LEVI
MATTSON I
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| The current president of the Concord Township (PA) Historical Society, serendipitously for us Mattson descendants, grew up on the Levi Mattson I farm in Aston Township. In the February 1993 Bulletin of the Delaware County (PA) Historical Society, she wrote about the old house of Levi Mattson I. We thank Virginia DeNenno for permission to disseminate parts of her article to our website visitors. "Researchers will find a vast store of material in the Dr. Anna H. Broomall scrapbook collection at DCHS....My own experience with the collection was most productive [by just browsing]. I grew up on a farm on Lenni Road in Chester Heights Borough (originally part of Aston Township). Our house was built in 1939, but we had heard that an earlier house existed there until it burned down in the 1920s. In the 1960s I learned the names of some of its previous owners, but nothing more. Just two or three years ago, though, in browsing through the "Aston, Bethel, Birmingham, Chester, and Upper Chichester" book, I found a photograph of a house in Aston Township, taken on September 12, 1909, listing the owners I knew of, with a note that the house had burned on February 21, 1924. Anna Broomall also described the house as " partly log and partly stone, weathered boarded." "It was the house that had stood on the site of my childhood home. What a thrill to see what that house had looked like. With further research I found that the log part of the house had been the home of the Mattson family, who figure prominently in the affairs of Concord Township history, a primary interest of mine. Dr. Broomall's work led to answers for some questions and to new leads on important topics. Be prepared, when using Dr. Broomall's collection, for surprises." Virginia DeNenno |