BIO: Max ALTMANSHOFFER, Sr., Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 2.
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MAX ALTMANSHOFFER, SR.
Porter Township, Huntingdon Co., Pa.

Farmer: Born in Bavaria, Germany, October 1, 1868; home near the famous Alps 
Mountains; attended school of Bavaria till age of sixteen years; went to army 
at Metz, Alsace Lorraine, compulsory military service, 1888 to 1890.  To-day no 
compulsory military service exists there.  Was also on farm till 1888; worked 
on government railroad in Germany; in 1892 came to U.S.A.; worked at Altoona, 
Pa., in foundry Penna. R.R. for seven months; transferred to car shops, there 
for fifteen years as carpenter and car repairman; received an accident; drove 
milk wagon for five years; moved from Altoona to Porter township, Huntingdon 
County, Pa.; has resided there for seventeen years as farmer and dairyman; 
supplies the Blair Hospital with milk, which is of a high quality.  He is a son 
of George Altmanshoffer, who died in 1906, aged seventy-four years, and of Anna 
(Maise) Altmanshoffer, who died in 1891, aged fifty-one years.  He has two 
brothers, Louis, Hollidaysburg, Pa., and John, Toledo,  Ohio.  Two brothers are 
deceased, John and Edward.  Two sisters, Hannah, a widow, 724 Logan Ave., 
Altoona, Pa., R.D. 3, Max Altmanshoffer was married to Margaret Fike, who came 
from Germany; parents are deceased.  They have two sons, William, married to 
Margaret Dallard; Max, married to Theresa Shingler, Huntingdon, Pa.  Three 
daughters, Mary, to Edward J. Trimer, Huntingdon, Pa.; Hettie, to W. D. Shope, 
Boltz, Indiana Co., Pa.; Helen, to Wm. Myers, a guard at the Huntingdon 
Reformatory.  Mr. Altmanshoffer makes a study of farming and dairying.