OBIT: James Harvey LONGACRE, 1879, formerly of Huntingdon County, PA

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A MOUNT UNION MAN MURDERED.
[Mount Union Times, Wednesday.]

  A despatch from Plano, Ill., states that James Harvey Longacre, a son 
of Joseph Longacre, formerly a resident of this place, was shot and 
instantly killed by C. M. Bennett on Wednesday of last week.  From the 
meager reports in our possession we are only able to state that the 
unfortunate young man had been engaged to Bennett's sister but the 
engagement had been broken.  On the day above mentioned he went to 
Bennett's for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation, but was 
rejected.  He then threatened Bennett, when the latter shot him through 
the head with fatal results.  The young man is no doubt remembered by 
many of our citizens, his father having held the position of foreman on 
the Pennsylvania railroad at this place some ten years ago, and now 
residing near Thompsontown, Pa.  The remains were brought home and 
interred on Tuesday.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Saturday, December 20, 1879