John Pentz and Susan B. McGovern
Husband John Pentz 1
Born: 11 Jul 1841 - Brady Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: Aft 1898 Buried:
Father: John Pentz (1800-1846) 1 Mother: Elizabeth Knox ( - ) 1
Marriage: 24 Oct 1893 3
Other Spouse: Sarah Jane Hollopeter ( -1892) 4
Wife Susan B. McGovern 3
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1898 Buried:
Other Spouse: William Allen McDonald (1860- ) 3 - 1881 5
Children
General Notes: Husband - John Pentz
Throughout his entire business career he engaged in lumbering and farming. He held a prominent place among the old lumbermen who first engaged in the business of rafting down the Susquehanna. He purchased a farm in Union township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, which he improved and made his home for eight years, and on disposing of that tract bought the Joseph Davis farm in Penn township, where he resided until 1893.
He was a Democrat, and served as justice of the peace in Penn township for five years, constable for seven years, school director and overseer of the poor. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Grampian.
General Notes: Wife - Susan B. McGovern
from Jordan Twp, Clearfield Co, PA
1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 947, 983, 1657.
2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 947.
3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 564, 948.
4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 948.
5
Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 564.
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