BIOGRAPHY: John A. STINE, 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, Volume I, pages 618-619.

  JOHN A. STINE, deceased, was born February 24, 1847.  He was a son of David 
and Sidney (Smith) Stine, of Wayne township, Mifflin county, Pa.  Their family 
consisted of the following:  Henry, married Alice Grazier, has seven children, 
resides in Wayne township;  Martha (Mrs. John McCormick), died, leaving five 
children, and Mr. McCormick removed to Kansas;  John A.;  Elizabeth, married 
Joseph Garver, who resides in Oliver township, and died, leaving three children;  
Albert, graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., 
practised in Huntingdon county, died at the age of twenty-five;  Milton, of 
Wayne township, married Ella Pennypacker, has three children;  Anna, died aged 
about twenty-one;  Ellen (Mrs. Robert Ingram), of Lewistown, Pa., has two 
children;  and Robert Rush, married Mary Dunmire, resides on the homestead in 
Wayne township.  The Stine family is of German ancestry.
  John A. Stine was known as a farmer of good judgment, with a reasonable share 
of progressiveness in his ideas and methods.  He, like his father, was regarded 
with confidence because of his tried integrity and uprightness.  He was a good 
friend and neighbor, exerting a kindly influence upon his associates.  He was a 
Democrat, and gave the interested attention of a good citizen to all public 
affairs.  In his family relations, he was kind, faithful and indulgent.  John A. 
Stine was married May 20, 1875, to Hannah E., daughter of Augustine and Nancy 
(Galbraith) Wakefield.  Their children are:  Horace W.;  Howard A.;  Bella;  and 
Janet, born January 13, 1882, died June 28, 1890.
  Mrs. John A. Stine is a descendant of Matthew Wakefield, who owned in 1768 a 
tract of 100 acres in Derry, now Oliver township.  In 1783, the first year after 
Wayne township was erected, he owned 220 and his son John Wakefield 100 acres.  
In 1790, John Wakefield was the possessor of 226 acres of land and a saw-mill;  
he died in 1793, leaving two sons, William and George, and a daughter, Sarah;  
she married John McVey, the founder of McVeytown, to whom the property came by 
inheritance.  William Wakefield settled on a part of his father's estate, and 
died in 1825;  the property is now owned by John Horning.  George Wakefield 
settled on the homestead, and died in 1827.  His children were:  John;  
Augustine;  Rebecca;   Eli;  and George.  Augustine Wakefield settled on the 
farm where his daughter, Mrs. Stine, now resides.  Eli settled in Shirley 
township, Huntingdon county, on a farm given by his father.  George settled on a 
farm in Bratton township, Mifflin county, which his father bought of George 
Bratton, and which is now the property of the heirs of George M. and M. B. 
Wakefield.  The children of Augustine and Nancy (Galbraith) Wakefield are:  
Rebecca (Mrs. Reuben Applebaugh), of Kansas;  George, who resided with his 
sister, Mrs. Stine, on the above-mentioned farm, and died April 28, 1887, aged 
about forty-nine years;  Hannah E. (Mrs. John A. Stine);  and Nannie (Mrs. 
William Wakefield), of Kansas, has three children.  Augustine Wakefield was a 
member of the Society of Friends, while his wife, who was of Irish descent, was 
a Presbyterian.  Although differing widely in matters of doctrine and religious 
custom, they were one in uprightness of purpose, in generosity and kindness 
towards their friends and neighbors, and in liberality to those less favored by 
circumstances than themselves.  Mrs. Wakefield died April 10, 1863;  her husband 
survived her about six years, dying March 10, 1869, at the age of seventy-seven.