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Bio: William W. Wasser, spouse of Henrietta Goubeaud

Bio: William W. Wasser, spouse of Henrietta Goubeaud

Posted: 30 Mar 2006 5:33PM GMT
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Goubeaud, Wasser, Christman, Campbell, McMichael, Archre, Dieffenderfer
From the "History of Mercer County" Pennsylvania, Chapter 41, on the biographies of Salem, Sugar Grove, Hempfield and Otter Creek, in Salem Township; published in Chicago, Illinois by Brown, Runk and Co., 1888

WILLIAM S. WASSER, farmer and stock dealer, post-office Greenville, was born September 1, 1846, on a part, of the farm where he now lives, to Thomas and Eliza (CHRISTMAN) Wasser, natives of Lehigh County, Penn. Tobias WASSER was the first to come to this county. His children were Eli, Thomas, Edward, Charles, Ellemina, Eliza, and Catharine. He was an active member of the German Reformed Church, an officer in the same, and was a strong Republican. Thomas was married in this county, and his children were Catharine, William S., James O., Maria, Emma J., Eliza N., Charles, Ellen, Frank, Alice, Sadie and George. Thomas died in 1874, and his widow resides in Greenville. They were members of the German Reformed Church at Good Hope. Our subject was educated in the common schools, was brought up at farm labor until thirteen years of age, when he began clerking in the drug store of Allen CAMPBELL, of Greenville, and later clerked for Charles McMICHAEL and G.W. ACHRE, at Clarksville; Winternitz, at Greenville, Penn., and Rouseville, Venango County. He then clerked in a restaurant at Oil City, and subsequently bought one-half of the same, and continued to operate it for two years. He was married December 31, 1868, to Harriet J. DIEFFENDERFER, by whom he had one child, Frank S. His wife died in 1871, and he was again married to Henrietta GOUBEAUD, and has by her one child, Willie W. He remained on his father’s farm for some time after marriage, then engaged in the butcher business for two years, and settled permanently on his farm in 1871. In 1874 he began buying horses for his brother-in-law, Charles GOUBEAUD, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and so continues. He has been school director, is a Democrat, an officer of the Good Hope German Reformed Church, to which he and wife belong, and is also superintendent of the Sabbath-school of that organization.
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