BIO: John G. DUBBS, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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198 COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.

JOHN GILLEN DUBBS
  
  The hope of success inspires each man who makes his entrance into the 
business arena, but it is not all who find their bright anticipations 
realized.  Among the successful ones is numbered the subject of this 
sketch, a well-known business man of Bellefonte, Centre county, whose 
industry and judicious management have won for him goodly rewards of a 
substantial nature.
  Mr. Dubbs is of German descent, his paternal grandfather having come 
from the Fatherland to settle in Lebanon county, Penn.  Of his five 
children, Joel is a carpenter in Sharon, Penn.; Rosa married Mr. 
Schire, and lives in Steelton, Penn.; Eliza, who never married, resides 
on the edge of the city of Lebanon, Penn.; and another sister, Mrs. 
Labe, made her home in Altoona, where her descendants still live.  The 
other member of the family, Jeremiah, our subject's father, was born in 
Lebanon county in 1829, and became a shoemaker near the old fort where 
he resided for many years previous to his death in 1891.  His wife, 
Eliza Reynolds, who passed from earth about twenty-five years ago, was 
born at Potters Mills, Centre county.  They had seven children: (1) May 
M. (Mrs. William Reed), now deceased; (2) Cecelia (Mrs. Harry Ross,), 
of Altoona; (3) George, who resides at the old homestead; (4) James, a 
resident of Philipsburg; (5) John G., our subject; (6) Thomas, who 
lives at Philipsburg; and (7) Andrew, who lives at the old home.
  Our subject's youth was spent in Penn's Valley, where he was born in 
January, 1849.  After acquiring a plain but practical education in the 
schools of that locality he engaged in agriculture at Nittany, 
continuing until 1886, when he went to Bellefonte and established 
himself in business, as a dealer in implements of all kinds, including 
a full line of agricultural tools.  Although his expanding business has 
demanded close attention, Mr. Dubbs takes much interest in local 
affairs and in the Republican party, and he is an active member of the 
I. O. O. F. Encampment at Bellefonte.  In 1868 he wedded Miss Eliza 
Ulrich, a native of Union county, Penn., born in 1849.  They have two 
living children: May G. and John E., and four others gladdened their 
home for a short time only.