OBIT: Philip BEITER, 1905, formerly of Blair County, PA

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Death of Philip Beiter 

  Philip Beiter, an aged and respected citizen of Portage township, 
died at his home last Friday afternoon from the effects of a stroke of 
paralysis.
  Mr. Beiter in early life was a boat builder by trade and lived in 
Hollidaysburg where he worked at his trade in [two words faded].  He 
afterwards removed to Summerhill township, this county, where he 
settled on a homestead a few miles south of Portage and from which 
place he went to the war about the year 1862.
  After the war he bought the old Noel farm then in Washington (now 
Portage) township which he greatly improved and resided on until last 
year when he sold it and removed to the house in which he died and 
which he had but recently erected.
  Mr. Beiter was married twice, his first wife being Miss Thecla 
Bender, and of the first union he is survived by his daughter, Mrs. 
Maurice Fox of Hollidaysburg; Casper of Portage township; Louis E. of 
Wilmore; and Prof. R. H. Beiter of Gallitzin.  His second wife was Miss 
Martha McGough who survives him. He is also survived by an extended 
connection of relatives through the county and in the West.
  The deceased was a faithful Catholic, a patriotic citizen, a good 
friend and neighbor and a kind husband and father.  His funeral took 
place after a high mass of requiem in St. Joseph's church at Portage by 
Rev. Father James B. Egan, the pastor, after which interment was made 
in St. Bartholomew's cemetery, Wilmore, on Monday morning last, the 
immense concourse of people that followed his remains to the grave 
being the best possible proof of the esteem in which he had been held 
in life.
  Mr. Beiter's first wife was Thecla Bender to whom he was married in 
Hollidaysburg and who died in 1866.  His brothers, Otto, of Loretto and 
John and Ignatius of Munster and Mrs. Susan Shiver of Munster township 
and Mrs. Valentine Cramer of Summerhill township also survive him.  One 
daughter, Sister M. Ursula, died in the convent on Troy Hill in 1886.

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Volume 39, Number 8, Friday, March 3, 
1905