BIOGRAPHY: Johnson MUTHERSBAUGH, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, pages 461-462.

  JOHNSON MUTHERSBAUGH, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in Decatur 
township, Mifflin county, December 7, 1844, son of Abraham and Jemima (Sigler) 
Muthersbaugh.  Their family consisted of seven children:  Johnson;  James K., 
married Mary Gallagher;  Annie Catherine;  Isabella M.;  Howard, married Miss 
Alexander, of Illinois;  Ellen (Mrs. Thomas Brennan);  Emma Sigler (Mrs. William 
H. Mendenhall).  The father of the family is deceased, but his wife still lives, 
a venerable matron of more than fourscore years.  She was one of a family of 
thirteen brothers and sisters.
  The eldest son, Johnson Muthersbaugh, received his early education in the 
common schools of Decatur township.  But his years of early manhood were to 
bring him a wider experience and sterner teaching than could be known within 
schoolroom walls.  On August 30, 1864, when not yet quite out of his "teens," he 
enlisted in the war for the Union, and was mustered in at Harrisburg.  His 
enrollment was in company K, Two Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania volunteers, 
under Capt. F. B. McClenahan.  His regiment was assigned to the Army of the 
Potomac, in which he participated in the stirring scenes of the closing year of 
that great conflict, doing gallant and faithful service.  He was discharged at 
Alexandria, Va., June 2, 1865.  At the age of twenty-two, Mr. Muthersbaugh 
entered Freeburg Academy, Snyder county, Pa., under the tuition of Rev. W. L. 
Wilson and Professor Van Dyke, and studied there two terms, after which he 
taught school for one term at Germanville, Schuylkill county, Pa.  After this he 
was for two years engaged in cultivating his father's farm, and then, having by 
this time been married, he removed to the farm of his father-in-law, where he 
remained for a year.  In the spring of 1872, he entered the employ of Dickson & 
McGovern, on the Lewistown Division, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which obliged 
him to remove to Lewistown.  In this position he spent two years, and then 
turned his attention to carpentry, working with William Smith for one season and 
afterwards with Daniel C. Matters, for four years.  In 1877, Mr. Muthersbaugh 
went into the business of carpenter and contractor on his own account;  he has 
gradually extended and modified his enterprises, until, at the present time, he 
is the owner of large and well-equipped shops, containing all the requisites of 
a first-class  planing mill.  He is a member of Lodge No. 270, K. of P.; and of 
Castle No. 58, Mystic Chain, both of Lewistown;  and of Colonel Hulings Post, 
No. 176, G. A. R., at Lewistown.  He is a Republican.  His residence is No. 122 
Chestnut street.
  Johnson Muthersbaugh was married November 5, 1868, to Amelia, daughter of Zeno 
and Lavinia (Gift) Fees.  They have one daughter, Verna F., born December 25, 
1870, who is the wife of William M. Lind.  Mrs. Muthersbaugh was also the only 
child of her parents, who are both deceased.  Mr. Fees died May 6, 1880, aged 
sixty-five, and his wife October 16, 1895, at the age of seventy-three.  Mrs. 
Muthersbaugh's paternal grandparents were Jacob and Elizabeth Fees, who had nine 
children.  Her maternal grandparents, Jacob and Elizabeth Gift, had five sons 
and three daughters.  The family attend the Lutheran church.