BIO: Austin H. AUGHENBAUGH, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 826 & 827.
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  AUSTIN H. AUGHENBAUGH, car inspector for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 
residing at McGee's Mills, Clearfield county, Pa., was born on the old 
Philipsburg turnpike road in Lawrence township, Clearfield county, October 1, 
1884, and is a son of A. M. and Catherine (Rowles) Aughenbaugh.
  A. M. Aughenbaugh was born in 1849, in Pike township, Clearfield county, where 
he lived on his father's farm until his marriage, when he located on the 
Philipsburg turnpike road, where he still resides.  He married Catherine Rowles, 
who is the daughter of Maxwell and Eliza (Litts) Rowles.  The family ancestry on 
both sides is German and the paternal grandfather, Jacob Aughenbaugh, came from 
Germany.  Austin H. Aughenbaugh is the sixth born in a family of eleven children 
and one of the eight survivors.  The eldest sister, Anna, is the wife of J. F. 
Isenberg, who conducts a hotel at McGee's Mills; Birdie, is the wife of J. 
Green, of Grampian, Pa.; Daisy lives at home; Esther is employed as a 
housekeeper, at McGee's Mills; Warren A. is a miner at Woodland, Pa., and 
married Della Wisor; Alfred lives at Clearfield and married Orressa Peoples; 
Harry is a miner in Lawrence township and married Etta Spackman.  The sons are 
all practical business men and good citizens in every sense of the word.
  After Austin H. Aughenbaugh completed his school attendance he assisted his 
father, following farming and lumbering and afterward went into railroad work.  
He had been steadily advanced from one position to another and has resided at 
McGee's Mills as car inspector since 1908.  Mr. Aughenbaugh married Miss Bessie 
Schicklang, who was born in Lawrence township in 1886, and is a daughter of 
Constantine Schicklang and his wife, Rosa Schnars, both of whom were born in 
Germany.  Mr. and Mrs. Aughenbaugh are members of the Presbyterian church.  In 
politics he is a Republican but he has never accepted any office.  He is a 
member of Tribe No. 361, Red Men, at Mahaffey, and of the order of the Moose, at 
Glen Campbell.