EARL SAMUEL STOYER
Source: Pennsylvania, A History, George P. Donehoo, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926), p. 382
Surnames: Stoyer, Reber
As Napoleon once said of the English that they were a nation of
shopkeepers, so it might now be said – doubtless with equal truth –
that the Americans are a nation of mechanics. Throughout the length
and breadth of the land young men are making, pulling apart, or
assembling machines, and anything that will “go” has a tremendous
fascination for them.
Earl Samuel Stoyer is such a young man. His garage and machine-shop
at Schuylkill Haven was enlarged in 1924, and now measures sixty-eight
by one hundred and fifty feet, and is splendidly equipped. It is a
monument to his energy and enterprise, and there is no doubt but that
it will grow in the future as it has during the three years since Mr.
Stoyer bought it.
Born November 12, 1902, near Shubert, Berks County, Pennsylvania,
Mr. Stoyer attended the Long Run rural school till he was sixteen years
of age. His parents were Joel Joseph and Nahama Elizabeth (Reber)
Stoyer, his father being a hotel-keeper in Long Run. Being but
fourteen years of age when the World War broke out, he could not take
part in it, but his brother, Henry Franklin Stoyer, was in the United
States Army Ambulance Service in France for one and a half years, and
was decorated for bravery, and is now employed by Earl Stoyer.
During the four years, from 1916 when he left school, until 1920,
Earl S. Stoyer worked as a machinist in Schuylkill Haven. Then he
bought Cyrenius Losh’s garage and machine-shop, which he has managed so
successfully that it was enlarged in 1924, as has already been related.
Mr. Stoyer is a Democrat in politics, and a member of St. John’s
Lutheran Church at Friedensburg.
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