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Edwin E Schaeffer
EDWIN E. SCHAEFFER, now sole owner of the business conducted under the firm
name of James Schaeffer & Son, of Kittanning, the leading marble and
granite dealer of the borough, has been identified with that business all his
active life and became associated with his father at Kittanning in 1904. He is
one of the best known men in his line in this section of Pennsylvania.Mr. Schaeffer was born Dec. 26, 1876, in Kittanning township, Armstrong
Co., Pa., son of James and Catherine (Simpson) Shaeffer. At the age of
thirteen years he began to learn stone cutting at Kittanning, being thus
engaged for a period of four years. He then spent three years at Apollo, this
county, after which he located at Verona, Allegheny county, where he remained
three years. He then gave up the granite work for employment in a mill at
Apollo, where he was engaged for one fall, after which he did sandstone
cutting at Apollo and in the in the vicinity for one year. For the next three
years he was at Blairsville, Indiana Co., Pa., in the employ of C. F. Murray,
who has a large business at that point. In January, 1904, he settled at
Kittanning, doing business with his father as junior member of the firm of
James Schaeffer & Son until recently, when he became sole proprietor of
the business, which will be continued under the old name. It has been located
on Union avenue throughout this period, and the extensive plant has been
developed, equipped and enlarged as the demands of the constantly increasing
trade require. Everything is up to date and convenient, and there are
facilities for doing the work in the most modern way, this establishment not
only keeping up with the times, but being the first to adopt new methods and
put new ideas into practice.Mr. Schaeffer is well known in local fraternal circles, belonging to the B.
P. O. Elks, I. O. O. F., Foresters, Independent Americans and Woodmen of the
World.Source: Pages 462-463, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J. H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed September 1998 by James R. Hindman for the Armstrong County Beers
Project
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