Philip MEINE

http://www.paintedhills.org/POTTER/whoswho.html PHILIP A. MEINE, President of the First National Bank of Galeton and bookkeeper at Sunnydale Farms Inc., was born February 7, 1868, in Germania, the son of Dr. Charles Meine and Mary (Sandbach) Meine. Dr. Meine studied medicine in Germany, coming to this country in 1853 and to Germania in 1855. He built the first cabin in Germania. He graduated from medical school at the University of Buffalo in 1870 and practiced medicine in Germania until the time of his death in 1915. Philip A. graduated from Mansfield State Normal School in 1886. He was a member of the school board in Galeton for more than thirty years, which position he resigned when he became County Commissioner. He is a member and trustee of the First Presbyterian Church. He was superintendent of CCC Camp Number 88 of Lyman Run from 1933 to 1940. He is a member of the Rotary Club, of Galeton Lodge Number 602 F.&A.M., of Coudersport Consistory and of Shrine Ismalia in Buffalo, New York. He married, May 6, 1897, Elizabeth Schillinger of East Mauch Chunk, Pa., the daughter of Nicholas and Katherine (Pfeiderer) Schillinger. She is a member of the First Presbyterian Church and of Galeton Chapter, O.E.S. They have two daughters: (1) Grace (Meine) Lush, of Galeton, who has one son, Stanley Gale. (2) Margaret (Meine) Braun, of Yonkers, New York, where she teaches school. Mr. Meine is the owner of the Ole Bull Bible, printed in 1686 and bound in 1694. It is sixteen inches long, twelve inches wide and six inches thick. Ole Bull gave it to the colonists at Oleona and it was given to Dr. Meine by Henry Andresen who had been Ole Bull’s secretary. Mr. Meine’s hobbies have been hunting and fishing

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