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Title: Nelson's biographical dictionary and historical reference book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : containing a condensed history of Pennsylvania, of Fayette County, and the boroughs and townships of the county :also, portraits and biographies of the governors since 1790, and genealogies,family histories and biographies of representative men of the county :illustrated
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Shepherd, Henry E. (Henry Elliot), 1844-1929
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Publisher: Uniontown, Pa. : S.B. Nelson
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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legal, yet hepracticed successfully before the differentcounty, district and supreme courts of Penn-sylvania. He died at his home, in Union-town, on April 3, 1899, of anaemia, after anillness of two years, and his remains, afterbeautiful and impressive funeral services atSt. Peters church, were entombed in a taste-ful spot selected by himself in Oak Grovecemetery, and near the Old Pike, whosehistory he wrote so well and about whichhe loved to converse so much. A grand page in the history of the newworld is Searights story of the Old Pikeor National Road, which great thorough-fare was so important to the early develop-ment of his country, and so powerwful instrengthening the bonds of the Union, andaround which cling a wealth of romance andmany facts stranger than fiction. They arebut two great highways noticed in history,one the Appian Way, the Queen of Roads,of which no account has been preserved; andthe other, the National Road, whose his-tory is only told in this volume by Searight,
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AXD HISTORICAL REFERENCE BOOK OF FAYETTE COUNTY. 529 who was born and reared on its line and whohas spent his whole Hfe amid scenes connect-ed with it, some of which were very familiarto his fellow-college student, James G.Blaine, whose letter concerning a trip overthe Old Pike is given: Stanwood, Bar Harbor, Maine,September 8th, 1892.Hon. T. B. Searight, Uniontown, Pa.My Dear Friend : I have received thesketches of the Old Pike regularly, andhave as regularly read them, some of themmore than once, especially where you comenear the Monongahela on either side of it,and thus strike the land of my birth and boy-hood. I could trace )ou all the way toWashington, at Maiden, at Centreville, atBilly Greenfields in Beallsville, at Hillsboro(Billy Robinson was a familiar name), atDutch Charley Millers, at Wards, at Pan-cake, and so on—familiar names forever en-deared to, my memory. I cherish the desireof riding over the Old Pike with you, butI am afraid we shall contemplate it as ascheme neve

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