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Roaring Creek Water Company. 626
Robb, Robert .. 112
Roberts, Samuel 246
Robertson, Andrew 892
Robertson & Osler's flour mill, Shamokin. . . 619
Robins, Edwin S. 931
Robins, Galen S 268
Robins, John K. 268
. Robins, Joseph C. 268 Robins, Willlam 264
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Robinson, Thomas, company of, 136; corre- spondence. 136
Rockefeller, David. 813
ROCKEFELLER TOWNSHIP. - Organization and boundaries, 790; drainage and roads, 790; villages, 790; mills, 791; schools, 791;
churches, 792; biographical sketches. .. . . . 1160
Rockefeller, William M .. 231, 814
Rock Street Planing Mill, Shamokin 619
Rockwell, Ludlem B. 852
Rodrigue, M. Aristide. 266
Rohbach, Elias P., company of 435
Rohrbach, George, foundry, Sunbury 490
Rohrbach, Lloyd T. 826
Rombach, George W. 1069
Rombach, John W 1007
Roney, Thomas .1050
Roster of the medical profession. 269
Rothermel, Abraham 1224
Rothermel, Daniel H. 1227
Rothermel, William 1224
Ronsh, John .. 1113
Ruckman, Robert C. 1149
Rules of court. 211, 212
Rush, Jacob 216
Rushtown. 741
RUSH TOWNSHIP .- Successive movements for the division of Shamokin township, 737: formation, origin of name, and first town- ship officers of Rush, 737; pioneers, 737; in- dustries, 741; Rushtown, 741; schools, 741; churches, 741; biographical sketches. .1175
Russell, Andrew. 1151
Russell, E. H. 1159
Russell, John 1151
Russell, Samuel. 1152
Russell, T. W. 1152
Russell, W. T. 1083
Ryan, George W., company of. 430
Ryon, George W. 926
Ryon, William W 930
S
Samuel, Edmund W .1036
Sanitary Aid Society of Sunbury 402
Sanitary Commission. 402
Savidge, Benjamin 1148
Savidge, C. R. 834
Savidge, John B. 923
Schabo, John. 957
Schleif, Francis 965
Schlelg, Adam. 1227
Sclileig, Daniel .. 1228
Schleig, Peter W
1228
Scholl, Casper
239
SCHOOLS .- Cameron township, 770; Chillis- quaque township, 724; Delaware township, 764; Gearhart township, 802; Jackson town- ship, 745; Jordan township, 773; Lewis township, 768; Little Mahanoy township, 735; Lower Augusta township, 706; Lower Malianoy township, 712; Milton, 589; Mt. Carmel, 666; Northumberland, 536;
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Ralpho township, 798; Rockefeller town- ship, 791; Rush township, 741; Shamokin, 645; Shamokin township, 730; Sunbury, 497; Turbut township, 697; Upper Augusta township, 701; Upper Mahanoy township, 710; Washington township, 787; Watson- town. 687; Zerbe township, 780; public school system inaugurated. 176
Schreyer, Philip H., company of. 419
Schreyer, W. A. 996
Schwartz, Joseph .1058
Schwenk, John E. K 1140
Scott. Oscar J.
.1030
Scott, Thomas
1023
Scott, William L.
610
Scudder, Daniel. 249
Scupham, Mark P., carriage works, Sunbury. 486
Seasholtz, J. S., carriage works, Sunbury 486
Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. 424
Seiler, E. G.
948
Senators (State). 192
Seven Points 790
Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry 422
Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers 435
Shaffer, Henry. 238
SHAMOKIN (Indian town) .- First visited, 32; traders, 35; location of, 41 ; burned and aban- doned. 49
SHAMOKIN .- General summary, 591; brief of title, 592; the town plat, 597; pioneers, 598; Shamokin in 1839, 605; subsequent growth summarized, 607; the first stores and ho- tels, 607; early physicians and lawyers, 609; municipal organization and government, 610; the riot of 1877, 611; facilities of travel and transportation, 612; the Shamokin coal trade, 612; general industrial inter- ests, 615; the postoffice, 621; banks, 621: water, gas, and electric light, 625; board of trade, 628; secret and other societies, 628; the press, 291, 629; churches, 630; edu- cational interests, 645; cemeteries, 653; bio- graphical sketches 860
Shamokin Agricultural and Driving Park
Association. 346
Shamokin and Trevorton railroad 322
Shamokin Arc Light Company. 628
Shamokin Bank. 621
Shamokin Banking Company. 624
Shamokin Board of Trade. 628
Shamokin Business College 653
Shamokin Canalboot. 279
Shamokin Cemetery Company. 653
Shamokin Coal and Iron Company 615 Smink, William H. R. 950
SHAMOKIN COAL FIELD. - Importance of coal, 347; Its location, 348; nomenclature of veins, 349; position and character of the veins at Shamokin, 350; description of the coal veins, 353; a section of the measures, 354; brief description of the local districts, 356; probable duration of the coal supply,
357; development of the Shamokin coal field 358 Shamokin Collegiate Institute 647
Shamokin creek. 19
Shamokin Gas Light Company. 627
Shamokin Guards. 405
Shamokin Herald .. 292
Shamokin Industrial Company. 620
Shamokin Iron Works 617
Shamokin island. 700
Shamokin Journal. 291
Shamokin Manufacturing Company. 620
Shamokin Planing Mill 619
Shamokin Powder Company. 620
Shamokin Powder Mills. 620
Shamokin Register. 291
Shamokin Rolling Mill 618
Shamokin Sentinel. 294
Shamokin Steam Bakery. G20
Shamokin Street Railway Company 612 Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewisburg railroad .. 324 Shamokin Times. 293
SHAMOKIN TOWNSHIP .- Formation of Ral-
pho township and description of its original boundaries, 726; change of name to Shamo- kin, 727; physical features, 728; pioneers, 728; industries, 728; borougli of Snydertown, 729; villages, 730; schools, 730; churches, 731; biographical sketches. 1175
Shamokin Valley and Pottsville railroad. 312
Shamokin Water Company. 625
Shannon, Ephraim P. 526
Shawane Indians. 24
Shay, Philip. 1069
Shay, William F .1071
Sheep, John. 1122
Sheriffs.
180
Shikellimy
26
Shimer, Samuel J. 985
Shimer, S. J. & Sons, industries at Milton 564
Shindel, Daniel W 823
Shipe, Isaac F 1211
Shipman, Abraham 239
Shipp, James A. 965
Shipp, John 889
Shissler, Alfred G 935
Shissler, H. A 888
Shoop, Levi:
962
Shuman, James M 945
Shuster, David E. 946
Sillyman, Oscar H 1022
Silvius, Thomas J 845
Simpson Brothers' planing mill, Sunbury. 491
Simpson, Jeremiah 453
Simpson, John 453
Slater, James D., company of. 408
Slayman, C. J ..
911
Smith, Charles 243
Smith, Daniel. 246
Smith, Enoch. 246
Smith, Henry B. 838
Smith, J. R. 997
Smith, Matthew, 548; correspondence. 122
Smith, Peter 1065
Smith, Simpson. 1077
Smith, William H 1005
Snufftown
730
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Snyder, Jeremiah .1034
Snyder, John B. 873
Snyder, John N .. 1169
Snyder, John, Sr. 1168
Snyder, Joseph
601, 873
Snyder, Martin L. 832
Snyder, Peter H.
838
SNYDERTOWN .- Location, 729; pioneers, 729;
the town plat, 729; municipal government. 730; biographical sketches. .1175
Sober, Alexander 1195
Sober, Clinton D 1195
Sober, Isaac 1194
Sober, Martin L.
1195
Sober, Samuel.
1194
Sober, Samuel.
1195
Sober, William A
822
Society of Friends, Ralpho township. 800
Sodom ..
724
Soldiers' monuments. . 441
Sollenberger, David L .. 924
South Danville. 802
Speece, Anthony S. 1232
Speece, W. P.
1165
Springfield
750
Stahl, George 1145
Stahl, George C
1000
Stamm, Edward J.
1122
Stamm, Jacob.
1123
Standard (Milton)
291
Starr, Durham & Company's planing mill, Watsontown
Starr, J. P. 1090
682
States Advocate (Milton) 287
Statistics of population 154
Stecker, Charles E .. 1040
Stecker, George A.
1032
Stecker, William H. .1048
St. Edward's cemetery, Shamokin 654
St. Edward's parochial school, Shamokin 652
Stetler, Daniel M. .1234
Stewart, Josiah 1080
Sticker, H. C.
.1004
Stine, John
.1052
St. Joseph's cemetery, Turbut township. 697
Stone, Henry K. 853
Stoner, William B. 1102
Stonington 730 Stout, J. H 999
Straub, Abraham 970 Straub, Andrew. 547
Straub, Clement C 971
Strawbridge, James. 233
Strawbridge, Thomas 233
Strine, George W 994
Stroh, George W
857
Stroh, J. S. & Brother, carriage works, Sun- bury . 489 Strouse, Cyrus, company of. .405, 411
St. Stanislaus Kostka cemetery, Shamokin .. 654
St. Stanislaus Kostka parochial school, Sha- mokin 653
Stuartville ..
785
SUNBURY .- The town plat, 44; early resi-
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dents, 446; Sunbury in 1808, 455; reminis- cences of Dr. R. H. Awl, 458; prominent merchants, 1771 to 1850, 471; early hotels, 475; municipal organization and govern- ment, 476; facilities of travel and transpor- tation, 480; industrial activity, 484; banking institutions, 494; gas, electric light, and water companies, 496; local papers, 276, 496; the postoffice, 497; secret and other societies, 497; educational interests, 497; churches, 502; cemeteries, 512; borough of
East Sunbury, 513; biographical sketches ... 804 Sunbury Academy . 500
Sunbury American 282
Sunbury and Lewistown railway 320 Sunbury and Northumberland Gazette. 273
Sunbury and Northumberland Street Railway Company 484
Sunbury Canal Company 493
Sunbury Carpet Cleaning and Novelty Works 493 Sunbury Daily. 284
Sunhury Electric Light and Power Company. 496
Sunbury Enterprise. 285
Sunbury Gas Light Company 496
Sunbury Gazette 280
Sunbury Gnards. 403
Sunbury, Hazelton and Wilkesbarre railroad 320
Sunbury Independent. 284
Sunbury Lumber Company 491
Sunbury Medical Association 269
Sunbury Nail, Bar, and Guide Iron Mannfact- uring Company. 492
Sunbury Steam Ferry and Tow Boat Com- pany. 483
Sunbury Trust and Safe Deposit Company 496
Sunbury Water Company 496
Sunbury Weekly News 285
Supreme court.
259
Supreme Executive Council, members of. 191
Susquehanna and Union Bridge Company. 323
Susquehanna Bible Society 585
Susquehanna Emporium. 281
Susquehanna railroad 319
Susquehanna river, purchase of 42
Susquehanna Tract Society 586
Susquehannock Indians
21,
43
Swartz, Samuel T
1002
Sypher, Henry J
1125
T
Tachnechdorus. 30
Taggart, David .255, 1094
Taggart, David. 1093
Taggart, Frank A. 1095
Taggart Guards.
407
Taggart, James, 1094; company of. 407
Taggart, John.
.1094
Taggart, John K 1095
Taggart, Matthew H
1094
Taggart, Thomas
1093
Taggarts & Howell's Nail Works, North-
berland.
535
Talk of the Day (Shamokin)
294
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TANNERIES .- Chillisquaque townshlp, 718; Jackson township, 744; Jordan township, 773; Milton, 558, 561; Northumberland, 534; Ralpho township, 798; Shamokin township, 728; Sunbury, 484; Turbutville, 766; Upper Augusta township, 701; Watsontown. 681 Tate, MeCurdy, company of .. 419
TAXABLES. - Augusta township, 1774, 84, 1788, 699; Chillisquaque township, 1788, 717; Little Mahanoy township, 1814, 735; Ma- hanoy township, 1778, 709; Point township, 1787, 714; Rush township, 1820, 737; Shamo- kin township, 1788, 728; Turbut township, 177-, 86. 1787. 693
Teachers' institutes 178
Teas, James.
266
Teitsworth Family 1178
Teitsworth, Isaac.
1178
Teitsworth, Lemuel.
1178
Teitsworth, Matthias
1179
Tenbrook, Andrew
1146
Tharp, Charles W.
255
" The Great Runaway "
121
The Press
273
Third Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery 431
Third Regiment, militia of 1862. 437
Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Fifth
Reserve
406
Thirty-seventh Regiment, militia of 1863.
441
Thirty-sixth Regiment, militia of 1863. 439
Tier, E. C ..
1025
Times (Sunbury). 277
Topography of the county. 17
Township officers, 1772-92.
193
Townships and boroughs, formation of.
149
Treon, George.
1147
TREVORTON .- Origin, 778; early history and growth, 779: secret societies, 780; schools, 780; churches, 780; cemeteries, 783; bio- graphical sketches .1217
Trevorton, Mahanoy and Susquehanna rail- road 322
Trites, David T. 264
Tri-Weekly American (Mt. Carmel). 295
Troxell, Benjamin F .1139
Tulpehocken road.
298, 303
TURBUT TOWNSHIP .- Erection and original 1
boundaries, 692; subdivision and present area, 693; pioneers, 86, 693; mills, 694: churches, 695; schools, 697; cemeterles, 697; biographical sketches .. 1106
TURBUTVILLE. - Settlement, 765; growth, 766; local industries, 766; secret societies,
766; municipal government, 766; biograph- ical sketches. .1141
Turbutville cemetery. 769
Turner, William. 239
Turnpikes
305
Twelfth Pennsylvania Regiment of the Con-
tinental Live.
106
Twenty-eighth Regiment, militia of 1863.
439
U
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Unger, George C
953
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Unger, Warren.
954
Unger, William H.
953
Union Park and Agricultural Association .. 346 Unitarian church, Northumberland ... 539 UNITED BRETHREN CHURCHES .- Ashgrove, Shamokin township, 734; Clark's Grove, Shamokin township, 733; Miles Run, Lower Augusta township, 706; Mt. Carmel, 674; Pleasant Hill, Shamokin township, 733; Shamokin, 639; Uniontown. 751
UPPER AUGUSTA TOWNSHIP .- Erection of Augusta township and development of its subsequent boundaries, 698; formation of Upper and Lower Augusta, 699; pioneers, 699; roadsand streams, 701; industries, 701; schools, 701; churches, 702; biographical sketches. .1160
UPPER MAHANOY TOWNSHIP. - Proceed-
ings for the erectiou of Mahanoy township, 708; disintegration of its territory, 708; or- ganization of Upper Mahanoy, 709; pio- neers, 709; hotels, 709; mills, 710; secret society, 710; schools, 710; churches, 710; biographical sketches. .1217
Urban .. 773
V
Vastine, Amos
1191
Vastine, Amos.
1212
Vastine Family.
1191
Vastine, John
1192
Vastine, Jonathan
1211
Vastine, Peter.
1211
Vastine, Thomas
1192
Vastine, William
1191
Voris, Clarence G.
1002
W
Wagenseller, Simon C.
924
Wagner, A. S.
1146
Wagner, D. Frank 1089
Wagner, J, H.
1088
Waldron, David
267
Waldron, William
1114
Walker, Jonathan H.
Walter, George M.
1140
Walter, Mrs. Eliza V
1187
War, French and Indian.
47
War of 1812
391
War of the Rebellion 39G
War of the Revolution
99
Ward, Matthew P
1057
Warrior Run Rifle Company.
392
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP .- Original bound-
aries, 786; first township officers, 786; pi- oneers, 786; industries, 787; Rebuck, 787; schools, 787; churches, 788; biographical sketches .. .1217
Watkins, Joseph.
1066
Watkins, M. K.
1018
Watson, W. W
.1158
WATSONTOWN .- Pioneer history, 677; tlie
244
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first surveys, 677; early industries, stores, and hotels, 678; the town plat, 679; rail- roads, 680; the postoffice, 680; manufactur- ing, past and present, 680; banks, 682; elec- tric light and water companies, 683; borongh organization and government, 684; secret and fraternal societies, 684; educational and literary effort, 295, 687; churches, 688; Watsontown cemetery, 691; biographical sketches 1068
Watsontown Boot and Shoe Company. 682
Watsontown cemetery 691
Watsontown Electric Light, Gas, Power, and Heating Company. 683
Watsontown Furniture and Table Works 682
Watsontown Nail Works 682
Watsontown National Bank 682
Watsontown Planing Mill Company 681
Watsontown Record. 295
Watsontown Steam Flour Mill 681
Watsontown Steam Tannery 681
Watsontown Water Company 684
Watts, David 243
Watts, Henry 1105
Weaver, Charles W 932
Weaver Family 876
Weaver, John A 877
Weaver, Martin. 876
Weaver, William M. 876
Weekly Independent (Sunbury). 285
Weekly Item Mt. Carmel). 295
Weidenliamer, J. A. 1083
Weidenhamer, William 1119 Weiser, Conrad, 36
Weiser, George, 238
Weiser, George. 239
Weiser, George B. 265
Weitzel, Casper, 242; company of 104
Weitzel, John ..
471
Weitzel, John
1166
Weitzel, Joseph. 1166 Welker, George C. 239
Wells, Charles, company of. 408
Weltner, Ludwig, military administration of. 133 Wenck, S. M. G. 1101
Wendle, William P. 995
Wertman, W. K., carriage works, Milton 562
West Branch bridge, Northumberland. 532 West Branch Farmer and True Democrat. 287 West Branch Intelligencer (McEwensville) .. 296 West Branch Star (Watsontown). 295 West End Planing Mill, Shamokin. 619
Weyna, Stanislaus 959 Whalen, Joseph P 1065 Whalen, Mark. 1062 White, Elijalı. 1031 White, Elijalı E. 1031 Whitmer, William 837
Wightman, Charles
1058
Wilhelm, Charles H. 1011
Wilhelm, Frederick.
1012
Wilhelm, Henry,
1011
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Wilhelm, James B. 1012
Wilhelm, W. B. 1012
Wilhour, George .1204
Williour, Peter R. 1205
Wilkesbarre and Western railroad. 328
Williams, Benjamin H. 1056
Williams, William T. 1035
Williamson, F. P. 954
Wilson, Robert. 990
Wilson, R. F. & Company, fly net factory, Mil-
ton. 562
Wilson, William, 234; company of. 102
Wingert, John H. 1139
Wirt, Ben ..
1044
Withington, Hudson 846
Withington, Martin J. D 1103
Witmer, Charles B 828
Witmer, Isaac L. 828
Wolf, Joseph.
949
Wolfe, H. W. 1124
Wolfe, William H., company of. 436, 441
Wolfinger, John F. 251
Wolverton, N. C .. 951
Wolverton, Simon P., 818; company of 439
Woodside, Thomas J.
1056
Workingmen's Advocate (Sunbury)
280
Wright, Calvin D 1054
Wright, R. L. 933
Y
Yagel, Zacharias.
1121
Yankee and Pennamite war 96
Yarnall,
1015
Yarnall, Richard 656
Yarnall, Richard K 1016
Yordy, Henry M.
1210
Yost, Daniel.
889
Yost, John A
912
Young, Benjamin F 265
Young, John
474
Young, J. B.
.1047
Youngman, John G.
279, 280
Young Men's Christian Association of Milton 586 Yoxthelmer, Henry. 475
Z
Zartman, D. M.
1233
· Zartman, Samuel S. .1236
Zeigler, George W. 821
ZERBE
TOWNSHIP. - Organization
and
boundaries, 777; Pioneers, 778; Trevorton,
778; schools, 780; churches, 780; cemeteries,
783; biographical sketches.
1217
Zimmerman, Clark B.
1042
Zimmerman, Henry S.
949
Zimmerman, J. B., carriage works, Shamokin 618
Zimmerman, J. H
887
Zimmerman, Samnel H
.1173
Zimmerman, W. E.
930
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