Bios: PAUL WEIRMAN BLOCHER, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      PAUL WEIRMAN BLOCHER,
  
  [p. 888] who conducts the leading store in the jewelry line at Ellwood
  City, has fine quarters in the First National Bank Building, on Seventh
  Street, and he is numbered with the enterprising, progressive and
  popular young business men of the place. He was born at Gettysburg,
  Adams County, Pennsylvania, September 1, 1875, and is a son of J. Oliver
  and Ella (Weirman) Blocher.
  
  The parents of Mr. Blocher were born in Adams County, where the father
  died in 1902, aged fifty-three years. He had a prosperous business as a
  coal and lumber dealer, which has been successfully conducted by his
  widow since his death. There were nine children in their family.
  
  Paul W. Blocher was educated at Gettysburg and Juniata College, at
  Huntingdon, Pa., graduating from the High School in the former city and
  subsequently from college. He then learned the jewelry business with an
  uncle who was a jeweler at Gettysburg, and later spent one year in the
  Ezra F. Bowman Technical School, where he perfected his knowledge of the
  trade, and from there went to Wilmington, Del. For some time he was
  employed there, in the jewelry store of Millard F. Davis, and then went
  to Philadelphia, where he had charge of the silver department of the
  George B. Evans drug store, and remained for two years. In November,
  1903, Mr. Blocher came to New Castle, in Lawrence County, where he was
  employed as a jeweler, until he came to Ellwood City, in April, 1907,
  going into business for himself at that time.
  
  On October 17, 1900, Mr. Blocher was married to Miss Eva G. Hartman, who
  is a daughter of J. F. and Mary Hartman, of Mummasburg, and they have
  two children: Mary and Ruth. Politically, Mr. Blocher is a zealous
  Republican. He is a leading Mason of this section, belonging to New
  Castle Lodge, No. 642, and to Pittsburg Consistory, having reached the
  thirty-second degree. He belongs also to Chambersburg Lodge, No. 600,
  Elks, and to Refuge Lodge, Odd Fellows, of Ellwood City. He has
  membership on the city Board of Trade, and is active and public
  spirited. Mr. Blocher is an enthusiastic automobilist.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
  Updated: 23 Jan 2002