Individual Details

From the Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry counties history, page 111
”JOHN W. LYTLE, Coalmont, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in Loysburg, Bedford county, Pa., November 15, 1832. He is the son of Benjamin C. and Lydia (Cole) Lytle. His grandparents were William and Miriam (Carpenter) Lytle. William Lytle's son, Nathaniel, was the father of Milton S. Lytle, of Huntingdon, Pa. Benjamin Lytle, father of John W. Lytle, was born in Centre county, Pa. He received a fairly good education at Jersey Shore, Pa. Mr. Lytle learned tailoring with James Thompson at Birmingham, Huntingdon county, and worked at his trade in Hollidaysburg and Martinsburg, Blair county and at Marklesburg, Huntingdon county. In 1853 Mr. Lytle abandoned his trade, and for six years was an agent for obtaining patent rights. He was justice of the peace in Hopewell and Lincoln townships for ten years. Mr. Lytle was a member of the Republican party. He filled the office of auditor of Carbon county for one term. Benjamin Lytle was married at Spruce Creek, to Lydia Cole, a native of Pennsylvania. Their children are: Emma, deceased, married John Stone, who died from the effects of a wound received at the battle of Gettysburg, afterwards married J. R. Weaver, of Shy Beaver, Pa.; John W.; Miriam; Benjamin, killed in the battle of Spottsylvania; Samuel, died young; Annie (Mrs. David Weaver), of Shy Beaver; James, living in the west; Augustus; and Josephine (Mrs. James S. Dieter), of Somerset county, Pa. Mr. Lytle was a member of the Baptist church, and was deeply interested in church affairs. He was an invalid for the last fifteen years of his life. He died in Entriken, Lincoln township, April, 1873. His wife died in Coalmont, December 24, 1882, at the home of her son, John W. Lytle. John W. Lytle received a limited education in the schools of Penn township, and in a night school which he attended for some time. He began life as a day-laborer, working for wages for his father and for the farmers in Penn and Hopewell townships. During the autumn and winter! When the labors of the farm were over, he worked at tailoring. For three years Mr. Lytle was employed on the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad. In 1852 he spent four months as clerk for Black, Chalfont & Co., of Braddocks Field, Pa., and in 1853 entered upon his life work as a teacher. For forty-five years Mr. Lytle was a successful teacher in the schools of Huntingdon county. Many of his pupils, who have attained to high positions in the county, ascribe their success to his faithful and judicious care. At Barnettstown he taught classic Latin. He enlisted at Coffee Run, Huntingdon county, April 21, 1861, in Company D, Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel McDowell, Capt. B. F. Miller, of Huntingdon. Mr. Lytle took part in the second battle of Bull Run, the battles of South Mountain and of Antietam, where he was wounded in the leg and in the right side. He was in the hospital from September, 1862, to February, 1863, when he was discharged at Alexandria, Va. Returning to Huntingdon county, he again engaged in teaching, but his health was broken by the hardships of army life, and he was greatly hindered by sickness. Mr. Lytle was deputy burgess of Coalmont, and town clerk for six years. In 1886 he was appointed post- master of Coalmont, and served four years. He was again appointed in September, 1895, and still holds that position. Mr. Lytle is highly esteemed and very influential in Coalmont. He is a member of the K of M. of Pennsylvania; G. A. R., of Saxton, Heffner Post, No. 166; founder of the K. of A. of Coalmont ; member of the Knights of Labor, of the Sons of Temperance, and of the Junior Sons of '76, F. I. or B. of Pa., Brotherhood of the Union, and of the order of G. T., and of E. L. John W. Lytle was married in Tod township, January 28, 1864, to Annie E., daughter of Frederick Crum, of Tod township. Their children are: Horace G., resides with his father, John W. Lytle; Blanchard C., a mechanic of Pittsburg; Lydia K. (Mrs. James Brewer), of South Fork, Pa ; George, a miner in Broad Top, and Laura Grace, at home. The family, except Mr. and Mrs. John Lytle, are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. John W Lytle and his wife were once Baptists, but for many years have attended no church organization, he himself having always been a liberal in principle. He believes that religion does not, consist in form or mode of baptism, but in character and act.”

Birth	15 NOV 1832	Loysburg, Bedford Co., PA
Marriage	28 JAN 1864	Todd Twp., Huntingdon Co., PA - Elizabeth Ann "Annie" CRUM

Spouse	Elizabeth Ann "Annie" CRUM (1843 - )
Child	Laura Grace LYTLE ( - )
Child	George LYTLE ( - 1897)
Child	Lydia K. LYTLE ( - 1897)
Child	Blanchard C. LYTLE (1869 - 1945)
Child	Horace G. LYTLE ( - 1897)

Father	Benjamin C. LYTLE (1804 - 1873)
Mother	Lydia J. COLE (1808 - 1882)
Sibling	Emma M. LYTLE (1832 - 1881)
Sibling	Miriam LYTLE (1837 - )
Sibling	Benjamin LYTLE ( - )
Sibling	Samuel LYTLE ( - )
Sibling	Anna E. "Annie" LYTLE (1847 - 1914)
Sibling	James LYTLE ( - )
Sibling	Augustus LYTLE ( - )
Sibling	Josephine LYTLE (1852 - )