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 COI.UMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES he located at M ainville, Pa.» where he practicccrsonally throughout Columbia county. H e nurried N ellie Pfahler, and is survived by one son, Ja c o b It. WjM.tAM M .w hkhry X '. s s t i n k w as born J u ly 30. 18 7c, at Numidia, Columbia Co., Pa., attended Danville Academy and public school at Catawissa* and later entered Pennsylvania College, at Ciettysbufg, I'a.. from which In­ stitution he was graduated in Ju n e. 1893. He has c%*er since been connected with the First N ational Bank o f Catawissa. o f which he has been cashier since November o f that year. T h is lu s been his principal business interest, and he is a director of the local shoe manu­ facturing company. H e has scr'od two terms as school director* and is now filling his second tcnn as councilman of the borough, in the administration o f whose affairs he has taken an influential part. Politically he is a Repub­ lican. in religious connection a member 01 St. M atth ew s Lutheran Church. M r. Vastinc ts well known in the fraterni­ ties* particularly in his Masonic associations, being a member o f Cataw issa Loi^e* No. 349* F. & A. M.* o f which he is a past m aster; C ataw issa Chapter, N o. 178. o f which he has been treasurer since 1 9 10; Crusade Comm andcry, K. T.* and the Council, both o f Bloom shufg; Caldwell Consistory (thirtysecond d egree), o f Bloom sburg: the C rafts­ man Club o f Hloomsburg: and Ir a n Temple* A. A. O. N. M. S.* o f W ilkcs-Harrc. H e has u ssc d all the chairs in the local K. G. E. odge. and has been treasurer o f (hat body since Feb. 4. 19 0 2; and he is a past grand o f Lodge No. 60, I. O. O . F ., o f C ttaw issa. On Aug. 10. 18 9 1, M r, Vastine married Elizabeth L . Kostcnhaudcr, daughter of G eorge L . and L u cy (M an lcv) Kostenbauder, and they have one son* Dougfass H.* born Dec. 23, 18 9 8 : a daughter, H arriet Boone* died in infanc>*. J.ron M.nrion V . s t i n f ., M. D., son o f Dr. Ja c o b H. Vastine. w as bom in Numidia. Col­ umbia Co.. Pa., A u g. 8, 1874. A fte r attend­ ing Danville .Academy and public school at Catawissa he became a student at the Pennsyl­ vania State College, from which he was grad­ uated with the degree o f B . S . in 1896. He then matriculated al the M e<lim *rh)m rgical College, Philadelphia, completed the course in 189c). and spent more time specializing on the eve. ear. nose and throat. H e has since been

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engaged in successful practice at Catawissa, where he lu s become prominent in his pro­ fession, being a past president of the Columbia County Medical Society and a member of the State Medical Society and the American M etlkal Association. e belongs to the Sigm a A lp lu Epsilon fraternity o f State CoUege* and also lu s social connections with the L O. O. F ., K. G. E. and B. P. O. E lk s, holding his mem­ bership in the last named at Bloomsburg. H e is a member of the Lutheran Cliurch. Since Jan u ary, 1912* D r. Vastine has been a director of the F irst National Bank o f Cataw issa, and of the A ll W ear Shoe Company, m anufacturers o f women's and children’s shoes, o f Cata­ wissa. On A pril 20* 1904, D r. Vastine married Catherine Sharpless. daugliter o f G. H. and Ella (Schnick) Shaqdcss, o f Catawissa. They have one child* Dorothy Sharpless, horn in ii)o6. M A U S* T he celebrated M aus farm in V alley township, Montour county, famous for its fine springs, is now owned by M rs. Cath­ erine Bachman (M au s) Jones, d ai^htcr o f Davirl Maus* and widow* of Horatio C . Jones, o f Philadelphia. I ’ hc history of the Maus fam ily is mse[>arab1y associated with the opening up and advancement o f Montour county from its earliest days o f civilized oc­ cupation. Mausdale* in Valiev township* a small village less than tw*o mifcs from Dan­ ville, the county scat, perpetuates the name in the section where the M auses have been most numerous, and where the fam ily has been represented continuously fo r a period of almost one hundred and fifty years. Philip Maus. a native o f Prussia, torn in 1 7 3 1 1 came to the N ew W orld ivith his parents in 17 4 K the fam ily landing at Philadelphia, where they settled. H e attended school there* and soon learned to speak and write English fluently, as well as German. In 1750 he was apprenticed to Icani stocking manufacturing* and within five years he had established him­ self in the business* in which he met with sub­ stantial success* continuing it for about lw*enty years, until the troubles incident to the prog­ ress of the Revolutionary w ar made it nccessary fo r him to suspenrf operations. During the w ar his fam iliarity with the business ciiab1e e o f great scr*icc, fo r he wa.s an earnc.st upholder of the Colonial cause and made many sacrifices in its interest. H is means were ample for the lime, and he in­ vested largely in furnishing clothing fo r the soldiers, taking his pay in Continental money,