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Lutheran Church. The Watts Township congregation of Lutherans probably dates back to the old Half-Falls Gap Church, described in "the Earliest Churches." From there the members of the faith went to the Union Church, which stood on the site of the Lutheran Church. In 1860 they erected a new church, which was in use until 1865, when the mem- bership had so dwindled that the field was abandoned by the Lutherans. In the list of ministers we find Mathias Guntzel, 1789-96; John Herbst, 1796-1801; Conrad Walter, 1804-09; John William Heim, 1814-30. In 1833 the Liverpool pastorate was formed, and it was connected with that pastorate, having as ministers :
1833-42-Rev. Charles G. Erlenmeyer. 1843-47-Vacant.
1842-43-Rev. Andrew Berg (6 mos.).
In 1847 this church seems to have been dropped from the Liverpool Cir- cuit, as the newly called pastor did not preach here, nor did any of his successors of that charge. In the meantime, while the Liverpool pastorate was vacant, according to Rev. Focht's "Churches Between the Mountains," Rev. Lloyd Knight, who took charge of the Duncannon pastorate on Octo- ber 1, 1845, also served New Buffalo, as this church was known by reason of its location not far from that town. Rev. Knight served until 1849. Rev. Jacob Martin succeeded him in July, 1849, and the following year the Duncannon charge was regularly formed at a convention held at New Bloomfield, and New Buffalo made an integral part. Rev. Martin remained one year, and in November, 1850, Rev. John P. Heister became the pastor, but according to the "Churches Between the Mountains," at New Buffalo "he preached seldom, if any at all." He remained until November, 1853. From June, 1854, to May, 1858, Rev. George A. Nixdorff was pastor of the Duncannon charge, and again preached at New Buffalo, but at first only occasionally. August 27, 1858, Rev. Wm. H. Diven became pastor, and in May, 1859, at Synod held at Mifflinburg, Union County, reported four con- gregations, and New Buffalo as a "preaching station." When Rev. Focht's book was issued, June I, 1862, Rev. Diven was still in charge of the Dun- cannon pastorate, but concluded his services that year. Records are un- available, but local tradition tells of the discontinuance of services there by both the Lutherans and Presbyterians about 1870, when the United Brethren organized and used the church until their own was built in 1876. The last board of trustees of this old church werc N. C. Heyd, Joseph Hammaker and J. W. Ulsh, Sr. The church had long been idle, until about 1895, when Rev. J. M. Axe held services there for a period covering six months, preaching every fourth week, in the afternoon. As the con- gregations had disintegrated by death, removals and lack of a shepherd, the old church gradually became a victim of the ravages of time. Occa- sionally funerals were held within its walls, however. During the winter of 1916-17 heavy snows crushed in the roof, and it was torn down and removed by the Cemetery Association. In this church Rev. Harry N. Bassler, a noted minister of the Reformed Church, preached his first ser- mon, when but twenty years of age.
The Hill U. B. Church. The United Brethren people began holding services in Watts Township about 1870, as the other denominations seemed to be letting the field take care of itself. Their meetings were held in the Lutheran Church until 1876. On January 9, 1875, Isaac Huggins deeded the grounds for a church, to Isaac Motter, James Wright, Wmn. Fenicle and Leonard Jones, trustees of the U. B. congregation, and during 1875-76 the church was erected. It was a part of the Duncannon Circuit from 1870 to 1874. It was then attached to the Liverpool Circuit, where the names of the later ministers may be found. The pastors while under the Duncannon Circuit were Rev. G. W. Lightner and Rev. J. W. Hutchison.
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In 1874 the latter held a revival and had over a hundred converts, adding ninety members to the church. J. I .. Huggins and Alfred Jury were long among those who helped sustain this congregation as a working body.
New Buffalo Presbyterian Church. During the pastorate of Rev. Na- thaniel Snowden, at Millerstown Presbyterian Church, he also organized churches at Liverpool and (at the Hill) near New Buffalo, the period be- ing between 1818 and 1820. After his leaving, in 1820, the Liverpool and Buffalo churches were without a pastor until 1828, when Rev. James F. Irvine was installed as their pastor. During the next year that part of Perry County lying between the Juniata and Susquehanna Rivers was taken from the Huntingdon Presbytery and placed in the Carlisle Presbytery. In 1830, Rev. Irvine sought his release through Presbytery, as there were so many removals that he deemed the remainder unable to pay his salary. A committee visited both the New Buffalo and Liverpool fields and found but eight responsible people left to pay the salary. It was during the period when the Scotch-Irish were emigrating, and the newcomers were mostly Germans. And thus passed two early congregations. The New Buffalo Church, as it was known in Presbyterian circles, used the old Union church, the same building that the Lutherans occupied, its location being in Watts Township, a mile west of New Buffalo, at Hill cemetery.
WHEATFIELD TOWNSHIP.
Between 1793, when Juniata Township was erected from territory taken from Rye Township, and 1826, when Wheatfield Township was formed from territory also taken from it, there were various efforts made in the courts of both Cumberland and Perry Counties to divide the township by the creation of another, for the territory was yet a part of Cumberland for the first twenty-seven of these thirty-three years. After Juniata Town- ship's erection, Rye embraced the territory bounded by Mahanoy Ridge on the north, the Juniata and Susquehanna Rivers on the east, Cumberland County on the south, and Tyrone Township on the west.
In 1824, at the May sessions of the Perry County courts, a petition was presented asking the erection of a new township. The court appointed Meredith Darlington, Jacob Stroop and William Wilson as viewers. What happened in the interim to delay the matter is not clear, but the order of the court granting the petition is dated January 5, 1826-over two years later. The township was named "Wheatfield," which tradition attributes to the fact that during one of the trips of the viewers over it the entire township's lands were fields of waving grain. At that time it embraced all of Penn Township and parts of Miller, Centre and Carroll. A small strip was later added to Wheatfield, being taken from Rye, it being located between Sherman's Creek and the crest of Pine Hill. Wheatfield is a long, narrow township, except at its western end, where it has a breadth of eight miles.
Wheatfield is bounded on the north by Centre and Miller, on the east by the Juniata River and Penn Township, on the south by Penn and Rye, and on the west by Carroll and Centre. At the north Losh's Run is the bound- ary. It is also drained by Little Juniata and Sherman's Creeks. It had 298 taxables at the time of its erection.
The original frontage on the Juniata of the township as it now exists was comprised in two warrants, one of 331 acres being granted to Fred- erick Watts, a native of Wales, whose history is covered in our chapter relating to the Revolutionary War and by a sketch. The warrant is dated June 4, 1762. He died in 1795, and his remains and that of his wife were interred in a burial ground on the farm. They had seven children, a daughter, Elizabeth, being married to a son of Marcus Hulings. The farm
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recently owned by the heirs of Noah Hertzler was comprised in the Watts holdings. The other tract also extended into Miller Township, and was for 199 acres, and was warranted by John Smith in 1788. It was later owned by Dr. J. P. Singer.
In 1766, William Baskins warranted 238 acres on Little Juniata Creek, above King's mill. The old Montebello furnace was built on it, and ad- joining tracts were purchased by the owners. Eve Baker warranted 133 acres of land in 1767, which shortly passed to Levi Owen, the progenitor of the many families of that name within the county, and many located elsewhere. Owen, in 1791, warranted the adjoining 150 acres. He later purchased other lands and was a large landowner. The Owen family has been prominent in the civil affairs of the county since its erection.
Arnold VanFossen warranted 123 acres in 1766. A pioneer United Brethren pastor, Rev. John Snyder, warranted 189 acres below the Owen and VanFossen claims, in 1828, but an improvement had been made there as early as 1800. He died in 1845. What later became the Daniel Born- man farm, was comprised in a warrant for 180 acres, granted in 1767, to Robert Ramsey, but later surveyed to Alexander Shortess. Below, in what is known as "dark hollow," 228 acres were warranted in 1793, by John Mc- Bride. East of this tract, William Bothwell, in 1811, warranted 450 acres, which was later increased to 500. In 1815, John Light warranted 231 acres, which afterwards was known as the Samuel Mckenzie tract. On Sher- man's Creek, embracing "The Loop," and in both Penn and Wheatfield Townships, Benjamin Abram warranted 207 acres in 1766. Fio Forge was later located on a part of this tract, purchased by Israel Downing and James B. Davis, in 1827. Where Dellville is located, was included in the warrant of George Moser. George Mills warranted a tract above Dellville, and Samuel Graham one along Sherman's Creek. Andrew Boyd warranted lands in 1767, but they were patented to Matthew Henderson, in 1787. The greater portion of this tract lies in Carroll Township. John Stewart, an early setttler and a Revolutionary soldier, came in from Carlisle prior to 1800, and Samuel Potter and Andrew Pennell settled in the eastern end of the township soon after 1820. Descendants of these three families have been prominent in that section of the county ever since.
As early as 1773, Alexander Power, a schoolmaster who came from Philadelphia, was in possession of a large tract of land. His lands lay in the vicinity of the road leading from Weaver's Station, on the Susque- hanna River & Western Railway, to Centre schoolhouse. John, George and Jacob Clay later resided in this vicinity.
Before 1800 Christian Ensminger was in possession of over 500 acres of land in Rye, but some of which extended into Wheatfield. His son David settled in Wheatfield and was one of its substantial citizens. Alexander Shortess, in 1815, took up 186 acres, and made many purchases of lands in addition.
Montebello furnace was located on Little Juniata Creek, on a tract of land warranted in 1766, to William Baskins, its history appearing under the chapter devoted to "Old Landmarks, Mills and Industries." Fio forge's history appears at the same place. Jacob Seidel, of Fishing Creek, pur- chased property on Sherman's Creek, and dismantled his mill in Rye Town- ship, and shortly after 1820 erected a mill from the same lumber at the location known to this day as Dugan's. About 1850 he sold it to a man named Shapley, who five years later sold it to Dugan & Zorger. The latter firm tore down the old mill, in 1856, and erected the present mill. Then Adam H. Zorger and Emanuel Dugan operated it until the death of Mr. Zorger, when, in 1895, Mr. Dugan purchased the other interest. After
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Mr. Dugan's death, in 1896, James A. Shearer purchased it and still is in possession.
Farther up the stream, where Dellville is located, on the George Moser tract of 102 acres, Christian Smith and Isaac Kirkpatrick purchased a small tract, and in 1841 erected a gristmill, which they operated until 1853, when Smith sold his interest to Daniel Ristine. The other interest passed to John Souder. In 1856, Mr. Ristine sold his interest to Eli Young, and it came to be known as Young's mill to that generation. The other interest also came into the possession of Mr. Young in 1878, and after his death, it was conveyed to Amos N. Hunsecker, in 1894. In 1911 he sold to Roy Rice, the present owner.
Griffeth Owen, a native of Wales, who came to America about the same time as William Penn, was the grandfather of Levi Owen, who settled on a large tract of land between New Bloomfield and Duncannon, about 1770. The story that he helped convey the Indians over the Allegheny Mountains when they moved farther west, of course, is fiction, as the Indians were not in the habit of being "conveyed."
The post office at Dellville was established in 1860, with Eli Young as postmaster. The first store at Dellville was opened in 1855, by Adam Bil- low, who has had many successors.
The greater part of the land between Pine Hill and Sherman's Creek was patented to Samuel Funk, in 1805. He soon sold 106 acres to John Minich, who sold it to Adam Fultz, in 1809. In 1812, it passed to Peter Billow, who died in 1829, George Billow then coming into possession. Prior to 1820 there was a tavern and distillery on the place. The tavern was a well-known stopping place, and after the erection of the county, in 1820, for many years the name of George Billow appears as the proprietor. The place was locally known as "Billow's Fording" until 1836, when a bridge, the length of which was 160 feet, was erected at a cost of $2,000. It was proposed to locate a town there as late as 1843, when Joseph Mar- shall advertised lots for a town "on the north bank of Sherman's Creek, at Billow's Inn, Wheatfield Township." On February 22, 1854, it was ad- vertised for sale by R. E. Shepley, then the owner. It no longer exists.
One of the longest continuous records of holding a public office in Perry County was that of Joseph Lepperd, father of John R. Lepperd, merchant at Roseglen, who was a justice of the peace for ten terms, covering forty- eight years.
In Wheatfield Township resided Gen. Frederick Watts, one of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Colony of Pennsylvania, which was the govern- ing body during those year between the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the American Union. In 1813, Gen. Henry Miller, a Revolutionary hero, also located in this township. He became prothono- tary of Perry County at the first election in 1821, and died in Carlisle, April 5, 1824, in his ninety-fifth year.
There are not many business places within the township. The mercantile appraiser names Roy E. Rice, flour and feed; J. R. Lepperd, and Philip People, general stores, and J. N. Crouse, grocery store. Mrs. Maria Price had once kept a small store at Roseglen, where Mr. Lepperd started in 1907, succeeding H. D. Banks, who built the building and opened the busi- ness in 1901. Mr. Crouse's location is near Losh's Run Station, at the Wheatfield-Miller line and the Juniata River. He has long been located there, and is postmaster at I,ogania.
On the lands of Levi Owen a schoolhouse was built about 1810, where sessions were held until about 1820, when a log schoolhouse was built near Snyder's Church. It was in use until 1848, when the schoolhouse on
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the Wallace farm was moved nearer and its usefulness was a thing of the past. Wheatfield accepted the common school act in 1835, and received $148.20 appropriation from the state. In November, 1835, the school direc- tors met at the Clay schoolhouse to examine the teachers. This house stood near the present location of the Roseglen store, on the New Bloom- field-Duncannon road, and was abandoned long ago. The Potter (110w Pennell's) schoolhouse was in use before the free school law came into existence.
Near Aqueduct Station is a notable summer colony composed principally of Harrisburg business men, whose cottages line the banks of the Juniata for almost a half-mile.
A Methodist church once stood on the top of the hill, west of Fio forge, not far from Sherman's Creek, on the Carlisle road, west of the present residence of Henry Grubb (then August Mckenzie's place). A. S. Hays, a Duncannon merchant, now eighty-two years of age, attended meetings there when a boy, and distinctly recollects it. The graveyard is located close by the buildings of the Sausaman farm. It was built in 1840, and in use until 1875. It was served by Reverends Jordan, Holmes, Wright, Swengler, Hamilton, Thompson and White. The U. B. congregation used it a few years after 1875.
Snyder's U. B. Church. Snyder's Church, that historic old structure located along the Duncannon-Bloomfield road, is one of the churches of distinction within the county limits. It was built as a Union church, in 1814, in conjunction with the Methodists, who soon dropped out and left it to the United Brethren alone. It was the first church of that faith to be located north and west of the Kittatinny Mountain and west of the Susque- hanna River. In other words, it is the oldest United Brethren church in the Juniata Valley, and in all that part of the country lying to its west. Prior to 1846 this church was included as a part of the Carlisle Circuit, of Cumberland County. At that time the Shermansdale charge was formed by the churches at Young's, near Shermansdale, and Snyder's. Rev. John (Schneider) Snyder, the first pastor, from whom it took its name, war- ranted a tract of 129 acres of land below the Owen and VanFossen war- rants, on April 12, 1828, and it is described as "on which an improvement had been made before 1800." Rev. Snyder's successor was William Sholty. Rev. Snyder died in 1845, and sleeps in the burial ground adjoining the church. The church was remodeled and rebuilt in 1904. The list of pas- tors appears under the Carroll Township chapter, in connection with Young's United Brethren Church.
St. David's Lutheran Church. Located near the site of old Fio forge, about five miles southwest of Duncannon, was St. David's Church, which was dedicated in November, 1845. The Lutheran people residing in this neighborhood originally belonged to Mt. Zion and Mt. Pisgah churches, in Carroll Township, and to Christ's, at Duncannon. The long distances from their homes to these churches impelled them to make an effort to have a church nearer home. Rev. L. T. Williams preached in the Fio forge schoolhouses in 1845, and a church was erected at once by members of the Lutheran and Reformed faiths. While the church was built in 1845, the Lutherans did not organize the St. David congregation until June 20, 1846, when it was organized with a membership of twenty-seven. Rev. Lloyd Knight, the New Bloomfield pastor, began holding regular services every four weeks, he being the first pastor. He served until June, 1849, when he was succeeded by Rev. Jacob Martin, who preached every three weeks. In February, 1850, this congregation and others united to form the Peters- burg (Duncanon) charge, whose pastors have since served it. See chapter on Duncannon Borough.
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St. David's Reformed Church. The Reformed congregation at St. David's was organized between 1843 and 1845, but preaching had been conducted there before that time, in the schoolhouses and at irregular in- tervals. It was organized by Rev. Jacob Scholl. From its beginning the pastors of the New Bloomfield charge had charge of the services until April, 1867, the close of Rev. Kelley's ministry. (See Bloomfield chapter.) From then until the early part of 1868 they were without a pastor, and from that time were made a part of the newly formed Marysville-Dun- cannon Reformed charge, the pastors having since been the same, the list of ministers appearing in the chapter relating to Marysville.
This church was first known as Billow's Church. It was a well built frame structure, 30x40 feet in size.
Pennell's Church. During 1845 Andrew Pennell donated a plot at the corner of his farm, in Wheatfield Township, for the purpose of erecting a Methodist church. The present stone church was erected on this site, the building committee being Robert Jones, George Bruner and Andrew Pen- nell. Since then this pulpit has been supplied by the Duncannon Methodist pastors at intervals. The church is the property of the Duncannon con- gregation.
INDEX
PAGE
Academies
335
Act creating the County of Perry
205
Agriculture in Perry County ..
862
Anti-Abolition Feeling in Perry County
539
Bailey, Joseph, Member of Congress
727
Bald Eagle Island
135 519
Banks and Corporations
488 282
Beaver, James A., Governor of Pennsylvania
654 459
Bench and Bar
Bernheisel, Dr. John M., Delegate to Congress
Bernheisel, Luther M., Noted Builder
Bigler, John, Governor of California
Bigler, William, Governor of Pennsylvania
636 779 731
Bixler, Harris J., Member of Congress
Blain Borough
927
Blaine, General Ephraim, Revolutionary Patriot
Blaine Family, The Noted
Blaine, James G., Great American Statesman
Blood of the Pioneer 858
Bloomfield Borough
914
Boroughs, Townships and Villages
91 I
Boundaries
15
Box Huckleberry
3I
Bretz, Carlton Lewis, Noted Railroad Man
713
Bridges and Toll Roads Long Free
883 157
Buffalo Township
932 784 780 407
Captain Jack, Exploits of
95
Carroll Township
938
Carson Long Institute
34I
Centre Township 945
Churches, The Earliest
280
Civil War, The
543
County Soldiers in the Union Armies
5,56
Confederate Vice-President son of a Perry Countian
554
Famous Ride Down Sherman's Valley
550-551
Governor of Kentucky son of Perry County parents
545
Secession Edict Written by a Perry Countian 544
Clark's Ferry Bridge, The 132
County Home, The 359
County Seat, Fight for the
221
1084
732 705 644
Billow, David
628 625 630
Buffalo, Passing of the
Calhoun, Rev. John Dill
Calhoun, Wm. F.
Canals, Coming of the
Baltimore, Early Trade with
Beatty, Rev. Charles, The First Missionary
INDEX
1085 PAGE
County Seat, Efforts to change
Creigh, Rev. Thomas, D.D. .
759
Croghan, George
Cummins, Hugh Hart
750
Doro, Marie, Celebrated Dramatic Star
708 782 772
Dromgold, Walker A.
949
Duncan's Island
Early Maps
Early Years-A Comparison
497
Editors. Biographical Sketches of Prominent
483
Ehrhart, William Nelson
745
Election Districts, Old 193
760
Emig, Lelia Dromgold
770 30
Ferries, Early Perry County
374-394
First Free School West of the Susquehanna
317
First School in State Opened Under Free School Act
318
Flickinger Family
740
Flickinger, Henry W., Expert Penman
768
Flickinger, Prof. Junius R.
737
Floods and High Waters
387
Focht, Benjamin K., Member of Congress
729
Forest, The Tuscarora
Forts in and Near County
870 98 766
Fry, Sheridan E.
Fulling Mills
Gantt, Daniel, Chief Justice of Nebraska
Garland, Rev. D. Frank, D.D.
Gibson, General George
Gibson, John Bannister, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania
104
Gold, The Rush for 532 962
Greenwood Township
Gristmills, Old
247
Haldeman's Island 118-131
Hall of Fame, Representatives in
Harding, Warren G., President of the U. S., a descendant 600
Hart, Rev. B. H. 787
Hench & Dromgold 772
772
High Rivers and Floods
387 20
Historical Society
001
Howe Township
965
Ickesburg
Indian History
1052 37 64
Albany Treaty, The
228
141
Douglas Family, The
Duncannon Borough
I18
159
Elliot, Rev. David, D.D.
Features of Distinction
Froehlich, Anna
751 264 677 762 700 666
Girty, Simon, The Renegade
Hench, S. Nevin
Hill Ranges Within the County
1086
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PAGE
Attacks on Fort Robinson
78
Baskins Family Abducted
81
Battle of Peters' Mountain 82
Capture and Release of Frederick Stump
92
County Citizens Recipients of Charity
00 84
Devastating Indian Warfare
Earliest Records of Occupancy
37 48
French and Indian War
Indian Villages
Inhabitants, Description of the
43
Intruding Settlers Evicted
Massacres on County Soil
Missionary to the Indians
Murder of an Early Trader
Pioneer Runners
Treaty of Peace
Iron Industry, Early
Irvin, Elihu C., Noted Insurance President
Jackson Township
Juniata River
Juniata Township
Kerr, Mina, College Dean
Kistler, Rev. John and Catharine McCoy
Kemp, Col. Geo. E.
Landisburg Borough
Landisburg, The First County Seat
Landmarks, Mills and Industries, Old
Law and Order, County Reputation for
Legislation, Special, Pertaining to Perry County
Lewis the Robber
Linn, Rev. James
Linn, Rev. John
Liquor Question, The
Liverpool Borough
Liverpool Township
Long, Chester I., United States Senator from Kansas
Long, Theodore K.
Loudon, Archibald, Early Historian
Lupfer, Edgar Newton, Noted Manufacturer
McCartney, James
McClure, Col. A. K., Noted Editor
McClure, Jos. M.
McGinnes, L. E.
Madison Township
991 882
Many Viewpoints, Perry County from
1000
Marshall, Thomas Riley, Ex-Vice-President U. S., a Descendant
611
Meminger. Rev. James W. 786
Mexican War, Perry County in the 530
Militia Companies
516
57 71 123 49
84 270 706 968 379 97 1 718
755 776 976 202
247 882
460 196 758 735 443 982 989 632 747 733 774 781 700 782 74I
Márysville Borough
66 44
Five Nations, The
1
INDEX
1087
PAGE
Milligan, Rev. John Linn
757
Miller, Jesse, Noted Early Citizen
726 649
Miller Township
1007
Millerstown Borough
1010
Miller, William H., Member of Congress
728
Montour, Andrew, First Authorized Settler
143 18
Mountains
Mountain Gaps
24-27
Naming of the County
215
New Bloomfield
221,014
New Bloomfield Academy
341
New Buffalo Borough
1021
New Germantown
1065
Newport Borough
1023
Noted Men and Descendants
6:04
Noted and Professional Men-an Alphabetical List
708 1037
Orris, Prof. Stanhope
765
Packet Boats
Peale, Rev. and Mrs. John Rogers
Penn Township
201
Perry County Societies Abroad
903
Petition for New County
203 15
Physical Features
904
Pioneers, Coming of the
148
Pioneer Life
153
Political Trend, The
522
Population
893
Post Offices, Early
370 362 33
Press, The Public
473
Province and Mother Cumberland, The
182
Public Institutions
335
Pennsylvania Railroad, Building of the
421
Central Route Proposed by Perry Countian
425
Over Half of First Twenty Miles in Perry County
421
River and Canal Transportation
401
Railroads, Projected and Others
431
Revolutionary War, Perry County Territory in
161
Native Led Captive Cornwallis Army to York, Penna.
169
Soldiers of the Patriot Army from Perry Territory
166-173
Toboyne Township's Ephraim Blaine Helped Finance
629
Rural Mail Routes 372
Rye Township 1044
Saville Township
1048
Reifsnyder, Dr. Elizabeth
716
Rivers, Streams and Old Ferries
374
Postrider and Stagecoach
Prehistoric Fish
413 753 1041
Oliver Township
Perry County Established
Picturesque Perry
Miller, Stephen, Governor of Minnesota
1088
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PAGE
Sawmills
26.4
Schools, Past and Present
309
Scotch-Irish, The
149
Sectional War, The
543
Sherman's Creek
384
Size of County in Comparison
15-17
Slaves Owned in Perry County
534
Soldiers' Orphans' Schools 349
756
Smith, Rev. Martin Albert
788
Spanish-American War, The
580
Spring Township
1056
Stephens, Alexander H., Vice-President of the Confederacy-son of a native 613
Stills and Distilleries 265
Streams, Others than Rivers and Sherman's Creek
384-386
Sunday School Movement in Perry County, The
438
Super, Dr. Chas. W., University President
723
Super, Ovando B. 768
Superintendents of County Schools
331
Susquehanna River
376
Syphers, Gen. J. Hale
728
Tanning Industry, The
267
Telephone Companies
495
Thatcher Family, The Noted
68.4
Thatcher, Henry Calvin, First Chief Justice of Colorado
681
Thatcher, John A., Pioneer Colorado Merchant 688
Thatcher, Mahlon D., Noted Financier and Banker
692
Toboyne Township
1061
Towns, Laying out of
913
Townships, Boroughs and Villages
911
·Townships, Formation of 912
Trader, Coming of the I37
Trails and Highways
231
Tressler, Rev. David Loy, College President
917
Tressler Orphans' Home, The
352
Tuscarora State Forest, The
870
Tuscarora Township
1066
Tyrone Township
1069
Underground Railroad, The
541
Valleys
28
War Between the States
543
War of 1812, Perry County in the
178
Warm Springs, The
32
Watts, David
752
Watts Township
1075
Weiser, Conrad
138
Wheatfield Township
1079
Whiskey Insurrection, The
188
World War, The
582
County Soldiers in the World War 580-603
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1
Smiley, Emma Margaret
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