Bios: L 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 Laing, C A Dunbar 443 Lang, George Washington 356 Larden, W M Nicholson 509 Leatherman, J G Georges 510 replaced by next listed bio Leatherman, Joel G Miscellaneous 577 LeClere, W H Brnv & Bdgpt 283 Leighty, Z T Dunbar 443 Lenhart, G W Brnv & Bdgpt 284 Leonard, Edmund Menallen 357 Lewellen, Aaron Washington 358 Lewellen, J N Uniontown 193 Lewis, Ephraim Washington 359 Lindsey, R H Uniontown 194 Linton, R J Washington 357 Livingstone, George Stewart 554 Long, Kell Dunbar 444 Long, S N Connellsville 463 Longanecker, Dr W A Georges 510 Lyons, J A Springhill 285 p443 CHARLES A LAING, a coke operator of Dunbar, is a native of Ireland, born August 20, 1837. He came to America in 1851. After his arrival in this country, he located in Philadelphia where he attended school for a time. He soon went to Livingston county, New York, where he attended school and worked in a flouring mill. In 1854 he removed to Pittsburgh where he was employed as a clerk in a hardware store for two years. In 1856 he went to the Pacific slope in search of gold, and for ten years he successfully operated in gold mines, both in California and Idaho. While on the slope he made two trips abroad, one to China and one to Central America. He was a pioneer in the Idaho discovery of gold in 1862. In 1866 he returned to Pittsburgh, and engaged in the flour and feed business with his brother, George Laing, with him carried on business for one year when Mr Laing returned to New York, located in Steuben county where he was engaged successfully in farming for sixteen years. He sold his farm to the State of New York for a location of a Soldiers' Home, came to Dunbar in 1883 and engaged in his present business. He was married October 29, 1867, to Anna M Gardner, daughter of Andrew Gardner, the latter a native of Ireland. To their union have been born four children: John H Laing, Mary A Laing, Maud Laing and George M Laing. Charles A Laing is a son of John Laing, born in County Mayo, Ireland; his wife was Sarah Robinson, daughter of Charles Robinson. That had born to their marriage five children, besides Charles A Laing: John Laing, George Laing, Mariah Laing, Catherine Laing and Sarah Laing. Mr Laing is a member of the Pennsylvania Manufacturing Mining and Supply Company. The headquarters of which is No 1004 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh. His brother, George Laing, is president of the company. p356 GEORGE LANG was born in Germany, Wurtemburg ober Lanningham in 1826. He learned the wagon maker trade, and at the age of sixteen years went to Switzerland, where he remained five years. At twenty one years of age he returned to his native State to stand his chance of being drafted into the military service. He was not drawn and immediately emigrated to America. He worked at his trade on Pine Creek near Pittsburgh for some years when he removed to Belle Vernon, worked for Christian Amalong, and a year later bought his employer out. He continued wagon making until 1850, when he engaged in the livery business and continued in it up to the time of his death, February 1, 1885. Mr Lang in 1849 married Miss Emily McCrory, daughter of John McCrory, a descendant of one of the early settled families of Washington county, Penna. Their union was blessed with six children: Henry Lang, born March 8, 1850; Clara Lang, born may 19, 1852; Regina Lang, October 16, 1855; Josephine Lang, February 25, 1857; Wilson Lang, March 22, 1862; Estella Lang, August 15, 1869 (dead). Mrs Lang, who still resides in Belle Vernon, is a descendant of the well known Spear family that settled at an early date in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Henry Lang, the eldest son, is a successful druggist at Belle Vernon and was married in 1872 to Miss Frances Billitter, daughter of Jesse Billitter and Margaret Ewing Billitter. Their union has been blessed with six children: Woods Lang, Bessie Lang, Fannie Lang, George Lang, Edna Lang, and Elsie Lang (the latter being dead). Wilson Lang, youngest son, is in the livery business in his native town at his father's old stand. He is an energetic and enterprising citizen and has built up a successful business. George Lang, deceased subject of this sketch, was an exemplary citizen, and was a useful and consistent member of the Evangelical Lutheran church to which he belonged for many years. He was a man who attended strictly to his own business, and whose hand was always open to the wants of the worthy poor. p509 William M Larden, one of the most extensive farmers and progressive businessmen of German township, is a son of William Larden and Elizabeth Miller Larden, and was born twenty one miles north of Pittsburgh in Canton township, Butler county, Penna, May 24, 1840. His grandfather, Thomas Larden, was a native of Ireland, settled in Butler county in an early day where he secured a large tract of land for an iron dinner pot. His wife was of German descent. His father, William Larden, was born in 1808 and is a prominent farmer and a local Methodist Episcopal preacher in Butler county. An abolitionist, he is now a strong republican. His wife was Miss Elizabeth Miller of Johnstown who died about 1859. William M Larden, on leaving school enlisted in 1861 in Company H, Ninth Pennsylvania Reserves, and was in all the battles of the peninsula campaign. He fought under Pope at the Second Bull Run and was honorably discharged in September, 1862, from a hospital on account of disability. For seventeen years after the war he was actively engaged in the oil business at Petrolia, Penna, which he very successfully operated. Subsequently he bought his present beautiful farm containing 250 acres of choice farming land, richly underlaid with a nine foot vein of coal and has several rich deposits of lime. On July 12, 1864, he was married to Miss Martha Miller, daughter of David Miller of Masontown. Mrs Larden was born August 19, 1843. William M Larden brought the first registered short horn cattle to Fayette county and is one of the county's most extensive breeders of that class of stock. He is republican and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In the Masonic fraternity he has passed through lodge, chapter and commandery and has taken the 32d or Scottish Rite degree. He is a man of good judgment, clear perception and quick action, and has honorably earned the competency he has acquired. p577 JOEL G LEATHERMAN of Georges, one who is held in the highest esteem as an honest man by all who know him, was born on the farm where he now resides in Georges township, Fayette county, Penna, October 20, 1804, and is a son of Rev Joseph Leatherman and Mary M Getzendanner Leatherman. His grandfathers Daniel Leatherman and Christopher Getzendanner were born in Maryland; they were both farmers in that state. The latter resided and passed the most of his life on the banks of the Monocacy River. His father Rev Joseph Leatherman was born in Maryland, removed to Georges township in 1799, where he purchased from Richard Reed a tract of land known as "Strawberry Ridge." On this farm now owned by Joel G Leatherman are seen traces of a village founded prior to Anglo-Saxon habitation. Tradition locates it a French village in 1730, and evidence exists to warrant that it was an abiding place of the dim, mysterious Mound-Builder. Joseph Leatherman was a German Baptist minister and a democrat. He had two sons: Joel G Leatherman and one who died in infancy. Joel G Leatherman was raised on a farm. He acquired the limited education of his boyhood days and has spent a long and quiet life in farming and stock raising in Georges township. In 1824 he was married to Miss Diana Showalter, a daughter of Joseph and Ann Showalter. She died March 27, 1866. Mr Leatherman is now living with his adopted son Henry J Dougherty, who is also a native of the same township. He was born in February, 1833, and is a son of James Dougherty and Rebecca Jennings Dougherty. His grandfather James Dougherty was a native of Ireland, and came to America at the close of the Irish rebellion of 1798 in which he was a prominent actor. H J Dougherty was married in 1857 to Miss Drusilla M Field, daughter of David and Rachel Field, and has two children: Alvin F Dougherty is married to Miss Emma Kerline of Minnesota, and Florence M Dougherty married E B Fast of Marion county, West Virginia, a dental student attending his last course of lectures in Philadelphia. Mr Dougherty was educated in the common schools and Waynesburg College and taught seven terms of school. He is a charter member of Gallatin Lodge, No 517, IOOF and a staunch republican. He lacked only twenty three votes of being elected treasurer of 1887 of Fayette county. The county at that time was democratic. Mr Leatherman has been a republican since 1856; he is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and has always enjoyed the entire confidence of his community. p283 WILLIAM H LeCLERE, a popular and prosperous merchant of Brownsville, is a son of John Lewis and Mary Shunk LeClere, and was born in Brownsville, Fayette county, Penna, February 2, 1854. John Lewis Le Clere was bonr in 1808 near Paris, France, and learned the trade of a weaver. He lived in Paris until 1831, when he came to Baltimore, and thence in 1832 he removed to near Brownsville. He engaged in farming until 1847 when he entered John Snowden's foundry and worked for twenty three years at boiler-making. In 1870 he retired from work and since then has resided with his son, William H Le Clere. J L Le Clere's first wife was Miss Barbara Rinecker, who died in 1845, leaving three children. He married again, and his second wife was Miss Mary Shunk, daughter of Simon Shunk. she died December 23, 1875, and left five children: John M Le Clere, William H Le Clere, Louis C Le Clere, George A Le Clere, and James B Le Clere. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for forty years. William H Le Clere attended the common schools of Brownsville until he was fourteen years of age, when he entered the glass works and learned the trade of a glass flattener, which he still continues to pursue. In July, 1883, he engaged in the grocery business at the old Gabler stand, corner of Market Street and Hatter's Lane. He has a first class grocery. He established a furniture store in September, 1886. He carries a large stock of furniture and is doing a very fine business. He was married July 15, 1875, to Miss Eliza McClain, daughter of George W McClain of West Brownsville. Their union has been blessed with four children: Mary L Le Clere, Harry M Le Clere, Russell B Le Clere, and William H Le Clere, Jr. He is a democrat and served from 1885 to 1889 as a member of the town council. Mr Le Clere is one of the live and successful businessmen of Brownsville. Thrown upon his own resources early in life, without a dollar of capital, he has by energy, perseverance, honesty and business tact built up a very prosperous business in his native town. p443 ZACHARIAH TAYLOR LEIGHTY is the son of Stephen S Leighty and Eliza Hutson Leighty and was born in Dunbar township, Fayette county, Penna, January 2, 1847. Stephen S Leighty, father of Z T Leighty, was born in Dunbar township, Fayette county, Penna, and now lives on a farm in that township on the road from Vanderbilt to New Haven. He was married twice, the first time to Miss Eliza Hutson by whom he has nine living children: William Leighty, a physician in Kansas; Henry S Leighty, an engineer in Illinois; Z T Leighty; Stephen S Leighty; Margaret Leighty, wife of Milton Blair; Rebecca Leighty, wife of Joseph Piersol; Anna Leighty, wife of Robert Rankin; Eliza J Leighty, wife of Davis Woodward; and Agnes C Leighty, wife of George W Cox. The second time to Miss Mary Hare of West Virginia. By the second union he has three living children: Emma Leighty, wife of C A Guinn, clerk at Vanderbilt; Ulysses G Leighty; and John Leighty. Henry Leighty, the paternal grandfather of Zachariah T Leighty, was born in Dunbar township, and was a very large landowner and farmer, having owned several of the farms in the vicinity of Vanderbilt. He married first time Miss Sarah Smith and had eight children: Henry S Leighty; Jacob S Leighty; John Leighty; William Leighty; Frances Leighty; Elizabeth Leighty; Daniel Leighty and Stephen S Leighty. Henry Leighty's second wife was Widow Secrease, maiden name Varnes, of Dunbar township, and by her he had five children: Joseph Leighty; Christopher Leighty; Peter Leighty; Sarah Leighty; and Clarissa Leighty. Jesse Hutson, maternal grandfather, was also a native of Dunbar township, and was a farmer; was married to Catherine Oldshoe and had nine children: Eliza Hutson, Nathan Hutson, Sophia Hutson, William Hutson and John Hutson (twins), Jemima Hutson, Jesse Hutson, David Hutson, Wesley Hutson and George Hutson. Zachariah T Leighty was reared on a farm in Dunbar township, Fayette county, Penna. He was raised and has always lived upon a farm. He was educated in the common schools. He was married twice, the first time to Miss Martha Murphy, daughter of William Robinson Murphy from near Perryopolis; their children were: Frederick Cooper Leighty, born December 17, 1872; and Melvinia Belle Leighty, born August 31, 1874. The second wife was Miss Anna Duff, daughter of Hugh Thompson Duff, near Upper Middletown in Menallen township. Mr Leighty has always followed farming and stock raising. He is an enterprising, straightforward businessman and is a republican. p 284 GEORGE W LENHART was born April 25, 1842, in Bridgeport, Fayette County, Pa, and was reared in that town and attended public schools. In the fall of 1862 he obtained the position of second clerk on one of the steamers belonging to the Pittsburgh, Brownsville & Geneva Packet Company, and held the position about eighteen months, when he was made clerk upon one of the government boats running between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained for about one year. He then left the river then in 1865, engaged in the general merchandising business in Brownsville, and continued at that for about one year, when he sold out. In 1866 he formed a partnership with William Chatland, in the manufacture of crackers in Brownsville, the firm being "Chatland & Lenhart." Their factory has the capacity for making fifty barrels of crackers per day, and is well equipped for all the latest improved machinery. In 1875 Mr Lenhart was so unfortunate as to have his arm caught in the cracker roller and so badly crushed that it had to be amputated above the elbow. After this he took up the "general insurance" business, in which he has been quite successful in building up a large patronage. In 1887 when the natural gas was introduced in Brownsville, Mr Lenhart was made secretary and treasurer of the company, and is at present holding that position. He has been elected once as a member of the Borough Council, on the democratic ticket. He is a member of the Episcopal church and is a member of the vestry. He belongs to the Masonic Order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was married March 8, 1865, to Miss Sarah, daughter of William Chatland (his partner in the cracker factory). The have two children: William (now in the real estate and insurance business in Trinidad, Colorado) and Bessie. He is the son of Leonard and Hannah Baldwin Lenhart, both born near Fayette City, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. His father was for many years a steamboat builder at West Brownsville, but removed to his farm in Redstone township in 1860, where he now resides. Mr Lenhart's mother died in 1858 at the age of forty eight years. Micheal Lenhart, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Carlisle, Pa. Mr William Chatland, the father of Mrs Lenhart, was born at Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, June 9, 1811. He was the son of William C and Priscilla Green Chatland. His father was a native of Meriden, Warwickshire, England, and died in 1819. His mother was born at Brier Hill, Staffordshire, England, and died in 1814. At nine years of age he was left an orphan, and his grandmother took him to raise. She died when he was ten years old, and his Uncle Joseph then took him till he was thirteen years of age, when he was apprenticed for seven years to Daniel Claridge, a baker of Coventry. After he learned his trade he went to London for three and one half years, then returned to Coventry and established himself in business. While there he married Elizabeth Manton, the daughter of William Manton, a farmer of Berkwell. He came to the United States, arrived in New York City April 20, 1844, thence to Pittsburgh, from there to Washington county, where he remained till 1852, when he went to California, but was compelled to leave on account of bad health. He returned to Washington county, thence to Brownsville in 1854, where he has since resided. He is a prominent Mason, has been district grand master for Pennsylvania for fifteen years; district deputy high priest for Pennsylvania for sixteen years; eminent commander of St Omer commandery, No 7, held at Brownsville for many years. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and a member of the vestry for a great many years. p357 EDMUND LEONARD, a farmer of Menallen township, is a son of William Leonard and Mary Van Ort Leonard, and was born near Bentleyville, Somerset township, Washington county, Penna, June 8, 1825. Caleb Leonard, great grandfather, was a native of England and died at 103 years of age. He came from New Jersey to Washington county, where his son Daniel Leonard married Miss Lucretia, a daughter of Dr Jennings. They reared a family of several children. One of their sons, William Leonard, father of Edmund Leonard, was born in 1803, and was a farmer and a Methodist. His wife was a daughter of Richard Van Ort. They had nine children. Edmund Leonard was educated in the limited schools of that day. His first business was in saddle and harness making which he followed for fifteen years then relinquished it for his present occupation of farming. March 1, 1849, he was married to Miss Sarah, daughter of William Hatfield, an associate judge of Fayette county from 1861 to 1865. The have nine children: William H Leonard (dead), Howard M Leonard, born July 13, 1854, carpenter; Hickman W Leonard, born January 22, 1857, at Pittsburgh; Ewing A Leonard, February 10, 1860, Pittsburgh grocer; Mary E Leonard, March 26, 1862; William J Leonard, June 4, 1863, oil driller; George McClard Leonard, August 13, 1864, carpenter; James T Leonard, December 9, 1866; Jennie G Leonard, June 22, 1871. Edmund Leonard is a pronounced democrat and has held various township offices. He has been a member of Uniontown Baptist church since 1846, and several years ago was elected deacon. He began life as a poor boy, but by prudence and frugality has become a man of some means. He is an earnest man and engages in any enterprise with a determination to win. p193 JOHN N LEWELLEN, a native of Monongalia county, West Virginia, was born March 8, 1837. He remained in that county until the age of nineteen years, working on a farm from childhood until he went to his trade. At the age of eighteen he came to Fayette county, Penna, and apprenticed himself to his uncle, James Lewellen of Masontown to learn the blacksmith's trade. At the expiration of his apprenticeship, he was married to Mary Ellen Bradley of Masontown, daughter of James Bradley. He then went to near Morgantown and worked at his trade for three years carrying on a shop of his own. From thence he removed to Mount Morris, Greene county, Penna, and continued to work at his trade for twenty three years. In 1866 he formed a partnership with his brother Colerman Lewellen and engaged in the manufacture of wagons, buggies, carriages, etc. The firm was Lewellen Brothers. They continued in business for sixteen years. In 1882 John N Lewellen sold out his interest in the business to Ben Clovis, came to Uniontown and engaged in the carriage business with his sons as partners. They still continue in the same business and have built up a good trade and are doing good business. John N Lewellen has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since his boyhood and is now an officer in the church. He has five living children, two boys and three girls: Arabella Lewellen; James W Lewellen; Carrie Lewellen; Frank E Lewellen; and Myra Lewellen. Frank E Lewellen is married and resides with his father. Carrie Lewellen, the wife of B F Billingsley, is now a resident of Minneapolis, Kansas; James W Lewellen married and is also a resident of Minneapolis, Kansas. John N Lewellen is a son of William G Lewellen and Mary Norris Lewellen, both natives of Monongalia county, West Virginia. His father, a farmer, died in 1880 at the age of sixty four years. His mother died in 1859 at the age of forty eight years. She was a consistent Christian and an honorable and respected mother. The subject of this sketch has been very successful in business. He started in life very poor but now has a comfortable living and a good home. While at Mount Morris he continued in the blacksmith business with his carriage factory. The firm name since coming to Uniontown has been Lewellen & Son. Their chief aim is to manufacture first class carriage goods. They make a specialty in repairing in all the branches pertaining to the trade such as wood work, iron work, painting and trimming. They have built up quite a reputation in Fayette and adjoining counties and at present they have a large and commodious carriage shop in Uniontown, fronting on Main Street eighty feet and extends back seventy seven feet. They also own shop property, good residence property on Mt Vernon and Berkeley streets. The junior member, Frank Lewellen has been married about one year to Lillie Divvens. p358 AARON LEWELLEN of Belle Vernon was born on a farm near the Pennsylvania line in West Virginia, January 7, 1844. He grew up on the farm till at the age of eighteen years when he volunteered as s soldier in the Civil War, he enlisted in Company I, Fourteenth West Virginia Regiment of Infantry. He was engaged in all the hard fought battles in which his regiment his regiment took part; among the more noted were that of Cedar Creek, when Sheridan arrived after making his famous ride from Winchester, twenty miles away. After Mr Lewellen's return home he was married January 16, 1668, to Leonora Tearnin, granddaughter of John Tearnin, deceased, who was once treasurer of the county, and a daughter of Joshua Earnin and Catherine Clegg Tearnin. Her father was a volunteer soldier in the Civil War, returned home after his discharge and soon sickened and died. Her mother's death occurred February 15, 1889. Her marriage to Mr Lewellen has been blessed with seven children: Arabella Lewellen, born January 5, 1869; John Lewellen, born January 29, 1870, died at age three years; Katie Lewellen, December 16, 1873; Harry Lewellen, August 23, 1876; Thomas Lewellen, May 27, 1879; Fred Lewellen, September 6, 1882; and Louis E Lewellen, born July 7, 1889. Mr Lewellen has lived since his marriage principally in Fayette City where he was engaged in the coal business. For the past few years he has lived at Belle Vernon, engaged in the hotel business. He and all his family are Methodists. His father, Jacob Lewellen, is a native of West Virginia and removed from that State to Uniontown during the war. He is now a resident of Connellsville. Aaron Lewellen's mother's maiden name was Mary Bell. His grandfather, John Lewellen, settled in West Virginia many years ago. p359 EPHRAIM LEWIS was born July 8, 1836, at Albany, Fayette county, Penna, and was educated in the common schools of the county. He began work in the glass factory as a tender boy, when a mere lad. He moved to Fayette city, thence to Belle Vernon, to Pittsburgh in 1845, and again to Belle Vernon in 1846 where he still resides. He was married in 1861 to Miss Sabina Van Hook, a daughter of Samuel Van Hook, a native of Virginia, and now a resident of Brownsville, Penna; he was at one time a part owner of the Belle Vernon Glass Works. Mr Lewis has six children: Lizzie Lewis, married to John Kittle; Samuel C Lewis, resides in Bellaire, Ohio; Margaret Lewis, William H Lewis, Mary S Lewis and Charles A V Lewis, living at home. Mrs Lewis died June 17, 1874. Mr Lewis is a member of the K of L, of the I O of O F, and has been a member of the school board for nine years. He owns a comfortable home and has some good property in the town. He began blowing glass in 1861, and is still engaged in that business at the Belle Vernon Glass Works. He is a preceptor of the K of G. Ephraim Lewis is the son of William Lewis and Margaret Sutton Lewis. William H Lewis was born in Virginia in 1806, and came to Pennsylvania when a boy with his parents, who settled at Monongahela City. His father, Burton Lewis, the grandfather of Ephraim Lewis, was born in Delaware, and was one of the early settlers of Pennsylvania. Mr Lewis's mother, Margaret Sutton Lewis, was born in 1804 in Perryopolis. She lives with her son Ephraim Lewis in Belle Vernon. Her father, Nathaniel Sutton, was a farmer, one of the early settlers of Fayette county, and was one of the leading men in the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Miss Brown (see Alexander Brown's sketch). Ephraim Lewis's mother has in her possession a table set of four pieces of pewter ware that has been handed down in the Brown family for over 200 years. p194 REMEMBRANCE HUGHES LINDSEY, a leading lawyer of the Fayette county bar, is a son of John Lindsey and Anna Collins Lindsey, and was born in Greene county, Penna, April 14, 1845. His ancestry is traced back through that long lived and wonderfully energetic Scotch Irish race. Scotland being located as the birthplace of his paternal great grandfather, who left that realm of titled classes and aristocratic privileges, and south the shores of the new world, for a home in the land of free institutions and democratic principles. He landed in the Quaker province and settled in Lancaster county, Penna, where Mr Lindsey's paternal grandfather, James Lindsey, was born and reared. He was engaged in mercantile pursuits for a few years and subsequently moved to Greene county, Penna. His wife was Mary Hughes, a Green county lady. Colonel Charles Swan, the maternal great grandfather of Mr Lindsey, was a prominent man and pioneer settler of Greene county and located there as early as 1769. One of James Lindsey's sons, John Lindsey, was born in 1803 and died in 1865. He was a man of prominence and influence in Greene county and served as prothonotary and sheriff. He married Miss Anna Collins, the father of whom was of Irish origin and a native of Delaware. Their eldest son, the late Honorable James Lindsey, was president judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District and died while in office in 1864. Judge Lindsey was an able lawyer, a fine jurist and a most exemplary citizen, as well as one of the most popular judges that ever presided over the courts of the district. He had a host of most worthy friends and his death was universally lamented by all. Remembrance Hughes Lindsey, the youngest brother of Judge Lindsey, at the age of sixteen entered Waynesburg College, where he continued his studies until he received the appointment as cadet to West Point and was graduated from West Point school with highest distinction, and great credit to himself, in the class of 1869. Soon after his graduation he was promoted to second lieutenant in the Third Artillery, United States Army, and served for only a short time when he resigned. He stood high as an officer in the army, receiving a complimentary letter from General T W Sherman, an account of his faithful service as an officer, and his unbending integrity as a gentleman. While in the army, Mr Lindsey pursued his law studies; returning home he finished reading law at Waynesburg, sufficiently so to be admitted to the bar to practice law in 1871. In 1872 he located at Uniontown and began with remarkable success, the practice of his profession. As a lawyer at the bar he is quiet and even in his temperament, courteous and polite to his witnesses; has a penetrating manner and added to this, he has a polished address and is one of the most finished speakers at the bar. In 1873 he was nominated by his party, the democrats, for the office of district attorney and was elected by a large majority. He served until 1877 when he declined a re-nomination and has since devoted his time most assiduously to the interests of his many clients. He has built up a large and remunerative practice in the courts of Fayette, and his services are often in demand in the courts of adjoining counties. On December 27, 1877, he was married to Miss Eliza Willson, daughter of the late Hon Alpheus Willson. The true life of a successful lawyer can never be fully and perfectly written for some of his greatest efforts are made in his library among his books and briefs and others replete with learning and eloquence delivered in the judicial forum are often only preserved in "naked verdicts of juries and formal decrees of courts." So in tracing Mr Lindsey's career at the bar, as well as any other successful lawyer, we can only make record of a portion of his legal efforts. There is nothing of importance in a case that does not receive his whole attention and to the consideration of which he brings an intelligence and comprehension that always commands respect. p194 REMEMBRANCE HUGHES LINDSEY, a leading lawyer of the Fayette county bar, is a son of John Lindsey and Anna Collins Lindsey, and was born in Greene county, Penna, April 14, 1845. His ancestry is traced back through that long lived and wonderfully energetic Scotch Irish race. Scotland being located as the birthplace of his paternal great grandfather, who left that realm of titled classes and aristocratic privileges, and south the shores of the new world, for a home in the land of free institutions and democratic principles. He landed in the Quaker province and settled in Lancaster county, Penna, where Mr Lindsey's paternal grandfather, James Lindsey, was born and reared. He was engaged in mercantile pursuits for a few years and subsequently moved to Greene county, Penna. His wife was Mary Hughes, a Green county lady. Colonel Charles Swan, the maternal great grandfather of Mr Lindsey, was a prominent man and pioneer settler of Greene county and located there as early as 1769. One of James Lindsey's sons, John Lindsey, was born in 1803 and died in 1865. He was a man of prominence and influence in Greene county and served as prothonotary and sheriff. He married Miss Anna Collins, the father of whom was of Irish origin and a native of Delaware. Their eldest son, the late Honorable James Lindsey, was president judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District and died while in office in 1864. Judge Lindsey was an able lawyer, a fine jurist and a most exemplary citizen, as well as one of the most popular judges that ever presided over the courts of the district. He had a host of most worthy friends and his death was universally lamented by all. Remembrance Hughes Lindsey, the youngest brother of Judge Lindsey, at the age of sixteen entered Waynesburg College, where he continued his studies until he received the appointment as cadet to West Point and was graduated from West Point school with highest distinction, and great credit to himself, in the class of 1869. Soon after his graduation he was promoted to second lieutenant in the Third Artillery, United States Army, and served for only a short time when he resigned. He stood high as an officer in the army, receiving a complimentary letter from General T W Sherman, an account of his faithful service as an officer, and his unbending integrity as a gentleman. While in the army, Mr Lindsey pursued his law studies; returning home he finished reading law at Waynesburg, sufficiently so to be admitted to the bar to practice law in 1871. In 1872 he located at Uniontown and began with remarkable success, the practice of his profession. As a lawyer at the bar he is quiet and even in his temperament, courteous and polite to his witnesses; has a penetrating manner and added to this, he has a polished address and is one of the most finished speakers at the bar. In 1873 he was nominated by his party, the democrats, for the office of district attorney and was elected by a large majority. He served until 1877 when he declined a re-nomination and has since devoted his time most assiduously to the interests of his many clients. He has built up a large and remunerative practice in the courts of Fayette, and his services are often in demand in the courts of adjoining counties. On December 27, 1877, he was married to Miss Eliza Willson, daughter of the late Hon Alpheus Willson. The true life of a successful lawyer can never be fully and perfectly written for some of his greatest efforts are made in his library among his books and briefs and others replete with learning and eloquence delivered in the judicial forum are often only preserved in "naked verdicts of juries and formal decrees of courts." So in tracing Mr Lindsey's career at the bar, as well as any other successful lawyer, we can only make record of a portion of his legal efforts. There is nothing of importance in a case that does not receive his whole attention and to the consideration of which he brings an intelligence and comprehension that always commands respect. p357 ROBERT JOHN LINTON. The world honors those men who have won respectable and important standing in their life by their own unaided efforts, and in this class will be found Robert John Linton, son of Joseph and Mary Linton, who was born July 24, 1834, in County Antrim, Ireland. His father, while not a rich man, was yet in very comfortable circumstances. Robert J Linton was raised on a farm, was partly educated in Ireland where he attended the pay schools of that county, then celebrated for their thorough training and effective work. Ambitious and energetic, he sought for a wider sphere of action in the business world than could be found in Ireland at that time, and upon attaining his majority came in September, 1855, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a determination to do something, but with a no definite idea of what that something would be. In a short time he engaged with the Adams Express Company, having charge of their trains, continuing with them but a short time and quitting with a few hundred dollars he has saved. He now proposed to secure a better education and attended Twinsburg Academy for two years. On leaving school he engaged with R C Schmertz & Co, manufacturers and dealers in glass lamps. He continued in their employ in Pittsburgh until 1865 when the firm bought out George A Berry & Co's window glass works at Belle Vernon and increased their capacity from sixteen pots to forty pots, being four ten-pot furnaces. From 1862 to 1868 he traveled and sold goods for the firm and in the latter years located at Belle Vernon as general manager of the R C Schmertz & Co's window glass works. In 1872 he became a member of the firm and by his active exertions and good management, has continued to build up their business into its present prosperous condition. These glass works are the largest of their kind in the world. The works cover three acres of ground with improvements amounting to $125,000 and operated on an invested capital of $200,000, and do a yearly business of $360,000; 312 men are employed and 136,800 boxes of window glass are made on an average every year. Their goods sell from Boston to San Francisco and from the lakes to the gulf. Mr Linton was married in 1864 to Miss Caroline S Doolittle, a native of Henderson, Ohio. They had three children: Robert Linton; Grace Linton and Clara Linton. Clara Linton married Rev W B Hamilton of Washington, Penna, missionary, and went to China where she died in six weeks after her arrival. Mr Linton is an extensive holder in the Belle Vernon Light and Heat Co. He is a Mason, is a highly respected member of the Belle Vernon Presbyterian church and in which he has been an elder for several years. Robert J Linton has been emphatically the architect of his own fortune. He is a most excellent and accommodating manager, an honest man, a consistent Christian, and a worthy, intelligent citizen. He is liberal in his views, but earnest in his convictions. His thought upon any subject is good and his expression clear. He is naturally and amply qualified for leadership in any great enterprise of the business world. p554 GEORGE LIVINGSTONE, the popular and leading merchant of Falls City, was born at Brownsville, Fayette county, Penna, May 28, 1847, and is a son of Austin Livingstone and Phebe Johnson Livingstone. Austin Livingstone, son of George Livingstone, was born in Fayette county in 1819 and was a well known citizen of Brownsville. He married Miss Phebe Johnson and reared a family of eight children: George Livingstone, James T Livingstone, Rebecca Livingstone, David E Livingstone, Anna J Livingstone, Austin Livingstone, Adam J Livingstone and Carrie J Livingstone. George Livingstone received his education in the common schools, and at an early age engaged as a clerk for J R Dutton of Brownsville. His next employment was on the western waters, where he served for several years as a steamboat clerk, and then engaged in his present general mercantile business at Falls City. His store is of ample dimensions and tastefully arranged throughout. His stock of goods and wares are of first class quality and carefully selected from the leading houses of the Eastern cities. In 1868 he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah M Wood of Brownsville. To their union were born four children: Dora Livingstone (dead); John D W Livingstone; Brown Livingstone and Mary Luella Livingstone. Mrs Livingstone died in November, 1880, and Mr Livingstone married for his second wife Miss Ellen E Campbell, sister of G W Campbell. Mr Livingstone is a live business man, and a prominent and respected citizen of Falls City and Stewart township. p444 KELL LONG was born August 16, 1847, in Franklin township, Fayette county, Penna. Robert Long, paternal grandfather was born in Lancaster county, moved to Connellsville and was a blacksmith by trade. He served as county commissioner of Fayette county for two terms. He was a member of the United Presbyterian church of Laurel Hill. He was always a very active worker in the church, and was a ruling elder for many years. He married Catherine Foster, a native of Lancaster county. They had the following children: May Long, Sarah Long, William Long, John Long, Samuel Long, and James Long. John Long is a farmer and lives in Belmont county, Ohio. Samuel Long is a farmer of Connellsville township. Gustavus Kell, the maternal grandfather, was born in Ireland. He came to America and settled in Westmoreland county. He fought at the battle of Cowpens in the Revolutionary War, and married Abigail Smith of Westmoreland, and had the following children: Sarah Kell, born September 16, 1821; Selinda Kell, born March 18, 1823; Caroline Kell, born October 10, 1825; and Harriet Kell, born September 6, 1827. Kell Long is the son of James M Long and Sarah Kell Long. James M Long was born in Connellsville in 1819 and followed farming. Kell Long was born and reared on a farm, and was educated in the common schools. In 1872 he married Miss Leonora Patterson, daughter of Hugh Patterson of Perry township. In 1873 he went west and engaged as a clerk with S P Pond & Company, wholesale produce dealers in Burlington, Iowa, where he remained till 1874. He then returned to New Haven, Penna, and engaged in the milling grain and agricultural implement business. He was married the second time to Miss Elizabeth Curry, daughter of James Curry of Dunbar township. They have four children: James C Long, born December 13, 1877; Mabel Long, born July 23, 1879; Sallie Long, born March 25, 1881, and Ralph Kell Long, born September 7, 1882. He and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian church at Connellsville, and he is one of the trustees of the church. He has served as a member of the school board and of the council several times. His maternal ancestors were noted for their longevity. His great grandfather was one hundred and four years old. His great grandfather lived to be ninety years old, and his grandfather lived to be seventy two years of age. p463 SAMUEL N LONG, a prosperous farmer of Connellsville township and a well known citizen of Fayette county, was born at Connellsville, Fayette county, Penna, July 14, 1821, and is a son of Robert Long and Catherine Foster Long. Robert Long was a blacksmith, and pursued his trade at Connellsville for twenty years, when he removed to the present from of his son Samuel N Long, and was engaged in farming from the time of his removal until his death in 1849 at the age of sixty two years. He was well and favorably known; a democrat, and had served as county commissioner and was a strong and active member of the United Presbyterian church of which his wife was also a member. She died in 1868 aged eighty one years. Samuel N Long is of Welsh-German descent, reared at Connellsville until eleven years of age, when he accompanied his parents to their farm in Connellsville township. His education was received at Connellsville and under the old subscription schoolmasters and while not full in many things, yet was practical and sufficient for all business purposes. Mr Long has made farming his life vocation, and by good management and intelligent supervision, has achieved great success. On December 24, 1846, Samuel N Long was married to Miss Jemima Humbert of Dunbar township. She died in 1854, leaving three children: Humbert Long, Catherine Long and Hannah Long. He was married in 1855 to Mrs Elizabeth Cramer of Dunbar township. She died in 1880 and left three sons: Robert Long, George Long, and James Long. In 1881 Mr Long was married to Mrs Martha Smith Wilson of near Uniontown. Samuel N Long owns his father's farm of 103 acres of choice farming land and has added to it thirty one acres of adjoining land. His farm is one and a half miles north of Connellsville, and is well improved and in a good state of cultivation. He is a democrat, served from 1881 to 1884 as director of the poor, was school director for twenty one years, and has held nearly all the township offices. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Connellsville and is a large and liberal contributor to his church. He is a prosperous farmer, a successful businessman and is well known throughout the county. p510 Dr WILLIAM A LONGANECKER of German-Irish descent and physician of Fairchance, was born near Masontown, German township, Fayette county, Penna, April 19, 1849, and is a son of Jacob F Longanecker and Matilda Moser Longanecker. He is descended from the well known, industrious and highly respected Longanecker family of Lancaster county, Penna. His grandfather, Joseph Longanecker, came from Lancaster county to German township in early manhood. He was strictly honest and well respected, and accumulated a large amount of property during his lifetime and at his death each of his eight children received a valuable farm. One of his sons, Jacob Longanecker, the father of Dr William A Longanecker, was born June 17, 1818, and died April 7, 1889. He was a farmer and stockdealer, owing and residing until 1882 upon the farm of 212 acres where he was born and reared. In 1882 he bought a farm of one hundred acres adjacent to Smithfield where he resided till February 19, 1889, when he removed to Fairchance and died two months later. Jacob F Longanecker was a republican and was held in such high respect as a private citizen and a capable businessman that he was elected county commissioner in 1855 when Fayette county was strongly democrat. His management of the county affairs was so acceptable to the people that many of them solicited him to offer for sheriff, but he declined to make the race. He was a faithful member of the German Baptist church and a member of the Masonic order. He was married February 24, 1842, to Matilda Moser. They had three children, two daughter, Mary Ann Longanecker and Elmira Longanecker, both dead; and William A Longanecker. Mrs Longanecker was born January 5, 1819, and is a daughter of Daniel and Susanna Moser. Dr Longanecker was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools and Waynesburg College. Leaving college he received a professional certificate from County Superintendent Joshua V Gibbons and taught six terms in the common schools. In 1871 he began the study of medicine with Dr G W Neff of Masontown. In 1874 he attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College and graduated March 10, 1876. On April 4, 1876, he formed a partnership with Dr H B Mathiot of Smithfield with whom he continued till 1886. In 1880 he removed to Fairchance where he is engaged in successful practice. On October 19, 1882, he was married to Miss Ida F Mathiot, daughter of Dr H B Mathiot. Their union has been blessed with two children: Ellen D Longanecker, born March 10, 1887; and Carrie M Longanecker, born August 3, 1889. In politics he is a republican and has served as school director of Georges township. In 1870 he served as assistant census marshall and took the census of German, Nicholson, Georges and Springhill townships. He is an active worker in the Presbyterian church while his wife is an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Dr Longanecker in 1882 erected his present fine residence at Fairchance and is enjoying an extensive and lucrative practice. p285 JOHN ADAMS LYONS was born in Springhill township, Fayette county, Penna, July 10, 1824, and is of Scotch Irish and Welsh parentage. He is a prominent member of one of the old and well-connected families of the southern part of the county. He is a son of Major Philip Lyons and Susan Morgan Lyons, the latter being a daughter of David Morgan, a well-to-do farmer of Fayette county, who died at the age of fifty four years, February 14, 1787. Major Philip Lyons was a fine penman, a good mathematician, a successful farmer and stock-raiser. When twenty six years of age he married Miss Susan Morgan and unto their marriage were born nine children: George Lyons; Mary Lyons; Nancy Lyons; Elizabeth Lyons; William Lyons; Morgan Lyons; John A Lyons; Margaret Lyons; and Samuel Lyons. Philip Lyons was a major in the militia regiment, was well and favorably known throughout the county until his death in December, 1845. William Lyons, grandfather, emigrated from New Jersey to Springhill township in 1787 which was then almost a wilderness. His capital for commencing business consisted of a few blacksmith tools, a good span of horses, and twelve and one half cents in money. He was quiet, attentive to business and by half a century of hard labor and careful management, amassed a large estate. At seventy one years of age, he died leaving to each of his six sons and three daughters a large well-stocked farm. John A Lyons was educated in the old Grassy Run schoolhouse of his native township under the subscription school system of his day. In politics he is a republican. He and his wife are unassuming, useful members of the Lutheran church at Morris Cross Roads. In 1848 he cast his first presidential vote for Taylor and in 1852 he voted for Pierce, the anti-whig candidate. In 1856 he cast his first presidential candidates in his life, Freemont and Blaine. He was elected over a democrat in a township where his party was largely in the minority. He was also appointed to the same office by the county commissioners and collected the township tax during the same year, having been appointed collector by the same authority. In 1868 he was nominated by his party for the office of county commissioner, but was defeated owing to the county being overwhelmingly democratic. He was school director for his township for eight consecutive years and has held several other township offices. In the spring of 1845 he was elected first lieutenant of the Springhill militia, received his commission of Colonel Mustard at Smithfield which he resigned the same day and joined the Georges Creek Cavalry serving with it for seven years. In 1847 his cavalry received a call from the government to join General Taylor's forces to help defeat the Mexicans. The company voted almost unanimously to do so, but before it was ready to start peace was declared. John A Lyons married Miss Margaret Huhn, daughter of Henry Huhn and Eliza Showalters Huhn, January 21, 1847. Of this union were born twelve children: William T Lyons; Susan Lyons, dead; an infant, dead; Henry H Lyons married Eliza Rhodes; Amzi F Lyons married Samantha Gance; Philip L Lyons married Ollie J Stentz; Alvin D Lyons married Elma Hill; Estella Lyons married Alvin J Stentz; John C Lyons, dead; Lou B Lyons married Belford E Lynn; Thomas Lyons and Benjamin F Lyons. Mr Lyons grew to manhood on his father's farm. After becoming of age he engaged in farming and from 1845 to 1849 he rented his father's farm. In 1849 he purchased 130 acres of his present farm near Morris Cross Roads and removed there. Twelve years later he added twenty six acres to his original purchase. In 1872 he built a large, handsome frame dwelling house near the center of his farm and four years later he erected a large barn near his residence. Mr Lyons has now almost retired from active business, lives in his beautiful residence near Morris Cross Roads, superintends his farm and enjoys the confidence, good will and respect of neighbors.