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Excerpt from Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (iii) George Leslie Vance, son of William and Martha (leslie) Vance, was born in Slippery Rock township, Lawrence county, Pennsyl vania, May 13, 1857. His education was acquired in the public school near his home, and he assisted his father on the farm during his spare hours. In April, 1881, he came to New Sewickley township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, to take charge of the one-hundred-acre farm here, and he became the owner of this and has lived here since that time. In 1889 he erected a large barn, and in 1903 a new modern farm house. He cultivates general produce, is also a stock raiser and to some extent runs a dairy and fruit farm. He is a man of great business ability, and is at the present time treasurer and director of the Brush Creek Valley Tele phone Company. He is a Prohibitionist in politics and has served twice as supervisor. He and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian Church, in which he has served as elder for a period of thirty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Reprint of v. 3 of the 1905 ed. published by Lewis Pub. Co., New York under title: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time.

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...