BIO: Alonzo Bigler MAINES, 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 918 & 919.
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  ALONZO BIGLER MAINES, who is well known to hotel men in Clearfield county as 
the proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, at Karthaus, Pa., one of the oldest 
hostelries in this part of the state, was born in Karthaus township, Clearfield 
county, near the Clinton county line, February 6, 1856, and is a son of John 
Thomas and Mary Jane (Miller) Maines.
  The Maines family is an old and honored one in Clearfield county, where the 
grandfather of Alonzo B. Maines settled at an early date; while on his mother's 
side Mr. Maines is descended from a highly respected family of Center county.  
John Thomas Maines was reared in Clinton county, and as a young man gained a 
wide reputation in that section as a timber hewer, being considered one of the 
best in the country.  Later he engaged in lumbering and farming, and he is still 
hale and hearty in spite of his seventy-eight years and lives at Pottersdale 
with his wife, who passed the seventy-two year mark.  Mr. Maines is a Democrat 
in politics.  His wife attends the Methodist Episcopal church.  To Mr. and Mrs. 
Maines there were born eight children:  Alonzo Bigler; Telitha Ellen, who 
married John McGarvey of Bellefonte; Alma, who married Frank Condriet of 
Karthaus township; Libbie, who married Fred Moody of Lock Haven; J. Cameron, who 
resides in Pottersdale; Albert Hamlin, who lives in Grass Flat; Iva, who married 
George Brown of Clarence; and Lillie, who married Fred Carey and is living at 
home with her parents at Pottersdale.
  Alonzo Bigler Maines was reared in Karthaus township, and there attended the 
local schools.  As a young man he engaged in lumbering and farming, and for 
about eight years carried on a butchering business while living on a farm.  To 
some extent he also followed rafting down the river to Lock Haven, and for one 
year after locating in Karthaus he lumbered for George Dimeling.  Mr. Maines 
owned a farm property at Pottersdale until shortly after buying the old Eagle 
Hotel stand from Fred Mosebarger in December, 1902, and he has since conducted 
this well known hostelry as a first-class house.
  Mr. Maines was married to Martha DeHass, who was born in Elk county, Pa., 
daughter of David DeHass, and to this union there were born nine children:  
Edgar Leslie, born May 10, 1877, who married Miss Lizzie Chatham and lives in 
Ossining; Ora E., born August 31, 1878, who married Charles Potter of Portage, 
Pa.; Boyd L., born December 30, 1879, who died January 28, 1880; Alfred Leroy, 
born December 11, 1882, who married Miss Minnie Moses and has a son, A. B.; 
Ferdinand, born December 28, 1883, who married Miss Maude Briel and has two 
children, Clare and Gard; Bessie DeLorence, born March 9, 1887, who married 
Raymond Meeker of Karthaus; Rhoda Belle, born May 22, 1888, who married Nathan 
Reese of Youngstown, Ohio; Ward Lester, born February 9, 1890, who is an 
operator of Karthaus; and John Guy, who was born April 3, 1894.  The mother of 
the above mentioned children died June 13, 1902, and Mr. Maines was again 
married, February 26, 1903, to Miss Ellen Elizabeth Conway, who was born in 
Karthaus township, daughter of Hugh and Mary Ellen (Kane) Conway, the former a 
native of Karthaus township and the latter of Lancaster county.  Two children 
have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Maines:  June Elzora, born July 5, 1904; and 
Beulah Fay, born March 15, 1906.
  Mrs. Maines is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, while her husband 
is a liberal supporter of all church and charitable movements.  Fraternally he 
is connected with the P. O. S. of A. and the Red Men, holding membership in 
DuBois and Williamsport.