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Author: The Lewis Publishing Company Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781010323150 Category : Languages : en Pages : 590
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Author: Lewis Lewis Publishing Company. 1n Publisher: ISBN: 9781981511280 Category : Languages : en Pages : 634
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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania, With Genealogical and Personal History by Lewis Publishing Company. 1n, first published in 1906, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author: Floyd G. Hoenstine Publisher: ISBN: 9781558563285 Category : Bedford County (Pa.) Languages : en Pages : 800
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A rare book reprint. Its general history section embraces 15 interesting chapters on colonial and other initial events; also there are military chapters pertaining to Bedford and Somerset Counties. 32 chapters pertaining to Bedford County as organized in 1884, each township is given a separate chapter. In turn, they are followed by 30 chapters devoted to Somerset County, treated in the same manner. In turn, there are 19 chapters relating to Fulton County, including the military. 96 exhaustive chapters! The writers of this book gathered local historic lore from at least a thousand pioneers of their descendants by the writers of this book. Includes at least 8,000 dates and ten times as many namesextremely accurate. Over 100 pages of biographical sketches. Index.
Author: E. Howard Blackburn Publisher: ISBN: 9781332294619 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 640
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Excerpt from History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania, Vol. 3: With Genealogical and Personal History Alexander H.Coffroth, for many years a leading figure in his profession and in the public life of the commonwealth during the dramatic period leading up to and culminating in the Civil war, was intensely active and broadly useful during his entire career. His abilities would undoubtedly have commanded his entrance upon highest places had not his inflexible devotion to principle held him to a political party which was constantly in the minority. General Coffroth was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Somerset, May 18, 1828. He was the youngest son of John and Mary (Besore) Coffroth, the father born in Hagerstown, Maryland, of German descent, and the mother born in Greencastle. Pennsylvania, of English ancestry. These parents removed in 1808 from Greencastle to Somerset, where the father was among the early settlers, and the first to set up a store, bringing his merchandise from the east on pack-horses. Mr. Coffroth was a man of excellent character, and his wife was a model of womanhood, whose kindliness of disposition, purity of conduct and energy of character were reflected in the son. Young Coffroth made of himself a fine exemplification of the truly self-made man in the best sense of that oft-abused term. Early thrown upon his own resources, he entered upon and waged the battle of life in such masterly fashion as to not only provide himself an ample equipment for the large duties which were to devolve upon him, but to also develop to their fullest his fine natural gifts of soul and intellect. He attended the common schools, and out of the fruits of his own labors defrayed the expenses of a more liberal education in the old Somerset Academy. For a time he served efficiently as a school teacher, and with the means thus earned supported himself while preparing for his chosen profession, the law. It was his great good fortune to attract the interest and friendship of the distinguished Jeremiah S. Black, in whose office and under whose preceptorship he read industriously for some years, meantime and for five years, beginning at the age of eighteen, serving as editor of the Somerset Visitor, a Democratic journal of no inconsiderable circulation and influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Waterman Watkins and Company Publisher: ISBN: 9780893087340 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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By: Waterman, Watkins and Company, Pub. 1884, reprinted 2020, 924 pages, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-734-3. Bedford County was created in 1771 from Cumberland County and is the parent county to: Huntington, Somerset, Blair, Cambria and Fulton. Somserset County as created in 1795 and Fulton was created in 1850. It sits in the southern portion of the state boarding Maryland. This area is where the French and Indian War occurred. It was a vital area for development of the country. Upon the defeat of the French and Treaties with the native Indians, westward expansion was aloud to progress. This book is not too different from other county history books of this era. With such topics as trade & transportation, labor, farming, towns rows, Boundary Lines, politics, Military Service, the Whiskey Insurrection, French Occupation, Land and religion - all important in the development of the county - are carefully discussed. This type of county history book can help one develop ideas or paths to those missing ancestors by showing the customs and traditions of the local residents. A particular useful feature of this book is the extensive biographical information included. This volume contains more than 276 biographical sketches, included in which are some 10,000 additional family members. The New Index for this edition has approximately 32,000 entries.