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Chapter 11 Pine (Including Boggs) Name – Erected from Territory in Kittanning Township – Decreased in Size by the Establishment of Boggs in 1878 – (Note)-Mahoning Creek and its Indian Name – The Old Path to Le Bœuf – The Indian Town of Mahoning Ă¢Â€Â“ Orrsville – History of the Original Land Tracts – Ore … Read more
Chapter 11 Pine (Including Boggs) Part 1 Pine township derived its name from Pine creek, which flows westwardly through the territory which it formerly embraced. Pine creek in the Delaware language is Cuwen-hanne, i. e., pine-streamĂ¯Â¿Â½a stream flowing through pine-lands. A petition of divers inhabitants of Kittanning township was presented to the court of quarter … Read more
Chapter 11 Pine (Including Boggs) Part 2 The Pine township postoffice, Wm. Gallagher, postmaster, was established July 16, 1855, and removed to or merged in the Pine Creek Furnace one, May 21, 1872. George Stewardson conveyed to William and Robert McCutcheon, proprietors of Ore Hill Furnace, 4,219 acres of those Wallis lands, September 7, 1849, … Read more
Chapter 11 Pine (Including Boggs) Footnotes 1 Ă¢Â€Â“ It was further shorn of the greater part of its remaining territory by the organization of Boggs township, June 10, 1878, by a line extending from a point on the Allegheny river, about 125 rods in an airline below the mouth of Whisky runĂ¢Â€Â”south of the telegraph … Read more
Chapter 12 Madison Named after the Fourth President Ă¯Â¿Â½ Territory of the Township Carved from Toby and Red Bank Ă¯Â¿Â½ One of Captain BradyĂ¯Â¿Â½s Notable Indian Fights Ă¯Â¿Â½ An Official Account by Col. Brodhead Ă¯Â¿Â½ The Services of a Young Delaware Chief Ă¯Â¿Â½ Col. BrodheadĂ¯Â¿Â½s Expedition Against the Seneca and Muncy Towns on the Upper … Read more
Chapter 12, Section 1 Madison Madison township was, of course, named after James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, whose public career is familiar to the people of this township and county. The petition of inhabitants of Toby and Red Bank townships was presented to the court of quarter sessions of this county … Read more
The Truitt Family Thomas Truitt, from whom sprang the Truitt family of Madison township, was born in New Jersey, in 1789, and came to this county about 1800, with his father, Parker Truitt. The latter did not long remain here, moving to the State of Indiana. Thomas Truitt was in the war of 1812, and, … Read more
VALLEY TOWNSHIP Â Ernest Miller enlisted September 7, 1861, Co. B, ______ Pa. regt.; discharged for disability October 15, 1863, at Chester Hill. Jesse F. Hyskell enlisted June 28, 1861, at Camp Wright, Pennsylvania, in Co. F, 9th Pa. Reserves; discharged May 12, 1864, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; wounded ijn lege severely at battle of Antietam, … Read more
ISAAC WARNER Isaac Warner was born in Loudon county, Virginia, May 16, 1800, and came to this county with his parents, who settled in Kiskiminetas township, where his widow now lives, in August, 1808. He married in 1828, Elizabeth Scott, who was born January 10, 1806, in County Tyrone, Ireland. Her parents, Andrew and Jane … Read more
WAYNE TOWNSHIP Â William W. Caldwell enlisted August 23, 1862, in Co. K, 155th Pa. Vol. Inf.; discharged May, 1863. Ephriam Morrow enlisted May 15, 1861, in Co. K, Pa. Reserves, “Buck Trail Regt.,” and was transferred in November, 1861, to the U. S. Signal Corps; was discharged June 17, 1864. William T. McFarland enlisted … Read more