CHAPTER IV WILLIAM PENN’S FIRST VOYAGE TO HIS PROVINCE IN 1682 – THE CHANGE OF THE NAME UPLAND TO CHESTER, AND THE REASON IT WAS MADE As stated in the…

CHAPTER III THE CIRCULAR BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN DELAWARE COUNTY AND THE STATE OF DELAWARE That Lord Baltimore, long before the royal grant to Penn, during the Dutch ascendency on the…

History of Clarion County AJ Davis; Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co. 1887 Table of Contents   Preface Chapter I – Pennsylvania Prom First Settlement to the Revolution Chapter II…

BRIEF PERSONALS ALEXANDER, GEORGE, Licking p.o., Washington, was born in York county, and was one of the children of William and Nancy Ann Alexander. The family came to the township…

CHAPTER LXXV. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES CAMPBELL, HON. JAMES.* In the year 1774 Robert Campbell, a Scotch-Irishman, together with his wife and family, emigrated from the State of Delaware and settled in…

CHAPTER LXXIV HISTORY OF WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP This township is situated in the northwest corner of Clarion county. It was formed in the year 1843 from ten warrants of Pine Grove,…

CHAPTER LXXIII HISTORY OF TOBY TOWNSHIP TOBY township was one of the first townships in what is now Clarion county. It is extended from the present line of Porter and…

CHAPTER LXXII HISTORY OF STRATTANVILLE BOROUGH This borough, a handsomely located village, is situated wholly within the limits of Clarion township, on the “Turnpike,” about three miles east of Clarion…

CHAPTER LXXI HISTORY OF SLIGO BOROUGH The territory embraced within the present limits of Sligo borough was settled at an early date, but by whom is not definitely known to…

CHAPTER LXX HISTORY OF SALEM TOWNSHIP Salem township was erected in 1856, from parts of Richland and Beaver townships. It is bounded on the north by Venango county and Ashland…