BIO: Philip A. PHEASANT, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 175.
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P. A. PHEASANT
Union Township, Huntingdon County, Pa.

Farmer:  P. A. Pheasant was born in Union Township, Huntingdon County, 
Pa., March 21, 1864.  At Sherman school, in Smith Valley, he received a 
preliminary education; attended Summer school in Union Township.  A son 
of Samuel P. Pheasant, who died in 1923, aged eighty-seven years, and 
of Mary A. (Curfman) Pheasant, who died in 1917, aged seventy-five 
years, of Scotch-Irish parentage.  P. A. Pheasant is a practical 
farmer, has a farm of ninety acres, and specializes on potatoes, which 
this valley is noted for.  Has been a farmer all his life, in Union 
Township.  Born and raised on farm.  Has been Supervisor, School 
Director and Assessor.  The family are Methodists, members of the 
Calvin Church.  He is President of the Board of Trustees.  Belongs to 
the Grange, No.1210, Calvin, Huntingdon County, Pa.  A Republican in 
politics.  Has one brother, Clarence, at home.  Two sisters, Annie E. 
married to Horace Wright, Smith Valley; Lillie, married to Jesse Apgar, 
Alexandria, Pa.  P. A. Pheasant was married to Anna H. Smith, daughter 
of David and Jane Smith, of Smith Valley.  The valley is named after 
the Smiths of her ancestry.  Four daughters:  Odessa, married to J. Coy 
Coder, Huntingdon, Pa.; Elsie, married to John Mansberger, Union 
Township, a farmer; Cora, married to John Anderson, Huntingdon, Pa., a 
machinist at Altoona, Pa.; Esther, married to John Mierley, Huntingdon, 
Pa, a fireman on the Middle Division, Penna. R.R.  Mr. Pheasant is one 
of the foremost farmers of this section and highly esteemed.

Note: Philip A. (55) and Anna H. (60) Pheasant and Pheasant L. 
Mansberger (11) appear in the 1930 Union Township, Huntingdon County 
census.