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Indiana County Data Online

NEWSPAPERS

  • Miscellaneous News Paper Articles From the Past

    • BUSINESS:  NEW!!  Steward & Page Butcher 1,900 lb Steer; Harvey Wood Moves Business; The Horse Trade

    • CRIME: NEW!!  Jim Haggerty Escapes From Custody, Z.. Hockinberry Wants Pardon (1869)

    • INDIANA LOCAL NEWS: NEW!!  Helman Almost a Centenarian (1871) Misc news from Nov. 1871, Albert Weir Averts Accident, Church Dedication at Nineveh

    • MANUFACTURING: NEW!!  Visit to the Indiana Manufacturing Co. (1871), The Old Brewery Changes Hands (1876), The Two-Lick Lumber Company (1876)

  • BLAIRSVILLE NEWS: NEW!!  Lyrus Greek appointed RR supervisor; Local Items from 1876

  • WEST INDIANA NEWS: NEW!!  New School Being Erected, J. A. McAnulty invents hay elevator

  • STRONGSTOWN NEWS : NEW!! Local items from 1876 (Talks about deaths during past year)

MARRIAGES

  • Marriage Notices and Wedding Announcements  NEW!! King–Hawk, Fleming-Cramer, Smith-Hopkin, Hoffman-Neiler Green-Carnahan, Lyons-Porter, Johnsten-Baxter, Daugherty- Gailey, Waddell-Conn, Spelman-Mack, Lyons-Barron, Ferrier-Gilbert, Detrick-Mullen

DEATHS

  • Obituaries and Death Notices   NEW!! Mary E. Shields, Wilson McDonald, James Graham, Zach Stophel, Ella Mary Robinson, Willis C. Stumpf, Samuel Wiggins, Henry Barclay, Mrs. Mary Parke (Moorehead) Bruce, Milton Lafferty

WILLS AND PROBATE
  • Executor's Notices  NEW!! Estate of John Leonard, Richard Peddicord, Mrs. Isabella Shryock
  • Wills  NEW!! List of wills for October 1871
DISASTERS
  • FIRES:  NEW!!  A. H. Warren's Home Destroyed by Fire, John Stewart's Home Destroyed, Thomas Dunlap's Home Destroyed (1871)
  • ACCIDENTS:  NEW!! Alfred Johnston Shot and Killed , Frame Collapses At Barn Raising - Many Injured (1871), John Lamp and mother seriously injured , Phillip King seriously injured in coal mine
MILITARY

Boroughs and Census Designated Places

Armagh Cherry Tree Creekside Home (unincorporated) Lucerne Mines Saltsburg
Blairsville Chevy Chase Heights Dicksonville Homer City Marion Center Shelocta
Black Lick Clymer Ernest Indiana Plumville Smicksburg
Blairsville Commodore Glen Campbell Jacksonville Rossiter West Indiana

             

Townships

Armstrong Township Burrell Township East Mahoning Township North Mahoning Township West Wheatfield Township
Banks Township Canoe Township East Wheatfield Township Pine Township White Township
Black Lick Township Center Township Grant Township Rayne Township Young Township
Brush Valley Township Cherryhill Township Green Township Washington Township
Buffington Township Conemaugh Township Montgomery Township West Mahoning Township

Surrounding Counties

Clearfield County (northeast)

Cambria County (southeast)

Armstrong County (west)

Jefferson County (north)

Westmoreland County (south)

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