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AUGUST H. WOERNER, farmer, post office Monroeville, was born in 1834, in Wurtemberg, Germany, where he was reared on a farm. When nineteen years old he came to America and spent some time in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois, and in 1860 returned to his native land, where he married Louise Woerner, his cousin. With his bride, and accompanied by his parents, he returned to this country, and settled on his present farm in Patton township. He owns 143 acres, and is engaged in general farming. His father, Henry, died at the age of sixty-five, and his mother, Katrine, in 1883, aged seventy-seven. The family was formerly associated with the M. E. Church, but now attends the Presbyterian Church at Monroeville. Mr. Woerner is a supporter of the republican party. He has four children: Theodore H., Emilie, Agustia and John. Of these, T. H., now twenty-five years of age, who is now engaged in the machinist’s trade, and has been for some years a resident of Pittsburgh, married a daughter of William Arthur, a well-to-do farmer of Latrobe, Westmoreland county. Johanna, his wife’s mother, was born in Nettenburg, Germany, in 1809, and came to America in 1867, and to Monroeville, this county, where she died, in 1873.