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Welcome to
Mercer County, Pennsylvania
History & Genealogy

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania
Its Past and Present

including
Its Aboriginal History; Its Early Settlement and Development;
A Discription of Its Historic and Interesting Localities;
Sketches of Its Boroughs, Townships and Villages;
Neighborhood and Family Histories; Portraits
and Biographies of Pioneers and Representative
Citizens; Statistics, etc.
--
Also A Condensed History of Pennsylvania
- ILLUSTRATED -
Published:  Chicago, Ill.:
Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers
1888

CONTENTS

HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA
CHAPTER I. - INTRODUCTORY 15-23
 - Cornelis Jacobson Mey, 1624-25,
 - William Van Hulst, 1625-26,
 - Peter Minuit, 1626-33. 
 - David Petersen de Vries, 1632-33. 
 - Wouter Van Twiller, 1633-38
 
CHAPTER II. - 23*33
 - Sir William Keift, 1638-47. 
 - Peter Minuit, 1638-41.
 - Peter Hollandaer, 1641-43.
 - John Printz, 1643-53.
 - Peter Stuyvesant, 1647-64.
 - John Pappagoya, 1653-54.
 - John Claude Rysingh, 1654-55
 
CHAPTER III. - 33-35
 - John Paul Jacquet, 1655-57.
 - Jacob Alrichs, 1657-59.
 - Goeran Van Dyck, 1657-58
 - William Beekman, 1658-63
 - Alex. D'Hinoyossa, 1659-64
 
CHAPTER IV. - 35-41
 - Richard Nichols, 1664-67.
 - Robert Needham, 1664-68
 - Francis Lovelace, 1667-73
 - John Carr, 1668-73
 - Anthony Colve, 1673-74
 - Peter Alrichs, 1673-74
 
CHAPTER V. - 41-50
 - Sir Edmund Andros, 1674-81
 - Edmund Cantwell, 1674-76
 - John Collier, 1676-77
 - Christopher Billip, 1677-81
 
CHAPTER VI. - 51-61
 - William Markham, 1681-82
 - William Penn, 1682-84
 
CHAPTER VII. - 61-69
 - Thomas Lloyd, 1684-86
 - Five Commissioners, 1686-88
 - John Blackwell, 1688-90
 - Thomas Lloyd, 1690-91
 - William Markham, 1691-93
 - Benjamin Fletcher, 1693-95
 - William Markham, 1693-99
 
CHAPTER VIII. - 69-75
 - William Penn, 1699-1701
 - Andrew Hamilton, 1701-03
 - Edward Shippen, 1703-04
 - John Evans, 1704-09
 - Charles Gooken, 1709-17
 
CHAPTER IX. - 75-89
 - Sir William Keith, 1717-26
 - Patrick Gordon, 1726-36
 - James Logan, 1736-38
 - George Thomas, 1738-47
 - Anthony Palmer, 1747-48
 - James Hamilton ,1748-54
 
CHAPTER X. - 89-97
 - Robert H. Morris, 1754-56
 - William Denny, 1756-59
 - James Hamilton, 1759-63
89-87
CHAPTER XI. - 98-104
 - John Penn, 1763-71
 - James Hamilton, 1771
 - Richard Penn, 1771-73
 - John Penn, 1773-76
 
CHAPTER XII. - 104-114
 - Thomas Wharton, Jr., 1777 - 78
 - George Bryan, 1778
 - Joseph Reed, 1778-81
 - William Moore, 1781-82
 - John Dickinson, 1782-85
 - Benjamin Franklin, 1785-88
 
CHAPTER XIII. - 114-121
 - Thomas Mifflin, 1788-99
 - Thomas McKean, 1799-1808
 - Simon Snyder, 1808-17
 - William Findlay, 1817-20
 - Joseph Heister, 1820-23
 - John A. Shulze, 1823-29
 - George Wolfe, 1829-35
 - Joseph Ritner, 1835-39
 
CHAPTER XIV. - 122-131
 - David R. Porter, 1839-45
 - Francis R. Shunk, 1845-48
 - William F. Johnstone, 1848-52.
 - William Bigler, 1852-55
 - James Pollock, 155-58
 - William F. Packer, 1858-61
 - Andrew G. Curtin, 1861-67
 - John W. Geary, 1867-73
 - John F. Hartranf_, 1873-78
 - Henry F. Hoyt, 1878-82
 - Robert E. Pattison, 1882-86
 - James A. Beaver, 1886
 
 - Gubernatorial Table 132


HISTORY OF MERCER COUNTY
CHAPTER I. - PHYSICAL FEATURES AND SUBDIVISIONS 137-142
 - Boundaries and Area
 - Topography
 - Drainage
 - Tide Elevations
 - Soil
 - Vegetation
 - Act Creating the County
 - First Election Districts
 - Original Townships and their Progeny
 - Population of the County by Decades
 
CHAPTER II. - LAND TITLES 143-146
 - Penn's title not Recognized by the Indians
 - Treaties at Forts Stanwix and McIntosh
 - Surveyors endeavor to locate claims of Revolutionary Soldiers
 - Conference of the Seneca Chiefs, Cornplanter, Half-Town and Big Tree, with President Washington
 - Wayne's Victory over the Savages at Fallen Timbers
 - Treaty of Greenville
 - Depreciation Lands
 - Bounty or Donation Lands
 - Terms of Settlement
 - John Carmichael's effort in Worth Township
 - John Nicholson and the Pennsylvania Population Company
 - John and David Hoge
 - Holland and North American Land Companies
 - Dr. Nathaniel Bedford
 - Lodge, Probst and Walker
 - Litigation growing out of  Conflicting Claims
 - Land Warrants, Patents and Deeds
 
CHAPTER III. - PIONEERS 147-158
 - Their Nationality and Character
 - Lists of Taxables by Townships
 - Neshannock for 1800, 1801 and 1802
 - Irvin for 1800
 - North Beaver for 1800
 - Salem for 1801 and 1802
 - Sandy Lake for 1801
 - Cool Spring for 1801 and 1802
 - Sandy Creek for 1802
 - Pymatuning for 1802
 - Wolf Creek for 1802
 
CHAPTER IV. - ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION 158-172
 - Where the first courts were held and the Official and Lawyers Present
 - First Grand Jury
 - Public Buildings, First Courts and Statistics
 - Court-houses and Jails
 - County Farms
 - First Courts and Cases
 - Statistics
 - Roster of Public Officials
 - Members of Congress
 - State Senators
 - State Representatives
 - President Judges
 - Associate Judges
 - District Attorneys
 - Commissioners
 - Prothonotaries
 - Registers and Recorders
 - Clerks of Court
 - Sheriffs
 - Treasurers
 - Auditors
 - Coroners
 - Poor Directors
 - Canal Commissioners
 - Jury Commissioners
 - Surveyors
 
CHAPTER V. - INTERNAL AFFAIRS 172-190
 - Roads Laid Out and by Whom Located
 - Mercer and Meadville Turnpike
 - Beaver and Erie Canal
 - Efforts Made to Have It Built
 - Its Construction, Prosperity and Final Abandonment
 - Railroads
 - Early Railroad Agitation
 - Earie & Pittsburgh
 - Erie Lines
 - Lake Shore Branches
 - Sharpsville Road
 - West Shenango & Lake Erie
 - Proposed Railroad from Mercer to Big Bend in 1847
 - Early Inns and Innkeepers
 - Tavern Keepers in Mercer County from 1804 to 1834
 - Post-offices and Postmasters
 - Pioneer Mail Routes and Rates of Postage
 - Growth of the System
 - List of Post-offices and Postmasters since the Organization of the County
 - Present Offices
 
CHAPTER VI. - IRON, STEEL AND COAL INDUSTRIES 191-207
 - Pioneer Furnaces of Mercer County
 - Clay
 - West Middlesex
 - Oregon
 - Big Bend
 - Esther
 - Greenville
 - hamburg
 - Sharon
 - Sharpsville
 - Mazeppa
 - Present Iron and Steel Interests
 - Greenville Rolling Mills
 - Furnaces in Sharpsville
 - Iron and Steel Industries of Sharon
 - Iron Statistics for 1887
 - A Question of Controversy
 - Coal Interests of the County
 - First Coal Discovered and Used
 - Other Early Banks
 - Growth and Development of the Coal Industry in the Vicinity of Sharon and West Middlesex
 - Daily Output in 1864 and 1865
 - Mines near Stoneboro, Pardoe and Grove City
 - Output for 1887
 - Product not Reported
 
CHAPTER VII. - AGRICULTURAL 207-216
 - Sources of Wealth and Their Relationship
 - Dignity of Domestic Animals into America
 - Vegetable Products
 - Introduction of Wheat, Rye Corn, Oats, Buckwheat, Barley and Potatoes into this Country
 - Farm Implements and Improvements Made Therein
 - Fertilizers and Drainage
 - Gilkey Potato
 - Agricultural Societies
 - Mercer Agricultural Societies of the Past and Present
 - Shenango Valley Agricultural and Manufacturing Society of Greenville
 - Wool Growers' Association
 - Mercer County Agricultural Society of Stoneboro
 - Jamestown Agricultural and Manufacturing Association
 - Keystone Buckeye Fair Association of Sharon
 - Agricultural Paper
 - The Grange
 
CHAPTER VIII. - EDUCATIONAL 216-226
 - Necessity of  Rudimentary Education
 - Pioneer Schools and Buildings
 - School Furniture
 - Text Books
 - Branches Taught
 - Methods of Instruction
 - Early Teachers in Mercer County
 - James Hanavan’s Recollections
 - Common School System of 1834
 - Condition of the Schools in 1846
 - Office of County Superintendent Established, and James C. Brown Elected as its First Incumbent in Mercer County
 - Teachers’ Institutes
 - List of County Superintendents
 
CHAPTER IX. - POLITICAL  
 - Civil Government a Divine Appointment
 - Duties Imposed by American Citizenship
 - National Administrations and Formation of Political Parties
 - Washington the Unanimous Choice of the People
 - Electoral Vote Cast for Each President since the Foundation of the Government
 - The Democratic Party and Its Opponents
 - Anti-Masonic Period
 - Nullification Excitement
 - Tariff Discussion Which it Produced
 - Prominent National Campaigns
 - Know-nothingism
 - Birth of the Republican Party
 - Its First Campaign in Mercer County
 - Subsequent Local Standing of Political Parties
 
CHAPTER X. - THE PRESS 231-247
 - Its Great Power and Influence
 - Early Modes of Disseminating News
 - Birth of the Newspaper, and its Struggle for Free Speech
 - First Newspaper Published in America
 - Its First Religious Paper
 - Number of Periodicals Published in the United States in 1886
 - Mercer Newspapers
 - Western Press
 - Mercer Luminary
 - Free Presbyterian American Freeman
 - Mercer Dispatch
 - Mercer Whig
 - Whig and Dispatch
 - Mercer Republican
 - Dispatch and Republican
 - Freemen’s Monitor
 - Mercer County Farmer
 - Independent Democrat
 - Democratic Register
 - Mercer Index
 - Mercer Signal
 - Greenville Papers
 - West Greenville Gazette
 - Visitor Weekly Express
 - Independent Press
 - West Greenville Times
 - Rural Argus
 - Shenango Valley Argus
 - Advance
 - Advance Argus
 - Union Democrat
 - Greenville Progress
 - Shenango Valley News
 - Independent Sharon Papers
 - Sharon Herald
 - Sharon Times
 - Gospel Temperance Advocate
 - Sharon Eagle
 - Evening Eagle
 - Sharpsville Papers
 - Sharpsville Advertiser
 - Sharpsville Times
 - Other Papers
 - Jamestown Sun, Era, Democrat and Sentinel
 - Grove City Telephone
 - Sandy Lake News
 - Lake Local.
 
CHAPTER XI. - BENCH AND BAR 247-265
 - The Law Profession
 - The Bench
 - Sketches of President Judges
 - Associate Judges
 - The Bar
 - Brief Biographies of Deceased Attorneys who Practiced at the Mercer Bar
 - Present Bar of Mercer County
 
CHAPTER XII. - RELIGIOUS 265-271
 - Predominant Faith of the First Settlers
 - Their Efforts to Establish Churches and Schools
 - Sketches of the First Presbyterian Organizations
 - Call Extended to Rev. Daniel McLean in 1801
 - Who Signed the Call
 - Methodist Church
 - Beginning of Methodism in Mercer County
 - Bishop Roberts and Cotemporary Methodists
 - First Class Organized in the County
 - Growth of the Church
 - Salaries Paid Methodist Preachers from 1800 to 1816
 - Itinerants of the Shenango Circuit Other Denominations Establish Churches
 - An Attempt Made to Organize a Mormon Church
 - First Bible Society
 - Early Missionary Society
 
CHAPTER XIII. - MEDICAL 271-284
 - Physiology
 - Proper Knowledge and Observance of Physical Laws Necessary to a Sound Body and Mind
 - Ignorance the Main Cause of Most Human Infirmities
 - Senseopathy
 - Progress in Medical Science
 - The Old-fashioned Doctor
 - Pioneer Physicians of Mercer County
 - Brief Sketches of the Best Remembered Practitioners of Pioneer Days
 - Epidemics
 - Medical Societies
 - First Medical Society of Mercer
 - Organization of the Mercer County Medical Society in 1848
 - Its Demise and Reorganization
 - Officers of the Society since 1882
 
CHAPTER XIV - PHILANTHROPIC AND PATRIOTIC MOVEMENTS 284-293
 - Temperance
 - Early Temperance Agitation
 - Organization of the Mercer Temperance Society
 - The Leading Spirit in the Movement
 - Its Rules and Supporters
 - The Influence It Wielded
 - Counter Agitation
 - Resolutions Passed at an Anti-Temperance Meeting in Sheakleyville
 - Growth of the Temperance Cause
 - Prohibition Movement of 1854-55
 - Temperance Convention in Mercer
 - Other Temperance Movements
 - The Crusade
 - Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
 - Murphy Movement
 - Prohibition
  - Anti-Slavery Agitation in Mercer County
 - A Society Organized
 - Its Principles and Declarations
 - Growth of the Abolition Sentiment
 - Underground Railroads
 - Assistance rendered the Irish People in 1847 by Mercer County Citizens
 - Strong Protest against the Desecration of the Lord’s Day
 - Fourth of July Celebrations.
 
CHAPTER XV. - MILITARY 294-304
 - The Revolution, War of 1812 and Mexican War
 - Condition of Western Pennsylvania during the Revolution
 - Period of Settlement
 - Revolutionary Soldiers who Settled in Mercer County
 - War of 1812
 - Early Incidents of the Struggle
 - Military Organization in the County before the War
 - Rosters of Companies from Mercer County
 - Character of the Troops
 - Events of that Period
 - Some Veterans whose Names do not Appear on the Rosters
 - Mexican War
 - Opposition of the Whig Leaders to the War
 - Enthusiasm of the People
 - A Company Raised in Mercer, and its Services Tendered the President
 - Public Meetings Held to Sustain the Government,
 
CHAPTER XVI. - WAR OF THE REBELLION 304-330
 - The Seed of Discord Planted with the Colonial Settlements
 - Growth of the “Irrepressible Conflict,” and its Final Culmination
 - Some Causes Accounting for the Intensity and Duration of the Rebellion
 - Events Preceding Its Commencement
 - Partisanship in Mercer at the Beginning of the War
 - Sublime Patriotism of the People Irrespective of Party
 - Their Devotion to the Union Prosecution of the War
 - Troops Furnished by Mercer County
 - Regimental Sketches and Rosters of Companies
 - Thirty-ninth Fifty-seventh
 - Seventy-sixth
 - Seventy-seventh
 - One Hundredth
 - One Hundred and Thirty-ninth
 - One Hundred and Fortieth-One Hundred and Forty-Second
 - One Hundred and Forty-fifth
 - One Hundred and Sixty-ninth
 - Two Hundred and Eleventh
 - Miscellaneous Troops
 - Closing Events of the War
 
CHAPTER XVII. - HISTORICAL NOTES 330-339
 - Local Indian Tribes
 - Some Indian Reminiscences
 - Pre-Historic Remains
 - Indian Mound at Greenville
 - The Old Indian Fort in West Salem Township
 - Slaves in Mercer County
 - Natural Occurrences
 - Wolf Killing Among the Pioneers
 - A Veritable Snake Story
 - A Rare Surgical Operation
 - Why Lawrence County was Erected
 - Mercer County’s Phrenology
 - Distinguished Visitors
 - An Incident of President Taylor’s Visit to Sheakleyville
 - Men of Mark
 - First Piano in Mercer County
 - Muster Days
 
CHAPTER XVIII. - BOROUGH OF MERCER 340-373
 - The Town Laid Out
 - Derivation of Name
 - Sketch of Dr. Hugh Mercer
 - Streets and Alleys
 - Public Square
 - Incidents that Occurred in Laying Out the Town
 - Sale of Lots
 - Size, Shape and Location
 - First House Erected
 -Hotels of the Past and Present Early Settlers and Business Interests
 - Manufacturers
 - Incorporation and Borough Officers
 - Fire Department
 - Churches
 - Schools
 - Pioneer Schools and Teachers
 - Mercer Academy
 - Public Schools
 - Soldiers’ Orphan School
 - Secret and other Societies
 - Banking Institutions
 - Gas and Water Companies
 - Cemeteries
 - Population
 
CHAPTER XIX - BOROUGH OF SHARON 373-406
 - Location
 - Pioneers
 - First Mill
 - The Town Laid Out
 - Early Business Interests
 - First Physicians
 - First Justice of the Peace
 - Manufactures
 - Additions Made to the Town
 - Incorporation and Borough Officers
 - Schools Their Progress and Government
 - Old Baptist Academy
 - Hall Institute
 - Churches Secret and Other Societies
 - Fire Department and Fires
 - Banking Institutions
 - Gas and Water Companies
 - Cemeteries
 - Growth and Population
 
CHAPTER XX. - BOROUGH OF GREENVILLE 406-447
 - Location and Original Land Claims
 - West Greenville Laid Out and Origin of Name-Shank’s Ford
 - The Town Re-surveyed and Lots Sold
 - Pioneers
 - Keck’s Addition to West Greenville
 - First Lot Owners in that Addition
 - Early Business Interests
 - West Greenville in 1833
 - Residents of that Period
 - Additions to the Town
 - Incorporation and Borough Officials
 - Schools
 - First Schools and Teachers
 - Greenville Academy
 - Union Schools
 - Thiel College
 - Churches
 - Cemeteries
 - Secret and other Societies
 - Manufactures
 - Banks
 - Building and Loan Association, and Board of Trade
 - Gas and Water Companies
 - Local Insurance Companies Fire Department and Most Destructive Fires
 - Bridges
 - Railroads
 - Name Changed to Greenville
 - Effort to Obtain the County Seat
 - Growth and Appearance
 
CHAPTER XXI. - BOROUGH OF SHARPSVILLE 447-459
 - Location and Population
 - Name
 - Original Settlers
 - Early Mills
 - Growth and Prosperity
 - Manufactures
 - Railroads
 - Incorporation and Borough Officers
 - Schools
 - Early Schools
 - Their Progress and Development
 - Churches
 - Societies and Associations
 - Riverside Cemetery
 - Iron Baking Company
 
CHAPTER XXII. - BOROUGHS OF SANDY LAKE AND STONEBORO 460-472
 - Brownsville Laid Out
 -The Village Incorporated
 - Name Changed to Sandy Lake
 - Derivation of Name
 - Description of the Lake
 - First Settler on the Town Site
 - First Things
 - Schools
 - Churches
 - Societies
 - Banks
 - Manufactures
 - Population
 - Stoneboro
 - Negro Colony
 - Sale of Site
 - Town Laid Out
 - Chapter of First Things
 - Schools
 - Incorporation and Borough Officers Churches
 - Secret Societies
 - Manufactures
 - Population
 
CHAPTER XXIII. - BOROUGHS OF SHEAKLEYVILLE AND NEW LEBANON 472-482
 - History of the Name of Sheakleyville Traced
 - Its First Election
 - Original Settlers
 - First Houses Built
 - Early Physicians
 - Schools
 - Pioneer Teachers
 - Progress of the Schools
 - Churches
 - Societies
 - Population
 - New Lebanon
 - Location
 - First Settlers
 - Village Laid Out
 - First Buildings and Business Interests
 - Physicians
 - Schools
 - Progress of Education in the Borough
 - McElwain Institute
 - Early Settlers of that Vicinity
 - Incorporation
 - A Political Event
 - Societies
 - Population
 
CHAPTER XXIV. - BOROUGHS OF WEST MIDDLESEX, WHEATLAND AND BETHEL 483-491
 - Location and Early History of West Middlesex
 - The Town Laid Out
 - Name Given
 - Business Interests
 - Manufactures
 - Incorporation
 - Bridges
 - Schools
 - Churches
 - Societies
 - Population
 - Wheatland
 - Borough Laid Out, Named and Incorporated
 - First Officers
 - Early Settlers
 - Schools
 - Manufactures
 - Churches
 - Bethel
 - Early History
 - Incorporation
 - First Settlers and Business Interests
 - Churches and Schools
 - First Election and Officials
 - First Postmaster
 
CHAPTER XXV. - BOROUGHS OF JAMESTOWN AND CLARKSVILLE. 492-504
 - Location of Jamestown
 - First Settler on its Site
 - First Grist-mill and Dwellings Erected
 - First Merchant, Justice of the Peace and Postmaster
 - Jamestown Laid Out and Incorporated
 - First Mechanics
 - Early Physicians
 - Historic Address
 - Railroads
 - Schools
 - Old Academy
 - Jamestown Seminary
 - Public Schools
 - Recent Fires
 - Banks
 - Societies
 - Churches
 - Cemeteries
 - Population
 - Clarksville Laid Out
 - Incorporation and First Officials   -
 - Location
 - Early Settlers
 - Indian Village
 - First Medical Practitioners
 - Pioneer School- house
 - Secret and other Societies
 - Churches
 - Population
 
CHAPTER XXVI - BOROUGHS OF GROVE CITY AND FREDONIA 504-514
 - The Former Laid Out and Named Pine Grove
 - Change of Name to Grove City
 - Incorporation
 - First Settlers of that Vicinity
 - Pioneer Grist and Saw-mills
 - Cunningham Family
 - Early Business Interests of the Village
 - Pioneer Schools and Teachers
 - Progress of Education
 - Grove City College
 - Bank
 - Manufactures
 - Churches
 - Societies
 - Growth and Population.
 - Fredonia
 - Location
 - First Settlement on Its Site
 - Arnold’s Mills Erected First Birth
 - Other Settlers
 - The Village Laid Out
 - Its Growth and Progress
 - Business Interests and Manufactures
 - Churches
 - Schools
 - Societies
 - Incorporation and Population
 
CHAPTER XXVII. - TOWNSHIP SKETCHES AND POPULATION 515-624
 - Cool Spring
 - Deer Creek
 - Delaware
 - East Lackawannock
 - Fairview
 - Findley
 - French Creek
 - Greene
 - Hempfield
 - Hickory
 - Jackson
 - Jefferson
 - Lackawannock
 - Lake
 - Liberty
 - Mill Creek
 - New Vernon
 - Otter Creek
 - Perry
 - Pine
 - Pymatuning
 - Salem
 - Sandy Creek
 - Sandy Lake
 - Shenango
 - Springfield
 - Sugar Grove
 - West Salem
 - Wilmington
 - Wolf Creek
 - Worth
 - Official Census by Decades since 1850
 
CHAPTER XXVIII - THIRTY YEARS OF TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS 625-650
 - Value of such a Record
 - Character of the Men Chosen
 - List of First Justices
 - Township Officers in 1804
 - The Pioneers who Annually Filled the Offices in each Township from 1806 to 1831, inclusive
 
CHAPTER XXIX. - BIOGRAPHIES OF MERCER
 
651-703
CHAPTER XXX. - BIOGRAPHIES OF SHARON
 
703-770
CHAPTER XXXI. - BIOGRAPHIES OF GREENVILLE
 
771-835
CHAPTER XXXII. - BIOGRAPHIES OF SHARPSVILLE
 
835-847
CHAPTER XXXIII. - BIOGRAPHIES OF SHENANGO AND HICKORY
 
847-878
CHAPTER XXXIV. - BIOGRAPHIES OF LACKAWANNOCK, EAST LACKAWANNOCK AND WILMINGTON
 
879-902
CHAPTER XXXV. - BIOGRAPHIES OF PYMATUNING, DELAWARE AND JEFFERSON
 
902-932
CHAPTER XXXVI - BIOGRAPHIES OF SPRINGFIELD AND FINDLEY
 
932-9733
CHAPTER XXXVII. - BIOGRAPHIES OF COOL SPRING, FAIRVIEW, LAKE AND JACKSON
 
973-1020
CHAPTER XXXVIII. - BIOGRAPHIES OF WOLF CREEK, PINE AND LIBERTY
 
1020-1042
CHAPTER XXXIX - BIOGRAPHIES OF SANDY LAKE, WORTH, MILL CREEK AND FRENCH CREEK
 
1043-1094
CHAPTER XL - BIOGRAPHIES OF SANDY CREEK, DEER CREEK, NEW VERNON AND PERRY
 
1094-1128
CHAPTER XLI - BIOGRAPHIES OF SALEM, SUGAR GROVE, HEMPFIELD AND OTTER CREEK
 
1028-1166
CHAPTER XLII. - BIOGRAPHIES OF WEST SALEM AND GREENE
 
1167-1210
BIOGRAPHIES  

- MISCELLANEOUS -
Outline Map of Mercer County 10-11
Map Showing the Various Purchases from the Indians 113
Table Showing Amount of Anthracite Coal Produced in Each Region since 1820 119
Diagram Showing Proportionate Annual Production of Anthracite Coal in Pennsylvania since 1820 118
Population of Townships and Boroughs by Decades since 1850 624
- ILLUSTRATIONS -
Portraits
Allen, F. 223
Anderson, William 349
Anderson, D. C. 619
Ashton, John 385
Bonner, Jeremiah 475
Brown, J. F. 583
Byerly, Andrew 45
Byerly, Joseph 511
Cole, Isaac D. 457
Cossitt, H. D. La 277
Curtis, Joel B. 169
Egbert, Lewis 295
Fell, William S. 601
Frampton, D. A. 493
Fruit, Richard 367
Garvin, William S. 136
Gibson, T. C. Facing 771
Henderson, B. H. 403
Koonce, Charles 331
Laird, William 421
Linn, David 313
Mathers, James 439
McClure, Joseph Facing 703
McCrumb, John W. 529
McDermitt, A. 259
McDowell, J. H. 547
Morford, Nathan 151
Ormsby, J. W. 187
Pettitt, N. R. 565
Pierce, James 205
Reimold, George Jacob 79
Spearman, J. J. 241
Trunkey, John Facing 651

 

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