Charles Chestnut,
farmer, post-office Sharpsville, Penn was born in 1830, in Pymatuning
Township, and is a son of Andrew and Mary (McKnight) Chestnut, she
being a daughter of David McKnight.
The father of our
subject came to Mercer County, Penn., in 1798, with a relative, Robert
Mc Cord, from Westmoreland County, Penn., He was a soldier in the War
of 1812, and died in 1867, aged ninety years. His wife died in
1854. Mr. Chestnut's family consisted of nine children:
David, of Grant County, Wis; Robert of Lee County, Iowa; Andrew J., who
died in Lee County, Iowa; Caroline, Mrs. J. B. Kelly, of Pymatuning
Township; Hannah, Mrs. Henry Clark, who died in Grant County, Wis;
John, who died in Clear Lake, Iowa; Mary A, Mrs. J. F. Bean, who
resides on the old homestead in Pymatuning Township, and our subject,
who is the youngest.
He was reared and educated in his
native township, and learned the trade of a farmer, and followed it for
twenty-five years, excepting five years spent in Iowa. He was
married in 1853 to Miss Sarah, a daughter of Jacob Klingensmith, of
Pymatuning Township, and by this marriage they have ten living
children: Andrew W., Mary K. (wife of Jacob Reimold), Byron F.,
Laura M., Charles C., John J., Annie, Horace, Maud and Elsie. Mr.
Chestnut is identified with the schools of this township, and engaged
in general farming.
Source: History of Mercer County, 1888, p. 904, Chapter 35, Biographies of Pymatuning, Delaware and Jefferson - - Pymatuning
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