BIOGRAPHY: Joseph E. POSTLETHWAITE, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Vol. I, page 548.

  JOSEPH E. POSTLETHWAITE, Atkinsons Mills, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in 
Newton Hamilton, August 9, 1861, and is a son of Thomas and Nancy (Stevens) 
Postlethwaite.  Thomas Postlethwaite was a native of Newton Hamilton.  He served 
in the late war and was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 
1862.
  Joseph E. Postlethwaite, after the death of his father, became a member of the 
family of his uncle, Daniel Stevens.  He attended the public schools of 
Patterson, Juniata county.  Ill health prevented him from finishing his course 
at the high school.  At the age of fourteen he entered his uncle's store as a 
clerk, and served for seven years without wages.  At the end of this time his 
uncle received him as a partner.  They then sold out in Patterson and removed to 
McVeytown, where they opened the first hardware store in that town, in 1881.  
After seven years, Mr. Postlethwaite bought out his uncle's interest, and 
conducted the business alone for two years.  He then sold out and did general 
work for one year, after which he removed to his present place of 197 acres, and 
cultivated it for three years.  On account of ill health, he relinquished 
farming for a while, but resumed it again, with stock raising.  Mr. 
Postlethwaite is a Republican.  He belongs to the I. O. O. F. and K. of P.
  Joseph E. Postlethwaite was married at McVeytown in the spring of 1885, to 
Jennie, daughter of Elisha Bratton, a farmer of Oliver township.  Their children 
are:  Mary;  Elisha;  Lee;  and Arthur.  Mr. And Mrs. Postlethwaite are members 
of the Presbyterian church.