Jefferson County, Pennsylvania : her pioneers and people, 1800-1915, Volume II, Part 68

Author: McKnight, W. J. (William James), 1836-1918
Publication date: 1917
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers
Number of Pages: 972

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After marriage Levi Anthony remained in the old Anthony Homestead near Shelocta un- til 1838, when he sold out to his older brother, William. He then came to Gaskill ( now Hen- derson ) township, Jefferson county, and pur- chased one thousand acres of land from the Holland Land Company, to which he moved his family in the spring of 1839, remaining there until the time of his death. In 1839 we find that Levi Anthony, Benjamin Bonsall, William Wallace, Roswell Luther, Samuel Postlewait, David Dressler and John Seyler organized the First Presbyterian Church in this section of the country at Luthersburg, and he remained a member of this church until his death. The records of his children follow :

(I.) Jacob Anthony, born Nov. 8, 1822, on Anthony's run, near Shelocta, Indiana county, came to Jefferson county with his par- ents. He married Luzetta Enterline. of the same county, and made his home on the east branch of the Mahoning creek, where he pur- chased a sawmill and timber lands from his brother Robert. Jacob Anthony died in 1896, when about seventy-four years old, and his wife made her home with the youngest daugh- ter. Josie, in Punxsutawney, until she passed away Sept. 26. 1916. at the age of eighty-two years. They were the parents of twelve chil- dren : Levi, Elmira, Alpheus, Havillah. James Dowling, Elmer, Arietta. Larissa, Eunice, Abner. Austin and Josie.

(1) Levi Anthony died in infancy.

(2) Elmira Anthony married Albert Smith, now deceased, and had five children: Tirzah married Mr. Berry, of Punxsutawney, and they have one son, Richard. Melvena married Mr. Heckman, and has a daughter. Virginia, and son, Frank. Leroy and his wife have children, Arthur, Alva, Tirzah and Albert, and live in Reynoldsville. Pa. Clyde Smith lives in Chicago. Fred Smith lives in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

(3) Alpheus Anthony was born in Hender- son township. Jefferson Co., Pa .. July 23, 1860. He married Salome Kuntz Oct. 23, 1879, and they had two children: George H., born Oct. 1, 1880, married and now living in New Jer- sey ; and a daughter who died young. After the death of his first wife Alpheus Anthony,

on July 4, 1885, married Martha Ann Shil- ling, of Perry township, who was born Aug. 30, 1864. They now reside on a farm near Grange, Pa., where he and his sons have erected a modern dwelling. From this union ten children were born: Orpha Maud, born in Frostburg July 6, 1886, married C. Miller Stoops May 18, 1909, at present a clerk in the Punxsutawney post office; they have two children, Martha Ruth and William Alpheus. Paul Byron, born in Frostburg Feb. 5. 1888, married Susan Niel, of North Point, Indiana Co., Pa., Jan. 4, 1911 ; they have three boys, John Richard, Mark Alexandria and Francis Byron. Nellie Catherine born in McCalmont township. Jefferson county, May 17. 1890, married Robert Alston Weaver June 29, 1914 ; they now reside in Butler, where he is a roller in the steel plant. Hulda Irene, born Nov. 23, 1892, in Perry township, there followed the calling of a school teacher for some time; she married Luther H. Bush Dec. 17, 1915, and now resides in Kittanning, where Mr. Bush is an agent of the Standard Life Insurance company. Mary Hazel, born Sept. 24. 1894, in Perry township, is now training in the But- ler General Hospital. Buzze Ernest, born in Perry township Nov. 27, 1896. is now living at home, and is agent for the Standard Life Insurance company. Alda May, born in Perry township March 6, 1899. is now living at home. Ralph Vernice and Elva Bernice, twins. were born in Perry township June II, 1902, and are living at home. Edith Maize, born in Perry township March 20, 1905, is living at home.

(4) Havillah Anthony, daughter of Jacob Anthony, had scarlet fever when she was five years old and was left deaf. She was edu- cated in the Deaf and Dumb School in Pitts- burgh, and later married a deaf man by the name of Mr. Ketter. They had three chil- dren : Anna married Mr. Schrack and has six children, Margaret, Henrietta, Samuel, Martha, Mary and Ann ; Pauline married Mr. Vetter and has three children, Havillah. Josie and Jacob; Josephine married Mr. Schwab and has one child, Dorothy. All live in Erie. where Mrs. Ketter runs a dressmaking shop.

(5) James D. Anthony married a Miss Snyder, of Young township, and resides on her farm. They have seven children, Inez, Lee. Bessie, Ruth, Clyde. Ralph and Mar- garet. Inez married Mr. Newton of Buffalo, and has two children, Lee and James. Lee Anthony is living in Nebraska, Ruth in Agra, Kans .. Ralph at Buffalo, N. Y., and Bessie, Clyde and Margaret at home.

(6) Elmer Anthony married the daughter

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of David Smith, of Sykes, and now resides near Echo, Wash. Their children are Luzzetta, Aletta, Athelda, Mildred, Austin and David, the first three married and living in Idaho : the last three are at home.

(7) Arietta Anthony married Irvin Berry, and had one child by this union, now Mrs. Brennan. She later married Charles Mat- thias.

(8) Larissa Anthony died when thirteen years old.

(9) Eunice Anthony married Frank Beam, and is now a widow, living in Punxsutawney. Her children. Leona, Joan and Esther, are living at home. Leona, now Mrs. McGinnis, has one son, Anthony.

(10) Abner Anthony is married and lives in San Bernardino, Cal. Two of his children, Harry and George, now live in Falls Creek, Pa .. and five children, Bessie. Olive, Frank, Grace and Jane, live at home with their par- ents.

(11) Austin Anthony married Katie Green, of Butler, Pa., but had no children. He was an engineer on the B. R. & P. railroad, and died at the age of thirty.

( 12) Josie Anthony is now a dressmaker and resides in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

(II.) Robert Miller Anthony was born on Anthony's run, near Shelocta, Indiana Co., Pa., March 20. 1824. He died in Frostburg, Jefferson county, Sept. 15, 1910, being over eighty-six years old at the time of his death. On Oct. 9, 1850, he married Elizabeth C. Cal- houn, only daughter of Hon John C. and Catherine Marshall Calhoun (Dayton Mar- shalls), of Goheenville, Armstrong Co., Pa .. who died in Frostburg in January, 1907. Both were buried in the Frostburg cemetery. Mr and Mrs. Anthony began domestic life on thie East Branch of the Mahoning, where his father had purchased a large tract of land some years before. Here Robert and Jacob erected a waterpower sawmill and continued the manufacture of lumber for nearly two years, when he sold his interest in the busi- ness to his brother Jacob. and purchased 220 acres of timber land on Little Anderson creek, three miles east of Luthersburg, Clearfield Co., Pa. He moved to Clearfield county July 27, 1852, and continued to manufacture lum- ber for two years, marketing his product at Curwensville, when he sold out to Arnold and Hartshorn. He then purchased a farm near Putneyville, Armstrong Co., Pa., from a man named Sheridan, where he resided for eleven years. He then bought a farm of Robert Bell, at Frostburg, Jefferson county, where he re-

sided until the time of his death, a period of forty-five years. He sold the Frostburg farm to Aaron Depp in 1894, reserving four acres by the watering trough and building a house in which he lived until his death. Seven chil- dren were born to this union, namely :

(1) Harriet Jane Anthony was born in Henderson township, Jefferson county, on the East Branch, Sept. 3, 1851. and was educated in the common schools and the Glade Run .Academy. She followed teaching and taught eight years in Brookville. She was one of the three persons who successfully passed the first written examination in Jefferson county for a permanent certificate. On Jan. 20, 1887, she married Dwight Bardeen of Hornell, N. Y., who died May 10. 1901. In November, 1902, Mrs. Bardeen returned from Hornell, N. Y., to Frostburg, to stay with her father and mother, to care for them in their latter years.

(2) Mary Catherine Anthony was born in Clearfield county July 28, 1853, and married Reuben R. Hickox March 10. 1874. Mr. Hickox went to Indian Territory in 1885 as agent for the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians. He and his family were in the "Run" with the "boomers" April 22, 1889, and were suc- cessful in landing a claim on which part of the city of El Reno now stands. They erected their canvas "tepee" or tent among a wild waste of prairie grass, where now stands the red brick schoolhouse on Rock Island avenue, Hickox Addition. Mr. and Mrs. Hickox now live at Binger. Okla., "Elm Dale Ranch." he being farmer for the Caddo and Comanche tribes. They are the parents of six children : Mary Keren, who married Ernest Sharpe and died in October, 1900, leaving two children. one now living, Catherine, who graduated from the Oklahoma City high school in 1914: Alto DeVilla, who married John Schmook, of Springfield. Mo .. and has two sons. John An- thony and Dwight C., both now in the Ann Arbor Law School; Verona LaRue, married to Joseph A. Carson, of Binger, Okla .. an agent for the Oklahoma Farm Mortgage Com- pany, and now living in Oklahoma City (they have one son by adoption, James Anthony) : Robert G., living at Elm Dale Ranch, who married in Oklahoma and has three children, Helen. Roy and Alto ; George Jenks, who mar- ried Arminta Sawyer. of El Reno, and has three boys, Philip. Carson and Hubert, all living in Oklahoma City; and Elizabeth, who died when eleven years old.

(3) Charles Newton Anthony, the only son of Robert M. Anthony, was born July 1, 1855. near Putneyville, Pa., and married Ida F.

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Means Jan. 4, 1883. He died May 17, 1894, leaving four little girls: Mabel married Wil- liam R. Day, hardware merchant of DuBois, and has two children, William Robert, Jr., and Martha Elizabeth ; Cora B. married Ed. Baer, of Connellsville, and has one son ; Fannie Fern married Ed. Smith, druggist, and lives at Sykes; Ruth married Joseph Wachob, clerk, and now lives at Cowansville.

(4) Nancy Ellen Anthony was born in Put- neyville, Pa., Nov. 21, 1857, and married Joshua F. Stockdale Oct. 6, 1880. They re- side in Dayton, Pa., and have five children : Charles C., who married Pearl Bowser ( who died leaving two children, Arthur and Mil- dren) and married (second) Mary McCaus- land. of Dayton ; John P., who married Edna Cochran and resides on the Stockdale farm near Dayton; Bessie, who married Clair R. Good, of Smicksburg, at the golden wedding anniversary of her great-uncle, P. J. Anthony. May 7, 1913, near Big Run (the bride and groom of fifty years ago being the attendants), and now has two children, Duane and Charles S .; Robert S., an agriculturist in Iowa, mar- ried to Catherine E. Paulson, of Kellogg, Iowa, and now residing at Melbourne, that State : and Mary, now living at home with her parents.

(5) Elizabeth C. Anthony was born May 22, 1860, near Putneyville, and later taught school in Jefferson county, near Hazen, where she met E. Barton Moore, whom she married Oct. 2, 1883. Their house was struck by light- ning July 11, 1900, and he was instantly killed. One son, Charles, now resides with the widow on their farm near Hazen.

(6) Alice E. Anthony was born Jan. 26. 1862, near Putneyville, and died Oct. 12, 1915, in Hornell, N. Y. She is buried in Woodlawn cemetery at Canisteo, N. Y. She married William A. Wells June 13, 1888, and two chil- dren were born to this union : Mary and An- thony. Mary married Joseph Fahl, and now lives in DuBois, Pa. Anthony is married and now lives in Hornell, N. Y. Mr. Wells died when these children were small, and Alice F. married ( second) a Mr. Mitchel. One child was born to this union, Frances, who now lives in Pittsburgh.

(7) Margaret A. Anthony was born Dec. 8. 1865. at Frostburg, Pa., and died May 23. 1800. She married Simon Jordan Jan. 5. 1888. Two of their children are now living : Quay, who is married and lives in Westmore- land county, and Nellie, who lives at home with her father.

Robert M. and Elizabeth C. Anthony cele-

brated the fiftieth anniversary of their wed- ding Oct. 9. 1900, when a large number of relatives and friends gathered at their home at Frostburg. in honor of the event.

(III.) Margaret Anthony was born Jan. 31. 1826, and married Charles Klepfer, of Center county, Pa., a cabinetmaker. Four children were born to this union: Mary E., Martha J .. Lydia A. and Sarah Elizabeth. Lydia and Sarah attended the Soldiers Or- phans' School at Dayton, Pa. Charles Klepfer enlisted in the 105th Regiment, P. V. I., and during his service contracted smallpox and died ; he is buried near Alexandria, Va. Later in life Mrs. Margaret A. Klepfer married John Foltz, a wagonmaker, and two children were born to this uinon, Newton Anthony and Margaret M .; both died in childhood. Mrs. Margaret A. Foltz lived on a part of the old homestead until her death, which occurred Dec. 16, 1890. She was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church, and is buried at Luthersburg, Pennsylvania.

(1) Mary E. Klepfer married Jackson Deemer, of Reynoldsville, Pa. They had three children, Sarah, John and Margaret, John dying in infancy. Sarah married Har- vey Kellar, and has six children, Mabel, Grace, Ruth. Alice, Chester and Pearl, all at home with their parents. Margaret married Thomas Zimmerman, and has four children, Esther, Vida, Rosie, and George. Mrs. Mary E. Dee- mer died July 20, 1888, and is buried at Covode.

(2) Martha Jane Klepfer died at four years of age.

(3) Lydia A. Klepfer, born June 25, 1858, married John Dusch. Eight children were born to this union: August, Charles, May, Harry, Lottie, Arthur, Rosie and Joseph. August, a glass worker, was accidentally killed in the DuBois glass works at the age of twenty-six, and is buried at Luthersburg. Charles married Edith Rudolph. and they live in DuBois and have seven children, Clair, Thomas, Kenneth, Ruth, Marl, Phoebe and Rutbie. Mav married Irvin Wount, and they have five children, Emerson, Hudson, Chester, Ruby and Grace. Lottie married Jessie Shu- garts, and has two children, Blaine and David. Arthur was accidentally killed at Hildrup mine, and is buried at Luthersburg. Rosie is married to John Tudor, and lives at Falls Creek. Joseph, aged seventeen, lives at Falls Creek.

(4) Sarah Elizabeth Klepfer. born March II, 1861, married James R. Huff, and they have ten children : Bertha M., born Aug. 27,

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1883, married Thomas E. Morgan, and has four children, Arthur, James, Ruby and Clair, all at home with their parents in Akron, Ohio; Margaret E., born April 24, 1885, married George E. McClincy, a stonemason, and five children were born to their union, the first dying in infancy, and the others, Beulah, George, Adalec and Maxine, all being at home with their parents in Akron, Ohio; Alice R., born Nov. 6, 1886, married George E. Bower- sox, of Big Run, Pa., and they have three children, Olive, John and Dorothy ; Charles G., born July 4, 1888, is a motorman at Sykes- ville, Pa .; Olive Anna, born Feb. 6, 1891, is now at Akron, Ohio; Samuel R., born Aug. 20, 1892, is at present a sergeant in the United States army, Company C, 28th Infantry ; James Clair, born Aug. 9, 1894. is in the United States army, as a member of Company B, Sth Ohio Infantry ; Emma K., Ralph E. and Ethel W. are at home with their parents.

Mrs. Sarah E. Huff lives in the home that was built by her father, on a part of the old original Anthony homestead, in Henderson township. Jefferson county.

(IV.) Mary Ann Anthony, born Jan. 24, 1828. married James Knox, of Indiana county, and resided there until her death. some years ago. She left no family.

(V.) Elizabeth Anthony, born March 20, 1830, married William Bowers, of Jefferson county, and resided on a farm in Gaskill town- ship until her death. She had four children :

(1) Mary Bowers married John Lantz and both are now deceased. They left children grown up and married.

(2) Henrietta Bowers married Anthony Doverspike, of Putneyville, Pa., and both are now dead. They had a large family, now grown up and married.

(3) Jane Bowers is the widow of James Lantz. and lives with her family one mile from Punxsutawney, on the Rossiter road.

(4) William Bowers is married and lives in Elk county.

(VI.) Nancy Jane Anthony, born March 3, 1832, married John Furlong, of Armstrong county. They died several years ago. Their daughter

(1) Bertha C. Furlong married J. Fred Wiseman, an agriculturist near Agra, Kansas, and they have one son, Keren E., now in his second year in Kansas Wesleyan University. Salina, Kansas.

(2) George L. Furlong and wife Christina have four children, Blanche E., Gladys M .. Ralph G., and Elvin, now a mechanic, residing in Agra, Kansas.

(3) L. Terah Furlong and his wife, Hattie, have three children, Louie, and twins Harold and Helen. He is an agriculturist, living north of Agra, Kansas.

( VII.) Henry Miller Anthony, born July 16, 1834, married Martha A. Crookshanks, of Butler county, Pa., and moved to Kansas somewhere near 1870, one of the one hundred families who went from Jefferson county, Mo., to colonize and settle Decatur county, Kans. lle died there some years ago, but left five children :

(1) Harry Anthony, a farmer, now resides near Selden. Kans., and has two children, Albert and Lucile.

(2) Anna Mary Anthony, married to Jos- eph H. Crider, is now living in Davis, Cal., and has one son, a graduate of the University of California, now a banker and owner of an orange ranch.

(3) Elza L. Anthony is married and has three children.

(4) Belle Anthony, married to Elaw K. Huber, is living now in Touchet, Wash., where Mr. Huber owns a fruit ranch. They have two sons.

(5) Henry Anthony, a photographer in Sel- den, has a daughter and a son.

(VIII.) Peter Johnson Anthony, born Sept. 24, 1836, on Anthony's run, near She- locta, married in 1863 Rachel N. Cochran. who was born July 10. 1841, in what is now East End. Punxsutawney. daughter of Joseph Cochran, of near Punxsutawney. Jefferson Co., Pa. He remained at the old homestead for two years and engaged in farming and lumbering. In 1865 he sold out and moved to Indiana county, near Covode, where for three years he engaged in general farming In 1868 he moved to Jefferson county, on the East Branch of the Mahoning creek. On April 25. 1871, he moved again, to the farm where they now reside. Eight children were born to this union :

(1) Amy A. Anthony, born April 8. 1864. on Nov. 3. 1881, married T. J. London, now of Fargo, Fla. They have had ten children : Della S., now wife of Samuel T. Frantz. living on a farm near Troutville, Pa .; Anna Priscilla, who died at three years of age; Mary E., married to Elmer Thomas, and now living at Saltsburg, Pa .; Zillah R., who died when one year old; Orren Edward, now liv- ing at Agra. Kans .; Sarah, who died when one year old; Olive S., now wife of Jesse Chillcoat, of Turtle Creek. Pa .: Mabel Jane, who died at two years of age; Donald An-

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thony and Raymond Albert, at home with their parents at Fargo.

(2) Camden J. Anthony, born Jan. 15, 1866, is now practicing dentistry in DuBois, Pa. Hle married Mary C. Zufall July IS, 1894, and three children have been born to them : Ethel R., Walter C. (who died at seventeen months old), and Arthur Paul (110w at home with his parents).

(3) Joseph Levi Anthony, born June 21, 1869, died Feb. 25, 1880, of diphtheria.

(4) Albert Johnson Anthony, born Oct. 26, 1871, is now practicing dentistry in DuBois, Pa. He married Mabel B. Byers June 20, 1899, and six children were born to them: William Albert, Raymond Johnson, Rachel Elizabeth, Helen Mabel, Hulda Isabel and Dorothy Beatrice, all at home with their parents.

(5) John G. Anthony, born Oct. 31, 1873, married Edith M. Rugh Dec. 25, 1895, and now resides on Pleasant Vale Farm, in Jeffer- son county, near Big Run. Four children were born to this union: Verona E., Blanche M., Glenn J. and Mile, all at home with their parents.

(6) Eliza Jane Anthony, born May 31, 1876, died April 6. 1880, of diphtheria.

(7) Sarah M. Anthony. born March 5. 1879, was drowned June 8, 1895.

(8) Maggie Ellen Anthony, born Feb. 24, 1882, was drowned June 8, 1895. These two sisters were buried in one grave at Big Run.

P. J. and Rachel N. Anthony celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding on May 7, 1913, when a large number of their friends and relatives gathered in their honor at the home near Big Run.

(IX.) Levi Todd Anthony, born Jan. 11, 1839, died at the age of five years.

(X.) James D. Anthony was born May 3, 1840, after the removal of his parents from Indiana county to Jefferson county, where he was reared. He served one year in the Union army during the Civil war as a member of Company F, 105th P. V. I. He married Mag- gie McKee, of the same county, now deceased, and located in Bell township, Clearfield county, where he owned five hundred acres of timber land and engaged in lumbering. He died in 1883. When he had six children the dread disease diphtheria entered the home, and in little less time than two weeks the six children were lying in the Luthersburg cemetery, to which there were but three trips, two being taken each time for burial. Afterwards a daughter, Lillian, came to their home. She has married Daniel B. Curll, a lumberman,

and lives in Wayne, near Philadelphia, with her two children.

(XI.) William Henry Harrison Anthony, born June 17, 1844, in Jefferson county, en- listed in 1861 in Company F, 105th P. V. I., under Captain Kirk, of Clearfield county, and is supposed to have been killed in the battle of the Wilderness, having been wounded and carried back on the battlefield on the second day of the battle. Later a comrade passed by and stopped long enough to see that he was dead. The ground was subsequently burned over.

(XII.) Ruth Evaline Anthony, born Sept. 14, 1846, in Henderson township, Jefferson county, married John H. Hopkins, a carpenter, September 11, 1869. Two children were born to this union, Ada M. and Cyrus J., the latter dying in childhood.

Ada M. Hopkins married William E. Crebs Jan. 22, 1891. Four children were born to this union : Bessie R., Maude M., William E. and Ada MI., the last three named living at home with their parents in DuBois, Pa. Bessie R. married Richard H. Law, and lives in DuBois; they have a little daughter, Ro- wene J., born June 19, 1916. Maude is now a teacher in the DuBois public schools.

Later in life Mrs. Ruth E. Hopkins mar- ried Ilenry Soxman, Dec. 4, 1884, and had four children : Clarence R., James O., Harri- son L., and one child that died in infancy. Clarence married Lida Burkhouse Oct. II, 1915, and has one son. James O. married Elva Clouser. Harrison L. married Susie Bumgartner, and has two children. Roy and Williard.

Ruth Evaline and her husband, and all their children, were members of the Lutheran Church. She and her daughter Ada M. were charter members of the Luthersburg Church, Ada M. after her marriage moving to DuBois and becoming a charter member of the Trinity Lutheran Church.

JAMES WILSON DANIELS is one of the vigorous and resourceful native sons of Jefferson county who have been prominent and influential in furthering the progress of his section, a representative farmer of Bar- nett township, where he owns and resides upon the fine old homestead most pleasantly situated on the Clarington road at a point twelve miles north of Brookville. In the house which is now his home he was born Sept. 2, 1866.

James Wesley and Louisa (Butterfield) Daniels, his parents, were married in 1847.

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Both the Daniels and Butterfield families were numbered among the early pioneers of Bar- nett township, their farms adjoining. Mrs. Butterfield contracted a second marriage after the death of the husband of her youth, with a Mr. Cunningham, and his venerable widow still owns a portion of the old Butterfield homestead in Barnett township, the remainder of the landed estate being now owned by H. H. Brosius, the well known lawyer of Brookville. James Wesley Daniels was born in Crawford county, this State, Sept. 6, ISIS, and at the time of his marriage his bride was a young lady of sixteen years. In 1838 James Wesley Daniels became the owner of the farm now owned by his son James Wil- son, and here he and his bride established their home soon after their marriage. The place comprised 160 acres, and at that time was still covered with the native timber, in- cluding pine, oak and hemlock. Mr. Daniels perforce made lumbering operations a part of the work of clearing his farm, and he rafted the square timber product down the Clarion river. He added to the area of his landed estate as the years brought him in- creasing prosperity, and the old homestead place now comprises 260 acres, of which 160 are available for profitable cultivation. Mr. Daniels individually reclaimed from the forest more than eighty acres of his original farm, upon which he erected good buildings, includ- ing the substantial and commodious house now occupied by his son. He gained definite suc- cess and prosperity through his own well or- dered efforts, and at one time was the owner of fully one thousand acres of timber and farm land in Jefferson, Forest and Crawford counties. He was prominently associated with lumbering and farming operations, and con- tinued to reside on the home place until his death, Feb. 9, 1898; his wife preceded him to eternal rest by ten years, when fifty-eight years of age. The remains of both rest in the family cemetery on the old homestead. Mr. Daniels was never ambitious for politi- cal activity or public office, but was aligned as a stanch supporter of the Republican party. and both he and his wife were zealous mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sigel. Of their eight children. James Wilson is the eldest of the four who attained to years of maturity ; Mary Jane is the wife of John Snyder, and they reside upon and own the old homestead on which her father was born, near Guy's Mills, Crawford county ; Linda A. is the wife of Samuel Long, of Mercer county : Charles S. died at the age of twenty-five

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Jefferson County, Pennsylvania : her pioneers and people, 1800-1915, Volume II, Part 68

Author: McKnight, W. J. (William James), 1836-1918 Publication date: 1917 Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers Number of Pages: 972

Author: McKnight, W. J. (William James), 1836-1918
Publication date: 1917
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers
Number of Pages: 972