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Samuel E Waugaman
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SAMUEL E. WAUGAMAN, farmer and dairyman of Rayburn township, Armstrong
county, belongs to an old settled family of that portion of the county, and
was born May 27, 1860, in Valley township, near Slagles.George
Waugaman, his grandfather, came to Armstrong county from Westmoreland
county, Pa., settling in Valley township on a tract which was then all in
the woods. He built a log house and there reared his family. The history of
Armstrong county published in 1883 says that there was quite a large body of
vacant land, as presented on the map of original tracts, extending from the
southern line of the eastern portion of “Mexico,” and a portion of this was
settled by George Waugaman in 1811, with forty acres of which, with one
horse and cow, and as a weaver, he was first assessed the next year at $34.
His warrant for 201 acres, 113 perches is dated Feb. 22, and the survey
March 3, 1836. He lived and died there, passing away at the age of
eighty-two years. In politics he was originally a George Washington
Democrat, and in religion he adhered to the faith of the Reformed Church.
His children were: John, Andrew, Peter, George, Philip, Susan (Mrs.
Schreckenberger), Katie (married) and Mrs. Schotts (deceased).Andrew
Waugaman, son of George, was born in the same place in Valley township as
his son Samuel. He remained on the old homestead all his life, owning 112
acres. He married Rebecca Truby, who was born in Armstrong county and reared
in Kittanning. Her father, Michael Truby, built the old stone house now
owned by members of the Colwell family (Charles Colwell and family),
conducting it and also a blacksmith shop; he owned the farm. His children
were: Philip, Daniel, Henry, Isabella (Mrs. Samuel Elgin), Rebecca (Mrs.
Waugaman), Eve (Mrs. Jacob Buckley), Lavina (Mrs. Jacob Rarroich), Mary Ann
(Mrs. James Campbell) and Susanna (Mrs. Altman). Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Waugaman had the following chidren: Michael T., who is deceased; George
Washington, who resides at New Kensington, Pa., Philip H., of Kittanning;
William A., of Iowa; Mary, who died when two years old; Catherine, who died
aged twenty-three years; Sarah J., who married George Tarr, and is now a
widow residing at Pittsburgh; Amanda, widow of Jacob Altman, residing at
Pittsburgh.Samuel E. Waugaman passed his early years at the old
Waugaman homestead, was married there, and a short time afterward moved from
that place to Pine township, this county, where he was engaged as a teamster
for lumbering concerns. Remaining there four months, he went to
Cowanshannock, in Rayburn township, where he was located for about one year,
engaged in farming and teaming. He then removed to Manor townsip, this
county, where he remained a year, following farming, thence going to
Kittanning. He worked at a furnace there for a year and a half, at the end
of that time moving back to Rayburn township, where he lived on the Finley
farm for one year, during which time he mined and farmed. He then went back
to Kittanning borough, where he worked at the furnace for six months. The
mill closing he moved to Reynoldsville, where he resided for eighteen
months, working in a sawmill and mining coal. Again he went to Kittanning,
where he was employed at mining for the Kittanning Iron Company one year.
His next move was to Bethel township, this county, where he farmed for Mrs.
Reyolds, being thus engaged for four years and four months. Thence he moved
to the Chaplin farm in Manor township, where he followed general farming and
dairying for four years, and from that place moved to his present home in
Rayburn township. After a residence of six years here he took his family out
to Iowa, where he settled on a farm hear Eddyville, with his brother William
A. Waugaman. He farmed there for seven months, and returning to Pennsylvania
settled in Valley township, buying a tract of ten acres where he followed
truck farming for the next three years. He then returned to the home he now
occupies, which was originally the Judge Nulton farm and afterward bought by
Simeon Truby, a cousin of Mr. Waugaman’s mother, Rebecca (Truby) Waugaman.
Here, Mr. Waugaman has acquired 220 acres of valuable land, where he carries
on general faming pursuits and dairying. He is one of the most prosperous
farmers of the section, and has succeeded by industrous and systematic
methods and careful management. He has devoted most of his time to his own
affairs and has never aspired to public honors, but his fellow citizens, in
recognition of his high integrity and ability, have elected him auditor of
the township. He votes with the Republican party on political issues. He is
a member of the Reformed Church.Mr. Waugaman married Mary M.
Mechling, who was born Dec. 9, 1867, in Valley township, daughter of William
W. Mechling, and they have had four children: William A., born Feb. 23,
1885, maried Sarah Maud Nulton, daughter of Edward Nulton; Sarah Zelma, born
April 19, 1887, married G. B. Vensel, who resides in Manor township, and
they have three children, Marietta, Meltey Waugaman and James Bowling; Mary
Agnes, born Aug. 24, 1890, married J. B. Walker, of Valley township, and has
one child, Mary Margaret; Jennie Maud, born Aug. 26, 1898, is at home.Source: Page ?? Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
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January 2012 by Sara Stewart for the Armstrong County Beers
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