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/■ J_ l :: . ■“>1 ... 1 I. II tea-r.^ but he bad a vivid recollection of t, i battle of the Brandywine and tho stir ring times when Washington fell back MHO-DAY.' before the advanoing British army.” On being asked whom be murried, he replied: “My wife’s name was Eliza¬ fOHH BESSY, OF PENNVILLE, beth Bailey. Her father, Caleb Bailey, CLEARFIELD COUNTY. lived on the Loyalsock. She was- born in 1802 and died in 1841. We were mar¬ ried in 1822. We had six sons and three daughters. Fonr of my sons—Caleb, HOPES TO LIYE ONE HUNDRED YEARS. John, Joseph and James—served in thej ! Bucktail regiment. James was killed at-I the second Bull Run. John was wounded I Au )ntere«tassist Wil- I liam Bell to build the Erie turnpike and I -Samuel C. Hepburn. have remained here to the present time. I I knew Dr. Samuel Coleman who died I that year. He was a strange man and PsNNviLLE.Oot. 1.—Under the shadow wanted to be buried in an unmarked of the Grampian Hills, at the present grave in a certain field, bat they buried j terminus of the Tyrone and Clearfield him on the hill near the edge of his ] railroad lies the quiet little borough of orchard. I had his lancet for many Pennville. It was named of course, I years and often used to bleed persons j after one of the old oolonial governors with it. I fina’L gave it to Dr. Currier by the Quaker settlers in this part of the and he prizes : hi-, bly as a relio.” I country. Pioneers and adventurers Did any of ur relatives live to a j found their way hither before the close great age? “My sister Asenatb, who of the last century. In those days the married William Lucas, died at Union- ' country was covered with a dense growth ville, Centre county, in 1887, aged 92. ft pine and hemlock timber. The river Another sister, Margaret, who was tbe it that time afforded the easiest and second wife of Andrew Moore, died in quickest means of transportation and Pennville in 1890, aged nearly 90. I am scores of the hardy Sootch-Irish pioneers the only one left of my father’s family.” ; I found their way from the West Branch “Yes, 1 used to hunt. Game was .Valley on flat boats which they polod up plenty in the early days. One seuson I -j the stream by sheer muscular force. shot thirty-seven deer. I never killed Many of the descendants of these early but one elk. Never hunted much for settlers are found here to-day and they bea*, but one day I remember killing I relate marvelous and thrilling stories of four bear, and it was not considered a the trials and sufferings endured by their good day for bear either.” ancestors in their heroic efforts to found On being asked regarding his eany homes in the wilderness. But there is pursuits he replied that ho had followed e yet lingering on the shores of time hard work all his,life. “1 used to rnn lhose age is co-eval with the beginning arks down the riyer. Then came the the Nineteenth century. His name is rafting business, and I can proudly say an Henry, and he lives in this village, ■that I never lost, struck or stove a raft, re ie one o'i the best preserved msu for II followed the river for fifty years. We of the many thousands I haye run our rafts to Marietta and Columbia, n my travels in tbe United States, land then walked back by the reads and might be termed a remarkable man, I nearest paths over the mountains.” ough no extraordinary incidents oo- Were you a good worker? “Few could urred in his long career. beat me in those days. I oould run Meeting him to-day in his pleasant ] like a deer. In 1823 I walked from here oae on the main street of the village, I I to Bellefonte, sixty miles in one day. I ed with rapt attention to the story I traveled at a pretty lively gait, but I his life. “Yes,” he remarked, “I -made it easily. My route was through ave lived a long time; I will be ninety- Phiiipsburg.” v/o on the 3d of October. I was born in j Mr. Heuiy stands nearly six feet in arree township, Huntingdon county, height, is of spare build and remarkably 'ftober 3, 1800!” Think of it! active for his years. He thinks nothing ‘My father,” he continued, “was born of walking six or eight miles about the Chester county, not far from Coates¬ country over the ordinary roads. He es, on the Brandywine, in 1765. His has generally enjoyed good health. The ame was James. My mother’s name only illness be e ver had was an attack of .yy Lydia Brooks. Soon after my typhoid fever and inflammation of the •ents were married they moved to lungs. He has used tobacco all his life, ntingdon county. In 1801 they and occasionally took a drink of whisky, to the Bald Eagle, Centre oouuty, bat never used it to excess. ;ettled on what is now known as the As a speoimen of well preserved man¬ der farm, four or five miles above hood John Henry is certainly one of the rg.” phenomenal men of the day. He con- my father was not old enough verses intelligently on the topics of the art in the Revolutionary war, Sketch of Bishop Kephart? or sfP'Ts 0 desks wei ; roug.. boards laid on W-finin pins or driven into Bishop E. B. Kephart was born Not. 6th the wall. To reach the school he had to 1834, in Clearfield county. Pa. His patern¬ travel t wo miles with his older sisters and al great grandfather, Nicholas Kephart, brother through the wilderness, conse¬ came to America from Switzerland in 1788. quently there were many days during win- His maternal great grandfather, George that he could not go. At a very early age Goss, came from Germany prior to the Rev¬ he drove the oxen in hauling logs from the olutionary war; was in the Wyoming mas¬ forests to the streams or mills. He always sacre, in which two of his sons were killed was fond of books, but had almost reached and from which he, his wife and one re¬ manhood’s age when he decided to attend maining boy, Abraham, then a lad of four-1 college. However, by the aid of a “pine- teen and the maternal grandfather of knot” light he had read with care the few Bishop Kephart, escaped by secreting books in his father’s cabin, which were the themselves in the laurel. Soon after this Bible, “Pilgrim’s Progress,” “Saints’ both father and son enlisted in General Rest,” and a few other precious books. Washington’s army, in which the father He was an expert raftsman, a good pilot on was killed. The son survived the war,and the Clearfield creek and Susquehanna river near the close of the eighteenth century and with much interest related to your settled in Clearfield county, Pa. correspondent the experience he had one spring in running a raft on the Maclay Nicholas Kephart first settled in Berks rock, above the Harrisburg bridge. In county, Pa., and afterward in Centre Co. 1856 he first entei ed the doors of Dickinson His son, Henry, the grandfather of the Seminary, Williamsport, Pa., where he Bishop, married Catharine Smith,a maiden spent a short while aud then entered Mt. of English descent, while Abraham Goss, Pleasant, Pa., college, and from here to the maternal grandfather, married Eliza¬ Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio, beth Eimerhizer, whose father was Dutch until he finished two courses and graduat¬ but mother was Irish. ed with honor. He says one of his earliest To these parents were born with other recollections of life is his conversion, children, respectively Henry Kephart, jr., brought about by his mother’s religious and Sarah Goss, who were married March teachings. In 1853 he united with the 26th, 1826, to whom were born in all thir¬ church of his father's choice, the United teen children, seven sons and six daugh¬ Brethren in Christ, and in 1857 was licens¬ ters, Bishap Kephart being the second son ed to preach the Gospel by his quarterly fifth child. conference. In 1859 he was appointed to It will be seen from the above that he preach in Jefferson county, Pa., and in was ofSwiss, German, English and Irish 1860 in Johnstown, Pa., and while serving extraction; hence if mixture of blood con¬ this charge he was appointed a missionary stitutes a genuine “Yankee,” he surely is to Washington Territory, but did not go one. His father died in May, 1886, at on account of the paper morey he received Shueyville, Iowa, at the ripe age of 85 to go there. He found it to be worth only ( years, more than fifty of rhese being spent twenty-five cents on the dollar when he got in the local ministry of the U. B. church. to Harrisburg, being then on his way to His mother still survives. The Bishop has New York city. In 1861-62 he served the nine brothers and sisters still living. Isai¬ charge at Altoona, Pa., and for the seven ah L. is president of Westfield, Ill., college following years he was in the active itiner¬ and Cyrus of Western college, Toledo, ancy. In August, 1868, he was elected Iowa, where the Bishop resides. president of Western College, Iowa, in which capacity he labored thirteen .t-sars. At the time of the Bishop’s birth Clear¬ In 1872-76 he represented his district in field county was a vast wilderness on the the Iowa Senate, and at one time he could western slope of the Allegheny mountains. have had the Temperance Republican There, in the year 1826, his parents erected nomination for Governor of Iowa, but de¬ a small log cabin and with not a cent of clined, believing it would have put the money, but with an axe, a mattock, a rifle Democrats into power and destroyed the and the most simple and spare household Republican control in Iowa, and then Gov. outfit, but with brave and loving hearts, Gear received the nomination and election they commenced the herculean task of clear¬ as a straightout Republican, ing out and paying for a farm. Flour, fruit and all the luxuries of life were scarce, In height he is six feet; in weight twq but venison, bear meat, berries, nuts and hundred and twenty pounds; hair black; hard toil were plenty. The husband felled cpmplex'on dark, or as he puts it, that ev¬ the trees, and often aided by the wife, ery ofh.ep Jew lie meets asks him if he is rolled the logs into heaps and burned them pot a desceudcint of the tribe of Israel. to make way for a crop of wheat; while the Ho married November 4,1860, MissSusapi wife cultivated the garden spot, sheared J, Trefts, of Johnstown, Pa. They ha the sheep, “skutched” the flax and spun had born to them four children, two bo, both wool and flax into yarn and wove it and two girls, the last two only living into homespun, out of which she made gar¬ E. W. S. Partubmou ments for herself, her children and her ■ husband. At the age of seven years he first commenced school. It was kept in a little dingy log cabin; the seats were made

V I times. Hie memory runs baok dearly ened circumstances, the hardships, and the self- for eighty years. Hie only drawback is a slight deafness, which, he says, denials of the early settlers of the mountainous “bothers him a little in conversation.” regions of central Pennsylvania. Knowing this, He dresses neatly, wears a heavy watch the writer proposes to endeavor to interest and chain and seal, and carries a gold headed cane. It is his delight to have profit them by presenting^Jew facts that liav( Btrangers call on him and he freely of¬ come to him mostly from the lips of his ances\ fers to escort them about the village and [explain the condition of the country ! tors. | Ihhg before the presentgeneralionwas It is said that necessity is the mother of in¬ born. HJames Thompson, of Curwens- trees, and a thick growth of underbrusSf j ' villc. She is now a widow. One of her i the deep ravines were covered with an '> daughters is the wife of .lames Mahaffey, proprietor of the Hotel Windsor, Clear- impenetrable growth of laurel, woven ir\* $ field, whose ancestor belonged to the ! the hemlock and pine trees. So deV.' | [ Mahaffey family of Lycoming Creek. these forests in many places that neither sky i John of Lancaster. sun could be seen by the hunter as he wander around in quest of game. f Game, such as deer, bears, panthers, wol,f V- v j raccoons, foxes, beavers, minks, woodchuc ruffled grouse, wild turkeys, and pigeoetic effusion. Volumes have been written twenty-four as they one after another skippt - upon it. Romances, such as “The Bay-Path,” over the fence into the field. Of course th< “Knickerbocker,” “The Circuit Rider,” “The trusty rifle, well aimed by grandfather’s stead} Iloosier Schoolmaster,” etc., have afforded in¬ hand and sharp eye, “spoke,’’and only twenty- struction and entertainment to thousands of three deer skipped away into the forest, while readers. But with all this, very few of the Tele¬ the twenty-fourth was carried home by the scope readers under thirty-five years of age have father and son to supply the larder of their large ' •'“y conect idea "h.the actualities—the straight- • family. while meat was plenty, all other kinds of task. The implement used was called a flail. Itl eatables and material for clothing were scarce. was composed of two pieces of solid hickory or The great task was to clear the land, so as to mountain-ash wood, the one piece was called 1 | raise crops. Persuaded that the soil which pro- the staff, which served as the handle, and the ' duced the most wonderful growth of timber other and more heavy piece was called the was the richest, and would be the most produc- “suple.” These two pieces were so bound to¬ , tive if once cleared, the early settlers built their gether by thongs of untanned buckskin as to cabins in the dense forests of pine and hemlock, form a pliable joint at their point of union. | and commenced the Herculean task of clearing When threshing, the thresher would lay down | out farms. Those of the present generation can eight or ten sheaves on the barn floor, and by scarcely form any conception of the vast deftly swinging the “suple” of the flail over his miont of toil—chopping, logrolling, brush- head would pound away till one side was well /picking, and burning—that was required to clear beaten, then turn and beat the other side, then : a single acre of that land. True, they girdled all open up "the sheaves and give them another | \ the larger pine trees, and the larger hemlocks beating, and then turn again and beat again, • j they would climb to the top, a hundred feet or and in that way, if the weather was dry, he more, and trim off’ all the limbs and leave the could by working hard thrash from five to six 1 naked trunks stand. This they did because bushels in a day. If the weather were damp, it F hese trees had such great, widespreading, dense was a much more tedious and laborious process, \ /ranches that if they were not trimmed they and almost impossible to beat all the -wheat out p; ould produce too much shade. The fact is, it of the straw. Later, when the pioneer came to quired about as much work to clear one acre of have a larger barn floor and owned horses, he s forest ready for the plow as it did to prepare would throw down about fifteen or twenty dozen , acres of prairie for a corn crop. And then, sheaves and put two horses on them, and tramp it was cleared, the stumps stood so close out the wheat. In this way he could thrash 1 ch other and the ground was so completely more rapidly and with much less labor. ed with a network of roots that to plow it In the earliest days, there being no sawmills, | the common, old-fashioned “shovel plow” the thrashing floors were made of “puncheons;” most tedious, laborious task. that is, of flat pieces of wood split out of pine or I E 51 the new settlers, knowing no better, toiled chestnut logs, and dressed by the use of the ax and in time they and their hardy sons so as to make a tight floor; and the reader may cleared out large farms, while others, by imagine what a tedious, laborious task it was to eriments, ascertained that the land on the construct a thrashing floor in that way. The ' her ridges, which were not so densely wood- buckwheat crop they thrashed on the ground in nd much easier cleared and cultivated, was the field. The thrashing done, the next serious task was 3 as productive as w'as the land in the dense , Vand hemlock forests, and they began to to separate the wheat from the chaff, there being j ' no fanning mills in that region. This was done 1 KV 0ut farms where less lab°r was required, ven there the toil required was great, and by fastening one edge of a sheet to one of the Jsoil throughout the entire region was so walls of the thrashing floor, and the wife would, by taking the other edge in her hands and “flap- g 1 that after the second or third crop ten shels of wheat to the acre were considered a ping” the sheet, make wind, while the husband,, ,ery good yield, while corn did even worse pro¬ with a large wooden paddle or shovel, would! portionately. Buckwheat was the most profit¬ throw up the wheat in front of the flapping \ able crop, the thin soil being well adapted to sheet, and the wind thus made would blow away k that peculiar cereal. the chaff. A crop having been produced, the next great The next great difficulty was to get the grain/ ^ sk was tp thrash, clean, and “mill” it. The to the mill and bring the flour home, the near heat, after having been gathered into sheaves est being across the mountains, fifteen mild jy the use of the small, one-handed sickle, was away. One would “pack” it on the back of a trust hauled into the small barn, built of round horse, if he were fortunate enough to own or abl to borrow one, another on the back of a gentli logs and covered with clapboards, where it could ox, while others would carry it on their ow ( be thrashed by piecemeal during the fall and backs. The road across the mountain was onl i| winter season. The thrashing was a laborious a foot path, and wagons, carts, and even sle „j ■ ■j,—ill “weight poles,” cut nails being scarce and dear. were not in use. The writer’s grandfather would The joists were pine poles from which the bark take a bushel of wheat on his back and carry it the entire distance one day, get it ground during was peeled. On these were placed clapboards so as to form a floor, thus forming an “upstairs,” the night, and return the next day with the or “loft,” where the larger boys slept. The flour. This he did frequently; and when it is chinks between the logs that formed the walls of remembered that he had a family of from five to the cabin were filled first with small chunks of eight children to provide for, some idea of the wood and chips and then “daubed” with a mor¬ |greatness of the task can be formed. But then, it must be remembered that bread in the family was tar made of the native clay. These chinks were only an occasional luxury. The chief articles of usually middling open, especially “upstairs,” food were boiled wheat, beans, hominy, potatoes, and through them and the clapboard roof the venison, bear meat, wild turkey, etc. In this snow would “whistle,” so that not unfrequently manner they subsisted in their mountain homes, of winter mornings “the boys” would light out and withal enjoyed a good degree of comfort and of their beds into an inch or two of snow. happiness; for where the strongest ties of filial In one corner of the cabin stood the structure affection and freedom unrestrained by despot or so essential to the pioneer’s comfort—the “corner fashion abound, there happiness is to be found, chimney.” It was constructed of undressed even if the daily fare and the clothing be scant stone and clay mortar, and large enough to take in logs of wood a foot in diameter and five feet and homely. long ; and there being plenty of good wood to be PIONEER LIFE IN THE ALLEGHENIES. had for the chopping and hauling of it, the - • cabins were usually very comfortably warmed Hominy, of which mention was made in the throughout the long winters. The chimney, or former article as being used for food, was of two “fireplace,” served a two-fold purpose, however, kinds, prepared in two different ways. One way being used for cooking as well as for heating I was by means of “the hominy block.” This was purposes. simply an excavation made in a large log, a Over it, by the use of a few links of a large stump, or a large stone, into which the rnoun- chain and a rough iron hook, would be hung |taineers would place about a quart of corn, and the “dinner-pot” containing meat and potatoes then by use of a round stone weighing from ten for dinner, or corn meal or hominy to be cooked j to twelve pounds they would hammer and crush into “mush for supper.” There was also a fry¬ I the kernels into a coarse meal, which, on being ing pan used for frying meat for breakfast, and a subjected to a long process of boiling, was con- “Dutch oven” used for baking bread. These j verted into a very palatable “mush.” simple cooking utensils, with a few plain dishes, The other kind was made as follows: About constituted the entire culinary outfit in a moun¬ la peck of corn was placed into a large iron ket- taineer’s cabin. I tie, and over it was poured a strong leach made These cabins not only served as places of of wood ashes, in which it was boiled until the : abode, but in a few cases for houses of public , (kernels became soft and the outer hull, or bran, worship as well. In these early days the pioneer (would burst and peal off. Then the corn, thus United Brethren preachers “from across the softened, was thoroughly soaked and washed in mountains” found their way into this wilder¬ clean water, and when fried in the drip of ven¬ ness; and there being no schoolhouse or church, . ison was a very savory dish, highly enjoyed by a “Grandfather Goss,” and later the writer’s father hungry mountaineer. The chief obstacle in the opened their cabins, accorded the preacher a way of preparing this kind of hominy was the hearty welcome, lodged him, and gladly shared , fact that so very few of the settlers possessed the with him the best of their homely fare. On his | J large iron kettle. arrival “the boys” were sent around to the neigh¬ Their cabins were constructed of round logs bors to inform them that there would be preach¬ and usually about sixteen by twenty feet, and a ing that night. In due time the cabin would be j story and a half high, floored with puncheons, crowded with ten or a dozen of the neighbors,

or slabs, split out of pine or chestnut logs, and the preacher would preach, and after preaching ‘'A*..'"!* covered with clapboards. These were made three spend an hour in prayer, exhortation, and “ex¬ feet in length, about six inches wide, and half perience meeting.” Jan inch thick, split out of pine timber, and The writer well remembers one such meeting were held in thei places by what were called held in his father’s cabin (for not until he was in odor of burnt hair pervading the cabin. In ear did his parents move into a larger time the meeting closed, the mountaineers ny gf house”). The cabin was sixteen by turned to their homes, guided through the wil 4tv feet in size. In it were the “corner derness by the light of their pine torches, won¬ imney,” the ladder by which to ascend into derfully impressed by the words and manner of he loft, two beds and the trundle bed shoved “the new preacher.” He in due time ascended under one of the larger beds, a weaver’s loom, the ladder to the loft, and was soon in the em¬ and a table. A few rough short benches were brace of a sound sleep in the “spare bed” which placed in the remaining unoccupied space for mother’s hand had prepared for such visitors. the neighbors. “We children” were cooped up on the beds. A tallow dip, borrowed for the PIONEER LIFE IN THE ALLEGHENIES. occasion from our best and nearest neighbor, 3 (“Katy” Baughman, sat on the table, and one of The faithful, self-sacrificing labors of the pio¬ the old-fashioned, lard-burning lamps hung by a neer United Brethren and Methodist preachers hook from one of the joists in the back part of in those regions had much to do with the shap¬ the room near the door, and a comfortable fire ing of the morals of the early settlers, and de¬ burned in the “fireplace.” It was late in the termining the destiny of them and their children. fall, and the night was cool. The light was With scarcely any pay in the shape of money, dim, but the weird scene and the character clad in coarse homespun, and subsisting upon of the meeting throughout made such an in¬ the homely fare of the mountaineers, they trav¬ delible impression upon the writer’s child- eled from place to place, entered the cabins, and mind that he sees it all now as cleaaly as if it carried into them their pious convictions, their were enacted but yesterday. The preacher was devotion and their religious enthusiasm. Adolphus Harnden, born and reared in the In accomplishing this important work no one State of Maine, who afterward served long and of them was more devoted and efficient than usefully as one of the most faithful itinerants of Adolphus Harnden, of whom mention was made Allegheny Conference. He was then a young in a previous article. His piety was unquestion man, tall, a large bony frame, bushy head of able, and his enthusiasm knew no bounds black hair, large mouth and nose, and a stento¬ Strong, young, healthy, vigorous, and bold as rian voice. He traveled the circuit on foot; and lion, he could go anywhere. His custom W£ as it embraced nearly the whole of Clearfield to rise before or about the peep of day, retire t and portions of Cambria, Indiana, and Jefferson a secluded place in the wilderness for dev< counties (all a vast wilderness), it required six tion, get happy, and shout till he would mat weeks for him “to make the round,” during the forest resound with his stentorian voice. 0 which time he would average not less than five one occasion, having lodged over night with .rmons per week. And because of his wonder- settler in what was known as “Morgan’s Land, il enthusiasm and his traveling on foot, the and some six or eight inches of snow havin eople named him “The Pilgrim,” some of them fallen during the night, after breakfast he start laving read “Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.” ed for his next appointment. But he had not On the evening, referred to above, he sung, gone far into the forest until he retired three or prayed, and preached with great enthusiasm. four rods from the roadside for prayer. And, as After the sermon he prayed again, then sung usual, he had not prayed long until he became again, called on some one else to pray, sung happy and shouted, and rolled around in the again, exhorted, got happy, and began to shout. snow at a wonderful rate. While thus exercis (While shouting, swinging his long arms, and ing, two men came riding by on horseback, and lapping his hands, he leaped back and forth in hearing the noise went to him and spoke; but al e little aisle between the benches leading to to no purpose. He continued his shoutin he door, exclaiming at the top of his voice, “I They then hastily rode on to the house fro ope to shout glory when the world’s on fire;” whence his tracks had come, called to the p< md just then he touched his bushy head of hair pie, and, in an excited manner, told them tb to the flame of the lamp above described and set I should go out into the timber immediately a his hair on fire. It sizzed and spurted a little see to the man who had lodged with them o while, Harnden kept shouting all the time, “I night, that he was out there rolling in the sn hope to shout glory when the world’s on fire.” crazy as a lunatic, and would surely freeze The flame in his hair soon died out, nor was he s death. The man with whom he had lod 'burned; but for some time there was a strong ■■Hi .? ... - cnowing something of his habit of shouting, promptly replied Harnden. They then arrang¬ calmly replied with a smile, “There is no occa¬ ed to have the communion and feet-washing ex¬ sion for alarm; he is only enjoying his accus¬ ercises Sabbath afternoon, and in the evening tomed morning shout.” Harnden preached one of his storming sermons. The following incident in this wonderful man’s The result was more than a dozen seekers came life was given to the writer in 1858 by old Father forward, and before the meeting closed all were and Mother Smith, whose home was on Chest converted, and a class of sixteen was organized. Creek, five miles below the present town of “I knew it! I knew it!” was Hamden’s triumphant Newburg, and who were first among the early set¬ declaration. “This barn was raised without tlers of that wilderness region. Harnden, or whisky, and the Lord does not overlook such “The Pilgrim,” the first time he visited them, things.” came to their cabin about two or three o’clock His opposition to the use of intoxicating liq¬ in the afternoon, and was to preach there that uors was very intense, and it being the custom night. It happened, too, that Mother Smith, then for almost every settler to keep whisky in then a young woman, had a quilt in the frames, hiseabin and to “tipple,” and use it freely at barn the frames resting on the backs of four “home¬ raisings, logrollings, and in the harvest field, made” chairs, and about half a dozen neighbor Harnden waged a relentless warfare against it in women were there at a quilting bee. Before the every shape. He saw its bad effects—that it was “preacher” came they were having a jolly good a disturber of the peace and the developer of time; but on his arrival he took his seat in an ! appetites and dissipated habits that would soon old arm rocking-chair, in the remaining vacant work great sorrow and destitution to the pioneers corner, and soon seemed to be asleep. They and their children. True, very few drank to ex¬ worked away at the quilt, afraid to speak above a cess, or were habitual drunkards; nevertheless, whisper, hoping that he would continue to sleep. ! at their barn raisings and logrollings it invari¬ But suddenly he startled them by exclaiming, ably occurred that toward evening most of the “Glory! let us pray.” With that he kneeled down men would get “pretty full” and several fist fights M and the women followed suit. From praying he would occur. Not that there was any particular got to shouting, rolled under the quilt, kicked the cause for such melees, other than they wished chairs over so that the quilt fell down over him, | to show “who was the best man.” If a fight and the women ran from the cabin, screaming could not be gotten up in any other way, some and frightened almost out of their senses. Of one of the “bullies” of the crowd would lay a course there was no more quilting done there chip on his shoulder, walk around, and dare that evening. any one to knock it off'. Soon some one would But with all his eccentricities and enthusi¬ accept the challenge, off would go the chip, and asm, Harnden did a great deal of good. His then the “mill” would commence, and iy>t. un life was so upright and exemplary, and his frequently some of the men would be ^ badlj preaching so full of Bible that the word was in “used up” that they could not work for several demonstration of the spirit and power. When days. In fact, an uncle of the writer had one' the writer was in his fifth year his father built of his shoulders dislocated in one of these a new barn, and raised it without whisky. A “big” I “rows,” an injury from which he never fully meeting was appointed to beheld in that barn at ! recovered. At all other times the pioneers were a certain time in the autumn of that year. In very kind and neighborly in their behavior to¬ due time Harnden was on hand, and with ward each other. Only when “filled up” with him the presiding elder, Harman us Ow. The Whisky were they quarrelsome and rude. elder proposed that, according to the custom Harnden was quick to discern the arch dis¬ east of the mountains, they dispense with turber of their peace, hence he preached, prayed. preaching on Sunday evening and have com- ? jand talked against the use of intoxicants in ev¬ munion and feet-washing exercises instead. To ery form; and this intense opposition to the liq- this Harnden objected. He said: “We ought |uor traffic he carried with him to the day of his to have preaching on Sunday evening and invite death. Many years after the time above referred mourners. This barn was raised without whisky, to he traveled Clearfield Circuit again. He then and the Lord is going to do something wonder¬ I rode a valuable horse, which at one time in a lit- ful for us here if we do our duty.” The elder ! tie town was taken violently ill with colic. Some said, “Well, will you preach?” “Yes, I will,” I ' of the horsemen gathered around and advised dead coals would be applied, which, by means procure some whisky and mix a g?oocl ;uiity of black pepper in it and pour it into of blowing with breath from the mouth, would v'^e horse, assuring him that it would speedily soon be ignited, and thus a fire would be pro¬ effect a cure. Harnden promptly replied, duced. “When • = --- If, however, there were no touch-wood in the I and my horse can not live without whisky, we are going to die.”. He then procured cabin, resort was had to the ever-present “pow¬ some hot water, mixed pepper in it, and poured der horn.” From this an ordinary rifle-charge it into the horse, and soon he was well. “There,” of powder was poured on a smooth spot on the ■ A * Sf hearth, and near it was placed a bunch of skutch- said he, “if I had given him the whisky you s. would all have declared that it was the whisky ing tow—the rougher combings of flax—or a tli.it cuied him. ’ All can easily imagine how bunch of old cotton or linen rags, and then tak¬ glad such an enthusiast was to hold a meeting ing the flint in one hand and the steel, or knife, in the first barn raised in the county without in the other, the denizen of the cabin would whisky.” hold his hand near the powder and strike and strike until a large spark would drop into the PIONEER LIFE IN THE ALLEGHENIES, powder, ignite it, and the flash produced wouff 4 ignite the tow or rags. If the fire in the tow o In order to appreciate some of the disadvan¬ rags was very faint, the performer would quid tages under which the early settlers of the above ly pour a little powder from the horn into h/ region labored, it is only necessary to be re- hand and throw it upon the lingering spar - minded of the fact that even lucifer matches This would produce an additional flash | were to them wholly unknown, and that conse- more thoroughly ignite the tow or rap. I quently, the “keeping of fire over night” was a In one such case a man by the name of Jo matter of special importance. True, this was Low, instead of first pouring the powder ii ^easily done during the winter time; for then his hand poured it direct from the horn upaij large quantities [of hard wood were burned in the fire. The result was the fire followed the fireplace, and all that was necessary was to stream of powder into the horn, burst it, flashot throw plenty of ashes, just before retiring, over the flame into his face, singed nearly all the ItyiJ the gieat bed of live coals that usually glowed off his head, and burned him severely about tv on the hearth about that time. face and neck. But during the summer, the early fall, and the Game, especially deer, was abundant. Fryfi later part of spring, when for producing a quick the time the wheat was fairly well started in >i fire with less heat dry pine or chestnut wood fall until late in the spring, they frequented;uc was burnt, then the “keeping of fire” was quite fields to graze, except when the fields were too] t problem. And, as might be expected, not un- oughly covered with snow. Consequently vof •equently would the mountaineers wake up in fresh meat was needed the mountaineer hadm le morning to find that “the fire has gone out.” to go to the wheat field an hour or so before as /hat would they do then ? Well, if it were not down, sit behind a tree or stump till near too far to the nearest neighbor some one would light, and he was sure of a deer. Durinyatj go and “bring a chunck of fire.” If by reason winter he would hunt and kill several,uic of rain or distance that was impracticable, they hides being marketable, and the venison Jor would fall back upon their own resources, which quite a luxury when dried, or “jerked.” mo 1 consisted of a flint, a pocketknife or a bit of however, this kind of meat could not be steel used in “striking fire out of the flint,” and up in quantities because of the scarcity a bit of dry touch-wood—that is, a bit of soft, de- Panthers, bears, wolves, foxes, and wild ayed wood, such as is found in the large knots were numerous. The writer’s father £^s maple logs. The flint would then be taken in the form of what was called a “beais

he had proceeded about half the distance he 6" - perceived that some animal was following him. One of the chief difficulties with which IheH Having been often assured that a panther would pioneers had to grapple was procuring material f not attack a man as long as he faced him, he for clothing. Money was scarce and exceeding- § • a faced about leaned up against a large hemlock i ly difficult to obtain. About the only plentiful j tree, and awaited results. Soon he saw in the products of the country were skins of wild an¬ darkness the fiery eyes of a large panther ap¬ imals and pine and hemlock timber. But to pro¬ proaching him. In a crouching, cat-like man¬ cure mnnep for the skins it was necessary to carry - ner it drew nearer and nearer, he closely eyeing them as far east as Bellefont, Lewistown, or it all the time, until it was within fifteen feet of Huntingdon. At the store in the little town oft Iff him, when it stopped, lay quietly down in the j Phillipsburg they could exchange them for am->■ middle of the road, rested its jaws upon its ex¬ munition, sugar, coffee, and whisky, but not. for-' tended paws, kept its eyes constantly fixed upon money. Pine timber was altogether unmarket . his, and for some time lashed the ground with able in the early years of the settlement, as- its tail. There it lay, and there he stood, each there were no means or roads by which to con¬ closely eying the other, until day had fairly vey it east of the mountains, where there would dawned, when it leaped away in the laurel, ut¬ have been some demand for it. Later, however, H. tered two or three terrific screams, and its pris¬ thousands upon thousands of pine shingles were J oner, thus released, with light feet and a lighter “wagoned” across the mountains, also much heart, skipped away home. I sawed lumber; and great rafts of logs were float- ^ The writer distinctly remembers the awful s ed down the Susquehanna Biver to market. dread he and his two older sisters had of bears, Muslin, calico, and woolen cloth were scarcely ■■ that fear being the result of the dreadful bear in the market at all in that region, or if they were, stories often told in their presence. One Sun¬ the pioneers had nothing with which to pur- day afternoon, when he was in his fourth year, j chase. Consequently they were wholly depend- bears being numerous that summer, two dogs e ent upon “home manufacturing” for the fabrics ran one of the black animals into the field near needed for clothing and bedding. To meet the his parents cabin, and treed it on a large oak demand, each settler managed in some wav to d tree. It climbed to the first large limb and, provide himself with a few sheep, which, owing 3— poising itself thereon, looked down defiantly at to the abundance of wolves, had to be carefully the dogs. The writer’s father grasped his rifle, housed every night. They would also raise each .»■ \ an sufficiently near, took deadly aim, the rifle summer half an acre or more (according to the B V Jke, and bruin tumbled from the tree, moth¬ | size of the family) of Hax. V - « WRX'T -. f - _ lime in the month of May the wife process. This consisted of drawing it through ■ oicl shear the sheep and wash the wool. From the long steel teeth of a comb called a “hackle.” that on through the summer she would diligent¬ ; This, too, was a tedious, laborious process by ly devote all the time she could spare from at¬ which the tow or coarser parts of the fiber were tending to her children, the routine of household separated from the flax proper. affairs, and the cultivating of the garden to card- Then by means of the spinning wheel the tow ing the wool with a pair of hand cards and spin- j was spun into coarse yarn and the flax into yarn ning it into yarn. of a finer quality. When the yarn was spun When the flax was ripe she would pull it, her 1 both it and the woolen yarn were subjected to a ■ ■■ I ’ husband would thrash off the seed, and she scouring process, after which it was dyed blue, would spread it out on the smoothly mown J red, or yellow, according to the taste of the parti, meadow to bleach—that is, to so expose it to the j concerned. For dyeing purposes indigo, maddei, dew, rain, and sun as to rot the inner wood of and walnut bark were used. the straw so that it could be separated from the The yarn thus prepared was taken to tl u strong fiber. This process of “bleaching the ■ weaver, there being usually two or three wome flax” required about three weeks’ time. who were weavers in each neighborhood. I It was then raked up and tied in large bun¬ weaving, the flax yarn was generally used for th ' dles and laid away in a dry place till after wheat j warp and the woolen yarn for the woof. 1 in sowing in the fall was finished, and then it was I however, the cloth was intended for shirts, sun taken to a suitable place and dried over a fire. mer pantaloons, sheets, towels, etc., both tl This was done by driving four forked sticks into warp and the woof were flax yarn. ■ the ground and laying upon these suitable poles The writer’s mother was a weaver. Well d< ; about four feet above the ground, or lire, and he remember seeing her .sitting “behind t' upon these the flax was thinly spread. If by loom” day after day, throwing the shuttle ai ^.-oversight the fire was permitted to burn too swinging the lathe. And many, many a day d high, the flax would smoke and even take fire he, when a small bov, sit and “wind the quill and burn. To this process the prophet doubtless j (bobbins) for his mother to weave. In fact, t had reference when he says, “He will not quench first piece of money he ever had that he cou , the smoking flax.” call his own was a silver ten-cent piece wlii< When the flax was sufficiently dried the hus¬ his mother gave him as a special reward for fait band would take a large handful and put it into ful service in “winding the quills” for h b, the “break,” a homemade machine, which he ' through an entire long winter, one of her pa b worked with his right hand while he held and rons having paid for the weaving of his web i w guided the flax with his left. In this way he cloth (a very unusual thing then) in mone. would break out all the woodv part of the stalks Ah, how his eyes danced as he gazed upon tin ■ and preserve the fine, strong fiber. The “break” ! coin. It was the prettiest thing he ever saw. H || 'stood on four legs, and contained five large wood- has never felt so rich since as he did with thaJ ill en blades, or knives—three below and two above dime in his pocket. t —and so arranged that they shut into each otli- The cloth composed of flax warp and woolf ! er as the upper part of the machine was bi’ouglit woof was called “linsey,’ and was made into tl down upon the lower part. heavier or outer garments for the household \ As the husband broke the flax the faithful When it was taken from the loom, being quifi , wife stood by with her scutching board and hard and rough, the next thing to be done wa SI scutching knife, and by means of a laborious to subject it to a softening and “fulling” process ■ “scutching” process she cleaned out all the To do this, settlers would have what they callec- 3 broken woody pieces of stalk that the breaking ‘kicking matches.” These consisted of inviting process had failed to remove. Of course, as the. in of an evening half a dozen or more of the K children became large enough to do so, then men of the neighborhood, and then the web of services were brought into requisition. Many a cloth, having been boiled in soap suds, was tak¬ day has the writer, with his two older sisters, en out of the large iron kettle and placed in a, <1' stood by the scutching board wielding the knife heap in the middle of the floor. Then the men till his arm and shoulder ached. would arrange themselves in a circle on chairs After the flax was broke and scutched the benches, and stools around the pile of cloth, in • ii'e would take it and subject it to a hackling their bare feet, with their pants rolled up above >

nees, and a heavy plow line, or bed cord, placed around the entire circle up about tho poultices, plasters, etc., such as had been known to afford relief in other cases. Only in very rare K shoulders for them to lean against, and all seated instances, and that, too, after prolonged illness, so that with their feet they could just, cleverly was a neighbor dispatched to Phillipsburg, Breach the cloth. When all was ready, warm ■ Clearfield, or Glen Hope for Dr. Hill, Dr. Lo¬ soapsuds from the kettle were poured over the rain, or Dr. Rule. The writer well remembers cloth, and at a given signal all commenced to how, when a small boy, he and his little broth¬ I “kick.” Of course the suds would fly, splash,' er, now Bishop Kephart, were in the barn hunt¬ splash, splash, and the feet would go lick-e-ty- ing for hens’ nest, and the latter falling out of split for ten, fifteen, or twenty minutes, when the horse trough broke his arm just above the they would stop for a little rest, more soapsuds wrist joint. Father was called in from the field would be poured on, and again the kicking in great haste, and instead of going or sending I would proceed. In this way they would con¬ for a physician, Neighbor Baughman was sent for, ; tinue, laughing, kicking, and talkipg three hours and he and father set the broken bone, bound or more, when the fulling, softening process was it up in a compact case made of pieces of pine completed, the cloth hung out on the fence to shingle whittled out with a jacknife, and in drip and dry, the floor was “scrubbed up,” a about six weeks it was restored whole as the good supper was served, and the light-hearted other. 8™ mountaineers repaired to their several homes re¬ For blacksmith work the neighborhood was joicing in the fact that their feet were unusually dependent for several years upon Grandfather ■ j clean. Kephart. He had never served an apprenticeship The writer remembers very well some of these at the trade, but being ingenious, constructed for jolly “kicking matches” he witnessed in his fa¬ himself a forge and bellows, and procured a heavy ther’s cabin. Cooped up on the bed with his block of cast iron from the forge at Philipsburg \ two older sisters, it was for them the greatest for an anvil, also a hammer or two; and he would i sport to witness the men all leaning hard on the sharpen plowshares, set wagon tires, and shoe plow line, kicking, laughing, and the soapsuds horses. In fact, his shop and tools were free for flying to the joists. the use of all; and any one was at liberty to go By the tedious, laborious process described there, start a fire, and do his own smithing, above the hardy, industrious husband and wife grandfather’s coal bank near by furnishing the managed to cloth comfortably and respectably coal. Each pioneer made his own shovel plows, themselves and their children. The linen cloth harrows, sleds, hayrakes, fork handles, hoe han¬ used for shirts and for summer pantaloons was dles, flails, etc. Of course, they were not finish¬ subjected to a scalding and beating processwhich ed in very fine style, but they served the pur- made it soft and white; and never was or will be pose for which they were intended. the writer more happy in this world than when, As to lawyers, they were very scarce, there be¬ dressed up in his clean linen shirt and linen ing two or three in Clearfield, then called “Old pantaloons, with a new straw hat on his head, he Town.” There were such civil officers as justice tripped away in his bare feet, by the side of his of the peace, constable, and roadmaster; but father, two miles to the first Sunday school 1mld very seldom was there a suit at law. Disputes in all that region. were generally settled by “fist fights.” In fact, PIONEER LIFE IN THE ALLEGHENIES. disputes seldom arose unless some one was so reckless as to assert that he was “a better man’’ | than some one else. In such cases the only During the period of which we have been settlement possible was a regular set-to with the writing physicians, lawyers, and artisans of all fists. In the neighborhood known as the Hag¬ kinds were scarce. In fact, no one could have gerty settlement, lying in the region of what is made a living by adhering strictly to a trade or now known as Houtsdale and Spruce Flat, it profession for two reasons—first, there was not was generally conceded that Henry Haggerty sufficient demand for such services; second, was “the best man.” The settlement was mostly i then the people had no money with which to composed of Haggerties, Alexanders, McCul- s pay for such luxuries. loughs, and Whitesides—all Irish. It happened In a large measure, each settler was his own that a noted “bully” by the name of James Gill shoemaker, wheelwright, and physician. If a moved from the vicinity of what is now known member of one family was taken sick a neigh- 4- I impton, and 'settled in the Haggerty vanced this peaceable and inexpensive method , cTgnborhood. Soon after arriving there he was of procedure passed away. The wilderness be¬ j ^ indiscreet as to remark to some one that he came more thickly populated, the more restless, had come into that neighborhood “to tan Irish ambitious sons of the pioneers became active | hides.” That evening the man to whom the players on the stage. Many “lumbermen” came remark was made walked over to Henry Hag- in from distant parts, land became much more! gerty’sfrm* i Ailand 1informed n I /\ 1 h«him - of athe 1_ remark1 madei valuable, disputes arose as to claims, boundary by Gill. The next morning Haggerty was up lines, titles, etc., lawyers increased in number, by the peep of day, mounted his horse, and rode and litigation became far more prevalent. three miles over to Gill’s cabin. Halting near the door, he shouted, “Hello, Jim Gill!” Gill PIONEER LIFE IN THE ALLEGHENIES. came to the door, and Haggerty exclaimed, 7 Money-making by these pioneers was not a “Good morning, Jim Gill; I -understand you jj lost but an undiscovered art. In fact, money have come up into this neck o’ woods to tan had scarcely any existence. What there was Irish hides. Now, here’s one that needs tan¬ consisted chiefly of foreign silver coins, known; ning very badly; so come right along.” With to the pioneers as fippenny bit (six and a fourth that Haggerty dismounted, tied his horse to a cents), elevenpenny bit (twelve and a half cents), tree, and doft'ed his hat and coat. By that time twenty-five cents, fifty cents, and the five-franc - Gill was out in the road, and at it they went. coin, valued at ninety-five cents. The business After a terrible battle—for they were both very transactions, what there were, were carried on by able-bodied, gritty men—Haggerty downed Gill, means of trade or barter. The place of market and he shouted, “Enough.” With that he took was Phillipsburg. To this mart the pioneers} Gill by the hand, helped him to his feet, they came as many as twelve to twenty miles, through | both walked to the brook near by, washed the the wilderness, bringing their grain, butter, eggs,; blood from their faces, shook hands, Gill ac- hides, and venison. knowledging that Haggerty was the best man, Phillipsburg was founded by Hartman Phil-1 and the latter mounted his horse and rode home lips, a wealthy Englishman, who, having fallen , as complacently as if he had been attending heir to a vast tract of that densely timbered! church. From that on these two men were the region, came there, built a grist mill, a foundry^, best of friends, and peace reigned in the neigh¬ and a screw factory; and a man by the name c , borhood. Richard Plumb built and operated a forge. If a dispute arose between two neighbors about These industries employed a number of men, wages or services rendered, or anything else little village sprung up, taking its founder’; which they themselves could not settle, they name, a couple of stores were opened, and herl would generally agree to go to some disinterest¬ the people traded. Roads were opened acro:J ed neighbor, in whose honesty and judgment the mountains from this point—one east to Beli < ^ both had confidence, each one make a statement, font, one southeast to Stormstown, and one more > in the presence of the other, as to his under¬ nearly south to Warrior’s Mark and Huntingdon. standing of the case, and then abide by the de¬ To this little town the pioneers would bring! cision of the third party. their meager products and exchange them for; Occasionally, however, one would go to a jus¬ coffee, tobacco, nails, etc. Sugar and tea they; tice of the peace, who was furnished with a copy seldom bought. The former they made out of1 of the civil code of the state, and “sue” his the sap of the maple tree, and for the latter they neighbor. In that case witnesses were subpoened, depended chiefly on black birch bark, spice, and the justice himself usually conducted the bush, sassafras, and mountain tea. examination. But once in awhile the parties to Some of the first mountaineers secured what; the suit would secure the services of neighbors, were known as squatters’ claims, or titles, to their who were regarded as experts in conducting law¬ land—that is, they became the legal owners of suits. These were called “pettifoggers,” and they the land upon which they settled by virtue of a ([would conduct the examination “in open court.” law which provided that twenty-one years of After hearing the testimony, the justice of the peaceable, continuous possession entitled the pi- ; peace (who went by the name of “ ’squire”) would oneer to one hundred acres of the land on which render his decision, and in very rare instances he settled. But by the time the sons of these! was there an appeal to the county court. early settlers were grown and desired land Mr. But as time rolled on and civilization (?) ad¬ Phillips appeared on the scene, and his survey¬ time, but more especially on sleds in the winter, or, William Bagshaw, a very ^scholarly, gentle¬ and disposed of to some advantage. Conse¬ manly bachelor, had located and established his quently “hauling” became, for those who owned claims. Consequently young men desiring to horses, quite an industry, especially during the settle on these lands were required to purchase winter season. Those who did their farming them. with ox teams would make shingles during The writer’s father in 1826 purchased one the winter season, and those who owned horse hundred acres, for which he was bound in an ar¬ teams would haul the shingles east of the ticle of agreement to pay $350, with interest at , mountains and dispose of them on the halves six per cent per annum from date. In all such —not for money, but for bacon, flour, corn, cases if the purchaser could, only manage to pay I salt, sugar, coffee, molasses, tobacco, muslin, the interest annually he was never troubled and calico, the pioneers now beginning to prefer about the principal. To make his first payment these fabrics to the coarse homespun. At the in the above case the purchaser chopped and early age of fourteen the writer began to ‘“haul ricked up one hundred cords of wood. This he across the mountains” with his father’s two- did in thirty-three short, cold winter days, and horse team; and in this way, instead of going to walked two miles to and from the chopping each school, he spent his winters from that age up to morning and evening. For this he was credited his twentieth year. An ordinary load was two with thirty-three dollars on his purchase. From thousand lap shingles, as they were called. this time on he paid just as he could, some¬ Many a load of these did he haul to Bald times hauling to his creditor a few bushels Eagle Furnace, Warrior’s Mark, Huntingdon of wheat, then a few bushels of oats, all of Furnace, and to farmers in that vicinity, and which he either thrashed with the flail or tramp¬ trade for articles such as named above; and ed out with horses (after he got far enough on many a terrible freezing did he endure in mak¬ to own a horse, his first ten years of farming be¬ ing those long drives through the winter’s frost ing done with a team of oxen). At other times s and storm, there being one stretch of twelve he would carry away to Mr. Bagshaw a saddle of miles without a house or cabin in which to venison, again some skins of deer and other warm. Then, too, it must be remembered that wild animals. In this way he worked along, the youth of that day were not cosily fitted out gaining a little beyond the annual interest, till with warm, woolen undergarments and heavy finally the last dollar was paid. Ah, it was a overcoats, as the)’- are to-day. Without'any un- \ happy time around the familiar old fireside the derwear whatever, and without overcoats, they evening father came home from Phillipsburg endured those terrible storms. How did they bringing with him the title deed for our poor keep from freezing? Not by sitting cooped up but loved mountain home! It had been a long, in the sled, but by running, jumping, and hard struggle to pay for that one hundred acres, thrashing around back and forth in the rear of the estimates showing that although the original the sled, as the patient, faithful horses dragged ~ debt was only $350, he and mother had actually their heavy loads up those long hills. paid, in interest and principal, a little over sev¬ An incident right here occurs to mind that . 1 en hundred dollars. This fact will give the may be of interest. One day, when in his fif- j comparatively young people of to-day an idea teenth year, as he was going up what was known S of how difficult it was in those pioneer days to as Sandy Ridge Hill, he was walking and thrash¬ open up and pay for a home in the mountains ing around in the rear of the sled to warm him¬ and at the same time raise a large family. Only self, when he noticed an animal, which he sup¬ by practicing the most diligent industry and the posed was a dog, coming into the road some most rigid economy, and that, too, through long three rods behind him. He stood still, while years, were they able to succeed. The same his team moved on, and endeavored to coax the . rigid economy and persistent industry practiced dog (?) up to him. It walked slowly and shyly 1 to-day by healthy young people, surrounded by up till it came right alongside of him in the modern facilities and opportunities, would en¬ road. He then put out his hand and was just able them in less time to amass fortunes. about to pat it on the head when it quick] Along about 1844, and later, the demand for leaped away from him and ran into the brush, s pine shingles east of the mountains became1 It turned out to be a young wolf, which, owing greater, and the roads were then such that they to the great depth of the snow on the mount¬ could be hauled across on wagons in the summer ains, was emboldened by hunger to come so near. An uncle of the writer, Richard Hughes, served by the parents, so that each child might! coming along soon after saw it sitting in the be surprised on Christmas morning at finding j. snow and walked up to within a rod of it before in its stocking, hung up the night before, a it ran. He at once recognized it to be a wolf, lump of sugar as a gift from “the Belznickel but had no gun. The writer innocently sup¬ man. posed it to be a dog, and attempted to make Even if the husband and father had not friends with it. hunted any during that fall season, he would be! The “hauling across the mountains” continu¬ sure to find time to spend a day or two in quest ! ed until about the close of the war, at which of game about the 20th of December, so as to time the completion of the Tyrone, Phillipsburg be sure to have some extra fresh meat for Christ¬ & Clearfield Railroad revolutionized matters. mas. Ah, that was a happy evening, December; Many a load of shingles and sawed lumber has 23, 1837, when the writer’s father walked into] the writer hauled into the (now) city of Tyrone his little log cabin just at dark, carrying a wild when there were not two dozen houses there, turkey that weighed twenty-four pounds. Whati and many a load of “store goods” has he hauled . a Christmas feast there was two days later! from that city, also from Milesburg, and even The evening before Christmas the children j from Lewistown, over into Clearfield County. : were told the Bethlehem story in feeling, ear¬ nest words, and were instructed to hang upi CHRISTMAS IN PIONEER TIMES. their stockings, so that good Santa Claus (or B“the Belznickel man,” as Santa Claus was then) Fifty years ago, when the western slopes of commonly called in those regions) might putj the Alleghenies of Pennsylvania were one vast , something into them as Christmas presents be¬ forest of pines and hemlocks, there seldom fore morning. This done, they would say their failed to be a deep snow on the ground by the prayers and retire, wishing that the night would 25th of December. Consequently, at Christmas not be so long. time the surroundings of the pioneers’ cabins When they were sound asleep the parents I were picturesque in the extreme. The earth would get out the maple sugar, the nuts, and | carpeted with white, the evergreen boughs of , the apples; and in each little stocking would be the stately trees loaded with snow, and the placed a few nuts, a lump of sugar, an apple, small window panes of the small windows of $ and a doughnut, of which the good mother had ( the cabin neatly frosted over—these were the baked an ample supply during the day. Ah, sights that usually presented themselves to the how the children would dance with delight on | gaze of the pioneer as he awoke on Christmas examining the contents of their stockings! morning. And as descriptive of such a morn¬ True, there were no gifts of painted sleds, | ing it could truly be said: drums, dolls (though occasionally a mother In its broad white shroud lay the cold old earth, would make her little daughter an extra nice} ■i And the wind through the trees sighed low; (S “rag baby”), picture books, etc.; but never were ! It sighed, “ ’Tis the day of the Holy Birth," As the limbs swung to and fro. children happier than were the hardy little As the low, soft sound of its whispered sighs a pioneers on that occasion. All day long they Died away on the listening ear, romped, played, cracked nuts, and feasted; andf _ It seemed to whisper of love from the skies B their only regret was that Christmas did notj For the humble ones dwelling there. I come about once every week. But despite their humble circumstances, none ■ Sometimes, by previous arrangement, the! failed to make some special preparations for married children would assemble at the old5 an extra feast and some little surprise gifts of pioneer homestead to celebrate Christmas. Ini k love on this joyful occasion. In the fall season, that event the work would all be done up, and' if they had only a few apples of their own rais¬ things were properly arranged by noon of De¬ ing, some of the best keepers would be buried cember 24th. After dinner the husband would in the ground, to be taken out on Christmas place plenty of straw in the sled, and hitch to morning or the day before. The children would it the oxen. Then he and his wife, with their (gather chestnuts, hickory nuts, and walnuts, two, three, or four children, would get into the and woujd put them away carefully, not to be sled, warmly tuck themselves in with several disturbed till Christmas day. A few small cakes bedquilts, and away they would go—not on a of maple sugar, made in the preceding sugar- gallop, with bells jingling, but in the slow, j | making time, were carefully and secretly pre measured tread of the patient, faithful oxen.

'••• . % . V- After a drive of two miles they would stop at and consequent enjoyment which attaches to “Granddaddy” Kephart’s to warm. Some of the acts unhampered by the conventionalities of the ■children would cry because their hands were refined (?) societies of to-day. But lest we be; benumbed with the cold. But good old grand¬ considered pessimistic, we will add that despite mother would rub them warm, and give the style and formality of modern times there the children something to eat; and then, after ! is much goodness and whole-souled hospitality arranging to take Christmas dinner there the for which to be grateful. next day, on they would go two miles farther, arriving at “Granddaddy” Goss’ big house about ‘ PIONEER LIFE IN THE ALLEGHENIES. ; 4:00 p. w. Ah, what a greeting, and what a time romping with uncles and cousins! 1 At an early day some of the original settlers About 8:00 p. m. the “Belznickel man” would were awake to the educational interests of their put in an appearance. He was a terrific fellow children. Of school privileges many of them to look upon—a tremendous black bearskin cap bad been deprived, and consequently could on his head, a mask on his face, a great panther barely read and write. As early as 1820 Abel skin wrapped about his body, the long tail of Benton taught a “subscription school” in Phil- which trailed on the floor! How he bellowed lipsburg, there being then no public School sys¬ and talked! He would lunge at the children, tem. Parents who were able and willing to pay pull their ears if he caught them, and steal to him two dollars could send, for that amount their caps if he could lay hands on them! But of tuition, one pupil two months. with all this they must not be too shy of him. To this teacher grandfather Goss paid at one f nor treat him discourteously, or he would go i time four dollars, for which the writer’s mother^ away, and not return to put presents into and her next younger brother received instruct’ their stockings. After a tremendous romp, last¬ tion in his school two months. But to enjoy! ing half an hour or so, he would suddenly make the benefits of that instruction they were com- , for the door, and, just as he was leaving, pelled to walk three miles morning and evening, r' would say in a hoarse voice, “Good-night, chil¬ their home being that distance from the school. ' dren. I wish you a merry Christmas. Don’t-x Think of this, ye favored school children offiT ' forget to hang up your stockings; for I’ll be to-day. It was in the cold winter; the days around again. But don’t stay up too late; for were short, deep snows fell in that mountain if 1 come and see light in the house I’ll not , region, and the road lay through an almost un¬ come in.” With that he would pass out into broken forest of pine, hemlock, and laurel, up the darkness; and nothing beyond his gentle ; and down steep hills. hint was needed to make the children anxious At the peep of day this girl of fourteen sum¬ to retire at an early hour. mers, accompanied by her brother, two year< The next morning, before day dawn, the \ her junior, both dressed out in homespun, - house would resound with their merry shouts, j Avith coarse, heavy shoes made by their father each striving to excel the others in lavishing own hand (each pioneer was of necessity his praise upon the “Belznickel man” for the good own shoemaker), with a dinner basket in hand things they found in their stockings. After a icontaining a lunch and two copies of Webster’s good dinner, as arranged for at the other [spelling book, would set out and tramp three “granddaddy’s,” the Christmas party in the ox miles, often through deep, pathless snows, to be sled would arrive at home in good time to do taught spelling, reading, and writing. That two the chores and have a merry Christmas night 1 months’ schooling was all the school privileges around their own fireside. mother ever enjoyed. Looking back to those days from this dis¬ Later on, by the time several of her children tance, who dare say the pioneers, with all their , were of school age, that same brother who had hardships and privations, did not enjoy life? In I accompanied her to Esquire Benton’s school fact, it sometimes seems to the writer that life’s | opened a school within two miles of father’s pleasures were more real and more whole-souled (cabin, and to him the writer’s parents paid four . then than they are to-day. Style and formality dollars for two months’ tuition for him and a and conventionality had not as yet assumed ■ sister who was four years his senior. To this '* their tyrannical sway. There was that prim- (school they waded through deep snows night I itive sincerity and natural, heartfelt hospitality and morning, the text-books being Webster’s 1 spelling book and the New Testament. But as a sSit of mother’s diligence in her efforts to lasting about five minutes, the pupil was re,-l teach her children to read, sister was quite an manded to its seat with the admonition, “Now j apt reader for those times before she went to study your lesson,” and another would be drill¬ school, and the writer, then in his sixth year, ed in the same way. Not until a pupil could was advanced from the alphabet to the'“a-b-abbs”, name every letter at sight was he advanced be¬ the afternoon of his first day’s schooling. Ah, yond the alphabet. how proudly he ran and broke the news to his I As they advanced so they could spell in mother on reaching home that evening; and words of two syllables, they were arranged in what an inspiration to his childish soul was the classes of two or more, and recited by standing! gentle, loving pat-a-pat of mother’s hand on his up in a row, books in hand, and spelling wordv Bhead, the approving smile, and the warm, loving alternately or in succession. For some tirnd r I words, “That’s a good boy,” as they fell from after a pupil was thus promoted, the greal ■ mother’s lips. Think you the force of those trouble with him was to keep his place—that isj | expressions of commendation has lost its influ- to follow the words as they were in turn spelled ' enae to this day? by his fellows, so as to know when it came his That school was a small affair, but it was a turn to spell, which was his word. Many a box [l seed—a prophecy—a forerunner of somethingj on the ear and many a rap on the hand did ?- better, because it was the best step in a right stupid pupils receive for failing in this particu¬ direction that the pioneers could make at that lar. time. It was far from being a college, but it The more advanced pupils were given addi- might prepare the way for one. The accommo-j . tional lessons in reading, writing, and arithme¬ dations were of the most rude, meager, homely! tic. In reading they would stand up in a row, character, but properly utilized would prepare ! sometimes reaching two thirds around the room :

the way, as they did, for the neat, comfortable j and read, each in turn, a verse from the New, country schoolhouse of to-day, with all its mod¬ Testament, the teacher pronouncing the diffi ern equipments. cult words. Never did the class-read in concert 1 The schoolhouse was a little, round-log, old Such a thing was not known, and would hav«i er) in residence that had been vacated for better been considered a dangerous innovation. Starters. In it was the ever-present, indispen¬ Just before dismissing for noon and for even, sable corner chimney, which served as a warm¬ ing, all the more advanced pupils would staolj ing place. A few days before the school was to and spell off the book. They were divided in 'Open several of the pioneers met there and re¬ two classes, the more advanced being nanu chinked and redaubed or mortared the cracks in the “big class,” and the less advanced the “lita pils when writing sat with their faces to the finally spelled it took his place above theft wall and their backs to the interior of the room. one who missed the word. The inspiring i- The exercises were about as follows: Soon after ture of the spelling match was the desire arog school was called—it was called at 9:00 a. m. and all to have the honor of standing at the hesof 1:00p. m.—the pupils who were trying to learn the class—an lionorMsually enjoyed by theest^ ^ their letters and those who were beginning to spellers. spell words of two and three letters would be Of course the fewer there were in the i i called to the teacher, who had his seat in one the easier it was to stand at its head, or ^ corner of the room, one at a time. Those learn¬ that desirable post of honor, “next head” « ing the alphabet would say their letters over considered almost as honorable a positij|* from “a” to “z,” and then backwards from “z” to “head.” It is said that on one occasion a gj - “a,” after which the teacher would point to sev¬ man on horseback, traveling through thj eral different letters at random, asking the pupil derness, overtook a little boy, all alone, to name each, and telling it the names if it did way home from school, when the followin not remember them. After a drill of this kind, logue ensued: j * **K..

“Well, my little man, have you I eight years of age would toil from morning (ill night, week in and | school?” ■ week out, picking bark, limbs, and stones oft’the “Yes, sir.” “Do you like to go to school?” meadows, dropping corn and potatoes, and boe- , ing the same. “Yes, sir.” “Where are you in your class?” But in the fall of the year the sports began . I again. The young orchards, diligently cultivat¬ “Next head.” “Ah, that’s a good boy. There,” dropping a ed, began to bear apples by the time the older dime, “take that for being so high in your class.”! boys and girls were in their teens. Consequent-, “Thanky sir,” said the boy, picking up the ly, apple butter boilings, corn shuckitigs (husk-1 dime, hie eyes dancing with joy. ings, as they were then called), and quilting par- / The gentleman rode on a short distance, ties become numerous. A neighbor would de-C thinking complacently of his generous act, termine that on a certain night he would boil when suddenly a thought occurred to him, and j apple butter. He would gather in his apples, turning in his saddle and looking back, he ex¬ procure a barrel of fresh cider, and borrow claimed, “Oh, say, little boy, how many are in Grandfather Goss’ large copper kettle—the only your class?” one of the kind in all that part of the country. “Oh, me and another little girl,” was the Then he would invite the young people of the prompt and truthful reply. neighborhood. The gentleman’s head dropped, he straighten¬ On the set evening, by 8 o’clock, all wmuld be ed himself in his saddle and rode on without I on hand. The great kettle was hung in the ^ saying another word, feeling that if the answer chimney if the weather was unpropitious, but if to his last question had changed his vision re¬ j it was a fair moonlight night in the open air in specting the boy’s merits as a speller, neverthe¬ ' the yard. Up to about 10 o’clock the fire was less the lesson he himself had learned was kept going under the kettle, boiling down the worth far more than the dime he had given to cider, and all hands were busy paring and , the boy. “snitzing” apples, some to be used in making the 1 butter, others to be dried. PIONEER LIFE IN THE ALLEGHENIES. By 10 o’clock the apples were all pared, the putting of the “thickening” into the cider had From what "has been said in former articles commenced, the butter stirrer was brought out, our young readers .must not conclude that the and the party was informed by the woman children of the pioneers had a very dull, dreary of the house, who was master of ceremonies, time of it. They had their sports and amuse¬ that it was necessary for some one to “stir.” L ment-. despite that, in the language of the im¬ This was an intensely interesting moment; for mortal Scottish bard. then it was to be seen which of the young men “They dined on hamely fare, was brave enough to lead off in inviting some Wore hodden gray, and a’ that,” one of the young ladies to stir with him. Al¬ During the winter season the boys from eight though during the time the paring and “snitz- I years'old and upward found plenty of amuse- ing” of the apples was going on each one had I ment in snaring rabbits, trapping foxes, shooting been busy in his own mind determining on his | with bows and arrows and elder popguns of their partner, and cautiously reconnoitering by certain I own make, playing ball, and sliding down the sly advances, such as presenting an extra fine * hills. All these were healthy outdoor sports, and apple to the object of his admiration, making | consequently, the mountaineers were generally certain suggestive remarks and carefully watch¬ | the very picture of health. In these games and ing their effect, etc., all with a view to ascertain¬ I the sliding down the hills at school the girls ing their respective chances; yet the announce-? J I usually joined with as much zest as the boys. ment that some one was needed to “stir” caused During the early spring and through the sum¬ many a heart to go pitapat and developed won¬ mer all those old enough to aid in any way were derful results. j busily engaged chopping, picking brush and It was generally the case that there was one . stone, rolling logs, plowing, planting and hoe- girl present to whom three or four young men ling corn and potatoes (and such hoeing among had taken a special fancy, each of whom was (I roots and atones!) harvesting, haying, etc. In fully resolved in his own mind to improve his A fact, the servi e. of boys not more than six to first opportunity. But when the crisis moment. .. ’ \ ■ v> ■ came, all of these would hesitate, and some cool-| cooked while the men and boys shucked headed, quiet young fellow, who had not figured | corn. About midnight the corn was finished, conspicuously at all during the preceding hours,; the quilt was out, and all hands sat down to a would completely take their breath by gallantly; superb supper of chicken, potatoes, hot biscuit, stepping forward and inviting the object of their j pumpkin butter, apple butter, pumpkin pie, and admiration to stir with him. rye coffee. And, oh, how those mountaineers His invitation being accepted, the stirring would eat! commenced; and one after another the astonish¬ Supper over, at places where the heads of the ed boys who were left would quietly retire to the family were church members, all hands would porch or some secluded spot, and then you retire to their home, the boys usually escorting should have heard their remarks. John would the girls. But where the heads of the families Bay: were not professors of religion some of the young “Well, boys, don’t that beat the fleas in Au¬ people would usually remain an hour or two and gust! Who would ha’ thought that that quiet, dance. sleepy Jim Smith would ha’ axed her to stir with In these ways the young mountaineers found him? Why, Joe,, blame me, I thought you was amusements into which they threw themselves goin’ to ax her w’en I seed you gin her that big with all the ardor of their hearty, robust na¬ apple, or I’d axed her myself.” ture; nor were their sports but seldom, if ever, 1 To this Joe would say: “Ha, ha, ha (with a marred by quarrels or fights, unless there hap¬ sound of grim disappointment in the laugh)! pened to be whisky furnished for the occasion. I’d jist made up my mind to do so, but didn’t In such instances there was almost certain to be want to be impedintly for’ard about it, when, a fight or two, and some two or more poor fel¬ blame my skin, if the fust thing I didn’t see that lows would be seen carrying their eyes draped limber-kneed, slab-sided sou of a punkin step- in mourning two or three days. pin’ right up an’ a poppin’ of the question. M - The writer has known young men to attend Blame me, if ever I felt so beat in all my born such gatherings as many as three nights in suc¬ days. Ha, ha, he, he, haw, h-a-w-aw.” cession, in no one of which would they get over After exchanging comments of this kind some a single hour’s sleep; and withal they would time, one would say, “Well, boys, this won’t do. work bard plowing, chopping, or thrashing every Them gurrels in thare will think we’re dummer day. than ole Baughman’s ofl' ox.” PIONEER LIFE IN THE ALLEGHENIES. “W’at ’ill we do?” says another. // “Do?’ says the leader. “We’ll go in and play Religiously these hardy mountaineers wei button.” not neglected. Nor were they morally bad. Al With that they rush into the house, and the whether members of the church or not, hs leader says to all in general, and no one in particu¬ deep, conscientious convictions. The Protestai lar, “Le’s play button,” and the game begins. From Episcopal, the United Brethren, the Methodis that on, they take turns in playing and stirring and the Presbyterian churches were all repr until about 4 o’clock in the morning (a good seated. For the first named, Hartman Philij supper having been sandwiched in about mid¬ erected a house of worship in Philipsburg soo night), when the butter was done, the kettle was after he founded the town. About the sam I taken off, and all hands repaired to their homes, time the itinerants of the United Brethren an the boys gallantly escorting the girls—as happy, the Methodist churches crossed the mountains) jolly a set as ever breathed. preached in the cabins of the pioneers, and vis¬ The corn shucking and quilting parties were ited from house to house. But as we have al¬ also occasions of special interest and amusement. ready given a sketch of some of their earliest The pioneers seldom planted more than five or visitations and labors we shall here speak of lat¬ six acres of corn at most. This they would cut er times. up, shock, and when dry would haul it together The labors of the Methodist itinerants were near the barn, and then invite the neighbors to blessed with great revivals. Powerful con¬ come to the shucking party. If it happened to versions and • wonderfnl shouting character¬ be at the time of or near full moon, they needed ized their meetings. In due time they erected a no other light; but if in the dark of the moon log meetinghouse in Philipsburg, one in Clear¬ right fires of pitch-pine wood were kept burn¬ field Town, and one at John Dales, in Bradford ing near by. In the house the women quilted Township. The members of tKe church in each neigh¬ The itinerants of the United Brethren Chur borhood were organized into classes, a class lead¬ were equally zealous, and their meetings were er and a class steward appointed, and during the also occasions of wonderful conversions and summer months prayer and class meetings were much shouting. In fact, in almost every prayer held regularly every Sabbath. During the win¬ meeting from one to five or six persons would ter, owing to the distance many of them had to become happy and shout. Of course, at these travel, the meetings were not held oftener than meetings there were often present some of the once in two or three weeks. baser sort who would speak lightly and make sport of the shouting and shouters; but against Few of the favored of to-day have anything like a correct conception of the difficulties those the godly, upright lives of some of the loudest shouters they could utter not a word. Occasion¬ early settlers surmounted to attend divine serv¬ ices. Not infrequently would some of them ally there was a shouter whose daily life did not correspond with his profession, and against such walk as many as four miles of an evening (and the scoffers would hurl their epithets and de¬ that, too, after working hard all day) to attend preaching; and the writer has known a class lead¬ risive remarks with effect. The United Brethren itinerants did not enter er (an uncle of his), with his wife, in the summer time, to walk five miles, up and down great hills, the towns. They preached during the first fif¬ teen years in private houses. About 184/ the of a Sunday morning, to the house above men¬ settlers in “the Goss neighborhood” determined tioned to meet and lead his class, and walk back to build a house for school and church purposes. home in the evening. True, he owned a team The little old cabin on the hill, so long utilized of horses; but having worked his horses hard all for public and Sunday schools, was now quite week, he thought they needed their Sunday rest, too small and dilapidated; and owing to the in¬ and he and his faithful wife would walk that dis¬ crease of population the private houses were tance to encourge the work of the Lord in the quite too small to accommodate the people who community. That faithful Christian pair are came to hear preaching. now in heaven, bht their influence still lives and There being no public money with which to asserts itself for good in the lives of many who build a schoolhouse, the settlers agreed to join were inspired by them to faithfulness in the hands and erect a house “for school and church Christian life. purposes.” One subscribed so many days’ work, Both the Methodist and United Brethren at another so many shingles, another so many feet an early day began to hold camp meetings in of boards, another so many pounds of nails, an¬ these parts. But these were no more like the other so many panes of window glass, another camp meetings of to-day, with their permanent so many days’ hauling with a span of horses, grounds, fine cottages, and modern equipments another so many days’ hauling with a yoke of than an old-fashioned stage coach is like a mod¬ oxen, and so on. “Uncle John Goss” gave half ern express train. But as the stage coach an¬ an acre of ground for the site and the pine tim¬ swered well its purpose in its day, so did these ber for the logs. camp meetings; and we most heartily wish that The logs were hewed by the writer’s father, in stimulating vital piety and in securing the and by him and a brother were the floors laid conversion of souls the camp meeting of to-day and the door and window frames, the benches, was as much an improvement over the camp and the writing desks made and placed in posi¬ meeting of forty years ago as the lightning ex¬ tion. In due time the house was completed, press train of modern times is an improvement and Henry Buffner installed as teacher. That upon the old-time stage coach. But, alas, it is house still stands on the original site, two miles not so nearly so as we could desire. i west of Osceola Mills, and is occupied as a pri¬ The camp meeting of those days was on this vate residence. To the writer it is a sacred in¬ wise: In the early part of the summer the “cir¬ closure for more reasons than one, chiefly be- cuit preacher” would talk up, all over his charge, cause there, some months after his conversion, the importance of having a good camp meeting he professed his Lord in baptism, there he first at some central point,.and ascertain “how many attempted to superintend a Sunday school, there would take tents.” In due time, the time (the he first attempted to lead a prayer meeting, and latter part of August or the first of September) there he first attempted publicly to preach the and place were agreed upon by the quarterly word. conference. As the time approached father and mother would purchase two webs of muslin and ressed were called “spars,” intended ^2ve them sewed into one large sheet for a tent ship masts. cover. A sufficient quantity of provisions to This industry gave employment to all the[ serve the wants of the family a week and feed hardy young mountaineers, all of whom were five times that many strangers (all free), were expert in swinging the ax, handling the crosscut! provided; and on the Thursday morning of the saw, making shingles, and working in sawmills. camp-meeting week, by the time daylight had Other lumbermen came in from New York and fully dawned all was loaded into a wagon, the the New England states, and the industry soon house was locked up (the services of a kind began to make sad havoc in the forests of stately neighbor having been secured to look after the pines. stock and the fences), and away the whole fami¬ The mountaineers would till their poor, rough, 1 ly, provisions, horse feed, and all, drove ten, fif¬ mountain farms during the summer, and in | teen, or twenty miles, up hill and down, and early fall would hie away to the pine forests. over tremendously rough roads, to the camp Those whose homes were not conveniently nearl ground. Once there, poles for the tent were cut, to the forests would erect cabins there, carry the tent was pitched, beds made of straw procur¬ provisions to them, do their own cooking, and ed near by and bedding brought along, a camp thus “bach” it from fall till spring, some of fire was arranged over which to cook; and there them going to their cabins Monday morning and | for five or six days the pioneers thus brought to¬ returning to their family home on Saturday gether “worshiped God in the leafy grove.” night. Such would rise as early as 3:00 a. m. The weird scene presented by those meetings Monday, eat breakfast, load themselves down! among the tall pines in the nighttime are still with provisions, and walk five to eight miles to | visibly photographed on the writer’s mind; and their cabins in time to do a full day’s chopping. the sound of the preachers’ voices warning sin¬ Some may be curious to know how those lum-l ners of impending judgment, and of the sing¬ bermen could “keep house”—that is, cook their ing, praying, moaning of the mourners, and the meals and at the same time do full work in the shouting of the converts, still ring betimes in timber. But they did, and did it easily. Of| his ears. To the more cultured and refined of course, the meals were not prepared after to-day those meeting may seem wild, rough, fa¬ most fastidious fashion, nor would they h natical; but that they were directed of God as the tempted the appetite of an epicure; but means by which to reach scores and scores of his own experience the ymter can assure the mountaineers who would attend no other meet¬ readers that the food was so well prepared as tcV ing, and secure their conversion, the sequel be quite sufficiently tempting to the appetites off clearly demonstrated. The Christian people hungry woodchoppers. The variety was no j who united in these meetings only made the best great, nor did it need to be. The chief requi use they could of the means at hand, and the Lord accepted and blessed their offering in the sites were substantiality in quality and abun' conversion and salvation of their children and dance in quantity. their neighbors. The order was as follows: At 5:00 A. m. the I V True, there was often much disorder. The one honored with being chief cook would rise, s “roughs” would sometimes attempt to break up start a fire in the cook stove, and call the other | E the meetings; but the courageous preachers and three. While he fried meat, boiled potatoes,] t the staunch Christian mountaineers were always made coffee, and bake buckwheat cakes, th(j t equal to the emergency. others would prepare some wood for the day o , 3 (if it were during hauling time) feed and barnes' PIONEER LIFE IN THE ALLEGHENIES. the horses. Then all would sit down to the ta | a. ble, on which the dishes had been arranged thej As the years advanced up into the forties and night before, and partake heartily of the morn¬ fifties lumbering became the great industry of ing meal. Having finished their repast by 6:0tl Clearfield County. Saw mills were built, many a. m. each one would turn his plate upside down of the stately pines were cut into boards, others over his knife and fork, and thus it would be were worked up into shingles (not sawed, but split ready for his own special service at noon. (The shingles), and still many more were felled and dishes were only washed once each day—in the hewed into great square logs, while still others, evening—and table linen was not in use at all.) the largest, tallest, and most perfect, were simply Breakfast over, the “cook” would wash and clean a stripped of their bark, limbs, and knots, and quart of white beans, place them in a good-sized dinner pot, add to them a piece of pork hauling consisted of four good horses (but muck jsome salt, fill the pot with water, place it on the hauling was done with two-horse teams) well | stove, fill the stove with hard, green wood, and harnessed, a “timber sled,” a great log chain then away all hands would go to the chopping, some twelve or fifteen feet in length, and a good j the others meantime having been engaged in rough-lock chain—that is, a short, heavy, strong whetting the axes. At half past 11 o’clock the chain to place around one of the sled runners as I cook would quit work, return to the cabin, find a lock when going down hills. I the beans and pork cooked most deliciously, Roads would be cut and cleared through the bake the buckwheat cakes, and by 12 o’clock the logs, stumps, and brush to where each stick of others would arrive, and all would sit down and timber lay, tbe sled would be driven within six most hugely enjoy their dinner. At 1:00 p. M. feet of the side of one end of the stick, a “skid” i all would return to their work and chop as long would be placed with one end to the log and the j as they could see. Then they would return to other end on the sled, two of the horses hitched the cabin, prepare and eat their supper, wash to it, and thus one end of the log, or stick of tim¬ the dishes, set things in order in the cabin, chat, ber would be slid or “skidded” up on the sled, 1 read, or play checkers for an hour or so, and then chained fast, and then dragged to the creek or IT retire to their rude, rough beds and sleep the sleep vers bank. If the distance was not over three made refreshing by hard, honest toil and a clear miles, three trips was considered a fair day’s conscience, while the mountain breezes sighed hauling. and moaned through the tops of the pines and Spars were far more difficult to haul than ! hemlocks that locked branches over their cabin. square timber, and not unfrequantly some very Prior to 1862, when the first railroad was built large choice sticks had to be drawn a good part iinto this region, all the lumber, save what was of the distance by the slow process of block and j “wagoned across the mountains,” was conveyed tackle. So the hardy mountaineers toiled on. through the long winter, and by the first to the to market in rafts and arks floated down Mo- middle of March they had their lumber to the jshannon, Clearfield, and Chest creeks, and the y west branch of the Susquehanna River. Conse¬ water’s edge ready to raft. . quently lumbering, so called, during the fall and 'winter seasons consisted in getting logs to the PIONEER LIFE IN THE ALLEGHENIES. | sawmills and sawing them into boards to be aft¬ J 3 The lumber prepared and placed on the banks erward rafted, and in “making square timber” of the creek or river, the next thing to do was to and “spars” and hauling them to the streams put it into rafts in the water and float it to mar¬ above mentioned. , > ket. This was called rafting. Clearfield Creek In making square timber the trees were felled and the Susquehanna River (west branch) were and then scored and hewed into square, or nearly fair streams for rafting. Moshannon and Chest square, sticks of whatever size and length they creeks, owing to their smallness, crookedness, would make, running all the way from twelve and the swiftness of the current were illy adapt¬ inches to thirty inches square at the mid- ed to this industry. i die of the logs, and from thirty to eighty feet The rafting season lasted only a short time in long, while the spars were from two to four feet the spring of the year, wdien the snow was melt¬ | in diameter at the stump, and from seventy to ing in the mountains. Hence, in order to get lone hundred and five feet in length. the lumber to market, the rafting time was a Some of these logs were hauled from three to most busy occasion. In fact, everybody was on .eight miles’ distance to get them to the water; the rush, everything had to be done in a hurry.J I but the roads over which they were hauled fol¬ Sawed lumber was sometimes loaded on lo;1 lowed the ravines and small stream so as to rafts, and thus conveyed to market. But by fa 'avoid any hauling “up hill.” However, in many the greater portion was built into what were instances they led down long steep hills, the de¬ called board rafts, and thus floated to Harris-J scent of which with a team, behind which was burg, Middletown, Marietta, and Columbia, Pa., one of those tremendous logs, was extremely and sold. The log rafts wele built by rolling hazardous. the hewed logs into tbe water, placing from fif¬ As a matter of course the hauling was done teen to twenty side by side, placing what was. j during the winter when there was snow on the called a lash pole across each end of the logs ] ground. The necessary outfit for successful (lash poles were young, tough oak, hickory, or j mm wood saplings that were from three to foi smaller children with their wonderful descrip¬ Inches in diameter), and then boring inch and a tion of “the trip”—of their hairbreadth escapes half or inch and a quarter holes on either side at “Oliver’s Bend,” “The Stepping Stones,” “Big of the lash pole, and some five inches deep into Moshannon Falls,” “Shamokin tDam,” and in the logs, placing the two ends of a bow, made of “Connewago Falls”—before he could tell of tough white oak, into the two holes, bring the these, and of the fights, the frolics, and the fun bow down tight over the lash pole, and driving- he had seen in making the trip, he had to do pins of hard wood into the holes so as to hold from five to six days’ of solid, hard walking— the pole and the logs solid together. A full raft that is, he had to walk from Marietta, in Lan¬ of logs was from two hundred and twenty to two caster County, Pa., to Clearfield County, a dis¬ hundred and twenty-five feet long and from tance of from one hundred and fifty to one hun¬ twenty-four to twenty-eight feet wide. This was dred and seventy-five miles. He could have called a river raft, the size usually floated from taken the packet on the canal and rode from . Clearfield Town to the foot of Buttermilk Falls. Harrisburg to Waterstreet, in Huntingdon At that place two of these rafts were placed side County, or he could have staged it; but that by side and constituted a float, and one pilot, would have been quite too expensive; and as his with five hands, could take it from there to employer allowed him ten dollars to take him Marietta. From Marietta to Peach Bottom, or home (that was a dollar a day for five days for, tide water, they would be taken single again, his time and a dollar a day for his expenses) he and it would require a pilot and ten good hands found it quite as profitable to walk home as to to manage the raft with any degree of safety, so work on the raft while going down the river, the swift was the current in places and so rocky the usual wages for a common hand for rafting being one dollar a day and board. channel. From the upper waters of Clearfield Creek and After the Pennsylvania Railroad was built of the west branch of the river the rafts were the return from “down the river” was made in floated out in halves—that is, one hundred and much less time. In 1851 the writer made his ( ten feet long, and joined together in the river first trip to Middletown, Pa., on a raft. In the or at Clearfield Town. However, out of Clear¬ evening he took the cars and ran up to Harris¬ field Creek many full rafts were floated from as burg. There he, with many other raftmen, high up as Chase’s Landing, or the mouth of lodged in “Bumgardner’s Hotel” and slept on Potts’ Run. But to manage one of those large the floor of the sitting room till 3:00 a. m. wher, B . rafts in that stream required a skillful pilot and he took the train for Tyrone. Arriving then nine good, stout men. about 8:00 a. m., he procured breakfast and the^ walked twenty-five miles across the mountain, Rafting was not only a busy time, and the through a drenching, cold, April rain to hi work very laborious, but it was for the young, hardy mountaineers a very exciting and highly home. And he well remembers the look of as 1 enjoyable occasion. All through their toils and tonishment on his father’s face that evening exposures, during the long, cold winter, they when in answer to the question, “Where did were ever cheered on with the prospect of “a you come from to-day?” he said, “From Harris¬ trip down the river in the spring.” This trip, burg.” “Harrisburg!” was the astonished reply. when made for the first time, was as much of an How in the world could you come from Harris- H <1 :vent, aye, more, in the history of the life of a burg in one day?” Formerly it had required) foung man as is a trip to Europe to-day. Nor four days’ hard walking to cover the distance be¬ | | as any one considered a true lumberman—a tween Harrisburg and that place, and the pio¬ r ,iero—until he could tell some wonderful story neers could scarcely believe their own child ^bout “what I saw at Marietta last spring.” when he declared that he had covered the entire To appreciate what such a trip implied the distance in about twelve hours. But the iron reader must go back in his imagination to the . horse had put in his appearance and wrought the wonderful revolution. condition of that country before the days of railroads. He must remember, too, that after One of the difficulties encountered by the the young mountaineers had reached Marietta— raftmen was to secure lodging. When on the j the goal of their ambition—before they could water, as night approached they would “land” sit down around the fireside in their mountain in eddies where their rafts could be kept ini r qiome and astonish father and mother and the safety, tie them up with their great sea grassfj cables to trees and stumps on the shore, and) lodging in the houses near by. thick end of a blade sixteen feet long, some mouth of Clearfield Creek, Fulton’s dead water, eighteen to twenty inches wide, two and one j Big Sandy, and Salt Lick were popular places eighth inches thick at the one end and an inch for landing in the mountains because of the and an eighth at the other end. This blade was good eddies in which the rafts could be securely firmly pinned fast in the jaws of the stem, and held. The houses at these places, fitted up for tiie oar balanced on the head block and a two-1 the accommodation of raftmen, were often so inch pin placed down through it and the block, crowded at night that every foot of floor would so as to permit it to play freely up and down, be covered with sleeping men. In such cases a and from side to side, at the will of the man raftman would consider himself fortunate if he having charge of it. ! could find a dry place on the floor near the] A raft, when afloat, was in charge of the pilot, i stove on which to lie down, and taking his boots1 a man who was supposed to be thoroughly ac¬ for a pillow, enjoy (?) a few hours’ sleep. The quainted with the crooks, turns, rocks, leads of'' keeper of the house would begin to serve break¬ water, and eddies of the stream, and knew “how fast by 4:30 A. m., and by daylight all would to run a raft.” The pilot was responsible for have breakfasted and gone. the safety of the raft, and carried the front oar. His “first mate” was his steersman, and carried PIONEER LIFE IN THE ALLEGHENIES. the rear or hind oar, as it was called. It was his duty, and the duty of the hands, to obey all the “Rafting,” which figured so prominently as an orders of the pilot. Pilots were usually paid a industry in parts of Pennsylvania and New certain sum per trip, and sometimes made as York forty and fifty years ago is now almost a high as ten dollars in a single day. Steersmen lost art. Twenty years hence it will have en¬ and common hands were paid by the day or by tirely disappeared, and the children of to-day the trip, according to agreement. will know nothing of it whatever unless they If a pilot were unfortunate or unskilled, and - happen upon descriptions sent down to them ran his raft upon rocks and broke it into pieces, from some who were personal participants it was said, “He stoved his raft.” If he simply in that exciting, laborious, and somewhat peril¬ ran it onto a rock or sandbar, and it stopped ous process by which the lumber products of without breaking, it was said, “He stuck his the mountain regions were conveyed to market. raft.” If he ran his raft so that it swung around The constructing of the raft, described in our and lodged sidewise on the head of an island or] last, was called rafting in. Not until the first on the pier of abridge, it was said, “He saddle- freshet of the season had rid the streams of the bagged his raft” on the head of the island or on - heavy ice, formed during the long winter, was it the pier of the bridge. j safe, or possible even, to place the lumber into In the spring of 1856 the writer, being a pilot,! the water. But so soon as this occurred every contracted with Mr. John M. Chase, a very enter-/ available hand was busy, and every “rafting prising, worthy, and successful lumberman fL ground” on creek and river resounded with the Clearfield County, to raft in and deliver at MlVj noisy pounding, chopping, hurrahing, and laugh¬ rietta, in Lancaster County, Pa., two large tin ‘ ing of the jolly raftmen. her rafts. The preceding winter was noted f< k Rafts were of three kinds—board rafts, made its great severity, its length (it did not break of boards, timber rafts, made of the hewed logs till the 9th of April), and the great quantity! described in a former article, and spar rafts, snow that fell. The winter was spent by made of the cleanly barked, round logs intended and his brother (now bishop) and several otll for ship masts. young men of the neighborhood in attendf , On each end of a raft was placed and pinned the public schools and studying “the three Rl fast with large wooden pins a head block, on with English grammar added. which was mounted an oar with which the raft: From his schoolmates he selected most of was guided in the stream. The oar consisted crew, taking the brother above mentioned as #H of a dry pine pole, some six to eight inches in steersman. It was a memorable experience. T • diameter and from thirty-five to fifty feet long, rafting ground was the first one below the mout! the smaller end of which was dressed down so of Potts' Run, on Clearfield Creek. There lie that it could be grasped by the hand, and the and his crew of nine stout, hardy, jolly you ip larger end was mortised some four or five feet, men on the morning of April 10th commence into this mortise, or jaws, was inserted the to “raft in.” ^_ _ surprise ot pilot and crew they found no dif Before than a week they worked late and early] Acuity whatever in managing it, the danger¬ filing in the logs, boring holes, driving pins, ous places, such as Turner’s Rock, Spruce Island,\ hanging oars, ever urged on by the intense de¬ Myer’s Rock, the grass flat, and Cree's Sunny sire “to get dojyn the river,” and the fear that Rock, were all passed in safety, and by 2:30 p. ji.I “the water would go down.” Finally they had the raft was safely landed away down in the river three big rafts all ready to go, each two hundred at Fulton’s dead water. The great river hill wasl and twenty-five feet long and twenty-six feet wide. climbed, and a good hearty dinner eaten at| With one of these'they started in the mornihg, Abraham Ream’s popular raftsmen’s home.) the creek being two feet too high for good run¬ Then the crew set out to return to Mr. Chase's ning, ami still rising. Oh, how they had to work- i home, a distance of between twenty and twenty- It seemed they could not keep the raft in the five miles. On they tramped, up hill and down,! stream, so wild was the water! At Spruce through mud, over ice, gravel, sand, tTnd stones, Island, a few miles below where they started, their pants legs stuffed into the high legs of theii | the great raft took “a shear,” could not be con¬ heavy boots, and at about 10:00 p. m. they en¬ trolled, and struck on Myer’s Rock below the tered Mr. Chase’s house, a wonderfully tired but |island. But it did not break, so substantially jolly, proud, triumphant set. They were heart-1 | was it put together; and by swinging the hind ilv welcomed, the tidings of the success of the* end out into the current it floated off the rock, day’s work being especially welcome news. Am 'and on they went. At Clearfield bridge it took good supper was in readiness and eaten with al another shear, plowed into the bank, carried relish, and then they retired and “slept without- - 1 away a cart load of soil, and went on. A mile rocking,” only to be aroused at 5 o’clock the ‘ below this point, after a great struggle, in which next morning that they rnight repeat theTripl another raft was knocked loose, the raft was This wiis i-aftingin Clearfield County, Pa., thirty- landed at Ardery’s dead water, the men com¬ seven years ago. pletely “tuckered out.” Dinner was procured i thex-e, and at 3:00 p. M. the tired men started to! PIONEER LIFE IN THE ALLEGHENIES. I foot it through the mud and slush ten miles; j*r back to Mr. Chase’s home, where they arrived : By the time it was faii-ly daylight the next about 6 o’clock. morning the pilot and crew, of whom we spoke The next morning at the breakfast table the; ' in our last, were at the rafting ground, where following dialogue ensued: still lay two large timber rafts. One of them Mr. Chase. Isaiah, I wish you to take your | was boarded, the rope untied, and away they ■ crew, go to the mouth of Pott’s Run, and take | went. The water now being in an excellent that big spar raft out to Fulton’s dead water to¬ | stage for “good running,” the raft was managed day. with comparative ease. This, howevei', required, Isaiah. Oh, Mi-. Chase, I have never run a in some of the “tight places,” the exertion of all jJr raft, know nothing about it, and I am the skill of the pilot and all the ^fcfengtli rid to risk it. I almost killed my men yes-1 every one of his vigorous, able-bodied men.: Hay with that big timber raft, and I do not! Often would they, in dippingAhe oar and push h to give them a second dose for fear I’ll kill I ing it across the raft in oi'dm to move and direct in altogether. I have heard old pilots say so; it in the channel, li t the jpilot clear off hi$ feet | jich about spar rafts being so hard to run. and carry him across the raft, he all the while Mr. C. Oh, great Chai’ley, you need have no suspended at arm’s length from the end of the ;rs. If you could mamage that big timber oar stem. Ah, it was a delight, hard as was tSuiT t yestei'day, with the ci'eek as high as it was,! work, to handle such rafts, aided by such a crew, I on the rise, vou will have no trouble with! in such a lively, dashing, crooked stream of a‘ big spar raft to-day. I’ll risk you. water. There was an inspiration about it that i. All right, Mr. C., I’ll do my best, and you! thrilled the heart and caused the men to forget 1 have to abide the consequences. that they were working hard or were tired. ' With that the pilot and his jolly crew footed By 3:00 p. m. of that day, this raft also was a. mile to where the raft lay, boarded it, and tied up at Fulton’s dead water; and by about ioon.were floating down the rapid, rocky, crook- 10:00 p. m. the crew was again seated around d stream. It was a large raft, two platforms of Mrs. Chase’s heavily-loaded table ravenously de! inety-five feet each in length, ten logs wide, and vouring a good supper, interspersing the per lie largest spar three feet in diameter. To the formance with puns and jokes relating to th incidents of the day. the river during this freshet, have all their hopes It may be proper here to remark that while, blasted by the stupid blunder of an incompetent as a matter of fact, many raftsmen were drunk¬ I pilot? The men muttered and growled—none en and profane, others were as pure-hearted, of them sw'ore audibly. What some of them noble-minded, honest, upright men as could be thought is not written. Their pilot took things found anywhere. And while it was so true that coolly, but he was worried. He went to two or it had passed into a proverb in Clearfield^Goun- three of the older pilots in whose judgment he ty that a trip down the river was all that was [had confidence, and who were standing around needed to determine whether or not the conver¬ not knowing what to do, and received from their sion a man had professed in the reviyal of the lips, as a result of their inspection of the situa¬ previous winter was genuine, nevertheless many tion, an accurate statement of the position of a young man, and old one, too, did pass that try¬ things at the head of the island. ing ordeal triumphantly. It may also be stated Having spent some time in this way( he re¬ here that of the crew in question several turned to his own raft -where his men were as¬ were Christian young men, all the others were sembled, trying in various ways to give vent to young men of good morals, and no profanity or their feelings of disappointment and chagrin. drinking of intoxicants was practiced by any On stepping on board the raft his brother, the one of them. steersman (and now bishop), approached and After a good night’s rest and an early break¬ said to him, “Suppose you get on board one of fast the pilot and his crew “skipped out” to the these small rafts that are going by and ride down creek and boarded the last raft for them to take past Spruce Island and see how things look. down. That one delivered safely at Fulton’s T/rhaps you will see that we can go by. You dead water they would then be ready to go on can jump off below the grass flat and come back. down the river. It was a large raft—two hundred It will not take long.” and twenty-five feet long, twenty-six feet wide, “No,'” said the pilot, “it is not worth while. and half oak! The men boarded this raft with I have talked with three different pilots who light hearts. They had bid good Mrs. Chase a have been there and examined the situation cordial good-by (she was one of God’s noble themselves, and I know what it is as well as women), taken with them their little traps, and if I had seen it myself. But call the men were cheered with the expectation of seeing Ma¬ here, I have a proposition to make.” The ( rietta before returning to “old Clearfield” again. men came, and the pilot said: “Boys, we are in j The rope was untied and away they went with a desperate box, but I belibve there’s barely a > ease and safety. I chance to get out. And if you will promise on But when they came in sight of “the Salmon your honor to stick to me and help me to gather Hole” they saw the eddy landed full of rafts and up the timber and raft it together again, provijM a hundred or more men there, some of whom ed we tear the raft all to pieces, I will try to .ft , were throwing up their hats and shouting at the j on.” | { top of their voices, “Tie up! tie up! tie up!” Everyman was only too glad to give his pie This left the pilot butone choice—to run in and of honor; and after giving a few words of spe< land, which was effected without any difficulty- instruction to his steersman, and cautioning On inquiring as to the trouble, he was informed men to give heed to no one and to nothing < that some unskillful pilot had, the afternoon be¬ save their duty on the raft, he told his ol fore, missed his calculations and saddlebagged brother, Abraham, to go ashore and untie his raft on the head of Spruce Island, just a rope. mile below; that the raft being a timber raft of No sooner had the raft begun to drop do only two platforms length, the front platform through the eddy than a hundred men or r had broken off and gone, but the hind platform became excited and gave utterance to such in. ifl lay across the head of the island, with at least rogatories as, “WhatWhat are you goingcmino- to d«ldcV; I ten feet of it projecting into the channel in such Where are you going? Why, man, you’re crazyl I a way as to render it impossible for large rafts to You can never go through with that big raft JI go by. Short or half rafts were going by in You’ll only form a jam in the channel so that» safety, but it was considered madness and folly for even small rafts can not get through! Stop! a a pilot to attempt the feat with a full river raft. Stop!” Here, then, was a dilemma. Mhst this pilot To all these excited exclamations, declarations, F and crew, whose hearts were set on getting down and questions neither the pilot nor any of hi \ ■^Tsid one bit of attention; and as they be-J

Boroughs and will carefully cover PP- i st latform on the head of Spruce Island with a le, PA. ment of the County, and also giv e she. h- Isrash that reverbrated through the hills like the ical sketches of the Pionesr Families.set- tk>ar of a cannon. The force was so great that first PIKE TOWNSHIP. it completely knocked the platform out of the -ty, BY PROF. JOHN A. DARE, CURWENSVIL jg channel upon the head of the island without In the same year that Daniel Ogdei\e damaging the big raft in the least, so substan¬ tied at Cbincleclamousche, making the\ tially had it been put together. However, the permanent settlement in Clearfield cout concussion was such as to greatly slacken the Arthur Bell came up the river, from B speed of the raft and cause it to sheer vio¬ Island, in a small canoe—at that day then were no roads. Even the Indian trails had lently into the bend, so that the pilot saw that in not yet been discovered. So, the only an instant it would be impossible to clear Myer’s means of travel was by the river. When Rock below. Quick as lightning he turned, he arrived at Ogden's, the senior Ogden yelled to his men to pull, and with all their and his sons were busily engaged building powers they forced the raft into the bend and a log cabin. Bell, being a man of genius impulses, and always ready and willing to crowded it against the driftwood lodged upon assist his fellows and though he had never The shore, where it plowed and forced its way before seen Mr. Ogden, he immediately along until it almost stopped, when they then landed his canoe, and for several days turned, pulled out into the current, cleared assisted him in constructing his first house- Myer's Rock, and went on in safety. The house, being completed he again em¬ barked, and turned the prow of his canoe When the one hundred or more astonished up stream. At Curwensville, he found men on the shore saw that the hazardous ven- Paul Clover, who there was the only settler * ’j re was a success they threw their hats into the on the river from Ogden’s to its source. ' nd made the welkin ring with cheer upon Again embarking, he pushed his canoe still further up the river. He finally stop¬ daT r. The big raft, managed by its pilot and ped and located on a tract of land now be¬ Is ky crew, had not only gone safely through longing to the Farewell estate and occupied r :, but it had completely removed the ob¬ by H. A. Caldwell. This was in 1797. So, lation, and the channel was opened again for Arthur Bell was the first settler in what is large as well as small. In the dusk of the now Pike township. His wife came the next year. h ig the pilot and his crew landed their bij In 1802, Mr. Bell was elected Justice of m :afely in Miller’s dam, above Clearfield the Peace for the township of Chinclecla- j ,lC^e, where they received the most hearty con-j mousche, and was ever after known as pfr'lations of the owner, Mr. Chase, who was ’Squire Bell. rs-'y rejoiced that his last large raft had passed One of his first official acts was the unit ing in marriage of Major Matthew Ogden and Miss Elizabeth Bloom. This was the first marriage ceremony performed in Clearfield county. Arthur Bell came here from Patch Valley, Centre county. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War, having for a consider¬ able time, served in the Navy. ’Squire Bell was a great ‘’fiddler,” and was very popular among the early settlers. He was a tall muscular man, of determined spirit but withal kind and obliging. In a short time, he became the recognized leader of I the settlement. Here, in 17i>w, was born his eldest child | three others who married three brothei„, Grier Bejl, who was the first male child William, Thomas and James McCracken, born in Clearfield county. Grier was named all sons of James McCracken, Sen., the I after Rev. Grier, a Presbyterian clergyman, first settler of Ferguson township. ’Squire of Williamsport, who traveled all that dis- Bell’s other son Greenwood, married and I tanee in a canoe to baptise him. Sometime moved to Bower. His history will be given after his marriage, Grier Bell purchased when Greenwood township is written. lands in Ferguson township and moved there. Here he died Feb. 37,1886. In 1798 John Bell, a brother of ’Squire As an illustration of the privations and Arthur Bell, came to Pike township and difficulties of the early pioneers, the follow¬ located on what now is the Snyder farm. ing is a good example. From his coming ' He, too, was a Revolutionary soldier. Un¬

i here in 1799, until Matthew Ogden’s mill j like ’Squire, he was of diminutive stature, was built in 1804, ’Squire Bell was compelled and on this account was afterwards called to grind the com on which he depended for “Little John.” j food, in an old coffee mill. He became scarcely less popular than his I Ogden’s mill, in itself was one of the brother, no frolic was complete without his greatest curiosities of modern times. All presence, and no joke was perpetrated the iron contained in the entire mill was a without his being in some way connected with it. spike about a foot long, used as a spindle. Still, primitive as it was, it served to grind He never married and as the country set¬ the grist of the pioneer, until Robert Max¬ tled more thickly, he being of an adven¬ well built a better one in Pike township, on turous disposition went farther into the the waters of Anderson creek. Western wilderness. Of ’Squire Bell's children his oldest son, ■ Next after the Bell’s came Thomas Mc¬ Grier married Miss Roll, of Clarion county. Clure. The McClures were of Seotch-Irish Grier Bell’s children were: Warren W. descent. He came from a settlement in who married Miriam Snyder, and has a Cumberland county, called Tyrone. He, j family of three girls and one boy. also, .came the entire distance in a small Cortes married Matilda Hagerty. Their canoe. He oame in the early part of 1799, family consists of three sons, Orel, Feme : and bought a tract of 620 acres of land. Out and Singleton Bell, Esq., Ex-District At¬ of this purchase has been carved the farms torney, of Clearfield county, and at this of Samuel Ardery, Joseph I. Dale, John R. time a prominent member of the Clearfield McClure, the Wilson McClure estate, and county Bar. G. L. Addleman. His first improvement Of Grier Bell's daughters, Josephine mar¬ was on the river where the Addleman farm ried Samuel Hagerty, of Hagerty’s Cross is now located. Roads. Mr. Hagerty died recently, leaving In 1803 he opened up a store. This was three sons, Hagerty Bros., who now are the the first store established in this entire sec- * most prominent business men of Coalport tion of country. There is now in possession and vicinity. of his grandson, Lafayette McClure, of Pike His other daughters were Augustine, who township, his original ledger and day book. married John Curry, Vespecian, Emeline Before coming here he was in business in and Hortensia, who died young. Cumberland county. On the first pages of ’Squire Bell’s second so9, William, mar¬ this book the accounts are kept in pounds, ried Miss Martha Henry, of Centre county. shillings and pence. This book contains William Bell died at an early age. and left about three hundred pages. The early one son, and three daughters. settlers came as far as twenty-five miles to William Greenwood Bell married Amanda buy goods at this store. There was scarcely Dale, and is still living at New Millport, a man living in the county,previous to 1814, and has a family consisting of four boys whose name does not appear in this ledger. and four girls. His first wife died in 1886, It is one of the most valuable relics in and in 1894, he was again married to Miss Clearfield county. > Belle Wilkins, of Chicago. About 1804, Thomas McClure was elected® William Bell’s daughters were Mary Justice of the Peace,and thereafter he, tc (1 Lydia and Caroline. was always spoken of as ’Squire McClutv . Mary Married Rev. John Wrigglesworth From this time on until his death he did an |5: a minister of the M. E. church, and now immense volume of business. Lafayette ^ living in Ashtabula county, Ohio. McClure has also in £is possession hundreds Lydia married Samuel Spencer, and of summonses, subpoenas, road viewer’s Caroline Henry Hoover. As these families reports, records of law suits, promissory do not reside in this township, their geneal¬ notes, bonds and various communications ogies are omitted. from State and National officers. ’Squire ’Squire Bell also had four daughters, McClure was an excellent scholar and a Lucretia, who married James Young, and good writer. His b.-oks were kept with neatness and accuracy that wot'1'’ ■ This was the only office on the river at ->e many of the professional bookkeep¬ that time from Clearfield to Cherry Tree, ers of this generation. As a matter of in¬ and remained so until 1822, when an office formation to this generation we will briefly was established at Curwensville, and Wm. mention some of the different charges in McNaul appointed postmaster. Pikeville his day book, Caliciis charged at 35 cents was continued for some time after this. per yard, coffee at 2.1? cents per pound, and The mail route was from Bellefonte to wheat at $1.00 per bii eh el. Venango,and the mail carrier John P.Dale, At that time license i for the sale of liquor At that time record was kept of every was never dreamed i>f. The early settlers letter that was sent out or received at the all used it. It is a latter of regret that office. No envelopes were used, the letter some of their descei smts, though it costs being simply stuck together with sealing ten times as much, Ire less temperate than wax. Postage was charged according to their ancestors. the distance the letter*came. A letter Whiskey is charged at $3 cents a gallon, from Philadelphia cost 15 cents, and one 16>£ cents a half gallon and 3 cents a gill, from Franklin eight cents. which in those days constituted a drink. ’Squire McClure’s sons were Thomas R. To illustrate its almost universaluse, even and Wilson. His daughters k were Sally, traveling ministers are charged with gal¬ Polly, Margaret, Betsy and Jennie. lons of whiskey. The'Squire kept a barrel of the be3t old rye on tap in the store. A Thomas R. married first, Miss Anna tin was chained to the counter near by and Caldwell. She died at an aarly age,leaving customers buying a bill of goods were in¬ one daughter, who became the wife of vited to take a drink. To this request Isaac C. McCloskey. of Karthaus. Thomas none refused to respond Some, who were R. was again married to Nancy Porter. of the thirsty Lind, even filling the tin for By this union his sons and daughters were a second draught. The 'Squire had occa¬ Milton, Lafayette, Robert and George, and sion to employ a great deal of help. In all daughters Martha, Lola, and Margaret. cases he gives his hired men credit with 50 Milton first married Miss Farwell. who cents per day. He also kept boarders. All died at an early age, leaving no children, of these are charged at the rate of seven His second wife was Miss Martha Caldwell, cents a meal. Milton's family now numbers three boys In 1818, during the Presidency of James and three girls. Monroe, he was appointed postmaster at Lafayette married Miss Jane Drauker his place. The office was called Pikeville. and has a family of two daughters. As a matter of general interest a copy of Robert married Miss Samantha Bloom. the original commisson is herewith given. His family consists of two boys and one "Return J. Meigs, Jr., Postmaster Gen¬ girl. eral of the United States of America, to all The other son, George, lives in Nebraska who shall see these presents, greeting: and is not married. Know ye, that confiding in the integrity, Thomas R. McClure's daughter Martha, ability and punctuality of Thomas McClure, married Robert R. Fleming, of Houtsdale. Esq., I do appoint him a postmaster, and Lola married W. N. Moore, of Hontzdale, authorize him to execute the duties of that and Margaret married a gentleman in the office at Pikeville, Clearfield county, and western part of the United States, whose State of Pennsylvania, according to the name cannot be recalled. laws of the United States, and such regula¬ Thomas Ross McClure was a prominent tions conformable thereto as he shall re¬ military man. In 1835 he was elected ceive from me: To hold the said office of Colonel of the 142d Regiment of Penn’a postmaster, with all the powers, privileges Militia. His commission is dated Aug. 3d, and emoluments to the same belonging, of that year. during the pleasure of the Postmaster Gen Those wb

liTMlntfae trest.G8ttySbUrfi:’ and "*«»*•« didaot married D*a~ consistsiefs^of Of four ViSe^town’h° shlpne’ whose family ' weTertflhedonrnty A® J°hn P ^^orge One a.J'erZJZ John Anderson, andone m a,nother unmarried. 9| Marian, is still "s“r ‘S'0””*in d“—ent part. ’Squire McClure’s ' follows. Sally marrled BenT married as Sr., Polly- mailed Sr j PDJh“? S°°m’ ret married John P Dale R^ ’ Marga‘ in Pike township, Oct. 4, isffi Sis? j.1" 1“ “ember o( th,M. considered in their proper pJce ^

wasCb:rrt°SerwDhShip’S ”.“Sh b*”"*' *”» »- «me n„“; nisi death he was prominently identified wher&D. W Hilenn’ °.’m *804’ located <«*«•« .ohureh ’"rt •»> • -d.fi ““““ at the age of 35 years m 7 be died, funeral in Clearfield county' Te T -« M- a"‘ »«• uncle of the late Dr. J m 5® w" aa I young, leaving ao children. ‘ ° dIed j Clearfield, who a Stewart, of ^ ^oCracken his *«„„ i ! *•». repiacedCrissweirs’first ."“T *bi°h had crumbled to dustZith ^ (year, ™ ,n ",abont “••seel forty one. Criswell’s family afL 8 Sec0Iid dr,n WUIi,?„ Am£' W*™ ^™ J» —-:I.: a“,‘' s^rrr ry McBride, and has one daughter Ha I William Jale,™e7anc'>(t B°*U”b ori-'u !;:^f1”.gta”''a,CTin»' *“d »-W

I and fol "amed ,,ck"» Robinson, ! dfnghtr rt J’",, ““'p.»!».?: rt •£! rrr «« ried fr. Tr.v. . M Angelina was mar- ' ,f Q Ammon’ of Mercer county daughtm- '“JT' * '•»% of oS r gi c Margaret married Edward slsSf th^ di6d iQ 1885‘ Her famiIy con¬ sh. ttZ^t sisted of three sons and three daughters

toisvjsr pRre wasa8a,n W .hi, eSlIofnT °* W”' “eH- H., and Joseph L. Also two d° S°nS' Jame8 and Martha Jam6 p Mght6rSJaile Mary Leech ‘ wae married to zrzz11:: ‘’r1"0' * »«£■ sons and three daughtersB°AftiViD^iSthree of his first wife he J Af er tbe death ' Kate EtZwi,er. J08eph L marrie<1 l° MiS8 ssrj& Err (“ *»»• °t tbis nnfon w“r™lCI,rl,tl- Dale a few months °De Dight‘ j sons and three daughters, only e^™ IT* this hotel, married an EnJ^ bailding of !S. "O’ “™e C‘t“‘n. Die dw™ John Wriglev wh« h a Engh8hman named

•o H"“sstrLDr Hoover. Zr!°’ W> born daughter were children bo™'of1hi”n and Wty'^^ba.6 marr^ed Hiil,^of 1Lumber 5,1795- WilHoTv. I 792’ GeorSe- bom May nJ and has a family of two sons. P >born Sept. 13,1799-^VVh97’ J°hD 6,1801. ’«», Tolbert, born Oct. J al0r,gItbc okTcreanihUl tirnpi^on And ^ Cnlilce the Blooms and Bells, the Dales, |«-wirroh,S’a;r««d" ! who married Miss Ori.st" u” 1 in; Amandd, Mr. William Y. Bell; Isaac Dunlap was married to Anna Jordan. , Jane, Hr. Jame:) Martin; Ellen, Mr. Lewis Their family was four sons and four daugh¬ Fox; David C., died in the army; Jesse E., ters. Alexander D. Dunlap married Miss who married ftfiss Cleary, and after her Hadden. Their family was four sons and death Miss Comely. three daughters. Katharine Dunlap mar¬ Wm. Dale’s family is five sons, and two ried Isaac Zortman, one of the first settlers daughters, Bennett left one daughter, and of Brady township. David I. Dunlap mar¬ Jesse E. has a family of four sons and two ried Sarah Hagerty, and had a family of daughters. James Martin’s children are nine daughters. John Dunlap married Jane one son and three daughters, and Lewis Read, and had a family of five sons and two Fox’s family consists of one son. The fam¬ daughters. Jemima Dunlap married Wil¬ ily of W. Y. Bell is enumerated in the gen¬ liam Hagerty, who settled near Madera, ealogy of the Bells. this county. Sarah Dunlap married first Of the sons of George Dale, Jesse E. Dale, Wallace Dunlap, and after his death James of Patton, Pa., is the most prominent. Morgan, of Philipsburg, Pa., one of the Having removed to DuBois, he was ap earliest residents of that place. Rachael pointed Postmaster of that City. In 1886, (Dunlap married Isaac P. Carson, who set¬ he was elected Sheriff of Clearfield county, tled near Madera. Their family consisted on the Republican ticket. He was the first of one son and four daughters. ! Republican ever elected to this office in Although the Dunlaps are a large family, Clearfield county. In 1898, he was a Presi¬ and have a still larger connection through dential elector on the Harrison ticket. inter-marriages with other large families, The children of John Wrigley were two nly two male members of the family now daughters. Cynthia, and Lavina. Cyn¬ eside in the township. They are Fred thia married Nathan Cleaver. She died I• unlap, a son of John Dunlap, who owns May 4th, 1895, aged 83 years. Of Nathan is father’s homestead, and Hugh J. Dun- Cleaver’s children, Andrew, Jane and Levi ip, a son of Isaac Dunlap. He also oecu- died young. John married Rachel Carson, ies the land which his father cleared out. William married Amanda Port, and George David I. Dunlap is the only one living of married Emma W ay. George Cleaver re¬ be family of William Dunlap. He is now sides in the township and has a family of i his eighty-sixth year. He has always three sons and two daughters. Annie been a citizen of Pike township. Now, how¬ Cleaver, the second daughter, married Reu¬ ever, he lives in DuBois with his married ben Bonsall, and after his death G. L. Ad- daughter. In his younger days he followed dleman, and has three sons. Hannah Cleav¬ the business of hauling goods across the er, the third daughter married Johnston mountain. He always was a Democrat. Holden. Mr. Addleman and Mr. Holden, His first vote was cast for Andrew Jackson, both reside it,. Pike township, and are two for President. He has voted for the Dem¬ of the leading and progressive men of the ocratic nominee at every Presidential elec¬ vicinity. tion since except in 1888.

Lavina Wrigley married Samuel Derrick. THE PASSMORES. Only one of a large family live in this The family is descended from an English vicinity, Martha Derrick, who is married ancestry. The ancestors of the entire Pass- to David S. Moore, Esq., of Curwensville. ... 1 ■ * more family of Clearfield and Centre coun¬ THE DUNLAPS. ties was Abram Passmore. In the year This family is Scotch. Alexander Dunlap 1806, he settled in the northern part of Pike and his wife Catherine are the first of the township. His descendants are most of name who came to Pennsylvania. They them farmers and mechanics. Some of the came long before the Revolutionary War. family being among the most prominent The ancestor of the Dunlap family of Clear¬ citizens of their respective localities. They field county was William Dunlap. He f reside in Penn, Greenwood and Lawrence came into Pike township in 1801, and first townships, and in other sections of the coun¬ settled on the Ridges where David I. Dun¬ ty. lap now owns. He was married to Sarah Abram Passmore was married to Susan¬ Read, a native of Maryland. She was also nah Pearson. The family consisted of two of Scotch ancestry. boys, George C., and Gainer. The daugh¬ William Dunlap took an active interest ters were named Polly, Jennie, Betsey, in politics. In 1836 he was elected one of Maria and Susan. the Board of County Commissioners, for George C. Passmore was married to Mary ['Clearfield county, on the Democratic ticket. Ann Hartsock. He bought the land where The children of William Dunlap were Isaac, the farm of George Bailey is now located ■born 1806, Alexander, 1807, Katharine, 1S09, and settled there. Besides being a farmer, I avid I., 1811, John 1813, Jemima, 1815, he was also a blacksmith, and was consider¬ * en, 1830, Sarah, 1S34, Rachael, 1835. ed an excellent mechanic. He also wa.. zfVUMK&r*- '"**3 31

somewhat engaged in politics. In 1842, he was elected a member of the Board of Coun¬ ty Commissioners, which position he filled with great credit. He had a large family. We regret that we cannot here give a com¬ plete genealogy of his family, but the limits of this article forbids it, and only those who are residents of Pike township will be given. Elam B. Passmore is the only son who is a citizen of Pike township. He resides in that part of Pike township know as Chest¬ nut Ridge, and owns an excellent farm. He is married to Mary Short. Of Elam’s sons, Harrison, Baber and George are mar¬ ried, and reside in Pike township. Adam is in Nebraska, arid Amos at present, is in Lawrence township. He has a daughter also who is married to Robert Moore, of Grampian. Abram Passmore’s other son Gainer, was married to Polly McCracken. He followed the business of hauling goods across the mountain. One evening, he stopped and put up at the Antis Tavern. In the morn- JOSEPH SPENCER.. ng he went out as usual to harness his team. Shortly afterward, he was found Hudson, New York, on the 12th day of Sep¬ dead in the stable. His wife afterward tember, 1793 married Dr. Iddings, one of the first phy¬ After having acquired a preparatory edu¬ sicians of Philipsburg, Pa. cation, he entered Dartmouth College, at Polly Passmore married Hon. James that time a famous institution of learning. Bloom, of Pike township. Jennie Passmore Here he completed his education, and laid married Daniel Bailey, also an early settler the foundation for a practical knowledge of of the township. Betsey Passmore married the medical profession, which he had de¬ Samuel Hoover. Maria Passmore married termined to enter. He afterward read Hugh Hall, the first teacher of the first medicine with Dr. Woodward and Dr. Ischool established in Clearfield county. White, late of Oswego county, New York, Susan Passmore married William Bloom, and was regularly admitted to practice in Jr, the early part of 1818. L- ROBERT ASKEY. In 1819, Dr. Hoyt located in Pike town¬ Robert Askey was a neighbor and friend ship, at a point about two miles from Cur- William Bloom in the State of New wensville, on land now owned by Joseph L. Jersey. They fought side by sideYfuring Dale, and there commenced the practice of the Revolutionary War, being most of the medicine. In a few years, his name and time in General Wagner's brigade. fame spread from Karthaus to Clierrytree, Mr. Askey came to Pike township in 1804, and from the south-east to the north-west and settled a short distance from Curwens- of the county’s boundaries. ville, where the farm now owned by Zach- During the terrible scourge of 1S24, ariah McNaul now is. known as the dysentery plague, Dr. Hoyt He had a family of twelve children, but did a noble work. This plague was almost strange to relate, not one of the name now as fatal in its deadliness as the asiatic reside here, nor is it positively known, that cholera, a person stricken with it unless a single male descendant of Robert Askey speedily relieved did not long survive the isjiow living. attack. I>R. JOHN P. HOYT At this time, Dr. Hoyt traveled on hors Dr. Hoyt’s active business life was nearly back almost night and day, and althougl all spent in Pike township. For this reason several members of his own family diec [ we think that a sketch of his life probably with the dread destroyer he never ceased belongs to the history of Pike township. his work of visitation except for a brief He was the second practicing physician time. No matter how far distant, or how of Clearfield county, Dr. Coleman being the doubtful the probability of compensation, ! first. he never refused the call of the sick or dis¬ His father was Phiaeas Hoyt, a New En<- tressed. I ander by birth, and his mother Julia Pen- Aside from his regular duties as a phy¬ Tioyer, a native of the Empire State. John sician, Dr. Hoyt was’.for a time, engaged in ennoyer Hoyt was born in the city of 32

His family was three sons ana tnree daugh¬ the Mercantile business at Curwensville. ters. One son, Wade, resides at Grampian Having acquired some means by his exten¬ this county, and one daughter is married to sive practice, he made some fortunate real William Thompson, of Curwensville. The estate investments, which by gradual ad¬ others do not reside here. vancement in value made him one of the Elijah McDowell married NaBev Mark= wealthiest citizens of this section of the and removed to Bradford township,"wnere county. he has become a large landowner and a well On the 20th day of January, 1820, John P. known citizen. His family was nine sons Hoyt married Mary, daughter of Thomas and two daughters. The sons of Elijah McClure, one of the early pioneers of the McDowell are in business in various sec¬ township. Of this marrige, ten children tions of the country. James is a merchant were born. Hiram and Juliana, who both of Ansonville, Pa.; of the others, some are died in 1824, and several who died in in¬ mechanics and some farmers. fancy. His son Davicj W. Hoyt, moved to Jane McDowell married Amos Tate, now Louisana, where he idied. Elizabeth M. deceased. His family was five sons and six married Martin Watt?, of Ferguson town¬ daughters, ship. Mary E. married Martin D. Shirk, George McDowell married Belle Miller, and died in 1843. Another daughter Chris¬ and removed to Clarion county. He had a tiana T., died 1843. Harriet and Margaret, family of three daughters. are unmarried and reside on the old home¬ James McDowell married Sally Root, and stead in Greenwood township, a few miles also moved to Clarion county. His family from Lumber City, where Dr. Hoyt resided is two sons and four daughters. some years prior to his death. Charley McDowell married|Lizzie Dunkle, In 1857, Dr. Hoyt was elected one of the ! and is now a citizen of Pike township. His Associate Judges of Clearfield county, in family, who are living, consists of two which capacity he served until 1856. His daughters. colleague on the bench at that time was Martha McDowell, the youngest of the ,j Judge Richard Shaw Of Clearfield. family, is married to Milton Shirey, of I On the 26th day of February, 1891, Hon. Bradford township. His family is four sons John P. Hoyt died at his home in the ninety and one daughter? second year of his age. His wife, Mary sur¬ vived him about a year and a half, when she died September 6th, aged 87 years.

THE M’DOWELL FAMILY. While not one of the earliest pioneers of Pike township, Jonothan McDowell, the ancestor of the entire family by that name, came here in the spring of 1834. He pur chased a farm known at that time as the Bailey place, and there be, his wife and family made their home. He was married to Keziah Merryman. Mr. McDowell and his wife were among the founders of Methodism in this section. Their names both appear in the memorial windows of the new M. E. church at Cur¬ wensville, as belonging to the first class or¬ ganized here by the Methodist church. Jonothan McDowell and his wife both lived to a good old age. He died in 1876 and his wife in 1878. The children of Jonothan and Keziah McDowell were named Elizabeth, Samuel, Elijah, Jane, George, James, Charley and THE SXYDEK FAMILY. Martha. ___ Elizabeth McDowell married M. L. C. Away back in the early part of the Nine¬ Evans, who always was a citizen of Pike teenth century, Abram Snyder came from township until his death. Mr. Evans’ fam¬ Mifflin county, bought a tract of land, on ily consisted of one daughter, who is dead, the river opposite Ferguson’s, and resolute¬ and George H., who owns the homestead, ly set to work to clear out a farm. In this, and Lewis J ., a machinist, residing in Cur¬ he succeeded, and by careful management, wensville . and a wise economy accumulated consider¬ Samuel McDowell was married to Mary able wealth. .j Ramsay. His wife has been dead for some Mr. Snyder was married to Susans / j . years. He is a resident of Curwensville. Ogden. He has been dead several ye/ 33

but Mrs. Snyder is still living on the home¬ 1896, aged 75 years. His wife still resia stead. This family was a large one, twelve j there. Their family is two sons and five children arriving at manhood’s and woman daughters. Hannah Smith married Luther hood’s estate, and if our information is cor¬ Hoover, of Bellville, and died in 1879. Mr. 1 rect all are yet living. Hoover is also dead. Five sons and two The eldest daughter, Miriam Snyder, daughters composed this family. married Warren W. Bell, a prominent citi¬ Emily Smith was married to Sam Pyles. zen of Ferguson township. Cbarlotta Sny¬ Mr. Pyles died Some years ago, having a der is married to Samuel Tobias, and lives family of four sons. Mrs. Pyles is now near New Millport. Henry Snyder is mar¬ married to John Starr. Lavina Smith mar¬ ried to Miss McQuilkin. He lives in the ried Truman Scott, of Clearfield. Their southern section of Pike township, where family is one son and one daughter. Rachael he is the owner of a fine farm. His family Smith married Andrew Towzer, whose is four sons and five daughters. Samuel family consists of four sobs and four daugh¬ Snyder is married to Ruth Leathers. He ters. Mr. Towzer lives at York, Pa. Betsey also resides ia the south section of Pike Smith married D. D. Ritter. Mrs. Ritter township, and has an excellent farm. His died in 187S, leaving a family of three sons family consists of two sons and two daugh¬ and four daughters. Nancy Smith married ters. Elizabeth Snyder married James Benjamin Diehl. They live at Leroisville, Lines and has a family of four boys. Susan this county, and have a family of three sons J. Snyder married A. F. Bloom, a prominent and four daughters living. Susannah Smith resident of Pike township. Their family is married Isaac Caldwell, now deceased. four daughters. Margaret Snyder is mar¬ Mrs. Caldwell died in 1870. Her family has ried to Andrew Jackson and lives in Cam¬ already been given in the Caldwell geneal bria county. Eliza Snyder married Philip ogy. Catharine Smith married B. B. Antis and lives in California. Martha A. Drawker, and died in 1875. Her family was Snyder married J. W. McMullen and lives four sons and two daughters. Mary Jane in Nebraska. The other children, Hannah, Smith married Henry Aughenbaugh, of Sarah and Abram Jr., are unmarried and Lawrence township. She died in 1875. liveyyith their mother on t.Ho a <-- - This family was five sons and five daugh¬ THE SMITH FAMILY. ters. John Smith was the ancestor of the earliet James B. Smith owns and lives on the l| family of Smiths, locating in Pike township. old homestead, about a mile from Curwens v He was the son of William Smith, who emi¬ ville. He is married to Adeline Way, of J grated to New Jersey, from Germany. Curwensville. This family consists of six j John Smith was born in new Jersey 1789. sons and one daughter, all grown up, and 1 He was married to Nancy Jordan and came all married except one son and one daugh- I .< to Clearfield county in ISIS. They first lo¬ ter. Harvey T. Smith is the youngest of cated on Anderson Creek near Roaring Run. the family. He is married to Annie E. .. Soon after, Mr. Smith bought the land Gensler, of Pittsburg. He is a well known where D. W. Hile now owns. Here, he citizen of Curwensville, where he has resid¬ stayed many years. After leaving this ed for the last twenty five years. He is k place, he lived on the Irwin farm for a time. now 51 years of age, and has a family of "j He, then bought a tract of land, and cleared five sons and two daughters. out a farm where his son J. B. Smith now lives. Here, he died in the month of Sep¬ tember. A remarkable fact concerning this family is that they had a family of fifteen children, all of whom grew to manhood and woman¬ hood and married. The oldest son was William Smith, who married Mary Ann Hoover, and died in 1S7S, aged 37 years. His wife is still living and resides at Bell- ville. His family was three sons and five daughters.' David Smith was married to i Sallie Aughenbaugh, of Jersey Shore, and lived in Knox township. "He died in 1888, leaying a family of one son, and four •daughters. Sallie A. Smith was married to George Aughenbaugh, of Lawrence town ■ship. Mrs. Aughenbaugh died in 1867, leav¬ ing three sons and five daughters. John Smith Jr., married Martha Read. He a citizen of West Clearfield, and died 34 ■

j>~ THE LEECH EAMILY. one borough, Clearfield, himself, except / George Leech, the ancestor of the family Brady and Covington. These were settled I of that name, in Clearfield county, was mostly by Germans and French. Bo as he born in Lancaster county 1788, and died in could understand neither language, he ap¬ 1877. When the Waterford and Erie turn • pointed a German enumerator in Brady, pike was being built in 1815, he came to and a Frenchman to the same position in Pike township, haying previously secured Covington. His sons were Reuben C., the contract for constructing two miles of George W., Hiram, Hugh, Robert and this road. His section began at Curwens- James, and his daughters were Elizabeth, ville, and ended at a point in Lawrence Mary J., Amelia and Susannah. township, where the road to Jordan J. Reuben, the oldest son, was drowned, Read's intersected the Pike. After finishing aged IS. George W. married Philena Gar¬ bis contract, Mr. Leech was well pleased rison, and after her death, Elizabeth Henry. with Pike township, and determined to set¬ He now resides in Nebraska. Hiram Leech married Caroline W. Mullen. He now is a tle here. He first entered the mercantile business, citizen of Curwensville. His family living having purchased a store from a Mr. Packer. is on6 son Perry, and three daughters, In 1823 he married Jane Caldwell, and lived Dolly,-and Helen. Hugh Leech lives until 1834, on the farm now owned by Chas. in Bloom township, and is married to Sally E. Patton. In 1824, Mr. Leech built on A. Irwin. James Leech is married to Hogback Run one of the first carding ma¬ Sophia Hoover, and lives at Olanta, this chines in this section. This building stood township. Robert Leech is a citizen of close to the line of the turnpike. For many Penn township, and is married to Mary ? years this carding mactnne am the work for Spencer. Elizabeth married G. P. Bloom, E the entire county. of Bloom township. Amelia, Samuel L. In politics, Mr. Leech was also very Horn, of Pike township. Susannah, James active. He was a strong “Whig,” and Kratzer, who emigrated to Wisconsin. although the county was Democratic by a Mary J. married James H. Dale. large majority, succeeded in being twice chosen to county office. In 1831, he was elected one of the County Commissioners, and served until 1834. In 1S40, he was elected Sheriff of the county, after a spirited contest. During his incum¬ bency, the county jail was-built. In this connection an arousing anecdote is related of his son Hiram, who is still living and a citizen of Curwensville. After the jail was all completed, it presented a very formid¬ able appearance, and no one entertained a donbt but that offenders once confined therein, could under no circumstances or by any possibility escape therefrom. Hiram, who was something of an observer, and being, as most boys are, bent on mis¬ chief, one morning made this remark to his “ather, the Sheriff. “Dad” I can climb out of this jail. His father laughed at him. lut wonderful to relate, de did climb out, pnd shortly afterward was walking around ■utside the wall, surrounding'.the jail yard, o tar as known, this communication with RICHAR.O HUMPHREY. i outer world is still there, as prisoners cassionally, mysteriously disappear, leav- THE DRaTcKER FAMILY. rig nothing but tne hale they have kicked John and Isaac Prauker were natives of arough the wall i>ehind. the Province of Tessa, German Empire. The position of Census Enumerator of the They were broth rs, and together they ounty, was givefi Mr. Leech in 1850, As emigrated to this

Capt. John Drauker went West, the Draub- THE WAYS.- er!s have been continuously in the hotel jlius ramuy came irom wales a, u a II business here for about a half century. A. iaily date, probably about 1750. The im- J. Drauker married Sarah J. Kelley.' tediate ancestor of the Ways who located The sons of this family are six, A. Kelly, i in Pike township was Caleb Way, born in W. Grier, Jack L , Edward H., Harry B., it 1761, died 1842. He was located in Half and Lewis. The daughters are Annie, Mag¬ [a Moon Valley, Centre county. From this gie and Carrie. A. K. Drauker married it valley then came Caleb Way, Jr., and Job Miss Clara Thompson, and is now the man¬ Way, the two brothers who are the ances¬ ager of the Drauker House, of Curwensville. tors of Pike township Ways. | W. G. Drauker is married to Miss Kate Caleb Way was born February 12th, 1S05, Rathberger, and is proprietor of the Central and died April 27th, 1S74. He located on Hotel, of Lock Haven, Pa. J ack L. Drauck¬ Chestnut Ridge where Mrs. Jessie Way now er is married to Miss Gray, daughter of lives and cleared out a beautiful and prr Rev. G. F. Gray, a prominent minister of ductive farm. This was in 1838. He w the M. E. church. Jack L., is head clerk in married in 1830, to Lydia Allen. Ca the store of F. J. Dyer and Co. Edward Way’s sons were Jesse and Allen. /

..ughters were Hannah, Mai ma and Lydia, that time. In 1837, he was elected one of Jesse Way married Miss Etta Lamborn. the County Commissioners. Joseph Hoover He died in 1803. Allen Way lives in Indiana lived in Pike township nearly all his life county. after his marriage. His family consisted of Of the daughters, Hanna is married to nine daughters and four sons. Mr. Hoover David Way. Martha died in 1870, and and wife lived to see all their children mar¬ Lydia is unmarried and resides on her farm ried and comfortably located in homes of about a mile from Curwensville. Job Way their own. Daniel Hoover returned to York was born in Centre county, in 1S07, and county where he married and resided. died at his home in Pike township, in 1883. George Hoover died unmarried at the age He was marx-ied to Jane Barlow and came of twenty five years. to Clearfield county in the early spring of Martin Hoover’s eldest daughter Eliza¬ 1855. Job Way also purchased lands on beth married Libbeas L. Luther, the found¬ Chestnut Ridge. He cleared out the farm er of the town of Luthersburg. Mr. Luther where his son Adam Way now lives. Job and family afterward moved to Ridgway, Way’s sons were: Thomas, David, Adam, Elk county. Catharine Hoover married Robert, also one daughter Mary Jane. Isaac Packer, who founded the first hotel David Way has been twice married, first to in Reynoldsville. Polly Hoover married | Eliza McGaughey, and after her death to Roesal Hoover, of Brady township. Nancy Hannah Way. David Way’s children are Hoover married Rev. John Plegal, a United Thomas L., William E., John, Ellen, Mrs. Brethern minister, located at Philipsburg. B. P. Smith, and Mattie, Mrs. Way, of Esther Hoover died at an early age. The Centre county. family of Samuel Hoover, Sr., are all dead Robert Way and Adam Way married sis¬ except Samuel Hoover formerly of Olanta, ters, the former to Marie Blackburn, the but now a resident of Clehrfield, He is the latter to Rhoda J. Blackburn. Robert father of Allen M. Hoover, of Curwensville. Way’s family is four sons and two daugh¬ Jacob Hoover's children are: Wilson, Wil¬ ters, and Adam Way’s family is one son. liam, George, Garry, John, Reynolds, Jane, Susan. This family are all dead except THE HOOVER FAMILY. William Hoover, who is married to Mary J, Conrad Hoover and wife emigrated to Glass, and lives in Lawrence township. Pennsylvania from Germany, and settled Garry B. Hoover, who resides in Curwens¬ in York county. Martin Hoover, his son ville, and Miss Jane Hoover, who makes was the first of the family to come to Clear¬ her home with him. field county. In 1801 he came and made a G. B. Hoover was twice married, first to location on land now known as the Boynton Anna E. Glass, and subsequently to Anna farm. He, however, made large purchases McHahan. He has one son Charles and of lands up Montgomery Creek, and built a one daughter Mrs. Mollie Crist, of Pitts¬ saw mill, where McPherson’s mill is now lo¬ burg. Joseph Hoover’s family married as cated. below given. He was an energetic, thrifty and pros¬ Mary Ann Hoover, his eldest daughter perous man. In 1814, he was sent to the married William Smith. Their home was Legislature. Some time after he was ap¬ in Bellyille, and their family consists of pointed County Treasurer, by the Governor four sons and five daughters. Libbeas L. | of the State. Hoover, the eldest son married Hannah Mr. Hoover was married to Catharine Smith and lived in the vicinity of Bellville. Zinn, also a natiye of York county. He Their family was seven sons and two daugh¬ died in 1841, having raised a large family. ters. Elizabeth Hoover married Levi His brother George Hoover was also an Speice, who for eighteen years was a citi¬ early settler, but did not settle in this sec- zen of Curwensville. For the last twenty i tion of the county. John Hoover was the one years of his life. Mr. Spieee and family ■ eldest son of this family. He married resided at Ramey. They had a family of Haney Collins,Jand removed to Illinois at an four sons and four daughters, one son and early date. Samuel Hoover married Eliza- two daughters of the family being dead. i beth Passmore, and settled on Montgomery Martha Hoover married William Bell, a Creek. Jacob Hoover married Mollie Rey¬ Mr. Bell and wife died some years ago. nolds and cleared out the Denning farm. Their family was two sons. Cynthia Hoov¬ David Hoover married Peggy Haney, and er married Samuel Hepburn, of Grampian. x *fter her death, Mrs. Elizabeth Ogden, a Mr. Hepburn and wife are both living, and >e sister of J udge Leonard. have a family of five sons, and three daugh- ‘ Joseph Hoover the fourth son married ters. Margery Hoover married David Bell. Rebecca Price, and located in Pike town They are both dead. Had a family of two ship, about three miles from Curwensville, sons ana two daughters. Hannah Hoover where Robert M. Addleman now lives. He married John Harley, of Curwensville, all was a prominent citizen of the township, at this family are dead except George Harley, , ■ .'£~- who lives in-Curwensville. ly one term a yea.t\ tor more than ..orty Thomas Hoover married Susannah Moore. years. He is dead. Mrs, Hoover is now the wife He was married in 1823 to May Hall, of of Moses Owens, of Ourwensville. Olarinda Lawrence township. His home was on the Hoover m»rriea James Crossley. They Susquehanna river, about three miles next have a family of two sons living and five above the farm of Joseph Hoover. This daughters. Mr. Crossley and wife are both farm is now owned by N. C. Farewell. dead. Ross Hoover married Phebe Spen¬ Here he died June IS, 1S69, aged 70 years. cer, and had a family of two children, both Peter Hoover’s oldest daughter, Matilda, are dead. William C. Hoover was married is married to Jonothan Ross Bloom. They to a daughter of Asaph Kirk. His family are both still living on their farm on Chest¬ consists of three sons and one daughter. nut Ridge, both being near the four score Jane Hoover is married to Thomas W. and ten mark. They have two children, Moore, the well known surveyor and civil ReedR. and Nora (Mrs. Porter Pyle.) engineer. They reside in Ourwensville, Lynn Hoover married Adeline Shipton. and had a family of one daughter and one He is dead. His family was three sons and son. The daughter is dead and the son, W. one daughter. A. Moore, is a citizen of DuBois. Caroline Hoover married Joseph Pass- Catharine Hoover is married to E. M. more, formerly of Bell’s Landing, but late¬ Davis, one of the most prominent of Clear¬ ly removed to Bradford county. This fam¬ field county’s farmers. Mr. Davis resides ily is three sons and one daughter. in Penn township, and his farm is one of Lewis Hoover was married to Lizzie Fer¬ the most productive and valuable tracts of guson. He is a prominent citizen of Lock land in the county. His family is five sons Haven, Pa. He is now sheriff of Clinton and four daughters. county. Three sons are the children of Peter Hoover, one of the early school this family. masters of Pike township, was also a de¬ Harris Hoover married Mary Beardsley. scendant of Conrad Hoover, who came from He was elected County Commissioner of Germany to York county, Pa., in 1752. Clearfield county in 1S75. He now is a resi- Peter Hoover was the eldest of a family of of Pittsburg, Pa., and has a family of one seventeen children. His father, John son and one daughter. Hoover, and his mother, whose maiden Teressa Hoover married William Hem- name was Mary Ashenfelter, having been pill, now a resident of La Crosse, Wiscon¬ married in York county in 1797 and moved sin. His family is one daughter. to Bald Eagle Valley, Centre county, where E. Allen Hoover was married to Clarissa Peter Hoover was born in 1798. He was an Cole. He was one of the most popular cit earnest student and while the facilities at izens of Curwensville, where he made his that time for securing an education were home during the latter years of his life. Among his associates he was a universal meagre, indeed, he managed to secure : what, at that early day, was considered a favorite and was beloved by all. He died in 1891. good education. In his boyhood days he would work hard all day and study at night Zenas L. Hoover, the youngest of the by the light of pitch pine knots, which then family of Peter Hoover, was married to were the ody means of artificial light that Ellen Wise. His journey to the far north¬ could be obtained. western part of the United States and his There is scarcely a man or woman past accidental drowning is yet fresh in the sixty years of age, who has always been a minds of all. His widow and family reside resident of Pike township, who did not at¬ at Mahaffey, Pa., where the eldest son, Dr. tend school kept by Mr. Hoover. By his Percy L. Hoover, is rapidly becoming a scholars he is remembered as a kind, con¬ noted physician. The other son, Leslie, is siderate man but very strict, and while a teacher, as is the eldest daughter, Cora. wielding his quill pen with his right hand, Blanche is the youngest of the family. could quickly drop it and very successfully THE CARR FAMILY . wield the hickory “persuader” with bis Asal Carr, the first of the Carrs to locate left. in Pike township, came from Clarion coun¬ He began teaching long before the pres¬ ty early in the century. He first bought ent public school system was ever thought land and located where Samuel Smea! now of. The early settlers of Pike township lives. He was married to Catharine Ly- owe much to Peter Hoover for his untiring barger, and after having lived many years efforts to create an educational sentiment on the property he first cleared up he in the community. purchased land and removed to Lawrence After the establishment of the present township, where he died. system of free schools Mr. Hoover still con¬ Asal Carr was the father of four sons and tinued to teach In 1864 he relinquished the one daughter, who attained the estate of profession after having taught continuous¬ manhood and womanhood. His sons were 38

_»cu Benjamin, William, Alexander and McCullough, now a resident of West Clear¬ Richard, and the daughter, Jane. field. The McCullough family consists of □Benjamin Carr married Elizabeth Wil¬ two sons, George and Richard, and two liams and purchased land ■which is still daughters, Elva, who is married to Richard owned and occupied by his sons, Cyrus and Read, of Houtzdale, and Myrtle, who is Sawyer. He was also engaged in the lum¬ married to Paul Deitzel, of Clearfield. ber business and had a mill at Bald Hills. When the civil war broke out, though THE IRWIN FAMILY. Benjamin Carr had a wife and family, he In 1832 John T. Irwin came to Clearfield answered the call for volunteers and en¬ county and located in Pike township,where listed. He was a brave soldier and died at Richard Humphrey now owns. He was Annapolis, Md:,from the effects of hardship married to Rachel Anderson. After living and exposure made necessary by the war. here several years the family lived on the Benjamin Carr’s family were Mercy,who Irwin place and also the May farm on is dead, Cyrus P, Sawyer, Mary and Chestnut Ridge. They then moved to the Richard. Mercy Carr was married to Beatty farm, now owned by Johnston Oscar Trump. Cyrus P. Carr is married to Holden. They left this farm and emigrated Annie Leas and is one of Pike township’s to the west in a wagon drawn by a yoke of solid citizens. He has a family of four sons oxen. Not liking the western country they and one daughter. returned, bought land in Bloom township Sawyer Carr was first married to Mary and resided there permanently. Here they Thompson, who died leaving one son- both died. i Sawyer Carr is now married to Orrie Bloom Samuel Irwin,the eldest son, was married and resides on the Carr homestead. to Philena Shockey and always lived in Mary Carr is married to Peter Gearhart, Bloom township. the well known farmer and dairyman, re¬ Garland Irwin was married to Matilda siding in Lawrence township. Mr. Gear¬ . Irwin. He also was a citizen of Bloom hart has a family of four sons and one township. daughter. James Irwin died at an early age and was Richard Carr is married to Miss King unmarried. and now resides in DuBois William I. Irwin married Sarah Neiper William Carr, second son of Asal Carr, and resided in the western end of the town¬ also enlisted as a Union soldier in the war ship. His daughters are Mary Jane, mar¬ of the Rebellion, He was married to Jane ried to Joseph Best, Annie to John White- Luzier, and before the breaking out of the side, and Martha to Frank Hollopeter. war lived in Pike township. During the William Irwin’s sons are George A., Wil¬ war he was taken prisoner and died amid liam L., Daniel H., James E., and Jesse. the terrible scenes of the Andersonvitle Of his sons all are residents of Pike town¬ prison pen. William Carr’s family were ship except Daniel H. Payne, Emery, Ada, Amanda and William, George Irwin, the fourth son of John Jr. Irwin, married Miss Horn and resides in Payne Carr married Jennie Wallace and Bloom township. resides in Lawrence township. Of the daughters of John T. Irwin, Re¬ t Emery Carr is married to Emma Dorvitt becca married George A. Bloom, and Sally and lives at La Jose. Ann married Hugh Leech. These families Ada Carr married George Morton, who is all reside in Bloom township. dead. Amanda Irwin married John Bridge, who Amanda Carr married Philip Richner, of lived in Bloom township. They are both Irvona. dead. William Carr, Jr., married Carrie Holt. In this article we will take up the history They now live in Maryland. of the Bloom family, beginning with the Aleck Carr, another son of Asal Carr, en¬ seven sons and four daughters of the origin¬ listed in the late war and was killed in the al settler, William Bloom, Sr. As these battle at White Oak Swamp. eleven children, all married, the task seems Richard Carr was the fourth brother of to be a herculean one. When it is re¬ the Carr family who volunteered to fight membered that Wm. Bloom, Sr. had 64 for his country. He was the only one of grandsons and 55 granddaughters, who all the four who ever returned, and he carries grew to manhood and womanhood, and on his person two minnie balls to remind married, it will be apparent to all that the him of the fact that he was a brave soldier. tracing of 119 separate and distinct families After coming home from the war he was is no easy task. married to Maggie Barger. He and his In this genealogy, no mention will be family now live in Ashland, Boyd county, made of children who died at an early age. Kentucky. There has been no family in the county Asal Carr’s daughter, Jane, married Jas. that has attained to anything like the prominence of the Blooms. Indeed, it is . I at the early age of 35 years. His children .a open question whether if in the entire I were Lorenzo, Mrs. McKeehen, living at I State of Pennsylvania, can be found so Berwindale. Estranella married to George numerous a family. Lanich, of Clearfield. Rachael, to George The writer has made every effort to obtain DeWitt, of Chest township. Hannah, to correct information, and has used the ut¬ William Miller, of Clearfield. most care to make the family history of the John Bloom, the second son, was married Bloom family absolutely correct. Still in to Mary Ann Jordan, and settled where his all probability errors may have crept in son, Jordan J. Bloom now owns. Here he unawares. The greatest difficulty to be died in 1883, aged 75. His wife survived met is the fact, that there is scarcely any him several years and died in 1896 aged 84 now living who can give much information years. John Bloom’s family consisted of regarding the pioneers of Pike township, twelve children as follows: except from knowledge handed down to Fred S., born September 24, 1833; Eliza, them from their forefathers, and the liabil¬ March, 1834; Rachael, Nov. 1838; Isaac, ity to slight errors will be apparent to all. January 18, 1840; Jordan J., April 8, 1842; ISAAC BLOOM’S FAMILY. Matilda, Oct., 1836; Annie, 1842; Susan, Isaac Bloom was the eldest son of Wil¬ 1844; Jane, 1846; Derusha, 1848; Amanda, liam Bloom, Sr., and was born in New 1850; Alfred, 1852. Jersey, August 17, 1780. He was married Fred S. Bloom, the oldest son, is married to Sarah Apgar, also of New Jersey. He to Elvina Bloom, daughter of Thos. Bloom. came to Pike township, and located on the He lives on the old homestead of his grand¬ Irvin farm, where his father had already father, Isaac Bloom, near Curwensville. settled, in 1801. His family is Zelretta, (Mrs. Frank Brown,) When he and his wife arrived in Pike Iva Debbie, (Mrs. Ashley McDowell,) Mary township, or what has since been organized and Margaret. He also has four sons who / m as Pike township, there were known to be are living at home and are unmarried. only sixteen white inhabitants in the entire Their names are, Ai, John, Millard and Eli. in county. He and his wife, therefore increas. Eliza Bloom, the eldest daughter married he ed the population to eighteen. After living A. A. Long, -a prominent business man and te a for some time, at what is now called the merchant of the county. Rachael Bloom the Irvin place, Mr. Bloom bought a tract of married Thomas Long. A separate history leld land a short distance northwest of Cur- of the Long family will be given, and is ila- wensville, and settled down in the wilder¬ therefore omitted here. hel1 / ness to clear out a home. This was where Isaac Bloom is married to Sarah Kline lich / Fred S. Bloom now resides. Here he lived and is a resident of Sunbury, Pa. Jordan until 1859, when he died aged 80 years. His J. Bloom is a prominent citizen of the wife survived him 10 years, dying in 1869, southern part of the township. He has aged 84 years. been twice married. First to Miss Ella All through history, we are constantly Teeples and after her death to Miss Alice f reminded, that in everything the number Read. His family is May Bloom, of his first 51' thirteen is an unlucky one. There are how¬ marriage, and several younger children of ever many exceptions to this rule. his second marriage, Isaac Bloom’s family numbered thirteen Matilda Bloom married Frampton Bell, i children, who attained to manhood and After her death Me, Bell again married 1; womanhood and married. Their names another member of the family, J ane Bloom. and years of birth are as follows: Annie Bloom married Taylor Bloom, of Catharine, 1804; Elizabeth, 1805; William, Lawrence township. Susan Bloom mar¬ 1S06; John, 1808; Mary, 1S10; Benjamin, ried John Moore, of Ferguson township. 1812; James A., 1814; Nancy, 1816; Priscilla, Derusha Bloom married A. K. Kelley, of ISIS; Ellen, 1820; Caroline, 1823; George Lawrence township. Amanda Bloom mar¬ A., 1825; Janenizar, 1S28^__ ried Richard Spackman, a citizen of Law¬ i Catharine Bloom, the oldest daughter of rence township. The youngest of this fam¬ ) this family, married Fred Shaffer, who set¬ ily is Alfred Bloom, who is married to Miss tled where UuBois City is now built. This Smith and lives in Knox township. .t was then in Pike township. Mrs. Shaffer Mary Bloom, the third daughter of Isaac a died in 1883. They had no family. Eliza¬ Bloom, married Isaac Drauber. The Drauk- If I beth Bloom, the second daughter, married er history has already been written and Mason Garrison, who settled where John published in a former article. Benjamin f- 'S Holden now lives. A special history of the Bloom was the third son of Isaac. He was r*i Garrison family will be given and is omitted married to Nancy Arthurs. He, for many here. years, owned the farm now owned by The oldest son of Isaac Bloom was called Thomas Humphrey. For a time, also he William. He married Hannah Conklin, kept a hotel in Curwensville. He is still j and settled in Lawrence township. He died at his son’s in Curwensville, aged S5 — - mn£., - ~ -I ' -■ ..... He is the oldest man living in Cur- , -nsville.l Hi3 wife.died several years ago. Benjamin Bloom’s family was six sons and four daughters, who all came to man¬ hood and womanhood and married, all are l Harriet Bloom is married to Edwar living, except Mrs.' Eshter Needier. Their Kauffman, of Clearfield borough. names and marriages follow: Philip was born Feb. 14, 1335; Apgar, Alfred Bloom is married to Lizzie Weave! July 10,1837; Esther, Sept, 16,1339; Arnold ar *» h Aug. 35, 1841; Isabinda, 1S43; Mason G March 11, 1845; Clara, Feb. 16, 1S47; Cor¬ delia, April'S, 1852; Theodore, May 7,1351; erguson township. Of McCracken’s chil Hulda, Nov. 23, 1856; Archey, March 13, looO. dren George married Miss Holland; Framp" ton to Miss Ferguson ; Philip, not married Philip Bloom married Martha Gill. He is a citizen of Pike township, and has three MkTha f MrfinS’ ofDuBois’PhoebetoMr’ sons, Wilson S., Frank and Clare, and one Mrchaels, of Ferguson township John un daughter Nora. Apgar Bloom married | married, and Caroline to Mr. Hann. ’This bemg a history of Pike township the writer Eliza Graham. Arnold Bloom married Margaret Lytle. Archey Bloom married Sf PaSS.th6 McCracken family with only brief mention. The gentleman who wiR Maggie Gulich. Apgar, Arnold and Archey ™e .h®hlstory of Ferguson township will are all prominent citizens of Curweusville. give all these families in fnil. Mason G. Bloom is married to Martha Priscilla Bloom, the fifth daughter of Porter and lives in Grampian. Of his fam¬ ily Chandler is married to Miss Shope, of 1 Sraa°it L°X’ -T marri6d t0 John Morris, kr. It is the intention of the writer to give Clearfield, and resides in Oregon. Mason Bloom’s other children are Leona, Ernest 1 :rP,6te hiSt°ry 0f the °«merous and and Orvis! well-known Norris family in a future arti- Dcle, it is therefore omitted here Theodore Bloom is unmarried. Ellen Bloom, the sixth daughter of Isaac Cordelia Bloom first married Willard Bloom, married Joseph McMullen, of Clear- Jackson. The Jackson family were May (Mrs. Percy Shaw) and Frank. Cordelia stilf sur^"”' ^cMullen is J0ad but his widow stiff survives, aged 77 years. While not ex¬ is now married to Henry Evans, a leading actly n our territory we are intimately citizen of Tidioute, Pa. Esther Bloom married Mr. Needier. She trMcTf/f °ne °r tW° “ambers S the McMullen family and will give the mar is dead. Their family is Mrs. Herdic and W. nages of their family. Jane McMullen was' W. Needier, who is married and lives in Chicago. married to Mr. Washburn, of Clearfield • | D*me! B' McMullen is a bachelor and re¬ a Clara Bloom was first married to Wilbur sides m Clearfield. Sarah McMullen is Robinson. There are two children of this family, Alice (Mrs. William Wagoner, of t0j0hn °W6as of Lawrence town- ship; Harriet McMullen is married to John Coalport,) and Wilbur, who married Della Naubder and lives in DuBois. Mrs. Robin - Walker and Caroline McMullen to Dorsey Cameron, a citizen of Clearfield Pa 7 son, after her husband’s death, married Caroline Bloom the seventh daughter was Sylvester Evans, a prpminent hotel man of married to Levi Owens, who has been dead DuBois. Their family is three sons and a number of years. Mrs. Owens is living in two daughters. Gurwensvilie, aged 74 years. This family Hulda Bloom married first Jack Fort and were Joseph L., born 1841; Sarah, in 18^ afterward John E. White, of DuBois. They Louisa, m 1844; Jennie, in 1S46; have three children. 1S43, Lorenzo, in 1S50; David, in 1S52 and James A. Bloom, the fourth sou of Isaac Bloom, was married to Mary Ann Hile. He MmvMaiyn ChrDt54anddr OSePhLin Iowa.- °Wens Sarahmarried is has been a lifelong citizen of Pike township Christ lives married to Miles Fullerton, of Lawrence and is still residing on his farm near Cur- township. Louisa married Samuel Ardery wensville, aged S3 years. His family were of Pike township. Mrs. Ardery died sever¬ Naomi, Frampton, Edward Harvey, Jane, Harriet, Alfred and Mary. al years ago. Samuel Ardery’s family % sons. Don, David and Edward, ar.d daugf | The eldest daughter Naomi married Rob’t Owens and died in 1896. The history of the ters Gertrude and Ella, the others being Owens family will be separately given. dead. Jennie Owens is unmarried and lives Framptqn Bloom married Mary Watson in Curweusville. Ellen Owens is married and resides in Sunbury, Pa. to John MacCumber, of West Virginia. I Edward Bloom married Phoebe Wise and Lorenzo Owens was married to Jennie "es in Pehn township. bolts. David Owens married Hattie Cur- ■vey Bloom lives on the old homestead ico, of West Virginia, and Simon died aged -6 years, unmarried, y j

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George A. Bloom, the youngest son of river, and as the river at that pom Isaac Bloom, is a citizen of Bloom township. hardly ever fordable, Mr. Bloom was co He has been twice married, first to Matilda stantly engaged in this work. Bloom and second to Rebecca Irwin. His During the Second War with Great Brit¬ family is, Taylor Bloom married to Annie ain in 1812-15 thousands of troops passed Bloom, William Bloom to Hettie Bilger, along this road to Erie and other points on Leah Bloom married P. A. Caldwell, who the Canadian border. Some of the regi¬ went to Nebraska. Ella Bloom married ments camped in the yicinity. and during ex-sheriff F. M. Cardon, of Clearfield, He the entire war soldiers were constantly now is the proprietor of the popular hostel¬ marching to and fro over this now historic ry “The Witmer Inn,” in Clearfield. Osie road. Mr. Bloom’s hotel was one of the ! Bloom married Sidney Smith, of Bloom principal stopping places along the entire township. Isaac Bloom is married to Mary road and many of the most prominent peo¬ Bailey, and the youngest son, Joseph Bloom ple of the State were entertained at his is unmarried. inn. \ Janenizar Bloom, the thirteenth child and In 1815 he bought this entire tract of land. eighth daughter of Isaac Bloom, married From the original deed of conveyance, in Samuel B. Taylor, of Curwensville. Mr. possession of Lewis C. Bloom, we are in¬ Taylor for many years conducted a tannery formed that the tract contained 304% acres. in Curwensville. He died in 1S93. Mrs. For this land he paid what at that time was j Taylor still lives in Curwensville, aged 69 the enormous sum of $2,000, or nearly $7 years. The Taylor family consists of one per acre, when $1.25 per acre was consider¬ daughter, Sarah E Taylor, who is married ed a good price for land. This tract is now to Robert V. Miller, of Curwensville, and divided into two fine farms, one owned by j one son, Allison W. Taylor, who lives in Robert Porter and the other by William | Curwensville and is unmarried. Bloom’s grandson, T. Jeff Bloom. ■ *- THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM BLOOM. William Bloom took active interest in William Bloom, the second son of William military affairs. On August 3rd, 1811, he | Bloom, Sr., was born at or near Fox Hill, received from the Governor of the State a Hunterdon county, New Jersey, April 17, commission as major of a regiment of the j 1782. In 1786 he came with his father to Pennsylvania militia, which office he held Centre county, an ox team drawing the for a number of years. When the Phila¬ palace they rode in. In 1798 he came with delphia and Erie turnpike was made he! j 1 his fathers and brothers to what is now built a new house near the bridge which11 /L Clearfield county, but which then formed a crosses the river at Robert Porter’s, and| !• part of Lycoming county. They settled on continued to keep hotel for a number of what is known as the Col. E. A. Irwin, years. farm. Here the elder William Bloom, as¬ Before Clearfield county was separately sisted by the older sons of the family, clear¬ organized he was deputy sheriff for Sheriff ed up a large farm. When the farm was Mitchell, of Centre county. In 1826 he was) under a good state of cultivation the title elected sheriff of Clearfield county, ffeing was found defective and others took pos¬ the second sheriff of the county. In 1840 he session. Wm. Bloom, Sr., then moved, in was appointed Deputy Marshal, an office i his old age, to the Bloomington highland, synonymous with what now is called cen j and lived the remainder of his life where sus enumerator. Mr. Bloom did this wor j C. J. Bloom now lives. all himself, traveling from house to hous The second William Bloom, whose de¬ to ascertain the number of inhabita | scendants we will endeavor to trace and I products and such other information as r whose early history we will attempt to ' by law, was expected to attain. i give in this article, was married in 1803 to William Bloom was a leader among h Mary Roll, of Clarion county, who was own family as well as throughout the enif born October 16,1784. After his marriage tire county in the early days. By his thrif' William Bloom and wife settled where the and intelligence he accumulated what a old State Road crossed the Susquehanna that time was considered a large fortune river, near where the P. R. R. bridge is At one time he was known to be by fa ! now located. For many years he kept a the wealthiest man in the county. He dif ( I hotel and ferry boat at this point. He had August 12th, 1871, in his 90th year. a canoe or dugout to ferry passengers across William Bloom's family number thirtee: the river, and had large flat boats to trans¬ children, all but two of whom grew t port teams rnd waSons. At this time the manhood and womanhood. Their o«"" old “State Road” was one of the principal were as follows: Hannah, born Octob T thoroughfares^)! the’State. tThere was a 1804; Sallie, June 12,1806; Betsey, Jar constant procession of foot passengers, 11, ISOS; John Roll, October 9,1809; Si horsemen and teams with wagon loads of na, July 13, 1811; Isaac, January 15, K goods, and at times there would be dozens Mary Ann, October 19,1814; David, De1 \ of teams waiting their turn to cross the ber 18, 1816; Rachael, December 1, ' -ane; November 30,'1820; Harrison, Nov¬ and one daughter, Grace. This family is ember 24,1823, Phiana, April 27, 1826, and all living except Claude, who died in 1888. Eli, May 7,1S28. J. Roll Bloom married Vada Long. Wier Hannah Bloom, the oldest daughter ot Bloom married Alice Graham. They both William Bloom, married George Ross, who reside in Currensville. Verne Bloom mar- lived where James Ardery now lives on , ried Maggie Wise’ and is bookkeeper at Bloomington hill. The Ross family con¬ the Clearfield machine shops. Grace Bloom sisted of one daughter, Elsie Jane, who the only daughter lives at home with her married David Shaffer, who was accident¬ father. ally killed by falling off a tree. The Shaf¬ Susanna Bloom, a daughter of William fer family are two, Liberty R., who married Bloom, died early in life. Green Williams, and Ira A. Shaffer, of Cur- Isaac Bloom, the second son of William wensville, who married Leah Taylor. Mr. Bloom, married Leah Hoover. For many Shaffer’s family are Alice (Mrs. George years he lived on a part of the old home¬ Shaffer), George, Blanche, Ora and Harry. stead, which his oldest living son, T. Jeff The widow Ross afterwards married Bloom, now owns. He was also engaged Daniel E. Mokle, of New Millport. The in the lumber business, and at different Mokle family were George, Horatio, Olivia times was the owner of sawmills. Isaac (Mrs. William Wise), Elfrida and Leona Bloom afterwards moved to Curwensville who are dead, and Corally, who lives at and kept a hotel called the “American Falls Creek. House.” This house was located on Sallie Bloom, the second daughter, mar¬ present site of the Park House. Isaac ried John Drauker, The Drauker history Bloom’s family was thirteen children, all of has been published in a former article of whom are living except the oldest son, this series. Miles, who died at the age of seven years, Elizabeth, or Betsey as the name was F. Cortez, who was a soldier and was commonly called, married Alexander Ir¬ drowned while rafting on the Susquehanna win, a prominent citizen of Clearfield river in 1867, and Blanche, who died young. county in the early times. Mr. Irwin was The names of the family are as follows: at different times County Treasurer, State j Miles, F. Cortez, Henrietta, Jane S., Han¬ Senator and Representative in the United nah R., Florine, Thomas Jefferson, Belle, States Congress. A more extended history Mary R., Annie, Blanche V., Robert J. W., will be given of the Irwin family in a future and Walter R. Henrietta Bloom married article. The family of Alexander Irwin Robert Elder, of Garner, Hancock county, was one daughter, Maggie, who married Iowa. Jennie S. Bloom married Warren Dr. Beam. Mrs. Beam now resides in W. Jones, also of Iowa. Hannah Bloom Philadelphia. married John Lemon, now of Lumber City, William Bloom’s oldest son was John Pa. The Lemon family is Fred, Thomas (Roll Bloom, who was married to Sarah Benton, Jack, Enna (Mrs. J. J. Hile), Alice Ann Peters, of Centre county. For a time and Dora. Thomas Jefferson Bloom owns after his marriage he lived on his father’s the old homestead which his grandfather farm in Pike township. He then moved to and father owned before him, T. Jeff Clearfield town, and opened up an extensive Bloom, besides attending to the running of I mercantile business, which he conducted the farm, is a member of the firm of Addel- for several years. Both he and his wife man & Bloom, the contractors and builders I have been dead many years. John Roll of Curwensville, Pa. T. Jeff Bloom is 1 I V’s family was seven children, five of married to Rose Thompson. His family I whom died while young. The only daugh¬ was Frank, Ralph, Grace Dean, Walter, ter living is Adeline, who is married to Nettie and Seth. Ralph and Walter are Thomas Dougherty, the well-known jani¬ dead. Frank is married to Lizzie Nolan, tor of the Clearfield county court house. aid Grace to George Sawtelle. Florine Mr. Dougherty’s family consisted of nine Bloom married J. Sherman Pritchard, of children, Sarah (Mrs. Charles Aughen- Iowa. Belie Bloom married William Hun¬ baugh), Beulah, Fannie, James H., Lewis, ter, now living in Kansas. Annie Bloom deline (Mrs. Bonner), Catharine, John married Joel C. Forest, now a resident of ad Sheridan. This family is all living ■m Iowa. Robert J. W. Bloom, emigrated to except Lewis, and reside in Clearfield. Iowa, where he is a prominent lawyer of Lewis C. Bloom, the only living son of Hancock county. He also has one of the John Roll Bloom, is known throughout this finest stock farms in that State. He also ^ntire section of the State, as the popular has been indentified with the schools of that wner and manager of the Central Hotel, j county and of late years has taken active ! Curwensville. He married Sarah C. and prominent part in the political affairs liller, of Lancaster. Mrs. Bloom died in of the State of Iowa. He is not married. May, 1895. Lewis C. Bloom’s family was , Mary R. Bloom is married to N. L. Hoover, sons, J. Roll, Wier, Claude and Verne, a well known citizen of the city of DuBois, who is engaged in the manufacture of all ~ ' ‘ ‘ 43

kinds of lumber. Mr. Hoover’s tamuy con-1 tha, Annie, Irv. T., Mary and Lucy. sists of three daughters, Cora, Jennie and I The oldest daughter Mina J. Bloom, mar¬ Nettie. Walter R. Bloom, the youngest ried George E. Sloss, who died in 1870. Mrs. | son of Isaac Bloom, also emigrated to the Sloss resides in Curwensville. Her family State of Iowa. He, as well as his brother, is three daughters, Edith married to Charles has attained considerable success, and is a M. LaPorte, of West Va., Ellen married to wealthy man and engaged in the banking I. D. Kerns, of Brockport, Pa., and Blanche business. He is married to Sadie Adams. to Samuel Gearhart, of West Clearfield. Mary Ann Bloom married William Belle Bloom is married to William Free¬ Thompson, of Rimesburg, Clarion county. man, of Penn Township. The Freeman This family was WilliamBloom, born Sep¬ family will be given in a future article. tember 29, 1833; Alexander Irvin, August Allen M. Bloom, the oldest son of David 5,1834; Phiana, October 5,1836; Jane, May Bloom, is married to Mary Horn. He lives 30,1838. William Bloom Thompson married in the western end of the township. His Joanna Pierce, i Bloom Thompson lived in family is one son, Monroe, and three daugh¬ Chest township, kept hotel in Newburg and ters, Mina, Edna and Grace. Louisville. In the days of extensive lum¬ Harrison Bloom has been twice married. J bering he was known from Chest creek to His first wife being Sarah Smith, and after the mouth of the river. His wife is dead her death he married Mary E. Yohe, The and he lives with his children. His chi ldren children of his first marriage living are: are Cortee Bloom, Howard, Pearl, Yerde, Eva (Mrs. Sherman Hoover), of Grampian, Rosa (Mrs. Kunes), Alice, Mollie and Ellen. Mary, living in Philadelphia, David at home, Alexander Irvin Thompson has for years and Ernest in California. Hattie, Barbara, been a citizen of Curwensville. He was Bruce, Clare, Sarah and Millie, are the married to Kate Lytle. This family num¬ children of his second marriage. bers twelve children, four daughters and Samantha Bloom is married to Robert eight sons, all of whom are living ‘except McClure. This family is George, Ella and the oldest, Dudley, who was killed in a Charley. Annie Bloom married Samuel J. railroad accident near the city of Omaha. McKenrick.' He resides in Curwensville, The family is as follows: Dudley T., Ollie, and his sons are Hugh J., Fred and Lewis Emma, Grant H., Earl J., William H., S., also one daughter Irene. Irv.T. Bloom Roland B., Margaret, Ida, Gus, Clyde and , lives in Boulder Creek, California. He is Boyd. The two older daughters are mar¬ married to Mary Patton and his children ried and reside in the State of Maine; Ol¬ are Sarah, Ida, Walter, Mina and Patton. lie to Leslie Clements, and Emma to Ed¬ Mary Bloom is married to A. D. Fink, of ward O. Libby. Grant H. Thompson is Mahaffey, Pa. The Fink family consists of married to Phila Thompkins and is in busi¬ two daughters, Edith and Maud. Lucy ness at McGee’s Mills. Earl J. Thompson Bloom, the youngest daughter, of David . is married to Mellie Hendrickson. He is Bloom, is married to Edward Moore, of j now clerk in F. J. Dyer & Co’s stores. Wil¬ Curwensville. The Moore family consists liam H. Thompson is married to Grace of two sons, Verne and Benjamin. Jackson and is in business in Patton, Pa., Now, going back to the family of William being junior partner in the firm of Wolf & Bloom, we find his daughter Jane Bloom Thompson. Roland B. Thompson is a married a man by the name of Joseph Hunt¬ machinist. He is unmarried and is now er, who lived where C.J. Bloom, now owns. located in Pittsburg. Margaret Thompson The Hunter family was William, Napoleon is married to Harry S. Brown, of Curwens¬ B , Clara, Eli and Fannie. This family, ville. The others all reside with their some years ago, all emigrated to the State father. Phiana Thompson married Lewis of Kansas. Shimmel, of Bradford township. Jane j Harrison Bloom, who was next to the Thompson married George Miles. Of the youngest son of William Bloom, after being Miles family Maude is married to Wash in the mercantile business here, for some Hess, of Bell’s Landing. After William time, concluded to study medicine. Accord¬ Thompson’s death his widow married Wil¬ ingly he prepared himself for the practice liam Lumadue, of Lawrence township. of this profession, and located in the city of I Mrs. Lumadue is yet living, aged 83 years, Philadelphia. Here Dr. Bloom became a and is the only one of the family of W. M. noted physician. He never married and Bloom, who is not dead. Mr. Lumadue is has been dead several years. also living, aged 78 years. They have a The youngest of the daughters of William family of two children, Eli and Allen. Bloom, Phiana Bloom, married George David Bloom, the third son of William Condo. Mr. Condo has been dead many Bloom, was married to Sarah Hoover. He years. The widow Condo afterward mar¬ lived at the top of AndersonCreek hill,about ried John A. Read, of Lawrence township. a mile from Curwensville, on a farm now Of these marriages there is only one child, owned by Vorice Clark. His family were: Mina J., Belle., Allen M., Harrison, Saman¬ wensville, who ia married to Eliza Hobbs, the Indians, several tribes of whom, then I of Osceola. This family numbers one son, roamed over the territory of Clearfield, and John Condo. adjacent counties. On one occasion, he The youngest son of William Bloom, was started to go to Ogden’s grist mill, in the Eli Bloom. He was a citizen of Pike town¬ early autumn. Falling in with a band of ship, the greater part of his life, and his Indians, with whom he was slightly family were all born and brought up on the acquainted, he was persuaded by them to William Bloom homestead, which after his join in their annual hunt. So strong was father’s death was owned by him. Eli his love of adventure, and so well did he Bloom’s family has been one of the love the companionship of the “Red men” most prominent families in Clearfield coun' of the forest, that he forgot his errand to ty, and at different times have been elected the grist mill and went with the band of to fill the most important offices in Clear¬ Indians. For six or seven weeks they hunt¬ field county. ed over the north western section of the When but a young man, Eli Bloom was State, at times crossing into New York or Treasurer of Clearfield county for one term. Ohio, in pursuit of a bear or deer, that they Eli Bloom was married to Hannah F. Mil¬ had started from its lair. ler, of Lancaster City, Pa. In the ’70’s Eli His family had almost given him up as Bloom and family came to Curwensville, lost, when one day, late in the autumn, he j and for a time kept the Susquehanna House suddenly appeared, and received a most at that place. In 1875 he was nominated cordial welcome. and elected to the office of Prothonotary, On another occasion, John and Benjamin, of Clearfield county, on the Democratic who were the principal hunters of the ticket. Three years latter, he was again family, joined a party of Indian hunters at nominated and re-elected for a second term. Curwensville. The object of this particular After completing his second term as Pro¬ expedition was bear. The party started up thonotary, Eli Bloom became a prominent Anderson creek, intending to hunt in the resident of Clearfield until his death. His wilds of northern Clearfield and Elk county. family consists of two sons, A. M., and J. The party had only proceeded about ten M., and one daughter, Ida E. miles up the creek, when one of the largest A.M.Bloom is his oldest son. He has filled bears ever seen in this section, was aroused several important positions. From 1875 from his den. until 1887 he filled the important position Pursuit immediately began, and in a short of Deputy Prothonotary. In that year he time the bear being driven to close quarters, was the candidate of the Democratic party rapidly ascended a tall pine tree. His bear- for the office of Prothonotary, and was ship got among the branches in such a way elected by a large maj ority. Three years that none of the party could get a shot at latter, he was re-nominated and re-elected. him. A conference of war was now held and • For several years previous to 1897, he was it was decided that some one must climb 1 part owner of the Public Spirit . Since he the tree. sold his interest in the Spirit he has given Benjamin volunteered for this difficult his attention to other business. A. M. and dangerous task. When he got up Bloom i3 married to Elia Brown. nis fam among the branches, where the bear was was Paul, who~died about a year ago located, the bear took a very sudden notion May, Kerr, Ida, Clara and Arnold. to descend, and down the tree it came. J. Miller Bloom, the second son of Eli When the bear got to terra firma, it im/ Bloom, has also occupied important public mediately attacked the party. The Indians positions. From 1887;until 1895, he served not particularly anxious for a personal en¬ as Deputy Prothonotary. He was then ap¬ counter with his bearship, beat a precipitate pointed Postmaster of Clearfield, by Presi¬ retreat. dent Cleveland, which position he still holds He is married to Mary Miller. John Bloom then had to meet the bear single and alone. He was a large strong Ida E. Bloom is Married to George Weav¬ man of wonderful endurance, Seeing a er, a prominent and well known business contest was inevitable, he drew his keen “an- “r‘mWeaVer and familr resid© in two edged hunting knife, which he always dearfieid. Their children are Georgia, Kate and Virgin a. carried on expeditions of this kind. The bear grappled him and round and JOHN BLOOM’S FAMILY. round they went, John endeavoring to John Bloom, the third son of William strike a mortal wound with ^his hunting Bloom, Sr., was born January 25th, 1786 knife, and the bear using its utmost efforts John Bloom and his brothers, for several as is the custom of bears, to hug the hunter years after their emigration to Pike town¬ to death. Finally, after the struggle had ship, assisted their father, and spentson# been prolonged several minutes, John suc¬ time each year in hunting excursio«5d ceeded in giving the bear a thrust, in a exploring expeditions, Jm vital part, and the next minute the bear John Bloom was an especial favorite of rolled over dead. the other tick would be filled, ready for This is only one instance among hundreds him upon his return. The Bloom boys be- that have been handed down from father to iag mischievous disposition, a trait son. Volumes of just such incidents could I wUreh some of their descendants still pos- be truthfully written of the early times in se5|>. and desiring to try McCracken’s Pike township. strength, concluded to gradually increase We will now give an incident of another the load without informing him. nature, thinking that, perhaps, some of this He was carrying four bushels at every generation may be interested in knowing load. The mischief-loving young men how their great-great grandfathers gather¬ added until they put in seven bushels, which ed in their harvests and threshed and clean¬ McCracken shouldered and walked of with ed their grain. as usual. On his return he remarked “Boys Until many years after the settlement of that is the firedest heaviest — four bushels Pike township, the grain was all cut with of wheat I ever carried. Don’t put in more sickles, grain cradles not yet having been than three ana a half this time.” introduced, and a man who would have Dropping the incidents of which this is proposed anything like a reaping or mow only one of hundreds, we will give a brief ing machine would have been thought a genealogy of the family of John Bloom. first class subject for an insane asylum, John Bloom was married to Susanna had there been any such institutions in High, who was a daughter of one of the existence at that time. early settlers of Jordan township, and who Imagine a farmer of the present day going was born June 2d, 1788. After his marriage out to cut a large field of wheat with a he purchased a section of land which in¬ sickle, when fifteen, or at most twenty-five cluded the farm now owned by his young¬ heads of wheat was all he could grasp with est son, John I. Bloom, and nearly all the his left arm, while with his right he severed land which is included in the village of it from the stalk. Bloomington. John Bloom’s children num¬ In those early times, harvesting, log roll¬ bered eleven, as follows: ing, and in fact nearly everything else was Mary born Sept, 22d, 1S06; Effa, July done in common. When wheat harvest 17th, 1809; Catharine, Feb. 23d, 1811; Abra¬ arrived young men of the settlement, whit- ham H., May 30th, 1813; Matthew, May ted up their sickles and whatever field 12th, 1816; Margaret, Aug. 22d, 1818; happened to ripen first was cut, tied and George, March 2d, 1821; David, May 13th, shocked. Whoever owned the field, was 1S23; Suffia, April 8th, 1826; Abigail, July expected to furnish provisions, and whisky. i 12th, 1828; John I., March 22d, 1831. In those days any one who would have said The eldest daughter, May Bloom, mar¬ that harvesting could be done without ried Thomas Spackman, of Lawrence town¬ whisky would have been suspected of being ship. This family consisted of two sons, bewitched. ■William S. and RichardS. William S. Having finished gleaning one field, the. Spackman was for many years a prominent band of harvesters would proceed to the teacher of the county. He is now a citizen next field, and so on until the entire crop of Clearfield and is the senior member of of the settlement would be shocked and the firm of Spackman & McCloskey, doing ready for threshing. Then they would start business in West Clearfield. He is married upon another tour, with flails as their to Miss Irwin. Richard S. Spackman is a * weapons, and make the rounds again in the citizen of Lawrence township, owning and same manner. residing upon the homestead of his father. COn a certain occasion, very early in the He is married to Amanda Bloom. history of Pike township, there was a party Mrs. May Spackman died Nov. 7,1S76. of young and middle aged men engaged in Effa Blooip married Peter Mays, an early rgbing the~ yheat crop of James Me- settler of Knox township. Mr. Mays is Iracken, who har. cleared a field or two on dead but Mrs.,Mays is still living at the I the river bottom, where R. M. Addleman advanced age of S8 years. now resides. They were threshing and In order to complete the genealogy of the | cleaning the wheat in the field, and James family the names of the Mays family will McCracken, who was a man of immense be given. The children coming to man¬ strength was carrying the wheat to the hood and womanhood were Isaac, Moses, I garret of his cabin for storage. George, Price, Mary, David, John, Hannah Three of the Bloom boys were of the party, and James. Isaac Mays married Sarah Isaac, John and Benjamin. Bags were High; Moses, Miss Fuller; George, Miss | somewhat scarce at that time, and Me • Patterson,and after her death Miss Hunter; I | Cracken was using two bed ticks for the Price, Sarah Graham; Mary, Robert Pat¬ pose of carrying the grain, while he was terson: David, Alice Sloppy; John, Mis? king a trip to the garret from the field, Snyder: Hannah, Thos. McCracken. James' is married but we are unable to give hi — ife’s maiden name Catharine Bloom, the third-daughter of HaiBet married Miss Mays; Sloss, John Bloom, never married. Kelley; Mary, Thomas Campbell, The eldest son of John Bloom was Abra¬ Blanche, James Wrigley. The others are ham High Bloom. He was married to Ann unmarried. E. Kyler. His family are nearly all resi¬ Sophia Bloom, the fifth daughter of dents of southern Pike and Knox townships. John Bloom, is married to James Leech, a The children of this family were Rachel, citizen of Pike township. The Leech fam¬ Conrad, Isaac,Catharine, Mary, Alexander, ily history was given in a former article. Martin, Snyder and Abbe. The youngest daughter, Abigail Bloom,is They married as follows: Rachel married married to John B. Garrison, of Pike town¬ Samuel Snyder; Conrad, Mary Hoover; ship. A separate history of the Garrison Isaac died unmarried; Catharine, William family will be given in a future paper. Witherow1; Mary,George High; Alexander John I. Bloom, the eleventh child and died unmarried; Martin, Miss Coder; Sny¬ youngest son of John Bloom, owns and der, Miss fVitherow; Abbe, Daniel Bloom. resides upon a portion of his father’s origi¬ Matthew Bloom, the second son of John nal purchase, being the only son who Bloom, marx-ied Sarah Polhamus and lo¬ located in Pike township. His family con¬ cated in Ferguson township. His family sists of Showers, Jefferson, Eliza, Alice, was composed of the following children, Blake W., Frank, Lucy, Annie, Howard twelve in number: Melissa, Daniel, Erne- and /Willard. Of the ten children of this line, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Jane, Matthew, family all are living except Lucy, and all Margaretf Thomas, David, Therum, and are married except the two youngest sons Abbe. This family has became much scat¬ Howard and Willard. tered and a complete record of their mar¬ Showers Bloom is married to Miss Mc¬ riages capnot be given. So far as informa¬ Henry and lives in Brady township; Jef¬ tion can be obtained we will give the ferson married Mary Peterman and is a j marriages of Matthew Bloom’s family. citizen of Pike; Eliza is married to Cortez Melissa rharried Wm. Newcomer; Daniel. M. Bloom, of Curwensville; Alice is mar- Abbe Bloom; Emeline, Henry Straw; | ried to David S. Cryder, of Williamsport, Elizabeth^ Edward Shoff; Jonathan, Miss Pa.; Blake W. is married to Sallie Evans Lewis; Jane, James Strunk; Margaret, and resides in Williamsport; Frank mar¬ Robert Michaels; Abbe, Mr. Lewis. ried Louise Wise and lives in Pike town¬ Margaret Bloom, John Bloom’s fourth ship, and Annie, the youngest daughter, is daughter, married George Robins, who for -PJ.arried toJJliver B.Wisa. nf Wiiiinmcn^rx THE FAMILY OF HON. JAMES BLOOM. many years lived on the road from Cur- I wensville to Bloomington, near where Rob¬ James Bloom, the youngest of the chil¬ ins’ school house is now built. They are dren of William Bloom, Sr., was born in both dead, Mrs. Robins dying Dec. 25th, Centre county, Feb. 28th, 1798, a few 1886. Jane, Lewis, Annie, Sallie and months before the family emigrated to j Frank, were the names of their children Clearfield county, and located in Pike town¬ who became men and women. ship. Lewis Robins married Jane Wolf; Jane, For his times, James Bloom was a well Jacob Meyers; Annie, Frank Ugar; Sallie, educated man. He was a student, and was Jacob White, and Frank, so far as known, always anxious to take advantage of the is unmarried and is a resident of Virginia. meagre school facilities of the day. George Bloom, the fourth son of John He was united in marriage to Polly Pass- Bloom, lives in Knox township and has more, a daughter of one of the early been twice married, his first wife being pioneers of the township. After his mar¬ Hannah J. Carson, and his second Jane riage he located in the western part of Pike Replogle. His family, by the first mar¬ township along the old pike. Here for riage, were named Lizzie, now Mrs. Alfred many years, he kept a popular hotel. Thompson, and Daniel; by second mar¬ “James Bloom’s tavern” as it was called, riage, Nora, now Mrs. H. J. Sloppy, Abbie was among the best known hotels along and Mertie. the pike, and was invariably filled with David Bloom,the fifth son of John Bloom, guests. is still living in the southwestern end of In the political affairs of the county, Lawrence township, at an advanced age. James Bloom early took prominent part. He was married to Mary Sloss, who has In the Fall of I860 he was elected associate been dead many years. Harbet, Reuben, Judge, of Clearfield county, his colleague Sloss, Jane, Jack, Dallass, Pierce, Mary on the bench being John D. Thompson. and Blanche were the names of David They were both elected as Democrats. Bloom’s nine children, all of whom are Living as he did in a section of Pike town¬ living but Pierce, who died in 1896. This ship, remote from Postoffice and polling family are residents of Lawrence township. place, and believing that a division of the township would be of great benefit to the ■ i 55

_ citizens of the western end of the town¬ This family now living are : Jame. ship, he used his influence and a new town¬ E., Leona, now Mrs. Kline, Minnie, Verne, |ip m ship was formed from Pike and portions of Vada, now Mrs. Perry Eastman, Abadiah, 36 other townships. This township was called Alice, Dennis, Ned, and Le Moyne. g Bloom in honor of Judge James Bloom, Irvin Bloom died at the age of nineteen. and a Postoffice and polling place was Jane Bloom married Albert McGary. established at his hotel “The Forest House,” Their family is seven sons and — daughters, and he was commissioned Postmaster. namely, William, Lucy, James, David, Here Judge Bloom died at the age of sixty John, and two others whose names are not five years. He and his wife are both buried at hand. in McClure cemetery, where nearly all of Elizabeth Bloom is married to Fred Hawk. the “forefathers of the hamlet sleep.” The older membersof this family are Porter, The oldest son of Judge Bloom is William Eddie and Adam. M. Bloom, who is still living at Blooming¬ Hannah Bloom married Benjamin Meyers ton, hale and hearty, at the advanced age and has a family consisting of two sons, of seventy eight years. In his youth, he Charles and William, and two daughters, learned the blacksmith trade and for many Eva and Minnie. years carried on the business of blacksmith- ing at Bloomington. He was also known Levi M. Bloom is unmarried and resides as one of the best pilots along the Susque¬ with his father. hanna river. Florence Bloom is married to Alfred While still quite a young man, he was Swatsworth, a citizen of Pike township. elected Justice of the Peace for Pike town¬ Mr. Swatsworth’s family numbers eight ship. This was before the time when a sons and daughters, namely: Virgie, ministerial marriage was legal, and all Arthur, Sherman, Tillie, Cleveland, Blake marriage ceremonies were performed by and Clark. the Justice of the Peace. Squire Bloom Idella Bloom is married to Fred Eldridge was much in demand as a “knot tyer,” and also a citizen of Olanta, Pike township. during his first term united in marriage .Mr Eldridge’s family consists of four ninety-four couple. On one occasion in the. 'daugfiters, whose names we-tail to nave at winter season, when there did not seem to this time. be anything else particularly on hand, he The youngest son of ’Squire Bloom is married four couple, in different parts of Ellsworth, who is a citizen of Elk county, the county, and was galloping on to per¬ and is married to Emma Rummer. form a like service for a fifth couple, residing The oldest daughter of James Bloom mar- > near the mouth of Clearfield creek. Night ried Anthony Hile, a leading citizen of 1, however came on and the Squire was com¬ Lumber City, and now nearing the four pelled to stop for the night many miles score mark. Mrs. Hile died about three from his destination. years ago. This branch of the Hile family During his second term, as Justice of the is composed of representative citizens, Peace, he married forty five couple, ODly whose history and genealogy will be given about one half the number married during in its proper place in a future paper. his first term. By this we are not to infer that Judge Bloom’s second daughter, Eliza¬ the Squire or matrimony had become less beth, is married to Stacy Thompson, who 1 popular, but the Legislature had passed the resides in Michigan. bill legalizing ministerial marriages, and Abram Passmore Bloom was married to the Revs, soon began to monopolize the Delila Owens, who died but recently. He business. / always has been a resident of Pike town - ;j William M. Bloom is married to Matilda ■i ship, where he still resides having long Harley, who is still living at the age of since passed the age of “three score and seventy six. ten.” His family is four sons and three ’Squire Bloom had a large family. Those daughters. The sons are: Lewis, Arnold, who came to be men and women were: Jonothan and Amos. They are married as Hezekiah I., James C., Irvin, Jane, Eliza¬ follows: Lewis, to Miss Richards, Arnold, beth, Hannah, Levi M., Florence, Idella and to Miss Bloom, Jonothan, to Miss Kitchen Ellsworth. and Amos to Miss Hickock. The daughters Hezekiah 1. Bloom married Ella Moore. were: Caroline, married to Mr. Rowles, He has been several years dead. His fam¬ Sadie, to Frank Farley and Harriet to ily is Eva, now Mrs. Frantz; Clark, Orvis, James Lord. Rhoda, now Mrs. Miles Fullerton, and Bell. The third son of Judge Bloom is Lewis I. The second son James C. Bloom, is known Bloom, who is known throughout this entire all over Clearfield county as a director of section of the county as a competent and musical conventions, and singer of much very successful veterinary surgeon. He ability. Prof. J. C. Bloom now resides in ! lives in Pike township, and owns and re¬ Curwensviile. He is married to Elizabeth | sides upon the farm which his grandfather, , F.Moshannon creek, and at this particular This family is married as follows: W. B. time they were somewhat hostile. When Price to Miss Nellie Smith, Howard Price the time set for his return came and he did to Miss Gearhart and Nellie Price to Archer not return, little uneasiness was felt, as in H. Read, of Goshen township. those days a journey frequently occupied Elizabeth Price was married to Henry two or three days longer than was antiei- Hile, of Pike township and now one of the ' pated, but when the days lengthened into eldest citizens of Curwensville. Mrs. Hile 'weeks and he still did not appear, search has been dead several years. [ :as made so far as possible. Nothing, Of this family, three, two sons and one t aowever was ever heard from him, and daughter grew to manhood and woman¬ (1 until this day his fate is a sealed mystery. hood; Warren, William P., and Hattie. The most natural conclusion is that he was William P. is the only one of the family waylaid in some lonely place by the Indians now living. and killed and robbed. His wife never Warren Hile died at the early age of married again, and lived to an advanced twenty-four years. He was married to age. Miss Effie Haney. Two children, Henry ( The three children thus early deprived; and Mrs. J. A. Dale, compose this family. 55 #

| Pike township. As William Bloom’s family | William P. Hile is a minister of the Bap- j j are nearly all residents of Pike township I tist denomination and is now located in j I and vicinity the family genealogy will be I Indiana county, Rev. Hile was married to given in full. The names of those coming Miss Laura LaPorte. His family are nine- to maturity were. five sons, Willis B., Lewis, Henry, George Mary Ann, born June 1, 1838; David, May , and Ray, and four daughters, Elizabeth 13, 1841; Z. M„ March 16, 1843; John R., now Mrs. Rankin, Ella and Dolly. March 28, 1846; Hannah, March 28, 1846; Hattie Hile, daughter of Henry Hile, Bishop, May 17, 1852. married Benjamin Swartz. They are both Mary Ann Bloom married F. J. Dunlap, a dead. Their family are three, Frank, Ida resident of Knox. This family is three sons and Mamie. and one daughter. After Mr. Dunlap’s Annie Price married John C. Ferguson, a death his widow married Andrew Marks, a prominent citizen of Ferguson township. citizen of Pike township, The Marks family The children of this family are two sons, H. consists of five girls. David Bloom, Wil¬ T., and E. W. Ferguson, composing the liam Bloom’s second son, married Caroline well-known firm of Ferguson Bros,, general Hancock, and lives in Jefferson county. Z. hardware dealers, doing business in Kerr- M. Bloom lives upon his father’s old home¬ moor and vicinity. stead, in the northwestern end of the town¬ H. F. Ferguson is married to Miss Ruth ship. He is married to Charlotte Marshall, McGaughey, and E. W., to Miss Bertha and his family numbers two sons and nine Hile. daughters. John R. Bloom married Mary Martha Price married James M. Ardary, Seley and Hannah Bloom, George Lippert, / now a citizen of Pike township. The Ar¬ of Lawrence township. Bishop Bloom mar { dary family lives at Bloomington, on a ried Sarah Johnson, and is a resident of beautiful farm, formerly owned by Robert Curwensville, and has a family of three Owens, This family is composed of seven daughters and one son. children, four sons, Howard, Jack R., Frank Henry M. Bloom is a well known citizen and Clark, aad three daughters, Jessie, of Pike township, where he has resided for Emma and Mamie. considerably more than half a century. His The other children of William Price died farm lies just on the edge of a large barren Lyoung in life. and cupid section of land extending for PETER BLOOM’S FAMILT. many miles. In past years his place was a Peter Bloom, the fourth son of William noted rendezvous for hunters Bloom, Sr., was born Feb. 7th, 1897, before Henry M. Bloom was twice married. His the family emigrated from Hunterdon first wife was Miss Ashenfelter and his second1 county, N. J., to Centre county, Pa. wife’s name was Lizzie Smith. His After his marriage to Polly McElhatten, children are Ann, married to Arnold Bloom, he purchased land, and located in Pike Maria to Napoleon McDowell, and Emanuel township, where the I. B. Norris farm is and James. situated. Samuel Bloom, the fourth of Peter He was a weaver by trade and after build¬ Bloom’s sons married Miss Aughenbaugh, and settled in Knox township, lived there ing his cabin, set up a shop and for many l) years did a thriving business, weaying the io a good old age and died. Of the five various artioles needed by the early set¬ daughters of Peter Bloom, all married as | tlers. follows: Martha, Jesse Appleton; Rebecca, 1 The early Blooms were in nearly every Jacob Garner, of Centre county; Orpha, instance men who lived to a very old age. Maxell Rowles, of Lawrence township; In this respect, Peter was an exception. He Margery, to Abram Heckock, of Knox died, March 27, 1840, at what then was con | township; Mahilda, to George A. Bloom, of sidered the early age of 51 years. Bloom township. i The family of Peter Bloom consisted of THE GARRISON FAMILY. nine children, namely, John, William, Hen The first one of the name to emigrate to ry M., Samuel, Martha, Rebecca, Orpha, Clearfield county was Mason Garrison. He Margery and Mahilda. This family have was a Virginian by birth and came to Pike become much scattered, and are all dead township at the age of twenty years. except Henry M. Bloom, a well known citi- He was by trade a miller. For some 'j j zen of the northwestern section of Pike years he run a grist mill built on Andersor , township. He is among the oldest Bloom’s I Creek, at the mouth of Roaring Run. After \ ; living, being very close the eighty year wards in partnership with George Leech "| mark. The eldest son of Peter Bloom he built a woolen carding machine on Hog .' < moved to Erie county, this State, and there Back Run. became a permanent resident. Mr. Garrison was married to Elizabeth ■ j jl William Bloom was married to Susan Bloom, daughter of Isaac Bloom. When ■ 1 - i Passmore. He located where his son Z. M. Bloom now resides in the northern part of ., the wool-carding business, he bought Kester. Here Benjamin Bloom lived, I tne farm now owned by John Holden. Here brought up his large family, and wa3 he cleared out a farm and made a perma¬ “gathered to his fathers.” The family of nent improvement. Mrs. Garrison died in Benjamin Bloom is related by inter-mar¬ 1848, and Mason Garrison in 1863. The riages with some of the most prominent and family of Mason Garrison consisted of influental families of Clearfield county. Amanda, Isaac, John B., Philena, Eliza¬ Benjamin Bloom’s sons were: Thomas, beth, Marion and Levi. William L. and Jonathan Ross. His daugh¬ Amanda Garrison married Jacob Deitrich ters were: Margaret, Nancy, Lucinda, who for some years lived in Curwensville, Julian and Mary. The oldest son Thomas wherp W. N. Dyer now lives. He after Bloom, was always a citizen of Pike town¬ wards emigrated to Ohio, where he still ship. He had a farm on Chestnut Ridge. | resides. His family is two sons and one Here he died November 20, 1892. Thomas daughter. Bloom was twice married. His first wife Isaac Garrison the eldest son of Mason was Hannah Cleaver. The children of this Garrison married Susannah Ross. For a union are all dead except Elvina, married time after his marriage, the family lived on to Fred S. Bloom, of Pike township. Those the river at the Humphrey place. Later dead are: Phineas, Calvin, Clark, Mary, he emigrated to Kansas, and from thence Maggie, Harris, Susan and Thaddeus. to Illinois. Isaac Garrison’s family con¬ Maggie married Mr. McNamara. Susan sists of three sons and one daughter. J ohn Matt Johnson, of Greenwood township. B. Garrison, the second son, married Harris Bloom was » soldier in the late Abijail Bloom. John B. Garrison and fam¬ war, and was killed in Louisiana. ily live in the southwestern part of Pike His second wife was Ruth A. Walker. Of this township, where they own a fine farm. union are two daughters, Jennie married to John B, Garrison’s family consisted of Thomas Lawrence Way, and Lucinda, mar¬ Catharine, Philena, William G., Julia,! ried to Isaac M. Kester. Both these gentle¬ Mertie and Jesse. All are living except | men reside in Pike township and are there William G, and are married as follows: ( known as first-class farmers. Mrs. Bloom | Catharine, to Theodore Farnsworth; Phil¬ is still living on the old homestead. Nancy j ena, to William K. Henderson; Julia, to Bloom died at the age of 20 years. She was William Knarr; Mertie, to Elmer E. unmarried. Smith; Jesse, to Aggie Hepfer. William L. Bloom, the second son of Ben-j Philena Garrison, the second daughter of jamin Bloom, was born October 24, 1819.] Mason and Elizabeth Garrison, married He lived for some time on the farm now George Leech, whose history was written owned by Milton McClure. Desiring/a in a former article. Elizabeth Garrison larger farm, he sold this and bought the married Robert Woods, who after her death next farm, then called the Capt Ross farm, married another sister, Marion Garrison. and now owned by J. Newton Ported Heie Levi Garrison, the youngest of the family he lived many years. A few years before was a blacksmith by trade and for many his death, he sold his land in Pike township, years resided in Curwensville. He after¬ and bought a farm in Bloopi township, wards moved to New Jersey and from there where he resided until his death in 1805. to New York. He w»s married to Julia He was twice married. His first wife was Brown. Two children of this family are Hannah Widemire. Of this union two sons living, Sterling and William. There was were born. Phineas Bloom, of Penn town¬ also one daughter Ida, who merried Amos ship, who is married to Jennie Hadden, Reed, and has been dead several vears. and Robert Bloom, of Curwensville, whose first wife was Miss Best, and who is now BENJAMIN BLOOM SR’S. FAMILY. married to Miss Bressler. William Bloom's Benjamin Bloom, the fourth son of Wil¬ second wife was Martha Miller, of Centre liam Bloom Sr., was born December 31, 1790, and died August 13, 1878. He was county. The sons of this family are: Mark Lynn, and Watson, who live in the Pacific married to Sally McClure, second daughter States, and William P., who resides on the of ’Squire Thomas McClure, one of the first old homestead, in Bloom township, and is settlers of the township of Pike. She was married to the daughter of Lot Smith, of born October 20, 1792, and died September the same township. The daughters were: 14,1868. This couple in common with near¬ Caroline, Lola, Nancy and Ella. Carolihe ly all the early settlers lived to be very old. Bloom married to Samuel Addleman, of By comparing the dates of birth and death Curwensville. Lola Bloom married Wil¬ it will be found that Mr. Bloom was 86 liam Bright, and Nancy Bloom married years of age at death and Mrs. Bloom 76. J ames Guilam, of New Millport. Ella died, After his marriage, he bought a tract of aged about 12 years. land, which is now partly in the limits of Curwensville borough, the portion out of he borough being now owned by I. M. lives m Nebraska. Bloom McPherson killed in the War of the Rebellion. Lv McPherson was married to Miss Antis. H. is now dead. TIlTj Lucinda Bloom was married to Hem Jshij Swan, for many years a prominent business of Jordan township. They are both d. dead Henry Swan’s sons are: John, Ben¬ jamin, Ross and Harvey. The Swan boys are all married and have been active men in this county. John Swan is now in busi¬ ness in Tennessee. John Swan married

HoChRW'S“i.36,,Jamto S"«". Holton Ross Swan, Rebecca Stratton; Harry Swan, Mary Wright. Henry Swan’s daughters were: Phoebe married to Arthur Straw; Sally, maried to Mr. Wagoner; Edith, married to John W

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The only living son of Benjamin Bloom Julian Bloom wa3 born October 28, 1828. I is Jonothan Ross Bloom, a well-known citi¬ She is the only living daughter of Benjamin zen of Chestnut Ridge, Pike township He Bloom She is married to John Porter, of was born July 27, 1823, and is therefore 75 j Pike township. A special history will be i years of age. He, too has been twice mar¬ given of the Porter family and will not ap- 1 ried . His first wife was Nancy MeGaughey pear here. y of Clearfield, By this union were two Mary Bloom, the youngest daughter of daughters, Harriet, who married Mr. Mc- Benjamin Bloom, was married to James Cardle, of Burnside, and Jane, who is mar- j Wrigley, of Clearfield. There was one ried to Howard McCloskey, of Curwensvilie. Cai;o,iEe Wrigley, who married After the death of his first wife he was John MeGaughey. The MeGaughey family united in marriage to Matilda R. Hoover. PnIhM daughters, Ruth, Mary and Louisa. She, too i3 yet living, aged 73 years By Ruth MeGaughey is married to Harry F this marriage, are two children Reed, and Ferguson, a prominent hardware dealer, at Nora, who is married to Porter Pyles. Mar¬ Kerrmoor, and a member of the firm of garet Bloom was married to John McPher¬ Ferguson Bros. son, of Clearfield. This family has attain¬ ed considerable prominence in this county, THE FREEMAN FAMILY. both in business and politics. The Mc¬ bffirhfrd FTman’ now deceased, was Pherson family consisted of one daughter, “6, 6r0f the Freeman family to Louisa, and six sons, Thomas W., Ross,’ 3f theena t0WnShip- He not one Reuben, John, Bloom and Lynn, ’ , ?f PiL rneerJettlerS’ but he was a citizen Louisa McPherson married Henry Snyder, L_ ®. I Ip for almost a half century preceding his death. y of Clearfield borough. Mr. Snyder is yet living, but Mrs. Snyder has been dead \rw!,ar<1< Freeman was ‘he second son of several years. The oldest son of this family m and Matilda Freeman, and was born is J. Frank Snyder, a prominent member of county,bounS Dec.nlng n°9th,n 1818.Furnace ’ Huntingdon the Clearfield county Bar. His late official positions are familiar to all. wa“ °arlyage he be«an working in the Thomas McPherson married Miss Addle- untingdon ifon furnace. When he was man./ W. Ross McPherson is a well known Ifamfi11 /6ars of age he accompanied his citizen of Clearfield county. In 1877, he jfamily to Pennsylvania Furnace, Hunting was elected Sheriff of Clearfield county, ItwentvT'and reSid6d there untiI he was on the Democratic ticket. He was for twenty-two years of age, when he again several years, the Superintendent of mull6 he Marth.a Furnace’ where he lived until he was about thirty years of a the Elk Tanning Company’s large plant in Clearfield. He married Lizzie Porter, and unng which time he was engaged in the has two daughters, Edith and Jessie. trm ore ,ot ingof the furnace at that place. He was Reuben McPherson married Miss Nevling I married to Mary A. MeDivitt and is a citizen of Patton. His family j In 1857 he came to Clearfield county and consists of three sons and one daughter, J. Boy ton, Fred, Robert L. find Louise. John IfirstT6 fVitiZ6n °f Pike ^wnship! He (first locate*! upon the old Caldwell home- McPherson is married to Mis sHancock,and | stead, where he followed the business of i ming. He also for several years farmed ^ol. E. A. Irvin, and also for Col. John southern section of thetownship. Here an. He then bought the farm on which cleared out a fine farm. e lived the remainder of his days from In giving the history, or yather the Abram Gates. This farm was located in biography of Abraham Bloom’s family, we a west end of the township, near the line will endeavor to follow the same line we of Penn and Pike. Since his death it is have tried to conform to in all our family occupied by his wife and grandsons. Mrs. histories, that is, to give as full a sketch as Freeman is among the oldest ladies now possible of those families who were always living in Pike township, having long since residents of Pike township ahd who took passed the “three score and ten” mark. active part in its settlement. Those fami¬ Richard Freeman was always known as lies who became residents of other town¬ an ardent Democrat. He filled nearly all ships, or other States, we will not be the different township offices with strict able in our limited space to follow, as we fidelity and was also prominent in county are writing a history of Pike township politics. only. The family of Richard Freeman was four Abraham Bloom’s family consisted of sons, William H., Newton J., Jdhn A., and eight children, William A., Samuel, Levi, James. He also was the father of five James M., Amos, Elmira, Nancy and Eliza¬ daughters, Sarah, Jane, Frances, Emma beth. and Mary. The eldest son William H. William A. Bloom mamed Lydia Reams, Freeman was for many years a citizen of Samuel Bloom to Abagail Wise; Levi Pike township, but later became a resident to Susanna High; James to Margaret of Penn township, where he still resides. Glenn; Amos to Miss McCracken; Elmira He is married to Belle Bloom, daughter of to Moses Wise; Nancy to Robert Curry; David Bloom, an early settler of Pike town¬ Elizabeth to Mike Rex. ship. William A., Samuel and Levi were the Newton J. Freeman, the second son, is a three sons who settled in Pike township and | resident of the western part of Pike towD- to their families, therefore, we will give ship, where he owns a farm. He is mar¬ special attention. ; ried to Anna Smith. William A., the eldest son, is still living John A. Freeman was for many years a at the age of eighty years. After his mar- citizen of Pike township, but of late years has lived in Penn. He is married to Mary Durnell. cleared up a fine farm and lived there un¬ The youngest son, James Freeman, is til a few years age, when he retired from now a citizen of Curwensville. He is mar¬ active work and moved to New Millport, ried to Edith Hoover. leaving the farm in charge of his youngest Of the daughters, Sarah Freeman mar¬ son, Burchfield. ried A. N. Smith, now deceased; Jennie For twenty years William A. Bloom was died unmarried; Frances married Scott Justice of the peace in Pike township. He McFadden; Emma married Jacob Dough- also took active part in church work. man, and Mary married Josie L. Bloom. Early in life he became a member of the j FAMILY OF ABRAHAM BLOOM. Presbyterian church, and for forty years '■'( Abraham Bloom, next to the youngest has been an elder in the church. son of William Bloom, Sr., was born April His family was eleven children, six sons 10,1795, and accompanied the family to I and five daughters, all of whom are living. L Pike township when they first emigrated The six sons are Isaiah, Enos, Abram A., I here from Centre county. He lived with John C., Curtis and Burchfield. The f his father until the time of his marriage, daughters are, Margery, Annie, Frances, i assisting him in clearing up his farm and Jennie and Ella. ' also engaged in the other occupations and Isaiah Bloom married Susan Eoozer and sports, which are common in a new and resides in West Clearfield. sparsely settled country. Enos Bloom married Sarah Erhard, and He was considered an excellent hunter is a citizen of Knox township. tand, it is said, was scarcely ever known to Enos Bloom’s family is one daughter, come back from the chase empty-handed. Gertrude, who is married to Dr. W. C. When the business of loading arks with Park. coal and running them to Harrisburg and Abram A. Bloom married Maggie Peo¬ other points lower down the river com¬ ples. This family numbers three, Percy, menced, Mr. Bloom became an enthusiastic Lydia and Ollie. pilot and could run an ark to market with¬ John C. Bloom married Tillie Cathcart. out risk of accident. This family also consists of three, Jesse, Abraham Bloom married Margery Cald David and Derra. well, and some time after his marriage Curtis Bloom married Sarah Lord. Harry bought a tract of land in the extreme and Teressa, Robert and Wayne are the Hisfirst wifewasSarah Davis,his second, family willgiven. lies. Firstthe marriagesoftheentire permanently resideinthe township, we tory ofthosemembersthe familywho Pike township,areA.F.Bloom andAlfred will giveacomplete historyofthese’fami¬ Bloom. Bloom, whoarepermanent residentsof died unmarried.TheonlysonsofLevi children, namely,A.F.,JaredA.,Alfred, Amanda andKate.Thetwolastnamed Westley, D.M.,Eliza,Jennie,Alice, now ownedbyJohnDotts. township andopenedoutafarm,whichis High. of Piketownship,wasmarriedtoSusannah

Bloom, whobecameapermanentresident Knox township. _ families bothresideinPunxsutawney,Pa. and HoseamarriedMissMorrison.These Alice Bloom. children, A.M.Bloom,HoseaBloomand ago, wasmarriedtoLucindaBloom. guson township,andAlbertBloom,who was killedontheP.R.severalyears ried HattieMcCrackenandresidesinFer¬ resident ofHoutzdale;MiltonBloommar¬ Susannah BloommarriedHarveyGlenn,a Straw, allresidentsofJordantownship, Arthur Straw;WillminamarriedWilson ried SamuelStraw;Elmiramarried of Piketownship;MargaretmarriedRob- Willmina, Susannah,MiltonandAlbert. Martha J.,Margaret,Melissa,Elmira’ Wise andhissecondwifewasJaneCurry. The childrenofhisfirstmarriagewere, was twicemaried.HisfirstwifeAbigail Following ourplanofgiving afullhis¬ A. F.Bloom hasbeen thricemarried. of elevenchildreninPiketownship.He ham Bloom,alsolivedandraisedhisfamily and afterhisdeath,WilliamJ.Cox. Cracken. Levi Bloom’sfamilyconsistedoften He locatedintheSouthernsectionof Levi Bloom,theothersonofAbraham en, whodiedJuly34,1397. Alice BloommarriedAlonzoKline,of has afamilyofninechildren. Lizzie, WilliamandLowery. ing andhasafamilyoffire,Grace,Pearl, A. M.BloommarriedMaryWalker family. By hissecondmarriagehehadthree names ofthechildrencomposingThis Martha J.BloommarriedHoseaErhard, Samuel Bloom,thesecondsonofAbra¬ Ella BloommarriedRobertLord. Jennie BloommarriedJosephBloom, Frances BloommarriedAlfredMc¬ Annie BloommarriedJ.C.Bloom,who Margery BloommarriedDavidMcCrack¬ Burchfield BloommarriedLydiaSchoen- High, ofKnoxtownship;Melissamar¬ [been acitizenofPiketownship,livesclose'1 , JohnPorter,whoforfifty-fouryearshasI , bersoftheSpirit. ■ familyanddescendantsofRichardRowles, Porter. f rmnow ownedand occupiedby John get tract, andcommenced toimprove the township. in thenextarticle.IJr William Hepburn, anearlysettlerofPike after Mrs.Porterunitedin marriageto the rivertoClearfieldcounty. Sometime he incompanywithhismother, cameup’, tory ofRobertPorter’sfamilywillbegiveni Porter wasbornandliveduntil 1834,when tory ofJohnPorter’sfamily,andthehis-I This biographywillincludeonlythehis¬ Porter diedandisburied. Here alsoJohn|> located inLycomingcounty, whereRobert ferent sectionsofthecountry,theyfinally both ofIrishdescent,arenotrelated. grated toAmericaearlyinthecentury. They werebothborninIreland,andemi-,j in Piketownship.Thesefamilies,though mother’s familynamewasMaryThompson. sides valuabletimbeilands. sessor ofseveralfarmsinthetownship,be1. to thePenntownshipline.Heispos-‘»\ historian ofthattownshipinfuturenum- their historywillbeproperlygivenbythe both belongtoLawrencetownshipand who marriedSallieBloom.Thesefamilies'7 who marriedElizabethBloom,northe trace thefamilyofMajorMatthewOgden,V" township. Noattemptwillherebemade1 so farastheyrelateparticularlytoPike sons anddaughtersofWilliamBloom,Sr., five—Emma, Bertha,LamsonandMaud. of histhirdmarriageareIrene,Lily,Marv marriage areClarence,EliandRiley, Hugh, FrankL.,andDavis;ofthesecond They boughtthe uppersectionoftheLig- and Ada. ten children;ofhisfirstmarriageare living ontheoldBloomHomestead. Clearfield. * After havingbeenlocatedinseveraldif Knox township. His fatherwasRobertPorter,andhisi' There aretwofamiliesofPortersliving now residesintheStateofKansas. but nowlivesinBiglertownship. For manyyearshelivedinKnoxtownshij wife, JennieSnyder. a sister,Frances‘Davis,andhis We havenowtracedthefamiliesof The familyofAlfredBloomconsists The familyofA.F.Bloomconsists Alice BloommarriedJohnDotts,now Jennie BloommarriedElmerFinkof Eliza BloommarriedWilliamArnold,of Jared A.BloommarriedElviraCurr'j D.M. BloommarriedNannieHill,and Westley BloommarriedCynthiaBell. Alfred BloommarriedMarthaMcNeel.S THE PORTERS. n- 1 to! 1 30 iA e- ' 1 ; 'hn Porter married Julian Bloom, daugh- Everhart, Peter Spencer, Joseph, Jr, of Benjamin Bloom, Sr. Mr. Porter and Edding, Joseph Spencer, Samuel Fullerton, John are bo

POLITICAL HISTORY. unimproved land and timber 81 per acre; The first election in which the early set¬ farm land 83 and 83 per acre, and lots in tlers participated was in the year that the village of Curwensville, 812.50 Thomas Jefferson was elected President of When the first county officers were elect¬ the United States. As Pike township was ed in Clearfield county, Pike township suc¬ at that time not yet separately organized, ceeded in getting the lion's share, having the whole county voted at the Chinclecla' j two Commissioners, Thomas McClure and moose polling place. Matthew Ogden was Robert Maxwell, the Sheriff, Greenwood Judge and John Bloom and Caleb Bailey 1 Bell, and the Treasurer, Arthur Bell. were the Inspectors of this election. The first election held after Pike town¬ In those early days party feeling ran ship was separately organized, was in the high between the Federal adherents of autumn of 1S14, when Simon Snyder was John Adams and followers of Jefferson. elected Governor over Isaac Wayne. So hotly was this election contested and Diligent search has been made by the so intense was partisan feeling that a riot writer in the county records at Clearfield, occurred at the polls between the adherents and communication had with the Prothon- of Adams and those who supported Jeffer¬ tary of Centre county, but the names of son. Bloom, Ogden and their compatriots the first township officers cannot be found. were leaders ot the Jeffersonian party and As evidence of the growth and develop¬ Benjamin Hartshorn and Caleb Bailey led ment of Pike township is the fact that the the Adams forces. After a general fight assessment roll of voters has increased from had taken place, matters quieted down eighty voters, as the first enrollment shows, and the election was proceeded with. to more than three hundred, as the poll of When Pike township was separately organ¬ .1896 shows, notwithstanding the fact that ized in the year 1813, Samuel Fulton, the Pike township does not now include more first Prothonotary of the county, was than one-sixth of the territory it formerly appointed by the Centre county court to included. prepare an assessment roll of freemen and Pike township has furnished since the taxables in the newly organized township date of its organization five Sheriffs of ot Pike. According to instruction, he pre- Clearfield county; Greenwood Bell, George 3 pared the list as follows: Leech, William Bloom, Alexander Cald- • ,-AUen, David Kirk, John well and Robert Ross. Jesse E. Dale, who, ' Askey, Robert Ligget, David at the time of his election to the office of J Brown, Alex Meredith, Elijah Sheriff, was a citizen of DuBois, was a 3 Miller, Samuel Bailey, Caleb native of Pike township, and resided there [ ,f Bloom, William Maxwell, Robert "Bloom, William, Jr., McCracken, Robert until he grew to manhood. J Bloom, Isaac McCracken, Joseph Pike township also had the honor of hav¬ Bloom, Joseph McCracken, Daniel ing two of her citizens elected to the office Bloom, John McCracken, Thomas Bloom, Peter McGee, Robert ot Associate Judge of the county. They Brink, John McClure, Thomas were Hon. James Bloom and Hon. John P. Bennett, John Moore, James Hoyt. Bell, John Ogden, Job Six times has Pike township had a mem¬ Bell, Greenwood Parker, Job Bell, Arthur Passmore, Abraham ber of the Board of County Commissioners. Caldwell, Alex Reed, James Thomas McClure, Robert Maxwell, William Caldwell, Matthew Reed, Alexander, Jr. Dunlap, J. Baxter Caldwell,George C. Pass- Cochran, Samuel Reed,’Alex B., Cookson, Jesse Reed, William more and John Norris are the names of Carson, Benjamin Rolls, John those who at different times have been Coleman, Dr. Samuel Shaffer, George elected County Commissioners from Pike Davis, Amos, Shaffer, George, Jr. township. Davis, Caleb Smith, Amos ''unlap, William Straw, Nicholas ■ Hon. Alexander Caldwell, also a citizen nlap, David Stuggart, Philip of Pike township, was elected a member of !ch, Nimrod Stuggart, John the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Jonathan Spencer, Joseph l\ . ..r---r II WWlt MWIg l !for one term. | was held at Curwensville, the _ Eli Bloom and A. M. Bloom, father and 1 evolutions taking place on what then son, who were each for two successive terms called the “Irvin Meadows.” elected to the office of Prothonotary of About the year 1840 there was organize Clearfield county were natives of Pike a company in Pike township of Regulars. | township, as also was Hon. John H. Norris, This organization belonged to the light who was for one term the representative of artillery and differed from the militia Clearfield co_unty in the State Legislature. 1 inasmuch as they were sworn into the U. Among those who were natives of Pike : S. Service and had State encampments township and who removed to other coun¬ I instead of county meetings. The members ties and States and there achieved promi¬ of this organization were uniformed and nence in politics and were elected to politi¬ paid by the government. This company cal office are Samuel Caldwell, who is now was in existence several years and was High Sheriff of the city of Olympia, Wash., regarded as being one of the best artillery Samuel Thomas, who was elected Sheriff of companies in the State. ' Venango county, Pa., and R. W. J. Bloom, Following is the roll of officers and men of Iowa, who has filled various political as made out after the annual encampment positions in that State, and is there known of 1842 and bearing the date of Sept. 17th: as one of the Democratic leaders of the State. OFFICERS. | Captain, Arthur Bell. The present officers of Pike township are I First Lieutenant, Titus Rowles as follows: Justice of the Peace, W. J. , Second Lieutenant, Stacy W. Thompson. Owens and Fred S. Bloom; Supervisors, | First Sergeant, John Draucker. Ai Bloom, J. L. Wise, Harrison Bloom and Ensign, Joseph Caldwell. Pioneer, Samuel C . Hepburn. | Porter Pyles; School Directors, Cyrus Carr, Fife Major, William M. Bloom. J. R. McClure, Samuel Horn, Alfred Swats- Drum Major, William Smith.

worth, Daniel Starr and James Ardery; MEMBERS. Auditors, M.V. Long, Henry Snyder and Appleton, Jesse Hoover, Luther ■ V. U. Spencer; Clerk, D. D. Long;Treas Askey, Whitson Hunter, Reuben urer, Merritt A. Caldwell; Collector, Wil¬ Beatty, George Hummel, William Brink, Daniel Irvin, William liam Puuchios; Election Officers—Judge, Bennett, Joseph Lytle, Hudson ■ John I. Bloom ; Inspectors, C. F. Hays and Bell, David McCracken, David Philip Dotts. Bell, Arthur » McCracken, George MILITARY HISTORY. Bloom, Benjamin McCracken, Levi Bloom, David McCracken, Ross Pike township’s military history does not Bloom, Harrison McCracken, Samue’ date from the breaking out of hostilities Bloom, Samuel R. McCracken, Thos between the North and South in 1860 but it Bloom, Samuel Owens, Thomas Bloom, William Passmore, Joseph ‘ extends back to the days when the sturdy Bloom, Geo. A. Patton, Henry woodsman began felling the trees in the Rowles, John Bradley, Joseph ' ' 4 primitive forest in order to make way for Caldwell, George Rowles, Titus the spread of civilization. Caldwell, James Rowles, William i Caldwell, Joseph Shugert, Andrew Previous to 1840, all citizens between the Caldwell, William Smith, William ages of 21 and 45 were enrolled as a State Caldwell, James B. Straw, Hiram Swatsworth, R. militia and at stated times each year were Draucker, John ) Draucker, B. B. Taylor, Samuel required to go into camp for two or three England, John Thomas, Samuel ! days and were drilled and instructed in the England, Theodore Thompson, Stacy manual of arms and other military move¬ Erhard, David Warrick, John I •' Williams, Fred < At ments by the officers of the U. S. army. Herrick, A. L. fi° Henry, Joseph Young, Nelson n Some of our older citizens yet remember Hepburn, John Young, Robert * r the training days when the entire popula¬ Hile, Henry Young, Samuel fob Hoover, Martin. rdf tion abandoned their usual occupations la and men,women and children took a season Several of the members of this artillery company enlisted when the Mexican war n of recreation to watch the manoeuvres of 184 the local battalion of militia. broke out in 1845, but at this late date it is 7 A] About the year 1835, Clearfield county impossible to ascertain their names. was divided into two military districts, When the great conflict between the '« * 1 each of which had a separate battalion of States began in 1860 and the President infantry. issued calls for volunteers, Pike township The headquarters of the one company nobly responded. During the war, Pike was at Curwensville, which then was a township sent to the front almost one hun| small hamlet of Pike township. The mem¬ dred soldiers. At that time the total en¬ bers of this battalion were citizens of Pike, rollment between the ages of eighteen and : Brady, Burnside and the other townships in forty-five was less than two hundred, so I the southwestern section of the county. Pike township sent to the front almost one- Several times the annual encampment half of her citizens who were subject to military service. Nearly all were yolun- i

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Ross, wooa K 42 . So far a; the writer can ascertain Sharp, Marion B 149 _,o township in Clearfield county has any¬ Spence, James K 42 B thing like such a record as this. This list Stage, 'William 149 Smith, Harvey I. B 149 does not include any who enlisted from the Smith, Port K 42 borough of Curwensville: Smith, William B 149 Com’t. Reg’t. Smith, Daniel B 149 Addleman, William K 42 Smith, Frank B 149 Addleman, John K 42 Smith, Lum B 149 Addleman, Henry A I 58 Surambaugh, Aleck B 149 Ardary, Samuel A 56 Williams, Joseph K 42 Bloom, Enos K 42 I Williams, Montgomery Bloom, Isaiah K 42 Williams, Ross Bloom, Arnold K 42 White, Joseph Bloom, Z. M. SCHOOLS. Bloom, Harris Pike township’s early settlers were most¬ Bailey, Newton Bailey Zachariah K 42 ly of German and Seotch-Irish descent, and Bennett, James S4 as is characteristic of these nationalities Bennett, Joseph S4 • the settlers early took great interest in 1 Buoy, Augustus Brink, John E 42 education. Brink, Z. T. E 42, Four years after the first settlement, in Broomall, Joseph K 42 1804, the first school house in Clearfield Barnes, Joseph K 42 1 county was built, near the present site of Bloom. Henry M. B 149 Caldwell, Samuel McClure cemetery, Pike township. Caldwell, Lafayette Curry, Edward M. K 42 Cupples, Andrew, J. K 42 Carr, Dick B 149 , Carr, William B 149 ; Carr, Aleck B 149 Carr, Benjamin B 149 Curry, John A. B 149 Dale, David C. K 42, i Dale, Joseph L. B 149' 1 Dunn, Mtnning K 42 l , Dunlap, R. A. E 148 Frantz, Harrison K 42 Frantz, James K 42 (Frantz, Martin K 42 Flemming, R. R. B 149 naming, Frank K 42 ^ emming, James I 58 T,arewell, Abram M 59 Freeman, William I 58 FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE IN THE COUNTT. Hoover, Harris This house was built of rough unhewn Hoover, E. Allen M 9 Hoover, Lewis K 42 logs. A large fireplace was in one corner j Hoover, Zenas of the room, and the smoke escaped through Holden, William B 149 a wooden chimney, Light was furnished Hennigh, Miies K 42 through openings in the walls. Instead of Hile, Obadiah M 59 (Humphrey, Thomas K 42 glass greased paper was used to let in the k Humphrey, William K 42 light. For seats there were rough slabs, iHandcock, Kin B 149 split from trees and made into a sort of a fjTandco k, Bigler B 149 [Brindcock, Isaiah 8S bench by putting wooden legs at the ends. |b' I, James G. 42 Backs for the seats were not even thoughtof. F Tseford, William K 42 This school was open for two or three p ale, Ellis I. K 42 months in the year, usually beginning in I jrdan, William .. I iratzer, J. E. K 42 November or December, and closing in i Cratzer, John K 42 January or February, ■Kratzer, William K 42 The teacher was paid by subscription, | Lydic, Elam Lydic, Patrick usually one dollar per term, when he Lanich, Christ E 149 “boarded around,” and one dollar and McClure, Lafayette I 58 fifty cents when he boarded himself. As McClure, Milton B 149 the number of pupils averaged twenty- | McClure, Samuel B 149 McClure, Robert I 58 five, the master usually had from twenty- K (Miller, I. E. E 149 five to thirty-five dollars for his term’s t C IcCullough, J. E. B 149 teaching, which was at that time consider- § C\‘ Cracken. Robert G. K 42 ed prodigious wages. D; Closkey, N. A. K 42 r rris, John H. K 42 Hugh Hall was the first teacher of this I rris, I. B. Ohio Inf’ry school, followed in 1S06,' by Mr. Kelly, in | | orris, Moses I 58 1807 by Mr. Alexander, in ISOS by Mr. jj ' McDowell, James B 149 McDowell, George B 149 Flemming, and in 1S09 by Mr. Bailer- Peoples, I. D. I 29 From this time the record of teachers has "smore, Hezekiah <*• 51

been lost and no one now living can give (referred to. The first teacher was John he names of those who followed the ones I Patton, who received for his services $1S above mentioned. I per month. This school was afterward In 1812 thore was opened up in what now (taught by Hugh Caldwell, Peter Hoover is Curwensville borough, but which then land John A. Dale. was only a small hamlet in Pike township, L When the free school system was first the third school of the county, the promulgated Pike township was among tne second being built in the Reed settle¬ first townships in the county to accept its ment, in Lawrence township. This school provisions and establish schools under its was first taught in a private dwelling by laws. This law at first was only an ex¬ Jesse Cookson, and the next year, 1813, by periment and it was not obligatory for Josiah Evans. In 1814 the citizens of the the townships to adopt the system. Of the community put up a log school house, seventeen townships then in existence in which, for many years, was the only school the county nine rejected and eight accept¬ house in that section of the township. The ed the system, Pike being among the latter first teacher of this school was a young class. lady, Miss Christy by name. The names of At that time school houses were few and those who succeeded her are forever lost. far between. In some instances scholars About the year 1815 the pioneers in the walked four c^r five miles through deep vicinity of Bloomington built a log school snows in order to attend the school. house on a tract of land afterwards bought Some of the early teachers were men of by William Price. Here the older Blooms, education and good character, but in most Bells, McCrackens and Rowles’ received cases any superannuated old cripple was their first ideas of education. good enough for master, providing he A few years after this there was another could write, read a little, make quill pens, log house built near Centre which was at¬ be able to cipher out what 40 pounds of tended by scholars from both Pike and beef cost at Z}' cents per pound, and last, Lawrence townships. The first teacher of but by no means least, be able to apply this school was Samuel Fulton, a talent¬ properly the birch or witch hazel rod. As ed young Irishman who was a leading the theory “no lickin’, no lernin’ ” was at spirit in the early days. This school was that time universally believed, no master also taught by John Patton, father of Hon. was considered competent unless he was John Patton of Curwensville. Here it was expert at handling the rod. that Mr. Patton first attended school under Usually on Christmas or New Year’s the tutorage of his father. day the boys would get up a notice for a From the opening of the first school, in treat and present it to the master for his 1804, until the adoption of the free public signature. A verbatim copy of one of the school system in 1834, reading, writing and documents follows: arithmetic to the rule of three constituted “Candy, 2 pounds, raisins, 2 pounds, the only branches taught. ginger cakes, 4 dozens, apples, 2 bushels, Books {were few. In some instances whiskey, 4 quarts. Please sign your name.” whole families only had one book. Web¬ If the master signed, well and good. If ster’s speller, the Testament, Pilgrim’s he refused to sign or showed a spirit of re¬ Progress, Biography of Washington and luctance or hesitancy, a free fight often Jefferson, Columbia Orator, Pike’s Arith¬ occurred and the master was barred out metic, a few sheets of unruled foolscap for a day or two. Not infrequently the paper and a goose quill constituted a master was as fond of the whiskey as the student’s outfit. boys and joined with them in a season of There was no uniformity of text books hilarity and recreation, iand frequently there were as many differ¬ In this connection it is related of Peter ent kind of books as there were scholars. Hoover, one of the early masters, that on Each pupil was, therefore, in a separate one occasion when he was teaching one of class and recited alone. The teacher made the schools of Pike township he received and repaired pens, and set copies for all the the usual notice the day before Christmas. scholars. The scholars worked out par¬ Not being in a signing humor he refused to ticular problems in arithmetic with the accede to the demands of the boys. The help of the teacher, no explanations being next day when he arrived at the school given and few required. All the other house to open for the day’s session he found studies were similarly taught. the scholars all there and the door barred. Tn the fall of 1834 a school called the Cur¬ He said nothing, but quietly turned home¬ wensville Academy was opened in Pike ward. In about an hour he returned with township, the borough of Curwensville not two pounds of sulphur, a wide board and a having been organized until 1851. This ladder. Cautiously approaching the school school was started under the new law and house so as no* to be seen by the scholars, the place of the old logbuilding^above who, by this time, had built a fire and were - par * having a good1' time generally, he set the preached in houses or ladder against the rear of the building. stances permitted. He quickly amended and threw the two About 1806, it is recorded in the minutes pounds of sulphur into the chimney and of the Huntingdon Presbytery, that Rev. covered it with a board. In about three James Linn was instructed by the Presby¬ seconds the scholars below began to feel tery there to visit all the settlements on the effects of the sulphur, and supposing, the West Branch of the Susquehanna, from no doubt, that a breeze from the infernal the Great Island to the Cberrytree. He regions had struck the school house, beat a was commissioned “to preach, baptise and hasty retreat homeward, leaving the mas¬ catechise.” ter on the roof of the school house, master In 1812, the Presbyterians of Pike town¬ of the situation. ship applied to the Presbytery for a more After the law establishing the office of regular preaching service. The Presby¬ County Superintendent was passed and tery therefore appointed Rev. David Bard, other legislation promulgated that gave who visited the locality three or four times the public school system a firm hold, the a year. , . , schools of Pike township advanced rapidly. The Presbyterians of Pike township have During the last quarter of a century Pike the very distinguished honor of organizing township has had as instructors some of the first congregation and of building the the very best teachers in the county. first church in Clearfield county. This Prominent among those who have taught church was located at McClure ceme¬ in Pike township’s schools are ex-County tery and was built in 1823 and was used SuperintendentM. L. McQuown, ex-County until 1843, when a better building was Superintendent Matt Savage, Rev. J. Bell built at Curwensville and the congregation Neff, Rev. W. P. Hile, Rev. J. N. Rakes, from that time worshiped there. Rev. Frank Curry, Geo. E. Owens, Dr. A. From papers belonging to Matthew Cald¬ M. Buzard, J. F. McNaul, Esq., of J eanette, well, for many years a ruling elder in the W. W. Barbor, of Ridgway, and Frank Presbyterian church of Pike township, and Hutton, Esq., of DuBois. now in possession of J. R- Caldwell, his The township now has nine good schools youngest son, we obtain much information known by the following names and in of this church. charge the coming term of the following When the church was first organized, teachers: Messrs. Flemming, Dunlap, Neipee and Summit Ridge.Davis Bloom Jordan were appointed elders, and the next Bloomington.Miss Margaret Bloom year Isaac Bloom and Matthew Caldwell, Olanta.Mr. Bloom Following will be found a complete Cupples.Miss May Bloom record of the original membership of this Chestnut Ridge.D. B. Brosius church. So far as the writer can ascertain, Curry.R. B. Wise all have passed away except Mr. and Mrs. Oakland.Frank Ardary W. A. Bloom, i of Knox township; Mrs. Pleasant Grove.J. A. Dale Anna Dunlap and Moses Wise. Record of communicants of McClure CHURCHES AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS. Presbyterian church: Presbyterian Church.—Pike township and James Flemming Mrs. S. Hartshorn vicinity was first settled by Scotch-Irish Matthew Caldwell Mrs. Margaret Read and Germans. As the Scotch-Irish pre- Mrs. Sania Read Mrs. Mary Caldwell Mrs. Susan Fleming j lominated it naturally followed that the Mrs. Jane Wise I Isaac Dunlap William Dunlap 7 first efforts in religious matters should be Mrs. Annie Dunlap Mrs. Sarah Dunlap William Hepburn 1 made by the Presbyterian church. It seems John J. Read Mrs. Martha Hepb’n the German emigrants, who would Mrs. Susannah Read Samuel Caldwell ^naturally be followers of the Lutheran Mrs. Mary Hoover Benjamin Bloom, Sr. Mrs. Anna Price jCreed, did not at first organize a separate Mrs. Jane Caldwell Mrs. Nancy Smith j church, but joined in with the Presby- Mrs. Eve Jordan John Bloom, Sr. Mrs. Susan Bloom " terians. Mrs. Mary Fullerton Mrs, Mary Bloom Whether there was any Presbyterian William Wiley Mrs. Margaret Wiley Mrs. I. Hartshorn““ ^services held in Pike township previous to Mrs. Margaret M’Olure Miss Ann Read 5(1803, is not known, but in April of that William Sloss Miss £taryr>?'ea^ year the Presbytery of Huntingdon Mrs. Margaret Sloss Abraham Bloom Mrs. Eliza McCracken Mrs. Margery Bloom appointed Rev. William Stewart, of Penn’s Greenwood Bell S?rSara,hRl„™ Valley “to visit the settlements at Chincle- Mrs. Ann E. Bloom William A. Bloom clamosche and McClure’s and preach to the Mrs Sarah Bloom Mrs. Lydia Bloom Miss Catharine Bloom Miss Eliza Caldwell Indians and settlers.” Rev. Henry R. Wil¬ Mrs. Mary Bloom Isaac Caldwell lson, of Bellefonte was also assigned to a INFANTS BAPTIZED. psimilar appointment. Isaiah Bloom Isaac Mays From that time on ministers at rare W illiam Price Geo. Bloom intervals visited the neighborhood and Moses Wise Lavina Smith Rev. N. G. Bishop was the first pastor in I the Straws, the Wises, tbe Arnolds and ! 1823, followed later by Revs. David Mc¬ Isome of the Rowles’ and Owens’. Later on Kinney, Samuel Wilson, J. B. Payne, the Longs, the Cupples’, the Ritters, and Edward McKinney and Frederick G. Betts Lutheran Church:—As many of the pio- many others became active in its organiza¬ neer settlers of Pike township, were Ger¬ tion, and in assisting in its prosperity. mans, they brought with them from their ! M. E. CHURCH. Fatherland the religious principles of the Soon after the organization of Pike town¬ immortal founder of the Lutheran church, ship, the missionaries of the Methodist Martin Luther. At an early date, the Ger¬ church began to visit that region. These man settlers began to think of establishing pioneers of Methodism were noted for piety, a Lutheran congregation, and of providing wonderful zeal and intense earnestness in the necessary means to erect a house for preaching the word of God. worship. The early Methodist ministers were call¬ About 1830, the first Lutheran missionary ed circuit riders on account of being com¬ to visit Pike township came across the pelled to hold services in a large section of county from one of the older German coun- j country, and from their habit of traveling ties and held services in the homes of set¬ from appointment to appointment on horse¬ tlers. From 1830 until 1840 there was no back. [regular service, but occasionally a minister The Methodist people at the beginning of would visit the locality, hold services and the century were noted for their revival visit such members of bis church as he meetings and for their campmeetings. One could reach. of their favorite campmeeting grounds was In 1840 the Lutheran Missionary Society at 'Camp Ground Run, in Pike township, of the State, seeing the necessity of having about two miles from Curwensville. Here more regular services in the vicinity, sent in the primeval forest before the denomi¬ Rev. Lane to Clearfield county and in¬ nation had built any churches the followers structed him to visit all sections of Clear¬ of John Wesley, the great founder of field county where German Lutherans had Methodism, met for worship and praise. settled, and preach to them in their native I1 he powerful and eloquent preaching of tongue. At this time there were congrega¬ the early circuit riders made many con¬ tions of Lutherans established at Clearfield, verts among the early pioneers, and to-day Luther3burg, Troutville, New Millport and Methodism has more adherents in Pike Bloomington. From this time until 1847, township than any other denomination. the following ministers, who succeeded Mr. So far as there are any records to show, Lane had charge of the congregation at | the first minister of the Methodist church Bloomington and other points in the county: to come up the river as far as the Pike Revs. Newner, Deihl, Dix, Foach, Steine township settlements was Rev. Daniel and Hight. Strausberry, who made his first visit in The Bloomington Lutheran church was 1810. It is possible and even very probable built in 1853. In 1867 this church became that there were Methodist services held self-sustaining under the ministerial efforts prevous to this time, but it was most likely of Rev, Jno. E. Williams. After the conducted either by local preachers or Bloomington church became self sustaining travelling itinerants. j the following ministers succeeded Rev. Mr. * Rev. Strausberry was succeed in 1812 by (Williams: Revs. Thompson, Fryday, Bean, John Thomas and William Butler, who for Christ, Sehure, Selaen and the present pas¬ 2 years or more ministered to the religious f tor, Rev. Sahm. wants of their people in Pike township and The larger portion of the members of the other sections of the county. Bloomington church living nearer the town From 1812 until 1822, the records have R ri of Olanta than Bloomington, the leaders of j been lost and the names of the ministers the church thought it advisable to build a during the ten years elapsing between c house of worship at the former place. Ac¬ these dates cannot be given. In 1822, it is re cordingly, in 1887 the Lutheran congrega¬ on record, Rev. Jno. Thomas was again ] tion built at Olanta a handsome and com¬ sent into this vicinity by the Missionary modious church. The Bloomington Luth¬ Society of the Methodist church, followed ji8 eran church was also repaired and services in 1825 by Rev. Jt>hn Bowen. are now held at stated times in both In 1829, the Philipsburg circuit was form¬ churches. The Bloomington church stands ed and all of Clearfield county was included at the entrance of Bloomington cemetery, in this charge. At first two ministers were which is the most beautiful and well-kept placed in charge, Rev. Allen Britain and (J- country cemetery in Clearfield county. Rev. Oliver Edge. The only other record The earlier families who took prominent Of the Philipsfcu-rg circuit is in 1832, when it J !’ part in the organization of the first Luth- I eran congregation in Pike township were j i j stated that Rev. Britain was again H. M. Minnigh_..... 1887-8 given charge of these churches. The Bruce Hughes... “ names of those who preached in the inter¬ C. B. Biddle.....1889-92 vening years are not recorded. ' F. S. Vought. 1892 4 Nothing further can be obtained from the W. W. Cadle (the present pastor)... 1895 church records until 1838, when the Clear¬ After having worshipped several years field circuit was formed. When this cir¬ in the school house and the Lutheran cuit was organized it included every con¬ church, in 1860 the Methodist denomination gregation from Clearfield to New Wash¬ at Bloomington built a church edifice of ington. Rev. Elisha Butler was the first i their own. The building committee con¬ minister given charge of the Clearfield cir • sisted of J. C. Bloom, J. R. Norris, Isaac cuit. He!,was followed in 1839 by J . A. Bloom, Joseph Goon and D. B. Reams. Ross, by J. L. Lee in 1840, by G. H. Day in Among the other member who belonged 1841, Elisha Butler and T. F. McClure in to the class originally were Adam Smith 1842. Thos. Barnhart in 1845, John Lloyd and wife, James S. Norris and wife, Sam’l 1846, John Stine in 1847, J. A. Melick in Brown and wife,Hezekiah T. Bloom, Jordan 1849, Geo. Berkstresser in 1850 and 1857. J. Bloom and wife, Robert Owens and wife, The District Conference made a change William Curry and wife, Joseph Goon and in the assignment of circuits in 1850 and | wife and others whose names have been the congregations of Pike township were j lost. taken from the Clearfield circuit and placed William Curry was the first class leaden in the New Washington circuit. followed by J. C. Bloom and W. P. Tate. Rev. A. W. Gibson was the first minister At present the leader is James L. Smith. in charge of the newly formed circuit. He The Friends and Baptists held services in was succeeded in 1854 by George Guyer and Pike township at an early date, but as they in 1852 by William Ernshaw; in 1852-3 by did not organize congregations or build 17. A. McKee; in 1856 by James Hunter; in churches until Curwensvill borough was 1857 by Hugh Linn; in 1859 by E. W. Kirby; incorporated, their history will be deferred ! in 1861 by D. S. McClOskey; in 1862 by D. until the history of Curwensville is written. 1 S. Clemwiner. Before closing the history of the ohurches In the year 1863, another change was a brief sketch of the first Sunday School in made by the church authorities and the Clearfield county will be given. This Pike township church was assigned to the school was organized in Pike township, in Glen Hope circuit. an old log school house, which stood in Rev. Hugh Linn was first given charge in what now is Curwensville. The exact | 1863-4, followed in 1866-67 by W. R. Whit¬ location being near the present site of the ney, when the Pike township church was Curwensville House, on Filbert street. again changed to the New Washington cir¬ Following is a verbatim copy of the cuit. minutes of the first meeting: The ministers who had charge from 1867 Sunday, May 16, 1824.—Met according to until 1872 were D. H. Colburn, W. R. Whit¬ previous agreement. The characters that ney, L. B. R. Rhoads and J. M. Buckley. convened were as follows:—Superinten¬ In 1872 so rapidly had Methodism extend¬ dents, Thomas McClure and Alexander ed its borders, and so rapidly had the mem¬ Caldwell; Secretaries, John P. Hoyt and bership increased that the church authori¬ Josiah Evans; Teachers, Abram Bloom, ties organized a new circuit called the Ann Reed, Eliza Howe and Susan Henry; Lumber City circuit. The Curwensville Scholars that are to recite—Elizabeth I church had long ere this became an inde. Henry, Parnelia R. Durish, Rhiana Mullen, pendent and self-sustaining church. The Sarah Evans, Catharine Bloom, Mary Ann other Pike township congregation known Hartshorn, Hannah England, Eliza Stage, as Bloomington church was placed in Lum¬ Jane Reed, Nancy L. Hartshorn, Priscilla ber City circuit and has since remained as R. Evans, Samuel Reed, Samuel Henry, one of the churches composing that charge. Hugh Fullerton, Hugh A. Caldwell, Thos. Rev. M. L. Ganoe was the first minister Bloom, Isaac Stage, Nathan Bailey, Jona¬ assigned to the newly-organized circuit. than Hartshorn, William Askey, Andrew Following is the regular succession of min¬ Ross, David Askey, William Bloom, Wm. isters since that time: Hartshorn, William Blair; Scholars in NAME. DATE. spelling—Henrietta Ann Reed, Samuel W. S. Hamlin. 1873 Bean, William A. Bean, Charlotte Stage R. H. Wharton. 1874-5 William Harley, Margaret Bean, Mary Furman Adams... 1876-8 Bean, Ellis Askey, James A. Bloom, Nancy Isaiah Edwards. 1879 Bloom, Robert McNaul, Zachariah McNaul, W.F. Noble. 1882 James Askey. So far as known, only three f Elisha Shoemaker. 1883 4 E. W. Wonner. 1885-6 61

I well adapted to farming. i members'of the first Sunday School in the Of those who signed the original petition 1 county are now living; Zachariah McNaul, asking the formation of the township, the James A. Bloom and Priscilla R. Evans. following are the only ones now living that are citizens in the township: Robert Pat¬ terson, Wm. Cox, Sr., John Fox, Levi Mc¬ Cracken, Wm. Withero and Jacob Arnold, Conrad Baker, an Ex-County Commis¬ sioner, took up his residence in Knox and is now living quietly on his farm in the southern part of the township. He is one of our oldest citizens. According to the best information now obtainable the first settlement in the town¬ ship was made by James Rea in 1806, locat¬ ing what is now known aathe Hunter farm. At that time wolves and bear prowled about his shanty in great numbers. The only grist mill to which Mr. Rea had access was then located near Birmingham, Blair county, but-soon thereafter a mill was erected at Moose Creek. To this mill, it is said, he transported his grist on the back of an ox. ■Tames Hegarty was the next to invade the forest and locate what is now the William Withero farm. Mr. Hegarty was murdered soon after locating, by wljom, no one ever knew. John Carson came in possession of the land made vacant BY HENRY J. SLOPPY, ESQ., OP NEW MILLPORT through the death of Mr. Hegarty. The territory now included in Knox town¬ In 1816 Peter Erhard, the father of Chris¬ ship, was originally a part of Ferguson tian, David, Philip and George Erhard, Jordan and Pike townships. In the year located land in what is now Knox township, 1853 the citizens conceived the idea of form¬ part of which is now owned by the heirs of ing a new township that would be better/ his grandson Enoch. In 1824, Peter Erhard, suited to their general welfare, hence a who then lived near Curwensville, was petition was presented to the September drowned while attempting to cross the Sus¬ term of court of that year asking the for- quehanna river at or near that place. After | mation of a township out of the territory the death of the father the sons came in named. possession of his estate and in connection therewith bought the land on which the The Court in taking action appointed village of New Millport is located. Abraham Bloom, Daniel Robbins and In 1825 the brothers erected a saw mill, Henry Wright Commissioners to view the locating it immediately above where the premises and run the lines agreeably to iron bridge now stands. A portion of the the citizens prayer. The Honorable Com¬ foundation of the old dam is yet visible in missioners made their report at the May term of court, 1854, naming the boundaries time of low water. After this«first mill was worn out another and the name “Knox township.” On the 19th day of May, 1854, the report was built near where the grist mill now of the Commissioners was confirmed, and stands. the “Turkey Hill” school house was made Saw mills in those days were not a very the place for holding elections. Isaac profitable investment—home consumption Thompson, Sr., was appointed Judge of of their lumber was all that they had to de¬ Election, and Thomas McKee and Amos pend on for returns. In 1849 the two Read, Inspectors. Neither of these are brothers, Christian and David, erected a now living. grist mill, which is yet doing fair work. It The name “Knox” was given in honor of is now owned by the heirs of the late Philip Judge Knox, the late President Judge of Renard, and is operated by Jacob Matlack. the county courts. Turkey Hill derived its Originally water was the propelling name from the wild turkey that inhabited power for these mills, now steam is used. that portion of the township at that time. i George Erhard, the younger brother, was The land in the township generally is elected and served the county of Clearfield hilly, and the natural product was timber as one of its Commissioners from 1857 tc —pine, oak, hickory, beech and hemlock. 1860. He was the last of the four brothers The soil in its natural state is fertile and A to die—September 25, 1888, aged 84 years, the eastern part of the township, near Jbhn His widow, Mrs Susanna Erhard, still sur¬ R. Dunlap’s farm. This class was first or¬ vives him at the age of 86 years. ganized in the year 1870, and held meetings David, the second brother, died January in the Turkey Hill school house up to 1874, 25, 1S55, aged 48 years. Christian, the at which time they built the present meet¬ eldest brother, died May 15, 1857, aged 56 ing house at a cost of two thousand dollars. years. p~bertRowles is now leader of the class. The name “Erhard” is prominent in the ±.\.ev. Truax also serves this class as pastor. township, having been multiplied and re¬ H. F. Rowles and J. R. Dunlap are promi¬ multiplied. The original honors have been nent members of this class and give freely faithfully retained and enlarged upon. and liberally to its support. Peter Erhard, Jr., son of Christian, is now On the 23d day of February, 1860, Jacob serving his fourth term as Justice of the W. Sensenig commenced rafting in timber Peace in the township. in the Susquehanna river, near O. F. Bell’s No further correct data of time of settle¬ residence, and was killed by a stick of ments can now be given, suffice it to say timber rolling over him. He came to Knox that promiscuous settlements were made township in 1856 from Lancaster county, by Arnold, Baker, Bell, Bauman, Bloom, and engaged in lumbering. Barnett, Butler, Cox, Coder, Cathcart, On the 13th day of August, 1860, John Dunlap, Fox, Ferran, Fink, Hunter, High, Kithcart, son of Archibald Kithcart, shot Hickok, Haley, Joy, Jackson, Kithcart, and killed his wife. He was arrested, tried Lord, McKee, McCracken, Root, Rankin, in court at Clearfield, was convicted and Rea, Rex, Shugarts, Smith, Sloppy, Soles- sentenced to be hung, but he did the job by, Templeton^ Tobias, Wise, Walker and himself in jail and saved the Sheriff the 1 Williamson. mortification and the county the expense. About all tb4se names are now repre¬ Some time after the death of John Kith¬ sented in the township, either by the origi¬ cart, Archibald committed suicide by hang¬ nal or their descendants. ing. The first school house in the township was Some time during the year 1864, David built in 1842, and was located just across Cathcart, Sr., a respected citizen and an the river from where George Erhard, Jr., ardent Republican, was appointed by the now lives. Governor to enroll all the citizens in the Benjamin Robberts was the first teacher. township liable to do military duty, and He located and improved the farm now when passing through the township on I; owned by Joseph Patterson. He died there official duty he was shot in the heel when in 1880. on horseback. By whom the deed was There are now six sub-school districts in done no one knows. the township: New Millport, May Hill, Lieut. John M, Chase succeeded Mr. Turkey Hill, Cove Run, Pleasant Ridge and Cathcart in office ana an worr was maae Oak Ridge. Joseph Patterson is President to arrest all deserters from the army that I of the present Board of School Directors, were in hiding in the wilds of Knox, and and Dr. W. C. Park is Secretary. There it appears that all the deserters from the are two hundred and fifty pupils attending various counties congregated in Knox. the schools in the district. On the night of December 13,1864, a squad In the fall of 1864 Daniel E. Mokel was of U. S. soldiers surrounded the dwelling the only School Director in the township house of Thomas Adams (a deserter) who ( and served as President, Secretary and on observing them ran up stairs and fired £ Treasurer, employed the teachers and through a window, killing a soldier. Adams f | located them. The other members of the immediately thereafter was shot and killed Board were either in the army or some by the soldiers. place else. Mr. Mokel died at his home in Those were the dark days in the history New Millport, July 20,1882. of the township. Knox, in all instances, it There are two churches in the township, filled its quota of recruits demanded of it both Methodist Episcopal. The New Mill¬ by the Government, and had just as good ie port church was first organized in 1845, and patriotic soldiers in the army as any R. but no church building was erected until other township, county or State in the ; E 1852. Previous to this meetings were held Union, and be it remembered they were in ' Is in the woods and private houses. In 1884 the Union army. \\ the present edifice was erected at a cost of The following named are surviving vet- E two thousand three hundred dollars. H. B. i erans of the war that are now citizens of E Shugart is now class leader; A. Judson the township: Enos Bloom, John C. Bloom, < Smith and William Shoening are the pres Daniel H. Barnett, Wm. D. Coder, Lewis ' ent stewards. Rev. Job Truax is now pas- Erhard, M. R. Lewis and H. J. Sloppy. rr in charge. Immediately after the close of the war The Mt. Zion FfL. E. church is located in Knox ias given the prefix “Bloody”. Fran i.ctls Shoft, a shoemaker in Clearfield, in ad- 63

vertising his business, and in order to at¬ | time, when Fox withdrew from the firm | tract attention,used the following headline: j and the business was continued by William “The War in Bloody Knox is Over.” Hence Wise and Son. They were succeeded by the name “Bloody” sometimes is used \ Joseph and David Erhard, who built the ! jestingly. house which was burned Jan. 22, 1887, I want to say now that sometimes the then occupied by Philip and A. T. Erhard names “Cathcart” and “Kithcart” are conn as a general store and postoffice. founded, but be it understood they are dis In 1883 A. Judson Smith erected the tinct and have no relation between them building now occupied by him as a general : whatever. store. In this building there is a hall over The greater portion of the land in Knox the store room which has been occupied for j is underlaid with good veins of Bituminous two or three years as a joint primary school coal. A good share of the coal right is now ; between Knox and Ferguson townships. owned by the Clearfield Bituminous Coal In 1879 Philip Renard bought the grist I Co., but as yet they have made no perma- mill and land from John Fox. Mr. Renard I nent openings. then erected a saw mill and leased it to J. In 1892 Berwind, White & Co., opened a W. Jones & Co., of Philipsburg, Pa. This mine on land of Lewis Erhard, near Mc¬ firm operated the mill for a term of five Cartney, and known as mine No. 20. They years. give employment to about one hundred I men and run nearly full time. The quality D. W. Cathcart & Co. erected a brewery ! of the coal is excellent. during the summer of 1885 and equipped it Reuben and Mark Caldwell are operating with the latest improved machinery, but all [ a bank on their lands for home consump¬ was consumed by fire the year following. tion. It is also a very fine quality of coal. A railroad station, telegraph and ex¬ The outlook for coal mining in Knox is press offices were established in 1886. Robt. flattering, B. Park, Esq., was the first agent employed. New Millport, the “Capital” and only W . L. Strunk, the present accommodating I village in the township, was first located as » and vigilant agent, was employed March a village in 1852. Prior to this date the 1,1892. place was referred to as Erhard’s Mill. The only resident physician the village Christopher Sloppy and Jacob Arnold or township has had is Dr. William C. Park. were the first to buy lots and erect dwell¬ He came here from Armstrong county in ings. Up to 1854, at which time the New 1883 and is now enjoying a large, success¬ lillport postoffice was established, the ful and remunerative practice. citizens were supplied with mail through Martin Hoover located in the place ir the Fruit Hill postoffice, then located in 1850, and was the first blacksmith, but his Jordan township, where William Shoening stay was of short duration as he soon re - now lives. Daniel E. Mokle was the first moved to Curwensville. George Bloom postmaster appointed for New Millport. succeeded Mr. Hoover as blacksmith, and He was succeeded by Martin O. Stirk in is yet a citizen but too old to work at the 1861. The other postmasters were as trade. Frank Hamilton is the present i named in order: H. J . Sloppy, John Fox, “village blacksmith.” He is a practical M. R. Lewis, Geo. C. Arnold, Elmer. E. artisan and in addition to his trade sells Fink, Philip Erhard—during Mr. Erhard’s wagons and farm implements. administration, 1887, the office, with entire In 1893 Philip Erhard erected a large equipments,was consumed by fire. A, Jud- store room and hall and is now conducting son Smith succeeded Philip Erhard, and a general store. Olanta Castle, K. G. E., rnl Philip Erhard thereafter succeeded A. Jud- is located in Erhard’s hall and hold meet- s son Smith, and is the present incumbent, jpgs every Friday night. This Order was serving his second term. organized at Ulahla; Pa., in f£3T, ana re- ,'n The first store in the place was kept by moved to this place in 1893. The following * William G. Butler. William H. Smith and are the present officers: James Strunk, N. ' John S. Williams, as a firm, succeeded Mr. C. ; T. Martin Witherow, V. C.; Philip :a Butler. In 1856 Martin O. Stirk came here Erhard, W. B.; Edward Glenn, H. P.; „ from Lancaster county, Pa., and bought Harry Strunk, M. R.; Edward Sloppy, C. the grist mill and land connected with it E.; A, Forester Bloom, K. O. E.; George E. Aj from Christian Erhard in 1857. He erected Witherow, S. H.; Perry Norris, Ensign; A.! ' a store room and conducted a store in con¬ B. Bloom, Esquire; Wm. Matlack, W. C.; V nection with the milling and lumbering W. L. Strunk, F. G.; Adison Hoover, S. G.; L Dr. W. C. Park, N. C. Tobias, Frank Ham¬ business. Martin O. Stirk continued in ilton, Trustees. JL'f business in the village until February, The New Millport Cornet BandJJwas or- 'j 1866, at which time he sold out to John Fox f ganized in 1888. The instruments now in Mi andreturned to Lancaster, his former home. use by the band were bought at a cost of Fox & Wise kept a general store for a short $700. The original members constitute th- J

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band now: Edward Sloppy, E flat cornet; W. L. Strunk, B flat cornet; J. 8. High, sessor, H. J. Sloppy; Judge of Election, B flat cornet; A. J. Smith, B flat cornet; Henry B. Shugarts; Inspectors, Martin Leader, R. P. Erhard, E flat clarionet; R. Patterson and William Fink. A. Erhard, B flat clarionet; David Patter¬ The future outlook of the township is in son, Solo alto; W. B. Matlack, E flat alto; common with the other townships of the Adison Hoover, tenor; C. E. Erhard, tenor; county. All depends on future legislation Harry E. Strunk, baritone; Pd ward P. by our law makers. It is a well established Erhard, bass; Alvin Erhard, bass; M, G. economic fact that “the demand for money Strunk, snare drum; Harvey Arnold, bass equals the demand for all other things.” drum; Elmer Erhard and Harry Wiley, sub¬ The demand of two-thirds of the voters in stitutes. Knox is “The free and unlimited coinage of David Smith kept the first licensed hotel. silver, at the ratio of 16 to 1,” and will look He came here from Curwensville iu 1860, forward to the year 1900 to see il accomp¬ and after keeping hotel a year or two re¬ lished^ __ __ tired from the business and bought a farm near May Hill and died there some time On the 28th of April, 1897, at ,the hour of since. David Aaron Wise succeeded Mr. midnight, a fire broke out in Philip Er¬ Smith in the hotel business, and in 1865 the hard’s store, at New Millport, and con¬ soldiers made their headquarters at his inn. sumed the entire structure, together with Frank Hamilton kept hotel in the village in the entire stock of goods in the store, and 1893. Thomas H. Ferran succeeded Mr. also the entire equipments belonging to Hamilton in 1894. David W. Cathcart suc¬ Olanta Castle, No. 405, K. G. E., which ceeded Mr. Ferran in 1895. Now, 1897, occupied the hall over the store. The store there is no licensed house kept in the place. room belonging to Peter Erhard, and occu¬ 3 v In the year 1895 Elias Strunk erected a pied by Addison Hoover as a barber shop, i large chopping mill and equiped itjwithfthe which was located immediately in the rear j latest and best machinery aud; now, it of the store, was the next to fall by the fire. J seems, the “roads all lead to his mill.” . The Cathcart House, D. W. Cathcart, pro-1 The village, (New Millport) is unincorpor¬ prietor, was located just across the street I ated; it is in union with the township and from Erhard’s store, and was the next to the same officers govern both. Some time ignite and burn to the ground together | L during the year 1890 the place of holding with a portion of the household goods. elections was removed from Turkey Hill to This was a largeand commodious structure l New Millport, where the voters now deposit and the original cost was not less than their ballots. $2,800. Quite a number of houses have been The next building seized by the fire was j built on the Ferguson township side of the the beautiful church edifice located on the! creek, which is the line between Knox and corner and owned by the M. E. congrega¬ Ferguson. The population (including those tion. To see the building reduced to ashes | belonging to the village located in Fergu- | brought tears to the eyes of many irrespec-1 son township) is about three hundred souls. tive of creed, but especially to the good old j The population of the township, including mothers who used to worship here. the village, is about twelve hundred souls. The next building to surrender to the 1 There are now 290 taxable inhabitants. I devouring element was A. Judson Smith’s , 1 The present valuation, as assessed, is two store, located on corner west from the M. 1 hundred and eighteen thousand seven hun- E. church. The next was Mr. Smith’s lr drad and eighty-eight dollars. This is only dwelling house, occupied by Wm. E. Fink. J the improved land, the unseated is not in- This building stood in close proximity to I eluded. There are at present 191 registered the store and both went to the ground to¬ Y voters in the district, the Democrats being gether. The next was a dwelling house largely in the majority. known as the Mokel property, now owned by I From the fact that it is impossible to fur- William L. Wise, The next and last build¬ p nish the dates and names of incumbents ing consumed in this disastrous fire was a y. to the various offices from organization of large stable belonging to A. J. Smith. There ■j the township, it is deemed prudent to giye were three ice houses and several coal houses consumed in addition to the build- ill on^ t^le nanie8 of those now holding office, ings named. viz: Justices of the Peace, Peter Erhard, J. A. Bloom; Constable, David W. Cath- A dwelling house now owned by A. p cart; Treasurer, L. W. Wise; Collector, Forester Bloom was damaged to some ex¬ ^ Lewis C. Robins; Supervisors, Clark Hol- tent, as was also John C. Bloom’s dwelling ^ ton and Matthew Owens; School Directors, house and Frank Hamilton’s blacksmith Joseph Patterson, President, Dr. W. |'C. shop. Nothing but heroic effort saved the Park, Secretary, Burton Owens, J. B. latter from entire destruction. David W. Cathcart had no insurance, loss $2,800. A. J. Smith, no insurance; (second coal basin. Ferguson is in the saved some goods; Ipsa $3,000. W illiam ITT > trough of this basin which extends from Wise, no Insurance; loss $400. M. E. Cambria county through Kerrmoor to the church, no insurance; loss $3,500. K. G. E., river at Lumber City: thence to Curwens- no insurance;loss$500. U. S. A. Postoffice, ville; thence to upper Bradford; thence to stamps and fixtures, loss $125. Frank the lower east end of Girard township, and Hamilton, no insurance; loss $15. A. F. about through the centre of Covington and Bfoom, no insurance; loss $20. Peter Er¬ Karthaus townships, and thence to Cam- hard, fully insured, $3,000. Philip Erhard, I eron county. Some of the veins in this insurance on building, $500. Philip Erhard, basin are being operated in this township, insurance on stock, $1,500. Philip Erhard mostly the E vein, being from 2 feet 6 over and above insurance, loss $3,500. On riches to 4 feet in thickness. all goods saved from various buildings A number of fire clay deposits are round damaged, loss $100. Loss in excess of in¬ in various parts of the township, specimens surance $13,960. Add to this loss the in- £ of which have been sent away and tested. convenience to which all the parties are The clay was pronounced by experts to be subjected and we find it to be no small of a very fine quality. These deposits have matter. The loss of no building is as much not yet been operated. iregretted as that of the M. E. church, and There are a few small quarries of excel¬ should the congregation conclude to re¬ lent sand stone in the township. build (which it is thought they will) and A few years ago an eastern syndicate present to you, readers hereof, a subscrip¬ sent some men to drill into the hill near tion paper, then I trust that you will not Marron. After drilling down several have the heart to say no. hundred feet they boxed up the core of the At this writing the losers are at sea as to drill, that is the earth cut out by the drill the future. A New Millport is wanted. in a rouad core, and shipped it away, then May God speed its coming. abandoned the operation. One of the work men secretly told a citizen that they had FERGUSON TOWNSHIP. found plenty of evidence of oil and natural BY A. Y. STRAW, OF KERRMOOR. gas. The citizen gave the secret away and The surface of Ferguson township is gen¬ by so doing created considerable excite¬ erally very hilly, being from 1300 to 1500 ment in the community, but up to this feet above the level of the ocean. The time no oil has been developed, nor natural eastern section is drained by both branches gas, especially the sort used for heating ; of Little Clearfield creek and the Susque¬ I and lighting purposes. hanna river, which forms the northern When the first settlers arrived here they boundary of the township. The western found the entire area of Ferguson township section is drained by Snyder Run and Wil¬ covered with vast forests of pine, oak, hem¬ son Run. The surface rises from these lock and other wood. Strange to say, streams mostly into gently sloping ridges, however, these early settlers seemed to among which are located some of the best ; think the forest of little value. Clearing equipped and most highly cultivated farms up a farm seemed to be the only motive in the county. From the Susquehanna and and they at once began to fell the great some points along the other streams the forests and burn up the trees in “log heaps,” surface rises very abruptly, being too or deaden the pine trees by chopping a ring steep for agricultural purposes. around the tree a few feet above the From the summit of the highest ridges ground. The stately pine and mammoth some splendid and picturesque views can oak shared the same fate as did the trees be had of the surrounding country. From of lesser value. But in a few years a the farms of John Moore and Emery E. '■ market was opened up for this forest pro¬ Owens can be had a magnificent view of duct and millions of feet of square timber the winding Susquehanna and its rich and have been sent down the Susquehanna to beautiful valley from the borough of Lum¬ the eastern markets. Many millions of feet ber City to the borough of Clearfield. From have been manufactured in the township. these points an observer with a telescope There are but a few tracts remaining and an see persons walking on the streets of in a few years the once beautiful foiests of Clearfield. Good views can also be had Ferguson will be a matter of the past. from the farms of David Watts and John | The first settlers also found the forests to T. Straw. abound in numerous wild game, such as The outline of the township is very deer, wolves, wildcats, and occasionally irregular, averaging about 2% miles in panthers and bear. It was a common thing width and 10 miles in length and containing, for them to go out in the morning andbring therefore, about 16,000 acres, or 35 square home a fine buck or doe before night, while miles. the wolves of the forest made night hideous In its geological features Ferguson town¬ by howling around the shanties of the set ship is crossed by what is known as the *ers. breaking down the' These settlers algo found numerous signs as if they were but slender saplings. The and land marks (of the aboriginees, the storm seemed to rise and then descend Indians. While a| few Indians were still in striking the country at the Fruit Hill church’ some sections of the country they did not mowing down several hundred acres of molest the settlers nor cause them any forest. It next struck the earth near Glen annoyance. Indiah graves have been found Hope and mowed a path through the for¬ in different sections of the township. One est and blowing down houses, barns and of these was opened a few years ago on the fences for a distance of 5 miles or more, farm of W. G. McCracken. A partly pre - destroying whole cro^s of grain which was served skeleton and numerous Indian then in shock. About Hagerty’s X Roads trinkets were found therein. An Indian the damage to crops and buildings was the fort or camping ground was at one time greatest. Frederick Shoff’s barn and fences located on the farm owned by the late were blown entirely away, together with Grier Bell. We have it traditionally that •his crops. This would seem to explode the when the first settlers came to the towhship theory that Clearfiel<| county is too hilly near Chest Creek, there were a few Indians for cyclones to do any damage. remaining in the Wilson Run country and would exchange silver and lead with the In 1849 John Ferguson, Sr., built a saw settlers for other merchandise. These mill on the north branch of the creek one minerals were found somewhere along the mile above the forks jof the two branches Wilson Run valley. They gave the secret and in 1853 Thomas Davis and his sons built a saw mill on the south branch, one mile of the location to but one white man named above the forks. Thomas Wilson, in whose honor the run was named. Wilson died, however, and In 1865 Silas Solly built a saw mill about never revealed the secret to anyone. Al¬ two miles above Xewburg, on Wilson Run. though these settlers carefully watched the The "mTHs above enumerated were all movement of these Indians and repeatedly water power, sash saw mills and manufac¬ searched for the minerals they were unable tured lumber very slowly, but were of to locate the place, and it still remains a sufficient capacity to supply the early set mystery. tlements with building material. In its industrial developments Ferguson The chief industries of the township up township has kept pace with the neighbor¬ to 1880 were agricultural pursuits, and ing townships. making, rafting and hauling the products In 18— Mr, Thomas Owens built a saw of the forest. mill on the right bank of the Susquehanna In 1856 Martin Watts, a prominent citizen about two miles above Lumber City at a of the township and owner of several hun¬ point known as Spencer’s old dam. Spencer dred acres of valuable timber lands, built had a grist mill on the opposite side of the the first steam saw mill in the township. river. In 1881-2 he built a large steam saw mill In 1848 James Ferguson, Sr., and James where the Lumber City pike crosses the Wiley built a saw mill and a large “splash north branch of Little Clearfield Creek. dam” about one-half mile below where He added to it a shingle mill, planing mill, Kerrmoor now stands. This splash dam lath mill and cider mill. His sons, under was built for the purpose of raising arti¬ the firm name of J. P. & S. C. Watts at¬ ficial floods to float rafts of square timber tached their machinery for manufacturing out of the Little Clearfield Creek into the apiary supplies. They did an extensive! larger Clearfield Creek. This venture did business and built several houses. Through not prove profitable, however, as they soon their efforts a postoffice was established at discovered that the stream was too small that point in 1883 and named Murray, in and water sufficient to float the timber out honor of Thomas Murray, Esq., a leading could not be raised. attorney of Clearfield, and S. C. Watts ap¬ About the 20th of July, 1849, one of the pointed postmaster. most severe and destructive storms in the R. H. Moore was appointed postmaster history of the county occurred. From in 1886, during Cleveland’s first adminis¬ wbat some of the persons who were then tration, and moved the office to Kerrmoor living tell us, it was somewhat of a stormy at his store, near the railroad station, and day. Many small ^ind storms occurring the name of the office changed to Kerrmoor. in different parts of the county doing more J. C. Ferguson served as postmaster during or less damage to crops, buildings and Harrison’s administration and kept the fences. When about 2 p. m., the elements office in the hardware store of Ferguson seemed to gather near where Kerrmoornow Bros. W. B. Sterling was appointed post¬ stands, forming a genuine western cyclone. master during Cleveland’s second term and The cyclone struck the forest at Kerrmoor served until April, 1897, when he resigned. and tore down moreI fjhan 100 acres of forest, Isaac Wolf was then appointed and at once / . •** --A- - j moved the office about one half mlffi below town, near where the saw mill of R. W Moore Bros. & Co. sold out their mer¬ j Moore & Co. stands. He afterwards moved chandise business to F. P. Stevens & Bro., , it to a new building which he had erected who still occupy their old building and for that purpose, near the Mountain House enjoy a good trade. and opposite the Beech Creek depot. The first inhabitant of the town was Ross Martin Watts afterwards sold his lumber McCracken, who lived here many years all interests to his sons, who operated under alone in a shanty. He looked after the the firm name of Watts Bros. They built a fields belonging to the Moores and followed tram road about three mills in length shoe making. Hisshanty was a place where through their timber tracts and afterwards the farmers of the community would gather sold their timber to the Clearfield Lumber in stormy weather and in the evenings to Co., and then leased them their mill and discuss the events of the day. It finally tram roads. The Clearfield Lumber Co. became a veritable Tammany j wigwam. operated the mill until it burned down in Nearly all the party caucuses were held 1889. here previous to the primaries and general kerrmoor. elections. The Beech Creek Railroad was completed The town contains one hotel, the Moun¬ from Jersey Shore to Gazzam in 1884. At tain House, which enjoys a good trade this time Hon. James Kerr, ex Prothonotary under the management of the proprietor of the county, and R. H. and Milton Moore Thomas H. Goon. purchased a piece of land from Joseph and The town now numbers about 200 in¬ William Moore at the forks of Little Clear¬ habitants. field Creek and laid it out in town lots In 1892-3 the Clearfield Lumber Co. originated the town of Kerrmoor, and erected a large steam taw mill near the old I named it in honor of the originators. The Solly mill, on Wilson Run. This is one of first house was built the same year by the best mills in the county, being equipped Daniel Korb, and was followed by a board¬ wvith all modern appliances and machinery, 1 ing house and store roPm by Moore Bros. & including a gang. They manufacture all | j o. he town had a phenomanal growth kinds of lumber. Their logs are brought to ! for three or four years. the mill on trucks, hauled by an engine over The Clearfield Lumber Co. Lt’d., secured a tram road, under the management of a site for a lumber operation where the old Cameron, an efficient engineer. They Ferguson & Wiley saw mill was built, and employ 50 men on the mill and in the yards proceeded in 1884 to build a large steam and about 100 men in the woods. These saw milL Here they manufactured several works are under the efficient management million feet of lumber. This in connection of Geo. H. Townsend, Superintendent. with the woods work in getting the logs to the mill employed a large number ofjfmen ship is a erist mill situated on the site of until 1895, when the mill burned down. Watts’ mill, and owned by the Watts Mill- inPrt Tt,•_ .i n-:— _ * The following year R. W. Moore & Co. ing Co. This is the first and only grist mill I built a mill of smaller capacity on the site in the township, and was built in 1891. The of the old mill. They are engaged in saw- mill does a thriving business and has a good i lng lumber fcr the Clearfield Lumber Co reputatmn under the careful management | and employ about 16 men during the sum- of S. C. Schrub. % imer months. The Clearfield Bituminous Coal Co have m Ferguson Bros, built a store room in 1885 r an operation in the township known as S' and have since conducted a successful hard¬ Gazzam, No. 4, and employ, when in oper- Rt ware business, and now own a large build¬ ation, about 60 men. ?io ti ing well stocked with hardware and eniov Jno. W. Young and Alexander Ferguson ? r a good trade. J y Job besides carrying on their farming opera¬ de In 1886 the writer built a large store tions have excellent coal mines opened la room and hall and engaged in the general which supply the local trade. m merchandise business, and in 1887, with Agriculture is the leading industry of the 184- Jos. N. Straw and Murray Ferguson built a township, most all the land in the townsnip steam saw mill about two miles south of emg weB suited for agricultural purposes. Kerrmoor. The mill was burned down The farms of Ferguson township have JUl twice during the first year and rebuilt. always been considered among the most Several million feet of lumber was manu- fertile in the county, and the farms which factured on this mill and afterward sold to have been properly cultivated are verv iSQo ’ „agan’ who has operated it since productive. 3 He emPloys about ten men and runs Among some of the best farms in the t ffie operation during the entire year. Miss township are the following: The farms of . . Straw now occupies the store build¬ Prof. A. J. Smith, known as the Winnimore ing with a dry goods and millinery store farms. Mr. Smith has several hundred f acres of land under good cultivation, i plied to Marron and originated from the ,ich he farrhs extensively. He maxes a fact that some of the visitors to this place specialty of raising improved live stock. about 25 years ago were blamed with feed¬ On his farms :an be seen the finest cattle ing sumptuously on fresh mutton taken and hogs in the county._He has_taken from the flocks of the farmers here. Marron several prizes “at county"fairs. He has been has always been a central point for social the means of improving the stock of the gatherings. The town now contains two . entire community. churches. Wm. M. Barrett is the present The Watts ;'arms also consist of several Postmaster, a position he has held for 20 hundred acres and are under good cultiva¬ tion and modernly improved. They are years. SCHOOLS. under the management of John P. and The first school house was built in Fer¬ David Watts, who give particular attention guson township in 1838, on the farm now to fruit culture, the raising of early vege¬ owned by Robert G. McCracken, Jr., at tables and dairy products. They introduced that time owned by Nicholas McCracken, the cultivation of cabbage for the early and was called “Blackberry Thicket." markets. They nave made a success of The first teacher was Mr. McCulley. this, so much softhat many of the neighbor¬ The second house was built in 1843, on ing farmers also found it profitable to the farm of John Ferguson and the first follow their exalnple. They can be justly school taught by Miss Harriet Hoyt, termed the idealImodern farmers. Among others who made farming profit¬ daughter of the late J. P. Hoyt. able and own fine productive farms are the The third house was built in 1845, on the Thomas Norris heirs, Lewis and Alfred farm now owned by C. J. S'noff, near McCracken, John Moore, Henry and Emery Marron, and the first teacher was Mr. - \ Owens, D. R. Reed, Harrison Straw, John Christy These houses were built of round N. and Lewis B. Hile, Christian Straw, logs and roughly finished. The furniture Mrs. Hester A. Moore, E. I. Straw, John consisted of wooden pins placed in the walls W. Young, C. J. Shoff, Jno. T. Straw and on which rested slabs split out of trees. Lynn Patterson. There are also many These slabs extended the full length of each other farms not so extensively cultivated side of the room and served the purpose of as the ones mentioned but are under good a writiDg desk. The seats consisted of the cultivation. Space will not permit a more same material as the desks .and were ar¬ detailed account. ranged opposite them. Here the pupils sat The only farm along the Susquehanna facing the rude desk along the wall with river is a fine large farm owned and culti¬ their backs toward the centre of the room. vated by Cortes Bell, son of the late Grier This arrangement was convenient for the Bell and father of ex-District Attorney teacher if not for the pupils. The punish¬ Singleton Bell. ment inflicted at that time was invariably MAERON. with the rod some 8 or 10 feet in length. Marron is a small postoffice village situ The teacher with one stroke of the rod ated in the centre of a good farming com¬ could reach across the backs of some half munity, and also about the centre of the dozen pupils at one time. Thus the inno township. The place has undergone many cent as well as the guilty were often pun¬ changes in name. It was first called Crow- ished. town in honor of a family named Crow, The schools were maintained by subscrip who lived here in 1835. This soon came to ion until the present school laws became be a central point for gatherings and sing¬ merative. The present system was bitterly ing schools. It was at these gatherings that rnposed by many of the inhabitants and it the young men from a large territory em vas some years before the system proved bracing Jordan, Ferguson and Chest town¬ beneficial, but the friends of the system ships would meet. Here the feuds or dif¬ inally succeeded in organizing the schools ferences between any of the young men ander the system. Since 1860 the schools were settled. Some of these differences have gradually improved with the growth became sectional and many hard fights and of population until they now consist of 9 even riots were the result. Many of these schools, kept open for six months in the occurred during the Mexican war, and the year. The houses are all in good condition place was therefore called Mexico. and of modern architecture. A postoffice was established here in 1S53, A summer normal school is held regularly named Marron, in honor of the Postmaster each season in Kerrmoor. The school is General, and located on the farm now well managed and has proven very success¬ owned by Mrs. Esther Moore. A man by ful Prof.W.E. Tobias has been Princi¬ the name of Young, of Greenwood, was pal for several terms. He is assisted this appointed Postmaster and the office named summer by Rev. John W. McCracken, and Marron. Lattimer Way, of Curwensville, *hese gentlemen can justly feel proud over carried the first mail from Curwensville to — Tarron. The term Muttontown often ap¬

> their success. The management of this school is under the following board of was going on, by a lighted lamp falling u Directors: J. S. Motlreery, G. M. Rosser, the floor from the ceiling. The lamp was W. C. Park, H. F. Ferguson, E. D. Shaffer, broken by the fall and the oil became Harrison Straw, Blair Stevens, Alex. ignited, causing the whole election bouse to Ferguson, J. H. DeHaas, C. S. Schrubb, become ablaze. The officers rushed out, W. W, Bell, A. W. Moore. The present taking the election papers and ballots with members of the township school board are: them. There being a goodly number of President, Geo. M. Rosser, Secretary, Jos. citizens present at the time and by prompt Wiley, A. J. Barrett, Lynn Patterson, Geo. action on their part the fire was extinguish¬ H. Townsend, C. S. Schrubb. ed and a conflagration averted. formation. FIRST SETTLEMENT. Ferguson township was laid out on a The first settlement within the present petition of residents of Pike, Penn and limits of the township was made by Robert ~ordan tLynsh’rs. Thereport_ of the McKee, about 1806, on the farm of W. H. uewers, John Irvin, David Ferguson and Smith estate. Some time after settling avid Cathcart, was confirmed by the here McKee made a wood chopping, a Court February 7, 1839, and township common thing at that time. These frolics, named Ferguson, in honor of John Fergu¬ as they were commonly called, served two son, an early settler and respected citizen. purposes. The maker of the frolic had a The territory was taken from the town¬ winter’s supply of wood chopped up ready ships of Pike, Penn and Jordan and for the stoves, and it served as a sort of a originally contained a much larger area social gathering when the inhabitants of t;he than at present. In 1854 Ferguson township scattered settlements would meet and contributed considerable territory to the spend an enjoyable day together and be¬ formation of Knox township, and in 1875 come acquainted with the new arrivals in to the formation of Greenwood township. the community. Those frolics were always In 1887, for the purpose of straightening accompanied with the “Demi John” which the lines between Ferguson and Jordan contributed largely to the liveliness of the townships and for better arranging school occasion. Among the numerous persons districts, a portion was annexed to Jordan, who attended this gathering were James including the village of Gazzam. In 18— Rea and J ames Hagerty with their families. some territory was annexed to Ferguson In the evening all returned home except from Chest for better arranging the schools Hagerty, who lingered behind. He did not of both townships. return to his home that night. The next U The first officers of the township were morning James Rea fearing that something appointed by the Court in February, 1839, had happened his neighbor went in search and were as follows- Constable, David of him. He found him some distance Ferguson; Supervisors, Henry Hiles, Geo. below McKee’s shanty, in the woods, dead. Tubbs; School Directors, Arthur Bell, Jason The surroundings indicated that he had Kirk, Wm. McCracken, James Ferguson, been murdered, but if murdered it was James Sharp and Thomas McCracken; never proven by whom. McKee soon left, Overseers, Wm. Ferguson and Wm. Read. having made but little improvement and ! The first officers were elected at the what became of him cannot be learned. spring election of 1840, and were as follows: THE SALEM EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH. Justices, David Ferguson, John Morris; | Phis church is situated in the eastern Constables, J. McCracken and Joseph part of Ferguson township and is the Henry; Supervisors, John Henry and Geo. oldest Lutheran organization in the county Tubbs; School Directors, Jos. Wiley, and was the first church organized in the. Isaiah Green, Thos. Henry, G. B. Me present limits of Ferguson township. The Cracken, John Ferguson; Auditors, John first service# were held near the present Norris, Azabel Swan, Thos. Davis; Over¬ location in 1834, and were conducted by seers, David Ferguson, Edmund Williams; Philip Gulich, a lay elder, who lived about Appraisers, John Hockenbury, Geo. Tubbs; one mile above Clearfield town. He was Clerk, Wm. McCracken. called the father of Lutheranism in Clear The first election was held at the house of field county. The German element settling Thomas Davis, where John N. Hile now in this community were mostly of the lives. The elections were held here until Lutheran faith, and the early services were 1S58, when the election house was moved held in private houses, and Mr. Gulich read to what is known as “Broadway,” where sermons in German and exhorted in English. George Straw now resides. In 1886 the At the same time Rev. 0. F. Heyer oc¬ election house was moved to Kerrmoor, casionally preached in this locality. In where the elections have since been held. 1837 Mr. Gulich secured from the West i At the election held in November, 1884, a Pennsylvania Synod the appointment of* i occurred during the time the balloting Rev. Peter Sahm, the father of the present j —Ml ' astor, M. O. T. Sahm, and Rev. A. Babb,' A move was made to build a new church as missionaries to Clearfield county and in 1894 by the enterprising minister and counties further west. They held occasion¬ congregation. This proved to be a move al services from 1837 to 1839 in the first in the right direction, as the corner stone house in New Millport, built by David was laid September 29, 1894, and dedicated j Erhard. Rev. John Wilcox, a Scotchman, October 25, 1896. This building is located was the first pastor of a regularly organized on high ground aDd stands a thing of beauty | congregation. He came to the county in before the whole neighborhood. It is built I the year 1840 and organized the church in of brick, gothic in style, finished in quar¬ 1841 with the following members: Christian tered oak, with memorial windows of Straw, John High and wife, Sarah, Chris¬ stained glass. The church room proper is tian Erhard and wife, Jane, Abraham High, 40x44 feet, and the Sunday school room George Erhard and wife, Susanna, Eliza¬ 36x52 feet, giving a room for special occa¬ beth High, Mary High and Rebecca High . sions of about 90x48 feet and accommodat- Rev. Wilcox held the first communion , ing a large congregation. The church cost service in the barn on the same farm where $6,700 and is the finest structure in the the organization took place. township and among the finest in the Rev. Wilcox was succeeded in 1843 by county. The present Council is: Elders, Rev. J. G. Dunmire, during whose pastor¬ Lewis Erhard and Samuel Tobias; Deacons, ate the first church building was erected Robert P. Erhard and J. Sylvester High; 2 and completed in 1843, located on the Cur- Trustees, D. A. Wise, A. M. Bloom and / | wensville road, on the hill opposite where Alvin Erhard. New Miliport now stands, and on the lot The Lutheran Sunday school was organ now occupied by the parsonage. This ized about 1877 as a Lutheran school. structure was small, humble and plain, its Previous to this time it had been called a size being 30x23 feet. Here the fathers Union school. The school numbers about and mothers of this present generation 150 members and contributed $205 toward worshiped for 10 years. The building was the erection of the new church. The present j aftsrw-'ir'1 used as_a school house, _ officers are: Superinrendent, Enos Tobias, The third pastor was Rev. A. J. Nuner, Secretary, Wm. Matlack. the fourth Rev. P. P. Lane, the fifth Rev. There is also in connection with the Christian Diehl. During his pastorate the church a society of Y. P. S. C. E., number¬ second church was built in the year 1853, ing 75 members. They contributed $400 and is still standing, being purchased a toward the erection of the new church. short time ago by Samuel Tobias and at The present officers are: President, Robert present is used by the Methodist congrega¬ P. Erhard; Secretary, Emma Tobias. tion, who lost their church by the recent The Ladies’ Aid Society, consisting of 12 fire in New Millport. members, contributed $600 toward the In 1853 the congregation had grown to erection of the new church. 65 communicants and the church built was MARRON BAPTIST CHURCH. 35x50 feet. The following were pastors During the summer of 1884 the members from 1853 to 1869: Revs. Wm. Rex, A. of Zion Baptist church concluded to build a Steine, J, R. Pocht, J. H. Bratton, A. R. house of worship at Marron for the con- j Height, J. R. Williams and Abel Thompson. venience of members living in that section, j It was under Rev. Abel Thompson’s super¬ Consequently John T. Straw, E. I. Straw, j vision that the parsonage opposite the Isaac Straw, C. J. Shod and George fl cemetery and near the church was built at Williams were appointed as a building a cost of $1300. He was followed in order committee and at once commenced the * by Revs. Wm. Friday, P. B. Shirk and A. work. It was completed the same year at J. Bean. a cost of $2,300, and dedicated Nov. 9, 1884, In 1882 New Millport, Clearfield and by the pastor, Rev. Samuel Miles, assisted Bloomington were formed into a charge, by Rev. Forgeus, of Bellwood. The build¬ j In May, 1885, Clearfield was made a sep¬ ing is of modern architecture and is a arate charge. In October, 1885, Rev. Geo. credit to the denomination. The present W. Crist took charge of the congregation j bhurch Council is: Deacons, John W. i consisting of two appointments. During ! Leonard, H. A. Owens, Geo. W. Michaels, ! his stay as pastor he organized the congre¬ John S. Williams and John W. Bell; gations and built the churches at Marron, Trustees, John W. Leonard, Harvey A. Mahaffey and Olanta. He was followed by Owens, Wm. M. Barrett, John W. Young, j 15 Revs. J. P. Schnure, H. C. Salem and the Enoch I. Straw and John W. Bell; Treas., i present pastor, Rev. M. O. T. Sahm, who JohnT. Straw; Clerk, H. A. Owens. The took charge of the pastorate in the spring membership of the church is 336 communi¬ of 1893. During his pastorate the church cants. Besides regular services at Marron has grown from 65 to 135 communicants, occasional services are held in the hall at and from the rapid growth of the member¬ Kerrmoor. ship it was necessary to build a new church. I tl,Tb?i“arr0n Sabbath school is probably the oldest in the township and was organ¬ 'officers: Master, John P. Watts; Secretary, ized in the first school bouse in the com- lUO UULLI— Mrs. Emeline Straw; Treasurer, W. P. i munity,, prior- to 1840,—’ —~and was ina Li upentuonoperation nurino- tlio _... .. Johnson. The present officers are: Master . dunng the summer months in tho school Harrison Straw; Secretary, Mrs. Emeliae houses afterwards erected, until 1884, when (Straw; Treasurer, W. P. Johnson. l11 was held in the Baptist church. This was THE BARRETTS. al ways a union school, all denominations Andrew Barrett, Sr., the subject of this taking part until 1885, when the school was sketch, was born in London, England in divided, and a Baptist and a Lutheran 1793, of English-German parentage. They, school were established. The Baptist soon after his birth, came to this country' school now numbers about 100 members settling in Chester county, Pa. He married The officers of the school are: Superintend¬ Sarah Wood, of Welsh-English parentage, j ent, John Tubbs; Treasurer, Orange Soon after marriage he was injured, the Thurstin, Jr.; Secretary, Miss Daisy Moore- result of which was white swelling, which Organist, Miss Zetta Straw, caused him to be a cripple during life. He j The Kerrmoor Baptist Sabbath school taught school for 14 years, but was a weaver was organized in April, 1896, by Rev. N. O. by trade. Patterson. The school numbers 40. The He came to Mt. Pleasant, Cambria present officers are: Superintendent, Rev. county, in 1838, and in 1840 came to Clear¬ John W. McCracken; Secretary, David field county. Soon after coming to the DeHaas, assisted by Mrs. A. Y Straw • county he and his sons commenced clearing Treasurer, Miss May Belle; Organist, Miss up a farm and erecting buildings for a Kate Moore. home. He not being able to work much j kerrmoor pkesbtterian congregation. took up the weaving business and for many j The Kerrmoor Presbyterian congregation years wove the flax into cloth for clothing ■ was organized October 27, 1887, by a com- and wool into blankets. The first flag’ j mittee appointed by Presbytery, consisting probably, raised in the township was due of Rev. E. P. Foresman and Elder Robert to his activeness in the Abraham Lincoln M. Johnson. The committee received 18 campaign of 1860, when in commemoration i I members by certificate. This membership of that event a large flag was swung to the i was largely made up from former U. P breeze on Alcano’s pinnacle. I members and from members of the Fruit A noted event took place at Andrew j Sill Presbyterian church. John S. Mc- Barrett’s in 1858 at the instance of the I Creery and John C. Ferguson were duly marriage of his daughter Catherine to elected and installed ruling Elders, which Charley McMasters. When it was known j position they yet hold. The membership that the wedding was to take place the now numbers sixty souls. The only church word was sent out for a serenade. A place property in Kerrmoor is owned by this of meeting was arranged and at the ap¬ organization and was built in 1888, and pointed hour some 200 or more of the young dedicated in November of the same year. gallants of Jordan, Knox, Ferguson ar 1 The value of the church property is ®2,500. Chest townships gathered at “the Edmuna The present pastor is Rev. R. G. Williams, Wilhams place.’’ Here, under the gallant who has held regular service since April, leadership of the invincible “Hen Davis ” 1894. Services are also regularly held in' they were arranged in line of march by the church by Rev. Cadle, of the Lumber twos, each person armed with anything City M. E. circuit. The present officers of from a dinner horn or cow bell to an old f S' J the church, in addition to the Elders, are army musket. This brave little band 'll I the Trustees, H. F. Ferguson, Charles S. |marched to the scene of action when sere - io n Schrubb and J. H. DeHaas, Jr. nading began at the first command from j In conjunction with the church work is a the captain. For a full half hour the most Y. P. S. C. E. with a membership of forty, hideous noise was kept up, when the de¬ I which meets regularly on each Sabbath mand for the appearance of the contracting A l evening. The present officers are: Presi¬ 18/ dent, Miss Maggie Moore; Secretary, Miss tornu pute tinmWaSmade an appearance.- They’ h°TheWeVer serenading’ dec,ined /A la 0wens> and Treasurer, Miss Annie pgam began and the command was given Sterling. The County C. E. Convention to close up. “Then closer, closer, louder will meet here on Nov. 26, 1897. than before, came the serenader’s deafen- kerrmoor grange. kngroar,’’ Now the irresistible defender 4. Kerrmoor Grange, No.1146, P. of H., was (Andrew Brown and other parties who up I organized March 28, 1896, and at present .to this time had been concealed in the numbers 28 members. The membership is house behind barred doors, rushed out and very active and is composed of the most made an attack upon the gallant 200. From successful farmers of the community. At this time on the scene was of a decidedlv the organization the following were the lively character. Stones, clubs and otbe, (weapons were used promiscously. Man; if |. :

_ e the sore heads carried home from this Conrad Barrett, third son serenade. Little damage, however, was married Elizabeth Hockenberry; he next done to the property with the exceptions married Catherine Rager; he next married of breaking a few window glass and a pair Sarah, daughter of Miles Barrett. He has of shafts out of Andrew Brown’s (Barrett) no children, but has a nice gun and dog. brand new buggy. He served in the rebellion and is one of The participants sent a representative to Uncle Sam’s pensioners, haying received Mr. Barrett next day with instructions to several wounds while in the army. pay any damage done, but their proposition Andrew W. Barrett, fourth son of Hiram, was refused. Warrants were issued for married Martha Ann, daughter of Albert the arrest of a number of them and placed Thurstin; they have no family. in the hands of J. L. Hurd, who went in Calvin P. Barrett married Mary, daughter search of the parties. He returned, how¬ of Hiram Passmore, Calvin is a prominent ever, to Andrew Brown, saying: “Lawd farmer and resides on his farm in Green¬ Harry, Brown, I can’t catch those fellows: wood township. His family consists of when I go in one door they go out the four sons and three daughters. John otha.” The case came before the Court married Barbara Witheright He is the and was made up for something over $300. only one married. This occurrence is mentioned here as it Samuel Barrett, youngest son of Hiram, was probably the most exciting event that' is unmarried and lives on the homestead, ever occurred in this end of the county of which he is owner. . and resulted in such bitter feelings. There Sarah E. Barrett married Joshua Henry, are many of the participants yet living and of Ferguson township, and now resides in the feelings created at that time still sticks Patton. to them. Mary Barrett married John Klinger. Andrew Barrett’s family consisted of They reside in Ansonville. Mr. Klinger is Hiram, born 1810; John, 1812: Luther, 1814; a well known blacksmith, at which trade Rachael, 1817; George Washington, 1819; he has worked for many years. He served Priscilla, 1821; Miles, 1828; Philio, 1826; in the rebellion and was wounded in the Alcano, 1828; Catherine, 1830; Ethelinda, battle of Glendale, Va., June 30, 1862. Of 1832; Andrew Brown, 1834; Sarah, 1836, this union there are living Augustus, Ashley, and Terza, 1838. Carrie, Mardie, Hattie, Wilson, Milton and Andrew Barrett died in 1865, aged 72 Martha J. Carrie is the only one married. years. She married Robert Arrow, the famous Hiram Barrett married Susanna Myers, baseball player. They have one daughter. of Columbia county, and located in 1849 Martha married Harrison Hurd, of La- near the Zion Baptist cemetery, in Jordan Jose. township and cleared a farm, where he Adelia Barrett married Alfred McCully, lived until his death in 1892, aged 82 years. of Chest township. Hiram’s family consisted of W. M., Julius, Priscilla Barrett married John T. Straw, Conrad, Andrew W., Samuel, Calvin, of Marron. Sarah, Mary, Martha, Adelia, Priscilla and Ellen Barrett married Ellis B. McCracken. Ellen. John Barrett, the second son of Andrew W. W. Barrett is the present postmaster Barrett, married Mary Fetzer and moved at Marron, which position he has filled for to Blair county where he is now living, i.2 years. He was married in 1861 to Sarah aged 85 years. *Ames. Of this union are living Margaret, Luther Barrett, third son of Andrew, Lucinda and Martha J. Margaret Barrett married Margaret Rankins, of Centre first married Easton Lewis, of Jordan county, and cleared up a farm in Ferguson township. Of this union there is living one township. Besides clearing out his farm ’ daughter, Bertha. Margaret next married he was an active lumberman for many Emanuel Harley, of Curwensville; of this years. He died in 1879, aged 65 years. union there are living two sons. Luther Barrett’s family consisted of Lucinda Barrett married William Lewis, Andrew T., Miles, Mary E., George and son of Charley Lewis, of Ferguson town¬ Edmund. A. T. married Margaret, daughter I ship. They reside in Jordan township. Of of Wilson Wood, and resides on his farm ’■•his union there are living two sons and one in this township. His family consists of p —ughter. Harry, Edmund, Annie, Kate, George, • Martha J. Barrett married Walter E. David and Mert. Harry married a Miss Green, of Glen Hope. They now reside in Pennington, Edmund married a Miss West Virginia. Of this union there are liv- Wagoner, Annie married John Patterson, I ing two sons and one daughter, Kate married Oliver Scott. Julius, second son of Hiram Barrett, Miles Barrett never married; he is now I served in the rebellion and died shortly dead. after returning home. Mary E. Barrett married JohnT. Straw. yW '•“> £'i*■HHP George and Edmund Barrett live on the Jr. Alice Barrett married A. L. Wiley. homestead, of which they are the owners. They are both dead. Of this union there George married Annie Pennington, daugh¬ is living one son, Erford, who married a ter of Robert Pennington, Jr. Edmund Miss Woomer, of Blair county, and resides first married Nancy Pennington. Of this in Greenwood township. Lewis Barrett union there are living Court, Luther and died when young. Simon. He next marriedTeressa Bloom; A. J. Barrett now resides in Marron and of this union there are living two sons. if quite prominent in public affairs. He Rachael Barrett married Thomos Ran¬ married Sarah Summers. Of this union kins. They resided in Allegheny for a there are living Loda, Peter, Edna, Harry number of years, where Mr. Rankins died. and A. J., Jr. Rachael, and one son with a family of four Isaiah Barrett married Blanche Solly children, moved to Johnstown previous Ito and lives on his farm in Greenwood town¬ the flood. They were all drowned in that ship. His family are Frank, Everett, great disaster. Christopher and Bayford. Alcano Barrett, Sr„ married Susan George Washington Barrett married Solly and resides on the homestead, of Julian Bowers, of Blair county. She died which he is the owner. His family consists in 1892, aged 67 years. G. W. is still living, of Emma, John, George and Sadie. Emma aged 78 years. He came to the county married James Redden. They live in with his father and assisted in clearing up Greenwood township. John married Alice the homestead. He cleared and improved Pennington and resides in Ferguson town¬ the place where he now resides with his ship. George married Martha Woods and son, Alcano, Jr. His family consists of resides in Ferguson township. Ann Elizabeth, Alcano, Jr., Phoebe, Tab- Ethelinda Barrett married George Nev- itha, William C., and Dianisha. Ann Elizabeth married Ezra W. Mays. They ling. They are both dead. Of this union live in Ansonville and their family con¬ there are living F. S. Nevling, M. D., of Clearfield; St. Helena, who married Dr. sists of Alcano Barrett, Jr., married Sarah : Pennington, daughter of Simon Penning¬ Cresswell, who for a number of years was a ton, an early settler of the township. He practising physician in Ansonville and I has always been a woodsman. His family Irvona. They now reside in Denver, Col. Arilla Nevling njarried Wm. Dotts, son of (consists of i sons and 5 daughters. Of these only one is married, Minnie, who married Philip Dotts, of Beccaria township, ex- Edward Rainey, son of Joseph Rainey. County Treasurer, and reside in Beccaria Phoebe Barrett married Wallace Stevens township. George Nevling lives in West and resides in Greenwood township. Of Virginia. I this union there are living 5 sons and 5 Sarah Barrett married John I. Westover. , daughters. Jennie married Wm. Meckley, She is now dead. Of this union there are liv¬ of Mahaffey, Annie married Edward Lee. ing William, Millard and Fillmore. William I Tabitha married Edward Curry. They married a Miss Woodford and resides in reside in Jordan township. Of this union Williamsport. Millard married Miss there are living 5 boys and 2 girls. Wm. Woodford and resides in Coalport. C. married Jane Baker, daughter of Terzah Catherine Barrett married Charley Mc- I Baker. They reside on their farm in the Masters and moved to Iowa. Terza mar¬ I township near LaJose. Eliza married ried John Mason. They also moved to Amos Bonsall, a prominent farmer of Iowa. .*£ Lumber City. Of this union there are Andrew Brown Barrett married Adelia m living 3 sons and 3 daughters. Dianisha MacDonald. He lived for a number of s- married Oliver Strunk, son ofE. B. Strunk, years in Ferguson township, but at present Rt ! of New Millport. They reside iD Curwens- resides in Newburg. His family consists of rio tl ville. Of this union there are living two Mary, William, Andrew, Ellsworth, Fran¬ r , sons. cis. Mary married Simon Pennington, Jr., oh dp Priscilla Barrett married John Holt, of and has three children. William married a 'a Centre county. Of this union there lives Miss Snyder, daughter of Jacob Snyder. tn one sob, Andrew, who resides in Elkcounty. Francis married Ross Beck and resides in 84; Miles Barrett married Elizabeth Mulhol- LaJose.

land, and resides in Blair county. WATTS. . i Philio Barrett married Sarah MacDonald, Martin Watts came to the township in ■ut of Grampian. He died in 1872, aged 36 1847 and purchased several hundred acres, years. His family consisted of Priscilla, of land and cleared up the farm where b« Lewis, Alice, A. J. and Isaiah M^ Priscilla now resides. He is a native of Lancaster married Mark Witheright, but lived a short ; county and of German descent. He mar¬ time. Of this union there is living one ried Elizabeth, daughter of the late John P. daughter, Ida, who married John Redden, Hoyt, on the 18th day of January, 1854. His family consists of Callie, Emma, S. C., W2 .fin P., David 37, Martin, "jr., Mary, Hattie and Ralph. Callie married F. P. county in 1819 and came to Clearfield Stevens and lives on a farm adjoining county in 1838. He is a son of George Wil¬ David Watts. They have two children, liams, of Milesburg, Centre county. He Emma, married to J. S. McCreery, Esq., a made his home with John Miles until 1842, prominent and respected citizen of Kerr- when he married Eliza M. Butler, of Miles¬ moor and Jnstice of the Peace. Samuel C. burg, Centre county, and purchased 100 and John P. are single. S. C. is one of the acres of land from John Miles and cleared leading promoters of the Prohibition cause and improved it. He, with James Glenn in Clearfield county, and ^editor of the and Robert and George McCracken, pur¬ Monitor. John P. is a practical farmer. chased a large tract of land in 1852 and David H. married Frarkie, daughter of erected a sash saw mill near where A. J. Wm. P. Johnson, and owns a fine Ifarm Smith now resides. He added to his land adjoining his father. His family consists until he became owner of 306 acres. In of 3 children. Martin, Jr., married Miss 1853 he entered into partnership with W. Hope Schenck, of Ohio. He has followed ,H. Smith and engaged in the general ! the ministry for a number of years. He merchandise business. From losses sus¬ was located for 10 years in Tennessee, three tained in this business he became heavily years of this time on the historic battlefield involved, which finally caused the sale of of Missionary Ridge. He is at present his farms. He now resides at Marron, visiting his parents and has in his posession aged 78 years. He has always been active in church affairs. His family consists of J. a number of relics gathered on the battle¬ field . Mary married Rev. J. B. Work and Green, Isaac R., Foster, Brawson D., and William T. .Joseph Green Williams mar¬ resides in Indiana town. Hattie married ried Liberty R. Shaffer and resides in Edward Bar to, Esq., an attorney, and is Tyrone, Pa. Isaac R. Williams first mar¬ located at McKeesport, Pa. Ralph married ried Ella Speice. Of this union there are Hattie Searl and resides in Knoxville, Tenn. living two sons. He next married Cather¬ ine Holter and resides at Eagleville, Centre Soon after Martin Watts came to the county. Of this union there are living ten township Frederick Bouer arrived here children. | from Baden, Germany. He lived with Mr. Foster Williams married Ella McClurej Watts for 5 years, after which he lived daughter of Wilson McClure, of Pike town¬ alone in shanties in the woods. He followed ship. He lives in Lake City, Iowa, and has making baskets and lived a lonely life. He two sons and two daughters living. will be remembered by the residents for William Williams married Eliza M. Wil¬ his peculiar characteristics. GEORGE WILLIAMS. liams, and resides in Jordan township. George Williams, son of George Williams, Of this union there are living two sons and of Centre county, and brother of John S. three daughters. Belle, the oldest daughter, Williams, was born in 1816 and died in married Perry Straw. Branson married 1888, aged 72 years. He was married in Leah Fink, and resides in LaJose. Of 1837 to Eliza Wagoner, of Centre county, this union there are living seven children. who was born in 1816 and died in 1894, aged After the death of John S. Williams’ 18 years. The subject of this sketch came first wife he married Miss Eva Fetzer, a to Clearfield county in 1847. He built a neice of Dr. D. A. Fetzer, of Lumber City. shanty and lived for a short time at Broad¬ THE TUBBS’. George Tubbs came to the county from way, after which he located on the Jack- 5son Campbell farm for a few years. He iCentre county in 1812, and made a small) ■ afterward purchased the Robert McCracken improvement at what is known as the; improvement and by hard work and care¬ Pee-wee’s Nest,” near Curwensville. He ful management cleared and improved moved from there soon after and made an perhaps one of the finest farms in the town¬ improvement in what is known as the Ben¬ ship nett place, in Pike township. He next George Williams was a consistent church moved into Ferguson township and made member and devoted Christian. The a small improvement near Kerrmoor. He church of his choice beng the Baptist. He next moved further into the wildemes and was a close friend of Father Miles, and in cleared out the farm now owned by Fred / later years much of their time was spent Cross, and resided there until his death in I in each other’s company. He contributed 1866, aged 63 years. He married Catherine, freely for church affairs, having donated daughter of Nicholas Straw, Sr. She died 12,000 toward the erection of the Baptist in 1877, aged 80 years. 1 He was high in stature and heavy in church at Ansonville. He had but one ! build and seemed to take the trials and daughter who lived, Mary Hanna, who is hardships incident to pioneer life with ease. carried to Enoch I. Straw. A traditional story has been handed down jornr s. williams. .from one generation to another and gener- ■>hn S. Williams was born in Centre I ally believed by the present progeny as to They own the homestead where they . to the origin of the name. “It is said that side. John Tubbs’ family are May, Alonzo, a family of Quakers upon rising and going Blair, Leonard and Emma. to their front door one morning found sit¬ James Tubbs’ family are Tacie, Asbury, ting upon the porch a tub containing an A. I. and Vada. infant boy. They kindly took the child Nicholas Tubbs first married Sophia, under their care and he grew to be a man. daughter of William Williams, Sr. She He married and became the progenitor of died at an early age. Of this union one a large line of descendants.” This tra¬ daughter is living, Elizabeth, who married dition is hardly credible as the writer has William Sharp, and resides in Clearfield. personal acquaintance with other persons He next married Betsy Weaver. Of this of the same name, some in the State of union there are living: Margarett, married New York, others in different sections of to Bigler Worrell, of La Jose; Christina Pennsylvania. The name can be traced married J. S. McFadden, of LaJose. Della back through the records in this country to married William Tubbs, of Marron. 1635, where the name “Tubbs” is mentioned Emma married Willis Bloom, son of in the Plymouth Colony records. It can Abram Bloom, of Jordan township; they also be traced back in English records to reside in West Clearfield. In the Autumn of 1861 Nicholas Tubbs 1374. George Tubbs’ family consisted of Cor¬ and his wife left their four children, the nelius, 1819, Nicholas, 1821, Christian, 1823, eldest about 12, at home by themselves to George, 1825, Amos, 1827, Philip, 1830, beep house while they went to a meeting Robert, 1832, Thomas, 1835, and Mary, 1837. that was then in progress in the old school Cornelius Tubbs married Mary, daughter house that used to stand at Marron. The of James Young. He cleared out and im- house in which Tubbs lived stood near proved a fine farm in Ferguson township. where Shannon Witheright now lives. An He is living at the age of 78. His family alarm of fire was heard, when the whole consisted of Catherine, Jane, Elisabeth, congregation rushed out and went in the Emeline, Elmira, Nancy, John and James. direction of the fire, and found it to be W*h«rina- Elizabeth and Elmira married Nicholas Tubbs’s house. Nothing could be respectively Shannon, Mark and Barney done, however, and the children were Witheright, sons of Michael Witheright, an roasted to death in sight of their parents. early settler of the township. Shannon Christian Tubbs married Mary J., daugh¬ Witheright’s family consisted of Ellen, ter of Christian Straw, Sr. Of this union Harvey, Bertha, Clark, A. K. and Edward there are living Hiram, Anna J., William, living. Ella Witheright married William Sarah, Eliza, Henry, Lewis, Robert and Bickford and resides in Jordan township. Mary. They are all residents of the town¬ Of this union there are living 3 sons and 3 ship except Eliza. I daughters. Bertha Witheright married Hiram Tubbs married Debila, daughter j George Young, son of John W. Young. of Hiram Passmore. Of this union the-e The remainder of Shannon Witheright’s are living two sons and two daughters. family are unmarried. Mark Witheright’s Anna J. Tubbs married Angelo Tognel family are living, Addie, Frank, Perry and and resides in Kerrmoor. Howard. Barney Witheright’s family aro William Tubbs married Della Tubbs ari\ living, Ollie, Edith, Orrie, Barbara and resides in Marron. Of this union there are\ Blaine. Barbara is the only one married. living one son and two daughters. < She married John Barrett, son of Calvin P. Eliza Tubbs married Richard Pike and j; Barrett, of Greenwood township. resides in Cambria county. m Emeline Tubbs married Matthias Hulli- Lewis Tubbs married Emma Stiffler. han, of Greenwood township. Of this They have one daughter. union there are living Porter, May and Sarah, Henry, Robert and Mary are Mathias. Frank Hullihan married May unmarried and reside with their parents. Passmore, daughter of Warren Passmore. George Tubbs married Elizabeth Wil¬ Jane Tubbs married Daniel Fishel, of liams, daughter of William Williams, Sr. Chest township. They have one daughter He moved to Iowa, where he filled several living. public offices. Nancy Tubbs married Frank Campbell, Amos Tubbs married Margaret J., daugh¬ of Greenwood township. He is a promi¬ ter of Joseph Wiley, Sr., and moved to nent farmer and lumberman and lives at Iowa. Cherry Corner. Their family consists of Philip Tubbs married Adanette Keaggy, three sons and three daughters. of Glen Hope. Philip has always lived in John and James Tubbs married respec¬ the vicinity of Glen Hope and has a family tively Flora and Odessey, daughters of D. of 7 children. W. McCracken. They are respected citi- Robert Tubbs married Catharine, daugh¬ i55.s_°f the township and practical farmers. ter of Israel Rorabaugb, of near New .i ashingtjn. He also moved to Iowa. Of this union are Thomas Tubbs married Margaret, daugh-^ daughter. • ter of Geoge Ross, and resides in W estover. Harriett Moore married Lynn Patterson His family consists of 7 children. and resides on the Joseph Patterson home¬ Mary Tubbs married William Hutton, of stead, near Marron. Qf this union there New Washington, where they still reside. are living two children., Mr. Huttqn is dead. Their family consists Roxanna married Geprge Ross, of La- of 3 children. Jose, where they reside. They have two SOLLY9 children. Silas Solly moved into the township in The remainder are unmarried. Daisy is 1857. He was married to a Miss Tozer, a a successful teacher. sister of Gilbert Tozer. His family con John Moore married Busan Bloom, sisted of 2 girls and 3 boys, Harriett, Isaac, daughter of John Bloom, of Pike township. Thomas, John and Susanna. Harriett He is a practical farmer and respected married I). C. Hummerly, and soon after citizen and resides on the homestead, of moved to Texas. Isaac first married Han¬ which he is owner. His family consists of nah, daughter of David Woods. Of this Frank and Boyd, both unmarried. union three sons were born, George, Clark: Sarah Jane Moore married Robert Owens, and David. He was again married to son of Thomas Owens. Ellen Woods. Of this union there are liv¬ Elizabeth Moore married Henry Owens, ing four children, all single. George mar¬ son of Thomas Owens. ried Miss Thomas, Clark, Miss Owens and Ellen Moore first married Hezekiah David, Miss Place. Bloom, son of Wm. M. Bloom. After his Thomas Solly married Naomi McDonald death she married George Bowman. She and moved west. John married Nancy resides in Curwensville. Campbell and Susanna married Elcanah As the biography of the Owens’ and Barrett, Sr. Bloom’s will be given elsewhere in this JOSEPH AND WILLIAM MOORE. series we omit them here. William and Joseph Moere, sons of John Mary, wife of Joseph Moore, died in 1854, Moore, come to the township in 1839, hav¬ aged 52 years. ing purchased 228 acres of land through William L. Moore married Catherine Josiah Smith, agent, along the river oppo¬ McCracken, daughter of Rob’t. McCracken, site Lumber City. This land was partly Sr. He, as well as his brother Joseph, was improved at this time. These brothers prominent in township affairs, and in re¬ worked ijogether and cleared out and im¬ ligion a faithful Presbyterian. William L. proved this land. So well did they get Moore ;was born in 1822 and died in 1889, along that they did not make a division of aged 67. Catherine, wife of Wm. Moore, is their property until 1874, when the prop¬ living, aged 71 years. erty wa^ equally divided, making two fine This family consisted of Robert H., farms. One now owned by John Moore, Milton, David, Allen, Bertha, Martha, son of Joseph Moore, and the other by Wil¬ Edward, Sarah, Hannah, Maggie and liam Moore heirs. William Rowley. Joseph Moore was married to Mary Good, Robert H. Moore, a prominent lumber¬ daughter of Isaac Goon, of Lawrence town- man, farmer and contractor, married Har¬ ship. Besides being a farmer J oseph Moore riet P. Straw, daughter of Joseph Straw, was a practical wood werker and made and resides in Kerrmoor, where he takes a many of the wagons and sleds used in the very active part in public affairs of the ^ country. He, as well as his brother Wil- township. His family consists of Newton, , liam, was a follower of Jacksonian princi¬ Catherine Ann and Robert Lee, all un¬ ples. He was born in 1809 and died in 1885, married. Kate is a successful teacher in aged 76 years. the schools. His family consisted of Eli, Isaac, John, Milton Moore, a prominent lumberman Sarah Jane, Elizabeth and Ellen. Ellen and respected citizen of Kerrmoor, married died when young. Elizabeth Summers, of Jordan township. Isaac Moore married Esther A. Straw, This family consists of Ollie and Clovis 1 daughter of Joseph Straw. He purchased living. I a farm near Marron soon after marriage Robert H. and Milton Moore, with Hon. and cleared out and eretted good buildings James Kerr, were the founders $f Kerr¬ on the same. He was hard worker and ti moor, after whom the village was named. careful manager and n a few years ac- David Moore died when young. Allen cumulated a fine estate, He died in 1883, W. Moore married Adeline Newcomer and family consisted of aged 40 years. His resides in Kerrmoor. He is Justice of the Roxanna, Daisy j Minnie, Harriett, Oliej Peace and a partner in the lumber oper- and Elam. Minnie Moore married Orange J ' ations at Kerrmoor. His family consists William Bingham, Margaret mar¬ rCracken, married Emanuel Shaffer, of ried James Hall, Walter married Martha [ |Perry county. They have resided in the Garrison, Esther married Moses Miller, f jtownship since their marriage. Their Catherine married a Mr. Wilson. David, fourth son of Robert McCracken, _ - Sr., quarried Elizabeth Hazlett, daughter of rcounty, Iowa, where he now resides. His ^ William Hazlett. He cleared out and im¬ I wife is also living, aged 75 years. His proved a farm near Bower, now owned by family consists of Elmira, Ruth, Cornelius,

James Mitchell, where he lived until his ■ Jessie, James, George, Eli Bloom, Wesley death in 1891, aged 80 years. He was a and Bertha. Elmira married Jared Galor prominent farmer and citizen and took and moved to Iowa, where they now reside. great interest in church affairs, being a Ruth married David A. Wise, a prominent leading Baptist. His family consisted of farmer and respected citizen of Pike town¬ William H., Catherine, Lucretia J., Clinton ship Of this union there are living Harry, R., Elmira, David Grier, J. Leonard, Har¬ Roy, D. G., Guy Z., R. B., Sheldon, Bruce, riett, Francis, Wesley P., Elizabeth R. Nettie and Agnes. Harry Wise married Catherine McCracken married William Orr, Belle Goon, daughter of Joseph Goon, and of Mahaffey, and moved to Virginia, where resides in Altoona. Of this union there are they now reside. Their family consists of living one son and one daughter. four sons and five daughters. Roy Wise married Marie Goble, of War¬ Lucretia J. McCracken married James saw, Ind., and resides in Allegheny, Pa. W. Byers, of New Washington. She died D. G. Wise married Carrie Eicholtz, of about four years after marriage. Her Williamsport, and resides in Allegheny. ifamilv consists of David Thomas Byers, who is engage? in the Hvery business in They have one son. Mahaffey, and Elizabeth Jane. They are Guy Z. Wise married Minnie Kuhn, of both unmarried. Altoona, where they reside. Clinton R. McCracken married Sarah A. The remainder of the Wise family are un¬ Brickell, of Indiana county, and resides in married. R. B. is a successful teacher. Kerrmoor. Of this union there were Al- Cornelius, Jessie, James, George and Eli matheda, Mary Elizabeth, Olive. Asbury B., all married in Iowa. Cornelius resides Haslett, Ernest B., David Samuel and in Arkansas, Jessie in Iowa, James in Josephine Dowler. Kansas, George in Iowa, and Eli B. in St. Mary Elizabeth McCracken married Fred Joseph, Missouri. Bertha married Jacob Johnson,of Curry Run. Of this union there Beedle and resides in Iowa. Wesley is un¬ are living one son and one daughter. Olive married and lives in Iowa. R. and Ernest B. are dead, the remainder George,seventh son of Robert McCracken, are single and reside with their parents. Sr., married Margaret Templeton and David Grier McCracken married Harriet moved to Iowa. This family consisted of Kauffman, of Mahaffey. Their family con¬ ] Minerva, Calvin, Lewis, Frank Haggard sists of two tons and five daughters. and Wm. B. Elizabeth Rachina married George E. Sarah, odlest daughter of Robert Mc¬ Gellnett, of Mahaffey. They have one Cracken, Sr., married Joseph Glasgow, daughter. William H. and Elmira died who has been dead for a number of years. when young. J. Leonard and Wesley P. Of this union there are living Rachael, are unmarried and reside in Mahaffey. married to George Infield, and lives in David McCracken’s wife died in 1891, aged Altoona. 75 years. Richard T. married Sophia Hunter and Cornelius D., fifth son of Robert Mc¬ resides in Jordan township. Their family Cracken, Sr., married Angeline, daughter consists of ten children. of Isaac Strayley. He made the improve¬ Mary Jane married HezekiahMcCracken, ment known as the “Blackberry thicket” son of William McCracken. farm about 1830, and afterward moved to Levi married Catherine Cumberland, and Wisconsin. We have been unable to get lives in Blair county. I the genealogy of this family. Matilda married David Love and resides Robert, sixth son of Robert McCracken, in Allegheny. Sr., was born in 1817. He married Mary Joseph married Dora Wriggle, and re¬ Jane Polhamus, daughter of Abram Pol- sides in Blair county. hamus, an early settler of the county, in Blair married Maggie Bloom, daughter 1840. Robert McCracken first settled and of Abram Bloom, of Jordan township. They improved the farm where Stewart Mc- have a family of two children. Cully now lives. He afterward sold his Mrs. Glasgow is still living, aged 74 years, improvement to Matthew Bloom and made and resides in Knox township. an improvement on an adjoining tract, Catherine, the second daughter of Rob’t. McCracken, Sr , married William L. Moore, I where Enoch I. Straw now lives. This im¬ provement he sold to George Williams and of Ferguson township. See genealogy of purchased a tract of timber land about the Moores. Levi, eighth son, and Rachael, the third two miles below Glen Hope, where he lived daughter of Robert McCracken, Sr., are for about S years. He moved to Illinois unmarried. They have resided together in 1865, and soon after moved to Boone cue Homestead In Knox townsfiip almost I able to secure the genealogy of this family. all their lives, living alone since the death I Thomas McCracken fourth son of James j of their parents. Levi is aged 75 years and | McCracken, Sr., married Rebecca Belli Rachael 69 years. The writer found these daughter of ’Squire Arthur Bell, of Pike old people well posted on their family township, and lived for a short time on the history and of valuable aid in securing William Price farm, in Pike township. He much of the data. purchased the land now owned by Alfred James, third son of James McCracken, Sr., McCracken, Philip McCracken and the W. was born in 1779. We have been unable Grier McCracken estate, He settled here to secure his age. He married Mary Jor¬ sometime in the early part of the ’20s, and dan, of Lawrence township and settled built a one-story building with what is and made an improvement in Pike town¬ called a half window in one end. It is said ship where Levi Bloom resided, and after¬ he shot and killed seven bear from this ward moved to the river above Lumber window. He lived on this place until his City. He afterward moved west. This death in 1847, aged 66 years. His family family consisted of Sarah, Margaret, consisted of ten children, James, born 1809> Mary, Ann, Elizabeth, Nancy, Thomas and Mary, 1811, Greenwood (Long Green) 1812, JohnP. H. Sarah, the oldest daughter, Arthur, 1813, William G., 1814, Nancy, 1816* married Arthur Hockenberry, an early David S„ 1823. Philip, 1830, Elizabeth, 1834, settler of Ferguson township. and Sarah, 1818. Margarett married Adam Wheeler and James McCracxen, oldest son of Thomas, moved to Sinnemaboning. Mary married married Christy Ann, widow of John Bar¬ Gainor Passmore, of Pike township. ton and daughter of John Rishel, and Ann married Daniel Brink, of Pike town¬ settled on and improved a fine farm in ship. Of this union there is living one Knox township, where he lived until he daughter, Elizabeth, who married Henry died in 1876, aged 67 years. His family Yost. Henry Yost and family now reside consists of John Ira, Jefferson L., Mary in Missouri. Elizabeth McCracken married Leonard and Mintie. Jefferson L., a prominent Bumgardner, and resided in Goshen town¬ citizen of Kerrmoor, married Effie Peoples. ship until her death. Leonard Bumgard- His family is Minnie Ellen, Marl B. and Alma Grace. ner’s family consisted of Barbara Ellen, Mary Jane, Jordan, John David, Nora, Mary married William Potter, of Luthersburg, and they have living two sons JDaniel and. Margaret. Barbara Ellen [ | married James Uourley, Mary Jane mar¬ and three daughters. ried Miles Miller. These families both John Ira, a prominent farmer, and moved to the west. Mintie, a successful teacher, are unmarried Jordan Bumgardner is married but to and reside on the homestead with their whom we have not learned. mother, who is still living, aged 65 years. John David Bumgardner is unmarried Greenwood, second son of Thomas Mo- and resides on the homestead in Goshen Cracken, married Elizabeth High, and township. cleared out a farm in Ferguson township Nora Bumgardner married William where he lived until a short time before his Kittleberger and resides in Clearfield. Her death. His family consisted of John, husband is now dead. Thomas, Sarah, Rebecca, Alfred, Elizabeth 1 Daniel Bumgardner married Miss Shirey, and Mary. daughter of George Shirey. He resides in Greenwood McCracken di ed in 1880, aged j Girard township. 68 years. Elizabeth, his wife, died in 1892,1 aged 78 years. , Margaret Bumgardner married John P. John married Caroline Bloom, daughter ; I Kerins, of Clearfield. She is now dead. of Peter Bloom, of Jordan township, and # Their family is Michael, Edward, Paul, moved to Oregon. Of this union there are Frederick and Mary. John P. Kerin next living one son and three daughters. d married Catherine Lynch. Of this union Thomas married Hannah, daughter of there are living Joseph and Frances. Peter Mays, and lives on his farm in Knox I Nancy McCracken married Robert Bum- township. Of this union there are living t gardner, of Goshen township. They are Mark Benton and Rillie. Rillie married | I both dead. Of this uuion there is living James Read, son of Milton Read, of Law¬ one daughter, Margaret, who married rence township. Hugh Krise and resides in Gaghen town- Sarah, daughter of Greenwood Mc¬ , ship. The family consists of three sons and Cracken, married Robert Hunter and have j | *>e daughter. a family of three daughters, Clara, Ada j | ’homas McCracken died when a young and Annie. Clara married Curtis Peter¬ 5 m. son and has one girl. Ada married Peter J JohnP. H. McCracken is yet living near Nolen and has two daughters. Annie is k ichmond. Indiana county. We were un¬ unmarried. Rebecca married Amos Bloom, son Tyr | animal came to her and sniffed around her. Abraham Bloom. They moved to Kansas. She was at that time lying close to a fallen Of this union there are living four sons and tree. The animal, however, left. She five daughters. ' spent the second night in a clump ot willows Alfred, son of Greenwood McCracken, on the bank of the Susquehanna. When married Frances, daughter of W.A. Bloom, she awakened next morning she aaw and resides on the homestead in Ferguson through the willows a band of Indians township. Of this union there are living crossing the river below her. She kept two sons, Greenwood B. and William A. still until they passed away, Elizabeth married Thomas Lewis, a Daniel McCracken, Sr., lived for a short prominent citizen and farmer of the town¬ time near Curwensville, Pa. He afterward ship. Of this union there are living Ella, lived in Ferguson township, moving around Alvina, Eliza, Mardy and Mary. Alvina considerable until in 1834 he purchased a married Walter Bloom, son of John Bloom. tract of land in Ferguson township, now The remainder are all unmarried. owned by F. C. Bell. Mary married John W. Young, a promi¬ Daniel McCracken’s family consisted of nent farmer and respected citizen of the Greenwood, 1809, James, 1811, John, 1815, township, and have a large family. Samuel, 1813, Ross, 1815, Thomas, 1831, and David, son of Thomas McCracken, Sr., Ellen, 1823. first married Susanna, daughter of Jacob Greenwood, oldest son of Daniel Me Shaffer, of Brady township, and lives near Cracken, married Mary Rowles, widow of the old homestead in the township. Of this Wm. Rowles, and daughter of John nnion there are living Frampton, Jono Henry, of Ferguson township. He first than, Harriet, Elizabeth, McClellan, Re¬ improved a small farm in Greenwood becca, Amanda, Susan, Ida and Louise. township, near where James Wiley’s farm Frampton married Mary Bonsall and now is. He moved from there to Fergu¬ lives in Penn township. They have six son township and cleared up the farm now children living. owned by E. E. Owens and until recently Jonothan married Henrietta, daughter occupied by Wm. Caldwell. He lived there of Jacob Fink. He is now a widower and until his death in 1864, aged 55 years. His has two sons living. He lives in the town¬ wife died in 1867, aged 68 years. ship. Of this union there were Elizabeth Ann, Harriet married A. Milton Bloom and born 1837, Mary Ellen, 1839, Susanna, 1841, lives near New Millport. and David Webster, 1843. Elizabeth married J. H. Lose and is now Elizabeth Ann married J. W. MeCul- _ lough, a prominenl farmer and respected Daniel McCracken, 5th son of James Mc¬ citizen of Knox township. Of this union Cracken, Sr., was born in 1784 and died in there are living John, Mary, Benjamin, Ida, 1856, aged 72 years. He was married to feme and Ollie. Elizabeth Ann Corrigan in 1807, by ’Squire John McCullough married Belle, daughter -Arthur Bell. She was a daughter of David f Philip McCracken. Corrigan and was born in Nittany Valley Mary McCallough married Philip Dotts, in 1790 and died in 1864, aged 74 years. tJr., and lives in Pike township. Her father was born in Lancashire, Eng¬ Ida McCullough is married to Harry land, and her mother, whose maiden name Etowles, son of Samuel Rowles, a respected "was Smith, was born in Wales. She was itizen of Lawrence township. brought to Clearfield county in 1801, aged Ollie married David Smith, of Pike town¬ 11 years, by a Mr. McClure. Soon after ship. Benjamin and Verne are unmarried. coming here she went out in search of a Mary Ellen McCracken married John cow and some sheep. The wolves being McCanna, a prominent lumberman and very plenty at this time it was necessary to respected citizen of Penn township fold the sheep each evening. While search¬ Of this union there are living Elizabeth, ing for the lost sheep she lost her way and Mary, Frank, William, Lewis, Martin wandered around in the wilderness for Clinton, Edith and Myrtle. three days and nights. She started from Susanna McCracken married John B. somewhere near the McClure cemetery, Campbell, son of (Jacker) John Campbell, { probably where ’Squire McClure liyed, as an early settler of the township, he is supposed to have been the McClure Daniel W. McCracken is a prominent she accompanied to this country. The resident of this township. He has always whole community turned out in search for been identified in politics of the county, her. She was found at what is known as being a prominent Democrat. He has “Sloans,” on the river below Hoyt’s mill, filled many positions of trust in the town now in Greenwood township, by her future ship, and was a prominent candidate for husband, Daniel McCracken. During the the office of County Commissioner in 1892. first night she was laying out some wild He has mostly been engaged in lumbering MT: ’ being considered one of the best hewers in Eliza Jane married George Bailey, a the township. He married Eliza Jane prominent citizen of Pike township. Lewis, daughter of Reuben Lewis. This George married Agnes Hullihan, daughter family consists of Flora, Mary E , Odessa, of Anthony Hullihan, of Greenwood town- Asbury, John, Mattie, Alphonzo, Verne and township. Of this union there are living Roe. Flora married John Tubbs, Mary E Malinda and Emma. Malinda married married Lee McCracken, Odessa married Jared Bell, of Bell’s Landing. Emma is James Tubbs, Asbury married Eva Chap unmarried. George was a prominent man. of Belsena, and resides in Vanormer, lumberman and resides in Bell’s Landing. Cambria county. The remainder of this Frampton McCracken married Mary family are unmarried. John W. is a Jane Ferguson, daughter of David Fer¬ Baptist minister. guson, and resided in the township until James McCracken, second son of Daniel his death in 1890. He served for a time in McCracken, Sr., married Susan Frantz. the rebellion. Of this union there are living Daniel, Philip McCracken went to the rebellion Jacob, Mary Ann, George W. and Elizabeth and was taken prisioner. After being re¬ Daniel married Ella, daughter of Isaac leased he came home and soon died. Kester, of Greenwood township, and lives Ann McCracken first married Daniel in Lumber City. Of this union there are Bloom, son of Matthew Bloom. Of this living Franklin. union there are living Abbie, Jennie, Mary Ann married Isaac Curry, son of Terressa and Harriet. James Curry. They live in Oregon. Abbie Bloom married James Coulter. Jacob Married a Miss Bell, of West Jennie Bloom married George King, of Clearfield, and resides in Lawrence town¬ Burnside township. They have five chil¬ ship. At one time he filled the position of dren. High Constable of Clearfield. Terressa Bloom married Edmund Barrett, George W. is unmarried and takes care of of Ferguson township. his aged mother, and resides in Union town' Harriett Bloom married 0. 8. Schrubb, a sbij respected citizen of Ferguson township. E 'beth McCracken married Wesley Of this union there are living Bessie, Nina, Crr . cf Lumber C ty. Edna, Florence and Walter, Samuel, the third son of Daniel Mc¬ Ann McCracken next married Amos Cracken, Sr., never married. 'Wing and resides in DuBois. John D., fourth son of Daniel McCracken, Pbcebe McCracken married George Sr., married Nancy, daughter of Isaac Michaels, son of John Michaels, and they Bloom, of Pike township. He, with his . reside on their farm in Ferguson township. brother Greenwood, purchased a tract of Mr. Michaels is a prominent citizen, and land where Friendship school house now very active in church work and other pub¬ stands, and he improved the part of the lic affairs. He was a candidate for County tract where Harrison Straw now lives. Commissioner a few years ago. He is and I John McCracken died in 1892, aged 77 years. always has been an active Democrat. This His wife, Nancy, is still living with her family consists of John, Mintie, Emery, children in the township, aged 81 years. Martin, Bernard, Frederick, Dorsey and John McCracken one day went out for a Charley. hunt when he came upon a large (buck) John Michaels married Catharine Taylor, male deer. He shot the deer but only daughter of Mark Taylor, of Bradford wounded it. The deer became mad and township, and resides in Ferguson town¬ attacked Mr. McCracken, when a great ship. Of this union there are living one struggle took place between the deer and son and one daughter. the man. It was a question as to who Mintie Michaels married George Taylor, would come out victorious. Finally they son of John Taylor, of Bradford township. came close to a large tree, when Mr. Mc¬ Of this union there are living three sons Cracken sprang behind the tree. The deer and one daughter. The remainder are gave him a lively chase around the tree unmarried and reside at home with their until he became almost exhausted, when parents. Greenwood McCracken, a brother of John’s, Frederick McCracken married Mary who lived near, came upon the scene and Michaels, daughter of John Michaels, and soon dispatched his deership, thus ending resides on his farm in this township. He the engagement. has been quite prominent in politics and John McCracken’s family consisted of public affairs of the township. His wife is Eliza Jane, born 1839, George, 1841, Framp- very active in church work. Their family ton, 1843, Philip, 1844, Ann, 1846, Phoebe, consists of Edward and Ida. Edward is 1848, Fred, 1850, Bigler, 1852, Harriet, 1854, unmarried. Ida is a successful teacher in Hannah, 1856, John, 1857, and Caroline, the public schools and married Samuel 1859. Bair, of Glen Hope. daughter of Christian Richards, Bigler McCracken married Halilsa HocF" resident of Philadelphia, but• in enberry, daughter of Josiah Hockenberry, debt of Mabaffey, where heJeng* ^ a miller by trade. Bigler lived in the mercantile business. He has township until his death in 1890, which was prominent in public affairs of caused by a limb falling from a tree and and is now Justice of the Peace. famUj striking him, causing instant death. He consists os Thomas R.. Ivan H., Blake D was aged 40 years. This family consists of and Nellie Atha. Johnson, a Lulu, Ralph, Clarence, Jennie, John, Keturah m.rrmd M.»,bIp, Bertha and Guerney. Lulu is the only one married. She mar¬ rz:r::r:TT sz ried Biley Benson and has one child. Harriet McCracken married Ellis Mich¬ aels, a prominent citizen of Jordan town¬ all unmarried. ^«„whter of Daniel wiien McCracken, daugnter ui ship and present postmaster at Gazzam. McCracken, married Joseph Wilt an as of this union there are living Seymour, William D. and Ella. Seymour is un¬ “mSU McCracken married. William D. married Hannah Gardner, of Elk county, and resides in Gazzam. His family is two sons. Ella married Robert Patterson, son of dMcCr.cte» married V.» M«*. George Patterson, of Jordan township. This family consists of one son and one „d lire. in Olearfield. Ot tUa •»* daughter, are living two sons. Derrick, Susan McCracken married A. A. Derr , Harriet Michaels died in 1881, and Ellis .promio.ntoi.izoa of Kerrmoor. Of tin. Michaels afterwards married Martha Wheeler,!of Sinnemahoning. union there are tiring t«o eon. Hannah McCracken married Peter daughters. married George Sloppy. Of this union there is living one IS1!."? ... Clearfield. Of daughter, Della, married to Mr. Cable, of tide onion there are living on. son and one DuBois. Of this union there are living one son and two daughters. John McCracken married Phoebe Straw, **£££[• McCracken married Jedereo. Jr., and resides on his farm in the town Zortm.n, and re.ide. *° “°Bo^ L„„g ship which he has cleared out and im¬ Ida McCracken married G g * and lives in Cambria county Of this proved. Of this union there are living George, Nellie, Allen, William, Leslie, union there are living two dauShte^ David S. McCracken next married 8 Isaac Bloom. Yocum He has no family of the second Caroline McCracken married Emanuel Hise and resides in Greenwood township. Their family consists of Harry, Rosa, “philip^on of Thomas McCracken, mar¬ Myrtle, Roger, Elfca, Maud and Ered. ried Mary Jane Swaney and resides on t Ross McCracken, fifth son of Daniel homestead in the to wnship. He is a P McCracken, Sr., never married. He was nent farmer and a staunch Democrat. Hi famfiy consists of Charley, Mintie, Emma, the first inhabitant of Kerrmoor. _, Thomas “McCracken, tne sixtn son of Ella, Belle and M£nd. ^ of j Daniel McCracken, married Elizabeth Henry, daughter of Thomas Henry, an and farms the homestead^ early settler of the township. He improved Mintie married Samuel Williams - the farm now owned by the Emberson p.cminentoitiz^and^g^^ Read heirs, near Kerrmoor. He was also a prominent merchant of Lumber City, and !Lmt0«S - ^dDan township an extensive lumberman. He was the first this union there are living one son and postmaster in Lumber City, in which place he died in 1862, aged 41 years. This family dEmmrmarriedAl Durst and soon die, j consisted of Laura Ellen, Blake W. and Of this union there is living one son. Ketcrah. Laura Ellen, the oldest daughter, Ella married Lynn Bell, son o married John S. Johnson, a prominent wood Bell, and resides in Jordan townsl farmer of Greenwood township, and son of They have four daughters. James Johnson. Of this union there are Belle married John, son of • ' . living ten children, Gertrude, Sarah, Cullv of Knox township. Of this u Elizabeth, Garrison, Hannah, Jessie, Roxie, there’is one son living. Maud is anmam-j Bernice and Mary. Gertrude is married to Haney McCracken married Darnel S.for John F. Mitchell, and lives near Bell’s i, no. no. living- Of U>» «■«» th. Landing. The others are unmarried. are living two sons and one daughte I Blake W. married Annie L Richards, 86

.uzabeth married John McDivitt and lives neai) Lumber City. Of this union the gl: there are living Mary, Ida, Laura, Verne, In May, 1790, James, Andrew and George Zamena, Nina, Myrtle. Mary married Glenn left Londonderry on a sail vessel William ^eitzenrather. Ida married John named “Happy Return,” (no steamers hav¬ Gearhart. Laura married Henry Hepfer. ing then been invented) and landed in port Verne married Miss Teeples. Nina mar¬ of Philadelphia. They were brothers and ried Frank Hepfer. Zamena married of Irish descent. From Philadelphia they Charley Chldwell. Arthur and Sarah both went into Chester county, Pa. Here the died young. brothers separated, Andrew and George William, Grier McCracken lived on part going somewhere into the western frontier, of the homestead. He died in 1897, aged and so far as the living members of the 83. He never married. He was known as Glenn family in this country are concerned “Stiller Billy.” no trace of them has ever been learned. John McCracken, the sixth son of James James Glenn,however, remained in Chester McCracken, Sr., married Mary Bell, daugh¬ county, and married a lady by the name of ter of ’Squire Arthur Bell, and moved to Catherine Curry in 1795. She was of Scotch Iowa with his family. This family con¬ descent but was born in this country. sisted of Letitia, William, Arthur, Isaac, After marriage James Glenn resided in Hannah, Mary and James. As these all Chester county for a time. Later he moved married after going west we cannot give to near Julian Furnace, Centre county, and their biography. here engaged in farming and the hotel William McCracken, seventh son of business, the hotel being on the farm, both James, Sr., married Rachael, daughter of of which were run in conjunction, until ’Squire Arthur Bell, and cleared out and his death, which occurred sometime be¬ improved the farm now owned by James tween 1814 and 1826. Lucre, in Greenwood township. He died His wife resided on the old farm for a in 1851. We are unable to give his age. number of years after his death, when she This family consisted of Sarah, Mary, came to Clearfield county and resided with Cynthia, Elliott and Harvey. Sarah and her daughter, Mrs. David Williams, of Cynthia married respectively John Wagner Jordan township, until her death. She was and Charley Williams, and moved to the buried in the John S. Williams cemetery, west. in Ferguson township, in 1858, aged about Mary is dead. Elliott married Jane '90 y^^. Hulihan, and lives in DuBois. This family James Glenn, Sr’s., family consisted of consists of Grier, William, Ross, John, Ann, Andrew, Mary, James, George, John, Adeline and Hiram. Ross married Emily Robert, Charles, William and Eliza, Dixon, and William married Mary Dutra. Andrew Glenn, eldest son of James They both reside in Sabula, this county. Glenn, Sr., married Catherine Hall, a John is married and resides in Elk county. daughter of John Hall, of Chester county. Adeline married George Smith and lesides He being of English Quaker descent. in Elk county. The remainder are un¬ Andrew Glenn resided most of his life in married. Bald Eagle Valley, Centre county, until Harvey McCracken married Mary Mc¬ his death in 1829, aged 31 years. His wife Carthy, and lives on his farm in Ferguson died in 1826, aged 34 years. He was man¬ township. He is a veteran of the late ager of Wasnington Furnace, Nittany rebellion. His family consists of Belle, Valley, up to the time of his last illness. Emma, Cora, Thurman, Pearl, Rexford His family were Hannah, born 1819, Eliza, and Ward. Of these Belle is the only one 1821, Catherine, 1822, Margaret, 1824, James, married. She married John Fillian. They reside in the township. Harvey was born 1826. in loo8. Hannah Glenn married Samuel Baker, of The daughters of James McCracken, Sr. Howard, Centre county, where she resided married as follows: Mary married Williain until her death in 1847. Of this union there Hepburn, of Penn township: Margaret married JohnP Dale, of Pike townihip; are living Webster, who resides in Illinois, Nancy married James Clark. and Albert, who resides in Dakota. Greenwood, eighth son of James Mc¬ Eliza Glenn married Franklin Glenn, of Cracken, Sr., died when a young man. Howard, where she lived until her death. She left one daughter who married James H. Muffiey, of Howard, and moved to Sum¬ f- - v ms ner, Iowa. t V Catherine Glenn married George L. Peters, of Unionville, where she died with¬ out descent. Margaret Glenn married James M. Bloom, son of Abram Bloom, of Pike township. She died in 1870, aged 46 years. For gene- aology see Prof. John A7l5»fSSy of Pike township. to be from 200 to 300. Mr. Uienn was one James Glenn, only son of Andrew Glenn the rio.rt°iUnded’ havlDg been shot through and progenitor of the family in Clearfield the right leg by a rifle ball. He was carried eounty married Ellen Rankin, a daughter JohnhRUSe,lnthe r6ar °f the battlefield by o Anthony Rankin, of Huntingdon county j R b“ H“Zelett’ Harry Fvantz and Woodside He came to Clearfield county when a boy i of 14 mil 6 r„a8“°Ved t0 Camp’ a di8tance 0 years of age, along with his uncles ! 14 “Ues that nigbt on an ambulance and Robert and William Glenn, who located in f' nendJ"8 reRimental hospital, where he Pike township, near New Millport When lay until the middle of January, when he James Glenn was 15 years of age his uncle was moved to the division hospital under Robert died. He stayed in Clearfield county Trior™ °f Dr' SbipPen’ and R G. Mc- and has since been a resident of Ferguson Cracken as nurse, when his leg was ampu¬ township. He is one of the land marks of tated about 4 inches below the body the township af well as the county. After On April 4, 1862, Mr. Glenn was moved to his marriage he moved on a tract of land May's 1? f°Spita1’ iD Georgetown. On which he purchased from Josiah Smith, on Mays 186.,, he was moved to Seminary which he had erected a house and com¬ ary Hospital. He was discharged from menced a clearing, which his good wife this hospital on May 16, but was unable to assisted in completing the next season onHavS*** ^ Md WaS broaZht borne Here he cleared up and improved a fine on May 09, having to be carried from one tram to another. He was met at Tyrone ' WhTh 8 To01" °f WhiCh h6 D0W resides- heh the rebellion broke out, in 1861, Mr. byJno. S. Williams and J. L. Rex |Glenn, at his own expense, went to Camp brought him home in a conveyance. iCurtin, at Harrisburg and enlisted in the After he became able he engaged in Union cause on the 18th day of Nov. 1861 traveling, trading woolen goods and other in Co. K, 42 Reg-t., Pa. Vols., or otherwise merchandise for wool. Mr. Glenn is a man the 13th Reg’t. Pa. Reserve Vol Corps, and Pf more than ordinary intelligence He otherwise the 1st Pa. Reserve Rifles, Volun¬ has always been a great reader and well teer Corps of the Pennsylvania Rucktails informed on the current events of the day in CaptainE. A. Irvin’s company. He re’ e is also a great conversationalist, and is ported for duty at Camp Pierpont, Fairfax known by the older people all over the

S?86l' w’ ^ T °n 6V8Din* »ov. A°ithtryn^eiSyet liViDg’ aged 73 J^rs 19 1861 having had Government transpor- though blind and having suffered for a s. tation from Harrisburg to Washington number of years from other infirmities his , emory and conversational powers are toBa?6.30? °fN°Vember h6 was ^dered to Bailey’s Cross Roads to attend grand well preserved.

CaZl^ffl WaS iBSPeCted by the P^id«nt, ulZTr'T" ,mily °°"“M of Ah„.r, Cabinet ofecers and other dignataries of gmtoC Hannah E .S.n.,n,ha the war On the 20th day of December, 1S61, before daylight, his company was Marta M. H ’ *“"* J" “«"• ’• called into line and started on a sco^t and foraging expedition. They met the Con¬ t0OMerGien^’ When a y0nng man- went a”d there married an Ohio lady federates under General Winder, at the She soon died leaving one daughter. He village of Drainsville, Va. The Confeder¬ with his daughter, came to Houtzdale ’ ates were composed of one battery of six Here he married Nettie Walker. Tb pieces of artillery, six regiments of infantry reside in Woodward township. and one of cavalry. The Union forces con Martha C. Glenn married Joseph Wil sistedof the Bucktails, 6th and 9th reei £ a respected citizen of the township — * ments. Pa. Reserves, and 1st Pa. Reserve to"wZT’ °‘ma of ,wh,: , Mr WUaj u owner. This family c fnalats u* flght WaS op9ned by the Bucktails, who kept a continuous fire for m.SlT ‘h"' fl on. ^h6n th8y W6re re,t,f°rced by the 6th and 9th Regiments. The firing Harvey jGlenn married Susanna /Loom unontl °0nfederates was then directed daughter hf Samuel Bloom. He is a sue-! upon the regiments for a time. The Union cessful mi-chant and lumberman 5 Houtt forces, however, compelled the Confeder¬ HeLI^T he 1“ r6Sided most of life. ates to retreat Although this engagement He has bu£ one daughter living. was called a skirmish yet it is claimed by Hannah E. Glenn first married Georgel

l fhnltaCipants t0 have been one of the ther01 ’ °r NeW Mi,lport °f this union best rougnt namestney naa neen m auring ! there are living Gust, Harvey and Edna the rebellion. i who live with their grandfather, Jacob The loss on the Union side was 5 killed Arnold, ii New Millport. After the death' Z\ZWrnd°d' and Confederate loss was ! of George Arnold, Hannah Glenn marrie, [ 60 killed and the wounded was estimated 1 Robert Pennington, of Chest township They lit present reside in Hastings, Cam 7v." -r— —rr-f— r—ifi THE STRAWS. nty. ; ] Early in the 18th century Jack Stroh and Samantha Glenn married William L. j his wife left their native home in Germany, Wise, a leading farmer of Knox township, i crossed the Atlantic and settled among the She is now dead. There is living one American colonists. We do not know daughter, Vaia. where he lived until 1750, when he with bis William H. Glenn married Mary L. Dan- family made a settlement near the present lap, of Knox township, and resides in New site of Greensburg, Westmoreland county. Millport. Of this union there are living His sons were Jacob. Michael, Nicholas and I two sons and two daughters. Philip. These sons all served in the revo¬ Emma Glenn married Enos Curry, son of lutionary war, fighting for independence. R. R. Curry. Of this union there is living We have been unable to definitely locate one son, Orvis. Mrs. Curry and her son the families of Michael Stroh (Stroh.) are staying with and taking care of their Some of his descendants however, live in parents. Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, while Edward I. Glenn married Mary Gilbert, others remained in Westmoreland county. of Brisbin. He resides on part of the home Jacob Stroh (Straw) left Westmoreland stead. Of this union there are living two county in 1796 and moved with his family sons and one daughter. to the present site of Venango, Crawford Maria Gledn married Frank Shuggarts, county. Philip Stroh also moved to the of Knox township. They reside at Hastings. same place a few years later. There are Mary Glenn, daughter of James Glenn, now living 13 male descendents of the Sr., married David Williams, of Jordan above families in Crawford county and township. The genealogy of the Williams reside within three miles of Venango. They family will be given by the gentleman who are all married and have families. They will write the history of Jordan township. are all farmers and own good farms. James, George, John and Charles, sons of Many Germans after coming to America James Glenn, Sr., all resided in Centre for some reason changed their German county until their death. James and name to other suitable names. The name Charles never married. Stroh was changed to that of Straw some¬ Robert Glenn, son of James Glenn, Sr., time previous to the revolution. Why the married Jane Steel, of Centre county, and name was changed is not known by the moved to Clearfield county in 1836. This present generations. The name Stroh is family consisted of Wesley, Harriet, James yet retained by some of the descendents and Martin, and all returned to Centre who live in the western States. county after the death of their father, Nicholas Straw, the progenitor of the which occurred in 1841. Eliza Glenn mar¬ Straw families of Centre and Clearfield ried Lemuel Carey. They lived and died counties, left Westmoreland county about in Jefferson county. 1774, and went into Penn’s Valley, Centre William Glenn, son of James Glenn, Sr., county. Here he married Catherine, a married Eliza Williams, of Bald Eagle daughter of Christian Dale, a German who Valley, Centre county, and came to Clear¬ lived in Penn’s Valley. Soon after his field county in 1835, and settled near New marriage the revolutionary war broke out Millport, where he resided until his death. and he joined with the patriots, serving His family consisted of Elizabeth, Gather- almost the entire time the war continued. Bne, Davjd, Austin, George and Theodosia, He was a pensioner of the war until his s Elizabeth Glenn married John T. Wil¬ death. He was with Washington’s army liams, of Pike township, where they reside, at Valley Forge during the winter of this cnion there are living one son and After the war he lived in Centre l tbreC daughters. Of these one daughter, county until 1803, when he came to Clear¬ Cor a, is married to Jeff Pierce, of Luthers- field county, locating on the bank of the bur,;. Susquehanna where Richard Humphrey Catherne Glenn married John L. Wise, now lives. Here he cleared a small farm of Pike t iwnsbip; They reside near Bloom¬ and followed his trade, that of Potter. He ington. Df this union there are living two furnished the early settlers with all kinds sons an< one daughter. Of these the of crockery ware. daughtei, Louella, is married to Frank During the war of 1812-14 some Indians Bloom, s n of John I. Bloom, of Pike town¬ were lurking near his place for a few days. ship. He became suspicious of their actions and Theodishia Glenn married JohnB. Camp¬ kept clear of them by staying close to the bell. Ttsy reside near Kerrmoor. Of this house and keeping close watch. Becoming union th re are living four sons and two impatient he finally concluded to drive daughte s. them away. He accordingly procured his i Willitln Glenn’s sons are all dead. None rifle, went to the window of his shanty and of them married. fired several shots in the direction of the 91

intruders. The Indians Joseph, married David Michaels, of Cheat out molesting any of the settlers. He died township. Their family consisted of Joseph, in 1834, age not definitely known. He was Robert, John S. and David. Margaret died buned in the McClure cemetery, in Pike in 1858, aged 28 years. township. His grave is unmarked. Joseph Michaels married Adeline, daugh¬ l]7 con8isted of Christian, born ter of William Wagoner, of Chest township. l™' as’ 1794’ Catberine, 1798, Eliza¬ He engaged in the lumber business for a beth, 1800, and Mary. 1802. number bf years, when he became pro¬ Christian Straw came to Clearfield prietor of a hotel in Irvona borough, which county with his father and settled near business he followed for a few years. After Bloom’s bridge, in Pike township, where selling his Irvona property he moved on Thomas Humphrey now lives. He cleared his farm in Chest township, where he has out a small place here and followed the since resided His family consists of Rosa, trade of potter along with his father. In Margery, William, Lizzie, Alexander, 1834 he moved to Ferguson township on Myrtle and Maggie. the farm which was partly improved by Robert Michaels married Margaret, George Tubbs. He resided here until his daughter of Matthew Bloom. He resided death. He cleared out a good farm and in Ferguson township for several years also followed his trade. He died in 1870 after marriage, and later moved to Arkan¬ aged 90 years. sas, v here he engaged in the lumber busi¬ Christian Straw was first married to ness le has a large family._ Elizabeth Curry, daughter of John Curry, John S. Michaels has been a prominent of Centre county, and a sister of Richard, lumberman, having, followed that business James, William and Samuel Curry, who |from the time be was old enough until the were early settlers of the county and the present. He is identified in politics, hav¬ progenitors of the Curry families of this ing twice been a prominent candidate for i county. She died in 1813. Of this union the office of Sheriff of Clearfield county. there were three sons and one daughter, He married Lucinda Curry, daughter of I Joseph, born 1805, Nicholas, 1810, Mary, James Curry, of Lumber City. His family 1811, and John, 1812. Christian Straw next consists of five children. married Jane Lytle, a daughter of Charles David Michaels is a prominent citizen Lytle, of Lawrence township. Of this and Justice of the Peace of Chest township union there were 13 children, Hiram, born and is a leader in the politics of that town¬ 1822, George, 1825, James, 1828, Christian, ship. He has been frequently urged by his friends to become a candidate for high !So 56nry;1837’ William’-- Elizabeth, 1829, Mary Jane, 1833, Rachael, 1835, Mar¬ positions in the Democratic party, but has garet, 1839, Ann, 1842, and Catherine, 1845. declined the honors. His wife is a daughter These children all grew to manhood and of Wilson Wood, of Ferguson township. womanhood except William H., who died His family consists of John, James and when young. Edith, all single and successful teachers of Joseph, the oldest son of Christian Straw the county. was born near Bloom’s Bridge, Pike town¬ John T. Straw, the oldest son of Joseph, ship, and was married in 1828 to Ann resides on his farm in this township which daughter of Ignatius Thompson, of Law¬ he purchased from Nicholas Tubbs 40 years rence township. He resided in Lawrence ago, when but a a few acres were cleared. >;rr township until 1836 when he moved into He has resided here ever since with the Ferguson. He lived for a time and made exception of three years, when he lived on some improvements on the farm owned by the farm now owned by C. J. Sboff. Be Lewis B. and Jno. N. Hile. He moved from sides clearing up and improving his farm, here to a tract of land near Marron. Here which is one of the landmarks of the town¬ he cleared out and improved a fine farm ship, be was extensively engaged in the on which he made his home until his death lumber business. He has always been V? 7877’ aged 72 years. His wife, Ann, active in school work and other township died m 1859, aged 50 years. affairs. He took an active part in organ¬ He afterwards married Margaret Garri¬ izing the schools under the present system. ( son, widow of Mason Garrison, of Curwens- He taught one term of school, served as ▼ille. Of his first marriage his family Secretary of the School Board for 14 years, consisted of Margaret, born 1830, John/ besides filling many other positions of trust 833, Amanda, 1838, Enoch I., 1886, Mary in the township. He was elected County 1842, Hester A., 1845, Harriet, 1847. and Commissioner in 1881, and served one term of 3 years. He has been thrice married. Tr' ^ ^ Up -d were married, and Isaac and Maria, who died His first wife was Sarah, daughter of when young. Of his second marriage his Albert Young, an early settler of the family were George W., Harvey and Alice. township. Of this union there were 5 sons Margaret Straw, oldest daughter of and 1 daughter, Jeremiah, Albert Y., Har- ■V? >ia

township. Of this union there are liviDg rison, William E., Franklin and Annie M. two daughters. Jeremiah and Franklin died when young. Belle tstraw married John McKeehen, a Albert Y. resides in Kerrmoor. He.mar prominent citizen of Jordan township. Of ried Margaret, daughter of Abram Bailey, this union there is living one son. Eliza of Pike township. Of this union there are and Harriet are both single. living 2 sons and 4 daughters. Mary Straw, third daughter of Joseph Harrison Straw resides on his farm in Straw, married Matthew Henry, son of Ferguson township. He has followed Thomas Henry, an early settler of the farming for a number of years. He was a township. They now reside in Lawronce "teacher in the public schools. He married Emetine, daughter of David Read, of this township. Hester A. and Harriet P., daughters of township. Of this union there are living Joseph Straw, married respectively, Isaac, 3 sons and 3 daughters. son of J<*sr-h Moore, and R. H., son of W. E. Straw resides in Clearfield where "William L oore, of this township. he is engaged with the Clearfield Lumber Josetth IS traw was twv-e parried. His j Company. He married Catherine, daughter first wife was Annie Holt, of Curwensville. of Hezekiah Patterson, of Jordan township. Of this union there was no issue. After His wife soon died. Of this union there is the death of his first wife he married Emma, living one daughter. daughter of Lewis McCracken. Of this Annie M. married Amos C. Read, of union there are living four sons and one Lawrence township, where they reside. Of daughter. After the death of bis father this union there are living one son and Joseph N. purchased the estate from the three daughters. heirs and resided on the homestead until After the death of his first wife, John T. his death in 1894, which was caused by a Straw married Mary B., daughter of Luther log jumping from a slide and striking him, Barrett, of Ferguson township. Of thiB causing almost instant death. The widow union there are living Perry, Lottie and resides on the farm, of which she is owner. Ida. For further genealogy of these families see i Henry Straw married Belle, daughter of the biographies of the Henrys’, Moores’ William Williams, of Marron, and resides and Fergusons. on his farm in Greenwood township. Of George W., Harvey and Alice are all this uuion there are living two sons. dead, neither having been married. Geo. Lottie married Blake Bummers, of Jor W. was killed in a wreck of a coal train dan townshp, where they reside. Of this while braking on the P. & N. W. R. R. union there is living one daughter. Harvey was scalded to death by pulliDg Ida is unmarried. She is a teacher in the over a pot of boiling coffee. Alice died in jpublic schools. Iowa. After the death of his second wife John T. Nicholas Straw, second son of Christian, 'Straw married Priscilla, daughter of Hiram married Sarah Lytle, daughter of Charles Barrett. Of this union there were Rosetta, Lytle, of Lawrence township. In 1834 he Cora, Blanche, Perry, John, Iva Bell, improved part of the farm now owned by Jerushia. Susie and Jerusbia are dead. John Moore, in this township. He lived Rosettais the only one married. She mar¬ here for a few years. Later he moved to ried James LaDg, of Gazzam. where they Ansonville where he resided a short time. reside. Cora is a teacher in the public He moved from here to a piece of laud schools. which be purchased about two miles from Amanda, second daughter of Joseph Ansonville. He built a house in the wilder¬ Straw, married Alexander Ferguson. She ness as it was then, and with the assistance died in May, 1897, aged 59 years. of his sons cleared up and improved the Enoch I. Straw married Mary Hannah, farm now owned by William aud Reuben daughter of George Williums, of this town¬ Straw, which is one of the best farms in [ ship He is a prominent farmer of the that township. He died in 1879, aged 69 ■ township and is owner of the largest ard years. His wife died in 1877, aged 64 years. finest farm and occupies the most handsome His family consisted of Samuel, born 1835, residence in the township. His family William, 1836, Eliza, 1837, Matilda, 1839, consists of Eliza, Isaac, Patience, Belle and Carolina, 1840, Reuben, 1842, Alfred, 1846, Harriet living, and Sarah who is dead. and John, 1849. Isaac Straw is a prominent citizen and Samuel Straw married Clementine T leading merchant of Westover borough. Et-.gler, daughter of William Eagler, of 1 He married Mary Walls, a daughterofa Jordan township. He is a respected citizen respected citizen of Burnside township. Of of Chest township. He cleared up a fine o union there is living one son. farm upon which he resides. His family ;ence Str%w married Harry E. Rowles, consists of one son, Dean; he is single. 3rotbo\>. •y of Clearfield county, < William Straw married Letitia, daughter f Jo.h~ <-wles, of Greenwood. f of William McGarvey, of Chest township. He is a respected citizen and practical . ried Mary Ann Smith, of Beccaria U I farmer of Jordan township, and resides on ship. He has always resided in Beccai part of the homestead He, as well as all township, and at present lives near IrvoL of his brothers, engaged for a number of borough in his 86th year, being the oldest years in the square timber industry. His family coDSi8ted of Catherine Lydi person of ids counectionliving. His family consists of Jasper, Allen, Charley, Aunie, and e8rtewkr^iJliam ** ^ and Josephine. Jasper married Arnauda Bratton, aud lives in Irvona borough. Lydia Straw married Calvin, son of Of this union there are living three sons. Samuel Witherow, a respected citizen of Charley married Emma Sutton and lives Jordan township. Of this union there is in Belsena. Of this union there are living living one son. The remainder are un¬ two daughters. married. W. N. Straw is a successful teacher in the public schools. Annie married John Bodle and lives in Irvona. Of this union there are living two Matilda Straw married Bavid Jones and children. resides at Tyler Station. They have no family. Josephine Straw married Isaac Goon, of Eliza Straw lives in Missouri. Glen Hope, where they reside. Of this union there are living Jennie, Annie, Caroline Straw married Peter Summers Lizzie, Bertha, Blanche, John B., Percy A.’ of Armstrong county, in 1858, and resides and Nellie. There are four children dead! in Jordan township, where they have lived Jennie Goon married R. W. Gifford and since tbeir marriage. Of this union there resides in Cleveland, Ohio. are living Lizzie, Sarah, Emma, Blake, KoQDeD, Calia and Minnie, Annie Goon married George H. Mellotte and resides in Glen Hope. They have two Lizzie Summers married Milton Moore children, Henry and Alice. of Ferguson township. Sarah Summers’ Lijzie Goon married Charles Kline and married A. J. Barrett, of Marron. Emma resides in Akron, Ohio. The remainder of married Sherman Smith, of Marron; they Isaac Goon’s family are unmarried. have one son and one daughter. Blake married L0^6 Straw. Caj]a Mary Straw, daughter of Christian Stra w died when young. Charley Rainey, son of James Rainey a prominent farmer of Jordan township S°n °f Christian- married Anna Margery Caldwell, daughter of | Reuben and Minnie are unmarried, j Reuben Straw married Eliza Leonard In“84a hCaldW!n’ °f Pike t0WDsbiP. 1741. from w 6 PUrha8ed a tract of Umber land from Wm. Wiley, Sr., in Ferguson town- ship, and daughter of William Elder They about he bUUt “ ,0R h°USe aDd cleared have no family. Renben Straw is a promb about 50 acres. In 1855 he sold his im nent cit.zen of Jordan township and h“s provement to George Williams and E. r Lvays taken an active interest in public Straw and purchased land near Ansonville affairs of the township and county He where he has resided since. Besides cleai has served 18 years on the school board K h1S farm be has also been a prominen , having been Secretary of the board for 15 umberman. His wife died in 1891. He i years Asides other ofVArgrha8eR76TJearS- H'8 consist of trust. He served one term of 8 yearss a County Auditor from 188L to 1884. He re ii.H and Martham B‘J J Jane.- WU80n ’ Samuel G«org, sides on part of the homestead. Arthur B and J. Wilson enlisted in the Affred Straw first married Jane a late rebellion in 186L, and served until they received their final discharge in 1865. there ilTivf 68811 Wam0Ild' °£ tbis uawa Arthur B. has been twice married. His ied Ofifi d g r 8°n’ ir’°rter- wb° var¬ ied Ollre, daughter of John McGarvey, of ArnoTd rTSarah’ dauShter of Jacob C^hest township. He has a family of kne Arnold, of New Millport. Of this union son and one daughter. Annie*™ Car1’ Mattie’ Jacob ^ Alfred Straw next married Catherine His second wife is Ella, daughter of W n- °fDth18 u“ion there are living Samuel Bloom. Of this union there are I living Blanche, O. B. and Henry Clay. ton A Hr d apry!;BlllDche> Margaret, Clay- J. Wilson Straw has been thrice married Edi’t^ ’ °athenne' ^rtle, Martha and His first wife was Phoebe, daughter of . John Straw married Fannie Eagler She Henry Swan, of Ansonville. Of this union •s now dead He resides on his'tarm in there are living Clare and Harry. Clare mai Chest township which he has cleared and ned James Mitchell and resides in Patton Harry is a popular conductor on the JB. (j IK thre6 cbild»m, Sarah, Barvey and Ella. ’ R* R. and is unmarried. <1 John Straw, third son of Christian, mar- tCONTINUED NEXT WEEK.) ^ . ■

J. W. Straw next married Mina, daughter aided in the township and has filled many of Samuel Bloom. Of this union there are local offices. He lives on his farm, known living Lenore, Pearl and Stella. Lenore as the “Jacker Campbell place," which he married Edward Miles, of Ferguson town¬ has improved. He is an invalid. He mar¬ ship. Pearl and Stella are unmarried. ried Julian, daughter of ex-County Com J. W. Straw next married Sarah,daughter missioner Wm. McCracken. His family of John Fowler. Of this union there i8 consists of eleven children living. living one daughter. Martha Straw married Stewart McCully. Samuel P. Straw married Lissie, daughter They live on their farm in the township. of Samuel Bloom. She is dead. Samuel This farm was formerly owned by Matthew resides in the west. Of this union there are Bloom. Their family consists of six children. living in this county Jesse, Hiram and Phoebe married John McCracken, and Retta. Jesse married a Miss Alexander Delila married Charley Olson. The re¬ and resides in Madera. He is a prominent mainder of this family are unmarried and teacher in the county. consist of Jefferson, William, Allen, Harry, I Retta Straw married Grant Ball, of Mary, Amanda, Fannie and Bernice. Harry j I’ , Ii Bigler to wnship. Hiram is unmarried. is a teacher in the public schools. George H. Straw married Elizabeth, Henry Straw, eighth son of Christian, daughter ®f John Wilson, and resides on died in February, 1897, of cancer. He was fais farm in Jordan township. Of this a prospector for minerals and consequently onion there are living Myrtle, Alice, Annie, roamed around a great deal. He married Bessie and Bertha. Myrtle married John Emeline, daughter of Matthew Bloom. This Heise, and Annie married David Leathers. family are Merritt, Cameliar, Sarah, They both reside in Jordan township. The Elmer, Alsa, David, Bruce, Maggie, Teressa | remainder are single. and Ruth. Martha Jane Straw married Jack Dillon. Cameliar Straw married William Boyce They resided for a number of years in and resides in Brisbin. Of this union there Ansonville. They now reside in Clearfield. are living four children. Of this union there are living Wilson R. Sarah Straw married George Copeland and Mardie. Wilson married Della Owens, and lives in McCartney. The remainder of >1-' of Clearfield, and residesin New YorK city. • HenTy Straw’s family are unmarried. i Elizabeth, daughter of Christian Straw, Mardie Dillen married Joseph Dunsmore, son of Alex. Dunsmore, Superintendent of Sr., married Lewis Erhard, a prominent, the Bloomington coal mines, at Glen Richey. farmer and respected citizen of Knox Joseph Dunsmore is also a resident of Glen township. For genealogy of this family see Richey. history of Erhard’s. George Straw, fifth son of Christian, was Mary Jane Straw married Christian born 1825. He resides near Kerrmoor and Tubbs, of Ferguson township. See Tubbs’ j has been a resident of Ferguson township history. < nearly all his life. He has always been a Margarett Straw married Lewis Bogner, good citizen and respected by all his a prominent citizen and Justice of the neighbors. He has served the township in Peace of Allport, Morris township. They many positions of trust. He was Justice have two children living, Orrin and Stella, of the Peace for many years. He was at both unmarried. one time a candidate for the nomination Ann Strew married James Herron. They j for Sheriff at the Democratic primaries, but have no family. She died recently, egectW was defeated. He was married in 1854 to 55 yeare. 3 Elizabeth Armstrong, daughter of John Rachael Strf w died in 1858, aged 23 Armstrong, of Juniata county. His family years. consists of Willimina, Mable, Ida, George Catnarine Straw married James Jefferson | B.andCorda. Willimina married W. B. Dillen ;a i869. They reside on their farm j O’Harra. They have one son living, Ida near the Broadway school house. Of this married A. W. Hile, of Lumber City. union there are dving Belle, Howard, Blanche,Geoige. Ella, Maggie, Erie, I Terrill He died in 1889 leaving a family of six and Carl. Of these Belle is the only one children, who are all living. mirried. She married Elmer E. Hagan, a i George B. Straw married Maggie prominent lumber manufacturer of the I Maloney, of Glen Riohey. He is a resident township. They have two children, Flor¬ of Kerrmoor and has a family of one son. ence and Ward. Mable and Corda are single. ^Nicholas Straw, second son of Nicholas I James, the6tb son of Christian Straw, Straw, Sr., always lived in Centre county, never married. He was killed in 1894 by where he left a large line of deeendants. being run down by a railroad train. He John Straw, a prominent blacksmith of was aged 66 years. Blue Ball, is a grandson of Nicholas Straw, Christian, the 7th son of Christian Straw, j Rachel Straw, oldest daughter of Nicholas j was born in 1831, and has always re¬ / \Straw, Sr., married Robert McCracken, son of James McCracken, Sr. port and other points in the county. - Of Catherine Straw married George Tubbs. this union there are living Albert Y., Ida Elizabeth Straw married Daniel Dale, of \ and Emma Albert Y. married Maud Pike township. They moved to the State Tate, daughter of W. P. Tate, of Curwens- of Indiana, where they have a large line of \ ville, and resides on the farm with his deccendants. father. His family consists of two daugh¬ Mary, fourth daughter of Nicholas Straw, ters Sr., married a Mr. Brown, but did not live Ida Kester married George Underwood, long. They hadnodescendants. of Grampian. They have a family of one There are 30 male descendants of Nicholas son. Emma is single. Straw, Sr., living in the county who are Margaret Young married R. G. Me married and have families. Their descen¬ Cracken, of Ferguson township, dants and connections living in the county John W, Young married Mary, daughter number about 1,000. of Greenwood McCracken, of Ferguson THE YOUNGS. township, and resides on the homestead, of Albert Young was born in Union county, which he is the owner. He has always Pa., in 1800. He was the son of Albert and been active in township affairs, having Sophia Straw, who came to Union county filled many positions of trust in the town¬ some time prior to 1800 from Holland. ship. His family consisted of Lizzie, Eliza, Albert Young, Sr., was a veteran of the George, Mintie, Albert, Mollie, Sarah, war of 1812. When a Young man, Albert William, Earla, Dove, Leslie, Ruth and Young, Jr., went to Centre county. In Nino. Lizzie married Charley Strong, of 1831 he married Mary, a daughter of Adam Ansonville. She is now dead. Of this Wagoner, a Hollander, of Penn’s Valley, union there is living one son. Centre county, and a sister of Eliza Wil¬ George Young married Bertha, daughter liams, of this township, Catherine Brown, of Shannon Witheright, and resides in the wife of Abram Brown, of Kylertwn, and township. Laiah, wife of Andy Root, of Eylertown. Mintie Young married John Lang, of Mrs. Young is the only one of these four Gazzam. Of this union there is living one sistersliviog. son. The remainder of this family are Albert Young with his family moved into unmarried. this township from Centre county in 1852, Sophia Young married Alexander Mc- and along with George Williams farmed Murray, son of John McMurray, late of the J acker Campbell farm for about two Jordan township. I hey reside in Ramey, years, after which he purchased the farm where Mr. McMurray is engaged in the now owned by his son, John W. Young, agriculture business,having previously been from “Printer” James McCracken. He engaged in the mercantile and lumbering cleared up this farm and resided here business. Of this union there are livin{ until his death in 1881, aged 72 years. His Mollie, John, William, Emma, Maggie, wife, now in her 86th year, is the oldest Bertha, Sadie, Pearl and Ruth. Of thesp person living in Ferguson township. His there are married Mollie, who marri , Blair Eckard, of Ramey, and William, who ii; family consisted of Catharine, born 1832, I» married Lizzie Washing, of Ramey. * William, 1835, Sarah, 1837, Nancy, 1839, i Mary Jane, 1843, Margaret, 1845, John W., /_ (.CONTINUED NEXT WEEK 1 THE FERGUSONS. 1848, and Sophia, 1850, who all grew to 1 manhood and womanhood and married John Ferguson, Sr., the pioneer Ferguson except Catharine and Nancy. •f the county and progenitor of the pres¬ r ( ent Ferguson families of the county, was pb William Young has been twice married de * and has resided since his first marriage at born In Ireland in 1754, and in company •la Port Matilda, Centre county. His first with his brother came to this country in wife was Emmp, daughter of Philip Wil¬ 1775. They both enlisted in the revolution¬ liams, and sister of Aaron Williams, of ary service and served under General Centre county. Of this union there are Sullivan. They were at Freeland Fort 1 when it was captured by the Indians and living Foster, Philip and Susie, all married juV and residents of Centre county. Philip is British forces under Captain Butler. They clerk in the Sheriff’s office. He next were also engaged on the frontier guarding married Mary -. Of this union against Indian depredations. During these there were four children, one of whom was engagements the brothers became separated drowned in Bald Eagle creek. and John Ferguson never heard of his Sarah Young married John T. Straw, of brother. He was probably captured by the Ferguson township. Indians. Mary Jane Young married Ellis Kester, John Ferguson, Sr., settled on the north who now resides on his farm in Bloom aide of the river, just below the site of township. He formerly followed the trade Lumber City, in the year 1803, but did not bring bis family until the next year. On of miller at Lumber City, Grampian, Bridg- *tois place he lived and died. He was ried James Stevens, of Gazzam. totally blind for a number of years pre- John B. Ferguson resides on the farm vfou8 to bis death. along the river, once owned by his grand¬ He was the father of thirteen children father. He married Ada, daughter of and many of his progeny are now living Samuel Ktrk, of Lumber City. He enlisted in the connty. His death occurred on the in the late rebellion and was instrumental 19th of October, 1846, aged, therefore, 92 in raising acompany of volunteer infantry. years. He was Major in Company, I, 84th His wife, Sarah, a daughter of Mr. Regt. Pa. Vols. He served until the close Hannah, of Lock Haven, died in 1844, aged of the War. His family consisted of Byron, 79 years. Her remains were interred on Josephine, Florence, David, John, Grace the larm, in what is now known as the and Kirk, all unmarried. Ferguson cemetery, where the remains of Mary Jane Ferguson married Frampton a large number of his descendants and McCracken, who is now dead. connection are buried. Eliza Ferguson has been twice married. John Ferguson's family who grew to Her first husband was Edward Mills. She manhood and womanhood were: David, next married Charles Guernsey, who was / born 1788, Polly, born 1790, John, 1801, drowned a few years ago near Sbawsville Betsy Margaret, -, James, 1803, Jane, while on a fishing excursion. These sisters -, and William,-. have no families and live together at David Ferguson, the oldest son of John Murray. Ferguson, Sr., came into the township in David Luther Ferguson married bis 1839. He had previously lived near Lumber cousin, Eliza, daughter of James Fergnson. Oity. He served in . the Legislature in He was for a number of years an extensive 1837-8. He was also Commissioner of lumberman and merchant of Lumber City. Oieardeld county in 1817-18-19, and Com¬ Meeting with business reverses he moved missioners’ Clerk 1821 22. He was a civil to California, where he died a few years engineer and did most of the surveying in ago. His wife and two sons, Frank and this neighborhood at that time, and also Chester, reside in California. Their only taught school occasionally. He located on daughter, Maud, died after going to Cali¬ the farm now owned and occupied by his fornia . son, Alexander. He married Miss Rachael James H. Ferguson enlisted in Co. I., McKee, of Cumberland county, Pa. He 84th Regt. P. V., in 1861, and was trans¬ died in 1865, aged 77 years. His wife died ferred to Co. K. in 1861 and discharged in in 1853, aged 52 years. His family who 1865. He resides on his farm near Kerr- grew to manhood and womanhood consisted moor. He married Lucy, daughter of of Alexander, born 1830, Capt. John B., Thomas Owens. Of this union there is V832, Mary Jane, 1835, David Luther, 1839, living one son, Ralph, unmarried. Jame6 H., 1841, and Eliza, 1845. Poljv Fergnson, oldest daughter of John Alexander Ferguson married Amanda, Ferguson, Hr., was twice married-! Her daughter of Joseph Straw, of this town¬ first husband was Alexander Reed, of ship, and resides on the old homestead. Lawrence township, After his death she His wife died in May, 1897, aged 59 years. married Thomas Campbell, of Bell town¬ Of this anion there are living Murray, ship. She is now dead and leaves no Oscar, Alice, J. Newton and Jennie. Mur¬ progeny. ray married Alice, daughter of William John Ferguson, for whom the township was named, and second son of John Fer¬ lenry, Of this union there are living one son,, Alexander. guson, Sr., married Elizabeth Wiley, a sister of William and Joseph Wiley, who Murray Ferguson next married Effie were early settlers in the county. He ^Patterson, daughter of the late Robert Patterson, of Jordan township. Of this located on the land now owned by his son, nnion there are living Robert and James. J. C., in 1823. He lived on this place for a number of years. Besides clearing and Murray resides on his farm adjoining that of his father. improving his farm he built a saw mill and engaged in the lumber business. He did Alice Ferguson first married Edward, his first plowing with a plow having a ^on of William Cat,heart, of Olanta. Of wooden mould board of his own manu¬ [fefais union ther6 are living one son and two facture, and a steel point made by a aughters. Alice next married William blacksmith. He was somewhat of a tfendt and now resides in California. mechanic and made many of the useful Oscar Ferguson married Laura, daughter articles needed by himself and neighbors. l»f the late Thomas Norris. They reside Among these which are held as relics is a !in California and have a family of two wind mill for cleaning grain, and is in sons. possession of his son, John C. Also a loom Newton Fergusen is unmarried and re- for weaving carpet, which is owned by es in Colorado. Jennie Ferguson mar¬ r Aunt Katie Moore, of Kerrmoor, and is a' / /

times used by ber yet. James Ferguson, third eon of Jo John Ferguson later moved to Lumber guson. Sr., married Constantina Gould, City, where he engaged in the grocery resided mostly in what is now Lumber business for a few years. From Lumber City borough. He served as Sheriff of the City he moved to Lockport, near Lock county from 1835 to 1838. He died in 1863, Haven, where he died May 1st, 1874, and aged 63 years. He improved the farm now his wife died in 1883, aged 80 years. Their owned by James M. Caldwell, of Lumber remains were brought to the county for City. His family consisted of John H., burial and placed side by side in the Mc¬ born 1834, James, 1836, Mary Ellen, 1838, Clure cemetery, near CurweDsville. Sarah Jane, 1839, Eliza, 1841, William B., Hissurviving children are Mary Hannah, 1842, Isabella, 1844, Margaret, 1846, Louisa, Debbie, Elizabeth and John C. Mary 1847, and Emma, 1850. Hannah Ferguson married J. M. Ross, M. John H. Ferguson married Jane Laura, D., who practiced medicine for many years daughter of Thomas Henry. After which in the vicinity of Lumber City, and also he went to the war. After he came from engaged in the mercantile business. They the war he moved to Iowa. His family now reside in DuBois. This family consist¬ was three sons and three daughters. He ed of Mead and Tacie. Mead is unmarried. died in Iowa. Tacie married W. O. Pentz, Esq., a promi¬ James Ferguson first married Lavina j nent attorney at the Clearfield Bar and Wise. She soon died. He next married ! resident of DuBois. Margaret, daughter of John J. McCracken. Debbie Ferguson married Archibald He waB a resident of Ferguson township Jamison, a former resident of the township. for a number of years, but is now a resi¬ They moved to Kansas. dent of Beccaria township, residing on the Elizabeth Ferguson married Lewis John J. McCracken homestead. Hisfamily Hoover, son of Peter Hoover, of Pike town¬ consists of Minnie, Emma, Elverta, Paul, ship. They live in Lock Haven, where Mr. Aura, Wade and Clark. Hoover has been engaged for a number of Minnie married Hile Wisner and resides years in the hotel business. He was recent¬ in Lumber City. ly elected and served one term as Sheriff Emma married W. H. Rea, and resides of Clinton county. in Ansonville. John C. Ferguson, the only son, is a Elverta married Orvis Erhard and re¬ respected citizen of his native township sides in Knox township. The remainder and owner of the homestead of his father are unmarried. and several fine properties in Kerrmoor. Mary Ellen Ferguson married John 1 He married Ann, daughter of Wm. Price, Henry, son of Thomas Henry, and moved of Pike township. His wife died in 1896, to Arkansas. aged 57 years. Since her death Mr. Fergu¬ Sarah Jane Ferguson married Lorenzo son has resided with his son, E. W., in Price, of Pike township. See history of the Kerrmoor. Price family. . John C. Ferguson’s family consisted of Eliza married D. L. Ferguson. Robert, Abbie, ^Edward W. and H. F. William B. Ferguson married Emily Robert and Abbie died when children. Kirkwood, of Clarion county. He resides Abbie, while playing near a burning brush in Lumber City. He served in the rebel¬ heap, her clothes caught fire, from which lion. His family is Nellie, Gussie, Laura, she was so badly burned that she died soon § Gertrude, Ernest and Mildred. after. if Nellie Ferguson married Geo. M. Bilger, Edward W. and Harry F. constitute the Esq., a prominent attorney of Clearfield. well known hardware firm of Ferguson Gussie Ferguson married H. S. Buck, a Bros. fireman on the B. C. R. R. They reside at Edward W. has been twice married. His Gillingham. GILBERT TOZRR. firet wife was Unice, daughter of the late I Henry Swan, of Ansonville. Of this union About the close of the war Gilbert Tozer there is living one daughter, Loraine. He moved into the present limits of the town¬ next married Bertha Hile, daughter of the ship (at that time Chest township) from late John P. Hile, of Lumber City. what is now Newburg borough, where he Harry F. Ferguson married Ruth Mc- had been engaged in the mercantile and Gaugbey, daughter of John McGaughey, of ] umbering business. He made an improve-1 Clearfield. They have one son, Herman. ment and proceeded to clear out a farm in Betsy Ferguson married Joseph Wiley, the western end of the township. He was an early settler and progenitor of the appointed Commissioner of the county in Wiley families of the county. 1872 to fill a vacancy caused by the c&ath Margaret Ferguson married Thomas of David Buck. At the following election lead, an early settier of Lawrence town- he was elected to the same office and served until 1876. He was drowned in the Sns Htar ~ * - . - - -Jr Cyrus Thurstin was commissioned Cap- quehanna river, at a place known' as the tain, he having seen some service in the Wood Bock, In 1873. Mr. Tozer and two war of 1812-14 near Lake Esoe. He was a men named Lee Bush and Scot"; Wyler very small man ; when marching his sword were on a half raft when they were overr trailed on the ground. He had the Yankee taken at this point by a large raft piloted drawl in his speech, ai , was full oi conceit by a man named Farrier. The river is in his military ability. One of bis remem¬ very rapid at this point and a larger raft bered expressions which he often used was gains very fast on a smaller c. e. This “W’aas my glory, by thundaw, boys.” He caused the larger raft to force the smaller needed all his glory for be had a very un c ce against the rock and caused it to sink, manageable lot of men to train. Home of Mr, Tozer was washed into the current and these men hud rifles, but most of them had drowned. Messrs. Bush and Wyler as¬ only sticks for guns. They would get badly cended the rock and escaped mixed and tangled up. The Captain’s Gilbert Tozer’s wife was Margaret command “as you were” would be given, Weaver, who is yet living, aged 59 years. but they ofteD did not know “how they His family consisted of Isabella, Mary, were.” Captain Thurstin’s patience was William F., Sarah, Jacob, Ada, Ashley and often greatly tried and his “by thunder” Hugh. often heard. Captain Thurstin was suc¬ Isabella married Alonzo Hurd, of La Jose, ceeded by Captain John McQuilken. but soon died. Mary married Jeff Trostle, Cyrus Tharstiu’s family consisted of of New Washington, where they reside, j Jane, Phtebe, William, Orange, Albert, William F, Tozer married Maggie, daughter Cyrus, Moses, Jacob, David and Hulda. of James W. Johnson, of Jordan toweship. I Jane Thurstin married Jacob Linafelt, of His family consists of Hoy, Orrie, Alice, Chest Creek. Of this union there lived and Wilson, Bessie and Sarah. Sarah Tozer were married John, William, Christy Ann, married Daniel Curry. They reside in Jacob, Hulda and Catherine. John and Oazzam. Their 'rmily consists of Gertrude, William Linafelt nre married and reside at ■' Willis, Jeffie and Guy. Gertrude married LaJose. Catherine Linafelt marriedRobt. Thomas Robinson, of Gazzam. Jacob PenniDgton, Jr. Hulda Linafelt married Tozer married Miss Prudie Jackson. They Robt. Pennington, Sr. live on the homestead and have a family Phcebe Thurstin married David Michaels, of three cbiluren. Sr., of Chest township. Of this union there Ada Tozer married John D. Coon, of are living Orange and Cyra.- Ooalport, where they reside. Orange Thurstin was born in 1842. He Ash’ey Tozer married Effie, daughter of served iu the late war for over three years. KmberH''nRead. She is now dead. Ashley He has been twice married. He first mar¬ is engaged in the livery business at Gaz¬ ried Miss Sarah Cathcart. Of this union zam and enjoys a good trade. there are living William, David, Nettie, Hugh Tozer is unmarried and resides Annie and Ellen. William married Cora *vith Ms Mother. White, and resides i.i Elk county. David TUB THUltSTINS. married Addie Cald well and resides in Cur Cyrus Thurstin came to Clearfield county wen6ville. Nettie married Jacob Barger e.bj :t 1822 from Tioga county. His wife and resides in O'Shanter. Annie married was Mary Schoonover. He lived for a Jiarry Johnson and resides in Blair county. wbil9 along Chest Creek, but afterwards Orange Michaels next married Laura became a resident of Ferguson and later of Sunderlin, of Burnside township. He at |s- Jordan township. His ancestry has been present resides in Chest township, near traced back to the Massachusetts Colony. Westover. He died in 1806, aged about 7 J years. His Cyrus Michaels resides in Mahaffey bor- jj wife died in 1887, aged 78 years. >ugh. In the early history of Ferguson William Thurstin married Martha Jane township, as well as other neighboring litterington, of Indiana county. He clear¬ townships, all able-bodied men under 'd out and improved a farm in Jordan town- Myearsof age were required, under the hip, where he died in 1886, aged 67 years, martial laws of the Commonwealth, to meet lis wife died in 1876, aged 4.4 years. His and drill one day in the year or be subject to a militia fine of oiio dollar. Many of these militia men would take their families Biiah and William. John Thurstin is un¬ with them to enjoy the sight and have a married. Catherine married Henry Pen “good time.’’ There was always on the ‘ngton, a prosperous farmer of Chest town¬ ground plenty of gingerbread, cider, beer ship Of this union here are living two and often something stronger to suit the daughters. Reniemarri.J Wm. Michaels. tastes of the crowd. Often disturbances of Chest township. vould arise from an over indulgence in Samantha Thurstin married Aaron Pen- _ - refresh "-'orLfoc _ V'ington, of Chest township. They have v: v -- _ „ u m . Harvey, who Albert Tt [lrstiu first married Ellen Evans, d, of Chest township, Of this unid there are living Martha Ann, lien " 'hur-tin married David Michaels, •rkBoocoa,Rebecca, ijiza and Ebon. Martha Ann of Johi Cliche els, Sr. She is now married A^lrew Barrett, of Jordan town¬ ad. Of this union there are living John, ship. Rebarca married George McFadden, Earn and Harry. of Greenwood township. Eliza married Hanc 1. Thurstin ‘r5t married Robert BeD.jamin Mingling, of Burnside township. Wiley Of *■ >is union t-ere are living one Ebon married Mr. Schoonover, of West- son and one laughter. After the death of over. her first husl and Hannah married William Albert Thurston next married Mary Harkins, of t.azzam. Of this union there Templeton. Of this union there is living isliving son. one son, John. Wallace Tl urstin married Rose Neeley, Cyrus Thurstin married Matilda Wolf of ludiana cc v.nty, and resides on the home¬ and resides rear Cleafield. His family con¬ stead in Jordan township. He is a pros¬ sists of Lcrenro, Harry, Irvin, Oscar,George, perous farmer. Hi? family consists of five Rebecca,Eliza, Alice and Blanche. Lorenzo daughters. married Flora Stoutt, and lives in Ohio, George Thurstin married Yinnie Pass- Harry married Cora WTlson aod resides in more, daughter of Hiram Passmoiof Curwensvill .•: George married May Norris Ferguson township. He is a carpenter by and resides in Clearfield. Eliza married trade a-nd at present proprietor of the E. G. Ogden. Blanche married Jacob White House, at Gazzam. His family con¬ Painter. Rebecca married Robert Murphy sists of one son and one daughter living. and Alice married J. H. Cole. Briah Thurstin married Julia Williams, Moses Thurstin married Mary Jane Mc- of Peale, and resides in Gazzam. Crystal. He lived for a number of years William Thurstin married Lillie Mc- in Ansonville and was well known through¬ Quilkm and resides in Kerrmoor, They out the upper end of the county. He and have two so-3 aDd one daughter. his wife are f>otb dead. His family con¬ Orange Thurstin, Sr., married Mary Ann sisted of Cyrus, Craus, William, Grant, t Green. He improved a farm in Jordan Sarah, Maggie, Medifi and Annie. township, on which he resided until a short William Thurstin married Nancy Wood, time before his death. He died in 1897, naughter of William Wood, of Chest town¬ aged 75 years, his wife having died several ship. He is a farmer and resides on bis years before. His family consisted of farm in Chest township. His family con¬ Phoebe, Harriet. Sarah, Louisa, Delila, sists of Agnes, Earle, Berlie, Maud and James, Calvin and Orange. Jr. Phoebe Nancy. Thurstin mart ied Daniel Bailor. They re- j Craus Thurstin married Jennie Cole and side in Ferguson township. Of this union j resides in Patton. there are living William John, Bert, Cal- j Grant Thurstin married Cora Cole and vin, Leslij, Clyde. Lloyd. LVlintie, Belle and resides in Jefferson county. Phoebe. Sarah Thurstin married Robert Lewis Harriet Tlurstin first married Timothy and they reside in Chest township. Their Lums.do, of Cambri, county. Of this family consists of Lola, Maggie, Thomas, 4 union there are ivingtwo sons and three Irvin and Virgie. Lola Lewis married daughter: Calvin Strong, of Ansonville. After the i.eath of her first husband Har¬ Maggie Thurstin married Harvey Clark, ,*s riet married James May, and they reside of Ansonville. She is now dead. m 1 in Glasgow Cambria county. Media Thurstin married William Wil¬ SarahTht stin married Oscar D. Shoff, liamson, of Patton. 1 J of 1 Sigler township, where they reside. They riO Annie Thu rstin married Aaron Barr, of 11 have one son and two daughters. Burnside. 2 r c Louisa Thurstin married Easton Lewis, Job Jacob Thurstin married Margaret Mc- rde “ or Ferguson township. They have one son. Crystal. Of this union there arelivitj' la i Delila Thurstin married Janies Griffith. Clara, who married Miles Flegal and re¬ m They reside on the Orange Thurstin home¬ sides in Ansonville; Minnie, who married 184-1 stead. They have two sor-s and one Frank Pelton and resides in Allport; Addie, 'zaU daughter. who married William Norris and resides ;!: ! Janies Tb rstin married Nancy Bailey in Grampian. iUl resides on his farm in Ferguson town • David Thnrstiu married Melia Palmer, cf . Of th.s union there are living Clark Indiana county, and moved to Iowa. J Oscar, March, Effie, Mary, Alice and Bailie Hulda Thurstin married James Riddle i Orange Thurstin, Jr., married Minnie moved to Illinois; Moore and resides on the Isaac Moore farm ' 1 in Ferguson tow:. -;b;p. This family con¬ sists of Robi“ and Rue.

-'Lr dsl® ■ V ... __ . • Peter Erhard came to Clearfield county ter of Christian Straw, Sr., in 1854. Of in 1803, when he located land on Little this union there were six sons and four Clearfield creek, where new Millport now daughters, Alvin, Mariab, Emma, Edith, \ stands, but did not improve the land until Erastus, Clement, Wallace, Bigler, Addi 1816. At this time he and hie sons com¬ son and Maud. Mariah married George l menced clearing a farm out of the wilder¬ Boyce. 8he died in 1890. Of this union ness, which has since been divided up in there are living four children. lots and contains the well known peaceable Emma married David Bright. She died little village of New Millport. He also jn 1891. Of this union there are living * erected a distillery on this land. He was three children. The remainder are un¬ of German decent and a follower of Martin married. Wallace and Bigler were twins, m Lnther. We were unable to learn the date and named in honor of Ex U. S. Senator of his immigration to this country. William A. Wallace and Ex-Governor He married Mrs. Eve High, widow of William Bigler. Bigler Erhard is dead. _ High. She wa6 a daughter of This family has taken an active interest Christian Dale, of Centre county, and a in educational matters. Wallace and sister of the wife of Nicholas Straw, Sr. John Addison Erhard attended the State Mrs. High’s family of her first marriage Normal at Lock Haven, Pa., for two terms. consisted of Susanna and John. Susanna They taught three successive terms of \ married John Bloom, of Pike township. school in the county. Wallace attended / (See Jonn A. Dale’s history of Pike town¬ State College one year and Addison at¬ ship). tended Selinsgrove College one year. They j John High’s family consisted of Abram, both have been in attendance at Witten- who is dead, David and Philip, who live in burg College, Springfield, Ohio, from which the west, John, who is dead, Rebecca. who institution they will graduate in June, 1898. married William Cathcart, Mary, who Mand is a successful teacher in the schools married David Wise, Susanna, who mar¬ of Knox township. Clement is a woods¬ ried Levi Bloom, Sophia, who first married man, Alvin is a carpenter. Erastus and Samuel Stroup and after his death married Edith assist their parents on the farm. jlr._Maddy, of Lawrence township, John Erhard, second son of Christian, and Leah, who married Jacob Gibson. narried Elizabeth Patterson, a daughter Peter Erhard was drowned in 1829 while it Robert Patterson, of Knox township, , attempting to cross the Susquehanna river ind resided for a number of years on a near Curwensville. His family consisted farm now owned by Will McDonald, in of Christian, born 1801, David, 1807, Philip, Bigler township. He sold his farm and 1809, George, 1804, and Margaret,-. purchased a property about one mile below Christian Erhard was born in Centre ew Millport, on which he erected a saw county. He married Jane Patterson. He mill in 1881, and has successfully oper¬ cleared out and improved the farm now ated the same since. His family consists owned by the heirs of Enoch Erhard, de¬ of Robert and Alice. ceased. Besides improving this.farm he, Robert married Laura Marks, of Somer¬ with his brother, David, built a saw mill set county. He assists his father in the and grist mill, from which the village of lumber business, and lives near the mill. New Millport was named. They operated Alice married William Fink and resides these mills for many years. He also en- in Knox township. gaged in the lumbering business. He died Rachael Erhard married G. W. Rex, of r in 1857, aged 56 years. His family con- Pike township. He was a prominent car. 1-H ' sis ted of seven sons and four daughters. penter and a former teacher in the public Elizabeth, born 1830, Lewis, 1832, John, schools of Clearfield county. He, with his 1836, Rachael, 1838, Enoch, 1841, Mary Jane. family, lived in the State of Illinois for 1843, Peter, 1846, Philip, 1848, Martha, 1850, 2 years, in Glen Hope 4 years, in Mapleton, .Ifred T., and a daughter who died in Huntingdon county, for 2 years. From the 4 I infancy. Elizabeth died when a young latter place he moved to Irvona, where he woman. Lewis is a prominent citizen and died in 1853. Of this union there were farmer of Knox township. He is also Orlando, who married Nettie Cooper, of owner of a large amount of coal lands in Glen Hope. He i3 dead. Emma J., who different sections of the county. He was married William Metz, yard fo.^man and drafted during the late rebellion in Febru¬ book keeper of the Irvona tannery. Enoch Erhard married Nancy Jane, ary, 1865 and served until, July, 1S65, when daughter or oamuei rtea, ot^oraanor Joraan town- he received an honorable discharge. He ship. He resided on the Christian Erhard has always been one of the most substan¬ homestead until his death in 1895, aged 54 tial and influential citizens of Knox town¬ years. He engaged in farming and lum¬ ship, honored and respected by all his bering during his life. His family consist¬ neighbors. He married Elizabeth, daugh- ed of Orvis, Annie, Ida, Elvira, Elmer, Ma - nra tilda, Sara and Dora. Orvis Erhard mar- - E—-~- 99* '(

Knox township about all his life. His family ried Elverta Ferguson and resides on the consisted of Eliza, Hosea, Eli. Sarah, John High homestead, in Knox township. Patience, Ezra and Edward. Annie Erhard married Will McGonigal, of While Philip Erhard and John Curry Centre county, and resides on the Thomas were cutting some timber for a building Rea homestead, in Jordan township. Ma¬ they fell a tree which struck Martha, tilda married L. Z. Fierce, of Jordan town¬ Philip’s oldest daughter, who was a small ship. The remainder of this family are un¬ child and bringing them a drink. She was married. Elmer is a successful teacher in killed by the tree and was the first person the public schools. buried in the New Millport cemetery, in Mary Jane Erhard first married Harry 1846. This cemetery now covers an acre of Williams, of Centre county. He died while ground almost filled with the graves of the in service in the late rebellion. Of this departed friends of the residents of the union there is living one son, Frank C., of community. Lawrence township. She next married J. Eliza married Samuel Tobias, of Fergu D. Wright, the nurseryman, of Centre, son township. Of this union there are liv¬ Lawrence township. Of this union there ing Clara, Cornelia, Emma, Gertrude, are living Janie, Willie, Arthur, Cloyde William, Orpheus, Enis, Alfred and and Bessie. Junie Wright married Paul Chauncey. Clara married Wade Norris, of Conklin, of Clearfield. Ferguson township; Cornelia married Allen Peter Erhard, Jr,, is a resident of New Bloom; Orpheus married Cornelia Curry. Millport, where he enjoys his life in single He resides in O’Shanter. William and blessedness. He is a prominent and re¬ Enis are teachers in the public schools. spected citizen. He is Justice of the Peace Hosea Erhard married Martha Jane in Knox township, which position be has Bloom and has always resided in Knox held for 16 years, having been Constable township. His family consists of Allie, j previous to his election to the office of Bert and Kenzie. Allie married Elizabeth Justice. Mays. Philip Erhard married Mary Sheoning, Sarah Erhard married Enos Bloom, of of Jordan township. He is a practical Knox township. Of this union there is | carpenter, at which trade he worked for a living one daughter, Gertrude, who mar¬ nember of years. He for several years en¬ ried Dr. W. C. Park, of New Millport. Of gaged in the mercantile business at New this union',there is living one daughter May. Millport, where his building, together with Dr. Park is a prominent and practical a large stock of merchandise, was consumed physician and enjoys a lucrative practice. j by fire in March, 1897. He is now a resi¬ Eli Erhard married Loretta Evans and dent of Altoona, where he is engaged ie the resides in Centre county. | mercantile business. He was postmaster Patience Erhard married John Rea. See at New Millport during both terms of Cleve¬ Prof. Rorabaugh’s history of Jordan town¬ land’s administration, and also has filled ship. many local positions of trust. His family Ezra Erhard married Molly Yohe, of consists of Ernest L., Mattie, Alma, Nellie, Jefferson county, where he resides. Of Cecil, Arthur and Leela. Mattie and this union there are living Samuel, Ollie j Alma married, respectively, Sylvester High and Enos. Samuel married Maggie De- Armott. , and H. E. Strunk, of New Millport. Ernest ill L. is a rising young physician of Cherry- Edward Erhard married Annie De Armott. tree. Of this union there are living five children. Martha Erhard married John Hunter, of He resides in Ferguson township. ;)L Irvona. She is dead. Of this union there Margaret Erhard married Joseph Patter, are living Elizabeth, Alfred, Ira, Emma son, an early settler in Jordan township, and Dora. Elizabeth married Lee Roberts, and for many years a citizen of Fergusoi. ;'v; j of Mahaffey. township. Of this union there are five sons and three daughters, David, Peter, Alfred T. Erhard first married Nina tn Norris, daughter of Thomas Norris, de¬ Robert, Hezekiah and Georeo. See history 4' ceased. After her death he married Dora of Jordan township. Herdman, of Utahville. He is at present George Erhard was born 1804 and died 1 1888, aged 84 years. He married Susannah engaged in the mercantile business with ol j his brother Philip, in Altoona. Peoples, of Washington Furnace, Nittany David, second son of Peter Erhard, Sr., Valley, Centre county, June 10,1830. She never married. He died in 1855, aged 48 is yet living, aged 86 years, and resides in years. Knox township. He was always a resi¬ Philip Erhard, third son of Peter Erhard, dent of Knox township. He served as Sr., married Mary Curry, daughter of County Commissioner 1858-61. His family Richard Curry, of Pike township. He was consisted of Belinda, Sabina, Catherine, a lumberman, farmer and carpenter. H Margaret E-, Sarah Jane, David, Joseph, was a.lan ft nnt.Ari htunfai* roeiHoH i Mary and Cortes. Belinda married Lewis 1. Bloom, ol Pike and Joseph Moofre, whose genealogies have township. t)f this union there are living 'been previously published. He died in Cortes, Calvin, Emma and Kate. See his¬ 18—, aged — years. Thomas Henry’s tory of Pike township. family consisted of Elizabeth, born 1827, Sabina Erhard first married Jesse Grif¬ Josiah, 1829, John, 1831, Jane, 1833, William, fith, of Indiana county. Of this union there 1835, Matthew, 1838, Mary Hannah, -, is living one daughter, Mrs. Geo. I. Thomp¬ Margaret,-, and Harriet,-. son, of Clearfield. Elizabeth Henry married Thomas Mc¬ After his death she next married John Cracken, of Ferguson township. See gene- , Owens, of Pike township. Of this union alogy of McCrackens. there are living Geo. E. Owens, editor of Josiah Henry married Sarah Barrett, | the Clearfield Republican, Frank, Edith, daughter of Hiram Barrett, and resided Bertha and Ollie. for a number of years on the Thomas Henry Catherine Erhard died unmarried. homestead. He is now a resident of Patton. Margaret E. Erhard married James M. His family consists of Hannah, Lyde, Bloom, of Ferguson township. Of this Margaret and Samuel. Hannah married union there is one daughter, Lola. She Clempson Davis, son of Branson Davis, I died September, 1881. an early settler of the county. Of this: Sarah Jane Erhard married John Dale, union there are living Talford, Foster andj of Centre county. To them five children Lydia. were born,viz: Felix, David, Susan, Jennie Lydia Henry married William Klinger, a and Laona. leading blacksmith of Ansonville. David Erhard married Jane Patterson. Margaret Henry married Lewis Caldwell, He died July 12,1895. They had no family. of Pike township. Joseph Erhard married Carrie Read and Samuel Henry married Gertrude Ross, resides in Davis county. West Virginia. daughter of Wesley Ross, of Greenwood To them four children, two boys and two township. girls, were born, Ralph, Lloyd, Venna and John Henry first married Mary E. Fergu¬ Erma. son. He was for a number of years a resi¬ | Cortes Erhard died in infancy, Oct. 20, dent of Ferguson township and served for a I 1867. time in the late rebellion. He moved with Mary Erhard married M. R. Lewis, a his family to Arkansas, where he died. His prominent blacksmith of New Millport. Of first wife died after they moved to Arkan¬ this union there are living Blanche. Zanie, sas. Mollie and Paul. THE HENHYS. (/ Of his first union his family consisted of John Henry, Sr., was born in County Eliza Jane, Sannessa, Gertrude (died in Down, Ireland, in 1761, and married Miss 1862) Constantina, Orlanda C., Margaret Elizabeth McBride, of the same place. : and Thomas. They, with their family, came to this coun-i Jane Henry married John H. Ferguson, i try and located first in Huntingdon countyA See genealogy of Fergusons. Later they moved to Centre county where William Henry married Martha T. Gar. | they lived for some time. They after¬ rettson, daughter of Joel Garrettson, and! wards moved into Clearfield county, locat¬ sister of Theodore Garrettson, of New ing for a short time on the place now Washington. He was a Justice of the owned by the heirs of William H. Smith. Peace in Lumber City borough for 12 years. John Henry and his son Thomas pur¬ He moved to Osceola in 1890, where he at chased a piece of land and improved the present resides. His family consisted of farm now owned by Anthony Hile, Jr., Lavina, Theodore, Alfretta, Charley and j where he lived until his death, which oc¬ Louisa. Lavina married Jacob Neff, of j curred in 1856, he was, therefore, 95 years JNew Washington. She is dead. of age. Theodore married Virgie Laudaker, of i His wife, Elizabeth, died in 1856, aged 83 Dallas, HI. He now resides in Iowa. years. She had one brother who came to Alfretta married Murray Ferguson, of j this country a short time after their arrival Ferguson township. and made them a visit. He disappeared Charley married Ida Brown, of Osceola. shortly after and they have not heard of He resides in West Clearfield and is asso¬ ciate editor of the Clearfield Monitor. him since. Louisa died when a child. John Henry’s family consisted of Thomas, Matthew Henry married Mary, daughter Mary, Susannah and Joseph. of Joseph Straw, of Ferguson township. Thomas Henry was born in Ireland and He was a prominent lumberman for a came to this country with his parents and number of years and resided in Ferguson resided on the farm he and his father had township on the farm now owned by the improved until his death, which occcurred heirs of Emberson Read and improved the i 1866. He married Margaret, a daughter same by clearing up the land and erecting : John Moor.e, Sr., and a sister of William good buildings on the same. He is now a resident of Lawrence townsshp. His family Idle for Over Half a consisted of nine children, three of whom f Century. died when young. Those living are Edith, Alice, Joseph, Emma and Pearl. Edith taught school for a number of years. She MANY MURDERS COMMITTED THERE married George Glenn, of Elk county, i where they reside. Special to the Tkibune. Edward is also a teacher in the public Karthaus, Pa., January 23.—Consid¬ schools of Elk county. He married Elvina erable interest has been stirred up here Goss, of Elk county, where he resides. by the announcement that local capital¬ Joseph married Grace Weed, of Elk ists are negotiating for the purchase of county, where he resides. The remainder the rich iron ore mines of this locality, are unmarried, Alice and Emma are which have lain idle now for over half a teachers in the public schools. century. Though considerable secrecy Margaret Henry married Lorenzo Hile, has been observed in the dealings,enough of Lumber City. They moved to Nebraska has been learned to know that the deal 'where they now reside. Their son, Budd, is being made in the interest of eastern iisa member of the State Legislature of capitalists, and if the parties are success¬ Nebraska. ful in obtaining all the land, it will mean | Mary Hannah Henry married James the development of the mines, and the Hile, a respected citizen and Justice of the most prosperous times for Karthaus the Peace of Lumber City borough. village has ever known. The great draw¬ Harriet Henry married James S. Read. back to the development of these mines ex-County Commissioner. in the past was that the only outlet is Mary Henry, daughter of John Henry over the Keating branch of the Philadel¬ Sr., married WMlam Kowles, an early phia and Erie to Keating, from whence settler of what is now Greenwood town¬ shipment would have to be made over ship. After the death of William Rowles ithe Philadelphia and Erie, and west over the same road to Driftwood, and thence she married Greenwood McCracken, of over the Allegheny Valley to Pittsburg. Ferguson township. But now the growing scarcity of native Susannah Henry married Harmon ores as rich as the Karthaus mines, which Rowles, an early settler and resident of are regarded as among the highest in | Lawrence township. They are both dead. per cent, of any hematite belt in the Joseph Henry married Harriett Woods, country, doubtless makes the matter of of Ferguson township, where he resided outlet a minor consideration. until his death. His wife is yet living, The history of Karthaus, which is known to but very few people now alive, aged about 80 years. is so unique as to be unequalled by any other locality in the commonwealth. Located in the very heart of the Alle¬ gheny mountains, along the West branch of the Susquehanna river, it was up until From, . 1830 only a spot in the wilderness. In the year 1829 Porter Karthaus came to I .<2L this country from Germany, and after a cf short stay in Wilmington, Del., started up the Susquehanna river in an old flat boat.his main object being one of explor¬ ation with a view of locating at any point 1 he found most favorable. He journeyed <, through all the southeastern tier of coun- io ties, and choosing the West branch °f.j » the river, continued his journey until oh he arrived at the point in the d? Alleghenies now marked by this a place. Here his journey was interrupted by a twenty foot fall in the stream which, from the frothy condition of the Ajl( Something Concerning the Bistory of water as it rippled over the walls, he at ' once named the “Buttermilk Falis.” /> an Old Place. Karthaus had been interested in iron ul manufacture in the old country and his practiced eye at once discerned the pres^ WAS LAID 00T IN THE YEAR 1830 ence of iron ore hereabouts. Being pos¬ sessed of a considerable fortune he at once secured a large tract of land from It is in the Midst of a Very Rich Iron Ore the government and proceeded to build a town. A number of unpretentioue Region Which Has Now Lain houses were built, and as a basis for the ment kept at fever heat for several maintenance of the place the ruan im¬ weeks, but soon died out when the fact ported workmen and at once opened up became known that the gold-bearing ore mines. quartz was very scarce, and what there A furnace was built and also one of was of it contained 6uch a small per the first burr grist mills in the county, cent, of gold that it would not pay any but the latter was short-lived, as to spend their davs hunting for it. How¬ Karthaus never had any grain to grind; ever, a company was formed for the pur¬ save that brought there by himself, aj pose of developing the quartz mine, but fact he might have known beforehand, after spending considerable money, for1 as there was not a farm at that time which no return was received, the within twenty-five miles of the place. scheme fell through, and since that time However, he operated his furnace some Karthaus has known only a humdrum eight years. The pig iron was at first existence, as all the coal mines of the packed to market on the backs of horses, Allegheny mountains are located too far and later transported down the Susque¬ from this place to bring any degree of j hanna river in boats and arks built spe¬ prosperity here. cially for the purpose. But in this en¬ terprise Karthaus was also unlucky, as so many of his boats and arks were HISTORY OF CLEARFIELD CO. wrecked going down stream as to render the work of carrying on the operations a FROM ITS INCORPORATION TO THE losing venture. Shortly after Karthaus PRESENT TIME. had firmly established the town, he re¬ turned to Wilmington and married the / / ■ > | belle of that city, a Miss Marston, and Carefully Compiled and Entertainingly brought her to his solitary mountain Written by a Corps of Special Cor¬ borne. They had one child, Peter respondents. Karthaus, jr. In addition to its wild surroundings, Karthaus became one of the most out¬ [The Spirit will give a complete history of the lawed localities in the state. Upwards county. It will be written up by Townships and of a dozen murders were committed Boroughs and will carefully cover the develop¬ there inside a dozen years, and, straoge ment of the County, and also give short biograph¬ as it may seem, not one man arrested for ical sketches of the Pioneer Families.] the crime was ever convicted. The younger Karthaus was found one morn¬ FERGUSON TOWNSHIP. ing with his throat cut, and the last of BY A. Y. STRAW, OF KERRMOOB. the notorious crimes was the murder of a man named Babb. Just two months MILITARY RECORD. prior to this murder, John Agar had As the formation of Ferguson township been killed in mistake for James White. came during the time of the military drill, ' For the murder of Babb three men were or “muster day,” is previously noted arrested, namely, Daniel Moore, James in connection with some of the genealogies Curley and John Leonard. They were all tried separately in the quarter ses¬ of the families, many of the early settlers sions of this county, but there being no were enrolled in the drill and participated direct evidence against them, all three in the muster day exercises. Yet none of got off, although public opinion con¬ the settlers gained higher honors than demned the trio. Later, James Curley private, with the exception of Captain was shot while committing robbery in Thurstin. Oil City; Leonard died in the western Though these militia men were ready to penitentiary, where he was serving a term for counterfeiting, and Moore still be called into service during the Mexican i lives, a farmer in the wilds of this coun- war yet none ever saw a battle except, i ty, now past 80 years of age and regard¬ possibly, a few who were young men at ed quite wealthy. This ended the array that time, may have been called into ser¬ of crime in this locality for a period of vice, or enlisted, as the case may have thirty years, until in 1890 when the beau¬ been, during the late rebellion. tiful Clara Price was murdered by the When the late unpleasantness occurred 'fiend Andrews, who was convicted in between the north and south the citizens of | Bellefonte and hanged April 17, 1891. A [ monument in the shape of a broken shaft Ferguson township were very much divided was erected to the memory of Miss Price in opinion as to the necessity of the war on the spot where the body was found, | and as to the rights of being called upon to and now stands the one thing to first at-: take up arms against their southern neigh¬ tract the attention of the traveler on his bors, many looking upon the declaration ' way here from Snow Shoe. of war as beiDg unnecessary, and that the About ten years ago a fervor of excite- j questions of difference between the two ment was created here by the announce¬ sections of country could be settled by other ment of the discovery of gold on the ad-f jacent mountains. The report soon means than by taking away the husbands L pread and every day brought hundreds and able-bodied young men from their ■ the scene *o dig for gold. The excite- ] families. respected cititizen of Kerrmoor. k JLMany of these famines nfla suffered untold privations and hard work Robert G. McCracken enlisted May 29, in clearing up a small home, and were just 1861, in Co. K. 42d Bucktail Regt.; recruit¬ commencing the enjoyment in a small way ed in Curwensville, Clearfield county, by of the fruits of their labor and privations. Captain Edward A. Irvin. He was pro¬ Many pictures might be drawn as to what moted to Corporal; mustered out with (motive they may have had for remaining company June 11, 1S64; resides in Soldiers’ |at home, there was possibly some, as there Home, in Erie. 'would be to-day if called upon to protect David M. Glenn enlisted May 29, 1861, in and defend their country, who would rather Co. K. 42d Bucktails; mustered out with let the other fellow fight, but mostly these company June 11, 1864; resides in Centre I were men who were conscientiously con¬ county. victed as to their supposed rights to oppose James Glenn enlisted November 18,1861, the war movement, and would have given in Co. K. 42d Bucktails; wounded in action (up their lives on the altar of their country at Drainsville, Va., December 20, 1861; for its defense or protection against a for¬ discharged on surgeon’s certificate May 16, eign foe. They have exceptionally proved 1862. He is yet a resident of the township. It0 bave keenlaw-abid; g, peaceable, liberty See biographical sketch in issue of Nov. loving citizens, whose lives are monu¬ 26,1897. ments for the emulation of their posterity. John Henry enlisted October 3,1861, from I Others, however, were just as strong in this township; transferred to Co. B. 149th their opinions as to the necessity of the Regt. Bucktails, Aug. 9#, 1862; wounded at I war and responded to the call by enlisting Wilnerness, Va., May 6, 1864; promoted to ! in the cause. Corporal Feb. 27,1863; to Sergeant June 6, 1865; mustered out with company June 24, 1865; moved to Arkansas after war where he died. John B. Campbell enlisted 1861, in Co. I. 84th P. V. I.; transferred to Co. K. 1862; came home on furlough in fall of 1862 wentTiacK to service in spring of 1863; ios’t at Bristo Station Oct. 19, 1863; supposed to have been killed. John B. Ferguson enlisted 1861 in Co. I. 84th Regt., Pa. V. I.; promoted from First Sergeant to Second Lietenant Feb. 15,1862* to First Lieutenant; resigned Nov. 15, 1862. Resides in Lumber City borough. A. G. Jamison enlisted 1861, Co. I, 84th Reg’t, Pa. Vol. Inf., Sergeant; discharged 1863; moved to Nebraska after the war. Robert Jamison, enlisted 1861 Co. I, 84th Reg’t, Pa. Vol,, Co., I., Corporal; tansferr- ed to Co. K., 1862; promoted to Sergeant; captured at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3d, 1863; trausferred to Co. K., 57th, P. V. Jan. 13, 1865; Veteran; resides in Lumber City. John H. Ferguson enlisted 1861, Co. 1,84th Reg’t, Pa. Vol., wounded at Port Republic, June 9, 1862; transferred to Co. K. in 1862; In making up this record three points ap¬ discharged on surgeon’s certificate; moved pear before us in order to make it complete. to Iowa, where he died. Joseph W llkenson drafted “from Snow First, those who enlisted and were drafted Shoe township, Centre county, Nov. 16, from this township. Second, those who 1864, and assigned to the 149th Regt. Pa. came into the township after the war and Vol.; discharged May 5, 1865, by general have passed away. Third, those who are order of Secretary of War. He is a re¬ now residents of the township and who spected ^citizen of Kerrmoor. moved here since the war, the following Ellis Lewis enlisted August 26, 1862, in record has been arranged accordingly : Co. B. 149th Regt. Bucktails; promoted to ,, J. H. DeHaas volunteered May 6, 1861, Corporal; killed at Gettysburg July 1,1863. ( from Girard township in 34th Regt. 5th Conrad Barrett enlisted Aug. 26, 1862; Reserves; wounded at Spottsylvania Court wounded at North Ann River, Va., May 22, House, Va., on May 8, 1864; mustered out 1864; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps; I with company June 11. 1864. He is now a discharged by general order June 29, 1865. : Resident of Ferguson township. I \ • -

Orange Michaels enlisted 1861 in Co. I. Chancellorsville, Va.. May 3,1863; wound¬ P. V. 1.; transferred to Co. K. 1862; dis¬ ed in same battle by having a piece shot charged after 3 year’s service; a resident from his right ear; discharged Dec. 6,1864, of Chest township. at Petersburg, Va.; resides in Ferguson Frampton McCracken enlisted 1861 in Co. township. I. 84th P. V. I.; was injnred in a line of John Shnxiel enlisted Oct. 24, 186 L, in uo. march which caused white swelling; dis¬ K, 84th Reg’t Pa. Vol. Jan. 13, 1865; vet¬ charged from Philadelphia hospital. He eran ; died in Kerrmoor March 1,1897. died in Ferguson township. Isaac Solly enlisted Aug. 28,1861, Co. D. Philip McCracken enlisted 1861 in Co. I. 105th Reg’t; discharged on Surgeon’s corti¬ 84th P. V. I.; transferred to Co. K. 1862; cate, Oct. 4, 1862; died in Burnside town¬ wounded at Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9,1862, ship . and Wilderness May 6,1364; taken prisoner Eli Erhard enlisted Aug. 26,1862, Co. B., 'I Ang. 16,1864, near Richmond, Va.; trans- 149th, Buck tails; discharged on surgeon’s ' ferred to Co. K. 57th P. V. Jan. 13,1865; certificate Feb. 27, 1863; died in Knox veteran: died soon after returning from township. war. Harvey McCracken Aug. 26, 1862; Co. B. James H. Ferguson enlisted Sept. 28,1861, 149th, Bucktails; wounded at Gettysburg, in Co. I. 84th P. V. I.; transferred to Co. K. Pa., July 1, 1863; transferred to Veteran 1852; promoted to Corporal Aug. 1, 1863, Reserve Corps; discharged by general order to Sergeant Sept. 1, 1864; captured at J uly 17,1865 Resident of Ferguson township.

"- v . 'T'r -' l. John C. Ferguson drafted Oct. 3, lSWTfTn Co. F. 57th Reg’t Pa. Vol; discharged by general order July 17, 1865; resident of Kerrmoor. Ed. Shaffer enlisted in Co. I, 16th Pa. Cavalry, from Perry County. 1862; wound¬ ed; taken prisoner; discharged. He was a citizen of Furguson township from the close of the war until his death which occured a short time since. Jacob Dutra enlisted from Elk Co., 1864, in Co. A. 16th Pa. Cavalry; transferred to Co. C., in 1865; discharged Aug. 13, 1865 by general orders; resident of Kerrmoor. John H. Smith enlisted in Co. B. 149th JWt. Bucktails. Aue-. 26.1862: promoted to

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to tbeir death the farm was purchased by William H. Smith, who was married to their second daughter, Sarah. John Miles’ family consisted of Mary, Sarah, Catherine, George W., John Q and Samuel Scott. Mary married George Washington Fink, who died February, 1897, at his home near New Millport. Of this union there are living Elmer E., who is 5» !»•; EuitSmTiSi mffi enSnK©d in the mercantile business at Clearfield, Pa.: George G., a prosperous farmer of Huston township, Centre county; Isaac Wolf enlisted March 8, 1864 at Hoi William M., living in Knox townshin hdaysburg in Co, K. 13th Cavllry ’ wound Minerva, who lives in Ansonville. edm action at Charles City Cross Rn„d Elmer E. Finit married Va., June 24,1864discharged Marchif Martha Jane, daughter of Levi Bloom, of Pike township, Joeh6nen 1,°rd6r; r6Side^ Ke™0r ’ Of this union there are living Eunice, Co H ^Lh’o862’ fr°m Centre ^unty in Eulala, Merrel and Flora. sides in Kerrmoof” dlSChar«cd ^ re- George G. Fink married Lina „lluaul5, P v t 6 6 Dl,8tedl861’C° K 84th of Centre county, Pa. Of this union there V-AI-> W0Unded at Thoroughfare are living six children. Va„ August 28, 1862: killed at^now ^ P’ William M. Fink married Alice, daughter I nia, Co. H. May 12, 1864 P svlva- of John Erhard, of Knox township. Of There are 8600 paid Qn»rf„i„ * m this union there are living two children 184- | ers of Ferguson township. to Pension¬ Minerva Fink married Harvey Strong, of ing?^ FINKS ANDW H-smith. Ansonville, where they reside. Of this union there are living two children. Emma Samuel * b/°ther °f the looof a late of Ansonville Pa who married George W. Bratton, of Wood¬ Z^ Tb6farm now owned by A j’ land, and who died in 1889. ter of ' He^wasmarried to Elizabeth, sis- Sarah W. Miles married W. H. Smith, of thi8 towhnnb' and George E- Williams, of York county, Pa., who was for a number of years a respected citizen of Ferguson andhiswRein lS53hn di®d in 1857> *r - ln 18°3, OQ this farm. Previous township. He was born in York county, Pa., in 1828. He came to this county as a M carpenter. After marriage he purchases’ the farm above mentioned and during the ! JORDAN TOWNSHIP. balance of his life he resided thereon. BY J. E. ROKABAUGH, OP ANSONVTLLE.l Clearing up end improving one of the finest in the township, on which his widow, ! an aged and respected lady, still resides. ORGANIZATION, ETC. He died in 1889. He will be remembered Jordan township was formed from Bec- by the entire community as a successful caria, September 4,1834. Alexander Irvin, farmer, an upright citizen and a kind David Ferguson and Robert Ross were ap¬ neighbor, leaving to his memory a noble pointed commissioners to view, lay out and Christian character. His family consisted fix the lines of the new township. They did of A. Judson, Julian, Mira, Florence, ! their work and reported favorably Novem¬ Elmeda and Emma L., of these A. J. and | ber 18, 1834. Their report was confirmed E. L. are the only ones living. A. J. Smith February 5, 1835, and the township was married a daughter of James Hagerty, and named Jordan, in honor of Hugh Jordan, is the owner of the well known Winimore an Associate Judge. farms. His family consists of Bessie, The first election was held in the house of Millie, Bethel, Morral and Winifred. James McNeel, Sr., in 1835. The early settlers were of Scotch and Irish descent, and were pious, frugal and industrious people who left to their descendants a last, ing monument in the shape of a model character. At an early day Jordan township was covered with a vast forest of timber, prin¬ cipally pine, oak and hemlock. Some places they were so thick that you could not see the sun except when looking straight up through the trees. The lumber¬ man’s axe and saw have laid low these vast forests until now there is hardly a tree to be found for the sun to make a shadow of. The only timber standing in the township is that owned by James McKeehan. The citizens are devoted chiefly to agri. cultural pursuits, there being some of the richest and most beautiful farms found any¬ where in the county. The soil being fertile and under the skillful tillage of the live and

A. J. SMITH. m progressive farmers produces excellent crops of hay and grains of different kinds. George W. Miles, John Q. Miles and S. Also in regards to fine stock J ordan town¬ Scott Miles moved to Centre county, Pa., ship will compare favorably with any other where they have been prominent and re¬ township in the county. spected citizens, having filled many posi¬ The coal fields are another industry of tions of trust. John Q. Miles has just this township. Throughout the southeast¬ retired from the office of County Treasurer ern part of the township the coals are ele after a successful term of three years. vated by the uplift of the first anticlinal George W. Fink, previously referred to axis, but the prevailing dip is to the north in this chapter, was a son of Jacob Fink, of west towards Ansonville. On the road Indiana county, who spent his declining from Glen Hope to Gazzam the Mahoning years in this township. He died about two sand stone is seen capping the summits of years ago, aged 86 years. The remaining the hills. In the vicinity of Ansonville this members of the family of Jacob Fink who rock does not crop prominently, but is live in this community are: Leah, who about 200 feet lower down, which shows a married B. D. Williams, and resides in dip towards the northwest. Going north¬ LaJose; Robert, who married Belle, daugh¬ west into Ferguson township we find the ter of Philip McCracken, and resides in the sand stone 125 feet higher on Campbell township, and Henrietta, who married Run, and in the extreme western corner of Jona. McCracken, of this township. She Jordan it lies 150 to 175 feet higher than on died several years ago. Campbell Run. From these facts we find fCONTINUED NEXT WEEK.) that the central line of the second basin is located near Ansonville and is known as the “E” vein, and varies in thickness from 2 feet 6 inches to 4 feet. The coal is clean, bright, shining and with an almost inap- I, ma„ • ' Ipreciable amount of sulphur, and is low in Sr. In 1854 or 1855 the place of voting lash. was changed to Ansonville, where it is The township has a population of about is now held. 2,000, with a total valuation of about The following citizens of Jordan town¬ At the last election it polled 376 ship, were among the incorporators of the votes and McKinley had a majority of them. Glen Hope and New Washington Turnpike, The first saw mill in the township was which was to extend through the town¬ built on Potts’ Runin1S42 by James Mc- ship: David McKeehan, Joseph Patterson Keehan and a Mr. Quail, of Hollidaysburg, and Alfred D. Knepp. It was incorporated on land belonging to Morgan, Peters & April 22, 1856. We also find Robert Patter¬ Rawle, of Philadelghia. Conrad Baker son, Henry Swan and Robert Johnson and James Patterson did the first sawing ! among the incorporators of the Madera and on this mill. New Washington Turnpike and Plank The next saw mill built was by John Road Company, which was incorporated Swan, on Little Clearfield Creek in 1S43. March 4,1862, and was to extend through Shortly after Mr, McNeel built one on Mc- this township, but neither was ever built. Neel’s Run, and in 1S48 David McKeehan The present township officers are: As¬ built another on Little Clearfield Creek. sessor, Ross Swan; Collector, George F. i The only saw mill in the township to-day is Black; School Directors, Reuben Straw, [operated by J. E. Hoover & Co. at Ber- President, J. M. McDowell, Secretary, winsdale. James Wiley, Samuel H. Witherow, James The first grist mill was built by David Johnson and Abram Pearce; Township Williams in 1834, Joseph Michaels and Clerk, C. A. Stevens;Auditors, C. S. Strong, Silas Solly being the millrights. There are Jack Wise and W. D. Wise; Treasurer, J. no grist mills at present in the township. C. Johnson; Supervisors, Peter Summers On December 19, 1822, James Rea, Sr., and Samuel Bloom; Justices of the Peace, and Robert Patterson were appointed J. C. Davison and Isaac Bloom; Overseer viewers to lay out a road from Gallager’s of Poor, Joseph Thompson ; Judge of Elec¬ mill to Turner’s mill. This was the first tion, James Rainey; Inspectors, Abram petition for a road presented to the first Pearce and Wm. McNeel. court held in the county. To show how the ministers of an ear The first nine settlers who accepted the date disposed of their property we prese proposition made by Morgan, Rawle & Co., the will of James V. A. Anderson, a form - giving 50 acres gratis to those who bought minister of Fruit Hill church: 50 acres, are the following: The last will and Testament of James V. A. Anderson, of Jordan township, Clearfield county: James McNeel, Sr., who settled near I, James V. A. Anderson, considering the un¬ Fruit Hill; James Rea, who settled near certainty of this mortal life, and being of sound mind, (Blessed to God Almighty for the same) May Hill, in what is now Knox township; do make and publish this my last will and testa¬ Hugh Carson, who settled where Joseph ment in the manner and form following, that' is to say: First, I give and bequeath all my Thompson now lives; John Swan, Sr., who property unto the Domestic Missionary Society eettled where Anson Swan lives; Joseph and their successors forever, on the followin' conditions: After all my dues are collected ant' Burge, who settled where Thomas McNeel my debts paid and other charges paid, then tn lives; Truman Virtz, who settled where principal be put on interest. Then I will am bequeath (he said interest to the Fruit Hill - Wise brothers lives ; Larie Munnihan, who church, in Clearfield county, to pay their pastor settled where Hiram Straw lives; John their part of his salary for the first ten years 1 Then 1 wi 1 and bequeath to Sarah, wife of Wm | Hagerty, who settled where William Dunlap, my concordance of the Holy Scriptur Witherow lives; Robert Patterson, who I will and bequeath to David Erhard my s \*> pender bufckles. I will and bequeath to the Ri settled where Peter Patterson lives. Wil¬ Mr. Murpiy all my manuscripts on religio t liam Feltwell came here at an early date subjects. I will and bequeath my friends n sincere thinks for the many favors I have r and was agent for Morgan, Rawle & Co., - ceived from them. I will and bequeath Job ™who owned the land. Thompsoji and Benjamin Roberts, of Jord? township to be my executors to this, my la In 1807 Jordan was a part of Beccaria, will and estament. and it, in connection with Bradford town¬ In witness whereof I have hereunto set m hand and seal this isth day of March, A. D. 184' ship and a part of Half Moon township, of JAMES V. A. ANDERSON. {SEAI Centre county, formed an election district Signed sealed, published and declared the abov named James V. A. Anderson to 1 and held their elections at the bouse of John the last r ill and testament in the presence Gearhart, in Bradford township. In March us at his equestandin his presence have sul scribed cjir names as witnesses. 24,1817, the election place was changed to JAMES REA, the house of John Cree, in Beccaria town¬ JOHN MORGAN. ship. They continued holding their elec The a ove will was recorded in Clear!! tions there until 1832, when Jordan was June 4, S47, by William C. Welds, Re made a separate district and the elections of Willi were held at the house of James McNeel. Thef ilowing is a memorandum of person: [ property of James V. A. Anc son ma e 11th June, 1847; hi

The friends of Judgt Wheat per bu. 90 1 papair of scales 25 him -with a barlow knife for being ! Oats per bu. 33 2 books 6K Rye per bu. 37*4 I pot,rack 50 homliestman in Centre county. He was iton ofhay 500 6 shirts, x towel 1.62)4 to parry it until he found a homlier man Bacon per lb. 08 1 bap 1.25 s pot 75 I quilt 1.00 than he was. He carried it for some time i skillet 5X I blanket 5° when he met his friend James Rea, Sr., in i tea kettle 75 1 handkerchief 12)4 i wooden bucket 6K Cassanet 75 Clearfield, he presented the barlow to him, Lot of tinware 12)4 Lot of clothes 37)4 explaining to Mr. Rea how he (the Judge) Lamp oil can and 1 axe 15 candlestick 25 1 corn broom m)4 got it. Mr. Rea was to carry it until he Teapot, sugar bowl 12)4 1 chest 62)4 found a homlier man than he was. He Sugar 62)4 2 chairs 1.50 1 copper fettle 2 00 1 tub 25 kept it about two years when he returned 1 valise 62)4 1 meat vessel 75 it to the Judge, who had to keep it. Looking glass and 1 barrel 25 I razor 20 In regards to Price Mays’ gold dust mine, Thomas Jordan made a settlement on the an account of which appeared in the papers Maj. Wise farm about 1821. He was mar¬ a few years ago, I have failed to gain a ried to Betsey Patterson and lived at above mission to it, and as Mr. Mays is a free place until 1826, when they moved to silver man he does not desire to discuss the Turkey Hill, in Knox township. From gold business at present. there he went to Clarion county. Some Ansonville base ball team consists of the time afterwards he returned and lived with following players: Robert Arrow, catcher; Isaac Dunlap until his death. Thomas Russell, pitcher; Scott IS orris,] Nicholas Schening was born in Germany, Campbell Witherow, Harvey Clark, Arthur emigrated to this country and settled in Coulter, Bnah Tburstin, John Mitchell and 1 this township, at an early date, where Wm. William McLaughlin, have been meeting Scheoing now lives. He was a tailor by with good success since they organized. trade, in Germany, but worked at shoe¬ During the season just closed they have making here. only lost one game. They are always Joseph Burge settled where Thomas Me ready to play any club for the champion¬ Neel lives, previous to 1821. He was mar¬ ship, money or fun. ried to a HissO'Shall. Gazzam foot ball team consists of the Ezra Algiers came from York State at following players: Henry Clark, Robert an early date and improved the farm now Clark, John Cheatam, Stephen Methven, owned by Mr. Patterson. He was a sol¬ George Hickock, Albert Oldham, John dier in the war of 1812. Harkins, Paul Kantner, Robert Arrow, Michael Sears came from York State and Archie Clark and Andrew Watson. Robert married Mrs. Eliza Chase, daughter of Graham acting as Referee. This team ! Revolutionary John Swan, and made an never takes a back seat playing foot ball | improvement where Wilson Straw now^ and is always ready to play any team who lives. He served in the war of 1812. He desires to be beaten. died July 25,1863, at an advanced age. His Jordan township has had the honor of 1 wife died April 8,1865, aged 78. having the first prize fight ever fought in | Thomas Jenkins came here with M$.*• the county. On Thursday evening, Oct. Swan in 1819 and made an improvement on 13,1897, a special train brought about 150 what is now the Maj. Wise farm. He died sporting men from Altoona and Psttsburg in 1842 and was the first person buried in to Mariposa Park to witness a fight'be¬ Zion cemetery. Rev. Samuel Miles preach¬ tween Frank Reeder, of Altoona, who was ed the funeral sermon. a light-weight champion, and a Mr. Buck, The storm of 1857 was the most severe of Pittsburg, both colored. They used 6 storm that ever visited this section. It oz. gloves and fought 20 rounds to a finish destroyed and blew down a great amount for a purse of 500 and the light-weight of timber, unroofed many barns, blew down championship. Mr. Buck was declared the many houses and did a great amount of winner. About 200 persons witnessed 'the damage In general. It was during this lfight- .Mn.ii imr ~ V storm that a peacock was blown from Samuel Widemire’s farm, in Penn town¬ ansonville. ship, to John Shoff’s farm, near Janesville, The village of Ansonville (nick name in Gulich township. The Fruit Hill school “Flat Foot”) is beautifully situated on a house was blown down, and J ohn F. Bloom’s high elevation dividing the head waters of bouse, which stood nearby, the family only the south fork of Little Clearfield Creek and escaping by seeking refuge under a bed in Potts’ Run. The land where the town one corner of the room; the logs falling on stands was formerly owned by the Swans, and around the bed. It is claimed that and was named in honor of Anson Swan, part of the roof was carried a distance of 2 eldest son of John Swan, Sr. He was a miles. deaf mute and died in 1883 and is buried The following story is told of James Rea, in the Zion cemetery. and Judge Burnside, of Centre county. T ill

.—— __ The first improvement made where An¬ date his guests. At that time Sanford Mc- sonville now stands was by Jacob Myers iNeel bought it from W. W. Norris and in 1832, who built a log house near where entertained the public until 1889, when he the Baptist parsonage now stands. The sold it to George L. Norris, who has had second house was built about 1849 by Isaac charge of it ever since. Haines. It was a frame building and is Geo. Bollinger, the stone mason and still standing, although it has been greatly brick-layer of Ansonville, has worked at remodeled and enlarged until at present it his trade for 29 years, 23 years of this time is one of the finest residences in town and he has spent in Clearfield county, where be is owned and occupied by J. C. Johnston has built walls for some of the finest build¬ and son. ings in the upper end of the county. The first merchant of the place was John Dr. H. G. Purnell, a graduate of Jeffer¬ Miles,.' eldest son of Rev. Samuel Miles. son Medical College, located here in 1892 He married Ellen Wright, of Pike town¬ and associated himself with Dr. S. J. Miller ship. He went west and died there. in the practice of medicine. In 1894 Dr. About the year 1853 Henry Swan built a Miller moved,away, since then Dr. Purnell storeroom on the corner opposite where has been attending to the wants of suffer¬ the present drug store stands, and kept ing humanity and has gained for himself a store in it until 1874. A few years after large practice, one in whice few doctors the building was burnt, and in 1884 Dr. A. excel. E. Cresswell purchased the lot and built a The town has two secret organizations. dwelling house and store room upon it. In In April, 1886, the Patriotic Sons of America 1S86 C. D. McMurray bought it from Dr. organized a lodge and meets every Satur¬ Cresswell. Enlarging it he now occupies day in Leonard’s hall. It has about forty it as a dwelling house and store room, members at present. Following are its where he carries a large and selected stock officers at present: President, W. A. Bloom, of general merchandise. Vice President, David Decker; Master of I In 1885 William T. Bloom erected a large Forms, J. B. Thompson ; Recording Secre¬ [building for a hardware store. Robert L. tary, Frank Scheoing; Financial Secretary, 'Miles, son of Rev. Samuel Miles, was the W. D. Wise; Treasurer, W. K. Johnson; jflrst hardware merchant and continued Conductor, Geo. L. Norris; Trustees, Lynn the business until October, 1882, when he Witherow, G. L. Norris and J. B. Thomp¬ was succeeded by Davison & McDowell. son. This firm managed the business until March On March 6, 1897, the Independent Order !l892, when J. M, McDowell bought hig of Odd Fellows instituted Ansonville Lodge, 'partner’s interest. Since that time Mr. No. 1005, with 22 charter members. Its ) McDowell has conducted the business with first and present officers are: N. G., C. D. the assistance of Mr. John Ames as chief McMurray; V. G., James Rainey; Sec., clerk, and at present you can find anything Geo. F. Black; Ass’t. Sec,, Chas. W. usually kept in a first class hardware. Rainey; Treasurer, Dr. H. G. Purnell; I J. C. Davison, contractor and builder, Conductor, J. C. Davison; Warden, M. L. has opened a furniture store in the rink Long; R. S. N. G., J. M. McDowell; L. S. building, formerly owned by Bloom Bros, N. G., John Heist; R. S. S., Chas. Stevens; but now owned by Mr. Davison. In 1893 he L. S. S., Taylor Glasgow; O. G., G. W. succeeded Mr Wm. T. Bloom in the under, Bollinger; I. G., Lloyd Stevens; R. S. V. taking business and now keeps a full line of G., John A. McKee; L. S. V. G., John 'coffins, caskets, etc., doing a general under¬ Pearce; Trustees, C. D. McMurray, J. C. taking business. Since he took charge of Davison and Reuben- Straw. The lodge 'it, four years ago, he has attended 103 meets every Saturday evening in Mc- jfunerals. In 1886 he was elected Justice of Murray’s hall, where a cordial welcome is the Peace, which position he fills at the extended to all visiting members. ipresenttime. The postoffice, when first established, The present blacksmith shop was built by was called Fruit Hill, and was located near Peter Wimer, who followed smithing until Fruit Hill church with James McNeel, Sr., the Spring of 1879, when John Klinger as first postmaster. Afterward it was bought the property and followed his trade moved to where William Scheoning now until 1885, when he was succeeded by his lives, with Frederick Scheoning first post son Williem, who is the accommodating master. About the year 1857 the name [blacksmith at present and enjoys a large was changed to Ansonville, and it trade. was moved here with Miss Eliza Chase The only hotel, since the Central closed now Mrs. Bloom, as postmistress. The fol¬ [its doors, is kept by Georg9 Norris. Tne lowing persons have since served as post¬ house was built by Peter Bloom in 1859. In masters: Henry Swan, Joseph Thompson, 11884 W. W. Norris bought it and built a A. B. Straw, J. C. Johnston, C. D. Mc- I large addition to it in order to accommo- Marray, Chas. S. Strong, J. c. Wise and I A. B. Straw, who was lately appointed. ? present proprietor. The office is now located in the Leonard the B. C. R. R. station and enjoys a fine building. trade. Jordan Grange, No. 728, was organized The White House was built by C. D. Me- Sept, 13, 1881, with the following charter Murray for a store room. He never occu¬ charter members: Reuben Straw, Master; pied it but sold it to John E. DuBois, who James G. Williams and wife, George F. remodeled it and built an addition to it, Black, George DeWitt, Parker Strong and made a large and commodious hotel, which wife, Wm. Scheoning, Isaac Bloom, Dr. was managed by Jacob Truby until June 9, I Creswell and wife. The Grange meets on 1896, when George-Tburstin leased it and the second and fourth Saturdays of each is the present proprietor, who keeps a first month. Joseph Thomas is Master and Geo. class house ahd looks after the weary F. Black is Secretary at present. traveler’s welfare. The Ansonville Water Company was W. C. Strong, one of the leading mer¬ organized in 1890 with a capital stock of chants of the village, commenced business , 82,000, with the following stockholders: when the town was in it’s infancy, and by J. C. Davison, C. D. McMnrray, J. C. John¬ pluck aDd energy has succeeded in build¬ ston, J. C. Wise, W. D. Wise, John Klinger, ing up a fine trade, and now keeps a well George Norris, Thos. Stronn, J. M. Mc¬ selected stock of general merchandise. Dowell, Samuel Witherow, Abram Pearce In connection with the above the town and Mrs. J. C. Johnston. The water is has a livery stable, owned by Ashley Tozer, obtained from springs on the Wise farm millinery store, by Mrs. Curry, pool room and is piped a distance of % of a mile and and store by Lee McCracken, and station is tapped by about 75 spigots. It has a and freight office under the efficient man¬ gravitous source with a pressure of 30 agement of Mr. Kantner. pounds to the foot. Gazzam supports two schools, two GAZZAM. churches, Methodist and Swedish. It has a Gazzam, a mining town, was built in population of about 350.

1884, by the Clearfield Bituminous Coal BERWINDALE. Co., and named in honor of Joseph M. Gaz¬ Berwindale is located at the head of zam, of Philadelphia, and is located on the North Whitmer run, on the Pennsylvania B. C. R. R. Fred Naugle, who now lives and North Western railroad, which was in York State, the contractor, built 22 built in 1886. dwelling houses, a boarding house and a The first improvement made at this place store room for said company. The mines was a saw mill built by David McKeehan are located near Ansonville and the coal is in 1847. The property was afterward suc¬ hauled to Gazzam on a narrow gauge road cessively owned by Joseph Patterson, Sr., by means of a small engine. Wm. Irvin, Henry Swan, Hezekiah Patter¬ } The company owns about 4,300 acres of son, Swan Bros, and John Patton, who sold coal in the township, valued or assessed at

it to the present owners. The first mil! w 8334,219, and employ at present about 200 built was an old fashioned up and down men, chiefly Americans, Scotch and saw mill (up to-day and down to morrow) wedes. The coal is low and hard to mine which they continued running for a num¬ but is pronounced a good quality for steam ber of years, when it was torn down and a purposes. large steam saw mill was erected in its The company have a large store under I place by Swan Bros. The mill was burned he efficient management of A. F. Kelly. in-, when they built the present one[ The first improvement where Gazzam which is used in sawing shingles. iow stands was made in 1872 by Lewis The town proper started in 1883, when lees, who bought a piece of Land from Swan Bros, took posession of the property 1 arren Bell and built a small house. and commenced operating on the timber The Gazzam postoffice was established which covered the land. A postoffice was iring Cleveland’s first administration and established in 1883 and Anson Swan was iened to the public January 8, 1886, with appointed postmaster. He was followed tobert McGarvey as postmaster. He was by Michael Smith, E. A. Edwards and W. ollowed by Mrs. Almira Hoover, William C. Spackman. lunsmore, W m. Strong and Ellis Michaels, Besides a number of fine dwellings the yho took charge of it May 1, 1896. town supports one store owned and sue-1 The town supports two hotels. The Gaz- cessfully managed by W. C. Spackman. a \ am House was built in 1885-6 by Z. L. blacksmith shop, sawmill, owned and i [ Irlary, who kept it for five years, when operated by by J. E. Hoover & Co., who j acob Truby took possession and continued manufacture all kinds of lumber and gives he business for three years. He was fol¬ employment to a number of men; shingle ded by A. Y. Straw in 1893, and in 1894 mill operated by A. L. Pearce, who manu¬ Ardary again took posession and re- factures 24-inch shingles; two churches, ' the house throughout and is the/i —r ' / Ill / i

and is the present operator. Presbyterian and Methodist, school house The first store opened in the town was by and one hotel. Lloyd Stevens in 1892, who Still continues The history of the village would not be the business. In 1892 a postoffice was estab- I complete without a description of the fine lished here with Mr. Stevens as postmaster, I i park which is located here and is familliar- which position be has held ever since. I ly known as “Mariposa Park.” A. L. Mr Tyler also conducts a store in connec- j Pearce, the proprietor and manager of the tion with his many interests. 1 park bought about 300 acres of land and began operations on it in April, 1894, and JORDAN TOWNSHIP. | after spending many thousands of dollars ' ’ BY J. E. rorabauoh, of ansonville. in improvements he has made it an ideal resort for picnic parties and persons desir¬ SCHOOLS. ing a summer outing. The first school house was built in ls20, One of the chief attractions is a beauti¬ near where Fruit Hill church now stands. ful lake, dotted with 11 small islands. The It was built of logs and was fitted up with entire lake is surr<" ^ded by a fine drive the furniture of that day, namely: Wooden and bicycle path Numi rous small boats flues, windows made by cutting one or two are at hand for v 'use of those who desire logs out at the side of the building, using to row and sail on the lake. greased paper instead of glass. The desks On one side of the lake there is a fine and seats were made of slabs, which were grove where may be found hammocks considered very comfortable in their day. stretching from many of the trees, and David Cathcart was the first teacher of the settees and artistically arranged stump school. A few years later another log seats where the weary pleasure seeker may I school house with the same kind of furniture find rest. The park has a boat house, a was built near where Wise Brothers now music and dancing pavillion, a merry-go- lives, with Asil Swan as teacher. The school - round, a fine band stand and a restaurant. facilities have been greatly improved since The entire lake and grounds are lighted .that time. Instead of the log school house j by electricity. The park was opened to we have fine wooden structures, furnished the public July 4, 1894. with improved patent furniture. To mif In connection with the park Mr. Pearce the requirements of the district it now hi has erected a thoroughly modern hotel ten schools, viz: Ansonville, (2 school^ which is equipped with all modern con Fruit Hill, Johnston’s, Patterson’s, Me- ' veniences and luxuries for its guests and is Cartney, Gazzam (2 schools), Green Run known as the “New Atlantis.” It also is rand Berwindale, and in addition to this a , lighted throughout by electricity. night school is kept open at Gazzam for 1500 shade and ornamental trees have those who cannot attend the day school. | been planted around the park and hotel The following teachers were employed last I during the last two years. During the winter, 1896 7: J. E. Rorabaugh, Kate ( winter of 1896-7 Mr. Pearce shipped 450C Ardary, Lewis Johnston, H. M. Pentz, W. tons of excellent ice which he cut off the N. Straw, Jennie DeWalt, W. S. Bloorn, lake —;ng it to different cities. Bessie Johnston, Venie Maxton, Mis& Berwinsdale has a population of about 100 Methven and W. F. Conley. The district had an m’cartxey. attendance of 526 pupils during th® , McCartney is situated in the northeast¬ term. The present school board consists of y ern part of the township at the terminus of the Houtzdale branch of the Pennsylvanie Reuben Straw, President; J. M. McDowell, i Railroad. McCartney Ridge, as that sec Secretary; Abram Pearce, James Wiley, tion of the township was called, was namecf : '•James R. Johnston and Samuel Witherow. in honor of Daniel McCartney, who built £ The following teachers have been em¬ log cabin and lived where David W. John ployed for the term of 1897-98: W. E. son now lives. When Mr. McCartney first Tobias, Libbie McNeel, W. S. Bloom, H. located here I am unable to find out, but he M. Pentz, W. N. Straw, Lewis Johnston, left the township about the time the Reas Venie Maxton, Eugene Curry, A. T. Straw. and McNeels came here. He went to Peters¬ CHURCHES—PRESBYTERIAN, FRUIT HILL. During the summer of 1835 Revs. David * burg, Huntingdon county, where he died. In 1889 and ’90 the Berwind-White Coal McKinney and Samuel Wilson at their own Co. leased the coal in this section, and in suggestion and by appointment of Presby- i 1891 opened the mines for shipping coal. tery preached here about four weeks in the In 1892 David Johnson began selling lots to year, preaching in barns and private i parties who wanted to build houses, and dwellings as opportunity afforded. For some time on the people in the vicinity of ^ thus started the town of McCartney. This company continued operating the Fruit Hill held their meetings and Sabbatl J coal until a short time ago, when John schools in a big barn belonging to Jame 1 'McNeel, Sr., he being the Superintends, , Tyler leased the coal from said company John Thompson, Jr., Benj. S. Roberts, Jno. •of the latter. Hunter, Sr., Robt. Liddell, Wm. Bloom, In the spring of 1839 application was John G. Wilson, John Witherow, Robt. M. •made to Presbytery for a church organiza¬ Johnson, Reuben Caldwell, John G. Glas- tion, whieh was granted. Thus Fruit Hill or.w John M. Hunter, Reuben J. Rex, ■church was organized in the above log barn Wm. Witherow, Conrad Bloom, Samuel H. August 23, 1S39, with 30 members, by Rev. Witherow, J. Newton McCord, Abram Hill and Elder John Owens. I Bloom and Hezekiah Patterson. On several occasions the members met The first person buried \n the Fruit Hill • and discussed the matter of building a cemetery was Elizabeth McNeel, first wife j church, but after discussing the matter of James McNeel, Sr., who died June 8, they would conclude it was an impossibility 1819, aged 33 years; second was John and go home. At last at one of these meet¬ Rowles, in 1820 or 21, then Wm. Cathcart. , ings Robert Johnson picked up an axe and Among those buried there we find the fol- | commenced to cut down a tree, remarking lowing: ■“that if they never commenced they would John Hunter, Sr., born in Parish of never get a church built.” They went to Herriot, Scotland, June 12, 1810, died May work and it was completed by the fall of 6,1892, aged 81 years, 10 months, 24 days. 1S41, having cost the members only 115 in Ellen, his wife, died April 26, 1875, aged money. This was paid by I\lr. Betts, of 90 years and 24 days. Clearfield. John Witherow, died June 16, 1884, aged For a period of 17 years the church had 65 years and 7 days. been served with preaching, in connection John McCord, died May 19,1882, aged 79 with Mt. Pleasant church aRdd others. On years, 9 months and 7 days. October 6, 1856, they conclclud ed to go it John Hunter, died Nov. 13, 1S77, aged alone. This was one of the most metnor- 35 years. able events in the history of the church. • Mrs. John G. Wilson, died July 20, 1882, Rev. Geo. W. Thompson, who had been aged 62 years. preaching for them and had fired the hearts David Smith, died April 23, 1883, aged 65 of the people that they at once raised by years. subscription eight hundred dollars for that Anna M., wife of Hiram Straw, died Apr. purpose. 28,1891, aged 70 years. On March 26, 1860, they raised four hun¬ William Sloes, died July 17,1863, aged 63 dred and fifty dollars and bought a prop¬ years. erty in Ansonville for a parsonage. Jacob Bauman, died Sept. 29, 1844, aged 1 In 1876, finding that the old church was 84 years. entirely too small for the congregation, John Patterson, died March 8, 1892, aged they decided to build a new one, which they 78 years. ■did, and it was dedicated May 29,1878, dur¬ Robert McCracken, died May 10, 1852, ing the pastorate of Rev. David H. Camp¬ aged 74 years. bell. It’s entire cost was seven thousand Rachina, his wife, died December 31, four hundred dollars. It is a large brick 1857,aged 72 years. and stone building with seating capacity John J. McCracken, died Aug. 15, 1881, for six hundred people, and a basement for aged 72 years. • a lecture and Sunday school room On Priscilla, wife of Robert M. Johnston, ■ 7 account of other churches being built near died Dec. IS, 1891, aged 66 years. drawing largely from this church the at¬ Robert Johnson, died July 25, 1872, aged tendance is not so large, yet they have a 71 years. membership of 215. : 1 his wife, died Oct. 15,1874, aged 64 The following ministers have served the years. church: Rev. F. G. Betts, 1840-43; Rev. David Wise, died April 6, 1854, aged 80 Wm. J. Murphy, 1844-7; Rev. Alexander years. Boyd, 1848-52; Rev. Jas. J. Hamilton, 1853- Mary, his wife, died April 24, 1871, aged 55; Rev. N. S. Conklin, 1858-9; Rev. Thos. 81 years. Stevenson, 1859-61; Rev. Wm. Burchfield, Enoch Wise, died March, 3, 1891, aged 79 1863-69; Rev. N. G. Newell, 1870-2; Rev. years. John McKean, 1873-4; Rev. D. H. Camp Elizabeth, wife of George Evert, died 1875-84; Rev. Wm. W. Wooden, (6 mos. Dec. 8, 1898, aged 73 years. &BI supply) 1885; Rev. Wm. Anderson, 1S86; ^ James iMcNeel,a Sr., died Feb. 12, 1862, , Itev. E. P. Foresman, 1886-93, and Rev. aged 85 years. 1 Robert G. Williams, who is pastor at pres¬ Mary C., his second wife, died Oct. 30, ent. 1883, aged 88 years. The first Elders were John Thompson, Richard Hutchings, died July 18, 1S92, imes McNeel, Sr., Robt. McCracken, aged 57 years. 1. bert Patterson, who were installed Aug. Anna E. Hutchings, died Dec^ 7, 1893, 1839, followed by Joseph Patterson, - - - " i-~r-~nMwM—TTW~W l~—I aged 72 years. Robert Johnston..... 5 00 Robert Rea, died Aug. 4, 18S8, aged 64 Robert Patterson, Jr. 5 00 years. James Dickson. 5 00 Mary, his wife, died Feb. 7,1S75. Benj. S. Roberts. 5 00 Samuel Rea, died Jan. 1, 18S7, aged 78 James Kennedy. 6 00 years. James Johnston. 5 00 Lydia, his wife, died Feb. 8, 1S88, aged Joseph Patterson. 10 00 78 years. Robert McCracken, Jr. 5 00 Thomas Witherow, died Jan. 4.1875, aged ; James McCracken. 5 00 83 years. Joseph McCully. 5 00 Elizabeth Kennedy, died Nov. 15, 1845, Total amount.$ 129 00 aged 83 years. David McKeehan, died June S, 1869, aged The above subscriptions were all paid in 63 years. I work and material. Mary A., his wife, died Feb. 14,1886, aged The members enrolled at the organization 74 years. of this church were: John Thomson, Wm. Geo. B. Mays, who was killed on the P. W. Feltwell, Esther Feltwell, Isaac McKee, & N. W. R. R., near Mays’ Summit, March James Johnston, Isabella Johnston, Thos. 25,1892, aged 53 years. A fine monument McNeel, Nancy McNeel, James Rea, Mary has been erected to his memory. I McNeel, Robert McCracken, Jr., James Joseph Patterson, died March 11, 1883, Dickson, Jane Dickson, Rebecca High, aged 73 years. John Orr, Catherine Patterson, Hannah Robert Patterson, died Aug. 28, 1855, McKee, Margaret McCullough, Robert aged 77 years. Johnston, Mary Johnston, Donald McDon. Isabella Johnson, died Oct. 18, 1888, aged aid, Elizabeth Patterson and Rachel Mc¬ 89 years. Cracken. James Johson, died Sept. 26,1868. The first physician who located in the John Thompson, Sr., died June 1, 1872, township was Dr. Morehead, in 1867. Pre¬ aged 96 years. vious to this time the sick were taken Mary, his wife, died May 13, 1889, aged care of by Drs. Barrett, Hoyt, Schryver, 84 years. Rhule, Fetzer and Caldwell, who were John Thompson, Jr., died June 31, 1883, located in adjoining districts. Dr. More- aged 76 years. head was followed by Dr. A. E. Cresswell, David Lewis, died June 13, 18S0, aged 75 Dr. Wrigley, Dr. Murray, Dr. Miller and years. Dr. Purnell. Dr. Purnell is a son of ex- Thos. Rea, died Sept. 6, 1888, aged 74 Sheriff Purnell, of Georgetown, Del. Gradu¬ years. ating at Jefferson Medical- College. He Hannah A., his wife, died April 28, 1887, (located at Ansonville in 1892. By careful aged 74 years. study and prompt attention he has met First Odd Fellow buried there was Geo. with great success and has gained for him- j W. Dotts, who died Aug. 25, 1882, aged 35. Self a large practice, one in which few j PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, BE R WIND ALE. physicians excell. -Dr. B. F. Coe opened an office at This church was built during the pastor¬ Gazzam, where he is employed by the Coal ate of Rev, E. P. Foresman and was dedi¬ Co. He also is employed by the County cated Nov. 19, 1893. Its entire cost was for this district. thirteen hundred and forty-eight dollars ANSONVILLE M. E. CHURCH. j and fifty-three cents. It has Elders and I This is a fine wooden structure and was | Trustees and regular services of its own i built in 1889, during the ministry of Rev. I but all connected with and a part of the Trach, at a cost of $1200. J. C. Davison, 1 Fruit Hill church. J. M. McDowell, C. D. McMurray, E. C. . The following is a copy of the original Goodman and M. F. Campbell was the | subscription for the first church built at building committee. The present Board j Fruit Hill in 1841: of Trustees is J. M. McDowell, John Klinger, I The names of the subscribers to the Fruit J. C. Davison, C. D. McMurray, E. C. Good- Hill meeting house and the amount sub¬ man and Frank Scheoning. Previous to scribed : building the church the services were held James McNeel, Sr.$ 12 00 in J. W. Leonard’s hall. They report a Robert Patterson, Sr. 12 00 membership of about 50 at the present time. Robert McCracken. 12 00 Since its organization the following John Thompson, Sr. 6 00 ministers have occupied the pulpit: Rev. William Felt well. 10 00 Trach, Rev. G. P. Sarvis, Rev. C. W. Thomas Witherow. 10 00 Rishel, Rev. Glover and Rev. Truax, who John Thompson. 6 00 occupies the pulpit at present. William McCracken. 6 00 Berwindale M. E. church was built about . 1892, during Rev. Rishel’s ministry. The. -Qberstnp is small, numbering only 15 at j yan preached six months. Ho was fol¬ present. Heber Straw, J. C. Davison and lowed by Rev. Lovell, who preached about C. D. McMurray constitute the present j the same length of time. He afterwards Board of Trustees. united with the Swedenborgian denomina¬ Gazzam M. E. church was built in 1893. tion. He was followed by Rev. VanSooylc, It is a neat and comfortable building, but who served the congregation from 1865 to on account of its small membership and 1875. E. C. Beard preached for them from large debt contracted they are liable to 1876 to 1880, when Rev. Miles again took lose their property. Its present board of charge and served as pastor until 1889, trustees are M. H. Baines, M. E. Kantner, 1 wnen he was compelled to resign on ac¬ and E. C. Goodman. count of old age. Rev. E. C. Houck ac¬ The Roman Catholic church was 'built, cepted a call May 1, 1889, and was with the year 1845, on the Edward Gilligan farm. them for two years, being followed by Rev. It is a frame building and is still Standing Bisphan, who also remained two years. and in fair condition. They hold services Rev. N. O. Patterson came November 1, in it about once a month, Father O’Sullivan, 1894, and preached for them two years, of Coalport, officiating. The membership when he accepted a call at Patton. On at present is very small and includes the June 1,1897, Rev. Joseph Plush, of Orbi- Smiths, McCallisters, Farrens, Coxes and sonia, Pa., took charge of the congregation others. The first person buried in the and is their present minister. Catholic cemetery was John Smith, who The first person buried at the Zion grave¬ died in 1856. It is said that the snow was yard was Thomas Jenkins, who died in 1842. drifted so deep that they drove over tops Among others buried there we notice the of apple trees in getting to the cemetery. following: Among others buried there we notice the Thomas Strong, died July 16,1895, aged following: Kate, wife of John Smith; Ann, 74 years. wife of Bernard Farren; Emeline, wife of Albert Young, died Dec. 18, 1881, aged 72 Dorsey DeWitt; Mary E., wife of Sylvester years. Wimer; Andrew Winner, Martin Gilligan Mary Tubbs, died Nov. 22, 1887, aged 68 and Patrick McCardle, who was killed by years. the cars on the P. & N. W. R. R., August Wm. Thurstin, died July 7, 1S85, aged 63 26,1896, aged 85 years. He was generally years. known as “Paddy, the tailor.” His many Martha, his wife, died Jan. 31,1876, aged friends erected a fine monument to his 44 years. memory. John Scott, Sr., died July 9, 1851, aged BAPTIST CHURCH. 91 years. He at one time served in the The first meetings were held in private Revolutionary war. ' - k', % H ;> houses as early as 1835, and were conducted George Scott, died Feb. 20, 1846, aged 50 by Rev. Samuel Miles. Afterwards they years._ held services in the old log school house, John Green, died May 2, 1S59, aged~68 which stood near where the Zion church years. He was a soldier in the Revolu¬ was built. In 1841 Rev. Miles organized tionary war. the society with the following members : Susannah Green died January 4,1858. David Williams, Thomas Davis. Hannah David Williams died December 27, 1853, Davis, George W. Peters, Mary Peters and aged 50 years. William Williams died August 17, 1869, Harriet Swan. This small organization at aged 53 years. once began to grow, and soon arrange¬ Janet, his wife, died July 16, 1865, aged ments were made to build a church, which 47 years. was completed about 1844. and was located Margaret, wife of W. T. Bloom, died about two miles from Ansonville and was Dec. 9, 1862, aged 42 years. known as the Zion church. They continued Robert Stodart died Dec. 31, 1853, aged their worship here until 1870, when by a 58 years. John Curry, died March 18, 1875, aged 66 when by a vote of the congregation the years. place of worship was changed to Ansonville. Jane, wife of Thomas Jackson, died In 1871 they erected a large and sub¬ ■ March 26,1866, aged 77 years. stantial brick building which, when com¬ Sarah J„ wife of G. W. Davis, died June pleted, cost over twelve thousand dollars, 1,1852, aged 22 years. of which George G. Williams contributed Hiram Barrett, died Jan. 26, 1892, aged over two thousand dollars. It was built SI years. during Rev. Thomas Van Scoyoc’s pastor- Isaac Moore, died March 25, 1883, aged age. The old church at Zion was torn down 40 years. about 1893. Sarah, wife of A. D. Knapp, died June Rev. Samuel Miles, who organized the 18, 1857, aged 42 years. ihurch, remained with them for 24 years Cyrus Thurstin, died Nov. 4, 1S66, aged vithout intermission. In 1862 Rev. Run- j 72 years. He pas a revolutionary soldier. Colonel, George R. Barrett; Major, D. W. Mary, his wife, died in 1886, aged 87years. Wise; Adjutaht, John L. Cuttle; Captain, Robert W. Leonard, died May 17, 1892, aged 49 years. William Smiley. The boys had a good time John Williams, died March 23, 1885, aged at these encampments playing soldier, and 71 years. everybody far and near gathered to see Margaret, wife of Jacob Leonard, died them drill. It was here, it is said, that March 4,1882, aged 75 years. General Patton made his first and only ap William Williams, died Nov. 27, 1852, pearance on the tented field in uniform. aged 81 years. In 1861, when our last civil war broke Mary, his wife, died May 6, 1855, aged 70 out, Jordan township promptly responded years. to the call for men, and many of her brave Jesse Williams, died June 28, 1870, aged boy enlisted in the Union army, while 62 years. others remained at home sympathizing Caroline, his wife, died Dec. 10, 1884, with the other side. aged 66 years. Mary O., wife of D. W. Wise, died June Among those who enlisted and was 11, 1853, aged 46 years. credited to Jordan township we find the Sophia, wife of N. Tubbs, died May 12, following, with name of company in which 1852, aged 28 years. they served: Michael Sears, died July 25,1863, at an Thomas J. Thompson, Co. K. 1st Buck- advanzed age. He served in the Revolu¬ tails ; wounded. tionary war. Ellis Lewis, Co. K. 1st Bucktails; dead. .Eliza, his wife, died April 7, 1865, aged Arthur Conner, Co. K. 1st Bucktails; 7^years. dead. Thomas Crawford, died April 21, 1855, George W. Knapp, Co. K. 1st Bucktails; aged 37 years. dead. He died Sept. 23, 1862, on board Joseph Straw, died Juno 3, 1877, aged 77 transport from Richmond. years. Charles M. Clark, Co. K. 1st Bucktails. Ann, his wife, died July 27, 1857, aged 50 John Moyer, Co. K. 1st Bucktails. years. Samuel Gunsallus, Co. B. 149 Bucktails; John Swan, Sr., died Dec, 30, 1850, aged 70 years. wounded. Thomas Liddle, Co. B. 149 Bucktails. Phoebe, his wife, died Feb. 24, 1895, aged 76 years. Conrad Barrett, Co. B. 149 Bucktails; Lucinda, his wife, died Sept. 4,1S84, aged wounded at North Ann River, Va. 60 years. Abram T. Bloom, Co. B. 149 Bucktails. Rev. Samuel Miles, died March 5, 1895, He was wounded at Wilderness, Va., May aged 89 years. 5,1864. Phoebe, wife of Wilson Straw, died Jan. Samuel Conner, Co. B. 149 Bucktails. 12,1874, aged 26 years. John Wimer, Co. B. 149 Bucktails. JVJary Ann, wife of Reuben Straw, died Robert Dixon, Co. B. 149 Bucktails. Dec. 12,1870, aged 53 years. Augustus Barrett, Co. C. 132 Vol. Inf. Margaret, wife of Charles H. Lewis, jvas Robert Gilligan, Co. C. 132 Vol. Inf. born in Scotland, died Nov. 20, 1881, aged William Scheoning, Co. C. 132 Vol. Inf. 56 years. Weaver Scheoning, 22 Wisconsin Inf.; George Williams, died Nov. 30,1888, aged be was wounded in knee. 72 years. John A. Cross, died June, 1869, aged 25 Edward Knapp, Co. C. 132 Vol. Inf. years. He was the first Odd Fellow buried O.P. Ball, Co. M. 9th Pa. Vet. Cav. here. J. C. Bloom, Co. C. 9th Pa. Vet. Cav.; Anson Swan, died in 1883, aged 66 years. I wounded Oct. 10, 1862, while cleaning his MILITARY RECORD. revolver. Under the old laws of Pennsylvania all William R. Haines, Co. M. 9th Pa. Vet. the able-bodied men under 45 years were Cav.; he was wounded at Tonkinsville, Ky,, required to meet and drill at least one day July 9, 1862. He carries the bullet yet. each year or be subject to a fine of one J. A. Dillon, Co. M. 9th Pa. Vet. Cav.; dollar. In 1837 the Beula Militia company, wounded at Tonkinsville, Ky., July 9, 1862. which was organized at Beula, near Ramey, William Thompson, Co. M. 9th Pa. Vet. met in camp on Maj. D. W. Wise’s farm for Cav.; dead. the purpose of drilling, with Captain George Francis Scheoning, Co. M. 9th Pa. Vet. McCullough as Captain. I am unable to Cav.; died at Nashville, Tenn. give the names of the other officers. Crawford Rea, Co. M. 9th Pa. Vet. Cav.; In Jjune, 1851, a regimental encampment died at Wilmington, N. C., a prisoner. of volunteers, consisting of four companies, Joseph McCracken, Co. M. 9th Pa. Vet. viz: One horse company, one volunteer Cav. company, one artillery company and one George Gregory, Co. M. 9th Pa. Vet. Cr light horse company, also met on Mr. James Findley, Co. M. 9th Pa. Vet. f Wise’s farm fora three day’s drill with the J. W. Straw, Co. M. 9th Pa. Vet. Cp following officers: General, John Patton; A. C. Straw, Co. M. 9th Pa. Vet. C - ■■ ■ lived near whe: james McNeel, Br.t was born in county His family consisted Tyrone, Ireland, in 1777, emigrating to this Gamuul, Nancy, Thomas, J country when about 21 years of age, locat¬ Helen and Robert. One died in inf ing in Sinking Valley, where he married Samuel married Lydia Ricketts and Miss Elizabeth Crawford. He remained located first in Beccaria township, after¬ there a few years when in September, 1806, wards locating in Knox townriiip, where he moved to Jordan township and purchased he died in 1887, aged 78 years. His wife 800 acres of land near where Fruit Hill died Jan 1, 1887, aged 78 years. church was afterwards built. Here he Nancy married John Patterson and lived erected buildings and cleared a fine farm, in this township, where they both died. now owned by his sons. The children to Thomas married Hannah Bloom and lived this wife were Nancy, who married James in the township until his death, Sept. 6, Ramsay and moved to Illinois; Thomas 1888, aged 74 years. married Miss Russell and died in Illinois; James first married Jane Dillon, of Mt. Ann married William Atleman, and died Pleasant, who died. He then married Mr?. in Centre county; Ellen married William Eliza Corrigan, of Columbia. She died Speer and lived in Johnstown until her March 3, 1889, aged 74 years. death; Marshall died in California in 1883. Crawford died when 19 years old. Helen Mrs. McNeel died June 8, 1819, and was died when young. buried where Fruit Hill cemetery now is, Robert married a Miss Ames and lived on she being the first one buried there. a part of the old homestead until his death, Sometime afterward Mr. McNeel married which occurred August 4, 1888, aged 64 Mary C. Ricketts, daughter of Isaac years. Ricketts, of Mt. Pleasant, and to them eight Thus it will be seen that James Rea^ Jr., children were born. Eliza married John is the only one of this family living at the Hunter and lives near Ansonville; John present time. He lives on his farm at the married Mary Jane Glasgow. She being advanced age of 81 yaars, having lived dead he lives with his son Taylor. James there continually for77 years and has never G. married Mary Jane Lynch, of Pike been outside of the State. He has a re¬ township, and lives on a part of the home¬ markably good memory for a man of his stead.' Joseph married Mary Jane Me- age, recalling facts of an early date as if it Creight and lives on part of the old place. happened yesterday. Mary married Frank McCormick. Lydia When Mr. Rea first settled here it was married Lance Root; she is dead. Isaac nothing but a wilderness. The nearest set¬ 1 married Mary Jane Davis, of Mt. Pleasant, tlement being William Dunlap’s, who lived and lives near where he was born. Caroline about five miles away. He used to go to died when 12 years old. the Conemaugh salt works, a distance of You will notice that Mr. McNeel’s sons about 75 miles, and buy salt at 15 per had a liking for the name of Mary Jane, as bushel, and pack it home on horse back, the four brothers married ladies by that having nothing but the blazes on the trees j name. to guide him. Mr. McNeel died Feb. 12, 1862, aged 85 There being no grist mills in this section •ears, 1 month and 21 days. Mr. McNeel he had to go to Birmingham to mill on i epresented his district on the first grand horseback, a distance of 26 miles. ury held in this county, which was held There were plenty of deer, wolves and December, 1822. He was appointed Justice othei wild animals to keep him company. of the Peace by Gov. Shultz, and held the At one time a wolf chased his son,Crawford, office until Justices were made an elective about a mile and a half. The boy only office. He was then elected for three suc¬ made his escape by his dog keeping the cessive terms,* making 35 years that he wolf back until the boy got into the house. served as a dispenser of justice. He did a great amount of trapping, and James Rea, Sr., was the only son of by taking the scalps to Bellefonte he re¬ Samuel Rea, who came, from Ireland and ceived $12 for each wolf scalp. settled in York county, Pa., at an early Mr. Rea was a large, bony man, meas¬ date. The subject of this sketch was born ured 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighed 244 in York county in 1784, and located in pounds. It is said that he never found what is now Knox township, then Beccaria anyone who could outlift him. township, near where May Hill school At one time he went west as far as Iowa house now stands, in June, 1805. He lived to view the country^but returned, con- here 13 years, when in 1819 he moved to cludingREaF'CiearHeia: county was good | Jordan township and located on the land enough for him. now owned by his son James, near the Mr. Rea was noted for his hospitality and his house was a general stopping place for Catholic church. Mr. Rea married Jane Brannan, who many years for the people who traveled back and forward over the mountain. He .Jd served 88 traverse juror for the first court son Swan and John W. Leonard. held in Ihe county December, 1S22. Here he began to clear a farm in order to Mr. Readied in 1661, aged 77 years and supply his familv with the necessaries of 17 dayi and is buried in the Edminston life. In connection with farming he en¬ grave yard, near Glen Hope. His wife died gaged in the manufacture of lye and potash in 1860, iged 72 years, and is buried at the and finally erected machinery for grinding same place. rock oak bark, which he boxed and shipped David McKeehan was born near Carlisle to Philadelphia, receiving $60 a ton for it. in 1806, and moved with his parents to His family consisted of Anson, Sophronia, Newton Hamilton. He man ied Mary Ann Eliza, Harvey, John, Henry and Harriet. McCoy, of Cambria county, and located at Anson, for whom Ansonville was named, “the Summit,” in Cambria county, where never married, but made his home with his he worked at his trade, blacesmithing, for brothers. He was deaf and dumb and be¬ three years, when in 1837 he moved to this fore he died became blind. He died in 1883, township, locating on the land now owned , a£ed 66 years. by his sons, Samuel and John. In connec¬ Sophronia married William Hartshorn tion with farming he also kept store for a and lived at Curwensville. She died Jan. period of 23 years. He at one time owned 8, 1887, aged 83 years. about 500 acres of fine timber land, where Eliza married Ebin Winsloe, of Sinne- Berwindale now stands. mahoning. She died there. In 1847 he built a sawmill on his property Harvey married Sarah Webster, of Ohio. on the headwaters of Little Clearfield Creek He became a sailor and at one time visited and operated it for 8 or 9 years when it was Cubs and on his way home became sick and abandoned. Nothing remains of it at died in 1857 and was buried in the Missis¬ present. sippi river. His family consisted of 8 children, viz: John Married Catharine Williams and Margaret, James, Isabella, Samuel, John O. lived where Anson Swan now lives. He and three that died in infancy. Margaret , died at the age of 79. married Lorenzo Bloom and lives in ;Cbest Henry married Lucinda Bloom and lived township. James married Mary Jane in Ansonville, where he died Feb. 24, 1895, Glasgow, of Cambria county, and is one of aged 76 years. the progressive farmers and business men Asil Swan married Nancy Irwin, of of the township. Isabella married Michael Lawrence township. He was drowned Gilligan and lived near Berwindale. She March 25, 1841, and would have been 48 died in 1885, aged 33 years. Samuel mar¬ years old the following day. His body was ried Susan McQuilken, daughter of John not found till some time m June following. McQuilken, and lives in the township. John Harriet married Edmund Williams and is not married and lives with his brother on lived in Iowa, where she died in 1867, aged the old homestead. 49 years. Mr. McKeehan peddled notions through Henry Swan married Lucinda Bloom and this section for a number of years and their family consisted of John, Phoebe, whenever he had any extra money he in¬ Benjamin F.,Sallie, Edith, Harvey, Harriet, vested it in real estate. When he first came Boss, Eunice and Wayland. to this county deer was so plenty that atone John married Lizzie Wise, daughter of time he shot at one and missed it, but killed Major Wise, and lives in Tennessee. another one which he did not see when he Phoebe married Wilson Straw and lived shot. He died June 16, 1869, aged 63 years. m Ansonville. She died Jan. 12,1874, aged His wife died Feb. 14,1886, aged 74 years. 26 years. John Swan, Sr., was born in York State Benjamin F. married Jennie Holton and in 1784, and married Miss Phoebe Tubbs, of lives in Ramey. the same place. Having concluded to set¬ Sallie married Philip Wagoner and lives tle in Ohio and make that their future in Indiana county. home they started on their journey in 1817. Edith married John W. Leonard and When they arrived where East Tyrone now lives on the old homestead. is their daughter, Sophronia, took sick and Harvey married Mary Wright and lives they were compelled to stop here. He re¬ in Coalport. mained here two years working at the Harriet married Benjamin S. Clark and forges, when he concluded to come to lives in Ansonville. Clearfield county. There being no roads Ross married Rebecca Stratton, of Du- he was compelled to cut his way through Bois, and lives on the Enoch Wise farm. the woods until he reached here, which was He is the present Assessor of the township. in the fall of 1819. He and Truman Vitz, Eunice married E. W. Ferguson, of the who came with him, purchased between firm of Ferguson Bros., Kerrmoor. She 408 and 50C acres of land, which now com¬ died Nov. 9,1892, aged 29 years. poses the farms owned by Wise Bros., An¬ Wayland died when 8 years old. Mr. Swan was married Feb. 13, 1845, by Eliza first married Benjamin Chase. He Thomas Ross, a Justice of the Peace. He died. She then married Michael Sears and began life as a farmer, but in 1853 be built a | lived where W ilson Straw now lives. She store room in Ansonville and embarked in died April 7,1865, aged 78 years. the mercantile business with John M. Chase. Anna married Robert Biddle and lived Mr. Chase was succeeded in 1857 by Col. where Ansonville now stands, near where W. R. Hartshorn. This partnership was | dissolved in 1861, and from then until 1874 j A. B. Straw now lives. She died in 1864. Mr. Swan continued the business himself. /aged 75 years. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1860, Mr. Swan served in the Revolutionary I and served continually for 35 years. War and was known as Revolutionary He was a consistent member of the Bap¬ John. tist church, becoming a member May 14, John Swan’s family consisted of Sophia, 1841, and continued until his death. Harvey, Lucinda William, Emma, Harriet Mr. Swan was born near where Tyrone and Anson. now stands, March 9, 1818, and died Feb. Sophia married Hezekiah Patterson and 24, 1895, aged 76 years. His wife died Sept. lives at Berwindale; Harvey married Mary 4, 1884, aged 60 years. strong and lives iD Tennessee; Lucinda Harvey Swan’s family consisted of two married Thomas Thompson, and lives in girls, Sophronia and Harriet. Sophronia New Mexico; William died when 22 years married Thomas Liddell and lived in Clear¬ old; Emma married E. C. Houpt, a Baptist field. She died in 1889. Harriet never minister, and lives in Reynolds, Illinois; married and made her home with her sis¬ Harriet married Jeremiah Thompson, and ter and with her mother, who married lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, Anson mar¬ James Wrigley, of Clearfield. She taught ried Martha Holton, and lives on the old school for a number of years in Clearfield. homestead, near Ansonville; Three chil¬ She died in 1883. aererf

6 had a majority of 155 votes over. Mr. | Worrell, the Democratic nominee. where the McClure’ cemetery now is. For I John McMurray was born in Lycoming many years he was one of the ruling elders [ county in 1809, and remained there until of the church. In 1821 he organized the first 1 he grew to manhood. He first married Sunday school in this region, at an old log Dorcas Runner, of Centre county. He school house which stood where the late lived in Centre county three years when he William Price lived. The early Presbyte¬ and his family moved to New Washington rian church in this vicinity owes much to this county, where his wife died June r’ Matthew Caldwell. He died April 24,1869, 1845, aged 26 years. His children were aged 82 years. John, Martha A., and one died in infancy He had in all a family of twenty children, John died when two years old; Martha A. several of whom died when youDg. His married Wm. S. Mahaffey and lived in Bell daughters.'who lived to become women were township. She died October 6, 1886, aged Elizabeth, born 1812, Anna 1813, Jane 1814, 42 years. _ Mary 1815, Margery 1817, Harriet 1837, and PIKE TOWNSHIP. his sons Isaac, born 1819, Bishop 1826, Reu¬ BT PROF. JOHN A. DALE, CURWENSVILLE, PA, ben 1828, and James R. 1835. THE CALDWELLS. Elizabeth married John A. Clark; Anna, No family is more prominently indentified Thomas R. McClure; Jane, William Wise; with the early history and later develop¬ Mary, Wilson McClure; Margery, John ment of Pike township than the Caldwell Owens, and Harriet, D. B. Reams. These family. Being of Scoteh-Irish ancestry, family genealogies, so far as they relate to they fulfilled the well-known prerogative of Pike township, have been given, excepting that race by soon becoming leaders in both that of the Owens family, which will be church and political affairs. given its proper place. The first record we have of the Caldwells Isaac Caldwell was married to Susannah is when three Scotch lads, Hugh, Matthew Smith. His eldest daughter married An¬ and Alexander Caldwell left their native drew J. Cupples and now lives in Montana. land and emigrated to the colonies some His other four daughters,Anna, Alice,Lucy years preceding the Revolutionary War. and Nora, are married respectively to Hen¬ When that momentous struggle for liber¬ ry A. Addleman, John A. Ardery, Samuel ty began Hugh and Matthew Caldwell S. Moore and John H. Meyers. These gen¬ joined the patriotic army under Washing¬ tlemen are all residents of the Second ton. Matthew was killed in the disastrous Ward of Curwensville, where they are battle of Long Island. Hugh escaped and known as leaders in mechanics and bus¬ fought on during the war, being again with iness. Washington’s army at the battles of Ger¬ His first wife dying, Isaac Caldwell was mantown and Brandywine. Alexander again married, to Miss Catharine Froudy. ■ tas drowned in the Susquehanna river, Of this union there are living two sons and leaving Hugh the sole survivor. two daughters. In 1808 Hugh Caldwell with his wife Isaac’s sons were, David,who died young, whose family name was Jane Boyd, and John M., Lex and Pierce. John M. is a res¬ several children came up the river from ident of Curwensville and is married to Cumberland county and located in the Miss Rosanna Bloom. Lex is married to northern section of Pike township. Miss Bowman and resides in Knox town Hugh Caldwell’s sons were Matthew, ship. Samuel, Alexander and J. Baxter. His Reuben Caldwell, the third son, is mar¬ daughters were Elizabeth, Jennie, Margery ried to Jane Read and is a prominent resi¬ and Mary. dent of Knox township, while Bishop, who Matthew, the oldest son of Hugh Cald¬ married Mary Johnston, lives in West Vir¬ well, was born in Lancaster county on ginia, June 12th, 1787; removed with the family to James R. Caldwell, the youngest son,who Cumberland county in 1800, and on to now owns the old homestead, is one of the Clearfield county in 1808. In 1811 he was most prominent citizens of Pike township. , united in marriage to Miss Mary Bloom, Soon after arriving at the age of 21 he was ' daughter of Wm. Bloom. Sr. After his elected Justice of the Peace, which office he marriage he located in the wilderness, held forteen years. During his incumbency where his youngest son James now resides. as ’Squire he united 45 couples in marriage, There being at that date no roads of any thus, perhaps, causing more happiness than account he, in 1819, cut out through the any other man who ever was a citizen of forest the first road from Curwensville to Pike township. He was married to Harri¬ Bloomington. This road has now become et Cary, and has one son, Merritt A., mar¬ one of the principal roads of the county. ried to Nora Gearhart, and one daughter I He was one of the founders and original Rilla. ’ J members of the first church ever built in Samuel Caldwell, second, son of Hugh, Elearfield county. This church was built ( married Miss Price, and located on the river 1

HOX. ALEXANDER CALDW ELL AXD WTFE. ' '‘';t,Wn;hlp' hl tal"2». and [ the only ones who are now residents of tfr township. Annie Caldwell married Isaai B. Norris, of Curwensville. Eliza is mar¬ ried to John H. Hagerty, and Polly to Howard Stevens, residing in Illinois. James B. Caldwell has been thrice mar¬ ried, has a large family, and lives on his farm at the age of 70 years. Isaiah Cald¬ well married Miss Hockenbery. His family «d«”ni““ .*“• 5rs““’ •»■« nearly all reside in the State of Michigan Anna Margery Caldwell, married Hirani srssrrsr21 Straw, of Jordan Township. Betsey mar¬ daughters wit* flve sons and two ried Thomas Strong, also of Jordan town¬ ***"?.'««* -sides afarTS8 h"T ship, Martha married Milton McClure, and is married to Miss Minnie Farewell and Rebecca is unmarried. *° Mi>* «■«!. Hen,* “ Joseph Caldwell married Jane Bloom His sonP. A. lives in the West, and IF .ugnter, Martha Jis married to James R, mon. Joseph Spencer’s son, Joseph mar¬ Norris. ried Lydia Moore. Their family consisted Alexander, third son of Hugh, was mar¬ of six sons and four daughters. Charles, ried to Miss-Hartzhorn,- and located James, Samuel, Joseph M., Miles S., Har¬ in the Northern part of Pike township. He rison W., Nancy, Martha, Lavina and *• soon attained prominence in township and Eliza, all of whom reached maturity and county affairs. As early as 1829 he was married except Charles, whose death re. elected Commissioner. In 1853 he was suited from an accident, while he was yet elected Sheriff of the oounty by a large ma¬ young. James married Mary Kirk, Samuel, jority. A few years after the expiration of Lydia E. Bell; Joseph M., Lydia A. Griest; his term as Sheriff, he was twice elected as Miles S., Lucy M. Griest; Harrison W., Clearfield county’s Representative, in the Amanda Garretson: Nancy, William S. State Legislature. ^ Porter; Lavina, Amos Hill; Martha, L. D. He also took active part in church work. England; Elizabeth, W. Moore. In 1824, he organized, what some claim to In 1832, Joseph Spencer, Sr., purchased be the first Sunday School in the county. what was known as the Draucker woolen This was at the ffresent town of Curwens- mill, located at Bridgeport, and at that ville. He and ’Squire Thomas McClure time leased by Jacob Wilt and George were elected the first Superintendents. Beatty, regarding it as a good opportunity His family were named as follows: Hugh, for his sons to learn the business. Accord¬ Jr., Hartzhorn, Jr., Matthew, Jr., Samuel, ingly, his eldest son. Charles was apprentic¬ Jr., William, Jr., Jonathan, Isabella, Jane, ed to learn the trade. In 1834, Charles took Anna, Nancy, Mary, Margery and Mar¬ charge of the business and operated it for garet. one year, when the accident occurred that Isabella Caldwell married Charles Mat- caused his death. Joseph M. Spencer then lock, Jane, Fletcher Lee; Anna, Moses took charge and in a few years had estab - Fulton; Nancy, Abram Bailey and Mary, lished an immense business, people coming Thomas A. Flemming, of Curwensville. with wool to be carded or spun from all J. Baxter, the original Caldwell’s young¬ sections of the country. Sometimes, for est son, married Fiana Mullen. Although weeks, the mill would run night and day. he was a citizen of Lawrence township, a In latter years, this mill passed into other hands, and was finally destroyed by fire. brief genealogy of his family is given, in order to make the history of the family The Spencer brothers also owned, and complete. operated a saw mill at the same place. His children were four girls, Martha Jane, Later on, Joseph M. Spencer built a large grist mill which is still in operation. Joseph who married Jack Lanich, Elizabeth, mar¬ ried to Christian Lanich, Melissa M., who M. Spencer’s family consisted of two sons, married Alex Stambaugh, and Mary Jane, and two daughters, V. U., R. J., Lavina who married Joseph Read. and Elrnina. V. U. Spencer resides at Bridgeport, on the old homestead. He is He also has four sons married and living married to Alice Bailey, and has a family in this vicinity. Samuel A., married Eliza of two daughters. R. J., is located in the Barger; Jeff, Sarah Miller; Fred B., Bertha State of Oregon, and is unmarried, Lavina Graff and Hiram L., Lelitia Porter. died at the age of twenty, and Almina is Hugh Caldwell’s daughters were married married toJ. J. Downing, of Veina, Ohio, : follows: Elizabeth, to John Fullerton; His family consists of two daughters. ennie, to George Leech; Margery, to James Spencer owned and improved the ivbraham Bloom, and Jjlary, to Philip Antis. farm his son Jason now occupies, James THE SPENCERS. Spencer’s daughter’s were: Matilda, who In the early development of Pike town¬ married Spencer Whipple; Eliza, John j ship the Spencer family, both in clearing Hill; Alice, W. B. Hile; Nora, J. B. Cham- j and improving lands, and in building mills bers, and Lydia who died young. of various kinds took prominent part. The His sons are Jason, who married Miss l family is of English origin. About 1750, Sykes, and has a family of three sons and j the ancestors of the Spencer’s, who now re¬ two daughters, and Charles who is a bache- j side in Pike township emigrated from En¬ lor. i John Thompson, Jr., came to this country gland to the colonies. in 1829. He was a carpenter and mill¬ In 1808, Joseph Spencer Sr. came to Clear¬ wright and built many of the first buildings field county, and bought 440 acres of land along the road to Clearfield as well as in from Benjamin Fenton. This tract was all a wilderness, except two acres, which was this section, having learned his trade in cleared. Scotland where they were compelled to This tract was divided into four one-hun¬ serve an apprenticeship for a term of seven i dred acre farms. The father retained one years. When he came to this country he arm, and gave each of his sons one, the brought a complete set of tools with him sining forty acres being held in com¬ which he used until his death, whJn his son, Joseph, bought them and owns them died when 12 years old, being kicked by a at present. In 1854 he erected a large horse, Mary Ann died when 21 years old. brick house, which was the first brick build¬ Michael married Mary McAlister and lives ing in this end of the chunty. He burned at Berwindale. John Smith died in 1856, the brick on his land, cut all the lumber for aged 54 years, and Catherine, his wife, died : it on the place and sawed it on McNeel’s up in 1S85, aged SO years. and down saw mill. In 1844 he built a large Frederick Scheoning was born in Ger¬ frame barn, which was the first frame barn many and emigrating to America in 1S38 I built in the township. He sawed the lum- he located at or near Clearfield, and in I ber for it on Swan's old mill. 1843 he came to this township, locating John Hunter, Sr., was born in Parish of where his son William now lives. He was Herriot, Scotland, June 12, 1810. He was married to Jane Moore, sister of Daniel married in Scotland to Ellen Johnson, sis¬ and William L. Moore, of Clearfield. They ter of Robert and Jane Johnson. They raised a family of 5 children, viz: Weaver came to this country July 16, 1S4S, and set¬ W., Robert A., William M., David W. and tled on the farm now owned by John "Wil¬ Mary E. Weaver W. married Kate Baker, son, where he lived until his death, which of Kansas, and died in Missouri in 1832, occurred May 6,1892, aged SI years, 10 aged 41 years. Robert died in 1859, aged ^months and 24 days. His wife died April 17 years. William M. married Lizzie 26,y.S75,'aged 90 years and 24 days. Bloom and lives on the old homestead. His family Consisted of John, Robert, David W. died in 1859, aged 13 years. James, Belle, Elizabeth,Ellen andMargaret. Mary E. married Philip Erhard and lives John married Eliza McNeel and lived on jn New Millport. the farm where his son James now lives Mr. Scheoning was a tailor by trade. until his death, May 6,1892, aged 92 years. At one time he was awakened from sleep : Robert was married in Scotland to Sophia by hearing one of his pigs squealing and Swanson and came to this country with his thinking that a bear was after it—a common father in 1848, locating on the farm now 1 occurrence—he awoke his wife, arming owned by Lee Troxell. He died July 14, themselves with clubs in order to kill old 1882, aged 70 years. James never married bruin, proceeded to the pen, when to their t and lives with John H. Hunter at the age disappointment or surprise they found the of 80 years. He came to this country in pig fast in a crack of the pen and no bear ) 1843. He was a carpenter, millwright and near. cabinetmaker, still working at the latter. RobertPatterson, Sr., was born in Ireland Belle was married in Scotland to Robert in 1778. He was a son of Joseph and Jane iLiddell and came here in 1843, locating on Patterson and came to this country with the farm now owned by George F. Black. his parents when a child and lived first in Both are dead. Elizabeth married John Virginia; from there they moved to Mary¬ Wilson, who lives near Ansonville. She land, then to Centre county, coming to died July 20, 1882, aged 62 years. Ellen Clearfield county in 1803 and located in married Anthony McGarvey and lives in Lawrence township where they lived 18 Chest township. Margaret married John years, locating in Jordan township in 1821 Patterson and lived near the Catholic and took advantage of the offer made by church. She is dead. Morgan, Rawles and Peters, who lived in ) ! Were all our people of the same dis¬ Philadelphia and owned a large tract of position that Mr. Hunter and family were land in this vicinity. They made a propo¬ we would need fewer lawyers and less sition giving 50 acres gratis to the first nine -court, as none of them was ever sued nor settlers who would buy 50 acres at $4 per sued anybody, never appeared before a acre. Mr. Patterson being the ninth set court or Justice of the Peace as a witness. tier bought 50 acres ana received bis dona tion of 59 acres more and cleared a farm i John Smith came from Ireland and set¬ tled in this township in 1834. He married which is now owned by Peter Patterson Catharine Killian and raised a family of This originated the name of Morgan’s land eight boys and girls, viz: James, John, by which it is still known. Thomas, Martin, Matthew, Frank, David, In connection with clearing and cultivat¬ Michael and Mary Ann. James married ing the land Mr. Patterson taught school Miss Isenberg and lived at Orbisonia, where during the winter and it is said he taught she died. John married Lydia Lamey and one school in Lawrence township 21 terms. Jives at Renova. Thomas married Nancy Mr. Patterson married Elizabeth McCor¬ Ellen Gilligan and is a prosperous farmer mick, of Centre county, and raised a family of the township. Martin married Eva of 4boys and 4 girls, viz: Joseph, Robert, Kragle and lives in Charleston, West John, James, Nancy, Jane, Eliza and Virginia. Matthew never married and Jemima. Joseph married Margaret Erhard. lives with John at Renova. Frank lives He died March 11, 1883, aged 73 years, with Martin at Charleston, W. Va. David Robert married Catharine Thompson, and .. his farm in Knox^fownship at the anced age of 86 years. James married died May 12,1852, aged 28 years. .■.ebecca McCormick and lives in Beccaria David Williams, eldest son of William township. John first married Nancy Kea, Williams, was born in Centre county in who died several years ago. He then mar¬ 1S03, and married Mary Glenn, of the same ried Margaret Hunter, who also died, when place. He lived in Centre county about ^ he married Mrs. Nancy Bright, who 7 years attending the Glenn grist mill. Ho present lives in Ansonville. John died came to this township in April, 1833, and purchased 400 acres of land from Shoe¬ March 8, 1892, aged 78 years. Nancy mar¬ maker & Irvin, paying 4^ dollars per acre ried Thomas Witherow. She died in 1893, for it, aDd it is said that the timber was sc aged 89 years. Jane married Christina thick on it that they could not see the sun Erhard. She died in 1S82, aged 75 years. except when looking straight up through Eliza married Abram High who located the trees. This tract now includes the first in Knox township, afterwards moving farms of his two sons James G. and Wil¬ to Lawrence township, where she died. liam, Hiram Barrett, Martin Nolen and the Jemima married Jame? Wilson and lives Green farm, now owned by Sylvester in Beccaria township. Curry. When Mr. Patterson was 25 years old he In 1833 Mr. Williams erected a grist mill lost his leg by a four-horse team running and in August, 1834, done the first grinding away which he was driving. He made on it. This was the first grist mill built in himself a wooden leg which he wore until this locality. The millwrights were Joseph his death, which occurred August 28, 1855, Michaels and Silas Solly. The burhs or at the age of 77 years. He was one of stones were made near Philipsburg and the the consistent members of the Fruit Hill bolting cloth was purchased at Lewistown, Presbyterian church, and was an Elder Pa. As it was only a log structure he run from the day of its organization until his it only 9 years when it was worn out. His death. son James ground on it when he was so William Williams was born in Chester small that he could not lift a sack of corn, county, locating first in Centre county and being compelled to pour it into the toll box in 1831 he located in Jordan township, near and then into the hopper. Nothing remains Patterson’s school house, on the farm now of the mill at present. In connection with owned by John W. Leonard. He was mar¬ running the mill Mr. Williams improved ried to Mary Scott and their family con¬ his land and cleared a fine farm. sisted of 11 children, namely: David, Jessie, His family consisted of Martha, Austin Edmund, John, William, Margaret, Cath¬ C., James G., Lucinda, William, Eliza and arine, Tabitha, Mary, Betsy and Sophia. John. Martha married Alex. Henderson David married Mary Glenn, of Centre and lives in Illinois. Austin C. died when county, and lived on the farm where his 21 years old. James G. married Martilla son James G. lives. He died Dec. 27, 1S53, Knapp and lives on part of the old home¬ aged 50 years. Jesse first mrrried Delila stead. William never married and lives Bell, sister of Arthur Bell. She died; he with his brother James. Eliza first married afterward married Caroline Green and lived William Thompson. He died; she then in Beccaria township. He died June 28, married John W. Bell and lives in Green¬ 1870, at the age of 62. Edmund married wood township. John died at the age of 21. Harriet Swan. He lived on the farm now Lucinda died when 4 years old. owned by C. D. Shoff until 1862, when he Mr. Williams was one of the founders of moved to Iowa, where he died in March, the Zion Baptist church. He died Decem¬ 1897, aged S6 years. John never married ber 27,1853, aged 50 years. His wife sur¬ and died March 23, 1885, aged 71 years. vived him nearly 36 years. She died Sept. William married Janet Mead and lived on 1, 1889, aged 80 years. Both are buried in the farm now owned by Ezra Young. He the Zion graveyard. _ died August 17,1S69, aged 53 years. Mar¬ garet married Jacob Leonard, father of J. William Williams, Jr., married Janet W* Leonard, and lived near Glen Hope on Mead, and from this union they raised the following children: Anson, George, Mary the Clark Patchin farm. She died March H., Sophia and Tabitha. Anson married 4,1882, aged 75 years. Catherine married Miss McGarvey, daughter of William Mc- John Swan and lived where Anson Swan Garvey, and lives in Westover, George now lives. She is dead. Tabitha married went west and married and lives in the John M. Chase, and lives in Clearfield. State of New York. Mary H. married Mary married Maj. D. W. Wise and lived Isaac Markle and lives in LaJose. Sophia near Ansonville. She died June 11, 1873, fi married John Tozer and lives in Westover. aged 46 years. Betsy married George Tabitha married Mr. Philips and lives in Tubbs and lives in Iowa. Sophia married Bradford township. Nicholas Tubbs and lived in Ferguson town¬ jjr. Williams died August 17, 1S69, aged ship where John T. Straw now lives. She 53 years. His wife died July 16, 1S62, aged 1 125

47 years. |married C. W. Arthurs and lives at West Abram Bloom was born in Germany in |over. 1790 and emigrated to this country at an Mr. Bloom served as Justice of the Peace early date. He married Nancy Freeman,! for a number of years and was an under¬ only daughter of John Freeman, of New] taker for many years.' He used to work Jersey. They lived in New Jersey for a j jfor Mr. Rea and had to pass through the while when in 1830 they moved to this town¬ 'woods a distance of two miles in going ship and located on the farm now owned by back and forward to his work. One even¬ | Samuel and Peter Bloom, near Fruit Hill. ing in the fall, while eating supper, they Mr. Bloom’s family consisted of 7 boys heard a strange noise. Mr. Rea, knowing and 3 girls, viz: Wm. T., John F., Peter, what the noise was, remarked “By the I Lafayette, Jacob, Isaac, Abram, Hannah, wars, that’s a panther,” and insisted on Mary Jane and Elizabeth. William T. Mr. Bloom staying all night. Mr. Bloom, first married Margaret Carson. She died who feared nothing, said he would go in 1862. He afterwards married Eliza home. He mounted his horse and started. Chase. He died March 1895, aged 83 years. When he arrived near where the Catholic (John F. married Julia Carson and lives in church now stands where a chestnut tree Rose Bud. Peter first married Caroline Mc- leaned over the road his horse suddenly Cully. She died and he afterward married stopped, and no sooner had it done so when Henrietta Caldwell and lives in Buchanan a large panther leaped from the tree upon county, Iowa. Lafayette married Rachel him, tearing his clothing from his body and Jordan, and lived near Fruit Hill. Jacob leaving the marks of its claws on his breast. married Rebecca McPherson and lives in The horse suddenly turned and ran back to Buchanan county, Iowa. Isaac married Mr. Rea’s barn, throwing Mr. Rea off in a Isabella Johnson and lives near Johnson’s wagon bed. Mr. Bloom decided to stay all school house. He has served as Justice of night. the Peace for 23 years, receiving his first At one time Mr. Rea made a propositiq- ■y commission from Governor Hartranft. , to Mr. Bloom that if he (Mr. Bloom) cut' of He has married 52 couples and thinks mar¬ piece of wheat containing 6 acres f/ ± id 1 riage is not a failure. Abram first married sunrise to sunset he (Mr. Rea) would give a Mary Patterson, who died; he then married him two bushels of good seed wheat, and if Martha Brothers and lives in Ferguson he failed to cut it in that time he was to cut i- township. Hannah married Thomas Rea. it for nothing. He cut it within the speci¬ irdi She died April 28,1887, aged 64 years. Mary fied time and when it was tied up it made 3— j Jane married Joseph A. Caldwell and lives 156 dozens. if! in Curwensville. Elizabeth married Wm. Miles S. Bloom has a clock in his house ar j M. Price and lived in Pike township; both that has been running for over 100 years. it I j are dead. Abram Bloom died in 1883 at It was manufactured in Germany and was i-1 I Newville, Cumberland county, Pa., at the brought here by Mrs. Bloom’s great great e j advanced age of 93 years. Mrs. Bloom j grand-father, Mr. Ames, and has been in died in 1873, aged 75 years. the family ever since. It is a clock that William T. Bloom came with his father strikes every 15 minutes. The striking is from New Jersey and located near Fruit done by little brass men with hammers in Hill in 1830. He was married to Margaret their hands which resembles an old man Carson, who was born in Knox township anaEis two bflyS. It certainly is a curiosity. where William Witherow now lives. She There have been parties from New York to died Dec. 9,1862, aged 42, and is buried in buy it, offering §100 for it, but Mr. Bloom the Zion cemetery. He afterwards married wants it understood that it is not for sale. Eliza Chase, sister of John M. Chase. She Hugh Carson was born in Ireland, emi¬ lives in Ansonville at the age of 75 years. grating to this country at an early date. if Mr. Bloom’s family consisted of Abram T., He married Miss Hunter, of Huntingdon, 1-1 John C., David W., Mary C., Elizabeth where they lived for some time, locating Jane, Lafayette, Joseph, Miles S., Robert1 in this township in June, 1S20, locating on and Annie M. Abram married Mrs. Maggie the farm now owned by Joseph Thompson. Kuhn and lives in Curwensville. John C. He lived here until 1832 or 1S33, when he married Annie Bloom and lives in New sold his land to John Thomson, Jr., end Millport. David and Mary died in infancy. 1 moved to Ohio, where he died. His family Elizabeth Jane married William M. Schoen- consisted of 6 boys, viz: John, William ing and lives in the township. Lafayette Robert, Hugh, Jr., Henry and Nelscn. married Elizabeth Tetterington and lives John married Kate Frazer and lived in near Fruit Hill. Joseph married Jane Knox township; he died near Westover. Bloom and lives at New Millport. He was William married Harriet Tozer and located killed by a saw log in 18S0. Miles S. mar¬ on the Thompson farm; afterwards went ried Belle Rea and lives near the Catholic west. Robert married Margaret Goss and church. Robert married Mrs. Jennings, of lived where Mr. Clark now lives; he moved Virginia, where they now live. Annie to Sanborn, in Woodward township, where —1

.c to Ohio with his father. Henry lived 2 years, coming to Jordan township in 1841, .ear Potts’ Run, where he died. Nelson where he continued his labor until 1S64, never married and died near Plumb Island when he went to Brooklyn, Iowa, where he while rafting. lost his faithful wife, whose name, previous John Carson’s family consisted of Foster, j to her marriage, was Mary Ann Tipton, of John, Daniel, Margaret, Elizabeth, Julia, Milesburg. Hannah and Jane. Foster died in the He remained in Iowa 2 years. In 1866 Mexican war. John married Nancy John¬ he returned to his native State and located son, of Indiana county; she died; he then at Reynoldsville, Jefferson county, where married Mary Jane McCully, of Madera, he served as pastor 9 years, during which . and lived at Madera where they died. time he married Miss Elizabeth Robinson, 1 Daniel married Ann McCracken and lived of Curwensville. In 1S75 he moved to New near Westover. Margaret married William Washington, remaining there!years, when T. Bloom and lived near Fruit Hill; she in 1SS2 he returned to Ansonville where he died December 9, 1862, aged 42 years. remained until his death, which occurred Elizabeth married John Curry and lived March 5,1895. in this township; both are now dead. Julia Samuel Miles came from good old Baptist married John F. Bloom and lives in Rose- stock from away back, the name being Bnd. Hannah Jane married George Bloom closely identified with the history of that and lives in New Millport. denomination. He was the oldest active Edward Comerford was born in Ireland minister in the county, if not in the State. and came to this country and worked a He was moderator of the Clearfield Bap- j short time at Newton Hamilton and Water- tist Association for many years, and we street, locating here in 1S32; he married believe he preached more funeral sermons Jane McKeehan and lived in the township than any other minister in the county. until his death. His family consisted of Mr. Miles’ family consisted of 13 children, ; three children, John, Eliza and Margaret. John, Robert, Ingals, Joseph, Edward, John was killed by a horse when 15 years Tipton, Mary, Eliza, Catharine, Anna and old. Eliza married James Haley, oflrvona; Hannah. One died in infancy. John mar¬ she died in Pittsburg July 23, 1897, and ried Ellen Wright and lived in Iowa until was buried at Fruit Hill. Margaret mar¬ his death, which occurred in 1872. Robert ried Armstrmstrong Curry and lived near married Elizabeth Kerns and lives in Rey - New Washington until her death. noldsville, Jefferson county. Ingals mar- \ Truman Vitz came to this township in ried Elizabeth Leonard and lives in Chest j 1819 along with Mr. Swan and located on township. Joseph married a lady in the the farm now owned by Wise Bros. He west and lives in Kansas. Edward died married Miss Jordan, a daughter of Hugh January 26,1867, when 18 years old. Tipton Jordan, Associate Judge of the county; he died when young. Mary married John moved to Armstrong county, where he died. McCann and lived in Zanesville, Ohio, SAMUEL MILES. where he died in 1893. Eliza married John Rev. Samuel Miles was a son of John ard Kingan and died in Kansas. Catharine Mary Miles and was born Nov. 12, 1806. He married David Reynolds and lives in claimed to be a citizen of the United States Reynoldsville. Anna married Solomon in a peculiar way, as he was born in the Spears and lives in DuBois. Hannah mar-i United States Arsenal at Gray’s Ferry, now ried James Spears and lives in DuBois. included in the city of Philadelphia. He Robert, Joseph and Tipton served in the could trace his genealogy back to 1701 when Union army during the last war. Richard Miles left his home in Wales, emi¬ Rev. Miles was 89 years old when he died grating to this country and settling at and is buried in the Zion cemetery. His' Radnor, Delaware county. wife survives him and lives in Ansonville ; Samuel belonged to the fifth generation at the age of 76 years._ since their settlement in this country. He John McAllister was born in Ireland in and his father came to Milesburg, Centre 1824, moving to Canada in 1842, when he county, bought land and laid out the town married Catharine McCambridge, of the of Milesburg, which was named in their latter place. They came to this township honor. He was of a family of 9 children— in 1848, locating near Berwindale where he 5 sons and 4 daughters, four of the boys has since lived. His family consisted of | becoming Baptist ministers. Samuel Catharine, John, Mary, Nancy, Emeline, entered the ministry in 1S34, being ordained Martin and Elizabeth. Catharine died at Milesburg. The same year he was when four years old. John married Sarah located at Beechwoods, but also preached Kudrouff, of Cambria county, and lives on j at Luthersburg, Curwensville, Clearfield the homestead. Mary married Michael] and in this township. He continued preach¬ Smith and lives in Berwindale. Nancy ing in this field for 4 years, when in 1838 he married Ellery Lyts and lives in Lock

) \ Haven. Emetine married Dorsey DeWitt. GOSHEN TOWNSHIP She died February 5, 1892, aged, 27 years. BT M. C. FLEGAL. Martin never married and lives with his [brother John. Elizabeth died when 7 The first steps towards the organization years old. of the township of Goshen were taken by Mrs. McAllister died in 1SS1, aged 53 the presentation of a petition to the Court years. Mr. McAllister lives with his son of Quarter Sessions at a term thereof held John at the age of 73. on the 2d day of December, 1S44, from When McAllister was in Canada he fol¬ divers inhabitants of the townships of lowed lumbering. The first winter he Lawrence and Girard, setting forth “that worked there he received ®S per month. the petitioners residing in the settlement He afterwards became a jobber or con¬ called Goshen, being partly in Lawrence tractor there. He had to take his provis¬ and partly in Girard townships, and un¬ ions up the river in a canoe, it requiring 13 connected, in a great measure, with the days to ascend the river to his shanty. He other settled parts of said townships, and traded tobacco and tea to the Indians for therefore labor under great inconveniences venison, which he used instead of beef. The on account of schools, they beiDg in sepa¬ last winter there his shanty burned and he rate townships, and that their roads are was compelled to walk 152 miles which neglected by the supervisors of both town¬ brought him to the first improvement, ex¬ ships, more particularly of Lawrence cept an Indian shanty where he remained township, who reside at too great a dis¬ over night, during his journey. tance from this settlement to attend to Charles Strong, Sr., was born in the roads in that far-off settlement. Also that south. He located in New Jersey at an the election district is to them, in both early date, coming to Clearfield county in townships, inconvenient; that it is very 1820, locating in Lawrence township. He inconvenient to attend at the place of was connected with a woolen mill which holding elections in both townships; and was built at or near the mouth of Clearfield the right of sufErage (free and equal) is a creek, travelling for said mill through Clear¬ privilege that your petitioners claim as a field and Cambria counties with a yoke of right. Therefore, we ask that a new town¬ oxen for several years, ship be formed out of Lawrence and Girard j In 1830 or ’31 he came to Jordan township, townships, including part of Jay and Gib- j locating where Thomas MeNeel now lives. son townships not taken into Elk county, if ! He lived here for a number of years when the last named township is not too far j he moved near Ansonville. He married distant, and praying the Court to appoint; Betsy Beers and raised a family of six ( suitable persons to examine into the premi¬ children, viz: Thomas, Mary, Hannah, ses and make report to the Judges of the Sarah, Samuel, Parker and Charles. next Court of Quarter Sessions to be held Thomas married Betsy Caldwell, of Pike at Clearfield on the first Monday of Febru¬ township, and lived near Ansonville where ary, 1845.” she died July 16,1895, aged 74 years. His Upon this petition the Court appointed i family consisted of Joseph, Martha, Mary, J. W. F. Schnarrs, James A. Read and William, Edith, Charley, Harvey and Cal¬ Isaac Graham commissioners or viewers to vin. Joseph married Ruie Sommerviile examine and report on granting the prayer and lives at Berwindale. Martha married of the petitioners “if to them it shall seem J. C. Davison and lives at Ansonville. expedient.” The report, which bears the j Mary married Harvey Swan and lives in date J anuary 10, 1845, was confirmed May Tennessee. William married Mollie Holton 5, 1845, and Goshen became a regularljy and lives in Gazzam. Edith never married created township, separate and distincijj.. and lives with her mother. Charles first and authorized to administer its own affair married Lizzie Young; she died Jan. 11, as prayed for by these petitioners. Its 1896; he then married Nannie Bell and lives early settlement was, of course, made in Ansonville. He has been elected twice while it formed a part of the older town¬ to the office of County Auditor, holding ships. that office at present. Harvey married Geographically it is situated in the Minerva Fink and lives on part of the old northern part of the county, being bounded homestead. Mary married George Mc- on the north by Elk county, on the east by Cully and lives near Ramey. Hannah mar¬ Girard township, on the south by Law ried Robert McCully and lived at Ramey. rence township and the Susquehanna river, She is dead. Sarah married Mordecai on the west by Lawrence township. It ma^ Shirk and lives in Clearfield. Samuel also be classed among the smaller town¬ Parker married Fannie Keagy and lives ships of the county, both in area and pop¬ near Berwindale. Charles married Mary ulation. The mean length north and south Allbright and lives near Berwindale. is about twelve miles, and the mean width about four and one-half miles. Its main

'-‘Mini.I,.. 7 was an inveterate hunter and trapper and streams, besides the river, are Lick Kim paid but little attention to improvements. aad Trout Kun in the south half, both of He had no family. ■which discharge into the river, and Laurel Run, which drains the entire northern Jacob Flegal, one of the pioneer settlers, part, discharges into the Sinnamahoning, purchased a farm in what is now Goshen and finally into the West Branch. township in 1S39, although he did not bring So far as its early settlement is concerned his family until 1844. His farm is located that feature of its history was estabiished near the head of Flegal’s Run, in the south¬ long years before it became a township by west portion of the township. Jacob a few sturdy pioneer familes and woods¬ Flegal built a mill on Flegal’s Run, on the men who took up their abode along the site of what is now known as Brown’s mill. river and the larger streams leading to the He afterwards sold it to J. Scott Flegal, river. While the settlement of Goshen has who rebuilt it and put in steam power. kept pace with other townships similarly About 1874 it was sold to Milton Brown, situated or having like natural resources, who operated it until he had cut all his it has been by no means rapid. The timber and then moved it elsewhere. southern portion is moderately well popu¬ About the same time that Flegal settled lated and improved, while the northern here Isaac Graham came to the township. part is an entire and vast wilderness, un¬ He had a large family, and after a resi¬ inhabited save by the temporary residence dence here of some years he emigrated to of lumbermen. Not more than one-third Iowa. He had a brother named Robert of the township is inhabited or settled. who lived here for a time and also went west. This, however, is no drawback to or preju¬ dice against Goshen, as it contains some of Matthew Tate, still living in the town¬ the finest and most fertile farming lands in ship, must also be counted among the the county. That it has an underlying pioneers, having come prior to 1840. He strata of mineral deposits is well established bought lands on Jerry Run. and the development of this valuable in¬ Robert C. Shaw, brother of Judge Rich¬ dustry remains now but a question of time. ard Shaw, and son of Archie Shaw, the pioneer of Mt. Joy ridges, came to Goshen Goshen received its name in rather a about the time that Matthew Tate located singular manner. In the summer of 1S39 here. Their lands were joining. Several Abram Leonard, Isaac Graham and Jacob of the Shaw descendants are still living in Flegal,who were then buying farms in what the vicinity. The geneaology of these is now Goshen township, had gone into the families will be given later. wilderness, as it then was, in company As fully set forth in the early portion of with Samuel Fulton, for the purpose of this chapter, Goshen was taken from the surveying their farms, and during the adjoining townships and erected separately course of the Slay Mr. Fulton asked the in May, 1845. At the first enumeration of other men iithey had a name for the place, taxables, made in the year following, there and they re; died that they had not. “Well,” appeared to have been residing in the says Mr. Fu ton, “we read in the Scripture township less than 40 persons who were about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and about classed as taxable inhabitants, and twelve them settling in a goodly land. Now this of these were single freemen. The follow-1 is likely to ba a goodly land, why not call ing enrollment, made by Isaac W. Graham, it Goshen ?” The settlers assessor will show the name and occupa¬ with the name, so they called it Goshen. tion of each taxable person, with the prop¬ Among the pioneers in the township, or erty owned at the time by each, respective¬ the territory that in later years was erected ly, and will as well serve to show who were into the township of Goshen, was the residents of the township: Robert Gra¬ Bonfgardner family, former residents of ham, farmer, 120 acres; Joseph Morrison, Kishicoquillas Valley, who took up lands farmer, 62 acres; Wm. L. Shaw, farmer, near the mouth of Trout run, in the south¬ 100 acres; Daniel Lewis, 75 acres; Leonard ern portion and near the river. In the Bomgardner, farmer, 50 acres; John Bom¬ family were several sons, strong, active gardner, farmer, 50 acres; Wm. Leonard, and industrious, and who were well known farmer, 1100 acres; James Flegal and John on the river. William Bomgardner, one Leonard, 104 acres; Bigler, Boynton and of the descendants of this family, still Powell, 104 acres and 1 saw mill; George lives in the township. He is a respected Bomgardner, Sr., 1 cow; George Bomeard. citizen and follows lumbering for a livli- ner, Jr., 100 acres; Robert Bomgardner, hood. The Bomgardners first settled in 100 acres; Jacob Flegal, farmer, 100 acres; Goshen township in the year 1820. William L. Rishel, farmer, 75 acres; Mer¬ Joseph Thorndyke was another of the old rick Housler, 1 yoke oxen; Horatio Hall settlers who located near the same place, one cow; Henry Lewis, farmer, 118 acres; Trout Run, but in the year 1823, two years Wm. Housler, 1 horse and 1 ox^Nathaniel later than the Bomgardners. Thorndyke ~~Zi3 Irittain, 1 horse: Thompson Read, farmer, 160 acres; James A. Read, 260 acres; John Iplaced in the mill, thus making it one of Fenton, 50 acres; Matthew Tate, farmer, the most substantial in the county. ■* 150acres; Robert C. Shaw, farmer,95 acres; Edward Shaw, son of Bishop Shaw, re¬ I. W. Graham, farmer, 139 acres; John sides at Shawsville, where he runs a gener¬ Barr, 103 acres; Isaac Lewis, 100 acres. al merchandise store and looks after the It is possible that some of the above interests of the mill. named persons were not actual residents Ed. L. Shirey also conducts a general of the township at the time the assessment merchandise store there and superintends was made. quite an extensive butchering business. The first election was held in the town¬ In 1S95 Elmer Murray erected a large ship in February, 1S46, and the following building at Shawsville and fitted up the named officers elected: Constable, George first story as a blacksmith shop. In 1S96 Bomgardner; Supervisors, Robert Graham Ed. L. Shirey became a partner with him and Wm. L. Risbel; School Directors, and they put in an engine and chopping Henry Lewis, Jacob Flegal, R. C. Shaw> burs and have since been doing an exten¬ James Morrison, J. W. Graham and John sive business in grinding chop. Bomgardner; Justices of the Peace, J. W. About the year 1870 Morrow and Smith Graham and Horatio L. Hall; Auditors, built a water power saw mill on Trout W. L. Shaw and’Jacob Flegal; Overseers of Run, above Shawsville. This is now the Poor, W. L. Shaw and A. S. Leonard; property of Murray & Wilson. Clerk, Horatio L. Hall; Inspectors, James ELLIS IRWIN. L. Flegal, Wm. L. Rishel; Judge, Robert The oldest citizen of Goshen and one of Graham; Assessor, Isaac Graham; Assist¬ the oldest in the county is Ellis Irwin, of ant Assessors, James L. Flegal and Robert Lick Run Mills, who celebrated his 92d i C. Shaw. birthday last June. He was born in Centre I Ellis Irwin, a former merchant of Clear- county on June 17, 1805. In 1827 he was fleld, moved to Lick Run during the year married to Miss Hannah Iddings. In 1329 1856. He purchased property there in 1846. he migrated to Clearfield county and Martin Nichols had commenced the erec¬ located on a farm in Penn township, near tion of a saw mill on the run in 1845, and Grampian Hills. He remained on the farm this property Mr. Irwin purchased. He four years and then moved to Curwens- completed the mill and started the lumber¬ ville and went into the hotel business. He ing business, which he has followed until kept what was known as the corner house quite recently. Ferdinand P. Hurxtbal for three years. In 1836 he took charge of j and James Irwin had started a mill erec¬ the office of Prothonotary, Register and ^ tion and dam across the river below Irwin, j Recorder and Clerk of the several courts of but were not able to complete it. In the the county, to which office he had been ap¬ fall of 1847 Mr. Irwin bought this property pointed by the Governor of the State and and the dam privilege, together with lands which he held for three years. On the ex¬ on the opposite side of the river, complet¬ piration of his term of office he purchased ed the construction and thus acquired a of Richard Shaw a general store and went valuable water frontage. In 1852 a gen¬ into the mercantile business in company eral merchandise store was started there with his brother William. He continued by Mr. Irwin, which he continued to man¬ in the store until 1843, when he was elected age for a number of years. The present Sheriff. In 1846 he was appointed post¬ Lick Run Mills postoffice was established master at Clearfield by General Harrison, r in 1872, and Ellis Irwin appointed post¬ then President of the United States. master, which office he has held ever since. Having purchased timber land on Lick Prior to this time the office had been Run in 1845, he kept adding to this when¬ located at the settlement known as Shaws- ever opportunity afforded until he had in ville. The office at Shawsville was there¬ his possession 3000 acres of timber land. In after discontinued for a time. 1S56, finding that his lumbering interests Shawsville, so named in honor of Judge demanded his presence and supervision, he Richard Shaw, an old and respected citizen moved to his present home at Lick Run of the county, is a small hamlet situated Mills. After coming to Lick Run he at the mouth of Trout Run, and comprising started a store, which he continued to run a few houses and two or three local in¬ for a number of years until he had his tim¬ dustries. ber nearly all cut. Of late years he has Judge Shaw built a grist mill at this done very little business outside of that iplace in the year 1852 on lands purchased connected with the post office, which he j from Stewardson, of Philadelphia. At the has held for over 30 years. Although he is j death of Mr. Shaw the property went to one of the oldest men living in the county 'Arnold Bishop Shaw, of Clearfield, who yet he is quite active, and often changes Jnow owns it. In 1886 the machinery for the mail without his glasses. manufacturing roller process flour was He was blessed with a family of seven children, namely: Lewis, who for a num- “Dale Church” settlement, in Bradford was in partnership with his township. Father Flegal’s hospitable home atherin the lumbering business, the firm was headquarters, while in this vicinity, being known as Ellis Irwin & Son; John, for the itinerant ministers. the prominent druggist, of Clearfield; Mary Jacob Flegal died April 18, 1868, at the Anne, who lives with her brother John in advanced age of 67 years, 9 months and 28 . Clearfield; Henrietta, who lives with her days, honored and respected by all who father; Wm. E., of Philipsburg; Joseph, of knew him. Curwensville, and Malissa, who died when Mrs. Flegal, who survived her husband quite young. Mrs. Irwin died in 1881. Mr. almost a score of years, departed this life Irwin has always been a prominent citizen on June 11,1884, aged 84 years. 4 months ■' and a foremost participant in everything j and 19 days. Their children were eight in that he thought was for the betterment of number and their names are as follows: his fellow men. James L., John, A. L., Robert K., J. Scott, ; THE ELEGALS. Martin S., Ellen and Mary E. The ancestors of the Flegals were natives 1 James L. was born in 1823 and married I of Germany. Valentine Flegal, the direct Elizabeth Dressier in 1848. His family is I progenitor of the Goshen Flegals, migrated as follows: Mandrous, J. Wesley, Preston, i from the city of Worms, Germany, in 17—, James D., Alice and Ella. and settled in Maryland, where Jacob Mandrous was married to Mary Shirey, I Flegal, the pioneer of Goshen, was born in daughter of Austin Shirey, of Goshen, and 1S00. Valentine Flegal afterward moved lives in Tannerytown. to Centre county, where he died in 1840. J. W. is married to Ada Shunkwiler, of Jacob Flegal was married in 1821 to Miss Lick Run Mills and lives on the farm of i Margaret Leonard, and began housekeeping Ellis Irwin. He is a prominent citizen of 2 at Philipsburg, Centre county. He after¬ Goshen and a leader in church work. wards came to Bradford township, Clear¬ Preston was married in 1890 to Miss Della field county, and settled on the place Arbagast, of West Virginia. He died in where Ed. Dale now lives. In IS— he West Virginia in 1890 but left no children. moved again to the place where Alex James D. is still unmarried and makes Hoover now lives, and in 1838 he came to his home with Gilmore Shirey, who is mar¬ the Arehy Shaw mill below Clearfield. In ried to his mother, his father having been 1839 he moved again. This time he came dead for a number of years. 1 to Wolf Run, where lommy McCorkle now Alice is married to David Mulhollan and wives. In 1840 he moved onto the Samuel lives at Karthaus. slJlyde place, where he remained for four Ella is married to Thomas Hemphill and cyears. In 1844 he came to Goshen to the lives in Centre, Lawrence township. cplace where Robert Flegal now lives. Ho JohnL. Flegal was born in 1825. In 1852 | aremained here until his death in 1868. He he was married to Miss Margaret Fulton, “ ' came to Goshen on the 2d day of May, 1844, daughter of Samuel Fulton, of Wolf Run. and went into a house that had He purchased a farm adjoining his father’s neither windows nor 'door. An entrance and brought his bride into the woods to was effected through a hole cut in the wall, help him make a home. His father had which was closed at night by hanging a never had any stairs in his house until John quilt over it to keep out the gnats. He was married, but ascended to the upper lived in the house this way until October of room by means of a ladder. But when ^he same year, in John brought his bride home he was not , g, Jacob Flegal was a prominent man in the willing that she should climb the ladder to j ^community politically, socially and spirit¬ go to bed and constructed a pair of stairs j ually. Being, as he was, among the first for her accommodation. settlers in the township he naturally held a John’s family consists of three boys and j prominent place in township affairs. His three girls, namely: Edward, the well | was the first farm surveyed in the town¬ known undertaker, of DuBois, who is mar | ship. It was surveyed on May 17, 1839, ried to Miss Lilly Taylor, daughter of S. B. Samuel Fulton, surveyor. Taylor, of Goshen, now of McGee’s Mills; He always took an active part in church Curtin, who lives on the farm with his work, and to-day a cane, which he left at I mother and who was married in 1896 to Miss the Goshen church the last time he was Dora Murray, of Girard township. He is a there, may be seen on the wall of said prominent citizen and takes an active part ?hurch, reminding the people who worship in township affairs. He has several times here that the early settlers of the township held important offices in the township and ere followers of the meek and lowly Jesus. at present is serving in the capacity of The first religious public services in the School Director. H. J., the leading cloth¬ mship were conducted in his cabin by ier of Clearfield, was married in 1893 to } veteran local preacher and exhorter, Miss Angie Cole, of Potter county, and has iam Dale, whose descendants now live, a family of three children, all of whom are y of them, in what is known as the . boys. Besides being the proprietor of the j Again, in 1883, he decided that the west leading clothing house of Clearfield he is a j was the land of wealth, and he according- prominent citizen of the borough and takes ingly migrated to Montana, where he spent a prominent part in politics. Virginia is I I the summer and came home in the fall married to Senator M. L. McQuown, and is 1 with magnificent reports of his western a resident of Clearfield. Her family con- ! country, but after spending another sum- sists of two girls, Alice and Mary, and one jmer there he came to the conclusion that boy, John. Carrie, the next daughter, is j “be it ever so humble there’s no place like married to L. E. Weber, the well known [ home,” and since that time he has remained clothier, of DuBois, and has a family of I in the land of Goshen. three children, all girls. Julia, the youngest On his first trip to Montana he was ac¬ of the family, is still unmarried and makes companied by his son Ai, who became so her home with her mother. attached to the country that he ever after¬ John Flegal died October 21, 1890. ward made it his home. He became a cow- | R. K. Flegal was born April 11, 1832. He I boy and spent most of bis time astride a Gras married in 1859 to Miss Katura Irwin, I pony. But he was not proof against the aughter of Henry Irwin, of Lawrence hardships which are necessarily connected township. He located first on the place with the cowboy’s life and which are bound where Josiah Read now lives, but after the to tell even on the strongest constitutions, death of his father he purchased the old and in the spring of 1895 he returned to homestead and moved on the same in the Pennsylvania broken down in health and fall of 1S69, where he still resides. And he ’ere the Autumn had passed he succumbed often boasts of having helped to clear to that dread disease, consumption, and every acre of land that has been cleared on was laid to rest in the old burying ground the old place. He has always been a at Goshen. prominent citizen of the township, having Twice previous to this he had made short served in nearly all the township offices. visits home, once in the fall of 1S87 and He has always taken an active interest in again in the spring of 1889, at which time church work and was for many years a he came to be present at the funeral of his steward in the Methodist church. mother. He is the father of a large family of THE SANKEYS. children whose names are as follows: Irwin John Sankey, who was for a number of S., Lewis E., F. K., M. C., Clark, Mertie years a prominent citizen of Goshen, was and Ruth. These are alloying except born in Centre county, near Unionville, Ruth, the youngest daughter, who died in July IS, IS32. He came to Clearfield county the spring of 1895. The others all live in in 1851 and went to work with Jacob the county except Lewis, the second son, Shunkwiler, at Lick Run Mills, to learn the who has been in Oregon for the past eight blacksmith trade. In 1854 he was married years. IrvinS., is practicing medicine at to Miss Laura Irwin, daughter of Henry Karthaus, F. K. is in a clothing store in Irwin, of Wolfe Run. In the spring of 1855 Clearfield and the other children make they went to housekeeping at Shawsville, their home with their parents. where he started a blacksmith shop and J. Scott Flegal was born in 1S34. In continued in the same until 1861, when he 1865 he was united in marriage with Miss purchased the farm of Abram Leonard, in Maggie Shaw, daughter of Archie Shaw. the western part of the township, and From this union there were born eight moved onto the same. He lived there until children, namely: A. Johnson, R. Lee, Ai, his death in 1893. He was a prominent Paul E., Frank P., Cecil, Florence and citizen of the township, having served her Annie. This family is very widely scat¬ in nearly all the offices of trust and honor. tered, there being at present only three of He was an active worker in the church and the children in the county, viz: Paul, and was for many years an official member Florence and Cecil. Johnson, the oldest in the Goshen M. E. church. son, is in Arkansas, Lee is in North He died October 17,1893, and was laid to Dakota, Frank at Carlisle, Pa., and Annie rest in the Goshen cemetery. atPunxsutawney, Pa. He was the father of a large family of Scott was always of a restless nature and children, ten of whom are still living, four fond of speculation. He was, in his having died when quite young. Of the younger days, engaged in lumbering quite j living 7 are girls and 3 are boys. The girls extensively in Goshen towhship and was are all married but one and have families of very successful. In 1872 he went to Vir¬ their own. The oldest son is also married ginia and invested very heavily in timber and lives on the farm with his mother. lands, but the panic of 1873 coming upon MATTHEW TATE. him he was unable to keep his head above the financial waves and lost nearly every¬ Matthew tate, the oldest son of Samuel thing that he had. Tate, of .Lawrence township, was born May 26,1821. He came to Goshen and began [operations on his farm in the western part .e township in 1843. William Bead, who had purchased a farm adjoining Tate’s, He brought his bride to Goshen and set up came at the same time and they shantied housekeeping in the log shanty which he together while making their first clearing. had built five years before when he first On the day of their arrival they built their came to Goshen, and in which he kept first shanty, which was constructed' by bachelor’s hall for two years. They came fastening a pole against a tree and laying to Goshen in May and lived in this shanty boards on this with one end on the ground. until their house was completed in Septem¬ This was the only shelter they had for ber. The house which they built at that some time. At that time this then almost time forms the main part of the house inj unbroken wilderness was inhabited with which they live at present. wild animals, such as panthers, wolves, That the young men of that day were' bear and a number of other denizens of the fond of playing practical jokes is shown by forest, yet these pioneer settlers seemed to the following incident: In the first Hol- have little or no fear of these animals, as low’een night after Mr. Reed had brought the following incident will illustrate: his wife to Goshen the young men of the During the first night which Mr. Tate and settlement thought it proper that they Mr. Read spent in the woods, while they should show their appreciation of his set-[ were sleeping under the shed above spoken tlement among them, and accordingly re¬ of, a panther having approached near to paired to the house of Mr. Read, but not their camp discovered something unusual until he had retired for the night. On in his heretofore unmolested domain and reaching this place they proceeded to gave vent to one of those cries such as only roll large logs before the doors and secur¬ a panther is capable, but that was sufficient ing ropes they tied the door to these logs to awaken both of the sleeping gentlemen, and went home. In the morning when Mr. and Mr. Read, after sitting up and listen¬ Reed arose he discovered that he was a ing for a time, remarked that he supposed prisoner, but after repeated efforts he it was some traveler on his way to Sinne- finally succeeded in getting the door open mahoning, and lay down and went to sleep far enough to put his hand out to cut the again. rope. While the men were rather scarce in the Mr. Read is the father of a large family township in those early days yet they were, of children, only four of whom are living. from all accounts, more plentiful than the Maggie, the oldest daughter, is married to women. Mr. Tate informs us that he came Daniel Kopp, and lives in Altoona; Blanche, out here to get away from the women. the youngest daughter, is married to Lewis How much truth there is in this I cannot Flegal, and lives in Lane county, Oregon; say, but this much I do know, that on De¬ Olive and Ross are still at home with their cember the 3d, 1846, at the home of James parents. Irwin, of Wolf Run, he was united in mar¬ Mr. Read, or “Uncle Dad,” as he is riage with Miss Jane Mead, and brought familiarly known, is a remarkable man and her to Goshen to share his fortunes with clings with an undue persistency to the him. They are both still living and in the customs of former days. For instance, he enjoyment of good health. Their children will not use a coal oil lantern, but goes numbered eleven, of whom all but four are about the barn with his tallow candle lantern, such as most of the young people dead. The living are Mrs. William Lutz, of Mt. Joy; Mrs. George W. Fulton, of of to-day know nothing about. He has been seen on the road hauling timber when Wolf Run; Edith, who clerks in Leitzinger’s the thermometer registered below zeroi store, in Clearfield, and Ira, who lives with rcd without overcoat or mittens and then “ his parents and does the farming. ji would not admit that he was cold. He has Mr. Tate is an honored and respected always been a staunch Presbyterian and citizen. He has been an active participant although he has lived in a Methodist com¬ I in church work. He belongs to the school munity he has reared his family according ! of old fashioned Methodists and is a very loyal one. to the doctrines of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Read is an honored citizen and is re¬ THE READS. spected by all who know him for his honesty, j The William Read before spoken of, who integrity and morality._ came to Goshen with Mr. Tate, only worked A. A. Read, brother of Thompson Read, on his farm one year until he sold it to made the first clearing on his place, in the V) Thompson Read, son of James A. Read, of southwestern part of the township, in 1848. Lawrence township. Thompson Read came He was married in the same year to Isa¬ j to Goshen first in the year 1845. He worked belle Clyde, daughter of Samuel Clyde, of 1 on the place for two years and then vacated Wolfe Run, and brought his bride into the ■ it for several years. In the spring of 18501 woods to help him make a home. They I he was married to Miss Susan Fulton,; lived here until 1S91, when they moved to | daughter of Samuel Fulton, of Wolf Run. West Clearfield, where they still reside. They have a large family of children, follow the geneology further at this time. six of whom are living. Mansfield, the William Shaw was probably the first oldest son, lives in Lawrence township, permanent settler in the township, or at near the Pleasant Dale school house, and is least in the western part of the township. a prosperous farmer. Samuel lives on one He came to Goshen first, as near as we can end of the old place and is a prominent tell, in 1839. During that year he made a citizen. Archer, the youngest son, lives on clearing for Abram Leonard on what is the old homestead; he takes an active part now the Sankey place. He worked on this in church work and is a steward in the place for several years and on March 18, Methodist church. Maggie, the oldest 1841, he was married to Miss Lizzie Morri¬ daughter, is married to Morris J. Owens, of son, daughter of Joseph Morrison. Al¬ Mt. Joy. 'Belle makes her home with her though he had as yet made no clearings on parents,’and Rachel, the youngest daughter, bis own place he brought his bride into the is a rofessional nurse, and is at present in woods to share his fortunes with him. Mrs Japan nursing a Philadelphia lady who is Shaw was the first woman to travel the road married to a Jap. Mr. Read is a prominent from Goshen to Mt. Joy. She made her citizen of West Clearfield, a staunch Pres¬ first trip over this road on a Sunday morn¬ byterian and a loyal Democrat. ing before breakfast in the summer of 1S41. The farms on which Archer and Samuel She and Mr. Shaw arose, fed and milked Read live ah^in Goshen township ofnly for their cows and then went to his father’s, school purposes,. They were.originayy in who lived at Mt. Joy, for breakfast, and Goshen but Mr. Rgad thought it wduld be after breakfast accompanied them to to his interest to be in Lawrence for all but church at Clearfield. school purposes, and was accordingly struck The road from Goshen to Mt. Joy was in. then little more than a path through the THE SHAWS. woods as there had nothing been done to it The Shaws of Goshen are by no means a but brushed out. How many of our people back number. They are the most numer¬ to-day would go to church under similar ous and exert a greater influence politi¬ circumstances ? cally than any other faction in the town¬ Mr. Shaw is the father of a large family ship. of children, six of whom are still living. The direct ancestors of the Goshen Shaws Those living are Merrick, George, Ellis, were Robert C. Shaw, of Mt. Joy, and a 8arah, Elizabeth (Mrs. R. G. Shaw) nephew, William Shaw. Bobert C. Shaw Martha (Mrs. C. B. Koozer), and Sail,'-; came to Goshen in March, 1842, and settled Mrs. Richard Owens). Mr. Shaw wa3 a on the place where A. S. Shaw now lives. jitizen of Goshen for more than fifty years, He lived here until his death, which oc¬ »nd at the time of his death, in 1894, he curred about 1S59. was the oldest citizen in the township—he Robert C. Shaw was a man of many ie had lived in the township the greatest jwives, having had three during hi3 lifetime, lumber of years, but he was not the oldest- not all at once, but one at a time, as it nan living in the township. is likely that he, like many others, that one Mrs. Shaw is stili;iiving and in the enjoy- was enough at once. To his first wife one nent of good health. She lives alone, with wife was born, viz: R. G. Shaw, who is now ;he exception of her little grand-daughter, a prominent citizen of Goshen. To the vho is with her most of the time. second wife two children were born, viz: .TAMES GEAHAM. James Graham, one of our oldest and Frederick, who lives in the western part of » the township, and Mrs. Richard Kyler, of Juost respected citizens, was born in Brad-1 ford township in 18—. He was married f I Shawsville. To the third wife five children 1842 to Miss Sue Morrison, He came * j were born, viz: Archie S., Allen, Robert, Gosben in 1853. He had purchased the1 Margaret Jane (Mrs. G. A. Morrison) and John Leonard place, near where the Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. M. H. Shaw.) After Goshen church now stands, and moved leaving home Mr. Shaw’s children, with onto the same. He lived here until 1877, one exception, settled in Goshen, but with¬ when he moved into a house which Andrew in the past few years Mrs. Morrison and Marks had built, and which stands on one Allen have moved to Clearfield or vicinity. corner of the place, and his son, Thompson, Robert Shaw, the youngest son of Robert moved onto the farm and took charge of C. Shaw, is one of the proprietors of the of the same. new cash grocery in Clearfield. R. G. Mr. Graham’s family consists of three Shaw, the oldest son of Robert C., is mar¬ girls and one boy. The girls are Mrs. John ried to Mary Ellen Shaw, daughter of Wm. Selfridge, Mrs. Wm. Anderson, and Jane, Shaw, and has a large family of children. who makes her home with her parents. Two of the boys, Harry and Ezra, are suc¬ Thompson, the only boy living, was mar¬ cessful school teachers. The other children ried in 1874 to Miss Jane Rankin, and is the of Robert C. Shaw are all married and have father of a large family of children. ! families, but we will not take the time to 34

_.es Graham has been a respected and: Several sons of Jacob Shire; ^onored citizen, but bis race is nearly run, ford township, have been residents of as he is now in his 79th year. Goshen for a number of years. We cannot Mrs. Graham, who is two years his senior,! give the exact dates regarding these men, is still living but is very much broken down but Aaron shirey, one of these sons, came in health aud is only waiting the summons | to Goshen prior to 1856. He is a prosperous to call her hence. farmer, an honored and respected citizen. JOHN SMITH. He is married to Miss Helen Bumgardner The history of no community would be and is the father of a large family of Chil¬ complete without a sketch of the life of dren, most of whom have left the parental that noble character, John Smith. He has roof to battle with the world for themselves. been a prominent factor in history from Austin and Gilmore Shirey, who live in time immemorial and will continue to do the southern end of the township are also so in the ages to come. He is known in members of Jacob Shirey’s family. Ephram almost every country on the globe and his Shirey, of West Clearfield, is another name is pronounced in almost every lan¬ brother. He was at one time a resident of guage. Truly, the man who can bear this Goshen but he moved away years ago and historic name with all honor and glory, we can give no data regarding him. There shame and disgrace that has been heaped are still other members of the family but upon it in the past, must be a big-hearted, their histories will be given in their respec¬ whole-souled man. But such a man we tive townships. have in Goshen. Although he is not the The families whose genealogies have been man who figured s® prominently in the given are all in the western part of the early history of Virginia, and the writer is central part of the township, but there are not informed whether he even traces his other families in the eastern part whom ancestors to Captain John or not. Yet he we might dwell on with profit, and we can is John Smith, and as such must take a only just mention the leading families in place in history. that end. JohnC. Smith, the man who bears the Ira Kramer, who lives at Wm. Graham’s most historic name in the township, was mill, is a prominent man in township born in Venango county in 1840. He came affairs and takes an active part in politics. to Goshen about 1864 and was engaged in He is a loyal Democrat. the lumbering business for several years Another prominent man in that end is in partnership with H. H. Morrow. In 1868 John Murray, who lives near the Eden he was married to Miss Esther Fulton, school house and is a prosperous farmer. daughter of Washington Fulton, of Wolf During the past few years he has been Run, and moved on the Robert Graham lumbering quite extensively. He is a mem¬ I place at the top of Shawsville hill, which ber of the firm known as Murray & Wilson, he had bought some time previous. who operate the saw mill on Trout Run, He has been a prominent citizen of the known as Morrow’s mill. township, serving her in many of her Other prominent men in that end are offices of trust and honor. He has been for ■■f Calvin Amon, Stewart Shiek, E. J. Wal- a number of years an active worker in the thers, W. A. and J. W. Nelson, Ellis Kyle: Methodist church. At present he is class and Thomas Lingle. leader in the Goshen M. E. ohuroh. In giving these genealogies we have given1 R’ "His family consists of eight children, five the facts so far as we have been able to t boys and three girls, ail of whom make get them, but as we do not claim to be in- their home with their parents, f alliable, we hope our readers will overloo citi Mr. Smith has tried to obey the teachings amy mistake that may have et’ept in. I in the Scripture to “train up a child in the j ■ of »^ay he should go and when he is old he j

will not depart from it,” and as a i THE WISE FA.MILT. result his children are nearly all members Captain Wise was one of the stalwart old of the Methodist church and Loyal Ep- pioneers who early inhabited the then al¬ worth Leaguers. most unbroken wilderness of Morris town¬ When giving the history of the Reads we ship. A worthy representative of a class neglected to mention Josiah Read, son of which is invariably found in the vanguard Josiah Read, of Lawrence township, who of civilization aEd who leave their impress came to Goshen in the spring of 1893 and is with more or less distinctness not only an active participant in township affairs. upon the physical but the social, moral and He lives on the place formerly owned by S. ] political features of the country as well. B. Taylor, and has a large family of small | He was born in 1800, within the present children. He is an official member of the | limits of Philipsburg, Centre county. Soon Goshen M. E. church and a loyal Prohibi- I after his birth his parents moved across tionist. ' Moshannon creek into Clearfield county, | c 13

and what is now Morris township, v,. his title of Captain, He held the position they lived six years. They then moveu for quite ’a number of years and was re-, I onto a farm in Bald Eagle Valley, where garded as a very efficient and capable they resided until the subject of our sketch officer and took great delight in showing off reached the age of 22 and struck out for his company to the best advantage in himself. He came to this county in 1822 “training days.” He was also known as a and located on what is now known as the very successful hunter, and in this respect Giessey farm, in Cooper township. In the had few equals, even in these early days year 1S23, on April 10, he was married to when at least a part of nearly every man’s Miss Ann Cowher. Bringing his wife to education was in this direction and was their new home they lived there until the some men’s whole stock in trade. year 1835, when they moved to what was Venison was the common every-day fare then known as the Spruce woods, in Morris at his house and he became so tired of it township. Here he cleared up a fine farm that on one occasion when his wife hap¬ upon which, with the exception of one year pened to be out of the kitchen he took the in Pbilipsburg, he lived until his death, pan of frying meat off the fire and hid it in which occurred in 1874. the loft, and it was quite a long time before Meanwhile ten children were born to Mrs. Wise discovered where the skillet had them in the order named: Mary Ann, been hid. Elizabeth, Edward, Matilda, John B., Geo. While living on the Gelssey place he had W., Cissia and Maria, (twins,) Ellen and a log enclosure in which to keep his sheep Jasper. Mary Ann married Franklin D. at night. He also had a dog called Wimer; both died several years ago; their “Powder.” One night “Powder” gave un¬ descendants still live in the neighborhood. mistakable signs of something wrong, and Elizabeth died unmarried. Edward mar¬ on investigating Mr. Wise discovered a large ried Sarah E. Holt, who died in 1891. Ten bear in the act of jumping into the sheep children were born to them. Mr. Wise pen. He.hastily lit a pine torch, which his has lived all his life in the neighborhood sod Edward carried, while he took his of his present home and has been the “vil¬ trusty rifle. His bearship alarmed at their lage blacksmith” at Allport for many years approach attempted to escape, but although and still works at his trade at the age of 70 its movements were pretty rapid the Gap- years. He is said to have the most com¬ tain succeeded in “putting a bullet where plete set of blacksmith tools in the county. it would do the most good.” “Powder” He is a genial, wholesouled, well-preserved sailed in, and although the dog was pretty man for his age; is a good talker and in well used up, bruin Anally concluded to be many respects resembles his father. good, and for a considerable time bear Matilda married Zachariah Flegal. He steak formed a part of the bill of fare at was a soldier and died in the army. She is the Captain’s table. This is only a sample also dead; they left three children. of the many adventures of which the Cap¬ John B. grew to manhood and while en¬ tain took delight in telling. gaged in rafting on the Moshannon was While, as before stated, Mr. Wise had drowned. few equals as a hunter, yet there was one George W. married Julia Kyler. They man in the neighborhood who disputed the raised a large family and are both living championship with him, and that was John yet on what is known as the David Dale J. Kyler, formerly of Bradford township, farm, in Morris township. but now living at an advanced age with Cissia married Peter Beals. Both are his son in-law George Wise, of Morris. now dead. Mr. Kyler tells some marvelous stories of Maria J. married Asbury Gearhart, one his prowess as a hunter when he was a of the substantial and intelligent citizens young man and game plenty, and the rela¬ of the township. They have tec children tion of his adventures would fill a volume, d have a pleasant and homelike home at but for our present purpose one or two Wprrisdale. will have to suffice. On one occasion he ffillen married William Bond. They live was following a bear which when closely a the old homestead, or what is left of it pressed plunged into the river where the vther, for a good part of the village of water was deep and attempted to escape , Drrisdale Mines is built on land that by swimming to the opposite shore; but .ginally belonged to this farm. They Mr. Kyler commenced shooting and such . to seven children. was the rapidity of the firing that although dsper-N., the youngest of the family the bullets did not seem to take much effect ■ to about the age of 21 when he was yet the weight of the lead, Mr. Kyler avers, ■d by a vicious horse, from the effects j finally sank the bear and it was drowned ich he soon after died, before it could get out of range. When it b Wise was elected Captain of a \ is remembered that he only had a muzzle¬ er company away back in the 20’s i loading rifle we are apt to agree with him di the Philipsburg Fencibles, hence that “it was pretty quick work.” 136 ] t <. 1 — or trap.Thebait—generallyabeefhead the trap.Nowwolves,which,by awhile intheyicinity,wasdroppedinto or liver—afterbeingdraggedaround ing andalargeholewasleftattheapex where thegroundwassomewhatdescend¬ something likeahouseroof.Itwasbuilt sides graduallyslopingtowardsthetop, located onapieceoflandpurchasedfrom 1830 whenhecametoMorristownshipand 13,1804, remainedinCentrecountyuntil number, andsoitprovedforthewolves. everybody knows,isamightyunlucky in theinclosure,safeenough.Now13,as ing thitherfoundthirteenfull-grownwolves Mr. Kylervisitedthetrapseveraltimes down throughthehole,butwhenitcame the inclinedplane,asitwere,andjump would smellthebaitandbygoingto kinds of wildanimals, wolves,wild cats, He thensettledonapieceofvacantland left isnowknownastheWaringfarm. to leavehisimprovement.Theplacehe years AllportsoldthelandtoSamuel James Allport.Afterlivingonitforafew ovens arenowlocated.Itcontained179 same landsonwhichtheWigtoncoke directly southoftheformerlocation, Waring andhe(Thompson)wascompelled pioneers ofClearfieldcounty,wasbornat sons whoneverwerehuntersthemselves it isnoticedthattheyaregenerallyper¬ aiyi intimatethathedrawsprettyliberally to thetruthofsomeMr.Kyler’sstories didn’tconsider itaverygooddayforwolves Mr. Kylerdeliberatelyshotthemalland without result,butonemorningonrepair¬ to jumpingout,why,thatwasdifferent. way, wreeprettynumerousatthattime, team. Theforests wereinhabitedbyall out wideenough togetthroughwith a 1881. Nittany Valley,wherehediedMay29th, 1S63, whenhSsoldland,timberandcoalto right. Helivedthereundisturbeduntil what fewthere were,weresimplybrushed mouth oftheMoshannon. Theroads, broken wildernessfromPhilipsburg tothe Brenner &Reynoldsandmovedbackto the landandbecameownerbyposession acres withthebestoftimberandunderlaid Washington Furnace,Centrecounny,April and thereforearenotcompetentcritios. on hisimaginationwhilerelatingthem,but either. upper sideofthepencouldeasilywalkup township thecountywas almost anun¬ with excellent‘coal.Hebuiltandimproved Samuel C.Thompson,oneoftheearly A fewpeopleappeartobeincredulousas When 5Jr.Thompsonsettled inMorris sure wassquarewitheaohofthefour or trap:it.wasbuiltoflogs.Thein¬ SAMUEL C.THOMPSONANDFAMILY. another timeheconstructedawolf lives there. Julia, bornsamedateas above, married MichaelBeam;movedto married, owns apropertyinDuBoisand 1S90. Theyhadeightchildren,fourof Morris townshipMarch19, 1S31.Heis town. RobertThompson wasbornin road. Helenissingleandlives inKyler¬ whom diedininfancy. Miss SarahJ.Brown,whodiedMarch13, is anengineerontheBeech CreekRail¬ lives inRico,Colorado.E. B. issingleandI the 3dofOctober,1850,hewasmarriedto county February14,1S28,andcameto ship. IdaMayismarriedto James HallandI Morris townshipwhentwoyearsold.On and livesnearKylertown,Coopertown-I L., HettyandMargery. and Julia,(twins),Phoebe,Margaret,Sarah Margaret E.Fye.Tothisunionwereborn eight children,asfollows:James,Robert rebellion distributedrelieftosoldiers’ widows andorphans. was oneoftheboardthatintime County Commissionerforthreeyears,and Peace in1S40andsuccessivelyeveryfive up afineandproductivefarm. sons wereabletoassisttheysooncleared vide breadforhisfamily,andwhentwo to helphehadclearedenoughlandpro¬ one-half ofwhattheybroughttohaulthem years until1S60.Hewasthenelected to market.Beforehisboyswereoldenough other necessariesforthefamily.Itcost Mark andtradeforcornmeal,fish neighbor wouldhaulthemtoWarrior’s those days.Theshinglesbeingfinisheda indispensible accessorytoeveryhomein horse intotheold-fashionedfireplace,an thrown astheyfellfromtheshaving and sawedatnightinthehouse,light being furnishedbytheshavings them homewithayokeofoxen,thensplit in wintertimehemadeshingles,knownas “lap shingles,”sawedtheboltsandhauled bacon homeonhisback.Whenatj turning everytwoweeks,packingflourandj furnaces toearnalivingforhisfamily,re¬ Centre countytocutcordwoodforthe little homeinthewildernessandreturnto was compelledtoleavehisfamilyintheir taste ofthescythe. close enoughhewouldhavegiventhema ing amowingscytheandiftheyhadcome if hewasnotafraidsaidcarry¬ by thelightinhisownhome.Whenasked returning fromworkataneighbor’shewas every sideuntiltheywerekeptatbayby followed byapackofwolves,howlingon was twomilesdistant.Onenightwhen panthers, bear,etc.Thenearestneighbor J. ElwellismarriedtoMissJuliaHughesL James ThompsonwasborninCentre Samuel C.Thompsonwasmarriedto Mr. ThompsonwaselectedJusticeofthe Without financialmeansMr.Thompson Nebraska, and died of cancer, August 5, married to Sarah Holden in 1850, . ' -; 1892. Her husband is still alive. Phoebe he had 4 children, when she died,1 «• was born December 28,1832; married John 1861 he married Martha Magill, who bore Reese and died November 6,1866. Margaret him 3 children. He died in 1S71 in Philips- was born June 12, 1S36; married Isaac * burg. His widow and four children sur¬ Undercoffer and lives at Bigler Station. vive him. Sarah L. was born December 3, 1S42. She Andrew Hunter was born in 1830 and married Jesse Swartz, who is now dead; married Martha, daughter of Samuel Dale, her home is in Scranton. Hetty was born in 1854. He lived many years on the old July 18,1S46. She married Gideon Wolf. homestead, was a man of considerable in¬ They live in DuBois. Margery was born fluence and good judgment; was twice April 14, 1848. and married Jacob M. i elected one of the Justices of Morris town¬ Hoover, who is now dead. She owns a I ship ; had served three years of his second property in DuBois and liv»= — term, when he died in 1873; bis widow and THE HUNTER FAMILY. 7 children are still living in Philipsburg, In the year 1833 William Hunter moved where they moved sometime after Mr. with his family from Buffalo Run Valley, Hunter’3 death. Centre county, and located on land bought Wesley Hunter was born in 1833 and died from J ames Allport and now owned by in infancy. Alexander and Richard Shields, his elder Eliza Jane Hunter was born in 1S35 and sons having a year or two previous made a was married to Edmund Dale in 1856. Mr. small improvement on the land, built a log Dale is an influential and much respected house, etc. His family consisted of himself, citizen of Bradford township. Their grown wife and 14 children. The children’s names, up family is somewhat scattered but are dates of birth, marriages and deaths are as making their mark in the world. Mrs. follows: Dale, it will be noticed, is the only survivor Evans Hunter was born in 1810; married . of the large family of which this is a brief Catharine Kylerinl833; moved to Stephens sketch. *■ county, Ill., in 1862, where they both died, Martha Hunter was born in 1S39, mar¬ leaving a family of grown-up children. j ried O. P. Reese in 1S63 and died in 1892. Mary Ann Hunter was born in 1812; Mr. Reese is a merchant and with his married David Dale in 1834; they owned family resides in Kylertown. and lived on the farm adjoining the old William Hunter was a quiet, unassuming j homestead where George Wise now lives. Christian man who in all the walks of life J She died in 1853. . endeavored to square his actions by the Reuben Hunter was born in 1814, and “golden rule.” He was a life-long member married Ellen Brisbin in 1839, and in 1853 of the Methodist Episcopal church. His ; he began the practice of medicine in Miles- house was a haven of rest for the weary burg, Centre county. He continued there itinerant of those days who never failed to until the civil war broke out when he offered find the “latch string” out and a hearty j his services as a volunteer in^the army but welcome within. For many years his home was rejected on account of being over the was a preaching place, as churches .were prescribed age. However, in 1862, Gover¬ few and far between at that time. His nor Curtin, who was well acquainted with influence and example were always on the I him and recognized his abilities, gave him aide of right and justice, and he is held in I a commission as army surgeon. He died loving embrace by many still living. That | sometime after, of fever, at Annapolis, Md. i he met his full share of the trials, difficulties | Rachel Hunter was born in 1816; married and impropitious circumstances that were Isaac Kline in 1837 and died in 1858. inseparable from the lives of settlers in a Josiah Hunter was born in 1818; he mar¬ new country is certain, and that he j ried Elizabeth Kline in 1841. They moved triumphed over them all is evidence that he 1 | to Stevenson county, Ill., in 1853, where possessed an eminent degree of those quali- ; he died in 1862. His widow still survives fieations which are the indispensible requi¬ { him. sites of the successful pioneer. The first j William Hunter, Jr., was born in 1820; elections for the township were held in his I and died at home in 1844. house. How long they were continued i Jesse Hunter was born in 1822; married there is not definitely known, but it is sup- j Mary Thompson in 1847. They subsequent¬ posed for several years. Mr. Hunter died j ly moved to Altovista, Kansas, where he in March, 1856. died in 1894. THE WARING FAMILY. Christina Hunter was born in 1824, and Samuel Waring was born in Hereford- % died at home in 1838. shire, England, in 1793. He came to this '( John Craig Hunter was born in 1826 and country in 1821 and lived with his father on jl ied in 1855 at home. the Showalter farm, near Philipsburg, in “ Eleazer Hunter was born in 1828, was Decatur township, until the year 1836, when ' he came to Morris township and purchased the place where his eldest son, William, township at the “BeaverDams,-afterwards now lives. In the same year which he known as Morrisdale, the name oT the located here he was married on the 17th of March to Susansa Shimmel, who was born nlrt th! the °fflce is Mw All¬ port, the village named in ho—- in this county in April, 1812. Seven chil- subject of this skefch, and but a short dren were born to them, as follows: Cath¬ distance from where he first located. Mr. arine, born March 3, 1S37; William, born Allport was united in marriage to Matilda, May 17, 1839; George, born June 2, 1S41; eldest daughter of Major Andrew Hunter, John, born May 22, 1843; Samuel Jr., born of Buffalo Run, Centre county, on Nov. 30, June 7, 1S45; Elizabeth, born September 5, 1831. There were born to them seven chil¬ 1S47, and Delancey H., born September 1, dren. The eldesc, James Cramond, was 1850. born January 18, 1833; he married Mary Catharine married Newton G. Antes; 3 Jane Morrison, of Bellefonte, on October children were bora to them. William 24,1854. married Margaret Williams; they had 6 Mary Ann, born December 16, 1834, mar¬ children, of whom 4 are living. John mar¬ ried Rev. A. J. Beyer, of Baltimore, Md., ried Amelia Daugherty, of Newton Hamil¬ May 2,1854. Andrew and Samuel died in ton ; 5 children were born to them. Samuel infancy. Catharine, bora December 11, married Margery Loy in Washington terri¬ 1841, married D. W. Holt September 9,1862. tory, previous to its admission to the Union Matilda, born June 23,1845, married J. Y. as a State. Elizabeth married George Dale, M. D., of Lemont, Centre county, Wagoner; they had two children who both Sept. 29,1870. Hobart, born March 3, 1848; died quite young. After the death of married Edith S. Nevling, of Clearfield, Wagoner she married P. J. Sullivan; they Jan. 2,1870. He died at Philipsburg Jan. have two children. D. H. married Sarah 7,1893, of blood poisoning, contracted at an C. Hicks; to this union seven children were amputation at the Cottage State Hospital, born. Mr. Waring owns a fine farm near of which institution he was Surgeon in Morrisdale Mines and is at present serving Chief. Dr. Allport graduated in medicine as County Commissioner. and surgery at the University of Pennsyl¬ Of the trials and difficulties that the vania in March, 1878, and one of his darling elder Mr. Waring encountered in clearing projects was to found a hospital at Phil¬ up a farm and making a home in the then ipsburg, the first and last field of his dense wilderness, we have no record but practice. This he accomplished, with the that in common with other early settlers, help of others interested, and in it he met he had his full share, we can readily be¬ his death, but it remains to be a comfort lieve. That he was a man of considerable and help to those of limited means, and his ability as a surveyor and school teacher earnest effort to place it within reach of many now living can testify. his old home and neighbors will long be Mr. Waring died July 15, 1851. His wife remembered. His early death was a sad survived him until April 22, 1879, when she blow to his family and friends and a great too passed away. loss to his profession. It is difficult to imagine the changes that Mr. Allport came to New York as an have taken place in the 60 odd years that importer of fine hardware. He was very have elapsed since Mr. Waring located on successful in the business until he consigned this spot. The Beech Creek railroad runs a large invoice to what was supposed to be through the farm which, as before stated, a first class firm. This ffrm failed and in is owned by the elder son, William, and consequence he was left with but little houses dot the roadside every few rods. money and a large body of wild lands, the The cry of the wolf and panther (sounds greater part being in what is now Morris common enough in those days) have given township, the southern limits of the prop¬ place to the shriek of the locomotive, and erty being at what is known as the Jacob as we gaze upon the long trains of cars Wise farm, and the northern at James bearing tbe>fjgoduct of mine and wood and Hughes’, below Kylertown. field swiftly-tb market, we are led to ex¬ Mr. Allport was the township’s first As¬ claim' this is truly an age of progress. sessor and also the first postmaster. His THp ALLPORT FAMILY. commission dated Feb. 14, 1840, signed by One of the most prominent and influen¬ Amos Kendal, Postmaster General, is now tial men in tile early settlement and de¬ in possession of his family. He continued velopment of Morris township was James in office till 1S53, when he positively refueed Allport. He was born May 11, 1799, in the to serve any longer. The elections were to-, i of Martley, Worcestshire, England. held at his house. In politics Mr. Allport Tyfcame to New York in 1820 and to Philips- was a stalwart Democrat. He was natural¬ arg in 1828, returning to New York the ized at Clearfield and unhesitatingly cast ame year. He returned permanently in his lot with the Democracy of the county. 829 and jsetjled in what is now Morris u

Ue held that ho republic could be governed this section has ever experienced, consistently by any other party. Hi« company houses were all occupied; the political career was cut short by physical miners received as high as TO cents per ton infirmities, but his plans and advice were for mining, part of the time; had steady always sought and expected by hi3 party work, were paid cash every month, and in friends. Among the many younger poli¬ consequence Morrisdale Mines was the best ticians who consulted with him was William market in the country. The miners lived Bigler. In him he saw great possibilities well, had plenty of money, were liberal and to him gave advice and counsel which buyers, and a load of produce could be had their influence in leading Bigler to sold at a good price as fast as the owner fame as Governor and U. 8. Senator. could band it out. It’s different now. In 1837 Mr. Allport drove to Harrisburg Quiet and unassuming, warm-hearted and demanded and received the resignation and generous, observant and ready for of a Senator of this district because he was business, Mr. Holt has always shown a not representing the party which elected disposition to “live and let live,” and those him. Mr. A. being chairman of the Dem¬ with whom he has come in contact will ocratic party at that time. His patriotic bear witness to his uprightness and fair adoption of this country was coupled with f dealing as a progressive business man and an action on his part which may be well t<* citizen. He continued to operate these note, as it shows in clear light the spirit of mines till 1876, when a sale, was made by the man. When he left England for Amer¬ the heirs of the Allport estate and himself ica his close connection with the English to R. B. Wigton and William Doris. army caused that government to pension JOHN HOOVEK, SK. him as a good subject to the crown, which In the spring of 1830 John Hoover moved pension amounted to $5,000 a year, half the ( from Centre county and located in the sum to his wife and to each child half the woods near the site of the present village of sum paid the wife. Allport, in Morris township, but which at When he concluded to remain in the that time did not contain a single house. United States he became naturalized and Mr. Hoover was of German extraction thus gave up the pension, declaring that he and he and family inherited in a marked would not live in a country and receive its degree the persistive determination and benefits without being a citizen. “stick-to-itivenes8” which are prominent D. W. HOLT. characteristics of that sturdy race. The Among the many men of energy and family consisted of himself, wife and 7 ability who had at various stages of its children, 4 boys and 3 girls, named respec¬ history been identified with the various tively George, Jeremiah, Mary, Samuel, interests of Morris township there are few Sarah, Hannah and John, born in the order who have left their impress with greater named. distinctiveness than David W. Holt. He This family encountered and passed wan the second son of the Hon. Vincent B. through the privations and vicisitudes inci¬ and Nancy Holt; was born Oct. 5,1835, at , dent to pioneer life in all its phases. There what is now known as Gray’s, in Morris j were no roads then in that section except township. He went to Bradford township a sort of apology for one brushed out with his father in 1842 and returned to through the wilderness from Abram Morris in 1861, where he remained until Kyler’s, near Philipsburg, mention of 1869, when he moved to Philipsburg, where whom has already been made. . he now resides. As an instance of the inconvenience and He married Catharine, second daughter hardships of those days it might be men- | of the late James Allport, on Sept. 9, 1862. tioned that Mr, Hoover and son . Samuel In the fall of 1865 he built the large steam went at one time to Spruce Creek, a dis¬ sawmill near Allport, which he continued tance of 50 or 60 miles, to get a barrel of to operate until 1868, when he sold out to iionr and one of fish. They made the trip, W. W. Hale, he (Hale) having purchased with a yoke of oxen, taking about a week the timber interests of the heirs of the for the trip. The son raised quite a llook Allport estate, the heirs reserving all coal of sheep, but they had to be carefully and mineral rights. guarded and stabled at night to prevent In 1868 he formed a company consisting the wolves, which were then very numer¬ of the Allport heirs, R. B.Wigton, of Phila- ous, from devouring them. ! delphia; William Davis, of Huntingdon, ‘Neal’’ Devinney, now of Allport, then a I and himself to operate as the Morrisdale l Coal Co. Mr. Holt having bought the coal boy, was living with the Hoover family. It iV light from Jacob Wise underlying his | was a part of his duties to see to getting II farm, which gave Mr. H. a full share in the j the sheep in at night. One evening a storm ' company. A railroad was built to the was coming up and, although he wantr land during the summer of ’69. The mines I to gofor the sheep they would y let h were opened and ready to ship by J an. 1, mi___ mAof nr/icnorftna (impft at Powelttm, Centre county, and helped nat night a large number were killed open the first coal bank at that place. Of wolves. course as there were no facilities for ship¬ Mr. Hoover’s two- eldest sons were ex¬ ping at that time the colliery did only a cellent woodsmen and were among those local business. who went from this community to Bald Mr. Dale was married to Mary Ann Eagle Valley and engaged in cutting cord Hunter, of Morris township, in 1833, and in wood for the furnaces and thus helped to the same year commenced work on the pay for the home. Their nearest place to old homestead where George Wise now get any milling done was at Philipsburg, lives. He also assisted in building the new where a small mill was run in connection turnpike which a few years later was made with the screw factory of Hardman Philips. through thia section. The family consisted They ground flour, sometimes, when the of ten children, five of whom are still mill was not broken, but it was generally living. Rachel, the eldest daughter, is needing repairs. After helping to pay for married to Curtis Reams and lives near and clear up the homestead the four boys, Osceola. Joseph died when 17 years old about the years 1836 or 1837, struck out and Sarah died at the age of 14. Isaiah for themselves. They went into what died in the army Jan. 13,1862; was brought afterward became known as the Hickory home for burial. William, who was also Bottom settlement, now in Cooper town¬ in the army, was killed at the battle of ship, where they will be duly noticed in a Seven Pines. Elisha died February 16th, chapter on that township. 18S6. Ithamer is a citizen of Cooper town¬ Of his daughters, Mary married James ship and is unmarried. Susanna is mar¬ Potter, and a family of nine children were ried to Alexander Shields, a prominent the fruit of this union, five boys and four citizen and very successful farmer of Mor¬ girls. Jacob, the eldest son, married Miss ris township, and owns a part of the origi¬ Cordelia Daughenbaugh. He is a well-to- nal Hunter farm, which has been brought do farmer of Cooper township. They have to a high stato of cultivation. Josiah lives a largo family. None of the other four near Boalsburg, Centre county, and Martha boys are residents of this State, but are all is marrier to Gustavus Linehardt. They in the south and west. Laura Potter mar- live near Allport. Mr. Linehart is an in riedGeorge Ardery, one of the solid men of telligent farmer and an influential citizen. Cooper township. They own a fine farm He has very decided opinions on political or two and have raised a family of children. and other questions which he is capable of Roxie Potter is married to Newton Reed, expressing with considerable fluency; is a well known citizen of Clearfield. They thoroughly alive to the advantages of own property there and are in comfortable educating the young and hence is in sym¬ circumstances. They have no children. pathy with every movement which has Drusilla Potter married William Haight, that for its object. Two of his daughters who died a number of years ago. She are at present teachers in the public schools. subsequently married a Mr. Levensaler, of Mrs. Dale died Jan. 20, 1853. Mr. Dale York State, where they now reside. never remarried. He was somewhat of an Margaret Potter married James Dinges, a invalid for a number of years prior to his well known resident of Cooper township, death, which occurred in the Autumn of they have a family of eight children. 18S9. They are buried in the Hunter grave ! Sarah Hoover married Joseph Roubly. yard. They raised a family of eight children, some of whom are now dead and the rest t as time passed other settlers came, are scattered. The old folks still reside in ng whom, and deserving of bon°rable Karthaus township on a fine farm which tion, were the Johnstons, the Roth- has always been their home. Hannah s, the Flegals, the Irvins, the Dillons Hoover married William Shippee, who died Rayhorns, the Sensers, the Records and a few years after and is buried in the All¬ lY others. Clearings were made, the port cemetery. They had five children mon practice in making a clearing was who, with their father, moved to Illinois. rub the underbrush, cut down and burn Mr. Shippee was a man of some note, was a smaller trees, except what were needed school teacher and had quite a reputa¬ Eencing, and “deaden” the larger trees. tion locally as a debater, was well , was done by cutting a ring around posted and a fluent speaker. He died very tree through the sap, whenofcourse uddenly a few years ago. muld die, and thousands of the finest DAVID DALE’S FAMILT. », oak and pine, were thus destroyed, 'avid Dale, another of those sturdy old it was the best that could be done at eers who helped to clear up the wilds t time. Roads were cut through the rris township, was born in England BSt and rude bridges spanned the streams 4, 1S06. He came to this country at ich could not be conveniently fordeA o? 14 with his father, who located, ___houses and barns 141

Rafting on the creek, however, was alike, were mostly built of round logs, and finally superseded by log floating. This although not very imposing in appearance latter business soon assumed huge propor¬ yet the invariable wide fire-places of the tions, and millions on millions of feet of the house shed its cheerful light and warmth choicest lumber were floated out of the through the kitchen, dining room and some¬ Moshannon. times sleeping apartments as well, and was Several saw mills were also built on the reflected by the ruddy cheeks and health¬ Si/creek, and a great deal of lumber manufac¬ ful sparkling eyes of as contented and tured to supply the local demand and to happy families as were ever sheltered by I -hip. In the year 1830 a mill was built by the most gorgeous palaces of modern times. V.Joctor Plum, an Englishman who had Jfor a few years there was little to do that (previously erected a forge on a run which would bring in money, which at that time emptied into the creek at this point on the was a scarce article in these parts. Some j Centre county side, the run was henceforth of the younger men would go to Bald Eagle / called Forge Run. Plum built the mill for Valley in winter time and cut cord wood j'l the purpose of sawing plank with which to for the different furnaces and help pay for build arks in which he expected to ship the "the land upon which they had located. products of his forge to market, but the In the years 1836-7 the Snow Shoe and i chief difficulty in this plan lay in the fact Packersville turnpike, or new pike, as it that when the arks would stove, which was called, was made through this section frequently happened, the iron would in¬ and furnished employment for a consider¬ variably sink and be lost; so this business able number of its citizens. But though was also soon abandoned. This mill after¬ land was cheap (about two dollars per ward became known as the Swartz mill. acre) it was with great difficulty that many Dr. Plum while operating at this point paid for their farms. Bye and bye, how¬ made a road out to the settlement where ever, a change came. A market was Kylertown is now situated, to the mutual found for the timber which grew in such advantage of the settlers and himself. abundance, and soon almost every man Most of the road is still in use on the site was directly or indirectly interested in the where originally made and is called the lumber business. Plum road to this day. For a good many years rafting square Other mills were built further up the timber down the Moshannon was carried creek. McGee & Co. erected one a few on to a considerable extent but with in¬ miles above and McGirk & Perks built a different success. The stream was very mill some time in the 40’s where Munson’s crooked, very rapid and the work hazard¬ Station, on the Beech Creek railroad, is ous with results quite uncertain. Tbe situated, so called in honor of tbe late chief requisit of a pilot or steersman, and Judge Munson, of Pbilipsburg. whose mill, in fact the balance of the crew, was the built on the site of the old one, was wrecked ability to pull or push at the oar pretty and much lumber carried away by the 'steadily and pretty hard from the time the disastrous flood of June 1st, ’89. Then raft “pulled out” until it was landed, and there was still another mill a little further despite the best that could be done it not up the creek called the Loraine mill; Bow¬ infrequently landed where it was not in¬ man and Johnston erected this mill. It was tended and in pieces. A passenger only also known as the upper mill. needed plenty of nerve, the ability to Board rafts were numerous at that time swim or ride a saw log to shore, and, some¬ on the Moshannon; they were only a few times, to make his way through the woods platforms in length but several pieces from “Helltown” to the settlement. would be coupled together at the mouth of There were some notable pilots on the the creek and run from there in large fleets. creek, among whom were “Jack” Leevy, In the meantime another outlet was now deceased, who prided in saying that made by the enterprising citizens of be could run a raft out of the Moshannon “Hickory Bottom,” a township road was on a heavy dew; and Peter Moyer, at pres¬ petitioned for, granted and made to the ent one of the prominent citizens and office river at a point called the “Rolling Stone” holders of Cooper township. Mr. Moyer about the year ’41 and immense quantities commenced raftiDg on the Moshannon when of square timber were subsequently hauled about 16 years of age and was a pilot at 18, to this landing. The first raft was run and for many years, or in fact until the from here in the Spring of ’42; the pilot business was given up, was considered was George Hoover. This road is now in among the best. Cooper township. Simon Swartz was another very success¬ A road was also built on the Alder Run ful navigator. Although quite a young man at an early day and hundreds of rafts|were he was perfectly at home on the water and put in at the mouth of Alder, opposite { ' 'uld ride a saw log through the roughest Sandy, a landing familliar to all the lum¬ -ikers with perfect ease. ber on the Moshannon. There were also three saw mills erected - Run, the upper, or French’s mill, ~mted on the present road from Kyler- is O. Perry Jones, of Philipsburg. Mr. own to Grahamton, long since abandoned. Jones began shippng coal in 1885 and at Cook’s mill, a few miles further down present is operating seven colleries, as fol¬ where D. B. Schoonover now lives and has lows ; Ooaldale Nos. 3 and 5, Acme, High¬ a mill on the original site, and the Will- land, Royal, Forest Nos. 1 and 2. D. R. helm mill, a couple of miles still further Philips is mine boss at Coaldale while Jas. down. This mill was built at the confluence Jennick sees to things at Acme; at High¬ of Brown’s and Alder Runs and on the road land Millard Walker is boss, and at Royal from the German settlement to Graham- John Morris performs a like duty, and ton. Only a broken dam and decaying John Horton is boss at Forest. These mines slabs now mark the spot. give employment to about six hundred Previous to the erection of Graham town- men and their output is 35,000 tons per ship, in 1856, Alder Run was entirely in month. Mr. Jones has also in connection Morris township, but is now nearly all in with these mines two large company stores, Graham. Before the saw dust from these one at Hawk Run and the other at Mun¬ mills destroyed or drove away the fish this sons. Both do a large business. run was famous for its fine trout, and even While it is not our purpose to either for many years after the mills were in eulogize or speak disparagingly of any operation they still lingered though in fast one but simply to give facts as they exist, diminishing numbers as if loath to leave we may be permitted to say that when it their favorite haunts, and many a delight¬ ernes to business Mr. Jones is, to use a ful hour h4s the writer, when a boy, spent current phrase, “strictly in it.” His coal in its shadjr depths, and well remembers is shipped over the Beech Creek Railroad, the exciting thrill of the moment when The first coal actually shipped from Mor¬ with a splash and a dash the bait was taken ris township was by Hardman Philips by as only a ‘^speckled beauty” can take it. arks down the Moshannon. Date not known. But they hive gone, more’s the pity, and The first to ship by rail was the Decatur ! although several attempts have been made Coal Co. in 1868. This mine is still in j of late years to stock the stream with trout operation but not extensively worked at. fry they do not flourish as of yore. present. It is owned and operated by Geo. | The lumber interests in this section W. McGaffey, of Philipsburg. reached its heighth or greatest volume The Morrisdale Coal Co., commenced about the years 1868 or’70, at which time operations in 1870, and with some changes there were in the neighborhood of fifty in the firm is still doing business “at the rafts at this Rolling Stone, since which old stand.” The shaft operated by the time it has gradually dwindled until of late company does quite an extensive busiuti-s there are only two or three rafts as its and gives employment to several hundred annual quota. men. The company has a large general i The timberAs gone and with it the occupa store at Morrisdale which supplies the nn- ! tion of the red shirted hewers and choppers ployes and also has quite a country trade. ! so much in /Evidence thirty years ago. This The business of the firm is ably superin- j being true it follows that our constantly tended by J. E. Hedding. increasing population has found some other O. L. Schoonover, of Cooper township, is | means of making a living. Agriculture, so interested in several mines in this town¬ long a secondary consideration has been ship which ship a large amount of coal and and is now receiving a part, at least, of the give employment to a large amount of men. I attention which its importance demands There are a number of other colleries in and deserves, new methods and modern the township which do a fair business and a machinery are rapidly taking the place of taken as a whole the output fr

[ and have the use of it at any and all times Sabbath school Superintendent, William j when the Methodists are not occupying it. Pierce. Rev. Berquist, of Peale, ministers to the The St. Agnes Catholic church, situated wants of the Swedish congregation,- and near the Beech Creek R. R. station, at Rev. F. W. Leidy, of the Wallaceton Morrisdale Mines, is a substantial structure charge, occupies the pulpit for the Metho¬ 30x60 feet in size and is valued at $2,500 dists. Daniel Watkins is class leader, It was erected under the pastorate of Rev. Lewis Bogner and Watkins are the stewards. P. Brady in 1894. There has for many years There is a M. E. Sabbath school here with been a congregation of members of the 100 members enrolled. George M. DeHaas Catholic church in this vicinity and as far is Superintendent with George Johnston back as 1879 mass and religious services Assistant. Lewis Bogner is Secretary and were held in the school buildiDg. The need has held that office for the last 21 years. of a place of worship was long felt and There is a very efficient corps of teachers, grew more imperative as time passed, and the attendance is large and a good interest the membership increased until the feeling taken. crystalized in the erection of the present Allport is one of the towns that commodious building. There is a cemetery does not tolerate a licensed house, which in connection with the church. Rev. F. J. may, perhaps, and doubtless does, ac- Wagnei1 is the resident pastor. I count in a great measure for the in- ORDERS OF MORRIS TOWNSHIP. 1 Merest taken by its citizens in the church There are quite a number of the different i and Sunday school and the sympathy and | beneficial orders organized in this town¬ support given to every movement looking ship. In fact there are but few orders or to the moral anfl social upbuilding of the organizations in the country but what is place. largely represented in this township. The There are also three other M. E. churches Knights of the Golden Eagle are quite in the township, one at Morrisdale, one at strong in AHport, This order was insti¬ Munsons and one at Ashcroft. They con¬ tuted December 13th, 1888. There are stitute the Morrisdale charge and are under about 45 members In good standing. Its 4he pastorate of Rev. Samuel Blair. present officers are: Past Chief, Jotm A. The church at Morrisdale was built a Thoreen; Noble Chief, Peter Erickson; number of years ago and for quite a while Vice Chief, George Minns; High Priest, was useid by the Presbyterians and Metho- Rydman Hockey ; Master of Records, Nels di8ts*both, but it is now owned by the Gustaphson; Keeper of Exchequer, Lewis Morrisdale Coal Co., from whom the Bogner; Clerk of Exchequer, A. G. Methodists have leased it for a period of ten Ablgren. ’Squire Bogner was elected years. Its present officers are: Stewards, Clerk of Exchequer at the time the order H. C. Shugarts, Harry Vinton, David was instituted and has held the office up to Baxter, John Hill and J. E. Hedding. Trus¬ the present time. A. G. Ahlgren has held tees, C. A. Truax, Emanuel Woomer, John the office of Keeper of Exchequer for the Vinton, James Strange, Andrew Baxter, same time. This order has been beneficial H. C. Shugart, Dr. J. W. Neff, J. E. Hed¬ in the true sense of the word and has re- ding and L. A. Pritchard Parsonage ieved many distressed families when 1 Trustees, John Roby, E. E. Jimeson, J. E. brothers were sick. Hedding and H. C. Shugart. Class leaders, Allport has also a very flourishing order J. E. Hedding, O. L. Johnston. Sunday of Good Templars The name of the lodge school Supt., John Hill. is Allport Lodge, No. 125. It was instituted The church at Munson was built several January 10, 1898, by Rev. L. P. Thurstin, years ago and is valued at about $1500. Its Grand Chief Templar. It has a member¬ officers are: Stewards, Michael Maguire, ship of 607 They meet every Tuesday even- E. T. Roan and W. E. Peterson. Trustees, ing in the K. G. E. hall. The present E. E. Shaw, Michael Maguire, E. T Roan, officers are: Chief Templar, James Wilson: George Williams and S. B. Turner. Par¬ Vice Templar, Geo. Minns; Past Chief, sonage trustees, Michael Maguire and W. Sam’l Shields; Chaplain, Lewis Baxter; E. Peterson. Sunday School superintend¬ Secretary, Stella Bogner; Financial Sec., ent, W. E. Peterson, Lizzie Wilson; Treasurer, Rydman Lockey; The church at Ashcroft was only recent¬ Marshall, Sam’l Dempsham; Guard, John ly built at a cost of about $1500. Its officers Irvin; Sentinel, Reuben Pritchard; Deputy are: Stewards, James Kilpatrick, George Marshall, Thomas Brooks; Assistant Sec., Baraclough and I. M. Showers. Trustees, Agnes Wilson; Lodge Deputy, George M. David Sleigh, James Kilpatrick, I. M. DeHaas. This order is very well attended Showers and J. E. Hedding. Parsonage meeting nights and everybody trusts it trustees, James Scurfield, George Bara¬ has come to stay. clough and G. L. DeHaas. Class leaders, At Ashcroft, Jan. 12, 1892, there was David Sleigh and Wm. Pierce, alternately. / organized a lodge of the I. O. O. F. It is 7 sHfrr J called "Ashcroft Lodge” and is in a very 144

mg condition, *ith a membership of l'be chief officerqmre, Noble Grand, J. paign of 1840 of Polk and Harrison the ... Philips; Vice Noble Grand, Thomas Whig candidate received 1 vote. Dixon; Sec. P. Summerville. For some time Mr. England was distin¬ At Munson there is ; a large order called guished as the only Whig in the township Foresters of America.; Its present member¬ and considerable sport was indulged in on ship numbers about 80. Chief Ranger, Lis account. At each r. curring election Peter Stott, (C, R.); Secretary, Joseph Captain Wise and a few more of the“boys” Hart. There is also the Ancient Court, would escort him to the polls, keeping step Little John Abdor, 80 N. S. S. Slavonic. to the solemn music of the dead march Chief, John Saxy; Sec., Martin Rosenjack. played by the Captain with a turnip and a There is also at Allport, Allport Lodge diskpan, A few years afterward there No. 933, I. O. O. F. This order is quite were no Whigs, but in their place were a strong in this township and meetings are number of “know nothings,” and ere long well attended. Its present chief officers these gave place to “Republicans,” but up are: Noble Grand, Frank Lindberg; vice to within a very few years the township Grand, Chas. Turner; Sec., Joseph Hart; has been strongly Democratic. At present, Assistant Sec., Lars Peterson; Treasurer, however, the Republicans are in the major¬ G. L. Baumgardner. ity. There is also a pretty fair sprinkling About the year 1874 a charter was issued of Prohibitionists in the township. to Morrisdale O. U. A. M. Meetings were held in the upper portion of Company SCHOOLS OF MORRIS TOWNSHIP. house opposite the 6tore. Afterwards they About the year 1838 there were two removed to the old school house. The school houses within the present limits of charter members consisted of 6uch men as Morris township, one where the present A. J. Graham, D. W. and J. M. Holt, the village of Allport is now situated, and one Dales, Richard Fuller and many others of near Abram Kyler’s, in the “upper end.” influence in the community. But for some They were of course built of logs and the > reason, unknown to the writer, the order furniture was of the most primitive con¬ disbanded within 3 or 4 years from its struction. The writing desks were made organization. The present Welcome Coun¬ of a wide board or slab fastened along each cil, No. 406, was organized in March, 1889, side of the building, inclining somewhat with 26 charter members. Their meetings toward a bench in front of and a convenient were held in the K. of P. hall until October, distance from it, upon which the pupils sat 1898, when they moved into their new and when writing, facing the wall. Those too commodious hall/ This building is com¬ small to write tried to make themselves plete in its appointments. The upper or comfortable on benches of various heights 2d story is used as lodge room, the 1st scattered promiscuously about the room. story as dining or banqueting hall and the The first teacher of the Allport school basement as the culinary department. The was Samuel Waring. He taught a term of order has grown stronger each year since one month. It is not now known who was its organization, until to-day its members the first teacher in the other house. In are the people of the town and are found in contrast to this and to show that the ed the vanguard of all business enterprises. ucational interests of the township have The latch string is always out for visiting been and are receiving their full share of brothers. Meetings every Tuesday evening. attention, it is only necessary to mention This is possibly the strongest order in the that there are at present twenty schools in township. Fifteen new members were in¬ the district with a roll of 1,150 pupils, an itiated within the last 30 days. average of 57% scholars to the school. There is also at this place a lodge of the The schools are all graded, thus making St. of P. They have a hall, hold regular it possible for the pupils to complete the meetings and are said to ba quite strong in common branches in eight years, or at the this vicinity, but the writer has thus far age of 14 if they enter at the age of 6 and failed to secure any reliable data as to date' attend regularly. of organization, its growth or present Prof. George M. DeHaas is District officers. Superintendent or Principal of all the POLITICS OF MORRIS TOWNSHIP. schools in the township, and under his able For a few years after the formation of supervision they haye reached a high de¬ this township there was supposed to be one gree of efficiency, Pupils are promoted Whig within its limits, but when the line ©very two months, or of tener on recommen¬ was correctly surveyed it was found that dation of the teacher. even this one, Mr. Gearhart, belonged in The teachers of the township hold monthly

Decatur township. This left Morris unani¬ meetings or local institutes at the four j mously Democratic. This state of things different towns or villages, giving Hawk! however, did not continue very long. An- Run, Munson, Morrisdale and Allport each J 'her Whig in the person qf Isaac England 145

a meeting Saturday and Saturday night KARTHAUS TOWNSHIP. session once every four weeks. These meet¬ ings are very interesting and a source of BY ED. I. GILLILAND . pleasure as well as productive of much I good and serve to keep alive and stimulate Rev. Frederick W. Geisenhainer, of New the interest of the teacher in his or her York city, also a native of Germany, who very important and responsible work, and was an eminent divine of the Lutheran to the observer the teachers interest in and church, to divert his mind from the loss of the nature of his work connected with these loved ones, had also purchased an interest meetings are a pretty accurate criterion by in the Coal company and turned his atten¬ which to judge of his or her efficiency in tion to the development.of their lands. The the school room. existence of the great anthracite coal basin The question of consolidating the schools of Pennsylvania was known but its qualities lias been discussed and a majority if not all had not yet been ascertained and no one the Directors favor the plan, and it is prob¬ dreamed of it ever becoming so valuable able that in a very few years the schools of and indispensible as an article of fuel. the township will be in about four build¬ Bituminous coal was used for all purposes ings and closely graded. and was in very great demand at this time. An elegant new school building was To open new fields to supply their ever in¬ commenced at Morrisdale in the fall of 1897 creasing demand gave rise to the Allegheny and finished in the winter of 1898, at a cost Coal Company. Among its stockholders of about $5500. It has southern pine finish were P. A. Karthaus, F. W. Geisenhainer inside and brick cased outside, with system and Harmon Young. At a meeting held of ventilation. The building contains four in the year 1813 in New York, Rev. Geisen¬ rooms and a library separate. It was dedi¬ hainer was chosen General Superintendent cated January 31st, 1898, and was immedi¬ and Harmon YQung President of the com¬ ately occupied by schools. pany. It presents a most imposing appearance Another of our pioneers was George and stands as a monument to the progres¬ Philip Guelich. On his arrival in New sive spirit that animates the people of York in 1S12 he went direct to the house of Morris township. Rev. Geisenhainer, as they had been school OUTLOOK FOB THE FUTURE . mates in the Fatherland. To one who makes no pretentions to Charles and a brother of Guelich had been prophecy the impenetrable future is hard employed by the Coal Company and sent to predict, but when public office shall be out to prospect for coal on the “Ringold regarded as a public trust and its obliga¬ tract,” on Clearfield creek. On their re¬ tions sacredly fulfilled; when the people’s turn to New York city they gave such a servants are held to as strict an account as glowing description of that country that any business man or firm would expect of Rev. Geisenhainer employed George Philip his or its agents; when strict integrity Guelich to go out and explore the lands of and rigid honesty shall characterize public Karthaus and the Allegheny Coal Com¬ as well as private life; when such wise pany, bordering on the Moshannon creek. ^nd beneficient laws shall be enacted as They deferred starting until December, a ill cause the burden of taxation to rest very unfavorable time in which to explore iqually upon all; when every citizen can be / a new country. Tradition says that Guelich s I ssured of a fair field and no favor; when arrived at Muncy the week before Christ¬ d. hose chosen to disburse public monies mas, where he procured a canoe and needed shall do so only for the public good, and stores and, accompanied by Joseph Richie, when every demand shall be subjected to he attempted to ascend the river to the hat searching scrutiny which in private Little Moshannon. After a severe struggle >r personal business would be deemed im¬ with snow and ice they reached and camped perative, and when public and private life on Birch Island. The weather was getting »nd conduct shall measure up to tne re¬ colder, they found it impossible to push quirements of the “Golden Rule;” then their laden canoe against the slush-ice in ihall the township in common with her the stream, concluded to return to Muncy iister districts of the county, state and before the river, the then only highway, lation enjoy that substantial prosperity would be closed. During the winter, by o which her natural and acquired ad- Rev. Geisenhainer’s orders,' Guelich had antages as well as the thrift and enter- two boats built, and in the early spring irise of her citizens justly entitle her. with them laden with tools and provisions again set out. This time he *was accom¬ panied by John Frazer and James Bow¬ man. After a fatiguing journey of several days they reached the Little Moshannon on the evening of April 8th, 1814, and camped on ’ft V .s. The next day George ►Philip voyage to the markets of Harrisburg and ,*ich felled the first tree ever cut in Columbia, where all that survived trans¬ Karthaus township and commenced the portation was readily sold at from 35 to erection of a cabin. This was completed 37% cents per bushel. This gave employ¬ on Good Friday. Six weeks followed of ment to all the settlers, brought consider¬ hard work, clearing land on which to build able money into circulation and greatly log houses for those who would? be engaged helped the settlement of our township. in the future operations of the Coal Co. Some time in June O. F. I. lunge arrived John Reiter, Br., who had accompanied in a flat-boat with fresh supplies and ad¬ Rev. Geisenhainer here, was a practical ditional help. lunge had been sent out by farmer and came from “Goshen Hopen,” the company as manager and at once as¬ Montgomery county, Pa. Having found a sumed direction of all improvements. suitable location at or near what is known Shortly after his arrival a difference on to many of our citizens as the“01d Orchard,” some matters concerning the work sprang commenced clearing and opening up the up between lunge and Geulich, and the country That season nearly one hundred latter determined to return to New York. acres were cleared and ready for cultiva¬ Between Karthaus and Big Island (Lock tion, several log houses and a barn built Haven) he met Rev. Frederick W. Geisen- and a coal mine opened. This improve¬ hainer with two large flat-boats. Geisen- ment, the first farm cleared in our town¬ hainer was accompanied by his wife and ship is now owned by John W. Reiter, a son, John lteiter, Sr., wife and four chil¬ grand-son of the old pioneer. dren, and seven other German families. In 1815 Peter A. Karthaus, Sr., accom¬ (The names of these seven families cannot panied by his son, Peter A. Jr., and J. F. be ascertained.) The party had pushed W. Schnarrs, left Baltimore on a visit to their boats from Harrisburg. Rev. Geisen- the settlement on the Little Moshannon. hainer wanted Geulich to return with him At that early day railroads were unknown, and he would arrange matters so there stages and horseback were the modes of would be no friction between him and travel. In due time they reached Miles- lunge, but he refused. Finally he was burg, where they were informed that a prevailed upon to go up to the Company’s path was the only way to reach their desti¬ land on Clearfield creek and assume the ! nation. Karthaus hired two horses and a i management there. Mr. Green as guide. Green traveled on 1 Through this difference with Iungo, Kar¬ foot, the two younger men taking turns in thaus township lost its first pioneer. Fifty riding and walking. The guide followed years ago the name of George Philip the blazed Indian path over the Allegheny Geulich was known in every household in mountains, through Snow Shoe, passing our county. He was known for his upright, only two improvemements on the route; Christian character and scholarly attain¬ these were made by Samuel Askey and ments. He was called a Lutheran. His John Bechtol, two pioneers of the Snow walk and conversation stamped him', a Shoe region. sincere, Christian gentleman. Guelich By evening they reached and crossed the township perpetuates his name. river and put up for the night at the house Rev. Geisenhainer continued to clear , of Job h Reiter, Sr. Here they met David land now embraced in the present Kar¬ Dunlap, a millright, who was engaged by thaus . Also, in connection with Harmon the Coal company to erect a saw mill on Young founded Youngstown. This town Mosquito creek. (This is the stream here¬ was between the S. & C. R. R. water tank tofore referred to as Little Moshannon, and and farm of Geo. Emerick estate, about the name “Mosquito,” by which it is now one-half mile from Karthaus and on the known, was derived from this annoying Horse Shoe lands. Here the first store and insect troubling the workmen in building first school in our township was located. this mill.) Karthaus and his son made Young, or the Allegheny Coal Co., com¬ only a short stay and then returned to menced to mine coal by the stripping pro¬ Baltimore to make arrangements to re¬ cess. The veins were stripped of the earth turn to the settlement with his family. and other overlying substances; then the Before leaving he gave to Rev. Geisen¬ coal being thus exposed was dug. The hainer full charge of his affairs here; this, next question that arose was the getting with the latter’s private interests kept him of the coal to market. The only way was very busy. Notwithstanding he was to transport it down the Susquehanna in busily employed during week days Rev. arks. But how to get the arks built in a Geisenhainer, who was a very energetic country without sawmills and nail factories and devout Christian, preached every Sab¬ was a puzzler. Arks were finally built out bath during his stay here, to those of the of hewn planks, put together with wooden settlers who gathered at bis cabin. For a pins, of a capacity of from 800 to 1000 few years the settlement retrograded. bushels. The coal was then started in ^*

,.e country. In 1819 while the boatmen were engaged The Centre county records do not show in bringiug bog ore from “Buttermilk” j any assistance rendered to Karthaus in their attention was often attracted, in J building this highway. Tradition says he times of low water, by droves of deer lick¬ built every foot of it at his own expense. ing the stones in the river, about mid-way 'The furnace was kept in blast at different between the two places. On examination periods until 1823, when several arks loaded salt was found encrusted on the stones, with pig-iron were lost in transit; thiR clearly indicating veins of salt water in the demonstrated that some other way in vicinity. From the “deer lick” here in the which to reach a niarket must be devised, river sprang the name “Salt Lick,” by and until then operations must cease. The which the place is still known. total output of this furnace up to this time In 1820, John Mitchell, of Bellefonte, who • was estimated at 1,000 tons. owned the land at the “Lick,” organized a Now more attention was given to clear¬ company and commenced boring for salt ing land and mining coal. Sawed lumber water. This work was all done with spring was now used and arks of a capacity of pole and hand power. At a depth of seven about 1800 bushels were built. The strip¬ or eight hundred feet a strong vein of salt L ping process was abandoned and the more water was found. Next primitive works i ( scientific way of mining coal by drifting were erected on the banks of the river, . under ground was introduced by Charles large kettles put in place and a good quality ^ Loss. The six-foot vein at the top of the of salt produced by the boiling process. hill was opened and a good wagon road Here again an industry was started that constructed to it. Teams being very scarce had to depend on the river for transporta¬ in the settlement an Englishman who had tion, for the home market was limited. But been employed as moulder in the foundry salt could pot be handled in arks like coal proposed the construction of a railroad or iron, as the least contact with water . from the river to the mine as a more rapid destroyed it. After canoeiDg some in bags and cheaper way to get the coal to the arks. to the towns along the Susquehanna and This moulder had once worked in the great -supplying the citizens of Milesburg and mines of England and had seen the small Bellefonte by wagon, it was soon found that miniDg cars hauled for long distances on producing salt in a new country without wooden tracks, the car using a flanged means of transportation was no paying in¬ wheel. The idea struck Karthaus as a good vestment, and the works were soon aban¬ one and the mculder was set to work build¬ doned. ing a ear and the workman to lay out and In 1828 a good vein of potter’s clay was grade the road to the mine. ' discovered at Karthaus and Abraham Jury In a short time a road from the race (near erected a kiln and commenced the manu¬ where the S. & C. station now stands) to facture of ware. This I believe to be the the mine, one mile in length, laid with first potter's ware made in our county. wooden rails, was ready for operation. Here again the market was limited to home This road was built on the switch back consumption and it was not long operated. i plan, ascending the steep hill in a zig zag In 1828 Karthaus erected a very substan¬ manner. This was claimed to be the first tial grist mill. It contained two run of railroad built in the United States, and 54-inch bahrs and one 36-inch chopper. the stranger visiting our village can yet The buhrs were imported from France. see this road clearly outlined against the All the machinery, burhs, etc., used in its side of the opposite hill. The late Alex¬ construction were flat-boated from Harris¬ ander Murray, of Girard township, and burg. Mr. Alexander Murray, of Girard James B. Graham, of Clearfield, were the township, had the first grist ground in the first conductor and engineer on this road, new mill, it consisted of three bushels of and the motive power to move the empty wheat, which he had brought on a horse car up the steep grade was an “old gray 12 miles, walking and leading the horse the horse,” the car once at the summit the entire distance, the round trip being 24 horse was removed and by gravity, con¬ miles. trolled by brakes, the loaded car ran from In 1825 the Milesburg and Smethport the drift mouth to the platform at the turnpike company was incorporated. Peter race, where the coal was dumped into arks. A. Karthaus was named as commissioner The capacity of each car was 45 bushels, for Clearfield county. The route was from and the two gentlemen named took turns Milesburg to Karthaus; thence north¬ in driving the horse and braking the car. westerly to the county line; thence north Mr. Murray once told the writer that Mr. to Smethport. If not completed in ten Graham and himself could deliver as much years the charter became void. J. F. W. coal with one horse on this road daily as^ Schnarrs was appointed Superintendent six teams could on the wagon road. of the section between Karthaus and the Sinnemahoning, So the reader can form an idea of the cost of road-making sixty inauguration, in 1836, he advanced the early years ago. I copy an order of this company : completion of the canal as far as Anderson “$t3. Treasurer of the Milesburg and creek, in Clearfield county. Smethport Turnpike Road Company. You Contracts were let and work commenced will pay to Mr. Alexander Murray, or lat various points on the line between Sin order, forty-two dollars, being in full for nemahoning creek and Farrandsville, and making sixty perches of turnpike road on tradition says tbe canal was to reach Kar¬ section between Karthaus and Sinnema- thaus by a system of slack water navigation honing, in Clearfield county, Pa., in the and be ready for operation in 1838. year 1833. Captain Philip Ritner, a veteran of the J. F. W. Schnarrs, Supt. war of 1812, and a brother of the Governor, Karthaus, Pa., Sept. 1833.” being a practical man in the iron business The order bears the following endorse¬ and assured that the canal would reach ment: “Never paid on account of default Karthaus early in 1838, he in connection on tbe part of the treasurer of the com¬ with the younger Karthaus and John Loy pany.” leased the ore banks and coal mines at a History is an account of facts and events, rental of $1800 per year and made prepara¬ and to give the reader an intelligent ac¬ tions to manufacture iron on a large scale. count of our first industries and what led The old stack was torn down and a new and up to the investment of capital in the I larger one reared in its place. William building of the second furnace at Karthaus, Firmstone, an Englishman, put in the the writer must go beyond the borders of cylinders and changed it from a char coal county for the cause. to a coke furnace. These cylinders were From 1825 to 1829 the State of Pennsyl 1 each of several tons weight, and were vania was agitated from one end to the brought from Boston to Harve de Grace by other about a system of internal improve¬ vessel; thence up the Susquehanna by boat ; ments. Railroads were unknown and our to Karthaus. natural water ways were considered the The furnace,' after the hot blast was I only means of transportation. Meetings applied and the use of coke, mixed the hard were held throughout the State, and all ore found in the hill close by with the manner of ways of improving these natural bog ore and made a very superior grade o^ water-ways were ably discussed. This was iron. the day before the system of corporations, Karthaus village at this time contained! syndicates and trusts had been inaugurated, 15 houses, 1 store, 1 grist mill, 1 saw mill, and tbe State was looked to to make all one furnace and one blacksmith shopt internal improvements. In 1828 the State while Youngstown, adjacent, contained 6 commenced to build a railroad from Phila¬ houses and three double log miner houses on delphia to Columbia, on the lower Susque¬ the summit of the hill above Tinker Rocks. hanna, to connect with the State canal then The population of Karthaus and vicinity in coure of construction. This road was being nearly one hundred. completed in the year 1834 and opened to The Furnace Co., to make it more con¬ traffic. The canal had been built as far venient to load arks until that “Will-o’-the west as Lock Haven the year previous. wisp,” the canal, would reach here,employed Commissioners had been in the meantime John Harris and Jacob Myers to build a appointed by the Legislature to view the large wharf at the mouth of Mosquito creek, “nearest and the best practical route” from on which they stored the furnace output. the waters of the Susquehanna to the Arks were loaded and sent down tbe river waters of the Allegheny. The route finally during 1838 and 1839, but the difficulties of ' decided upon was up the Susquehanna via navigation and the great expense of i the mouth of the Sinnemahoning to Kar¬ transportation to tide water (over $4 pe/’ thaus, and on to the mouth of Anderson ton) were very discouraging. creek, at Curwensville; thence to the waters Now came the climax; a reaction com¬ of the Allegheny. menced, business became very depressed, Meetings were held at various places specie payments were suspended throughout advocating this route. The most notable the land; banks went down; the State’s at Clearfield, presided over by the late credit became impaired and all internal George Philip Guelich, in which Hon. improvement ceased. The bubble burst, James M. Petriken made a stirring address and from that day until now everyone (setting the great advantages to our county speaking of the West Branch Canal from from ttie building of the “West Branch Farrandsville westward calls it “Ritner’s Canal” to tap our iron and coal fields.

In the fall of 1835 Hon. Joseph Ritner was j —• elected Governor of Pennsylvania. Ritner The abandonment of the canal was the had for some years been a champion of (death blow to the Karthaus Furnace Co. internal improvement. Soon after his On the 30th day of December, 1839, the fires ■were drawn and never again lighted. least 320 feet,jin The last ark load of iron that ever left seams of various dim Karthaus lies buried in the sand at Butter¬ of iron ore ar.,4 fire clay.” milk eddy, at the foot of the falls. Ritner Prof. MacFkrlane, in his valuable work

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