Toll (no replies)
All persons indebted for toll at the Frenchcreek Bridge are hereby requested to make payment to the subscriber at or before the next August Court. Those who neglect this notice will find their...
View ArticlePiano Tuning (no replies)
Mr. A. D. Bulen, piano tuner, will be at Oil City and Franklin about September 5th. He will remain all the month. Those wishing their pianos tuned at this time please leave orders with Mr. A. J....
View ArticleMonroe Diaries (no replies)
Up early, cleaned up GAR suit with bruc h, ammonia and sponge. Polished up bottons. Went by Jerusalem Cemetery and decorated Conley's and Smith's grave with a flag and with flowers. Went up to my...
View ArticleOIl City Dry Goods Business (no replies)
Nov. 1886: G. A. Welker and S. L. Maxwell went into the dry goods business on Oil City's South Side. Welker and Maxwell store was located in a brick building at the corner of First Street and Central...
View ArticleEnterprise Milling Co. (no replies)
1886: The Enterprise Milling Co. was organized by L. R. Reed, a practical miller of many years' experience. The mill was fitted with the latest and most improved machinery, manufacturing a high grade...
View ArticleOil City School District (no replies)
1866: The Oil City School District was formed with J. M. Shoemaker as president. A school house was erected on Second Street and J. D. Ross was made principal. Previous schools had been held with a...
View ArticleOil City High School (no replies)
1878: The first class was graduated from Oil City High School, that school having been organized in 1875.
View ArticleAdvertisements from 1888 (no replies)
(Source: The Commercial Record, Pleasantville, Pa., Aug. 1, 1888.) "A View of our Busy Town. No Buckwheat Growing on Our Streets. Oil lands are daily advancing, bur we SEll Goods cheaper than ever....
View ArticleIsaac Harris Directory 1836-7, Venango Co. (no replies)
Venango County contains a population of upwards of 15,000 and is rapidly increasing, particularly in the emigration of industrious and substantial farmers from the eastern part of the State. The land...
View ArticleIsaac Harris Directory 1836-7, Franklin (no replies)
Franklin contains a population of 800, has 9 stores, 5 taverns, 2 printing offices, 3 churches, an academy, Court House and jail. There are in the vicinity of the town, one furnace, a forge, grist...
View ArticleDuffy, Edmund (no replies)
Boston Pilot newspaper, 6 Jul 1878: Missing Friends. Information Wanted -- of Edmund Duffy, who left Clonmel, County Tipperary, about 22 years ago; when last heard of was in Oil City, Pa. Information...
View ArticleEgle's 1876 Penna. History - Venango County (no replies)
VENANGO was erected into a county by act of March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny and Lycoming. That portion of Venango county lying west of the Allegheny river was, by act of Assembly of April 8,...
View ArticleEarly Development, Chapter 3, Venango Co., Pa. (no replies)
CHAPTER III (pp. 40-43) EARLY DEVELOPMENT PIONEER CONDITIONS-PIONEER CONVENIENCES-PIONEER ANIMALS AND HUNTING--SHELTER AND FIRE-EARLY EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES-POSTAL SERVICE-FINANCIAL EXCHANGE PIONEER...
View ArticleChapter 7, Venango Co., Organization of County (no replies)
CHAPTER VII (pp. 71-80.) ORGANIZATION OF COUNTY ORIGINAL BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY--QRIGIN OF COUNTY NAME--<:HANGES IN BOUNDARY-AREA OF COUNTY-EARLY GOVERNMENT-FIRST COUNTY COMMISSIONERS-EARLY ASSESSORS...
View ArticleBonce, Leonard (no replies)
Venango Co., Leonard Bonce of Franklin attempted to drive his cow across the old French Creek bridge on Monday last and fell through and was seriously injured. (Source: The Raftman's Journal, Vol. 4,...
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