History of Cambria County PA

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History of
Cambria County, PA
Vol I & III
By Hnery Wilson Storey
With Genealogical Memoirs,
592 + 685
pages, illustrated, indexed, searchable
- Bonus Book -
Biographical and Portrait
Cyclopedia of
Cambria County, PA
Comprising About Five Hundred Sketches of
the Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County
By Union Publishing Company., 1896
518 pages, Illustrated, searchable
- Bonus Book -
Commemorative
Biographical Record
of
Central Pennsylvania
Including the Counties of
Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder
In Two Volumes
By J. H. Beers & Co., 1846
1,281 pages, illustrated, searchable
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Cambria County was created on March 26, 1804, from parts of Bedford, Huntingdon, and Somerset counties and was named for the nation of Wales. Its county seat is Ebensburg.
Cambria county is not distinguished as an agricultural county, her soil being better adapted to grazing than grain growing. Still a large portion of the north produces excellent crops of wheat; and the same may be said of the hilly portion of southern Cambria. The level portion of the county is too cold and “spouty” for fall grain, but produces excellent crops of grass. Corn is not a favorite of her soil, but oats is produced in abundance. The length and severity of the winter is all that hinders her from being one of the finest stock growing counties in the State.
Coal underlies the entire surface of the county, and is mined extensively. The line of the Pennsylvania railroad, from Gallitzin to Johnstown, more than twenty-five miles, is a succession of coal drifts, from which immense quantities of the best bituminous coal is shipped, and from which large quantities of coke are manufactured. In the north and west the coal is equally abundant, but not so extensively worked for want of a convenient market. Near the north-eastern line, at Lloydsville, an extensive coal vein has recently been opened, which is shipped to the Pennsylvania railroad by a narrow gauge railroad, connecting with the former at Bell's Mills. A single deposit of cannel coal, in the western portion of the county, was operated a few years since, but is now abandoned. Iron ore abounds in many portions of the county, but is only utilized in the vicinity of Johnstown, where immense quantities are mined to supply the furnaces of the Cambria iron company.
The greatest iron and steel manufacturing company in Pennsylvania, if not in the world, is located at Johnstown; and as this company conducts other enterprises, they shall be considered together. An establishment that directly or indirectly employs nearly seven thousand persons – men, women, and boys, and transacts a business of over ten million dollars a year, deserves separate consideration. While the main establishment and a great bulk of its employers are in Cambria, it's mines, furnaces, and lands extend to Blair, Bedford, and Somerset counties.
"... Another catholic center developed about the same time at Loretto in Cambria County, where Captain Michael McGuire from Maryland began a settlement in 1790. With the coming of Prince Gallitzin in 1799 to serve as priest and promoter, the settlement grew rapidly. Gallitzin acquired more than twenty thousand acres of land, which he sold to settlers on easy terms; and by 1813 his church had over 500 communicants and Catholic settlements had been established at several other places in Cambria and Blair counties. The majority of Catholics in the mountain regions were Irish, while Germans predominated among them in communities farther west.
"Cambria County was also the scene of the settlement of two groups of immigrants from Wales, each under the leadership of a minister. The land occupied by these settlers was purchased from Dr. Benjamin Rush, and it is probable that he was responsible for their location in the region. The first group, consisting of about 12 families led by Rev. Rees Lloyd, founded Ebensburg in 1796; and in the following year the other group, of about the same size, started the rival town of Beulah. Beulah faded away after the county seat was located at Ebensburg and the main roads left it to one side, but the agricultural settlements expanded and doubtless attracted additional immigrants from Wales. While the Catholic Irish and Germans were settling the northern part of the county and the Welsh in the center, Protestant germans were expanding their stronghold in Somerset and Bedford counties to take the southern part of Cambria. A study of racial origins of the settlers in Cambria County before 1815, based on the names in tax lists and census schedules, indicates that those of Germanic origin made up the largest group, about forty-two per cent. The Irish and Scotch accounted for thirty-five per cent, the Welsh for fifteen and only eight percent appear to have been of English origin."
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