Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Fausold, Harry F. May 17, 1860

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       HARRY F. FAUSOLD, a successful farmer of Mount Pleasant township and a
highly respected member of the Evangelical Lutheran church, is a son of Hon.
John and Ellen (Freeman) Fausold and was born on the homestead farm in which he
now resides, in Mount Pleasant township, Westmoreland county, Pa., May 17, 1860.
Casper Fausold, the grandfather of Harry F. Fausold, was a native of Germany and
immigrated to Bedford county, Pa., from which he soon removed (1818) to Mount
Pleasant township, where he lived and kept a hotel on the farm now owned by Rev.
Woods. He was a democrat and a lutheran and married a Miss Shaffer of Berks
county, this State, by whom he had one son and three daughters. This son was
Hon. John Fausold, who was one of Westmoreland county’s prominent men. He was
born in Londonderry township, Bedford county, Pa., December 23, 1808, and died
at his residence in Mount Pleasant township November 14, 1884, when in the
seventy-sixth year of his age. Early in life he came to this county and at
twenty years of age connected himself with the Evangelical Lutheran church at
Donegal, then under charge of Father Mechling. He was a farmer by occupation but
passed fifty-five years of his time in public life. In 1844 he was made
sequestrator of the Somerset and Mount Pleasant pike. In 1846 he was elected to
the State Legislature and served in that capacity for five terms. In 1855 he was
nominated for one of those terms of service, when the Democratic party of
Westmoreland county, in order to save itself from threatened destruction by
Know-nothingism, selected Henry  D. Foster, Harrison P. Laird and John Fausold
as their nominees for the Legislature. Their choice proved a wise one, as all
three of their candidates were elected that year and re-elected in 1856. Mr.
Fausold’s record as a legislator was without blot or stain, for he was an able,
industrious, conscientious and highly useful member of the Legislature during
his term of service. For twenty-one years he had served as school director in
his district, where he was the first and only man in 1836 to vote for the
adoption of the free school system, and for the last thirty-one years of his
life had served as justice of the peace. His magisterial decisions when appealed
from were always sustained by the courts. In 1863 he was appointed revenue
commissioner for Westmoreland, Indiana and Armstrong counties and served
efficiently as such. After a long and useful life he passed away in 1884. At his
funeral over one thousand persons came from all parts of the county to show
respect and do honor to his memory. Dis remains were deposited in Ridge church
cemetery. From the eloquent and impressive funeral discourse by Rev. A. D.
Potts, A. M., we extract: “As a Christian, Father Fausold's  walk and life were
truly exemplary. As a man he was strictly honest. Neither was he a stranger to
charity. At his door and hands his gifts were freely bestowed. His wide
experience, his extended usefulness, his sage counsel, his white locks, made me
revere him as a father in Israel. His noble life and peaceful death should
actuate us to imitate his example. His time, his means, his influence and his
heart were used for the extension of Zion and the glory of God.” In 1853 Hon.
John Fausold married Ellen Freeman, who died in 1863. They had seven children,
of whom four are living: Martin L. (see sketch in Unity township); Mary, wife of
R. S. Welty (see his sketch); Martha, wife of J. B. Fry, and Harry F. Mrs. Ellen
Fausold was a daughter of Samuel Freeman. He was a farmer, a democrat and a
member of the M. E. church. He married Elvira Shauntz and reared a family of two
sons and ten daughters.

   Harry F. Fausold owns the home farm of his father and has always been
successfully engaged in farming and stock-raising. Politically he is a democrat
and is serving his township as a school director, He and his wife are members of
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church, of which he is a deacon.

   On October 26, 1882, he married Anna Overly, daughter of J. G. Overly. They
are the parents of two children: Lucien Clyde, born September 1, 1883, and
Charles Roye, born August 13, 1886.


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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