BIOGRAPHY: Washington Irving STINEMAN, 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. 316-7
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WASHINGTON IRVING STINEMAN, son of Jacob Stineman, whose sketch appears on 
another page, was born in South Fork, August 23, 1869. He was educated in the 
public schools of South Fork, and in the Central Pennsylvania college at New 
Berlin, Pennsylvania, having entered the sophomore year; he was called home at 
the age of seventeen years to superintend his father's mining interests, the 
latter having been elected to the office of sheriff of the county. He remained 
in that position until the formation of the Stineman Coal and Coke company in 
1893, when, being one of the organizers of the company, he became its general 
manager, and has continued as such ever since. This company have their 
headquarters in Philadelphia, and are among the largest producers of bituminous 
coal in the State. In addition to this enterprise Mr. Stineman is treasurer of 
the firm of Stineman Bros., and a director and the treasurer of the Euclid Coal 
and Coke company.
     Fraternally Mr. Stineman is a prominent Mason, being a member of Summit 
Lodge, No. 312, and of Portage Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Johnstown.
     In politics he follows in the footsteps of his father, and is a staunch 
republican, and is a co-worker with him in all political work.
     January 12, 1893, he married Nannie James, a daughter of Edmund James, a 
prominent druggist and business man of Ebensburg, this county. Their union has 
been blessed in the birth of one child, James Calvin.
     Washington Irving Stineman is a young man of wide business experience for 
his age, and has shown that he possesses business talent of a high order of 
merit.