Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Barnhart, Alexander May 10, 1841

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ALEXANDER BARNHART, a progressive business man and a public-spirited citizen of
Pleasant Unity, is a son of George and Mary (Hartzell) Barnhart and was born
near Latrobe, in Unity township, Westmoreland county, Pa., May 10, 1841. George
Barnhart was born in 1795 and died January 23,1864, when in his sixty-ninth year
of his age. He was a resident of Pleasant Unity, where he followed butchering
for many years prior to his death. He was a democrat, a member of the German
Reformed church and energetic business man. He was twice married. His first wife
was a Miss Shupe, who died in a few years after marriage and left him two sons.
For his second wife he married Mary Hartzell, who died March 13, 1873, when she
was well advanced into her seventieth year. By this second marriage he had issue
of six sons and two daughters: David (see sketch), Jacob, Daniel, George W.,
Alexander, James, Sarah and Lobina.

    Alexander Barnhart was reared in Unity township, where he received his
education in the common schools. He then learned the trade of butchering with
his father and in 1864 he opened a butcher shop at Pleasant Unity which he
conducted till 1875. For the next five years he was engaged in the lumber
business and operated a saw mill in order to fill the bills which he received
during that period of time. In 1880 he returned to Pleasant Unity where he
opened his present butchering establishment and meat market. He commands a good
trade and is able to furnish at a moment's notice any kind of meat which is
desired by his patrons. In politics he has been a democrat until last fall when
he affiliated himself with the Prohibition party and voted for its nominees. He
is a member of the Order of Chosen Friends and Pleasant Unity Methodist
Episcopal church, of which he is also class-leader and trustee and
superintendent of its Sunday school.

    In 1870 he united in marriage with Susan Gettemy, daughter of Jonas Gettemy,
of Unity township. They have two children, one son and one daughter, Mary E. and
Scott K.

    In the prosperity of Pleasant Unity Mr. Barnhart has always been interested
and he has erected more houses in that thriving town than any other citizen of
the place.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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