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Identifier: historyofbeaverc01baus (find matches)
Title: History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph Henderson, 1854-
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Publisher: New York : The Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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was made President of the day; M. F.Champlin was chief marshal; and Major B. G. Goll, assistant. The ground was broken by the Revolutionary soldiers pres-ent, with oxen, plows, shovels, and picks, accompanied by the 1 P. L„ 196. 2 The Girard Locks at the mouth of the Beaver, as they appear in 1904, are shown inthe picture opposite this page. They were so called after Stephen Girard, the eccentricFrenchman who founded Girard College, Philadelphia, and who bequeathed $300,000 toPennsylvania for Internal Improvements, the greater part, if not all, of which went into thiscanal. On the west side of the upper lock there is set in the wall a large sandstone slab onwhich is the following inscription: GIRARD LOCKS.Commenced in 1S31. Completed in 1833.George Wolf, Governor.James Clark Charles T. Whippo John Mitchell M. R. Steally Robert McCoy Joseph Hoops Canal Commissioners. Engineers. John Dickey, Samuel Power,Superintendents.E. Appleton, Contractor.This inscription is still quite legible.
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History of Beaver County 247 firing of cannon and the shouts of the people.1 After breakingground the procession returned to the grove, where a great din-ner had been prepared, and speech-making followed. JohnDickey, Esq., the orator of the day, delivered an inspiringaddress, and then, after the custom of that day, toasts wereproposed. There were sixteen regular, and twenty-eight volun-teer, toasts. The last of the former was this: Samuel Powerand John R. Shannon, Esquires, our able and faithful repre-sentatives. Their indefatigable exertions in aiding and obtain-ing an appropriation for the Beaver and Shenango division ofthe Pennsylvania canal. The citizens of Beaver County dulyappreciate their talents as statesmen, and their characters asgentlemen. Mr. Shannon responded to this toast in a neat,concise, and comprehensive address, and in most felicitouslanguage.2 From Gordons Gazetteer of the State of Pennsylvania (1832)we give the following contemporary notice of the canal: The capac

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