George Barnard Wachob and Elorah Jane Shafer

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Husband George Barnard Wachob ¹

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            AKA: G. B. Wacht 2
           Born: 22 Mar 1859 - Armstrong Co, PA 3
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         Father: James C. Wachob (Abt 1842-1901) 3 4
         Mother: Mary Ann Gourley (1826-1869) 3 4 5

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       Marriage: 25 Dec 1882 6

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Wife Elorah Jane Shafer ^{2 7}

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            AKA: Laura Shaffer 6
           Born: 1866
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         Father: Jonathan Shafer (1837-      ) 8 9
         Mother: Mary E. Horn (      -      ) 2 7

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Children

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1 M Thomas B. Wachob ^{2 6}

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         Spouse: Hazel Doubles (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - George Barnard Wachob

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He was quite small when the family moved to Indiana County, Pennsylvania, but he recalled that the journey was made in an old four-horse English box-wagon. The loss of his mother was deeply felt and he attended school but a short time afterward, deciding to leave home and make his own way in the world. He was only fourteen years of age at that time. His first employer was his uncle, John Gorley, who was a farmer in Indiana County, and he paid his nephew wages of $9.25 a month. This good uncle also gave him a cow, which was the beginning of his business in livestock. After leaving his uncle he worked at farming for three years for the late John T. Kirkpatrick, at Barnard, in Armstrong County, afterward following rafting and lumbering at Big Run. He then went to Luthersburg and engaged for a time in teaming for the pottery, under Joseph Silers and Mr. Kirk. In 1890 he returned to Armstrong County, where he followed farming for one year, and then worked three years in a saw mill, for D. H. Waggle, in Clinton County. Prior to this he had kept hard at work but had not been able to lay much money aside, but during his stay in Clinton County, he was able to save $600, and this was his real start. It was just about this time that Mr. Wachob bought two small pigs of full blooded stock, from the well known stockman, L. B. Silver, of Cleveland, had them shipped to Renova and then brought them to his place. He named one of these William Breckenridge and the other Madeline Pollard, taking names that were then prominently before the public. The former proved a prize winning animal at the subsequent fair at Grampian, and later dressed 824 pounds. In 1895 Mr. Wachob started into the dairy business and has a milk route in DuBois, and supplied the best class of residents as well as the hotels and most exclusive restaurants. One of his lines also was the manufacture of a certain brand of sausage, which he put up, in a very attractive style, enclosing the edible in a hygienic wrapper. He had about forty head of fine blooded cattle, beginning his herd with Pauline Paul stock, Holsteins, purchased from the Hayes stock farm of Cleveland, Ohio. Later he introduced a full blooded Jersey strain. In 1910 he went to New York and there bought cattle from Stephenson & Son and from Stephenson Bros., large and well known cattle dealers. Later in the same year, Mr. Wachob and his son purchased six head of cattle from the Mudget farm, New York. In 1897 Mr. Wachob built the first silo in Brady Township, to which he later added and this method of preserving green food the year through kept his cattle in the very finest condition.
He did not purchase his 100 acres of land all at once. His first tract was bought from Jonathan Shaffer. The old way of cultivating the land had been in sections and the entire farm, under such methods, produced no more than one acre did for Mr. Wachob, who made use of entirely different methods. He brought the land to a very high state of cultivation. His buildings were suitable and attractive and he erected two residences, one of which he occupied with his family. He was mainly instrumental in having the Farmers' Institute held at DuBois, in March, 1911, and at that time, he and his estimable wife entertained the visiting farmers for two entire days on their farm. For years Mr. Wachob was actively interested in the Grange and he served as the master of Pomona Grange at Luthersburg.
He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he was a steward and a trustee. He was a charter member of the order of Knights of Pythias, at Salem, Brady Township, where he attended the lodge.
He was one of the few Republicans living in Brady Township. He never served in any office except as a member of the school board, in which he took a deep interest for some six years.

1 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 672, 697.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 618.

3 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 697.

4 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 470.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 769.

6 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 699.

7 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 672.

8 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 617.

9 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 671.