BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Samuel A. PEDEN, 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. 312
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Dr. Samuel A. PEDEN

DR. SAMUEL ARTHUR PEDEN, dentist, was born February 2, 1848, in Franklin 
borough, Cambria county, and is a son of John and Eve (Arthur) Peden.
     His grandfather, William Peden, who was a native of county Derry, Ireland, 
of Scotch parentage, emigrated to America in about 1821.  He located in 
Philadelphia, at which place he remained but a short time.  He then located in 
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania.  Removing from there in about 1843, he came 
to Johnstown, where he resided until his death.  The great-grandfather, on the 
maternal side, John Arthur, was a native of Bedford county, having been one of 
the pioneer settlers of that county.  John Arthur served for seven years in the 
memorable war for independence.
     John Peden, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1825.  He was a carpenter by trade, and 
removed to Johnstown in 1843, where he industriously pursued his trade for many 
years.  Politically, he was an old-line whig, until the disruption of that party 
in 1856, when he adopted the principles of the Republican party.  He served as a 
member of the Johnstown borough councils several times, when that body consisted 
of but six members.  In January, 1847, he married Eve Arthur, daughter of John 
Arthur, Jr., a native of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, who removed to Johnstown 
in April, 1828, being one of the pioneer settlers of the city.  He served in the 
council of his town, and for several years was keeper of the locks on the 
Pennsylvania canal.  The greater part of his life was spent on a farm in 
Conemaugh township, near Johnstown.  To the marriage of John Peden and Eve 
Arthur were born four children:  Samuel Arthur; Mary, the wife of D.P. Petrikin, 
of Coopersdale borough, near Johnstown; and Keesey C., a salesman, with 
headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio; and Amanda.  Samuel Arthur Peden was educated 
in the schools of this county, and at an early age became an apprentice in the 
Pennsylvania railroad shops of Altoona, where he learned the trade of a 
carpenter, serving a full apprenticeship.  He worked at his trade for a short 
time, and then took up the study of dentistry in the Baltimore College of Dental 
Surgery, at Baltimore, Maryland.  In 1880 he graduated from that institution and 
located in Johnstown, where he has since practiced his profession.  Politically 
he is a republican, and for four years represented his ward in the council, of 
which body he is now president.  He is a member of Johnstown Lodge, No. 157, 
Knights of Pythias, and Mountain Castle, No. 77, Knights of the Mystic Chain; 
the Improved Order of Heptasophs, Johnstown Conclave, No. 140, and the Royal 
Arcanum, Johnstown Council, No. 401.
     Mr. Peden married Miss Nettie S., daughter of John W. Haynes, of Johnstown, 
and to this marital union have been born two children, Alta and Julia.