BIO: John S. DAUBERMAN, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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  J. S. DAUBERMAN, who to-day occupies a leading position in business 
circles, is one to whom prosperity has come in return for untiring 
labor, enterprises, and well-managed business interests.  He is 
identified with the agricultural, industrial and commercial interests 
of Centre county, and wherever known is held in high regard, for his 
business record is most honorable, and his private life is above 
reproach. 
  Mr. Dauberman was born in Potter township, Centre County, near 
Sinking Creek, October 26, 1832, and is of German lineage, his 
grandfather, Israel Dauberman, having been a native of the German 
Empire.  He became the founder of the family in America, and his son 
John was the first of the name to locate in Centre county.  The latter 
was one of the first agriculturists in Penn's 

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Valley.  He owned considerable land in Potter township; and was widely 
known as a substantial farmer and prominent citizen.  In his boyhood he 
learned the cabinet-making and carpenter's trades, and could also 
follow blacksmithing with good success, so that several industries 
contributed to his prosperity.  He was the principle donator to the 
building fund of the first church at Egg Hill; in politics, he 
supported the Democratic party.  He married Margaret Halern, who lived 
to be seventy-six years of age, he dying at the age of eighty-one, and 
they were buried in Egg Hill cemetery.  John Dauberman, the father of 
our subject, was the eldest of their family; a daughter became the wife 
of Mr. Shreffler, and died in Illinois; Margaret married Samuel 
Spangler and died in Potter township; Polly married Michael Dillman, 
and died in Plainfield, Illinois.
  John Dauberman, the father of our subject, was born in 1800, and 
acquired a good practical education, for after attending the public 
schools, he spent one term in study at Millheim.  He possessed 
resourceful business ability, and was an energetic farmer, also 
carrying on the foundry business when his father retired from that 
industry.  He always lived on what is known as the Dauberman homestead, 
with the exception of three years spent on a farm near by.  His later 
life was passed in retirement from active business cares, save the 
management of his property interests.  He then traveled to a 
considerable extent over the country and made a number of investments 
in Western lands, mostly in Kane county, Ill.  He married Catherine 
Swartz, of Penn township, a representative of an old family, and their 
children are:  Sarah, who married Isaac Tressler, and died in Oak Hall, 
Penn.; Margaret, widow of John Rishel of Centre Hall; George, who died 
in Kane county, Ill.; Catherine, who died in childhood; and J. S., of 
this review.  The father was a man five feet, eight inches in height, 
and during most of his life was a hard worker, accumulating a 
competence as the result of his industry and frugality.  He died when 
about seventy-seven years of age; his wife had passed away previously 
when about seventy-five years of age.  Their remains were interred in 
Egg Hill cemetery.
  J. S. Dauberman, our subject, began his education in the Egg Hill 
school under the guidance of William Toner, who belonged to a family 
that furnished a number of teachers to that school.  He received good 
advantages for the time, and on the home farm received ample training 
in the labors required in the cultivation of the field.  He was also a 
natural mechanic, and without instruction learned the cabinet maker's 
trade.  He was married December 7, 1859, to Mary E. Goodheart, who was 
born in Mifflin county, Penn., July 30, 1836, the only daughter of John 
and Martha (McEwen) Goodheart, who came to Centre county when Mrs. 
Dauberman was a girl.  Her maidenhood was there passed, and her 
education was obtained in the public schools.
  Mr. Dauberman began his domestic life upon the old homestead, where 
he followed farming and also did much mechanical work in the line of 
cabinet making, carpentering, and blacksmithing.  He shod his own 
horses, and even manufactured the horse-shoe nails.  These pursuits 
occupied his attention until 1890, when in connection with his son, he 
embarked in the furniture and undertaking business in Centre Hall, as 
successors to William Camp.  After a few years, however, the firm 
became Dauberman & Goodheart, and in 1895 our subject became sole 
proprietor.  He still owns 150 acres of land which he rents.  A man of 
broad capabilities, resourceful and persevering, his able management 
has brought to him prosperity.  He is a member of the executive 
committee in charge of Central Hall picnic grounds, of which he is 
superintendent.  He purchased one of the first kerosene lamps used in 
Penn's Valley.  He is a stanch Democrat in politics, has served in 
numerous township offices, and has been street commissioner of Centre 
Hall.  He belongs to the Grange, and to the Evangelical Church, in 
which and in the Sunday-school he has held various offices, while for 
several years he was superintendent of the Union Sunday-school at Egg 
Hill. His wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
  Mr. and Mrs. Dauberman have two children: J. G., born March 10,  
1862, is now proprietor of the Centre Hall Meat Supply Co.; Laura M., 
born January 13, 1864, became the wife of Charles Knarr, and died March 
9, 1885, leaving one son, John H., who has made his home with his 
grandfather since four months old.  Mr. Dauberman removed to Centre 
Hall in March, 1887, and in that year erected his substantial brick 
residence.  His career has been straight forward and manly in all the 
relations of life, and he well deserves representation in any history 
of Centre county. 

1900 Centre Hall, Centre County census -
John S. Dauberman, 67  
Mary E. Dauberman, 65  
John G. Dauberman, 38  
John H. Knarr, 13