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Purchase of Book for presentation
Since my Copy was missing its map,
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Compiling a book of this character is supremely more of a task than one at first thought would allow. Between the covers of this book, nearly 35,000 names appear, then would it be surprising if some of them are found to be spelled incorrectly? Tioga County's population is approximately 50,000. We have aimed to secure correct information regarding all over seventeen years of age, but of course, it is probable that some names are missing. Owing to the time required to make the canvass of the County, many changes have taken place, these have been corrected as far as possible up to date, that is January 1st, 1909, but, of course, it has been impossible to secure all changes, so you will find, perchance, that some names appear of those who have moved to another place (some have departed this life) and doubtless some of the fairer sex have changed their name. Fourteen months has been consumed in securing the information herein contained. We have been ably assisted by Mr. F. S. Andrews, of Wellsboro. The names were typewritten from original manuscript by Miss Lillian M. Wheeland, of Morris Run. Would recognize and thank the two hundred business men who, by their patronage of our advertising pages have made it possible to present this work at such a reasonable price. We consider that we have, and present you, herewith, "The Best Directory of Tioga County Possible to Produce." Thanking all for their kindly treatment, their willingness in answering the pertinent questions, and the ready co-operation which our efforts have received, we leave the work to obtain for itself that favor, which earnest endeavor ever achieves. H. R. ANDERSON. (1908) |
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I would add to Mr. Anderson's preface, that in additon to the errors found in the original directory, a few additional ones may enter these pages as a result of faulty Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and the failure to catch those errors in proofing and editing (JMT). We trust that you will be tolerant of any imperfections that result. The Map that is supposed to be inside the back cover, is missing from this copy. My thanks to Barb Conrad for sharing with me the cost of obtaining this book for presentation on this site. Mr. Anderson, who prided himself on the "reasonable price" of his book, would be amazed at the entirely unreasonable price one has to pay for it now. He'd probably also be amazed at the number of us who still want to see his nearly century old publicattion Joyce M. Tice (2001)
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Alphabetical Index of Advertisers 10 Area of Tioga County 14 Bloss Township Directory 78 Blossburg Borough Directory 93 Blossburg Street Directory 488 Brookfield Township Directory 123 Charleston Township Directory 128 Chatham Township Directory 142 Classified Business Directory .. 493 Clymer Township Directory 151 Court Calendar 14 Covington Borough Directory 160 Covington Township Directory 164 Data from Report of County Commissioners 16 Deerfield Township Directory 172 Delmar Township Directory 181 Duncan Township Directory 203 Elk Township Directory 214 Elkland Borough Directory 218 Explanations 9 Farmington Township Directory 230 Gaines Township Directory 236 Hamilton Township Directory 245 Jackson Township Directory 264 Justice of the Peace 18 Knoxville Borough Directory 279 Knoxville Street Directory 489 Lawrence Township Directory 293 Lawrenceville Borough Directory 302 Liberty Borough Directory 308 Liberty Township Directory 312 Mansfield Borough Directory 323 Mansfield Street Directory 490 Map of Tioga County Inside Back Cover
Population and Area of Tioga County 14
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Shippen Township Directory
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Sullivan Township Directory 416 Terms of Court 14 Tioga County Bar 17- Tioga County Officers 14 Tioga Borough Directory 427 Tioga Township Directory 433 Union Township Directory 442 Ward Township Directory 455 Wellsboro Board of Trade 16 Wellsboro Borough Directory
Westfield Borough Directory 468 Westfield Township Directory 476 Westfield Street Directory I 492 Assistant ........ I ................ A s s'
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Directory is arranged as follows: 1st, name of individual, or firm; 2nd, wife's name in parenthesis, if individual be married; 3d, occupation, business or profession; 4th, 0 H&L designates Owns House & Lot, T designates Tenant, 0 (figures) designates the number of acres in farm, OWNED, MR (figures) designates number of acres for which money rent is paid, WOS (figures) designates number of acres Worked on Shares; 5th. the number of R F D & Post Office from which mail is delivered. The Post Office in parenthesis thus: (Gaines) H 10, designates that although party receives mail at Gaines P. 0. they live on Highway No 10, (see map;) 6th, H (figures) designates Highway on which individual has residence: 7th (F T or B T or Both T designates Farmer's Telephone (connection) Bell Telephone (or connection) or Both Telephones.
The names of individual or firms in display type indicates An Advertiser
or some party directly interested in this work.
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