OBIT: Samuel ISETT, 1895, Mt. Etna, Blair County, PA

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SAMUEL ISETT,

One of the most widely known residents of this county, died of old age, 
at his home in Mt. Etna, at 5 o'clock on Saturday evening.  The 
deceased was born at Arch Springs, Sinking Valley, June 25, 1808.  
During his early manhood he engaged in tanning, milling and 
storekeeping.  In 1825 he married Miss Mary A. Davis of Waterstreet, 
Huntingdon county, who still survives, together with the following 
children: George D. of Altoona, J. Harvey and John B. of Mt. Etna, 
Thomas S. of Pittsburgh, Howard P. of Huntingdon, S. Moore of 
Bakersfield, Cal., Mrs. J. P. Lafferty and Mrs. J. D. Bloomhardt of 
this city.  All were present at his bedside, except the son who resides 
in California.  Mr. Isett was prominently identified with the iron 
industry of the county and was part owner of Elizabeth, Union and 
Rockhill furnaces.  In 1848 he and others purchased over 6,000 acres of 
mountain coal land at Mt. Etna.  He was a stockholder and the first 
superintendent of the Juniata iron company of Hollidaysburg and built 
the rolling mill there and the Gap furnace.  In his daily walk in life 
he was honest, charitable and worthy, and won for himself a large 
circle of friends, who esteemed him for his worth.  He was always a 
great temperance worker and for fifty-six years was a member of the 
Presbyterian church.  The funeral will take place tomorrow morning, 
leaving his late home at 10 o'clock; interment in Arch Springs 
cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., May 20, 1895