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Samuel Lupold was born in 1824 in the vicinity of Sunbury. In his
earlier years he was engaged in farming in Clinton Co, Pa., and
later conducted a sawmill there, near Eastville, subsequently moving t
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Union Co, where he kept books for a lumber concern until his death,
which occurred in 1874, at Cooper's Mill, Union county. He was burie
d at
Watsontown, Northumberland county. Mr. Lupold was an ambitious man, a
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by application became a well informed man. At the time of his marriage
he could neither read nor write, and he was self instructed, his
practical attainments being best indicated by the position he filled
during the latter years of his life. He was a member of the Reformed
Church. Mr. Lupold married Susan Kerstetter, daughter of Samuel and
Hannah (Barner) Kerstetter, of Clinton Co, the latter of whom was a
daughter of George Barner and one of a family of twenty-two children.
Mrs. Susan (Kerstetter) Lupold died in 1886, in her fifty-ninth year.
She was the mother of the following children: Catharine died when
sixteen years old; William H. is a resident of Cameron Co, Pa.;
Supera married Eli F. Garner and lives near Eastville, Pa.; Fayette
married Hiram Lefever, of Aurora, Nebr.; Sarah married William H.
Lesher; Harriet died when four years old, of poisoning; Minerva marrie
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Daniel J. Huntington and died at Williamsport, Pa., in 1887; Mary died
in infancy; Samuel A., formerly of Montgomery, Pa., is now a residen
t of West Milton, Pa., where he is in the bakery business; John W. liv
es in Sunbury.
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