Husband John Blair Linn 1 2
Born: 15 Oct 1831 - Lewisburg, Union Co, PA 3 4
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Father: James F. Linn (1802-1869) 5 6 7
Mother: Margaret Irvine Wilson (1804-1868) 6 7 8 9
Marriage: 21 Nov 1867 10
Other Spouse: Julia J. Pollock (1831-1862) 1 4 - 22 Oct 1857 4 10
Wife Mary E. D. Wilson 1 4
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Father: Samuel Hunter Wilson ( -1841) 4 10 11 12
Mother: Mary Benner ( - ) 4 10 13
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1 F Mary Hunter Linn 4 10
Born: 26 Jul 1869 4 10
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2 M Henry W. Sage Linn 4 10
Born: 18 Jan 1873 - Bellefonte, Centre Co, PA 4 10
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General Notes: Husband - John Blair Linn
He was educated at Franklin and Marshall College, and studied the profession of law; served in the Rebellion; removed to Centre County, Pennsylvania, in 1871; during the administration of Governor Hartranft, he was Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth from 1873 to 1878, and Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1878-1879. In 1877 he published "Annals of Buffalo Valley," and edited, in connection with William H. Egle, M. D., Pennsylvania Archives, second series, 12 vols., 1874-1880; and, in 1883, History of Centre and Clinton counties; resided in Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania, engaged in his profession.
He was born at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and inherited his inclination to genealogy and local history from his father, James F. Linn, whose memorandums and newspaper files were the sources from which much of whatever is valuable in the "Annals of Buffalo Valley" was derived. He was prepared for college at the Lewisburg Academy, under John Robinson, Esq., late of the Philadelphia Bar; entered Marshall College at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in May, 1846 (sophomore class), half advanced, where he graduated at the age of seventeen in the same class with the Hon. Charles A. Mayer, some years ago president judge of Clinton and Centre counties. He read law in his father's office, and was admitted to the Bar September 16, 1851. The years 1852 and 1853 he spent in Sullivan County, which had just been opened out, where he was elected district attorney. He returned to Union County in 1854, where he practiced his profession until his removal to Bellefonte, in April, 1871. On April 10, 1873, he was appointed deputy secretary of the Commonwealth by the Hon. M. S. Quay, and May 15, 1878, upon the resignation of Mr. Quay, he was commissioned Secretary of the Commonwealth, in which incumbency he remained until after Gov. Hoyt was inaugurated, and then returned to Bellefonte. Mr. Linn and Dr. Egle were made editors of the Second Series of Pennsylvania Archives, the publication of which was recommended by Gov. Hartranft in his annual message, January 7, 1874, and they were issued in twelve volumes, under Mr. Quay's supervision. In 1879 Mr. Linn published the "Annals of Buffalo Valley," a local work embracing the history of Union county principally. It is a book of 620 pages, replete with interest, though largely local, and involved an immense amount of painstaking labor. While he was Secretary of the Commonwealth, there was published under his direction "Duke of York's laws, 1676-82, and Laws of the Province, 1682-1700." In 1882 he edited a "History of Centre and Clinton counties" in a handsome volume of nearly 700 pages, which has preserved all that is of value of "Men and things in these counties" in a readable and entertaining shape.
He was identified with the Presbyterian Church. Politically he was a Republican. During the War of the Rebellion he was a patriot, and served his country.