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History of The Hill / Sober Farm This farm was taken up by P. Berrickman, who received his title from the State in April 20, 1793, and was called in this and subsequent transfers the "Hustings Mill Seat." Berrickman sold it to George Crawford. George Crawford sold it to Nicholas Klingensmith,.
Nicholas Klingensmith said if a certain very large tree on the farm should fall he would sell, as he would never take the time necessary to clear it up. A storm having uprooted the tree.
The farm was sold to Squire John Hill Sr. by deed dated April 18, 1812; signed in German, and witnessed by Henry A. Weaver and Philip Bolen.
The Hill family was of Scotch-Irish descent, and were pioneers of Western Pennsylvania . They came from "east of the mountains,"
Squire John Hill Sr. was the ax expert started building log houses and barns, started Hill' Mills on Kiskiminetas river at what is now Bagdad station. Planted the first Apple Orchard of 1,000 apple trees Manufactor of Wooden Moldboard plow and gunpowder, he also started the Riggle School.
The three story red brick house was started by the Hill family in 1848 and finished in 1849. There was also large dairy barn, probably built before the house.
Daniel Newton Sober sold his grocery store in W Leechburg following the depression of 1907. Daniel bought the the Hill farm at a sheriffs sale in 1908 for $7500. Daniel Hill being the last owner of the farm.
D N Sober began the Kiski Dairy Farm with his sons George Howard and Robert Miller Sober and continued operating the dairy farm till his deat in 1939.
George and Robert inherited the farm and ran it as equal partners till the death George in 1960. Robert Miller Sober bought out Gerorge's part of the barn and equipment and continued farming till his death 1964.
After Robert Miller Sober's death, his wife Verna and daughter Dorothy continued living there till the death of Vern Sober in 1976.
The farm was then equally divided by Glenn, Harol, Paul and Dorothy Sober. In the 1970's it was sold to David & Westley Powell, who researched the history of the home and partially restored it to the the original time period. David and his wife were divorced in middle of the restoration. The house was then sold to the current owners Bob and Margaret Scholtz.
The house was comletely restored by Bob and Margaret, and they built an addition and garage that is in the period of the house.
Lloyd Sober 5/9/2015
Note: When Robert Miller Sober was born on November 18, 1889, in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, his father, Daniel, was 31 and his mother, Caroline, was 35. He married Verna May Lookabaugh on May 15, 1919, in Leechburg, Pennsylvania. They had four childre
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