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Joseph I. Campbell for several years after his father's death rented and continued upon the homestead farm, and in the meantime bought land adjoining. Subsequently he pur- chased his brother's interest and became the sole possessor of the paternal estate, which through his skilful management was trans- formed into one of the best homes in the county. Mr. Campbell was numbered among the progressive and successful farmers of his section. In politics he was a Republican. On Sept. 5, 1869, he married Isabella Irwin, who was born in Kittanning in 1828, of Irish parentage, her parents, Thomas and Jane (Williamson) Irwin, having come from Ire- land and settled in Kittanning. Mr. Irwin was a weaver by trade. He soon moved to near Cowanshannock creek, where he purchased a farm. He and his wife were Episcopalians in religious conection. They were married in County Donegal, Ireland, and had a family of six daughters and one son, William, who was but six weeks old when the family came to the United States ; he enlisted in an Armstrong county company of infantry for service in the Civil war, and afterward removed to the State of Tennessee. Of the daughters, Re- becca J., married R. J. Cochran and moved to Macomb, Ill. Isabella married Joseph I. Campbell. Margaret married Edward B. Thompson and resides in New York City. An- nie S., who never married, died in November, 1913. Ellen, also unmarried, lives with her nephew, Albert Thompson, at Verona, Pa. One child died in infancy.
Mrs. Joseph I. Campbell died Dec. 29, 1882, only a few weeks after the death of her son, John I., which occurred Dec. 6th. She was a most estimable wife and mother, and much beloved in the Episcopal Church, of which she was a member. Her surviving children are Irwin T., Mary B. and Joseph G.
Irwin T. Campbell was brought up among strictly rural surroundings upon his fathers' farm, working for his father while attending district school. Later he went to the Dayton Academy and the Edinboro State normal school to fit himself for teaching, following that calling during the winter months and farming in the summer time for some years. In the meanwhile he was making his influ- ence felt as a Republican, and in 1892 was sent as delegate to the State convention of his party. In 1896 he was the Republican nomi- nee for the office of register and recorder and elected. After serving capably for three years he was renominated without opposi- tion, re-elected, and served for another term of three years. He has always been an active supporter of the principles and candi- dates of his party, and during 1900, 1901 and 1902 rendered efficient service as chairman of the Republican county central committee. In the fall of 1911 he was nominated by his party for the office of prothonotary, was elected, and has since been serving in that capacity, his present term expiring Jan. 1, 1916. From 1903 until 1912 Mr. Campbell was assistant secretary of the Safe Deposit and Title Guar- anty Company, Kittanning, Pa. Thoroughly responsible, a man of high ideals and strict adherence to his party, Mr. Campbell is recog- nized as one of the representative citizens and leading Republicans of Armstrong county.
On April 17, 1912, Mr. Campbell married Myrtle D. Thompson, daughter of Andrew and Martha P. (Marshall) Thompson, the latter a member of a well-known old family of this county and a sister of Porter Marshall, a veteran of the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are members of the First Presby- terian Church of Kittanning.
William Marshall, Mrs. Campbell's emi- grant ancestor, was born in 1722 in Ireland. When a young man he went to Scotland, where about 1748 he married Elizabeth Armstrong, and they soon afterward came to America. They settled in the southern part of what was then the Province of Pennsylvania, about six- ty miles northwest of Baltimore, Md., near where the Marsh creek crossed the Pennsyl- vania and Maryland line-in what was known as the Conococheague settlement. It is now included in Adams county, Pa. Their family of six children, John, James, Margaret, Wil- liam, Archibald and Samuel, were all born at this place. About the year 1783 William and Elizabeth (Armstrong) Marshall removed with part of their family to Westmoreland county, Pa., settling in that portion now in-
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cluded in Indiana county, to which section their sons John and James had emigrated sev- eral years previously. They had been driven back by the hostility of the Indians, however, John and his family returning to their first set- tlement in the East, and James, who was then unmarried, stopping at Sewickley settlement. William Marshall, the father, settled on a tract of land at Blacklegs creek, now included in the township of Conemaugh, Indiana coun- ty, where he and his wife died, Mr. Marshall in 1796, Mrs. Marshall in 1806. A copy of his will is on record at Greensburg, Pa., in the Westmoreland county courthouse, in Will Book I, page 134.
Samuel Marshall, youngest son of William Marshall, was born in what was then York (now Adams) county, Pa. In May, 1791, he married Mary Sterling, probably of Indiana county, as he had accompanied his parents to that part of the State at an earlier date, and they lived on his farm of 300 acres situated in Conemaugh township, Indiana county. The children of Samuel and Mary Marshall were: Mary, Walter, Joseph, Elizabeth, Jane, Wil- liam S. and Sarah, twins, Archibald, Samuel S., Rebecca and John.
land county ; Sarah M., who married Attorney Thomas Hindman; Martha P., who married Andrew Thompson; and Mary E., who mar- ried John Speer. The parents were stanch Presbyterians.
Andrew Thompson and his wife had five children, namely: Edwin L., who married Elizabeth Quinn, is a printer, and they reside in Pittsburgh; Myrtle D. is Mrs. Irwin T. Campbell; William G. married Sophia Linn- weaver, and they reside in Denver, Colo., where he is engaged in the undertaking busi- ness; Ella B. died aged seventeen years, un- married; Rebecca M., deceased, was the wife of Arno Heerlein. Andrew Thompson was born in Christiania, Norway, in 1822, and died Dec. 30, 1902, when eighty years old. On April 24, 1862, he married Martha P. Mar- shall, who survives him; she was born April 14, 1841. Mrs. Thompson is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Kittanning. Mr. Thompson was a fine Christian gentleman. In his native land he early united with the Lutheran Church, and after his marriage joined the First Presbyterian Church of Kit- tanning, in whose work he took a prominent part, teaching Sunday school, and proving a very popular teacher with the boys and young
William Sterling Marshall, son of Samuel, was born on the old homestead farm of his men. For several years prior to his death he father, near Clarksburg, Indiana county, and was an elder of that church. For fourteen he died Nov. 19, 1874, aged sixty-four years. years Mr. Thompson was a sailor, and he was His wife, Rebecca (McConnell), was born one of the pioneers in the California gold near Greensburg, Westmoreland county, and fields.
died Jan. 24, 1880, aged sixty-four years. Her parents, who came over the mountains from MISS M. THERESA SCHULTE is one of the most accomplished teachers of Kittan- ning, where her rare mental gifts and attain- ments, and thorough intellectual training, are highly appreciated. the East to Westmoreland county, were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. William Sterling Marshall and his wife settled soon after mar- riage, which occurred Feb. 15, 1830, in Arm- strong county. He came out first, selected his Miss Schulte is of distinguished German ancestry. Henry Schulte, great-great-grand- father, owned eight hundred acres of land in Blesnohl, on the river Wenne, three miles from Kreis (township) Meschede, Regier- ungsbezirk (county seat) Arnsberg, Prussia. This estate was left to his eldest son, Michael, her great-grandfather, as was the law and custom of the land ; his several other sons and daughters having become Benedictine monks and nuns, and being appointed superiors and superioresses in their various cloisters. land and cleared a place for the cabin he built, and the following spring he moved here with his wife, first stopping at Glade Run (near Dayton) awhile with the Marshalls, rel- atives. They stayed with his cousin, old "Uncle" Robert Marshall, the grandfather of Reed Marshall, now a merchant and leading citizen of Dayton. Then they moved to his. cabin and new home. When they came to live in Wayne township, near what is now Belknap, Armstrong county, neighbors were scarce and far apart, and they settled in a rank growth Michael Schulte married a Miss Kersting, and seven children were the issue of the union, of whom only three survived, Miss Schulte's grandfather, John Everhardt, being the youngest child of the family ; his two sis- ters had also entered the Benedictine Convent of timber out of which he cleared a farm. There the young pioneer couple made a home and reared their family and lived good and useful lives. Farming was always his oc- cupation. They had four children: David P., who married Martha Brown, of Westmore- with their aunts. Upon Napoleon's invasion
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of Germany these monks and nuns were obliged to leave their cloisters, and they took with them such articles of devotion, etc., as would be necessary to them in their life in the world. Among these was an iron used in the making of the altar bread. This same is now in the possession of Mr. Schulte's sister (an aunt of Miss Schulte), Mrs. Josephine Stratman, of Detroit, Mich. It bears the in- scription I. H. S. and the date 1730 on the one side, and the Roman characters MDCCXXX on the opposite side. Mrs. Stratmann also has a crucifix which evidently came from one of these monasteries or con- vents, for it has been in the Schulte family for generations, and was the property of the daughter of each succeeding generation until it was presented to John Everhardt Schulte by his mother (his sisters, as said before, having entered the convent). He, in turn, presented it to his daughter Josephine, on the eve of her departure for this country.
John Everhardt Schulte was a boniteur for the German government, which position he held up to the time of his death. He received his early education from his mother's brother, as did also the other children of the family, for owing to the state of affairs resultant to Napoleon's invasion of Germany, school and similar institutions were closed and the chil- dren at that time were dependent for their education upon their parents and the priests, who, having no home, wandered from place to place. Notwithstanding all the disadvan- tages with which he had to contend-for he was only twelve years old at the time of the twice. His son, Charles, Mrs. Schulte's half- invasion, he became conversant with all the brother was treasurer of the city of Saginaw topics of the day, was a ready writer and a about thirty-five years ago. The second wife of Anthony Wenks, Josephine Gierse (grand- fluent talker. He is described as being a man of calm and rather reserved manner. He mother of Miss M. Theresa Schulte), was married Florentina Vornweg, of Calle, a mem- also an orphan, her mother having died when ber of a fine old German Catholic family, the she and her brother Albert were ten and twelve years old, respectively. Their mother was of noble birth and an only daughter, and the children were left in the care of her brother, with whom they made their home and who took possession of her share of the estate. Albert Gierse never married. several members of which were highly esteemed for their learning, etc., and much re- vered for their true Christian character. Her mother belonged to the good old family Stuernberg. There were eight children born to John Everhardt and Florentina (Vorn- weg) Schulte, four daughters and four sons, the second youngest of whom, Charles, is the father of M. Theresa Schulte. As John Ever- hardt died intestate his estate was sold, and a village with its manufacturing and mining interests now occupies the site of the old homestead with its adjoining lands.
Charles Schulte came to this country in 1857, when a youth of seventeen years, with his sister, previously mentioned, and her hus-
band and a cousin, Miss Amanda Molitor. The latter became a Sister of Charity of Mother Seton's order, and has been a mem- ber of that religious community for the last fifty-five years. She is known in religion as Sr. M. Francis and is now enjoying a well deserved rest at St. Vincent's Hospital, West Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. She rendered valuable aid at the time of the smallpox epi- demic in New York City, when she received honorable mention therefor.
Charles Schulte attended a select school in Detroit, where he gave special attention to the study of English, French and Latin, until he entered the dry goods business there, living in Detroit ten years. . He married Miss Theresa Wenks (Wiengs), of Oberberg, on the river Ruhr, in Prussia, who had also come to this country with her parents when a child of but twelve years, and was then living near Saginaw. After their marriage they remained about two years in Detroit, moving in 1867 to East Saginaw, where the family has since resided and is well known and highly re- spected. Mrs. Schulte's parents were both orphans of prominent and wealthy family. Her father, Anthony Wenks (Wiengs), was born in Wallen. His mother died when he was but an infant and left him to the care of a brother by marriage, who took possession of the home. His mother having been an only child, the estate was rightfully hers and should in turn have fallen to her son. The old Hof is still standing and bears the family name. Anthony Wenks had been married
M. Theresa Schulte was born in Saginaw, Mich. She attended St. Mary's Academy at that place, which was at that time conducted by the Sisters of Province of St. Mary of the Woods, in Vigo county, Ind., and later en- tered the East Saginaw High School, from which institution she graduated with honors. Miss Schulte has specialized in German and English later studying French and continuing work in music. She also attended the East
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Saginaw training school for teachers, and of Burton L. Barnhart), bought out all the after spending the required time in that in- heirs. On his fine farm Jacob Barnhart stitution received an appointment as teacher passed the remainder of his life, dying when of German and English in the primary and grammar grades of the East Saginaw Public Schools. This position she held until failing health compelled her to seek a change of scene and climate, which she found among the hills of Pennsylvania, in Kittanning. There, she is now continuing her professional duties in the home of Dr. C. J. Jessop, where she has been tutoring his daughter for the past eleven years. Miss Schulte has had exceptional edu- cational opportunities, of which she has taken full advantage. Her gift for languages-she has studied four-she undoubtedly inherited from her father.
BURTON L. BARNHART, whose beau- tiful home at Kaylor, "Maple Hill," is one of the finest in all that portion of Armstrong county, is extensively interested in oil and gas operations in that region, supplying gas to Kaylor and to the surrounding territory for a radius of five miles. He belongs to a family of German extraction which has long been established in this part of Pennsylvania.
Jacob Barnhart, the progenitor of this branch of the family, came to America from the Rhine country, in Germany, in 1742. His brother John William also emigrated to this country in 1742 and they first settled in West- moreland county, Pa., later moving to Butler county, where the Barnharts have been well known ever since, the post office of Barn- hart's Mills, which was in existence many years, having been named in their honor, and the town at that location was known as Mil- lerstown from the fact that the Barnhart Mills were located there; it is now called Chi- cora. Philip Barnhart, son of John William Barnhart, was the founder of the town, which he laid out.
Jacob Barnhart, great-grandfather of Burton L. Barnhart, was born in Westmore- land county, Pa., son of the Jacob who came from Germany in 1742. Thence he moved in an early day to Butler county, where he took up a large tract of land, owning about 250 acres. He improved his property, develop- ing a beautiful farm, and was known as one of the progressive men of his day, both for the enterprise he displayed in his business affairs and his usefulness as a citizen. Be- sides farming he followed shoemaking, re- ceiving forty cents a day for work at his trade. When he and his wife died Simon Barnhart, a cousin of Isaac Barnhart (father
fifty-six years old, and he is buried in an old cemetery in Fairview township, that county. His wife, whose maiden name was Spangler, was a native of Butler county and died in 1860; she was interred in the same cemetery .. They were members of the German Reformed Church. They became the parents of seven children, namely: John, the grandfather of Burton L. Barnhart, is mentioned below; David died in Chicora, Butler county ; William was killed in 1844 while chopping a leaning tree, a splinter flying off and striking him in the neck; Elizabeth married Solomon Rum- baugh, and died in Sugar Creek township; Susan became the wife of Jacob Hauk, of Fairview township, Butler county, and died in that township; Mary Maria married John McKisson, deceased, of Buena Vista, Butler county ; Hannah married John Harmond, of Chicora, Pa., a stone cutter and mason, and both are deceased.
Andrew Barnhart, brother of Jacob, above, also lived in Butler county, making his home in Fairview township. He served in the Black Hawk war as a fifer, and having to blow the fife one extremely cold day had his fingers frozen; upon his return home he made an oath that he would never again blow a fife, which he kept faithfully. He died at the age of eighty years.
John Barnhart, grandfather of Burton L. Barnhart, was born Feb. 6, 1800, in Chicora, Butler Co., Pa., and lived to the age of eighty- six years, six months, twenty days. All his school education was received in the German language, nevertheless he learned to speak English as fluently as any, and he always maintained high standing among the intelli- gent citizens of his community. After his marriage he settled where the Kaylor coal mine is now operated, and his upright and in- dustrious life gained and held the esteem of all who knew him. He took no part in poli- tics, but was a Republican in sentiment, and he held membership in the German Reformed Church.
Mr. Barnhart married Susanna Hepler, who was born Sept. 10, 1810, at Cherry Run, Cla- rion Co., Pa., daughter of Jacob Hepler, a pioneer of that county, and she preceded him to the grave, dying Jan. 4, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Barnhart are buried in the dilapidated cemetery previously mentioned. They were the parents of eleven children, viz .: (I) Jacob C., born Feb. 25, 1830, died in January, 1913.
B. L. Banhart.
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He was a devout member of the Nevin Mem- orial Reformed Church, and a regular attend- ant, missing only one communion service from 1849 until his death ; he served a's deacon from 1856 to 1880. Mr. Barnhart served as school director of Limestone township, Clarion county, for four terms. His first marriage was to Barbara Smith, by whom he had two children, Scott and Mary, the latter deceased. Scott settled on the old home farm, a fine property of 153 acres, in Limestone township, Clarion county, where he still lives. For his second wife Jacob C. Barnhart married Mrs. J. S. Stahlman, who died Jan. 24, 1912, at Frogtown, Clarion county. (2) Elizabeth married Charles Mckinney, who died April 25, 1862, near Rimersburg, Clarion county, and she subsequently became the wife of Thomas Downs, of Clarion county, by whom she had one son, Isaac Scott. By her first marriage she had four children, David, Wil- liam, Alkana and John. She died Sept. 12, 1912, and is buried at Richmond, Kans. She was a member of the German Reformed Church. (3) Hannah married Joseph For- inger, a manufacturer of woolens, later en- gaged as a merchant at Kaylor. Both died when seventy-three years old. They had a family of twelve children: One that died in infancy, Scott, twins, Jane, Henry, Isaac (de- ceased), Harvey, Joseph, Winnie (Mrs. John Wiles), Sarah and Charles. (4) Lewis mar- ried Mary Brown, of Butler county, Pa., who died Sept. 7, 1911, and is buried at Lahobeth Presbyterian Church in Clarion county. He died at Mechanicsville, Clarion county, when sixty-five years of age. They were the parents of three children, Lemuel, Charles Ellis and a daughter that died in infancy. (5) Kath- erine married John Shook, and they lived at Kaylor and Buena Vista. At the time of her death, March 12, 1914, when she was seventy- seven years old, she was living at Perry, Ohio. They had children as follows: Alvin, Thomas (who was killed on the railroad), Curtis (de- ceased), Isaac (of Ohio), Nettie (who mar- ried John Clouss, of Ohio), Mollie (who mar- ried William Harrington, also of Ohio), and Edward (who is in the regular army). (6) Adam, now living at Iola, Kans., aged seventy- four years, was married in 1860 to Kate Shook, who died in 1911 in her eighty-third year. They settled in Kansas. They had chil- dren : Isabelle, Loman, Walter, Ida M., Linus, John. Emma and Edward. (7) Isaac is men- tioned fully below. (8) Sarah, who died in August, 1904, was the wife of W. H. Eynon and had four children, Ethel, Myrtle, William
(deceased) and Harry (deceased). (9) Rachel married Harvey Peck and lives in Vermont. She has one child, Grace. (10) Susanna, twin of Rachel, is the widow of Thomas Shook, of Pittsburgh, Pa., where she resides now sixty-eight years old. She has had six children, Satarra, Olive, Ruth, Anna, Charles, and a son that died in infancy. (II) Joseph married Nancy McElroy, and they have had children, William, Mollie, Kate, James, Eva, Ella, Hannah, Pearl, Lulu and Hugh.
Isaac Barnhart was born Aug. 16, 1841, on the farm where he still resides in Brady's Bend township, a half mile south of the Kay- lor post office. He obtained his education there, attending the local schools until he was about fourteen years old, after which he worked steadily on the home farm up to the time he was twenty, at the outbreak of the Civil war. He then enlisted in the Union army, joining Company B, 103d Pennsylvania. Volunteers, organized at Kittanning, in which he became corporal; he was mustered into the service Sept. 24, 1861. He also served with the 8th Independent New York Artillery from Nov. 28, 1863, being mustered out July 8, 1865. He saw much active service and was wounded once. Returning to his home in Brady's Bend township in August, 1865,' he remained there until December, when he went to Hamden, Delaware Co., N. Y., at which place he was married Dec. 12, 1865, to Hat- tie E. Shaffer, daughter of Adam Shaffer, of Shaverstown, Delaware Co., N. Y., of old Revolutionary stock, and in 1866 returned to Brady's Bend township and settled on the home place. Mr. Barnhart followed farming there very successfully, owning a fine property of five acres near Kaylor (within the limits of the Kaylor voting precinct) and worked at his trade, harnessmaking. For the last fifteen years he has lived retired, enjoying a well earned rest. In former years Mr. Barnhart took a direct part in township affairs, in which he has always maintained public-spirited inter- est. He served twelve years as school director, and was constable for one term. he has been a lifelong Republican. Politically
Seven children were born to Isaac and Hat- tie E. (Shaffer) Barnhart, namely: Burton I .. is mentioned below ; Herman W. married Jennie McClintock, of Butler, Pa .; Minnie is the wife of James Wagle, of Kaylor; Orman C., of Cassville, W. Va., married Catherine Wills, of Mars, Pa .; Newton H., who lives at Kaylor, married Ada Snyder; Charles, who served in the Spanish-American war, remain-
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ing in the army three years altogether, mar- continues to take an active part in the opera- ried Frankie Hires, and lives at Columbus, tions, with which he keeps closely in touch, Ohio (he has been a railroad man for thir- teen years) ; Charles Arthur died in 1875, when twenty months old. The mother of this family died April 4, 1886, in her forty-fifth year, and was buried at the Baptist Church at Kaylor.
On July 18, 1888, Mr. Barnhart married (second) Mary E. Meyers, who was born June 12, 1858, in Brady's Bend township, daughter of the late Isaac and Elizabeth Mey- ers, pioneer residents of that section. Mr. and Mrs. Barnhart have had no children. They have both been active in Grange work, having been charter members of the Kaylor Grange, No. 1396, which Mr. Barnhart has served as chaplain and Mrs. Barnhart as Ceres. They are members and earnest work- ers in the M. E. Church, Mr. Barnhart hold- ing the offices of trustee and district steward.
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