BIO: Benjamin F. WARFEL, Blair County, PA

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Donehoo, George P., Editor-in-Chief.  Pennsylvania, A History, 
Vol. 3, Biography.  New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 
1926, page 94.
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  BENJAMIN F. WARFEL - The Warfel family is an old and distinguished one of 
the State of Pennsylvania, dating back to the pre-Revolutionary period, and 
John Warfel, the father of Benjamin F. Warfel, made a creditable record in 
the Union Army in the Civil War, and was well-known as a farmer, while the 
ancestors of the younger Mr. Warfel were prominent in the early days of the 
State.  Benjamin F. Warfel is no less distinguished than they, and it may be 
said that he is one of the foremost citizens of Blair County today.  He has 
a reputation throughout the county for his skill at the bar and as a 
corporation and municipal counsel, and he is one of the most successful 
legal practitioners in the county capital, Hollidaysburg.
  Benjamin F. Warfel was born in Sinking Valley, Blair County, May 16, 1871.  
His father, the aforementioned John Warfel, was born in Stone Creek, 
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, and all his life was a farmer and a brick-
maker.  He fought with the 110th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment in the 
Civil War, and was wounded in the famous battle of Gettysburg.  For nearly 
forty years, up to the time of his death on November 26, 1901, he was a 
member of Post No. 172, Grand Army of the Republic, in Tyrone, Blair County.  
The mother of Benjamin F. Warfel was Margaret (Conrad) Warfel, also a native 
of Stone Creek, Huntingdon County, who died on September 11, 1917.
  Benjamin F. Warfel was first educated in the public schools of Sinking 
Valley, was graduated from the State Normal School in Indiana, and he 
prepared for the bar by reading law in the law offices of W.I. Woodcock, of 
Hollidaysburg.  From the date of his admission to the bar in Blair County, 
in 1900, he has been in practice in the county capital, with increasing 
success and prominence.  Mr. Warfel is a member of the State and Supreme 
courts of Pennsylvania.  He maintains offices at No. 422 Allegheny Street, 
in Hollidaysburg.  He is solicitor for the townships of Allegheny, Antes, 
Freedom and North Woodbury, and is solicitor for the Duncanville Building 
and Loan Association, and he is counsel for many other concerns, 
organizations and prominent individuals.  He has an extensive practice 
throughout the county.  Mr. Warfel served in the Pennsylvania State Militia 
from 1894 to 1897.  He is a member of the Hollidaysburg Lodge of the Free 
and Accepted Masons, of all the York Rite bodies, and the Ancient Arabic 
Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.  He also holds memberships in the 
Allegheny Grange, in the Blairmont Country Club, and the Blair County and 
the Pennsylvania State Bar associations.  He and his family attend the 
Lutheran Church in Hollidaysburg, where they reside.
  Mr. Warfel married Maud E. Hunter, a native of Harrisburg, November 6, 
1901.