BIO: Lewis Arthur PRITCHARD, 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 956 & 957.
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  LEWIS ARTHUR PRITCHARD, paymaster for the Morrisdale Coal Company, of the 
Morrisdale Mines, Clearfield county, Pa., for the past thirteen years, is a 
leading citizen of Morris township, of which he is serving his fourth term as 
auditor.  He was born September 25, 1869, in Trumbull county, O., a son of 
Daniel W. and Sarah (Pickering) Pritchard.
  Daniel W. Pritchard was born in May, 1843, in Victoria, Wales, and came to 
America in November, 1862, locating first in a village near Pittsburg, Pa.  He 
found employment as a clerk in a store and later went to mining which he 
followed until 1864, when he went into the army and served until the close of 
the Civil war as a member of Battery E, Knapp's Independent Battery, until he 
reached the front, when he was transferred to Co. H, 147th Pa. Vol. Inf.  He 
participated in many engagements and was with General Sherman in the great march 
to Atlanta.  After the end of hostilities and his honorable discharge, he 
returned to the vicinity of Pittsburg and lived there until 1868, when he moved 
to Brookfield, Ohio, and there engaged in coal mining.  He was married there, in 
that year, to Sarah Pickering, a daughter of Barzilla Eliza Pickering, and they 
resided at Brookfield until September, 1887, moving then to Warren, Ohio, and 
from there, in March, 1888, to the Morrisdale Mines, where, for five years, he 
followed mining, since when he has been chief clerk of supplies for the 
Morrisdale Coal Company.
  To Daniel W. Pritchard and wife four children were born, namely:  Daniel, who 
died at the age of two years; Reuben W., who died when twenty-nine years old 
(was at that time a clerk in the office of the steel mill at Donora); Albert, 
who is weighmastetr at the same place; Donora, who married Helen Dutcher of 
Philipsburg; and Lewis Arthur.
  Lewis Arthur Pritchard was educated in the public schools of Ohio and the 
Bryant, Stratton & Smith Commercial School of Meadville, Pa., and was graduated 
from the above institution in 1889, and from then until 1891, he worked in the 
mines.  From 1891 until 1896 he was bookkeeper for the Morrisdale Supply Company 
and was then transferred to the coal company and was employed on the pay rolls 
until 1898, when he was made paymaster for the Morrisdale Coal Company and has 
been connected with this large concern, in some capacity, for the past twenty-
one years.
  Mr. Pritchard was married in 1892, to Miss Anna Fuge, a daughter of Thomas and 
Matilda (Hummel) Fuge, and they have the following children:  Violet Mae, Velma 
Anna, Paul Walburton, Clayton Fuge, Virginia Catherine and Lee Arthur.  Sarah, 
who died in infancy, was the second child.  On the maternal side, Mr. Pritchard 
is of English ancestry, his mother having been fifteen years old when brought to 
America, living first at Sharon, Pa., and later at Brookfield, Ohio, where the 
Pickering family was well known.  The father of Mr. Pritchard is a member of the 
G. A. R. Post at Philipsburg.
  Mr. Pritchard is a Republican in politics and has been an active citizen in 
township matters for a number of years and has served as township clerk in 
addition to performing his other duties.  He is identified fraternally with 
Philipsburg Lodge, No. 391, F. & A. M.; Williamsport Consistory; Jaffa Temple of 
the Mystic Shrine, at Altoona; Center Council, No. 803, Royal Arcanum, at 
Philipsburg; and the O. U. A. M., at Morrisdale.  With his family he belongs to 
the Methodist church.