BIO: John S. APPLEBY, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 381-382.
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  JOHN S. APPLEBY, Shirleysburg, Pa., was born in Huntingdon county, 
June 26, 1847, son of John and Priscilla (Montague) Appleby. He was 
educated in the common schools o his native county, in Dublin township, 
and at Milnwood Academy, Shade Gap, Pa., where he completed his course 
at the age of seventeen. His father having died when John S. was a boy, 
his first business after leaving school was to work for his mother on 
the farm, which he assisted her in cultivating for seven years. After 
this he engaged in farming on his own account, and continued it until 
1896.
  Mr. Appleby is well known throughout his county, and highly esteemed. 
He has done good service for the community, which is evidently 
appreciated by his fellow citizens. His first office was that of judge 
of elections, which he occupied for a year; he was then elected 
inspector, and after his year of service in that capacity had expired, 
was again made judge of elections, and served another year. In 1885 Mr. 
Appleby was elected to the school board, and served six years, at the 
end of which time he was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of 
another director. During his time of service on the board, he was for 
five years its secretary. In 1890 he was elected supervisor of Dublin 
township for one year. About this time he embarked in the business of 
butchering, and had carried it on for four years, when, in 1891, he was 
elected justice of the peace for Dublin township; he served five years. 
He had removed to Shirleysburg when, in 1895, he was appointed steward 
of the Huntingdon county almshouse; he is still in that position. Mr. 
Appleby's politics are Republican.
  John S. Appleby was married June 26, 1867, to Annie C., daughter of 
James and Elizabeth (Fleming) Wilson. Their children are: Lauretta A. 
(Mrs. John A. Foreman), died April 11, 1892, aged twenty-three years, 
ten months and four days; Jessie, died in infancy; Thomas B.; James C.; 
Annie J.; Mary Matilda (Mrs. Harry Foreman); Priscilla B.; John Orian; 
Harry C.; Eulie E.; and Roy. Mr. Appleby and his family are members of 
the Presbyterian church.
  Mrs. Annie C. (Fleming) Appleby was born May 1, 1846. Her parents 
were natives of Huntingdon county; as were also her grandparents on 
both sides. Her father was all his life engaged in agriculture. He was 
elected to various township offices. Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming, the mother 
of Mrs. Appleby, was the daughter of Joseph and Jane Wilson, and one of 
a family of eleven children, ten of whom are living: Bella G. (Mrs. J. 
B. Gray); Robert M.; William and Annie C., twins, the latter being Mrs. 
Appleby; Joseph W.; James H.; Dr. J. C., a prominent physician of 
Shirleysburg; Thomas E.; Rachel E. (Mrs. William Foreman); and Dessie 
(Mrs. James Foreman); Hannah died May 11, 1880, aged twenty five years. 
Mr. Fleming died August 14, 1885, aged seventy-eight years; his wife 
died March 23, 1873, aged fifty-six years. They were members of the 
Presbyterian church.