbecause I thought it was a duty I owed my country. I have risen from the ranks to be\\ncolonel of this regiment; and as private, captain, and lieutenant-colonel, I think I have\\nhad but this one object in view, and that is to serve my country to the best of my ability.\\nIf I have failed, it has been an error of the head and not of the heart.\\nColonel Craig was ardently attached to the brave men of his command, and they in\\nturn gave him their love, respect, and prompt obedience. This feeling of pride and\\nconfidence in the officers and men of his regiment is fully illustrated in the following\\nextracts from letters written by him while in the service. In writing of the battle of\\nGettysburg, he says\\nThe regiment never fought better in the world It rallied some eight\\nor ten times after all the balance of the brigade had left it. I could handle them just\\nas well on that field of battle as though they had simply been on drill. This is a state\\nof perfection in drill that is gained by but few regiments. Confidence on the part of\\nofiicers and men in one another is what makes troops perfect. This is the case in this\\nregiment. I have full confidence in my men, and I believe that they have confidence\\nin their ofiicers that they will not ask them to do anything that they are afraid to do\\nthemselves.\\nAgain, of the same battle\\nThe regiment never did better. When they moved forward on the charge at\\ndouble-quick, and with scarcely an inch of difference in their glittering bayonets, every\\nman at his post oh but I did feel proud of them. I know I have a kind of weakness\\nfor this regiment; for I tell you, it is a regiment to be proud of.\\nIn the same letter, in writing of the dangers attending his position, he says\\nI love my country, and am willing to fight for her; and, if needs be, to die\\nfor her.\\nIn writing of the battle of Auburn, he says\\nI know it is in bad taste to write or talk about one s self, and I suppose it is equally\\nas bad to write or talk about one s own regiment or company, and you may think that\\nI write this in praise of my own regiment to make ;/iyse// appear in a favorable light;\\nbut I trust that you, who know me so well, will not think so. When I speak of the\\nregiment, 1 mean the regiment, and not myself. People are at liberty to think of me as\\nthey will but I do insist that the actions of the regiment shall appear in a proper light,\\nwhether that places me in an honorable or disgraceful position. I will close this by\\nsimply saying that the One Hundred and Fifth is one of the best regiments in the ser-\\nvice. At the affair at Auburn, no men could have behaved better, and the officers\\nequally as well in fact, not a man shrank from duty, but each stood up manfully, as if\\nthe destiny of the Republic rested on his individual shoulders.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0770.jp2"}, "745": {"fulltext": "Col. Calvin Augustus Craig. Hon. W. W. Barr. 657\\nThese extracts go to show the true patriotism of the man, and the unselfishness of\\nhis character, for he was no reckless adventurer, but one for whom the ties that bound\\nhim to his home were of the strongest nature. On the ist of February, 1864, while at\\nhome on veteran furlough, after the re-enlistment of his regiment. Colonel Craig was\\nmarried to Miss Elmira J. Craig, of Greenville, Clarion county, and when he again re-\\nturned to the field it was not only affectionate parents and fond sisters and brothers,\\nbut a loving wife, the bride of a few short weeks, with whom he was called to part.\\nColonel Craig was in all the battles in which his regiment took part, from the siege\\nof Yorktown to that of Petersburg, with the exception of the battles of Spottsylvania\\nand Cold Harbor, when he was at home on account of wounds. He was wounded in\\nthe head slightly during the Seven Days battles before Richmond at the Second Bull\\nRun his horse was killed, and he was severely wounded in the ankle at Gettysburg\\nhe had three horses shot under him at the battle of the Wilderness he was shot in the\\nface, severing the facial artery, and but for the devotion of some of his men, who, for\\nthirty-six hours, stood with fingers pressed to the wound, until he could obtain surgical\\naid, he would have bled to death at the siege of Petersburg he was slightly wounded\\nin the shoulder by a piece of shell; and at the battle of Deep Bottom, Va., August 16,\\n1864, while in command of the Second Brigade, Third Division of the Second Corps,\\nhe was mortally wounded in the head, and lingered in unconsciousness until the next\\nday, when he redeemed his pledge to die, if needs be, for his country.\\nColonel Craig s remains were taken in charge by his young brother, J. H. Craig,\\nwho had served with him all through the war, and sadly borne to his home, where,\\namid the tears and bitter grief of the young wife, who yet mourns her dead hero, and of\\nthe aged father and mother, brothers and sisters, who so dearly loved him, and the sor-\\nrow of the entire community, he was laid to rest in the shadow of the pines overlooking\\nhis boyoood s home.\\nBARR, HON. W. W., was born in Penn s Valley, Centre county, on the 15th day of\\nFebruary, 1827. In early life he worked on a farm and attended the public schools,\\nand later attended Dickinson Seminary at Williamsport, Pa. In August, 1850, he com-\\nmenced the study of law in the office of Joseph Alexander, esq., at Lewistown, Mifflin\\ncounty. Pa., and two years afterwards was admitted to the bar of that county.\\nIn April, 1853 he removed to Clarion and began the practice of law, and soon ac-\\nquired a lucrative business. After a residence here of one year Mr. Barr was elected dis-\\ntrict attorney of the county, and was re-elected in 1857. In 1861 he was elected county\\ntreasurer of Clarion county, serving two years, and in 1864 was elected a member of\\nthe Pennsylvania Legislature. He was re-elected in 1865, and served two full terms.\\nHe was again elected district attorney in 1869, and re-elected in 1872, having served in\\nthat office four terms, covering twelve years. He also served many years as a member\\nof the town council of Clarion. In all these positions he served with integrity and ability.\\nIn politics Mr. Barr has always been a Democrat, and an active worker. He was\\nchairman of the County Committee as early as 1856, and has served in the same capac-\\nity several times since, as well as in that of delegate to County and State conventions.\\nHe has also on several occasions been a member of the State Central Committee of his\\nparty.\\n1 Principally condensed from sketch of Colonel Craig, in History of One Hundred and Fifth Regi-\\nment P. V.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0771.jp2"}, "746": {"fulltext": "658 History of Clarion County.\\nMr. Barr has been a Mason since 1854, being a member of the lodge in Clarion.\\nHe served as master during the years 1859, 64, and 68, and was District Deputy Grand\\nMaster for the district composed of the counties of Armstrong, Cambria, Clarion, Indi-\\nana, and Jefferson, for the years 1868, 69, and 70, and has always been a close attend-\\nant on the meetings of the lodge, and taken an interest in the success of the fraternity.\\nOn the 31st of March, 1859 he married Mary, daughter of Dr. J. T. Pritner, of Clar-\\nion. Two children, a son and a daughter, have blessed this union. The son died in in-\\nfancy, and the daughter is married to W. A. Hetzel, of Allegheny.\\nMr. Barr assisted in the organization of the first agricultural society in Clarion county,\\nand was the first secretary of that association. For a number of years he has been a\\ntrustee of the Presbyterian Church of Clarion, and has been liberal in his contributions\\nfor charitable purposes.\\nBefore the war, Captain Barr commanded a military company, and thus acquired\\nthe title by which he is generally known. In manner Mr. Barr is modest and pleasant,,\\nhaving a kind word for all whom he meets. These traits have made him many friends.\\nHaving earned the money to pay for his education, he may truly be said to be a self-\\nmade man. By close application to business and judicious investments, he has gained a\\nmoderate competence, and his fair dealing has placed him in the front rank among the\\nsubstantial business men of Clarion.\\nCOLLNER, W. F., was born in Richland township, November 21, 1845. ^^^^7\\nlife was spent in the public schools of his native township, and at eleven years of\\nage, along with his school duties he kept the books in his father s store. He remained\\nhis father s book-keeper until July, 1862, when he enlisted as a private soldier in Cap-\\ntan Charles Klotz s Company (G), One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment Pennsylva-\\nnia Volunteers. After entering active service he was appointed fifth sergeant of his\\ncompany, and was promoted successively to orderly sergeant, second lieutenant and first\\nlieutenant. The last named grade he held when he was discharged June 2, 1865.\\nMr. Collner commanded his company in several engagements, and participated with\\nhis regiment in the following pitched batdes Antietam, Fredericksburg, in which hig.\\nbrigade lost 1,760 out of 4,000 Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, where his division wrested\\nLittle Round Top from the enemy after a desperate struggle Rappahannock Station,\\nMine Run, the Wilderness, on the fifth day of which battle he was wounded Spottsyl-\\nvania, Jericho Ford, Tolopotomy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg. In a single charge on the\\nenemy s works the regiment lost, in the space of ten minutes, eighty-three men in killed\\nand wounded. The regiment was engaged in numerous severe actions during the siege\\nof Richmond and Petersburg, as Reams Station, Peeble s Farm, Hatcher s Run, Dab-\\nney s Mills, Deep Bottom, the Quaker Road, Gravelly Run, Five Forks, Sailor s Creek,\\nand Appomattox Court-House, in the last of which the regiment was in the skirmish\\nline, and was hotly engaged when the word was brought that Lee had surrendered, and\\nall fighting ceased. The subject of our sketch passed through all these batdes, receiving\\ntwo wounds, which attest his gallant service for his conntry.\\nHe was discharged at the close of the war after serving within one month of three\\nyears, and on returning home he worked on his father s farm, and assisted in the store\\nuntil the autumn of the same year, when he went to Forest county to engage in the lum-\\nbering business.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0772.jp2"}, "747": {"fulltext": "f\\n-v^", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0773.jp2"}, "748": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0774.jp2"}, "749": {"fulltext": "W. F. CoLLNER. Jacob Black. 659\\nNovember 14, 1866, he married Miss Celia F. Brandon, at Clarington, Forest\\ncounty, Pa.\\nIn April, 1868, he went to Salem, Clarion county, and there engaged in the mercan-\\ntile business in which he continued with success until January, 1880. when he removed\\nto Clarion to assume the duties of sheriff of Clarion county, to which office he had been\\nelected the preceding November. He held the office three years, and at the expiration\\nof the term he returned to Salem and resumed business in his old store.\\nIn 1884 he was elected prothonotary of the county, which position he now holds.\\nWhen he returned to Clarion to assume the duties of his new office, he erected a hand-\\nsome residence on Wood street, and will probably make his home at the county seat for\\nsome time.\\nMr. Collner has always been a Democrat in politics, and is an influential member of\\nhis party in the county. He is a genial companion, a trusty friend, and possesses many\\nelements that combine to make him popular. As a business man he is industrious and\\nattentive, and as a public officer he has proved himself courteous and efficient.\\nBLACK, JACOB, was born in the State of Maryland on the 25th day of January, A.\\nD., 1809. He was the son of Frederick and Mary Black, who emigrated to this\\nState early in this century, first to Waynesburg, in Green county, and a year or two after-\\nwards to Beaver township, Venango (now Clarion) county, Pa. Jacob was the next to\\nthe oldest of a family of five children, four boys and one girl. When he was not over\\neight years old his father was killed by the falling of a tree. His maternal grandfather,\\nWilliam Rupert, was the owner of the land on which Shippenville Furnace was after-\\nwards erected, and which on his death became the property of his favorite grandson,\\nJacob Black, who has resided on the property ever since.\\nIn 1832 John Shippen, Richard Shippen, and Jacob Black formed a co-partnership\\nfor the purpose of manufacturing pig metal and iron, and in 1833 the Shippenville Fur-\\nnace was built, metal made and hauled to the Clarion River above the turnpike bridge,\\nand run to Pittsburgh in boats. Some years afterwards the other partners bought out\\nJohn Shippen s interest, and the furnace was operated by Shippen Black for many\\nyears. Jacob Black lived at the furnace, and was the active partner and manager. The\\nfirm built the forge a mile below on the creek, and made blooms and bar iron. A saw\\nand grist-mill were erected, and a large number of hands found employment in cutting\\ncord-wood, digging ore, burning charcoal (all the smelting was done with charcoal),\\nhauling coal, ore, and metal, and operating the works. The furnace became the mar-\\nket for all kinds of produce. Farmers came there with grain and marketing from all\\nover the county. Money was paid out for everything and circulated throughout the\\ncounty, and the works became an important factor in developing and improving the\\nneighborhood around. By able management and careful financiering, the firm success-\\nfully weathered the disastrous times of 1837, 1847, and 1857. The partners became\\nlarge real estate owners. At one time they bought three thousand acres of timber land\\non the upper waters of Paint Creek.\\nMr. Black was recognized as one of the most successful and able iron masters in the\\ncounty, and the poor or unfortunate had no better friend than he. Many of his workmen\\nbecame farmers and property owners through his assistance and liberality. Although in\\n1 By F. S. Maffett.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0775.jp2"}, "750": {"fulltext": "66o History of Clarion County.\\nyears of great depression the firm lost money, it was more than made up in prosperous\\ntimes, and throughout the years the furnace was operated the partners accumulated a\\nhandsome competence. On the i8th day of July, 1833, Mr. Black was married to Mar-\\ngaret, the sister of his partner, Richard Shippen. The issue of the marriage was nine\\nchildren, five of whom, three boys and two girls, are still living. In 1859 the furnace\\nblowed out, and the partnership was dissolved. At that time the firm owned a large\\namount of land in Beaver, Elk, and adjoining townships, and it was agreed that Mr.\\nShippen should make a division of all the real estate owned by the firm, and Mr. Black\\nwas to have the choice of the two parts into which it was divided. In this way an am-\\nicable partition of the property was made, and deeds were executed to each for his purpart.\\nThe awkward result of Mr. Black s choice was that it left the house and property at the\\nfurnace, where Black lived, in Shippen s division, but a subsequent trade again vested\\nthe homestead in Mr. Black, and he continues to live where he started in business almost\\nsixty years ago. After retiring from the manufacture of metal he bought and sold real\\nestate. The timber tract north of Shippenville, some fifteen hundred acres, was sold to\\nHahn, Metzgar Wagner for about fifty thousand dollars.\\nWhen the First National Bank of Clarion was organized Mr. Black became a stock-\\nholder, has been an officer, and is now president of that institution.\\nWhen the oil excitement broke out in Clarion county he became an operator and\\nproducer in the vicinity of Edenburg and Shippenville, having wells drilled on his lands\\nin several localities, and spending a considerable amount of money in developing new\\nterritory, and is still interested in that business. Being now in his seventy-ninth year,\\nwith impaired health, he has retired from active business, but still overseeing his private\\ninterests and discharging his duties as president of the bank.\\nKLINGENSMITH, JOHN, was born August 26, 1809, in Westmoreland county, Pa.\\nIn 181 1 his parents, Peter Klingensmith and Susannah (Kifer) Klingensmith,\\ncame to this county and settled near Madison Furnace. The following year they re-\\nturned to Westmoreland county. In 1824 his father came again to this county and\\nsettled with his family on what is now called the Cribbs farm, in Monroe township.\\nAfter a few months residence here he removed to Williamsburg, and a year later to\\nthe Cathers farm. From thence he went to Reidsburg. During the residence of the\\nfamily at Reidsburg the subject of this sketch, assisted by his brother Samuel, cleared\\na farm at WiUiamsburg, to which the family removed, and where they lived about\\ntwenty years.\\nIn 1838 John Klingensmith was married to Catharine Smith, who was his faithful\\nhelpmate until 1885, when she died. They had four children, Celinda, Reuben, Fianna,\\nand Clarissa, all of whom except the eldest are married.\\nMr. Klingensmith s public life began with his election as sheriff of Clarion county,\\nin- 1849, as an independent Democratic candidate. He served three years in this office,\\nand at the expiration of his term removed to Westmoreland county and purchased the\\nfarm on which he was born. He remained about four months, then sold the farm and\\nreturned to Clarion county. The following year he moved into Madison, in which\\ntownship he has resided ever since.\\nMr. KUngensmith has been both a farmer and a miller. He had charge of the\\ngrist-mill at Reidsburg one year, and of Corbett s mill on Leatherwood for the same\\nperiod. For eight years he had charge of the grist-mill at Madison Furnace. He has", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0776.jp2"}, "751": {"fulltext": "John Klingensmith. Manasseh Arnold. 66i\\na well-improved farm, on which his homestead is, in Madison township. Along with\\nfarming he conducted the business of a saw-mill, near Corsica, Jefferson county, which\\nhe had built at a cost of about $10,000. He continued in the lumber business eight or\\nnine years, until the memorable flood of 1865, by which he lost 300,000 feet of lumber\\nin the Allegheny River, and soon after the mill was burned, entaiUng an additional loss.\\nMr. Klingensmith is a respectable citizen, a true type of the early settlers of our\\ncounty, and by his industry and enterprise has contributed much toward the develop-\\nment of Clarion county.\\nARNOLD, MANASSEH. 1 Manasseh Arnold was born in York county, Pa., Sep-\\ntember 17, 1830. In 1837 his parents removed to Clearfield county, Pa., which\\nwas then a comparative wilderness. The family was one of moderate means, and its\\nmembers were subject to the privations incident to the lives of the pioneers of civiliza-\\ntion. The facilities afforded the children for acquiring an education were of the most\\nlimited character, and had it not been that their father, Peter Arnold, was a man of\\nsuperior learning for his time, and took great interest in the common school system\\nthen being introduced in the State, their education might have been entirely neglected.\\nThe instruction received at the primitive common school during the day was supple-\\nmented by the father s supervision of the children s studies in the evening, and in this\\nmanner the subject of this sketch acquired what would at the present time be considered\\na fair common school education.\\nUp to the age of sixteen years Mr. Arnold remained with his parents, assisting in\\nclearing up a farm and tilling the ground for the maintenance of the family, when, in\\n1846, he left the parental roof to seek his fortune. Coming to Clarion county, he secured\\na position in a country store at a salary of seventy-two dollars per year, boarding fur-\\nnished. After one year s employment his salary was increased to one hundred and\\nforty-four dollars, and subsequently to one hundred and ninety-two dollars per annum.\\nHis services were so satisfactory to his employer, Mr. James Laughlin, that on the ist\\nday of October, 1850 (Mr. Arnold then being in his twentieth year), that gentleman pro-\\nposed a partnership on very favorable terms, which proposition, after due consideration,\\nwas accepted, and a partnership was formed under the firm name and style of Laughlin\\nArnold, for the purpose of carrying on the mercantile, lumbering, milling, and boat\\nbuilding business, and dealing in live stock, at Leatherwood post-office, near St. Charles\\nFurnace, Clarion county. Pa. About one year subsequent to the formation of this part-\\nnership, the senior member of the firm met with an accident in the flouring-mill, which\\nnearly cost him his life, and for a long time incapacitated him for attending to business,\\nalthough he eventually recovered sufficiently to assist to some extent in the minor affairs\\nof the firm s extensive dealings yet he remained an invalid until the time of his death,\\nwhich occurred in 1870. Thus, in a great measure, the management of the large busi-\\nness to which the firm had already attained was assumed by the junior partner, and\\ncarried on by him successfully until the death of his senior, a period of nearly twenty\\nyears.\\nOn September 3, 1857, Manasseh Arnold was married to Amanda Ross McKelvey,\\nsecond daughter of Thomas McKelvey, esq., of New Bethlehem, Pa., and the young\\ncouple immediately went to house-keeping at the husband s place of business. The\\n1 By F. J. Maffett.\\n74", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0777.jp2"}, "752": {"fulltext": "662 History of Clarion County.\\nunion was a very happy one, and was followed by a family of seven children, three sons\\nand four daughters, all of whom are living.\\nMr. Arnold continued the business of merchandising, etc., at Leatherwood from the\\ntime of the death of Mr. Laughlin, in 1870, until December, 1875, when he disposed of\\nhis interests at that point, and in the following spring removed to the borough of Clarion,\\nwhere he has since resided. This step was the result of the fact that in November,\\n1875, he had been elected prothonotary and clerk of the courts of Clarion county, in\\nthe face of one thousand majority adverse to his party. He assumed the duties of his\\noffice on the first Monday of January, 1876, and discharged the same to the entire sat-\\nisfaction of the people until the expiration of his term, in 1879.\\nDuring that time and since, Mr. Arnold acquired valuable real estate in Clarion\\nborough, upon which he has erected large and extensive buildings, and in various other\\nways has given evidence of commendable public spirit and enterprise. For several\\nyears he has been engaged in the dry goods business in Clarion, and has attained a\\nleading position in the trade, while in connection with other parties he owns large and\\nprofitable lumber interests on the Clarion River, in the northern part of the connty.\\nWILSON, HON. J. H., was born in 1841, in Monroe township, Clarion county, on\\nthe farm where he lives, and which he has owned for a number of years. He\\nreceived his education in the pubhc schools of Monroe township and in Reid Institute,\\nat Reidsburg, Pa. At sixteen he began teaching in the public schools, and followed that\\nvocation until he was twenty years of age. Afterwards he engaged in the mercantile\\nbusiness, in which he continued for ten years.\\nIn 1874 Mr. Wilson was elected a member of the House of Representatives in the\\nPennsylvania Legislature, and served two terms. For a number of years he has been a\\nsuccessful farmer, while at the same time he has extended his operations in other lines\\nof business, which gave him a large acquaintance in this and adjoining counties.\\nIn 1886 Mr. Wilson was nominated and elected State senator for the Thirty-eighth\\nsenatorial district, consisting of the counties of Cameron, Clarion, Elk and Forest. Dur-\\ning the biennial session of 1887, just closed, he has served his constituents faithfully, and\\nwon the confidence and esteem of the people and his fellow senators.\\nHis course in the performance of his legislative duties was such as to enable him to\\nobtain for his constituents the enactment of such laws as they desired without delay of\\ntheir bills either in committee or elsewhere, and thus he has proven himself useful to his\\npeople, as well as capable.\\nOn September 18, 1866, Mr. Wilson married Miss Minerva J. Frampton, daughter\\nof Samuel Frampton, and the years that have passed brought them conjugal happiness\\nand worldly prosperity. Seven children, four boys and three girls have blessed this\\nimion.\\nKEATING, JOHN, the subject of this sketch, was born in Huntingdon county, Pa.,\\nDecember 24, 1804, being the youngest of a family of seven, five sisters and two\\nbrothers all now dead. John was the last survivor. In he came with his five\\nsisters to Muninsville, Butler county, and in 1838 or 39 he removed with his family to\\nEmlenton to engage in mercantile business. He formed a partnership with John Ven-\\nsel in 1846, and erected Richland Furnace in this county, beginning the manufacture of\\ncharcoal iron the following year. This he prosecuted successfully for a number of years.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0778.jp2"}, "753": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0779.jp2"}, "754": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0780.jp2"}, "755": {"fulltext": "John Keating. John R. Strattan. John Yeany. 663\\nAbout 1850 he moved with his family and took up his residence at the furnace, where\\nhe continued to Uve till his decease. In 1866 he was elected associate judge as a Dem-\\nocratic candidate, his term expiring 187 1. Hon. Hugh Maguire was his colleague.\\nJudge Keating was conspicuously identified with the industrial interests of Richland\\ntownship, and his correct and honorable business principles were rewarded by a com-\\nfortable income. At his death he was possessed of considerable real estate, much\\nof it having proved valuable oil territory. In social life Mr. Keating was one of the\\npleasantest of men; of a kindly and equable temperament, he always preserved agree-\\nable relations with his fellow-men. He died as he had lived a consistent Roman\\nCatholic, January ist, 1881, at the age of seventy-six. His wife, Catharine, daughter of\\nMichael McCullough, deceased, of Pittsburgh, survives him. Of a family of seven chil-\\ndren, three, two daughters and a son, Mr. Hugh Keating, of St. Petersburg, are now\\nliving.\\nSTRATTAN, JOHN R., son of John and Sarah Strattan, was born near Haddanfield,\\nN. J., October 21, 1807. He came with his father to what is now Strattanville in\\n1826, the village taking its name from this family.\\nJohn Strattan, sr., was of English descent. After leaving the State of New Jersey\\nhe came to Ridgeway, Elk county, Pa., then a howling wilderness, where he remained\\nabout two years before coming to Clarion county, Pa. He bought the tract of land on\\nwhich Strattanville now stands, from Philip Clover, September 15, 1826, and laid out\\nthe plan for the town in 1828. He was married twice. His second wife lived several\\nyears after his death. John R. was a son of his first wife, and Joseph S., who is still\\nliving, being at present seventy-three years of age, was born to his second wife. Mr.\\nStrattan died in Strattanville March 26, 1857, in his eighty-fourth year. While on his\\ndeath bed he offered a prayer for his wife and children. He had it written in order to\\nleave them something to ponder over and look upon when he was gone. In his prayer\\nhe expressed his trust in the Savior, and committed his family to the love and care of\\nHim v ^ho gave them life. He was an honest and upright business man, and a useful,\\nman in the village bearing his name.\\nJohn R. Strattan, the subject of this sketch, married Mary Ann Barber, August 26,\\n1830. They had only one child, Charles B., who is yet living. On October 15, 1873,\\nhe married Emma Forguson, his first wife having died September 8, 1872, at the age\\nof sixty-six years. This union was blessed with two sons, Harry F. and Curtis F., who\\nare both alive at psesent.\\nMr. Strattan followed farming in the early part of his life. He taught school in\\nStrattanville during the winter of 1845-46, and was justice of the peace for several\\nyears. In 1846 he engaged in the mercantile business in Strattanville, and continued\\nthus engaged until 1873, when the store was transferred to his son. Dr. C. B. Strattan,\\nwho owns it at present. He was a heavy stockholder and a director in the First National\\nBank in Clarion at the time of his death, which occurred in Strattanville, January 8,\\n1881.\\nYEANY, JOHN, was born in Lancaster county, Pa., December 5, 1810. In 1814\\nhis father, John Yeany, a native of Switzerland, came from Lancaster county to\\nwhat is now Redbank township. Clarion county, where the subject of this sketch has\\nmade his home ever since. Mr. Yeany had little schooling, about six months all told, in", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0781.jp2"}, "756": {"fulltext": "664 History of Clarion County.\\nthe subscription schools of his day yet, as we shall see presently, he was able to trans-\\nact business on a large scale. He lived with his father until he was twenty-four years\\nold, when he went into the forest to clear a farm for himself. Early in his career he\\nwould till his farm in the summer and work in the lumber-woods in the winter. Thus\\nby close apphcation to business and untiring industry he in time accumulated consider-\\nable property, which he increased by careful investment. Entering into the lumber bus-\\niness he bought large quantities of timber, which he sold at a good profit, realizing\\nhandsomely thereon. His judgment never failed him, and no matter to what he turned\\nhis attention, his business sagacity enabled him to succeed in his enterprises. Among\\nthe several branches of business operated by him was the raising, buying and selling of\\ncattle. This proved very remunerative as conducted by him.\\nMr. Yeany married Miss Elizabeth Swartz in 1834. Fourteen children blessed this\\nunion, eight of whom are now living. Mrs. Yeany died in January, 1874. In June,\\n1875, Mr. Yeany married Susanna Edder, by whom he has five children, four living.\\nNotwithstanding this large family of children he has been generous in aiding each one\\nof them as they started in life.\\nMr. Yeany is a quiet, unassuming citizen. He has never aspired to hold office, nor\\nhas he thirsted for fame. With a natural adaptability for business he has applied him-\\nself closely in looking after his own affairs, and with a spirit of enterprise and energy\\nworthy of imitation he has established himself as one of the solid citizens of Clarion\\ncounty.\\nSWENY, HON. JAMES, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, near Union-\\ntown, the county seat, June 14, i8ii. He is of Irish ancestry, his father, Charles\\nSweny, and his mother, Mary (Griffen) Sweney being natives of Ireland. He was\\nbrought up in the faith of the Roman Catholic Church and has ever held that faith.\\nWhen he was six years old, his father moved with his family to Butler county. Pa.\\nAt the age of eighteen, James went to Butler town, where he served an apprenticeship\\nat cabinet-making. He continued working at his trade and at carpentering until 1844,\\nwhen he was elected justice of the peace in Clarion borough, whither he had came three\\nyears before.\\nFor fifteen successive years, or three consecutive terms, Mr. Sweny served as justice,\\nand, after an interval of ten years, was again elected to the same office, but only served\\none and one-half years, when he was chosen associate judge of Clarion county.\\nJudge Sweny held his oflice two full terms, or ten years, and vacated the bench,\\nJanuary ist, 1882. Since the close of his official career, Mr. Sweny has led a retired\\nlife, and, with the exception of three trips across the continent, to Denver, Colorado, he\\nhas spent most of his time in the town where had served his neighbors in responsible\\npositions during so many years.\\nJudge Sweny was one of the pioneers in the county seat of Clarion county, and is\\none of a very small number yet remaining who came here when the town was in the\\nwoods. His integrity and his careful attention to the business of the several public\\npositions which he has filled have won for him the esteem of his fellow citizens.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0782.jp2"}, "757": {"fulltext": "BRIEF PERSONALS.\\nALEXANDER, GEORGE, Licking p. o., Washington, was born in York county, and\\nwas one of the children of Wilham and Nancy Ann Alexander. The family came to\\nthe township in 1840, when Mr. Alexander bought 100 acres of land, paying two dollars\\nper acre for it. He married Caroline M., a daughter of Horace R. Peck, of Rochester,\\nN. Y. Their children were Wilham E. and Albert E. William Alexander died in\\nSeptember, 1875; George died in April, 1875. During life George Alexander was one\\nof the most successful farmers of his township. He commenced life poor, but at the\\ntime of his death was in comfortable circumstances. His family are now respected\\nmembers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. William E., the oldest living child, en-\\nlisted in 1862 in Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer\\nInfantry, and served two years and eleven months.\\nAlexander, Henry, Callensburg p. o., Licking, was a son of Samuel and Mary (Shirey)\\nAlexander, and was born in Westmoreland county in 1801 and settled in Armstrong\\ncounty in 181 2, worked at farming until he was eighteen years of age. He served an\\napprenticeship to the carpenter trade, but on account of ill health became engaged in\\nthe mercantile business in Monroe township. He settled in Callensburg in 1831, and\\nthere opened his general store. He was appointed postmaster in 1832, an office which\\nhe held for eighteen years. He was appointed deputy marshal in 1840 to take the cen-\\nsus of part of Armstrong and Clarion counties, in which year the first agricultural and\\nmanufacturing statistics were taken in the United States. He also served as first lieu-\\ntenant and major of a regiment. He was engaged in the iron business from 1845 to\\n1850. He was married in 1836 to Nancy Hays. They had a family of four children\\nElmira P. (Risher), Alvin H., Mary (deceased), Sarah E. (Klingensmith). Mr. Alex-\\nander s mother died in 1868, at the age of 104 years, eleven months and two days.\\nAlsbach, G. W., Scotch Hill p. o., Farmington. The family of George Alsbach\\ncame to Scotch Hill, Clarion county. Pa., in the year 1837. In the family were several\\nchildren, a part of whom were natives of this county. These children were David K.,\\nRachel, Samuel J., John, George W., Aaron W., Levi P., and Oliver P., and of these\\nchildren all but Levi and Samuel are now living. George W. Alsbach was born on\\nJanuary 29, 1830. At about the age of nineteen years he learned the trade of black-\\nsmithing, a trade which he has since followed. He married Eliza Henry for his first\\nand Eliza Kribbs for his second wife. David K. Alsbach was born on December 30,\\n182 1. He married Lavina Neely. They had a family of four children. John M.\\nAlsbach was born on February 4, 1827, and married Euphemia Bartlett, who bore him\\nthree children, and who died in 1862. He then married the widow of his deceased\\nbrother Samuel. These brothers are all substantial citizens of Scotch Hill; well-to-do\\nand highly respected, and are all firm Republicans.\\nArblaster, G. W., New Bethlehem, was born at East Liverpool, Columbiana county,\\nO., in 1848, and was a son of George R. and Susan Arblaster. George R. was born in\\nStaffordshire, England, and settled in Clover county. Pa., in 1855, where he died in\\n1880, leaving a widow and six children, all of whom are now hving. He was a hollow-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0783.jp2"}, "758": {"fulltext": "History of Clarion County.\\nware manufacturer, and at his death his son George became his successor, in 1881. He\\nlargely increased the business and facilities, and in 1886 introduced natural gas in the\\nmanufacture of stone ware. He also took into partnership P. W. Boyd, the style of the\\nfirm being G. W. Arblaster Co. The firm are making preparations to go into the\\nmanufacture of drain tile and sewer pipe quite extensively. In 1866 G. W. Arblaster\\nmarried Sarah Rader. They have had one son.\\nArmstrong, Robert, West Freedom p. o.. Perry, was born in Fayette county, and\\nsettled in Clarion county in 1868. He married Lydia McLean, and they had a family\\nof nine children. He enlisted in 1862 in the One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Pennsyl-\\nvania Infantry and served to the close of the war. He is engaged in the oil business,\\nhaving charge of a number of wells. His parents were James and Mary Ann (Wilson)\\nArmstrong, who had a family of seven children.\\nArmstrong, Robert C, Knox p. o., Ashland, is a farmer, and was born in Ashland\\non December 4, 1831. He was a son of Robert and Sarah (Harrold) Armstrong.\\nRobert, sr., was born near Enniskillen, Fermanagh county, Ireland, and settled on the\\nfarm which is now owned and occupied by his son Robert C, in 1809, cleared and im-\\nproved the same, and died in 1854, at the age of seventy-one years. He was a soldier\\nin the war of 181 2, and his children were Barbara, Martha, Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary\\nHuldah, Sarah, Jane, Mary A., Susannah, Caroline M., and Robert C. The latter now\\noccupies the old homestead. He was married in 1859 to Priscilla Kribbs, a daughter\\nof John and Elizabeth (Best) Kribbs, of Ashland. Robert C. and Priscilla have had a\\nfamily of seven children Sarah E., Mary J., John W., Robert L., WilHa K., Flora L.,\\nand Ida May.\\nAsh, Rev. Jacob, Shannondale p. o., Redbank, the Evangelical Lutheran clergyman\\nof Shannondale Church, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1846, and in 1856 in company\\nwith his parents. Urban and Sophia Ash, settled in Chester county, Pa., near Phoenix-\\nviUe. They had a family of eight children Levi, William, Rev. Jacob, John, Joanna,\\nCharles, Frederick, and Mary. Jacob in early life learned the blacksmith trade, and\\nafterwards fitted himself for a teacher, and graduated from the Evangelical Lutheran\\nSeminary at Philadelphia in 1876. He was married in 1877 to Annie B. Welty, of\\nAllegheny county. They have had three children Lula B., Frank W., and Samuel L.\\nAshbaugh, Henry, St. Petersburg p. o., Richland, was born where he now resides,\\nin 1841 is a farmer, and owns a farm of ninety-six acres. His parents were John and\\nDorothy (Whittling) Ashbaugh. John was born in Westmoreland county, but came to\\nClarion county at an early day. Henry was married on February 9, 1865, to Susan\\nEddinger, a daughter of William and Susan (Ditman) Eddinger, of Turkey City, Pa.\\nHenry and Susan have had a family of four children William O., John E., Ida M.,\\nand Charles E.\\nBailey, P. H., West Monterey p. o., Perry, manufacturer and dealer in boots and\\nshoes, and having an extensive business in the oil country was born in Buffalo, N. Y.,\\nin 1848. He was married on September 29, 1851, to Catharine Gates, who died on\\nNovember 18, 1873, at Shamburg, Venango county. They had four children, two of\\nwhom are now living Catharine (born April 14, 1868), Elizabeth (born December 25,\\n1869), Peter (born August 31, 1871, and died June 21, 1874), and John (born June 9,\\n1873, and died December 12, 1873). Mr. Bailey enlisted in the One Hundred and\\nSixty-eighth New York Infantry. He is now an enterprising business man, and owner\\nof his residence and store.\\nBarger, Abraham, West Monterey p. o.. Perry, was a son of Jacob and Anna (Lash)\\nBarger, and was born in Clarion county. Pa., in 1827. He married Elizabeth Young,\\na daughter of David Young. She died in November, 1885, at the age of fifty-eight\\nyears. They had a family of six children Susan, Isaiah, Mary C, Mansel P., Sarah\\nE., and Jacob F. (deceased). Mr. Barger was in the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth\\nPennsylvania Infantry. He is now engaged in mining and farming, and owns and\\noccupies a farm of twenty acres.\\nBarger, Peter, West Freedom p. o.. Perry, was a son of Abraham and Elizabeth\\n(Snider) Barger, and was born in Clarion county in 1833. He was married in 1859 to", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0784.jp2"}, "759": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. iii\\nMargaret Jordan. They had a family of six children Silas, Siloamus, Priscilla, George,\\nJohn, and Mary. Mr. Barger is now engaged in farming and mining interests.\\nBarlett, James Wilson, Scotch Hill p. o., Farmington, was born in this township on\\nOctober i8, 1848. He was the oldest of four children born to Samuel and Euphemia\\nBarlett, one of the highly respected families of the township. When James was but\\nseven years old his father died, leaving the duties of the farm and household a charge\\nupon his widow. James lived at home until 1863, when his mother died. He then\\nworked on the river and in the lumber woods, and saved some money. With this he\\neducated himself, taking a course of study in a mercantile college. He also worked as\\na clerk with business houses, and finally became engaged in business with Daniel Steiner\\nat Scotch Hill, which relation has continued over fourteen years. Latterly he has en-\\ngaged in oil production. Energy and perseverance on his part has been amply re-\\nwarded, and to-day he is one of the most respected and successful young business men\\nof the township. Mr. Barlett is a member of the M. E. Church. His wife was Lu-\\ncinda Jane Magee, whom he married in 187 1, and who died in 1886, leaving three\\nchildren.\\nBarnes, Elmer, Alum Rock p. o.. Licking, a son of Albert Barnes, of Foxburg, was\\nborn in New York in i860, and came to Clarion county in 1876. He was married in\\n1882 to Anne Ryan. They have had two children Harry Albert and Bessie. Mr.\\nBarnes follows the oil business, drilling and tool dressing.\\nBarnes, John C, New Bethlehem, the artistic photographer of the borough, was\\nborn in Allegheny county. Pa., in i860, and settled in New Bethlehem, Pa., in his pro-\\nfession in 1880, where his rooms are the attraction of the town. He was a son of Simon\\nand Amelia (Kennedy) Barnes. Amelia was born in Clarion county, and her husband\\nSimon was born in Indiana county. Pa., and died in 1865, leaving a widow and four\\nchildren.\\nBarnett, Daniel, Knox p. o., Beaver, was born in Beaver township on August 13,\\n1845; is a farmer, and owns a farm of thirty acres with a coal mine, employing three\\nmen. He enlisted on March 31, 1864, in Company E, Seventy- eighth Pennsylvania\\nVolunteers, and served during the war. His parents were Joseph and Mary (Bennett)\\nBarnett. He was married on July 2, 1867, to May Albert Stanford, of Beaver town-\\nship. They have a family of five children James M., Etta M., Calvin O., Laura B.,\\nand Cora E.\\nBaum, Joel, Kossuth p. o., Ashland, a farmer, was born in Schuylkill county on\\nSeptember 5, 1853, and was a son of Levi and Rebecca (Mowry) Baum, who settled\\nin Ashland in 1857. They have four children living Joel, Milton, Alice D., and Ida.\\nJoel now occupies a part of the farm on which his parents first settled, has cleared the\\nportion which he occupies, and made all the improvements in buildings. His wife was\\nElizabeth, a daughter of Daniel and Teenie (Whitehill) Starr, of Ashland. Joel has a\\nfamily of five children Daniel C, Teenie L. and Rebecca E. (twins), and Jennie.\\nBeals, Benjamin, Knox p. o., Beaver, was born in Lehigh county on February 15,\\n1833, and came with his parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Bry) Beals, to Clarion county in\\n1841. Mr. Beals is a farmer and owns thirty-seven acres, and is also engaged in the\\noil producing business. He was married in March, 1864, to Mary M. Himes, a daugh-\\nter of William Himes, of Lawrence county. They have two children living Edwin J.\\nand Mary E.\\nBeals, Samuel, Knox p. o., Beaver, was born in Lehigh county on September 5,\\n1831, and came with his parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Bry) Beals, to Clarion county in\\n1841. He is a farmer, and now owns and occupies a farm of five hundred and forty\\nacres, part of which is oil producing. He was married on December 25, 1852, to\\nCatherine C. Marsh, of Beaver township. They have had seven children Frank A,,\\nborn November 8, 1853; Henrietta L., born April 10, 1858, now the wife of James\\nLaughner; Emma E., born September 2, i860, married John Adams; Hiram K., born\\nDecember 3, 1862; Isabella F. A., born March 6, 1865, married Elmer Buckelow\\nClara E., born July 24, 1868; Catherine A., born April 14, 1870. His second wife", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0785.jp2"}, "760": {"fulltext": "iv History of Clarion County.\\nwas Lizzie Leavy, to whom he was married on January i8, 1881. She was a daughter\\nof Jacob and Lizzie (Mong) Leavy. They have had three children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Clydie L., born\\nSeptember 13, 1881 Jacob W., born January 21, 1883; and Mabel L, born January\\n18, 1884.\\nBeatty, Dr. Smith Graves, Scotch Hill p. o., Farmington, the youngest of eleven\\nchildren born to Absalom and Sarah Beatty, was born in Armstrong county, on Decem-\\nber 23, 1854. His parents were farmers, but young Beatty had no inclination for that\\npursuit. He worked in stores, taught music and school, and finally at the age of twenty-\\nfour years came to commence the study of medicine with Dr. J. H. Smith, at Millville.\\nHe attended a course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore,\\nand graduated honorably in the spring of 1882, and at once commenced the practice of\\nmedicine at Scotch Hill. Here he married Sadie E., a daughter of William Thompson.\\nDoctor Beatty is a most successful practitioner, whose fame is rapidly spreading through-\\nout the county. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church,\\nBeck, James, Knox p. o., Beaver, was born on October 25, 1817, in Armstrong\\ncounty, Pa. He is a farmer, and now owns a farm of 260 acres. His parents were\\nJohn and Susan (Schall) Beck, who were natives of Armstrong county, and came to Clar-\\nion county in 1831. James Beck was married on February 18, 1847, to Caroline Mas-\\nter, a daughter of George Master, of Berks county. They have eleven children Mari-\\netta (deceased), John F., George W., Charles (deceased), Lena F., William A., Edwin\\nJ., Alferetta, Lemuel L. (deceased), David S., and Calvin N. (deceased.)\\nBeck, Simon R., Knox p. o., Beaver, was born in Beaver township. Pa., on May 11,\\n1848. He is an oil-producer, and has been a school director. His parents were Will-\\niam and Catharine (Hank) Beck, natives of Clarion county. He was married on De-\\ncember 14, 187 1, to Mary Donaldson, a daughter of John and Emaline (Ryant) Don-\\naldson. They have one child Frank W.\\nBeer, Henry, Fisher p. o.. Mill Creek, was born in Armstrong county, on July 20,\\n1 82 1. His father, Jacob Beer, was a carpenter by trade, and when Blacks Shippen s\\nFurnace was in blast, he worked for them, doing carpenter work for three years. His\\nwife s maiden name was Elizabeth Maccafoose, who was of German descent, her parents\\nbeing both natives of Germany. Jacob and Elizabeth had a family of twelve children\\ntwo boys and one girl are dead William, George, and Susan. Those children now\\nliving are Jacob, Elizabeth, John, Henry, Martha, Christina, Samuel, Mary Ann, and\\nEve. Henry Beer was married in 1851, to Elizabeth Stroup. Their first child, Mary\\nAnn, died while young. The rest of their children, four in number, are all living Will-\\niam L., Anna M., John, and Alvaretta J. Mr. Beer has been engaged in farming and\\nlumbering. He has forty acres of farm land on which he now resides, much broken\\ndown in health. He enlisted on August i, 1861, as a private in the War of the Rebell-\\nion was through the seven days fight and other engagements, and was honorably dis-\\ncharged on account of disability, in October, 1862, for which he now receives a pension.\\nBeil, A. S., Alum Rock p. o., Richland, was born in New Hamburg, Mercer county,\\non January 27, 1850, and came to Clarion county in 1882, and purchased about fifteen\\nacres of what is known as Alum Rock, located on the Clarion River about one and a\\nhalf miles from Richmond Station, on the P. and W. Railroad is located in a fine grove,\\nand is much sought after by picnic parties. There is a hquid oozing from the rocks\\nwhich forms a crystal of very strong alum, hence the name. Mr. Beil was married on\\nJuly 21, 1874, to Francis Snyder, of Mercer county. They have had three children\\nClyde A., Eva H., and Glenn A.\\nBell, James, West Monterey p. o.. Perry, was born in Clarion county in 1834, and\\nwas married in 1853 to A. Davis, who died in 1859, leaving two children. In i860 he\\nmarried Sarah E. Bushey. They have had a family of six children, three of whom are\\nnow living. Mr. Bell is engaged in farming and lumbering, also saw-milling and boat-\\nbuilding.\\nBell, Robert, West Freedom p. o., Perry, was born in Clarion county in 1816, and\\nwas married in 1841, to Christine Wilson, who was born in 1819, and died \\\\n 1852^", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0786.jp2"}, "761": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals.\\nThey have had five children, two of whom are now hving John W and MeHssa. In\\n1862 he married Mary E. Cobler, who was born in 1847. Mr. Bell worked as a carpen-\\nter and builder for twenty-five years, but of late he has been engaged in farming, and\\nnow owns thirty-seven acres.\\nBerlin, George A., Turkey City p. o., Richland, was born in Westmoreland county,\\nPa., on February 20, 1823, and came to this county with his parents, Frederick and\\nEHzabeth (Ammant) Berlin, in 1822. He is a farmer, and owns 307 acres of land; six-\\nteen wells were drilled on his farm, all of which were producers at one time, but four of\\nwhich are now producers. He was married on November 27, 1845, to Leah Will, of\\nClarion county, Pa. They have had a family of nine children born to them Israel,\\nMary G., wife of R. G. Wilby Elizabeth, wife of William H. Francisco Catharine,\\nwife of John Page; Emily, deceased, was the wife of J. R. Clark; Sarah, wife of An-\\ndrew Edinger; Leah A., wife of George Way; George, deceased; and Rachel A., wife\\nof William Dunkle.\\nBerlin, John C, Fern p. o., Ashland, a hardware merchant, was born in Elk town-\\nship. Pa., on May 27, 1859, and was a son of George N. and Susan (Cook) Berlin. He\\nwas married in February, 1884, to Wilda, a daughter of David and Maria (Davis) Oaks,\\nof Rockland, Venango county. Pa. He embarked in his present hardware business at\\nFern City, Pa., April i, 1886.\\nBerlin, Levi, Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born where he now resides on April 14,\\n1829. He is a farmer and owns seventy acres. His parents were Frederick and Eliza-\\nbeth (Ammon) Berlin. He was married on July 4, 1878, to Christina Beal, of Venango\\ncounty. They have had a family of five children Eli A., Emma A., Frederick B.,\\nGeorge W., and Alberta.\\nBerhn Noah, Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Beaver township, Clarion county,\\nPa., on May 30, 1831, and died on February i, 1884. He was a farmer, and at the\\ntime of his death owned a farm of seventy-three acres. He was a son of Frederick and\\nEhzabeth (Ammond) Berlin. He was married on October 14, 1857, to Mary Conner, a\\ndaughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Boyer) Conner, of Richland, Pa. They have four\\nchildren Elizabeth A., Catherine A., wife of George F. Exley Esther L., and Fran-\\ncis C.\\nBest, George, Callensburg p. o.. Licking, was a son of George and Elizabeth (Lan-\\nner) Best, and was born in Westmoreland county in 181 7, and came to what is now\\nClarion county in 18 18. He married Francis Nevil. They had a family of five chil-\\ndren, three of whom are now hving George N., Katie, and Elizabeth. His early life\\nwas passed on the farm. He built a flour and grist-mill on the Clarion River, but has\\nnow retired from active business life, and now resides on a farm of forty-seven acres.\\nHis father was born in 1786, and died in 1868, and his mother, who was born in 1793,\\ndied in 1875.\\nBest, George C, Barnes Corners p. o., Beaver, was born at what is now known as\\nBest s Mills, on September 8, 1820. His grandfather, Henry Best, came from Greens-\\nburg, Westmoreland county, to what is now Beaver township, in the year 1804. In\\n1806 he built a grist-mill, the only one then in the county, and on the same spot where\\nhis grandson now runs a grist-mill. George C. was a son of Michael and Elizabeth\\n(Sherry) Best. Michael was a soldier in the War of 181 2. George C. was married on\\nFebruary 7, 1847, to Susannah Switzer, a daughter of Jacob and Susannah (Swab)\\nSwitzer, who were born in Germany. George C. has had a family of six children Sam-\\nuel, Lavina (wife of Joel Best), Lizzie (wife of Eugene Turner), Amanda, Elie, and\\nEmily.\\nBest, Godlieb, Church p. o., Beaver, was born in Beaver, Pa., on March 3, 1840.\\nHe is a farmer, and now owns and occupies a farm of 288 acres. His parents were\\nJohn and Margaret (Small) Best. He was married on August 23, 1866, to Elizabeth E.\\nBest, a daughter of Michael and Lucy Anna (Edinger) Best, of Beaver, Pa. They have\\nsix children now Hving Irvin W., Charles C, Francis E. A., Sarah L. F., Laura C., and\\nOliver U.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0787.jp2"}, "762": {"fulltext": "History of Clarion County.\\nBest, Michael, Church p. o., Beaver, was born where he now resides, on February\\n13, 181 5 is engaged in farming and oil producing, and owns 326 acres. His parents\\nwere William and Mary M. (Everhard) Best. Mr. Best came from Westmoreland\\ncounty in 181 1. Michael Best was married in December, 1839, to Lucy A. Edinger, a\\ndaughter of Andrew and Mary (Wagoner) Edinger, formerly of Lehigh county, who\\ncame to Clarion county about 1834. Michael and Lucy have eight children living\\nWilliam F., Josephine F., Uriah, David, Charles, Simon W., Samuel, and Elizabeth,\\nwife of Godlieb Best.\\nBest, Simon W., Church p. o., Beaver, was born in Beaver township on May 24,\\n1854; is a farmer and oil producer, and owns sixty-seven acres. He has been consta-\\nble and collector of the town. His parents were Michael and Louisiana (Edinger)\\nBest, natives of this township. The family of Bests settled in this township as early as\\n1804. Simon W. was married on January 21, 1877, to Susie Fulk, a daughter of John\\nand Mary E. (Wentling) Fulk, formerly of Berks county. They have had a family of\\nfour children Minnie L., George M. W., Orrin F., and Lillie L.\\nBlack, George, Fern p. o., Ashland, a merchant and oil producer, was born in Elk\\ntownship on October 26, 1831, and was a son of William and Sarah (Berlin) Black.\\nHis paternal grandfather, Frederick Black, and his maternal grandfather, George Berlin,\\nwere both pioneers of Clarion county. George Black is a merchant, and was brought\\nup in Elk township. He married Margaret M. Martin, a daughter of Barnhart and\\nElizabeth (Harrold) Martin, of Ashland. They have had a family of six children Tra-\\nvilla F., Ida R., W. Mart, Lutellas F., John Q. W., and Jennie M. Mr. Black has\\nbeen engaged in the oil producing business for five years, and in the mercantile for the\\npast ten years, in Elk and Fern City. He was formerly engaged in farming.\\nBlack, Paul, Valley p. o., Elk, is a farmer, and was born in Elk township on Feb-\\nruary 2, 1836, and was a son of William and Sarah (Berlin) Black. His paternal grand-\\nfather, Frederick Black, and his maternal grandfather, George Berlin, were both pioneers\\nof Clarion county. William Black was a pioneer of Elk, where he cleared and improved\\na farm. His children were George, John R., Paul, Mary E., Fanny, Martha, and\\nMaggie. Paul Black was married in iS6;^ to Martha J., a daughter of Hugh and Mary\\n(Lucas) Magiffin, of Shippensville. They have had a family of eight children Willis,\\nEdward, EUia, Minnie, Harry, Burton, Myrtle, and Earl.\\nBlack, Travilla F., Fern p. o., Ashland, is a merchant and liveryman, and was born\\nin Elk township. Pa., on February 8, 1857. He was a son of George and Margaret M.\\n(Martin) Black. He was married on June 30, 1881, to Susan, a daughter of Wesley\\nand Caroline (Cramer) Oglesby, of Elk township. They have had one child Fred.\\nMr. Black embarked in the mercantile business in Fern City in 1886.\\nBlair, John R., Leatherwood p. o.. New Bethlehem, was born in Armstrong county\\nin 1810 and settled in Clarion county in 1824. He was a son of Alexander and Eliza-\\nbeth (Reed) Blair, who were born in Franklin county, and settled in Clarion county in\\n1824. They had a family of eight children, three of whom are now living John R.,\\nElizabeth, and Samuel. John R. Blair was married in 1839 to Elizabeth Miller, who\\ndied on October 4, 1885. They had a family often children, seven of whom are now\\nliving Rebecca J., Harrison, David, Samuel, Elizabeth, Lovina, and Nancy A. Mr.\\nBlair in early life was engaged in lumber and timber shipping, and an expert river pilot,\\nbut is now retired. He built three large saw-mills, and the latter part of his business\\nlife he was engaged in farming.\\nBlatt, jr., Peter, East Brady, carriage, wagon and farm implement manufacturer, and\\nhavingfa general smithing and repair shop; was born in Prussia in 1848, and settled in\\nPittsburgh in 1849 with his parents, Peter and Barbara (Stuppy) Blatt. They had a\\nfamily of eight children, seven sons are now living Valentine, Joseph, Peter, jr., Mat-\\nthias, Henry, John, and August. They settled in Armstrong county, at Brady s Bend,\\nin* 185 1. Peter, jr., was married in 1871 to May Truatwein, of Brady. They have had\\na fLunily of six children Mary Emma, Agnes, Clara, Albert, Ida, and Philla Minnie.\\nPeter became engaged in the business in 187 1, upon his settling here. He is a promi-", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0788.jp2"}, "763": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. vii\\nnent musician, a leader and instructor of the band. He is engaged in the sale of organs\\nand pianos, and gives instruction on the same. He is also teacher of a string band.\\nBlatt, Valentine, East Brady, manufacturer of tin, copper and sheet-iron ware, dealer\\nin shelf hardware, stoves and house furnishing goods, crockery, glassware, and all kinds\\nof farming machinery, reapers, mowers, portable engines and threshers, was born in the\\nvillage of Schiffweiler, Prussia, in 1844. He was a son of Peter and Barbara (Stuppy)\\nBlatt, who, with their family, emigrated to Pittsburgh in 1849, and in 1851 settled at\\nBrady s Bend. They have had a family of seven sons Valentine, Joseph, Peter, Mat-\\nthias, Henry, John, and August. The parents are now engaged in farming in Butler\\ncounty. Valentine Blatt was married in 1867 to Ehzabeth Fuchs, of Elk township.\\nClarion county. They have had a family of eleven children, eight of whom are now\\nliving William J., Mary, Joseph, George, Amalia, Cecelia, John, and Helen Dorothea.\\nValentine became engaged in his hardware business on settlement here in 1871, and\\nthe firm was then doing business under the name of V. Blatt Brother. In 1886 Mr.\\nBlatt became sole proprietor. He settled in East Brady, Pa., in 187 1.\\nBodenhorn, Martin Thomas, Frogtown p. o., Millville, was born in 1848, and was a\\nson of Jacob and Elizabeth (Holdman) Bodenhorn, of Lebanon, Pa., who settled in\\nRose, Jefferson county, in 1835, and came to Redbank township in 1867. They had a\\nfamily of eleven children, seven of whom are now living Mary, Jacob J., Elizabeth,\\nLydia A., Gideon H., Martin T., and Margaret M. Jacob was born in 1807 and died\\nin 1879, and his wife Elizabeth was born in 1815. They were married in 1834. Mar-\\ntin T. was married in 1879 to Mary Stewart, who was born in 1856. They had a\\nfamily of four children two died at an early age and two are now living Carrie\\nBlanche, born in 1881, and Rulofif Ruloffson, born in 1883.\\nBooth, Nelson, Knox p. o., Edenburg, was born in Chester county on November\\n17, 1840, and came to Clarion county in 1877, is a lumber dealer and oil producer, and\\nis now justice of the peace. His parents were George VV. and Emily (Stevens) Booth.\\nHis wife was Sarah Betts, a daughter of John and Esther (Herb) Betts, of Schuylkill\\ncounty, to whom he was married on February 12, 1869. They have had a family of\\nfive children Alpharata, Nelson H., Grace I., Howard A., and Maud E.\\nBostaph, Andrew James, North Pine Grove p. o., Farmington, a son of Andrew and\\nCatharine Bostaph, was born on December 16, 1842. His parents were among the early\\nand prominent pioneers of the township, who endured the trials and hardships of pioneer\\nlife, and who were among its most respected families. At the age of twenty-three years\\nAndrew started out in hfe in the lumber district and met with indifferent success at first,\\nbut by perseverance and tact he at last succeeded, and enjoys the fruits of a hard-earned\\nfortune. At the age of twenty-eight years he married Mary A. Black. They had a\\nfamily of seven children. In addition to his extensive real estate interests, Mr. Bostaph\\nhas for twelve years past conducted a hotel at North Pine Grove. In political life he\\nis an ardent Democrat, and has been postmaster since 1873. The family are members\\nof the Catholic Church.\\nBostaph, Joseph, Vowinckle p. o., Farmington, the second child of Andrew and\\nCatharine Bostaph, was born in the township of Farmington December 6, 1840. He\\nwas brought up and still lives on the old home farm, and has never left home for any\\nconsiderable length of time. At the age of thirty-five years he married Margaret Davis.\\nThey have had a family of five children. His father gave him the old homestead farm,\\nbut left to him the care of a blind brother, and his aged mother. Upon the gift of the\\nfarm Joseph has somewhat enlarged, and is now in comfortable circumstances. He is\\na Democrat in politics, and has frequendy held town offices. During boyhood he went\\nto school but little, and improved the opportunities offered. He was raised under the\\nteachings of the Catholic Church, but takes no active part in church affairs.\\nBostaph, Samuel, St. Petersburg p. o., Richland, was born in Richland township on\\nOctober 30, 1845, and is now proprietor of the St. Petersburg Hotel. His parents were\\nDaniel and Sarah (Frederick) Bostaph, who were of Prussian descent. Daniel came\\nfrom Westmoreland county to Clarion in 18 17, and died in 1881. Samuel was married", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0789.jp2"}, "764": {"fulltext": "viii History of Clarion County.\\non January 20, 1865, to Hannah Shoup, a daughter of David and Lavina (Gaughler)\\nShoup, of this town. They have had a family of six children William C, Alice (wife\\nof J. Shingledecker, of St. Petersburg), Edward J., Harvey P., Cora E., and Fred.\\nBowman, James Clinton, Newmansville p. o., Washington, was born in Farmington\\non January 31, 1847. He was the fifth child born to David and Ellen Bowman, an old\\nand respected pioneer family. James s early business life was spent in the lumber woods\\nof Forest county, and here he got his start in life. At the age of twenty-five years he\\nmarried Elizabeth, a daughter of Daniel A. Walters. They have had three children.\\nMr. Bowman is a conscientious Christian gendeman, class leader, and local preacher of\\nthe Free Methodist Church at Newmansville, and is active in all that pertains to the\\nwelfare of the society. Since 1875 he has been engaged in the mercantile trade, and is\\nnow the leading merchant of Newmansville. From principle, Mr. Bowman is a strict\\nprohibitionist.\\nBowser, A. J., West Monterey p. o., Perry, was a son of Peter and Jane Bowser, and\\nwas born in Armstrong county in 1854. He was married in 1876 to Mary E. Kribbel,\\nof Clarion county. They have had four children Edward M., Myrtie R., Charles, and\\nClyde. Mr. Bowser is engaged in farming and milling. His father, Peter, was born in\\n1815 and died in 1879, and his mother was born in 1821.\\nBoyd, P. W., New Bethlehem, a member of the firm of G. W. Arblaster Co., was\\nborn near Rimersburg, on the old Thompson homestead, now the property of Alexander\\nBols. He was a son of Samuel and Mary Jane (Thompson) Boyd. Samuel M. in 1843\\nassociated himself with J. M. Thompson and Charles D. Hatchison, under the style of\\nFranklin Furnace Company, but owing to the unfavorable tarift legislation, and during\\nthe Polk administration the concern failed. Mr. Boyd then became book-keeper and\\nmanager of the Mahoning Iron Works of Armstrong county. Mr. Boyd s health failed\\nin i860, and in 1868 he settled on a farm near Rimersburg, which was the property of\\nhis wife. He died in 1868, at the age of forty-seven years, leaving a wife and nine chil-\\ndren, eight of whom are now hving. Their sons are W. H. Boyd, who now owns the\\nold homestead; J. A. C, now engaged very extensively in the mercantile business in\\nUniontown, Fayette county; L. C, a member of the firm of L. H. Smith Woodenware\\nCo. of Pittsburgh, also manufacturers of brooms, brushes, etc. and P. W. Boyd, a mem-\\nber of the firm of G. W. Arblaster. Mrs. Mary Jane Boyd is still living at the age of\\nsixty-five years.\\nBoyd, William, Fisher p. o., Mill Creek, a son of William and Mary (Laver) Boyd,\\nwas born in Armstrong county on October 25, 1813. He was married in 1840 to Mary\\nMcNaughton, who was born in 1824. They have had a family of twelve children\\nSarah C, Colon (deceased), Washington L., Daniel McC. (deceased), Hannah M., Will-\\niam A., Franklin P., Rosanna, Amanda A. (deceased), Matilda M., Stephen E., Rebecca\\nN. (deceased). Mr. Boyd has been engaged in lumbering and farming the greater part\\nof his life. He lives on the farm now owned by Frank P. Beck. His father was born\\nin 1771 and died in 1821. His maternal grandfather, William Laver, served in the\\nRevolutionary War.\\nBrenneman, J. W., Callensburg p. o., Licking, was a son of Christian and Maria\\n(Smith) Brenneman, and was born in Clarion county in 1852. He was married in 1876\\nto Mary Davis, of Clarion county. They have had a family of four children Mabel,\\nAdah (deceased), Rhoda, and Maud. His father. Christian, settled in what is now\\nClarion county. Pa., in 1810, and became engaged in the lumber and boat-building busi-\\nness, which business, J. W. is now engaged in.\\nBrothers, Joseph M., Knox p. o., Beaver, was born in Mifflin county. Pa., on De-\\ncember 14, 1843, and is now engaged in the oil business. He is also councilman of\\nEdenburg borough, and has been school director. He came to Clarion county. Pa., in\\n1876. His parents were Joseph and Catharine (Steele) Brothers, natives of Mifflin\\ncounty, Pa. He was married on May 8, 1871, to Laura M. Barr, a daughter of James\\nand Lavina (Kelley) Barr, of Strattanville, Clarion county. Pa., who were among the\\nearly settlers. They have a family of six children James S., George W., Joseph, Will-\\niam M., Laura M., and Clara E.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0790.jp2"}, "765": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. ix\\nButler, James Harvey, Tylersburg p. o., Farmington, the oldest of six children of\\nAlphonso and Sarepta Butler, was born in Elk township on May 8, 1832. He was\\nbrought up on the farm, and at the age of twenty-one years went to Clarion River and\\nbecame engaged in building coal boats. He married Sarah Cornish. They had a fam-\\nily of six children. For many years the family have lived in Farmington, near Tylers-\\nburg, on a nicely located and well appointed farm of one hundred acres. Mr. Butler is\\na breeder of thoroughbred Norman horses, and has some of the finest specimens found\\nin Pennsylvania. Although not an active partisan, Mr. Butler is a staunch Republican,\\nand is frequently called upon to hold town office.\\nBuzza, W. R., Knox p. o., Beaver, is a lumber and coal merchant, on North Main\\nstreet. He was born in Cornwall, England, on March 29, 1848, and came to the United\\nStates in 1868, and settled in Clarion county in 1877. His parents were William and\\nMary A. (James) Buzza, natives of England. W. R. Buzza was married on June 16,\\n1873 to Mary J. McFarlane, a daughter of Duncan and Ann A. (Evans) McFarlane, of\\nLiverpool, England. They have had a family of six children Daniel Herbert, Richard\\nAlfred, William Malcom, Amy, Arthur Blaine, and Robert Duncan.\\nCarley, John, Mill Creek, one of the substantial farmers of Mill Creek, owning two\\nhundred and forty acres, was born in Beaver county, in 1833, and settled in Clarion\\ncounty in 1859. He was married in 1869 to Rebecca J. McCloskey, of Clarion county.\\nThey have had a family of nine children Alice J., Emma M., George L., Flora E., John\\nS., Anna M., Arthur W., Frankie (deceased), and one who died in infancy. Mr. Carley\\nheld the office of justice of the peace for fifteen years, and has also been constable and\\nschool director. His father, Job M., was born in Washington county, N. Y., in 1796,\\nand now makes his home with his son John. His mother, Elinor (Hickman) Carley,\\nwas born in 1800 and died in 1882.\\nCarmody, Daniel, East Brady, dealer in furniture, picture frames, wall paper, and\\ncarrying a full line of fancy goods, was born in Armstrong county in 1855, and was a\\nson of Patrick and Mary (Parker) Carmody, who settled in East Brady in 1881. Daniel\\nwas married on April 15, 1878, to Kate Yung, who was born in Germany in 1853. They\\nhave had a family of four children John Edgar, Clara May, Rosa Myrtle, and Joseph\\nAddison. Kate was a daughter of Christjohn and Mary Yung, natives of Germany,\\nwho came to Pennsylvania in 1855. Daniel Carmody was engaged in the grocery bus-\\niness in 1877, was burned out, and after embarked in the furniture business in 1883.\\nCarroll, S. A., Alum Rock p. o.. Perry, was born in Clarion county. Pa., in 1852, and\\nmarried Barbara Heeter. They have had a family of four children John B., M. Ed-\\nward, Lawrence L., and Samuel A. Mr. Carroll is engaged in boat building, and also\\nruns a saw-mill in connection with his business. His father, James S., was born in 1820,\\nand married Elizabeth McClatchey, who died in 1875, leaving a family of ten children,\\nfour of whom are now living.\\nCarroll, W. W., West Freedom p. o.. Perry, was born in Clarion county. Pa., in 1848,\\nand was married in 1874, to Juliet Logue. They have had one child Samuel A. Mr.\\nCarroll is engaged in boat building, and also has a large saw-mill.\\nClark, Oliver Henry, North Pine Grove p. o., Farmington, was born in Highland\\ntownship. Pa., on February 22, 1847. He was the fourth of eleven children born to\\nJames and Maria Clark. Until 1864 Oliver lived at home, where with his father he\\nlearned the blacksmith trade. He then enlisted in Company A, Fifty-seventh Pennsyl-\\nvania Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. On his return home,\\nMr. Clark married Catherine Bittendbender, of Highland township. Pa. They had nine\\nchildren. Oliver Clark is an industrious, energetic mechanic, a master of his trade, who,\\nby patience, has acquired a comfortable fortune. In politics he takes an active interest.\\nHe is a Republican, and has frequently held town offices.\\nClover, S. W., Knox p. o., Edenburg, was born in Strattanville, Clarion county, on\\nMay 24, 1847, and is the proprietor of the Clover House. His parents w^ere Judge Isaac\\nand Sarah (Whren) Clover. Mr. Clover was born in this county and his wife in Centre\\ncounty. S. W. was married on November 17, 1877, to Mattie Orr. They had two", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0791.jp2"}, "766": {"fulltext": "History of Clarion County.\\nchildren Isaac and Orr. He was married the second time on October 17, 1882, to\\nRosey Porter. They have also had two children Mattie and S. W., jr.\\nCobler, David, Elk City p. o., Beaver, was born where he now resides on April 13,\\n1844, is a farmer and owns fifty acres, with coal banks. His parents were Frederick\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2and Sarah (Chambers) Cobler, who came here from Germany at an early day, so early\\nthat his father bought the farm now owned by his sons for one dollar per acre. David\\nwas married on December 24, 1868, to Hannah Shakley, a daughter of Henry P. and\\nMargaret R. (Smith) Shakley, formerly of Butler county. They have had a family of\\nthree children Presley A., Mary J., and Maud M.\\nCochran, James, Lamartine p. o., Salem, was born in Butler county on March 20,\\n1816, and came to Clarion county in 1826. He has been assessor, school director,\\nauditor, township clerk, and has held the office of justice of the peace for twenty-four\\nyears. He is now engaged in farming, and owns and occupies a farm of one hundred\\nand forty-five acres. He was a son of John and Margaret (Rimes) Cochran. He was\\nmarried on June 25, 1846, to Elizabeth McCall, a daughter of William and Margaret\\n(Cotton) McCall, natives of this county. James has had two children Lemuel E. and\\nMary E., now the wife of Charles D. Masters, of Salem.\\nCollner, Calvin, St. Petersburg p. o., Richland, was born in St. Petersburg on April\\n3, 1856, and is a member of the firm of H. Collner Brothers, general merchants and oil\\nproducers. He is now councilman of the borough. His parents are Lewis and Sarah\\n(Fry) Collner, who settled here in 1836. Calvin Collner was married on June 10, 1880,\\nto Anna Thompson, of Sheakleyville. They have had two children Verne T. and\\nSarah L.\\nCollner, Harrison, St. Petersburg p. o., Richland, was born in St. Petersburg on\\nFebruary 27, 1849, and is a member of the firm of H. Collner Bros., general merchants\\nand oil producers. His parents were Lewis and Sarah (Fry) Collner, who settled\\nhere in 1836. Harrison Collner was married on May 28, 1874, to Lizzie Caldwell,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of Greensburgh, Westmoreland county. They have had a family of five children\\nBertha, Mary H., Sarah R., William H., and Lewis C.\\nCollner, Levi, St. Petersburg p. o., Richland, was born in Richland township on\\nJuly 24, 1842, is a farmer, and now owns seventy-five acres. His parents were Lewis\\nand Sarah (Fry) Collner, who settled here about 1836. His wife was Sarah Ashbach, a\\ndaughter of John and Diretta (Whittling) Ashbach, old settlers in Clarion county, to\\nwhom he was married on March 22, 1868. They have had three children Howard C,\\nElmer H., and John L.\\nCook, Philip, Scotch Hill p. o., Farmington, was born in Beaver township, then a\\npart of Venango county, on January 15, 1822. His father, John Cook, was twice mar-\\nried, and Philip was one of ten children of his marriage with Susan Helpman. The\\nchildren of the second marriage were seven in number. About 1831 or 1832 the family\\nmoved to the mouth of Tom s Run on the Clarion River, where Cooksburg is now sit-\\nuated, and where they became engaged in the lumber business. At the age of twenty-\\neight years Philip started out in life for himself and became engaged in lumbering and\\nboat-building on the Clarion River. He enlisted in 1861 in Co. E, loth Pennsylvania\\nReserves, but was rejected on account of physical disability. He rejoined the regiment\\nat Fort Pierpoint and served three months without compensation. He was married on\\nJune I, 1878, to Louisa B. Barrett, a teacher in the public schools of Bucyrus, O. They\\nhad three children Susan E., Arthur P., and Louisa B. Arthur died in 1884, aged\\ntwo years. In politics Mr. Cook was an old line Whig, but became a Republican upon\\nthe formation of that party. Religiously he is a Universalist, being almost the only one\\nin the townshi]:).\\nCooper, William R. (deceased). West Freedom p. o.. Perry, was born in Philadel-\\nphia in 182 1 was left an orphan in infancy, and settled in Clarion county in 1840. He\\nwas married in 1850 to Rebecca Martin, who died in 1858, aged twenty-six years. He\\nwas married the second time, in 1861, to Margaret Jane Steele, of Clarion county.\\nThey have had a family of four children, two of whom are now living William Ells-", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0792.jp2"}, "767": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xi\\nworth and John Frankhn. Mr. Cooper was a successful farmer, and died in 1873, leav-\\ning a farm of seventy acres.\\nCorbett, James M., New Bethlehem, was born in Clarion county, Pa., in 1840, and\\nwas married in 1869 to Sarah J. Space. They have had a family of three children\\nHerbert G., Clara M., and Joseph P. James M. enlisted in Company L, Eleventh\\nPennsylvania Cavalry, in August, 1862, and remained in the army until the close of\\nthe war.\\nCorbett, PhiHp, New Bethlehem, a retired gentleman, was born in Clarion township\\nin 1819, and was a son of John and Mary (Mitchel) Corbett, of Mifflin county. John\\nwas born in 1778 and his wife Mary was born in 1782. They settled here in 1802, and\\nhad a family of twelve children, eight of whom are now living Ross M., James H.,\\nPhilip, Amos W., Isaac, Polly, Electa, and Nancy J. Philip married Ruth Galbraith,\\nof Centre county, in 1838. She died on August 31, 1878, leaving a family of six chil-\\ndren\u00e2\u0080\u0094John H., Mary C, Clara J., George W., Oscar W., and Foster G. He married\\nhis second wife, Annie Thompson, in 1878. He has been a justice of the peace for one\\nterm. He is a lumber dealer, oil producer, and general insurance agent.\\nCorbett, Ross M., Leatherwood p. o.. New Bethlehem, one of the leading and in-\\nfluential men of his county, was born in Clarion township in 1810, and was married in\\n1834 to Fanny Culbertson Orr, who was born in Clarion county in 181 5. They had a\\nfamily of seven children, four of whom are now Hving Rev. Hunter, Samuel C., Win-\\nfield S., and David L. Hunter is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, and\\nhas been a missionary for over twenty years in China. John Newton, the second son,\\nenlisted in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was killed while in service, in\\n1864. Samuel enlisted in the same regiment in 1863, and served to the close of the\\nwar in Company L, under Captain Loomus s command. Ross M. Corbett was a son\\nof John C. and Mary (Mitchell) Corbett, of Mifflin county, who were married in 1800,\\nand setHed in Clarion county in 1801, where they died, They had a family of twelve\\nchildren, of whom Ross, Isaac, James, Hamilton, Philip, Mrs. Mary Fulton, Mrs. Electa\\nPacker, and Nancy Jane are now living. Fanny was a daughter of Samuel C. and\\nMargaret (Sloan) Orr, who were natives of Westmoreland county, and settled in Clarion\\ncounty at an early day.\\nCorbett, Samuel B., New Bethlehem, a general dry goods dealer, was born in Clarion\\ncounty in 1840, and was a son of Samuel T. and Ruth (Kirkpatrick) Corbett, who came\\nhere in 1818. Samuel died in 1869, leaving a widow and ten children, nine boys and\\none girl Dewitt, Lee, Jared, Samuel B. and James N. (twins). Nelson, Albert, Frank,\\nWilliam, and Sarah. Samuel B. and James N. (twins) enlisted in 1863 in Company L,\\nEleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served to the close of the war. Seven Corbetts,\\ntwo brothers and five cousins, served in that same company one died at Andersonville\\nprison and one was killed. Samuel B. was married in 1866 to Susan Pace. They had\\none daughter Bertie, who died in 1878, at the age often years. Sarah was a daugh-\\nter of George and Sarah (Cribbs) Space.\\nCorbett, William S., New Bethlehem, was born in Clarion county in 1849, ^l was\\nmarried in 1874 to Priscilla McClellan, of Clarion county. They have had one son\\nFranklin C. Priscilla was a daughter of William McClellan. WiUiam S. Corbett was\\na son of Samuel T. and Ruth (Kirkpatrick) Corbett, who settled in Clarion county in\\n1818. Samuel died in 1869, leaving a widow and ten children Dewitt C, Lee, Jared\\nE., Samuel B. and James N. (twins). Nelson, Albert G., Frank S., William S., and\\nSarah.\\nCowan, George E., New Bethlehem, was born in Armstrong county, Pa., it 1843,\\nand was married in 1865 to Miss E. J. Keller. They have had a family of seven chil-\\ndren\u00e2\u0080\u0094James E. (deceased), Charles O., Mary B., John H., WilHam, Norah, and Ella\\nMay. George E. Cowan was a son of David and Mary (King) Cowan. David was\\nborn in 1810 and died in 1850, and his wife Mary was born in 1815. They had a\\nfamily of four children Mary C, Rachel J., George E., and Mary Ellen. George E.\\nCowan enlisted in Company H, Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, in 1861, and re-enlisted\\nin the One Hundred and Ninety-first, serving for four and one-quarter years. He was", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0793.jp2"}, "768": {"fulltext": "xii History of Clarion County.\\ntaken prisoner, and boarded for seven months at the Libby and Salisbury prisons,\\nGeorge E. Cowan organized his present business firm in March, 1883, and is now en-\\ngaged in the hardware and foundry business. He settled in New Bethlehem, Pa., in\\n1865.\\nCraig, jr., W., Callensburg p. o., Licking, was born in Clarion county in 1836, and\\nfollowed farming for twenty years. He was married in 1859 to Eliza Young, of Redbank\\ntownship. They had a family of seven children Melissa J., Alvin E., Elvira A., Hor-\\nace A., Minnie M., Anna L., and Ida M. In 1863 Mr. Craig became proprietor of\\nthe Callensburg flour and grist-mill, but still continues his farming interests, owning a\\nfine farm of ninety-six acres. His parents were Washington and Nancy (Thompson)\\nCraig. Washington was born in 1807 and died in 1881. His wife Nancy was born in\\n1808, and is now living.\\nCraig, W. F., Sligo p. o.. Licking, was born in Armstrong county in 1825, and mar-\\nried Maggie A. Fulmer. They have had three children H. Jennie, John F., and Myra.\\nHe became engaged in the milling business with his father in 1851, and with his brother,\\nW. A. Craig, in 1866, and they now run a flour, grist and saw-mill under the firm name\\nof W. F. W. A. Craig. W. F. Craig also owns a fine farm of 140 acres. Their\\nfather, James, was born in 1803 and died in 1877. He was twice married. His first\\nwife was Jane Furguson. They had a family of ten children. She died in 1857. He\\nmarried for his second wife Mary McCain. There are six children now living.\\nCraig, W. H., Rimersburgh p. o., who is a general merchant, was born in Armstrong\\ncounty. Pa., in 1845, and settled in Clarion county. Pa., in 1875, when he became en-\\ngaged in the mercantile business, dealing in dry goods, groceries, and all leading goods\\nfound in a country store. He was married in 1868 to Nancy J. Foster, a daughter of\\nWilliam A. Foster, of Armstrong county. Pa. They have had a family of three chil-\\ndren Lizzie M., Mary M., and Nannie P. W. H. Craig was a son of John and Eliza\\n(Huston) Craig. Eliza was born in Franklin county. Pa., and her husband John was\\nborn in Armstrong county. They had a family of nine children, five of whom are now\\nliving Nancy R., Mary, James M., W. H., and Ada L. The grandparents, Samuel\\nand Mary (Milligan) Craig, died in Armstrong county. Pa.\\nCrawford, Ralph W., Redbank Furnace p. o., East Brady, ticket, freight and tele-\\ngraph agent for the A. V. R. R., and also agent for Adams Express Company, was born\\nat McKeesport, Allegheny county, in 1853. He was a son of Joel B. and Elizabeth\\n(Bugh) Crawford. He commenced his railroad life in i86g, in the employ of the A. V.\\nR. R., and fitted himself for a telegrapher, and in 1881 was appointed agent for the\\ncompany. He was married in 1878 to Emma Chaney, of Armstrong county. They\\nhave had four children Lizzie, Mabel, Ralph, and Charles P.\\nCresswell, Dr. Robert, West Millville p. o., Millville, a physician and surgeon of\\nMillville, was born in Indiana county in 1842, and fitted himself for his profession and\\nsettled in Armstrong county in 1866, and in 1867 settled in Millville in the practice of\\nhis profession, where he now enjoys the confidence of his many friends. He was mar-\\nried in 1870 to Phyanna Cribbs. They have had two children Clara and Ralph.\\nRobert is a brother of Dr. John Cresswell, of New Bethlehem.\\nCrisman, Carson S., North Pine Grove p. o., Farmington, was born at Blairsville,\\nIndiana county, on September 29, 1826. He was of the third children (twin to Cor-\\nnelius) in a family of six children of Benjamin and Sarah Crisman. Of this family of\\nparents and children Carson is the only one now living. They first came to Clarion\\ncounty in 1840. Carson learned the carpenter trade and worked at it for several years.\\nIn and about Clarion borough stand many of the evidences of his labor. For a time\\nhe was engaged in the mercantile business at Newmansville, but since 1875 he has been\\nthe leading merchant at North Pine Grove. Mr. Crisman never married, and has been\\ncontent to travel life s devious path singly and alone. In politics he takes no active\\npart, but generally supports the Republican nominees. Of German parentage, the\\nfamily have been associated with the Evangehcal Lutheran Church.\\nCrum, O. J., Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in the town of Beaver on April 5, 1840.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0794.jp2"}, "769": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xiii\\nHe is a carriage and wagon manufacturer at Monroeville. He enlisted in Company A,\\nNinety-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, in March, 1865, and was discharged in June,\\n1865. His parents v/ere John and Mary (Snyder) Crum. Mr. Crum was born in\\nWestmoreland county, and came to Beaver about 1839. O. J. Crum was married on\\nJanuary 25, 1866, to Elizabeth Connor, a daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Boyer)\\nConnor, of Richland. They have had a family of six children, five of whom are now\\nliving Francis H., Celia C, Delia I., Milda E., and Vertie L.\\nDahle, Reuben J., Elk City p. o.. Elk, is a farmer, and was born in Elk township\\non February 17, 1828. He was a son of Jacob and Sarah (Crousehoar) Dahle. His\\npaternal grandfather, Philip Dahle, settled in Elk in 1820. His children were George,\\nJohn, Peter, Jacob, David, Daniel, and Philip. The children of Jacob were Maria,\\nLavina, Urias S., Reuben J., Sarah, Lucinda, George W., Clara A., and Franklin.\\nReuben J. Dahle was married in 18 to Margaret Thompson. They have had a\\nfamily of six children Nancy, Thomas, Andrew, Mahal, Clara A., and Ida. Margaret\\nwas a daughter of Thomas E. Thompson, of Beaver.\\nDavis, William, Fisher p. o., Mill Creek, a son of Isaiah and Sarah (McVeigle)\\nDavis, was born in Bedford county. Pa., in 1812, and settled in Clarion county in 1840.\\nHe was married in 1836 to Mary Copenhaven, of Centre county, who was born on\\nJanuary 31, 1814. They had a family of nine children John C. (deceased), Thomas\\nJ., Rachel, William H., Winfield S., Sarah E., George D., Millard F. (deceased), and\\none who died in infancy. Mr. Davis is a blacksmith by trade, a business which he\\nhas followed for forty years. He also owns a farm of fifty acres.\\nDavis, Mrs. E. L., Callensburg p. o., Licking, a daughter of David Kister was born\\nin Columbia county in 1822, and settled in Clarion county in 1835. She was married\\nin 1840 to James Davis, who was born in Westmoreland county. Pa. They had a\\nfamily of seven children, six of whom are now living William G. (deceased), John W.,\\nMary J., David R., Thomas H., Adam H., James F. William G. enlisted in Company\\nA and served to the close of the war.\\nDavis, Thomas, Fisher p. o., Mill Creek, was a son of William and Mary (Coopen-\\nshaven) Davis, and was born in Huntington county in 1845, and settled in Clarion\\ncounty at an early age, and now owns a farm of ninety-nine acres. He enhsted in 1862\\nin Company H 103d Pennsylvania Volunteers was taken prisoner at Plymouth, N. C,\\nand held at Andersonville, Florence, and Charleston.\\nDehner, J. L. Alum Rock p. o., Richland, was born in Allegheny City on August\\n20, 1843, is a farmer and oil producer, and owns 100 acres of land. He enlisted in\\nCompany G 155th Pennsylvania Volunteers in July, 1862, and served during the war,\\nand participated in the battles of Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, and the battle of the Wil-\\nderness. His parents were John M. and Christine (Bomgardner) Dehner, who were\\nnatives of Germany. J. L. was married on September 17, 1872, to Mary A. Beatty, a\\ndaughter of William and Polly (Guthrie) Beatty, natives of Clarion county. J. L. and\\nMary have had a family of three children Arthur Laverne, Albert B., and Maud C.\\nDeitrich, John M., Fern p. o., Ashland, an oil producer, was born in Ashland town-\\nship on December 13, 1856, and was a son of William and Catherine (Beausang) Deit-\\nrich, both natives of Prussia. They settled in Ashland in 1854, and cleared and\\nimproved a farm, a part of which is now owned by their son, John M. Their children\\nnow living are Elizabeth, Minnie, John M., Mary E., William, and Charlie. John M.\\nwas married in 1885 to Lura A., daughter of John Lindsay, of Elk township. John\\nM. is prominently identified with the oil business and owns an interest in thirty-two\\nproducing wells, and enjoys the distinction of putting down the first well in the Fern\\ndistrict.\\nDietterich, L. W., Wentling Corners p. o., Beaver, was born in Columbia county,\\nPennsylvania, on May 19, 1848, and came to Clarion county in 1868, and to Went-\\nling s Corners in 1880, where he has a general store and is now postmaster. His\\nparents were Rev. John F. and Elizabeth (Rheinhard) Dietterich, of Salem. L. W. was\\nmarried on December 31, 1872, to E. A. Shaner, a daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah\\n(Mong) Shaner, of Salem. L. W. and E. A. have had one child Howard K.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0795.jp2"}, "770": {"fulltext": "xiv History of Clarion County.\\nDelo, William B., Knox p. o., Edenburg, was born in Beaver township on Novem-\\nber i6, 1851, and was a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Wilds) Delo, of Beaver township.\\nMr. Delo was appointed postmaster on May 5, 1885. He was married on September\\n23, 1873, to Alice J. Kanan, of Strattanville, Clarion county. They have had a family\\nof six children James M., Edward L., Maude M., George A., and Blanche.\\nDelp, George, Piolett p. o., New Bethlehem, undertaker, and farmer, was born in\\nthe township of Porter, Pa., in 1839, and was married in i860 to Elizabeth A. Pence,\\nwho was born in Porter, Pa., in 1837. She was a daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Do-\\nverspike) Pence. They were among the early families of New Bethlehem, Pa., and\\ndied in Porter, Pa., she in 1878, and her husband, Jacob, died in 1881. Jacob and\\nLydia had a family of eleven children, seven of whom are now living. Their son\\nGeorge enlisted in the 103d; was taken prisoner and died while confined in Anderson-\\nville prison on August 19, 1864. George Delp was a son of Nicholas and Sarah\\n(Foringer) Delp. Nicholas was born in Porter, Pa., in 1812, and died in 1874, and\\nhis wife, Sarah, was born in Armstrong county, Pa., in 1819. They were married in\\n1838, and had a family of nine children, four of whom are now living George, Lewis,\\nMargaret M., and Sarah Jane. Nicholas was a son of Lewis and Elizabeth Delp, who\\nwere early settlers in Porter, Pa. Sarah was a daughter of DeWald and Mary For-\\nenger.\\nDenniston, Francis M., Knox p. o., Beaver, dealer in torpedoes and nitro-glycerine,\\nand now burgess of the borough, was born in Leesburg, Mercer county, Pa., on Feb-\\nruary 26, 1845, and came to Clarion county in 1876. His parents are Edward and\\nMary J. (Coulter) Denniston, of Mercer county. Francis M. Denniston was married\\non July 13, 1880, to Annie M. Schmader, a daughter of Simon and Annie (Gates)\\nSchmader, of Clarion county. They have one child Carrie J.\\nDetar, David, Fryburg p. o., Washington, a son of Joseph Detar, a pioneer of\\nBeaver, was born in Westmoreland county on December 3, 1833. David came to Fry-\\nburg in i860, and being learned in the trade of a machinist and wheelwright, bought the\\nfoundry property in that place. Here are manufactured threshers, plows, stoves, and\\ngeneral castings usual to a well-regulated foundry and machine shop. David Detar\\nmarried Sarah Jane Hollis, who bore him six children. Li every sense Mr. Detar is a\\nself made man having but little capital at the start, he has by industry and persever-\\nance built up a comfortable property, and believes in making life pleasant for his whole\\nfamily, as well as himself He is a prominent member of the Lutheran Church.\\nDinger, Michael, Shannondale p. o., Millville, one of the representative and suc-\\ncessful farmers of Clarion county, was born in Schuylkill county in 1825, and was a son\\nof facob and Catherine Dinger, who were married and settled in Red Bank township\\nin 1833. They had a family of thirteen children, five of whom are now living Peter,\\nJohn, Michael, Barbara, and Lydia. Jacob was born in 1781, and died in 1835, and\\nhis wife, Lydia, was born in 1792, and died in 1874. Jacob held several of the town\\noffices, and purchased on settlement eleven hundred acres. Michael was married in\\n1854 to Sarah Craft, of Beaver township, who was born in 1834. Their children are as\\nfollows: Philip, Henry, Katie, Annie, John Franklin, Emma Frances, George Irvin,\\nCelesta Louisa, Minnie Ida, and Michael Calvin. Sarah was a daughter of Jacob and\\nFanny (Inhoof Craft. They were born in Switzerland, and came to Lancaster county\\nin 1805, and settled in Red Bank township in 181 5, where they died, leaving a family\\nof seven children. Michael Dinger has been collector and school director. He is a\\nlarge farmer, and is also largely engaged in stock raising.\\nDougherty, Andrew, Frogtown p. o., Millville, was born in Ireland in 1814, and was\\na son of James and Catharine Dougherty, who had a family of three children Jane,\\nMargaret, and Andrew. Andrew came to America in 1830, and setded in Chester\\ncounty as a stone-worker on the Girard College building. In 1834 he purchased his\\npresent homestead farm of 218 acres, and in 1835 brought his parents out from Ireland.\\nHis father died in Jefferson county in 1863, at the age of eighty-four years. Andrew\\nwas married in 1850 to Eliza Pheley, who was born in Ireland in 1824. They had a\\nfamily of eight children, seven of whom are now living William James, Catharine,", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0796.jp2"}, "771": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xv\\nJohn, Mary, Eliza, Anna, and Andrew, jr., who died at the age of eleven and one-half\\nyears. Catharine married Edward Dougherty. They have had two children Mary\\nG., and Thomas Andrew.\\nDougherty, Thomas, Fisher p. o., Mill Creek, a merchant, was born in 1820, and\\nwas a son of Neal and Nancy (McLaughlin) Dougherty. He came to America with\\nhis father, Neal, who first settled in St. Johns, N. B., in 1823, and in 1834 they settled\\nin Clarion county, Pa. Thomas was married in 1841 to Rosanna Thompson, a daugh-\\nter of Samuel Thomson, who was one of the pioneers of Clarion county. They had\\na family of seven children Samuel T., Josephine, George D., James P., Jennie, Will-\\niam T., Clarissa (deceased). Thomas Dougherty spent his early days engaged in farm-\\ning, and commenced his mercantile life by clerking, at first for five years, after which he\\nwent into business for himself\\nDunkle, R. B., Callensburg p. o.. Licking, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Morgan)\\nDunkle, was born in Clarion county in 1853, and commenced business for himself in\\n1872, opening a wagon-making and repairing shop, and now has a large and increasing\\nbusiness. He was married in 1872 to Jemima Barr, a daughter of Henry and Susan\\nBarr. Jemima died in 1886, leaving two daughters Lizzie May and Jessie Maud.\\nHis father, Thomas, was born in Centre county in 1821; enlisted in May, 1861, in Co.\\nA, 103d Pennsylvania Regiment, and was wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks; after\\nserving three years and three months he returned to Callensburg, where he resided, fol-\\nlowing his occupation, that of cabinet-maker, until April, 1882, when he returned to his\\nnative county. His oldest son, W. L. Dunkle, now occupies the old furniture store at\\nCallensburg. The other sons, J. C. and E. W., reside at Pittsburgh.\\nEdwards, William H., Foxburg p. o., Richland, was born in Canada on February 6,\\n1845, and came to the United States in 1862, and to Clarion county in 1870. He is\\nthe head of the firm of W. H. Edwards Co., oil-well tool manufacturers. He was\\nmarried on January 13, 1868, to Adelia Cox, of Titusville, Pa. They have had seven\\nchildren Mary C, WiUiam H., Agnes E., Nellie, Frank, Rose and Ella.\\nEicke, C. W. H., West Monterey p. o., general manager and now part owner of the\\nthe Mineral Ridge Coal Company, was born in Germany, and came to America in 1857,\\nresiding in New York until 187 1. He then settled in Clarion county as manager of the\\nmines, and was the first to introduce coal mined from this section in the northern mark-\\nets. After a test with coal from different mines for steam producing qualities, received\\na large contract from N. Y. C. R. R., which continued for ten years; capacity 80,000\\ntons per year. The company, nowconisting of T. T. Skidmore, Colonel Smith s heirs\\nand Mr. Eicke, own the mineral right to five hundred acres, forty houses and a farm of 106\\nacres. Mr. Eicke has a fine herd of Jersey cattle, among which is one of the most val-\\nuable cows in the country.\\nElder, Samuel, Rimersburg, was born in Clarion county on December 28, 18 13, and\\nwas married in 1844 to Jane Mortimer, who was born in Madison township on Octo-\\nber 5, 181 7. They had a family of ten children, six of whom are now living Sarah\\nElizabeth, Mary E., Maggie, Nannie E., Samuel B., and John. Samuel B., was married\\nin 1881 to Maggie L. Thompson; John married Mary B. Summerville in 1886;\\nSarah E. now resides with her mother. The father, Samuel, died on September\\n22, 1884. He was a son of John and Betsey (Corson) Elder, who had a family of eight\\nchildren, two of whom are now living Nancy and Polly Jane Mortimer. David was\\nborn in Clarion county, and was a son of John and Polly (Mortimer) Elder, who were\\namong the pioneers of the county. They had a family of twelve children, seven of\\nwhom are now living.\\nFaller, Jacob, Fryburg p. o., Washington. In the year 1842 Jacob Faller came tO\\nWashington township. Pa., and erected a cabin in the southeast part of the township.\\nThe family comprised nine children, four of whom were born in Philadelphia, and five\\nwere natives of this town. These children were Susan, Jacob, Rebecca, John, Conrad,.\\nSarah, Michael, Frank, and Mary Ann. Jacob, the second child, is one of the most\\nrespected and substantial residents of the township of Washington. For twenty-five\\nyears he has held the ofiice of justice of the peace, and has also frequently held other", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0797.jp2"}, "772": {"fulltext": "xvi History of Clarion County.\\ntown offices. He married Mary A. Gribel. They have had a family of nine children.\\nMr. Faller learned the trade of carriage-making, but recently has turned his attention\\nto farming, and is now one of the most thrifty farmers of the town. In politics he is a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2consistent Democrat. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church.\\nFassenmeyer, Baltzer, Fryburg p. o., Washington, and his family emigrated from\\nBaden, Germany, to this country in 1828. In the family were seven children, four of\\nwhom were born abroad Felix, Catherine, Igatha, and Casper, who were natives of\\nBaden, and Magdalena, Jacob, and Joseph were born in Washington, Clarion county.\\nPa. Baltzer Fassenmeyer died on May 3, 1868. He was a soldier in the old country,\\nhaving served under Napoleon, was captured and confined on the island of Galarera,\\nbut escaped and returned to his home. Joseph, the youngest child, was born August\\n19, 1837. He was married in 1859 to Francisca Spiegle. They had one child, who\\nwas born in 1862. Francisca died in 1863. He married for his second wife Philomena\\nDotz. They have had a family of eleven children. In 1875 Mr. Fassenmeyer started\\nthe Jamestown Hotel, having received quite an estate from his father, upon which he\\nhas enlarged, and is now counted among the progressive residents of Jamestown. In\\npolitics he is a Democrat, and has frequently held town offices.\\nFellers, WiUiam, Newmansville p. o., Washington, son of Andrew and Mary Fellers,\\nwas born in Centre county, Pa., on April 8, 181 7. When Willian-i was fourteen years\\nof age the family went to Stark county, O., where they resided for about seven years.\\nWilliam then returned to Pennsylvania, where, in 1840, he was married to Barbara Ann\\nSinghose. In August, 1853, they took up their residence in Washington township. Pa.,\\non lands bought from Rev. John Leech. William Fellers is one of the progressive men\\nof the town. In every enterprise for the welfare of his people he is foremost. Although\\na strong RepubHcan, he has frequently held town office in his township with a strong\\nDemocratic majority. He had a family of twelve children, nine of whom are now liv-\\ning. Both he and his wife are faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.\\nFerguson, J. E., New Bethlehem, was born in Armstrong county in 1861, and set-\\ntled in Clarion county in 1886. He became engaged in the general livery and exchange\\nstable business upon settlement here. He was married in 1S83 to Sarah Jane Seanor,\\nof Armstrong county. They have had one son Noah E.\\nFisher, Charles, Valley p. o., Elk, is a farmer, and was born in Hanover, Germany,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2on March 7, 1836, and was a son of Philip and Caroline (Pirl) Fisher. He settled in\\nBeaver township in 1864, and located in Elk in 1869. He was married that same year\\nto Charlotte, a daughter of Frederick Wedekind, of Elk township. They had a family\\nof nme children Charles, Henry, Amos, Christena, Frank, William, Louisa, Regina,\\n.and May.\\nFlaherty, Matt S., New Bethlehem, was born in West Virginia in 1857, and was a\\nson of John and Bridget (O Neil) Flaherty, who were born in Ireland and married in\\nBaltimore. They had a family of nine children, eight of whom are now living John,\\nMaggie, Matt S., Delia, Pat, Mary, Kate, Jane, and Ella. They settled in Clarion\\ncounty in 1872. Matt S. became a clerk at an early age, and had but few advantages\\nin obtaining an education, but he fitted himself and graduated from the commercial\\ncollege, and in 1882 became manager for Jones Bronker, and in 1883 he became the\\nmanager of the Northwestern Coal and Mining Company. He has also held other im-\\nportant offices of trust.\\nFoster, John Redick, New Bethlehem, a banker of the borough, was born in Arm-\\nstrong county, Pa., in 1844, and settled in Clarion county in 1872. He was one of the\\nfounders of the New Bethlehem Savings Bank, and became cashier and a director. He\\nis president of the gas company, and has also held several of the borough offices. He\\nwas graduated from the Elder Ridge Academy, and also from the Iron City Mercantile\\nCollege, and was an early merchant in Armstrong county, Pa., and retired in 1872. He\\nwas married in 1870 to Mellie B. Belville, of Illinois. They have had two daughters\\nMinnie Maud and Syd Carl. John Redick Foster was a son of Thomas H. and Eliza\\nJane (Redick) Foster, who died, leaving a family of five children John R., Clarissa,\\nMary L., Lizzie E., and Lulu E.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0798.jp2"}, "773": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xvii\\nFox, John W., Pollock p. o., Perry, was born in Clarion county in 1849. His par-\\nents were George W. and Addie (Coursin) Fox. John W. was married in 1870 to\\nSarah E. Best, of Clarion county. They have had a family of nine children Charles\\nH., Edwin I., John W., William F., David S., Roy L. E., Celia E., Herbert G., and\\nRobert C. Mr. Fox has followed the milling business all his life, and business which\\nhis father followed before him, and is considered one of the best in his section. He\\nnow holds the office of school director. He was a candidate for the Legislature in\\n1886.\\nFrazier, William H., New Bethlehem, was born in Monroe township, Pa., in 1839.\\nHe was a son of Henry and Margaret (Delp) Frazier. Margaret was born in Clarion\\ncounty. Pa., in 1818, and died in 1874 her husband was born in Westmoreland county,\\nPa., in 1812, and died in 1882. They were married in 1832. Henry settled in this\\ncounty with his mother and brother John. Henry and Margaret had a family of eleven\\nchildren, eight of whom are now living. Three sons enlisted and served in the late\\nwar George W. enlisted in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment, served out his term\\nof enlistment, enlisted again, and served to the close of the war William H., in Seventy-\\neighth Pennsylvania Regiment, enlisted on August 29, 1862, was wounded, losing two\\nfingers of the right hand, for which he now receives a pension. He was discharged on\\nOctober 26, 1863. Thomas M. enhsted in Company F, Sixty-third Pennsylvania Reg-\\niment, in 186 1, served out his term of enlistment, re-enlisted, and died at Yorktown,\\nVa. The rest of the children now living are James W., John S., Calvin R., Harlon R.,\\nMary A., and Ella Silva. William H. Frazier was married in i860 to Rachel Shankle,\\nwho died in 1870, leaving a family of three children Oscar L., Elfida E., and William\\nM. A. Mr. Frazier then married his second wife, Catharine Shankle, in 187 1. She\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0died in 1885, leaving two children Charles E. and Sarah E. He then married his\\nthird wife, Eliza A. Nolf, in 1886.\\nFritz, Hezekiah R., Leeper p. o., Farmington, was born in Berks county. Pa., on\\nAugust ig, 182 1. He was the third of eight children born to John and Catharine\\nFritz, an old and respected family of Berks county. Hezekiah came to Richland in\\n1840, where, in the same year, he married Caroline Klingler, by whom he had fourteen\\nchildren, eleven of whom are now living. Mr. Fritz was always known as an industrious,\\nhonest citizen. He was often honored by his fellow townsmen with town offices, and\\nheld the position of justice acceptably for a term of five years. By trade he was a mill-\\nwright, but most of his latter years were spent in farming and lumbering. He died on\\nJanuary 25, 1883. He was an earnest member of the German Reformed Church of\\nBeaver township, but for many years past the family have resided in Farmington, Pa.\\nFuller, William, West Freedom p. o.. Perry, of the St. Clair Hotel, West Freedom,\\nwas born in Otsego county, N. Y., in 1814, and was a son of Jabiel and Betsey (Pan-\\nsier) Fuller. At an early age he fitted himself for a physician retiring from the profes-\\nsion he gave his attention to farming. He was married in 1835 to Lauretta Colton.\\nThey have had four children, two are now living Charles and William H. H. She\\ndied on June 11, 1855, at the age of forty-two years. In December, 1855, he married\\nMiss Amanda R. Covert, of Lawrence counjy. They have also had four children, two\\nare now living Thomas Sankey, Eldridge Frank, Edwin F. (deceased), and Lily May.\\nIn 1881 he purchased the St. Clair Hotel, which he has lately remodeled, and is now\\nknown as one of the best kept hotels in the county.\\nFulton, James Jackson, Rimersburg, an active man of this county, was reared under\\nthe strict discipline of the old Associate Church. He was born in Armstrong county on\\nAugust 25, 1829, and was married on April 19, 1855, to Miss Eliza Huey, who died on\\nJune 8, 1861. They had three children, two of whom are now living Jennie L. and\\nGeorge L. James Jackson was drafted into the late war, but rejected on account of a\\ncrippled foot. He married for his second wife Martha J. Henry. They also had three\\nchildren, two of whom are now living Pearl E. and Minden Orr. Martha died on\\nJuly 12, 1867, and he married his third wife, Nannie P. Johnston, a daughter of James\\nand Mary Patton, and the widow of Lieutenant W. H. Johnston, who was killed at the\\nbattle of the Wilderness. J. J. Fulton was a son of James and Jane (Templeton) Fulton.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0799.jp2"}, "774": {"fulltext": "xviii History of Clarion County.\\nJames was born on August 15, 1780, in County Derry, Ireland, and his wife on Sep-\\ntember 15, 1787. His mother s name was Agnes. She, with her four sons, emigrated\\nto America in 1794, and landed in Philadelphia after a voyage of thirteen weeks and\\nthree days. From here they went to Westmoreland county, where Robert, one of the\\nsons, died. They remained here until the spring of 1801, when they, with other families\\nliving in the same vicinity, moved into Armstrong county, now Clarion county, and\\nsettled not far from where the town of Clarion now stands, and which was then an\\nunbroken wilderness. This family consisted of the mother and her three sons, James,\\nHenry, and Cochran. On the 19th of March, 1805, James Fulton and Jane Temple-\\nton Reid were united in marriage. They had a family of twelve children Cochran,\\nJoseph R., Henry, Robert R., William, David, James Jackson, Mary, Nancy, Jane H.,\\nElizabeth W., and Salina M. Of these, Mary, William T., and Nancy are now de-\\nceased. Mr. Fulton was one of the founders of Piney Church, and was chosen ruling\\nelder. He was drafted during the War of 1812, but was discharged on account of ces-\\nsation of hostilities. Little does the present generation know of the hardships, suffering,\\nand the vast amount of labor through which the brave men and women, the early pio-\\nneers, had to pass. About the year 1804 business called Mr. Fulton to the eastern part\\nof the State. At this period of our country s history houses were few. This trip was\\nmade in winter and on foot. Reaching his place of destination he transacted his busi-\\nness and then started on his return trip. Leaving Bloom s Tavern, on the Susquehanna\\nRiver, early in the morning, he had thirty-three miles to travel by the old State Road\\nin order to reach Port Barnett, there being no inhabited house between these two points.\\nSoon after starting it began to snow and continued to do so all day, which made travel\\nvery fatiguing. He reached Sandy Lick Creek about three o clock, and yet had ten\\nmiles of his journey before him, which was by far the most perilous and fatiguing.\\nDuring the latter part of the day a man on horseback had passed over the road, and,\\nwith the exception of this track, he had the road to break. The shadows of evening\\nbegan to appear, and the sun was fast sinking in the west darkness was gathering about\\nhim, and he yet alone in the wilderness. Seeing a dead tree by the roadside, and going\\nto it he thought to gather some dry material and make a fire. After making all of his\\npreparations he undertook to strike fire with his steel and fiint, but from long exposure\\nhis hands refused to fulfill their office; and disappointed in this he felt that he must\\npush on. The last ray of day had faded from the western horizon night, with all its\\ndarkness and horrors, was upon him, and he could hear all around him the howls of the\\nhungry wolves, who were ready to devour him should he for one moment hesitate and\\ngive up. After night set in, in order to keep in the road he had to get down and feel\\nfor the horse tracks, which were now almost filled with snow. Cold, numb, and wearied\\nfrom the half-bent position in which he had to travel made his progress slow, but on-\\nward was his watchword. At last, nearly exhausted and almost ready to yield him-\\nself to the hungry wolves, he raised his head, and to his joy saw a dim light in the dis-\\ntance. Gradually the distance between him and the light became shorter, and he at\\nlast reached the house, but he was so exhausted that he could not walk up the steps.\\nHe finally succeeded in throwing himself against the door, when Mr. Barnett opened it,\\nand seeing who it was helped him in and supplied all his wants. This was about three\\no clock in the morning. The remaining part of his trip was made in safety. His wife\\ndied on January 20, 1833. On the 14th of May, 1836, he married Elizabeth English.\\nThey had two children John M. and Sarah E. Elizabeth, his wife, died on April 11,\\n1862. During the early fifties Mr. Fulton and his son J. J. were conductors of what\\nwas called the Underground Railroad. The escaping fugitives came to his house in\\nnumbers from two to nine. One Saturday evening nine came, and he fed and sheltered\\nthem in his barn over the Sabbath, and Monday morning, before daylight, conveyed\\nthem to the next station. This same act was done frequently, both by father and son.\\nGeorge, Reuben, West Monterey p. o.. Perry, was a son of Martin L. and Anna\\n(Davis) George, and was born in Mercer county. Pa., in 1837. He was married in\\ni860 to Mary Jane Miller, of Clarion county. Pa. They have had a family of six chil-\\ndren Christian Ellsworth, Reuben George, William Martin, Adah M., Orlando Dud-\\nley, and Edna Beatrice (deceased). Mr. George, with his brothers Christian and Mar-", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0800.jp2"}, "775": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xix\\ntin W., enlisted in Company E, Seventy- eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served\\nduring the entire war under Generals Sherman and Rosecrans. On his return from the\\nwar he settled in Clarion county, Pa, as proprietor of the Monterey House, and general\\ns ore. His father and mother died in 1854, he in the forty-second year of his age and\\nshe in her forty-fourth.\\nA.r ^f f^ der, PhiUipston p. o., East Brady, was born in Scotland on\\nMarch 5, 1809, and was a son of Captain James and Isabella (Halvey) Giffen, of Irvine\\nAylshire, Scotland. He emigrated to New York city in 1830, where he married Mar-\\ngaret Brown in 1833. She was also born in Scotland. They have had a family of ten\\nril M \\\\r r ^T living-Alexander H., John J., Betsey M., and Marga-\\nret M. Mr Giffen served an apprenticeship to the dry goods trade, and became a hotel\\nkeeper in Greenwich street, New York. He moved to New Orleans owing to poor\\nhealth. He then went to St. Louis, then came to Pittsburgh, where he became engaagd\\nm business, and m 1848 came to Clarion county as a teacher and merchant He has\\nserved as a justice of the peace for twenty years. He has also been postmaster, being\\nthe founder of that oftice here. 5.\\nGilbert, Mathias, Blair s Corners p. o, Beaver, was born at Blair s Corners, Pa on*\\nOctober 6, 1847; is a farmer, and now owns and occupies a farm of thirty-eisht acres\\nHis parents were Abraham and Amelia (Fritz) Gilbert, who came to Clarion counTv\\nf^;^ Tt TT P^ !i ^f ^^s married on October 6\\n1878, to Lizzie L. Best, a daughter of John and Frances (Alt) Best, of Licking town^\\nship, fhey have three children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ida M., Edith E., and Idella B.\\nGilfert, Nicholas, Lickingsville p. o., Washington, was born in February i8 near\\nHesse Castle, Prussia, and with the family of his father, Charles Gilfert, cLrie to the\\nvicinity o Lucinda Furnace in the year 1835. Nicholas spent the early vears of his\\nhfe in cutting wood for the Furnace, and at work on the tami. His father died about\\n1854. In 1849 Nicholas married Elizabeth Sandrock. They had a fan ly of n ne chil\\ndren. She died in March, 1863. Having a large family of small children to care for re-\\nmarried in the fall of the same year to Regina Rader, who also bore him five chUdren\\nS\u00c2\u00ab\\\\ k r ^t P comfortable fortune W\\n1878 he has been in the mercantile business at Lickingsville, Pa Seven different Hm^c\\nhas he suffered loss by robbery-goods, cash and b onds to the a^unt o^nea ly en\\nthousand dollars have been taken from him. He is one of the trustees and a promment\\nmember of the United Brethren Church. prominent\\nVV..fri^v^ ^t^ Tylersburg p. o., Farmington, the second child of William and\\nEhza Gilfillin was born m Farmmgton, Pa., on March 4, 1849. William the father\\nwas a native of Scotland, and his wife of Nova Scotia. When Youn^ Archie ah;\\nIS called, was but nine years of age he commenced work in the lumber woods and con\\ntinued in is various details up to about ten years ago, when he went into the oil country\\nRecendy however, he has returned to lumbering. In his business enterprise Mr\\nfilhn has been remarkably successful. When twenty-seven years old he nfarried Martha\\ndaughter of Porter Haskell. They have had four children: Although not L ac v\\nman in politics he ,s a firm Republican. Among his fellow townsme^n he tands gTn\\nerally respected by all as an active and thorough business man.\\nTn ?lT t P- Salem, was born in Richland township on November\\n19, 1848. He is a farmer, and owns one hundred acres. His parents were N F InH\\nPrances (Knight) Gilger, of Mariasville, Venango county. He was mar ed on De\\ncember 24, 1874, to Ada Knbbs, a daughter of John and Mary (Peters) Kribbs W\\nand Ada have had a family of three children-George B., Mary F., and Clara B\\nGillinham, John, Fern p. o., Ashland, is a farmer, and was born in Allegheny countv\\non February 14, 1839. He was a son of William and Rebecca (Caldwell) Sllml anf\\nJohn located in Ashland m 1876, and was married on SeptemberS^, i86c\\\\o Ma E\\nHess. They have had four children-M. Lucretia, Agnes L., George W knd S L\\nH:sT, of SlanT Mary -^(trryi", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0801.jp2"}, "776": {"fulltext": "XX History of Clarion County.\\nGloss, Philip H., Elk City p. o., Elk, was born in Armstrong county on August 12,\\n1829, and was a son of Martin and Sarah (Hoftman) Gloss. He settled in- Clarion\\ncounty in 1848, and has resided in Elk township for the past twenty years. He was\\nmarried in 1850 to Miriam Bell, a daughter of Alexander and Martha (Chambers) Bell,\\nof Paint township. They had the following children: Sarah E., Amos, William, James,\\nMargaret, Martha, Jackson, Minnie, and John. His second wife was Elizabeth, a\\ndaughter of John and Barbara (Young) McLane, of Paint township. They have had\\ntwo children Jennie and Harley.\\nGoal, Fred, Fryburg p. o., Washington. John Goal was born in Germany, and\\nspent his early life and was married there to Barbara Stroble. Soon after the year\\n1850 the family came to Washington township, where Mr. Goal bought a part of the\\nold Stroble farm, near the center of the township. The children of this marriage were\\nFrederick, Albert, John, Caroline, William, Adolphus, David, Frederick, Mary, and\\nKatie. Of these only six are now living, John Goal died on May 5, 1873, and his\\nwife Barbara died on August i, 1883. Frederick still owns and occupies the old home\\nfarm of thirty-three acres. He was married in 1882 to Ella Elder. They have had\\ntwo children. Although yet a young man Mr. Goal is one of the best farmers of the\\ntownship, and his farm is among the best. The family are members of the Lutheran\\nSociety,\\nGourley, James, Leatherwood p. c, New Bethlehem, was born in Westmoreland county\\nin 181 7, and was a son of Henry and Ann (Marshall) Gourley, who settled in Clarion\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0county in 1834. They died in Monroe township Henry in 1872, and his wife Ann, who\\nwas born in 1806, died in 1868. They had a family of seven children. James Gourley\\nwas married in 1840 to Nancy A. Brisben, of Monroe township. She was born in 182 1.\\nThey had a family of seven children, five of whom are now living George B., Eliza-\\nbeth, Andrew, James, jr., David, John, and Alva. John enlisted in Company H, One\\nHundred and Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, in 1862, and died at Fredericksburg,\\nwhile in service, in 1863. Alva was drowned at the age of twenty years. James set-\\ntled in Porter township in 1867. He has held several of the town offices, and was\\nnumerator in taking the census of 1880. He is now a retired farmer.\\nGraham, George, East Brady, was born in Perry township on June 11, 1832, and\\nwas married on May 29, 1856, to Margaret H. Fritz, of Pottstown, Montgomery county,\\nPa. They have had seven children, five of whom are now known to be living Ella\\nM., Newton E., George, jr., Cecelia, and Frank. Mr. Graham became an early con-\\ntractor and builder, and in 1874 formed the present firm of Graham Cook, purchas-\\ning their factory building, and now do a large business in steam planing, sawing, and\\nmanufacturing all grades of sash, doors, blinds, shingles, and oil rig materials. Mr. Gra-\\nham was a son of William, jr., and Margaret (Mechling) Graham, of Butler county. Pa,\\nThey had a family of five children, three of whom are now living George, Aaron, and\\nAmanda, now the wife of J, P. Forcht. Margaret died in 1864, at the age ot fifty-four\\nyears, and her husband, William, sr., died in 1872, at the age of seventy-four years. He\\nwas a son of William and Sally (Rogers) Graham. Sally was born in Ireland and her\\nhusband in Scodand. They were married in CarUsle, Cumberland county, and had a\\nfamily of five children, only one of whom is now living Samuel. William settled at\\nthe mouth of Bear Creek, Armstrong county, in 1795, coming from Washington county,\\nand a few years later settled near the mouth of the Clarion River, then in Armstrong\\ncounty, which was included in forming Clarion county in 1839. George was drafted\\nin 1862 for nine months, and served in Company B, One Hundred and Sixty-ninth\\nPennsylvania Regiment, under Colonel L, W, Smith, of Pittsburgh.\\nHahn, John B., Church p. o., Beaver, was born in Germany on September 10, 1831,\\nand came to the United States in 1832 with his parents, John B. and Christena (Long)\\nHahn. He is a farmer and owns 300 acres, and is also engaged in the boat building\\nbusiness and a member of the firm of Bates Hahn, of Piney. He was married on\\nOctober 20, 1858, to Barbara Hahn, a native of Germany. They have four children\\nnow living Katie C, George A., Mary J., and Maggie.\\nHamilton, Wesley K., East Brady, ticket, freight, telegraph, and depot agent of the", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0802.jp2"}, "777": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xxi\\nA. V. R.R. at East Brady, and express agent, was born in Allegheny county in 1842,\\nand was son of W. B. and Mary (Stephens) Hamilton. He was reared on the farm and\\nenlisted on April 11, 1861, in Company G 28th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served to\\nthe close of the war in 1865. He was promoted to quartermaster-sergeant. Hebe-\\ncame engaged in railroading in 1867 and in 1877 he was appointed agent at Brady s.\\nWesley K. was married in 187 1 to Lizzie Owns, of Allegheny. They have had two\\nsons William A., born 1872, and Edgar T., born in 1873. Mrs. Lizzie Hamilton is\\nan experienced telegrapher. The mother, Mary S. H.,died in 1871 leaving a family of\\neight children.\\nHanrahan, John J., Fern o., Ashland, proprietor of the Monitor House, of Fern\\nCity, was born in Sligo on July 3, 1857, and was a son of John and Bridget (White)\\nHanrahan, who were natives of Ireland, who settled in Sligo, this county, in 1849, and\\nlocated in Elk township in 1861, and came to Ashland in 1885. They had a family of\\neight children Patrick, James, Edward, John J., Mary, Ella, Kittie, and x\\\\lice.\\nHartman, Lewis, Callensburg p. o., Rimersburg, was born in Toby township on\\nMarch 11, 1841, and was a son of William and Susan (Fulmer) Hartman, who were\\nborn and married in Berks county, and settled in Toby township in 1841, coming there\\nfrom Columbia county. William died in March, 1840, at the age of forty-two years.\\nThey had a family of ten children, seven of whom are now living, six sons and one\\ndaughter. Two sons enlisted and served in the late war. Lewis enlisted and served in\\nCompany H 155th Regiment in 1862 and served to the close of the war under Colonel\\nAllen. He was wounded and now carries the ball in his body. He now receives a\\npension. William enlisted in the same company and regiment and served to the close\\nof the war. The company consisted of eighty-eight men, and at the close of the war\\nonly thirty-eight returned, fifty being sacrificed. The surviving sons are Harrison,\\nJosiah, William, Lewis, Jackson, Aaron, and one brother Elisha died in 1882 leaving a\\nwidow and four children. Lewis married Ellen Humphrey in 187 1. They have had\\nfive children David H., Charles F., Rolland C, and May E. and Mabel J. (twins).\\nLewis Hartman was formerly a carpenter and a millwright, and settled on his farm in\\nthis township in 1870.\\nHeckman, Noah, Toby p. o., Rimersburg, owner and proprietor of the Toby steam\\nand water mill, which was erected in 1847 on the oldest site in the county. The early\\nlog mill was built by John Miller about 1800. Mr. Heckman purchased the mill prop-\\nerty in 1884, having three run of stone. He has greatly improved the property and has\\nadded steam power. It is located on Cherry Run and is now doing merchant and cus-\\ntom work. Noah was born in Jefferson county in 1859, and was a son of Jacob and\\nCatharine (Plyner) Heckman. Noah was married in 1883 to Carrie McColough, of\\nClarion county. They have two sons Grover Cleveland and George W.\\nHeeter, G. W. Callensburg p. o.. Licking, was born in Clarion county m 1845. and\\nmarried Rachel A. Bell. They had a family of four children Harvey B., Phoebe L.,\\nW^illiam Bryant, and Linda L. Mr. Heeter is largely interested in the manufacture of\\nlumber and boat-building on the Clarion River, and also owns several fine farms, own-\\ning in all about four hundred and fifty acres. He has held all of the town offices, and\\nhas also been county appraiser. His father, Samuel, was born in Reading, Pa., in\\n1817, and married Mahala Neely, who died in i860 at the age of thirty-eight years.\\nHe was a thoroughly reliable citizen and commanded the respect of all who knew him.\\nHe died in 1879.\\nHeeter, Henry C, Callensburg p. o., Licking, was born in Clinton county in 1850,\\nand was married in 1869 to Mary Stover, a daughter of Samuel Stover, of Callensburg.\\nThey have had a family of seven children Orminta E., Richard D., Sarah E., Norval\\nC, Thomas W., Bordley, and Belva. Mr. Heeter is proprietor of a large boat-building\\nhouse and saw-mill, and also devotes some of his time and attention to farming. He\\nnow owns a farm of 167 acres.\\nHeeter, WiUiam S., Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Monroeville on March 22,\\n1855, and is now engaged in oil producing. His parents were George and Susannah\\n(Neely) Heeter, who were natives of Clarion county. He was married on December 8,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0803.jp2"}, "778": {"fulltext": "xxii History of Clarion County.\\n1881, to Ida E. Correll, a daughter of Henry and Charlotte (Shreve) Correll, of Craw-\\nford county. They have had two children Eva Maud and Mabel Charlotte.\\nHefifron, David, North Pine Grove, p. o., Farmington, was born in Farmington\\ntownship. Pa., on January 17, 1839. He was the second of a family of nine children\\nborn to Ferry and Magdalena Heffron. David lived at home until of full age when he\\nstarted out for himself as a deck hand on an Ohio River steamboat. In 1864 he mar-\\nried Sarah A. Wolf, of Meigs county, Ohio, who bore him twelve children, ten of whom\\nare now living. Mr. Heffron is an energetic, thorough business man. His business\\ncapacity is fully realized and appreciated by the people of the county and he is now one\\nof the commissioners. While in some business transactions he has been unfortunate,\\nyet, as a whole, his life has been successful. In politics he is a firm Democrat. The\\nfamily are members of the Catholic Church.\\nHenlen, John W., Fryburg p. o., Washington, was born in Lancaster county on\\nJanuary 14, 1818, and in the next year his father s family came to Washington and was\\none of its earliest pioneer families. In the family were seven children Joseph, Nancy,\\nKatie, Christian, John, Henry, and Margaret. Of this pioneer family only James and\\nMargaret (now Mrs. A. W. Owens) are now living. John W. Henlen was married to\\nElizabeth Kopp. They had a family of eight children, six of whom are now living.\\nMr. Henlen was always an honest, industrious and successful farmer, and by hard work\\naccumulated a fortune. His farm was among the best in the town. He built on it a\\nsubstantial brick house and first-class out-buildings, which is now occupied by his widow\\nand son, Seward E., who manage the farm. Mr. Henlen died on July 8, 1884. He\\nwas prominent in town affairs, and was one of the leading members of the Evangelical\\nLutheran Church.\\nHenry, esq., George T., Piolett p. o.. New Bethlehem, was born in Porter, Pa., on\\nJuly 14, 1824, and was a son of Squire William and Margaret (Boyles) Henry, of West-\\nmoreland county. Pa. William was born in 1795 and died in March, 1856, and his\\nwife Margaret was born in 1794 and died in 1859. They had a family of three children,\\nof whom George T. Henry is the only one now living. William was a son of John and\\nEsther (McConnell) Henry, of Westmoreland county, who settled in Clarion county in\\n1 800. Squire William Henry was justice of the peace for twenty-six years, and has\\nbeen county commissioner. George T. Henry was married in 1854 to Margaret Beaty.\\nThey have had a family of six children B. Jane, W. P., Nettie, Fanny, Emma, and\\nSheldon J. Squire George T. Henry now owns the old homestead of two hundred and\\neighteen acres. He has been justice of the peace for five terms, county commissioner,\\nand is now a farmer and stock dealer and grower.\\nHenry. John D., Piolett p. o., New Bethlehem, postmaster, farmer, and agent for\\nthe Leatherwood Co-operative Store, was born in Leatherwood, Clarion county. Pa., in\\n1830. He was a son of James and Margaret (Brown) Henry, who were born in Clarion\\ncounty. Pa., in 1805, and married in 1829. They had a family of nine children, six of\\nwhom are now living John D., Mary A., Thomas J., Isabella J., Margaret A., and\\nEvaline M. James died in 1872, and his wife Margaret died in 1873. Margaret was\\na daughter of Thomas and Mary Brown, and James was a son of John and Esther\\n(McConnell) Henry, who settled in Clarion county in 1800, coming there from West-\\nmoreland county, Pa., coming into the wilderness. John D. Henry was married in 1855\\nto Margaret L. Johnson, who was born in Porter township. Clarion county. Pa., in\\n1830. They have had a family of two children Ermina E. and Alvira E.\\nHenry, William A., Piolett p. o., New Bethlehem, was born in the town of Porter, Pa.,\\nin 1823, and was a son of Robert and Betsey (Kirkpatrick) Henry, who were natives of\\nW^estmoreland county, Pa. They had a family of fourteen children, eight of whom are\\nnow living Margaret, born in 1809; James K., born in 1815 William A., born in 1823;\\nRobert W., born in 1828; Charles N., born in 1830; David S.,born in 1832; Tate M.,\\nborn in 1840; and Henry H., born in 1842. Four brothers enlisted and served in the\\nlate war David S., Tate M., Henry H., and Isaiah. Isaiah served in the One Hundred\\nand Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, was wounded, taken prisoner and confined in Libby\\nPrison, was discharged and died on his way home in 1863. Tate M. is a pensioner,", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0804.jp2"}, "779": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xxiii\\nhaving been wounded. William A, Henry was married in 1849 to Susan Ardery, of\\nPorter township, Pa. They have had a family of two children Margaret E., and\\nJemimah C, who married P. C. Wells, and now has two children Carl and Edna.\\nThe father, Robert, was born in 1787 and died in 1856. His wife Betsey died in 1835,\\nand Robert married for his second wife Nancy McElhenny. They had a family of\\nthree children Tate M., Henry H., and Isaiah.\\nHepburn, Dr. John H., Rimersburg p. o., a physician and surgeon of Rimersburg\\nborough, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1845, and was a son of John and Margaret\\nHepburn, who settled in Gloucester City, N. J., in 1849, coming there from Scotland.\\nJohn, sr., died in 1882, aged sixty-five years, leaving a widow and five children, three\\nof whom are now living Dr. John H., Isabella B., Oliver, and Mrs. Mary E. Ross.\\nOne of the daughters, Mrs. Catherine M. Van Meter, died, leaving a family of five\\nchildren. Dr. John fitted himself for and graduated from the Jefferson Medical Col-\\nlege, at Philadelphia, in 1880, and settled in Clarion county in the practice of his chosen\\nprofession.\\nHepler, Jesse, Frogtown p. o., Millville, was born in Limestone county on May 22,\\n1831, and was a son of Adam and Catharine (Brinker) Hepler. Catharine was born\\nin 1806, and her husband Adam was born in Butler county in 1804. He settled with\\nhis parents, John and Elizabeth Hepler, in Rimersburg in 1805. They had a family of\\nnine children. Adam and Catharine had a family of eleven children, five of whom are\\nnow living Lavina, Jesse, William, Samuel, and Thomas M. Adam was a blacksmith\\nby trade, but became a farmer in later life. He died in 1870, and his wife in 1872.\\nJesse was married in 1854 to Elizabeth Mohney, a daughter of Jacob and Christina\\n(Caster) Mohney. Jesse has had a family of seven children, four of whom are now liv-\\ning Raymond, Dr. Albert, Philip E., and Christina C, who was married on January\\n20, 1886, to Gabriel Stahlman.\\nHess, Benjamin F., Fern p. o., Ashland, is a carpenter, and was born in Ashland on\\nMay 19, 1855, and was a son of Isaac L. and Mary (Perry) Hess. He was brought\\nup in Ashland, and was married in 1881 to Minnie Richards, of Ashland. They have\\nhad two children Austin L. and Violet I.\\nHess, Marvin P., Fern p. o., Ashland, a driller, was born in Ashland township on\\nSeptember 11, 1844, and vvas a son of Isaac L. and Mary (Perry) Hess. He was\\nreared in Ashland, and served as a substitute in the late war in Company F, Ninety-\\neighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was honorably discharged after one year s service.\\nHe was married in 1874 to Sarah, a daughter of W. L. and Sarah (Stover) Hickman, of\\nCentreville, Pa. They have had a family of five children Melvin T., Orin, Maud L.,\\nElva, and an infant son.\\nHess, William L., Fern p. o., a farmer and oil producer, was born in Ashland on\\nJune 14, 1862, and was a son of Isaac L. and Marietta (Perry) Hess. His paternal\\ngrandfather was George Hess, who settled in Ashland in 1813. His children were\\nIsaac L., George, Elizabeth, Anna, and Martha. The children of Isaac L. were George,\\nMary, Marion P., Rebecca, Isaac P., Jennie, WiUiam L., Benjamin F., Elizabeth, and\\nThomas L. Wilham Hess now occupies the old homestead of his father. He was\\nmarried in 1874 to Melinda (Dahle) Strotman, of Elk township. They have had a\\nfamily of five children William H., Mary L., Norman G., Harry, and Isaac.\\nHill, J. W., East Brady, a banker of East Brady, was born in Armstrong county in\\n1855 and settled in East Brady as cashier of the East Brady Bank in December, 1878.\\nHe also became agent for several leading insurance companies. He was a son of John\\nW. and Jane (Bratton Parks) Hill. J. W. was married in 1881 to Hattie L. Reeves, of\\nArmstrong county. They have one son Reeves Hi.\\nHilliard, John, West Millville p. o., Millville, one of the first farmers in Clarion\\ncounty, was born in Butler county in 18 14, and was a son of George and Sarah (War-\\nner) Hilliard. Sarah was born in Butler county and George was born in Northampton\\ncounty in 1782 and died in 1859. His wife died in 1852, leaving a family of fifteen\\nchildren, seven of whom are now living John, Jacob, Elisha, Daniel, Polly, Jonathan,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0805.jp2"}, "780": {"fulltext": "xxiv History of Clarion County.\\nand Ellen. George came to Butler county in 1796, and was in the War of 181 2. He\\nwas married in Butler county, and in 1826 settled in Redbank township, where they\\ndied. John Hilliard was married in 1838 to Lydia Williams, of Northampton county.\\nThey have had nine children Reuben, Anna M., Sylvester, Jane, George, Samuel J.,\\nMonroe, Mary E., and Amanda. Mr. Hilliard was a justice of the peace for five years,\\nsupervisor for three terms, constable and collector, and a leading and successful man of\\nhis town.\\nHimes, Joseph, New Bethlehem, was born in New Bethlehem in 1812, and is\\nthe oldest person now living in the borough who was born there. He was a son of\\nChristian and Margaret (Nulf) Himes, who were born in East Pennsylvania, were mar-\\nried and settled in what is now called New Bethlehem in 1808. Christian died in 181 5\\nleaving a family of three children John, Joseph, and Susannah. The widow, Mar-\\ngaret, was married in 1820 to Henry Milliron, and settled in Jefferson county, where\\nshe died in 1824. Joseph Himes came to Red Bank and was married there in 1835 to\\nAbbey Ann Space, a daughter of Zepheniah and Catherine (Armstrong) Space. They\\nhad a family of thirteen children, eight of whom are now living Zepheniah, John,\\nCatherine, William, Leroy, Shells, Thomas, and Mary. Finley died at the age of twenty-\\none years. Margaret married and died at the age of twenty-six years, leaving two\\nchildren Gertie Geneva and Joseph Charles; Susannah, Philista Ann, and Mina Jane\\ndied when small.\\nHindman, Johnston, Fisher p. o.. Mill Creek, an enterprising and successful farmer,\\nand owning a farm of 1 15 acres, was born in Clarion county in 1844. He was married in\\n187 1 to Sarah Timblin, of Clarion county. They have had five children Samuel A.,\\nNancy S., Alberta E., Mary A. B., and Sarah L. J. Mr. Hindman held the office of\\nschool director for seven years. His father, John L. Hindman, was born in 1804, and\\nis now living in Clarion. He married Nancy Latterner.\\nHippie,- Dr. Winfield S., New Bethlehem, dentist surgeon of the borough, was born\\nin Buder county. Pa., in 1850. He was a son of John and Jemima (Mitchell) Hippie,\\nof Butler county. Pa, The Doctor was fitted for his profession, and setded in Clarion\\ncounty. Pa., in 1876, in the practice of his profession, where he now enjoys a large\\npractice. He was married in 1872 to Mary E. St. Clair, of Butler county. Pa., she was\\na daughter of William Wilson St. Clair. They had a family of five children Lillie B.,\\nElmer S., Eva J., John C, and Charlie.\\nHockman, Henry, Knox p. o., Ashland, is a farmer, and was born in Union county\\non October 24, 1823. He was a son of Henry and Mary (Frazier) Hockman, who\\nsettled in Ashland in 1838, and cleared and improved most of the farm which is now\\nowned by their son Henry. Their children were Ephraim, Catherine, Henry, Lovina,\\nMargaret. Henry now occupies the old homestead. He was married in 1852 to\\nSabrina Pyles, of Centre county, a daughter of Jacob Pyles. They have had a family\\nof seven children John E., Sarah M., Samuel W., William H., Mahlon O., James F.,\\nand Mary.\\nHollingshead, William H., Elk City p. o., Elk, an oil producer of Elk City, Pa., was\\nwas born in Harford county, Md., on March 10, 1842, and was a son of John and\\nElizabeth A. (Amos) Hollingshead. He setded in Clarion county, Pa., in 1864, and\\nwas married in 1863 to Mrs. Sarah Henderson, of Elk, Pa., whose former husband was\\na soldier in Company E of the Tenth Regiment. They had a family of six children\\nAnna, Edward H., Harrison, Cecelia, Francis, and Claude. Sarah was a daughter of\\nJoseph and Susan (Smale) Kiser.\\nHoover, Caldwell, Tylersburg, p. o., Farmington, the youngest, except one, of the\\nchildren of David L. and Mary Hoover, was born in Armstrong county. Pa., July 15,\\n1829, and came to Farmington in 1836. At the age twenty-nine, Caldwell left home\\nand went in the lumber woods on Tionesta Creek. At twenty-three he united in mar-\\nriage with Eliza Hanna, who bore him eight children. Since marriage he has devoted\\nhis time mainly to farming, at which he has been fairly successful. By industry and\\nenergy he has built himself up until he possesses a comfortable home and farm. In\\npolitics Mr. Hoover as taken no active part, but favors the Republican party. Pre-", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0806.jp2"}, "781": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xxv\\nvious to the late war he was a Democrat. The family are members of the M. E.\\nSociety.\\nHoover, George, Tylersburg p. o., Farmington, was born in Buffalo township, Arm-\\nstrong county, Pa., on August 3, 1826. He was the oldest of eight children born to\\nDavid L. and Mary (Myers) Hoover, one of the oldest and most respected families of\\nthat place. Although reared on a farm George early developed an aptness for mechan-\\nical pursuits and learned and worked at the carpenter s trade. About thirty-five years\\nago he came to Farmington, Pa., where he has since resided, devoting his attention\\nmainly to farming. At the age of thirty-two years Mr. Hoover was married to Chris-\\ntina Barlett. They have had a family of nine children. He was a Whig in early days\\nand became a Republican upon the formation of the Republican party. In church\\naffairs he is associated with the M. E. Society.\\nHosterman, John F., Shippensville p. o., Elk, an oil producer, was born in Beaver\\ntownship on March 17, 1823, and was a son of Davis and Susannah (Reese) Hoster-\\nman, who settled in Beaver township in 1829. The father was a tanner by trade, and\\nwas engaged in business in the pioneer days in Edenburg and Shippensville, locating in\\nShippensville in 1835. He had five children Henry, Jacob, John F., Mary J., and\\nDavid R. John F. is a carpenter and millwright by trade. He was married in 1872\\nto Mary M., a daughter of Helwig and Frances (Rickenbrode) Mahle, of Elk. They\\nhave had two children Ulysses H. and Mary L.\\nHowe, George, Scotch Hill p.o., Farmington, the second of eight children born to\\nAbraham and Barbarah Howe, was born in Huntington county on July 11, 1823, and\\ncame to Clarion county in 1837, and settled at or near Polk Furnace, after which he\\nremoved to James Laughlin s saw-mill, near the mouth of the Piney, in 1838, and in\\nthe year following he removed to Knight s Mills, where he remained for five years. He\\nmarried Janette Simpson and settled on a a farm in this township. They have had\\nfifteen children, ten of whom are living. He has been a successful farmer. George\\nHowe is a quiet, unassuming gentleman, an industrious farmer, and a good neighbor.\\nIn political affairs he takes no active part, but favors the Republican party. In church\\naffairs he is prominent, and is a supporter and elder in the Presbyterian Church.\\nHowe, Nelson B., Knox p. o., Ashland, is a farmer, justice of the peace, and oil\\nproducer, of Knox, Pa. He was born in Ashland township. Pa., on July 23, 1849, and\\nwas a son of George C. and Barbara E. (Armstrong )Howe. His paternal grandfather,\\nSimeon Howe, and his maternal grandfather, Robert Armstrong, were both pioneer set-\\ntlers in Clarion county. Pa. George Howe settled in Ashland, Pa., in 1832, and cleared\\nand improved the farm which is now owned and occupied by his son Nelson B. His\\nchildren were Wesley C, Sarah J., John F., Harriet, Mattie and Nelson. Nelson B. was\\nmarried in 1872 to Clarissa Zellers. They have had a family of five children Jennie,\\nAdella, Electa B., Mattie J., and Harry Ellery. Clarissa was a daughter of Henry and\\nSusan (Cornish) Zellers, of Elk township. Pa.\\nHoy, jr., Adam, New Bethlehem, engaged in the general furniture and undertaking\\nbusiness, was born in Centre county in 1838, and was a son of Adam and Elizabeth\\n(Weckerley) Hoy, who settled in Limestone township in 1841, and came to New Beth-\\nlehem in 1847. In 1854 he commenced his trade, that of the manufacture of furniture,\\nand in 1863 became sole owner of the business. He was married in i860 to Mary C.\\nCorbett, who was born in 1842. They had a family of six children Eva A., John W.,\\nCharles O., Katie J., Ruth C, and Mamie. Eva has taught school for several terms in\\nthe borough graded school.\\nHunter, J. L., Knox p. o., Beaver, was born in Monroe township. Clarion county,\\non December 4, 1862 is a farmer and oil producer, and owns 302 acres. His parents\\nwere William H. and Priah (WilHams) Hunter. William H. was a native of Mercer\\ncounty and came to Clarion county when a boy. J. L. Hunter was married on April\\n5, 1885, to Carrie Kribbs, a daughter of Philip and Philista (Fulton) Kribbs, of Monroe\\ntownship. They have one child Iva M.\\nIrvwin, James H., West Millville p. o., Millville, a carriage and wagon manufacturer\\nand repairer, and undertaker of the borough, was born in Armstrong county in 1855,", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0807.jp2"}, "782": {"fulltext": "xxvi History of Clarion County.\\nand settled in Clarion county in 1877, and became engaged in his present business in\\n1882. He was married in 1879 to Anna N. Anderson, of Jefferson county. They have\\nhad two children. James M. is a son of Benjamin and Margaret (McCormick) Irvwin,\\nof Armstrong county. The have six children five sons and one daughter.\\nJefiferds, William L., Knox p. o., Edenburg, was born in Erie, Pa., on August 11,\\ni860, and came to Clarion county in 1884; is engaged in the torpedo and drilling tool\\nbusiness on Main street. His parents were John and Grace (Lander) Jefiferds, now liv-\\ning at Bradford. He was married on June 5, 1886, to Ella G. Mendenhall, a daughter\\nof John G. and Eliza P. (Sloan) Mendenhall. John G. was a native of Centre county\\nand came to Clarion county in 1830, where he died on August 18, 1876.\\nJohnson, Charles, Foxburg p. o., Richland, was born in Ingatorp, Sweden, on Au-\\ngust 13, 1853, and came to the United States in 1869 and to Foxburg in 1876. He is\\nengaged in the merchant tailor and gents furnishing goods business, and is also an oil\\nproducer. He has a branch store at Clarion.\\nJohnson, Peter, Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Berks county. Pa., on October\\n16, 18 1 2, and came to Clarion county. Pa., in 1832. He is a farmer and oil producer.\\nHis parents were David and Elizabeth (Mench) Johnson. Peter Johnson was married\\non January 16, 1838, to Christina Hale, a daughter of Jacob and Eve (Knight) Hale,\\nof Clarion county. They have had eleven children Adam, Daniel, of Ohio Eliza-\\nbeth, wife of A. L. Wood, of Steuben county, N. Y.; Maria, wife of John Moyer Judy,\\nwife of Mann Alt; George W., of Ohio Mary, wife of Samuel Switzer Emma, wife of\\nMoses Wilcox, of New York Louisa, wife of Isaac Fry, of Ohio; Sadie, wife of Henry\\nKnight; and P. F.\\nJohnston, David, Valley p. o., Elk, is a farmer, and was born in Centre county on\\nDecember 5, 1834. He was a son of William and Elizabeth (Ryder) Johnston, who\\nsettled in Elk township in 1844. They had eight children Michael, William, David,\\nCatherine, Elizabeth, Mary A., John and Martin. David was married in 1857 to Mary\\nA., daughter of Jefifries and Elizabeth (Lee) Thompson, of Elk township. They have\\nhad three children Frankie, Dessie, and Robert. David was drafted in the late war,\\nand served in Company G, Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, and was honorably dis-\\ncharged at the close of the war.\\nJones, William, Marias ville p. o., Richland, was born in Berks county. Pa., on Oc-\\ntober 30, 1825, and came to Clarion county, Pa., in 1832. He is a farmer, and now\\nowns and occupies a farm of one hundred and eighteen acres. His parents were George\\nand Catherine Jones, of Berks county, Pa. William Jones was married on December\\n25, 1845, to Matilda Master, of Beaver, Clarion county, Pa. They have had a family\\nof eight children born to them Sarah E., now the wife of N. C. McGinness Mary A.,\\nwife of Andrew Cokley Denah E., wife of Conrad Simmons, of Oil City; Catherine,\\nwife of William Vensel Charles H., Lydia C, wife of A. Master; Emma M., wife of\\nAlfred Shoup, of Venango, Pa.; Ellen S., wife of Hugh Tomb. His second wife was E.\\nM. Gilger, to whom he was married on April 15, 1885.\\nKahl, Thomas M., Shippensville p. o., Elk, was born in Elk township on March 8,\\n1843, and was a son of Jacob and Susan (Markell) Kahl, who settled in Elk township in\\n1826, and cleared and improved the farm now occupied by their son, Thomas M. Their\\nchildren were George, John, Mary A., Jane, Wilbur, Jacob, Nathaniel, Sarah, and\\nThomas M. The latter succeeded to the homestead, and was married in 1868 to Hat-\\ntie, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Kapp) Henlen, of Washington township. They\\nhave had two children Neoskeleta P. and Sarah E. Mr. Kahl has followed the occu-\\npation of veterinary surgeon since reaching the age of twelve years.\\nOne of the three pioneer families of Washington township was that of George Kapp,\\nfor whom the hamlet of Fryburg was formerly known as Kapp Settlement. The family\\ncame here in 181 7, from Lancaster county. In the family were three boys and six girls,\\nviz. Henry, John, Martin, Sarah, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, Magdalena, and Barbara.\\nHenry Kapp married for his first wife Katharine Rickenbrode. They had a family of\\nten children. His second wife was Fanny Mahle. George F. Kapp, the third of these\\nchildren, married Melissa Jane Seigwarth. They have had a family of nine children.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0808.jp2"}, "783": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xxvii\\nGeorge F. enlisted in June, 1861, in Company E, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserve Volun-\\nteer Infantry, served three years, re-enlisted, and again served until the close of the war.\\nHe lived for seventeen years in Elk township. His father moved to Centreville about\\nthree years ago, and is now engaged in business there.\\nKarns, John R., Catfish p. o.. East Brady, was born in Hillville, Armstrong county,\\nPa., m 1862. He was a son of Robert J. and Margaret (Whitehill) Karns, who were\\nmarried in r86i. They had a family of two sons\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John R. and William H. Robert\\nwas born in 1883, and Margaret, who was a daughter of Austin and Mary A. (Orr)\\nWhitehill, was born in 1843. Robert has been a teacher for thirty years in Armstrong\\ncounty. Pa., graded schools, was a justice of the peace for several years, and is one of\\nthe leading men of his county and town. John R. Karns was fitted for and taught\\nschool and instrumental music for five years, and then became an expert telegrapher,\\nand was appointed agent for the Allegheny Valley Railroad, and is now ticket, freight,\\nand telegraph agent at Sarah Furnace Station.\\nKaster, Philip, Rimersburg p. o., and his family, came from Lower Mount Bethel,\\nNorthampton county, in the year 18 18, and settled in Red Bank, Clarion county, now\\nthe town of New Bethlehem. It was then a wilderness with the exception of a small\\nfield cleared where the cemetery is now located. The only buildings were a log cabin\\nand a stable owned by the Widow Himes. The nearest trading post was Kittanning,\\nArmstrong county. The same year he purchased the farm and mill site in Monroe town-\\nship, and erected the first grist-mill in this part of the county, and which was known as\\nRaster s Mill, on Licking s Creek. Philip was a soldier in the War of 18 12, and his\\nfather, Philip, sr., was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and participated in the battles\\nof Bunker Hill and Brandywine. Philip s family consisted of six sons and six daughters\\nJohn E., Jacob B., Samuel H., Philip, Joseph, Adam T., Susannah Benn, Polly\\nMohney, Christina Mohney, Eliza Hartzell, Catharine Ressner, and Sally. Jacob died\\nat New Bethlehem about the year 1880. Philip, Joseph, Sally, and Susannah are now\\ndeceased. Philip died in September, 1865, in his eighty-ninth year. He was both\\nmiller and shoemaker by trade. John E. Kaster was married to Susannah Lobough, a\\ndaughter of John Lobough, of Monroe township, and now resides on the old homestead,\\nnear Curllsville. J. E. was born in Northampton county in 18 13. They had a family\\nof eleven children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James M., S. Harkey, John, Philip M., Amos M. Daughtes, Jane\\nE. Blair, Mary C. Corbett, Nancy C. Kerr, Hannah M. Lawson, Ellen D. Steltzer, and\\nAgatha Newell. Agatha, John, and James M. are deceased. lames M. died in the\\nlate rebellion. He enlisted in 1862 in Company H., One Hundred and Fifty-fifth\\nPennsylvania Regiment, and contracted his disease at the batde of Fredericksburg, Va.,\\nand died on January 14, 1863. Susannah died on September 9, 1857. J. E. was mar-\\nried the second time to Eliza (Benn) Huey, a daughter of Henry Benn, of Cudlsville,\\nPa. They had a family of four daughters\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tenny C. Laughlin, Sally B. Lobough,\\nSusie R., and Lide O. John E. has been a prominent business man of his district, and\\nwas justice of the peace for a number of years. He became engaged in the foundry\\nbusiness at Keystone Foundry, know as the firm of Kaster Lee. ^He also carried on\\nan extensive farming business. Owing to a dispute in the firm of Kaster Lee, Mr.\\nKaster purchased the Rimersburg foundry property from James Feely in 1864, and made\\nhis son, S. Harkey, superintendent of the business. They formed the firm of J. E.\\nKaster Son, and in r88i the firm of S. H. Kaster Brother became their successors.\\nThey have, in connection with their foundry business, a full line of shelf hardware and\\nagricultural implements. S. H. Kaster was married on November 2, 1869, to Mary A.\\nFeely, a daughter of James and Angeline Feely. They have had five children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bella\\nA., Nora A., Zilla A., Edwin M. C, and Samuel M. The first son, Edwin M. C, was\\nborn on July 4, 1876, the day and year of our one hundredth anniversary. Phihp M.\\nwas married to Mattie O. Berlin. They have had one daughter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Estella C. Amos M.\\nmarried Emily Rigls. They have one daughter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eftie M. The three sons, S. H.,\\nPhilip M., and Amos M., are moulders by profession. Adam T. has been of a roving\\ndisposition. He went to Pittsburgh when quite young, and from there to California the\\ntime of the first gold excitement. He came back to Pittsb -rgh and married a Miss\\nBeeler and returned again to California. They had one son anc one daughter Andrew", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0809.jp2"}, "784": {"fulltext": "xxviii History of Clarion County.\\nand Mary. His wife died, and he returned to Pittsburgh with the children. Mary died.\\nAndrew is now a broker on Fourth avenue. Adam is now hving in West Virginia, where\\nhe has stencil and seal works. He is remarried to Miss Mamie Brady, of Lancaster, Pa.\\nKeating, H., St. Petersburg p. o., Richland, was born in Murrinsville, Butler county,-\\non November 30, 1835, and is a farmer and oil producer, and a member of the firm of\\nFritz Keating, custom grist-millers at St. Petersburg. His parents were Judge John\\nand Catharine (McCullough) Keating, who came here about 1850. His wife was Sarah\\nMorgan, of Emlenton, to whom he was married in 1853. They have had a family of\\nseven children Henry A., Blanche, Bessie H., Willis, Bertha, Annie, and Leo.\\nKeck, Conrad, Shannondale p. o.. Red Bank, a retired farmer and son of Philip and\\nCatharine Keck, was born in Westmoreland county in 1807. Conrad died in 1808^\\nleaving a widow and seven children. Catharine, with her family, came to Red Bank\\ntownship (then Armstrong county) in 1820, where she died in 1860. In Mr. Keek s\\nearly manhood he was engaged in laboring at whatever he could command good wages,\\nand in 1835 he was married to Magdalena Mohney, a daughter of Jonn Mohney of Red\\nBank township. She was born in 18 16, and died on May 7, 1885. They had a family\\nof nine children, five of whom are now living Catharine, Benjamin, Rachel, Jacob and\\nMaria. After Mr. Keek s marriage he directed his attention to farming, in which he\\nwas very successful. He was school director twelve years, elected assessor three years,\\nand constable one term.\\nKeck, Gideon P., Truittsburg, p. o.. Red Bank, was a son of Philip and Sarah\\n(Stokes) Keck, who were married at Pittsburgh. Philip died, leaving a widow and\\ntwelve children, ten of whom are now living. Two sons enlisted Peter in the Seventy-\\neighth Pennsylvania Regulars, and George in the One Hundred and Fifth. Gideon was\\nmarried in 1869 to Kate A. Himes, who died in August, 187 1, leaving two children\\nHenry P. and Jessie Adella. He then married his second wife, Susannah Rhoads, in\\n1872. They have had three children James Ulysses, Erastus Theodore, and Elsie\\nFloy. Susannah was a daughter of Abraham and Jane (Shoffner) Rhoads. Gideon P.\\nhas been supervisor two terms, is a general farmer, and settled on his present homestead\\nof one hundred and sixteen acres in 1873.\\nKeefer, G. W., West Freedom p. o., Perry, was a son of Jacob P. and Harriet\\n(Gordon) Keefer, who settled in Clarion county. Pa., in 1865. He was a carpenter and\\nbuilder by trade, and died in 1882. George W. Keefer was married in 1876 to Eliza-\\nbeth Crispin, of Clarion county. Pa. They have had a family of four children Clara\\nAV., Ines L., Joseph R., and Alva S. Mr. Keefer is a carpenter by trade, but now gives\\nhis attention to farming.\\nKeener, John C, New Bethlehem, a general merchant, butcher, and provision dealer\\nof the borough, was born in Pittsburgh in 1847. He was married in 1870 to Anna\\nGallagher, who was born at Brady s Bend in 1854. They have had six children Annie,\\nborn in 1871; Josephine, born in 1873; Charles, born in 1875; Harry H., born in\\n1876; Eddie N., born in 1881 and George P., born in 1882. John C. settled in\\nParker in 1868, and became engaged in the butcher business, and in 1873 setded in\\nNew Bethlehem, and became engaged in his present business, and in 1879 added a gen-\\neral stock of dry goods, etc. He was a son of Sebastian Keener, who had a family of\\nfour children Catherine, Philip, Nicholas, and John C.\\nKelly, William, New Bethlehem, was born in Porter township, Clarion township,\\nPa., in 1832. He was a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Strouse) Kelly. Elizabeth was\\nborn in Luzerne county, Pa., and her husband, Thomas, was a native of Ireland. He\\ndied in 1838, leaving a family of six children, five of whom are now living John, Mary,\\nCatharine, William, and Hannah. Sarah died leaving a family of three children. Will-\\niam Kelly was married in 1856, to Sylvania Space of Bethlehem borough. They have\\nhad a family of four children Theresa J., Othana, George M., and John M. Sylvania\\nwas a daughter of George and Catharine Space.\\nKempf, Michael, Scotch Hill p. o., Farmington, was born at Hesse-Darmstadt, on\\nthe Rhine, on February 4, 1837. At the age of seventeen years he came to New\\nYork, and from there j Mercer county, Pa. After three years he went to Fryburg^", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0810.jp2"}, "785": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xxix\\nand became engaged in buying and selling stock. He married in Mercer county, but\\nhis wife died while he was living in Fryburg. They had no children. He enlisted in\\n1861 in Co. F, 63d Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and after his first term of enlist-\\nment expired, re-enlisted and served to the close of the war, a term of four years and\\nfive months. In 1865 Mr. Kempf married Eva Smith, of Farmington. They have\\nhad five children. Michael Kempf is an industrious, energetic man, who by economy\\nand patience has acquired a comfortable fortune. In political affairs he acts with the\\nRepublican party. The family are members of the Roman Catholic Church.\\nKennemuth, John R., Fern p. o., Ashland, a farmer and oil producer, was born in\\nPrussia May i, 1843, was a son of Jacob and Dorothea (Schinderwolf Ken-\\nnemuth, who settled in i\\\\shland in 1856, on the farm which is now owned and occupied\\nby John R. Their children were Catherine, Eliza, Conrad, Jacob, and John R. John\\nR. was married in 1869 to Mary Fox, a daughter of John Fox, of Brady s Bend. They\\nhave had a family of six children Edward, Willie, Frank, John, Ella, and Frederick.\\nKifer, O. A., Scotch Hill p. o., Farmington. The children of Abraham and Han-\\nnah Jane Kifer, an old and respected family of Licking township, were five in number\\nviz.: Andrew S., Susan V., Oliver A., Samuel L., and Mary M. About 1851 the mother\\ndied, after which Abraham married Elizabeth Dunckle. They had a family of ten\\nchildren. Oliver A. Kifer came to Farmington on May 16, 1876. He married Rebec-\\nca Ann Harriger. They have had a family of four children. Since he was twelve\\nyears of age Mr. Kifer has suffered from a disabled limb, and in addition to this, by ac-\\ncident he had a foot cut off while in the lumber woods. He went into the mercantile\\nbusiness in 1875 at Scotch Hill, having but forty dollars as starting capital. He has\\nmade friends his trade has built up until now he is in comfortable circumstances. He\\nwas appointed postmaster in 1883.\\nKinch, Daniel, Fryburg p. o., Washington, was born December 8, 1827, in Perry\\ncounty, Pa., and came with the family of Jacob Kinch, his father, to Washington town-\\nship, Pa., in the year 1829. Daniel was the sixth child of a family of twelve children.\\nAmong the pioneer families of the town the name of Kinch takes a prominent position.\\nBy trade Daniel is a weaver, but by occupation a farmer. In the year 1855 he mar-\\nried Magdaline Kapp. They had a family of seven children born to them. His wife\\ndied in October, 1874. In September, 1875, married Mary Ann Hepler. Mr.\\nKinch bought of his father the old Kinch farm on which he now resides. In politics\\nMr. Kinch has always taken an active part, and is a republican. He is one of the eld-\\ners and his family are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frybur^\\nKing, Peter, Emlenton p. o., Richland, was born in Columbia county. Pa., on Feb-\\nruary 2, 1822, and came to Clarion county in 1833, and built the gristmill known as\\nKing s mill, in 1849. He now owns fifty-five acres, on which eleven wells have been drill-\\ned; all are now producers. Peter was a son of Samuel and Barbara (Gilger) King. Peter\\nwas married on November 12, 1846, to Margaret E. Myers, a daughter of Georo-e S.\\nand Ellen (Burns) Myers, of Venango county. They had a family of seven children\\nGeorge W., Junis H., Mary E., Peter F., Susie A., Maggie E., and Addie L.\\nKiser, Daniel, Elk City p. o., Elk, is a farmer, and was born in Elk township. Clar-\\nion county, Pa., on March 3, 1824. He was a son of Joseph and Susan (Small) Kiser.\\nHis paternal grandfather, Peter Kiser, and his maternal grandfather, Jacob Small, were\\nboth pioneers of Clarion county. Pa. Daniel Kiser was married in 1850 to Susan\\nThompson, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (McDowell) Thampson, of Beaver town-\\nship, Pa. Daniel and Susan have had a family of nine children Maggie, Helen, Sarah\\nManilla, Harriet, William, Francis M., Ada, Laura. Mr. Kiser embarked in the mercan-\\ntile business in Elk City, Pa., in 1877, in which he is still interested, but his principal\\nbusiness is farming and oil producing.\\nKiser, Emanuel, Elk City p. o., Elk, an oil producer, was born in Elk township. Pa.,\\non March i, 1850, and was a son of Joseph and Susan Small Kiser. His paternal\\ngrandfather, Peter Kiser, settled in the town of Elk in 18 17, and his maternal grand-\\nfather, Jacob Small, was a pioneer of Beaver township. Joseph Riser s children were\\nMary M., Daniel, John H., Samuel, Catharine, Lavina, Joseph, Sarah, Harrison, and", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0811.jp2"}, "786": {"fulltext": "XXX History of Clarion County.\\nEmanuel. Emanuel was reared and now resides on the old homestead, which was first\\nsettled by his grandfather, Peter Kiser. He was married in 1873 to Louisa P. Mcll-\\nhattan, a daughter of Alexander and Jane (Black) Mcllhattan. Emanuel and Louisa\\nhave had two children J. Perry and Mabel E.\\nKline, William J., Church p. o., Beaver, was born in Beaver township, Pa., on De-\\ncember 15, 1846. He is a farmer and now owns and occupies a farm of seventy-seven\\nacres, and is also engaged in the oil business. He has been school director for several\\nterms. His parents were Jacob and Susannah (Weter) Kline. W. J. Kline was mar-\\nried on February 28, 1870, to Christina Best, a daughter of John and Margaret (Smail)\\nBest, who came from Westmoreland county in 1804. They have three children Ida\\nL., Warren E., and Elmer S.\\nKline, Reuben, Kossuth p. o., Ashland, a merchant and farmer of Kossuth, Pa., was\\nborn in Lehigh county, Pa., on December 7, 1828, and was a son of John and Anna\\n(Fanstemacher) Kline, who settled in Clarion county. Pa., in 1837, and in Ashland, Pa.,\\nin 1847, and cleared and improved the farm which is now owned and occupied by the\\nlate Henry Kline. They had a family of eleven children Henry, Reuben, Jacob,\\nMaria, Catherine, Eliza, Susan, James, Ehzabeth, Sarah and William. Reuben Kline\\nsettled in Ashland, Pa., in 1847, was married twice. His first wife was Ann E., a\\ndaughter of John and Mary (McCleef) Measley, of Ashland, Pa. They had a family of\\nseven children John M., George W., Harriet L., Maggie A., Andrew C, Reuben F.,\\nand Susan L. His second wife was Harriet, a daughter of John and Mary (Kribbs)\\nWeaver, of Ashland, Pa. They have had a family of children. Mr. Kline has served\\nas constable of Ashland, Pa., for seven years, was justice of the peace for five years, and\\nhas been engaged in the mercantile business for ten years.\\nKlinger, Peter, Turkey City p. o., Richland, was born in Clarion county on August\\n23, 1842. He now owns a farm of sixty-five acres, and is engaged in the oil producing\\nbusiness. He enlisted on February 24, 1862, in Company H, One Hundred and Third\\nPa. Vols., and re-enlisted on February 26, 1864, as a veteran; was taken prisoner on\\nApril 20, 1864, at Plymouth, N. C, and was in Andersonville, Florence and Salisbury\\nprisons. He was paroled on March 2, 1865, at Wilmington, N. C, and discharged on\\nJune 20, 1865. His parents were Joseph and Catherine (Krider) Klingler. Peter was\\nmarried on January 25, 1866, to Rebecca J. Bostaph, a daughter of Daniel and Sarah\\n(Frederick) Bostaph, of this township. They have had five children Sallie R., Lizzie\\nM., Catharine M., Martha E., and Carlos S.\\nKnappenberger, David, Monroe p. o., Salem, was born where he now resides on\\nNovember 21, 1847. He is a farmer and owns a farm of eighty acres. His parents\\nwere Daniel and Lydia (Berlin) Knappenberger, who came from Westmoreland county.\\nDavid was married on August 29, 1872, to Phoebe France, a daughter of Samuel and\\nCatherine (Smith) France, of Armstrong county. They have had two children Jesse\\nW. (born December 8, 1873), and T. Maud (born March 26, 1876),\\nKnappenberger, Jacob, Monroe p. o., Salem, was born in Clarion county on July\\n24, 1844, and was a son of Daniel and Lydia (Berlin) Knappenberger, who came from\\nWestmoreland county to Clarion in 1831. Daniel was born on November 27, 1799,\\nand his wife, Lydia, was born September 15, 1803, in Franklin township, Westmoreland\\ncounty. Jacob was married on March 2, 187 1, to Emma L. Gilger. They have had\\na family of eight children William E., Charles E., Minnie L., D. L., Susy P., Eulah B.,\\nMabel C. and Sarah S. Emma S. was a daughter of Adam and Lovina (Neely) Gilger.\\nAdam was a son of Jones Gilger, and his wife Lovina was a daughter of John Neely.\\nKnight, B. R., Turkey City p. o., Richland, was born where he now resides, on Jan-\\nuary 12, 1831. He is a farmer and now owns a farm of 230 acres; has been constable,\\nsupervisor and school director. His parents were Daniel and Hannah (Richert) Knight,\\nnatives of this county. D. R. Knight was married on December 8, 1853, to Ann Crum,\\na daughter of John and Mary (Snyder) Crum. of Salem township. They have had a\\nfamily of twelve children William J., O. C, Alice L. (wife of Henry Slicker), Araminta\\n(wife of A. L. Boyer), Elmer E., John W., Mary F., Charles E., Howard E., Lewis E.,\\nBertha L, and Jessie N.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0812.jp2"}, "787": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xxxi\\nKnight, Henry, Knox p. o., Beaver, was born on the old homestead where he now\\nresides on August 23, 1837. He is a farmer and owns 494 acres of land. His parents\\nwere John and Sarah (Barnhart) Knight, of Westmoreland county, and who were among\\nthe early settlers in Clarion county. Henry was married on March 18, 1858, to Clara\\nSwitzer, a daughter of Jacob and Susanna (Swab) Switzer, of Beaver township. They\\nhad two children Amanda, wife of John Whittling, of Beaver township, and Lena P.,\\nwife of Oley E. Olison, of Beaver. He was married the second time to Sadie E. John-\\nston, on September 13, 1883. She was a daughter of Peter and Christena (Hale) John-\\nston, of Richland township.\\nKnight, William F., Knox p. o., Ashland, is a farmer, distiller and oil producer; was\\nborn in Beaver township. Pa., on September 6, 1831. He was a son of Peter and Mary\\n(Fisher) Knight, who were pioneers of Beaver, where they cleared and improved a farm\\nfrom the wilderness around them. Their children were John, Wilham F., Asa, Clara,\\nGeorge, Mary, Simon, and Rebecca. William F. Knight has been a resident of Ash-\\nland, Pa., since 1866, and been an oil producer and distiller of rye whisky since 1861.\\nHe was married on May i, 1862, to Lavina Gilbert, a daughter of Abram Gilbert, of\\nBeaver. They have had a family of nine children John C, Elmer E., Mary E., Fran-\\nces A., Samuel, James, Harvey, Florence, and William W.\\nKrauss, W. F., Callensburg p. o., Licking, was a son of Michael Krauss, who was\\nborn in Nehren, County Tiibingen, Wiirtemburg, Germany, in 1853, and came to this\\ncountry and settled in Clarion county. Pa., in 1868. His wife was Sarah A. Kister.\\nThey had a family of four children John M., Mary A., Cora A., and Harry C. W. F.\\nKrauss was a shoemaker by trade, which business he now follows. He has been school\\ndirector and secretary of the board. His brother, Jacob, was drowned in Clarion\\nCreek, Pa., in August, 1884.\\nKron, John R., New Bethlehem, manufacturer and dealer in harness, saddlery, and\\nall kinds of horse furnishing goods, settled in New Bethlehem in 1874. He was born\\nin Armstrong county in 1845, and was married in 1869 to Hattie Johnston, of Beaver\\ncounty. They have had four children Frank J., Alberta T., L. M., and George.\\nJohn R. was a son of George and Nancy (Mathews) Kron. He enlisted in Company\\nG, 103d, and served for three and three quarter years. He was taken prisoner and\\nheld at Andersonville. He served as justice of the peace for two terms, and has also\\nbeen councilman of the borough.\\nKurtz, John A., Shannondale p. o., Redbank, a general merchant, and postmaster\\nof Shannondale, Pa., was born in Edenburg, Clarion county, Pa., in 1856, and was a\\nson of J. M. and Sarah (Hare) Kurtz, who were born in Allegheny county, Pa., in 1837.\\nSarah died on July 24, 1886, at Salem. They had a family of eight children, six of\\nwhom are now living Stewart A., Clara, John A., Theresa, Leroy, and Cirue. J. M.\\nKurtz in early life was a tailor, but soon became a merchant at Edenburg, Pa. John\\nA. Kurtz was engaged in the mercantile business in Beaver township, Pa., from 1875 to\\n1883, the firm being Kurtz King. Previously to this he was employed by C. H.\\nPaulson, hatter and furrier, of Pittsburgh, Pa., as a traveling salesman from 1872 to\\n1874. In 1883 Mr. Kurtz sold his interest and located at Shannondale, Pa., and was\\nappointed postmaster in 1883. He was married in 1876 to Amanda C. Whittling, of\\nSalem, Pa. They have had one child Floy Estella. Amanda was a daughter of\\nFrederick and Catharine (Ritts) Whittling, who settled in Salem, Pa., about 1832.\\nLatshaw, John, West Freedom p. o., Perry, was born in Westmoreland county in\\n1802. His parents settled in Clarion county in 1804. John was married to Elizabeth\\nYingling, of Clarion county, who died in 1881. They had a family of fourteen children,\\nten of whom are now living. Mr. Latshaw was a prosperous farmer, and died leaving a\\nfarm of 200 acres.\\nLaughlin, Captain Reynold, Callensburg p. o.. Licking, was born in Indiana\\ncounty. Center township, on May 29, 1807, and has been twice married. His first wife\\nwas Mary C. Robinson, to whom he was married on March 7, 1836. She died on No-\\nvember 26, i860. They had a family of six children, one of whom is now living\\nNancy E. He was married the second time in 1 861, to Mrs. Elmira Dunkle. They", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0813.jp2"}, "788": {"fulltext": "xxxii History of Clarion County.\\nhave had one daughter Adah R. Captain LaughUn at an early age commenced the\\nstudy of law, to which profession he has successfully given his attention. He has\\nalways been an enthusiastic military man was brigadier-general of the State militia for\\ntwo years; at the breaking out of the Rebellion raised Company A, 103d Regiment,\\ngallantly leading them until he resigned on account of failing health. His parents were\\nJohn and Nancy (Wilkins) Laughlin. John was born in India county in 1777, and his\\nwife was born in 1782. His grandfather, Randall Laughlin, was taken prisoner by the\\nIndians, and his wife, Elizabeth, escaped with Reynold s father in her arms on horse-\\nback, swam the Canamaugh River that night and rode ten miles to Wallaces s Fort,\\nwhen they entered that fort and remained there until the danger was over and the In-\\ndians had left the country.\\nLawhead, William, Fisher p. o.. Mill Creek, was a son of William and Maria (Mar-\\nshall) Lawhead, and was born in Franklin county in 1833, and settled in Clarion county\\nin 1849. He was married in 1856 to Esther Spangler, who died on September 15,\\n1885. They have had a family of nine children Clarence M. (deceased), Sarah J.\\n(deceased), Mary C, Ida J., Laura B., James S., Cora A., Samuel W., Jonathan B.\\nMr. Lawhead is engaged in lumbering and farming, and owns sixty acres. His father\\nwas born in 1804 and died in 1886, and his mother who was born in 1807 died in 1874.\\nLawson, James B., Lawsonham p. o., was born at Kittanning, Armstrong county,\\nPa., on February 4, 1808. He was a son of David and Isabella (Dickey) Lawson.\\nDavid was born m Ireland in 1777, and came to this country with his parents and set-\\ntled in Westmoreland county. Pa., in 1794. He was married and settled in Kittanning\\nin 1804, and ui 1812 came to Clarion county, where he died in the township of Madi-\\nson in 1839. His wife, Isabella, died in 1854, leaving a family often children, eight of\\nwhom are now living. David Lawson was agent for the Holland Land Company as\\nsurveyor. He was a finely educated man, and was a member of the Legislature for two\\nterms, his first term being in 1824. James B. Lawson was married on October 28,\\n1830, to Lavina Orr, who was the first female white child born in Limestone township,\\nPa., where she was born in 1805. They had a family of nine children, eight of whom\\nare now living Orr, David, Samuel C, Bella, Maggie, Sarah, Agnes, and Thomas C.\\nHon. James B. Lawson was appointed associate judge one term, and was a member of\\nthe Legislature 1871, 72, and 73, was county commissioner for one term, and is now a\\nretired farmer.\\nLevers, John N., Fairmount City p. o., Redbank, was born in Redbank, Clarion\\ncounty. Pa., in 1838, and was a son of George and Mary (Foust) Levers. He was\\nborn in Northampton county, and his wife was born in Montgomery county. They set-\\ntled in Clarion county, Pa., in 1836, and had a family of eleven children, six of whom\\nare now living G. W., Elizabeth, Catharine, Sabine, John N., Jacob. George was in\\nearly life a carpenter and builder, and undertaker, and after became a successful farmer,\\nand owner of 300 acres. He was born in 1802 and died in 1883. His wife was born\\n1802 and died in 1873. One son, Ruben, was drafted in 1863 and was discharged,\\nafter which he became engaged in lumbering and was killed by the falling of a tree in\\n1863. He was born in 1840. George was a son of Richard Levers, who was born in\\nLondon, and became a prominent lawyer, and settled in Northampton county. Pa.,\\nwhere he died.\\nLewis, David R., East Brady p. o., a retired gentleman of the borough, was born in\\nWales in 1816 became a member of the Calvinistic Methodist Church in 1841, and\\nwas married in 1844 to Martha George, who was born in 1819. They settled in Penn-\\nsylvania in 1849 with two children, and resided in Armstrong county, where he first\\nworked in the rolling-mill, and later became a farmer, and retired from active business\\nlife in 1879, and settled in East Brady, Pa. His wife died in February, 1883, leaving a\\nfamily of seven children Richard, John, Eliza, Mary, Hannah, Sarah, and David,\\njr. Mr. Lewis was born in Caermarthen, Wales, and from a child learned to depend\\nupon his own exertions.\\nLewis, Gilbert S., Foxburg p. o., Richland, was born in Northumberland county.\\nPa., on October 8, 1857, and came to Foxburg, Pa., in 1884. He is engaged in the oil", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0814.jp2"}, "789": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals.\\nbusiness and is train master of the P. W. R.R. His parents were Edward and Jen-\\nnie T. (Wenck) Lewis, of Oil City, Pa. Gilbert S. was married on March 21, 1880, to\\nDelia A. Irvin, of Oil City, Pa. They have four children Edward I., Florence A.,\\nHerbert C, and Garland M.\\nLewis, John A., Valley p. o.. Elk, is a farmer and mason, and was born in Licking\\ntownship on May 6, 1842, and was a son of John and Catharine (Dalrymple) Lewis,\\nwho were early settlers in Licking. Their children were Sarah, Daniel, James, John A.,\\nPeter, Hiram, Catherine, and Luther H. John A. Lewis located in Elk township in\\n1870. He was married in 1863 to Mary Hefifner, a daughter of John and Margaret\\n(Fern) Hetfner, of Elk. John and Mary have had a family of ten children Ernettia J.,\\nJames E., John H., Silas A., George W., Edy M., Elmer L., Charles E., David W., and\\nAlison L.\\nLogue, C. M., Allegheny p. o., Toby, was born in Toby township on July 19, 1863,\\nand was a son of Thomas and Mary A. (Crozier) Logue, both natives of this county.\\nC M. Logue entered the West Freedom Academy at the age of thirteen years, and\\nafter attending school for three terms began the profession of teaching. At the age of\\nseventeen years he received the congressional appointment by Hon. James Mosgrove\\nas a cadet to West Point, but declined. During the following year he was again ap-\\npointed, but would not accept. He was graduated from the National Normal Univer-\\nsity of Ohio in 1883, and at present is general insurance agent at Allegheny City, Pa.\\nLogue, John, West Freedom p. o., Perry, was born in Clarion county on March 31,\\n1830, and married Jane Ban. They have had a family of ten children Amelia (de-\\nceased), Juliet G., Mary C, Hannah J., Victoria, George McC, Luella, John, William\\nWallace, Grace (deceased), and Archie. For the last twelve years Mr. Logue has been\\nengaged in the oil business, and is now pumping two wells. He owns 300 acres ot\\nland in Clarion county.\\nLoll, Joseph, Fryburg p. o., Washington, one of the eight children of Anthony Loll,\\nAvas born August 29, 1840, in Alsace, France. In the year 1856 the family came to\\nthis town. Joseph worked out at different places until he was twenty-one years old, in\\n1861, when he enlisted in Company F, Sixty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer\\nInfantry. He served three and one-half years, when he was discharged for disability\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2contracted during the service. In 1866 Mr. Loll married Helen Eisenman, by whom\\nhe has had ten children. Mr. Loll is now proprietor of the Eisenman House of Fry-\\nburg, Pa., which is the leading house of the town. He is a genial and popular land-\\nlord, always kind and affable towards his guests, which insures him the patronage of the\\ntraveling public.\\nLong, James M., Blair s Corners p. o., Beaver, was born in Alexandria, Westmore-\\nland county, on October 30, 1856, and came to Clarion county in 1872, and is now\\nproprietor of the Blair House at Blair s Corners. His parents were J. L. and Margaret\\n(Boyle) Long, of St. Petersburg. He was married on May 26, 1881, to Lillie Vensel,\\na daughter of Daniel and Mary (Frederick) Vensel, of St. Petersburg. They have had\\none child Benny A.\\nLongwell, Dr. Luther C, East Brady, was born in Mifflin county, Pa., in 1844. He\\nwas a son of James and Joanna Longwell. The doctor acquired his dental profession\\nfrom Dr. Thompson, of Lewistown, Pa., and attendance at the Pennsylvania Dental\\nCollege in Philadelphia, and settled in East Brady, Pa., in 1868, where he still presides\\nover his professional business. He was appointed postmaster in 1877, and served eight\\nyears. He was married in 1872 to Emma J. Elliott, of Clarion county. Pa. They have\\nhad a family of five children Lizzie M., Anna M., Almira A., Gertrude A., and\\nRalph E.\\nLorah, John, Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Berks county on January 17, 1823,\\nand came to Clarion county with his parents, Peter and Sarah (Ritter) Lorah, who were\\nnatives of Berks county, in 1835. He is a farmer, and owns seventy-one acres. Has\\nheld the office of justice of the peace for about twenty-eight years. He was married", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0815.jp2"}, "790": {"fulltext": "xxxiv History of Clarion County.\\non December 31, 1846, to Sophia Knappenberger, a daughter of Daniel and Lydia\\nKnappenberger, who came to this county in 1831.\\nLorah, WiUiam, Monroe p. o., Beaver, and his son are general merchants of Mon-\\nroeville. William was born in Berks county on January 27, 1825, and came to Clarion\\ncounty with his parents, Peter and Sarah (Ritts) Lorah, in 1835. He was married in\\nMarch, 1857, to Hannah Knight, a daughter of Daniel and Hannah (Reichert) Knight,\\nold settlers in Richland township. They have had a family of five children John C,\\nnow engaged in business with his father; Sarah S., wife of Samuel Moyer; Emma C,\\nLester 1., and Florence J.\\nLutz, John P., Knox p. o., Beaver, was born where he now resides, on February 4,\\n1858; is a farmer and oil producer, and owns ninety-one acres. His parents were John\\nA. and Elizabeth (Dish) Lutz, natives of Germany. Mr. Lutz came to America in\\n1842, and his wife in 1847. March 3, 1886. John P. was married on\\nJune 24, 1879, to Rosette Lorish, a daughter of Nicholas and Maggie (Dagleman)\\nLorish. They have had a family of three children Elizabeth C. M., Adam N., and\\nCharles F.\\nLutz, John P., Blair s Corners p. o., Beaver, was born in Germany on April 29,\\n1825, and came to the United States and to Clarion county in 1842. He was in Com-\\npany G, Pennsylvania Volunteers, enlisting in 1865, and was discharged at the close of\\nthe war. He opened a store in Pittsburgh, where he was engaged in business for nearly\\nfive years. He is now a farmer, and owns seventy-four acres, and is also in the mer-\\ncantile business at Blair s. He has been a merchant for twenty-two years, and has been\\npostmaster for four years. His parents were John and Elizabeth (Murchel) Lutz. He\\nwas married on October 18, 1849, to Catherine Kaufman, a native of Germany. She\\ndied on July 27, 1885.\\nMcAfoos, Jacob R., West Millville p. o., Millville, general merchant and lumber\\nmanufacturer of West Millville borough, was born in Armstrong county, Pa., September\\n9, 1829, and settled in West Millville, Clarion county. Pa., in 1869. He was married\\nin 1856 to Sarah E. Rupp. They have one daughter living Hortense, who married\\nJ. C. Miller, and now has a family of three children Dessie Edna, James Clyde Mc-\\nCurty, and Thomas Earl. Jacob R. McAfoos enlisted in Company G, Seventy-eighth\\nPennsylvania Regiment, and served three and a quarter years under Colonel William\\nSerwell. He went out as second lieutenant September 12, 1861, and was promoted to\\nfirst lieutenant June 21, 1863, and participated in twenty-two battles and skirmishes in\\nthe department of the Cumberland was shghtly wounded in the battle of Stone River\\nDecember 30, 1862. Jacob R. McAfoos was a son of Daniel and Catharine McAfoos,\\nof Armstrong county. Pa. Daniel died in 1870 leaving a widow and a family of seven\\nchildren. One son, Absalom, enlisted in Company M, Fourteenth Regiment, Pennsyl-\\nvania Cavalry, in 1862 was taken prisoner and starved to death in Andersonville prison.\\nMr. McAfoos became engaged in the mercantile business on settlement here, and in\\n1 88 1 Mr. Miller became a partner in the firm. They now do a large business in mer-\\nchandise, sawing, planing, sash, doors, and building contracts.\\nMcCafferty, Charles, Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Parker township, Butler\\ncounty, on February 22, 1816, and came to this county in 1838. He is a cabinet\\nmaker and undertaker. His parents were Charles and Sarah (Williams) McCafferty.\\nHe was married on December 25, 1840, to Charlotte Wilhams, a daughter of Amos and\\nBetsey (Mitchell) Williams, and was born on January 20, 1822. They moved to Curlls-\\nville in 1844, and he became engaged in the manufacture of furniture. He moved to\\nSligo in 1873, and came to Monroeville in 1880, where he is now engaged in the same\\nbusiness.\\nMcCafferty, C. A., Alum Rock p. o., Richland, was born in Fair View, Butler county,\\non June 30, 1849. He is a farmer and stock raiser and oil producer, and owns 400\\nacres. He came to Clarion county in 1877. His parents were John and Mary Ann\\n(Murrin) McCafferty, of Butler county. He was married September 23, 1879, to Ehza-\\nbeth Keating, a daughter of Judge John and Catherine (McCullough) Keating, of the\\ntown of Monroe. C. A. and Elizabeth have had one child Louisa M.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0816.jp2"}, "791": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals.\\nMcCafferty, Charles P., East Brady, present owner and proprietor of the St. Cloud\\nHotel at East Brady, was born in Butler county in 1848, and was married in 1874 to\\nMargaret Hindman, of Butler county. They have had one daughter Jessie Pearl.\\nCharles P. settled in Clarion county in 1874 and purchased his present extensive hotel\\nproperty, which is erected over the ruins of the oldest hotel of the borough, in 1873. He\\nerected the McCafferty Opera House, one hundred by thirty-two feet, in 1877, and\\nalso founded the fire department, and is generally active in all public enterprises. He\\nis now engaged in merchandising and oil producing. He is passionately fond of his\\npets, which are his hounds, fish and birds.\\nMcDonald, Michael, Vowinckle p. o., Farmington, the sixth child born to David\\nand Bridget McDonald; was born in Farmington on May 10, 1839. The parents were\\nboth natives of Dublin, Ireland, from whence they emigrated to this country in the pio-\\nneer days. Up to 1865 Michael had formed no plans for the coming years. He went\\nto Elk county, followed the river and lumbered until he was twenty-six years old. He\\nwas married at that age to Ann Hagerty. They have had a family of thirteen children.\\nMr. McDonald has succeeded in business as a lumberman, He owns and operates a\\nfirst class steam saw-mill, and is also a thrifty farmer. He takes quite an interest in\\npolitical affairs, and frequently holds town office. In politics he is a Democrat. The\\nfamily are members of the Roman Catholic Church.\\nMcDonald, Peter, Vowinckle, p. o., Farmington, the youngest of the children of\\nDavid and Bridget McDonald, was born in Farmington on March i, 1847. He was\\nbrought up on the farm and at the age of twenty-one years was married to Mary x\\\\nn\\nMcAvoy. Mary Ann died leaving a family of five children, four of whom are now liv-\\ning, James having died. Those now living are William David, Peter, Ellen and Matie.\\nPeter married for his second wife Elma Nye, and they have had three children Sadie,\\nGeorge and Andrew. He still resides on the old farm, having bought the interest from\\nthe other heirs to a part of his father s old homestead. In 1864 and 1865 he worked at\\nPithole, Venango county, but generally he is at home managing his farm. He is a\\ncareful, shrewd business man and makes but few business investments without an ade-\\nquate return, and as a general result he has been successful. He is a Democrat in pol-\\nitics but takes no active part in political affairs. He was brought up in the Catholic\\nfaith and is still the same.\\nMcDowell, Samuel, Valley p. o., Elk, is a farmer and was born on September 29,\\n1849, and was a son of James and Sarah (Mcllhatton) McDowell, who settled in Elk\\ntownship. Pa., in 1833. His paternal grandfather, James McDowell, who sailed the\\nseas for sixteen years, was a pioneer of Elk, Pa. The children of James McDowell\\nwere Thomas, Mary A., Sarah, John, Melissa, Susan, Melinda, Samuel, James and Al-\\nfred. Samuel McDowell now occupies the old homestead. He was married in 1883\\nto Kate Black, a daughter of John R. and Susan (Sanders) Black, of Elk, Pa. They\\nhave had two children A. Benton and Carrie May.\\nMcElhoes, Irad, Truittsburgh p. o.. Red Bank, was born in Mifflin county. Pa., in\\n1836, settled in Madison town in 1844, and now resides in Red Bank township, Clarion\\ncounty, Pa. He was a son of William and Ann B. (Sheehan) McElhoes, of Mifflin\\ncounty. Pa., who settled in Clarion county, Pa., in 1844. They had a family of six chil-\\ndren Irad, Jesse, Martha E., Cynthia, Sarah and George. William was born in 18 12,\\nand Ann B., born in 1816. Irad was married in 1859 to Martha Warnick, who was\\nborn in Ireland in 18 and was a daughter of John and Elizabeth Warnick. They\\nhave had a family of five children Mary E., William J., Annie J., Robert G. and Sarah\\nB. Irad enlisted in Company I, Sixty-second Regiment P. V. Infantry, in 1861, and\\nserved until March 13, 1865, was wounded and now receives a pension. He was pro-\\nmoted to first sergeant July 3, 1863 re-enlisted as veteran volunteer.\\nMcGee, Irvin, Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Phillipsburg, Clarion county, on\\nJanuary 16, 1850. He is a machinist and manufacturer of engines, tools and boilers at\\nMonroeville. His parents were J. W. and Catherine (Phillips) McGee, of Phillipsburg.\\nHe was married on November 3, 1869, to Alice C. Martin, a daughter of Joseph and", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0817.jp2"}, "792": {"fulltext": "xxxvi History of Clarion County.\\nCatherine (Zeichert) Martin, of Phillipsburg. They have had a family of six children\\nLewis, Lee, Edward, Irvin, Harry and one unnamed.\\nMcGinnis, Harvey, Mariasville p. o., Salem, was born where he now resides, and where\\nhis grandfather, James McGinnis, settled about 1804, and where an apple orchard of\\nlarge healthy trees still exists, which were planted in 1806. Harvey is engaged in farm-\\ning and owns 160 acres. His parents were John F. and Sarah (McClachey) McGinnis.\\nHarvey was married on June 18, 1872, to Mary A. Knappenberger, a daughter of Dan-\\niel and Lydia (Berlin) Knappenberger, of Salem. They have had two children Harvey\\nIrvin (who died in infancy), and Daniel T.\\nMcGinnis, Matthew, Lamertine p. o., Salem, was born in Salem on March 27, 1836,\\nHe is a farmer, and owns twenty-five acres of land, and has been assessor for two terms,\\nand school director since 1862. His grandfather, James McGinnis, came to Salem\\ntownship from Northumberland county in 1804. Matthew was a son of John F., and\\nSarah (McClutchey) McGinnis. He was married on December 13, i860, to Martha J.\\nClover, a daughter of Gamaliel and Martha (Piatt) Clover, early settlers in Clarion county.\\nMartha died on November i, 1870, leaving four children Viola J., Clarence C, Nettie\\nM., and Irvin M.\\nMcGregor, Squire Robert R., East Brady, the residing justice of East Brady, Pa.,\\nwas born in Armstrong county. Pa., on October 31, 1837. He was a son of Alexander\\nB. and Rachel McGregor, who had a family of five children, but two of whom are now\\nliving John L. and Robert R. One brother, James T., enlisted and died while in the\\nservice of his country. Robert R. McGregor settled in Brady s Bend and East Brady,\\nPa., in 1862, as a contractor and stock-taker of the Brady s Bend rolling-mill. In 1873\\nhe retired from the same. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1875, S\u00c2\u00b0 1885.\\nHe has been clerk of the council, secretary of the school board for nine years. He was\\nmarried in 1859 to Melissa Elliott, who was born in Clarion county, Pa., in April, 1839,\\nThey had a family of three children Estella, Lula, and Harry L.\\nMcKillup, Archibald W., New Maysville p. o., Millville, was born in Redbank town-\\nship in 1834, and married Catharine Mohney, who was born in 1839. They were married\\nin 1855, and had a family of six children, three of whom are now living John C, Addi-\\nson H.,and Mary Alice. Addison H. was married in 1885 to Elizabeth Dinger. Cath-\\narine was a daughter of Jacob and Christina (Caster) Mohney. Christina was born in\\n1810, and was a daughter of Philip and Elizabeth Caster, who settled in this county in\\n1818. Jacob was born in 1808, and died in 1852. He was married in 1829. Archi-\\nbald W. was a son of William and Harriet (Carr) McKillup.\\nMcKillup, William, New Maysville p. o., Millville, was born in Redbank township in\\n18 10, and was a son of Archibald and Mary (McKey) McKillup. She was born in West-\\nmoreland county in 1780, and he was born in Lancaster county in 1770. They settled\\nin Redbank township in 1803. They had a family of nine children, four of whom are\\nnow living William, Polly, Margaret and Archibald. The mother died in 1838 and the\\nfather in 1862. William was married in 1833 to Harriet Carr, who was born in Lyco-\\nming county in 181 1. They had a family of nine children, seven of whom are now liv-\\ning Archibald, James C, Hamilton William, H. Jane, Sarah M., Elizabeth M., and\\nMartin E. William in early life was a miller, but is now a retired farmer. He was col-\\nlector of the county for four terms, constable in 1852-53-54. His wife, Harriet, was a\\ndaughter of John and Sarah (Carr), who were born in England and settled here in 1826.\\nMcMaster, Thomas C, Knox p. o., Edenburg, was born in the province of Quebec,\\nCanada, on March 22, 1847, and came to the United States in 1855, and to Clarion\\ncounty. Pa., in 1877. He is a dealer in jewelry and fancy goods on the corner of Main\\nand State streets. His parents were William and Margaret (Bell) McMaster, natives of\\nStrannear, Scotland. Thomas C. McMaster was married on November 18, 1877, to\\nMargaret Shepard, a daughter of William and Deha (Swartz) Shepard, of Rockland town-\\nship, Venango county. Pa. They have had three children Thomas C, Jesse B., and\\nLester W.\\nMcNany, Jacob, West Freedom p. o.. Perry, was a son of John and Margaret (Sny-", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0818.jp2"}, "793": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xxxvii\\nder) McNany, and was born in Clarion county in 1834. He was married on Decem-\\nber 12, 1861, to Mary A. Boyer. They have had a family of eleven children John D.,\\nCora J., Henry C, Norris, Margaret C, Mary O., George, Carrie M., Edward, Bertha\\nE., and Maud (deceased). Mr. McNany is an enterprising farmer and now owns and\\noccupies a farm of ninety-seven acres.\\nMcNaughton, Daniel, Fisher p. o., Mill Creek, one of the successful farmers of MiU\\nCreek township, and owning 250 acres of land, was born in Clarion county in 1824, and\\nwas married in 1849 to Mary Wishey. They have had a family of ten children John\\nH., Hannah, Samuel A., James A. (who died in January, of 1863), David E., Colon,\\nCharles M., and William R., and two who died in infancy. Mr. McNaughton has held\\nthe office of school director for ten years. His father, John NcNaughton, was born in\\nCentre county in 1794, and married Elizabeth Brennan, who was born in 1800. John\\ndied in 1873, and his wife, Elizabeth, in 1856.\\nMcNutt, Captain John W., New Bethlehem, was born in Clarion county in 1826, and\\nwas a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Arderry) McNutt, of York county. He setded with\\nhis parents, Colin and James McNutt, in Porter township, at an early day, coming from\\nthe north of Ireland to this country. Robert and Elizabeth had a family of six children,\\nfive of whom are now living J. W., C. W., William M., Jane, Margaret Y. Robert was\\nborn in 1791, and died in 1874, and his wife, Elizabeth, was born in 1800, and died in\\n1883. J. W. and William M. enlisted in Company K, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cav-\\nalry, in 1862, and served for three years. John W. was promoted to captain in 1862,\\nwas wounded and now receives a pension. He is now a retired farmer; was married in\\n1848 to Nancy Jane Henry, who died on May 31, 1885. They had a family of six chil-\\ndren\u00e2\u0080\u0094Robert H., Elwood R., William C, John T., Mary E., and Hattie.\\nMcWiUiams, James, West Millville p. o., Millville, a general merchant, hotel owner\\nand proprietor, a farmer owning 250 acres, station and ticket agent of the A. G. V.\\nRailroad, was born in Westmoreland county in 1829, and was married on January 12,\\n1854, to Catharine Helper, a daughter of Jacob and Magdalena Helper. James and\\nCatharine have had two daughters Jennie and Clara. Jennie was married in 1881 to\\nMr. E. A. Hamilton. James McWilliams has been postmaster for twenty-five years,\\ngovernment inspector for three years, and has also held other minor offices. In early\\nHfe he learned the tinner s trade. In 1854 he became warehouse proprietor and shipper,\\nand spent the year 1858 in the West. He purchased his present homestead and became\\nengaged in the mercantile business in 1859, and in 1863 he served in the Fifty-seventh\\nRegiment as a lientenant. James was a son of George and Charlotte (Rankin) McWill-\\niams, of Westmoreland, who settled in Curllsville, in 1839, where they died he in 1882,\\nand his wife in 1883. He was born in 1801, and his wife in 1803. They had a family of\\nseven children, five of whom are now living Jane, James, Margaret, Martha, and Na-\\npoleon B. George was a son of Andrew and Mary (Ormsby) McWilliams.\\nMaitland, W. S., Callensburg p. o.. Licking, was a son of John C. (who was born in\\n1800 and died in 1885), and Elizabeth (Kuig) Mairiand (who was born in 1806, and\\ndied in 1856). W. S. Maitland was born in Venango county, Pa., in 1839, and was mar-\\nried in 1862, to R. A. Douglass. In 1865 he enlisted in the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cav-\\nalry. He settled in Clarion county. Pa., in 1866. At an early age, leaving the harness-\\nmaking trade which he has followed all his life, he went into business for himself in\\n1883, at Callensburg, Pa., and is now keeping a general stock of harnesses, saddles, bri-\\ndles, collars, whips, horse blankets, etc.\\nMantz, Mrs. Abigail, West Freedom p. o., Perry, was a daughter of Nathaniel Coul-\\nter. She was married in 1855 to Jacob Gates, who was born in Huntington county in\\n1819. He was a blacksmith, and held several town offices, and died in 1877 leaving a\\nfamily of eight children Amanda L. (deceased), John B., Hulda A., Delila E.,\\nGeorge W., Jacob A., Charles R., and Eva Belle. At the time pf Mr. Gates s death he\\nowned a farm of sixty acres, which is now divided among his heirs. In 1879 Abigail\\nmarried Christopher Mantz. They have had one child May M.\\nMarsh, Edwin V., New Bethlehem, was born in McKean county. Pa., in 1839. He\\nwas a son of Marsh and Mary C. (Bradshaw) Marsh. Stephen was killed in an acci-", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0819.jp2"}, "794": {"fulltext": "xxxviii History of Clarion County.\\ndent in 1841, leaving a widow and two children Edwin V. and Lydia A. Edwin V.\\nsettled in the borough in 1855, coming there from Philadelphia. He became a clerk\\nfor C. E. Andrews, and in 1868 he became a partner in the business, and in 1880 sold\\nhis interest. In 1883 he became engaged in the general dry goods, and boot and shoe\\ntrade. He was married in 1865 to Annie Barton, who died in 1867, leaving two chil-\\ndren Cora L. and Harry. He then married his second wife, Clara Corbett, in 1868.\\nThey have had a family of four children May E., Eva M., Charles S., and Lillie C.\\nMr. Marsh has been notary public, deputy postmaster, and has been burgess.\\nMartin, Jacob H., Valley p. o., Ashland, was born in Ashland on May i, 1844, and\\nwas a son of Barnard and Elizabeth (Harrold) Martin. His father was a native of\\nFrance and settled on the farm which is now occupied by Jacob H. about 1802, and\\ncleared and improved it, and died there at the age of eighty years. He is said to be\\nthe first settler in the limits of what is now Ashland township. His children were Deli-\\nlah, Margaret, Mary J., John, Adeline, and Jacob H. Jacob H., who now occupies\\nthe old homestead, was married in 1876 to Lizzie Berlin, a daughter of George N. and\\nSusan (Cook) Berlin, of Elk township.\\nMartin, William M., New Bethlehem, owner and proprietor of the Martin Hotel and\\nopera house of the borough, was born in Ireland in 1845, and came to Portland, Me.,\\nin 1861, went to Boston in 1862, and in 1863 settled in New York, where he remained\\nuntil 1873, when he came to New Bethlehem, where he now resides. He was engaged\\nin the manufacture of boots, shoes, trunks, etc., from which business he retired in 1880,\\nand purchased his present hotel property, which he has remodeled and refurnished, and\\nin 1881 built up the opera house. He was married in 1874 to Sarah Winstel, who was\\nborn in Redbank township. She died in 1882 leaving four children Rosette A.,\\nJane, William, jr., and MoUie. He married his second wife, Beasing Tracy, in 1882.\\nMaster, C. D., Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Hereford township, Berks county,\\nAugust 13, 183 and came to Clarion county with his parents, Daniel and Christena\\n(Johnson) Master, in 1833 is a farmer, and owns 106 acres. He married Lydia Con-\\nnor, a daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Boyer) Connor, of Richland township, on\\nJanuary 24, 1856. They have had nine children Emma C, wife of George M. Ray;\\nSarah E., Francis I., Elmer D., Edward C, Arminta C, Mary A., Cora C, and\\nMinerva L.\\nMateer, Harvey H., Fisher p. o., Mill Creek, a son of John and Nancy (Ross)\\nMateer, was born in Jefferson county. Pa., in 1846, and was married in 1872 to Louisa\\nM. Fisher. They have had a family of six children John W. R., Myrtie J., Edith A.,\\nEdward G., Robert E., and Nora May. Mr. Mateer is engaged in farming, and owns\\na farm of one hundred acres. His father was born in 1820 and died in 187 1.\\nMaxwell, George W., Fisher p. o.. Mill Creek, was born in Clarion county, Septem-\\nber 15, 1843; enlisted in 1862 in Company H, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Penn-\\nsylvania Volunteers was wounded and taken prisoner at Gettysburg, for which he re-\\nceives a pension. He served two years and four months. He was married in 1873 to\\nMary Barlett, of Clarion county. They have had five children Pearl Willis, Alverda\\nMay, Jennie Maud, Cecelia Bell, and Alva Estella. He is now engaged in lumbering\\nand farming, owning seventy-two acres. His father, James Maxwell, was born April 9,\\n1806, and died in 1875. married to Margaret Potter, who was born December\\n25, 1806, and died in 1846. Adam P., brother of George, enlisted in the One Hun-\\ndred and Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and died in hospital.\\nMeals, Dr. N. M., Callensburg p. o.. Licking, was a son of Dr. S. D. and Hannah\\n(Emery) Meals; was born in Butler county in 1848, and was graduated from Hudson\\nUniversity at Cleveland, O., in 1874. He was married in 1872 to Rebecca J. Graham.\\nThey have had a family of seven children, six of whom are now living Elizabeth G.,\\nHannah M. (deceased), Lulu K., Maggie E., Clara D., Mary A., and Samuel O. His\\nfather, S. D. Meals, located in Callensburg in 1859 and died in 1884, leaving a large\\nand lucrative practice.\\nMercer, Daniel, New Bethlehem, was born in Indiana county, Pa., on March j6.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0820.jp2"}, "795": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xxxix\\n1816. He was a son of David and Eve (Cribbs) Mercer. Eve was born in Germany,\\nand her husband David was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1777. They were married\\nin Indiana county. Pa., and settled in Clarion county, where they died. They had a\\nfamily of fourteen children, eight of whom are now living. Daniel Mercer began life as\\na school teacher, then became a clerk, and in 1849 became engaged in business as a\\ngeneral merchant. He made several business changes, and in 1884 became engaged in\\nthe furniture business, and is now doing business under the firm name of Cribbs Mer-\\ncer. He was married in 1844 to Lizetta Fegley. She died in 1873, leaving a family\\nof eight children, four of whom are now living David B., John M., Mary E., and\\nPeter E. Mr. Mercer then married his second wife, Mrs. E. J. Girts, in 1882. They\\nhave had one daughter Anna Earl. Mr. Mercer has been county commissioner in\\nClarion county for six years, was treasurer of Clarion county for two years, justice of the\\npeace for ten years, and is one of the councilmen of the borough of New Bethlehem.\\nMetz, Frederick, Emlenton p. o., Richland, was born in Prussia on July 25, 1835,\\nand came to the United States and settled in Clarion county in 1856. His wiie, Sarah\\nKrotzer, was born in Crawford county on October 8, 1839. They were married on\\nJanuary 8, 1857. They have had a family of fourteen children Cinderella A., born\\nNovember 7, 1857, married James W. Baynham, of Turkey City, on June 27, 1878;\\nLizzie S., born January 25, i860, married Albert Connor, of Kansas, on May 30, 1879;\\nWilliam H., born January 26, 1861, married Bertha Greer, of Pittsburgh, on June 24,\\n1886; Sarah L., born September 3, 1862 Mary F., born August 11, 1864; Ulysses\\nG., born February 28, 1866; Horatio S., born June 5, 1868; David R., born July 23,\\n1870; Annie B., born June 16, 1872; Olive H., born May 12, 1874; Nettie W., born\\nJanuary 14, 1877; Cora M., born May 30, 1880; James F., born September 15, 1882;\\nand Franklin C, born August 31, 1885.\\nMetzger, Rev. J. L., Callensburg p. o., Licking, pastor of the Mt. Zion, St. John\\nand Mt. Calvary Churches, of the Lutheran Church of Clarion county, was born in\\nMyersville, Frederick county, Md., on June 20, 1858. He was graduated from Penn\\nCollege and from the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. On October 5, 1884, at\\nthe meeting of the Maryland Synod, at Taneytown, Ind., he was licensed to preach the\\ngospel. He was graduated from the theological seminary in June, 1885. He entered\\nupon his duties as a pastor July 19, 1885, at Callensburg. He was married on Novem-\\nber I, 1885, to Alice M. Brown, of Myersville, Ind. His father, William Metzger, was\\nborn in Manchester, York county, on July 17, 1809.\\nMiller, Charles E., Knox p. o., Elk, is a farmer, and was born in Ashland township\\non June 3, 1845. He was a son of Nathan and Catharine (Kribbs) Miller. His pater-\\nnal grandfather, John Miller, was a Revolutionary soldier, and one of the pioneers of\\nAshland. His maternal grandfather, Christian Kribbs, settled in Beaver in 1817.\\nNathan Miller had a family of five children Clara, John H., Charles E., Mary, and\\nNathan. Charles E. Miller located in Elk in 1872, and was married that same year to\\nClara Mahle, a daughter of Helmick and Fannie (Rickenbrod) Mahle, of Fryburg.\\nThey have a family of four children living Maud, Kate, Margie, and Edna.\\nMiller, Even, Kossuth p. o., Ashland, is a farmer, and was born in Berks county on\\nSeptember 10, 1823. He was a son of John and Polly (Will) Miller, who settled in Ash-\\nland in 1834, clearing and improving the farm now owned by Ernest Rhodes, where they\\nresided up to the time of their deaths. There children were Nathan, Clara, John, and\\nEven. Even settled on the farm which he now occupies, in 1849, all of which he has\\ncleared and improved himself He was married in 1849 to Margaret Berlin, a daughter\\nof George and Elizabeth (Neely) Berlin, of Ashland. They have four children now living\\nGeorge B., William J., Frances, and Ellen.\\nMiller, William C. (deceased). West Freedom p. o., Perry, was born in Clarion\\ncounty in 1831, and married Mary David. They had a family of seven children Anna\\nMary (deceased), James D., Edmonia E., Arthur A., Nathan W., Samuel S., and Delia\\nElvina. William served in the late war, in the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Pennsyl-\\nvania Infantry. He was engaged in farming, and at the time of his death, which oc-\\ncurred in 1880, he owned a farm of forty-seven acres.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0821.jp2"}, "796": {"fulltext": "xl History of Clarion County,\\nMimm, B. B., Kossuth p. o., Ashland, proprietor of the Mimm House, is a native\\nof Clarion county. He was a son of John and Johanna (Taxis) Mimm. His father\\nwas a pioneer of Clarion county, and a soldier in the War of 1812. He was twice mar-\\nried. His first wife was Susannah Horn, to whom he was married on November 26,\\n1816. They had four children Harrison, Hiram, Elizabeth, and Martha L. He was\\nmarried the second time on December 8, 1836, to Johanna Taxis. They have had the\\nfollowing children Maria, Miranda, W. Scott, Harriet, Burbage B., Fay, Minnie, Car-\\nrie, and Lettie. Mr. Mimm has kept a hotel for many years in Kossuth, Pa., and built\\nthe present hotel, which is being successfully carried on by his son, B. B. Mimm.\\nMitchell, George, East Brady, a merchant of the borough, and a member of the\\nfirm of McCafterty Mitchell, dealers in all leading and desirable dry goods, groceries,\\netc., was born in Westmoreland county in i860, and was a son of Thomas and Mary\\nMitchell, who settled in Clarion county in 1868, and came to the borough in 1879.\\nGeorge Mitchell was manager of the merchandise department of the Pine Run Com-\\npany from 1879 to 1883, was manager for a coal mining company for two years, and\\nformed his present business connections in 1886.\\nMitchell, Thomas, East Brady, was born in Lancastershire, England, in 1830, and\\nwas a son of Wilson and Martha Mitchell. Thomas emigrated to and settled in Schuyl-\\nkill county in 1854, and was married in 1855 to Mary Ann High, of Schuylkill county.\\nThey had a family of eleven children, nine of whom are now living. Mr. Mitchell en-\\nlisted in Company C, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served to the close of the\\nwar. Mr. Mitchell, on settling here, became engaged in the coal mining interest. He\\nsettled in Clarion county in 1870 as superintendent of the Pittsburgh Mining Company,\\nand in 1880 formed the firm of J. B. Stephens and Thomas Mitchell, and developed the\\nPine Run Coal Mine, giving employment to from 125 to 150 men. He was elected\\nburgess of the borough for the third time in 1886.\\nMohney, Adam B., West Millville p. o., Redbank, postmaster of the borough, and\\nharness manufacturer, was born in Armstrong county. Pa., in 1857, and settled in the\\nborough in 1882, and was married the same year to Flora C. Walker. They have had\\none child Delwin Dalford. Adam B. Mohney is a son of Benjamin and Sarah Ann\\n(Miller) Mohney. Adam B. was a teacher for three years, and was appointed postmas-\\nter of the borough in 1885.\\nMohney, Adam T., West Millville p. o., Millville, was born in Redbank township\\nin 1847, and was married in 187 1 to Lydia Zimmerman, who was born in Jefferson\\ncounty in 1852. They have had four children Foster M., Cora E., Minnie A., and\\nRebecca D. Adam T. is now school director and town auditor. He was a son of\\nJohn and Sophia (Yost) Mohney. Sophia was born in Philadelphia in 182 1, and John\\nwas born in Redbank in 18 14. They were married in 1844, and had a family of ten\\nchildren, eight of whom are now living Adam T., Jonathan, Lewis, William, Crisy\\nAnn, Clara and Emma (twins), and Rebecca. The paternal grandfather, Adam Moh-\\nney, and his wife, Susannah Shirey, were born in Pennsylvania. He was born in North-\\nampton county, and came to Redbank with his parents about 1810. His wife was born\\nin Butler county.\\nMohney, Lewis S., West Millville p. o., Millville, was born in Redbank township in\\n1824, and was married in 1848 to Rebecca Shick, who was born in Clarion county in\\n1826. They had a family often children, seven of whom are now living Jacob, Dr.\\nAdam M., William, Fred, Christ S., Lizzie, and Charles. Lewis S. in early life was\\nengaged in farming, but in 1861 he entered the mercantile business, from which he re-\\ntired in 1868, and in 1869 erected his present hotel, where he now resides. He was a\\nson of Adam, jr., and Susanna (Shirey) Mohney. Susanna was born in Butler county,\\nand died in 1842, and Adam, jr., was born in Northampton county, and died in 1832.\\nAdam was a son of Adam, sr., who settled in Redbank with a family of eleven children\\nand purchased eleven hundred acres, giving to each of his eleven children one hundred\\nacres.\\nMong, George W., Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Paint township on October\\n24, 1832, and died on April 17, 1883. His parents were Michael and Polly (Miller)", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0822.jp2"}, "797": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xli\\nMong, who came from Westmoreland county to Clarion county in 1822. He was mar-\\nried on April 5, i860, to Elizabeth J. Neely, a daughter of John and Mary (Berlin)\\nNeely. George W. had two children J. L., born November 22, 1862, is a farmer, and\\nowns no acres; and Maggie J.\\nMong, Henry J., Kossuth p. o., Ashland, was born in 1827. Until the age of twenty-\\none he remained with his parents, helped to clear his father s farm in the summer, and\\nin the winter season worked at the furnaces, of which there were thirty-two in\\nblast at that time. At the age of twenty-two he commenced to deal in live stock of all\\nkinds, and drove them east to Union, Dauphin, and Reading counties. He was mar-\\nried in 1855 to Mary J. Sanders, a daughter of Peter and Catherine (Fetthoff) Sanders,\\nof Salem, Pa. They have had a family of nine children Irvin F., Frances E., Clara\\nC, Hattie, Alice, Calvin H., John, Jacob, and Harry. Henry J. was the first (huckster),\\nproduce peddler to the once famous Oil Creek excitement, following this occupation for\\nten years, also farming at the same time. He first settled at Monroeville, remaining\\nthere for a year or two, then moving to Richland township, Venango county, Pa., re-\\nmaining there for a few years. He moved to his present place of residence in 1865..\\nFor the past eighteen years he has been engaged in the mercantile business and farm-\\ning, and is now one of the principal farmers of Ashland.\\nMong, Mahlon, Fern p. o., Ashland, is a farmer and merchant, and was born in\\nElk township on October 11, 1838. He was a son of Henry and Sarah (Burket) Mono-.\\nHis paternal grandfather was Henry Mong, a pioneer of Ashland. Three of his chil-\\ndren were pioneers of this county, Henry, John, and Samuel. Of these, Henry settled\\nin Elk township, cleared and improved a farm, and later removed to Beaver and died\\nthere. His children were David, Elizabeth, Peter, Margaret, Nancy, Myron, John,\\nSamuel, Sarah, and Mahlon. Mahlon married Emma Stearns, a daughter of John and\\nMary (Wending) Stearns. They have had ten children Sarah, Mehssa, Clara A.,\\nJohn, Ellen, Ida, Minnie, Etta, Maggie, and Willis.\\nMorgan, John S., St. Petersburg p. o., Richland, was born in South Wales on De-\\ncember 12, 1 81 6, and came with his wife and one child to Pittsburgh, Pa., on July 3,\\n1841, and from there went to Brady s Bend, Armstrong county, and then came to\\nSt. Petersburg, Clarion county, where he has since resided. He is now engaged in the\\nproduction of oil. His wife was Ann Thomas, of South Wales, to whom he was mar-\\nried on November 18, 1839, they now have a family of six children Morgan,\\nMary Ann, wife of David E. Mull, of this county; John, Thomas, Tillie, and William\\nM., broker in petroleum at Oil City, Pa.\\nMorgan, Morgan, Foxburg p. o., Richland, was born at Brady s Bend, Armstrong\\ncounty, Pa., on August 23, 1844, and came to Foxburg, Clarion county, Pa., in June,\\n1859, He is superintendent of the Fox farms, and is also engaged in the production of\\noil. His parents were John S. and Ann Morgan, of St. Petersburg, Pa. Morgan Mor-\\ngan was married on September 24, 1868, to Mary Farr, of Philadelphia. They have\\nhad a family of three children born to them Anna E., Sarah M., and Albert M.\\nMoore, O. G., Knox p. o., Edenburg, was born in Wellesboro, Tioga county. Pa.,\\non October 20, 1850, and came to Clarion county in 1872. He is a surgeon dentist.\\nHis parents were Henry N. and Phoebe T. (Dart) Moore, natives of Tioga county. Pa.\\nHe was married on December 31, 1877, to Emma E. Trainer, a daughter of John and\\nCatherine (Burnham) Trainer, of Strattonville, Clarion county. They have had three\\nchildren Alice L., Freda T., and Mary J.\\nMoore, William M., New Bethlehem, was born in Armstrong county. Pa., on Sep-\\ntember 20, 1835. He was a son of Nathan and Margaret (Jimeson) Moore.\\nMargaret was born in Clarion county, Pa., and her husband was born in Lon-\\ndonderry, Ireland, in 1805, and setded in Clarion county. Pa., in 1838. His wife died\\nin 1844. They had a family of five children, four of whom are now living William\\nM., Eliza J., James, John N. William M., and James enhsted frona Rock Island,\\n111., in October, 1862, in the 14th Illinois Cavalry, and were discharged on July 31,\\n1865. John enlisted from Armstrong county. Pa. William M. Moore was married in", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0823.jp2"}, "798": {"fulltext": "xlii History of Clarion County.\\n1867 to Lucetta Conger, of Clarion county, Pa.. They have had a family of six chil-\\ndren Laura C, Eliza V., Mary E., Horace A., Ralph S., and John B. Mr. Moore\\nhas been engaged in the house, sign, and ornamental painting business since 1853.\\nMull, O. J., Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Richland township, Venango county,\\non July 12, 1855, and came to Clarion county in 1869. He is a farmer and oil pro-\\nducer, and now owns seventy acres of land. His parents were Abraham and Han-\\nnah (Gilger) Mull, natives of Northumberland county. He was married on June 10,\\n1880^ to Emma J. Heeter, a daughter of George and Susannah (Neely) Heeter, of\\nBeaver township. They have had three children George H., Henry H., and one\\nunnamed.\\nMurray, C. A., Freedom p. o., Perry, was born on October 4, 1841, and was a son\\nof David and Elizabeth (Wilson) Murray. He married Jane Fox, of Clarion county.\\nPa. They had a family often children, nine of whom are now living James H., Etta\\nL., Ida A., Orrin A., Amelia B., Emory C, Clarissa J., George M., and Harvey G.\\nMr. Murray is an enterprising farmer.\\nMurray, David (deceased), West Freedom p. o., Perry, was born in Clarion county\\nin 18 10, and married Elizabeth Wilson. They had a family of ten children, five of\\nwhom are now living Charles, Thomas, Louis A., Cornelius, and Mary. Mr. Murray\\nwas a much respected farmer, and died in March, 1886.\\nMyers, Daniel E., Fisher p. o.. Mill Creek, a son of Andrew and Susan (Shoup)\\nMyers, was born in Clarion county in 1859, and was married in 1880 to Anna Grudy.\\nThey have had two children William J. and Bessie L. Daniel E. is now engaged in\\nfarming, and owns 117 acres. His father was born in 1830 and married in 1858. He\\nenUsted in Company G, Eighty-second Pennsylvania Infantry, and died in 1879.\\nMyers, Joseph, Blair s Corners p. o., Beaver, was born at Myer s Mills, Pa., on\\nOctober 23, 1819, and is proprietor of the Myers grist and saw-mills. His grandfather\\nwas Henry Myers, who came from Hartford county, Md., to Clarion county. Pa., in\\n1807, and built this mill in 1817, and the one on Clarion River, below Alum Rock, in\\n181 1. Joseph Myers was a son of Henry and Nancy (Burns) Myers. He was married\\non November i, 1843, to Susannah Dunkle, a daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Dice)\\nDunkle, of Franklin county. Pa. They had a family of five children born to them\\nMargaret, wife of A. J. Dearolph Emily, wife of John D. Block Jacob H., George\\nW., and James H.\\nMyers, Stephen D. (deceased), West Monterey p. o., Perry, was a son of Abner and\\nBarbara A. (Eaby) Myers, and was born in Clarion county in 1837. In early life he\\nworked at the tanning business. He enlisted in 1861 in the Eighth Pennsylvania Re-\\nserves, and was promoted to sergeant, served three years and was discharged. He was\\nmarried in 1866 to Henrietta M. Mobley. They had a family of three chidren John\\nE. (deceased), Mollie B. (deceased), and William P. In 1868 Mr. Myers built the Cal-\\nlensburg tannery, which he successfully conducted up to the time of his death, which\\noccurred on November 13, 1879. Mr. Myers still continues the business.\\nNeely, Major Cyrus, Blair s Corners p. o., Beaver, was born where he now resides,\\non April 24, 1827. He is engaged in farming, and owns a farm of 135 acres. He is\\nalso assessor of his town at the present time (1886). His parents were John and Mary\\nAnn (Berlin) Neely, who were natives of Westmoreland county. He was married on.\\nMay 20, 1850, to Mary Ann Shaffer, a daughter of Charles and Salome (Shaner) Shaf-\\nfer, of Lehigh county. They have had a family of six children Calvin Bigler, Eliza J.\\n(wife of J. M. Mung), William Douglas, Sarah S. (wife of D. U. Khne), Cora E., and\\nJohn C.\\nNeely, Isaac, Alum Rock p. o., Richland, was born on the farm he now occupies,\\non September 18, 1818, and now owns one hundred and forty acres. He is also en-\\ngaged in oil producing. He has been county auditor and commissioner. His parents\\nwere Captain Henry and Barbara (Fry) Neely, who came to this county about 1808.\\nCaptain Neely was in the War of 181 2. Isaac Neely was married on January 10, 1844,\\nto EUzabeth Miller, of Northampton county, Pa. They have had a family of eight chil-", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0824.jp2"}, "799": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xHir\\ndren born to them Henry H., now a farmer; Alfred M., a merchant; William B., oil\\nproducer; Lydia J., wife of Harvey Potts; James C, a merchant; Hulda W., wife of\\nDaniel Galey, of Perry township; Louie H., and Arthur W., a clerk.\\nNeely, Israel, Turkey City p. o., Beaver, a farmer, owning i8o acres, was born in\\nWestmoreland county on March 13, 1821, and came with his parents, John and Mary\\nAnn (Berlin) Neely, to this township about 1822. He was married on October 4, 1842,.\\nto Rachel Linderman, a daughter of Richard and Christine (Buchu) Linderman, of\\nBerks county. Israel and Rachel had a family of seven children Alfred M. (deceased),.\\nM. M. (married Fred Donaldson, both are now deceased), R. T. (deceased), Samantha\\nJ. (now Mrs. P. F. Will), E. J., George H., Rachel Frances (wife of Clemmons P.\\nKnight).\\nNeely, Major John, Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born at Blair s Corners, where he\\nnow resides, on April 24, 1827 is a farmer, and now owns and occupies a farm of one\\nhundred and thirty-five acres. He is now assessor of his town. His parents were John\\nand Mary Ann (Berlin) Neely, natives of Westmoreland county. Pa. Cyrus Neely was\\nmarried on May 20,1850,10 Mary Ann Shaffer, a daughter of Charles and Salome\\n(Shaner) Shaffer, of Lehigh county, Pa. They have six children Calvin Bigler, Eliza\\nJ. (wife of J. M. Mung), William Douglass, Sarah S. (wife of D. U. Kline), Cora E.^\\nand John C.\\nNeely Brothers, Alum Rock p. o., Richland, are general merchants and oil producers.\\nJ. C. was born in this township on September 19, 1857, and was appointed postmaster\\nin 1886. A. M. was born in the town of Richland on April 23, 1849. He has been a\\nteacher, and was elected to the Assembly in 1882, and re elected in 1884. His parents\\nwere Isaac and Elizabeth (Miller) Neely, natives of this town. A. M. was married on\\nDecember 23, 1875, to Clara Grable, a daughter of James and Rose (Seigworth) Grable,\\nold settlers in Fryburg, Pa. They have had a family of four children Bertha M., Liz-\\nzie R., Effie N., and Annie I.\\nNeeley, J. R., Knox p. o., Beaver, was born in Luthersburg, Clearfield county, Pa.,\\non January 15, 1856, and came to Clarion county, Pa., in 1881. He is a tinsmith, and\\nis now councilman of the borough. His parents were Samuel and Mary (Hamilton)\\nNeeley, of Luthersburg, Pa. Mr. Neeley was killed in the late war. J. R. Neeley was\\nmarried on October 20, 1881, to Lizzie M. Childs, a daughter of Edmund and Annie\\n(Myers) Childs, of Lykens, Dauphin county. Pa. They have one child R. E. Neeley.\\nNewhouse, Henry, Fisher p. o.. Mill Creek, was a son of George and Mary M.\\n(Hyst) Newhouse, and was born in Westmoreland county in 1846 and came to Clarion\\ncounty in 1846, and was married in 1863 to Margaret McBride. He was, early in life,\\nengaged in farming and lumbering, and now owns seventy-six acres of land. His father\\nwas born in W^estmoreland county in 1803, and died in 1883. His mother was born in\\n1804, and died in 1870. His brothers Samuel and John served in the late War of the\\nRebellion.\\nO Donnel, Charles, New Bethlehem, owner and proprietor of the leading borough\\nhotel, was born in Butler county in 1830, and was married in 1859 to Mary Jane Brady,\\nof Butler county. They had nine childfen, five are now living Rose, Evelyn, xA.rthur\\nJ., Katherine B., Hugh B. and Fred. Charles O Donnel was a son of Arthur and Mar-\\ngary J. (Duffy) O Donnel, natives of Dauphin county, who at an early day moved to\\nButler county where they resided up to the time of their deaths. Mary J. was a daugh-\\nter of Hugh and Catherine (Downey) Brady. Mr. O Donnel settled in Clarion county\\nin 1848 as a carpenter and builder, and followed different branches and enterprises up to\\n1869, when he erected his present hotel, where he still presides.\\nO Donnel, John D., New Bethlehem, was born in Clearfield township, Butler county,\\non October 21, 1828, and was married in 1862 to Mary A. Space, of Clarion county,\\nwho died in 1873, leaving a family of five children, all of whom are now living G. S.,\\nE. A., Annie L., F. S., and Mary E. He then married his second wife, Catherine Ha-\\ngans, of Pittsburgh, in 1879. He was county coroner one term, and has held all of the\\nborough offices, and has always been an active worker in the interests of the Democratic", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0825.jp2"}, "800": {"fulltext": "xliv History of Clarion County.\\nparty. He settled in Clarion county in 1858. With several changes of occupation he\\nbecame engaged in the mercantile business in 1873. He was a son of Arthur and Mar-\\ngary J. (Duffy) O Donnel, who were born in Dauphin county, who late in life moved to\\nClearfield, Butler county, where they died. John D. has been one of the most ener-\\ngetic business men of the place, and doing what he could for the improvement of the\\nplace, and taken an active part in all affairs concerning the town.\\nOrr, Robert, Knox p. o., Edenburg, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, on March\\n20, 1833, and came to Canada with his parents, Charles and Eliza (Crickmiles) Orr, in\\n1837, and to the United States in 1851, and to Clarion county in 1870. He is now the\\nproprietor of the Edenburg House, on State street. He was married on October 6,\\ni860, to Samantha Raymond, a daughter of William and Mary L. (Leman) Raymond,\\nof Canada, and now of Petrolia. They have had one child Emma J.\\nOwens, Amos Williams, Venus, Venango county, p. o., Washington, was born at the\\nplace now known as Strattonville on August 19, 1812. He was the second of eleven\\nchildren born to Andrew and Elizabeth Owens, one of the earliest pioneer families of\\nthe county. The early life of Amos was spent on the farm when old enough he learned\\nthe carpenter s trade at which he worked for many years. He was married in 1842 to\\nMargaret Henlen. Mr. Owens is a self made man and is in comfortable circumstances.\\nFor eighteen years he was proprietor of the hotel at Lineville, and was postmaster there\\nseveral years; was county commissioner- in 1848-49, and also in 1850. Prior to 1850\\nMr. Owens was a Democrat, but since the formation of the Republican party has fol-\\nlowed its fortunes. He is trustee and licensed exhorter of the M. E. Church, and has\\nnow retired from active life.\\nPalmer, J. M., Phillipston p. o.. East Brady, a general merchant, ticket, freight and\\ndepot agent of the A. V. R. R.. and also agent for Adams Express, at Phillipston, was\\nborn at Lapier, Mich., January 31, 1854, and was a son of Joel and Susan (Merritt)\\nPalmer, who were born in Vermont. J. M. was married in 1884 to Emme E. Pritner,\\nof Clarion county. They have had one child Bessie. Emma was a daughter of\\nHenry C. Pritner. Joel M. Palmer was born in 1804 and died in 1879, leaving a widow\\nand three children Diantha, J. M. and Susan J. J. M. settled in Clarion county in\\n1883, and embarked in the mercantile business at Phillipston in 1884.\\nPanton, James W., Foxbury p. o., Richland, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on\\nDecember 24, 1839, and came to the United States in 1862, and in 1870 he settled in\\nClarion county. Pa. He is a farmer and oil producer, and a member of the firm of\\nEdwards Co., oil well tool manufacturers. His parents were William and Jane (Tay-\\nlor) Panton. James M. Panton was married in 1874, to Isabella Watson, a daughter\\nof Alexander and Susan (Robb) Watson, of Aberdeen, Scotland. James M. has a fam-\\nily of five children Edwin A., William J., Nellie, Clyde C, and Allen H.\\nPatterson, J. I., Knox p. o., Edenburg, is a druggist on Main street, and council-\\nman of the borough. He was born in Freeport, Armstrong county, on July 14, 1856,\\nand came to Clarion county in January, 1878. His parents were J. A. and Elizabeth\\n(Hill) Patterson, of Armstrong county. He was married on September 27, 1883, to\\nLaura J. Forker, a daughter of John L. and Rebecca (Reed) Forker, of Edenburg.\\nPayne, Thomas Jefferson, Tylersburg p. o., Farmington, was born at Norwich, Che-\\nnango county, N. Y., on May 16, 1839, the eleventh child born to Wilhamand\\nLydia Payne. Thomas lived at home until twenty years of age, after which he learned\\nthe wagon making trade. He married Lodena L., a daughter of Asa Lewis, of Triangle,\\nBroome county, N. Y. They came to Warren county about 1865, where they lived\\nfor one year, after which they came to Clarion county. During his residence here\\nMr. Payne has been one of the prominent business men of the county. He is an ex-\\ntensive lumberman, and has oil interests elsewhere. He has been a successful, self made\\nbusiness man and is now one of the firm of Payne Green, leading merchants of Tylers-\\nburg. In the year 18S5 Mr. Payne suffered a severe loss in the death of his beloved\\nwife. In political life he is a strong Democrat. He is a devoted member of the M. E.\\nChurch, and at present is superintendent of the Sabbath school.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0826.jp2"}, "801": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xlv\\nPierce, Isaac, West Freedom p. o., Perry, was born in Chester county in 1838, and\\nsettled in Clarion county in 1867. He was married in 18 to Matilda Wise. They\\nhad a family of eight children John W., Louie, Anna L., Joseph C, Neton K., Frank-\\nlin J., Jesse A., and Marshall Burton. Isaac enlisted in 1861 m the Second Delaware\\nInfantry and was discharged in 1864. His father, Joseph S., married Priscilla Hoops.\\nThey had a family of eleven children, ten of whom are now living. Joseph S. died in\\n1886, and his wife in 1885.\\nPhillips, Benjamin Wilson, Lickingsville p. o., W^ashington, was born in Porter town-\\nship. Clarion county, on August 18, 1855, and was one of the children of George V.\\nand Katharine F. Phillips. His early life was spent on the farm and at school. For two\\nyears he worked in a store. He read medicine with Dr. Wick, at New Bethlehem, and\\nafterwards attended lecture courses at the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia,\\nand also at the Cleveland Medical College, and was graduated in 1876. After grad-\\nuating he settled for two years in Salem, Armstrong county, and in 1878 he came to\\nLickingsville to practice medicine and surgery. Here he became acquainted with and\\nmarried Elizabeth K. Gilbert. They have had three children. One girl is dead, and\\ntwo boys are now living. Dr. Phillips is a thoroughly energetic man, and has, by his\\nown diligence, made himself the successful practitioner he now is.\\nPhipps, Harmon, Valley p. o., Ashland, is a farmer, and was born in Ashland town-\\nship on August 7, 1841. He was a son of Nathan and Christina (Ghost) Phipps. His\\npaternal grandfather was Nathan Phipps, sr., who settled in Ashland about 1805 and\\ncleared and improved the farm which is now occupied by Harmon. His children were\\nJohn, Anna, Nathan, James, Marshall, Eli, Samuel, Elijah, Elizabeth, and Polly. His\\nwife was Elizabeth Updegraff. Nathan, jr., was born and lived and died on the old\\nhomestead. His children were Elizabeth, John, Harmon, Keturah, Mary J., Craft,\\nSusan, and Tervilla. Harmon now occupies the old homestead on which he was born\\nand reared. He was married in 1876 to Harriet Berlin, a daughter of George N. and\\nSusan (Cook) Berlin.\\nPhipps, Valentine, Shippensville p. o., Elk, was born in Ashland township on Jan-\\nuary 8, 1838, and was a son of Elijah and Elizabeth (Cook) Phipps. His paternal\\ngrandfather, Nathan Phipps, was a pioneer of Ashland township. Valentine was brought\\nup in the county, and served in the late War of the RebelHon, enlisting as second lieu-\\ntenant in Company E, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves, in April, 1861 was promoted to\\nfirst lieutenant on November 12, 1861, and to captain on August i, 1862 to major by\\nbrevet in 1865, for gallant services in the Wilderness campaign, and was honorably dis-\\ncharged at the expiration of his service. He was married in 1867 to Ada Shaffer, a\\ndaughter of Jacob and Mary A. (Camp) Shaffer, of Shippensville. Valentine and Ada\\nhave three children Emma E., Jacob W., and Mary E.\\nPiatt, W. G., Fisher p. o., Mill Creek, superintendent of the Eldorado saw-mill and\\nboat-building yards, also owner of sixteen acres of land in Clarion county, was a son of\\nAlexander Piatt, who enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Third Pennsylvania\\nVolunteers, and died while in the army. His mother was Mary (Walters) Piatt. He\\nwas married in 1882 to Jennie Yarger. They have had two children Ollie Maud and\\nNellie Carell.\\nPollock, George Knox, Pollock p. o., Perry, a son of Thomas and Eleanor (Knox)\\nPollock, was born on March 24, 1826, and married April 6, 1854, to Rachel J. Longwell.\\nThey had a family of four children Theresa F., born April i, 1855, and married J. W.\\nKerr; William W., born August 25, 1856; Robert H., born June 20, 1858 and Josie\\nS., born August 6, 1863. George Knox Pollock is now engaged in farming, and occu-\\npies a farm of two hundred and twenty-five acres. He has held the oftice of school\\ndirector, and also that of supervisor.\\nPollock, James, Pollock p. o., Perry, was a son of Thomas and Margaret (Fruit)\\nPollock, and grandson of Charles Pollock, and was born in Clarion county. Pa., in\\n1813. He was married on July ;^o, 1842, to Elizabeth Stewart. He is a ruling elder\\nin the Presbyterian Church, and was commissioned justice of the peace by Governor\\nPollock on March 13, 1855, for a term of five years. He was the first postmaster at", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0827.jp2"}, "802": {"fulltext": "xlvi History of Clarion County.\\nPollock p. o., and served for a term of two years, 1869 and 1870. He now has eight\\noil wells on his farm of seventy-five acres, three of which are producing. His children\\nwere as follows: A son born in 1843, and lived but two days; Thomas, born September\\n5, 1844; Nancy Jane, born March 2, 1847; James Montgomery, born September 15,\\n1849; Mary Elizabeth, born November 2, 1851; Samuel Stewart, born June 19, 1855,\\ndied August 18, 1861 and Margaret Ann, born January 2, 1861.\\nPollock, Samuel G., Pollock p. o.. Perry, a son of Charles and Caroline (Richards)\\nPollock, was born in Clarion county on May 23, 1857, and was married in 1883 to\\nEliza McFarland, of Clarion county, who was a daughter of William and Mary A. Mc-\\nFarland. They have had one child C. Leslie. Mr. Pollock is now engaged in farm-\\ning and the oil business.\\nPorter, Andrew Jackson, Scotch Hill p. o., Farmington, was born in Richland town-\\nship. Clarion county. Pa., on May 22, 1817. He was one of the family of ten children\\nof Joseph M. and Janette Porter, pioneers of the county. In 1827 the family came to\\nthe neighborhood of Scotch Hill. Andrew J. Porter became engaged in lumbering\\nwith his father, and upon the death of the latter succeeded to the business, which he\\nhas ever since conducted. When about thirty years old he married Nancy Porter.\\nThey had but one child. His wife lived only four years. In 1877 he married Mrs.\\nEmily A. Elgin, by whom he also had one child. Mr. Porter is a plain but substantial\\nbusiness man, whose success in life has been achieved by hard work. In politics he has\\ntaken no active part, but adheres to the Democratic principles.\\nPotter, Adam, Fisher p. o.. Mill Creek, son of Adam and Barbara (Palmer) Potter,\\nwas born in Centre county, Pa., in 1817, and settled in Clarion county. Pa., in 1822;\\nmarried Rebecca J. Thompson, a daughter of Samuel Thompson. He is engaged in\\nlumbering and farming, living on his present farm of 134 acres since 1849. He has\\nheld the office of constable for eighteen years, and has held most all of township offices.\\nHe enlisted in 1861 in Company F, Sixty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, was wounded\\nat the battle of Gettysburg, taken prisoner at Fair Oaks, and served his full time. He\\nnow receives a pension.\\nRankin, James Lemon, Catfish p. o.. East Brady, was born in the town of Madison,\\nPa., in 1843, and was married in 1867 to Sarah E. London. They have had a family\\nof five children William E., Harry G., Charles M., John B., and Ralph A. James L.\\nenlisted in 1862 in Company E, Sixty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was dis-\\ncharged at the close of the war. His two brothers also enlisted and served to the close\\nof the war, when they were dischaged. James was a son of William W. and Mary\\n(Mortimer) Rankin. Mary died in 1875, and her husband WiUiam, who was born in\\n1819, died in 1883, leaving three sons and one daughter Joseph L., James M., George\\nW., and Elizabeth Jane. William W. Rankin was a son of Joseph and Elizabeth Ran-\\nkin, who came from Ireland, and were early settlers in Clarion county. Pa. But two of\\ntheir children are now living J. B. and Rachel.\\nRarer, A. J., Callensburg p. o.. Licking, was a son of Daniel and Margaret (Slack)\\nRarer, and was born in Mifflin county, Pa., July 17, 1824. He was married in 1846\\nto Elizabeth Mclntyre, who was born in Centre county, Pa., in 1827. They have had\\na family of eleven children Lawrence C. (died at the age of eight years), Mary Isabel\\n(Payne), George E., Elizabeth W. (Betch), Sarah A. (KJingensmith), Nancy E. (Mays),\\nMargaret (deceased), John C, Johanna, Henrietta M., and one who died in infancy.\\nMr. Rarer is a wagon-maker by trade, a business which he has followed all his life. He\\nhas held most all of the borough offices, and is now burgess, an office which he has held\\nfor three terms. His father, Daniel Rarer, was born in 1790 and died in 1862. He\\nhad a family of twelve children, eight of whom are now living.\\nOne of the oldest families who settled in Clarion county was that of Christian and\\nSusannah (Shafer) Rhodes, who came here about the year 1786. They had a family of\\nten children. Susannah died and Christian married Elizabeth Nulf, and they had three\\nchildren, the second child being Abraham, who was married in 1839 to Jane Shafifner.\\nThey had a family of nine children, six of whom are now living Solomon C, Susannah,.\\nJames, Levi, Martha V., and Mary V. (twins). Abraham was born in Limestone in", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0828.jp2"}, "803": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xlvii\\n1818, and died on August 25, 1884. He was born and died on the old homestead farm.\\nJeremiah enhsted in 1861, and was wounded and died at the battle of Gettysburg. Sol-\\nomon C. enlisted in the Fourteenth, and served three years. Levi was a son of Abra-\\nham and Jane Rhodes, and was married on February 6, 1879, to Sarah McKillip, a\\ndaughter of Archie McKillip. They have had four children Esther Jane, Otis Earl,\\nEmmet C, and Lillian O. Levi now owns and occupies the old homestead farm of one\\nhundred acres.\\nRickenbrode, John M., Fryburg p. o., Washington, was born in what is now Clarion,\\nformerly Venango county, Pa., November 21, 1824. His estimable wife, Barbara Kapp,\\nwas born on May 30, 1828. They were married April 20, 1848. Their children were\\nE. G., Ellen H., Alice M., Rosa E., and Ida A. John M. Rickenbrode was brought up\\nand always lived on a farm, and his life as a farmer has been remarkably successful. He\\ncommenced life a poor boy, working on the farm during season, cutting wood during the\\nwinter, and at the cobbler s bench during evenings. By earnest, patient toil, he has\\namassed a fortune. He is a prominent member of the Lutheran Church.\\nRickenbrode, Samuel Davidson, Venus p. o., Washington, the youngest of the chil-\\ndren of John and Sophie Rickenbrode, was born in Washington township, Pa., on May\\n27, 1845. Until he was sixteen years old he stayed at home on the farm. He then\\nspent four years in the oil region, after which he went into the lumber woods of Michi-\\ngan. In 1865 he returned to his home. This same year he married Callie M. Amsler.\\nThey have had a family of three children, only two of whom are now living. Mr.\\nRickenbrode is a substantial farmer, owning one hundred and forty-five acres known as\\nthe Solomon Dale farm. The family are earnest members of the Evangelical Associa-\\ntion. In politics Mr. Rickenbrode is a Republican.\\nRimer, David A., Rimersburg, a leading farmer of Rimersburg, Pa., was born in\\nNorthampton county. Pa., at Mount Bethel, in 1815. He was a son of Jacob and\\nElizabeth (Hilyard) Rimer, who came to Clarion county and settled in Toby in 181 5.\\nThey had a family of three sons and one daughter. Jacob was a tailor by trade, and\\ndied at the age of seventy-eight years. After setthng in Toby, they had five children,\\nmaking a family of eight in all, four of whom are now living Christopher, David A.,\\nSusan, and Mary Ann. David was married in 1840 to Susan Newell, a daughter of\\nRobert Newell. She died the same year that she was married. He then married for\\nhis second wife Mary Patton in 1854. They have had a family of eight children John\\nT. C, Alva, Patton, Harry McWilliams, David E., Edward Sharard, Mary E., Maggie\\nA. John T. C. was a graduate of Worcester College, and also was graduated from the\\nBaltimore Medical College in 1880, and is practicing in Curllsville, Clarion county.\\nDavid A. Rimer held the commission of major. He has filled many responsible posi-\\ntions, and has been guardian for several families, and is an active man in church enter-\\nprise and county affairs.\\nRoyce, Charles N., Phillipston p. o.. East Brady, was appointed superintendent of\\nthe Penn Green Line Car Shop and Transportation Company in 1874. He was born in\\nOrwell, Addison county, Vermont, in 1847, and was a son of Nathan and Percis M.\\nRoyce. Nathan died in Clymer, N. Y., in November, 1878, leaving a widow who was\\nborn in 1813 and seven children. Charles N. was married in 1876 to Mamie Arnold,\\nof Kittanning, Armstrong county. They have one son, Charles Arnold, born in 1878.\\nMr. Royce has served the town as justice of the peace for ten years, was a supervisor\\nand a member of the school board.\\nRutherford, George, Fisher p. o.. Mill Creek, was born in Westmoreland county in\\n1829, and came to Clarion county in 1832. He was married in 1863 to Margaret\\nRifenbusick. They have had three children John G., William L., and James E. G.\\nGeorge has been assessor for a number of years, was elected justice of the peace in 1882,\\nhas also been a school director, and overseer of the poor. He is now engaged in farm-\\ning. His father was born in Scotland, and came to America in 1825 and married Mary\\nMcMillen. His brother, John G., enlisted in One hundred and Forty-ninth Pennsyl-\\nvania Volunteers, and was killed at the battle of the Wilderness.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0829.jp2"}, "804": {"fulltext": "xlviii History of Clarion County.\\nRyan, Thomas, Alum Rock p. o., Licking, a son of Patrick, who was born in Ireland\\nin 1818, and married in 1845 Margaret Clancy, and emigrated to America in 1848.\\nThey had a family of ten children, four of whom are now living Patrick (deceased),\\nMichael (deceased), Bridget (deceased), John, Mary, i\\\\nnie, Thomas, Catherine (de-\\nceased), Margaret (deceased), and one who died in infancy. Thomas Ryan is a young\\nand enterprising farmer, and occupies a farm of twenty acres.\\nScheffer, Rev. John A., AUentown p. o., Salem, was born in Beaver City, Clarion\\ncounty, on June 17, 1846, and is a minister of the Lutheran Church, a graduate from\\nMuhlenburg College, AUentown, in 1872. He was also graduated from the Lutheran\\nTheological Seminary of Philadelphia in 1875. In 1872 he took the degree of A. B.,\\nand in 1875 received the degree of M. A. For nine years he was a missionary in Nova\\nScotia, and is now missionary pastor in AUentown. His parents were William and Per-\\ncilla (Kribbs) Scheffer, of Salem township. His wife was S. E. Seibert, to whom he was\\nmarried on June 5, 1883.\\nScheffer, Samuel S., Lamartine p. o., Salem, was born in Salem tovvnship on Decem-\\nber 2, 1849. He is a farmer, and owns a farm of fifty-six acres. His parents were Will-\\niam and Percilla (Kribbs) Scheffer, of Salem, who came to Clarion county in 1822.\\nSamuel S. was married on December 7, 1876, to Olive A. De Turk, who was born on\\nDecember 6, 1856, a daughter of John and Lydia (Rossman) De Turk, who came from\\nBerks county about 1836. They have had three children Bernice A., born December\\n13, 1878- Emma D., born September 9, 1880; Orpah H., July 23, 1883.\\nScheffer, William, Lamartme p. o., Salem, was born in the township of Hempfield\\non May 26, 1819. His grandfather, John Adam Scheffer, was a native of Germany,\\nand was born in 17 51, and died in 1840. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.\\nHis parents were John and Barbara (Best) Scheffer, who came to Clarion county in\\n1822. John died in 1863, at the age of seventy-nine years, and his wife, Barbara, died\\nin 1874, at the age of eighty-three years. William was married on October 22, 1844,\\nto Priscilla Kribbs, a daughter of Christian and Maria S. (Gudekunst) Kribbs. They\\nhave seven children now living Rev. John A., of AUentown, George E., Samuel S.,\\nChristian K., William M., Rev. Nathaniel, of Saxonburg, Butler county, Araminta C,\\nwife of John L. Altman, of Lyons, Rice county, Kan.\\nSeigworth, Anthony L., Scotch Hill p. o., Farmington, was born in Pine Grove\\ntownship, Venango county. Pa., on January i, 1826. He was one of the children of\\nJohn D. Seigworth, the pioneer who came there in 1817, Anthony was raised on a\\nfarm near Fryburg, where his early life was spent. At the age of twenty-two years he\\npurchased an interest in the Licking Furnace, but misfortune overtook the business and\\nthe works were sold by a sheriff in 1850. Mr. Seigworth married Eliza Moore, who\\nbore him ten children, seven of whom are living. After his unfortunate investment in\\nthe furnace Mr. Seigworth began farming, at which he has been fairly successful. Re-\\ncently however he has engaged in the mercantile business at Scotch Hill, in company\\nwith other well-known gentlemen. Since the formation of the Republican party Mr.\\nSeigworth has supported its nominees.\\nSeigwarth, George Mahle, Lickingsville p. o., Farmington, was born in Stark\\ncounty, O., on August 27, 1827. Although not christened with a middle name, he has\\nadopted the name of Mahle in honor of his mother s family surname. George M.\\nSeigwarth is a direct descendant of the pioneer family of Seigwarth s who first settled in\\nWashington township. Pa. His first business venture was in connection with the old\\nLicking Furnace, and each of the several persons interested were financially broken.\\nBut George M., who was then a young man, took the property and succeeded in saving\\na part, at least, of his investment. By careful management he has acquired a compe-\\ntence, and made each of his children a handsome present in property. George M.\\nSeigwarth married Rosina Bower. They have had ten children.\\nSeigwarth, John, Fryburg p. o., Washington, was one of the older children of George\\nSeigwarth, who came to Washington in 1817, and was one of the original pioneer fami-\\nlies. John married Rosina, a daughter of Christian Henlen, also a member of the first\\nthree families. The children born to this marriage were John, Katharine, Mary, Rosina,", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0830.jp2"}, "805": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. xli\\nElizabeth, Anthony L., Margaret, Jacob, David, Clara, and Nancy. Of these eleven\\nchildren, Elizabeth, Anthony L., David, and Clara are the only ones now living.\\nDavid married Mary E., a daughter of Justus Mahle. They had a family of seven chil-\\ndren. David Seigwarth was raised on the farm, and his early training has made him\\none of the best farmers in the township. He is one of the leading members of the Lu-\\ntheran Church.\\nSeigwarth, Solomon, Lickingsville p. o., Washington, was born on July 28, 1833, in\\nthis township, and was the son of John G. and Mary K. E. (Mahl) Seigwarth, a mem-\\nber of one of the first families of the town. The father engaged in farming and also\\nworked at the iron furnace, where Solomon obtained his first knowledge in practical\\nbusiness life. Upon the early training he has thus got he has built and enlarged until\\nhe is to-day one of the most successful and wealthy of Washington s native sons. He\\nwas married in June, 1861, to Ann E. Deaner. They have had a family of six children.\\nAbout 1864 Mr. Seigwarth became engaged in the mercantile business at Lickingsville,\\na business which he still carries on, besides large farm interests, the result of close appli-\\ncation to business. He is superintendent of the Evangelist Association Sunday-school\\nand one of the trustees of the society. He has also contributed largely toward defray-\\ning the expenses of building and maintaining the church. His father, John G., died in\\n1871.\\nShanar, J. L., Knox p. o., Edenburg, was born in Rockland, Venango county, Pa.,\\non October 13, 1846, and came to Clarion county in 1871. He is a dealer in jewelry,\\npianos, and organs, on Main street. His parents are Mathias and Jane (Stewart) Sha-\\nnar, of Clarion county. J. L. Shanar was married on October 30, 1872, to Hannah J.\\nStorey, a daughter of Alexander and Juliette (Campbell) Storey, of Petrolia, Butler\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2county, Pa. They have one child Charles R. Shanar.\\nShallenberger, F. L., Callensburg p. o., a son of John L. and Melinda (McCon-\\naughy) Shallenberger, was born in Westmoreland county. Pa., in 1855. In 1878 he set-\\ntled with his father in Clarion county, and there became engaged as a clerk in a store.\\nIn 1881 he embarked in the mercantile business for himself and opened a general store\\nat Callensburg under the firm name of W. A. Hindman Co. He was married in 1882\\nto Ida M. Over, of Clarion county. They have had one child John O. Mr. Shal-\\nlenberger has held the office of town treasurer, and is now councilman. His father,\\nJohn L., was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., in 1829, and his mother was born in\\n1830.\\nSheafifer, S. Taylor, Redbank, the superintendent of the Northwestern Coal and\\nIron Company, and the Fairmount Coal and Iron Company, and iron companies\\nlocated in Redbank township, was born in Cumberland county in 1846, and was a son\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of George and Ann E. (Grissinger) Sheaffer. Ann E. was born in York county, and her\\nhusband in Cumberland county. He died in 1880 at the age of sixty-seven years,\\nleaving a widow and one son S. Taylor. They had a family of three children. The\\nfathef, one son, and one daughter died within a space of thirty days from a fever. S.\\nTaylor Sheafifer was married in 1874 to Alice M. Fleming, a daughter of Wilson Flem-\\ning, of Boiling Springs, Cumberland county They have had three children Frank B.,\\nJessie A., and Virginia May. S. Taylor was reared on the farm and fitted for business\\nlife. From 1863 to 1870 he was engaged in teaching, and in the service of the gov-\\nernment at Washington. In 1870 he became book-keeper, was then assistant manager,\\nand in 1876 was made manager of the Antietam Iron Works near Sharpsbur g, Md.,\\nand in 1881 was appointed chief book-keper of the Coleman estate, known as R. W.\\nColeman s Heirs Co., at Cornwall, Lebanon county, and in 1882 transferred his\\ninterest to the superintendency of his present charge.\\nSherry, John W., Church p. o., Beaver, was born where he now resides on April 3,\\n1826. He is a farmer and owns a farm of forty-two acres, and is also interested in the\\nproduction of oil. He has been overseer of the poor of the town. His parents were\\nWilliam and Polly (Best) Sherry. The Best family settled here in 1804 and the Sherry\\nfamily in 1806, both being early pioneer families in the county. John W. was married", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0831.jp2"}, "806": {"fulltext": "1 History of Clarion County.\\non June 15, 1848 to Hannah Huber, of Venango county. They have six children now\\nliving William H., Samuel, John F., Catharine, Christine, Elizabeth (now the wife of\\nJames Courson).\\nSheatz, John, Shippensville p. o., Elk, is a farmer, and was born in Centre county\\non April 10, 1822, and was a son of EH and Eva (Kahl) Sheatz, who settled in Elk in\\n1833, and cleared and improved the farm which is now occupied by John. Their chil-\\ndren were John, Henry, EH, Eve, Jacob, WiHiam, Samuel, and David. John now\\noccupies the old homestead. He worked at the blacksmith trade for thirty-three years.\\nHe was married in 1843 to Margaret, a daughter of Major John and Christena (Hos-\\nterman) Camp, of Shippensville. They have had seven children Sapora, Emma,\\nCurtis, Irben, Eldorado D., Lizzie S., and Celestia.\\nShick, Valentine, West Millville p. o., Millville, was born in ;Northampton county,\\nPa., on February 13, 1807, and was a son of Christian and Margaret (Miller) Shick, of\\nNorthampton county, Pa., who were married in 1805. Margaret died in 1817. They\\nhad a family of four children, two of whom are now living Valentine and Christian.\\nChristian married for his second wife Elizabeth Winebog. They had a family of three\\nchildren, two of whom are now living Jacob and John. The parents settled in Red-\\nbank, Pa., in 1820, where they died. Valentine Shick was married in 1828 to Martha\\nHufman, who was born in 1810. She died in October, 1883. They had a family of\\neleven children, nine of whom are now living, all are married and have families. Four\\nof his sons enlisted and served in the war.\\nShindledecker, jr., Adam, West Millville p. o., Millville, was born in the town of\\nRedbank on October 9, 1838, and was married on February 2, 1857, to Catharine Ra-\\nder, who was born in Redbank on March 24, 1842. They have had eight children,\\nseven of whom are now living UtiHa (born in 1858), Sarah (born in i860), Adam Ira\\n(born in 1862), Eliza (born in 1866), John (born in 1868), Emma (born in 1870), La-\\nbana (born in 1873), and Cora (born in 1877). Catharine was a daughter of George\\nRader. Adam enlisted in Company C, Seventy-eighth P. V., on August 28, 1862, and\\nwas discharged in 1865, at the close of the war. He was wounded and now receives a\\npension. He was a son of Adam and UtiUa (Fike) Shindledecker, who were born and\\nmarried in Germany, and came to America in 1828, and settled in Redbank. Adam\\nwas born in 1807 and his wife in 18 10. They had a family of nine sons and four daugh-\\nters. Three sons enlisted and served in the late war. They were Adam, Valentine and\\nJohn. Catharine was a daughter of George Rader, who died in February, 1859, and\\nhis wife in 1851. They left a family of eight children, four of whom are now living\\nCatharine, Sarah, John and Isaac. Isaac enhsted in Company C, Seventy-eighth Regi-\\nment, and served four years, enhsting in August, 1861.\\nShirey, WilHam, Lamartine p. o., Salem, was born in Richland township. Pa., on\\nAuf^ust 23, 1833. He is a farmer, and owns and occupies a farm of eighty acres. His\\nparents were Samuel and Sarah (Johnson) Shirey, who came from Berks county to Cla-\\nrion county in 1833. William Shirey was married on April 30, 1857, to Susannah Wet-\\nzel, a daughter of Henry and Dolly (Wending) Wetzel, who settled here from Berks\\ncounty. Pa., in 1838. They have had a family of eight children born to them Samuel\\nH., Aaron R., Emma A. (now the wife of Lewis Fillgrove), Sarah E., Clara S., Annie\\nC, Luetta V., and Arminta M.\\nShively, George W., Fern p. o., Ashland, is a farmer, and was born in Union county\\non November 15, 1819, and was a son of Christian and Sarah (Steese) Shively, who set-\\ntled in Ashland in 1841. Their children, of whom five are now living, are George, Susan,\\nThomas, John, and Robert. His paternal grandfather, George Shively, was a pioneer\\nof Union county, and a soldier in the Revolutionary War. George was married to\\nSarah Mong, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Miller) Mong, of Ashland. George\\nand Sarah have had six children Milton, Loretta, Jacob, Benjamin W., Lincoln, and\\nJohn. Mr. Shively is a prominent farmer, and a member of the German Baptist\\nChurch.\\nShoemaker, George G., Knox p. o., Edenburg borough, Beaver, was born at Mc-\\nAllisterviUe, Juniata county, Pa., on March 25, 1856, and came to Clarion county, Pa.,.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0832.jp2"}, "807": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals.\\nin 1876. He is a practicing physician and surgeon, and a graduate of the University of\\nPennsylvania. His parents are James S. and Mary A. (Giering) Shoemaker, of Lehigh\\ncounty, Pa. He was married on March 23, 1879, to Mary C. Longnaker, a daughter\\nof Solomon and Margaret (Shakely) Longnaker, of Salem, Pa. They have two children\\nJohn A. an(^ Robert J.\\nShoup, Jonathan, West Freedom p. o.. Perry, was born in Armstrong county in 1805,\\nand has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Hagan. They had a family of\\nnine children, five of whom are now living. He married for his second wife Sarah\\nDunkle. They have had four children three are now living. Mr. Shoup in early years\\nwas interested in the lumber business, and cleared a large tract of land besides his present\\nfarm of one hundred and twenty acres.\\nSilvis, William H., New Bethlehem, was born in Red Bank township on July 27,\\n1838, and was a son of Conrad and Anna (Noll) Silvis. Anna was born in Armstrong\\ncounty, and her husband Conrad was born in Westmoreland county in 1803, and died\\nin December, 1876, leaving a widow and ten children Amos, Joseph M., Isaac, Jere-\\nmiah, Simon T., Daniel, Lydia, Eve, and Mary Anne. Four sons enlisted James,\\nJoseph, William H., and Jeremiah. William enlisted in Company C, Seventy-eighth\\nPennsylvania Volunteers, in August, 1861, and served for three years; Jeremiah enlisted\\nin the same company and served to the close of the war Amos was in the same com-\\npany and regiment, and Joseph was drafted in 1865. Conrad was a son of David Silvis,\\none of the first settlers from Westmoreland county. William H. Silvis commenced the\\nbusiness of manufacturing wagons in 7854, and opened his shop in 1865. He was mar-\\nried that same year (1865) to Mary C. Mohney, who was born on October 10, 1848,\\nand was a daughter of Squire David and Elizabeth Mohney. William and Mary have\\nhad six children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alice R., Merritt A., Manola J., Heber B., Clyde M., and Blanche\\nClare.\\nSloan, Porter M., Elk City p. o.. Elk, is a farmer and was born on the farm where\\nhe now resides on August 9, 1838. He was a son of John and Margaret (Addleman)\\nSloan, who settled in Elk in 18 19, chartered and improved the farm which is now owned\\nand occupied by their son. Porter M. Their children were Andrew, Sarah A., Samuel,\\nEhja, Mahala, John H., Margaret J., and Porter M. Porter M. was married in~f869\\nto Priscilla Wedekihd. They have had a family of four children Elgan S., Charles,\\nArchie, and Regina. Priscilla was a daughter of Charles and Margaret (Hahn) Wede-\\nkind, of Elk township. Pa.\\nSmiley, A. W., Foxburg p. o., Richland, was born near Union City, Erie county, on\\nJuly 16, 1843. He was superintendent of the Mutual Pipe Line, which was the first\\npipe line built in Clarion county, and is now buyer for the Standard Oil Company, with\\nheadquarters at Knox. He represented Clarion county in the Legislature, having been\\nelected member of assembly on November 2, 1886. His parents are John and Rachel\\n(Wilson) Smiley, of Erie county. He was married on October 30, 1866, to Ella Mead,\\na daughter of the Rev. O. L. and Ellen (Judson) Mead, of the Methodist Church of the\\nErie conference. A. W. has one child Roger M.\\nSmith Brothers, Knox p. o., Edenburg, are machinists and oil-tool manufacturers,\\nand are also engaged in the oil producing business. They have business places at\\nEdenburg, Rouse ville, Venango county. A. J. is the manager at Edenburg. His parents\\nwere John and Mary (Gillespie) Smith, of Hamilton, Canada, and came from Canada\\nto the United States and to Clarion county in 1870. A. J. was married on September\\n6, 1876, to Lillie Forster, a daughter of Mathevv W., and Hannah R. (Butts) Forster,\\nof Hamilton, Canada. He is now councilman of the borough.\\nSmith, S. K. R., West Freedom p. o.. Perry, the leading and enterprising merchant\\nof West Freedom, was born in Clarion county in 1851, and worked in the lumber and\\noil business from the age of twelve years until 1880, when he embarked in the mercantile\\nbusiness. He was appointed postmaster in 1884, a position which he now occupies. He\\nwas married in 1874 to Anna M. McClure, of Clarion county. They had a family of\\nsix children M. J. Zora, W. H. McClure, Joseph Lowery, James Keller Lincoln, Bar-\\nbara Violet, and Benjamin Delo. Mr. Smith s father, William M., was born in Butler", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0833.jp2"}, "808": {"fulltext": "Hi History of Clarion County.\\ncounty, Pa., in 1818, and settled in Clarion county in 1846. He was twice married.\\nHis first wife was Miss Moore, and his second wife was Sarah Logue. They had a family\\nof fourteen children, four of whom are now living.\\nSmith, Benjamin F., Rimersburg p. o., East Brady, proprietor and owner of the cen-\\ntral livery and exchange stable at Rimersburg was born at East Windsor, Conn., on\\nOctober 12, 1829, and was a son of Albert and Sarah Smith. Benjamin F. was married\\nin 1852 to Harriet Lain, a daughter of James and Jane Lain. Benjamin F. and Har-\\nriet have had four children, two of whom are now living Frank and Hattie. Mr.\\nSmith settled in Pennsylvania in 1868, coming to East Brady in 1870, where he estab-\\nblished his present livery business in 1875.\\nSmith, Jacob Heck, Tylersburg p. o., Farmington, was born on April 5, 1826. He\\nwas the sixth child of the family of Jacob and Mary Smith, who came to this county\\nsoon after the year 1820. Jacob, sr., died in 1869, and his wife, Mary, the year following.\\nThe family came to Farmington in 1840. At the age of twenty-five years Jacob H.\\nmarried Catharine Ruth, a daughter of Silas and Jane Everhart. There were no chil-\\ndren born to this marriage, but they have adopted three children from other families.\\nJacob Smith is a self made man. He commenced life a poor boy, but by energy and\\nthrift has acquired a competence. As a lumberman and farmer he has been successful.\\nFor six years he has been engaged in the mercantile business at Tylersburg. In poli-\\ntics Mr. Smith is a staunch Democrat.\\nSnivel)^, John, Kosssuth p. o., Ashland, is a farmer, and was born in Germany on\\nOctober 7, 1816. He was a son of Jacob and Catherine (Weber) Snively, who settled\\nin Ashland in 1850, and cleared and improved a farm upon which they resided up\\nto the time of their deaths. They had a family of six children John, Mary, Jacob,\\nElizabeth, Catharine, and Frederick. John was married to Catherine J., a daughter of\\nPeter and Elizabeth Weber, of Allegheny county. Pa.\\nSnyder, D. A., Lamartine p. o., Salem, was born where he now resides on February\\n9, 1850 is a farmer and owns 100 acres. His parents were Marmon and Mary E.\\n(Knight) Snyder. Mr. Snyder came from Clinton county about i84i,and died in 1871.\\nMrs. Snyder was born in this county. Clara Laughner was a daughter of Barney and\\nCatharine (McCalmont) Laughner. D. A. and Clara have had a family of five children\\nEdna M., Laura K., Inez M., Arthur B., and Perm E.\\nSnyder, J. C, Church p. o., Beaver, was born in Weltenberg, Germany, on March\\n10, 1837, and came to the United States and Clarion county in 1854. He enlisted on\\nAugust II, 1862, in Co. B, 83d Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served during the war\\nand was discharged on July 10, 1865. He is engaged in farming, and owns fifty-seven\\nacres is also interested in the production of oil. His parents were John and Rachel\\n(Stagmeyer) Snyder, of Germany, who came to this country in 1852. J. G. was mar-\\nried twice. His first wife was Mary M. Best, to whom he was married on October 18,\\n1 86 1. They had a family of two children Emma and Mary R., now the wife of\\nJacob Kunche. His second wife was Florence I. Ferris, to whom he was married on\\nMay 18, 1878. They have had a family of three children Nettie N., Eva L., Norah\\nand John E. Florence was a daughter of Israel and Jane Ferrris.\\nSpencer, Dr. George W., Callensburg p. o., Licking, was a son of John and Susan\\n(Fogell) Spencer, and was born in Hampshire county. Pa., in 1842 was brought up\\nuntil reaching manhood in Harrrison county, W. Va. He commenced the study of\\nmedicine in 1859, and was graduated from the Eclectic College of Cincinnati in 1868,\\nand from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1872, and from the medi-\\ncal department of the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, in 1876, and after that set-\\ntled in Clarion county in 1865, some hundred dollars in debt, but is now estimated to\\nbe worth some thirty thousand dollars, and owns three hundred acres in Piney town-\\nship, and fourteen lots in Callensburg. He was married in 1866 to Mary E. Wilson, a\\ndaughter of Robert M.Wilson. They have had one child Leslie R., born in 1871.\\nSteiner, Daniel, Scotch Hill p. o. The family of John G. and Mary (Frey) Steiner,\\nnatives of Germany, came to Farmington, about the year 1830. Their children were", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0834.jp2"}, "809": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. liii\\nSamuel, Henry, Daniel, Godfrey, John, Susan, Lida and Jacob, the last two of whom\\nare now deceased. Daniel, the third child, was born in Farmington on October 19,\\n1838, and until reaching the age of sixteen years resided at home on the farm. He then\\nworked out for ten years. At the age of twenty-five years he married Jane Rice, by\\nwhom he had ten children. Daniel Steiner has been a successful business man, having\\nstarted life with no capital whatever. For several years he was engaged in the mercan-\\ntile business at Scotch Hill, but recently sold his interest. Although not active in poli-\\ntics he is a consistent Republican. The family are members of the M. E. Church.\\nStephenson, James B., East Brady, was a son of Daniel H. and R. H. Stephenson,\\nand was born on January 29, 1844, at Rancocas, Burlington county, N. J., and was ed-\\nucated at Bellefontaine, O., and Philadelphia, Pa. He settled in Clarion county in\\n1870, and became engaged in the coal business as superintendent of the Pittsburgh Coal\\nand Mining Company, and in 1874 went to Mahoning as superintendent for the Mahon-\\ning Coal Company, and remained in that capacity until 1879. During all this tune he\\nwas a diligent student of the coal business in all its departments. The knowledge\\nthus gained culminated in his forming the present firm of Stephenson Mitchell, and\\ndeveloping the celebrated Pine Run mine, which is considered one of the best coal\\nmines in western Pennsylvania, giving employment to one hundred and fifty men and\\nproducing 100,000 tons of coal annually. He was married in 187 1 to Kate G. Cowell,\\nof Doylestown. They have two children Hving, viz.: Willie C, and Harry L., aged\\nrespectively fourteen and seven years. He was elected burgess of East Brady in 1880.\\nHis mother died in 1883, leaving two children Mary C, and James B. His twin\\nbrother, John, having enlisted from Ohio in the i32d Regiment, died from fever while\\nin the service of the army. His mother also left two children by a former marriage.\\nSterner, John J., Monroeville p. o., Beaver, was born in Monroeville on September\\n29, 1842. He enlisted in Co. F, 98th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was discharged in\\nJune, 1865. He was a son of Henry and Sarah (Moyer) Sterner, who were early set-\\ntlers in Pennsylvania. John J. was married on December 26, 1869, to Susan Beck, a\\ndaughter of John and Amanda (Powell) Beck, of Beaver township. Pa. They have\\nfive children now living Sarah A., Francis C, Charles E., Minnie L,, Florence S.\\nStitt, William, Toby p. o Rimersburg, a general and leading farmer of Toby, Pa.,\\nwas born in Toby in 1818. He was a son of James and Elizabeth (Anderson) Stitt.\\nElizabeth was born in Centre county. Pa., in 1791, and her husband, James, was born\\nin Armstrong county. Pa., in 1787, and died in 1820, leaving a widow and five children,\\nthree of whom are now living Ada, William, and James. Elizabeth, the mother, died\\nin 1 87 1. Two of the children, John and Elizabeth, both died leaving families. James\\nwas drafted in the War of 181 2-14, and after his death his vvidow drew a pension.\\nWilliam Stitt was married in 1884 to EUzabeth Pollock, who was born in Perry, Pa.,\\nin 1823. They had a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters. Eliza-\\nbeth was a daughter of John and Addie (Corson) Anderson, who settled in this county\\nin 1803. Elizabeth (Pollock) Stitt was a daughter of Thomas and Helen (Knox) Pol-\\nlock. They had a family of seventeen children, eight of whom are now living.\\nStopp, Squire WiUiam, Rimersburg p. o., was born in Northampton county in 1823,\\nand was a son of Daniel and Catherine (Fhck) Stopp, who settled in Madison, where\\nCatharine died in 1832. They had a family of six children, four of whom are now, liv-\\ning. Daniel was an early blacksmith, and served as a justice of the peace from 1847\\nuntil the time of his death in 1879. He was born on April 22, 1797. He retained a\\nregister of almanacs and valuable notes from 1832 to the time of his death. William\\nwas married in 1846 to Mary Benninger, of Madison. They had a family of six chil-\\ndren David, James, Susan C., Norman, Margaret Jane, and George. William served\\nas a justice from 1872 to 1877, and from 1877 to 1882, and was elected in 1882 for a\\nterm of five years. He was an early farmer and has been engaged in blacksmithing\\nsince 1848.\\nStover, C. G. W., Callensburg p. o.. Licking, was a son of Samuel and Sarah (Haw-\\nser) Stover, and was born in Venango county, on January 18, 1833, and came to Clar-\\nion county in 1844. He has been twice married. His first wife was Rebecca A. Cox,.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0835.jp2"}, "810": {"fulltext": "liv History of Clarion County.\\nwho died on May ii, 1873. They had a family of seven children, six of whom are\\nliving Warren C, Thomas E., Lottie M., George W., Nelson and Rebecca A. He was\\nmarried the second time in February, 1875, to Mary E. Keister. They have had five\\nchildren Grace L., Waldo, Samuel G., Mary G., and Maud D., all of whom are now\\nliving. Mr. Stover enlisted in August, 1861, in Company A, One Hundred and Third\\nPennsylvania Regiment, re-enlisted in 1864, was taken prisoner on April 20, 1864, at\\nPlymouth, N. C; was in Andersonville prison for almost nine months. He commenced\\nthe building of boats in 1869, and built the saw-mill which he now owns and runs in 1885\\nor 1886, on the Clarion River.\\nStrotman, Amos A., Valley p. o., Ashland, is a farmer and was born in Elk township.\\nPa, on March i, 1852, and was a son of William and Lavina (Dahle) Strotman. He\\nwas reared in Elk, and settled in Ashland in 1878, and cleared and improved the farm\\nwhich he now occupies. He was married in 1878 to Lizzie, a daughter of John and\\nCatharine (Horn) Hogue, of Venango county. They have had two children Perry M.,\\nand Hattie E.\\nStrotman, William, Valley p. o.. Elk, is a farmer, and \\\\va.s born in Hanover, Germany,\\non December 22, 1823. He was a son of Conrad and Charlotte (Wherman) Strotman,\\nwho settled in Elk township in 1833, on what is now known as the Timmerman farm,\\nwhere they died. They had two children, William and Louisa. William Strotman set-\\ntled on the farm which he now occupies in 1846, and cleared and improved the same.\\nHe was married in 1845 t\u00c2\u00b0 Lovina Dahle. They have had ten children, seven of whom\\nare now living William, Henry, Amos, Jane, Mary A., Samuel and Edward. Lovina\\nwas a daughter of J acob and Sarah Dahle.\\nStroup, R. F., Fisher p. o.. Mill Creek; one of the young and thrifty farmers of Mill\\nCreek, and owning a farm of 100 acres, was born in Clarion county in i860. He was\\nmarried in 1884 to Annie L. Wing. They have had one child, Philip Shirly (deceased).\\nHis father, \\\\V. L. Stroup, was born in 1826, and married Sarah Jane Teats, who was born\\nin 1831. W. L. Stroup enlisted in 1861 in Company H, One Hundred and Third Penn-\\nsylvania Volunteers, was taken prisoner at Plymouth, N. C, and died at Andersonville\\nprison.\\nSummerville, John F., M. D., Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Porter township on\\nJanuary 17, 1857, and is now a practicing physician at Monroeville, and a graduate of\\ndie University of Michigan on June 30, 1881. His parents were J. A. and Laura (Sage)\\nSummerville, formerly of Armstrong county. John F. was married on December 21,\\n1880, to Hannah J. Moore, a daughter of John and Hannah (Reed) Moore, of Ann\\nArbor, Mich. They have had two children Ford M. and Maud L.\\nSummerville, J. A., Catfish p. o.. East Brady, was born near Kittanning, Armstrong\\ncounty, in 1883, and was a son of John and Catharine (Ferguson) Summerville, and a\\ngrandson of James Summerville and Sarah Scott. The grandfather came from Ireland\\nand settled in Fayette county where he married Sarah Scott. From there he moved\\nwest of the Allegheny River into Armstrong county in 1795, where he resided until the\\ntime of his death, which occurred in 1854. His wife died in 1827. Joseph A. was\\nmarried in J856 to Laura Sage, of Armstrong county. She died in 1876, leaving a\\nfamily of six children John F., William J., Thompson B., Joel E., Mary A., Maggie\\nC. He then married his second wife, Mary C. Scott, in 1877. They had five children\\nViola, Annie L., Forrest B., Roy Scott, and Denny. Joseph A. settled in Clarion\\ncounty in 1856, and commenced business life as a teacher. He fitted himself for a phy-\\nsician and then chose farming as an occupation, and is now engaged in that enterprise\\nand surveying, and is a very prominent man in his county.\\nSwitzer, Samuel, Knox p. o., Beaver, was born in Clarion county. Pa., where he now\\nresides, on May 21, 1835. He is a farmer and now owns a farm of ninety acres. His\\nparents were Jacob and Susannah (Swab) Switzer. Mr. Switzer came from Germany to\\nthe United States about 1801. Samuel Switzer was married in May, 1866, to Mary John-\\nson, a daughter of Peter and Christina (Hale) Johnson. They have had eight children\\nMatilda, James E., Clara, Lissetta, Calvin, Florence E., Albert, and Elmer.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0836.jp2"}, "811": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. Ivii\\nPa., in 1877, where he has since resided, and established a large and lucrative practice.\\nHe was married in 1880 to Ella Carson, of Clarion county. Pa. They have had one\\nchild Byron. His father, Robert Walker, was born in Ireland in 1809, and came to\\nAmerica (with his father John, who was a staunch follower of Robert Emmet, was\\nthreatened with arrest for expressing his opinions, to avoid which he came to America).\\nRobert married Jane Porter, of Connecticut.\\nWallace, Dr. R. S., East Brady, was born in Armstrong county in 1832, and was a\\nson of Dr. S. S. and Martha (Craig) Wallace. Dr. R. S. received an academic educa-\\ntion and studied medicine with his father, and was graduated from the Jefferson Medi-\\ncal College in Philadelphia in 1855, and settled in the practice of his profession with\\nhis father at Brady s Bend. At the death of his father, in 1870, he took charge of the\\nbusiness until 1872, when he removed to East Brady, where he settled in the practice\\nof his profession, and became engaged in a general drug and prescription business under\\nthe firm name of Drs. R. S. and J. A. Wallace. Dr. R. S. became sole proprietor in\\n1880. He was married in 1859 to Adda Newlon, of Clarion county. They have had\\ntwo daughters Cora and Amie. Dr. S. S. Wallace was born in 1801 and died in 1870,\\nleaving a widow and six children.\\nWalters, Susan, Callensburg p. o.. Licking, was born in Berks county on January 9,\\n1829, and was married on February 27, 1845, to Samuel Walters (deceased), who was\\na son of Daniel Walters. Mrs. Walters has been a resident of Clarion county for forty-\\nfive years.\\nWarnick, William A., New Maysville p. o., Redbank, an extensive farmer, and cattle\\ngrower and dealer, was born in Ireland in 1833, and was a son of John and Elizabeth\\nWarnick. Elizabeth died in Ireland in 1845. Her maiden name was Alcorn. John,\\nwith his family of six children, emigrated to America in 1846 and settled in the town of\\nRedbank, Pa. The children were Mary, William, Martha, George, John, and Ann.\\nThe father married for his second wife Elizabeth Moore. They had one child Nancy\\nPeoples. John, sr., who was born in 1801 in the County Donegal, Ireland, died in\\n1878. George and John, jr., enlisted, John in Company I, Sixty-second Regiment, and\\nGeorge in the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. William\\nA. was married in February, 1859, to Mary Ann Yeany. They have a family ot ten\\nchildren, nine sons and one daughter Elizabeth Ann, John W., Alfred C, Robert W.^\\nAndrew J., Edward M., McCurdy C, James A., Grant R., and Ola Blaine. John, jr.,.\\nwas a graduate from the State Normal School at Edinboro, Pa., and also from the\\nCommercial College at Titusville. Mary was a daughter of John and Elizabeth\\n(Swartz) Yeany.\\nWatson, David, Scotch Hill p. o., Farmington, was born in Franklin county. Pa.,\\nin the year 1780. Margaret Boyd, his wife, was born in Ireland and came to this\\ncountry with her parents. They were married at Highland Furnace on June 15, 1824,\\nand came to Scotch Hill that same year. Their children were Eliza, David B., Betsey,,\\nand one child who died in infancy. David Watson died on December 17, 1863, and\\nhis wife Margaret died on November 25, 1830. David B. was born on August 16, 1827.\\nIn June, 1851, he married Helen Rutherford, who bore him nine children, six of whom\\nare now living. Mr. Watson has been a lumberman, merchant, and farmer, and has.\\nbeen successful in each. He has been a justice of the peace for several years, having\\nbeen twice elected to that office. Prior to 1856 he was a Democrat, but after that\\nchanged to the Republican. Latterly, however, he has had a strong tendency toward\\nthe Greenback party.\\nWeaver, Charles, Fryburg p. o., Washington, was born in Washington township on\\nDecember 15, 1832. He is the fourth child of a family of seven children born to Sebas-\\ntian and Mary (Greenwalt) Weaver, one of the early settlers of this place. His life was\\nspent on the farm until 1865, when he became a farmer. At the age of twenty-five\\nyears he married Sarah A. Brandon, a daughter of Samuel Brandon, They have had\\nten children. Mr. Weaver was elected judge of the county in 1882, and has faithfully\\nserved his constituents in that office ever since. He is a self-made man, having no", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0837.jp2"}, "812": {"fulltext": "liv History of Clarion County.\\nwho died on May ii, 1873. They had a family of seven children, six of whom are\\nliving Warren C, Thomas E., Lottie M., George W., Nelson and Rebecca A. He was\\nmarried the second time in February, 1875, to Mary E. Keister. They have had five\\nchildren Grace L., Waldo, Samuel G., Mary G., and Maud D., all of whom are now\\nhving. Mr. Stover enlisted in August, i86r, in Company A, One Hundred and Third\\nPennsylvania Regiment, re-enlisted in 1864, was taken prisoner on April 20, 1864, at\\nPlymouth, N. C; was in Andersonville prison for almost nine months. He commenced\\nthe building of boats in 1869, and built the saw-mill which he now owns and runs in 1885\\nor 1886, on the Clarion River.\\nStrotman, Amos A., Valley p. o., Ashland, is a farmer and was born in Elk township,\\nPa, on March i, 1852, and was a son of William and Lavina (Dahle) Strotman. He\\nwas reared in Elk, and settled in Ashland in 1878, and cleared and improved the farm\\nwhich he now occupies. He was married in 1878 to Lizzie, a daughter of John and\\nCatharine (Horn) Hogue, of Venango county. They have had two children Perry M.,\\nand Hattie E.\\nStrotman, William, Valley p. o.. Elk, is a farmer, and was born in Hanover, Germany,\\non December 22, 1823. He was a son of Conrad and Charlotte (Wherman) Strotman,\\nwho settled in Elk township in 1833, on what is now known as the Timmerman farm,\\nwhere they died. They had two children, William and Louisa. William Strotman set-\\ntled on the farm which he now occupies in 1846, and cleared and improved the same.\\nHe was married in 1845 to Lovina Dahle. They have had ten children, seven of whom\\nare now living William, Henry, Amos, Jane, Mary A., Samuel and Edward. Lovina\\nwas a daughter of J acob and Sarah Dahle.\\nStroup, R. F., Fisher p. o.. Mill Creek one of the young and thrifty farmers of Mill\\nCreek, and owning a farm of 100 acres, was born in Clarion county in i860. He was\\nmarried in 1884 to Annie L. Wing. They have had one child, Philip Shirly (deceased).\\nHis father, \\\\V. L. Stroup, was born in 1826, and married Sarah Jane Teats, who was born\\nin 1831. W. L. Stroup enlisted in 1861 in Company H, One Hundred and Third Penn-\\nsylvania Volunteers, was taken prisoner at Plymouth, N. C, and died at Andersonville\\nprison.\\nSummerville, John F., M. D., Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Porter township on\\nJanuary 17, 1857, and is now a practicing physician at Monroeville, and a graduate of\\ndie University of Michigan on June 30, 1881. His parents were J. A. and Laura (Sage)\\nSummerville, formerly of Armstrong county. John F. was married on December 21,\\n1880, to Hannah J. Moore, a daughter of John and Hannah (Reed) Moore, of Ann\\nArbor, Mich. They have had two children Ford M. and Maud L.\\nSummerville, J. A., Catfish p. o.. East Brady, was born near Kittanning, Armstrong\\ncounty, in 1883, and was a son of John and Catharine (Ferguson) Summerville, and a\\ngrandson of James Summerville and Sarah Scott. The grandfather came from Ireland\\nand settled in Fayette county where he married Sarah Scott. From there he moved\\nwest of the Allegheny River into Armstrong county in 1795, where he resided until the\\ntime of his death, which occurred in 1854. His wife died in 1827. Joseph A. was\\nmarried in J856 to Laura Sage, of Armstrong county. She died in 1876, leaving a\\nfamily of six children John F., William J., Thompson B., Joel E., Mary A., Maggie\\nC. He then married his second wife, Mary C. Scott, in 1877. They had five children\\nViola, Annie L., Forrest B., Roy Scott, and Denny. Joseph A. settled in Clarion\\ncounty in 1856, and commenced business life as a teacher. He fitted himself for a phy-\\nsician and then chose farming as an occupation, and is now engaged in that enterprise\\nand surveying, and is a very prominent man in his county.\\nSwitzer, Samuel, Knox p. o., Beaver, was born in Clarion county, Pa., where he now\\nresides, on May 21, 1835. He is a farmer and now owns a farm of ninety acres. His\\nparents were Jacob and Susannah (Swab) Switzer. Mr. Switzer came from Germany to\\nthe United States about 1801. Samuel Switzer was married in May, 1866, to Mary John-\\nson, a daughter of Peter and Christina (Hale) Johnson. They have had eight children\\nMatilda, James E., Clara, Lissetta, Calvin, Florence E., Albert, and Elmer.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0838.jp2"}, "813": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. Ivii\\nPa., in 1877, where he has since resided, and estabhshed a large and lucrative practice.\\nHe was married in 1880 to Ella Carson, of Clarion county, Pa. They have had one\\nchild Byron. His father, Robert Walker, was born in Ireland in 1809, and came to\\nAmerica (with his father John, who was a staunch follower of Robert Emmet, was\\nthreatened with arrest for expressing his opinions, to avoid which he came to America).\\nRobert married Jane Porter, of Connecticut.\\nWallace, Dr. R. S., East Brady, was born in Armstrong county in 1832, and was a\\nson of Dr. S. S. and Martha (Craig) Wallace. Dr. R. S. received an academic educa-\\ntion and studied medicine with his father, and was graduated from the Jefiferson Medi-\\ncal College in Philadelphia in 1855, and settled in the practice of his profession with\\nhis father at Brady s Bend. At the death of his father, in 1870, he took charge of the\\nbusiness until 1872, when he removed to East Brady, where he settled in the practice\\nof his profession, and became engaged in a general drug and prescription business under\\nthe firm name of Drs. R. S. and J. A. Wallace. Dr. R. S. became sole proprietor in\\n1880. He was married in 1859 to Adda Newlon, of Clarion county. They have had\\ntwo daughters Cora and Amie. Dr. S. S. Wallace was born in 1801 and died in 1870,\\nleaving a widow and six children.\\nWalters, Susan, Callensburg p. o., Licking, was born in Berks county on January 9,\\n1829, and was married on February 27, 1845, Samuel Walters (deceased), who was\\na son of Daniel Walters. Mrs. Walters has been a resident of Clarion county for forty-\\nfive years.\\nWarnick, William A., New Maysville p. o., Redbank, an extensive farmer, and cattle\\ngrower and dealer, was born in Ireland in 1833, and was a son of John and Elizabeth\\nWarnick. Elizabeth died in Ireland in 1845. Her maiden name was Alcorn. John,\\nwith his family of six children, emigrated to America in 1846 and settled in the town of\\nRedbank, Pa. The children were Mary, William, Martha, George, John, and Ann.\\nThe father married for his second wife Elizabeth Moore. They had one child Nancy\\nPeoples. John, sr., who was born in 1801 in the County Donegal, Ireland, died in\\n1878. George and John, jr., enlisted, John in Company I, Sixty-second Regiment, and\\nGeorge in the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. William\\nA. was married in February, 1859, to Mary Ann Yeany. They have a family ot ten\\nchildren, nine sons and one daughter Elizabeth Ann, John W., Alfred C, Robert W.^\\nAndrew J., Edward M., McCurdy C, James A., Grant R., and Ola Blaine. John, jr.,\\nwas a graduate from the State Normal School at Edinboro, Pa., and also from the\\nCommercial College at Titusville. Mary was a daughter of John and Elizabeth\\n(Swartz) Yeany.\\nWatson, David, Scotch Hill p. o., Farmington, was born in Franklin county. Pa.,\\nin the year 1780. Margaret Boyd, his wife, was born in Ireland and came to this\\ncountry with her parents. They were married at Highland Furnace on June 15, 1824,\\nand came to Scotch Hill that same year. Their children were Eliza, David B., Betsey,\\nand one child who died in infancy. David Watson died on December 17, 1863, and\\nhis wife Margaret died on November 25, 1830. David B. was born on August 16, 1827.\\nIn June, 1851, he married Helen Rutherford, who bore him nine children, six of whom\\nare now hving. Mr. Watson has been a lumberman, merchant, and farmer, and has\\nbeen successful in each. He has been a justice of the peace for several years, having\\nbeen twice elected to that office. Prior to 1856 he was a Democrat, but after that\\nchanged to the Republican. Latterly, however, he has had a strong tendency toward\\nthe Greenback party.\\nWeaver, Charles, Fryburg p. o., Washington, was born in Washington township on\\nDecember 15, 1832. He is the fourth child of a family of seven children born to Sebas-\\ntian and Mary (Greenwalt) Weaver, one of the early settlers of this place. His life was\\nspent on the farm until 1865, when he became a farmer. At the age of twenty-five\\nyears he married Sarah A. Brandon, a daughter of Samuel Brandon. They have had\\nten children. Mr. Weaver was elected judge of the county in 1882, and has faithfully\\nserved his constituents in that office ever since. He is a self-made man, having no", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0839.jp2"}, "814": {"fulltext": "Iviii History of Clarion County.\\nearly advantages, but has built for himself a comfortable home, and owns an excellent\\nfarm of 125 acres. He was brought up in the Catholic faith.\\nWeaver, Conrad, Shippensville p. o.. Elk, is a farmer, and was born in Washington\\ntownship. Pa., on March i, 1834. He was a son of Charles and Elizabeth (Aaron)\\nWeaver. His paternal grandfather, Anthony Weaver, was a pioneer of Washington,\\nand his maternal grandfather, Joseph Aaron, was a pioneer of Redbank, Pa. Charles\\nWeaver had a family of three children Conrad, Joseph, and Jacob. Conrad settled in\\nElk, Pa., in 1861. His first wife was Ellen Lineman, a daughter of Edward Lineman.\\nThey had two children William and Elizabeth. His second wife was Mary Rapp, a\\ndaughter of Jacob Rapp. They had four children Mena, Anna, Maggie, and Anthony,\\nHe was married the third time to Margaret Colhepp, a daughter of Peter Colhepp.\\nThey have had a family of seven children Emma, John, James, Flora, Peter, Albert,\\nand Josephine.\\nWeiser, Jacob, Tylersburg p. o., Farmington, the seventh of ten children of Jacob\\nand Mary Weiser, was born in Mifflin county. Pa., on December 5, 1817. In the year\\n1827 the family moved to Armstrong county. Pa. At the age of twenty-three years\\nJacob was married to Mary Ann Kuntz. They had a family of ten children, eight of\\nwhom are now living. In 1854 Jacob and his family came to Farmington township.\\nPa., where they have since resided, and where, by honesty and industry, Mr. Weiser\\nhas acquired an enviable position among his fellow citizens. Although not an active\\npolitical worker he takes considerable interest in township affairs, and is a staunch Dem-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ocrat. In church life he is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and was\\nformerly deacon and elder of the society. Mr. Weiser died on the 24th of October,\\n1886.\\nWelty, R. F., New Maysville p. 0., Millville, a general merchant and postmaster of\\nNew Maysville, was born in Westmoreland county in 1849, and settled in Clarion county\\nAugust 4, 1882, and was appointed postmaster in April, 1886. He was married on\\non October 10, 1878, to Annie E. Mechling, who was born in Westmoreland county in\\n1857. They have had three children Josiah M., born November 28, 1880; Clarissa\\nMay, born November 6, 1884; and Catherine E., born May 12, 1882. Annie was a\\ndaughter of J. J. and Catherine Mechling. The grandfather, George Mechling, and his\\nwife, Elizabeth Mechling, of the same name, but of no relation, both highly esteemed,\\nlived to a good old age. The grandfather, Adam Tinsman, died at a good old age,\\nrespected by all who knew him. The grandmother, Annie Overholt, is yet living, at\\nthe advanced age of eighty years, and few of the young women of to-day can do the\\nneat needle-work which she now does. The children of J. J. and Catherine Mechling\\nare George W., Annie F., Adam Q., Hattie K., Orange Judd, AUie W., and Fidelia,\\nwho died at the age of nine months. Robert France Welty was a son of Daniel and\\nBarbara (Bierer) Welty, who were born in Westmoreland county, he in 1806 and died\\nin 1874, his wife having died in 1853. They had a family of twelve children, ten of\\nwhom are now living. William B., enlisted in Company C, First Pennsylvania Regi-\\nment, in 1861, and was killed at the battle of Antietam. The ten children now living\\nare John H., Daniel, jr., Frank S., Thomas J., Robert F., Lizzie C, Jennie B., Annie\\nB., Sue M., and Clarissa. Frederick died at the age of nine months. The grandfather,\\nHenry Welty, settled in Westmoreland county with his wife, Elizabeth Welty, and a\\nfamily of twelve children. He died at the age of seventy-six years. His grandfather,\\nFrederick Bierer, came from Wiirtemburg, Germany, and also settled in Westmoreland\\ncounty, and died in 1850. His wife, Elizabeth (Lafferty) Bierer, lived to the age of\\nninety years. They had a family of ten children.\\nWeter, L. C, Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Salem township on August 15,\\n1851, and is an oil producer. His parents were Henry and Fannie (Fry) Weter, of\\nSalem. He was married on July 4, 1872, to Mary Weter, a daughter of Levi and\\nViana (Switzer) Weter, of St. Petersburg. They had two children Myrde Belle and\\nCharles Edward.\\nWetter, George, Fisher p. o., Mill Creek, a son of Christopher and Elizabeth (Buhn)\\nWetter. He was born in Germany in 18 15, and came to America in 1836. He", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0840.jp2"}, "815": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. lix\\nenlisted in 1837 for the Florida war, and served under Colonel Lawson. He settled in\\nClarion county in 1843, and was married in 1850 to Sarah Pierce, of Clarion county.\\nThey have had a family of six children Jane E., Mary E., Sarah E., Alice B., George\\nB., Mc. (deceased), and one who died in infancy. Mr. Wetter is a farmer, and now\\nowns a farm of one hundred and twenty acres.\\nWhitehill, G. W., Church p. o., Beaver township, was a son of David and Rachel\\n(Callihan) Whitehill, and was born in Clarion county in 1844. His wife was Maria B.\\nHugus, a daughter of Henry and Mary Hugus. They had a family of three children\\nCora Lillian, Blanche Virginia, and David Henry. Mr. Whitehill enlisted in 1863 in\\nthe First Battalion Pennsylvania Cavalry and served his full time. He is now engaged\\nin saw-milling, lumbering, and farming, owning in all about fifty-five acres.\\nWhitehill, B. C, Fisher p. o.. Mill Creek, was a son of Barton and May (Allison)\\nWhitehill, and was born in Clarion county in 1850. He was married in 1878 to Sarah\\nE. Davis, a daughter of William Davis, of Mill Creek. They have had a family of five\\nchildren Mary E., William D., Harry C, Effie J., and Bessie (deceased). Mr. White-\\nhill is a farmer, and owns a farm of sixty- eight acres. He now holds the office of\\ncollector, and is on his second term as constable. His maternal grandfather, Robert\\nAllison, was a soldier in the War of 181 2.\\nWhitling, Edward, Lamartine p. o., Salem, a druggist of Salem, Pa., was born in\\nSalem township. Clarion county. Pa., on July 15, 1839. He enlisted in Company E,\\n78th Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19, 1861, served for over three years, and was\\ndischarged on November 4, 1864. He was in General Sherman s army, and in his\\nvictorious march to Atlanta. Pie was appointed postmaster in 1874 and held that\\noffice for twelve years. He was a son of Frederick and Catherine (Ritts) Whitling.\\nHe was married on February 14, 1865, to Elizabeth Bushey, who was born in Venango\\ncounty, Pa., and was a daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Gardner) Bushey. They\\nhad a family of ten children born to them Alice, Mary, Frank, Cora B., Charles E.,\\nClara, Theresa, Emma, Bertha, and Margie.\\nWhitling, George, St. Petersburg p. o., Richland, was born in Germany on Decem-\\nber, 1820, and came to the United States with his parents, Henry and Dorothy Whit-\\nling, in 1828, and came to Clarion county in 1832. George is a farmer, and owns a\\nfarm of 180 acres. He has been supervisor several terms; also school director. He\\nwas married in December, 1840, to Hattie Imbody, a daughter of Daniel Imbody, of\\nClarion county. They have had a family of nine children William D., John H.,\\nDaniel, Katie (wife of Samuel Ettenger), Samuel, Edward, Mary, Manda, and Francis.\\nWhitling, William H., St. Petersburg p. o., Richland, was born in Salem township.\\nClarion county. Pa., on September, 22, 1847, and is a druggist in St. Petersburg. His\\nparents were Frederick and Catherine (Ritts) Whitling. He married Susie Sepler, of\\nSt. Petersburg. They have had five children born to them Sadie C, Mirtie A., Min-\\nnie R., Esma, and Stanton T.\\nWhitmer, Henry, Callensburg p. o., Licking, (deceased), was born in Clarion county\\nin 1822, and was married in 1849 Rebecca Boyer. They had a family of six chil-\\ndren, five of whom are now living Isaiah (deceased), Mary C., Solomon S., Alvin H.,\\nWilliam O., and Bennet. Mr. Whitmer followed tne business of farming the greater\\npart of his life, and died in 1876. He was a consistent member of the Lutheran\\nChurch. At the time of his death he owned a farm of 102 acres.\\nWiant, Rev. Jacob Fair, Monroe p. o., Beaver, was born in Porter township, Pa.,\\non December 17, 1839. His parents were Jacob and Hannah (Mays) Wiant. Mr.\\nWiant came from Northampton county in 181 7, and his wife from Luzerne county in\\n1823. Rev. J. F. Wiant was married on July 2, 1872, to Mary C. McGinnes, a\\ndaughter, of Andrew and Catharine (Axer) McGinnes, of Lancaster county. They\\nhave three children Anna C, Henry H., and Sarah E. Rev. J. F. Wiant is a minister\\nof the Reformed Church. He was ordained June 22, 1869, and was pastor of the\\nSouth Bend charge, Armstrong county, until February, 1876, when he entered the\\nagency of the Reformed Church Publication Board, in which capacity he served the", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0841.jp2"}, "816": {"fulltext": "Ix History of Clarion County.\\nchurch for two years, after which he organized the St. Luke s Reformed Mission, at\\nLancaster, Pa., which he served until he was called to the Beaver, Clarion county\\ncharge in April, 1880, of which he is now pastor.\\nWick, Dr. J. Addison, New Bethlehem, was born in Rockville, Clarion county, Pa.,\\non March 22, 1846. He was a son of Dr. Henry M. and Mary (Foster) Wick, who\\nwere born in Armstrong county, Pa. Dr. Henry Wick died on March 15, 1874, leav-\\ning a widow, and two children James A. and Mary E. (now Mrs. Dr. G. H. Wood).\\nDr. James A. was married in 1878 to Blanche P. Abrams, of Clarion county, Pa. They\\nhave had a family of two children Helena B. and Henry M. Dr. James A. was\\ngraduated from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia in 1870, and setded in\\nNew Bethlehem, Pa., in the practice of his profession as physician and surgeon.\\nWile, C. S., Blair s Corners p. o., Beaver, was born in Berks county, Pa., on July i6\\n1835. He is a farmer, and owns and occupies a farm of ninety acres. His parents\\nwere Charles and Lydia (Cape) Wile, who came to Clarion county, Pa., in 1840. C. S.\\nWile was married on March 12, 1857, to Catherine Ault, a daughter of Nichols and\\nMagdaline (Bickbract) Ault, of Washington township. Pa. They have had a family of\\neight children Isaac, George W., Annie M. (wife of Michael Barris), B. M., Emanuel\\nA., Melissa J., Samuel H., and Francis A.\\nWiles, Dr. D. E., Rimersburg, a physician and surgeon of Rimersburg, was born in\\nPetrolia, Butler county, and read medicine with Dr. R. S. Wallace, and graduated from\\nthe Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia in 1884, after which he settled in Rimers-\\nburg in the practice of his profession. He was married in 1883 to Ida F. Anderson, a\\ndaughter of Watson and Eliza Anderson. D. E. Wiles was a son of Simon, and Eliza-\\nbeth Wiles. Elizabeth died in 1876, leaving a family of six children.\\nWilkinson, Thomas, North Pine Grove p. o., Farmington, was born in Lancaster\\ncounty on April 12, 1834, and was a twin brother to John Wilkinson, and was one of\\nseven children of William and Margaret Wilkinson. At the age of twenty-one years,\\nThomas married Isabella Black. They had a family of ten children. At an early day\\nthe family of William came to Farmington and settled in the east part of the town, where\\nhe now resides at an advanced age. Thomas is a successful farmer, having one hundred\\nacres, owned and earned by himself. The family are members of the Roman Catholic\\nChurch Society. In political life Thomas has taken an active interest, and is by choice\\na Democrat, although he has no aspiration for town office.\\nWilson, Rev. William J., Callensburg p. o., pastor of the Presbyterian churches of\\nCallensburg, Concord, and Bethesda, was a son of James and Martha Wilson, who em-\\nigrated from the north of Ireland in 1844, and settled at Truittsburg, where their third\\nson, William J., was born on November 13, 1844. In 1863 he enlisted with the three\\nmonths militia on the invasion of Pennsylvania, and on February 12, 1864, enlisted in\\nCompany D, One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, participated in\\nmany engagements, and was present at the surrender of General Lee, was mustered out\\non July II, 1865. In September 1865, he entered Westminster College at New Wil-\\nmington, Pa. He left college in the fall of 1869, and taught school at Richard ville,\\nJefferson county, until the following spring, when he entered the Iron City Commercial\\nCollege at Pittsburgh. In the spring of 187 1 he opened a select school at New Beth-\\nlehem. He was married September 16, 1872, to Alice E. Reid, a daughter of John M.\\nand Caroline Reid, who was born on March 11, 1852. Immediately after marriage\\nthey both entered college, she being the first married lady who had matriculated at\\nWestminster. He graduated on June ig, 1873, and the following September entered\\nthe Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny City, and in April, 1875, was licensed\\nto preach. He was graduated from the seminary on April 20, 1S76, and was ordained\\nby the Presbytery at Kittanning on June 14, 1876, and became pastor of the churches\\nof Union and Midway. On November 21, 1877, their son Charles Reid was born.\\nMr. Wilson and family went to Malvern, Iowa, in 1879, where he preached for one\\nyear, and in 1880 returned to Clarion county and settled in Callensburg. In April, 1886,\\nhe began the publication of a local sixteen-page church monthly called the Callenslnirg\\nVisitor.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0842.jp2"}, "817": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. Ixi\\nWilson, William N., Shippensville p. o., Elk, is a harnessmaker and hardware dealer,\\nand was born in Bald Eagle, Centre county, on April lo, 1837, and was a son of John\\nand Sarah (McElravy) Wilson. He settled in Shippensville in 1844, and learned the\\nharnessmaking business with R. C. Patton, and embarked in business for himself in 1856.\\nHe was married on January 21, 1881, to Mary J. Hosterman. They have three children\\nliving Chapin E., Hattie M.,and Carrie E.; and two dead Emma May and Johnnie.\\nMary J. was a daughter of David and Susan (Reeser) Hosterman, of Shippensville, Pa.\\nWilson H. C, Callensburg p. o., Licking, was a son of Samuel and Sarah (Cullen)\\nWilson. Sarah was a daughter of Hugh Cullen, one of the early pioneers. He was\\nborn in Clarion county in 1830, and gave his attention to farming until 1861, when he\\nenlisted in the Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves was taken prisoner at the second battle\\nof Bull Run. He served three years and at the end of that time was honorably dis-\\ncharged. He was married in 1853 to Elizabeth F. Young, who was born in 1833. She\\ndied in 1885, leaving a family of ten children Sheldon E., Mary F., Sarah J., Chapin\\nY., Margaret T., Kizzie L., Bertha E., Alice B., Carrie A., and Emma G. Mr. Wilson\\nhas been justice of the peace for eight years. His father, Samuel, was born in 1795 and\\ndied in 1875.\\nWilson, James Goheen, Leatherwood p. o., New Bethlehem, was born in Porter\\ntownship, Pa., in 1830, and was a son of David and Elizabeth (Goheen) Wilson. David\\nwas born in Centre county, Pa., in 1795, and died in 1873. His wife, Elizabeth, was\\nborn in Lancaster county, Pa., in 1804, and died in 1883. They were married in 1824,\\nand had a family of five children Caroline, born 1827; James G., and Penninah J.\\n(twins), born in 1830; David L., born in 1835; Nancy A., born in 1840; Caroline\\nmarried H. Longwill. He died in 1864, and she died in 1875, leaving three children\\nDavid W., James H., and Elmer E. Penninah married C. M. Sloan, in 1855 David\\nL., married Maggie F. Core, in 1861. James G. Wilson was married in 1865 to Annie\\nE. Core, both granddaughters of Rev. John Core, pastor of the Licking and Leather-\\nwood churches.\\nWingard, John, Mariasville p. o., Salem, was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, on\\nAugust 18, 1840, and came to Clarion, Pa., in 1863. He was a son of John and Bar-\\nbara Wingard, of Ohio. He is a farmer and now owns and occupies a farm of thirty-\\nsix acres. He was married on May 18; 1865, to Harriet Weter, a daughter of Henry\\nand Francis (Frey) Weter. John and Harriet had a family of five children William H.,\\nFrancis B., Hattie J., John P., and Sarah E.\\nWingard, Peter, Lamertine p. o., Salem, was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, on\\nMarch 31, 1848, and came with his parents Peter and Susan (Marbach) Wingard to\\nClarion county in 1856. He is now engaged in farming, and owns 175 acres. He was\\nmarried on December 23, 1869, to Susan Long, a daughter of George W., and Mary\\n(Schefter) Long, of Clarion county. Peter and Susan have had five children Dellie R.,\\nElizabeth E., Clyde H., George P., and Parmie A.\\nWireback, L J., M. D., St. Petersburg p. o., Richland, was born near line Lexing-\\nton, Bucks county, Pa., on August 5, 1839, and came to Clarion county in 1876. He\\nis a physician and surgeon, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania of the\\n-class of 66. His parents were Benjamin G., and Catharine (Bitting) Wireback. Ben-\\njamin was born in Lehigh county, and his wife in Bucks county, both of whom are now\\n-dead. L J. Wireback was married on July i, 1868, to Maggie E. Fisher, a daughter of\\nthe late Rev. P. S. and Verona (Heckert) Fisher, of Sellarsville, Bucks county. Pa. They\\nhave five children now living Benjamin F., Madge E., M. A. Verona, Joseph H., and\\nNevin E. The doctor is a famous mathematician, and devotes most of his leisure time\\nto the study of this beautiful science.\\nWishey, John D., Fisher p. o., Mill Creek, was a son of John and Hannah (Schultz)\\nWishey, and was born in Mill Creek, Clarion county. Pa., in 1845, and married in 1869\\nto Jane E. Wetter. They have had two children Bertha Chloe, and one who died in\\ninfancy. Mr. Wishey is a blacksmith by trade, and is also engaged in farming, owning\\na farm of ninety-eight acres. His father was born in 1795, and died in 187 1, and his\\nmother, who was born in 1806, died in 1882.", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0843.jp2"}, "818": {"fulltext": "Ixii History of Clarion County.\\nWolf, Philip, Newmansville p. o., Washington, a native of Germany, was born on^\\nJune 13, 1805, and when about twenty-eight years old came to this country, and located\\nin Lancaster county, where he married Barbara Emert. They came to Washington in\\n1840, where they have since lived, and where their children were born. They have had\\nthe following children Peter, John, Caroline, Margaret, David A., Andrew, Mary, Dor-\\ncas E., Jacob and Sarah. When the family first came here they built a cabin in the\\nwoods on a hundred acre tract that cost $2 per acre. To pay for this land Mr. Wolf\\nworked at the furnace when not employed on his farm. By industry and energy the\\ntask was accomplished, and he now enjoys the fruits of that early toil, surrounded by all\\nthe comforts of life. The family are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.\\nWolley, jr., Thomas, Tylersburg p. o., Farmington, was born in the year 1840, and is\\na native of this township. He was the third of a family of twelve children born to\\n.Thomas and Christina Wolley. He is one of the energetic, progressive men of the\\ntownship in its political affairs he is especially active, and is rarely without some office.\\nDuring the last five years he has been overseer of the poor. At the age af twenty-three\\nhe married Anna M. Smith. They have had a family of six children. Mr. Wolley\\nstarted hfe poor, but by industry and thrift has accuinulated a comfortable fortune. The\\nfamily are all members of the Roman Catholic Church.\\nWood, George, Valley p. o., Elk, is a farmer, and was born in Wyoming county, N.\\nY., on October 8, 1819, and was a son of Barnard and Hannah (Pullman) Wood. He\\nsettled in Elk township in 1841, and in 1843 located on the farm which he now occu-\\npies, and which he cleared and improved himself He was married in 1843 to Julia A.,\\na daughter of Mark Doble, of Venango county They had a family of five children\\nAlbert C, Lydia C, Orvilla, George W., and John B. His second wife was Mary, a\\ndaughter of Henry and Margaret Helm, of Ashland. George has had by his second\\nmarriage the following children Charlie, Lucy M., Henry, Parmelia M., Lizzie D.,\\nElmer, and Siloma.\\nWood, Dr. George H., New Bethlehem, a physician and surgeon of the borough,\\nwas born in Schuylkill county in 1853, and attended medical lectures and graduated\\nfrom the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1880, and settled on New Beth-\\nlehem in the practice of his profession that same year. He married Mary E. Wick, a\\ndaughter of Dr. Henry M, and Mary (Foster) Wick, and a sister of Dr. J. A. Wick.\\nDr. George was a son of George and Hannah (Hilton) Wood, natives of Yorkshire,\\nEngland, who settled in Schuylkill county, where he died, leaving a widow and a family\\nof four children Joseph, Elizabeth, Alice, and George H.\\nWoodruff, Jennings H., New Bethlehem, an extensive granite monument and\\nmarble dealer, was born in Armstrong, Pa., September 3, 1855. He was a son of Rev.\\nEnos and Martha (Starr) Woodruff. Rev. Enos Woodruff was born in Kittanning,\\nArmstrong county. Pa., January 10, 1828; was baptized November 5, 1845; married\\nto Martha Starr December 19, 1846; ordained to the work of the gospel ministry April\\n26, i860; settled as pastor at Brady s Bend Baptist Church, Armstrong county. Pa.,\\nJanuary, i860; took the pastorate of the Sharpsburg Baptist Church April i, 1862.\\nDuring the war of 1864 he went into the service of U. S. Christian and labored among\\nthe dying and wounded soldiers, administering to their wants both temporal and spiritual,\\nand was among the hospitals in the South caring for the sick and wounded soldiers,\\ndistributing tracts, bibles, etc., and preaching to them and praying for them, writing\\nletters for them, etc. In the summer of 1864 he returned home to his family and\\nchurches, and labored earnestly in his early chosen work as a Baptist minister in sev-\\neral counties in western and central Pennsylvania, and died in 1876, leaving a widow\\nand three children Jennings H., Annie M., and Prof John B. John B. was born on\\nNovember 18, 1859. He is a graduate of the State Normal School of Indiana, Pa,\\nAt present he is principal of the schools at Leechburg, Armstrong county. Pa. Annie\\nM. was born January 11, 1857, and was married in 1883 to William Elvvood, of Indi-\\nana county Pa. In 1885 they went to Nebraska and taught school for a while, and\\nfinally located in Sherman county, Kan., buying a farm, and at present are at Newton,.\\nKan. They have had no children. Jennings H. Woodruft was married in Mechanics-", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0844.jp2"}, "819": {"fulltext": "Brief Personals. Ixiii\\nburg, Indiana county, Pa., October i8, 1876, to Miss Alice L. Davis, daughter of Ben-\\njamin C. and Elenor (Chauncy) Davis. She came of Welsh and English parents. In\\n1877 Jennings H. setded in Mechanicsburg and engaged in the marble business, and\\nin 1879 he removed to New Bethlehem, Pa., and engaged there in the granite and\\nmarble business. He has traveled for some of the largest granite quarries in the east,\\nand sold some of the largest and handsomest granite monuments in Western Pennsyl-\\nvania. They have had two children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Florence C, born June 30, 1878, in Mechanics-\\nburg, Indiana county. Pa., and Enos M., born August 20, 1881, in New Bethlehem,\\nPa.\\nWyon, James O., Callensburg p. o.. Licking, was born in Mifflin county in 1839, and\\ncame to Clarion county in 1846, and is a carpenter by trade. He enlisted in 1861 in\\nthe loth Pennsylvania Reserves; was taken prisoner at the batde of Fredericksburg;\\nwas wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, and served for three years and two months,\\nat the end of which time he was discharged. He was married in 1862 to Candos L.\\nDunkle. They have had one child Rhoda Pearl. In 1885 he embarked in the mer-\\ncantile business and opened a general store at Callensburg Bridge. His parents were\\nJames and Tinnie (Hitzel) Wyon. James was born in Mifflin county in 18 10, and\\ndied on August 2, 1877. His wife was born in 1803, and is now hving.\\nWray, James, Vowinckle p. o., Farmington, was the seventh child born to William\\nand Ellen (Boyd) Wray, a pioneer family in the northeast part of the township. James\\nwas born on October 13, 1847. His early life was spent on the farm, and in fact his\\nwhole life has been spent near the old Wray homestead. He was married in 1874 to\\nCatherine P., a daughter of Michael Walters. They had one child\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eliza Jane. James\\nWray was a lumberman, a business at which he has been very successful. Although\\nstill a young man he is strongly identified with the growth and prosperity of his town-\\nship. In its political affairs he takes no prominent part, other than for the general\\ngood. Mr. Wray is not connected with any church society, but the family attend the\\nPresbyterian Church.\\nWyre, George W., Fisher p. o.. Mill Creek, was born in Huntington county in 1833,\\nand setded in Clarion county in 1849. He was married in 1855 to Nancy McBride, a\\ndaughter of John McBride. They have had a family of eight children Flora (deceased),\\nSadie, Jennie, Inez, May, Rosa, Grace, and Maggie (deceased). Mr. Wyre is engaged\\nin carpentering and farming, and owns thirty-five acres. He enlisted in 1863 in the\\nSecond Heavy Artillery, afterwards consolidated with the One Hundred and Twelfth\\nPennsylvania Volunteers, and was wounded at the batde of Gettysburg. His parents\\nwere Jacob and Margaret (Herrick) Wyre.\\nYeany, jr., John, Shannondale p. o., Millville, a redred farmer and lumber dealer, and\\nat present a capitalist, was born in Lancaster county in 181 o, and was a son of John\\nYeany, who was born in Switzerland and settled in Lancaster county in 1805, and came\\nto Redbank in 1813 with a family of seven children, three of whom are now Uving\\nJohn, jr., Christine, and Jacob. John Yeany, jr., was married in 1834 to Elizabeth\\nSwartz, who died in January, 1874. They had a family of fourteen children, eight of\\nwhom are now living Christ, John, Jackson, Wilson, Peter, Mary Ann, Elvira, and\\nAmanda E. John, jr., married for his second wife Susanna Edder, in 1874. They have\\nhad four children Nettie May, Dora B., Charles E., and Alda. John, jr., at an early\\nage became a farmer, a lumber merchant and catde dealer, in all of which enterprises\\nhe has proved successful, and is now a retired capitalist.\\nYoung, John F., Valley p. o., Elk, is a farmer, and was born in Westmoreland\\ncounty. Pa., on July ti, 1821. He was a son of Joseph and Margaret (Treegard)\\nYoung. His maternal grandfather was William Treegard, a pioneer of Westmoreland\\ncounty. Pa., and a soldier in the Revolutionary War, who lost both arms while in the\\nservice of the Union. John F. Young setded in this township. Pa., in 1846, and cleared\\nand improved the farm on which he now resides. He has been married twice. His\\nfirst wife was Lovis Ohler, a daughter of Philip Ohler, of Elk, Pa. They have had one\\nchild Mary J. His second wife was Sarah, a daughter of John and Catharina (Dal-\\nrymple) Lewis, of Licking township, Clarion county, Pa. John F. and Sarah have", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0845.jp2"}, "820": {"fulltext": "Ixiv History of Clarion County.\\nhad eleven children, nine of whom are now living Sarah, Maggie (died March 2, 1878),\\nWilliam (died March 18, 1876), John, Elizabeth, James, Andrew C, Lora B., Robert,\\nHenry, and Zuella.\\nYung, Michael, East Brady, owner and proprietor of the old established Borough\\nRestaurant, where he still caters to the wants of his many friends and customers, was\\nborn at St. Ingbert, Kingdom of Prussia, on the Rhine, Germany, in 1844. He was a\\nson of Philip H. and Elizabeth (Schweitzer) Yung, who settled in Pennsylvania in 1846.\\nThey had a family of nine children, three of whom are now living George C., Appol-\\nlonia, and Michael. Michael married Mary Peters, of Dunkirk, N. Y. They have had\\neight children George W., August S., Pauline E., Rose F., Elizabeth E., Francis\\nXavier, Philip Henry, and Adolf Peter. Mr. Yung was a graduate of St. Vincent s\\nCollege, Westmoreland county, in 1865, and taught school for eleven years. He built\\nhis present fine business place in 1873, which was destroyed by fire in 1882, but which\\nhe rebuilt at once.\\nZeller, Henry, Tylersburg p. o., Farmington, the twelfth child of John and Elizabeth\\nZeller, was born in Elk township on February 2, 1832. When nineteen years of age\\nHenry left home and went to the southern part of the county, where he learned the\\ntrade of a miller. He remained there about two years, when he returned to his native\\ntownship. He was married in 1853 to Susan Cornish. They have had a family of\\nseven children. Henry Zeller is a self-made man. In his business as a miller he has\\nbeen quite successful, and now has retired from active business life. He resides in\\nFarmington township. Some years ago he purchased the old homestead farm in Elk\\ntownship, but has recently sold it. In political life he has no personal ambition, but is\\na staunch Republican. He is a member of the Evangelical Association Society, and\\nhis wife is a member of the United Brethren Church.\\nZesky, Charles J., East Brady p. o., was born in Allegheny county, Pa., in i860.\\nHe was a son of J. H. and Augusta (Sande) Zesky. J. H. was born at Frankfort-on-\\nthe-Main, and his wife was born at Glanstahl-Bremer. They came to America in 185 1\\nand settled in Allegheny county, where they both died, he in 1883, at the age of fifty-\\ntwo years, and his wife in 1868, at the age of forty-one years. They had a family of\\ntwo sons J. H. and C. J. Charles J. came to East Brady on September 9, 1878, as a\\njourneyman barber. He was married in 1880 to Ida C.Robb, who was born in Arm-\\nstrong county. Pa. They have had one son H. C. Zesky. He became engaged in\\nbusiness in 1880, and in 1882 he opened his well-fitted parlors to the public.", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0846.jp2"}, "821": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nALLEGHENY River as a highway, 62\\nAnderson, J. G., school superintend-\\nent, 419\\nAndrews, Charles E., 642\\nAntichnal. Anthony s Bend, 44\\nBrady s Bend, 43\\nBrookville, 44\\nKellersburg, 44\\nAntiolinals of Clarion county, 43\\nAmusements, early, 85\\nApprentice system, 344\\nArbor day, 420\\nArmstrong, Colonel, expedition of, against\\nKittanning, 25.\\nArnold, Frank M., 650\\nArnold, George W., 632\\nArnold Manasseh, 661\\nAshland township, 432\\nchurches of, 440\\nearly settlers of, 436 et seq.\\nnatural characteristics of, 432\\nschools of, 440\\nthe Cogley oil field in, 433\\nAssembly and Council, contention between, 21\\nfinal adjournment of the old proprie-\\ntary, 29\\nmembers of, from Clarion county, 371\\nAssociation, the Clarion Fair, 372\\nAttorney, Boggs, James, 396\\nBoyd, Jacob K., 389\\nButler, John B., 390\\nCarskadden, Geo. W., 391\\nClark, Jesse G., 390\\nFoster, David W., 390\\nGilmore, Alfred, 390\\nHays, David B., 389\\nHindman, John T., 402\\nJohnson, Jacques W., 389\\nJolly, Thomas M., 391\\nLamberton, C. L., 397\\nLathy, George W., 390\\nLathy, William E., 402\\nLaAvson, David, 398\\nMafifett, James T., 402\\nMeredith, M. M., 403\\nMyers, Amos, 396\\nPatrick, Jos. H., 402\\nAttorney, Reed, J. W., 403\\nReid, Bernard J., 397\\nShaw, Wilhara, 396\\nSutton, Robert, 397\\nSutton, Thomas, 390\\nThompson, John L., 390\\nWeidner, M. A. K., 403\\nWood, Jasper E., 403\\nAuditors, county, 410\\nBANK of Pennsylvania chartered, 33\\nBarr, Hon. W. W., 657\\nBeaver, James A., governor, 38\\nBeaver township, 441\\nboundaries and natural characteristics\\nof, 441\\nearly settlement of, 443\\nfurnaces in, 444\\nindustries of, 445\\nmills in, 444\\noil Avells in, 446\\nproductions of, 442\\nschools and churches of, 447\\nvillages in, 446\\nBench and bar, early incidents of the, 39\\nmembers of, 387 et seq.\\nBerlin, George N., 048\\nBigler, William, governor, 35\\nBig Level, the, 39\\nBingham lands, the, 69 et seq.\\nBiographical sketch of Andrews, Chas. E., 642\\nArnold, Frank M., 650\\nArnold, George W., 632\\nArnold, Manasseh, 661\\nBarr, Hon. W. W., 657\\nBerlin, George N., 648\\nBlack, Jacob, 659\\nBowman, David, 653\\nCampbell. Hon. James. 631\\nCollner, W. F., 658\\nCraig, Col. Calvin A., 655\\nCresswell, Dr. John, 648\\nDavis, A. J., 647\\nEaker, Philip K., 644\\nFox family, the, 635\\nHess, Michael E., 639\\nKahle, John W., 643", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0847.jp2"}, "822": {"fulltext": "!xvi\\nIndex.\\nEiographical sketch of Kaufman, Charles, 633\\nKeating, John, 662\\nKhngensmith, John, 660\\nKnox, Hon. James B., 638\\nLowry, Samuel, 634\\nPayne, T. J., 653\\nReynolds, David, G54\\nRitts, Elias, 637\\nRitts, John V., 651\\nRoss, J. Frank, M. D., 649\\nRulofson, Ruloff I. A., 641\\nShanafelt, William, 645\\nSiegwarth, Anthony, 650\\nSloan, William C, 642\\nStrattan, John R., 663\\nSweny, Hon. James, 664\\nWilson, Hon. J. H., 662\\nYeany, John, 663\\nBlack, Jacob, 659\\nBorough, Callensburg, 459\\nClarion, 474\\nCurllsville, 496\\nEast Brady, 452\\nEdenburg, 499\\nNew Bethlehem, 551\\nRimersburg, 592\\nSt. Petersburg, 600\\nSligo, 611\\nStrattan ville, 613\\nBoundaries of Penn s purchase of the Indians,\\n63\\nBoundary between Maryland and Pennsylva-\\nnia, vexatious dispute over, 27\\nquestion with Maryland, settlement of,\\n27\\nBowman, David, 653\\nBraddock, General, defeat of. 25\\nBradj^ s Bend and Captain Brady, 378 et seq.\\nBrady township, 449\\nearly settlers of, 450\\norganization of, 450\\nschools and churches of, 451\\nBrodhead and Thomas lands, 67\\nBrodhead s expedition, 61\\nBryan George, vice-president, made president\\nof Council, 31\\nBuckshot War, the, 34\\nBuffington, Judge Joseph, 395\\nCALLENSBURG borough, 459\\nburgesses of, 459\\nCallen family in, 460\\nchurches and schools of, 464\\nformation and growth of. 459\\nlaying out of, 460\\nmanufactories in, 463\\nministers of, 464\\norganization of government of, 459\\nphysicians of, 465\\npost-office of, 466\\npublic men of, 466\\nstores in, 461\\nteachers of, 465\\nCallen family, the. 460\\nCampbell, Judge James, 401, 631\\nCampaigns of 1757 and 1758, results of, 26\\nCanal commissioner, 372\\nCarrier Seminary and Normal School, 488\\nCasualty, the first, 87\\nCeleron, Captain, expedition of, to Western\\nPennsylvania, 23\\nChurch, the Associate Presbyterian. 421\\nthe Baptist, 422\\nthe Evangelical Association, 427\\nthe Lutheran, 429\\nthe Methodist Episcopal, 427\\nthe Presbyterian, 420\\nthe Protestant Episcopal, 426\\nthe Reformed, 423\\ncrises in, 425\\necclesiastical meetings of, 424\\nprominent ministers of, 425\\nthe Roman Catholic, 429\\nClarion Academy, 487\\nClarion borough. 474\\nbanks of, 492\\nchurches of, 485\\nCitizens Gas Company of, 496\\ndescription of, in 1840, 477\\nearly business of, 480 et seq.\\nearly life in, 478\\nextension of borough limits of, 496\\nfires in, 494\\nfirst buildings in, 475\\nfirst railroad train in, 495\\ngrowth of, 495\\nhotels in, 482\\nin the days of the Rebellion, 493\\nLight and Heat Co. of, 495\\nmilitary companies of, 492\\noriginal bounds of, 474\\npopulation of, 496\\npost-office of, 479\\npress of, 489\\nsale of lots in, 475\\nschools of, 487\\nselection of, for county seat, 474\\nsocieties in, 483\\nClarion Collegiate Institute, 594\\nClarion county, act establishing, 103\\ncivil list of, 409\\ncollieries of, 365\\ndrainage, 38\\nelevation of, 40\\nfinances of, 130, 347\\nfirst election in, 109\\nfurnaces of, 1 12 et seq.\\ngeneral character of surface of, 40\\ngeographical position of, 38\\ngeology of, 42\\nin the Mexican War, 121\\nin the Rebellion, 142 et seq.\\njudicial organization of, 108, 387\\nmilitia of, 109 et seq.\\npolitics in. 111\\npolitics in, from 1854 to 1861, 128\\npolitics in 1865-77, 346\\npolitics in, from 1880 to 1884, 369", "height": "3578", "width": "2382", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0848.jp2"}, "823": {"fulltext": "Index.\\nIxvii\\nClarion County, post-offices in, at present, 372\\nscenerj of, 40\\nscenery, Alum Rock, 41\\nscenery, ancient water courses, 41\\nscenery at Brady s Bend, 41\\nscenery from East Foxburg, 41\\nstatistics of, in 1840-45, 112\\n1850, 130\\n1870, 347\\n1880, 369\\nsurface of, 38\\nthe Underground Railroad in, 121\\ntimber of, 40\\nYoung, Thomas, first white child born\\nin, 471\\nClarion Female Seminary, 488\\nClarion river, 38\\nClarion township, 467\\nfirst church in, 470\\nfirst schools in, 469\\nfirst settlers of, 471\\nin 1816, 473\\nlocation of, 467\\nMatfett family, the, in, 472\\nmills in, 469\\nnatural characteristics of, 407\\nproductions of, 468\\nCoal, 33\\nBrookville, the, 51\\nClarion Group, the, 49\\nClarion Lower, 51\\nClarion Upper, 51\\nFreeport Group, 46\\nFreeport Lower, 47\\nFreeport Upper, 47\\nKittanning Group, the, 47\\nKittanning Lower, the, 48\\nKittanning Middle, the, 48\\nKittanning Upper, the, 48\\nmines, 365 et seq.\\nstatistics of, 367\\nCollner, W. F. 658\\nCommissioners, county, 409\\njury, 410\\nCompany A, 103d Regiment, roster of, 235\\nservice of, 232\\nB, 103d Regiment, service and roster\\nof, 243\\nB, 169th Regiment, roster of, 329\\nC, 62d Regiment, roster ^f, 173\\nservice of, 167\\nC, 78th Regiment, service and roster\\nof, 218\\nC, 105th Regiment, roster of, 266\\nservice of, 264\\nCaptain Tanner s, roster of, 334\\nD, 57th Regiment, militia, 164\\nE, 39th Reo-iment, Tenth Reserve, ros-\\nter of, 158\\nservice of, 152\\nE, 62d Regiment, roster of, 181\\nservice of, 178\\nE, 78th Regiment, service and roster\\nof, 225\\nCompany F, 63d Regiment, roster of, 203\\nservice of, 189\\nF, 67th Regiment, service and roster\\nof, 209\\nF, 103d Regiment, service and roster\\nof, 250\\nG, 155th Regiment, roster of, 310\\nservice of, 308\\nH, 37th Regiment, Eighth Reserve,\\nroster of, 147\\nservice of, 145\\nH, 57th Regiment, militia, 165\\nH, 103d Regiment, roster of, 257\\nH, 149th Regiment, roster of, 300\\nservice of, 299\\nH, 155th Regiment, service and roster\\nof, 318\\nI, 57th Regiment, militia, 166\\nK, 148th Regiment, roster of, 291\\nservice of, 289\\nK, 57th Regiment, militia, 167\\nK, 159th Regiment, enlistment and\\nroster of, 327\\nL, 108th Regiment, 11th Cavalry, ros-\\nter of, 282\\nservice of, 277\\nCompany, the Ohio, 24\\nConglomerate series, 52\\nCongress, adjournment of, at Philadelphia, 30\\nmembers of, from Clarion county, 371\\nConnecticut, claims of against Penn s terri-\\ntory, 28\\nConstitutional Convention, delegates to, 372\\nConstitution of the United States,framing of,32\\nthe new, adopted, 32\\nrevision of, 34, 37\\nContinental Congress, assembling of, 28\\nthe second, 28\\nCorbett, Judge Wm. L.. 406\\nCoroners, 410\\nCouncil, adjournment of to Lancaster, 30\\nCouncil and Assembly, discord between, 20\\nCouncil, the, abolished, 32\\nCounty seat, contest over location of, 106\\nCourt-house, the first, 374\\nthe present, 376\\nthe second, 375\\nCourt, the first, 388\\nCraig, Col. Calvin A., 655\\nCrawford s expedition against Ohio Indians, 32;\\nCresswell, Dr. John, 648\\nCurllsville borough, 496\\nanti-horsethief association of, 499\\nchurches of, 497\\nindustries of, 497\\nname and location of, 496\\nprofessional men of, 499\\nCurtin, A. G., governor, 36\\nDAM across the Clarion river, act granting\\nl^ermission for, 360\\nDavis, A. J., school superintendent, 418\\nbiographical sketch of, 647\\nDefense, measures for, in 1754, 25", "height": "3583", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "historyofclarion00davi_0849.jp2"}, "824": {"fulltext": "Ixviii\\nIndex.\\nDenny, William, governor, 25\\nDickinson, John, president of Legislature, 32\\nDifficulties with the home government, 28\\nDistrict attorneys, 409\\nDraft of men for army in 1812, 88\\nin 1813, 90\\nDrift. 46\\nEAKER, Phihp K., 644\\nEast Brady borough, 452\\nbanks of, 456\\nchurches of. 455\\ncoal mines of, 454\\ncoal mines of, strikes m, 454\\nearly history of site of, 452\\nearly settlement of, 453\\nfire department of, 458\\nfires in, 456\\noil and gas wells in, 455\\nphysicians of, 456\\npress of, 458\\nschools of, 454\\nEdenburg borough, 499\\nbanks of, 501\\ncasualties occurring in, 505\\nchurches of, 501\\nearly history of, 499\\nfires in, 503\\nhotels of, 500\\npress of, 505\\nEducational systems established, 34\\nEighteenth Judicial District, history of, 407\\nElectioneering documents, 133\\nElectors, presidential, 372\\nElk City, 509\\nElk township, 506\\nchurches in, 511\\nearly settlements in, 506\\nElk City in, 509\\nfurnaces in, 511\\noil developments in, 508\\nPitch Pine in, 511\\nschools in, 511\\nShippenville in, 509\\nsocieties in, 510\\nErie Triangle, purchase of, 32\\nErrata, 630\\nEvans, John, deputy governor, 20\\nExposition, centennial, 37\\nFAIR ASSOCIATION, the Clarion, 372\\nFarmington township, 513\\nboundaries and natural characteristics\\nof, 513\\nearly settlers of, 514\\nScotch Hill in, 515\\nTylersburgh in, 515\\nT indley, William, elected governor, 33\\n.First white man in Clarion county, 59\\nFletcher Benjamin, governor of New York, 19\\nFort Du Quesne, 24\\ncapture of, 61\\nFort Necessity, 24\\nFourth of July celebration, an old time, 134,\\net seq.\\nFoxbug, 591\\nfires in, 591\\nFox estate, the, 66\\nFox family, the, 635\\nFox hunt in 1860, programme of, 137\\nFranklin, Benjamin, 23\\npresident of Council, 32\\nFranklin College warrants 67\\nFree school law, 412\\nFrench, attempt of, to gain territory, 23\\nestablishment of forts by, 24\\nFriends, or Quakers, settlement of, 16\\nPublic School, incorporation of, 19\\nFryburg, 627\\nFurnaces, 112\\nlist of, 116 et seq.\\nGEARY, JOHN W., governor, 37\\nGookin, Colonel Charles, governor, 20\\ninsanity of, 22\\nGordon, Patrick, lieutenant-governor, 22\\nGrand Army of the Republic, 431\\nHAMILTON, ANDREW, appointed gov-\\nernor, 20\\nHamilton, James, lieutenant-governor, 23\\nre-appointed governor, 26\\nHarrison lands, the, 71\\nHartranft, J. F., governor, 37\\nHess, Michael E., 639\\nHighland township, 516\\nchurches and schools of, 518\\nmills and furnaces of. 518\\nsettlement of, 516\\nHolland Land Company, the, 67 et seq.\\nHoyt, H. F., governor, 38\\nHudson, Henry, 15\\nin and\\nINCIDENTS of the Revolution\\naround Philadelphia, 30\\nIndians, first troubles with, 22\\noccupation, early, 57\\nrelics, 58\\nthe, 84\\nthe Seneca, 58\\nIron, 33\\nIron ore and limestone, 49\\nJAIL, the first, 375\\nthe present, 376\\nJamestown, 628\\nJenks, Judge W. P., 403\\nJohnston, Wm. F., governor, 35\\nKAHLE, JOHN W., 643\\nKaufman, Charles, 633\\nKeating, John, 662\\nKeith, Sir William, governor, 22\\nKelly, G. S., school superintendent, 417\\nKerr, Captain, dismissal of, from army, 179\\nKlingensmith, John, 660\\nKnox, Judge J. 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