Download Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...Central Pennsylvania to New Brighton in the early days, and he at first had charge of the lock for the Canal Company. Later he became baggage master at the station for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, retaining this position until he retired, and he died at Greensboro. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Sherwood were David and Esther (Dewey) Dunbar, the Dunbars being an old Philadelphia family. After the death of her first husband, Esther (Dewey) Dunbar married (second) in 1839, John Squires, of an old English family. Soon afterward they removed to New Brighton, where he was a farmer, and cleared land and made a home back of New Brighton. Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood had children: Orlena, John S., May Olive, all living. The closing years of the seventeenth or the opening de SULLIVAN cade of the eighteenth century saw the arrival in North umberland county, Virginia, of Peter O. Sullivan, emi grant ancestor of those of that name recorded in this line, who came thither from Ireland, his birthplace and the home of generations of his race. He married and was the father of a numerous family, including several sons, from one of whom Charles C. Sullivan, of this narrative, traces his descent, his grandfather, Charles Sullivan, being a grandson of the emigrant, Peter O. Sullivan. (III) Charles Sullivan, of the third American generation of the Sullivan family, was born in Virginia, March 27, 1760, died in Franklin township, Butler county, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1813. He was a soldier in the American army throughout the Revolutionary War, and while passing the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge, met the young lady who afterward became his wife, Margaret Johnston, a resident of Chester county. He served until the close of the war in Washington's...