Person:Joseph Springer (4)

From Old and New Monongahela by Van Voorhis, John S. - Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, 1893

Springer Family. Death Of Mrs. Mary Finley. page 462

Joseph, son of Daniel, married Margaret Driver. They lived in the old log house on the county line near town. The farm in part is owned by S. F. and Wm. Jones, and part now divided into lots forming the town of East Bellevernon. The ground was purchased from J. W. Carothers by Geo. C. Maxwell and J. T. Roley, who laid out the town. Joseph had born to him twelve children. James and Newton died in childhood. Daniel was the oldest and married Rachel Jordon, who still survives her husband, who died October 21, 1870. Daniel lived most of his days in Bellevernon where his widow still resides.

From Cyclopedia of Fayett County, Pennsylvania

...Springer is one of the old families of the county. His [Joseph Springer's grandfather] greatgrandfather, Michael Springer, was a native of Switzerland, but came to the county during its earliest settlement. He took a tomahawk claim upon four hundred acres of land in the western part of what is now known as Washington Township. His son, Daniel Springer [Joseph's father], the grandfather of James M., inherited a part of this land where he lived all his life as a farmer. He was a soldier in the war with England, in 1812-15. After he came out of the war he settled down to the quiet life of a farmer and continued in that occupation till his death in March, 1845.

Joseph Springer [our Joseph], his son, and the father of the subject of this sketch [who happens to be James M. Springer], was born in Fayette county in 1795, where he died in 1872. He was a farmer and reared a large family of children.

He married Margaret Driver, who was born and reared in York county, near the town of York, Pa. She was born in 1794 and died in 1865, and was the mother of 12 children, 10 of whom reached man and womanhood.

James M. Springer was born May 22, 1826, in Washington township, Fayette county, near the borough of Belle Vernon. He was reared on the farm till 19 years of age, when he learned the cabinetmaker's business with John B. Springer, a cousin of his, and served 2 years apprenticeship... [information on his marriage, children and later life omitted.]

From Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

... In 1760 Michael and Mary Ann Springer, who were natives of Sweden, came to Pennsylvania. The former was born at Stockholm in 1727 and the latter was a child of rich Swedish parents. She was stolen at three years of age and left under a tree where she was found by her husband's father, but could not recollect the surname of her parents. Michael and Mary Ann Springer came from Philadelphia to Rostraver township, this county, in 1783, where Michael Springer took up three hundred and fifty-five and one-half acres of land under the title of "Springersburg", and died in 1797. They had five children: John, Mathias, who went west; Michael, also went west; Mary, married John Worley and emigrated west, and Daniel who inherited the homestead.

Daniel Springer (greatgrandfather) was born September 15, 1762, at Philadelphia, and in 1790 married Rachel Higgins who was born in Virginia in 1760. They had eight children: Michael, Mathias, Joseph, John, who married Sallie Billiter and was accidently killed in 1833; James H., who inherited the home-farm, married Sallie Smith and died at Webster, Pa., in 1876; Nancy, who died when nineteen years of age; Daniel and Martha. Joseph Springer (grandfather) was born in Fayette county, Pa., and was a farmer. He died at Brownsville, Pa., June 20, 1871. He married Margaret Driver who passed away October 28, 1864. To their union were born twelve children: Daniel, who married Rachel Jordan and died October 21, 1870; James and Newton, who both died in childhood; Martha, wife of Barnett Corwin and dead; John, who married Sarah A. Bailey; Joseph F., Rachel, married Tunis Carroll and died in 1879; Lydia, widow of Asa Hastings; Nancy, married Edward Cook and is dead; James M., who married Sarah Reeves; William R., who married Margaret Reed, and Margaret, wife of Frederick Borneller, of Ohio... [Further information on the Springer family omitted.]

1. ↑ John S. Van Voorhis. Old and New Monongahela. (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, 1893.).
2. ↑ DAR Lineage Books
   Vol. 112, page 43.
3. ↑ Compiled, edited and published by John M. Gresham & Co., Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant. Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. (Nos. 1218 & 1220 Filbert Street, Philadelphia 1890; printed by Dunbar and Clark, Philadelphia)
   p. 270-773 with sketch of Harry J. Springer.
4. ↑ Samuel T. Wiley. Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. (John M. Gresham & Co., Chicago, 1889)
   p. 392.