BIOGRAPHY: James MELLON, 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. 113-4
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JAMES MELLON, justice of the peace of Patton, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is a 
son of Redmond and Bridget (Bradley) Mellon, and was born in County Derry, 
Ireland, in 1844.
     The ancestors of the Mellon family were originally from the Isle of Man. 
Redmond Mellon, father, was a native of Ireland, from which country he emigrated 
to America in 1847, locating first in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and then 
finally, in 1850, he located on a farm near St. Augustine, this county, where 
for the remainder of his life he engaged in the pursuits of a farmer. In 
religious faith was a Roman Catholic; in politics a democrat, and served one 
term as tax collector of his district.
     He married Miss Bridget Bradley, and this marriage has resulted in the 
birth of ten children, six daughters and four sons; John, a farmer, located near 
Manasses Junction, Virginia; Henry, deceased; James; Philip, who now resides at 
Moxham, Pennsylvania; Catharine, the wife of Francis Burgoon, of Hastings, 
Pennsylvania; Alice, deceased, who was the wife of Dr. Peter Malone, a dentist 
of Altoona, Pennsylvania; Mary, wife of Dr. J. B. Noonan; Annie, of Chest 
Springs; and Sarah, wife of Austin Stall, of Altoona. James Mellon, the subject 
of this sketch, received his education in the common schools of Ireland and 
Cambria counties. On leaving school he worked on the farm for his father for 
several years. When he began life on his own account he engaged in the lumber 
business in Clearfield and Cambria counties.
     In 1867 he opened a coal mine on land which he owned in Carroll township, 
this being the first discovery of coal in this section; this mine is now 
operated by the firm of Magee & Lingle. He at the present time owns a colliery 
in the vicinity of Patton, and is engaged in the mining of coal for the supply 
of the custom trade of that borough.
     Politically he is a democrat, and in 1893 was elected to the office of 
justice of the peace in his borough, and also for two years served as collector 
of taxes.
     February 5, 1871, he wedded Miss Matilda Cunningham, daughter of John 
Cunningham, of Susquehanna township, this county. Ten children have blessed this 
marital relation. Those living are: Thomas F., Cecelia, Ada, Rudolph, Annie, 
Bertha and Lucy.