Month: August 2025

HEADER Willis Dalzell Patton HON. WILLIS DALZELL PATTON was for many years one of the conspicuously prominent citizens of Armstrong county. At the time of his death he was President Judge of the Thirty-third Judicial district of Pennsylvania and president of the Armstrong County Trust Company of Kittanning, which positions are indicators of a versatile … Read more

HEADER John A Patton JOHN A. PATTON, late of East Franklin township, a farmer and dealer in stock, was born June 10, 1844, in Armstrong county, son of William and Martha (Foster) Patton. The Patton family orginated in Ireland, but the date of the arrival here of the first ancestor in America is not known. … Read more

HEADER James A Patterson JAMES A. PATTERSON has passed all his life on the farm in Cowanshannock township, which he now owns and cultivates, having been born there Oct. 6, 1850, son of James and Nancy (McFeeters) Patterson. Both the parents were natives of County Donegal, Ireland. John Patterson, grandfather of James A. Patterson, came … Read more

HEADER COL. JOHN GILCHRIST PARR   COL. JOHN GILCHRIST PARR, deceased, who commanded the 139th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, during the Civil War, was a resident of Kittanning, Armstrong County, where his memory is honored not only by his family and veterans who served with him in the army, but by all who knew him.  Named … Read more

HEADER Parks Family PARKS. The Parks family, whose name is perpetuated in the list of townships–the one in which the founder of this line is Armstrong county settled being called after him, belongs to that class of reliable, responsible citizens who go to make up the real backbone of true American citizenship. Representatives of this … Read more

HEADER Ephraim H Parker EPHRAIM H. PARKER, deceased, formerly of Parker City, Pa., was a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent families of this section of Pennsylvania. He was born March 2, 1838, and was the eldest son of Fullerton and Amelia (Harris) Parker, grandson of Judge John Parker, and great-grandson of … Read more

HEADER WILLIAM E. PAINE WILLIAM E. PAINE, at present serving as Justice of the Peace of Madison Township, Armstrong County, has held a number of public positions, and has been a prominent worker in that locality for the last twenty years and more. He is a member of a family which has been settled in … Read more

HEADER MATTHEW H. PAFFRATH   MATTHEW H. PAFFRATH, proprietor of the �American Hotel� at Ford City, Armstrong county, has lived at that place since 1888 with the exception of a brief stay at Alexander, Pa., and he is now one of its successful business men.  He is a native of Germany, born Aug. 18, 1861, … Read more

HEADER John Thomas Overheim JOHN THOMAS OVERHEIM, proprietor of the Parker Feed Mills, of Parker’s Landing, was born Sept. 15, 1888, at that place, now known as Parker City, son of John C. and Jennie (Ralston) Overheim, natives of Venango county, Pa., and Ireland, respectively. Daniel Overheim, his grandfather, was a native of Germany, a … Read more

HEADER Benjamin Oswald BENJAMIN OSWALD, of Ford City, Armstrong county, clerk to the county commissioners, and present burgess of his town, was born in 1842 in Kittanning. Benjamin Oswald, son of Benjamin and Sarah A. (Brinham) Oswald, was educated in the public schools of Kittanning. At an early age he began work in his father’s … Read more