Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Hearn, John 1815 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JOHN HEARN,
an industrious citizen and successful farmer, of Blair township, and a former
resident of Hollidaysburg, near which he still resides, was born in County
Meath, province of Leinster, Ireland, in 1815, and is a son of William and
Julia (MacAvoy) Hern.  William Hern was reared in the city of Dublin, once
the capital of Ireland.  He received his education in the schools of his
native island, and after working for several years in the vicinity of Dublin,
he came in 1851, to Hollidaysburg, where he died, in 1853, at the age of
eighty-one years.  He was a hard working man, and a Catholic in religious
faith and church membership, and married Julia MacAvoy, who died in 1852,
when in the seventy-sixth year of her age.  Mr. and Mrs. Hearn were the
parents of six children, four sons and two daughters: Catherine, William,
Thomas, John, Fannie and Philip.
     John Hearn spent his boyhood and grew to manhood in the old and
beautiful city of Dublin, around which cling so many romantic and tragic
memories of Irish history.  He received his education in the primary schools
of Dublin, and was variously engaged at work until July, 1848, when he came
to Hollidaysburg, at and near which he has resided ever since.  After coming
to Blair county he worked in the mines for several years and acquired
sufficient means to purchase some property at Hollidaysburg, which he
afterwards exchanged for his present valuable farm of ninety-eight acres of
land, which is situated two miles from the county seat.  He has improved his
farm and brought it up to a high state of cultivation and productiveness.  He
also owns a good house and twelve acres of land, which adjoins his farm.  Mr.
Hearn has established for himself a comfortable home by economy and good
management, and by many years of hard, honest toil, and is now well prepared
to enjoy the comforts of life.  He is a democrat in politics, and a member of
St. Mary's Catholic church, of Hollidaysburg.
     On April 4, 1859, Mr. Hearn married Mary Welsh, of Hollidaysburg, and
they are the parents of six children, four sons and two daughters:  Jeremiah,
John, Thomas, William and Anastatia (twins), and Mollie.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Donna Thomas.

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