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of any kind that was erected in that neighborhood without the use of whisky by the workers.
For eleven years and seven months this church remained without a pastor, during which time it was supplied by Presby- tery. It is worthy of remark also that during this time one hundred and ninety-four persons were received into its com- munion, the membership being one hundred and fifty when the first pastor was settled.
The first regular pastor of Bethlehem was Rev. Samuel Hair, who was called September 6, 1844, and remained until the summer of 1847, having received during those years thirty- two persons. He was succeeded by John W. Hazlett, who was called September 7, 1847. This was his first charge, which he held for five years. November 17, 1852, Rev. A. O. Rockwell was chosen as his successor, and remained until March, 1855, thirty-six communicants being added to the roll during his pastorate. Rev. James M. Smith was called in September, 1855, but did not settle here until the spring of 1856, being for- mally installed June 12th of that year. Mr. Smith was pastor of this church for ten years, and enjoyed a very fruitful ministry. Rev. William M. White was called March 5, 1866, but preached only as a stated supply until the summer of 1870. The Rev. J. S. Pomeroy supplied this church for a year or more, commencing in the spring of 1871, after whom the Rev. George W. Shaffer labored as pastor-elect for one year and three months, beginning August 1, 1873. He also supplied the pulpit during the winter of 1876. Rev. D. L. Dickey came to the church in April, 1876, and stayed until April, 1882. Rev. Mr. Cummings followed, remaining from April, 1882, until April, 1887. Rev. J. H. Hunter was called as pastor in September, 1890, and con- tinued in the field until 1893. Then followed Rev. T. P. Potts, from June, 1894, to March, 1902, and the present pastor is M. M. Rogers.
From the pastorate of Mr. Hair to the close of that of Mr. Smith, Bethlehem was connected with the North Branch Church, as one pastoral charge, and was afterwards connected with Hookstown.
In addition to the elders first named, we find the following: Samuel Thompson, Sr., 1841; Thomas Parkinson and James Kerr, 1845; William McClure and Samuel Wilson, Jr., 1855;
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John Jack, 1858; same year Thomas P. Fleeson and John Tucker; John Engles, Robert Henderson, H. E. Wright, 1863; later, date not ascertainable, William Elliott, Samuel P. Thompson, William Hood, William Cook, and Thomas Wilson. The ses- sion now serving are William Cook, James Christy, Silas Wilson, and James Henderson.
Besides the families named above, we hear of the Kerrs, Gormleys, Tuckers, Crosses, and Wilsons as early members of this congregation.
The second church edifice at Bethlehem was built in 1880, at a cost of about $2500.
From this church have entered the gospel ministry, M. A. Parkinson, James Wilson (Methodist Episcopal), James H. Potter, John W. Potter, Gilbert M. Potter, and Henry N. Potter (four sons of the John Potter mentioned in connection with the founding of the church here), James M. Smith (son of the James M. Smith who was a former pastor of the church), and Jonathan Wilson, a missionary to the Siamese and Laos. Samuel Hen- derson, a student for the ministry from this charge, died before his course was completed.
Mt. Pleasant United Presbyterian Church .- This congrega- tion was organized July 11, 1877, from the members of Service United Presbyterian congregation living to the north of the church. Its first session was composed of Alex. Ewing, A. G. Ewing, John A. Christy, and Elisha Thornburgh.
A house of worship had been built the previous year, which was used until 1900, when it was struck by lightning and burned down. The present house was erected in 1901, at a cost of about $2500.
The first pastor was Rev. J. H. Breaden, October 23, 1879, to 1886, followed by Revs. S. A. Moore, 1887-1895; A. P. Gib- son, 1899-1901, and K. W. McFarland, 1901.
The present elders are A. G. Ewing, John A. Christy, G. A. Young, J. H. Thornburgh, and James Christy, and the member- ship is 95.
INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP
Independence is the last township formed on the south side of the county. It was erected October 19, 1848, from the south- western portion of Hopewell. Raccoon and Service creeks
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flow through the township in many meanderings. The soil is good, and limestone, sandstone, and shales are abundant. The township is almost entirely destitute of workable coals, and the people obtain their supply of fuel either from the Pittsburg bed in Hanover and Hopewell, or from the Upper Freeport, further down Raccoon Creek. The population of the township as shown by the United States Census in 1890 was 932; by the same census it was in 1900, 610. The report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs for 1900 gives the following showing for the township: Taxables, 284; cleared land, 10,031 acres; timber land, 4613 acres; value of all real estate, $387,165; value of real estate exempt from taxation, $34,000; value of real estate taxable, $253,165.
In the eastern section of the township is the village of Inde- pendence and the post-office bearing the patriotic name of "Seventy-Six" accommodated the people here until the estab- lishment of rural delivery in 1901, when it was discontinued. Its postmasters from the first were as follows:
William McCallister, Feb. 9, 1828; John Holmes, Oct. 20, 1831; James Sterling, Sept. 9, 1836; Daniel McCallister, July 10, 1841; Aaron S. Bryan, Aug. 21, 1852; David Reid, March 7, 1854; William Orr, Jan. 28, 1862; W. F. Johnston, Feb. 17, 1865: William C. Shannon, June 5, 1865; Joseph Davis, Feb. 11, 1867; John S. Todd, Sept. 6, 1872; G. W. Bruce, March 20, 1876; William C. Shannon, March 4, 1878; Alexander McConnell, July 25, 1879; discontinued April 4, 1901.
Duluth post-office, discontinued at the same time as the office just mentioned, was served by the following: John M. McCoy, March 3, 1892; John Harper, September 9, 1893; Thomas A. Nichols, April 4, 1894; J. M. McCoy, January 13, 1896; Michael Springer, June 24, 1897.
New Bethlehem United Presbyterian Church was organized June 19, 1865, by Rev. J. M. Witherspoon at the Reardon school- house, with the following as persons as charter members:
Mr. W. G. Miller, Mrs. Mary Miller, Mr. James Miller, Mrs. Sarah Miller, Mrs. Eliza McClester, Mr. John McClester, Miss Anna E. McClester, Mr. Joseph Wallace, Mrs. Rachel Wallace, Mr. James M. Wallace, Miss Nancy Wallace, Miss Rachel Wallace, Mr. James Alexander, Mrs. Nancy Alexander, Miss Maggie Alexander, Miss Fannie Alexander, Mrs. Mary McCartney, Mr. Joseph McConnell, Mrs. Rachel McConnell, Miss Nancy McConnell, Mrs. Susanna Hartford, Mrs. Sarah McHenry, Miss Minerva
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McHenry, Miss Rachel McHenry, Mr. John Nevin, Mrs. M. A. Nevin, Miss M. J. Nevin, Mr. John E. Nevin, Mr. W. G. Nevin, Mr. George Shillito, Mrs. Louisa Alexander.
Two of the charter members became ministers of the gospel, namely, J. M. Wallace, now pastor of the Eighth United Presby- terian Church, Pittsburg, Pa., and W. G. Nevin, now a minister in the Presbyterian Church.
The first elders were John Nevin, George Shillito, James Miller, and John McClester.
The church-building, erected in 1869, is a frame structure and cost about $2300, and a session house has been built at a cost of $200. In 1884, Joseph Wallace donated one acre adjoining the church for a parsonage, which was built at a cost of about $2000.
The first pastor of this church was the Rev. David French Mustard, who served from October, 1872, until January 12, 1875. He was followed by Rev. Alexander H. Orr, from his ordination, September 7, 1875, to September, 1880; Rev. J. A. Shrader, January, 1882-1888, and J. R. Wallace, 1894-1904 -.
The present membership is 147.
CHAPTER XXVII TOWNSHIPS NORTH OF THE OHIO AND WEST OF THE BIG BEAVER
South Beaver Township : Rayltown and Black Hawk-Big Beaver Town- ship: Homewood - Homewood Methodist Episcopal Church - Borough Township: Vanport - Dravo Chapel - Vanport Presby- terian Church -Ohio Township: Smith's Ferry -Smith's Ferry Oil Field-Ohioville-St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church- New Salem Presbyterian Church-Four Mile Square United Pres- byterian Church-Brighton Township-Darlington Township: Coal Companies of Darlington Township-Cannelton-St. Rose's R. C. Church-Industry Township: Village of Industry-Presbyterian Church of Industry-Oak Grove Union Chapel-Oak Grove Cemetery -Patterson Township-White Township.
SOUTH BEAVER TOWNSHIP
THIS is one of the original townships of Beaver County, but many changes in its size and shape have taken place since 1800. As it now stands it is separated from Darlington township on the north by the Little Beaver Creek, is bounded on the east by Chippewa, on the south by Ohio and Brighton townships, and touches the Ohio State line along its western border. Besides that of the Little Beaver Creek, the township has not much drainage. Brush Run, which heads near its eastern section and empties into Little Beaver after leaving the State, is the prin- cipal stream within its limits. Anderson Run empties into Little Beaver at Darlington, and Brady's Run cuts across its south- eastern corner.
The surface of the township is hilly, and the soil excellent. Massive strata of sandstone, with limestone and a good quality of coal are found in several sections of the township.
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The population of this division of the county in 1900 was 930. In the same year its taxables numbered 374. Its total value of real estate was $547,480, including $2150 of real estate exempt from taxation and $545,330 taxable. It had 14,587 acres of cleared land and 3117 acres of timber land.
Rayltown is a village or hamlet in this township, and Black Hawk, which belongs to Ohio township, extends partly into South Beaver. The only post-office in the township was dis- continued April 20, 1892. It was called Rowe, and was served by the following postmasters: Calvin A. Smith, September 2, 1880; William Withow, October 26, 1880, and Jacob Smith, October 6, 1881.
BIG BEAVER TOWNSHIP
In 1802 South Beaver township was divided by the court of Allegheny County into three townships, South Beaver, Little Beaver, and Big Beaver. When Lawrence County was formed in 1849, Beaver County contributed part of the territory of the new county, and, several of her townships were cut in two by the county line resulting. Big Beaver was one of these, and the legislature of 1850 recognized the fact and confirmed the erection of the township as at present limited. Big Beaver township is bounded on the north by the township of Lawrence County, which was cut off from it and which bears the same name; on the east by Big Beaver Creek, on the south by Chippewa town- ship, and on the west by Darlington township.
The surface of the township is hilly, with very rich bottoms interspersed. Good coal, limestone, and sandstone are plentiful. The streams are all small, rising in the highlands and flowing into the Big Beaver Creek on the east or into the Little Beaver, which runs along the western border of the township.
The population of the township as shown by the United States Census for 1890 was 1497; for 1900, 1380. The statistics for the latter year given in the report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs are as follows: Taxables, 454; number of acres of cleared land, 9564; of timber land, 1216; value of all real estate, $471,- 878; real estate exempt from taxation, $11,970; taxable, $459,908.
Hoytdale village and post-office, in the extreme northeastern
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corner of Big Beaver township, were formerly known as Rock Point. The postmasters who had charge of the office while it was called Rock Point were as follows: J. D. Husted (never qualified) appointed December 13, 1876; William W. Hamilton, December 20, 1876; Thomas M. McLucas, October 12, 1877; Lewis S. Hoyt, March 29, 1881. The name was changed to Hoytdale, December 12, 1892, with Lewis S. Hoyt then still in charge. Michael McCool was appointed June 9, 1897.
Summit Cut post-office was discontinued, April 20, 1892; William F. McCready, appointed December 15, 1890.
HOMEWOOD
The village of this name is situated on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, at its junction with the Erie & Pitts- burg Railway.
William Grimshaw, the author of a series of popular his- tories of the United States and of several European countries, was an early landowner in the region about Homewood; and in 1831, Joseph M. Smith purchased from him a tract of two hun- dred acres of land, upon a part of which the village now stands. Mr. Smith laid out the village in 1859, and the first dwellings built here were those of David Johnston, William Foster, Adam Carner, John C. Chapman, and Jonathan Grist.
The Methodist Episcopal Church in this place was organized about half a century ago by Rev. J. W. Claybaugh. The first stewards were W. H. Foster, David Knowles, Jonathan Grist, A. Hunter, R. S. Foster, J. W. Smith, Frederick Graham, and Clark Hunter. The same year a small frame church was built at a cost of $3000. Homewood was about forty years ago con- nected with the Enon Valley Circuit, and was supplied by the pastors of that circuit. Names of early ministers are Messrs. J. W. Claybaugh, M. Ingram, J. J. Jackson, J. W. Kessler, C. M. Westlake, and later came W. K. Brown, 1881; J. L. Deens, 1882; O. H. P. Graham, 1883-84; M. S. Kendig, 1885-88; William Medley, 1889-90; J. W. Garland, 1891-93; G. A. Sheets, 1894; D. M. Hollister, 1895; Z. M. Silbaugh, 1896; S. H. Greenlee, 1897; F. H. Callahan, 1898-99; W. H. McBride, 1900- OI. Rev. J. J. Buell (1902) is the present pastor.
Homewood post-office was established in 1862. Postmasters:
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William H. Foster, January 28, 1862; James C. Evans, Novem- ber 7, 1866; John H. Witherspoon, March 18, 1869; Mrs. Mary Crum, September 21, 1885; Hugh M. Shipman, February 26, 1889; Samuel S. Overlander, July 24, 1893; and Lawrence J. Overlander, May 17, 1897.
BOROUGH TOWNSHIP
This township is quite centrally located on the north side of the Ohio River, having that river on the south, Brighton town- ship on the north and west, and the borough of Beaver on the east. It is one of the smallest townships in the county. Its population by the United States Census for 1900 was 612. The report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs for the same year shows it as containing 284 taxables, 552 acres of cleared land, 50 acres of timber land, and a total value of real estate amount- ing to $307,879, divided into real estate exempt from taxation, $12,000; and real estate taxable, $295,879.
The township was formed at the November Sessions of the court in 1804 from the territory of South Beaver township. It was decreed by the court that the bounds of the new township should be "the bounds of the borough of Beaver as established by law." The steps by which the township has been reduced to its present limits will be seen in the chapter on the borough of Beaver, where the various changes which have taken place in the boundaries of that borough are described.
VANPORT
This is a small village in Borough township about two miles below the county-seat, on the north bank of the Ohio River. The village was laid out in 1835 by J. J. Noss. He is said to have built the first brick house in the place.
The post-office at Vanport has been held by the following persons: Thomas B. Boggs, January 16, 1882; Miller Flocker, February 1, 1882; Baker Reed, September 9, 1885; N. P. Kerr, April 27, 1889; Lizzie A. Murta, July 24, 1893; Emma L. Bev- ington, May 22, 1895; Anna Mccullough, May 27, 1899.
The ferry across the Ohio River at this point was estab- lished in the beginning of the last century. In his Sketches of a
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Tour to the Western Country, F. Cuming thus alludes to it: "A ferry two miles below Beaver is a handsome situation, beyond which the banks are high on both sides, and the river does not exceed one hundred and fifty yards wide." He saw it in 1807.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to establish a Baptist church in this place. In 1858 G. T. Dinsmore visited Beaver and preached in the court-house. During the week he held meetings in a schoolhouse at Vanport and baptized five con- verts. Others soon followed, and a church was constituted. A frame building was erected, which was dedicated February 24, 1861, and services were held in it for some time with varying regularity and success, but the congregation were unable to hold the ground and the building was finally, in 1890, disposed of by sale to the Presbyterians, who in that year organized a church in Vanport. The movers in this enterprise were John Weaver, Hiram Noss, and James Porter, the latter of Bridgewater. Mr. Dinsmore remained but a brief time, and was succeeded by Rev. John Davis, who was the last pastor.
A similar effort on the part of members of the United Breth- ren body also failed. Among those who composed the short- lived congregation were William Neville, John Taylor, David Engle, John R. Mckenzie, William Mckenzie, E. White, Clark Rogers, and Joshua Larkins.
Dravo Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal Church was built in 1869, the organization dating a few years earlier. The chapel cost $3000, and was dedicated November 21, 1869, Rev. Sylves- ter Burt preaching the sermon. The first trustees were George Dobbs, John Moore, A. Russell, Lucius Conrad, Samuel John- ston, Amos Doutt, and Enoch Fowler. The services of the con- gregation have been largely maintained by the generous aid of the Hon. John F. Dravo, for whom the chapel was named, and who as a local minister of the Methodist Church preached there regularly until 1900, and still does so occasionally.
The Presbyterian Church at Vanport .- In February and March of 1888 union meetings were held in the Dravo Chapel at Vanport. As a result of these services thirty-five members were added to the roll of the Presbyterian Church of Beaver, whose pastor, the Rev. John K. KcKallip, with officers and members of that church, had been active in the work. The session of the Beaver Church felt that they should provide stated religious
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services for the Vanport membership on their own ground, and accordingly, the vacant church-building of the Baptists having been secured, Mr. McKallip began on May 27, 1888, to conduct public worship there every alternate Sabbath. A Sunday-school was also organized under the auspices of the session, July 7, 1889, with ruling elder Darius Singleton as superintendent. These efforts were so successful as to encourage the people to undertake the organization of a Presbyterian church. Accord- ingly a petition with ninety-one signatures attached, asking for such an organization, was presented to the Presbytery of Alle- gheny, December 10, 1889. The petition was granted, and the new church was organized by a committee of Presbytery, Janu- ary 28, 1890, with sixty-two members. Messrs. John S. Reed, John Mccullough, Thomas E. Conway, and I. F. Springer were elected, ordained, and installed ruling elders. The church was immediately favored with a large increase of membership, there being within a month thirty-three additions, all but one on con- fession of faith. Following are the names of the persons dis- missed by the session of the church at Beaver, January 26, 1890, to unite with the Vanport Church, fifty-four in all:
Mrs. Elizabeth Blair, Mr. Matthew Brookmyer, Mrs. Annie Brookmyer, Miss Ida A. Brookmyer, Mr. Edmund H. Douds, Mrs. Minerva Douds, Mr. Elihu Eckler, Mrs. Sophia E. Eckler, Mr. Frank L. Eckler, Mr. Alfred S. Eckler, Miss Rebecca E. Mccullough, Miss Annie L. Mccullough, Mrs. Emma Quillen, Mr. John S. Reed, Mrs. Drusilla Reed, Mr. Bernard Reed, Mr. Leon Reed, Miss Zoe Reed, Miss Maggie R. Reed, Mr. Samuel M. Reynolds, Mrs. Priscilla J. Gourley, Mr. George W. Grim, Miss Frances G. Johnson, Mrs. Eva Edwards, Mr. James P. Edwards, Miss Eliza A. Edwards, Miss Jennie V. Edwards, Mr. Samuel H. Maginnis, Mrs. Maggie Maginnis, Miss Minnie T. Maginnis, Mr. Isaac Minor, Mrs. Rosanna Minor, Mr. John Myers, Mrs. Susie Myers, Mrs. Minda R. Myers, Mr. John McCullough, Mrs. Sarah J. Mccullough, Mrs. Mary Reynolds, Mr. Henry Sebring, Mrs. Margaret Sebring, Mr. George S. Sebring, Miss Caroline Se- bring, Mr. Isaac F. Springer, Mrs. Viola L. Springer, Mrs. Eliza Stone, Mr. Thomas W. Stone, Mrs. Minnie L. Stone, Mr. Charles C. Stone, Mr. Samuel L. Stone, Miss Catherine A. Stone, Miss Eva May Stone, Mrs. Lizzie Stone, Mrs. James C. Withrow, Mrs. Etta D. Withrow.
Indian Pictographs on Ohio River near Smith's Ferry, Beaver County, Pa., U. S. A. Half-tone Reproductions from Casts in Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, Pa. ; and from photographs by James P. Leaf, C.F .. , of Rochester, Pa., showing Pictographs in situ.
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Through the generosity of John M. Buchanan, Esq., and D. Singleton, of Beaver, the Baptist church-building was bought for this new church, and regular services were begun. October 21, 1890, Allen Krichbaum was ordained and installed pastor of the church. He was dismissed at his own request in May, 1893; and July 3, 1894, T. Pliny Potts was ordained and installed. Mr. Potts served the church until April 8, 1902, and in 1903 Mr. M. M. Rogers was installed pastor.
OHIO TOWNSHIP
Ohio township is situated north of the Ohio River and next to the Ohio State line. Columbiana County, Ohio, bounds it on the west. On the north it is bounded by South Beaver town- ship, on the east by Brighton and Industry townships, and on the south by Industry township and the Ohio River.
The surface of the township is broken, the soil is good and is underlaid with oil, coal, fire-clay, limestone, and sandstone. Its streams are small; Dry Run, Island Run, Bealer's Run, and others rising within its limits near the center, and passing with a very rapid fall into the Ohio River; and Little Beaver Creek, which, after having left the county and the State, enters both again and empties into the Ohio just at the southwestern edge of this township.'
Ohio township was formed in 1805 by a division of South Beaver, being part of the southern section of that township. At the same Sessions of the court (May, 1805), the court appointed John Witherow constable for the newly formed township. The population as shown by the United States Census was, in 1880, 1376; in 1890, 1072; and in 1900, 939. The report of the Sec- retary of Internal Affairs for 1900 showed for Ohio township
1 We have several times quoted from Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, the journal of F. Cuming, who, in 1807, passed down the Ohio River. His book was pub- lished in Pittsburg in 1810, and a note on page 84 says:
"This [the Little Beaver] is a valuable stream for water works, though wildly and romantically hemmed in by vast hills on both sides. There are two grist mills, a saw mill and a large paper mill, all within two miles of its mouth; the latter has lately been erected, and is owned by Jacob Bowman, of Brownsville, John Bever of Georgetown, and John Coulter, who resides at the mill. Over this creek, about a mile from its mouth, a new toll bridge was erected in the summer and fall of 1800, on the road leading from Washington county to New Lisbon, Canton, Worster, &c., state of Ohio. About a mile above Little Beaver, in the bed of the Ohio, and near the northwestern side, a substance bubbles up, and may be collected at particular times on the surface of the water, similar to Seneca out. When the water is not too high, it can be strongly smelt while crossing the river at George- town: It is presumed to rise from or through a bed of mineral coal embowelled under the bed of the river. The virtues of the Seneca oil are similar to those of British oil, and sup- posed to be equally valuable in the cures of rheumatick pains, &c."
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SMITH'S FERRY
This is a village located on the Ohio River and the Cleveland & Pittsburg Rachrad, near the southwestern corner of Ohio uramakip. It lies just across the river Som Georgetown. with which it is connected by a ferry that has been in operation for erver a hundred years. giving the means of communication between the southern and northern portions of the county. Thomas Smith's ferry is mentioned in a road petition presented t, the court of Allegheny County in December, 1799. and is described as being in the lower end of Moon township (see page 86,1). Thomas Smith came from Maryland about 1790 with his family, Jesse, Thomas. Samuel, and Joseph and Rachel, Ann and Sarah. He was one of the first settlers at Georgetown, and Smith's Ferry was named from this family. Benjamin Dawson owned the ferry sometime prior to and during 1817,' when it was bought again by Jesse Smith. Jesse died May 18, 1818. His sons Jesse and Thomas ran the ferry after his death.
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