Columbia-Schuylkill County PA Archives Biographies.....FAUST, William 1845 - living in 1899
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  WILLIAM FAUST, a representative and progressive citizen of the town of Berwick
  and superintendent of the erecting car-shops of The Jackson & Woodin
  Manufacturing Company, was born in Locust Valley, Schuylkill County, Pa., July
  3, 1845, and is a son of William and Rebecca (Lindenmouth) Faust and a grandson
  of John and Rosena (Hungsinger) Faust.
  
    John Faust, the grandfather of our subject, was a farmer and lived to a ripe
  old age. He was wedded to Rosena Hungsinger who bore him the following children:
  John, George, William, Henry, Jameson, Phoebe, Betsey, Jacob, and Rosena.
  
    William Faust, the father of our subject, was born in this state and when he
  grew to manhood he moved to Locust Valley, Schuylkill County, where he purchased
  four hundred acres of timberland. He built a saw-mill, cleared part of the
  property and carried on farming the remainder of his active days. Mr. Faust was
  one of the progressive and successful farmers of his community and took an
  active part in all measures which tended to benefit the conditions of his
  fellow-country-men. He entered the world of rest at the age of fifty-two years;
  his wife passed from this earth July 17, 1897. Mrs. Lucetta Thompson, sister of
  our subject, now owns part of the original homestead. Mr. Faust was united in
  the bonds of wedlock to Rebecca Linden-mouth, and a family of fourteen children
  were born to them, namely: Israel, deceased; John, deceased; Joseph, a
  contractor residing in the town of Berwick; Henry and Eli, deceased; William,
  our subject; George, a resident of St. Nicholas, Pa.; Amos, who resides in
  Mahanoy City, Pa.; Eliza, deceased, who was the wife of D. S. Scheipe; Ann, wife
  of J. J. Walborn, Mahanoy City, Pa.; Catherine, who was united in marriage to
  William Allen; Rosanna, who wedded J. B. Koppenhaffer; Lucetta, wife of J. R.
  Thompson; and Rebecca, who married H. R. Manger of New Boston, Pa.
  
    William Faust, the subject of this review, remained under the parental roof
  and attended the public schools until he was fourteen years of age. He then
  moved to Middleport, Pa., where he learned the trade of a cabinetmaker. When
  President Lincoln issued a call for men to put down the Rebellion, our subject
  being sixteen years of age and too young to enlist as a regular, enlisted as a
  musician August 14, 1861, in Company I, 48th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., and remained
  in the service throughout the war. He served through all the battles with his
  company, which belonged to the Ninth Army Corps under the command of Gen.
  Burnside. Among the most notable battles in which our subject took part were
  Second Bull Run; South Mountain; Antietam; and Fredericks-burg. He then returned
  to his home on a furlough of thirty days and when he returned to the front he
  joined Gen. Grant's Army, and was in the battles of the Wilderness;
  Spottsylvania; Cold Harbor, and Petersburg., Our subject received an honorable
  discharge June 17, 1865. Returning home, in 1867 he moved to Berwick and for
  eleven years he worked in the car-building department and did general carpenter
  work for The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, or until 1878 when he was
  promoted to be foreman of the same department. He has eighty men under his
  charge and they turn out fifteen cars per day. Mr. Faust is a self-made man in
  every respect and has succeeded in life by his own industry and perseverance. He
  is an honest and faithful workman and is considered by his employers One of the
  company's most reliable foremen. As a citizen he is one of the valued members of
  his community, and is held in high esteem by all his acquaintances.
  
    Mr. Faust has served as a member of the town council several times, and is a
  member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge of Berwick. Our subject was joined in the bonds
  of matrimony to Mary J. Smith, a daughter of John Smith, a resident of Black
  Creek, Luzerne County, Pa. Three children have blessed the home of Mr. and Mrs.
  Faust, as follows: Frank, who is employed by The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing
  Company; Emma, the wife of W. S. Johnson, who is the mother of two children,
  Clark and Frederick; and Charles, who died in infancy.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
  
  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
  
  
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