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The Lutheran Cemetery, on the old Andrew Barnhart farm, near the Pontius settlement, and close to the Fairview line, speaks of many of the pioneers and old settlers of the Millerstown district. There a church stood at one time, and for fully fifty years it was the Mecca of local Lutheran worshipers. A sketch of it will be found in the chapter on Fairview township.
A private cemetery is situated on the hill-top, above Maloney's Corners. There Bernard Boyle was interred in 1847; Michael Maloney, in 1856, aged eighty-seven years; Nancy Johnston, in 1-53, and others whose graves are not marked by monuments. A mausoleum was built here, by one of the Duffys, which is now crumbled. In 1894 the trees were removed and an ornamental iron fence constructed.
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VILLAGES.
St. foc may be said to date its beginning to July 8, 1874, when a 200-bar- rel well answered the enterprise of the drillers, on the Joseph Graham farm, near where Joseph H. Graham settled in 1837. A few days after the first house was erected on the town site, and by the middle of September, 1874, no less than 250 houses, of all kinds, were huddled together in the new village, including Reiber's opera house, while in and round it stood oil derricks, like the towers of some ancient walled town. In November, following, fire swept away the greater num- ber of houses, including the telegraph office just established there ; but before the close of the year, the ground was again covered with frame dwellings, business concerns and shanties. Sundry small fires and time have blotted out the old buildings, with few exceptions. The hotel, erected by Christian Orr, and con- ducted for some time by Mr. Graham, and the opera house close by, are stern reminders of the days when men were glad to pay high prices for food and shelter at St. Joe. The old Durham store was burned July 31, 1890, and imme- diately after Joseph H. Graham erected the present mercantile house. A post- office was established at St. Joe in June, 1877, with W. M. Durham postmaster. On December 10, 1890, Mr. Graham was appointed postmaster. He built his residence, in 1881, on the site of the old J. W. Miller store and is to-day the successor of the old merchants-J. W. Miller, Risner Brothers and Myers & Company. There were forty-five wells in the St. Joe district in July, 1885, yielding 1,075 barrels per month. To-day there are several producers in the vicinity, though small compared with the old wells of 1874-79, but yet yielding enough to bring profit to their owners.
Plummer, three miles from Millerstown, was founded in September, 1874, and without ceremony introduced itself as a little center of oil production, com- merce, oilmen and derricks.
Danville, a mile distant from St. Joe, dates back to the summer of 1874. Smaller and less business like than its neighbor, it was a place where the oil man could play hide-and-go-seek among the derricks and indulge in less healthy exer- cise at will.
Greer is the name of the North Oakland station on the narrow guage rail- road, which runs through Donegal township. It contains a post-office established in April, 1880, with C. D. Wilbur, who opened a store there in 1879 with H. S. Cate, as postmaster. Mr. Cate, who is running a general store in the place at present, succeeded Mr. Wilbur as postmaster in 1883.
Rattigan, four miles southeast of Millerstown, was the name conferred on a new village in June, 1886, when Humphrey Friel was appointed postmaster. In October of that year, Friel summarily closed the office and ordered the mail to be delivered at Millerstown ; so that for some time the district was without post- office privileges. F. A. Griffin was then appointed postmaster, and has since transacted the Federal business within his general store.
CHAPTER XLIII.
MILLERSTOWN BOROUGH.
DERIVATION OF NAME-FIRST SETTLERS-PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS-POPULATION- EARLY BUSINESS INTERESTS-LATER GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT-HOTELS-BUSI- NESS COMPANIES AND CORPORATIONS-FIRES AND FIRE COMPANIES-POSTMASTERS AND JUSTICES-BOROUGH COUNCILS -- SCHOOLS -- CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES -- SECRET SOCIETIES-CONCLUSION.
M ILLERSTOWN derives its name from the fact that a little grist-mill was erected on its site in 1-05 by Abraham Lasher. This mill changed owners a number of times before 1836, in which year it and about 150 acres of adjacent land, located in 1794 by James Hemphill, was purchased by Philip Barnhart, who had the tract surveyed into town lots under the name of Millers- town. The location was then virtually a part of the wilderness. In order to avoid a conflict with the rules of the postoffice department, which prohibited two offices of the same name in any one State, the postoffice was named Barnhart's Mills, in honor of the Barnhart family. In the sale of lots Manassas Gillespie acted as auctioneer, announcing at the beginning of the sale that to him who would build the first house the price of his lot would be remitted. Daniel Barn- hart accepted this offer, and building on the lot where the Westermann store now stands, was given a deed for the property. Philip Barnhart exhibited his enter- prise and faith in the new town by tearing down the old mill and erecting near its site a new and improved one.
The history of the site before the laying out of the town is as follows : James Hemphill, a surveyor, and in after years known far and wide as a fearless hunter, came in 1794, in company with Rudolph Barnhart, from Westmoreland county to Butler county in search of homes. After visiting the vicinity of Butler and failing to find suitable locations, they took their way into what is now Donegal township. Here ITemphill finally selected a tract of 439 acres of land, on which the village of Millerstown was afterwards laid out. Barnhart selected a tract. near the site of Karns City, now known as the Kinkaid farm, on which he made a small clearing. In the fall they both went back to Westmoreland county for the winter. In the spring of 1795 they again returned to Butler county, accom- panied by Jacob Barnhart, Sr., Jacob Barnhart, Jr., and Adam and John Ilemp- hill, brothers of James Hemphill. Rudolph Barnhart then abandoned his first tract and settled on one directly northwest of the James Hemphill tract, located the year before. John Hemphill settled north and Adam Hemphill west of the James Ilemphill location. The other settlers in the immediate neighborhood were Jacob Barnhart, Jr., who settled west of Rudolph Barnhart, John Forquer, who settled south of James Hemphill, the Dugans, south and west of Adam
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Hemphill, and Jacob Barnhart, Sr., some three miles east of the Hemphills. In 1797 Philip and Daniel Barnhart, and Peter and Andrew Barnhart, joined the settlement. In 1803 James Hemphill established a distillery on his land. This is accredited with being the first manufacturing enterprise, the Lasher mill being the second. They were the only manufacturing enterprises established until after the town was laid out.
The little town prospered from the beginning, and the public spirit and enterprise of the Barnhart family soon became apparent. The new addition, or Bole's extension, as well as that portion of the town located on the hill above the original town, and known as the " Grove," is on the tract originally owned by John Hemphill, while that portion across the creek and west of the town-but not in the borough-and known as the " West End," or, more generally, as " Goosetown." is on the tract originally owned by Adam Hemphill. The Hemp- hill cemetery, just south of of town, is on the tract owned by James Hemphill and was either donated by himself or one of his descendants as a public burying ground.
The town is situated on the Pittsburg and Western Narrow Gnage railroad, near the northern boundary line of Donegal township. The elevations above the sea, range from 1,195 feet, railroad level, to 1,300 feet, the Third sand of the oil field being 245 feet and the Fourth sand 320 feet below ocean level. On the heights, above the town, a copious supply of fine water is found, while the surrounding coal beds offer fuel in abundance. The gas for heating and lighting purposes is piped from local wells, leaving the occupation of the coal miner a precarious one. The streams forming the Buffalo creek drain the town, and over their deep ravines, north and south, are the great wooden trestles of the narrow gauge railroad. The population in 1870 was 207; in 1880, 1,108, and in 1890, 1,162.
EARLY BUSINESS INTERESTS.
The first manufacturing industry in the Millerstown neighborhood was James Hemphill's distillery, already alluded to, which was a very small institu- tion in 1803. The location has not been ascertained ; but the fact that a son of James Hemphill established a distillery here in 1838, leads to the conclusion that the original still was in the Barnhart settlement or near it. The distillery of 1838 was erected on the brow of the hill, near Mr. Hoch'sdwelling and the Hoch planing mill, and continued to manufacture whisky until 1846.
The Lasher mill was erected on Buffalo creek, near the site of the present mill, in 1805. Very primitive in its log walls, wheel and buhrs, it entered into lively competition with the Neyman mill at the mouth of Bonny Brook, the Sar- ver mill on Sarver's run, and the Cunningham mill at Butler, placing at the doors of the pioneers of Donegal and Fairview an industry for which they waited almost a decade. John Wick bought the little mill from Lasher ; but sold it to the pioneer distiller, James Hemphill, who carried it on until his death, when Benjamin Fletcher became owner. Philip Barnhart purchased the property in 1836, razed the log building, and erected a much better mill. Henry Barnhart next became owner, and he it was who introduced steam power. Mr. Bufford
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carried on the industry for some time and then sold to Fetzer & Myers, who built a new mill in 1869, remodeled the concern in 1884, introduced the roller process later, and made it a modern flouring mill in every respect.
The brewery of 1849 was established by Martin Hoch and Martin Reiber, in a building erected for them by J. D. Aldinger. The business was carried on by them and afterwards by Martin and Gottlieb Iloch until 1853, when the latter became sole proprietor. For twenty-six years Gottlieb Hoch carried on this industry, erecting a new brewery where the Henry Sheffield dwelling now stands, the old building being in fact a part of that dwelling house. Mrs. Catherine Iloch, the executrix, sold the property to W. P'. Turner, who sold it to Sheffield.
In the unpretentious cabin erected by Daniel Barnhart-the purchaser of the first town lot-John F. Wiles, soon after the laying out of the town, exposed a small stock of goods for sale, and inaugurated its mercantile life. Wiles after- wards built for himself on the opposite corner, and Andrew Barnhart opened a bakery in the first building about the year 1843, and occupied it until his new store was finished in 1848, when Martin Reiber established his business in the abandoned building. John Smith preceded Reiber in trade, opening a stock of goods in a building in the rear of Daniel Barnhart's pioneer store. In 1856 Henry L. Westermann purchased the Reiber stock, building and ground, extended the house and continued in business there until 1879, when he was succeeded by his sons, the present merchants. In 1847 John Jacob Frederick opened a blacksmith's shop here. as successor of Peter Baker, and in 1849 the Hoch & Reiber brewery was established. In 1857 or 1858 Barnhart Frederick returned from St. Louis, Missouri, to Butler county, established a wagon shop, and subsequently a small stock of notions and confectionery near where Titley's stable stands. Michael Dieter established his tailor shop in 1859 and Seibert & Craig their wagon shop in 1861. The hotels, mill and brewery, with the merchants and tradesmen named, made up the business houses of the hamlet, when the alarm of Civil war was sounded throughout the country.
From 1861 to 1873 Millerstown was a mere hamlet, dependent upon the surrounding country for the success of its limited mercantile and manufac- turing enterprises. In that year the discovery of oil in the Shreve well on the Stewart farm, and the Lambing well on the Barnhart farm, introduced radical changes and, within a short time, the little borough was transformed into a bustling camp, filled with the festive warriors of oildom. To add to the excitement of the times, Dr. Hunter established the first mystery in this field on the McGinley farm; then came Divener Number 1, with its 1,000 barrels a day. The telegraph office rose from zero to be the third, in order of receipts, within Pennsylvania; the wires carried extraordinary oily stories throughout the world and Millerstown was filled with a population of 3.000, sometimes increased to 7,000 or 8,000 individuals, with all the institutions of a great oil field center. Much of the story of this period is related in the chapter on the Butler Oil Field, where many of the wells and many of the operators find mention. The Millerstown Eastern Belt was opened in 1876 by " Centennial Number 1." the property of II. L. Westermann, G. F. Fetzer and B. Frederick.
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and particularly by Redd & McBride's 350 barrel "Great Leather," struck in July, 1877, and Westermann's "Centennial Number 4."
After the discovery of oil, in 1573, a new race of merchants appeared upon the scene. A. H. Simpson built a store in June at the corner of Slippery Rock and Depot streets, which he filled with hardware, stoves, sheet-iron and oil-well supplies. Seymour & Little established at the same time a store at Iron City and one where the Hays store now stands. They sold the Millerstown house in 1875 or 1876 to Mr. Simpson and moved the house from Iron City. The Lupher and the Norton hardware stores were also started in 1873, as well as the Lock- wood store at Iron City. Reed & Durant established a large hardware house where Johnson's store now is. The Brenneman Brothers carried on a large lum- ber business ; Peirce & Conant had the leading grocery, and R. P. Hoskins was also in that business. H. L. Westermann carried on the principal general store, while the Barnharts and Fredericks were also engaged in trade. Hirsh & O'Brien, David Dale, William Larkin, Campbell & Murphy and H. L. Taylor & Company were owners of large machine shops ; Siegel, now of Siegel & Cooper, of Chi- cago, had the first exclusive dry goods store ; while S. F. Moestd established a gent's furnishing and tailoring store in a large house near the present home of Mr. Hoch, the upper floor being the office of the Producers' Protective Asso- ciation.
The first attempt at journalism here was made by O. P. Jackson, who launched the little Sand Pump in 1874, and carried it on for a short period. Rev. A. S. Thorn established The Review in 1875, which was subsequently car- ried on by Mrs. Thorn, in opposition to The Herald, founded by S. J. Small in 1876. In 1877 Peter A. Rattigan purchased the office and at once brought the paper into prominence as a compendium of oil notes and county news. In this office, such printers as W. C. Plummer worked at the case, while others, success- ful in the trade, were also connected with it, including P. C. Boyle, manager of the Oil City Derrick; J. W. Hopkins, foreman of the Pittsburg Post, and Harry T. Rattigan, the present postmaster, who may be said to have been raised in the Herald office.
Dr. Marks was the pioneer physician of the borough. Dr. Mclaughlin and Dr. Geddes followed, and in 1-58 came Josiah McMichael. The physicians who came in since the beginning of the Civil war are named as follows : Drs. S. D. Bell, Gathers, Towler, T. W. Hopkins, T. D. McCaskey, Beatty, Patterson, Peck J. B. Showalter, W. L. De Wolfe, J. L. Campbell, J. L. Axtell and G. D. Thomas. All are named in the general chapter on the Medical Profession.
The first druggists were Samuel McBride, Harry Sanderson, of the Palace store, Aldinger & Bole and Dr. Beatty. It is said that there were eighty saloons in Millerstown in 1873. The notorious Ben Hogan had an opera house here : restaurants were numerous and on hill and in valley all kinds of business was carried on with extraordinary industry. During the ensuing years, W. P. Braden's refinery of 1877. and other industries, were founded.
The merchants and manufacturers in 1894 are as follows: P. A. Bell & Company, druggists ; W. W. Bowen, grocery ; Mrs. Brady, millinery; Campbell & Murphy, machinists ; Dr. W. L. De Wolfe, druggist : Michael Dieter, grocery :
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S. Frankle, clothier ; P. G. Frederick & Company, lumber; J. T. T. Frazier, variety store ; George Glass, grocery ; Frank Grieff, market; Mrs. Harris, mil- linery ; Hoch Brothers, hardware, etc; E. F. Hays, hardware, etc. ; E. M. Jen- kins, flour and feed ; C. Il. Johnson, hardware, harness, boots and shoes; H. C. Litzinger, grocery ; W. J. Logan, grocery; J. L. McKee, druggist, successor of C. D. Aldinger : J. C. Murtland, groceries ; F. W. Purucker, market; W. E. Redd, dry goods store ; F. Schweiger, boots and shoes; Stone & Vandemark and W. II. Westerman, machinists; II. Stahl, tailoring ; C. Scharbach, jewelry ; Seibert, Hoch & Company, planing mill; Catherine Teske, grocery ; Wester- mann Brothers, general merchants, and R. F. Westermann, gents' furnishings.
HOTELS.
The Wiles House was the first tavern here. John F. Wiles, who removed from the first building, on the site of the Westermann store, to a new one which he erected on the site of the Central House prior to 1838, carried on a tavern in connection with his grocery store. John McKisson leased the premises from him in the forties, but shortly after Simon R. Barnhart became owner and converted the building into a grain warehouse and tenement, renting a few room- to Mr. Steck, a Lutheran minister. Later John Barnhart purchased the concern and returned it to its original nes, keeping store and tavern there, until Martin Hoch became owner in 1853. During the twenty succeeding years Mr. Hoch con- tinued the hotel business. In 1873 he leased the lots to Dr. W. P. Book for ten years at $1,200 per annum. In the same year Dr. Book erected a two-story frame building, and commanded an immense trade until April 1, 1574, when a fire originated therein and destroyed the structure, as well as the lives of four human beings, including Captain Oliver and the head porter. Dr. Book rebuilt at once, making the new house a three-story one, which was burned in the great fire of December 6, 1877, when the property reverted to Martin Hoch.
The Gumpper tavern, opened by Gottlieb Gumpper in 1838, on the site of the present Schreiber or Dolan House, may be considered the beginning of the hotel system in Millerstown, though its contemporary, the Wiles tavern, was fairly good. The house was a double log one, very crude without, and very plainly furnished within. Notwithstanding these defects, the table was generally loaded down with substantial food, and plenty of whisky from James Hemphill's new distillery could be had for a trifle. Even then, forty-three years after the first settlers located in the neighborhood, deer and other game were plenty, so that Gumpper had little difficulty in providing his guests with rich meats which to-day are looked upon as luxuries, and are seldom offered by the best houses. The hotel was carried on by William Reiber in later days, escaped the fires of 1874 and 1875, but went up in smoke in 1877. Zachariah Double built a frame in 1877-78 on the site of the log house, which he rented to Adam Schreiber ; Camp- bell & Johnson were the next landlords, and then John Dolan became owner. In 18>4 the house was burned, and he built the present hotel.
The Campbell, or Glass House, was built for John Glass in 1874, opposite Depot street. Dean Cambpell, formerly proprietor of the Schrieber House, be- came landlord in 1882 and called it the Campbell House. When John Harding
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bought the property, he carried it on under the same name, until Perry Smith became owner. He rented the concern to Mrs. Pisor, who converted it into a temperance house. Henry Shakeley was a tenant for a short time, and Mrs. Rodgers carried it on subsequently to the close of its hotel career.
The Central House was erected in 1877-78 on the site of the burned Book Hotel, and by April, 1878, two stores on Main street front were opened, one as a tailoring house by B. Forst and the other as a wholesale liquor store by A. Mayer & Company. In May the hotel was opened by Henry Lockhart, who carried it on until the fall of 1883, when the Hoch Brothers took possession of the entire building and continued the hotel therein, as well as established their hardware business. The house is well furnished and admirably conducted. Exclusive of the hardware and furniture stocks, there is a sum of over $20,000 invested in build- ing and furnishings.
The Forquer House, formerly the Goodwin House, was built by M. Good- win, on Slippery Rock street. Benjamin J. Forquer is the present owner of ground and building. The fire of June 15, 1892, entailed heavy losses on the owner, but he at once restored the building, improving it in every particular and furnishing it anew. It is rated as a first-class house, and is undoubtedly well managed.
The Hanlon House, built in April, IST3, by Joseph Hanlon, was burned, April 1, 1>74, when the business center of the town was destroyed. Two persons lost their lives in that fire. On its site the building owned by John Dolan, and occupied by C. H. Johnson as a boot and shoe store, was erected.
Among other hotels established in the seventies the Galena House was probably the best known. It stood on the present site of the Evans residence, where The Reviewe was published for a time. Mr. Core was the landlord. The Belvidere, on Mill street, where George Callahan's house stands, was carried on by John Krohmer. The Leopold House, where E. M. Jenkins' store is, was car- ried on by C. Leopold. The Sink House, where C. H. Johnson's hardware store is, was built by Mr. Sink and afterward sold to Henry Lockhart, who carried it on for a time, next to the old Reed & Durant hardware store. The O'Brien Hlouse stood where the Hays hardware store is. Mrs. McCabe had a large boarding house on the corner of Slippery Rock and Depot streets. Peter Heaton had the Heaton House where Purucker's market is; Thomas Goodwin ran a res- taurant where the Titley barn is, and Billy Reeves kept where Westermann's shoe department stands,
BUSINESS COMPANIES AND CORPORATIONS.
The Millerstown Oil Exchange was organized in October. 1882, with Thomas Dorsey, president ; Dr. S. D. Bell, vice-president ; Henry Lockhart, secretary ; Alexander H. Simpson, treasurer ; A. E. Barnhart and C. D. Aldinger, auditors. The exchange room was in the Central Hotel. About this time oil speculation was rampant, and this exchange influenced occasionally the oil market of the world. Of course, this extreme of business life could not last, and what made fortunes for the members at one time wrecked many of them financially in the end.
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The United Pipe Lines' Station was established in 1873, and for years ran day and night. The capacity is about 250 barrels an hour. Two engines of sixty horse-power each drive the suction and discharge pump. The receiving tank has a capacity of 22,000 barrels, and in every particular the station is thoroughly equipped. O. S. June is the district superintendent ; P. P. Shetler, foreman of the station, and J. M. Bell, engineer and operator. A. D. Sutton is agent of the National Transit Company, with office in Central Hotel.
The Millerstown Savings Bank Association was organized June 6, 1873, with Charles Duffy, president ; G. W. Stoughton, vice-president ; J. C. Scott, cashier ; Andrew Barnhart. Martin Hoch, Henry L. Westermann, Charles Mc- Candless, John M. Thompson and W. G. Stoughton, directors. The stockholders were the foregoing officers, and Andrew Barnhart, Jacob and Henry Frederick, W. H. H. Riddle, John G. Myers, B. B. Seibert and G. F. Fetzer. During the year 1874 John Walker was appointed cashier, and he held that position until the German National Bank was established.
The German National Bank was simply the reorganized Savings Bank, established under a charter, dated May 1, 1875. In the busy oil days weekly deposits averaged $300,000. and this institution was famous throughout the State and well known in American banking circles. Charles J. Westermann was the first teller, holding the position until 1880, when Henry J. Myers succeeded him. He was promoted to cashier, and, when the bank went into voluntary liquida- tion, in 1885, he was appointed liquidating officer by the National Bank Commis- sion, an office he still holds.
The Millerstown Deposit Bank was organized in 1887 by John G. and Ilenry J. Myers, with the latter as cashier. and Charles L. Myers, teller. It is the successor of the old Savings Bank, is the only banking institution in northern Butler, and does a good and safe business.
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