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Title: Otzinachson : a history of the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna: its first settlement, privations endured by the early pioneers, Indian wars, predatory incursions, abductions and massacres, together with an account of the fair play system; and the trying scenes of the big run-away ... biographical sketches of the leading settlers ...
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Meginness, John Franklin, 1827-1899
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Publisher: Williamsport, Pa. : Gazette and Bulletin Printing House
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ation, bypublishing notices from time to time regarding its progress, which were of greatservice in bringing it to the attention of the public. And after twenty years ofcontinuous service on the daily Gazette and Bulletin, it is particularly gratifyingto be able to make this acknowledgment of such invaluable editorial sympathy andassistance. The work was mostly written during the past year at odd hours, andoften after midnight, when editorial labor ceased. Industry and pluck were requiredto carry it through, but the end was finally reached. The historical labors of the author, so far as this volume is concerned, are nowconcluded, and his book, with all its imperfections, goes forth to the world. It ishop>ed that it may to some extent interest the reader. If the history of the valleyfrom 1800 to the present time is ever written, it must be comprised in another volume,and in .some respects it would be more interesting than the first. JOHN F. MEGINNESS. Wii.LiAMSiDRT, Pa., July, 1889.
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■^ cc u.O < HISTORY OK THE Wkst Branch Valley, CHAPTER I. THE WEST BRANCH VALLEY OF THE SUSQUEHANNA WHERE IT IS LOCATED INDIAN NAME OF THE RIVER AND THE CURIOUS THEORY AS TO ITS ORIGIN THE CLIMATE. ON taking up this volume the reader will probably ask,Where is the West Branch Valley? In anticipationof such a question, it is deemed best to describe its geographicalposition in the outset. The Susquehanna River flows southward through the centralpart of Pennsylvania, east of the Allegheny Mountains, and fallsinto the Chesapeake Bay at Havre de Grace, Maryland. Its lengthfrom Northumberland to the mouth is about 115 miles. Thisgreat, but unnavigable, river is formed by two large streams calledthe North and West Branches, which unite at Northumberland.The North Branch has its source in Otsego Lake, Otsego County,New York. In its descent it flows through the beautiful vale ofWyoming. The West Branch rises from springs on a mountainplateau, about eight miles north of the picturesque borotzinachsonhisto00megi

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