BIOGRAPHY: The STINEMAN Family, 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. 114-5
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THE STINEMAN FAMILY. -- One of the most prominent families of Cambria county is 
the one whose name heads this record. Its old world home is in the little 
prosperous kingdom of Holland, whence came Christian Stineman, the great-
grandfather of the older members (Jacob C. and George B.) of the family now 
living in Cambria county. He was a tailor by trade and came to America at the 
age of eighteen years. This founder of the family in the United States first 
located in Schuylkill county, this State, later removed to Bedford county, 
whence his son, Jacob Stineman, grandfather, removed to 1803, to what is now 
Cambria county, and located in what was then Conemaugh township, later Richland 
township and now Adams township, on the waters of the South Fork. His location 
in that section, almost a century ago and antedating the formation of the county 
itself, was fraught with all the hardships that characterize the genuine pioneer 
life. The first thing necessary was to build a cabin to shelter the family, then 
the clearing away of the woods and the planting, and soon the wilderness, whose 
stillness had never been broken by man, began to assume an appearance fit for 
habitations. Here Jacob Stineman spent the remainder of his life, engaged in the 
necessary pursuits of farming and milling, and died September 28, 1853. He 
married Elizabeth Ling, a Bedford county lady in 1805, and among his children 
was Jacob Stineman, the father of Jacob C. and George B. Stineman, whose 
sketches follow.
     Jacob Stineman was born on the old pioneer homestead of the Stinemans, in 
Adams township, and lived and died in that section. Although a man of but 
limited education, yet he possessed many strong attributes of mind. He was a man 
of observing habits and the volume from which he obtained most of his 
information was the great book of nature. From this source, being a man of 
practical instincts and talents, he obtained much information of great value to 
him in the every-day affairs of life. He was a man of the strictest integrity of 
character and one in whom was reposed the confidence and respect of his 
neighbors by whom he was frequently elected to offices of trust. In religious 
matters, he adhered to the dogmas of the Lutheran church. He married Mary 
Croyle, a daughter of Thomas Croyle, a native of Germany, and who, in 1798, 
emigrated into what is now Cambria county, locating on the present site of 
Summerhill, on the Pennsylvania railroad. He was of German ancestry and one of 
the first settlers in that section of the county. Croyle township is named for 
the family. He was a man of more than ordinary mechanical skill and could turn 
his hand to various occupations, and was at once a tanner, a cooper, a farmer 
and a mill-wright.
     The children born to the marriage of Jacob Stineman and Mary Croyle were as 
follows: Elizabeth, deceased, was the wife of Jacob Seigh; Joseph P., a resident 
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, not actively engaged in business; George B., 
whose sketch follows; Daniel T., who entered the Civil War, in company F, One 
Hundred and Ninety-eighth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, and lost his life 
at the battle of Hatcher's Run, February 9, 1865. Daniel T. Stineman Post, No. 
560, of South Fork, was named in honor of his memory; Jacob C., whose sketch 
follows, and Mary Ann, wife of Joseph S. Stull, of this county.