Benjamin F. Byers

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Husband Benjamin F. Byers ^{1 2}

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           Born: 4 Jul 1844 - near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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           Died: 15 Jan 1895 2
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         Father: John H. Byers (1814/1815-1906) 1 3
         Mother: Mary Rumbaugh (Abt 1817-1849) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin F. Byers

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He received his education in the common schools and Mt. Pleasant academy. Leaving school he began farming, which he soon relinquished and engaged in stock-buying. He was later engaged in the livery business for two years and then became a partner of E. H. Fiscus. This partnership lasted about six months. Mr. Byers' political career commenced by his being elected constable of Latrobe borough. After two years service in this position he became deputy sheriff of Westmoreland county for three years under Sheriff James Boreland; and served in the same position for the same length of time under Boreland's successor, Sheriff Kethering. At the expiration of Kethering's term he was employed as a railroad detective by the P. R. R. company and remained in their service two and one-half years. In 1886 he was nominated for sheriff of Westmoreland county by the democrats, and after a heated and excited contest was elected to that office. The county two years previously had gone republican. For years Mr. Byers was a leading democratic worker.
As a judge of horses Mr. Byers has few superiors in Westmoreland county.
He was a member of Philanthropy Lodge, No. 225, A. Y. M.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 58.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 296.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 296, 431.