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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Genealogy Memoirs
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Illustrated -
Vol. II
The Lewis Publishing Company
CHICAGO - NEW
YORK
1906
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EDWARD C. LAUFFER,
a farmer of Penn township, Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, a son of Jacob F. and Susanna (Cribbs)
Lauffer, was born in Penn township, Oct. 10, 1854.
Henry Lauffer (grandfather) was a farmer by
occupation. His wife was a Miss Gress, and
their children were: Hannah, Mary Ann, John, Jacob F.,
Samuel and Simion.
Jacob F. Lauffer (father) was born in 1822, and is
still living, well, and active, (1905). He is by
occupation a farmer, and was an elder in the Reformed
church. He married Susanna Cribbs, a daughter
of Christian Cribbs. Mrs. Lauffer was born in
1824 and died in 1891. The children of this marriage
were: Priscilla, married Jacob Fry, ten
children; she died 1904; Mary, wife of Z. Brinker,
five children: Henry married Josephine Beamer;
four children; Hannah, wife of James Steele,
and mother of one child; Edward, mentioned
hereinafter; Margaret, married Aaron Bushyeager,
five children; Sadie, wife of James Beamer,
and mother of two children; Nettie, married Elijah
Bushyearer eight children; William missionary in
France; Oliver, was shot while hunting.
Edward C. Lauffer follows the
quiet but useful occupation of a farmer, and has achieved
the most gratifying success in this line. He is the
owner of a farm in Penn township, comprising eighty-five
acres of well located land. This he has brought to a
high state of cultivation and improvement, and it compares
favorably with the finest farms in the county. In
politics Mr. Lauffer accords allegiance to the
Republican party, and in religious faith is a member of the
Reformed church, in which he has been a deacon for seven
years. Edward C. Lauffer married, June 24,
1880, Salome M. Waughaman, a daughter of Jesse and
Frances (Smith) Waugaman, and one of eleven children,
viz.: George, Albert, David, Sarah, Becky, Salome, (Mrs.
Lauffer); Lucy, Ellen, Elizabeth Lydia and Laura. Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Lauffer have children: Harry G.,
born Dec. 2, 1881; Jesse H., born June 27, 1883, is
now attending the Franklin Marshall College at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania; Lloyd, born June 13, 1885; Joseph I..,
born Apr. 2, 1887; Clarence, born Apr. 29, 1889;
Mase, born Jan. 15, 1891; Paul, born Aug. 19,
1892, died Sep. 4, 1894; Lulu, born Nov. 1, 1894;
Edith, born Sep. 2, 1896, died Dec. 23, 1896; Adella,
born Mar. 27, 1901.
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JERRY LAUFFER.
The parents of Jerry Lauffer, of Harrison city, were
Jacob B. and Susan (Berlin) Lauffer, and their family
consisted of the following children: Martha, who died
in infancy; Elijah, married (first) Lizzie Clark,
(second) M. Ferree; John, died in 1890; Frank,
now deceased, married Dot Mull; William, Annie, Bella,
Jerry, mentioned hereinafter; Emma May, Harry,
Erbanna, and one who died in infancy.
Jerry Lauffer, son of Jacob B. and
Susan (Berlin) Lauffer, was born Mar. 11, 1868, at
Harrison City, and found his employment in the mines at
Manor, Claridge and Pleasant Valley. For the last six
years he has been engaged in the general grocery business in
Harrison City. He belongs to the National Life
Insurance Company. His political affiliations are with
the Democrats, and he is a member of the Reformed church.
Mr. Lauffer married, Aug. 13, 1891, Anna Ferguson,
and they have children: Wilber H., born May 4, 1895;
Clarence A., born Apr. 2, 1902, and Florence,
born Dec. 14, 1905. Mr. Lauffer is a daughter of
James Ferguson of Harrison City. He and his wife
are the parents of the following children: Archie,
Samuel, William, James, Frederick, Hayes, Anna, married
Jerry Lauffer, as mentioned above; and Theresa.
This family of six sons and two daughters, together with the
numerous race of the Lauffers, has largely recruited
the ranks of the good citizens of the county. Mrs.
Lauffer died Dec. 22, 1905.
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JAMES L. LOGAN.
Silas Logan, father of James L. Logan, of
Vandergrift, born about 1825, in Corry, Erie county,
Pennsylvania, and as a young man went to Wisconsin, then
situated on the frontier. He settled among the
Indians, but after a shore time returned to Pennsylvania,
having made both the outward and homeward trips by wagon.
On his return he settled in Titusville, where he engaged in
the oil business, later removing to Blairsville, where he
did some oil prospecting. Subsequently he took up his
abode in Greensburg, and some time in the eighties went to
Detroit, where he has since resided on a farm in the
suburbs. Mr. Logan married Elizabeth Rowan,
and the following are their children: James L.,
see forward: Henry, head bookkeeper for the American
Harrow Company, of Detroit: Elsie, and Lena,
both at home.
James L. Logan, son of Silas and Elizabeth
(Rowan) Logan was born September 6, 1860, in Sparta,
Monroe county, Wisconsin, and received a common school
education. About his eighteenth year he secured a
position as a brakeman of the Pennsylvania railroad, but not
finding the associations congenial resigned at the end of a
few months. He then went to Blairsville, where for
about a year he was employed as a teamster, afterward
obtaining a position as locomotive fireman on the
Pennsylvania railroad. About two years and nine months
later he was promoted to the position of engineer, which he
held for some eight years. At the end of that time he
resigned and for the three years following was variously
employed. In 1898 he moved to Vandergrift, where he
became locomotive engineer for the Apollo Iron and Steel
Company, remaining in this position about two years and a
half. He then accepted a position with the Chilled
Roll Foundry Company of Apollo, and on the removal of the
foundry to Vandergrift was retained, being transferred to
that place. He continued, however, to live in Apollo,
where he still resides. He belongs to Mineral Point
Lodge, No. 615, I. O. O. F.; Apollo Commandery, No. 365,
Knights of Malta; and Allegheny Division, No. 108,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He is an
Independent in politics, and a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
Mr. Logan married, Dec. 22, 1882, Caroline
Stitt, of Blairsville, and of their six children four
survive, all of them being at home; Catherine, William,
Orville, and Glenn.
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JOSEPH P. LOVE,
a resident of Alverton, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania,
and a man prominent and active in community affairs, was
born in South Huntingdon township, August 23, 1844, son of
Benjaman and Mary (Tintsman) Love.
Benjamin Love, father, was a native of Ireland, who
emigrated to this country in company with his father,
Benjamin Love, settling in Pennsylvania. He was
twelve years of age at the time of his arrival in this
country, and spent the remainder of his life in South
Huntingdon township, being engaged in the butcher business
and farming. He and his wife, Mary Tintsman had
sixteen children: Margaret, deceased, wife of
Frederick Spielman; Robert, deceased; Elizabeth,
deceased; NAncy, wife of James Hough; Benjamin,
deceased; Abram, a farmer; Sarah; John,
deceased; Martha; James, a carpenter of Scottdale;
Julia, deceased; Jane, died in infancy; David,
a farmer; Joseph P., of whom later; Catherine,
wife of Joseph Ruth, and Benjamin, deceased.
Benjamin Love, the father of these children, died in
1862.
Joseph P. Love received a common school
education, and in early life learned the carpenter's trade,
at which he worked for some years. When the cloud of
war overspread the country in 1862, he enlisted in Company
B, Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served for a
term of three years. Since his return to civil life he
has been engaged in various avocations, giving most
particular attention, however, to the butcher business.
In his political relations Mr. Love is a strong
Republican, and served as justice of the peace for eleven
years, assessor, collector, and in short in every township
office with the single exception of school director. Mr.
Love is deeply interested in all community affairs, and
in all the positions of trust and responsibility to which he
has been elected, he has discharged his duties most
responsibility to which he has been elected, he has
discharged his duties most acceptably. He was
appointed, July 6, 1904, a rural mail carrier by the
government, on No. 3 delivery from Mount Pleasant. He
is a charter member of the Knights of Malta lodge in
Scottsdale. He married, Oct. 31, 1871, Emma
Tarr, daughter of Daniel and Frances
(Teller) Tarr, and their children were:
Jessie Frances, wife of Dr. G. C.
Kneedler, of Allegheny City; Edwin M., a resident
of Pittsburg, and Mazie Viola, a graduate of
the East Huntingdon high school, the Mount Pleasant
Institute, and for three terms a teacher in the Alverton
public school.
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