BIO: Joseph P. WINGATE, 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 79.
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  JOSEPH P. WINGATE, of the Pennsylvania Railroad car shop yards, was born 
on the line between Cambria and Blair counties, Pa., March 30, 1850, and is 
a son of Franklin and Margaret (Bell) Wingate.  Franklin Wingate was born 
September 6, 1822; Margaret Bell in the same year, on November 13.  Franklin 
Wingate was a carpenter; but during his residence in Cambria county, and 
afterwards in Huntingdon, he kept a hotel.  These parents had twelve 
children, as follows:  Alexander B., born March 5, 1843, married Annie Altz, 
December 29, 1868, killed in a wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad, March 12, 
1885; Jesse B., born November 20, 1844, died from the effects of a wound 
received in the service of the Union, during the Rebellion, November 15, 
1867; William B., born August 3, 1846, married Sarah Burley, December 30, 
1871, accidentally shot at Tyrone, Pa., July 4, 1872; Jennie T., born July 
9, 1848, married Jeremiah Thomas, July 2, 1868, died August 17, 1869; Joseph 
P.; Franklin P., born September 5, 1852, died August 30, 1882; Rebecca Mary, 
born August 9, 1854, married Hugh A. Miller, June 26, 1872, resides in 
Harrisburg, Pa.; John L., born November 23, 1857, resides in Brockawayville, 
Jefferson county, Pa., is an engineer on the Philadelphia and Erie Low Grade 
Railroad; James C., born December 28, 1858, killed in train wreck September 
5, 1884; Annie M., born October 4, 1862; Ada Russell, wife of Samuel Altz, 
born March 25, 1865, died March 13, 1890; and Wilhelmina Adela, born April 
2, 1868, wife of Allie Hamer, of Reedsville, Pa.  Franklin Wingate, the 
father of the family, died in Saulsburg, Huntingdon county, May 1, 1868; his 
wife died in Huntingdon, May 2, 1882.
  Joseph P. Wingate came with his parents to Huntingdon county when a child, 
and from that time has always been a resident of the county, and, during 
most of the time, of the borough.  His education having been obtained in the 
common schools of Saulsburg, he went to Tyrone, and, after an apprenticeship 
at carpentry in that place, removed to Huntingdon, and worked for a short 
time at his newly acquired trade.  Since July 7, 1872, he has been an 
efficient and faithful employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company;  as a 
token of the esteem in which he was held by the company, he was appointed, 
in 1894, to his present responsible position.  Mr. Wingate is an active 
member of Juniata Lodge, No. 117, and of Mount Hor Encampment, No. 180, 
I.O.O.F.; he is a past noble grand of his lodge, and past chief patriarch of 
his chapter.  Both he and his wife are charter members of Della Lodge, No. 
78, Daughters of Rebecca.  Mr. Wingate is also a member of Standing Stone 
Castle, No. 176, K.G.E., and a past officer.  All these fraternities are of 
Huntingdon.  In politics, he is an independent thinker and voter.
  Joseph P. Wingate was married in Huntingdon, January 30, 1873, to Martha 
A., daughter of Philip and Matilda Pheasant, residents of Trough Creek 
township, Huntingdon county, where Mrs. Wingate was born.  They have no 
children.  Mr. and Mrs. Wingate are consistent members of the Second M. E. 
church, of which Mr. Wingate has been a steward for twenty-five years.  He 
is a worthy and honored citizen.