Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Casanave, Germain April 23, 1848 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

GERMAIN CASANAVE,  
owner of the Casanave business block, and the proprietor of the largest and
leading saddlery establishment of Altoona and central Pennsylvania, was born
at Escot,  France,  April 23, 1848, and is a son of  John F. and Julia
(Casaurancq) Casanave.  John F. Casanave was a native and life-long resident
of France, where his active years were spent as a school teacher in the
established public schools of that country.  In religion he was a member of
the Catholic church, in whose faith he had been reared, and died in 1887 when
well advanced in the sixty-seventh year of his age.  He married Julia
Casaurancq, who like himself, was a native of France and a member of the same
church.  She died in France in 1886, aged fifty-five years.  They were the
parents of eight children, three sons and five daughters.  One of their sons
Francis D. Casanave, learned the trade of machinist, and in 1863 came to the
United States, where he is now resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana, at which
place he is superintendent of the motive power of the Pennsylvania Company.
      Germain Casanave was reared in the land of his nativity, and received
his education in the efficient schools of his province.  Leaving school he
learned the trade of harness maker and saddler, and in 1870 came to
Pennsylvania where during the spring of the next year, he commenced for
himself in Altoona in the harness and saddlery business.  Since then he has
enlarged his establishment, which is situated at No.  1328 Eleventh avenue,
and added to his stock until he now is recognized as the leading
representative in his line of business in the county.  His extensive stock
consists of double and single harness, both heavy and light, bridles,
saddles, collars, whips, robes, blankets, nets and horse clothing of every
description and of the best workmanship.  Anything in his line of business is
made to order and all kinds of repairing is done with neatness and dispatch
under his personal supervision.  He makes a specialty of fine harness, and by
first class work and fair dealing has made his establishment the favorite
source of supply for an extensive section of country around Altoona.  He also
fills many orders from a distance and his establishment is the oldest of its
kind in Altoona.
      On February 21, 1878, Mr. Casanave married Mary M., daughter of
Nicholas Kurtz, of Altoona.  She died October 24, 1986, and left four
children, three sons and one daughter:  Nicholas J., Anthony J., Joseph D.
and Mary J. 
      Germain Casanave is a democrat in politics but no politician and is a
member of St. John's Catholic church.  He has always manifested a deep
interest in the welfare and prosperity of his adopted city, and has just
completed the erection on eleventh street of the Casanave block, one of the
largest and most handsome brick business blocks of Altoona.  Mr. Casanave is
a man of fine business qualifications, of persistent energy, and unusual
success in life, and stands high as a citizen of the country.

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