Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Toppin, Johnson February 25, 1808 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      Johnson Toppin, retired farmer, Carmichaels, Penna, 
was born in Maryland, February 25, 1808, and is a son of 
John Toppin and Rebecca Johnson Toppin. They were members of 
the Society of Friends and of English descent. His father 
was a farmer and carpenter through life. Johnson was one of 
three sons and three daughters, and spent most of his life 
in Greene County, Penna, where he also attended school. He 
learned the gunsmith trade, in which he engaged for a time, 
then followed ship carpentering as a business. He also ran 
on the river as captain on a keel boat for nineteen years. 
He afterwards bought a farm in Cumberland Township, Greene 
County, where he lived until 1885, the date of his 
retirement. 
  
      In 1833 he was united in marriage with Miss Harriet 
Dalby, daughter of John and Jane Dalby. Mrs Toppin was born 
in 1813 and is also a native of Pennsylvania. Of their five 
children, three are living, two in Iowa. They are all 
married; Matilda Toppin, wife of William Gass; Rebecca Ann 
Toppin, wife of J K Parshall; and Almira Toppin, wife of 
Thomas W Lincoln. Mr Toppin is a Democrat and his wife is a 
faithful member of the Methodist Church. 

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