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HEADER Joseph T Shoemaker JOSEPH T. SHOEMAKER, for thirty-five years justice of the peace of Mahoning township, Armstrong county, belongs to a family which has been settled in that township for a century. His great-grandfather, John Shumaker, a native of Germany, came to America prior to 1770 with six brothers, Solomon, Adam, George, Simon, Samuel … Read more

HEADER Mervin L. Shoemaker MERVIN L. SHOEMAKER, a prominent farmer of Madison township, owns and occupies the old homestead where he was born Sept. 29, 1879, son of Joseph B. and Margaret A. (Ferguson) Shoemaker. George Shoemaker, his great-grandfather, with six brothers John, Solomon, Adam, Simon, Samuel and Daniel, emigrated from Germany to America prior … Read more

HEADER Samuel T Shoff SAMUEL T. SHOFF, mine foreman, of Leechburg, was born in Clearfield county, Pa., Feb. 12, 1863, son of Christopher C. And Elizabeth (Stitt) Shoff. Samuel Shoff, his grandfather, came from Germany, settling in Clearfield county, Pa., where he followed farming, becoming the owner of several farms. As his sons started out … Read more

HEADER Alfred Shoop ALFRED SHOOP, a local superintendent of the American Natural Gas Company�s Armstrong county division, was born in Ford City, this county, Aug. 7, 1876, at a time when there were but three houses in Ford City, one belonging to his parents, Francis and Rebecca (Wilson) Shoop. His paternal grandfather was one of … Read more

HEADER Edward W Shoop EDWARD W. SHOOP, a heater at the plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, of Leechburg, was born in Allegheny (now Gilpin) township, Armstrong county, Dec. 17, 1855, son of David and Catherine Lynch Shoop. David Shoop was a carpenter by trade, and followed his calling in Allegheny township. … Read more

HEADER John Shoop JOHN SHOOP was born in 1802 in Montgomery county, Pa., and received a common school education. Coming to Armstrong county in 1818 or 1819, he settled at the mouth of the Kiskiminetas river and commenced housekeeping. Later he moved to what is now the site of Manorville, and in 1837, obtained 128 … Read more

HEADER William James Benjamin Schrecengost WILLIAM JAMES BENJAMIN SCHRECENGOST, general merchant of Cowanshannock township, Armstrong county, was born in that township Jan. 28, 1855, son of Benjamin 0. and Sarah A. (Nevill) Schrecengost. Martin Schrecengost, a pioneer of Cowanshannock township, cleared and improved a farm of 140 acres on which he resided until his death. … Read more

HEADER Levi Schreckengost LEVI SCHRECKENGOST, of Mahoning township, Armstrong county, has the largest apiary in the county, and has been engaged in bee culture for over forty years. He has a fine farm near Putneyville. Mr. Schreckengost was born in Mahoning township Dec. 4, 1840, son of William Schreckengost. His grandfather was a native of … Read more

HEADER William A. Schrecengost WILLIAM A. SCHRECENGOST, a prominent farmer citizen of Cowanshannock township, Armstrong county, was born there Sept. 3, 1843, son of William T. and Mary Ellen (Baum) Schrecengost, both also natives of Armstrong county. The family is of German origin, the first of his ancestors to come to America, Jacob (known as … Read more

HEADER J.W. Schull J. W. SCHULL, an undertaker of Kiskiminetas township, was born in Mary, 1845, in Armstrong county, a son of David and Mariah (Shutt) Schull, natives of Pennsylvania. David Schull lived in Westmoreland county, this State, until he was twenty-four years old, then moving to Armstrong county, where he bought a farm of … Read more