John Horner is known as a gunsmith from Conemaugh Township tax records.
L. Dietle
Chronology
1801: The following excerpt from the 1884 book "History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania" indicates that Conemaugh Township was created in 1801:
1802-1806: According to Kauffman's 1960 book "The Pennsylvania - Kentucky Rifle", John Horner, Jr. is identified as a gunsmith in the 1802, 1803, and 1806 tax rolls of Conemaugh Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
This may be the individual described as John Horner, Jr. on page 16 of the 2017 book "Gunsmiths of Somerset County, Pennsylvania" who was working in a part of Somerset County that became Cambria County. If so, this individual is beyond the scope of this website study, which is focused on gunsmiths who were active within the present-day boundaries of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania.
1804: The 1905 book "Year Book of the Pennsylvania Society" states, "Six counties reached a hundred years' growth in 1904. These comprised Cambria, Clearfield, Jefferson, McKean, Potter, and Tioga. They were erected by act of Legislature of March 26, 1804. Cambria was taken from Somerset and Huntingdon counties."
1808-1814: The 1983 booklet "Gunsmiths and Gunmakers of Bedford and Somerset Counties Pennsylvania 1770-1900" refers to this individual as John Horner, Sr. and puts him in Conemaugh Township of Cambria County from 1808 to 1814.
1810: I didn't find any Horner families in the Conemaugh Township section of the 1810 federal census of Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The following image shows the only listing I saw in the 1810 census records of Conemaugh Township of Cambria County that looks like it may be for a John Horner. The image is a composite consisting of tabular information from one page and a table header from another page.
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1800: I did not find an individual named John Horner in the Cambria Township section of the 1800 manuscript census records of Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
