BIO:  Alexander STAUFFER, Germany Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 434

ALEXANDER STAUFFER, proprietor of the “Central Hotel,” Littlestown, is of German 
extraction.  His grandfather, Jacob Stauffer, a farmer of Jackson Township, York 
Co., Penn., who died there at an advanced age, was an old line Whig; married, 
and had five children.  Of these Henry was born on the old homestead, where he 
still resides, aged seventy-four years.  He was a farmer and distiller before 
the war.  In politics he is now a Republican, formerly a Whig, and has held 
township offices of trust; is a member of the Lutheran Church.  He was married 
to Margaret Glatfelter, who is the mother of six children:  Mrs. Lucinda Jacobs, 
Mrs. Sarah Laucks, Henry K., Mrs. Isabella Jacobs, Benjamin F. and Alexander.  
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stauffer are both yet living.  Our subject was educated in 
the schools near home and at York County Academy, York, Penn.  At the age of 
nineteen he began teaching and taught school four winters.  After this he 
engaged in farming on one of the farms of his father (who was also a successful 
agriculturist), in Dover Township, and there continued until April, 1884, when 
he leased the “Central Hotel” in Littlestown, which he bought out in the fall of 
the same year and has been keeping a first-class hotel ever since.  Mr. Stauffer 
was married to Miss Annie Mary, daughter of John Hoke.  To this union were born 
Birdie Alex., Lillie Ann, Hattie Bell, Harry John and Jennie May.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Stauffer are members of the Lutheran Church.  Politically he is a Republican.