. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . tore at thisplace by William B. Kling. The and .saw-millsof Tlifimas Cisney, located half a mile above flic town,wcrcbuilt inlSSGor 1837. There is also at No-svillca blacksmith-, , post-office, and the management of the tannery of Stephen he managed so successfully that when the Kiss-ler Brothers, in 1870, built their large tannery in LockHaven, he was asked by them to fill the importantposition of manager thereof, which position he ac-cepted and still retains. It is a very large establish-men
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . tore at thisplace by William B. Kling. The and .saw-millsof Tlifimas Cisney, located half a mile above flic town,wcrcbuilt inlSSGor 1837. There is also at No-svillca blacksmith-, , post-office, and the management of the tannery of Stephen he managed so successfully that when the Kiss-ler Brothers, in 1870, built their large tannery in LockHaven, he was asked by them to fill the importantposition of manager thereof, which position he ac-cepted and still retains. It is a very large establish-ment, and has an average capacity of twelve hundredhides per week. Mr. Mosser married Miss ElizaHouseman, who was born in Lehigh County, and wasdaughter of Jacob Houseman. Their children areAlbert, Oswill B., Elias, Joseph, and Martha. Os-will B. was born in Lehigh County on the 28th dayof January, 1854. When seventeen years old he withhis fathers family removed to Lock Haven, wherehe met, and on the day of March, 1881, marriediliss Alpha Rippy, ^^ m^. sive ^K ^^iguS?^- who was born in LockHaven, Dec. 29,1859,and is daughter ofFrank and Frances(Stringfeller) have one child,viz., Frank D., bornJuly 1,1882. Wheneleven years of ageOswill B. commencedwork in the tanneryof Stephen Kissler,in which he workedcpnly summers at firstand went to schoolwinters. After hewas seventeen yearsold he devoted hisentire time to thebusiness, and event-luilly became skilledin all its 1848, Col. built a steamtannery in Noss-ville, Huntingdon M< suli II extraction, and settled iprior to the Revolutionar^cii years old, entered as;? Benjamin Semiiirl, at Netained there until bavin- Icariuil his lar he went to Lchi-ht,.n (()., which was oper-iitnl until 1870, when if was burned down. It wasthen iiwiied by Messrs. Hense, Reese & Sons, who atnine rebuilt it on the foundation of the old one. It waskept in operation until 1878, when it was closed, andremain
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