BIO: Ernest M. FRANCE, Huntingdon County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson 
<davwilson@worldnet.att.net>

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 62.
__________________________________________________________  

ERNEST M. FRANCE
Mount Union, Pa.

Ernest M. France represents a type of men who have succeeded in any line of 
business endeavor which they have undertaken.  He was born at Wallaceton, 
Clearfield Co., Pa.  A son of Alexander France, who was a cabinetmaker by 
trade and for twenty-five years was a merchant at Wallaceton and Clearfield, 
and for ten years was retired.  He died suddenly in 1927 at the advanced age 
of eighty-seven years.  He married Sarah Ann Turner, a daughter of James H. 
Turner, who preceded her husband to the tomb in 1894, at the age of forty-
nine years.  Ernest M. France was educated at the Wallaceton schools.  He 
applied himself diligently to his studies and early in life began as clerk 
with the W.H. Wynn & Co., Blue Ball, Clearfield Co., Pa., brick 
manufacturers, and from this firm has grown to what is now the General 
Refractories Co.  For twenty-three years he was an official and stockholder 
of the Sandy Ridge Fire Brick Co., and of the Blair Silica Brick Co., of 
Sproul, Pa.  He is an expert in the manufacture of brick, and knows its 
component parts, textures and materials.  For five years he conducted a 
pharmacy at Mount Union, Pa., with success, and at present he is associated 
with others in putting on the market what promises to be a boon for all 
hunters and fishermen, a waterproof pad lined in coat, well constructed with 
the best in materials, and is now sold at a price which all sportsmen are 
enabled to have in their possession.  During the World War he was 
commissioned to government contracts in the brick business.  He has one 
brother, James H., married to Cora Wynn; he is proprietor of the J.H. France 
Refractories Co., Clarence, Pa.  Two brothers are deceased.  One sister, 
Edna Maude, married to Andrew Cross, with the General Refractories Co., Mill 
Hall, Pa.; two sisters deceased.  He belongs to the P.O.S. of A., Camp 346, 
J.O.U.A.M., No. 273; Modern Woodmen; Chamber of Commerce; Country Club; 
National Association of Retail Druggists; the A.A.A., the Mount Union Club; 
on board of governors and on house committee.  A Republican.  He was married 
to Jessie Louise Smith, a daughter of Frank and Susan Smith.  Four 
daughters:  Evelyn, married to Henry Cullen, June 22, 1929; he is with the 
National Electric Products Corporation, Ambridge, Pa.; Ethel Marie, twelve 
years; Cora Mae, nine years, and Edna Ruth, seven years.