Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Horner, Isaac November 23, 1838 

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ISAAC HORNER, one of the substantial, reliable and prosperous farmers of Mt.
Pleasant township, was born in Donegal township, Westmoreland county, Pa.,
November 23, 1838, and is a son of John and Mary (Weimer) Horner. His
grandfather, David Horner, was a member of the Horner family of Somerset county,
Pa., which was of German extraction. He was one of the many industrious farmers
who have from time to time come from that county into the Westmoreland townships
of the Ligonier Valley. He was a farmer, a whig and a member of the German
Baptist church. He married Elizabeth Berkley who bore him six sons and three
daughters, of whom four of the sons and two of the daughters are yet living.

   His grandfather Weimer was a distiller of Donegal township. He was a
republican and a Baptist and married Susannah Berkey, by whom he had seven
children: John Horner (father) was born in 1818 in Somerset county which he left
at ten years of age, when he came with his father to Donegal township where he
has been engaged in farming for the last fifty years. He is a democrat in
political matters, has served his township as school director and is an
influential member of the German Baptist church. He married Mary Weimer, by whom
he had eight children, of whom three are living: Isaac and Lydia and Sarah L.

    Isaac Horner attended the common schools and upon attaining his majority
commenced farming on the farm on which he has resided ever since, his farm now
contains 118 acres of productive land which is in a good state of cultivation
and on which he has erected a substantial house, first-class barn and other
outbuildings.

    In 1864 he married Sarah Myers who was born in 1836 and is a daughter of
Abraham and Bebecca (Kimmell) Myers. Abraham Myers was a former of Somerset
county who moved to Ligonier township, this county, and afterwards to Mt.
Pleasant township where he died in 1872, aged seventy-two years. Mr. and Mrs.
Horner have five children: Myers, born December 27, 1870, and who will graduate
from the Central State Normal school at Lock Haven, Pa., in the class of 1890;
Eldora B., horn May 23, 1874; Albert O., born August 28, 1879; Sadie M., horn
March 8, 1885, and Alva B., who was born May 12, 1889.

    Politically Isaac Horner is a democrat but in local politics he ignores
party lines and votes for the man whom he thinks is best fitted for the office.
He and his wife are members of the German Baptist church, in which he is a deacon.


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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