OBIT: John FENLON, 1899, Ebensburg, Cambria County, PA

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HON. JOHN FENLON.
The Nestor of the Cambria County Bar Passes Away.

  From the Johnstown Tribune of Tuesday, August 15, we take the 
following obituary notice of a man who was locally known, loved and 
respected:
  John Fenlon, esq., the oldest member of the Cambria county bar both 
in point of years and length of practice, passed peacefully away, of 
illness incident to advanced age, at his home in Ebensburg at 9.30 
o'clock last night.
  Mr. Fenlon was born in Ireland about 1816, but in the year 1834 
immigrated to America and located in Philadelphia, where he was for 
some time in the employ of Robert Towland, a wholesale merchant of that 
city.  But he soon removed to Ebensburg, whence after a residence of 
six months, he went to Indiana, Pa., and entered the law office of 
Thomas White, esq., afterward judge of the Tenth judicial district, of 
which Cambria county was a part.
  In 1837 Mr. Fenlon was admitted to the Indiana county bar, and 
immediately removed to Ebensburg and was admitted to the Cambria county 
bar, at which he had been a practitioner up to the time of his death.  
In 1838 he was the writing editor of the Democratic Journal, a whig 
paper that was started in Ebensburg to publish the proposed state 
constitution that was adopted that year during the administration of 
Governor Ritner.
  In politics Mr. Fenlon was formerly a whig, and on that ticket was 
elected to the Pennsylvania legislature in 1848.  In 1856 he voted for 
James Buchanan for president, since which time he had been a democrat, 
by which party he was elected to the legislature in 1879, serving one 
term.
  Mr. Fenlon married Miss Catharine R. Myers, of Pittsburg, and to this 
union the following named children were born: John M., of New Orleans, 
Harry E., of Bellefonte, Pa.; Paul B., of Philadelphia; Philip G., who 
from 1893 to 1898 was postmaster of Ebensburg, now of Philadelphia; 
Mrs. Catharine Blair, relict of the late Celestine J. Blair, of 
Ebensburg; Mrs. George Bearer, of Pittsburg, and Grace M., at home.  
The wife of the deceased survives.
  James Fenlon, a brother of the deceased, was drowned in Griffith's 
dam while bathing nearly fifty years ago, and another brother, Thomas 
Fenlon, is, we believe, still living at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.  Mr. 
Fenlon was a lifelong Catholic, a conscientious man and an earnest 
lawyer.  In his declining years he was often honored by the Bar 
association of Cambria county.  The funeral will take place Thursday 
morning at 10.30 o'clock.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, August 16, 1899

Hon. John Fenlon Buried.

  The funeral of Hon. John Fenlon took place from his late home in 
Ebensburg yesterday morning.  Impressive services were conducted in the 
Catholic church and interment was made in the old Catholic cemetery.  
It was very largely attended, almost all of the members of the Cambria 
county bar and Judge White, of Indiana county, being present.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday, August 18, 1899