Columbia-Montour County PA Archives Biographies.....SUPPLEE, Horace G. 1859 - living in 1899
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  HORACE G. SUPPLEE, who efficiently served as manager of the Farmers' Produce
  Exchange from 1886 until he purchased the establishment in 1898, is one of the
  leading citizens of Bloomsburg. He was born at White Hall, Pa., October 27,
  1859, and is a son of George W. and Sarah (Hamer) Supplee.
  
    His grandfather was Samuel Supplee, who was a prosperous farmer of Chester
  County, and who married Catherine Reinwald, both of whom lived to reach an
  advanced age. George W. Supplee, the father of our subject, was born near
  Phoenixville, Chester County, and settled on a farm in Montour County in 1857,
  and eight years later purchased a farm at Jerseytown, upon which he made many
  improvements and followed agricultural pursuits for many years. Subsequently he
  sold the estate, which is now owned by A. J. Zeis-loft, and retired to
  Bloomsburg, where he resided until his death, in October, 1896, aged seventy-one
  years. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Hamer, was born July 1, 1826, and
  is a daughter of Murphy and Mary (White) Hamer, both of whom died at an early
  age, and were survived by the following children: Martha; Jane; William; James;
  Sarah, our subject's' mother; Hannah; and Robert. As a result of their union Mr.
  and Mrs. Supplee became the parents of the following children: Antoinette, wife
  of C. De Mott; Gertrude, whose union with A. Girton resulted in the following
  issue,—Raymond. Frederick, Otto, Robert and Archie; Horace G., the subject of
  this personal history; Anna, who married J. Nuss, and has two children, Ruth and
  Preston; and George, who died at the age of seventeen years.
  
    Horace G. Supplee, after completing the prescribed course in the public
  schools, attended Greenwood Seminary and the Bloomsburg State Normal School. He
  then engaged in teaching for seven terms, or until 1886, when he accepted his
  present position as manager of the Farmers' Produce Exchange, one of the most
  enterprising concerns in the town. It was established in 1882, in a large brick
  building, three stories high, which was erected at a cost of $8,000 and was
  incorporated with a capital of $10,000. In the fall of 1898 Mr. Supplee
  purchased the entire plant. He carries a complete line of general merchandise,
  grain, fertilizers, plaster, salt, groceries, flour, feed, hay, wooden and
  willowware, boots, shoes and all kinds of country produce; in fact, everything
  that is needed by a housekeeper, including furniture and carpets. The store is
  well arranged, neat in appearance, and everything about it has an air of
  prosperity, which bespeaks the excellence of Mr. Supplee's management. The
  Exchange is very desirably located, being situated at No. 601 Market street.
  
    Mr. Supplee was united in matrimonial bonds to Eleanora Bryfogle, a daughter
  of Daniel and Emma (Gould) Bryfogle, and they are the happy parents of two
  children: Mabel, born in Bloomsburg November 4, 1889; and George W., also born
  in Bloomsburg February 21, 1894. Mr. Supplee served in the town council one
  term. He is a Republican in his political views. He is a member of the Baptist
  Church, of which he has been a deacon for several years. Socially, he is a
  member of Washington Lodge No. 265, F. & A. M.; Chapter No. 218, R. A. M.;
  Crusade Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar; and Caldwell Consistory of
  Bloomsburg, of which he is treasurer.
  
  
  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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