BIO: Harry C. KIEFERLE, 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 126. __________________________________________________________ HARRY C. KIEFERLE Mount Union, Pa. Retired Printer: He was born at Middletown, Dauphin County, Pa., June 13, 1870. A son of Albert F.H. Kieferle, who was born in Germany, February 15, 1840. He was a tanner by trade; was a soldier in Garabaldi's Army in Italy in 1859, a war between Italy and France against Austria. He came to this country in 1866, and died August 6, 1910, at the age of seventy years. He married Elizabeth Schadt, who also was born in Germany; she was born January 21, 1835; came to this country in 1869; they were married in this country. She died May 18, 1916, at the age of eighty-one. Harry C. Kieferle, the subject of this sketch, received his first schooling at Harrisburg, Pa., at the St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church; began at the age of five years; was taught German and English. He also attended the grade schools of Newport, Perry County, Pa., and Mount Union, Pa., grade schools. He began to learn the printing trade at Mount Union offices; he branched out as a journeyman printer; followed his occupation in twenty-eight states of the Union; worked in most of the large cities of the North and South; retired six years ago. He was born a Lutheran, but united with the Presbyterian Church of Mount Union on profession of faith at the age of fourteen years. He taught Sunday School classes wherever he traveled. In 1906 he made a trip to Europe, sailing from the port of Galveston, Texas, where he had been employed with Clark & Courts, one of the largest printing establishments in the South, on the 30th day of April of that year, arriving at the port of Bremen, Germany, nineteen days later; traversed the Rhine and its principal cities and Southern Germany, where his parents were born and reared. Made two trips to Switzerland and on a second visit attended the World's Christian Endeavor Convention, which was held at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1906. He returned to America, arriving in New York August 28th following. Was gone on this trip through the United States and Europe for sixteen months; took employment in New York with William Green, Printers, Binders and Electrotypers, with which firm he remained for five and one-half years. He volunteered his services in the Spanish-American War, Co. G. Fifth Reg., Penna. Vol. Inf. He raised a volunteer company at Lewistown, Pa., where he enlisted with a roster of ninety-eight men, of which organization he was elected captain; was mustered out at Lewistown, Pa., November 9, 1898; was in Peace Jubilee Parade, viewed by President McKinley. He is a charter member of the Major John C. Dunkle Camp, United Spanish-American War Veterans, No. 122. He served on the Election Board, Second Ward, Mount Union, Pa. Is an Independent Democrat. Has one brother, F. W. Kieferle, dealer in musical merchandise, Lewistown, Pa. One sister deceased, Anna, who died April 10, 1890, aged fifteen years, five months and twenty-two days. Harry Kieferle is a man of marvelous memory. The dates and figures chronicled in this sketch were given from memory. A dependable man, an ancestry that has proved its worth.