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HENRY M. STAUFFER, an industrious and highly respected citizen of East
Coventry township, who has been actively engaged as a tradesman and farmer
for over half a century, is a son of Jacob and Mary (Meyers) Stauffer, and
was born in West Pikeland township, near Chester Springs, Chester county,
Pennsylvania, September 27, 1826. His paternal grandfather, John Stauffer,
was the son of a Mr. Stauffer who came from Germany, and whose Christian
name has not been preserved. John Stauffer was born in Berks county, and
came to East Coventry township, where he purchased a farm of one hundred
and twenty-seven acres of land, which is now known as the old Stauffer
homestead. He followed farming, was a member of the Mennonite church,
and married a Miss Latshaw, by whom he had five children: John, who was a
life-long resident of his native township; Catharine M., who married Rev.
Jacob Harley, a minister of the German Baptist church; Elizabeth, Jacob
and Mary, who died young.
Henry M. Stauffer was reared on the farm, received his education in the
common schools, and learned the trade of coachmaker, at which he worked
for over twenty years in his shop on the home farm. At the end of that
time he turned his attention entirely to farming, which he has continued
in ever since. He owns part of the homestead farm, on which he resides,
and has so improved, enriched and cultivated his land that his farm is
considered as one of the best in that community. In politics Mr. Stauffer
supported the Republican party until recently, when he allied himself with
the prohibitionists, and now desires the success of prohibition through
political action. He served for several years as school director of his
township, and was a director and the secretary and treasurer of the Mad-
ison Bridge Company almost from its inception up to the time of its dis-
solution, after selling the bridge to Chester and Montgomery counties, and
has been a member of the board of directors of Ursinus College, at
Collegeville, from its origin to the present. He has been for a number of
years an active member of the German Reformed church, takes an active part
in Sunday school work, education, and all moral improvements, and enjoys
that popularity which springs from right living and the honorable treat-
ment of his fellow citizens. The fruits of his diligence, tact and up-
rightness are to be seen in his fine farm, pleasant home and the high
esteem in which he is held by his neighbors.
On February 24, 1852, Mr. Stauffer married Hannah Hart, who was a daughter
of Jacob and Hannah (Ziebes) Hart, of Montgomery county. Mrs. Stauffer
passed away on August 22, 1886, when in the sixty-fifth year of her age.
Herbert
Latscha
