BIOGRAPHY: Solomon KAUFFMAN, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, pages 617-618.

  SOLOMON KAUFFMAN, deceased, formerly of Oliver township, Mifflin county, Pa., 
was a son of Jonathan and Mary (Ronk) Kauffman, and was born in Walker township, 
Juniata county, Pa., September 14, 1832.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan 
Kauffman were as follows:  Philip, married Miss Schaeffer, and removed to 
Kansas, where their children now reside;  John, married Sarah Kennedy, resided 
in Juniata county, and had sons, Albert, Grant, Miles, Robert, James and 
Theodore;  Jonathan, married Mary Guss, had children, Retta, Austin, Blanche, 
Emerson, Harry and Carrie;  Solomon;  Mary, married Henry Kauffman, of Juniata 
county, not a relative, has children, William, Jonathan and Mary Ellen;  Annie 
(Mrs. William Kleck), of Juniata county, has children, John, William, Mary, Ann 
Eliza, Clara and Minnie;  Kate (Mrs. George Dysinger), of Juniata county, has 
one daughter and four sons;  Sarah (Mrs. Cloyd Guss), of Juniata county, who is 
deceased, and her husband also, leaving two children, Laura and Leary.
  Having been educated in the common schools of his neighborhood, Solomon 
Kauffman continued to reside on the home farm, helping his father in its 
cultivation, until he married and began farming for himself.  He was a skilful 
and prosperous husbandman.  His first undertaking was the widow Yoder's farm, in 
Tuscarora township, Juniata county, where he remained four years.  For several 
years after, he rented James North's farm, near Patterson, in Juniata county, 
and then after farming in some other places in the same county for short 
periods, he bought the Oliver homestead, in Oliver township, Mifflin county, in 
the spring of 1876.  This farm contains about 200 acres.  Here he passed the 
remainder of his active life, industrious, as he had always been, and 
prosperous.  He was a worthy and useful citizen, and enjoyed the confidence and 
respect of his neighbors and acquaintances for his many excellent qualities.  He 
was a Republican.  While he took the interest of a good citizen in public 
affairs, he was by no means an office-seeker;  he was, however, chosen several 
times to serve the township in public positions.
  Solomon Kauffman was married December 14, 1857, to Mary Elizabeth Gingrich, 
daughter of David and Mary (Stoeffer) Gingrich, of Juniata county.  Their 
children are:  Ann Eliza, born October 4, 1858, married Albert Droninger, has 
children, Howard, Mary, Josephine, Sarah, Margaret, Seora, Jacob and Roy;  Emma, 
born May 4, 1860, married Jacob Wirt, has children, Estella and Ross;  George 
Franklin, born October 26, 1861, married Anna Felker, has children, Edna, Herman 
and Donald;  David Austin, born July 3, 1863, married Ella Snook;  Mary Ellen, 
born January 2, 1866, married McClellan Steeley, the children living are William 
and Mary;  William, born July 26, 1868;  Charles Gingrich, born June 14, 1870, 
married Josephine M. Shahan, has one child, Mary Alverna;  Sarah Elizabeth, born 
April 1, 1873, died May 26, 1876;  and Minnie Valeria, born January 29, 1878.  
The father, Solomon Kauffman, departed this life February 8, 1888.  He was a 
consistent member of the Evangelical church, and his loss was felt in the church 
and the community, as well as mourned by his family.  Mrs. Kauffman still 
resides on the homestead, her son, Charles Gingrich Kauffman, having assumed the 
management of the farm.