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JOHN A. STAPF is a man whose natural energy, industry and ingenuity would be a guarantee of ultimate success in whatever he might undertake. He was born in Pittsburg, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, November 30, 1856, and is a son of Paul and Rose (Vogel) Stapf. Paul Stapf is a native of Aschaffenburg, a manufacturing city in Lower Franconia province, Germany, being born in 1822, and emigrating to the United States when quite a young man, located in Pittsburg, where he has since resided, and where he has been employed most of his life as a foreman in an iron works. He married Rose Vogel, who was born in Bavaria in 1830, by whom he has had several children. Politically he is a democrat, and he and his wife are devoted members of the Catholic church.

John A. Stapf was reared in Pittsburg, where he received his education in the public schools. When he was eleven years old, he began to learn the jewelry business, working in the best establishments in that city until 1874, in which year he engaged in the manufacture of jewelry on his own account. Two years later he removed his business to Parker City, Pa., where he remained two years, and then came to Dunkirk, this county, and continued in the same business until 1879, when he engaged in the retail jewelry trade, in which he still remains. He carries a fine large stock of everything pertaining to a first-class jewelry house, and enjoys a very flourishing patronage.

John A. Stapf was married in July, 1875, to Mary Zobel, of Pittsburg. Their union has been blessed with two children, — one son and one daughter: John W., born February 4, 1876; and Flora M., born January 29, 1882.

In politics he is a democrat, and is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Knights of the Maccabees, Knights of Pythias, the Equitable Aid Union, the Germania singing society, and is an affable and popular man.