BIO: Harry J. 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, pages 719 & 720.
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  HARRY J. SHOFF, who is one of the representative citizens of Ferguson 
township, Clearfield county, Pa., owns the farm of 100 acres on which he was 
born June 3, 1883, and is a son of C. J. and Annie E. (Glasgow) Shoff.
  C. J. Shoff, who, for many years has been a well known lumberman, was born 
August 3, 1843, at Hagerty Cross Roads, Clearfield county, and came to the farm 
above mentioned three years after his marriage.  He has always been active in 
the lumber industry and at the present time (1911) he is engaged in cutting 
timber in Somerset county, Pa.  He married Annie E. Glasgow, who was born 
February 7, 1847, a daughter of John Glasgow.  Nine children were born to this 
marriage, namely:  Ella V., who married, Herbert Mahaffey, a salesman residing 
in Boswell, Somerset county; Clair J., who married Elizabeth Mott, of Burnside, 
residing in Olean, N. Y., employed in the service of Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company for many years as electrician; Paul L., married Marie Moler, of Iron 
Gate, Va., died September 13, 1900, leaving his wife and two boys, who still 
reside in Iron Gate; G. L., who was still single at time of his death on March 
26, 1907; was superintendent of the C. J. Shoff & Sons Lumber Co., in Somerset 
county, and one of the Union Bargain Store Co., at Boswell; M. L., married Effie 
Whiteside; he is interested in lumbering and mercantile business at Boswell, 
Somerset county; H. C., not married, is also one of the partners in the Union 
Bargain Store of Boswell; F. J., not married, is employed by the Pennsylvania 
Railroad Company, and is now living in Olean, N. Y.; Mary J., youngest of the 
family, is still single and living in Boswell.  The mother of the above 
mentioned family died March 8, 1904, and was buried at Glasgow.  She was a 
member of the Lutheran church, to which her husband also belongs.
  Harry J. Shoff obtained his education in the public schools of Ferguson 
township, after which he was in the lumber business with his father and for 
three years they operated together in Clearfield county.  Since then he has 
devoted himself to farming, purchasing 100 acres of the homestead, his father 
retaining 100 acres, which remains his home, and he also owns several tracts of 
valuable coal land in Clearfield county.  Mr. Shoff, of this sketch, also 
operates fifty acres of farm land owned by his wife.  He keeps high grade cattle 
and carries on dairying on a small scale.  He is one of the younger 
agriculturists of Ferguson township but is one of the most enterprising and 
successful.
  Mr. Shoff was married June 9, 1904, to Miss Ruby Z. Rowles, who was born in 
Greenwood township, Clearfield county, March 28, 1883, and is a daughter of John 
A. and Eleanor Rowles, formerly very prominent people in this section.  The 
father of Mrs. Shoff died in 1897 and her mother in January, 1904, and their 
burial was at Lumber City.  They were members of the United Presbyterian church.  
In politics, John Rowles was a Democrat.  Mr. and Mrs. Shoff have two children, 
Mary Lenore and Anna Glasgow.  Mr. Shoff, as indicated above, is a wide-awake 
farmer and is an active member of Kerrmoor Grange, in which he holds the office 
of overseer.  He is a Democrat in politics but has never accepted any township 
office except that of school director.  He is a stockholder in the Ferguson & La 
Jose Telephone Company.