Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....David, Prof John S. October 21, 1850 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, page 498
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Prof JOHN S DAVID, one of Fayette county's prominent teachers and
principal of the Uniontown public schools, is a son of Joseph M David and
Mary Ann Kildow David, and was born at Fairchance, Fayette county, Penna,
October 21, 1850.  
    His great grandfather, Enoch David, was a native of Wales, emigrated to
Philadelphia, and subsequently removed to Woodbridgetown, this county.
His fourth and last wife, Elizabeth Harrison, was a cousin to President
William Henry Harrison.  One of his sons, G W David, grandfather, was born
in Philadelphia, came to Springhill furnace, lived in Wharton township
for many years, and died in German township at ninety two years of age.  
    His maternal grandfather, John Kildow, was of German descent and born
near Martinsburg, West Virginia.  He lived near Brownsville and was a
millwright.  
    His father, Joseph David, was born in Wharton township and was the
youngest of a family of thirteen children; was a farmer; removed to
Georges township and subsequently settled in Nicholson township.  He
reared a family of six children: Wells E David, a teacher, enlisted in
the Eighty fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and died in McClellan's
campaign before Richmond; James N David, principal of Bridgeport schools,
served in the Twenty second Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was county
superintendent of Harrison county, West Virginia, for two terms; Jesse E
David, a farmer and stockraiser of Oregon, previously a teacher and
photographer; Sarah E David; John S David; William O David, a pleasant
experienced teacher and principal of Dunlap's Creek Academy.  
    Prof J S David was educated in Georges Creek Academy.  At eighteen years
he began teaching and has taught nineteen terms of school.  For the last
five years he has been principal of the public schools of Uniontown and
has rendered a good satisfaction.  
    He is a republican and takes an active interest in the affairs of his
party.  He is a member of the Presbyterian church and has been Sabbath
school superintendent since 1875.  For several years he had the
superintendence of two Sabbath schools.  
    Prof David is persistent, active, thorough and successful in school
work.  Although unassuming and undemonstrative, yet he is abreast of the
times, and well conversant with the educational ideas of the present age.

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