BIOGRAPHY: Philip J. GEUS, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 480-1
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PHILIP J. GEUS, proprietor of the Hastings meat market, and one of the founders 
of the mercantile business of that prosperous town, is a son of Andrew and 
Walburga (Karl) Geus, and was born at Carrolltown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, 
May 27, 1862. He was reared in his native town, and received his education in 
the common schools and St. Vincent's College, of Latrobe, Westmoreland county, 
where he took the classical course. After leaving that excellent and well-known 
institution of higher learning, he taught for two winters, and employed the 
intervening summers in painting.
     At the close of that time, in 1882, he received a very favorable offer, and 
became a clerk in a general mercantile house in, Braddock, this State, in which 
he remained until 1883, when he accepted a similar position in Carrolltown. 
Three years later he became connected with the mercantile firm of John Schroth, 
of Wilmore, where he remained until 1888, and during one year and a half of that 
time served as assistant postmaster.
     In 1888, in partnership with others, he opened a general mercantile 
establishment and large lumber yards at Hastings. They soon built up a good 
business, and added shingles and railroad ties as specialties to their lumber 
business. Seventeen months later Mr. Geus disposed of his interest to his 
partners, and, after a short rest spent on the farm with his brother, he, in 
partnership with another, engaged in the butchering business. They established 
the Hastings meat market, April, 1890, and a Patton market some time later; and 
at the end of three years Mr. Geus found this line of business both healthful 
and profitable, and purchased his partner's interest at Hastings, while they 
sold the Patton branch. Making some changes in the meat market and slaughter 
yards, he has continued the business most successfully up to the present time. 
He is a working proprietor, and in the management looks as closely to every 
detail as to planning the general work of his business, which is increasing with 
every year. Mr. Geus is frank in the expression of his sentiments, although not 
obtruding his opinions on any one. He is a member of the Catholic church, upon 
whose services he is a regular attendant. He has always been identified with the 
Republican party, and gives it a wholehearted support in every campaign and upon 
every issue.
     On September 2, 1894, Mr. Geus was united in marriage with Hannah Campbell, 
a daughter of John Campbell, of Shenandoah, Schuylkill county. Their union has 
been blessed with one child, a daughter, whom they named Annie Maria.
     Philip J. Geus is of German descent, and his father, Andrew Geus, was born 
near the celebrated city of Worms, in Germany, and learned the trades of a 
cooper and brewer.
     Mr. and Mrs. Geus had six children, all sons: William, who learned the 
trade of brewer with his father, and is now engaged in brewing, in St. Louis, 
Missouri; John, died in early manhood; Frank, now deceased; Andrew, a butcher by 
trade, but now engaged in farming in Susquehanna township; George I., a butcher 
and baker by trade, and now resident at Gallitzin; and Philip J., whose name 
appears at the head of this sketch.