History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 183

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

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below the mouth of the Little Redstone Creek, crossed the road leading from Col. Cook's to Uniontown and the road from Col. Cook's to Fossett's, and at James Rankin's intersected the road from Brownsville to the Broad Ford. September, 1796, a road from Barzillai Newbold's to the forks of the Little Redstone was re- ported as viewed by William Goe, George Espy, Wil- liam Elliott, Michael Shilling, and Moses Davison. In June, 1797, a road from the mouth of the Little Redstone to the mouth of Spear's Run was viewed by William Cunningham, George Espy, Samuel Becket, Michael Shilling, John Seward, and Andrew Brown. The distance was reckoned at three miles and one quarter and sixty-nine perches.

LITTLE REDSTONE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

The only house of public worship in Washington township is the Little Redstone Methodist Episcopal Church, located at the forks of the road, just west of Jehu Stevens' residence. The neat and substantial brick edifice rears its modest front within a small but well-kept churchyard, where many of Washington's pioneers have slept for many years. The Baptists built a log church at that point forty years or more ago, and maintained an organization and periodical worship for some time. The Methodists held occa- sional meetings in the Baptist meeting-house, as well as at the neighboring school-house and houses of members. The first Methodist meetings were held at the houses of Nathaniel Stephens, Robert Ste- phens, and Hugh Ford. The brick church was built in 1857. and dedicated by Rev. J. G. Sanson, pre- siding elder of the Redstone Circuit. At that time the preachers in charge were Revs. Griffin and MeIn- tyre. Some of the earliest preachers after 1857 were Revs. Wakefield, Mansell, Johnson, Kendall, and Stewart. The preseut pastor is Rev. Josiah Mansell, who preaches at Little Redstone every Sunday. The membership is now (May, 1881) sixty-five. The class- leader is Albert Gaddis. The trustees are David Stephens, Jehu Luce, John Smith, and John Taggart. The superintendent of the Sunday-school is Jehu Luce.

COAL AND COAL-MINING.

The coal deposits in Washington are extensive and valuable, but lack of railway facilities forbids the de- velopment of the interest except along the river-front, where mining has been going forward for upwards of . forty years.

In 1840, John Garr and Richard Knight opened a mine on the London Derry tract, above the Fremont Works, owned by the Clarks. The Clarks (Samuel being the first) began to mine at the latter place as early as 1847, and have mined there more or less ever since, although just now the works are idle.

Frazer & Frye, the largest operators on the river in Washington, have been engaged in mining at their present location since 1873, where coal was taken out

1859. Thomas Stephens. John Dinsmore.

1876. David Jones. John P. Blythe.

1877. James Montgomery. Frank Fields.

William M. Lenhart.

1874. Joseph Brown.

1872. Israel Stephens. William E. Cook. Nathaniel S. Houseman. 1873. John A. Bevans. Johnson S. Moss.

1848. Thomas Patton.

1866. William G. Huggins. John R. Willson.

1844. John V. Layton. Isaae Banks.

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for shipment down the river in flat-boats as early as 1834. Frazer & Frye bought, in 1873, a tract of two hundred and twenty-three acres of coal, of which there are yet about one hundred and sixty acres undeveloped. They employ eighty-five men, pay out seven thousand dollars monthly for wages, etc., and take out seven thousand five huudred bushels of coal daily. They have on the river a front of one- third of a mile, running up from the mouth of the Little Redstone Creek. On their property they have a store and fourteen tenements.

J. H. Rutherford has been mining on the river since 1866. He is now operating in Washington township near Fayette City. He has forty acres of coal and a river-front of two hundred and fifty yards. Twenty-five to thirty men are employed, and three thousand bushels of coal mined daily.

The Connecticut Coal-Works, adjoining Ruther- ford's mines, have been idle since 1871. There are there about two hundred acres of coal, belonging to the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing-Machine Company. They came into possession in 1870, and after working there about a year abandoned the mines, and have suffered them to lie idle ever since. The property is as valuable as ever, but the company seems but little concerned about it.

BELLE VERNON BOROUGH.

On the east bank of the Monongahela, about forty miles above Pittsburgh, lies Belle Vernon borough, of which the population in June, 1881, was eleven hundred and sixty-four, its chief claim to distinction being the presence within its limits of the largest window-glass manufactory in America. The borough proper reaches to the Westmoreland County line, where it is joined by the borough of North Belle Vernon, located in the county last named, and pos- sessing lumber-manufacturing and boat-building interests that contribute materially to the business prosperity of Belle Vernon. The business part of the town lies along the river bottom, at the foot of a stretch of hilly country, upon which many of the townspeople dwell, and from which may be obtained a fine prospect of river, hills, and plains. River packets plying hetween Pittsburgh and Geneva touch at Belle Vernon four times daily, and there is, more- over, railway communication with all points ric the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railroad passing along the western shore of the Monongahela. The town is an active business centre aside from its man- ufacturing enterprises, and maintains a private bank- ing institution, founded by its present owners, S. F. Jones & Co., in 1872.

Belle Vernon was laid out by Noah Speer in 1813 upon a portion of a traet of land located by his father, Henry, in 1772, who with his wife came to the Mo- nongahela in that year and bought considerable land, of which the greater portion, and his own home, were

in what is now Westmoreland County. Henry Speer was killed by the kick of a horse in 1774. As origi- nally platted the town contained three hundred and sixty lots, and covered a considerable area in West- moreland County. The streets were Water, Main, Solomon, Wood, Market, First, Second, Third, and Fourth. The alleys were Long, Pleasant, Locust, Strawberry, and Flint.

The following advertisement appeared in the col- umns of the Reporter, published at Washington, Pa., of July 12, 1812 :

"TOWN LOTS.

" For Sale in the Town of Bellevernon .- They are laid out in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties; each lot is 75 feet in front and 100 feet back. The streets are 2300 feet in length and 40 in breadth, cross streets 40 and one 50 feet io breadth. Bellevernon is situated on that beautiful river bottom on the east side of the Monongahela River, two miles below Freeport. The bank is high, and water sufficiently deep for loaded boats at low-water mark. Outlots on a level soil will shortly he pre- pared for sale. Ground will be given gratis for a school-house ; also it is nearly centrahle to the four counties, and the most agreeable situation near the centre. If a new county should be struck off and laid thereon, ground will be given gratis for a court- and market-house, and the sum of 2000 dollars for the purpose of erecting public buildings, besides a generous sub- scription is expected from the neighboring citizens. There is also for sale 100,000 elegant brick of the best quality. .. . It is expected a steam-mill will be built oo one of said lots, and the foundation to be raised this fall above couimon high-water mark, so that the work may go oo early next spring. Those who wish to have a share in said mill are desired to meet at James Hazlip's, in Freeport, on Saturday, the 25th of July.

" NOAH SPEERS.

" June 22, 1812."

The first sale of lots was held April 18, 1814, and a premium of ten dollars was offered to the purchaser who should build the first house. Thomas Ward, a carpenter, of Westmoreland County, claimed the prize, having put up his house at the corner of Main and Second Streets. That, the first house erected in Belle Vernon, is now occupied by James Lewis. The second house was built by William Hornbeck at the corner of Main Street and Cherry Alley, and opened by him as a tavern. In the spring of 1816, Morris Corwin, a cooper, came from Westmoreland County, and built upon Main Street the third house in Belle Vernon. He constructed it of the lumber contained in the house that had been his home in Westmoreland County. Corwin set up a cooper's shop in a part of the house, and worked at his trade more or less until his death in 1835. His widow, hearty and active at the age of ninety-one, still lives in the old home.

When the Corwins became residents of Belle Ver- non, the present business portion of the town was a fine sugar-camp. The village grew slowly, and during 1816 there were added but three families,-those of Nathaniel Everson, a cooper, Bud Gaskill, a gunsmith, and Joseph Billeter, a boat-builder. Before the year 1816, Billeter was living along the river below the town and building flat-boats. In 1816, Noah Speer

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built the present Brightwell House, and started his son Solomon there as a store-keeper. Solomon was the village trader for many years, until his removal to the far West. Belle Vernon was for a long time a dreary village, and did not rise above the dignity of a backwoods settlement. The sugar-camp was not cleared until some time after 1813, and then in its place Noah Speer planted the town to corn, so that Main Street was that season nothing but a path through a corn-field, with other thoroughfares equally primeval and contracted. The next season rye and timothy covered the town-site, and made the place look like a farm with a half-dozen or more houses dotting it here and there. The inhabitants told Noah Speer that it was all very well for him to make a grain-field of the village, but they must have a few streets, and threatened to throw down fences so that there might be free communication at least from one part of the town to another. Speer heeded not their complaints, but when he found his fences pulled down again and again, he made up his mind that it would be perhaps well enough to open a few streets.

Mr. Hornbeck, who kept a poor sort of tavern and dealt largely in whisky, set up a carding-machine, but gave it up after a brief experiment. Thomas Ward, the pioneer settler in Belle Vernon, moved to the far West eventually. Rebecca Lenhart, his daughter, living now in the village, is Belle Vernon's oldest inhabitant,-that is, she has lived longest of any in the place. Next comes the widow of Morris Corwin, whose residence in the town covers a period of sixty-five years, or two years less than that of Mrs. Lenhart.

There was no store but Solomon Speer's for a long time. The second store was opened on Water Street by William Reeves. In 1816 the shoemaker for the village was Jacob Hazelbaker, who lived near J. B. Gould's present residence. His brother George, the, hatter, lived in the house now the home of Rebecca Lenhart. William Rees established in 1830 the only tannery Belle Vernon ever had. It was owned suc- cessively by Alexander and John Bingham, John Nichols, J. P. Fry, J. W. Wright, and W. C. Drum. Mr. Drum sold it to George Lang, who uses it now as a storage-house.

In 1833, Solomon Speer and Morgan Gaskill built the first steamboat constructed at Belle Vernon. They were sub-contractors under Capt. Samuel Walker, of Elizabeth, who received the contract from Capt. James May. Gen. Isaac Hammet drafted the plan of the boat at Elizabeth, and " laid it down" on the floor of a stable in Belle Vernon, in the rear of where Alexander Brown now lives.

A ferry was established by Henry Speer at the Belle Vernon crossing as early as 1772. The first ferryman of whom there is any knowledge was An- drew Bryce, the shoemaker. The first ferry man after the town was laid out was Joseph Billeter. The first horse-boat was built at Fredericktown and named

the "Swan." The second horse-hoat was called the " Belle Vernon," and received its motive-power from the chestnut horse Barney and the mouse-colored Davey. They grew old in the service, and became well-known animals in that part of the country. The "Belle Vernon" was succeeded by the steam ferry-boat "Polly South," built and run by Capt. James French, now a resident of Belle Vernon. The traffic was too small to make a steam ferry profitable, and as a consequence the present rope-ferry was put on. The ferry privilege at Belle Vernon has always been owned by a Speer, and is now in the hands of Noah Speer.

Belle Vernon languished until the founding of the glass-manufacturing industry in the village by William Eberhard in 1836. At that time Solomon Speer and William Reeves were the village store-keepers, and John Wright the tavern-keeper. Solomon Speer was the first postmaster at Belle Vernon, but when the office was established cannot now be told, probably not before 1830. In 1836, Speer was succeeded by Uriah Ward; to him succeeded William Eberhard, Robert Boyle, L. R. Boyle, and James Davidson, the present incumbent, who was commissioned in 1869. Since 1875 Belle Vernon has been a money-order office. Three mails are received and the same number dis- patched daily.

The town enjoyed the luxury of a village news- paper for a brief season from April, 1874, to the spring of 1878, but the enterprise was at no time a profitable one. E. A. Hastings, who started the Belle Vernon Patriot in April, 1874, published it as an independent journal two years, and then gave up the undertaking as a losing one. J. T. McAlpin, thinking there might be profit in a local newspaper notwithstanding Hastings' experience, started the Belle Vernon Courier. Its fate was about the same as that of the Patriot, and when it terminated its career, in 1878, then terminated also the newspaper history of Belle Vernon.

Belle Vernon's first resident physician was Dr. Horner, the date of whose coming cannot be fixed. Succeeding him as village physicians were Drs. Kirk, Hubbs, Johnson, Eagan, and Roberts. Dr. John S. Van Voorhis came to the town to practice in 1847, and found here Dr. James Eagan and Dr. H. F. Roberts. After 1847 the list of physicians in Belle Vernon included W. L. Creigh, Charles B. Chalfant, David Fetz, H. B. Rupp, S. A. Conklin, J. A. Hazlitt, and J. B. Enos. With the exception of a three-years' absence, Dr. Van Voorhis has been in the constant practice of his profession at Belle Vernon from 1847 to the present time (1881). Besides him the borough physicians are J. A. Hazlitt and J. B. Enos.

The oldest merchant in Belle Vernon is Amon Bronson. Among other prominent village traders may be mentioned Schmertz & Co., J. L. Courtney, C. Reppert & Sons, J. B. Zeh, W. H. Brightwell, W. C. Kittle, J. C. Cunningham, C. A. Patterson, H.

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Husher, A. Graham, L. M. Kyle, J. A. Piersol, J. B. Fournier, O. R. Springer, E. W. Kyle, S. M. Graham, L. Z. Birmingham, and J. A. Hazlitt.

BOROUGH INCORPORATION AND LIST OF OFFICERS.

Belle Vernon was incorporated a borough by an act of Assembly approved April 15, 1863, which after reciting in its preamble that, " Whereas the borough hereby incorporated is situated partly within the | county of Fayette and partly within the county of Westmoreland, and therefore the courts of said coun- ties have not the power to incorporate the same, there- fore" proceeds to enact " that the town of Belle Ver- non, partly in Fayette and partly in Westmoreland County, shall be and the same is hereby erected into a borough, which shall be called the borough of Belle ! Vernon, bounded and limited as follows: Beginning at a low-water mark on the Monongahela River at the mouth of Speer's Run ; thence up said run to the stone bridge; thence in a direct line to the north corner of the public school-house lot; thence along the east line of said lot to the alley; thence along said alley to Gould's Run ; thenee down said run to the Mononga- hela River, and down said river at low-water mark to the place of beginning, and shall enjoy all the priv- ileges and be subject to the limitations and restric- tions of the general laws of this commonwealth rela- ting to boroughs."

Following is a list of the principal borough officers of Belle Vernon from its erection to the present time, viz. :

1863 .-- Burgess, Amon Bronson ; Council, Brazil Brightwell, William Sutton, Samuel Smock, Edward Martin, John R. Powell; School Directors, John S. Van Voorhis, James Da- vidson, James French, John W. Wright, Robert Boyle, Noah Q. Speer ; Justices of the Peace, John Watson, Robert Patterson, John R. Powell; Auditors, Robert Boyle, James M. Springer, O. D. Johnston; Assessor, John W. Lindsey. 1864 .- Burgess, Amou Bronson ; Council, Allison Piersol, Ed- ward Jordan, Jasper Haught, William Mackey, Curtis Reppert ; Justice of the Peace, Amon Bronson; School Directors, Noah Q. Speer, James M. Springer; Auditor, James Corwin, Jr.

1865 .- Burgess, John Watson; Council, David Springer, Johu R. Powell, John Reeves, Thomas Lowry, John S. Van Voorhis; School Directors, Robert Boyle, James A. Piersol; Auditor, Harvey B. Fry ; Assessor, John W. Lindsey.

1866 .- Burgess, John W. Lindsey ; Council, James French, Robert Patterson, John Hixenbaugh, Peter Leyhew, W. F. Speer; Assessor, James N. McDivitt; School Directors, John S. Van Voorhis, John Watson, James Davidson, Curtis Rephart ; Auditor, Robert Patterson; Justice of the Peace, John W. Lindsey.

1867 .- Burgess, John W. Lindsey ; Council, J. S. Van Voorhis, W. H. Jones, Peter Leyhew, J. A. Singley, James French, and C. Rephart ; Assessor, George Amalong ; School Direc- tors, James M. Springer, O. D. Johnson, John S. Van Vuorhis ; Auditor, Alexander Brown.

1868 .- Burgess, John W. Lindsey ; Couneil, James Corwin, William Bronson ; Assessor, George Amalong ; Auditor, J. W. Corwin ; School Directors, John Power, Jesse P. Sill.

1869 .-- Burgess, Arthur P. Lewis; Council, John W. Dean, Heary IIaler ; Assessor, Andrew Johnston ; School Direc- tors, James A. Pcarsol, James French ; Auditor, William Kyle.

1870 .- Burgess, James French ; Council, William P. Maekey, W. H. Jones; Auditor, Anson Bronson ; School Directors. John Reeves, Henry Haler, William F. Spcer; Justice of the Peace, J. F. Roley.

187I .- Burgess, John Reeves: Council, Peter Leyhew, Lewis Krepps, Robert Patterson; School Directors, Noah Q. Speer, Daniel Springer ; Auditor, J. S. Vua Voorhis ; As- sessor, George Amalong.

1872 .- Burgess, J. W. Lindsey ; Council, Joseph Reeves, J. A. Singley ; Assessor, William II. Jones; School Directors, Alexander Brown, Amon Bronson, J. M. Springer, Jobu W. Corwin : Auditor, J. B. Foulke.

1873 .- Burgess (not recorded) ; Council, W. F. Speer, Amon Bronson ; Assessor, W. Il. Jones ; School Directors, W. F. Speer, S. F. Jones ; Auditor, A. S. Woodrow.

1874 .- Burgess (not recorded) ; Council, A. P. Lewis, A. A. Taggart ; Assessor, J. S. Clegg ; Auditor, J. C. Cunning- ham ; School Directors, Alexander Brown, C. T. Porter, R. J. Linton ; Justice uf the Peace, O. D. Johnson.

1875 .- Burgoss (not recorded) ; Council, John Call, J. H. Rob- bins ; Treasurer, S. F. Joves ; Justice of the Peace, Charles M. Call; School Directors, James Davidson, Amon Bron- son, Julin S. Van Voorhis, Noah Q. Speer ; Auditor, Wil- liam J. Anderson.

1876 .- Burgess, A. L. Brown ; Council, W. J. Anderson, A. S. Woodrow ; Treasurer, A. A. Taggart; Assessor, J. S. Clegg ; School Directors, A. P. Lewis, W. H. Hoil; Auditor, A. S. Woodrow.

1877 .- Burgess, L. Z. Birmingham ; Council, J. W. Krepps, Jacob Hasson ; School Directors, A. A. Taggart, Jas. M. Springer, Amos Bronson, Jamies Davidson ; Assessor, W. B. Roley ; Treasurer, J. C. Cunningham ; Auditor, William Kettle.

1878 .- Burgess, J. T. Roley ; Council, William Houseman, J. B. Courtney, J. C. Cunningham ; Treasurer, J. S. Van Voor- his; School Directors, Wm. E. McCrory, J. S. Van Voor- his ; Assessor, W. B. Roley ; Auditor, W. J. Anderson. 1879 .- Burgess, William Leyhew ; Council, J. M. Bowell, Jacob Singley ; Justice of the Peace, Jacob Hassan ; School Di- rectors, W. P. Mackey, E. W. Martin, S. F. Jones, L. Z. Birminghaui ; Assessor, Wm. B. Roley ; Auditor, {. W. Brown.

1880 .- Burgess, Amon Bronson ; Couneil, Wm. Leyhew, S. F. Jones; Assessor, George Patton ; School Directors, R J. Linton, Jas. Donnasou, L. Z. Birmingham ; Auditor, Matthew Arters.

188I .- Burgess, J. S. Van Voorhis ; Council, John H. Robbins, J. B. Courtney ; Auditor, W. II. Benzill ; School Directors, J. B. Enos, Samuel Graham, Ephraim Lewis; Assessor, George W. Patton.

SCHOOLS.

For some time after Belle Vernon received its first inhabitants the village children were obliged to go a long distance to attend school. Morris Corwin thought something should be done to establish a school in the village, and announced that his wife would give up her kitchen to school uses if a teacher were provided. The proposition met with general favor, and in Mrs. Corwin's kitchen Belle Vernon's first school was · started. The teacher was John Haselbaker, of Wash-

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ington Connty. While teaching in Belle Vernon he lived in the village with his brother George (a hatter), whose house was the one now occupied by the Widow Lenhart. School was taught in the Corwin kitchen ahout three months. The next school was kept in a house on Main Street, built by Joseph Springer, and now occupied by William Mackey. The first teacher of that school was J. B. Gould, still living near Belle Vernon.

The first house built for school purposes was erected upon the lot adjoining Peter Leyhew's present resi- dence. It was built of brick taken from old Rehoboth Church, that had been standing since 1803. Some of the brick are now in the sidewalk in front of William P. Mackey's residence. Solomon Speer and A. P. Fry raised the money for building by subscription. The second village school-house was the building now occupied as a residence by J. B. Gould, Jr. The brick in it came from the old Firney mill. In 1857 a third village school-house was built on a lot now 1 occupied by R. J. Linton, at the corner of Speer Avenue and Short Street. It was a two-story brick, with two rooms on the first floor and one large room on the second. The building committee was com- posed of Revs. J. M. Springer and James Davidson. The brick-work was done by Solon Meredith, and the still living in the vicinity of Belle Vernon. Rev. Mr. Ebert was the leader at first, and after him Robert Demain. Nov. 14, 1834, William Hutchin- son joined the class and brought the aggregate mem- bership up to ten. For the first Conference year the missionary contributions of the class amounted to seventy-three cents. In a little while the Belle Ver- non class was joined by a class from the country, and both met in the village school-house. Jesse Fell was the leader for many years.

carpenter-work by Peter Snyder. The building was first occupied January, 1858, and cost, completed, six- teen hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighteen cents. The first teachers were John Wright and Miss Tower. Upon the incorporation of the borough the school directors chosen were James Davidson, Robert Boyle, J. W. Wright, James French, N. Q. Speer, J. S. Van Voorhis. The first teachers in the borough were C. C. Douglass, Miss Hess, and Miss Allie D. Main.

. The present school building was completed in 1873, and opened Jan. 12, 1874. The cost of the edifice was thirty thousand dollars. Coulter & Taggart were the contractors. It has two stories, with four rooms in the first and three in the second. In January, 1874, Professor J. W. Gibbons was the principal, and H. F. Bailey, Theodore J. Allen, and Miss Hattie Davidson, assistants. In April, 1881, Thomas S. Lackey was the principal, and C. E. Peck, Miss Sallie Williams, and Miss Kate Veech assistants.

The annual report for the school year ending June 7, 1880, furnishes details as follows touching the Belle Vernon schools :

Whole number of schools.

Number of male teachers

female »

Average salaries of males per month .. 845.00

females $30.00

Number of male scholars.

.. female **

Average number attending school. 214

Total tax levied for building and school purposes.

$3119.64

State appropriation ... 468.10

Receipts from taxes and all other sources except State appropriation.

Total receipts.

Cost of school-houses-purchasing, building, renting, etc. . Paid for teachers' wages. $750.00 ... Paid for fuel and contingencies, fees of collectors, etc., 6061.00 and all other expenses. 5311.00 Total expenditures

CHURCHES.

BELLE VERNON METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Although it is not known who preached the first Methodist sermon in Belle Vernon, it is known that in 1830 Rev. J. G. Sanson, attached to the Redstone Methodist Episcopal Circuit, held church services in the village in the house now owned by W. P. Mackey, on Main Street. In 1834, on the 15th of October, Rev. J. H. Ebert, of the Redstone Circuit, organized a Methodist class in a house on Main Street, then be- longing to Samuel Reeves, and now owned by James Davidson. The Redstone Circuit extended then from Elizabeth to Upper Middletown. Rev. Robert Hop- kins (now of Pittsburgh) was the presiding elder, and Revs. J. H. Ebert, Warner Long, and Isaac N. Mac- cabee the preachers in charge. The organizing mem- bers of the first class were Barnet Corwin, John Cor- win, Eleanor Corwin, Sabina Gaskill, Morgan Gas- kill, Catharine Ward, Jane Corwin, Rebecca Jacobs, and Grace McFall. The first and last named are

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History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 183

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