Holmes County OhArchives Biographies.....Laffer, Peter A. September 30 1837 - 
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Author: Directory of Crawford County, PA
PETER A. LAFFER was born in Middletown, Holmes Co., Ohio, Sept, 30th, 1837. 
When an infant a year old his parents removed to Sandyville, Tuscarawas Co., 
O. There he lived his boyhood, and at the age of 14, entered Allegheny 
College. He left college in 1854. After an absence of four years returning to 
the college, he graduated in the class of 1860, and going to Decatur Alabama, 
taught school during the winter of 1861, in the fall of 1861 he accepted the 
position of principal of the grammar school at Salem, 0. Remaining there one 
year, he left the school to take the chair as principal of the Willoughby 
Collegiate Institute. He continued here till 1865, when he came to Meadville 
and entered the wholesale and retail drug business, in which he has continued 
since. Mr. Laffer has been for some years Secretary of the Board of Trustees 
of Allegheny College. He was married July 24th, 1862, to Miss E. W. Callender, 
daughter of the late Norman Callender.

Directory of Crawford County, PA, 1879-80, page 244

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