…bringing our past into the future
Hi and welcome to the Somerset County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project — a proud member of the PA-Roots family of websites.
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. Â A Â huge thanks to Nan who originally develped the resources for Somerset County.
I’ll be adding to and updating this website as new material is made available, so please be sure to stop by often. If you’ve got data that you’d be willing to contribute, please contact me. I’m always in the need of help in getting data on-line. If you’d be interested in helping, please contact me.
The links below will take you to the various PA-Roots DataBoards and other resources for Somerset County. At last check there are over 19,900 individual data records posted.
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Nathan
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Thomas Kennedy, elected October, 1795. Peter Kimmel, elected October, 1798. Thomas Kennedy, elected October, 1801. Abraham Miller, elected October, 1804. Thomas Kennedy, elected October, 1807. Frederick Neff, elected October, 1810. Jacob Ankeny, elected October, 1813. George Pile, elected October, 1816. William Philson, elected October, 1819. Isaac Ankeny, elected October, 1822. George Meese, elected October, 1825. … Read more
Somerset Lodge No. 358, F. and A. M. was organized September 20, 1865. Its first W.M. was Andrew J. Colborn. His successors have been: N. P. Kerr, W. A. Garman, William H. Sanner, A. Thomson Ankeny, Elias Cunningham, Frank Stntzman, Henry C.Beerits, Lewis C. Colborn, Jonathan H. Fritz and William J. Baer. The present officers … Read more
John Edie, elected October, 1850. Cyrus Meyers, elected October, 1856. Cyrus Meyers, elected October, 1859. William H. Postlethwaite, elected October, 1862. Samuel Gaither, elected October, 1865. Francis J. Kooser, elected October, 1868. Francis J. Kooser, elected October, 1871. James L. Pugh, elected October, 1874. John R. Scott, elected November, 1877. George R. Scull,elected November, 1880. … Read more
DIRECTORS OF THE POOR. A majority vote in favor of a county poor house and farm was first polled at the October election in 1845. Benjaman Kimmel, elected October, 1846. Absolam Casebeer, elected October, 1846. Joseph Imhoff, elected October, 1846. Samuel Will, elected October, 1847. Henry Frank, elected October, 1847. Henry Frank, elected October, 1848. … Read more
James Wells, commissioned April 17, 1795. Abraham Cable, commissioned April l7, 1795. Ebenezer Griffith, commissioned April l7, 1795. Morgan J. Rhees, commissioned February 8, l799. Robert Philson, commissioned August 10, 1800. John Kimmel, commissioned December 1, 1800. William G. Elder, commissioned December 7, 1805. Henry Black, commissioned November 10,1820. John Kurtz, commissioned December 6, 1823. … Read more
Josiah Espy, appointed October, 1795. Abraham Morrison, appointed September, 1801. Jacob Saylor, appointed October, 1805. James Clark, appointed December, 1808. Frederick Neff, appointed January, 1813. Abraham Morrison, appointed January, 1814. John Kurtz, appointed January, 1818. Abraham Morrison, appointed January, 1821. John L. Schneider, appointed January, 1822. John Patton, appointed January, 1825. Jacob Neff, appointed January, … Read more
Enoch D. Yutzy, elected October, 1869. Frederick Knepper, elected October, 1862. William M. Schrock, elected October, 1868. William B. Shafer, elected October, l871. Jonathan H. Fritz, elected October, 1874. Willjam Baker, elected November, 1877. William Baker, elected November, 1880. (Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; (1884)
David King, elected 1795. George Swartz, elected 1799. William McDermett, elected 1801. John Onewalt, elected 1803. Michael Hugus, elected 1804. Alexander Linn, elected 1808. Jasper Ruby, elected 1810. Norman M. Bruce, M.D., elected 1813. James Johnston, elected 1816. Charles Stoner, elected October, 1843. Isaac Freidline, elected October, 1846. Michael Hay, elected October, 1849. John H. … Read more
Abraham Morrison, appointed October, l795 William Russell, October, 1797 Joseph Parks, July, 1799 Dr. William G. Elder, February, 1800 Otho Shrader, April, 1801 John Sullivan, January, 1805 John McClean, October, 1805 William Russell, April, 1806 Jacob Schneider, July, 1807 Abraham Morrison, July 1808 James Clark, July, 1809 George V. Cartell, August, 1810 James M. Riddle, … Read more
John Hanna, elected October, 1836. Michael Zimmerman, elected October, l837. John Rauch, elected October, 1838. Joseph B. Davis, elected October, 1839. Emanuel Smith, elected October, 1840. Samuel Griffith, elected October, 1841. Solomon Knee, elected October, 1842. Frederick Weimer, elected October, 1843. John R. King, elected October, 1844. Peter Berkey, elected October, 1845. John Mong, elected … Read more