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Brown, William, Esq., 210a
Brunson, Thomas, 200a, 2h, 1c
Pernthistle, Henry, 2h, 1c Baum, Jacob, 100a. 2h. 2c Baum, John, 1 saw mill
Barndollar, John, 100a, 2h, 2c
Billsland, William, 200a, 2h, 1c
Brearly, Benjamin, 2h, 2c
Corbett, William, 200a, 2h, fc
Wilson, John# (mountain,) 1h, 1c Young, William, # 100a, 2h, £c
Unseated Lands.
Alexander, Jonathan, 100a Baswell, Samuel, * 100a
Blaine, Ephraim, * 3cca
Cox, Charles, *300a
Cairey, Barnard, 200a joining James Scott and Jonathan Alexander
Collins, Stephen, 400a joining Daniel Williams and Jonathan Adams
Drinker, Henry, # 1100a joining James Fleming and Samuel Millegau, David Steward and James Glass
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Harris, David, & 300a
Hanert. Thomas, 300a joining James Scott and John Alexander
MeClay, Samuel, # 70a joining Elisha Crisswell and John Davis
McFarlan, James, 200a
Williams, James, 1h. 2c
Wills, Samnel, * 15ta, 2h, 2c
Wilson, John, Sr., * 200a, 2h, £c
Carson, William, 100a, 1h. 1c Campbell, Hercules, 100a, 1h, 1c Collens, Henry, 350a. 1h, 2c, 2ca Oid Place-
. Buchanan, Arthur, 230a, 1h Buchanan. Robert, 23€a, 1h, 2c
Bnek, Henry, 1h, 1c Bell. John, 1h, 2c
Burns, James, 300a, 1h, 2c. 1 still
Beard, Hngh, 195a, 1h, 1c
Beard, Samnel, 7ca, 1h, 1c, 100a late Camp- hell's
Bogle, Robert, 30Ca, 2h, 3c, 50a Johnston's Estate
Brown, Benjamin, 2008. 2h, 2c
Gemmel, Widow, 300a, 3h, 2 negroes
George, John, 1h. 1c Gregg, Thomas, 150a Holt. William, 100a, 1h, 1c
Ilolt, Widow, 100a, 1h
Hesson, Hugh. 100a, 1h, 1c Henderson, James, 100a. 1h, 1c
How, Robert, 2h, 2c Imturf, Melchor, 1282, 1c
Joancs, Danicl, 200a, 2h, 2c
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Kelly, Matthew, 304a, 2h, 2c Kelly, John, 2h, 2c, 1 servant man for 4 years and 6 months King, William, 100a Keever, Samnel, 200a, 1h, 2c
Keever, John, 200a, 2h, 3c Keever, John and Samuel, 2002 Kishler, Jacob, 2002, 2h, 2c Larrimore, Hugh, 1h, 1c Lashback, Henry, 100a, 2c McConnell, George, 150a, 1h, 1c McMullan, Alexander, 100a, 2h, Ic McGinnis, Hugh, 30a, 2h, 1c McMnrtry, David, 300a McKee, William, 240a, 1c McKee, Andrew, 100a, 1h, 2c
McCoard, James, 50a Migill, James, 203a Magill, Charles, 1h, Ic Magee, James, 100a, Ih, 2c
Marten, Christopher, 150a, 3h, 2c Marten, Robert, 300a, 2h, 2c
Marten, Thomas, 200a, 2h, 2c
Montgomery, Samuel, 50a, 1h, I negro Mitchell, William, 300a, 2h, 2c, 1 still Mitchell, Robert, 1h Mitchell, Thomas, 1h, 1c
Moore, Moses, 190a, 2h, 2c Means, John, 100a, 2h, 3c Means, Robert, 300a, 1h, 3c Mease, James, 230a Mifflin Trustees, 80a
Oliver, John, 150a, 2h, 2c Patterson, Robert, 50a, 1h, 1c
Picken, Samuel, 113a, 2h, 2c Pershal, Caleb, 200a, 2h, 2c, I grist mill Rotrick, George, 300a, 3h, 3c Rool, John, 20a, 2h, 2c Ryan, Robert, 150a Stronp, Philip, 100a, 1h, 1c
Stronp, George, 50a, 2h, 2c Sigler, George, 300a, 1178, 3h, 5c, 1 saw mill Sigler, John, 100a, 2c
Strode, Joseph, Ih, 1c Sanford, Abraham, 2002, 2h, 2c, 1 still, 50a at Dickson's Steely, Jacob, 100a, 1h, 4c Steely, Ulrich, 100a, 1h, 2c Steely, Gabriel, 1h, 2c Skyles, John, 50a, 1h, 1c Smith, William, 330a, 2h, 3c, 4 negroes
Stark, Zepheniah, 100a, 2h, 4c Stuble, Frederick, 300a, 1h, 1c Thompson, William, hlacksmith, 1h, 1c Thompson, William, farmer, 100a, 2h, 1c
Thompson, William, 1h, 1c Voight, John, 50a, 1h, 2c Wood, John, cooper, 50a, Ih, 1c Wood, John, farmer, 80a, 2h, 2c Woods, Jeriah, 1h, 1c Woods, Levi, 1h, 1c
Wade, Thomas, 100a Wangh, James. Captain, Ic
Unscaled Lands.
Appleby of Philadelphia, 100a. Barr, James, 50a joining Burns and Glenn. Barr & McMurtry, 200a Buchanan, Thomas, Esq., 160a Narrowe Mountain, south side of Chas. Fox.
Baum, Frederick, 100a
Baynton & Wharton, 600a, bound by Geo. Siglar and James Magee.
Croan's land 150a, Swift west and Irwin east.
Callender's heirs, 200a, joining Thomas Wade sonth, Melchoir Imturf west, and Arthur Buchanan north, and Juniata on east.
Chambers, Robert, 200a, 150a, 300a
Cox, Charles, 150a, joining Caleb Parshal on the sonth and John Glasgow on the east.
Clark's land, 300a
Cunningham, Henry, deceased, 200a on Long Meadow Rnn below Cox's land.
Doyle, Felix, 100a
Gregg, Andrew, 150a
Grove, Jacob, 300a on Jack's creek.
Harbison, Benjamin,350a joining a branch of Jack's creek called Piney Run, and 150a joining Henry Cunningham and lands of Alexander, and 283a joining Narrows Mountain and Jack's creek.
Holt's, Thomas, heirs, 100a.
James & Drinker, 300a.
Kelley, George, 150a joining James Burns. Lukens', John, heirs, 1000a.
McClay & Brown, 300a.
Patton, Joseph, 600a on the Long Meadow Run west of Henry Cunningham.
Rannels', John, heirs, 100a. Smith, Wm., York Co., 170a. Sterrett, William, 100a.
Sample, Robert, at the Licks, 600a, Mc- Kee west, Jas. Burns, Esq., east.
Williams, Daniel, 200a joining Burns and Kelly. WM. CORBETT, Assessor. JAMES BURNS, ROBERT SMITH, Assistants.
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ASSESSMENT FOR WAYNE TOWNSHIP FOR 1790.
Adams, David, 1h, 1c
Armstrong, James, 200a
Allen, John, 200a, 1h, 1c Bratton, George, Sr., 2h, 1c
Bratton, Edward, 150a, 1h, Ic
Johnson, Edward, 100a
Bratton, Isabella, 1008, 1h, 1c
Bratton, George, Jr., 317a, 2h, 3c
Bratton, William, sailor, 100a Bratton, James, 100a, 2h, 2c
Bratton, William, * 100a, 2h, 2c
MeLaughlin, Duncan, 100a, 1h, 1c
McLerty, Samuel, 100a, 1h, 1c
McLerty, John, 2002, 2h, 2c
McKee, John, 250a, 2h, 2c
McVey, William, 20a
McVey, John, 250a, 1h, 6c McVey, Enoch, 100a
McKeehen, Samuel, 250a, 2h, 2c
McDowel, John, 340a, 1h, 1c
McMurty, David, heirs, 175a
Moore, John, 150a
Moore, Isabella, 2008, 3h, 2c
Mardon, William, 100a, 3c
Mardon, Jonathan, 70a, 2h, 1 still
Mahon, Alexander, 70a
Mitchel, George, 300a, 2h, 2c
Maclin, James, 100a, and 100a Agnew's land, 2h, 2c Oliver, Johu, 200a, 2h, 3c, 1 still
Oashel, Henry, 3h, 2c
Patton, Robert, 100a
Postlethwaite, William, 2h, 2c
Ross, James, 300a, 2h, 2c
Ross, William, 100a, 2h, 1c
Rankin, John, 100a, 1h, 2c
Robison, William, 400a, 2h, 2c, 1 negro 1 still
Robison, Alexander, 150a, 1h, 1c
Stephen, Matthew, Rev'd, 125a, 2h, 2c
Stackpole, James, 50a, 1h, 1 still
Stuart, Widow, 200a, 1h, 2c
Stuart, Archibald, 143a
Simpson, John, 1h, 1c
Smith, Thomas, Esq., 500a Scott, William, 300a, 2h, 2c
Sunderland, David, 2h, 2c, 1 still
Turner's, Jane, heirs, 100a
Taylor, Widow, 50a, 2h, 1c
Holliday, Samuel, 200a, 3h, 3c, 1 negro, 1 grist mill
Hamilton, Francis, 150a, 2h, 2c Hamilton, Nathaniel, 2h, ic Hamilton, Margaret, 50a Henderson, Robert, 2h, 2c
Hunter, William, 200a, 2h, 2c
Harper, William, 100a, 2h, 2c Irwin, George, 800a Jones, William, 200a, 1h, 1c James, John,# 100a Junkin, William, 229a, 3h, 3c, 1 mill
Johnston, Lancelot, 100a, 2h, 2c Johnson, James, 100a, 2h, 2c Johnson. John, Jr., 1h, 1c Johnson, James, Run, 200a, 3h, 2c]
Jacobs', Alexander, heirs, 150a
Lyon, John, 1h, 2c Lyon, James, 200a, 3h, 4c
Lindsey, John, 200a
Brown, John, Sr., 200a, 2h, 2c
Brown, John, Jr., 100a, 2h, 2c
Brown, William* (Carlisle), 100a
Burns, Robert, Captain, 750a
Carmichael, John, 306a, 3h, 4c, 2 negroes, 1 still
Carmichael, Daniel, heirs, 200a
Christy, James, 100a, 2h, 20
Carlisle, John,* 50a
Cox, Charles, 100a Crawford, Robert, 160a, 2h, 2c
Cunningham, John, 100a, 2h, 2c
Corbett, Joseph, 200a, 2h, 2c
Craig, John, 1h, 1c
Caghey, John, Ih, 1c
Coulter, David, 170a, 2h, 2c Culbertson, John, 200a, 2h, 3c, 1 fulling mill
Dixon, James, 100a, 2h, 2c
Dixon, Henry, 1492, 2h, 2c
Dixon, William, 100a, 2h, 2c Depugh, Danlel, 120a
Douglass, William, 260a, 1h, 1c Duncan, Daniel, 500a
Drake, Samuel, 150a, 1h, 2c
Elliott, Robert, 50a, 2h, 2c
Forgey, Mary, widow, 82a, 1c Forgey, Robert, 82a Frey, George, 400a Gunsaulus, Widow, 300a, 2h, 2c
Graham, Joseph, 50a, 1h, Ic Galbreath, George, 400a, 1h, 1c, 1 saw mill
Hanniwalt, Henry, 300a, 2h, 2c Humphrey, William, 70a, 1h, 1c Huston, William, 100a, 2h, 2c Huston, John, 2h, 2c, 1 still
Huston, Abigail, widow, 200a, 3h, 3c
Unkles, John, 300a, 1h, 3c, 1 grist mill and 1 saw mill Westbrook, Levi, 100a, 1h, le
Walker, James, 1h, 1c Wilson, James, 150a Wilson, Alexander, 200a
Wakefield, William, 1h, 1c
Wakefield, John, 196a, 2h, 2c, 1 saw mill
* These and the following appear the next year on what is called the "Dis- puted Part," being claimed also as a part of Huntingdon county :
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Armstrong, William, 2h, 3c
Bratton, James, Jr., 2h, 2c
Bratton, Samuel, 150a, 2h, 4c
Bratton, John, 250a, 2h, 9c, 1 negroand 104a on Sugar Bottom
Bratton, Wm., Esq., 200a, 2h, 2c, 1 saw mill
Beard, John, 100a, 2h, 3c
Beatty, John, 100a, 2h, 2c
Carmichael, James, 200a, 2h, 2c
Caruthers, James, 180a, 1h, 2c
Collins, Thomas, 50a, 2h, 2c
Carlisle, John, 80a, 2h, 2c, 1 still
Conlter, Joseph, Jr., 3c, 1still, 1 tan yard
Coulter, Joseph, Sr., 100a, 1h, 2c
Criswell, John (Mountain), 120a, 2h, 3c
Criswell, John. sna, 2h, 2c
Criswell, Michael, 80a, 1h, 2c
Fanetus, Ferd, 1h, 2c
Galloway, Joseph, 200a, 1h, 3c, 1 tan yard
Hubble, Henry, 100a
Mitchell, Widow, 200a, 3h, 4c
Mortland, Alexander, 100a, 2h, 2c
Mckinstry, Alexander, 250a, 2h, 3c
McConanghey, Daniel, 85a, 1h, 2c
Nugent, Patrick, 100a, 1h, 4c Romach, George, 2h, 1c
Stanley, Marshal, 170a, 2h, 4c
Stanley, Nathaniel, 2h, 20
Stallford, Alexander, 50a, 1c
Wharton, Samuel, 120a, 2h, 3c
White, Thomas, 150a, 2h, 2c WILLIAM BRATTON, Assessor.
WILLIAM SCOTT, JOHN OLIVER, Assistants.
NOTE .- In 1792 the " unseated " list has Arthur Nugent 50a on Licking Creek, and "Samuel Wallace and Company, 1000a on the head of Licking Creek, near the road leading from Wayne township to Carlisle.
The census of 1790 for Mifflin county was taken in two parts and from it we learn the following particulars of interest :
First Part. Second Part.
Total.
White males 16 years and upwards, including heads of families ..
1,368
586
1,954
White males, under 16 years.
1,388
561
1,949
White females, including heads of families
2,524
1,034
3,558
All other free persoos.
37
5
45
Slaves
50
0
59
Total
5,367
2,195
7,562
I do not know what portions of the county constituted the re- spective districts, but there are on the tax lists of 1790 about 165 taxables that seem to be residents in the portion now in Centre county, and 360 in the portion now Mifflin county, and 450 in the portion now Juniata county ; total, 975. If there was an average of five souls to a family, there must have been some 540 poor heads of families in the county whose names do not appear on the tax list.
Thomas Steel.
On this day, October the 8th, 1879, the above-named gentleman attains the age of three-score and ten years, at four o'clock in the afternoon. His father, David Steel, came over the mountains and settled in Lewistown, when the fine for drunkenness and disorderly conduct was to dig out a stump on the street. The town had then two justices of the peace, one named Andrew Riser, and an old man named Coulter. The subject of this notice informs us that he has
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bound wheat and husked corn on the grounds now occupied by the furnaces in the south-eastern part of Lewistown. On June 13, 1826, the father died. He served for four years in the revolution. A son of our subject was in the war of the rebellion, and was killed at the battle of the Wilderness after he had served three years. Mr. Steel has served a full time as a boatman and farmer, but is now retired. He and his await the boatman that carries us all "over the river, that cold, dark river, to gardens and fields that are bloom- ing forever." He followed the river when boating was done with the ark and the flat-boat, and assisted to build the canal when the "Jigger Boss" was one of the institutions of the day. They would boat in the early spring, then plant corn, and then boat again. He married his present and only companion in 1835, and has lived in his present home since 1840. He married a Miss Shimp, of Lewis- town. His little farm is their quiet and peaceful home. Person- ally, Mr. Steel is of good size, strong and robust for his age and en- joys the life and vigor of thirty-five or forty years. The Bible in- forms us that " He that doeth my will, on him will I bestow my spirit," and an observance of the laws of nature teaches us that he that observes nature's laws, and lives in compliance therewith, will have badges of honor bestowed all over him for his fidelity to these laws, while the "wicked shall not live half their days," because they transgress the laws of nature, which are the laws of God.
Jacob Rearick.
No locality in Mifflin county has more justly reason to "take on airs" on account of the substantial character of her people than Granville township, and among them we are happy to record the subject of this notice. He was born on the head of Honey Creek, and raised to maturity in Kishacoquillas Valley. His father also was born and raised in Mifflin county, while his grandfather was from Germany. Mr. Rearick removed to Lewistown, then to Buf- falo Valley, in Union county, then to Mifflin county, and located at Granville Station, thirty-five years ago. In 1843 he took unto him a better half in the person of Miss Margaret Settle. Their only offspring was one son, who died in the army in front of Petersburg. His life business has been a farmer. His companion met an un- timely end in 1879 by a fall. The official positions held by him is a proof of his good citizenship and the esteem in which he is held by his neighbors ; has served as school director, on election boards, justices of the peace, juryman, &c., &e. His present age is about
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sixty years, but he has yet long to stay if we judge of the energy and vitality of his healthful und well-eared-for system.
James George.
Another fine, healthy speeimen of mental and physical power and balance we find in our subjeet above-named. While in sketch- ing the early families of Mifflin county, we have had to use the al- most stereotype phrase "of Scotch-Irish descent," in this ease we vary that programme. His grandfather came from Germany and settled in Virginia, about 1778. He raised his family there, and the ' father of our sketch, John George, eame to Mifflin eounty in 1812, and located near where Mann's axe factory now is, and engaged in the occupation of a gunsmith, at which he was an expert. He had a partner named Jones Spangler. He lived there and conducted that many years, and finally died near Lewistown in 1818 or 1819. . His family consisted of two sons and one daughter, the latter of whom died in 1874. The sons both removed to Ohio. James, the subject of this notice, is now a resident of Ashland, Ohio, having left here in 1874, and his brother, in 1863, for Jeromesville, Ohio. His name is Joseph H. George. The father used Freedom forge iron for the manufacture of gun-barrels, and the merits and quality thereof was as highly appreciated then as now. He was married in 1836 to Miss Sarah Brook, of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and have had seven children, four boys and three girls, of whom two of the former and one of the latter only are living. He is now a farmer, or more properly was a farmer, but is now somewhat re- tired and suffering somewhat from injuries received in the army dur- ing the rebellion. He enlisted in 1862, on the 10th of September, in Company M, Sixteenth regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, under Captain Stroup, and then served his term under Captain Alexan- der until July 9, 1864. He was at Kelly's Ford, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and several smaller engagements and serimages. He received injuries at Kelly's Ford, from the fall of his horse, from which he has ever suffered serions inconvenience. It is a faet, un- doubtedly well established on authenticated statisties, that Mifflin county sent more soldiers into the war of the rebellion, in propor- tion to her population, than any other county in the United States. They not only had the first company to report at Washington on the first call, but the men from Mifflin county continued to flow into Washington until the government was almost led to conelude that this county was determined to suppress the rebellion herself.
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John G. McCord.
To the Emerald Isle, more than any other foreign land, is the United States and especially this county, indebted for its brains, energy and push, whether in a moral, intellectual or business point of view. For another illustration of which we refer to the subject now before us.
The grandparents were from Erin's Isle, the parents born and raised in Mifflin county and was named John McCord. John G., the subject of this notice, was born in 1827, and has ever since that "auspicious morn " been an inhabitant of his native county. He was married in 1848 and has had ten descendants, seven of whom. are now living. His business has been that of a carpenter, builder and architect, and the most important structure on which his abil- ities as an architect has been. displayed-has been in his own pro- pria personia, for he is a marked case of being the architect of his own fortunes. His business now is mining, being the proprietor of the celebrated MCCORD ORE MINES. He spent three years and three months in the army during the rebellion, and an active three years it was; he being in twenty-two battles in that time. He enlisted in Company F, Forty-ninth regiment Pennsylvania volunteers .. Sec roster of that company in the military department of this work .. Though he received several slight wounds, none were severe, and he came home a sound man. The Mc Cord ore bank is located nine miles west of Lewistown. They were first opened five years ago. and work not prosecuted. Now it is. Shaft No. 1 is forty-five feet deep; the vein eighteen inclies ; slope sixty degrees ; the ore yield- ing forty-two per cent. No. 2 shaft : drift one hundred yards north of No. 1; vein twelve inches ; ore forty-six per cent. purity. These Ferguson's Valley mines are not all yet explored ; their veins being perpendicular, are not so easily discovered as horizontal veins though of very superior richness. Mr. MeCord is now one of our successful prosperous men. His success has not been obtained by narrow penurious dealing, but he has ever been noted for generous open-heartedness, and from him the poor never went empty away. His sense of right is his law, doing unto others as he would that they should do unto him. Long may his family, his friends and acquaintances enjoy his society.
The Brought Family.
The great-grandfather of the Broughts, was one David Brought, a commissioned officer in a company of Hessian troops captured
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by General Washington at the battle of Trenton, New Jersey, 1776. It is an old story, told from father to son, that in order to keep the Hessian troops from deserting, they being hired from Germany, all kinds of stories were circulated among them by the British. One was that the colonists turned all prisoners and deserters over to the Indians, who either burned or butchered them. This made these troops a very formidable foe. In order to counteract this,, the wise men of the colonists, after Washington had made this cap- ture, determined to send these prisoners into the German settle- ments, believing that by treating them well, they would, when ex- changed, carry back favorable news of the people and country, and thus canse many to desert. Consequently David, as well as many more, was sent to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. David being sent to near the present Litiz, that county ; after he was here a short time, he became delighted with the country, and in order to keep from being exchanged, he and one Hamler ran off, and came. to the now Juniata county. After the Revolution closed, he went back to Lancaster county, and rented a farm near Litiz. In 1795, he was joined by his wife and two sons from Germany. In 1797 David died, leaving only his two sons, Daniel and David. The only heirloom of him is an old sword, rough, but of good material .. The next year Daniel moved to near the present Richfield, Juniata county, where he was married ; he rented a farm there, and farmed the same till 1811, when he purchased a farm in now Mifflin county,. from one Abraham Miller, of ninety-three acres, near the present. Granville Station, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and on which John Brought now resides and owns. Daniel died in 1818; he had six children, David, John, Daniel, George, Ann and Mary. David married one Jane Steel of this county ; he was major of militia of that day, was a contractor, as well as a distiller; he was born in Juniata county, died near the Long Narrows, he had eight children, John A., now of Lewistown, who was married to one Ann Glass, they have five children. Joseph Culberton and Partie both died at about thirty. Tillie married to Lewis Lewis, now in Kansas .. Eliza, deceased, married to Laury Culp, now in Patterson, Juniata county. Martha, married to one - Franks, now in Patterson, Juniata county. Sarah and Lawrence late of Lewistown. John, Daniel's second son, was a farmer ; he owned, at his death, nine hun- dred acres of land near him, six hundred of which was clear; he was married to one - Sellers, had three sons, Jacob, deceased, John, married to Rebecca Owens, they have seven children, Calvin
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E., who graduated at Eastman's Commercial College, New York, is now a book keeper in a real estate office, Kansas; Servarius S., Jos. Austin, John, Mary, Jenny and Lizzie; John now owns and lives on the farm bought by his grandfather. Joseph was married to Anna Owens; he was a farmer; he built most of the present Granville Station ; owned two fine farms, one on which the station is built, and the other near; he was killed on the railroad several years ago. Daniel, Daniel's third son, was a farmer, lived and owned the farm known as the " Panther Spring farm," two miles north-west of Lewistown, on Pittsburgh and Philadelphia turnpike ; he was married to a Barbara Houser, of Centre county, who was a cousin of both the Irvins and Curtins of that county, they had nine children, Jacob, deceased, married to one - Hughes ; Mosheim, Daniel, John, Sylvester and Irvin, they now live in Indiana. Daniel died at thirty-five a few years ago, a bachelor. John H., bache- lor, now a resident of this county, he lives and owns, in part with Sylvester, the old homestead; he, in connection with Syl- vester, own one thousand one hundred and fifty aeres of land in Granville township, this county, nine hundred and fifty of which is farm land. He was a member of Company L, Ninth Cavalry, Ninety-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, he fonght in twenty-seven battles and skirmishes, the most im- portant was Shelbyville, Chickamauga, Mossy Creek, Readyville, Macon, Rockhead, Waynesburg and Savannah ; he was wounded in the leg at Mossy Creek, from which he still suffers very much. He went "through with Sherman to the sea." Before going into the service he studied law with S. S. Woods, afterwards Judge Woods. William H., farmer, owned two fine farms in Granville township, he was first married to Caroline Lotz, they had two children, Matilda, Aretha and Annie, both now at home. His second wife is Sallie Hoekey, they have no children. Sylvester, farmer, and 'in connec- tion as we have already said with John H., is the owner of a large amount, as well as good land. He is married to Elvina Ailman, of Juniata county, they have two children, Edgar and John. He has been what may be called one of the most successful farmers in our county. James Irvin, sixth son of Daniel, is now a farmer. He finished his studies in Lewistown Academy in 1864, entered State Normal School at Millersville, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he studied a year and a-half; owing to loss of health, had then to abandon his studies, when he went farming. He married a Clara J. Breneman ; they have seven children, Fanny L. L., John
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HISTORY OF MIFFLIN COUNTY
H. C., William Schuyler, Clara Mabel, Irvin Sylvester, Rosa and Matilda M. E., he has always been an active citizen, has tried to build up his community ; has always been a Sunday school worker ; has been judge of election, assessor and school director of his township'; has taught school, mostly in winter, ten terms. Ann, seventh child of Daniel, was married to James Wilson. They have three children, Daniel, John and Samuel; they live in this county. Jane, deceased, was married to James Robison, they had several children, but all dead. Martha Matilda, deceased, was married to John R. Hartman, they had three children, Parker, Ella and John, all living now in Milroy, this county. George, Daniel's fourth son, was a farmer and distiller, he was first married to a - - Lauver, of Juniata county, they had two children, Lewis, who died young, and Daniel, who had five children, Thompson, Joseph, Daniel, Mary and Eliza, all now live in Granville township. George's second wife was Ann Long, they had two children, Ann married to
Beatty, near McVeytown, and William H., now in this county. Ann, Daniel's fifth child, was married to Daniel Marks, they had one child, Daniel B., now in Indiana. Mary, the sixth child, was married to George Sellers, a stone mason and farmer, they had three children, Joseph, deceased, Mary Ann, deceased, and Edward, deceased, who married one Nancy Winkle, they had six children, George, John, Andrew, Ella, Elizabeth and William, all now in this county. This closes the biography of the children, grandchil- dren, and great-grandchildren of Daniel Brought. We left David, his brother near Litiz, Lancaster county. He had but two sons, one John Brought, who lived near Lewistown, where he was married, in the house where the Gazette office now is. He moved to Ohio, where he was elected Governor in 1864, by over 100,000 majority. The other brother, William, moved to George's Valley, Centre county, where they still live. The Broughts from early days were generally farmers, were a quiet unassuming people, generally suc- cessful in all their undertakings. They always have, and do to- day, own some of the best farm property in the county. In the preparation of this work, it is a pleasurable duty to record for future generations, the biography of those "square built" men, who, physically, morally and intellectually, a standard of American citeznship. This especially the case with J. Irwin Brought, with whom we have the pleasure of a personal acquaintance, and of which he furnishes a marked example. Free from all pride, show
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