Mount Union borough
Bird's-eye view, 1906
Mount Union in 1906, drawn from the air before airplanes, T. M. Fowler's bird's-eye map, made just as the brick boom ignited. Every street, mill, and church is here. In the decade after this was drawn, the town tripled in size.
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📷 Photo: Library of Congress (T. M. Fowler panoramic map, 1906)
From the record
Passages about this subject, quoted from county histories now in the public domain. Each one names the book and the position in the text so it can be checked. Spelling is as printed.
McWilliams, of Centre County, and is also a resident of the above place at the age of eighty-two years. At Graysville, Jonathan McWilliams was an early settler, following the blacksmith's trade. . Subsequently he made axes on Fowler's Run near the gap of the mountain. He attained legislative honors, and was elected associate judge. His sons were John B., George W., Thomas, and Samuel, the latter being a banker at McVeytown, Mifllin Co. David Stewart, a native of Dauphin County, came to Pennsylvania Furnace as a manager, but subsequently became an associate of John Lyon and Anthony Shorb as owners of the furnace. In 1831 he moved to Coleraine Forges, and lived there until his death in May. 1869, aged seventy-seven years. Stewart, of Tyrone Forges, and of other sons who removed to Ohio. Two of his daughters were married to the Rev. Speer, also of that State; and two others, Catherine W. and Margaret, occupy the homestead at Coleraine. A sister of David Stewart became the wife of John Lyon, who was the father of George W. Lyon, of Pennsylvania Furnace. : George Anshutz, the pioneer of the iron interests in Huntingdon County, lived at Huntingdon Furnace from about 1795 till 1880, when he removed to Pittsburgh. He had sons named George, Jacob, and Christian, who left the township about the same time.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 1,754,636 of the scanned text
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Checked 2026-07-12 · Historic Mount Union collection