BIOS: John L. SAYLOR, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Vol. XXXII, Containing Life Sketches of Leading 
Citizens of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania. Boston, 
Biographical Review Publishing Company: 1899, pp 215-217.

  John L. Saylor, a successful farmer and general storekeeper of 
Somerset, was born in Summit, Pa., August 10, 1841, son of John J. and 
Elizabeth (Lichty) Saylor.  His father and mother and his paternal 
grandfather, whose name was John, were all natives of Summit.  The 
elder John Saylor there spent the active period of his life in tilling 
the soil, and he died in that town at the age of eighty-six years, six 
months, and six days.  He married a Miss Forney, who bore him four 
children, and John J. was the youngest son.  The grandparents were 
members of the Mennonite church.
  John J. Saylor, the father, was born in 1810.  He followed general 
farming with energy in his native town for many years, and died in 
1885.  Elizabeth, his wife, who was the daughter of Joseph Lichty, 
became the mother of eight children, seven of whom are living, namely:  
Sarah, widow of Jonas Miller, late of Iowa; Martin; Rachel, who married 
John Schrock, of Summit, and has two children - Elias and Elizabeth; 
Joseph, who married for his first wife Mary Buechly and for his second 
her sister Barbara, and who has seven children - John, Harvey, 
Missouri, and Eliza by his first union, and Frank, Mary, and Elizabeth 
by his second marriage; Fannie, who married Elias Fike, and has four 
children - William, Annie, Lizzie, and Missouri; William, who married 
Catherine Phillippi, and has eight children - Susan, Oliver, Milton, 
William, Newton, Edward, Simon, and Homer; and John L., the subject of 
this sketch.  The mother died in 1876.  She was a member of the German 
Baptist church.
  John L. Saylor was educated in the schools of Somerset, Berlin, and 
Meyersdale, Pa.  He was engaged in farming in Summit until 1879, when 
he removed to Somerset, where he now owns a desirably located farm of 
two hundred and fifty acres, most of which is under cultivation.  In 
1895 he and his son, David L. Saylor, opened a general store at 
Friedens Station, this township, under the firm name of D. L. Saylor & 
Co.  The son manages the mercantile business, while the father carries 
on the farm.
  On December 16, 1869, Mr. Saylor was united in marriage with Annie M. 
Livengood, who was born in Salisbury, January 11, 1844, daughter of 
David and Annie (Meyers) Livengood.  Her father was in his younger days 
a farmer and later a preacher of the German Baptist denomination in 
Salisbury.  Mrs. Saylor is the fifth-born of six children, of whom four 
are now living - that is three besides herself; namely, Samuel D., 
Jacob D., and Susan.  Two sisters, Mrs. Daniel Barchus and Mrs. M. F. 
Smith, are deceased.  Mrs. Barchus left one child, John Barchus, a 
banker living in Salisbury.  Mrs. Smith had no children.
  Samuel D. Livengood, who is a banker married Harriet Livengood, a 
distant relative; and his only daughter, Grace is the wife of Hugh 
Lorentz, of Meyersdale, and mother of two sons - Charles and Albert 
Lorentz.  Jacob D. Livengood, also a banker, married Lizzie Beachy, now 
deceased.  She was the mother of three children, two of whom are 
living, namely: Olive, wife of M. C. Berkey, of Kansas; and Albert E. 
Livengood.  Susan Livengood married Jacob M. Lichty, of Summit, and has 
seven children; namely, Ada, Annie, Emma, Charles, Sarah, Elizabeth, 
and John Lichty.  Emma Lichty married Daniel Lepley, of Connorsville, 
Pa., and has two children - Paul and Anna Bertha.  Ada married Frank 
Manst, of Salisbury, and has one child now living, a daughter, Olive.  
David Livengood, Mrs. Saylor's father, died at the age of sixty-two 
years, and her mother died at thirty-four.  Mr. and Mrs. Saylor have 
had eight children, namely: David L., born September 21, 1870, Addie, 
born May 13, 1872; William H., born April 14, 1873; Emma G., born 
September 10, 1875; Charles H., born March 15, 1877; Lucy C., born July 
22, 1879; Olive E., born February 1, 1884; and Robert G., born October 
22, 1885, who died November 1, 1886.  The first five are natives of 
Meyersdale, and the last three were born in Somerset.
  Mr. Saylor served with ability as Postmaster at Friedens in 1896.  He 
is highly respected both as a business man and a citizen.  His son 
David L. is station agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company and 
agent of the United States Express Company of Friedens.  He is an 
active and popular young man.