John T. Pew was born at Big Bend,
Mercer Co., Penn., October 17, 1835. His father, William, was born in
Jackson Township, Mercer County, May 25, 1798, and was a son of John
Pew, who came from Washington County, Penn., to Mercer County, in May,
1797. The latter grew to manhood on the homestead farm, subsequently
resided about three years in Mercer, and then purchased a farm at the
Beg Bend, in Jefferson Township, upon which he spent the balance of his
life. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Thompson, an early
settler of Pymatuning Township. They reared eleven children: Jane,
Emeline (deceased), David (who married Emily Ann Caldwell, of Jefferson
Township), Mary (wife of Thomas Blackstone, of Lackawannock Township),
John T., Rebecca, Elizabeth (wife of Frank Booth, of Sharon), Lydia
(wife of Samuel Pew, of Mercer), Martha (wife of John Gordon, of
Lackawannock Township), Albert (who married Lydia McMillan) and Horace
(who married Minnie Jewell), both of Jefferson Township.
The
parents died upon the old homestead, and were life-long Presbyterians.
John T. grew up on the home far, and was married April 9, 1859, to
Mary, daughter of Andrew Snyder, of Delaware Township. Iin 1861 he
enlisted in the Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, and did good
service for his country. In March, 1872, our subject located in Sharon,
and went into the livery business, which he followed up to the spring
of 1888, when he sold out. Politically he is a Republican, and a strong
temperance man.
Source: History of Mercer County, PA pg. 747
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