BIO: Joseph A. DOLL, 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 641 & 642.
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  JOSEPH A. DOLL, owner and proprietor of the South Fork Farm, containing forty-
five acres, situated in Huston township, Clearfield county, Pa., two and one-
half miles west of Penfield, was born in Alsace Loraine, now Germany, September 
4, 1847.  he is a son of Jacob and Catherine (Leitzick) Doll, natives of the 
same place, where they spent their lives, the father being a farmer.  They had 
seven children:  Frank, Jacob, Joseph A., George, Alice, John and Mary.
  The first twenty years of his life Mr. Doll spent on his father's farm, after 
which he spent five years in the German army, being a member of the 4th Marines.  
During the French and German war he was stationed with his company on an 
important island near the African border.  At the close of this war that 
continued for three years he was honorably discharged and was paid the sum of 
$1,600, covering the five years of service during which he had proved a brave 
and obedient soldier.  After a short visit home, in 1873 he came to America, the 
journey consuming twenty-four days at that time.  He located first at 
Williamsport, Pa., where he worked in a lumber yard for some months and then 
came to Clearfield county and worked for one year on the grading of the 
Pennsylvania road-bed.  Mr. Doll then decided to engage in farming and rented 
land near his present farm in Huston township, from William Woodward, where he 
remained for five years.  He then purchased his first five acres of his South 
Fork farm, from Edward Bunday, and to the original purchase continued to add 
from time to time, buying from John DuBois.  He erected all the buildings and 
otherwise improved the place.  His land is well watered by Bennetts Branch 
Creek, that runs through the farm, which is also crossed by the B. & S. 
Railroad.
  Mr. Doll was married April 31, 1877, to Miss Margaret Barner, who was born in 
Clearfield county, a daughter of Gebhardt Barner.  Mr. and Mrs. Doll have three 
children:  Frank, Edward and Arthur, who assist in managing and operating the 
farm.  Politically Mr. Doll is a Democrat and is serving in his ninth year as 
road supervisor, having been elected and re-elected without solicitation on his 
part.  He is identified with the local Grange.  With his family he belongs to 
the Roman Catholic church.  He is one of Huston township's most respected 
citizens.