Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....Stallings, Irving
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IRVING STALLINGS, one of the most enterprising and 
progressive young business men of Londonderry township, 
Bedford County, Pa., is at the present time Auditor and 
Clerk of the township, Postmaster at Cook's Mills, and 
proprietor of a well-stocked country store.  He was born in 
Alleghany County, Maryland, January 30, 1860, the son of 
John H. and Anna Stallings.
  John H. Stallings was born, bred, and married in Alleghany 
County, Maryland, where he was successfully engaged in 
farming until 1878.  Coming then to Bedford County, he 
purchased the store at Cook's Mills that is now owned by his 
son Irving.  This he conducted successfully the ensuing five 
years, and at the same time served as Postmaster.  In 1883 
he sold out his entire mercantile business to his son, who 
has proved a worthy successor.
  Irving Stallings remained on the home farm in Alleghany 
County, Maryland, until he was eighteen years old, assisting 
his father in its management, and in the public schools 
acquiring a knowledge of the common branches of study.  On 
coming to Londonderry with his father, he entered the store 
as a clerk, a position which he continued until he became 
its owner.  The building that he occupies is a two-story 
frame house, the room used as the store being forty feet 
long and eighteen feet wide.  His stock of general 
merchandise, valued at about five thousand dollars, includes 
choice and staple groceries, dry goods, hardware, 
fertilizers of all kinds, and agricultural implements, his 
endeavor being to supply as far as possible everything 
needed to meet the wants of his numerous customers.  Mr. 
Stallings has been Postmaster at Cook's Mills since 1883, 
and is now serving his tenth year as Auditor and Clerk of 
the township.  For a number of years he has likewise been 
the agent at Cook's Mills for the United States Express 
Company.  Politically, he is actively identified with the 
Republican party; and fraternally, he is a member of the 
Masonic order, belonging to the lodge at Hyndman, Pa.  In 
his religious belief he is a Methodist and a member of the 
church of that denomination.
 On October 5, 1882, Mr. Stallings married Sarah Cook, a 
daughter of the late John Cook, of Londonderry township.  
They have three children - May, John, and Carleton.


Source: Bedford Biographical Review, 1899, Bedford Co., Pa