Crawford County, Pennsylvania
History
Bench & Bar ·
Buildings ·
Education ·
Legal Records ·
Newspapers ·
Railroads ·
Political Subdivisions ·
Religion ·
Waterways
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Bench and Bar
- 1885 county history, pp. 295-311
- 1888 Centennial Tribune-Republican, pp. 135-38
- 1899 Samuel P. Bates’ Our County and Its History, pp. 193-205
- 1903 Joshua Douglass’ Bench and Bar of Pennsylvania, pp. 240-57 [on-line]
- 1904 William Reynolds’ Fifty Years of the Bench and Bar
- 1912 Meadville Illustrated, pp. 58-61
- See also subject index to articles on the Bench & Bar published in
- Crawford County History
- See also Biographical sketches of early members of the bar compiled by
- William B. Moore and published in the Crawford County Legal Journal,
- beginning with an introduction in Vol. 30, #388 (27 Nov. 2019), pp. 3-4.
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Buildings
- County home: 1874 county gazetteer
- Courthouse
- 1832 state gazetteer
(also same source)
- 1874 county gazetteer
- Spencer Hospital: 1874 county gazetteer
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Education
- Allegheny College
- 1832 state gazetteer
- 1871-72 county directory
- 1874 county gazetteer
- 1869-70 Directory of the Oil Regions
- Meadville Academy
- 1850 Huidekoper’s “Incidents”
- 1874 county gazetteer
- Meadville Theological School
- 1874 county gazetteer
- 1869-70 Directory of the Oil Regions
- Public schools (Meadville)
- 1871-72 county directory
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Legal Records
- Adoptions, legitimations, and name changes
- Feme sole traders
- Statutory divorces
- list of nineteenth century divorce petitions
- early sessions of Court:
- In 1800, from 1874 county gazetteer
- 1800-1801, from 1850 Huidekoper’s “
Incidents”
- In 1805, from 1871-72 county directory
- For a list of courhouse records published in Crawford County Genealogy, see subject index.
- (References are to the volume and page in "CCG," the journal of the Crawford Co.
Genealogical Soc.)
- See also Courthouse
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Newspapers
- 1850 Huidekoper’s “Incidents”
- 1871-72 county directory — Titusville
- 1874 county gazetteer
- See also Alleghany Magazine
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Railroads
- 1871-72 county directory; also
- 1871-72 county directory (Titusville)
- 1874 county gazetteer
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Political Subdivisions: see also PLACES
- Historical Township Boundaries
- Historical Borough Boundaries (includes cities)
- 1832 county, borough, and Post Office sketches from a Pennsylvania gazetteer
- 1850 county sketch published in Huidekoper’s “Incidents”
- 1869-70 Meadville and Titusville sketches from a directory of the oil regions
- 1871-72 city and borough sketches from a county directory [in progress Feb. 2014]
- 1874 county, township, city, borough and some village sketches from a county gazetteer
- 1876 township and city sketches from a county atlas
- 1879-80 township and borough sketches from a county directory
- 1885 township and borough sketches from a county history
- 1912 account of Meadville and the county
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Religion (churches)
- See 1871-2, 1874, 1876, and 1885 city, borough, and township sketches.
- For Meadville, see 1871-72 county directory
- 1876 county atlas, p. 22
- 1888 Centennial Tribune-Republican, pp. 69-81
- Methodist: 1969 history of Methodism in Western PA
- Presbyterian: 1868 history of the Presbytery of Erie
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Waterways
- 1871-72 mention in a county directory
- 1874 county gazetteer
- French Creek
