Northumberland-Schuylkill-Carbon County PA Archives Biographies.....Stager, R. E. 1853 - living in 1899

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R. E. STAGER, a much esteemed citizen of Shamokin, Pa., and outside-foreman at

the Luke Fidler Colliery, was born May 28, 1853, in St. Clair, Schuylkill

County. Pa., and is a son of Abraham and Jane (McQuay) Stager, and grandson of

Henry Stager. Our subject's grandfather, a native of Chester County, Pa.,

removed to Schuylkill County and settled near Schuylkill Haven, at Orwigsburg,

being one of the early settlers of that locality.



  Abraham Stager, our subject's father, was born July 10, 1822, near Schuylkill

Haven, and was educated in the schools of his native place. At an early age he

engaged in the coal mining business near Schuylkill Haven and in 1867 removed to

Carbon County. He was first in the employ of the Star Coal Company of Schuylkill

County, and then went to Audenried, Carbon County. His first position of

prominence and responsibility was as assistant outside-foreman at Audenried for

the Honey Brook Coal Company, which shortly afterwards became a property of the

Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company; he continued as foreman in the colliery for a

period of about thirty years, when he began to feel the infirmities of age and

decided to retire from active labor. He has now been living in retirement only

two or three years. His family consists of his wife and three children.



  R. E. Stager, our subject, received his education in the common schools and at

the early age of thirteen years made a beginning in the work of supporting

himself by picking slate at Audenried, Carbon County, where he worked about the

mines and also ran a stationary engine until he was eighteen. He first became an

assistant outside-foreman at Audenried, and then resigned, but soon returned. In

August, 1897, he became outside-foreman of the Luke Fidler Colliery, under the

Mineral Railroad & Mining Company, with which concern he has since remained.



  Mr. Stager is a member of Washington Camp, P. O. S. of A., at Audenried.





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Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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



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