BIO: Edward McMathers BEERS, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 352.
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  EDWARD McMATHERS BEERS, Mount Union, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born 
April 18, 1877, near Nossville, Tell township, Huntingdon county, Pa., 
and is the youngest child of Anderson and Mary (Parsons) Beers. 
Anderson Beers was born near Concord, Franklin county, Pa., April 15, 
1835, and was of Irish descent. He was a farmer and resided in his 
native county until 1866, when he removed to the vicinity of Nossville, 
Pa. Here he cultivated a farm until 1888, when he became a resident of 
Mount Union, and carried on the American House for eighteen months. He 
then purchased the old Seibert House, changed its name to the 
Commercial House, and successfully conducted it until his death, April 
9, 1894. Mr. Beers was married in 1860 to Mary Parsons, born February 
22, 1844, a daughter of William Parsons, of Nossville, Pa. The children 
of this union were: Wilbert, born July 16, 1861, married to Mary 
Parsons, resides in Marion county, O.; Jennie, born September 27, 1862, 
married Moses Vaughn, resides in Mount Jewett, McKean county, Pa.; 
James D., born May 30, 1864, married Emma Boldinger, resides in Marion 
county, O.; Martha E., born January 16, 1868, at home; Charles S., born 
December 28, 1870, married Nellie McMan, resides in Bradford, McKean 
county, Pa.; Harry L., born May 27, 1873; Olie E., born April 22, 1876; 
and Edward M., born May 18, 1877, all at home. Harry L. Beers has for 
several terms been a teacher in the Mount Union high school, and has 
adopted teaching as a profession.
  Edward M. Beers was educated in the public schools of Nossville and 
in the Mount Union high school, graduating from the latter in May, 
1897. Since his father's death he has managed the hotel, and has made a 
successful and popular landlord. The house is the only one in Mount 
Union, and is conducted on temperance principles. Mr. Beers is a 
Republican. The family adhere to the Methodist Episcopal church.