BIO: Daniel J. KAUFFMAN, 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, pages 97-98.
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  DANIEL J. KAUFFMAN, Henderson township, Huntingdon county, Pa., was 
born near Landisburg, Perry county, Pa., November 23, 1843, son of 
Daniel and Hannah (Shoemaker) Kauffman.  Both the parents were of 
German descent.  The grandparents on the paternal side were early 
settlers of Berks county, who afterwards resided in Perry county, and 
still later removed to Mifflin county, where they spent the remainder 
of their lives.  The Shoemakers, Mr. Kauffman's maternal grandparents, 
settled early in Perry county, where their daughter, Mrs. Daniel 
Kauffman, was born.  Daniel Kauffman, who was a native of Berks county, 
was a farmer; he resided in Perry, Mifflin and Huntingdon counties.  
His family consisted of twelve children:  Henry D., born June 22, 1835, 
died August 3, 1884; Mary A., born January 27, 1837, died August 3, 
1856; Sarah, born December 22, 1838, died February 1, 1839; Benjamin 
J., born February 11, 1840, resides near Marklesville, Perry county; 
Lucy A. (Mrs. John Robinson), born March 8, 1842, died June 22, 1884; 
Daniel J.; John W., born November 1, 1845, train dispatcher, P. R. R., 
Huntingdon; Hannah (Mrs. John Dean), born March 30, 1848, died July 5, 
1881; Magdalena, born April 27, 1850, died September 1850; David C., 
born October 3, 1851, killed accident on the P. R. R., August 15, 1878; 
Samuel, born June 2, 1854, died August 27, 1858; and Moses S., born 
December 14, 1856, died March 30, 1881.  The mother died near Mapleton, 
January 1, 1883, in her seventy-first year, and the father at the 
residence of his son, Daniel J., September 13, 1885, in his seventy-
fourth year.
  It was when Daniel J. Kauffman was about ten years old that his 
parents removed from Perry county, to Mifflin county, where he received 
his education in the public schools.  He entered the service of the P. 
R. R. Co. as trackman in 1860, and continued in the same employ until 
1884.  In August, 1862, Mr. Kauffman enlisted in Company I, One Hundred 
and Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, for the nine months' service.  
In January, 1864, he re-enlisted in Company C, Twenty-first 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served in that regiment until the close of 
the war.  Since 1865 he has been a continuous resident of Huntingdon 
county.  Mr. Kauffman is a member of Post No. 44, G. A. R.  His 
political views are liberal.  He has served on the school board.
  Daniel H. Kauffman was married in Union township, Huntingdon county, 
Pa., August 23, 1866, to Mary E., daughter of David and Annie Clements.  
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Kauffman are:  Henry L., born February 26, 
1867, accidentally drowned June 22, 1888; Lucy A., born June 29, 1869, 
died in infancy; David D., born June 2, 1870, a clergyman in the M. E. 
church; John S., born September 2, 1883.  Mr. and Mrs. Kauffman attend 
the Presbyterian church, and their sons the Methodist.