History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania

KITTANNING TOWNSHIP   David Shoemaker was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1828; moved to Armstrong county, Pennsylvanian, 1844; is of German descent. James Hielman [sic], a son of Jacob Hielman [sic], of Germany. James H. was born on his present farm in 1829. Isaac Hielman [sic]. Son of Daniel Hielman [sic]. Who died in … Read more

Christian Mardorf This gentleman, one of the prominent manufacturers of Freeport, was born in the city of Melsungen, province of Hesse-Cassel, Germany, January 23, 1847. In 1852 the family came to this country and located in Butler borough, Butler county, Pennsylvania, where the father followed his trade, that of a tanner. His son Christian was … Read more

John Wilson Marshall The parents of the subject of this sketch, John and Elizabeth (Stewart) Marshall, were natives of Indiana county, Pennsylvania, and were among the early settlers in Wayne township, Armstrong county. John Marshall and his father, Archibald Marshall, are known to have located here in 1812. John Marshall was born in 1794; married … Read more

Robert Marshall In the year 1803, William and Catharine Marshall came to Wayne township, Armstrong County, and settled upon Glade Run, near the present town of Dayton, being the first settlers upon the stream named, and having no neighbors nearer than five miles. They had a family of six sons and three daughters, of whom … Read more

Thomas Marshall The subject of this sketch, second son of Robert and Mary (Hindman) Marshall, was born July 29, 1824, about one and one-half miles from Dayton. When he was about twenty years of age, his father purchased the land on which a part of the village of Dayton now stands, and six years later … Read more

William McBryar, M.D. The subject of this sketch was born of a generous strain of sturdy Scotch-Irish blood, both of his parents being descended from those races, though both natives of Pennsylvania. His father was born July 18, 1784, in Westmoreland county, and his mother, Elizabeth Dickey, near Carlisle, Franklin county. They were married June … Read more

Prof. Hugh McCandless The subject of this sketch, well known in his later years and at the time of his death as the principal of the Dayton Soldiers’ Orphans’ School, was born in Apollo, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1835. He was the son of Jared and Elizabeth (Ford) McCandless, the former from Washington county … Read more

Henry Kipp McKallip Archibald McKallip, father of the old citizen of Leechburg whose name stands at the head of this brief biographical sketch, was the son of a pair of Scotch immigrants, and was born on shipboard while they were en route to America, in the year 1774. He married Catharine Kipp, who was of … Read more

WILLIAM McKINSTRY The subject of this sketch is a namesake of his grandfather, who was a native of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania; emigrated at an early age to Westmoreland county, where he lived for a short time and then removed to Armstrong county, and settled two miles east of Apollo. After a three years� stay he … Read more

THE MILLER FAMILY Jacob Miler, the progenitor of this family, was one of the earliest settlers of Kiskiminetas township, where his descendants now reside. He was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1774, and his wife, Mary Uncafer, was born the same year. They emigrated to this county in the spring of 1803, the year … Read more