Northumberland-Schuylkill County PA Archives Biographies.....Jefferson, John 1840 - living in 1899

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JOHN JEFFERSON, foreman in the Alaska Colliery at Mount Carmel, Pa., has been

actively engaged in the mining business for many years, and by honest labor and

untiring energy has worked his way from a lowly position to a well paying and

prominent one. He enjoys the respect and esteem of his many friends and is

ranked among the substantial citizens of the borough. He is a son of Joseph

Jefferson and Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Jefferson, and was born in Pottsville, Pa.,

May 9, 1840.



  Joseph Jefferson, the father of our subject, was born in Yorkshire, England,

in 1805, and about 1832 immigrated to this country with his wife and two

children, locating at Pottsvine, Pa. He was a miner by occupation and followed

mining in that vicinity for a time. He first operated the Young's Landing

Colliery under a contract, but had the misfortune to lose three thousand dollars

in the venture owing to the absconding of the man of whom the mine was leased.

He later was injured in the mines and was compelled to give up that line of

work, but he soon took to agricultural pursuits at which he was more successful.

He was a man of much natural ability and commanded the good-will of all with

whom he was acquainted. He was united in marriage with Elizabeth Wilkinson, and

their union resulted in the birth of eight children, as follows: Mary, deceased;

Robert, deceased; William, deceased; Joseph, deceased; Ellen, who died in

infancy; Charles and Henry, twins; and John, the subject of this biographical

record.



  John Jefferson was educated in the public schools of Schuylkill County and in

Greenwood Seminary. At the age of seventeen years he was apprenticed to the

trade of a machinist under William H. DeHavers and served for fourteen months,

when he became dissatisfied, during the panic which prevailed in 1857, and gave

up his position. He then went into the mines as a laborer where he worked with a

faithfulness to be rewarded at the expiration of five years by promotion to a

position as fire-boss. He continued in that capacity until 1874 when he was

again given an advance, becoming a foreman, and as such he has been serving up

to the present time, with the exception of six years when he was superintending

the Shamokin collieries. He has been in the employ of the Reading Company for

many years and is now inside-foreman of the Alaska Colliery. He has ever been

faithful to the best interests of his employers, who place high value on his

services.



  Mr. Jefferson was united in marriage with Mary James, by whom he had the

following children: Jane; Elizabeth; John E., a railroad man in the employ of

the Lehigh Valley Railroad; William, deceased; Mary; Laura; Elizabeth; Joseph;

Margaret; and Garfield. Our subject formed a second matrimonial alliance with

Ellen Six Smith, and two children blessed their union, one of whom, Carrie, is

now living.



  Politically our subject is a Republican, but is rather inclined to be

independent, always supporting the man who in his opinion is best deserving of

the office and will best serve the people. Socially he is a member of the Grand

Army of the Republic post at Mount Carmel; the Odd Fellows Lodge at Shamokin;

and of the Patriotic Order Sons of America at Mount Carmel. He is also a member

of the Mount Carmel school board.





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Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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