Peter\’s Reformed - Somerset Presbyterian - Somerset Presbyterian (2) - Will\’s Evangelical Lutheran Lavansville Reformed - Mount Calvary Evangelical Lutheran - Somerset Circuit of the Evangelical Association Musselman - Philip Shaver - Peter Sipe - William Tayman - James TrentĬhrist\’s Evangelical Lutheran - Friedens Evangelical Lutheran - Friedens Reformed - German Lutheran Kantner - David Lavan - Abraham Miller - Michael Mowry In 1930, it had 349 farms and a population of 5,488 persons.Ĭhristopher Beam - John Bell - Peter Heffley - John F. The area of Somerset Township is 38,755 acres or about 60 and one-half square miles. There are several villages in the township, namely: Lavansville, Sipesville and Friedens, as well as a summer resort known as Edgewood Farm. Another son, Jeremiah S., is now farming in the eastern part of this township. His eldest son, John W., was in the army, serving in a Somerset county company. He afterward went west and was a county surveyor in Iowa before moving to Kansas. Larmer came to Somerset township in 1833. The Ankenys, Adamses, Browns, Bruners, Bells, Campbells, Flicks, Glessners, Johnsons, Husbands, Hunters, Millers, Penrods, Reads, Rices, Switzers, Trents, Wellses, Walterses and Wrights were all very early settlers, and are known to have been residents in the central part of the present county of Somerset before the beginning of the revolutionary war. The people are chiefly engaged in the pursuits of agriculture. It is a healthful region, and famed for the excellence of its dairy products. In 1880 its inhabitants numbered three thousand two hundred and seventy-six, exclusive of those in the borough of Somerset, and in 1882 its tax-payers were eight hundred in number. Its territory has since been considerably reduced by the formation of other districts still it is the largest township in the county, and the most densely populated. This township was formed in the early part of 1796 from Quemahoning and Milford, and was named after the county and the county seat of the same name.
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