SAMUEL ROYER was born in Centre County, Penn., September 23, 1829, and is the eldest of the eight children born to Jonathan and Anna (Shaffer) Roger, both natives of Pennsylvania. The father died about 1848, and Samuel was left to his own resources. He had been reared a farmer, but now apprenticed himself for one year to a black- smith, and then opened a shop for himself near Etna Hall, which he conducted until 1865, when, having accumulated $4,000, be came with his, family to this county and purchased his present farm of 155 acres for $4.200. For the first two years, he was unfortunate, sinking over $2,000 through failure of crops, but he has long since regained his loss and added forty acres to his farm, having now l95 acres. He was married, in 1853, to Miss Hannah Shaffer, who was born in Centre County, Penn., July 1, 1830, and is the youngest of the twelve children born to John and Sarah (Kern) Shaffer, both natives of Pennsylvania. To this union there have been born eight children-Jonathan F., Sarah A., John S.,, Samuel A., Mary C., Ida M., Emma P. (deceased) and Ellis S. In politics, Mr. Roger is a Democrat, and he and his wife are members of the Church of God.

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