Northumberland-Schuylkill County PA Archives Biographies.....Faust, Daniel 1841 - living in 1899

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DANIEL FAUST is prominent among the most successful contractors and builders of

Shamokin, Coal township, and is a member of the well-known firm of Reed & Faust.

This firm is extensively and favorably known for the excellent work done by it

in various parts of the town. The firm makes a specialty of comfortable and

handsome dwellings and enjoys the distinction of having erected many of

Shamokin's model residences. Messrs. Reed & Faust employ from twenty-five to

thirty competent journeymen carpenters and supervise in person all work

entrusted to them. They have a large lumber-yard and workshop well supplied with

all kinds of building material and are always prepared to furnish estimates on

all kinds of new buildings, or for the remodeling of old structures. Among their

patrons are some of the largest real estate owners in Shamokin, and they are

noted for doing strictly first-class work at reasonable figures. A few of the

beautiful and cozy homes erected by the firm are those of H. H. Keiser, T. B.

Hertzog, Jacob R. Keiser, Richard Deppen, and their own handsome and modern

residences.



  Daniel Faust is a son of George and Rebecca (Klingerman) Faust and was born at

East Mahanoy Junction, Schuylkill County, Pa., March 15, 1841. He attended the

public schools until seventeen years old and then moved to Mahanoy City, where

he learned the carpenter's trade; he soon proved himself to be an expert workman

and labored industriously at his trade in and about his native section for many

years. In 1876 he located in Shamokin and continued to work in that town and

surrounding country until 1884, when he formed a partnership with Francis T.

Reed and embarked in the contracting and building business under the firm name

of Reed & Faust. He is now reaping the rewards of his industry and is enjoying a

comfortable competency in his closing years.



  Daniel Faust, our subject, was united in marriage with Susan Seward December

1, 1866, and to them have been born four children, only two of whom are now

living: Melinda, a charming young lady, and Edward E., now attending the

Pennsylvania Dental College of Philadelphia.



  Our subject has a very creditable war record. In August, 1862, he enlisted in

the Union Army in Company H, 96th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., and was honorably

discharged from the service June.22, 1865, having served his country nearly

three years without missing a single day's duty. He served in the Army of the

Potomac and under Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. Among the important battles

in which he participated were Gettysburg, Fredericksburg and Rappahannock

Station, where his gallantry was observed by Gen. Henry Upton, who made him his

orderly from that time until the close of the war. Socially our subject is a

member of Gen. Grant Lodge, No. 575, I. O. O. F.; also of Lincoln Post, No. 140,

G. A. R., of Shamokin. He is an active member and liberal supporter of the

Methodist Church.



  John Faust, grandfather of our subject, was a native of Berks County, Pa., but

early in life located in Rush township, Schuylkill County, where he was an ideal

and practical farmer. Later he removed to Mahanoy, which is now Mahanoy City,

and for some time was proprietor of the Mahanoy Hotel, but still later he

returned to Rush township, where he spent the remainder of his life.



  George Faust, father of our subject, was born on the site of Mahanoy City

before the town was built. He was educated, reared and lived in that section all

his life. He early learned the carpenter's trade and was also very skilful in

building wind-mills for cleaning grain. A severe cold contracted by exposure cut

short his progress in life's journey, just as he was nearing its forty-second

milestone, leaving his widow and nine children to mourn his premature demise.





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Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

Published by 

Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)



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