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HEADER C.C. Gumbert C. C. GUMBERT, of New Bethlehem, Pa., is secretary, treasurer and manager of the Red Bank Mills (incorporated), manufacturing high-grade flour and dealing in feed and grain of all kinds. Source: Page 942, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914 Transcribed November 1998 by Kathy Zagorac … Read more
HEADER Evan Griffith EVAN GRIFFITH (deceased) was for forth-six years prominently identified with the development of oil interests in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, at Marietta. He was born at Wayland, Ohio, Jan. 18, 1845, son of Evan and Elizabeth (Lewis) Griffith. The parents were natives of Wales and were among the pioneers in Portage … Read more
HEADER William Norris Gray WILLIAM NORRIS GRAY owns a fine farm of 133 acres in Kittanning township, Armstrong county, which includes the old Gray homestead upon which he was born May 26, 1860. The family is of New England stock. Aaron Gray, his father, was born in Kittanning township, Armstrong Co., Pa., and with the … Read more
HEADER John Grantz JOHN GRANTZ, late of Bethel township, Armstrong county, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, July 2, 1834, and died July 25, 1912. He was brought to the United States by his father, Adam Grantz, when six years old. His mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Lautenschlager, died in Germany when a young woman. … Read more
HEADER HENRY L. GRANTZ HENRY L. GRANTZ, of Bethel township, Armstrong county, is of German extraction, his parents, George and Hettie (Rhodes) Grantz, both having been natives of Germany. Their parents had settled first in Westmoreland county, Pa., upon coming from Germany, later moving into Armstrong county, George Grantz�s parents settling upon the farm of … Read more
HEADER PETER GRAFF PETER GRAFF 3d, of Worthington, Armstrong Co., Pa., proprietor of the Peter Graff Milling Company, is one of the younger members of a family whose activities in business and social circles have made the name one of the most prominent in this section. The Graff family is of German origin. In the … Read more
HEADER J Frank Graff Hon. J. FRANK GRAFF, part proprietor of the Buffalo Wollen Mills at Worthington, Pa., was born Aug. 12, 1857, son of Peter and Susan (Lobingier) Graff. J.Frank Graff attended the public schools at Worthington, prepared for college at Steven’s Hall, Gettysburg, Pa., and then entered Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, where he … Read more
HEADER Hon. Edmund D. Graff HON. EDMUND D. GRAFF, late of Worthington, was a man of large business interests, political prominence and individual character. He was born at Worthington in 1846, son of Peter and Susan (Lobingier) Graff, and always maintained his home in Armstrong county. John Graff, his grandfather, was born in 1763, in … Read more
HEADER George A Gourley GEORGE A. GOURLEY, deceased, for many years a farmer and merchant of Rural Valley, was born near Saltsburg, Indiana Co., Pa., Feb. 4, 1821, son of John and Martha (Scott) Gourley. Samuel Gourley, his grandfather, was born in Ireland, and came to Westmoreland county, Pa., at a very early date, there … Read more
HEADER Robert E Gosser ROBERT E. GOSSER, of Leechburg, Armstrong county, where he is engaged as sheet roller at the American Sheet & Tin Plate Company�s plant, is a son of Daniel Gosser, the leading grocer of that borough, ad was born July 29, 1873, in Gilpin township, near Leechburg. Adam Gosser, his great-grandfather, moved … Read more