CHAPTER VI   POLITICAL AFFAIRS   INTRODUCTORY – ORLO J. HAMLIN – ELECTIONS FOR GOVERNOR, 1835– ELECTIONS FROM 1840 TO 1883 – GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1884 TO 1889 – PROHIBITORY AMENDMENT…

COURTS AND BAR FIRST COURTS – CHARACTER OF THE EARLY BENCH AND BAR, WITH DATES OF ADMISSION OF MEMBERS PRIOR TO 1878 – CELEBRATED CAUSES – JUDGES AND ASSOCIATE JUDGES…

McKean County   CHAPTER IV TRANSACTIONS OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS – ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY – HOLLAND LAND COMPANY’S LANDS – JOHN KEATING’S LIBERALITY – SMETHPORT, THE COUNTY TOWN –…

McKean County   CHAPTER III PIONEERS AND PIONEER DAYS PREHISTORIC REMAINS – INDIANS – INDIAN LAND PURCHASES – SALE OF LANDS – EARLY SURVEYS AND SETTLEMENTS – EARLY TAX PAYERS…

CHAPTER XXIX BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES-  ROULETTE, HOMER, PORTAGE (AND BOROUGH OF AUSTIN) AND WHARTON TOWNSHIPS ROULETTE TOWNSHIP. MRS. PRUDENCE L. BOYINGTON, daughter of Burrel and Dorcas (Irons) Lyman, was born in…

CHAPTER XXVIII BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES – ULYSSES TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF LEWISVILLE, ALLEGHENY, HEBRON, CLARA AND PLEASANT VALLEY TOWNSHIPS ULYSSES TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OP LEWISVILLE C.E. BAKER, farmer, P.O. Ulysses, is…

CHAPTER XXVII BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES—HECTOR, PIKE, WEST BRANCH, ABBOT AND STEWARDSON TOWNSHIPS HECTOR TOWNSHIP. JAMES DOUGLAS, farmer, P.O. Hector, was born in Tompkins county, N.Y., May 12, 1820. He attended school…

CHAPTER XXVI BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES— BINGHAM AND HARRISON TOWNSHIPS BINGHAM. TOWNSHIP ZERA O. BACON, farmer, P.O. Genesee Fork, was born in Wellsville, N.Y., March 12, 1837, a son of Ira and…

CHAPTER XXV BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES – SHARON, OSWAYO AND GENESEE TOWNSHIPS SHARON TOWNSHIP ANDREW J. BARNES, lumberman and farmer, P.O. Millport, was born in Wayne county, Penn., March 30, 1836, a…

CHAPTER XXIV BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES – EULALIA TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF COUDERSPORT J.W. ALLEN, land estate agent, Coudersport, is a son of Ezra and Lydia Allen, and was born in East…