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Ralph B Huber
RALPH B. HUBER, who is engaged in the general merchandise business in the
borough of Rural Valley, Armstrong county, is a hardworking and enterprising
young man whose substantial qualities augur well for his success. He was born
at Rural Valley Sept. 15, 1886, son of Joseph B. Huber, and is a grandson of
the late Bernard Huber, who settled at what is now Rural Valley in 1850.Bernard Huber was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, Nov. 6, 1819, and came to
America when he became of age. He was a tailor by trade. After his marriage he
located at Lancaster, Pa., where he followed tailoring for a time, and thence
removed to Philadelphia, where he lived, in what is now West Philadelphia,
until 1850. Coming to Armstrong county, he bought property and in the fall of
that year settled at what is now Rural Valley, where he continued to work at
his trade. He had served five years in the German army before coming to
America, and when the Civil war broke out he enlisted in the support of the
Union, becoming a member of Company G, 78th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry, and being at once made orderly sergeant. He was ever afterward known
as Sergeant Huber. He was with the Army of the Cumberland, and served three
years. After his return from the army Mr. Huber lived retired until his death,
which occurred in July, 1891. He is buried at Rural Valley. Mr. Huber was
always faithful to his military training and continued to take an interest in
such matters, was a member of the G. A. R. and took an active part in its
work, and was a man highly respected by all who knew him. His wife, Anna B. (Busenger),
was born in Germany, July 6, 1810, and came to America with her parents when
three years old, the family settling in Harrisburg, Pa. She died at Rural
Valley April 23, 1885, aged nearly seventy-five years. The following children
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Huber: Elizabeth, born Aug. 14, 1841, died
unmarried; Lewis F., born June 13, 1843, served during the Civil War in
Company G, 55th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Harry White’s
regiment, and died at Beaufort, S. C., Jan 5, 1863, at the early age of
nineteen, while in the service; Charles H. lives at Rural Valley; Joseph B. is
mentioned below; Anna M., born Nov. 23, 1850, died in childhood.Joseph B. Huber was born May 30, 1848, in Philadelphia, and learned the
trade of shoemaker, which he followed for a number of years. He was a young
child when the family settled in Rural Valley, and he passed the remainder of
his life at that place, where he died Feb. 25, 1909. For a number of years he
was engaged at the carpenter’s trade. He is buried at Rural Valley. Mr. Huber
was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He married Mrs. Hannah (Ramer) Hoeh,
daughter of Robert and Mary (Hertenberger) Ramer, natives of Germany who came
to this country and settled in Armstrong county, Pa., and widow of Charles
Hoeh. She survived Mr. Huber and continues to make her home at Rural Valley.
To Mr. and Mrs. Huber were born three children: Ralph B.; Elsie, who married
Oscar C. Turney and has one child, Harold; and Wilburt, who died young. By her
first marriage Mrs. Huber had two daughters: Mary, who died when eighteen
years old; and Flora, who married John Hankinson and had four children,
Lawrence, Elsie, Bernard and Russel.Ralph B. Huber received his early education at the public schools of Rural
Valley and later attended the normal school at Indiana. He then took up the
electrical business, which he followed for eighteen months at Yatesboro, this
county, and he has since devoted himself to the general store at Rural Valley
which he now conducts. He was a wide patronage among the residents of Rural
Valley and the neighboring country, and by honorable methods and strict
attention to his customers is building up a substantial trade.Mr. Huber married A. G. Milliron, daughter of Jesse Milliron, of Ringgold,
Jefferson county, Pa., and they have one daughter, Evelyn M. Mr. Huber is a
member of the Presbyterian Church. He votes independently.Source: Pages 796-797, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed October 1998 by James R Hindman for the Armstrong County Beers
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