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son, Samuel Mateer, William Oliver, John P. Brown, David Dever, John Kneas, Robert Martin, William Stewart, Hugh Williamson, James Nolder, John Cochran, Barnabas Reedy, James McGinnis, Robert Patrick, Adam Reil- stein, John Houser, John Adams, Martin Mc- Coy, William Anthony, I. H. McGee, Christian Shunk, Alexander Laughlin, William Phillips, Alexander Oliver, Noah A. Calhoun, Peter Seegrist, Solomon Seegrist, John Zimmerman, B. B. Cooper, William Dill, George Dill, Moses Dill, Simon Robinson, Alexander White, Alexander McCain, Francis Powers, John Yorkey, Henry Bossinger, James Hanne- gan, John Ludwig, Peter Beck, Robert Morris, John Nicholson, Abraham Zimmerman, David Dormire, Barnabas Reedy, Daniel Reedy, John Edwards, James Stockville, David Baum, Jonathan C. Titus, William Heffelfinger, John Mortimore, Thomas Richey, John Gould, Anthony Hoover, William H. Barrett.
William Turnbull, one of the early settlers, was one of the patriots who financed the Rev- olutionary army at a most critical period. He built the first sawmill at the mouth of Pine creek in 1790. He was repeatedly raided by spies and Indians during his occupancy of this tract. He sold his holdings in 1806 to Wil- liam Peart, who rebuilt the sawmill and added a gristmill. The mills were finally destroyed in 1813 by a severe freshet.
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cal Map of Pennsylvania, were on the Elliott he completed the next year, and which was successively kept by him, Pinney, William Templeton, Chambers Orr, John Wallace, and others. Schotte remembers that before its tract. It was a Seneca or Cornplanter town. It is not known when it was founded-prob- ably before 1790. When Peter Brice came here in 1804 it consisted of about thirty huts erection there was not a vestige of another and one hundred and fifty people. The In- building within the limits of "Orrsville." About an acre of ground, on which is the site of that hotel, had the appearance of hav- ing been cleared years before. He also built for the proprietor the warehouse at the south side of the mouth of the creek which was extended out somewhat over the bank of the river for the purpose of conveniently receiv- ing such freight as might be landed here from the steamboats.
dians engaged in hunting and fishing and the squaws raised the corn, which they kept in a hole about four feet deep in the ground, shaped like an carthen dish. They were friendly to Brice and his family. The friend- ship was mutual, not only between those who lived there but others from the upper Alle- gheny who sometimes stopped here. A party of the latter reached here on an autumn day, between 1804 and 1810. After drawing their canoes out on dry land and partaking of Brice's hospitality, they proceeded to the hills back from the river, where they spent several days in hunting, and returned laden with game. The river having risen in the meantime their canoes would have been swept down-stream if Brice had not secured them. When those Indians became cognizant of the facts, and especially the kindness of Brice, they ex- pressed their gratification by dancing, sing- ing and shouting. In those times bears, deer, wolves, panthers and wild turkeys were abun- dant along and back from the river. When Brice was farming a portion of the river bot- tom below Whisky run, he found many large blue, red and white beads, flint darts six inches long, little tomahawks with round poles, and pieces of wire five or six inches long filled with scalps of wild ducks.
Here, too, the English and French traders may have bartered beads, trinkets and other commodities to the Indians for their more valuable pelts. furs and other articles. This may possibly have anciently been a busy mart for that kind of commerce.
James McCullough, Sr., of Kittanning, saw a log cabin here when he first descended the Allegheny in 1820, and Jonathan E. Mere- dith also remembered having seen several of the same kind, possibly fishermen's huts, when he passed here in 1827.
The "Orrsville" post office was established here in May, 1838, and Anson Pinney was appointed postmaster. Among his successors were Joseph A. Knox and Thomas Meredith. This place was thereafter called Orrsville, so named after the owner of the land on which the town is built. Charles B. Schotte, the owner of the "Humboldt . Gardens" in Kit- tanning township, was employed by the own- er of "Springfield" to build a hotel-the first frame structure erected here-in 1836, which
The town of Mahoning now occupies this point, which will probably increase in im- portance since the completion of the Shawmut railroad, which runs along the northern bank of the Mahoning. The Mahoning station of this road is just across the creek from the town, and a new steel county bridge has been erected since the railroad began service in 1913.
J. M. White is the storekeeper and post- master at Mahoning. The distillery at this point was first operated by William Temple- ton in 1826. It was later conveyed to the Mahoning Distilling Company, which has since ceased operations. McCanna Brothers also have a store here.
ORE HILL FURNACE
The first settler on the tract where the town of Templeton now is located was Abra- ham Parkinson, who was assessed with 400 acres in 1803, but afterward abandoned it. Peter Brice (colored) settled there next in 1804, and for many years was the only col- ored resident in this section. About 1873 there were at least sixty-five colored families here, and they formed a greater proportion of the population. At present most of them have removed to the cities.
The run at this point was for years called Parkinson's until the establishment of the Ore Hill furnace, when the quantities of liquor used by the workmen caused the change of name to "Whisky run."
Ore Hill furnace was built in 1845 by Coch- ran, Dobbs & Co., on the banks of the run, and was of the same type as those of that period, using charcoal. In 1856 in forty weeks it produced 1,525 tons of iron. After exhausting the supply of wood in that region, it went out of blast in 1857.
Robert Walker operated a distillery here
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in 1804, and from this source later on the operatives at the furnace received the stimulus that caused the change of name to Whisky run.
STEWARDSON FURNACE
Christian Shunk, who had made the manu- facture of iron a specialty and by his close and varied observation become a good judge of suitable locations, in 1851 selected the site of Stewardson furnace and the adjacent lands containing the requisite material for that man- ufacture. He, Alexander Laughlin and Wil- liam Phillips erected this furnace and pur- chased various tracts of land. William and Robert Mccutcheon conveyed to them 2,601 acres and 123 perches of the Wallis-Duncan- Stewardson lands, for $12,358.40. This furnace was situated about 375 rods slightly north of east in an air line from the mouth of Mahon- ing, in a deep northern bend of this stream. It was built for coke in 1851, but was not then successful, and was changed to a char- coal hot blast until the spring of 1855, when coke was successfully substituted. Its first product of pig-iron was in 1852. Shunk con- veyed all his interest in this furnace to Laugh- lin & Phillips, for $5,000.
The furnace was burned down in Septem- ber, 1858. It was soon rebuilt and went into blast in January, 1859. Its stack was forty feet high, the distance across the bosh being eleven and a half feet. This furnace pro- duced in thirty-two weeks, in 1856, 1, 147 tons of pig-metal-120 tons of which were by coke -out of limestone carbonate ore from the coal measures two miles around. The number of dwelling houses for proprietors and em- ployees was forty, nearly all frame, one and a half story. The proprietors' residence, a two-story brick, 38 by 52 feet, was built in
was kept, varying in value from $4,000 to $5,000. The quantity of land belonging to its proprietors in Pine and Madison townships was about 3,100 acres. The sawmill on Scrub- grass run was erected in 1866-7. After the death of Alexander Laughlin, Sr., this furnace and property became vested in his sons Frank- lin B. and Alexander Laughlin, by whom as partners it was operated until the modern methods of operation and the cheap Lake Su- perior ore caused its suspension, in 1880.
TEMPLETON
The second settler on the present site of Templeton, after Peter Brice, was William Templeton, from whom the town is named. He was first assessed here in 1824. Here he started a distillery in 1826, which was located where the first Pennsylvania water tank was standing in 1876. The house in which he lived was in the lower part of the tract, where it is widest, between the river and the curve in the railroad, in front of which swung for several years the sign of the Green Tree, painted by James McCullough, Sr., on the 7th of April, 1828, which indicates that he kept there a public house, though not assessed as an innkeeper. Chambers and Robert Orr resided several years on this part of the tract after Templeton removed to the mouth of Mahoning.
Templeton in 1913 has grown to be quite a thriving town and will probably be shortly incorporated as a borough. The population is about 300. There are six stores in the town, one hotel and other necessary establish- ments. The American Natural Gas Company has a large pumping station here.
The principal industry is the Hay-Walker Brick Works, operating 22 kilns and employ- ing 100 men.
S. C. Redinger & Sons operate a sawmill and lumber yard. Otto Thompson and J. K. Gearhart are the leading merchants. J. N. Rebott is proprietor of the hotel. Daniel Slagle is resident justice of the peace.
Templeton Presbyterian Church was estab- lished in 1890 and the present pastor is Rev. Charles Cochrane.
The Free Methodist Church is supplied by Rev. William Ward.
The Methodist Episcopal Church was built here in 1892. Rev. S. M. Cousins is pastor Manorville.
1861, at a cost of $6,000; six of the em- of this congregation, also serving that of ployees' buildings were brick, one-story. A store was connected with the furnace, in
The resident physicians are Drs. Geo. E. which a general assortment of merchandise Cramer and Thomas H. Newcome. Dr. Charles H. Shadle, a noted practitioner. died this year.
STATISTICS
In giving the early statistics of Pine town- ship it is necessary to include that of Boggs, as the latter deprived Pine of most of its ter- ritory in the division.
The population of the township in 1860 was 1,521; in 1870, 1,642; in 1880, 728; in 1890, 522 ; in 1900, 369; in 1910, 867.
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The assessment list for 1876 shows : Miners, 71 ; laborers, 67; teamsters, 8; blacksmiths, 4; carpenters, 4; physicians, 4; preachers, 3; railroad bosses, 3 ; stonemasons, 3 ; clerks, 3; John Bechtel. peddlers, 3; fillers, 3; agents, 2; keepers, 2; engineers, 2 ; millers, 2 ; gentlemen, 2 ; appren- tice, I ; barkeeper, I ; cokedrawer, I ; innkeep- er, I ; coke boss, I ; manager, I ; quarryman, 1 ; painter, I ; undertaker, I; wagonmaker, I ; telegraph operator, I.
The assessment returns for 1913 show : Number of acres, 2,284, valued at $37,147; houses and lots, 332, valued at $69,560; av- erage, $209.51 ; horses, 31, value, $1, 175, aver- age, $34.67; cows, 22, value, $325, average, $14.77; taxable occupations, 290, amount, $9.975 ; total valuation, $144,222. Money at interest, $7,037.40.
SCHOOLS
The first schoolhouse in the present limits of Pine township was a log building, situated near White's run in the southeastern part, and was taught by Wright Elliott between 1805 and ISII.
In 1860 the number of schools was 7; aver- age number of months taught, 4 ; male teach- ers, 4; female teachers, 3; average monthly salaries of malc, $16.50, female, $16; male scholars, 190; female scholars, 168; average number attending school, 168; cost teaching each per month, 38 cents; tax levied for school purposes, $639.74; received from State appropriation, $125.95; from collectors, $334.75; cost of instruction, $464; fuel and contingencies, $86.95; repairing schoolhouses, $10.87.
In 1876 the number of school was 12; aver- age number of months taught, 5; male teach- ers, 5; female, 7; average monthly salaries of male, $28, female, $25 ; male scholars, 244; female scholars, 231 ; average number attend- ing school, 247 ; cost teaching each per month, 74 cents ; tax levied for school and building purposes, $2,284.10; received from State appropriation, $335-73; from taxes and other sources, $2,499.28 ; cost building schoolhouses, etc., $771.05; teachers' wages, $2,080; fuel, collector's fees, etc., $384.
Number of schools in 1913, 6; average months taught, 7; female teachers, 6; average salaries, female, $45; male scholars, 100; fe- male scholars, 107; average attendance, 145; cost per month, $1.54; tax levied, $2,076.26; received from State, $1,060.30 ; other sources, $2,075.13; value of schoolhouses, $4,779; teachers' wages, $1,890; fuel, fees, etc., $925.42.
The school directors are : John M. White, president; J. F. Carpenter, secretary ; T. A. McCanna, treasurer ; Charles D. Fair,
GEOLOGICAL
The following section, the lower portions of which were taken from the exposures on the north side of the Mahoning creek near its mouth, and the upper portions on the south side of that creek, behind the tavern house occupied by William Templeton in 1836, was made before Boggs was separated from Pine, in the course of the first geological survey of this State, under the superintendence of Prof. Henry D. Rogers: Ferriferous lime- stone, 15 feet; shale (ore), 35 feet ; Clarion coal, 21/2 feet ; shale, etc., 20 feet ; Brookville coal, I foot; Tionesta sandstone, massive, 60 feet ; shale, silicious, 25 feet ; olive bituminous shale, 15 feet ; Tionesta coal, 11/2 feet ; Serel conglomerate, massive, also shaly, 100 feet ; shale, sandy, partly carbonaceous, with seams of calcareous sandstone, from I inch to o inches thick, 20 feet; bituminous shale, 3 in- ches; Sharon coal, 21/2 inches ; shale, sandy above, bituminous below, 312 feet; coal, 6 inches ; thin bituminous slate, with stone sili- cious layers, II feet ; coal, 11/2 inches ; blue sandy clay, 2 feet; slaty sandstone, 25 to 30 feet, to the level of Mahoning creek. These soon disappear beneath the waters, with a dip of 5° S., 120° east.
None of the hills around are high enough to have the Lower Freeport coalbed, but both the Freeport limestone and Upper Freeport coal- bed are seen on Scrubgrass creek, which enters the Mahoning two miles above its mouth. The coal is often so thinned away as to disappear and let the Mahoning sandstone rest upon the Freeport limestone. This is the case at the exposure on the north branch of Pine creek, where the Mahoning sandstone is ex- posed, sixty feet thick, cropping the hill. Here the lower shales of the interval between the two Freeport coalbeds are dark brown and black, and contain layers of argillaceous iron ore. There is a slight local dip to the west.
The same rocks make the surface as those of Wayne, such of the lower barrens as are represented being found in the ridges which form the watersheds between the north and south forks of Pine creek, and the north fork of Pine creek and the Mahoning, and are of no commercial value. The lower productive measures outcrop in all the slopes overlooking
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the principal streams, the entire group being represented. The Upper Freeport and Lower Kittanning coals are in workable condition, and they have been developed, each accom- panied by its limestone. The Upper Free- port coal has with it a bed of fireclay of fine quality, but somewhat unreliable in its out- spread. This is being worked at Templeton. The Clarion and Brookville coals, beneath the ferriferous limestone, are valuless, by reason of their small size, though above water level, The Pottsville conglomerate is magnificently exposed in the neighborhood of Templeton, forming cliffs forty feet high. It runs along the slopes northwardly from there to and up the valley of the Mahoning, sinking to water level beyond the site of the Stewardson furnace.
The rocks lie mainly in the Fairmount syn- clinal, of which Peart's Eddy is the center. Here the ferriferous limestone is at its low-
est level along the river front, the rise north and south being short and rapid.
ELEVATIONS
The levels above tide along the Pennsyl- vania railroad in this township before Boggs was separated from it, were: Opposite Mos- grove station, S12.1 feet; northwest outside corner Pine creek bridge abutment, one-tenth of a mile higher up the track, 812.1 feet ; southwest corner of water station platform, two and a half miles higher up the track, 822.4 feet ; southwest corner of bridge abutment, one mile and two-tenths higher up the track, 821.6 feet ; opposite Templeton station, five-tenths of a mile higher up the track, 823.8 feet ; opposite Mahoning station, nine-tenths of a mile higher up the track, 824.3 feet.
The highest point in the township is located in the eastern end, near the Mahoning, being 1,466 feet above sea level.
CHAPTER XXXII
WAYNE TOWNSHIP-BOROUGH OF DAYTON
AGRICULTURE PREDOMINANT-BOUNDARIES-EARLY LANDOWNERS-SENATOR JAMES G. BLAINE'S ANCESTORS - "MOLLY PITCHER" - PIONEER EXPERIENCES - TIIE MARSHALL FAMILY - "FATHER" MC GARRAUGH-GLADE RUN CHURCH-OTHER CONGREGATIONS-GLADE RUN ACAD- EMY-DAYTON UNION ACADEMY-SOLDIERS' ORPHANS' HOME-DAYTON NORMAL INSTITUTE -AN INDIAN STUDENT-EARLY MILLS, FURNACES AND FOUNDRIES-BOROUGH OF DAYTON- CIIURCHES-SCHOOLS-NEWSPAPERS
Nature has destined this section of the county for agriculture and man has availed himself of her bounty from early times. Al- most from the first Wayne township has been distinguished for her products, and agricul- ture and learning have gone hand in hand to- ward the goal of success. Viewed from any point the landscape expresses tranquility. Vale and glade blend into each other with scarcely an angle to mar the symmetry of the picture. No more suitable location could be found for the establishment of the halls of learning which have made her famous. From these quiet temples of knowledge. have gone forth men and women to whom the world is indebted, and who in turn are in the debt of "Old Glade Run." Many a famous clergy- man, doctor or lawyer can point with pride to this, his alma mater. The early pioneers of Wayne built a foundation which will ever be a source of benefit to future generations.
BOUNDARIES
Wayne township was formed from Plum Creek township in 1821. The commissioners were : James White, surveyor; Abraham Zimmerman, Jacob Beck, Noah A. Calhoun, Joseph Marshall and John Thom. It was named after the Revolutionary hero, "Mad" Anthony Wayne. It was ordered to be erected with the following boundaries: Beginning on Mahoning creek at the lower end of Ander- son's cave ; thence south five miles to a white oak; thence south ten degrees east four miles to the Purchase Line ; thence by plot along said line to the line between Armstrong and In- diana counties ; thence by plot along said line to Mahoning creek; and thence down the same to the place of beginning. It having been at the same time represented to the court that the viewers had gone beyond the western line of Plum Creek township and included a part of Kittanning township, it was further or-
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dered, "that the new township of Wayne be in the history of our country. One of them, bounded by that of Kittanning."
The records do not show who was appointed to hold the first election. In the absence of the docket containing the election returns of the various election districts in this county prior to 1839, the names of the township of- ficers then elected have not been ascertained.
SETTLERS AND LANDOWNERS
Among the earlier landowners and settlers were: Thomas W. Hiltzheimer, General Dan- iel Brodhead, Jolin Rutherford, Jacob Peelor, Joseph Marshall, James Kirkpatrick, John Calhoun, James McGahey, Abel Findley, James Russell, Thomas Duke, William Kin- nan, Ephraim Blaine, James Hamilton, Wil- liam Borland, John Borland, William Kirk- patrick, William Cochran, James Marshall, Noah A. Calhoun, General James Potter, John Hays, Sr., David Ralston, Thomas White, James McKennan, Robert Borland, James McQuoun, Watson S. Marshall, Alexander McClelland, Benjamin Irwin, Robert Martin, Hugh Martin, Enoch Hastings, Reuben Hast- ings, Robert Beatty, Thomas Taylor, Jacob Pontius, John Hyskell, Joseph Glenn, John Henderson, Samuel Coleman, Thomas Wilson, Robert Black. Samuel Black, Archibald Glenn, James Wilson, Samuel Irwin, Joseph Mc- Sparrin, Andrew D. Guthrie, Samuel Wallis, George Harrison, Thomas W. Francis, Ed- ward Tilghman, Thomas Ross, Peter Thomas, George Scott, William Wirt Gitt, Henry Pratt, John Butler. Theodore Wilson, George Ellen- berger, William Pontius, Samuel Black, John Gould. John Bargerstock, John Steele, John Hettrick, Adam Baughman, Jacob Kammer- diener, Peter Kammerdiener, Thomas Smul- len. John Alcorn, Alexander White, James White, John Powers, Joseph Powers, Mrs.
Elizabeth McClemmens, Leopold Drohn, Joseph Clever, Eli Schrecengost, Joseph Schrecengost. John Reesman, Dr. William Smith, William C. Bryan, Mark Campbell, Michael Clever, George Harrison, Joseph Thomas, Robert Brown, Jacob Beer, Samuel McGaughey, Jacob Rupp, Isaac Meason, Rob- ert R. Cross, Hugh Gallagher, William Mc- Ilhenny. Frederick Soxman, Adam Rupp, Paul Burti, Benjamin B. Cooper, Jacob Smith, John McIntire, George Kline, Joseph Buffing- ton, James A. Knox, George Dill, Moses Dill, Jolın Brodhead.
PROMINENT PIONEERS
Several of these earlier owners were of more than passing reputation and importance
Ephraim Blaine, was a resident of Carlisle, Pa., in the carlier years of the Revolutionary war. In the spring of 1777 the appointment of sub-lieutenant of Cumberland county was tendered to him, which he declined. He was afterward appointed deputy commissary gen- eral for the middle department. In Febru- ary or March, 1780, he was appointed com- missary general, which position he probably filled until the close of the war. His name appears in the list of names of men resid- ing at Fort Pitt, July 22, 1760. He was the great-grandfather of James G. Blaine, the dis- tinguished United States senator from Maine, who was a native of Pennsylvania.
John Hays, Sr., was a son of John and Mary Hays, both of whom participated in the battle of Monmouth, N. J., in the Revolutionary war. He was a sergeant in a company of artillery, who is said to have directed a can- non at least a part of the time. When he was carried from the field, his wife was approach- ing with a pitcher of water for him and others, took his place by that cannon, loaded and fired at least once, insisted on remaining, and left with much reluctance. General Washington either saw or heard of the service which she thus rendered, and commissioned her as sergeant by brevet. The morning after the battle she rescued from a pit one of her friends, who had been thrown into it, with others, as dead, carried him in her arms to the hospital and nursed him until he recov- ered. Many years afterward, when he had learned her residence through the pension of- fice, she received a box of presents and an in- vitation to make his home her home. She was in the army seven years and nine months, serv- ing with her husband after that battle. After the war she and her husband removed to Carlisle, Pa., where he subsequently died, and she married Sergeant McAuley, who embit- tered her life by his drunkenness and abuse, and for years lived on. her earnings. She received an annual pension of $40 as the wid- ow of John Hays, and during the last week of her life one was granted to her in her own right. She died in January, 1832, in her ninetieth year, and was buried beside her first husband with military honors by several com- panies that followed her remains to the grave -"Molly Pitcher's" grave. She was called "Molly Pitcher" because of her carrying that pitcher of water to the thirsty soldiers on that intensely hot day of the battle of Monmouth. Few of these whose names are mentioned were actual settlers. Most of the earlier set-
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tlers occupied and improved portions of these side and then returned to the Plum Creek tracts for years before they knew or could side, guiding the horse by the rein or hitching reach those who could grant valid titles; so as the latter swam alongside of the canoe. that there was a good deal of "squatting" and The pioneer of Glade Run, after making con- siderable improvement on the "old Glade farm," left it because he could not obtain what he deemed a valid title. occasional shifting of locations. When they finally got into communication with the actual owners there was little difficulty experienced in obtaining titles, as the conditions and prices were not onerous or excessive.
The earliest settler in the eastern part of Wayne township, on Glade run, was William Marshall, who came from Indiana county, settled and made an improvement, erecting a then in Toby township. log cabin and barn on the Pickering & Co.
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