Surnames: Righter, Myers, Early, Grosvener
Rev John W Righter, minister of the Methodist Episcopal church at Brownsville, is the son of Lewis Righter and Mariah J Myers Righter. They were natives of Chester county, Penna.His father was a carriage manufacturer and a resident of Salem, Ohio, at the time of his death, September 5, 1875, and was fifty years of age. He removed to Ohio in 1852 and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Rev Righter's mother died September 6, 1875, at the age of forty
five years. She was also a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and the daughter of Rev Daniel Myers.Rev John W Righter was born January 9, 1853, at Mount Union, Ohio, and was brought up at Salem, Ohio. He attended the high schools of Salem; leaving school he went into the printing office of the Salem REPUBLICAN where he learned the trade of printer and worked at it consecutively for
six years. At the age of sixteen years he was converted in the Methodist Episcopal church at Salem, Ohio.He studied for the ministry at his home under private teachers and was licensed as a local preacher in February, 1873, in the Philadelphia conference. In March, 1874, he joined the Pittsburgh conference and has continued in it ever since. He was first stationed on the New Galilee circuit in Beaver county, Penna. He was next at Unionville and Concord, also in Beaver county, Penna; then at Harmony, Butler county; thence at Smith's Ferry, Butler county; and afterwards at Kittanning in Armstrong county. In October, 1887, he came to Brownsville and has since been the pastor of the first Methodist Episcopal church.
In 1875 he was married to Miss Achsa M Early of Darlington, Beaver county, Penna. She is the daughter of Samuel Early and Lucinda Grosvener Early. They have three children: Edna C Righter; Blanche E Righter; and Frank P Early.
Mr Righter is a member of the A O U W.