"The settlement began at what is now known as Saegertown ca. 1795, when the brothers, Arthur and Patrick McGill, came to Woodcock Township. After Major Roger Alden built a sawmill in Saegertown, approximately 1800, the settlement was known for several years as Aldens Mill. In 1824, Daniel Saeger bought Alden's mill and adjacent lands and at the age of 44, he laid out the town under its present name. Saeger, a native of Pennsylvania of German descent, left Egypt, Pa. in 1823 to find a suitable place to settle. After he arrived in Saegertown, he attracted to the area a large number of German Yeomanry from Lehigh and other eastern Pa. counties. Being active in the community, Saeger was an early member of the Lutheran Church, the owner of a sawmill and general store, and a justice of the peace. He was a member of the Pa. State Legislature."
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The first Lutherans in the vicinity of Saegertown were members of the Venango congregation, organized in 1816. For the convenience of the members in Woodcock Township, services were held sometimes in Peiffer’s Schoolhouse, two miles below Saegertown. About 1828 a separate congregation was formed and in 1829 a frame church was erected in Saegertown, on the site of the present German Reformed Church. Its cost was defrayed by the settlers in this region and the Lutherans, German Reformed and Methodist Societies all worshiped in it. Among the earliest Lutheran members were: George Peiffer,
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New York City, where he lived for several years. About 1835 he came to this county, locating at Crossingville, and engaged in distilling until 1838, when he was burnt out and lost everything excepting the suit of clothes he had on. Then he moved to Saegertown and worked in a distillery for Daniel Saeger. He shortly afterward engaged in the same business for himself, which he carried on in connection with a farm he had purchased, until 1871.
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Woodcock Run rises in Randolph Township, crosses the southwest corner of Richmond, and passing through the entire Township of Woodcock, empties into French Creek south of Saegertown. Mill Run meanders northwest through Mead Township, and after passing through Meadville discharges its waters into the same stream.
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