Eyth, John Baptist (b. ABT 1819, d. BEF 1900)

Immigration: Date: 1839

Occupation: Date: 1880
Place: Musician

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Centreville, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Note: Martin EYTH moved into this township in 1862. He emigrated with his parents from Wurtemberg in 1839, being then fifteen years of age. Their first location, after arriving in this county, was on a tract of sixty-five acres of land, purchased from John BARD, it being situated in close proximity to BREWSTER's Schoolhouse. Young Martin lived with his father on the farm until he was twenty-three years of age, when he married Margaret HAGGARTY, of Butler, Penn. She died eight years after marriage, leaving two children-William J. and Lizzie. The former is engaged in the mercantile business at Chillicothe, Ohio. The latter is now Mrs. BALDAUF, and resides in Pittsburgh. In 1857, Martin EYTH the second time entered the marriage relation, selecting for his life companion Eva RITZARD, of this township. Eight of their children are living, viz.: Maggie, Caroline, Francis, Stephen, Josephine, Clara Celia Stella, Mary A. Dolorosa and Gertrude. Caroline is now Mrs. Charles GEIBLE, and resides in Carbon Center.

For four years after Mr. EYTH's first marriage, he kept what was well known as the HAGGARTY House in Butler. It was not until 1862 that Mr. E. removed to this township and located on his present farm, which tells unmistakably of wise and prudent management.

Immigration: Date: 1839

Occupation: Date: BET 1850 AND 1860
Place: Inn Keeper

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Oakland, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Centreville, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Immigration: Date: 1839

Occupation: Date: 1850
Place: Washer Woman

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Immigration: Date: 1839

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Summit, Butler, Pennsylvania

Immigration: Date: 1839

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Butler Ward 5, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Centreville, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Occupation: Date: 1850
Place: Blacksmith

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Summit, Butler, Pennsylvania

Note: John Berg Sr., was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, June 9, 1812, and was a son of John and Marian Berg. He was educated in his native land, and there learned the baker’s trade.

In 1832 he immigrated to the United States, in company with his uncle, Casper Ritzert, and first settled at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where he found employment in a rolling mill. He afterwards removed to Pittsburg, and worked at his trade until 1835. In that year he came to Butler and opened a small bakery and grocer store upon the site of the hardware house now occupied by George A Cypher & Company, which building he afterwards erected. He carried on business here until about 1848, when he and his brother Herman leased the property on the corner of main and Cunningham streets, erected a warehouse and engaged in a general store, produce and wool business, under the firm name of John Berg & Company.

This partnership lasted until 1856, when Herman Berg retired and John Berg continued the business alone until 1870. In that year Mr. Berg founded the banking house of John Berg & Company, which has been in successful operation for the past twenty-four years. In 1874 he erected the brick building, 121 South Main street and taking into partnership his son-in-law, George A Cypher, engaged in a hardware business, under the name of Berg & Cypher, until his death. In 1880, in partnership with his son John, he embarked in a general grocery and wool business, which they carried on until 1882.

Mr. Berg was one of the pioneer oil operators on the Allegheny and Butler counties. In partnership with Mr. Klinger he shipped, n 1863, 1,000 barrels of crude oil to Liverpool, which was one of the first shipments of petroleum made to England. It was consigned to Boult, English & Brandon, and was sold by the ton. He was also associated with Mr. Klingler in the lease, of 12,000 acres of oil lands, which they finally abandoned, and which afterwards proved to be the richest oil field in Butler county.

He was one of the largest, if not the largest, real estate owners in the borough and county. Mr. berg was a Whig in politics until the organization of the American or Know Nothing party, when because of the sympathy existing in the Whig party with Know Nothingism, he became a Democrat. In religious faith he was a Catholic, and, with his brother, was among the pioneers of St. Peter’s church of Butler, and gave liberally towards the erection of that building.

He married Martha, daughter of Roman Eyth (correction - Marcus Eyth), and nine children blessed this union, as follows: Mary; John; Magdalene, a Sister of Mercy in the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Ridgeley, Maryland; Margaret’ Elizabeth, deceased wife of George A Cypher; Henry A; Annie; Mark’ Louis, and Charles. Mr. Berg died June 9, 1884; his widow survives at the age of seventy-one years.

John Berg Jr. was born June 23 1842, in Butler, and is the eldest son of John Berg, Sr., and the head of the banking house of John Berg & Company. In 1867 he was appointed teller of the First National Bank, of Butler, and after a few months was elected cashier of the institution, which office he filled until the fall of 1869. In the autumn of 1870 his father founded the banking house of John Berg & Company, and he was a partner in that institution and the practical head of the bank from its establishment up to the present time. Mr. Berg is one of the most extensive real estate owners on the county, as well as one of its successful business men. In politics, he is a Democrat, and in religious faith, a member of St Peter’s Catholic Church.

Occupation: Date: 1850
Place: Merchant

Occupation: Date: 1870
Place: Retired Merchant

Occupation: Date: 1880
Place: Banker

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Occupation: Date: 1870
Place: Hotel Keeper

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania

Immigration: Date: 1839