. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . er. In 1871 he retired from business in Ty-rone, and passes most of his time in New York andPhiladelphia, where he has business connections. The first survey of lots was made for the proprie-tors, William M. Lyon & Co., by John T. Matthiasearly in the season of 1851. The plot embraced sev-enty-five lots of large size, six usually constituting asquare. The lots were located north of the presentJuniata and west of Main Street, the northern andwestern bounds of the plot being Clearfield Streetand Lincoln Avenue. Subsequent surveys were ma
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . er. In 1871 he retired from business in Ty-rone, and passes most of his time in New York andPhiladelphia, where he has business connections. The first survey of lots was made for the proprie-tors, William M. Lyon & Co., by John T. Matthiasearly in the season of 1851. The plot embraced sev-enty-five lots of large size, six usually constituting asquare. The lots were located north of the presentJuniata and west of Main Street, the northern andwestern bounds of the plot being Clearfield Streetand Lincoln Avenue. Subsequent surveys were madeby Judge Gwynn in behalf of the proprietors, andother unrecorded additions have been made to thevillage from time to time. The town thus laid outat first bore no name, various cognomens being sug-gested, as Eagleville, from its location at the upperend of Bald Eagle Valley; Shorbsville, for the pro-prietor, who had such unbounded faith in the futureof the new town ; but the title of Tyrone City wasfinally selected, the latter part of the name being. ^ I rY-^l^^ >~rca^^ ^ff^f-^ TYRONE BOROUGH. used to distinguish it from the forges a short distancedown the Juniata. In the course of a few years theword city was dropped by common consent, and tlieproper title of tlie place has since been simply Ty-rone. The first purchase of lots was made by JacobBurley and J. D. Stewart, who secured the entireblock upon which stands the City Hotel and theadjoining buildings, for four hundred and fifty dol-lars, and which they soon after began to the original survey the first building, a resi-dence, was put up by Thomas Sharrar in the summerof 1851. The same season William Andrews, a butcher,put up a small brick house, the first of that the year closed other buildings were occupiedby A. V. Cope, brickmaker ; Jacob Jones, carpenter;Samuel Jones, potter ; Henry Henchey, tinner ; andThomas Brown, saddler. The population was con-siderably augmented the next few years,
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