Union County, Pennsylvania (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 362.
UNION COUNTY, situated in the central part of Pennsylvania, with Suequehanna river on the east. Area, 520 square miles. Face of the country, mountainous and broken; soil, in the valleys productive. Seat of justice, New Berlin. Pop. in 1820, 18,619; in 1830, 20,656; in 1840, 22,787; in 1850, 26,083.

Venango County, Pennsylvania (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 366.
VENANGO COUNTY, situated in the northwesterly part of Pennsylvania, and traversed by Allegheny river. Area, 1,120 equare miles. Face of the country, broken; soil along the streams, fertile. Seat of justice, Franklin. Pop. in 1810, 3,060 ; in 1820, 4,915 ; in 1830, 9,470 ; in 1840, 17,900; in 1850, 18,310.

Martin Jenkins Crawford (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
"Crawford , Martin Jenkins," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000892.
CRAWFORD, Martin Jenkins, a Representative from Georgia; born in Jasper County, Ga., March 17, 1820; attended Brownwood Institute and Mercer University, Macon, Ga.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1839 and practiced in Hamilton, Ga.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives 1845-1847; moved to Columbus, Ga., in 1849; delegate to the Southern convention at Nashville in May 1850; judge of the superior courts of the Chattahoochee circuit from February 1, 1854, to November 1854; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth, Thi
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