Morrison Otis Shuster and Alice W. Portzer

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Husband Morrison Otis Shuster ¹

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            AKA: Morris Otis Shuster 2 3
           Born: 11 Nov 1884 - Penn Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: William Irwin Shuster (1859-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Sarah Jane Sarver (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 31 Jul 1906 1

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Wife Alice W. Portzer ¹

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         Father: William D. Portzer (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Katherine Hawk (      -      ) 1

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1 M William Portzer Shuster ¹

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2 M Morrison O. Shuster, Jr. ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Morrison Otis Shuster

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Until fourteen years of age he attended the district public school. He then became a clerk in a mercantile establishment, serving in that capacity for five years. At the age of nineteen he became traveling salesman for the Pittsburgh Wholesale Grocery House, S. Ewart & Company, remaining with that company for about eight years. In 1911 he entered into a partnership with William M. Gormly, and in a small way began a wholesale grocery business in Jeannette. Within a year business had so increased that they moved to a three-story building, and in 1913 they incorporated as the Shuster-Gormly Company, with an authorized capital of $65,000. A three-story brick building was erected with a floor space of 18,000 square feet, suitably arranged for the business, and on May 1, 1916, the enlarged business of the company demanding greater financial resources, the capital was increased to $300,000. On June 1, 1916, the Shuster-Gormly Company opened a branch jobbing grocery house at New Kensington, Westmoreland County, taking a building fifty by sixty feet, five stories. Mr. Shuster was president of the company from its incorporation.
A Republican in politics, Mr. Shuster did not taken an active part in public affairs, although he served his borough as a member and treasurer of the school board beginning in 1909. He was a member of the Lutheran church, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, A. O. O. F. M., and Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 443.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 171.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 442.