Charles C. Loose and Susan Ella Harter

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Husband Charles C. Loose ¹

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           Born: 14 Apr 1858 - Millheim, Centre Co, PA 2
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         Father: Samuel Loose (1819-1896) 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Brickley (1821-1889) 4

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       Marriage: 4 Mar 1879 2

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Wife Susan Ella Harter ⁵

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           Born:  - Miles Twp, Centre Co, PA
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         Father: Emanuel Harter (1831-      ) 6
         Mother: Lavina Bierly (      -      ) 7

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General Notes: Husband - Charles C. Loose

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His early boyhood was spent in Millheim, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he attended school for a time, his first teacher being Miss Lizzie Cook. After the removal of the family to Miles township, he attended the country schools near his father's farm, and in 1876 he attended the County Nor­mal School at Milesburg for a term, preparing for teaching. In the fall of 1878 he took charge of a school at Madisonburg, where he taught two terms, and afterward he taught one term in the Harter school, in Miles township.
After marriage he and his wife began housekeep­ing on his father's farm, which he rented from the spring of 1880 to the spring of 1884, when he moved to Rebersburg and engaged in mercan­tile business, remaining four years. With capital secured by the sale of his stock and goodwill he began the lumber business. His first purchase of timber land was in the mountain north of Re­bersburg, and his timber cut from it was sawed up at another man's mill. Later other tracts were bought, and Mr. Loose engaged in milling on his account. Later he often had as many as three mills at work, two of his own and one leased, and he operated extensively in Union and Centre counties, employing on the average thirty men the year round. He owned two houses in Rebersburg besides his own and considerable farming land in Miles township. He also had 135 acres of farming land near Rebersburg with 250 acres of timber land in connection.
As a Democrat, Mr. Loose was active in local politics, and held township offices at various times. He served several years as school director, and several years as secretary of the board. He was also one of the stockholders of the Mill­heim Electric Telephone Co., and president of the Rebersburg Water Co. This last organiza­tion was chartered in the fall of 1896, prior to which one-third of the town of Rebersburg was formed into a company and furnished water for themselves, while two-thirds of the town were without water. Mr. Loose was one of the eight men who applied for a charter, and after same had been granted was the chief one to effect a compromise between the two companies (not without much opposition, however), so the entire town was consolidated into one company.
He and his wife were prominent members of the United Evangelical Church, and he was superintendent of the Sunday-school, and trustee in the Church, to which he was one of the most liberal contributors. He was a charter mem­ber of Rebersburg Lodge No. 1031, I. O. O. F., a member of Bellefonte Encampment, I. O. O. F., and belonged to the Rebersburg Grange.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 496.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 497.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 152, 269, 496.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 152.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 497, 504.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 497, 502.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 503.