Solomon Shaner and Ella K. Bergman

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Husband Solomon Shaner ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 14 May 1849 - Allegheny Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Henry Shaner (1809-1881) 1 3 4
         Mother: Catherine Cline (1810-1887/1889) 1 3 4

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       Marriage: 10 Jan 1878 5 6

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Wife Ella K. Bergman ⁶

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            AKA: Ella K. Bergmen 5
           Born:  - Allegheny Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Father: Henry Bergman (1821-Abt 1902) 6
         Mother: Margaret Dorothea Teimeyer (Abt 1825-1900) 6

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Children

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1 F Maud L. Shaner ^{5 6}

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           Died: 28 Jul 1914 6
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         Spouse: Frank A. McKenry (      -      ) 6

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2 F Nellie B. Shaner ⁵

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         Spouse: Frank L. McCabe (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - Solomon Shaner

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He was reared on the home farm and received his education in the common schools and Leechburg academy. In 1877 he engaged in the general mercantile business at Shearers Crossroads, where he soon built up a good trade which he held for twelve years and a half. In September, 1889, he concluded to leave his flourishing mercantile business and engage in farming. His farm of seventy-three acres of fine farming, well watered and highly cultivated land, adjoined Shearers Crossroads. He also owned some valuable property at Hillsville. He was a member of Leechburg Evangelical Lutheran church and a stanch republican; he served his township in 1882 as auditor.

He passed the first twenty-eight years of his life on the old Shaner homestead, in the house built by his father. Much of his time in childhood was spent in assisting his father in the difficult work of clearing the farm. At an early age he became a pupil in the McGeary School, attending whenever his hard duties on the farm permitted until he had reached his majority. He then supplemented his common school education with a course at the Leechburg Academy. In the year 1877, he engaged in the mercantile business, opening an establishment at Shearers Crossroads, where he remained for a period of twelve years, developing a large and successful business. During that time he bought a farm consisting of seventy acres of land which he cultivated for about one year. He then moved to Edgecliff, where he purchased the store of S. B. Copeland, which he conducted for nine years. Then he sold the store and came to New Kensington in the year 1899. Prior to that time, however, he had built a house at the corner of Sixth avenue and Seventh street. New Kensington was at that time in the early period of its great development and many opportunities were open to the enterprising young man who could seize them. Mr. Shaner shortly after coming there purchased the "Ideal Laundry" and operated it successfully for about ten years.
Mr. Shaner was very active in local affairs and held a number of public offices. He was always a Republican in politics, and was elected once to the New Kensington City Council, serving three years, two of which he was president of that body. During his service on the City Council a new high school building on Fourth avenue was built and a number of valuable improvements were made. He also held the office of assessor in the Second Ward of the city for four years. As early as 1882 he was auditor of Allegheny township.
He and his wife were members of the United Presbyterian church at Parnassus.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 739.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1113.

3 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 357.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1112.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 740.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1114.