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From: Nancy Petersen <>
Subject: [PAARMSTR-L] JOSEPH ELDER about 1800
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:00:29 -0700


Hello from Vancouver, Washington State, USA on the Columbia River!

Last week a cousin found the name of my ggg-grandfather JOSEPH ELDER,
as a "Scotsman who settled in PA" --
from the "History of Monroe Co MI" by Bulkley.
So now I'm looking for a JOSEPH ELDER in PA,
who had a son JOHN, b. 1805 PA.

Son JOHN ELDER moved to Perrysburg, Wood County OH in 1825.
(My gg-grandfather)

John's son JOSIAH ELDER, b. 1848 in Wood Co, moved to Monroe Co MI
after mustering out of the Civil War. (My g-grandfather)

Some of the early JOSEPH ELDER locations I found
on Ancestry.com PA Census index:

Franklin County, PA:
1810 Warren Township
1830 1840 1850 Fannett Township
1850 Washington Twp

1810 1830 Mercer Co Slippery Rock Twp
1830 Philadelphia Co, Phila.
1820 Washington Co.,West Bethlehem Twp
Westmoreland Co: 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860 Unity Twp.
1850, 1860 Ligonier Twp.
also 1790 Ulster/Orange Co NY

Enjoying the similar ELDER names in
the Armstrong Co Beers History Transcription Project:
http://www.pa-roots.com/~armstrong/beersproject/history/chap23.html
....
SCHOOLS
"As early as 1826 an organization existed in Elderton called the
"New Middletown Schoolhouse Stockholders," who built in
1828 a schoolhouse, the first teacher being Josiah Elder.
On the site of this frame school is located a fine brick public
schoolhouse...."

Sure hope I can connect with these interesting families.

--
Nancy Elder Petersen, Retired School Librarian
14514 NE 52nd Circle
Vancouver, WA 98682
Phone: 360-882-1039
http://www.teleport.com/~nancyp/elder.htm


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