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JOHN STONER STOTLER, farmer, post office Negley, was born on the farm where he now resides, in 1843. His parents, Andrew and Elizabeth (Bush) Stotler, were also born in Penn township; his father on the same farm. Henry, father of Andrew, came from Franklin county in 1790, and died in 1852, in his seventy-third year. Abram Bush, father of Elizabeth, was an early resident of Sandy Creek. Andrew Stotler died in February, 1859, aged fifty years, and his widow in 1886, aged nearly seventy-three. They had following-named children, all save two being residents of Penn: Henry H., killed at the first battle of Fredericksburg; Abraham B., John S., Levia Anna (Wilson), Samuel R., Andrew P., Martha E. (Pahlman), David, George B., Archibald L., Alexander S. J. S. Stotler received a common-school education, and has always been a farmer. In December, 1882, he married Fanny Rebecca Lerena Kistler, who was born in 1862 in Westmoreland county, a daughter of Samuel and Eve Susannah Kistler, of German descent. Two children bless the home of Mr. Stotler: Olive May and James Edwin. The family is united with the U. P. Church. Mr. Stotler, like all of that name, is a republican, and has been school director and supervisor.