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1879-80-Rev. T. M. Griffeth. 1903-04-Rev. A. D. McCloskey.
1881 -Rev. J. W. Feight. 1905-07-Rev. J. E. Brenneman.
1882-83-Rev. J. R. Dunkerly. 1908-12-Rev. H. W. Hartsock.
1884 -Rev. Daniel Hartman. 1913-15-Rev. W. C. Robbins.
1885-86-Rev. Samuel Ham. 1916-17-Rev. Percy Boughey.
1887 -Rev. A. C. Forscht. 1918 -Rev. G. H. Knox.
1888-89-Rev. J. W. Forrest.
1910-20-Rev. A. E. Fleck.
1890-91-Rev. Edmund White.
1920-22-Rev. C. W. Rishell.
1892-93-Rev. J. P. Benford.
Liverpool Evangelical Church. The Evangelical congregation at Liver- pool erected its first church in 1867, being called St. Mary's Church. Rev. D. W. Miller was pastor when the church was built. Until 1873 it was a part of the Juniata Circuit, and the pastors' names until that time are not contained in the church records. It has since been remodeled on several occasions. With it, comprising the charge, is the Hunter's Valley church and two churches of Juniata County. The pastors since it became a sepa- rate appointment, have been :
1873-75-Rev. J. M. Price. 1875-76-Rev. J. M. Ettinger. 1893-95-Rev. J. H. Welch.
1891-03-Rev. D. P. Scheaffer.
1876-79-Rev. A. W. Kreamer. 1895-98-Rev. H. T. Searle.
1898-00-Rev. E. W. Koontz.
1870-82-Rev. W. H. Lilly. 1882-84-Rev. J. M. Dick. 1884-86-Rev. H. A. Benfer. 1903-05-Rev. J. W. Bentz.
1900-03-Rev. Walter J. Dice.
1886-88-Rev. E. D. Keen. 1905-09-Rev. F. H. Foss.
1888-89-Rev. P. F. Jarrett. 1909-11-Rev. A. S. Baumgardner.
1880-91 -- Rev. W. C. Bierly. 1911-13-Rev. J. H. Kohler.
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1913-15 -- Rev. R. S. Daubert. 1017-18-Rev. A. B. Coleman.
1915 Rev. E. P. Markel (March
1018-19-Rev. G. C. Cramer.
to September). 1919-20-Rev. M. W. Dayton.
1915-17-Rev. C. A. Fray.
1920-22-Rev. J. E. Newcomer.
Liverpool U. B. Church. According to a historical article in the Liver- pool Sun, many years ago, the entry of the United Brethren faith to Liverpool was soon after that of the Methodists, which is stated to have been between 1825 and 1830. The first church was erected at Pine Street and was 40x65 feet in size. This church was in use until 1904, having been remodeled several times. In 1904 it was replaced by a new church 011 Market Street. Among the ministers were Rev. Wmn. Behel (1843), Rev. Geo. Wagner, Rev. Rankin, Rev. Samuel Snyder, Rev. - - Snyder, Rev. J. L. Baker, Rev. Jacob Ritter, Rev. Sitman, Rev. Joshua Walker, Rev. Scott, Rev. Hartsock, Rev. Kirkpatrick, Rev. G. W. Miles Rigor, Rev. Wm. T. Ritchey, Rev. Shimp, Rev. Jackson, Rev. Woodward, Rev. A. E. Fulton, Rev. John Landis, J. F. Tallhelm, Rev. A. H. Spangler, Rev. Isaiah Potter, Rev. John A. Clemm, Rev. C. W. Raber, Rev. E. A. Zeek, Rev. C. B. Gruber, Rev. Keedy, Rev. A. W. Maxwell, Rev. B. C. Shaw, Rev. W. H. Mingle, Rev. W. H. Blackburn, Rev. C. C. Bingham, Rev R. Jamieson, Rev. J. F. Kelly, Rev. G. A. Sparks, Rev. Wm. Beach, Rev. J. E. Ott, Rev. T. H. McLeod, Rev. G. W. Rothermel, Rev. J. S. Emenheiser, Rev. J. C. Erb, Rev. H. B. Ritter and Rev. B. H. Arndt. Rev. David Grubb was not the regular pastor at any time, but was a local U. B. minister.
The official records with the dates were unobtainable and this list of ministers was compiled from information furnished by four members of long standing from the two Buck's Valley churches of the same charge, and, of course the names are not in consecutive order.
LIVERPOOL TOWNSHIP.
At the extreme northeastern section of the county is Liverpool Town- ship, the eighth in order of formation and the first to be created after the establishment of the new county. It is bounded on the north by Juniata County, on the east by the Susquehanna River, on the south by Buffalo Township, and on the west by Greenwood Township, from which it was taken when formed in 1823. The eastern end of Perry Valley comprises a large part of the township. A small part of Pfoutz Valley lies within its borders, as also does Liverpool Borough, from which it took its name.
On the first Monday of December, 1822, to the Perry County courts con- vened in Landisburg, then the county seat, there was presented a petition signed by residents of Greenwood Township, stating that the township's boundaries were so extensive that it was inconvenient for the inhabitants thereof to attend to township affairs and praying for the court to appoint viewers to report on the advisability of erecting a new township. The viewers named were Meredith Darlington, George Monroe and George Elliott. The court records show that they were continued at the session of February 3, 1823. Further records are vague, but on the records of September 5, 1823, David Dechert (Deckard) was appointed constable of Liverpool Township, gave bond and was sworn in. The town of Liverpool had been laid out fifteen years prior, and from it the township took its name. Its boundaries have never changed, as have so many of the older townships.
On the Susquehanna River, below Liverpool, John Pfoutz took up 142 acres, March 3, 1755. It was a long, narrow strip joined on the south by Alexander McKee, who had warranted two tracts of 290 acres each on September 5 and 20, 1762. Prior to November, 1795, John and Jacob Huggins had located lands north of the present Borough of Liverpool.
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The land on which part of the town of Liverpool is located was owned by John Staily, who sold it to John Huggins, October 25, 1808. The tract ad- joining Staily on the north, bordering the river, was owned by Anthony Rhoades in 1820, and is now within the borough limits.
About 1790 Henry Grubb, the ancestor of the large and influential Grubb clan, located in Perry Valley. His descendants reside in many states. Among the first settlers was Henry Ulsh, who came from Germany and located during primitive times, when wild animals and Indians still infested the territory. John Hoffman, who was born in Germany, and came to America in early boyhood, was a United Brethren minister in Liverpool and Greenwood Townships, traveling the circuit on horseback. The Cauff- mans were early residents. Henry Cauffman, born in Liverpool Township, August 14, 1796, is quoted as an example of early piety. He was a farmer, but found time to read the German Bible through five times and the Eng- lish Bible, seven, during his long life. He was a great student and was married to Elizabeth Long. George Barner had located in the territory before the formation of the county in 1820. The Shumans came in about 1825. Many of these early residents builded well. The substantial stone farmhouse on the J. L. Kline farm was built in 1778.
An act of the Pennsylvania Legislature of March 7, 1841, provided "that the small island in the Susquehanna River, in Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, about four miles above Liverpool, in the county of Perry, be and the same is hereby attached to and declared to be a part of the common school district of Liverpool Township." This is known as Shu- man's Island, and is now owned by Rev. B. H. Hart. The provision quoted was repealed on February 12, 1862. It will be noted that it was only for school purposes.
The Mckenzie mill, known to many people of the present day, was erected upon lands warranted to Charles and James Dilworth in 1785, and conveyed by them in 1824 to Thomas Gallagher, who subsequently erected a gristmill, as in 1833 he conveved the property "with gristmill and distil- lery thereon erected," to Elijah Leonard. In 1837 it passed to Abner C. Harding, of New Bloomfield, who in the same year sold it to David Mc- Kenzie, who died in 1856. His son, Daniel Mckenzie, then became the owner, and it was in his possession until his death, after which, in 1902, his administrator conveyed it to Harry B. Ulsh. In 1912 Joseph M. Wal- born bought it, and in 1918 sold it to Arthur E. Aucker, the present owner, who dismantled it. It was in the hands of the Mckenzies, father and son, for sixty-five years, and as the Mckenzie mill it was known to all. Its removal takes away another old landmark of eastern Perry.
At Dry Sawmill George W. Barner kept a feed and provision store, doing a large business with the passing boatmen in the old canal days. A small village in the township is locally known as Centreville. There was once a post office located there known as Berlee. The first store was kept there by Samuel and Fred Reen. Just below this village in earlier times there was a sawmill known as Wagner's, which had a large custom trade. During the middle of the past century there was a fulling mill located on the same stream. The post office known as Pfoutz Valley was established in 1884, in a storeroom located at the crossroads at that point. When the lime burning business was a leading industry in this community the high- way from that point towards the Susquehanna River was dotted with homes, giving it the appearance of a village, the residents being employed in the kilns. At another crossroads, about two miles from this location, there is an old graveyard connected with the schoolhouse, which would imply that religious services were once held there.
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Above Dry Sawmill, along the "Susquehanna Trail," the houses are close together and resemble a village street. The Kline Brothers con- ducted a steam sawmill there for a long time, doing a large business.
The oldest schoolhouse in the territory of Liverpool Township and borough was located where the Lutheran Church was located later, in the borough. Its usefulness had passed by 1828, when the church was built. According to the journal of Rev. J. W. Heim, he preached in a school- house, which he called Stollenberger's, December 17, 1814. This building is supposed to have stood north of the schoolhouse later known as Bar- ner's, at the foot of the hill. Among early teachers were John Buchanan, Abner Knight, George Grubb and John C. Lindsay. The late Abraham Cauffman, born in 1822, told of attending subscription schools in this dis- trict. His first teacher he named as "Ann Watts, who afterwards became a preacher." In the early forties of last century an old log schoolhouse still stood on the farm of Jacob Ulsh.
F. W. Lyter keeps a general store, which is the only place of business in the township.
Barney's Church. Barner's Church was once known as Dupes' Church, according to a historical sketch by Rev. M. H. Groh, once Reformed pastor at Landisburg, who also credits its building as early as 1786, and the or- ganization of the congregation even before that. He names as its earliest ministers: Rev. George Geistweit, 1794-1804; Rev. John Dietrich Adams, 1808-12, and Rev. Isaac Gerhart, 1813-19. The more generally accepted history is that the church was organized by Rev. Gerhart, which would place its beginning between 1813-19. Had it been at the earlier period it would have been mentioned by many historians, among them Rev. Focht and Prof. Wright, as among the first churches.
Christ's Lutheran Church. Some of the residents of eastern Perry Val- ley who were of the Lutheran faith belonged to St. Michael's, a few were members of Newport and other churches. They were occasionally visited by the Rev. Mr. Heim and other ministers who held services in Grubb's schoolhouse. During the summer of 1844 they erected a church, which was dedicated June 8, 1845. It was a fine frame building and was painted white, which often caused it to be designated as "The White Church," while others called it Grubb's Church. The congregation remained unor- ganized and had no regular pastor until 1847, when the Liverpool pastor assumed charge, and it has been under that charge since, the pastors' names appearing in the Liverpool chapter.
As Liverpool Township surrounds Liverpool many of its citizens wor- ship in the borough churches.
MADISON TOWNSHIP-INCLUDING SANDY HILL, DISTRICT.
Madison Township, which was later divided into two districts, known as Northeast and Southwest Madison, is treated here as one district, as its history is practically identical, up until the division, which even then is only partial.
Madison, the twelfth township to be formed in the new county, was made so by an order of the courts in 1836, in response to a petition signed by George Rice, Solomon Haskel, John Hackett, George Rouse, Daniel Shaffer, William Miller, John Wormly, George Hench, William Owings, Samuel Ickes, Jr., Samuel Loy, Atchison Laughlin, Daniel Hall, Casper Wolf, Jacob Arnold, John Arnold, Daniel Ernest, Henry Ernest, James Hackett, Samuel Nesbitt, Henry C. Hackett, David Grove, John Urie, John S. McClintock, R. Hackett, Thomas Martin, Michael J. Loy, Abram Bower, John Zimmerman, William B. Anderson, John Garber and John Reed.
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Madison Township was formed from territory principally taken from Toboyne Township, although Saville contributed a tract about a mile wide, extending from the Waggoner mill property to the Tuscarora Moun- tain, and Tyrone a small strip. The court appointed William West, Samuel Darlington and Alexander Magee as viewers. It was the intention to name the new township Marion, as that name appears on the draft of the survey of the viewers, but is crossed off. This report is dated August 25, 1835, but was not confirmed, owing to a remonstrance of interested land- owners. Then, on November 5, 1835, the court appointed Jacob Smith, F. McCown and George Monroe to re-view the matter, and on July 8, 1836, they reported, the boundaries being designated as follows :
"Beginning at the line between Toboyne and Tyrone Townships, near Wil- liam Miller's mill ; thence adapting the line made by the first view and taking in a small part of Tyrone and a part of Saville Township, north 3034 degrees, due west seven miles and fourteen perches to a pine on the Juniata County line on the top of Tuscarora Mountain ; thence along said line and along the top of said mountain to Bailie's Narrows; thence by Toboyne township 31 degrees east eight miles and one hundred and eighty perches to a stone heap on the top of the Blue Mountain on the Cumberland County line (throwing off a space of one mile and eighty perches in breadth to the township of Toboyne, more than had been done by the former view) ; thence along said line to the intersection of the line between the townships of Tyrone and Toboyne ; thence along said division line to place of beginning, which is hereby designated as a new township."
This second view changed but one thing, the locating of the western boundary of the new township one mile and eighty-four perches farther east. On their draft also appeared the name Marion, but the court in the decree, dated August 1, 1836, sagaciously changed it to Madison, in honor of former President of the United States James Madison, the fourth man to fill that exalted office, and the last to fill it before Perry became a county, and whose death had just occurred about five weeks previous to the court's session, on June 28th.
The shape of Madison Township is almost that of a parallelogram, its greatest length being from north to south. The main part of the township is comprised in Sherman's Valley, but to the north, lying between the Conococheague Mountain and the Tuscarora Mountain, is Liberty Valley, and on the south, between Bower's Mountain and the Blue or Kittatinny Mountain, is Sheaffer's Valley. Including the Sandy Hill section, later fully described, the township contains nearly sixty square miles, with dimensions of seven by ten miles.
Across this township ran the earliest highway leading from Harris' Ferry (now Harrisburg) to the West, and in it stood the old frontier fort, known as Fort Robinson, and the first gristmill, that advance agent of civilization, first known as Roddy's mill, but for nearly a century as the Waggoner mill, in which family title still rests. However these are of such historical significance that they are fully covered in other chapters devoted to trails, landmarks, Indian history, etc.
The Robinsons, after whom Fort Robinson was named, as it was located on their farm, settled in this territory early. Three of the brothers were William, Robert and Thomas. To Robert posterity is indebted for the history pertaining to those early days when the red skins roamed the for- ests and made life for the pioneers a veritable land of affliction, grief and agony. The family resided in that vicinity at least nine years before war- ranting any lands, the first record being that of George Robinson, in May, 1763, who took up 209 acres, including his improvements, adjoining lands of Hugh Alexander, John Byers, James Wilson, and Alexander Roddy. This farm was for years in the name of Captain Andrew Loy, and is now
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owned by E. R. Loy. These Robinson brothers were interested in prac- tically all the Indian troubles in what is now western Perry County and in many across the Tuscarora Mountain, in what is now Juniata County. George Robinson, who took up the land, was their father. In an engage- ment with the Indians along Buffalo Creek, in 1763, William and Thomas were killed, and Robert severely wounded. They were with a band of a dozen brave settlers and were ambushed at that point. In 1820 Nicholas Loy was assessed with 300 acres in Toboyne, of which this was a part. Andrew Loy, who owned it later, was his son, as also was George M., a prominent citizen of the vicinity of Andersonburg.
Alexander Roddy had settled in this vicinity before the Albany pur- chase, and was among those evicted by the provincial authorities. In 1755 he evidently was in possession of this mill property, as an adjoining war- rant on the east is described as being bounded by lands of his on the west. He did not, however, warrant it until May, 1763, it being described as for "one hundred and forty-three acres, including his improvements, and ad- joining John Byards (Byers), George Robinson, Roger Clarke, James Thorn and William Officier, in the Sherman's Valley." John Armstrong, the first surveyor of Cumberland County, surveyed it in 1765.
The farm just west of the Robinson farm was warranted by James Wil- son, in August, 1766, originally containing two hundred acres. His wife, while making her way to the fort for protection, it being within sound of the human voice, was killed by the Indians. This property was owned from 1820 to 1824 by Alexander McClure, and was the birthplace of his son, A. K. McClure, the noted editor and close friend of Lincoln, to whom a chapter of this book is devoted. It was once owned by George Hench, and now by John Freeman. His mother was Isabella, a daughter of Wil- liam Anderson, Esq., a noted citizen of the county's early days. She was a daughter of Isabella (Blaine) Anderson, who was a niece of James Blaine, grandfather of James G. Blaine.
The John Byers tract of 310 acres was warranted in July, 1762. About 1777, Rev. John Linn, one of the county's pioneer divines, purchased it. He preached at Centre Presbyterian Church from 1777 until 1820. His wife was Mary Gettys, daughter of the founder of Gettysburg. At Linn's death he owned large tracts of land.
What was later to become the Bixler mill tract was warranted by Hugh Alexander in 1755. It then comprised 344 acres. Whether he made his residence in the country before 1757 is now known, yet there is a tradition that his oldest child, Margaret, was born in Sherman's Valley in 1754, and that in her childhood her parents fled several times from Indian raids into the Sherman's Valley to their old home on the eastern shore of Maryland, returning to find their habitations burned. In 1752 he had married Martha Edmiston, who evidently was a daughter of David Edmiston, who took up a tract of three hundred acres adjoining Hugh Alexander, and on which the latter took up his residence, as Edmiston never located in the county. Hugh Alexander was a man of note, representing Cumberland County, which then also comprised Perry, in the Provincial Conference at Philadelphia in 1776, of the first Constitutional Convention necessitated thereby and of the first legislative assembly thus created. Margaret, this first-born of Hugh Alexander and his wife, later married John Hamilton, whose descendants to this day are among the prominent citizens of Harris- burg, where they had located and where he died in 1793. (See Bixler Mill, in "Old Landmarks, Mills and Industries").
George McCord is mentioned by Robert Robinson as living in the neigh- borhood of Alexander Logan's in 1863. He relates that "John Logan, Charles Coyle, William Hamilton and Bartholomew Davis followed the
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Indians to George McCord's, where they were in the barn; Logan and all those with him were killed, except Davis, who made his escape." Davis warranted 187 acres in 1766 in the same township.
Three tracts lying south of Cisna's Run were taken up in 1762, 1767 and 1792, by Hugh Gibson, who was taken prisoner by the Indians in 1756. At the time of the attack on Fort Robinson, when his mother, the widow Gib- son, the wife of James Wilson, and several others were killed and scalped. Adopted by the tribe, kept a prisoner for some time, he eventually effected an escape. John Byers, in 1767, took up 200 acres; in 1794 another one of 500 acres, and also a tract at Sandy Hill. Evidently he is the same man who was presiding justice of the Cumberland County court in 1763, when Toboyne Township was formed. Much of the land lying along the ridge north of Cisna's Run were taken up by Stephen Cessna, who resided here for a long time and whose name has been given to the locality. The Jos- eph B. Garber farm was warranted by Cessna and Henry Zimmerman. Dr. Reed Cisna and Captain G. C. Palm were descendants. The farm south of Centre post office was warranted in May, 1787, by James Max- well. It contained 200 acres, and there was a "fulling mill and power mill" erected there. In 1835 it had passed to Joseph Eaton, who was assessed with a fulling mill, a carding machine and a still.
The Henry Bear mill is located on a tract warranted by John Scouller, in February, 1787, containing 200 acres. Englehart Wormley owned this property in 1814, being assessed with a mill and sawmill. The old mill was replaced by a brick mill in 1841, being built by John Wormley, who came into possession around 1835. In 1915 this mill was purchased by the Tressler Orphans' Home for its water rights for electric power. It had, however, ceased operations some years previous.
The Weaver mill was built by Rev. John William Heim, on lands taken up by John Dunbar, Jr., April 22, 1763, along Laurel Run, where his father had previously taken up a tract and later another. Its erection was about 1830. It is a stone structure, and at the death of Mr. Heim passed in turn to Joseph Bixler (in 1856), Anthony Firman and George Weaver. On January 1, 1919, it passed to the Tressler Orphans' Home, for $5,000, the power to be used in connection with that of the Bear mill plant to run the electric plant connected with that institution. The home also operates the mill both for custom work and as a manufacturing flour plant.
Robert Clark, a young fellow living in Carlisle, was among those who came over during the Indian depredations to help protect the pioneers and became familiar with the fine lands and excellent water in this part of the county. When the land office was opened he was not old enough to warrant land, but his father, Thomas Clark, performed that service and warranted for him in 1766. Robert married Mary Alexander, a daughter of Hugh Alexander, spoken of above, and became the progenitor of one branch of the numerous Clark family of what is now Perry County. W. S. Clark, now living near Everett, Bedford County, but a native Perry Countian, is the only one of the fourth generation still living. Mrs. E. R. Loy and Robert Morris Clark are also direct descendants. Of the three members of the first Provincial Assembly from Cumberland County, Hugh Alexander, Wm. Clark and John Brown, the first two were their ancestors.
In June, 1773, Abraham Lachta located 192 acres, and in May 1775, an- other claim. In February, 1755, Alexander Logan patented 549 acres, and in February, 1763, his son, John Logan, patented 150 acres. These lands are in the vicinity of the village of Kistler. After John Logan's death the three surviving sons of *Alexander Logan, George, Anthony and William,
*Alexander Logan, mentioned in this chapter, was murdered by the Indians, the same being fully described in "The French and Indian War."
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created therefrom three farms of 150 acres each, which they owned until 1785, when the middle farm was sold to George McMillen, who had ar- rived from Dauphin County, but was a native of Ireland. The substantial McMillen families of the present and last generations are his descendants. The McMillens now own most of the Logan lands quoted above. These lands are already in the possession of the fifth generation of McMillens.
Adjoining the Alexander Logan tract on the west was located the lands of William Townsley, warranted September, 1755. During August, 1767, John McElheny warranted 73 acres, which later was owned by John Mil- ligan, who settled there in 1770, from whom the Perry County Milligans are descended, among them being inerchants and scholars of note. David Coyle, the progenitor of the well-known Coyles of Philadelphia, Carlisle and Newville, was a near neighbor of the Milligans. John Hamilton, in June, 1762, warranted a place, and Roger Clark, in August, 1766, warranted 251 acres. Where the old Indian trail crossed the Conococheague Moun- tain's end George Welch, in November, 1768, patented 124 acres. Other early warrants taken out were by Robert Potts, John Potts, James Toy, Henry Lewis, Jacob Grove, James and Alexander Watts, Lancelot Harrison, James Vardell, William McCord, Samuel McCord, John Brubaker, Henry Lewis, Samuel Lyons, Alexander Blaine, Alexander Murray, John McNeere (Mc- Aneer), Alexander McNeere, John Douglass, Robert Morrow, William Hamilton's widow, James Morrow, John Irvin, John Murray, John Nel- son, John Blair, Bartholomew Davis, John Crawford, Robert Nelson, William Erwin, Christopher Bower, John Garner (Gardner), Hugh Gib- son, James Brown, William McFarland, Stephen Cessna (Cisna), Henry Zimmerman, Jane McCreary, Joseph Neeper, William Neeper, William Dalzell, James Maxwell, John Baxter, James Baxter, William Baxter, Henry Lewis, James Dixon, John Scouller, William McClelland and Wil- liam Hunter.
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