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The Burning of Hanna’s Town

Posted on January 2, 2017 by

From: https://archive.org/stream/historyofwestmor01bouc#page/n9/mode/2up History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Volume 1 (1906) By John Newton Boucher CHAPTER XII The Hannastown War Burning of the County Seat Destruction of Miller’s Blockhouse The summer of 1782 was the gloomiest in our pioneer history. Many of … Continue reading →

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James Steele of Mon County

Posted on December 31, 2016 by

From: “A Genealogy of the Descendants of James Steele and his Wife Mary” by Donley M. Steele, 1919. JAMES STEELE. SR. Head of Family No. 1. Our earliest paternal ancestor of whom we have any record, was one James Steel. … Continue reading →

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George Washington Steele

Posted on February 5, 2014 by

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Washington Steele (December 13, 1839 – July 12, 1922) was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician who twice served as a Congressman for Indiana, from 1881 to 1889 and again from 1895 to 1903. Steele was also the first Governor of Oklahoma … Continue reading →

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William Steel 1780-1857

Posted on September 30, 2013 by

from http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46320907 written by Aaron Steel  William Moore Steel 1780-1857 Birth: Feb. 2, 1780 [Carlisle, Pennsylvania] Death: Oct. 17, 1857 Leigh, Harrison County, Texas, US Son of Revolutionary war Captain John Steel Jr., William Steel was born in Carlisle, PA in 1780. In 1802, … Continue reading →

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Jacob Mast 1738-1808

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

From: Mast, Christian Z., A brief history of Bishop Jacob Mast and other Mast pioneers; and a complete genealogical family register and those related by intermarriage, with biographies of their descendants from the earliest available records to the present time; 1911. http://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofbi00mast Life … Continue reading →

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T.C. Steele 1847-1926

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Theodore Clement Steele (September 11, 1847 – July 24, 1926) was an American Impressionist painter known for his Indiana landscapes. Steele was an innovator and leader in American Midwest painting and is considered to be the most important of Indiana’s Hoosier … Continue reading →

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Sam Steele 1848-1919

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

Army Biography: Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, CB, KCMG, MVO Sergeant K. Grant, CD Of the many exceptional individuals to emerge from Canada’s past, one of the most extraordinary has to be Sam Steele. He was, as one author put it, … Continue reading →

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