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Transfer is a small village on the Erie and
Pittsburgh, and Atlantic and Great Western Railroads, and derives its
name from the fact that three differently gauged roads meet at the
point, and a large amount of freight is transferred from one to other. Aside from the churches,
already mentioned, the town contains a large school-house, a
post-office, a hotel, two stores, and several well-constructed
dwellings.
In 1797 or ’98, Robert
McCord located two miles east of the present village of
Transfer, and erected a rude log hut, in which his daughter (now Mrs. Thomas Gill) was born, in
1800. McCord was of
Irish descent, but American born.
Among other early residents, may be mentioned
the McKnights and Gillespies, who
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settled near the present village of Transfer.
Churches. In 1824 or ’25, a small log church was
erected by the Presbyterians at Transfer, and used for a number of
years, when it was replaced by a more convenient union building,
erected by the different Evangelical denominations.
Dissensions subsequently arose, and the
Methodists signed over their interest to the Presbyterians, and it has
since been know as a Presbyterian Church.
The Baptists built a church in the same
village in the summer of 1876.
History
of Mercer County,
1877, pages 62 and 64.
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