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TAVERNS.
The first hotel in Irwin township was a log structure, erected about 1800 by Henry Crull. It had numerous landlords. A man by the name of Knowles succeeded Crull. Then came landlords Olds and Jones. Hugh Cochran was the next landlord, and at his death Hezekiah Mays acquired the property and ran the house for many years. The log building was torn down after a few years and a frame building erected. This gave way to the present residence of Mr. Mays. It was situated at Mays' Corners, on the Pittsburgh and Franklin road, and in the days of the, stage lines was one of the stations where changes were made.
George McMurdy also built one of the early taverns in 1812. It was located where Beatie's store now stands at McMurdy's Corners. He also operated in connection with the hotel a distillery, which was adjoining the former.
About 1849 Robert Allen of Butler county built the brick hotel situated on the Pittsburgh and Franklin road just north of the present limits of Barkeyville, and the building is yet standing in a good state of preservation. He also ran a store in connection with the hotel. It subsequently passed into the hands of a Mr. McKelvey, whose descendants now own the prop- erty. The only house of entertainment in the township is the old Mc- Closkey house in Mechanicsville, which was built about 1850 by Michael McCloskey.
MILLS.
The first grist mill erected in Irwin township was built by John Crain
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about 1805. It was located about one and a half miles east of the residence of A. J. Kilgore on the north branch of Scrubgrass creek. In 1815 it passed into the hands of John J. Kilgore, who ran it for a number of years. He then sold it to George Eagles, who removed it to Sandy Lake, Mercer county.
John Gilmore and Thomas Martin erected a grist mill in 1839, on the head- waters of the north branch of Scrubgrass creek. It was a log struct- ure, with undershot wheel, and was furnished with two sets of buhrs of native stone. They operated it for a short time, when it passed into the hands of a man named Barnes, and subsequently was purchased by Thomas Thornberry. In 1849 it was torn down, and the one now known as the Gilmore mill was built by Thomas Thornberry and Philip Surrena. In 1857 Solomon Thorn purchased Thornberry's interest, and in 1863 Surrena sold his interest to John Kilpatrick. In 1866 William King purchased Kilpat- rick's interest, and in 1868 Alexander Gilmore bought out King. Gilmore and Thorn ran the mill until 1885, when Thorn's interest was purchased by Amos Gilmore. The mill is now operated by L. B. Gilmore.
The mill known as the Walter's mill was built in 1840 by John Gilmore and Thomas Williams. It had an overshot wheel furnished with native buhrs, and is situated at the head-waters of Wolf creek. At Gilmore's death it passed into the hands of David Walter, its present owner. Several saw mills have been erected in the township, which have long since passed out of use. One stood upon the McMurdy farm, one close to the site of the Walter mill, and another upon the land now owned by John Latchaw.
VILLAGES.
The site of Mechanicsville was originally part of the land that belonged to John Ross, and contained four acres. It is not known if John Ross gave it to his son, but about 1840 Ayers Ross, a son of John Ross, built a black- smith shop and a log cabin which were the first buildings erected inside the limits of the village. He was shortly followed by John Bryan, who erected a wagon shop and a log house. The first merchant was J. P. Billingsley. John Conrad shortly followed and engaged in shoemaking. Doctor Boyd was the first physician to locate in the town. The first postmaster was D. W. Henderson. In 1850 Thomas Galloway purchased the Ross farm and built a cheese factory in the suburbs. The first hotel was built in 1850 by Michael McCloskey, who was its landlord for many years. The village has a population at the present time of about one hundred and fifty, and its business is represented by four general stores, two blacksmith shops, one hotel, one wagon maker, and its physician, Doctor C. M. Wilson. The first school house erected within the limits of the village was built in 1870, and the church in 1889.
Barkeyville is situated in the southern part of the township. In 1850
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Henry Barkey and Abraham Hunsberger opened a general store. Shortly after several parties who owned land on the main road surveyed a few lots. The first building erected was the store of the above mentioned firm. This was followed by Michael Liken, who erected a frame house and engaged in shoemaking. The Reverend Abraham Raysor, who was called to the pas- torate of the Church of God, next built a frame house. Hugh Hasson built the first blacksmith shop. Mr. Barkey, in connection with his partner, then purchased the land on both sides of the road within the limits of the present village and laid it out in lots. The population at present is less than one hundred, and the business represented is two general stores, one blacksmith shop, and a washing machine and bee-hive factory. Abraham Hunsberger was the first postmaster. The Church of God and the Barkey- ville Academy are on the limits of the village.
SCHOOLS.
One of the early schools of the township was built upon the farm of George McMurdy, and was known as the McMurdy school. It was a log structure and is claimed to have been the first school house built in what is now Irwin township. Previous to its erection the schools were held at the homes of the farmers in different parts of the township. Among the early teachers of the McMurdy school were Chauncey Hamilton, Charles Folsom, and Jacob Heims.
On the farm of Thomas Martin was erected at an early date another school house which numbered among its teachers William Blakely and Miss Kennedy. A log school house was built upon the lands of Thomas Bullion very early. John Elder, Reuben York, and John Hovis were among the first teachers in this building. The Beach school house was another one of the early school buildings, George Westlake being one of the first teachers. Also the Barnes school which stood near Gilmore's mill, one of the early teachers being Robert Jones. Upon the land of John Guiler was built what was known as the Guiler school. John Bingham was the first teacher; Chauncey Hamilton also taught in this school. Previous to the passage of the school law of 1834, these schools were all supported by subscription; but after the new law took effect, all excepting two became public schools.
The present schools number ten and are known by the respective names of Bullion, Pike, Yard, Walter, Jones, Barkeyville, Eakin, Mechanicsville, Amity, and Beach. They are all brick structures excepting that at Me- chanicsville which is frame. The present buildings have been erected in the last fifteen years, and the schools are in a flourishing condition.
Barkeyville Academy is the outgrowth of a select school conducted by the Reverend J. R. H. Latchaw in the church bethel in the fall of 1881. A two-story building was provided in September, 1882, and the pres- ent building in 1883 by Henry Barkey & Company at their own ex-
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pense. The academy was incorporated March 10, 1884, the trustees pur- chasing the property in June of that year. The main building is thirty-two by forty-eight, two stories high. In addition to the main building there is a wing eighteen by thirty feet, two stories high. The upper floor is set apart as a library and reading room. The new boarding hall, erected dur- ing the summer of 1886, contains fifteen commodious rooms for teachers and students.
The trustees are Abraham Hunsberger, Albert M. Jones, David McEl- phatrick, George W. Stoner, H. A. Obley, Reverend William R. Covert, C. M. Wilson, E. F. Loucks, John B. Henderson, and Reverend Robert L. Byrnes. The officers are Reverend Robert L. Byrnes, president; E. F. Loucks, secretary, and John B. Henderson, treasurer.
The board of education consists of Reverends J. W. Davis, W. B. Elliott, W. H. H. McKlveen, and S. Woods.
The faculty are Erastus F. Loucks, A. M., principal and professor of philosophy and Latin; Hiram R. Snyder, A. B., professor of Greek and chemistry; W. W. Ellsworth, A. B., professor of mathematics and sciences, and Mrs. Henrietta Loucks, professor of vocal and instrumental music. The curriculum embraces four courses and a primary department. The preparatory department embraces Latin, Greek, mathematics, science, and music in its course. The academy, while not sectarian, is conducted by the clergymen and laymen of the Church of God.
CEMETERY.
Mt. Irwin Cemetery Association was chartered in 1887. Robert M. Sterritt organized the company. The land was purchased from J. D. Mc- Dowell, and is located north of Amity church and contains six acres. The surveying was done by Robert M. Sterritt, who has given his personal atten- tion to its development. Its present officers are Robert M. Sterritt, presi- dent and superintendent; David Karnes, treasurer, and J. A. Gill, secretary.
CHURCHES.
Amity Presbyterian Church was organized about 1800. This church has an interesting history. Always in advance on the subject of slavery, they hesitated not to enter their protest against the acts of the presbytery and the general assembly, when not sufficiently awake to the subject. It has numbered among its congregation a very large portion of the early fam- ilies of Irwin, Mineral, and Victory townships, and the eastern townships of Mercer county. The congregation at first worshiped in the woods and at the homes of the early settlers, and subsequently in a tent. The first build- ing was of logs and stood upon what was known as the Barlow lands, after- ward owned by John Kennedy, and was destroyed by fire. The present house of worship, built after the fire, is a frame structure erected at a cost of one thousand three hundred dollars.
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The first pastor was Reverend Robert Lee. He was released from his charge in July, 1807. After this the Reverend John Boyd supplied the pulpit. The second regular pastor was Reverend Ira Condit, whose pastor- ate extended from 1825 to 1829. Reverend Hezekiah May then supplied the charge for one year, and after him Reverend Nathaniel R. Snowden for the same length of time. The next regular pastor was Reverend Robert Glenn, whose pastorate extended from 1832 to 1850. He was succeeded by Reverend Mead Satterfield, who preached at Amity for six years, and at his death was followed by the Reverend John Boyd, who remained its pastor until 1866 when the Reverend W. D. Patton commenced his labors. He was succeeded in 1881 by the Reverend J. W. Fulton, whose pastorate ter- minated in 1883. The present pastor, Reverend William M. Hays, com- menced his labors July 1, 1886. The congregation numbered among its early members Thomas Vaughn, William Henderson, Archibald Henderson, Samuel Gildersleeve, Joshua Coleman, Robert Whann, William Davidson, John Davidson, Ezra Gildersleeve, Robert and William Patterson, John, William, and John McClaran, John Moyne, Samuel Riggs, Thomas Hender- son, and John Bonner.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Congregation held its meetings at the homes of the members until 1838. Stephen Barlow, a large land owner, was then requested to donate land upon which to erect a place of worship. He had presented the Amity church with the land upon which their first church was built, but refused this request. They then purchased the present site and erected a frame building. In 1868 the present brick edifice was built at a cost of three thousand five hundred dollars. The organization of the church was effected by the Reverend N. Bird, and the first ruling elders were John Gibson and Amzi Axtell. In 1843 the congregations of Cool Spring and Irwin were united under the pastoral care of the Reverend Jacob Mur- phy, his pastorate lasting until his death in 1850. Jacob T. Wall supplied them for three months and then became the regular pastor, serving until 1854. He was succeeded by the Reverend J. M. Gallagher, whose pastorate continued for thirty-three years, when at his request he was released. The congregation was then supplied for two years by Reverends O. B. Elliott, J. R. Morris, and others. In July, 1889, the Reverend Liles was called to the pastorate.
The following are the names of the members from the organization of the church down to 1847: John Gibson, Nancy Gibson, Hugh Marshall, John Coulter, Streight Axtell, Everton Davis, Henry .Davis, Joseph Ken- nedy, Polly Davis, Rhoda Davis, Elizabeth Kennedy, John Koonce, Henry Koonce, Betsy Koonce, Amos Koonce, Caleb Kirk, Julia A. Kirk, Stephen W. Beach, Sarah Beach, Susan Beach, Hanna Henderson, William Jack, Rhoda Jack, Sarah Ball, John Simpson, William Cassidy, Lydia Cassidy, Philip Humel, Catharine Humel, Stephen Humel, Nancy Koonce, Jane
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Graham, Ellen Montgomery, Ichabod Koonce, James Coulter, Nancy Mont- gomery, Alexander Montgomery, Margaret Osborn, Mary Osborn, William Koonce, Eliza Simpson, George Koonce, Nancy Koonce, Nancy Gibson, Martha Marshall, Nancy Coulter, Sarah Simpson, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ann Simpson, Mary Humel, Elizabeth Morgan, Mary Morgan, Mary McDowell, Elizabeth Osborn, Mary J. Wall, Nancy Axtell, Ann Dick, Elizabeth Kennedy, Nancy and Pemelia Sopher, E. Davis, Mary Beigh- lea, Lucy Westlake, Mary J. Carmichael, Bershiba Richey, Henry Karnes, Nancy Marshall, Sarah Westlake, Rebecca Mulholand, F. Colingwood, Hannah Koonce, M. A. Koonce, Sarah Griffin, Mary A. Jack, Moses Richey, Mary A. Axtell, Rebecca A. Gettis, and Francis Coulter.
The Barkeyville Church of God was organized in October, 1839, by Elders Thomas and John Hickernell. The church was composed on its or- ganization of the following members: Thomas Martin and wife, Jacob Walter and wife, Philip Beighler and wife, and John Ayres and wife, Thomas York and Henry Beck. John Ayres and Philip Beighler were chosen elders and Henry Beck deacon. The first pastor was Reverend John Hickernell. In 1845 Elder Jacob Myer's pastorate commenced and ex- tended until 1847, when Elders Henry Barkey and Daniel Wertz com- menced their labors. They were succeeded in the spring of 1848 by Elder J. M. Kleim, who preached until 1851. H. E. Logue followed, and was in charge until 1854, then S. S. Richmond until 1857, and J. W. Domer in 1858. He was succeeded by A. C. Raysor, whose pastorate lasted one year. Then came Elders J. M. Domer and J. Hovis until 1860; Henry Barkey and J. Hovis, 1860; D. Blakely, 1864; G. Glenn, 1867; J. Grim, 1869; J. M. Domer, 1872; W. S. Pritts, 1875; R. L. Byrnes, 1878; S. Woods, 1881; J. R. H. Latchaw, 1885; W. H. H. McKlveen, 1886, and R. L. Byrnes, present pastor.
The first church building was a log structure that stood upon the lands adjoining the farm of Walter Hoffman; its site was donated for church pur- poses. The present edifice was built in 1867 at a cost of two thousand two hundred dollars, and is a frame building.
Pleasant View Methodist Episcopal Church was organized about 1840. Their place of worship was the Bullion school house, a log structure. Among the first members were Stephen Yard, Solomon Sutton, John F. Henderson, Chauncey Hamilton, William Hovis, John McMullin, John Morris, William Allen, Martha Allen, Israel Beach and wife, Reuben Sutton, Mary Sutton, John McElphatrick, Margaret McElphatrick, Mary and Martha McElphat rick, and Samuel Baker. In 1850 the present site was purchased from Hez- ekiah Mays. Stephen Yard, Solomon Sutton, John F. Henderson, and Chauncey Hamilton raised the money and material, and performed the prin- cipal part of the work of its erection. The church is situated in the northern part of the township half a mile from Mays' Corners, on the Pittsburgh and
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Franklin road, and has a membership of ninety. Owing to the many changes in the pastorates of the charges in which this society has been lo- cated since its organization, the names of the successive ministers who preached here cannot be given. The pastor in 1889 was Reverend James A. Hume.
Peters Methodist Episcopal Chapel .- About 1845, some twenty-five members of the Clintonville Methodist Episcopal church, being desirous of having a place of worship near their homes, organized and established a congregation composed of the following persons: John C. Hovis and wife, Daniel McFadden and wife, James Walter and wife, Craft McFadden, Robert Hutchison and wife, John Hutchison and wife, Jacob Hoffman and wife, Philip Walter and wife, Mary Walter, Ann Walter, Amelia Hovis, Mary Morris, Peggy J. Fitz, Freelove Hoffman, Mary A. McFadden, Mar- jorie McFadden, Catharine Walter, and Eli Hoffman and wife. Daniel McFadden was the first class leader. The place of worship was the old log building known as the Walter school house. The church existed for some years with indifferent success, and finally was discontinued, some of the congregation returning to the mother church at Clintonville. It is impossible to obtain the names of the early pastors. In 1869 the Reverend James Grove of the Harrisville church reorganized the congregation, and in 1873 a site was purchased from James Walter, and the present church was built at a cost of one thousand eight hundred dollars. It is a frame structure, thirty-six by forty, and was named in honor of Reverend Cear- ing Peters, its first pastor. His successors have been as follows: Reverends J. L. Stratton, John Lusher, A. O. Stone, J. L. Fletcher, William Bran- field, and J. A. Hume.
The English Evangelical Church is situated in Barkeyville, and was organized in 1865 by W. Davis, L. M. Boyer, J. Crissman, J. Woodhull and W. Brown. The original members were Jacob Latchaw and wife, I. S. Yard and wife, Robert Jones, George Jones, Keller Jones, William Jones, G. W. Hobaugh and wife, Sidney Latchaw, Sarah and Lizzie Latchaw. The congregation held services for thirteen years in the log church belonging to the congregation of the Church of God. In 1878 they erected their present frame building, which cost one thousand two hundred dollars. It was dedicated the same year, and the dedicatory ser- mon was preached by Bishop Rudolph Dubs, of Cleveland, Ohio. The original officers were: Class leader, Jacob Latchaw; trustees: Jacob Latchaw, John Huddleson, and Nicholas Yard, who still fill the same offices. The first pastor was Reverend J. Myers, who was followed by the Reverends John Artlers, J. J. Carmeney, J. Garnier, J. W. Dunlap, John W. Domer, A. C. Miller, James Voight, F. C. Stroyer, D. M. Bumgardner, and H. Cramer, the present pastor.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Mechanicsville was organized in
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1888, and a building erected the same year and dedicated in January, 1889. It is a fine frame structure costing twenty-two hundred dollars. The Rev- erend I. C. Pershing preached the dedicatory sermon. Robert B. Eakin, Benjamin R. Yard, Frank C. Lee, and S. Reed Weston are the present class leaders. Doctor C. M. Wilson, Elijah Yard, John Yard, Thomas Eakin, S. R. Weston, Ezra Koonce, and James H. Alexander are the trust- ees. Reverend James A. Hume is the present pastor, and to his efforts are largely due the organization of the present congregation and the erection of the church.
CHAPTER XXVI.
ALLEGHENY TOWNSHIP.
ERECTION AND BOUNDARIES - PIONEERS - EARLY INDUSTRIES - SCHOOLS -CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES.
A LL that part of Venango county north and west of the Allegheny river and east of Oil creek was erected into a township under the name of Allegheny in 1800 by the Crawford county court. In 1806 the nominal townships of East Branch and Windrock were formed from the western part of this territory, but its limits were not actually curtailed until 1827, when Tionesta was formed. Its western boundary was nearly identical with the line of Forest and Venango counties. The erection of Cornplanter in 1833 and President in 1850 reduced Allegheny to a somewhat irregular extent of territory bordering upon Crawford and Warren counties with its greatest length from east to west. The township was reduced to its present limits in 1866 by the formation of Oil Creek and the annexation of the east- ern part of Venango county to Forest. In 1870 the population was one thousand four hundred and eighty-five; in 1880, one thousand and forty- three.
PIONEERS.
The Pithole settlement was one of the earliest in the county. It is dif- ficult to determine what elements of attractiveness this region possessed, secluded as it was and at a distance from any of the traveled routes or water highways by which the wilds of western Pennsylvania were pene- trated. It was the policy of the Holland Company to give a hundred acres of land to any one who would make a settlement thereon, and the apparent liberality of this offer probably induced many to assume the obligation of
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locating in a country they had never seen and which proved disappointing in many instances. To such an extent was this the case that the larger number of those who settled here at a very early date removed to other local- ities after a brief struggle with the difficulties of pioneer life, leaving no record of themselves and very meager indications of their residence.
Among these temporary settlers was Alexander McElhaney, who came from Centre county in 1796, but was compelled to return within a brief period by the alarming probability of Indian hostilities. Several years later he returned but remained at his former settlement but a short time. He then removed to Sandy Creek township where his descendants now re- side.
The Dawson family, of which there is a numerous connection in Forest county, is descended from three brothers, Thomas, John, and James, who were of Scotch-Irish descent and migrated from eastern Pennsylvania to the extreme southwestern part of Allegheny township at the time when the surrounding country was an unbroken wilderness. The names of Thomas and James appear in a tax list of 1805. Thomas was the only one of the brothers who resided permanently in this township. He was a farmer of comparative wealth and prominent in local affairs. The family was ac- tively identified with Methodism in this section.
The names of Hugh and Michael McGerald also appear in the tax list of 1805. They were Irish Catholics and among the earliest adherents of that faith in Venango county. Their land was about midway between the Warren and Dunham roads.
Isaac Connely was a very early settler in Allegheny, locating in 1803 half a mile from the Warren road at some distance from any route of travel at that time. He was born in Ireland in "1747; during the Revolution he lived in Philadelphia, where he kept the Black Horse tavern, a well-known hostelry. At the close of the war he moved to Centre county and thence to this township. He was at one time a teacher of Latin and German and was a man of extensive reading. One of the first births in the township was that of his son, George W., afterward prothonotary, September 3, 1804. He was three times married, and died July 4, 1823. A clump of trees in a field on the farm of Alfred Lamb is pointed out as the Connely burying ground.
Two soldiers of the Revolution, Aspenwall Cornwell and David Dun- ham, were among the pioneers of Allegheny. The former was from New York city and brought his family to this locality by way of the Allegheny river to Holeman's ferry, Forest county, arriving at their destination in August, 1819. The Cornwell farm, on the Warren road, is now owned by E. Van Wyck. Aspenwall Cornwell, Jr., lived there many years after the death of his father, but sold when oil was discovered and removed to the west. David Dunham was from Fabius, Onondaga county, New York.
John Damals
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In 1819 he purchased two hundred and eighty-eight acres of land east of Pleasantville. Two years later he removed thither with his family, traveling by sleigh to Orleans Point, and thence by boat down the Allegheny river to Holeman's ferry. Edwin Dunham, who was born in 1800 and preceded the arrival of his father's family two years, married a daughter of Aspenwall Cornwell, Sr., and was one of the oldest citizens in the township at the time of his death.
Captain Ebenezer Byles arrived in 1825 from Hartford, Connecticut, where he had been sheriff, and acquired his military title by service in the war of 1812. He settled the Clark farm. There were four sons in his family: Dwight, Matthew, Cornelius, and Edwin. Matthew and Cornelius became doctors; the former practiced in Utica, this county, the latter at. Fredonia, Mercer county; Edwin was a dentist in Pleasantville, and Dwight. a farmer in this township.
John Tennent, a lineal descendant of the Reverend Gilbert Tennent, founder of the Log College in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, came to this county in 1826 from Colchester, New London county, Connecticut. The journey from Albany to Buffalo by the Erie canal required two weeks; from the latter point a vessel was taken to Erie, and the remaining distance traversed by wagon. The family at that time consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Tennent and two daughters, one of whom, Mrs. James R. Mcclintock, now lives at Oil City. Six hundred acres of land had been secured and within a few years a frame house was built. It is still occupied and is one of the oldest dwellings in the township.
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