BIO: E. SCHNARS, 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 534 & 537.
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  E. SCHNARS, general farmer and dairyman, having twenty-seven milch cows and 
owning 121 acres of land in Lawrence Township, Clearfield County, Pa., was born 
in Karthaus Township, March 3, 1847, and is a son of John and Susan (Solt) 
Schnars, farming people and old residents of that section.
  E. Schnars attended the Tinker School not far distant from his boyhood home 
and then went out to Kansas, where he lived for ten years and during this time 
had many thrilling adventures.  He remembers one season in which he assisted in 
killing 500 buffalo.  After marriage he came to Clearfield County and bought a 
water right at Logan's Dam where he built a saw mill which was carried away by 
the Johnstown flood.  He next located at Curwensville where he bought a store of 
John Irvin, which he conducted for eight years and then traded the store for 
Sheriff Smith's farm at Hyde City and subsequently sold the farm to the steel 
company.  After this he operated a butcher shop for a time and then purchased 
his present property which was known as the Boyington farm.  After getting his 
farm industries well started, in 1904, Mr. Schnars started his dairy, having 
appropriate buildings already on the place and he has greatly prospered in this 
line.  He handles 280 quarts of milk daily which he delivers in Clearfield.  Mr. 
Schnars carries on his business according to modern ideas, has sanitary quarters 
and running water, and his milk is in great demand and there is more call for 
cream than he can supply.
  Mr. Schnars was married to Miss Belle Turner of Garden City, Kans., and they 
have eight children:  Minnie, who is the wife of William Hoover; Florence, who 
is the wife of Orvis Ardary; and John Arthur, Glenn, Clara, Mabel, Jane and 
Charles.  Mr. Schnars and family attend the Methodist Episcopal church of 
Lawrence Township, the building being on one corner of the home farm.  He is a 
Republican in politics and is a member of the Grange at Clearfield.  For a 
number of years he owned 160 acres of land in Kansas and subsequently sold his 
claim for $15,000, which he proposes to invest in Clearfield County.  He is an 
intelligent, shrewd business man and there is every indication that this fund 
will be carefully and sensibly invested.