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.
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  JOHNSON MUTHERSBAUGH, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in Decatur 
township, Mifflin county, December 7, 1844, son of Abraham and Jemina 
(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 oldest 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 knonw 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 had 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 material grandparents, Jacob and 
Elizabeth Gift, had five sons and three daughters. The family attend the 
Lutheran church.