Monroe Luther Schoffstall

Brief Life History of Monroe Luther

When Monroe Luther Schoffstall was born on 17 June 1882, in Orwin, Porter Township, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Daniel Adam Schoffstall, was 25 and his mother, Louisa Beulah Miller, was 24. He lived in Porter Township, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years and Fairview Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died on 10 May 1962, in South Lebanon Township, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Porter Township, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Daniel Adam Schoffstall
1857–1930
Louisa Beulah Miller
1857–1903
Harry Lloyd Schoffstall
1875–1918
Maggie Louise Schoffstall
1878–1940
Monroe Luther Schoffstall
1882–1962
Cora Lucinda Schoffstall
1885–1929
Daniel Adam Shoffstall
1887–1966
Ralph Edward Schoffstall
1890–1949
Mabel May Schoffstall
1893–1895
Schoffstall
1895–1895

Sources (6)

  • Monroe Schoffstall in household of Charles E Schoffstall, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Monroe Luther Schoffstall, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
  • Monroe L. Schoffstall, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

Altered form of German Schafstall, probably a metonymic occupational name for a shepherd or a maker of hurdles, from Middle High German schāf ‘sheep’ + stall ‘stall, pen’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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