Skip to content

PA-Roots

…bringing our past into the future

  • Home
  • US-Roots
  • About PA-Roots
    • Join Our Team!
    • Acceptable Use Policy
    • Copyright Information
    • PA-Roots Friends Newsletter
    • Mailing Lists
  • News
    • What’s New?
    • Newsletter
    • PA-Roots Blog
    • Follow Us on Twitter
    • Latest
    • PA-Roots Blog
  • Biography Project
  • Counties
    • Adams County
    • Allegheny County
    • Armstrong County
    • Beaver County
    • Berks County
    • Blair County
    • Bradford County
    • Bucks County
    • Butler County
    • Cambria County
    • Cameron County
    • Carbon County
    • Centre County
    • Chester County
    • Clarion County
    • Clearfield County
    • Clinton County
    • Columbia County
    • Crawford County
    • Cumberland County
    • Dauphin County
    • Delaware County
    • Erie County
    • Fayette County
    • Forest County
    • Franklin County
    • Fulton County
    • Greene County
    • Huntingdon County
    • Indiana County
    • Juniata County
    • Lackawanna County
    • Lancaster County
    • Lawrence County
    • Lebanon County
    • Lehigh County
    • Luzerne County
    • Lycoming County
    • McKean County
    • Mercer County
    • Mifflin County
    • Monroe County
    • Montgomery County
    • Montour County
    • Northampton County
    • Northumberland County
    • Perry County
    • Philadelphia County
    • Potter County
    • Schuylkill County
    • Snyder County
    • Somerset County
    • Sullivan County
    • Susquehanna County
    • Tioga County
    • Union County
    • Venango County
    • Warren County
    • Washington County
    • Wayne County
    • Westmoreland County
    • Wyoming County
    • York County
    • York County

History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania

Rev David Kennedy Duff

August 12, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

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

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

Rev. Thomas McConnell Elder

August 12, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

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

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

James Elgin

August 12, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

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

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

Glenn Family

August 12, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

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

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

The Graham Family

August 12, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

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

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

Guthrie Family

August 12, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

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

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

James Guthrie

August 12, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

James Guthrie James Guthrie is one of the oldest residents of Apollo, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, having come there in 1833, from Westmoreland county, where he was born September 20, 1806. His parents, William and Agnes (Dixon) Guthrie, were among the earliest settlers in the county last named. During his early life the subject of our … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

Daniel Brodhead Heiner

August 12, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

Daniel Brodhead Heiner James Guthrie is one of the oldest residents of Apollo, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, having come there in 1833, from Westmoreland county, where he was born September 20, 1806. His parents, William and Agnes (Dixon) Guthrie, were among the earliest settlers in the county last named. During his early life the subject of … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

John Hill

August 12, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

John Hill Among the pioneers of Western Pennsylvania was the Hill family. They came from “east of the mountains,” and settled near Salem, Westmoreland county. While residing here the father of the family was captured by a band of Indians, and taken to Hickory Flats, above Oil City, where he was mercilessly slaughtered. He left … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

Jackson Family

August 12, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

Jackson Family Probably no one family have been more prominently identified with the settlement and material prosperity of Kiskiminetas township than the Jackson family. The family is of Irish extraction, and we learn that James Jackson came from Ireland with his parents when a lad about seven or eight years of age. The family first … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment
Older posts
Newer posts
← Previous Page1 … Page14 Page15 Page16 Page17 Next →

Recent Posts

  • Abbreviations and Initialisms Used in Genealogy
  • Achenbach
  • A Summary of the Bair, Baer, Br, Bear, Beer Etc. Family
  • A Summary of the Bair, Baer, Br, Bear, Beer Etc. Family
  • Administrator/Administratrix Notices

Resources

  • Biography Project
  • Photo Gallery
  • Cemetery Transcriptions
  • Biographical and Historical Books
    • History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, etc..
    • Pennsylvania Historical and Biographical Books
  • Civil War
  • Saving Graves
  • DataBoards (Submit your data)
  • Mailing Lists
  • Military Resources
    • Revolutionary War Records
    • War of 1812
  • Memorial Day Project
  • Links
  • Adams County
  • Allegheny County
  • Armstrong County
  • Beaver County
  • Bedford County
  • Berks County
  • Blair County
  • Bradford County
  • Bucks County
  • Butler County
  • Cambria County
  • Cameron County
  • Carbon County
  • Centre County
  • Chester County
  • Clarion County
  • Clearfield County
  • Clinton County
  • Columbia County
  • Crawford County
  • Cumberland County
  • Dauphin County
  • Delaware County
  • Elk County
  • Erie County
  • Fayette County
  • Forest County
  • Franklin County
  • Fulton County
  • Greene County
  • Huntingdon County
  • Indiana County
  • Jefferson County
  • Juniata County
  • Lackawanna County
  • Lancaster County
  • Lawrence County
  • Lebanon County
  • Lehigh County
  • Luzerne County
  • Lycoming County
  • McKean County
  • Mercer County
  • Mifflin County
  • Monroe County
  • Montgomery County
  • Montour County
  • Northampton County
  • Northumberland County
  • Perry County
  • Philadelphia County
  • Pike County
  • Potter County
  • Schuylkill County
  • Snyder County
  • Somerset County
  • Sullivan County
  • Susquehanna County
  • Tioga County
  • Union County
  • Venango County
  • Warren County
  • Washington County
  • Wayne County
  • Westmoreland County
  • Wyoming County
  • York County
  • Adams County Cemeteries
  • Adams County Lookup Volunteers
  • Gettysburg Complier Newspaper
  • Star and Republican Banner Newspaper
  • The Story of the Creation of Adams County
  • Allegheny County Cemeteries
  • Allegheny County Data
  • Birth, Death & Marriage Records, Beaver County
  • Cemetery Records, Beaver County
  • Census & Tax Records, Beaver County
  • Church Records, Beaver County
  • History Articles, Beaver County
  • History of Beaver County Pennsylvania and Its Centennial Celebration
  • Military Records, Beaver County
  • Berks County Cemeteries
  • Berks County Church Records
  • Altoona Tribune Newspaper
  • Martinsburg Herald
  • Cemeteries, Centre County
  • Chester County Cemeteries
  • Cemetery Records, Clarion County
  • Church Records, Clarion County
  • Clarion County Census – 1850
  • Clarion County Census – 1860
  • Clarion County Census – 1870
  • Highland Township, Clarion County
  • History of Clarion County, AJ Davis
  • Mill Creek Township, Clarion County
  • School Records, Clarion County
  • Clearfield Archive
  • Clearfield Republican
  • Democratic Banner, Clearfield County
  • Clinton County Cemeteries
  • Clinton County History Articles
  • Clinton County Resources
  • Historical and Biographical Work, Clinton County
  • Columbia County Cemeteries
  • History of Crawford County, Pa.
  • Cumberland County Cemeteries
  • Dauphin County Cemeteries
  • Delaware County Cemeteries
  • Delco Churches
  • Delco History
  • Delco Schools
  • Municipalities of Delaware County
  • [Book] History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania
  • Brookhaven Baptist Church
  • Erie County History
  • Cemetery Records, Greene County
  • Church Records, Greene County
  • Military Records, Greene County
  • Tax Lists, Greene County
  • History Articles – Huntingdon County
  • History of Huntingdon County – Milton Scott Lytle
  • Indiana County Cemeteries
  • Vital Records – Indiana Weekly Messenger
  • Birth, Death & Marriage Records, Lancaster County
  • Books and Journals, Lancaster County
  • Cemetery Records, Lancaster County
  • Census Records, Lancaster County
  • Church Records, Lancaster County
  • Civil Records, Lancaster County
  • Family Group Sheets, Lancaster County
  • History Articles, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  • Lancaster Intelligencer
  • Maps, Lancaster County
  • The Mariettian, Lancaster County
  • Lancaster and its People, An Account of Lancaster, Pa.
  • Records of Rev John Casper Stoever
  • Tax Lists, Lancaster County
  • Lebanon Advertister 1857, Lebanon Pennsylvania
  • Lebanon County Cemeteries
  • Lehigh County Cemeteries
  • Lehigh Register, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa
  • History of Lycoming County Pennsylvania – Lloyd
  • Lycoming County Articles
  • Mercer County Records
  • Mifflin County Cemeteries
  • Mifflin County Churches
  • Montgomery County Cemeteries
  • Montgomery County History Articles
  • Cemetery Records, Montour County
  • Data, Montour County
  • History of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania
  • History of Danville
  • Cemetery Records, Northampton County
  • Northampton County Church Records
  • Cemeteries, Northumberland County
  • Perry County Cemeteries
  • Civil Records, Philadelphia
  • Columbian Star and Christian Index Newspaper
  • Philadelphia, Dr. Rush’s Ledger A
  • Schuylkill County Census Records
  • Area Lore – Somerset County
  • Boroughs & Towns, Somerset County
  • Cemetery Records, Somerset County
  • Census & Tax Lists, Somerset County
  • Churches, Somerset County
  • Civil Lists, Somerset County
  • History, Somerset County
  • Organizations & Lists, Somerset County
  • Reunions of Yesterday, Somerset County
  • Schools, Somerset County
  • Townships, Somerset County
  • Susquehanna County Cemeteries
  • Cemeteries, Tioga County
  • Census Records, Tioga County
  • Church Records, Tioga County
  • Historical Articles, Tioga County
  • History of Tioga County, R.C. Brown
  • The Agitator, Wellsboro
  • Union County Cemeteries
  • Cemetery Records, York County
  • History of York County
  • York County
  • York County Resources
  • York County Source Records and Queries
  • Family Histories
  • History Articles
  • Statewide Data