History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Part 42

Author: Bell, Herbert C. (Herbert Charles), 1868- ed; John, J. J., 1829-
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Chicago, Brown, Runk
Number of Pages: 1424

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DEVELOPMENT OF THE SHAMOKIN COAL FIELD.

way was found to be in excellent coal and there is nothing to prevent resumption of work at the place it was so suddenly stopped in 1873.

The collieries of our county give employment to twelve thousand eighty- five men and boys, who in 1889 mined and prepared over two and a half million tons of coal.

Having brought this article down to the present time (November, 1890), it will be concluded by introducing a few tables showing the shipments of 1857 and 1889, and the annual tonnage from 1839 to 1890.

COAL SHIPMENTS FOR 1857.

Trevorton

110,711

Lancaster: Cochran, Peale & Company.

35,105

Big Mountain: Bird, Douty & John. 28,599

Locust Gap: Seasholtz, Fagely & Company. 15,700

Luke Fidler: Thomas & John Rosser.

15,031

Lower Gap (Cameron): Zimmerman & Pursell 14,387

Coal Ridge: Lewis, Muir & Company 11,255

Green Ridge: A. Ayres & Company.

10,841

Carbon Run: Ammerman & Wetzel.

9,610

Coal Mountain: Mears & Davis. 4,259

Rough & Ready: Beaver & Company 4,119

Locust Summit: Anthony & Lloyd.

3,512

Lambert: Kremer & Deitman

3,388

Total

266,517

COAL SHIPMENTS FOR 1889.

Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company :-

Merriam

65,677

Monitor

46,007

Locust Gap

193,566

Locust Spring

147,381

Alaska Shaft.

205,461

Reliance

68,977

Buck Ridge

57,779

Henry Clay

460,046

Burnside

100,059

Bear Valley

74,341

Trevorton

62,406

1,481,700 tons

Union Coal Company :-

Pennsylvania.

240,535

Hickory Swamp

107,729

Hickory Ridge 55,768

404,032 tons

Mineral Railroad and Mining Company :-

Cameron

101,778

Luke Fidler 123,925

225,703 tons

Excelsior Coal Company :-

Excelsior

159,929

Corbin

46,975

206,904 tons

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Individual Operators :-

Enterprise

115,247

Neilson

108,296

Mt. Carmel.

80,338

Black Diamond

48,749

Lancaster

9,333

Garfield .

13,145

Eureka (Star)

382,212 tons

Total for 1889

. 2,700,551 tons

TOTAL SHIPMENTS.

The following table exhibits the total shipments from the Shamokin coal field from the beginning of the trade in 1839 down to 1890, covering a period of fifty-one years, with amounts of each decade carried out :-

Year.

Tons.

Year.

Tons.

1839

11,930

1869

974,015

1840

15,505

1870

1,025,515

1841

21,463

1871

1,213,096

1842

10,000

1872

1,221,327

1843

10,000

1873

1,234,070

1844

13,087

1874

1,221,551

1845

10,000

1875.

1,715,814

1846

12,572

1876

1,507,078

1847

14,904

1877

1,912,236

1848

19,356

1878

1,537,754

For 1st decade

138,917

For 4th decade

13,561,956

1849

19,650

1879

1,893,990

1850

19,921

1880

1,927,877

1851

24,899

1881

2,399,193

1852.

25,846

1882

2,407,240

1853

15,500

1883

2,255,762

1854

63,500

1884

2,194,121

1855

116,117

1885

2,366,477

1856

210,518

1886

2,121,964

1857

266,517

1887

2,613,457

1858

242,579

1888

2,613,818

For 2d decade. 1,005,047

For 5th decade

22,793,899

1859

305,043

1889

2,694,551

1860

300,256

1861

290,928

1862

304,865

1863

337,136

1864.

389,799

1865

484,257

1866.

610,809

1867

533,815

1868

911,784

For 3d decade

4,468,692

7,104

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RECAPITULATION.

1st decade.

138,917 tons

2d decade. 1,005,047 tons

3d decade 4,468,692 tons

4th decade 13,561,956 tons

5th decade. 22,793,899 tons

Total for fifty years. 41,968,511 tons

Add for 1889. 2,700,551 tons

Total shipments. 44,669,062 tons

Add for consumption at breaker and local sales. 2,000,000 tons

Total output for fifty-one years. 46,669,062 tons

CHAPTER XII.

"WAR OF 1812.

MOBILIZATION OF THE MILITIA - COMPANIES OF CAPTAINS ROBERT MCGUIGAN, WILLIAM MCGUIRE, WILLIAM F. BUYERS, AND JACOB HUMMEL, AND LIEUTENANT JOSEPH DREIBELBIES.

I N the second war with England Pennsylvania was menaced with invasion on the extreme northwest, where Lake Erie afforded an easy route for the transportation of the enemy's forces from Canada, and on the southeast, where the Delaware bay and river presented a favorable approach for the enemy's shipping. The State militia was, therefore, mobilized at three principal points, viz., Meadville, then the largest town in the northwestern part of the State, Marcus Hook, on the Delaware below Philadelphia, and York.

Although war was not formally declared by Congress until the 18th of June, 1812, preparations for the conflict had been in progress for some time previously, and on the 12th of May Governor Snyder issued a call for four- teen thousand militia, the quota of the State. Among the tenders of military services in compliance with this requisition was the following :-

Milton, July 2, 1812.

To his Excellency, Simon Snyder, Governor of Pennsylvania :-

SIR: I have the honor to inform you that on the 1st day of July, instant, the several classes of the One Hundred and Twenty-third regiment of Pennsylvania militia, James Moodie, lieutenant colonel commandant, Second brigade, Ninth division, met in pur- suance of brigade orders in Milton, Northumberland county; that upwards of the number seventy-nine have volunteered their services as their quota of militia to your

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Honor, to be ready to march at any time required. We beg leave to state to your Ex- cellency that it is the wish of the company to march at the first call.

Sir, your most obedient humble servant,

ROBERT MCGUIGAN, Captain.

The following postscript is appended to a return of the detached volun- teer corps called upon to march to Meadville by general orders from the Governor, issued August 25, 1812 :-

N. B. John Fruit, brigade inspector, Ninth division and Second brigade, has been, subsequent to general orders, directed to order a volunteer company commanded by Captain Robert McGuigan to march. Number of men in the company unknown.

WILLIAM REED, Adjutant General.

In general orders dated September 5, 1812, Governor Snyder "em- braces the present opportunity of recording the names of commanding officers of companies who have patriotically tendered their services, not in- cluded in general orders of the 25th ultimo," among whom appears the name of "Robert McGuigan, captain light infantry, Second brigade, Ninth division." *

Four companies of volunteers from the Second Brigade, Ninth division, were ordered to march by the general orders of August 25, 1812, viz .: John Gaston's, Joseph Daine's, Isaac Blue's, and George Ely's. There is reason to suppose that one or more of these companies was also from Northumber- land county.

The Warrior Run Rifle Company, William McGuire, captain, was com- posed as follows :-

Captain, William McGuire.

Lieutenant, Jacob Shertz.

Ensign, Andrew Ferguson.

Privates: William Mckinney, Daniel Eyers, Thomas McCormick, Joseph Mackey, Thomas Corn well, George Gray, John Watt, David Reid, Samuel Clark, Robert Bryson, Andrew Reid, John Parks, John Cornwell, Joseph McGuire, John Shannon, James McKinney, Matthew Curry, James A. Scott, John Burrows, William Davis, John Lunger, Ezekiel Lunger, Abraham Lunger, John Tweed, Henry Reeder, George Reeder, John Simmons, James Baird, William Cathcart, John Stadden, John Smith, William Van Lew, James Watson, James Hamilton, Robert Reeder, James Bryson, David Graham, Robert Foster, James Donley, Henry Wolfinger, James Watt, Abraham Gross, Clark C. Stewart, James Kirk, Joseph Welsh, John Mckinney, John Murray, Kerr Russell, John Hart, Adam Hart, Carlton Irwin, Robert Carter, John Vincent, William Barnet, Thomas Tanner, John Campbell, William Tweed, Andrew Irwin, John Bailick, John Hill, William Brittain, Charles Egner, Robert Mckinley, Samuel Allison.

*Pennsylvania Archives (Second Series), Vol. XII. pp. 552, 569, 580, 581.

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This roster is derived from an original copy now in the possession of Andrew J. Guffy, of Watsontown, Pennsylvania, which bears the following indorsements :-

As the company returned from Buffalo.

WILLIAM McGUIRE, Captain.

TO COLONEL JAMES MOODIE: We volunteered as part of the quota of militia; we consider that we have discharged our duty, but are willing to submit to the lawful decision of our country.

WILLIAM McGUIRE.

Second Brigade, Ninth Division, and One Hundred and Twenty-third Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia:

I do certify that this is a true copy of the return made to me; witness my hand, JAMES MOODIE,

Lieutenant Colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Regiment. Milton, October 18, 1814.

There are two of the within named who have discharges, to wit, Robert Gaston, William Barnet.

The above and within is a true copy.

ISAAC POST,

Brigade Inspector, Second Brigade, Eighth Division, Pennsylvania Militia. Montrose, November 1, 1814.

Mr. Guffy states that in December, 1813, this company marched by way of Bellefonte and the Susquehanna and Waterford turnpike to Erie, and thence to Black Rock near Buffalo, where the ensuing winter was spent. A malignant type of fever was prevalent in the camp, and, as there seemed to be but little occasion for its services, the company returned without leave early in the summer of 1814. This was construed as desertion; the entire company was court-martialed and ordered to Marcus Hook. These pro- ceedings occurred at Danville; thence the men proceeded in boats and wagons as far as Northumberland, where a courier was met with intelligence that the invading force had withdrawn after being repulsed at Baltimore, which rendered further mobilization in the southeastern part of the State unnecessary. The company thereupon returned to Milton and disbanded.

The company of Captain William F. Buyers* was composed as follows: - Captain, William F. Buyers, Sunbury.

First Lieutenant, Thomas S. Jenkins, Dry Valley.

Second Lieutenant, Samuel H. Scott, Sunbury.

Ensign, John Hepburn, Northumberland.

Sergeants: Samuel H. Wilson, Northumberland; Joseph T. Wallis, Sun- bury; Montgomery Sweney, Northumberland. Corporal, John W. Kiehl, Sunbury.

Fifer, William Armor, Sunbury.

Drummer, Samuel Delong, Sunbury.

Privates .- From Sunbury: George Weitzel, George P. Buyers, George

*Pennsylvania Archives (Second Series), Vol. XII. pp. 53-54.

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Prince, David Black, William M. Gray, Daniel Lebo, Martin Grant, John Lyon, John Quin, Edward Chapman, Jacob Armstrong, William Grant, Thomas Grant, Jr., Jackson Gray, Daniel Delong, Thomas Armstrong; from Northumberland: John S. Haines, John Lyon, Adam Cooke, Thomas Bon- ham, Joseph Rachall, James Oliphant, Joseph Hoffman, Charles Maus, Charles Frazier, William Sutherland, Robert Lyon, Isaac McCord, Henry Renninger, Samuel Wilson, William Jones, William Cooke, William Watson, Jacob Hopfer, John Weimer, Henry Dale, Isaac Hendershott, John Martin, Robert Campbell, William Dykens; from Williamsport: John Ross, Will- iam Gale; from Milton, James S. Dougal; from Dry Valley: Joseph B. Kremer, Abraham Kremer, John Macpherson; from Lewisburg, William Cameron; residence unknown: Thomas Harris, William Leland, John Jones.

Captain Buyers's camp of rendezvous was situated within the present limits of the borough of East Sunbury at a large spring in a field south of Market street and east of the branch road which connects the line of the Philadelphia and Erie and Shamokin Valley and Pottsville railroads. On the first day after breaking camp the company marched as far as Stambach's tavern on the old Reading road at the village of Paxinos, and spent the night in the large barn connected with that hostelry. The march was continued through Pottsville to Philadelphia, where the company was encamped on a vacant lot at the north side of Market street near Twelfth until ordered to Marcus Hook.

The company of Captain Jacob Hummelt was composed as follows :-

Captain, Jacob Hummel.

Lieutenant, Walter Brady.

Ensign, Francis P. Schwartz.

Sergeants: Stephen Baldy, John Eisely, John Hammer, John S. James. Corporals: John B. Jordan, John Petry, Jacob Leisenring, James Martin.

Privates: Henry Burn, John Burn, John App, Isaac Hull, John Housel, John Redlion, Abraham Newcomer, Frederick Weaver, Joseph Morgan, James Morgan, John Marstellar, Henry Haupt, William Mettler, Peter Oberdorf, Jonathan Stroh, Zachariah London, Henry Sterner, David Zeliff, Logwood A. Hoyt, Daniel Ringler, Benjamin Hoff, George Espy, John Buy. ers, John Renn, Baltzar Mierly, Jacob Hettrick, William Woollican, Daniel Corner, George Farley, John Boughner, Joseph McClughan, John Barnhart, William Willett, Samuel Willett, Elias Woodruff, William Barr, John Road- armel, John Applegate, Henry Bertler, Andrew Carothers, John Armstrong, Jonathan Furman, Frederick Rhinehart, Daniel Gearhart, John Crutchley, William Mahany, Daniel Delong, Christian Wagoner, James Warren, David More, Griggs Marsh, John Campbell.

The roster is dated, " Camp Marcus Hook, October 31, 1814," and bears the following indorsements :-

+Pennsylvania Archives (Second Series), Vol. XII. pp. 222-224.

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I do certify, on honor, that this pay-roll exhibits a true statement of the company under my command from Northumberland county, attached to the regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Weirick, Pennsylvania militia.

JACOB HUMMEL,

Captain.

I believe the above to be a correct pay-roll.

GEORGE WEIRICK. Lieutenant Colonel Commanding.

I certify that the company commanded by Captain Jacob Hummel is now in the service of the United States, [under] orders of the general commandant, Fourth military district.

THOMAS J. ROGERS, Brigade Major.

The company of Lieutenant Joseph Dreibelbies* was composed as fol- lows :-

Lieutenant, Joseph Dreibelbies.

Ensign, William Farnsworth.

Sergeants: Samuel Auchmuty, John Colsher, Thomas Warner, Peter Hull.

Corporals: Adam Renn, John Martz, Thomas Snyder, George Wyall.

Drummer, John Fry.

Fifer, Adam Gilger.

Privates: Charles Hull, Daniel Hinkle, John Richer, George Herner, Solomon Kreig, John Casner, Conrad Casner, Lewis Ayres, Ellis Ayres, Frederick Syby, Christopher Wentzel, George Waggoner, Arthur Rogers, Adam Smith, George Goodman, Arthur Auchmuty, John Fagely, George Derk, John Leader, George Heim, John Carnes, Martin Drumheller, Abra- ham Drumheller, John Kembel, Frederick Kaubel, Henry Daniel, Leonard Ferster, George Seitz, Michael Read, Henry Kembel, Adam Slise, John Kep- ler, Michael Rebuck, Jacob Foulk, Michael Druckemiller, Peter Boyer, Con- rad Rebuck, John Kline, Henry Rebuck, John Beisel, George Reitz, John Heim, John Martin, John Lewis, Daniel Martin, Henry Huffman, John Per- son, Joseph Fox, Solomon Hummel, Solomon Moyer, John Helwig, Henry Geise, Martin Grim, Samuel Bower, Levi Kocher, John Herter, Henry Fisher, Samuel Geise, Leonard Read, George Litzel, Henry Hepner, Valen- tine Hanabach, John Boughner, Robert Farnsworth, Henry Cressinger, Jere- miah Slaught, Samuel Foy, John Fisher, Adam Tawney, Conrad Sawyer, Peter Heckert, Peter Sawyer, Jacob Almang, Joshua Heckert, Leonard Dei- ter, Michael Bower, Daniel Snyder, Daniel High, Ephraim Lytle, Elijah Shipman, I. Dunkelberger, Peter Melig, Samuel Seasholtz, Philip Hahn, William Reynolds, Daniel Blottenberger, John Klock, Frederick Kahler.

The roster is dated, "Marcus Hook, October 31, 1814," and bears the following indorsements: -

I do certify, on honor, that this pay-roll exhibits a true statement of the company

*Pennsylvania Archives (Second Series), Vol. XII. pp. 106-109.

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under my command from Northumberland county, attached to the regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Weirick, Pennsylvania militia.

JOSEPH DREIBELBIES,

Lieutenant.

I believe the above to be a true pay-roll, except Arthur Auchmuty, who received a furlough improperly in my opinion.

GEORGE WEIRICK, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding.

I certify that the company commanded by Lieutenant Joseph Dreihelbies is now in the service of the United States, under order of the general commanding, Fourth military district.

THOMAS J. ROGERS, Brigade Major.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE CIVIL WAR.

STATE OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR-MASS MEETINGS AND RESOLUTIONS-THE SANITARY COMMISSION-REGIMENTAL SKETCHES-ELEVENTH -EIGHTH - THIRTY-FOURTH - FORTY-SIXTH - FORTY-SEVENTH - FIFTY-FIRST - FIFTY-THIRD-EIGHTIETH-ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH-FIFTY-EIGHTH-ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIRST - ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SECOND - SEVENTY- FOURTH-MILITIA OF 1862-MILITIA OF 1863-SOLDIERS' MONUMENTS.

T THE interval that elapsed between the national election in the autumn of 1860 and President Lincoln's inauguration was a period of the most intense suspense throughout the North. A momentous transference of polit- ical power had occurred; for the first time in the history of the country a president had been elected without the vote of a single Southern State; the Republican party, with which the ultra-Abolitionists affiliated, had achieved its first national victory, while a similar result in the gubernatorial contest in Pennsylvania gave to the people of that State an added interest in the final issue of the rapidly changing current of events. The cotton States suc- cessively seceded, a Southern Confederacy was formed, and its leaders dis- played an energy of purpose in marked contrast with the pusillanimous inactivity of the retiring national administration. In these important devel- opments the people of the North were debarred from active participation, and throughout the brief period that intervened from the time a civil convul- sion became imminent their attitude was little more than that of spectators. The question was discussed from every standpoint-moral, constitutional, humanitarian; and, while a resort to arms was generally deprecated, and people of all shades of political opinion fondly cherished the belief that a peaceable adjustment of the difficulty could be effected, the sense of an

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impending national crisis pervaded every community. It was while com- promise measures were under consideration that the people of this county first took action in a collective capacity.

The first public meeting in Northumberland county to take into consider- ation the crisis in the affairs of the country, and "to adopt such measures of compromise as will settle the slavery question, which threatens to destroy this glorious Union," was held at Academy hall, Milton, on the evening of Tuesday, February 5, 1861, and organized with the appointment of Moses Chamberlin as president; R. M. Frick and William Kutz, secretaries; and Abraham Straub, Samuel Blair, E. S. Trego, Joseph Rhoads, George Lawrence, S. T. Brown, Martin Billmyer, George W. Strine, L. Alleman, T. S. Mackey, William M. Auten, and John Simington, vice-presidents. On motion of C. W. Tharp the following persons were appointed a committee to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting: C. W. Tharp, J. F. Caslow, I. B. Davis, J. F. Wolfinger, J. H. McCormick, J. B. Roney, John S. Peterman, W. H. Marr, and Levi Balliet. The meeting was then addressed by Joseph Rhoads, J. J. Reimensnyder, and James Cameron, who urged in able and eloquent terms the importance of preserving the integrity of the government. A series of resolutions was reported and adopted, from which the following selection has been made, as indicating their general character :----

Whereas, It is apparent to every lover of his country's good that the glorious union of the States under which the American people have so long lived and prospered, beyond any example in the history of the world, is threatened with dissolution;

Whereas, The issue is now made up, and the question for us to determine now is whether base, designing political demagogues and fanatics shall have their way, or whether our liberties, our institutions, and our great and glorious nation shall be pre- served; therefore,

Resolved, That the citizens of Northumberland county, without distinction of party, in mass meeting assembled, believe our national prosperity, our hopes, and happiness depend on the union of the States as they are now.

Resolved, That in this hour of our country's peril he is a dangerous statesman who clings to an abstract theory, and the people will hold him responsible at the bar of public justice who will not extend the olive branch of peace and by honorable and fair concessions make a decided effort to save from ruin the fairest, freest, and noblest fabric of Republican liberty ever erected by human genius.

What was known as the "Border State proposition " was recommended as a basis of adjustment; the Senator and Representative from this county were requested to aid in the speedy removal from the statute books of any laws that might be construed to interfere with the operation of the Fugitive Slave law; the parallel of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes was declared to be of no practical disadvantage to the people of the North as a barrier to the ex- tension of slavery, and south of that line the meeting was firmly impressed in the belief that " slavery should be determined by the sovereign will of the people of the Territories " when they should prepare State constitutions.

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It was impossible as yet to realize that war was imminent. The horrors of civil strife lent probability to the many possible ways by which such a calamity might have been averted, and in this respect the fluctuating uncer- tainity of national affairs affected the people of Northumberland county no less than the country at large. But the events of the next few months demonstrated conclusively that all hopes for an honorable compromise were chimerical. The bombardment of Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861, while it precipitated the hostilities that ultimately lengthened into a protracted and sanguinary war, relieved the tension of the public mind and startled the North into immediate preparation for the "irrepressible conflict." Every latent instinct of patriotism was stirred to action, and public sentiment crystallized into a united determination to maintain the honor of the flag and the integrity of the government. On the 15th of April the President issued his proclama- tion calling out the militia of the loyal States to the number of seventy-five thousand men. The period of suspense had terminated, and the citizens of the county were prompt in giving expression to their unwavering adherence to the national Executive in the policy thus inaugurated.

The first public meeting in the county after the call for troops had been made was held at Shamokin on the 16th of April, 1861. Addresses were made by A. R. Fiske, W. P. Withington, and Alexander Campbell, and meas- ures were devised to assist the families of volunteers. One hundred eight men volunteered on this occasion.

On the morning of Wednesday, April 17th, a call was issued for a public meeting in the court house at Sunbury, and on the evening of that day a large concourse of people assembled "to take such action as the threatening char- acter of the times " should require. The following gentlemen were selected as officers: president, Henry Billington; vice-presidents: James F. Deen, George Conrad; secretaries: Samuel D. Jordan, J. P. S. Gobin. Charles J. Bruner, J. P. S. Gobin, J. H. Zimmerman, George B. Youngman, and P. M. Shindel were appointed a committee on resolutions. Addresses were made by Rev. P. Rizer and General Clement. Regarding the immediate duty of the citizens the following action was taken :-

Resolved, That we proceed to form a military association, out of which association a full company may be furnished at the call of the proper authorities.

Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to solicit subscriptions, to be ap- plied to defraying the expense, etc. of said company.

H. B. Masser, George B. Youngman, and George Conrad were appointed a financial committee ageeably to the final resolution. A paper was laid be- fore the meeting giving the people an opportunity to volunteer; it was im- mediately signed by a large number of citizens.

A large and enthusiastic Union meeting was held at Academy hall, Milton, on the evening of Friday, April 19th. Ex-Governor James Pollock was called to the chair; W. C. Lawson, J. H. McCormick, John Porter, I. B.

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Davis, W. H. Frymire, William F. Nagle, George W. Strine, George Baker, Robert Hayes, George J. Piper, Thomas Swenk, John Roush, H. D. Barr, Samuel T. Brown, John M. Huff, and Joseph Bound were selected as vice- presidents; and J. Woods Brown, J. B. Roney, and S. H. Pollock as secre- taries. A brief but stirring address was made by ex-Governor Pollock, who was followed by Reverends J. W. Langley, W. T. Wylie, and others. Robert M. Frick, C. W. Tharp, William Follmer, Cyrus Brown, William H. Marr, J. B. Roney, and John Miller were constituted a committee on resolutions, and their report was unanimously adopted. It urged an immediate response to the call of the President; indorsed the action of the State legislature in pledging "the faith, credit, and resources of Pennsylvania, in both money and men, to any amount and to every extent which the Federal government may demand; " bestowed a high compliment upon the conduct of Major Anderson and his garrison; and, as a means of security for the families of married men who should volunteer, it was

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History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Part 42

Author: Bell, Herbert C. (Herbert Charles), 1868- ed; John, J. J., 1829- Publication date: 1891 Publisher: Chicago, Brown, Runk Number of Pages: 1424

Author: Bell, Herbert C. (Herbert Charles), 1868- ed; John, J. J., 1829-
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Chicago, Brown, Runk
Number of Pages: 1424