BIO: Jesse RUPERT, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson Copyright 2007. 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 189. __________________________________________________________ JESSE RUPERT Mount Union, Pa. Auctioneer: Jesse Rupert was born in Shore Valley, five miles southeast of Three Springs, Pa., on July 25, 1876; born and raised on a farm, a son of John Rupert, a farmer, who owned a farm in Shore Valley; he is deceased; died in 1896. He married Margaret Shue; she is also deceased; died in 1908. Jesse Rupert attended the Meadow Green School. He stayed on the farm until the age of twenty-one years. He has been engaged at different occupations; he was with the Westinghouse Airbrake Company at Wilmerding for one and a half years; was a fireman for the Penna. R.R. at Altoona, Pa.; was a clerk and manager at various stores, among which was for eight years that of a manager of the Rock Hill store of I. W. Workman. During the World War was with the J. F. Miller & Sons, groceries and provisions, Mount Union, Pa., and also with the U.S. Refractories Co. He moved to Mapleton Depot, Pa., where he was employed with the Penna. Glass Sand Co.; he sold his property at Mapleton Depot and came to Mount Union, and bought a property at 37 West Haley street, where he resides; also owns other property. He has been an auctioneer for twenty years; is licensed and registered for sterilizing and disinfecting household goods; calls sales of all kinds, farm and property and household goods. At present he is a foreman for the Harbison-Walker Refractories Company. He belongs to the Church of the Brethren, Aughwick congregation; his wife also. He served on the election board of Clay township. Both he and his wife prefer the Republican party as regards politics. He has three brothers. Paul is in the mercantile business at Altoona, Pa.; William, Shore Valley; Samuel is a blacksmith out from Stone Creek, Huntingdon Co., Pa.; James L. and Henry F. are deceased. One sister, Mrs. Josephine Yinglin, Shore Valley; they are farmers; three sisters are deceased. Jesse Rupert was married to Elizabeth M. Roher, a daughter of E. L. and Ellen Roher. Mr. and Mrs. Rupert have one daughter, Emma J.; she is married to G. W. Herrington; she was a Senior at the Mount Union High School. Mr. Herrington is a weaver at the Susquehanna Silk Mill, Lewistown, Pa.; they have one daughter, Wanda Jeane, two years of age; one son, George Dale, one year old. Four children of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rupert are deceased. Henry Clay Rupert died at the age of five years; three died in infancy. Mr. Rupert as an auctioneer has met many people and has a wide acquaintance. He has a record of being sick only three and a half days since childhood.