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Marquis & Kelker then leased or bought the property; Benjamin Niblock was afterward proprietor, and in 1846 Samuel M. Lane became the owner. Ile was succeeded by Martin Reiber, whose brother Jacob conducted the house until
'Thomas Mechling, born in 1-16, in the Mansion House, says that he has seen wild deer, when he was a boy, run across the Diamond.
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the lot and improvements were sold to H. Julius Klingler in Is 49, and he ran it until Is52, when he tore away the old log and frame building and erected the first three-story brick hotel building in the borough. In 1864 Mr. Klingler sold to Plummer Jack, who, after keeping it a few years, sold to Col. Alexander Lowry, who gave it the name it now bears, and with his son, John F. Lowry, carried it on several years. Other parties also were connected with the house, when Lowry sold to Cross & McOmber. In a short time they resold to Lowry. He then built an addition to the house, and in 1890 sold the property to Thomp- son & Brown. These parties built another addition and made improvements involving a total expenditure of about $20.000. It is still called the Hotel Lowry. is ample in size and modern in style. Messrs. W. J. McCafferty and D. F. McCrea are the lessees, and took charge of it August 1, 1-94.
Much more in the way of reminiscence might be said about the old-time tay- ern keepers of Butler, but the foregoing must suffice. Since their time great changes have taken place in the method of doing business. The name " tavern." is no longer applied to a public house ; such places are now only known as hotels. And in their equipment and style they are far superior to those of fifty and sev- enty-five years ago, but it is doubtful if there is any more good cheer dispensed to-day, or a guest received with more genuine cordiality, than he was by the inn- keepers of old.
In the transition from the tavern to the hotel, Butler has not suffered. Iler modern hotels have kept pace with the improvements of the town, and take rank with those of cities of larger and more pretentious conditions and surroundings. They are enumerated as follows : The Lowry, Willard, Arlington, Park. Butler, Waverly, Wick, and last but not least, the Nixon Home.
SUBURBAN GROWTH.
What is known as Springdale, or the First ward, lies in the southeastern part of the borough, and is an attractive district especially for private residences. The Connoquenessing creek separates it from the older portion of the borough. As a suburb it, was laid out in 1872 by William S. Boyd, who purchased a farm of 150 acres-which included the greater part of Springdale proper-from Sheriff McBride in 1839. Originally the land was a portion of a large tract owed by John McQuistion, whose primitive log house was built at an early day where Mr. Boyd afterwards erected his residence.
Before laying out Springdale, however, Mr. Boyd purchased of Mrs. Mackey thirty-seven and a half acres lying between his first purchase and the town, and leaving her a piece of land on the Freeport road, between his purchase and the Connoquenessing. It was his intention to lay out a separate village, but the land being included in the borough boundaries in 1871. the allotment became an addition to Butler. Many comfortable dwellings were erected by Mr. Boyd. between 1872 and 1874, and about one-half of them were sold. In 1>73 he put up a large building opposite his residence for a temperance hotel. and, in 1×74, Springdale Hall. After the subsidence of the first oil excitement it could no longer be carried on profitably as a hotel, and it was used for other purposes, serving in 1880 as a young ladies' seminary. The building is three stories in
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height, handsome in design and spacious. For many years it was used by a large and well conducted mission Sunday school and also as the headquarters of the first Y. M. C. A. in Butler Afterwards it was transformed into a private resi- dence and is now occupied by Harvey H. Boyd. Mr. Boyd died on Septem- ber », 1>> 1.
Within recent years Springdale has grown rapidly and now contains some of the handsome homes of Butler. The residents are justly proud of its picturesque and healthful surroundings and pure water supply, and never fail to point out its advantages for the location of quiet homes.
Institute Hill is an eastern suburb, built upon an elevated plateau and deriv- ing its name from the Witherspoon Institute, erected there in 1877-75, though the addition had been platted several years before. The land was owned origi- nally by Archibald McCall and the heirs of Stephen Lowrey. The former built the old part of the Orphan's Home for a summer residence, while opposite were the lands of Mrs. Sarah Collins and her daughter. Mrs. Valeria Evans, who sold it to the parties who laid out the tract in town lots. On the latter is located the old Catholic cemetery, and here was built the first Catholic church in Butler.
Duffytown is a western suburb, and had its inception in June, 1885, when Charles Duffy sold the first lot. Soon after he employed James Dunlap to sur- vey the addition. which finally included 300 lots, nearly all of which have been built upon. Duffytown is a desirable location and bids fair to have a steady and substantial growth.
CHAPTER XXII.
BUTLER BOROUGH (CONTINUED.)
CHURCHES, RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS -- PRESBYTERIAN- UNITED PRESBYTERIAN-ST. PETER'S CATHOLIC-ST. PAUL'S CATHOLIC-ST. PETER'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL-ST. MARK'S LUTHERAN- ENGLISH LUTHERAN -- GRACE LUTHERAN -- METHODIST EPISCOPAL-BAPTIST-ST. PAUL'S REFORMED-BETHANY REFORMED-CHURCH OF GOD- FREE METHODIST-BIBLE AND OTHER SOCIETIES-ST. PAUL'S ORPHAN HOME.
T WIE Presbyterian church is the oldest congregation in Butler, The records of the church, however, post-date its organization twenty years and the settlement of l'resbyterians here by at least thirty-three years. In 1836-37 Rev. Loyal Young, acting on instructions of the Synod of Pittsburg, compiled an his- torical sketch of the origin and growth of the local church down to 1833. This sketch forms to-day the introduction or preface to the minutes of the session, and. as stated by Mr. Young, is " as accurate as any data, in possession of the writer,
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will admit." A few years before the close of the Eighteenth century, there were found among the settlers within the bounds of what are now called Butler and Concord congregations, a few individuals who, though ridiculed by the world. maintained the domestic and social worship of God and were members of the Presbyterian church, though not yet regularly organized as a congregation. Among these were James McCurdy, John Lorimer, Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Christy, who met every Sabbath in the capacity of a prayer-meeting. They met in their own dwellings, the distance between the extremes of their four homes being twelve miles. It is thought that Rev. Mr. Gwinn was the first minister of the gospel who preached to them, in the fall of 1797. Rev. Mr. Moorehead preached here in 1795, and he was followed by Revs. Samuel Tait, William Wylie, Robert Lee, Mr. Cummins, John Boyd, Elisha MeCurdy, Joseph Stockton, Mr. McClear, and perhaps some others. These men preached during the season of the " Bodily Exercise," which prevailed throughout the country, and to some extent in this place, particularly in 1>03 and 1804. The gospel was now preached, for the most part, at Thorn's tent and Russell's tent-the former within the bounds of Butler congregation, near the house where William Kearns resided (in 1837), and the latter was within the bound- of the Concord con- gregation.
The church of Harmony was organized in 1805, by Rev. John McPherrin, with William Neyman, Mary Neyman, Alexander and Rachel Hamilton, Robert and Sarah Graham, James and Margaret McCurdy, Robert and Prudence Thorn, James and Catherine Moore, Peter Peterson. James Roy, John Roy, and Richard Miller. The new congregation had been called Thorn Ridge congregation, then Salt Spring congregation ; but at organization was called " Harmony," with house of worship five miles north of Butler. When the first sacrament was held Rev. Samuel Porter assisted Mr. McPherrin.
On April 7. 1813, Rev. John McPherrin was installed pastor of the churches of Butler and Concord by the Presbytery of Erie. He began preaching in the court-house at Butler, to the newly organized church of this borough, devoting three-fourths of his time to it and giving one-fourth to the church at Concord. In 1815, a stone meeting-house was erected, on the site of the present building, and in it the pioneer preacher held regular services until his death, February 10, 1822.
In the fall of 1814 the movement to erect a house of worship was inaugu- rated. On December 12, of that year, Rev. John McPherrin, William and John Neyman, James McCurdy, John Gilmore, Alexander Hamilton, David Mc Jun- kin, Robert Thorn, William Beatty, Robert Scott, Andrew Spear, John McQuis- tion and James Martin, signed a document binding themselves to pay the trustees whatever balance might remain due the contractor. John Neyman, John Potts, and William Campbell were cho-en trustees, and to John Neyman the contract was awarded for $1.500.
Rev. John Coulter was ordained and installed pastor of the united churche- of Butler, Concord and Muddy Creek September 10, 1 23,-giving one-half hi- time to Butler. In the spring of 1 33, he resigned the Butler charge, and in July of that year Rev. Loyal Young commenced preaching at Butler, and was ordained pastor, December 4, 1833. He found on the list the names of 105
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members. The elders prior to that time were Robert Graham, Alexander lam- ilton and William Neyman ; while between 1-33 and 1837, Robert Wallace, James McCurdy, John Neyman, David Me Junkin and Malachi Richardson were enrolled among the elders.
The list of members in 1533, gives the following names : William Wright, Jane, his wife, Mary, Agnes and Daniel Wright, Joseph Wright and his wife, Margaret, Il. and Agnes Cunningham, James and Agnes Mitchell, Mary Coch- ran, James and Margaret MeCurdy, Rebecca Ann McCurdy, Peter, Peggy and Betsy Peterson, Patrick Graham, Rosanna Martin, Rachel Scott, Robert and Prudence Thorn, Jane, Joseph and Sarah Thorn, John and Prudence Campbell, Nancy Spear, Mary Neyman, John Thorn. John and Mary Neyman, William and Priscilla Me Junkin, John L. and Polly Maxwell, William and Mary Max- well, Alexander and Rachel Hamilton, David and Elizabeth Me Elvaine, John and Mary Pearce, John Pearce, Jr., Polly Black. Job and Mary Pearce, John and Harriett Rowe, Mary Sullivan. Walter Lowrie, Robert and Sarah Carnahan, David and Jane Walker, James H. and Francis Graham, Dr. George Linn, Mary Welsh, Barbara Peterson, William Brown, B. Grennis, Simon Marks, Robert and Sarah Graham, Mary Graham, William and Jane Campbell, Martha Miller, Sila- Pearce, Oliver and Anne David. J. and Sarah Plummer, Elizabeth Conrad. Abram Stevenson, Thomas Plummer ( son of Nancy ) , Elizabeth Plummer (daugh- ter of Nancy ), Jane Sedwick, John and Mary Smith, Mary Sumney, Margaret J. Moore, John and Sarah Graham, Rachel Scott, Malachi Richardson, George and Polly McCandless, Samuel, Isabel and Jane MeCurdy, Priscilla Maxwell, Elizabeth Purviance, Martha McCandless, Catherine and Sarah Ann Peterson- deceased in 1833-Polly Gilky, and Nancy Plummer ( who belonged to Plain Grove church ), Robert Wallace, Andrew Mitchell and John and Jane Wait.
In 1823 when the second building of worship was suggested, Walter Low- rie, John L. Maxwell, John Gilmore, Robert Scott, William Campbell and John Sheridan were trustees. Ten years after, in 1833, the suggestion was carried out, and 83,200 expended on a house fit to accommodate the large congregation.
A constitution was adopted June 30, 1828, and on the sth of January. 1824, the congregation was incorporated. The charter members were as follows : Walter Lowrie, John L. Maxwell, John Gilmore, Robert Scott, William Camp- bell and John Sheridan, trustees. A second charter was obtained in 1854, which is now the law of the church.
On November 29, 1533, John and Juliet Gilchrist and Elizabeth Patterson were admitted members, and the next day Jane Campbell, Mary Campbell, Martha Thorn, Rebecca Maxwell, James Maxwell, Samuel M. Lane and Robert Stevenson were admitted. An incident of this session was the statement of David Walker, "that he feared the cause of religion would suffer " in conse- quence of having kept several persons at work on his brick-kiln on a Sabbath in September, 1 33. 1le explained the causes and the session was satisfied, provided the explanation would be read to the congregation the following Sabbath. The absence of elder Robert Wallace from several meeting> suggested an investiga- tion in January, 1834. This action appearing to him to be too radical, led to his resignation and his demand to be dismissed from membership. In September,
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1834, William Mc Junkin, Robert Thorn and Jonathan Plummer were ordained elder-, and they, with Messrs. Ilamilton, Graham, McCurdy and Richardson, formed the board when the congregation was divided into seven districts, in Sep- tember, 1834. In December, celebrated resolutions against the theatrical meetings, then held at Butler, were adopted, and the elders exercised the closest supervision over members of the congregation, calling on many of them to confess and reform. In 1836, the question of betting on elections was presented, and one member was suspended because he would, " under similar circumstances bet again." Walter Lowrie became a member of the board of elders that year ; while on January 20, 1839, David McElvaine and Thomas Welsh were ordained, Samuel M. Lane and Oliver David, elders-elect, declining ordination. Henry M. Boyd, who died August 4, 1845, and William Campbell, Sr., were chosen elders in De- cember, 1×41. From that period until April 15, 1846, Elders McCurdy, Thorn. Graham, McElvaine, Welsh, McJunkin and Campbell were the active members of the session, and gave close attention to the affairs of the church. Record book, Number 2, closes on the last date given.
The second book of records begins with the session held October 1, 1845. From that date until September 8, 1849, the style and nature of business vary but little from that of the older record. On the last date given, the death of Robert Graham ( the last of the elders ordained when the church of Butler was organized ), was recorded. In November, the new elders :- William Maxwell, William S. Boyd, John Campbell and James Mitchell were ordained. . In March, 1555, Thomas H. Bracken, Dr. R. L. McCurdy and Samuel Martin were installed eld- ers, they, with James McCurdy, William Maxwell, John Campbell, William Campbell. W. S. Boyd, James Mitchell and Robert Thorn, forming the board of elders. In December, 1858, Elders Boyd, Martin and Graham were appointed a committee to secure a lot for a church building, south or southeast of Butler, for the accommodation of members living distant from the town in the direction indicated. In January, 1859, the committee of elders reported that an acre of land was secured from Joseph Robinson for twenty dollars, the location being five miles southeast, on the Saxonburg road, and that funds for building to the amount of $350 were on hand.
On June 24, 1859, the ruin caused by the great frosts of June 5 and 11 was recorded, and the last day of July was made one of fasting and prayer. In May, 1861, the session discussed temperance work. In October, 1862, the death of Samuel Martin, captain in the One Hundred and Third regiment, was noticed. The years 1862 and 1863 are noted for the erection of a new church building.
April 28, 1868, Mr. Young's relation with the church was dissolved. Of the large number of members, named in 1833, when he became pastor, there were only seventeen on the roll, when he closed his pastorate, namely : Elder McCurdy, Jane Thorn, Robert Thorn, William Maxwell, Mary Maxwell, John Campbell, Betsey Martin, Priscilla Mc Junkin, John L., Maxwell, John Rowe, Mary Sullivan. Robert Carnahan, Sarah Carnahan, Silas Pearce, Jane Sedwick, John Graham and Sarah Graham. In all, there were 229 members enrolled on the day the pastoral relations were dissolved. During his pastorate of nearly thirty-five years, he preached in the bounds of the congregation 2,920 times.
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besides delivering addresses at prayer meetings, funerals and other occasions. He married 203 couples and baptized nearly 700 infants and about seventy adults ; and during his ministry nearly 450 persons united with the church and several revivals of marked interest occurred. Witherspoon Institute owed its existence to him more than any other man. The work of calling the convention which brought the school into existence, of preparing the charter, of raising money and of starting the school, devolved principally upon him, and he was it- principal for a considerable period.
In May, 1868, Rev. W. I. Brugh was stated supply. He was installed pastor November 2, 1869, and resigned in April, 1871. On January 23, 1872, Rev. C. H. Mcclellan was installed pastor. Three years later, George A. Black was elected elder, and was appointed vice-superintendent of Sabbath school -- J. C. Redick being appointed superintendent. In 1877, Elder Black was clerk of the session, and continued in this position until April, Isst, when W. D. Brandon, the present clerk, signed the minutes for the first time. In 1877. Mr. Brandon, J. C. Redick, James D. Anderson, James Stevenson and George A. Black formed the board of elders ; and a year later, when Mr. Mcclellan resigned the pastoral charge, several of them were active members of the board.
Rev. W. T. Wylie accepted a call from this church in April, and was installed pastor in June, 1-79. The death of Elder Black is of record in the minutes of July 9, 1881, and the resignation of Mr. Wylie under date December 25, 1881. In June, 1SS2, Rev. W. E. Oller was elected pastor ; in December, W. D. Brandon was chosen superintendent, and Joseph S. Gray assistant of the Sabbath school.
In September, ISS3, Alfred Wick and John F. Anderson were elected elders. The death of Elder Boyd was noticed in February, ISS5. Some time in October, 18SS, Mr. Anderson, choir leader, resigned, and Mr-, Emma K. Colbert was chosen leader ; while in November Messrs. Brandon and Gray were re-elected to the positions in the Sunday school for which they were chosen in IS-2. Resolu- tions on the death of Rev. Loyal Young were adopted in December. 1890, but beyond this the minutes, to the close of Book Number 3, March 8, 1-92, deal only with the ordinary affairs of the board of elder -.
The fourth book opens with a record of the session of April S, 1892. Rev. W. E. Oller, pastor, with Elders William Campbell, James Stevenson, J. C. Redick, W. D. Brandon, Alfred Wick and John F. Anderson ; and Trustees W. J. McKee, William Campbell, Jr., E. II. Anderson, P. W. Lowry. J. E. Byers and Ira McJunkin. January 1, 1893, the elder -- elect were Thomas B. White, Robert A. White, D. L. Cleeland, Clinton B. Conway, Robert M. Anderson and C. N. Boyd.
The list of 1833 shows 105 members. From the coming of Mr. Young to his going, there were about 600 members admitted, the great majority on examina- tion. The roll of members in November. 1890, contained no less than 544 names, being an increase of 269 over the list of Iss2.
The church was remodeled in IS63, and dedicated December 9, of that year, when $643.50, were received, the collection being $268.50. R. C. Mc Aboy was then treasurer. The resolution to build was adopted June HI, 1862, when J. S.
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Campbell, William Campbell and R. C. MeAboy were empowered to enter into a contract with S. G. Purvis for wood work and material at a cost of $2,725. and with William Fowser, for stone and brick work and material, at a cost of $1.700. The extras in the first case brought the sum up to $2,856, and in the second, to $1,895. George Crozier, the painter, received $470, and other sums made the total cost, $6,205.39.
The present church is simply an extension of that erected in 1862-63, the work being accomplished in 1874-75. With the exception of the court-house and Jefferson street school, it occupies the finest site within the borough limits. Its high, symmetrical spire springing from a central tower, gives to the rather plain Gothic building an attractive appearance. The contract for the whole work was awarded to John Martin and Malcolm Graham, on their bid of $11,771, but the extras with repairs and painting brought the total expenditure up to about $16,000 before the close of 1880.
One of the most interesting features of the church is the Bible Class con- ducted by Col. John M. Sullivan. It was organized under his instruction, February 5, 1888. and now comprises a class of fifty, consisting of professional and busi- ness men. The youngest member is twenty-five and the eldest sixty-five years of age. The class meets every Sunday morning in a separate room of the church. The leader, who is a close student of the bible, is noted for his zeal in the work, and his short lectures are always instructive, and exercise a healthy moral influence over the minds of his hearers.
The church is in a prosperous and flourishing condition. The membership in 1894 numbered 650, and there were 457 scholars in the Sunday school. The superintendent, W. D. Brandon, is assisted by thirty-two officers and teachers.
United Presbyterian Church *.- This is the second oldest church organization in the borough of Butler. At a meeting of the Associate Reformed Presbytery of the Monongahela, held at " Yough Meeting House," June 25, 1804. a petition was presented for " supplies of gospel ordinances " from the congregation of " Butler- town." So far as any records that are extant show, this was the origin of the present United Presbyterian congregation of Butler.
Doubtless the number represented by this petition was not large, for we learn that very few persons had settled within the bounds of Butler county up to 1803, at which time the town of Butler was laid out.
It was during the fall of that year, and only a few months before this peti- tion was presented, that the first houses were built in Butler. While we cannot give the names or tell the number of these early petitioner-, we may judge from this one act something of their character. They were men and women who had come from Christian homes - some of them from neighboring counties, as Alle- gheny and Westmoreland, and some from Ulster and Caledonia across the sea. They were brought up under the influence- of the stricter sect of the Presbyterian faith, who sought for themselves and their children not only a home and a fortune in the new land, but the privilege and blessing of the christian religion.
They must have pressed their petition very earnestly, and the Presbytery
*This history of the church was compiled from the Centennial discourse of the Rev. J. S. McKee.
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must have regarded Butler town as no unpromising field, for the petition was promptly granted and Rev. Joseph Kerr, a young man who had just been ordained, was appointed to supply on the first Sabbath of August, 1501. It is presumed that he fulfilled this appointment, and on that day ninety years ago the first ser- mon by a minister of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church was preached in Butler. As to the sermon we can only judge it by the record afterwards made by the man who delivered it. For twenty-one years he served faithfully and suc- cessfully as pastor of St. Clair congregation, and at the time of his death he was pastor of the Second church, Pittsburg, and Professor in the Associate Reformed Theological Seminary.
It is evident that the congregation of Butler town was well pleased with the young minister, for we find them three weeks after hearing the first sermon pres- ent at a meeting of Presbytery, either by commissioners or petition, asking " for supplies of preaching." Again in the following >pring a similar application was made by the congregation of " Butler town."
In the statistical table submitted by the Presbytery on May 15. 1805, we find Deer Creek, Glade Run and Butler town all in Butler county, joined by a bracket and marked by a sign which is explained at the foot of the page to mean, " nearly ripe for a settlement."
The second sermon, so far as the record shows, . that was preached to this congregation was by another young man who had just been licensed, Rev. Mungo Dick. He was appointed to preach in Butler on the second Sabbath of July, 1>05. At the following meeting of Presbytery Mr. Dick reported that he had filled his appointment. September 3, [SO5, the Presbytery " received a petition from the congregations of Butler town and Deer Creek praying to be united and have as frequent supplies of sermons as can be afforded." This petition was granted and these two congregations declared "one united congregation."
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