BIO: Adam L. STOUFFER, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 204.
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ADAM L. STOUFFER, B.O.
McConnellstown, Pa.

One has to go back for a period of time to recall the activities of 
Adam L. Stouffer.  At one time he occupied the attention of the public 
with dramatic recitations and humorous impersonations.  The Local News, 
Huntingdon, Pa., of that period, remarks that Adam Stouffer delighted 
his audiences with several readings.  He is a fine elocutionist, and 
then to Prof W. M. Benson, ex-Superintendent Public Schools, 
Huntingdon, Pa., who says:  "It gives me pleasure to testify to Mr. 
Stouffer's unusual ability as a reciter."  The authors he impersonated 
and represented were James Whitcomb Riley, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, 
and others.  He was skilled in the art of oratory, so much so that the 
Neff College of Oratory of Philadelphia, Pa., conferred upon him the 
degree of Bachelor of Oratory.  And now to his early and later life.  
He was born at McConnellstown, Huntingdon County, Pa., a son of Samuel 
Stouffer, whose father cleared what is known as the Stouffer farm, east 
entrance to McConnellstown, back in 1793.  He died in 1914.  The 
grandmother's name before her marriage was Mary Berkholder, from which 
Berks county derived its name.  They were of German descent, and 
settled in Berks County.  Adam L. Stouffer, after receiving a 
preliminary education at McConnellstown, Pa., attended Juniata College, 
West Chester State Normal, Ursinus College, Neff College of Oratory, 
Emerson College of Dramatic Expression, and the Jones School of 
Salesmanship of Chicago, Illinois, receiving a certificate of 
graduation; also gave private instruction in oratory at Philadelphia, 
Pa.  He taught public schools at Waterstreet, McConnellstown and 
Petersburg, five years, all in Huntingdon County, Pa.  Belongs to the 
Reformed Church, member of Board of Trustees, Sunday School teacher of 
Adult Bible Class.  A Republican.  Has served on School Board.  Has one 
brother, Harry C., at Watkins Glen, New York.  Four sisters:  Jennie, 
married to Calvin Laird, Alexandria, Pa.; Margaret, married to Vance H. 
Riley, Williamsburg, Pa.; Lettie, married to Addison Goodfellow, a 
mechanical draftsman, York Manufacturing Company; has charge of thirty 
draftsmen in office; Ella, married to Calvin Etters, West Chester, Pa.  
Adam Stouffer owns and operates two limestone quarries at 
McConnellstown, Pa.  A shrewd business man and capable.