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On July 3, 1887, Mr. Kifer married Jennie Walker, who was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1871, daughter of Levi and Mary Z. (Eigler) Walker, natives of Somerset county, granddaughter of Walker, also a native of Somerset county and a descendant of a German lineage. Both Levi Walker and his father followed farming as a means of livelihood and were Republicans in their political affiliations. Mr. and Mrs. Kifer were the parents of two chil- dren: Willard, born November 24, 1888, died December 10, 1899: and Stuart, horn May 23, 1891, died December 2, 1899.
GEORGE W. SHAFFER.
George W. Shaffer, a prominent business man of Somerset, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, was there born March 3, 1863, a son of William and Elizabeth (Berkey) Shaffer. He is of German descent. His grandfather, Tobias Shaffer, was born near Stoystown. Somerset county, was a farmer by occupation and the owner of a coal mine.
William Shaffer (father) was born in 1837 in Somerset, Pennsylvania, and is a retired farmer. He served in the Civil war. His wife, Elizabeth Berkey, is a daughter of Henry Berkey, who was a farmer and a minister. William and Eliza- beth (Berkey) Shaffer had children as follows: Harry, de- ceased ; George W .. see forward; Carrie; Anna; Lucy, deceased; Hattie W .; Charles, deceased; Frank, deceased; William, de- ceased; Albert; and James. Of these children, Carrie, the second child and eldest daughter, married W. P. Rifer.
George W. Shaffer obtained his educational training in the common schools of Somerset, and at the early age of sixteen started out to make his own way in the world. He was en-
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gaged with his father in farming and in the conduct of a coal mine until he was twenty-eight years of age. He then learned the trade of mason and plasterer, and after some time spent at this occupation with the firm of Laws & Snyder he formed a partnership with Harry Pile, and together they established themselves in business in Somerset. Both of these men are thorough, capable business men, and their business is a success- ful and profitable one.
George W. Shaffer married, April 9, 1889, Miss Elmira Stull, born January 1, 1872, in Shanksville, Somerset county, the daughter of Edward and Carrie (Groft) Stull. She is the granddaughter of Harry Stull, who was born in Stoystown and was the proprietor of a hotel there for eight years, and was for forty-seven years so engaged in Shanksville. Edward Stull (father) was born July 27, 1851, in Berlin, and was a farmer by occupation. His wife, Carrie Groft, was born April 16, 1852, a daughter of Henry and Caroline (Lebsier) Groft. Ed- ward and Carrie (Groft) Stull had children as follows: Elmira (Mrs. Shaffer) ; Rose; Mabel; Anna; Vida; Daisy; Albert; Orange; Harry. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Shaffer are the par- ents of one child, Maud K., born May 7, 1890, in Somerset, and now resides at home with her parents.
JOHN A. WOY.
The Woy family, represented in the present generation by John A. Woy, Listie, is of German origin. John A. Woy was born in Quemahoning, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1836. son of John and Sarah (Keifer) Woy, and grand- son of Henry Woy, who was a native of Somerset township, Somerset county, was a farmer by occupation and a Democrat in politics.
John Woy (father), also a native of Somerset county, Penn- sylvania, was a shingle-shaver by trade, and by giving care- ful attention to same was enabled to provide a comfortable home for his family. By his marriage to Sarah Keifer the fol- lowing named children were born: Elizabeth; Henry, who died May 15, 1905; Mary; Nancy; John A., see forward; Charles ; George; Sallie, deceased; and Catherine.
John A. Woy received his education in the common schools of Somerset county, completing his studies at the age of fifteen years. He then gave his attention to farming for a few years, after which he served an apprenticeship at the trade of stone- mason, and for several years thereafter followed that occupa- tion. In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, Fifty-fourth Regi- ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served for three years and one month, participating in the principal battles and engage- ments. He returned to his home in Quemahoning township,
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where he has since resided, and by giving close attention to all his business affairs and by hard work and good management has secured for himself a comfortable home. His political views are Republican.
Mr. Woy married, August 20, 1869, Rachel Smith, born 1836, daughter of Henry and Rebecca Smith, and the issue of this union was four children: Anna; Maggie; George, de- ceased; and Luther. Mrs. Woy, the mother of these children, passed away June 23, 1888. Mr. Woy married, June 29, 1893, Frances Shoffer, daughter of Jacob and Maria (Davies) Shof- fer, and one child was the issue, Emma, born June 12, 1894. Jacob Shoffer, a descendant of a German ancestry, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, was a farmer by occupation, and he and his wife were the parents of eleven children: Mar- garet, deceased; George, deceased; Henry; Amanda, deceased; Frank, deceased; Jane, deceased; Harriet; Marie; Simon; Francis; and James, deceased.
JAMES BIRKEY.
The ancestors of James Birkey, of Davidsville, were among the early settlers of Jenner township. His great-grandfather, Samuel Birkey, was born about 1780 in that part of Bedford county which is now included within the limits of Somerset county, and was the son of a German, the founder of the Birkey family in this country. Samuel Birkey was a farmer of Jen- ner township, and also owned and operated a distillery, as did many other farmers of that day and generation. He married and he and his wife were the parents of a large family.
Elijah Birkey, son of Samuel Birkey, was born about 1810 in Jenner township, where he passed his life on the farm on which he was born. He was a Republican and a member of the Dunkard church. Mr. Birkey married Nancy, daughter of Jonathan Miller, and the following children were born to them : Samuel E., deceased; Mary, wife of Gardner; Joshua, married Blough; Rachel, wife of Blough; John; Lavina, wife of
- Thomas; and two who died in early life.
Samuel E. Birkey, son of Elijah and Nancy (Miller) Birkey, was born in 1836 in Jenner township and was a car- penter, working at his trade among the farmers of Somerset county. At different times he was the owner of several small farms. For one term he served as school director of Quema- honing township. He was a Republican. For twenty years he held the office of deacon in the Dunkard church, in which he was an earnest worker. He married, in 1861, Mary, daughter of Tobias Blough, of Quemahoning township, and their chil- dren were: James, see forward; Elijah, married Maggie
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Boyts, had six children: Earl, Bertha, Millard, Jolin, Robert and Margaret; Lucy, wife of Slick, has five children : Chester, Mary, Frank, Anna and Martha; Maria, died at the age of eleven years; Freeman, died at the age of five years; Joseph, died in childhood; John, also died in childhood; Ira, at home. Three others died, unnamed. The death of Mr. Birkey occurred in 1897.
James Birkey, son of Samuel E. and Mary (Blough) Bir- key, was born in 1862 in Jenner township. He went to the far west and was in the Klondike in 1897-98, where for eight months he was engaged in mining for gold. During this period he spent two months in traveling with dogs from Skagway to Dawson City over the Chilcoote pass. In 1898 he returned to Oregon and for two years was employed in Stratton's Independent mines. He then went to Bisbee, Oregon, where for eight months he worked in the Copper Queen mines, and in 1903 returned home. Shortly after he went, in the interest of some Johns- town people, to the mining district of Mexico. On his return he settled in Davidsville, where he has since led the life of a farmer. He is now serving as constable of Conemaugh town- ship. He affiliates with Western Oregon Lodge, No. 65, F. and A. M., and is a Republican in politics. Mr. Birkey married, in 1903, Maggie Boyts, widow of Elijah Birkey, and they have one child, Harold, born October 1, 1904.
FRANKLIN L. LIENHARDT.
Franklin L. Lienhardt, of Hooversville, at the age of nine- teen became clerk in a wholesale house, where he remained three years. He then went to Cross Park, Clinton county, and went into a new line of business, holding the position of mana- ger of the Sanbaugh House of that place. In April, 1903, he moved to Seanor, Somerset county, and for a short time con- ducted a poolroom. He then entered the service of G. J. Was- seen, with whom he remained until October, 1904, when he opened the Grand Central Hotel, of Hooversville, and is still the proprietor of this establishment. He is a Republican and a supporter of the Lutheran church. Mr. Lienhardt married, November 24, 1903, Sada Harshburger, and they are the par- ents of two children: Theodore L., born May 25, 1904; and an infant, unnamed.
Mrs. Lienhardt traces her descent, on the maternal side, from Frederick Foust, born about 1761, and in 1823 migrated from York county to Johnstown. He was a miller by trade, and from Johnstown moved to what is now Foustwell, where for several years he operated the Foustwell Mills. He then moved to Westmoreland county and thence to Indiana county, where he passed the remainder of his life. In his youth he served in
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the Revolutionary army. He was a Whig and a member of the Lutheran church. His name indicates his German extrac- tion. He had two brothers, John and Balser, and four sisters, Catherine, wife of David Shaffer; Eve, wife of Oaks; Susanna, wife of Oaks; and Elizabeth, wife of
Berkebile. The death of Mr. Foust occurred in 1847.
Henry Foust, son of Frederick Foust, was born in 1813 in York county, and was ten years old when his father moved to Somerset county. He purchased of David Livingston the mill which the latter had erected at Foustwell and which was the first mill in Paint township. This structure Mr. Foust re- built in 1853 and operated it as long as he lived. He served his township in various offices, and until middle life was a Whig, afterward becoming a Republican. He was a member of the Mennonite church. Mr. Foust married Eve, daughter of David Livingston, and they were the parents of eight children, of whom the following grew to maturity: Samuel, see for- ward; Elizabeth, wife of Berkey; Sarah, wife of
Myers; Henry, married a Miss Miller; and Louisa, wife of Hamlet. Mr. Foust died in 1875.
Samuel Foust, son of Henry and Eve (Livingston) Foust, was born December 21, 1838, and in 1862 became the owner and operator of the gristmill at Foustwell which had been built by his father. Since 1902 he has been engaged in mercantile business. In 1892 he received the appointment of postmaster, which he still holds. His political affiliations are with the Re- publicans and he is a member of the Mennonite church. He married, March 16, 1862, Lydia Huffman, of Scalp, and their children were: Louisa, born May 29, 1863, married
Hershberger, and the following are their children: Sada L., wife of Franklin L. Lienhardt, Carrie E., and Rebecca and Lydia, twins; Albert, born February 14, 1866, married Mar- garet Myers, and has one child, Clyde; Ida, born May 26, 1869, wife of W. W. Wine, has six children: Harvey, Samuel, Lacey, Alberta, Stewart and Rose; Matilda, wife of Luedne, has six children : Harry, Iva, Sala, Lizzie, Lydia, and Charles. Eve Cevillia, wite of Holsopple, has five children : Clyde, Cellia, Ray, Merel, and Iva. Emma, born February 16, 1882, shot by a jealous suitor, who immediately committed sui- cide.
NELSON MOSSHOLDER.
Nelson Mossholder, of Listie, was born in Stony Creek, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1856, son of. and Louisa (Spangler) Mossholder, natives of Somerset conn- ty, the former named an enterprising and successful farmer and a Republican in his political views. Their family con-
Chas. F. Cook
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sists of nine children, among whom were: Amanda; Emma; Isaac; Nelson; Samuel; Sarah; and George Mossholder. Sam- uel Snyder Mossholder, grandfather of Nelson Mossholder, was born in Somerset county, followed agricultural pursuits and cast his vote for the candidates of the Republican party.
After completing a common school education, at the age of nineteen years, Nelson Mossholder learned the trades of stone- mason and bricklayer, which line of work he followed success- fully for a number of years. In 1892 he purchased a farm, and the greater part of his time and attention since then has been devoted to its cultivation and improvement. He is a Re- publican in his political opinions and a staunch and highly re- spected citizen of his native township. Mr. Mossholder was united in marriage on April 30, 1876, to Hannah Weimer, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, April 2, 1853, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Snyder) Weimer, and the issue of this union was eight children: John W .; Samuel; Effie; William; Aman- da; Josiah; Lorinda ; and Marie Mossholder.
CHARLES FISHER COOK.
Charles Fisher Cook, register of wills and clerk of the Orphans' court of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, was born at Cook's Mills, Bedford county, June 8, 1869, a son of Jonas M. and Emma S. (Stutzman) Cook, and grandson of Jesse Cook. This family originally came from Lancaster county.
Jonas M. Cook was for about thirty-five years the senior member of the firm of Cook & Beerits, wholesale and retail grocers of Somerset. In early life he was a teacher in the county schools. He is still interested in educational affairs and was for twenty-one years a school director. He served in the Civil war in Company F, Sixty-first Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and participated in many of the hard fought battles of the war with the Army of the Potomac. He has always been a stanch Republican in politics and cast his first vote for Abra- ham Lincoln, voting with the soldiers in camp. In his religious affiliations he is a member of the Christian church, at which he has been an attendant for thirty-four years, and has served as deacon of same. He is now living a retired life, having re- linquished active business pursuits in 1905.
Jonas M. Cook married Emma S. Stutzman in Somerset county and they are the parents of four sons and seven daugh- ters, Charles F. being the eldest child. Mrs. Cook obtained her education in the county schools and at Millersburg Acad- emy. Prior to her marriage she was a teacher in the public schools of Somerset. Her father, Joseph Stutzman, was the first county superintendent of public schools for Somerset county.
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Charles F. Cook acquired his early intellectual training in the public schools of Somerset, and was a member of the first graduating class of the Somerset high school. He then took a course in the Iron City Business College at Pittsburg, there laying a good foundation for a future successful business ca- reer. When he was a boy of eight years he helped in his father's store on Saturdays and on other days after the dis- missal of school. Later he engaged as a clerk in that store, and also spent sixteen months in the employ of James McKelvey, lumber dealer. November 1, 1893, he removed to Berlin and opened a grocery store there under the firm name of Charles F. Cook & Company. They made a specialty of maple sugar, handling a large part of the Brothers Valley and Stony Creek crop. They did a very large business in this line, amounting to from twenty-five thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand pounds of sugar annually. Mr. Cook introduced the modern method of making tub sugar in Somerset county, which was a great improvement over the methods formerly in use. Mr. Cook was for several years secretary of the Berlin Improvement Com- pany, doing a general real estate and town improvement busi- ness.
In his political affiliations Mr. Cook is an ardent Repub- lican and takes a deep interest in all that pertains to the wel- fare and advancement of that organization. He cast his first vote for state officers in 1900. In making nominations he is strictly independent in thought and action, but when they are made he is always loyal to the party nominees. He was a member of the county committee and a delegate to the state convention that nominated William A. Stone for governor. In 1905 he was made the nominee of the Republican party for the office of register of wills and clerk of Orphans' court, to which office he was elected by a vote equal to that cast for all the op- posing candidates. After his election he disposed of his busi- ness in Berlin and removed to Somerset in order to give all his time and energy to the duties of his office. During his resi- dence in Berlin he was secretary and director of the Berlin Hospital for the treatment of non-contagious diseases and all surgical operations, for which the hospital was fully and finely equipped.
Fraternally he holds membership in the I. O. O. F., Berlin Lodge, No. 461; has served in all the offices in this lodge and is now past grand master; the Sons of Veterans, Camp W. E. Conrad, No. 118; the Junior Order of American Mechanics, Shanksville Council, No. 729; Modern Woodmen of America, Camp No. 7170, Berlin, in which he has held all the offices; the Royal Arcanum, Grandview Council, No. 2060, Berlin; Valley Grange at Beachdale; Pomona Grange, Somerset county, of
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which he was secretary; the Protected Home Circle at Garrett, Pennsylvania; and the West End Fire Company at Berlin. Although a member of many orders, he is most interested in the Sons of Veterans. He is a lover of martial music, and when a boy of sixteen became a member of the Somerset Sons of Veterans' Drum Corps, and with this organization attended many famous conventions and reunions. He has always been a lover of clean, manly sports, particularly of baseball, having been formerly a member of the Somerset Baseball Club. At the Somerset County Centennial he contested in the hundred-yard dash and took second prize. He is an excellent type of the American business man-honorable and upright in his business and home life, ready and anxious to assist any worthy business enterprise, and a warm friend and sympathizer with the young, both in their sports and their ambitions.
Mr. Cook married, June 8, 1893, Mollie B. Woy, of Somer- set township, a daughter of Andrew and Catherine Woy. Her mother was a daughter of Jacob Walker and a sister of Josiah Walker, the sugar king of Somerset county. Andrew Woy was a farmer and served in the One Hundred and Thirty-third Regi- ment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. One child, Emily Catherine, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Cook, November 17, 1897.
JOHN J. KAUFMAN.
John J. Kaufman, of Davidsville, is a lineal descendant of Stephen Kaufman, who came from Switzerland in 1760 and settled in Berks county, Pennsylvania. His son, Jacob Kauf- man, was born in 1751 and was therefore nine years old at the time of the emigration of the family. In 1807 Jacob Kaufman came from Berks county to Somerset county and settled near Davidsville, on what is now known as the "Isaac Kaufman" farm. His wife, Catharine, bore him two children: Isaac, see forward; and Kate. Mr. Kaufman married (second) Miller. by whom he became the father of the following chil- dren: Samuel, born June 15, 1808; Barbara, born November 10. 1809, wife of Christian Hochestler; Susan, born September 11, 1811, wife of Tobias T. Yoder; Sarah, born May 4, 1813, wife of Tobias W. Yoder; and Jacob M., born December 20, 1815, married Elizabeth Yoder. Jacob Kaufman, the father, died in 1844 at the great age of ninety-three.
Isaac Kaufman, son of Jacob and Catharine Kaufman, was born in 1806 in Berks county and was an infant when his par- ents moved to Somerset county. He was a farmer, and on the occasion of his marriage purchased two hundred and fifty acres of land. to which he made additions until he became the owner of sixteen hundred acres. This estate, which increased greatly in value, was subsequently divided among his heirs.
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He was a member of the Amish church and an old-line Whig. He married, in 1829, Polly, daughter of John Lehman, and their children were: John I., see forward; Elizabeth, wife of Levi Yoder; Polly, wife of Tobias Miller; Jacob, married Christine Fash; Sarah, wife of Joseph Wingard; Susan, wife of John Shaffer; Tobias, married Caroline Lohr and, after her death, Amelia Lohr; Isaac, living in Ohio; Mary, wife of Daniel Huff- man; Joseph, married Mary M. Myers and, after her death, Nancy Salo: Catharine, wife of Jacob Lohr; and David, mar- ried Lizzie J. Rinehart. The death of Mr. Kaufman occurred October 17, 1886.
John I. Kaufman, son of Isaac and Polly (Lehman) Kauf- man, was born in 1830 in Conemaugh township and settled near Davidsville, where he led the life of a farmer. For several terms he served as assessor and collector of the township. Dur- ing the Civil war he was twice drafted, the first time paying a fine of three hundred dollars and the second time furnishing a substitute. His action in the matter was determined by the objection to war, which forms part of the tenets of the Amish church, of which he was a member. Politically he was first a Whig and later a Republican. Mr. Kaufman married, in 1850, Margaret Wingard, and their family consisted of the following children: 1. Mary, born in 1852, wife of David Gilmer, has three children: Clara, Maggie and Hettie. 2. Jacob, born in 1854, married Catharine Blough and had children, three of whom died in childhood, and those who survived childhood were: Maggie; Crist, deceased; Norman; Amos; Harris. Catharine (Blough) Kaufman died June 22, 1889, and Mr. Kaufman sub- sequently married Carrie Blough, the issue of the marriage being one child, Vinnie. 3. Elizabeth, married Simon Layman. 4. John J., see forward. 5. Hettie, married Isaac S. Kaufman. 6. Levi, married Amanda Froner. 7. Isaac W., married Lu- cinda Blough. John I. Kaufman, father of these children, died July 22, 1880, and his widow, Margaret (Wingard) Kauf- man, died June 11, 1891.
John J. Kaufman, son of John I. and Margaret (Wingard) Kaufman, was born April 20. 1858, and obtained his education in the common schools. In 1888 he purchased his father's farm near Davidsville, and has since given his attention to agri- culture. On the land is a barn which was built in 1806 by Nicho- las Keim, and is still in use and in a good state of preserva- tion. He is a Republican and a member of the Mennonite church.
Mr. Kaufman married, in 1878, Malinda, daughter of Christian and Polly Blough, and the following are their chil- dren: 1. Jessie, born May 15, 1879, wife of John F. Hersh- berger, has two children, Annie and Irvin. 2. Hettie, born in
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1881, wife of Amon Wingard, has two children, Minnie and an infant son. 3. Christian, born in 1883, killed by an accident, February 6, 1905. 4. Minnie, born November 12, 1885. 5. John, born February 19, 1893. The mother of these children died January 7, 1897, and on July 29, 1900, Mr. Kaufman mar- ried Sarah Layman, the issue of the marriage being three chil- dren : Paul, born June 29, 1901 ; Nannie M., born June 14, 1903; and a son, who died in infancy.
WILLIAM D. BERKEY.
William D. Berkey, of Davidsville, traces his descent from Jacob Berkey, who emigrated from Germany about 1775 and settled at Berlin. Somerset county. He and his wife were Sev- enth-Day Baptists. Jacob Berkey died about 1820.
Peter Berkey, one of the nineteen children of Jacob Ber- key, was born in September, 1782, in Brothers Valley town- ship, and on May 7, 1817, married Mrs. Elizabeth Fylock, born September, 1782. Their family consisted of the following children: Mary, born September 22, 1802; Jonathan, born No- vember 22, 1804: Rachel, born August 15, 1805; Catharine, born November 5, 1806; Elizabeth, born March 1, 1808; Daniel, men- tioned at length hereinafter; Susan, born December 15, 1811; Anna, born April 14, 1815; Peter, born May 7, 1817; Catharine (2), born September 19, 1820; Joseph, born December 10, 1822; and Sarah, born June 8, 1826. Mr. and Mrs. Berkey were Sev- enth-Day Baptists.
Daniel Berkey, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Fylock) Ber- key, was born January 15, 1810, and during the greater portion of his life was engaged in farming. About 1867 he moved to Indiana, where he passed the remainder of his life. For many years he was an old-line Whig, but later became a Republican. He was a member of the German Baptist church until his re- moval to Indiana, when he joined the old order of Brethren. His death occurred in 1896.
Daniel Berkey, son of Daniel Berkey mentioned above, was born in 1833 in Paint township and settled on a farm near old Astala, on which he passed the remainder of his life. He served as school director and also as treasurer of the board. He was a Republican and a member of the German Baptist church. Mr. Berkey married Caroline, daughter of Jacob Bieker, and they were the parents of the following children: 1. Ephraim, married Hostetler. 2. Levi, married Har- riet Sears, has one child. 3. Jacob, married Levina Baum- gardner, by whom he had four children, and after whose death he married the widow of Christian Rice. 4. William D., men- tioned at length hereinafter. 5 Mary, wife of Samuel Weaver, has nine children. 6. Lavina, wife of Jacob Knadle. 7. Sarah,
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