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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 William A. Patton WILLIAM A. PATTON, county superintendent of public schools of Armstrong county, and one of the desirable citizens of Kittanning, was born in Kittanning township, this county, Sept. 8, 1864, son of John M. and Elizabeth (Stark) Patton. John M. Patton was born in Armstrong county, where he was reared, and developed … Read more

HEADER Charles B Peters CHARLES B. PETERS, member of the firm of McKelvey & Peters, who carry on a thriving planing mill business at Rural Valley, was born July 28, 1878, two miles south of that borough, son of James S. and Mary A. (Cooper) Peters. James S. Peters came to Cowanshannock township, Armstrong county, … Read more

HEADER JOHN M. PETTIGREW, M.D. JOHN M. PETTIGREW, M.D., late of Rural Valley, was one of the foremost citizens and medical practitioners of that part of Armstrong county for many years. Born in Indiana county, Pa., Feb. 28, 1835, he was a son of Matthew and Jane (Windrem) Pettigrew, and grandson of John Pettigrew, a … Read more