Husband John Negley 1 2 3 4
Born: 6 Apr 1778 - Fort Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 3 4
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Died: 11 Aug 1870 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 3 4
Buried: - South Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA
Father: Alexander Negley (1734/1735-1809) 5 6
Mother: Mary Ann Bergstresser (1741-1829) 4
Marriage: 1 Jun 1816 3 4
Wife Anna Elizabeth Patterson 1 2 4
Born: 3 Aug 1798 4
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Died: 19 Aug 1835 4
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Children
1 F Mary Bergstresser Negley 3 4
Born: 29 May 1817 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 3 4
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Died: Aug 1905 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 3 4
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Spouse: John G. Muntz ( -Bef 1895) 3 4
2 F Elizabeth Hull Negley 3 4
Born: 10 Jan 1819 3 4
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Died: 17 Aug 1835 3 4
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3 F Susannah A. Negley 3 4
Born: 13 Feb 1821 3 4
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Died: 1 Nov 1908 4
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Spouse: Col. Joseph P. Patterson ( -Bef 1895) 3 4
Marr: 17 Nov 1845 4
4 M John Henry Negley 3 7 8 9
Born: 7 Feb 1823 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 3 8
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Died: 17 Jun 1908 8
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Spouse: Mary Harper (1828-1912) 8 9 10
Marr: 8 Jul 1847 8
5 M Maj. Felix Casper Negley 2 4 11
Born: 28 Feb 1825 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2 3 4
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Died: 5 Oct 1901 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2 3 4
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Spouse: Margaret Ann Dickson ( - ) 2 4 12
Marr: 12 Oct 1848 4
6 F Minerva Negley 3 4
Born: 6 Feb 1827 3 8
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Died: 1859 8
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Spouse: Samuel W. Haseltine ( - ) 1 3 8
Marr: 27 Nov 1845 8
7 M James Alexander Negley 3 8
Born: 3 Apr 1829 3 8
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Died: 1899 - Philadelphia, PA 8
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Spouse: Elizabeth Mytinger ( - ) 3 8
Marr: 10 Sep 1861 8
8 F Anna McClain Negley 3 8
AKA: Ann McLean Negley 1
Born: 26 Jan 1831 3 8
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Died: 28 Feb 1831 3 8
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
9 M William Clark Negley 3 8
Born: 21 Feb 1833 3 8
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Died: 17 Sep 1850 3 8
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10 M Albert Gallatin Negley 3 8
Born: 22 Feb 1835 3 8
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Died: Aft 1915
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Spouse: Elenora Reynolds ( - ) 3 8
General Notes: Husband - John Negley
He was one of the first settlers of Butler, Pennsylvania, and was prominently identified with the history of the town and county for a period of seventy years. Born at Fort Ligonier, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where his parents had taken temporary refuge from hostile Indians while en route westward from Bucks County, he grew to manhood at East Liberty, Allegheny County, to which place the family removed soon after his birth. In 1799 he visited the territory now embraced in Butler County, and made two trips through northwestern Pennsylvania before deciding on the place of his settlement. In the year 1800, soon after Butler County was erected, he located on the site of the present borough of Butler, finding employment as a miller in Cunningham's mill. In 1806 he purchased the mill property, with considerable land surrounding it, and later built an addition for a woolen mill and established a cabinet shop near by. Besides conducting these various enterprises successfully for nearly thirty years, he also dealt extensively in real estate and became a very large land owner. In 1882-83 he sunk a salt well, with the intention of manufacturing that commodity, which enterprise cost him about $8,000. He possessed much force of character, good executive ability and sound business principles. He was the first treasurer of Butler County, was one of the early county commissioners, and in 1809 he was elected to the legislature. In 1817 he was appointed prothonotary of the county, and four years later he was again elected to the legislature and re-elected in 1822. He was a stanch Democrat until 1856, when he supported Fremont for President, and continued to affiliate with the Republican party the rest of his life. He was a man of strong religious convictions and one of the founders of the Lutheran church in Butler. He was a member of the German Lutheran society and contributed liberally towards the erection of the church building, as well as to all other churches erected in Butler during his lifetime. [HBC 1895, 686]
He was buried in South Cemetery, Butler, Pennsylvania, the land for which was donated by him in 1850 for burial purposes. Here a massive marble shaft, on which is inscribed a brief history of his life, marks the last resting place of this honored pioneer, one of the vanguard of that mighty army of civilization which laid the foundations of liberty and prosperity in western Pennsylvania.
John Negley for many years owned and operated a stage-coach line from Pittsburg to Buffalo, and was also extensively engaged in agriculture, quarrying stone and granite and the manufacture of brick. He was a prominent member of the state legislature and at one time was tendered the nomination for governor by the democratic party. He had a long and useful career and died at the ripe old age of ninety-four years. [MAC I, 447]