BIOS: Lewis HOSTETLER, Windber, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford & Somerset Counties, PA; v.3; Bedford County by E.
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; Lewis Pub. Co.,
NY/Chicago 1906; ppg. 438/9

Lewis Hostetler.

Lewis Hostetler, of Windber, is a grandson of Peter Hostetler, who is
supposed to have been of German extraction, and settled in Bucks county,
purchasing his land of William Penn, Jr.  Later he went to Cambria county. 
He was a framer and an Amish preacher, being a very active worker in his
church and transmitting to his descendants the sterling traits of character
by which he was distinguished. 
Henry Hostetler, son of Peter Hostetler, was born in 1840, and settled on
the old homestead on Johnstown pike, which he purchased of his father in
1865.  He was a stockholder in Johnstown pike and also a director in the
company.  During the Civil war he was one of those included in the last
drafting, but was able to furnish a substitute.  He was a Republican.  He
was brought up in the Amish church, but later joined the German Baptist. 
Mr. Hostetler married, in 1865, Mary daughter of A. Weaver, and their
children were: Abram, born in October, 1867, married Mary Statler; Lizzie,
born in 1868, wife of Uriah Weaver; Stephen, born in 1870, married Emma
Weaver; Hiram, born in 1876, married Cevilla Baumgardner; Lewis, see
forward; Emma, born in 1884; and Arthur, born in 1890. 
Lewis Hostetler, son of Henry and Mary (Weaver) Hostetler, was born May
21, 1880, in Richland township, Cambria county, and received his
preparatory education in the common schools, from which he graduated in
1895, afterward passing through Merett Business College and Juniata
College.  After teaching for two years in the common schools, he gave his
attention for another two years to farming, and at the expiration of that
time established a store for the sale, at wholesale and retail, of flour,
feed, fertilizers and farming implements.  This was after his removal to
Windber, where he has since remained.  He is a director of the Citizens'
Bank, and also secretary and treasurer of the Selix Telephone Company.  At
one time he served on the school board in Scalp Level.  He is a Republican. 
He is a member of the Brethren church, in which he serves as treasurer and
also superintendent of the Sunday school. 
Mr. Hostetler married, in 1903, Alice, daughter of Hiram Lehman, an elder
in the German Baptist church, and they have one child, Helen Maurine, born
April 12, 1904.