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FREDERICK SHUSTER, miller, P. O. Georgetown, born in Germany July 12, 1825, the son of J. F. Shuster. He received his education in the common schools of Adams County. At the age of twelve years, he concluded to learn the tanner’s trade, and left home to find a place. Arriving at Georgetown he engaged himself to Jesse R. Grant, father of Gen. Grant, and remained with him a year, when Mr. Grant sold out, and the subject of this sketch turned his attention to milling, and has followed it ever since. He worked by the month for ten or twelve years, and since that time has owned and controlled a mill of his own. He is the proprietor of the “Tunnel Mill,” about a mile west from Georgetown, erected in 1843 at a cost of $2,500. The mill is propelled by both steam and water, and has four run of buhrs. He also owns twenty acres adjacent, the total value of the property being $5,000. Mr. Shuster was married, in 1850, to Jacobina Kohler, a native of Germany. They have six children — William J., John G., Frederick, Elizabeth, Mary and Maggie. Mr. and Mrs. Shuster are both members of the Georgetown M. E. Church, of which he has been Class Leader, Steward and Trustee. His politics are Republican.