JOHN H. CHARLTON proprietor of the widely known and popular meat market in the borough of Washington, is a grandson of Robert Charltcn, who came from Germany to Washington county in 1813, and died at Cook's Place, Chartiers township, in 1828, his wife (who accompanied him from the Fatherland) dying some time later. They had children as follows: Samuel, Joseph (now in Iowa), John, Daniel, Jacob and Robert. Samuel Charlton, son of Robert, was born in Germany, and came with his parents to this country and county. By occupation he was a wagoner on the National pike between Washington, Penn., and Baltimore, Md. He was twice married, first time to Miss Shipe, who died leaving two children: Robert (now deceased) and Frank (in Mannington, W. Va.). His second marriage was with Mrs. Elizabeth Marie (nee Hervey), a lady of Irish parentage, and they had a family of five children as follows: John H., our subject; Mary, wife of Fred Hood, of Washington; Susan, also in that borough; Rebecca, (deceased wife of Henry Llewellen (she died in 1874), and Samuel M., in Washington. The parents, soon after marriage, came to live in the borough of Washington, where the father died about the year 1858, at the age of fifty four years, the mother in 1876, at the age of sixty-five. John H. Charlton, of whom this sketch more particularly relates, was born in this county, in 1842, and his boyhood was passed alternately in attending the schools of the neighborhood of his birthplace and laboring on the farm till coming into the borough of Washington. Here he carried on a butchering business until 1876 when he moved to Ohio and there conducted a similar line of trade until 1880, in which year he returned to Washington, and opened out his present meat market, in which he has met with unqualified success. In October, 1872. Mr. Charlton was united in marriage with Miss Armmella A. Levering, of Knox county, Ohio, and four children were born to them viz. Mary L., wife of Charles L. Stone; and Addie H., Ethel B. and Clayton B., all at home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Charlton are members of the second Presbyterian church of Washington. In politics he is a Republican, and at one time served as assessor. He was but a lad of sixteen when his father died, and, being the eldest of five children had for years to give all his earnings toward the support of the family.

Text taken from page 1144 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed January 1997 by Judy & Lee Schaeffer of Pittsburgh, PA as part of the Beers Project. Published January 1997 on the Washington County, PA pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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