Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John Long and Jane Robinson




Husband John Long 1 2 3

           Born: 1797 - near Reading, Berks Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 May 1876 - Brookville, Jefferson Co, PA 4
         Buried: 


         Father: Louis Long (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 


       Marriage: 1821 2



Wife Jane Robinson 1 2 5 6

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Sep 1879 - Brookville, Jefferson Co, PA 4
         Buried: 


         Father: Irwin Robinson (1762-1829) 1 3 7 8 9 10 11
         Mother: Catherine Elliott (      -1859) 1 7 9 12




Children
1 M James Elliott Long 2




           Born: 13 Feb 1837 4
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1888
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Carrie A. Brown (      -      ) 13
           Marr: 28 May 1861 13


2 M Irvin R. Long 4

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 21 Feb 1862 - Pine Creek Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
         Buried: 




General Notes: Husband - John Long


He followed farming and lumbering, and trapped and hunted in the winter as long as his age would permit him to engage in such avocations. His family were noted for their great strength and powers of endurance. His wife, though a small woman, could stand in a half bushel and shoulder three bushels of wheat. Game was so plenty that in the first years of their married life Mr. Long would frequently go out and shoot a deer while his wife got breakfast. The Indians were frequent visitors but were always peaceable.

He and his wife were the parents of eight children, six of whom were still living in 1888.


General Notes: Wife - Jane Robinson


Her brother, Hance Robinson, had settled on the old Long farm in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, and started a store in Pine Creek township. He brought his sister from her home in Indiana County to keep house for him, the journey being made on horseback through the unbroken forest. Soon after her arrival they made the acquaintance of the young pioneer, John Long, and their marriage followed the following spring.

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Sources


1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 470.

2 Kate M. Scott, History of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 692.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 701.

4 Kate M. Scott, History of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 693.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 34.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 213.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 33.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 16, 407.

9 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 104, 620.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 212.

11 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 425.

12 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 614.

13 Kate M. Scott, History of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 695.


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