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Caleb R. Middleton
CALEB R. MIDDLETON, farmer, P. O. East Hickory, was born in Limestone,
Warren Co., Penn., March 18, 1830, and is a son of James and Susannah
(Richardson) Middleton. His father was a native of Westmoreland county, Penn.,
and a son of William Middleton, a pioneer of what is now Tionesta, Forest
county, locating on what is now known as the Jamison farm, where he resided
until his death; he had three children: John, James and Mary (Mrs. Thomas
Arters). The maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Caleb
Richardson, a native of Maine, a pioneer of Harmony township, this county, and
later of Hickory, locating on the farm now occupied by Mr. Middleton, a part
of which he cleared and improved, and where he died. James Middleton was
reared in what is now Forest county, and in early manhood he located in
Limestone, Warren Co., Penn., where he cleared and improved a farm, lumbered
to some extent, and in later life removed to Deerfield, where he died. He had
seven children: William A., Caleb R., Mary Jane, Cyrus J., John M., Mehitable
E. and Hannah O. (Mrs. Oscar J. Williams). Caleb R. Middleton was reared in
Limestone township, Warren Co., Penn., and after the close of the war of the
Rebellion he located in Tidioute in mercantile business till 1867, when he
came to Hickory township, and settled on the old homestead of his maternal
grandfather, where he has since resided. He has filled several of the local
offices in the township, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in
politics he has been a Republican since the organization of the party.Source: Page(s) 946, Chapter 15 Biographical Sketches – Tionesta Township and
Borough of Tionesta
Hickory and Harmony Townships
History of Counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania.
Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1890.
Transcribed December 2005 by Nathan Zipfel for the Forest County Genealogy
Project
Published 2005 by the Forest County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
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