A history of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. From the earliest times., Part 6

Author: Freeze, John G. (John Gosse), 1825-1913
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Bloomsburg, Pa. : Elwell & Bittenbender
Number of Pages: 594


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-CENSUS .-


TOWNSHIPS.


1820| 1830| 1840| 1850|


1860


1870| 1880


Beaver


672


901


969


1221


Benton


..


·


452


486


*


923


2095


Bloomsburg


1626


2081


1774


3122


2668


3340


3702


Briarcreek


1719


1706


1451


1091


1734


1080


1172


Catawissa


2520


3130


2060


1143


1176


1627


2003


Centralia


Centre.


...


...


.. .


1326


1960


2183


Derry.


1662


1688


1753


Fishingcreek


502


568


902


1110


1266


1370


1447


Franklin


1078


1110


1217


1260


1470


1585


1710


Hemlock


1464


1681


957


1087


1037


1170


1080


Jackson


.


.


265


374


539


565


675


Liberty


1146


1111


1329


Limestone


426


540


646


1897


1550


2014


Mahoning


1478


1796


1927


581


529


601


626


Madison


1330


1554


1700


714


1146


1090


1077


Mifflin


1492


1791


2143


1024


1021


1043


1038


Mount Pleasant


673


715


609


708


776


750


760


Pine.


. ...


.


1842


519


509


485


533


Scott.


.


.. .


...


1562


1465


1347


Valley .


630


. .


.. .


..


Sugarloaf


505


678


934


1316


752


761


869


-


...


...


. .


. .


...


Locust


Montour


809


409


485


624


662


Orange.


.


843


1077


930


910


901


Roaringcreek


....


....


Total


17621 20149 24243 17700 25065 28766 32439 *With Briarcreek.


..


1340


1509


1019


1360


1320


1256


Conyngham.


533


550


543


Greenwood


893


1050


1062


Berwick


.


Main


555


760


911


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HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY.


MONTOUR COUNTY.


Though not separately organized until 1850, we give the census of Montour county, before and since its erection, complete. In the chapter on "Townships and Boroughs" there will be found some other interesting matter.


Townships.


1820|


1830|


1840


1850|


1860


1870|


1880


Derry


1662


1688


1753


853


933


888


950


Liberty


1146


1111


1329


1232


1173


1234


1166


Limestone


426


540


646


763


850


711


733


Mahoning


1478


1796


1927


867


744


1033


1198


Valley


633


760


901


1062


890


Roaringer'k


2000


Madison


1255


Danville


3302


6385


8129


7899


Anthony


956


965


960


953


Franklin


1000


W. Hemlock


193


433


398


379


Cooper


312


396


414


380


Mayberry


273


215


229


Total


4,712


5,135


6,288 13,493/ 13,053 15,044|


14,777


NOTE .- In straightening out the division lines in 1853, Roar- ingcreek and Franklin were brought back into Columbia county, except part of Franklin which became Mayberry in Montour county. Madison was brought back, except a small corner added to West Hemlock.


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HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY.


THE STATE'S VOTERS.


POPULATION OF PENNSYLVANIA BY COUNTIES, AND CITIZENS OVER TWENTY-ONE.


1882.


POPULATION.


MALES OF 21 AND OVER.


COUNTIES.


+Total.


White.


Colored.


ĮNative


White.


Foreign.


Colored.


Adams


32455


31984


471


7315


312


125


Allegheny


355869


347968


7901


46418 41051


2510


Armstrong.


47641


47363


278


9328


1382


68


Beaver ..


39605


39163


442


7834


1903


112


Bedford.


34929


34346


583


7447


445


133


Berks


122597


122146


451


27364


2721


121


Blair


52740


52257


483


10625


1938


150


Bradford


58541


58003


538


13877


1964


146


Bucks


68656


67107


1549


16360


2009


429


Butler.


52536


52408


128


10126


2310


37


Cambria.


46811


46602


209


7581


3457


67


Cameron


5159


5151


8


1145


329


4


Carbon


31923


31882


41


4805


2767


16


Centre.


37922


37574


348


8297


603


98


Chester


83481


76402


7079


17467


2956


1789


Clarion.


40328


40228


100


8091


1234


26


Clearfield.


43408


43287


121


8348


2864


36


Clinton.


26278


25992


286


5453


1130


685


Columbia.


32439


32264


145


6968


829


40


Crawford.


68607


68112


499


14891


3030


137


Cumberland.


45977


43867


2170


10375


385


515


Dauphin.


76148


72364


3784


15624


2196


1068


Delaware.


56101


51487


4614


9343


4003


1288


Elk.


12800


12779


21


2094


1582


7


Erie.


74688


74345


343


13523


6147


109


Fayette


58842


56952


1890


12198


2133


477


Forest


4385


4373


12


950


228


2


Franklin


49855


47304


2551


10677


500


599


Fulton


10149


10020


129


2144


108


31


Greene.


28273


27770


503


6590


96


114


Huntingdon.


33954


33674


280


7251


616


83


Indiana


40527


40299


228


8668


614


59


Jefferson


27935


27898


37


5550


727


14


Juniata.


18227


17966


261


6904


133


62


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POPULATION.


MALES OF 21 AND OVER.


COUNTIES.


Total


White


Colored


Native


ºWhite


Foreign


Colored


Lackawanna


89269


88971


298


9946 11862


102


Lancaster


139447


136596


2851


30411


3762


772


Lawrence


33312


33076


236


6776


1532


62


Lebanon


38476


38391


85


9005


687


28


Lehigh


65969


65851


118


13913


2719


37


Luzerne.


133065


132310


755


16468 16170


216


Lycoming


56486


56508


978


4838


2397


274


McKean


42565


42211


354


11801


3057


143


Mercer


56161


55735


426


10799


3000


113


Mifflin


19577


19362


215


4298


270


61


Monroe


20175


20020


155


4579


449


43


Montgomery


96494


94731


1763


20632


484


551


Montour.


15468


15361


107


3060


874


21


Northampton


70312


69987


325


14732


3172


98


Northumb'd.


53123


52929


194


10636


2266


63


Perry


27522


27358


164


6150


237


43


Philadelphia


847170


815362 31808


133470 88987


8967


Pike.


9663


9579


84


1755


688


27


Potter.


13797


13770


27


3442


494


8


Schuylkill


12974


129616


358


18118 12162


93


Snyder.


17797


17778


19


4155


44


6


Somerset


33110


32994


116


6908


844


76


Sullivan .


8073


8070


3


1663


479


3


Susquehanna.


40354


40135


219


9224


1776


70


Tioga.


45814


45699


115


10177


2387


41


Union.


16905


16772


133


4036


105


32


Venango


43670


43120


550


8480


1882


146


Warren


27981


27784


197


5759


2215


56


Washington


55418


52774


2644


11998


1625


651


Wayne .. .


33513


33482


31


6081


2599


10


Westmoreland


78036


77349


687


15661


3333


180


Wyoming


15598


15577


21


3843


312


6


York


87841


86481


1360


19087


1581


359


RECAPITULATION.


Population.


Males over 21.


White


4,197,016 Native white


797,532


Colored.


85,875|Foreign


272,860


Colored


23,892


Total


4,282,891


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HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY.


CHAPTER X.


REMOVAL.


I MMEDIATELY after the location of the seat of justice at Danville, the agitation for a removal thereof to Bloomsburg commenced, and it was carried on without intermission and with more or less intrigue, excitement, diversion and asperity, for a period of thirty years. It is hardly worth while to write up the history of that long and bitter contest. Its track is strewed with the wrecks of unfortunate local politicians who had mistaken the temper of the people, or were themselves the mere tools of more designing intriguers. Thus the astute politicians of Dan- ville played off the Borough of Berwick against Bloomsburg; at one time by proposing a new county to be composed of parts of Columbia and Luzerne, with the Capitol at Berwick, at another by threatening to go solid for removal, but making it to be to Berwick instead of to Bloomsburg. Party politics were lost sight of in the election of county officers, and year after year re- moval and anti-removal candidates tested the strength of the re- spective localities.


But the steady friends of removal had no cause for filibuster- ing. Their object was plain and pronounced, and led by such men as Daniel Snyder, William McKelvy, Charles H. Doebler and Thomas A. Funston, their partisans stood up to the work, and every year showed an increasing vote for the re-location of the seat of Justice. The legislative lobby prevented the necessary action, and the weary years dragged on and on. As a somewhat curious document, I copy a statement by citizens of the county in favor of the measure, which very fully sets out the course of the struggle, and furnishes some matter for thought.


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"REMOVAL OF TIIE SEAT OF JUSTICE OF COLUMBIA COUNTY. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.


The undersigned, agents in behalf of the petitioners for re- moval of the seat of justice in Columbia county, beg leave to lay before you the following statement of the principle facts in the case, and the grounds on which they rely, to procure the equita- ble interference of your honourable bodies.


By an Act of Assembly approved the 22d day of March 1813, the county of Columbia was erected out of a part of Old North- umberland. Its bounds by that act, were extended to the West branch of the Susquehanna, and included two large townships, (Chillisquaque and Turbut,) which were, soon after the county town was fixed at Danville, by an act of Assembly, struck off from Columbia, and re-annexed to Northumberland county.


By the 9th section of the Act first above mentioned, it is pro- vided' "That the Governor shall appoint three discreet and disin- terested persons, not resident in the counties of Northumberland Union, or Columbia, whose duty it shall be, after being sworn or affirmed before some Judge or Justice of the Peace, to fix upon a proper and convenient site for a Court house, prison, and county offices, within the aforesaid county of Columbia, as near the cen- tre as the situation thereof will admit, and the said persons or a majority of them, having viewed the relative advantages of the several situations contemplated by the people, shall on or before the first day of July next, by a written report," &c. See act of Assembly session 1812-13, page 146.


But two of the Commissioners appointed by the Governor at- tended; and they did not comply with the requisitions of the act of Assembly, to place the seat of Justice "as near the centre as the situation thereof would admit," although the two townships above mentioned were at that time, a part of the county. It was known to some, and believed by all, that improper and unfair means had been used to procure the location at Danville-the most ob- vious of which was, the taking in the said townships, against the will of nine-tenths of the inhabitants, and retaining them until after the location was made. A large majority of the people im- mediately expressed their dissatisfaction with the decision of the Commissioners, and commenced operations to procure a proper


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location of their seat of justice, as will be seen by the following appeals to the Legislature.


January 11, 1814, Mr RUPERT presented nineteen petitions of similar tenor, from inhabitants of Columbia county, praying, for reasons therein expressed, for the removal of the seat of justice of said county from the town of Danville to the town of Bloomsburg ; and said petitions were read and referred to Messrs. Rupert, Milli- ken, Bollinger, Forster and Dingman-See Journal H. R. session 1813-14, page 126.


February 2, 1814, Mr. RUPERT from the committee to whom were referred on the 11th ult. sundry petitions praying &c, Re- port, That they have attended to the same, and on examination find that 1046 of the citizens of Columbia county have signed pe- titions praying the Legislature to pass a law removing the seat of justice from the town of Danville to the town of Bloomsburg. The petitioners state that the people of the county of Columbia have not been relieved from the numerous grievances which they labored under, inasmuch as the seat of justice fixed by the com- missioners, at Danville, is on the very verge of the county, and only twelve miles from the old county town, [Sunbury] and that the town of Bloomsburg on Big Fishing Creek, a pure and navi- gable stream of water, and only one mile from the river Susgre- hanna, will be more convenient and much more central. From a view of the map and the knowledge some of your committee have of Columbia county, they are of opinion that the seat of justice being fixed at Danville, does not comport with the meaning and spirit of the law, which declares in the ninth section, that the seat of justice shall be fixed as near the centre as the situation thereof will admit. Believing as they do, that the town of Bloomsburg is more central, and considering that it is in a fertile country and convenient to permanent streams of water suitable for water works, [so beneficial to country towns] they are of opinion that the prayer of the petitioners ought to be granted. They reported the following resolution.


Resolved, That a committee be appointed to bring in a bill agreeable to the prayer of the petitioners. Laid on the table. See Journal H. R. session 1813-14, pages 270, 271.


December 14, 1814. On motion of Messrs. Owen and Shaffer, ordered that an item of unfinished business, relative to the re-


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moval of the seat of justice of the county of Columbia from Dan- ville to Bloomsburg, be referred to the members from the counties of Northumberland, Union and Columbia. See Journal H. R. session 1814-15, page 54.


March 1, 1815. Mr. Owen presented twenty petitions of simi- lar tenor from sundry inhabitants of Columbia county, praying the removal of the seat of justice of said county from Danville and said petitions were read and recommended to the early atten- tion of the next Legislature. See Journal H. R. page 498.


While the foregoing proceedings were pending, the Citizens of Chillisquaque and Turbut townships were not inactive-with but one voice they had applied to be reannexed to Northumberland county ; and the Legislature by an act approved the day of


detached them from the county of Colum- bia, and annexed them to Northumberland, thereby rendering Danville still more out of the centre, both of territory and popu- lation.


The people under this new aspect of affairs, recommenced their application to the Legislature for redress, and the following pro- ceedings were had.


December 8, 1815, January 4, 1816, January 16, 1816. Peti- tions presented for removal &c. and referred to a committee, re- port unfavorable. See Journal of H. R. session 1815-16, pages 15, 105, 210, 206.


[On Thursday the 15th of February 1816 a meeting of delegates from a number of townships in the county, elected pursuant to a call of the standing committee, was held in Bloomsburg"for the pur- pose of devising measures to obtain a removal of the seat of justice for said county from Danville to a more central situation." The meeting was organized by appointing Col. Leonard Rupert, Presi- dent, and Samuel Webb Jr. Secretary. The townships were rep- resented as follows:


Bloom-Levi Aikman, Samuel Webb Jr.


Briarcreek-John Stewart, George Kelchner.


Catawissa-Major Joseph Paxton, William Brewer.


Derry-Jacob Swisher, Marshal Girton.


Fishingcreek-Daniel Bealer, William Robbins.


Greenwood-Abner Mendenhall, Henry Miller. Sugarloaf-Philip Fritz, William Wilson.


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HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY.


The meeting unanimously resolved to petition the legislature to pass a law granting the citizens a right to vote "for the seat of Justice in said county," and Paxton, Mendenhall, and Webb Jr. were appointed a committee for the purpose of procuring the nec- essary legislation. ]


February 22, 1816. Mr. M'Clure presented a petition praying that a law may be passed to suspend the erection of public build- ings for the county of Columbia for one year, and that the citi- zens of said county may be authorized at a special or at the next general election, by their votes to fix on a place for the seat of justice for said county. Read and referred. See Journal H. R, session 1815-16, page 439.


Report that they have had the same under consideration and are of opinion that Danville is not a suitable place for the seat of justice, being in a remote corner of the county of Columbia, and that there is another site quite as eligible, much nearer the centre and probably much more acceptable to the citizens generally. The committee are aware that the choice of a county town by the mode proposed, is somewhat novel, but at the same time the choice of the majority is the principle on which all our laws are made and our government depends; a principle which may be always lodged with safety in the hands of the people, who are the best judges of their interests. The committee therefore submit the following resolution, Resolved, That a committee be appoint- ed to bring in a bill agreeable to the prayer of the petitioners. See Journal of H. R. session 1815-16, page 504.


The above reasonable proposition was rejected by the House. See Journal of H. R. session 1815-16, pages 528, 529.


February 1, 1821. On motion of Messrs. Kinny and Reese, ordered that the petitions presented on the 30th ult. relative to the removal of the seat of justice of Columbia county, be refer- red to Messrs. Kinney, M'Clure, Baird, W. Smythe and Musser. See Journal of H. R. session 1820-21, page 482.


March 6, 1821 : Mr. Kinney from the committee to whom were referred sundry petitions on the subject, on leave given, reported a bill No. 311, entitled An act to authorize the removal of the seat of justice in the county of Columbia and for other purposes. See Journal of H. R. session 1820-21, page 784.


December 7, 1821 : On motion of Messrs. Clark and Scudder,


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ordered that an item of unfinished business relative to the removal &c. be referred to the members from the counties of Columbia, Luzerne, Northumberland and Northampton. See Journal H. R. session 1821-22, page 51. The members from the counties of Berks, Schuylkill and Lycoming, were added to the committee. See Journal p. 71.


Report unfavorable. See Journal of the House of Representa- tives, session 1821-22, page 89.


From that time until the fall of 1833, there appears to have been no application to the Legislature ; but it was nevertheless a subject of constant anxiety within the county, and has always had a controlling influence in the election of members of Assem- bly and county officers. No man can be elected to any office in the county, who is not avowedly in favour of the removal. As the public buildings had in part been erected the excitement would perhaps have been confined within the bounds of the county for some time longer, had not the Grand Jury at Novem- ber session 1833, reported to the Court, that the public records were in great danger of being destroyed by fire, for want of suit- able buildings for their accommodation, and recommending the immediate erection of fire proof offices. This report aroused the people, who had long before determined that no further expendi- ture of their money should be made in buildings at Danville-pe- titions for removal were immediately circulated and signed with an alacrity, seldom before witnessed, by full two thirds of the taxables of the county. These petitions were presented in both branches of the Legislature and bills reported providing for the removal of the seat of justice. The bill in the Senate was only reached in order and acted on, and lost by a vote of eleven to fif- teen.


Last year another appeal was made for relief, and bills again reported, but too late in the session to have any further action on them.


It requires but a cursory view of the county map to discover, that Danville is very far from the centre of territory ; and that it is equally distant from the centre of population, is manifest from what follows.


The townships most convenient to Danville are the following


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and contain the number of taxables, paying tax as follows.


Taxables.


Tax.


Derry township contains


350


$786.42


Mahoning (including Danville)


351


1213.62


Limestone


121


532.94


Liberty


268


498.78


Hemlock contains 327 taxables, one third


of whom are nearer to Danville than to


Bloomsburg, but none of them more than six miles from the latter place


109


273.62


Accommodated at Danville


1199


paying $3,300.38 Bloomsburg are


The townships most convenient to


.Taxables.


paying tax.


Mount Pleasant


147


$ 311.21


Bloom (including Bloomsburg)


152


1139.73


Briar Creek


340


1033.23


Catawissa


345


1075.32


Greenwood


256


502.94


Fishing Creek


129


218.78


Madison


302


514.45


Mifflin


370


690.58


Roaring Creek


322


608.99


Sugar Loaf


154


228.78


Hemlock two thirds


218


547.24


Accommodated at Bloomsburg 3035 $6,871.25


There is another view in which the relative position of Danville and Bloomsburg may be seen ; and it shows conclusively as we think, the propriety of removing the seat of Justice. Eighteen hundred and forty-eight taxables residing in Bloom, Briarcreek, Mount Pleasant, Greenwood, Fishing creek, Sugar loaf, and Mif- flin townships, all pass through Bloomsburg on their way to Dan- ville. Few of them have less than fourteen miles, and many of them from twenty to thirty-five miles, travel to Danville. A large majority of 657 taxables residing in Catawissa and Roaring creek townships, (say five sixths) are at least four miles nearer to Bloomsburg than to Danville, and the remainder are not more than two miles further from Bloomsburg than from Danville-


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even one third of the 350 taxables in Derry, which we have set down to the credit of Danville are nearer to Bloomsburg than to Danville, and the remainder are not more than two miles further from Bloomsburg than from Danville-the average of the other two thirds of Derry are not more than four miles fur- ther from Bloomsburg than from Danville. From Mahoning town- ship in which Danville is situated, containing 351 taxables the average travel to Bloomsburg will not be ten miles. Liberty and Limestone townships form the western bounds of the county and lie north and south of each other. Limestone contains 121 tax- ables-Liberty contains 268 taxables-these 389 will none of them have to travel more than eight miles further to reach Blooms- burg, than to reach Danville, and many of them not so far.


We would further remark, that Danville is as far from the cen- tre of business as from the centre of population in the county. It draws a large portion of its business and supplies from a neigh- bouring county, by which it is almost surrounded and thus acts as a continual drain on the circulating medium of the county. Scarcely a single dollar of the money expended by suitors and others attending court, can ever find its way back into the inter- ior of the county-there is no trade between them, and no recip- rocity of interest between the interior of the county and its me- tropolis. On the other hand, Bloomsburg is not only very near the centre of territory and population, but it is also the centre of business. It is the natural outlet and commands the trade of Hemlock, Madison, a portion of Derry, Greenwood, Sugar Loaf, Fishing Creek, Mount Pleasant, Bloom, and a portion of Briar Creek townships. It is also in the line of communication for a large portion of the county, with the markets of Pottsville, Mauch Chunk, and places below those points.


With a knowledge of all these facts and circumstances, it is with the deepest sense of injuries sustained, and the unnecessary inconvenience they have laboured under for many years past that a large majority of the Citizens of Columbia county, once more make their appeal to the Legislature for relief-they ask no boon ; but as freemen they appeal to that natural sense of justice, inher- ent in the breast of every honest and unprejudiced man, and de- mand a restoration of valuable rights and privileges, unjustly ta- ken, and unjustly withheld from them."


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Atlast however, on the 24th day of February 1845, the legislature passed an act authorizing a vote on the question of the location of the seat of Justice, and under its provisions, in the October follow- ing, the people of the county settled the question by a direct vote. The result was as follows :


REMOVAL-1845.


Bloomsburg


[ Danville


Townships


Bloom


392


3


Briarcreek


77


107


Catawissa


179


9


Centre


169


Derry


77


166


Fishingcreek


180


1


Franklin.


64


42


Greenwood.


189


2


Hemlock.


178


15


Jackson


52


Liberty.


3


181


Limestone


30


84


Madison.


188


53


Mahoning


5


689


Maine


108


Mifflin.


121


24


Montour


82


35


Mount Pleasant


128


Orange.


175


7


Paxton District


80


1


Roaringcreek


211


15


Sugarloaf


217


Valley


8


145


2913


1579


Majority for Removal


1334


The public buildings were completed, and the Records were re- moved from Danville in November 1847, and the first court was held in Bloomsburg in January 1848.


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HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY.


ELECTION RETURNS


T has been thought sufficient to go back to 1860 with the tab- ular election returns. That was a period when parties seemed to be breaking up, and politicians were seeking new combinations. From that time the important elections are all given, and for our citizens are complete and valuable. No politician can be thor- oughly posted, nor able to talk intelligently upon the drift of af- fairs, without having at hand the results of political contests. Under the head of "Removal" will be found the official vote on that question, under the head of. "Poor Houses" the official vote on that question, and at the end of this chapter the official vote on the License question in 1873. These are data upon which to base calculations, comparisons and results.


PRESIDENT-1860.


DISTRICTS.


BRECKENRIDGE. DOUGLAS. LINCOLN.


BELL.


Beaver


113


29


Benton


142


41


Berwick


49


2


80


Bloom East


155


273


12


Briarcreek


118


58


Catawissa


24


52


135


Centre


116


111


1


Conyngham N. 2


35


91


Fishingcreek


206


54


Franklin


53


2


58


Greenwood


139


155


1


Hemlock


104


16


72


Jackson


71


16


Locust


170


1


135


Madison


139


57


Main


70


7


19


Mifflin


172


48


Bloom West


Conyngham S.


75


HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY.


BRECKENRIDGE. DOUGLAS, LINCOLN. BELL.


Montour


35


47


Mt. Pleasant


75


65


Orange


97


6


76


Pine


52


28


Roaringcreek


38


40


Scott


80


169


Sugarloaf


114


16


2367


86


1873


14


PRESIDENT-1864


DISTRICTS.


MCLELLAN.


LINCOLN.


Beaver


178


7


Benton


115


37


Berwick


76


85


Bloom East


208


249


Bloom West


146


67


Catawissa.


124


153


Centre. .


177


101


Conyngham N)


173


123


Conyngham S


184


39


Franklin


62


53


Greenwood.


147


145


Hemlock


157


47


Jackson.


70


9


Locust.


220


115


Madison


196


36


Main


107


4


Mifflin


184




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