BIO: C. C. SHOFF, 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 497.
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  C. C. SHOFF, general farmer in Bigler township, Clearfield county, Pa., was 
born on the farm on which he lives, September 6, 1837.  He had but few 
educational advantages when he was young, seven months of schooling, all told, 
but there are few men in this neighborhood who know more about logging or work 
in the woods than Mr. Shoff.
  When but thirteen years old Mr. Shoff began to work in the timber, and ever 
since then has given a part of each winter to the lumber business, devoting his 
summers to farming.  He has sixty-three acres of land, six acres having formerly 
been underlaid with fine coal, but it has been about all worked out.  Mr. Shoff 
is well known and highly regarded in his township and has always, since he 
reached manhood, so enjoyed public confidence that he has been elected to some 
office.  He has served in almost all the township offices and for six years was 
constable.
  Mr. Shoff was married in 1861 to Miss Elizabeth Stitt, who died December 22, 
1906, and is buried at Beulah, Pa.  She was a daughter of Thomas and Barbara 
(Glass) Stitt, natives of Cambria county, whose other children were named as 
follows:  Ellen, George, Nancy, James and Christopher.  To Mr. and Mrs. Shoff 
the following children were born:  S. T.; Emma, who is the wife of Andrew 
Colwell; and J. F., Willis D., Luther, James A., and Lena.  Mr. Shoff and family 
are members of the Luthern church.