Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with an introductory historical sketch . the afterwards quit his trade to engage infarming at Graters Ford, where he nowowns a good farm of 140 acres. During thelast few years Mr. Landis has employed histime principally in the management andsupervision of his farm and his hucksteringteams, which he still runs. He is a con-stant reader and well informed on all thecurrent issues of the day. He is a radicalRepublican
Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with an introductory historical sketch . the afterwards quit his trade to engage infarming at Graters Ford, where he nowowns a good farm of 140 acres. During thelast few years Mr. Landis has employed histime principally in the management andsupervision of his farm and his hucksteringteams, which he still runs. He is a con-stant reader and well informed on all thecurrent issues of the day. He is a radicalRepublican and an active member ofTrinity Reformed church at Collegeville,and in past years was one of the most untir-ing workers in the interest of his party andchurch. He married Miss Anna Hnnsicker, whowas born in 1817, and is a daughter ofAbraham and Anna Hnnsicker, the latterof which is now in her ninety-sixth year,and hale and hearty. To Mr. and were born six sons and seven daugh-ters : Elizabeth Bechtel (deceased), MaryMarkley, Anna (deceased), Hattie, HannahHnnsicker (deceased), Abraham, Katie Har-ley, Benjamin, J .Horace (subject), Henry,Josephine, Fritz, A. Lincoln and Elias,whodied in Biographical Sketches. 409 J. Horace Laudis was reared on the farmand received his elementary education inthe public schools of Perkiomen then attended Ursinus college and thenentered the Millersville State Normalschool, from which he was graduated in theelementary course in 1S77. In a short timeafterwards he took the post graduate coursein the sciences at the last named educa-tional institution, and then entered theUniversity of Pennsylvania. In 1895Ursinus college conferred upon him thedegree of A. M. While attending collegehe employed his vacations in teaching inthe public schools. He served as principalof the Mauch Chunk public schools, ofCarbon county, and of the Schweukvilleand Lansdale schools. In 1892 he waselected principal of the Conshohockenschools, and
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