BIO: Hon. Jesse RICHNER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 937.
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  HON. JESSE RICHNER, burgess of Irvona, Pa., is a prominent citizen and 
representative business man of this flourishing borough, and has spent the 
greater part of his life connected with coal mining and is now superintendent of 
a local mine.  He was born July 7, 1880, near Philipsburg, Pa., and is a son of 
Jacob and Sarah (Knough) Richner.
  Jacob Richner and wife were born in Germany and both were brought to the 
United States when young and grew to maturity and married in Clearfield county, 
Pa.  Jacob Richner served as a soldier in the Federal army during the Civil war 
and was several times wounded.  He owned a farm and also was interested in 
lumbering.  His death occurred when he was about sixty years of age.  His widow 
survives and is now in her seventy-sixth year.  Their children were as follows:  
Philip, who resides at Clearfield, is a barber by trade; Mary, who is the wife 
of Frank Westburn, residing in Morrisdale; Maggie, who is the wife of Thomas 
Haynes, of Decatur township; George, who is a clerk in a store at Osceola; Ida, 
who is the wife of Fred Baughman, residing on a farm near Turkey Hill; Alice, 
who is the wife of John Cornell, of Jeffries; David, who is mine foreman at the 
Burley Clay Works; Jesse; and Amanda, who is the wife of Joseph Kline, of Happy 
Valley.
  Jesse Richner attended school more or less regularly until he was seventeen 
years of age, first at Laurel Run and later at Irvona.  He then engaged in 
teaming and afterward went into the mines and for fourteen of the seventeen 
years of his residence at Irvona, mining has been his main business and no one 
better understands mining and the conditions surrounding the lives of miners 
than does Burgess Richner.  He is a very level-headed man and when he was 
elected burgess of Irvona, on the Republican ticket, in February, 1909, he was 
acceptable to all his fellow citizens and his administration has brought about 
excellent conditions in the borough.
  Mr. Richner was married May 15, 1901, to Miss Millie Potts, a daughter of 
Walter and Mittie Potts, residents of Irvona.  They have two children, Ethel 
Icie and Flora.  He owns his comfortable home at Irvona and has acquired 
property through his industry and prudence.  He belongs to the Patriotic Sons of 
America, at Rosebud, and to the Knights of the Mystic Chain.