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August 2, 1860 Fatal Mistake. – Mrs. Myers, wife of Mr. John Myers, of Rayne township, Indiana country, who had been for some time in delicate health, used as a remedy a tea made of a green plant, known to botanists as Pipsissiwa, which grows wild in the woods. Going out on last Thursday to … Read more
June 7, 1860 Finally Committed. Hamilton and Helfright, whom we noticed last week, as having been arrested on the charge of being the persons who broke into the store of Gen. B. F. Bell, at Bell’s Mills, last winter, were brought before Esquire Cherry on Thursday last, for a second hearing. One of the railroad … Read more
April 5, 1860 Walter C. Roe, junior partner of the firm of D. R. Miller & Co., proprietors of the Logan House, in this place, died at 8 ‘clock on Sunday afternoon last. He had been confined to his room for some six weeks with disease of the heart. About a week previous to his … Read more
January 26, 1860 The Harrisburg Telegraph says a child of Mr. Cowden, of that place, aged about four years, died on Sunday last, from that terrible disease, hydrophobia. On Wednesday week the house of Mr. Michael Garrity, near Locke’s Mills, Mifflin county, was destroyed by fire. Two children, aged five and ten years, perished in … Read more
1849 Lancaster Intelligencer July 3, 1849 Married on the 24th ult., by R. S. Wagner, John Glueck, of West Lampeter, to Barbara Kurtz, of Safe Harbor. Married on Thursday, May 3d, by the Rev. F. Harris, George W. Porter, merchant, of Mountjoy, to Mary C., daughter of Henry Eberley, Esq., of the same place. Married … Read more
Chapter III THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD, AND AFTER, TO 1800 Origin of Revolutionary Spirit – Causes of the Conflict – Training of Colonists for it – Part of Western Settlers in Revolution – General Clark’s Expedition – General Hand’s Expedition – Girty and Other Renegades – Conduct of British at Detroit – General McIntosh’s Expedition – … Read more
CHAPTER II THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD Indian Occupation-French and English C1aims-Explorers and Traders -The Ohio Company-Celeron’s Expedition-Alarm of PesnnylĂ‚Âvania and Virginia Authorities-Washington Sent to Fort Le Breuf -Military Measures-Fort at “Forks of the Ohio”-Ward’s SurĂ‚Ârender-Beginning of French and Indian War-Fort NecessityĂ‚ÂBraddock’s Defeat-Forbes’s Expedition and Fall of Fort Duquesne -End of French Empire in America-Conspiracy of Pontiac-Relief … Read more
HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER I PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE COUNTY Location-Boundaries-Origin of the Name-Drainage-Soil-TopogĂ‚Âraphy-Geology – Flora and Fauna-Historic Floods-Climatic Peculiarities, etc. B EAVER CO UNTY, one of the westernmost range of the counties of Pennsylvania, and the third, reckoning northward, from the southwestern corner of the State, lies along the Ohio and West … Read more
Society of FriendsTheir first meeting house was in Fallston, but in 1827 a division occurred within the congregation and both groups moved to New Brighton. The Orthodox group held sevices in a house located at the corner of 15th St. and Third Ave., but there are no records found of it. The Liberal Quakers, or … Read more
Salem Evangelical Church, Freedom The Salem United Methodist Church formally the Salem Evangelical United Brethren Church. The Freedom congregation was a part of the Rochester Mission Field until 1905 when the church became a separate mission. The first church property, on the corner of Fourth avenue and Fifth Street, was purchased from the Freedom Borough … Read more