BIO: James A. CONFER, native of Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 35.
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JAMES A. CONFER
Huntingdon, Pa.

Mechanic:  Born in Huntingdon County, Pa., in 1894.  A son of C. O. Confer, 
of Tyrone, Pa., and of Agnes (Stair) Confer; died May 18, 1829 [1929], at the 
age of sixty-six years.  Her father was a Civil War Veteran.  James A. Confer 
received his first schooling at Cross Roads, Blair County, Pa.  He attended 
the Arch Springs School; also No. 2 Brick School in Sinking Valley,.  A 
farmer for nineteen years.  Was with the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company 
at Tyrone for seven years.  He is a World War veteran.  Enlisted at Tyrone, 
Pa., and left for Camp Lee, Va.; assigned to Co. A. 305th Engineers, 80th 
Division, at Camp Lee, for nine months; left for Newport News, Virginia, on 
Transport (Heron); arrived fourteen days afterwards at Brest, France; 
assigned to a rest camp.  At baracks to Calais; there about one week; left 
for Wedom, to Metz, there for one week; thence to Buval, France.  He went 
into action for one month, then to Burley Temper for one week, to Saint 
Andrew's Woods for four days.  Went into Germanville woods, there for four 
days; to Bethancourt (plenty of action at this point) for twenty-one days; to 
Thiacourt; in hospital at Tours for two weeks, when armistice was signed.  
Left for Angers to 116th Engineers.  Replacement camp, and was there for one 
month.  Left for Fulvy, and was there for four months; to Le Mons for two 
weeks; to Brest, France.  Came home on U.S. freighter (Troy); thirteen days 
on water; arrived at New York, at the Statue of Liberty; to Camp Dix, New 
Jersey, for discharge.  Total service of twenty months.  James A. Confer and 
wife belong to the Zion Lutheran Church, Hollidaysburg, Pa.  He belongs to 
the I.O.O.F., Tyrone, Pa., No. 187, and the Junior O.U.A.M.  A Republican.  
He has five brothers: George, Altoona, Pa., with the Atlantic Refining 
Company; William, Altoona, Pa., with the Atlantic Refining Company; Charles, 
with the Murdock Carnival Company; Benjamin, Altoona, with the Atlantic 
Refining Company; David, also with the Atlantic Refining Company.  One 
sister, Edna, of Tipton, Pa.; one sister, Hannah, Deceased, eighteen months 
old.  James A. Confer was married to Alberta Weaver, daughter of Miles and 
Sophia Weaver.  They have one son, Robert Luther, seven years; one daughter, 
Margarie Jean, two years.  Mr. Confer is with the Atlantic Refining Company; 
has been for four years.