Indiana County, Pennsylvania; her people, past and present, Volume II, Part 147

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 884

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not take possession until some time later. Washington county, Pa .; Isaac; Hugh; Caro- Here he was engaged in agricultural pursuits line; and one child who died in infancy. up to the time of his death, which occurred Mr. Housholder has served his township as May 1, 1892, when he was eighty-five years, school director for one term of three years three months of age. He was buried in the and is now entering upon his second term, act- ing also in the capacity of treasurer of the board. He has also been township clerk and auditor, and like his father supports Demo- cratic principles, as laid down by the old leaders. When the Blacklick National Bank was organized, he was elected one of its di- rectors, and has retained this position of trust to the present time. In his habits he is strictly temperate, and he is known as one of the faithful members of the Lutheran Church at Coral. A man well informed on various subjects, he is possessed of literary tastes above the average, and is an omnivorous reader and scholar. family lot in the Homer City cemetery. He was always identified with the Presbyterian Church in his religious belief, and was a Democrat in his political sympathies. He was married (first) to Mary Gray, who was also born in Westmoreland county, daughter of Abraham Gray, and she died March 13, 1875, and was buried in the Homer City ceme- tery. They had six children, namely: Jona- than, who died in infancy; Isaac, who makes his home in Republic county, Kans .; Ruth Jane, living at Derry station, Pa .; Margaret J., who married Robert Lynn, of Millwood, Westmoreland county; Mary, who married S. A. St. Clair, of Homer City; and John Robinson. Mr. Housholder's second mar- riage was to Martha Simpson, of Blacklick township, who died March 13, 1890, and her remains were also laid to rest in the cemetery at Homer City.

. John Robinson Housholder, son of Solo- mon Housholder, was only a few months old when he came with his father to the farm in Burrell township, and here he has carried on operations to the present time. During the closing years of his father and stepmother he tenderly cared for them. He secured his edu- cation in the public schools, in the meantime also working on the home farm, and his entire life has been spent in clearing and cultivating the land, erecting buildings and making nu- merous other improvements, his property be- ing now one of the most valuable and attrac- tive farms in this part of Indiana county. As one who has added to the impetus of his com- munity's advancement he is a man of standing among his fellow citizens, and is everywhere esteemed and respected because of the hon- orable dealings that have marked his entire career.

HOWARD B. BUTERBAUGH, M. D., who has been engaged in the practice of medicine in Indiana, Indiana county, since 1895, is a prominent representative of his profession and well known in fraternal circles in this section. He was born May 12, 1871, in Cook- port, Indiana county, son of, Elias L. Buter- baugh and grandson of Henry Buterbaugh, the latter a native of Germany who came to the United States in young manhood and set- tled in Indiana county, Pa. By trade he was a cabinetmaker, and in time he became en- gaged in the lumber business. He married Mary Ann Langham, and they had five chil- dren : Margaret, deceased, who was the wife of John M. Nichol; Jane, wife of John Gal- laher; Elias L .; Amos L .; and Sarah, de- ceased, who was the wife of George F. Houk. The father of this family was a member of the Baptist Church. He died in 1879, at the age of seventy, and the mother died in 1898, aged eighty-two years.

Elias L. Buterbaugh, the Doctor's father, was a farmer and merchant and also engaged in the lumber business. He died in January, 1899, at the age of fifty-three years. He was a member of the Baptist Church, and frater- nally belonged to the I. O. O. F. and the G. A. R., having served during the Civil war

On Dec. 22, 1880, Mr. Housholder was united in marriage with Martha S. Pattison, daughter of Archie S. Pattison, of Blacklick township. Ten children have been born to this union, viz .: Mary G., who married B. in the United States Signal Corps, under Gen. B. Berry, of Eighty-four, Washington Co., B. F. Butler; he was in the Army of the Pa .; William E., who married Carrie Ault- Potomac for two years. He married Sarah Barbor, and they became the parents of the following children: Howard B., Mary O., Robert H., Elias P., S. Grace (who is mar- man, daughter of D. T. Aultman, of Black- lick ; Robert R., residing at New Kensington, Pa .; John C., assistant station agent at Coral, Pa .; Archie P., who is in the employ of the ried to Ford Wassam and has three children, Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad Company ; Eugene. Kenneth, and Meredith), A. Laura Margaret J., Mrs. B. B. Wilson, living in and Florence Catherine.

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Howard B. Buterbaugh attended public ana county. About the year 1825 he pur- school in Indiana county and later was a chased a large timber tract in West Wheatfield student at the State normal school in the township, lying near what is now the town of borough of Indiana. He took his medical course in the medical department of the West- ern Reserve University, at Cleveland, Ohio, graduating from that institution in 1895, in the fall of which year he settled in Indiana. He has been engaged in practice there continu- ously since, and has become very well known in the county, among his brother physicians as well as his patrons, having served one term as president of the Indiana County Medical Society. He is also a member of the Pennsyl- vania State Medical Society and of the Ameri- can Medical Association.

The Doctor is a thirty-second-degree Mason, belonging to Blue Lodge No. 313, F. & A. M., of Indiana, of which he is a past master; to Pittsburg Consistory (thirty-second degree) and to Syria Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Pittsburg, Pa. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F. and past grand of his lodge.

In politics Dr. Buterbaugh is a Republi- can and keenly interested in the success of his party and a friend of good government, being particularly public-spirited about the welfare of his home locality. He has served as a member of the borough council of Indi- ana, and is at present filling the office of coroner, to which he was elected in the fall of 1911, for a term of four years.

THOMAS SEWARD LYNN, hest known as Squire Lynn, is one of the most prominent residents of West Wheatfield township, In- diana county. He has been justice of the peace for over twenty years, is a prosperous farmer, and a leading member of the English Lutheran Church.

Squire Lynn is a member of the fourth gen- eration of his family in this country, his great- grandfather, John Lynn, a native of England, having been the first of his paternal ancestors to come to this. country. He emigrated from Ireland, in 1750, and first settled in New Jer- sey. By trade he was a tailor, but after tak- ing up his residence in that State followed farming. Subsequently he moved to Holli- daysburg, Blair Co., Pennsylvania.

Robert Lynn, son of John Lynn, was the grandfather of Thomas Seward Lynn. He was born at Hollidaysburg in 1789, and fol- lowed in the footsteps of his father in choos- ing farming as a means of livelihood. About the year 1812 he was married to Rebecca Thompson, and it was about that time also that he settled in Buffington township, Indi-

Garfield, and here he erected a two-story log house and a log barn, cleared the land, and built a waterpower sawmill in which he manu- factured lumber, and which he and his sons conducted up to the time of his death. Mr. Lynn, though he never held office, became a prominent citizen of West Wheatfield and was highly respected. He attended the M. E. Church, and was a Democrat in politics. He was laid to rest in the old Bolivar cemetery in Westmoreland county. His family con- sisted of seven sons and two daughters, namely: (1) Eliza, born in 1814, married Christopher Robinson. (2) Thompson, born in 1816, married Margaret Alexandre in 1845. (3) Smith, born Oct. 9, 1823, married Elizabeth Robinson of West Wheatfield, Oct. 9, 1848, and died in 1904. He was a farmer and teamster. (4) John is mentioned fully below. (5) Sarah, born in 1829, is the widow of Eliott Robinson (brother of Christopher and Elizabeth, just mentioned), whom she married in 1848. He was a local M. E. min- ister, farmer and brick manufacturer near Bolivar. She resides in West Wheatfield, near the brick works. (6) Austin, born in 1831, died Dec. 27, 1899, a farmer in Center township, married Rebecca Hammond. (7) Elliott, born in 1833, a carpenter, lives in the West. (8) Samuel was born in 1835. In October, 1864, while serving in the Civil war as a member of Company F, 52d Regi- ment, Indiana State Volunteers, he received a wound at Salem which caused his death. (9) Robert Thompson, born in 1844, married Margaret Housholder, of Burrell township. He was station master at Millwood, Westmore- land county, for many years, for the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company, and now has charge of the coal tipple at the same place for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. On June 25, 1863, he enlisted in Company D, 54th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, under Capt. John H. Deeves, for ninety days, and took part in the pursuit of Morgan in his celebrated raid through Ohio and Kentucky. Lee's army having been driven south of the Potomac and Morgan captured, the services of the regiment were no longer required, and it was mustered out Ang. 17, 1863. Mr. Lynn reenlisted on Sept. 4, 1864, for one year, in Battery F, 5th Pennsylvania Ileavy Artillery, under Capt. Francis C. Flanagan and Col. George G. Gallup. Soon after its organiza- tion the regiment was ordered to Washington

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and assigned to duty in forts north of the 20, 1863, died Sept. 27, 1863; Sarah Jane, capitol. On Sept. 28th the regiment, while guarding a construction train on the Manas- sas Gap railroad, was attacked by Moseby's command in Virginia. Mr. Lynn was dis- charged by telegraphic order from the war department June 2, 1865, at Salem.

born Aug. 15, 1860, died Dec. 27, 1871; Thomas Seward is mentioned below; Delilah Catherine, born in 1866, is the widow of George Butler, and now resides in Johnstown (Mr. Butler was employed by the Cambria Iron and Steel Co. of Johnstown, and was John Lynn, son of Robert, was born July 5, 1827, and when a boy attended the Lynn log district school in West Wheatfield; al- though he went to school only a short time he became a very fine penman, using the old- fashioned quill, and was good in "mathemat- ics." He worked with his father until he also a farmer) ; Ulysses Simeon, born Dec. 22, 1868, married Viola Wakefield (he is a farmer and had been employed by the Robin- son Brick Company in West Wheatfield) ; Estella Maud, born May 31, 1872, married Samuel Stevens, who is a traveling salesman, and lives in Johnstown; Edward Vincent, was grown, and when a young man worked as born Nov. 28, 1874, died July 16, 1880.

brakeman on the Pennsylvania canal. Then Thomas Seward Lynn, son of John and he bought from his father a 100-acre tract, Catherine (Mikesell) Lynn, was born Sept. 23, part of the original homestead, and there he 1864, in West Wheatfield township, on the settled and reared his family. Like his father he built a sawmill on the north branch of Richards run, and conducted it for many years in connection with farming, lumbering and teaming; he was also a well-known stock breeder of his district. Hard-working, thrifty, intelligent and energetic, he was a force for progress in the township that was felt in every phase of local life, though he did not seek public office, and many of the most valuable improvements of his day owed their success to his influence. He was one of the founders, builders and stockholders in having the bridge over the Conemaugh river con- structed, from West Wheatfield to Bolivar. In politics he was a stanch Republican. He was an advocate of temperance, a member of the Lutheran Church, which he served as deacon or elder, and Sunday school teacher, and did his duty in every relation of life. He made his home in West Wheatfield all his life. farm near Garfield which was part of his grandfather's old homestead. In 1873 he moved with his family to the farm, where he has ever since resided. In 1905 he bought sixty acres of the original tract, and there erected his buildings. He attended the Wash- ington district school under the tuition of Prof. J. T. Stewart and Professor Campbell, and also studied at a select summer school, and taught school for a few years, finishing a half term for Professor Campbell in Armagh. When he was only fourteen years old his father had a paralytic stroke, so the boy was obliged to take his father's place, and though so young managed to run the farm, he and his brother Simeon working together. At nights he studied civil engineering, taking a course in the Scranton International Corre- . spondence Schools. When the coal companies began their activities in this section, buying the coal rights, Squire Lynn did a great deal of the surveying in his own and near-by town- ships, and in this way made enough money to build (in 1905) his large and up-to-date house and barn, which are located on the pike, the old stage road between Philadelphia and Pitts- burg. His property, which now comprises sixty acres, is one of the best kept farms in the township; it was known at one time as the Adam Sides farm. He is a practical mod- ern farmer and stock raiser, and his ered- itable success is entirely the result of his own efforts. He has taken an active part in local affairs, having been a justice of the peace for over twenty-two years-first elected in 1891. He was census enumerator in 1910. He is a leading member of the English Lutheran

On Dec. 21, 1854, Mr. Lynn married Cath- erine Mikesell, who was born March 25, 1832, in Burrell township, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Barr) Mikesell, and now resides in New Florence, Westmoreland county, with her son Cornelius and daughter Margaret. Mr. Lynn died March 6, 1882, at the age of fifty-five years, and was interred in the Luth- eran cemetery in West Wheatfield. Children as follows were born to this union: Emma, born Feb. 6, 1856, is the widow of Christopher Campbell, and now resides in Johnstown, Pa .; Margaret Agnes, a music teacher, resides with her mother at New Florence, Pa .; Cornelius D., born Jan. 29, 1859, a music teacher, at present engaged as traveling salesman, re- sides with his mother at New Florence, Pa. (he was general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Church of West Wheatfield, which he has for about ten years) ; Samuel Barr, born Jan. served as deacon, treasurer, and superintend-

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ent of the Sunday school, is an advocate of Pa .; Nancy, who married Mr. Golden ; Maggie, temperance and lives up to his principles.

Squire Lynn was married May 28, 1891, to Priscilla Jane Mack, daughter of George and Martha (McDonald) Mack, of East Wheatfield township, and they are the parents of four children: Paul Wendel, born Nov. 6, 1893, in West Wheatfield; Edith Mae, born Aug. 15, 1895; Margretta Kathryne, born July 10, 1898; and Kermit Dean, born July 8, 1907.

MABRY J. GOLDEN, a farmer and stock Mr. and Mrs. Golden are members of the raiser of Cherryhill township, was born there United Evangelical Church. At the present March 11, 1861, and is a son of Henry G. and time he is serving in the capacity of auditor Lydia M. (Swenk) Golden.

David Golden, the great-grandfather of Mabry J. Golden, was born in Germany, and JOHN E. MORROW, manager of the A. came to the United States at a very early F. Kelly store at Clymer, was born in Jef- date, settling in Berks county, Pa., where he ferson county, Pa., Feb. 26, 1865, son of James followed farming all of his life.

and Rosana (Groves) Morrow.

John Golden, son of David, and grand- James Morrow was born in Ireland, and his wife in Chester county, Pa. He came to Lan- father of Mabry J. Golden, was born in Berks county, Pa., and there followed farming. He caster county, Pa., when seventeen years old, was there married to Mary Grim, also a na- but later went to Jefferson county, where he tive of Berks county, and they reared a large was a farmer and operated property until his family of children.

Henry G. Golden, son of John and Mary (Grim) Golden, was born Feb. 13, 1823, in Berks county, Pa., and like his father and grandfather devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. He resided in his native county until 1857, in which year he came to Indiana county, settling in Cherryhill township, where he was for many years engaged in agricultural operations. He still makes his home in that section, but has retired from active pursuits, having reached the advanced age of ninety years.

The only child of his parents, Mabry J. Golden gained his early education in the dis- trict schools in the vicinity of the home place, where he was reared to the life of a farmer, and has always followed that vocation on the home property.

On Dec. 27, 1886, Mr. Golden was married to Nancy Stahl, who was born in Indiana county in October, 1857, daughter of Wash- ington and Effie Stahl, also natives of this

deceased, who was the wife of James Howe; Sarah, deceased, who was the wife of Jacob Henry ; Samuel F., a resident of the southern part of Indiana county ; and Effie S., wife of C. E. Amond, of Cherryhill township.

To Mr. and Mrs. Golden there have been born three children, namely: John G., who is deceased; Frederick S .; and Horace R., the eldest, a resident of Spangler, Indiana county, who married Blanche McFarland, a native of this county.

of Cherryhill township.

death, which occurred in April, 1875. His widow survives, living on the homestead in Jefferson county. There were eleven children in the family: Sarah, deceased ; Hugh ; Mar- garet, wife of John Hunter, of Westville, Pa .; Anna, wife of John H. Smith, of Falls Creek, Pa .; Louise, wife of Joseph Rallston, of Du Bois, Pa .; William, of Winslow; Washing- ton; John E .; James, deceased; Frank, of Punxsutawney, Pa., and Robert, deceased.

John E. Morrow attended country school in Jefferson county, and after finishing his edu- cational training embarked in the lumber business, changing later for the mercantile line. For a number of years he clerked for different firms, learning the business thor- oughly. During this period he resided at Ridgway and Bradford, Pa., and Buffalo, N. Y. Coming to Clymer, he assumed charge of the large establishment of A. F. Kelly, being fitted for his responsibilities by ability and long training.

On May 12, 1891, Mr. Morrow was married county. Mr. Stahl was an Indiana county vol- to Mary Harris, born in Jefferson county unteer in the Union army during the Civil March 18, 1874, daughter of Thomas and Ag- nes Harris, early settlers of that county, and people of responsibility. They came from England, and are still living in Jefferson county. Mr. and Mrs. Morrow are the parents

war, and met his death at the battle of the Wilderness. He and his wife had six daugh- ters and three sons, namely: Jane, wife of Jacob Shank, of Cherryhill township; George W., a resident of Saltsburg, Pa .; Hannah C., of three children, namely: Clifford, born who married Samuel Dodson, of Clearfield April 6, 1892; Ethel, born March 26, 1902; county, Pa. ; Peter, a resident of Homer City, and Margaret, born April 12, 1912.

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In addition to his other interests Mr. Mor- and election. His long service is the best in- row is connected with the Clymer Water Com- dication of his value as a public official and pany, and he is a man of substance. Both he of the esteem in which he is held by his and his wife belong to the Presbyterian Church, and are active in promoting its good work. fellow citizens, whose interests he has looked after so well. Mr. Wells is a native of In- diana county, born Sept. 20, 1858, son of Aaron and Sarah J. (Reishel) Wells and grandson of James Wells.

JOHN REED MCFARLAND, late of Salts- burg, Indiana county, was engaged in the drug

James Wells was born at Norristown, Pa., business there practically all his life, being a and was of Scotch-Irish parentage. He was member of the firm of McFarland & Sons, a resident of Indiana county from 1826 until who had the leading establishment of the kind his death, which occurred Sept. 28, 1875, and in this section.

The McFarlands are of Scotch-Irish extrac- tion. Dr. John McFarland, father of John Reed McFarland, was a practicing physician in Saltsburg all his life, one of the eminently respected residents of this part of Pennsyl- vania, where he was widely known. He mar- ried Sarah Reed, who was born at Indiana, Pa., daughter of Rev. Mr. Reed, of Indiana,

engaged in farming. He married Elizabeth Pierce.

Aaron Wells was born in Indiana county in 1834, and followed farming there all his life, dying in 1904, at the age of seventy. He married Sarah J. Reishel, who died in 1882, and they had three children, namely: John C., James A. and Elmer U.

John Clark Wells received his education in

and they had two children, John Reed public and select schools, and was reared on and Belle, the latter marrying Dr. Joseph D. the farm, following farm work until he Orr, of Leechburg, Armstrong Co., Pa .; she reached the age of twenty-one. After that he died June 4, 1893, leaving one daughter, Pauline, who was graduated from the Leech- burg high school in 1912.

John Reed McFarland was born Oct. 12, also acting as principal in 1885-86. He con- 1848, in Saltsburg, and received an excellent education in the public schools and academy at that borough. When only a youth he entered the drug business, which he continued to fol- in the lumber business in the northern part of low to the end of his days, having been thus engaged for forty years at the time of his death, May 12, 1904. He was a man of the highest standing, and always ranked with the most substantial citizens of the borough.

was engaged in school teaching for years, liv- ing at Smicksburg for the twenty years prior to 1900, teaching the graded schools there and tinued to teach in the winter, working at his trade, that of plasterer, in the summer months from 1889 to 1898. In 1898 and 1899 he was Indiana county. On Jan. 1, 1900, he was ap- pointed deputy prothonotary and clerk of the county, and Aug. 31, 1908, to fill a vacancy, and continued to serve by appointment until elected to that office, Nov. 8, 1908, for a term of three years. He was reelected in and public-spirited official, one who keeps abreast of the demands of the times and an- ticipates them in his labors, and his services have been appreciated and recognized in the most substantial manner. He is an Odd Fel- low, holding membership in Smicksburg Lodge, No. 891, of Smicksburg borough.

On March 10, 1883, Mr. McFarland mar- ried Florence Rhea, daughter of William L. November, 1911. Mr. Wells is a progressive and Sarah (Shields) Rhea, of Indiana, Pa., who had a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters, all of whom still survive. Two of the sons are now living on the old homestead. To Mr. and Mrs. McFar- land were born two children: Mabel is the wife of John I. Richards, a merchant of Salts- burg, and has one daughter, Florence Kath- On March 24, 1880, Mr. Wells married Maria K. Lewis, daughter of Gilbert Lewis, now a resident of Dawson county, Nebr. Mr. and Mrs. Wells are the parents of four chil- dren: Lloyd G., who assists his father in the prothonotary's office; Howard M .; Margaret E., and Martha J. ryn; John Rhea, born in 1889, lives with his mother. Mrs. McFarland attends the Presby- terian Church, of which Mr. McFarland was a member. Politically he was a Republican, and he was a member of the school board for several years.

JOHN CLARK WELLS, prothonotary and HARRY A. SNYDER, junior member of the firm of D. L. Snyder & Son, general merchants, of Homer City, Indiana county, clerk of Indiana county, entered upon the du- ties of that office as deputy Jan. 1, 1900, and has held it continuously since, by appointment and ex-president of the Homer City borough

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council, is a native of Indiana county, hav- spent one year in the shops of the Pennsyl- ing been born in Brushvalley township Dec. vania Railroad Company, but returned to the 19, 1876.

The Snyder family is of German extraction, and the first of the name in Indiana county was Conrad Snyder, the great-grandfather of Harry A., whose first home was in the State of New Jersey. There he married Abby Lombson, and with his family came at an carly period to Indiana county, Pa., locating on a farm in White township, where he was engaged in farming during the remainder of his life. Both he and his wife passed away on the homestead farm, leaving six children : William, Daniel, Henry, Mary, Caroline and Emily.

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Indiana County, Pennsylvania; her people, past and present, Volume II, Part 147

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 884

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 884