BIOGRAPHY: Raymond J. KAYLOR, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 267-8
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RAYMOND J. KAYLOR, proprietor and editor of the Hastings Tribune, is a son of 
James and Cecelia (Burke) Kaylor, and was born in the Cambria county alms-house, 
April 16, 1867, during his father's stewardship.
     His great-grandfather was a native of Germany, whence he emigrated to 
America about the time of the Revolutionary war. He enlisted as a soldier in 
that famous struggle for American independence. After the war he located on a 
farm in Adams county, Pennsylvania, where he died. Two of his sons, Peter and 
Jacob Kaylor (the latter was the grandfather of the gentleman whose name heads 
this sketch) came to this (Cambria) county about the time Father Gallitzin 
arrived, and located with the colony at Loretto. There Jacob Kaylor met and 
married Katie McConnell, who was a member of the Loretto colony. This marriage 
resulted in the birth of several children, one of whom, James J. Kaylor, became 
the father of our subject. He was one of the younger children in the family, and 
was born on the old homestead, near Loretto, Pennsylvania, and died June 14, 
1894, at the age of sixty-nine years. He received a liberal education, for those 
early days, and for a number of years followed the profession of teaching. For 
ten years - from 1858 to 1868 - he was steward of the County Home, and it was 
during this term of office that Raymond J. Kaylor was born. On retiring from the 
above position, Mr. Kaylor returned to the homestead near Loretto, where he 
followed the pursuits of a farmer, remaining on the farm the rest of his life. 
He was a faithful adherent of the principles of Democracy, and served the public 
of his community in all of its local offices. He was a member of the Roman 
Catholic church.
     His marriage with Cecelia Burke, a daughter of John Burke, of Croyle 
township, Cambria county, resulted in the birth of nine children, four daughters 
and five sons: Mark Burke, deceased; Cyrillis, deceased; Mary, deceased; Rose, a 
professional nurse in the Pennsylvania hospital at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 
Ida, a member of the order of Sisters of Mercy, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; 
Raymond J. and Harold G., twin brothers; Harold is a merchant of Johnstown, and 
controls all the news routes in and between Johnstown and Altoona; Irene, at 
home, and Lewis E., a farmer, owning the old homestead.
     Raymond J. Kaylor was reared a farmer boy, and received his education at 
the St. Francis college, Loretto, and St. Vincent college, Latrobe, 
Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter well-known institution in 1887. 
Previous to entering St. Vincent college he had commenced to learn the trade of 
a printer in the office of the Altoona Mirror, and, after graduating, went to 
Philadelphia, where he finished his trade. Until 1890 he worked as a journeyman; 
in the latter year he removed to Hastings, and succeeded R. M. Huston as 
proprietor and editor of the Hastings Herald, now called the Hastings Tribune, 
an eight-page, five-column paper, published weekly in the interests of the 
Democratic party, and making a specialty of local and county news, which is 
given in an acceptable form to the general public of all parties. The Tribune 
has a large circulation, and is one of the best papers in the northern part of 
the county, being one of the three county papers officially filed in the county 
archives.
     Mr. Kaylor was appointed postmaster of Hastings by President Cleveland in 
1893, which office he still holds. In religious belief he is a member of the 
Roman Catholic church.
     October 24, 1892, Mr. Kaylor celebrated his marriage with Miss Nellie F. 
Adams, a daughter of Thomas Adams, of St. Augustine, this county. They have two 
children: M. Gordon and Madeleine Frances.