Bios: E-F Surnames: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Marta Burns. marta43@juno.com USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ ______________________________________________________________________ Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania editorially managed by John M. Gresham assisted in the compilation by Samuel T. Wiley, A Citizen of the County Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co. Chicago: 1889 http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/fayette/gresham.htm Table of Contents. ______________________________________________________________________ NOTE: "Brnv & Bdgpt" stands for "Brownsville and Bridgeport" NAME LOCATION PAGE Eastman, Henry, Dr Luzerne 546 Eastman, T N, Dr Redstone 500 Eberhart, A M Springhill 267 [ Everhart] Edmiston, W A Brnv & Bdgpt 268 Eicher, H K Springfield 547 Emry, C S Springhill 269 Enos, J B, Dr Connellsville 434 Ewing, John K Uniontown 168 Fairchild, Andrew Dunbar 434 Farmer, T F, Rev Uniontown 170 Farquhar, Charles Washington 332 Farquhar, Zimri Washington 331 Fee, T M, Capt Connellsville 435 Finlay, R G, Dr Dunbar 436 Finley, Ebenezer Jr Menallen 332 Flanigan, David, Rev Tyrone 333 Fleming, C M Uniontown 170 Flenniken, J A Connellsville 437 Flydell, Joseph Dunbar 438 Frankenberry, A D Springhill 269 Franks, A M Nicholson 502 Franks, Abram Luzerne 547 Franks, M S Georges 501 Frasher, Luke H Uniontown 173 Fuller, Smith, Dr Uniontown 173 p546 Dr HENRY EASTMAN is a son of Nehemiah Eastman and Anstriss B Woodbury Eastman and was born in Farmington, New Hampshire, March 16, 1826. His grandfather, Ebenezer Eastman of Scotch Irish extraction, was a son of one of the pioneer settlers of New Hampshire and served as a captain at Bunker Hill in the War of the Revolution, shortly after which he was accidentally killed. Hon Nehemiah Eastman, son of Ebenezer and the father of Dr Henry Eastman, was born in New Hampshire, was a prominent lawyer of that State and was elected by the whigs to Congress in 1826 where he served his constituents most creditably. His son, George N Eastman, is also a prominent lawyer of New Hampshire, and served for several years in the legislature of that State. Nehemiah Eastman married Miss Anstriss B Woodbury, a daughter of Peter Woodbury, a prominent merchant of Francestown, New Hampshire, whose father, James T Woodbury, was a native of England and an officer under General Wolfe at the capture of Quebec. One of her brothers was Levi Woodbury, a distinguished statesman and jurist of national reputation, and at one time secretary of the navy under President Van Buren, and was afterwards appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President James K Polk, and died while on the bench. Dr Henry Eastman was educated in the common schools and at the Gilmanton Academy of New Hampshire. Read Medicine and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1847. Shortly after graduating he came to Merrittstown and entered upon the practice of his profession. His expectation was to remain only a short time but his practice became so extensive and lucrative that he finally abandoned the idea of removal, and has since continued at Merrittstown, successfully in the practice of medicine. He is one of the most widely known physicians in the county. In 1853 he married Miss Mary E Porter, daughter of Moses B Porter and Mary Wilson Porter, whose ancestors were among the early settlers of the county. They have had seven children: Anstriss W Eastman married to A R Struble, a prosperous farmer of Luzerne township; Thomas N Eastman, a practicing physician of Merrittstown and a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, read medicine and graduated at Jefferson Medical College; Anna M Eastman married to Dr J S Hackney of Uniontown; Martha J Eastman, dead; Henry Eastman, Ellen M Eastman and Nora Blanche Eastman. Dr and Mrs Eastman are both respected members of the Dunlap's Creek Presbyterian church. p500 Dr THOMAS N EASTMAN, a young and rising physician of Fayette county, was born and raised in Merrittstown, Luzerne township, Fayette county, Penna, November 23, 1856, and is a son of Dr Henry Eastman and Mary E Porter Eastman. Dr T N Eastman was reared in Luzerne township and received his early education in the common schools. He attended Dunlap's Creek Academy and was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1878. Choosing the medical profession for a life vocation, he entered upon its study under the tutelage of his father, Dr Henry Eastman. After completing the required course of reading, he attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College where he was graduated, March, 1881. After graduation he occupied the important position of resident physician in St Mary's Hospital, Philadelphia, Penna. He was called from Philadelphia to the Asylum for the Insane at Dixmont as assistant physician where he remained some time, and returned to Merrittstown and engaged in the general practice of medicine with his father, Dr Henry Eastman. He has a large and paying practice in the western part of the county, having proved himself a worthy successor of his father whose practice he has retained with unusual success. On June 10, 1886, he was married by Rev A S Mulholland D D to Miss Jennie Hogsett, daughter of Robert Hogsett. They have one child, Helen Eastman, born June 8, 1889. Dr Eastman owns a very fine residence at Merrittstown which he erected in 1887. He is an intelligent and skillful young physician. p267 ADOLPH M EBERHART was born August 19, 1841, in Springhill township, Fayette county, Penna. He is a son of Adolph Eberhart and Sarah Beatty Eberhart, both natives of Fayette county, Penna. Adolph Eberhart Sr, subject's grandfather, came from Switzerland to Maryland. He came to Fayette county, Penna, when a young man and learned the trade of glass blowing and glass cutting. He was an employee of the first glass factory west of the Allegheny Mountains, located on Georges Creek near New Geneva. He married Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of Col Theophilus Phillips who came to Fayette county about 1760 and soon thereafter purchased a large tract of land in Springhill township, called "Phillips Choice" containing about 480 acres. He died en route from New Orleans to Philadelphia and was buried at sea. Adolph Eberhart Jr, subject's father, was born June 8, 1816, and was raised on his father's farm. He was married in 1839, was a farmer, and, at his father's death in 1863, inherited one half of the homestead farm of 480 acres, once "Phillips Choice." He erected a comfortable house on the land, and there he continued to farm till his death. From 1850 to 1852 he was engaged in the manufacture of glass at New Geneva as a member of the firm of A and M Eberhart & Co. From 1852 he gave his attention to farming until his death, September 10, 1882. He was a prominent democrat during life and served acceptably as a road commissioner and school director. His wife, Sarah Beatty Eberhart, was a daughter of Thomas Beatty, a farmer of Springhill who was an earnest democrat and was justice of the peace in Springhill for a number of years. He was a strict Presbyterian and died in 1840. Adolph Eberhart and Sarah Beatty Eberhart had eleven children, six sons and five daughters: Mary Jane Eberhart, dead; Adolph M Eberhart; Eliza Eberhart, dead; William Eberhart, dead. Mrs Eberhart was born in 1813, March 31st and died May 14, 1877. Adolph M Eberhart worked on the farm and attended the common schools until eighteen years of age when he left school and engaged in farming on his father's land until 1887. In that year he bought eighty six acres of the home farm and lives in the homestead mansion. He has on his farm a bed of potter's clay of the finest quality; from this he realizes about $500 per year. Mr Eberhart has followed farming all his life. He is an ardent democrat, and proud of having cast his first ballot for General George B McClellan for president. He is of German Irish descent, is a successful farmer, a careful manager and a good observer. p268 WILLIAM A EDMISTON, cashier of the Monongahela Bank at Brownsville, Penna, is the son of Samuel Edmiston and Margaret Bryce Edmiston. His father was a native of Fulton county, Penna, and was a chairmaker by trade. He came to Brownsville some time in about 1840 and opened a shop. He continued to work at his trade until in death in 1856 in the forty fifth year of his age. He was a Presbyterian and was of Irish and Scotch descent. Of the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch the only facts to be gathered at this time are that he was born in Ireland and came to American and settled in Fulton county, Penna. After the death of her husband, the mother of W A Edmiston was married a second time to George W Harrison of Washington county, Penna, and they still live on their farm in that county, three miles from Brownsville. Andrew Bryce, maternal grandfather of W A Edmiston, was a native of Scotland who came to this country in about 1820. He was a miller and worked at that business all his life. He died in the state of Indiana while there on a visit. William A Edmiston was born at Brownsville, December 23, 1846, and attended the public schools of the town. Leaving school he became a clerk in the drug store of John Wallace & Co of Brownsville for about one yar, and afterwards he was for several years a clerk in different other stores. In 1856 he secured a position of second clerk on one of the steamboats that belonged to the Pittsburgh, Brownsville & Geneva Packet Company. Remained there as a clerk for sixteen years, excepting the years of 1871 and 1872, engaged in the dry goods business at Brownsville. He was employed as first and second clerk while on the river, except during the last four years-from 1878 to 1882-he filled the place of captain of the steamboat Germania which ran from Geneva to Pittsburgh. In 1882 he was elected teller of the Monongahela Bank in which position he continued until 1888, when he was elected cashier of the Monongahela Bank, which was organized in 1812, chartered in 1814, and now has a capital of $200,000 and an average deposit of $125,000, with a surplus of $50,000. The present officers of the bank are: Gibson Burns, president; William A Edmiston, cashier. The directors are: Gibson Burns, James L Bowman, M A Cox, H W Robinson, W M Ledwith, J C Woodward, Jacob Sawyer, N B Bowman, George E Hogg, H B Cock, W P Searight, Eli J Baily and W J Stewart. Mr Edmiston was for several years the clerk of the town council and is now the treasurer. He was twice elected on the republican ticket and served as a member of the school board and secretary of the board during the terms of his office-the first time in the year, 1883, and re-elected in 1886. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Brownsville, is the treasurer, trustee and steward of the same. He was married in 1869 to Miss Virginia Beacon, daughter of Rev L B Beacon of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have four living children: Clarence B Edmiston, Bessie L Edmiston, William R Edmiston, Helen V Edmiston. p547 HENRY K EICHER was born February 10, 1835, in Springfield, Fayette county, Pa. He grandfather, Daniel Eicher, emigrated from Germany to Lancaster county, Pa; thence to Fayette county in 1772. Joseph Eicher, the father of Henry K Eicher, was born in Lancaster in 1784, and was married to Rosanna Kern of Fayette county. To their union were born twelve children: Samuel Eicher, William Eicher, Sarah Eicher, Daniel Eicher, John Eicher, Margaret Eicher, Catherine Eicher, Elizabeth Eicher, Joseph Eicher, Henry Eicher, Abraham Eicher, Isaac Eicher. Henry K Eicher was educated in the common schools of Fayette county, his first teacher being David Barnes of Connellsville. He was married at Connellsville on December 21, 1862, to Emily Brunder, daughter of Samuel S Brunder, of the same place. They have eight children: Charles E Eicher, Harry W Eicher, Kate V Eicher, George F Eicher, Lizzie E Eicher, Gertrude G Eicher, Lulu B Eicher and Mary M Eicher. In the Civil War he served in the Sixth Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Company K; volunteered August 22, 1864; and was honorably discharged June 13, 1865, at Fort Ethan Allen. In 1883 he was appointed postmaster at Stuarton by President Arthur and served four years. Mr Eicher is a carpenter by trade, at which he is presently engaged. p269 COONROD S EMRY was born March 13, 1821, in Springhill township, Fayette county, Penna, and is of German and Scotch Irish parentage. His parents were William Emry and Margaret Saddler Emry. His father was born March 22, 1792, in New Jersey, and was brought up on a farm and received his education in the subscription schools taught three months in the year, and where the course of study was covered by the "three Rs." He remained on the farm with his father until he was twenty three years of age, when he came to Fayette county, Penna. He married the daughter of William Saddler, spent on year in weaving, and then rented a farm and turn his attention to farming; he rented for thirteen years, when he bought a farm in German township where they removed April 6, 1829, and lived there till he died in 1874. He was a Jacksonian democrat. The mother of Coonrod S Emry was born June 8, 1795, in York county, Penna. She was the mother of seven children, six sons and one daughter, and died in 1868. The paternal grandfather of Coonrod S Emry came from New Jersey at an early day and settled in Fayette county, Penna, where he remained for several years, and then removed to Ohio, where he died. The maternal grandfather of the subject of our sketch was William Saddler, a farmer and native of York county, Penna; he came to Fayette county in 1805, and settled upon a farm in Springhill township, where he died. The maternal great grandfather was Jacob Saddler, and his father was Frederick Saddler who came from Germany. Coonrod S Emry was brought up on the farm, remained with his father till he was twenty four years of age. He attended the subscription schools of his youth, received about two months schooling a year until he was seventeen. At the age of twenty four he married Miss Mary Coffman, a daughter of Andrew Coffman, a farmer of this county, and son of Andrew Coffman. They immediately settled upon the farm upon which he was born. This farm he purchased afterward, which contains 110 acres of valuable land. On this farm he has erected a fine brick dwelling house of two stories in height, a large and well-appointed barn, and other buildings all in the best of style, both as to appearance and utility. To his marriage six sons and one daughter were born: Andrew J Emry, Margaret Ann Emry, William M Emry, John H Emry, George V Emry, Oliver J Emry and Ira A Emry, all living except the daughter, who died May 2, 1877. The sons are all married except one and they are all farmers. Mr Emry is a member of the Lutheran church at Morris Cross Roads, is one of the deacons, and has held the office of elder. Mrs Emry was also a member of the Lutheran church. She died December 6, 1884. He is a democrat, and has held the positions of judge of elections, township assessor, director of the schools and auditor. He has been successful in life, and by his industry and frugality has accumulated a competency. In 1882 he engaged in the saw mill business which he has since carried on. p434 Dr J BRANDT ENOS, a physician in successful practice, and a native of Connellsville, is a son of Jonathan Enos and Mary Keepers Enos, and was born at Connellsville, Fayette county, Penna, July 17, 1852. His grandfather, George Enos, was a native of Somerset county, where he died in 1863. His father, Jonathan Enos, came from Somerset county in 1835 and located at Connellsville, in the foundry and blacksmithing business until his death in 1878. He was a democrat, a member of the Disciple church, and a good citizen. His wife was a second cousin of James K Polk, and a daughter of Major Joseph Keepers, once a proprietor of the Dunbar House, who was born in 1794 and died in 1830. The major's father, John Keepers of Carlisle, Penna, was among the first settlers at Connellsville. Dr Enos received his education in the common schools, and at seventeen years of age he began life on his own account, as an employee in a railroad office, where he remained for some time. He read medicine with Dr John R Nickel of Connellsville, widely known as a physician and surgeon, attended lectures at Cincinnati, and was graduated in the class of 1874. In the same year he entered into partnership with Dr Nickel, which was terminated by the death of the latter; when he succeeded to his practice moving to Belle Vernon a few years later. In 1878 he was elected to the chair of anatomy and physiology in the Physio-Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, and served acceptably in that position for eight years. In 1886 after an extended trip to the Southern States and among the West Indies, Professor Enos located in Pittsburgh, where he secured an extensive practice. In 1889 he came to Connellsville, and has since devoted himself to treating diseases of the throat and lungs. In 1877 he married Miss Teresa Nickel, only daughter of Dr Nickel. They have two children: Fred W Enos and J Clive Enos. Dr Enos is first vice president of the American P M Association, and is a valued and extensive contributor to current medical literature of the day. He left Pittsburgh on account of his health, and expects to make Connellsville his future home. He has a good practice, and is achieving great success as a specialist. p168 Judge JOHN KENNEDY EWING, the son of Judge Nathaniel Ewing Sr, deceased, is a worthy scion of noble stock, and a fit representative of a name that stands untarnished. The name of Ewing is honorably and indelibly stamped upon the history of Pennsylvania: in the East by eminent ministers and men of scientific knowledge; in the West by able jurists and honorable legislators. One member of this widely extended family is John Kennedy Ewing, only child of Judge Nathaniel Ewing and Jane Kennedy Ewing, and was born at Uniontown, Fayette county, Penna, December 15, 1823. He is descended from the Ewings of York county, a widely known and connected family of ability and influence, planted in eastern Pennsylvania prior to the War of the Revolution. His grandfather, William Ewing, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1769. He was a son of George Ewing, and a nephew of the Rev Dr John Ewing of Philadelphia. Dr Ewing was selected on account of his natural fitness and educational qualifications, companion and assistant of the illustrious Rittenhouse "whose name is co-extensive with scientific knowledge," to run the southern boundary line of Pennsylvania. William Ewing came to Fayette county as a surveyor of lands in 1790 and located in Luzerne township where he died in 1827. He was a gentleman of suave and accomplished manners, and one of the leading men in the early settlement of the county. In 1791 he married Miss Mary Conwell, a daughter of Jehu Conwell and Elizabeth Stokely Conwell, a woman of superior mind, marked individuality and a most devoted Presbyterian. Their children were: Judge Nathaniel Ewing Sr; Hon John H Ewing of Washington, Penna, born October 5, 1796; James Ewing, born April 18, 1807, of Dunlap's Creek; Hon George Ewing, born February 27, 1797, of Houston, Texas; Mrs Elizabeth Breading, born July 9, 1799; Mrs Maria Veech, born August 22, 1811, of Emsworth; Mrs Ellen J E Wallace, born January 23, 1819, of Allegheny City; Mrs Louisa Willson, born March 8, 1802; Mrs Mary Ann Mason, born February 24, 1816, of Muscatine, Iowa; and Caroline, born April 20, 1804, the latter dying in infancy. Judge Nathaniel Ewing Sr was born July 8, 1794, and February 14, 1874, he died. He received a thorough classical education, and was graduated from Washington College with the highest honors of his class. He read Latin, Greek and Hebrew with rapidity and ease. Subsequent to leaving college he read law with Thomas McGiffen of Washington, Penna, and was admitted to the Fayette county bar November 19, 1816. In 1817 he began the practice of law and soon after became recognized and acknowledged as one of the leading lawyers of Pennsylvania. February 15, 1838, Governor Ritner appointed him president judge of the 14th Judicial District composed of Washington, Fayette and Greene counties. For a period of ten years he served as judge of the district without a stain on his judicial ermine, which could not more appropriately fit the person of anyone. He married Miss Jane Kennedy, second daughter of Hon John Kennedy, judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Judge Kennedy was a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, came to Fayette county as a soldier during the Whiskey Insurrection, and so pleased with the country he remained, and was admitted to the Uniontown bar in September, 1798. He was an able lawyer as well as an excellent jurist and a graduate in the same class with Roger B Taney at Dickinson College, and died in 1846. Nathaniel Ewing Sr February 3, 1833, was ordained an elder in the Presbyterian church, and for forty years was a tower of strength to the cause of Presbyterianism. Mrs Jane Ewing was an estimable woman and died at an early age in 1825. Judge Nathaniel Ewing Sr was one of the ablest lawyers and finest jurists of Pennsylvania. Several times he obtained from the supreme court of the State a reversal of their previous decisions, and on this account was called, "the law-giver of Western Pennsylvania." Third in lineal descent from George Ewing of eastern Pennsylvania is Judge John Kennedy Ewing, who received a classical education and was graduated from Washington College in the class of 1842. He applied himself assiduously to the study of the law under the instructions of his father, and was admitted to the Fayette county bar in March, 1846. By his diligence and ability, he soon acquired a large law practice and attained to eminence in his profession. In addition to having mastered the principles of law, he was fairly conversant with legal, political and constitutional history, and in the preparation of a case there was no phase of it in legal or historical point of view that escaped his attention. He relied for success on the clear strong points of his case, carefully studied and concisely presented. In November, 1864, he was appointed president judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District, comprising the counties of Washington, Greene and Fayette, and served commendably until January, 1866, in filling out the unexpired term of Judge Lindsey, who died in 1864. Leaving the bench he also retired from the active practice of the law, a step that he contemplated before going on the bench on account of his impaired health. In 1847 he was married to Miss Ellen Willson, a woman of brilliant and superior intelligence, and a sister of Judge A E Willson. Her death occurred January 4, 1884. Judge Ewing during his whole life has had to contend against ill health, but by indomitable energy, perseverance and a strong will power, he has succeeded in accomplishing a great deal more than seemed possible for him to do. Leaving the bench he has been largely interested in the coal and iron industries of Western Pennsylvania. He went west and invested in land, and since engaging in business has been signally successful. He is now the president of the National Bank of Fayette county. On May 4, 1846, he united with the Presbyterian church of Uniontown and was ordained and installed as elder March 4, 1860. He was commissioner to the General Assembly which met in Pittsburgh in 1864 and also at Omaha in 1887, and has frequently been a delegate to synod and presbytery; and in the session of the Uniontown church, he services have been invaluable. Judge Ewing is modest and retiring in manner, yet he is pleasing in address and courteous to everybody. He possesses unusual mental vigor, accurate and exhaustive information, entertains broad and liberal and enlightened views, and is strong in his convictions and earnest in his efforts. A Presbyterian, he loves his church and takes the deepest interest in whatever concerns his church's welfare. There is nothing of the bigot in his disposition. His sympathies include all denominations, and to all his assistance is freely given. A man of earnest piety and charitable disposition, his practice conforms to his professions, and his example and counsel exert a commanding influence. Among Fayette county's honored sons, none stands higher at home elsewhere, wherever know for intellectual power and purity of character than Judge Ewing. He never sought an office in life, yet is qualified to fill any office from judgeship to the presidency. F Surnames p434 ANDREW FAIRCHILD, a successful businessman and a popular justice of the peace, is a son of Stephen Fairchild and Elizabeth Gillot Fairchild, and was born in New Haven, Fayette county, Penna, December 10 1823. Stephen Fairchild, at fifteen years of age, enlisted and served in the Revolutionary War. His father and six elder brothers having preceded him in joining the American army. Andrew Fairchild received a practical education, and afterwards learned the trade of cabinet making, pursuing that line of business for twenty five years, and is now in the undertaking business at East Liberty. He also purchased the East Liberty mill, and ran it for about eight or nine years. In 1844 he married Miss Eliza Jane Evan, who died and left one child, Susan Fairchild, wife of Stewart Worthington of Dunbar. Mr Fairchild was remarried in 1849 to Miss Martha Brewer, daughter of Aaron Brewer of Franklin township. To this second union were born three children: Elizabeth Fairchild, wife of Rodolph Wanaka of California; Aaron J Fairchild married Susan Strickler; Joel E Fairchild married a Miss Hutchinson and lives in California. After the death of his second wife, he was remarried in 1858 to Miss Sarah Brewer, a sister of his previous wife. To this last union have been born five children, three of whom are still living: Harriet Fairchild; Annie Fairchild, wife of Jacob Strawn of Dawson; and John A Fairchild. Andrew Fairchild in political views is a democrat, and served as auditor in 1857, 1858 and 1859. In 1878 he was elected justice of the peace for Dunbar township, and was re-elected in 1883 and 1888. p170 Rev THORNTON F FARMER, DDS, is a native of Fayette county, Penna. He was reared on a farm and attended the public schools. At the age of twenty one he went to Meadville and studied at Allegheny College. In 1863 he began the study of dentistry with Dr George Morris of Morgantown, West Virginia, and in the winter of 1871 was graduated at the Philadelphia Dental College. In the fall of 1872 he came to Uniontown and commenced the practice of his profession, where he has since resided, and has established a large and lucrative practice. He is the oldest practitioner in Uniontown, and has kept abreast with his profession in every department, having all of the improved instruments and appliance belonging to the art. He was married in 1862 to Miss Emily Ross of German township. She died in 1875, leaving one child, Hattie R Farmer, who died May 20, 1878. He married a second time in 1876 to Nannie G Hopwood of Monroe, this county; she died in 1880 leaving two children: Hattie R Farmer and Gaddis H Farmer. Gaddis H Farmer died May 16, 1889, at the age of nine years. Dr Farmer married a third time in 1881 to Maggie L McIllree, the daughter of Henry and Louesil McIllree of Fayette county; by this wife he has three children: Thornton F Farmer, Ulysses Simpson Farmer, and Lou Byron Farmer. Dr Farmer is the son of Daniel Farmer and Mary Ann Gray Farmer, both natives of Maryland, who came to the county in 1813. Their tout to Fayette county was across the mountains by the road made by General (then Major) Washington in his advance to Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh, in the French and Indian War. They first settled near New Salem, but afterward in Springhill township-now Nicholson-where they died. Dr Farmer's father died March 10, 1865, in the seventy fifty year of his age. His mother died in September, 1878, in the eighty third year of her age. Dr Farmer has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for thirty five years, and a local preacher for twenty years, and has creditably filled many of the pulpits in the county, as well as in West Virginia. In his father's family were ten children, seven girls and three boys: John G Farmer, the oldest, was born in 1811. He was a fine mathematician, and at his death in 1879, he was the oldest and most successful surveyor in the county. A B Farmer was the youngest child, born 5th day of April, 1834. When the War of the Rebellion broke out, he enlisted in Captain George Gilmore's company. Much of his time was spent among the bushwhackers of West Virginia, where many of the boys in blue were killed and sleep in far off graves. A B Farmer has been a citizen of Indianapolis for many years. p332 CHARLES FARQUHAR of Washington township was born in Fayette county, Penna, August 28, 1843, and is a son of Robert Farquhar. He was reared on a farm, educated in the common schools, and at the age of twenty one years began farming at which he is presently engaged. His father, Robert Farquhar, was a farmer, was married to Miss Naomi Tiernan, a daughter of Joshua Tiernan, a native of Fayette county, whose father, John Tiernan, was a prominent citizen of the county, and served two terms as treasurer of Fayette county. To their union were born three children: Laura Farquhar, Joshua Farquhar and Robert Farquhar. Mr Farquhar has followed farming, and has operated some in coal mining. He is the owner of thirty two acres of well improved land in the county, and possesses a comfortable house at Fayette City. He is a member of the A O of U W. p331 ZIMRI FARQUHAR of Washington township, is the son of William Farquhar, a native of Washington township, whose father, Robert Farquhar, subject's grandfather, came with the Copes and others to the township in an early day. Zimri Farquhar, born August, 1834, was reared on a farm, where he worked in summer and attended school in winter. He followed farming from 1854 to 1861. When the war broke out, he enlisted as a private in the Sixty second Pennsylvania Infantry, served on detached duty from the time of his enlistment until he was discharged at the end of his term, dressed nearly all of the time in the garb of a citizen, and served principally as an army detective. His duty was to gather up straggling soldiers, to arrest deserters and return them to their regiments. After the war he removed to Illinois, where he remained on year when he returned to Fayette county, engaged in the mixing department of the Fayette City Glass Works and was here employed for eighteen years without missing a day. He was married in 1856 to Miss Mariah Burges, daughter of Charles Burges of Fayette City. Charles Burges ancestors were early settlers in southwestern Pennsylvania, coming from Old Town, Virginia. Mr Farquhar has seven children: Rachel A B Farquhar, married; Lizzie B Farquhar, married; Thornton K Farquhar, educated at Lock Haven and a teacher; Frank S Farquhar, educated for a stenographer and is in a printing office at McKeesport; Duncan Farquhar, a musician; Flora M Farquhar and Viola E Farquhar. Mr Farquhar has quite a valuable collection of Indian relics, also of rare coins, noticeable among which is a five dollar gold piece of Bechtler's (assayist) make. He has a toothbrush given him by John Morgan, the raider, and a knife given him by an aid of Robert E Lee. He has been councilman for some years, but has never sought office. He belongs to the A O U W and is a prominent member of the G A R. He is a good workman, a man of considerable observation, and is always interested in whatever is best for his town and country. p435 Captain THOMAS M FEE is a native of Brownsville, Penna, and was born September 23, 1831. His grandfather, Micheal Fee, came from Germany and settled in New Jersey. He enlisted in the War of the Revolution and served till its close, was at Long Island, Georgetown, Princeton and quite a number of the principal battles of that war. After the war he came to Brownsville, where he died at the age of ninety one years, and now lies buried in the old Catholic graveyard at that place. John Fee, Frederick Fee, Rebecca Fee and Thomas Fee were the names of his children. His maternal grandparents were born in Delaware. Thomas Fee, the father of Captain Fee, was born at Brownsville and was a stage driver on the "Old Pike," from Brownsville to Cumberland for many years. He died at Mount Pleasant in 1834 of cholera. Captain Fee's mother, Lydia Ann Reason, came to Uniontown when quite young and was raised by Judge Dawson. She had one brother, John Reason, who was a farmer in Warren county, Ohio. Thomas Fee and Lydia Ann Reason were married and had the following children: James A Fee, dead; Mary Ann Fee, dead; and Thomas Fee. Captain Thomas Fee was educated at the common schools of the county. Leaving school he learned the trade of shoemaker, afterwards clerked in a shoe store for John D Boyle of Uniontown. When Boyle established a branch at Connellsville in 1861, Captain Fee took charge of it and ran the business until he enlisted at Uniontown in April, 1861, for the Union service. As soon as President Lincoln issues his proclamation, Captain S D Oliphant commenced to recruit a company for the service. Captain Fee enlisted as a member of the same in April, and was one of the first men to sign the roll. The company was made up, and started to the rendezvous at Pittsburgh by the 15th of April. The company went into Camp Wilkes under the name of the "Fayette guards." They were ninety day men, and were mustered out of service in July when Captain Fee returned to Connellsville again assumed charge of the store for a short time when he purchased it and opened out for himself, and continued in that business until August, 1864. On the 28th day of August, 1864, he re-entered the army as second lieutenant of Company E, Sixth Pennsylvania Artillery. He was soon promoted to first lieutenant and was mustered out of service June 13, 1865. He returned home and reopened the store and kept it till 1870. From 1870 to 1882 he was engaged in business as a detective in a force known as "The Central Detective Agency," of which he is the general superintendent and manager. In 1881 he was appointed as deputy United States marshal and served during the last three years of President Arthur's administration and since that time he has been acting as a detective. He was the last captain of the old military company known as the "Cameron Union Volunteers" which in 1823 were known as the "Union Volunteers." He received his commission from Governor William F Parker, June 9, 1859, and held it until the company was disbanded in 1860. He was appointed a railroad policeman in March, 1876, and acted in this capacity for seven years. In politics he was a whig, afterwards became a republican, and has been an active worker in that party ever since. He removed to Connellsville in 1863, was elected burgess of Connellsville in 1866, and was the first republican elected to that office. He was married the 24th of August, 1854, in Steubenville, Ohio, to Rachel A Manly, a daughter of Abel Manly. She was a graduate of Steubenville Female Seminary. They had nine children: Louisa S Fee, Charles M Fee, James A Fee, Smith F Fee, Minnie E Fee, Thomas M Fee, M Amelia Fee, George M Fee and Frank R Fee. He is past grand in General Worth's Lodge, No 386, I O O F at Connellsville; is past chancellor of K of P, No 239 at the same place: past post commander of William Kurtz Post No 104, G A R, and is at present adjutant of that post; and is frequently sent as a delegate to the department and national encampment of the G A R. p436 Dr ROBERT G FINLAY, an able young physician of East Liberty, was born May 18, 1858, near Perryopolis, Perry township, Fayette county, Penna, and is a son of George Finlay and Ruth Haney Finlay. His father, George Finlay, was born in Ireland, came to the United States when about twenty five years of age, located in Elizabeth, Allegheny county, Penna, where he worked at shoemaking for a number of years and afterwards farmed for about thirty years. He was married twice: the first time to Mary Gailey, daughter of Archibald Gailey, a native of Fayette county; the second time to Ruth Ann Haney in 1857. To this last union were born five children. He died in Pittsburgh, January 29, 1886. His father died in Ireland and his mother came to America in 1840, to Quebec, Canada, thence to Elizabeth, Penna. Robert G Finlay was educated in the common schools and in the academy at Uniontown. He read medicine in the office of Dr A P Bowie of the same place, began his medical studies in the winter of 1878-79, and began his first course of lectures in the fall of 1879 at the Homeopathic Hospital College, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated March 9, 1881. In August, 1881, he located in McKeesport, Allegheny county, remained about one year; from there he located at New Wilmington, Lawrence county, where he remained till September, 1883. In 1883 he removed to Scottdale, Westmoreland county, there practiced successfully until the spring of 1884; thence to Minneapolis, Minnesota; was there til May 1, 1889, when he came to East Liberty where he is at present engaged in his practice. Mrs Dr R G Finlay died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, February, 1888. He was again married [error?] October 25, 1883, at Pittsburgh, to Miss Maggie M Hoffman of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, daughter of J H and Sarah Hoffman of that place. p332 EBENEZER FINLEY Jr is a prominent citizen of Menallen township, and a member of one of the best known and most reliable families of Fayette county. He is a grandson of the scholarly and able Rev James Finley who was the first minister to plant the banner of Presbyterianism west of the Alleghenies. Ebenezer Finley Jr was born in Fayette county, Penna, October 24, 1804, and is the son of Ebenezer Finley Sr. His mother's name was Violet Lowry. His grandfather, the Rev James Finley, was a native of Cecil county, Maryland, came to Fayette county in 1765 on a missionary tour and to seek out land locations for his sons. He made a second trip in 1767 and a third trip in 1771 when he purchased a large tract of land on Dunlap's Creek. He was instrumental in bringing thirty four Presbyterian families from Maryland into Fayette county and establishing five churches of his religious faith in Southwestern Pennsylvania. He had charge of Rehoboth church in Westmoreland county, Penna, in 1783, and died in 1795 having faithfully spent a long life in the service of his Divine Master. Ebenezer Finley Sr when fourteen years of age came from Maryland to Fayette county, labored on the farm, and had a perilous adventure with Indians near Fort Wallace while serving as a soldier on the frontier. He erected one of the first saw mills and grist mills in the county, and was a prominent and useful citizen till his death in 1849, aged eighty eight years. He now sleeps with his four wives in Dunlap's Creek graveyard. Four of his sons: Ebenezer Finley Jr; Robert Finley, deceased; and Eli H Finley settled on different parts of the Finley estate. Ebenezer Finley Jr was raised on a farm and received but the limited educational privileges of his boyhood days. He was married on February 9, 1826, to Miss Phebe Woodward, daughter of Caleb Woodward, a skillful mechanic who came from Chester county, Penna. They had ten children: Caleb W Finley, born January 15, 18??, died April 13, 1877; Ebenezer L Finley, born October 2, 1828, died September 10, 1849; Robert F Finley, born May 29, 1830; Evans Finley, born August 16, 1832; Elijah V Finley, born July 10, 1834, died November 25, 1859; James G Finley, born April 16, 1836; Phebe Jane Finley, born July 25, 1840; Albert W Finley, born March 23, 1843; John Huston Finley, born April 7, 1847; and Violet Finley, born April 18, 1849. The oldest son, the Rev Caleb Woodward Finley, was pastor of the Presbyterian church at London, Madison county, Ohio, for twenty one years where he died in 1877. Robert Finley is living in Colorado. Phebe Jane Finley married John Thomas Porter and they now reside in Alco, Alabama. Dr John Huston Finley was killed at Streator, Illinois, November 16, 1883, in a railroad collision. Violet Finley married Dr C D Chalfant and resides at Streator, Illinois. Albert W Finley, the seventh son, was educated in the common schools, Dunlap's Creek Academy and Duff's Business College, Pittsburgh, Penna; taught school for two years and has since been engaged in farming. He married on July 18, 1872, Emma Mosier, a daughter of William L Mosier of Georges township, and granddaughter of John De Ford, one of the pioneers of Fayette county. A W Finley early in life became a member of the Dunlap's Creek Presbyterian church, and has been for some time a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church at New Salem, where he now resides. In 1876 Ebenezer Finley Jr and wife celebrated the golden anniversary of their marriage and their sixty third anniversary February 9, 1889. He has been identified with the temperance cause in Fayette county for over half a century, and for forty years has been president of the New Salem Temperance Society. On August 13, 1834, he was elected a ruling elder in the Dunlap's Creek Presbyterian church and has served as such ever since. He has been a very useful man in Fayette county, settled thirty eight estates, written sixty four wills, seventy one deeds, has been executor, administrator, guardian and assignee. He served three years as poor house director, and in 1841 was elected school director in Menallen township. Mr Finley is implicitly trusted by all who know him; his word is as good as his bond. He and his wife are a hale, hearty, well preserved old couple, although past their four score years. He is well versed in the local and early history of Menallen and adjoining townships, and is highly respected by his neighbors for his many good qualities of head and heart. p333 Rev DAVID FLANIGAN, an agreeable, energetic and talented minister of the Methodist Episcopal church at Dawson, is a son of Clark Flanigan and Martha Roberts Flanigan, and was born in Henry Clay township, Fayette county, Penna, November 10, 1850. His grandfather, Andrew Flanigan, was born in what is now Henry Clay township, and died in 1867. He was a farmer, a soldier in the War of 1812, and kept a hotel for many years at Jockey Valley on the National Road where he owned the valuable Jockey Valley farm. His father, Clark Flanigan, is a native of Henry Clay township where he owns a good farm. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, has served as school director and filled various other township offices. He is seventy eight years old, is active for his years, and is well liked by his neighbors. He married Miss Martha Roberts, a niece of the celebrated Richard Roberts. Rev David Flanigan was reared on a farm, educated in the common schools, normal schools of Somerset county, and Smithfield and Terra Alta academies. He taught his home school for four successive years, and was licensed to preach in the spring of 1879, by the Rev J H Miller of the Methodist Episcopal church. In the fall of the same year he was given work by the West Virginia Methodist Episcopal Conference and was sent as a supply to the Grantsville chart in Maryland where he remained three years. Rev Flanigan was next sent to the Albrightsville charge in Preston county, West Virginia, and the next year on account of his wife's ill health, was transferred to Brandonville where he remained for two years. In 1885 asked for and received a certificate of location and became a member of the Pittsburgh Conference. His first field of service in Pennsylvania was Addison charge in Somerset county, served two years, and was sent in October, 1877, to his present charge at Dawson. In 1880 he married Miss Sallie Tissue, daughter of Charles and Amy Tissue of Henry Clay township. To them have been born three children: Gratta Lee Flanigan, born at Grantsville, Maryland; Wilbur Dwight Flanigan, born at Brandonville, West Virginia; and Mary E Flanigan, born at Dawson, Penna. Rev David Flanigan is pleasant and courteous in manner and in the pulpit he is logical, earnest and forcible. p170 CHARLES M FLEMING, a prominent grocer of Uniontown, is a native of Dunbar township, Fayette county, Penna, and was born March 20, 1854. He is the son of Thomas J Fleming and Mary Ann Smiley Fleming, both natives of this county. The mother died in 1879, and the father and two sisters reside at Uniontown. C M Fleming was brought up on the farm until he attained his majority, when he engaged as a clerk for Markle, Sherrick & Co coke operators, continuing with them for two years, and then took a position with the H C Frick Coke Company with whom he remained for two and one half years. He left Frick's store in 1881, and went to the Red Stone Coke Company as manager of their store. This position he held for over six years. In April, 1888, he came to Uniontown and bought out the grocery of O P Markle. In Uniontown he has built up a flourishing trade, and is a popular young businessman. He belongs to the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. p437 JAMES A FLENNIKEN, deal in dry goods, notions, groceries, boots, shoes, tobacco and confections at Broad Ford, Fayette county, Penna, is a son of Elias A Flenniken and Mary Ann Karr Flenniken, and was born in Cumberland township, Greene county, Penna, February 11, 1860. His grandfather, John C Flenniken, was a native of Ireland, and settled in an early day in Greene county, Penna, where he died in 1859. His father, Elias A Flenniken, was born near Carmicheals in about 1827, and is a well situated farmer of Greene county. He is a republican, and member of the Presbyterian church. He married Miss Mary Ann Karr, a member of the same church. Her father, William Karr, is one of the oldest men in Greene county. He is a member of the Methodist church. James A Flenniken was reared principally on a farm and received his education in the common schools and Greene Academy, was graduated from the latter in 1878. In 1879 he accepted a position in the general mercantile store of Ewing, Hanna & Co at Lemont Furnace and remained in their employ for seven years. He was engaged as a clerk in the store of H C Frick & Co at Broad Ford for six years. In 1881 he engaged in his present general mercantile business at Broad Ford, and was so successful that in four years he established a general mercantile store in connection with Lauglin & Co, Limited, and ran it till 1887. In November, 1882, he was married to Miss Sallie Washabaugh, daughter of George and Kate Washabaugh. They have three children: George Flenniken, James H Flenniken, and Clifton W Flenniken. J A Flenniken is a republican and was postmaster at Broad Ford during Garfield and Arthur's administrations. His store is conveniently located and is filled with a complete and well selected stock of dry goods, notions, and all articles to be found in a first class store. His selections have been made especially to meet the many wants of his numerous and substantial patrons. He is a member of the Connellsville Presbyterian church, and is well and favorably known. p438 JOSEPH FLYDELL of Dunbar is a native of Germany, and was born on the 15th day of March, 1835. He was educated in the common schools of Germany and is a member of the Catholic church. He came to the United States in 1871, first engaged in work at a zinc mine in Arkansas for about one year; from there he went to Illinois and worked in the lead mines. He subsequently removed to Clinton county, where he worked in the ore mines. In 1874 he came to Fayette county where he has since resided, engaged as a coke drawer and coal digger. He was married in Germany in 1868 to Miss Elizabeth Gisler, who came to America about three years after his own arrival. They have had born to their marriage six children: Julius Flydell, Mary Flydell, John Flydell, Joseph Flydell, Christina Flydell and Frederick Flydell; the last two are twins. p547 ABRAM FRANKS, a well-known farmer of Luzerne township, was born in German, now Nicholson township, Fayette county, Penna, January 19, 1816, and is a son of Abraham Franks and Margaret Kechler Franks. Abram Franks Sr was a son of Micheal Franks. The former was born on the "Core farm" near Uniontown, was a farmer, served gallantly in the War of 1812, was a Whig, afterwards republican, and died in 1860. He married Miss Margaret Kechler and reared a family of five sons and four daughters, of whom only Abram Franks and Eli Franks are living. Mrs Franks' father, Micheal Kechler, left Fayette county late in life and removed to Wooster, Ohio, where he died. Abram Franks received his education in the subscription schools of German township. He engaged in steamboating on the Monongahela river, which he followed for a number of years, and then embarked in his present employment of farming and stock raising. He was married to Miss Nancy Bolein, daughter of Martin Bolein, the latter a tailor of Greene county, Penna. To their union were born the following children: Francis M Franks was a soldier in the late war, served in an Illinois regiment and now dead; William F Franks was in the Eighth Pennsylvania Reserves, and served from 1861 to 1865; Elihu Franks, Jacob Franks, and Jobe Franks served in the Eighty, were taken prisoners before Richmond, were confined in Libby Prison, where Elihu and Jacob died, and from where Jobe was carried to Danville, and died on his way home after being exchanged; Mary Ann Franks, wife of Joseph Crago of Greene county, Penna; Emanuel Franks enlisted in the Eighth in 1863 and served to the close of the war; Abram Franks, a farmer of German township; John N Franks; Eliza J Franks, wife of Joshua Crago of Greene county, Penna; and Isaac Franks married Samantha Jane Silbaugh. Abram Franks was an old line whig and was a republican, and all of his sons are republicans. He owns a farm of 140 acres of good land, and is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church to which his wife also belongs. He is industrious and has reared a highly respectable family. Six of his sons fought gallantly in the famous Pennsylvania Reserves, two of whom gave their lives for the preservation of the Union. p173 LUKE H FRASHER comes of one of the old families of Fayette county. His great grandfather, Peter Frasher, came to Fayette county, from Winchester, Virginia, before the old National Road was made. His son Luke, the grandfather of Luke H Frasher, came with him and both were teamsters on that old thoroughfare, the principal artery for the commerce of the country in its day. James Frasher, the father of Luke H Frasher, was born in Fayette county, Penna, in 1814 and died in 1878 at the age of sixty four years, and was a farmer by occupation. He married Miss Eliza J Wheatley, a native of Fayette county, and who is now living on the farm in Franklin township. The Wheatley family is an early one in the county also. Luke H Frasher is of the fourth generation of the Frasher family in Fayette county. He was born December 14, 1853, in Franklin township, Fayette county, Penna. He worked on the farm until he arrived at the age of seventeen years, and attended the common schools of his neighborhood. In 1871 he entered the West Virginia University at Morgantown, West Virginia, where he remained for five years and was graduated in the class of 1878. In 1878 he began the study of law in the office of W H Playford and was admitted to the bar at Uniontown in 1880. He immediately began the practice of his profession, and has been successfully engaged in it ever since. He has gained a prominent place at the bar, and has quite a large practice for a young man. June 1, 1889, he was nominated by the democratic party as their candidate for the district attorney. Prior to taking up the study of law, Mr Frasher had taught several terms of district schools in this county: one term at Kingwood, as the principal of the public schools, and one term as principal of mathematics at the Commercial College, Wheeling, West Virginia. p269 ALLEN D FRANKENBERRY, a native of Springhill township, Fayette county, was born August 13, 1841. He was brought up on a farm and attended the common schools of Springhill till he was twenty years of age when he went to Waynesburg College at Waynesburg, Greene county, Penna. He remained at college till August 20, 1862; he then enlisted as a volunteer in Company K, Fifteenth Pennsylvania Regiment of Cavalry, known as the Anderson Cavalry. He was engaged in the battles of Antietam, Maryland; Stone River, Tennessee. In May, 1863 was made an orderly at General Rosecrans headquarters and served in that position till October 14, 1863. He was disabled in September of that year while carrying a dispatch from Bridgeport, Alabama, by way of Trenton, Georgia, to General Stanley near Rome, Georgia. The journey in the intense heat brought on a disability from which he has never entirely recovered. Upon the successful delivery of this message depended the evacuation of Chattanooga, an almost impregnable position, by Bragg. His service was rendered on the 19th day of September, 1863; he was so disabled as to have to be sent to the hospital where he remained till April, 1864, when he was transferred to the Signal Corps of the United States Army and was detailed to the Fourteenth Army Corps of Ringgold, Georgia. He participated in all the engagements of Sherman's army till the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, September 1, 1864, when he was ordered to Kennesaw Mountain and was present when the famous message, "Hold the Fort," was sent from Sherman to General Corse at Allatoona. Mr Frankenberry still has in his possession the signal flag by means of which this message was sent, and holds it as an invaluable relic of the war. He was mustered out of service on June 30, 1865, and returned to Pennsylvania where he engaged in the lumbering business in 1867, in which he is still engaged at Point Marion in the firm of Keyser & Frankenberry. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Post No 180, Uniontown, Penna. Mr Frankenberry was married in 1868 to Miss Carrie E Conn. Of this union was born one daughter, Retta Frankenberry. Mrs Frankenberry died September 12, 1874. Mr Frankenberry was afterwards married to Miss Mary A Sheets. To this union were born three children: Harry Frankenberry, Howard Frankenberry and Garfield Frankenberry. Harry died in infancy. Mr Frankenberry is a member of the Church of the Disciples at Point Marion. His parents, Samuel Frankenberry and Eliza Dilliner Frankenberry, were both natives of Fayette county, Penna, and live in Springhill township. His father was born in 1820, has always been and is still engaged in farming. The grandfather of Mr Frankenberry was born in Maryland and is of German descent. p502 AMADEE MELIER FRANKS, an intelligent citizen and a progressive farmer of Fayette county, Penna, is a son of Michael Franks and Charity Kendall Franks. He was born in Nicholson township, Fayette county, Penna, January 13, 1848. Jacob Franks, great grandfather, was born in 1743 and came to Baltimore and married Miss Barbara Brandeberry. He soon removed to German township where he bought a large tract of land called "Frankston." He helped organize the "Old Dutch Church" in 1785. One of his sons, Henry Franks, was captured by Indians but subsequently escaped from them. Jacob Franks died in 1802 and his descendants are numerous in the Western States, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania. He was the father of Michael Franks Sr, whose son Michael Franks Jr was the father of Amadee M Franks. Michael Franks, father, was born October 29, 1803, and died November 26, 1879. He was a native of Nicholson township where he owned a farm of ninety acres. In 1852 Michael Franks purchased the Nicholson farm of 200 acres; he removed to it and engaged in farming till his death. In 1879 (?) he married Miss Charity Kendall, born March 17, 1810, and died December 6, 1879. They had seven children: Isaac K Franks, in Missouri; Michael W Franks, ex-county treasurer, now stamp clerk in the revenue office in Pittsburgh; Alcinda Franks, wife of J K Dils; William S Franks, dead; John Calvin Franks, dead; Frances Ann Franks, dead; and Amadee M Franks. Mr and Mrs Franks were prominent members of the Baptist church. He held various township offices, was a life long democrat and was one of the old, reliable and useful citizens of Nicholson township. Amadee M Franks was reared on a farm and attended the common schools until nineteen years of age when he engaged in farming with his father. After the death of the latter, he purchased the home farm which is very fertile and well improved. He is a natural mechanic and has pursued the trade of carpenter at intervals for eighteen years. He is a democrat, has served as road supervisor and school director, and is a member of the Royal Arcanum and is now engaged in stock raising, having thoroughbred merino sheep and Poland China hogs. Mr Franks was married March 19, 1868, to Miss Nancy Longanecker, daughter of Joseph Longanecker and Annette Barber Longanecker. They have four children: Allie M Franks, wife of A G Rhodes, a miller of Westmoreland county; Chauncey B Franks; Holly W Franks; and Vada L Franks. Mr and Mrs Franks are members of the Baptist church at New Geneva, and reside in an elegant residence surrounded with all the comforts and conveniences of life. p501 MICHAEL S FRANKS, justice of the peace and a leading druggist of Fairchance, is a son of Isaac Franks and Nancy Morgan Franks, and was born in Nicholson township, Fayette county, Penna, March 22, 1849. His great grandfather, Michael Franks Sr, with a brother, Jacob Franks, came from Germany to Baltimore where Michael Sr married a German lady. Michael Franks Sr and Jacob Franks came out over an Indian trail in 1760 and purchased a large tract of land near High House known as "Frankston." They were prominent in organizing St Jacob's or the "Old Dutch Church," in 1785. In St Jacob's cemetery a square is left on which to erect a monument to the Franks family. The German spelling was Fronk. Michael Franks served in the Indian wars and his son Henry Franks was a prisoner of the Indians for eighteen months. Michael Franks Sr had eleven children: Henry Franks; Charlotte First; Mary Helmick; Abraham Franks; Michael Franks Jr; John Franks; Elizabeth First; Jacob Franks; Dorothy Miller; George Franks and Catherine Hatfield. Michael Franks Jr was born in 1773, married Amy First, daughter of Jacob First, and died in 1851. He had fifteen children: Jacob Franks, dead; Elizabeth Higgins, dead; Mary Kramer, dead; Michael Franks, dead; James Franks, dead; Samuel Franks; Abraham Franks, represented Wayne county, in Ohio legislature; George Franks, dead; John Franks, dead; Amy Higgins; Charlotte Trader; Christina Hess; Henry Franks, Isaac Franks, Phineas Franks. Mr Franks was an honest and prosperous farmer in what is now Nicholson township. He owned nine farms, was a democrat, and was a deacon of the Baptist church for thirty seven years. His wife died in 1872 aged ninety one years. His son Isaac Franks was born in 1821 and was married in 1844 to Miss Nancy Morgan, daughter of Philemon W Morgan. She was an estimable woman, a member of the Baptist church and died at Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1886. Isaac Franks moved to Smithfield in 1857 and engaged in merchandising and operating a foundry. In 1876 he went to Morgantown and was mail contractor until 1885 of the route from Morgantown to Fairchance. He is an honest man and a good neighbor, is firm in his convictions right; he has been a life long democrat and for fifty one years a member of the Baptist church. He has two children: Lydia A Brown and Michael S Franks. Lydia A is proprietor of Fairchance House and the celebrated "Glenmoor" summer resort one half mile above Ice's Ferry on the waters of Cheat, where a fine building of eighteen rooms is situated among some of the finest scenery in the United States. Michael S Franks was educated in Georges Creek Academy and was a teacher in the common schools of West Virginia and Pennsylvania for fifteen years. In 1884 he engaged in his present successful drug business. In May, 1883, he was married to Miss Ella J Conn, daughter of William Conn, deceased, of Smithfield. They have three children: William C Franks, Annie Franks, and Edgar C Franks. Michael S Franks is a regular registered pharmacist. He has a first class drug store that is carefully fitted up and well stocked. Politically Mr Franks is a republican and was elected justice of the peace in February, 1889. He served as postmaster from January, 1885, to November, 1887. Is an Odd Fellow and K of G E. He has achieved his success in life over many obstacles and maintains an excellent reputation in both public and private life. p173 Dr SMITH FULLER has passed an epoch in the study and practice of medicine which, measured by time, would cover but a small extent in the age of medical science but counting the advance in the knowledge of diseases and their treatment, it covers more space than all of the previous centuries combined would do. In all of the departments of the profession, there has been but the one word--advance--and it now stands before the world as a science which is rapidly approaching a condition of comparative perfectness. Dr Smith Fuller was born at Connellsville, Fayette county, Penna, February 3, 1818. He attended the common schools and in about 1835 he went to Washington College which at that time was one of the finest institutions of leaning in the United States west of the Alleghenies. He remained at college three years, electing and successfully pursuing an irregular course. In 1838 he began the study of medicine at West Newton under Dr John Hasson, a distinguished physician of Westmoreland county and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Smith Fuller attended a regular course of lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and located at Uniontown in the practice of medicine in the spring of 1840. His field of practice soon extended beyond Fayette into adjoining counties of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, twenty to thirty miles being no uncommon distance in many cases to reach his patients. He returned to Jefferson Medical College in 1846, took further courses of lectures under Dunglison & Pancoast, professors of national reputation. He was graduated in 1847 and returned to Uniontown and his Southwestern Pennsylvania field of practice where he has earnestly and successfully labored up to the present time. Dr Fuller is known among men as a man whose sterling worth, unaffected manners, generous impulses and active brain make him a leader in any community. His courteous bearing, his high sense of honor, his acknowledge ability and professional skill have secured for him an extended consultation practice. For nearly half a century he has not counted his own pleasures or enjoyment in order that he might be of service to others. In many a home there is an unwritten history of his medical skill and humane devotion to the interests of the sick, and this if written would be his highest tribute. Dr Smith Fuller as a physician is recognized as wise, skillful, and trustworthy. His quiet firmness, his ability and skill make him an ideal physician. Originally he was a democrat, but identified himself with the national American party in 1856. He became a member of the republican party upon its birth, and in 1860 was a delegate to the republican national convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. He was elected a member of the State senate in 1860, and represented for three years the district composed of Fayette and Westmoreland counties and was chairman of the committee on military affairs. His party in 1864 made him their candidate for Congress in the district composed of Fayette, Indiana and Westmoreland counties. His opponent was John L Dawson who was declared elected by sixteen votes. Dr Fuller contested the election and spent five months at Washington but was unsuccessful in securing the seat. He has been largely engaged in tanning for the wholesale trade in Georges township of this county and is a director of the National Bank of Fayette county. Dr Fuller's grandfather, Daniel Fuller, was a native of Ireland and at the age of fifteen was shipped as a hand on board a vessel for his passage across the Atlantic over one hundred years ago. He stopped for a time in a Quaker neighborhood, and in a short time after Daniel Fuller came out to Fayette county with a Mr Bailey. Dr Fuller's maternal grandfather, Dr Bela B Smith, was born at Hartford, Connecticut. Dr Smith practiced medicine at West Newton, Westmoreland county, for about fifty years. He was of English descent and was much esteemed as a physician. He accumulated a large landed estate and died about 1837. Dr Fuller's father, John Fuller, represented Fayette county in the legislature of Pennsylvania during three terms and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1838. He was born in 1786 and died in 1865. The mother of Dr Fuller was Harriet R Smith, daughter of Dr Bela B Smith, and the wife of John Fuller. In 1839 Dr Smith Fuller married Miss Elvira Markle of West Newton who died in 1846. By her he had three children: John M Fuller, a physician; Harriet Fuller and Elizabeth Fuller. His second wife was Jane Beggs, daughter of William D Beggs of Uniontown, a prominent school teacher of his day. Dr Fuller married Miss Jane Beggs in 1849, and they have three sons living of five born unto them: William B Fuller, a physician; Frank M Fuller, an attorney at law; and Smith Fuller, the youngest son, a physician.