BIO: Perry W. DRAUCKER, Clearfield County, PA
 
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally

Copyright 2005.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/

NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm
_____________________________________________________________

From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 678 & 679.
_____________________________________________________________ 

  PERRY W. DRAUCKER, whose valuable farm of 100 acres is situated in Brady 
township, about two and one-half miles east of Luthersburg, owns also a one-
half interest in 250 acres of timber land, lying in Union township.  He was 
born on his Brady township farm, April 5, 1849, and is a son of Isaac and Mary 
(Bloom) Draucker, the youngest son and the next youngest child born in a family 
of fifteen children.
  Perry W. Draucker spent his boyhood on the home farm and assisted his father 
to clear it.  In early manhood he learned the harness making trade, working for 
two years under Levi Flegal, at Luthersburg, and later worked at this trade in 
Clarion county.  After his marriage he bought the home farm and also the hotel 
which had been established by his father on the stage route and had been 
operated by his mother after the death of the father.  Mr. Draucker conducted 
the hotel, under license, until 1894 when he moved to DuBois, where he took 
charge of the old DuBois House, on the east side of the borough, and continued 
there for three years, moving then to Clearfield, where he operated what was 
then known as the Manton House but has been conducted as the Hotel Dimeling, 
for six years.  When he gave up that hostelry he took charge of the Windsor 
Hotel, at Clearfield, and remained in the hotel business three years more and 
then returned to the farm.  This is valuable land both as to productiveness in 
the way of agriculture and also on account of a vein of coal underlying.  In 
1884 Mr. Draucker sustained the loss of his building from fire, but he at once 
rebuilt and his handsome residence is one of the finest in the township, 
containing fourteen rooms, heated by a modern furnace and equipped with a cold 
and hot water system.
  On August 11, 1870, Mr. Draucker was married to Miss Margaret Clark, a 
daughter of William and Jane (Rafferty) Clark.  The father and mother of Mrs. 
Draucker were both born in Ireland and he was twenty and she fifteen years of 
age when they came to America.  They lived at Grampian, Pa., for many years, 
where the father died in 1857 aged forty-nine years and the mother in 1893, 
aged seventy-seven years.  Margaret Clark was the second born in her parents' 
family, the others being:  James B., John, Edward, William, Joseph, Sarah Jane, 
Mary A. and Thomas Augustus.  John and Edward are deceased.  Sarah Jane is the 
wife of George Erick and Mary A. is the wife of Harry Yost.
  Mr. and Mrs. Draucker have had four children:  Maude, Mary, Blanche and 
Frank.  Maude married Austin Kirk, who is deceased and is survived by five 
children:  Vivian, Draucker and Blanche, twins, Joseph and Margaret B.  Mrs. 
Kirk lives at DuBois.  Mary, who is now deceased, married Joseph Smiley, also 
deceased, and they are survived by two children, Helen Dorothy and Lois, both 
of whom live with their grandparents.  Blanche lives at home, and Frank is in a 
railroad office at DuBois.  In politics Mr. Draucker is a Democrat.  He is a 
member of a number of the leading fraternal organizations, including:  the Odd 
Fellows, at DuBois; the Elks at DuBois; the Knights of Pythias at New Salem, 
and the Red Men at Clearfield.  He is one of the well known representative and 
substantial men of Brady township.