Month: December 2008

CHAPTER XXXVII HISTORY OF DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP*   DEERFIELD township was organized by the Court of Warren county on the 8th day of March, 1821, and first called “Number Eleven.” The whole township was then a vast wilderness, very little land having been cleared. A few venturous pioneers had wandered this far into the wilderness and … Read more

CHAPTER XXXVI HISTORY OF PINE GROVE TOWNSHIP PINE GROVE township is a tract of land nearly six miles square, lying somewhat in the northeasterly part of Warren county, and is bounded north by Cattaraugus county in the State of New York, east by Elk township, Warren county, south by Glade and Conewango, and west by … Read more

CHAPTER XXXV HISTORY OF SUGAR GROVE TOWNSHIP   THIS township was formed, as will be seen by reference to the general chapter devoted to the history of township organization, on the 8th of March, 1821, and was called, for immediate convenience, “Number Three.” Its northern boundary line is coincident with the southern limit of the … Read more

CHAPTER XXXIV HISTORY OF BROKENSTRAW TOWNSHIP   BROKENSTRAW township, which was organized as “Number Four,” on the 8th of March, 1821, lies near the geographical center of Warren county, and is bounded north by Sugar Grove, east by Conewango and Allegheny River, separating it from the township of Pleasant, south by Deerfield, and west by … Read more

CHAPTER XXXIII HISTORY OF CONEWANGO TOWNSHIP ALTHOUGH Conewango was not the first township to be organized in the county, it is given a place in these pages next to the borough of Warren, by reason of the fact that from 1808, when it became the second township of Warren, until 1832, the town was only … Read more

CHAPTER XXXII HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF WARREN   UPON the old French and English colonial maps of this part of America, made, of course, before the beginning of the Revolutionary War, a point on the right bank of the Allegheny River, just below its junction with the Conewango, is marked by a word variously … Read more

CHAPTER XXXI THE BENCH AND BAR Interesting Memoirs of the President Judges now Deceased – Full Mention of Those Who Survive – The Bar – A Complete Roll of Attorneys Admitted Since the Organization of the County – Remarks Concerning Some of the Earliest Resident Attorneys – Notes Relating to Present Attorneys in Active Practice. … Read more

CHAPTER XXX RIVER NAVIGATION, ETC., WAGON ROADS, RAILROADS Source of the Conewango – Navigable Waters of the County – Asking Aid for Their Improvement – Survey of the Allegheny by U.S. Engineers – Its Length and Fall from Olean to Pittsburgh – Early Manner of Transporting Freight and Passengers – Keel-boats – Their Great Usefulness … Read more

CHAPTER XXIX  CIVIL LIST Members of the United States House of Representatives – Judge United States Court of Claims – United States Consul – Lieutenant-Governor – Auditor-General – Member of State Constitutional Convention – State Senators – Members of Assembly – President Judges – Sheriffs – County Commissioners – Prothonotaries – County Treasurers – Registers … Read more

CHAPTER XXVIII PETROLEUM The “Fontaine de Bitume” – The Earliest French Missionaries Aware of its Existence – Also the English – Early References to the Same – Washington and Jefferson Speak of “Bituminous Oil” in Virginia – Evidences that the French Gathered the Oil at Titusville – It is Known to Early Inhabitants as “Seneca … Read more