BIOS: Frank Ulam DAUGHERTY, Ursina, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford & Somerset Counties, PA; v.3; Bedford County by E.
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; Lewis Pub. Co.,
NY/Chicago 1906; ppg. 412-413

Frank Ulam Daugherty.

Frank Ulam Daugherty, of Ursina, was born November 22, 1869, at
Saltsburg, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, son of William M. Daugherty, who
was born July, 1847, in the same place and received his education at the
old Saltsburg Academy.  William M. Daugherty learned the cooper's trade,
which he followed until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he enlisted
as drummer boy in Company A., Fifty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers, under Captain J. K. Weaver, and served until November 14, 1864,
when he was honorably discharged at Pittsburg.
He was for twenty-four years employed as conductor by the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad Company and is now enrolled on the retired list of the
company, his home being at Meyersdale.  He was drum major of the Tenth
Regiment at the parade of the National Guard held at Saltsburg in 1876,
during Governor Hoyt's administration.  He is a Republican and a member of
the Presbyterian church of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Daugherty married Sadie Rumbaugh, of near Salina, Bell township,
Westmoreland county, and they were the parent of five sons: 1. Frank Ulam,
of whom later.  2. Joseph Llewellyn, married Maggie, daughter of John and
Elizabeth Knepp, of Larimer township, has six children, William, Rose,
Elizabeth, Carl, Evaline and Clara.  3. James William, married Lillie,
daughter of John and Mary Brand, of Haysville.  4. Charles Barclay.  5.
Thomas, married Edna, daughter of John Smiley, of Elwood City,
Pennsylvania.  The mother of these children died Febraary 19, 1880, at the
early age of twenty-nine, and three years after Mr. Daugherty married Mary,
widow of Smith Wilcox, of Saltsburg.
Frank Ulam Daugherty, son of William M. and Sadie (Rumbaugh) Daugherty,
was educated in the public schools of Saltsburg and Meyersdale and at the
preparatory school presided over by Professor J. D. Meeses at Meyersdale. 
He learned railroad telegraphy with W. H. Habel, then agent at Saltsburg
Junction, and from 1885 to 1894 was employed as station agent by the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.  Since October, 1894, he has been
proprietor of the Riverview Inn, Ursina.  He is a Republican and takes a
very active part in the politics of his county and state.
Mr. Daugherty married, April 17, 1890, Josephine, daughter of Thomas and
Josephine (Keating) Eckard, of Elk Lick, and their children were: Sadie,
Mary, died at the age of four years and eight months; Barbara, Dorothy and
William.