BIOGRAPHY: Edwin E. VICKROY, 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. 405
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EDWIN E. VICKROY, deceased, a prominent citizen and an intelligent and honorable 
gentleman of Upper Yoder township, was a son of Thomas and Sarah (Atlee) 
Vickroy, and was born at Alum Bank, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1801. 
His paternal grandfather, Hugh Vickroy, was born and reared in England, and came 
to near Cumberland, Maryland, where he was a pioneer settler. He was a sea-
captain on a vessel sailing from Glasgow, Scotland, to Baltimore Maryland. He 
married Margery Phillips, and their son, Thomas, served as quartermaster in 
General Clarke's army during the Revolutionary war, when that eminent and daring 
commander invaded and won the country northwest of the Ohio river. After leaving 
the army, Thomas Vickroy settled in Bedford county, on the estate still owned by 
some of his descendants, and engaged in the distilling business, farming and 
surveying. He took up and surveyed one thousand acres of land in Upper Yoder 
township, Cambria county, but he never lived upon it, his son, Edwin A., having 
settled on a part of it. He was a prominent surveyor, having surveyed vacant and 
other lands in all parts of Bedford, Somerset and adjoining counties, and in 
early life assisted in laying out one part of Pittsburg, where a street still 
bears his name. He was an exceedingly busy and useful man, and some of his 
original draughts are oftentimes produced in the courts. He was twice married, 
and by these marriages had twenty children.
    Edwin A. Vickroy received his early education in an old district or 
subscription school, which he walked six miles to attend, and then was placed 
under a private tutor, Robert Way. He learned surveying with his father, and 
went to Waynesburg, Ohio, where he conducted a store and traded with the Indians 
for five years. At the end of that time he returned home and located at 
Shellsburg, this State, where he conducted a general mercantile store and served 
as postmaster up to 1833, in which year he came to Cambria county, and settled 
in Upper Yoder township, where he went into the woods and cleared out and 
improved the excellent farm which he owned at the time of his death.
    On May 15, 1823, Mr. Vickroy married Cornelia Harlan, a daughter of judge 
Harlan, of Ohio. Mrs. Vickroy was born August 13, 1806, and died August 30, 
1880.
    Of the thirteen children born to Mr. and Mrs. Vickroy, but eight are living: 
Louise, an authoress, and widow of Dr. S. S. Boyd, of Dublin, Indiana; Helen, 
married W. W. Austin, of the State of Indiana; Thomas, a resident of Kansas 
city; Sarah, of Ferndale; Emma, a resident of Pittsburg, and widow of John 
Suter; Laura, of Ferndale; Mary, wife of Squire J. G. West, of Ferndale, and 
Edwin A., Jr., a railroad engineer, who resides in a Southern State.
    Edwin A. Vickroy was a believer in the doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg, and 
died May 1, 1885. His remains were interred in a pleasant spot in Grandview 
cemetery, but his memory will be kept green and cherished for long years in the 
hearts of kindred and friends. He possessed the confidence and respect of all 
his acquaintances to a large degree, was honorable and honest in all his 
dealings with his fellow-men, and in his death the community in which he resided 
lost one of its most active and trusted citizens.