Marcus Francis Cubbison and Vernice Schorndorfer

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Husband Marcus Francis Cubbison ¹

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           Born: 1895 - Emlenton, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: Erastus Hueing Cubbison (1863-1917) 1 2
         Mother: Mary Alice Pendlebury (Abt 1863-1916) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1916 - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA 1

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Wife Vernice Schorndorfer ¹

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         Father: John Schorndorfer (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Anna Weisbaker (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Marcus Francis Cubbison

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He attended Emlenton, Pennsylvania, schools, and after completing his high school studies there took a course at the New Castle Business College. In 1914 he went into publishing and printing with his father in Emlenton. In 1917, at his father's death, the younger Mr. Cubbison became inspector of shells with the National Tube Company, in Emlenton, remaining with them throughout the World War period of 1917-18. He then accepted the post of advertising manager with the old "New Castle News," at New Castle, Pennsylvania, where he continued his work until late in 1919. At about the same time he started an advertising agency with a partner, but the firm was dissolved after a time because of the partner's untimely death. Then, between 1922 and 1927, Mr. Cubbison was advertising manager of the "Youngstown Vindicator."
Embarking upon a new work in 1927, he devoted his attention for two years to the installation of industrial advertising courses in the Youngstown school system. He instituted, during that same period, a plan for getting high school students part-time work in the advertising departments of different manufacturing houses, with the idea of giving these young people an opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge of these industries and at the same time enabling the manufacturers to look them over with a thought to offering them employment at their graduation. The system that Mr. Cubbison established through persistent hard work is still in force in the Youngstown schools, and its operation is a credit to its founder.
In 1930 Mr. Cubbison bought the "Sharpsville Advertiser," which he has published down to the time of writing. The proximity of Sharpsville to industrial Sharon, together with the competition from Sharon newspapers, made it desirable for him to specialize in some branch
of his profession. So it was that he selected advertising as this branch, organizing and developing the Associated Advertising Agency, referred to above. Not only does Mr. Cubbison operate a three-press plant in Sharpsville, but he also has a large plant in Youngstown, Ohio, where he lives.
Justly proud of his career in advertising and his accomplishments on behalf of education along these lines, Mr. Cubbison looks back with especial satisfaction upon his editorship, in 1911 and 1912, of an amateur newspaper, "The Wheel-barrow," whose slogan was "We Carry Everything." Politically Mr. Cubbison was a Republican. He was an organizer of the Sharpsville Board of Trade, and belonged to the Master Printers' Association and the Youngstown Advertisers' Club. He was active in the Free and Accepted Masons, belonging to Royal Arch Chapter, Council of Royal and Select Masters, the Grotto and the Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He was a Methodist and his wife a Catholic.

1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 501.

2 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 946.