OBIT: Clement JAGGARD, 1890, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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CLEMENT JAGGARD.
DEATH OF ONE OF ALTOONA'S OLDEST RESIDENTS.
A Resident in the Mountain City Since 1851, He Saw Altoona First as a 
Straggling Village, Then as a Considerable Town and Finally as the 
Greatest Railroad City in the United States.

HE PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY EVENING.

The Body Will Be Taken to Philadelphia on Monday, Where the Interment 
Will be Made.

  At ten minutes before 6 o'clock yesterday evening Mr. Clement Jaggard 
died of pneumonia, after a brief illness, at his residence, on Sixth 
avenue between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets.  On Saturday, December 
20, Mr. Jaggard returned from a trip to St. Paul, whither he had gone 
to witness the marriage of his son, Edwin A.  While in the west he 
visited several other cities and contracted a severe cold, which 
compelled him to take his bed on his return home.  Pneumonia developed 
rapidly, and despite unceasing medical attention and efficient nursing, 
it was soon evident that the disease had taken a fast hold and all 
earthly endeavors to stay its progress were unavailing.  Death occurred 
at the hour stated above.
  Clement Jaggard was born in Woodbury, N.J., February 10, 1822.  He 
was a merchant and had during his long lifetime engaged in that 
occupation in various western towns - at Springfield, Warsaw, Joplin 
and Rolls, Mo., at Leavenworth, Kansas, and in Altoona.  His wife, who 
survives him, is a daughter of the late Archibald Wright, of 
Philadelphia.  Ten children were born to them, of whom seven are now 
living.  These are Clement Jaggard, of Jaggard, Kansas; Clara, wife of 
Charles E. Pugh, general manager of the Pennsylvania railroad, of 
Philadelphia; Dr. W. W. Jaggard, of Chicago; Edwin A. Jaggard, esq., of 
St. Paul, Minn.; Arthur W. Jaggard, of Philadelphia; Herbert A. 
Jaggard, of Baltimore, and Archibald W. Jaggard, of Jaggard, Kansas.  
One sister, Mrs. Harriet Miller, of Philadelphia, and one brother, 
Robert, of Jaggard, Kansas, also survive.
  The deceased came to what is now the city of Altoona about the year 
1851.  Then there was no city here, nor a town, and scarcely a village.  
Messrs. Archibald and John A. Wright, of Philadelphia, had purchased 
the major portion of the land on which the original town of Altoona was 
afterward built and Mr. Jaggard acted as their agent and continued to 
do so until he died.  He also engaged in the mercantile. . . . Altoona 
gas company and was the owner of considerable property in different 
parts of the city. [fold in the page obscures the omitted text]
  He was for years a member of the Eighth avenue Methodist Episcopal 
church and was ever attentive to the duties which thus devolved upon 
him.  Death removes from Altoona in the passing away of Mr. Jaggard one 
of the oldest as well as one of its most unassuming citizens.  The body 
will be taken to Philadelphia on Monday morning and the interment will 
be made in Laurel Hill cemetery in that city.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, December 27, 1890