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The first white man to pass through where Cooksburg now is was Christian Frederick Post, a Moravian missionary. Clarion river was then called Tobec river or Toby river by him, which means Alder stream. In 1749 this stream was called by the French Riviere Au Fiel, or river of hate. In 1802 it was called Stump creek and was so designated on some of the carly maps, and in 1819 we had the first official mention of the river as Clarion. The old settlers, including myself, tenaciously clung to the name Toby's creek until 1850. (See also history of Ridgway township, and chapter on Forests and Streams.) Tom's run was so named from a Seneca Indian, in pre-historic days. His camp was still there in 1837. Along this run was a trail over which the Seneca Indians came from the Reservation in the north to hunt in Jefferson county. As many as sixty Indians, accom- panied by a few squaws, have come over this trail in the fall, and by the same route re- turned in the winter. These Indian hunts were more or less continued until about 1848. I have seen these Indian hunters myself, in Brookville.
After Cook built his sawmill, he logged with oxen for ten years and rafted and ran his boards to Pittsburgh markets. About the late thirties he commenced building flatboats. In 1837 he was sufficiently prosperous to buy two gray horses, which he called Mike and Pete. I have seen this team myself, a very fine pair, in Brookville at John Smith's tavern. In addition to being a farmer, boatbuilder and lumberman, John Cook was a mighty hunter, and like all other pioneer hunters he kept from five to six hounds. In the twenties he carried
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a flintlock gun; in the late thirties he secured a heavy-barrel percussion rifle. How many animals he killed in his lifetime I do not know, but in one day, in 1830, he killed six deer, one panther, one bear, one wolf and sixty wild turkeys. The woods were full of wild-bee trees and honey was to be had whenever needed.
Cook caught in the Clarion river, by hook and line, many a choice bass, chub, trout, and shot many a pike, weighing each from fifteen to thirty pounds. His sawmill cost him about
of snakes, in the spring of the year, all through this wilderness, would coil themselves into a great ball on some large stone, and the pioneers, knowing this habit, would visit the den at the right time and shoot through the ball, killing many of them. I remember John Cook well ; had many a long talk with him in John Smith's tavern. He was about five feet, six inches high, very heavy set, and of great muscular power. He prided himself on his physical strength. John Cook was a remark- able man, a man of brain, but with limited
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The great danger of the wilderness along the water and in the woods was the rattle- snake. There was a den at Troutman run, one on the hill right back of where A. Wayne Cook's residence now is, and now one at Mount Misery. These dens had to be visited annu- ally in April or May, and sometimes from one to two hundred snakes were killed in a day, at one or each of these dens. A number
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PRESENT TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS
At the election held November 2, 1915, M. Ileft and Frank Miller were elected school directors; John Cook, supervisor; W. Mert Grant, constable.
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CHAPTER XXVHI SNYDER TOWNSHIP-BOROUGH OF BROCKWAYVILLE
ORGANIZATION AND POPULATION-TAXABLES IN 1836-PIONEER NOTES-EARLY OFFICIALS-PRES- ENT OFFICIALS-CHARLES MCLAIN CAMP, SONS OF VETERANS-TOWNS AND HAMLETS-BOR- OUGHI OF BROCKWAYVILLE
Snyder township, named for Gov. Simon Snyder, was organized in 1835, and was taken from Ridgway and Pinecreek. It was bounded on the east by the Clearfield county line, on the north by Ridgway township, on the south and west by Pinecreek township. The popu- lation in 1840 was 291; 1850, 306: 1860, 597; 1870. 792; 1880. 1,048; 1890, 2,011; 1900, 2,117 ; 1910, 1,796.
TAXABLES IN 1836
Dillis Allen; Hugh Anderson ; George Ad- dison ; James and Alonzo Brockway, one saw- mill ; Elihue Clarke : David Carr : Joel Clarke. Sr .; Joel Clarke, Jr., single man ; David Den- nison ; John Dougherty, single man; Thomas Dougherty, single man: Myron Gibbs; Fran- cis Goodar : Benjamin Hulet ; Frederick Het- erick; Joseph Houston, single man ; William Houston, single man ; Milton Johnston ; Joseph McAfee, single man ; Robert MeCurdy, single man: Joseph MeCurdy, single man; John MeLaughlin ; Thomas McCormick; Hamilton Moody: Thomas Moody; Andrew McCor- mick : James Moorhead, single man; James WV. Moorhead. single man; John Moorhead : David Moorhead, single man; John Pearsall; Arad Pearsall; James Ross : David M. Riddle ; llenry Shaffer, single man; Jacob Shaffer; Ami Sibley; William Shaw: Stephen Tib- betts: Isaac Temple; Andrew Vastbinder ; Paul Vandevort : Joseph Whitehill.
PIONEER NOTES
The pioneer graveyard was called "Shaffer's burying ground." In that little "city of the dead" rest the remains of Joel Clarke, Sr .. a soldier of the Revolution, and Chloe, his wife.
In 1821 John S. Brockway purchased. at treasurer's sale, at Indiana. the "Henry Pef- fer" tract on Little Toby. and the next year
Alonzo and James M. Brockway moved over from Bennett's branch and commenced im- provements on the land. They had to cut their way five miles down the creek from Philetus Clarke's. They planted fruit trees of various kinds as soon as the land was cleared, and peach and plum trees were soon in bearing. They also made large quantities of maple sugar, raised all their own supplies, and, with game in abundance, lived luxuri- ously for those days. This was the first settle- ment in what is now Snyder township. Other early settlers were Baily Hughes, A. J. In- galls. James Pendleton, Dr. William Bennett, .1. R. Frost, Samuel Beman, Stephen Tib- betts. Jacob Myers, Alonzo Ferman, Bennett Prindle, Charles Matthews, Joseph W. Greene, McMinns, and others.
It is pretty hard to locate these old settlers. They are found in different townships, owing to the fact that new townships were being formed, county lines changed. and townships or parts thereof stricken from one county and added to either Clearfield or Elk.
The pioneer sawmill was built in 1828 by the Brockway brothers. Dr. William Bennett built one of the first sawmills in the township. In 1836 Raught & Wilson built a mill where Ferman's is now. In 1841 James Pendleton built a sawmill. gristmill and carding-mill on Rattlesnake.
Early school teachers were Miss Clarissa Brockway. A. M. Clarke, John Kyler, Mary Warner. Sylvia Clarke, Dr. W. C. Niver, Semiramis M. Brown and Penelope G. Clarke. Dr. A. M. Clarke relates the following inci- dent : "When I was about twelve or thirteen years of age I was sent, in the winter season. with a yoke of oxen and a sled to procure a load of corn from any source it could be ob- tained, and found myself belated in the woods. But at last I came to a little clearing, where there was an old man by the name of Stevens
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and his wife living in a poor log cabin. I was made welcome to the warmth of their fire, which was very pleasant. I was cold, tired and hungry. I had brought forage, and the team was soon cared for, and the old lady busied herself in preparing a supper for me. She first fried some salt pork, then greased a griddle with some of the fat, baked some corn- cakes, and then made what she called 'a good cup of rye coffee,' sweetened with pumpkin molasses. I was not hungry enough to much en- joy this repast. In the morning I learned that six miles farther down the stream ( Bennett's branch) I could get the corn at a Mr. John- ston's. I must not return without it, so I went in the morning, bought the corn and returned home."
EARLY OFFICIALS
The first township election was held in 1835 at what was the late Matthew Bovard's barn, and the following officers were elected: Con- stable, Mryon Gibbs; supervisors, John Mc- Laughlin, Ami Sibley ; auditors, Milton John- ston, Thomas McCormick, Joseph McCurdy ; town clerk. Thomas McCormick ; overseers of the poor, Myron Gibbs, Joseph McAfee; as- sessor, Milton Johnston ; inspector, Myron Gibbs; fence appraiser, James Ross. The pioneer justice of the peace was Stephen Tib- betts, appointed February 14, 1835. Joseph Mc. Afee was township assessor in 1837.
PRESENT OFFICIALS
At the election of November 2. 1915. Mat- thew Carney and Thomas Calhoun were chosen school directors: L. J. Parson, super- visor : William .A. Keys, constable.
CRIME
The first murder committed in Snyder township was that of Henry Perry by Ami Sibley. Jr. Sibley escaped.
The second was that of Louis Heloram, a Jewish peddler, by Frank Dodson, on Septem- ber 2, 1896. Dodson was arrested and tried. and on December 15, 1896, was sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary.
TOWNS AND HAMLETS
In 1836 Dr. A. M. Clarke moved into the township and laid out Brockwayville. (See history of that borough.)
Wl'est Clarion is a coal town in Snyder town- ship.
Lane's Mills and Sugar Hill are hamlets. There is a post office at the former place, and one at Crenshaw.
BROCKWAYVILLE
Brockwayville is the only borough in Snyder township, and was incorporated September 13, 1883. It is located on Warrants 35, 81 and 84.
Where the town is now located, Alonzo and James S. Brockway. for whom the town was named, built their cabins in 1822, on Little Toby creek. at the crossing of the road be- tween Brookville and Ridgway. The town was not started, however, until 1836, when Dr. A. M. Clarke bought the property and re- moved to it. He at once began to lay out the town in lots, and was the first to give it an onward impetus.
In the spring of 1819 Joel Clarke, Sr., with his wife and sons Elihue and Joel, Jr., came to and settled on Little Toby from Russell, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. Later the same year, Philetus, the third son of Joel Clarke, Sr .. came also from Russell, N. Y .. and set- tled on Little Toby. The late Dr. Clarke de- scribes their coming as follows: "I was about eleven years old when my father, Philetus Clarke, came from St. Lawrence county, N. Y., into the Little Toby wilderness. The jour- ney was long and tedious. We moved with oxen in wagons, which were covered with canvas, and which gave us shelter from sun- shine and storm. I was the oldest child, and there were three of us. Sometimes I had to drive, while my father would support the wagon to keep it from upsetting. The Sus- quehanna and Waterford turnpike was being made, and we came along an old road near it to 'Neeper's Tavern,' about four miles from where Luthersburg now is. This was the old State road from Bald Eagle's Nest, Mifflin county, to Le Bœuf, Allegheny county, at this time the Milesburg and Waterford road. remember the motto that was over the sign- board at Neeper's :
"It is God's will This woods must yield, And the wildwood turn To a fruitful field.
"From that place the road was very rough over the hills and mountains. We could not get through in one day. and had to stop one night at a place where the roadmakers had built a shanty, but it had burned down and the place was called 'Burnt Shanty.' Our wagon gave us shelter, and a good spring was
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pleasant indeed. The next day we passed over Boone's mountain, came to the crossing of Little Toby, near where the Oyster House was built many years afterwards. We pursued our journey onward to Kersey settlement. My father thought best to examine the lands for which he had exchanged his New York prop- erty before going any farther, and was utterly disappointed and disgusted with them. He made explorations in various directions in search of a millsite, and finally concluded to settle at what is now Brockport, where he built a sawmill, the first ever built on Little Toby. He put a small gristmill with 'bolts' in the sawmill, which answered the require- ments of the few settlers for a while, and afterwards built a good gristmill, which did good service for the people." Ilis first home was a cabin, twelve by fourteen, of round logs. The windows were covered with greased paper.
In some manuscript papers (written in 1877) by the late Dr. A. M. Clarke, founder of Brockwayville, 1 find the following notes of his life and pioneer times :
I was born on the 22d day of March, 1808, in the town of Granby, Hartford Co., Conn. In the autumn of that year. 1808, father moved with his family to St. Lawrence county, N. Y., so we were near the frontier during the war of 1812. Some of our relatives were drafted into the service; my grandfather Clarke and my grandfather Goddard both served time in the Revolution. My grand -. father with his family had preceded us to St. Lawrence by three or four years. My father, Philetus Clarke, was born in Hartland, Conn .. October 9th, 1782. My mother, Penelope Goddard, was born in Granby, Conn., Decem- ber 6, 1787. Her ancestor came on the second or third vessel from England, and brought with him thirty-six pair of knee breeches. He also brought two dozen linen shirts. Ile came with Gov. John Winthrop. My father and mother were married on the 25th day of Feb- ruary, 1806. All my grandparents were natives of New England, and tradition inti- mates, in default of the records which have been lost so far as I know, that their ancestors were among the early emigrants from Eng- land. Daniel Goddard was living in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1616. (The spelling Gozzard is also found.)
The village school was too distant for me to attend during my childhood. My earliest literary instructions I received from my mother. I cannot remember when I learned to read, but I can remember the old books which
were first put into my hands-'The New Eng- land Primer,' with its sorry woodcuts and miserable estimate of humanity,
In Adam's fall, we sinned atl. Uriah's beauteous wife Made David seek his life- Zaccheus, he Did climb the tree His Lord to see.
To which some wag added :
The limb did break and he did fatt, And didn't see his Lord at all.
It was all gospel to me then, or at least I was so taught to regard it. Then Noah Webster's spelling book-I must learn derivation from "Baker" to "Ambiguity." I used to wonder what those long words meant, a dictionary was not within my reach. Afterwards fol- lowed "The American Preceptor," "The Eng- lish Reader," "The Columbian Orator." Some- what later I read "Foster's Essays," Dod- ridge's "Rise and Progress of Religion," "Ele- gant Extracts," Locke on "The Human Un- derstanding," and a few worse than worthless tracts. Still later "The New Edinburgh En- cyclopedia," a voluminous and very scientific work, came into my hands. This opened up a new world of thought to me, and my hunger for learning was partly appeased, though not satisfied. It has always been to me a pursuit under difficulties. Candles were costly, and money to buy them was out of the question, but the pitch pine trees which grew on the Boone mountain sides, some of which had fallen and rotted on the ground, left a supply of pitchy knots, which, being split in pieces, would burn better than candles, give a better light, and cost nothing.
In 1821 John P. Brockway bought at treas- urer's sale in Indiana the Henry Peffer tract on Little Toby, and in 1822 Alonzo and James S. Brockway moved over from Bennett's branch and commenced improvements on the land where Brockwayville is now built. They planted fruit trees of various kinds, and peach trees and plum trees were soon in bearing. They made large quantities of maple sugar, raised their own supplies and lived well. I went with the first lumber which was sent from Little Toby to Pittsburgh. It was a great company craft, awkwardly put in and poorly managed from beginning to end. I was sent to take care of and sell my father's share in the adventure. We went down in May. 1830, and came back in July. Our best sales were made for five dollars and ten dollars per
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thousand feet for common and clear. I was but a stripling in size, weighed perhaps one hundred pounds; of course, I was of no ac- count among the Olean Hoosiers. One day, at "Dalrymple's Hotel," which was the lum- bermen's headquarters in Pittsburgh at that time, sitting in the writing-room quietly wait- ing for dinner and suspecting no mischief, I felt a severe pinch above my knee, making the muscles tingle with pain. The hand that gave the pinch belonged to a tall, robust, heavy lumberman, from Smethport. His name was Gideon Ions. I arose on the instant and gave him a blow with all the force I was able. I suppose he felt my puny fist, for, looking down on me, he exclaimed, "Pretty well for Little Toby."
In 1822 Rev. Dr. Jonathan Nichols came to Brandy Camp, about four miles from our place, and located there. He was a generous, kind-hearted gentleman, somewhat of the old school, genial and urbane in his manners, with a helping hand to assist the needy, and kind words to comfort the sorrowing. He was of my childhood the friend, and rendered me much assistance in my medical studies. I remember him with gratitude, and wish that the world contained many more such as he was.
The first settlement was made by John P .. Alonzo and James S. Brockway in 1822, where Brockwayville now stands, which name was given to the post office in 1829 on the post route from Kittanning to Smethport. Jacob Shaffer was next in settlement, about one and a half miles eastward from Brockway, and commenced in 1823.
Philetus Clarke was the first who located in this vicinity, in 1819, about four miles above the present town of Brockwayville. Ile cut his way through the woods as he went down the creek from where the old Kersey road crossed Little Toby creek. IIellen post office was established in April, 1828, and Philetus Clarke was appointed postmaster.
In 1829 the Brockways built a sawmill where the present Snyder mills stand. In the same year Isaac Horton, Chauncey Brock- way, Hiram and Z. Wanner and Alanson Viall built a sawmill, three miles above Brockways', at a place afterwards called "Balltown." They were under the impression that money could be made by running lumber to Pittsburgh market, but driftwood, rocks and short bends in the stream rendered it impossible to run out a raft of any sort. The year 1829 was spent by them and others in making improvement in the stream-removing drift, blasting rocks,
and cutting channels around short bends. So in 1830 the attempt was made to run lumber from the three mills on Little Toby to market. With much difficulty and labor they succeeded in getting a portion of the lumber through to market.
In 1828 I spent the summer with Dr. George B. Engles in Halfmoon Centre, Pa. I was en- gaged in the study of medicine, and helped him to collect his bills. There was only one other New Englander, or Yankee, as we were called, in that neighborhood, viz., Lemuel Carey, the schoolmaster in Stormstown. Mr. Carey lived and died in the neighborhood of Punxsutawney, Pa. The prejudice against people from New England was very strong at that time, whether with cause or without, it matters not, we had to face its effects. One day I had occasion to step into the bar-room of Mr. Glenn's Halfmoon tavern, and found it as usual occupied by loungers, among whom was a stout six-footer, a wood-chopper, who made his living by cutting "cordwood" for the furnaces. I forget his name. Anyhow, he, being full of the common prejudice against Yankees, accosted me thus: "Ha! have you brought your dictionary with you?" "No. sir ; but I will go for it if you wish." "Well, all you're fit for is to dance at a dog's funeral." Unhesitatingly and without a moment's re- flection I replied: "I am well aware of that, sir. I expect a job when you die." The laugh was so completely on the chopper that he did not strike me.
In the winter of 1828 and 1829 I taught school in what is now the McCauley school- house in Elk county, Pa. For pay I received twelve dollars per month and boarded with the scholars. I was paid in full in maple sugar, which then sold for twelve cents a pound. In 1820 I attended the first camp meeting which was held in this section of the State. The camp was located on the Susquehanna river about four miles up from "Oldtown," now Clearfield. Oliver Ega, an itinerant Methodist minister sent by the Baltimore Conference to preach to us in this wilderness, was there tak- ing an active part. I had attended his meet- ings regularly before that.
In the year 1820 a post office was established at Brockwayville, and Alonzo Brockway was appointed postmaster. This gave to the place the name which it still retains. In 1831 I mar- ried Rebecca Mason Nichols, of Brandy Camp, Elk Co., Pa. In 1836 I moved from Brock- port to Brockwayville, purchased the property and rebuilt the sawmill, which had been burned ; built a gristmill in 1848, laid out a
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town in lots, and sold some of these lots from time to time. In 1840 I commenced the prac- tice of medicine in Brockwayville. In 1850 I attended lectures and graduated in medicine. I can only say that good-will and kind feelings prevailed among the people in these forests, and everyone was always ready to assist an- other when in need.
Few and unimportant as these events may seem, they have been recalled by an effort which has painfully intensified my apprecia- tion of the rapid flight of time, and the weight of years now rests more heavily upon me.
t am dreary and gray; They may go till they find Autumn remains, Darkness of mind.
My carly associates are gone, all gone. Friend after friend departs; who has not lost a friend ?
1 Mrs. Kinney opened the pioneer Sunday school in her home on the east bank of Little Toby creek in the forties. After the pioneer preacher in Brockwayville, Elder Nichols, came Rev. Gara Bishop, in 1844, and Rev. John Wray, in 1851. These all preached in Dr. Clarke's kitchen.
Dr. Clarke practiced his profession almost constantly to the day of his death, and was one of the best known physicians in Jefferson county. He was identified with the northern part of the county for over sixty years. As above noted, it was in 1836 that he removed to Brockwayville, where he laid out the town and did much to give it its "first start in life." and where for almost fifty years he made his home, watching its every upward stride with a zealous eve. He was an honored member of the medical profession, and his patient. faithful and gentle ministrations at the bed- side of the sick and dying will not soon be for- gotten. His studies were not confined to medicine, but he was well versed in general literature, and had a loving acquaintance with the poets. Books were his delight and the solace of many a weary hour.
On Thursday evening. May 22. 1884, Dr. Clarke died very suddenly, at his residence in Brockwayville, of neuralgia of the heart. On the Monday evening previous he attended a meeting of the borough council, of which he was a member, walking home afterwards. This effort proved too much for him, and he. was ill all night and continued indisposed until
Thursday, when he seemed better and moved about the house singing, as was his wont, and laying plans for the morrow. As evening drew near he complained of pains in his limbs, back and loins, and his loving, faithful wife rubbed the affected parts with mustard water, which gave him almost instant relief. Shortly after, while lying on his bed talking to her, he suddenly put his hand over his heart, and said: "Oh, this terrible pain, it will kill me !" closed his eyes and quietly expired. His death brought sorrow not only to his own immediate household and friends, but to the community at large, for all felt that a "good man had fallen"-one whose place could not be filled. The funeral took place on Sunday, and was one of the largest ever held in Brockwayville, over one hundred carriages following the remains to the cemetery, where Rev. E. R. Knapp, pas- tor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. con- ducted the burial services.
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