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The first tannery was started in this town- ship by John Shields in 1816. Robert Long built a sawmill in 1828 in the northern part of the township, and in 1854 James Minteer The Peter Graff Milling Company is also run in connection with the mills and is owned by J. Frank Graff and Peter Graff, III. operated one in the northwestern end. They had been preceded, however, in 1808 by Judge Barr, who built a sawmill on his land on Glade run, afterward adding a gristmill. A saw- CRAIG WOOLEN MILLS mill was also operated on Long run in 1846 Just north of the forks of the Big and by James McDowell, and a gristmill in the Little Buffalo creeks lies a tract of land which
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was settled in 1793 by William Stephenson and Aaron Wor, who held the land under John Craig. In 1805 Samuel, son of John Craig, erected a fulling-mill on the banks of the creek and in 1814 added a carding roll, carrying on the business until 1835, when in partnership with his brother John and Robert Cooper he began the manufacture of flan- nels, blankets and woolen goods. In 1843 the building was burned, but soon thereafter re- built. In 1856 the firm consisted of the Craigs and William F. Rumberger, under the firm name of Craig & Rumberger. At this date the firm supplied the troops at Camp Orr with a large number of blankets in the fall of 1861, but up to the present date no payment has been made to them for these most necessary supplies. In 1867 Rumberger purchased Craig's interest for $10,000, took as partner John P. Scott, and the firm became Rumberger & Co. On an unlucky Friday night in De- cember, 1871, just twenty-eight years from the date of the first fire, an employee attempted to fill a large lighted lamp, with the usual re- sult. The fire was not long cooled ere the re- building of the plant began, and under the name of Rumberger, Gregg & Co. the busi- ness for a time prospered. At that time 1,000 vards of flannel and 216 pairs of socks were manufactured daily. After 1880 the firm was at various times called W. F. Rumberger & Son. W. F. Rumberger & Co., Ross, Burford & Co., J. Alex. Ross & Co., and finally the Craigsville Woolen Manufacturing Company at the present date. The firm now consists of W. F. Minteer, Daniel Younkins, G. M. Har- verstraw and Hiram Dawson, the latter being superintendent.
The plant consists of the building erected in 1872 and the old flouring mill building across the creek. Forty-five operatives are employed to run the 1.338 spindles and the yearly out- put of wool blankets and flannel cloth for the army is valued at $120,000. A 40-horse gas engine and a steam engine of 75 horsepower are required to turn the spindles. The plant is valued at $50,000.
CRAIGSVILLE
This point began to be called Craigtown in or about 1843, and afterward Craigsville, which name it still retains. The first child born within its limits was born March 30, 1809.
was erected by John Craig, Jr., Joseph T. McCurdy, and Samuel S. Wallace, early in 1849, and is a three-story frame structure. In 1871 John Craig died suddenly, soon after breakfast one morning, from neuralgia of the heart. His heirs conveyed the undivided two thirds of the mill property to McCurdy and Joseph Minteer, May 14, 1872, for $2,000. The flouring mill was closed down in 1905 and the building taken over by the woolen mill to allow for necessary expansion.
The first separate assessment of Craigsville was made in 1876, and gave 25 taxables: I physician, 3 clerks, I boss carder, 2 boss weav- ers, I laborer, I helper, I dyer, I wool sorter, I picker, 2 teamsters, I spinner, I blacksmith, I wagonmaker, I miller and I weaver.
A store was opened near the mills in 1860 by Samuel S. Wallace, John C. Wallace and John Craig, afterward being sold in 1872 to Christopher Leard & Sons. At present this store is owned by J. W. Minteer, who is also the postmaster. The postoffice was established here in 1869 with W. F. Rumberger as the first official in charge.
The village in 1913 has a population of 280. most of whom are dependent on the woolen mills for employment, and consists of 35 houses, a church and two stores.
The Craigsville Methodist Church building was erected in 1884, the first pastor being Rev. D. J. Davis. After him were Revs. George E. Cabell, Paul Sappie and the present pastor, Rev. S. M. Cousin.
BOROUGH OF WORTHINGTON
A patent was granted in 1809 to Gilbert Wright and Archibald McCall for a tract of 366 acres which they called "Mount Lorenzo," which was in ISII the site of Worthington. It was so thickly covered with blackjacks and underbrush that one could not see through them, and the chain carriers for the survey- ors were obliged to crawl on their hands and feet in carrying the chain through them. Rat- tlesnakes were also abundant.
Judge Barr erected a sawmill on West Glade run, within the limits of "Mount Lorenzo," about 1808. It was first assessed to his son William in 1809, and was in the course of a few years removed and a distillery erected on its site, by James Barr, Jr., in 1813. The dis- tillery was replaced by a gristmill with one run of stone, which was operated for several years. Some vestiges of it are still visible.
The flouring mill, which is now part of the woolen mill plant, about 13 rods below the Not many years since the buhrstones used in woolen factory, on the right bank of the creek, it were on or near its site.
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James Barr, Jr., was assessed as a "school- master" on the list for Buffalo township in 1806-07, but just where his school was is not known. In 1831 he purchased 202 acres from Gilbert Wright for $760 and laid out the town of Worthington on it. The sales of lots were slow until the construction of the Kittanning and Butler turnpike increased the travel through that section. Among the first pur- chasers were: William Q. Sloan, James Gal- lagher, Samuel Hutchinson, Levi Bowser, Da- vid Claypoole, John Craig, Christian Kenson and Samuel Hutchison.
The first separate assessment list of the town of Worthington was made in 1832, showing 14 lots. Their valuation ranged from $5 to $50, according to location.
The growth of the town was slow. James Sample was assessed in 1837 as a tavern- keeper, the old stone tavern still standing in the center of the town in 1913. William C. Piper was the first merchant in that year ; Charles Foreman and John McDonald, tail- ors; Matthias Bernheimer, shoemaker; Rob- ert Staley, blacksmith; Robert Armstrong, wagonmaker; Jacob McDonald, carpenter ; William Cratty, tanner. In 1842 John Mc- Donald had opened the second tavern. As late as 1845 the number of taxables did not ex- ceed ten.
Thirty-four signers were on the petition presented to the Quarter Sessions court in 1854, requesting that Worthington be incor- porated. The court appointed the necessary officers, and on their report the following year issued the charter. The borough officers elected at the spring election, 1856, were : Dr. John K. Maxwell, burgess; Michael Duffey and Adam Rhodes, justices of the peace ; Jacob Mechling, constable; J. G. Clark, H. S. Ehren- feld, Joseph C. King, John McNarr and James Monroe, town councilmen; James Barr and Samuel Monroe for three years, and Dr. John K. Maxwell for two years, school directors ; John T. Ehrenfeld, assessor; David Landis, borough auditor, and John Blain and Samuel Lego, overseers of the poor.
This borough contained the next year after its incorporation nearly 70 taxables, 3 black- smiths, 2 carpenters, 3 clerks, 2 coachmakers, I cabinetmaker, 6 farmers, I grocer, I har- nessmaker, I huckster, 10 laborers, 2 mer- chants, I manager, I preacher, I miller, I phy- sician, 3 shoemakers, I saddler, I teacher, I tanner, I theological student, I tailor, I wagon- maker.
LUTHERANS
The establishment of the Lutheran congre- gation here was due mostly to the efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Graff. When Peter Graff came here to take charge of the furnace there was no church of any kind near, so he at once organized a Sunday school in a wagon- maker's shop, in 1845. Every Sabbath, rain or shine, Mr. Graff would open and sweep up the shop and meet the little ones and their elders at the door with a smile and a kind word. Finally he succeeded in getting Rev. G. F. Ehrenfeld to drive out from Kittanning and preach occasionally to the little gather- ing in a small house he had fitted up for the purpose near the furnace, which the people called the "Furnace Chapel." For about two years they used the chapel, and then the first brick church was built in the town of Worth- ington. It was considered a model house of worship and contained the first bell ever hung in a steeple in the county. A frame chapel for the Sunday school was later built next to the church. Here, in 1860, the first county teachers' institute was held. The lower story was used for a schoolroom for many years. One of the lady teachers of this school was noted for her spirit, if not of more than aver- age size. On one occasion after she had flogged one of the scholars his irate parent called and threatened to flog her, if she were not a woman. "Oh, you needn't make that an excuse," she said. "Try it, and I'll flog you." He left at once.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Buf- falo Furnace (changed to Evangelical Luth- eran Church of Worthington) was organized in 1847 by Rev. Mr. Ehrenfeld, with the fol- lowing members: Peter Graff, Susan Graff, James Barr, Sr., John Barr, Susan Barr. George Hutley, John Schantz, William Blain and wife, Jacob Mechling, Barbara Mechling, Mary C. Mechling, John Porterfield, Eliza- beth Porterfield, Nancy Porterfield, John Prunkard, Barbara Prunkard, Francis Reges, Sidney Reges.
Peter Graff served as senior elder from 1847 until his death in 1890. W. G. Craw- shaw, his successor, from 1890 to his death in 1893; and J. Frank Graff, the next official, is still acceptably filling his father's old posi- tion. Other officers of the church at different periods were: J. C. Morrison, John Barr, John Schantz, William Blain, Joseph Earhart, James Blain, Nicholas Clark, William Meals. Thomas Dipner, H. S. Ehrenfeld, Martin Guiser, G. R. Campbell and W. H. Shearer.
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The church has had but six pastors, Rev. and at first consisted of twelve members, who George F. Ehrenfeld from 1847 until 1848; Rev. A. C. Ehrenfeld from 1848 until 1858; Rev. F. Rauthrauff from 1858 until 1859; Revs. C. Witmer and H. J. H. Lemicke until 1867, and from then the present one, Rev. J. W. Schwartz. This church in 1876 had a membership of 120; Sabbath school scholars, 125. In 1913 the membership was 235 and the Sabbath school averaged 100 attendants.
Having become overcrowded in the old edi- fice, in 1888 the second church was torn down and the present artistic and commodious build- ing was erected at a cost of $10,811, Rev. Eli Miller preaching the dedicatory sermon in the completed structure.
Not satisfied in their good work in behalf of the church, the Graff brothers in 1892 erected upon a site just west of the new church a beautiful chapel in memory of their father, Peter Graff, at a cost of $4,000. The deceased members of the Graff family , are care, which was cheerfully granted.
resting under the shadows of the giant oaks close to the church they loved to attend in life, and pale marble shafts mark the place of their sepulture. Their work is done, but that of their descendants is but commenced and when they also pass from human view their resting place will be beside that of their re- vered ancestors, in the little cemetery.
In 1894 Hon. E. D. Graff purchased two lots near the church and erected a house for the janitor, donating it to the church.
UNITED PRESBYTERIANS
The Associate, now the United Presbyte- rian, Church here was organized in 1848. It depended the first year upon supplies. Rev. J. N. Dick, D. D., was its first pastor. He preached here semi-monthly until 1851. Then there were supplies for two years. Rev. John Jamison was pastor about three years, then supplies served nearly a year, when Rev. Thomas Seaton became pastor and continued as such six or seven years, and was followed by Rev. J. L. Grover. The last pastor was Rev. H. F. Hazlett. The number of mem- bers in 1876 was 77; Sabbath school scholars, 50. The church edifice, frame, one-story, ceiling 12 feet, 40 by 40 feet, is situated on Ross and Brown, now Church, streets.
PRESBYTERIANS
withdrew from the old school Presbyterian churches of Union, Slate Lick and West Glade Run, on account of their conviction of the crime and injustice of the institution of sla- very in the United States, and especially its proposed extension by the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise line. The first mem- bers were: John Craig, Sr., Mary Craig, Joseph T. McCurdy, Nancy McCurdy, David Shields, Mary Shields, John Shields, James Stephenson, Margaret Stephenson, William J. McCully, Martha McCully, Mary Craig, Sr., Margaret Craig, Mary Craig, Jr., John Ste- phenson, Margaret M. Stephenson, Jared M. Irwin, Mary A. Irwin, John Craig, Jr., and Eliza Craig. Its stated supply until 1860 was Rev. George McIlhenny, and thereafter until 1866 Revs. T. I. and J. W. Moffit. In that year a congregational meeting requested the Al- legheny Presbytery to take them under their
This church had previously been called "Buffalo," but afterward "Worthington." At the reconstruction of Presbyteries this church was assigned to that of Kittanning. Rev. A. S. Thompson was ordained and installed as its pastor for half time, Nov. 20, 1867. After his death in 1878 the church was without a pastor until 1880, when Rev. James E. Leyda was in- stalled. In 1884 he resigned and Rev. A. J. Gregg was installed as pastor of Worthington and West Glade Run Churches. The pastor in 1913 is Rev. W. K. Cazad.
The first church building, frame, 38 by 41 feet, with a thirty-foot cupola, was situated on an acre lot donated in 1852 by James and Samuel Monroe. The cost of the edifice was $772. Its membership in 1876 was about 75 ; Sabbath school scholars, about 90. The pres- ent edifice was erected in 1897 at a cost of $6,000. The membership is 160 and the Sab- bath school is 75.
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METHODISTS
The Methodist Episcopal Church was or- ganized in 1849, and its first pastor was Rev. Mr. Cooper. Rev. Mr. Tiballs, one of his successors, was in the war of the Rebellion. Membership in 1876 was 80, with a union Sab- bath school. Its edifice, frame, one-story, 40 by 35 feet, ceiling 12 feet, is situated on a lot which Samuel Porterfield, Dec. 26, 1849, for $50, conveyed to John Blain, Peter Mobley, Samuel and Thomas Scott, trustees.
The Free Presbyterian Church, of Worth- ington, was organized by authority of the Elijah Newton, James B. Porterfield, James, Presbytery of Mahoning, March 10, 1850, 19
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BAPTISTS
John and Samuel Bradford in 1845 con- veyed to James Campbell, David and John Claypoole, trustees of the "Union" Baptist Church, one acre, on which the present build- ing was erected the following year. This church was organized by twenty members of the regular Union Baptist Church in North Buffalo township, who withdrew from the lat- ter April 18, 1846, for that purpose. The or- iginal members were Elizabeth, Mary, Peter and Sophira Bowser, Mary, Sarah and Wil- liam Bradford, James and May Campbell, Da- vid Claypoole, Jr., Jane, John, Mary Ann, Nancy, Sarah, Samuel, Samuel, Jr., Susannah and William Claypoole and Catherine Martin.
MISCELLANEOUS
The farmers and some others of Franklin and adjacent townships held an agricultural meeting on Wednesday and Thursday Oct. 4 and 5, 1865, on that part of "Mount Lo- renzo" adjacent to the Free Presbyterian church, at which, for so limited a local one, there was a very creditable display of ani- mals and agricultural and mechanical prod- ucts.
James Barr, Jr., was assessed as a "school- master" in 1806-07, whose school was prob- ably on or near "Mount Lorenzo."
Worthington became, of course, when in- Worthington postoffice was established in 1840, with John McDonald as postmaster. John M. Williams was postmaster after 1889. The present official is W. W. Helm. corporated as a borough, a separate school district, and a frame schoolhouse was erected in the angle formed by the junction of Ross street and the public road. Its statistics for The town cemetery is a beautiful plot of 1860 were: Average number 'of months ground, given to his townsmen by Joseph M. taught, 4; teacher, male, I; monthly salary, Jordan. $20; male scholars, 24; female scholars, 37; average number attending school, 48; cost of STATISTICS OF WORTHINGTON teaching each scholar per month, 41 cents; levied for school purposes, $127.25; levied for The 62 taxables shown by the assessment list of 1876 included: 2 blacksmiths, I carder, I cabinetmaker, 4 carpenters, I clerk, 13 farm- ers, I gardener, I manufacturer, 4 merchants, I millwright, I miner, 3 ministers, I painter, I peddler, I saddler, I shoemaker, I tailor, I tanner, I tinner, I wagonmaker. building, $127.25; received from State appro- priation, $24.95; received from collectors, $122; cost of instruction, $So; fuel, etc., $18.66. For 1876: Number months taught, 5; male teacher, 1; monthly salary, $35; male scholars, 28; female, 37; average number at- tending school, 37; cost per month, 64 cents ; The officials for 1913 were: L. Stepp, bur- gess; W. H. Shearer. James Hazlett, J. Ar- thur Claypoole, Robert Lewis and M. J. Clark, councilmen. C. R. Fullerton is the assessor. levied for school and building purposes, $188 .- 41; received from State appropriation, $53; from taxes and other sources, $192.24; paid for teacher's wages, $175 ; for fuel, etc., $43.62.
In 1913 the number of schools was 2; months taught, 9; male teacher, I ; female teacher, I ; average salaries, male, $75; fe- male, $50; male scholars, 30; female schol-
ars, 36; average attendance, 47; cost of each scholar per month, $2.21 ; tax levied, $946.49; received from State, $539.26; from other sources, $1,259.62 ; value of schoolhouses, $3,- 450; teachers' wages, $1,125; other expend- itures, $416.92.
The school directors were : Dr. J. H. King, president ; Charles M. Morrison, secre- tary; J. Frank Graff, treasurer; J. R. Barn- hart, J. D. Graham.
WORTHINGTON ACADEMY
Worthington Academy, first called "Buffalo Institute," was organized by the Lutherans in 1852, the first principal being Mr. C. J. Ebre- hart, who taught one session. The sessions of the institution were so irregular that we will only give the names and dates of the instruct- ors. \V. F. Ulery, 1853-54; Rev. A. C. Ehren- feld, 1866; L. W. Knipe and E. S. Heaney, 1868; E. H. Dickinson, 1868-70; S. Crist, 1871; D. H. Culp, 1873; J. C. R. Ewing and M. Cunningham, 1874-75; J. T. Young, A. C. Good and J. P. Wiley, 1878-81 ; Newton Don- aldson, 1881 ; H. Wallace, 1882; J. J. Ralston, J. P. Davis and W. A. Nicholson, from 1883 to 1889, when the life of the institution ceased. The resultant success of the institute was great, although the sessions were irregular. It filled the want of a higher grade of instruction than the schools of that day provided.
L. Stepp and M. H. Claypoole are the hotel- keepers, W. W. Helm, T. W. Milligan and William H. McHaddon are storekcepers, and C. E. Walker is the undertaker. The resident physicians are Drs. O. C. Clark, Jesse H. King
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and J. M. Dunkle. John R. and Warren W. of each scholar, $2.67; amount tax levied, Barnhart are blacksmiths. The liveryman is $2,717.72; received from State, $1,363.04; from other sources, $2,717.72 ; value of school- houses, $6,680 ; teachers' wages, $2,660; other expenses, $732.33
John Noble.
The population of the borough in 1860 was 213; in 1870, 214; in 1890, 246; in 1900, 398; in1 1910, 436.
The assessment returns for 1913 show: D. L. Hawk, president; George L. Hindman, number of houses and lots, 82, value, $31,870, average, $388.06; horses, 42, value, $1,082, average, $25; cows, 32, value, $643, average, $20 ; taxable occupations, 167, amount, $6,230; MINES AND GEOLOGICAL FEATURES total valuation, $71,470. Money at interest, $36,627.09.
The only other settlement in this township is Nichola, a station on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh railroad, west of Craigsville.
POPULATION OF WEST FRANKLIN
The population of West Franklin in 1870 was 1,314; in 1880, 1,200; in 1890, 1,512; in 1900, 965 ; in 1910, 871.
The assessment returns for 1913 show : Number of acres, timber, 4,636, clear, 10.743, valued at $241,348; houses and lots, 29, value, $5,208, average $179.58; horses, 202, value, $9,III, average, $45.19; cows, 192, value, $2,- 846, average, $14.82 ; taxable occupations, 353 ; amount, $3,285; total valuation, $273,066. Money at interest, $17,083.65.
SCHOOLS
The first schoolhouse in this township was a rude log structure, 16 by 16 feet, situated near Lennington run in the forks of the road, not far from the present borough of Worthing- ton. The teachers in sequence were Messrs. Jack, Speer and Russell. Another school was on the Hohn tract near Little Buffalo creek, and was taught by Herman Cook.
Number of schools in 1876, 8; average num- ber of months taught, 5; male teachers, 2; fe- male teachers, 6; average monthly salaries of both male and female, $30; male scholars, 263; female scholars, 160; average number attend- ing school, 249; cost of teaching each per month, 73 cents; tax levied for school and building purposes, $2,355.60; received from State appropriation, $243.66; from taxes and other sources, $2,690.50 ; cost of schoolhouses, $250; paid teachers' wages, $1,200; fuel, etc., $401.58.
In 1913 the number of schools was 8; months taught, 7; male teacher, I; female teachers, 7; average salaries, male, $50; fe- male, $49.29 ; male scholars, 92; female schol- ars, 99 ; average attendance, 90 ; cost per month
The school directors for that year were: secretary ; Frank Bowser, treasurer; W. E. Minteer, R. L. McKee.
Within the limits of West Franklin town- ship the section extends upward from the Pottsville conglomerate into the lower bar- ren group, thus embracing all the lower pro- ductives. The area of the lower barrens is con- fined to the southeast and northwest corners of the township. The area of the Pottsville conglomerate stretches from McKee school- house, on Little Buffalo creek, southward to the milldam above the Buffalo mills, and thence westward up the Big Buffalo past Craigsville to Hindman's. In all this area it is closely con- fined to the region of the creek, being in fact only just lifted above the water's edge. The lower productives have therefore'a wide out- spread in this township. The outcrop of the upper Freeport coal skirts the edge of the lower barren area, passing just above Worth- ington into East Franklin. So far as investi- gated, it has little thickness here, and its lime- stone is not of much consequence. The same is true of the area of this coal found in the northwest corner of the township. But the lower Kittanning coal is persistent as a work- able bed, usually about 31/2 feet thick. The ferriferous limestone is in good condition and has the buhrstone ore on its top. Both were used in the Buffalo Furnace, which also used some ore from the Freeport deposit, found in the hills west of the stack.
Two miles south of Worthington the Buf- falo, Rochester & Pittsburgh railroad has projected an extension and the Pittsburgh Limestone Company has opened mines to work the ferriferous limestone for both building pur- poses and the manufacture of cement. A town of several hundred population has sprung up and the output is over sixty cars a day.
The upper Freeport coal on the hillside, over the turnpike, near Buffalo furnace, on the west bank of Buffalo creek, is 18 inches thick. The Kittanning coalbed is there below it, which used to yield 31/2 feet of pure non-pyritous coal. The ferriferous limestone is there 15 feet thick, blue and solid, above which is an orebed, accompanied by very little buhrstone.
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The recent blasting for the roadbed of the B., R. & P. Railroad reveals these strata in all their beauty at that point. Some trouble was experienced in grading the turnpike here after the change made necessary, owing to the thick- ness of the coal strata.
The Tionesta sandstone appears there in the bed of the stream with the ferriferous shales and workable Clarion coal above.
The Kellersburg anticlinal axis traverses the township from northeast to southwest, crosses the Big Buffalo near Craigsville and extends across the Little Buffalo below the mouth of Long run. It is the axis which crosses the Allegheny near the mouth of Red Bank creek.
The greatest altitude above sea level is reg- istered on the crest of a hill one mile north of Craigsville, 1,548 feet high.
CHAPTER XLIII
NORTH BUFFALO TOWNSHIP
PART OF OLD BUFFALO TOWNSHIP-SETTLEMENT-EARLY MILLS - CHURCHES-SCHOOLS-POPU- LATION-GEOLOGICAL
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