. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . rist opened a store at Rox-bury, and was a merchant there about ten years, whenhe removed to AUenville. The next in trade in thatneighborhood was George D, Metz, wdio has mer-chandised a number of years, and is yet in recently Jonathan K. Metz oi)ened a storewhich he is yet carrying on. Bartlett Ely has lormany years had a blacksmith-shop, and William andRobert Gregory are the carpenters. Robert K. .Vlli-son began a tannery at Roxbury about forty yearsago, which after his death was continued s(nne timeby his son, J. G. Allis
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . rist opened a store at Rox-bury, and was a merchant there about ten years, whenhe removed to AUenville. The next in trade in thatneighborhood was George D, Metz, wdio has mer-chandised a number of years, and is yet in recently Jonathan K. Metz oi)ened a storewhich he is yet carrying on. Bartlett Ely has lormany years had a blacksmith-shop, and William andRobert Gregory are the carpenters. Robert K. .Vlli-son began a tannery at Roxbury about forty yearsago, which after his death was continued s(nne timeby his son, J. G. Allison, but for the [last \c\\ yearshas luen idle. It had but a small eapacitv, but pro-du>i d good work. Ml 1,1- Ckekk is a village of two hundred and(ighls-eight inhabitants, situated at the mouth ofMill Creek and on both sides of that stream. Theoriginal jilot of the village embraced ten lots, sixty-six 1.;. one liiindred and fifty-four feet, on the northside ol the turnpike leading from Huntingdon toLrwistowri, It was out Oct. 12, 184S, bv James. Hon. Benjamin R. Foust, second son ofAnthony Foust, was born in Shirley township,Huntingdon Co., Pa., Dec. 20, 1830. Hisfather was a farmer. Benjamin lived with hisparents until he was twenty years of age, whenhe began an apprenticeship with George Foust,a relative, who was a cabinet-maker at PleasantHall, Fraidclin Co., Pa. After finishing histrade he went to Fredericksburg, Va., whei-ehe spent a year in making patent grain fans. He came to Shirleysburg and spent the threefollowing summers at the Juniata Academy,teaching school during the winters the spring of he associated himself withJames G. and Col. John A. Doyle in the mer-cantile business at Mount Union, HuntingdonCo., and continued with tJiem for ten years;then went to Mill Creek and engaged in thesame business. In May, 1856, he was unitedin marriage with Miss Julia, the youngestdaughter of Peter Etnier. Their only childis a son, I. Newton, born Au
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