Bios: Hi-Hy 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 Hibbs, Lacy Menallen 350 Higginbotham, George Redstone 504 Higinbotham, John Brnv & Bdgpt 274 listed, but no biography in book. Higinbotham, R W Springhill 276 Hill, Dr R M Dunbar 440 Hiller, W W Luzerne 550 Hixon, Amos Tyrone 348 Hogg, F T Brnv & Bdgpt 278 Hogg, G E Brnv & Bdgpt 278 Hogue, S F Uniontown 243 Holbert, J F, Dr Georges 504 Holland, Ellis Uniontown 181 Hood, W S Connellsville 441 Hope, Martin Springhill 279 Hopwood, R F Uniontown 182 Hopwood, W H, Dr Menallen 349 Hostetler, D F German 505 Howell, Alfred Miscellaneous 578 Hubbs, J A, Dr Brnv & Bdgpt 279 Hugg, Antony Washington 351 Humbertstone, J H Henry Clay 551 Hunt, William Uniontown 183 Hunter, Henry Springhill 280 Huntley, Levi Uniontown 183 Hurley, Micheal Connellsville 442 Hutchinson, George B Uniontown 185 Hutchinson, J C Nicholson 506 Hutchinson, Joseph Menallen 352 Hyndman, Edward K Miscellaneous 596 p350 LACY HIBBS was born November 7, 1826, in Redstone township, Fayette county, Penna, on the old Hibbs farm where he was raised and attended schools of the township. Educational advantages were quite limited in those days, and the course of study was even more so. The first business he followed was that of farming in North Union township, and has continued at that business all of his life and now owns one hundred and twenty six acres of land near Searights in Menallen township. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of New Salem, and his wife and family are also members of the same church. He is an exemplary man and a good citizen, and is firm in the democratic faith. He was elected poorhouse director in 1868. His first wife was Mary Margaret Poundstone, a daughter of Philip Poundstone of German township. They had two children: Eunice Violet Hibbs, born in 1852 and living with her father; and John Newton Hibbs, born June 9, 1859, married Lizzie Ball and has one child, Earnest Hibbs. His second wife was Mrs Harriet A Kerr; they were married March 8, 1866. They have one child: Olive Hibbs, born May 28, 1869, who is a teacher. Mrs Hibbs was the daughter of Samuel Cochran, born in Fayette county in 1788, and Elizabeth Porter Cochran, his wife, a daughter of John Porter who lived near Dunlap's creek. Her maternal grandmother was Margaret Baird. Lacy Hibbs is the son of John Hibbs and Jane Finley Hibbs, who were married April 12, 1821. John Hibbs was born January 1, 1791, and died January 14, 1881. Jane Finley Hibbs was born June 7, 1802 (for her family see Ebenezer Finley). Lacy Hibbs, grandfather of the subject of sketch, was born in 1768 in Cumberland county, Penna, afterwards Bedford county, then Westmoreland county, and now Greene county. He married Sara Craft, a member of the Fayette county Crafts. p504 GEORGE HIGGINBOTHAM of Redstone is an earnest republican and a thorough-going farmer. He is the fourth of a family of six children, was born at Masontown, Fayette county, Penna, October 31, 1846, and is a son of James C Higginbotham. George Higginbotham was educated in the common and select school. Leaving school, he engaged in his present business of farming and stock raising. On May 15, 1869, he was married by Rev W W Hickman to Miss Emma Colvin, daughter of William Colvin of Redstone township. They have seven children living, born and named as follows: Minnie M Higginbotham, May 27, 1870; William J Higginbotham, April 29, 1872; Ella Higginbotham, September 13, 1873; Samuel F Higginbotham, April 11, 1875; Mary Higginbotham, September 29, 2876; Walter Higginbotham, July 5, 1878; and Robert G Higginbotham, August 29, 1880. Mrs Higginbotham's father is descended from William Colvin, a pioneer settler and ancestor of one of the old and well-known families of Fayette county. He was in Redstone township in 1766, but did not permanently locate until 1768. Politically he is an ardent republican, and is a conspicuous worker in his party. He owns ninety five acres of good farming land, underlaid with rich veins of coal and limestone, and well-watered. Mr Higginbotham is mainly engaged in farming, yet gives considerable of his attention to whatever is useful or advantageous to his section of country. p276 R W Higinbotham was born August 27, 1849, at Point Marion, Fayette county, Penna, and is of English and Dutch descent. He is the son of Thomas H Higinbotham and Malinda Maple Higinbotham. Thomas H Higinbotham was born in Carmicheals, Greene county, Penna, December 7, 1824, was the son of a merchant and brought up in a store. He attended the subscription schools of the his county and acquired a good education in the lower branches of study. During vacations he clerked in his father's store. At the age of sixteen he engaged as a salesman in the mercantile establishment of Robert Maple where he remained for nine years on a salary of ten dollars per month and saved five hundred dollars of his earnings. In 1848 he married Miss Malinda Maple, a native of Greene county and the daughter of Robert Maple of Mapletown, Greene county, Penna. He at once came to Point Marion, Fayette county, and opened a store the first one of the place. He remained there until 1850 when he purchased a store at Ross Cross Roads in Dunkard township, Greene county, where he remained until 1857 when he sold the store. He then purchased a farm of 120 acres of land in Redstone township, Fayette county, on which he is at present located. At various times he has added to this farm and now has a farm of over six hundred acres. It is valuable land, underlaid with coal and is well improved, having four good dwelling houses upon it, in which live himself, two sons and one married daughter. He is still hale and active at the age of sixty five years and cultivates ninety acres of the farm himself. Malinda Maple, his mother, was born December 14, 1822, at Mapletown, Greene county, Penna, and is the mother of four sons and three daughters, all living except one son and one daughter. She is still living at the age of sixty seven. Samuel Higinbotham, the paternal grandfather of R W, was born near Uniontown, Fayette county, March 2, 1789. He was a blacksmith by trade and followed that business till his health failed him. He then went into the mercantile business at Carmicheals. He married Esther Cowden, August 8, 1810. He is an earnest Christian and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was tall and straight, and had a peculiar movement in walking, by which he was always readily recognized. He was successful in life and died March 19, 1861, at the age of seventy two years. Robert Maple, the grandfather of R W, was born in New Jersey, August 1, 1780, and came to Pennsylvania in 1801. He married Jane Hall, daughter of William Hall, December 25, 1802. He traded cloth for land, giving one yard of cloth for one acre of ground until he had a farm of three hundred acres. He was a natural mechanic and followed the business of a wheelwright, a sicklesmith, and afterwards was a cooper. He manufactured linseed oil and built a grist mill and a carding machine. It was upon his farm that the Dunkard Creek oil excitement of 1863-1864 had its start. A town was built up in six months time containing five hotels. He sold one eighth interest in one well for $10,000 and at one time was offered $250,000 for his farm. He accumulated a large fortune and died at the advanced age of ninety two years. Robert W Higinbotham was brought up on a farm with his father, and had a great predilection for horses. He went to school but little before he was seventeen years old after which time he attended constantly till he was twenty one. Leaving the common schools he went to Waynesburg College for one term and two terms to a select school. He then engaged in farming with his father. October 28th, 1875, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Morgan, daughter of David and Caroline Morgan of Springhill township. Three children were born to them: Malinda A Higinbotham; Carolina Higinbotham; and David Morgan Higinbotham, all living. He immediately moved upon his father's farm and lived there till April 1st, 1880. In January, 1880, the poor house directors selected him as the steward of the County Home of which he took charge on April 1st, 1880, and remained in that position until 1885 declining the appointment for another term. While in charge of the Home he reduced the annual expense of the place from $33,000 to $16,000. In 1883 he purchased the somewhat noted Tom Morris farm near Morris Cross Roads; April 1st, 1885, he removed and is now residing there. Mr Higinbotham was born and reared a republican and remained with that party till Horace Greely was nominated for president by the democrats in 1872. Being a great admirer of Mr Greely he voted for him, and continued to vote the democratic ticket till 1888. He was an advocate for a high protective tariff and voted for Harrison, and is again on the side of the Republican party. p440 Dr ROBERT M HILL, a soldier, useful citizen and a successful physician, is a son of David and Elizabeth Hill, and was born near "Little Washington," Washington county, Penna, November 14, 1842. His grandfather Hill came from Scotland and settled in Washington county. One of his sons, Alexander Hill, was an extensive South American traveler, who finally settled in Iowa, where he became very wealthy. His father, David Hill, was born in Washington county in 1800. He learned the trade of saddler but employed the most of his time in wagoning; he was a "Pike boy" when that grand old thoroughfare of a nation was in the meridian of its glory. He was killed in 1854 by a horse falling on him. He married Miss Elizabeth McComb. One of their daughters, Isabella Hill, married J D Melhorn, D D, of Pittsburg, an able minister of the Evangelical Lutheran church. Mrs Hill's father, Robert McComb, was of Scotch Irish extraction, and a native of Cross Creek, Washington county. He was a Presbyterian and removed to Iowa. Dr R M Hill attended the common schools; studied at Hogue's and Georges Creek academies, and after the close of the Civil War completed his education at Conequessing and Millsboro academies. He taught twice in the common school before entering the army, and several terms after the war. On August 1, 1862, he entered the Union service, enlisting in Company C of the One Hundred and Thirty Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Matthew Stanley Quay, now U S Senator from Pennsylvania. He participated in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Sheppardstown and Fredericksburg; was slightly wounded in the right side and left arm at Chancellorsville. In 1866 he began the study of medicine under the tutelage of Dr C D Chalfant. After the latter's removal to Illinois in 1868, he completed his reading with Dr S Chalfant. In 1869-70 he attended lectures at the Western Reserve Medical College, and in 1875 took a special course at Jefferson Medical College. On February 15, 1870, he located at Farmington, Wharton township, where he practice his profession successfully for twelve years. In 1882 he removed to Layton, and from thence to Vanderbilt in 1886, where he is now successfully engaged in the practice. Dr Hill has been twice married; his first wife was Miss Eliza Jane Rush, daughter of Sebastian Rush, deceased, a prominent business man of the county in his time. To this union were born three children: Robert W L Hill, Flora Adella Hill, deceased; and Lidie Gertrude Hill. Mrs Hill died October 8, 1877. For his second wife he married, June 17, 1880, Miss Lilly Strawn, a well-educated and highly accomplished daughter of Joel Strawn of Perry township. Unto this union have been born two children: Annie Hill, dead, and Jesse Cleveland Hill. Dr Hill has always been an active democrat. He is a skilled parliamentarian, and has been called to preside at democratic conventions. In 1876 he was elected to the legislature by a large majority; ran ahead of the ticket and served very creditably in the legislative sessions of 1877 and 1878. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, K of M C, and is Crown Head of Yougho Castlemetic Sporting Club of Vanderbilt. He is genial, courteous and gentlemanly, is public-spirited and a careful and skilled physician. p550 WILLIAM W HILLER, a highly progressive farmer and stock raiser of Luzerne township was born in Greene county, Penna, March 28, 1822, and is a son of John Hiller and Catherine Hughes Hiller. His grandfather, William Hiller, was born in New Jersey, and emigrated to Greene county, where he engaged in farming until his death. His father John Hiller was born in about 1790. He was an extensive farmer and also engaged in the mercantile business in various parts of Greene county, and for a while conducted a hotel at Jefferson. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, served several terms as justice of the peace, and was a whig in politics. He married Miss Catherine Hughes and reared a family of ten children. Of these, Margaret Hiller married Sheriff W R Mulligan of Illinois; Thomas Hiller, a merchant in Kansas; and John T Hiller (dead), a soldier in the late war. Mrs Hiller was a daughter of Thomas Hughes, an old settler and for many years a justice of the peace. William W Hiller attended the old subscription schools; on leaving school he engaged with his father as a clerk and later became a pilot on the Monongahela river for four years when he came to Luzerne township, where in 1844 he engaged in farming and raising fine sheep, and later engaged in raising fine stock of all kind. During the past few years he has devoted his attention exclusively to raising fine and blooded horses. He owns two fine farms, aggregating about 350 acres of choice land. He was married to Miss Mary, daughter of Henry Luce of Greene county, Penna, and has three children: Elizabeth Hiller, wife of John M Garrard, now in the oil business at Mt Morris, Greene county, Penna; Artimace Hiller, wife of W B Conwell, and Mary Alice Hiller. W W Hiller is a republican and has served several terms as assessor and also as school director. He is an elder in the C P Church at Hopewell. He is a stockholder in the Natural Gas Company at Brownsville, and is one of the substantial and advanced farmers of the county. p348 AMOS HIXON, a farmer of Lower Tyrone township, Fayette county, Penna, is the son of Moses Hixon and Bridget Dogan Hixon. Moses Hixon, the father of Amos Hixon, was a native of East Huntingdon township, Westmoreland county, Penna, where he lived all of his life of a farm and died in 1877, aged eighty six years. He was married in that township to Miss Bridget Dogan, born and raised in the same township and died. Joseph Hixon, grandfather of Amos, was also a native of East Huntington township, Westmoreland county, Penna, where he lived and died a farmer. Amos Hixon was born in East Huntington township, Westmoreland county, Pena, June 27, 1835, brought up on a farm and attended the common schools of the township. On September 1, 1859, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Freed, daughter of Peter Freed. The latter born in Bullskin township and lived many years in Lower Tyrone township on the farm at present owned and occupied by his son-in-law. He died in 1861 at fifty years of age. From this marriage were born twelve children: Annie E Hixon; Mary B Hixon; Clark F Hixon; Joseph F Hixon; Albert S Hixon; Flora Hixon; Katie Hixon; Freed Hixon; Willie Hixon; May Hixon; Odie Hixon; and Lizzie Hixon. Annie E Hixon is married to H R Ober and living in Tryone township; Mary B Hixon is married to James L Strickler and lives in Dawson borough; the rest are all unmarried. The twelve children now are all living except Albert S Hixon who died January 30, 1889. In 1862 Mr Hixon removed to Fayette county and located upon the farm where he now resides; it contains 125 acres of moderate land well improved. His wife was born on this farm in 1837. Amos Hixon is a democrat, has served several times as school director in his township, and as auditor, tax collector, supervisor, assessor and on the election board. p278 FRANK T HOGG is a native of Brownsville, Fayette county, Penna, and was born May 19, 1862. He was reared at Brownsville, and attended the public schools. He finished his classic education at LaFayette College where he graduated in 1884 and took a subsequent course at the same college in mining and engineering. Leaving college he formed a partnership with C L Snowden of Brownsville under the firm name of Snowden & Hogg and engaged in the coal mining business; they ship their coal to the lower river market, Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis and New Orleans. They still continue in this business and ship about two and one half millions of bushels of coal each year. They employ one hundred and fifty men at their works. Their mine is located one mile down the river from Brownsville just below the mouth of Redstone Creek on the site of the old Albany Glassworks and is called the Albany Mines. This firm owns the working parts of the mine, the ground and coal belong to Mr George E Hogg, the father of the subject of this sketch. This firm also operates at times coke ovens in connection with their other business. Their coke is pronounced by the Edgar Thompson steel works to be equal in quality to any other that they have ever used. Their slack and dust have preference in the Pittsburgh market. He received the nomination for county surveyor in June, 1889. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church and is also a member of the vestry. He was married in 1887 to Miss Alice Bosler of Dayton, Ohio. They have one child: Sarah Elizabeth Hogg. Frank T Hogg is the son of George E Hogg. His wife is the granddaughter of William Chatland. p278 GEORGE E HOGG was born in Fayette county, Penna, September 7, 1815, and is the son of George Hogg and Mary Breading Hogg, born respectively in Northumberland county, England and in Fayette county, Penna. They were married in 1812 and raised a family of six children. Mrs Hogg died in September, 1855, at the residence of her son, the subject of this sketch. John Hogg, the grandfather of George E Hogg, was born in Northumberland county, England and came to the United States in about 1800 and settled in Licking county, Ohio, where he died about the year 1835. His wife was also a native of Northumberland county, England, and died in Licking county, Ohio, in 1836. George Hogg, the father of George E Hogg, settled at Brownsville, Fayette county, Penna, in about 1804 and engaged in a general merchandise business which he continued until 1843 when he removed to Allegheny City and lived there in retirement until his death in 1849. He was for many years one of the leading directors of the Monongahela Bank of Brownsville, and was warden of Christ Episcopal Church. He was a very successful businessman and a most useful and highly respected citizen. George E Hogg was educated and graduated at Kenyon College, Ohio, September 6, 1836. He returned to Fayette county, Penna, where he engaged in farming which he has carried on extensively ever since. He has also been concerned in a general mercantile business at various times for over forty years. He was elected president of the Monongahela National Bank of Brownsville in March, 1874, which position he continued to hold for about fourteen years when he resigned and was re-elected but declined to accept on account of his private business requiring his whole attention and time. He is one of the most successful and public spirited citizens that has ever lived in Brownsville. He was married March 28, 1843, to Miss Sarah A McClung of Brownsville and has raised seven children: George Hogg, Mary Hogg, Sarah Hogg, Elizabeth Hogg, Nathaniel Hogg, Frank Hogg and Caroline Hogg. He is still a very active man for one of his years. p243 Prof SOLOMON F HOGUE, one of Pennsylvania's leading educators, is a son of Solomon Hogue and Rachell Huss Hogue, and was born at "Hogue's Mills" near Waynesburg, Greene county, Penna, April 1, 1848. His grandfather, Solomon Hogue, was a consistent member of the Society of Friends. He was born at Winchester, Virginia, and came to the vicinity of Waynesburg in an early day. He was a farmer by occupation and a democrat in politics. His father, Solomon Hogue Jr, was born in 1803 and died in 1877. He learned the wagon-making trade at Winchester, Virginia, and engaged in that business for some time at Waynesburg. He next erected the first steam grist mill in Greene county (now Lippincott's distillery), engaged extensively in manufacturing and exporting flour to Philadelphia and other important markets. With two others he built a steamboat to carry his flour to market on the "Western waters." His partners ran away with the boat and sold it. He married Miss Rachel Huss, daughter of John Huss, a distiller, miller, democrat and member of the Baptist church. John Huss married Miss Elizabeth Eaton, a distant relative of General R E Lee. Mr and Mrs Hogue had eight children: John H Hogue, merchant at Waynesburg; Jacob Hogue, farmer; Asa B Hogue, merchant at Waynesburg; William H R Hogue, farmer; Martha Hogue, dead, was the wife of William Ingraham, uncle of Judge Ingraham; Mary Hogue, wife of Benjamin Ruehart, a wealthy farmer; Elizabeth Hogue, wife of J K Scott of Crow's Mills; and Professor S F Hogue. Professor S F Hogue was educated in the common schools, Waynesburg College, and Edinboro Normal School, where he graduated in the class of 1872. He afterwards spent three years at Cornell University. He is also a graduate of Waynesburg College and the University of New York. He began teaching at the age of nineteen years, taught when not attending school in common and private schools until 1878, when he was elected superintendent of common schools of Greene county, Penna. "During his administration as county superintendent, his county was one of the best managed in this part of the State, and his work was quoted as a specimen of what a faithful superintendent could do." Dr Geo P Hays Ex-President of W & J College In 1881 upon solicitation, Professor Hogue became principal of the Tidioute Union and Normal School and there he built up the first industrial school in the State outside of the cities. In June, 1885, he resigned and became professor of Latin and higher mathematics at Edinboro Normal School, remained until February, 1886, when he accepted the presidency of Defiance Normal College, Ohio. In May, 1887, he became principal of the training department of California Normal School. In July, 1888, he came to Uniontown and organized Redstone Academy, a select private school for young men and young ladies, and for boys and girls, in a suite of rooms in the First National Bank building; but owing to the growth and prospects of the school, larger and more suitable rooms have been secured for it in the new Commercial block, centrally located at the corner of Church and Morgantown streets. The following is a just tribute to Professor Hogue: "Professor S F Hogue is a most efficient instructor and educator." Dr J W Scott Dr J W Scott is President Harrison's father-in-law. In 1875 Professor Hogue was married to Miss Etta Bell, a teacher in the high school of New Castle and a native of Grove City. She died, and he was remarried in 1880 to Miss Emma Downey, teacher of French in Waynesburg College. She died in 1881, and in 1886 he was married to Miss Lydia Lee Evans of Tidioute. They have one child: Frank W Hogue. Mrs Hogue is a graduate of Chamberlain Institute, New York, Edinboro Normal School, and of the first class of the Chautauqua L S C. Mrs Hogue is now a preceptress and teacher of French, English language, literature and gymnastics in Redstone Academy. Professor and Mrs Hogue (Hoge) are members of the Presbyterian church. He is a democrat in politics, is an efficient, active school worker, successful teacher, thorough scholar, and a polished gentleman. p504 Dr JAMES FRANCIS HOLBERT, a prominent physician and surgeon of Fairchance, is a son of Joseph A Holbert and Margaret P Stone Holbert, and was born at Uniontown, Fayette county, Penna, November 28, 1850. His grandfather, Joseph Holbert, was a native of Scotland, emigrated to New York City and subsequently removed to Westmoreland county where he died. He was a farmer, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, served as an officer in the War of 1812, and was a very conscientious, upright man. His father, Joseph A Holbert, was born in Westmoreland county, Penna, in 1820. He learned the trade of tailor in Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland county, and in 1845 came to Uniontown where he worked with John Carpenter, an extensive merchant and tailor. Joseph A Holbert was a whig, a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and industrious and estimable man, a charter member of Fort Necessity Lodge, I O O F, died in November, 1850, and sleeps in the old Baptist cemetery at Uniontown. He was married to Miss Margaret Priscilla Stone, a daughter of Squire Aaron Stone and Priscilla Black Stone. Squire Stone was a large landholder, justice of the peace, a prominent citizen of Greene county, Penna, afterwards removed to Uniontown where he kept the Eagle and Fulton House, and died at Smithfield. His wife was of English descent, and was a sister of Hon Charles A Black. Joseph A Holbert and Margaret Stone Holbert had two children: Aaron C Holbert, born in 1847; and Dr J F Holbert. Aaron C Holbert was engaged in teaching in Pennsylvania and the West, removed to Somerset county, Penna, married Miss Nettie Cummings, has one child: Francis Aaron Holbert, and is a promising attorney at the Somerset county bar. Mrs Margaret P Stone Holbert was a woman of estimable character, a consistent member of the Baptist church, and died at Smithfield in 1869. Dr J F Holbert was reared at Smithfield, educated in Georges Creek Academy, received a State permanent certificate and taught twelve years in the common schools. He read medicine under Dr B F Brownfield of Smithfield in 1782, and afterwards with Dr John A Stone, uncle, of Greensboro, Penna. He attended lectures at the University of New York City, and graduated with honors from that celebrated institution in 1878. He made an average of ninety nine percent in his studies and won two prizes for high class standing. In 1879 he located at Ruble's Mills near Smithfield and began practice, but in one year came to his present location, Fairchance, and engaged successfully in the practice of medicine. On April 4, 1879, he was married to Miss Sallie J Ruble, who was educated in Georges Creek Academy and California Normal School, taught school several years and is skilled in painting and fine art needlework. Dr Holbert has been for several years physician in charge of Redstone Coke Company's and Bliss Marshall's Coke Works, is a prominent Odd Fellow, belongs to Pine Knob Lodge No 559, is a Knight Templar in Masonry, a member of the Uniontown Commandery No 49. He is also a member of K of P, P O of Sons of America, and the Royal Arcanum. He is a democrat, has served repeatedly as school director, is president of the school board of Fairchance borough, and is the democratic nominee for coroner of Fayette county. Dr Holbert has been a member for twenty years of Mr Moriah Baptist church, and is thoroughgoing, energetic and successful in whatever he undertakes. p181 ELLIS HOLLAND was born on the old Holland farm in North Union township, Fayette county, Penna, July 29, 1827, and on the same farm his father, James Holland, was also born in 1792. James Holland was married to Mary Ann Ellis, daughter of M P Ellis who came to Fayette county from Maryland in early manhood. To their marriage seven daughters and one son, Ellis Holland, were born. James Holland has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church since he was thirteen years of age. He was a member of the old whig party until it was supplanted by the republican party in 1857 when he became a republican. Holland was a native of Maryland and came to Fayette county in an early day, and bought the farm on which all of his children were born. Subsequently he sold the farm for thirteen dollars per acre. Ellis Holland was married to Rachel Hogsett, daughter of James Hogsett, and sister of Robert Hogsett of Fayette county. She was born in Menallen township, April 17, 1831, and was married January 27, 1853. Seven children were born to this union: James W Holland, born April 20, 1854; Elisabeth Ann Holland, January 30, 1856; Frank M Holland, March 6, 1864; Charles S Holland, August 14, 1866; Robert H Holland, January 30, 1868; and John H Holland, October 31, 1870. Ellis Holland was reared on a farm in North Union township and learned the trade of cooper, but soon abandoned his trade and began farming. He is a staunch republican and in 1874 was appointed postmaster at Mt Braddock by President Grant and still holds the office. p441 WINFIELD S HOOD, one of the successful and leading hardware and grocery merchants of Connellsville, was born at Connellsville, Fayette county, Penna, September 22, 1841. His father, David Hood, of Scotch origin and was a native of Franklin county, Penna. In 1785 he was married to Mary Shelto, whose father was born in Ireland. Daniel Hood was a soldier in the War of 1812, was wounded in battle, returned home, but soon re-enlisted in the same war. He removed to Fayette county in about 1833 where he lived till his death in 1861. His wife died November 14, 1886, in the ninety first year of her age. W S Hood was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion as were also three of his brothers: David Hood, now deceased, a member of the One Hundred Second Pennsylvania Volunteers, company H; Walter S Hood was in an Indiana regiment of infantry; and Albert W Hood served in the Pennsylvania Cavalry. Alexander Hood, an older brother, was in the Mexican army, and remained out during the entire war; he died just after the City of Mexico was taken, of yellow fever. He was a member of Captain Quail's company of Connellsville. W S Hood joined the One Hundred and Forty Second, Company H, as a private soldier and was in active service for three years. In the battle of the wilderness he was twice wounded: received a ball in the right knee joint, and a finger of his left hand was shot off. At the close of the war he returned home, and in 1874 was married to Miss Mary C Hensel of Martinsville, West Virginia. They have two children: J Frederick Hood and Anna Eliza Hood, aged seven and five years, respectively. Soon after the close of the war, Mr Hood engaged in the mercantile business at Connellsville with J D Frisbee as partner and continued with him until 1881. In 1881 he and Mr Frisbee dissolved when he engaged in his present business. The style of the first is W S Hood & Co. Mr Hood is a member of the board of trustees of the Presbyterian church at Connellsville, and is one of the representative business men of the county. p279 MARTIN HOPE was born August 8, 1839, at Brush Creek, Beaver county, Penna, and is of German descent. He was brought up on a farm near Pittsburgh. Although his advantages for procuring an education were limited, yet he acquired sufficient education to transact all ordinary business. He lived on the farm until he was twenty one years old, when he enlisted in the Army under Captain C T Ewing, of Company G, First Virginia Light Artillery, at the first call for troops in 1861. He served in the company under Captain Ewing for three years, and fought in all of the engagements under McClellan and Rosecrans in Virginia in the early part of the war, and afterward in the Shenandoah Valley under Freemont and Pope. He was in the famous raid of General W W Averill, in which his company was within the Rebel lines almost a month. In getting out of their lines he had to cross a river seven times, and was badly frozen. In this raid he was eight days without provisions, and traveled two hundred miles in the midst of winter without pants or shoes. When he reached the Union lines, he was sent into the hospital at Grafton, where he remained till he fully recovered. He and seven others of his company were taken prisoners by enemy. He broke through the enemy's lines, and was chased by them one mile across Jackson river, but fortunately he ran into a regiment of Union soldiers, and successfully made his escape. At the expiration of his term of enlistment he re-enlisted in 1864, in the Eighty eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers under Lieutenant Robert Heron. During this year he did but little fighting, but a great deal of hard marching. He was present at the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox Court House. After four years active service for his country, Mr Hope was mustered out at the close of the war (1865) at Philadelphia. He returned to Greene county November 19, 1867, and was married to Miss Leah Keener, a daughter of David Keener of Greene county. They are the parents of three children: Lora H Hope, David M Hope, and Leah M Hope, all living and at home. His wife died August 30, 1874, and his oldest daughter is keeping house for him. In 1869 he removed to Fayette county and bought a farm of 112 acres of land, where he has since resided. His parents were Casper Hope and Elizabeth Schaffer Hope, both natives of Pennsylvania. His father was a musician in the garrison at Pittsburgh for several years. He died with cholera at New Orleans while on a southern tour with a troupe. They had five sons, only two of whom are living. p182 ROBERT F HOPWOOD, one of the leading lawyers of the Uniontown bar for some years past, was born at Uniontown, Fayette county, Penna, July 24, 1856, and where he grew to manhood. He attended the public schools till at the age of twelve years, and from twelve to the age of eighteen he was a clerk in the different stores of the place. Leaving school, he attended night schools, and there took limited courses of Latin and higher mathematics. He has continued his studies till the present time, and is now possessed of one of the best libraries in the town, a glance at which shows his special fondness for historical and poetical works. He can, at a moment's notice, turn to the page and paragraph in any of his books that has specially impressed him, and can quote copiously from them. At the age of twenty he commenced the study of law with Charles E Boyle, and was admitted to the Uniontown bar July 25, 1879. He immediately began the practice, has since continued, and now has a very large and lucrative practice. He was elected attorney for Uniontown in April, 1882, and has held the office ever since his first election. In 1886 he was the republican candidate for District Attorney, and was only defeated forty five votes out of a total of 12,000. He was the chairman of the republican county committee in 1883 and 1884, and for several years was secretary of the same committee. He has been secretary of the Fayette County Agricultural Association since 1881, and treasurer of the same association for several years past. (IT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING IS MISSING HERE) The company was organized in 1879. In having the glass and steel works located at Uniontown, he was instrumental in soliciting the money to buy the ground upon which to locate the plants. He was also largely instrumental in establishing the natural gas works at Uniontown, and sold four-fifths of the stock for the company. He has been the attorney for the Knights of Labor, of the Amalgamated Association for three years, and was their attorney in the Jimtown riot case. He has been engaged in a large number of criminal cases of more or less importance during the last few years. On the 27th of May, 1889, he was nominated by his party, the republicans, for district attorney. He was married in June, 1880, to Miss Emma S Miller, daughter of Mr W H H Miller. They have five children: Samuel C Hopwood, Ruth Hopwood, Frank P Hopwood, Edith M Hopwood, and Elizabeth Hopwood. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is superintendent of the sabbath school. At the time he became superintendent the attendance was about 150, and now the average attendance is about 300 children. Robert F Hopwood is the son of Rice G Hopwood and Ruth Jackson Hopwood. His father was a lawyer, and he died August 17, 1880, at the age of seventy one years. His mother is still living. His two brother, David J Hopwood, and Frank P Hopwood, reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected with the wholesale dry goods house of Wyman, Mullen and Co, the largest house of the kind west of Chicago. R F Hopwood is of the fifth generation of the Hopwood family in Fayette county. His great great grandfather John Hopwood came from Lancashire, England, to Fayette county in 1761, located on a large tract of land and laid out the town of Hopwood. On the mother's side of the family, Mr Hopwood is of English and Scotch Irish extraction. The Jacksons have been in the county as long as the Hopwoods. p349 WILLIAM H HOPWOOD MD, a son of William Hopwood and Eleanor Hudson Hopwood, was born in the town of Monroe, Fayette county, Penna, October 10, 1850. Few are the families who can trace their lineal history so far back as the Hopwoods. In 1066 when William the Conqueror invaded England and won the kingdom at the Battle of Hastings, the De Hopwoods were with him. The manor of Middleton was held by the De Hopwoods at an early date after the conquest. In the northern portion of the churchyard of the manor of Middleton is a monument erected to the Hopwood family. It is so old that the inscriptions are somewhat indistinct. Robert de Hopwood was rector of the church of Middleton from 1421 to 1457. The Hopwood chapel is enclosed with rails of the period of the Restoration and contains the Kiscina and a mural monument to Robert Gregg Hopwood of Hopwood Hall. It was built by John Hopwood in the reign of Henry VIII soon after 1500. About this time the Norman Frence prefix de was elided from the name. About 1700 Moses Hopwood, the great, great grandfather of W H Hopwood MD, came to America from England and settled in Virginia. He was then a young man and soon after coming he married a most estimable Virginia lady. Of this union were born fourteen children, eleven being sons. The father had received superior training in England and was remarkably religious, and a member of the Church of England. He was the head of the family in America. His son, John Hopwood, was born in 1745, and was the great grandfather of William H Hopwood MD. He married into the family of Governor Humphreys of Virginia, and six children were born, five daughters and one son. He removed from Stafford county, Virginia, to Pennsylvania soon after the close of the War of 1776. Before moving he liberated his slaves but some of them followed him to his new home. His son Moses Hopwood was educated at old Canonsburg College, Pennsylvania, and in 1795 was married to Hannah, daughter of Colonel Thomas Gaddis, so prominent in the early history of Western Pennsylvania. John Hopwood, like Colonel Gaddis, had been in the Revolutionary War. John Hopwood had been one of Colonel Washington's aids, and was by him selected to choose a suitable site for winter quarters for the continental army, which duty he performed and then acted as escort in conducting them to their quarters. The son, Moses Hopwood, was born at Dumfries, Virginia, April 22, 1772, and died in Hopwood, March 21, 1857. Moses Hopwood and Hannah Gaddis Hopwood had fourteen children, ten sons and four daughters. One of these sons, William Hopwood, who died August 3, 1889, at the age of eighty two, was the father of William H Hopwood MD. In 1838 he married Eleanor, daughter of George Hudson of Huntingdon county, Penna. She was a woman of great worth of character and a devoted mother. He was an architect and builder by profession. He possessed excellent business qualifications and acquired a valuable estate. For many years he was a director of the First National Bank of Uniontown. Intellectually and morally he was of a high standard. To William Hopwood and Eleanor Hudson Hopwood were born seven children, five boys and two girls. Walter Hopwood died in youth. Thomas Hudson Hopwood served through the civil war of 1861 to 1865 and received a brevet for bravery. He was a major in the regular army until he died from injuries received in the war. In 1865 he married Sarah, daughter of General James G Anthony and niece of United States Senator H B Anthony of Rhode Island. Major Hopwood died December 31, 1867. Dr William H Hopwood has a sister, Mrs Jennie H Fenner, living in Providence, Rhode Island, and another sister, Miss Julia E Hopwood of Uniontown, Penna. George Hopwood, a brother, is a prominent and leading citizen of South Union township, and Monroe Hopwood, another brother, is a rising young attorney-at-law of the Uniontown bar. The Hopwoods have been tall and muscularly powerful men. No greater athletes have lived in western Pennsylvania than some of the members of this family. They have fair complexion and blue eyes with few exceptions. William H Hopwood, the subject of this sketch, received his first education at Hatfield's schoolhouse in South Union township. After leaving the common school, he attended Madison College at Uniontown, Mount Union College, Ohio, and after completing his literary training, he read medicine under that eminent physician, Smith Fuller MD, and entered the medical department of the University of Michigan in the class of 1875. Completing the prescribed course there, he attended Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and graduated with honor from that celebrated institution in the class of 1877. He located at Upper Middletown on the P V & C Ry, five miles below Uniontown, and his untiring energy and great skill have placed him among the most eminent physicians and surgeons in Fayette county. His practice is large and remunerative, and he enjoys the highest esteem of all who know him. Through purchase and inheritance, he has acquired valuable possessions, and is ever free to give to charitable and religious objects. He is a member of the Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church. He has been connected with the Fayette County Medical Society for several years, and is ever willing to contribute his share in advancing the medical, scientific and material interests of his native county. He is a young man who has been the arbiter of his own good fortune, and his labor and talents have wrought out marked success, and assure for him an unusually bright future. p505 DANIEL F HOSTETLER, a prosperous farmer of German township, is a son of George Hostetler and Barbara Franks Hostetler and was born in German township, Fayette county, Penna, September 23, 1839. George Hostetler, father, was born near Sheppardstown, Virginia, in 1804 and died in German township in 1873. He married Miss Barbara Franks, daughter of Micheal Franks. Unto their union were born three children: Elizabeth Hostetler, dead; Daniel F Hostetler; and Lydia A Hostetler, dead. Mrs Hostetler's grandfather, Micheal Franks Sr, came from France to Maryland in 1773. He removed to Fayette county and in 1785 assisted to build St Jacob's church which has been rebuilt three times. He was a devoted member of the German Reform church. Samuel Hostetler, paternal grandfather, emigrated from eastern Virginia in about 1815 to Fayette county, was a farmer by occupation and died in 1861. Micheal Franks, maternal grandfather, died in 1846. Daniel F Hostetler was reared on a farm, and was educated in the common schools. He has been engaged in farming ever since leaving school. In 1856 he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Leckrone, daughter of Jacob and Mary Leckrone Newcomer. Mr Hostetler owns a small but very productive farm of fifty acres, well improved and in a fine state of cultivation. He is a deacon in the Evangelical Lutheran church and secretary of the council, is master of German Grange, No 743, Patron of Husbandry, and is one of the energetic business men and reliable citizens of German township. p578 ALFRED HOWELL. Prominent among the lawyers of Fayette county stood Alfred Howell for a period of thirty five years identified with the interests and progress of Uniontown where he resided. Mr Howell was a native of Philadelphia and was born in the year 1825 of Quaker stock; both his paternal and maternal ancestry tracing their lines through the time of William Penn back for an indefinite period among the Quakers of Wales. Benjamin B Howell, his father, then a merchant, removed with his family to New York City in the year 1830-31 where young Howell was sent to preparatory school and eventually at the age of fourteen entered Columbia College and there continued until well advanced in the sophomore class. Meanwhile his father had quitted merchandise and entered upon the development of iron and coal industries near Cumberland, Maryland, having enlisted with himself several English capitalists. Having occasion to visit England on business, he took passage in March, 1841, on board the ill fated ocean steamer "President" which foundered at sea, no tidings of her or any of her human cargo having ever been had. The sudden and great calamity of the loss of his father necessitated young Howell's withdrawal from college after which he soon entered as a student at law in the office of Graham & Sandfords, counselors at law and solicitors in chancery, a distinguished firm, the Sanfords [sic] afterwards having been both elevated to the bench. With these gentlemen and their successors in partnership with Mr Graham, Messrs Murray Hoffman and Joseph S Bosworth, both subsequently becoming judges, Mr Howell remained till 1845 enjoying the good fortune of the eminent tutelage of this remarkable combination of legal talent, when he migrated to Uniontown and finished his legal studies in the office of his uncle, Joshua B Howell, then a leading lawyer, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. In 1851 he entered into partnership with Mr Howell and continued with him until the fall of 1861 when Mr Howell, having raised the Eighty fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers and being commissioned its colonel entered into the War of the Rebellion wherein he became exceptionally distinguished and was killed near Petersburg in September, 1864, by being thrown from his horse in the night time. After Colonel Howell's entry into the army, Mr Howell succeeded to the business of the partnership and continued till his death in the practice of law conducting a large and laborious business with conscientious fidelity to his clients, earning honorable distinction and a goodly fortune. He was more or less engaged in important business enterprises, among which may be mentioned the projection in 1866 about what was then known as Dawson's Station on the line of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad of a village, now incorporated as the borough of Dawson, on a tract of land there lying and of which he about that time came into possession. He caused the tract to be duly surveyed and laid out into building lots and so conducted his enterprise as in the course of a few years to erect a prosperous and desirable village with churches, public schools, etc, upon what was before and but for his business foresight and energy would have remained merely an uninhabitable portion of an old farm. He has occasionally engaged in the purchase and sale of real estate, particularly dealing in coal lands with profitable results and taken active part with others in supplying the county with local railways which have been the means of developing the treasures of rich coal mines and of otherwise enhancing the wealth of the county. Mr Howell became a communicant in his early manhood of the Protestant Episcopal church and has ever since continued active connection therewith and occupied the position of senior warden. Mr Howell was in the year 1853 united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Jennings Dawson, daughter of Mr George Dawson of Brownsville, Fayette county, Penna. Mrs Howell died in 1869 leaving six children, one of whom, a daughter, died in 1878. Of the five now living, the elder son, George D Howell is at this time a member of the senior class of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticutt. p279 J ALLEN HUBBS, MD of Bridgeport is a gentleman in the fullest sense and the word as used in connection with his name is not merely an idle term of complaisance but one definitive of the man and of his character and life. He is the son of William G Hubbs and Elizabeth McFee Hubbs. His father was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, born in 1811 and in 1818 he came with his father, Charles Hubbs, to Mt Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Penna. Charles Hubbs, MD, was a native of New Jersey born in 1767. He practiced medicine at Mt Pleasant from the time he moved there till his death in 1847. William G Hubbs read medicine with his father, practiced his profession at Fayette City from 1830 to 1867 and had a large and successful practice. In 1867 he removed to Bridgeport and practiced medicine till April 6, 1881, when he died at the age of seventy years. Since 1850 he had practiced the physio-medical system. He was a member of the Christian church. The mother of the subject of this sketch was a native of Freeport, now Fayette City, and was born in 1818. She died at her home in Bridgeport in 1881 at the age of sixty three years. J Allen Hubbs was born in Fayette City, Fayette county, Penna, February 13, 1840. He commenced reading medicine with his father when he was sixteen years of age, graduated at the Physio Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the winter of 1857, and at the Physio Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1860. This institute is now located at Chicago, Illinois. In 1860 he commenced practice in Fairview, Greene county, Penna, where he continued till 1867 when he came to Bridgeport and with his brother, M G Hubbs, engaged in the drug business, the firm being Dr J Allen Hubbs & Co. He continued successfully at this until the death of his father, when he commenced the practice of medicine again, and has followed it ever since. He is a general practitioner but gives special attention to the treatment of diseases of the stomach and liver, also dropsy and female weakness in which he has been very successful. He is a member of the American Associaton of Physio Medical Physicians and Surgeons. Dr Hubbs was married in 1861 to Miss Sarah J Titus, daughter of Eli Titus of Greene county, Penna. She died in 1880 leaving one child, Cherrie T Hubbs, now twelve years old. He married the second time Miss Maggie A Adamson of Greene county, daughter of Thomas Adamson, a farmer of that county. By this marriage he has no children living. The second wife died May 21, 1889. Dr Hubbs cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln and his last presidential vote for President Harrison. p351 ANTONY HUGG, one of Belle Vernon's reliable citizens and by travel has seen something of life in the old and new world, was born March 5, 1841, in the Department of Loire, France. He is a son of John Baptiste Hugg and Victoire Louvet Hugg, both natives of France. John Baptiste Hugg was an excellent glassblower and had no trouble in finding employment in England and in France. He was a consistent member of the Roman Catholic church. His wife's people were interested in glass manufacturing. Antony Hugg was educated in the boarding and high schools of France. He alternately resided in France and England until fourteen years of age when he entered an English glass works under his father where he remained three years. At the age of seventeen years he went to Spain but remained only eight months on account of the natives of that country refusing to let him finish his trade. He then returned to England and completed his trade of glassblower. Concluding to seek his fortune in the western hemisphere, he sailed for New York August 11, 1865, where he landed on the 25th of the same month. He pursued his trade at Boston and Berkshire, Massachusetts, Bernard's Bay, New York, and New Albany, Indiana. In 1870 he removed from Indiana to Belle Vernon where he has successfully continued up to the present time at his trade. When twenty three years of age he married Miss Elizabeth Kelly, daughter of Peter and Margaret Kelly, natives of Ireland. They had five children: John Hugg, born in 1864; Margaret E Hugg, born in 1865, on shipboard; Victoria Hugg, 1867, Massachusetts; Elizabeth Hugg, 1868, New York; Matilda Hugg, 1869, Indiana, deceased. Margaret, Victoria and Elizabeth are married and reside in Belle Vernon. His wife died in New Albany. He married in 1870 for his second wife Miss Elizabeth J Wilkinson of that place. By his last marriage he has two children: Ida May Hugg born in 1871; and Ernestine B Hugg born in 1873. Mr Hugg is a member of the Sons of Temperance, Royal Arcanum, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. At one time in England he belonged to the Foresters. He and his family are Protestants in religious beliefs. He has derived a valuable experience from his extended travels, and is an honest and upright citizen. p551 Joseph H Humberstone, one of the young, steady and industrious farmers of Henry Clay township, is a son of Jacob Humberstone and Louisa Shaw Humberstone, and was born in Henry Clay township, Fayette county, Penna, November 26, 1861. His paternal grandfather, William Humberstone, was a native and resident of Frostburg, Maryland. He was a republican and a member of the Lutheran church and a farmer by occupation. His maternal grandfather, William Shaw, was born at Barton, Maryland, was a carpenter by occupation, a republican in politics and a Methodist in religion. Jacob Humberstone, father of Joseph H Humberstone, was born at Frostburg, Maryland, in 1826 and at thirty years of age removed to his present location on the National Road in Henry Clay township. He has principally been engaged in farming and is of the same political faith and belief of his father. Jacob Humberstone enlisted in 1862 in the Two Hundred and Twelfth Pennsylvania Regiment of the Line, heavy artillery, and served nine months. He owns a good property including the old Brown wagon stand on the National Road which was established by Thomas Brown about 1798. Brown's log building was replaced in 1826 by the present large and fine two story stone house in which a hotel was kept as late as 1865. Joseph S Humberstone (? H or S) was one of a family of eight children, and received his education in the common schools of his native township. He has always given his time to farming except eighteen months that he served as a telegraph operator at Marshalltown, Iowa. He was united in marriage to Miss Hattie Tharspecken of Marshalltown, Iowa. J S Humberstone is a republican and was a delegate to the republican State Convention which met at Harrisburg on the 7th of August, 1889, and nominated Boyer for state treasurer. Mr Humberstone has a comfortable home, and is kept busily engaged in the management of his farm and the care of his business interests. p183 WILLIAM HUNT. There is a quiet unassuming worth of character that often but slowly works its possessor into public notice. There are men who grasp not at high position in the initial efforts in the race of life, but how willingly and cheerfully accept the duties that come to them; and quietly yet faithfully and effectively discharge every duty that other more important ones are reposed in them. Such character is portrayed in William Hunt, born February 2, 1836, in Dunbar township, Fayette county, Penna. In 1850 he went to learn his trade with H W S Rigdon of Uniontown (now of Ottawa, Illinois) and at that time the leading jeweler of Southwestern Pennsylvania. He remained with this eminently practical workman for four and a half years, mastering every detail of the business, gaining the entire confidence and receiving the highest encomiums of his employer. In 1858 he engaged in business at Uniontown, and by close attention to business and honesty in his work, built up the largest trade and has the most extensive jewelry store in the county. His store is now located at 530 Main Street. William Hunt is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; of the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commander of the Ancient York Masonic fraternity; is past officer in each and holds membership in the Royal Arcanum. He was elected in January, 1886, as jury commission on the democratic ticket, and served for three years. Recognized as a man of sound financial views, he was appointed a director of the First National Bank of Uniontown, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles E Boyle. He is the son of Isaac L Hunt and Hannah Lincoln Hunt. His father was a native of Fayette county, Pa, was an industrious farmer and shoemaker in Dunbar township, and at the time of his death, in 1836, was county commissioner. His grandfather Jacob Hunt was born in New Jersey, and came to Fayette county in 1790. His mother's father, Benjamin Lincoln, was a native of Reading, Pa, and came to Fayette county in 1790. Benjamin Lincoln was a first cousin of President Lincoln. Hannah Lincoln Hunt was born in 1795 in Fayette county, Pa, and died February 10, 1889, at the advanced age of ninety four years. Her father was a civil engineer and was also a farmer to some extent. William Hunt was married in 1861 to Miss Margaret Simbower, a daughter of Mrs Mary Simbower of Uniontown, but a native of Maryland. Mr Hunt has twelve children: Isaac Hunt, Robert W Hunt, Mary Frances Hunt, Ellen Hunt, Margaret Hunt, Hannah Hunt, Sarah Hunt, Lucy Hunt, Lottie Hunt, Elizabeth Hunt, Eve Hunt, and Benjamin L Hunt. p280 HENRY HUNTER was born May 15, 1806, of German and Irish parentage in Chester county, Penna, and is a son of Hiram Hunter and Margaret Ashaphelter Hunter. His father was a native of the same county. He was a stone mason and followed the business all of this life. He was the father of seven children, four sons and three daughters, two of whom are now living. The father came to Fayette county in 1818 and remained until 1827. He then removed to Kentucky, where his wife died, after which he returned to Fayette county, Penna. He died at the age of seventy five. Henry Hunter was brought up on a farm, his opportunities to obtain an education were very limited, having attended the old time subscription schools only about six months. He remained on the farm with his father until he was twenty one years of age. He then commenced to work among strangers wherever he could obtain employment at twenty five cents a day. He early learned to save his earnings, small as they were. He soon became renowned as a careful, hardworking, prudent man and commanded better wages. He was a lover of good horses and became a skillful teamster. Being strictly honest himself, he reposed confidence in his fellow men and loaned his money without requiring security and lost all his hard earnings after he had accumulated several thousand dollars. He bore his loss philosophically, and never ceased to work. Before old age came upon him, however, by dint of industry and care he replenished his fortune and now has a competence and lives in comfort. Henry Hunter was never considered parsimonious and his accumulations have been an enigma to many. He was always dressed neatly and comfortably and in company with his friends spent money liberally. He has lived a retired life for the last eight years. He never was married. At the age of eighty three years, he reads without glasses and writes well and legibly though he has had three paralytic strokes recently. It is pleasurable to say that it is the universal testimony of his neighbors and acquaintances that a more honest or upright man than Henry Hunter never lived, though not a member of any of the church organizations. p183 LEVI HUNTLEY was born near Smithfield, Georges township, Fayette county, Pena, January 18, 1834, and is a son of Robert Huntley and Mary McKean Huntley, the former a native of New Jersey. Mary McKean was a daughter of James McKean, the latter an early settler of, and probably the first manufacturer of iron in Fayette county. Stoddard Huntley, the grandfather of Levi Huntley, came with the Connells early in life from New Jersey and settled near Connellsville. He was a shoemaker by trade, a strong democrat, and served in the official capacity of justice of the peace and constable for many years previous to his death, which occurred at the advanced age of ninety one years. Levi Huntley is the sixth of ten children born to his parents. On the 14th of August, 1861, he was married to Lavina Richards, daughter of Adam Richards of Uniontown. To their marriage have been born five children, four boys and one girl: William Searight Huntley, born June 18, 1863; Orella Huntley, born December 4, 1864, she was graduated from California State Normal School and a teacher for eight years past; Thomas Allen Huntley, born January 4, 1866, a blacksmith; Isaac Newton Huntley, born July 8, 1869, educated at Madison College and is also a teacher; Robert Hogsett Huntley, born June 3, 1876. Levi Huntley began life as a farmer; later he learned with trade of blacksmith with Henry Nycum of Uniontown, and has, excepting a short interval during the war, worked at it ever since. In March, 1864, he volunteered in the First Kentucky Regiment of Cavalry, which became a regiment of veterans, under the command of General Sherman. He fought at the battles of Kenesaw Mountain, and around Atlanta, Georgia, and was fighting Johnston when Sherman was making his famous march to the sea. He was principally engaged as a raider while in the service, and at the close of the war in 1865 he was honorably discharged. He is a school director, and takes a deep interest in educational matters. In politics he is one of Jackson's strong adherents. p442 MICHEAL HURLEY was born in Ireland, June 9, 1842, and is a son of Peter Hurley and Nora Hennessey Hurley. Micheal Hurley, paternal grandfather, was a native of County Curry, Ireland, followed farming, married Miss Nora McGraw, and had the following children: John Hurley; Nellie Hurley, married to Jeremiah Shaughnessy, lives in Columbus, Ohio; Bessie Hurley; Mary Hurley, married to Timothy Kelley, lives in Indianapolis, Indiana; Nora Hurley, married to James Connor, llives in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Peter Hurley. Peter Hurley, father, was born in 1813 and is still living in Ireland. He was well educated, and being very apt was a very successful businessman in his day. During the "Panic of 1849" he was steward and general manager for Stephen Samus, a large landowner. He is now a butcher and jobber. He married Nora Horrigan, daughter of Edward Horrigan, and of several children born to them, Micheal Hurley is the only one living. Micheal Hurley was educated in Ireland and came to the United States May 11, 1864. He engaged in the oil region of Pennsylvania as a common laborer. He moved to Ursina and kept a hotel for three years. In 1874 he came to Connellsville and engaged in the hotel business, and is now the proprietor of the Trans-Allegheny Hotel. He was married to Nora Hennessey, a native of Ireland and a daughter of Thomas Hennessey. They have eight children: Nora Hurley, Birdie Hurley, Ellen Hurley, Catherine Hurley, Bessie Hurley, Sarah Hurley, Pearl Hurley and Micheal Hurley. A fact worthy of mention in the hotel experience of Mr Hurley is that he has never been refused a hotel license since he began the business-a period of twenty two years. In all of this time he has never taken a drink of liquor although he sells it every day. He is a member of the Holy Roman Catholic church. p185 GEORGE B HUTCHINSON, a successful young lawyer of Uniontown, was born in South Union township, Fayette county, Penna, January 25, 1855, and is a son of Isaac Hutchinson and Mary Brownfield Hutchinson. His father, now in his seventy second year, resides near Smithfield and has been for the most of his life a miller by occupation, but quit that business in 1877 and bought the farm where he now resides. The flouring mill he owned was located in South Union township, know yet as Hutchinson mill, but is now abandoned. Isaac Hutchinson, the grandfather of George B Hutchinson, was a native of New Jersey and when at the age of nineteen years, came to Fayette county and was one of the earliest settlers here. George B Hutchinson was reared principally in South Union township and at the age of eighteen years in 1873 he entered Waynesburg College, but in 1876 abandoned the full college course on account of his failing health. He entered the office of Robinson F Downey of Waynesburg as a student at law, and was admitted to the bar to practice in the courts of Greene county in June, 1878. In September, 1878, he came to Uniontown and was admitted to practice in the courts of Fayette county and at once opened an office and has been successfully engaged in the practice of law ever since. July 12, 1884, he formed a partnership with Thomas Wakefield of Uniontown, the partnership expiring July 12, 1889. George B Hutchinson was married to Miss Mary M Gorley of Fayette county and a daughter of Alfred M and Lucinda Gorley, both natives of the county, June 24, 1879. To their union have been born five children: Howard S Hutchinson; Herschel Hutchinson; Della Pearl Hutchinson; Helen M Hutchinson and Mary Hutchinson. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and on June 26, 1889, was elected by Madison Lodge No 419, Knights of Pythias, to represent it at its last sessions of the Grand Lodge that met in Lancaster, Penna, August 20, 1889. p506 JOHN C HUTCHINSON of English and Irish descent and a prosperous farmer of Nicholson township, is a son of Samuel Hutchinson and Rosanna Hagan Hutchinson and was born in South Union township, October 5, 1841. Samuel Hutchinson was born near Uniontown in August, 1815, died December 29, 1882, and is interred in the cemetery at Uniontown. He was a miller early in life but afterwards engaged in farming near Hutchinson's Mill. He owned a farm of eighty seven acres of well improved and twenty seven acres of heavy timber land. Mr Hutchinson was a whig and later a republican; served one term as poor house director; and filled the office of school director for several terms. He married Miss Rosanna Hagans of near Walnut Hill. They were the parents of seven children: John C Hutchinson; James M Hutchinson, a prosperous farmer in Illinois; Isaac Hutchinson, on the home farm; Mary M Hutchinson; William Henry Hutchinson, dead; Albert B Hutchinson; and Elizabeth Hutchinson. Mr Hutchinson was a Baptist while his wife was a Cumberland Presbyterian. His father was born in Mercer county, New Jersey, and came to South Union township in 1802 where he built the mill that bears his name. He was a millwright and miller; belonged to the Baptist church; was an old line whig; and enjoyed the confidence of his neighbors. Mrs Hutchinson's father, John Hagan, came from Ireland; was a contractor on the "Old Pike;" owned a farm of 250 acres of choice farming land underlaid with coal; and now valued at $100,000 by its present owners. He was a good businessman and was quite wealthy when he died. John C Hutchinson spent his early years on a farm and received a common school education. In 1861 he enlisted in Company A, First Virginia Cavalry and participated in the battles of Carnifex Ferry, South Mountain and Antietam. Afterwards at the fight of Wytheville, he was taken prisoner by the Confederates and confined in Libby prison, Belle Island, and in several other prisons. After six months prison experience, he was paroled and sent North. He rejoined his regiment after being exchanged, was with his regiment in several engagements and was honorably discharged at Wheeling, West Virginia, September 12, 1864. The year following he was a clerk in the quarter master's department at Nashville, Tennessee. On February 17, 1867, he was married to Miss M B Core, daughter of William F Core; to their union have been born two children: Jennie May Hutchinson, wife of John Weaver, a miller of Smithfield; and Harry Lee Hutchinson, now a student in Washington and Jefferson College. Since his marriage Mr Hutchinson has been engaged in farming and stock raising. His farm contains over four hundred acres of well improved land and is one of the finest bodies of farming land in Nicholson township. He is an Odd Fellow and a strong republican, a member of Post No 541, G A R, and was a faithful soldier in some of the severest campaigns of the Civil War. p352 JOSEPH HUTCHINSON was born near Round Hill church, Elizabeth township, Allegheny county, Penna, March 21, 1828. His father, John Hutchinson, was born in New Jersey and came to Pennsylvania with his father Joseph Hutchinson. He afterwards on his return East, died from the effects of the measles. His wife, Ann Bennett, who lived to be 105 years of age, was a daughter of a captain of the War of the Revolution. The Bennetts were a most remarkable people for their longevity and physical endurance, and were noted for their abstemious and temperate habits. John Bennett, a brother of Mrs Ann Hutchinson, was a soldier under General Markle in the War of 1812-15. The Hutchinsons are of English stock. John Hutchinson was a leading farmer and speculator of Allegheny and later of Westmoreland county, Penna. Joseph Hutchinson, whose name heads this sketch, was married March 21, 1849, to Ann E McDonal, a daughter of John McDonal of Sewickley township, Westmoreland county, Penna (the great grandfather of the latter was one of the heroes of the Revolution), and has had seven children of whom two are dead: John M Hutchinson, a well-driller by occupation was born in 1850; Margaret Jane Hutchinson, now the wife of Amos Shrum, formerly of Westmoreland county; Travilo W Hutchinson (deceased); Elizabeth Hutchinson, wife of Harvey Knox; Huldah Belle Hutchinson (deceased); H D Hutchinson, and Minnie B Hutchinson. Joseph Hutchinson worked on the farm until he learned the blacksmith trade, and has since worked at this and the oil drilling business. He removed and located in Menallen township in 1882. p596 Edward K Hyndman, though a native of Carbon county, Penna, and present resident of Pittsburgh, resided in Fayette county for a period of about eight years and holds large business interests therein. My Hyndman is of Scotch Irish descent being the son of Hugh Hyndman, who was born in the north of Ireland in 1800 and Catherine Huff, a native of Danville, Penna, born in 1805, both still living in vigorous old age. He was born in Mauch Chunk, Penna, the great anthracite coal region, in 1844 and growing up there became a civil engineer at about eighteen years of age and was engaged more or less in the construction and operation of railroads in their various departments until at twenty five years of age he became the superintendent of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad from Easton to Scranton, now a part of New Jersey Central Railroad system, in the superintendency of which he continued till 1872 when he resigned his post to take the superintendency of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad, now the Pittsburgh Division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in charge of which he remained, residing in Connellsville for the period of eight years. In his official position while living there in charge of the railroad, Mr Hyndman enjoyed peculiar opportunities for studying the Connellsville coke business and the extent and position of the coking coal field and was so impressed with the vast present and future importance of the business that he took measures to secure some eight thousand acres of the best coal lands in one body, and organized a company under the same of the Connellsville Coke and Iron Company with Hon John Leisenring as president and other of his old Eastern anthracite coal friends as members with a capital stock of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of developing the coal property. He then resigned the superintendency of the railroad and accepted the position of general manager of the above named company. Mr Hyndman remained in that position until the company was thoroughly established and in working order, he finding meanwhile that his early experience in the anthracite district availed him much in the new field. He then resigned the management of the company, though still its consulting engineer, and removing to Pittsburgh accepted in June, 1881, the office of general manager of he Pittsburgh and Western Railroad which office he now holds together with that of president of the Pittsburgh Junction Railroad. Mr Hyndman is also largely interested in various enterprises in and out of the State. Among these may be mentioned that of the Virginia Coal and Iron Company and the Holston Steel and Iron Company, having their center of operations in southwestern Virginia and in which Mr Leisenring and others of the Connellsville Coke and Iron Company are also interested. The above named Virginia Coal and Iron Company possesses over 70,000 acres of coal and iron lands upon the development of which they have already entered, having commenced the construction of a railroad seventy miles in length in order to reach their new fields from Bristol, Tennessee. The coke to be manufactured in this field will readily supply markets not accessible from the Connellsville coke region. February 25, 1873, Mr Hyndman married at Philadelphia, Miss Gulielma A Brown, daughter of the late William Brown Esq of Bethlehem, Penna, and Mrs Susan I Brown, his widow, who now resides in Philadelphia. Mr and Mrs Hyndman have two sons.