Loudon Francis Benchoff and Martha Belle Johnston

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Husband Loudon Francis Benchoff ^{1 2}

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           Born: 13 Jan or 23 Jan 1851 - Hamiltonban Twp, Adams Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: John M. Benchoff (1823-      ) 1 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Anderson (      -      ) 1 4

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       Marriage: 25 Aug 1875 3

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Wife Martha Belle Johnston ^{1 5}

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         Father: William Johnston (1808-1882) 6
         Mother: Susan Harbaugh (1810-1888) 7

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Children

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1 M Howard Johnston Benchoff ^{1 3}

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           Born: 15 Jul 1876 3
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         Spouse: Kathryn Mahon (      -      ) 8
           Marr: 1904 8

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2 M George H. Benchoff ⁸

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           Born: 19 Nov 1879 8
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3 M Ross Edgar Benchoff ^{1 8}

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           Born: 8 Feb 1884 8
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4 M Guy A. Benchoff ⁸

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           Born: 10 Jan 1889 8
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General Notes: Husband - Loudon Francis Benchoff

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He was born on a farm in ownship, Adams County, Pennsylvania, and was reared as a typical farmer's son, assisting with the work at home in summer, and attending public school in winter. At the age of sixteen he became a student in a select school at Fairfield, to prepare himself for teaching, which he began at the age of seventeen in his native county. After two years in Adams County he came to Franklin County, where he taught for two years before entering the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. In that institution he took a commercial and normal course, after which he returned to the vicinity of his home, resuming teaching in Washington County, Maryland, where he was engaged for some time. There he became principal of the Ringgold schools in Washington County, Maryland. Returning to Franklin County, Pennsylvania, he taught until he entered upon the duties of being principal of the Rouzerville Academy and the North street schools of Waynesboro, and finally in the Waynesboro high school. In 1902 he was nominated and elected county superintendent of the public
schools of Franklin County and in that position proved to be one of the most capable friends of public education that the county ever had. In May, 1905, he was re-elected for a term of three years.
In politics Mr. Benchoff was a stanch Republican and he was a member of the Reformed Church, where he was an elder and deacon for twenty-five years.
For some years Mr. Benchoff gave considerable attention to farming and fruit growing on his farm of 75 acres in Washington township, one and one-half miles east of Waynesboro. This was one of the most productive farms of its size in Franklin County.

1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 932.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 566, 598.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 597.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 596.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 566, 597, 598.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 275, 566, 592, 598.

7 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 275, 566, 598.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 598.