Chapter 18 – South Bend Township

South Bend

On the 17th day of April, 1867, the petition of divers inhabitants of
Kiskiminetas and Plum Creek townships — that is, of those within the boundaries
of the then proposed new township, — setting forth that they labored under
great inconvenience for the want of a new township to be composed of part of
those two townships, was presented to the court of quarter sessions of this
county. Whereupon, after considering the same, the court appointed Reuben
Allshouse, James Y. Jackson and John Smith viewers or commissioners, to inquire
into the propriety of granting the prayer of the petitioners. This report in
favor of erected the new township, to be called South Bend, as prayed for by the
petitioners, accompanied by a draft thereof, was presented to the court, and
ordered to be filed June 4, 1867. Three days afterward, June 7, the court
ordered that an election of the qualified voters of those parts of Kiskiminetas
and Plum Creek townships, within the boundaries of the proposed new township, be
held at the usual place of holding elections in the former, on Friday, June 28,
then instant, and to be conducted as other township elections, on fifteen days’
notice to be given by the constable of Kiskiminetas township. The returns of
that special election were made by the election officers, and filed July 1, then
next ensuing. The vote was, for dividing those two old townships and erecting
the new one, 152, and against the same, 90. The court thereupon ordered and
decreed that the township of South Bend be erected according to law and the
lines of division reported by the viewers, and appointed James Fulmer, judge,
and James Armstrong and Jonathan Crum, inspectors, to hold and conduct the then
next general and spring elections.

The boundaries reported by the viewers or commissioners are: Beginning at a
corner of Burrell township, on land of Jacob Hart; thence south 29 degrees east
1 mile and 120 perches to A. Walker’s; thence south 2 miles to the top of a hill
on I. Horn’s land; thence south 34 degrees east 1 mile and 108 perches to the
Indiana county line, on or near to land of Robert Elder; thence by Indiana
county line north 37 1/2 degrees east 6 miles and 172 perches to a point on land
of John Ramsey; thence north 40 degrees west 220 perches on the bank of Crooked
creek, near Reuben Allshouse’s (Idaho) mill; thence down said creek north 80
degrees west 150 perches; thence across said creek north 50 degrees west 3 miles
on land of Isaac Rowley, deceased; thence south 87 degrees west 1 mile and 97
perches, on land of M. Davis; thence by the line of Burrell township south 15
degrees east 1 mile and 258 perches to Linsbigler’s run; thence down said run
south 70 degrees west 110 perches; thence south 56 degrees west 64 perches to
Crooked creek; thence 31 degrees west 1 mile and 308 perches to the place of
beginning, containing about 23 square miles, to be called South Bend. The name
is derived from a great southern bend in Crooked creek, the extreme southern
part of which is in the southeastern part of the township, about 75 rods from
the Indiana County line. Along that portion of that creek in this township some
of the earliest settlements by the whites in this county were made.

The warrants for some of the thirty-five original tracts, as they are
indicated on the ancient county map, are dated as early as 1773. Those tracts
are: James Gray, 364 1/2 acres, partly in Indiana county; Abraham Hunt, mostly
in Kiskiminetas township, 301.9 acres, seated by Samuel Hancock; James Elder,
158 1/2 acres, partly in Indiana county, seated by James Smith; Robert Lettis
Hooper (of Northampton county, an assistant deputy commissary of purchases in
1779), 321 acres, partly in Kiskiminetas; William Forbes, 335.3 acres, partly in
Kiskiminetas; Stephen Duncan, 322.3 acres; Joseph Speer, 352 acres, partly in
Indiana county; Ann Kirk, 346.6 acres, seated by Samuel Fleming; Daniel Drinker,
322 1/2 acres, seated by Charles Hancock; Alexander Todd, 319.8, partly in
Kiskiminetas, seated by Andrew Cunningham; John Bringhurst, 285.3 acres, partly
in Kiskiminetas, seated by Jacob Snow; Walter Finney, 390 1/2 acres, seated by
Peter Henry; Samuel Sloan, 314 1/2 acres; Samuel Massey, 321.6 acres, seated by
Wm. Heffelfinger and Christopher Miller, the latter 160 acres; Joseph Saunders,
326.4 acres, partly in Indiana county; John Finney, 337.7 acres, seated by Henry
Allshouse; Matthew Irwin, 360 acres, seated by Jacob George, now owned chiefly
by John and James Wherry; John Walker, 374.2 acres, seated by John Householder;
James Davis, Sr., 421.4 acres; James Davis, Jr., 422 acres; Erasmus Beatty, 428
1/4 acres, partly in Kiskiminetas and Burrell, seated by Nicholas Fulmer; John
Righter, 163.2 acres, seated by William Eakman; George Woods, 297.3 acres,
seated by H. and Geo. Rupert; John Levering, 316 acres, seated by Peter and
Christopher Rupert; Samuel Dixon, 315 1/4 acres; James Skullknot, 334 acres,
seated by George Smith; Robert Dick, 159 acres; Elizabeth Pile, 346.3 acres,
seated by Widow Smith; Hannah Gregory, 246 acres, seated by —— Rankin; John
Sloan, 201 acres, 69 perches; David Todd and William Wason, 570 acres, seated by
Philip Rearigh, 170, Joseph Lowrey, 107, and Alexander George; Rowland Chambers,
225 3/4 acres, seated by Joseph Lowrey; Hugh Neely, 267 acres, 146 perches,
mostly in Indiana county, seated by Anthony Montgomery. Another tract, making
the thirty-fifth, covers territory within the great bend of Crooked creek above
mentioned, which originally contained 299 acres, for which a warrant was issued
to John Ladd Howell, dated February 8, 1776. As a part of this tract has for
many years been a prominent point in this region, its various transfers may not
be without interest to the reader. By deed dated May 22, 1776, Howell conveyed
his interest in the entire tract to John Vanderen, of Philadelphia (miller), for
five shillings, Vanderen’s executors, being so authorized by the will of
their testator, conveyed it to Charles Campbell by deed dated July 18, 1795, for
�59 4s. Campbell, by deed, dated May 17, 1813, conveyed it to James Clark for
$2,000; Clark, by deed dated May 20, 1813, conveyed it to Jacob France, or, as
spelled in later times, Frantz, for $3.000, who by his will, proven April 28,
1832, devised it to his children, from whom David Ralston, at divers times from
1837 until 1855, bought portions including the mill, aggregating 75 acres,
which, with the mill, he conveyed for $13,000 to Chambers Orr, by deed dated
June 14, 1859, who, by deed dated May 22, 1865, conveyed it to the present
owners, Robert and Henry Townsend, for $14,000. In the deed from Howell to
Venderen a mill-seat is mentioned as included in the tract. A grist and saw mill
must have been erected thereon while it was owned by Campbell, for as early as
1805, James and William Clark were assessed in Allegheny township, in which this
territory was then included, with one of each kind. For many years afterward
Frantz’s mill was resorted to by settlers from the lower part of the county, it
being then the nearest to them. By act of March 16, 1819, Crooked creek was
declared a public highway from its mouth to that mill.

The names given to some of these tracts are as follows: The Samuel Dixon
tract was called “Partrenship”–so it is spelled; the Hannah Gregory
tract “Pised”; the Elizabeth Pile tract, “Phoenicia;” the
Matthew Irwin tract, “Truxillo;” the Rowland Chambers tract,
“Cha–;” the John Shaw tract, “Brabant”; the Abraham Hunt
tract, “Hunt’s Forest;” the William Forbes tract,
“Franconia;” the John Bringhurst tract, “White Oak Plains;”
the Alexander Todd tract, “Todd’s Plains;” the Daniel Drinker tract,
“Hickory Ridge;” the Samuel Sloan tract, “Long Meadow;” the
Samuel Massey tract, “Limestone Runs;” the Joseph Saunders tract,
“Desart Sin;” the James Davis, Jr., tract, Stephenton;” the
Alexander Craig tract, a very small portion of which is in this county,
“Craig’s Farm.” As described in the deed from Absalom Woodward to
Robert C. Peebles, dated April 20, 1815, this last-mentioned tract was
“situate on a large run emptying into Crook creek, opposite to a place
known by the name of Capt. Tom’s Hunting Camp, in Plum Creek township.”
That “large run” must be the one that empties from the southeast in
Crooked creek about eighty rods northeast from the lowest point in its great
southern bend, so that “Capt. Tom’s Hunting Camp” must have been on
the John Ladd Howell tract, about a hundred rods southeast from the
“mill-seat,” mentioned in the deed from Howell to Vanderen, the
present site of the Townsend mills, on the right bank of that creek. Who Capt.
Tom was, or whence he came, the writer has not yet ascertained. He probably made
annual hunting excursions to this region from one of the older and more densely
settled counties. The writer has not yet met with anyone who can correctly
inform him concerning the exact locality of that “hunting camp,” which
was one of the old landmarks. Strange it is, that none of those born and raised
in its immediate and more remote vicinity, of whom he has inquired, had ever
heard of it! One who has resided in its neighborhood for more than forty years
thinks it was about three miles below, on the farm now owned by Jared
McCandlers, which is a part of “Phoenicia.” Another, who has passed
his four score and ten years, and who in early life was familiar with this
region, thinks it must have been at the mouth of “Horny Camp Run,”
which is in the southwest corner of Kittanning township, several miles further
down the creek. The writer has, to his own satisfaction at least, ascertained
its locality by putting together certain facts, points and boundaries, mentioned
in several old deeds for different tracts.

AN EARLY POLITICAL DELEGATE MEETING

The following is from the Western Eagle of September 20, 1810:

At a meeting of the delegates appointed by the democratic-republicans of
Armstrong and Indiana counties, for the purpose of consulting and recommending a
proper person to represent this district in the legislature of this state, and
when met agreeably to appointment at the house of Samuel Sloan (on the John
Sloan tract next below the John Ladd Howell tract), near Crooked creek, on
Thursday, 9th day of August last, JOHN BRANDON, Esq., of Armstrong county, was
chosen chairman, and ALEXANDER TAYLER, Esq., of Indiana County, secretary,
eleven delegates from the two counties being present.

The following resolutions were adopted by the meeting:

“1st. Resolved, with the exception of one dissenting voice, That
James Sloan, Esquire, of Armstrong county, be and is hereby recommended to our
fellow-citizens to represent the counties of Armstrong, Indiana and Jefferson in
the legislature of this commonwealth.

“2nd. Resolved, That a committee of three members be appointed to
prepare and send forward copies of these resolutions to the editors of The
Commonwealth in Pittsburgh and of the Farmer’s Register in
Greensburgh for publication, and that Jonathan King, John Davidson and John
Brandon, Esquires, compose the aforesaid committee.

“3rd. Resolved, That when the tickets are printed for the ensuing
election, 1,000 shall be delivered to John Brandon, of Kittanning, and 1,000 to
Alexander Tayler, of Indiana, who are hereby requested to have the same
distributed in their respective counties previous to the election.

“4th. Resolved, That the above resolutions be signed by the
chairman and attested by the secretary, and that the original copy thereof be
lodged with John Brandon, in the town of Kittanning.

“JOHN BRANDON, Chairman.

“Attest:

“ALEXANDER TAYLER, Secretary.”

That nominee was not elected that year: James McComb was.

WOODWARD’S MILLS

Absalom Woodward was first assessed with grist and saw mills in 1811, which
he had erected on the southeastern part of the William Cowden tract, on the
south side of Plum creek, in the northeastern part of the present township of
South Bend, where he resided for many years, and where he died in August, 1833.

These mills were, for a long time after their erection, a noted point in this
region of country. He devised the William Cowden tract, including these mill and
various other tracts, to his son Absalom. The mill property has been
subsequently and successively owned by Stacy B. Barcroft, George S. Christy and
Reuben Allshouse, the present proprieter, who has changed its name to that of
“Idaho,” to which name he is probably partial on account of the
valuable mineral acquisitions which he had the good fortune to make in the
Territory of Idaho.

Hugh Brown’s store was located two miles below this point more than seventy
years ago. He was assessed as a “store-keeper” in 1805. How many years
before that he opened his store there, the writer has not been able to learn.

POSTAL

The only postoffice between Kittanning and Indiana sixty years ago was at
Absalom Woodward’s. The record of its establishment having been destroyed by the
burning of the postoffice building in Washington, in 1836, there is but little
knowledge of it left. A postoffice was kept there in 1817-18, when Josiah Copley
carried the mail from Indiana to Butler. He presumes that Absalom Woodward was
then the postmaster, because he opened the mails. That office was probably
discontinued when the one either at Elderton or Shelacta was established. In
this connection, though not in the chronological order of events, it may be
stated that the Frantz’s Mill postoffice was established February 21, 1843.
James Mitchell, Jr., was the first postmaster, and the South Bend postoffice was
established April 6, 1848, at the same point, and its first postmaster was James
Johnston, Jr.; the Olivet postoffice was established April 10, 1850, and John
McGeary was its first postmaster.

BLOCKHOUSES

Prior to 1795, or to the time when the Indians ceased to be troublesome and
dangerous in this region, there was a blockhouse on the John Shaw tract, on what
is now called Jones’ hill, about a mile a little east of south from the junction
of Crooked and Plum creeks, or Idaho. According to a tradition which has come
down from the earliest settlers, there was, in those times, another blockhouse,
called by some a fort, at or near the present site of the Townsend mills, and
the South Bend postoffice. Abraham Frantz and others formerly found many bullets
in the ground thereabout. Numerous flint arrow-heads of various sizes are still
found on the Hugh Neely tract, now Alexander J. Montgomery’s farm, and elsewhere
in the vicinity of those blockhouses.

The general, especially the early, history of this township is nearly
identical with that of Plum Creek and Kiskiminetas townships; the dangers,
hardships and inconveniences of its early settlers were similar to those of
those two townships. It was along that part of Crooked creek in this township
that the earliest settlements by the whites were made in this county. Early
settlers, as indicated by the assessment list of Allegheny township for 1805,
within whose limits the present territory of this township was then included,
were Hugh Brown, James and William Clark, Barnard Davers (mason), George and
Henry Hoover, John Householder, John and Adam Johnston, Samuel George, George
King, Daniel Linsinbigler, Peter Rupert, Sr., Peter Rupert (weaver), Samuel
Sloan, John Sloan, Joseph Thorn (blacksmith), David Todd, and Absalom Woodward
(?). It may be that the last-named then resided on the George Campbell tract,
nearly two miles above Idaho, on Plum creek,

Twenty years or so later, Henry Allshouse, on the John Finney tract, Samuel
Fleming on the Ann Kirk tract, Nicholas Fulmer, on the Erasmus Beatty tract,
Jacob George, on the Matthew Irwin tract, William Heffelfinger, on the Samuel
Massey tract, Nicholas Jordan, on the John Levering tract, Joseph Lowery, on the
Rowland Chambers tract, Anthony Montgomery, on the Hugh Neely tract, JohnMcCain,
on the John Levering tract, George and Henry Rupert, on the George Woods tract,
James Smith, on the James Elder tract, Jacob Snow on the John Bringhurst tract,
were residents in those parts of Allegheny and Plum Creek townships now included
in South Bend township. Among the residents, eight or nine years later, were
John and Peter Dice, Alexander Lowry, John and Robert Smith, Robert Townsend,
James and John Wherry in the Kiskiminetas portion; Jacob Allshouse, John and
Jonathan Crum, Jacob, John Samuel and Abraham Frantz, Peter, Samuel and Jacob
George, Thomas Kinnard, Joseph Lowry, Frederick and Peter Rupert, John Shoup,
Robert W. Smith–not this writer,–Samuel Sloan, Sr. and Jr., John Windgrove,
William Wilkison, and Absalom Woodward, Jr., in the Plum Creek portion of South
Bend township. There may have been others in both sections of the township, and
it is possible that some of the above-mentioned were at the time residents of
Plum Creek township. The writer has formed his judgment as to their residence
chiefly from the assessment lists of those various periods.

RELICS

Ten or fifteen years ago Robert Townsend, as related by his son, S. P.
Townsend, found a mattock on his farm, near Whiskey run. It was struck by the
plow, at the depth of about ten inches, in good soil. Several bunches of oxide
of iron, about the size of hen’s eggs, were on it. Its ends were steel, which he
had sharpened at the blacksmith’s. It is still extant on that farm, on the ridge
or watershed from which the runs flow into Crooked creek and the Kiskiminetas.
From six to ten inches below the surface, in a gravelly soil, on the same farm,
various Indian relics have been found: A stone implement, shaped somewhat like a
wedge, with one end sharp like the bit of an ax, while near the other end was a
groove, probably for holding a strap, used, probably, for skinning animals;
several very hard stone utensils, some of which were a foot in diameter, the
interior of which was somewhat like an apothecary’s mortar, some holding a quart
and others two quarts of water, which were probably used for breaking and
grinding corn; numerous flint arrow-heads; a mound of stones, which must have
been brought some distance, as the field in which it is is clear of stone, about
twenty feet in diameter, and two feet high, its shape being circular, and under
which no bones have been found.

There is on that farm a white-oak tree, which is twenty-one feet in
circumference.

CHURCHES

For many years after the first settlement of this township and region, there
was no church edifice in what is now this township, except the log one,
mentioned in the sketch of Plum Creek township. Clergymen of different
denominations, who were itinerant missionaries rather than pastors, conducted
religious services in private homes, barns and groves.

The St. Jacob’s Evangelical Lutheran and the St. Jacob’s Reformed churches
occupy the same edifice, a commodious frame structure, about two-thirds of a
mile nearly north of the South Bend postoffice and mills.

Zion’s Valley Reformed church was organized June 20, 1868. The edifice owned
by the society is frame and of adequate dimensions for the present wants of the
congregation. Members, 64; Sabbath-school scholars, 50. This church was
incorporated by the proper court, March 14, 1873, and William G. King, Absalom
Klingensmith, H. G. Allshouse and Joseph Heisley were named trustees in the
charter, to serve until the first election. The meeting-house is situated one
mile east of the most western point or angle of the township, on the right bank
of a large run emptying into Crooked creek, in “Barrel Valley.” The
pastor is Rev. John McConnell. His predecessors were Revs. James Grant and H. N.
Hoffmeir.

The United Presbyterian church, at Olivet, on the Robert Lettis Hooper tract,
one mile and a fourth from the eastern southern angle of the township, was
organized as a settlement of the Associate Reformed church, in April, 1840.
There had, however, been occasional preaching since 1836, in a tent near the
site of the present meeting-house. The congregation, at the time of its
organization, took the name of Olivet, from which the name of this point, or
locality was derived. The original number of church members was twenty. The
pastors have been Revs. Alexander McCahan, from 1843 until 1846; M. H. Wilson,
from 1848 until 1857; Samuel Anderson, from 1859 until 1867, and John C.
Telford, the present one. This church has borne the name of United Presbyterian
since the union of the Associate and Associate Reformed churches. The present
number of members is 67; Sabbath-school scholars 500. The church edifice is
frame, 40X40 feet, built in 1849.

During the war of the rebellion there was a Soldier’s Aid Society which
consisted of members of the Olivet U. P. and Elder’s Ridge Presbyterian
congregations. Says a correspondent (*1): “No records exist of the
contributions of this society, but it is believed that its disbursements were
not less liberal than those of sister congregations.

SCHOOLS

For awhile after the first settlement of this region, pay or subscription
schools were taught in private houses in different parts of the then settled
part of the township, which was chiefly along and in the vicinity of Crooked
creek. The first schoolhouse, a primitive log one, was erected probably about
1803, near the present site of St. Jacob’s Lutheran and Reformed church edifice,
in which the first teacher, or least one of the earliest, was James Allison.
Mrs. Nancy Kirkpatrick, widow of James Kirkpatrick, remembers that schoolhouse,
and that before its erection schools were taught here and there as above stated.

In the earlier settlement of the southern part of the township there was an
ancient schoolhouse about 200 rods southwest of Olivet, on the present farm of
Joseph Coulter, and another about a mile and a half a little west of north from
Olivet, on the present farm of David Finley. The first schoolhouse at Olivet was
built in or about 1820, on the present site of G. W. Steer’s blacksmith shop,
and was known as the “Big Run schoolhouse,” which continued to be used
until 1834-5.

About a mile distant from Olivet, across the Indiana county line, is Elder’s
Ridge Academy, whose beneficent influence in promoting educational interests in
this region has for many years been effective.

The slight opposition which the common school system encountered in this part
of the county was readily overcome by its more numerous friends, prominent among
whom were William Davis, Joseph and Alexander A. Lowry, Anthony Montgomery and
John Wherry, as the writer is informed. The further preparation of the history
of that system, except some statistics, belongs to the school department.

The first school year in which this has been a distinct school district was
1868. Its first annual report was for 1869, when the number of schools was 6;
average number months taught, 4; male teachers, 4; female teachers, 2; average
salaries of male per month, $38.25; average salaries of female per month, $35;
male scholars, 288; female, 244; average number attending school, 433; cost of
teaching each per month, 64 cents; amount levied for school purposes, $902.84;
minimum occupation, 211; total amount levied, $1,113.84; received from
collectors, unseated land, etc., $1,200,44; cost of instruction, $892; fuel and
contingencies, $152,72; repairing schoolhouses, etc., $55.66; balance on hand,
$1,000,00.

In 1876 the number of schools was 6; average number months taught, 5; male
teachers, 6; average monthly salaries, $35; number male scholars, 182; number
female scholars, 179; average number attending school, 298; cost per month, 64
cents; amount levied for school and building purposes, $1,179.30; received from
state appropriation, $237.15; received from taxes and other sources; $1,233.71;
paid for teachers’ wages, $1,050; paid for fuel and contingencies, collectors’
fees, etc., $196.25.

The settlement of the lower or southern part of the township occurred much
later than that of the northern part. Robert Townsend remembers that at and
around the pleasant hamlet of Olivet, on the Robert Lettis Hooper tract, there
were but few settlers in 1833. It had then the appearance of a wilderness rather
than of a settled region. He remembers that a primitive log schoolhouse was
there in 1834, which had the appearance of having been erected a few years. The
only wagon in the neighborhood in 1833 belonged to John Smith. The nearest
gristmill was that at South Bend. The people packed their grists to mill on
horseback. There were no wagon-roads except the one from Saltsburgh. The state
road was not opened until 1843. A year or two before then emigrants from
Washington county, the Ewings and others, settled here.

POPULATION

The generally good farming land in this township has steadily attracted to it
increasing numbers of those engaged in agricultural pursuits, together with an
adequate number engaged in other branches of business incident to and usual in
an agricultural community. According to the census of 1870, the only one taken
since the organization of this township, its population was then: White, 1,126;
colored,1; native 1,116; foreign,, 11. The number of taxables this centennial
year is 273, making its present population 1,255, the great mass of which are
farmers and their families.

Besides the sawmills at Idaho and South Bend, there are four others, viz.,
one a short distance west of Olivet, one on Craig’s run, about 50 rods from its
mouth, one on the most westerly run emptying into Crooked creek about 250 rods
above its mouth, and the other on the same run, or its eastern branch, a mile or
so higher up.

In 1875 James McNees & Co. commenced the manufacture of stone crocks at
their pottery, on a run 220 230 rods east of the second angle in the western
boundary line below the northwest corner of the township, the daily product
being 200 gallons, and in the spring of 1876 the manufacture of stone pumps and
pipes. Twelve pumps and 200 feet of pipe have been made in a day. The capacity
of the works is such that the daily product of the latter can be increased to
1,000 feet. The building is 90X28 feet, and the machinery is worked by
horse-power.

The Mutual Fire Insurance Company of South Bend township was incorporated by
the proper court December 15, 1875. According to the original charter the
members and insurers were to be persons owning land in and adjoining this
township, but that limiting clause was subsequently stricken out by an amendment
to the charter granted by the court. The object of this company, like that of
the Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company, of Plum Creek township, seems to be to
effect insurance on such property as is peculiar to farmers, and at a lower rate
than in other companies, for the charter provides that its officers are to be
paid only for such services as are necessarily rendered, and no dividends are to
be made. The passing remark may here be made that disastrous fires have not been
frequent in this township. The most serious one, perhaps, occurred November 29,
1836, by which the house of Anthony Montgomery and its contents, including about
$200 in money, were destroyed.

Official.– Sheriff, Alexander J. Montgomery.

The stores assessed this year are five in the fourteenth and one in the
thirteenth class.

The assessment list for this year shows: Laborers, 27; blacksmiths, 7;
shoemakers, 4; carpenters, 2; millers, 2; wagon-makers, 2; teachers, 2;
invalids, 2; preacher, 1; agent, 1; clerk, 1; cooper, 1; apprentice, 1; and 26
single men. Will they all be single at the close of this leap year?

The geological features of this township are generally similar to those
presented in the sketches of Plum Creek and Kiskiminetas townships. There is a
vein of bituminous coal in the southeastern part of the township on the Townsend
farm which, including three feet of slate, is fifteen feet thick–twelve feet of
pure coal of excellent quality.

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Footnotes:

*1 Robert H. Wilson

Source: Page(s) 394-399, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by Robert
Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883.
Transcribed June 2000 by James R. Hindman for the Armstrong County Smith
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