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Margaret J. Boyd ~ Joseph Earhart

Butler Co., PA

Joseph Earhart was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1827, son of David and Catherine (Altman) Earhart, pioneers of Indiana county. His father was born December 4, 1789, and his mother in 1788. They resided near Blairsville until 1838, whence they removed to near the town of Indiana. In 1845 they removed to Scott county, Iowa, which they made their home the balance of their lives. David Earhart died in Armstrong county, June 3, 1848, while on a visit to his son, Rev. D. Earhart; his wife died in Iowa at the age of eighty-two years. They were the parents of eleven children, nine sons and two daughters, all of whom grew to maturity, and seven of the number are still living.

Joseph was the ninth child, and spent his boyhood days with his parents. The first school he attended was held in a log building twenty feet square, erected by his father, and furnished in the primitive manner of that period. In 1845 he went to Scott county, Iowa with his parents who settled on a farm near Davenport. In 1847 he returned to Armstrong county, served an apprenticeship at the tinner's trade and followed that business for some years. In 1852 he embarked in merchandising, and in 1856 located at Butler as a member of the firm of A. G. Boyd & Company, general merchants. He sold his interest in 1858 and returned to Armstrong county, and the following year entered the mercantile business at Worthington, where he carried on down to 1883. In that year he established a mercantile business at Karns City, Butler county, which he conducted until 1892. He then retired to his present farm, one mile south of Karns City, upon which he has a good oil production. Mr. Earhart was married March 10, 1853, to Margaret J. Boyd, a daughter of John Boyd, Esq., a prominent deceased citizen of Armstrong county. Eleven children were born to this union, as follows: Sarah A., deceased wife of P. M. Graff; William P., deceased; Ada F., wife of Rev. C. A. Cummings; Anna M., wife of A. M. McCollough; C. Josephine, wife of R. M. Hunter; Lyda B.; Mary W.; Charles H., a practicing physician; Harry B.; Olive Gertrude, and Frances E. The family are connected with the Presbyterian church, in which Mr. Earhart has filled the office of elder. Politically, he is a Republican, and when Lee invaded Pennsylvania he closed his store and went to Harrisburg as a member of the Home Guards, thus exhibiting his patriotism, love of country, and devotion to his native State, of which he is justly proud.
 

Source: History of Butler County, Pennsylvania : embracing its physical features, aborigines and explorers, public lands and surveys, pioneers, early settlement and subsequent growth, sketches of boroughs, townships and villages, biographies and portraits of pioneers; R. C. Brown, 1895. FHL Film 1000547

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