Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Fausold, M. L. June 26, 1853 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 13, 2018, 12:35 pm Source: See Below Author: See Below M. L. FAUSOLD, ex-county auditor of Westmoreland and a prominent citizen of Unity township, is a son of Hon. John and Ellen (Freeman) Fausold and was born in Mount Pleasant township, Westmoreland county, Pa., June 26, 1853. The Fausolds arc of German extraction. Casper Fausold (grandfather) emigrated from Germany to Bedford county, Pa., from which he removed in 1818 to Mount Pleasant township. He kept a hotel on the old “Clay pike” and his farm is stil1 known as the Fausold place. He was a shoemaker by trade and a Lutheran in religious belie., He married a Miss Shaffer of Berks county, Pa., by whom he had three children, one son and two daughters. This son was Hon. John Fausold, who was born in Bedford county, Pa., December 23, 1808. He came with his parents to Mount Pleasant township and at twenty years of age became a member of the Donegal Evangelical church. lie was a farmer by occupation but served in public life for fifty-five years. Hie was sequestrator of the Mount Pleasant and Somerset turnpike; served creditably as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1846, 1847-1848, 1856, and 1857 and was appointed revenue commissioner in 1863 for the judicial district of Westmoreland, Indiana and Armstrong counties. Hie served as a school director for twenty-one years and held the office of justice of the peace for the last thirty-one years of his life. As a public official he commanded alike the respect of his political friends and foes. In 1853 he married Ellen Freeman, who died in 1863. They had seven children, of whom two sons and two daughters are living. Hon. John Fausold died November 14, 1884, aged seventy-six years, and a vast concourse of people were gathered to witness the entombment of his remains in Ridge church cemetery. An impressive and able funeral discourse upon that sad occasion was delivered by Rev. A. D. Potts, A. M. Eloquent extracts from this sermon and a fuller history of Hon. John Fausold, one of Westmoreland county’s most prominent men, will be found in the sketch of H. F. Fausold, of Mount Pleasant township. M. L. Fansold was reared on his father’s farm in Mount Pleasant township. He received his education in the common schools and Mount Pleasant and Madison Normal schools. At seventeen years of age he commenced teaching, which profession he followed for eight years in his native township. When he quit teaching he engaged in his present business of farming and stock-raising. In 1889 he purchased his present farm in Unity township of thirty acres, and but a short distance from it bought an additional tract of forty-four acres. Politically he is a democrat. In 1875, when only twenty-two years of age, he was elected county auditor and afterwards served four terms as tax collector of Mount Pleasant township. He is a member of the A. Y. M. and Evangelical Lutheran church, in which he was confirmed July 19, 1874, by Dr. S. L. Harkey. He has held the various local offices of this church, of which he is now a trustee. October 5, 1876, he was married by Dr. Harkey to Ada O. Hays, youngest daughter of Samuel and Catherine Hays, of Mount Pleasant township. Mr. and Mrs. Fausold are the parents of five children: Grace, Ada, John, Samuel and one other. 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/westmoreland/bios/fausold706gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb