BIOS: File 10 - Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Samuel T. Wiley, Philadelphia, 1892.

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Biographies in File 10, listing the page where they appear in the book:

Bridenbaugh, Michael, page 551
Bridenbaugh, Philip, page 552
Calderwood, Howard B., page 464
Crawford, James, page 587
Crum, Newton, page 585
Funk, James, page 461
Hewitt, Benjamin L., page 583
Hooper, Linda E., page 587
Hughes, James C., page 327
Layman, William, page 590
Leatherman, Daniel J., M.D., page 583
Levengood, Wellington Y., M.D., page 553
McCauley, Herman K., page 580
Meadville, Graham McCamant, page 550
Neason, James E., page 586
Sneeringer, Pius, page 328
Spendley, Robert H., page 307
Stewart, Samuel Calhoun, page 462
Study, Edwin L., page 581
White, Thomas, page 584


MICHAEL BRIDENBAUGH

a highly respected citizen of Bellwood, and a descendant of one of the old
and worthy families of central Pennsylvania, is a son of Philip and Polly
(Hileman) Bridenbaugh, and was born at Petersburg, Huntingdon County,
Pennsylvania, October 29, 1823. His paternal grandfather, Michael
Bridenbaugh, was a native of Germany, which country he left soon after his
marriage in 1783, and came to Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, where he remained
but a short time. He then removed to near Petersburg in Huntingdon County,
where he purchased a farm of two hundred acres of land, and was engaged in
farming until his death, which occurred October 29, 1823. He was an old-line
Whig in politics, and a member of the Dunkard or German Baptist Church, and
he married Miss Hullinger, in Germany, by whom he had eight children, all of
whom are now dead. His son, Philip Bridenbaugh (father) was born in 1788, in
Lebanon County, and was brought by his parents, in 1798, to near Petersburg,
Huntingdon County, where he followed farming until his death. He was a Whig,
and served his township for several terms as tax collector and as road
supervisor. He was an active and enthusiastic member of the German Reformed
Church, and contributed largely of his means and time toward the building of
every Reformed Church that was erected during his life in the Sinking Valley.
He was a wealthy and prosperous farmer for his day, and stood high as a
public-spirited citizen and an honorable and upright man. He married Polly
Hileman. Mr. and Mrs. Bridenbaugh reared a family of twelve, seven sons and
five daughters: Harriet, Henry, Michael, Susan, Eliza, Mary, Rebecca, Philip,
David, Joseph, Benjamin, and one other, who are now dead.
   Michael Bridenbaugh grew to manhood on his father's farm, and received his
education in the schools of his neighborhood. Leaving school he assumed
charge of his father's farm, which he ran for twelve years, and then took
charge of his father-in-laws farm, which he managed successfully for two
years. He was then variously engaged until 1861, when he purchased his
present farm of one hundred and thirty-two acres of land, of which one
hundred acres are under cultivation.
   In 1847 Mr. Bridenbaugh married Eliza Reamey, daughter of Frederick and
Martha Reamey. Having no children of their own, they have reared five adopted
children, of whom three are married and settled.
   In political opinion Mr. Bridenbaugh is a republican, and never fails to cast
his ballot for his party at county, state and national elections. He is a
member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and has always been active in
religious affairs. Mr. Bridenbaugh is pleasant and gentlemanly, has always
been generous and liberal in the support of any good cause, and now enjoys
the respect and good will of all who know him. Mr. and Mrs. Bridenbaugh
reside in a pleasant and enjoyable home, which is well provided with
everything necessary to render them comfortable and happy.

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PHILIP BRIDENBAUGH,

of Tyrone Township, was married to a daughter of Michael Hileman, of
Frankstown, and died in 1831 at the age of seventy-three years. He was the
father of sons named John, Henry, Michael, Philip W., David, Joseph and
Benjamin, while his daughters were married to Thomas Russell, Frank Wilson,
Alexander Seeds, Mahlon Stryker and William Louden. The sister of Philip
Bridenbaugh married into the Hileman, Smith, Hollinger, and Sprankle
families, who are among the pioneers of different parts of the county, while
the Bridenbaughs were well known as among prominent settlers of the valley.

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HOWARD B. CALDERWOOD, 

a well qualified and energetic business man, and the leading insurance agent
and real estate dealer of Tyrone, is a son of James M. and Matilda (Hunter)
Calderwood, and was born at Tyrone, Blair county, Pennsylvania, July 24,
1859.  The Calderwoods are of Scotch-Irish descent, and John Calderwood, the
paternal grandfather of Howard B. Calderwood, was a native of Scotland.
   James M. Calderwood (father) was born at Birmingham, Huntingdon county,
March 19, 1822, and died at Tyrone, June 25, 1887, at sixty-five years of
age.  He commenced life in boyhood as a collier, received a good education,
and at an early age commenced teaching, which he followed most successfully,
at Ironville and Tyrone, for twenty-one years.  He came to Tyrone about 1851,
was appointed express agent, and afterwards commissioned as a notary public. 
He was always prominent in the municipal affairs of Tyrone, served as burgess
for one term, and in various ways was useful to his fellow-townsmen until his
death.  Mr. Calderwood was one of the oldest and leading members of the
Tyrone Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was a steward and trustee.  He
organized the first Sunday school in the borough, and was its honored and
efficient superintendent for twenty-one consecutive terms.  He was a
republican in politics, commanded the esteem and respect of all who knew him,
and lived a life of honor and usefulness.  He was twice married.  His first
wife was Matilda Hunter, who died in August, 1870, aged forty-six years, and
left three children: William L., married Mary Leedy, of Harrisburg, and is
employed in the loss and damage department, in Philadelphia, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Howard B., and Ella.  Mr. Calderwood married
for his second wife Cinderella Hemler, of Akron, Ohio, by whom he had two
children, Jessie and Anna.
   Howard B. Calderwood received his education in the public schools of Tyrone,
and then became a clerk in the general mercantile house of Van Valzah &
Wilson, in which he remained for twelve years.  At the end of that time, in
1887, he engaged in his present general insurance and real estate business,
and in the same year was appointed notary public, in which capacity he has
served ever since.  He is secretary of No. 3, Tyrone Loan and Improvement
association, and was president for two years (1889 and 1891) of the Central
Loan association.  In politics Mr. Calderwood is a republican, and has served
one term as assistant burgess, and several terms as auditor of Tyrone.  He is
a member of Tyrone Lodge, No. 152, and Tyrone Encampment, No. 279,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a past grand of his lodge, and has
served as a representative to the Grand Lodge of the State.  Howard B.
Calderwood is ever active in the interests of his party, does a large and
remunerative insurance and real estate business, and has attained a prominent
position by his ability, integrity, and energy.  He is pleasant and agreeable,
and very popular in his native borough.
   On August 21, 1888, Mr. Calderwood was united in marriage with Irene Dixon,
daughter of Elwood C. and Fannie (Johnson) Dixon, of Tyrone.  To Mr. and Mrs.
Calderwood have been born two children: Bessie and Virginia.

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JAMES CRAWFORD, 

of Irish descent, was an early settler at Newry, where he died about 1824. 
He had sons named William, David, and James.  The former married Fannie
Moore, of Duncansville, and in 1829 moved to Sinking valley, settling on a
farm which has been improved by John McLain.  He died in July, 1833, at the
age of forty-eight years.  His daughter became the wife of Samuel Morrow, and
the sons, James died in 1838, Joseph resides on the lower Crissman farm;
Robert on part of the Dysart farm; David and Jordan at the head of the
valley; Elihu P. in Pleasant valley; Samuel and John removed to Illinois. 
The older Crawford was greatly harassed by the Indians, who destroyed the
cabin in which he lived.

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NEWTON CRUM,   

the popular proprietor of the Clarendon hotel of Altoona, was born at
Wilmore, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1856, and is a son of Oliver
and Hannah (Smay) Crum.  The Crums are descendants of the old Crum family of
Germany, an empire that has added much toward shaping the industries of the
civilized world.  Ephraim Crum (grandfather) died in 1874.  He was one of the
early settlers of Cambria county, and owned a flouring and saw mill at
Wilmore, where he resided for many years.  In political opinion he was a
republican, and being a man of sound judgment and wise discretion, he was
elected as justice of the peace, which office he held for a number of
years.  Oliver Crum (father) was born in Cambria county, in 1834, and devoted
the greater part of his life to agricultural pursuits.  In August of the third
year of the great civil war he enlisted as a private in Co. G, 149th
Pennsylvania infantry, and in 1864, at the battle of the Wilderness, where
the pomp and glory of war gave precedence to its untold horrors, he was taken
prisoner and conveyed to Andersonville prison, where, on September 23, 1864,
he was released from his oppression by the summons of death.
Newton Crum was reared upon a farm in Cambria county, and improved the
opportunities afforded him in securing a good education in the common and the
soldiers' orphans schools, to prepare himself to enter upon the scenes of
active life.  At the age of seventeen he was employed as a brakeman by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.  Serving in this capacity for a few years, he
was promoted to freight conductor, and from 1881 to 1890 was under the employ
of the same company, and worked in their blacksmith shops in Altoona.  Since
1872 Mr. Crum has been a resident of Altoona, and in 1890 he became engaged
in the hotel business.  He is now proprietor of the Clarendon hotel, located
on the corner of Eleventh avenue and Seventeenth street, has his house well
arranged for the traveling public, and enjoys a large and first-class
patronage.
   Newton Crum married Rose Tiemey, daughter of Thomas Tiemey, of Altoona, 
in 1880.  Their union has been blessed with four sons and one daughter:  
John O., Charles R., Edward O., Walter J., and Rose A.
   Newton Crum started in life with no other assistance than willing hands, a
clear head and determined energy.  Industry and perseverance are among his
marked characteristics, and have won for him good success in his business. 
He owns some valuable real estate in the city of Altoona, beside his hotel
property.  In political convictions Mr. Crum is a republican who closely
adheres to the principles of his party, and believes in the supremacy of its
principles as being necessary for the true development and future prosperity
of the American Union.

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JAMES FUNK, 

ex-sheriff of Blair county, and a popular business man of Duncansville, was
born in Black Log valley, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1823,
and is the eldest son of John and Jane (Goshorn) Funk.  The Funks are of
German ancestry, and Mr. Funk's paternal grandfather, Jacob Funk, was born at
Frankstown, Washington county, Maryland, where his ancestors had settled at an
early day, and where the Funk family had become prominent in the local history
of western Maryland.  Later in life Jacob Funk came to Black Log valley, where
he resided until his death.  His son, John Funk (father), was born in
Maryland, and came with his father to Black Log valley, where he followed
farming until his death.  He was an old-line whig, and afterward a democrat
in politics, and had been a zealous member of the German Baptist or Dunkard
church for many years before his death.  He married Jane Goshorn, who was a
daughter of Jacob Goshorn, an early Scotch settler of Tuscarora valley.  Mr.
and Mrs. Funk were the parents of six children: James; Mary, wife of William
Ayers, a miller of Sharpsburg, Allegheny county; Henry, who died young;
Nicholas (deceased), who was in the insurance business at Hollidaysburg;
Abraham, now dead; and Sarah, who died young.
   James Funk received a good English education, and became a conductor on the
old Portage railroad, which he left one year later.  In 1850 he engaged in
his present prosperous lime business.  He is now running at four different
places in the county a number of kilns, whose aggregate capacity is twelve
hundred bushels per day, employs thirty-five men, and ships lime over a wide
area of territory.  He has two kilns at Frankstown, which cost over twelve
thousand dollars and are claimed to be the largest lime kilns in America,
each one being forty-four feet long, thirty-one feet wide, and thirty-seven
feet high.
   Mr. Funk married Susan J. Long, who died afterward and left nine children,
of whom are: Margaret, wife of J. Rock Williamson, a farmer of Humbolt,
Nebraska; Missouri, wife of William P. Irwin, depot master in Altoona; 
John S., in business with his father; Matilda, who married George P. McCormick, a
foreman in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's shops in Altoona; Nicholas G.,
a conductor who runs between Altoona and Pittsburg; Edward B., a foreman in
the Duncansville rolling mill; and Landis superintendent of his father's
kilns at Frankstown.  After his first wife's death, Mr. Funk was united in
marriage with Mary Dasher, and has by his second marriage three children:
May, Ira, and Nannie.
   In politics Mr. Funk is a Cleveland democrat.  He served thirteen years as a
school director, and then declined another re-election.  He was shortly
afterward elected as a justice of the peace, but refused to take out his
commission.  He was elected coroner in 1855, on the American ticket, and
before his term closed, in 1858, he was elected sheriff as the fusion
candidate on the people's ticket.  Mr. Funk was the first democratic jury
commissioner elected in the county; was twice defeated as the democratic
candidate for the assembly, although once lacking one hundred votes of being
successful when the republican majority stood at fifteen hundred, and was
once defeated for associate judge, though running ahead of his ticket.  He is
a man of business ability, of energy and system in all of his different
enterprises.  He owns a beautiful home at Duncansville, and an excellent farm
adjoining that borough.  Mr. Funk has been for thirty-four years a member of
Juniata Lodge, No. 282, Free and Accepted Masons, of Hollidaysburg, of which
he has been a past master for twenty-eight years.
   One well acquainted with James Funk has written of him: "Although now denied
by the calls of his large manufacturing interests from taking his old-time
part in politics, yet he is nevertheless thoroughly abreast with the progress
of affairs that mark the history of American advancement, and takes especial
pride in advising himself as to the march of social and political events at
home and abroad."

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BENJAMIN L. HEWITT,  

one of the older business men of Williamsburg, and a descendant of two of the
old and early settled families of the county, is the third son and only living
child of Christian and Mary (Roller) Hewitt, and was born at Williamsburg, and
a descendant of two of the old and early settled families of the county, is
the third son and only living child of Christian and Mary (Roller) Hewitt,
and was born at Williamsburg, Blair county, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1818. 
His paternal grandfather, Nicholas Hewitt, was of German parentage, and came
to Huntingdon county, where he settled on Shaver's creek, near Huntingdon,
this State.  He cleared out a farm of two hundred acres, upon which he and
his wife both died at an advanced age.  He married a Miss Lambert, of
Maryland, by whom he had eleven children, six sons and five daughters.  His
son, Christian Hewitt (father), was born on Shaver's creek, in Huntingdon
county, and in 1814 removed to Williamsburg, where he died in 1858.  He kept
a hotel on the site of John Law's store from 1814 to 1838.  He was a
democrat, and married Mary Roller, by whom he had three children:  Joseph R.,
George W., and Benjamin L., of whom the two former are now dead.  Mrs. Hewitt,
who died at Williamsport in 1865, at seventy-two years of age, was a daughter
of Philip Roller, a son of Jacob Roller, sr., and a brother of Jacob Roller,
jr., who was killed and scalped by Indians near Arch spring.  Philip Roller
was of German descent, was a Presbyterian, married Jane, daughter of Joseph
Moore, and died on the Perry Moore farm at an advanced age, in 1840.
   Benjamin L. Hewitt was reared at Williamsburg, and received his education in
the schools of that place and Washington, of Washington county.  Leaving
school he served for a short time as a clerk in a hotel, and was engaged in
the mercantile business with his brother Joseph for three years.  At the end
of that time, in 1845, his health becoming impaired, he engaged in farming,
which he followed until 1871, when he purchased property at Williamsburg,
where he has resided ever since.
   On January 10, 1845, Mr. Hewitt married Barbara Neff, daughter of Jacob and
Nancy Neff, of Shaver's creek settlement, in Huntingdon county.  To Mr. And
Mrs. Hewitt have been born nine children:  Lemuel S., who married Elizabeth
Miller; John R., a merchant, who resides in Colorado; George N., married
Nellie Gibson, and is a salesman of Denver city, Colorado; Joseph R. and
Benjamin N., merchants of Los Angeles, California; Mary (deceased); Ellen,
wife of Lot Firstine, of Utica, this State; Annette, married Samuel Herr, a
coal dealer of Durango, California; and Sarah E., wife of Robert Metz, of
Altoona.  Mrs. Hewitt died in 1864, aged thirty-seven years.  In 1865 Mr.
Hewitt wedded for his second wife Eliza Eichholtz, daughter of Charles and
Margaret Eichholtz, of Woodbury township.
   In politics Mr. Hewitt is a republican, and takes a warm interest in the
success of his party, with which he has so long been identified.  He is an
active worker in the Evangelical Lutheran church, of which he has been a
member for over half a century.  He is a man of quiet manners, of consistent
morals, and of liberality, and is now well prepared in a beautiful home to
enjoy the fruits of his long years of honest labor and successful business
enterprises.

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LINDA E. HOOPER,  

an efficient instructor and fist assistant in the Altoona High school, was
born in the city of Philadelphia, this State, and is a daughter of William M.
and Eleanor (Bryan) Hooper.  The Hoopers are of English descent, and her
paternal grandfather Hooper was one of the early settlers of Blair county,
and followed his trade of blacksmith near Marin Forges until his death.  His
son, William M. Hooper, was born in Blair county, from which he removed,
shortly after his marriage, to Philadelphia, where he resided and was engaged
in business until his death, which occurred in 1872, at forty-two years of
age.  He attended Selinsgrove academy, and taught for a short time before
going to Philadelphia, where his first employment was as book-keeper in a
wholesale grocery house.  In a short time he left his position as bookkeeper
to become a member of the wholesale dry goods firm of Hood, Bonbright & Co.,
from which he withdrew in a few years to become a member of the firm of
McLean, Hooper & Co.  This latter firm was engaged in the manufacture and
sale of sewing machines, and under the management of Mr. Hooper had secured a
fine trade at the time of the death of the latter.  Mr. Hooper was a democrat,
and a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was rapidly
winning his way into the front rank of the business men of Philadelphia, with
bright prospects of success before him, when he was stricken down by the hand
of death in the very prime of life.  Mr. Hooper married Eleanor Bryan, of
Maria Forges, who was a Methodist in religious faith and church membership,
and died at Altoona in 1888, when in the fifty-fifth year of her age.
   Linda E. Hooper received her education in the public schools and the Girls'
Normal school of Philadelphia, and in 1874, with her mother and brother,
Harry B., came to Altoona, where she has resided ever since.  Immediately
after coming to Altoona she secured a position as a teacher in the primary
department of the public schools, and was successively promoted until 1880,
when she was elected first assistant in the Altoona High school, which
position she has held with credit ever since.  Miss Hooper is a member and
has been for fifteen years the organist of the Second Lutheran church, in
whose Sunday school she teaches a large class of young ladies.  She is also a
member of the Chautauqua Literary society, in whose methods of inducing home
study and self culture she is very much interested.
   Linda E. Hooper is a close student, and has carefully studied the methods of
culture and the methods of instruction, and thoroughly understands the
principles of the new education, whose aim is the natural and symmetrical
development of the child nature.  Miss Hooper has tested theories by practice
in her teaching, and thereby has acquired valuable experience, that has
contributed to some extent to her known efficiency and marked success as an
instructor whose standard of work, although high and ideal, yet is practical
and attainable, as attested by the substantial progress of her pupils.

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JAMES C. HUGHES,

now a prominent business man of Altoona, is one of the self-made men of the
old Keystone State, who, beginning with nothing but inherited ability, have
achieved financial and social success by earnest effort and unconquerable
energy. He was born September 9, 1848, at Buffalo Run, Centre County,
Pennsylvania, and is a son of John D. and Hannah (Hicks) Hughes. He was
reared in Centre County until he attained the age of fifteen years, and
received only an ordinary common school education. In 1865 he came to Altoona
and has been a resident of this city ever since. After leaving school he
learned the blacksmith trade, and continued to work at that occupation until
1878, when he embarked in the grocery business. At first his trade was small,
but it increased by degrees, and in 1876 he added a line of general
merchandise. He gave close attention to business, and by industry, enterprise
and native ability, had soon built up a prosperous trade. A customer once
gained was never allowed to drop away through inattention or incivility, and
his dealings were marked by that scrupulous integrity that lies at the bottom
of all permanent success. The consequence has been a constantly increasing
patronage, and he now carries a good stock of all kinds of general
merchandise, and is doing larger business than ever before. Mr. Hughes is a
member of the firm of G.L. Cyphers & Co., and they run two hardware stores in
this city and one tinware store. In all these mercantile enterprises he has
met with success, and is a stockholder in the city electric railway of
Altoona. He also owns some valuable real estate in this city.
   In October, 1868, Mr. Hughes was wedded to Elizabeth Walton, a daughter of
Elias Walton, of the city of Altoona, and to this union has been born a
family of ten children, eight sons and two daughters: John, Harry, Charles,
Bertha, James, Ralph, May, Arthur, Robert, and Clyde.
   Politically Mr. Hughes is a Democrat, taking an active part in politics and
ever anxious for the success of his party and the triumph of its principles.
He is now serving as school director, and is a well known friend of popular
education. Hs is also a leading Mason, being a member of Mountain Chapter,
No.189, Royal Arch Masons; Mountain Council, No. 9, Royal and Select Masters;
and Mountain Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar.
   The family of which Mr. Hughes stands as the representative is of Irish
origin, and was planted in America at an early day by the paternal
great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, who was a native of the
Emerald Isle, but emigrated to the United States while yet a young man, and
settled in Centre County, Pennsylvania. He married and reared a family, among
his children being John D. Hughes (father), who was born at Bellefonte, Centre
County, this State. He removed to Altoona in 1865, and after residing here
three years, returned to Centre County. In 1876 he again located in Altoona,
and thereafter was a resident of the city until his death, in 1885, at the
advanced age of sixty-one years. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed
that occupation until 1876, when he engaged in the coal business in Altoona.
He was an active and influential member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and in politics a Democrat of the old school. He married Hannah Hicks, a
native of Center County, who still survives him, and now resides in the city
of Altoona, in the sixty-fifth year of her age. She is also a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and is held in high esteem by her many friends.

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WILLIAM LAYMAN, 

an indstrious farmer of North Woodbury township, and who has served
continuously as an elder of the Reformed church for over a quarter of a
century, is a son of John and Mary (Seacrisp) Layman, and was born in North
Woodbury township, Blair county, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1830.  The
Layman family settled in Franklin county as early as the beginning of the
present century.  One of its members was
   John Layman, the father of the subject of this sketch.  John Layman was a
farmer's son, and consequently his boyhood years were passed on the paternal
acres, while he received such education as the subscription schools of his
native township afforded.  He, however, made good use of his opportunities,
and secured a good business education.  Like many others thus situated during
the first quarter of the present century, he pushed west of the Juniata to
find better openings for farming than were then afforded to men commencing
life or those of moderate means in Franklin county or eastern Pennsylvania. 
After coming to what is now Blair county Mr. Layman settled in North Woodbury
township, where he purchased a farm and followed farming and stock raising
until his death, at the advanced age of seventy-seven years.  He was a
successful farmer, a republican in politics after 1856, and had served as an
elder of the Reformed church for many years before his death.  He married 
Mary Seacrisp.  They reared a family of ten children, seven sons and three 
daughters.  William Layman grew to manhood in his native township, received 
his education in the early common schools of Pennsylvania, and was carefully
trained to farming and farm management.  After attaining his majority he
engaged in farming for himself, which he has successfully pursued ever since.
   On April 25, 1854, Mr. Layman was united in marriage with Anna Kauffman,
a daughter of Frederick Kauffman, of Bedford county, Pennsylvania.
   William Layman is a republican in politics, and a member of the Reformed
church.  His farm of one hundred and twenty acres of good land lies east of
Curryville, which is his postoffice.  He has one hundred and ten acres under
cultivation and the other ten acres in woodland.  Mr. Layman is a thrifty
farmer, a good neighbor, and a respected citizen.

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DANIEL J. LEATHERMAN, M.D.,  

a young and popular physician of the borough of Williamsburg, is a son of
Daniel and Caroline (Michael) Leatherman, and was born at Lewistown,
Frederick county, Maryland, March 16, 1861.  His paternal grandfather
Leatherman was a native of Germany, and came in early life to eastern
Pennsylvania, where he followed farming for a short time near Philadelphia. 
He then removed to near Middletown, Maryland, where he died in 1863, at
sixty-one years of age.  He reared a family of six sons and three daughters,
and his widow died in 1865, when in the sixty-first year of her age.  Daniel
Leatherman, one of their sons, and the father of Daniel J. Leatherman, was
born on his father's farm, near Lewistown, in 1820.  He was a farmer for many
years, and owned and operated a mill near Lewistown for some time.  He is a
large landowner in Frederick county and western Maryland, and still resides
near Lewistown, in his native State.  He is a Lutheran in religious belief. 
Mr. Leatherman has been twice married.  His first wife was Caroline Michael,
whom he married in 1843, and who died in 1870, leaving eight children, five
sons and three daughters.  In 1873 Mr. Leatherman married for his second wife
Josephine Curtis, by whom he has three children.  Two of Mr. Leatherman's sons
by his first wife are:  Dr. M. E. Leatherman, who was graduated from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, in 1877, and since then has
been in the active and successful practice of his profession at
Mechanicstown, Maryland; and Rev. R. L. Leatherman, a Lutheran minister of
the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who was graduated from Roanoke college in
1888, and the Lutheran Theological seminary of Philadelphia in 1891.
   Daniel J. Leatherman was reared on his father 's farm, and after receiving
an academic education at Lewistown, entered Roanoke college, of Salem,
Virginia, from which institution he was graduated at the end of a special
three years course.  He then chose medicine as a profession, and entered the
college of Physicians and Surgeons, of Baltimore city, from which he was
graduated in March, 1886.  After graduation he opened an office at
Mechanicstown, in his native county, where he remained until 1890, when he
came to Williamsburg, Woodbury township, this country.
   In 1888 Doctor Leatherman was united in marriage with Katie A. Whistler, a
daughter of Rev. Henry Whistler, of Mechanicstown, Maryland, and who is now
attending lectures at the Women's Medical college of Baltimore, from which
she will be graduated in the class of 1894.
   Dr. Daniel J. Leatherman is a democrat in politics, and has been for several
years a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church.  Doctor Leatherman has
built up a very fine practice at Williamsburg and in the surrounding section
of country, where his professional skill and success have rendered him
popular as a physician with the public.

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WELLINGTON Y. LEVENGOOD, M. D.

the leading practitioner of Bellwood, is one of the best posted young
physicians in Blair County, and one whose successful career during the past
fifteen years reflects credit on the profession. He is the eldest son of
Augustus W. and Catherine (Yohn) Levengood, and was born April 6, 1857 in
Douglas Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The Levengoods have been
residents of the Keystone State since the early days of the Commonwealth.
Augustus W. Levengood (father) is a native of Berks County and was born about
1832. He was reared and educated in that county, where he has devoted his long
and active life to agricultural pursuits. He now resides on his fine farm in
Douglas Township, that county, at the advanced age of sixty years.
Politically he is a democrat, and during his more active years he took a deep
interest in all public questions. He married Catherine Yohn a native of Berks
County born about 1835.  By this union had a family of five children:
Wellington Y., the subject of the sketch. Harrison who married a Miss Eagle
and now resides at Pottstown, Montgomery County, this state, where he is
engaged as an engineer. Alice wedded to William Rhodes a wagon-maker and
blacksmith of Pottstown, Montgomery County. Annie married Elmer Lenhart a
salesman in the city of Philadelphia and Emma, deceased.
   Wellington Y. Levengood received an academic education, finishing his studies
in the Keystone Normal School at Kutztown, Berks County, and an academy. He
afterward taught school for three years, reading medicine meanwhile in the
office of Dr. John Todd, of Pottstown. Later he matriculated at the
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and was graduated from the
medical department of that well known institution on March 12, 1877, with the
degree of M. D. He once located at Lawrenceville, Chester County, where he
practiced for a short time. In September 1877 removed to Bellwood, this
county, where he opened an office, and has ever since been successfully
engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1889 he took a special course
at the Philadelphia Polyclinic Hospital, where he made a particular study of
the diseases of the nose and throat. About this time he formed a partnership
with his cousin, Dr. Brooklyn B. Levengood. They have an extensive and
lucrative practice, extending from fifteen to twenty miles in all directions
from the borough of Bellwood, and have acquired an enviable reputation for
skill and unusual success in the treatment of disease. Dr. Levengood is an
enthusiast in his profession, and spares no pains to keep abreast of the
times in all matters pertaining to the healing art. Like all successful
physicians, he is still an earnest student, realizing that every worthy
achievement must be purchased by the pure coin of persistent effort.
Dr. Levengood was united in marriage to Harriet E. Yohn, September 26, 1878,
and to them has been born a family of four daughters: Maude, Myra, Bessie and
Helen. Mrs. Levengood is a daughter of Mr. Yohn, of Pottstown, Montgomery
County, and was born in that county.
   Politically Dr. Levengood is a republican, taking considerable interest in
local politics, but entirely without political ambition. He finds the
exacting duties of his profession sufficient to occupy most of his time, and
rarely allows anything to distract his attention therefrom, even by way of
recreation or relaxation. He has already achieved deserved success, and being
still in the very prime of life, bids fair to win yet wider recognition, and
see many years of usefulness and honorable activity in his chosen field of
labor.
   
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HERMAN K. McCAULEY, 

secretary of the Altoona Iron Company, and who has been closely identified
for the last decade with the important iron industry of central Pennsylvania,
is a son of Thomas and Ann (Ramey) McCauley, and was born in Altoona, Blair
county, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1856.  His paternal grandfather, Henry
McCauley, settled in early life in Blair county, where he died.  He was of
Scotch-Irish descent, and married and reared a family of children.  His son,
Thomas McCauley (father), was born in 1824, removed to Altoona in 1854, and
died there in 1880.  He was foreman of the Pennsylvania railroad shops until
1860, when he embarked in the planing mill business, which he followed for
several years, and then turned his attention for some time to operating
several portable steam saw mills in Clearfield county.  He was a republican,
and a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Second Presbyterian church of
Altoona.  Thomas McCauley was a man of talent, individuality and great
energy.  Commencing his life as a poor boy, he won his way into prominence in
business affairs, and for several years exerted a marked influence in several
important commercial enterprises, but lost heavily in the great panic of
1873, in which thousands of well established business men went down before
the black tidal wave of financial ruin that then swept over the land.  He was
interested in the welfare of Altoona, and often made his influence felt in
measures for the prosperity of the city in whose development he always had
strong faith.  He married Ann Ramey, who was a member of the Presbyterian
church, and died in 1885.  Mrs. McCauley was a daughter of Frederick and
Martha (Keller) Ramey, and whose ancestral history will be found in the
sketch of her brother, David K. Ramey, which appears elsewhere in this volume.
Herman K. McCauley grew to manhood in Altoona, and at the close of his
academic course entered Lafayette college, from which well-known institution
of learning he was graduated in 1879.  Immediately after graduation he
returned to his native city, and in September of the same year became a clerk
for the Altoona Iron Company.  He was soon promoted to a responsible position,
and in May, 1882, was elected secretary, which position he has held ever since.
On November 4, 1880, Mr. McCauley was united in marriage with Sadie M.,
daughter of John Crawford, of Sinking valley.  To their union have been born
three children, one son and two daughters:  Anna D., Martha, and Russel.
In politics Herman K. McCauley is a republican.  He is a member and ruling
elder of the Second Presbyterian church, of whose Sunday school he has been
superintendent.  While ever interested in politics and always active in
church membership, yet his time is principally given to the iron business. 
He is a stockholder as well as the secretary of the Altoona Iron Company,
whose capital stock is in the neighborhood of two hundred thousand dollars. 
Their large iron plant, which has been valued at nearly a quarter of a
million, is just south of the city limits at Allegheny Station, on the
Hollidaysburg branch of the Pennsylvania railroad.  The company has a large
rolling mill on their plant, which has a capacity of fifteen thousand tons of
iron per year.  They employ between one hundred and fifty and two hundred men,
and manufacture all kinds of merchant bar iron.  Mr. McCauley, in business
affairs, has fixed views, and although conservative in his policy, yet when
occasion requires, acts boldly, energetically and decisively.  He is a man of
clear perception, good judgment and firm will, and his knowledge of business
has been derived from actual observation and experience.

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GRAHAM McCAMANT MEADVILLE

of Bellwood and ex-sheriff of Blair County, is entitled to the distinction of
having been held prisoner in as many, if not more, southern prisons during the
last war as any other soldiers who served in the Union Armies. He is a son of
Joshua B. and Judith (Ginter) Meadville and was born near Warriors Mark
Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, June 15, 1844. His paternal
grandfather, William Meadville, was of Scotch ancestry; and settled in
Huntingdon County about the commencement of the present century, He was a
native of Maryland, and married a Miss Binn, of that state. His son, Joshua
Meadville, was born January 1, 1808, and followed farming and
Teaming during most of his life in Huntingdon and Blair counties. He died in
Antis Township on April 14, 1853, when in the forty-six year of his age. He
was a democrat of anti-slavery views, had held various township offices and
served for several years as a member of a cavalry company of the old state
militia. He married Julia Ginter, who was born September 4, 1806 and was the
daughter of William Ginter, a native of Rhineland district of Germany, and
forgeman by trade, who settled in Morris Township, Huntingdon County, where
he died. He was a son of Daniel Ginter, and married Catherine Dry, by whom he
had three sons and four daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Meadville had eleven children:
Sarah, who died in infancy; Mary, wife of David Beamer who is in the employ of
the railroad company at Altoona; William, who was killed; John, of Bellwood
who served as a Union soldier through the late war and is now right foreman
on the Bell's Gap Railroad; Matilda, wife of John Henshey of Antis Township;
Joshua B., who enlisted August 1, 1861, in Co. F 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves,
was taken prisoner at Weldon Railroad fight and died in prison at Saulsbury,
North Carolina; Arbline, who married Martin Robinson and is now dead, Graham
McCamant; Peter, of Bellwood, who enlisted as a Union soldier in the Army of
the Potomac, was held prisoner by Mosby's guerillas for some time, and after
being exchanged served until the close of the war; Annetta died in infancy;
and Ruth A., who now resides with her mother at Bellwood.
   Graham McCamant Meadville was reared in his native county and received his
education in the common schools and an academy, which he attended for ten
months after the close of the late war. At sixteen years of age, on August
26, 1861, in Co. F, 76th Pennsylvania Infantry and served three years seven
months and eleven days in the Department of the South, being successively
under the command of Generals Hunter, Mitchell, Gilmore. He was in several
battles, among which are: Salt Works and Poctaligo, Georgia, October 22,
1862; Morris Island, South Carolina, July 10, 1863; and Fort Wagner, same
state, July 11, 1863. He was taken prisoner at Fort Wagner, and confined
successively in Charleston jail, Castle Thunder, Belle Island prison, Moore
Hospital prison, Pemberton prison and Belle Island (second time) and at
Andersonville, Savannah and Milan. He was paroled on November 21, 1864, after
a continuous imprisonment of sixteen months and ten days and sent to
Annapolis, Maryland, from whence he was taken to Harrisburg, this state, he
was honorably discharged from the federal service on March 7, 1865. He
immediately returned home, and on the 19th day of the same month entered the
employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a laborer in their foundry at Altoona.
He was soon transferred to the railroad as a brakeman, and then promoted to
the position of locomotive engineer, which he still holds. He removed to
Bellwood, where he has resided ever since. 
   September 25, 1872, Mr. Meadville married Anna Mary McClellan, daughter of
William McClellan of Bellefonte, Centre County. They have eight children,
three son and five daughters: Flora May, born August 13, 1873; Joshua W.,
born March 24, 1875; Blanche B., born September 5, 1879; Mary B., born August
23, 1881; Graham G., born July 12, 1883; Peter Russell, born November 8, 1886;
Ruth E., born June 30, 1888; and Judith, born June 30, 1889.
   In politics Mr. Meadville is a republican, and in 1885 was elected as sheriff
of Blair County, which office he held for a term of three years. At the
expiration of his term, in 1888, he was appointed and served one year as
deputy sheriff. In his religious belief he leans towards the Baptist faith of
his ancestors. Of late he has interested himself to some extent in real
estate, and now owns, three and one-half miles west of Bellwood, in Antis
Township, a valuable farm of one hundred and eighty-six acres of land, on
which he raises some very fine horses and cattle. In 1889 he erected the fine
three-story brick opera house block at Bellwood. Mr. Meadville is one of the
higher degree Masons in the United States. He is a member of Lodge No. 391
Free and Accepted Masons; Clearfield Chapter, No. 228, Royal Arch Masons;
Constantine Commandery, No. 33, Knights of Templar; Syria Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and Gourgas Grand Lodge of
Perfection, Ancient Scottish Rite Masons. Graham McCamant Meadville is a tall
man of fine personal appearance. He is energetic and active in whatever he
undertakes, served creditably and efficiently as a county officer, and ranks
high as a man of business ability and spirit, and of public enterprise.

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JAMES E. NEASON, 

ex-county commissioner of Cambria county, and the proprietor of the Union
hotel of Altoona, is a son of John and Mariah (Donough) Neason, and was born
at Spruce Creek, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, March 18, 1835, James
Neason (grandfather) was a native of county Mayo, Ireland, and in 1794 came
to this country in search of a home.  Pleased with the appearance of eastern
Pennsylvania, he settled at Chester, where he resided for eight years.  At
the expiration of that time he removed to Allegheny township, Cambria county,
where he purchased a tract of forest land, which he soon changed into a
beautiful farm.  Here he resided until he passed away at the ripe old age of
ninety-four years.  He was a democrat, and a member of the Catholic church,
in whose affairs he took an active part.  His son, John Neason (father), was
born in Cambria county, and when yet a young man removed to Huntingdon
county, where he resided until 1840.  In that year he returned to Clearfield
township, Cambria county, where he cleared a fine farm out of the woods and
there resided until his death in 1874, at the age of seventy-five years.  He
advocated the principles of the Democratic party, and held many township
offices.  In religious sentiment he was a close adherent to the principles of
the Catholic church.  He married Mariah Donough, a native of Allegheny
township, Cambria county, who died in 1883 at the advanced age of
seventy-nine years.  She was of the same religious belief and church
membership as that of her husband.
   James E. Neason was reared on the farm in Cambria county, where his
environments were green fields and wooded plains.  His opportunities for
securing an education were limited, and were confined to the common
schools.  He remained upon the farm, and was engaged in agricultural and
lumbering pursuits until 1869, when he was elected to the office of county
commissioner of his native county, which position he held for a term of three
years.  At the close of his term of office he again became engaged in farming
and lumbering, and in 1879 he abandoned farm life and removed to the city of
Altoona, where he has since resided.  For three years, from 1879 to 1882, he
was employed in the Pennsylvania railroad shops, and in January, 1882, he
became engaged in the hotel business, which he has conducted successfully
ever since.  He has been proprietor of the Union hotel for the last five years, 
and by the excellent accommodations of his house has secured a large patronage.
   In 1860 Mr. Neason was united in marriage with Susan Troxel, daughter of
William Troxel, of Clearfield township, Cambria county, and to them were born
two sons and three daughters:  Minnie, married John P. Cassiday, and is a
resident of Altoona; Ellen, wife of M. P. Roman, also resides in Altoona;
Rose, married M. A. Keough, and is a resident of the same city; and John and Paul, 
who are now attending St. Vincent college, near Latrobe, Westmoreland county.
In politics Mr. Neason is a democrat, and in religious sentiment a Catholic,
being a member of the Catholic church of Altoona.  His business ability and
energy and success prove that he is a man well fitted to succeed in any
enterprise in which he may engage.

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PIUS SNEERINGER,

one of the most esteemed residents of Tyrone, who was universally beloved and
respected, was a son of Joseph and Margaret (O'Bold) Sneeringer, and was born
at Conewago, Adams County, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1813. Joseph Sneeringer was
born at Conewago, of which he was a lifelong resident, and where he died July
29, 1868, aged eighty-one years. He was an extensive and successful farmer,
owning three large farms at one time. He was a consistent member of the
Catholic Church, and an old-line Whig in politics until the advent of the
Free Soil party, when he became a Democrat. He married Margaret O'Bold, by
whom he had fourteen children, eleven sons and three daughters, of whom the
subject of this sketch was the eldest.
   After receiving a good common English education Pius Sneeringer learned the
trade of miller, which he followed until 1847, when ill health led to his
engaging in the mercantile business at Littlestown, Adams County, in
partnership with Joseph Fink, and then had as successive partners, Samuel
Sneeringer, John A. Renshaw, and E. L. Study. In 1853 he came to Tyrone and
engaged successfully until 1866 in the mercantile and lumber business with
James Shultz, T.B. Heims, and E.L. Study, under the firm name of P.
Sneeringer & Co. From 1867 to 1871 he was in the dry goods business, and in
1868 with T.B. Helms, erected the Tyrone steam flouring mill, which they
operated until 1872. In that year he and J.T. Mathias embarked in the
manufacture of cigars and the wholesale and retail tobacco business, and in
1880 Mr. Mathias withdrew and A.J. Sneeringer took his place, under the firm
name of P. Sneeringer & Son, which firm continued successfully until Mr.
Sneeringer's death in 1890.
   In Conewago Chapel, on May 24, 1836, he was untied in marriage, by Rev.
Mathew Lekue, with Eliza A. Brothers, of Littlestown, Adams County, who still
survives him.  They had a family of eight children, of whom three, Augustus
A., Austin C., and Mary C., preceded their father to the other life. The five
children surviving are: Mrs. William Vogt (see sketch of William Vogt); Mrs.
Emma Baumgardner; Mrs. Elizabeth Aultz, widow of Captain Aultz; James A.; and
Mrs. Clara Flynn, wife of P. Flynn, whose sketch appears in this volume.
Pius Sneeringer was born and reared a Catholic, in which faith he
consistently lived and died. He was an old-line Whig until the formation of
the Know-nothing Party, when he became a Democrat. He was always interested
in the welfare of Tyrone. He was one of the organizers of the Tyrone Gas and
Water Company, of which he was a director at the time of his death. He was
also a member of the firm of Study & Co., which was engaged in mining iron
ore on the Shoenberger lands near Tyrone. He was not fond of prominence,
never sought for municipal office, which he often declined, and devoted
himself to his business and his home.
   His long and useful life closed on July 10, 1890, when his summons came and
he passed quietly away. His remains are entombed in Oak Grove cemetery.
Appropriate notices of Mr. Sneeringer appeared in the county press, and one
who knew him well wrote of him as follows: "The deceased was known to almost
every one in Tyrone, and was deservedly popular. He was the possessor of a
most lovable disposition. Of course the sterling traits of his character
shone brightly in his own home, and to those who knew him best they were the
most radiant. Ever indulgent, kind father and husband, and a true friend, he
was one of those for whose living the world was better."

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ROBERT H. SPENDLEY, 

a shipper of the best grades of anthracite and bituminous coals, and whose
office is in the Schenk block, Altoona, was born in Broome County, New York,
and ha been engaged in the coal business in Cambria and Blair counties since
1885, and resides at Hollidaysburg.

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SAMUEL CALHOUN STEWART.  

   The history of the great iron industry of central Pennsylvania would be
incomplete without record of Samuel Calhoun Stewart, of Tyrone, whose life
has been one of activity and usefulness.  He is a son of Davis and Sarah
(Walker) Stewart, and was born at Pennsylvania Furnace, in Franklin township,
Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, September 6, 1824.  The first Stewart of this
family of whom we have any history was John Stewart, one of the wonderful and
ever memorable Scottish Covenanters of the seventeenth century.  He abandoned
his native hills on account of the persecution of the Covenanters by King
Charles II, and settled in County Down, Ireland, which was then a refuge for
the oppressed Presbyterians and Covenanters of Scotland.  He died in County
Down in 1720, and left one son, Robert Stewart, who was born near Glasgow,
Scotland, in 1665.  He went with his father to County Down, and after the
death of the latter he settled near the city of Belfast, but shortly returned
to Scotland, where he died near the city of Glasgow, in 1730.  The lives of
John and Robert Stewart embraced one of the most remarkable periods of
English history, beginning in the reign of Charles I, and extending into that
of George II.  Robert Stewart reared a large family, and one of his sons,
Samuel Stewart, was born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1698, and went with his
father and grandfather to Ireland, in 1720.  In 1735 he and his youngest
brother, Hugh, set sail for America, and landed at Philadelphia, where they
remained but a short time before settling in Drumore township, Lancaster
county.  Samuel Stewart married Mary McClay, and died in 1750, leaving a
large family.  His son, Samuel Stewart, jr. (grandfather) was born in County
Down, Ireland, and grew to manhood in Drumore township.  He afterward settled
on a farm in Hanover township, which was an exposed portion of Lancaster
county, and its first settlers were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, who often had
to flee from Indian attacks.  The memories of the persecutions of their
ancestors in Scotland, and again in Ireland, by English kings, caused these
Scotch-Irish to hate George II, and when the oppressive acts of his ministry
led to Lexington and Bunker Hill, Hanover township, on June 4, 1774
pronounced for independence.  It was one of the first movements toward
National independence.  Samuel Stewart, jr., was one of the leaders in this
movement.  He was a private in Col. Timothy Greene's battalion for the
defence of the frontier, and on June 6, 1774, enlisted in Captain Rodgers'
company, which saw camp duty and severe fighting in the Jerseys.  After the
revolutionary war he removed to Dauphin county, where we find his name on one
of the first juries of the county.  He married Nancy Temple, of Hanover
township, who bore him eight children, and after her death, in 1789, he
married Agnes Nancy Calhoun, by whom he had four children, the second of whom
was David Stewart, the father of the subject of this sketch.  Davis Stewart
was born in Hanover township, Dauphin county, October 30, 1792, went, in 1813
to Centre county, and afterward removed to Franklin township, Huntingdon
county, were he became manager of the Pennsylvania furnace.  In a short time
he became associated with John Lyon and Anthony Shorb in the ownership of the
furnace, and they manufactured the famous Juniata iron.  In 1831 he removed to
Coleraine Forges, where he died in May, 1869, aged seventy-seven years.  He
was a member of the Presbyterian church, and a prominent and wealthy citizen,
well known for his generosity.  He married, on May 22, 1822, Sarah Walker,
whose parents, John and Mary Walker, were natives of County Straban, Ireland,
and settled at Alexandria, in Huntingdon county.  Mrs. Stewart died at
Coleraine Forges, April 24, 1874.
   Samuel Calhoun Stewart was prepared for college at St. Paul's school, Long
Island, and entered Jefferson college of Cannonsburg, this State, from which
he was graduated in 1846, in a classical course.  Leaving college he went to
St. Louis, Missouri, where he entered the employ of the iron company of Lyon,
Shorb & Co., to learn the business thoroughly.  He commenced at the bottom of
the work and rose gradually up in six years to the position of book-keeper. 
He in (1853) became a member of the firm of Goodwin & Stewart, and was
engaged in the manufacture of lard oil and candles in St. Louis until 1857,
when he returned to Coleraine Forges, where he was successively a
manufacturer of blooms, superintendent of the works, and a partner of the
firm of Shorb, Stewart & Co., which operated these forges.  In 1864 he
removed to Tyrone Iron works, of which he was first superintendent and then a
member of the firm of Willis M. Lyon & Co., which operated them until 1876,
when the works became the property of the Tyrone Mining and Manufacturing
Company, and Mr. Stewart was retained as general superintendent.  Afterward
he came to Tyrone, where he has resided ever since.
   On June 15, 1865, Mr. Stewart married Margaret, daughter of D.N.W. Sample,
of Lancaster county.  Their children are: Robert L., who married Grace
Sylvester, of Denver, Colorado, and is a railroad engineer of that city;
Jeannette S., Carrie H., Betty W., Samuel C., Margaret H. and Nathaniel S.
   In politics Mr. Stewart is a republican.  He is a member of Tyrone Lodge,
No. 494, Free and Accepted Masons, and Birmingham Presbyterian church, of
which he has been a ruling elder for fifteen years.  Although nearly seventy
years of age, he is one of the most active and energetic business men of
Tyrone, and since June, 1891, has been serving as president of the Blair
County bank, in addition to the management of his own affairs and the general
supervision of the works and property of a large mining and manufacturing
company.  He is pleasant and courteous, a true friend and a good citizen, and
a man of earnest will and vast industry.

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EDWIN L. STUDY, 

of whom it may be said, without detracting aught from any other of Tyrone's
useful citizens, that his career of successful industry and efforts for the
development and prosperity of his town, furnish a worthy, example for the
young men who aspire to positions of usefulness and respectability.  He was
born at Littlestown, Adams county, Pennsylvania.  The Study family is of
German lineage, and settled in Adams county.
   Edwin L. Study was reared at Littlestown, and received his education in the
schools of that place.  Leaving school he learned the trade of tailor, which
he followed until some time after his marriage, when he removed to Fairfield,
in Adams county, where he was engaged in tanning until 1855.  In that year he
made a trip west, and passing through Tyrone, met there some of his friends
who were residents of that place, and induced him to stop over night in the
then village of Tyrone on his return.  He was so well pleased with the place
and so favorable impressed with its business opportunities that he returned
home, and after disposing of his Fairfield property came to Tyrone before the
close of the year 1855.  Immediately after settling here he formed a
partnership with Pius Sneeringer and T. B. Heims, and they were engaged in
the general mercantile business until 1861, when Mr. Sneeringer withdrew, and
the firm was Study & Heims up to 1865, in which year Mr. Study purchased the
fine brick block on the corner of Main and Juniata streets, where were sold
the first goods brought to the village.  He then associated his brother, S.
M. Study, with him, under the firm name of E. L. Study & Bro., and they
continued in the mercantile business until 1873. When they sold their
extensive establishment to J. A. and W. L. Study and H. L. Africa, which firm
continued until 1877.  It was succeeded by Study Bros.& Co., who sold the
grocery department to S. M. Study, who, in 1890, sold it back to A. L. and W.
L. Study, who have continued the combined business ever since under the firm
name of Study Bros.  In 1874 Edwin L. Study aided in organizing the Blair
County Banking Company, of which he was president until his death in 1880. 
He was active and instrumental in the formation of the firm of Study & Co.,
which was organized in Tyrone May 1, 1879, for the purpose of developing the
minerals on the lands of George and J. H. Shoenberger, in Huntingdon
county.  The company erected expensive machinery to wash one hundred and
twenty tons of ore per day, built a narrow guage [sic] railroad of three
miles to connect with the Pennsylvania railroad, and employed about one
hundred and twenty-five hands.  After Mr. Study's death the company was
merged into the present Juniata Mining and Manufacturing Co., of Tyrone.  He
was a man of unusual business ability, and widened the sphere of his
operations at Tyrone into many different fields, where he met with good
success.  He was engaged extensively, at the time of his death, in lumbering
on Clearfield Creek, in Clearfield county, and in the milling business at
Tyrone forges and Laurel Spring mills.
   He married Caroline McIlvaine, and reared a family of eight children:  Allie
H., wife of P. A. Reed, of Tyrone; Mollie J., married H. J. Coleman, a
clothier and real estate dealer of Altoona; Virginia, (deceased); Emma J.,
wife of H. L. Africa, a salesman for R. J. Allen & Co.; James A.; W. L., who
married Minnie Thomas, and is a member of the firm of Study Bros.; Charles
A., who married Minnie Whitney, and died August 17, 1891, at thirty years of
age; and Harry, now dead.  Mrs. Study was a daughter of Gen. William
McIlvaine, who served in the revolutionary war under General Lafayette, and
then kept for many years the old hotel which is still standing on the old
Baltimore pike near his home farm.
   Edwin L. Study was a republican in politics, and in religious faith and
church membership had been a Lutheran previous to coming to Tyrone, where he
united with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was a consistent and
useful member until his death. His business career was one of continued
activity, and the impress of his life-work will long remain on the financial
and commercial interests of Tyrone.  Death came suddenly to him by a stroke
of apoplexy on the 17th of January, 1880, when he was examining an ore mine.
James A. Study, the eldest son and fifth child of Edwin L. and Catherine G.
(McIlvaine) Study, was born at Fairfield, Adams county, Pennsylvania,
February 2, 1853, but was reared and received his education at Tyrone.  After
being graduated from the Iron City Business college, of Pittsburg, in 1870, he
engaged in the mercantile business with his father, and is now a member of the
well known firm of J. A. Study & W. L. Study.  He is a strong republican, an
excellent business man, and a consistent member of the First Methodist
Episcopal church of Tyrone.  In August, 1876, he married Anna V., daughter of
J. H. and Mary (Burkett) Lever of Centre county.  To Mr. And Mrs. Study have
been born two children:  Helen M. and Edwin L.

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THOMAS WHITE, 

an industrious and well situated farmer of Frankstown township, is a son of
Samuel and Anna (Bancroft) White, and was born in Frankstown township, Blair
county, Pennsylvania, May 4, 1853.  His paternal grandfather, James White,
was a native and life-long resident of Derbyshire, England.  He married, and
his son, Thomas White, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born
near Derbyshire, April 2, 1816.  He learned the trades of baker and brewer,
which he followed in his native country of England until 1852, when he came
to Blair county, where he settled in Frankstown township.  Five years later,
in 1857, he removed to Hollidaysburg, where he was engaged in the general
mercantile business for one year, and then went to Tyrone, near which, in a
district called the Kettle, he ran a truck farm until 1890.  In that year he
retired from active life, and came to Altoona, where he has resided ever
since.  He has been twice married.  His first wife was Anna Bancroft, who
died in March, 1856, at Frankstown, when in the fifty-seventh year of her
age.  For his second wife he married, in 1860, Mrs. Anna Jeff, of Tyrone, who
died in 1882.  By his first marriage he had ten children, of whom seven lived
to reach manhood and womanhood.
   Thomas White passed his boyhood years on his father's farm in Frankstown
township, attended the common schools for about one year, and then became a
laborer on a farm, where he worked for some years.  After attaining his
majority he engaged in farming, which he has followed continuously and
successfully ever since.  He owns a valuable farm of one hundred and
twenty-five acres of tillable and productive land near the village of
Frankstown.
   On Christmas day, 1887, Mr. White was united in marriage with Mary E.,
daughter of Joseph and Catherine Harpster, of Frankstown township.  Mr. And
Mrs. White have four children, two sons and two daughters:  Samuel F., Oscar
H., Catherine D., and Elberta S.
   In politics Mr. White is a republican, and a member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows.  He has been for several years a member of the Evangelical
Lutheran church and is a substantial and reliable citizen of his community.

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