BIO: Jules DERMINER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 839.
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  JULES DERMINER, one of the foremost men of Girard Township, where he has lived 
for thirty-nine years, owns 170 acres of valuable land, ninety of which is 
cleared.  He was born in France, in 1851, obtaining his education in his native 
land.
  In 1871 Mr. Derminer came to America and to Clearfield County, Pa., where he 
went to work for an uncle, who lived in Girard Township.  One year later he 
entered the employ of a Mr. Leconte, and remained with him until 1873, when his 
parents came from France, purchasing a farm of 172 acres in Girard Township.  
They spent their remaining years on this farm, where the mother died in 1891 and 
the father in 1897.  Mr. Derminer settled on a farm purchased from Mrs. Spackman 
and called the Spackman farm and has made many improvements as the years have 
passed.  He carries on general farming and stock raising.  For many years he has 
been prominent in the public affairs of the township and in 1892 was elected 
township auditor and served in that office until 1898.  From 1899 until 1910 he 
served as school director and in 1904 was elected secretary of the school board.  
He was reelected to this office in 1906 and has served to the present time, 
1910.  Girard Township is noted for its excellent schools and this is due, in 
great part, to the interest taken in them by the township's representative men.
  Mr. Derminer was married in Girard Township to Miss Mugnot and they have eight 
children:  August, Mary, Arthur, Helen, Kate, Andrew, Lizzie and Clement.  Mr. 
Derminer and family are members of the Catholic church at Frenchville.