Sullivan-Carbon-Luzerne County PA Archives Biographies.....SCHOCH, Anthony 1858 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      ANTHONY SCHOCH, a well known resident of Ricketts, Sullivan county, has held
  for many years a responsible position with the Trixler & Terrill Lumber Company,
  of that place, and at present is foreman of their extensive mills. He is a
  member of a highly esteemed family of Carbon county, Pennsylvania, his ancestors
  having settled there at an early period.
  
      Philip Schoch, our subject's father, was born and reared in Carbon county
  and followed farming there for many years, his death occurring in 1886. He
  married Miss Lydia Klindup, who was born in 1819 and whose death took place
  September 22, 1898.
  
      Anthony Schoch was born in Carbon county and grew to manhood on the old
  homestead. His first employment was as a lumberman, but after some years he left
  his native county and removed to Hazelton, Luzerne county, being employed for a
  time in that city. On his return to Carbon county he resumed his former work,
  some time being spent at Hickory Run; later he went to Goldsboro, Pennsylvania,
  and engaged in the manufacture of wintergreen and birch extracts. After a few
  years he sold this business and took a contract as mail-carrier, while he also
  followed lumbering at the same time at Harvey's Lake, Pennsylvania. He then went
  to Lopez, Sullivan county, to enter the employ of a milling company, and since
  leaving that place he has held his present position at Ricketts. He is a much
  esteemed citizen and is a leading member of the Lutheran church of his town.
  Politically he affiliates with the Democratic party, but he does not aspire to
  official honors. In 1870 he married Miss Catherine Meckes, a native of Carbon
  county and a daughter of Philip Meckes. She departed this life May 19, 1889, and
  of their large family of children only three lived to maturity: Adam, who is an
  enterprising and popular citizen of Ricketts; Emory, who married Gertrude
  Bealmer and resides at Ricketts, an employee in a lumber mill; and Eugene, who
  resides at Ricketts.
  
  
  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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