Husband Alfred Walter 1 2
Born: 3 Feb 1850 - Middleburg, Snyder Co, PA 3
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Father: Isaac Walter ( -1860) 2 3
Mother: Lucinda Reninger ( -1867) 3
Marriage: May 1877 3
Wife Junie A. Musser 1
Born: 5 Aug 1855 - Millheim, Centre Co, PA 4
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Father: Daniel A. Musser (1822-1888) 5
Mother: Lydia A. Shreffler (1826- ) 4
Children
• They had no children.
General Notes: Husband - Alfred Walter
Born of poor, though respectable, parents, he was left fatherless at the age of ten years, and the family was scattered. Thus it happened that, when only ten years old, he went to live with Christian Walter, of Kreamer, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, upon whose farm he worked for five years, attending the district school in the meantime. He then began clerking for Walter & Smith, merchants at Kreamer, receiving only his board and clothes. After two years the firm dissolved partnership, and Mr. Walter went to Woodward, Centre county, to clerk for J. W. Snook at $15 per month; when the business changed hands he still retained his situation, remaining three years in all. His salary there was the first money that he had ever earned, and his savings enabled him to take a course at the Eastman Business College, in Poughkeepsie, New York. On his return to Centre County, Pennsylvania, he went to Millheim to enter the store of J. W. Snook as a clerk; six months later, at the organization of the banking firm of J. C. Motz & Co., he became cashier of the institution. In 1878, six years after its foundation, the firm was re-organized under the name of the Millheim Banking Company.
J. C. Motz was one of the shrewdest business men of Penn's Valley, Pennsylvania, and the last person to repose confidence where he was not convinced of the existence of sterling worth and integrity. Judging only by what he had seen of Mr. Walter as a boy clerking in a store, he placed him, in 1872, as cashier in the bank organized then at Millheim by J. C. Motz & Co. No security was asked or offered, as he placed implicit faith in the integrity of his protege, and the result demonstrated the soundness of his judgment.
He was a member of the Masonic order. He was also a leading worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church, holding the office of trustee for some time. In politics, Mr. Walter was a Randall Democrat.