BIO: Mrs. Ella MOUNTZ, Clearfield County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/ NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm _____________________________________________________________ From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr., Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 782. _____________________________________________________________ MRS. ELLA MOUNTZ, postmistress at Morann, Clearfield county, Pa., where for the past eighteen years she has also conducted a general store, is associated with her husband, L. J. Mountz, in coal operating, having six mines in Clearfield county and one in Butler county. Mrs. Mountz was born at Sharon, Pa., and is a daughter of H. B. and Elizabeth (Keefe) Dore, and a granddaughter of Abel Dore. She was the third born in a family of five children, the others being: Joseph; Alfreda, now deceased, who was the wife of Chadwick Stanley; Henry; and Elizabeth, who is the wife of George W. Ballard. Mrs. Mountz attended school at Sharon and also in Clearfield county, to which she came in 1879. In 1885 she was married to L. J. Mountz, who was one of a family of eleven children born to his parents, John and Isabel (Amey) Mountz, residents of Vail, Blair county, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Mountz have one daughter, Viola, a very talented young lady, who is a graduate of the Emerson College of Oratory, at Boston, Mass. Mrs. Mountz is widely known and is much admired for her business capacity. She enjoys the confidence of the public to a remarkable extent and has done a large amount of business in the line of merchandising and for eighteen years has also held her Government office. Mr. Mountz is identified with the Democratic party. He belongs to the Odd Fellows at Houtzdale and to the Elks at Tyrone.