Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Coulter, John H. May 10, 1839 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 263
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    John H Coulter, a prominent merchant of Brownsville for 
many years was born at Brownsville, Fayette county, Pa, May 
10, 1839, attended the schools of his native place, and at 
the age of seventeen he began to learn the trade of tinsmith 
with James Slocum.  After learning the trade and working at 
the same for six years, Mr Slocum gave him a clerkship in 
the store, and put him in charge of the business.  In 1885 
he became Mr Slocum's successor.  By his zealous attention 
to business, he has retained all of the business of his 
predecessor, and now has a very large and extensive trade.  
He has acquired all he possesses by means of his own 
exertions, and has the respect of the public as a straight 
forward business man.

    He was married in 1870 to Miss Mary E Smith, a daughter 
of Wilson Smith; the latter died when she was quite young.  
Her mother was Virtue Smith. Mrs Coulter was a native of 
West Wheeling, Belmont county, Ohio.  They have four 
children: Charles W Coulter, Mary Eleanor Coulter, Florence 
E Coulter, and Emma V Coulter.

    Mr Coulter is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, of which he is steward and trustee.  His parents 
were James N and Rebecca Van Horn Coulter, both born in 
Fayette county, Pa.  James N Coulter was a blacksmith by 
trade.  He died at Brownsville in 1852, in the forty fourth 
year of his age.  He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church and of the order of the Sons of Temperance.

    John Coulter, the grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, came to this county from Hagerstown, Maryland, and 
was a stone mason by trade.  He was Presbyterian and was of 
Scotch-Irish descent.  He died in 1852.

    Rebecca Coulter, the mother of J H Coulter, is living in 
Brownsville, in the eighty second year of her age, and is 
remarkably well preserved.  Her father, Bernard Van Horn, 
was one of a family of thirteen children, was born in 1770 
in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, and came to Fayette 
county before the War of 1812.  He was a farmer in Menallen 
township, where he owned a farm, and died in 1847 at the age 
of seventy seven years.

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