John Paul GRUBER

Sources:

1920 U.S.Census, Elk Twp, Clarion, PA, E.D.62; sheet 11, page 2353
Obituary of John Paul Gruber
Personal Conversations of Thelma Gruber Gold and Marsha Gold Allen
Obituary of Gerald V. Gruber
Obituary of Cornelia Whitehill Gruber (1901-2001)
Application to Become a Century Farm

Notes:

                   OCCUPATION:  Dairy Farmer
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
Paul Gruber and Wilbur Kiser and Raleigh Snyder (druggist in Shippenville) and McMillen (furniture store and undertaker) served on Board of First National Bank of Shippenville.  Horace Bittenbender was President.   Years 1930's 1940's until 1950's when the bank merged with First Seneca Bank.  Paul was bought out.

During the same years, Paul Gruber and Wilbur Kiser wer also involved on the Board of Clarion County Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Clarion.  It merged with Marble Mutual Insurance Company of Marble, PA.

Also on the Advisery Board of DHIA Diary Herd Improvement Association, which did milk testing monthly for butterfat.    This was a community service. Monthly the testers would take a sample of each cow milked that day - twice a day.  The farmer would receive the results of each cow and what she was producing.  If the cow was not producing well enough, she went to the butchers.  Total pounds of milk produced and the percentage of butterfat for that day's production.