…bringing our past into the future
CHAPTER XXVII THE PRESS A Description of Warren’s First Printer and Publisher – The Conewango Emigrant – Its First Editor – Interesting Details – The Warren Gazette – Its Editors, Publishers, etc. – Voice of the People – The Union – Warren Bulletin – Democratic Advocate – Warren Standard – Warren Ledger – People’s Monitor … Read more
CHAPTER XXVI AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES The First “Agricultural Show” – Organization of the Warren County Agricultural Society – Its Officers – First Annual Fair – Names of Those to Whom were Awarded Premiums – Extract from Judge Wetmore’s Address – Subsequent Fairs, Officers, etc. – Organization of the Union Agricultural Society – Sugar Grove its Headquarters … Read more
CHAPTER XXV TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATIONS Brokenstraw the Original Township of the County – Conewango Organized in 1808 – Spring Creek, Sugar Grove, Pine Grove, Kinzua, and Deerfield in 1821 – Columbus in 1825 – Limestone in 1829 – Elk in 1830 – Sheffield and Freehold in 1833 – Pleasant in 1834 – Southwest in 1838 – … Read more
CHAPTER XXIV COUNTY BUILDINGS, ETC Utilizing the Rooms of Private Dwellings for Public Purposes – The First Jail – The Village School-House Used as a Court-Room – Reminiscences Concerning Jail Breakers – The First Court-House – The Second Jail – Stone Office Building – Destruction of Same by Fire – Another Erected of Brick – … Read more
CHAPTER XXIII ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SECOND REGIMENT AND OTHER COMMANDS One Hundred and Eighty-second of the Line, Otherwise the Twenty-first Cavalry – Its Warren County Contingent – Serves a Six Months’ Term – Reorganized to Serve for Three Years – For Four Months Renders Gallant Service as an Infantry Regiment of the Fifth Corps – … Read more
CHAPTER XXII ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENTS One Hundred and Fifty-first Regiment – Company F Recruited in Warren County – Regimental Organization – Colonel Harrison Allen, of Warren, in Command – Joins the Army of the Potomac – Assigned to the First Corps – The Chancellorsville Campaign – The Weary … Read more
CHAPTER XXI ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH AND ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIFTH REGIMENTS The One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment of the Line or Twelfth Cavalry – Organized near Philadelphia – Joins Pope in Virginia – Subsequent Services in the Shenandoah Valley – The First Command to Discover Lee’s Northward Movement in 1863 – Nearly Surrounded … Read more
We’ve recently received a transcription of the History of Warren County by J.S. Schenck & W.S. Rann which was published in 1887. The book has been formatted and has all been placed on-line.  Nathan
CHAPTER XX ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH REGIMENT In What Counties Recruited – Its Warren County Companies – Regimental Rendezvous – Original Field Officers – Equipped at Harrisburg – Proceeds to Baltimore – Thence to Harper’s Ferry – Assigned to Banks’s Second Corps – In Action at Cedar Mountain – Heroic Daring Displayed at Antietam – … Read more
CHAPTER XIX FIFTY-EIGHTH AND EIGHTY-THIRD REGIMENTS Colonel Curtis, of Warren, Authorized to Raise a Regiment – Is but Partially Successful – Its Consolidation with Another Fractional Command – The Field Officers – Regiment Proceeds to Fortress Monroe – Its Services in that Department – Ordered to Beaufort, N.C. – Transferred to the Army of the … Read more