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H ENRY REESE FULLERTON. During a long, useful and honorable life, Henry Reese Fullerton took part in so many matters of importance to Parker City that a mention in the record of his life of his more import- ant business enterprises will embrace the ma- terial history of Parker City from 1872 to 1886. He was born in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1827, and was a son of James and Susan (Reese) Fullerton. When he was quite small his parents removed to Jefferson county, where he was reared to man- hood and received his education in the com-
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mon schools. He learned the trade of brick- maker, which he soon abandoned to enter tlie lumber business, as affording liim a wider field for the employment of his active mind and tireless energy. He frequently increased his operations in the lumber business until he was one of the largest lumber dealers in the county. In 1865 he lost a limb, and five years later disposed of his lumber interests. He then came to Parker and embarked in the oil business, but the control and management of that important undertaking did not absorb his entire attention or require all of his time, and he engaged in several other important enterprises. He leased the ferry, which he operated until 1872. He was one of the projectors and stockholders of the company which built the Parker City bridge. He was instrumental in securing the erection of the Parker City glass-works, in 1880, was one of the organizers and stockholders in the Parker Exchange bank, of which he was vice-president, and was one of the projectors and stock- holders of the Parker & Karns City and Karns City & Butler railways, which were built in 1873, and became important factors in the development of the Butler oil field. In 1874 he purchased the water-works, of which Parker City is very proud to-day, en- larged their capacity and laid several miles of additional pipe. He was also one of the owners of the planing-mill and box-factory. In every leading business enterprise of Parker City Mr. Fullerton was not only interested, but was active, prominent and useful. He took a great pride in the growth and progress of his town, and his aim was to contribute in every way possible to its development and prosperity. A man of great business ability, he was also a man of unusual energy and great method; and was thus enabled, at the same time, to actively manage and successfully control several different business enterprises. He was a republican in politics, and, in addition to his many business
interests, served one term as mayor and several terms as justice of the peace. He was a mem- ber of the M. E. church and the Masonic fra- ternity, and was a consistent temperance man, who never drank as much as a glass of beer or used tobacco in any form. His life closed wlien he was still actively engaged in business. He passed away at his home in Parker City, June 5, 1886, when in the sixty-second year of his age, and his remains were interred in Parker City cemetery. H. R. Fullerton had been for many years one of the most prominent and ac- tive citizens of his borough. He was highly esteemed and respected in private life, and his death left a wide blank in the business and so- cial circles of his town. He was a kind hus- band, an affectionate father and a good friend to the poor.
In 1848 he was married to Harriet Pearsall, of Brookville, Jefferson county, this State. Mrs. Fullerton is a daughter of Arad Pearsall, and resides in her well-appointed and elegant home at Parker City. Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton had three children : Dean W., in the banking business; Lily, who is married to G. W. Butt, and resides at Warren, Pa .; and Elliot Y., a very promising young man, who died Septem- ber 7, 1885, when in the twenty-sixth year of his age.
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JOHN ALLISON HENRY, M.D., of Day- ton, is a physician who has specially fitted himself for his profession and who has enjoyed a continuous and successful practice of thirteen years in Jefferson, Clarion and Armstrong counties. He is a son of Robert T. and Hester (Allison) Henry, and was born in Monroe township, Clarion county, Pennsylvania, Janu- ary 29, 1848. The Henrys are of English descent and one of them, William Henry (grandfather), of England, came to Westmore- land county, Pennsylvania, from whence he re- moved in 1802 to Monroe township, Clarion
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county, where he took up seven hundred acres of land. He served as a soldier in a Pennsyl- vania regiment in the Mexican war. He was a democrat and married Nancy Gibson, a sister of James Gibson, of Indiana county. To their union were born seven children, two sons and five daughters. One of these sons, Robert T. Henry (father), was born on the homestead farm, in Monroe township, in 1818, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising until his death, in 1881, when he was in the sixty-fourth year of his age. He was an extensive farmer, raised fine horses and sheep and was the first man to introduce blooded stock into his section of that county. He was a prominent democrat, and filled the offices of school director and tax collector for ten years and was held in such high esteem by his neighbors that many of them who served as soldiers in the late war, placed their families under his care while they were in the Union army. He married Hester Allison, a daughter of John Allison, of Indi- ana county, who was of Scotch-Irish descent. John Allison was a whig and afterwards a re- publican in politics. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and married a Miss Henry, by whom he had seven children, two sons and five daughters.
Dr. John A. Henry was reared on his father's farm and received his education in the common schools and Reid Institute. Leaving school, he read medicine with Dr. T. C. Lawson, of Greensville, from 1872 to 1876, when he entered the University of Iowa at Iowa City. In 1876 he was matriculated in the College of Physiciaus and Surgeons, at Keokuk, Iowa, from which medical institution he was gradu- ated June 14, 1877. He then returned to his native State and during the next two years practiced medicine at Ringgold, in Jefferson county. At the end of that time he returned to Clarion county, where he practiced until 1881, when he went to Bellevue college, New York City, where he took a post-graduate course in medi-
cine. He then came to Dayton, where he has an extensive and remunerative practice. He owns the old homestead farm in Clarion county, on which he raises some very fine horses.
September 21, 1871, he married Maggie E. Sayers, a daughter of Orr Sayers, of Clarion county. To their union have been born two children : Laura D., a telegraph operator at East Brady ; and Bird Brown.
Dr. J. A. Henry is a democrat in politics. He is a member of Lodge No. 963, Indepen- dent Order of Odd Fellows, of West Millville ; Lodge No. 45, Knights of Pythias, Putney- ville ; Council No. 400, Senior Order of United American Mechanics, of Dayton ; Assembly No. 10,644, Knights of Labor, New Bethlehem, and is a Free and Accepted Mason.
ALBERT M. HOOVER, M.D. One of the most public-spirited citizens and suc- cessful physicians of Parker City is Albert M. Hoover, M.D., who has been engaged in the active practice of his profession for over twenty years. He was born in Buffalo township, Butler county, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1844, and is a son of David L. and Mary (Myers) Hoover. The Hoover family came to America from Saxony, in Germany, and settled in eastern Pennsylvania at an early day in the Colonial history of the Quaker province. John Hoover, the paternal grandfather of Dr. Hoover, was born in Dauphin county, where lie owned and operated a distillery for several years. He then removed to Greensburg, Westmoreland county, and after a residence of some years at that place came to Armstrong county. He finally weut to Clarion county, where he died iu 1850, aged eighty years. He was a farmer by occupation and a member of the German Re- formed church. Que of his sons was David L. Hoover (father), who , was born in Dauphin county, in 1805. He accompanied his father to Greensburg, Pa., from which he soon went
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to Buffalo township, Butler county, where he has been engaged in farming ever since. He is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church and was an old-line whig until that party went out of existence, since which time he has been a republican. He has been successful in farming, is remarkably active for one of his advanced years and never has allowed himself to weary or worry over any trouble however serious. He married Mary Myers, a native of Dauphin county, who was a presbyterian and passed away in 1881, at seventy-seven years of age. Her grandfather, Baltser Myers, was one of the Hessian soldiers who were hired by the Eng- lish government and brought to New Jersey to aid in capturing Washington's army. Baltser Myers was told that he was to serve against the Indians, and when he learned the true state of affairs, and against whom his services were needed, he escaped from the British army and settled in Pennsylvania.
Albert M. Hoover received his education in the common schools, Leechburg academy and Witherspoon institute. After a three years' academic course he enlisted, on February 14, 1865, in Co. H, 78th regt., Pa. Vols., and served until September 9th of that year, when he was discharged from the United States general hospital at Philadelphia. In 1866 he commenced reading medicine with his brother, Dr. N. M. Hoover, of North Hope, Butler county, and afterwards entered Cleveland Med- ical college, from which he was graduated Feb- ruary 10th, 1870. In the same year he came to Parker City, where he practiced for nearly three ycars and then entered Jefferson Medical college of Philadelphia, from which he was graduated March 1, 1873. Leaving Philadelphia, he returned to Parker City and resumed his prac- tice, which is now very large and remunerative. Dr. Hoover is a member of the Armstrong County Medical Society, Parker City Lodge, No. 521, Free and Accepted Masons, and Parker Lodge, No. 761, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. In politics he is independent and has served for five years as school director of his borough. In 1888 he established his present drug store, which affords the citizens of the borough and vicinity an opportunity to get pure drugs and have prescriptions filled under the personal supervision of a careful and skilled physician.
On December 24, 1872, he married Elvira Brenneman, who was a daughter of Abner Bren- neman, of Freeport, and died October 6, 1873, leaving one child, a daughter named Elvira. On July 12, 1880, he united in marriage with Sarah Hicks, daughter of Richard Hicks, of this county, but formerly of England. To this sec- ond union have been born four children, two sons and two daughters : Sarah, Albert M., Harriet and Nicholas M.
YEORGE W. LIAS, one of the prominent G and energetic business men of Dayton, and proprietor of the Lias carriage factory, is a son of John and Susanna (Pontius) Lias, and was born (in the brick house at Dayton now owned by William Marshall) in Wayne township, Arm- strong county, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1884. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Lias, came from Germany to Maryland, and subsequently removed to Huntingdon county, where he died. He owned a large farm and was a metliodist and democrat. Several of his brothers and two of his sons, David and Henry, served in the Revolutionary war. His son, John Lias (fa- ther), was born in Maryland, May 22, 1788, and in 1820 came with Jacob Pontius to the site of Dayton when it was an unbroken forest. He built his cabin on the site of William Mar- shall's brick house, and purchased a tract of three hundred and seventy acres of land, on which he lived until his death, November 5, 1852. He was a democrat and methodist, and married Susanna Pontius, a daughter of Jacob Pontius, who emigrated from Germany to east-
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ern Pennsylvania, but subsequently came to near Dayton, where he followed farming until his death, in 1852, at sixty-three years of age. They had nine children ; Ezra and Mary A., who are dead; Eliza M., widow of Dr. Good- heart ; Sarah B., wife of G. W. Thompson ; Lovina, wife of Samuel Byers, and late widow of Rev. Joseph Neigh ; Caroline, who married J. K. Miller, of Blairsville, Pa .; Rebecca, wife of J. C. Gray, of Beaver Falls, this State ; George W. and Harriet, who died young.
George W. Lias was reared on the farm, at- tended the common schools and was engaged in farming until 1865. Before he quit farming he learned the trade of blacksmith and carriage- builder, and has followed that business at Day- ton ever since.
October 29, 1857, he married Charlotte Hutchins, of Allegheny city, who died March 4, 1877. They had seven children : Cora S., wife of D. B. Travis, a farmer of Red Bank township; Edwin B., Frank E., who died at eighteen years of age; Minnie R., married to Calvin Walker, an undertaker of Indiana coun- ty ; Martha F., who is a woman of educational ability, has a fine academic education, has taught four terms and holds a professional cer- tificate as the result of successful teaching; Mary B., who has taken a full academic course, is teaching her third term and takes a promi- nent part in the W. C. T. U., of Dayton, of which she was the delegate to the State conven- tion, at Scranton, in 1890; and Laura E., at home. Mr. Lias was re-married on February 14, 1878, to Mrs. Eliza (Newell) Mccutcheon.
During Buchanan's administration Mr. Lias left the Democratic and joined the Know- nothing party, and finally became a republican. At the present time he favors the Prohibition · party, and, although never asking for office, was elected school director, besides serving his bor- ough for five years as justice of the peace. He is a charter member of Dayton Lodge, No. 400, Senior Order of United American
Mechanics, and has been a steward of the Methodist Episcopal church for twenty-seven years. He owns valuable real estate in the borough besides his valuable carriage factory and blacksmith shop. His establishment is 40x50 feet with a 20x40 feet wing, two stories high. It is well equipped with late machinery and all appliances necessary to carry on his business. Mr. Lias has achieved success and won respect by his energetic and honorable course in life. On August 6, 1884, the de- scendants of John and Susanna (Pontius) Lias held a re-union at Dayton, at which two sons, six daughters, forty-two grandchildren and forty-two great-grandchildren were present.
T THOMAS H. MARSHALL, a member of the leading general mercantile firm of Dayton, a remarkably successful business man and a grandson of William Marshall, the first white settler of Wayne township, was born one and one-half miles from Dayton, in Wayne township, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, July 29, 1824, and is a son of Robert and Mary (Hyndman) Marshall. His great-grand- father, William Marshall, a native of Ireland, went to Scotland, where he married Eliza- beth Armstrong, and in 1748 settled in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania. He had six children, of whom three, William, John and James, were respectively the founders of the Marshall families of Armstrong, Indiana and Westmoreland counties. (See sketch of William Marshall.) William Marshall (grand- father) removed to what is now Black Lick township, Indiana county, but on account of Indians and a failure to get a perfect title to the land on which he had located, he came, in 1803, to what is now Wayne township, in which he was the first white settler. He was a democrat and an elder of Glade Run Presby- terian church, and in 1779 married Catherine Wilson, of Indiana county, by whom he had six
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sons and three daughters. His son, Robert Marshall (father), was born August 19, 1799, and died in 1881, aged eighty-two years. He owned a large tract of land, was a whig and afterwards a republican in politics, and held membership in the United Presbyter- ian church. He was interested in the mercan- tile and farming business, and married Mary Hyndman, who was born in 1801 and died in 1869. After her death he married Mary J. Armstrong. By his first marriage he had eleven children, of whom three sons and five daughters lived to maturity. Mrs. Mary (Hyndman) Marshall was a daughter of Thomas Hyndman, who was killed while helping to raise a bridge at Saltsburg, Indiana county, where he resided at the time.
Thomas H. Marshall was reared on his fa- thier's farm and received his education in the early schools of Wayne township. At twenty- six years of age he engaged, at Dayton, withlı his father, in the mercantile business, which he has followed ever since. He and his brother William are now members of the firm of Mar- shall Bros. They have a large establishment well filled with general merchandise, and enjoy a substantial patronage at Dayton and from the surrounding country.
On March 14, 1850, he married Rosetta P., daughter of Robert Neal, of Cowanshannock township. Their children are: Silas W., of Dayton, a farmer, who married Agnes Craig and has five children; David D., married to May Haines, by whom he has two children, and is a miller and a butcher; Robert N., a merchant of Forest county, who married Mary Marshall, of Allegheny city ; Rev. Clark H., a graduate of Princeton college and Theological seminary, who married Elizabeth Stewart, of Parnassus, and is a minister in the United Presbyterian churchi; and Mary S.
Thomas H. Marshall and his wife and chil- dren are members of the United Presbyterian church, of Dayton, of which he is a trustee.
He is a republican, was formerly a whig, and has served his borough as school director, be- sides holding the office of justice of the peace for two terms. Mr. Marshall makes a specialty of raising blooded stock, especially hogs and sheep. In connection with his other lines of business he is engaged extensively in the lum- ber business in Forest county, where he and his sons own a half-interest in twenty-three hun- dred acres of timber which they are working up into lumber. His life has been one of ac- tivity and usefulness.
JOSEPH W. MARSHALL, the well-known
proprietor of one of the leading livery, sales and feed stables of Dayton, is a son of Samuel and Mary (Wadding) Marshall, and was born in Wayne township, Armstrong coun- ty, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1830. The Marshalls are of Irish descent, and Archibald Marshall (grandfather) was born in 1762, and in early life removed from Westmoreland to Armstrong county, where he settled near Day- ton. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, in 1835. He was a member of the United Presbyterian church, and married Catherine Wilson, by whom he had eight children, six sons and two daughters. One of these sons served in the U. S. army during the war of 1812. Another son was Samuel Mar- shall (father), who was born June 9, 1808, in Westmoreland county, from whence he came to Wayne township, this county, where he pur- chased one hundred and sixty acres of land and engaged in farming. He was a democrat in politics and a member of the Presbyterian church. He died December 14, 1879, when he was in the seventy-second year of his age. He married Mary Wadding, and to their union were born five children, three sons and two daughters: Joseph W., George W., born July 4, 1832, and a carpenter at Punxsutawney ; Caroline, born January 7, 1834; Mary J., born
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March 12, 1836, and widow of W. G. Travis, of Indiana; and Samuel H., born December 30, 1837, who married Malissa Turk and lives on the homestead' farm. He died November 23, 1890. Mrs. Marshall is a daughter of Joseph Wadding (maternal grandfather), a native of Scotland, who came in early life to Pennsylva- nia and settled in Huntingdon county, but afterward came to Wayne township, this county, where he died and was buried in a private grave-yard on the farm now owned by Harvey Irwin. He married Jane Travis, by whom lie had six children, three sons and three daugh- ters.
Joseph W. Marshall was reared on his father's farm, attended the public schools of Wayne township and, leaving school, commenced farming, which he followed until 1885, when he came to Dayton, where he has been engaged in the livery business ever since. He owns a good farm of one hundred and fifty-five acres in Wayne township, which well repays its cultiva- tion.
January 29, 1856, he married Mary Ann Travis, who was born August 28, 1832, and is a daughter of John and Catherine (Chrisman) Travis. She came from Huntingdon county when she was eleven years of age, and lived with James Gahaghen until she was married in 1829 to John Travis, who lived near Good's Mills. John Travis was a farmer and miller and had a family of five children, of whom one only is living: Mrs. Marshall. Her brother, William F. Travis, died June 15, 1886, aged fifty-six years. To Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have been born five children, four sons and one daughter : Emma R. J., born March 8, 1857, wife of William M. Latimore, and has two children, Cora Belle and Eva Blanche; Syl- vester M., born December 28, 1859, who married Elmira J. Russell (had four children, one dead and three living-William B. (dead) and Claude B., Fannie B. and Alfred Russell Marshall), and is engaged in farming in Wayne
township; William Travis, born October 8, 1865, and died October 18, 1865; Leander A., born July 25, 1869, and died August 17, 1873; and Forbes D., born December 22, 1875.
Joseph W. Marshall is an adherent of the principles of the Democratic party, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church of Dayton. Mr. Marshall is well prepared in his present particular line of business to accom- modate the wants of the traveling public, and keeps a good assortment of buggies and a first- class stock of driving and riding horses.
W1 TILLIAM MARSHALL, a leading mer- chant of Dayton and a descendant of the old pioneer Marshall family of western Pennsylvania, is a son of Robert and Mary (Hyndman) Marshall, and was born in Wayne township, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1822. The trans-Atlantic an- cestor of the Marshall family was William Marshall (great-grandfather), who was born in Ireland in 1722, and when a young man went to Scotland, where he met and married Eliza- beth Armstrong, a native of that country. In 1748 he came to the United States and settled in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania, about sixty miles northwest of Baltimore, Maryland, in what was known as the Conecocheague set- tlement where he reared a family of six children. Three of his sons, William (grand- father), John and James, came to what is now Indiana county, but were driven away by the Indians. John returned to Conecocheague; James stopped at the Sewickley settlement, in Westmoreland county; while William located on Conemaugh creek, where he took up a large tract of land, which he sold in 1803 and then moved to Armstrong county. He there settled on a tract of land on a part of which is the present Dayton fair ground, and about ten years later he bought and built on the farm of the subject of this sketch. He was one of the first
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elders of the Glade Run Presbyterian church, and in 1830 he died upon the property now owned by William Marshall (subject). He married Catherine Wilson, of Indiana county, in 1779, and to their union were born nine children. One of their sons, Robert Marshall (father), was born August 19, 1799. He was a farmer and merchant, and his first enterprise was a distillery on Glade run. He also bought grain and other farm products which he hauled to Phillipsburg, Old Town and Curwensville and exchanged for merchandise. In 1850 he opened a store at Dayton under the name of R. Marshall & Sons, with which he was connected until his death, on October 1, 1881. He was also interested financially in the Enterprise Lumber company, and the Dayton Soldiers' Orphan school, and was prominent in the organ- ization of the Dayton academy. He married Mary Hyndman, by whom he had eleven chil- dren, and after her death, in 1869, he married Mary J. Armstrong.
William Marshall was reared on his father's farm (and followed farming all his life, in con- nection with other business). After receiving a good business education, he engaged, in 1850, in his present gencral mercantile business at Dayton. He is connected with the Enterprise Lumber company and owns 550 acres (290 of it under cultivation) of productive farming land in Wayne township.
On April 19, 1860, lie married Mary Ann Blair, a daughter of William and Anisc (Pat- terson) Blair, of Westmoreland county. To Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have been born seven children : Laura D., who is the wife of James Storey, an oil-well driller of Ohio, has two children: Clarence and Mary; C. Reed, super- intending store at Dayton, who married Mollie Ellenberger and has two children: Ethel and Alice T .; Rebecca, married January 2, 1880, to John W. Lias, a commercial traveler and has one child: William Raymond; Jemima, wife of John Bott, a well-driller of Idlewood, Pa., and
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