OBIT: Andrew Jackson BIRD, Rev., 1915, native of Somerset County, PA

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Bird, Andrew Jackson

DEATH OF REV. A. J. BIRD, the Reverend Andrew Jackson Bird, pastor of the 
Calvary Evangelical Church of Johnstown  and a former presiding elder of the 
Franklin and Somerset districts died in the Memorial Hospital on Sunday of 
afternoon of cancer of the stomach after a half year's illness. Three months ago 
he gave up his work and underwent an operation in Pittsburg, he gradu[sic] grew 
worse. Born near Confluence, Aug. 5, 1855, the Rev. Mr. Bird was a son of the 
late Noah Bird, a Mexican War veteran. He attended the public schools near 
Confluence and later entered Indiana State Normal, where he prepared for 
teaching which he followed until about 1880 when he was admitted to the 
Pittsburg conference of the Evangelical Church. Besides his mother, Mrs. Mary 
Bird, of Confluence, he is survived by his wife and one son, Rev. H. H. Bird, of 
Springfield, Ohio.

Meyersdale Commercial, May 20, 1915