Surnames: Tiernin, Newbold, Goskill, Clegg, Mullen, Worf, Wright, Evans, Brightwell, Drumm
TiernanJohn Tiernin, an old and prominent citizen of Fayette county, was born in Pennsylvania in 1798 and was a son of Micheal and Alsie Tiernin, the former a native of Ireland, the latter of Pennsylvania.John Tiernin was educated in the subscription schools and was a blacksmith by trade. At twenty five years of age he engaged in boating from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, going down in the spring on a flat boat, then called a "Broadhorn," to the Crescent City with a cargo of bacon, flour, apples, cider and other productions of this country, returning on foot overland to his home.
After several years he left the river and purchased a farm within the present borough limits of Fayette City of Hugh C Ford. This farm was underlaid with a fine vein of coal which Mr Tiernin opened and furnished three glass factories with their fuel, besides supplying the town and other places for many years with coal.
He was elected treasurer of Fayette county, October 8, 1861, and re-elected October 13, 1863. His services as treasurer were entirely satisfactory to the people and highly creditable to himself.
November 7, 1820, he was married to Miss Eliza J Newbold, daughter of Bazilla M Newbold and Elizabeth Goskill Newbold, the former a Quaker from New Jersey and an early settler in this county.
The family of Mr Tiernin consisted of ten children: Joshua Tiernin (see also Tearnin), born August 16, 1821, married Catherine Clegg; Mary A Tiernin, born December 15, 1823, married William Mullen; Elizabeth Tiernin, born February 14, 1826, married William Worf of Brownsville; Beulah Tiernin, born March 20, 1828, married J W Wright of Virginia; Sarah Tiernin, born September 9, 1830; Micheal J Tiernin, born December 2, 1832; Bazilla M Tiernin, born May 10, 1835, married Rebecca Evans; Catherine Tiernin, born October 11, 1837, wife of N B Brightwell; Eliza J Tiernin, born May 5, 1840, married Samuel Drumm; John Tiernin Jr, born May 20, 1844, lost during the war at twenty one years of age.
These are all dead excepting Mrs Brightwell.