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Isaac N. Johns
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ISAAC N. JOHNS, one of the successful oil producers and agriculturists of Parker Township, was born August 10, 1865, near Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of John and Nancy (Hooks) Johns,
natives of Armstrong County, where the Johns family is an old and prominent one. When Isaac N. Johns was still a small lad his father died, and his mother subsequently married W. M. Henry, by whom the youth was reared, his education being secured in the public schools of Armstrong County. On attaining his majority, Mr. Johns engaged in agricultural pursuits, and in the early nineties he located in Parker Township, where he is now half-owner in a farm of forty-six acres and the oil wells thereon, W. H. Orton of Parker's Landing being the owner of the other onehalf of the property. Mr. Johns is a selfmade man, and his success in life is due to his own energy and enterprise. He is a Republican in political matters, and devotes a great deal of his time and attention to movements in behalf of the advancement of education. He has shown himself to be a man of integrity, and his rating is high in business circles. On November 15, 1891, Mr. Johns was married to Elizabeth C. Levier, who was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of the late Josiah Levier. Mr. and Mrs. Johns have had the following children: Byron B., Forest F., Waldo W., Melvin M., Hazel Ione, Elma V. and Myrtle V. Source: 20th century history of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and respresentative citizens, McKee, James A., 1909, page 621. |
