BIO: Frank GUINZBURG, 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, pages 722 & 723.
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  FRANK GUINZBURG, was born at Annapolis, Md., September 2, 1863, and is a son 
of Adolph and Amelia (Wolf) Guinzburg.  Adolph Guinzburg came to Clearfield 
county in 1873 and was engaged in the clothing and gents' furnishing business at 
Clearfield, for seventeen years, after which he moved to Yonkers, N. Y., where 
he died in 1908.  He was twice married, first to Amelia Wolf, who died at 
Philadelphia, the mother of five children, Frank being the third in order of 
birth.  The second marriage was to Leontine Jonawitz, who resides at Yonkers, N. 
Y.  Five children were also born to the second marriage.
  Frank Guinzburg was ten years old when his father came with his family to 
Clearfield and there the boy completed his education in the public school that 
was then held in the old Methodist Episcopal church building, and in the 
Clearfield Academy, which was then under the superintendence of Miss Swan.  At 
the age of fifteen years he started to learn the lock and gunsmith trade, under 
the late John E. Harder, with whom he remained for three years.  In 1884 the 
business prospects of DuBois attracted him as it did other enterprising young 
men, and he found a good opening in the line of tobacco and sporting goods.  He 
lost his stock, however, in the great fire which is still talked of by the older 
residents of DuBois, but immediately resumed business with a new stock, 
temporarily sharing a salesroom with W. H. Cannon, a shoe merchant.  In January, 
1904, Mr. Guinzburg bought the business of W. I. Hay, wholesale liquor dealer 
and continued also his other lines until 1906, when he sold out his tobacco and 
sporting goods and confined himself more closely to his other interests.  His 
place of business is at No. 41 W. Long avenue, DuBois.  He has other business 
interests than those mentioned, being a stockholder in the Union Banking and 
Trust Company, in the Hibner-Hoover Hardware Company, in the D. L. Corbett Dry 
Goods Company, all of DuBois, and also is interested in H. S. Hall & Co., retail 
shoe dealers, at Brockville, Pa.  In all his undertakings he has shown great 
business foresight and is numbered with the capitalists of DuBois.
  In May, 1888, Mr. Guinzburg was married to Miss Millie A. Hay, who is a 
daughter of W. E. and Anna (Dunsten) Hay, and they have two children:  Roland H. 
and Frances A.  They are enjoying as excellent educational advantages as an 
indulgent father can give them.  Roland H. graduated with credit from the DuBois 
High School in 1907 and is a member of the class of 1911 in the University of 
Pennsylvania.  The daughter, Frances A., is a student at Elkins Park, Pa., being 
a pupil in the exclusive Ogontz Girls' School.  Mr. Guinzburg is a man of social 
instincts as may be inferred by his membership in numerous fraternal and social 
organizations, among which may be mentioned:  the Elks, the Eagles, the Moose 
and the Owl Club.