Surnames: Molleston, Waggoner, Skinner
Rev Henry Molleston, postmaster at Dawson, is the son of Jonathan M Molleston and Sarah Waggoner Molleston.His father, Jonathan M Molleston, was born in Delaware and migrated to Pennsylvania and located at Greenfield, Washington county, Penna, over fifty years ago where he engaged in the practice of medicine which he continued successfully to the time of his death. He was a student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from where he was graduated and was a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.
His wife was Sarah Waggoner, a native of Jefferson township, Fayette county, Penna, and born in 1819. She is living at Verona, Allegheny county, an active, strong woman. Her father, Joshua Waggoner, was a native of Westmoreland county and a devout member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.
The paternal grandfather of Henry G Molleston was a resident of Delaware and was elected governor of Delaware on the whig ticket but died before he was installed as such. He was a prominent lawyer of Delaware and a successful politician. The Mollestons are of English descent.
Henry G Molleston was born February 25, 1838, in Greenfield, now Coal Center, Washington county, Penna. After his father's death, he was principally reared by his grandfather Waggoner on a farm in Redstone township where he attended the common schools and afterwards the normal school at California, Penna.
In 1861 he enlisted in Company I, Eighty fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was made a sergeant of the company and served for three years, participating in all the battles of his regiment and was discharged at Philadelphia in 1864 when he returned to Redstone township and engaged in farming till 1870. In the same year he located at Dawson and worked for James Cochran as engineer at his coke works for about seventeen years. July 1, 1889, he took charge of the post office at Dawson.
In 1864 he was married to Miss Charlotte Skinner, the daughter of Courtland Skinner, a Baptist preacher of Fayette county. They have four children: William J Molleston; Sarah R Molleston; Trevyllian Molleston; and Ella S Molleston.Mr Molleston is a member of the I O O F, K of P, and the Redmen, and is a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church.