BIO:  John H. ORNER, Menallen Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 478

JOHN H. ORNER, a son of Henry and Sarah (Knouse) Orner, was born February 18, 
1833.  He married Lovina Crum, and the following named children have been born 
to this union:  Emma C., Anna M., Rosetta, David H. and Flora J.  The first of 
the Orner family to settle in the county was Felix Orner of Northampton, Penn., 
who located in Butler Township about the same time of the Revolution.  He was a 
carpenter, but owned and resided on a farm.  He and his wife, Julia Ann (Becker) 
Orner, were of German descent and had a family of fifteen children.  Henry 
Orner, one of their sons, was born November 2, 1797.  In early manhood he worked 
at the carpenter’s trade, but later bought a farm in Menallen Township, this 
county, and operated it until his wife’s death.  Her maiden name was Sarah 
Knouse; she was born in 1798, and died in the spring of 1870.  They had seven 
children, only three of whom are now living.