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For a long time after Mr. Bell took up his abode in this wilderness his ri- fle, in the use of which he was an adept, was the only source of subsistence for himself and family ; and in hunting and clearing off his heavily timbered land the first years of his residence in this wilderness were passed. As a proof of his skill as a hunter it is stated, on ereditable authority, that during his resi- dence in Jefferson county John Bell killed two panthers, ninety-three wolves, three hundred and six bears and over six hundred deer, to say nothing of
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wild turkeys, which were then very numerous, and other small game. The red men, too, yet lurked in the forests, and though we have heretofore had nothing but their friendly actions towards the early settlers to chronicle, it is stated that on one occasion Mr. Bell, who had been to Port Barnett on busi- ness, and was obliged to camp out for the night on his way home, saw an In- dian taking aim at him from behind a tree. In relating this incident he re- marked, " that Indian was never seen afterwards ;" from which it was easily inferred that the savage fell before his unerring rifle.
In 1818 Governor Findley appointed him justice of the peace, an office which he held for twenty-five years, and in which his jurisdiction was honest and creditable. He was known all his life afterwards, all over this region of country as " Squire Bell." One of Mr. Bell's strongest characteristics was his love of truth and his sterling honesty. He would call no man friend whom he could not respect, and he disdained to conceal his opinions or dislikes. For those whom he professed friendship he would make any sacrifice of personal convenience. He was a true type of the early American pioneer.
But while he was famous as a hunter and woodsman, he did not neglect his farm, upon which he worked so zealously that he soon had it under a good state of culture, and long before he was obliged to relinquish the oversight of it he had made it productive, erected comfortable buildings and planted one of the finest orchards in the county ; and when the evening of his days came he was able to " sit under his own vine and fig tree ;" to look out over the fertile fields which he had reclaimed from the dense wilderness, and enjoy the fruit from the trees of his own planting. This farm, still one of the best in Jefferson county, is now the property of Robert Hamilton.
Mr. Bell was married twice. His first wife died, leaving him with three children, John, Hugh and Mary; (the latter married David Postlethwait), and he then married Jane Potter, a daughter of the first settler of Reynoldsville, who survived him for a number of years. The only child of the second mar- riage is Mrs. Rachel Weaver, of Perry township. He died on the 19th of May, 1855, in the eighty-sixth year of his age, having resided in Jefferson county for forty-six years.
He was one of the most widely known citizens of the county, and his home was for many years the resting place of the wayfarer, no one ever being turned away from his hospitable door. For over twenty-five years the members of the Indiana county bar made his home their stopping place on their way to and from their attendance at the courts held at Brookville, and among his warniest friends were Judge Thomas White, and Messrs. Banks, Stannard, Car- penter, Coffey, and others who visited him on those occasions.
The next settler who came into what is now Perry township was Archibald Hadden, who located about a mile southeast from John Bell in 1810. Mr. Hadden also came from Westmoreland county. He built the first grist-mill in
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Perry township, near the present town of Perrysville. Mr. Hadden died a number of years ago. His son, William Hadden, is now the oldest resident of Oliver township.
Then came Hugh McKee, a soldier of the War of 1812, from Westmore- land county, who settled on a farm about half a mile from where Perrysville now is. Mr. McKee was a prominent citizen of this portion of the county during the few years that he resided there, and held the office of auditor and supervisor. He was killed in 1822 by falling from the roof of a log barn he was building, and was the first adult buried in the grave-yard at Punxsutawney (then in Perry township). A daughter of Hugh McKee, Mrs Susannah Hall, died in Brookville, May 4, 1887, aged eighty-one years. She came with her parents to Jefferson county when a little child, and lived within its limits for over seventy years. The only remaining member of the family, William Mc- Kee (son of Hugh), resides in Oliver township.
John Postlethwait came from Westmoreland county in 1818, and settled a mile and a half northwest of Perrysville. Near the same time the family of John Young settled two miles west of the present town of Perrysville.
Another of the pioneer settlers of Perry township was Reuben Hickox, who came in 1822. He was a great hunter, and in less than three days caught six bears, and in about three months had killed over fifty of these animals. He trapped and hunted principally for bears and wolves, as the skin of the wild cat and other animals were of little or no value. Deer, wild turkey and wild ducks supplied his family with food. Mr. Hickox was born in New Haven, Conn., his father being a soldier in General Washington's own com- mand, for several years during the Revolutionary War. He was married in 1818 to Catharine Williams. Mr. Hickox died about 1884, aged over ninety years. His son, Charles Hickox, and others of his descendants, still live in Perry.
William Johnson came to Perry township in March, 1830, from Mahoning township, Indiana county. He put up a little shanty to live in while he hewed logs to build a house, and one day when he came to the shanty he found the tracks made in the ashes by a large bear which had visited it in his absence. When his house was ready to raise, James McCombs, John Hender- son, William Neal, James McHenry and James Chambers came from Indiana county to help at the "raising." They came to give this assistance in com- pensation for similar services rendered them by Mr. Johnston prior to that time. He occupied this house for seven years, and then built a large frame house, in which he yet resides. He had, in the meantime, built a large frame barn, which is yet standing. Thomas Hopkins, late of Shamoka, did all the carpenter work of these buildings.
When Mr. Johnston was engaged in grubbing his second field, he saw a large bear coming towards him. He ran to the house for his gun and shot it.
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The animal showed fight, but soon became exhausted from loss of blood, and crept into some bushes near by and died. While he was following the bear into the thicket, a young fawn sprang up in front of him, and, frightened at the unwonted visitor, sped swiftly away into the recesses of the forest.
When Mr. Johnston was thirteen years of age he worked for a while for " Squire " John Bell. One day Bell's horses ran away, and after a long time spent in hunting for them he met Andrew Barnett, who was on his way to Indiana, who informed him that he had heard the bell, which the horses wore, when he was going through the woods through the Gomper's improvement, which consisted of a patch of buckwheat sown in the woods, on land now owned by William J. Smith. Mr. Johnston took a small sack of salt and a bridle and started after the runaways, and after traveling through a wilderness infested with wild beasts, and where danger lurked in every thicket, he found them where the farm of George Ickes now is, in Oliver township, and five miles from home. The boy took the horses safely home, and to use his own words, thought he had " won as great a victory as Columbus did when he dis- covered America."
It was while making this trip that Mr. Johnson's attention was called to the piece of land which pleased him so much, and which he afterwards bought, in 1829, from Charles C. Gaskill, agent of the Holland Land Company, paying him one hundred and forty dollars and twenty-five cents for two hundred and ten acres. This tract was surveyed by John J. Y. Thompson, of Brookville, and on which Mr. Johnston made the first improvement between John Bell's and Port Barnett.
This property which Mr. Johnston selected when a boy, is still his home, and is one of the finest farms in Jefferson county. He done all the work of clearing and farming his land until the spring of 1873. While repairing his barn he had his left foot bruised very severely, which caused him months of the most intense suffering, and terminated at last in his having his foot ampu- tated and then the limb three different times. Since that time he has been unable to help himself, but has spent his time in a wheel chair. He is now in the eighty-third year of his age, and is respected and esteemed by all who know him for the good he has done.
Mr. Johnston's wife, who was Miss Mary Postlethwait, daughter of David Postlethwait, has been dead for a number of years, and as they had no chil- dren, a nephew, Mr. Levi Postlethwait, resides with him.
In 1822 David Postlethwait purchased land in the Round Bottom from Benjamin MeBride and William Stewart, who had settled there a year before, and cleared a few acres Samuel Newcom, James Wachob, Isaac Wachob, Stephen and Isaac Lewis, Joseph Croasman, James Stewart, Nathaniel Foster, Isaac London, John Van Horn, Thomas Gourley, William Marshall, George Blose, David and James Hamilton were among those who first settled in Perry township, and their descendants are still among the foremost and best citizens.
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Thomas S. Mitchell was for many years a prominent citizen of Perry town- ship, and kept a general store at Perrysville. In 1854 he was elected sheriff. He has been dead for a number of years, but several of his family still reside in the township.
James McCracken, another prominent citizen of the county, was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1816. His parents came to Philadelphia in 1823, and from there removed to Schuylkill county. Mr. McCracken came to Jef- ferson county in 1839, and in 1848 was elected sheriff of the county. Since his term of office expired he has resided on his farm in Perry township. He has engaged in lumbering and farming. In 1839 he was married to Martha Lyon, of Port Carbon, also a native of Ireland. Of their ten children three daughters and one son are dead. Hugh, the eldest son, resides in West Vir- ginia, James resides on the homestead in Perry township, and William L. is practicing law in Brookville. The three surviving daughters are all married to citizens of the county.
Charles R. B. Morris was three years old when his father, Obed Morris, re- moved to Jefferson county. In his youth he taught in the common schools of the county in winter, and worked on the farm or lumbered in the summer. He was twice elected county commissioner. In 1863 he removed to a farm in Perry township, where for a number of years he was engaged in merchandis- ing at Frostburg, a little village located on his farm,
The Means, Depps, Jordans, Ruths, Baths, Travis, Weavers, Dilts, Palmers, Hopkins, Niselys, Groves, Mosiers, Smiths, Kellys, Crissmans, Reddings, Galls, Kinsells, Whitesells, Neels, Swabs, Shillings, are also among the old and prom- inent families in the township.
Perrysville is the principal village, and is located at the extreme southern end of the township. Its population in 1880, according to the census, was one hundred and seventeen. It is situated on the banks of the Mahoning, and contains two stores, owned and operated by Mitchell & Neel, and A. L. Gib- son, and two hotels. the proprietors of which are Sharp Neel and George Jor- don. The post-office at Perrysville was called Hamilton, for Robert Hamilton, the first postmaster, and bore that name for thirty-four years, when it was changed to Hay, being so called for the late Malcolm Hay, who was appoin te first assistant postmaster-general by President Cleveland.
There are four post- offices in Perry township,-Ilay, Frostburg, Valier and Grange.
Frostburg, the next village in Perry township, is located on the farm of C. R. B. Morris and contains a post-office and the store of Swisher & Gahagan. The pottery of the Messrs. Swisher was for a long time located at this place.
Valier post- office is located in Whitesville, a little village in the Round Bot- tom settlement, which is in the midst of a good farming country.
Grange, the other post-office in the township, is located near Daniel Sprankle's. The store of L. F. Sutter is located there. 60
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The first church in the township was built at Perry in 1835. and the first school-house, as has already been stated, was the one built in 1820, of logs, near the present site of Perrysville.
The first saw-mill was built by Elijah Heath on the Mahoning, above the Round Bottom. The first hotel was kept in Perrysville by Irwin Robinson, and the first store was started near that place by Alva Pain.
The first grave-yard was located where Perry church was afterwards built, and Robert Stunkard was the first buried there, about 1830. There many of the first settlers of the south side and their children and children's children have been laid in later years.
There are now seven churches and nine school-houses in the township with cemeteries attached to each church. There is only one grist-mill in the town- ship, that of William White, on Big Mahoning Creek. There are five black- smith shops, three furniture manufactories, two tan yards and one harness shop.
Perry township is one of the very best farming districts in the county, con- taining many large and well-improved farms, among the best of which are those of J. H. Lewis, S. Neel, C. R. B. Morris, J. M. Jordon, L. Gourley and D. Hamilton.
But little attention has been paid to raising thoroughbred stock. The township is admirably adapted to fruit culture, and the best varieties of apples, peaches, plums, quinces, pears, cherries, grapes and strawberries are raised.
In 1823, according to the "Collector's Duplicate for the Township," Charles C. Gaskill, being collector, there were the following taxables in Perry township : Jesse Armstrong, John Bell, James Bell, S. M.,1 Rev. Charles Bar- clay, Joseph Bell, S. M., John Bell, jr., George Baker, Philip Bowers, John Bowers, Joseph Crossman, Daniel Cauffman, Benijah Corey, Isaac Condon, Isaac Carmalt, Elizabeth Clawson, Mathias Clawson, Benjamin Dike, Peter Dorman, S. M., Charles C. Gaskill, Samuel Genoa, Daniel Graffius, Adam Gearhart, David Hamilton, James Hamilton, S. M., Archibald Hadden, Jacob Hoover, John Hoover, Elijah Heath. Stophel Hetrick, Peter Henry, William Hemingway, James Irvine, Dr. John W. Jenks, Thomas Jackson, John Kuhn, S. M., Stephen Lewis, Isaac Lewis, Michael Lantz, Adam Long (cooper), Ad- am Long, Francis Leech, John Leas, Isaac McHendry, Elizabeth McHendry, James McClelland, James McBride, John McDonald, Isaac McElvaine, Will- iam McElvaine, David McDonald, Thomas McKee, S. M., James McKee, S. M., John Miller, David Milliron, Thompson McKee, Henry Milliron, John New- com, Samuel Newcom, Lawrence Nolf, Conrad Nolf, John Postlethwait, sr., David Postlethwait, John Postlethwait, S. M., Thomas Payne, Peter Reed, Samuel States, William Smith, James Stewart, John Stewart, Nathaniel Tindel, John Vanhorn, James Wachob, Isaac Wachob, Carpenter Windslow, jr., Abra- ham Weaver, Carpenter Windslow, sr., James Windslow, Reuben Windslow,
1 S. M., means single man.
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Joseph Whitman, Pearlin White, Richard Wainwright, Samuel Wainwright, John Young, James Young, S. M., Jacob Young, S. M."
Statistics of Population, Assessments, and Schools .- The number of tax- ables in Perry township was in 1820, 205; in 1828, 88; in 1829, 86, with three deaf and dumb, and votes cast at the spring election, were 22, and at the general election, 36. In 1829 the number of taxables was 86, and ac- cording to Gordon's Gasetteer, the length of the township in 1831 was HI miles ; breadth, 9 miles; area in acres, 49,280. In 1835, there were 209 taxables ; in 1849, 325 ; in 1856, 206; in 1863, 238; in 1870, 288; in 1880, 343; in 1886, 383.
In 1820 the population of Perry was included in Pine Creek. For the year 1830 the census returns did not give the population of the townships sepa- rately. In 1840 the census gives Perry's population as 1,076 ; in 1850, 1,738; 1860, 1,073; 1870, 1,222; 1880, 1,293. The taxables in 1828, were 88; 1829, 86; 1835, 209; 1842, 251 ; 1849, 325 : 1856, 206; 1863, 238; 1870, 288; 1880, 1,293.
The triennial assessment for the year 1886 gives the number of acres seated as 15,625, and the valuation $74,609; average per acre, $4.77 ; number of houses and lots, 84 ; valuation, $6,259 ; unseated lands, 40 acres; valuation, $40; number of horses, 275; valuation, $12,349; average valuation, $45 ; number of cows, 351 ; valuation, $4,071 ; average valuation, $11,31. Occu- pations, 99 ; valuation, $2,583 ; average, $25.08. Total valuation subject to county tax, $100,191. Money at interest $44,411. The basis of taxation in Perry township is one-fifth of the real valuation, which would make the value of real estate in the township $500,955.
The school statistics of Perry township as given in the report of the State superintendent of public schools, for the year ending June 30, 1886, is as fol- lows: Whole number of schools, eight ; average number of months taught, 5 ; male teachers, 7 ; female teachers, I ; average salary of teachers, $31.85 ; num- ber of male scholars, 200 ; females, 162 ; average number attending school, 338 ; average per cent. of attendance, 95 ; cost per month, 70 cents; number of mills levied on for school purposes, 12. Total amount of tax levied for school purposes, $1,373.39. Total expenditures for schools, buildings, etc., $1,477-73.
Elections .- " Perry township. At an election held at the house of John Bell, in said township, on Friday, the 20th day of March, 1818, the following persons were duly elected : Constable, David Hamilton had 5 votes, Jacob Hoover, 3 ; supervisors, John Bell 5 votes, Hugh McKee, 5 ; auditors, Archi- bald Hadden 5 votes, Jess Armstrong 5, James McClennen 5, Michael Lance 5 ; fence appraisers, Jos. Crossman 5 votes, Adam Long 5 ; overseers, Henry Lott 5 votes, Liga Dycus 5. (Signed) Archibald Hadden, Hugh McKee, Judges."
At the next election the voters had increased to eight, and at the last elec-
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tion, before Young township was formed, the number of voters appears to have been seventy-seven. At this election in 1825, " schoolmen " were voted for, John W. Jenks, Charles C. Gaskill and John Bell being elected. This is the only record of any such office in the election returns of the county from 1807 to 1830. These elections were all held at the house of John Bell, and in the first ten years he was eight times elected to office, being supervisor, anditor, overseer of the poor and schoolman.
The following persons were elected at the election held February 15, 1887 : Constable, William I. Lamison ; supervisors, R. S. Blose, William Doverspike ; school directors, Joseph Means, jr., William Smith ; overseers of the poor, David Neel, Sharp Hamilton ; assessor, A. G. Gourley ; auditor, Henry Neel ; judge of election, Craig Dilts; inspectors, T. D. Brewer, J. C. Crissman ; col- lector, George Gourley.
The justices of the peace in Perry are C. R. B. Morris, and Daniel Brewer. The school directors elected previous to February 15, 1887, are, Aaron Depp, WV. P. Postlethwait, William H. Diltz, A. H. Neel.
CHAPTER XXXV.
HISTORY OF YOUNG TOWNSHIP AND PUNXSUTAWNEY.
T' HE township which completed the first trio, was Young, organized in 1826, and taken from Perry township. It was then quite large, embracing all the southeastern portion of the county. It was named for Judge Young, at that time president judge of the Westmoreland judicial district. The town- ship is now bounded on the north by McCalmont, south by Indiana county, east by Belle township, and west by Perry. It is rectangular in form, six miles long by three wide-eighteen square miles, and contains 11,520 acres. The Mahoning Creck flows across the township from east to west, in a deep, wide valley in which Punxsutawney is situated. South from the creek the region is an upland plateau, the top of which is three hundred and fifty feet above the creek level, and is but little broken by ravines. The region north of the creek is, on the other hand, no less high, is much diversified by hill and vale-a for- tunate topographical arrangement for the commercial interests of the town- ship, as it makes access easy above water level to the large and valuable coal beds. The small tributary valleys of which there are four, trend southward, and are roughly parallel to one another. The most important of these is the Elk Run Valley.
Geology .- The Freeport Lower Coal is the one which gives valne to Young township, and nearly all of the township is underlaid with it. The Freeport
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Upper Coal, though a bed of considerable thickness, yields much inferior coal. The coal trade of Young township is now second to none in the county, as will be seen from a report of the Wallston mines given elsewhere. The Freeport upper limestone is of very little account in Young township, showing but few exposures, and these of an impure character.
Early Settlers .- Among the olden time settlers of Young township, the Carmalts are prominent features. They were of Quaker extraction, and with the Gaskills infused into the early life of the south side of the county an element that was an important factor in the history of those days of early pioneer struggle.
Isaac P. Carmalt was born in Philadelphia in 1794. His father was a rela- tive of William Penn, with whom his ancestors came from England on his second voyage to this country. His mother's family was a prominent one in North Wales, where, it is said, " they owned an entire township." Isaac was a carpenter by trade, but tiring of city life, he started to look up a home in the then far West. In company with William Patterson, he left Philadelphia in 1818, with a good team of horses and a Dearborn wagon, and in about three weeks arrived at their journey's end, a place some twelve miles from Indiana- town. His father, not hearing from him for some time, became anxious about him, and started, in company with a man named Harvey, to hunt him up. Harvey had his family with him, and the journey was a long and toilsome one. When near its end their wagon stuck in the bed of a creek. The horses gave
two or three pulls, but failing to extricate it, balked, and no persuasion could induce them to proceed. Fortunately they had sent a messenger ahead to apprise Isaac of their coming, and he appeared on the scene with his servant, and at once went to work to help them out of their dilemma by unloading and prying the wagon out of the hole in which it was imbedded. He persuaded Mrs. Harvey, who weighed about one hundred and seventy-five pounds, to sit on his neck, with her feet on either side, and he, in this way, carried her to the shore. They soon had the wagon out and proceeded to his house, where they rested from their toilsome and perilous journey.
The following incidents of Mr. Carmalt's pioneer experience, as related in his own language, were published in Caldwell's " Historical Atlas of Jefferson County :"
"} had no grindstone, and so I concluded to go to Squire Bell's, twelve miles distant (John Bell, who first settled in Perry township), borrow his mare, and go for a rock out of which I could make a grindstone. On my way back with the stone in one side of a bag and potatoes in the other, to balance, I be- came belated and so concluded to stay over night with the squire. It was a moonlight night, and as the mare approached a short turn in the path she began to snort. I looked up and beheld something sitting erect, about the size of a man, on one side of the path, and on approaching it had the appear-
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ance of two balls of fire. My horse instantly sprang, became uncontrollable, and away she went. Her colt was following after, and so I looked back to see what had become of it. As the colt passed, the animal screamed like a paint- er and leaped for it, but the colt barely escaped, and come on at a dead run. I soon reached Squire Bell's, it being about midnight, opened the barn door, rushed the mare and colt in, fastened the door, and called to the squire for his son, John, the big dog, and the gun. The squire raised the window and said, ' Carmalt, what's the matter?' I replied, 'I want John, the big dog, and the gun to go back and catch some big animal.' The old man laughed and said, ' Carmalt, you must have been frightened by the fall of the limb of a tree. There is no big animal there.' 'I know there is,' I said, 'and I want John, the big dog, and the gun.' The squire then called John. He brought his gun and called up the dog, and we started for the path, and near the place where I saw the animal, John said, ' Carmalt, you make a noise like that you heard.' I imitated the cry, and the animal answered. I called again and again, and each time there came the same scream from the animal. I said, 'John, thee had better set the dog on it.' John tried, but the dog refused to go. Then I said, 'We'd better go back to the house as soon as we can if the dog won't go.' So we went to the house, and soon we were abed asleep. The next morning I left the mare and the stone, and started back on foot, as I was afraid that my colored man, whom I had left at the cabin, was out of provisions. I walked several miles and stopped at a house where they told me that some strange animal had driven in all their stock the night before. I told them that it was a painter. I again started and walked on through the woods till I got to another house, and, as it was about dark, I called in. After speaking a few words, I started out towards the road, or rather path, with a view to go home. The man went with me, and, as we were talking, we saw two objects at a dis- tance, coming in the path. On a nearer approach I saw that they were two tall hunters, each six and a half feet high, with their guns, hunting apparatus, etc., and a big dog. They had coon skin caps on, with the tails projecting in front like plumes. They asked the man if they could stay over night with him, as they had their own provisions and beds, and their wives were coming on behind in the path. 'We only want a place to sleep,' they said. 'You can stay. You are welcome. We never turn any one away,' the man replied. As the women approached, I saw that they were on horseback, and the first one had a straw bed thrown over the horse, and the head-board hung on one side, and the foot-board on the other. She also had a large spinning-wheel in front of her, and a child before and behind. The second one was attired in the same manner, riding on a horse. Her spinning-wheel was a small one, and she, too, had a child before and one behind. They went into the house, and I concluded also to stay over night. Pretty soon a neighbor woman came running in and said, 'a woman's cow's entrails have been torn out, and the
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