History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men PDF
Preview History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men
HISTOEY ' ^.j , J \ OF ' " ' I t LANCASTEE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA,. %\-.''' I I WITH . . .-C . .;'! i - BIOGRAPHICAL SKE' T" CH'^ ES' ' : OK MANY OF ITS Pioneers and Prominent Men. '.'i^V ^^^^^:^k£, BOROUGH OF COLUMBIA. 1760640 517 Old Taverns.—When John Wright procured a tors,William andAmosGreen,offered theproperty charterforhisferry,heerectedatavern,whichstood atpublicsaleon the24th dayofDecember, 1814. onthenorthsideofLocustStreet,oppositethedepot Whilethe vendue was in progress, John Reynolds oftheReadingand Columbia Railroad,intheyear (fatherofGen.Reynolds,whowaskilledatGettys- 1730. Itwas builtoflogs,twostories high,with a burgin'1863)andJasperSlaymaker,ayounglawyer largeroomateitherend,withapassage-waybetween. of Lancaster, while on theirway to Marietta, and JohnWright,Jr.,wasthefirstpersonwho keptthis when passingcalledouttothecrier,"Six thousand tavern. Heremainedthereuntilhemarried,in1734, sevenhundreddollars!" Theythoughtnothingmore whenheremoved to thewestern side ofthe ferry, ofthematter,butreceivednoticethattheywerethe wherehebuiltahotel. highestbidders. And thustheybecametheowners Col. John Lowden, ofRevolutionary fame, kept ofthe"FerryHouse." Theyheld thispropertyfor theFerryHouse priortothewar. He wastheson twentyyears. Theerection ofthebridgeoverthe ofRichard Lowden, who married John Wright's riverdestroyed its profits. They sold theproperty daughter. He removed toBuffaloValley,upon the toJohnGuy,the famous hotel-keeperofBaltimore. WestBranchoftheSusquehanna,fromwhich place HewasbornontheEasternShoreofMaryland. He heraisedacompanyofvolunteers and marched to removedtothiscountyin1815andleasedtheWash- Bostonin1776. ington Hotel at Big Cliikis, where the Lancaster JosephJetfriescamefromQuakerstockinChester and MountJoyturnpike crosses thesame. Healso County. He removed from there, about the year establishedalineofstages,whichran betweenLan- 1774,toHellamtownship,York Co.,where he kept casterand Harrisburg. Fromthenceheremovedto theFerry House. He waswagon-master forYork Mariettaand kept hotelinthelarge brickbuilding County during the Revolutionary war, and at its adjoiningAbrahamN.Cassell. Hepurchasedafarm close, in 1783, he removed to the east side ofthe amilefarthereast,alongtheLancasterandMarietta ferryand tookchargeoftheFerryHouse. Here- turnpike, from whence he removed to Columbia. mainedthereuntiltheyear1794-95,when the heirs Hisdaughter,Ann,marriedthe lateMaj.Frederick ofJamesWrighterectedanewbrickhotel nearthe Haines,ofDonegal. The hotelwasafterwardspur- northernlineoftheirproperty,the site ofwhich is chasedbyJoseph Black,andwasthenceforth called nowoccupiedbytheround-houseofthePennsylvania Black'sHotel. Afterhisdeceaseitwaspurchasedby RailroadCompany,whenhetookchargeofthe new | hisson,Joseph H.Black,who,byhisintegrityand hotel. HeremovedtoLancaster,wherehealsokept[good management, built upa very profitablebusi- hotel. ness. HesoldthepropertytothePennsylvaniaRail- Frederick Stump first settled atVinegar's Ferry roadCompany. Their"round-house" occupies the aboveMarietta,afterhe came tothiscountry from spotwherethisfamoushostelrystood. Germany. Onaccountofmalarial fever,wliichwas The"Sorrel-HorseHotel"wasbuiltbyJosephJef- thenprevailingamongthesettlersalongtheriver,he fries,whohadbeenkeepingthehoteluponthewest- removedtoMaytown,wherehecommencedtokeep ernsideoftheriver. ItstoodatthecornerofWalnut tavern about the close ofthe Revolutionary war. andFrontStreets,thesiteofwhichisnowoccupied Fromtheuceheremoved to Columbia in 1796,and bythepassengerdepotofthePennsylvaniaRailroad rentedtheFerryHouseandferry. Onthe14thdayof Company. Itremainedin possessionoftheJeft'ries February,1798,hepurchasedtwoacresandLotsNos.l, until 1835,when Frank Boggs,who married Maria 2,and3,whichadjoinedthefirst-namedtracton the JeUries,purchased the property and enlarged it at south,andalltheboats belongingto theferry,from the northern side. After the death of Mr. Boggs SamuelWright for the sum oftwothousand eight the propertywas leasedbyChip.Parsons,Mrs.Ann hundred pounds. Thehotel,which was new,stood Haines,andthatprinceoflandlords,JohnBurr. onLotNo.1. Thetwoacres mentionedMr.Stump On the opposite corner, adjoining the store of soldtoSamuelMiller,wholaidthesameoutintolots. Houston, Barber&Gossler, the Washington Hotel Theferrywasthemost profitable one on thetiver. was built by Jacob Gossler, who removed the old Hepurchased theextensive breweryonWestKing framebuilding,anderectedathree-storybrick addi- StreetwestoftheStevensHousein LancasterCity, tionfifty-oneyearsago. HewasfollowedbyDaniel whichheafterwardssoldtoC.Barnitz,ofYork,Pa. HerrandJosephH.Black,anditisnowownedbythe HealsopurchasedalargenumberoflotsinColumbia. latter. Thereputationofthehousehasalwaysbeen HediedinColumbiain1804. HiswidowandSam- "No.1." uelEvans,administratorsofhisestate,soldthehotel Foraperiodoffortyyearsafterthetownwaslaid andother'propertytoSamuelMiller,whorentedthe out,theprincipalstreetthroughwhichwagonspassed holdandferrytoJoshua Ring. Healso ranaline to the ferrywasWalnutStreet. Hence therewere ofstagesfromLancastertoYork. several hotels along that thoroughfarewhich did a Mr.Millersoldthehotelaiidferry-boatstoThomas largebusiness. There has been no hotel on that BrooksFeb.14,181.4. The latterdied beforeheob- streetformanyyears. Thelargebrickbuildingnow tained possession ofthe property. Hisadministra- ownedbyCul.McClurewasownedbyCharlesOdell. 548 HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. Joshua Ring also keptthe tavern. Occasionally a eightyyearsago. ItstoodonthenorthsideofLocust wandering theatrical troupe gave performances at Street,neartheColumbiaNationalBank. thishotel. Moses Montgomerybuilt a frame tavern on the ReubenMuUisonkeptthehotelontheeastsideof northsideofLocustStreetaboveThirdStreeteighty Commerce Street. He was also largely interested, years'ago. HehadbeenintheIrishRebellion,and with the lateThomasCollinsandothers,in several cameto4niericaabouttheyear1799,andsettledin stagelinesandwasarailroadcontractor. Whenhe Columbia. He raiseda company of volunteers in firstcametoColumbiaherantheriverinthespring 1812, and was preparing togo into the fieldwhen oftheyearasapilot. Hewasaveryactivecitizen. he got into a scuffle with Paul Wolf, who shot His daughter married Thomas A. Scott, the great throughawindowatacandleinliishouseoutofpure railroadmagnate. mischief. Hewasthrownuponapileofrailsinfront Charles Odell came from theStateofNewYork ofthetavern,andhadhiscollar-bonebroken. andsettledinMarietta,where he remained oneor In theearly historyofthe place "cherry fairs" twoyears. HemarriedMissLockard,ofHempfield, and "harvest homes" were quite common. They and removed to Columbia,and took charge ofthe frequentlylastedseveraldays. Thesewereprofitable hotTehlew"esBtlaocfkMHuollrisseonT'asv.ern,"atthecornerofFourth seaOslodnsGfroirstt-hMeillalnsd.lo—rdsT.he little corn or grist-mill andWalnutStreets,waskeptbyoneGetzoriginally. whichstood on the north side ofShawanese Run, Hewasfollo^vedbyHenryKnight. afew hundredyards aboveits mouth,wasbuiltof Jacob Corapfort kept the brick hotel on Locust .stone, twostorieshigh, and abouttwenty-five feet Street,ontheeastsideoftheReadingandColumbia square,intheyear1735. Itwaserecteduponlandof Railroaddepot. JohnWright,andbuiltbyhisson,James,andSamuel JamesSweenykepttaverninaframehousewhich Blunston, the old pioneersettler. Thestream was stoodbackfromLocustStreetfifteenortwentyyards, notlarge,buttherewasamplefalltoturnan "over- upongroundwhichisnowoccupiedbythe'"Franklin shot" wheel ofmorethan twenty feet in diameter, House." which gave all the power required to drive the "The Lamb Tavern"wastorn downafew years machinery long enough to grind the grists of the agoto makeroom fortheColumbiaNationalBank, pioneersettlers. onLocustStreet,between SecondandThirdStreets. Samuel Blunston made hiswill in 1745, andde- Itwasanotedtaverninitstime. Therewasalarge vised toJamesWrightone-halfofthe "corn-and yard attached to this property into which wagons grist-mill." This little mill ran dayand nightin couldbedriven,whichmadeitadesirableplacefor the spring of 1755, grinding flour for Braddock's teamsterstostopovernight. TheKendricks,Bink- army,andin1758forGen.Forbes'army. Theflour ley,and MichaelStreiu (and his son,Jacob,many waspackedinkegsandcarriedon pack-horsesover yearsafterhim)keptthistavern. the mountains toFort Bedford. Andupon several Ezekiel Cook came from LittleBritain township otheroccasions thecolonial authoritiescalled upon abouttheyear1812,andfirstkepttavernintheframe JamesWrighttosupplyflourfortheuseoftheasso- house,ofwhichtheFranklinHotelisthesuccessor,on ciatedcompaniesofrangersalongthefrontiers,and LocustStreet,nearBankAlley. HeremovedtoMa- tosupplythevagrantIndiansatTurkeyHill. rietta,wherehekepttavernafewyears,whenhere- ThismillandlandbelongingtoitdescendedtoSam- turnedtoColumbiaagain,wherehediedfiftyormore uelWright,theoldestsonofJames,andthefounder years ago. Hewas a candidateforsheriffin 1827, ofColumbia,whoconveyed itto his brother,John, butwasdefeated. who laid out thatpartof Columbia called "John The"WashingtonHotel"wasbuiltbyJacobGoss- Wright's addition" in the year 1788. OnApril 1, ler. HewasthesonofPhilipGossler,whoremoved 1807,JamesWright,Jr.,son ofJohn,soldthe mill, fromYorktoColumbiaabouttheyear1798andestab- shad-fishery,andfilteenacresoflandtoJohnHalde- lished a coal- and lumber-yard. His son,'Jacob, man,whosoldthesame,April14,1812,toRudyHerr, marriedMiss Stump,daughterofFrederickStump, ofManortownship,forsixthousandseven hundred wlio owned theferryand Ferry-House. He dealt andfiftypounds. JacobStricklerandhisbrother-in- largelyin realestate. TlierewereI'ewerchanges in law, GeorgeWeaver,purchased this mill about the theownershipor managementofthishotel thanin year1818fromRudyHerr. Theytoredowntheold anyoftheothers. stone mill and builtone ofbrick at the cornerof Tiie"PineCreekHotel"waskeptbyMr.Withers MillandFrontStreets. Itafterwardscameintopos- fifty-five years ago,whowas succeeded by the late session ofWilliam Atkins,Jonathan Pusey,George CorneliusTyson. ItislocatedonFrontStreetbelow Bogle,and is nowowned byMcBrideandMaulfnir, Union. who haveintroduced newmachinery,and manufac- Brown'stavernwaskeptbyJeremiahBrown,who ture"newprocess"flour. Themillisalmostwholly camefromLittleBritain,seventyyearsago. runbysteampower. The "SwanHotel"was builtbySamuelEberleiu The Fairview Grist-Mill is located on the north BOROUGH OF COLUMBIA. 549 'bpbe1u7iami9onl1nkt,ebeooWbrfuiynslBedlJataitralrabmeymerer,s'lBasiabBnroReaburuetbornef,r1n,7tEle8si0aqes..ro,bniootOrfsoonfuYmgootRhrhuo.ektb,he7,rtaThtnhatdidBsaatyorhlmbedoieeflrssl,otMuawsttyahoh,s-nejiI|sdblFeheorfilaatpptzhspeHeiirovanetgSreiamlnbli,ut"1shc8i0,hni2ien,lsEdsCsw.rqhhe.ene,srHtseeleuarrthdeveCiioevreudienmnpotgbonyar,thrheikiDrmsee,dcof.tfaiorn1mtw8th,ihaetet1:8Si"4Pru5Seo.ptrnrseiaeaHfnmmeed-er ofJames,sold themill andfifty-sevenacresofland Court of Pennsylvania, and a distinguished mem- toJudgeWilliamA.Atlee,ofLancaster,whoresided 'beroftheChester County bar; Elizabeth; Rhoda; inthemansionwhichstoodwhereE.K.Smith,Esq., ' Vaughan,adaughter,married Rev.Riley,ofMon- resides. Thispropertywassold byorderoftheOr- trose; JosephSmithmarriedMary,daughterofCol. phans'Court. Onthe28thdayofAugust,1795,Al-j PersiferFrazer and MaryWorrall Taylor,whowas exanderScott,Esq.,andMary,hiswife,soldtheone- thegranddaughterofIsaac Taylor,thesurveyorof halfto Alexander Anderson,who wassold outby Chester County. Mr. Smith and Frazerwere the SheriffMichael Rine May 15, 1801,and purchased progenitorsofanumberofdistinguishedmilitaryand jIipAbhuyigaJu,satm,aens1d8a0Wn1i,dlJlWaiimalemlsiaMimMlillMelirel,rl,eorf.meWracOhsnahnittnh,getoo1fn1tPhhCiolduaandyteylo,-f cPirveWisililodlfefiniatcmerJsP.o.hnBeAatdtaymswaisna1p8p0o2i.nteHdepwoasstmtahsetesoruboyf I'l,Pvaaen.yd,edJaantcdhoebAplSrteorxpiaecnrkltdeyerr,tooAfJnodHheenrmspofHinae,llddoe.fmaLnMa,rnc.aosfHtaeDrlo,ndeegcmaoalnn,- i RJAeenrvns.eyRC.ehaadHrilenegsw,aBsdeabauotgrthnytei(nroNfoefLsGohogavmeiCronnlyol,regiReneaBmdueicmnkogs,rCyoo)funNatenywd, 'soldhisinteresttoMr.Strickler,fromwhomitwent[ March31, 1706,and died in Philadelphia,July28, 'tohisson,Jacob,andthelatter'sson-in-law,Ephraim 1848. WhenJeffersonwaselectedPresidentanother mHeaTrnsh,heeayfni,drswtJ.hsoaWw.-smoilSdltlatcoeyr,SeacwmtheuodelantoTCwrousolcuwomntbti,ita.MiorchnaeeilghSbhour-- 11 ppwoohssittcmmhaassottfeel5rrcewuahnsedaehpreplodPirnfetoseridtd.weenltIvneJ1oy8eh2an5rsh.QeuwianseyappAodianmtse,d hoodwasbuiltbyRobert Barber,thepioneersettler John Mathiotwasappointedpostmaster in 1807, in 1727,in the meadow boluw his dwelling,which andretainedthe positionuntilhewaselectedsheriff stoodnearKauffman'sstone-quarries. Thereisnoth- ofthecountyin1818. His father,John,wasaHu- ingnowleftofit. guenot, and came from France to Lancaster about ShadFisheries.—Therewerebutthreeshadfish- the beginning ofthe Revolution. He removed to eriesalongtheshorepriortotheerectionofthedam Columbia in 1798, and opened a dry-goods and acrosstheriver. Thefirstoneestablishedwasator grocery-storeinconnectionwithMichaelGundecker, .near the ferry,in frontof the public ground,and ofLancaster, in the brick building he erected on ibelongedtoJamesWrightand his lieirs. Afterhis WalnutStreet,adjoiningBankAlley. Whilehunt- death,whenthepropertycametobedivided,in1788, inguponMifttinIsland,abovethebridge,hewasac- hisson,JohnWriglit,establishedafisheryneartlie cidentallyshotbyafriendand killedabouttheyear mouthofShawaneseRun,which wassoldwith the 1804. HissonJohn,asstated,waselectedsheriffin Shawanesemillproperly. 1818,althoughaDemocrat,whosepartywasthen in Robert Barberalsoliadafisheryoppositehisland a minority in the county. The Wrights,whowere belowJohn Wright's. Theentire shore infrontof Federalists,allunitedinhissupport. Hewaselected the town waswell adapted for fishing with a drag mayorof Lancasterin 1831, and re-elected eleven seine. Theshoresloped gradually,and therewasa times. HediedJan.22,1843,agedfifty-eightyears. gravelbottom. In theyear 1807 the quarterlyreceiptsoftheoffice Mifilin's Island, acrosswhich theold bridge ran, werefifteen dollars,andfortheyear1815theywere jjIhoawdneadpbryofJiatambelseMfiifsihleirny,oEsnq.the west side. It was afrnodmfiofntyedohlulnadrsr.edAalntdhotuwgehntyh-efivweastonootnesuhbujencdtretdo I Theerectionofadamacross theriverin 1838,to militaryduty,heprocuredahorseandmarchedwith ;johffoarntmnhaeafapinosdohleTritieodsefal-obWaoatvtbeeoratthCsaatntoaplotihneett.fmeoctuutalhlyofdetshterSouyseqduael-l Citnahpe1t8U.1n2iJ,taeecxdopbSetcSatttirenisgc.klteoOrb'wseincmguosmttpoearsneoydmetiontioKneftonhrnemeastleirStvqyiuctaehreeo,yf Post-OfficeandPostmasters.^JosephSmithcame werenotmustered,andthecompanyreturnedtoCo- toColumbiaabout179.3,andopened astore,incon- lumbia. nectionwithJamesWright,inthelowerroomofthe PhilipEberman,abrother-in-lawofJohnMathiot, old FerryHouse,which stood on the north sideof wasappointedpostmasterinthefallof1818,andre- LocustStreet,nearFront. \post-oflice was estab- tainedthe'positionuntilhewassucceededbyWilliam lished at Columbia in 1797,andMr.Smithwasap- P.Beatty,in182.'j. pointed the first postmaster. The receipts of the In 1837, Dr. F. A.Thomas was appointed post- office for the year 1799 were $10.44. He was the master under the administration of Martin Van IeighthchildofCol.RoTjertSmith,ofChesterCounty, Buren. andwasbornSept.24,1770. HeremovedtoPhila- |I Guilford G. Claiborne was appointed postmaster 550 HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. underGen.Harrison'sadministration iutliespring of1841. Butforanaccidentheprobablywouldnot havereceivedtheappointment. AfteritwasknowninColumbiathatGen.William H. Harrison was elected President, in November, 1840,theAnti-MasonsandWhigsofthatplacecon- cludedthattheywould celebrate theeventbyfiring asalutewithacannoninhonoroftheevent,in the orchard of John L. Wright, between Secondand ThirdStreetsandAlleys"J"and"K." Duringthe night before this was to take place some person spiked the cannon with a rat-tail file. Whenthe timecame tofirethesalute therewas great disap- pointmentamongthefriendsofGen.Harrison. Col. Amos S. Green, Mr. Claiborne, and others, after workingformorethananhour,succeeded ingetting outthefile,andproceeded to announce the factby firingthecannoninrapidsuccession. Afterfiringit threetimes,andMr.ClaiborneandWilliam Dickey wereforcingawaddingofsoddownuponthepowder, aboyattemptedtojumporrunacrossinfrontofthe cannon,whenhefell. AbrahamMyers,whohadhis thumbuponthetouch-hole,raisedit,whenthecharge wentoffprematurelywhenClaiborneandDickeyhad holdofthe ramrod. The formerhadhisarmshat- tered,which had tobe amputatedabove theelbow. Dickeywasknockedinsensible,butrecovered. There wasagreatdealofsympathyforMr.Claiborne. He wasappointed postmaster,aposition heretained for twelveyears. HewassucceededbyA.P.Modernell in1853,whodiedwhileincommission,andhiswidow succeededhim,andheldthepositionuntil1861,when Henry H.Frywasappointed underPresidentLin- coln's administration. He also diedwhile in com- mission,andhiswidowwasappointedtosucceedhim, andretainedthepositionfortwelveyears,whenHenry Mullen was appointed,and is now the postmaster. He enlisted in the "Cookman Rangers"in April, 1861,andmarchedtoCampCurtin,musteredintothe UnitedStatesserviceinCo.K,FifthRegimentPenn- sylvania Reserves, on the 21st of June,1861; was appointedquartermaster-sergeantofthatregimentin November,1861;servedthreeyears,andwasinallof thebattleswiththeArmyofthePotomac. Afterthe expirationofhistermofservice,onthe6thofJune, 1864,he re-enlistedasaveteran,andwasappointed firstlieutenant ofCo.A,One HundredandNinety- firstRegimentofPennsylvaniaVolunteers. Hewas takenprisoneratWeldonRailroad,belowPetersburg, Va.,on the 19thday ofAugust,1864,andwas im- prisoned atLibby,Va.,Salisbury, N.C,and Dan- ville, Va., where he remained till March 22,1865. He was'mustered out with the company June28, 1645. Thebusinessoftheoffice furtheyearending inJuly,1883,amountedtoiJ7822.88. Taxable Inhabitants in1814-15,-The size of the town during the warof 1812 is uppro.xiiiiately shown bythe followinglist ofta.xable inhabitants, mostofwhomwereheadsoffamilies:
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