BIO: William S. FOUSE, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 247.
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  WILLIAM S. FOUSE, Entriken, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in 
Lincoln township, June 6, 1853, son of Adam and Margaret Jane 
(Simonton) Fouse. Adam Fouse was born in Blairs Cove, near Beavertown, 
Blair county, Pa. He learned carpentry, and worked at that trade in his 
native county. When he removed to Huntingdon county he became the owner 
of a tannery in Lincoln township, which he carried on with success for 
a number of years. He afterwards bought a farm of 165 acres in the same 
township, built upon it and otherwise improved it, and continued 
tilling the land and raising stock until within two or three years of 
his death. About 1868, Mr. Fouse was elected county commissioner for 
Huntingdon county, on the Republican ticker; he always adhered to that 
party. His wife, Margaret Jane Simonton, to whom he was married in 
Lincoln township, was a daughter of Jefferson Simonton, farmer and 
tanner of that township. Their children are: Mary A.; Benjamin, farmer, 
of Huntingdon county; William S.; Nancy (Mrs. John Greaser), of Blair 
county; and Naomi. Adam Fouse was a lifelong member of the Reformed 
church; he was a worker, as teacher and as superintendent, in the 
Sunday-school. He was a man of exemplary life; never entered a liquor 
saloon, never used tobacco in any form; he was held in respect and in 
the kind regards of his neighbors and associates. Mr. Fouse died in 
September, 1884; his wife still lives on the homestead in Lincoln 
township.
  William S. Fouse was educated in Lincoln township. He learned tanning 
with his father, and continued to work at the business until his father 
went to farming. William remained on the farm until he was twenty-two; 
he then rented a farm of 100 acres in Penn township, and began 
cultivating it on his own account. He was for three years on this first 
farm; he then rented others in the same township, on which he continued 
working until 1883. in that year he removed to the paternal homestead; 
there he continued for eight years, then rented a farm in Penn township 
for two years, and lastly bought his present farm, containing 700 
acres, in Lincoln township, of William McMurtrie. He has made carious 
improvements, and is still engaged in cultivating the soil and raising 
stock. Mr. Fouse has been a member of the school board of the township, 
and filled the office of supervisor. He is a Republican.
  William S. Fouse was married at Everett, Bedford county, Pa., in 
1875, to Martha J., daughter of Samuel Shell, of Marklesburg. Their 
children are: Herman; Mary Jan; Keturah P.; and William. Mr. Fouse is a 
deacon in the Reformed church. He was trained in the Sunday-school, and 
has been a teacher there. Following his father's excellent example, he 
has been no patron or visitor of saloons, but endeavors to maintain a 
consistent course of life. He enjoys the respect and good will of the 
community.