BIO: Howard M. FLECK, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************************** __________________________________________________________ McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 66. __________________________________________________________ HOWARD M. FLECK Warriorsmark, Pa. Retired: Born at Philipsburg, Pa., a son of Samuel K. Fleck, a merchant, who died in 1891, at the age of sixty-five years, and of Elizabeth (Hancock) Fleck, deceased, at the age of sixty-three years. Howard M. Fleck began his schooling at Philipsburg, Pa. He early in life, at the age of twelve years, began a clerical career. He made clerical work a specialty, and studied quality and values. He was a European buyer for the W.S. Gable Department Store, Altoona, Pa.; also buyer and manager of ladies' ready-to-wear apparel. He attained proficiency from an experience of thirty-six years. He has been retired for two years. He bought the Lowrie estate at Warriorsmark. On this estate are fifty-one acres, and thereon is found a tree from every foreign country, and a brief mention is made. One finds here an iron tree from India; 500 people could sit under the shade of its boughs; a Chinese maple, an imported cypress, a big leaf magnolia, Japanese Ginco tree, every leaf shaped like a fan; a walnut tree from the George Washington estate at Mount Vernon, and many others that are interesting to the lover of nature. There is found the Cathedral way, a phalanx of pines, eighty-five feet in height, evenly divided, in parallel formation. Here is also beautiful foliage. There are over one hundred different kinds of trees on this estate, and two miles of walks. This estate is located within the environs of Warriorsmark, opposite the new Methodist church, which now bieng re-erected, the previous building having been destroyed by fire. Howard M. Fleck has one brother, Charles W., Booneton, N.J., a contract painter; a sister, Mary C., Philadelphia, Pa., married to Wm. M. Rapscher, a son of Senator Rapscher, who was in the custom house in Philadelphia, Pa., for thirty years. Ellen, a widow, Bellefonte, Pa., married to James Schofield. Mr. Fleck is a member of the F.& A.M., Logan, No. 490, Altoona, Pa. He was married to Effie L. Hurley, a daughter of Wm. and Josephine Hurley. Both are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Fleck have one son, W. Hurley, married to Dorothy C. Aukerman, Altoona, Pa. They have two daughters, Dorothy Jane, six years; Elizabeth Josephine, four years. Mr. Fleck takes a great interest and pride in his estate. Botanists and naturalists have visited the estate and beheld nature in all its grandeur and glory from every clime.