Special delivery, 1910

1910: the J. D. Flood Company delivering furniture the old way, by horse and wagon.

The Floods were county men. Charles H. Welch records that the brothers were born near Nossville, in the lower end of Huntingdon county, and spent their early days there. J. D. Flood, the senior member of the firm, was in Virginia and in Tyrone before going into the furniture business at Lewistown.

They brought it home. The Messrs. Flood came to Mount Union in the spring of 1906 — four years before this photograph — and J. D. Flood married Marie Boggs of Lewistown.

From the record

Passages about this subject, quoted from county histories now in the public domain. Each one names the book and the position in the text so it can be checked. Spelling is as printed.

It was mustered out on January 7, 1864, and was quickly reorganized for the three years' service. In the One Hundred and Eighty-fourth regiment, organized in the spring of 1864, there were a number of men from MifHin county, especially in Companies D and H, and the lieutenant-colonel, Charles Kleckner, was from Perry county. Companies A and K, One Hundred and Eighty-fifth regiment (the Twenty-second cavalry), were recruited in Huntingdon county. Mortimer Morrow was captain of Company A; John H. Boring, first lieutenant; Eugene Dougherty, second lieutenant. The regiment was organized in camp near Chambersburg by uniting the Ringgold cavalry battalion with five companies that had been raised for the six months' service in July, 1863, and was under command of Colonel Jacob Higgins. The Ringgold battalion entered the service in 1862, but the Huntingdon county companies were not added until the organization of the regiment in February, 1864. Mifflin county furnished a detachment and Juniata and Perry counties were also represented. It was ordered to Vii^inia, where it was attached to General Averill's command. Among the engagements in which it participated were Darkesville, Bunker Hill, Buckleytown, Martinsburg, Opequan, Fisher's Hill, Mount Vernon Forge, and Cedar Creek.John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 669,074 of the scanned text

The capital stock was fixed at 2,000 shares of fifty dollars each. A survey was made some years later and about 1887 a new company was formed to which the charter rights were transferred. Some grading was done that year, but the floods wrought so much damage that work was suspended for about two years, when it was resumed and the road completed about 1892. It is now known as the Susquehanna River & Western. At Duncannon it connects with the Pennsylvania railroad and the western terminus is about two and a half miles west of New Bloomfield, where it connects with the Newport & Sherman's Valley railroad. By an act of the legislature, approved April 10, 1873, a charter was granted to a company of Perry county citizens to build a narrow gauge railroad from Newport up the Sherman's valley. The authorized capital stock was $25,000, but the company was given the privilege of borrowing money with which to construct the road, issuing bonds therefor. Several years elapsed before the road was constructed and it was not until about 1892 that trains were running regularly between Newport and New Germantown, which is the western terminus. The Tuscarora Valley Railroad Company was incorporated by act of the general assembly on March 5, 1872, with a capital stock of 400,- 000 shares of fifty dollars each.John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 712,645 of the scanned text

He rose from driver to captain and continued on the canal until 1889, then being captain of his own boat and owning several others. The great flood of that year caused him some loss and he decided to engage in some other business. He sold his boats to the Pennsylvania Canal Company, invested in teams and wagons and has since been engaged in a general teaming business in Lewistown. He has served as constable for twenty years, and four years of that period as borough policematt He is a Democrat in politics ; a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, (lodge and encampment) Knights of Malta and the Royal Arcanum and a member of Lewistown Board of Trade, For thirty-seven years he has been a member of Henderson Fire Company, the oldest fire company in Lewistown. From 1890 to 1894 Mr. Saxton was a private of Company G, Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania National Guard, under Captains Rufus C. Elder and L. M, Slogle. During the steel workers' strike at Homestead he was on duty with his company .for thirty days. He married, January 9, 1873, Anna Barbara McCullough, born in Lancaster cotuity, Pennsylvania, daughter of Henry and Barbara McCuUough, both old residents of Lancaster county, he an iron manufacturer and a soldier during the civil war.John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 1,103,537 of the scanned text

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