OBIT: Joseph M. FARREN, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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JOSEPH M. FARREN

Died of lung trouble, at the residence of his father-in-law, the late 
John McCune, 1329 Seventeenth avenue, at 7:30 last evening.  The 
deceased was born at Cresson, May 25, 1861.  He had lived in Altoona 
during the past nineteen years, and was employed in the air brake 
department of No. 1 roundhouse.  In 1881 he was married to Miss Bertha 
McCune, who survives, as does one brother, Thomas, of Pittsburg, and 
three sisters: Sister Mary Paul, of the order of Sisters of Mercy, of 
Wilkesbarre; Mrs. Susan McCormick, of Harrisburg, and Miss Ella, of 
this city.  Mr. Farren was a member of St. John's Catholic church, of 
Division No. _ Ancient Order of Hibernians and council No. 299, Young 
Men's Institute.  The funeral will take place Friday at 9 a.m., high 
mass to be celebrated in St. John's church, after which interment will 
be made in St. John's cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., February 1, 1899, page 8