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The third murder committed in Washing- ton township was that of James R. Groves, who was killed by his son, Ernest R. Groves, August 30, 1901. The son was tried, and sentenced November 15, 1901, to five years in the penitentiary.
FALLS CREEK
Falls Creek, located partly in Jefferson and partly in Clearfield county, was incorpo- rated by the court as a borough August 18, 1900, taken from Washington township, Jef- ferson county. It is located on Warrant No. 504, Timothy Pickering. It owes its birth largely to IIon. Joseph P. Taylor, who plotted the present town in 1891, and by whose efforts a majority of the industries located within the borough have been secured.
Previous to 1900 Falls Creek consisted of a few dwellings occupied by railroad employees of the different railroads that junction there.
In the early days of the village there were a number of shanties put up that cannot be classed as buildings; the "Carrier House," erected by John Carrier, a well known lumber- man and jobber of those times, was the first substantial structure. The post office was first known as Evergreen, later as Victor, and then as Falls Creek. It is now in Clearfield county.
ELECTIONS
The borough of Falls Creek was incorpo- rated in 1900, and the first election was hield
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in November of that year, resulting in the election of Dr. R. M. Boyles, burgess, and the following councilmen : J. L. Jones, Van Guthrie, William Askey, Sr., R. F. Millen, U. J. Matson, J. H. Mclaughlin, H. G. Strattan.
In February, 1901, the following borough officers were elected : Burgess, F. B. Weaver ; justices of the peace, A. Abell, B. H. White- hill; constable, Andrew Mckeon: school di- rectors, J. E. Carrier, J. J. Lukehart, U. J. Matson, M. T. Work, J. L. Jones, J. R. Luke- hart; town council, II. G. Strattan, J. H. McEntire, J. H. Webb, G. H. Jones, Elmer Glass, R. F. Wilber, William DeLancey; tax collector, John Cable ; auditors, W. J. Smith, J. B. Schnell, Eli Clark; poor overseers, John Dale, J. B. Shaffer; town clerk, L. N. Ritter ; judge of election, J. C. Pifer; inspectors, Joseph Allshouse, W. A. Welchons.
On November 2, '1915, Dr. J. E. Borland, D. T. Dennison and W. R. Swab or A. F. McCormick (tie vote) were elected school directors, and C. C. Painter constable.
BUSINESS
The "Hotel Lamontague" was the first licensed hotel in the town, opened in the fall of 1891, and granted a license in the license court of 1892. Gilbert Lamontague was the proprietor and owner of the hotel.
The first store was owned and conducted by John L. Reed, who was also the first post- master of Evergreen, Victor and Falls Creek. His son, John F. Reed, now owns the "Ever- green Hotel." which has the only license now granted in the borough or vicinity.
The first doctor was J. E. Henry, who located in Falls Creek in 1801.
The First National Bank was opened Sep- tember 16, 1902, with D. T. Dennison, presi- dent ; F. A. Lane, vice president ; J. A. Miller, cashier. Following were the directors: F. A. Lane, J. Il. MeClelland, J. S. Daugherty, P. H.
Schaffner, M. H. Smith, J. A. Miller, D. T. Dennison.
The tannery was built in 1891 by Thomas E. Proctor, of Boston, and consolidated with the other tanneries of this part of the State when the Elk Tanning Company was organ- ized.
The plate glass works was erected in 1892 by a gentleman of the name of . Stouffer, for the purpose of making a patented wire sky- light and partition glass. The plant was pur- chased in 1899 by Ralph Gray and George R. Gray, his son, who have formed the Gray Glass Company, and successfully operate the plant. The Fitzpatrick window glass factory was erected in 1900. In 1914 it was taken over by the DuBois Glass Company, and is now operated in the manufacture of milk bottles.
CHURCHIES, SCHOOLS, ETC.
The first church was the Methodist Episco- pal. Other churches to locate here since are the Presbyterian, Baptist, Evangelical, Free Methodist and Catholic.
Rev. H. F. Miller was the first preacher. He was a Methodist, and preached in the Sandy township ( Clearfield county ) school- house, then located near the depot of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh and Pennsyl- vania railroads.
The schoolhouse in the borough of Falls Creek, a large, brick building of eight rooms. was erected in 1902. The members of the first school board of the borough were: Dr. Jay C. Booher, F. E. Dixon, G. H. Jones, J. C. Abel, J. E. Carrier, J. J. Lukehart.
The first newspaper was the Falls Creek ITerald, established August 29, 1891, by Charles J. Bangert.
POPULATION
The population of the borough in 1910 was 1.204.
CHAPTER XXXII
PARADISE-A DEAD TOWNSHIP
It appears on the records of the county that prior to or about the year 1839 a township was organized and known from 1839 until 1842 as Paradise township. From the names em- braced in the officers elected in this township the territory must have taken all of what is now Gaskill, Bell, Henderson, MeCalmont, and part of Winslow. The township disappears from the records of the county as mysteriously as it appears.
ELECTIONS
At the pioneer election in Paradise town- ship, in the year 1839, the following officers were chosen : Assessor, David Barnett ; judge
of election, John Pifer ; inspectors of election, Peter Deemer, John Rhoads.
Second election, 1840: Judge of election, John Rhoads; inspectors of election, John Deemer, Henry Philipi.
Third election, 1842: Constable, James Dickey; supervisors, John Pifer, Henry Miller; auditors, Henry Philipi, Thomas Thompson, Philip Bowers; town clerk, Henry Miller ; school directors, Henry Miller, Thomas Kerr; overseers of the poor, Andrew McCreight, Andrew Bowers; assessor, David Harvey: judge of election, John Pifer; in- speetors of election. George Pifer, George Smith.
CHAPTER XXXIII PORTER TOWNSHIP
ORGANIZATION-ASSESSMENT LIST OF ISAI-POPULATION-PRESENT TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS-PIO- VEER SETTLERS-SUNDAY SCHOOLS-REMINISCENCES
Porter township. named after Commodore David Porter, was organized in 1840, and was taken from Perry. Porter township was bounded on the west by the Armstrong county line, on the south by the Indiana county line, on the north by Ross township.
It is difficult to point out the distinguishing characteristics of the several townships, and I will not attempt to specify the advantages or the opposites of this division. It is similar to Perry and Ringgold, and its early settlers were cast in the same rugged mold. Agriculture ranks first in this section, and the farms gen- erally are in excellent condition. It is a great fruit as well as general agricultural town- ship.
ASSESSMENT LIST OF 1841
John Alcorn. William Alcorn, Samuel Al- bert, Thomas Adams, Alexander Adams,
George Bariekhouse, Lawrence Bair, Ludwick Byerly. Gideon Bush, Powel Baughman, Rob- ert Brice. Armstrong Bartley, Rev. Elisha Coleman ($30 on interest). John Coleman, William Callen, Benjamin Campbell, Henry Cherry, David Callen, Peter Callen, Andrew Callen, John Cherry (single man), Elisha Campbell, Frederick Coonrod, James Chambers, John Chambers, Harrison Coon, Jacob Dinger, Benjamin Dimick, Michael Tumas, Henry Dorn- hime, John Thomas, Edward Enty (colored), John Flisher, Jr., John Flisher, Henry Flisher, William Ferguson, Sr., William Ferguson, Jr., John Ferguson. Ebenezer Ferguson, Henry Faringer, William Foster, David Fairman, Francis Fairman, Henry Freece, Thomas Gag- hagen, James Gaghagen, Gearhart & Spangler. Henry Glontz. Daniel Gaghagen, Peter Gra- ver. Daniel Geist (one sawmill), Solomon Geist, Samuel Geist, Jesse Geist, John Geist, Sr., John Geist, Jr., Pollie Gilbreth ( widow ).
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William Gillespie (occupation), Daniel Hin- derlighter. Michael Ifinderlighter, Daniel Hass, William Himes, James Hamilton, Elias Inlwick, David Hamilton, Michael Heterick, Peter Heterick, Sammel Ilice. Michael Ilollo- back, E. E. Hannager, Joseph Hannah, Adam Hane, Harry Heckendorn, John Hice (office), Isaac Hamilton, Jacob Huffman, Daniel Huff- man. Andrew Ilazlet (single man), John James, Robert Kennedy, John Conklin, Joseph Kinnear, George Knarr, Michael Lantz, John Lantz. Frederick Lantz, George Letich, Samuel Lerch, David Langard, John Miller, John Mohney. John Motter, Henry Milliron ( single man), William McAninch, Jr., William Mc. Aninch, Sr., Hugh McGuier ( occupation), John Mc. \ninch. John MeClel- land, John Mower, Jr .. John Mower, Sr., Wil- liam Montier. William McNutt. Robert Mc- Nutt, Martin Miller, Peter Minich, George Milliron, David Milliron, Philip Milliron, Wil- liam Milliron, Peter Milliron, Daniel Motter, Samuel Motter, Jacob Motter, George Mc- Gregor. M. McGregor. John Martz, Gillmore Montgomery, Daniel McGregor. Matthew Mc- David, John Miller, Andrew McDaniel, Jacob Minich, David McDaniel, John McMillen, Thomas McMillen, Henry Minich (occupa- tion ), Samuel Mickle. Coonrod Nulf, N. J. Nesbit (occupation ). Thomas Nice, William Niel, John Potts. George Potts. John Postle- thwait. David Postlethwait, Elias Powel, Moses Powel, Peter Procius. Daniel Procins. Henry Peter, James Robinson, David Richard. George Reitz, John Robinson, Esq. (one saw- mill). William Robinson, Irwin Robinson. Samuel Richard, Carl Randolf, Philip Reed. Joshna B. Farr. George Rinehart, Henry Ross (occupation). George Reitz (single man), John Silvas (occupation), Michael Shaffer, Simon Stahlman. Henry Spare, Sr., Isaac Shaffer, Frederick Steer. Jacob Snyder (single man), Abraham Shipe, Henry Shipe (one tan- yard). Philip Smith. Andrew Shaffer, Abra- ham Shaffer, Benjamin Shaffer, Valentine Shaffer (money on interest), Francis Shraw- ber (office), John Shrawber, Martin Shannon (occupation ). Peter Spangler, Absalom Smith, John Shadle, John Steel, Jacob Startzel, John Shofner, Henry Spare, John Startzel, Coonrod Snyder, Walter Snyder, Daniel Snyder, Moses Shoffstall, Stephen Travis, Broce Taylor, Ed- ward Chamberlin, Henry Truckmiller, Henry Chamberlain, George Chamberlain,. George Travis, James Travis, Samuel Trayor. John Wilson (occupation), Edward Uptagraff, George Wise. Amos Weaver, Moses Weaver, James Watts, James Wilson, Esq. (office).
Benjamin Weary, Abraham Walker, Robert Wilson, Jacob Wise, George Young, Jr., George Young, Sr., Lawrence Yeager.
POPULATION
The population in 1840 was 977; 1850, 728; 1860. 516: 1870. 525: 1880, 669; 1890, 647; 1000, 592: 1910. 575.
PIONEER SETTLERS
In 1803. James McClelland ; in 1804. Benja- min Ions: in 1806, David Hamilton ; in 1815, Elijah Ekis, Michael Lantz, and William Smith. The first person born in the township was Robert Hamilton. The pioneer graveyard was started in 1843. The pioneer church society was organized by the Methodists, in 1838. The pioneer church was built in 1843. The pioneer camp meeting was held in this township in 1836.
The first blacksmith shop was started in 1840 by George Travis, and another in 1845 by John Silvis. The pioneer mechanic was John Robison, 1846. Peter Worden operated a whisky still from 1872 to 1875 at New Petersburg, or what is now a part of Timblin, a thriving village, on the run. A merchant in 1883 was J. H. Elkins. This township has never yet had a hotel.
There is a post office at the village of Porter, twenty miles south of Brookville.
PRESENT TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS
At the election of November 2, 1915, the following township officials were chosen : R. R. Adams. W. M. Sherry and G. E. Bish, school directors : A. A. McDonald, supervisor ; V. S. Ilimes, constable.
One of the early settlers and prominent men in the township was Jacob Howard. He was active in all that had a tendency to uplift men. 1 remember him with admiration. Another prominent citizen was T. B. Adams, who has audited the county finances for years, and has been prominently identified with education. S. M. MeDonald was prominent also in town- ship and county affairs. All are now deceased.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS .
The first Sunday school was started in 1844, with Thomas Stockdill as superintendent. There are now two schools in Porter. The Zion Methodist Episcopal Sunday school had about ninety scholars when T. T. Adams was
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superintendent, in 1887, and James Stockdill assistant superintendent. The Union Sunday school, held at the Fairview schoolhouse, had by 1887 thirty scholars; George Bish was then superintendent.
REMINISCENCES
Not long ago Mrs. Thomas B. Adams wrote the following interesting sketch for the Punx- sutawney News:
Porter, Pa., April 28, 1916.
I was born at Loop, Indiana county, Febru- ary 27, 1848, lived there two years, and then moved to Porter township, Jefferson county. I have lived here ever since except for three years, when Mr. Adams was commissioners' clerk in Brookville, Pa. I can remember since I was four years old. I started to school when I was five years old. I went to a little log schoolhouse in the woods, called Pleasant Grove school. There were two windows in the schoolhouse, very small ones, one on the boys' side and one on the girls' side. There was a long bench on each side of the school- room facing the wall; to which a board was at- tached and which the pupils used for a desk. These benches were for the larger pupils that would write. There were also two benches for the smaller pupils. They had no desk, as they didn't write. There were no backs on our seats to lean against. The schoolhouse was awfully cold, as there were cracks between the logs in the wall and floor, and the fire- place which was built in one end of the school- house, did not distribute the heat as evenly as the modern heating stoves found in the school- houses to-day. Our teachers were very strict and cross. I remember one that used to pull our ears if we turned our heads sidewisc. He pulled one of cousin's ears till they bled. I remember another one that would make some of the larger pupils do all the teaching, while he combed his hair and swept the floor, which seemed to be all he got done. If the weather was stormy and the pupils (scholars we called them in those days) would make the least bit of noise in the schoolhouse during recess or dinnertime, he would call books immediately. He got drunk sometimes, and one morning he came to school with nothing but his under- clothes on, carrying his pants on a stick. He put out the fire and went home.
We had one real good teacher, who used sense and judgment in controlling the school. He could explain everything so clearly. His name was George Travis. About three studies were the limit for the advanced pupils, spell-
ing, reading and arithmetic. A few studied German a little. The textbooks used then principally were Cobb's speller, McGuffy's reader and the Western Calculator. One of the principal events of those days was the spelling bee. We used to go three or four miles to attend them.
We had no matches in those days, and if our fire went out we had to go to a neighbor's to borrow fire. Sometimes my father would strike flint to make a fire. =
We let our cows run in the woods and sometimes would have to go two or three miles to find them. All the cows wore bells and we could hear our cowbell three miles away. Once when I was eleven years old my little cousin and I were out hunting the cows and a big black bear crossed the road in front of us a short distance away. We took off home then.
We got lost one night in a place called "the bear wallow." We did not know how to get home. We sat down behind a tree and waited until the moon came up and then we found our way out to the road.
There was an old clearing half a mile away from our house and a whole lot of cows would be there and their bells would ring so nicely I think I can hear them yet. It is the Davis Goheen farm, where the old coal hearth was.
I think it was the year 1854 there was such a dry summer, nothing grew but a little corn. Times were awfully hard that year.
I remember the war. Coffee was sixty cents a pound ; flour eighteen dollars a barrel, molasses one dollar and fifty cents a gallon. We wore flannel dresses to school, and some- times I would have buckwheat batter on my dress, and one of my schoolmates would have rye dough on her fingers. She had to make cakes for school dinner and could not get the rye dongh off her hands. But we loved one another.
My father used to kill a sheep and he would send me around to the neighbors with a mess of meat for them, and the neighbors would do the same ; but now every fellow for himself.
My father-in-law. Richard Adams, used to keep a free boarding-house for the church members and he would go to church and ask everybody home with him that had come anv clistance. He and my father, William Howard, and old Jimmie and Charlie Gahagan, were the cleverest men I ever knew. They are all gone to heaven. I was the sixth one in the family of twelve children ; only four sisters of us left. 1 hope to meet them around my Father's throne to praise Him forever.
CHAPTER XXXIV CLOVER TOWNSHIP-BOROUGH OF SUMMERVILLE
ORGANIZATION AND POPULATION-FIRST ASSESSMENT- EARLY SETTLERS-INDUSTRIES-SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, ETC .- A FAMOUS RIFLE COMPANY-PRESENT TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS-BOROUGH OF SUMMERVILLE
Clover township was organized in 1841 and was named after Levi G. Clover, the protho- notary. It was taken from Rose township and was bounded on the east and north by Rose, on the west by the Clarion county line, and on the south by Perry township. The population in 1850 was 737: 1860, 910; 1870, 868; 1880, 1,054; 1800, 642 ; 1900, 604; 1910, 750.
FIRST ASSESSMENT
The assessment list of 1843 shows the fol- lowing taxables : Daniel Baldwin, Wallace Bratton, John H. Bish, Hudson Bridge, Sam- uel Bratton, Michael Brocius, John Brocius, Peter Brocius, Jacob Brocius, George Burns, Alonzo and Fred. Baldwin (one sawmill, one yoke of oxen, one cow, and two horses), Adam Brocius, John Baughman, John Bruner (occu- pation as sawyer), John Campbell, Hiran Carrier (one sawmill), Nathan Carrier (one fourth of a sawmill), Darius Carrier, Lorenzo Campbell, Sanford Campbell, George and Nathan Carrier, George Cain (single man). Michael Crawford, George Carrier (one fourth of a sawmill), Darius Carrier ( one half of a sawmill), Euphrastus Carrier, Darius & Hiram Carrier (one gristmill). Isaac Covert, George Campbell, Matthew Dickey, Dr. James Dowling, James S. Dean, Andrew Doyle ( single man), James Defords, George Eckler, William Edmond, Thomas Edmond (one saw- mill), David Edmond. John Fuller (single man ), John II. Flemming, Solomon Fuller, Jr., Christopher Fogle (one tanyard), David Far- riweather. C. Jacox ( house and lot), Ira Fuller (one sawmill), William Fitzsimmons (trans- ferred to Baldwin), James Ferguson. Abra- ham Funk, Hiram Fuller. Thomas Guthrie, Aaron Fuller (one sawmill), George Gray ( occupation ), William Guthrie. James Guthrie ( single man ). Carder Gilmore, James B. Guth- rie, James Guthrie, Sr., Alexander Guthrie, Jacob Grame, James Gardner, Elijah Heath
( one gristmill and one sawmill), Jacob Heck- man, James Hildebrand. Peter Himes, Joseph Hall. Sr., Joel & Porter Haskill (one sawmill). Gideon Hlaskill, Simon Hays (one house and lot ), Abram Hidelman (occupation as miller), John Johnston, William Jack, Samuel Johns, Hazard Jaycock, Charles Jaycock. Matson J. Knapp. Samuel Knapp, Moses Knapp, Jr. ( one gristmill and one sawmill), Joseph Knapp (one yoke of oxen and three cows). John Knapp. John Kelso, Jr. (one dog), George Keck, James Kelso, William Kelly, William Lucas (single man), James S. Lucas (occupa- tion), Peter Lucas, John Lucas, Jr., Daniel Leech, John Lucas, Sr .. Samuel Lucas, Sr., John Lucas (of Samuel), Samuel Lucas, Jr. ( tradesman), John T. Love, John Love (Yankee), William Lucas (single man). Lucas & Knapp (guardians of Buttle's estate). James Long (trade), Rev. John McCauley, Samuel Magill, William Magill, Hugh Mc- Giffin ( Yankee). Daniel Milliron, Samuel Milliron. John McGiffin, Robert Morrison. David Moore. Isaac Motter. Andrew McEl- waine ( estate), Eli MeDowel (single man). Abraham Milliron, Hugh MeGiffin, Solomon Milliron (tradesman), Elijah McAninch (es- tate), George MeAninch, William McAninch (of Samuel), Henry Milliron, Jonathan Mill- iron, William Miller (one house and lot). Samuel Newcomb (one sawmill), Coonrad & Frank Nolf. William B. Newcomb, Joseph Osborne, William Rhoney, Levi Reed, William Rodgers, James Ross ( one sawmill), Hance Robinson ( one gristmill and sawmill), Joseph Ross, William Robinson (single man), Rich- ards Richard, George Richard (one house and lot), John Reitz. Isaac Reitz (single man). David Smith, William Simpson, Alexander Smith, Hulet Smith, John Shields, Sr., James Shields, Peter Swab (tradesman), Robert Shields (one yoke oxen and cow), Daniel and James Shields (one cow and yoke of oxen). James Shields, Jr., George Simpson, Benjamin
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Sowers, Abraham Stine (one house and lot), Henry Scott, Henry Sowers, John B. Shields, James Sowers, Jr., David Shields, James Sowers, Sr., Gideon Trumbull, Joseph M. Thompson, Samuel B. Taylor (one lot and store), Jesse Vandevort (occupation), Paul Vandevort (one house and lot), David Van- devort, Stephen Webster (five lots), Beech Wayland, Patience Wheeler, John R. Welsh, Jackson Welsh (single man), Monroe Web- ster, Ezekiel White.
EARLY SETTLERS
The pioneer settler in what is now Clover township was Samuel Baldwin, who came in 1812. Other early settlers were: Solomon Fuller, John Welch, before 1816; Darius Car- rier, 1816; in 1818, Thomas and John Lucas ; in 1810, Robert Andrews and Walter Temple- ton ; in 1820, Frederick Heterick, Henry Lot, Alonzo Baldwin, and the Carrier brothers ; and in 1821, Moses Knapp. The pioneer physi- cian in what is now Clover township was Dr. R. K. Scott, in 1826; Dr. James Dowling cane i11 1837.
INDUSTRIES
The people of that day seemed to be as anxious for "salt territory" as we are now for oil and gas territory. Thomas and John Lucas settled on the flat called Puckerty, or in Indian "Throw it away." They bored for salt, and found some salt water, but never made a suc- cess of their well. In 1840 Major Johnston sank a well with pole power, eight hundred and fifty feet deep, and struck what was then called a three barrel well. This was below Troy (now called Summerville). James An- derson purchased these works from Johnston, and made salt at the "saltworks below Troy" for twenty-five years. Before these works were started our people had to go to Saltsburg, Indiana Co., Pa., for salt, and bring the salt on horseback on packsaddles. Salt sold then for five or six dollars a barrel.
Pioneer sawmills : 1814, on Hiram's run, Mr. Scott; 1820, Thomas Lucas, at Puckerty ; 1822, Moses Knapp, at Baxter; 1825, Moses Knapp, at Knapp's Bend. In 1838 Moses Knapp built a gristmill alongside of this mill at the Bend. In 1836 Darius Carrier had built the first gristmill, in what was later called Troy, now the borough of Summerville. The present structure was built in 1861.
In the thirties John Calvin had a distillery.
The pioneer merchant in Baxter was M. A. Campbell.
Merchants in 1850 were Darius Carrier, Hiram Carrier, Heath & Hastings.
In 1854 Richard J. Baxter bought what is now Barter. He took sufficient timber off ten acres to pay for the property. In 1878 R. J. Baxter was proprietor of Baxter Mills, and manufacturer of rough sawed lumber, shingles and lath, and R. Campbell and H. Campbell were merchants and dealers in dry goods and groceries.
There is a post office at Baxter.
CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.
The pioneer church was organized in 1828, by the Associate Reformed Seceders. In 1831 the pioneer church building was erected by this association on the farm of Robert Andrews, and Rev. Joseph Scroggs was pastor. The pioneer United Brethren Church was erected in Dowlingville in 1874, and the one at Mount Pleasant in 1850.
The pioneer schoolhouse was built on the John Lucas farm in 1825. The pioneer school- master was Robert Knox. Rev. William Kennedy preached here occasionally at that time. In 1827 Joseph McGiffin taught a six months' term of school, at fifty cents a month per scholar, in the Lucas schoolhouse.
Hugh McGiffin, a pioneer and a schoolmas- ter of Clover township, was teaching a school in the winter of 1844. The usual Christmas and New Year's custom then among the chil- dren was to bar the master out. So Hugh's pupils this winter barred him out. In order to get possession of his school he had to sign a paper to treat the school to three bushels of apples and a gallon of whisky.
There is one soldier of the war of 1812, John Alexander, buried in the Carrier ceme- tery.
The literary society of Mount Pleasant was organized in 1880, and the Lyceum building was erected in 1881.
A FAMOUS RIFLE COMPANY
In 1840 Clover was the headquarters of a famous rifle company recruited and organized by Dr. James Dowling, and called the Inde- pendent Greens. The uniform consisted of an Indian hunting shirt of green baize cloth, trimmed with a red fringe, and leggins of the same material. The uniform of the band or drum corps was a bright red, and the members were the "Lucas Band." David L. Moore, the Knapps, Guthries and many other large men were members of this company, and it would
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