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On the afternoon of May 6th a violent hail storm passed over New Castle, doing a large amount of damage. Hail fell meas- uring from eleven to twelve inches in cir- cumference and weighing from eight to sixteen ounces or more.
On Sunday morning, July 24, 1848, the main building of McCormick, Peebles, Brown & Co.'s iron works was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of some $30,000, and throwing a large number of men out of employment. The buildings destroyed included the rolling-mill and nail factory, and a large amount of iron, nails, etc. The works were immediately rebuilt.
In August of this year we find the New Castle Female Seminary under the direc- tion of Prof. Warren H. Marsh.
The Croton Glass Works were put in operation in September of this year by Messrs. Morris and Henderson.
THE NEW COUNTY.
March 20, 1849, was a joyful day to the people of New Castle, for on that day the new county of Lawrence, for which they had so long been working, was erected, and New Castle became the county seat of one of the most compact and thriving coun- ties in the commonwealth. New Castle was then a town of less than one thousand peo- ple, and had but a moiety of its present manufactures and commercial business. No railroads were then in this part of the country. Its only means of communica- tion, besides the common country roads of those days, was the slow, plodding canal. Now all the newspapers of the county are here, all the banking houses, and the great bulk of the manufactures, and the city is the nucleus of a system of railways, which give it connection with all parts of the country.
On the 22nd of August, 1849, President Zachary Taylor and Governor Johnston, of Pennsylvania, visited the town on their way from Beaver to Mercer, coming up in an Erie express packet. They were re- ceived with distinguished honors. A pro-
cession, of which Colonel William Book was chief marshal, formed at the lock in the following order:
Committee of Reception, on Horseback. Brass Band. Martial Band. President and Governor, in Open Carriage, With Military Escort. President's and Governor's Suite, in Car- riages. New Castle and Beaver Committee, in Carriages. Citizens.
The procession moved by the following route: From Lock No. 1 to the Neshan- nock bridge, thence up East Street, by North to Jefferson Street, by Jefferson to Washington, and east along Washington to the Washington House, situated where Knox's grocery store now stands, then kept by A. T. McKee. On arriving here a reception speech was made and the Presi- dent welcomed to New Castle by David Craig, Esq., to which the President replied in a brief and appropriate manner. During the movement of the procession the artil- lery fired the regular salute from Shaw's Hill. The next morning the President and Governor visited the rolling mills, blast furnaces, etc. The Sophia furnace was the first the President had ever seen. At 9 o'clock A. M. the President gave a recep- tion to the ladies of New Castle, at the Presbyterian Church. At 12 o'clock, noon, the party departed for Mercer, accompa- nied by a committee of escort from New Castle.
On May 26, 1849, a new paper, the Law- rence Journal, made its appearance in New Castle. James M. Kuester was editor and proprietor. In this same year also the As- sociate Reformed Presbyterian Church was built, on Jefferson Street. It is now known as the United Presbyterian Church.
The first party convention for the nomi- nation of county officers ever held in New Castle was the convention held by the
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Whigs, on the 14th of August, 1849, of which Thomas Pomeroy was president.
Saturday, the 1st of September, 1849, the day on which the act erecting the county of Lawrence went into effect, was celebrated in New Castle by the military and various bands, who made a grand pa- rade.
The first telegraph office in New Castle was opened in the summer of 1849. Among those most instrumental in procuring it were the Crawfords and Shubael Wilder.
This season was remarkable for being cold and excessively dry. No less than eighty-eight new buildings were erected in New Castle this year, mostly of brick. The first snow of the season fell on the 30th of October.
A lyceum was in existence in December of this year, with Rev. R. A. Browne, D.D., R. B. McComb, D. M. Courtney and John Reynolds, Esqs.
In 1850 the census gave New Castle bor- ough a population of 1,563 inhabitants, fifty-one of whom were colored.
THE FIRST COURTS.
The first Court of Common Pleas held in New Castle convened in the M. E. Church on Monday, the 7th of January, 1850, Hon. John Bredin being president judge and Jacob Bear, associate. The res- ident attorneys of New Castle who were sworn in on that day were: Jonathan Ayres, L. L. McGuffin, J. K. Boyd, D. Craig, D. B. Kurtz, J. Hoffman, D. C. Cos- sitt, John M. Crawford, George W. Wat- son, J. N. McGuffin and James Pollock. The attendance at this first court was un- usually large and the hotels were crowded. A new telegraph line from Fredonia, N. Y., was put in operation to New Castle in January, 1850.
A meeting of the veterans of the War of 1812 was held on Saturday, March 16, at the Associate Reformed Church.
The first daily mail was established on the 1st of April of this year, between New Castle and Poland, Ohio, by way of Eden-
burg, Hillsville and Lowellville. The con- tractor was James Bannon.
The first county Bible Society mentioned was organized on the 9th of April at the M. E. Church. Among the members were Rev. R. A. Browne, John N. Euwer, Cyrus Clarke, David Sankey, Samuel Van Horn, Joseph Kissick and Joseph Justice.
On Wednesday, August 11, 1850, accord- ing to a pre-arranged program, about 5,000 people assembled in Pebble's Grove to hear an address from John Allison, Esq., who pronounced a eulogy on President Zachary Taylor, then recently deceased. The en- campment was participated in by all the military for many miles around, and lasted several days.
The first Democratic convention in Law- rence County was held in New Castle, on the 20th of July of this year. The Whig convention was held on the 5th of August.
NEW CASTLE IN 1850.
In 1850 New Castle contained two foun- dries, two rolling-mills, three flouring and grist-mills, three saw-mills, one window- glass factory, one steam edge-tool factory, one brewery, three tanneries (one run by steam), four hotels, and another large one in course of erection. There were six churches, one lodge, and one encampment of I. O. O. F .; one Masonic Lodge, two di- visions of the Sons of Temperance, and one Mechanics' Mutual Protection Society. There were also two newspapers; the Ga- zette, by Shaw & Craig, and the Journal, by Kuester & Telford. One hundred new buildings were erected during this year.
In January, 1851, a new line of daily coaches was established between Beaver and New Castle, by Frederick Haly. They were advertised to make the trip in five hours.
COURT HOUSE.
The title to the lot now occupied by the Court House, 300x140 feet in dimensions, was made over to the County Commission- ers on the 18th of June, 1850. The contract
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for building a court house and jail was let to Craig & Hamilton. The work was com- menced in the fall of 1850, and completed in 1852. The stone were quarried near by, and when the entire job was finished the total cost, including improvements upon the grounds, amounted to the surprisingly low sum of $32,000. (See preceding chap- ter.)
An academy seems to have been in oper- ation at this time, for we find notices of it in 1849, under the charge of William Pear- son, and in 1850, of Rev. R. A. Browne.
The 22nd of June appears to have been the day set apart for military drill. In July of this year the Lawrence Guards were organized, and W. W. Taylor was elected captain; S. M. Wise, first lieuten- ant; S. Briggs, second lieutenant ; T. Wait, third lieutenant; H. Squiers, ensign; C. T. Williams, A. Wait, J. A. Ray and Jacob Moore, sergeants; R. Andrews and John Ray, corporals; James McKean, armorer, and S. Briggs, treasurer.
In 1851 the subject of paving the streets began to be agitated and at a meeting of the Council, on the 28th of February, it was resolved that during the coming sum- mer Washington, Jefferson and Mercer Streets should be planked.
About this time also the subject of a public cemetery, controlled by a corpora- tion, began to be agitated, and a meeting was held at the office of the county com- missioners, at which Colonel William Book was made president and James D. Clarke, secretary. Among those who took an active interest in the matter were Hon. L. L. Mc- Guffin, James Henderson, Jonathan Ayres, Joseph Emery, John Reynolds, Frederick Seifert, R. W. Clendenin, Joseph Kissick, Joseph T. Du Shane, George Robinson, D. B. Kurtz and R. B. McComb.
NEW MILITARY COMPANIES.
In addition to the two existing compa- nies, three juvenile military companies were organized about this time, one in New Castle proper, another in East New Cas-
tle, and a third in West New Castle. A fierce rivalry sprang up among them, which sometimes led to miniature battles, and it was found easier to arouse the mili- tary spirit than to allay the hot passions engendered by the rivalry.
A public meeting was held some time in March, 1851, to consider the question of enlarging the limits of the borough. War- ren Carpenter was president, and William Watson, secretary, while the committee on resolutions consisted of Joseph Justice, Joseph Emery, S. W. Mitchell, Samuel Spiese, Joseph Kissick and William Moore. After ample discussion a series of resolu- tions was adopted opposed to any exten- sion of the limits beyond the Shenango River and Neshannock Creek.
The first railway meeting held in New Castle was on the 1st of April, 1851. It was called for the purpose of testing the public sentiment upon the then proposed Erie and Pittsburg Railway. The officers of the meeting were: President, Henry Pearson; vice-presidents, R. W. Cunning- ham, William Dickson, Joseph Emery and Thomas Falls; secretaries, Alexander Newell and D. C. Cossitt. The speakers were R. B. McComb, Esq., R. W. Cunning- ham and Joseph Emery.
On the night of April 1st the flouring- mill owned by Joseph Kissick was de- stroyed by fire. It was a three-story brick building and stood on the present site of Raney & Gordon's mill. The total loss was about $13,000. The fire was occasioned by some boys fishing with torches under the mill. The mill was rebuilt by Mr. Kissick the same season.
The summer of 1851 was one of many improvements in New Castle. A new bridge was built over the canal, on Mercer Street. R. W. Cunningham erected a new foundry building. The Union schoolhouse, now the Martin Gantz school building, was erected at a cost of $7,000.
A private bank-the first banking insti- tution in New Castle - was started this year, in May, by Dickson & McClymonds.
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A railway convention was held on the 25th of June at which 150 delegates were present.
During the summer of this year an at- tempt was made to erect a new borough on the east side of the Neshannock, to be called East New Castle, but the project failed.
The first "Free Soil" convention was held on the 23rd of August, of this year.
A new bridge, known as the "Black Bridge," was constructed over the She- mango, a few rods above the mouth of the Neshannock, during this season. It has since been replaced by a fine and substan- tial covered bridge.
An Agricultural Society was organized on the 29th of October, with the following officers : President, Thomas Sample; vice- presidents, Thomas Wilson, Isaac P. Cow- den; secretary, R. B. McComb; treasurer, William Blanchard; directors, John K. Swisher, William Porter, Thomas Carnes, Thomas Pearson, Webster Justice and John Simpson.
The winter of 1851-2 was a severe one; labor was scarce, and little money was in circulation. To aid the poor and destitute a society called "The New Castle Relief Society," consisting of the prominent la- dies of the place, was organized on the 5th of January, 1852, at the Associate Re- formed Church. The officers were: Presi- dent, Mrs. Mary Browne; secretaries, Mrs. McElevy and Mrs. Ten Broeck; treasurer, Mrs. Joseph Kissick.
On January 16th a meeting of the Prot- estant pastors of New Castle was held at the Presbyterian Church, for the purpose of taking steps toward petitioning Con- gress to prohibit carrying the mails on Sunday.
On the 4th of February a meeting was held at the Cochran House in the interests of the Erie and Pittsburg Railroad. Wil- liam Dickson was president, and John Reynolds, secretary.
What is thought to have been the first strike in the history of New Castle oc-
curred among the nail-cutters in the em- ploy of the Orizaba Iron Works, on the 16th of February, on account of a reduc- tion of wages.
On April 29th New Castle was visited, it is said, by an earthquake shock which was quite severe, and continued for about ten seconds.
The new Court House was completed on the 28th of June, 1852, at which date the first term of court ever held therein com- menced.
The 4th of July, 1852, fell on Sunday, and was celebrated on the day following with appropriate ceremonies. A Whig convention was held in Clow's Hall, and a Sunday-school picnic was held in a grove near town, while a large party, including the New Castle band, made an excursion on board a canal-packet, several miles up the Shenango, where they spent the day in picnicing and dancing.
The New Castle Female Seminary seems to have finished its course about this time, as the property was sold at public sale, on the 7th of September. The completion of the Union School building, now in the First Ward, may have had something to do with the retirement of the seminary from the field. The new school building was com- pleted and occupied on the 4th of October, at which time the fall term commenced. The teachers were Messrs. Travis & Gantz, and the Misses Townsend and Porter. The Lawrence County Teachers' Institute was held for two weeks, commencing on the 11th of October. This was probably the first county institute ever held in New Castle.
The first County Fair was also opened on Tuesday, the 19th of October, and con- tinued two days.
The "Mechanics' Institute" was organ- ized on the 23d of December. Among the prominent gentlemen interested in its or- ganization may be mentioned John Dick- son, Dr. Leasure, Colonel William Book, S. Briggs, David Tidball, J. R. Richard- son, R. Craven and John Edwards. A
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meeting of the Institute was held on the 4th of January, following which the fol- lowing officers were elected: President, Stillman Briggs; vice-president, Joseph S. White; secretary, J. Webster Reynolds; treasurer, Colonel William Book.
In January, 1853, the Lawrence County Agricultural Society leased from Joseph S. White, for a term of years, four and a half acres of land lying on the plateau north of the borough, for the purposes of a Fair Ground. It was inclosed, and provided with suitable and necessary buildings, and fairs were held there for several years.
The borough election, held on the 18th of March, resulted in the choice of the fol- lowing officers: Burgess, Joseph Kissick; councilmen, James S. Tidball, James Mc- Gown, Benjamin Emery, E. S. Clow, G. P. Robinson; constable, J. B. McKee; school directors, D. Leasure, R. W. Clendenin, J. N. Fuwer; judge of election, John Mc- Elevy ; assessor, A. Riddle; auditors, Cap- tain A. Tyler, D. B. Kurtz, Warren Car- penter; overseers of poor, J. W. Cunning- ham and Wilson Falls.
The contract for planking Washington Street from the Neshannock to the She- nango, with two tracks, each nine feet wide, was awarded to Joseph and David Emery, at $1,600. The contract for plank- ing a portion of Jefferson Street with a single track was also awarded to the same parties. Greenwood Cemetery was also much improved this year.
A Musical Institute was held in March, under the direction of Professor Blakely, and on the evening of the 29th of the same month a concert was given at the Presby- terian Church by 400 pupils of Mr. Durston.
D. Tidball, Jr., was appointed postmas- ter some time in April. A plank road was constructed during this season between New Castle and New Wilmington. Another earthquake shock is recorded for the 2nd of May, lasting for some 30 seconds.
EXPORTS IN 1853.
In 1853 the annual exports comprised the following articles shipped from New Castle: From the Orizaba Iron Works, 7,500 tons iron and nails; from the Cosalo Iron Works, 5,000 tons iron and nails; of glass, 700 tons; oil and oil-cake, 500 tons ; 32,000 barrels of flour; 100,000 bushels of grain; 6,000 tons of fire-brick; 1,000,000 feet of timber.
In July of this year the "Ladies' Law- rence County Association" was organized.
At the borough election, March 17, 1854, the following officers were elected: Bur- gess, William Moore; councilmen, David Emery, Wilson Falls, John S. Pomeroy, Webster Justice, William Book; school di- rectors, Joseph Justice, Cyrus Clarke; constable, J. B. McKee; judge of election, James R. Wallace; inspectors, Thomas D. Horner, Alva H. Leslie; assessor, Daniel McConnell; auditors, Robert Gilliland, Robert Crawford, John Hoffman; over -. seers of poor, Cyrus Clarke, J. W. Johns- ton.
The Leslie House, containing ninety rooms, was finished and furnished ready for occupation on the 1st of April.
On Sunday, the 16th of April, there was a heavy snow-storm, which lasted for about twenty-four hours. When the storm was over there were seven and one-half inches of snow on the ground.
The First Methodist Episcopal Society erected a new church edifice during the summer and fall of 1854. It was finished some time in the winter of 1854-55.
A grand fair was held in New Castle, commencing on October 5, and continuing three days.
On the 5th an election for officers of the Lawrence County Agricultural and Horti- cultural Society was held, and the follow- ing gentlemen were chosen for the ensuing year: President, Thomas Pearson; vice- presidents, William Hamilton and Thomas Cunningham; treasurer, William McCly-
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monds; secretary, J. Webster Reynolds ; managers, William Williams and Phillip Crowl.
The summer of 1854 was remarkable for the long drouth which prevailed from the 16th of May to the latter part of August, in consequence of which all the crops were scanty, and farmers were obliged to fatten their hogs on acorns. The drouth affected the streams, and the fish in the Shenango River died in great numbers during the latter part of August.
On the 12th of November a party of fifty-two colored people passed through New Castle, on their way from Virginia to Mercer, where they had concluded to set- tle. They had formerly been slaves and had been liberated by the will of their mas- ters. Some are still living at and near Mercer, where some of them at one time owned considerable property.
HARD TIMES IN 1855.
During the months of January and Feb- ruary of 1855 the laboring classes in New Castle suffered from scarcity of work. The destitution increased to such an extent that steps were taken for their temporary re- lief. Under the auspices of the Ladies' Benevolent Association, free soup dinners were furnished the destitute every day for several weeks at the house of Richard Craven.
At the borough election, held on the 16th of March, the following officers were chosen: Burgess, Thomas Pearson; jus- tices, James Dickson, George C. Morgan; constable, Uriah Cubbison; councilmen, David Emery, Wilson Falls, E. C. Cowden, J. W. Squier, William C. Hoffman; as- sessor, John Horner; assistant assessors, William Shaw, B. C. Emery; auditors, B. B. Pickett and S. F. Rigby; overseers of the poor, J. B. Reynolds, D. Stewart; school directors, Shubael Wilder, Isaac Dickson; judge of elections, John R. Moore; inspectors, John Shumaker, James Moorhead.
New Castle seems to have been finan-
cially in a very healthy condition in 1855, for the bonded debt of the borough is stated at $2,500, and the total indebtedness at $4,206.82.
In June, this year, there were heavy rains. The streams were so swollen that navigation on the canal was interrupted for several weeks, and, as a consequence, flour and provisions became very scarce.
"The anniversary of the nation's inde- pendence was celebrated in grand style. .At a very early hour the New Castle Light Artillery fired a national salute from Shaw's Hill, and all the bells in town re- sponded merrily. At 10 o'clock A. M. the procession formed in the following order: The New Castle Band; the Eagle Fire Company; teachers and scholars of the Union schools; the Lawrence Guards; the Ringgold Guards, of Princeton, Captain Hall, and the Harlansburg Infantry, Gen- eral MeCune. The exercises were in a grove, where addresses were delivered by Dr. John W. Wallace and Rev. R. A. Browne. The school children had a picnic and dinner, and there were patriotic toasts, music, and the firing of salutes. After the exercises were over, the soldiers formed and marched to the Cochran House, where about 200 of them, including several veterans of the War of 1812, par- took of a sumptuous dinner, provided by the citizens. The festivities closed with a ball at Kossuth Hall, and another at the Leslie House, the latter given by the Eagle Fire Company."
The Lawrence Guards celebrated their fifth anniversary, on the 20th of July, by a parade and drill, and a dance in the eve- ning.
A grand military encampment was held at New Castle, commencing on the 11th of September, of this year. The following organizations took part in the exercises: Jackson Independent Blues, of Pittsburg, Captain Alexander Hays; Darlington Ar- tillery, Major W. H. Power; Ringgold Guards, of Princeton, Captain W. G. Hall; Big Beaver Riflemen, Lieutenant Miller,
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and the New Castle Light Artillery, Cap- tain William H. Shaw. It is very probable that the Lawrence Guards were also pres- ent, though they are not mentioned in the newspaper accounts. A serious accident occurred during the festivities. Sergeant Edward Smith, of the artillery, while as- sisting in firing a salute, had his right arm so badly injured by a premature discharge as to necessitate its amputation.
The winter of 1855-56 was very cold. January 12 about twenty inches of snow fell, and during this month the mercury sank as low as 25 degrees below zero. On the 3d of February it indicated 32 degrees below, according to accounts, and again, on the 10th of March, 20 degrees below.
On March 3d Robert Patterson's soap and candle factory, in West New Castle, was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of about $1,200.
At the borough election, held on the 21st of March, the following officers were elected: Burgess, Stillman Briggs; coun- cilmen, R. W. Clendenin, H. J. Lewis, John McElevy, John R. Richardson, Robert Crawford; constable, Uriah Cubbison; school directors, Rev. G. R. McMillen, Dr. D. Leasure; overseer of the poor, L. V. Crips, Dr. A. T. Davis; auditor, I. N. Dick- son; assessor, J. B. McKee; judge of elec- tion, Thomas Rigby; inspectors, Samuel Spiese and Webster Justice.
An immense Republican mass conven- tion was held in New Castle on the 9th of October, 1857, said to have been the largest ever held in the place. It appears that there were by actual count in the proces- sion 3,154 people, 938 horses, 68 cattle, 93 horsemen, 1,834 flags, banners, etc., 454 vehicles and seven bands.
The rolling-mills of the "Orizaba Iron Works" were destroyed by fire on the night of the 18th of October, involving a loss of from $5,000 to $7,000, partially cov- ered by insurance. The mills were soon afterwards rebuilt.
The New Castle Gaslight Company was incorporated February 11, 1856, by Dr.
Charles T. Whippo, Stephen J. Noble, The- odore F. Hay, Newell White and Ezekiel Sankey. The charter gave the right to sup- ply the borough of New Castle with gas for illuminating purposes for the space of twenty years. The business houses on Washington Street and the "Diamond" were first lighted on the evening of Decem- ber 8, 1856.
The borough election occurred on the 25th of March, when the following officers were elected: Burgess, Alexander Ross; councilmen, John W. Wallace, James R. Shaw, James McElevy, R. W. Clendenin, Shubael Wilder; constable, James J. Cook; school directors, Joseph Justice, John Reynolds; assessor, Joseph T. Boyd; over- seers of the poor, L. V. Crips, J. E. McCon- nell; judge of elections, William C. Hoff- man; inspectors, Benjamin F. Emery, William Devlin; auditor, Thomas Pearson.
On the 26th of March, 1857, J. N. Wag- onseller, cashier of the Bank of New Cas- tle, who had absconded with a large sum of money, was brought back to New Castle, having been arrested in Philadelphia. He had a hearing before George C. Morgan, Esq., and was committed for trial in de- fault of bail. At the time of his arrest $21,500 of New Castle paper was found in his carpet-bag. In the course of a few weeks he was liberated on bail, and soon after left the country. At a meeting of the stockholders, held on the 1st of May, the Board was reorganized by the election of David Sankey, president, and Cyrus Clarke, cashier. R. W. Cunningham was elected a director in the place of Wagon- seller, and R. W. Stewart in place of Dr. Whippo, who had resigned.
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