BIOS: Orrie LANSBERRY, Rockwood, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, pg. 363

Orrie LANSBERRY.

Orrie Lansberry, of Rockwood, is the son of Jasper Lansberry, who was born in 
1858, in Clearfield county, and has always given his attention to agricultural 
pursuits.  He married Manda, born in 1859, in Gray Hamton, Clearfield county, 
daughter of Levi and Mary (Graphon) Pierce.
Orrie Lansberry, son of Jasper and Manda (Pierce) Lansberry, was born January 
18, 1877, in Clearfield county, where he received his education in the common 
schools.  At the age of fifteen he left school and went to work in the mines.  
He next entered the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, serving as 
fireman until January 1, 1905, when he was promoted to the position of engineer, 
which he still retains.  Mr. Landsberry married, May 10, 1905, Clara Tayman, 
born September 14, 1878, in Somerset county.