Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Carns, John Leslie February 20, 1888 - 
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Source: History of Blair County, PA, Vol. II, 1931
Author: Tarring Davis

  JOHN LESLIE CARNS, who is engaged in business with his father at Claysburg, 
was born here, February 20, 1888, a son of Jacob and Matilda (Shock) Carns, of 
whom more precedes this review. He obtained his early education in the local 
public schools and then attended the Eckles College of Embalming, from which he 
graduated in 1907. He was licensed by the State Board of Embalming in I909 and 
has been associated with his father in the furniture and undertaking business, 
since his graduation from college, under the firm name of Jacob Carns & Son. He 
is a member of the Pennsylvania Funeral Directors' Association and the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. A Republican in politics, he has served as 
township auditor for the past fifteen years. In April, 1914, Mr. Carns married 
Anna Wertz, of Claysburg, and to them has been born one child, Dorothy E. Both 
he and his wife are communicants of the Lutheran Church. 

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