Sullivan-Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....Pealer, D. W. 1851 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
   D. W. PEALER, one of the leading and substantial business men of Lopez, this
  county, is a native of Fishing Creek township, Columbia county, this state. He
  was born February 21, 1851, and is a son of Elias and Susanna (Weimer) Pealer,
  and a grandson of Jacob Pealer, of Reading. When a young man Jacob Pealer came
  to Fishing Creek township, Columbia county, where he purchased property and
  engaged in husbandry until his death, which occurred in his eighty-ninth year.
  He married a Miss Yapil in Columbia county, and to them were born the following
  children: John, a farmer of Fishing Creek township, now deceased; Thomas, who
  died at Dushore, this county, October 1, 1898; Elias, the father, who died in
  1863; Samuel, a liquor dealer of Joplin, Missouri, where he died in 1893; Susan;
  and Mahala, deceased, wife of Benjamin Hess.
  
      Elias Pealer also was born in Fishing Creek township, having been ushered
  into existence in 1819. He grew to manhood in his childhood home, and received
  an education in the common schools, similar to that of other boys of his time.
  He was joined in marriage to Miss Susanna Weimer, daughter of Jacob Weimer, for
  many years a resident of Columbia county, where she was born in 1821. Soon after
  marriage Elias Pealer purchased an improved farm of ninety-nine acres in his
  home township, where he lived until his death, on September 12, 1863.His wife
  died May 15, 1875. They are sleeping in the St. James Church cemetery in their
  native township. They were earnest workers in the German Reformed church, of
  which they were members. He was a strong Democrat. Their children were Sarah,
  residing near Huntington Mills, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania; Jacob, who died at
  Dushore, in 1877; Melinda, deceased wife of John Menick, of Shock, this state;
  Frank, living on the old homestead; Elizabeth, wife of Frank Praut, of
  Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Rachel, deceased wife of William Wolfe, also of
  Williamsport; D. W., subject of this sketch; Susanna, who died at the age of
  twenty-one; W. G., a huckster and drover of Wilkesbarre; W. W., a blacksmith of
  Emporium, Pennsylvania; and E. O., a fish-hook manufacturer of Sayre, this state.
  
      D. W. Pealer attended the common schools in his younger days, and at the age
  of sixteen went to Williamsport, where he learned the trade of painter, at which
  he worked until 1871. He then went to Dushore and engaged in the manufacture of
  boots and shoes, remaining there until 1883, when he opened a shoe shop in
  Laporte, which he conducted until 1889, when he opened his present manufacturing
  business in Lopez. He makes boots and shoes and also makes harness, doing an
  extensive business and supplying a ready market. The lady whom he chose as his
  life companion was Miss Elizabeth Lawrence, daughter of John T. and Anna
  (Dieffenbach) Lawrence, to whom he was united by the Rev. L. Gates, on February
  16, 1875. Mrs. Pealer was born in Cherry township, August 21, 1854, and is the
  mother of five children, viz: Anna, born February 16, 1876; M. L., born January
  19, 1877; N. W., born February 20, 1879; Cora E., born May 15, 1881; and T. J.
  I., born August 1, 1883. The family are regular attendants at church, and are
  liberal contributors toward any scheme that promotes the public welfare. Mr.
  Pealer is a Democrat in his political views.For six years he was a member of the
  Dushore school board. He has been an active member of the Dushore lodge of
  Masons for over twenty years.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  
  Extracted from: 
                
              History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
                        by Thomas J. Ingham
                
                             Compendium of Biography
                
              The Lewis Publishing Company
    Chicago: 1899
  
  
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