Indiana County, Pennsylvania; her people, past and present, Volume II, Part 149

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 884

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On Nov. 10, 1865, Mr. Blakley married Elizabeth Fulton, who was born in Young township, daughter of Silas and Annie (Har- bison) Fulton, and died Oct. 14, 1909; she is buried in West Lebanon cemetery. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Blakley had a family of six children, as follows: Annie Jean (Jennie), wife of James M. Risinger, of Homer City, Indiana Co., Pa .; William, who died when twenty-one years old; Lula R., at home; Silas Fulton, who is on the homestead; Albert C., residing in Chicago; and Joseph A., Jr., who enlisted for service in the Spanish-American war in 1898 and died of fever Aug. 22, 1898, while in camp at Chattanooga, and was brought

Joseph Pound (or Pounds), son of Adoni- jah and Hannah (Collier) Pound, was born in 1750 and died April 4, 1813. His wife, Sarah (Tichinger), born in 1757, died April 8, 1813, four days after her husband. She was a sis- ter of Dr. Thomas Tichinger and Rachel (Tichinger) Collier, wife of Thomas Collier. By this union there were six children: Ste- phen, born in 1777, who married Catharine Stiffitch; Sarah; Hannah; Eunice, who mar- ried John Eggen, of Hardin county, Ky .; Elsie, who married Thomas McIntyre, of Arm- strong county, Pa .; and Joseph. Joseph Pound, the father, was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war, and at its close the family moved from Basking Ridge, Morris (now Somerset) Co., N. J., to Derry township, Westmoreland Co., Pa., locating near the Salem Presbyterian Church, of which they became members. Later they located on Tunnel Hill.

Joseph Pounds, youngest son of Joseph and Sarah (Tichinger) Pounds, was born in Derry township, Westmoreland county, Dec. 21, 1795, and made his home in that county. Early in life he boated salt from the Conemaugh river to Cincinnati, Ohio. His later years were spent in farming in Derry township. He was a strong Democrat of the old type. For over seventy years a member of the Salem Church, he declined to hold any church office. He died Oct. 2, 1881. Mr. Pound married Mary Drummond, who was born in 1807 and died

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March 26, 1845. Her grandparents, William tia (Henderson) Wilson, and widow of Wil- and Ellen (Cannon) Drummond, came from liam Henderson. She died March 11, 1872, Scotland in 1740, and he took an active part aged twenty-nine years, twenty-seven days, and was buried in Bethel Church cemetery. There were three children by this union : William, now of Blairsville, who married Maud Rapine, of Center township; Lizzie Ella, who died Aug. 4, 1870, aged fifteen months; and Nettie M., wife of Robert Roof, living in Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Pounds' third marriage was to Ellen Coad, of Livermore, Westmoreland county, daughter of Henry and in the Revolutionary war, in which he was wounded, dying of his injuries. Her father, John Drummond, born in 1763, died in 1843. He came to western Pennsylvania in 1785 and settled in Westmoreland county and was among the founders of the old historic Salem Presbyterian Church. He married Mary Bull- man. Joseph and Mary (Drummond) Pounds had a family of nine children, namely : Joseph, born May 12, 1830, is mentioned be- Diana (Blacklar) Coad, the latter from Kent, low; Mary, born Sept. 9, 1831, died July 16, England. Mrs. Pounds is still living at Liver- more. She is the mother of three children: 1832; Sarah, born May 11, 1833, married Alexander McCurdy ; John D., born Dec. 13, John Franklin; Harry S., a farmer on the original homestead in Derry township, West- moreland county ; and Joseph, who is assistant postmaster at Vandergrift. 1834, lived on the old homestead on Tunnel Hill and was a soldier in the Civil war; Ellen, born Sept. 18, 1836, married John Drummond; Hannah, born March 10, 1838, resided on the old homestead at Tunnel Hill ; Mary, born Dec. 21, 1839, died Jan. 15, 1889; Stephen C. was born July 25, 1841; William, born April 6, 1844, died Oct. 19, 1876.

Joseph Pounds, son of Joseph and Mary (Drummond) Pounds, born May 12, 1830, on the farm in Derry township, Westmoreland county, passed his early life there and became engaged in farming. After the Civil war he came to Indiana county, locating in Center township, where he bought 207 acres known as the Gibson farm. Settling on that place he entered into general farming and stock rais- ing, making a specialty of raising sheep, with which he was quite successful. In time he became one of the most prosperous farmers in that section of Indiana county. He died on the homestead Nov. 23, 1899, at the age of sixty-nine years, and was buried in Bethel Church cemetery in Center township. He was a leading member of Bethel Church, was elected elder of same, and was a strong sup- porter of temperance, eventually associating himself with the Prohibition party. For a number of years he was a Democrat. Mr. Pounds was married three times. His first wife, Jane Robbins, daughter of Daniel and Nancy (Reynolds) Robbins, of White town-

ship, died in Center township April 5, 1865, organizer of the county Sunday school asso-

aged thirty-three years, twenty-three days. She was buried- in Bethel Church cemetery. She became the mother of three children: Mary A., who married J. S. Johnston, who resides at Premont, Texas; Daniel R., who re- sides in Elliston, Mont .; and Jennie, married to George Pearson, of Corning, N. Y. Mr. Pounds married (second) Mrs. Julia A. (Wil- son) Henderson, daughter of Daniel and Lit-

John Franklin Pounds, eldest son of Joseph and Ellen (Coad) Pounds, was born Jan. 16, 1875, on his father's farm in Center town- ship, and attended public school there. Later he attended select school at Homer City, and the State normal school at Indiana, after which he took up the profession of school teaching, which he followed successfully for eight years in Center township. For the most part, he was in the Risinger, Lowry, Adair and Myer Schools. After the death of his father he took up farming on the homestead, where he has been engaged in farming and dairying ever since, employing the most up-to-date methods in his work. He has made many im- provements on his property, which now con- sists of 215 acres. Mr. Pounds has a home in the borough of Indiana, where he spends the winters. He served his township as school director, and is a prominent member of the Prohibition party in his locality, having been a candidate for the office of prothonotary of Indiana county on that ticket. He is a lead- ing member of the Bethel Presbyterian Church in Center township and has filled the office of elder for several years, also acting as trus- tee, Sunday school teacher and superintendent of the Sunday school. He has taken special interest in Sunday school work and was the

ciation which has been divided into seven divisions, and is president of the Indiana dis- triet, including White, Washington and Rayne townships. He is a teacher of the first divi- sion, having taken a training course in that work for a year and a half, in a class of twenty-five. He is devoted to all work per- taining to the church.

On April 2, 1900, Mr. Pounds married Lil-

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lian B. Miller, daughter of John I. and Mary who married Hugh St. Clair, and removed to (Keener) Miller, and they have three chil- Iowa; and Elizabeth (Betsey), who married William Campbell, being his second wife.

dren : Irwin E., Helen Miller and John Donald. .

MACK. For over a century the Mack fam- ily has been well represented in that part of Indiana county now included in East and West Wheatfield townships, and the early members of the family here were among the most respected pioneer settlers of the region. The brothers Jacob Wagner Mack and Hugh St. Clair Mack, of West Wheatfield township, are grandsons of Robert Mack, who founded Selling this tract to Joseph Mack he bought this branch of the family here.

Robert Mack was a native of County Down, Ireland, born about 1763. There he grew to manhood and married Margaret Campbell, who was born about 1769, and four children were born to them in their native home: John, born about 1797; Robert, born about 1799; James, born March 3, 1800; and Jean, born about 1803. In the early part of 1803 Robert Mack with his wife and four children left their native home for America. While they were crossing the Atlantic, on a slow-going sailing vessel, their little .daughter Jean died and was buried at sea, the body being placed in a sack, weighted at the feet with sand. The burial service was read by the captain. After landing in the New World the family made their way west of the Alleghenies, locating first near Pittsburg, Pa., and later in Wheat- field township, Indiana Co., Pa., where Mr. Mack settled down to farming on a 400-acre tract. He had to erect the log cabin for his family, and began a hard fight for existence in the wilderness which lasted many years. By steady industry and thrifty habits he man- aged to develop his farm and make many im- provements, and he spent the remainder of his life on that place, dying there Aug. 2, 1850. He was buried in Bethel Church cemetery, in what is now West Wheatfield township, and a headstone marks the last resting place of him- self and wife. Mr. Mack in religious principle was what was known as a Seceder, later join- ing the Bethel United Presbyterian Church. He was an old-line Democrat on political questions. His wife preceded him to the grave, dying on the farm Nov. 17, 1839, at the age of seventy years, and was laid to rest in Bethel cemetery. She, too, was a member of Bethel United Presbyterian Church. Their children born in Wheatfield township were: David; William ; Samuel ; Armstrong; George; Jean (2), who married William McClain, and orchardist. His fruit and dairy products are died in West Wheatfield township; Margaret, shipped to Johnstown. Mr. Mack has shown 99

James Mack, son of Robert and Margaret (Campbell) Mack, was born March 3, 1800, in Ireland, and was but a young child when brought to America. He grew to manhood in Wheatfield township, and in his earlier years found work on the Pennsylvania canal and the pike, the old road from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. In time he bought the McKelvey farm of 120 acres, then practically a wilder- ness, cleared the land and engaged in farming. the Archie St. Clair farm of 158 acres in West Wheatfield township, upon which place he re- sided the rest of his life, following farming. He died March 6, 1885, at the age of eighty- five, and his wife Sarah Jane (Wagner), born Nov. 27, 1817, died Oct. 16, 1903, at the age of eighty-six. She was a daughter of Michael Wagner. Mr. and Mrs. Mack were interred in Germany graveyard, in West Wheatfield township, where a handsome tombstone marks their resting place. They were the parents of a large family, born as follows: Anna B., July 31, 1837 ; Lydia C., April 10, 1839 ; John, March 20, 1841; Maggie T., March 4, 1843; Michael G., May 15, 1845; Jennie V., Nov. 6, 1847; Lizzie E., Feb. 26, 1850; Jacob W., Aug. 14, 1853; Hugh S., Aug. 19, 1856. Mr. Mack was a member of the Lutheran Church; in politics he was a Democrat.

JACOB WAGNER MACK, son of James and Sarah Jane (Wagner) Mack, was born Aug. 14, 1853, in East Wheatfield township, where he began his education as a pupil in the com- mon school. Later he was sent to Major Boller's select school, at Homer City, and to Indiana, and studied under Professor Wilson at Armagh, in East Wheatfield township. He followed the teacher's profession for many years, conducting schools for nineteen winters and twelve summers, and taught one term at Armagh for Professor Campbell. But lie always found time to help at home during the harvesting season. For a while he was in the mercantile business at Heshbon. In 1880 he bought the Samuel Mack farm of 130 acres and there erected a fine house and barn, springhouse and outbuildings, and he has since been engaged in general farming, mak- ing a specialty, however, of dairying and fruit raising. He has set out almost a thousand fruit trees, and his success has made him some- what of an authority in this section as an

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in his work all the characteristics of the pro- their declining years. Mr. Mack, like his gressive and up-to-date agriculturist, and he brother, has made a specialty of dairy prod- not only has good ideas but the executive ucts and fruit, having set out over five hun- ability to put them to practical test, and his dred fruit trees, with which he has been very successful. He has also engaged to some ex- tent in stock raising. His fruit and butter are sent to Johnstown, H. L. Wagner, whole- sale dealer at that place, handling them. Mr. Mack is a public-spirited citizen and deeply concerned in the general welfare, but except for several years' service as school director he has not taken any direct part in public matters. In political association he is a Re- publican. He is a member of the Lutheran Church in West Wheatfield township, of which his father was one of the founders. results have had the effect of helping to raise standards all over this district. He has also taken a hand in the public affairs of his lo- cality, having served fourteen years as town- ship auditor, one term of three years as super- visor, and as member of the election board ever since he began to vote. He has always been a Republican, and at present favors the Progressive movement. Formerly he held membership in the Lutheran Church, in which he served as elder, and at present he belongs to the M. E. Church at Heshbon, of which he is also elder.

Mr. Mack was married, Sept. 28, 1881, in New Florence, Pa., to Mintie A. Brendlinger, daughter of Joseph and Isabelle (Riddle) Brendlinger, of West Wheatfield township, and six children have been born to this union : (1) Maggie attended schools taught by Pro- fessor Stewart and Professor Campbell, at Armagh, receiving an excellent education, and later taught school in West Wheatfield town- ship. She is now the wife of J. Bowser, who is employed by the Scranton International Correspondence Schools, and they reside at Parkesburg, Pa. (2) Lizzie Emma holds a teacher's certificate, but has never taught school. She is now training for the profes- sion of nurse at Mercy hospital, in Pittsburg, Pa. (3) Hazel S. went to school at Mechanics- burg for four years and taught school four terms. She now resides at Homewood, Pa., being the wife of Clyde MeCrea, and they have one child, Jay Dean. Mr. McCrea follows the trade of plasterer. (4) Jay Ord is assist-

are at home.

WILLIAM JONES KING, a retired citi- zen of Indiana, Pa., was born near Lock father, helping at home with the farm labors, Haven, Clinton Co., Pa., March 18, 1843, and until he reached the age of twenty, when he is a son of George Washington and Catherine

(Bartholomew) King.

went to Hancock county, Ohio. There he was in the employ of J. N. Stoffer for a year, re- William King, the grandfather of William J. King, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1745, and when a young man became a silk weaver. His father was wealthy and left a handsome estate, but an elder brother in- herited all of his property and William en- tered the British army, in which he was a lieu- tenant in 1773, and came with his regiment to the American Colonies. On May 21, 1777, he turning home in 1877 and resuming work with his father, with whom he remained until the latter's death several years later. Then he and his brother Michael bought out the other heirs to the home place, which comprised 120 acres of valuable land, and Hugh S. Mack has since purchased Michael's interest, being now sole owner of the property. He and his wife gave the most devoted care to his parents in was commissioned second lieutenant in the

On June 8, 1875, Mr. Mack was married in Brushvalley township to Kate Annie Butler, who was born Sept. 20, 1856, daughter of Sam- uel and Elizabeth (Fulcomer) Butler, and they have had five children, viz. : Jennie Gert- rude, born Jan. 6, 1876, married E. Stewart McClain. Burtie Darrell, born Jan. 7, 1880, was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Pitcairn, Pa., for twelve years, and now lives in Brushvalley township, where he owns a large farm ; he married Sarah Rog- ers, and they have two children, Thirza and Erma. Russell Butler, born Feb. 11, 1888, re- sides at Pitcairn, Pa., where he is chief clerk of the supply department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; he married Estella St. Clair, and they have one child, Ethel. Gussie Levis, born May 20, 1891, holds a teacher's certificate from the State normal school at Indiana, Pa .; she lives at home. Elma Ray, born Feb. 9, 1897, is at home.

HUGH ST. CLAIR MACK, son of James and ant manager of the Real Estate Loan Company Sarah Jane (Wagner) Mack, was born Aug. of Parkersburg, W. Va. (5) Lida B. and 19, 1856, in East Wheatfield township, and (6) George Riehl, the latter born Oct. 5, 1902,

was but an infant when the family removed to West Wheatfield township. There he at- tended public school, later going to Professor Campbell's select school. He worked with his

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4th Foot Battalion. He settled in Northum- descendants lived in Lycoming, Clinton and berland county, Pa. (taking a location at the Clearfield counties. site of Jaysburg in 1774), where he had mar- ried Rachel Tharp, and they became the par- ents of two children: Sarah, who was born Aug. 22, 1774; and Ruth, born May 23, 1776. About two years after the birth of his young- est child Mr. King started for Jaysburg, leav- ing his wife and children at Northumberland to follow him, but not long after his depar- ture a number of people, fearing a raid by the Indians, left for the present site of Wil- liamsport, where a stockade, ten feet high, had been erected, the same being about what is now the corner of Fourth and Stephens streets. Loading their family goods, the little party fared forth, and had halted on the third day, at the point where the memorial stone stands, where Fourth street crosses a run coming down Cemetery street, when the In- dians came upon them, and a general mas- sacre occurred in which Mrs. King was toma- hawked and scalped, expiring (June 10th) in the arms of her husband, who had returned too late to save his loved ones. The children, Sarah and Ruth, aged four and two years, respectively, were captured by the savages,

George Washington King, son of William King, and father of William Jones King, spent his early years in laboring in Howard, Center (then Lycoming) county. Following this he spent a short time in Cherrytree, Ind., but returned to Lycoming county, Pa., and settled in Woodward township, which is now located in Clinton county, and there died July 9, 1855, aged sixty years, eleven months. Mr. King by his first wife, Mary, who died at the age of twenty-six years, had five children: George Washington, Jr., a laborer, died at Canton, Pa .; Wilson died at Lock Haven, Pa .; Francis F., who for years conducted a tavern at Lock Haven, died at that place; Margaret was married and died at Cherrytree, Pa .; Fanny, who married Joseph Shook, died in Clearfield county. For his second wife Mr. King married Catherine Bartholomew, who was born in 1804 in Cumberland county, Pa., daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Bartholomew. Mr. Bartholomew was a carpenter, cooper and millwright, and died in Lycoming (now Clin- ton) county when eighty-four years of age. The children of George W. and Catherine and taken as prisoners to Canada, but Mr. King were as follows: Bartholomew P., a min- ister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who died in November, 1908, married a Miss Emery; Catherine, who married James Mc- Sherry, died in Clinton county ; Joseph R., a Methodist minister, died in 1894 at Benton, Columbia Co., Pa .; James F., who was a car- penter, died at Lock Haven, Pa .; Frances E. became the wife of John Clark, of Williams- port, and died at that place ; Henry E. enlisted in the Union army at the outbreak of the Civil war and lost his life in the desperate battle of Fair Oaks; William Jones is mentioned below.

King was able to secure permission from the government and a band of supporters to go to the Indians' rendezvous, guided by a friendly Indian, one Jake Orby, and after some search found his daughter Sarah. She was able to inform the party where her sister had been taken, but it was necessary to use great diplo- macy before the latter was secured from her captors. When the little party started back home, provisions had become so short that its members were obliged at one time to eat skunk meat. Ruth King subsequently grew to womanhood and went to her mother's home in New Jersey, where she married a retired William Jones King, son of George Wash- ington King, was but a boy when his father died, and the family being left in humble cir- cumstances his education was limited to four winter terms of school. He was only fourteen years old when he faced the world on his own account, going out to work among the farmers of his neighborhood, but in the meantime he assiduously applied himself to his books, made the most of every opportunity that presented itself, and was rewarded for his industry and perseverance by the acquiring of a good edu- cation. He worked in the sawmills and helped to load and unload boats, and when seventeen years of age began his career as an educator in Keating township, Clinton county, where mariner and died in comfortable circum- stances. Sarah went to Jaysburg with her father and resided with him until his death, Oct. 2, 1802, following which she made her home with a half brother, Joseph, until 1832, and then went to live with John Kelly King, in Tioga county, Pa., where she died in 1850. On May 25, 1779, Mr. King was married (sec- ond) to Martha Reeder, who was born Feb. 24, 1763, and died May 16, 1817, and they be- came the parents of seven children, namely : Mary, born Feb. 6, 1781; William, Jr., Aug. 29, 1783; Joseph, Sept. 3, 1786; Martha, Jan. 13, 1792; George Washington, July 14, 1794; John, June 15, 1797; and Reeder, the date of whose birth is not definitely known. Their he taught school each winter until 1864, in

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the meantime spending the summer months in his health again failing he withdrew after one work in a sawmill; and in the year mentioned he was made clerk of the board of elections, at the time of Abraham Lincoln's second elec- tion as president. On Aug. 11, 1864, Mr. King enlisted in Company C, 207th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 3d Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, under Capt. James W. Fredericks, Col. Robert C. Cox, and Gen. John L. Hartranft. He participated in all the battles engaged in by the Army of the Potomac from that time, and at the end of the war received his honorable discharge with a record for bravery and faithfulness that had made him admired by his comrades and re- spected by his officers.

On his return to the pursuits of peace Mr. King resumed teaching. On June 5, 1865, he married Cordelia A. Hewitt, who was born in Clearfield county, Pa., Feb. 5, 1844, daughter of Thomas and Annie (Shoemaker) Hewitt. After his marriage he established his home at Dunnstown, Clinton Co., Pa., the oldest town in that county, and there continued teaching, sumed his position as manager of the Reynolds- ville Hardware Company, and ceased active business activities Oct. 10, 1911, upon his re- tirement from that position.

farming and sawmill work until 1872. In that year Mr. King moved to New Columbus, Lu- zerne Co., Pa., where he worked the farm owned by his eldest brother, but the death of three of his children so discouraged him that he decided to seek new fields and accordingly moved to Huston township, Clearfield Co., Pa., where he was engaged eight months each year for the next five years in teaching school. At the end of that time he received and ac- cepted an offer of the principalship of the schools of Driftwood, Pa., where he spent five years, resigning to take the principalship of the Benezett schools in Elk county. Two years later he left this position to enter the employ of William E. Johnston, for whom he was bookkeeper and assistant postmaster, but two years later the store was destroyed by fire and Mr. King again became principal of the schools, a position he continued to hold for the next year. During this time he had been working on a book, known as "Normal Ont- lines," which he published at Benezett. Leav-

year. He spent four weeks in the Philadelphia hospital, and on his return to business life or- ganized the Lycoming Hardware Company, in 1896, being connected with that company until 1902. He then transferred his activities to Johnstown, where for one year he acted as assistant bookkeeper and in other capacities in the employ of the Swank Hardware Com- pany, subsequently becoming traveling repre- sentative for the T. J. Fernley Hardware Com- pany, and in the meantime carrying a side line of woodenware, willowware and plumbing and tinners' supplies for W. C. Nimmo & Co., of Baltimore, Md., and C. H. & E. S. Gold- burg, of New York City. In 1904 Mr. King became manager for the Reynoldsville Hard- ware Company, but in August, 1905, resigned his position and moved to Indiana, where he was made bookkeeper of the Indiana Provision Company, an office which he continued to fill capably until he resigned, Jan. 1, 1906. At that time, returning to Reynoldsville, he re-

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Indiana County, Pennsylvania; her people, past and present, Volume II, Part 149

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 884

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 884