Joseph Middleswarth and Sarah Kern

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Husband Joseph Middleswarth ¹

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           Born: 4 Apr 1838 - Beaver Twp, Snyder Co, PA 1
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         Father: Hon. Aaron J. Middleswarth (1815-1891) 2
         Mother: Sally Feese (1811-1844) 3

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       Marriage: Autumn, 1859 1

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   Other Spouse: Amelia Bingaman (1841-      ) 4 - 21 May 1868 4

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Wife Sarah Kern ¹

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           Died: Mar 1864 4
         Buried:  - Beavertown, Snyder Co, PA

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         Father: Henry Kern (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 M Lawrence H. Middleswarth ⁴

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2 F Sallie C. Middleswarth ⁵

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         Spouse: Charles E. Sampsel (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Middleswarth

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He was given the best educational advantages to be found in the locality, and attended the schools of Beavertown for some years. Reared on a farm, he acquired in youth a thorough knowledge of agricultural work, and always followed that occupation. At the age of twenty-one he left home and spent a summer working as a farm hand for Conrad Rearick. He married and during the next four years he was employed on the farm of his father-in-law. He then rented a farm in Beaver township, Snyder County, from his father, and remained there eighteen years, but later moved to a place of his own in the same township. His was a valuable farm, containing one hundred and twenty-five acres of good land, and after residing there some years Mr. Middleswarth turned the active management over to other hands, and, building a comfortable home in Beavertown, he settled there in the autumn of 1889 to enjoy a well-deserved period of leisure.
During the Civil war, when it became necessary to enlist more men for the safety of the Commonwealth, Mr. Middleswarth enlisted June 16, 1863, in Capt. Anthony C. Simpson's Company I, 30th Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, and served until July 26, of the same year. On March 4, 1865, he again enlisted, this time becoming a member of Company D, 74th P. V. I. under Capt. Lewis Miller, and was discharged at Clarksburg, West Virginia, August 29, 1865. He was a stanch Republican in politics. Although not an office seeker, he served as overseer of the poor and school director. In religious work he was also prominent, and he was a trustee of the Lutheran Church at Beavertown, of which he and his wife were both members. At one time he belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1089.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1045, 1089, 1091.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1091.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1090.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1061, 1090.