AARON BANE, one of the intelligent business men of Amwell township, is a grandson of Nathan Bane, who with his father and five brothers came from Virginia to Washington county, Penn., thus becoming identified with its earliest history. One brother, Joseph, pushed on to the Ohio river and died in Kentucky; the others settled in Washington county. Indians were numerous in those early days, and they had a very disagreeable manner of informing the pale-faced intruder of their presence, and also of their intentions, which were by no means of a friendly nature at that period. It was soon found necessary to organize a company in order to provide a defense against sudden attacks of the savages, and of this company Nathan Bane was made captain. Here follows a very interesting item of philological information, as given by Mr. Aaron Bane: "While instructing the men of the company, Capt. Bane was accustomed to give the order 'aim well,' and from this order the township received its present name." Mr. Bane was married to a Miss Nelson, who bore him six children: Abraham, Jake, Hannah, Becky, James and Joseph. Joseph Bane was born in 1776, on the middle fork of Ten-Mile creek, and passed his youth attending the rate schools and assisting on the farm until he was twenty-four years of age, when he took the farm now owned and occupied by his son Aaron. Mr. Bane died in 1836, in his sixty~second year, his wife following him to her long home in 1839. Aaron Bane was born on the old homestead September 14, 1824, and has there passed the sixty-eight years of his life. His earlier years were employed in farm work and a few months' attendance at the winter schools. In 1860 he was married to Mary W. Curry, daughter of John and Deborah Curry. They have three children: John C., Albert G. and Edith. Of these, John C. is a rising young lawyer of Washington; Albert G. is now twenty-five years of age, and has charge of his father's farm of 220 fertile acres, which he will eventually own. Mr. Bane has always been a Republican, while his two sons vote the Democratic ticket. The family belong to the earliest settlers of the county, and have always been highly esteemed for their moral and intellectual worth. Mr. Bane is of Quaker descent, and does honor to his ancestors.

Text taken from page 1003 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed January 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published January 1997 on the Washington County, PA pages at http://www.chartiers.com/..

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