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Your County Team Associate is Nathan Zipfel and I’m really glad you stopped by and I hope that you find this website useful for your genealogical research.
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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
HEADER Samuel Franklin Murphy SAMUEL FRANKLIN MURPHY, of South Buffalo township, belongs to a family which has been settled in this part of Armstrong county since the closing years of the eighteenth century, founded here by his grandfather, Capt. Samuel Murphy. Capt. Samuel Murphy was born in 1756 at Bull Skin, in Frederick county, Va., … Read more
HEADER Jacob A Myers Jacob A. Myers, Esq., is one of the oldest officials of Burrell township, Armstrong county, and one its most influential citizens. His faithful discharge of the duties of every trust with which he has been honored is the best indication of his ability and fitness, and his long continuance in office … Read more