A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Franklin Faus
Eric von Dorster and "Faus Genealogical Data" give his name as Franklin (listed as Frank in other places).
From "Historical and Biographical Annals of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania" (J. H. Beers & Co., 1915; obtained from Google Books), Volume II p. 849:
FRANK FAUS, who operates an auto-bus between the hotels and railroad depots in Bloomsburg, was born in Pine township, Columbia county, Jan. 18, 1867, son of Thomas Faus, and grandson of Henry Faus. The family is of German stock.
Henry Faus was born in Lehigh county, Pa., where he lived and died, having been a farmer all his life. He married Elizabeth Hepler, who after his death came with her children to Columbia county, and still later moved to Michigan, where she died. For her second husband she married a Mr. Krisher, and after his death she took as her third husband Joseph Snyder. Henry Faus and his wife had the following children: Thomas; Henry; Polly, who married Peter Whitney; and Eliza, who married Abraham Krauss.
Thomas Faus, son of Henry Faus, and father of Frank Faus, was born in Lehigh county, Pa., and coming to what is now Pine township, Columbia Co., Pa., bought a farm there. In time he cleared off his land and operated it until his death, which occurred on his property July 5, 1875, when he was seventy-one years, seven months, twenty-one days old; he is buried at Faus Church, in Pine township. Mr. Faus gave the land on which the church was built, and did much to gather other contributions. He was a Methodist, and was glad to do all in his power to get a church of his denomination in the neighborhood, and after it was established continued to give liberally to it as long as he lived.
Thomas Faus was married to Rachel Robbins, a daughter of Joseph Robbins, of Millville, and she died July 28, 1863, aged fifty-five years, six month, twenty-eight days. Their children were: Elizabeth J., who married Lafayette Unger; Henry, who is living in Michigan; Joshua, who is deceased; John, deceased; Josiah, deceased; Mary, who married Michael Kessler; William P., who is living in Pine township; Thomas, living in Texas; Matilda, who died in childhood; Theodore, a Methodist minister, in charge of the church at Millville, Pa.; Martha, who married John Sanders; Rachel, who married Rev. John Beishline; and Cyrus, who is deceased. For his second wife Thomas Faus married Susan Bacon, a daughter of Lyman Bacon, and by this union had children: Harriet, who married Lewis Kile; Frank; Rebecca, who married Howard Shultz; and Charles W., who is living on the old homestead in Pine township.
Frank Faus attended the schools of Pine township. As he lost his father in childhood, he remained with his widowed mother, assisting her with the farm work and growing up to useful manhood. Until 1902 Mr. Faus continued to farm, in that year going into the lumber regions in Sullivan county, Pa., where for three years he worked as a lumberman. At the expiration of that period he came to Bloomsburg and embarked in the livery business with Mr. Ammerman, under the firm name of Ammerman & Faus, the firm having stables conveniently located near the "Exchange Hotel." They kept fifteen horses for hire, as well as a full equipment of carriages, wagons and other vehicles to meet the demands of the public, operating one of the largest establishments of its kind in the city, and the firm controlled a fine business. In 1913 Mr. Faus embarked in his present bus and moving business.
Mr. Faus was married to Mary Kile, a daughter of Wesley Kile, and they have had the following children: Lucy, Hester, Clyde and Frank. Mr. Faus is a Republican in political faith, and the Methodist Church holds his membership. He is highly esteemed in business life, being a man of many excellent traits of character, and deserving what he has secured in the way of material prosperity.
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