BIO: B. F. ISETT, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 111.
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B. F. ISETT
Huntingdon, Pa.

Retired:  Born at Marklesburg, Pa., June 25, 1852.  A son of James K. Isett, 
whose father built one of the first houses in Marklesburg.  James K. Isett 
was a distiller and farmer.  He contracted fever while at Gettysburg 
visiting his son.  He was born in 1811 and died August 11, 1863.  He married 
Elizabeth Garver, who was born in 1813 and died in 1887.  B. F. Isett was 
born on a farm and received his early education at the Marklesburg schools.  
He comes of a family of eleven children, a carpenter by trade, and was for 
years a clerk for D.S. Lynn, a shoe merchant of Huntingdon, Pa.  He was for 
fifteen years with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as a storehouse 
attendant; he was retired in 1922.  He belongs to the Lutheran Church of 
Huntingdon, Pa.; his wife also.  He has served on the election board and has 
been a road supervisor.  He had four brothers in the Civil War:  G. W., who 
was mortally wounded; S. G., deceased; Matthew was killed in the battle of 
Gettysburg; J. M. resides at Athol, Kansas; is retired, his wife deceased, 
and Harry H., of Denver, Col.  He was policeman at Denver, Col, for thirty 
years, and is now looking after city supplies.  His sisters are:  Mary, born 
in 1836, died in 1884; Jennie, wife of D. S. Lynn, died in 1906.  B. F. 
Isett was first married to Almira Harris; she was born at Marklesburg, Pa., 
and died in 1917.  One son, Homer, of Oakland, California, is in the oil 
business.  He was a Spanish-American War Volunteer; he also served in the 
Philippines in the First Battalion, 16th Infantry; he was there three 
months.  He brought to the United States a squad of soldiers; he mustered 
them out of service.  One daughter, Cora D., of Harrisburg, Pa.  B. F. Isett 
remarried to Mrs. W. Oswalt, of South Huntingdon, Pa; one son, Donald.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Isett live at 1114 Warm Springs Avenue, Huntingdon, Pa.  They have 
a summer cottage at Mill Creek, Pa.

Note: B. Frank (77), Alberta M. (57) and Donald K. Oswald (32) are listed in 
the 1930 Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, census.  He is listed as Benjn. F. 
Isett in the 1850 Penn Township, Huntingdon County census.