Cambria County PA Archives Obituaries.....Canan, William H June 20, 1873
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The Cambria freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938: June 20, 1873
At the residence of R. H. Canan, Esq., at 2 o'clock this morning, of gastric fever,
William H. Canan, in the 58th year of his age. In the death of Wm. H. Canan,
Johnstown has lost one of its quiet and unpretending, but most excellent citizens.
He was the second son of Hon. Moses Canan, for many rears prominently identified
with the Bar of Cambria county. Wm. Canan spent several of his boyhood years in
Ebensburg, in the store of his uncle, Silas Moore, at one time owner of a line or
stage coaches between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Mr. Moore sent William, while yet
in his teens, to superintend the business of the stage line in the city of
Pittsburgh. Though very young, he managed the important interests committed to him
with distinguished success. In 1848 he was compelled to retire for a time from
business on account of failing eyesight. He subsequently went to California by what
was then familiarly called the overland route, little dreaming that he would live to
see a railroad connecting the Atlantic and Pacific. The hardship of the journey so
prostrated him that he remained in San Francisco but three days - a physician there
assuring him that his life depended upon an immediate return to the "States". He
embarked on a vessel for New Orleans, but when in the Caribbean Sea, the vessel was
wrecked on a desert island. The crew and passengers, numbering sixty-one, remained
on the island fourteen days, during which time several of them died. In the year
1851 he came to Johnstown, where he has resided ever since. In the winter of 1862 he
was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Lucas, youngest daughter of Mr. David Lucas,
one of our oldest and best citizens... 

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