BIOGRAPHY: Thomas A. SHARBAUGH, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 180-1
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THOMAS A. SHARBAUGH, one of the young and progressive business men of 
Carrolltown, and the efficient cashier of the bank at that place, is a son of 
John and Mary (Dougherty) Sharbaugh and was born at Summit, Cambria county, 
Pennsylvania, August 5, 1860. The Sharbaugh family is of German descent, and 
locate their trans Atlantic home in one of the present states of the great 
German Empire, whose educational progress and military growth have been so 
wonderful since its establishment in 1871. From this great land, which was not 
over powerful fifty years ago, came Jacob Sharbaugh and his family, who landed 
in the United States in 1832. He soon removed to Carroll township, where he 
resided until his death. He was a blacksmith by trade, and in religious faith 
and church membership a Catholic. He married in Germany and had a family of five 
children, three sons and two daughters: Jacob, who married Mary Noel, and died 
December 24, 1875, aged sixty-one years; Catherine wedded Michael Latterner, and 
is now deceased; Peter, now engaged in farming in Carroll township; Elizabeth, 
who married John Flick, and is now deceased, and Squire John, the father of 
Thomas A. John Sharbaugh was born in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, December 
16, 1827, and at an early age was brought by his parents to Carrolltown, where 
he received his education in the common schools. Upon attaining his majority he 
went to Ebensburg, and learned the trade of cabinet maker, which he followed for 
many years at Summit, where of late years he has reduced his business of 
furniture-dealer and undertaker to suit his declining years. While in active 
business he had a large and remunerative trade. He is a man of good judgment and 
business ability, and has been so highly esteemed for integrity and legal 
knowledge that he has been elected for ten successive terms as justice of the 
peace, and is now serving his fortieth year in that office. Squire Sharbaugh is 
a democrat in politics and a zealous member of the Catholic church. He married 
Mary Dougherty, whose father, James Dougherty, was a native of Ireland and 
successively resided in Brooklyn and at Summit, where he ran a stationary engine 
for the old Portage Railroad company. Squire and Mrs. Sharbaugh have seven 
children, four sons and three daughters: Dr. William, of Altoona, this State; A. 
J., an undertaker, of Clearfield county; J. B., a bookkeeper, of Peoria, 
Illinois; Thomas A.; Jennie, wife of Dr. Buck, of Altoona, this State, Annie and 
Aline, who are at home with their parents.
     Thomas A. Sharbaugh was reared at Summit. The usual life of a business 
man's son was his, and such education as the public schools of the town and 
Houtzdale afforded he acquired. Having a natural aptitude, and a strong liking 
for financial pursuits, he accepted in 1880 the position of assistant cashier of 
the Johnson, Shoemaker & Buck Banking company, of Ebensburg, now the Johnson, 
Buck and Company. Eight years later, when the company decided to open a branch 
bank at Carrolltown, he was selected as cashier on account of his valuable 
services at Ebensburg. This last position he has held ever since, and rendered 
satisfaction alike to the company and the public.
     In politics Mr. Sharbaugh is a strong democrat, who believes in the 
simplicity, strength and purity of Democracy as taught by Jefferson, and 
enforced by Jackson. He is a member of the Catholic church, and unmarried. While 
not aggressively active in politics, nor desirous of offices of emolument or 
honor, yet he takes an intelligent interest in educational matters, and is now 
serving as president of the school board of Carrolltown. Mr. Sharbaugh is 
recognized as a good financier. He is an efficient cashier, whose good judgment 
and correct business methods have won for him an enviable reputation.