COWANSHANNOCK TOWNSHIP

John Boyer, a native of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, settled in Cowanshannock township, in 1831, or the following years, and married Miss Mary Beers. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom John A. Boyer, a successful farmer of this township, is one. He married Miss Mary E. St. Clair, daughter of Capt. William St. Clair, of Whitesburg.

A. W. Beer, of Cowanshannock township, is the son of Jacob and Catharine (Wampler) Beer, and was born near where he now resides. He has carried on a store at Blanco for about ten years, and is one of the active, enterprising men of this part of the county. He has been considerable of a traveler, and was once shipwrecked off the coast of Central America.

George B. McFarland steeled in Kittanning about 1838, coming from Washington county, of which he was a native. In 1842 or the following year he removed to Rural village, in which place as in Kittanning he carried on a general store. About 1849 he bought the Phoenix Furnace or Mahoning creek, which he successfully carried on until his death, which occurred in September, 1851. A son, Robert McFarland, now resides in Cowanshannock township.

Henry Lanster was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and first settled in this county in Kittanning township in 1855. He located in Hughsville in 1868, and is now interested in the milling business with Mr. David Sowers, as is also his brother, Peter Lanster, of Allegheny City. Mr. Henry Lanster married Miss Anna C. Koch, daughter of John Koch, of Kittanning township.

Source: Page(s) 624, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by Robert Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883.
Transcribed May 2000 by Carl Waltenbaugh for the Armstrong County Smith Project.
Contributed by Carl Waltenbaugh for use by the Armstrong County Genealogy Project (http://www.pa-roots.com/armstrong/)

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