. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. he water power at the upper dam, thenknown as Adamsville, which he operated until 1864. Politically, Senator Robertson was a Clay Whig and a Re-publican, representing his district in the Pennsylvania StateSenate in 1851-52. He was made Collector of Internal Revenuefor the Twenty-fourth District of Pennsylvania in Robertson died June 19, 1871. Hon. De Lorma Imbrie was born in Big Beaver Township,Beaver County, on March 4, 1824, his parents John and Nancy(Rankin) Imbrie, being natives of Pennsylvania, of Scotch
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. he water power at the upper dam, thenknown as Adamsville, which he operated until 1864. Politically, Senator Robertson was a Clay Whig and a Re-publican, representing his district in the Pennsylvania StateSenate in 1851-52. He was made Collector of Internal Revenuefor the Twenty-fourth District of Pennsylvania in Robertson died June 19, 1871. Hon. De Lorma Imbrie was born in Big Beaver Township,Beaver County, on March 4, 1824, his parents John and Nancy(Rankin) Imbrie, being natives of Pennsylvania, of Scotchdescent. He received his education in the common schools,and at Darlington Academy, from whose rustic walls went forthmany to places of influence and honor. After leaving theacademy, he taught school for a number of terms in Darlington,Old Brighton, and New Wilmington. While teaching at NewWilmington he met his future wife, Miss Margaret Carman, whowas then a pupil in his school. Upon his marriage on October27, 1851, he took up his permanent residence in Beaver. Though. James M. Power. History of Beaver County 231 many years of his later life were spent at the State capital,Beaver continued to be his home, and to it he always eagerlyhastened when the briefest cessation from his labor up the study of law in the office of the Hon. ThomasCunningham, he was admitted to the bar of Beaver County onNovember 25, 1853. His natural ability and taste for politicssoon led him from his profession into the political arena, wherehe figured conspicuously and as a leader, for many years. Hewas elected for three successive terms to the Legislature in theyears 1856, 1857, and 1858; the first two terms representingthe Legislative District composed of the counties of Beaver,Butler, and Lawrence, and the last term the District composedof Beaver and Lawrence counties. In 1859 he was elected to the State Senate, from the Twenty-fifth Senatorial District, composed of the counties of Be
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