JOHN
INFIELD, hotel keeper and butcher, post-office Jackson Centre, was born
February 2, 1836, in Jackson Township, to Daniel, born in Somerset
County, and there married Sarah Ringer, and came to Mercer County
October 18, 1829, settling in Jackson Township. He had by his marriage:
Joseph, Catharine, Hiram, Mary L, John, James, Daniel, Emeline. The
father followed farming, and took charge of a hotel, which he named the
“Infield House,” in 1862, which was the second house of the kind in
Jackson Centre. He had kept hotel on the Satterfield farm, known as the
“Old Wash McKee Stand.” He died September 11, 1874, and his widow still
lives with the subject, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years. She
is one of the original members of the Jackson Centre Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, to which her husband belonged. Our subject was
educated in the common schools, and was brought up at farm labor. He
was married to Mary N. Nuneymaker, a native of this county, and by whom
he has had ten children: Jennie, Charles, Lizzie, George, Eva, Daniel,
Kate, Samuel, Myrta, Frank. Mr. Infield took charge of the hotel in
1868, and in 1882 he added butchering. He has been a member of the
borough council. His wife is a member of Cumberland Presbyterian
Church. He lived in Franklin from 1862 to 1868. He is a Democrat.
History of Mercer County, 1888 pages 1010-1011
Note: John Infield died in 1909 and is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery
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