John Findley and Elizabeth Junkin

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Husband John Findley ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 23 Feb 1773 or 1776 - Unity Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 3 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Dec 1855 - Findley Twp, Mercer Co, PA 3 5 6
         Buried: 

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         Father: Hon. William Findley (1741/1742-1821) 4 7 8 9
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Amberson (1783-      ) 2 3 5 10

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Wife Elizabeth Junkin ^{4 11 12}

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1801 - Cumberland, PA 11
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         Father: Joseph Junkin (1750-1831) 4 11 12 13 14 15
         Mother: Elinor Cochran (1760-1812) 16

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - John Findley

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He was one of the pioneers of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, who came there from Westmoreland County about 1799.

He came to Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1799, and settled just east of Mercer. After his settlement there, he became the first recorder, clerk, and prothonotary, under commission from the Governor of the Commonwealth. He also did considerable surveying over the county. He aided in laying out the borough of Mercer.

Whig, Mercer, PA
Dec 20, 1855
"We mourn while we chronicle the decease of Hon. John Findley. He died at his residence in Findley Township in this county on Sunday, the 9th inst., at the advanced age of eighty-two years, leaving behind him a large circle of relatives and friends to lament their irreparable loss. Mr. Findley was a son of Hon. William Findley, of Westmoreland County, who had been so long a member of Congress from this State that in 1815 he was called the "Father of the House," and who was subsequently elected and served one term as governor of Pennsylvania [sic]. The subject of our notice was one of the first settlers of this county, having removed to the farm upon which he lived and is now buried in the year 1796, and during his long life felt and manifested a deep interest in the improvement and in the developing of the resources of the county. At that time our county was an almost unbroken wilderness, with only here and there, at the distance of several miles, small clearings commenced and rough log cabins erected by the daring and hardy pioneers, a wilderness, through which the wild beasts and the remnants of those tribes of Indians who, a few years before, had made the country sur-rounding Pittsburgh their battle-ground, prowled and roamed, and satiated their brutal instincts and the revenge of their savage minds; and even the place where Mercer was located and now stands was covered with the forest. But he has lived to behold vast changes in our country, he has seen the wilderness "to blossom as the rose," the dense forests have been felled and their places occupied by highly cultivated farms, the farm-houses and the mansions of our citizens have taken the place of the rough log huts of the first settlers, and the county, which then had only a few scattered inhabitants, is now among the most populous and wealthy in Northwestern Pennsylvania, and he has at length, in ripe old age, been "gathered to his fathers." Judge Findley was appointed in 1803 by Gov. McKean prothonotary and clerk of the several courts, and register and recorder of Mercer County, the first appointment made in the county, the duties of which offices he discharged until 1808. He again discharged the duties of the same offices, under appointment from Gov. Heister, from 1821 to 1824. He served for one term as one of the associate judges of this county, by appointment from Gov. Porter. He also, at different times, held the offices of deputy surveyor general and county surveyor for this county, of deputy United States marshal, appraiser of canal damages, etc. The unflinching integrity with which he discharged his official duties were in accordance with the correct principles and virtues of his private life. His services as surveyor and his iron recollection have been of incalculable value to our citizens in settling disputes in regard to land boundaries, which can never be replaced. Mr. Findley was during nearly his whole life a professor of Christianity, being a member of the Associate Reformed Church-the church of his fathers-and in the faith of Christ he lived and in that faith he died." [HMC 1888, 661]
Besides the sons listed, he and his wife had two daughters who died in infancy. Another source says five died in infancy.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 651, 661, 959.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 807.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 681.

4 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 409.

5 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 411.

6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 661.

7 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 207.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 710.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 678.

10 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 651, 662.

11 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 35.

12 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 212.

13 —, History of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 168.

14 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 959.

15 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 489.

16 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 35, 168.