Zephaniah P. Lauffer and Sarah E. "Sadie" Dumbaugh

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Husband Zephaniah P. Lauffer ^{1 2}

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           Born: 28 Feb 1863 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: John M. Lauffer (1834-      ) 2
         Mother: Martha Kline (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 29 Mar 1893 2

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Wife Sarah E. "Sadie" Dumbaugh ^{1 2}

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General Notes: Husband - Zephaniah P. Lauffer

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He was born at Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was eight years old when his parents moved to Parker's Landing, in Armstrong County, where he was reared and obtained his education. Like many another youth, he was not very old when he started out to take care of himself and at that time the oil fields invited labor of all kinds. He began as a boy of all work, with John McCune, and later began contracting for drilling on his own account working for a time in McKean County and Washington County, after which he came to Butler and entered into partnership with E. M. Bredin, in general contracting drilling. This firm has did a heavy business and in later years devoted much attention to drilling for oil in the hundred-foot district and the Armstrong and Westmoreland gas fields, which proved very profitable in Armstrong County, as did their drilling for oil in Indiana and other fields.
He was a member of the Episcopal Church. For many years he was prominent in Masonry, having attained the Thirty-second degree and belonging to Blue Lodge and Chapter at Butler, and to the Commandery and Consistory at Pittsburgh.

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah E. "Sadie" Dumbaugh

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from Connoquenessing Twp, Butler Co, PA

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1049.

2 The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 61.