History of Beaver Springs, Penn'a and cenntennial souvenir book . died I-ebruary 0, 1881, aged 71 years, 9 monthsand U) days. The family consisted of five boysand three girls, viz : Wm. H., Ed., Irvin, Wil-son, rtphraim, Sarah, Hlizabeth and Mary.[Ilizabelh died at the age of two years; Irvin waskilled by the kick of a horse, and Sarah died inthe state of Indiana. Mr. Dreese was born amile north of Beaver Springe and learned theblacksmith trade at Middleburg with James Bar-bin, which occupation he followed for some fortyyears at Adamsburg, now Beaver Springs. JOHN SNOOK. Mr. Snook was one of t
History of Beaver Springs, Penn'a and cenntennial souvenir book . died I-ebruary 0, 1881, aged 71 years, 9 monthsand U) days. The family consisted of five boysand three girls, viz : Wm. H., Ed., Irvin, Wil-son, rtphraim, Sarah, Hlizabeth and Mary.[Ilizabelh died at the age of two years; Irvin waskilled by the kick of a horse, and Sarah died inthe state of Indiana. Mr. Dreese was born amile north of Beaver Springe and learned theblacksmith trade at Middleburg with James Bar-bin, which occupation he followed for some fortyyears at Adamsburg, now Beaver Springs. JOHN SNOOK. Mr. Snook was one of the pioneer settlers ofthe town. He was a son of .lohn Snook whowas born Januar>- 2, 1770; and died October 26,1864. The subject of this sketch was born April26, 1807, in a little log cabin beside the smallstream at or near the present site of the cream-ery in this town, when the town was but one yearold. and died August 21, 1898. He was buried inthe St. Johns (Ridge) cemetery, We^t Beaver. a log cabin, limanuel Snook is the only son ofJohn Snook and was born in 1846. He was thegrandfather of J. 1-. Snook, assistant cashier ofthe I-irst National Bank, of Beaver Springs. By J. F. KELLER, Esq. The third historic act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania was thatwhich pro^dded for the education of all the children in the Common-wealth at the expense of the puhlic treasury, passed in 1834. Previous to the enactment of this great law more than 200 acts hadbeen passed in reference to this suljject, for the people of P(ninsylvaniahave ever been the friends and advocates of education and at no periodof their history were the efforts relaxed to attain greater perfection in theorganization and administration of a system of public schools. The act of 1834 inaugurated a new era in education in this that time forward steady progress has been made. At times itwas slow, and to many imperceptible, but public sentiment was neverstagnaut, and legislation never went backward. With
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