TILGHMAN R. LAUBACH. A lifetime of earnest endeavor in pursuing his chosen calling, coupled with strict integrity and honesty of purpose, has tended to place Mr. Laubach among the highly honored and successful business men of Catasauqua, where he has been engaged for the last thirty years as a dealer in roofing slate. He is at present residing at No. 745 North Third Street, North Catasauqua, which is just over the line in Allen Township, Northampton County, but all his interests are centered in this city.

Tilghman Laubach passed the first sixteen years of his life in Allen Township, when he came to Catasauqua, and for four years worked on a farm near the city. In the fall of 1863 he moved into the city and began work as a slate-roofer, traveling about the country plying his trade for five years. At the end of that time he was made a partner with his former employer, and the firm was known as Harper & Laubach. Six months later, however, the partnership was dissolved and our subject began contracting for himself, and has since that time been carrying on a lucrative trade. He is an expert in his line of work, and his services have been in demand in all the surrounding cities as far south as Wilmington and as far north as Honey Lake, which cover an area north and south of three hundred and twenty-eight miles. He is the most prominent slate-roofer in this vicinity, and during the busy season gives employment to twenty men.

As an old settler of this place, Mr. Laubach has certainly been prominently identified with its prosperity, on account of his business dealings and the active part which he has taken in all that tends to promote the best interests of the community. For nine years our subject was School Director in Northampton County, during which time he was both President and Treasurer of the board. Socially he belongs to Porter Lodge, F. & A. M., and in politics is a stanch Republican. He holds membership with the Reformed Church, in which he is a Trustee, and his many excellences of character have won for him the esteem and confidence of all with whom he has been brought in contact.