BIO: John E. ROBERTSON, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 188.
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J. E. ROBERTSON
Blair's Mills, Huntingdon Co., Pa.

Cashier:  He was born at Orbisonia, Pa., February 24, 1879, a son of 
William Robertson, a Justice of the Peace and Notary Public for twenty 
years; a farmer and school teacher.  Died in 1925, at the age of eighty 
years.  He married Elizabeth Reed, who died in 1903, at the age of 
sixty-two years.  J. E. Robertson received his early education at the 
Burns Valley School, Franklin Co., Pa.  He then attended the Dry Run 
Academy, Franklin Co., Pa.  He was for a time with the Westinghouse 
Electric Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.  he succeeded G. B. M. Kepler as cashier 
of the Tuscarora Bank at Blair's Mills, Huntingdon Co., Pa., which was 
established in 1898.  He has served as school director of Tell 
Township.  An elder in the Presbyterian church; wife also belongs to 
the same church.  A Republican.  He has one brother, J. N. Robertson, 
married to Mary Welker, of Franklin Co., Pa.; one brother, A. C. 
Robertson, died at the age of twenty years.  One sister, Irene, married 
to W. O. Shoemaker, Dry Run, Pa.; one sister died in infancy.  J. E. 
Robertson was married to Margaret Lauthers, a daughter of James T. 
(deceased) and Annie Lauthers, Doylesburg, Franklin Co., Pa.  They have 
one son, John Hayes, at Dry Run High School.  Two daughters: Dorothy 
E., a Junior at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.; Margaret, eight 
years.  The personnel or governing body of the Tuscarora Bank is as 
follows:  President, J. C. Robertson; Vice-President, J. A. Swan; 
Cashier, J. E. Robertson; Assistant Cashier, D. E. McMinn.  Directors:  
J. E. Campbell, J. H. Lauthers, J. A. Swan, J. S. McMath, W. F. 
Simonton and J. C. Robertson.

Note: John Robertson, 40, Margaret Robertson, 33, Dorothy Robertson, 
16, and John T. Robertson, 8, appear in the 1920 Tell Township, 
Huntingdon County census.