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A perpetual charter was granted in 1864 un- der the title of "Glade Run Classical and Nor- iral Academy."
Situated on a commanding eminence, en- bowered with giant oaks, surrounded on every side by fruitful farms, the old edifice stands, of the a monument to early education and piety. It it now ( 1913) used as an overflow room for the Glade Run Sabbath school.
DAYTON UNION ACADEMY
This school was established in 1852 by the united efforts of the United Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal congregations, and was a non-sectarian institution. The first principal was Rev. John A. Campbell, and his succes- sors were Rev. David K. Duff, David Love, A. M., D. W. Lawson and others. For a time the school flourished, but finally the same causes worked to compel its suspension that affected the Glade Run, and in 1905 it was merged with the Dayton Normal Institute.
The first county superintendent of the com- mon schools of this county was Rev. John A. Campbell in 1854, then principal of this acad- emy.
DAYTON SOLDIERS' ORPHANS' HOME
A need having arisen for a home for the children of deceased soldiers, Dayton was sug- gested as the most desirable location in the county, and in November, 1866, a stock com- pany was organized with a capital of $15,000 16
All of these institutions were the progenitors
DAYTON NORMAL INSTITUTE
founded and chartered in 1905, with these officers : Rev. G. W. McIntyre, president ; Will Mechling, vice president ; H. L. Ellen- berger, secretary ; T. E. Thompson, treasurer ; Dr. George P. Bible, honorary vice president. The faculty is: Rev. C. W. Johnston, A. B., president, mathematics and science; Chelcie J. McAninch, A. B., Latin, English and Ger- man; Josephine Young, mathematics, history and literature; Dr. George P. Bible, A. M., methods of teaching and oratory; Madeleine Raby, elocution and expressive reading ; Mark Porritt, musical director; Helen Watson, violin ; Mrs. Effie Eckman, matron of dormitories.
A commodious brick building, for class- rooms and auditorium, and a dormitory were erected, and together with the renovated Orphans' Home building that remained after the fire constitute the instruction plant. Most of the students are from Armstrong county.
INDUSTRIES
The inhabitants of Wayne township were entirely engaged in agriculture up to 1820.
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At that date the first sawmill was erected by over two miles in an air line from the mouth Peter Thomas. Others were built at various of Glade run, and was a hot and cold blast charcoal furnace, which for a few years made later dates by Jacob Beck, Abel Findley and Alva Payne. These mills were situated on about 23 tons of pig metal a week; and then Glade run, Camp run and Pine creek, but the timber is now exhausted and there remains not a vestige of the old plants save an occa- sional weed-grown sawdust heap.
The first gristmill was built in 1822 by Joseph Marshall, Sr., on Glade run, near its mouth, and was afterward owned successively by James Kirkpatrick, John Henderson, Archi- bald Glenn, John Segar and Andrew J. Low- man. The next was put up on Pine creek by George Beck, Sr., in 1830, who afterward added a carding machine. The third one, by Enoch Hastings, in 1835, on Glade run, was subsequently owned by Daniel Schreckengost, John Segar, Alexander Getty and Alex Haines. The fourth, by Andrew J. Lowman, in 1863. on a branch of Pine creek, was later owned by Jacob Segar. Alva Paine (Payne) and Thomas Travis built a saw and gristmill on the south bank of the Mahoning in 1827, and it afterward passed into the hands of Ellen- Hindman, in 1834. berger & Coleman.
The first fulling-mill was built by David N. Simms, in 1834.
Lewis in 1828 in the northeastern part of the township on the Mahoning creek, and was later operated by Archibald McSparrin, then new post route from Kittanning to the Archibald Glenn and James G. Morrison. mouth of Anderson's creek. Reuben Lewis The latter added a carding machine in 1839. was its first postmaster, and his successors Robert Marshall, Alexander White, Adam Beck, and Henry Clever operated distilleries during the period from 1823 to 1839. were Rev. E. D. Barrett, from 1831 till 1835; John Borland, until 1853: William Findley, until 1855, when the office removed to the vil- lage of Dayton.
Other occupations were : John Marshall, hatter, 1829; William Marshall, tanner, 1831 ; William B. Marlin and Joseph Stewart. tan- ners, 1832; George McCombs and James Mc- Quown, tanyards, 1836; Enoch Hastings, John Lias, Peter Lias, James Russell and John Rutherford, blacksmiths, in 1832; and, in that year, Abel Findley, William Kinnan, carpen- ters; Hugh Rutherford, tailor; Jesse Cable, shoemaker, John Gould, stone and brick ma- son ; and in 1833, Robert Borland, Jr., chair- maker.
Merchants assessed for the first time: John Borland, in 1832; Jacob Brown, in 1838. There was, it is said, a store, eight or ten years later, at the mill built by Joseph Marshall, on Glade run. In 1876 there were three as- sessed-one in the thirteenth, and two in the fourteenth class.
Olney furnace was built by John McCrea and James Galbraith in 1846, and went into blast the next year. It was situated on the southerly side of the Mahoning creek, a little
after the enlargement of its bosh to 9 feet across by 32 feet high, 568 tons in 23 weeks, from the ferriferous and hard limestone ore, taken from the beds in the coal measures three miles around it. The number of employees varied from about sixty to eighty. Galbraith retired from it in 1850, and McCrea continued to operate it until 1855. The iron was tran- sported via the Mahoning creek and Allegheny river to Pittsburgh.
An iron foundry was established by John Henderson and Archibald Glenn, probably in 1847, which was attached to the new grist- mill on the site of the old one, called the lower Glade mills. It appears to have been operated by the latter until 1851, when it was trans- ferred to John Segar, to whom it ceased to be assessed after 1852.
The first resident clergymen were Rev. Elisha D. Barrett, in 1829, and Rev. John
The first resident physician was Dr. William
The Glade Run postoffice was established Dec. 17. 1828, at Joseph Marshall's on the
SMALL VILLAGES
The Echo postoffice was established in 1857, the name being given it from the remarkable echo from the hills at this point. The first postmaster was Joseph Knox and the first storekeeper Moses McElwain. This town is one of the stations on the B. R. & P. road and is also notable as the terminal of the Rural Valley railroad, a branch which carries coal and passengers to and from Rural Val- ley. Quite a business is done in the passenger line, but the service is very unsatisfactory. The road is owned by the B. R. & P. Railroad Company. Echo had. according to the last assessors' report, three blacksmiths, one shoe- maker, one carpenter and one painter. W. F. Snyder and A. S. Foster are the storekeepers, C. A. Reed attends to legal matters, and the medical profession is represented by Dr. C. C. Ross.
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"Milton" and "Independence" are two little settlements in the extreme northeastern part of the township, on one of the severe bends of the Mahoning.
The postoffice of "Belknap" was established Sept. 21, 1855, and its first postmaster was Charles W. Ellenberger, whose successors have been John Steele, Porter Marshall, Joseph McCorkle, Jacob Maurer and Daniel Knap- penberger. The name of this village was adopted in honor of the postmaster general of that year, and was suggested by John Mc- Crea. There is no office at this point now. R. R. Hoffman is the storekeeper.
MISCELLANEOUS
The first lodge of Grangers, or Patrons of Husbandry, in this county was organized in this township, in 1875, its first president being John Steelc.
In the year 1876 the great mass of the peo- ple of this township were still engaged in agri- cultural pursuits, the assessment list showing those in other occupations to be: Ministers, 2 ; teacher, I ; surveyor, I; physician, I ; mer- chants, 3; blacksmiths, 2; carpenters, 3; gun- smiths, I ; laborers, 23; millers, 3; miners, 4 : shoemaker, 1; teamster, 1; tanner, 1; and 48 single men, valued at $50 each.
The assessment returns for 1913 show : number of acres, 25,633, valued at $300,637 ; houses and lots, 46; value, $5.783, average, $123.54; horses, 408, value, $15,882 ; average, $38.92 ; cows, 438, value, $6,610, average, $15 .- II ; taxable occupations, 520, amount, $7,085; total valuation, $355,422. Money at interest, $35,687.91.
GEOLOGY
The geology of Wayne township is similar to that of Cowanshannock, there being but slight variation in the convolutions of . the strata. A few coal mines are in operation, but agriculture is the ruling occupation.
The little village of Belknap is honored by possessing as its near neighbor the highest point in the township, which is also the highest in the county. This hill is located half way between Belknap and Muff, on the upper branch of Pine creek, and is 1,731 feet above sea level.
BOROUGH OF DAYTON
a part of the Alexander McClelland tract, then owned by John Lias. The lots vary consider- ably in their areas.
The origin of the name of this municipality is this: On a certain evening, probably in 1849, when there were only about three build- ings on the territory which it now covers, there was a small assemblage of persons then residing here and in this vicinity, at the store of Guyer & Laughlin. One topic of conversa- tion on that occasion was the name which should be given to this point, then a mere hamlet, which, it was expected, would in time become a town. The main object was to select a name which had not been given to any other place, or at least to any postoffice, in this State. Some one present, it is not remem- bered who, suggested Dayton, which name, it is thought, occurred to the suggestor by rea- son of some mental association of his with Dayton, Ohio, which was named after Jona- than Dayton, one of the agents who effected a purchase for John Cleve Symmes of 248,000 acres from the United States, on a part of which is the site of that city. Dayton was a citizen of New Jersey, and was speaker of the house of representatives in the Congress of the United States from Dec. 7, 1795, until March 3, 1799.
MUNICIPAL
The borough was incorporated in 1873, with G. W. Lias as the first burgess. H. L. Spencer and George Kline were the councilmen; W. W. Caldwell and Wesley Pontius, school di- rectors : Thomas P. Ormond and J. R. Cor- nick, overseers of the poor ; J. T. Smith, asses- sor ; A. J. Thompson, auditor ; John Campbell, justice of the peace, and G. B. Roof, con- stable.
The office of burgess was filled from that date by the following: Jacob Beck, D. L. Coleman, A. J. Thompson, W. M. Fulton, G. W. Lias, P. M. Enterline, J. R. Calhoun, D. B. Travis, G. F. Currie, C. W. Milliron, A. Good, J. R. Calhoun, S. S. Enterline, J. T. Irwin, P. H. Milliron, J. E. Marshall, D. L. Coleman, J. J. Martin, and the present cheerful and courteous incumbent, Mr. T. E. Thompson.
A. C. Morrow is the present president of the council. C. C. Radaker is clerk, and the councilmen are : W. R. Fike, H. H. Radaker, A. C. Beck, D. D. Marshall, M. H. Redding and Joshua Martin. S. S. Snyder is tax col-
The town or village of Dayton was laid out lector; J. L. C. Welch, assessor, J. S. Spen- in 1850 on a part of the Pickering & Co. cer and J. F. Waddin, constables, and. J. A. tract, then owned by Robert Marshall, and on Foreman, policeman.
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The justices of the peace have been: C. W. Milliron, 1893; W. C. Marshall, 1895; G. W. Lias, 1905; W. C. Marshall, 1914. Although the Democrats are in the minority, C. W. Mill- iron has been repeatedly elected, owing to his great popularity. W. C. Marshall is the edi- tor of the News, and owing to his association with numerous societies, and his work in con- nection with the principal corporations of the borough, he will not let his name be presented for election after his present term expires.
Among the first settlers in the borough were: Michael Guyer, J. B. Guyer, Samuel Rearich, Sr., Thomas Ormond, Jacob R. Mc- Afoos, Joseph T. Hosack, Samuel McCart- ney, Daniel W. Wampler, John Campbell, Joseph W. Sharp, James Coleman, Robert N. McComb and Eliza A. Goodhart.
The first assessment list showed: 4 min- isters, 5 teachers, 2 physicians, 4 merchants, 2 hotel keepers, 2 blacksmiths, 2 carpenters, 2 harnessmakers, 2 tailors, 2 shoemakers, 10 laborers, 17 farmers, and 27 miscellaneous oc- cupations. The number of taxables in 1876 was 122, and the population was 561.
SCHOOLS
The school statistics for 1876 were : schools, 2; average number months taught, 5; male teacher, I ; female teacher, I ; salary of male per month, $33; salary of female per month, $33; male scholars, 50; female scholars, 49; average number attending school, 74; received from State appropriation, $91.14; from taxes, etc., $626.22; paid for schoolhouse, $244; for teachers' wages, $297 ; for fuel, $108.12.
Number of schools in 1914, 5; average months taught, 7; male teacher, I ; female teachers, 4; average salaries, male, $70; fe- male, $48.33; male scholars, 100; female scholars, 88; average attendance, 134; cost per month, $1.87; tax levied, $2,363.95; re- ceived from State, $559: other sources. $2,- 361.30; value of schoolhouses, $7,800; teach- ers' wages, $1.505 ; fuel, fees, etc., $900.94.
The school directors for 1913 were : W. B. Walker, president ; John M. Williams, secretary ; C. G. Earhart, treasurer : Charles labors in this region, there being then about H. Winslow, A. W. Kinter.
INDUSTRIES
M. Marshall and A. W. Schreckengost.
In 1913 there are in the borough limits 13 stores, 2 liverymen, 2 jewelers, I tailor, 2 butchers, I druggist, 2 barbers, I undertaker, I dentist and 2 hotels.
The resident physicians are : W. B. Walker, George S. Morrow, E. L. Fleming and Daniel Ritter.
The large flouring mill, owned by D. D. Marshall, is run by a gas engine and caters to the surrounding community for a con- siderable distance. It is valued at $2,000.
The Dayton Coal Company, located just west of the borough, employs 88 men and produces 65,000 tons of coal annually. S. C. McHenry is the superintendent.
Dayton Lodge No. 738, I. O. O. F., is a flourishing society. There are also Masonic and other societies in the borough.
The First National Bank of Dayton was chartered Aug. 14, 1891, with a capital of $25,000. The present officers are: C. W. El- lenberger, president; C. R. Marshall, vice president ; A. J. Gourley, cashier. The direc- tors are: C. W. Ellenberger, S. W. Marshall, A. J. Gourley, W. F. Beyer, C. R. Marshall, T. R. Williams, Eugene H. Winslow.
FINANCIAL
The tax collector's returns for 1913 show : Dimensions of the borough, 74 acres, valued at $8,230 ; 249 houses and lots, valued at $123,- 880, average, $497.51 ; 90 horses, valued at $8.230, average value. $44.40; 27 cows, value, $645, average, $23.88; 339 taxable occupa- tions, at $14,345; total valuation, $153,100; money at interest, $85,634.58.
The voters in 1913 decided to incur a $Io,- 500 indebtedness for the purpose of installing waterworks and a lighting plant. This is an important matter in these days of foul rivers and typhoid fever epidemics.
RELIGIOUS
The Methodist Episcopal Church was organ- ized here, it is said, as early as 1821, probably by Rev. Thomas Hudson during his itinerant 12 members. Its number of communicants in 1876 was 90; Sabbath school scholars, about 100. There were two other churches in the Dayton circuit, whose aggregate number of members was 200. and of Sabbath school scholars about 240. The first church edifice
The postoffice at Dayton was established in 1855 with James McQuown as postmaster. Following came Mrs. Eliza A. Goodhart, of the Dayton congregation was erected in Thomas McFarland, J. M. McGaughey, R. 1837. Rev. G. M. Allshouse was pastor 1910- 1912. Rev. F. L. Teets became pastor in Octo-
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ber, 1912, and was returned in October, 1913, for another year.
The Associate Presbyterian congregation of Glade Run was organized in the vicinity of Dayton by Rev. John Hindman in 1831, with eight members. John H. Marshall and Wil- liam Kinnan were its first ruling elders. The pastorate of Rev. John Hindman continued until April 28, 1852. Rev. David K. Duff first preached to this congregation in Febru- ary, 1854, and was ordained and installed Oct. 18, 1856. Although he was absent three years rendering military service as captain of Com- pany K in the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry, in the Civil war, his pastoral relation, at the re- quest of his congregation, was not dissolved during any portion of his absence. The Sab- bath school was organized April 18, 1859. The membership of the church in 1876 was IIO, and the number of Sabbath school scholars, 59.
When the union between the Associate and Associate Reformed churches was effected in 1858, the name was changed to that of the United Presbyterian congregation of Glade Run, and in 1850 to the Dayton United Pres- byterian congregation. Its contributions to the various boards during the first twenty years was $9,980, and during the year ending in 1876, $1,170.08. Its first church edifice was frame, 30 by 35 feet, situated nearly two miles southeast from Dayton, on a small branch of Glade run, adjoining the cemetery in the Borland neighborhood. It was enlarged in 1841. Its location was changed to Dayton in 1860. The present edifice, frame, about 40 by 60 feet, between the Methodist Episcopal church and the academy, on the north side of Church street, was completed in 1863. The lot on which it is located was conveyed by
Robert Marshall to Smith Neal, Robert L. Marshall and Wm. J. Stuchell, trustees, and their successors, March 27, 1869, for $10. The church has been served for the last year by Rev. R. T. M. Magill, a licentiate of Pitts- burgh Theological Seminary, who has been called to the pastorate for the future.
THE PRESS
In 1882 James R. Orr, the first printer in the township, interested Rev. T. M. Elder and other citizens in the establishment of a news- paper, and together they started the Dayton News, under the firm name of Elder, Orr & Co. In December, 1883, D. A. Lowe, now a leading photographer of Erie, together with W. C. Marshall, the present proprietor, bought up the stock and conducted the paper until 1885, when Marshall sold out and went to the West. In 1889 Lowe sold to M. H. Schick, who finally suspended it in July, 1892. Mar- shall returned in February of that year, and in July, together with C. W. Hoover, repur- chased the plant and started under promising conditions in August of the same year. Mr. Marshall by 1897 had secured entire control of the paper, and from that time its success was assured. The News is now one of the best papers in the county and covers the entire field of the western portion of the county. Squire Marshall is one of the most popular men in Dayton, and to his accurate records much of the correctness of the history of this portion of Armstrong county is due.
The Odd Fellows, the Maccabees, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World and the Eagles are well repre- sented in the borough.
CHAPTER XXXIII
RED BANK TOWNSHIP .
FORMER INDIAN NAME-RAFTING-EARLY SETTLEMENT-PHOENIX FURNACE-"PRESQUE ISLE''- PIERCE-EDDYVILLE-INDEPENDENCE-MC WILLIAMS-NORTH FREEDOM-OAK RIDGE-MUD- LICK-STATISTICS-SCHOOLS-GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE
were included in the original township of Red
The present township of Red Bank contains only about one sixth or one seventh of the Bank. territory included within its former limits. All The name of this township is of course de- rived from Red Bank creek. The Indian name of this stream was Lycamahoning, derived from Lycoming and Mahoning-the former of Red Bank and Mahoning and a part of Madison townships in this county, and all of Red Bank, Porter, Monroe, Limestone, Clarion and Mill Creek townships in Clarion county, corrupted from Legauihanne, a sandy stream;
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the latter corrupted from Mahonink, signifying by Lewis Daubenspecht, who saw the grass, where there is a lick. Lycamahoning, then, sticks and other drift which the Indians told him were lodged in the forks of these trees when that flood subsided. There were twenty- one feet of water on the riffle at New Beth- lehem Oct. 8, 1847, which swept away bridges, Hass', Knapp's, and Robinson's mills and mill- dams. Another one, Sept. 28-29, 1861, twenty- two feet high, did less damage than the preced- ing one. These floods were greatly exceeded by that of 1912, which reached the highest point ever known in the county's history. must mean a sandy stream flowing from a lick, that is, Sandy Lick, which was the name of this stream as late as 1792 from its source to its mouth, according to Reading Howell's map of that year. It bore that name even later. By the act of Assembly of March 21, 1798, "Sandy Lick or Red Bank creek" was declared to be a public stream or highway "from the mouth up to the second or great fork."
Its original name was changed to Red Bank, by which it has been known by the oldest in- habitants now living in the region through which it flows. Perhaps the change may have been suggested by the red color of the soil of its banks many miles up from its mouth. This stream was first used by Joseph Barnett for the transportation of lumber in 1806.
RAFTING
Barnett, the first white settler in Jefferson county, Pa., settled at Port Barnett in that county prior to 1799. He and his brother-in- law, John Scott, erected a sawmill there in the spring or early part of summer in 1806. Sev- eral Indians were there the day the mill was raised, whom Barnett invited to dine with him. They accepted his invitation. After dinner one of them remarked, "Dinner-In- dian sleep an hour-then strong." They then went off into the woods, their host supposing that he would not see them again that day. They, however, returned in the course of an hour and vigorously aided in raising the mill and partook of supper. The first lot of lum- ber which Barnett and Scott sent down the Red Bank was a small platform of timber, which Clark aided in running to the Allegheny river with poles instead of oars as the propel- ling power. This was a rough stream, on which rafting was then very difficult. Iron used to be transported in those early times on packhorses, in wagons, and on sleds from Center county to Port Barnett, some of which was sent down this creek on rafts which were occasionally wrecked on a bar between Timber Island and the river. As the iron was thus scattered about on that bar it received and it has retained the name of "Iron bar."
FLOODS
There was a high flood in this stream in 1806 which reached eight to ten feet up the trees on the flat where Fairmount now is, as related
In 1817 an act of Assembly was passed, appropriating $1,000 for the purpose of im- proving this creek, and Levi Gibson and Sam- uel C. Orr were appointed commissioners.
That act also made it lawful for all persons owning lands adjoining this stream to erect milldams across it, and other waterworks along it, to keep them in good repair, and draw off enough water to operate them on their own land, but required them "to make a slope from the top, descending fifteen feet for every foot the dam is high, and not less than forty feet in breadth," so as to afford a good navigation and not to infringe the rights and privileges of any owner of private prop- erty.
The first flatboat fleet that descended this stream was piloted by Samuel Knapp, in full Indian costume, in 1832 or 1833-two boats loaded with sawed lumber, owned by Uriah Matson, which found a good market in Cin- cinnati, with the proceeds of which Matson purchased the goods with which he opened his store at Brookville, Jefferson county.
By the act of Assembly April 17, 1854, the Red Bank Navigation Company was incorpo- rated, and authorized, among other things, to clean and clear the Red Bank, Sandy Lick and North Fork creeks of all rocks, bars and other obstructions ; to erect other dams and locks; to regulate the chutes of dams ; to con- trol the waters by brackets and otherwise for the purpose of navigation; to levy tolls on boards and other sawed stuff, square and other timber, and boats that might pass down these creeks, to be collected at the mouth of Red Bank. The company had begun the work of improvement before the charter was granted, and had already expended over $8,000. Much of the blasting between New Bethlehem and the mouth of the creek was done by Lewis W. Corbett in 1850.
EARLY SETTLEMENT
Some of the settlers of this township at different periods were: Joshua Anderson, Ja-
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cob Shick, Henry Nulf, James Coulter, Wil- on the east side of the Mahoning in 1868, liam Freas, Stephen B. Young, Robert Morri- near the furnace, producing an average of son, Hugh Campbell, Alexander Colwell, eight barrels per day. The well, 425 feet deep, Thomas Hamilton, Alexander Craig, Thomas was drilled by John Mock. McConnell, Frederick Yount, Isaac Redinger, David Yerger, John Organ, James Morgan, Charles Coleman, Arthur Fleming, Henry OLD IRON FURNACES Featter, James Kerr, John Holwig, Joseph Lankert, Peter Gearhart, Hugh Martin, John McDonald, William Hannegan, Andrew Guthrie, George Wheatcroft, Philip Kuntzle- man, Isaac Cruse, Samuel Craig, George Wein- berg, John Holben, Charles Miller, George Geist, George Mitchell, John Shirey, Jonathan Mahoney, John Hess, Jacob Stohlman.
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