Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Earlenbaugh, Henry R. December 14, 1858 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

HENRY R. EARLENBAUGH,
one of the younger business men of Altoona, and a leading dealer in general
merchandise of that city, is a son of Andrew and Nancy (Rice) Earlenbaugh,
and was born in Taylor township, Blair county, Pennsylvania, December 14,
1858.  The Earlenbaugh family is of German descent, and Henry Earlenbaugh,
sr., the paternal great-grandfather of Henry R. Earlenbaugh, came from
Germany, and settled in Blair (formerly Bedford) county, where he lived until
his death.  His son, Andrew Earlenbaugh, sr. (grandfather), was born in 1792,
in Taylor township, where he followed farming until his death, in 1853, when
in the sixty-first year of his age.  He owned a large farm, married, and
reared a family.  Of his sons one was Andrew Earlenbaugh (father), who
followed farming in his native township until 1889, when he sold his farm and
removed to his present comfortable home at Martinsburg.  He is a republican in
politics, and a German Reformed in religious faith.  He married Nancy Rice,
daughter of David Rice, who was born in Taylor township, where he owned a
good farm and a grist mill on Plumb creek, and died near Martinsburg, Taylor
township, in 1886, at seventy-eight years of age.  Mr. and Mrs. Earlenbaugh
reared a family of twelve children, nine sons and three daughters.
     Henry R. Earlenbaugh was reared on the farm, and received his education
in the Martinsburg High school and the Indiana State Normal school, of
Indiana, Pennsylvania.  Leaving school he engaged in teaching for six years,
and then became a clerk in the mercantile establishment of J. E. McDowell, of
Altoona.  At the end of one year, in 1882, he left the employ of Mr. McDowell
to engage in the general mercantile business, which he has followed
successfully ever since.  His establishment is at No. 330 Lexington avenue
and Fourth street, and originally was but a room 20 x 50 feet in dimensions,
but his trade increased so rapidly that he was compelled to build an
addition, and now has one of the finest retail stores in the city.  He
employs four salesmen, carried everything in the line of dry goods, notions,
footwear, groceries and provisions, and has a thorough knowledge of the wants
and requirements of his numerous patrons. In 1890 he added a furniture room,
30 x 50 feet in dimensions, to his establishment, and it is stocked to its
utmost storage capacity with parlor, chamber, dining room and kitchen
furniture, sofas, lounges, wardrobes, chairs and tables.
     On December 25, 1884, Mr. Earlenbaugh married Susan B. Fisher, daughter
of Henry Fisher, of Loysburg, Bedford county, and to their union have been
born four children, one son and three daughters:  Roy C., Hattie B., E.
Gertrude, and Bertha May, who died October 8, 1891.  Mr. and Mrs. Earlenbaugh
are members of Christ Reformed church of Altoona.
     In politics Henry R. Earlenbaugh is a republican, who always yields his
party a hearty support.  He is a member of Elwood Castle, Knights of the
Golden Eagle, and Lodge No. 124, Knights of the Mystic Chain.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Donna Thomas.

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