Bios: Ha-He 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 Hackney, Dr J S Uniontown 176 Hackney, John Jr Menallen 341 Hagan, A C Uniontown 177 Hagan, Robert Uniontown 176 Hager, S P Wharton 548 Hagerty, Thomas Washington 342 Hall, Joseph Stewart 550 Hamer, James Washington 342 Hamilton, Dr W J Dunbar 439 Handlen, Harvey Uniontown 179 Handlin, William Uniontown 178 Haney, C B Menallen 343 Hankins, John Uniontown 179 Hare, Daniel Dunbar 438 Harmony, Daniel Jr Washington 345 Harmony, J W Washington 343 Harper, Daniel Dunbar 439 Hatfield, Elias Menallen 343 Hazen, B W Franklin 345 Hazlett, I C, Dr Uniontown 180 Hazlett, J D, Dr Dunbar 439 Henderson, Harvey Franklin 347 Henshaw, W H Luzerne 549 Henshaw, William Uniontown 180 Herbertson, John Brnv & Bdgpt 274 Hertzog, D M Uniontown 181 Hertzog, John Springhill 276 Hess, C R Luzerne 549 Hess, G W Menallen 347 Hess, Timothy Redstone 503 p176 JACOB SIDWELL HACKNEY, MD, is the youngest son of Hiram H and Elizabeth S Hackney. Hiram H Hackney was born in Fayette county, Penna, in 1822, and was graduated from Madison College when that school was in the Halcyon days of its existence. He was one of the world famed "49ers" who crossed the Great Plains amid dangers and privations to seek for the golden treasures buried in Pacific sands. J S Hackney's grandfather was the youngest son of Aaron Hackney, born in Luzerne township, Fayette county, Penna, on what is now known as "Hackney's Knob Farm." The Hackneys were English who emigrated to America about 1650 from Hackneytown, a suburb then, but now part of the city of London. Dr Hackney's mother was a daughter of Jacob and Hannah Wyly of Carmichaels, Greene county, Penna. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Styne Wyly. J S Hackney was born May 4, 1862, and grew to manhood on his father's farm, near New Salem, Menallen township, receiving such educational training as was afforded in the graded school of that place. At seventeen years of age he entered the Southwestern State Normal School at California, Penna, and attended two summer sessions when he secured a country school and taught for one winter. At the expiration of his first school, he entered the Freshman class at Mt Union College, Mt Union, Ohio, and studied two years taking principally the scientific branches. Having determined upon medicine as the vocation of his life, in July, 1882, he entered as a student of medicine the office of Dr Smith Fuller Sr of Uniontown, and for the first year taught school near his home, and on Saturdays went to Uniontown to recite to his preceptor. In the fall of 1883 he entered Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia from which he graduated two years later, April 2, 1885, standing third in scholarship in a class of 176. Instead of branching out in the practice of his profession at once, he wished further to prepare himself for actual practice so he became an applicant for an was afterwards appointed, through a competitive examination, to the position of resident physician in the West Penn Hospital at Pittsburgh. Serving one year at the hospital, he decided to locate at Uniontown for the further pursuance of his profession. On June 7, 1887, he was married to Anna M Eastman, daughter of Dr Henry and Mary Eastman of Merrittstown. Dr Eastman is one of the oldest and ablest physicians of Fayette county. Dr Hackney is an active member of the Fayette County Medical Society, and takes deep interest in its proceedings. Although young in the profession, he is fast building a large and lucrative practice, and is at present the surgeon of the Columbia Iron and Steel Works of Uniontown, which position he has held from the starting of the works. p341 JOHN HACKNEY, Jr. The Hackneys originally came from England prior to the Revolutionary War and were participants in the struggle for Independence. Aaron Hackney, the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, and came to Fayette county in early life and settled near Heistersburg, Luzerne township. John Hackney Sr was born in Luzerne township March 20, 1783, was a farmer and married Lydia Sidwell in 1812. They had eight children: James Hackney, Aaron Hackney, Amy Hackney, John Hackney, Hiram Hackney, Samuel Hackney, Lyida Hackney, Jane Hackney and Hannah Hackney. Lydia Sidwell Hackney was born in Virginia in 1787 and was a daughter of James Sidwell, who was married to Amy Long, daughter of Dr Owen Long who lived near Winchester, Virginia. John Hackney Jr was born August 15, 1920, on the old Hackney farm near New Salem, Menallen township, and on December 5, 1844, was married to Isabella Ebbert. They had ten children: James Hackney, Hiram Hackney and Mary Frances Hackney, deceased, and Samuel Hackney, born July 9, 1851, is married to Anna M Lickey/?Leckey, and lives in Harvey county, Kansas; John William Hackney, born December 17, 1858, at home; Lydia Jane Hackney, born June 29, 1856, is married to Aaron T Porter, and lives in Lyon county, Kansas; Alvin E Hackney, born October 8, 1858, at home; Eliza Ellen Hackney, born December 29, 1861, music teacher; Laura Bell Hackney, born May 4, 1864; and George Wyly Hackney, born June 21, 1867, and is now in the senior class in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia. Mrs Hackney's grandfather was George Ebbert, and was a merchant and has his store on Main street in the early history of Uniontown. Her father, James Ebbert, was born at Uniontown in 1792, and was a farmer and lived on the farm now owned by John W Carothers near the County Home. Her maternal grandfather was a Frenchman by the name of Devicman and settled near Oakland, Maryland. Mr Hackney was raised on the home farm and is one of the best farmers of the county. He was educated in the subscription schools of the neighborhood, and also at Aaron Hague/?Hogue/?Hoge and Richard Taylor's school. He is an ardent republican and takes considerable interest in political matters. He was raised a Quaker, but with wife and entire family are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Mr Hackney is a conscientious, useful and intelligent member of society, and an honest and successful businessman. p177 ALONZO C HAGAN, a young and rising attorney of the Fayette county bar, was born in South Union township, July 27, 1854, and is a son of Robert Hagan and Mary Ann Wood Hagan. Robert Hagan resides in South Union township. Alonzo C Hagan was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, public schools of Uniontown and Waynesburg College, and attended the latter from 1872 till 1875. In 1876 he began reading law with W H Playford, and was admitted to the bar of Fayette county, March 5, 1877. In the same year he located at Atchison, Kansas, in the practice of his profession, but not pleased with Kansas, he returned to Fayette county in 1879, and opened a law office at Uniontown where he has been continuously engaged successfully in the practice ever since. By prompt and strict attendance to business, he has built up a good and remunerative practice. He has been interested in many of the important cases and is fast winning the reputation of a successful lawyer. In October, 1880, he was married to Miss Mary M Miller, daughter of Thomas D Miller of Monroe. She died April, 1889, while en route to Uniontown from Florida where she had been for her health. Mr Hagan is a firm believer in the "time honored principles of the democratic party," and has always taken an active part in the political campaigns of the last fifteen years. He was chairman of the democratic central committee of Fayette county, and ably conducted the campaigns while chairman. He is a good lawyer and an honorable citizen. p176 ROBERT HAGAN was born July 3, 1831, on the old Hagan homestead in South Union township, Fayette county, Penna. John Hagan, the father of Robert Hagan, was born in 1788 in County Derry, Ireland, and came to America in 1807. He married Margaret Grimes, and she was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, in about 1792. John Hagan was a contractor on the National Road and received a contract to make a section of that road in September, 1815. After the National Road was finished, he became a contractor upon the Erie Canal. He was superintendent upon the farm which he afterwards bought and where he spent the last years of his life. He was a democrat. He donated the ground on which the Catholic church is built and died in 1869. Robert Hagan was educated in the schools of South Union township and started out in life in business as a merchant at Waynesburg, Penna, where he remained two years when he came to Uniontown and engaged in business with his brother, John Hagan. From 1868 to 1871 he was engaged in buying and selling stock. On January 9, 1853, he was married to Miss Ann Wood, the daughter of Josiah Wood. They had seven children: Alonzo Hagan, a member of the Uniontown bar; Margaret Hagan, born March 22, 1857, living at home; Harry Hagan, born June 20, 1860, civil engineer at Uniontown; Elizabeth Hagan, born in 1864; Mollie Hagan, Ida Hagan and Robert Hagan, the latter born November 22, 1875. Robert Hagan is a democrat, was elected in 1871 as county commissioner and served as such for three years. He is now serving his tenth year as school director and takes considerable interest in educational matters. He is a good citizen and stands well in the community where he lives. He is a member of the Baptist church. p548 SIMON P HAGER, a thorough-going, stirring and successful farmer of Wharton township is a son of Thomas Hager and Eva Romesburg Hager, and was born in the same township, Fayette county, Penna, September 22, 1845. His grandfather, Peter Hager, was of German descent and was a teamster on the "Old Braddock Road" when the early settlers in many places had to cover their cabins with a roof made of bark. He married Rachel Inks, conquered many of the difficulties of pioneer life in Wharton township, and purchased the Hager farms now owned by his descendants. One of his sons, Thomas Hager, was a farmer and married Miss Eva, daughter of George Romesburg. Simon P Hager was raised on a farm and attended the common schools of his native township. When quite young he assumed and successfully conducted the management of his father's business affairs. Before he was nineteen years of age, he entered the Union army, enlisting in August, 1864, in Company K, One Hundredth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the close of the war. He was in all of the engagements of his regiment, at the evacuation of Petersburg, and Lee's surrender, and at Fort Steadman where his company went into action thirty eight strong, and he was one of the twelve who escaped being killed. His brother, William Hager, was a member of Company K, One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, fought in eleven battles and died nine days after his return home. At the close of the war, our subject returned home, resumed farming, and has devoted most of his attention to that calling ever since. January 1, 1866, he was married to Miss Huldah A Kemp, daughter of John Kemp and Eliza Spaw Kemp. To them have been born the following children: Charles Milton Hager (dead), Chauncey Alexander Hager, Martha Ellen Hager, William Grant Hager, Thomas Gilbert Hager, John Burchard Hager, James A Garfield Hager, Eliza Eva Hager and Harrison Herbert Hager. Simon P Hager has made his own way in life, unaided by friends, influence or fortune. He is a member of the German Baptist church to which his family also belongs. He owns about one thousand acres of land, has some property in Uniontown and at Markleysburgh. He is never idle, always pushing, and is a thorough businessman. p342 THOMAS HAGERTY, a successful trader and one of Fayette City's leading citizens, is a native of Fayette county. He is a son of William Hagerty and Elizabeth Johnson Hagerty, and was born July 22, 1820. His father, William Hagerty, was a native of Ireland, and with his mother emigrated to the United States at fourteen years of age and settled in Fayette county. His wife was Elizabeth Johnson, a descendant of one of the early families of Washington county. Thomas Hagerty was reared on a farm, and obtained a fair education in the subscription schools of the neighborhood. At the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to his elder brothers, Robert Hagerty and Samuel Hagerty, to learn the trade of stonemason. After three years' service as an apprentice, he engaged in business for himself and has continued successfully at his trade up to the present time. He was married March 18, 1851, to Miss Rizpah Fell of Westmoreland county. They had ten children: Linda Hagerty, Omer E Hagerty, Elizabeth Hagerty, Mina Hagerty, Rena Hagerty, Ollie Hagerty, Ella Hagerty, and three who died in infancy. Mrs Hagerty died July, 1874. Two years later Mr Hagerty again married; his second wife was Mrs Elizabeth Bake, whose maiden name was Jones. They have two children: Bertha Hagerty and Alva Hagerty. Mrs Elizabeth Hagerty is a daughter of Samuel Jones of Westmoreland county. Her first husband was John Bake, deceased. By him she had two children: Edgar J Bake and Frank L Bake, both married, the former living in Fayette and the latter in Westmoreland county. Mr Hagerty owns a comfortable home and twenty two acres of well improved land on which he has opened a coal mine. He has held the ordinary offices of the borough and discharged their duties in a satisfactory manner. p550 JOSEPH HALL, the grandfather of the subject of our sketch, married Mary Matthews; to them was born Garrett Hall. Garrett Hall, a native of Fayette county, married Margaret Linderman, the daughter of Henry Linderman, formerly of Somerset county, Penna. Garrett Hall and wife had nine children: Mary Hall; Rebecca Hall; Isaac L Hall; Henry H Hall; John K Hall, the subject of our sketch; Susan E Hall; Darrell Hall; Barbara Hall; Benjamin S Hall. Garrett Hall married a second time to Sarah Sloan; by this marriage he had two daughters: Arminda Hall and Cascinda Hall. John K Hall was born September 5, 1844, in Fayette county, Penna. He was educated in the common schools of the county. He is engaged in farming and stock raising. He served four years as constable of Stewart township, and six years as school director of the same township. He was married December 19, 1872, to Lucinda Miner, daughter of Charles Miner of Stewart township. He served in the Civil War, volunteered in 1864 in the One Hundred and Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry, and took part in the battles of Petersburg, Hatcher's Run and Norfolk, and was in several skirmishes. He lives on Sugar Loaf and is a member of the church. p342 JAMES HAMER, an enterprising citizen and a well known manufacturer of woolen goods, was born in England, February 3, 1804. He is a son of James Hamer and Alice Bingham Hamer, both natives of England. James Hamer was an operative for three years in English woolen factories, and fully mastered all the intricacies of manufacturing woolen goods. At twenty three years of age he emigrated to America, and landed at Philadelphia in 1827. In that city and vicinity he found employment for some time in various woolen factories, but he saw no opportunity for starting in business for himself, and concluded to still better his condition by pushing westward. Starting of foot, he arrived in Fayette county after a journey of fourteen days. He went to Redstone where he introduced fabric weaving; afterward associated himself with James Pilling and Ephraim Pilling, and engaged in the manufacture of woolen cloths at Cook's mills. In 1835 he removed to Little Redstone and five years later became a resident of Fayette City. He here erected at a cost of $1600 the Fayette City Woolen Factory which he has owned and operated until the present time. He manufactures principally woolen goods and yarns for the local trade. The equipments of the factory are three carding machines, one spinning jack and 150 spindles. Mr Hamer was married to Miss Elizabeth Cook, daughter of Thomas Cook, a prominent citizen of Redstone township. They are the parents of six children: Mary Hamer; Ellen Hamer, dead; Alice Hamer; Sarah Hamer; Elizabeth Hamer; Rachel R Hamer, dead. Mrs Hamer died July 14, 1878. In 1840 Mr Hamer purchased a valuable farm at a cost of $7000, which he now owns and has greatly improved. He is a consistent and useful member of the Christian church. He is a man who has won respect by a long life of hard and honest labor. p439 WILLIAM J HAMILTON, MD. Both the father and grandfather of Dr Hamilton were natives of County Down, Ireland. William Hamilton, father, was born February 13, 1797, emigrated to the United States and married in Pittsburgh Miss Frances Staples. They had six children: Elizabeth, Susan, Mary, William, Maria and Alexander. He lived in Pittsburgh till a few years before he died, when he removed to Butler county, where he died in 1855. Dr William J Hamilton was born in Butler county, Penna, June, 1848, and was educated in the public schools of his native county. He entered the medical college at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1869, and was graduated in 1873. He came to Dunbar the same year, commenced the practice of his profession and has lived at Dunbar ever since. He is of the homeopathic school. He was married July 2, 1874, to Miss Ella Herron, daughter of Francis Herron of Fayette county. Dr Hamilton is a member of the Knights of Pythias. p179 HARVEY HANDLEN was born near Smithfield, Georges township, Fayette county, Penna, November 22, 1821. His father, Daniel Handlen, was a native of Ireland and came to this country when about thirteen years of age. He married Elizabeth Hunt, a daughter of Jacob Hunt. To their marriage were born ten children of whom Harvey is the youngest. Daniel Handlen was a collier by trade. He died in 1833. William Handlen, the father of Daniel Handlen, was also a native of Ireland and a farmer by occupation. Harvey Handlen was married to Eliza M Balsley, a daughter of Greenberry Balsley of North Union township, February 21, 1847, and have two children living: Greenberry Handlen, born September 22, 1855, was married to a daughter of James Darby, and has one child by her, Nancy Handlen. His second wife was Lydia Holsing, a daughter of William Holsing of Uniontown, and by her has three children: Jessie Handlen, Sarah Handlen, and Catherine Handlen. Harvey Handlen's other child, Ellen Handlen, was born August 10, 1848, and is now the wife of S W Means of North Union. She is the mother of five children: Harvey Means, Thomas H Means, Ann Eliza Means, John Means and Greenberry Means. Harvey Handlen was reared on the farm. Early in life he learned the trade of stonemason under William Hanan and worked at it for many years. For the last twelve years he has been engaged in coal mining. He has always voted the democratic ticket, as did his father and grandfather before him. He is a member of the Knights of Labor, of the Sons of Temperance, a devoted member of the Methodist Protestant church, held the various offices in the church, and is at present one of the trustees of his church. His wife was also a member of the same church. p178 WILLIAM HANDLIN was born December 28, 1844, in North Union township, Fayette county, Penna. His father, Daniel Handlin, was born near Hopwood, Fayette county, Penna, in 1814. His wife (Daniel Handlin's), Nancy White, was a daughter of John White of Fayette county. To them were born five children: Jacob Handlin, Sarah H Handlin, Elizabeth H Handlin, John Handlin and William Handlin. The father and two sons were soldiers in the Civil War; although the father, Daniel Handlin, could have been exempted from duty on account of his age. He enlisted in 1862 in the One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania Regiment and was mustered out in April, 1864. William Handlin enlisted in 1864 as a private in the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry under Captain Harrison's command, and J M Schoonmaker as his colonel. He joined the regiment at Martinsburg, was in the battle of Wythville Gap, and after the Union forces were defeated at Lynchburg, Mr Handlin was transferred to General Sherman's command, and was with that renowned commander at Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek. He was promoted to corporal and honorably discharged from the service November 22, 1865. He was a brave soldiers as was also his brother Jacob Handlin, the latter taken prisoner by the Confederates at New River and confined in Andersonville prison, and died while incarcerated there. Daniel Handlin is still living and in good health at seventy five years of age. Anthony Handlin is the father of Daniel Handlin. His wife's maiden name was Nancy Hunt. William Handlin was married June 11, 1877, to Susan Castell, daughter of James Castell of North Union township. To this union have been born six children: Louis Handlin, Henry Handlin, Jennie Handlin, Nannie Handlin, Nellie Handlin and Bessie Handlin. He was educated in the common schools of the county. Leaving school he learned the trade of stone mason under James Hanan of North Union, and with whom he has been in business ever since, for the last fourteen years as partner. He is a democrat and a member of the M P church, and is a class leader. He takes an active interest in educational affairs, believing the way to get good teachers is to pay good wages. He is one of the school directors of his township. p343 CLARK B HANEY, a gallant survivor of the late Civil War, was born on the William Moore farm in Menallen township, Fayette county, Penna. His father, John Haney, was born on the old original Haney farm in German township, October 6, 1806, and died in 1884. The grandfather of C B Haney was also born on the same farm. C B Haney's great grandfather, William Haney, was the founder of the Haney family in Fayette county. C B Haney's mother, Ann Moss, daughter of Jacob Moss, was born in German township, July 13, 1807. She was married to John Haney in 1832. Jacob Moss was born in German township, Fayette county, Penna, in 1775. Joseph Moss, the father of Jacob Moss, settled in Fayette county. C B Haney is one of the substantial farmers of Menallen township and was a Union soldier. p179 JOHN HANKINS was born on the old Hankins Homestead, North Union township, Fayette county, Penna, July 2, 1826. His father, James Hankins, born July 24, 1780, in North Carolina, was brought to Fayette county by his father, John Hankins, in 1783, who was born October 9, 1738, in North Carolina, and with his wife and children came to "Beesontown" in 1784. He was married to Rhoda Ireland, December 10, 1861. She was of Scotch Irish origin as are also the Hankins. Mary Moreland, the mother of John Hankins, was a daughter of William Moreland of near Connellsville. She was born below Broad Ford, Fayette county, Penna, April 23, 1788, and was married to James Hankins in about 1817 and died in August, 1864. James Hankins was a strong democrat. His father John Hankins voted for Washington for president. John Hankins purchased a piece of land where William Hankins now resides, previous to the War of the Revolution, and the deed bears the seal and name of King George III. This same property is still in the possession of the Hankins family. John Hankins, whose name heads this sketch, was married to Rachel Foster, daughter of John Foster of North Union township, March 17, 1853. She was born February 14, 1835. To their marriage have been born seven children, three of whom are now living: John F Hankins, born August 11, 1861, and is married to Lida Rankin; Lucinda Hankins, born November 7, 1863, is the wife of Frank H Rosboro of Dawson; and Ella Margaret Hankins born September 9, 1868. John Hankins takes a deep interest in educational matters, being for fifteen years past a school director. He is a strong democrat and a good citizen. p438 DANIEL HARE was born in Franklin township, Fayette county, Penna, December 31, 1826. The family on the father's side is of Scotch extraction. Joseph Hare (grandfather) was a native of Scotland, came to America and settled in Dunbar township, Fayette county, in 1811. He was the father of Daniel Hare, James Hare, Matthew Hare, John Hare, and three others whose names have been forgotten. Daniel Hare and John Hare served in the War of 1812. James died in the war and Daniel was severely wounded and died in about six months after he returned home. Joseph Hare (father) was born in Scotland and came to America with his father in 1811 and followed farming. He married Sarah Lancaster. They had the following children: Daniel Hare, David Hare, James Hare, John Hare (who served as county commissioner of Fayette county from 1885 to 1888), Sarah Hare, Mary Hare, Eliza Hare and Susan Hare. Daniel Foster, the maternal grandfather, was born in Lancaster county, Penna, married and had the following children: William Foster, John Foster, Henry Foster, James Foster, Tillie Foster, Catherine Foster, Sarah Foster and Martha Foster. Daniel Hare, the oldest child of his father, was brought up in Franklin township and attended the common schools. He came to Dunbar township in about 1835, settled near the town of Dunbar, and has since been a farmer and extensive stock raiser. He owns a good farm of 162 * acres and is very pleasantly situated. He has been a member of the Baptist church for about four years. p345 DANIEL J HARMONY, Jr, was born in Mapleton, Greene county, Penna, July 13, 1818. At fifteen years of age he began clerking and later engaged in glass blowing at Fayette City. Since 1865 he has been in the mercantile business and for the last twelve years has been superintendent of the Noroon Glass Works. His father, Daniel Harmony, Sr, whose father came from Germany, was a native of Berks county, Penna, and married Miss Anna Hathaway. Daniel Harmony Jr was married in 1846 to Miss Rebecca T McClain, daughter of James McClain who settled many years ago near Uniontown. They have had nine children, five of whom are living. He has always been an advocate of education and has fairly educated his children, two of whom are teachers. He belongs to no secret order, has never been an office seeker and is one of the good and substantial men of Fayette City. He has in his possession the last letter written by President W H Harrison. p343 JOHN W HARMONY was born in Brownsville, Fayette county, Penna, January 26, 1856. When he was four years of age, his parents removed to Kent, Franklin county, Ohio, but soon returned to Pennsylvania, locating at Albany; leaving that place in 1864, they came to Fayette City. He was educated in the common schools, and engaged in clerking until 1875. He was with J L Cooper, Colvin, Atwell & Co of Pittsburgh for two years, and G W Maxwell & Co, coal dealers of Washington county, Penna. In 1875 he engaged in glass cutting, and has continued in that business to the present time. He is a member of the following orders: Mystic Chain, Royal Arcanum and J O of A M. Mr Harmony was united in marriage December 27, 1882, to Miss Mollie E Shearer, daughter of Daniel Shearer, a native of Jefferson township, and whose people were natives of Ohio. Their union has been blessed with two children: Raymond D Harmony and Stella Harmony. John W Harmony is one of the enterprising young men of Fayette county. He was a good clerk, is a skillful workman, and is interested in whatever is for the weal of Fayette City. p439 DANIEL HARPER, the first postmaster of Dunbar, was born January 12, 1818, in the township of Dunbar, Fayette county, Penna. His father, Daniel Harper, was a Pennsylvanian by birth and was married to Margery Huston, a native of Fayette county. They had nine children: Margaret Harper, William James Harper, Joseph Harper, Daniel Harper, Mary J Harper, Margery Harper, Sarah Harper, Samuel Harper and Eliza Harper. Daniel Harper received only a common school education. On leaving school he learned the trade of carpenter and continued as such for eight years. On April 4, 1843, he took to wife Miss Sarah Hankins, daughter of James and Mary Hankins. John Hankins, the father of James Hankins, came with his father, John Hankins, to Fayette county in 1784 from North Carolina. Their first settlement was on a farm in North Union and for many years James Hankins operated a woolen mill. After his death, Daniel Harper fell heir to the mill property which he continued to run for twenty four years. The children born to Daniel Hankins and Sarah Hankins Harper are: Mary M Harper; Margery H Harper; James Harper; Daniel Harper; William Harper and John M Harper. Mr Harper was appointed first postmaster of Dunbar under the administration of James Buchanan and continued to serve in that capacity for eight or ten years. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. His death occurred May 31, 1884. p343 ELIAS HATFIELD comes of a widely known and highly respected family of Fayette county and his life is adding additional luster to the many good qualities of his worthy ancestors. He is a son of Samuel Hatfield and Rebecca Vance Hatfield, and was born in South Union township, Fayette county, Penna, February 1, 1831. Samuel Hatfield was born in Georges township, Fayette county, Penna, December 6, 1797. He married Miss Rebecca Vance; they removed to South Union township where they lived for many years and raised a family of eleven children, namely: Sarah Jane Hatfield, born July 25, 1821, died March, 1886; Lydia Ann Hatfield, born November 7, 1822, died October 25, 1885; Rachel Hatfield, born April 11, 1824, died March 25, 1861; Lucinda Hatfield, born February 7, ??, died October 26, 1852; William Vance Hatfield, born December 31, 1827, died September, 1856; Elias Hatfield, born February 1, 1831; Freeman Lindsay Hatfield, born February 3, 1833, died November 28, 1865; Samuel Hatfield Jr, born November 5, 1834, living in Uniontown; Minton Hatfield, born October 24, 1836, living in Macomb, Illinois; Rebecca Hatfield, born January 3, 1840, living in Grand Ridge, Illinois; Mary Elizabeth Hatfield, born December 20, 1843, living in Nebraska. Mrs Rebecca Vance Hatfield was born in 1802 and died in 1862, and was a daughter of William Vance of Georges township and a member of the Great Bethel Regular Baptist church of Uniontown. Samuel Hatfield was a Baptist and for many years a deacon in the church to which his wife belonged with his eleven children who united at an early age. He removed to McDonough county, Illinois, in the spring of 1869, and died there August 25, 1877, in the eightieth year of his age. He was a good neighbor, an exemplary church member, and a highly respected citizen. Elias Hatfield, grandfather, was born March 11, 1760, and married Ann Lindsay who was born in 1767. He died in 1839 aged seventy nine years, one month, and seventeen days, and she followed him into the dreamless sleep September 21, 1852. They removed to Georges township over a hundred years ago and among the early settlers were held in high esteem. William Hatfield, great grandfather, was born in New Jersey, December 28, 1736, and married Ann Wright who died in 1762. He married for his second wife Sarah Kindall who died in 1799. He raised a family of eleven children of whom our subject's grandfather was a son of the first wife. William Hatfield's father, Abraham Hatfield Jr, was born in New Jersey in 1695; he and his wife Margaret both died in 1745, leaving nine children. His father was Abraham Hatfield Sr who was a son of Matthias Hatfield and was born at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1760 and died in 1806 leaving four sons. Matthias Hatfield was an intelligent Scotchman who left his native land and settled in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1665 where he died in December, 1687, leaving three sons. From him are descended the Hatfields of Fayette county. Elias Hatfield, the subject of this sketch, attended several common schools in the Hatfield school house and was enrolled for one term in 1844 as a student of Madison College. He taught five terms of school in South Union township, one term was in the Hatfield school house which was his home district. On the 15th of March, 1851, he went west by boat to Allamakee county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming. On April 15, 1853, he married Miss Mary A Beeman who was born in Vermont, November 20, 1836. They had four children: Orton Monroe Hatfield; Emma Jane Hatfield who married William J Holstine in 1876; Elsie Rebecca Hatfield and Henry Cullen Hatfield. The latter two died in infancy and the mother died on the 1st of August, 1868. In November, 1868, he brought his children back to Fayette county and remained on a visit at the old homestead until March 1 1869, when he bought a half interest in the store of the late James M Dixon at Farmington. On the 25th of July, 1869, he married a second time, Miss Mary E Dixon, daughter of his senior partner, and who was born January 20, 1836. To this union one child was born: Clara Addie Hatfield, now ten years of age. In 1870 the firm of Dixon & Hatfield dissolved. Mr Dixon purchased the Braddock Grave farm and Mr Hatfield removed to Fandon, McDonough county, Illinois, and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1870 there being no republican in the village, he was appointed postmaster. In 1876 he exchanged his store and town property with his brother Minton Hatfield for a farm on which Mr and Mrs W J Holstine now reside. After this exchange he returned to Fayette county and remained with his father-in-law, J M Dixon, until the latter died December 31, 1876. From 1877 to 1883 he was engaged in the mercantile business at Searight. In 1883 he removed to New Salem, purchased some valuable property and began merchandising, being today one of the most prosperous and successful merchants in the county. He is a member of Ft Necessity lodge, No 254, I O O F. He is a democrat and has never missed an election since 1852 when he cast his first vote. In November, 1887, he was elected commissioner of Fayette county for three years. He united with the Baptist church over forty years ago. p345 BENJAMIN W HAZEN. The Hazen family of this country on the paternal side is of New England extraction. Emigrant Edward Hazen, the great ancestor, went to Rawley, Massachusetts, as early as 1649; one tradition says from Scotland, another from England where children were born, some of whom settled at Lyme, Connecticut. John Hazen, whose descendants are numerous, was born in Boxford, Massachusetts, February 21, 1710. His brother Thomas Hazen, the great grandfather of the present generation of Hazens in Fayette county, was born at Lyme, Connecticut, February 12, 1722 or 1723. He removed to New Jersey where Thomas Hazen, Aaron Hazen, Ezekiel Hazen, Joshua Hazen, Moses Hazen, Abraham Hazen, and David Hazen were born. The latter, David Hazen, was the pioneer of the Hazens of Fayette county, Penna, and was born February 6, 1770. He married December 6, 1795, Elcy Wintermute, born June 17, 1776, of New Jersey. From this union were born: George W Hazen, September 2, 1796; Abraham Hazen, August 22, 1798; Thomas Hazen, October 20, 1800; Elizabeth Hazen, November 20, 1802; Mary Ann Hazen, February 14, 1805; Clarissa Hazen, October 15, 1807; Elcy Hazen, July 9, 1810; David Hazen, March 5, 1814; and Sarah Hazen, February 25, 1818. With his wife and at that time about 1808 six children, David Hazen took up his tedious journey by wagon across the mountains from Sussex county, New Jersey, to seek a home on Big Redstone in Fayette county, Penna. He purchased a farm in Franklin township in 1809, and occupied it until his death, November 11, 1848. His wife Elcy died May 3, 1850. The members of this family are all dead except Sarah Hazen, widow of the late Henry Cook, Esq, who resides with her youngest daughter, Clarissa H Cook, on the old home farm now owned by her son David H Hazen and stepson John A Cook. Of David Hazen's family, George W Hazen married Nancy Bowman of Franklin township, and moved to a farm in Belmont county, Ohio, where some of his family still reside. The eldest son, David Hazen, a lawyer by profession lives in Iowa. Thomas Hazen, third in the family, married Phebe Cope, sister of ex Sheriff Eli Cope, and Pierson Cope of Perry township. She survives her husband and lives in Vanderbilt, Penna; Eli C Hazen is the only one of their children living. A grandson, Thomas H Hazen, owns and tills a farm in Jefferson township. Elizabeth Hazen married Jacob Reicheneker of Brownsville. Mary Ann Hazen married Joseph Huston of Tyrone township, whose family Mrs James Cochran and John Huston of Dawson, Penna, and Mrs Phebe Martin of Perry township are the only survivors. Clarissa remained single and died a few years ago in Brownsville. Elcy and David died young. Abraham Hazen, the second son of David Hazen, was born in New Jersey and came with the family to Fayette county when about ten years old. March 24, 1824, he married Dorcas Downs of Redstone township; she was born November 4, 1802. Abraham was a blacksmith by trade as was his father, but chose farming as his occupation and tilled his father's farm until April, 1846, when he purchased the farm nearby on Crabapple Run, now owned and occupied by his sons, George Hazen and Benjamin W Hazen, together with subsequent purchases. Abraham Hazen died October 7, 1870, and his wife Dorcas, April 15, 1876. They raised a family of ten children: Moses Hazen, the oldest, was a stone cutter by trade and subsequently dealt in stock, and for several years was engaged in farming. He married Caroline Smith of Franklin township, August 24, 1854. In 1856 he was elected county auditor, but served only for one year. He died May 2, 1857, leaving two children: Dorcas Hazen, now the wife of William Henshaw of South Union township; and James W Hazen, who married a daughter of Levi Crossland of Uniontown and now lives in Hazelwood, Penna. William Hazen, second son, a farmer, married Eliza A Hill of Washington county, Penna, November 5, 1860, and now lives in Beallsville, that county. He was elected county auditor of Fayette county in 1857, and served the term; he was also elected and served a term as county commissioner of Washington county from January, 1876, to January, 1879. His only child, Alpha Hazen, married Dr Frye and lives in the same town. George Hazen, another son, lives in Franklin township and is a successful farmer and stock raiser. His first wife, Mary J Deyarman, daughter of the late David Deyarman, Esq, of Jefferson township, died January 2, 1875. Three children are living: Dorcas Hazen, Belle Hazen, and Lizzie Hazen, all of whom are married. George Hazen married again, this time Caroline C Carson of Washington county, Penna, April 17, 1880. Elizabeth Hazen, oldest daughter, died n 1833 while young. Mariah Hazen, second daughter, married Jonathan Sharpless, November 17, 1855, grandson of Jonathan Sharpless Sr who came from Philadelphia and was among the early settlers of Fayette county. They have a family and live in Williams county, Ohio. Thomas Hazen, another son, lived on the home farm until 1883 when he sold out to his brothers George and Benjamin, and now makes his home in Uniontown. He was elected county commissioner in 1878, and served the term with credit to himself and the people of the county. He was connected with THE GENIUS OF LIBERTY for over four years, retiring March 1, 1889. Benjamin W Hazen, another son, lives on the home farm on Crabapple Run and is among the thrifty farmers and stockraisers of the county. He married Edith S Piersol, daughter of James Piersol, now dead, of Perry township, October 30, 1862; her grandfather, William Piersol, was of Welsh descent and came from Chester county, Penna, to Perry township in 1784. They have five children: James P Hazen, Annette Hazen, Ella Hazen, Wilford/ Will Hazen, and Leora Hazen. David Hazen, the youngest son of Abraham Hazen's family, died in 1854, while young. Harriet Hazen married James Murphy, only son of Watson Murphy of Franklin township. They live on a farm near the home place and have a number of children, some of whom are grown. Phebe Hazen, the youngest of the family, married John Arnold in 1881. They have a nice home near Vanderbilt, Penna. p180 ISAAC CONDIT HAZLETT, MD, is a native of Franklin township, Washington county, Penna, and was born February 20, 1840. His father, Samuel Hazlett, was a farmer as was also his grandfather Hazlet who owned the Muse farm. Dr Hazlett's mother was Mrs Jemima Forsythe, the widow of David Forsythe, before her marriage with Samuel Hazlett. She was born in Washington county, Penna, a daughter of Jonas Condit, a native of New Jersey. Dr I C Hazlett married Miss Nancy Ellen Jennings of Hillsboro in 1867. He obtained the elementary course taught in common schools, and afterwards studied Greek and Latin under the tutelage of Rev N B Lyons of Washington county, Penna. He began to read medicine at the age of twenty two years with Dr E F Dodd of Washington. He entered the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from the same school in 1870. He practiced medicine before his graduation, however, first at Hillsboro where he began his first practice April 26, 1866, thence to New Salem in 1867. After his graduation in 1873, he removed to Belle Vernon, resided and practiced there till 1886 when he located at Uniontown. In 1881 he took the post graduate course at the University of Pennsylvania. His practice at Uniontown has doubled itself in the last year. He is an active member of the Fayette County Medical Society of which he was president in 1884, is a member of the State Medical Society and also holds membership in the American Medical Association. He wields a ready pen and contributes to the medical journals of the day. He is one of the most progressive members of the medical fraternity of Fayette county, is devoted to his profession and he always takes an interest in it that never flags or wearies. p439 Dr JOSHUA D HAZLETT, a leading physician of Vanderbilt, is a son of William Hazlett and Margaret Dickerson Hazlett, and was born near Washington, Washington county, Penna, July 15, 1845. He comes of Irish lineage on his paternal side. His great grandfather, Samuel Hazlett Sr, emigrated from Maryland to Washington county, Penna, during the Revolutionary War where he took up a large tract of land by "Tomahawk Right" in what is now Franklin township. His son, Samuel Hazlett, born in 1791 was a farmer and highly respected citizen. Samuel Hazlett was married twice; first to Mrs Rebecca Loafman by whom he had four daughters and two sons: Elza Hazlett, a physician; and William Hazlett, father of J D Hazlett. After her death he married a Mrs Forsythe, and one of his sons by the second marriage is Dr Isaac C Hazlett of Uniontown, Penna. William Hazlett, father, was born near Washington, Washington county, Penna, March 6, 1819. He is a successful farmer and married Miss Margaret Dickerson, daughter of Joshua Dickerson. They had eight children, five sons and three daughters. Joshua Dickerson, maternal grandfather, was a son of Henry Dickerson, a Revolutionary soldier, came from New Jersey, and was an early settler in Washington county. Joshua Dickerson was an active politician in his day, represented Washington county in the Pennsylvania legislature from 1812 to 1817, was afterwards elected for two terms to the State senate from the district composed of Washington and Greene counties; during his second term of service as senator, he accepted the secretaryship of the land office, which position he held from 1821 to 1828. His last public service was rendered as a member of the State Constitutional Conventon of 1837. He was an anti-Jackson democrat and opposed the War of 1812. Dr Joshua D Hazlett was educated in the common schools, under private tutors and at Waynesburg College. He entered the Federal army in 1864, enlisted in One Hundred Fifty Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers, and served till the close of the war. He participated in battles of Chapin's Farm, Poplar Grove Church, Dabney's Sawmill, Boydtown, Plank Road, Gravelly Run and Five Forks, and was on the skirmish line at Appomattox Court House when Lee surrendered the army of northern Virginia. He read medicine with Dr John R Wilson of Washington, Penna, and was graduated from Jefferson Medical College in the class of 1882. In 1873 Dr Hazlett came to Vanderbilt, and entered upon the general practice of medicine. He has built up quite an extensive practice, is a member of the Fayette County Medical Society and the State Medical Association. In 1872 he married Miss Mary E Hunnel, daughter of Jesse Hunnel, a retired merchant of Waynesburg, Penna. They have one child: Jesse Hunnel, born July 20, 1873. Dr Hazlett is a member of the Howell Post, No 410, G A R at Dawson, is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church at Vanderbilt, is a good citizen and popular as a physician. p347 HARVEY HENDERSON was born March 11, 1819, about thirteen miles south of Erie, Venango township, Erie county, Penna. He is of Scotch Irish descent. His education, which was a limited one, was obtained principally in the schools of Dunbar township. He is a republican in his political faith, but he has never sought or held a public office. In religion he is a Methodist. He has been twice married. His first wife, Eliza Harris, was a daughter of Jacob Harris of near Perryopolis, by whom he had twelve children: Rebecca Ann Henderson born February 28, 1842, died May 1O, 1842; Jacob Henderson, born March 14, 1842, died February 12, 1861; David Henderson, born January 16, 1845; Joseph Henderson, born May 30, 1847, died July 12, 1847; Steward Henderson, born May 27, 1848; Syntha Henderson born March 23, 1851, died August 21, 1851; Sarah E Henderson (Long) born November 10, 1852, died June 24, 1874; Isaac Henderson, born August 29, 1855; Thomas S Henderson born March 26, 1857; Samuel Henderson born May 30, 1859, died May 31, 1859; Charles C Henderson, born January 5, 1860, died December 22, 1869; and Lincoln Henderson born January 21, 1864. His first wife died March 12, 1870, aged fifty years. On February 8, 1872, he married his second wife, Mary Amanda Strickler, a daughter of John Strickler of Perryopolis. Harvey Henderson is a farmer, stock dealer and real estate broker which he has followed since he became of age. He has always been successful in his business undertakings, and has bought and sold a great deal of land in this county. When he began life for himself he owned but fifty acres of inferior land which has been willed to him by his father. Some seven or eight years afterward he was married. With strict attention to business and a clear conception of how to make money, he has amassed sufficient wealth to purchase nearly 400 acres of good farming land situated in Franklin and Dunbar townships. He has also purchased for each of his five boys 160 acres of farming land in Knox and Warren counties, Illinois. For one lot he paid $10,000, for another $9,000, and for the other three $8,700 each. Besides this he owns 240 acres in one tract in Know county, Illinois, crossed by the Rockford, Rock Island & St Louis Railroad which cost him $19,325. He also owns forty acres of land in Warren county, Illinois, valued at $4,000. All of this western land is underlaid by a seven foot vein of bituminous coal. Stewart Henderson, the father of Harvey Henderson, was born in County Derry, Ireland, about forty miles from Dublin. He came to this country when about eighteen years old in 1772 with but one shilling in his pocket. He afterwards owned over five hundred acres of land near East Leisenring. He married Miss Ann Hunt, the daughter of Jacob Hunt of Fayette county. they have the following children: Nancy Henderson, Thomas Henderson, Stewart Henderson, Isaac Henderson, Alexander Henderson, Harvey Henderson, David Henderson, Jacob Henderson, Joseph Henderson and Mary Ann Henderson. Of these, Thomas, Nancy, Stewart, Jacob and Joseph are dead. Jacob Hunt, maternal grandfather of Mr Henderson, married Nancy Delaney and they had five children: Isaac Hunt, father of William Hunt, silversmith of Uniontown; Olive Hunt; Elizabeth Hunt; Kate Hunt and Ann Hunt. p549 WILLIAM HARRISON HENSHAW, deceased, was one of Luzerne's prosperous farmers and stock raisers and was born in what is now North Union township, Fayette county, Penna, October 13, 1813. He is a son of William Henshaw and Ann Parker Henshaw: the former a farmer and a son of Nicholas Henshaw, originally of western Virginia and afterwards a farmer of South Union township; the latter was a native of Fayette county. W H Henshaw was raised on a farm and trained to farm work. His school days were passed under the old subscription school system and in the almost primitive school houses of Franklin township. He was a farmer till his death in 1886. In 1843 he married Miss Elizabeth Foster, daughter of John Foster a native of Lancaster county. To their union were born five children: Mary E Henshaw married William Gaddis and died; John M Henshaw married Miss Anna Work, daughter of John Work; Franklin P Henshaw was educated in the common schools, married January 5, 1887, Miss Hattie J Gibbons, daughter of Elisha Gibbons, half brother of the late Joshua V Gibbons, ex county superintendent--Frank P Henshaw has one child, Martha J Henshaw born September 20, 1888; Anna J Henshaw, dead; and James Henry Henshaw. W H Henshaw was a man who gave care and attention to his business and was a very useful and much missed friend, neighbor, and citizen. IN 1881 he moved from North Union to Luzerne township where he purchased a fine farm of 330 acres of land and engaged in farming and stock raising till his death. His sons, John M Henshaw, Franklin P Henshaw, and James H Henshaw, reside upon the farm and are engaged extensively in farming and raising of fine stock. John M Henshaw is located on the old home farm in North Union. p180 WILLIAM HENSHAW, one of South Union township's substantial citizens, is a son of James Smith Henshaw and Ann Gray Henshaw, and was born on the farm taken up by his great grandfather in North Union township, Fayette county, Penna, June 10, 1850. Nicolas Henshaw, great grandfather, who lies buried in the Presbyterian churchyard at Laurel Hill, came from Virginia and patented 255 acres of land in 1789 where some of his descendants now live. He was the father of William Henshaw who married Ann Parker, and one of whose sons, James S Henshaw, is the father of William Henshaw. James S Henshaw was born November 20, 1809. He was a farmer, was a democrat, held various township offices and was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church at Laurel Hill for a number of years. He was first married to Miss Ann Gray, daughter of Jonathan Gray, May 24, 1848. She died October 31,1850. They had two children: Jonathan G Henshaw, deceased and William Henshaw. His second wife was Miss Harriett Chalfant, daughter of George Chalfant; she died in 1866. They had six children, of whom three are now living: Clarissa F Henshaw married to Samuel W Dunn; Elizabeth Henshaw married to Hiram Rankin; and Samuel W Henshaw married to Elizabeth Hankins. In 1860 he married Miss Maria Jane McDougle who still survives him. They had two children, one of whom is now living: Mary Margaret Henshaw, unmarried. He was a successful farmer and a steady earnest man; he died October 20, 1878. William Henshaw received his education in the common schools of North Union township. Leaving school, he engaged in his present business of farming. September 24, 1879, he married Miss Dorcas Hazen, daughter of Moses Hazen and Caroline Smith Hazen. To this union have been born five children: Lulu Belle Henshaw, Carrie Jane Henshaw, James S Henshaw, Thomas H Henshaw, and Robert Walker Henshaw. Mrs Henshaw was born September 13, 1855. William Henshaw is a democrat in politics and a good farmer and citizen. p274 JOHN HERBERTSON of Bridgeport was born in Glasgow, Scotland, September 16, 1805, attended the common schools and listened to the scientific lectures of the famous Ure until he was seventeen years of age. Leaving Scotland he arrived in New York City in July, 1823. He soon went to Marietta, Ohio, engaged in farm work until April, 1824, when he removed to Pittsburgh and learned the trade of steam engine building. In 1829 he located at Brownsville as foreman of John Snowden's engine shop. Mr Snowden took the contract for the erection of the Dunlap's Creek iron bridge which is believed to be the first iron bridge ever built in the world. Mr Herbertson designed the bridge and supervised its construction. From 1837 to 1842 he was engaged in the business of engine building with Thomas Faull. Their works were known as the Fayette Foundry. In 1842 Thomas Faull withdrew and Mr Herbertson continued the business until 1880 when he took his sons, George S Herbertson and William H Herbertson, and tow other parties into partnership under the name J Herbertson & co. In a short time the firm became J Herbertson & Sons, manufacturers of steam engines, and general suppliers for coal mines. In 1830 Mr Herbertson was married to Miss Eliza Nimon, daughter of Petre Nimon and Sarah Potts Nimon of Pittsburgh. Twelve children were born to them, three of whom are living: John P Herbertson, George S Herbertson and William H Herbertson. George S Herbertson was born June 22, 1847, took a course at the Iron City business college and was married in 1874 to Miss Sarah Bar, daughter of Jackson Bar of Fairmont, West Virginia. She was raised by E H Bar, proprietor of the Bar House, and has two children: James Herbertson and Edgar Herbertson. G S Herbertson is a blacksmith by trade, has passed the chairs in the Odd Fellows, in Knights of Pythias, belongs to the Encampment, the Royal Arcanum, and the United States Brotherhood of Firemen. William H Herbertson was born June 24, 1850, attended the common school, took a commercial course in the Iron City business college at Pittsburgh, and learned the trade of a pattern maker. He was a member of the city council and is a past chancellor in the Knights of Pythias. John P Herbertson was born July 1, 1839, and was married to Frances C Marquis, March 9, 1862. He learned the trade of a machinist and is at present a river engineer. John Herbertson has filled orders for steamboat and mill engines from all parts of the United States and Mexico, but has taken no part in the foundry work for the last five years. His sons, who are skilled mechanics, are successfully running the machine shop and foundry and are doing a large business. John Herbertson was eighty four years of age September, 1889, and his excellent wife in years has spanned three fourths of a century. He is a republican, but has never engaged in politics. p181 DAVID M HERTZOG, the present active and efficient district attorney of Fayette county, is a son of John and Margaret Hertzog and was born March 30, 1852. David M Hertzog was reared on a farm and was educated in the common schools of the county, Southwestern Pennsylvania Normal School and Mt Union College, Ohio. At seventeen years of age, he began teaching in the common schools and continued in that line of work for several years: teaching in the winter and attending school during the summer. In 1875 he was registered as a law student at Uniontown. He read law with C E Boyle, and was admitted to the Fayette county bar September 2, 1878. In the same year he entered the law department of Michigan University at Ann Arbor and took a full course. May 1, 1879, he became a partner of Paoli S Morrow at Uniontown, where he has continued most successfully in the practice of law up to the present time. In 1886 he was the democratic candidate for district attorney of Fayette county and was elected, while the majority of the other democratic candidates of that year were defeated. In 1889 he was elected chairman of the constitutional amendment county committee and so ably directed the campaign that Fayette county rolled up an unexpected majority of 3,012 in favor of the prohibatory amendment to the State constitution. David M Hertzog was elected clerk of Great Bethel Regular Baptist church in 1878 and has been superintendent of its Sabbath school since 1880. He is a prominent attorney at the bar, a logical reasoner, an earnest, forcible speaker, and has well managed the many important cases he has been interested in since he began practice in the courts of Fayette county. p276 JOHN HERTZOG, an industrious farmer and reputable citizen, was born in Springhill township, Fayette county, Penna, February 11, 1806, and died July 24, 1870. He is a son of George and Margaret Hertzog. George Hertzog came from Lancaster county when quite young. He learned the trade of gunsmith, at which he worked for several years when he devoted the remaining portion of his life to farming. He was a valued member of the Mt Moriah Baptist church at Smithfield, and lived and died a respected citizen of Springhill. John Hertzog's life until he attained his majority, was spent on a farm and his education received in the subscription schools although necessarily limited yet was practical and good for his day. He learned the trade of a tanner and followed it successfully for several years; relinquishing tanning he turned his attention to farming and was successfully engaged in that pursuit until the time of his death. He was married March 23, 1843, to Miss Margaret Hertzog, a daughter of Jacob Hertzog who came from Lancaster county when only eight years of age. Jacob Hertzog was raised on a farm, received a fair education, and learned and pursued the trade of a blacksmith until his death in 1821. They had five children, three sons and two daughters: Elizabeth Hertzog; George J Hertzog; John A Hertzog; David Morgan Hertzog, attorney at law; and Catherine Hertzog, dead. Mrs Hertzog was born December 4, 1811, and is still living. John Hertzog was a prosperous farmer, and owned two hundred acres of land at the time of his death. He was one of the substantial citizens of Springhill, and for many years an earnest and faithful member of the Mt Morah Baptist church. John A Hertzog was born March 14, 1849, was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools. On his father's death in 1870, he and his brother, George J Hertzog, took charge of the home farm and have increased its acreage until they now own 430 acres of fine farming and grazing land. About one hundred acres of this land is underlaid with a vein of coal. In connection with their farming interests they are now engaged extensively in stock raising. John A Hertzog is a democrat and has been a school director for six years. His amusement during some of his leisure hours consists in hunting and shooting. He is said to be a very fine marksman and an adept in the use of the rifle. p549 CLARK R HESS, son of John Hess and Amanda Offord Hess, was born in Menallen township, Fayette county, Penna, November 23, 1842. His great grandfather, Peter Hess, was of German descent, resided in what is now Fayette county. He died August, 1825, aged sixty eight years and sleeps in Moore's cemetery in Redstone township. His son, George Hess, grandfather of C R Hess, was a farmer of Menallen township; he died in October, 1858, in the sixty eighth year of his age; his remains also repose in Moore's cemetery. John Hess, son of George Hess, was born in Menallen township, February 8, 1812, died in German township, October, 1882, and is buried at New Salem, Menallen township. He began life without means, learning the trade of stone mason with Randolph Dearth, and after serving four years apprenticeship began business for himself with a capital of only $20. He worked energetically at his trade until he had acquired enough money to purchase thirty acres of land in Menallen township. After which he still continued at his trade and was soon enabled to purchase farm after farm, until he became the owner of 750 acres of the best land in German and adjoining townships. At his death, his property was valued at between $75,000 and $100,000. He was a good financier and was universally recognized as strictly honest in all his business relations with men. He married Miss Amanda Offord, daughter of Brooks Offord, a potter of Whitely, Greene county, Penna. His family consisted of four sons and five daughters, all living except two daughters. Clark R Hess was educated in the common schools of German township and was carefully trained to correct habits of business. In 1870 he removed to Luzerne township and purchased a farm of 210 acres. He engaged in farming and stock raising and has been successfully engaged in the same ever since. October 17, 1866, he married Miss Emma Griffin, daughter of W P Griffin an estimable citizen of Nicholson township. They have three children: M Florence Hess, born July 20, 1869, an accomplished young lady, and especially talented in music; Estella G Hess and Nellie G Hess, twins, born January 31, 1875. C R Hess is a member of the Disciple church at Oak Grove, Springhill township; his wife and eldest daughter are also members of the same church. He is comfortably situated, owns a fine farm and keeps it well improved and raises some fine stock. He is a successful farmer, a careful businessman and a well respected citizen of his township. p347 GEORGE W HESS was born April 22, 1836, in German township near the town of New Salem. He is a great grandson of Peter and Susanna Hess who were among the first settlers west of the Allegheny Mountains having come from Lancaster county, Penna. His grandfather, George Hess, was born in Fayette county, Penna, in 1790. In 1811 he married Mary Fuller, daughter of Daniel Fuller. He died October 21, 1858, leaving six children, of whom John Hess was the oldest. John Hess, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born February 6, 1812, in Menallen township, Fayette county, Penna. In 1834 he married Amanda Offord, daughter of Brooks Offord of Greene county, Penna. He was an extensive farmer and by his industry and business tact, he became one of the wealthiest farmers in the county. He died October 17, 1882, leaving a wife and nine children: George W Hess; Mary A Hess; Eliza J Hess; Clark R Hess; Sarah E Hess; Elvira Hess; John F Hess; Evans W Hess and Amanda L Hess. George W Hess, January 6, 1857, married Mary L Grove, oldest daughter of Harvey and Elizabeth Grove of German township. He located on a farm in Menallen township near the town of New Salem where he has since resided. While attending to his farm, he has engaged in dealing in cattle, sheep and wool, and has been successful in all his undertakings. His excellent business qualities, temperate habits and moral principles have recommended him to the confidence of his neighbors, an din consequence he has been in constant demand as executor, administrator, assignee, guardian and all the offices and positions where good management and trustworthiness are essentials. Frequently he has been chosen as arbitrator in settling disputes, and almost universally has met with success in such cases, as he has been in favor of the amicable settlement of disputes of neighbors. Having been so successful in the management of his own affairs, he was made a director of the First National Bank of Uniontown in 1888 which position he yet holds. In politics he has ever been a staunch republican from principle, being elected auditor of the county in 1874. Owing to his success in business he has amassed considerable wealth, owning valuable real and personal property in Menallen and German townships and Uniontown. He has two children: Laura Hess who on September 17, 1885, married Monroe Hopwood, Esq, a prominent young lawyer of Uniontown; and John E Hess, who obtained a good common school education and remains at home with his parents. He has been trained in business principles and is following in the footsteps of his father. He takes an active part in literary and school work and for some years has held the office of school director. Having been raised a republican, he is one of the active workers of his party. The Hess family is of German origin but for two centuries have been Americans. It is a family that possesses many sterling qualities of character and is one of the substantial and influential families of Fayette county. p503 TIMOTHY HESS, a prominent republican and well situated farmer of Redstone township, was born on a farm in Menallen township, Fayette county, Penna, February 6, 1840, and is a son of John Hess and Eliza Dutson Hess. His grandfather, Martin Hess, resided in Redstone township on property now owned by Richard Randolph and married a Miss Wallace. His father, John Hess, was born on a farm now owned by Lewis Hess, in about 1812. He was married to Eliza Dutson of Washington county who was born in 1819. They had ten children of whom Timothy Hess was the second. Timothy Hess received his education in the common schools of Menallen township, and turned his attention to farming until twenty five years of age, when he went to Oil City, Venango county, Penna, and there engaged as an "oil driller." He remained two years when he returned to Redstone, and has since been successfully engaged in farming and stock dealing. On November 30, 1865, he was married by Rev W W Hickman to Miss Mary E Crumrine, born April 26, 1847, and a daughter of Solomon Crumrine and Hannah Colley Crumrine, the former was born July 18, 1824, in Greene county, Penna, served one term as commissioner of the National Road; the latter was born October 14, 1823, on the Colley homestead four miles east of Brownsville and died there February 13, 1871. Timothy Hess is unswerving in his allegiance to the republican party and its fundamental principles, and is recognized as a prominent and leading member of his party. He and wife are members of the Disciple church. He owns thirty one acres of the Colley farm, which is productive and underlaid with limestone and coal of the best quality. He has been very successful in stock dealing as well as in farming.