John Beans Goentner

John Beans Goentner, Montgomery county, was born in Lancaster county, June 27, 1847; his parents returned to the homestead near Hatboro, Montgomery county, in 1849, where he was brought up on the farm; educated in the public schools and in Loller Academy; taught school six years; in 1878 he married and settled on a farm he had purchased in Abington, where he still resides; has always been an active Republican and was a delegate to a county convention before he cast his first vote; he has always taken an active interest in literary and public affairs, serving as school director, director of insurance company, etc.; he was twice elected Justice of the Peace, which position he held when elected to the House of Representatives in 1892.

Source: Thos. B. Cochran, comp. Smull's Legislative Hand Book and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, 1896, p. 1030.

Submitted by Nancy.