BIOS: John H. BARNHART, Stoystown, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, pg. 362

John H. BARNHART.

John H. Barnhart, of Stoystown, is the son of Abraham Barnhart, a native of 
Somerset county, where he worked as a day laborer.  He married Susan Lape, born 
in 1845, in Somerset county, and they were the parents of three children: 
William John H. (of whom later), and George, born in 1864. 
John H. Barnhart, son of Abraham and Susan (Lape) Barnhart, was born December 
16, 1862, in Hooversville, Somerset county, and was educated in the common 
schools, which he attended up to the age of thirteen.  He was thereafter 
variously employed until the occasion of his marriage, when he entered the 
service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, serving in different capacties 
until May 1, 1905, when he was promoted to the position of foreman, which he 
still retains.  Mr. Barnhart married, in 1886, Anna A., born July 31, 1868, 
daughter of Samuel Zimmerman, and their children were: Mary S., born April 18, 
1887; Howard E., August 20, 1889; Wilber V., May 6, 1893; and William F. K., 
January 2, 1902.