Bios: TREASTER, Leo F. : Milroy, Mifflin Co, PA

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 "Commerative Biographical Encylopedia of Juniata Valley, Counties of
Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, Pennsylvania." J. M. Rouk & Co.
(1887) pages 643-44.

 "LEO F. TREASTER, Milroy, Mifflin county, Pa, was born in Armagh
township, Mifflin county, April 5, 1855, and is a son of John and
Margaret C. (Ramsey) Treaster.  His grandfathers, paternal and materal,
were George Treaster and Charles Ramsey; the latter, a native of
Ireland, came to America about the time of the formation of Mifflin
county, married Catherine Crissman, of Armagh township and had children:
"Thomas; Adam; James; Mararet O; George; Perry; Catherine; and two who
died very early in life.  John Treaster, son of George, was first
married to Mis McKenzie.  They had two children: Margaret Ellen; and a
son who died in infancy.  Margaret C. Ramsey  was also twice married.
Her first husband was James Aitkens, by whom she had three children:
Anne Mary; Hannah Margaret, who died in 1876, at the age of forty; and
John C.  The children of this second marriage (Treaster-Ramsey), are:
Samuel P., died in April, (can't read year), aged forty=seven; George,
who did in infancy; Martha (Mrs. Samuel Osborne); James R, married M.
Ellen Masterson, and Leo F.  John Treaster died April 29, 1886; his wife
survived him for a little less than a year, dying April 8, 1884.
 In his early youth, Leo F. Treaster was a pupil at the Aitkens school
house at Armagh township, but the best part of his education was
received in his business from his excellent parents, who by precept and
example taught him to be industrious and moderate in his wants.  He was
twenty-three years of age when he started out to make his own way in the
world, without capital, except his youthful strength, his intelligence
and his good habits.  He acquired a knowledge of the business of
manufacturing cooperage stock, and was engage in this business in
Treaster valley until 1883.  He then went in partnership with a
A.W. Graff, and began business at Milroy in the same line; in 1892, Mr.
Graff died and Mr. Treaster continued the business of manufacturing and
dealing in cooperage stock. He has very much increased his business,
having mills and cooperage plants in different parts of the State for
the manufacturing of kegs, barrels and stock in his line.  He is well
known as a dealer to the cooperage trade in the United States and
Canada.  He is in political views a Democrat.
 Leo F. Treaster was married July 13, 1881, to Mary M., daughter of I.
M. and Julia (Maybin) Furst.  Their only child is Grace Margaret, who
was born August 10, 1882, in Milroy.  Mr. Treaster is a member of the
Free Church at Milroy.
 Mr. and Mrs L. M. Furst had a family of five children, as follows; Mary
M. (Mrs. Treaster); Lilly (Mrs. Roibert C. Close). has two children;
Thomas, married Eva Tate; Wells, married Jessie McCartney; and Adam,
married Ettie Fields, has four children.  Mrs. Treaster's grandfather,
Thomas Furst, came to the United States from Germany; he married
Margaret Ilion, of New Jersey, and had children: George; Thomas;
William; John; Luther; Elizabeth; Harriet; Agnes; Kate; Emma; and Leah."

Transcribed by Norma Key