Hart's history and directory of the three towns, Brownsville, Bridgeport, West Brownsville also abridged history of Fayette county & western Pennsylvania, Part 21

Author: Hart, John Percy, 1870- ed; Bright, W. H., 1852- joint ed
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Cadwallader, Pa., J.P. Hart
Number of Pages: 710


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James Brown, Esq.


28. 1892


Henry Minks


2, 1892


..


..


=


..


..


=


Sept


..


Mrs. A. A. Carmack


=


27.1893


Sadie Wilkins Layton


251


Necrological Record of the Three Towns


Jane A. Thornton


died Feb. 20, 1894


George E. Hatfield


Thomas Duncan


Mrs. W. S Haddock


died Apr. 18, 1896 23,1896


Eliza Colvin


Mrs. Wm. Hafman


=


14,1896


F. C. S. Williams


Mar. 15, 1894


Archie Dwyre


06


May 7,1896


Wm. Piersoll


16, 1894


Mrs. Amim Leonard


Mrs. Orella C. Harrison


June 21 1896


Ada Porter


66 28, 1894


Abraham B. Gaskill


July 5,1896


Jessie Fitzgerald


June 17,1894


Kate Crawford


5,1896


Willard Wilkins


:


30,1894


Hilton Johnson


20,1896


Thos. Flannigan


July 6,1894


Jennie Byland Britton


19, 1896


Thos. D. Hoover


June 25, 1894


Mrs. Heisterman


31,1896


R. R. Winn


66


June 29, 1894


Eliza J. Johnson


=


3,1896


Josephine Welch Winters


31.1894


Mrs. Robert Demain


:


17,1896


John F. Martin


Aug. 2. 1894


Leonard Lenhart


46


24,1896


Mrs. Henry Delaney


Sept. 12, 1894


Dearth Marker


Sept. 5,1896


James Benton


.. 29,1894


Joseph Stroup


=


6,1896


Resin Woodfill


Oct. 3,1894


Percey Smith


14, 1896


Lydia Thistlethwaite


Nov. 7.1894


Wm. P. Searight


13, 1896


Prof. Robert H. Jamison


..


20,1894


Myrtle G. Allison


:


6,1896


E. H. Baird 46 25, 1894


Callie M. Dorsey


Oct. 2,1896


Joseph L. Rogers


Dec. 5, 1894


Dr. J. B. Barclay


Sept. 27,1896


T. M. Carver


Nov. 29, 1894


Wm. H. Rhodes


Oct. 11,1896


Wm. Hurford


Dec. 19. 1894


Jane Marshall 64


=


11,1896


Thomas Bricker


18, 1894


Frank Shallenberger


=


:


15,1896


Thos. F. Cock


28,1894


Charles O'Donnell


11,1896


Gertrude Michener


24, 1894


Dudley Chalfant


22,1896


John G. Fear


29,1894


Elizabeth A. Hyatt


29,1896


Ida B. Woodward


Jan. 9,1895


Roger Chew


Nov. 7, 1896


Samuel A. Lopp, Sr.


20,1895


Dr. Robert Playford


18. 1896


Donna Bell Elliott


Dec.


6, 1894


Mary M. Wood J. R. Hunt


27,1896


James V. Dwyer


= 20. 1895


Harry B. Swords


22,1896


Mary Chew


=


..


28.1895


J. Truman Wells


Dec


5,1896


Dale Bevard


Mar. 4, 1895


Ruth Marshall


16,1896


Otha Crawford


:


6, 1895


Mary M. Jones


=


18,1896


Ethel Bevard


Feb. 16, 1895


Mrs. Ann Haines


:


21,1896


Dr. J. B. Grooms


Mar. 10, 1895


Josephine McDonald


18, 1896


Samuel B. McCroy


27,1895


William Cornell


25, 1896


Rose E. Chew


27,1895


Cornelia Day


28,1896


Mrs. Eliza Herbertson


=


66


30,1895


Martin Dougherty


=


30,1896


Henry B. Cock, Jr.


May 12, 1895


Isaac S. Crall


Jan.


18,1897


Elizabeth J. Grooms


16, 1895


Charity A. Armstrong


27,1897


Edward Moorehouse, Sr.


:


13,1895


John Springer


27,1897


Harry L. Bevard


31,1895


Mrs. Elizabeth E. Truxal Fred Snider


Jan.


8,1897


James M. Smith


3,1895


Wm. S, Hatfield


Feb. 8,1897


William Shaffer


July


15, 1895


Eliza Pursglove


15, 1897


James Britton


:


=


..


27,1895


James L. Bowman


Mar 2,1897


Annie M. Johnston


30,1895


Clarence P. Springer


4


4,1897


Orlando W. Brashear


Aug. 24, 1895


Mrs. H. M. Wright


2,1897


Annie Clark


Daniel Campbell


..


6,1897


Lelia Patton


Sept 15. 1895


Robert Blaine


=


16, 1897


Rebecca Johnson


18,1895


Anna Krepps Wornock


18, 1897


Martha J. Barr


Oct. 6,1895


Simon Johnston


19,1897


Chas. Dorsey's child


7,1895


Charlotte Benton


: 26, 1897


Prof. A. C. Lyons


24. 1895


Maria Minehart


14,1897


William Claybaugh


19,1895


Martha J. Blair


Apr. 20, 1897


Mamie Taylor


Nov. 8, 1895


Joseph Gibbons


30,1897


Hananah Gue


9,1895


Emma Allison League


May


19, 1897


Lizzie Pursglove


20,1895


Eli Bailey


=


19, 1897


Mary M. Tate


29,1895


John Acklin


28. 1897


Riley Eckles


Dec.


14,1895


David Martin


29.1897


O. R. Knight


11, 1895


Mrs. E. A. Hastings


June


1,1897


Mathew Davis


8 1895


Sarah Jane Graham


May 28, 1897


Jesse P. Twigg


Jan.


14, 1896


Benjamin Thornburg


=


June 11, 1897


Mollie Reese


29,1896


Ruth Houston


14,1897


Jacob Marks


=


=


6


Jan. 31, 1896


Harrold G. Booth


5,1897


Eliza B. Cox


=


=


15. 1896


Mrs. Annie Kisinger


Aug.


5,1897


Amanda S. Duncan


..


Apr. 2, 1896


Jennie Long


11,1897


George Stewart, Sr.


2, 1896


Gertrude B. Owen


64


31,1897


Charles Minehart


: 14, 1896


George Livingston, Sr.


Sept. 1,1897


Mary Irons


=


19, 1896


Mary A. Vanhook


=


2,1897


=


3.1895


Laura P. Elliott


=


31,1896


Ellen Smith


Apr.


Charles Coburn


=


June


9 1895


Belle Byland Theakston


20,1897


Lewis Marker, Jr.


24 1895


10, 1897


Harry Bane


15,1895


James Hardwick


:


27,1895


Lidie K. Booth


24.1897


46


27,1896 6, 1896


Frank P. Stewart


=


=


30,1897


Thomas Aubrey


Feb.


Moses Wright


July


1,1897


Sarah Stewart


=


July 8, 1894


Moses Moorehouse 16


Aug. 5,1896


Dr. Henry Eastman, Sr. =


July 13.1894


Jeannette Mc Williams


=


:


=


66


..


:


18, 1896


Chads W. Chalfant


=


Feb. 11, 1895


..


66


16, 1895


=


:


Dora Starr


=


Feb.


1,1897


=


2,1896


Ellen England


= 20,1894


21,1894 22, 1894


30,1896


Mrs. James Slocum


:


=


255


Necrological Record of the Three Towns


Mrs. Ann Leonix


died Sept. 10, 1897


James L. Me Donough died Sept 28. 1899


Mrs. John Bricker


12,1897


Isaac F. Thompson


..


..


10, 1899


Mrs. Moses Wright


.. 17.1897 Mrs. Ann Weston


.. 16, 1897


Capt. Sam VanHook


..


27.1899


Mrs. M. C. Griffin


..


Oct. 21, 1897


Wallace Garwood


16, 1899


Rebecca S. Goe


Nov. 20, 1897


18. 1897


Robert G. Taylor


20,1899


John W. Thompson


Mar. 6,1898


Joseph E. Adams


20,1899


George Mormell


Dec. 23. 1897


Charles Cox (colored)


20,1899


John McMahon


Feb. 18, 1898


John W. WorreII


Dec. 5,1899


Annie Chew Johnson


Mar. 7.1898 = 16, 1898


Samuel Thompson


46


7,1899


Nancy S. Houston


.. 27.1898


Fred S. Chalfant


15,1899


J. Holmes Patton


May 3.1898


A. Jack Weaver ..


17,1899


Margaret Woodfill


19,1899


Thomas Brawley


8.1898


John D. Bakewell, Sr.


July 22, 1898


Henry Hagar


clied Dec. 23, 1899


Adam Livingston


Aug. 18, 1898


Samuel Meese


23, 1899


George J. Wilkinson


Sept. 9, 1898


William Thomas


23, 1899


Mrs. Anna Cramer


10, 1898


Eike Matsick


23,1899


Peter Oszy


23,1899


Mike Rohal


23, 1899


John Weigle, Sr.


16, 1898


Joseph Maygar


23,1899


Geo. W. McClain


16, 1898


George Vasciek


23.1899


John Bennett


23,1895


Joseph Budshot


23, 1899


Harry Hagar


23, 1898


Andy Rapashie


23, 1899


James Hall


..


23, 1898


George Kovasa


23, 1899


John Cartwright


..


23 1898


Mike Patobeck John Knelsik


23, 1899


S. Hastings (colored)


23, 1898


Andy Parobeck


23, 1899


Robert Davis


23, 1898


George Vasilka


23. 1899


Joseph Ridge


27.1898


Oliver Bakewell


Jan. 1,1900


Maria Brock


Nov. 21, 1898


Wm. A. Suter


4,1900


John Hormell


30. 1898


John B. Patterson


6, 1900


Walter Smith


30. 1898


Adelbert L. Herrington


: 8,1900


Zackariah Powell


30,1898


Ephraim Bar


Feb. 1,1900


William Bricker


30. 1898


Solomon Smith


6, 1900


Noah Speer


30. 1898


Mar. 2, 1900


Warren Ailes


Dec.


3,1898


John L. Clawson


.. 3. 1900


D. D. Williams


..


12. 1898


Edwin Binns


..


9. 1900


Margaret Cooney


21. 1898


Amos Cleaver


12, 1900


Harriett Chew


Jan.


10. 1899


Mary Marker


..


13. 1900


John Weston


10, 1899


Nathaniel P. Hormell


15,1900


Thomas Lilley, Sr.


.. 16, 1899


Caroline V. Taylor


..


20. 1900


George Miller


20. 1899


lames W. Jeffries


..


23. 1900


Ellen Chew


May


1 1899


Thomas Barnes


22, 1900


Nathaniel Bird


5,1899


Robert Gillis, Sr.


64 29, 1900


Andrew Peyton


6,1899


Albert Rager


28. 1900


Joshua Speer


7,1899


Mrs. Alexander Shaw


Apr.


6. 1900


Nathan Crawford


..


11,1899


William Chaltand


11,1900


Oliver Wells


12, 1899


Dr. Q. C. Farqudar


Mar. 28, 1900


William Barr


15, 1899


Mrs. I. W. Parks


-, 1900 . 1900


Hugh T. Boley


Reason Lynch


May 21. 1900


Geo. W. Wilkinson


21,1899


Oliver P. Baldwin


..


Apr. 26, 1900 .. 23. 1900


Kate Roher


June 13, 1899


Ina L. Gue


26, 1900


Jack Harrison


9 1899


Carl N. Ailes


Jan. 26 1901


Wilbur Taylor


21,1899


Frank White


Feb. 28, 1901


Johnny Gray, Sr.


24,1899


Milton S. Thompson Thomas G. Nealan


28.1901 . 1901


Col. Robt. G. Ingersoll


:


22,1899


Charlotte Mitchell


..


Mar. 2,1901


Col. Alex. Leroy Hawkins


18, 1×99


Kate J. Krepps


..


3. 1901


James Pailing


Aug. 10, 1899


Elizal eth Dorsey


..


17.1901


Ellen Williams


13, 1899


John Albright T. Rollin Nelan, M. D.


..


28. 1901


John S. Cunningham


.. 13, 1899


Joseph Horner


Apr. 4. 1901


John Pratt


15, 1899


Harriett Claybaugh Britton"


..


6. 1901


Nancy Ann Snider


Ashbel F. Smith


..


11. 1901


James Dorsey


= 20,1899


George Lopp, Sr.


..


14 1901


James A. Hill


1,1899


Lucius M Theakston


17,1901


Bridget Thompson Ed. Butler


..


4 1899


lesse P. Crawford ..


= 19. 1900


Isaac W. Richard


14.1899


Cornelia Bolden (colored)


May 22, 1901


..


Feb. 11.1898


Albert Meese


23, 1899


Mrs. Robinet Crawford


=


-, 1898


Capt. 1. C. Woodward


13. 1898


23, 1898


Joseph Rodolencke


..


23, 1899


Wm. Pritchard


23.1899


John Hastings (colored)


23. 1898


Mine disaster at Bragrell, 24 miles east of Brownsville


Wm. Anderson


24.1898


Leah C. Pringle


6.1899


Robert D. Houston


John R. Knight


4.1898


Mrs. S. A. Mundell


..


Nov. 13, 1899


.. 21.1897


Alfred Hamilton


66


16,1899


Malissa M. Carter


Oct. 9 1899 Virtue Fox


= 25, 1899


James Dudgeon Frank Barnhart


15. 1897


Lettitia Bevard


Ruth A. Carmack


July


8, 1899


Nelson Chalfant


died


..


..


26. 1899


..


.. 26. 1901


Andrew Smith


..


13, 1899


Sept.


..


4. 1899


Mrs. Morgan ..


.. 17.1901


William Ailes


..


20,1899


Harrison Wood


20. 1900


Samuel Pope


Mar. 11, 1899


Rose Ann Bar


..


..


15 1899


Victoria Axton


19, 1899


James Allison Gue


..


Robert J. Thompson


256


Necrological Record of the Three Towns


William J. Rice


died May 23, 1901


Hanna J. Porter


John L. Nelan


24, 1901


Mary A McGinty


died Feb. 28, 1903 66 28,1903


William Husenman


28 1901


Charles A. Frost


28 1903


Elizabeth Lopp


46


30,1901


George W. Black


Mar. 3,1903


Robert T. Dales


31,1901


Samuel H. Piersol


6,1903


Ida Wilkins Layton


June 6,1901


Harriet Calvert Fletcher


Apr.


10, 1903


George W. Waggoner


:


=


8,1901


Charles Jadinsky


14


27,1903


James S. Binch


Mrs. Lucinda C. Swearer


Robert Moorehouse


30,1903


Mrs. Jennie Patterson Lopp“


12, 1901


Isaac Smothers


May 31, 1903


Martha Houston


14,1901


Adolphus Chew


June


5,1903


Isaac Coleman Ailes


15, 1901


William Hazen


July


1,1903


John S. Wilgus


=


16, 1901


Anna Ridge


9 1903


James Miller


July


5,1901


Christiana Lindy


=


9,1903


Jesse H. Bulger


=


9,1901


William Parkhill


23, 1903


Belle Deems Yorty


9,1901


James Simpson


=


31,1903


Oliver Allen, Sr.


15. 1901


John Ramage


Aug. 11, 1903


Thomas Hill


=


=


Aug.


9,1901


S. E Miller


killed


20,1903


William McKinley


Sept. 13, 1901


William Gately


20,1903


Charles Hormell


25, 1901


Child of S. Theakston


died


24,1903


Mrs. Nancy Burd


26, 1901


Miss Eva J. Murray


=


46


29,1903


Jos. D. Armstrong


*


= 29,1901


John Sorrell (colored)


3,1903


Anna Axton Manges


Oct. 25, 1901


Seaborn Crawford


44


3,1903


Alexander Wilson


=


66


5,1901


Agnes Selden


=


28, 1903


Benjamin Crall


44


18, 1901


Mrs. Fletcher F, Chalfant


=


29,1903


John L. Province


Jan.


5,1902


Mrs. Jane Van Kirk


=


=


20,1903


Mrs. Morgan Pierce


10,1902


Child of Totko


29,1903


Carrie Calvert


=


14, 1902


William Bravley


23 1903


Alonza Calvert


=


16,1902


William Gordon


25.1903


Jesse Smith


20,1902


Nicholas C. Swearer


=


2,1903


Elvy Grimes


Feb.


18,1902


Mrs. Caroline Wheeler


3,1903


Mrs. Jane Jackson


Mar.


15,1902


died =


21,1903


John Williams


"


18, 1902


Infant (Geo. Locatta)


26,1903


Prof. E. F. Porter


Apr.


5,1902


Infant (Hungarian)


27,1903


Fletcher F. Chalfant


=


21,1902


Infant (Hungarian)


27 1903


Robert Miller


May


14. 1902


Alexander Jordan


27,1903


Samuel H. Smith. Esq.


23,1902


Ettie Isler


Nov


22, 1903


Jeremiah Cane


11,1903


Amos Carlson


June


11, 1902


Steve Martinota


12,1903


Minnie Brenton


30,1902


Mrs. Mike Edecon


12,1903


W. H. Thomas


July 23,1902


Mrs. Mary Vernon


9,1903


Benjamin Shoemaker


25, 1902


Ignatz Nigy


10,1903


J mes M. Abrams


Aug. 9,1902


Joe Watto (Italian)


16, 1903


Erasmus Kaiser


=


"


10,1902


Mrs. Martha D. Calvert


Dec. 5, 1903


Kate Hurd Graham


Robert H. Acklin


27,1903


Mrs. Ella Bailey


46 -- , 1902


Joclin Moyer


21,1903


James W. Claybaugh


Sept. 3, 1902


Viola Crable (colored)


8,1903


Morgan Pierce


Ivy Kelley


10,1903


Leonard Swords


S. Green


15, 1903


Wilson Simpson


Silas B. Drum


18, 1903


William L. Guiler


44 13, 1902


Mr. Rosec (foreigner)


28,1903


Tony Kesfofe (foreigner)


22,1903


Isaac Linn


Oct.


10,1902


Lewis Stovey


28, 1903


Charles Marker


Nov.


7,1902


Infant of Isaac Frank


Jan.


19,1904


Isaac N. Burson


2.1902


Wm. Robinson


6,1904


John Reynolds


11,1902


Unknown Italian (blown up at tunnel)


66


4 4


9,1904


Joshua Mechem


24, 1902


Unknown Italian (blown up at tunnel)


9,1904


Lint Dutton


=


66


26,1902


Katherine Graham


16,1904


J. Shannon McCutchion


¥ 29,1902


Mrs. Lizzie Crable and child (smallpox, colored) died . 4


=


18, 1904


Wm. M. Linn


=


20,1903


=


16


26, 1904


U. G. M. Perrin


22, 1903


Caroline Briner


26,1904


Frank Martin


= 29, 1903


Killed at Briar Hill shaft .


James M. Hutchinson


Fel). 1.1903


Domino Cafosse


Jan. 28,1904


Simon Lilley


6, 1903


Frank Cafosse


28.1904


=


Nov. 5, 1901


John Dean


=


=


26 1903


Amanda Livingston


=


14, 1901


Mrs. Sarah Wright


Oct.


11,1903


Parker Pyle


7,1902


Child of Thos. Willians


Unknown (died of smallpox)


3, 1900


Anna Grimes Miller


16,1902


Mrs. Anna Marie Wilson


24,1903


Frank A. Gribble


25, 1902


John Pallent


11,1902


Ada L. Springer


=


13,1903


Louis Grafinger


13,1902


Henry Delaney


Dec.


27,1902 2, 1903


Henry Lancaster (colored) John Smith


16,1904


Fred Grover's baby


=


Jan.


7,1901


Thomas M. Hopkins


23, 1903


James Martin


8, 1901


Miss Blanche Springer


=


24, 1903


Joseph Farquhar


8, 1901


28,1903


Mrs. Mary Richey


=


=


16, 1901


Seaborn Crawford


Sept. 9, 1903


Mrs. Lucinda Eckles


25,1901


James Ghrist


18, 1903


Mrs. Amy Sargent


Joshua Hand


18,1901


Jack Hall


14,1903


9,1903


Mrs. Mary Montgomery


Mike Adanıs


23,1901


Capt. A. Carl Cock


12, 1903


21,1902


Jacob Lilley


Mrs. Brown


13, 1902


4, 1902


4, 1902


Mrs. Mollie Blair


17,1902


=


WVm. H. Ammon


= 25, 1902


=


3,1902


66


10,1901


66


257


Necrological Record of the Three Towns


Domino Castindinc


Jan. 28, 1904


Mrs. Elizabeth Eckles


died Mar. 15, 1904


Angelo Mazzo


28,1904


Elsie Laughery


.. 18, 1904


Mrs. Sara A. Kisinger


died


= 2, 1904


Isaac Winn


=


4. 1904


Infant of Mr. Luther Sheets "


=


9,1904


Archie McAleese


= 16, 1904


Robert Bailey


Lafayette Terrell (colored)


=


18, 1904


Samuel M. Binns


44


Ieb


4 1904


Alvin Harzy


26,1904


John H. Beckley


=


18, 190-1


Tony J. Vigotte


Mary Bolden (colored)


.. 27,1904


David D. Pugh


25,1904


Four Italians killed at tunnel


28,1904


C. G. Johnson


8, 1904


Two colored men killed at tunnel Mrs. Paul Hough


died Apr. 21,1904


Wm. M. Brewer


=


15, 1904


Infant of Geo Workman


22, 1904


Mrs. Cathern Troth


=


24 1904


Mrs. Geo. Workman


= 27,1904


A. B. Ledwith


4 4


24, 1904


Mrs. Margaret Fenwick


May


10, 1904


Roppath Celniso


= 24,1904


Edward Snowdon


Mar. 4, 1904


Thos. Williams


12. 1904


=


3, 1901


Ella Wakefield


.. 2,1904 Child of Win. Bell


17,1904


Child, Camino


7,1904


Jermiah Peirsol


31,1901


Nick Munson


.. 26, 1904


Daisy Murry


Capt. Michael A. Cox


20, 1904


11,1904


= 28, 1904


John Mitchell


18, 1904


29,1904


HERE LIES the Body of THO MAS BLOWN


wn.who depat


!1


Tombstone of Jno. H. Washington Tombstone of Archibald Washington


Tombstone of Thos. Brown Founder of Brownsville


History of Brownsville


WHERE LOCATED-EARLY SETTLERS -- CRESAP'S FERRY --- CRESAP EXONER- ATED OF KILLING LOGAN'S FAMILY -- THOMAS AND BASIL BROWN - BROWNSVILLE LAID OUT AND INCORPORATED-FIRST BOROUGH OFFICIALS -PRESENT BOROUGH OFFICIALS-POSTMASTERS WHO HAVE SERVED AT BROWNSVILLE- EARLY FIRE PROTECTION-OLD CEMETERIES- REDSTONE CEMETERY-FIRST AND PRESENT OFFICIALS-RULES OF THE CEMETERY-ENDOWMENT FUND-NOT RUN FOR PROFIT OF STOCK- HOLDERS-LADIES OF THE ROUND TABLE.


WHERE LOCATED.


Almost every historical record that we have been able to find refers to Brownsville as being at the mouth of Redstone Creek and as is well known, the relic of the mound-builders and the later Fort Burd are described as being at the mouth of Redstone. In fact the name of Redstone was given to the mound of the prehistoric race who lived and labored here long before Colum- bus sighted the new world, and yet it is not at the mouth of Redstone at all but at the mouth of Nemacolin Creek, which name was also appropriated by Colonel Dunlap, thus making it Dunlap's Creek, when in fact it should have been Nemacolin Creek. If history related absolute facts it would say that early emigration steered for Nemacolin Creek instead of for Redstone and Redstone Old Fort, woukl be recorded Nemacolin Old Fort. The mouth of Redstone is fully a mile from Redstone Old Fort and from Brownsville, while Nemacolin Creek passes right under the shadow of the point on which the old fort and later Fort Burd, were built, and on which the principal part of the original Brownsville stands.


EARLY SETTLERS.


The first settlers within the territory that is now within the corporate limits of Brownsville, were James Crawford, Abraham Tegard, John Province. John Hardin and Michael Cresap. It seems that Cresap is the only one who made any effort to establish a claim to the land. He took up a "Tomahawk Claim," that is, he blazed a number of trees and built a cabin of logs and covered it with shingles "nailed on," which bears the distinction of being the first house so constructed west of the Allegheny mountains. On the strength of this he secured a Virginia title to a large tract of land including the old fort of the mound-builders known as "Redstone Old Fort, on the site of which Colonel James Burd, in 1759, built Fort Burd.


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CRESAP'S FERRY.


February 23, 1775, Michael Cresap was authorized by the Virginia court to keep or run a ferry on the Monongahela River at Redstone Old Fort or rather between that place and the land of Indian Peter on the opposite side of the river where West Brownsville now stands. Cresap seems to have established the ferry but as he died that fall, the ferry fell into other hands, whose is not definitely known, but the records of the Fayette County courts in 1788 disclose the fact that at that time it was in the hands of one of the Gillespies. The landing on this side of the river was at a point in front of the United States Hotel, now the Albion Hotel. The ferry continued here till the National Road was completed in 1820 when it was moved up the river to Bridgeport where the present steamboat landing now is and where it continued to ply till the wooden bridge was finished in 1833.


It may not be out of order here to mention that there was another ferry located farther up the river, that plied between a point in front of where Solomon G. Krepps, Sr., now resides, in Bridgeport, and the old stone house on the West Brownsville side, located near the Sam Thompson distillery. The old stone house was then a tavern and was the property of the Krepps'. The ferry was established by John Krepps in 1794 and continued till some time after the Monongahela bridge was completed. Towards the end of its days it was run by steam.


CRESAP EXONERATED OF KILLING LOGAN'S FAMILY.


Mr. Cresap is the man who was accused of killing the family of Logan, the Indian chief. Captain Cresap took active part in the Indian troubles about Pittsburg and Wheeling in 1774 and in the summer of 1775 led a company of riflemen from Maryland to Cambridge, Mass., to join General Washington. A part of this company was enlisted from Fayette County or what is now Fayette County. Captain Cresap took sick shortly after reaching Cambridge and started home but when he reached New York he was unable to proceed farther. He remained in New York till October of that year when he died. His son Michael and John J. Jacob who had been a clerk in his store and who afterwards married his widow, were the executors of his estate, and it was largely through them that his name has been entirely cleared of the odium that attached to it on account of the murder of the Logan family. They proved conclusively that he was not in that section of the country when the murder occurred.


THOMAS AND BASIL BROWN.


Michael Cresap sold his land to Thomas and Basil Brown some years later, who in 1785 laid out the original town of Brownsville. A public square was left open on the south side of Front street and between this and the river a


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burial ground was reserved. In this burial ground Thomas Brown was finally laid to rest in 1797 and until quite recently the stone marking his grave was still standing and engraved on it were these words: "Here lies the body of Thomas Brown, who was once the owner of this town, who departed this life March S, 1797, aged 89 years." In this same ancient cemetery were buried two brothers of George Washington.


BROWNSVILLE LAID OUT AND INCORPORATED.


While Brownsville was laid out in 1785 and at once commenced its phe- nomenal growth both in population and industry, it was not incorporated till 1815. The Act of Assembly by which it was incorporated was passed December 14, 1814, and approved January 9, 1815. An election was held at the house of Jacob Coplan on the first Tuesday of April of the latter year and the following borough officers were elected:


FIRST BOROUGH OFFICIALS.


Thomas Mckibben, chief burgess; Philip Shaffner, assistant burgess ; William Hogg, Basil Brashear, John S Duncan, John McCadden, George Hogg, Jr., Israel Miller and George Dawson, councilmen; John Jaques, high constable. In 1817 Brownsville township was constituted being taken from Redstone township. The number of taxpayers at the time Brownsville was incorporated is given as 234.


PRESENT BOROUGH OFFICIALS.


BURGESS : William H. Fisher.


COUNCIL : Harry Kisinger, president: Benj. Hibbs, Charles L. Snowdon,


Edgar T. Brashear, A. A. Carmack, W. A. Griffin, Jas. F. Collier.


SECRETARY OF COUNCIL: Charles W. Coulter.


TREASURER : Monongahela Bank.


ASSESSOR : Edw. Delaney.


AUDITORS: W. A. Griffin, J. Howard Snowdon, Edw. Delaney.


TAX COLLECTOR: George C. Steele.


POLICEMEN : A. C. Patterson, chief; Alex. Labin, Clyde Worcester.


CONSTABLE : George N. Porter.


STREET COMMISSIONER: Jesse Johnson.


SCHOOL DIRECTORS: W. A. Edmiston, president; W. L. Lenhart, secre- tary: J. A. Houston, Harry Kisinger, C. L. Snowdon, Frank Gabler, Frank Gadd, Charles M. Gregg, William Acklin, Charles Storey. Benj. F. Hibbs. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: Charles W. Bowman, William L. Lenhart.


HEALTHI BOARD: Dr. C. C. Reichard, President; Dr. Louis N. Reichard, Secretary; Dr. Colley Miller. S. S. Graham, Samuel E. Taylor.


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POSTMASTERS WHO HAVE SERVED BROWNSVILLE.


The post office at Brownsville was established January 1, 1795. The following is a list of the postmasters with the date of their appointments:


Jacob Bowman, January 1, 1795.


Martin Tiernan, April 29, 1829.


Margaret Tiernan, December 6, 1834.


William G. Roberts, December 12, 1838.


William Sloan, July 10, 1841.


Henry J. Rigden, June 4, 1845.


William Sloan (second time) May 11, 1849.


Isaac Bailey, May 18, 1853.


Samuel Snowden, March 13, 1861.


Oliver P. Baldwin, March 7, 1865.


Henry Bulger, April 9, 1869.


John S. Wilgus, April 9, 1873.


J. Nelson Snowdon, January 23, 1878.


Holmes Patton.


W. A. McCormick.


W. C. Steele, February 15, 1899.


EARLY FIRE PROTECTION


Brownsville has never had a fire department, nor has there ever been in the borough any efficient organization furnished with adequate apparatus and appliances for the extinguishment of fires, though at least three of the old- style hand fire engines have been purchased. The date of the purchase of the first of these has not been ascertained for the reason that no borough records can be found covering the period from March, 1821, to August, 1840, as before mentioned. That the borough was in possession of the engine house, and therefore, presumably, an engine, prior to the latter date, is shown by the fact that at that time a bill was presented and allowed by the board "for painting the engine house."


On the 12th of October, 1842, the petition of about fifty citizens was pre- sented "praying the council to provide suitable means to guard against the accident of fire, and to take a loan for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses thereof." At the same time a committee was appointed to examine the three springs at the head of the town with a view to the construction and supply of a reservoir, and to report on the same. On the 17th of the same month the committee reported that to "construct a reservoir, at the spring above Workman's, thirty feet square and twelve feet deep, to cover the same and to bring the water through iron pipes to Brashear's Alley, will cost about one thousand dollars; and for each additional foot of pipe, and laying the same, one dollar thirty-seven and a half cents." Also that fire plugs should be put in at each square, costing, by estimation, forty dollars. George Dawson was instructed by


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Chas. Bowman's Vard - Nemacolin Castle


the council to confer with the heirs of Neal Gillespie to ascertain what they would charge for land for the reservoir. On the 24th of October, Mr. Dawson reported that permission to build the reservoir could not be obtained.


October 17th, 1842, council resolved "that Robert Rogers and Edward Hughes be and they are hereby appointed a committee to contract for a fire engine." October 20th, Robert Rogers was appointed to contract for four ladders-two of twenty feet and two of sixteen feet in length-and for six fire hooks.


January 12, 1843, "the president, Mr. Robert Rogers, was appointed to contract with some one to build an engine house at the west end of the market house." On the 17th of the same month, "Robert Rogers, president, re- ported that he had articled with Faull & Herbertson for a fire engine for three hundred and fifty dollars," and two days later he reported that he "had contracted with John Johnson to build the engine house."




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