History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Part 77

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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Shamokin Valley Lodge, No. 527, I. O. O. F., was chartered on the 23d of May, 1856.

Municipal Government .- Snydertown was incorporated as a borough by act of the legislature, May 26, 1871. The borough election of February 16, 1872, resulted as follows: burgess, William F. Kline; council: William Withington, D. H. Evert, Valentine Klase, Jr., Daniel Smith, B. F. Hoy, Jonathan Deibler; street commissioner, John Martz; overseer of the poor, D. J. Willett; judge of elections, Jackson Berger; inspectors: G. W. Startzel, George W. Farrow; school directors: Jesse Gonsar, Daniel Smith, J. M. Wolverton, John Klase, A. T. Dewitt, D. H. Evert; high constable, George W. Startzel; constable, M. Smith; assessor, George Weimer; town clerk, Isaac Anold; auditors: John Klase, George W. Arnold, David Hoover.

The following is a list of burgesses since the incorporation of the bor- ough: 1872-73, William F. Kline; 1874, J. M. Wolverton; 1875, Daniel Smith; 1876, John Bohner; 1877, William F. Kline; 1878-81, Jacob Gon- sar; 1882-83, David Hoover; 1884, Jacob Gonsar; 1885, John Zimmerman; 1886-87, Eli Hoover; 1888-90, David Hoover; 1891, J. H. Martin.

VILLAGES.

Snufftown, at one time the most important postoffice and stage depot be- tween Sunbury and Pottsville, is located on the Centre turnpike and was laid out by a Mr. Zuern before the close of the last century. As a postoffice it bore the name of Shamokin; there was also a store, hotel, blacksmith shop, and gun-making establishment. The hotel reached the zenith of its pros- perity just before the opening of the railroad, when it was under the pro- prietorship of D. Stambach.

Paxinos, a station and post-village on the Northern Central and Phila- delphia and Reading railways, comprises a general store, hotel, postoffice, blacksmith shop, and brick yard. As originally erected by John Teitsworth, the hotel was a two-story frame building.

Stonington is a post-village in the northwestern part of the township. It consists of a store, postoffice, blacksmith shop, and church.

SCHOOLS.

The public school system was first adopted in Shamokin township in 1836, and the school tax assessed for that year amounted to five hundred thirty-two dollars, five and one half cents. In March, 1838, the continuance of the system was decided in the negative by a vote of one hundred fifty-six in a total poll of one hundred sixty-one. In 1841 the question was again submitted; one hundred twenty-five votes were cast in favor of re-establish- ing the system, and one hundred eighty-two against it. On the 17th of March, 1843, the system was again adopted, by a majority of fifty-one.

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CHURCHES.

Shamokin Presbyterian Church was organized about 1790. A large log church building was erected upon land deeded by Daniel Campbell, March 13, 1795, to Michael Moore, Obadiah Campbell, and William Taylor "in trust for the only absolute use, benefit, and behoof of a Presbyterian congregation, for to erect a public house of worship." Among the first who preached here were Reverends M. Patterson and Samuel Henderson. In the graveyard adjoining many pioneers of the eastern part of the county are buried. Among the most prominent of the early members were Obadiah Campbell, William Kase, Alexander Moore, Samuel Sober, Daniel Campbell, and Peter Yocum. About the year 1850 the congregation was divided; one part estab- lished a church at Elysburg and the other in Rush township.

Shamokin Baptist Church, the oldest congregation of that denomination in central Pennsylvania, was organized in 1794. The following pastors have served the congregation in the order of their names: John Patton, John Wolverton, Eugenio Kincaid, Georgt Spratt, G. M. Spratt, J. D. Jones, J. H. Worrell, A. J. Collins, E. P. Barker, O. L. Hall, J. R. Shanafelts, George F. McNair, J. F. Rush, W. W. Waltz, T. O. Critchlow, A. J. Collins, D. F. Giles, J. Green Miles, P. F. De Lancey, and W. H. Ellis. Thirteen deacons served the church from its organization to 1863, viz .: Samuel Reeder, Joseph Rich- ardson, John Farnsworth, John Moore, Ananias Saxton, Isaac Wolverton, Charles Wolverton, Matthias Reed, Isaiah Morgan, David Miller, Robert Farnsworth, Farnsworth Reed, and William Furman; during the same period John Wolverton, Abner Johnson, James Patton, Henry Clark, Silas E. Shep- hard, Zophar D. Pasco, Joseph Pasco, G. M. Spratt, and Jesse Saxton were licensed to preach; about five hundred persons were received into the church by baptism in that time. The succession of church clerks has been as follows: John Wolverton, Richard Patton, Abner Johnson, Silas E. Shephard, John Hales, Zophar D. Pasco, Charles Wolverton, William Reed, Furman Farns- worth, Peter R. Wilhour, Jacob R. Clark, Adam Broscious, and George P. Johnson. A division of the church, resulting from a divergence of views upon questions of doctrine and discipline, occurred on the 17th of May, 1834; the resulting societies were distinguished as "old school" and "new school;" the former was the smaller numerically, and sustained a lingering existence until 1840; the latter was recognized by the association and retained posses- sion of the church property, which was occupied by both for religious pur- poses. The first protracted meeting of which there is any account was held in February, 1835, and the second from October 30th to November 4th in the same year. The Sunday school and prayer meeting were established in pur- suance of a resolution passed on the 7th of April, 1836.

The first church building was erected at the organization of the society and used until 1837. The ground it occupied was deeded to Allen Wilker- son and Joseph Richardson, trustees, by Gideon Wilkerson, April 27, 1795.

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The roof of that structure having blown off, it was decided, at a meeting on the 5th of May, 1837, to build two other houses of worship, one on the Shamokin hills, and the other on the Centre turnpike. The former became the first place of worship of the Rush Baptist church; the latter was dedi- cated in December, 1838, and continued as the church edifice of this society more than thirty-five years. The present church building is a one- story brick structure situated on the Treverton road near Stonington post- office; the corner-stone was laid, June 22, 1873, and the dedication occurred, June 28, 1874. About the same time a frame church building was erected at the old burial ground; it has been occasionally used for religious worship by Baptist and other ministers.

This church was originally connected with the Philadelphia Baptist Asso- ciation, into which it was received in 1796. At the organization of the Northumberland Baptist Association in 1821 it was represented by Rev. John Wolverton, the pastor, Isaac Wolverton, David Kelly, John Moore, Charles Saxton, and Gideon Chamberlain. The association has frequently convened at this church, and here, at the session of 1845, measures were first taken for the establishment of the literary and theological institutions of this denomination at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Summit Baptist Church .- In 1833 Matthias Reed and Isaiah Morgan, whose families were connected with the Shamokin Baptist church, located in Irish valley. Rev. G. M. Spratt, pastor of the Shamokin church, soon after- ward began to hold Baptist services at private houses at intervals of a month; this was the first Baptist preaching in the valley, and was continued several years. In 1843 Michael Taylor donated ground for a church building, the title to which was vested, by the terms of the deed, in Matthias Reed, Isaiah Morgan, and Joseph Ammerman as trustees. A house of worship was erected thereon in 1844; it was repaired in 1863 and rededicated on the 16th of June in that year, Reverends J. R. Shanafelts, A. D. Hawn, and George T. McNair officiating. On the 19th of January, 1865, the church was duly organized with thirty-one members and the following officers: pastor, Rev. George T. McNair; deacons: Farnsworth Reed, Caleb F. Persing; clerk, Farnsworth Reed, and treasurer, Absalom Yeager. The organization was formally recognized by a council composed of clergymen and laymen from congregations of the Northumberland Baptist Association, which convened at the Irish Valley church on the 16th of February, 1865. Among Mr. McNair's successors in the pastoral relation have been Reverends A. B. Still, E. B. Waltz, D. F. Giles, N. Thomas, and P. F. Delancey.

St. John's Lutheran and Reformed Church was organized in 1828 with the following members: John Evert, John Smith, Samuel Gonsar, Jacob Hoover, George Arnold, Valentine, Jacob, and Abraham Klase, Andrew Smith, Andrew and Benjamin Kanderman, Michael Evert, William Martz and wife, Peter, John, and Daniel Keffer, John Evert, Jr., Solomon Evert, and Solomon

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Hartzel. An acre of ground was presented by John Evert, upon which a frame church edifice was erected, and the remainder has been used as a burying ground. In 1870 the congregation purchased a lot on the opposite side of the road, and erected thereon a brick church edifice, forty by sixty feet, at a cost of four thousand one hundred eight dollars sixty-six cents. The following pastors have served these congregations: Lutheran-Reverends Shindel, Wampole, Shultz, Vought, Rizer, Berry, Zimmerman, Frederick, Harsh, Bateman, Benson, and Shannon; Reformed-Reverends Fisher, Heisler, Steinmetz, Shoemaker, Hartzel, Mutchler, Huffman, and Haas.

Snydertown Methodist Episcopal Church was organized prior to 1859 with J. M. Wolverton as first class leader and Christian Diehl, J. M. Wol- verton, Joseph Hoover, John Jones, and Solomon Klase as first trustees. The church edifice, a frame building forty feet long and twenty feet wide, was dedicated on the 4th of December, 1859, by Rev. M. Warren. The follow- ing is a list of pastors since the formation of Snydertown circuit: John F. Craig, 1868; D. M. McCloskey, 1869-70; Henry S. Mendenhall, 1871-72; N. W. Colburn, 1873-74; G. H. Day, 1876-78; John Guss, 1879-80; Henry B. Fortner, 1881-83; John A. De Moyer, 1884; John Horning, 1885-87; Elial M. Chilcoat, 1888, present incumbent.

Irish Valley Methodist Episcopal Churches .- There are two Methodist churches in Irish valley, both of which are situated in the southern part of the township, and have generally had the same pastors as the society at Sny- dertown. One of them was formerly occupied by another denomination; the erection of the other was begun in the early spring of 1869, but the struct- ure was destroyed by fire before its completion. The corner-stone was again laid on the 23d of May, 1869, and the dedication occurred, February 20, 1870, during the pastorate of Rev. John F. Craig.

Clark's Grove United Brethren Church was organized about 1850 in an old school house then known as Zimmerman's, situated five miles from Shamokin on the Irish Valley road. Among the leading families at that time were those of Lewis, Moody, Miller, and Sholl. Services were held in the school house until a frame church building was erected near that place; this was used as a place of worship until 1879, when many of the. members changed to the Baptist faith and held the church building as the property of that denomination. Those who continued in connection with the United Brethren church erected their present frame church edifice, about half a mile west of their previous house of worship on the Irish Valley road. This building was completed and dedicated on the 17th of September, 1879, Rev- erends M. J. Mumma and L. Peters officiating.

Pleasant Hill United Brethren Church was organized about 1850 in an old school house on the Centre turnpike one mile west of Reed's station. The present one-story brick church edifice, situated near the site of the school house, was erected during 1872-73, and dedicated on the 4th of May,

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1873. The Reeser families were among the first members and have been quite prominent in the church ever since its organization. The graveyard was opened as a place of burial in 1872.

Ashgrove United Brethren Church .- The first class was organized in 1870, through the efforts of Andrew Rinehart and David Reeser, and consisted of Eli Reed and wife, John Reed and wife, and Miss Hales; Andrew Rinehart was first class leader. The meetings were held in a school house on the Centre turnpike one half-mile west of Paxinos until 1872, when a church edifice was erected. This is a one-story frame building, situated near the site of the old school house, and was dedicated on the 21st of January, 1872. Reverend Kauffman was the first pastor.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

LITTLE MAHANOY TOWNSHIP.

BOUNDARIES-ORGANIZATION-PIONEERS-MILLS-SCHOOLS-CHURCHES.

A LTHOUGH one of the smallest townships of the county at the present day, Little Mahanoy was originally one of the most extensive. It is separated from Rockefeller and Lower Augusta by the Little mountain, and from Washington and Jackson by Line mountain; the townships of Zerbe and Cameron adjoin on the east. Thus inclosed by mountains on the north, west, and south, its agricultural territory is limited to the valleys of Mahanoy creek and Zerbe run, through which the Philadelphia and Reading railroad passes from the Shamokin coal region to the Susquehanna river, affording exceptional facilities for travel and transportation.

Little Mahanoy was erected by decree of court, August 19, 1813, from territory formerly embraced in Augusta and Shamokin. The original bound- aries were thus described :-

Beginning on the top of the Mahanoy mountain near the river Susquehanna; thence along the line that was lately run which divides the two Mahanoy townships from Augusta and Shamokin townships to the county line; thence the best course to the Stony gap at Shamokin creek; thence along the mountain to the place of beginuiug.

This line was surveyed by Henry Donnel, John Weitzel, and Samuel Awl, who were appointed at November sessions, 1812. The principal reason urged for the division was the inconvenience involved in attending elections, etc. This entire territory had originally been included in Augusta; its eastern part was included in Catawissa at its formation in 1785 and transferred to Shamokin in 1788, but the whole of what is now Little Mahanoy, with adja-

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cent territory in Zerbe and Cameron, was taken from Augusta in 1813. In 1837 Coal township (embracing at that time Coal, Zerbe, Cameron, and Mt. Carmel), was erected from Shamokin and Little Mahanoy, thus reducing the latter to its present limits.

PIONEERS.

The triennial assessment of 1814, the first after the organization of Little Mahanoy township, shows the following resident taxables: Nicholas Brosius, John Boyer, John Dunkelberger, Frederick Dunkelberger, Christopher Dun- kelberger, Philip Dunkelberger, Christopher Dunkelberger, Jr., John Derr, Lawrence Derr, Michael Diehl, Michael Derk, Abraham Drumheller, Leon- ard Ferster, John Ferster, John Fagely, Conrad Feger, Daniel Fagely, George Fisher, Daniel Gottschall, Jacob Grisinger, Abraham Holshue, John Haas, William Haas, George Hornberger, George Hornberger, Jr., Henry Haupt, Philip Henninger, George Hensyl, Godfrey Kremer, Leonard Ker- stetter, Henry Kobel, Jacob Loas, John Lynn, Peter Maurer, Philip Maurer, Abraham Rothermel, Conrad Raker, Henry Reed, John Swinehart, George Strausser, Nicholas Strausser, Samuel Strausser, Adam Sligh, Jacob Shaffer, Moses Vail.

MILLS.

In the assessment of 1814 John Dunkelberger, Sr., is credited with a grist and saw mill on Mahanoy creek; Abraham Rothermel, with a grist, saw, and oil mill on Mahanoy creek, and Conrad Raker, with a saw mill on Little Mahanoy creek. At the present time there are two mills in the township, one at Dornsife and the other owned by A. S. Speece, who also operates a powder mill.

SCHOOLS.

An early subscription school was taught at a log building which occupied the site of one of the present school houses. The public school system was adopted in 1871; the first board of directors was composed of Isaac D. Raker, president; A. S. Speece, secretary; Samuel C. Long, treasurer; John Hen- sel, A. B. Lenker, and C. H. Raker. Two brick school houses have been erected and constitute the facilities in this respect.

CHURCHES.

Immanuel's Church, although nominally a union place of worship, has been virtually exclusively Lutheran for a score of years, during which period the few Reformed families have been without a pastor. It is a log building, thirty feet square and weather-boarded, with gallery and pigeon-box pulpit about large enough to accommodate one person. The corner-stone was laid on the 6th of April, 1828, by the Rev. J. P. Shindel, of Sunbury, and the building has been used as a place of worship since its completion. Among

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the prominent members of the Lutheran organization have been Conrad Raker, Isaac Raker, Solomon Bobb, Isaac Peiffer, Solomon Reed, Samuel Long, Jeremiah Wagner, Samuel Dornsife, Isaac Wagner, William Dunkel- berger, Robert Hoffman, Washington Zimmerman, Daniel Raker, Enoch Raker, James Raker, Daniel Fiss, and Enoch Swinehart. The present (1890) membership is ninety, and a large Sunday school, exclusively Lutheran in government, is sustained. Rev. J. P. Shindel was pastor in 1828; he contin- ued in that capacity for some years, and was assisted by his son. Reverend Neimann, was pastor in 1842, and Augustus Bergner, 1847-60, after whom J. G. Hornberger is recorded as holding communion services, but how long he continued is not known. Rev. John C. Schmidt was pastor, 1864-69; J. F. Bayer, 1870; John C. Schmidt, 1871-81; J. F. Bayer, 1881-86; D. M. Stetler, the present pastor, assumed charge on the 1st of April, 1887.

The Reformed pastors were Reverends John Houtz, Benjamin Boyer, Isaac F. Steily, and J. Fritzinger, whose labors covered the period from 1828 to 1866. The congregation was always weak numerically, with only a few male members; of the latter there were three in 1849, viz .: George Hen- zel, George Peiffer, and John Peiffer, while Benjamin Knerr and Elias Peif- fer appeared later. Reformed services were discontinued in 1866, and since that date the former membership has principally been absorbed by the Lutheran organization.

St. John's Church of the Evangelical Association was organized in 1870, through the efforts of Daniel Reitz, Samuel Dunkelberger, Adam Len- ker, John Hensel, and Joseph Reitz. They furnished the means, a lot was purchased, and a frame church edifice twenty by thirty feet was erected at a cost of eleven hundred dollars. The Reverends Benjamin Bohner, B. F. Snyder, and L. N. Worman have served the congregation as pastors.

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CHAPTER XXIX.

RUSH TOWNSHIP.

SUCCESSIVE MOVEMENTS FOR THE DIVISION OF SHAMOKIN TOWNSHIP-FORMATION, ORIGIN OF NAME, AND FIRST TOWNSHIP OFFICERS OF RUSH-PIONEERS-INDUS- TRIES-RUSHTOWN-SCHOOLS-CHURCHES.

THE erection of Little Mahanoy township in 1813 subtracted a large part of the former territory of Shamokin from its limits, leaving the latter exceedingly irregular in shape. It was also quite extensive, being eight miles in breadth with a maximum length of twenty-four miles from southeast to northwest, and in 1813 a division was agitated, the new town- ship to be situated between the river and the Shamokin hills. Two petitions for division were presented at January sessions, 1814; one suggested a line of division "to begin where the Augusta township line crosses Shamokin creek, thence along said creek to Reed's saw mill, and thence by Robert Teitsworth's to the county line," the new township to be called Perry or Mt. Pleasant; the second line suggested was as follows: "Beginning at the line of Augusta township on the south side of the top of Shamokin hill, thence along said south side of Shamokin hill to the line of Columbia county at Samuel Moore's plantation." Viewers were appointed, who reported at the following term of court; but at August sessions following, a protest having been presented in which it was alleged that the proposed new township would include the best of the creek and river bottoms, while the old part, "poor, mountainous, and thinly settled," would have the most expensive roads to repair, the report was set aside, April 18, 1815. Proceedings for division were again instituted in January, 1819; the report of Henry Van- derslice and Henry Masser, two of the viewers to whom the matter was referred, received confirmation on the 18th of August, 1819, and the new township was called Rush "in memory of the late Doctor Rush and respect for his brother, Jacob Rush, late president of this court."

The first township officers were as follows: constable, Philip Andrews; overseers of the poor: John Dewitt, John Housel; supervisors: John Kase, Peter Kase; auditors: Jobn Hirsh, Benjamin Vastine, Peter Kase.

PIONEERS.

The triennial assessment for 1820, the first after the organization of the township, gives the following names of resident taxables, many of whom

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were doubtless among the pioneers: John Albaugh, John Adams, Chris- topher Andrews, Philip Andrews, Samuel Andrews, Alba C. Barrett, Jacob Bear, Barbara Barrett, John Boughner, Barnard Banghart, John Baler, George Baler, George Baler, Jr., Samuel Blackford, Luther Bassett, Elisha Bird, Ziba Bird, John Bear, John Bear, Jr., Samuel Blackford, Jr., Adam Barnhart, William Bird, Sylvanus Bird, William Bird, Jr., Godfrey Cline, Alexander Campbell, Robert Campbell, Christopher Campbell, Jr., James Campbell, Abraham Campbell, Joseph Campbell, Jacob Cline, Isaac Cline, John Campbell, Peter Campbell, Jacob Carr, John Carr, Gideon Chamberlin, John Campbell, Jr., Joseph Campbell, Jacob Cline, Jacob Depuy, Jacob Depuy, Jr., Harman Depuy, William Depuy, John Depuy, Adam Derr, John Dewitt, John Desha, Lawrence Durlin, Peter Eplin, Jacob Epler, James Fitzsimmons, William Fisher, Moses Fisher, George Farley, John Fox, Asher Fox, Aaron Fox, Daniel Fox, Thomas L. Fleming, William Fell, David Fox, Jacob Gearhart, Jr., Charles Gulick, William Gearhart, Tunis Gearhart, George Gearhart, Harmon Gearhart, John Gulick, Charles Gear- hart, John Gearhart, Jacob Gearhart (judge), Jacob Gearhart (carpenter), Aaron Gearhart, Jacob C. Gearhart, John Gearhart, William C. Gearhart, John Gillam, William Hummer, Solomon Houswart, John Hummer, Henry Hile, John Hile, Henry Huff, John Haughawout, Isaac Houswart, Henry Hunsinger, Martin Hurst, John Housel, Henry Hiller, James Huff, John Hirsh, David John, Abner Johnston, Cornelius Johnston, John Kline, Isaac Kline, Elisha Kline, Benjamin Kelley, John Kelley, Joseph Kelley, William Kase, Simon Kipp, Albert Kimball, Christopher Kimball, John Kase (tanner), John Kase (farmer), Daniel Kase, Peter Kase, William Kase, Jr., Henry Lott, George Lott, Henry Lacock, Zachariah Loudon, Joseph Lamerson, Theodore Larison, Samuel Morgan, Jacob Miller, Samuel Mclaughlin, James Morgan, Philip Mettler, William Mettler, Henry Mettler, David Moore, Alexander Moore, Michael Moore, Isaac Marsh, Isaac Marsh, Jr., Griggs Marsh, Nathaniel McBride, 'Asa Moore, Peter Moore, Edward Morgan, Samuel Muehler, Jonas Muehler, Joseph Morgan, Leonard Miller, Joseph Martin, William Marsh, Jacob Niece, John Nephew, Thomas Osborn, Joseph Patton, Abiathar Poyers, Joseph Poyers, William Pipher, Richard Poyers, Nathan Pegg, John H. Quick, Esther Rockefeller, Nicholas Randles, Abraham Ryan, William Rockefeller, Bonham Runyon, John Runyon, Aaron Runyon, Samuel Reems, Jacob Reed, Joseph Reeder, David Richardson, Matthias Reed, John Runkle, Richard Robinson, Samuel Shannon, Thomas Sowder, Enos Savidge, John Savidge, Daniel Sherry, Nicholas Smoltz. John Scott, Robert Scott, Robert Scott, Jr., John Skinner, David Sayre, Solomon Smith, Henry Snyder, Herman Snyder, Joseph Snyder, Jesse Simpson, Henry Traxler, John Teats, Ebenezer Troy, Moses Thurston, Morgan N. Thomas, Epaphras Thompson, William Thompson, Tarnage Thompson, Benjamin L. Vastine, Jeremiah Vastine, Lewis Vastine, Benjamin Vastine,

Amos Vestine

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John Vastine, Thomas Vastine, Jonathan Vastine, John Vastine, Jr., Thomas Vastine, Jr., Peter Vastine, Benjamin Vastine, Jr., Michael Weaver, Henry Weaver, Frederick Weaver, Isaac Wolverton, William Willett, John Woodruff, Tunis Woodruff, Elias Woodruff, William Willett, George Whitlock, Conrad Yeager.

INDUSTRIES.

In the assessment of 1820, saw mills are accredited to Philip Andrews, Ziba Bird, Jacob Depuy, John Gearhart, Daniel Montgomery, and Henry Lacock; grist mills, to Daniel Montgomery, Henry Lacock, and Peter Vas- tine; a tannery, to William Kase, and a distillery, to Conrad Yeager, and these, in all probability, constituted the principal early industries of the township. Montgomery's grist and saw mill was situated on Logan's run, Lacock's, on Gravel run, and Vastine's, on Wilson's run. Montgomery's was operated by John Gillam.

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History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Part 77

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