Armstrong County

JOHN CHRISTY The old and well-known resident of this county whose name stands at the head of this brief biography was the son of Daniel and Rebecca Christy, respectively of Irish and Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in Hopewell township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, November 7, 1800. He lived with his parents until he attained his … Read more

COWANSHANNOCK TOWNSHIP   John Boyer, a native of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, settled in Cowanshannock township, in 1831, or the following years, and married Miss Mary Beers. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom John A. Boyer, a successful farmer of this township, is one. He married Miss Mary E. St. Clair, daughter of … Read more

THE CRAIG FAMILY THE CRAIG FAMILY of Madison township, is one of the largest in its territory, or, for that matter, in the county. George Craig was born in Butler county April 6, 1798, and came to Armstrong county in 1831, settling where his son Alexander T. now lives, where he resided and followed farming … Read more

William Devers William Devers, the oldest man living in South Bend township, is one of the few who still remain of a fast decreasing circle of pioneers. He is one of the men who witnessed and partook in the work of planting civilization in the wilderness, and is more blessed than some of them in … Read more

REV. DAVID KENNEDY DUFF David Kennedy Duff was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1825. He left home when seventeen years of age to attend school at the academy in Darlington, Pennsylvania, and remained there two years; thence he went to college in Athens, Ohio, where he finished his literary collegiate course in 1849. … Read more

Rev. Thomas McConnell Elder   The grandfather of the well-known citizen of Dayton, whose name heads this sketch, Robert Elder, was a soldier through all of those seven long years of the revolutionary war, and, soon after the close of that great struggle for liberty, moved with his family from the vicinity of Harrisburg to … Read more

James Elgin James Elgin, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in County Derry, Ireland, in the year 1760. In 1782, having attained his majority, he came to America, and in 1791 was married. He first settled where Elderton now is, at a time when the region around him was a perfect wilderness, … Read more

Glenn Family John Glenn, the progenitor of the Glenn family in Armstrong county and the great-grandfather of A. D. Glenn, came from Ireland when eighteen years of age, and settled in Center county, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Borland by whom he had two daughters, Ann and Mary, and four sons, Robert, John, James and Joseph. … Read more

THE GRAHAM FAMILY — JOHN GRAHAM Joseph Graham, father of John Graham, the well-known citizen of South Buffalo Township, was born in Scotland in 1768, and reared in Ireland, where he married a Miss Mary Ralston. In 1803 he and his wife and three children came to America and located in Baltimore, and thence in … Read more

GUTHRIE FAMILY James Guthrie was among the earliest pioneers of this county, coming here about 1798. He was of Irish birth, as was also his wife Margaret (Dixon) Guthrie. They patented and settled upon a tract of heavy timbered land, containing 336 acres. This Mr. Guthrie cleared up and lived upon it until his death. … Read more