Armstrong County PA Archives Biographies.....Elder, John 1790 - 1848
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Source: Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, Vol. 3.Pages 895 - 896
Author: ohn W. Jordan
ELDER. There were five families bearing the name
Elder who emigrated about 1770 from Ireland to America and
settled in Indiana and Westmorland counties Pennsylvania,
where many of their descendents are still living. Among
these emigrants was the ancestor of the branch of the family
at present under consideration,who about 1796 removed from
Indiana county to Slippery Rock, Butler county,
Pennsylvania, and later settled on a farm in Perry
township,Clarion (then Armstrong) county,which he cultivated
until his death. He was Presbyterian in religion. He was
twice married. Children(five by first marriage):John
referred below,Thomas,James,David,William,Robert,George and
Jackson.
(II) John Elder, son of the emigrant,was born in
Indiana county, Pennsylvania, about 1790, died in Clarion
county 1848. He farmed in Clarion and Armstrong counties,and
for six or seven years lived in Red Bank,but his principal
life occupation was as a river man, piloting boats and
poling raft up and down the Allegheny river. He married
Jane, born in Perry township, Clarion county, Pennsylvania
in 1805,died in Clarion county 1896,daughter of Jacob
Waterson. Her Grandfather emigrated from Scotland to
America in 1800 and was one of the earliest settlers of
Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, locating on a farm on the
bank of the Allegheny river opposite the mouth of Red Bank
creek in Washington township, and her father settled about
1820 in Perry township near Concord Church, where he
cultivated a farm until his death .Children of John and Jane
(Waterson) Elder; James; Thomas; George; Jacob, referred
below; John; Job,served in the Federal army during the civil
war and died in Libby prison; Mathew,drowned by accident in
the Allegheny river; William,served in the Federal army
during the civil war and killed in the battle of the
Wilderness; Mary; Juliet (1); Juliet(2)now living, married
Moses Dunlap.
(III) Jacob,son of John and Jane (Waterson) Elder,born
in Perry township, Clarion county ,Pennsylvania, August 22,
1832, and is now living in Foxburg,Pennsylvania. He
received his early education in the public schools of
Clarion and Armstrong counties, and later become a lumberman
and riverpilot, taking boats and rafts up and down the
Allegheny river. He has rafted all the way from Ridgeway,
Pennsylvania,to Louisville, Kentucky. In 1883 he bought 100
acres of land in the mouth of the Clarion river in Perry
township, which he cultivated as a farm for many years and
where he also conducted a boat and raft building yard and
were he still resides, although he was now retired from
active business. There is a coal mine on his property which
he leases to an operating company and he has also an
extensive limestone quarry. He is a Republican in politics,
and a Methodist in religion. He married,February 27, 1857,
Lydia,born in Center county, Pennsylvania, March, 11 1841,
now living in Foxburg, daughter of Nathan and Mary Magdaline
(Lindamuth) Snyder. Her parents were born in Center county,
and in 1855 removed to Richland township, Jefferson
county,and finally settled in Brookville, Pennsylvania,
where they died. Children of Jacob and Lydia (Snyder)
Elder: Thomas Jefferson, born December 26,1857; John, born
October 1859, died May 7,1869.
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