Armstrong County, Pennsylvania her people past and present, embracing a history of the county and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families, Volume II, Part 87

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 618


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Mr. Bowers married Elizabeth Starr, a na- tive of Armstrong county, daughter of An- drew Starr, and thirteen children were born to this union, namely: Harry, Charles, Ed- ward, Gus, Robert and Roy (twins), Benja- min, Clifford (died in infancy), Fred (de- ceased in infancy), Frank (deceased in in- fancy), Mabel, Carrie, and Mary. The mother died in December, 1896, and is buried in the Manor cemetery. Mr. Bowers married (sec- owner in an undertaking business at Coalport, ond) Lottie Storey, daughter of William C. and Elizabeth Storey, and they have had four children : Wilbert, M. Bowers, Ruth, and owns three teams which are kept busy all the George.


After his first marriage Mr. Bowers resided at Manorville, thence moving to East Brady, home is at No. 138 Queen street.


contractor, of Leechburg, was born in Alle- gheny county, July II, 1858, son of John and Margaret (Porter) Riddle.


Mr. Riddle's paternal grandfather was born at Baltimore, Md., and became an early set- tler of Pittsburgh, where he located in ISII. By trade he was a painter, and followed that line of work until his death, which occurred when he was sixty-nine years of age.


John Riddle was born in Pittsburgh in 1812, and in young manhood went to another loca- tion in Allegheny county, where later he pur- chased a fine farm. Here he followed agri- cultural pursuits until he sold and went to of Milton Turner.


land for $1,100. Within six years he sold this same property for $7,000, as oil had been discovered in the neighborhood. In 1885 he located in Armstrong county, near Freeport, where he bought still another farm, of eighty- three acres, for which he paid $6,819. On this property he remained until his death, which occurred in 1890. He is buried at Freeport. His wife was a daughter of William Porter, of Westmoreland county, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Riddle had children as follows: Elizabeth, wife of Thomas McKinney, of Butler county ; Charles R .; Margaret, deceased ; and John B., deceased. John Riddle was a man well and favorably known wherever he lived, and he left an honorable name to his children.


Charles R. Riddle attended public school in Butler and Armstrong counties, and was brought up amid agricultural surroundings. He lived with his father until he was twenty- three years old, when he began business for himself. At his father's death Mr. Riddle bought the homestead, near Freeport, but later sold it. He has since then been engaged in teaming and farming. In September, 1896, he located at Leechburg, where he bought a livery business, which he conducted in con- junction with his other lines for four and a half years. For some time thereafter he was in a furniture and undertaking business, being a graduate of the Barnes College and the Pitts- burgh College of Embalming. He is also half Indiana Co., Pa., but devotes the greater part of his time to his Leechburg interests. He time, and he is a leader in his line in the borough.


Mr. Riddle married Annie Furry, daughter


Pa., and from there to Kittanning, where his of John Furry, who saw active service in the


Civil war, and was killed during his term of enlistment. Mr. and Mrs. Riddle have had


CHARLES R. RIDDLE, teamster and the following children : Myrtle: Ida, who married David -; Frank, who mar- ried Merna Klingensmith; Ralph, and Eliza- beth. Mr. Riddle is a Republican, and served the borough of Leechburg as councilman for three years. The Presbyterian Church holds his membership. Fraternally he belongs to the Odd Fellows, the Elks (local lodge) and the Woodmen of the World.


FRED F. TURNER, a retired engineer of the Pennsylvania railroad, residing at Kittan- ning, was born Aug. 3. 1847. at Concord. N. H., son of John M. Turner, and grandson


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John M. Turner was also a native of New His record was highly creditable, and he was Hampshire, where he lived until after his mar- a respected and trusted employee for many years. He is considered one of the progress- ive citizens of his section of Kittanning, and was one of the original stockholders of the Wickboro Cooperative Water Company. Po- litically he has always been a Democrat, and a stanch believer in the principles of the party. He is a Mason, belonging to blue lodge and chapter at Kittanning, and holds member- ship in the Presbyterian Church.


riage to Margaret Ann Bosto. She, too, was born in that State, a sister of Charles Bosto, an extensive refiner of oil, of Boston, Mass., and a niece of Colonel Whittmore, of Pem- broke, N. H. Mr. Turner was a stage driver by occupation. After his marriage he spent some time in New Hampshire and Massa- chusetts before bringing his family to western Pennsylvania ; they made the journey to Pitts- burgh by stagecoach, and as the driver had been drinking he himself drove. From Pitts- burgh the family went by boat to Franklin, and thence to Warren, Pa., by stagecoach again. Mr. Turner was employed for a time as a painter at Warren and then established a livery stable, building up such a large busi- ness that he kept from twenty-five to thirty horses. He had considerable patronage among the commercial travelers for a number of years. He afterward sold his livery and moved to Corry, Pa., and at the time of his death was conducting a large tobacco business there, having eight or ten men in his employ. He died at the age of forty-nine years, and is buried at Corry. His wife subsequently moved to Pittsburgh, where she died when sixty-nine years old, and she is also buried in the cemetery at Corry. They attended the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Turner was a Dem- ocrat, but not active in politics. He and his wife had three children, Charles, Margaret, and Fred F., all born in New Hampshire.


Mr. Turner was married to Emma E. Mur- phy, a native of Pine Creek Furnace, Arm- strong county, whose parents, John and Anna (Bell) Murphy, were both born July 4, 1834. They were married April 9, 1854, and had a family of ten children, all of whom lived to grow up. One of this family is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy now reside at Knox, Pa. Mr. Murphy served at one time as county commissioner. Mrs. Murphy is a daughter of George Bell. Mrs. Turner was the ninth child born to her parents. Some time after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Turner moved to Kittanning, their home being at No. 603 Woodward avenue. Their two children, Rose Fanning and Anna Core, were born at Emlen- ton. They received their literary education in the public school, and have also been well educated in music.


C. C. GUMBERT, of New Bethlehem, Pa., is secretary, treasurer and manager of the Red Bank Mills (incorporated), manufacturing high-grade flour and dealing in feed and grain of all kinds.


Fred F. Turner received his education in the public schools at Warren, Pa. In 1862 he commenced to learn the trade of machin- ist, serving an apprenticeship at Worcester, JACOB FRANKLIN WISER, of No. 142 Queen street, Kittanning, now living retired, was a carpenter in the employ of the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company for thirty-five years, is a Civil war veteran, and for his services to his country and his useful and in- dustrious career as a private citizen has always. had the respect of all who know him. He was born Jan. 29, 1838, in what is now Burrell township, Armstrong county, son of Jacob and Jene (Rolley) Wiser. Mass. Returning to Warren, he was em- ployed for a time at the Struthers machine shop, and afterward entered the employ of the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Company as freight brakeman. After six months he was promoted to flagman, being thus engaged nine months, when he became conductor on a freight train. He left that Company to be- come brakeman of the Warren & Franklin railroad, being brakeman on a passenger train for three years, after which he became bag- Jacob Wiser, the father, was born in Berks county, Pa., and was of German descent. In the early days he drove team, hauling supplies from Philadelphia to points east of the moun- tains. He was still a young man when he came to Armstrong county, Pa., where he married, and settling on Cherry run began to clear the farm in what is now Burrell town- ship, where his son, Jacob F., was born. In gage man and extra passenger conductor. He then changed to the position of fireman on the run between Warren and Franklin, and after a year and a half of that work became engi- neer. In 1873 he left that road to take a posi- tion on the Allegheny Valley road, a part of the Pennsylvania system, on which he was engaged as engineer between Pittsburgh and Oil City until his retirement, March 4, 1913. association with his brother-in-law, John John --


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son, he leased the salt works on Crooked creek, John Franklin, July 24, 1870 (died Oct. 21, but the enterprise did not prove remunerative 1882) ; Mary Martha, Feb. 2, 1872 (died Oct. James, March II, 1876; Myron A., Oct. 6, 1878; Louisa Bell, Jan. 25, 1884. and he returned to farming, which he fol- 25, 1874) ; Anna Bell, Aug. 21, 1874; Samuel lowed the remainder of his life. He died aged ninety-one years, and his wife, born on the old Rolley farm in Plum Creek township, died in 1872. They had four children : John, Isaac, Ellen, and Jacob Franklin.


Jacob Franklin Wiser received a common school education, and learned the carpenter's trade. After his marriage he entered a rolling mill, where he was employed until he enlisted, in 1862, for service in the Civil war. Joining Company B, 46th Pennsylvania Volunteer In- fantry, he was first with the Army of the Potomac, and took part in the battle of Gettys- burg. The command then returned to Vir- ginia, and on leaving there to join the Western Army went by rail to Bridgeport, Ala., where the IIth and 12th corps were consolidated into the 20th corps and proceeded to Lookout Mountain, taking part in the battle there. It also participated in the battle of Missionary Ridge, and there went into winter quarters. In the spring it was engaged in the battle of Resaca, after which it was almost continually under fire until Atlanta was reached, also taking part in the battle there. At Atlanta Mr. Wiser received a wound which prevented him joining in Sherman's march to the sea, but nevertheless he continued in the service until the close of the war, being mustered out June 22, 1865.


Returning to his trade Mr. Wiser did gen- eral carpenter work for two years, and was engaged in the oil fields a year or so, before he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, being employed in the bridge department on the Allegheny Valley road. He was with the Pennsylvania Com- pany continuously for a period of thirty-five years, retiring at the age of seventy. He was always an efficient and highly satisfactory workman, esteemed by his associates and em- ployers alike, and did his duty faithfully what- ever it was. Mr. Wiser formerly held mem- bership in the Order of United American Mechanics, Royal Arcanum, Red Men and Knights of Pythias, but at present retains only his connection with the last named organ- ization.


On July 11, 1860, Mr. Wiser married Mary Ellen Meckling, who was born Dec. 3, 1834, and died Aug. 31, 1899, in Kittanning. They had a family of ten children, born as follows: William H., Nov. 16, 1861 ; Jacob M., Feb. 29, 1864; Hannah Jane, May 19, 1866; Rebecca Ellen. Jan. 31, 1868 (died Aug. 24, 1876) ; since been located at Leechburg, Armstrong


ADAMS. The Adams family, several of whose members now reside in the borough of Leechburg, Armstrong county, has been settled in this part of Pennsylvania for several generations.


John Adams, grandfather of Samuel J. and Alexander L. Adams, brothers, lived and died in Allegheny county, Pa. His children were: Samuel, Lewis, John, Alexander, Mary (who married Joseph Mclaughlin) and Joseph.


Alexander Adams, son of John, was born in 1813, and died Nov. 10, 1887, aged seventy- four years. He is buried in Pleasant View cemetery in Westmoreland county. In his earlier life Mr. Adams did day's work, and he also engaged in the manufacture of salt along the Allegheny river. Later he became the owner of a small farm along Pine Run, in Westmoreland county, and he was well and favorably known in his community. He was a large man physically. By his first wife, Eliza (Bollinger), daughter of Peter Bol- linger, he had children : John, who died at the age of eighteen years; Samuel J .; Mary, who married Andrew Halk; Alexander L .; and Thomas B., who is living in Allegheny county, Pa. His second marriage was to Hilinda Rankin, and they had children: Hilinda, Blanch, Esther, Joseph, and Harvey.


SAMUEL J. ADAMS, son of Alexander, was born Aug. 10, 1844, in Allegheny townsiup, Westmoreland county, and received his edu- cation in public school in Allegheny county. He went to work at the age of twelve years, assisting his father, who was then engaged in making salt, and later became employed as an office boy at Natrona, Allegheny county. His next employment was in a tinshop, after which he was engaged at coal mines for eight years. Then followed his service in the Civil war. He enlisted in Company F, 123d Regi- ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, under Capt. John Boyd, of Tarentum, Pa., and served nine months, upon his discharge re-enlisting. in Company I, 5th Pennsylvania Heavy Ar- tillery, with which he served until the close of the war. Returning home after the war Mr. Adams became engaged in construction work on the Pennsylvania railroad, and later went into the oil country, where he drilled wells, remaining there until 1882. He has


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county. For one year after his arrival at this and Elizabeth F. (Dunaway) Boyd, natives place he engaged in mining. For three years of Pennsylvania, and grandson of Abraham he ran a hammer at Major Beale's mill, in Boyd. Leechburg, and then became an engineer in Abraham Boyd, who was the founder of the Boyd family in Armstrong county, came to this section when it was all forest, locating on what is yet known as the old Boyd home- stead, midway between Slate Lick and Free- port. There he resided until the end of his the employ of the Moesta Machine Company, with which concern he continued for ten years. At the end of that period, in 1901, he became an employee of the American Sheet & Tin Plate Company as engineer in charge of the electrical engine. A truthworthy and reliable days, his death occurring in 1886, having sur- man, he has always enjoyed the full confi- vived his wife, who passed away in 1876.


dence of his employers, who appreciate his M. Hillis Boyd, son of Abraham Boyd, was faithful service. Mr. Adams has served one born March 14, 1842, and died in 1890. He year as councilman of Leechburg, and he has remained with his parents until the time of been quite active in church work as a member of the Hebron Lutheran Church, in which he has held office as deacon and elder. He is a Mason, belonging to Leechburg Lodge, No. 577, F. & A. M., and to Pittsburgh Consistory (thirty-second degree). On political ques- tions he is a Republican. his enlistment, in 1862, in Company L, 14th Pa. Vol. Cav., and served to the end of the Civil war, being honorably discharged in 1865. He entered the service as a private, but subse- quently was made quartermaster of his regi- ment, with which he participated in the battle of Antietam and many other engagements. On Sept. 9, 1874, Mr. Adams married Naomi J. Kelly, daughter of Squire John Kelly, of Bruin, Butler Co., Pa., and they have one daughter, Daisy May, now the wife of Harry L. Clarke and living in Ellwood City, Pa .; Mr. and Mrs. Clarke have two children, Naomi J. and Bessie M. After the war he returned to Armstrong county and followed an agricultural life until his death. On Sept. 4, 1866, in Fayette county, Pa., he was married to Elizabeth F. Dunaway, who was born Aug. 31, 1845, and survives. Her parents were Jesse E. and Margaret Dun- away. Six children were born to this mar- riage, five of whom are living, namely: Clara Annie, Thomas F., Herbert D., James Howell, and Joseph Hillis. Mrs. Boyd and her fam- ily are members of the Presbyterian Church.


ALEXANDER L. ADAMS, son of Alexander, was born March 16, 1848, in Allegheny county, Pa. His school days over, he went to work in a tinshop, and when about eighteen years of age became employed in mines. Later he was engaged at mine work in Clearfield county, Pa., and about 1881 came to Leech- burg, where he lived for a short time. He was next at Bruin, Butler Co., Pa., for three years, doing pumping in the oil fields, at the end of that time returning to Leechburg, where he is now employed at the mines of the Amer- ican Sheet & Tin Plate Company. He is an industrious and respected man, well known in his community.


Mr. Adams married Bessie Ashbaugh, daughter of Andrew and Mary (John) Ash- baugh, and they have two children: Lula is the wife of David McGeary and has two chil- dren, Mary F. and Clair A .; Samuel J. is foreman in a tin mill at New Castle, Pa. Mr. Adams is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose in fraternal connection, and belongs to the Lutheran Church. In political senti- ment he is a Republican.


THOMAS F. BOYD, member of the gen- eral mercantile firm of Boyd Bros., at Slate Lick, Armstrong Co., Pa., was born in Arm- strong county April 2, 1875, son of M. Hillis


S. S. STITT, Leechburg, Armstrong coun- ty, Pennsylvania.


JOHN A. LINDSAY, a farmer of Kis- kiminetas township, was born Aug. 4, 1866, in Fayette county, Pa., son of William C. and Elizabeth (Beatty) Lindsay.


William C. Lindsay was born in Virginia. Moving to Ohio, he lived there until his death, Sept. 8, 1905. He was a potter by trade. Nine of his large family are now living, and John A. is the fourth in order of birth.


Until his fifteenth year, John A. Lindsay attended the common schools of Indiana county, and then commenced to support him- self. He had no capital, but was willing to work, and found employment as general chore boy for a farmer, receiving as compensation five dollars per month in money, and his board. For five years he worked for this man, and then was employed in a sawmill in Westmoreland county for two years. Later on he engaged in various occupations in West- moreland and Indiana counties until his mar- riage, after which he lived at Latrobe and


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Blairsville until he secured the contract for excavating the ground for a State normal school building. After making a number of changes, as his work necessitated, he located on Feb. 2, 1903, in Maysville, where he re- sides on a little farm, adjoining the village, which he bought March 4, 1907. That same year, 1907, he was appointed roadmaster of Kiskiminetas township, and still holds that office, being efficient and conscientious. The Lutheran Church holds his membership, his wife also belonging to the same denomina- tion. Fraternally he belongs to the Eagles and American Mechanics. Politically, he is a Republican.


On July 17, 1892, Mr. Lindsay was mar- ried to Jennie Long, in Latrobe, and three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay, all of whom are living: Laura Lilly, Elizabeth M. and Paul V. Mrs. Lindsay is a daughter of Jacob Long, a native of Penn- sylvania, now residing with his wife at Blairs- ville, Indiana Co., Pa. He is. (1913) sixty- nine years old. During the Civil war he served as a Union soldier.


M. M. ROLAND, farmer, residing in South Bend township, Armstrong county, Pa., was born in that township, June 5, 1879, a son of John F. and Margaret (Early) Roland, and a grandson of William Roland. William Roland was born in Blair county, Pa., but spent the greater part of his life in Arm- strong county.


John F. Roland, son of William and father of M. M. Roland, was born in Blair county, and died at the age of eighty years in 1909, in Armstrong county, to which he came with his parents when a boy of ten years. For some years in early manhood he taught school in Washington county, and later worked at the carpenter's trade and farming, owning a farm of 109 acres in South Bend town- ship, on which he died. He married Mar- garet Early, and twelve children were born to them, eleven of whom survive. John F. Roland and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She died, Dec. 19, 1906.


M. M. Roland is the youngest of the above mentioned family. He attended the public schools until his fifteenth year, and for three years afterward worked in a mill at Leech- burg, since when he has followed general farming.


wife had five children, Mrs. Roland being the third in order of birth. Her father died in 1908 and her mother in 1892. To Mr. and Mrs. Roland four children have been born, the three survivors being: Goldie L., born March 7, 1903; Elmer Ellsworth, born May 22, 1905; and Ira J., born Aug. 22, 1909. In politics Mr. Roland is a Republican and is proud of the fact that his first presidential vote was cast for William McKinley.


J. S. BECK, son of Jacob P. Beck, grandson of Peter Beck, and great-grandson of Jacob Beck, was born Oct. 24, 1856.


Peter Beck, the grandfather, lived in Arm- strong county, and was in his day one of the highly respected residents of his section. He had these children: Peter, Jacob P., Esther, Susanna and George.


Jacob P. Beck, son of Peter Beck, and father of J. S. Beck, was born April 28, 1820. Farming was always his principal business in life. On April 5, 1849, he married Sophia Soxman (daughter of Christian Soxman), who was born Nov. 4, 1819, and died July 25, 1901, aged eighty-one years. They had the following children : Dr. Peter S., Susanna (who died young), George H., J. S., Chris- tian, Dr. John A., and Dr. Joseph E. Three of the sons of this family were physicians and lived in California.


J. S. Beck attended school in the home local- ity and was brought up amid strictly rural surroundings on his father's homestead. Upon the death of his father Mr. Beck took the farm, which comprises 142 acres of valuable land, considerable coal and gas being found there. It was bought in 1849 by Jacob P. Beck, who erected all the buildings on the farm.


J. S. Beck married Mary B. Russell, daugh- ter of Robert Russell, and they have the fol- lowing named children: Roy, who has taught public school, now a student at Clarion State Normal School; Veda, who also taught school in Armstrong county; Bessie; John ; Joseph ; and Ray, who died when four years, nine months old.


Mr. Beck is a Republican, and has served his township as school director. He has one of the most desirable farms in his locality, and is numbered among the representative men and successful agriculturists of his section of Armstrong county.


Mr. Roland was married Feb. 25, 1901, in Indiana, to Rosa Sinsenbigler, a daughter of ROBERT C. CLAYPOOL, retired farmer, H. B. Sinsenbigler, of South Bend township, West Franklin township, Armstrong county, whose ancestors were Germans. He and his Pennsylvania.


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SILAS I. NEESE, of Red Bank township, Nov. 7, 1863; Mine Run, December, 1863; Armstrong county, was born May 24, 1888, on the farm he now occupies, the old home- stead of the Neese family.


The grandfather of Silas I. Neese was born in Schuylkill county, Pa., and on coming to Armstrong county settled in Red Bank town- ship, on what was later known as the Jesse Reinhart farm, near New Salem. Later he moved to Forest county, Pa., where he con- tinued to carry on general farming until his death, and he is buried in that county. He was a Democrat in politics. He married Catherine Shuman, who died Aug. 1, 1885, and is buried in the United Evangelical ceme- tery at North Freedom, Armstrong county. They had children as follows, besides Jacob, father of Silas I. Neese: Susanna, who mar- ried Dr. Emmanuel Rettinger (both are de- ceased) ; George, deceased, who married Polly Haines, and lived at Oak Ridge, Armstrong county ; Catherine, who married Aaron Hol- ben (both are deceased) ; John, who married Mary Ann Emery, and lived in Tennessee (she is deceased) ; Hetty, who was the wife of Eli Haines, of Emerickville, Jefferson county (both are deceased) ; Mary, wife of W. R. Darrah (both are deceased) ; Sarah, wife of James Steele, of Brookville, Jefferson county ; Isaac, who died in infancy; Lydia, who died in infancy; and Mary, who was burned to death when two years old.


Jacob Neese, father of Silas I. Neese, was born at Leatherwood, Clarion Co., Pa., and was a child when the family moved to Red Bank township, where he received a common school education. He worked for his father on the farm and was twenty-one years old when he went to Forest county, where he con- tinued with his father until he went into the service during the Civil war. On Aug. 28, 1861, he enlisted from Armstrong county in Company G, 105th Regiment Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, under Captain Freas, and was mustered in at Pittsburgh for three years' service. This regiment, which was attached to the 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 3d Corps, Army of the Potomac, was commanded by Col. A. A. McKnight until his death. Mr. Neese took part with his regiment in the fol- lowing notable engagements: Yorktown, April 5-May 2, 1862; Williamsburg, May 5, 1862 ; Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862; White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862; Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862; Bristoe Station, Aug. 22, 1862; second Bull Run, Aug. 30, 1862; Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862; Chancellorsville, May 1-4, 1863; Gettys- burg, July 1-3, 1863; Auburn, Kelly's Ford,




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