Rev. John A. Delo, second child and son of Daniel and Christiana (Loughner) Delo, was born April 15, 1826. He had a common school education, and for a time was a clerk at Eagle Furnace. He had united with the Methodist Episcopal church when sixteen years of age, but transferred his membership to the Evangelical Lutheran. Feeling called to the ministry, he studied for a time with his pastor, Rev. Witt, in Shippensville, and finished his course in Wittenberg College, at Springfield, Ohio. During his first pastorate at Marionville, Pennsylvania, he married Amelia Button, in 1855. He after had pastorates at North Washington, Butler county, and Apollo, Armstrong county. From Apollo he went into the army as chaplain of the Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers. He went with his regiment through the Wilderness campaign, to the James river, where they were discharged. He had contracted a chronic disease, and the same fall, November 1, 1864, he died at North Washington, Butler county, Pennsylvania, where he is interred. He was a man of deep piety and much more than ordinary pulpit ability. The veterans of his regiment have spoken of him as an ideal chaplain in camp and in hospital, ever on the lookout for their physical and spiritual good. He and his wife were the parents of one daughter, Alice, and two sons, Alonzo and Howe. Alonzo was an artist in Pittsburgh, died leaving two children; the mother also died, and the children are in the care of Alice Delo, who is unmarried. Rev. Howe Delo, the other son of John A. Delo, was a Lutheran minister at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; he had comsumption, went to Texas for relief but died there in Austin.
