BIOS: Calvin Weller SAYLOR, Somerset Twp., Somerset County, PA

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BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Vol. XXXII, Containing Life Sketches of Leading 
Citizens of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania. Boston, 
Biographical Review Publishing Company: 1899, pp 294-295.

  Calvin Weller Saylor, a rising young business man of Somerset 
township, Pa., senior member of the enterprising firm of C. W. Saylor & 
Co., general merchants in the village of Listie, was born on January 
30, 1877, in Salisbury, Somerset County.  He is a son of Franklin P. 
and Hattie (Poorbaugh) Saylor and a grandson of the late Samuel Saylor, 
who was a lifelong resident of Somerset.
  Samuel Saylor was prosperously engaged in agriculture throughout his 
years of activity.  His wife's maiden name was Caroline Berkey.  They 
had twelve children, seven of whom are now living; namely, Andrew J., 
Daniel, Franklin P., James, William, Mary, and Emma.  Andrew J., the 
eldest, married for his first wife Annie Piesel, who bore him seven 
children, three of whom are living - Jennie, Lottie, and Frank P.  By 
his second wife, Mrs. Angie Hufford, born Master, he has six children - 
James, Lemon, Lizzie, Homer, Truman, and Paul.  Daniel Saylor married 
Sadie Roades, and has nine children - Ward, Clyde, Bessie, Minnie, 
Sadie, Annie, Myrette, Margaret, and Wilbur.  James married Emma Lape, 
who died some years later, leaving seven children - Meldo, Nannie, 
Parker, Mary, Scott, Ernest, and Minerva.  William married Lizzie 
Pritts.  They have no children.  Mary, wife of Michael Kifer, has nine 
children - Minnie, Kate, William, Charles, Harry, Grace, Daniel, Mayme, 
and Nellie.  Emma, wife of Philip Rhoades, has six children - Philip, 
Frank, Grace, Minnie, Mayme, and Eugene.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 
Saylor belonged to the Evangelical church.
  Franklin P. Saylor was born June 30, 1850, in the township of 
Somerset, Pa., and was here educated.  When a youth of about fourteen 
he enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth United States Infantry, in 
which he served for three years under General Thomas.  After receiving 
his honorable discharge from the army he was in the internal revenue 
service two years as Deputy Collector of Somerset County.  He 
subsequently studied for the ministry, and was ordained by the 
Evangelical church, with which he was actively identified as a preacher 
in various places for twenty years.  In 1889, at the time of the 
Johnstown flood, he lost his health, and was forced to give up his 
professional labors.  Coming then to Somerset, he settled as a farmer 
on Pleasant Hill, where he remained three years.  In 1893 he was 
elected Prothonotary of Somerset County, an office which he held three 
years.  He then took possession of his present estate in Somerset, the 
Edgewood farm, on which he now resides.
  Politically, he is an earnest supporter of the principles of the 
Republican party.  Fraternally, he is a member of the R. P. Cummings 
Post, No. 210, G.A.R., of which he is one of the Past Commanders, and 
at present (1899) assistant inspector at large of District No. 36 in 
the Department of Pennsylvania.  He belongs also to the I.O.O.A.W. and 
to the Golden Eagle Lodge of this town.  He married Hattie, daughter of 
Samuel Poorbaugh, of Stony Creek, Pa., their union being solemnized 
June 20, 1869.  Of their nine children eight are now living; namely, 
Norman S., George W., Libbie Alice, Calvin Weller, Carrie V., Ada M., 
Franklin C., Jr, and Harry D.  Norman S. married Leora Siebert, and has 
two children - Roy and Ruth.  Libbie Alice Saylor was appointed 
Postmistress at Listie on May 22, 1897, being the first in Somerset 
County to receive an appointment under the administration of President 
McKinley.
  Calvin Weller Saylor completed his early education in Franklin, Pa., 
and on leaving school assisted his father for a year or more in the 
duties of Deputy Collector.  He was subsequently for five years a clerk 
in the store of Kniffer and Good, under whom he obtained a practical 
knowledge of mercantile business.  On February 5, 1897, Mr. Saylor 
established himself in business on his own account by opening, in 
company with his father, a store of general merchandise in Listie.  He 
is at the head of the firm of C. W. Saylor & Co., and has entire 
management of the business, which is constantly increasing and has 
proved in every way profitable.  A young man of push and enterprise, 
progressive in his methods and anxious to please his numerous patrons, 
he has made rapid strides along the path of success, and has most 
flattering prospects for a prosperous future.