AFFANTRANGER, S.J.:  Biographical Sketch, Meadville

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AFFANTRANGER, S.J.:  page 709, Biographical Sketch, Meadville

    "S.J. AFFANTRANGER, livery and sale stables, Meadville, is a native
of the Keystone State, and has seen as much of the globe as Gen. Grant,
having been in every State and most of the Territories of the Union, has
made three overland journeys to California, and has been in most foreign
countries; he has been three times over the Atlantic Ocean, and has
circumnavigated the globe, settling down at last in his native State. He
is a quite man, attending strictly to his business, in which he has been
successful. He has been a frequent contributor to the newspapers of
Meadville. He makes it a rule never to be in haste to be rich, great or
wise. In politics he is a Democrat; is a member of the Town Council. He
was married first in Virginia, and again after the death of his first
wife in 1862, having lived a widower sixteen years. Mr. and Mrs.
AFFANTRANGER have four children - Celia, Virginia, May A. and Edward J.
Our subject is a son of John and Josephine (Earnest) AFFANTRANGER,
natives of Switzerland, and who had to work three years to pay the man
who paid their passage to America. They had thirteen children, nine of
whom grew up, our subject being the sixth. He first learned
blacksmithing, at which he worked for several years. He then owned and
conducted a carriage factory in Indiana for eleven years. Since 1873 he
has lived in Meadville. He was born in this county, April 7, 1826, and
here expects to stay until higher powers call him away."