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Westmoreland County, PA Coal mining Strike 6 (plus 9 miners' wives) [51] Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911: 70 percent of the miners were Slovak immigrants. Employers used force to intimidate striking miners, partially paying the cost for the Coal and Iron Police, local law enforcement and the Pennsylvania State Police.
Philip Ludwell Lee (February 24, 1727 – February 21, 1775) [1]: 70 (sometimes nicknamed "Colonel Phil") was a Virginia planter and politician who briefly represented Westmoreland County on Virginia's Northern Neck in the House of Burgesses in 1756 before serving on the Virginia Governor's Council (1757-1774).
Early in 1787, the family moved to Fayette County, and both his parents died that year. Todd was raised by one Duncan McLean. His official schooling was limited to one and a half years, but he read extensively at night. [4] Todd served as county commissioner 1815–1819, during which time he read law under John Bouvier.
Memorial to the Darr Mine disaster Entrance of the Darr Mine, now covered in forest; photographed June 2011. The Darr Mine disaster at Van Meter, Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, near Smithton, killed 239 men and boys on December 19, 1907. [1]
Westmoreland County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, located in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 354,663. [1] The county seat is Greensburg and the most populous community is Hempfield Township. [2] It is named after Westmorland, a historic county of England ...
Isaac Allerton died between October 25, 1702, and December 30, 1702, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. [ 13 ] [ 22 ] Lee's younger brother Hancock (1652–1709) [ 41 ] married Allerton's daughter Sarah (1670–1731) after Hancock's first wife died.
This Valentine Peyton was born in Westmoreland County to the former Anne Thornton and her planter husband, Henry Peyton (b.1656). He was named to honor his great-uncle, Col. Valentine Peyton (1627-1665), who had served in the British Royal Army after graduating from Trinity College in 1647, then emigrated to the Virginia colony by 1652 when he patented 1000 acres on Aquia Creek for ...
Armbrust is an unincorporated community which is located in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] The community is situated along Pennsylvania Route 819, 1.8 miles (2.9 km) southeast of Youngwood.