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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 18:53:20 -0500


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Hi John
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>From Alberts History of Westmoreland Co. 1882 Page 687
About 1794, John B. Tarr, whose father was an emigrant from Germany
before 1760, came from near Ellicott's Mills Md. , and settled where
Henry W. Stoner now resides. In this partof the township he purchased
several hundred acres of land. His children were Henry, Peter,
Christian, Daniel and Gaspar. Of these, Christian Tarr was a senator
and a representative in the state legislature from Fayette Co. and a
member of Congress. Gaspar married Ann Reid, of Lancaster Co. and
lived in the brick house where his son Henry's son now resides. His
children were , Catherine, married to Paoli Shepherd, Frederick, Esther,
married to George Sherbondy,John Balser, James R., Gaspar, Margaret,
married to Robert Neal, Henry, Paoli, and Samuel, who died in his 22nd
year. Of these , the venerable John Balser Tarr was born Oct. 9, 1799.
He attended several terms of the neighborhood subscription school,
three- fourths of a mile from his fathers , taught by John Selby. He
was married in 1827 to Harriet Reagan, who died some 10 years ago. He
moved to his present farm in 1835. He served 22 years as magistrate,
having first been appointed under the old constitution by the Governor,
and several times elected by the people. His Father, Gaspar Tarr, was a
soldier in the war of 1812, and helped to build Reid's Station,on the
Allegheny River, near Kittanning Among the neighbors of his
grandfather , in the early settlement of this region, were Jacob
Gardner, Henry Loucks, Melchior Sherbondy, Mathias Camp, and Mark
Leighty. Tarrs Station was named after James R. Tarr, who owned the
land on which it is located. Here are the extensive Coke-works of Peter
Tarr, embracing eighty ovens , also the one hundred and thirty-eight
coke-ovens of the Southwest Coal and Coke Co. ( Frick and Company,
Proprietors ) which succeeded Stoner ( Joseph ) Hitchman and Co. It is
a corporation which owns 1100 acres of coal land, employs over 200 men,
and has 50 dwellings for its workmen. It has another opening at
Stonersville. Since the building of the South Pennsylvania Railroad in
1872, all of its engines have been coaled here. One of the most
active of its businessmen who has very largely contributed to the
development of the place is Joseph Stoner, who has lately retired from
the coke and mercantile business, and is now devoting his time in the
Mount Pleasant Bank, of which he is a fourth proprietor. The Robbstown
and Mount Pleasant turnpike was completed in 1821, and was chartered in
1819. The managers from this region were, Gaspar Tarr, John Stoner, and
Henry Null. The majority of its stock is now held by Heny H. Null of
Greensburg, but John B. Tarr is its secretary and treasurer.

There is no other reference to Daniel, and Tarr Station must be Tarrs
Pa. on route 31.


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