BIOS: Edward F. CUSTER, Stoystown, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, ppg. 473/4

Edward F. CUSTER.

Edward F. Custer, of Stoystown, is a grandson of Henry Custer, who was a native 
of Somerset county and a farmer.  He married Anna Hart, and their son, Jonas 
Custer, was born in Somerset county, and, like his father, devoted himself to 
agricultural pursuits.  Politically, he was a Republican.
Mr. Custer married a Miss Kimmel, a native of Somerset county, and their 
children were: Anna, wife of ______ Menser; Ida B.; Mary G.; William H.; and 
Edward F., mentioned hereinafter.
Edward F. Custer, son of Jonas Custer, was born November 8, 1871, in Somerset 
township, where he received his education in the common schools.  At the age of 
fifteen he left school, and until his twenty-eighth year was engaged in farming 
with his father.  He then built the Hotel Leslie, which he conducted for 
thirteen months and then sold the property to Mr. Bloom.  For one year 
thereafter he carried on a lime and coal business and then moved to Stoystown, 
where he purchased Spangler's livery business, which he has since successfully 
conducted.
Mr. Custer married, June 1899, Victoria Mathews, and they are the parents of one 
child, Harold B., born December 8, 1900.
Mrs. Custer is a daughter of W. S. Matthews, a native of West Virginia and a 
farmer.  His wife was Jane Aumor, and their family consisted of the following 
children: Victoria, born August 15, 1877, in West Virginia, wife of Edward F. 
Custer; Benjamin E.; and Arthur.