Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-01-09

/ also a Prothonotary of the county ana neiu
many other positions of trust our present
william Campbell, Sr., is his only hVing
son and his son William, whom we may
tsrm William the 3rd, is grandson, as Is
also Mr.. John S. Campbell
Col Jacob Brinker occupied the balance
of this square, and built the hotel no"
known as the Willard House and now pe-
ing SO much enlarged and improved by MI.
William Reihing, the present owner. a
frame attached at the south end was wnere
the late Hon. William Hazlett first estao-
lished and published The Butler County
Uhiq newspaper 45 years ago. This frame
was removed by the late Michael zimmer-
man. ESQ. who became owner OF the prop
erty about As years ago. and VINO puiit
| brick addition to the hotel instead. be-
fore that the late Ex. Sheriff John Pollock
and his son-i law, Mr. George Cooper, yet
living at Glade Mills, kept hotel there, ana
subsequently it was kept by the late MT.
BENJAMIN Jack, Mr. Geo. W. Campbell, and
perhaps others. Col. Brinker was large,
heavy set man, and of much activity In
| military affairs and otherwise enterprising.
He had been Sheriff of the county, between
1880 and 1s4O. Our present Mrs. Thomas
S. McNair is the only child of his we be-
lieve now living here. When Mr.. Refining
completes his improvements to the old
Brinker House, the Willard, with its three
stories, will be the largest hotel in the
town.
McoUIsTIoE SQUARE.
Passing over Wayne Street the next
square north, same side, was known as the
Joseph McQuistion one. Mr.. McQuistion
lived in the house now lived in by his son
Harper, in part, and in part by Mr.. John
Stein, the baker, and present owner. This
house is said to be one of the very Oldest
of the log framed houses of the town, per
haps the oldest Jet standing. Mr.. Stein
has recently erected a fine brick on the
lower corner, now occupied by Grleb d.
Vogeley for their new shoe store. Mr..
Casimer Wise is above in a new brick
building. There is the present store-room
of Mr.. j. NJ. Arthurs Then above is the
new meat market shop of Mr.. Adam Kun
mer Then the part and houses belonging
to Mrs. Christian Harley. On her part, the
alley corner, the late Samuel A. and John
N. Puryiance built and had their first law
office, afterwards the Office of George Wal
ter Ziegler and other attorneys. This
corner was afterwards for long time
occupied as a meat market by the late
Lewis and Nicholas Miller, father of Mrs.
Harley, and by Mr.. Hummer and others,
and is now used as confectionery store,
in the name of A. A. Marshall. A barber
shop is also at present on Mrs. Harley's
part. Mr.. MeQuistion was a shoe maker
by trade and for many years had his shoe
shop on this corner. Fifty years ago his
shop was the place to get your best boots
and shoes He died about 1856 He has
many nephews and nieces living in or near
the town, but his son Harper is the only
child now hereabouts.
NEGLEY-swEENEY SQUARE.
The square across the street from the
McQuistion one was known fifty years ago
as the Negley and Sweeney one. John
Sweeney, Esq, owned the upper lot where
now stands the Eitenmiller Hotel, and
built the original house there, which has
recently been so enlarged by Mr.. Henry
Eitenmiller, its present owner. Like all
the first hotels and houses it was but two
story one. Now it has been made three,
like others of the old ones and most of the
new ones being built. Nothing perhaps
indicates the progress of Improvement now
going ON so strikingly as this raising of old
two storied houses to three. and the build
ing of near all the new ones to the same
number. John Sweeney, ESQ.,, was JUS
tice of the Peace in Butler for number of
years. He has been dead for near fifty
years and not single child or descendant
of his remains or exists hereabout that we
know of Anthony Wise, deceased, first
owned and lived in this house after him.
The late John Negley, Esq, owned the
Part of this, fifty years ago, was purchased
from him by the late Mr.. Thomas Stehle,
whose daughter, Mrs. Aland, now owns
same and resides in part of the buildings
Other parts owned by her is the
house in which Mr.. Lorry Roessing now
lives, and the house in which is store of
Mr.. O. NJ Phillips. Mr.. Stehle was an in
genious man, a mechanic, worker in fine /!
with these he carried on gun and other re-
pairing, in shop where Mr.. Phillips store
now is. Subsequently he kept restaurant
and reireshment room there, which was
fitted up in novel and well arranged
for supplying of his many c1stom-
ers with their wants. His entertainment |
rooms were much frequented and he was
and obliging to his patrons. He
lied but few years ago. Adjoining Mrs.
Alard DIS property is the present residence
and lot of Miss Sarah N kcQuistion. The |
house in which she lives is part of one of
.he oldest buildings of Butler. 1t, with a
Tront part that was to it, composed one of
he first hotels of the town for many of its |
first years. Samuel Marquis kept a public |
house there for some years. Mr.. Bennett |
Dobbs followed with temperance house. |
We forget much, but the sign of Mr. Dobbs, |
n front of his house, we will never forget. |
It was a snake with many heads, red, |
olood-shot eyes and darting tongues, in |
tended to illustrate and forewarn all as to
he poisonous effects and evil tendencies Of
drinks. The front part OF this
stand was torn away about 40 years ago |
BY Mr.. James A. Negley, for the erection
If other buildings. The Democratic Her
It'd paper was removed to and published in
he part, upper story, of that yet standing,
md owned by Miss McQuistion, by the late
Jol. Joseph P. Patterson, father of John
Y. This was done in March, 1855. On
he illness of Col Patterson, November of
he same year, the writer of this, very un
expected to himself became the owner of
he paper and published the same there |
Until July, 1858. when he sold or rather
gave it away to John and Samuel Coll, who
-emoved it elsewhere. Col. Patterson died |
March 4, 1856. The writer had previously, |
about 1850, built his first law office there,
standing in front of Miss McQuistion's |
present home, and which was removed to
he rear end of same when her mother pur-
chased all that part of the lot, about 1864.
Mr.. Felix G. Negley, now of Pittsburg, and |
his brother James A =. now of PHILADELPHIA, |