BIO: Samuel Henry BEAVER, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 14.
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SAMUEL HENRY BEAVER
Sheriff Huntingdon County, Pa.

Sheriff:  No public official has had a more strenuous careeer than has the 
above-named Samuel Beaver, Sheriff of Huntingdon County, Pa.  The law-breaking 
element have found him to be a strict disciplinarian, and they fear his rule.  
The Sheriff has certainly been active in the enforcement of the law, and to-day 
the county is in a more lawful condition.  The Sheriff was born in Penn 
Township, Huntingdon County, January 11, 1878, and in Penn Township received 
his early school training.  His grandparents were Samuel Beaver, married to 
Hannah Shultz. His father was Anthony J. Beaver, whose wife was Martha Shoup, 
of Lincoln Township.  The father died September, 1899, the mother still living, 
principally at Marklesburg, Pa.  They are of German descent.  During the spring 
terms of 1896 and 1897 Samuel Beaver attended Juniata College, and taught two 
terms in Penn Township, 1895 and 1896.  For twenty-five years was engaged in 
the mercantile business at Marklesburg Station, and was postmaster at Aitch 
Postoffice; was Township Auditor for fourteen years; County Auditor and Clerk 
for ten years; served on election board at varous times.  During World War 
helped along the Liberty Loan drives and also the Red Cross.  A member of the 
Knights of the Golden Eagle, Atlas Castle No. 322, a member of the I.O.O.F., 
Juniata 117; owned farm known as White House farm, fifty-five years in family; 
belongs to Abbey Reformed Church, Huntingdon, Pa.  Has one brother, Milton S. 
at Reading, Pa.; married to Rosamond Gary.  Two sisters, Annie M., married to 
Joseph Beatty, Aitch, Huntingdon County, and Mary Irene, married to Thos. Wils, 
Bayonne, New Jersey, Sheriff Beaver was married to Elsie Cunningham, of 
Entriken, Pa.; two children of this union, Martha Elaine, nine years, and Ethel 
Joan, four years.  The Beavers are well known, highly esteemed and respected.