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Personal data John Gearhart 

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Household of John Gearhart

He is married to Sophia Gearhart.

They got married at Danville, Montour, Pennsylvania, USA.


Child(ren):

  3. Mary Bowman Hughes  1825-1858


Notes about John Gearhart

John Gearhart was the husband of Sophia Bowman. He was the son of Judge Jacob Gearhart III.

In 1839 John and Jacob Gearhart erected a large two-story frame hotel at the present site of the First National Bank, northwest comer of Sunbury and Rock streets. The first landlord was Jacob Dyer, who removed to Catawissa and was succeeded in the same year (1839) by Franklin A. Clark, who continued as proprietor many years. The property was subsequently purchased by John B. Douty, from whom it received the name of the Douty House. It was eventually destroyed by fire. [Bell's History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Chapter XVII, Shamokin, the First Stores and Hotels] .

The Methodist Episcopal Church of South Danville has existed as an organization from an early period in the history of the Methodist denomination in central Pennsylvania. Rev. Francis Asbury, the first Methodist bishop in America, makes mention in his journal of having been the guest of General William Montgomery at Danville, whence he crossed the river and preached at Judge Jacob Gearhart's; the Judge's barn was the place of public worship, while class and prayer meetings were regularly held at his house, which occupied the site of the present residence of Rev. Irvin H. Torrence.

The preachers of the Philadelphia, Genesee, and Baltimore Conferences successively included this point in the field of their labors; and here the first Methodist Church edifice in that part of Northumberland county south of the North Branch was erected in 1829. It was a frame building one story high, and was situated within the enclosure of Mt. Vernon cemetery; John Gearhart, a son of the Judge[sic], supervised the work of construction, and William Gearhart performed the mason-work.

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  1. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
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  2. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. Findagrave, John Gearhart 9 Nov 1858 / www.findagrave.com

Historical events

Birthday September 10, 1789

  • The temperature on September 10, 1789 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1789: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 5 » In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
    • June 17 » In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
    • July 14 » Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
    • September 29 » The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
    • October 6 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
    • November 21 » North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.

Day of death November 9, 1858

  • The temperature on November 9, 1858 was about 3.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 1, 1856 to March 18, 1858 the cabinet Van der Brugghen, with Mr. J.L.L. van der Brugghen (protestant) as prime minister.
  • From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
  • In the year 1858: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
    • April 16 » The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
    • July 29 » United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
    • August 2 » The Government of India Act 1858 replaces Company rule in India with that of the British Raj.
    • August 11 » The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
    • August 16 » U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.


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