BIO: Samuel O. GARNER, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 78.
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SAMUEL O. GARNER
Marklesburg, Pa.

Service Station:  The Garners were among the first settlers in this section, 
around the year 1792.  The first Garner deed was from Wm. Penn (The 
Younger).  Samuel O. Garner is a son of Zacariah T. and Rosanna (Treece) 
Garner.  The father of Zachariah Garner died at the age of ninety years, a 
resident of Penn Township.  The father of Samuel O. Garner is still living 
at Marklesburg, aged eighty-one years.  A farmer till 1919.  His wife, 
Rosanna, died in 1928, aged seventy-nine years.  Samuel O. Garner was born 
in Blair County, Pa., October 10, 1884.  In Blair County he first acquired 
his education; remained on farm till age of eighteen; was with the State 
Highway Department; Westinghouse Company; ran a tractor for the State 
Highway Department at Williamsburg, Pa.; also at Leechburg, Pa.  Established 
his present business in 1922, a service station, repairing, etc.  During the 
World War was employed at East Pittsburgh with the Westinghouse Company.  A 
member of the I.O.O.F., No. 445, Martinsburg, Pa,; Mt. Hor Encampment, 
Huntingdon, Pa.; P.O.S. of A., Camp 516, Martinsburg, Pa., a charter member.  
Belongs to A.A.A.  Is a Republican.  One brother, George, married to 
Margaret Greaser, Blair County, Pa.  Two sisters:  Bertha, at home; Rachel, 
married to G.E. Ritchey, Blair County, Pa.  Two brothers are deceased; 
Wilmer, aged nine months; H. Elmer, aged forty-nine years.  His wife resides 
at Aitch, Huntingdon County, Pa.  Samuel D. Garner was married to Florence 
Steinbach, a daughter of John C. and Sadie Steinbach, of Philadelphia. Pa.