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JOHN EUWER, merchant, Parnassus, was born in Plum township, July 8, 1832, a son of Archie and Mary(Gill) Euwer, the latter a daughter of Ebenezer Gill, who was a son of John Gill, a native of Ireland. Mr. Archie Euwer was born in Plum township, Mary (Gill) Euwer in Patton township, in 1799 and 1804, respectively. The grandfather, John Euwer, came from Ireland, and in 1796 settled in Plum township, on the present site of New Texas, buying 270 acres there. In 1798 he married Nancy McMullen at Ligonier Valley, and became the father of five sons and five daughters. His brother, Samuel Euwer, settled on Sandy creek, and was one hundred years old when he died, leaving a very large posterity, who hold annual reunions at Jacob Walter’s, Springdale. Our subject attended school in Plum township, and when sixteen years old took charge of his father’s farm, under the direction of his mother. In January, 1855, he married Isabella Allen, a native of Westmoreland county, born in 1833, a daughter of Robert and Anna (Leslie) Allen, natives of Scotland, the former an elder in the Covenanter Church. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Euwer: Anna (Mrs. McKee Swank), Amelia J. (milliner and dressmaker), Margaret G. (who died aged three years), Robert Allen, Archa Nelson (in father’s store), Ida, Bell, Florence Clyde and Lizzie Emma. Mr. Euwer was on the farm until 1866, and shortly after bought the Walnut Hill farm, in Westmoreland county, on which he lived twelve years. In 1879 he bought a farm in Plum township, on Puckety creek, and six years later sold and moved to Parnassus, where he has since remained, keeping a general store. Mr. Euwer has three brothers living: E. G., a merchant in Jeanette, Westmoreland county, Pa.; M. G., a merchant in Verona, Pa., and the youngest, Archie N., is a farmer, living near Washington, Iowa. He served three years in the Union army; fought in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac from Fredericksburg to the surrender of Lee’s army at Appomattox, belonging to Co. C, 155th P. V., Col. Pearson.