BIO: Wesley Daniel LITTLE, 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 935.
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  WESLEY DANIEL LITTLE, mine superintendent for W. H. Wayne & Co., fire brick 
manufacturers in Decatur township, Clearfield county, Pa., resides within three 
miles of the place of his birth, on his farm of thirty acres, which lies in 
Decatur township.  He was born in Boggs township, Clearfield county, Pa., 
January 31, 1873, and is a son of John and Anna (Smeal) Little.
  John Little was born in Center County, Pa., near Bellefonte.  He learned the 
carpenter's trade and followed it until within three years of his death, at the 
age of fifty-two years, and then engaged in farming.  His widow survives.  Their 
children were born in Boggs Township, namely:  Jennie, who is the wife of 
Matthew Waldron, of Philadelphia; Wesley Daniel; Helen, who is the widow of 
Harry Pierce, of Philadelphia; Sadie, who also lives in Philadelphia; John, who 
is engaged in the ice business in Philadelphia, married Mary Thompson; Ethel, 
who resides in Philadelphia; and Sylvester, who died when aged eight years.
  Wesley Daniel Little attended school until he was sixteen years of age, after 
which he engaged in farming in the summers and worked in the mines in the 
winters until he was twenty-two years old, at which time he accepted the 
position of engineer for S. B. Stine, at Osceola Mills.  He continued there two 
years and then spent five years with the Clearfield Fire Brick Company.  In 1902 
he moved to Blue Ball, where he was engaged for two years in the boiler room and 
seven years later became superintendent of the same mine.  His entire life has 
been passed in Clearfield County and he is known as a reliable man and well 
posted on every detail of the manufacture of fire brick.  He owns property that 
he has secured through his industry and prudence and has a very comfortable 
home.
  Mr. Little was married February 19, 1894, to Miss Ella Read, a daughter of 
John F. Read, of Glen Richey.  Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Little, namely:  Gertrude, William, John Dewey, Maud, Anna, Creighton, a baby, 
Martha and Charles.  In politics Mr. Little is a Democrat.  In religious faith 
he is in sympathy with the views of the United Brethren church.