J. L. Cross    

J. L. CROSS, furniture dealer, Sandy Lake, was born in Butler County, Penn., May 27, 1846, to Samuel and Jane (Leggett) Cross, natives, the father of Butler and the mother of what is now Lawrence County. The parents had but two children: J. L. and S. B. The father was married three times, his third wife being Hannah Cornelius, a native of Mercer County, by whom he had one child, Julia, who married John Manning. His first wife was Jane Adams, by whom he had five children, three boys and two girls. Our subject was educated in the common schools and one term at Prospect, Butler County. At the age of seventeen he began to learn the trade of a cabinet-maker at Harrisville with William P. Brown, with whom he continued for two years and six months. In the spring of 1865 he enlisted as a private in the Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the close of the war. Returning he finished his trade with Sam Brown. In 1868 he opened a general furniture and undertaking store at Sandy Lake, and by attention to business and square dealing has established a paying business. He was married to Margaret J. Sawyer, a native of Venango County, by whom he had five children: Angus P., died at the age of eight years; Charles, died young; Gertrude M., Lee B. and Jay O. Mr. Cross has been burgess of Sandy Lake three terms, a member of the council and school director. He is a stockholder in the Stoneboro Fair, belongs to the K. L. H., is a stanch Republican, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church. He is one of the leading citizens of Sandy Lake.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888, pages 1048-1049.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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