History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 117

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co.
Number of Pages: 1314

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In 1871 there was a strong promise of a railway line across Dunbar, to touch a point just above East Liberty, and Alexander J. Hill concluded that as the proposed line would cross his farm he would lay of Mount Pleasant, Sewickly, Dunlap's Creek, Laurel out a town there. He therefore surveyed a field into village lots, named the site Alexandria, and readily sold the lots, for the prospect of a railroad seemed wellnigh certain. Although the railway project mis- curried at that time, much to the grievous disappoint- ment of all concerned with the progress of Alexan- dria, the outlook at this present time is exceedingly

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was chosen president of Jefferson College, at Canons- burg. At the time of Mr. Dunlap's settlement at Laurel Hill the ruling elders were John Travis and Samuel Finley. The first persons ordained ruling elders after his settlement were James McClean, Samuel McClean, Daniel McClean, John Allen, James Wilkie, and John Maxwell. The next or- dained elders during the same pastorate were James Parker and James Morrison.

During Mr. Dunlap's pastorate there arose a divis- ion in the congregation because of the introduction into the church of the gospel psalmody. As a con- sequence about one-third of the members withdrew and organized the Laurel Hill United Presbyterian (or Seceders) Church. April 18, 1804, Rev. James Guthrie was called to be the pastor of Laurel Hill, and April 17, 1805, was installed. The ruling elders at that time were Samuel Finley, Samuel McClean, James Halliday, James McCormick, and Joseph Morison. The first ruling elders ordained after Mr. Guthrie's coming were Joseph Torrenee, James Allen, and Enoch French. The second addition of elders ineluded Patrick Watson, Andrew Wiley, and John Clark. In 1826, D. A. C. Sherrard and John Larimer were chosen elders, and in 1833 Thomas Greer, John Morison, S. A. Russel, A. E. Byers, Robert Davis, and Mathew Byers. Mr. Sherrard served as ruling elder from 1826 to his death in 1880, a period of fifty-four years. Mr. Guthrie labored with the church uninter- ruptedly for the space of forty-five years or until his William Carson also related the following incident to Mr. Sherrard : death, which took place Aug. 24, 1850. A marble shaft in Laurel Hill Cemetery marks his last resting-place, " It was a dense forest of beautiful white-oak timber for the distance of a mile from home to the site of the meeting-house, and as a guide his brother blazed trees all the way from home to the site; this was done to mark a pathway for his own and afterwards for the use of the family to travel along on Sabbath days when the publie service was held at the meeting- house." and testifies to the love in which his people held hin. About six months before his death Mr. Guthrie sug- gested that as the infirmities of age were telling sorely upon him, it would be well to secure some minister to be co-pastor with him. In accordance with that sug- gestion Rev. Joel Stoneroad was called and installed June 6, 1850. Within less than three months there- after, Mr. Guthrie's death left Laurel Hill to the Mr. Sherrard says, " A graveyard had been formed for some three or four years before the first meeting- house was built. And there old Col. Paull's father, George Paull, was buried in the fall of 1778. And there my grandfather was buried in 1780. And there his daughter, my mother, was buried in 1833." charge of Mr. Stoneroad. The latter preached at Laurel and Tyrone until 1861, when he gave his entire time to Laurel Hill. In 1851 the membership of the latter was one hundred and thirty-six, and soon rose to one hundred and fifty. The first elders ehosen under Mr. Stoneroad's pastorate (in 1851) were James As already mentioned, the first churchyard was laid out in 1772, at the old church, upon the present Joseph Work farm. When the church location was changed to where it now is a burial-place was set apart there. Among the oldest headstone inscriptions to be found there are the following : Given Scott, 1793; Stewart, John Clark, W. H. Haslett, and James Allen. The next additions (in 1866) were William Bryson, R. H. Smith, James Curry, James Henshaw, Thomas G. Sherrard, and Samnel Watson. The last two de- clined to serve. After a pastorate of twenty-eight years, Mr. Stoneroad was compelled in 1878 to resign | Andre Scott, 1790; John Gilchrist, 1795; Mary Allen,

his charge by reason of ill health and bodily infir- mities. He lives now in quiet seclusion not far from the church. After depending upon supplies about a year the church called Rev. R. R. Gailer, now iu charge, to be the pastor, and Sept. 12, 1879, he was installed. In March, 1881, the membership of Laurel Hill was one hundred and sixty. Besides the house

of worship at Laurel Hill, there is also Bethel Chapel in North Union township, built in 1877. The elders in March, 1881, were James Curry, John Wright, R. H. Smith, Hervey Smith, George Yeagley, and William Bryson. The trustees were Thomas Phillips, Ashbel Junk, and Caleb Woodward. The Sunday-school, which is in charge of the pastor, has an average attend- ance of eighty teachers and pupils.

The following account of the church edifices of old Laurel Hill Church is given by Robert A. Sherrard, whose father was one of the earliest settlers in Dun- bar, and a prominent member of this congregation :

"The first meeting-house built for the use of old Laurel Hill congregation was put up in the fall of the year 1778. It was of hewed logs and shingled roof. I had the information from William Carson, whose brother, Alexander Carson, hewed the logs, and after the house was raised he shingled it. This meet- ing-house did not stand many years, as it was a mile from the centre of the congregation, and as the great majority of the congregation [were] farther north and west by three or four miles. In the course of a few years (1782) a new site was selected, a vote taken, and by a very large majority of the congregation it was agreed to build upon the new site. Accordingly a new house of hewed logs was built, and occupied as a meeting-house for said Laurel Hill congregation until the year 1850, at which time they erected au elegant, large, and spacious brick meeting-house."

1795; Daniel McClean, 1797; James Junk, 1799; Jane Scott, 1797; Mary Work, 1800; Joseph Work, 1800; Johannah Beatty, 1801 ; Thomas Preston, 1801 ; John Allen, 1802; Elizabeth Gilchrist, 1804; Agnes Work, 1810; Martha Guthrie, 1807 ; James Paull, Sr., 1811 (aged eighty-one) ; John A. Scott, 1790; Thomas Scott, 1811; Sarah Luckey, 1811 ; Agnes McDowell,

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1801; Wm. Rogers, 1813; Elizabeth Peairs, 1814; Elisha Peairs, 1816; Jane Rogers, 1815; Susannah Hamilton, 1815; George Stewart, 1819; Mary Luekey, 1821; Thomas Junk, 1821 ; Margaret Gilchrist, 1823 (aged ninety-three) ; Joseph Luckey, 1823.

EAST LIBERTY CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHI.

The first member of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination residing in Dunbar township was Henry Leighty, who came from Harmony, West- moreland Co., and settled at East Liberty. Not only was he the first, but he was also the only member of that denomination in the vicinity of his place of set- tlement for some years; but notwithstanding this fact, it was at his invitation and solicitation that, in the year 1832, the Rev. Isaac Hague, a Cumberland Pres- byterian preacher, came to this neighborhood and be- gan holding religious services. His preaching was so effective that in a short time he had gathered a con- gregation of earnest members. When compelled to transfer his labors to some other portion of the coun- try he arranged to have the Rev. A. M. Blackford as- signed to the care of the East Liberty congregation. The result of Mr. Blackford's ministrations led to his organization of the East Liberty Cumberland Pres- byterian Church, July 2, 1838. The organizing mem- bers were Henry Leighty, Catharine Ash, Susanna Dougan, Amy Work, Susan Leighty, Jane Cooley, Nancy Leighty, Eliza Leighty, Mary Little, Char- lotte Leighty. Henry Leighty was chosen ruling elder in the spring of 1839, Rev. Mr. Blackford retired from the charge and Elder Leighty removed from the bounds of the congregation. At this june- ture several of the members concluded to make their homes in other parts, and thus a material check was set upon the church's progress. During the summer of 1839 and 1840, Rev. A. Shearer supplied occasional preaching, and as the few remaining members of the church exercised themselves with most earnest dili- genee to sustain the organization, it remained intact, although it required a sharp struggle to keep it so. From April, 1841, to April, 1842, there was seareely any preaching, but in the spring of 1842, Eller Leighty returning, he reawakened the slumbering interest, and in response to his request to the Union Presbytery for the services at East Liberty of some minister, Jesse Adams, a licentiate, was assigned to preach there a portion of his time. His labors were attended with gratifying success, and during the year brought fourteen members into the church. These were Joseph Evans, Joseph Martin, Mary Martin, David Leighty, John Ash, Ann Oglevee, George Boyer, Catharine Boyer, Francis Leighty, Ann Se- crist, Mary Work, Francis Varns, Conrad Strickler, and Elizabeth Striekler. During 1845 a house of worship was erceted, and there was a substantial promise of much permanent prosperity. June 17, 1843, Jesse Oglevee was ordained ruling elder by Rev. S. E. Hudson. Dec. 20, 1847, John Leighty,

Abraham Galley, and Joseph Harper were chosen trustees. The succession of ministers, beginning with Rev. Jesse Adams' time, is given as follows: Jesse Adams, April, 1842, to October, 1842; A. B. Brice, October, 1842, to April, 1843; William Camp- bell, April, 1843, to April, 1846; A. G. Osborn, April, 1846, to April, 1848; Messrs. Osborn and Swain, April, 1848, to April, 1849: A. G. Osborn, April, 1849, to April, 1856; J. S. Gibson, April, 1856, to April, 1858; J. P. Beard, 1858 to fall of 1859; - Anderson, from that time to 1861; J. N. Edmeston, 1861 to 1864; A. J. Swain, 1864 to 1871 ; H. S. Dan- ley, 1871 to 1874; E. P. Pharr, 1874 to 1877. The pastor now in charge is Rev. K. C. Hayes.

To June 1, 1860, the number of persons received into membership aggregated three hundred and ten. To 1881 the members received numbered six hundred and twenty-seven.

The membership in March, 1881, was about three hundred. The greater portion thereof worship at the East Liberty (or Alexandria) Church, and the residue at Summit Chapel, south of East Liberty, a meeting- house provided for the convenience of such members of the congregation as live in that vicinity. Rev. K. C. Hayes, called in 1879 to be the pastor, preaches at both places. In 1867 the present substantial brick edifice replaced the building (likewise brick) set up in 1845. Known as the East Liberty Church, it is actually located at Alexandria. The elders in March, 1881, were Joseph Cropp, David Snyder, E. B. Porter, Farrington Oglevee, Joseph Oglevee. The trustees were J. L. Momyer, L. L. Collins, Watson Dunn, M. L. Stoner, Philip Oglevee.

BETHEL CHAPEL.

There is at Alexandria a chapel, in which mem- bers of the Bethel Disciples' Church of Tyrone meet for worship once a fortnight. The chapel was built in 1875, and is commodious and neat but tasteful in design. The attendance averages fully fifty persons.

METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCHI OF DUNBAR.

About the year 1835 a Methodist Protestant Church was organized in Woodvale School District, and a stone church building erected upon land donated by Joseph Paull. At the same time Mr. Paull made a donation of land for a burying-ground. About 1866 the Woodvale Church was abandoned, and in 1871 was demolished. From 1866 to 1875 the congrega- tion worshiped in the village school-house at Dun- bar. In 1875 the present house of worship was erected. The present enrollment of members is one hundred and fifty, but the membership ineludes about a hundred. The pastor is Rev. John Hodgin- son, the preacher on the Dunbar charge, which in- eludes three appointments. Services are held at Dunbar onee in two weeks. The class-leader at Dun- bar is Daniel Cameron. The Sunday-school super- intendent is Lewis McDowell.

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ST. ALOYSIUS' CHURCHI (ROMAN CATHOLIC).

Previous to 1873 the Catholics residing at Dunbar village attended church at Connellsville. In that year Rev. P. Brady, of Myersdale, in Somerset County, visited Dunbar, and held services in Maurice Healy's house, on which occasion the congregation numbered about a hundred persons. In 1873 and 1874 he preached at Mr. Healy's house once a month. In 1875 a fine house of worship was completed at Dun- bar and dedicated that year. It was built of brick, and cost eleven thousand dollars. In 1875 Mr. Brady became the resident priest at Dunbar, and still con- tinues in charge. The congregation includes now (March, 1881) from three hundred to three hundred and fifty families. Services are held every Sunday.

DUNBAR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

The Presbyterian Church of Dunbar was organ- ized April 29, 1874, by the Presbytery of Redstone. The constituent members numbered eighty-five, of whom the greater portion had been members of the Connellsville Presbyterian Church. Joseph Paull, John Taylor, T. W. Watt, and James L. Paull were chosen ruling elders. In 1874 a church was built at a cost of five thousand five hundred dollars. Nov. 9, 1874, it was dedicated. Services were at first held in the Harper school-house by Rev. J. M. Baruett, of Connellsville, who supplied until December, 1874, when Rev. R. T. Price, of Alle- gheny City, was engaged, and Mr. Price is still the pastor. Since organization two hundred and eleven members have been received. Of them one hundred and fifty remained March 1, 1881. The Sunday- school, in charge of J. L. Paull as superintendent, and James Thompson and George T. Griffin as assistants, has an average attendance of one hundred and fif- teen. The church elders are T. W. Watt, J. L. Paull, Thomas Reiner, and W. H. Barnes. The deaeons are A. B. Hosack, James Thompson, W. H. Wilson, and J. W. Guthrie.

DUNBAR METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHI.

Dunbar Methodist Episcopal class, attached to Red- stone Circuit, has met at Dunbar village regularly every fortnight in the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion Building since the beginning of 1879. The members number now about fifteen. The preacher in charge is Rev. Mr. Husted. The class-leader is Wil- liam Rodkey. A house of worship was to be built during the summer of 1881.

ST. JOHN IN THE WILDERNESS' CHURCH (PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL).

A Protestant Episcopal chapel bearing this name occupies a site near the Dunbar Furnace. It was consecrated March 8, 1881. The structure cost three thousand dollars, and was projected and completed mainly through the efforts of Mrs. A. B. De Saulles. The rector at New Haven, Rev. Mr. Stonax, is also rector of this church.

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH (EPISCOPAL).

About the year 1852, St. Paul's Episcopal Church was organized, and a house of worship erected in Woodvale School District, on land owned by Mrs. Mary Meason. Among the families prominent in the organization were the Murphys, Puseys, Measons, and Walkers. The congregation was small at the outset, and thus remained until it disbanded about ten years later. Pulpit supplies were obtained from Connells- ville and Uniontown, but at no time were church affairs sufficiently prosperous to warrant the engage- ment of a resident rector. In a little while the re- moval from the township of leading members of the church began to weaken the organization, and in 1862 meetings were abandoned.

SCIIOOLS.

Incidental reference to some of the early private or " subscription" schools taught in Dunbar town- ship will be found in the history of the township's early settlement. The remote period at which the settlement of Dunbar began makes the task of re- citing early school history a vague and unsatisfactory one at best. Every small settlement had its school as soon as the most important matter of settlement was thoroughly adjusted, and these humble school- houses were scattered over the country, and mul- tiplied rapidly as the country was peopled and de- veloped. One of the most important schools of the early era in Dunbar appears to have been opened by the Rev. James Dunlap, pastor of the Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church, and William Littell, Esq. An old newspaper advertisement shows that the school was opened in 1794, and that the preceptors were ready to receive pupils, to whom would be taught " elocution and the English language grammatically, together with the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew lan- guages, geometry and trigonometry, with their appli- cation to mensuration, surveying, gauging, etc. ; like- wise geography and civil history, natural and moral philosophy, logie, and rhetoric." They set forth, moreover, that " boarding, washing, etc., may be had at reputable houses in the neighborhood, at the low rate of ten pounds per annum." The school building is believed to have been located on the old Tanner farm, formerly owned by Col. William Swearingen, and later by Charles MeLaughlin. It was probably continued by Mr. Dunlap until 1803, when he was called to the presidency of Jefferson College, at Can- onsburg, Pa. Littell was subsequently well known as a Kentucky lawyer and author.

The public school system was inaugurated in 1835, and May 22d of that year the school appropriation ap- portioned to Dunbar was $113.33] from the State and 8226.663 from the county. Dunbar's first report under the law was made Oct. 16, 1835.

The annual report for the school year ending June 7, 1880, gives details touching Dunbar's public schools as follows :

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Whole number of schools.

Average number of months taught ..

Number of male teachers

.. female "

Average salaries of males per montb ..

834 28

= females

$31.00

Number of male scholars.

517

16 female «

470

Average number attending school .. Average percentage of attendance.

Cost per month.

$0.67

Number of mills levied for school purposes ..

Total amount of tax levied for school and building purposes .. .. $4047.59

State appropriation .... 1067.24

Receipts from taxes and all sonrees except State ap- propriation. 4230.54

Total receipts

5297.78

Cost of school-houses-purchasing, building, renting, etc. 634.01

Paid for teachers' wages ..

3810.00

l'aid for fuel and contingencies, fees of collectors, etc., and all other expenses. 490.52

Total expenditures 4934.53

Resources

3217.88

Liabilities.

SOCIETIES AND ORDERS.

KING DAVID LODGE, No. 826, I. O. O. F.

This lodge of I. O. O. F. was organized at Dunbar, in 1873, with twenty-three members. John Speer was the N. G .; A. J. Bryson, V. G. ; and Samuel Wilson, Treas. The membership now reaches one hundred. The officers are Edward Potter, N. G .; William Cal- houn, V. G .; John Stafford, Fin. Sec .; A. J. Bryson, Treas .; William Mitchell, Ree. Sec.

BRANCH No. 3, A. O. H.,

was organized at Dunbar in 1875, with ten members. In March, 1881, the membership was fifty. The offi- eers were John Cain, President; Michael Maylie, Sec. ; Hugh Hagan, Treas.

DUNBAR LODGE, No. 410, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS,

was organized Oct. 10, 1873, with twenty members. Samuel Wilson was chosen C. M .; C. H. Stetson, V. C. M .; W. II. Speers, K. of R. and S. ; C. S. Beatty, M. of F. The membership, Mareb, 1881, was one hundred and twenty. Then the officers were Frank Vietor, C. M .; F. G. Smith, V. C. M. ; D. M. Moth- erwell, Prelate ; Wesley Devan. K. of R. and S. ; John Stafford, M. of F .; Smith Wortman, M. of E .; J. N. Anderson, MI. at A.

DUNCAN POST, No. 165, G. A. R.,

was organized in the spring of 1880, with twenty-two members. John Stafford was chosen the first com- mander. The members now number fifty. The offi- cers are D. A. Byers, Com .; W. H. Martin, S. V. C .; John Waters, J. V. C .; D. K. Cameron, Chap. ; J. N. Anderson, Adjt. ; James Fraser, O. D .; John Staf- ford, O. G .; Henry Bunting, Q.M.

DUNBAR LODGE, No. 1236, I. O G. T.,

Andrew Laughrey, W. C. T .; Clara McDowell, W. V. T .; Charles Trew, Fin. Sec. ; J. N. Anderson, Rec. See .; Allie Ambrone, Treas .; W. N. Rodkey, Chap- lain ; Boyd Lemon, Marshal.

DUNBAR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

The Y. M. C. A. was organized in 1870, and in that year a hall costing $1000 was erected upon a lot do- nated by W. H. Speer. The officers are A. B. Hosack, President ; W. H. Wilson, Sec .; D. A. Byers, Treas.

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.

THE DUNBAR FURNACE COMPANY.

The Dunbar Furnace Company was organized June I, 1876, with a capital of $500,000, of which $200,000 was in preferred stock. April 29, 1880, the preferred was increased to $300,000. Charles Parrish was chosen president ; A. B. De Saulles, vice-president ; Theodore P. Farrell, treasurer and secretary. The di- rectors were Charles Parrish, A. B. De Saulles, Samuel Dickson, Fisher Hazard, James Cox, and Henry Brock. The company became possessed of the Dun- bar Iron Company's works, together with coal and iron lands covering about eight thousand acres in Dunbar township. Edmund C. Pechin, superintend- ent for the Dunbar Iron Company, was installed in the same position under the new organization, with A. B. De Saulles as assistant superintendent. In 1877, Mr. De Salles was appointed to succeed Mr. Pechin as superintendent, and at that time Mr. William Beeson was chosen general manager. Since that time there has been no change in either the directors or other officers of the company. The furnace company found one stone stack fifty-seven feet high and fifteen feet " bosh," with a daily capacity of forty tons. The stack was at once rebuilt to a height of seventy-six feet with twenty feet " bosh," capable of making seventy tons of iron daily. The number of employés at the furnace and mines was increased from two hundred and fifty to five hundred. Three Whitwell hot- blast stoves were put in (eighteen by forty each), a new blowing-engine and four new boilers were added, and ninety-eight coke-ovens erected.

In December, 1879, a second stack similar to the first was built, and additions made of two hot-blast stoves, two new blowing-engines, and four new boilers. In February, 1880, the company purchased the Fer- guson Coke-Works, and leased three hundred aeres of adjacent coal lands. This, with the Hill Farm Coke-Works, bought in 1876, gave the company one hundred and fifty-nine coke-ovens, and control of six hundred aeres of eoal lands. The large traet of land owned and controlled by the company, lying chiefly in the mountainous region of Dunbar, east and south- east from Dunbar village, includes, besides coal, large deposits of iron ore and limestone. Thus almost at the very doors of the furnace, they find all the ma- terials necessary to the manufacture of iron. Immedi-

This lodge was chartered Aug. 3, 1877, with twenty members. D. K. Cameron was chosen W. C. T .; G. B. Tellr), W. V. T .; James Thompson, Sec .; J. C. Rosborough, Treas. The officers March, 1881, were ! ately under the coal-beds south of the Hill farm, to

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the depth of from eighteen to twenty-four inches below the coal, are found iron ore deposits.

This is likewise true of other localities in the town- ship. The annual mining products of the company include 9000 tons of coal, 15,000 tons of mountain ore, 20,000 tons of coal ore, and 35,000 tons of lime- stone. The annual field of manufactured iron reaches 44,000 tons. The employés engaged at the furnace and mines number between six hundred and seven hundred, of whom one hundred and seventy labor at the furnace foundry and repair-shop. From $16,000 to $18,000 per month is paid out in wages. The prin- cipal manufacture is " open gray forge" or mill iron. A large majority of the company's furnace employés live in the vicinity in tenement-houses owned or con- trolled by the company, and make at the furnace a village of six or seven hundred people.

The company owns twenty miles of single track, four locomotives, and upwards of one hundred cars. At the furnace settlement J. M. Hustead has a finely- appointed store, at which the furnace employés ob- tain their supplies. The yearly business done by Mr. Hustead is something very remarkable in amount for a country store.

COKE MANUFACTURE.

The first coke-burning in Dunbar in ovens is said by Mr. A. J. Hill to have been by William Turner and Richard Bookens, who, between 1840 and 1845, bought coal of Thomas Gregg, who had a piece of fourteen acres of coal land on the Youghiogheny River, near the present Fort Hill Coke - Works. Turner & Bookens burned the coke on the ground at first, but afterwards put up a few ovens, about which time also Col. A. M. Hill built four coke-ovens near them. These four Mr. Hill soon increased to twelve. The first coke made by Turner & Bookens was boated down the rivers to Cincinnati, and there for some days Mr. Turner made fruitless efforts to sell it. He had got about discouraged when a foundry- man agreed to experiment with it, provided Turner would cart it to the foundry. The experiment proved so satisfactory that the foundryman bought the entire cargo, and thus the coke trade being opened, Turner found no future difficulty in marketing all he could make. More important coke operations in Dunbar were commenced in 1854 by Watt & Larmer, of the Dunbar Furnace, who bought ten acres of coal lands on the present site of the Mahoning Company's works, and burned coke on the ground there for their furnace. The first large nest of coke-ovens built in Dunbar were sixty of those now used by Reid Brothers. They were put up by Watt, Taylor & Co. in 1869. The second lot were built by the Connellsville Gas and Coke Company, the third by Ferguson & Scandred in 1871, the fourth by Paull, Brown & Co. in 1872. There are at present in operation in Dunbar township upwards of fifteen hundred coke-ovens (including one hundred and fifty-nine owned by the Dunbar Furnace

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History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 117

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885 Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co. Number of Pages: 1314

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co.
Number of Pages: 1314