Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1910 — RESIDENTS OF MANY YEARS [ARTICLE]

RESIDENTS OF MANY YEARS

Twenty-one Out of Population of 2,500 Are Octogenarians One Woman Is Ninety. Catawissa, Pa. —Catawissa’s population Is 2,500, and it is the place of places for persons who desire to live long. There are at least a hundred persons here who are more than slxtyflve years of age, and of these twentyone are more than eighty—a large proportion out of 2,500 people. They are as follows: Hiram Ritterj eighty-one; Mrs. Harriet Breisch, eighty-one; Mrs. Hamilton Fisher, eighty-two; Jacob Strouse, eighty-two; Mrs. Anna Thomas, eighty; Miss Sarah Kistler, eighty-three; Samuel Klase, eighty-two; Benjamin Barndt. eightytwo; Mrs. Elizabeth Kestenbauder, eighty-three; George Gilbert, eighty! two; Stephen Pohe, eighty-four; Charles Hughes, eighty-nine; Mrs. Mary Lillie, ninety-three; Mr*. Margaret Whltner, eighty; William Brumbach, eighty; Mrs. Margaret Ludwig, eighty-three; Mrs. Jane Robins, eighty! three; Mrs. Sarah Kreigh, eighty; Solomon D. Rirnard, eighty-three; Mrs. Katherine Schmick, ninety. The total ofjthelr ages is 1,741 years and the average of their ages is 83 years and 7 (months.