Bios: Mi-My 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 Miller, B L Springfield 557 Miller, Jacob Dunbar 459 Miller, L S Jefferson 557 Miller, Louis Sowers Brnv & Bdgpt 556 Miller, Reuben Connellsville 457 Miller, W H H Uniontown 201 Miller, William H Miscellaneous 500 Minehart, A G Brnv & Bdgpt 286 Minerd, D E Dunbar 458 Moffitt, Dr J E Uniontown 202 Molleston, H J, Rev Tyrone 365 Monaghan, Garret Nicholson 514 Moore, G D Georges 514 Moore, G L Brnv & Bdgpt 288 Moore, J C Dunbar 458 Moore, Joseph Brnv & Bdgpt 287 Moore, M R Luzerne 559 Moore, P H Uniontown 205 Moore, R F Menallen 366 Moore, W R Menallen 406 Moore, W R German 516 same as bio on 406 Morris, S A Uniontown 207 Morris, Samuel Uniontown 207 Morrison, Francis Stewart 560 Morrow, Paoli S Uniontown 208 Moser, A J Uniontown 209 Mullan, W C Tyrone 366 Mullen, J J, Dr Dunbar 464 Mullen, W D Washington 361 Munson, G A Connellsville 459 Murphy, A S Bullskin 563 Murphy, P P Franklin 367 Myers, Isaac Henry Clay 559 p557. BENTON L MILLER is one of the leading businessmen of Springfield township, and is a son of Jacob A H Miller and Louisa Sherbondy Miller, and was born in Springfield township, Fayette county, Penna, December 30, 1853. His grandfather, Abram H Miller, was born near Meyersdale, Somerset county, in 1787, and died at ninety two years of age. He was a farmer and married a Miss Long. His father Jacob A H Miller was born in Somerset county in 1829, and died in Springfield township, September 29, 1862. On February 14, 1853, he was married by Rev Wakefield to Miss Louisa, daughter of David Sherbondy. Mr Miller owned a good farm, was engaged in mercantile business for some time and also dealt in stock. Benton L Miller was educated in the common schools of Springfield township, and at the Pennsville Normal School when under the supervision of Prof Axtell. Leaving school he engaged in teaching, which he continued for four years, when he engaged in the hotel business. Retiring from the hotel, he invested in a store which he successfully operated until May 21, 1884, when his building and stock were destroyed by fire. After meeting this loss, Mr Miller engaged in farming and stock raising in which he has continued up to the present time. On December 29, 1880, he was married by the Rev James Hollingshead to Miss Ina, daughter of Elias Tannehill of Somerset county. Their union has been blessed with four children: Bernard Miller, born December 9, 1881; Kate Miller, born October 2, 1883; Lulu Netta Miller, born September 11, 1885; and Archie L Miller, born August 2, 1887. Mr Miller is an ardent worker in the democratic party. He was a candidate for the nomination of county treasurer in 1884, and again in 1887. In each election he ran next to the nominee. He is a general agent for farming implements, and is in the front rank of Springfield's business men. He is a member of K of P, and also of Eylan Lodge, No 260, I O R M. He was the first sachem of his tribe and is now its representative to the great council. He is a popular and capable citizen of his township. p459 JACOB MILLER was born in Fayette county, Penna, in 1832. His father, Andrew Miller, was born in the same county, and was married to Catherine Hiles. The had the following named children: John Miller, Jacob Miller, Susan Miller, Joseph Miller, William Miller, James Miller, Polly Miller, George Miller, Andrew Miller and Samuel Miller. Jacob Miller was educated in the common schools of the county. On leaving school he learned the blacksmith trade, a business he has followed all his life. He served in the War of the Rebellion three years and eight months, volunteering August 7, 1861, in the First Virginia Cavalry, and took part in the following named battles: Mt Slaughter, Westville, Winchester, Romney, Ft Republic, and various other battles. He was orderly to Colonel Deponey, and at one time was bearer of important dispatches to General Banks. On his way he ran into the pickets of the rebel army and was immediately taken prisoner. By skillful maneuvering he succeeded in disposing of his dispatches so they failed to get into the hands of the enemy. He returned home and was married to Miss Mary Smiley, daughter of William Smiley of Frostburg, Maryland. Their union has been blessed with the following named children: William Miller, Annie Miller, Belle Miller, Andrew Miller, Jacob C Miller, Franklin P Miller and Elvietta Miller. He is a member of Post 155, GAR at Dunbar. p557 LOUIS S MILLER attended the common schools and received his business education in the Iron City Commercial College. On November 10, 1872, he was married to Miss Mary A Forsythe, daughter of William Forsythe and Jane P Steele Forsythe, of Jefferson township. They have six children: Laura Miller, Frank Miller, Oliver Miller, Jennie Miller, Lizzie Miller and William Augustus Miller. Louis S Miller in December, 1879, became a member of the "Little Alps Coal Company, Limited" operating the Little Alps Mine on his farm, just opposite the town of California. After some changes in 1880, Mr Miller and J Underwood , J S Elliott, and John W Ailes formed a partnership and opened their present "Snow Hill Mine" in Jefferson township opposite the village of Roscoe. The average yearly output of this mine is 1,500,000 bushels of coal, which is of very fine quality and is in great demand from Cincinnati to New Orleans. This company employes from 100 to 150 men at their coal works and ship their coal down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. They own a general mercantile store at Roscoe, and are proprietors of the steamer Crescent. The beautiful home farm of Mr Miller is opposite California. It contains one hundred acres of choice land, and is on the projected Ohio & Baltimore short line railroad. Mr Miller is a republican and is serving his fourth term as a trustee of the State Normal School at California. He is a member of the O W A M and is one of the enterprising and successful businessmen of Fayette county. p556 LOUIS SOWERS MILLER, a prominent coal operator of the Monongahela Valley, is the only child of Augustus I Miller and Elizabeth K Marchand Miller, and was born in Brownsville, Fayette county, Penna, March 16, 1848. His grandfather, Israel Miller, was a very prominent business man of Brownsville, who was born April 8, 1783, and died April 16, 1871. May 6, 1810, he married Miss Anna Marie Sowers. They had five sons and six daughters. Mrs Miller was born June 29, 1790, and died May 5, 1850. She was a daughter of Micheal and Dorothy Sowers. Mr Sowers was born October 16, 1752, and was one of the early business men of Brownsville. His father Augustus I Miller (third son of Israel Miller) was born February 2, 1821, and was married November 13, 1845, to Miss Elizabeth K, daughter of Dr Louis Marchand. (see sketch of L A Marchand) Mrs Miller died March 18, 1848. Mr Miller was a brave soldier and gave his life in support of the Federal cause. He enlisted in April, 1861, in the Twelfth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers for three months, re-enlisted in November, 1861, for three years in Company H, Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry, and died in Louisville, Kentucky, August 19, 1863, of disease contracted in the service. p457 REUBEN MILLER, merchant tailor and dealer in men's furnishings, of Connellsville, was born in Lebanon county, Penna, February 21, 1833, and is a son of Samuel Miller and Mary Poorman Miller. His great grandfather Johan Miller came from Switzerland to Lebanon county, Penna, where he afterwards owned 500 acres of the finest land in the Lebanon Valley. On this tract of land, the present town of Annville (formerly Millerstown) was founded. One of his sons, David Miller, a farmer and member of the German Reformed church, was the father of Samuel Miller, born in 1805 and died in 1876; he was a linen weaver and farmer of Lebanon county. Samuel Miller was a whig, a member of the Union Baptist church. He was married to Mary Poorman who was born in 1809 and died in 1885 at Anville. Her father, Henry Poorman, was a blacksmith, a Lutheran, and the owner of a large farm. Reuben Miller attended the free schools in the winter and worked on a farm in summer until fourteen years of age, when he entered on a five year apprenticeship in learning the trade of tailor with Samuel Seaguer. His compensation was washing, board, and two weeks leave of absence during harvest time. Leaving Seaguer he worked on a saw mill for three years, and was then employed for eighteen years as a journeyman and cutter. During this time he worked in Williamsport, Pittsburgh, and Lansing, Michigan. In 1880 Mr Miller came to Connellsville and engaged as a cutter with Charles Norcross. In September, 1882, he engaged for himself in merchant tailoring business, and has acquired a very liberal share of the best trade of Connellsville and vicinity. He carries a large and complete assortment of choice cloths, cassimeres, suitings and vestings for gentlemen's wear of both foreign and domestic manufacture. Mr Miller also has a full stock of hats, caps, and all articles to be found in a first class furnishing store. In 1858 he married Miss Sarah Foreman of Middletown, Penna, who died in 1863, leaving one child, Robert N Miller, who soon followed her; Elmer E Miller, another son who died at the age of fourteen years. He was remarried in 1865 to Miss Emma Clepper, daughter of William Clepper of Shippensburg, Penna. They have one child, Alice May Miller. Reuben Miller is a Heptasoph and Red Man. He is a democrat and a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church. "Both as a business man and a citizen he is highly respected by the many who know him, and enjoys the full confidence of the entire community." p590 WILLIAM H MILLER of Bridgeport is of English Quaker descent on his paternal side. His great-grandfather, Solomon Miller, who was a miller by trade, was born in England, married there, and emigrated with his family to America prior to 1750, and settled in York County, Penna. Of his children was Robert Miller, who was born in York county, Penna, and in early manhood removed to Frederick county, near Frederick, Maryland, and purchased a farm, and soon after married Miss Cassandra Wood, a Virginia lady, who lived near Winchester, Virginia. They resided upon the farm near Frederick City till 1796 when they removed to Berkeley county, Virginia, where they remained about three years, and then in 1799 came into Fayette county and settled in Luzerne township on a farm purchased of one Joseph Briggs, and now owned by Captain Isaac Woodward. Residing there for several years, his wife meanwhile dying, Robert Miller eventually moved into Brownsville and took up his residence on Front street, upon property now belonging to the heirs of Thomas Morehouse, and there died about 1832. He was the father of four sons and four daughters, all of whom grew to maturity. Of these was William Miller, who was born September 9, 1782, in Frederick county, Maryland. At the age of sixteen he became a clerk in a dry-goods store belonging to his uncle William Wood in New Market, Virginia, and in 1799 came with his father to Fayette county. He soon after took up the avocation of school-teaching and pursued it near Perryopolis, in the old Friends' church, known as Redstone church in Bridgeport, on what was formerly called "Peace Hill" and elsewhere. He followed teaching until 1810 when he married Miss Rebecca Johnson, daughter of Squire Daniel Johnson of Menallen, and at once settled on a farm in that township near New Salem, and lived there until March, 1837. He then removed to Brownsville and purchased a woolen factory (no longer standing) and a flouring mill, then standing on the site whereon is located the present flouring mill of his son W H Miller. He pursued milling till 1855, when he retired form business and led a private life until his death which occurred June 7, 1866. Mrs Rebecca Miller died November 14, 1833, and in 1834 Mr Miller married Ann Johnson, his first wife's half sister, who childless herself, made a good mother for her sister's children. She is still living, nearly eighty years of age, cheerful and buoyant in spirits. Mr William and Mrs Rebecca Johnson Miller were the parents of nine children, all of whom grew to maturity, eight still living: Warwick Miller born 12/11/1811; Hiram Miller, born 12/31/1813; Sarah Miller, born 9/7/1816; Mary Miller, born 2/5/1819; Cassandra Miller (deceased) born 3/3/1821; Lydia Miller, born 1/14/1823; Jane Miller, born 6/30/1825; William H Miller, born 3/6/1829; and Oliver Miller, born 12/13/1831. William H Miller, the eight in the above list, was educated in the common and the Friends' school, and learned the milling business upon which he entered in partnership with his brother Oliver in 1855 in the mill before named, and which he and his brother inherited from their father. The partnership continued for five years, when Mr Miller bought out the interest of his brother, who removed to a farm in Luzerne township. In January, 1866, a fire destroyed both the flouring mill and the old woolen factory before referred to. The buildings being uninsured the loss was total. Mr Miller immediately put up a new and better building on the old site, and to this time conducts business therein. As is noted above, Mr Miller's great grandfather Solomon Miller was a miller by trade, and from his day down to the present the trade has been practically and continuously represented by his descendants. Mr Miller has held several town and borough offices, and was for eight years director in the Deposit and Discount Bank of Brownsville, which two years ago gave up its charter, a portion of its stockholders uniting in the organization of the National Deposit Bank of Brownsville, of which bank Mr William H Miller is the president, the National Bank doing business in the same house formerly occupied by the bank the place of which it took. May 16, 1855, Mr Miller married Miss Margaret J Gibson, daughter of Alexander and Mary Hibbs Gibson of Luzerne township. They have two children: A Gibson Miller, born 2/7/1861; and Sarah Helen Miller. Mr Miller was brought up an Orthodox Friend observing the faith of his fathers, but is now a member, as is also his wife, of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. In politics he is a republican. p201 WILLIAM H H MILLER. In the journalistic history of Fayette county, one of the papers that will never be forgotten was the old AMERICAN STANDARD. The last editors of this paper were Jacob B Miller and William H H Miller. William H H Miller was born at Rockford, Illinois, December 27, 1837, brought to Uniontown when quite small and attended Madison College. Leaving school, he learned "the art preservative of all arts" with this brother-in-law, John F Beazell, who at that time was the editor of the PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRAT. Mr Miller became the publisher of this paper in 1867, which was then called the AMERICAN STANDARD. He published the paper from 1867 to 1879 when he sold it. The REPUBLICAN STANDARD of today is the same paper. In 1882 he engaged in his present dry goods business, has a large store, and enjoys a good and increasing trade. He was elected school director in Uniontown in 1883, and served as such for six years. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, deacon in the church, and holds membership in the Royal Arcaneum. W H H Miller has had business training as well as editorial experience; working on his farm in Washington county, Penna, from the twelfth to the sixteenth year of his age. In 1856 he went to Pittsburgh and engaged in the coal business and boated coal down the Ohio and Mississippi to Cincinnati, Louisville and Memphis. He left the coal office for the editorial tripod in 1867 at the time when the local correspondence of the county press was generally of a political character; was one among the first editors of Southwestern Pennsylvania to establish a core of regular local correspondents in the different sections of the county. He largely assisted in making Fayette county papers what they now are, and better home newspapers are nowhere to be found in the State. He was married in 1858 to Miss Margaret Stewart of Pittsburgh, a daughter of Hugh and Jane Stewart. Hugh Stewart was a manufacturer of carding machines. Mr Miller has six living children: Emma Miller, Elizabeth Miller, Ada Miller, James Todd Miller, Edith Miller, and John Beazell Miller. Two of his children died young: Frank and Jacob B. W H H Miller is a son of John Miller and Mary Ann Amos Miller. His father was a native of Greenbrier county, West Virginia, and carried on a large tannery at Uniontown; removed to Rockford, Illinois, where he died in 1840. His mother was a native of Howard county, Maryland (near Baltimore). She died at her home in Pittsburgh in May, 1864, at the age of sixty three years. William H H Miller has never been idle; as a farm hand, coal dealer, clerk, printer, editor and as a merchant; has always been honest and active, though not worrying or rushing. He is a self-made man and whatever success he has achieved has been the work of his own brain and hand. p286 ADOLPH GARDNER MINEHART was born November 8, 1825, at Bridgeport, Fayette county, Penna. He was educated in the schools of his native town. Being of an active turn of mind, at an early age he assisted and worked at ruling paper. This was in the year 1835; also worked at papermaking for Carter, and also for Herbertson & Faull, engine builders, in the capacity of engineer. He did all the drilling, lath and rail work that composed the upper work of the iron bridge, the second of the kind erected in the United States of America, spanning Dunlap's or Nemicolin creek, uniting Brownsville and Bridgeport. This bridge was built by the government, being a part of the National Road, and was finished in 1838. He learned the trade of tailoring with H Casson, and after serving four years he finished his trade, crossed the Allegheny mountains on horseback with Robert Mitchell, who was going to Philadelphia with a drove of horses, and remained in the East until July, 1846, when he returned to Bridgeport to visit his parents expecting to return East, but his parents persuaded him to remain with them. He was married in Philadelphia to Miss Emma Selina Willits. She came to Pittsburgh, Penna, by canal and there joined her husband. She was a daughter of Jacob and Sarah Willits, and was born at Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, whither her grandfather had moved from Long Island, New York, in the spring of 1847. He opened business in West Brownsville, Washington county, and in the next spring he moved over to Bridgeport and in 1852 to Brownsville, at which place he has remained ever since and is the oldest merchant in the town. To their union have been born ten children: Samuel Hay Minehart, John Willits Minehart (dead), Charles Alexander Minehart, Emma Celeste Minehart (now Griffin), Mary E Minehart, William H Minehart, A G Minehart, Julia B Minehart, Thomas A Minehart, Adelaide Lemy Minehart. Adolph Minehart Sr came from Maryland with his father to New Geneva, and in the same year he learned glassblowing at Albert Gallatin's glass factory. He was born in 1788 and died in 1854. After learning his trade he went to Pittsburgh and worked for Mr Bakewell. His works were situated where the old B & O R R depot now stands. He married Miss Elizabeth Gardner, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 27, 1809. To their union were born eleven children: Julia A Minehart, Jacob C Minehart, Alexander Hay Minehart, Eliza Minehart, Samuel Minehart, Mary Minehart, Mariah Minehart, A G Minehart, Jno R Minehart, David Minehart, and William Minehart. Three of whom are living at this time: A G Minehart, Mariah Minehart, and Jno R Minehart. He moved to Bridgeport to enter into a partnership in erecting and prosecuting the glass business; he sold out his stock, and in after years was engaged in merchandising. His wife died in the year 1875, being eighty six years old at her death, having been born in the year 1789. p458 DAVID E MINERD was born in Fayette county, Penna, July 29, 1855. His paternal grandfather, Henry Minerd, was born in Somerset county, Penna, about 1790 and married Hester Sisler, a native of the same county. They had the following children: Daniel Minerd; James Minerd; William Minerd; Samuel Minerd; Mary Minerd; Mahala Minerd; Isaac Minerd; Andrew Minerd; John Minerd; Sarah A Minerd; George H Minerd; Barbara Minerd; Arthur Minerd, deceased; Maria Minerd; and Jesse Minerd. David E Minerd's father, Andrew Minerd, was born in Dunbar township, Fayette county, Penna, in 1823 and was married to Sarah Devan, daughter of Patrick Devan, a native of Ireland but a resident of Monroe at the time of the marriage. Andrew Minerd served in the Civil War, volunteered in 1862 in the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served twenty eight months. He has the following children: Marshall Minerd; Alice Minerd; Hester A Minerd; David E Minerd; Huston Minerd; Mary B Minerd; and Margaret Minerd. He has been a member of the Methodist Protestant church for forty two years, and has held at various times the offices of trustee and steward, and has always been an active member in church. David E Minerd received his education in the common schools of the county and afterwards learned the trade of blacksmith. He is a leading member of the Methodist Protestant church and has been for twenty one years. During the time he has held the office of class leader, trustee, steward, and in fact all of the offices of the church. Having been an officer most all the time since he first became a member. When the church at Dunbar was first built, it was very weak. It now has a membership roll of 250 members. In January, 1884, he was married to Sadie Williams, daughter of Abram Williams, a resident of this county. They have three children: Edna May Minerd; Mary Belle Minerd; and Bessie R Minerd. NOTE FROM MINERD DESCENDENT David Minerd's paternal grandparents, Henry Minerd and Hester Sisler were my 3x g, grandparents. Henry's father, Jacob Minerd, settled on the border of Fayette and Somerset Counties about 1790. Jacob served in the Revolution from Oley Twp., Berks Co.PA and is listed as a patriot by the DAR. A granddaughter of Henry Minerd and Hester Sisler by the name of Mariah Minerd m. Delmar Whetsel (my g,grandparents). Mariah was the daughter of James Minerd and Sarah Walters. Delmar's maternal great grandfather, Daniel Wetsel also settled in Fayette Co., sometime after the Revolutionary War and was listed in the 1790 Census. Delmar Whetsel was the son of Stephen Whetsel and Jane Whetsel. Marilyn Prinzing p202 J E MOFFITT, DDS, the oldest practitioner of dentistry in Uniontown, was born in Canton, Ohio, May 5, 1838. He studied dentistry and commenced practice with an older brother, J W Moffitt, in 1857 in Harrisburg, Penna. Dr Moffitt first came to Uniontown in 1873 with his father and engaged in the manufacture of teeth on Fayette street. It was the first manufactory of that kind west of the Allegheny Mountains. In the spring of 1876 he bought out Dr Young, the first resident dentist of Uniontown and resumed the practice of his profession in Uniontown where he has been engaged in active practice ever since. He is unmarried and resides in the house where his parents died, corner of Church and Redstone streets. Dr J E Moffitt is the son of the Rev John J Moffitt, a worthy preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church. Rev John J Moffitt, D D, was born near Boundbrook, New Jersey, July 23, 1811. His family lived in New Jersey for three or four generations previous to his birth. In 1827 he came to Northumberland county, Penna, where an older brother resided and with whom he remained till he reached manhood. In 1832 he was married in Cumberland county to Miss Charlotte Eppley. Her family had been settled in Dauphin, Cumberland and Lancaster counties for several generations. Mrs Moffitt was born October 25, 1809, and died in April, 1885, in the seventy sixth year of her age. In 1836 Rev J J Moffitt went west and settled at Canton, Ohio. He entered the ministry in 1838 of the Methodist Episcopal church and held the following appointments, consecutively: Sandyville, Carrollton and Richmond, Ohio; South Common, Allegheny City; and was elected to General Conference in 1856 presiding elder of Cambridge, Barnesville and McConnellsville districts, Ohio, for ten years. He was then stationed in Salem, Ohio; McKeesport, Penna; Uhrichsville, Ohio; Uniontown, Penna; Dawson, Uniontown Mission, Marchand and Meyersdale. Meyersdale was his last regular appointment. At the conference in 1879 he took a superannuated relation and settled at Uniontown where he lived until his death January 15, 1881, in the seventieth year of his age. At the conference of 1880 he was made a member of the court of appeals and received the honorary degree of doctor of divinity from Scioto University, Ohio, in 1872. No man ever lived and died in Uniontown who had more respect of the people than Rev Moffitt. His Christian bearing and courteous manner towards the entire community were such as to merit and receive the commendation of all. He was first stationed at Uniontown in 1873 and for three years he was pastor of the church. Many additions were made to the church roll during his ministry. In 1879 he returned to Uniontown and made it his permanent home. He was an able preacher, never enthusiastic but always earnest, plain and strong, and was a man of good judgment and strong character. p365 Rev HENRY MOLLESTON, postmaster at Dawson, is the son of Jonathan M Molleston and Sarah Waggoner Molleston. His father, Jonathan M Molleston, was born in Delaware and migrated to Pennsylvania and located at Greenfield, Washington county, Penna, over fifty years ago where he engaged in the practice of medicine which he continued successfully to the time of his death. He was a student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from where he was graduated and was a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. His wife was Sarah Waggoner, a native of Jefferson township, Fayette county, Penna, and born in 1819. She is living at Verona, Allegheny county, an active, strong woman. Her father, Joshua Waggoner, was a native of Westmoreland county and a devout member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. The paternal grandfather of Henry G Molleston was a resident of Delaware and was elected governor of Delaware on the whig ticket but died before he was installed as such. He was a prominent lawyer of Delaware and a successful politician. The Mollestons are of English descent. Henry G Molleston was born February 25, 1838, in Greenfield, now Coal Center, Washington county, Penna. After his father's death, he was principally reared by his grandfather Waggoner on a farm in Redstone township where he attended the common schools and afterwards the normal school at California, Penna. In 1861 he enlisted in Company I, Eighty fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was made a sergeant of the company and served for three years, participating in all the battles of his regiment and was discharged at Philadelphia in 1864 when he returned to Redstone township and engaged in farming till 1870. In the same year he located at Dawson and worked for James Cochran as engineer at his coke works for about seventeen years. July 1, 1889, he took charge of the post office at Dawson. In 1864 he was married to Miss Charlotte Skinner, the daughter of Courtland Skinner, a Baptist preacher of Fayette county. They have four children: William J Molleston; Sarah R Molleston; Trevyllian Molleston; and Ella S Molleston. Mr Molleston is a member of the I O O F, K of P, and the Redmen, and is a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church. p514 GARRET MONAGHAN, one of the young and progressive businessmen of Nicholson township, was born March 10, 1849, in the same township, Fayette county, Penna. His parents John Monaghan and Catherine McDonald Monaghan were natives of Ireland. The father, John Monaghan, migrated from his native land to the United States when he was quite young. He located in New Jersey and subsequently came to Fayette county, bought a farm of eighty acres in Nicholson township where he was engaged as a huckster and farmer the remainder of his life. He died at the age of sixty years. He was a devoted member of the Catholic church as was also his wife. She died May 5, 1889, at the age of sixty nine years. They were the parents of ten children, of whom six are still living. Garret Monaghan received a limited education in the district schools of his native township. In 1871 he was married to Miss Lavinia Anderson, a daughter of Samuel Anderson. To their union was born one child, a daughter: Florence Monaghan, born November 5, 1874. He owns a small but valuable farm of 22 1/2 acres on which he has erected a good house and has a pleasant and comfortable home. He is a member of the Catholic church, wile his wife and daughter are consistent members of the Baptist church. p514 GEORGE D MOORE, deceased. The late George D Moore, a well known and prominent man of Georges township, was a son of John Moore and Prudence Dearth Moore. He was born in Luzerne township, Fayette county, Penna, November 25, 1817, and died at his residence in Georges township, this county, May 13, 1879. John Moore was a descendant of an old and highly respectable Quaker family of New Jersey. He emigrated from the latter state to Fayette county and settled in Luzerne township, where he married Miss Prudence Dearth; to their union were born six children: William Moore, Jesse Moore, John Moore, Mary Moore, Elizabeth Moore and George D Moore. George D Moore received a farm training, and, equipped with a good practical education, began life for himself. He was united in marriage to Miss Minerva Heaton, a daughter of Joseph Heaton of Luzerne township. Her grandfather, John Heaton, was a native of Berkeley county, Virginia, and came to Greene county, Penna, remained a year, then removed to Xenia, Ohio, and purchased a large tract of land. Her maternal grandfather was Colonel Henry Heaton, a native of Fayette county, who was a colonel in the War of 1812, and a member of the Pennsylvania legislature. Her father, Joseph Heaton, was a whig and republican. He always refused to run for office, and stood high in his community for integrity and honesty. His death occurred November 12, 1873, in the eighty sixth year of his age, and which occasioned by fall at Uniontown down the courthouse stairs. He had had two children: Mrs Moore and Clarinda Heaton, wife of Alpheus Gans of Springfield township. Mr and Mrs Moore had eight children: Elmira Moore, wife of James Hertig of Jefferson county, Kansas; Albert G Moore; Clara E Moore; Oliver Moore married Susanna Burt, daughter of Dr Burt of Franklin county, Ohio, went to Chase county, Kansas, where he afterwards died; Nancy Moore married Joseph Weltner, a farmer of Monongalia county, West Virginia; John F Moore married Emma V Goe, daughter of General Goe of Redstone township; William Edgar Moore married Ella V Hall, daughter of S K Hall of Greensboro, Penna, and is a farmer and gardener at Fairchance. George D Moore was a pupil for some time under Joshua B Gibbons and, leaving school, was engaged for a short time in merchandising in Luzerne township. He was a steady, thoroughgoing man, and was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church, of which Mrs Moore is also a member. p288 GEORGE L MOORE is the son of William B Moore and Eliza Sharp Moore. William B Moore is a native of Luzerne township, Fayette county, Penna, and is still living in that township. He is a millwright by trade. Eliza Sharp Moore was born in Washington county, Penna. John Moore, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Luzerne township and followed farming. John Moore, the great grandfather of the subject of this sketch, went with his father Philip Moore, from New Jersey on the Delaware River between Easton and Philadelphia to the neighborhood of Hagerstown, Maryland, about the time of the Revolutionary War. From Hagerstown he came to Fayette county, Penna. George L Moore is a native of Luzerne township, Fayette county, and was born October 30, 1843. At the age of twelve years he received a position as an errand boy on a steamboat; continued in this capacity for five or six years, being employed on the boat during the summer and attending school at home during the winter. He subsequently attended the State Normal school, located at that time at Millsboro, Washington county, Penna, but now at California, Penna. At the age of eighteen years Mr Moore commenced to teach district school in Fayette county, and continued to teach in the winter seasons for seven or eight years. In 1868 Mr Moore formed a partnership with his brother at Millsboro, in a small line of country store business; in this he continued till 1873 when he sold out to his brother. He then came to Bridgeport and entered into a partnership with C W Wanee, the firm being named Moore & Wanee, in the hardware and agricultural implement business, and ran this business till 1875 when Mr Wanee died. He then bought out the interest in the store held by his estate, and has continued the business in his own name ever since. He has built up a good trade, has been deservedly successful in business, and now stands as one of the leading merchants of the place. He was one of the prime movers in organizing the company to bore for natural gas at Bridgeport in 1885. Since then he has been interested in two other companies which operated at the same place. He has always taken an active interest in everything toward the advancement of the interests of his town. He is interested in the Eclipse Flouring Mills, which have the roller process. He was elected school director of Luzerne township on the republican ticket. He resides in what is known as Luzerne Township Village. In 1873 he was married to Miss Emma F Gibbons, daughter of E P Gibbons of Luzerne township, who was one of the leading men of his township during his life. He died in 1886, aged fifty eight years. Five children were born to this union: Guy G Moore, Frank D Moore, Charlie L Moore, Carl F Moore and Elisha P Moore. Mr Moore is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and has been a deacon since 1869. p458 JAMES C MOORE of Vanderbilt is a son of James Moore and Sarah Herbert Moore, and was born October 30, 1849, in Dunbar township, Fayette county, Penna. His paternal grandfather, James Moore, was a native of Massachusetts, emigrated at an early age to Fayette county, Penna, where he died. He was a farmer and married Susanna Swink, to whom were born seven children. James F Moore, the father of James C Moore, was the oldest of the children and was born January 15, 1811, in Fayette county, Penna. He married Sarah B Herbert. To them were born the following children: Martin Luther Moore, Margaret A Moore, James C Moore, Susanna Moore, Agnes Moore, William Moore, Sarah Moore, Lydia Moore and Herbert Moore. Sarah B Herbert was the daughter of Richard Herbert, native of New Jersey, migrated to Fayette county, Penna, when a young man, and married Margaret Shupe, a native of Fayette county. They had five children, Sarah B being the youngest. James C Moore was born and raised on a farm and educated in the common schools of Dunbar township. At the age of twenty one years, he commenced work on his own account, in the coal mines, for some years as a common laborer; and for the last twelve years he has been a mining boss. He holds a certificate of service, granted November, 1885, which constituted him mining boss for James Cochran Sons & Company at Vanderbilt; he also holds a certificate of competency as a mining boss, for any drift bituminous coal mine in the State of Pennsylvania, granted him a short time afterwards. He was married December 26, 1872, to Sarah A Strickler. To them were born the following children: Ada Moore, Gracie C Moore, Philip C Moore, Harry S Moore, Nelson R Moore and Robert E Moore. Sarah A Strickler is the daughter of Henry Strickler of Tyrone township. Mr Moore and wife are members of the Disciple church at Vanderbilt. He is deacon in the church, is a member of the Royal Arcanum, Knights of Pythias, and the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and has passed through all of the chairs of the "Mystic Chain" and Knights of Pythias. Thomas Herbert, and uncle of James C Moore, was in the Civil War for about eight months, was taken sick, returned home and died. p287 JOSEPH MOORE was born March 2, 1825, near Brownsville, Fayette county, and is of Irish and German descent, and a son of William Moore and Margaret Coats Moore. William Moore, father, was born on February 24, 1792, at Winchester, Virginia. He attended school but little, yet he became a good penman and mathematician. At the age of seventeen he left home, and enlisted in the United States army for five years. He served his time under General Winfield Scott, and was at the battle of Lundy's Lane. He was in the company of Colonel Miller, who answered the question, "Can you take that battery?" by saying, "I'll try." He was in many skirmishes with the Indians on the frontier, and was through the entire War of 1812-15. When his enlistment expired, he came to Pennsylvania and worked at his trade, that of a stone-splitter, which he followed up to his death in this county, August 1, 1847. The grandfather of Joseph Moore was born in Virginia, and died from a wound inflicted by a mowing scythe. Margaret Coats Moore died September 29, 1829, when her son Joseph was but little past three years old. Soon after his mother's death, Joseph Moore was bound out to Philip Bourtner, with whom he remained until he arrived at the age of sixteen years. From Bourtner he received his board and clothes, and nine months schooling. At sixteen years of age he was apprenticed for five years to James Barnes to learn the trade of millwright, and remained with him until he was twenty one years of age. This man gave him five months schooling and a "freedom suit." From this time he worked at his trade up to 1881 when he health and eyesight failed him. He abandoned his trade and engaged in farming. He now owns a very valuable farm of 107 acres, where he at present resides. In 1862 he volunteered under H H Cree, Company A, One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel Joseph Jack. He did little fighting, but a great deal of hard marching. He was mustered out August 1, 1863, and returned home to his family. He was married December 24, 1848, to Miss Elizabeth Ann Johnson of Greene county, Penna. Of this union two daughters were born: Susan Emily Moore and an infant. This wife died December 25, 1851, at Carmichael's, Greene county, Penna. On March 16, 1853, he was again married to Sarah Sams, daughter of Isaac Sams of Greene county, Penna. They have the following children: Marsenna J Moore, Elliamra Moore, Harland Moore, Gibson Moore, Mary Moore, Estella Moore, Louvisa Moore, Vienna Moore, Lystra Moore, and Mazeppa Moore, and all are living. Mr Moore reared all his children without having a doctor's assistance, or one cent's worth of medicine in his house. He is a republican in politics. p559 MARK R MOORE, a respected citizen and ex-county commissioner of Fayette county, was born in Luzerne township, Fayette county, Penna, October 23, 1816, and is a son of Joshua Moore and Nancy Miller Moore. John Moore, grandfather, was a native of New Jersey and of English descent. He was a miller and settled about 1783 at the old mill above Merrittstown, and afterwards removed to Bridgeport, where he was a flour inspector. Joshua Moore, father, was brought to Luzerne at three years of age, and was a Quaker, as were all the Moores for many years afterwards. He cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson, and died at fifty four years of age. December 25, 1809, he was married to Miss Nancy Miller, a Presbyterian. They had five sons and two daughters, and one of the former, John M Moore served as a soldier in the late war. Mrs Moore's father, James Miller, came from Ireland to America and located at York, Penna. Mark R Moore was reared on a farm and received his education in the old winter subscription schools of Luzerne township. He learned the trade of shoemaker, but was never actively engaged at it. Early in life he engaged in farming, and has continued successfully in that line of business up to the present time. He was married to Miss Hannah H Crawford, daughter of Joseph Crawford. They have five living children: George Moore, Mary Moore, Harriet Moore, John G Moore, and William Moore. Mark R Moore owns the old Moore homestead of 130 acres of valuable and well improved land. He is of the same political faith as his fathers; has always voted the democratic ticket. He served as county commissioner in 1854, and has held various township offices. He is now retired from active business, and enjoys the respect of his many friends. p205 PRESLEY H MOORE, one of the leading operators in the manufacture of the world-renowned Connellsville coke in Western Pennsylvania ("the workshop of the New World") was born in Rostravor township, Westmoreland county, Penna, February 7, 1839. He is a son of Ebenezer Moore and Nancy B Hurst Moore. His grandfather, Robert Moore, in early life (1780) removed from Cecil county, Maryland, and settled in Rostravor township. He was married in 1780, before leaving Maryland, to Miss Jane Power, a sister of the Rev James Power DD, the first Presbyterian to settle and to preach in the "Western Wilds." Dr Power came from Eastern Pennsylvania and preached in Fayette and Westmoreland counties in 1774. Robert Moore erected a large two story log house into which he moved and lived during his life. He was one of that sturdy class of men who settled in the region of Dunlap's Creek, Rehoboth and Round Hill churches. They were decidedly Presbyterian and formed the nucleus for those churches which have stood so long and whose old members have left the impress of their lives upon the generations to follow them. Ebeneezer Moore, the youngest of Robert Moore's six children, was born August 3, 1793, and was the last of the family to marry on account of remaining at home to care for his aged and feeble mother. In 1846 he removed to the old Blackstone farm in Tyrone township, Fayette county, Penna. His wife had an inherited part in the farm, and he bought the interests of the other heirs and added to the farm by purchase 150 acres of adjoining land. These two farms were heavily underlaid with coal, and it was here that the coke interest was started which has since been developed by his two younger sons, J W Moore and P H Moore. Ebenezer Moore was six feet in height and weighed 190 pounds. He had a strong frame and a large well-shaped head. He kept his face smoothly shaved, was always genteel and respectable in appearance, and was a fine looking man. Better than this he was a man of sterling integrity, was strictly honest, fair in his transactions and was a man of great kindness of heart, while his tenderness of feeling was one of his distinguishing characteristics. His attachments to his home and family were very strong, and he loved them with the greatest devotion. As a businessman, he at times appeared right though always just, and seldom made mistakes. He was a Presbyterian, was modest, unassuming, had a high regard for men, and was twice chosen elder in the church. He did not accept, however, on account of his lack of self confidence, yet he had mental powers that, with more self assurance, would have given him a high position in the church. Withal he loved to converse on Christian topics, and at his home ministers of the gospel were often found, were always welcome, and he loved their society. In politics he was an "old line whig" and was positive in his faith. He was an intelligent reader, and took a deep interest in passing events of his time. He conversed with great earnestness and upon the political as well as upon religious issues of his day. In 1844 he represented Westmoreland county in the legislature, and it is an interesting fact that he received all the votes except five that were cast in his own township. In May, 1833, Ebenezer Moore married Miss Nancy Blackstone Hurst, daughter of James and Sarah Hurst of Mt Pleasant township, Westmoreland county, Penna. They reared a family of six children in the house in which Mr Moore was born. The old house is still standing. The farm is now owned by the eldest son, James H Moore, and for 109 years has been in the possession of the family. Mrs Moore was a granddaughter of James and Priscilla Blackstone of Fayette county. They had six children: one died in infancy; Sarah Jane Moore died February 23, 1858, at thirteen years of age; the eldest son, James H Moore, married Miss Amanda Thirkield of Fayette city, and resides at Monongahela city; the second son, Rev R B Moore, DD, of the Presbyterian church married Miss Louisa J Paul, youngest daughter of James Paull of Fayette county, but now of Tiffin, Ohio; the third son, John W Moore, married Miss Elizabeth Stauffer of Connellsville, was engaged for several years in buying and selling stock, and then engaged in the coke business, and now resides at Greensburg. Presley H Moore came with his parents to Tyrone township when six years of age, and was educated at the Mt Pleasant Classical Institute, and continued to work on his father's farm until 1879. In 1879 he removed to Uniontown and with his brother J W Moore, engaged in the coke business, the name of the firm being "The Redstone Coke Company, Limited." In 1881 Col J S Schoonmaker was admitted as a partner. In 1885 J W Moore retired from the firm, disposing of his interest to P H Moore and Colonel Schoonmaker. These works have been run most successfully since their establishment in 1880 up to the present time. The Redstone Coke Works now owned and operated by P H Moore, are situated three miles south of Uniontown at Brownfield Station, on the S W P R R. The propertyembraces over nine hundred acres of coal land, with a frontage of two miles along the railroad. On May 1, 1881, there were only seventy five ovens, now Moore & Co have 450 ovens and employ about five hundred men. Two excellent stone quarries have been opened near the ovens and quite a town is building on the property. A reservoir and a mountain stream afford an abundance of water for coke or other manufacturing purposes. These works are known as "Moore's Works." Presley H Moore is one of the prominent businessmen of Fayette county. For nearly ten years he has successfully conducted one of the large businesses of one of the great manufacturing industries in the United States. p366 ROBERT F MOORE, a thorough and trustworthy citizen and miller of Menallen township, was born on the old Moore farm in Redstone township, January 24, 1854, and is a son of William Moore and Nancy Frost Moore. Rezin Moore, grandfather, was a native of Redstone township, was a farmer and married Miss Mary Landers. They reared a large family and their descendants are now among the most thrifty of the county, and he was a whig in politics, William R Moore is a successful farmer and an active republican. His wife was Miss Nancy Frost, daughter of Jesse Frost of Redstone township. They have reared a family of ten children. Robert F Moore was raised in Menallen township. educated in the common schools of that township and in the New Salem schools. He learned the trade of a miller with Samuel Frederick of the "Star Mills" in Menallen, and after completing his trade he had part charge of the Star Mills from 1873 to 1875, owned New Salem Mills from 1875 to 1881, was for a time head miller in Reynold's Mill at Uniontown, and milled at Coal Center in 1887. He returned to the Star Mills and assumed charge of them in 1888. He is building up a large and constantly increasing patronage. He is a quiet, unassuming man, but withal courteous, genial and obliging. Mr Moore was married June 29, 1876, to Miss Irene Lewis, daughter of F A Lewis, a blacksmith of New Salem. She was born September 12, 1855. Unto their union have been born two children: Della P Moore, born December 6, 1877, and Francis W Moore, born July 23, 1880. p406/516 WILLIAM R MOORE, a descendant of Captain John Moore of Revolutionary fame and an industrious farmer of Menallen township, was born on property now owned by Evans Hess in Redstone township, Fayette county, Penna, February 21, 1824. He is a son of Rezin Moore and Mary Landers Moore, the former a native and a well-situated farmer of Redstone township, and the latter a daughter of Abraham Landers, an early settler (1790) of the same township. They have three children living: John M Moore, Mrs Samuel Herron, and William R Moore. Captain John Moore (W R Moore's grandfather) was a prominent character in the early history of Redstone township. He was born east of the Alleghenies, emigrated to the present Evans Hess farm in 1769, made an enviable record in the Revolutionary War, was married to Miss Margaret Colvin and died in his adopted township. His sons were George Moore, John Moore, Aaron Moore, Rezin Moore, Ezekial Moore and William Moore. William R Moore was reared on a farm, received a practical education for ordinary business pursuits and has been successfully engaged in farming until the present time. On March 5, 1846, he was married to Miss Nancy Eliza, daughter of Jesse L Frost. Mrs Moore died March 22, 1882, aged sixty years. They had ten children, of whom nine are living, born and named as follows: Rezin Moore, February 1, 1847, married Miss Ann Gribble; Rachel J Moore, May 7, 1848; Hulda A Moore, July 12, 1849, wife of Elijah Holliday; Mary M Moore, February 25, 1852, married G S Frederick, May 16, 1871; Robert F (see his sketch in this volume); Lucy C Moore, April 15, 1856, married Barton Keener; Jesse E Moore, May 24, 1888, married Miss Ellen Brown; Euphemie Moore, July 21, 1866, wife of James Frost; Samuel N Moore, July 10, 1863, married Miss Louisa Harvey. In politics Mr Moore is a republican and adheres closely to the principles of his party. He owns 108 acres of fine farming land, which is heavily underlaid with limestone and iron ore. He also owns ten acres of valuable timber land. He is a successful farmer and is highly respected both as a business man and as a citizen. p207 SAMUEL MORRIS, is a native of Greene county, Penna, and was born May 25, 1848. He is a son of Isaac A Morris and Nancy Everly Morris. Isaac Morris is of Welsh descent, and was born at Uniontown near the present site of the S E P R R depot in 1812. He is now living in his seventy eighth year in Greene county, Penna, near the West Virginia line. Nancy Everly is of Scotch-Irish descent and was born in Monongalia county, West Virginia, then Virginia, near the celebrated old Fort Martin of Revolutionary days. Samuel Morris was married in 1873 to Miss Annie V Stewart of Stewartstown, West Virginia, who died in 1875. She left one child, a son, Isaac Stewart Morris. Samuel Morris's second wife was Miss Emma J Doty, a daughter of Susan Doty, to whom he was married in 1882, and she is a native of Carmicheals, Greene county, Penna. By this marriage they had two children: Jessie B Morris and Kiser P Morris. Samuel Morris was brought up on a farm in Greene county; he attended the common schools and in 1876 engaged in the general mercantile business at Point Marion. He continued in this business for five years. He came to Uniontown January 2, 1881, and engaged as a clerk for I Kuth, the confectioner, and sold goods on the road through Washington and Greene counties. In 1884 he took a position with Markle & Fulton who at that time were doing the largest grocery business in Uniontown. In 1887 he left their employ and bought the grocery and business of W B Thorndell, No 420 Main Street. He has built up a large trade and is an enterprising merchant. He stands well with the public and all who know him. p560 FRANCIS MORRISON of Stewart township is a man of patriotism, integrity, usefulness and marked individuality. He is of Irish descent and was born in Stewart township, Fayette county, Penna, January 15, 1845, and is a son of Francis D Morrison, who was born in Henry Clay township, Fayette county, Penna, January 18, 1825. He was a soldier in the Eighty fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, but was discharged for disability. His maternal grandfather was born in Rahway, New Jersey and was a Revolutionary soldier. His paternal grandfather, Dr Francis Morrison, was born in Washington county, Penna, and died in Henry Clay township, this county. Francis Morrison, subject of this sketch, when quite a child was left to the care of strangers and consequently saw hard times. At twelve years of age he removed west to Marshall county, Illinois, and spent four years with J G White who was a well to do farmer of that section. At sixteen years of age he returned to the county of his nativity and enlisted in Company H, Eighty fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers. The old Eighty fifth was swiftly formed to go to the front and the record of its glorious acts is a history of which Fayette county may be forever proud. And of the part he took in the battles of the brave regiment, Mr Morrison may be also justly proud. He was in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Kenston, White Hall, Goldsboro, the siege of Fort Sumter, and Deep Bottom, Virginia, August 16, 1864, where he was shot through the right lung and was discharged from White Hall Hospital, June 17, 1865, as an invalid for life. He was in many marches and expeditions besides these battles and had many hair-breadth escapes. He served as an orderly on General Howe's staff for a considerable time. Being unable to perform manual labor, he attended the Edinboro State Normal School to qualify himself for teaching, an avocation he successfully pursued for ten years in the common schools of the county. In 1870 Mr Morrison married Miss Eliza Jane Daniels of Stewart township. They have five children: James Marshall Morrison; Laura Frances Morrison; Tabitha J Morrison; Whitelaw Reid Morrison; and Alva Ethel Morrison. As a private citizen, Mr Morrison has resided in Stewart township since the war and devoted a portion of his time and attention to his productive farm and to stock raising. As a public officer he has served Stewart township for fifteen years as justice of the peace; for the same length of time he has been kept almost continuously on the school board. Through his efforts every school house in Stewart township has been greatly improved, and every child in attendance has been comfortably seated. In 1887 he was elected county auditor and received the largest home complimentary vote of any candidate on the republican ticket. He is an occasional correspondent to some leading paper and has the reputation of being a good public speaker. Mr Morrison was an industrious boy and a brave soldier. He is a good citizen, a prosperous farmer and a popular public officer. p208 PAOLI SHEPPARD MORROW, a well established and successful member of the Fayette county bar, is a son of John C Morrow and Elizabeth Sheppard Morrow. and was born in East Huntingdon township, Westmoreland county, Penna, March 8, 1848. His great grandfather, Samuel Morrow, emigrated from County Tyrone, Ireland, to Adams county, Penna, prior to the Revolutionary War and subsequently removed to Westmoreland county. Samuel Morrow with several of his brothers who emigrated with him were the ancestors of many of the Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and California Morrows. One descendant was the well-known Rev James Morrow of Southern Ohio. Samuel Morrow had a son, James Morrow, the father of John C Morrow. March 6, 1825, John C Morrow was born; on April 22, 1847, he married Miss Elizabeth Sheppard, daughter of Paoli Sheppard and Catherine Tarr Sheppard. Paoli Sheppard was a soldier of the War of 1812, was named Paoli by his father, Henry L Sheppard, a native of Massachusetts and a soldier at the battle of that name. Catherine Sheppard, a woman of much intelligence, was a daughter of Honorable Gasper Tarr, son of a Revolutionary soldier and a relative of Christian Tarr, a Pennsylvania member of Congress. The Tarr family was noted for their intelligence. Paoli S Morrow was reared on a farm and educated in common and select schools and Mt Union College, Ohio. He taught thirteen consecutive terms in the common schools of Fayette and Westmoreland counties and afterwards engaged in the practice of the law. He read law with the ex-Lieutenant Governor John Latta of Greensburg and Hon Charles E Boyle of Uniontown; and after passing a rigid examination was admitted to the Fayette county bar, September 2, 1878. In 1879 he entered into partnership with D M Hertzog and has ever since enjoyed a constantly growing and lucrative practice. The firm of Morrow & Hertzog is sufficiently well known in Fayette county to need no comment. Mr Morrow is also a member of the bar of Westmoreland county and of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. December 25, 1878, he was married at Uniontown by Rev S S Gibson to Miss Catherine Long, daughter of Samuel N Long of Connellsville and granddaughter of Robert Long, a well known citizen of Fayette county. They have three living children: Helen J Morrow, born April 13, 1881; Samuel L Morrow, born September 23, 1883; and Katy Morrow, born February, 1885. Morrow & Hertzog in addition to their other legal business have been engaged in the settlement of as many estates and have acted as counsel for as many trustees, guardians, executors, and administrators as any other attorneys now at the Uniontown bar, and own as good a law library as is found in the county. Mr Morrow makes little pretension to oratory, is a plain and unassuming speaker, and a cautious and safe counselor. He knows his books well, studies his cases carefully, and is well informed on both the statutes and the decisions of the supreme court. A pleasant and sociable gentleman, a well read lawyer, a close student, and is deserving of the success he is achieving. p209 ANDREW J MOSER, a prominent and successful merchant of Uniontown, is a native of Georges township, Fayette county, Penna. He was born August 26, 1844, and raised on the farm where he remained till the age of twenty two years, and attended the schools of Smithfield. At the age of twenty two years, he engaged in the general mercantile business at Masontown, and remained there for two years, thence to McClellandtown, there continued in the same line for about three years. Returned to Masontown, engaged in the same business, and remained there for four years longer. He then removed to Uniontown and formed a partnership with E T Walters of Masontown, and engaged in the grocery business. Mr Walters sold out to H M Kyle of Smithfield, but this partnership lasted but a short time when the firm became Moser & Brother. The firm of Moser & Brother is now one of the most enterprising grocery firms in the county. Ephraim Moser, the brother, lives on a farm, and Andrew J Moser manages the business of the store. A J Moser was married in 1873 to Miss Mary E Allebaugh, the daughter of James M Allebaugh of German township, who was a prominent farmer of that township but is now a resident of Masontown. They have three living children, two boys and one girl: Howard Allen Moser, Herman Lee Moser, and Elmira M Moser. Mr Moser is a member of the German Baptist church. His parents were John Moser and Amy Sterling Moser, both born in Fayette county, Penna. His father was a farmer of Georges township, and died in 1888 in his seventy ninth year. His grandfather Moser was one of the early settlers of Fayette county. His maternal grandfather, John Sterling, was also a farmer of the county. A J Moser was born and reared a democrat and is rock ribbed in his faith. p366 WILLIAM C MULLAN, the time clerk and assistant superintendent of Henry Clay Frick and Rist coke plants of H C Frick Coke Company, Broad Ford, is a son of William Mullan and Mary A Williams Mullan and was born at Ft Loudon, Franklin county, Penna, February 15, 1859. William Mullan was of Irish descent and a native of Franklin county. He learned the blacksmith trade and was a member of the Catholic church. He was a democrat, and had held the offices of judge of elections and school director of his township. He was born in 1820 and died in 1887 and was much missed at Ft Loudon. William C Mullan was reared at Ft Loudon and was educated in the common schools. Manifesting an aptitude for commercial business, at fourteen years of age he became a successful clerk in a general mercantile store. After seven years efficient service in three stores of Ft Loudon, he removed to Dunbar and engaged as a clerk with R J Carter. In October, 1881, he accepted a position at Broad Ford in the store of the Union Supply Company. In one year he was promoted from clerkship to store manager and after twelve months service was made manager of the Summit store and time clerk for Summit coke plant of H E Frick Coke Company. After two years of successful management, he was recalled in 1885 to Broad Ford and given his present position of time keeper and assistant superintendent of the works under Thomas Lynch, general superintendent. He is a democrat, has held the office of town auditor, central committee man and was elected delegate to the democratic State convention from Fayette county in 1889. He is a member of the Heptasophs. He has always enjoyed the confidence of his employers and the customers whom he serves. His past experience and success give promise of a prominent and successful business career for the future. p464 Dr JAMES J MULLEN is a native of Ireland and a good representative of the people from which he sprung, possessing in full degree the native vivacity and wit of his nation. For many generations his family have resided in the same county. His grandfather, Miles Mullen, was born in County Tyrone about 1789. His sons were: Bernard Mullen, Micheal Mullen and John Mullen. Micheal Mullen, the father of Dr James J Mullen, was born in County Tyrone in about 1821 where he still lives and his a farmer. He married Belle Quinn, a daughter of Henry Quinn of the same county. Dr James J Mullen was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, June 11, 1848, and age the age of twenty he was married to Catherine McGarritty, a daughter of John McGarrity of County Tyrone, Ireland. They have one child: John Mullen, a student at the Western Pennsylvania Medical College at Pittsburgh. In 1871 Dr Mullen came to the United States and secured employment at the Bethlehem Rolling Mill thence to Pittsburgh and work as a puddler. In 1880 by hard work and close economy, he had acquired sufficinet means to engage in the drug business and followed that business till after his graduation as M D. He attended the Medical Department of Wooster University, Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated in 1883, taking first honors of his class of thirty members. He began the practice at Pittsburgh, afterwards removed to Dunbar where he has since remained in the active practice of medicine. He has achieved great success in his profession and is held in high esteem as an able physician. He is the surgeon for the B & O R R and for the Cambria Iron Company. Dr Mullen has prospered at Dunbar, having accumulated considerable wealth during his five years practice there. He is entirely a self made man; he has forced his way up the ladder of social position and professional distinction, and is a practical verification of Daniel Webster's aphorism: "There is always room at the top." p361 WILLIAM D MULLEN. The late William D Mullen, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of northwest Fayette county, was born in Cumberland county, Penna, January 6, 1787. He established in 1809 the first hat-making establishment of Fayette City (Cookstown) and was successfully engaged for years in that line of business. He was a Free Mason, a democrat and was a patron of the GENIUS OF LIBERTY for over half a century. He was for years a justice of the peace and was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a sober, honest and industrious citizen. He married Miss Margaret Graham and they had a family of eight children. Mrs Mullen died March 25, 1871. The oldest son, Robert Mullen, was born December 19, 1814, and was reared to the hatting business but engaged in the cabinet making business for several years. In 1850 he engaged in mercantile business and died June 22, 1887. He was a prominent Mason and has filled all the important offices of the "Blue Lodge." Robert Mullen married Miss Elizabeth Allen. They had one child: Sallie Mullen, wife of Roscoe Thirkill. After the death of his wife, he married Miss Margaret Bently, and by the second marriage had two daughters: Frances Mullen married Joseph L Cooper; and Othelia Mullen married October 28, 1867, to William McCune, the latter was born in Cumberland county, Penna, in 1844 and died in 1882. Mrs McCune has two sons: Robert M McCune and Edward McCune. Robert Mullen, after the death of his second wife, married a third time. His third wife was Miss Elizabeth Shupe who with her two children, Robert Mullen and Emma Mullen, resides at Fayette City. Robert Mullen's store is successfully conducted by its present proprietors, his daughter Mrs Othelia McCune and her eldest son, Robert McCune, one of the young businessmen of Fayette county. p459 GEORGE A MUNSON, one of the energetic and live businessmen of Connellsville, is a son of Isaac Munson and Eliza Collins Munson and was born in Connellsville, Fayette county, Penna, November 21, 1856. Isaac Munson was a son of William Munson, a miller by occupation. Isaac Munson was born in 1824 near Alexandria, Westmoreland county, Penna. He came to Connellsville and engaged in the iron business, afterwards in the mercantile business at New Haven, when he in 1852 became manager of the Markle Paper Mill Company's store at West Newton. In a short time he was stationed at Pittsburgh as purchasing and sales agent of the company, and occupied that position until his death in 1866. He was married to Eliza Collins, daughter of James Collins, a prominent Baptist and an "old line whig." Mrs Munson resides at Connellsville. George A Munson was reared at Connellsville and at the age of twenty two he was employed by the Connellsville Gas and Coke Company and took charge of their yards. He remained with them until they were sold to H C Frick & Co in 1883 when he accepted a clerkship with the Union Supply Company with whom he continued four years. In 1887 he formed the present partnership with his brothers, James C Munson and John J Munson, the firm name being Munson Brothers, plumbers, gas and steam fitters, Greenland's block, No 732, corner Pittsburgh and Apple streets, Connellsville, Penna. In 1881 he was married to Miss Ella Jones, of near Uniontown and daughter of John and Eliza Jones. Munson Bros carry a finely selected stock of natural gas supplies, stoves, tin, copper and sheet iron ware, also a full and complete line of plumbers' gas and steamfitters' supplies of all kinds. They are practical and experienced mechanics and devote their attention to every department of their business. They are the successors of R C Greenland. George A Munson is a republican, is a Heptasoph and Junior Mechanic. He is one who has won his own way in life, and has achieved permanent success by continued and persistent effort. p563 AMOS STRAWN MURPHY of Bullskin township is of Scotch Irish origin and was born in "Lazy Hollow," Franklin township, Fayette county, Penna, February 23, 1839, and is a son of Thomas Murphy and Rachel Strawn Murphy, who were natives respectively of Jefferson and Perry townships, Fayette county, Penna. Thomas Murphy was born September 8, 1812, and was married by Squire Roberts of Redstone township, September 8, 1837. John Murphy, the paternal grandfather of A S Murphy, was born in Philadelphia, and A S's great grandfather, Henry Murphy, was a native of Ireland. He came to Philadelphia, then to New Jersey; from there to Fayette county and located on a farm in Jefferson township; the same farm is still in the possession of the Murphy family. Amos Strawn Murphy received his school training in the common schools of the county; on leaving them he attended California Seminary, now knowns as "California Normal." He soon began life as a teacher in Redstone township, and at intervals attended normals schools at Millsboro, Bridgeport, and the academy at Merrittstown. His career as a teacher began in 1859 when he taught in Redstone township. Afterwards he taught three years successively at Perryopolis, two years at Connellsville and three years in New Haven. He gave up teaching to accept a positon with the B & O R R Co as car inspector, and was stationed at West Newton, Penna; he held this position for nine months when he was changed to the position of traveling car inspector, which he held for four years when he was stationed at Connellsville. At the expiration of this term, he was promoted to the post of general car inspector by the company, his division of work extending from Pittsburgh to Cumberland, Maryland, and served acceptably to the company for three years. He was then offered a still better position but refused it. He quit the railroad and went to the farm he bought near Moyer Station. February 26, 1866, he was married to Mary Ellen Freeman, daughter of Samuel Freeman of Connellsville, the latter died August 2, 1879. Of the seven children born to their union, two are living: Katie Murphy, born April 11, 1867, at Connellsville; and Francis Murphy, born July 4, 1877. Amos S Murphy is a brother of Prof D C Murphy, who ranks high as a teacher, author and institute instructor. A S Murphy owns a farm containing eighty acres of good land near Moyer, and a well improved farm near Harper City, Kansas. Mr Murphy has been recording secretary of General Worth Lodge, No 346, I O O F, is a member of King Solomon Lodge, No 386, A Y M and Monarch Castle, No 84, K of M C, has been councilor for two terms of Moyer council, No 166, Jr O U A M, and of the latter organization is representative to the state council and district deputy for a number of councils. He is justice of the peace; although a republican was elected by both parties in a township democratic by 200 majorityin a total vote of about 375. Mr Murphy is an intelligent, prominent and useful citizen. p367 PRESLEY PATTERSON MURPHY was born February 22, 1841, in Perryopolis, Fayette county, Penna, and is the son of John A Murphy and Clarissa J Patterson Murphy. John A Murphy was born in Jefferson township in January, 1817. He learned the cabinet maker trade in 1834, has since followed it, and now has a furniture store at Perryopolis. He is a Presbyterian, served five years as justice of the peace, was postmaster at Perryopolis for several years, and is now a republican, havinging changed his original political faith upon the tariff issue of 1842. He married Clarissa J Patterson, daughter of James Patterson of Franklin township in 1839. They had two children: Presley P Patterson and Seturah who died August 31, 1844. Mrs Murphy, subject's mother, died January 12, 1846, aged twenty six years. For his second wife Mr Murphy married in 1851 Mary Freeman, daughter of David Freeman, and she died September 27, 1863. This union was blessed with four children: David Freeman Murphy, Cecelia Murphy, Lizzie Murphy (dead) and Ella Murphy. In 1868 Mr Murphy was united in marriage to his third and present wife, Mrs Arminta McBride, widow of George McBride. They have three children: Irvin Mruphy, Katie Murphy, and Ada Murphy. John Murphy (paternal grandfather) came with parents of Jefferson township and took up three hundred acres of land. He married Nancy Jane Allen. Their children were: Thomas Murphy, John A Murphy (subject's father), Elizabeth Murphy (dead), James Murphy, Henry Murphy, Mary Murphy (dead), Susan Murphy (dead), Andrew Murphy (is living), and David Murphy (dead). Mrs Murphy's father, William Allen, was one of Franklin's first settlers, taking up what is now known as the Smith, Ridlinghafer and Whetsel farms. Major James Patterson (maternal grandfather) married Jane Smith, daughter of Robert Smith Sr in 1784. Their children were: John A Patterson, Robert Patterson (dead), William Patterson, Andrew Patterson (dead), Clarissa J Patterson (subject's mother, dead), Hugh H Patterson, Allen Patterson (dead), Presley Patterson (dead), James Patterson, Milton W Patterson, and Mary Elizabeth Patterson. Major James H Patterson was the son of James Patterson, an early settler of Scotch descent, but who had English ideas and left all his property to the Major, who in turn left the bulk of his possessions to Milton W Patterson. Major Patterson was a farmer and a democrat. He served one term as county commissioner and died March 14, 1854, aged sixty one years, one month, and twenty seven days. Presley Patterson Murphy was educated in the common school, and worked with his father at the cabinet-maker's trade until 1865 when he went on his father-in-law's farm one year. Since 1866 he has been a very successful merchant at Flatwoods, where he owns 119 acres of land located in the Anticlinal Gas Belt, and on this farm a well for gas is being drilled. He also owns ten acres of land near Burnsford. His wife also owns 114 acres inherited from her father. On June 15, 1865, he married Roxey L Townsend, only child of John Townsend and Harriet Colvin Townsend. They have two children: John A Murphy and Harriet C Murphy. John A Murphy was graduated from Mt Pleasant Institute in 1886, afterwards from Ann Arbor (Michigan) law school in 1888, and was admitted to the Pittsburgh bar in December of the same year. Harriet C Murphy graduated in 1887 from the Mt Pleasant Institute and is now attending the Cleveland (Ohio) Female Seminary. Mr Murphy is a republican and has been postmaster at Flatwood since 1866. He is a deacon and a Sabbath-school superintendent in the Baptist church, to which he has belonged since 1872. He has been a successful businessman and is an intelligent and enterprising citizen. p559 ISAAC MYERS, one of the foremost businessmen of Henry Clay township, and a leading merchant of Markleysburg, is a son of Jacob and Hannah Van Sickle Myers, and was born in Preston county, Virginia (now West Virginia), September 14, 1834. His paternal grandfather, Isaac Myers, was a native of Somerset county, and removed to Fayette county where he died. He was a farmer, an old line Whig, and a devout member of the Brethren in Christ church. His maternal grandfather, Lewis Van Sickle, was born in New Jersey and emigrated to Allegheny county, Maryland, where he engaged in farming. He was a member of the German Baptist church, served in the War of 1812, and was a strong and active democrat. His father, Jacob Myers was born in Fayette county, was a farmer, repulbican, and a member of the Brethren in Christ church. His family consisted of four sons and nine daughters. Isaac Myers was educated in the common schools of Henry Clay township, and for several years was engaged at carpentry and farming. He now conducts at Markleysburg, a flouring mill, saw mill, planing mill, and a store under the name of Myers & Sons. In 1864 he enlisted in the Third Maryland Infantry, Home Guards, and was in the battle of Monocacy Junction, besides numerous skirmishes. In 1854, he was married to Miss Priscilla, daughter of Abraham Welsh, of Allegany county, Maryland. The have eight children: William Myers m Alice, daughter of G D Frantz, and resides in Garret county, Maryland; John H Myers; Joshua S Myers, carpenter and married to Samantha Savage; Dora E Myers, wife of J B Thomas, farmer of Garret county, Maryland; Mary E Myers married Burbridge Thomas, of the same county; Catherine E Myers; George W Myers and Laura M Myers. Isaac Myers is a republican and has been chaplain and vice grand in the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows. He is a member of the Church of God, and is an elder in that church. He is one of the live, progressive men of southern Fayette county; is energetic and successful in every enterprise he has undertaken.