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Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 10Arms - Argent, on a bend azure, three acorns or. In chief a man's heart proper within a fet ter-lock, sable.Crest - Two hands conjoined grasping a two handed sword proper.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state...
Excerpt from A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People, Vol. 3He married (first) in July, 1879, Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Campbell of Huntingdon. She died December 20, 1886, issue: I. Elmer N., born January 18, 1881, now a bookkeeper for the bayer-beaver Company, he married Mabel Isenberg, children: Frederick Allen, Geneveive Isenberg. 2. Florence, deceased. 3. Herbert, deceased. Mr. Rupert married (second) May 30, 1889, Laura C. G...
Excerpt from A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Its People, Vol. 3Mr. Baldwin is at present engaged in a real estate and insurance business in Media, the county seat, and takes an active part in the life of the district.He is a member of the Young Men 5 Republican Club and the Springhaven Golf Club, both of Media, and the latter of which he helped to organize, of the Brandywine Golf Club of Brandywine Summit, the Wilmington Countr...
Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 6The Baggaley family is of French origin, but migrated to England and set tled in the county of Chester. Later, three branches settled in Derbyshire, on the edge of the Duke of Devonshire's famous estate, Chatsworth Park, in a little village called Calver. Descendants of the family still reside there. The names Ralph and William have been in continu ous use for six hundred and fifty yea...
Excerpt from A Historical Sketch of the Widow's House at Bethlehem, Pa., 1768-1892From the establishment of the Moravian Church in the Province of Pennsylvania, our forefathers, appreciating that helplessness and old age should be the objects of a peculiar tenderness and sympathy, introduced the plan adopted by the Mother Church, by which there could be but little poverty and no destitution among those who had devoted their best years or lives...
Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2: BiographyMr. Croxton was educated in the gram mar schools oi Ohio, and before the war broke out had received an appoint ment to West Point, but at the call to arms he was one of the first to enlist. He was mustered in in September, 1861.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...
Excerpt from A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People, Vol. 1Second. To preserve a record of its prominent present-day people.Third. To present through personal Sketches the relation of its promi nent families of all times to the growth, singular prosperity and widespread in¿uence of the Juniata Valley, Pennsylvania.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenboo...
Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 4Masterful and impressive figures were the industrial magnates of old Pittsburgh, and as, through the gathering mists of years, their commanding forms rise before our retrospective vision, none looms larger or more majestic than that of the late Wil liam Wade, for many years a member of the firm of Mackintosh, Hemphill Com pany, one of the oldest iron manufacturing houses in the city. M...
Excerpt from Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1Unique in conception and treatment, this work constitutes one of the most original and permanently valuable contributions ever made to the social history of an American com munity. In it are arrayed in a lucid and dignified manner all the important facts regarding the ancestry, personal careers and matrimonial alliances of those who, in each succeeding ...
Excerpt from Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2(iii) George Leslie Vance, son of William and Martha (leslie) Vance, was born in Slippery Rock township, Lawrence county, Pennsyl vania, May 13, 1857. His education was acquired in the public school near his home, and he assisted his father on the farm during his spare hours. In April, 1881, he came to New Sewickley township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, to ta...
Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 7General Robert Patterson was born in Cappagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, Janu His father immigrated to the United States to escape punishment for complicity in the Irish rebellion, and settled in Delaware county, Pennsylvania.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an im...
