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the wisdom of its enactment immediately after it was repealed, two years ago, if not before. When the Wilson bill was reported to the Senate in 1894 Senator Quay fought it with consummate skill. The Republicans no longer had a majority in that body to veto a free-trade measure,but Quay adopted the methods employed by the Democrats against the force bill, and resolved to talk it to death. On April 14 he began the most remarkable tariff speech ever delivered in the United States Senate. It was a full ex- position of the tariff and it finally covered 124 pages of the Congressional Record, and contained something like 200,000 words. It is a big volume in itself. But Mr. Quay did not make this speech to enlighten the Senate, but to prevent the Wilson bill from becoming a law. He began it April 14, and held the floor whenever the bill was under consideration for two months. Other Re- publican Senators followed his plan, and the Democratic Senators were compelled to re- medel the bill, granting better protection to the industries of the country, before they could stop this debate, which Quay told them would continue until they compro- mised, and the Senate adjourned.
Senator Quay's ancestors came from the Isle of Man in 1710. His grandfather served in the war of the Revolution, and also that of 1812. The Senator was born in Dills- burg, Pa., in 1833, and when he was 6 years old his parents moved to Pittsburg, and later to Beaver. His father was a Presby- terian minister, and the Senator holds to that faith, so that he was instrumental in having Congress prevent the opening ofthe World's Fair on Sunday. He was eager for travel and adventure when a boy, and went to Texas while yet in his teens. He taught school there and closed the school abruptly to go to fight Indians on the Colorado border. He bought a rifle with his teacher's salary and walked to Austin to enlist, but
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when he reached that place tne war was over. In disgust he sold his rifle and started back to Pennsylvania. He was afterward admitted to the bar, in 1854, the year lie reached his majority. The next year he was appointed prothonotary of Beaver county, was twice re-elected, and there be- gan his political career. It has been a long and exciting career, but politics never en- ters his home life.
He is devotedly domestic. He considers that portion of his life spent in his family circle as a thing apart from the outer world. He lives with his family in the old-fashioned sense of the most intimate and happy com- munion. In Washington society it is a mat- ter of comment that nowadays, when in the rapid whirl and movement of official life members of the most prominent families have scarcely time to become acquainted with one another, the family of Senator Quay exhibits to those who are admitted to its circle an ideal picture of interests per- fectly blended and of the most charming domestic confidence.
Mrs. Quay has always been an inspira- tion and a help to her husband. She is a most charming type of American woman- hood. All of her interests center in her home. While she cares little for society for society's sake, she entertains so attractively and with such engaging and artistic hospi- tality that invitations to her teas and re- ceptions are eagerly sought by the highest element of the official circles of Washing- ton.
H ON. WILLIAM PENN LLOYD, attorney-at-law, and ex-United States Collector of Internal Revenue, was born at Lisburn, Cumberland county, Sep- tember, 1837, the only son of William and Amanda (Anderson) Lloyd, both natives of Cumberland county. On his father's side
he is of Welsh and English extraction and by his mother of Scotch-Irish.
William Penn Lloyd worked on the farm and at cabinet making with his father until his 18th year. He attended the public school, Dickinson Seminary, Cumberland County Normal School and White Hall Academy. His summers were devoted to study at these institutions and his winters to teaching in the public schools. At the age of twenty he began the study of law under William M. Penrose, then a promi- nent lawyer at Carlisle and continued teach- ing and studying until the outbreak of the Rebellion, when he raised a company for the three months service, but the quota of the State being filled before it was ready to be mustered in it was disbanded and in August 1861 he enlisted in Company F, Ist Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry. He served sixteen months as a private, was pro- moted to hospital steward of the regiment, then to first lieutenant of Company E, and next to adjutant of the regiment, at the same time acting as assistant adjutant gen- eral of the brigade. In this capacity he served until September 9, 1864, when the regiment was mustered out at the expira- tion of its three years term of service. Mr. Lloyd was engaged in the battles of Drains- ville, Harrisonburg, Cedar Mountain, Gainesville, second Bull Run, Fredericks- burg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, St. Mary's church, and a score or more of minor en- gagements. Col. Lloyd returned home to Richmond and on the organization of the State Guards under Gen. Hartranft was ap- pointed Inspector General with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He resumed teaching and the study of law until April 18, 1865, when he was admitted to the bar of Cum- berland county. He has since been ad- mitted to practice in the courts of Dauphin, York and Perry counties, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the District
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Court of the United States. September 16, 1866, he was appointed collector of internal revenne for the 15th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, comprising the counties of York, Cumberland and Perry. He resigned the collectorship August Ist, 1869, to ac- cept a position in the Dauphin Deposit Bank of Harrisburg, where he remained nearly fifteen years, when he quit the bank and went to work on his farm near Me- chanicsburg. A year later, having regained his health, he opened his present law office. Col. Lloyd has been commander of H. I. Zinn Post, No. 415, Grand Army of the Republic, since its organization, March 4, 1888. He is the author of the "History of the First Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry," a very graphic history of the three years' service of his regiment. He is also a member of Eureka Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and a Knight Templar of St. John's Commandery, No. 8, of Car- lisle.
May 23, 1865, Col. Lloyd was married to Anna H., a daughter of Israel L. and Mar- garet (Moser) Boyer. To that union were born three children: Weir B., Mary and George E.
E DWARD BIDDLE WATTS, an at- torney of Carlisle, Cumberland county, is a son of Hon. Frederick and Henrietta (Ege) Watts and was born in Carlisle, September 13, 1851. His father, Judge Watts, for more than a quarter of a century was the most prominent man in Carlisle. As early as October, 1827, he prac- ticed in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and as late as the Mayterm 1869. For fifteen years he was reporter of the decisions of that court and during that period and be- fore and after it he was engaged in a large office business and in the trial of nearly all the important cases in the courts below in his own county and the county of Perry.
For twenty-six years he was president of the Cumberland Valley railroad. August I, 1871, he became United States Commission- er of Agriculture.
At the age of fourteen, Edward Biddle Watts entered Dr. Lyons' private school at West Haverford, ten miles west of Phila- delphia, where he remained until 1868, when he went to Cheshire and entered the Episcopal Academy of the State, where he pursued his studies until 1869. Then, at the request of Dr. Horton, the principal of that institute, he accompanied him upon a tour in Europe. Immediately upon his return he entered Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut from which institution he was graduated in 1873. He returned to Car- lisle and read law with John Hays and was admitted to the bar in 1875. In 1885 he was appointed attorney for the county commis- sioners of Cumberland county. Mr. Watts has been a member of the 8th Regiment, National Guards, of Pennsylvania, since February 1885. He served as captain of Company G, the Goban Guards, of Car- lisle, and in 1893 was appointed sergeant- major of the regiment. He is a member of St. John's Episcopal church.
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OHN HAYS, President of the Carlisle Deposit Bank and a prominent and successful member of the bar of Cum- berland county, unites in his ancestry the lineage of two of the oldest and most promi- nent families of the State. His paternal great-grandfather, Adam Hays, was a de- scendant of a Holland family who immi- grated to America at an early day and who became members of a Swedish settlement at Newcastle on the Delaware. Adam Hays was born at New Castle and immigrated to Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, where he settled on the north bank of the Cone- doguinet creek, in Frankford township, in 1730. His sons, Adam and Joseph, the lat-
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ter the grand-father of our subject, were born in Cumberland county. Joseph mar- ried and had three sons, Adam, John and Joseph. John was born in August 1794 and was a farmer in early life. At the age of 30 he engaged in the iron trade. He was twice married: first to Jane Pattison, of Cumberland county. They had one daugh- ter, Annie E., who married Lieutenant Richard West, a nephew of Judge Taney, and after his death, Lieutenant Colonel J. W. T. Garder. Mrs. Jane (Pattison) Hays died in 1822 or '23, and her widowed hus- band married Mrs. Eleanor B. Wheaton, a daughter of Robert Blaine. She was a grand-daughter of Col. Ephraim Blaine, of Cumberland county, who was born in Ire- land and came with his parents to Cumber- land county in 1844, when he was but a year old. Col.Ephraim Blaine was a prom- inent man and served his county and coun- try well. He was a friend and confidant of Washington, was sheriff of Cumberland county in 1771, and during the Revolution was deputy commissary general with the rank of colonel. Mrs. and Mr. John Hays were members of the Presbyterian church. He died April 9, 1854, and she January 9, 1839. They had two sons and one daugh- ter: Robert Blaine Hays, Mary Wheaton Hays and John Hays, the subject of this sketch.
John Hays received his preliminary edu- cation in the common schools of Carlisle and graduated from old Dickinson College in the class of 1857. The same year lie en- tered the law office of Hon. Robert M. Henderson and in August 1859 he was ad- mitted to the Cumberland county bar. In 1862 Mr. Hays entered Company A, 130th Volunteer Infantry and was promoted to first lieutenant, then adjutant of the regi- ment and afterward to adjutant general of a brigade. He was mustered out of the ser- vice May 1, 1863. He was wounded in the
right shoulder at Chancellorsville by a mus- ket ball and had seven other balls cut his clothing and kill his horse under him. He was in the battle of Antietam and Freder- icksburg, in the former of which his regi- ment sustained a severe loss. At Freder- icksburg, Col. Zinn, his commander, lost his life. After the regiment was mustered out, Mr. Hays returned to Carlisle and formed a partnership with Hon. R. M. Henderson.
Mr. Hays, August 8, 1865, married Jane Van Ness, a daughter of Captain R. C. and Sarah (Radcliffe) Smead, of the City of New York. Captain Smead was a graduate of West Point and served as a captain in the Mexican war. He died of yellow fever while on his way home at the close of hos- tilities. Mr. and Mrs. Hays are members of the Presbyterian church of Carlisle and have two sons and two daughters: Anna A., Elizabeth S., George M., Raphael S., and Eleanor B. In politics Mr. Hays is a Re- publican and was a delegate to the national convention which nominated Garfield in 1880. He was one of the original trustees of the Metzgar Institute of Carlisle, of which his uncle, George Metzgar, was the founder. He is a member of the board of directors of the Carlisle Gas and Water Company and vice president and chairman of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Carlisle Manu- facturing Company.
D R. JOHN W. C. O'NEIL, was born in Fairfax county, Virginia, April 21, 1821, of Irish and American parentage. His classical and literary education was ob- tained in Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His medical studies were pursued under the private tutorship of Dr. John Swope, of Taneytown, and Dr. N. R. Smith, Baltimore, Maryland, and in the Medical Department of the University of Maryland, from which he received the de- gree of M. D., in 1844. The doctor settled
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in Hanover, York county, in the spring of that year, but five years later moved to Bal- timore, but finally established himself at Gettysburg in 1863. He is a member of the Phrenakosmian Society of Pennsyl- vania College, a member of the Adams County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1875, of the Pennsylvania Medical Society and of the American Medi- cal Association. He has contributed to the literature of the profession a pamphlet on the cholera as it appeared in Baltimore 1852, another on medical and surgical ex- perience on the battle fields of Antie- tam and Gettysburg, a third on the Kataly- sine Spring water and a comparison of its powers with the water of foreign springs, and other fugitive papers and reports. The doctor served as commissioner of public schools in Baltimore during the years of 1850-51-52 and was vaccine physician of the twentieth ward of that city for that period. He served as delegate to the Mary- land State Medical Society from Pennsyl- vania in 1877 and in 1886, was made a member of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities of Pennsylvania in 1883. He attended as medical and surgical advisor in the house of industry of Adamıs county for 1863 to 1871 and re- signed in favor of his son, Dr. Walter H. O'Neil, who continued to fill the appoint- ment for several years afterward. The doc- tor was a delegate to the National Medical Association in 1884, representing the State of Pennsylvania, and has continued his membership ever since. By appointment of the Pennsylvania State Public Board of Charities the doctor was one of the three representatives of the State in the 13th Na- tional Conference of Charities and Correc- tions at St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1886.
In 1847 he married Ellen, a daughter of Henry Wirt, of Hanover, York county.
H T ON. BENJAMIN K. SPANGLER. In writing the story of the life of Benjamin K. Spangler brief note must be taken of the political history of "Old Mother Cumberland," for out of the fer- ment of sentiment which in late years has made it doubtful, if not safely Republican county, was evolved a notable chapter in his career. Up to early in the 'go's the county was safely Democratic by nine hun- dred, and few Republicans gained office; but at that period change was wrought and men who had been working for this con- summation for years, at last found them- selves elevated from the ranks as loyal workers, into leadership and office. One of those whose aptitude and ability came to be thus recognized and rewarded through his party's ascendancy was Benjamin K. Spangler, a man whose political life has been one full of picturesque experience. Mr. Spangler was born in Carlisle, Sep- tember 8, 1832, the son of Jacob and Eli- zabeth (Goddard) Spangler. The Spang- lers are of German origin and the family has many branches in the southern section of Pennsylvania, especially in York county, where they are numerous. To this branch our subject's immediate ancestry belongs. The father was born in East Berlin, Adams county, 1775, and died in Carlisle in 1857, aged 82 years. He was a carpenter by trade and when yet a boy came to Carlisle, where he eventually became a contractor and built some of the most conspicuous build- ings in the town. In politics he was an old line Whig and in religion of the Lutheran faith, serving as a deacon of the church. He married Elizabeth G. Waterbury, widow of Thomas Waterbury, of Stam- ford, Connecticut, and a daughter of Thomas Goddard, a native of New Eng- land. Five sons and two daughters were born to this marriage: James U., and John K., carpenter, of Carlisle; Kate, wife of
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David Rhoades, Altoona; Emanuel, de- deceased; William, a carpenter and stair builder, of Carlisle; Benjamin K., and Letitia, wife of James P. Wilson, Altoona. Our subject obtained his education in the Carlisle public schools and at the age of sixteen learned the trade of chain making. After following this for several years he went to Harrisburg and learned cigar mak- ing, at which trade he worked in Philadel- phia, New York, Cincinnati, Pittsburg and Baltimore. In 1857 he started business in Carlisle, continued it for a year and then went to Kansas, where he spent seven of the most eventful months of his life. The bitter struggle over the status of the terri- tory in the matter of slavery was then on and young Spangler precipitated himself into the conflict on the side of the Free Soilers under James Lane's leadership. Mr. Spangler fought and voted to admit Kan- sas free. When this issue had been de- cided, he returned to Carlisle and and re- sumed his trade. In July 1862 the war for the preservation of the Union evoked his sympathies and he enlisted in Captain Wil- liam M. Porter's Company A, 30th Penn- sylvania Regiment for nine months. His services practically terminated Septem- ber 15th, after the battle of South Moun- tain, for he was stricken on the line of march and sent first to Hagerstown and then to Camp Curtin, Harrisburg. Here he was transferred to Church hospital and December 10, 1862, was discharged on a surgeon's certificate of disability. Return- ing to Carlisle he engaged in the cigar business. In 1894 Mr. Spangler, running on the Republican ticket, was elected rep- resentative in the State Legislature. He made an enviable record there, his most notable action being his speech on the Re- ligious Garb bill.
Mr. Spangler is a member of the Evan- gelical church; of St. John Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons; of St. John's Chapter, 171, Royal Arch Masons; of St. John Com- mandery, No. 8, Knights Templar, of Car- lisle; Junior Order United American Me- chanics, and of the American Protective Association.
April 6, 1862, he wa' married to Mar- garet A. Rhodes, of Carlisle. Five daugh- ters have been borntothem: Ella Elizabeth, wife of John Oliver, of Carlisle; Emma Re- becca, wife of Charles W. Strohm; Jennie Gertrude, wife of Harry Brheam, of Car- lisle, and Effie deceased.
PROFESSOR HENRY B. NIXON, PH. D., who occupies the chair of mathematics in Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was born near Winfall, Perquiman's county, North Caro- lina, September 9th, 1857. He is of English ancestry. His paternal great grandfather was Samuel Nixon, whose son Francis was the paternal grandfather of our subject. Francis Nixon engaged in farming, fishing and milling all his life. He had five chil- dren, William, Thomas, Francis, James and Sarah. Thomas, the father of Henry B. Nixon, received a common school edu- cation supplemented by courses in Quaker schools at Belvidere, North Carolina, and at Alexandria, Virginia, from the latter of which he was graduated. He devoted him- self to husbandry all his life. He married Cornelia, daughter of Joseph and Harriet (Jones) Townsend, and had eight children: Julian, Francis, Mary, James, Henry, Jos- eph, Harriet and Thomas. His death oc- curred in 1886. The mother is still living at the old homestead in Perquiman's coun- ty, North Carolina. Henry B. Nixon pre- pared for college at the Hertford Academy, North Carolina, and attended the Univer- sity of North Carolina, from which he was graduated in 1878. After graduating he spent some time teaching and studying pri-
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vately. He then continued his studies at Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore for five whole and part of two additional years, after which he went to Gettysburg to sup- ply the chair of mathematics during the ill- ness of his predecessor, Prof. Croll. On the death of the latter he was appointed to fill the vacancy for a year, and at the ex- piration of that time he was elected to the professorship. Prof. Nixon is a mathema- tician of distinction and has turned out sonie very capable students during his term of service at Gettysburg. May 22nd, 1889, he married Kate Virginia Hay, of Philadel- phia, Pa., whose parents, Alexander and Magdalena (Ilgenfritz) Hay were originally from York, Pa. They have one son, Thomas Hay Nixon, born February 22nd, 1895.
R EV. A. R. STECK, pastor of St. James Lutheran church, Gettys- burg, Adams county, is a native of Lan- caster county, Pennsylvania, and was born August 8, 1861, the son of Rev. Dr. David and Susan M. Steck. He is of German an- cestry. His paternal grandfather, Freder- ick, was born in Lycoming county and was a farmer by occupation. In politics he was a Democrat and in religion a Luther- an. He was a man of broad intelligence and excellent judgment. His children were John, Elizabeth, Daniel, Jacob, George, Julia, Christie and Charles. He died in 1858. Rev. Dr. David Steck was born in Hughesville, Lycoming county, November, 1819, and received his education, both classical and theological, at the Pennsyl- vania College, Gettysburg, graduating from the theological department in 1840. He located at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, organ- ized the First Lutheran church of that place and served as pastor eleven years, during which he brought the congregation to a fine state of development. His next
charge was in Lancaster city, where he served four years and then became pastor of the First Lutheran church of Dayton, O. After six years service there he then re- turned to Pottsville, in a state of ill health which did not permit him to pursue his ministerial labors very assiduously. In the hope of recruiting his health he accepted a call to Middletown, Frederick county, Maryland. There he remained four and a half years, and then, largely in behalf of the education of his sons, accepted a call to St. James church, of Gettysburg, the seat of Lutheran classical and theological education. From 1875 to 1881 he served as pastor of St. James church. He was eminently successful in his church work and was one of the most accomplished and graceful orators in the Lutheran church. In April, 1849, he married Susan M. Edwards, a daughter of Enoch and Catharine Edwards, by whom he had nine children: Newton, Valeria, John, Katie, Charles, Augustus, Mamy, Willie and Luther. Mamie and Willie are dead. Mrs. Steck is still living.
Rev. A. R. Steck graduated from Penn- sylvania College in the class of '82. He taught school for one year at New Salem, York county,and then entered the theolog- ical seminary at Gettysburg, where he graduated in June, 1886. His first call was from the Lutheran church at Stewartsville, Warren county, New Jersey. He remained with that charge until 1891, when he re- signed to accept a call to the First Luther- an church of Indianapolis, Indiana. In July, 1894, he resigned to accept a call from St. James Lutheran church, his pres- ent charge, and in September following removed to Gettysburg, to take up the work in which his father had been stayed by the hand of death.
July 1, 1891, he married Bertha, a daughter of Hon. Howard Melick, of Phil-
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lipsburg, New Jersey. To that union were born four children: Howard Rodney, who died in infancy; Kenneth L., Robert Augustus and Julia Catherine.
Rev. Steck is one of the most thoroughly educated and intelligent clergymen in the Lutheran church, and has brought to his work rare qualities and endowments of heart and mind, peculiarly fitting him for the spiritual care of men. He has taken up and very successfully carried forward the work in which death interrupted his father. To-day he is one of the leading min- isters in the West Pennsylvania Synod. He is an eloquent speaker, an interesting conversationalist and a man of entirely agreeable personality.
S AMUEL M. MANIFOLD, general manager of the York Southern R. R. is one of that worthy class of self-made men who build their own monuments of fortune and reputation. He is a son of Joseph and Rebecca (Martin) Manifold, and was born in Hopewell township, York county, Pennsylvania, May 8th, 1842. The Manifolds are of English Quaker lineage and first settled in one of the counties of New Jersey. Subsequently the succeeding generations gradually diffused and a num- ber of them came to the southern part of York county, where they became promi- nent farmers and large property owners. A descendant of one of these early settlers in York county, was Henry Manifold, the fa- ther of Joseph Manifold, and the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch.
Joseph Manifold was born 1810 and mar- ried Rebecca Perry Martin, a daughter of Rev. Samuel Martin, a prominent Scotch- Irish minister of the Presbyterian church, whose principal pastorates were at Slate Ridge, and Chanceford churches, the lat- ter of which he served for over 40 years. Joseph Manifold was the father of six chil-
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