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PERRY A. LYTLE, farmer, P. O. Monongahela City, a son of Issac and Martha (Penny) Lytle, was born May 27, 1821, in Forward township, on the farm now owned by him. His grandfather, Robert Lytle, emigrated to this country and settled on the line of Allegheny and Washington counties. His family consisted of seven children: David, George, Joseph, Samuel, Abraham, Robert and Isaac. The corn crop was the important one in early days, and it is related of Robert Lytle that during a year when the crop had been a general failure he fortunately had an immense yield, which was eagerly sought for by the speculators of that vicinity, but he resolutely declined all proposals from them and reserved it for the benefit of his less fortunate neighbors, and when they called for corn they were supplied, with or without money. Isaac, father of Perry A., was born in 1783, on the place where Robert, his father, settled, and remained there until his marriage, May 11, 1807, with Miss Penny, daughter of John Penny, a native of Ireland, when he removed to the farm now owned by Perry A. Their children were: Eliza, born Aug. 25, 1808; Ruth, born Feb. 1, 1811; Robert, born Aug. 5, 1812; Margaret, born Aug. 11, 1814; Icephena and Perry A. (twins), born May 27, 1821; Samuel, born Jan. 27, 1827. Only three of these are now living: Margaret, now Mrs. James Craighead, of Beaver Falls; Icephena, now Mrs. William Kerr, of Brown county, Ohio; Perry A., who owns the old homestead, and who, in 1846, married Sarah C., daughter of Isaac and Gertrude (Van Kirk) Wycoff, of Elizabeth township. Their children were Hannah, Joseph, William (deceased), George E., James P. and Gertie W. Hannah, now Mrs. F. F. Pierce, is a resident of Gallatin, Tenn.; Joseph is on the farm adjoining his father’s; George E. is a practicing physician in Monongahela City; James P. resides with his father; Gertie W. is now Mrs. Guy Fitzgerald, of Selma, Ala. Isaac Lytle, for a period of years, occupied various official positions, and died May 24, 1854; his widow died Nov. 26, 1854.

Perry A. Lytle has been officially identified with state, county and township, and is at present a director of the insurance board. When about twenty years of age he, with one of his brothers, met with a peculiar accident. His mother, foreseeing the approach of a storm, told them to prepare matters in the springhouse to avoid injury. They did so, and when about to return were met by a solid sheet of water rushing with irresistible force, which precipitated them with the springhouse over the falls, twelve feet high. Perry A. escaped, but his brother was carried a distance of one-half mile below, where he escaped only to die three days later of lock jaw.