Berlin Family

THE BERLIN FAMILY.

In 1794 one of the soldiers who came from Eastern Pennsylvania in the army to put down the "Whiskey Insurrection" was Jacob Berlin. He got a furlough in Pittsburgh to come out to that part of Franklin township now included in Penn, to visit his uncle, Jacob Berlin, who had settled there some twenty years before. He so liked the country that in the spring of 1795 he returned with his wife, formerly Miss Eve Carbaugh.

He finally settled between the Fink and Lauffer farms. His children were four daughters and six sons, viz.: Polly, married to Henry Smith, Catharine, to Jonathan Keithler, Lydia, to Daniel Knappenberger, Sally, to George Detter, John, Frederick, Joseph, Samuel, Powell, and Elias, of whom Powell removed to Forest County, Frederick to Clarion, and John to State of Ohio. Col. Elias Berlin, the youngest son, was born in 1803, and married Sarah, daughter of George Ament. His children were four boys and five girls, viz. Israel, Henry, Joseph, Cornelius Elias, Mahala, married to Nicholas King, Maria, Esther, married to Joseph Lauffer, Katy Ann, to Isaac Ringer, and Seruah, to James Chambers. His brother John served in the war of 1812. His farm is on the Pittsburgh and New Alexandria turnpike. He killed several wild-cats, bear, and deer when a boy in this township, and picked up many bullets on the battlefield of Bouquet, where the Indians were defeated.