BIOS: Samuel P. MAUST, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pa.; Bedford County by E. Howard 
Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub.: The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, pg. 351.

Samuel P. Maust, of Meyersdale, is the great-grandson of Jacob Maust, who came 
from Germany about 1779 and settled in Elk Lick township.  Jacob Maust was the 
father of Abraham Maust and the grandfather of Peter Maust.
Samuel P. Maust, son of Peter Maust, was born June 26, 1848, in Summit township, 
where the Shaw mines are now in operation.  Until the age of nineteen he 
attended the public schools of his native township and also of Elk Lick 
township.  After leaving school he taught for one term and then engaged in 
farming.  He became by purchase the possessor of the Maust farm, the warrant for 
which was issued February 21, 1785, by the state of Pennsylvania, to his great-
grandfather, Jacob Maust.  Since 1900 Mr. Maust has given his attention to real 
estate and to the building of Maustdale, Elk Lick township.  He is also 
interested in the retail coal business and is a stockholder in the Second 
National Bank of Meyersdale.  He is a Democrat and a member of the (German 
Baptist) Brethren church, of which he has been a minister since July 4, 1879.
Mr. Maust married, December 21, 1871, Lucinda N., daughter of Abraham P. Beachy, 
of Elk Lick township, and their children were: Abraham L., married Carrie Kelson 
and lives at Scott City, Kansas; Elizabeth E., wife of D. J. Meyers, also of 
Scott City; Morris S., married Anna Grace Raymond and lives at Elk Lick; Orpha 
A., wife of Elder I. S. Richie, of Everett; Elsie M., at home; Lucinda A., also 
at home; and Edward N., died in infancy.