BIOGRAPHY: Henry SALY, 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. 475-6
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HENRY SALY, of the firm of Saly & Lucas, reliable contractors and builders of 
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is a son of Peter and Susanna (Dunn) Saly, and was born 
in Johnstown, this county, October 1, 1861. His maternal grandfather, William 
Dunn, who is of Irish extraction, is a native of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, 
where he still resides at the age of eighty-five years.
     Peter Saly (father) was born in Germany. When eighteen years old he 
emigrated to America and located in Johnstown, where he engaged in the 
mercantile business. He is still a resident of Johnstown, He married Susanna 
Dunn, of Hollidaysburg. In religious faith both he and his wife are devout 
members of the Catholic church.
     Henry Saly was reared in Johnstown, and educated in the public schools of 
that place. On leaving school he learned the trade of a barber, which trade he 
followed for eleven years, and for the next nine years engaged in the hotel 
business.
     In 1894 he entered into a partnership with J. E. Lucas, under the firm name 
of Saly & Lucas, and embarked in the contracting and building business, to which 
was added, as a necessary adjunct, the lumber and planing-mill enterprise. This 
business venture has been very successful. They have erected many of the new 
buildings in Johnstown, and the firm now employs from thirty-five to forty-five 
men. Mr. Saly is also a stockholder in the Morrellville and Cambria Water 
company, and is prominently identified with the Catholic church.
     In 1884 he was united in marriage with Miss Katharine, daughter of Joseph 
Stibich, of Johnstown, and to this union have been born six children, two sons 
and four daughters: Mary D., Emma, Carl, Armilla, William, and Margaret.