Her Pioneers and People
1800-1915
In Two Volumes
By W. J. McKnight, 1917
516 + 701 Pages, Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
- Bonus Book -
History of Jefferson County, PA
With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
By Kate M. Scott, 1888
753 Pages, Indexed, Searchable
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TABLE OF CONTENTS - Volume I
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
CONDITIONS IN 180O SOCIAL HABITS OF THE PIONEERS — CHRISTIANITY OF THOSE TIMES. ETC I
CHAPTER II OUR ABORIGINES
THE IROQUOIS, OR SIX NATIONS — INDIAN TOWNS, VILLAGES, GRAVEYARDS, CUSTOMS, DRESS, HUTS, MEDICINES. DOCTORS, BARK-PEELERS, BURIALS, ETC.
CORNPLANTER 5
CHAPTER III GENERAL HISTORY AND PENNSYLVANIA CHRONOLOGY
PATENTS, INVENTIONS, ETC.
HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY GOVERNORS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA —POPULAR
VOTE FOR GOVERNORS, I79O-I914 — SOME STATE L.A.WS DISTINCTIVE CONDITIONS- —POPULATION, PENNSYLVANIA AND THE UNITED STATES — RATIO OF CONGRESSIONAL
REPRESENTATION —DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION IN PENNSYLVANIA — PENNSYLVANIA COUNTIES CHRONOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES FORTY YEARS OF PROGRESS —
NOTABLE OCCURRENCES — PENNSYLVANIA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION — HISTORICAL MISCELLANY — PATENTS, INVENTIONS, ETC 21
CHAPTER IV PIONEER EXPLORERS AND SETTLERS
INDIAN TRAILS, THE WHITE MAN's PATH — D.WID AND JOHN MEADE ME.^DE's PACKHORSE TRAIL — PIONEER SETTLEMENT IN THE NORTHWEST — PIONEER EXPLORERS AND
SETTLERS 56
CHAPTER V FORESTS. .STREAMS AND LAND
PIONEER INDUSTRIES, HOMES AND CUSTOMS
GEOGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY — ELEVATIONS IN COUNTY DRAINAGE INDIAN AND PIONEER
NAMES OF STREAMS TREES — LUMBERING AND RAFTING NAVIGATION COMPANIES PIONEER
CHAPTER VI PIONEER ROADS AND BRIDGES— TURNPIKES— STAGES
EARLY COURT RECORDS RELATING TO ROADS AND BNIDGES — ACTS OF ASSEMBLY RELATING TO ROADS, ETC. SUSQUEHANNA AND WATERFORD TURNPIKE — OLEAN ROAD —
-OTHER ROADS TOLL-GATES — STAGES, ETC 86
CHAPTER VII RAILROADS— COAL MINING
INTRODUCTION ALLEGHENY VALLEY RAILROAD — BONDS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY — BUFFALO,
ROCHESTER & PITTSBURGH RAILWAY COMPANY — OTHER COAL ROADS — PITTSBURGH, SUMMERVILLE & CLARION RAILROAD COMPANY — LAKE ERIE, FRANKLIN & CLARION
RAILROAD COMPANY — COAL MINING — COAL BEDS — SOME INTERESTING DATA lOO
CHAPTER VIII PIONEER ANIMALS
CIRCULAR HUNTS — BEAVERS, BUFFALOES, PANTHERS, WOLVES, WILDCATS, BEARS, AMERICAN ELK, OTHER ANIMALS PENS AND TRAPS— HABITS OF OUR WILD ANIMALS FAMOUS HUNTERS IN THIS REGION— SNAKES AND OTHER REPTILES — BIRDS — BEES Ill
CHAPTER IX THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY
ORIGIN NEGRO SLAVERY IN PENNSYLVANIA — UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN PENNSYLVANIA AND JEFFERSON COUNTY WHITE "SLAVERY," REDEMPTIONERS AND INDENTURED APPRENTICES IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT, ETC I46
CHAPTER X WARS OF THE UNITED STATES— MILITARY MATTERS
THE REVOLUTION — WAR WITH FRANCE — WAR WITH TRIPOLI — WAR OF l8l2 — MEXICAN WAR — CIVIL WAR — ROSTER OF JEFFERSON COimTY SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR
— JEFFERSON COUNTY's HONOR ROLL A LINCOLN STORY — DUTIES OF A SOLDIER — SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR — REr.lEF FUND OF JEFFERSON COUNTY — PENSIONS —
PAY OF SOLDIERS — PIONEER MILITIA LEGISLATION 1 1;2
CHAPTER XI COUNTY FORMATION AND GOVERX.AIENT— POPULATION— OFFICIALS
LOCATION AND EXTENT OF COUNTY — LOCATION OF TOWNS AND BOROUGHS — PIONEER COUNTY LAWS — COURTHOUSE AND JAIL — FIRST ASSESSMENT — PIONEER LICENSES
— TAXABLES, 1837 — INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS, CENSUS OF 184O — LIST OF RETAILERS, 1860 TAXABLES, I915 ELECTIONS AND POLLING PLACES — OFFICIALS 2O7
CHAPTER XII POST OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS
INTRODUCTION — HISTORICAL FACTS RELATING TO THE POSTAL SERVICE RATES OF POSTAGE PIONEER MAIL ROUTES AND POST OFFICES — LIST OF JEFFERSON COUNTY OFFICES
— PRESENT OFFICES IN COUNTY 22g
CHAPTER XIII Bench AND BAR
JUDICIAL ORGANIZATION IN PENNSYLVANIA AND JEFFERSON COUNTY TERMS OF COURT — PRESIDENT JUDGES ASSOCIATE JUDGES — STATE JUDICIARY PIONEER COURT SESSIONS
ATTORNEYS ADMISSIONS TO THE BAR — PRESENT MEMBERS, JEFFERSON COUNTY BAR JUSTICES OF THE PEACE 24O
CHAPTER XIV PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
THE PIONEER WILDERNESS DOCTOR IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA BROOKVILLE's PIONEER RESURRECTION TRUE STORY OF THE INCEPTION AND ENACTMENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ANATOMICAL LAW OTHER MEDICAL LEGISLA-
TION JEFFERSON COUNTY PRACTITIONERS — COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETIES — MEDICAL IN-
SPECTORS OF SCHOOLS 250
CHAPTER XV THE PRESS
PIONEER NEWS SERVICE — PIONEER PRESS — RECORD OF NEWSPAPERS IN COUNTY TO PRESENT TIME — FIRST DAILIES 274
CHAPTER XVI EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS
PIONEER LEGISLATION — PIONEER SCHOOLS, SCHOOLMASTERS AND SCHOOLIIOUSES THE COMMON SCHOOLS, LAW OF 1834 AND ITS WORKINGS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY — PIONEER
SCHOOL DIRECTORS STATE AID ORGANIZATION UNDER COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM PIONEER SCHOOL CONVENTION — SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS — SOME SCHOOL LAWS EVENING AND
GILADED SCHOOLS — SELECT SCHOOLS — INSTITUTES — SCHOOL DIRECTORS' ASSOCIATION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY — STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS ITEMS OF INTEREST 281
CHAPTER XVII CHURCHES
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES AND PASTORS — THE METHODISTS — PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL DENOMINATION — REFORMED CHURCH — BAPTISTS — ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH GREEK
CATHOLIC CHURCH LUTHERAN CHURCH — UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST — EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION — COVENANTER CHURCH — JEWISH SYNAGOGUE 294
CHAPTER XVIII FRATERNAL AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS, ETC.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS — MASONIC FRATERNITY — KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS — GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC AND AUXILIARIES — PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA
— TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES — AGRICULTLIRAL ASSOCIATIONS 324
CHAPTER XIX POLITICAL PARTIES
FIRST POLITICAL PARTY — REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCR.TIC PARTIES KNOW-NOTHING PARTY — OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES — PARTY PREFERENCE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY,
1832 TO I9OO CAMPAIGN OF 1864 — SENATORIAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN INDIANA AND JEFFERSON
COUNTIES 334
CHAPTER XX FINANCIAL
COINAGE AND PAPER MONEY — PIONEER CURRENCY — MONEY FROM 1850 TO 1860 — HARD TIMES OF 1857 — PRICE OF GOLD DURING CIVIL WAR — WAR STAMPS OF 1862
— BANKS AND BANKING JEFFERSON COUNTY BANKS — FINANCIAL CONDITIONS IN THE UNITED STATES TO-DAY 343
CHAPTER XXI BOROUGH OF BROOKVILLE
Historic SPRING JJM HUNT's CAE — PIONEER NOTES — RECOLLECTIONS OF BROOK-
VILLE, 184O-1843 — BROOKVILLE'S EARLY PI'GILISTS — TAXABLES, POPULATION, ETC. — DISTANCES FROM BROOKVILLE TO OTHER COUNTY POINTS — BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
MAILS AND STAGES — PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND BUILDINGS — CEMETERIES — FIRES — BOROUGH OFFICES, 1913 — FIFTY YEARS AGO 350
*** Chapters 22 thru 47 include details on other boroughs and townships
