Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Dearth, John W. November 3, 1833 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, page 544
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    John W Dearth, a leading and progressive farmer of Luzerne township, is
a son of Larkins S Dearth and Mary Williams Dearth, and was born in the
house in which he now resides in Luzerne township, Fayette county, Penna,
November 3, 1833.
    His great grandfather, James Dearth, was born in 1720 in England and
died in 1797 in Luzerne township.  He came to Maryland, bought slaves in
1777 and removed to Luzerne township, and ten years later patented 300
acres of land.  
    His second wife was Miss Sophia Simmons, and a son of his, George
Dearth, was born April 23, 1762, and died October, 1846, on the home
farm.  In 1796 he was commissioned by governor Thomas Mifflin, major of
the First Battalion of the First Fayette County Brigade of the militia of
Pennsylvania for the term of seven years.  In 1800 he was commissioned by
governor Thomas McKean, major of the First Battalion in the Ninety first
Regiment of Pennsylvania, composed of the militia of Bedford, Fayette and
Somerset counties for seven years.  He was a contemporary in the
Pennsylvania legislature of Andrew Stewart in 1816 and 1817 and was a
democrat.  
    He married Elizabeth Mills.  They had five daughters and two sons: John
Dearth of Ohio; and Larkins S Dearth, father of John W Dearth.  
    Larkins S Dearth was born October 5, 1797, and died in June, 1850.  He
was by occupation a farmer, in politics a democrat, and was married to
Miss Mary Williams.  To them were born three daughters and one son.
    John W Dearth had the advantages of a good common school education;
leaving school he has since been engaged in farming and stock raising.  
    April 21, 1869, he was married to Miss Bertha Virginia Miller, daughter
of Samuel Miller.  They have three children: Walter L Dearth; William M
Dearth, and Louise E Dearth.  Mrs Dearth is a member of the Central
Presbyterian church at Hopewell.  She is an amateur astronomer, owns a
good telescope and takes deep interest in tracing the constellations of
the northern heavens.
    Mr Dearth is a democrat and owns a farm of 250 acres of valuable land.
The farm is known as "Trail Hill" on account of an Indian war trail that
passed over it in early times.  In the old graveyard on the farm sleep his
paternal great grandparents, grandfather and wife, his father, mother,
and one sister.  Mr Dearth is one of Luzerne's leading farmers. 

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