BIO: Jesse P. McELWAIN, 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 304, 307.
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  J. P. McELWAIN, farmer, Donation, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born 
near the village of Roxbury, Franklin county, Pa., December 19, 1849. 
His parents, who were both born and brought up in the same county, his 
father in the same village as himself, had eight children: David, 
married to Miss Barrick, resides near Hummelstown, Pa.; Elizabeth, 
resides in the same place; William, in Oneida township;, Samuel, also 
in Oneida township; Catherine, wife of Franklin Game, of Oneida 
township; Griffith, married Mollie Rinehart, resides in Oneida 
township; Martha, wife of John Colwood, died in September, 1889; and J. 
P. The mother of the family died in 1892, but the father is still a 
resident of Oneida township, Huntingdon county.
  The common schools of Centre Union, Huntingdon county, afforded Mr. 
J. P. McElwain his entire education. Afterwards, until he was twenty-
three, he worked in a mill. Then for some time he supported himself by 
working by the day, until at length he purchased his present farm, a 
thriving tract of land, and a delightful home. His former business 
included carpentry and the running of a saw-mill. He is a Republican. 
He has not filled prominent offices in township or county, but has 
served on election boards.
  Mr. McElwain is not married. He is not a church member, but he 
regularly attends the meetings of the Seventh-Day Baptists, of 
Adventists, and reads the Bible.

1900 Oneida Township, Huntingdon County census - 
Jesse P. McElwain, 50

1910 Oneida Township, Huntingdon County census -
Jesse P. McElwain, 60