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September 23, William B. Shriner commenced publishing the Lewisburg Chronicle. October 28, some little boys collected some shavings at the new Presbyterian church, in New Berlin, and kin- dled a fire, which burned M. Kleckner's barn, with his poultry, hay, and oats, and almost set the whole town on fire. John Robinson, principal of the Lewisburg Academy. In Union county, in Octo- ber, the vote on the State ticket for Canal Commissioner was, Whig, 2,034; Democratic, 1,393. General Henry Frick, Whig, was elected Congressman in the district by a majority of 249 over Hon- orable John Snyder. Lewisburg market prices in November : wheat, 75 cents ; buckwheat, 40 cents ; rye, 44 cents ; corn, 3772 cents ; oats, 25 cents ; butter, Io cents. December 20, the revival services under the charge of Reverend William D. Grant, were crowned with success, in the baptism of a number of persons this day, which culminated in the formation of the first Baptist meeting at Lewis- burg. December 31, Reverend Henry Harbaugh preaching in Lewisburg.
[1844.] January 3, the Baptist church at Lewisburg was recog- nized as such, with Reverend C. A. Hewitt as temporary pastor. January 8, the new Lutheran church at Selinsgrove was dedicated. February 29, the Presbyterian church at New Berlin was dedicated. March 1, General Henry Frick, member of Congress from this dis- trict, died at Washington, D. C., aged forty-eight. He was interred at Milton on Monday, 4th. He established the Miltonian Septem- ber 21, 1816. March 18, Charles G. Donnel, president judge of the eighth district, died at Sunbury, of paralysis, and on the Ist of April, Joseph B. Anthony, of Williamsport, held his first court at Sunbury. On the 5th, a special election for Congressman, vice General Frick, deceased, was held. In Union county, James Pol- lock received 2,086 ; Honorable John Snyder, 1,289. Pollock had
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5 majority in Northumberland county, and 154 in Lycoming. Sny- der had 89 in Clinton. May 16, John Hayes, deputy surveyor of Union county, died. Of his children were R. G. H. Hayes, Nancy, William, David, Esquire, and James Hayes. July 4 was celebrated in Brown's woods, at Lewisburg, four schools from the town and two from the country joining. There were seven hundred Sabbath- school scholars in procession, who were addressed by Reverends Crever, Harbaugh, Zeller, and Sutton. August 27, Camp Potter, on the farm of James F. Linn, in East Buffalo township, organized, by the arrival of two troops and three foot companies, General James Potter in command. September 2, Methodist camp-meeting on the farm of Jacob Ziebach. September 14, large Democratic meeting on the island, at Milton. Honorable James Buchanan spoke, and assured his auditors that James K. Polk was as good a tariff man as Henry Clay. The summer was noted for great efforts in the temperance cause-the burden of the speeches an appeal to the ballot-box. Reverend W. H. H. Barnes, who afterwards be- came a backslider, and was murdered by guerrillas during the Mexi- can war, canvassed the county and made a fine impression from his eloquence in advocating that appeal. General Reily, of Rochester, New York, also lectured frequently during this period. October 8, at the gubernatorial election, Francis R. Shunk and General Joseph Markle were the opposing candidates. Markle (Whig) received 2,721 votes in Union county ; Shunk (Democrat) received 1,777. For the sale of the main line of canals, 1, 289 votes were cast, against 2, 113. F. J. Lemoyne was voted for by the Liberty party for Gov- ernor. November 1, presidential election. Henry Clay had 1,024 majority. James G. Birney (Liberty party) had 8 votes in Lewis- burg. The names of those who voted for the latter were John K. Housel, H. R. Noll, - Augstadt, - Poeth, Samuel Evans, Dennis Phillips, and James F. Linn. December 18, a Native Ameri- can meeting was held in the court-house, at New Berlin, which was addressed by Absalom Swineford, Esquire.
[1845.] Market prices at Lewisburg, March : Wheat, 75 to 80 cents ; rye, 50 cents ; corn, 37 cents. In June, wheat, 80 cents. In October, 85 to 95 cents. J. M. Kuester editing the Pittsburgh Daily in January. February 4, occurred the first deep snow of the winter. It was over twelve inches in depth. April 30, James Kelly,
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senior, opened a temperance house, on Market street, in Lewisburg. July 7, the first metal made at the Berlin iron-works, operated by Wilson, Green & Mitchell, was brought to Lewisburg. The Baptist church at Lewisburg, that stood on the corner of Pine alley and Third street, now the site of Music Hall, was built during the summer by L. B. Christ, Esquire, contractor. August 9, John Wolfe's barn, in East Buffalo township, was struck by lightning, and burned. Au- gust 13, Honorable Hugh Wilson, late associate judge of Union county, died, at three, P. M., aged eighty-four. His wife, Sarah Craig, was a daughter of Colonel Thomas Craig, of the third regiment, Pennsylvania Line, afterward General Thomas Craig, of Northamp- ton county. August 29, West Branch Division, No. 53, Sons of Temperance, organized at Lewisburg. September 3, barn of George F. Miller, Esquire, in East Buffalo, burned by an incendiary. Sep- tember 28, Reverend Joel E. Bradley preached the first sermon in the lecture room of the Baptist church at Lewisburg. September 13, first frost. October 9, Hugh Wilson, of Buffalo township, died. He moved to this Valley from Northampton county, and got here a few days before Christmas, 1790. Lived the winter of 1790-91 in an old cabin, on his father-in-law's, William Irvine, (Irish,) place, in Buf- falo ; then kept tavern for two years, one mile above Mifflinburg, (late John Kleckner's.) In the latter part of March, 1793, moved to a place owned by Colonel Hartley, one fourth of a mile east of Hartleton, on the old road, (late Yerger's,) where he lived five ยท years, and in the spring of 1798 moved to Lewisburg, where he kept store in a log building, formerly Thomas Caldwell's, (which stood where Doctor F. C. Harrison's house now is,) until 1804, when he was succeeded by William Hayes, and then moved on to his farm. one mile west of Lewisburg, where he died, lacking twelve days of eighty-five years of age. His children were, Doctor William I. Wil- son, of Potter's Mills, still living ; Mrs. William C. Steadman, Fran- cis Wilson, and Mrs. James F. Linn. At the October election, S. D. Karns, Whig candidate for Canal Commissioner, received 2,015 votes in Union county ; James Burns, Democrat, 1,416. October 30, Frederick Bingaman died in Beaver township, aged ninety years. He was in the militia, under General James Potter, at Brandywine. In November, Green, Howard & Green commenced erecting the Forest iron-works, in White Deer township. November 11, Honor-
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able William L. Harris died at four. P. M., from the effect of an op- eration, performed between twelve and one, p. M., for the removal of a tumor. He was highly respected, and as it was not known that he was the subject of a disease, his death caused a great shock to the people of the Valley. He was a member of the House in 1833, and of the Constitutional Convention of 1837-1838. In December, an artist named Felch took the first daguerreotypes in the Valley. He charged $6 50 for a group of five in a small four-inch glass case. December 16, Charles Merrill, Esquire, admitted to the bar.
[1846.] January 8, a large railroad meeting was held at Mifflin- burg, Henry Yearick, president, to urge the incorporation of a company to make a railroad through the Valley. February 5, the act to establish the University at Lewisburg was passed, (Pamphlet Laws, 32,) and on the 5th of October, Professor Stephen W. Tay- lor opened its high school in the lecture room of the Baptist church. Friday evening, March 13, Thomas Follmer and his son Henry and William Gundy, son of Major John Gundy, who were managing the Farmers' company store at Turtle creek, were drowned at the mouth of that creek. They were going in a boat, about ten, P. M., to visit the store-house on the opposite side of the creek, and were on their return, when the mill dam gave way, and the boat struck a timber raft. William Gundy's body was found in the boat under the raft, the next day; the others were carried down the river, and their bodies were found three weeks afterward, some miles below. The flood in the river at this time exceeded that of 1810, being six and one half inches above the mark of that date on Kremer's store-house. The canal was broken, mails stopped, the Milton bridge badly in- jured, the bridge on the North Branch, at Northumberland, carried away. as well as the one at Duncan's island, and the Harrisburg bridge in part. March 21, price of wheat at Lewisburg, eighty-five to ninety cents. April 1. the last sermon preached in the old stone church, at Buffalo Cross-Roads, by Reverend Isaac Grier, from Mat- thew, xxviii : v. 5. The congregation worshipped twenty nine years and three months in that building. In August. Reverend Samuel Shaeffer had charge of the Lewisburg academy. At the October election, in Union county, James M. Power received 1,976 votes, and William B. Foster, 905, for canal commissioner. November 15; Baptist meeting-house at Lewisburg dedicated. November 27, John
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Derr, a revolutionary soldier, died in Centre township, aged ninety- three years. Monday, December 28, the Columbia Guards, after- wards company C, second regiment, Captain John S. Wilson. passed through Lewisburg on their way to the seat of war in Mexico. They were provided with dinner by the citizens. Charles H. Shriner delivered an address, and Colonel Jackson McFadden presented them with a flag. .
List of Soldiers in the Mexican War from Union county.
App, Jacob, Selinsgrove, company C, second regiment, died at San Francisco, California, in October, 1849, aged twenty-four ; Best, Francis R., Mifflinburg, company C, second regiment, died at Perote, June 30, 1847 ; Bower, Doctor Charles, surgeon ; Bruner, William, Hartleton ; Cronmiller, Henry, Mifflinburg, Independent rocket and howitzer battery ; Forster, R. H., Mifflinburg, company C. second regiment ; Leopard, Joseph, Kelly, company I, first reg- iment ; Miller, George ; McFadden, Hugh, Lewisburg, company C, second regiment, died at Perote, September 14, 1847 ; Mc- Laughlin, William, Lewisburg, fifth United States infantry, died in service ; Montgomery, John C., company M, second regiment : Nyhart, Peter, died January 14, 1849; Oliphant George ; Quid- dington, Thomas; Yarnell, Peter ; Zentmyer, Enos, first regiment. The survivors of company C returned to Danville in August, 1848, and shortly after Lieutenant Clarence G. Frick returned the flag, tattered by the storms of war, and little left beside the staff, to Colonel McFadden, at Lewisburg.
[1847.] March 19, vote in Lewisburg against licensing taverns, 210 ; in favor of, 75. In April, price of wheat in Lewisburg was $1 30 to $1 35. May 7, corner-stone of the German Reformed church in Lewisburg laid. Reverend Doctor John W. Nevin preached and performed the services. In April, the extreme dis- tress in Ireland and Scotland, on account of failure of crops, caused meetings to be held for their relief, and large contributions of money and provisions were made by the people of Buffalo Valley. May 18, John Lashells, Esquire, died at New Berlin. He came to this county from Adams county, and his legal experience was contempo rary with the county. He was buried at Buffalo Cross-Roads, on
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the 20th, the following members of the court and bar attending : A. S. Wilson, president judge ; Joseph Stillwell and John Montelius, associates ; Hugh Bellas, Ebenezer Grenough, Alexander Jordan, James F. Linn, Isaac Slenker, George F. Miller, Joseph Casey, Samuel Weirick, D. W. Woods, R. B. Barber, William Van Gezer, and Henry C. Hickok. June 2, General R. H. Hammond, who was a paymaster in the United States army, died on board of a vessel, between Vera Cruz and New Orleans, aged fifty-seven. He served in Congress two terms. His body was interred with military honors at Milton, on Monday, August 2. Independent Grays, of Selinsgrove, Lewisburg Infantry, Danville Rifle's, Lycoming and Northumberland troops, Masonic fraternity, in full regalia, were in procession ; General Green commanding the military. In all, over six thousand people in attendance upon the ceremonies. In August, Alexander McClure was appointed postmaster at Lewisburg, vice William Murray. On Saturday, August 21, a meeting favor- ing the nomination of General Zachary Taylor for President, was held at New Berlin. Honorable George Kremer presided ; General Abbot Green, William Cameron, Jacob Reedy, Henry Yearick, vice presidents; John Walls, Thomas Bower, and John M. Baum, sec- retaries. The meeting was addressed by Henry C. Hickok, Esquire, and Charles H. Shriner. September 15, a Democratic meeting, pre- sided over by John Cummings, junior, recommended General Taylor for President. In October, the vote in Union county for Governor was, for James Irvin, 2,463; Francis R. Shunk, 1,479. October 9, river rose very high, and the west half of the Buffalo creek bridge was carried away, and lodged upon the river bridge. The river is said to have been one foot higher at Lewisburg than it was in the spring of 1846. October 20, Philadelphia synod met at Lewis- burg, and was opened by a sermon by Doctor Yeomans, of Danville. December 25, O. N. Worden became editor and publisher of the Lewisburg Chronicle.
[1848.] January 8, the German Reformed church at Lewis- burg, was dedicated; the exercises were conducted by Reverend H. Harbaugh, pastor, assisted by Reverend Messrs. Fishers and Reverend Mr. Funk. It is situated on Third street, below Mar- ket, and is sixty feet by forty-H. R. Noll, architect. In Feb- ruary ground was broken for the academy building of the Univer-
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sity. Noll and Crites had the carpenter work, L. B. Christ the brick and plastering; brick-work was let to Reed & Baker, paint- ing to Metzgar & Munson. March 2, a meeting was held to secure a suitable place for a cemetery at Lewisburg. The company was incorporated April 10, (Pamphlet Laws, 446,) and in July they purchased six acres from John Chamberlin, adjoining the western limit of the borough. March 17, Reverend Thomas Hood died, aged sixty-eight. He was born in Chester county, in July, 1781, graduated at Dickinson college at the age of seventeen, studied the- ology under Reverend Nathan Grier, of Brandywine, was licensed in 1802, and was married April 16, 1803, to Miss Mary Haslet, of Chester county. Mrs. Hood died November 10, 1840, and he married Miss Hannah McClure, March 4, 1845. His children were Mrs. Catherine McCormick, of Mill Hall, Clinton county, Mrs. Mary Rutter, Mrs. Margaret Harvey, and Wilson Hood. June 6, Charles L. Shoemaker, of West Buffalo, was kicked by a horse, and died on the 7th, aged thirty-five years. June 14, J. S. Hawke sold the Union Star to D. W. Woods, Esquire. The Union Democrat, published at New Berlin, by J. Young. June 9, Lewisburg market : wheat, $1 06; rye, 60 cents ; corn, 35 cents ; butter, 12 cents. October 10, Ner Middleswarth's vote for Canal Commissioner was 2,941 ; Israel Painter, 1,580. Joseph Casey had 1, 333 majority for Congress in Union county, and 223 in the district. In November General Taylor had 1,473 majority in Union county. In Lewis- burg, Taylor had 205 ; Cass, 124; Van Buren, 10. In New Berlin Taylor, 79 ; Cass, 57 ; Van Buren, 5.
[1849.] January -, A. Kennedy appointed postmaster at Lew- isburg, and R. P. Maclay appointed associate judge of Clarion county. Doctor Thomas A. H. Thornton commenced the practice of medicine at Lewisburg. The Berlin iron-works were blown out, and Forest iron-works in the hands of the sheriff. The California gold fever reached the Valley, and on the 26th of February, R. B. Green, David Howard, Cyrus Fox, W. H. Chamberlin, Frederick Schaffle and John D. Musser, set out for California, by the overland route. James K. Kelly, James M. Duncan, and others, left Lewis- town for the same destination. March 5, Peter Struble, of West Buffalo, aged about fifty-eight, was found dead on the public road near Buffalo Cross-Roads. He had accompanied a newly married
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daughter to her home in Lycoming county, and was returning on foot, when death met him with a paralytic stroke. April 25, High's flouring-mill, at White Deer, burned. Over $5,000 worth of grain destroyed. Kaufman & Reber bought the Forest iron- works for $7,000. May 21 was the last of the battalions, one com- pany only, the Lewisburg infantry, paraded. A great crowd of boys and people from the townships had come to Lewisburg. "The meanest battalion I ever seed," was the general expression. Octo- ber 9, H. M. Fuller, candidate for Canal Commissioner, received 2, 431 votes in Union county ; John A. Gamble, 1,820. Colonel Eli Slifer's majority over John Cummings, junior, for Assembly, was 617. Against a poor-house, 2,537 votes were cast ; for, 910. No- vember 5, James McClellan, Esquire, died, aged eighty-two. He had lived over fifty years in the Valley, and was nearly the last of those worthies who settled our Valley. He came from Chester county, and married Mary Irvine, daughter of Captain William Irvine, of the Valley. He was a school-master and justice of the peace for many years. He was considered by many, who could not appre- ciate his worth, as an obstinate man, the true reason of which was, that he was firm in his opinions, and in nine cases out of ten right. I never knew a man who was more willing to acknowledge his error when he discovered it. Among his last expressions was, "when a man came to die, this world and all its interests were of little ac- count." He was a living encyclopedia of church history, and with him passed away forever many interesting incidents of the early his- tory of the Presbyterian church in Pennsylvania .- J. F. Linn's Diary.
[1850.] January 2, H. C. Hickok, Esquire, takes the editorial chair of the Lewisburg Chronicle, O. N. Worden, publisher, and Reverend Henry Harbaugh issues the first number of The Guardian. February 26, report of James Marshall, John App, and Leonard Wolfe confirmed, erecting a new township, which the court direct shall be called Limestone.
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Buffalo, .
251
$573,260
Buffalo, East,
198
282,842
Buffalo, West,
294
391,144
Hartley,
384
403,495
Kelly,
209
299,007
Union,
346
441,105
White Deer,
315
233,575
Lewisburg,
428
168,782
Mifflinburg,
207
57,147
New Berlin, .
I53
86,922
Taxables.
Valuation of Real Estate.
In April, Frick & Slifer removed their boat-yard to Lewisburg, a pecuniary advantage both to the borough and the Valley, which should be specially noted. April 18, Doctor Robert Vanvalzah died at Buffalo Cross-Roads, aged eighty-five. He was born near Croton river, New York, April 17, 1764, and when a boy of sixteen, he served two tours in the militia with the Continental army. He came to Buffalo Valley in 1786, so poor, that one of the Beattys gave him a shilling to pay his ferriage over the river at Sunbury, a favor he never forgot, and repaid with much interest in providing for one of the family for many years. He settled on Penn's creek, and in connection with his father-in-law, Colonel Sutherland, built the mills, two miles below New Berlin, lately owned by the Maurers. He located at Buffalo Cross-Roads, about the year 1796, and his his- tory is intimately associated with that of the Valley for sixty-four years. His practice extended into the present counties of Mifflin, Centre, and Juniata. Two of his sons, Doctors Thomas and Robert, became eminent practitioners in the Valley, and his grandsons, in the same profession, have been and are numerous and skillful. In May, Reverend D. Y. Heisler was installed pastor of the German Reformed church at Lewisburg, and a post-office was established at Forest Hill in West Buffalo township, on the Brush Valley road, A. H. Lutz, postmaster. In April, wheat at Lewisburg was at 95 cents to $I oo, and in June, $1 05 to $1 10. June 7, Captain William Housel died in Lewisburg, aged sixty-one. He served five years in the regular army, was captured in 1813, taken to Quebec, and there was exchanged, and rejoined his regiment. He was in the engage-
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ments at Chippewa and Lundy's Lane, and was in Fort Erie when the magazine exploded. He was buried with military honors by the Lewisburg infantry and the Cameron guards. Thursday and Fri- day, July 18 and 19, a north-east storm raged for thirty-two hours. Limestone run higher than ever known, and Chillisquaque creek higher than known before in fifty-seven years. In October, Henry W. Snyder had 2, 172 votes for Auditor General ; Ephraim Banks, 1,443. For the judicial amendment, 1,45 1 votes were cast ; against, 1,424.
Census of 1850.
Buffalo, .
1,346
Mifflinburg,
783
Buffalo, East,
970
New Berlin,
74I
Buffalo, West, .
1,007
Union, .
1,452
Hartley,
2,142
White Deer,
1,537
Kelly,
834
Lewisburg, .
2,042
Total,
13,631
Limestone, .
807
[1851.] Honorable Ner Middleswarth was the Whig caucus nom- inee for State Treasurer. The following post-offices were established in January : Chestnut Ridge, Samuel R. Baum, postmaster ; Dry Valley, J. Mitman ; Winfield, M. H. Taggert ; Crotzerville, H. Heiser. In April, the old bridge at the mouth of Buffalo creek was removed, and a new one commenced. The Sugar Valley and White Deer turnpike received an appropriation from the State, and was completed. Volksfreund, started at New Berlin, by F. & E. Smith. April 26, Thomas Howard, in digging a ditch, near his residence, in Kelly, dug up a tusk of a mammoth, ten feet long and nine inches in diameter. It was found in a layer of blue clay, two feet below the surface. In May wheat was 80 to 85 cents ; rye, 50 cents ; corn, 50 cents. May 26, the telegraphic wire was brought to Lewisburg, and before night a message dispatched to Philadelphia, and an answer received ; and a meeting was held favoring the construction of the Susquehanna railroad, on the west side of the river, from Sunbury to Williamsport. August 20, the first commencement of the University at Lewisburg was held, and its first class graduated as follows : Salutatory, J. M. Linn, Washington Barnhurst of Philadel- phia, R. M. Fish of Beaver, George O. Ide of Philadelphia, J. M.
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Lyons of Chester county, Henry Pomerene of Pittsburgh. Vale- dictorian : J. H. Castle. The degrees were conferred by Professor Taylor, and Professor George R. Bliss delivered his inaugural ad- dress. Professor S. W. Taylor then took formal leave of the insti- tution, having accepted the presidency of Madison university at Hamilton, New York; and Doctor Howard Malcolm was formally installed president of the University by Thomas Watson, Esquire, president of the board of trustees. October 14, vote in Union county : For Governor, William F. Johnston, 2,817; William Big- ler, 1,949. For president judge, Joseph Casey received 2,379, and A. S. Wilson, 2,283.
[1852.] March 13, a railroad convention was held at Baltimore, attended largely by delegates from the Valley. April 15, Daniel L. Miller, junior, Esquire, president of the Sunbury and Erie railroad, visited Lewisburg and endeavored to interest the people in favor of that road, but public sympathy was with the Susquehanna or Balti- more company, and the railroad controversy was inaugurated, which ended in 1855 with a division of Union county by a proposition that the county commissioners should subscribe $200,000 to the stock of the road. This was done by Captain John Wilt and George Heimbach, county commissioners, on the 28th of April. The borough authorities of Lewisburg subsequently subscribed $75,000. In May the Union County mutual fire insurance company was or- ganized ; John Gundy, president, J. A. Mertz, Esquire, secretary. June 10, weather as cold as in December, a heavy frost on the morn- ing of the 11th. August 31, the largest meeting ever witnessed in New Berlin assembled to take action on the railroad question. The court-house being too small, the meeting convened in front of the public buildings. John Swineford nominated R. B. Barber for presi- dent, and took the ayes, but not the nays. He then read a list of vice presidents and secretaries. The nays were again demanded, and when put the whole organization was voted down. C. H. Shriner attempted to offer a resolution, and Mr. Barber proceeded to state the object of the meeting, but his voice was drowned by a shout that compelled him to desist. Mr. Casey then nominated Hon- orable Ner Middleswarth for president, which motion was carried. He was helped into the wagon, and proceeded to state the object of the meeting. The repudiators of the bonds had retreated to the steps
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