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A compilation of information on the women who have resided in the remote village of Weikert, Union County, PA, since the days of the settlers. Some 223 women are identified as adult residents of Weikert and are researched both in archival sources and through personal interviews and correspondence with family members.
William Dixon, son of Henry Dixon and Rose, was born in Ireland. He married Ann Gregg in about 1690. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
Mifflinburg and the towns of the West End have a story to tell. The hard work of making a life in early America demanded courage and determination of its settlers. There were good times when the towns thrived and tough times when efforts failed. Fires and accidents destroyed dreams, and financial distress halted progress, but the towns survived, and those that did celebrated their successes with fairs, parades, bands, and church dinners. Mifflinburg's buggy factories shipped buggies and sleighs across the young nation. The timber industry of the West End produced thousands of board feet, which built towns and propped up mines. Images of America: Mifflinburg and the West End tells the unfolding stories of Mifflinburg and the West End towns of Swengel, Millmont, Laurel Park, Pardee, Glen Iron, Weikert, Hartleton, and Laurelton. It is a history full of surprises and wonderful spirit.
Charles Woolverton emigrated from England sometime before 1693 and settled in New Jersey. He married Mary in about 1697. They had nine children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
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The saga of a fierce business rivalry: “Absorbing, well-written . . . will appeal to American history scholars and railroad enthusiasts.” —Choice The Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads helped to develop central Pennsylvania as the largest source of bituminous coal for the nation. By the late nineteenth century, the two lines were among America’s largest businesses and would soon become legendary archrivals. The PRR first arrived in the 1860s. Within a few years, it was sourcing as much as four million tons of coal annually from Centre County and the Moshannon Valley and would continue do so for a quarter-century. The New York Central, through its Beech Creek Railroad aff...
George Hobson, Sr. (ca. 1677-1748), was born in England, and died in Frederick Co., Virginia. He was an apple farmer. George and his wife Elizabeth supposedly arrived in Philadelphia in 1697 from England. They had not been definitely located until 1732 when they are found in Orange Co., Va. (what is now Berkeley Co., West Virginia). Prior to Orange County they most likely lived in Chester Co., Pennsylvania. They had one son, George Hobson, Jr. (ca. 1716-1797), born in Chester Co., Pa. and died in Chatham Co., North Carolina. He married (1) Hannah Elizabeth Kinnison (ca. 1717-1761), daughter of Edward Kinnison and Mary Greenaway, in 1732 in Burlington Co., N.J. He married (2) Rebekah? ca. 1761. Fourteen children are recorded in this book, he supposedly had twenty. Descendants live in North Carolina, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Arkansas, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Kansas, California, North Dakota, Utah, Arizona and elsewhere.
This updated and revised book covers the gamut of Union County's history. It begins with the region's earliest days when the Delaware Indians were in residence and how the arrival of settlers, who ventured into this frontier area from Berks and Lancaster counties, marked the beginning of major changes. Synder's text, first published in 1976, has been expanded and updated to reflect newly discovered material on such groups as the Amish and the developments in Union County up to 2000. Distributed by Penn State University Press by arrangement with the Union County Historical Society.
Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providin...