BIO: Samuel T. HEPBURN, Clearfield County, PA
 
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally

Copyright 2005.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/

NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm
_____________________________________________________________

From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 834.
_____________________________________________________________ 

  SAMUEL T. HEPBURN, a representative citizen of Karthaus, Pa., and for the past 
several years proprietor of the popular Potter House, was born in Penn township, 
Clearfield county, Pa., September 20, 1853, and is a son of Samuel Coleman and 
Cynthia (Hoover) Hepburn.
  When Mr. Hepburn was a mere lad his parents moved to Grampian, Pa., and in the 
schools of that place he secured his education.  While still a youth he was 
employed at limbering, on job work, and he then entered a grist mill, later 
engaging in that business on his own account with William F. Johnson, and, after 
that gemtleman's death, with Dr. J. Currier, at Grampian.  He also engaged in 
rafting to some extent, sometimes going as far as Marietta.  After disposing of 
his grist mill interests, he engaged in a meat market business, in conjunction 
with which he conducted a hotel at New Holland, Lancaster county, but in 1904 
became proprietor of the Hyde City Hotel, at Hyde City, Pa., form whence he came 
to Karthaus in December, 1908, to become owner of the Potter House.  He has 
continued to conduct this hostelry to the present time, and it is one much 
favored by traveling men as well as the general public.
  On February 7, 1884, Mr. Hepburn was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude 
Dressler, who was born and reared in Union township, Clearfield county, a 
daughter of Levi R. and Julia (Hall) Dressler.  Two children were born to this 
union, Floyd and Grace.  Floyd Hepburn, who was born July 30, 1885, is a 
graduate of Lakemont (N. Y.) Starkey Seminary, attended Rochester University for 
two years and then completed a business course in Strayer's Business College, of 
Philadelphia.  He is now assistant superintendent of Stetcher's Lithograph 
Company, at Rochester.  Grace Hepburn was born December 24, 1887, and was 
married on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1910, to Grover C. Zimmermann.  They 
now reside in Shamokin, Pa.
  Mr. Hepburn is a Democrat in his political belief, and was of the first 
councilmen of the borough of Grampian, where he also served on the school board 
at the time the school was built.  He is a member of Royal Arcanum, of the Odd 
Fellows, and the Elks.  Mrs. Hepburn is a member of the Baptist church.