BIOS: George F. GORMAN, Rockwood, 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; pg. 238

George F. GORMAN.

George F. Gorman, of Rockwood, was born May 4, 1869, in Black township,
and is a son of Frederick Gorman, a native of Germany, who emigrated to the
United States and settled in Somerset county. 
George F. Gorman attended the common schools of Somerset county until the
age of eighteen, and was then for three years engaged in farming with his
uncle.  At twenty-one he was employed as a teamster by Penrose Wolf, and at
the end of one year became a brakeman on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
After serving in this capacity two years and a half he was made foreman and
worked as such for six years.  In 1898 he was promoted to the position of
engineer, which he still retains.  He belongs to the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and he and his family are members of the Lutheran
church of Rockwood. 
Mr. Gorman married, June 30, 1897, Mary Burk, and their children are:
Raymond, born May 10, 1898; Nettie, February 1, 1900; Clarence, November 1,
1901; and Kenneth, May 8, 1904.  Mrs. Gorman was born October 22, 1875, and
is the only child of John and Mary (Fletcher) Burk, of Allegheny county,
where Mr. Burk was employed in the gristmill.