BIO: Amos H. RUMBERGER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 413 & 414.
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  AMOS H. RUMBERGER, who is one of the representative business men of 
Houtzdale, conducting a hardware store and doing a plumbing, gas fitting and 
heating business in connection with the same, was born January 14, 1862, in 
Huntingdon county, Pa., and is a son of Balser S. and Hannah (Harper) 
Rumberger.
  Balser S. Rumberger was born in Center county, Pa., but moved to Huntingdon 
county in early manhood, where he became a man of considerable prominence and 
served three years as sheriff, being elected on the Republican ticket.  He met 
with an accidental death, in September, 1910, while crossing a railroad, and at 
that time was a resident of the borough of Huntingdon.  His burial was at 
Petersburg.  He married Hannah Harper, who died in 1868, and her burial was at 
Warrior's Mark.
  Amos H. Rumberger was reared at Warrior's Mark and Petersburg, attending 
school during the usual period, and at the latter place assisted his father in 
the mercantile business until 1880, when he came to Houtzdale.  Here he engaged 
as shipping clerk and weighmaster at the Van Dusen mines before he entered into 
the hardware business with R. R. Fleming.  In 1902 he became a partner in the 
business conducted under the firm name of R. R. Fleming & Co., which continued 
until January, 1908, when he became sole owner.  Mr. Rumberger has been quite 
active in politics and has frequently been the choice of the Republican party 
for public office and was serving as county auditor when he resigned in order 
to make a visit to British Columbia.  He has served as borough auditor and for 
six years was a member of the council, during three years of which time he was 
its president.  He has been a member of the school board for seven years and is 
its presiding officer at present.
  Mr. Rumberger was married October 28, 1885, to Miss Ida Roushe, who was born 
in Huntingdon county and is a daughter of William and Helen Roushe, and they 
have five children, namely:  Helen, who is the wife of Augustus Gleason, of 
DuBois, Pa., and they have four children - Andrew, Helen, Robert and Ida; 
Edith, who is bookkeeper for her father; Gertrude; Ida, who is the wife of 
Mahlon Hagerty, of Philipsburg; and George, who is yet in school.
  Mr. Rumberger has been a member of the Houtzdale Fire Company for twenty 
years.  He is identified fraternally with the Masons, at Osceola, and the Odd 
Fellows and Brotherhood of America, at Houtzdale.