BIOGRAPHY: Festus LLOYD, 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. 175-6
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FESTUS LLOYD, of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, the enterprising editor of the Cambria 
Herald, and a son of Rees S. and Ann (Tibbott) Lloyd, was born April 17, 1849, 
in Cambria township, near Ebensburg, Cambria county, Pennsylvania.
     His ancestors were of the race characterized by Paxton Hood, in his "Life 
of Cromwell," as royal. "All Welshmen are royal," says that writer. Sure it is, 
that as a race they are a steady, reliable people, of indomitable energy, and 
unflinching integrity. This characterization applies, as will be seen, to the 
immediate ancestors of Festus Lloyd.
     His grandfather was Stephen Lloyd, a native of the principality of Wales, 
who emigrated to America and settled in Ebensburg, where he died. He was a 
pioneer settler in this section, and was a justice of the peace, a surveyor and 
superintendent of the Philadelphia and Pittsburg pike, each for a number of 
years.
     The father of Festus Lloyd was born in Cambria township in 1816. When a 
young man, he received the appointment of postmaster at Ebensburg, and held the 
office for a number of years. In 1875 he was nominated by the Republicans of the 
county for the office of county commissioner, and was elected by a large 
majority. He filled this office for a term of three years in an altogether 
satisfactory manner, his highest ambition being to administer the affairs of the 
county honestly and justly and to the interest of the taxpayer. Although 
residing in the township, he served as school director for a number of years in 
his early live, in the borough of Ebensburg, and was always an untiring worker 
for the public schools.
     From early boyhood he had been identified with the Christian church, and he 
confirmed the honesty of his professions to the world, by the uprightness of his 
life. He was always a staunch, exemplary member of the Christian church, and 
uncompromising advocate of the right, and an enemy of the wrong; a temperance 
man, too, in the fullest sense of the word, whose character is written in 
letters so legible that "all who run may read." When he died, the church, the 
community, and his family missed him as a Christian man and a good citizen is 
missed, but he left the latter a legacy more precious than a heritage of lands 
and money - the legacy of a good name. His death occurred August 15, 1892.
     He married Ann Tibbott, the mother of our subject, and they had the 
following children: Maggie, deceased, who was the wife of W. H. Sechler; Nane, 
the wife of Edmund James, a druggist of Ebensburg; and Festus.
     The grandfather of our subject on the maternal side was Festus Tibbott, 
also a native of Wales, who settled about one mile south of Ebensburg, and built 
a grist mill, known as “Tibbott's Mill,” this being the first grist mill in the 
county. Later, he built a saw mill, and followed this business all his life, 
dying there. He, too, was distinguished in church work, being an elder, and 
frequently preaching in what is known as the Disciple church. He was the founder 
of this church in Ebensburg.
     Festus Lloyd, on September 4, 1879, married Anna K. Shryock, a daughter of 
J. K. Shryock, who removed from Hagerstown, Maryland to Johnstown, where he was 
engaged in mercantile pursuits until he was burned out, when he returned to 
Wilmore, this county, where he died, January, 1895. Nellie, born September 15, 
1880; Fannie, Ada, Lynn S., Rees S., and Fred., comprise his family.
     He was educated in the common schools of Ebensburg, and learned the trade 
of a printer, with J. Todd Hutchinson, of The Alleghenian. In 1871, he, in 
connection with Edmund James, purchased this paper, and changed its name to the 
Cambria Herald, issuing their first edition, August 3, 1871. In 1879 Mr. Lloyd 
purchased Mr. James' interest, and has continued unto the present time its 
editor and publisher. The Cambria Herald is an eight-column folio, ably edited, 
spicy and newsy, progressive, and true to the spirit of the times. In connection 
with the paper, Mr. Lloyd does a general job printing business.
     He has always been a republican, and has served four years as burgess of 
Ebensburg borough, one term of one year and one term of three years.
     Mr. Lloyd is a member of Highland Lodge, No 428, I. O. O. F., Jr. O. U. A. 
M., and a consistent member and valued trustee of the Disciple church.