Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Coughenour, D. R. & H. S.

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D. R. COUGHENOUR & CO. One of the progressive and successful business firms of
Stauffer is D. R. Coughenour & Co., popular druggists. David P. Coughenour
senior member of the firm, was born in Bullskin township, Fayette county, Pa.,
December 11, 1857. He is a son of Isaiah and Susan (Blough) Coughenour, both of
German descent and natives of Somerset county, Pa., where the former was born in
1828 and the latter in 1824. Isaiah Coughenour (father) was reared on a farm,
attended the subscription schools and at twenty-one years of age removed to
Bullskin township and engaged in farming until 1868. In that year he purchased a
farm in Connellsville township upon which he resided for four years and then
sold it and bought a larger farm in Tyrone township, Fayette county, on which he
died in 1872. He was a democrat, served as supervisor and constable and was a
member of the Baptist church. In 1850 he was married to Susan, daughter of
Benjamin Blough. She bore him eight children, of whom seven are living. She died
at New Haven, Pa., on January 15, 1889. John and Catherine (Moyer) Coughenour
(paternal grandparents) were born and retired in Somerset county, Pa., where
they lived and died. The former was born in 1800 und died in 1858 and the latter
was born in 1803 and passed away in 1885. They reared a family of ten children,
nearly all of whom are living.

     David R. Coughenour received his education in the common schools and “The
Western Pennsylvania Classical and Scientific Institute” at Mount Pleasant and
is a member of the United Brethren church. He taught school for four years in
Dunbar township, Fayette county, Pa., and in 1882 came to Stauffer and with Dr.
O. W. Howell as partner established the present drug business. In 1884 Dr.
Howell died and D. R. Coughenour bought his interest in the drug store from the
heirs and in 1885 sold it to his brother, Harry S. In 1886 he left the drug
store in charge of his junior partner and went to McCraken, Rush county, Kansas,
where he had charge of a hotel until 1887, when he went to Denver, Col., and was
engaged as a clerk in a hotel for six months. In the fall of 1888 he returned to
Stauffer and became an active partner in his firm and remained until December,
1889, when the firm started a new drugstore at Stonerville, of which he has
taken charge, H. S. Coughenour remaining at the old stand. They have large,
well-furnished and fully stocked drug stores and enjoy an extensive and
remunerative trade. 

The junior member of the firm, Harry S. Coughenour, was born
in Dunbar township, Fayette county, Pa., December 24, 1863. He was educated at
Dunbar, Fayette county and Mount Pleasant, this county, taught school for a
short time, became the partner in the drug business with his brother in 1885 and
was married in 1888 to Belle Harbaugh, who was born in 1867 and is a daughter of
Victor Harbaugh of Fayette county. H. S. Coughenour is a democrat, a member of
the Royal Arcanum and a member of the “Chautauqua Literary, Scientific Circle,”
being a graduate of the class of 1888. He is an extensive reader and possessor
of a fine library.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890

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