Bios: Sti-V 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 Stillwagon, G W Connellsville 476 Story, Matthew Brnv & Bdgpt 302 Stouffer, J W Connellsville 478 Straesser, Samuel Dunbar 477 Strickler, Joshua Washington 394 Strickler, Joshua Luzerne 572 Same bio as above Strickler, L S Tyrone 395 Stroud, J B Dunbar 476 Sturgeon, Daniel Uniontown 229 Sturgeon, William H Uniontown 228 Sturgis, J E Springhill 301 Tannehill, A J Springfield 572 Tarr, Buell Dunbar 477 Tarr, Samuel Dunbar 477 Taylor, J M Dunbar 478 Terney, F M Springhill 303 Thompson, J M Uniontown 231 Thompson, Samuel Brnv & Bdgpt 305 Thompson, W M Menallen 395 Thornton, J I Brnv & Bdgpt 304 Tiernin, John Washington 396 Titus, B F Springhill 303 Todd, Ewing Brnv & Bdgpt 304 Todd, J O Menallen 400 Todd, Thomas, Jr Washington 399 Troy, W R Washington 400 Umbel, Hiram Henry Clay 574 Vaughan, L Washington 401 S SURNAMES p476 GEORGE W STILLWAGON was born at Connellsville, Fayette county, Penna, November 15, 1826, and is the son of Peter Stillwagon and Margaret White Stillwagon. His great grandfather, Peter Stillwagon, was born on the site of Connellsville and was enrolled as one of the "minute-men" in the Revolution. He was taken prisoner in one of the battles by the British and was held for some time. His wife was accidentally burned to death at the advanced age of one hundred and fifteen years. His grandfather, William Stillwagon, was born at Connellsville where he lived and died. He married Margaret Wilson; eight children were born unto them: Josiah Stillwagon; Joseph Stillwagon; Wilson Stillwagon; Sarah Stillwagon; Henry Stillwagon; John Stillwagon, Eliza Stillwagon; and Mary Stillwagon. (?) His father, Peter Stillwagon, was born at Connellsville where he lived and died. He married Margaret White. To their union were born seven children: George W Stillwagon; Hugh C Stillwagon; Joseph L Stillwagon; William Stillwagon; Barton Stillwagon; Charles K Stillwagon; and Crawford Stillwagon. Mrs Stillwagon was a daughter of George White and Nancy Crawford White. They had six children: William White; Phebe A White; Margaret White; George White; Jennie White and Mary White. George W Stillwagon was reared in Connellsville and attended the schools of that town. He began to do for himself at an early age, worked by the day for several years, and then engaged in farming. In 1865 he purchased the comfortable home where he now resides. On September 28, 1848, he was married to Elizabeth French and had nine children: Hugh C Stillwagon; William O Stillwagon; Barton Stillwagon, Peter C Stillwagon; Mary Stillwagon; Jennie R Stillwagon; Margaret Stillwagon; Ida Stillwagon and Mattie Stillwagon. George W Stillwagon has served as member of the town council at different times, and as school director. He has been a member of the United Brethren church for forty two years, and a local preacher of the same denomination for twenty years. He is one of the steady and useful citizens of Connellsville. p302 Matthew STOREY, the popular proprietor of the well known Storey House of Brownsville, was born in England, August 29, 1839. He is a son of Matthew Storey and Elizabeth Palmer Storey, both natives of the town of Early in Cambridgeshire, England. His father, Matthew Storey, came from England to Seneca Falls, New York, in 1847, and remained there until 1851 when he removed to Brownsville. Here he worked for severa years in Snowden's machine shops. He was born in 1800 and died in 1870. His wife survived him until 1882 when she died. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Matthew Storey learned the trade of machine blacksmith under John Snowden, and continued with him for five years. In 1859 he learned the trade of steamboat engineer, and continued in that calling for twenty years on the Mississippi river and its tributaries. He was at New Orleans when Fort Sumter was fired on, and saw the first Confederate troops from Louisiana leave for Richmond. He was assistant engineer on the "New Falls City," which with the "Capital" carried the Confederate troops from New Orleans who captured the United States arsenal at Baton Rouge. The guns were taken from the "New Falls City" and placed on the Confederate fortifications at Columbus, Kentucky. From this place he walked to Bird's Point on the Ohio River opposite Cairo, Illinois, and from there came home via St Louis. After a two months' stay, he returned to St Louis and engaged as an engineer on a government transportation boat, continued in this line of work until nearly the close of the war. He was on the Cumberland river and was at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson and Pittsburg Landing when the transport fleet returned to and passed down the Mississippi river. He was present at the siege of Vicksburg, In October, 1864, he engaged as engineer on the "H O Homayer," a boat owned and operated by the cotton firm of Parkman, Brooks & Co of Memphis, Tennessee. This boat plied for seven months on the Washita and Yazoo rivers. He was chief engineer on different boats for sixteen years after the war closed. In 1881 he returned to Brownsville and engaged in the hotel business. He conducted the Bar House for three years, and afterwards purchased the Storey House. Mr Storey was married in 1860 to Miss Julia Baker of Brownsville, a daughter of Charles Baker of St Clairsville, Ohio. They have six children, four sons and two daughters: Albert Storey, Margaret Storey, Louis Storey, Charles Storey, Blanch Storey, and Matthew Storey Jr. He is a member of the I O R M and has been a Mason for twenty two years. In political affairs he is a democrat. The Storey House when he purchased it was known as the Snowden House. He placed an additional story on the building and remodeled it throughout. It is now one of the best hotels in the county. Mr Storey is a popular and accommodating landlord, and one of the prominent citizens of Brownsville. p 478 JAMES W STOUFFER, one of Connellsville's leading liverymen, and an energetic and clear-headed businessman, is a son of John D Stouffer and Betsy Cunningham Stouffer, and was born in Dunbar township, Fayette county, Penna, March 25, 1845. John D Stouffer was born in Lancaster county, Penna, in 1803, and at three years of age accompanied his parents to Fayette county. He was a miller by trade, but gave most of his time and attention to farming. He was a republican and a member of the Presbyterian church, and died in 1879. His wife was a daughter of Joseph H Cunningham, a farmer and strong Presbyterian of Tyrone township. She died in 1856, aged fifty three years. James W Stouffer was raised on a farm, attended the common schools, and was engaged in farming until 1871, when he came to Connellsville and accepted a clerkship with John Coulson. At the expiration of one year he engaged as a clerk with Speers & Co at Dunbar and remained with them for one year. In 1875 he removed to Connellsville and engaged in his present livery business. In 1875 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Pritchard, daughter of Benjamin Pritchard. They have two children: Charles H Stouffer and Harriett F Stouffer. J W Stouffer's livery, feed and sale stables have always received a liberal patronage. His premises are commodious, stables well-ventilated, and a large stock of fine carriages, excellent buggies and carefully selected horses are constantly kept on hand for the accommodation of his numerous patrons. Prompt attention and careful consideration are given to every want of the traveling public in his line of business. J W Stouffer is a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a Mason, K of P, Heptasoph and a member of the Royal Arcanum. His business ability is amply attested by the permanent success he has attained. p477 SAMUEL STRAESSER was born in Martinsburg, Blair county, Penna. His father, John Straesser, was born December 6, 1809, a native of Germany and came to this country in about 1829. He settled in Blair county, Penna, and married Margaret Smaltz who was also born in Germany, and had come to Amcerica in 1837. The children born to them are as follows: David Straesser, Mary E Straesser, Louisa Straesser, Christian Straesser, John Straesser, Samuel Straesser, Catherine Straesser, Charles A Straesser, Margeret Straesser, Minnie Straesser, Edward Straesser. Samuel Straesser was educated in the common schools of Martinsburg, and at the Juniata Collegiate Institute. He engaged in a drug store where he remained for about seven years. He embarked in the drug business on his own account at Williamsburg, Penna, from 1872 to 1882. On May 1, 1888, he came to Dunbar, and engaged with Lang & Doonan as druggist and business manager. He married Miss C B Fry, daughter of Mrs Susan Fry, and has two children: J Edward Straesser and Franklin Straesser. p572 JOSHUA STRICKLER of Luzerne, a highly esteemed citizen of Fayette county, was born on Jacob's Creek, Tyrone township, Fayette county, Penna, January 28, 1821, and is a son of Jacob B Strickler and Mary Fiscus Strickler. His grandfather, Jacob Strickler, was a native of Bucks county, Penna, and married Miss Elizabeth Stewart, a relative of Hon Andrew Stewart. Jacob Strickler owned a large tract of land in what is now Upper Tyrone township. He was a republican and member of the Mennonite church. His father, Jacob B Strickler, was born in Upper Tyrone township, October 30, 1791, and died August 31, 1874. He was a republican, a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church, and among the first farmers that drove whiskey from the harvest field by an increase of wages. He married Miss Mary Fiscus, daughter of Charles Fiscus of Westmoreland county, and she, the mother of nine children, was born October 14, 1790, and died September 12, 1868. Joshua Strickler attended subscription schools until sixteen years of age, when he went upon the National Road as a wagoneer; but at twenty eight years of age, he left the "Old Pike" and engaged in common labor. A few thousand dollars received from home gave him a fair start in life, and in 1850 he purchased his present farm and has by careful management and judicious investment, accumulated many thousand dollars worth of real and personal property. January 31, 1850, he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Covert, an excellent lady, and a daughter of Benjamin Covert. They have had six children: Mary A Strickler, born December 4, 1852, married Albert Conwell, merchant of Uniontown; Jacob A Strickler, of the firm of Conwell and Strickler of Uniontown, married Miss Bowlby; Everett Strickler, born December 4, 1860, married Mary Dawson; J Randolph Strickler, born April 20, 1869; and Frank A Strickler, born November 3, 1872 and died January 8, 1875. Mr Strickler is a republican and useful member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was exempted from the draft, but gave $1,000 to secure volunteers for the Union service. He is hospital, generous and maintans an excellent reputation in private life. p395 LYMAN S STRICKLER of Lower Tyrone, a reliable businessman and one of the progressive farmers of Fayette county, is a son of Stewart Strickler and Mary Newcomer Strickler and was born in what is now Lower Tyrone township, January 23, 1843. Jacob Strickler, grandfather, was one of six brothers who emigrated from Germany to the United States. Jacob Strickler settled in Redstone township, was a successful farmer and died in 1855. Stewart Strickler, father, was the only son of Jacob Strickler and was born in Redstone township, February 17, 1812. At three years of age he was taken to Lower Tyrone and received a limited education in the subscription schools. For fifteen years his life was an eventful one of alternate successes and failures. In 1842 he bought ten acres of coal land and in 1843 shipped the first load of coke to Cincinnati that was ever sold for cash in that city. He built the Fayette and Sterling Coke Works and was a successful coke manufacturer. After several important and successful transactions in coal lands, Mr Stickler removed in 1876 to Middle Tennessee where he purchased two thousand acres of land and died there in 1884. He was a fine businessman and his life illustrates how nobly the greatest difficulties of early life can be overcome. He belonged to the Disciple church, was closely read in the Scriptures and very accurate in quoting them. His remains were brought from Tennessee and interred in the Bethel church cemetery. His widow was born in 1816 and resides in her Tennessee home. Her father, Jacob Newcomer, was born in 1782 and died in Lower Tyrone in 1864. Lyman S Strickler was reared on a farm until fifteen years of age when he engaged as a clerk in the store of the Fayette Coke Works and remained three years. He responded to the call of the Federal government for volunteers in 1862 and enlisted in a Pennsylvania volunteer regiment. He was engaged in the battles of Antietam, Chickamauga, and Stone River; participated in the capture of Jefferson Davis, and was honorably discharged at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1865. In 1866 he married Miss Maggie C Cope, daughter of Pearson and Mary Cope of Perryopolis, who died in 1882, leaving seven children: Dempsey Strickler; Pearson Strickler; Emma Strickler; Katie Strickler; Frank Strickler; Cora Strickler; and Clara Strickler. He married in 1886 for his second wife, Miss Mary Hoop, daughter of Conrad and Mary Hoop of Connellsville. Unto this last union two children have been born: Edna Strickler and Ola Strickler. After the late Civil War, Mr Strickler was engaged for eight years in farming and milling in Franklin county, Tennessee. In 1873 he returned to Lower Tyrone township and engaged in farming. He now owns the old "Smiley" farm containing 150 acres of good land, situated one fourth of a mile north of Dawson, where he deals in Holstein cattle and Chester hogs. He is an active republican and a prominent member of the Disciple church. Mr Strickler is a practical businessman and is ever alive to any enterprise calculated to develop the material resources of the township. p476 JOHN B STROUD was born in 1856 at Uniontown, Fayette county, Penna. His grandfather, Quiller Stroud, was also born in Fayette county. His wife, Susan Dixon, was a daughter of George Dixon; the latter was born in England, came to this country and served in the War of the Revolution. Their children were as follows: Rachel Stroud, Mary Stroud, William Stroud, George Stroud, Thomas Stroud, Lindsey Stroud, Acteus Stroud, Keziah Stroud, Harland Stroud, Joshua Stroud, Joseph Stroud. William Stroud (father) was a native of Washington county, Penna, and was born December 15, 1814. He was a weaver by trade. He was married March, 1836, to Warnetta Houser, daughter of Henry Houser a native of Maryland. Their children are as follows: Isabella Stroud, Mary Stroud, Rachel Stroud, Eliza Stroud, John B Stroud and Emma Stroud. William Stroud was a volunteer soldier in the Civil War for three years. He was mustered into service in 1862, in the One Hundred and Twelfth Pennsylvania Artillery, in Captain Fuller's company, and participated in the battles around Petersburg and Richmond. His son, Henry Stroud, also served a short time in service, till his death at Clarksburg, West Virginia. John B Stroud's education embraced only a knowledge of the textbooks taught in the common schools of the county. He is a painter by trade. His wife, Alwilda McCormick, to whom he was married April 2, 1878, was a daughter of Rev Jacob McCormick of Connellsville. They have four children: Walter Stroud, Warnetta Stroud, Lizza Stroud and William Stroud. For a time after his marriage, Mr Stroud lived in Grafton, West Virginia, where his wife died March 14, 1886. He subsequently returned to Dunbar where he at present resides, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Dunbar. p228 WILLIAM H STURGEON MD has been for the last thirty years a well known and prominent physician of Uniontown and Fayette county. He is a native of Uniontown and was born on the 24th day of January, 1826. He was brought up in his native town, attending Madison College and afterwards entered and graduated from Jefferson College in 1847. He read medicine with Dr Alex Hamilton Campbell of Uniontown and attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College in 1848 and 1849. From 1849 to 1853 he practiced medicine in Uniontown but in the latter year he accepted a clerkship in the United States mint which position he held until 1861 when he retired with the democratic party. In 1861 he returned to Uniontown and resumed the practice of medicine which had engaged all his spare moments while in the mint. From 1861 to 1889 he has built up the large and lucrative practice which he now enjoys. Dr William H Sturgeon is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, is a member of the Fayette County Medical Society and Pennsylvania State Medical Society. He is enrolled in the National Medical Society and holds membership in the International Medical Society of the world. Dr Sturgeon met with the last named medical society at its last session in 1887 in Washington City. In 1886 he was appointed member of the State Board of Lunacy, a position which he still holds. Dr Sturgeon is the son of Daniel Sturgeon and Nancy Gregg Sturgeon. His mother was a native of Fayette county, a daughter of James Gregg, a Scotchman who was born in Ireland and came to this country when a young man and was one of the early merchants of Uniontown. His wife, Nancy Gregg Sturgeon, reached the age of eighty seven years. His father, DANIEL STURGEON, was known as the "Silent Senator." He was born in Adams county, Penna, October 27, 1789, and was a son of William Sturgeon, a native and farmer of that county and of English descent. William Sturgeon, grandfather, removed to Allegheny county in about 1806. Senator Daniel Sturgeon after his graduation from Jefferson College at Washington, Penna, came to Uniontown and read medicine with Dr Stevens. He went to Greensboro, Greene county, Penna, to practice medicine and after one year's practice there and at the death of Dr Stevens, he returned to Uniontown and took charge of Dr Stevens's extensive practice. Daniel Sturgeon soon left the ranks of the medical profession and entered the political arena for which he was eminently fitted and especially qualified. Embarking in politics, he moved forward from post to post in the State until he was sent to represent Pennsylvania on the floor of the United States Senate. He discharged all the duties of his post with fidelity, firmness and prudence, reflecting credit alike on the State of his nativity and the county of his adoption. Daniel Sturgeon was largely of Scotch Irish origin, a wonderful race noted for its iron will, indomitable courage, and inflexible honesty of purpose. Andrew Jackson was an illustrious representative of this sturdy race; his iron will and energetic action in crushing out South Carolina nullification in the '30s was equaled in the same decade by Daniel Sturgeon as State treasurer when he crushed out with an iron hand "the Buckshot War" of Pennsylvania by persistently refusing Governor Ritner's order for $20,000 and by placing an armed force around the vaults of the treasury. Daniel Sturgeon, although well read, of finished education, of polished manners, of extended observation, a pleasant conversationalist and deep thinker, yet he never graced as a public speaker the stage of life upon which he was a prominent actor. He preferred to give his thoughts to the world in actions rather than words. Senator Sturgeon, like Andrew Jackson, illustrated one part of Goethe's maxim that decision and patience are the king qualities of human nature. He had the decision of Jackson but he never had the opportunity of exhibiting it on the national stage like Jackson. Senator Sturgeon was a magnificent specimen of physical manhood whose brow was stamped with the seal of genius and whose appearance was majestic and impressive. At this time Pennsylvania was well represented in the United States Senate by the "Silent Senator" and the "Sage of Wheatland," Sturgeon and Buchanan. Both were able but unhappily and unfortunately Buchanan lacked some of the kingly virtue of decision, such as Sturgeon so largely possessed. Daniel Sturgeon's political record spanned nearly forty years of his life from 1819 to 1859. He represented Fayette county in the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania for three terms from 1819 to 1825. He was then sent to the State senate of Pennsylvania for four terms and was speaker of the House in 1828. Leaving the State senate in 1829, he became auditor general in 1830 and served six years in that position. He next became State treasurer and served during 1838 and 1839. His continuous and efficient service for the State secured him the position of United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He was elected in 1840 and re-elected in 1845 and served till 1851. In 1853 President Pierce appointed him treasurer of the United States mint at Philadelphia and President Buchanan continued him in the same position, but he resigned in 1858 and retired to private life. He died July 2, 1879, lacking but a year of being ninety years old. In 1814 Daniel Sturgeon married Nancy Gregg of Uniontown. She was born in 1792 and died in 1836. The Senator never remarried. He left four sons and one daughter of whom but one son, William H Sturgeon, MD, survives. One son, Lieutenant John Sturgeon, Company H, Second Pennsylvania Volunteers, died while in the service of the Mexican War. Dr William H Sturgeon was married in 1853 to Miss Emily V Dawson, daughter of John Dawson, a well remembered lawyer of Uniontown. Their children living are two sons and three daughters: John D Sturgeon, a practicing physician of Uniontown; Daniel Sturgeon, an attorney at law located at Uniontown; Mary E Sturgeon; Katharine B Sturgeon; and Ellen B Sturgeon. p301 JAMES ESTEP STURGIS is of English-Welsh and Irish descent. He was born August 29, 1841, near Point Marion, Springhill township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Isaac P Sturgis and Diana Ross Sturgis. Isaac P Sturgis was born January 19, 1807, near Smithfield, Fayette county, Penna. He was reared on a farm and acquired a good business education. He followed farming, bought and sold one farm, afterward rented until he purchased a farm of 134 3/4 acres near Point Marion in 1836 on which he resided until his death, March 21, 1876. He was a whig until the death of that grand old party when he became a republican and continued to affiliate with the republican party until his death. He was for many years a member of the Baptist church. He accumulated considerable property by his own energy and individual effort. He married Miss Diana Ross, who was born June 7, 1808. She is now a well preserved old lady, and possesses a remarkable memory. They had seven children, three sons and four daughters. Two of the sons were soldiers in the Union army and died from cold contracted in the siege of Yorktown. Mrs Diana Ross Sturgis was a daughter of David Ross, who was born and reared in Dunkard township, Greene county, Penna. Phineas Sturgis, paternal grandfather, was a Fayette county farmer and for many years an iron ore contractor at the old Fairchance furnace. His father was one of three brothers who came from England to American in an early day and from them are descended all the Sturgises in the United States. James Estep Sturgis was reared on a farm, educated in the common schools and attended one five months term at Georges Creek Academy. In 1860 he taught school in West Virginia and subsequently taught five successive terms in Greene and Fayette counties. When his father died he was appointed executor of the estate and took charge of the home farm where he now resides. He was married November 19, 1868, to Miss Lydia Frances Dilliner, daughter of Ambrose Dilliner, a millwright and farmer of Greene county, Penna. Their union has been blessed with three children: Carrie Leonard Sturgis; Ross Sturgis and Lizzie Sturgis. For twenty five years he has been a member of the Mt Moriah Baptist church at Smithfield, while his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Point Marion. He has been a life long republican, never asked for an office and is not an office seeker. He takes considerable interest in agricultural matters and represents a Cleveland fertizing company. He has pronounced opinions on the agricultural, political and religious topics of the day and can well express them. T SURNAMES p573 ADONIRAM JUDSON TANNEHILL was born July 19, 1855, near Ursina, Somerset county, Penna. He was brought up on a farm in that county until the age of twelve years when he was placed in the Soldiers' Orphans School at Uniontown in 1867, where he remained for four years taking the complete course of study prescribed by the State in that institution. Leaving school he worked at coal mining at Valley Works and Pennsylvania for two years, when he apprenticed himself to John Cunningham to learn the trade of blacksmith; Cunningham at that time worked at Springfield but his now a resident of Connellsville. At this time A D Tannehill was the only support of his orphan sisters. He commenced to work for himself at the blacksmith business in 1879 at which he has continued ever since. He owns sixty acres of land which he has farmed and is considered valuable mountain land, being underlaid with coal and limestone. A J Tannehill was married October 5, 1882, to Miss Frances King at Pittsburgh by Rev Daniel Davis. She is the daughter of Henry King of Springfield, Penna. Three children have been born to this union: Nellie Tannehill, born November 6, 1883; Mabel Tannehill, born July 24, 1885; and Annie Kate Tannehill, born February 15, 1887. Mr Tannehill is a member of the Methodist church. He is the recording secretary of his congregation and represented Springfield circuit at the annual conference at New Brighton in the fall of 1887. He is a member of the Independent Order of Red Men, No 260 at Springfield, Penna. He has held the office of treasurer of this lodge since its organization. He was elected justice of the peace, February, 1886, by the republicans, and is now holding the office. Mr Tannehill is the son of Eli Tannehill and Eliza Jane Graham Tannehill. Eli Tannehill was born November 22, 1821, in Somerset county, Penna, and was married December 14, 1843, to Miss Eliza Jane Graham, daughter of John Graham of Ligonier, Westmoreland county, Penna. He enlisted October 27, 1862, in Company K, One Hundred and Twelfth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and he took part in all the engagements of his regiment up to the time of his death. He was killed August 5, 1864, before Petersburg. Joseph Tannehill, an uncle of A J Tannehill, was killed during the war. Also two other brothers of his father served in the late war in the Union army. The great grandfather of the subject of this sketch was a general in the Revolutionary War, taken prisoner by the British and confined in the Albany prison until exchanged, after the close of the war. He settled near Pittsburgh, Penna, was buried at Grantshill. Tannehill Street, Pittsburgh, was named after him. p477 BUELL TARR was born March 4, 1862, near Tarr's Station in Westmoreland county, Penna. His father Gasper C Tarr was born in Westmoreland county in about 1835, married Jane Buttermore, a native of Fayette county and of German descent. Gasper C Tarr was a miner, but later in life was a farmer. Ten children were born to this marriage: Samuel Tarr, Mary A Tarr, Philip Tarr, Martha E Tarr, John Tarr, Buell Tarr, Gasper Tarr, Emma Tarr, George Tarr, Maggie Tarr, Irwin Tarr, and James Tarr. Buell Tarr was educated in the common schools of Westmoreland county and at Mt Pleasant Institute. He taught school two terms in Westmoreland county, came to Dunbar as assistant agent for the P R R Co, and in capacity he served for over three years. In October, 1887, he became clerk for the Dunbar Furnace Company, the position he still retains. He was married in 1885 to Nancy J Ellenberger, a daughter of Elijah Ellenberger, and a resident of Westmoreland county. They have the following named children: Walter Lewis Tarr and Cora Belle Tarr. Mr Tarr is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and has been for about ten years past. He is one of the trustees of the church at Dunbar, and is secretary of the board, and has been superintendent of the Sabbath school for two years. His father served for three years in the Civil War. p477 SAMUEL TARR. Gasper Tarr, the paternal grandfather of Samuel Tarr, was a native of Westmoreland county, Penna, and married Annie Taylor, who was born in Ligonier Valley of the same county. They had the following children: Annie Tarr, Nancy Tarr, Gasper C Tarr, Martha Tarr, John T Tarr, Mary M Tarr and Ellen Tarr. Gasper C Tarr, father of Samuel Tarr, is at present living on a farm with his son Philip Tarr, in East Huntingdon township, Westmoreland county, Penna. He married Jane Butterworth, daughter of John Butterworth, a native of Fayette county, Penna. The children born to their union were: Samuel Tarr, Mary A Tarr, Philip Tarr, Martha Tarr, John Tarr, Buell Tarr, Gasper Tarr, Emma Tarr, George Tarr, Maggie Tarr, Irwin Tarr and James Tarr-all living. He was a soldier in the Civil War; served in the Sixty second Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers for two years and four months. He took part in the battles of Cold Harbor, Spottsylvania, Fair Oaks and quite a number of other battles around Richmond. Samuel Tarr was born in Westmoreland county, Penna, May 16, 1853; was educated in the common schools of that county and at Mt Pleasant Classical and Scientific Institute. On leaving college he taught school for six years in Westmoreland county. In 1880 he accepted the position of assistant agent of P R R Co at Dunbar under W N Roddy; was made principal agent of P R R Co in 1883 at the same place and still holds the position. In 1878 he was married to Miss Ella McKean, a daughter of James McKean of Westmoreland county. They have three children: Homer Tarr, Scott Tarr, and Nannie Tarr. Mr Tarr is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Dunbar, and has been a member of that church for sixteen years, and has been trustee and steward of the same. p478 JOHN M TAYLOR was born in Bullskin township, Fayette county, Penna, January 26, 1857. His grandfather, Isaac Taylor, was born in 1792, and was the father of John Taylor, Mary Taylor, Robert Taylor, Margaret Taylor, and Lizzie Taylor. J M Taylor's father, John Taylor, was born in Connellsville in about 1810; was a farmer but in 1867 he engaged in the coke business, at which he continued until 1873. He married Matilda McCrea in about 1836, a daughter of John McCrea, who was a native of Indiana county, Penna. John M Taylor was educated in the common schools of the county, and at Elder Ridge Academy in Indiana county. He engaged in the mercantile business at Dunbar in 1878. In June, 1886, he married Miss M Agnes Nennon, daughter of Bernard Nennon of German birth, a resident of Dunbar. They have the following named children: Wilson Taylor and Bernard Taylor. Mr Taylor is a member of the Presbyterian church, and is one of the trustees of the church at Dunbar. The family of his father consisted of the following named children: Mary E Taylor, Rachel Taylor, Margaret S Taylor, Isaac Taylor, Jane L Taylor, John M Taylor, and Leslie L Taylor. His father died in 1875. p303 FRANCIS MARION TERNEY is of French and German descent. His father, a Mr McDonald-a resident of Virginia, and while traveling through the woods at night lost his path, and in his wanderings fell over a precipice and was killed. This occurred before the birth of F M Terney. His mother afterwards married James Terney, when he assumed his stepfather's name and has always been known as F M Terney. He was born February 22, 1832, in Fayette county, Penna, and was raised partly in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. At the age of fourteen years he came to Masontown with his parents and there attended the common schools and secured a fair knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic. He has traveled over the greater part of the United States, and has learned the geography and the history of the country in that way. At the age of fourteen years, he left home and worked by the month until he was twenty two years old. He worked at carpenter work, masonry, and was a moulder and burner of brick. In 1856 he was married to Miss Desdemona Poundstone, a daughter of Jesse Poundstone, the latter a farmer of the county. Of this union were born eight children: James C Terney, Mary Ellen Terney, Waitman T Terney, Willie Terney, Sarah Elizabeth Terney, George Loamia Terney, David Yoe Terney, Carrie Ann Terney and Horace Greeley Terney. Carrie died September 19, 1886; the others are all living. His wife died September 5, 1886. From his marriage up to 1883, he has devoted the greater part of his time to farming. Since 1883 he has turned his attention more to the nursery business. He supplies the country for a circuit of twenty five miles around with the finest fruit grown in the county. Mr Terney is a strong democrat, has been a judge of the election board, inspector of elections, tax collector and road commissioner. He is a member of the M P church at Fallen Timbers. His wife was a member of the same church during her lifetime. The mother of Francis M was born in this county about 1803 and is still living. She is the daughter of Daniel Anvil, who was one of the oldest settlers of Fayette county, where he took up a farm of about five hundred acres of land. He was a gunsmith by trade, and an excellent mechanic, and made guns that were used in the War of 1812. He also made hackles, some are still to be found in the county. p231 JASPER MARKLE THOMPSON was one of the men that Fayette county delighted to honor. He was one of that useful class of men in every State whose patriotism, integrity, intelligence, and usefulness give stability to society, prosperity and progress to its business affairs. He was born near Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, August 30, 1822, and was the youngest son of Andrew Finley Thompson and Leah Markle Thompson. He is of Scotch Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His ancestors on both sides fled from the "old world" on account of their religious convictions and found shelter in the colonial lands of Pennsylvania early in the eighteenth century. His paternal grandfather came from the Cumberland Valley to near Mt Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Penna. He married Mary Jack, daughter of John Jack, who was prominent in drafting the Hannastown Declaration of Independence in 1775. He moved to Kentucky and was a comrade in arms of Boone. He died in Mason county of that State. Andrew Finley Thompson was born in Kentucky in 1791, and served as a soldier with three of his brothers in the War of 1812. He was taken prisoner at Hull's disgraceful surrender, and after being released traveled on foot from the wilds of Michigan to the home of his relatives in Westmoreland county, Penna. He wedded Miss Leah Markle of Westmoreland county, the youngest of Gasper Markle's twenty two children. Gasper Markle was a native of Berks county and settled in Westmoreland county toward the close of the French and Indian War. His father, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, fled from Alsace in 1686, and went to Amsterdam where he engaged in business until 1703. In the same year he removed to Berks county, Penna. A F Thompson with his young bride returned to Kentucky where Mrs Thompson died in 1823, and was soon followed to the grave by her husband. They were the parents of three children: William L Thompson, who died at twenty years of age; Mary Thompson, wife of J P Carothers of this county, who died in 1865; and Jasper M Thompson. Jasper M Thompson, after his parents' death when less than three years of age, was taken to Westmoreland county and lived with his grandmother, Mary Markle, until her death in 1832 when he engaged with his cousin, General Cyrus P Markle. After twelve years of varied and useful experience in farming, clerking, and bookkeeping, he removed in 1850 to Redstone township. He purchased a part of the Walters farm near New Salem, but in the same year bought and removed to a farm in Menallen township, two and one half miles from Uniontown where he farmed and dealt in livestock until 1862. President Lincoln appointed him collector of internal revenue for the Twenty first district of Pennsylvania. After serving efficiently for four years, he resigned and retired from the office with the respect and good will of all with whom he came in contact. He was one of the original stockholders (1863) of the First National Bank of Uniontown, and of which he was a director from 1863 to 1870 and president from 1870 until his death. He was also president of the Uniontown Building and Loan Association, a director in the Fayette County Agricultural Association, a trustee of Washington and Jefferson College, and a director in Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny City. In 1873 the citizens of Fayette county elected him to the legislature by 1,031 majority on the republican ticket. The democratic majority in the county at that time was about 1,000. He was elected in 1868 as a republican presidential elector, and cast his vote for General Grant. He was married in 1846 to Miss Eliza Caruthers, youngest daughter of Samuel Caruthers of Sewickley township, Westmoreland county, Penna, a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church. Mr Caruthers' mother was a daughter of Lieutenant John Potter, and her brother, General James Potter, was a highly trusted friend of General Washington during the Revolutionary War. Mr Thompson had four children, two sons and two daughters: Ruth A Thompson, educated at the Female Seminary at Washington, Penna, and was married in 1875 to Dr J T Shepler of Dunbar; Lenora M Thompson, educated at the same institution and was married in 1873 to John A Niccolls of Uniontown; William M Thompson, graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1871, and resides upon the home farm of over 650 acres; Josiah V Thompson, graduated from the same institution, and at the same time as his brother. He was chosen teller in the First National Bank of Uniontown in 1872, was elected cashier in 1877, and became president of the bank April 3, 1889. The First National Bank of Uniontown was organized in 1863, commenced business May 1, 1864, with a capital stock of $60,000 and which was increased in January 1872, to $100,000. The bank has an average annual deposit of $480,000, and now has a surplus fund of $95,000. Its officers are: Josiah V Thompson, president; Edgar S Hackney, cashier; Francis M Semans, Jr, teller. Its directors are H H Hackney, Joseph M Campbell, D P Gibson, George W Hess, William Hunt, and J V Thompson. Jasper M Thompson died of pneumonia at his home in Menallen township March 15, 1889. He had made a business trip to the South in February, 1889, and while there contracted a cold which soon developed into symptoms of pneumonia. By traveling almost day and night he succeeded in reaching his home, where he died upon the evening of his arrival. He attended the old subscription schools, but the more important school from which he received his education was "the great world of active life." He was for nearly thirty years a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church at Uniontown, of which he was an honored member for forty years. The grand secret of his success was attention to business and devotion to duty. Christian consistency and true philanthropy was the cause of his popularity and the basis of his usefulness. p305 SAMUEL THOMPSON is an extensive land holder, a large coal operator along the Monongahela river in the Pittsburgh bed of the great Appalachian coal field. He is a son of John Thompson and Ruth Lewis Thompson, and was born in East Bethlehem township, Washington county, Penna, March 28, 1820. John Thompson was born in New Jersey in 1776. He removed early in life to Washington county and located on a farm in East Bethlehem township. He was a farmer and trader and owned four hundred acres of land. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and died March 31, 1860, in his eighty fourth year. His wife was a native of Pennsylvania and died September 17, 1876, in her ninety third year. Samuel Thompson was reared on a farm and received a limited education in the old subscription schools. He engaged in farming and purchased a farm in 1850 and in the same year he engaged in the distilling business. He began with a small distillery of eight bushels capacity, enlarge it into an extensive building and continued for twenty years in the farming and distilling business. In 1857 Mr Thompson removed to his present residence in Bridgeport and in 1879 engaged in the coal business. He now owns the Champion, Caledonian and Wood's Run Coal Works that have a combined output of ten thousand bushels of coal per day. These three works are situated close together in Washington county and produce a desirable article of coal which is in great demand in the Western and Southern markets. He owns seventeen farms, aggregating three thousand acres of good farming land. Seven of these farms are in Washington county, five in Fayette, two in Iowa and three in Kansas and are all underlaid with coal. Mr Thompson was united in marriage in 1843 to Miss Martha Cooper, who died in 1848. July 12, 1859, he married Miss Esther Wilson of Washington county who died Mary 30, 1864, leaving three children: Robert W Thompson, now in Kansas; George D Thompson, managing a farm of four hundred acres in Washington county; and Thomas H Thompson, in charge of a Washington county farm of five hundred acres. February 25, 1872, Mr Thompson married for his third wife, Miss Elizabeth Crawford of Fayette county. She died June 20, 1877. In 1882 Mr Thompson married his fourth wife, Mrs Bridget Dawson, widow of Elias Dawson. Samuel Thompson has been a director of the First National Bank of Brownsville for fifteen years, and also a director of the National Deposit Bank of Brownsville since its organization. He owns stock in the Citizens' Bank of Washington, Penna, and is a stockholder of the Bridgeport Natural Gas Company, and he and his nephew have a bank in Eureka, Kansas. Being one of nine children, he received but a small sum from his father's estate. By energy, care, good management, and close attention to business he has won a competency. He is a prominent businessman of Fayette county, and his large business enterprises are conducted energetically and systematically. p395 WILLIAM M THOMPSON, son of Jasper M Thompson and Eliza C Carothers Thompson, was born two and one half miles from Uniontown in Menallen township, Fayette county, Penna, November 27, 1851. His mother, Eliza C Carothers, was born January 6, 1821, near West Newton, Westmoreland county, Penna, and in 1846 was married to Jasper M Thompson. She is a daughter of Samuel Carothers and Ruth Elliott Carothers, whose father, Johnson Elliott lived where Robert Elliot now resides in Jefferson township, Fayette county, Penna. William M Thompson attended the common schools, prosecuted his academic and began his collegiate studies at Madison College and was graduated from Washington Jefferson College in 1871. On January 12, 1887, he married Miss Katherine M Ruple of Washington, Penna. Their union has been blessed with two children: Helen Ruple Thompson, born November 9, 1887; and Jasper Markle Thompson, born January 5, 1889. Mrs Thompson is a daughter of James Ruple, born in Washington county, Penna, in 1812, and married Sarah A Mayes of the same county who was born in 1821. Since he graduated from college, Mr Thompson has largely devoted his time and attention to farming and stock dealing. His flocks and herds of blooded sheep and cattle are the largest and finest in Fayette county, and are known throughout the State. He is a member of the Presbyterian church to which his wife also belongs. He is an honorable business man and a highly respected citizen of the county. p304 JAMES I THORNTON. The coal industry of Pennsylvania ranks next in importance to that of agriculture. Among the energetic and successful coal operators is James I Thornton of the Knob Coal Company. He was born in Ironton, Ohio, January 14, 1857, and is a son of James Thornton and Ann Lewis Thornton, both natives of Wales. James Thornton emigrated to the United States in 1854 and located at Pittsburgh but subsequently removed to Ironton, Ohio, and in a few years returned to Pittsburgh where he died n 1863. He was a marble cutter and machinist and a consistent member of the Baptist church. Three of his daughters are married and live in Pittsburgh. His wife died in 1868 at the age of forty seven years. James I Thornton removed with his parents from Ohio to Pittsburgh. At Pittsburgh he attended the public schools for some years; leaving school he engaged in digging coal along the Monongahela river and continued in this work up to 1878. In 1878 he became a member of the Knob Hill Coal Company. This company has been very successful in mining and shipping coal and do an extensive business. Mr Thornton was married in July, 1879, to Miss Jennie Scease, daughter of Benjamin Scease, the latter a farmer of Redstone township. They have four living children: Charlie A Thornton; James A Thornton; Annie M Thornton; and DeWayne Thornton. Mr Thornton is now a resident of Bridgeport. He is a member of I O O F and Royal Arcanum. He is one of Bridgeport's most public spirited young businessmen. He is self-made and his rise from a coal digger to a successful coal operator is an illustration of what intelligence, combined with energy and determination, can achieve for a man. p396 JOHN TIERNIN, an old and prominent citizen of Fayette county, was born in Pennsylvania in 1798 and was a son of Micheal and Alsie Tiernin, the former a native of Ireland, the latter of Pennsylvania. John Tiernin was educated in the subscription schools and was a blacksmith by trade. At twenty five years of age he engaged in boating from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, going down in the spring on a flat boat, then called a "Broadhorn," to the Crescent City with a cargo of bacon, flour, apples, cider and other productions of this country, returning on foot overland to his home. After several years he left the river and purchased a farm within the present borough limits of Fayette City of Hugh C Ford. This farm was underlaid with a fine vein of coal which Mr Tiernin opened and furnished three glass factories with their fuel, besides supplying the town and other places for many years with coal. He was elected treasurer of Fayette county, October 8, 1861, and re-elected October 13, 1863. His services as treasurer were entirely satisfactory to the people and highly creditable to himself. November 7, 1820, he was married to Miss Eliza J Newbold, daughter of Bazilla M Newbold and Elizabeth Goskill Newbold, the former a Quaker from New Jersey and an early settler in this county. The family of Mr Tiernin consisted of ten children: Joshua Tiernin (see also Tearnin), born August 16, 1821, married Catherine Clegg; Mary A Tiernin, born December 15, 1823, married William Mullen; Elizabeth Tiernin, born February 14, 1826, married William Worf of Brownsville; Beulah Tiernin, born March 20, 1828, married J W Wright of Virginia; Sarah Tiernin, born September 9, 1830; Micheal J Tiernin, born December 2, 1832; Bazilla M Tiernin, born May 10, 1835, married Rebecca Evans; Catherine Tiernin, born October 11, 1837, wife of N B Brightwell; Eliza J Tiernin, born May 5, 1840, married Samuel Drumm; John Tiernin Jr, born May 20, 1844, lost during the war at twenty one years of age. These are all dead excepting Mrs Brightwell. p303 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TITUS was born on Dunkard Creek, Dunkard township, Greene county, Penna, February 19, 1846. He was brought up in his native township on a farm and attended the common schools until seventeen years of age, when he went to the Southwestern Normal College, at California, Washington county, Penna, and took a two years' course. Leaving college, he engaged in the mercantile business at Point Marion for nine months, went to Rosedale, Greene county, and there he engaged in the same business, which he continued for about eighteen months. He then engaged in farming in Greene county for a short time when he went to San Antonio, Texas, as deputy surveyor of Bexar district, and served as such for two years. He then took a position with the International and Great Northern R R as supervisor of the Loredo section of that road, where he remained for four years. He returned to Pennsylvania, located near Point Marion and engaged in farming on the old homestead of his wife's family, where he is still engaged, and now owns fifty acres of valuable river bottom land. Point Marion now stands on a part of the old homestead. On March 17, 1868, he was married to Jennie M Saddler, a native of Springhill township, and is the daughter of Moses Sadler, also a native of the same township. The have had six children: Moses Franklin Titus, Charles Louis Titus, Montie Lee Titus, Binnie Titus, Garrett Titus and Birdie Cotula Titus; all of whom are living at home with their parents. In 1870 Mr Titus was elected on the democratic ticket by a large majority to the office of auditor of Greene county, and held it for four years. At present he is tax collector for Springhill township. He is a prominent member of the Masons, belongs to LaSalle Lodge 572, Texas, and is a prominent member of the Disciple Church at Point Marion. B F Titus is a son of Levi Titus and Anna Stewart Titus. His father was a native of Greene county, Penna, his mother of Monongalia county, West Virginia. His father was born in 1821, and died in 1887. His mother was born 1823, and is still living at the age of sixty seven years. Benjamin Titus -the grandfather of the subject of this sketch- was one of the oldest and earliest settlers of Greene county. He fought in the war for independence and endured the hardships of Valley Forge. He enlisted at age seventeen and served throughout the war. p304 EWING TODD of Brownsville is of Irish descent and was born December 30, 1831, in Redstone township, Fayette county, Penna, and is the son of Huston Todd and Catherine Gadd Todd. The ancestry of Mr Todd's family can be traced back to his paternal grandfather, Thomas Todd, who was a native of County Down, Ireland. He came to the United States in 1785 and settled for a short time at Wilmington, Delaware, where he was married. Leaving Wilmington in 1790 he came to Franklin township where he passed the remainder of his days. His death at ninety years of age occurred in 1855. He was a noted "sale crier," then called "vendue crier," for which he was specifically qualified and in which he was wonderfully successful. Huston Todd, father, was born in Franklin township in 1807 and died in Menallen township in December, 1849. His life was principally spent in Redstone township as a farmer. He was a Jackson democrat and was married to Miss Catherine Gadd of Redstone township, born in 1808 and died in October, 1882. Ewing Todd was raised on a farm and attended the common school until he was eighteen years of age when he came to Brownsville to learn the trade of a plasterer. For nearly forty years, Mr Todd has worked successfully at his trade and his services have always been in good demand. He was married in 1860 to Miss Margaret Claybaugh, daughter of Martin Claybaugh, a blacksmith of Brownsville township. Their union has been blessed with nine children, six sons and three daughters: William H Todd; Lucy Todd; Harry M Todd; Cora Todd; Samuel C Todd; Thomas Todd; Bessie Todd; Alford Todd and Ewing Todd Jr. He is a good workman, a reliable citizen and is an active member of the I O O F and is a democrat. p400 JOHN OSMAN TODD of Menallen is a son of John Todd and Catherine Condon Todd, and was born on the old Sharpless farm on the banks of Redstone Creek in Redstone township, Fayette county, Penna, January 28, 1823. His grandfather, Thomas Todd, came from County Down, Ireland, and married Elizabeth Huston, a Quakeress of Chester county, Penna. His father, John Todd, was born in Chester county; he served in the War of 1812, and was at the siege of Baltimore and was a soldier in Captain Giesey's Company of Brownsville. John Todd married Miss Catherine Condon, daughter of William Condon, who was the first steward of the old poorhouse; and died when his son, John O Todd, was eighteen months old. John O Todd was educated in the schools of William Beggs and Samuel Wilson and later attended one term at Madison College. After his school days, he engaged in farming and still continues in that business. Since the age of eight years he has resided at the same place, and has always been a farmer. May 10, 1855, he married Miss Elizabeth Springer. To them were born seven children: Ross M Todd, born 1856, machinist in Chicago; John H Todd, married Harriett Craft, daughter of D B Craft, and in livery business at Uniontown; Thomas S Todd, born 1868; Kate Todd, wife of Calvin Shoaf and dead; Laura Todd, wife of William Barton; Eliza E Todd, wife of George Craft; and Sallie Todd at home. Mrs Todd died October 31, 1871. Her father was Shepherd Springer. John O Todd was an "old line whig." When that great political organization went down, he enrolled himself in the ranks of its successor, the republican party. He is an industrious citizen and a careful and prudent farmer. p399 THOMAS TODD JR, who so nobly gave his life in the performance of his duty, was the youngest son of Thomas Todd and Elizabeth Huston Todd, and was born near Uniontown, September 26, 1811. Thomas Todd Sr was born November 9, 1762, in County Down, Ireland, and came to America in 1783. He married Elizabeth Huston and moved to the vicinity of Uniontown in 1795. Their children were as follows: Hannah Todd, wife of Jesse Ross, born July 3, 1790, died November 1, 1849; Nancy Todd, wife of Richard Barnes, born February 4, 1792; John Todd, in the War of 1812, born March 11, 1794; Martha Todd, wife of Isaac Beal, born January 13, 1797; Phebe Todd, wife of Richard Mills, born December 3, 1799; Eliza Todd, wife of Walter Brown, born April 4, 1802, died March, 1872; Mary Todd, wife of Thomas Van Hook, born July 8, 1804, died December 25, 1849; Huston Todd, married Catherine Gadd, born May 16, 1807, died December 26, 1849; Sarah Todd, wife of Joseph Saliday, born August 13, 1809, and Thomas Todd Jr. Thomas Todd Jr became a steamboat engineer and plied his vocation on the Monongahela and Ohio rivers. April 15, 1835, he married Miss Sarah A Bugher. Unto this union were born seven children: Huston Todd, born February 27, 1836; Ellen L Todd, born September 4, 1837; William Todd, born July 9, 1840; Elizabeth Todd, born December 21, 1842 (dead); Margaret A Todd, born June 21, 1845, and was married to Edward W White in 1868; Melissa Jane Todd, born May 15, 1848 (dead); and Rachel Emma Todd, born December 23, 1850 (dead). The mother died April 1, 1888. She was a noble woman and the needy never asked in vain for her help. She and her whole family belonged to the Christian church. Huston Todd, son, married Elma V Baldwin. Ellen Todd, daughter, was married November 12, 1872, to Dr David H Hough, the latter born in Washington township, Fayette county, Penna, August 1, 1833. He was educated in the common schools, read medicine, attended lectures at Philadelphia, and at twenty one years of age was practicing his profession very successfully at Pennsville. Mrs Ellen Hough of Fayette City inserts the portrait of her mother in this volume as there is no photograph extant of any of the older male members of the family. Mrs Sarah A Bugher Todd was a daughter of Aaron Bugher, a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. She was a noble woman of many Christian graces, and died after a lingering illness in April, 1888. A younger brother married the daughter of Honorable Washington McClain of Cincinnati, the father of John McClain of the Enquirer. Mrs Ellen Hough has been a widow since the death of her husband, Dr Hough, and has no children. She owns a splendid farm in Menallen township besides considerable other property. She is a lady of fine address, and possessed of many accomplishments. Thomas Todd Jr was the carpenter and assistant engineer on the ill-fated steamboat Chickasaw which collided with the William B Clifton on April 27, 1852, on the Ohio river. There was a mistake in signal bells and the Clifton ran into and sank the Chickasaw. Todd remained at his post until the cabin parted from the hull, was standing in four feet of water when he generously urged his fellow engineer to climb a near post, and sought a distant one by which to make his own escape. He was drowned, but his heroic conduct will not soon be forgotten; and flame-enveloped John Maynard of Lake Erie has his equal in flood-enshrouded Thomas Todd of the Ohio river. p400 WILLIAM R TROY of Washington township was born at Greenfield, Washington county, Penna, September 4, 1831, and was educated in the subscription schools of that day. Being left an orphan at the age of ten years, he began life for himself on the river as a hand on the coal boats used to transport coal before the days of barges and steam tow boats, and followed that business till quite recently. In 1883 he built a repair dock and has been since engaged in repairing boats. His dock is near Fayette City at the mouth of Little Redstone Creek. He was married in 1862 to Sarah Buxton, daughter of Samuel Buxton and Ruth Floyd Buxton, the former a native of England and the latter of Pennsylvania. The have reared five children: Albert W Troy; Harry A Troy; Gemva D Troy; Enola Troy and Walter Troy. They are all living at home. Mr Troy is a member of the Masonic fraternity. His father, David Troy, was a native of Virginia, came to Pennsylvania as a young man and settled in Washington county. He married Elizabeth Fenton, whose parents were early settlers of Fayette county. He and his wife died when their son William R Troy was quite young. U SURNAMES p574 HIRAM UMBEL, of Henry Clay township, one of the most successful merchants of Fayette county, and a man of considerable financial standing, is a son of Daniel Umbel and Rebecca Maust Umbel, and was born in Henry Clay township, Fayette county, Pa, May 10, 1847. His grandfather, Isaac Umbel, came from Wales to what is now Henry Clay township about 100 years ago. His wife was Nancy Cambell and they were members of the Brethren in Christ church. He was a democrat of the "old school." His father, Daniel Umbel, was a native of Henry Clay township, was a farmer by occupation but was engaged in the mercantile business for a few years at Markleysburg. He was school director a number of years, a democrat and was a member of the "Brethren in Christ" church. He married Miss Sarah Meyers and they had five children. After her death he married Miss Rebecca Maust, daughter of Jacob Maust of Somerset county, Penna. To this second union were born two children: Nancy Umbel, wife of Jacob Hindbaugh; and Hiram Umbel. Mr Maust was a member of the German Baptist church, and emigrated to Henry Clay township where he afterwards died. Hiram Umbel was raised on a farm, educated in the common schools, Grantsville, Maryland, Normal School, and Georges Creek Academy, and taught seven terms in the schools of Pennsylvania and Maryland. In 1863 he sought to enlist in the army, but was refused on account of age. February 7, 1880, he removed to Markleysburg and engaged in his present mercantile business. April 23, 1871, he was married to Miss Lucinda Thomas, daughter of Christian Thomas; they have two children: Mary Alice Umbel and Isaac Walter Umbel. Hiram Umbel is a good financier and would be an able man to handle financial affairs of any kind. He began in life without anything, yet by his energy and business ability he is now worth about $20,000. He has two very fine business buildings in Markleysburg; one is well fitted up and heavily stocked with first class merchandise, the other a well-furnished undertaking establishment, which was opened in 1886. In both lines of business he enjoys a large patronage. Hiram Umbel is a member of the Church of God. He is a democrat, was postmaster for ten years, and is an active worker in the interests of his political party. V SURNAMES p401 LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN was born in Brownsville, Fayette county, Penna, December 6, 1841. He is a son of William Vaughan and Anna Llewellyn Vaughan, both natives of Wales, England. William Vaughan emigrated from Wales to the United States in 1839. He was a puddler in rolling mills, and was a member of the Episcopalian church. His death occurred in 1848. Llewellyn Vaughan received his education in the common schools. By the death of his father he was thrown upon his own resources at the early age of ten years. He worked in a rolling mill at Pittsburgh until he was fourteen years of age when he went to learn the trade of machinist at Brownsville, Penna. Serving four a half of his five years time as apprentice when he enlisted as a private in Company G, Eighth Pennsylvania Reserves, May 24, 1861; He re-enlisted in 1863 and was transferred to the One Hundred and Ninety first Pennsylvania Veterans in which he served until June, 1865. He was in all the engagements of his regiment, was wounded at Charles City Cross Roads and was a second time wounded at the second day's fight in the Wilderness on May 6, 1864. His experience of army life was completed by being a prisoner of war from August 19, 1864, until March 17, 1865. His capture took place at the Yellow House Tavern, he spent his captivity in Pemberton, Libby prisons, on Belle Island and at Saulsbury, North Carolina. He married January 17, 1866, Miss Sarah Sheets, daughter of John Sheets, an operator in the glass works. They have eight children: Jennie Vaughan; Mary Vaughan; Elizabeth Vaughan; John Vaughan; Emma Vaughan; William Vaughan; Edmund Vaughan; and Irene Vaughan. After returning from the army, Mr Vaughan worked for a short time in a Pittsburgh rolling mill, and subsequently engaged on a steamboat as fireman; from this position he passed to that of assistant engineer and in 1886 became high pressure chief engineer of steam vessels. He is a resident of Fayette City, where he belongs to Post 396, G A R and to Lodge 396, K of P. To his honorable war record he has added the reputation of an efficient engineer.