Armstrong County PA Archives Biographies.....Rohrer, Frederick 1794 - 1837
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Source: History of Armstrong County, Chicago: Waterman, Watkins and Co. 1883.
Author: Robert Walter Smith, Esq.

...Frederick Rohrer was born in Westmoreland county about 
1794.  He learned the printing business in Pittsburgh in the 
Mercury office and came to Kittanning in the latter part of 
the year 1818 or in the early part of the year 1819, during 
which year or about the month of February, 1819, he started 
the then only paper published in the county, called The 
Columbian.   He was appointed by Gov. Schultz register and 
recorder of the county, and afterward was appointed by Gov. 
Wolf prothonotary.  He held the office of postmaster during 
the time he was prothonotary, and was after the expiration 
of his term engaged in mercantile pursuits.  He ceased the 
publication of The Columbian during the year 1831 or 1832.  
He afterward was appointed a justice of the peace, and was 
holding that office at the time of his death, which occurred 
in 1837.

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