HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, WITH GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
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Asher Miner was a native of Connecticut, where he was born March 3, 1778, and whence he emigrated to the Wyoming Valley in 1800. He published a paper in Wilkes-Barre for a time, in connection with his brother Charles, and in 1804 removed to Doylestown, and established there the Pennsylvania Correspondent, of which he remained in charge twenty-one years. He sold the paper in 1825 and came to West Chester. He was a practical printer, and devoted all his time to the practical working of the Village Record office, which Charles was chief editor, and infused into the columns of the paper a great amount of vigor and energy. [...] Asher and Charles Miner conducted the paper until April 1, 1834, when they disposed of it to Henry S. Evans and returned to Wilkes-Barre, where they spent the remainder of their days, Asher dying in 1841 and Charles in 1865.
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VILLAGE RECORD (West Chester, Pa.)
May 20, 1835
Marriage
In Philadelphia, on the 13th inst. by Rev. John McDowell, Mr. ASHER MINER, (one of the late Editors of the Village Record), of Luzerne county, Pa. to Mrs. THOMAZIN BOYERS, of Chester county.
*Note: Thomazin Boyer(s) was the widow of John Boyer. Her maiden name was Thomazin Hance.
Page 327
Asher Miner was a native of Connecticut, where he was born March 3, 1778, and whence he emigrated to the Wyoming Valley in 1800. He published a paper in Wilkes-Barre for a time, in connection with his brother Charles, and in 1804 removed to Doylestown, and established there the Pennsylvania Correspondent, of which he remained in charge twenty-one years. He sold the paper in 1825 and came to West Chester. He was a practical printer, and devoted all his time to the practical working of the Village Record office, which Charles was chief editor, and infused into the columns of the paper a great amount of vigor and energy. [...] Asher and Charles Miner conducted the paper until April 1, 1834, when they disposed of it to Henry S. Evans and returned to Wilkes-Barre, where they spent the remainder of their days, Asher dying in 1841 and Charles in 1865.
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VILLAGE RECORD (West Chester, Pa.)
May 20, 1835
Marriage
In Philadelphia, on the 13th inst. by Rev. John McDowell, Mr. ASHER MINER, (one of the late Editors of the Village Record), of Luzerne county, Pa. to Mrs. THOMAZIN BOYERS, of Chester county.
*Note: Thomazin Boyer(s) was the widow of John Boyer. Her maiden name was Thomazin Hance.
HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, WITH GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Page 327
Asher Miner was a native of Connecticut, where he was born March 3, 1778, and whence he emigrated to the Wyoming Valley in 1800. He published a paper in Wilkes-Barre for a time, in connection with his brother Charles, and in 1804 removed to Doylestown, and established there the Pennsylvania Correspondent, of which he remained in charge twenty-one years. He sold the paper in 1825 and came to West Chester. He was a practical printer, and devoted all his time to the practical working of the Village Record office, which Charles was chief editor, and infused into the columns of the paper a great amount of vigor and energy. [...] Asher and Charles Miner conducted the paper until April 1, 1834, when they disposed of it to Henry S. Evans and returned to Wilkes-Barre, where they spent the remainder of their days, Asher dying in 1841 and Charles in 1865.
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VILLAGE RECORD (West Chester, Pa.)
May 20, 1835
Marriage
In Philadelphia, on the 13th inst. by Rev. John McDowell, Mr. ASHER MINER, (one of the late Editors of the Village Record), of Luzerne county, Pa. to Mrs. THOMAZIN BOYERS, of Chester county.
*Note: Thomazin Boyer(s) was the widow of John Boyer. Her maiden name was Thomazin Hance.
Page 327
Asher Miner was a native of Connecticut, where he was born March 3, 1778, and whence he emigrated to the Wyoming Valley in 1800. He published a paper in Wilkes-Barre for a time, in connection with his brother Charles, and in 1804 removed to Doylestown, and established there the Pennsylvania Correspondent, of which he remained in charge twenty-one years. He sold the paper in 1825 and came to West Chester. He was a practical printer, and devoted all his time to the practical working of the Village Record office, which Charles was chief editor, and infused into the columns of the paper a great amount of vigor and energy. [...] Asher and Charles Miner conducted the paper until April 1, 1834, when they disposed of it to Henry S. Evans and returned to Wilkes-Barre, where they spent the remainder of their days, Asher dying in 1841 and Charles in 1865.
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VILLAGE RECORD (West Chester, Pa.)
May 20, 1835
Marriage
In Philadelphia, on the 13th inst. by Rev. John McDowell, Mr. ASHER MINER, (one of the late Editors of the Village Record), of Luzerne county, Pa. to Mrs. THOMAZIN BOYERS, of Chester county.
*Note: Thomazin Boyer(s) was the widow of John Boyer. Her maiden name was Thomazin Hance.
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