BIO: John A. POGUE, 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, page 346.
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  JOHN A. POGUE, of Cromwell township, Huntingdon county, was born June 
10, 1827, in Mt. Alto, Franklin county, son of Henry and Elizabeth 
(Rutter) Pogue. His grandfather, Robert Pogue, was born in Pennsylvania 
of German ancestry. He was an iron worker. He died at Mt. Pleasant, 
Franklin county. During the war of 1812 he enlisted in the American 
ranks, being stationed most of the time at Lake Erie. He married Eliza 
Allender; their children were: Andrew; Henry; Frederick; Tiny; and 
James. Henry Pogue, son of Robert Pogue, was born in 1803 at Mt. 
Pleasant, Franklin county. He was an iron-worker, and died at Mt. Alto, 
Franklin county, in 1854. He married Elizabeth Rutter at Mt. Alto; she 
died in 1863. Their children were: Eliza, married John Nunamacher, both 
deceased; Sarah, married Richard Lily, both deceased; John A.; Solomon; 
Henry; and Nancy (Mrs. William Marshall).
  John A. Pogue received a common school education; when he was twelve 
years old his parents removed to Antietam Iron Works, Md., where his 
father worked three years. Returning to Mt. Alto, he served an 
apprenticeship of three years in the Mt. Alto Iron Works. In 1853 he 
went to Bloomery Forge, Hampshire county, W. Va., and worked as foreman 
two years; then two years in the iron works at Mt. Alton. At that 
place, in the winter of 1855, he married Barbara N., daughter of Henry 
and Esther (Howard) Yantz. Their children are: Henry C.; Anne (Mrs. 
John Creager); Walker; John L.; Esther (Mrs. Samuel McClure); William 
G.; Howard L.; Brown; Jennie (Mrs. Henry Lutz); and Ellis. After 
marriage, Mr. Pogue lived two years at Mt. Alto; in 1857 he removed to 
Carrick Iron Works in Franklin county, and remained three years. He 
resided three years at Valley Forge, and then worked at places in 
Pennsylvania and Virginia until 1888, when he removed to Pittsburg, and 
there engineered and worked in a machine shop. He was the first to 
operate the cable cars of Pittsburg. In April, 1894, he came back to 
Cromwell township, and has ever since been leading a retired life on a 
farm of 196 acres. He is a Republican, and a member of the Methodist 
church.