BIOGRAPHY: William L. SHRYOCK, 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. 74-5
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WILLIAM L. SHRYOCK is a son of George and Elizabeth (Lewis) Shryock, and was 
born September 1, 1819, at Hagerstown, Maryland. His father, George Shryock, was 
born near Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and removed to 
Hagerstown, Maryland, where he died in 1873.
     William L. Shryock was reared and educated in Hagerstown. Removing to 
Cambria county in 1839, he located at Johnstown, where he accepted a clerkship 
with Buck & Co., general merchants, and in 1842, in connection with George S. 
King and David Stuart, built the Cambria furnace on Laurel run -- a charcoal 
furnace. He was prominently connected with the above-named gentlemen in the 
furnace business until 1846, when he purchased Shade furnace, in Somerset 
county, which he operated until 1850, when he became superintendent of the Mill 
Creek furnace, at that time operated by George S. King and Dr. Shoenberger. He 
managed this furnace for them until it was absorbed by the Cambria Iron company. 
This company, recognizing his unusual ability in this business, retained him as 
superintendent until 1858, when the county furnaces belonging to the Cambria 
Iron company were all closed, he left their employ to become manager of the 
Indiana furnace, in Indiana county. He remained there until 1869, when he 
acceptted [sic] he [sic] position of clerk in the Johnstown Water and Gas 
company, which position he has filled acceptably to the present time. 
     Mr. Shryock is a member of the First Lutheran church of Johnstown. He was 
married on the 25th of January, 1844, to Miss Nancy M. Royer, and eight children 
have been born to this union: Frank R., of Denver, Colorado; James W., of 
Pueblo, Colorado; Emma, wife of J. P. Pringle, of Denver, Colorado; Alda L.; 
Samuel R., a mine owner in Colorado; Mary P., died in 1861, and R. B., died in 
1884.