The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes ThereonSearight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield)
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The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes Thereon
Searight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield)
Cumberland Road; Pennsylvania -- Biography
William Stewart, Caleb Crossland, of Uniontown; William Bogardus, who
lost an eye by coming in contact with a pump handle on Morgantown
street, Uniontown, on a dark night; John Robinson, a very large man;
Samuel Youman, mentioned under the head of old wagoners, next to "Old
Mount" the largest man on the road; Thomas Milligan, Joshua Boyd,
Stephen Leonard, David Johnson, James McCauley, Thomas Boyd, Garret
Clark, Henry Miller, Thomas Moore, William Wilkinson, Galloway Crawford,
Samuel Jaco, Robert Wright, Fred. Buckingham, Jacob Rapp, killed at
Brownsville about 1840 by his team running off; John Rush, Samuel
Holsted, Sandy Connor, living as late as 1882, and carrying the mail in
a two-horse vehicle from Frostburg to Grantsville; John Farrell, farming
near Grantsville in 1882 and at that date eighty-five years old; Jacob
Shock, Eph. Benjamin, William Bergoman, Upton Marlow, subsequently
proprietor of the American and other leading hotels in Denver, Colorado;
Archie McVicker, James Cameron, Charles Enox, Robert Amos, James
Finnegan, drove a bob-tailed team from Somerfield to Keyser's Ridge;
Squire Binch, of Brownsville, well remembered by the old folks of that
place; Richard Harris, Joseph and David Strong, the former for many
years a prominent citizen of Cumberland, and frequently honored by
public trusts; Abe Walls, ---- Bonum, called "Magnum Bonum;" James Gray,
Henry Powell, Henry Bergoman, Rock Goodridge, Sherwood Mott, Daniel
Boyer, Robert Dennis, David James, Thomas Grace, John Lidy, drove a dun
team of bob-tails from Farmington to Somerfield, that formerly belonged
to the Pioneer line; Isaac Frazee, James McLean, Thomas and Henry
Mahany, Baptist Mullinix, Amariah Bonner, B. W. Earl, subsequently a
stage agent, and tavern keeper at the Stone house near Fayette Springs,
and at Brownsville; John and Matthias Vanhorn, Daniel Quinn, James
Corbin, William Corman, of Braddee mail robbery fame; Atwood Merrill, a
fiery partisan of the Good Intent line; William Willis, noted as a fast
driver on the Old line. On one occasion Willis passed Peter Burdine, a
fast driver as before stated of the Good Intent line, which prompted the
partisans of the Old line to get up the little rhyme following to
emphasize and signalize the event:
"Said Billy Willis to Peter Burdine,
You had better wait for the Oyster line."
The fares on the stage lines were as follows:
From Baltimore to Frederic $ 2 00
" Frederic to Hagerstown 2 00
" Hagerstown to Cumberland 5 00
" Cumberland to Uniontown 4 00
" Uniontown to Washington 2 25
" Washington to Wheeling 2 00
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Through fare $17 25
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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