BIO: John E. PECHT, 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 379-380.
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  JOHN E. PECHT, Shirleysburg, Pa., was born in Mifflin county, January 
10, 1850, son of William and Mary (Winters) Pecht, natives of that 
county. William Pecht followed the trade of carpentry all his life, but 
he was also the owner of a large farm in Mifflin county. Mrs. Pecht was 
the daughter of Solomon Winters. Two of their children are deceased, 
Henrietta at the age of twenty-three, and Annie, aged thirteen. Eight 
survive: George; Isaac; John E.; Jennie (Mrs. Charles Mattern); Wilson; 
Fannie (Mrs. John Logan); James and Ida. Mr. and Mrs. Pecht adhere to 
the Dunkard belief. They reside in Huntingdon, Pa.; the father is now 
eighty-four years f age, and the mother seventy-three.
  Until his nineteenth year, John E. Pecht attended the common schools 
of Mifflin county. He was afterwards for ten years employed on branch 
roads of the Pennsylvania railroad system. For two years, he was in the 
grocery business in Mifflin county. In 1880, he began farming in that 
county, and in 1893, removed to Shirley township, Huntingdon county, 
where he has since resided, and cultivated a farm. In 1892, he was 
elected supervisor of Wayne township, Mifflin county, and served in 
that office for one year. He is now a school director, having been 
elected in 1894. He is a Democrat.
  John E. Pecht was married, March 22, 1881, to Minnie May, daughter of 
Henry and Maria Klipper. Their children are: Alma; William; and Olivia. 
Mrs. Pecht was born December 15, 1855. Germany is the native land of 
her parents; but early in life, they emigrated to America, and settled 
in Mifflin county, where her father engaged in general labor. He was 
one of the men who helped to construct the main line of the 
Pennsylvania railroad. His wife's maiden name was Maria Blumenstein. 
They had five children, one of whom, Hattie, died at the age of ten 
months; Henry died in April, 1893, aged thirty-two years. The remaining 
children are: Charles; Matilda (Mrs. James Sayers); and Minnie M. (Mrs. 
J. E. Pecht). Mrs. Klipper died in September, 1878, aged fifty-five; 
Mr. Klipper in April, 1886, at the age of sixty-five. They were of the 
Dunkard church.