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J.K. Benninger
J. K. BENNINGER, farmer, fruit grower and oil producer, owning ten acres of
land on the Allegheny river in Brady�s Bend township, was born at Millers
Eddy, in Perry township, Armstrong Co., Pa., April 14, 1848, son of Peter
Benninger and a grandson of Peter Benninger.Peter Benninger, the grandfather, came from Lehigh county, Pa., to Clarion
county, where he located at Catfish, and there reared his family. He died in
Clarion county, and is buried there. He had seven sons and one daughter, his
son Peter being the fourth child in order of birth.Peter Benninger, father of J. K. Benninger, was born at Catfish, Clarion
Co., Pa., and grew to manhood there. After marriage he removed to Perry
township, Armstrong county, where he was for some time a pilot on river boats,
but later became a merchant at Millers Eddy. He died in 1865, at the age of
sixty-seven years, and is buried in Perry township. He was a pioneer in Perry
township, as the country was practically a wilderness when he settled there
and many Indians yet remained in the neighborhood. In politics he was a
Democrat. At Millers Eddy he was married to Phoebe Truby, of Perry county,
Pa., and they had five children, two daughters and one son still surviving;
one son was killed while in the army. The mother died in 1850 and was buried
in Perry township. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.J. K. Benninger attended school in Perry township, leaving at the age of
fourteen years. He remained on the farm until he was seventeen years old,
learned boatbuilding at Millers Eddy, and afterward was associated with his
father in transporting oil by boat from Oil Creek to Pittsburgh. For some time
he worked in a rolling mill, later engaged in mining coal, and then entered
the oil fields in Butler county as a driller, continuing thus for fourteen
years. Mr. Benninger then bought his present place, on which he has a
producing oil well, and devotes his land to growing small fruits, principally
strawberries. He has lived there since 1864, has erected the residence, and
made other improvements. In politics he is a Republican.In 1866 Mr. Benninger was married to Rachel Seybert, daughter of Henry
Seybert, an early settler in this township. She was the mother of four
children: Peter, Curtis, Mary and Lou Emma. Mrs. Benninger died at the age of
fifty years, and is buried in Brady�s Bend township. In 1899 Mr. Benninger
married (second) Tillie Seybert, daughter of Barney Seybert, and they have
four children: Arthur Raymond, James Wesley, Alice and Stella Myrtle.Source: Pages 930-931, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed November 1998 by Jeffrey Bish for the Armstrong County Beers
Project
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