Town note
Daugherty Township was named in honour of Black Doherty, a local attorney who lived there.
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FILE 253 / 9 December 2021 / 165 MIN / full
"So Doherty Township, Pennsylvania. This is western Pennsylvania, the farthest western county in Pennsylvania, damn near Ohio over here. It's about 45 minutes to Pittsburgh here"; he then says "So this is in Beaver County". about 0:05:50
Daugherty Township was named in honour of Black Doherty, a local attorney who lived there.
about 0:07:44In 1890 people in nearby Pulaski Township began talking about dividing the township again and drew up a petition to secede.
about 0:08:01The petition was voted down in 1891, but by 1892 the landowners were on board again.
about 0:08:17Landowners met once a week to discuss the issue, ending every meeting with a prayer for guidance.
about 0:08:30Daugherty Township was named in honour of Black Doherty, a local attorney who lived there.
about 0:07:44In 1890 people in nearby Pulaski Township began talking about dividing the township again and drew up a petition to secede.
about 0:08:01The petition was voted down in 1891, but by 1892 the landowners were on board again.
about 0:08:17Landowners met once a week to discuss the issue, ending every meeting with a prayer for guidance.
about 0:08:30Volunteers went from farm to farm to collect 400 signatures.
about 0:08:41The court ordered that the north and north-eastern part of the township be designated Doherty Township in honour of B. Doherty.
about 0:09:37The township website says the town is rich in history and heritage but that the office is short of artifacts and historical information, and asks residents to bring some in.
about 0:10:09A 1904 newspaper clipping on the town website records a sleighing party from Marion Hill visiting the home of Charles Ferguson for a bonfire and sledding.
about 0:11:14A 1906 clipping records a train striking a horse owned by Jake Bowers near the pottery.
about 0:11:43A 1907 clipping advertises a July 4th dance at Doherty Grove.
about 0:11:51Another clipping records a Bible class corn roast at the Rombold farm in Doherty.
about 0:12:01A 1910 clipping records Clark Humes of Doherty Township falling twenty feet while repairing a barn, landing on a wheelbarrow and suffering four crushed ribs and a large head wound.
about 0:12:19White 97.5% · Black 0.8% · Asian 0.0% · Hispanic 0.0%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
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Three-bedroom, one-bath brick house, about 1,300 to 1,500 square feet
about 0:19:08Four-bedroom, three-bath house, 2,053 square feet
about 0:19:40Four-bedroom, three-bath house, 2,391 square feet
about 0:20:23"2,980"
Comparison: "down 13% since 2000". Direction: below.
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"a couple more than female"
Comparison: "50-50 is the normal". Direction: above.
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"52.1"
Comparison: "about 15 years older than normal". Direction: above.
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"almost 63%"
Comparison: "normally 50-50". No direction stated.
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"half"
Comparison: "the normal rate, despite the older population". Direction: above.
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"lower than normal"
Direction: below.
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"97.5%"
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"0.8%"
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"0.0%"
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"0.0%"
Comparison: "about 18% of the population in the country". No direction stated.
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"51.7%"
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"29%"
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"0.0%"
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"40%"
Comparison: "last election, Beaver County". No direction stated.
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"58%"
Comparison: "last election, Beaver County". No direction stated.
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"1.6%"
Comparison: "last election, Beaver County". No direction stated.
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"about 8.5%"
Comparison: "6% in the rest of the country". No direction stated.
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"a little over $70,000"
Comparison: "$57,500 average". Direction: above.
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"89"
Comparison: "100 is average". Direction: below.
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"$173,000"
Comparison: "291 in the rest of the country". No direction stated.
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"about $975"
Comparison: "lower than the national average". Direction: below.
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"$149,900"
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"$199,000"
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"$269,000"
Comparison: "lower than the national average house". Direction: below.
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"about half"
Comparison: "the national average". Direction: below.
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"less than half"
Comparison: "the national average". Direction: below.
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3.5 / 5 · average of 4
“Many houses were built by the families who live in them, so each has its own look rather than a tract-home plan, with decent space and a yard for each.”about 0:12:58
“People are nice around the area and easy to get along with.”about 0:13:17
“Says "if I could change where I live, I wouldn't" and then says he would like to try something new and hopes to move one day; likes the area's unique character and how close it is to Pittsburgh.”about 0:13:26
“The public services are good and the first responders respond quickly.”about 0:15:17
Daugherty Township lies in Beaver County in western Pennsylvania, about forty-five minutes from Pittsburgh.
The marriage broke down. Harleen filed for divorce in August 1981 and the case ran for years.
On 15 December 1986 Harleen went to her adult daughter Debbie's house in New Galilee for a birthday party. Harleen left at about 10.45 in Barry Carl's 1984 Oldsmobile.
Barry Carl rang Debbie's house at 1.30, and he and Debbie's husband Jeff drove the route, found nothing and called the state police.
At about 2.45 David Kisow and Donald Mirdo came home to Kisow's house in Findlay, Allegheny County, about twenty-five miles away. An Oldsmobile was backed against the garage with the keys in the ignition. They opened the boot and found Harleen's body. Mirdo wanted the police; Kisow said he would be a dead man if he did not get rid of the car. Mirdo called at 2.59.
Her face had been destroyed. Her head was partly wrapped in a white scarf with a bullet hole, two spent .25 cartridge cases lay beside the car, and a bloody baseball bat had been placed between her legs. The autopsy found at least five blows to the head, a fractured neck bone from strangulation and two .25 bullets, between the eyes and in the left temple; she had been alive when shot. At the farm police found blood covered with gravel and leaves, two coat buttons and a gold earring.
Before that he had asked him to rough up Barry Carl, then to blow someone up with dynamite. On 21 December 1986 Kisow went to the police.
Three plans were discussed: a baseball bat, a shooting, or making it look like a robbery.
On 12 February 1987 Guevara showed investigators the grave in his landfill in New Sewickley, across from the Mayhew property, and they dug in the frozen ground.
The judge ruled it a voluntary utterance.
December 15, 1986 / the driveway of her horse farm on Sunflower Road, Daugherty Township; her body was found in the boot of a car in Findlay
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April 1985; body found February 12, 1987 / buried in Steve Guevara's landfill in New Sewickley, Beaver County, Pennsylvania
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