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FRANKLIN POFF, farmer, post office Talley Cavey, is a son of Jacob and Margaret (Wentzel) Poff, natives of Berks county, Pa., where Franklin was born in 1827; he moved to Butler county when nine years of age. In 1850 he came to Hampton township, and has since resided here. He married, in 1845, Barbara Ann Sloap, a native of Germany, who died Sept. 22, 1884, leaving twelve children: William T., of Allegheny; Margaret, wife of Henry McDonald, of Hampton township; Mary, wife of Casper Marks, of Glenshaw; John, of Hampton township; Charles, of Shaler township; Benjamin, of Hampton township; Robert, of Pittsburgh; Harriet, wife of Martin McAlear, at McKee’s Rocks; Thomas and Ellen, at home; Laura, wife of Allen Sheppard, of Allegheny, and Blanche, at home. Mr. Poff was married the second time in Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 20, 1886, to Mrs. Mary Rightmyer, of Reading, Pa., widow of the late Col. James Lawrence Rightmyer, who died June 7, 1867, in Baltimore, Md.; he was connected with the N. C. R. R. Co. for a number of years, up to the time of his death. Mr. Poff has held the office of school director of the township, and he and family are members of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which he was trustee for many years.