OBIT: William STANLEY, 1891, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS.

  Another visitation of the death angel was made to our community at 9 
o'clock Sunday evening, when the household of William Stanley was 
invaded and the loved husband and father was taken away.  Asthma was 
the disease which sapped away his life.  Mr. Stanley was born on 
January 20, 1820, near Dublin, Ireland.  His youth and early days were 
spent on Erin's green isle.  In 1844 he embarked for the New World, 
spending his first four years in this country, at Tarrytown, N.Y.  He 
came to Hollidaysburg, in 1848, and has been identified with the 
progress and advancement of this community ever since that time.  He 
held responsible positions on the Portage railroad and also in the 
warehouse at this place during the early boating days.  For 28 years he 
was foreman of the ore mines of the Cambria Iron company in Franktown 
township.  In 1850 he was happily married to Miss Mary A. Lester, who, 
with seven children, namely, Mrs. W. H. Dublin and Mrs. Wm. McGraw, of 
this place, and Mrs. Joseph R. Vaughn, of Altoona, James A., Andrew J., 
William and John J. Stanley, survive him.  He was a man of kindly 
impulses and strong integrity, beloved in his family circle and a large 
gathering of relatives and friends mourn his loss.  Rev. Father James 
Donnelly will officiate at high mass over the remains, in St. Mary's 
Catholic church, to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.  Interment in the 
Catholic cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, April 21, 1891