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Joseph T. Pugh.
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mont, who came here in 1847 from Chautauqua County, N. Y. Later, Thomas Seal and Charles Coale occupied it as a sash fac- tory. In later years James Erwin and T. B. White operated a machine shop in it, after them C. R. Tuttle had a machine shop there, and it was then bought by Henry Fetter and run until recent years as a planing mill, but is now abandoned. Mr. Fetter came here in 1837, and engaged in business as a mill- wright, helping to erect many of the factories on the race. He retired from business a few years ago.
In 1836-7 Talbot Townsend erected a flouring mill, which was burned. It was rebuilt by Alexander & Kelly, but is now dismantled. Just below this mill they erected a building which in later years was used as a planing mill by R. H. Mc- Pherson and H. McClain, and afterward by R. B. McDanel & McClain. About 1838 Benjamin Bedison and Levi McConnell built the "Star" flouring mill, which they operated for about twenty years, and which has been in operation ever since, for some years run by Mellon & Douglass, and now operated by Douglass & Co. In the same year Root, Bush & Dukehart manufactured stoves, machine, mill, and plow castings in the Quaker Mills. At the same time the Beaver County Insurance Company was operating in the town. In 1840 Abel Townsend and others built the felt factory, which was afterward used by B. & W. Wilde as a woolen factory. Ephraim Smith adver- tised, November 17, 1841, that he had rented the New Brighton felt factory, and intended to card wool for country customers, all kinds of country produce to be taken in pay. In 1844 Charles Coale and Thomas Seal built what is known as the tub and wash- board factory, and also began the manufacture of buckets, in the building formerly occupied by the Messrs. Wilde, in connection with John W. Gill, of Wheeling. Messrs. Coale & Gill also built a saw-mill at the lower end of the race, where they had a large pool in which to float the logs. This mill was operated by Joseph Darling for a few years at the close of the war, and was owned at one time by Wm. Kennedy. The Messrs. Wilde erected a new brick building for their own use, which was burned down and replaced by the building now occupied by McDanel & Sons as a planing mill, the walls having been cut down somewhat. They also built a brick building north of the Star mills, which was wrecked by
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high water. The woolen factory passed out of existence many years ago. On the present site of Bentley & Gerwig's brick build- ing was one erected by M. M. Marquis, and afterwards owned by R. E. Hoopes & Company, and used by them as a foundry. Immediately adjoining this was a three-story frame building used by White & Erwin as a planing mill and machine shop, by Beeson & Company as a planing mill, and later by Abram Bent- ley as a twine factory. August 12, 1861, a water spout caused a sudden rise of the river, which carried away the head gates of the race, and completely wrecked these two buildings.
The Pioneer Flax Mills were established in 1850 by Abram Bentley, and are now in successful operation, run by Bentley & Gerwig. Just below this point Henry Stauffer erected a mill for grinding gypsum, and after a few years turned it into a flour- ing mill, and afterwards this was used as a paper mill by Frederick Trudley. C. R. Tuttle built a machine shop adjoining this last property and operated it for a number of years. Be- tween this shop and Bentley & Gerwig's present new brick build- ing, T. B. White started the manufacture of bridges, and in 1868 established the works known as the Penn Bridge Company, now operated by his sons and others in Beaver Falls. Charles Coale had a japan varnish works in the building at the foot of Ninth Street. Ephraim Estep had an axe factory adjoining the Star mills property, and carried on the business for many years. On the other side of the road, Henry Hunter manufactured table cutlery for a few years, the building now being used as the ware- house of the Star mills. At the lower end of the race Oren Waters ' built a shovel factory, which was used by Waddle, Fetter & Company as a planing mill, and later by Buckley & Bradbury as a scouring and dyeing establishment. Mr. Fetter retired from the planing-mill firm and Joseph Wilson became a member; and in 1867 F. K. Brierly was added to the firm, which was then known as Waddle, Wilson & Company. Their business was afterwards removed across the river.
Brick-making is among the early and successful industries of the town. As early as 1830 a brick-yard was operated on Oak
1 In 1824 Oren Waters came from Stoughton, Mass., to Pittsburg, where he manufac- tured axes and shovels; the first shovels ever made in Pittsburg. He traded his first shovel for a barrel of flour.
In 1845 he came to New Brighton, where he established a shovel plant, constructing a temporary race from the main race. Shortly afterwards a flood destroyed the race and he sold his mill and retired from business.
Benjamin Townsend. 1772-1863.
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Hill, near the entrance to the cemetery, said to be the oldest in the county. In 1882 Thomas Wilson began the manufacture of brick there, and in 1887 Wilson & Peatling conducted the business, which is now abandoned. In 1840 John Glass started a brickworks and continued it until 1886, when it was purchased by A. F. Smith & Company, who yet conduct it, as well as mining clay and quarrying sandstone, and it is a prosperous concern. Charles K. Chamberlin, William and Levi Fish, Joseph Dewhirst, Alfred and Akroid Dewhirst, and the Pittsburg Clay Manufacturing Company have also operated quite extensive works. Ingram & Company's brick-yards, established several years ago, are in successful operation. The clay in the hills along Block House Run and the Fort Wayne Railroad is especially valuable for this industry. The Fish Bros. also engaged in quarrying stone. Richard Butler was engaged for a few years in mining clay and quarrying flag and building-stone.
About 1857 the car works was built and put in operation by Merrick, Hanna & Company in 1859. This was succeeded by a steel-coffin works by Silas Merrick, a foundry by Merrick & Company, by a chain works, by the Dithridge glass works, and later by the Phoenix Glass Company. The large building has now been bought by the Pittsburg Wall Paper Company and put in condition for that industry. In 1867 Wisener & Bing- ham started a carriage manufactory, of which W. Scott became a partner later. They afterwards sold out, and G. W. Carey, J. N. Andre, and C. W. Mali engaged in the business, the former afterward retiring, and the business was continued by Andre & Mali until 1896, when they sold their building to Grace M. E. Church and retired from business. The church remodeled the lower story and have used it for church services since. A cut- lery works was started in the building above the Quaker Mills in the seventies, which was afterwards used as a brass foundry, and later for the Glenn Driller Company, all now abandoned. In the eighties a building was erected on lower Block House Run, in which to make ferraline, a black glass. This business was dis- continued, and in 1886 the New Brighton Glass Company was started in the same building, which is now occupied by the New Brighton Steel Company. Spokes and felloes were made in a building on the race for a few years in the eighties. In the latter part of the same decade a vinegar factory was started and VOL. 11 .- 7.
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operated for a while by M. McPherson and W. O. Alexander, the property being purchased in 1893 by the Pierce-Crouch Engine Company, manufacturers of the Brighton gas and gaso- line engines. The Logan & Strobridge Iron Company, founded by Turner Strobridge in 1874, is in operation, making iron novelties. The Leard machine shop was established in 1885. Martsolf Bros.' large planing mill and lumber yards is another of our more recent busy industries. Louis A. Glaser is engaged in manufacturing brass, bronze, and castings of other compo- sitions.
The Pittsburg Clay Manufacturing Company included the Elverson, Sherwood & Barker pottery and the sewer-pipe works. The former is now a part of the Sherwood Bros. Pottery Com- pany, and the sewer-pipe works was absorbed by the Sewer Pipe Combination. The Sherwood Bros.' pottery was founded by G. W. and W. D. Sherwood in 1879. The Enterprise Pottery was founded in 1883 by D. Osborne, F. H. Stuchfield, and others, and was later purchased by a company of which F. G. Barker was the head, and is now owned by the W. H. Elverson Pottery Company. The Oak Hill Pottery was in business a few years, but was burned down and abandoned. About 1889 Scott Bros. erected a pottery for the manufacture of tile. The property was purchased by the American Porcelain Company in 1896, is now in operation, making sinks, trays, etc., of clay, with the finest porcelain finish. Later the Brewer Pottery was erected, which was bought in 1899 by J. H. Cooper, and is now operated by the Keystone Pottery Company.
The keg works, now in successful operation, were started by M. T. & S. Kennedy in 1836, in Fallston. These gentlemen were born in Beaver County, their ancestors coming from County Derry, Ireland, in 1790. The New Brighton plant is an offshoot of that at Fallston and was established in 1876. It is now operated by Thomas, William A., T. Livingston, and George F. Kennedy, sons of the founders.
The Standard Horse Nail Company was started in 1872 by Charles M. Merrick and Job Whysall, the latter retiring in 1880, and succeeded by E. E. Pierce. The works were burned in 1884, in Fallston, and were then removed to New Brighton.
In 1887 Dawes & Myler started in business to manufacture enameled iron ware and pump cylinders, and later they made
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enameled iron plumber goods, giving special attention to enam- eled iron bathtubs.
CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES
The earliest Society of the Friends, or Quakers, at the Falls, was in Fallston, the meeting-house being located on the hillside, near the road leading from the river bank to the hill. After the separation, which occurred in the twenties, the Orthodox So- ciety had a house where J. F. Miner's residence now stands. It was used as a public-school building from 1849 to 1857, and after that it was occupied as a dwelling, and was afterwards burned. The Hicksites had a brick meeting-house on the site of the present office of the Standard Horse Nail Company, and it was torn down to give place to the new building. Meetings had not been held for some years.
The First Presbyterian Church was organized in November, 1834, with M. F. Champlin and Robert Ferguson, ruling elders; and William Cannon, treasurer; Rev. J. W. Johnston in charge, with Rev. T. E. Hughes, Moderator, who preached the sermon. The original members were: Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Champlin, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lukens, Mr. and Mrs. James Patterson, John M. Lukens, Sarah Lukens, Samuel Vanemmon, Margaret Baker, Elizabeth Kimberly, Sarah Pat- terson, Susan Maynard, Jane Seinor, Hannah Davis, Margaret Davis, Rachel Davis, James Cummings, Maria Gould, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cannon and Mrs. Eliza Corbus. Rev. H. H. Hays was called as pastor, June 22, 1835, and served until March 5, 1836. May 27, 1836, Charles Lukens donated a lot on Broadway, now southeast corner Third Avenue and Twelfth Street, on which a church building was erected. July 1, 1836, Rev. Aaron Williams was Moderator of the session. He was installed pastor, October 5th, and retired October 19, 1840. Rev. Benjamin C. Critchlow was elected pastor, June 17, 1841, and was installed October 5, 1841. He remained as pastor until December 14, 1874, when he requested a dissolution of the pastoral relation. The organization was chartered by the court, November 24, 1848, as the "First Presbyterian Church of New Brighton, Pa." In January, 1866, a new building was formally proposed, and on May 21st the committee reported that $28,000 had been subscribed. Work on the building was
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begun, but for lack of funds was suspended until 1871, when it was completed at a cost of $42,466.37. July 13, 1873, Rev. Dunlop Moore, of Lurgan, Ireland, was called to the pastorate, and resigned January 19, 1892. October 24, 1892, Rev. S. H. Thompson, of St. Paul, Minn., was called. He resigned in 1897, and was succeeded by the present pastor, Rev. Thomas W. Swan. The Sabbath school was organized by M. F. Champlin in 1829.
First M. E. Church. In 1836 a class of nine members met in the office of Isaac Walker, Justice of the Peace; and, May 8, 1837, a Sunday school was organized, with James Langhead, superintendent, and twenty-nine pupils, the sessions being held in the village schoolhouse. The church was organized in 1837-8 by Rev. Z. H. Coston, assisted by Jeremiah Knox, Jr. The New Brighton members were Isaac Walker and wife, Thomas G. McCreary and wife, S. Dunlap and wife, Mary Ferguson, Sr., Mary Ferguson, Jr., George Champion and wife, Mary A., Joseph, William, and Coston Champion, F. D. Houlette and wife, W. O. Lourimore and wife, James N. Bebout and wife, Thomas Deven- ney and wife, John Glass and wife, J. M. Alexander and wife, Henry Young and wife, Isabel Seppy, Mary Brian, J. W. Thomp- son, Wm. Nichols and wife, and James Langhead and wife; the Fallston members-Joseph McCreary and wife, John Mahon and wife, D. B. Brown and wife, Robert Kelty and wife, Lydia John- son, Susan Collins, Eliza James, Joseph McCreary, Jr., and John Roberts; the Old Brighton members-John Baker and wife, Wm. Clayton and wife, James C. Sims and wife, Joseph Clayton, Margaret Sims, Hugh Woods and wife, Mrs. Ransom and Mrs. Large. A building was erected in 1838, now owned and occu- pied by the A. M. E. Church. The present building was com- pleted in 1869. Among the preachers who have served the congregation are: Abner Jackson, Edward Burkett, Joshua Monroe, Wm. F. Lauck, G. D. Kinnear, D. R. Hawkins, George McCaskey, W. Devenney, J. Dillon, W. P. Blackburn, H. D. Fisher, M. M. Rutter, James Beacom, S. Crouse, B. F. McMahon, T. J. Higgins, A. J. Rich, W. B. Watkins, S. F. Jones, J. J. McIlyar, J. R. Mills, J. Henderson, J. L. Deens, E. M. Wood, J. A. Swaney, M. McK. Garrett, John Conner, W. P. Turner, S. H. Nesbit, H. S. Free, J. B. Risk, Charles L. E. Cartwright, J. B. Taylor, J. T. Pender, and A. J. Ashe. The Second M. E.
Block House Run. St. Joseph's R. C. Church.
Christ Episcopal Church.
NEW BRIGHTON VIEWS.
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Church was organized in 1860, with Rev. R. T. Taylor, the first pastor, and J. M. Carr the second. In 1862 this society was consolidated with the M. P. Church.
Associate Presbyterian. At the meeting of the Chartiers Presbytery of the Associate Presbyterian Church, November 4, 1801, a petition was received from this section asking for a sup- ply of preaching. Rev. Thos. McClintock was appointed to the field, and in July 1805, a preacher was assigned to Big Beaver, Little Beaver, and Darlington; and, September 3, 1806, Rev. David Imbrie was settled pastor over this charge. Subsequently services were held near the head of Crow's Run, later at Mr. Moore's and Mr. Sloan's by Rev. J. France, from 1820 or 1825, and ceased 1841. About 1830 the first house of public worship was built a short distance north of New Brighton, called New Bethel. About 1844 Rev. B. F. Sawyer became pastor of the congregation and continued until 1858, when the union of the Associate and the Associate Reformed Synods absorbed the principal part of the Seceder Church in the new organization. A new house was erected in 1854 in New Brighton, and the name was changed to the New Brighton Congregation of the Associate Presbyterian Church. A remnant of the congregation rejected the combination of 1858, and have since kept up this organization; in August, 1898, securing Grace Chapel on Thir- teenth Avenue. Rev. S. Ramsey is pastor.
The Methodist Protestant Church was organized in 1842, in the New Brighton Institute Hall, by Rev. Phineas Inskip of Pittsburg, with twenty-five members, among whom were W. W. Willis, Eliza Willis, Hugh Robinson, Nancy Robinson, B. Gray, J. R. Devenny, Esther Squire, James Coates, Melchoir Shuster, Sarah Shuster, Thomas Webster, Wm. Miller, Milo Adams, Cynthia Adams, John T. Miller, Sophronia Miller, Hannah G. McCul- lough. Services had, however, been held at different times for perhaps ten years previously. The first church building, a small frame one, was on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirteenth Street, on land donated by Hugh Robinson. Here the society worshiped for nearly twenty years. On March 7, 1860, a char- ter was presented and adopted, and the present building was begun the following summer. The first floor was made ready for occupancy, September 4, 1861, when the annual conference met
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in it. In 1863 the building was finished and dedicated. A par- sonage was erected in 1887. The Sunday school was organized in 1848 by Henry T. Layton and Henry T. Reeves. The follow- ing pastors have served the church: Revs. Phineas Inskip, Piper, - Simpson, J. C. Hazlett, G. B. McElroy, N. Watson, R. T. Simonton, Wm. Reeves. - Dorsey, A. Marple, Alex. Clark, David Jones, T. H. Colhouer, S. F. Crowther, A. F. Pierce, A. D. Brown, G. G. Conway, A. L. Reynolds, G. B. Deakin, W. H. Gladden, A. T. Steele, and A. E. Fletcher.
Christ Episcopal Church was organized in 1850, and incor- porated June 5, 1851, being an offspring from the old St. Peter's Church of Fallston. The corner-stone of the present building was laid in 1851. The first service was conducted in this building by Rev. W. H. Paddock, missionary in charge. The rectors have been: Revs. J. P. Taylor, William Ely, C. H. VanDine, Charles N. Spaulding, Thomas W. Martin, John Loudon, Frederick Thompson, T. J. Danner, David Jones, and A. D. Brown. The first vestrymen were: Benjamin Wilde, William Wilde, Edward Warner, Thomas Reno, Walter Sorby, John King, George Jarner, and John Reno.
The Church of God was organized in 1857, through the agency of Elder Abram C. Rayson, with nine charter members. About 1860 a brick schoolhouse on the present site of the church was bought and fitted up for church purposes at a cost of $1000, and in 1881 the house was rebuilt at an expense of $1400, and was improved in 1899 to the extent of $250. The pastors who have served the church are: Revs. Abram C. Rayson, J. M. Domer, John Hickernell, J. Glen, Peter Loucks, M. Coats, J. S. McKee, M. C. Pritts, J. C. Corke, G. J. Bartlebaugh, D. Wenty, J. Grimm, C. Criswell, A. R. Mckahan, W. H. H. McKel- veen, C. H. Grove, J. W. Davis, W. J. Umstead, John W. Whistler, and W. S. Woods.
The United Presbyterian Church was the outgrowth of the union of the Associate and the Associate Reformed congrega- tions, about 1858. The two congregations worshipped as one in the unfinished house of the Associate congregation. January 1, 1863, Rev. J. D. Glenn began his pastorate, and was installed April 14th. In November, 1867, Rev. A. G. Wallace, D.D., was
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called, and on the first of the following April began the pastoral care of the congregation. July 26, 1869, the Beaver Falls con- gregation was organized; and, August 19, 1870, the Oakland congregation, taking away the families living in those places. Dr. Wallace closed his labors, May 1, 1884, and was succeeded by Rev. W. B. Barr, who assumed his duties, April 8, 1885, and was installed July 14th following. Mr. Barr was succeeded by the present pastor, Rev. R. L. Hay. The prayer-meeting dates from 1840, and the Sunday school began in the Associate Reformed congregation in 1847-48, the pastor being superintendent. The first house of worship was on Tenth Street and Eighth Avenue, which was abandoned in 1886, when the building on Third Avenue was occupied. The congregation numbered 289. The Fallston Mission School, under the control of this church for eleven years, was organized January 15, 1882, with Mr. Calhoon as superintendent. The chapel in which the school meets was built in the summer of 1891.
St. Joseph's R. C. Church. April 14, 1863, the Catholics living in New Brighton bought the brick church owned by the United Presbyterians for $5000. The interior was remodeled, and it was dedicated by Bishop Domenec, December 6, 1863, under the invocation of St. Joseph. The Rev. Fathers who first at- tended the new congregation were Rev. J. A. Shell and Rev. Basil Keating, who visited it monthly from Pittsburg. Rev. J. M. Mitchell, the first resident pastor, was appointed in 1865, and celebrated Mass alternately here and at St. Rose's, Cannelton. February 2, 1866, Rev. J. C. Bigham was appointed to succeed Father Mitchell. When he took charge there were 250 souls in the parish. In April, 1866, five acres of ground were purchased north of town for a cemetery, the roadway, 800 feet long and 20 feet wide, being donated by the late C. O'Rourke. The cemetery was laid out in lots 8 by 16 feet, and some of it is reserved for free ground. In April, 1870, a lot of ground 180 feet square, where the church now stands, with a brick resi- dence, was bought for $8000, the old pastoral residence was sold for $3100, which sum was increased to $6000 and paid on the new property, the balance being paid in two years. The corner- stone of the present church was laid, November 12, 1871, by
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Right Rev. Bashop Domenec. The store work was completed in 1872, and a wigwam was erected within the walls for entertain- ments for the church. The basement was completed and dedi- cated, October 1;, 1875. The old church was improved for a church hall. in which was a library of 400 volumes, and the whole was burned, June 25. 1876. In 1887 St. Rose's Church was separated from St. Joseph's. By this time the congregation had been increased to 1200 souls. The church was then completed, and was dedicated in 1885. The basement was used for a parochial school taught by lay teachers for two years. and the Sisters of St. Joseph's were employed in 1890. In 1891 Rev. J. C. Bigham was appointed pastor of St. Bridget's, Pittsburg, and was succeeded by Rev. John T. Burns, who, after five years' pastorate, was appointed to Connellsville. He was succeeded by Rev. E. P. Brady, who remained one year. Rev. E. P. Griffin came to the charge in 1897, and the present pastor, Rev. M. J. Ryan, in 1903.
The First Baptist Church was organized in 1867 with sixteen members. The first pastor was Rev. John Winter, who was succeeded by the following pastors: Revs. David Williams, C. H. Johnson, T. J. Bristow, J. W. Plannett, J. R. Strayer, W. H. Mckinney, G. B. McKee, W. L. Anderson, and W. M. Ryan. The congregation erected and occupied their first house of wor- ship, Third Avenue near Sixth Street, in 1869, abandoning it to occupy their present handsome building on Eighth Street and Fourth Avenue, which was erected in 1893. When the Beaver Falls Church was organized about thirty letters were granted from this society.
Wayman Chapel, A. M. E. Church, was organized in 1870 by Rev. Cornelius Asbury, and is an offshoot of the Bridgewater A. M. E. Church. In 1878 the old frame structure formerly occupied by the M. E. Church was purchased, thoroughly re- paired, and fitted for use. The pastors of the church have been: Revs. Cornelius Asbury, G. C. Sampson, T. A. Thompson, John E. Russell, G. T. Prosser, J. J. Jones, Jesse Smith, R. H. Morris, W. H. Brown, A. E. Waldon, Richard Brown, I. B. Till, Walter S. Lowry, and H. A. Grant.
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Rev. J. W. Myers, pastor of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Rochester, held services in private houses and in Autenreith's Hall, and organized a Lutheran church, which was completed, February 29, 1888, by the adoption of a constitution and the election of John A. Houk, John Martsolf, and Henry Ross, deacons. Sixteen persons signed the charter. Mr. Myers retired in 1888, and the church called Rev. J. H. Delo, of Trinity Church of Beaver Falls, for part time. He retired in 1890, when the church was united with the Church of the Redeemer, Monaca, into a missionary parish, and Rev. F. W. Kohler was appointed missionary. In September, 1891, a lot on the corner of Tenth Avenue and Tenth Street was purchased, and in December the contract was let for a building, valued at $5000, which was consecrated June 26, 1892. The present pastor is G. W. Critchlow. In 1899 the debt was canceled.
The Free Methodist Church was organized October 20, 1892, by Rev. S. Wellington, with about twenty charter members. The organization of this society was really the fruit of a meeting held by some band workers in a tent on Ninth Avenue, near Eighth Street. After the meeting in the tent closed they held services in Grace Chapel. From there they went to a private house near Ninth Avenue, and thence to Autenreith's Hall. In February, 1896, during the pastorate of Rev. M. B. Miller, the old Baptist Church property on Third Avenue was purchased by the society. The following ministers have served this so- ciety: Revs. R. H. Freshwater, M. L. Schooley, A. C. Showers, R. H. Bentley, M. B. Miller, F. F. Shoup, A. L. Whitcomb, and W. H. Wilson.
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