About the year 1812 an old
lady named Deemer discovered a spring of salt water on the Conemaugh
river, two miles above Saltsburg, Indiana county...This discovery
was the beginning of the salt industry of that and Armstrong counties.
Boiling Spring Presbyterian Church [Kiskiminetas Township]
was organized in 1840 at the house of Charles Means, with twenty-five
members. Among them were: ... Daniel Deemer...