Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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John Hovis Monjar and Isabel Hoffman




Husband John Hovis Monjar 1 2




           Born: 4 Dec 1842 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Mar 1926 - Clintonville, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 4


         Father: Samuel Briggs Monjar (1820-1862) 2 5 6 7
         Mother: Mary Ann Hovis (1822-1912) 7 8


       Marriage: 1866



Wife Isabel Hoffman 2 9

            AKA: Isabella Hoffman
           Born: 22 Sep 1848 - Venango Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 23 Apr 1928 - Clintonville, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 4


         Father: Philip Ghost Hoffman (1823-1895) 10 11
         Mother: Mary Ann Martin (1824-1852) 10 11




Children
1 M Samuel Briggs Monjar 2 3 12




           Born: 13 Aug 1867 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 2 3 12
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Sep 1911 - Clintonville, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 2 3 12
         Buried:  - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 4
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


2 F Mary Ann Monjar 2 3 12




           Born: 1872 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 2 12
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Nov 1914 2 3 12
         Buried:  - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 4
         Spouse: John Theodore "Dorie" Miller (      -      ) 2 13
           Marr: 1892 - ? Venango Co, PA



General Notes: Husband - John Hovis Monjar


He was brought up and educated in Irwin township, receiving his early training as his father's assistant on the old Hovis property. At the time of his father's death he was twenty years old, and being the eldest of the family he assumed the responsibilities of the management of the farm except while absent on duty during the Civil war, spending about twenty years there with his mother and brother. Meantime he had also become interested in the production of oil, which eventually became his chief business, buying wells and leases which proved his superior judgment and conducting their operation on conservative lines, using his time and capital so wisely that he was considered an authority on oil territory and its development. For a number of years he was in partnership with Mr. Taylor Hoffman, and his son Samuel B. Monjar was also associated with him until his death. For about three years past Mr. Monjar has been living rather retired, though still retaining fifteen or twenty producing wells and overseeing their operation, and in December, 1918, he removed to Grove City, having relinquished all active associations. His new home is on East Pine Street. All of his oil interests have been in the vicinity of Clintonville, in which borough he made his home for eighteen years, his residence being one of the most desirable in the town. He has always been public-spirited in his support of local interests, though not active in the administration of affairs. Politically he acts with the Republican Party. [CAB, 977]

They hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Clintonville, in whose work they are deeply interested. He is a Civil war veteran, having served eighteen months with Company K, 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, until the struggle was over, and he is a member of Major Mays Post, No. 220, G. A. R., of Franklin, Pennsylvania.

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Sources


1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 976.

2 Claudine Adams Diemert, The Descendants of David Martin (Self-published.), Pg 12.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 977.

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 68.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 526.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 643, 976.

7 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 30.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 643.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 977, 994.

10 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 994.

11 Claudine Adams Diemert, The Descendants of David Martin (Self-published.), Pg 3.

12 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 31.

13 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 442, 977.


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