BIOS: Edward G. MOSTOLLER, Stonycreek Twp., 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. 206/7

Edward G. MOSTOLLER.

Edward G. Mostoller, of Mostoller, is a grandson of John Mostoller, who
passed his entire life as a farmer in Somerset county.  His son, George
Mostoller, was born in 1802 in Stony Creek township and was a cabinetmaker,
lumberman and farmer.  His political affiliations were first with the Whigs
and later with the Republicans.  He was a member of the Allbright church.
George Mostoller married Bevy Custer and they were the parents of one
child, Edward G., of whom later.  Mr. Mostoller died, November 22, 1872,
from the effects of injuries received from an infuriated bull.
Edward G. Mostoller, son of George and Bevy (Custer) Mostoller, was born
July 20, 1838, on the farm where he now resides.  His educational
opportunities were very limited, being restricted to attendance at school
during two winters, but in after life he found means of supplying his early
deficiencies.  He remained with his father, working on the farm and running
the sawmill, until the age of twenty-two, when he married, and on the death
of his father, being the sole heir, he came into possession of the estate.
In addition to the homestead, which consists of three hundred and fifty-two
acres, he is the owner of a timber tract of three hundred and twenty-one
acres and another of three hundred acres, with the sawmill.  All these are
in Stony Creek township and were owned by his father in partnership with
others.  After his father's death they were sold and were awarded to Mr.
Mostoller as the highest bidder.  The latter is the owner of still another
tract of timber (principally yellow pine) of four hundred acres, situated
in Shade township.  The homestead farm is well timbered, thoroughly stocked
and the improvements are of the best.  In 1884 Mr. Mostoller built, at
Mostoller Station, a large flouring mill, which he equipped with the new
roller process machinery, making it the best mill property in the state at
that time.  The mill is not now in operation.  Mr. Mostoller is interested,
with others, in a tract of three thousand acres of coal land in West
Virginia, and also in a company drilling for oil wells in Somerset county.
For the last sixteen years he has conducted a grocery store at the station
in connection with the postoffice, of which he has been postmaster since
1889, the office having come to him unsolicited.  Politically he is a
Republican.  He and his wife are members of the Evangelical church, of
which he is a trustee.
Mr. Mostoller married February 20, 1860, Lavinia, born April 1, 1841,
daughter of John Swank, farmer of Somerset township, and their children
are: Elizabeth, became the wife of Joseph Lambert, a farmer of Stony Creek
township; they had two children, Arthur and Leroy.  Mrs. Elizabeth Lambert
died February 6, 1884.  John E., born December 8, 1861, is a mill worker of
Kimmelton, Pennsylvania, a Republican and a member of the Evangelical church.  
He married Sarah E., daughter of Albert Wright, and has five children: Marietta, 
Clara F., George M., Albert W. and Alma Z. Irvin, died in childhood.  Catharine 
J. died in childhood.  Martha, died in childhood.  George G., born March 5, 
1868, millworker of Mostoller, Republican, married Ida Lear and has two 
children, Darl and Earl.  Winton R., born April 22, 1873, fireman on Baltimore &  
Ohio railroad, Republican. Sylvester H., born September 22, 1876, lives at 
Mostoller, fireman on Baltimore & Ohio railroad, Republican, married Elizabeth 
Critchfield and has three children: Pearl, Martha and Meredith.  Minnie J., born 
February 28, 1879, wife of Peter Zimmerman, died November, 1902, leaving one 
child, Melda May.  Ida F., born September 25, 1882, living at home.  These
children were all educated in the common and normal schools of the county.