BIO: J. A. SLAUGHENHOUPT, 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 516 & 517.
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  J. A. SLAUGHENHOUPT, a leading citizen of DuBois, Pa., formerly president of 
the DuBois Business Men's Asociation, is proprietor of a large grocery store at 
DuBois, of which place he has been a resident since 1886.  He was born on his 
father's farm in Clarion County, Pa., September 10, 1861, and is a son of 
Harrison and Catherine (Wiant) Slaughenhoupt.
  Harrison Slaughenhoupt and wife were born in Clarion County and were members 
of old pioneer families that had come to that section from east of the Allegheny 
Mountains.  Harrison Slaughenhoupt was engaged in farming and stock raising 
during his active years and then retired and he and wife reside in a comfortable 
home at Rimersburg, Pa.  Five children were born to them, namely:  James Milton, 
of Irwin, Pa.; Jacob Alvin, of DuBois; Hannah Mary, wife of W. T. Harley, of 
Sheffield, Pa.; William H., of Oakmont, Pa., and Lawson Merle.
  Jacob Alvin Slaughenhoupt remained at home until he was seventeen years of 
age, in the meanwhile assisting his father and attending the district school 
situated some three miles from the homestead.  When he started out for himself 
he first found employment with neighboring farmers, after which he worked on the 
grading of the narrow-gauge railroad then being constructed between Foxburg and 
Kane, Pa.  Two years later he went to Brookville and there engaged in teaming 
and was married there in 1884 and shortly afterward rented a farm in Jefferson 
County, which he cultivated for one year.  After a prospecting tour in Florida, 
he returned to Pennsylvania and in the fall of 1886 settled at DuBois and for 
the five succeeding years was in the employ of John DuBois in the logging camps 
in the lumber regions.  In 1891, he went into railroad work and for two years 
worked as fireman on the B. R. & P. Railroad.  Mr. Slaughenhoupt then made his 
first independent business venture, embarking in the dairy business which he 
conducted until 1895, when he had the opportunity of buying the already 
established grocery business of M. Manthe, of which he took advantage.  This 
store is very favorably located for business purposes, at No. 42 S. Brady 
Street, almost opposite the post office.  He carries a large and carefully 
selected stock of both staple and fancy groceries and enjoys a substantial 
trade.  He owns additionally a half interest in the Keesage meat market on S. 
Brady Street and is a stockholder in the Union Banking and Trust Company as well 
as in the United Electric and Traction Company.  Starting out with no capital, 
Mr. Slaughenhoupt has acomplished much and now occupies a position of trust and 
confidence among his fellow citizens which is justifiable.  He has always taken 
a thoroughly good citizen's interest in the welfare and advancement of DuBois 
and has identified himself with those civic bodies which work for such results.  
He was president of the DuBois Business Men's Asociation in 1908 and 1909.  In 
politics he is a Democrat.
  On February 26, 1884, Mr. Slaughenhoupt was married to Miss Anna Parry, a 
daughter of Henry and Hannah Parry, of Snyder Township, Jefferson County, and 
they have had five children, namely:  Clyde, who assists his father in the 
grocery store, and married Laura McPherson; Bessie E., who married William 
Newmyer; and Lena May, Hannah C. and Anna May.  The family belong to the 
Reformed church.  Mr. Slaughenhoupt is a charter member of the order of American 
Mechanics at DuBois and belongs also to the Odd Fellows and Masons, in the 
latter fraternity being a member of the Blue Lodge at DuBois, the Chapter at 
Brookville, the Consistory at Williamsport and the Shrine at Altoona.