OBIT: Fred LANGENBACHER, 1909, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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FRED LANGENBACHER DEAD 
One of Tyrone's Oldest And Respected Citizens Has Passed Away.

  On Thursday evening about 6.30 o'clock, Fred Langenbacher, one of 
Tyrone's most respected citizens and successful business men, succumbed 
to the dread disease dropsy, after a lingering illness extending over 
six months.  In spite of his intense suffering during the time he was 
bedfast, Mr. Langenbacher's death was a peaceful one, having fallen 
into a gentle sleep to awake in the great beyond.  The life of Fred 
Langenbacher was an interesting one, full of adversity, but through it 
all, he maintained his same cheerful disposition which made him so 
popular among his friends, and helped him reach a well earned place 
among the town's staunchest business men.  He was born in the village 
of Kappel, district of Nenstadt Grossherzogthum Baden, Baden, Germany. 
November 18, 1846, at the age of 17 he embarked with his father, John 
Langenbacher, for America. The journey across required 42 days and was 
one full of hardships, there being 640 emigrants on the boat and all 
were in one room.  They landed in New York, strangers in a strange land 
and between them had but 22 cents.  After vainly searching for work, 
they came across a German newspaper in which they found a "want 
advertisement" for German help in answer to which they re-embarked for 
Fall River, Mass., where they toiled in the fisheries at that place 
until they had saved $90.  With this amount, which was a small fortune 
to them, they came to Blair county and worked in Altoona shops until 
1865, when they came to Tyrone and entered the butchering business. 
They continued in this business until 1898, when they purchased a farm 
in Tuckahoe valley and at once took possession, still conducting most 
successfully their meat market on Pennsylvania avenue.
  In February 1869, he was united in marriage to Miss Antoniea Schell, 
of Tyrone, by the late Rev. Father Farran.
  His father died in 1906. Mr. Langenbacher, who was one of Tyrone's 
pioneer residents, became one of the town's heavy holders in real 
estate, and just recently started the erection of a three story brick 
building, which the family hoped to occupy as soon as completed.  
Besides his wife he is survived by one son, William, who has been his 
father's able assistant in business for a number of years. One sister, 
Mrs. Lena Shaffer, of Grazierville, and one brother, John, of East 
Liverpool, O., also survive.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., April 22, 1909