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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Bellwood, Pa., was organized and began business
September 22, 1904, and has made wonderful strides during its five years of
existence, having become firmly established high in the opinion of the
public. The first president of the institution was Fred Bland, who still
continues in that capacity. The vice president originally was Capt. W. H.
Jeffries, who was succeeded by W. F. Wagner of Coalport, the present
incumbent. The first cashier was C. A. Patterson, who soon after was
succeeded by C. A. Cunningham, who remained but a short time. He was in turn
succeeded by Robert L. Scott, who entered upon his duties as cashier of this
institution in 1905. He is a man of recognized ability, and previous to
taking his present position resided in Philipsburg, Pa., where he received a
thorough banking training with the First National Bank. He was subsequently
engaged in the coal business at that place. The First National Bank of
Bellwood has prospered greatly during Mr. Scott's tenure and in 1909 a fine
brick building was erected and properly fitted. for the conduct of a banking
business. The excellent condition of the bank at the close of business
September 1, 1910 is shown by the appended statement:

Resources:

 Loans & Investments . . . . . . . . . . .  $89,662.21
 Overdrafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241.36
 U. S. Bonds & Premiums . . . . . . . . . .  20,600.00
 Banking House, Furniture and  Fixtures . .  15,633.84
 Due from Reserve Banks . . . . . . . . . .  38,811.72
 Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12,073.46
 Redemption Fund with U. S. Treasurer . . . . 1,000.00
                                            __________
                                          $ 178,022.59

Liabilities:

 Capital Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 25,000.00
 Surplus & Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9,451.48
 Circulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000.00
 Deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,571.11
                                            __________
                                           $178,022.59

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 836-837.

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF TYRONE was organized in 1890 and was opened for
business on August 7 of the same year. The original directors were: John S.
Morrison, J. F. Van Valzah, John A. Crawford, A. A. Stevens, I. P. Walton,
Dr. J. M. Smith, and George D. Blair. The first president was John S.
Morrison, the first vice president being J. F. Van Valzah, with D. Shelly
Kloss as cashier, who has remained continuously in that capacity to the
present time and has had much to do in bringing about its present great
prosperity.
     President Morrison did not long survive the organization of the bank and
he was succeeded in January, 189I, by Joseph K. Kass. The vice presidents
after the death of J. F. Van Valzah were successively George D. Blair, I. P.
Walton, and A. A. Stevens, Mr. Stevens being vice president at the present
time. The present board of directors includes the following capitalists:
Joseph K. Kass, A. A. Stevens, John A. Crawford, Jacob H. Mattern, D. Shelly
Kloss, A. D. Mingle and John G. Anderson. The. working force is as follows:
D. Shelly Kloss, cashier; D. H. Burnham, assistant cashier; Guy B.
Rickenbaugh, teller; Leo L. Garman, bookkeeper; and Edward R. Cox, clerk.
     The First National Bank of Tyrone started into business with a capital
of $75,000, which has been increased to $100,000. Its surplus and undivided
profits amount to $135,000. Its total net profits since organization are
$280,000. Its first depositor was A. P. Lancaster, on the day of opening.
There was special rivalry to push in the first deposit on the morning when
they opened for business in their present handsome bank building. The first
morning's mail brought deposits of $24,000 The largest single deposit was a
check for $10,000 on Drexel & Co., of Philadelphia. The bank is housed in one
of the finest buildings in Tyrone, four stories in height and beautifully
finished in the interior and thoroughly equipped. It is a United States
depository and in addition to carrying on a general commercial business has a
savings department.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 968.

ANDREW S.  FISHER, a well known and able attorney of Altoona, Blair County,
Pa., has been a resident there since 1893. He was born April 28, 1865, in
Bedford, Bedford County, Pa., which was the scene of his boyhood activities,
where he took a preparatory course in the common schools and a State Normal
School, and then read law in the office of Hon. John M. Reynolds, the present
congressman of this district and lieutenant governor elect. During his boyhood
days he manifested considerable ingenuity and mechanical skill and obtained
patents upon several useful inventions.
     After a very creditable examination he was admitted to the Bar of
Bedford County in 1890, and there engaged in practice until 1893, when he
removed to Altoona, where he was first associated in practice with J. Banks
Kurtz, Esq. After six months this partnership was dissolved and he
established an office of his own and has since been actively engaged in
practice in the courts of Blair and the adjoining counties and of the state.
He is a member of the Blair County Bar Association. In politics Mr. Fisher is
a Democrat and has twice been honored by his party with important nominations
for office. In 1895 he was the democratic nominee for district attorney but
was defeated by William S. Hammond, Esq. In 1898 he received the democratic
nomination for assembly and withdrew to make way for the selection of Hon.
Harry G. Stahl, a fusion candidate, who was elected. He has always been
actively interested in secret and fraternal society work. He helped to
organize the high court of Pennsylvania of the Independent Order of
Foresters, of which he was the first state counselor for two terms; he is
past director and trustee of Lodge No. 74, of the Loyal Order of Moose and
rendered valuable services in the building of the new Moose Home; and has
held positions of trust in other fraternal societies. In 1895 he promoted the
Mountain City Trust Company, a prosperous financial institution of this city
and served as director and counsel for two years.
   In October, 1892, Mr. Fisher was joined in marriage with Lillie L. Tayman,
of Somerset County, Pa., and they have two sons; Frank G., and John Victor Fisher.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 761-762.

ABRAM L. FLECK, who is living in retirement in Tyrone Township, is the owner
of a fine farm of 120 acres, which is operated by his son, and has always
made farming his life occupation. He was born February 21, 1836, in Sinking
Valley, Tyrone Township, Blair County, Pa., and is a son of Jacob and Susana
(Hostler) Fleck.
     Jacob Fleck was born in Sinking Valley, Blair County, Pa., and died at
the advanced age of 87 years. The mother was born in Half Moon Valley, Center
County, Pa., and died at the age of 56 years. They were both members of the
Lutheran church and were buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in Sinking Valley.
Jacob Fleck always followed farming. He was politically a Republican, and
served a number of years as supervisor, and also as election officer judge a
number of times. He was a father of the following children: Abram L., subject
of this record; John Francis, deceased; Mary Jane, widow of John A. Fleck of
Sinking Valley; Eunice Catherine, the wife of Jabez Beyer, of Iowa.
     Abram L. Fleck was reared and educated in Tyrone Township, and has
always engaged in agricultural pursuits, but is now living in retirement, in
the enjoyment of a well earned rest after years of unceasing activity. He is
politically a Republican, and has served as supervisor of the township and as
a school director for a number of years. He is a member of the Grange of the
Sinking Valley Lodge, and holds membership with the Lutheran church.
     Mr. Fleck was married January 3, 1861, to Martha Cryder, who is a
daughter of Jacob and Margaretta Cryder, of Tyrone Township, and they have
reared the following children: Margaretta, who was born October 24, 1861, is
the wife of A. C. Sorrick, of Juniata, Pa.; Anna Belle, was born April 20,
1863, and married Hudson Irvin, of Bellwood, Pa.; Susana Frances, was born
August 21, 1866, and married Rev. L. H. Waring, of Washington, D. C.; Mary
Ada, was born May 15, 1870; Wilbur Henry, who is an instructor in the schools
of Philadelphia, Pa., was born February 4, 1873; Forrest Roy, superintendent
of the Eastern Pennsylvania Light, Heat and Power Company of Tamaqua, Pa.;
and A. Ross, who operates his father's farm of 120 acres in Tyrone Township,
was born February 21, 1883.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 796-797.

A. LEE FLECK, who is numbered with the substantial and representative farmers
and citizens of Tyrone Township, Blair County, Pa., owns two very valuable
adjoining farms, one Of 125 acres and the other of 151 acres, both in Tyrone
Township. He was born on the former farm, September 16, 1853, and is a son of
O. P. and Katherine (Ramey) Fleck.
     O. P. Fleck was a farmer in Tyrone Township for many years. He was a man
of sterling character and a leading member of the Lutheran church. In politics
he was a Republican and he was identified with the Patrons of Husbandry,
belonging to Sinking Valley Grange, No. 484. He married Katherine Ramey, who
died May 20, 1902, and they had eight children born to them, namely: Adaline;
Caroline; G. C., who died in October, 1907; Josiah D., who died at the age of
eleven years; Ada R., who died in May, 1906; A. Lee, who lives on the old
homestead; Thomas R., of Laramie City, Wyo.; and Lottie A., who lives with
her brother in the old home. The father died October 5, 1892.
     A. Lee Fleck was reared in Tyrone Township and obtained his education
here. He has made farming his main business in life and has taken much
interest in everything pertaining to agricultural development. He is a member
of the Patrons of Husbandry, belonging to Grange No. 494, at Tyrone. In
politics Mr. Fleck is a Republican and he has frequently been elected to
responsible offices. For twelve years he served as a director of the poor and
has also been auditor. Both he and sister are members of the Lutheran church.
The family is an old and respected one in this section.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 801.

CLAIR CRAWFORD FLECK, who is engaged in general farming on a tract of roe
acres in Tyrone Township, Blair County, Pa., was born February 14, 1867, in
Sinking Valley, Blair County, Pa., and is a son of Gabriel and Rebecca
(Stoner) Fleck.
     Gabriel Fleck always followed farming in Sinking Valley, and was held in
high esteem by his fellow citizens. He was politically a Republican, a member
of the Lutheran church, and also of the Grange of Sinking Valley. His union
with Rebecca Stoner resulted in the following issue: Ira, resides in Russell
County, Kansas; Ely, is a resident of Tyrone, Pa.; John Mosheim, died in
infancy; Lindley, who is in the ministry, is a resident of Newry, Blair
County, Pa.; Elizabeth is the wife of C. H. Jones, of Tyrone; Pa.; Clara,
married B. F. Culp, of Altoona, Pa.; Cyrus, who is in the ministry, is a
resident of Riegelsville, Bucks County, Pa.; Sarah Jane, who died December,
1893; Harry, superintendent of the schools of Tyrone, Pa.; John, who is
engaged in farming in Sinking Valley, Blair County, Pa.; Clair, subject of
this record; David, a contractor of Altoona, Pa.
     Clair C. Fleck was reared and educated in Sinking Valley, and has always
followed farming in a general way, now residing on a farm of 102 acres, which
is located in Tyrone Township. He is a man of public spirit and enterprise,
and has always taken an interest in all affairs which tend toward the
advancement of the community in which he lives. In politics he is identified
with the Republican party, and is fraternally a member of the Masonic order
of Tyrone, and the Grange of Sinking Valley. He holds membership with the
Lutheran church.
     January 3, 1893, Mr. Fleck married Ella Warfel, who is a daughter of
John and Margaret Warfel, of Tyrone Township. Her father died in 1892, and
the mother lives with her daughter, Mrs. Mary Bailey, of Tyrone. Five
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Fleck: Margaret, April 1, 1894;
Marion, July 28, 1896; Ralph, November 11, 1899; Hazel, March 31, 1903; and
Lillian, September 12, 1905.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 954.

HARRY S. FLECK, M.A., superintendent of the public schools of Tyrone, Pa.,
who has been identified with the educational interests of this borough since
1891, is favorably known in professional and literary circles all through
this section. Superintendent Fleck was born July 30, 1860, in Sinking Valley,
Blair County, Pa.; he is a son of Gabriel and Rebecca (Stoner) Fleck, a
grandson of David and a great-grandson of George Fleck.
     The Fleck family is of German extraction. Prior to the Revolutionary War
four brothers of the name of Fleck crossed the Atlantic to the colonies so
soon to be delivered from English rule; two of these voyagers settled in
Montgomery County, Pa., and two in Huntingdon County which part has now
become Sinking Valley, in Blair County. The brothers who secured homes in
Sinking Valley bore the names of George and Peter Fleck, and both later
became soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
     George Fleck, the great-grandfather of Harry S. Fleck of Tyrone, was
born in 1748, in Germany, and died in Sinking Valley, Blair County, June 10,
1836. After the termination of his military service he gave his attention to
agricultural pursuits and took an active part in the various movements which
brought about peace and plenty and the advantages of civilization in this
section. He secured about 350 acres of land, purchasing from john Penn, the
elder, and John Penn, the younger. In 1793 he erected a strong log house
which not only protected his family from inclement weather but was so well
constructed that it also resisted attacks from Indians. For his land he paid
the sum of 295 pounds, three shillings and two pence. He was a man of great
physical endurance and unusual strength. It is said that after he was
eighty-seven years of age he was able to compete with younger men, working
with a sickle in the wheat field. With other settlers he helped to build a
log structure that was used as a school-house, church, and general meeting
house for business purposes for a time.
     George Fleck was married twice; first to Mollie Weeks and second to
Catherine Ramey. Mollie Weeks, who was the mother of all his children, was
born in September, 1748. The children of George and Mollie Fleck were as
follows: George, Conrad, Margaret, Jacob; Catherine Elizabeth, Henry David
and Mollie. The eldest of the above family bearing his father's name was born
August 28, 1774, and died April 4, 1815. Conrad was born January 1, 1780,
married Mary Moore, died September 12, 1845. Margaret was born April 3, 1782,
married John Fleck, died June 28, 1866. Jacob was born October 16, 1783,
married Nellie Mattay, died August 31, 1862. Catherine was born October 23,
1785, married Daniel F. Crissman, died September 18, 1874. Elizabeth (birth
date unknown), married Abram Crissman and died at the age of eighty-two
years. Henry was born June 16, 1791, and died March 27, 1859. He was the
father of the late Rev. H. R. Fleck, who spent fifty years in the ministry of
the Lutheran Church. Henry was twice married, first to Catherine Ramey and
second to Mary Keller. David was born February 27, 1793 and died August 27,
1870. Mollie was born in 1797, married Peter Burket, died May 14, 1817.
George Fleck, his two wives, all his sons, his daughters except one, his
sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, with one exception, were laid to rest in
the cemetery attached to St. John's Lutheran Church in Sinking Valley, where
six generations of the family rest.
     David Fleck, grandfather of Prof. Fleck, was born February 27, 1793, was
reared on the pioneer farm and when he succeeded to the paternal estate,
continued his father's industrial activities. At that time one of the chief
drawbacks to agricultural success as a-business was the lack of
transportation, and David Fleck found his nearest market at Lewiston, where
the mill was also situated, a whole week being required to make the trip,
with a two-wheel cart, back and forth. At certain seasons he loaded his
four-horse wagon with farm produce and covered the whole distance to
Baltimore, Md., returning with necessary supplies. He was a- leading citizen
of his community and at one time served as director of the poor, for Blair
County. He was married first to Mary Ramey and second to Keziah Shannon. Mary
Ramey was born November 15, 1799, and died November 15, 1863, aged sixty-four
years. The children of David Fleck were as follows: Gabriel; Catherine, who
married George Lotz; Francis, who died in childhood; Mary, who married Robert
Crawford; Abigail and Eli Ramey, both of whom died young; Eliza, who
married   J. M. Carl; Jane, who married John Keatley, at one time district
attorney of Blair County; and M. Luther, who married Maggie Fox.
     Gabriel Fleck, father of Prof. Harry S. Fleck, was born September 24,
1820, on the old homestead, where he spent his life, his death occurring
October 31, 1891. He was a man of intelligence and good judgment, frequently
was elected to responsible town offices, and was looked upon as a responsible
and representative citizen. He was very active in all matters pertaining to
St. John's Lutheran Church, serving as a member of its select council and in
his last sickness, which was one of great suffering, displayed the patience
and resignation of a sincere Christian. On February 26, 1846, be was married
to Rebecca Stoner, a daughter of Christian Stoner. She was born on the Isaac
Neff property near Petersburg, in Huntingdon County and when a child was
brought to the old Stoner farm in Sinking Valley. The following children were
born to Gabriel and Rebecca Stoner: Ira S., Eli F., J. Mosheim, Lindley N.,
Mary Elizabeth, Clara J., Cyrus L., Sallie J., Harry S., John S., Clair C.
and David C. Ira S. is editor of a newspaper and lives in Russell, Kansas,
where he has been prominent for some thirty years, serving as county clerk
and also as a member of the Kansas legislature. He married Sarah Fleck. Eli
F. is engaged as a clerk in a Tyrone business house. He married Annie
Hunter.  J. Mosheim died in infancy. Rev. Lindley N., D.D., is a
distinguished member of the Lutheran clergy residing at Newry, Pa., and
married Emma Henderson. Mary Elizabeth became the wife of C. H. Jones,
assistant passenger agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad at Tipton, Pa. Clara
J. is the wife of Benner Culp, who is in the railroad shops at Altoona. Rev.
Cyrus L. has been pastor of the Lutheran Church at Reiglesville, Pa., for the
past twenty-three years. He married Annie Leas. Sallie J., who died in 1903,
was the wife of J. Howard Lotz, of Sinking Valley. John S., who resides on
the old home farm in Sinking Valley, served with the rank of sergeant in the
Spanish-American War. He married Annie Krider. Clair C., who resides on the
Russell Crawford farm adjoining the old homestead, married Ella Warfel. David
C. is engaged in the contracting business at Altoona and married Annie Carls.
     Harry S. Fleck was educated in the local schools, and at Cincinnati. He
did much home study and secured from the Susquehanna University his degree of
M.A., which was bestowed upon him May 19, 1909. He began teaching school in
1882 and taught for nine consecutive years in Sinking Valley and then was
called to Tyrone where he later became principal of the High School; in this
position he continued for ten years. In 1908 he was made superintendent of
the public schools; his success has been so pronounced that he has been
favorably mentioned for the office of county superintendent and undoubtedly
possesses every qualification for the same. For over a quarter of a century
he has been engaged in educational work, twenty years of which have been
passed at Tyrone. In politics he is a Republican, being at present (1911) one
of the secretaries of the County Committee; he has ever been an active and
loyal citizen. He has an admirable record as a member of the Pennsylvania
National Guard. In 1880 he enlisted as a private in the Sheridan Troop, won
promotion, becoming corporal, then sergeant and in November, 1894, was
elected second lieutenant. During the Spanish-American War he ranked as first
lieutenant and was detailed as quartermaster of the squadron that was made up
of all the Pennsylvania cavalry. He gained an excellent record in every
department. The Pennsylvania cavalry squadron saw service in Porto Rico, and
Lieutenant Fleck was commander of one of the troops on the way home.
     Professor Fleck is a ready writer and has contributed largely both in
prose and verse, to different publications. He has written on a wide range of
subjects, being at home in various fields of literature.
     On June 30, 1897, Professor Fleck was married to Miss Katherine Wertz, a
daughter of the late John W. and Edith (Wright) Wertz, and a direct descendant
in the sixth generation of John Bartram, a noted botanist in Pennsylvania, who
was a contemporary and friend of Washington, Jefferson and Franklin. These
noted men frequently visited the Bartram home and garden on the banks of the
Schuylkill. Mr. and Mrs. Fleck have had five children, three of whom survive:
Edith Rebecca, Harold Bartram and Hester Katherine. Mr. Fleck is very active
in the affairs of the Lutheran Church, of which he has been a member since he
was thirteen years of age. For many years he has been an elder, and at present
is secretary of the council.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 944-946.

ORLANDO G. FLECK, a well known agriculturist of Tyrone Township, Blair
County, Pa., where he is operating a farm of 130 acres, was born in Canoe
Valley, Huntingdon County, Pa., May 13, 1855.  His parents were George and
Sarah Ann (Tussey) Fleck.
    George Fleck was born in Sinking Valley, Pa., where he married. He
followed farming all his active life. In politics he was a Republican. Both
he and wife were members of the Presbyterian church. They had the following
children born to them: Hugh Alton, residing in Sinking Valley; Orlando G.;
David Tussey, residing in Sinking Valley; Emma, wife of William McCormick, of
Sinking Valley; George, also living in Sinking Valley; and Dean, who died in
infancy.
     Orlando G. Fleck was reared on the home farm and was educated in the
public schools. Farming has been his chosen life work and he has been very
successful in his agricultural undertakings. He carries on general farming,
stock raising and home dairying.
     Mr. Fleck was married February 20, 1877, to Miss Charlotte Ramey, a
daughter of Frank and Sarah Ann Ramey, of Indiana County, the ceremony being
performed at the Presbyterian parsonage at Sinking Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Fleck
have the following children: Herbert F., who is married to Miss Annie Tipton
of Bellefonte, Pa., is an engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and retains
his home at Altoona; Anna L., who resides with leer parents; Mary C., who is
the wife of George Fleck, who is employed in the railroad shops at Altoona;
L. Ernest, who is employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona; and
Jennie M., A. Roller and Clara B., all residing at home. Mr. Fleck and family
attend the Presbyterian church. He is a Republican in politics but has never
desired public office. He is identified with the Moose, No. 25, and with the
Grange at Sinking Valley. He is one of the representative men of Tyrone Township.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 900-901.

THOMAS M. FLECK, a well known and substantial citizen of Tyrone Township,
Blair County, Pa., where he lives retired on his farm, was born in this
township, September 17, 1834, and was the only child born to Abraham and Mary
(McKee) Fleck.
     In his boyhood Mr. Fleck attended the district schools and when he grew
to years of responsibility he learned the carpenter's trade, which he
followed more or less all through his active years. He married Miss Sarah
Stoner, daughter of Christian and Mary Stoner, of Lancaster, Pa., and nine
children were born to them, as follows: William, Charles and Howard, all of
whom are deceased; Lewis L. and Frank E., both of whom are employed in the
Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Altoona; Mazie, who resides at home; Anna, who
is the wife of Harry Lotz, of Sinking Valley; Edward J. H., who is at work in
the Altoona shops with his brothers; and Mrs. John B. Wilson, of Altoona. Mr.
Fleck and family are members of the Lutheran church. In politics he is a
Republican and formerly was quite active in township affairs, serving thirty
years as school director and several years as auditor. He is a member of the
local Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. His home farm lies near Sinking Valley.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 955.

WILLIAM HARRISON FLENNER, one of Tyrone's best known citizens, who has
maintained his home here for twenty-eight years, has been in the fire
insurance business since May, 1896, and is very active in Grand Army affairs,
being a surviving officer of the great Civil War. He was born at Huntingdon,
Huntingdon County, Pa., May 11, 1839, and is a son of Capt. John and Eliza S.
(Rettew) Flenner.
     Captain John Flenner was born near Huntingdon, Pa., December 25, 18og,
and died in Huntingdon County, May 2, 1894, aged eighty-four years, four
months and seven days. His father was a Revolutionary soldier. Indians were
still numerous in Huntingdon County that early in the century, and a brother
of Captain Flenner, Samuel Flenner, was killed by a savage while stooping
over a spring to drink. He owned 1,200 acres of valuable land in Texas.
Captain Flenner was a shoemaker by trade. He became a man of wealth and
public importance in Huntingdon and served as councilman, burgess, assessor,
street commissioner, poor director and county commissioner. On August 1,
1862, he enlisted as first lieutenant of Co. H, 5th Pa. Vol. Inf., for
service in the Civil War, and in less than three weeks was commissioned
captain. He participated in the battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville and
received a thigh wound in the latter engagement, but served until the
expiration of his term of enlistment, when he was honorably discharged.
     Capt. John Flenner was married to Eliza Rettew, on April 10, 1831, who
died May 28, 1885, aged sixty-nine years and five months. She was a useful
member of the Baptist church, with which she had been connected from
girlhood, and at the time of her death was president of the Ladies's Aid
Society of that body. The following children were born to the parents of
William H. Flenner, namely: Mrs. Mary C. Africa, who resides at Washington,
D. C.; Mrs. Emma Thompson, who lives at Bristol; Farman, who was an
apprentice in the office of the Monitor, at Huntingdon, and at the time of
his accidental drowning in the Raystown Dam, in 1871, was eighteen years of
age; William H.; and John R., who is a resident of Huntingdon.
     William Harrison Flenner was educated in Prof. Hall's private school at
Huntingdon and later became a student in the Mooresville Collegiate
Institute. Through William Lewis and his estimable wife he became interested
in printing offices and was connected with Mr. Lewis in this line for some
years. He taught school for a considerable period, twenty-four terms in
Huntingdon County, three terms in Oneida Township, three terms in Porter
Township, four terms in Franklin Township, two terms in Warrior's Mark
Township, four terms in Jackson Township, nine terms at Birmingham and one at
Huntingdon. During all this time he was accomplishing much in the way of
literary composition, being correspondent for the following newspapers: the
Shirleysburg Herald, the Philadelphia Press and other journals and it was
while engaged thus that he received a pass to an execution for a capital
crime, the execution taking place at Huntingdon.
     Mr. Flenner was recognized as a young man of brilliant parts at that
time and the position of clerk to the board of county commissioners was
offered him; this he did not accept, but at the opening of the Civil War he
was serving as tax collector. When Captain Miller, an old veteran of the
Mexican War, started to raise a company in answer to the first call for
troops, he offered Mr. Flenner the position of third sergeant in the
organization, which became Co. D, 5th Pa. Vol. Inf. The other officers were
Col. R. P. McDowell, Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin C. Christ and Major R. Bruce
Petrikin. This company was discharged July 25, 1861, and Mr. Flenner then
returned home and shortly afterward was appointed recruiting officer for Co.
H, 125 Pa. Vol. Inf., 12th Army Corps. Mr. Flenner and his father went out in
the same company, the latter as first lieutenant and later became captain. Mr.
Flenner was appointed sergeant-major of the regiment. He went to Washington
and thence to Virginia with recruits, afterward, until the close of the war,
serving in every rank up to the captaincy. After he returned to Huntingdon
County he practiced dentistry having learned the profession previous to
enlisting in the army, and continued in the practice of that profession for
thirty years. Shortly after the close of the Spanish-American War he sold out
his professional interests and by order of his physician, sought an occupation
less strenuous than dental surgery.
     On August 20, 1861, Mr. Flenner was married to Miss Amanda Jane Mattern,
who was born January 5, 1845. The father of Mrs. Flenner was George W.
Mattern, who, for very many years was a prominent and useful citizen of
Pennsylvania. He was a son of Jacob and Jane (Wareham) Mattern, and was born
March 14, 1810, on the old Mattern homestead at Seven Stars, in Franklin
Township, Huntingdon County, Pa., and whose death occurred when he was aged
ninety years, three months and five days, on June 20, 1900. He was a
practical and successful farmer and owned large estates. He was a stanch
Republican from the organization of that party and formerly had been a Whig
anal took a very active interest in both State and National affairs. His
recollections of early days in Spruce Creek Valley, when game abounded and
pioneer conditions prevailed, always claimed attentive listeners when his
stories were told. He frequently spoke at the family reunions, which are a
regular feature of the Mattern kindred, and his death was sincerely mourned
by his many descendants although he had long passed the accorded years of the
Psalmist. He was a member of the Lutheran church for seventy-two years and for
fifty-three years was an officer in the same. He was thrice married, first to
Miriam Stevens, second to Jane McPheran, and third to Nancy Haugh, and he was
the father of a number of children. The survivors of the second marriage are:
Mrs. Flenner and John S., who resides on the old homestead at Seven Stars.
The mother of these children died August 15, 1872. Other survivors of the
Geo. W. Mattern family are: Mrs. Elizabeth Shoup, of Lorain, O,; Mrs.
Alexander Bob, of Martinsburg, Pa.; and Jeremiah C., of Hollidaysburg Pa.
     To William H. Flenner and wife the following children have been born:
Albert Wareham, married Carrie Fisher, in 1893, is a partner in the Flenner &
Caldwell Shoe Store, Tyrone, and has five children - Robert Wareham, Albert
Lawrence, Miriam, Donald and Elizabeth; Clarence Lincoln, who was born March
8, 1865, died February 8, 1884; Harry Rettew is a machinist residing at
Bellwood; Lulu Lillian, who died July 30, 1909; Bertha Alberta, who is the
widow of Frank Murphy, who was accidentally killed on the railroad, has one,
daughter Florence; Jennie McPheran, who died September 28, 1891; Anna
Mattern, who is the wife of Arnold R. Rhodes and they have two children -
Lillian and Ruth; George Stewart, who is a train director with the
Pennsylvania Railroad, married Verna Caldwell and they have three children -
Madeline L., Helen B. and Gerald S.; Mary Orabel, who is the wife of P. D.
Wilson, who is clerk to the trainmaster at Tyrone, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad; Desina Ruth, who died September 16, 1905; and Arthur Raymond, is a
student at Tyrone.
     William H. Flenner is a Republican in his political sentiments and at
present is serving in his fourth term as assessor. When he first came to
Tyrone he was offered one of the public schools but he declined the honor as
he had made up his mind to leave the educational field, in which, however, he
had been unusually successful. He is identified with the D. M. Jones Post, No.
172, G.A.R., at Tyrone and belongs also to the Sons of Veterans.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 849-851.

EDWARD H. FLICK, a leading member of the Blair County Bar and formerly city
solicitor of the city of Altoona, has been a valued resident of this place
since the spring of 1884. He was born in Cambria County, Pa., August 16,
1860, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Sharbaugh) Flick.
     John Flick and wife were both born in Alsace-Lorraine, now of Germany
but then of France. In 1830 John Flick came to America, an ambitious and
adventurous youth of nineteen years, and located in Cambria County, Pa.,
where he engaged in agricultural pursuits during the whole of his active
life. He married Elizabeth Sharbaugh, who died at Carrolltown, in Cambria
County, in 1869, whom he survived, reaching the age of eighty-four years.
Both he and wife were consistent Catholics.
     Edward H. Flick was given excellent educational opportunities and took
advantage of them. He completed his classical course at St. Vincent College,
in Westmoreland County, an institute of age and reputation, and then turned
his attention to the study of law. He was prepared for the bar under the
supervision of judge A. V. Barker, of Ebensburg, Pa., and was admitted to
practice in the spring of 1883. His first year of professional work was spent
at Carrolltown and from there, in the spring of 1884, he came to Altoona where
he has gained a substantial following and has made a name for himself in the
courts of Blair County. He has always been more or less active in public
matters and is identified with the Democratic party. In 1892 he was elected
city solicitor and served in that office with the utmost efficiency until 1894.
     On June 30, 1891, Mr. Flick married Miss Annie O'Connor, a daughter of
John O'Connor, a resident of Pittsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Flick have a beautiful
home at Lakemont, Pa., and he maintains his office at No. 10, Nicholson
Building, Altoona. Mr. and Mrs. Flick are members of the Roman Catholic church.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 528.

CALVIN R. FLUKE, cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank, and
one of the representative business men of Williamsburg, Pa., was born October
2, 1856, in this borough, and is a son of William and Mary Ann (Dean) Fluke.
His parents were old settlers of Blair County, Pa. They had the following
children: Anna, who is the wife of Frank R. Schumacker;     R. S., who is a
hardware merchant; Calvin R., our subject; and William D.
     Calvin R. Fluke obtained his education in the common schools and the
academy at Williamsburg, Pa., and with the exception of nine years spent with
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Altoona, has always been a resident of
this borough. He was for four years secretary and treasurer of the
Williamsburg Paper Manufacturing Company, of which he was one of the
organizers, and which is now known as the West Virginia Pulp and Paper
Company, and on January 1, 1910, assumed his present duties as cashier of the
Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank of Williamsburg. Mr. Fluke is also a
stock holder in the Williamsburg Department Store. In politics he is
independent and has served in most all of the town offices, being now a
member of the town council. His religious connection is with the Presbyterian
church, in which he is secretary of the board of deacons. He is a member of
the Improved Order of Heptasophs.
     In May, 1886, Mr. Fluke was united in marriage with Miss Genevieve
Roller, a daughter of John M. and Elizabeth Roller, who were old residents of
Blair County, and both of whom are deceased and buried in the Presbyterian
Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Fluke are the parents of three children: Charles S.,
Fred and John.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 765-766.

ROBERT S. FLUKE, one of the leading hardware merchants of Williamsburg, Pa.,
and a stockholder and director of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, has been
a lifelong resident of this borough, born here January 13, 1855, a son of W.
A. and Mary (Dean) Fluke, both of whom were born and reared in Blair County,
Pa. They were the parents of the following children: Anna, who is the wife of
Frank Schumaker; Robert S., our subject; Calvin, who is cashier of the
Farmer's and Merchants' Bank of Williamsburg; Patty, deceased, who was the
wife of Homer Hewitt; William D., and Lilly, who is deceased.
     Robert S. Fluke grew to maturity in Williamsburg, and after a common
school education engaged in the hardware business with his father, after
whose death he continued as proprietor of the business in the same location.
The business was established about 100 years ago, and has always been the
property of the Fluke family. Mr. Fluke is identified with the Democratic
party in politics, and his religious connection is with the Presbyterian
church.
     Mr. Fluke was married in September, 1897, to Miss Rosabelle Ake, a
daughter of William and Susan Ake, who were early settlers of Blair County.
Mr. and Mrs. Ake had five children: Clara, who is the wife of Dr. T. H.
White; Florence, who is Mrs. Fluke, and Samuel, Charles and William. Mr. and
Mrs. Fluke are parents of two children: Edgar W. and Florence, who is the
wife of Edward Spangler. Mr. and Mrs. Spangler have two children, Robert S.
and Marie.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 615.

REV. JOSEPH FOGEL, deceased.  The sudden death on September 26, 1909, at
Johnstown, Pa., of Rev. Father Joseph Fogel, brought heavy bereavement to his
surviving parents, brothers and sisters, and occasioned deep grief also to
other members of the Catholic clergy, who knew and loved him well, and to the
congregation of St. John Catholic Church at Johnstown, to which he had
administered as assistant priest for more than one year.
     Father Fogel, or to give his full name, Joseph Roy Fogel, was born at
Hollidaysburg, Pa., November 15, 1879. He was one of five children and was
the oldest son of Augustus and Margaret (McCue) Fogel, of Young's Crossing,
on the Logan Valley Railway. Augustus Fogel was born in Pleasant Valley, Pa.,
March 26, 1855. His father was born in Prussia.
     Augustus Fogel remained with his father until he was twenty-two years of
age, helping him in his contracting business, and then started for himself. He
is now counted one of the leading contractors of Blair County. He married
Margaret McCue, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Sullivan) McCue, who came to
America from Ireland in 1854. Thomas McCue was a miner by trade and lived at
Hollidaysburg where he died April 9, 1901. His widow and five children
survived him. Mr. and Mrs. Fogel reside in a fine residence near
Hollidaysburg, which is constructed of concrete.
     The boyhood, youth and early manhood of the late Father Fogel were all
passed at Hollidaysburg and there still live many of his old friends who
tenderly cherish his memory. He was of natural brilliancy of intellect. He
attended St. Mary's parochial schools and later the Hollidaysburg public
schools, graduating there in the class of 1897. It was his own choice to
become a priest and he pursued his studies at St. Vincent's at Latrobe; St.
Mary's at Baltimore, and finished his course at St. Bernard's, at Rochester,
N. Y. He was ordained at St. John's pro-cathedral. Altoona, on June 9, 1906.
He was given charge in turn of the Parishes at Frugality and Blandsburg,
Cambria County, and subsequently officiated as the chaplain at St. Aloysius
Academy, at Cresson Springs. From there he went to St. John's, at Johnstown.
     Father Fogel celebrated his first mass at St. Mary's, Hollidaysburg. He
seemed so well equipped for the self sacrificing and useful calling he had
chosen, and was so enthusiastic in its work, that kindred, neighbors and
friends could not fail to deeply lament the crushing of their hopes. He
possessed talents which gave great promise of a useful life in the church and
he was fitted with those personal attributes which give influence to a
spiritual leader. Attending his obsequies and mingling their tears with those
of his nearest relatives, were some of the highest dignitaries of the Catholic
church in Pennsylvania and as they surrounded his bier and celebrated high
mass, they extolled his virtues. His remains rest in St. Mary's Cemetery, but
the lesson of his beneficent life will be as an ever widening stream.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 554-557.

DR. FRANK A. FORD, who makes a specialty of diseases of the eye, ear, nose
and throat, has been located at Altoona, Pa., since the fall of 1900, and was
born in Cresson, Cambria County, Pa., in 1873.  He came to Blair County, Pa.,
when five years old, with his parents, who settled in Bellwood, and was there
reared and received his early education.  After graduating from the Altoona
High School, he entered the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the
medical department in 1897, and then was resident physician of the Altoona
Hospital and the St. Christopher Hospital of Philadelphia for some time. He
then took up special work at the Wills Eye Hospital of Philadelphia, and
since the fall of 1900 has been located at Altoona, where he makes a
specialty of eye, ear, nose and throat diseases. Dr. Ford is a member of the
staff of the Mercy Hospital of this city, and is a member of the Blair
County, and the State and American Medical Societies.
     Dr. Ford is fraternally a 32d degree Mason, a member of the Logan Lodge
F.& A.M., and the Jappa [Jaffa] Shrine of Altoona, the Harrisburg Consistory,
the B.P.O.E., and the University Club of Altoona. He is a member of the Second
Presbyterian Church. Dr. Ford was married in June, 1906, to Rachael B. Dunn of
Philadelphia, and has one son, Boyd Albert.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 801-802.

JOHN S. FORSHT, one of the well known citizens of Duncansville, Pa., which
pleasant borough has been his place of residence since the spring of 1894,
has led a busy business life and at present is interested to a considerable
degree in livestock, particularly in the purchase and sale of horses. He was
born at Henrietta, Blair County, Pa., November 16, 1848, and is a son of
Jacob and Jane (Soulsbey) Forsht.
     Jacob Forsht was born on South Mountain, in Franklin County, Pa., and
his wife was born in England. She was a daughter of James Soulsbey, who was a
sailor who later sought a home in Blair County and years afterward moved into
Cambria County, where he died in old age. Jacob Forsht left his native county
when sixteen years of age and located for a time at Henrietta, in Blair
County, and then moved to Martinsburg and subsequently became a partner in
the firm of Hand and Snowden, builders of agricultural implements and
machinery. The plant was known as Keagy's foundry and was located near
Woodbury, Pa., and the above firm leased the works and continued the business
for some years. Jacob Forsht later withdrew and settled on a farm on Halter
Creek, in Bedford County, and lived there during the sixties and then removed
to Eldorado, Pa., and prior to his death, to Juniata. Of the children of Jacob
Forsht and wife there are six survivors: John S., residing in Blair Township;
Jennie, wife of Jacob Goodman, residing at Altoona; Albert, living at Juniata; 
Margaret E., wife of John Robison, of Williamsburg; Samuel I., living at Juniata; 
and Isabella, wife of Elmer E. McGill, living in Blair Township.
     John S. Forsht was reared in Blair County and attended the schools near
the family home until old enough to begin his own individual career. He tried
railroading for a short time and during this period lived at Sunbury, Pa., and
then moved to Millville where he went into the butchering and stock buying
business and remained there for five years. He then moved to the  S. C. Baker
farm in Logan Township, where he lived for several years and followed farming,
and then went to Allegheny Furnace. There he found dealing in horses and mules
a very profitable business and he became extensively engaged in the same and
has more or less continued since moving on his farm in Blair Township,
residing at Duncansville. He has been an active citizen ever since locating
here, lending his influence to the promotion of important and public spirited
enterprises. He was one of the founders of the local Grange and was largely
instrumental in getting established the Blair County Grange Fair Association
and has been one of its directors since its beginning. He is president of the
Duncansville Building and Loan Association and one of its directors, this
being a well established business enterprise of the place.
     Mr. Forsht married Miss Sarah J. Leighty, who was born in Blair County,
a daughter of William Leighty, formerly of Allegheny Township, and four
children were born to them: Maggie, who is the wife of Charles A. Mason, of
South Altoona; W. Edward, who lives in Blair Township, near Duncansville;
Flora, who is the wife of W. H. Stifler, of Duncansville; and Emma, who is
the wife of Thomas Parker, of Aspinwall, Pa. In politics Mr. Forsht is a
Republican and he has served as auditor of Blair Township. He is a member of
the Lutheran church at Duncansville.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp.693-694.

C. W. FOX, M.D., president of the borough council of Roaring Spring, Pa., and
a leading physician and surgeon of this place, which has been his home for
twenty-three years, was born at Woodbury, Bedford County, Pa., September 10,
1859, and is a son of Michael Fox, who lived there into honorable old age,
having reached his eightieth year when his death occurred.
     C. W. Fox was reared in the old home in Woodbury and attended school
there and afterward taught school for a time in Taylor Township, Blair
County. In 1879 he began the study of medicine, with Dr. John Oellig, then a
well known physician at Woodbury, and from his instruction he entered
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and was graduated in 1882. His first
field of medical practice was at Argentine, Kans., from which place he moved
in a short time back to Woodbury, conditions in Kansas not being as favorable
as he had anticipated. He located at Buffalo Mills, Bedford County, in 1884,
and remained there until March, 1887, when he came to Roaring Spring. Here
Dr. Fox was cordially received as a medical practitioner and the favorable
impression he made at the beginning has yearly been strengthened until now he
not only has a large and lucrative private practice but he is also a member of
the hospital staff of the Nason hospital, situated at Roaring Spring. He is
numbered with the most skillful and successful members of his profession in
Blair County.
     Dr. Fox married Miss Catherine Mohr, a daughter of John Mohr, now of
Roaring Spring, formerly of Baker's Summit, Pa., and they have two children:
Henry N., who is station agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Ore
Hill; and Emory W., who is holding a clerical position in the offices of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Hollidaysburg. Dr. Fox and his eldest son are both
32nd degree Masons. He is also identified with Model Lodge, No. 856, Odd
Fellows, at Roaring Spring and belongs to its different branches and has
served in the office of grand patriarch of the grand encampment. He is also a
member of the order of Foresters at Roaring Spring. Dr. Fox was reared in the
Methodist faith but now is a member of the Lutheran church and has been a
church member since youth. In politics he is a Republican and has always been
an active and what may be termed, a constructive, citizen, his efforts ever
having been public spirited and progressive. Since 1905 he has been a member
of the borough council and during a large part of the time has served
efficiently as its president.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 590.

JAMES P. FRANCISCUS, one of the leading and representative business men of
Tyrone, Pa., and prominently identified with and interested in its
progressive commercial activities, is a native of Lewistown, Mifflin County,
Pa., and is a son of F. G. and Ellen (Parker) Franciscus.
     F. G. Franciscus was born at Baltimore, Md., and died at Lewistown, Pa.,
in 1900, at the age of seventy-seven years. For fifty-one years he had been in
the hardware business, and was a substantial and respected citizen of
Lewistown. He married Ellen Parker, a native of Mifflin County, who died when
her children were small. The two survivors are, James P., and Mrs. Catherine
Lindsey, wife of Ellwood C. Lindsey, of Philadelphia.
     James P. Franciscus attended Tuscarora Academy and was educated both at
Lewistown and Philadelphia. He then became interested with his father in the
hardware business at Lewistown and continued there until 1892, when he
established himself in the same business at Tyrone. Owing to the death of his
father he and his sister came into possession of his interests and he still
carries on the hardware business there.
     Mr. Franciscus married Miss Mary Wallace, a daughter of Rev. R. M.
Wallace, formerly pastor of the Altoona Presbyterian Church, and they have
two children, Eleanor and Rodger. In his political views, Mr. Franciscus
chooses to be independent. He is a valued member of the Business Men's
Association, is connected with the Improvement Building and Loan Association
of Tyrone and is a member of the Tyrone Club. He is a man of pleasing
personality and is recognized by his fellow citizens as one of business,
qualifications of a high order.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 845.

JOHN RODGER FRASER, a much-esteemed citizen, who is living in retirement in
Juniata, Pa., after years of unceasing activity in the business world, was
for 42 consecutive years in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and has
been a resident of Blair County, Pa., since December 29, 1865.  He was born
June 9, 1841, in Glasgow, Scotland, the second child of Alexander and Mary
(Logan) Fraser.
     Alexander Fraser, a highlander and a native of Peterhead, Scotland, was
an actor by profession and followed that business during his residence in his
native country.  In 1848 he brought his wife and son, our subject, to America
in a sailing vessel, and located in Tariffville, Hartford County, Ct., until
June, 1865, then came to Altoona, Pa. He resided here until his death, which
occurred some time during the middle eighties. His wife, Mary Logan Fraser,
was born in Paisley, Scotland, and was a daughter of Thomas Logan, a
hand-loom weaver and local preacher.
     John R. Fraser was about seven years old when his parents came to this
country, and was reared at Tariffville, Ct., where at the age of nine years,
he started to work as a draw boy in a brussels carpet manufactory. He later
assisted his father in painting during the summer months, returning again to
the factory in the winter. On April 18, 1861, in answer to the first call for
troops, he enlisted as a private in Capt. Jos. R. Hawley's Rifle Company A,
1st Reg. Ct. Vol., for three months' service, and was honorably discharged
July 31, 1861. After remaining home one month, he re-enlisted in September,
1861, as a private in Company B, 8th Ct. Vol. Inf., for three years, and on
April 1, 1862, for meritorious conduct at Boque Banks,     N. C., was
advanced to sergeant. In 1864 he re-enlisted in the same company and regiment
and continued in the service until the war closed, being mustered out at City
Point, Va., and discharged at Hartford, December 18, 1865. During his entire
service he did not miss any of the engagements of his regiment. He was with
Burnside in North Carolina, was in the Ninth Corps until the battle of
Fredericksburg, and was with the Army of the James. After his return home
from the war he was married, on Christmas Day, 1865, and four days later
joined his parents in Altoona, Pa. He then engaged in painting between
Altoona and Harrisburg for the Pennsylvania Railroad and in September, 1866,
entered the car shops, where he worked for about four months under Robert
Scott. He was then made gang foreman and spent 27 years in the paint shops of
the car department, after which he entered the machine shops at Juniata, where
he continued for 15 years, when he was put on the retired list. It is seldom
one undertakes to learn a new trade at the age he did, but he was rated as a
machinist when he retired.
     Mr. Fraser was married December 25, 1865, to Mary Whitelaw, who was born
in Tariffville, Hartford County, Ct., and died March 21, 1907. Of the six
children born of this union only two are living: William A., a resident of
Pittsburg, and an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who married Annie
Fresht, and has three children, William J., Mary Alberta, and Florence; and
Mary, wife of John Hollingshead, who also is in the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Juniata.
     Mr. Fraser is politically a Republican and was for nine years justice of
the peace, resigning from that office after the death of his wife, at which
time he also retired from the shops. He was at one time chairman of the
county committee, was three years a member of the city committee of Altoona,
and was a member of the first select council at Altoona. He was chairman of
the highway committee when the Seventh Street, and the Ninth and Fourth
Street bridges were built, and was also a member of the council of Juniata,
of which he was president one year, and was serving when that borough
obtained water works.
     Mr. Fraser has been very prominent in Masonic circles, and highly
honored in the lodge. He is a member of the Logan Lodge No. 490, F.& A.M., at
Altoona. He was for a number of years correspondent for the Altoona Tribune
and also contributed a number of articles under the nom de plume of "Aunt
Emma." Many years after the war, the State of Connecticut gave a medal to the
members of the First, Second and Third Volunteer Regiments, who enlisted in
the United States service in response to President Lincoln's first call for
troops for the defense of Washington, in April, 1861, and the medal received
by Mr. Fraser is treasured most highly by him.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 833-835.

R. B. FREEMAN, trainmaster of the Tyrone division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, whose thirty-six years of efficient railroad service have been
spent with the division with which he is yet connected, is a man whose
capacity is apparent, marking his manner and speech. He was born at Beach
Haven, Luzerne County, Pa., April 1, 1859, and obtained his education in the
public schools. At the age of twelve years he began to learn telegraphy in
the railroad office at Bigler, and on April 1, 1875, at the age of sixteen,
he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad as telegraph operator on
the Tyrone division. His gradual advance from one responsible position to
another sufficiently indicates the value of his services to this corporation.
On September 1, 1876, he was appointed passenger agent at Osceola Mills, Pa.;
train dispatcher at Tyrone, October 1, 1880; assistant trainmaster, November
1, 1887; and trainmaster, January 1, 1900. He is widely known and is one of
the most popular railroad men of this division.
     Mr. Freeman was married in 1881, to Miss Kate Cameron, a daughter of
James R. Cameron, of Osceola Mills, and they have five children, namely:
Charles B., James C., and Harry E., who hold responsible positions with the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Myra C., who married Hugh N. Crider, and
resides at Bellefonte; and Jeannette, residing at home. Mr. Freeman is
identified fraternally with Tyrone Lodge, No. 494, F.& A.M.; the Improved
Order of Heptasophs, and the Modern Woodmen of America. In his political
views he is a Republican.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 929-930.

JOHN FUOSS, proprietor of the Bellwood Mills, at Bellwood, Pa., and a dealer
in flour and feed of all kinds, has been in the milling and flour business
here since January 15, 1901. He was born September 13, 1874, in Huntingdon
County, Pa., and is a son of Jacob Fuoss.
     John Fuoss was about four months old when the family moved to Birmingham
and three years later to the place called Fuoss Mills, in Antis Township,
Blair County. He attended the township schools and had ten months of business
training at the Altoona Commercial College. He learned the milling business in
early manhood and has been engaged in milling and farming for many years and
has confined himself exclusively to milling since coming to Bellwood. He is a
careful business man, possessing both good judgment and a thorough knowledge
of the industry in which he is engaged and is numbered with the substantial
citizens of Antis Township.
     On June 3, 1903, Mr. Fuoss was married to Miss Blanche Bailey, who was
born in Snyder Township, Blair County, but at the time of her marriage was
residing at Harrisburg. She is a daughter of William T. and Mary (McFarland)
Bailey, the latter of whom survives, being now in her eightieth year, and
residing in Antis Township. Mr. and Mrs. Fuoss have two children: Mildred
Lois and Kenneth Alton. In politics, Mr. Fuoss is identified with the
Democratic party.  He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church at
Bellwood.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 795-796.

WlLLIAM FUOSS, who has been a resident of Antis Township, Blair County, Pa.,
for a period of thirty-two years, is a member of the well known firm of Fuoss
Brothers, who have been operating a mill since 1887, and is also identified
with other business enterprises of this locality. He was born January 26,
1862, at No. 617 Washington Street, Huntingdon, Pa., and is a son of Jacob
and Annie K. (Schmiermund) Fuoss.
     Jacob Fuoss was born in Germany and in 1841 came to the United States
and located at Huntingdon, Pa., which was previous to his marriage. He
learned the miller's trade at Bellwood and later bought the Cherry Tree Mill
and also considerable timberland, and being of a speculative nature bought
and sold tracts of land, but was not highly successful in this line of
business. He also spent some time in Iowa, and in 1878 came to Antis Township
and located where our subject now lives. He was married July 2, 1859, to Annie
K. Schmiermund, who was born in Germany but did not come to this country until
long after Mr. Fuoss had come. Of their union were born the following
children: Anna C., who lives with her brother, the subject of this sketch;
William, our subject; Jacob, who was born September 24, 1863, in Huntingdon,
Pa., is one of the proprietors of the mill, and was married January 25, 1898,
to Mary Shay (they have four children, Jacob Harold, Fred Earl, Milton Shay,
and Anna Leah); George H., also a member of the firm of Fuoss Brothers, was
born February 22, 1865, and married Myrtle Bulick, who was born in Bellville
(they have three sons, William Emmor, Frank Albert, and George Clarence);
Leonard, born October 3, 1867, who is engaged in cattle raising in Carlsbad,
N. M. (he married Annie Byers, daughter of Henry and Susan Byers), and John,
who lives at Bellwood, Pa.
     William Fuoss was thirteen years of age, when his parents moved to
Birmingham-in the spring of 1875-and received his education in the schools
there and at Huntingdon. In 1878 the family came to Antis Township and
located on our subject's present place, the old mill which is on the place,
and having been established in 182o by a Mr. Byer. It was owned by the Byers
until 1883, but had for some years prior to that time been leased by the
Fuosses. The father bought the mill and property in 1883 and on December 14,
1886, sold it to his sons, William, Jacob and George, who also own the mill
at Bellwood, which they bought in 1895. The latter mill is operated
separately now by John Fuoss. In 1882 Mr. Fuoss completed a commercial course
at the Mount City Business College of Altoona. Since 1903 he has been
president of the Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank of Tyrone, of which he
is one of the directors, and one of the original stockholders. Fuoss Brothers
are also interested in the E. W. Rothrock Drug Company, a corporation of
Tyrone. The brothers also have a tract of 235 acres on which they carry on
farming in connection with the mill.
     On September 18, 1890, Mr. Fuoss married Lulu Ermine, who was born in
Antis Township, a daughter of Sylvester and Eleanor (Harrison) Ermine, and
they have three children: George Ermine, who is a student at the college at
Valparaiso, Ind.; Leonard Lee, also a student at the Valparaiso College; and
William Robert, now 16 years of age, attending the Antis Township High
School. Both of the older sons, who are 19 and 18 years old respectively,
entered the college in the fall of 1910, and were shortly after advanced to
the senior class, both being thorough students. Mrs. Fuoss died June 18,
1901, and is buried at Tyrone Cemetery. Mr. Fuoss is a Democrat in national
politics. but independent locally. He is president of the Antis Township
school board and has also served in other local offices. He is a member of
the Presbyterian Church, of which he has been an elder since 1887, and has
been superintendent of the Sabbath school for some years. He is fraternally a
member of the Tyrone Lodge, F.& A.M., and also the Consistory of Harrisburg, Pa.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 908-909.

REV. JOHN E. FURRY, a representative citizen of North Woodbury Township,
Blair County, Pa., where his well improved farm of fifty-six acres is
situated, is the valued and esteemed pastor of the First Progressive Brethren
Church at Martinsburg. He was born at New Enterprise, Bedford County, Pa.,
February 21, 1862, and is a son of Rev. S. B. and Mary A. (Shelley) Furry.
     Rev. S. B. Furry was born February 17, 1836, in Bedford County, Pa., a
son of Rev. Leonard and Hannah (Brown) Furry. Leonard Furry was only a boy
when his parents moved from Lancaster County to Bedford County, settling at
Morrison's Cove. The earlier ancestors came from Switzerland. Leonard Furry
became a minister in the Church of the Brethren and both his son and grandson
also have devoted themselves more or less entirely to religious work. As
religious teachers and directors this name has long been one held in honor
through Bedford and Blair Counties. S. B. Furry was reared in Bedford County
and was taught farm pursuits in youth, alternating farming with school
attendance. He was a student in the public schools and also had private
instruction under Prof. Coblentz, an efficient instructor at that time, after
which he taught five terms of school at New Enterprise. He was about
forty-five years of age when he accepted the responsibilities of a minister
in the Progressive Brethren Church and has been actively identified with this
work ever since. For a number of years he was a welcomed contributor to the
Gospel Visitor, and also to the Family Companion, the latter journal being
later merged into the Brethren Evangelist, and it has a wide circulation on
account of its high class contents.
     In 1869 Rev. S. B. Furry moved from Bedford County to North Woodbury
Township, Blair County. He was married in this township to Miss Mary A.
Shelley, daughter of the late John Shelley, and three children were born to
them: John E., who is a farmer and minister in North Woodbury Township;
Jennie A., who is the wife of James Crofford, who is in business as jeweler
and optician, at Martinsburg; and Annie F., who is now deceased. Rev. S. B.
Furry and wife are valued residents of Martinsburg. For three years he served
as a member of the borough school board, filling the office of secretary.
During a long period he was a leader in Sunday-school work at New Enterprise
and has never lost his interest in this branch of the church.
     John E. Furry was eight years old when his parents moved from Bedford to
Blair County and settled in North Woodbury Township, where he supplemented
attendance in the public schools with private instruction at Martinsburg.
Since 1896 he has been an acceptable minister in the Progressive Brethren
Church, in 1902 being elected one of the elders. On October 9, 1883, he was
married to Miss Emma J. Layman, who was born in Blair County, and is a
daughter of the late Solomon S. Layman, of Martinsburg. They have two sons,
Arthur E. and Samuel E. Rev. John E. Furry, like his father, is affiliated
with the Republican party but merely as good and law abiding citizens. Rev.
Furry is a man of unostentatious yet unflagging zeal and his influence as a
religious teacher extends far beyond the religious body with which his name
is identified.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 588-589.

JAMES GAILEY, an enterprising citizen and progressive farmer, residing on a
fine farm of 129 acres in Woodbury Township, Blair County, Pa., was born in
1845, in Philadelphia, Pa., a son of William and Martha (Black) Gailey, both
now deceased. The father was identified with the Democratic party in
politics, and he and wife were both members of the Presbyterian church. They,
were parents of the following children: Eliza, William, John, James, Martha,
and Samuel.
     James Gailey obtained a common school education and has always followed
farming, having purchased his present farm of 129 acres from the Ake heirs,
fifteen years ago. At the time of his purchase, the farm was well improved,
having a good house and barn, but Mr. Gailey has just completed a fine new
residence. He was married in 1869 to Lydia Jackson, a daughter of John
Jackson of Clearfield County. She is one of the following children born to
her parents: Andrew, George, Louise, Melissa, Matilda, David, Lydia,
Elizabeth, and Sophia. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs.
Gailey: Martha, who is the wife of Harry Reese; and Anna, William, Leonard,
Melissa, Andrew, Samuel, and Essie, deceased. The religious connection of the
family is with the Presbyterian church. Mr. Gailey is politically a Democrat
and takes an active interest in all affairs which pertain to the welfare of
the community in which he lives.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 754.

S. A. GAILEY, superintendent of the Water Works of Altoona, Pa., has been a
resident of this city since December, 1874, and is a native of Juniata
Township, Blair County, Pa., where he was born in 1856, a son of William and
Martha Gailey.
     William Gailey, father of our subject, was born in County Donegal,
Ireland, and came to America in 1844, locating first in Philadelphia, where
he resided ten years. In 1854 he carne to Blair County, Pa., where he was
employed for ten or twelve years by the Penna. R.R. Company, after which he
followed farming for a number of years.
     S. A. Gailey came to Altoona in 1874 and early in life learned the
plumber's trade, and was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company until
1886. In April of that year he became superintendent of the-Water Works of
Altoona and has served continuously in that capacity since. Mr. Gailey is
also identified with various business enterprises of this city, being
secretary of the board of directors of the Altoona Times Company, director of
the Union Building and Loan Association, and president of the Home Purchasing
Company.
     On May 12, 1880, Mr. Gailey was united in marriage with Frances M.
Campbell of Clearfield, Pa., and of their union was born two sons, William
Hugh, deceased, and Samuel A., who is in the employ of Charles McAleer,
plumber, as an apprentice. The religious connection of the family is with the
First Presbyterian Church, of, which Mr. Gailey is a member of the official
board. Mr. Gailey is fraternally affiliated with the Masons, being a Knight
Templar, 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. 698.

AARON G. GARBER, whose farm of l00 acres of well improved land is situated
near Newry, in Blair Township, Blair County, Pa., is a well known, reliable
and representative citizen of this section. He was born in the northern part
of Bedford County, Pa., August 4, 1858, and is a son of John B. and Catherine
(Guntz) Garber.
     John B. Garber was born in Taylor Township, Blair County, Pa., a son of
John Garber, who was one of the early settlers in that region. John B. Garber
was a blacksmith by trade and followed the same in Taylor Township for some
years and then engaged in farming. His death occurred in June, 1890. He
married Catherine Guntz, who was born at Conemaugh, Pa., and survived her
husband but six months. Of their children the following survive: Charles, who
lives in Bedford County, Pa.; Alexander, who resides near Williamsburg;
George, who is a farmer in Taylor Township; Isaac, who moved to Wood County;
James. N., who is a physician in practice at Detroit. Mich.; Harry, who lives
in Wood County; Edward, who resides near Tyrone, Pa.; Aaron G.; Susan, who is
the wife of Daniel Dick, of Taylor Township; Almira, who is the wife of
George C. Albright, of Roaring Springs, Pa.; and Annie, who is the wife of
Lafayette Sell of Roaring Springs. The late John B. Garber was a soldier in
the Civil War.
     Aaron G. Garber grew to manhood in Taylor Township, where he attended
school. Later he moved to Freedom Township, where he lived for eight years
and then moved into Frankstown Township and lived there until 1904, when he
came to his present farm near Newry, in Blair Township. He devotes his land
to agricultural purposes, raising grain and other products and growing
excellent stock.
     Mr. Garber was married to Miss Almira Shaw, who was born in Freedom
Township, Blair County, a daughter of William Shaw, a former well known
citizen, and seven children have been born to them: Elmer P., John S., Frank
S., Ralph R., Aaron, Mary E. and Martha. Mary E. is the wife of Clarence
Long, of Blair Township. Mr. Garber and family belong to the Church of God at
Roaring Springs. He is a Republican in politics. Like the majority of the
successful and progressive agriculturists of this section, Mr. Garber is a
member of Allegheny Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, at Duncansville.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 696-697.

ELI GARBER, foreman or boss machine tender for the Morrison & Cass Paper
Manufacturing Company, at Tyrone, Pa., has been connected with the
manufacturing of paper for the past forty-one years and has had experience at
different points.  He was born February 11, 1856, at Roaring Spring, Blair
County, Pa., and is a son of Daniel and Catherine (Schrader) Garber.
     Daniel Garber was born in Germany and came to America when twenty-four
years of age, having previously lived in the city of Berlin, where he had
learned the shoemaking trade. For a time he lived at Philadelphia and then
became an employee of a shoe factory in York County. He married there and he
and his wife came then to Blair County, crossing the mountains on the old
Portage road and finally settled near Roaring Spring, where he died in 1881,
aged seventy-five. years and his wife in 1897, aged eighty-three years. Ten
children were born to Daniel and Catherine Garber, five sons and five
daughters, not all of whom, however, reached mature years but nearly all of
those who lived to establish homes of their own, settled in Blair County.
John Garber, the eldest, who is now in his seventy-second year, was a brave
soldier in the Civil War. He is now superintendent of the pulp mill,
connected with paper manufacturing, at Roaring Spring, and has been
identified with the same company since before the War of the Rebellion. Henry
Garber is connected with the Berwin White Car Company, at Hollidaysburg. Frank
Garber is with the paper mill at Roaring Spring. Ellen is the wife of Enoch
Snyder, of Roaring Spring, and Susan is the wife of Samuel Morgan, of the
same place. Elizabeth is deceased. Catherine and Mary are also deceased, the
former of whom was the wife of Anthony Hearn, and the latter the wife of
Thomas Waldron. Eli is the subject of this sketch.
     Eli Garber attended the public schools of Roaring Spring until he was
thirteen years of age, when he entered the paper mill operated by Morrison,
Bear & Cass and continued to work there from 1869 until 1872, when the plant
was destroyed by fire caused by a boiler explosion. It was rebuilt and
continued to be operated under the name of Morrison, Bear & Cass. In the fall
of 1880, Mr. Garber came to Tyrone and in the spring of 1891 went to Lock
Haven but in the same year the paper plant there burned down and he returned
to Roaring Spring and was made machine tender in the paper-mill, and
performed the duties of that position for two years when he was promoted to
be superintendent, where he remained until 1889. From then to 1905, he was
machine tender, and then became tower foreman or boss machine tender. There
is very little about paper manufacturing of which Mr. Garber is ignorant,
having climbed step by step until he now occupies a very responsible
position. He is one of the oldest paper men in this section, in point of
years of experience.
     In 1876 Mr. Garber was married to Miss Sadie Bowers, a daughter of John
K. Bowers, of Roaring Spring. He and wife are members of St. Matthew's
Catholic Church. They enjoy a pleasant home which is situated at No. 1255
Pennsylvania Avenue, Tyrone. He votes with the Democratic party.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 916-917.

JOHN WINFIELD GARDNER, of the well known firm of Gardner & Miller, retail
dealers in coal, brick and builders' supplies, with business location on West
Tenth Street, Tyrone, Pa., is a member of one of the old pioneer families of
this section of Pennsylvania. He was born in Clearfield County, Pa., January
29, 1853, and is a son of Andrew and Mary Ann (Ream) Gardner.
     Andrew Gardner was born in Blair County, Pa., in 1830, and is a son of
Andrew Gardner, and the grandson of William Gardner. It was William Gardner
who established the family in what is now Blair County, coming here prior to
the Revolutionary War. There were no roads through the forests and the hardy
pioneers found their way about by following Indian trails. William Gardner
built a log house on one of the mountain streams and lived in that until he
was able to erect a better one. The latter was but recently torn down after
standing for 116 years. William Gardner married a daughter of John Kratzer,
of Kratzer's Forge, known to the present generation as Cold Springs. A family
of sturdy children were born in this forest home and the sons were mainly
engaged in lumbering and teaming. The family has produced men of robust
constitution and an example is found in the venerable father of John W.
Gardner, who, after years of lumbering, entailing physical exertion of the
hardest kind, still enjoys-good health and easily bears the weight of his
eighty-one years. He married Mary Ann Ream, who was born at Phillipsburg,
Pa., a daughter of John Ream, and died in Blair County, in 1908. Ten children
were born to this marriage, namely: John Winfield; Frances, who is the wife of
Andrew Foreman, of Houtsdale, Pa.; Clarissa, who married Edwin Garman; William
A., a railroad man, who lives at Cumberland, Md.; Elmira, who is deceased, was
the wife of Henry Rhinesmith; Robert C., who was accidentally killed in the
lumber regions near Elkins, W. Va.; Harry, who is a resident of Chicago, is a
railroad man; Frank, who is engaged in the mercantile business at Tyrone;
Charles, who is a traveling salesman, maintains his home at Tyrone; and
Violet, who is the wife of Edward Fulton, of Pittsburg, Pa. The father of the
above family is a member of the Brethren church.
     John W. Gardner was reared near Tipton, in Blair County, where he
attended the public schools and seminary, afterward becoming interested in
the lumber regions and later being foreman of a body of timber and mining
men. Then he came to Tyrone, where he has resided for the past thirty years,
mainly identified with merchandising and for the past ten years has been in
his present line and is numbered with the substantial and representative
business men of the city.
     Mr. Gardner married Miss Violet Foreman, a daughter of Moses Foreman, of
Indiana County, Pa., and they have had five children: Harry, who is a member
of the firm of Cryder & Gardner, clothiers, at Tyrone, married Elizabeth
Troutwine; James Albert, who is a merchant at Tyrone, married Facie Campbell
and they have one son, James Winfield; Susan and Winfield, both of whom are
at home, and one child now deceased. The family residence is on Jefferson
Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He is an active citizen, in politics a Republican but with independent
tendencies. His fraternal associations are with the Knights of Pythias, the
Heptasophs and the Woodmen of the World.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 877-878.

ALLEN S. GARMAN, proprietor of the Garman House, a representative and
substantial citizen of Tyrone, Pa., having also many financial interests at
other points, has been a resident of this borough since 1898. He was born at
Bellefonte, Center County, Pa., March 3, 1860, and is a son of Daniel and
Louisa (Shreyer) Garman.
     Daniel Garman was born in 1820, in Dauphin County, Pa., where his father
had settled after moving from Lancaster County. In 1859 Daniel Garman moved to
Bellefonte, Center County, where, for many years he was engaged in the hotel
and livery business, for a time being proprietor of the Garman House, at
Bellefonte. His death occurred in that city, in 1908, in his eighty-eighth
year. He married Louisa Shreyer, who was of German descent and was born in
Milton, Northumberland County, Pa. Her death occurred in Center County, in
1892. Seven sons and two daughters were born to their, namely: Edwin F., who
is a merchant at Bellefonte; Allen S.; Ira D., who is in the jewelry business
at Philadelphia; Corney M., who is proprietor of the St. Charles Hotel, at
Williamsport, Pa.; Mrs. Isaac Maitland, who is a resident of Williamsport;
William H., who is in the mercantile business at Bellefonte; Mrs. Charles
Cruse, who is a resident of Bellefonte; C. Brose, who was in the hotel
business, died at Bellefonte, in 1907; and Robert T., who is in the jewelry
business, at Tyrone.
     Allen S. Garman was reared and educated at Bellefonte and subsequently
became one of the leading business men of that city. He conducted the Garman
House for a time and in 1888 built the Garman Opera House, at Bellefonte, and
managed this property until he moved to Tyrone in 1898. Here he conducted the
Garman House, formerly known as the Empire, selling out in 1905. In 1911 he
again took over the hotel, which he is at present successfully conducting.
Mr. Garman has made many improvements in the building-remodeling it
throughout and has one of the best equipped hostelries in the city. He is an
able, progressive and enterprising business man and is widely known
throughout both Blair and Center Counties. He is a stockholder in the Blair
County National Bank, the Bellefonte Trust Company, the Empire Title and
Trust Company, of Philadelphia; and also of the National Deposit Bank of that
city. He is identified with the Democratic party and has been a leading factor
in the same both at Bellefonte and Tyrone, serving acceptably in public office
and lending his influence at all times to bring about satisfactory party conditions.
     Mr. Garman was married at Bellefonte, to Miss Sarah Ellen Condrick, who
died in January, 1909. She was a daughter of Morris and Mary Condrick. They
had one son, who grew to the age of sixteen years and was a bright student
and attractive youth, but his life closed at that time, his death being a
heavy affliction. Mr. Garman was reared in the Episcopal church. Mr. Garman
formed a second union January 14, 1911, with Miss Ruby Piper, a daughter of
Emory and Sarah Piper, of Tyrone.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 781-782.

ROBERT TIPPLE GARMAN, one of Tyrone's representative business men and public
spirited citizens, has been established here in the jewelry line since 1898.
He was born at Bellefonte, Center County, Pa., January 14, 1875, and is a son
of Daniel and Louisa (Schroyer) Garman.
     Daniel Garman was born in Dauphin County, Pa., in 1820 and died in 1908,
having reached his eighty-eighth year. He was widely known, having been in the
hotel and livery business during the whole of his active life. He married
Louisa Schroyer, who was born at Milton, in Northumberland County, Pa., and
died in 1892, in Center County. They had nine children born to them, 
Robert T. being the youngest in order of birth.
     Robert T. Garman was educated in the Bellefonte public schools and the
Bellefonte Academy, leaving his books when fifteen years of age in order to
learn a trade for which he had shown a natural aptitude from boyhood. He
entered the jewelry store of W. T. Achenbach, at Bellefonte, where he
remained for two years, after which he was with a cousin, H. Garman, in the
same line, for five years. On April 10, 1898, he came to Tyrone, where he
purchased the jewelry department which had been conducted by George H.
Garner, and continued in the jewelry business there until 1906, when he
purchased the First National Bank Building, on the corner of Pennsylvania
Avenue and Tenth Streets, where he may be found at present, having one of the
largest stocks of fine jewelry in all this section, these quarters enabling
him to make a beautiful and elaborate display. His stock includes gold and
silver articles, together with precious stones, clocks, watches and
porcelaines, many of these being of exclusive design and rare ornamentation.
     Mr. Garman was married May 18, 1904, to Miss Virginia Bouse, a daughter
of W. A. Bouse, who is trainmaster for the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Tyrone.
They have three children: Robert, Rebecca West and Virginia Schroyer. Mr. and
Mrs. Garman are members of Trinity Episcopal Church at Tyrone, in which Mr.
Garman is a vestryman He is a member of the Business Men's Association and of
the Tyrone Country Club. Mr. Garman is a Democrat.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 906.

GEORGE W. GARNER, a leading business man of North Woodbury Township, Blair
County, Pa., owner of a farm of 120 acres in Huston Township and a prosperous
general merchant at Clover Creek Post Office, likewise known as
Fredericksburg, is a native of Huntingdon County, Pa., born November 20,
1875.  His parents were Zachariah T. and Rosanna (Treese) Garner, both ofwhom 
were born in Huntingdon County and now reside in Huston Township, Blair County.
     The Garner family was among the first settlers in Huntingdon County, and
of German descent. George W. Garner was brought to Blair County by his parents
in 1876 and was reared in Huston Township, attending the public schools there
and later spending some time at Juniata College in Huntingdon County.
Although reared on a farm, Mr. Garner's inclinations did not lead to his
becoming an agriculturist, merchandising appealing to him from youth and as
soon as circumstances permitted, he engaged in a mercantile business at
Marklesburg as the junior member of the firm of Weaver Brothers and Garner.
Later he established his own business at Drab, in Blair County, which he
carried on for two years and then came to Clover Creek, succeeding C. M.
Black and becoming postmaster at this point. Mr. Garner is thus an
experienced merchant and through careful consideration of the demands of his
customers, supplies the wants of residents over an extended territory.
     Mr. Garner married Miss Margaret Greaser, a daughter of Daniel F. and
Sarah A. Greaser, formerly of Huston Township but now residents of Townsend,
Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Garner have four children: Walter G., Daniel Z., Rosanna
and John M. They are members and liberal supporters of the Lutheran church.
In politics, Mr. Garner is a Republican and at present is serving as a member
of the school board of North Woodbury Township and hag filled other township
offices. As a public official, as a business man and as a neighbor, Mr.
Garner enjoys the confidence, respect and good will of his fellow citizens.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 487-488.

A. L. GARVER, M.D., one of Roaring Spring's best known business men and
secretary and treasurer of the Roaring Spring Blank Book Company, which was
incorporated in 1907, has been a resident of this borough since 1879. He was
born in Huntingdon County, Pa., in June, 1859, and is a son of Benjamin Garver, 
who was once a well known and highly respected resident of Huntingdon County.
     Dr. Garver is the youngest of a family of eleven children, and he was
given educational advantages which included attendance at the Juniata College
and was one of the early students there. He then engaged in teaching school,
spending five consecutive winters in the school room, two of these in his
native county and three in Blair County, and for one year was principal of
the Roaring Spring High School. He had turned his attention in the meanwhile
to the study of the science of medicine and in 1883 was graduated from
Jefferson Medical College. He located at Roaring Spring and engaged in the
practice of his profession at this place for four years, retiring then in
order to give his whole time to promising business interests. He was one of
the four original founders of the Roaring Spring Blank Book Company, which
was started in 1887, with fifty employes.  Since 1891 he has been manager of
the plant and now employment is given to 230 people and the business is in a
very prosperous condition. Dr. Garver is an able and shrewd business man, and
his undertakings usually prove successful. In addition to the concern
mentioned, he is identified with others. He is vice president of the First
National Bank of Hollidaysburg, and some years since assisted in the
reorganization which placed this financial institution on its present firm
basis. He is a member of the D. M. Bare Paper Company and one of the board of
directors; is a member of the Planing Mill Company of Roaring Spring; and in
the summer of 1909 assisted in the reorganization of the Nason Hospital at
Roaring Spring. Dr. Garver is recognized as one of Blair County's solid citizens.
     Dr. Garver married Miss Ella Bare, a daughter of D. M. Bare, a very
prominent resident of Roaring Spring, and they have three children: Ivan E,
Russell B. and Vera E. Dr. and Mrs. Garver are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church. For twenty-four consecutive years he has been a member of
the school board, and has served as president, secretary and treasurer.
Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow and a very active member of the order. He is
identified with Model Lodge No. 856, of Roaring Spring, and for twenty-one
years has been its treasurer and has filled other official positions.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 504-505.

RT. REVEREND EUGENE A. GARVEY, bishop of the Altoona diocese of the Roman
Catholic Church, the celebration of whose fortieth year in the priesthood, in
September, 1909, was one of the most imposing spectacles ever enjoyed by
clergy and people in this part of Pennsylvania, is not only a distinguished
prelate but is a man of learning, experience, tact, culture and executive
ability far beyond the average.
     Bishop Garvey was born at Carbondale, Pa., October 6, 1845. His parents
were Michael and Catherine (Boylan) Garvey, natives of Ireland, who came to
America and located at Carbondale in 1840. They were people of humble
circumstance, industrious and frugal, and they reared their children in the
church and were faithful in their own duties to it. The father secured
profitable employment, under the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company. His
widow survived to be eighty-five years of age.
     Eugene A. Garvey was yet a boy when his parents moved to Scranton, Pa.,
and as he had previously mastered the common school studies at Carbondale, he
entered the Scranton High School, where he spent two years. During 1863-4 he
taught school and in 1865 became a student at St. Charles College, Md., and
later a Catholic institution at St. Charles, where he was prepared for the
Catholic Seminary at Philadelphia, and there his theological studies were
completed. On September 23, 1869, he was ordained to the priesthood by Rev.
Bishop O'Hara, of Scranton, Pa. He was appointed assistant priest at
Honesdale, Pa., to attend a parish at Hawley, and from there, in October,
1870, he was transferred to the Holy Ghost Catholic Church at Athens, Pa. On
December 7, 1871, he was assigned to the Annunciation Catholic Church at
Williamsport and remained in charge of that parish until February, 1899. In
February, 1899; he was appointed by Bishop Hoban to succeed the late Rev.
John Finnen, who had been rector of St. John's parish and vicar general of
the Scranton diocese. For twenty-eight consecutive years Bishop Garvey had
been in the Williamsport charge and was deeply beloved by his large
congregations. On September 8, 1901, on the feast of the Nativity of the
Virgin, he was consecrated bishop of the Altoona diocese by Mmg. Martinelli,
singing his first Pontifical mass at Pittston, Pa., and his second at
Williamsport. From the latter place he came to Altoona and assumed charge of
the diocese. Soon after coming to Altoona, he erected an episcopal residence
at a cost of $20,000. Other efforts followed and the beautiful Orphans' Home
at Summit, Pa., which was erected at a cost of $81,000, is one of the results
of his labors. Since 1901, the faithful clergy under the guidance of the
Bishop have increased the church property by $1,200,000.
     While the whole diocese claims Bishop Garvey, Altoona particularly
cherishes him. All must recognize in the life of such a man the wide
influence for good it exerts and in some measure the worldly recompense that
brightens the evening of earthly existence when it has been rightly, passed.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 487.

CHARLES GEESEY, one of the foremost members of the Blair County bar, who has
been actively engaged in the practice of his profession at Altoona since
18gi, has served with credit in public office and has been a sympathetic and
helpful citizen in those movements which have contributed to the general
welfare of this section. He was born in Frankstown Township, Blair County,
Pa., April 10, 1850, and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Koofer) Geesey.
     The Geesey and Koofer families came to Blair County, Pa., from Germany,
at an early day. Henry Geesey, father of Charles and son of Conrad Geesey,
was born after his parents had moved to this county, and he was occupied
through life with farming and working as a mechanic, in Frankstown Township.
He married Elizabeth Koofer and they had nine children.
     Charles Geesey was the youngest member of the large family and probably
the most ambitious. Although he enjoyed no other educational opportunities
than those offered by the district schools he had so thoroughly mastered the
ordinary branches that he was readily accepted as a school teacher when but
seventeen years of age and his complete success gave him encouragement to
continue in this occupation. For some years thereafter he taught school only
in the winter seasons, giving his summers to farming and also, at times,
attended the Juniata Collegiate Institute. Later, as he became better known
and better qualified he devoted his summers also to the class room, spending
fourteen years in the educational field, some eight of them being given to
the public schools of Altoona. During this time he also gave some attention
to studies in other professions before deciding to direct all his efforts to
the acquirement of a legal education.  Subsequently he became a law student
under Hon. Martin Bell and in 1891 he was admitted to the bar.
     In addition to the professional reading above referred to, Mr. Geesey
long had been a student of public questions and had identified himself with
the Republican party. His clear views and convincing arguments expressed on
many occasions attracted the notice of. party leaders in the county and in
1876 he was put forward as a candidate for register and recorder. Although he
was defeated for this office it was by so small a majority that in 1881 his
party again presented him to the county convention, as opposed to six other
candidates, for the office of prothonotary of Blair County. He was nominated
and subsequently elected and served with the greatest efficiency and
usefulness for three succeeding terms. After retiring from this office he
opened up his law business at Altoona, made rapid progress and has stood high
in his profession for a long time.
     Mr. Geesey was married in October, 1871, to Miss Anna B. Smith, a
daughter of the late William Smith, and they have seven children, three sons
and four daughters, namely: Mary E., Roy S., Charles H., Edna A., Walter A.,
Grace K., and Hilda W. Of the sons: Roy S. Geesey is engaged in the insurance
business with an office in the Central Trust Building; Charles H. is with the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Walter A. is a teacher and resides at No. 914
Sixth Avenue, Altoona. The eldest daughter, Mary E., is the wife of Guy R.
Lingafelt, who was elected on the Republican ticket in November, 1909,
prothonotary of Blair County. Edna A. is now Mrs. Alfred M. Kell of York, Pa.
Grace K. is now Mrs. Bernard Stevenson of Syracuse, N.Y. Mr. Geesey's
residence is at No. 914 Sixth Avenue and his law apartments are in the
Central Trust Building. He is a Knight Templar Mason and belongs also to the
Heptasophs.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 712-715.

HON. THOMAS PATTERSON GHEER, three times burgess of Bellwood, Pa., and a man
of prominence and business important in this borough, was born September 4,
1851, at Hensheytown, or Davisburg, Pa., and is a son of John and Amelia
(Patterson) Gheer, and a grandson of Jacob Gheer.
     Jacob Gheer was born in Cumberland County, Pa., in 1774, and was of
German ancestry. He owned a farm in Cumberland County on which he resided
until 1839, moving then to near Worcester, Montgomery County, but shortly
afterward left there to settle in Perry County, in 1840 buying a farm in
Sherman's Valley, near Landisburg. There he died February 8, 1859, at the age
of eighty-five years. In early days he was a Whig and later became a
Jacksonian Democrat. He was twice married, first to Margaret Thomas and
second to Sarah Fleming and was the father of thirteen children, eight born
to his first union and five to the second.
     John Gheer, father of Thomas P., was born November 7, 1814, near
Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pa., and was a son of Jacob and Margaret
(Thomas) Gheer. When seventeen years old he learned the cabinetmaking trade
and in 1843 came to Blair County and located at Hensheytown, which, at that
time, had reason to think it would become a place of importance, but later
its hopes were blasted when the proposed railroad line was built in another
direction. Its situation at that time was on the main thoroughfare through
the valley but business was so deflected that it never became more than a
village. It has some claims to public notice, however, for, at the outbreak
of the Civil War, when its total population did not exceed 125 persons,
practically every young man, thirty-three in number, enlisted for service in
the Federal Army, the only males left in the hamlet being the boys and aged
men. John Gheer removed from there in 1872 and settled at Bellwood, where he
continued work at his trade and also engaged in the undertaking business. He
built and occupied the first house west of the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks.
In his early political life he was a Democrat but when the Republican party
was organized he felt more in sympathy with its principles and identified
himself with it. He was a man of high character and served many years as a
justice of the peace. He was a member and liberal supporter of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
     In 1840 John Gheer was married to Amelia Patterson, who was born at
Williamsburg, Pa., and died in 1851, when her son, Thomas P. was a babe of
one month. Her father, Thomas Patterson, was a well known contractor and
builder at Williamsburg and the Patterson name is one held in very high
regard all over Pennsylvania. To John and Amelia Gheer three children were
born, namely: Jane Margaret, Anna M. and Thomas Patterson. Jane Margaret
Gheer, whose death occurred at the home of her sister, Mrs. Daniel A. Hicks,
at Altoona, on June 20, 1910, was a woman of unusual force of character. She
was highly cultivated and had been educated as a teacher and in that capacity
went to Japan, in September, 1879, under the auspices of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For about thirty years
she devoted herself to missionary and educational work but finally decided to
return to her native land only to pass away one week after reaching the home
of her sister. Her life was one of great self denial but of equally great
usefulness, and tender memories of her will long survive. Anna M. Gheer
married Daniel A. Hicks, and is a resident of Altoona. John Gheer was married
second to Mary A. Bell, of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa.
     Thomas Patterson Gheer attended the Antis Township schools and Logan
Academy, at Bellwood. In 1873 he began working at the carpenter trade at
Bellwood but continued to live with his parents until they later moved also
to Bellwood and this place has been his home throughout his entire business
career. In 1878 he erected the planing mill now owned and operated by the
Bellwood Lumber and Construction Company and manufactured his own building
supplies, having as many as seventy-five men in his employ, and continued to
operate this mill until 1895. He has been one of the extensive and most
uniformly successful contractors at Bellville and has done a large part of
the fine building here, including a large number of the leading business
blocks and handsome private residences, one of the latter being his own,
which he built in 1898. He also built the very much admired Methodist
Episcopal Church edifice here. 
     Mr. Gheer was married May 27, 1875, to Miss Ada Renner, who was born at
Petersburg, Huntingdon County, Pa., a daughter of Abraham and Martha (Jones)
Renner, an old family in that section of the state. They have four living
children, one babe dying at birth: Mary Martha, who is a graduate of the
Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal Church Hospital, is a professional nurse;
John Renner, who is a resident of Bellwood, married Mary Wilmena Hegarty and
they have two children - Marion Elda and Thomas; Charles Wesley, who is
foreman in the planing mill of the Bellwood Lumber and Construction Company,
married Ethel Geneva Henshey, and they have two sons - Robert Wesley and
Russell; Amelia Jane is the wife of Paul Aubrey Bevan and they have one son,
George Thomas. Mr. Gheer and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, in the affairs of which he has been active since youth. For twenty
consecutive years he served as superintendent of the Sabbath-school. In
politics he is a Republican and in 1889 he was first elected burgess of
Bellwood and was reelected for two additional terms. He made an admirable
executive and under his several administrations the borough made important
strides forward. He is identified fraternally with Bellwood Lodge, No. 819,
Odd Fellows; Bellwood Castle No. 128, Knights of the Golden Eagles and the
P.O.S.A.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 946-948.

ALFRED WOLCOTT GIBBS, general superintendent of the Motive Power department
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with home and office at Altoona, a skilled and
experienced mechanical engineer, was born October 27, 1856, at Fort Filmore,
New Mexico.
     Mr. Gibbs attended Rutgers College, 1873-1874, and Stevens Institute of
Technology, 1874-1878, in the latter year graduating from the last named
noted institution. He entered the railway service in March, 1879, with which
he has been continuously identified ever since, his various promotions making
the following honorable record: June 1, 1881, special apprentice, Altoona
shops; June to October, 1881, draughtsman also for the Pennsylvania Railroad;
October 1, 1881, to August 1, 1886, draughtsman for the Richmond & Danville
Road; August 1, 1886, to October 1, 1888, master mechanic, Atlanta &
Charlotte Division; same road; October 1, 1888, to September 1, 1890, master
mechanic, Virginia Midland Division, same road; September 1, 1890, to July 1,
1892, superintendent motive power, Central Road of Georgia; July 1, 1892, to
July 1, 1893, master mechanic, Richmond & Danville Road, at Atlanta, Ga; July
1, 1893, to September 1, 1902, assistant mechanical engineer, Pennsylvania
Road, at Altoona, September 1, 1902, to January 1, 1903, superintendent
motive power, Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Road; and from January 1,
1903, to date (1910), general superintendent motive power, Pennsylvania Road,
at Altoona.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 940-941.

GEORGE F. GILL, dealing in electric supplies. automobiles and sporting goods,
and proprietor of the Gill Garage, at No. 208 E. Tenth Street. Tyrone, is one
of the prosperous and enterprising business men of this borough. He was born
July 14, 1869, in Center County, Pa., two miles from Pleasant Gap, and is a
son of Isaac and Mary A. Gill.
     Isaac Gill and wife were born in Center County. He was a carpenter,
contractor and stair builder and owned two threshing outfits. As a stair
builder he constructed the stairs when the state college, at State College
was built and was considered a very skillful workman. He died when his son,
George F. Gill was nine years old and was survived but two years by his
widow. They were the parents of twelve children, George F. being the only one
of the family residing at Tyrone.
     George F. Gill was educated in the public schools of Center County, in
Bellefonte Academy and the State Normal School at Lock Haven. Possessing
natural mechanical skill he directed his studies in the line of electrical
engineering, taking an interest in experimenting long before electricity
became the acknowledged agent in every line of activity and in all the
industries that it now is. He invented many pieces of machinery on which he
subsequently obtained patents. His trolley wheel invention patent he sold to
the Westinghouse people as well as a patent brake for Pullman cars, and was
employed by the Westinghouse Company at Pittsburg for a time, leaving them in
the spring of 1906, with a fine record, and then came to Tyrone. Here he first
opened up a general electrical business and later his garage. He carries goods
of every kind for electrical purposes in the way of appliances and handles a
number of first class motors.
     Mr. Gill was married in 1893, to Miss Linnie Lyle, a daughter of Robert
Lyle, of Bellwood. To the encouragement afforded him by this estimable lady,
Mr. Gill generously attributes much of his prosperity.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 802.

ROLAND D. GINGERICH, an experienced farmer and representative citizen of
Tyrone Township, who has followed agricultural pursuits all his life, is the
oldest son of John and Susan Gingerich, the former of whom was born in Center
County and the latter in Snyder County.  Both are deceased.
     Roland D. Gingerich is one of a family of eleven children, seven of whom
died at an early age. The survivors are: Dora, who is the wife of J. C.
Whitmer, of Huntingdon County, Pa.; Edward, who is in the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company in their Juniata shops; John, who resides at
Sunbury, Pa.; and Roland D.
     Roland D. Gingerich obtained a public school education. Since 1905 he
has resided on his present farm in Tyrone Township, Blair County, Pa., which
he purchased at that time and which contains 115 acres. Having been
acquainted with farm details since youth, he manages his property in a
practical way and according to methods which bring him very satisfactory
returns.
     Mr. Gingerich was married December 14, 1882, to Miss Anna C. Gieswhite,
a daughter of Henry and Margaret Gieswhite, of Center Hall, Center County,
Pa., and they have five children: Robert Emery, William R., Emma May, Anna
Mabel and Carl Lewis. They have been given educational advantages and are
representative young Americans of the best type. They have been reared by
their parents in the Presbyterian church. In politics, Mr. Gingerich is a
Democrat.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, pp. 804-805.

FREDERICK GLEICHERT, proprietor of the Hotel Schilling, a comfortable, well
appointed hostelry located on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Tenth Street,
Altoona, was born in Baden, Germany, January 6, 1860, and is a son of John J.
and Mary (Stultz) Gleichert. The father of Mr. Gleichert is deceased, but the
mother survives. He is the eldest of the family and has four brothers and two
sisters: Christian; J. J., who is in the grocery business at Altoona; William;
Harmon; Christianna, who is assistant superintendent of Tabitha Hospital, at
Lincoln, Nebr; and Lena, who is at home.
     Frederick Gleichert was fourteen years of age when he accompanied his
parents to America and had no school advantages afterward. He worked for the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company from 1878 until 1897, when he embarked in the
hotel business. For six years he ran the Germania Hotel and then rested for
one year, in 1905 coming to the Hotel Schilling, of which 11e is a very
popular host.
     Mr. Gleichert was married in 1883, to Miss Elizabeth Bernd, a daughter
of Henry and Catherine (Sheets) Bernd, residents of Altoona, and they have
the following children: Henry J., William F., Mrs. Catherine Conrad, Carl H.,
Lina. Frederick J., and Martha M.  Mr. and Mrs. Gleichert are members of the
German Lutheran church. He is a Democrat in politics and gives hearty support
to the candidates of his party but desires no offices for himself. He is a
member of the fraternal orders of Eagles and the Moose and belongs also to
the Concordia Singing Society and the Altoona Turngemeinde Society.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 648.

WALTER B. GLENN, owner and proprietor of the Leroy Hotel, a leading hostelry
of Altoona, Pa., which is favorably located on Chestnut Avenue, opposite the
post-office, is a well known business man of this city. Mr. Glenn was born at
Altoona, September 27, 1874, and is a son of William H. and Naomi (Rickel)
Glenn.
     William H. Glenn was a prominent citizen of Blair County for many years
and was very active in the public affairs of Altoona. He served for nine
years as county coroner, being elected on the Republican ticket. His death
occurred November 28, 1904. He married Naomi Rickel, who survives, and they
had two children: Walter B. and Harriet B., the latter of whom resides with
her mother and conducts a millinery business.
     Walter B. Glenn attended the public schools until he was fourteen years
of age, since then he has been entirely self supporting. Through enterprise
and industry he established himself in the ice business at Altoona, in which
he continued until August 6, 1908, when he took charge of his hotel. He has
an excellent location and as his house is comfortably equipped and the
cuisine is of more than usual excellence, he is enjoying a large amount of
patronage.
     On January 10, 1906, Mr. Glenn was married to Miss Elizabeth Jane Lee, a
daughter of John Lee, of Pittsburg, who for twenty-three years had control of
the restaurant in the Union Station at Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs. Glenn is a member
of the Catholic Church. Politically Mr. Glenn is active in local affairs,
giving support to the Republican party. He is a member of Lodge No. toe,
Elks, at Altoona.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 547.

FRANK GLESSNER, one of the old and representative business men of
Hollidaysburg, Pa., whose department store is situated on the Diamond, on the
corner of Allegheny and Montgomery Streets, has been a resident of Blair
County since 1867. He was born on a farm in Somerset County, Pa., May 10,
1848, and is a son of Josiah and Judith (Landis) Glessner, both being
prominent old Somerset County families.
     When fifteen years of age, Mr. Glessner left the farm and became a clerk
for Edmund Kiernan, who kept a cross-roads' store, and after a year's
experience went into a store at Johnstown, where he worked for eighteen
months and later was employed for two years in Westmoreland County. After
that he was with the house of Wood, Morrell & Co., now the Pennsylvania
Traffic Company, for sixteen years, attaining the responsible and lucrative
position of dry goods buyer for that firm, which was then located at
Hollidaysburg. In 1882 he embarked in a general mercantile business for
himself and for sixteen years occupied the west corner of the Diamond. In
1898 he bought the Opera House Block, his present location, and now operates
the largest store in Hollidaysburg. He has floor space 40 by 100 feet, and
carries a general line of merchandise, specializing on dry goody and shoes.
He requires the services of four clerks.
     On January 1, 1873, Mr. Glessner was married to Miss Alice C. Buoy, and
they have one daughter, Mary, named for Mrs. Glessner's mother. The family
residence is at No. 907 Allegheny Street. Mr. and Mrs. Glessner are members
of the Presbyterian church. He is a Republican in politics. For a number of
years he has been a Free Mason and belongs to Blue Lodge and Chapter at
Hollidaysburg, and also to the Heptasophs. Mr. Glessner is one of the
broad-minded, liberal men of this city and takes an interest in everything
promotive of its welfare.

Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County,
Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold,
1911, p. 546.