Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Fouse, William A. December 25, 1824 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

WILLIAM A. FOUSE,
One of the substantial farmers of Huston Township, is a son of Frederick and
Catherine (Acker) Fouse, and was born in Huston Township, Blair County,
Pennsylvania, Christmas day, 1824. Nicholas Fouse, the paternal
great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Polse, Germany,
and was among the pioneer settlers of Clover Creek settlement and Huston
Township. He was a blacksmith by trade, but followed farming, and was a
participant in several expeditions against the Indians. He was a Whig, and a
member of the Reformed Church, and married a Miss Brumbaugh, by whom he had
five children. His grandson, Frederick Fouse (father), was born in the Clover
Creek settlement, of which he was a lifelong resident. He was a farmer by
occupation, a Republican in politics, and in religious faith and church
membership a member and deacon of the German Reformed Church. He served for
many years as a justice of the peace, and died September 10, 1873, at the age
of seventy-three years. He married Catherine Acker, who died October 30, 1844,
at the age of forty-seven years and twenty days. They had eight children, five
sons and three daughters: Margaret Nicodemus, now dead; Catherine Greaser
(deceased); Elizabeth Boyd; Solomon (deceased); William A.; Jacob; John
(deceased); and Paul, now dead.
   William A. Fouse was reared on the home farm, received his education in the
schools of his neighborhood, and has always followed farming at the Clover
Creek settlement. He owns a farm of two hundred and thirty acres, of which
one hundred and sixty acres are in good state of cultivation. His farm, which
has been well improved, is favorably located in regard to church, school, and
market. Mr. Fouse is a Republican in political sentiment, has held the office
of supervisor in his native township, and always gives his party a cordial
support. He is a careful farmer, a good citizen, and a consistent member of
the German Reformed Church.
   On May 31, 1845, William A. Fouse married Catherine Greaser. To their union
have been born nine children, five sons and four daughters: Susan, wife of
Henry Rhodes, a farmer of Roaring Spring; Margaret, who married Joseph
Detwiler, a carpenter, of Huston Township; Elizabeth, wife of Martin Acker,
who is engaged in farming; Jane; Reuben, of Duncansville, who married Anna
Collins; George, now dead; Calvin; Samuel; and William.

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