Excerpt from History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania: Including Its Early Settlement; Its Erection Into a Separate County; Its Subsequent Growth and Development; Sketches of Its Boroughs, Villages and Townships; Portraits of Some of Its Prominent Men; Biographies of Many of Its Representative Citizens, Etc
N presenting the history of Beaver county to its patrons, a few state ments are here submitted, that may enable the reader to judge more intelligently of the work as a whole.
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