Misc. Notes
Resident of Brady Township. He owned a fine farm upon the old turnpike (Now Rt. 322) between Luthersburg and Rockton where with his wife they reared a family of twelve children.
Eight of the children were living in 1898, and were married and residing in Clearfield County.
Children listed in the 1850 census, including their ages, were John (9), Elizabeth (8), Jane (6), Mary (3) and Frederick (9 months).
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Matthias Hollopeter brother of John W. Hollopeter, came to Clearfield county in the year 1829, residing with his brother John until the year 1836, when he married and settled on the farm where he now resides, in Union township. He was aged seventeen when he first came to the township worked a portion of the time for his brother, and commenced to improve his own land also.
He first purchased fifty acres of land for seventy-five dollars, and worked at the rate of eight dollars per month for the payment of the same. The other fifty acres cost him two dollars per acre. When he first came to it the county was a wilderness, and he, with his brother John, endured the many inconveniences and privations of the early settlers. He followed the business of carding and fulling a portion of his time, and after he began his settlement he worked early and late to improve his farm.
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Matthias had real estate valued at $600 in 1850, $1600 in 1860, $3500 in 1870. A Jacob Korb, 22 year old Teacher is listed living in the household in 1860. John, a brother of Mathias, is a neighbor in 1870.
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There are lots of Hollopeter family buried at Luthersburg Union Cemeetery.
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On Saturday last [September 1860], Mr. Hollowpeter and his wife, while crossing the Clearfield creek bridge, the horse took fright and run the buggy over the side of the bridge, the whole doing over, the buggy turning upside down, seriously injuring Mrs. Hollowpeter on her head and side. She is now in a critical situation. Mr. Hollowpeter received no serious injury.
587 [Is this couple related?]
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Married on the 4th inst. [April 1861], by the Rev. Samuel Coon, Mr. Mathias Hollopeter to Miss Eve Eliza Horn, all of Brady township.
588 [How is this Mathias related?]
Misc. Notes