Daniel Shuster and Lucinda Rugh

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Husband Daniel Shuster ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 22 Aug 1827 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Isaac Shuster (1788-1859) 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Ann(a) Blose (1786-1882) 2 3 4 5

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Wife Lucinda Rugh ^{6 7}

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           Born: 22 Aug 1830 6
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           Died: 1911 7
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         Father: Jacob Rugh (      -      ) 6
         Mother: Margaret A. [Unk] (      -      ) 6

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Lucinda Rugh.

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Children

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1 M D. Edgar Shuster ⁶

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           Born: Abt 1864
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2 M Lewis W. Shuster ⁶

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3 F Harriet J. Shuster ⁶

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         Spouse: Joseph M. Silvis (      -      ) 6

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4 M Cyrus Jacob Shuster ^{1 7}

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           Born: 15 Sep 1856 - Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Margaret E. "Maggie" Rowe (      -      ) 6 8
           Marr: 13 Sep 1883 6

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5 F Maggie A. Shuster ⁶

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         Spouse: J. M. Klingensmith (      -      ) 6

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6 F Melvina Shuster ⁶

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            AKA: Malvina Shuster 9
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         Spouse: W. Franklin Black (      -1917) 9

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7 F Clara B. Shuster ⁶

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            AKA: Clara N. Shuster 7
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         Spouse: Charles R. Fritchman (      -      ) 7

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8 M Albert J. Shuster ⁶

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9 F Minnie Shuster ⁶

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10 F Gertrude L. Shuster ^{6 7}

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         Spouse: C. W. Earnest (      -      ) 7

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General Notes: Husband - Daniel Shuster

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After leaving the public schools he worked at shoemaking for a number of years and in 1856 began farming on the farm he now owns and occupies. He was also joint owner of a general merchandise store in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, with his son, Lewis, from 1875 until the death of the latter in 1889. He was one of the owners of the Salem mill property. He was a member and an elder of the Lutheran church at Delmont and belonged to Salem Council, No. 42, O. C. F.

He was born in Hempfield township, about three miles south of Delmont, and in the year 1856 settled on the one hundred acre farm which continued to be his home until the end of his life. Upon it he erected all the buildings and did considerable general farming. He was, however, a shoemaker by trade and for a number of years followed that craft, finding this necessary because his farm was comparatively new land, which required considerable clearing and which it took a long time to bring into a high state of cultivation. Eventually, however, he succeeded and there founded one of the most desirable homes in the region. Eventually, he took to raising stock on the farm and became well known as a dealer in beef cattle and supplied the Greensburg hotels with meat. For a period of about fifteen years he was associated with his son Lewis W. in the operation of a general store in Greensburg, but this enterprise he disposed of on the occasion of his son's death in 1889. He was also the owner of mills, from which he derived a large portion of his income and which afterwards became the possession of his son, Cyrus J. Shuster.
He was a Democrat in politics, and served the township for a number of years in the post of tax collector, assessor, etc. In his childhood and youth he was a member of the Lutheran church of Greensburg, but about 1867 entered the church of that denomination at Delmont, which is situated just two miles north of his home.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 695.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 171.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 442.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1122.

5 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 178.

6 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 696.

7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 344.

8 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 345.

9 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 657.