BIO: Lambert M. ORLADY, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 185.
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  LAMBERT M. ORLADY, McConnellstown, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born 
at McConnellstown, May 5, 1860. He is the son of Martin B. and Mary D. 
(Neff) Orlady. Martin Orlady, the elder, was a native of Pennsylvania 
and a farmer. Martin Orlady, M.D., father of Lambert M. Orlady, was 
born in Huntingdon county in 1820. He attended the schools of his 
native county and at Meadville, Pa., and taught in the county. 
Afterwards he attended and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, and later graduated in surgery from the Medical 
University of New York. He returned to McConnellstown in 1850 and began 
a practice which continued for forty years and was extended through the 
valley. He also served as school director and took an active part in 
politics, first as a Democrat, afterwards becoming a Republican.
  Martin Orlady was married to Mary D. Neff, daughter of Andrew Neff, a 
farmer of Porter township. She was born November 26, 1826. Their 
children are: Henry, deceased; Elizabeth, wife of A. R. Robb, a farmer 
of Walker township; Laura, deceased; Alice, deceased wife of Alexander 
K. Long, of Huntingdon; Lambert M.; and Benjamin, dry-goods merchant in 
North Dakota. Mr. Orlady died in McConnellstown, January 8, 1891.
  Lambert M. Orlady derived his education from the district school, 
normal school and Juniata College and the State Normal School at Lock 
Haven, Pa. At the age of nineteen years he began to teach school in 
Juniata township; he has taught in McConnellstown for fifteen years, 
and has chosen this important and useful profession as his life's work. 
His kind and cheerful manner especially fit him for his work and win 
for him the esteem of his associates. Mr. Orlady is a Republican, and a 
K. of G. E.