Subj: Moses Gustin Mt. Pisgah Tower
Date: 08/08/2000 1:02:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: DICKDRYER
To: JoyceTice
Hi Joyce,
Here is the story as it was written by Dorothy Cleaveland Salisbury.
She was the wife of Elon G. Salisbury 4 a Grandson of John Salisbury and
Hannah Grace Salisbury. This was apparently written around 1964. To lead
into this story, let me tell you something of the Salisbury connection
to the Graces and Leonards and the Gustins.
John Salisbury of Phepls, NYcame to the Troy/Springfield Township area
in 1831 and bought a 400 acre farm which included all or part of Mt. Pisgah.
On May 31, 1832, he married Hannah Grace, daughter of William Grace and
Hannah Salisbury , her Mother was a 1st Cousin to John Salisbury.
Hannah Grace's Grandmother was Mara SARGEANT (Grace), the "Molly Pitcher"
of the battle at Bunker Hill.. The farm that John Salisbury and Hannah
Grace owned was on Sugar Creek (today'sLleonard Creek that flows into Sugar
Creek). They cut the white pine timber and cleared the land. John Salisbury
had a sawmill on Sugar Creek.
As John approached old age, he divided his property among his children.
His son Elon G. had maried a Sullivan Co. girl (my G Grandmother Vicilla
Chloe Shadduck) in Fox Township and John had helped them buy a farm in
Fox. The Bradford Co. property was divided among the other 5 children.
John Jefferson got the part mainly lying on the West side of Sugar Creek.
To Mary he gave the Northeast section, including Mt. Pisgah. William rec'vd
the section West of Mary's including the old homestead. Samuel Wilder
the section South of William's and Olive the Southeast section.
Mary had married Moses Gustin, a photographer in Troy, Pa. on
Aug 26, 1856. Some time later, but not later than 1880, Moses Gustin, built
the tower on Mt. Pisgah. A Niece, Hannah Eudora SALISBURY "Brenchley
Gilbert", who celebrated her 92 nd birthday, Aug 19, 1964, remembers going
to Mt. Pisgah as a little girl. She was writing of visiting her Aunt
Mary Gustin. She thought it was so wonderful to climb to the top of the
tower and look off so far with a telescope.
There are other stories within Joyce Tice's web site under the section,
"Bradford Reporter Articles" about Mt.
Pisgah and the Tower. |
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| Note from Joyce M. Tice: In the late 1950s or early 1960s, I went to
the top of Mt. Pisgah with my parents and we explored the ruins of the
old buildings shown in these turn of the century postcards. They were very
tumbledown and probably dangerous to be in. Trees and plants grew in the
buildings and many hundreds of people had written their names and towns
on the walls as "tourist graffiti." Apparently exlporing these old ruins
was a popular activity. |
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The postcard of the Pisgah Inn (Tower) at left was provided by Janet
PETERS Ordway |
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