BIO: W. I. WALL, 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, 352-353.
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  W. I. WALL, miller, owner and proprietor of the Grampian Mill, at Grampian, 
Pa., is a well known business man and respected and representative citizen of 
this borough.  He was born June 26, 1861, in Penn Township, Clearfield 
County, one mile south of Grampian, and is a son of Isaiah and Rosanna 
(Danver) Wall.
  Isaiah Wall was born in the eastern part of Pennsylvania and was a small 
boy when he accompanied his father, Jonathan Ball, to Penn Township, where 
the larger part of his subsequent life was passed.  He engaged in farming and 
lumbering and became a man of ample estate, owning, with his son-in-law, the 
land on which stands Coalport.  He was twice married, first to a Miss 
Widemyer, and second to Rosanna Danver, and seven children were born to the 
first marriage and one, W. I., to the second.  The following children were 
born to the first union:  Eliza, Jennie, Hannah, Mary Ann, T. E., Aquilla (a 
soldier in Civil War who died while serving his country), and an infant son, 
deceased.  After his first marriage, Isaiah Wall lived on the Thomas E. Wall 
farm, on which Thos. E. Wall now lives, and continued there until after the 
death of his second wife, when he moved to Grampian and later to Tyrone and 
afterward to Coalport.  There he operated a coal bank and a saw-mill during 
his remaining active years and then retired to his farm in Penn Township, on 
which his death occurred when aged eighty-three years.  This farm of 125 
acres he had cleared and improved, coming to it when it was little but a 
wilderness.  In politics he was a Republican and at one time served as 
constable of Penn Township.  He was a member of the Society of Friends and 
his burial was in the Friends' Cemetery.  His second wife was a member of the 
Catholic church and she was buried in the cemetery belonging to that church, 
at Grampian.
  W. I. Wall was educated in the schools of Penn Township and the Grampian 
Normal School, after which he engaged in farming in Penn Township, operating 
on fifty acres of land.  Later he moved to Grampian and bought his present 
mill, which is a grist-mill well fitted with modern machinery for producing 
flour, buckwheat and chop.  He operates the same with the assistance of one 
man and does a safe and satisfactory business.  He is an intelligent and 
earnest citizen and has served in the borough council, elected on the 
Republican ticket.  He is a stockholder in the Penn Township Rural Telephone 
Company.
  On June 26, 1884, Mr. Wall was married to Miss Sarah A. Davis, who was born 
in Penn Township, a daughter of Joseph Davis, and they have had five 
children, namely:  Earl J., who married Maude E. Bloom, a daughter of Edward 
Bloom, of Penn Township, and they have had one child, Sarah Elizabeth, now 
deceased; Lena E., who is a school-teacher; Eva Mildred, who attends the 
Grampian High School; Carl W., who is also at school; and Kenzie Lovelle, who 
is deceased.  Mr. Wall is a member of the Society of Friends.  He belongs to 
the Penn Grange, to the Odd Fellows and the P. O. S. of A.