BIO: Archie B. LANSBERRY, 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 832.
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  ARCHIE B. LANSBERRY was a well known and highly respected resident of Bradford 
township, Clearfield county, Pa., where his death occurred July 13, 1878.  He 
was a native of Bradford township and a son of James and Elizabeth Lansberry.  
He attended the public schools in boyhood and youth, after which he went to work 
on his father's farm and continued until his marriage, when he and wife went to 
housekeeping on a rented farm in Graham township.  They lived there until 1869, 
when he bought ninety acres of wild land in Bradford township, all of which he 
cleared himself and placed under cultivation.  He continued to improve his 
property, being a man of great energy and industry, until near the close of his 
life, when illness made him retire from active work.  He carried on general 
farming during the summers and devoted a part of the winter seasons to hauling 
timber and lumber.  After his death his eldest son, A. B. Lansberry, took charge 
of the farm and his widow in 1890 moved to Clearfield and occupies a residence 
owned by this son.  Mr. Lansberry was a man of quiet life and domestic virtues.  
He was well known and had a wide circle of personal friends.
  In 1866 Archie B. Lansberry was married to Miss Lavinia Pearce, who was born 
and reared in Bradford township, a daughter of Absolom and Mary Ann Pearce, and 
they had three children born to them:  A. B., Walter R. and Clarence E.  A. B. 
Lansberry, who now manages the home farm, married Miss Gussie Glaze, of 
Clearfield county.  Walter R. died at the age of eighteen months.  Clarence E. 
has been twice married.  His first union was with Miss Lillie Sheiry, of 
Bradford township, who died at the age of thirty years, survived by two 
children:  Cora and Guy.  His second marriage was to Miss Agnes Couder, of 
Bradford township, and they had five children:  Daniel, Doyle, Raymond, Nana and 
Kenneth, all of whom survive except the eldest.
  Clarence and A. B. Lansberry started in the coal business about the year 1895, 
with one miner and one team, hauling to Woodland and have increased their 
business from time to time, and finally built tram roads and bought a 
locomotive, and now are working about fourteen miners and ship about seventy 
tons per day the greater part of the year.