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The Patterson family originated in County Donegal, Ireland, James Patterson, the great- great-grandfather of Woodward Patterson Brown, being a native of that county and a prosperous landowner. His son John Patter- son, the great-grandfather, was born in what is now West Virginia and was a prosperous farmer; he married Jane Scott, of Ohio. Their son, David Patterson, was born in West Virginia. As a young man he came to Rural Village ( now Rural Valley), where he was a merchant and postmaster for several years. Moving to Kittanning he built the Patterson building on Jefferson street, and became one of the most respected and highly esteemed business men of the town. He married Eliza Reynolds, daughter of David Reynolds and his wife Mary (Woodward) Reynolds, granddaughter of George Reynolds and Mar- garetta (Stopp) Reynolds and of Absalom Woodward. To David Patterson and Eliza (Reynolds) Patterson three children were born: Francis Elliotte married Kate Rey- nolds, daughter of William Reynolds, and they live in San Diego, Cal .; Woodward Pat- terson, deceased, married Rebecca M. Truby ; Isabel Patterson became the wife of George Rohrer Brown.
Four children were born to George Rohrer Brown and his wife Isabel (Patterson) Brown: Woodward Patterson; Elizabeth Rohrer; Georgia Isabel, married to Peter Graff 3d, of Worthington, and Gladys El- liotte-all of whom were born in the Patter- son homestead on Jefferson street, where their mother was born and where they still live.
school. When but seventeen years old, on account of his father's death, he took charge of Brown's Drug, Book and Music Store, and has managed it ever since, the development of the business being the substantial reward of a progressive policy that has stamped him one of the most capable merchants of the bor- ough. Personally he is held in no less esteem than in business associations, as shown by the public duties he has been asked to assume.
At present he is serving as treasurer of Applewold borough, which office he has held for several years. He is a director in the Kittanning Plate Glass Company, and a ves- tryman in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of which his family have been members for sev- eral generations. He is a Knight Templar Mason, belonging to the chapter and blue lodge at Kittanning.
Mr. Brown married Margaret Reese, daughter of George W. and Mary M. (Don- nelly) Reese, and granddaughter of Isaac Reese, a prominent manufacturer of Pitts- burgh. George W. Reese, Mrs. Brown's father, is very prominent in the business and manufacturing affairs of Armstrong county.
On the maternal side Woodward Patter- son Brown's great-great-grandfather was George Reynolds, a soldier in the French and Indian war; a considerable account of his family appears in the sketch of Ross Rey- nolds, in this work. David Reynolds, son of George, was one of the most prominent citi- zens of Kittanning and Armstrong county in his time. He was a member of the first board of county commissioners, postmaster, one of the trustees of the old Kittanning Academy, one of the first hotelkeepers, and one of the early merchants. His wife was a daughter of Absalom Woodward, whose public spirit and progressive disposition led him into va- rious activities in the early days of the county, especially to the encouragement of such move- ments as his foresight judged to be of per- manent value in furthering the general wel- fare. Religion and education had one of their most influential supporters in this good citi- zen. He was a pioneer promoter of the Bible Society in this region. Of his large family eight survived him. A fuller sketch of him appears in this work.
ALBERT MATTHEW HOOVER, M. D., physician and druggist and president of the First National Bank, at Parkers Landing, Pa.,
Woodward Patterson Brown was born May was born in Buffalo township, Butler Co.,
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Pa., Oct. 31, 1844, son of David L. and Mary (Myers) Hoover.
John Hoover, a native of Dauphin county, Pa., was a pioneer of Westmoreland and Clar- ion counties. In his younger manhood he was a distiller, but after settling in Clarion county engaged in farming. He there purchased a tract of wild land which he cleared and then improved, residing upon it until his death. His children were five in number: David L .; George; Sarah, who married Brigham Ander- son; Nancy, who married Porter Haskell; and Colwell.
David L. Hoover, son of John Hoover, was a pioneer in Buffalo township, Butler Co., Pa., where he cleared seventy-five acres of land and developed a fine farm, on which he built and operated a sawmill for a number of years. His death occurred in 1891, at the age of eighty-four years. He married Mary Myers, a daughter of Balsa Myers, a very early settler in Westmoreland county. She died in 1881, when seventy-six years old. They had three sons and three daughters born to them, namely : George G. is deceased ; Emily, who is the widow of John Phillips, lives on the old homestead; Sarah, who is deceased, was the wife of Thomas Brown; Nicholas M., who is deceased, was a physi- cian in Butler county; Nancy is deceased ; Albert M. completes the family.
Albert M. Hoover was reared on the old homestead and was educated in the common schools, Freeport Academy, Leechburg Acad- emy and Witherspoon Institute, at Butler, and during the large part of this period taught winter schools, in that way paying his own summer tuition. He began the study of medi- cine in 1868 and was graduated from the Cleveland Medical College in the class of 1870. In the same year he began the practice of his profession at Parker City, where he entered Jefferson Medical College, Phila- delphia, where he was graduated in the class of 1874, in which year he located at Free- port. In the fall of 1876 he returned to Par- ker, where he has since practiced, and since 1888 has also conducted a drug store. He is a member of the Clarion County Medical Society, was one of the charter members of the Armstrong County Medical Society, and also belongs to the American Medical Associ- ation. Since 1900 he has held the position of company surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.
war, Feb. 14, 1865, becoming a private in Company H, 78th Pennsylvania Volunteer In- fantry, for one year, and while with his com- mand served as company clerk and later as headquarters clerk, and in the latter part of July, 1865, owing to disability contracted in the line of duty, was sent to Mower Hos- pital, Philadelphia, where he was honorably discharged from the service Sept. 9, 1865, by instructions from the war department, Wash- ington, dated May 3, 1865.
Dr. Hoover is married and has had six chil- dren : Alvira, deceased, who was the wife of George Kramer and is survived by two chil- dren, Claude and Maude G .; Sarah, who is the wife of Clifford J. Beale, of Leechburg; Albert M., Jr., who is a resident of Kittan- ning; Harriet, who is the wife of Benjamin F. Palmer, of Wyatt, W. Va .; Nicholas M., who resides at Parker City; and George W.
Dr. Hoover is a member of the First Meth- odist Episcopal Church of Parker City. Frater- nally he is identified with Parker City Lodge, No. 521, F. & A. M .; and with Parker Lodge, No. 761, Odd Fellows. Politically he is a Democrat. At a meeting of the directors of the First National Bank of Parkers Landing, Nov. 28, 1911, Dr. Hoover was elected presi- dent of this financial institution
JAMES M. HEILMAN, late of Kittanning, as president of Heilman Brothers Lumber Company was at the head of an important local industry and for years one of the lead- ing business men of the borough. A descend- ant of prominent pioneer stock, he was born in Kittanning township, Armstrong county, Sept. 26, 1848, on his father's farm, and passed all his early life in the county.
The earliest known ancestor of this family was an eminent physician, "Veit, the Heil- man" (literally cure-man, "heil" being the remained three and a half years. He then German for "heal"), who lived during an era
when a man bore but a single name and was often distinguished by the name of his occu- pation attached thereto; through usage the definitive word became the family name or surname. Veit the Heilman was a German Palatine knighted in 1305 by the Emperor Al- bright (Albrecht, Albert), and given a nobil- ity diploma, and his descendants called them- selves Heilman or Heylman. ( In old Pennsyl- vania documents and records the name is found written also Hileman and Hyleman.) Thence down to the sixteenth century 'the name is found in the German Genealogical Register. Many of, his descendants were
Dr. Hoover has also a creditable military record. He enlisted for service in the Civil members of the German order of nobles, had
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their family coat of arms, and occupied many places of trust and honor as generals, feudal lords and church dignitaries. Their home and achievements were in the Rhine country. One of the descendants was a partner of Gutenberg, the inventor of printing, while an- other, Ludwig Heilman, in 1512 wrote a cele- brated hymn of triumph upon the Reforma- tion. Philipp Veit (1793-1877), the noted German painter, was of this stock.
John Jacob Heilman, of Zutzenhausen, in Peter and Barbara are given as Anastatius, the Palatinate, Germany, came to America in 1732, and to "Lebanon" township, Lancaster Co., Pa., and died there in 1753, leaving a wife, Anna Maria. Among their children were: John Adam, born in 1715, in Ger- many; Peter, born in 1729 (there is a tradi- tion in the family that he was born at sea, but this does not agree with the date of emi- gration), who married and had children; and Anastatia or Anastatius.
The records of the Hill Church (Egle's Notes and Queries, 1898) show that Anastatius Heylman and his wife Rosina Barbara had children as follows: Frederick, born Dec. 5, 1766, sponsors John Nicholas Marer and Elizabeth Heylman; Anna Cath- erine, born Dec. 3, 1768, baptized Dec. 3, 1768, sponsors Peter Heilman, Sr., and wife Salome; John Adam, born Sept. 29, 1771, bap- tized Oct. 12, 1771, sponsors Anthony (Anton) Stoever and wife; Mary Christina, born Sept. 14, 1773, baptized Oct. 21, 1773, sponsors John Heylman and wife; John, born October, 1778, baptized October, 1778, spon- sors John Hileman and wife; and John George, born June 6, 1780, baptized Sept. 3, 1780, sponsors John George Heylman and wife Anna Mary.
From the same source we find that John Heylman and his wife Anna Mary had: Anna Mary, born Sept. 24, 1779, sponsors John George Heylman and Anna Magdalena Hel- ler, both unmarried; John Henry Heylman and wife Christina had: Henry, born Oct. 14, 1779, baptized Oct. 17, 1779, sponsors Peter Heylman and wife Barbara; Mary Christina, born April 22, 1781, baptized April 28, 1781, sponsors Anastatius and wife Ro- sina Barbara.
According to the Hill Church records Peter Heylman (or Heilman) and wife Bar- bara (nee Heyman, evidently intended for Heylman) had children as follows: Simon John, born Feb. 3, 1767, baptized March I, ume we find that Jacob Heilman arrived Aug. 1767, sponsors John Heylman and Anna 21, 1750, in the ship "Anderson" (Hugh Mary Heylman; Anna Catherine, born Sept. Campbell, captain), which carried 271 pas- 2, 1768, baptized Sept. II, 1768; sponsors
Adam Heylman and Catherine Heylman; John Frederick, born March 30, 1771, bap- tized April 17, 1771, sponsors Peter Eider- holt and wife Elizabeth; John Adam, born Nov. 27, 1774, baptized Dec. 12, 1774, spon- sors Adam Heilman and wife Catherine; Peter, born July 22, 1777, baptized Aug. 10, 1777, sponsors George Heylman and Barbara Umberger. The father of this family died in 1778. In another account the children of Peter, Magdalena, Elizabeth Fisher, Chris- tina, Joseph, Stephen, Henry, John George, John and Christina Stover. We also find: One Peter, born 1715, married Barbara and died in 1778, and had Anastatius, Peter, Mag- dalena, Elizabeth (Mrs. Fisher), Cordelia (Mrs. Lach or Lough), Sophia, Henry, John George, John and Catherine (Stover).
The following Heilmans appear among the taxables of Dauphin county, dates showing when they took the oath of allegiance to the Crown-Great Britain : Johannes, 1732; Martin, 1732 (a captain in the French and Indian war, 1755-63) ; John Peter, Aug. 17, 1732; Andrew, 1736; Hans Adam, 1749; Jo- hannes, 1749; Conrad, 1752; Christian, 1753; Martin, 1764.
According to records in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth, among those emigrants over sixteen years of age who took the oath of allegiance to the Province and the Crown on their arrival, we find Johannes Heilman, September, 1732; Martin Heilman, September, 1732; John Peter Heilman, Au- gust, 1732; Andrew Hilman, September, 1736; Hans Adam Halman, September, 1738; Johannes Hielman, September, 1749; Conrad Heilman, September, 1752 (ship "Brothers," William McNair, captain, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes) ; Christian Hielman, 1753; Martin Heilman, October, 1764. On page 243, Volume VI, are found John, Bastian (ship "Brothers," as above), Peter (ship "Brothers," as above), John Jacob Heilman.
Rupp's records of imigrants (1728 to 1777) show that among the passengers who arrived Sept. 25, 1732, in the ship "Loyal Judith" (Robert Turpin, master), from Rotterdam, last from Cowes, were the Palatines Jonas Wolf, Johannes Heilman, Frederick Schaef- fer and Martin Heilman (the last named was captain of a company of soldiers in the French and Indian war). In the same vol-
sengers. Frederick Heilman, son of Peter,
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who moved to Armstrong county from "Mother has fallen," and she was found to be Dauphin county and settled on Blanket Hill, dead. His death occurred Jan. 27, 1833, at claimed relationship with the Heilmans of Hill Church, and was a nephew of one Martin Heilman, a taxable in Dauphin county in 1732 (this may have meant the year of his arrival), evidently the Martin previously mentioned. Possibly Martin was a brother of Christian, the immigrant ancestor of the line of which this article especially treats.
The Christian Heilman mentioned as taking the oath of allegiance in 1753 seems likely the ancestor of the Hilemans (Heilmans) of Armstrong county here under consideration, for Peter, the founder of the family in this county, was born it is said in 1750 in Alsace- Lorraine, son of Christian, and is said to have been about two years old when he came to America with his father and settled in North- ampton county, Pa. The mother died dur-
the age of eighty-two years. His will, regis- tered (page 142) Sept. 19, 1832, was recorded in Will Book No. I (son Jacob and others give bonds; Simon Truby, executor). Mr. and Mrs. Heilman are buried in the old Heil- man cemetery in Kittanning township. They spoke English imperfectly. They were well known and much beloved among their neigh- bors in this section, where their friendliness, high example and true Christian character endeared them to all who knew them. Mrs. Heilman was a remarkable woman in many ways. Handsome of feature, she was also finely built physically, and her small hands and feet were generally admired. Her phys- ical strength was unusual for a woman. It is said that while standing in a half bushel measure she could shoulder from the ground
ing the voyage across the Atlantic. It is said three and a half bushels of wheat, a feat few that Christian married again, in Northampton men could equal. She was very skillful at -spinning and weaving, weaving linen, jean, linsey woolsey and blankets, and making clothing. Her grandson, John Heilman, now over ninety-two years old, who waited on his grandparents before they died, remembers her ; she would put him under one arm, and with the other raise from the ground a piggin of apples, containing half a barrel, and place it on her head with ease. county ; his son Peter had a brother or half- brother Michael, who remained in Northamp- ton county when Peter removed to Armstrong county. In Egle's History of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties we find : "The officers and men of Lebanon county, May 10, 1756, French and Indian War, 1755-63: Capt. Adam Heilman, Lieut. John Hart, Ensign Adam Roulour." Among the privates : John Hartman, Balthase Heylman, John Heylman, John Adam Heylman, Michael Heylman, etc. This may be the Michael said to be Peter's brother or half-brother. However, it may be he was a brother of Christian, Peter's father.
Twelve children were born to Peter and Elizabeth (Harter) Heilman: (1) Gertrude married Jacob Piser or Poiser (name also written Pieser, Beaser and Peaser). They had sons Adam (married), Jacob (who mar- ried a Miss Meals), Casper, and other chil- Peter Heilman was given only three weeks' schooling. He was married (in Northampton county supposedly) to Elizabeth Harter, and in 1795-96 they came to what is now Kittan- ning township, Armstrong county, and set- dren. Some of the Pisers lived near Slippery Rock, Pa. (2) Christina married Joseph Piser, brother of Jacob. Their daughter married John Ried or Reed and had William and Margaret (Mrs. Hershey). (3) Mary tled on Garrett's run. Here he became a married Frederick Tarr (ancestor of Dr. prominent citizen. By trade he was a weaver, Tarr, of Kittanning), and had children, Catherine (Mrs. William Orr), Rebecca (Mrs. William Gibson), William (married a Richison or Richardson), Sarah (married James Larkin and George Rimby), Elizabeth (Mrs. Michael Davis), Susy (Mrs. George Rummel), Caspar, Joseph (married Mary Croyl), Lobin (married a Miss Mainer) and George. The father, Mr. Tarr, died Aug. having learned the business in Northampton county. He was a zealous Lutheran, and in the "History of Lutheran Synod, Western Pennsylvania," 1795, is mentioned as one of the organizers and supporters of the first church, often called the Heilman Church, which he served as trustee, etc. He and one other were the principal factors in establish- ing this church. His wife also belonged. She 17, 1825, according to the Kittanning Gazette. died before him, passing away (according to the Kittanning Gazette ) "Jan. 21, 1831, .
He was a son of Gasper Tarr, who helped to build Reids Station, on the Allegheny river in the seventy-ninth year of her age." Her above Kittanning, and grandson of an emi- . death was very sudden. Sitting in his chair, grant from Germany (1760) who moved to unable to move, Mr. Heilman called out, Westmoreland county from Ellicott's Mills,
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Md., settling in East Huntingdon township. it was he who made the celebrated Heilman His children were Henry, Peter, Christian, whiskey. He lived on the Peter Heilman tract in Kittanning township where his par- ents settled in 1795-96. Daniel and Gasper. (4) Susanna married John King (grandfather of President Judge J. W. King), and had children, George, Among the "original tracts within the pres- ent" (1883) "limits of this" (Kittanning) "township," we find mentioned the Charles Grubb tract, 330.4 acres, seated by John and Daniel Hileman; the John Schenck tract, 301.8 acres, seated by Frederick Hileman and George Olinger; the Peter Hileman tract, 200 acres, seated by himself ; the Tobias Long tract, 341.5 acres, seated by Daniel Hileman and Adam Waltenbough; the Benjamin "Schreckengaust" tract, 200 acres, seated by himself. The Ourys, Waltenboughs and Schreckengosts intermarried with the Hile- mans. Gideon (married Mary Wolf), John (mar- ried Christina Wolf), Mary (married John Heffelfinger), Selim, Esther, Susanna, Lydia, Eve, Helen (married George Slease) and Flora (married John Stivinson). (5) John married Elizabeth Yount, and their chil- dren were John (married Eliza Briny), David (married Jane Elliot), William (mar- ried Miss Rufner), Sarah (married by Rev. G. A. Reichert, May 7, 1829, to Israel Schall), Rebecca (married by Rev. G. A. Reichert, June 20th, 1832, to Daniel Schall), Lydia (married George Cook), Hannah (married John Blose) and Mary Ann (married John Frederick Heilman, son of Peter and Eliza- beth (Harter) Heilman, and grandfather of James M. Heilman, was reared in Dauphin county, Pa., and came to Armstrong county upon attaining his majority, settling in Kit- tanning township, where he followed farm- ing the rest of his life. It is said his father, Peter, was the warranter and patenter of land in Kittanning township in 1796, and in June, 1831, conveyed "Blanket Hill" (the historic old battleground) to his son Jacob. There were 301 acres seated by Frederick Heilman about this time. On June 30, 1834, he was one of the purchasers of a tract on Blanket Hill, where the fight between Lieu- tenant Hogg and a superior force of Indians took place. He died at the age of fifty-six years. He was a Whig in politics and a Luth- eran in religion. He married Margaret Ehinger (Echinger or Eighinger), a native of Armstrong county, daughter of Peter Ehinger, whose wife was English-her maiden name was Cogley. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Heilman had children as follows: Peter is mentioned below; Stephen married Nancy Graham; Reuben married Mary Ever- hart, daughter of Henry and Susanna (Keck) Everhart, and they had nine children, Rebecca (married Levandus Schall), Martha E. (mar- ried James Moore), Amos E., M. D. (de- ceased, married Rebecca Patton), Elmer (married a Miss Pitman), Henry F. (mar- ried twice, his wives being sisters), Susanna M. (unmarried), Margaret Hall (wife of Sloan Hall), Cyrus M. (married Rebecca Schaeffer) and Laura N. (married Frank Brown) ; Martha married Michael Neale; Anna became Mrs. Henry Remayle (Rema- ley) ; Sarah married Cyrus Everhart; four died young, Rebecca, Eliza, Rebecca and Pris- cilla J. Long). (6) Daniel married Lydia Yount and had children, Solomon (father of Mrs. John G. Aye and Mrs. Levi G. Cook), Daniel, George (who married Henrietta Hengst and left children), Samuel, Isaac, Simon, Harry Eve (married Harry Shafer), Lydia (Mrs. George Eiman), Susie and Elizabeth (both deceased in childhood). The father farmed in Kittanning township until his death, which occurred in 1832, when he was fifty years old. (7) Solomon, who lived in Kittanning town- ship, married Hannah Yount (Youndt or Yunt), and their children were Jacob (mar- ried Catherine Iseman), Joseph (married Mary Iseman), William (married Margaret Iseman), Alexander (married Elizabeth Ise- man), Adam (married Miss Goldstrom), Rachel (wid. Michael Chryster Kritzer), Mary (married Jonathan Farster), Ann (married Joseph Richard), Sarah (married George Schrum) and Susan (married John Schrum, brother of George). (8) Frederick is men- tioned below. (9) Robert, twin of Frederick, died in boyhood, of small pox. (10) Mar- garet married John Stitt. (II) Elizabeth was injured by a fall when nine months old, never walked, and though not a mute, her speech was unintelligible to any but members of the family. (12) Jacob, the youngest, said to have been born in Northampton county in April, 1791, married Susanna Wal- tinbough. It is said he also had an attack of smallpox. He died Dec. 27, 1876 (tombstone says 1877), in his eighty-sixth year, and his wife died April 27, 1878, in her eighty-sixth year. They had three sons, John Adam (married Eliza Wilson), John (married El- len Wilson) and James (married Magdalena Reichert). Jacob Heilman was a distiller, and
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Peter Heilman, eldest son of Frederick, for thorough and successful work. Return- ing to Kittanning in 1869 he engaged in con- tracting and building on his own account, he and his brother, William, becoming associated in business and later admitting their brother John to the partnership, which was known . as Heilman Brothers. They built up an ex- tensive and profitable business, and in 1889 they extended their operations by entering into the lumber and planing mill business, erecting a large mill. In 1905 the firm was incorporated under the name of Heilman Brothers Lumber Company, James M. Heil- was born in July, 1819, on the home farm, where he died Feb. 25, 1878. He was a pros- perous farmer, and energetic in business mat- ters, operating a brickyard on his farm, and meeting with substantial success in his ven- tures. In 1871 he was elected county com- missioner, being a member of the board which erected the Armstrong county jail, which has the reputation of being one of the finest and strongest structures of the kind in the United States. This building was com- pleted in 1873, at a cost of $252,000. Its foundation is 24 feet deep, from the surface, man being president of the concern until his and 7 feet wide from the bottom. After his death, May 1I, 1913." This concern has been recognized for years as one of the most im- portant and progressive of the kind in Arm- strong county, and its value as one of the substantial factors in the upbuilding and de- velopment of Kittanning is thoroughly appre- ciated. Its work is of high quality, a fact which in a large measure accounts for its continued prosperity. The Heilman brothers are entitled to much credit for their success. Beginning with little capital, they forged ahead steadily, keeping fully abreast of the times in methods and ideas, keeping their equipment up to meet the growing demands of their trade, judiciously investing surplus money in town lots in Kittanning, which they improved with residences and other build- ings, and in every way showing good judg- ment and shrewd management. Their stand- ing is a credit to the county, though their business operations have by no means been confined to its limits. service as commissioner Mr. Heilman devoted all his time to his own affairs. He had previously been school director, and during the Civil war he served as enrolling officer. He was a Republican on political questions. He was an esteemed member and liberal sup- porter of Emanuel Lutheran Church, which he served officially. By his first wife, Susanna Helfrich, daughter of Anthony Helfrich (whose wife was named Schutt or Shutt), he had three children, namely: Amanda, who never married; Albert, who starved to death in Andersonville prison, while a Union sol- dier; and one that died in infancy. His sec- ond, Elizabeth (Remaley), daughter of Anthony Remaley, of Kiskiminetas township, was the mother of ten children, viz .: James M., William M., Reuben (a hardware mer- chant), John F., George (who died aged twenty-one years), Frank (who died when sixteen years old), Eliza (wife of Frank Mc- Clister), Edward (in the hardware business), In 1907 Mr. Heilman was elected vice presi- dent of the Kittanning Plate Glass Company, and the year following was elected president, serving one year, the term for which he was chosen. He afterward devoted his principal energies to the lumber business, and he had Charles C. (president of the Merchants' Trust Company Bank, of Greensburg-he spells the name Hileman) and Curtin A. (en- gaged as a furniture dealer at Greensburg). Anthony Remaley, grandfather of Mrs. Peter Heilman, married a daughter of always private interests of considerable im- Anthony Schaeffer, who was a Revolutionary portance, particularly the development of gas soldier, and afterward clerk in the State Sen- and oil properties, with which he was identi- ate. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Remaley had
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