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The act of the Legislature No. 110, regulating election districts, approved July 11, 1842, established the polling-place for Warsaw town- ship as follows :
"SECTION 26. That the township of Warsaw, in the county of Jef- ferson, be and the same is hereby erected into a separate election district, and that the general as well as the township elections shall be held at the house of William Weeks in said township."
In the forties, Peter Ricord, Sr., and his son Peter erected on their farm in what was then called "Jericho," and now Warsaw Post-Office, a frame grist-mill structure thirty by thirty feet. This mill had one run of stones, and the motive power was one yoke of oxen. I cannot describe it. The capacity was about thirty bushels of corn or grain a day. Ephraim Bushly was the millwright; Peter Ricord, Jr., the miller. The scheme not proving a financial success, the running gear was removed in a few years, and the building utilized as a barn by the Ricords, and afterwards by John A. Fox.
The pioneer election held in Warsaw township for local offices was
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
in 1843, and the following-named persons were elected,-viz. : Judge of Election, John Moorhead ; Inspectors, Thomas McCormick, Peter Cham- berlin ; Supervisors, William Weeks, James K. Huffman ; School Directors, O. P. Mather, Ira Bronson, G. D. Frederick, Arad Pearsall, James A. Wilkins, Peter Chamberlin ; Constable, David C. Riggs ; Assessors, An- drew McCormick, Jacob Moore, Eli B. Irvin ; Auditors, John Pearsall, Thomas McCormick, Finley McCormick ; Poor Overseers, Jacob Vast- binder, William Richards ; Town Clerk, Ira Bronson.
PARADISE TOWNSHIP-A DEAD TOWNSHIP.
It appears on the records of the county that prior to or about the year 1839 a township was organized and known from 1839 until 1842 as Paradise township. From the names embraced in the officers elected in this township the territory must have taken all of what is now Gaskill, Bell, Henderson, McCalmont, and part of Winslow. The township dis- appears from the records of the county as mysteriously as it appears.
Pioneer election in Paradise township in the year 1839 : Assessor, David Barnett ; Judge of Election, John Pifer ; Inspectors of Election. Peter Deemer, John Rhoads.
Second election, 1840, Paradise township: Judge of Election, John Rhoads ; Inspectors of Election, John Deemer, Henry Philipi.
Third election, 1842 : Constable, James Dickey ; Supervisors, John Pifer, Henry Miller ; Auditors, Henry Philipi, Thomas Thompson, Philip Bowers ; Town Clerk, Henry Miller ; School Directors, Henry Miller, Thomas Kerr; Overseers of the Poor, Andrew McCreight, An- drew Bowers ; Assessor, David Harvey ; Judge of Election, John Pifer ; Inspectors of Election, George Pifer, George Smith.
PIONEER CENSUS, 1840.
The following is the population of Jefferson County by the several censuses taken since 1810: in 1810, 161; in 1820, 561; in 1830, 2025 ; and in 1840, 7253, as follows :
Brookville
276
Washington
367
Ridgway 195
Tionesta
27
Jenks
20
Porter
977
Young
1321
Rose
1421
Snyder .
291
Eldred .
395
Barnett
259
Pine Creek 628
Perry
1076
Total
7253
493
494
Total
1427
5773
7342
8898
43,598
77,077
24,467
14,404
23,369
64,1IO
27,067
PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
Brookville
29
66
27
87
97
150
40
50
50
500
Rose
314
1315
2001
1444
10,805
1 17,0)5
5,813
4,0II
5,548
13,748
Washington
66
405
391
520
2,223
73,0
701
367
1,586
5,739
14.591
Snyder
36
248
190
254
1,757
3,930
349
531
1,142
3.470
7,2 0
Ridgway .
29
87
30
48
290
1,440
157
505
3,575
4,226
Eldred
91
332
4º3
65 1
1,777
4,180
2,046
775
660
2,515
'Tionesta
4
9
Barnett
23
85
68
248
547
I,C65
560
521
365
2,275
Jenks
4
25
12
40
500
170
680
1,000
Pine Creek .
79
485
456
621
3,488
7,300
2,393
1,042
1,732
8, 170
Porter
213
SI5
1234
1506
7,285
9,501
4,416
2,004
2,843
7,177
Perry
299
1003
1582
1876
9,070
15,982
4,936
3,22I
4,463
8,258
240
898
960
1631
6,219
8,184
3,213
1,695
4,155
8,003
Young
Horses.
Cattle.
Sheep.
Swine.
Wheat.
Oats.
Rye
Buck- wheat.
Corn.
Potatoes.
Sugar.
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150
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
Since 1840, Ridgway and part of Snyder townships were taken to Elk County. Clover township was taken from Rose; Union from Rose and Eldred ; Heath from Barnett ; Warsaw from Pine Creek, Washing- ton, and Snyder ; Gaskill from Young; Winslow from Gaskill, Wash- ington, and Pine Creek. Punxsutawney is erected into a borough. Its census is separate from Young township. Porter is divided.
The accompanying tables show the number of horses, cattle, etc., amount of grain raised, value of home-made woollens and linens and lumber produced, and the number of grist- and saw-mills in the several townships of Jefferson County at this period.
Value of Home-made Woollens and Linens.
Value of Lumber produced.
Grist-Mills. Saw-Mills.
Brookville
$3,450
I
1
Rose
$2283
15,732
5
17
Washington
497
410
I
I
Snyder
.
1,550
I
3
Ridgway
4,720
.
7
Eldred
450
1,155
.
I
Barnett
101
6,310
. .
9
Jenks
85
. .
I
Pine Creek
653
4,140
I
S
Porter
1281
3,700
. .
2
Perry
1771
826
2
4
Young
1334
S,025
3
14
-
Total .
$8363
$50,603
14
6S
.
In 1839 there were six tanneries, that tanned five hundred and twenty sides of sole leather and eight hundred and five of upper leather. In these six tanneries seven hands were employed.
In the produce of lumber three hundred and fifty-three hands were employed.
In 1840, Rose township took the lead in population, and in every- thing else except swine and sugar.
Perry took the lead in swine.
Washington was the sweetest, and Snyder next, for they made the most sugar ; but we have only to remember the name, for both townships were called after good and great men.
The total value of skins and furs, $1029 ; number of stores in county, 19,-viz., Brookville, 8; Rose, 2; Snyder, 1 ; Ridgway, 1 ; Porter, I ; Perry, 2 ; Young, 4.
Bituminous coal used : Brookville, 2000 bushels, Charles Anderson, miner ; Rose township, number of bushels used, 500. The second miner, and in Rose, was Isaac Hallam ; two miners in the county and 2500 bushels of coal used.
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
BROOKVILLE BOROUGH.
This borough, the seat of justice of Jefferson County, commenced its first building in June of 1830. After the lots were sold, it being then in Rose township, its citizens voted with the township until 1848, when it
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was set apart as a distinct polling place by act of the Legislature No. 285, regulating election districts, and for other purposes, approved the 7th day of April, A D. 1848.
Brookville was named for, or on account of, the springs or brooks on its hill-sides,-springs which here to all in these continuous woods did
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
freely flow unbought. Brook, with the French " ville," or Latin " villa," a country-seat, in common English, a town ; these put together formed the name. The population by the census of 1840 was 276.
Brookville was incorporated as a borough on April 9, 1834 (see pamphlet laws of that year, page 209). The pioneer election for the new borough, for borough officials, was in the spring of 1835. Joseph Sharpe was elected constable, and Alexander McKnight, my father, was elected school director.
" AN ACT (OF APRIL,, 1834) TO ERECT BROOKVILLE, ARMAGH, SHREWS- BURY, AND GREENFIELD INTO BOROUGHS, AND TO ALTER THE ACT INCORPORATING THE BOROUGH OF MEADVILLE.
"SECTION I. Be it enacted, etc., That the town of Brookville, in the county of Jefferson, shall be, and the same is hereby erected into, a borough, which shall be called ' the borough of Brookville, in the county of Jefferson,' bounded and limited as follows, -viz. : Beginning at the southwest corner of lot number twenty-two in said town, near or adjoining Hunt's Point ; thence due north along the marked line of said town to a post on the north side of Butler's Alley ; thence along the north side of said alley to its extremity ; thence by a continued east line to the north- east corner of the mill lot; thence south three degrees, east eighty-four perches, to a red oak ; thence south eighteen perches to a post ; thence south ten degrees, west seventeen perches, to a white pine : thence south twenty-four degrees, west fifty-nine perches, to a post ; thence west twenty perches to the west side of Sandy Lick Creek at high-water mark ; thence up said creek, following the several courses thereof, to a point east of and opposite the mouth of the south end of Rose Alley, being the extremity of the outlots ; thence east to a maple opposite the south end of Picker- ing Street ; thence north to the northeast corner of Water and Pickering Streets ; thence along the south side of Water Street to the northeast corner of lot number twenty-two aforesaid ; thence around the lines of said lot to the place of beginning.
"SECTION 2. It shall and may be lawful for all persons entitled to vote for members of the Legislature, who have resided in said borough twelve months immediately previous to such election, to meet at the court-house in said borough (or at such other place as may hereafter be appointed) on the second Monday in May in every year, and then and there elect by ballot, between the hours of twelve and six o'clock of the same day, one reputable citizen residing in said borough, who shall be styled the burgess of said borough, and five reputable citizens residing in said borough, who shall be a town council, and shall also elect one rep- utable citizen as town constable ; but previous to such election the in- habitants shall elect two reputable citizens as judges, one inspector, and two clerks of said election, which shall be regulated and conducted ac-
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
cording to the general election laws of this Commonwealth, so far as re- lates to receiving and counting votes, and who shall be subject to the same penalties for malpractices as by the said laws are imposed. And the said judges, inspector, and clerks respectively, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, shall take an oath or affirmation before any justice of the peace of said county to perform the same with fidelity ; and after the said election shall be closed shall declare the per- sons having the greatest number of votes to be duly elected ; and in case any two or more candidates shall have an equal number of votes, the preference shall be determined by lot, to be drawn by the judges and in- spector ; whereupon duplicate returns thereof shall be signed by the said judges, one of which shall be transmitted to each of the persons elected, and the other filed among the records of the corporation. And in case of death, resignation, removal, or refusal to accept, or neglect or refusal to act after acceptance, of any of the said officers, the burgess, or in case of his death, absence, or inability to act, or when he neglects or refuses to act, the first named of the town council shall issue his precept, directed to the high constable, or when there is no high constable, or when he refuses or neglects to act, then any of the members of the town council shall advertise and hold an election in manner aforesaid to supply such vacancy, giving at least ten days' notice thereof by advertisements set up at four of the most public places in the said borough.
" SECTION 3. From and after the passage of this act the burgess and town council, duly elected as aforesaid, and their successors, shall be one body politic and corporate, in law, by the name and style of 'The Bur- gess and Town Council of the Borough of Brookville, in the County of Jefferson,' and shall have perpetual succession ; and the said burgess and town council aforesaid, and their successors, shall be capable in law to receive, hold, and possess goods and chattels, lands and tenements, rents, liberties, jurisdictions, franchises, and hereditaments, to them and their successors, in fee-simple, or otherwise, not exceeding the yearly value of five thousand dollars, and also to give, grant, sell, let, and assign the same lands, tenements, hereditaments, and rents ; and by the name and style aforesaid they shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any of the courts of law in this Commonwealth or elsewhere, in all manner of actions whatsoever, and to have and use one common seal, and the same from time to time at their will to change and alter."
The first complete set of borough officers was elected under this law and the act of the 23d of February, 1835, hereafter referred to. This first election was in the spring of 1837, and those elected were as follows : Burgess, Thomas Lucas ; Council, John Dougherty, James Corbett, John Pierce, Samuel Craig, Wm. A. Sloan ; Constable, John Mclaughlin.
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
This man McLaughlin was a great hunter, and could neither read nor write ; he moved to Brockwayville, and from there went West.
By an act of Assembly passed April 2, 1830, it was provided that from and after the Ist day of October, thereafter, the inhabitants of Jef- ferson County should "enjoy all and singular the jurisdiction, powers, rights, liberties, and privileges whatsoever within the same which the inhabitants of other counties of this State do, may, or ought to enjoy, by the law and Constitution of this Commonwealth."
Our first president judge, Thomas Burnside, was born in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, July 28, 1782, and resided in Bellefonte, Centre County. His father, William Burnside, with his family, emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1792. In 1800, Thomas commenced to read law with Hon. Robert Porter, and on the 13th day of February, 1804, he was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. In the month of March of that year Thomas moved to, and settled in, Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsyl- vania. In 1811 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1815 he was sent to Congress. In 1816 he was appointed a president judge. In 1823 he was again elected a State Senator and was made Speaker. In 1826 he was again appointed a president judge. In 1854 he was commissioned a judge for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
In stature, Judge Burnside was of medium height, dark complexioned, and very homely. He was a learned lawyer, an able jurist, and a kind, blunt, honest, open-hearted gentleman.
Many of the details of the history of Brookville are given in frag- ments throughout this general history. The place was laid out in 1830 as the county seat, and in June of that year the lots were sold, the price ranging from thirty to three hundred dollars. In 1831 a traveller speaks of it as a "shanty town," and doubts that the population might amount to fifty. In 1840 the inhabitants numbered two hundred and seventy-six. and there were sixty dwellings and stores. From an early history, in speaking of Jefferson County, and especially of Brookville, we quote the following : " The scenery around this town would be fine were it not that all the hills, except on the north side, are still clothed by the original forest of pines, being held by distant proprietors, who neither sell nor improve. Its situation is on the Waterford and Susquehanna Turnpike, forty-four miles east of Franklin, and immediately at the head of Red Bank Creek, which is here formed by the confluence of two branches. The great State road, called the Olean road, between Kittanning and Olean, passes through the county about seven miles west of Brookville. North of the turnpike, however, the road has been suffered to be closed by obstructions, and is not now used." Another writer says "that Meade's trail from Port Barnett crossed the creek five times." Still another says, " This hole can never become a place of any importance, the county seat must be removed to Punxsutawney or Port Barnett."
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
" A few straggling Indians occasionally called at the village, reminding one of former scenes." "Times are slow," says another ; " our lumber at the creek will not bring more than three or four dollars." They had hard times in the past, and times that made the county seat what it is,- a commercial centre, a centre of religion and morals, a place for culture in literature and music, which for its age will compare with learned Boston. The population to-day is about three thousand.
PIONEERS AND PIONEER EVENTS IN BROOKVILLE.
" The deeds of our fathers in times that are gone, Their virtues, their prowess, the toils they endured."
The pioneer settler to locate where Brookville is was Moses Knapp. The pioneer to locate in the county seat was John Eason, father of Rev. David Eason. He bought the lot on the corner of Main Street and Spring Alley, and erected the pioneer house in the county seat,-viz., in August, 1830, and opened it for a tavern. Mr. Eason died in 1835. In 1831, William Robinson lived in a little log house on the corner of Mill and Water Streets. This log house and log stable had been built by Moses Knapp in 1806. The next person to locate was perhaps Thomas Hall. Benjamin McCreight was an early settler. Mr. McCreight was a tailor and carried on the business. He was an honorable and useful man, and held many responsible positions during his life here. John Dougherty attended the sale of lots, bought several, and in 1831 moved to Brookville. Thomas M. Barr came here in 1830. He was a stone- mason and bricklayer, and assisted to build up the town by taking con- tracts. The pioneer blacksmith was Jacob Riddleberger, in 1832-33. WVm. Clark, Sr., came to Brookville in 1830, and erected a tavern on the northwest corner of Pickering and Jefferson Streets. In the fall of 1830, Jared B. Evans moved his store from Port Barnett to Brookville, and was appointed the pioneer postmaster for Brookville post-office. Brookville, by post-road, was one hundred and sixty-five miles northwest of Harris- burg, Pennsylvania, and two hundred and thirty-eight miles northwest of Washington, D. C. Mr. Evans's was the pioneer store. The second store was opened three days later by Major William Rodgers. Thomas Hastings located in 1831, and built the Jefferson Tavern. Robert P. Barr came in 1830. He was a useful and public-spirited man. He built the saw-mill and flouring-mill on the North Fork. Joseph Sharpe was the first shoemaker and the first constable. He lived on the lot now occupied by the National Bank of Brookville.
William Jack came to Brookville in 1831, and was sent to Congress from this district. Richard Arthurs, Esq., located here in 1831 or there- abouts. Cyrus Butler in 1830-31. James Corbett in 1830. Alexander McKnight located in Brookville in 1832. He taught the first term of
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
school in the first school building, was the first school director elected for the new borough, held the office of justice of the peace, lieutenant- colonel in the militia, had served a year as private in the regular army of the United States, and was county treasurer when he died, in 1837, aged twenty-seven years.
Samuel Craig located in Brookville in 1832, Hugh Brady, Esq., in 1832, and John Ramsey, the pioneer wagon-maker, in 1834. Hugh Brady and family came from Indiana, Pennsylvania, in a Conestoga wagon drawn by four horses,-the lead horses having bells on. That was the wagon of that period. (See illustration.) There was no bridge across the North Fork. They came via Port Barnett. John Showalter located here in 1843. He lived in Snyder's Row, was a gunsmith, and had a confectionery. James R. Fullerton located in Brookville in 1833. The pioneer gunsmith was Isaac Mills. He located where Thomas L. Templeton now resides. The pioneer doctor was Alvah Evans ; he came in September, 1831. He was a young, handsome, portly man. He remained four or five months and left. Where he came from or where he went to nobody knows. The second doctor was C. G. M. Prime. He came in the spring of 1832. Dr. Prime amputated the arm of Henry (Hance) Vastbinder. During his residence here he married a Miss Wagley. He was a hard drinker. He left here April 3, 1835, for Mississippi, where he was shot and killed at a card-table. He became a lawyer while here, delivered political speeches and Fourth of July orations.
The pioneer merchant to sell drugs and medicines in Brookville was Major William Rogers, in 1831. He sold Dover's powder, Hooper's pills, mercurial ointment, wine, brandy, whiskey, quinine, etc.
The pioneer fire-engine was bought June 29, 1839. Cost, two hun- dred and fifty dollars. It was a hand-engine. This same year it was resolved by the council that " the timber standing or lying on the streets and alleys be sold for the use of said borough." The first volunteer fire company in the United States was at Philadelphia, 1736.
The pioneer saddle and harness manufactory in Brookville was opened by John Brownlee, on May 8, 1834, in the rear of his lot facing Mill Street, and opposite D. E. Breneman's residence.
McDonald started the pioneer cabinet and furniture factory in 1831-32.
The pioneer foundry was started by a man named Coleman, in 1841. It was located where the Fetzer building now is.
The pioneer grist-mill was built by Moses Knapp.
The pioneer saw-mill was built by Moses Knapp.
The pioneer borough election was in 1835.
John J. Y. Thompson settled in Brookville in 1831, Andrew Craig in 1838, Robert Darrah in 1837, Arad Pearsall in 1833, Samuel C. Espy in
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
1842, Hon. Philip Taylor in 1841, John Gallagher in the early thirties, William Farley in 1843. Isaac Allen was an early settler.
The pioneer silversmith and watch- and clock-maker was Andrew Straub, in 1833-34. Watches were then assessed as property.
The pioneer graveyard was on lands now owned by W. C. Evans, on Litch's Hill. The second one is now called the " old graveyard."
The pioneer dentists were Dr. A. M. Hills and T. M. Van Valzah. These were travelling dentists, and came here periodically. The first dentist to locate was William J. Chandler.
In 1832, Peter Sutton built and kept a tavern on the corner of Taylor Street, across the North Fork, now Litchtown. In 1832 or 1833 there was a frame tavern adjoining the Franklin Tavern. It was kept for a number of years by a man named Craig, Mrs. Wagley, and others.
The pioneer tannery was built in 1831 by David Henry, on the lot now occupied by the United Presbyterian church. As late as 1843 a great gully crossed Main Street, carrying the water from this institution over and through the lot now occupied by that model institution of the town, the National Bank of Brookville.
Miss Julia Clark opened the pioneer millinery and mantua making business in Brookville. Prices : bonnets, leghorn, $5; silk, $2.50; gimp, $1.50; straw, SI. In her advertisement she says, "She can be seen at her residence, four doors east of E. Heath's store, on Main Street. Persons, so wishing, can be supplied by her with ladies' leghorn hats, flats and crown, from No. 32 to 42 ; ladies' Tuscan and French gimp : Italian braid hats; Leghorn braid, Tuscan and Italian edge, Misses' gimp hats, Tuscan ; French gimp by the piece. She hopes, by giving her undivided attention to the above business, to merit a share of public patronage. Brookville, July 13th, 1834."
The pioneer tinner was Samuel Truby. He came from Indiana, Pennsylvania, arriving here on January 1, 1834. The last thirteen miles of the journey was through a dense forest, without house or clearing. They stopped at John Eason's tavern, and as soon as possible he com- menced to cut down the trees on and clear his lot, corner of Jefferson and Pickering Streets, preparatory to building a house, a contract for the building of which was taken by the late R. Arthurs, he agreeing to fur- nish all the material and finish it as specified by April 1 for the sum of forty dollars, which was paid in silver quarters. The house was sixteen feet square and one and a half stories high.
Hon. Thomas Hastings came in May, 1831. " Nearly all of what is now the principal part of the town-Main Street and Jefferson Street --- was then a forest. Only three houses had yet been built,-the Red Lion Hotel, where Gregg's barber shop now is, the hotel now occupied by P. J. Allgeier, and another hotel, which stood where J. M. White's
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