Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Kloss, David Shelley August 25, 1860 - ???? ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Banja http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00004.html#0000757 December 21, 2024, 7:08 am Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892. Author: Samuel T. Wiley DAVID SHELLEY KLOSS, cashier of the First National bank of Tyrone, and a man of recognized financial ability, is a son of Daniel and Margaret (Shelley) Kloss, and was born in Juniata County, Pennsylvania August 25, 1860. His paternal great-great-grandfather, Emile Kloss, came from one of the provinces of Germany, and settled at some time during the last century in what is now Leigh County, where he reared a family of children. His son, Daniel Kloss (great-grandfather), married and reared a family of twelve children, six sons and six daughters, all of whom married, reared large families, and lived to a good old age. In 1808 he settled in Union (now Snyder) County, where he purchased a farm on Middle Creek, married a second time, and lived there until his death. His eldest son, David Kloss (grandfather), was born near Kutztown, Berks County, and t twelve years of age came with his father to Union County. He afterward moved to Freeburg, that County, in 1819, where he purchased a flouring mill, and was also engaged in rafting grain on the Susquehanna River, in which latter employment he was, on several occasions, seriously hurt, but having a rugged constitution, and possessing great will power, he recovered to a great extent from his injuries. In 1883 he purchased a farm on the bank of the Juniata River. He was an old-line Whig and a strong Lutheran, and married Margaret Kantz, by whom he had eleven children, six sons and five daughters; David, who died young; Amelia, who died in two years after her marriage with Samuel Kingrich; Elizabeth, died in infancy; Gideon, who was a prominent merchant of Cairo, Ohio; Caroline, wife of Henry Kepner, a well known citizen of Port Royal, Pennsylvania; Charlotte, Widow of George Snyder, who was a prosperous clothing merchant of Mexico and Port Royal, where Mrs. Snyder still resides; Rebecca, wife of Rev. Daniel Kloss, pastor of the Congregational Church of Highland, Kansas; Rev. John, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church; and Henry, now retired from business, and a resident of Mexico, this State. Daniel Kloss, the fourth son, and father of David Shelley Kloss, as born near Freeburg, Snyder County, August 25, 1832. He received a good English education, and was engaged for several years at Vandyke, this State, in the general mercantile business. He gave most of his time and attention to farming and dealing in real estate, but within the last few years retired from all active pursuits, and is now living near Mexico, this State. He is a prohibitionist in politics, and is quite an aggressive advocate of the principles of his party. In religious belief he is a Lutheran, and has been for many years a ruling elder in the church of that religious denomination at Vandyke. He was married in November, 1859, to Margaret Shelley, and to them were born eight children: David Shelley; Nora E., wife of Rev. William E. Leisher, who is now pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Oakland, Maryland; Isadore; Charles F., now a student of Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, this State; and four who died in infancy. David S. Kloss was reared in his native county, and received his education in airy View Academy, of Port Royal, Pennsylvania. After the completion of his academic course he resolved upon entering into the business world, and in order to more fully qualify himself for a commercial pursuit, he entered Eastman's Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York, from which institution he was graduated in January, 1882. In the fall of that year he became teller of the West End Savings bank, of Pittsburg, and served acceptably in that capacity until 1886, when he resigned in order to assume charge of the banking house of Parker & Co., of Mifflintown, Juniata County. At the end of three years' service he reorganized that banking house, and it became the First National bank of Mifflintown, of which he served as cashier until July, 1890, when he accepted his present position as cashier of the First National bank of Tyrone. On August 12, 1886, Mr. Kloss was united in marriage with Lizzie M. Esplen, of Pittsburg, and their union has been blessed with two children: Henry Esplen and Margaret Belle. D. S. Kloss is a member of the Young Men's Christian Association and the First Presbyterian church of Tyrone. He is a member and the treasurer of Tyrone Lodge, No. 494, Free and Accepted Masons, and Tyrone club, the leading social organization of that place. He is interested in several business enterprises of his borough, where his services have been valuable in adjusting and righting up disordered finances and confused books. He is treasurer of the Tyrone school board, and a stockholder and treasurer of the Tyrone Opera House Company, and the Home Electric Light Company. Mr. Kloss is a pleasant, courteous, gentleman, a well respected citizen, and a thoroughly qualified and eminently practical business man. In the history and development of Tyrone, as an industrial center of Pennsylvania, a most interesting chapter is that of the rise and progress of her banking institutions. Among these the First National bank is entitled to worthy mention, and its volume of business transactions is rapidly increasing under the conservative but safe financial methods of Mr. Kloss, who is an advocate of those sound conservative principles which alone can secure permanent success to any bank and perfect security to its depositors. Additional Comments: Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Cheryl Heny MHeny@Prodigy.net. This file has been created by a form at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pafiles/ File size: 6.1 Kb