MySource:BobC/Montgomery Biography. Abraham Schannauer

SCHANNAUER, ABRAHAM R.

p. 1090 of Biographies from Historical and Biographical Annals by Morton Montgomery

Surnames: SCHANNAUER, HASSLER, BINKLEY, ROSENBAUM, SHAPPELL, ROTHENBERGER, HAIN, ARMEL, REINHOLD, STRICKER, MAYER, KELLER

ABRAHAM R. SCHANNAUER, of Wernersville, former postmaster at Reinholds Station, was born at Gouglersville, in Berks county, Aug. 8, 1864. He pursued his education in the public schools at that place, until he was ten years old, when he accompanied his widowed mother to her home at Reinholds Station, in Lancaster county, and there continued going to school, afterward attending the Keystone State Normal School until he was nineteen years old. He was first employed in the creamery at Reinholds Station for over a year, when he entered the store of E. S. Hassler at that place as clerk, continuing with him there and at Spring Grove for over a year, and serving as assistant postmaster at the latter place. Returning to Reinholdsville he bought the general store of Samuel Binkley, which he carried on for six years, serving as postmaster during the Harrison administration. Then selling out he removed with his family to Wernersville. He was employed as a salesman in the Rosenbaum clothing house at Reading for several months, afterward entering the general store of Henry Shappell, at Wernersville, where he continued for nine years. Mr. Shappell selling out to Isaac M. Rothenberger, he has remained with the latter until the present time.

Mr. Schannauer was married in 1886 to Rebecca Hain, a daughter of George G. Hain, of Wernersville, and by her has two children, Irwin and Eva.

Joseph Schannauer, father of Abraham R., was a farmer residing at Gouglersville, a progressive citizen of that community, and a devoted, generous member of the Lutheran denomination of the Wyomissing Church, having donated the land for the purpose of that church in 1850. He was born at Gouglersville in 1800, and died there in 1874. He was married three times. His first wife was a Miss Armel, the second Catharine Reinhold, and the third Eva Reinhold, as sister of the second. By the third union he had eight children: Elizabeth married Harvey Stricker; Miss Kate; Maria m. Eugene Mayer; Matilda m. Lewis Keller; Abraham R.; Jesse, unmarried; and two died young. Eva Reinhold was a daughter of John Reinhold, a farmer of Reinholds Station, was born in 1822, and attained an age of nearly ninety years.