BIOS: Surnames BO to BU - Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Jesse C. Sell, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, File 2 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by the Blair County Genealogical Society, 431 Scotch Valley Road, Hollidaysburg, PA 16648. Copied and proofread by Linda M. Shillinger LindasTree@aol.com OCRed by Judy Banja Copyright 2001. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ E. G. BOBB, manager of the D. M. Bare Paper Company at Roaring Spring, Pa., in which he is also financially interested, is an experienced man in this business, having been identified with it for twenty-two years. He was born at Tyrone, Pa., June 21, 1856, and is a son of Major Alexander and Matilda (Mattern) Bobb. Major Alexander Bobb was long a distinguished citizen of Blair County. He was born in Hanover Township, York County, Pa., in 1823, and died at Martinsburg, May 25, 1910. His parents were natives of Germany and his father, Frederick Bobb, came to America in 1818. Alexander Bobb learned the trade of moulder and prior to the Civil War worked in a number of foundries through the country and at Martinsburg became very popular with his fellow workmen and citizens generally. This was definitely shown at the time that the first company was raised at Martinsburg for the Civil War. After reaching Harrisburg the men became dissatisfied with their captain and refused to be mustered in. In this emergency, Mr. Bobb was invited by telegraph to become captain of the company, an office he accepted only after he was convinced that he was the only man that was equally acceptable to all the volunteers. This company served out an enlistment of three months and all returned home but Captain Bobb at once recruited a second company, for a service of nine months, and again as captain led them to the front. The records of those dark days tell of the gallantry of this company at Antietam and at Fredericksburg and particularly of Capt. Bobb, who there had command of the right wing of the 133d Pa. Vol. Inf. He commanded also at Chancellorsville. At the termination of the nine months he returned home once more but only to recruit a third company, of which he was commissioned major by Governor Curtin. He saw hard service up to the close of the war and on April 2, 1865, while taking the breastworks at Petersburg, he especially distinguished himself for bravery and was at once breveted lieutenant-colonel, being one of the limited number of veterans in this section to have won that high official position. From the founding of the Grand Army Post at Martinsburg, he took a deep interest in its affairs and there are many who recall when his home was the accepted meeting place for the public gatherings on Decoration Day, appropriate exercises, in which he took an active part, being held on his front porch. Until the close of his life he was a true and patriotic citizen. After his military service was over, Major Bobb resumed his business interests, purchasing a part of the Martinsburg Foundry, but later moved to Roaring Spring, where he conducted a foundry for three years, when his plant was destroyed by fire. In his political sentiments be was a Republican and on that ticket, in 1873, was elected sheriff of Blair County. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, having united with this body in early manhood. Major Bobb married Matilda Mattern, in 1847, and three sons were born to them: William M., Edward G. and James S. E. G. Bobb was small when his parents located at Martinsburg. He attended the public schools there and later, Jefferson College, at Canonsburg, Pa. He left school to enter the shipping department of what is now the D. M. Bare Paper Company, at Roaring Spring, and has advanced step by step until he became manager, in 1898, in the meanwhile having acquired partial proprietorship. He has a number of additional business interests, being president of the Roaring Spring Blank Book Company and vice president of the Roaring Spring Bank, in which he is also a director. Mr. Bobb married Miss Clara S. Bare, who is a daughter of Hon. D. M. Bare, of Roaring Spring, and they have had two sons, Ralph D. and Chester, the former of whom is deceased. Mr. Bobb is a Republican in his political views but has no desire for public office. Neither is he identified with organizations outside of the business world, but possesses the characteristic American devotion to home life and to quiet recreations. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 542-545. REV. GEORGE J. BOCK, who has been pastor of St. Michael's German Catholic Church of Hollidaysburg, Pa., since August 1901, was born June 13, 1872, at Pittsburg, Pa., and is a son of George and Mary Magdalene (Fleckenstein) Bock. He spent his boyhood in Pittsburg, where he attended the schools of St. Martin's Church until thirteen years of age, and then entered St. Fidelis College, at Herman Station, Butler County, Pa., where he continued his studies for five years. He then became a student at St. Mary's Seminary at Baltimore, and five years later received all of the offices but that of Priesthood. In 1896 he was ordained at St. Vincent, served as assistant at St. George's Church of Pittsburg until December, 1900, when he was appointed assistant of St. Mary's Church of Altoona, Pa. He acted as assistant there until August, 1901, when he was appointed pastor of St. Michael's German Catholic Church of Hollidaysburg, Pa., and has had charge of this parish continuously since that time. This church was built in 1862 and has a membership of one hundred families. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 667. DANIEL BOHN, M.D., a representative member of the medical profession of Altoona, Pa., with the interests of which city he has been identified for the past nine years, was born in Lebanon County, Pa., in 1874, and in 1891 was graduated from the Lebanon High School. His medical education was secured in Hahemann Medical College, at Philadelphia, where he was graduated in the class of 1894. Dr. Bohn began the practice of medicine at Lickdale, Lebanon County, where he remained for six years and then came to Altoona where his field has been larger and here he has built up a very satisfactory general practice. He is the examination physician for the order of Modern Woodmen and is on the medical staff of Mercy Hospital. He is a member of the Blair County Homeopathic Medical Society and also the State organization. His activities in the line of his profession at Altoona have frequently been given without hope or expectation of reward, the indigent have been treated, drugs have been donated and medical advice freely offered when emergencies have arisen. He is an honored and valued citizen. Dr. Bohn was married in 1895 to Miss Bertha Wentz, of Lebanon, Pa., and they have three children: Violet, Earl and Ralph. Dr. Bohn is a member of the First U. B. Church and is serving on its official board. His fraternal relations are with the P.O.S. of A., and with the Modern Woodmen. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 674. LEVI BOLGER, senior member of the firm of Bolger, Grafius & Co., proprietors and operators of the Martinsburg Planing Mill, doing an extensive manufacturing business here, has spent his entire life at Martinsburg, where he was born September 27, 1834. His parents were David and Nancy (Skyles) Bolger. David Bolger was born in Blair County, Pa., his father having been a pioneer in Bedford County. David Bolger died in 1857, but for many years he had been a well known contractor and builder and also was in the undertaking business at Martinsburg. Levi Bolger attended the public schools at Martinsburg in early boyhood but he was not more than thirteen years of age when he began to learn the carpenter's trade and under his father's instruction learned cabinetmaking, and carpenter work, and later went into contracting for himself. Still later he became interested with other practical business men in the Martinsburg Planing Mill, a well equipped (sic) plant with up-to-date machinery, the output of which includes sash, doors, mouldings, balusters, stair rail, blinds, etc., lath, pickets and shingles. The company also deals in all kinds of rough lumber and building material. Prospects for a heavy future trade are excellent and the business is in a flourishing condition. In November, 1855, Mr. Bolger was married to Miss Mary E. May, who was born in Bedford County, Pa., a daughter of John and Magdalena May, and six children were born to them, namely: Anna M., who lives at Martinsburg; Nancy J., who is the wife of George W. Geist, of the firm of Bolger, Grafius & Co.; Ida C., who is the wife of William H. Oelig, of Williamsburg, Pa.; William M., who is a well established dentist at Martinsburg; Ella, who is the wife of W. Boyd Morrow, a coal merchant at Chippensburg; and J. Colvin, who is a Lutheran minister at Martinsburg. In politics Mr. Bolger is a Republican and he has been an active citizen, serving on the borough council and also on the school board. He is a prominent Odd Fellow, belonging to the minor branch and to the Encampment, being a charter member of the latter at Martinsburg, and is also a charter member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. He is a member of the Reformed church, in which he has served officially at times. He is numbered with Martinsburg's most reliable men and representative citizens. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 820. JOHN S. BONEBREAK, M.D., physician and surgeon at Martinsburg, Pa., where he has been established since 1896 and is in the enjoyment of a satisfactory practice, is a native of this borough, born April 19, 1872. His parents were Dr. D. W. and Mary (Shubert) Bonebreak. The late Dr. D. W. Bonebreak was a member of one of the early families of Martinsburg and for years a prominent physician here, entering into practice in 1864 and continuing up to the time of his death, in 1895. He was held in high esteem by his fellow citizens and was known professionally all over Blair County. John S. Bonebreak was reared at Martinsburg and attended the public schools and also Juniata Institute, after which he prepared for a medical career under his father, following his studies there by a season in the medical department of the Western University of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg, where he was graduated in 1896. Shortly afterward he entered into practice at Martinsburg and has continued in his native place, one where the name he bears has long been held in esteem, and to which he has added professional luster. He is a member of the Blair County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Dr. Bonebreak was married to Miss Catherine Keim, a daughter of Nelson Keim, of Martinsburg, and they have three children: John K., Glenn and Kenneth, while one, Paul, is deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Bonebreak are members of the Reformed church. He is identified fraternally with Roaring Spring Lodge of Odd Fellows, at Martinsburg and with the Masonic lodge at Roaring Spring. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 495-496. L. L. BOOK, who has been a resident of Blair County, Pa., since 1875, is one of the foremost citizens of Eldorado, and is extensively engaged in gardening. He was born in Lancaster County, Pa., September 19, 1844, and is a son of George and Harriet (Geist) Book, who both spent their entire lives in Lancaster County. L. L. Book was reared and educated in his native county, and was graduated from Millersville Normal school, receiving a diploma of the first class. He then engaged in teaching and followed that profession many years in Allegheny, Carbon and Lancaster Counties, and after coming to Altoona in 1875 he taught eight years in the high school of that city. He then located at Eldorado with the idea of fruit growing, but did not carry out the plan, engaging instead in gardening at which he has been so successful. He began this business in a small way in the eighties, and as his business grew he erected greenhouses, now having six, and raising vegetables exclusively. Lettuce growing has been his specialty and in former years he shipped to Philadelphia and other cities, but now deals exclusively with the wholesale houses of Altoona, and has two and sometimes three wagons make the haul to the market three times a week. Mr. Book was married in 1878 to Kate G. Witmer, of Lancaster County, and they have two sons, Harry W. and Ross A. Mr. and Mrs. Book are members of the Broad Avenue Presbyterian Church of Altoona. He is politically a Republican. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 731. BENJAMIN F. BOOKS, M.D., physician and surgeon at Altoona, Pa., is in the enjoyment of a large and lucrative practice which he has built up through his professional skill during the past nineteen years, having located here in 1889. He was born at Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa., May 14, 1859, and is a son of Solomon and Nancy Katherine (Wright) Books. The Books family was established in Pennsylvania by the great-grandfather, Michael Books, a native of France. His fourth son, Henry Books, in early manhood removed from York County to Juniata County, and the farm he purchased on Cocolamus Creek, became the family homestead and there his family of eleven children were reared. He had married a member of the old Hemperly family, of Dauphin County, Pa. Their youngest son, Solomon Books, became the father of Dr. Books of Altoona. Solomon Books early left the activities of the farm to his brothers while he learned the cabinetmaking trade. He became a manufacturer of furniture at Mifflintown, which he transported by boat on the Pennsylvania Canal to different points for sale. In 1861 he was appointed to a position in the mail service, by President Lincoln, and continued until he was injured in a railroad wreck, on September 21, 1864. A year of enforced idleness followed but he had so proved his efficiency and had so complete a knowledge of postal affairs, that in 1865, he having sufficiently recovered by that time, was reinstated in the service and he it was who organized the system and operated the first postal cars in the State of Pennsylvania. The tragic death of President Lincoln and the succession of President Johnson brought about many changes in appointive offices and thus Mr. Books, together with other capable and faithful officials, found himself retired from the postal service. In 1869, however, President Grant recognized his worth and appointed him postmaster at Mifflintown, where he continued until he was relieved by President Arthur, following the death of President Garfield. During all these stormy political years, Mr. Books remained a stanch supporter of the principles of the Republican party. After retiring from public life he went into the wholesale lumber business, and became an extensive handler of railroad ties. In 1855 he married Nancy K. Wright and they had seven children born to them, the third in order of birth being named Benjamin F. Benjamin F. Books completed the public school course at Mifflintown, after which he prepared for medical college with Dr. D. C. Smith, subsequently spent one year in the Homepathic Medical College at Cleveland, O., and from there entered Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia. From this noted institution he was creditably graduated in the spring of 1883. For the two following years he was engaged in medical practice at Lewiston, Pa. His many years of close application had somewhat undermined his health and he then sought a rest. A sojourn of three years in the bracing climate of Colorado completely restored him and upon his return to the East he located at Altoona. His well appointed offices are located in the Altoona Trust Company Building. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 565-566. CLARENCE HAMILTON BOOKS. M.D., deceased. In the death of Dr. Clarence Books, at his home at Barbara, Pa., on March 2, 1910, Blair County lost a worthy citizen and the medical profession a skillful and conscientious practitioner. He was born at Roaring Spring, Blair County, Pa., June 9, 1872, and was a son of Abraham F. and Sarah (Henry) Books, the latter of whom is deceased. Dr. Books was a self-made man, having made his own way in life from the time he was twelve years old. From boyhood it was his cherished ambition to finally become a doctor of medicine, but little encouragement was given his aspirations and his educational opportunities were confined to the public schools of Roaring Spring. At the age of twelve he entered the employ of the P.R.R. Company, and learned telegraphy under Mr. Sam. A. Hamilton of Roaring Spring. He soon became an expert in receiving messages, being one of the ablest in the employ of the company. After thirteen years' service, he left the employ of the company in order to prepare himself for his chosen work in life; and, after doing preparatory work at a Roaring Spring summer normal school and the University of Valparaiso, at Valparaiso, Ind., he finally entered the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn., where he was graduated in the medical department in 1900. He took a special course in operative surgery, and in diseases of children. Coming back to Pennsylvania, he took the State Board examination and located at Mines, where he built up a substantial practice and at the same time, through a winning personality, won many friends. During the summer of 1908 he took postgraduate work in Philadelphia, but owing to ill health he practiced medicine only a few months after his return. When he found himself in the grip of the "white plague," he moved from Martinsburg, where he had lived for the past year, to his farm at Barbara, where he died on the above mentioned date. Dr. Books never took any very active part in politics but was a Republican in his views. He was a member of the Church of God, having early in life identified himself with that denomination. On April 13, 1901, Dr. Books was married to Miss Nannie J. Nugent, a daughter of Willis J. and Mary (Bolger) Nugent, both deceased, who were former residents of Cherry Tree, Indiana County, Pa. He is survived by his wife and one little daughter, Mary Sarah. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 833. SAMUEL S. BOTTENFIELD, who passed out of this life in 1905, was one of the foremost and highly esteemed citizens of Williamsburg, Pa., and besides his residence property in this borough was the owner of a farm of 150 acres, located on the outskirts of the borough of Williamsburg. He was born in March, 1834, in Bedford County, Pa., and was a son of John and Barbara (Snowberger) Bottenfield, who previous to their marriage were residents of Chambersburg, Pa. His father was a carpet weaver by trade, but later in life engaged in agricultural pursuits. John and Barbara Bottenfield had three children: Nancy, who was the wife of Simon Ditch; Elizabeth, who was the wife of John Dell; and Samuel S., our subject. Samuel S. Bottenfield obtained a common school education and then engaged in farming, which he followed successfully during the greater part of his life. He was the owner of fine fruit orchards and vineyards, but spent his declining years in retirement at Williamsburg, where he owned a fine residence, which is still occupied by his widow and daughter. Besides his farm and residence property he also owned what is known as the "big spring" at Williamsburg, which is 140 feet in length with a breadth of thirty-eight feet and has a flow of 2,700 gallons per minute. This spring contains 83,000 gallons of water in length, and could be opened to twice its present size. The water never changes color, regardless of hard rains, etc., and has been piped to the fine brick residence occupied by the widow of our subject. Mr. Bottenfield was identified with the Republican party in politics, and served as a member of the school board and of the borough council of Williamsburg. He was a director of the Paper Mills of this borough and was also a director of the First National Bank. In the fall of 1872 Mr. Bottenfield was joined in marriage with Miss Mary Cowen, a daughter of John and Barbara (Hoover) Cowen, who were residents of Blair County and the parents of the following children: George and David, who were killed in the Civil War; Jacob; Harry; Catherine, who is the wife of George Shiffler; Louisa, who is the wife of D. S. Brumbaugh; Sarah, deceased; Mary; Nancy, who married H. D. Smith; and Edward H. One child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bottenfield, Nora B., who lives with her widowed mother in Williamsburg. Mr. Bottenfield was a member of the Dunkard church, but his widow and daughter are members of the Presbyterian church. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 623. HARRY F. BOUSLOUGH, residing on a farm of 135 acres in Frankstown Township, has been a life long resident of this township. He was born on the home farm February 16, 1859, a son of William and Anna (Fleck) Bouslough. His parents were both natives of Blair County, as also were his grandparents on both sides. The father was of German descent and a life long resident here. He was a farmer by occupation, a Republican in politics, and religiously a member of the Lutheran church. He was first married to a Miss Eliza Young, by whom he had five children, four of whom died in infancy, the other, Blair Y., a resident of Altoona. His marriage with Anna Fleck resulted in the following issue: Mary C., now deceased, who was the wife of Lorenzo D. Stewart; Harry F.; Sadie E., now Mrs. Robert Hileman; Anna Margaret, who is the wife of Fletcher Hand; William W.; and Eliza Jane, who died when young. Harry F. Bouslough attended the local schools of Frankstown Township until eighteen years of age, his father's farm being the scene of his boyhood activities. After leaving school he engaged in agricultural pursuits and for the past twenty-seven years has farmed his present place, which he inherited in 1904 from his father. All the improvements were on the farm, which is sufficiently equipped and stocked for general farming, but the house was remodeled by Mr. Bouslough after he came into possession of the property. On March 12, 1885, Mr. Bouslough was married to Catherine Wertz, a daughter of John and Jane (Vanallman) Wertz, both now deceased. Her parents were among the early settlers of the county, as also were her grandparents on both sides. The children of John and Jane Wertz were as follows, born in the order named: David, Samuel V., Jane E., Malinda L., (all deceased), John C., Francis M., Meartin L., Sevell W., Andrew C., and Catherine, wife of the subject of this sketch. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bouslough, namely: William M., who married Martha E. Culp; Olive M., Frank C., Harry C., Mabel C., and Jesse M. In politics Mr. Bouslough is an adherent of the Republican party, and has served one year as supervisor; he is township auditor, and was school director about fifteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Bouslough are both members of the Lutheran church. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 792-793. WILLIAM W. BOUSLOUGH, one of the substantial farmers and a life-long resident of Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pa., was born on his present farm December 25, 1866, and is a son of William and Anna (Fleck) Bouslough. His parents were both natives of Blair County, the father being of German descent, and a farmer by occupation. He spent his entire life in this county, was a Republican in politics, and a member of the Lutheran church. He was twice married, his first wife being a Miss Young, by whom he had two children, one of whom died in infancy, and Blair Y., who is a resident of Altoona. His marriage with Anna Fleck resulted in the following issue: Mary, who is deceased, was the wife of Lorenzo D. Stewart; Harry F.; Sadie, who is the wife of Robert Hileman; Anna Margaret, who is the wife of Fletcher Hand; William W.; and Lydia, who died young. William W. Bouslough spent four months each year in the common schools of the township until eighteen years of age, and assisted his father on the farm during the summer months. He has made farming his life occupation, and has always lived on his present place, which he inherited from his father in 1904, although he has operated it for himself for the past twenty years. On November 26, 1891, Mr. Bouslough married Miss Ora H. Caldwell, who is a daughter of Sylvester and Carrie (Smith) Caldwell. The father is a native of Clarion County and the mother of Bedford County, but have resided in Blair County since the close of the Civil war. They are the parents of the following children: Ora H., wife of our subject; T. N. and Rhoda and Grace, both of whom died in infancy. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bouslough, namely: Anna C., Ralph W. S., and Nicholas Fleck, all residing at home. In politics Mr. Bouslough is identified with the Republican party, and has served two terms as inspector of elections, and as road master one term. The family belongs to the Lutheran church. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 502-503. PROF. JAMES B. BOWLES, principal of the Madison School in the Eighth Ward, Altoona, Pa., is one of the veteran educators of Blair County and has been largely instrumental in bringing the schools of this section to their present state of efficiency. He has been a teacher for fifty-two years and has taught in Altoona for forty-seven of these. He was born at Concord, Franklin County, Pa., October 13, 1837, and is a son of Robert and Jane (Ross) Bowles. Robert Bowles was born in Franklin County in 1796 and died in 1856. He came of Scotch ancestry and his father was one of the early settlers of Franklin County. For the greater part of his life, Robert Bowles followed the saddler's trade and then became a farmer. In 1817 he married Jane Ross, who was born in Maryland and accompanied her father, who was a native of Ireland, to Franklin County. She survived until 1871, being then aged seventy-one years; for a half century she had been a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. James B. Bowles has been engaged in educational work since he was sixteen years of age, devoting himself almost continuously to teaching, and during the larger part of his useful life, has been a valued resident of Altoona. Although not in accord with the administration in his political views, during the Civil War, he was a loyal and law-abiding citizen, and in the fall of 1862 he testified to true patriotism by enlisting for service as a private in Co. A, 125th Pa. Inf., from which he was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of enlistment, nine months later. He was twice drafted, obtaining exemption on the first call, as he was his mother's only dependence, and in answer to the second, he paid a substitute the sum of $300 in money, although he was still his mother's support. Professor Bowles has been a continuous resident of Altoona since 1858 and a teacher here since 1863, beginning when the city had only sixteen public schools. Many educators have outside interests but Professor Bowles' fidelity to his chosen profession has been the labor of his life. Perhaps his whole ambition has not been satisfied in the way of educational progress, but he must feel partially compensated when he remembers what wonderful strides forward have been taken in his times and when, on every hand, he sees his old pupils filling important and respected stations in life, which they have unmistakably gained in large part through the instruction he so faithfully imparted to them. Recognition of his efforts on their behalf has often come to sweeten his life. Professor Bowles was married December 28, 1875, to Miss Mary L. Beeler, a daughter of Peter Beeler, of Sharpsburg, Md., and they have had four sons and one daughter born to them. Mr. Bowles and family are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has been identified with the Odd Fellows for many years and he is a valued comrade of Fred C. Ward Post No. 468, G.A.R. He has also been interested in building and loan associations in Altoona for 30 years, and is at present president of the Eighth ward B. & L. Association, of Altoona, Pa. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 809-810. HARRY E. BOWSER, postmaster of the borough of Blue Knob, Pa., is also engaged in the mercantile business at Butlerville, Pa., in partnership with J. C. Bowser, and for many years was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Greenfield Township. He was born September 22, 1871, in Juniata Township, Blair County, Pa., and is a son of Moses and Mary (Ritchey) Bowser, and a grandson of Jacob Bowser, who was one of the early settlers of Greenfield Township. The Bowser family is of German extraction. Moses Bowser and wife were both natives of Greenfield Township, Blair County, Pa., and spent the greater part of their lives in this township, where he died in June, 1897, and is survived by the following children: Annie, who is the widow of J. Q. Adams, of Roaring Spring, Pa.; Rebecca E., who is the wife of John Conrad, of Union Township, Bedford County, Pa.; Mollie, who married William George, of Greenfield Township; Ida, who is the wife of George Barkhimer, of Greenfield Township; and Harry E. His business was farming. He was a member of the German Reformed church. Harry E. Bowser was reared and educated in Greenfield Township, and attended what is known as the Barkhimer school of this township. He subsequently engaged in agricultural pursuits in Greenfield Township, until March 1, 1905, when he entered the mercantile business at Butlerville, and has also served continuously during that time as postmaster of Blue Knob, being appointed to that office in 1905. Mr. Bowser was married March 31, 1898, to Miss Celestia Earnest, who was born in Freedom Township, Blair County, Pa., a daughter of Benjamin Earnest, who was a resident of Juniata Township, and the following children have been born of their union: Elsie Irene, Stanley E., Mabel C., Esther E., and Edwin E. In politics Mr. Bowser is independent, and has served one term as judge of elections in Greenfield Township, and is now serving his second term as road supervisor, being president of the board of supervisors of this township. Mr. Bowser is a member of the German Reformed church, in which he is also a deacon, and is fraternally a member of the P.O.S. of A. and the National Protective Legion, both of Butlerville. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 730. JACOB A. BOYCE, who has had an active and varied career in the business world, is engaged in truck gardening at Eldorado, Blair County, Pa. He was born in Bucks County, Pa., February 19, 1834, and is a son of Jacob and Charlotte (Davis) Boyce. Jacob Boyce, the father of subject, was a civil engineer and also conducted a store while in Bucks County. He moved west to Cambria County, near Carrolltown, and thereafter followed his profession. While thus engaged he came across a beautiful place in the corner of Clearfield County, which he purchased and resided upon until his death. This farm is rich in coal and timber, is now owned by the two survivors of the family, Jacob A. and his brother M. L. Boyce, the latter of whom resides on the place. Of the other children, Evan died in the west; John died in the army during the Civil War; another son died in infancy, and a daughter, Charlotte, died in early womanhood. The father of this family was a man of exceptional education for his days, and gave his children superior training at home, so that there was little to be gained from attendance in the common school. Jacob A. Boyce was educated largely at home, but attended the public schools some time and afterward received instruction from an old professor. At an early age he learned civil engineering, which he has followed more or less all his life. He began teaching school at Cherry Tree, Indiana County, as early as 1858, and continued in that profession, with some interruptions until 1882. He has been a resident of Eldorado since 1863, and for some two years taught in the old school standing opposite his residence. His last two years as a teacher were spent in the schools of Altoona. He operated a saw mill up in the mountains until 1869, and was afterwards variously employed until 1882, at which time he was appointed agent of the station at Eldorado, and also postmaster. He filled these positions in a most acceptable manner for more than 25 years, and was also during that time proprietor of a store. In connection with his duties as agent and postmaster he carried on a coal business, which he still retains. About the time he became agent at Eldorado, Mr. Boyce began gardening in a small way, and after leaving that position went into it more extensively, building a large greenhouse. He sells his products directly to the customer in Altoona, and has some who have been his patrons for more than 20 years. In 1865 Mr. Boyce married Sarah Lance, whose sad loss he was called upon to mourn in January, 1909. She is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Boyce: Jennie, who has charge of the railroad office at Eldorado; Anna (Culbert), living in Philadelphia, Pa.; Kate (Gorsuch), a resident of Patten, Pa.; and Mary, also employed in the railroad office at Eldorado. Mr. Boyce is politically a Republican, and religiously, the family attend the Fifth Avenue Church at Altoona. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 875. CALVIN A. BOYER, sole proprietor of the Forge Mill, situated near Roaring Spring, Pa., dealing in spring wheat and pastry flour, feed, and grain of all kinds and making a specialty of custom grinding, conducts his business under the style of the Forge Milling Company. He was born in Bedford County, Pa., October 6, 1869, and is a son of David M., and Sarah (Croyle) Boyer. David M. Boyer is a well known and highly respected retired farmer of Bedford County. Calvin A. Boyer grew to manhood on the home farm and obtained his education in the Bedford County schools. When he was twenty-one years of age he started out for himself, his first occupations being saw-milling and threshing and for eight years he was so engaged in Bedford and Blair Counties, after which he became a farmer near Roaring Spring. In March, 1908, he went into the milling business and has made the Forge Mill a very valuable property, equipping it with first class machinery and turning out only high grade products. He is numbered with the able business men of this section, having additional interests to his mill industry. Mr. Boyer married Miss Mary Bush, a daughter of the late John Bush, of Taylor Township, Blair County, Pa. They have an adopted son, Harry B. Boyer. Mr. and Mrs. Boyer are members of the Reformed church. He is a Democrat in politics and is serving in the office of constable of Taylor Township. While still residing in Bedford County he filled many township offices, having always been an active citizen. He is a member of the P.O.S. of A., at Roaring Spring, of the Order of Moose at Altoona, and belongs to the Masonic Lodge at Roaring Spring. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 819-820. WILLIAM NORRIS BOYLES, superintendent of the Juniata branch of the Altoona post office, comes of one of the early families of Blair County, Pa., and was born in Altoona, a son of Henry and Susan (Norris) Boyles. Jonathan Boyles, grandfather of our subject, was one of the very early residents of Logan Township, and owned what is now Oak Grove. Of his children there are now living: Andrew, who lives at Greenwood; and Rebecca, who is the wife of Samuel Robbins. Henry A. Boyles, father of William N., was born in Blair County, and was a carpenter by trade. After leaving the home place, he lived two years in Altoona, then moved to Elizabeth Furnace, and thence to Blair Furnace, where he remained until 1872, when he came to Juniata. He was there employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company until November, 1888, after that being engaged in the grocery business until three years previous to his death, which occurred February 8, 1906. His union with Susan Norris, who was a native of Center County, resulted in the following issue: Blair N., resides at No. 531 Sixth Avenue, Juniata, Pa.; Harry A., resides at No. 712 Third Avenue, Juniata; Molly (Goodman) lives in Juniata, Pa.; William N.; Jessie, wife of A. C. Ergler, resides at No. 531 Seventh Avenue; Sadie, wife of F. C. Reizer, lives in Juniata; Minnie, who married Frank Reighard, lives at 617 Sixth Avenue; Gertrude, married N. F. Arble, of Pittsburg. Mrs. Boyles still lives and makes her home with her daughter Jessie (Mrs. Ergler). William N. Boyles was reared in Juniata and attended the Hamilton school. He subsequently learned the carpenter's trade, but never followed it after learning it. He served as postmaster at Juniata from October 3, 1904, until January 1, 1908, since which time the office has been consolidated with the Altoona office. He has since then been superintendent of the branch office at Juniata. Mr. Boyles served one term as burgess of Juniata, but resigned when appointed postmaster here. He has been committeeman several times, and was actively interested in politics until that office went under civil service rules. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the F. O. F. Mr. Boyles was married September 27, 1900, to Emma J. Coofer, who was born in Kansas, but later in life came to Blair County with her parents, William and Rose (Waters) Coofer. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 927. WILLIAM J. BRADLEY, one of Blair Township's well known and reliable citizens, owning a farm of 409 acres, is a veteran of the Civil War and a man whose life for many years was one of hard work with more or less of danger and adventure. He was born in what is now Blair County, Pa., near Tyrone, November 11, 1840, a son of John and Elizabeth (McClelland) Bradley, and a grandson, on the maternal side, of a daughter of Captain John Boyles, a noted patriot in the Revolutionary War. The father of Mr. Bradley died at Baltimore in 1841 of yellow fever, and his mother died when he was fourteen years of age. When five years old, William J. Bradley was taken to a farm in Allegheny Township and lived there with his mother until 1855, at which time he began work in the boiler shops of the Pa. Railroad Company, at Altoona, and from there enlisted for service in the Civil War. He became a member of Co. H, 3rd Pa. Vol. Inf., and served out his first contract and then re-enlisted in Co. K, 125th Pa. Vol. Inf., for nine months. He participated in the battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville. His third enlistment was in the United States Navy and as third assistant engineer on the U.S. Steamer Saugus took part in the siege of Fort Fisher and in all the campaign down the James River, serving first under Admiral Lee and later under Admiral Porter. He was in the navy for two years and after this service returned to Blair County. In July, 1865, he secured the position of locomotive engineer on the Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad and remained there continuously until December, 1909, since when he has been retired. For a number of years he resided at No. 1606 Eighth Avenue, Altoona, but now lives on his farm in Blair Township, surrounded with all the comforts of life. Mr. Bradley is a self made man. The death of his parents threw him on his own resources at an age when his judgment was still immature and that he should have so wisely and successfully worked himself to honorable independence, marks him as a man of inherited character. Mr. Bradley was married to Miss Mary A. DeRush, who was born at Bellwood, Blair County, and four children were born to them: John J., residing in the city of Altoona; William M., a farmer in Blair Township; Viola, wife of George H. Howard, of Altoona; and Blanche, wife of Charles G. McCormick, of Altoona. Mr. Bradley and family are members of the Roman Catholic church. In politics he is independent, but his temperance principles incline him toward the Prohibition party. He is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, J. C. Burley Division No. 287, at Altoona, and he was formerly treasurer of the same. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 702-703. H. HALE BROTHERLINE, M.D., A.M., one of Hollidaysburg's leading professional men, where he has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery for a quarter of a century, was born at Hollidaysburg, Pa., May 30, 1859. His parents were John and Martha Gregg (Kinne) Brotherline. The Brotherline family is of German and Welsh extraction but has been of American birth for many generations. Thomas Brotherline, the grandfather of Dr. Brotherline was born in Huntingdon County, Pa., where he became a successful business man, married and reared a family of nine children and one of his sons, John Brotherline, became the father of Dr. Brotherline of this record. John Brotherline was born in 1812, at Frankstown, Pa., then in Huntingdon, now in Blair County. He became a lawyer and occupied a leading position on the Blair County bar and also entered journalism after becoming a resident of Hollidaysburg, ably editing and conducting the Blair County Whig, which he made one of the leading newspapers of Western Pennsylvania. He was active in public and useful in private life. During the Civil War he was an upholder of the Government and served in an official position. His death occurred in 1879, when he was aged sixty-six years. He married Martha Gregg Kinne, who was born in Center County, Pa., and they became the parents of six sons, two of whom survive: Henry Hale and Eric Gregg, the latter of whom is a prominent attorney of Altoona. The venerable mother resides at No. 415 Allegheny Street, Hollidaysburg. H. Hale Brotherline was educated in the excellent public schools of his native place and the academies at Bellefonte and Hollidaysburg and later took a commercial course in the Bryant and Stratton Business College, following which he entered Princeton College, where he was graduated in 1880. He immediately became a student in Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and from that noted old institution was graduated with credit, in 1883. Dr. Brotherline then returned to Hollidaysburg, believing a field was open here for a thoroughly qualified professional man, and in this belief he was not mistaken. He has long enjoyed the confidence of the majority of his fellow citizens and his professional skill is recognized over a wide territory. He is identified with county, state and national medical organizations and has served as president of the county body and has held other official positions. For some years he was physician to the Blair County Poor Farm. Dr. Brotherline keeps fully abreast with the times and in his practice utilizes the methods which modern science has brought to the attention of the world, if in his judgment they are of real value. He was reared in the Presbyterian faith and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Hollidaysburg. He is a 32nd degree Mason and is a member of Juniata Lodge No. 282, F.& A.M., at Hollidaysburg, in which he is an official. Politically he is a Republican. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 676. JOHN BROTHERLINE, deceased. In recalling the men who have been prominent factors in the building up of Hollidaysburg and have left an impress upon the history of Blair County, the name of the late John Brotherline commands attention. As lawyer, journalist and private citizen, he was one of the prominent and useful men of his day. He was born in 1812, at Frankstown, Pa., then in Huntingdon but now in Blair County, and died in 1879, at Hollidaysburg where the greater part of his life was passed, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. John Brotherline came of German and Welsh ancestry, but his parents, Thomas and Sarah (Davis) Brotherline, were born in Huntingdon County, Pa. He was one of their nine children and had just reached manhood when his father died. This placed unaccustomed responsibilities on his shoulders and he faced many discouragements before he accomplished his ambition and was admitted a practitioner of law. He had no educational advantages beyond those afforded by the district schools, but a native intelligence and an unquenchable love of learning produced in him one of the leading lawyers of the county. In addition to attending to a large law practice for many years, he entered into the journalistic field and for a long period was the able editor and proprietor of the Blair County Whig, which was not only a strong political organ but was so widely circulated that it had much to do with presenting the claims of this section as a favorable place for business investments, to the outside world. Mr. Brotherline was notably public spirited and to his encouragement a number of enterprises now flourishing at Hollidaysburg, owe much. During the Civil war he was a loyal supporter of the Union cause and for some time served officially as a paymaster in the army, with the rank of major. Many local offices were tendered him and honors offered him. He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church and was foremost in assisting in its various charitable and benevolent enterprises. In early manhood, John Brotherline was married to Miss Martha Gregg Kinne, who is a daughter of Henry Hale and Sarah (Gregg) Kinne, and a granddaughter of Andrew Gregg, who once was a United States senator. Mrs. Brotherline survives and resides in her handsome home at No. 415 Allegheny Street, Hollidaysburg. Six sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Brotherline: James Irvin, John, Henry Hale, Davis Willard, Eric Gregg and Ner, two of whom survive: Henry Hale and Eric Gregg. Henry Hale Brotherline is a prominent physician and surgeon at Hollidaysburg, residing at No. 719 Allegheny Street, and maintaining his office at No. 417 on the same street. Eric Gregg Brotherline is a prominent attorney of Altoona. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 524-525. ALBERT M. BROWN, president of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Tyrone and largely interested in the lumber business, was born in his father's house along Brush Mountain, between Altoona and Hollidaysburg, Pa., September 20, 1854, and is a son of William H. and Rebecca (Yon) Brown. William H. Brown was born in Blair County, Pa., in 1828, and died in November, 1904, aged seventy-six years. For many years he was engaged in the lumber business and always resided in his native county. His parents were Samuel and Mary (Hay) Brown. The widow of William H. Brown still survives. She was born October 25, 1828. Six children were born to them, namely: Samuel S., who lives at Milroy, Mifflin County; Crawford I., who is deceased; Mary C., who died in the fall of 1909, was the wife of Hiram Baker; Albert M.; Flora, who is the widow of J. L. Reifsnider; and Savanah, who is the wife of Andrew Rodgers, of Lewiston, Pa. Albert M. Brown attended the public schools until old enough to give his father material assistance in business and he was identified with him in the timber industry in Center and Mifflin Counties, Pa., and in West Virginia, until 1888. In 1889 he started in business in lumbering on a small scale. In 1890 he started in Center County, operating Huntingdon, Center, and West Virginia, for 20 years. He is now living in Tyrone and operating in Huntingdon County, Pa., and Fulton County, Pa. He has been one of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's heaviest shippers for 20 years. On November 16, 1902, he organized and started the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Tyrone, serving at first as vice president and later accepting the presidency. He is also a man of public spirit and has always been willing to look favorably on substantial business enterprises by which his city might be improved. In connection with other capitalists he erected a trolley line between Temple and Belton, Tex., where large oil concerns are interested. Mr. Brown owns a large farm in Mifflin County and an equally valuable one in Huntingdon County and for a number of years has been a large dealer in livestock. He has been very successful in his many undertakings and in the business world his name stands also for personal integrity. In 1884 Mr. Brown was married to Miss Dora Mitchell, of Mifflin County, Pa., and they have had three sons born to them: James Blaine, who resides on his father's farm in Huntingdon County, married Mary Leech; William D., who was a graduate of Susquehanna University and then was employed in his father's bank until his lamented death in July, 1905, when but nineteen years of age and Benjamin Harrison, who was educated at Susquehanna University, and is now employed in the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He married Bessie Myers and they have one daughter, Marion. Mr. Brown and family belong to the Lutheran Church at Gatesburg, Center County. In politics he is a Republican but not an unduly active one. He is, however, widely known in Masonry and is also an Odd Fellow, in the latter organization belonging to Milroy Lodge, No. 213, of Milroy, Pa. He belongs to Tyrone Lodge, No. 494, I. and A.M., Tyrone, Pa.; Mountain Royal Arch Chapter, No. 189, Altoona: Mountain Commandery, No. 10, Altoona; Harrisburg Consistory, Harrisburg; and Jaffa Temple, Altoona. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 942. CLYDE E. BROWN, a prominent member of the Blair County Bar, and one of the leading citizens of Altoona, Pa., was born June 28, 1867, in Bellefonte, Center County, Pa., but has been a resident of Blair County for about thirty-five years. He came to Altoona, when a lad, attended the public schools and the Williamsburg Normal, after which he studied law in the office of W. S. Hammond, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1894. He has since been located at Altoona, where he has established an extensive and profitable practice, and also practices largely in all of the courts of the state and the Federal courts. Mr. Brown also represents several of the old corporations and is actively interested in other enterprises outside of his profession. He has always taken an active interest in politics, and served on the Republican County Committee, of which he was secretary two years; he also served two terms as solicitor for the city school board. He is a member of the Blair County Bar Association, the Eagles, Royal Arcanum, and the Knights of Pythias. On November 30, 1904, Mr. Brown was united in marriage with Rachel A. Schmittle, of Huntingdon, Pa. They attend the Eighth Avenue M. E. Church of Altoona. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 623-624. HARRY S. BROWN, one of Martinburg's best known citizens, who, for a quarter of a century was engaged in the furniture and undertaking business in this borough, was born August 16, 1844, in South Woodbury Township, Bedford County, Pa., and is a son of Jacob S. and Barbara (Shriner) Brown. Jacob S. Brown was born in Bedford County and his wife in Lancaster County, Pa. Grandfather Brown secured land in Bedford County early in its settlement and there established the Brown homestead. Jacob S. Brown followed agricultural pursuits in South Woodbury Township where he lived out a long and worthy life, his death occurring in 1886. Of his family of nine children, the following survive: Elizabeth, who resides at Duncansville, Pa., is the widow of Jacob Dell; and Harry S. of Martinsburg. The venerable widow of Jacob S. Brown survived him eighteen years, living to the unusual age of ninety years and retaining her faculties to a large degree until the end. Harry S. Brown grew to manhood on the home farm and during the winter months attended the district hoofs. He then learned the plastering trade and after working for a time became a contractor in the same. Later he embarked in the furniture and undertaking business at Martinsburg, where, for many years afterwards he was a prosperous and reputable business man. For some years Mr. Brown has lived retired from business but is still actively interested in matters pertaining to good citizenship, fraternal organizations and the borough's pleasant social life. On January 20, 1871, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Lucy Mentzer, who was born in Middle Woodbury Township, Bedford County, Pa., a daughter of Ephraim and Susan (Imler) Mentzer, and a granddaughter of David Mentzer, who, for years, was a well known resident of Franklin County. Of the children born to Ephraim Mentzer and wife, the following are living: David I., of Altoona; Missouri, wife of James Croft, of Bedford County; Lucy, wife of Harry S. Brown; Margaret, wife of L. A. Hay, of Blair County; Naomi, wife of B. D. Martin, of Baden, Blair County; Mary C., wife of George Brown, of Martinsburg; John T., of Altoona; and Abraham L. and Joseph W. To Harry S. Brown and wife five children were born, two of whom survive, Viola and Ella M. Viola is the wife of George W. Davis, who is employed in the Pennsylvania railroad shops at Altoona. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have one daughter, Dorothy L. Ella M. is the wife of Frank J. Mock, who is also employed in the Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Altoona. Mr. and Mrs. Mock have two sons, Harry J. and Cletus G. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the Lutheran church, in which he has been an official, and Mrs. Brown is an active and useful member of the Ladies' Aid Society. In politics Mr. Brown is a Democrat. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Golden Eagle, both lodges being at Martinsburg. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 532. JOHN I. BROWN, proprietor of the Roaring Spring Foundry and Machine Shop and manufacturer of and dealer in all kinds of machinery, castings, etc., has been in business at Roaring Spring, Pa., since 1904. Mr. Brown was born in South Woodbury Township, Bedford County, Pa., August 18, 1849, and is a son of David F. Brown, who was formerly a well known and respected resident of Bedford County, where he died in 1861. John I. Brown was ten years old when his father died and he was already motherless and the oldest of a family of five children. Orphanage is particularly sad when children are young and John I. Brown found the world a very different place than it would have been had conditions been otherwise. He was, however, a sensible, ambitious boy, with industrious habits and strong moral leanings, and when he left school at the age of fifteen years, it was to immediately enter upon an apprenticeship to a trade. Without interruption he served out his four years in Keagy's foundry, near Woodbury, and after that worked as a journeyman through Indiana, Ohio and Missouri. In 1873 he went into business for himself at the foundry where he had learned his trade and continued until 1903, when he sold out and spent about a year looking around for a satisfactory location, visiting points in Ohio and Indiana as well as Pennsylvania. In 1904 he came to Roaring Spring, investing here and becoming one of the settled residents. Mr. Brown is a very capable man in his line of business and is a practical moulder, woodworker and blacksmith, and his enterprise at Roaring Spring is very prosperous. He is a Republican in politics and during his period of residence at Woodbury, Pa., he served two terms as burgess and was also a valued member of the council. Mr. Brown was married in 1878, to Miss Geneva Allen of Woodbury, who is a daughter of the late Christian Allen, formerly one of the leading citizens of that borough. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 688. J. T. BROWN, a veteran of the Civil War, who has been living in retirement since May 1st, 1909, after an active career in the business world, was for 44 years identified with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and has been a resident of Blair County, Pa., since 1852. He was born April 9, 1839, in Fayette County, Pa., and is a son of Alexander and Mary (Lafferty) Brown, and is of Scotch-Irish descent. His parents were natives of Westmoreland County, Pa., but resided for a time in Fayette County, Pa., and subsequently came to Blair County, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Of the seven sons and three daughters born to them but one still survives, namely, J. T. Brown, the subject of this record. J. T. Brown was reared in Westmoreland County, Pa., and in 1852 came to Blair County and was for a year employed in the furnaces at Blair Furnace. He then lived in various parts of the county, but principally in Logan township. and in 1865 entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, working first in the car building department. He was then for 15 years employed as a foreman in the car building department but since May 1, 1909, has been living in retirement. On April 18, 1861, at President Lincoln's first call for troops, Mr. Brown enlisted with Company B. and the 3rd Pa. Vol. Inf. for three months, and at the end of that time enlisted with Company F, 76th Pa. Vol. Inf. for three years and veteranized with that company. On July 11, 1863, he was seriously wounded, receiving a gun shot wound through both thighs at Fort Wagner, S.C. and was taken prisoner. He remained in the hospital some time and was first confined at Charleston, S.C., then removed to Columbia, and was also taken to Libby Prison and Belle Isle for a time, and was finally parolled and taken to his own lines. At City Point his shoulder was broken by a shell and he was confined to the hospital boat on the James River. His service was principally in the army of the James in the department of the south. He was then sent to Richmond, where he was a member of the Tenth Corps until that corps was reduced to such an extent that it was consolidated with the Eighteenth Corps, and was mustered out in May, 1865, at Harrisburg, Pa. On September 17, 1868, Mr. Brown married Sarah Jane Shotts, who was born in Logan township, Blair County, Pa., a daughter of Philip and Katie (Mullen) Shotts, who were well known agriculturists of the county. Of their union were born the following children: James A., who lives adjoining his father, married Annie Smith and has two children, Joseph Clare; and Margaret; Harry, died aged 11 years; Elmer Ellsworth; Joseph Ambrose, lives adjoining his father, and is employed in the shops. He married Bertha Grove, and has three daughters, Kathryn; Ethel and Minnie and one son Clyde; Cordella M., married John R. Johnson of Dubois, Clearfield County, Pa.; Margaret; and Catherine. Mr. Brown is a member of the G.A.R. Post No. 468, the Union Veterans Legion, the I.O.O.F., the I.O.R.M. and the Knights of Malta. In politics he is a radical Republican, and has served in various local offices, having been a member of the school board a number of years, auditor of the township one term, and also jury commissioner one term. He and his estimable wife are members of the Fifth Avenue M. E. Church of Altoona. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 874. BLAIR A. BRUA, supervisor of Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pa., is a leading citizen of this section and owns a valuable farm of seventy acres. He was born in Frankstown Township, about one mile distant from his present home, October 11, 1851, and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Elliott) Brua. Jacob Brua was one of Frankstown Township's most respected retired residents for twenty-five years prior to his death. Both he and his wife were born in Blair County and both were buried at Hollidaysburg. The parents of Jacob Brua were Daniel and Mary Brua and they came from Pennsylvania Dutch stock which belonged to Lancaster County. The parents of Elizabeth (Elliott) Brua were of Scotch-Irish stock. Her father, George Elliott, came to Blair County about one hundred years ago. Jacob Brua and wife were Presbyterians. They had the following children: Elliott H., Blair A., Lynn A., Mary J., wife of Dr. Robert Irvin, of Hollidaysburg; and Blanche E., wife of Irvin Smith. Blair A. Brua attended the public schools in Frankstown Township and spent one term in the High School at Frankstown, since which time he has devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. At one time he owned three farms in Frankstown Township, aggregating 280 acres, but he has sold two of these to his sons and now operates but seventy acres. He has always been an active and earnest citizen of his township, ready to do his part in public movements. In politics he is a Republican and has served frequently in public office, being school director for three years, township assessor for three years, and now serving as township supervisor. In 1873 Mr. Brua was married to Miss Clarissa Hileman, a daughter of Christian Hileman, and they have the following children: Catherine, Baron, Blanche, Hileman, Charles, Nelson, Pearl, Irvin and Ruth. Mr. Brua and family belong to the Lutheran church. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 743-744. ELLIOTT H. BRUA, proprietor of the Cedar Grove Grist Mill, and owner of a farm of 144 acres in Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pa., was born on a farm adjoining his present place, December 26, 1849, and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Elliott) Brua. His parents were both natives of Blair County, and for many years carried on farming in Frankstown Township, but he spent his declining years in retirement at Hollidaysburg. They were members of the Presbyterian church and were buried at the Presbyterian Cemetery at Hollidaysburg. Jacob and Elizabeth Brua were the parents of the following children: Elliott, Blair A.; Lynn A., president of the Citizens' National Bank of Hollidaysburg; Mary J., wife of Dr. Robert Irwin of Hollidaysburg: and Elizabeth B., wife of T. Irwin Smith of Hollidaysburg. Mr. Brua was politically identified with the Republican party. The paternal grandparents of our subject were Daniel and Mary Brua, who came from Lancaster County, Pa., in 1818, and the maternal grandparents were George and Ruth Elliott, the former of Franklin County, and the latter of Blair County. Elliott H. Brua was reared in his native township, where he attended the local schools, and after spending one term in the seminary at Hollidaysburg, engaged in farming for a short time. He later taught in the district schools of the county for six terms, was a clerk in a store one year, and conducted a grocery store for one year, and for the past eighteen years has farmed his present place, which he inherited from his father. He has operated his mill for twelve years and his father operated it from 1884 until about 1889. The mill is supposed to be over 100 years old, as Mr. Brua has papers showing it was here in 1813. Mr. Brua is one of the public spirited and progressive citizens of the township. He is politically identified with the Republican party but has never cared to hold office. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 658. ELMER L. BRUA, who is now living in retirement at Canoe Creek, Pa., is the owner of twenty acres of land in Frankstown Township, and was born in May, 1855, in Turkey Valley, Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pa., and is a son of John and Amanda (Young) Brua. Daniel Brua, the paternal grandfather of our subject, at an early period came from Lancaster County, Pa., to Blair County by stage, and here purchased land from the Lowerys. He then returned to Lancaster County for his wife, who was Mary Buckwalter, and brought his family here in a wagon, driving a team. The maternal grandparents of our subject were Curtis and Jennie (Milligan) Young, farmers of Scotch Valley, Blair County. John Brua was born in Blair County, Pa., and always followed farming. He was a Republican, and held membership with the Lutheran church. His union with Amanda Young resulted in the following issue: Elmer L., our subject; Clara, who married Robert Elliott; Archibald; Mary; John; Robert; Nannie, who is the wife of John Clare; and Elizabeth, who is the wife of Russell Kendall. Elmer L. Brua was reared on the farm, and after a common school education engaged in farming with his father until the time of his marriage. He then engaged in farming for himself in the Scotch Valley, Frankstown Township, but since selling his farm, has been living in retirement on a tract of twenty acres in Canoe Creek, Pa. Mr. Brua is politically a Republican, and has served one year as supervisor of the township. He is a member of the Farmers' Grange, and his religious connection is with the Presbyterian church of Hollidaysburg, Pa. In 1877 Mr. Brua was united in marriage with Viola Moore, who is a daughter of Elias and Amanda (Stewart) Moore. She is the eldest of three children born to her parents - Frank, deceased; and Lucretia, deceased wife of Thompson E. Clark. Elias Moore formed a second union with a daughter of Joseph Robeson, who was at one time a member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature, and of this union were born: Joseph, Edith, who married Thompson E. Clark; Clair, who is the wife of John Jacobs; and Ruth. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Brua: Dean, who married Catherine Clapper; Ruth, who is the wife of William Ayers; Grace, who married Chester Robinson; Alice, who married Jay Tussey, and has one daughter, Ethelyn; and Lee. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 688-689. JOHN BRUA, who carries on general farming on a tract of 112 acres in Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pa., was born September 2, 1870, on his present farm and is a son of John and Amanda (Young) Brua, both of whom were natives of Blair County. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Daniel Brua, who came from Lancaster County, Pa., and the maternal grandfather was Curtis Young. The father of our subject was a farmer by occupation, a Republican in politics, and was religiously a member of the Lutheran church. Nine children were born to John and Amanda Brua: Elmer, who is living in retirement at Canoe Creek; Clara, the wife of Robert Elliott; Mary; Archibald; Nannie, wife of John Clare; John; Robert; Lillian, wife of James Young; and Elizabeth, who is the wife of Russell Kendal. John Brua attended the local schools of Frankstown township and has always lived on the home farm, which he purchased from his father's heirs in 1898. Here he carries on general farming, and keeps just enough stock for his own use. He is one of the progressive and public spirited citizens of the township and is identified with the Republican party in politics. He affiliates with the Farmers' Grange, and is a member of the Lutheran church. In October, 1905, Mr. Brua was married to Mary A. Lingenfelter, who is a daughter of David and Louisa (Clauss) Lingenfelter. Her parents are both natives of Blair County, and were formerly engaged in farming, but the father has been working in the car shops at Altoona for the last few years. They are the parents of the following children: Ella, the wife of Alonzo Detwiler; George; Minnie, wife of Stewart Potter; Elise, wife of Irwin Eicher; Blair, Frank, Lloyd, Carrie, Myrtle, Chester, and Dorothy. Mr. and Mrs. Lingenfelter are members of the Lutheran church. Two daughters have been born to our subject and wife: Naomi Isabel, and Blanch Marie. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 809. LYNN A. BRUA, president of the Citizens' National Bank of Hollidaysburg, Pa., is a citizen of prominence and affluence, and is the owner of a fine fruit farm of 150 acres in Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pa., besides being one of the largest real estate holders in this borough. He was born in Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pa., and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Elliott) Brua, and comes of one of the pioneer families of the county. Daniel and Mary Jane Brua, grandparents of our subject, were married in 1818, in Lancaster County, Pa., and immediately afterwards came on horseback over the mountains to Blair County and settled at what was then known as Lowery's Mill. The land on which they settled is now owned by a grandson, John Brua, of Frankstown Township. Jacob Brua, father of Lynn A. Brua, was born June 26, 1819, on the farm in Frankstown Township, and in 1853, bought a farm of 150 acres adjoining his father's place. This he cultivated until 1873 when he removed to Hollidaysburg, where he lived until the time of his death in 1901. He married Elizabeth Elliott, who died in 1862. Lynn A. Brua grew to maturity on the farm in Frankstown Township, and in 1873 came with the family to Hollidaysburg, Pa., where he entered the employ of John H. Law, a merchant, with whom he continued for four years. In 1881, he opened a general store, which he operated with much success until 1908, when he disposed of the business, and during that period built some twenty houses, erecting his own residence in 1884 on Wayne Street. He was one of the organizers of the Citizens' National Bank, and has served continuously as president of same since its organization in 1903. Mr. Brua is the owner of the old home farm in Frankstown Township, and takes great pride and interest in the cultivation of same. The farm is well stocked and equipped with modern machinery, and is one of the largest fruit farms in the county, having about 3,000 fruit trees. Mr. Brua was married in September, 1883, to Lizzie I. Hite of Hite Station, Allegheny County, Pa. In politics Mr. Brua is identified with the Republican party, and been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1880. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 527. DR. JOHN LAMBERT BRUBAKER, who has been engaged in the practice of medicine at Juniata, Pa., since May, 1891, was born in Juniata County, Pa., in 1854, and is a son of William and Sarah (Kepner) Brubaker. His parents, who were natives of Juniata County, were living in Maryland at the time of their respective deaths. Dr. J. L. Brubaker was a babe when his parents removed to Taneytown, Maryland, and his educational training was obtained at the Eagleton Institute, and the Washington University, from which he graduated with the class of 1874. He then practiced medicine in Perry County, Pa., for ten years with the exception of two years spent in the west. He was subsequently located for a time at Bunkerhill, Kans., where he opened a drug store. In 1884 he went to Isabella County, Mich., where he was located for six years previous to coming to Juniata, Pa. Four months after locating in Juniata, Dr. Brubaker removed to his present location, Fourth Avenue and Fifth Street, and has since been actively engaged in following his profession. Dr. Brubaker built his residence immediately after locating in Juniata, has been treasurer of the borough ever since its incorporation. In politics he is independent, has served several years as school treasurer, and for eighteen years has been surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Dr. Brubaker has been a member of the Sheridan Troop N. G. Pa., since 1892, and also saw service in Porto Rico, with the Pennsylvania Volunteer Calvary during the Spanish-American War. He affiliates with the I.O.R.M., the Knights of Pythias, and the B.P.O.E. Dr. Brubaker was first married to Ella J. Jones, of Lockhaven, Pa. Mrs. Brubaker died in July, 1903, and of their union was born one son, Dr. Augustus J. Brubaker, who was educated in the schools of Juniata, the Pennsylvania State College, and the Philadelphia Dental College. He was first engaged in practice in Juniata, then located to Lancaster about three years, and returned to Juniata. He has since been engaged in practice in Juniata with the exception of the winter of 1908-1909, when he followed his profession in Porto Rico. In 1905, Dr. Brubaker formed a second union with Edith B. Coblan, of Gettysburg, Pa., and they have one son, Donald Lambert Brubaker. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 762-? ELINAS M. BRUBAKER, who resides on a farm of 50 acres in Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pa., was born December 10, 1875, in Allegheny Township, Blair County, Pa., and is a son of Samuel and Christena (Berkey) Brubaker, and a grandson of Ephriam Brubaker. Samuel Brubaker, father of our subject, served in the Civil War, and resides on a farm adjoining that of his son Elinas. He is politically a Republican and is a member of the Church of the Brethren. His marriage with Christena Berkey resulted in the following issue: Sarah, the wife of Isaac Wilt; James (deceased) and David, who were twins; Samuel; Alexander; Aaron; Silas; and Elinas M. Elinas M. Brubaker was reared on the home farm, and obtained his educational training in the local schools. He was then an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for eight years, but since 1906 has been engaged in agricultural pursuits on his present farm, and it is his intention to make that his future occupation. February 20, 1900, Mr. Brubaker married Cora Sell, who is a daughter of Simon and Mary (Benton) Sell, prominent farmers of Blair County, and is the second eldest of the following children born to her parents: Martha, the wife of Charles Brubaker; Cora, wife of our subject; Thomas; Rachel, wife of Archie Claar; Pearl; Susan; and Matthew. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Brubaker: Elmer, Myra, Lloyd, Simon, Hiram, and Bertha. Mr. Brubaker is politically an adherent of the Republican party, but has never cared to hold office. He is a member of the Church of the Brethren. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 816-817. JACOB BRUBAKER, who is engaged in general farming and stock raising, on a farm of 208 acres in Frankstown Township, was born June 2, 1860, in Allegheny Township, Blair County, Pa., and is a son of Ephraim and Lydia (Hart) Brubaker. They were both born in Blair County, Pa., and spent their lives here, their fathers being Jacob Brubaker and Israel Hart. During his early life Ephraim Brubaker followed carpentering for a time, but later became a farmer. He was a Democrat. Both parents are deceased and were buried at Carson Valley, Allegheny Township. They belonged to the Lutheran church. The following children were born to Ephraim and Lydia Brubaker: Emanuel; Samuel; Bertha, who is the wife of A. W. Wilt; Marjory, who is the wife of Patrick Risbane; Ellis; John; Catherine, who is the wife of Harry Stafford; Jane, who is the wife of Silas Closson; Lucinda, who is the wife of John Plowman; Jacob, David and Emma, who is the wife of Chris Selwitz. Jacob Brubaker attended the common schools of the township until fifteen years of age, and since that time has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. In April, 1906, he purchased his present farm from the widows of Peter and Calvin Smith, but the land was originally the property of the Stiffler family. Mr. Brubaker is one of the enterprising and public spirited farmers of the township, and carries on farming in a general way, and raises just sufficient stock for his own use. On December, 1878, Mr. Brubaker married Miss Catherine Plowman, who is a daughter of William and Francana (Wilt) Plowman, who were prominent farmers of Blair County, and the parents of the following children: Mary, who married David Clawson; David; Jane, who married John Clawson; Anna, who is the wife of Ellis Brubaker; Marshall; John; Amanda, who married John Brubaker; Susan, who married Jacob Stoner; and Clara, who married William Wombaugher. The following children were born to our subject and his wife: Charles, who is a farmer of Allegheny Township, married Martha Sell; Laura, who is deceased, was the wife of James Hover, also deceased, and they had one daughter, Effie, whom our subject is rearing; Ellis, deceased; Frank, who is an employe of the P.R.R. Co., married Pearl Benner; George, who is also an employe of the P.R.R. Co., married Hattie Hoover, and they have one son, Earnest; Mary, deceased; Rosa, who is the wife of Christ Haller, and they have one son, Irwin; Gertrude; Myrtle, who is the wife of Warren Wertz, and they have one daughter, Lilly; and Harry, Blair, Brook, Ord, Ida, and Ella. Mr. Brubaker is politically a Republican, and has served as a school director for seven years. The religious connection of the family is with the Brethren church. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 525-526. DAVID H. C. BRUMBAUGH, a representative citizen and substantial agriculturist of North Woodbury Township, Blair County, Pa., who resides on his finely cultivated and well improved farm of ninety-two acres, was born in this township, August 15, 1860, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hoover) Brumbaugh. Samuel Brumbaugh was a son of George Brumbaugh, an early settler in North Woodbury Township, and both followed farming as an occupation. Samuel Brumbaugh was twice married and of his numerous children, the following are yet living: Hannah H., who is the wife of John S. Stodnour, of Martinsburg; William H. C., who lives at Clover Creek; John H., who is a farmer in Huston Township; Susan H., who lives in North Woodbury Township, is the widow of Isaac Kensinger; Catherine H., who is the widow of Adam Baker; Levi H. and David H. C., both of whom reside in North Woodbury Township; Mary H., who is the wife of Luther Steele, of Martinsburg; Jeremiah H., who lives in Huston Township; Aaron H., who follows farming in North Woodbury Township; Andrew H., who lives in Huston Township; and Edward H., whose home is in Taylor Township. When David H. C. Brumbaugh was about fifteen years old his father died, but the youth continued to live in North Woodbury Township and there attended school. He has devoted himself almost exclusively to farming and stock raising, and owns property that is very valuable. He married Miss Jennie Glass, a daughter of the late William Glass, a former prominent resident of this township, and they have three children: Bessie G., who is the wife of Irvin H. Benner, of Roaring Spring; Elvin G., who is in business at Roaring Spring; and John M., who lives with his parents. In politics Mr. Brumbaugh is a Democrat. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 548. PROF. H. ATLEE BRUMBAUGH, principal of the Taylor Township, Blair County, High School and supervising principal of the public schools of Taylor Township, is one of the foremost educators of Blair County, and is a man of culture, high aims and great executive ability. He was born in South Woodbury Township, Bedford County, Pa., October 10, 1874, and is a son of John F. and Maggie (Imler) Brumbaugh, both of whom were also born in Bedford County. H. Atlee Brumbaugh enjoyed both common school and collegiate advantages, providing for the latter by teaching school in his native township. He is a graduate of Juniata College, at Huntingdon, Pa. He has effectively filled numerous positions of responsibility as an educator, serving as assistant principal of the public schools at Roaring Spring; for one year as principal of the Juniata High School; for two years as principal of the Logan School, at Juniata; for one year as principal of the Llyswen School at South Altoona, and in September, 1909, assumed his present duties. He is essentially an educator and can look back with considerable satisfaction to what he has accomplished along this line. He has other talents also and has become well known as an author, a number of published books standing to his credit, while his magazine and newspaper contributions are numerous. He has a talent for versifying and, although he does not call himself a poet, his many friends call attention to productions that seem to prove it. Among his published works are the following: Life in Verse, Life in Song, and Tom Marx and Poems. He is a regular contributor to The Inglenook, which is a magazine of merit published by the Brethren Publishing House, at Elgin, Ill., and also to the Sunday-school papers of the same church, of which he is a member. The following is a selection from his writings, which brings comfort and happiness to all who read and remember it. SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS. Our days sometimes are darkened By clouds that gather low; Some clouds in life must gather, And rainy winds must blow; The nightly shadows whisper "We will not long remain;" So never be discouraged, The sun will shine again. Your light will scatter shadows; This lesson you must heed You heal a heart that's wounded, Or help to make it bleed; The winds are softly lisping "A smile will shine in rain," The smile that you give daily Will come to you again. Prof. Brumbaugh married Miss Lydia Ebersole, of Bedford County, a daughter of Daniel C. Ebersole of South Woodbury Township, and they have two children: Mabel A. and Harold C. As a citizen he is held in very high esteem at Roaring Spring, which is his place of residence. His friends have put him forward as a candidate for the superintendency of the public schools of Blair County. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 842-843. HENRY D. BRUMBAUGH. North Woodbury Township, Blair County, Pa., has its full quota of successful and intelligent business men and among these none are more enterprising than Henry D. Brumbaugh, who is established at Clover Creek. He deals in farm implements and manufactures pure cider vinegar, chop, corn meal and buckwheat flour. Mr. Brumbaugh was born September 2, 1868, in North Woodbury Township, Blair County, and is a son of John B. and Catherine (Dilling) Brumbaugh. John B. Brumbaugh was born in Huntingdon County, Pa., a son of David Brumbaugh, who was a resident of many years standing there. When Henry D. Brumbaugh was six years old his father died and six years later the death of his mother left him an orphan and he was thus early thrown entirely upon his own resources. For two years he worked for farmers in Huntingdon County and later for several years was in the employ of Aaron Mock. In 1900 he established his business at his present location at Clover Creek. The mill that he operates was built by George and John Brumbaugh away back in pioneer days, and ever since has been in the possession of some member of this family. His cider press is of more modern construction and is operated with improved machinery, but the old flour mill is run by the water of Clover Creek, with an old over-shot wheel, and it is one of the old landmark structures of this section. Mr. Brumbaugh had few educational advantages in early days but has long since supplied any deficiency by reading and contact with the world, but this makes him particularly interested in the public schools, and anxious that his children should have good opportunities. Mr. Brumbaugh was married to Miss Sallie Shoenfelt, a daughter of John Shoenfelt, who lives on Piney Creek, Huston Township. Mr. and Mrs. Brumbaugh have had seven children born to them, namely: Blanche, Leo, Florence, Irene, and three who are deceased. Mr. Brumbaugh and family are members of the Church of the Brethren. He casts his vote with the Republican party and for two terms he served acceptably as road supervisor in North Woodbury Township. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 782-783. IRA E. BRUMBAUGH, president of the borough council at Martinsburg, Pa., and a substantial and representative citizen, was born in North Woodbury Township, Blair County, Pa., May 6, 1872, and is a son of William H. and Emma (Anderson) Brumbaugh. William H. Brumbaugh was born also in North Woodbury Township, a son of George Brumbaugh, an early settler, and he has spent his entire life until the present in his native place. For twelve years he has been a member of the township school board. He is a leading member of the Church of the Brethren. He married Emma Anderson, also a native of Blair County, who is now deceased. Ira E. Brumbaugh was educated in the public schools of North Woodbury Township, and since he reached manhood has been in business for himself, although he has been more or less interested in the livestock industry since he was fourteen years of age. For a number of years he has been very successful in handling stock and is one of the large buyers and shippers of this section, handling cattle, horses and sheep. Mr. Brumbaugh married Miss Margaret Ford, a daughter of Simon Ford, a resident of East Freedom, Pa., and they have five children: Earl W., Jennie A., Roy, Carl and Dorothea. Mr. Brumbaugh and wife are members of the Church of the Brethren. As a citizen he is interested in public affairs and since establishing his home at Martinsburg, in September, 1905, he has served on the borough council, of which he was made president in 1909. In politics he is a Republican. He is a director in the Morrison Cove Bank at Martinsville and has other investments. Mr. Brumbaugh is a shrewd, able business man and conducts his affairs according to sound business principles. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 960. JOHN H. BRUMBAUGH, who carries on general farming on a tract of sixty acres in Woodbury Township, Blair County, Pa., was born at Henrietta, Pa., a son of John and Esther (Hoover) Brumbaugh, and a grandson of David Brumbaugh, who was a native of Germany. Both parents were natives natives of Huntingdon County, Pa., but later on came to Blair County, where they carried on general farming. They were members of the Brethren church. In politics the father was identified with the Republican party. The following children were born to John and Margaret Brumbaugh: David; Susan, who married Isaac Burket; Rachel; Elizabeth, who is deceased, was the wife of George Metzgar; Sarah, who is deceased, was the wife of Samuel Nicodemus; John H.; and Mary, who is the wife of Christian Beach. The mother of these children died, and the father subsequently married Catherine Dilling, and of the second union were born. Henry, and Harriet. The latter is the wife of Michael Detwiler. John Brumbaugh was reared in Blair County and after obtaining a common school education engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he has made his life occupation. He also followed threshing in connection with farming for about eight years, and is one of the substantial and public spirited citizens of the township. Mr. Brumbaugh was first married in 1884 to Nancy J. Acker, who was a daughter of Henry Acker, an agriculturist of Huston Township, and to them were born six children: Vance, who died aged nine months; and Joyce, Viola, Howard, Ernest and Grace. Mrs. Brumbaugh died May 7, 1894, and our subject subsequently married Anna Snowberger, who is a daughter of John B. Snowberger. No children were born of the second union. Mr. Brumbaugh is politically an adherent of the Republican party. He attends the Lutheran church, of which his wife is a member. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 669. REV. JOHN H. BRUMBAUGH, who, for sixteen years has been a minister in the Church of the Brethren and an elder in the same since 1908, resides on his valuable farm of 125 acres, situated in Pleasant Valley, Huston Township, Blair County, Pa. He was born February 24, 1853, near Woodbury, Bedford County, Pa., and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hoover) Brumbaugh. Samuel Brumbaugh was born in Blair County, and was a son of Rev. George Brumbaugh, who was a well known minister and elder in the Clover Creek Church near Williamsburg. Samuel Brumbaugh spent his entire life in North Woodbury Township, Blair County, after settling there in the infancy of his son, John H. He followed an agricultural life and as a worthy member of the Church of the Brethren, set a good example. He married Elizabeth Hoover, whose many virtues are remembered by her children, and he passed away about 1874. John H. Brumbaugh was very young when his parents brought him to North Woodbury Township, and there he was reared and attended school. He is a man of extensive reading and keeps thoroughly informed concerning all that will assist him in being a leader and expounder in the church, realizing the responsibilities which, in these modern days, rest upon the church elders. He is a man of wide influence and is much beloved. Since 1890 he has resided on his farm in Pleasant Valley, which he devotes to farming and stock-raising. Mr. Brumbaugh has been thrice married. His first wife was Miss Rebecca Metzker, who died after the birth of ten children, seven living: Elizabeth M., wife of John S. Rhodes, of Huston Township; Daniel M., of Woodbury Township; Catherine M., wife of Harvey Loose, of Martinsburg; Samuel M., of Huston Township; Ida, wife of Lawrence Sparr, of Williamsburg; Anna, wife of James Gorsuch, of Williamsburg; Mary A., wife of William Estep, of Williamsburg. . Mr. Brumbaugh was married second to Miss Elizabeth Beach. They had six children born to them and four survive their mother: Minnie, Howard, Blair and Elwood. Mr. Brumbaugh's third marriage was to Mrs. Martha Showalter, widow of Jacob Showalter, formerly of Roaring Spring. She was born in Taylor Township and her maiden name was Smith. In politics Mr. Brumbaugh is nominally a Democrat but has strong prohibition tendencies. He has served six years as a member of the school board of Huston Township and has always lent interest and influence 'to the upbuilding of the public schools and education in general. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 951. LEVI H. BRUMBAUGH, whose well improved farm of 110 acres lies in North Woodbury Township, Blair County, Pa., is a prominent resident of this section and is a member of one of the old township families. He was born in this township, in November, 1858, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hoover) Brumbaugh, and a grandson of Rev. George Brumbaugh, at one time a prominent minister in the Dunkard Church. Both parents of Mr. Brumbaugh are deceased, his father passing away when he was a boy. Levi H. Brumbaugh has practically spent all his life in his native township. Farming and its kindred industries have interested him, and his own property he has improved with attractive buildings and has placed it under so high a state of cultivation that it is probably valued as .high as any land in the township. Mr. Brumbaugh was married in August, 1881, to Miss Fannie Rhodes, a daughter of the late Daniel G. Rhodes, and a sister of S. S. Rhodes, a prominent resident of Curryville. Mr. and Mrs. Brumbaugh have two daughters, A. Grace and Ada C., both of whom are highly educated young ladies and successful teachers. Mr. Brumbaugh and family are members of the Church of the Brethren, Clover Creek congregation, of which he is treasurer. The Hoover family, to which the mother of Mr. Brumbaugh belonged, is a numerous one in Pennsylvania, and it is also a representative one in regard to thrift and general worth. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Brumbaugh was Jacob P. Hoover, who was once a prominent man in North Woodbury Township, a deacon in the Dunkard church and one whose judgment was frequently consulted as he was considered a very able business man. The grandfathers on both sides have long since passed from earth, but their influence is still felt in the results that followed their worthy and virtuous lives. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 509-510. TREVAN BUCK, who has been living in retirement at Eldorado, Blair County, Pa., since 1893, was for many years engaged in agricultural pursuits on the old home place in Logan Township, and was born February 21, 1843, in Center County, Pa., a son of Jacob and Nancy (Woolheater) Buck. Jacob Buck at an early period came from Huntingdon County, Pa., to Center County, but subsequently returned to his native county for a time, but in the spring of 1853 came to Blair County and purchased about 169 acres of farm land in Logan Township, which partly forms what is now known as Eldorado. Here he spent the remainder of his life engaged in agricultural pursuits. He married Nancy Woolheater, who was also a native of Huntingdon County, Pa., and of their family three sons and seven daughters are living. One son, William Harrison, who served in the Civil War, was killed in the battle of the Wilderness; Ira, who served in the same regiment, died shortly after the war as a result of exposure; Samuel David, who lives in Missouri, served in an Ohio regiment. John Adam Buck, who lives in Missouri, was the only one of the five sons who did not serve in the war, being but an infant at the time. Trevan Buck was two or three years old when his parents removed to Huntingdon County, where they resided for about eight years, and then came to Blair County. Here he was reared to maturity and subsequently engaged in farming the home place until 1893, since which time he has lived in retirement on a tract of three acres, which is a part of the homestead, and is located in the borough of Eldorado. His education was obtained in the common schools. On August 27, 1861, he enlisted in Co. F., 76th Pa. Inf., and was mustered out August 27, 1864, from the loth Army Corps. He was twice wounded, first at Pocotaligo Creek, when his right thigh was injured, and in July, 1863, was wounded through the right arm at the second assault on Ft. Wagner. On July 23, 1863, he was detailed as recruiting officer at Pittsburg to enlist and forward men to the front, and after spending thirteen months on that detail was mustered out. He is a member of the U.V.L., No. 17, of Altoona. Mr. Buck is a Republican in politics, and has served in the various township offices, having served nine years as school director, nine years as auditor, and eleven years as supervisor. He is a member of the First Lutheran Church of Altoona. On December 26, 1869, Mr. Buck was joined in marriage with Miss Martha E. Lindsey, who was born in Frankstown Township, and is a daughter of Davis and Martha (Claybaugh) Lindsey. Mr. and Mrs. Buck had the following children: Samuel Ira, who married Emma Fluke, is a resident of Altoona; Jacob Hays, who is also a resident of Altoona, married Ella Feather, and they have two children, Pearl and Verne; Mary, who married Blair A. Feather, who lives on a farm adjoining that of our subject; and one who died in infancy. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 902-903. D. S. BURGET, one of the enterprising and representative business men of North Woodbury Township, Blair County, Pa., deals in general merchandise, lumber, doors,' sash, mouldings, etc., also coal, feed and flour, at Curryville, Pa., and also carries on a contracting and building business. Mr. Burget was born in North Woodbury Township, Blair County, May 14, 1856, and is a son of Adam B. and a grandson of John Burget, who was an early settler in the county. David S. Burget was reared in his native county and attended the public schools until about fifteen years of age, when he learned the carpenter trade and has followed the same ever since, expanding into building and contracting and in 1885 building a planing mill at Curry Station, which he has operated ever since. He has been a resident of Curry Station since 1877 and his business interests have been developed here, here he has reared his children and through the uprightness and usefulness of his own life, has exerted a beneficial influence on others. Few business men are so highly considered in their own communities as is Mr. Burget, a man whose word is always as good as his bond. In early manhood, Mr. Burget was married to Miss Sarah Weyandt, of Bedford County, and nine children have been born to them, six of whom survive: Ira W.; Flora, the wife of Scott Fluke; William W.; and Anna, Harry and Elvin. Mr. Burget and family are members of the Church of the Brethren. He takes no active interest in politics but by his good citizenship assists in making his community law abiding and a pleasant village in which to seek a home. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 907-908. LEVI B. BURGET, one of North Woodbury Township's best known citizens, his family being several generations old in this section of Blair County, Pa., was born in this township, July 13, 1841, and is a son of Adam and Catherine (Bolger) Burget. Adam Burget was a lifelong resident of North Woodbury Township, engaging there in agricultural pursuits. His father, David Burget, had settled in this township in its early days. Adam Burget was a man of local prominence and held many township offices. He was twice married and the children who survive are the following: Jacob B., of North Woodbury Township; Isaac B., of Fredericksburg, Pa.; Levi B.; Andrew B., a minister, residing at Fredericksburg; and Adam K., of North Woodbury Township. Levi B. Burget grew to manhood on the home estate, attended the public schools in youth and since then has been continuously engaged in farming and stock raising. He is numbered with the representative men and successful farmers of North Woodbury. Mr. Burget was married to Miss Mary A. Smith, a daughter of the late George C. Smith. a former leading citizen of North Woodbury Township. Mr. and Mrs. Burget have had sit children, as follows: Margaret, who is the wife of L. S. Haffley, of North Woodbury Township: Catherine J., who is the wife of N. M. Bridenbaugh, of Altoona, Pa.; Nancy, Mary and Franklin S., all of whom reside in North Woodbury Township; and Elvin I., who is making a name for himself in a business house at Newark, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Burget are members of the Mount Pleasant Reformed Church, in which he is a deacon. Mr. Burget takes part in public matters in his township, and has served three years as a school director and one year as road supervisor. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 604. ABRAM BURKET, general merchant and representative citizen of Claysburg, Pa., who has been identified with the interests of this place since 1870, was born in Blair County, Pa., March 6, 1842, and is a son of David and Barbara (Dively) Burket, and a grandson of Samuel Burket, who was a very early settler in what is now Greenfield Township, Blair County. Abram Burket was seven years old when his father died. He was reared in Greenfield Township and obtained his education in the public schools and when the Civil War broke out had scarcely yet decided what his life work should be. In August, 1861, he enlisted for service, entering Co. G, 11th Pa. Vol. Cav., which became a part of the Army of the Potomac. This was but the beginning of four years of army life, for, after the expiration of his first term of enlistment, he re-entered the same company and regiment and received his honorable discharge. He had enlisted as a private and through bravery and valor was promoted and was mustered out as a second lieutenant. He participated in the battles of Ream's Station and of Suffolk and fought in twenty-two sharp engagements. He was also employed in the dangerous service of scouting and, although he took hazards innumerable and faced every kind of danger, he survived to return home practically unharmed. He subsequently embarked in the mercantile business and in 1870 established himself at Claysburg where he is one of the oldest continuous business men. For a time he served as postmaster but has never been eager for political office. His interest in the public schools led him to consent to serve as school director in Greenfield Township, where he also held the office of constable for a time. Mr. Burket was married to Miss Catherine Mauk, a daughter of Paul Mauk, a former prominent resident of Claysburg, and of their children, the following survive: Paul W., who is a resident of Claysburg; Howard, whose home is near Philadelphia; Watson E., who is in the mercantile business at Claysburg; Edward M., who is a farmer in Greenfield Township; Charles E. and George I., both of whom reside at Claysburg; Homer A., who is a law student at the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor, Mich.; and H. Claude, who also resides at Claysburg. Mr. Burket and family are members of the Reformed church. He is an independent voter. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, p. 870. GEORGE WASHINGTON BURKET, M.D., the oldest practicing physician in Tyrone, Pa., was born at Smicksburg, Indiana County, Pa., March 4, 1832, and is a son of Jacob and Catherine (Miller) Burket. Jacob Burket, father of Dr. Burket, was born in York County, Pa., July 28, 1879, and died at Brookville, Jefferson County, Pa., July 26, 1880. He removed from York and settled in Sinking Valley and then moved to Indiana County in 1831, and in 1844, to Brookville, in Jefferson County. He was engaged in the mercantile and other lines of business until retiring from active life. Jacob Burket was thrice married and he was the father of numerous children. The mother of Dr. Burket bore the maiden name of Catherine Miller. She was born August 23, 1811, and died at Brookville, April 12, 1884. George W. Burket obtained his early education in the district schools and Brookville Academy. He read medicine in the office of Dr. George Watt, of Brookville, and graduated at the Cleveland, O., Medical College, in the class of 1857. His first location for practice was at Elderton, Armstrong County, where he remained for ten years. In 1867 he took a course in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, graduating in the same year and immediately afterward coming to Tyrone, where for forty-four years he has been in continuous practice. Although the practice of medicine is acknowledged to be one of great nervous as well as physical strain, Dr. Burket has met its demands for over a half century, without any diminution of his mental powers and with remarkably few tokens of advancing age. Here and there a careful observer may find a few gray hairs but his whole appearance suggests one many years younger. In the autumn of 1856, Dr. Burket was married to Miss Fancy Burket, a daughter of Major John Burket, of Center County, Pa. Dr. Burket's office and residence are located on the same site on which he first settled in 1867, this home being a landmark with the older residents, who have many times enjoyed a gracious hospitality here. Dr. and Mrs. Burket are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Tyrone, of which he is a trustee and to which he has always given generous support. His professional affiliations include membership in the Blair County, Pennsylvania State and the American Medical Associations. He is identified also with Tyrone Lodge, No. 494, F.& A.M., at Tyrone. Dr. Burket is one of Tyrone's most substantial and most highly esteemed citizens. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 863-864. IRA RUSH BURNS, who was elected chief burgess of Bellwood, Pa., in March, 1909, is the present incumbent of that office, and has been a resident of this borough for the past 20 years. He was born May 18, 1866, in Lake City, Minn., and is a son of Capt. W. J. and Elizabeth (Bell) Burns. Capt. W. J, Burns was born in Mifflin County, Pa., December 6, 1838, and worked at his trade here as a carpenter until the beginning of the war. He enlisted as a lieutenant in Co. M, 16th Pa. Cavalry, at a call of Andrew G. Curtin for 16,ooo cavalrymen, and when his captain was killed was made captain of Griggs Cavalry. After the war he moved to Lake City, Minn., and returned some few years later to Huntingdon County, but is now a resident of Bellwood, Pa. He was first united in marriage with Elizabeth Bell, who died in December, 1869, leaving two children: Ira R.; and Helen (Mrs. Myton) of Altoona, Pa. Mr. Burns formed a second union with Maggie Bell, a sister of his former wife, and of this union were born four children: Lizzie (Collier) of Pittsburg, Pa.; Charles, a resident of Huntingdon; Harry, living in Altoona; and Ray, who lives in Pittsburg. Ira R. Burns was reared in Huntingdon County, and taught there six years, teaching his home school at Saulsburg, Pa., at the age of 16 years, and also taught nine years in Bellwood and in Antis Township. He learned carpentering when 16 years of age, and followed that business during the summers and since has been engaged in the same. He is one of the leading funeral directors of Bellwood and his father also followed that line of business after coming here. Mr. Burns served little over two years as postmaster at Bellwood-under President McKinley one year-and was also appointed under President Roosevelt as an anti-Quay man in 1902, but the appointment was not confirmed by the senate. He is politically a Republican and served some years on the county committee. Mr. Burns affiliates with the Maccabees of Altoona, and the F. O. E. of Bellwood. In 1888 Mr. Burns was joined in marriage with Bessie Snyder, who was born in Huntingdon County and educated in the McCallisterville schools. She is a daughter of John Snyder, who was an old soldier, and at an early age was left on orphan. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Burns: Clarence, employed as a stenographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Earl, employed in a store in Bellwood; Warren, who works in the office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Daisy, attending school; Molly, who attends school; Agnes, also in school; and Ira Burns, Jr. The family holds membership with the Logan Valley Presbyterian Church. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 895-896. WILLIAM RILEY BUSH, general farmer and a well known citizen of Antis Township, Blair County, Pa., where he owns sixty-two aces of well improved land, was born in Love's Valley, Huntingdon County, Pa., September 13, 1862, and is a son of William Luther and Mary (Glasgow) Bush. William Luther Bush was born in Berks County, Pa., and came from there to Blair County. With the exception of several years spent in Huntingdon County and two years in Clearfield County, the greater part of his subsequent life was spent in Blair County. When the Pennsylvania Railroad was being erected, he operated a steam saw-mill for the company, at Fostoria, but maintained his home in Antis Township, where later he became a prosperous farmer His death occurred in 1900 and his burial was in the Logan Valley Cemetery. He married Mary Glasgow, who was a daughter of Taylor Glasgow and was born and reared in Blair County. She met an accidental death, in 1897, being run down by a railroad train. Her burial also was in the Logan Valley Cemetery. They were highly respected residents of Antis Township. They had three children, namely: William Riley; Charles Lawson, who lives at Bellwood, Pa.; and Alice May, who is the wife of Frank Wesley, of Bellwood. William Riley Bush was reared in Blair and Antis Townships, having accompanied his parents to Blair County in 1866. His education was secured in the public schools. Farming has been his business, one that he has carried on with care, industry and good judgment, the same having resulted in a large degree of prosperity. Mr. Bush was married May 24, 1898, to Miss Ida Cherry, who was born and reared in Antis Township. Her parents were Samuel and Jennie (Irwin) Cherry, the former of whom now resides in Colorado. Mrs. Cherry died in April, 1885, and her burial was in the Logan Valley Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Bush's children are as follows: Robert Wilson, Charles Francis, William Leroy, Helen Dorothy (deceased), Mabel Loretta and Harold Wesley. Mr. Bush is one of his township's most active and interested citizens. In his political views he is a Republican and is serving in the office of township supervisor, being secretary of the board. He is a member of the fraternal organization designated as the K.O.T.M. Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 827-828.