. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. hegliding on at night, so noiselessly, pastfrowning hills, sullen with dark sometimes angry in one red,burning spot up, where unseen menlay crouching around a fire;- the shin-ing out of the bright stars, undisturb-ed by noise of wheels or steam, or ai^yether sound than the liquid ripplingof the. water as the boat Avent on—allthese were pure delights. Then there were new settlementsand detached log rrl us and framehouses, full of interest for strangersfrom an rid country; cabins with sim-ple oven= outside, made of clay, r:id
. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. hegliding on at night, so noiselessly, pastfrowning hills, sullen with dark sometimes angry in one red,burning spot up, where unseen menlay crouching around a fire;- the shin-ing out of the bright stars, undisturb-ed by noise of wheels or steam, or ai^yether sound than the liquid ripplingof the. water as the boat Avent on—allthese were pure delights. Then there were new settlementsand detached log rrl us and framehouses, full of interest for strangersfrom an rid country; cabins with sim-ple oven= outside, made of clay, r:idlodgings frr the pigs nearly as good asmany of the human quarters; brokenAvindows patched with worn-out hats;old clothes, old boards, fragments ofblankets and paper and home-madedressers standing in the open airwithout the door, whereupon wasranged the household store, not hardto count, of earthen pots and eye was pained to see the stumpsof great trees thicklv strewn in everyfield of wheat, and seldom <^ l^sethe eternal swamp and morass, with. James McCrea President of the Pennsylvsra Railroad liundreds ci rotten trunks and twistedbranches steeped in its unwhclesome. waters. HISTORICAL. Tliere were projects for the con-struction of a railroad from east towest across this state discused at in-tervals, and surveys of various routesmade, but no decisive action was tak-en until April 13, 1846, when the Penn-sylvania Railroad Co., was incorporat-ed l:y an act of the Legislature, withan authorized capital of seven andone-half million dollars. We note thatamong the commissioners for the pur-pose of receiving subscriptions to thestock of the company were the fol-lowing residents of Huntingdon coun-ty: John Geo. Miles John Kerr, A. \ilson, Edwin F. Shoenberger. Ben-jamin Leas, John McCahan, JohnLong, Brice Blair. Thomas E. Orbison,Edward Bell, William Williams Porter. John Edgar Thompsonwas chosen as the chief engineer andwe note also that he entered apon hisdu
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