Remembering Crawford County
Subtitle: Pennsylvania's last frontier
By: Robert D. Ilisevich.
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781596295704
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania -- Crawford County; Crawford County (Pa.) -- History; Crawford County (Pa.) -- Politics and government; Crawford County (Pa.) -- Biography; Crawford County (Pa.) -- Social conditions
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Looking at Crawford County; title: County's last "duel in the sun"; title: Early land barons of Crawford County; title: Perry's helpmates : county contributed to 1813 Lake Erie victory; title: Early politics nearly led to a Meadville riot; title: HJH : early promoter of the canal system; title: Justices often disappoint presidents who appoint them; title: Direct primary has county roots; title: Nothing remains of Crawford County's earliest commune; title: Yes... Spare the rod : early educator rejected corporal punishment; title: First local Republicans joined together to elect Lincoln; title: A soldier writes of his Civil War experience; title: The oil boom pleased many, but not all; title: He wanted to build a railroad, and he did; title: Flora Best Harris, a Meadville missionary; title: When the railroad came to East Fallowfield; title: "Macbeth" or "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show"?; title: Four women who made a difference; title: To save or not to save?; title: Crawford County's workingmen and farmers rebelled in 1896; title: Local authors stood out in Progressive movement; title: Gone industries that were so unique; title: A tool! A tool! My kingdom for a tool!; title: A salute to the custodians of the past; title: Preserving the past through local history; title: Is our county a melting pot?; title: Society celebrates a century of progress; title: Blackouts? Earth hour? Please, just turn off the lights; title: Conneaut Lake is a western paradise.