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Our county town was laid out in 1803, with con- venient streets and alleys crossing one another at
# At the corner of the tract surveyed and patented to Rohert Patrick, which now belongs to Gen. Orr's estate.
+ A short distance below the rolling-mill, and a little less distance below the present southern limit of the borough of Kittanning.
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right angles. It was divided into two hundred and forty-eight in-lots and twenty-seven out-lots. One hundred and sixty-one in-lots were sold soon after and assessed at $1,858, or an average of $11.54 per lot. The eighty-seven in-lots then re- maining unsold were assessed at $882, or an average of $10.14 per lot. The twenty-seven out-lots at $288, or the average of $10.67 per lot.
ATTACHED TO WESTMORELAND.
This county was for several years after its or- ganization by the act of 1800 attached to West- moreland county, until there was an enumeration of its taxable inhabitants. The first settlement of accounts between the boards of commissioners of the two counties was in 1808, when there was found to be a balance due from Westmoreland to Armstrong county of $2,978.11, which was certified by the commissioners of the former, and for which they also certified that they would draw an order on the treasurer of their county in favor of the treasurer of our county.
JUDICIAL ORGANIZATION.
Armstrong county was organized for judicial purposes in 1805, and the first court was held in a log house, on lot number 121, the present site of the Reynolds House, in December of that year. The bench was a very primitive one, and consisted in part of a carpenter's bench. The chair in which the president judge then sat is now in the posses- sion of Mrs. Jane Williams, of Kittanningborough. It is a splint-bottom arm-chair.
At that and subsequent terms, until the bell for the court-house was procured, the times for open- ing the daily sessions of the court were signified by the blowing of a horn by the court erier, who was James Hannegan.
John Young, of Greensburgh, was soon after appointed president judge of the judicial district, then composed of Armstrong, Cambria, Indiana, Somerset and Westmoreland counties, and Capt. Robert Orr, George Ross and James Barr, Esqs., were appointed associate judges of the several courts of this county. The constitution of 1790 prescribed that the governor should appoint, unless otherwise directed by law, "not fewer than four judges in each county." The act of February 24, 1806, prescribed that if a vacancy should thereafter happen in any county then organized, by the death, resignation or removal of any associate judge or otherwise, the governor should not supply the same unless the number of associates should thereby be reduced to less than two ; in which case, or in ease of any county thereafter organized, he
should commission so many as would complete that number in each county, and no more. The act of April 14, 1834, prescribed that the courts of common pleas of the several counties of this com- monwealth, except Philadelphia, should consist of a president judge and two associate judges, who, as was the case before, were also constituted judges of the courts of Oyer and Terminer, quarter-sessions of the peace and orphans' courts.
The courts were held in the jail after it was built until the first court-house was erected.
THE FIRST COURT.
From the minutes of December sessions, 1805, recorded in the neat and legible ehirography of Paul Morrow, the first prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas and clerk of the other courts, it ap- pears thus : Present, Samuel Roberts, Esquire, President, and James Barr, Robert Orr and George Ross, Esquires, Justices of the same court. Sheriff : John Orr, Esq. Coroner : Consta- bles : Alexr. Blair, Buffalo township ; James Scott, Allegheny township ; and Joseph Reed, Toby township. Attorneys admitted : Samuel Massey, Samuel Guthrie, George Armstrong, John B. Alex- ander and Wm. Ayers. John B. Alexander was sworn to execute the office of Attorney -General within the county of Armstrong.
Grand Jurors : Wm. Parker, Esq., James McCor- mick, Adam Maxwell, Joseph Shields, Gideon Gib- son, James Elgin, John Laughlin, Isaac Townsend, John Corbett, Wm. Freeman, Sam'l Orr, Esq., Sam'l Walker, Capt. Thos. Johnston, James Coulter, Jacob Allimony, John Craig, Esq., James Lindly, Col. Elijah Mounts, Thos. Barr, John Henry, James Clark, Esq., James Thompson and David Todd.
Traverse Jurors : James Smith, Jacob Young, Philip Bolin, Sam'l Hill, Parker Truitt, Jacob Wolf, James Gaff, Thos. Herron, George Beck, John Week, Eli Bradford, Tate Allison, Peter Le Fever, John Beatty, Wm. Cochran, Michael Ander- son, Gilbert Wright, Timothy Lermonton, Thos. Foster, John Patrick, Andrew Milligan, Thos. Wat- son, Abraham Gardner, Sam'l Elder, Philip Temple- ton, Ezekiel Lewis, John Davis and Joseph McKee.
Petitioners for tavern licenses recommended : David Reynolds, David Shields, Joseph Wiles and Wm. Cochran.
Ex. orders : Petitions were also presented for the division of this county into townships, for the Crooked Creek bridge, and for public roads from Kittanning to Toby's Creek, from Freeport to the Butler county line, from Freeport to Brown's Ferry, and from Thomas's Mill to Reed's Mill. Viewers were appointed.
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THE SECOND COURT-HOUSE.
In the Common Pleas nine suits and one certiorari were brought to December term, 1805, none of which were then tried. Eight judgments by con- fession on warrant of attorney were also entered as of that term.
It appears from the court minutes that Judge Barr was on the bench, for the last time, at Decem- ber term, 1817 ; Judge Ross, at March term, 1829, his successor Joseph Rankin ; Judge Orr, at June term, 1833, his successor the late Gen. Robert Orr ; Judge Young, at September term, 1836, his successor Thomas White, of Indiana, Pennsylvania. So that the first Judges of the courts of this county held their respective positions as follows : Judge Barr 12 years, Judge Ross 24 years, Judge Orr 28 years, and Judge Young 31 years. The act of 1806 obviated the filling of the vacancy caused by the retirement of Judge Barr. Joseph Rankin, then a Member of Assembly, was appointed, though not an ostensible applicant, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Ross. There were several earnest applicants for the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Orr in 1833. Governor Wolf was not a little perplexed by the eager contest between them, to compromise which he tendered the appoint- ment to the son of the deceased, the late Gen. Robert Orr, who at first declined it because he did not wish it, but was finally persuaded by the Gov- ernor and Philip Mechling, who was then in the State Senate, to accept it. The tendering of the appointment to Gen. Orr was suggested to the Governor by Mr. Mechling.
The circuit court was occasionally held at Kit- tanning by Chief-Justice Tighlman, and Justices Yeates and Huston, of the Supreme Court of Penn- sylvania, from 1807 until 1834, when it was abol- ished.
THE FIRST COURT-HOUSE
was built on one of the acres reserved for public build- ings, situate on the southeast corner of Market and Jefferson streets, on the present sites of J. A. Gault & Co.'s and McConnell & Campbell's stores in the then town of Kittanning. It was a substantial brick edifice, about fifty feet square, two stories high, with two one-story brick wings containing the county offices, the one fronting on Market and the other Jefferson street. The roof of the main building was hipped, in the center of which was a cupola in which the bell was suspended. The court-room, in the first or lower story, lacked proper means of ventilation. The jury-rooms were in the second story. Both the brick and wood work, the latter especially, was, in its day, considered a fine specimen of architectural taste and skill. For about two-fifths of a century that edifice was used as a
temple of justice, and for a considerable portion of that period as a temple of religion by various de- nominations, and for political and other secular meetings.
Its erection must have been begun in 1809, as the date of the first order for brick, viz., 120,000 at $5 per thousand, is October 7, 1809. It and the public offices were not probably completed until about 1819. An order was issued February 29, 1812, for $5.20 for boards and nails to close it up; July 10, 1816, one for $100, the first payment for plastering and painting the first and second stories ; August 7, 1818, one for $212.81} for the bell-2834 Ibs. at 75 cents; and September 23, 1819, one for $290 for building the register's office. The latest order on account of that court-house and its annexes appears to have been issued March 21, 1820, for $33.78 for carpenter work in the "new room." The commis- sioners' order-book shows the total amount of orders issued on that account to have been $7,859.19.
In 1805 a substantial two-story stone jail was erected on the acre reserved for public use, extend- ing from Market, along the west side of McKean street, to a public alley near the present site of the Methodist Episcopal church.
THE SECOND COURT-HOUSE.
New public buildings at length became necessary. But the county commissioners hesitated to erect them, more on account of the expense that would be incurred than their lack of conviction that they were needed. By the act of April 8, 1850, they were authorized to divide the two acres reserved for public buildings into lots, sell them, and use the proceeds in the erection of new buildings else- where within the Borough of Kittanning, which they did. A new two-story brick court-house, with its westerly end fronting toward the river, the offices on the first floor and the court-room in the second story, was erected in 1852-3, at the head of the easterly extension of Market street. The good acoustic properties of the court-room were, to say the least, among the chief excellencies of that edi- fice, which was not so well constructed and heated as a court-house ought to be. It was destroyed by fire, which was discovered about noon, March 10, 1858 - shortly before or during the noon adjourn- ment of the courts. The writer was absent at the time, but was informed on his return that some peo- ple from the country, taxpayers, regarded its destruction with complacency, and some of them even exclaimed "Let it burn!" The dockets and papers in the county offices were saved, but were sadly disarranged in their hurried removal to the rooms that were temporarily used as offices.
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HISTORY OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY.
THE SECOND JAIL.
A new stone jail was erected cotemporaneously with, and a few yards northwardly of, the second conrt-house. It was a two-story structure with a two-story brick jailer's house attached, fronting the road or street extending northwardly from the head of Market street. That jail at length proved to be insecure both for the health and custody of the prisoners. Their escapes through the roof and elsewhere became frequent. After several present- ments by the grand jury respecting its condition, the county commissioners contracted with Harrison Bros. of Pittsburgh for raising the walls several feet higher, and putting on a new and secure roof. On the removal of the old roof it was discovered that the walls were insufficient for sustaining the increased weight of such a new roof as would be adequate for the retention of the prisoners. It therefore became necessary to tear down the old walls and build new ones. A farmer, passing by one day and observing the material of the old walls as it lay before him, remarked, "Those were never fit for prison walls."
THE THIRD AND PRESENT COURT-HOUSE
was erected by Hulings & Dickey, on the site of the burned one, in 1858-60, at a cost of about $32,000. It is a substantial building, partly of brick and partly of stone, of the Corinthian order of architecture. Its sides front nearly west and east. There is an elegant portico on its west front, with stone columns, and capitals and all parts of that order, the whole resting on an arcade of cut stone. The dimensions of this edifice are 105 feet by 65 feet. A beautiful cupola or dome, highly ornamented, crowns the center, with a large bell therein suspended. The first story, which is reached from the western side by a flight of stone steps of the same length as the portico, is divided into a cross hall, with a floor laid with English variegated tile, grand-jury and witness rooms, the commis- sioners', prothonotary's, register and recorder's, sheriff's and county treasurer's offices, three of which offices are substantially fire-proof. The court-room is in the second story. It is elegantly frescoed, ceiling twenty-three feet, length sixty-two feet, and breadth fifty-eight feet. Being so nearly square in shape, its acoustic properties are very unfavorable for both speaking and hearing. That defect has been obviated by suspending a screen,* twelve feet wide, from the ceiling, the entire width of the room, making that part of the room where the speaking is done, so far as sound is concerned,
a parallelogram 58×31 feet, causing an almost entire cessation of the previous excessive reverbera- tion incident to a large room that is square, or nearly so, in shape. The rest of the second story contains vestibules separated by flights of stairs in the lower or southerly end, and a hall twelve feet wide, reached by a flight of stairs, and two traverse jury rooms in the upper or northerly end. In the northerly end of the third story are two other rooms, one of which is used for an office by the county superintendent of common schools.
THE THIRD AND PRESENT JAIL.
On the presentments of two grand juries, after the tearing down of the second jail, recommending the erection of a new jail and jailer's house, the plan and specifications of the present structure having been before these grand juries, were adopted, and the contract for building both was made with Harrison Bros., and for superintending the work with Jas. McCullough, Jr. The erection was commenced in 1870, and was completed in 1873. The whole structure cost $252,000. It is one of the strongest, secnrest and most substantial buildings in the United States. It is constructed of stone, brick and iron. It contains twenty-four cells, 8×13 feet each. The ceiling is 13} feet high. The ventilation is good. The main corridor is 68×16 feet, and 38 feet high. The jailer's house contains eight rooms with proper ventilation. 'The woodwork of the whole building is of North Caro- lina pine, with iron guards on the outside of the windows of the jailer's house, made of 13-inch round iron. The dimensions of the entire struc- ture on the ground are 114×50 feet. Its founda- tion is 24 feet deep, down from the surface, and 7 feet wide at the bottom. It required that depth for a solid foundation, which greatly increased the cost. The tower is 96 feet high, 18 feet square at the base and 10 feet square at the top, all of solid stone, neatly tooled, and surmounted with battle- ments. All the outer surface of the house and jail, including gutters and cornices, is an Aslılar facing of wrought stone, neatly tooled. The outer walls are 23 feet thick, and are lined on the inside with brick 4 inches thick. All the floors are brick, 13 inches thick. The arches are of solid concrete 4 inches thick, and of cast iron 1 inch thick. The flagging in the main corridor and cells is 24 inches thick-brick in the former and wood in the latter. There are four large rooms in the jail part to be used as hospitals when needed. Both the house and jail are well supplied with gas and water from the Kittanning Gas and Water Works. The house part of the structure is oc-
* It was suspended Saturday, December 9, 1873.
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ARMSTRONG COUNTY CIVIL ROSTER.
tagonal, with bay fronts and surmounted with battlements. All the window and door openings, the tower, battlements and outer walls are of eut stone, the facing on the front side of the house being finely wrought, and the doors and windows capped with elaborately wronght, substantial and beautiful keystone arches. All the stone of which all the outer walls of both house and jail are con- structed was obtained from the sandstone quarry at Catfish, Clarion county, Pennsylvania, and is said to be among the best for outer walls and to stand the chemical test better than any other stone used for building in Pittsburgh. All the stone- work is laid or put together with the best of hydraulic cement, no lime having been used except in plastering the inner walls.
This jail is on the site of the second one, a little west of north of the present court-house, with an interval between the two of nearly thirteen feet. The material and workmanship of it and the jail- er's house are such that both will stand for eentu- ries, unless they be purposely torn down by official authority and human instrumentality, or over- thrown by some powerful convulsion of nature.
ARMSTRONG COUNTY CIVIL ROSTER.
Governors .- William F. Johnston, of Pennsyl- vania ; Andrew J. Faulk, of Dakota Territory.
Congressmen .- Gen. Robert Orr, Samnel S. Harrison, Joseph Buffington, Darwin Phelps and James Mosgrove-all citizens of Kittanning. Walter A. Burleigh, a former citizen of this county, delegate to Congress from Dakota Terri- tory.
State Senators .- Robert Orr, Jr., 1822-25 ; Eben Smith Kelley, 1825-29 (died in the dis- charge of his duties at Harrisburg, Saturday, March 28, 1829); Philip Mechling, 1830-34; William F. Johnston, 1847, until he was inaugu- rated Governor in January, 1849; Jonathan E. Meredith, 1859-62.
Members of Assembly, or Representatives. - James Sloan, 1808-9; Samuel Houston, 1817-18- 19 ; Robert Orr, Jr., 1818-19-20-21 ; James Doug- lass, 1834-5-6; William F. Johnston, 1836-7-8, and 1841 ; John S. Rhey, 1850-1-2; J. Alexander Fulton, 1853; Darwin Phelps, 1856; John K. Calhoun, 1857-8; Philip K. Bowman, 1872-3 ; Andrew W. Bell, William G. Heiner, 1877-80 ; W. F. Rumberger, Lee Thompson and Frank Martin, 1880 ; Thompson and A. D. Glenn, 1882.
Member of Constitutional Convention for 1873-4 .- John Gilpin.
United States Commissioner .- Grier C. Orr.
Collector of U. S. Taxes in 1816-17 .- Philip Mechling.
Collector of Internal Revenue, Twenty-third District .- Robert L. Brown.
Deputy Collector for this County .- William H. H. Piper.
Chief Justice Supreme Court of Pennsylvania .- James Thompson .*
President Judges .- John Young, Westmoreland county ; Thomas White, Indiana county ; Jere- miah M. Burrell, Westmoreland county ; John C. Knox, Tioga county ; Joseph Buffington, Arm- strong county ; James A. Logan, Westmoreland county ; John V. Painter, Armstrong county ; Jackson Boggs and James B. Neale.
Associate Judges .- Robert Orr, Sr., James Barr, George Ross, Joseph Rankin, Robert Orr, Jr., Charles G. Snowden, John Calhoun, Andrew Arnold, Hugh Bingham, Robert Woodward, Michael Cochran, Geo. F. Keener, John Woods, Josiah E. Stevenson, H. A. S. D. Dudley, John F. Nulton, Robert M. Beatty, James M. Stevenson.
Prothonotaries of Common Pleas and Clerks of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and Quarter Sessions .- Paul Morrow, James Sloan, George Hiccox, Eben S. Keley, James E. Brown, Frederick Rohrer, Simon Torney, W. W. Gibson, James Donglass, Jonathan E. Meredith, Samuel Owens, Simon Truby, Jr., James S. Quigley, John G. Parr, James G. Henry, A. H. Stitt.
County Commissioners. - Appointed : James Sloan, James Matthews and Alexander Walker. Elected : Jonathan King, Adam Ewing, James Jackson, Thomas Johnston, John Henery, George Long, Alex. McCain, John Davidson, David Johns- ton, Philip Clover, Isaac Wagle, David Reynolds, Joseph Rankin, Joseph Waugh, Daniel Reichert, Philip Templeton, Sr., Joseph Shields, Hugh Reid,
* Mr. Thompson, although not a citizen of Kittanning when elected, or while on the bench, was so for several years prior to 1830. He came here from Butler, Pennsylvania, in 1826, being then twenty- two years of age. He was a printer, and took Josiah Copley's place in the office of the Kittanning Gazette while the latter was absent getting married in Philadelphia. He afterward assisted in printing Bennett's Lectures on Theology, and read law in the office of Thomas Blair, working at his trade three hours a day to pay for his hoarding. During a part, if not all, the period of his clerkship, he boarded with Mr. Copley, who says he found him "a very pleasant and genial member of his family. He was a good printer and had liter- ary genins of a high order for one of his age and opportunities." On Wednesday, March 19, 1828, he was admitted to, and then for a year and a half or so practiced at the bar of this county, having in the meantime married a daughter of Rev. Nathaniel G. Snowden, after which he removed to Franklin, Venango county, Pennsyl- vania. In an old number of the Gazette, and of the Columbian, is his professional card in these words:
"James Thompson, attorney at law, has opened an office ou Jefferson street, in the borough of Kittanning, next door to the office of David Johnston, Esq., where he will be found at all times, and ready to transact any hnsiness in the line of his profession. Deeds, honds, mortgages, etc., will be drawn at a short notice, in legal form, and on moderate terms.
" Kittanning, April 19, 1828."
His residence here was not long continued. The office which he had then opened must have heen on lot No. 152, on the west side of Jefferson, and the third lot above Jacob street, for on that lot was the office of David Johnston, afterward occupied by Darwin Phelps, and now hy John Kennerdell.
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HISTORY OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY.
James Barr, George Williams, John Patton, Samuel Matthews, James Green, Job Johnson, Jacob Allshouse, James Reichert, Alex. A. Lowry, John R. Johnston, William Curll, Jacob Beck, George W. Brodhead, Lindley Patterson, James Stitt, Joseph Bullman, William Coulter, Amos Mercer, Philip Hutchinson, John Boyd, Robert McIntosh, Arthur Fleming, Andrew Roulston, John Shoop, William McIntosh, Archibald Glenn, Wilson Todd, Thos. H. Caldwell, James Donglass, David Beatty, George B. Sloan, William W. Hastings, John M. Patton, Wm. H. Jack, James Blair, Thomas Templeton, James Barr, Daniel Slagle, George II. Smith, Augustus T. Pontius, Peter Heilman, William P. Lowry, Thomas Mont- gomery, Thomas IIerron, Wm. Buffington, Brice Henderson and Owen Handcock, Lewis W. Cor- bett, John Murphy, James White, John Alward, T. V. McKee.
County Treasurers .- Appointed annually by the county commissioners, as provided by acts of April 11, 1799, and April 15, 1834 : Adam Elliott, Rob- ert Brown, Samuel Matthews, Guy Hiccox, Thomas Hamilton, James Pinks, Alexander Col- well, David Johnston, Jonathan H. Sloan, Samuel McKee, Andrew Arnold, James Douglass, Samuel Hutchinson, John F. Nulton. Some of them were reappointed once or twice.
Elected as provided by act of May 27, 1841 : John F. Nulton, George Beck, James McCullough, Sr., Absalom Reynolds, Henry J. Arnold, Alexan- der Henry, Thomas McMasters, Andrew J. Faulk, Samuel Crawford, Robert Anderson, William Brown, William McClelland (George Kron ap- pointed to fill unexpired term of Wm. McClelland, deceased), J. Norman McLeod (Samnel McLeod appointed to fill unexpired term of J. N. McLeod, deceased), Samuel WV. Hamilton, Samuel C. Davis, John E. Alward, James Piper, James H. Monroe, T. Jeff. Elwood, John C. Walters. The present constitution of this state makes the term of county treasurer three years instead of two, as it was un- der the act of 1841.
Registers and Recorders and Clerks of Orphans' Courts .- Paul Morrow, James Sloan, George Hic- cox, Eben S. Kelley, David Johnston, Philip Mech- ling, Frederick Rohrer, John Croll, John Mech- ling, John R. Johnston, Joseph Bullman, William Miller, David C. Boggs, Philip K. Bowman, Wmn. R. Millron, James H. Chambers and H. J. Hayes.
Until 1821 the offices of prothonotary, clerk of the courts, and register and recorder were held by one person.
Deputy Attorneys-General .- Deputy attorneys- general were appointed by the attorney-general
until, by act of May 3, 1850, the name was changed to district attorneys, one of whom was thereafter to be elected for by the voters of each county. Thos. Blair,' Wm. F. Johnston, Michael Gallagher, J. B. Musser, John B. Alexander, John Reed, Geo. W. Smith, John S. Rhey, Thos. T. Torney, Daniel Stanard, Hugh H. Brady, Ephraim Carpenter, J. G. Barclay, John W. Rohrer, James Stewart.
District Attorneys .- John W. Rohrer, Franklin Mechling, William Blakeley, Henry F. Phelps, John V. Painter, John O. Barrett, Jefferson Rey- nolds, Joseph R. Henderson, M. F. Leason, R. S. Martin.
Sheriff's .- John Orr, Jonathan King, James Mc- Cormick, Joseph Brown, Philip Mechling, Robert Robinson, Thos. McConnell, Jacob Mechling, Jas. Douglass, Chambers Orr, Samuel Hutchinson, Job Truby, George Smith, John Mechling, William G. Watson, Joseph Clark, Hamilton Kelly, George B. Sloan, Jonathan Myers, Robert M. Kirkadden, George W. Cook (appointed vice Kirkadden, de- ceased), David J. Reed, Alexander J. Montgom- ery, John B. Boyd, George A. Williams, James G. Henry, James H. Chambers.
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