W. C. Black    

W. C. BLACK, farmer, post-office Balm, was born December 13, 1843, on the farm where he now resides. His parents, A. H. P. and Eliza (Christley) Black, were natives of Springfield Township. The mother died in 1864 and the father in 1865. They were members of the Presbyterian Church, and had three children: Anna, deceased; Helen, married Dr. G. W. Burnes, who lives in White Hall, Greene Co., Ill, and W. C. Our subject was educated in the common schools and at New Wilmington College. He taught two terms of common school, and has followed farming. He was married April 9, 1868, to Ellen Pearson, daughter of William W. and Sophronia (Loveland) Pearson. Her father is dead, and had a large family. Mr. Black settled on the present farm of 180 acres at the time of his marriage. He has one child, Grace. He enlisted in Company D, Two Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served nine months, and was in the battles of Fort Steadman and Petersburg. Mr. and Mrs. Black are members of the Center Presbyterian Church, of which he is a ruling elder. He makes a specialty of raising fine stock. He is a Republican. Mention of the Black family is made in another part of this work.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.