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, Biographies

Frederick Rohrer

August 13, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

Frederick Rohrer Frederick Rohrer was born in Westmoreland county about 1794. He learned the printing business in Pittsburgh in the Mercury office and came to Kittanning in the latter part of the year 1818 or in the early part of the year 1819, during which year or about the month of February, 1819, he started … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

New Page 1

August 13, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

Elisha Robinson Elisha Robinson, one of the best known of the early settlers in Armstrong county, was born in Windham, Connecticut, December 4, 1791. His parents, Andrew and Olive Robinson, were of English descent, and of a family which had been for several generations in New England. The subject of our sketch learned a trade … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

Robert P. Hunter, M.D.

August 13, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

Robert P. Hunter, M.D. Robert Hunter, grandfather of our subject, was born in Westmoreland county, in 1782, and was one of the first settlers of Indiana county. He married Miss Mary Lawrence, a native of New Jersey, born in the year 1781. There were born to this pair fourteen children, nearly all of whom grew … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

Charles Read

August 13, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

Charles Read Among the first settlers of Armstrong county we find the name Read. Michael Read, grandfather of Charles Read, emigrated from County Derry, Ireland, in 1794. He died in Armstrong county, April 15, 1817, in his fifty-ninth year. For three years he resided at Laurel Furnace, east of the Allegheny mountains, from whence he … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

Robert Cochran

August 13, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

ROBERT COCHRAN Robert Cochran was the son of Robert and Catherine Cochran, an old pioneer family who settled in Allegheny county, where he was born in the year 1805. He learned the carpenter’s trade when a boy and worked at it for fifteen years in Pittsburgh when that city was quite a small place. At … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

John Ralston

August 13, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

John Ralston Concerning the ancestors of the subject of this biography but little need be here said, as they have prominent places elsewhere in this volume. His father, David Ralston, a pioneer of Scotch-Irish descent, settled in Plum Creek township, Armstrong county, in 1800 and met with a tragical death nine years later. * His … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

George S. Putney

August 13, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

George S. Putney The father of subject of this sketch, David Putney, the beginner of the improvement which developed into Putneyville, where his descendants reside, was born in Connecticut, October 18, 1794, and came to Pittsburgh, then considered a town of the Far West, before he was of age. There he married, upon September 29, … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

Wesley Pontious

August 13, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

Wesley Pontious The grandparents of Wesley Pontious*, on both sides, were from Germany. His father and mother, Jacob and Elizabeth Pontious, who were born, respectively November 3, 1783, and September 15, 1789, came from east of the mountains to Wayne Township, Armstrong County, in 1816, Mr. Pontious having been out the year previous and purchased … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

Plum Creek Township

August 13, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

PLUM CREEK TOWNSHIP   Rice Henderson, son of Brice and Anna Henderson, was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, in 1829; came to this county in 1846 and settled at Elderton, where he now resides. He followed blacksmithing twenty-five years; has since followed farming; was for six years county commissioner; was married in 1848 to Nancy … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment

General Robert Orr

August 13, 2025 by Nathan Zipfel

General Robert Orr Robert Orr was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania (probably in Hannahstown), upon March 5, 1786. His father, (a sketch of Robert Orr, Sr., appears in the chapter devoted to Sugar Creek township) whose name descended to the subject of our sketch, had been one of the defenders of the Pennsylvania frontier; had … Read more

Categories History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Biographies Leave a comment
Older posts
Newer posts
← Previous Page1 … Page3 Page4 Page5 … Page8 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