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A. D. Ilarman was only eighteen years of age when he volunteered as a private soldier ; his first battle was Bermuda Hundred, Virginia. Afterwards he participated in the battles of HIatcher's Run, Fort Steadman and at Peters-
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burg, Va. On April 2, 1865, he captured the Rebel flag belonging to forty-first Alabama regt. at a great risk of losing his life. A. D. Harman is a son of Samuel and Mary (Logan) Harman, who were natives respectively of Ligonier Val- ley and Pleasant Unity township, Westmoreland county, Pa, The latter is yet living at the age of sixty-eight at Greensburg. The former died at the age of sixty-six.
EORGE M. HARTZELL, a pleasantly- located and progressive farmer of Mt. Pleasant township, is a son of George and Hannah (Barnhart) Hartzell and was born in Mt. Pleasant township, Westmoreland county, Pa., July 24, 1852. Ilis paternal grandfather, George IIartzell, was born east of the Alleghe- nies and migrated to Mt. Pleasant township where he died. He was a tailor by trade but followed farming. Ile was a republican, a member of the Reformed church and married a Miss Lauffer by whom he had ten children. Abraham Barnhart, maternal grandfather, was a native of Mt. Pleasant township where he fol- lowed farming during his lifetime. He was a member of the Reformed church and married a Miss Hugus, who bore him three children, all of whom were daughters. George Hartzell (father) was a farmer by occupation. He removed in 1878 to Mt. Pleasant where he resided until his death in 1886 at the age of sixty-four years, seven months and twenty days. He was a re- publican, served one term as burgess of Mt. Pleasant and made a popular borough official. He was an ardent member and generous sup- porter of the Reformed church, to which he left a donation of $1,500 and in which there is a memorial window to his memory. He was a consistent church member whose everyday life was in full accord with the teachings of Chris- tianity. He married Hannah Barnhart who is now in the sixty-eighth year of her age. They
had eleven children, of whom two sons and three daughters are living.
George M. Hartzell was reared in Mt. Pleas- ant township where he received his education in the common schools. He then engaged in farm- ing and stock raising which he has followed ever since. His farm contains one hundred and sixty-eight acres of well-improved land on which he has erected good buildings. He has one of the finest farm residences to be found in the town- ship. It is a large three-story frame dwelling with basement containing ten rooms, wide re- ception halls, pantry, front and rear porches and is modern and complete in all its arrangements.
On September 20, 1877, he married Jennie P. Lobingier, daughter of John C. Lobingier (see sketch of Lobingiers). They are the parents of four children : John G., Harry L., Lizzie O. and Percy C.
In politics Mr. Hartzell is a republican and was elected school director in 1888 for the term of three years. Ile is an influential member of the Reformed church but his wife is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church.
FOHN HENDERSON, one of Grant's vet- eran soldiers, a leading citizen of Derry and a popular passenger conductor on the Penn- sylvania railroad, is a son of Andrew and Eliz- abeth (Mitchell) Henderson and was born in Derry township, Westmoreland county, Pa., August 4, 1843. Ilis paternal grandfather (Henderson) was a native of Scotland, came to America when a young man and settled in Unity township, where he resided till his death. Ilis maternal grandfather (Mitchell) was born in Ireland, settled near the site of Latrobe, where he was captured by Indians and held as a pris- oner for five years before he succeeded in making his escape. Andrew Henderson (father) was born in Unity township in 1785 and died in May, 1881, aged ninety-six years. He was a farmer, a democrat and a member of the Baptist
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church, with which he united in 1868. In 1835 he removed to Derry township where he passed the remainder of his days. He married Eliza- beth Mitchell and reared a family of eight chil- dren : Delilah, widow of William Miller ; Samp- son, lives at Latrobe ; James ; Agnes, who died about 1865; Mary, wife of Edward Boyd; Andrew, of Ligonier township; Elizabeth, wife of D. I. Weaver ; and John, of Derry borough. Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson died in 1884.
John Henderson was reared in Derry town- ship and attended the common schools until he was eighteen years of age, when he enlisted in Co. C, eleventh reg. Pa. Vols., and served from September 3, 1861, to July, 1865. He fought at Thoroughfare Gap, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettys- burg and participated in all of the battles of Grant's campaign from the Wilderness fights to Appomattox Court House. He received a flesh wound at Fredericksburg and was shot in the thigh at Gettysburg. At the former place he was captured and taken to Libby prison, where he passed twenty-eight days before he was ex- changed. At the close of the war he was hon- orably discharged and returned home, where he worked for eighteen months in a saw-mill. He was then employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and has been in their service ever since. For the last seventeen years he has been a passenger conductor and now runs a train from Derry to Altoona.
In March, 1866, John Henderson married Eliza Huusberger, daughter of John Hansberger, of Derry township. They have had nine chil- dren : George, Minnie, wife of E. K. Pringle of Latrobe; Leasure, who died June 18, 1884; Dora, Charles, William, Wilson, who died March 20, 1880 ; Marie and Roy.
John Henderson owns fine property in the borough of Derry and is widely and favorably known to the traveling public as one of the most efficient and popular passenger conductors on the Pennsylvania railroad.
POHN J. HORN, one of the prominent busi- ness men of Pleasant Unity, is pre-emi- ne ntly a self-made man, who has overcome many obstacles in his way to success. He is a son of George Horn and was born on his father's farm in Salem township, Westmoreland county, Pa., May 14, 1831. George Horn was a hard- working man, who owned a small farm on the road leading from Salem to Saltsburg. He died in 1837 when comparatively a young man.
John J. Horn, when an infant of but eighteen months of age, was taken by a Mr. Mitchell, of near Greensburg, who was to rear him, give him eighteen months schooling and when he became of age to present him with a " freedom suit " and one hundred and twenty-five dollars in money. Ile worked faithfully for Mitchell until he was nineteen years of age, when having re- ceived no schooling and seeing that the latter did not intend to give him anything he left Mr. Mitchell and commenced to do for himself. He worked as a farm laborer at ten dollars per month for two years, was with a carpenter for one year and in 1853 went back to farming, which he followed for six years. In 1859 he came to Pleasant Unity, where he opened a blacksmith shop. Although he had never worked at blacksmithing, yet he was a natural mechanic and succeeded beyond his expectations as a blacksmith. He soon connected a wagon- making and coach establishment with his black- smith shop and has pursued both lines of busi- hess successfully until the present time. In 1886 he opened his hardware and grocery store. Within the last few years he has been assisted in his different business enterprises by his two sons, David M. and William R.
On the 23d of September, 1852, he married Margaret Gardner, daughter of Abraham Gard- her of Unity township. They have five chil- dren : David M., married to Miss E. L. Truxal; William R., who married Miss Re- becca Brinker, a daughter of Dr. T. II. Brinker ; Lizzie K., wife of William R. Wilson of Done-
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gal ; Virginia, married to W. G Lang, a trav- eling salesman of Ligonier, and Roberta.
Politically Mr. Horn is a democrat. Ile is a member of the Lodge, No. 14, Chosen Friends, and member of the M. E. church, of whose board of trustees he has been president for fif- teen years. Mr. Horn is like President Andrew Johnson-he learned to read and write after he was of age. Ile is a remarkably fast as well as a very fine workman and his trade extends over the country for several miles around Pleasant Unity. His stores are heavily stocked and well patronized. He is energetic and pushing but honest and honorable, and is a popular business man and a respected citizen.
SAAC HORNER, one of the substantial, reliable and prosperous farmers of Mt. Pleasant township. was born in Donegal township, Westmoreland county, Pa., November 23, 1838, and is a son of John and Mary (Weimer) Horner. His grandfather, David IIorner, was a member of the Horner family of Somerset county, Pa., which was of German extraction. He was one of the many industrious farmers who have from time to time come from that county into the Westmoreland townships of the Ligonier Valley. Ile was a farmer, a whig and a member of the German Baptist church. He married Elizabeth Berkley who bore him six sons and three daughters, of whom four of the sons and two of the daughters are yet living.
His grandfather Weimer was a distiller of Donegal township. He was a republican and a Baptist and married Susannah Perkey, by whom he had seven children : John Horner (father) was born in 1818 in Somerset county which he left at ten years of age, when he came with his father to Donegal township where he has been engaged in farming for the last fifty years. He is a democrat in political matters, has served his township as school director and is an influential
member of the German Baptist church. IIe married Mary Weimer, by whom he had eight children, of whom three are living : Isaac and Lydia and Sarah L.
Isaac Horner attended the common schools and upon attaining his majority commenced farming on the farm on which he has resided ever since. Ilis farm now contains 118 acres of productive land which is in a good state of cultivation and on which he has erected a sub- stantial house, first-class barn and other out- buildings.
In 1864 he married Sarah Myers who was born in 1836 and is a daughter of Abraham and Rebecca (Kimmell) Myers. Abraham Myers was a farmer of Somerset county who moved to Ligonier township, this county, and afterwards to Mt. Pleasant township where he died in 1872, aged seventy-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Horner have five children : Myers, born December 27, 1870, and who will graduate from the Central State Normal school at Lock Haven, Pa., in the class of 1890; Eldora B., born May 23, 1874; Albert O., born August 28, 1879; Sadie M., born March 8, 1885, and Alva B., who was born May 12, 1889.
Politically Isaac Horner is a democrat but in local politics he ignores party lines and votes for the man whom he thinks is best fitted for the office. Ile and his wife are members of the German Baptist church, in which he is a deacon.
FOHN J. HUGHES, a gentleman of con- siderable mercantile experience and supe- rior business ability and a prosperous merchant of Millwood Shaft, is a son of Chris- tian and Rosanna (Kintz) Hughes, and was born on the old homestead farm in Derry township, Westmoreland county, Pa., April 9, 1841. Ilis grandfather was Francis Hughes, a native of county Monaghan. Ireland, who came to America and settled in Lancaster county, Pa., where he remained for twenty years and then
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removed to this county, where he purchased a farm upon which he resided until his death, January 14, 1845, at the age of sixty-four. Be- fore leaving Ireland he married Margaret John- son, of county Armagh, who died September 28, 1840, aged sixty-two years. They had seven children, of whom the second was Chris- tian Hughes (father), who was born in Lancaster county, Pa., September 16, 1802, and died July 1, 1854. After reaching maturity he with his parents came to this county, locating in Derry township. For several years he followed wagoning on the old pike from Pittsburg to Philadelphia and Baltimore, and during the re- mainder of his life was engaged in farming. His wife Rosanna was a daughter of Frederick and Mary Kintz of Unity township. She was born April 12, 1819, and died June 15, 1851. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes were the parents of six children : Frederick F., John J., Daniel, Mary, Margaret, Rosanna and Joseph. In the latter part of 1852, Christian Hughes married a second time, his wife's name being Catherine Mullen, daughter of Richard Mullen of Unity township. To this union was born one daughter, Anna Bell Hughes, who is now one of the brightest and best teachers of the county.
John J. Hughes was reared on a farm, re- ceived his education in the common and select schools of the county, and also took a complete commercial course at Iron City college, Pitts- burg, Pa. Leaving school he followed railroad- ing for fifteen years and then entered the mer- cantile business at Cokeville, which he pursued successfully for two years. In 1872 he re- moved to Millwood Shaft, where he engaged in his present mercantile business ; he also rented a farm which he soon purchased and still owns. Ilis store is filled with an ample stock of general merchandise, and his patronage extends over a wide area of surrounding territory. In politics he is a democrat, has served acceptably as school director, and in 1890 was elected tax collector by the remarkably large majority of one hun-
dred and thirty-two in a total of six hundred and ninety-two. Ile is a thorough-going, intelligent and careful business man and stands high in the estimation of all who know him.
John J. Hughes was married May 4, 1875, to Catharine A. Fenton, daughter of Patrick Fenlon, who was a contractor of Blairsville and a brother-in-law of William Maher of that place. To their union have been born nine children : Mary Rose, born February 21, 1876; Christian, born November 18, 1877; Patrick Fenlon, born December 27, 1879, died January 11, 1880; Leo Francis, born December 9, 1880; John, born October 24, 1882, died October 29, 1882; Alice, born September 3, 1884, died September 6, 1884; Joseph Anthony, born January 18, 1886; James Fenlon, born December 15, 1887 ; and Daniel Gregory, born March 12, 1890.
Daniel Hughes (uncle) died September 6, 1848, aged forty-two years; Joseph Hughes (uncle) died August 12, 1846, aged thirty-four ; Francis Hughes (uncle) died July 4, 1880, aged seventy-one years ; Mary (Hughes) Layton died March 24, 1884, aged sixty-five years ; and Margaret (Ilughes) Layton died February 29, 1876, aged fifty-nine years.
EORGE R. HIUGUS, one of the repre- sentative citizens and progressive farmers of the wealthy and prosperous township of Unity, is a son of John and Rebecca (Hackey) Hugus and was born in Unity township, West- moreland county, Pa., February 18, 1832. Ile is a descendant of one of the old and substantial families of Westmoreland county and was founded by one of three Hugus brothers who left France in the eighteenth century to settle in the prov- ince of Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Paul Hugus, was born on the farm in Unity township now owned by William Porch. He resided on that farm till his death at the age of eighty- three years. His son, John Hugus, was born
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in 1808 and passed away May, 1888. For sev- eral years in early life he was engaged in the mercantile business at Blairsville, l'a., being in partnership with John Graff, of that place. He then purchased a farm in Unity township where he followed farming and stock-raising during the remainder of his life. Ile was a good scholar, a fine penman and an excellent mathematician. He was an active business man, a strong demo- crat and a consistent member of the Reformed church. Much of his leisure time was devoted to a wide range of reading and the study of the current and live issues of the day. He married Rebecca Hackey by whom he had several sons and daughters.
George R. Hugus was reared on the farm where he resides and received his education in common and select schools. He has devoted his time largely to farming and stock-raising. Ilis attractive home farm is in the southern part of the township. It contains one hundred and forty acres of choice land which is kept in the best of order and in the highest state of cultivation. This farm is one of the best farms in the county and is convenient to schools, churches, stores and the Pennsylvania railroad. He also owns two other good farms which are well-improved and carefully cultivated He is a member and was for many years an elder of the Reformed church. He has been a life-long democrat, served for ten years as school director and is always active in the councils of his party of which he is a leading exponeut in Unity town- ship.
lle was married in 1865 to Mary Latta, daughter of Moses Latta and sister of ex-lieu- tenant-governor John Latta, of Greensburg (see sketch of latter). Mr. and Mrs. Ilugus are the parents of three children : Edward L., John II. and Ilarry.
In whatever he undertakes George R. HIugus is conscientious and zealous. Ile is well-informed, courteous and agreeable and has many warm friends within the circle of his acquaintance.
ARVEY D. HIULL was born in St. Clair township, Westmoreland county, Pa., October 28, 1856, and is a son of John Hull who was born near Blacklick, Indi- ana county, Pa., February 17, 1805, and Ma- tilda Clark who was born near Armagh, Indiana county, Pa , April 24, 1826. She was a daughter of William and Jane (Longstretch) Clark, both of whom immigrated to this country from county Down, Ireland. Thomas Hull (grandfather) came to Westmoreland county from New Jersey about 1783 and settled on the Ligonier pike near Laurel IIill. He was a day laborer and was engaged in hauling army supplies during the war of 1812. IIe died in 1849 at the age of eighty-eight years. llis wife was Betsie Cox, a native of New Jersey ; she died in 1853 almost, a centenarian, being in her ninety-sixth year. Hannah Hull (aunt) was born in St. Clair town- ship in 1796 and was the wife of Thomas Achi- son. Nancy Hull (aunt), born in 1798, died in 1871, was the wife of William Rohland, who was in the war of 1812. Elizabeth IIull (aunt), born in 1801 and died December 25, 1888; To- bias Hull (unele) born in 1803, died in 1887 and was three times married. First wife was Sallie, a daughter of John Decker, of St. Clair township; second wife was Polly Decker, a daughter of Isaac Decker, of St. Clair, and third was Mar- garet Brady. Jane Hull (aunt) was born in 1807 and died in 1888.
Harvey D. Hull has three brothers and three sisters : Samuel C., born March 30, 1844, in New Florence; Sarah, March 7, 1847, was the wife of David Baker, of Ligonier; Emanuel, August 3, 1849; Nancy J., February 13, 1859, wife of Edward Haire, of St. Clair; Ida M., born March 9, 1863, wife of Edward J. Smith, of St. Clair, and William J., born Januar 18, 1866.
Harvey D. Hull was married on December 29, 1884, to Anna, a daughter of Elijah and Mary ( Wakefield) Taylor, of near Nineveh, In- diana county. They have three children : Thomas R., John F. and Matilda.
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II. D. Hull's boyhood days were spent on his father's farm and attended the common schools of the neighborhood. He was afterwards en- gaged in farming until September 1, 1889, when he was appointed baggagemaster at Johns- town, where he now resides. Ile is an active republican and for three years held the office of auditor of St. Clair township.
$ AMUEL HUNTER, one of those who have achieved a competency in life by his own efforts and who is one of Unity town- ship's reliable farmors and useful citizens, is a son of Ralph and Rebecca (Anderson) Hunter and was born in Unity township, Westmoreland county, Pa., in 1832. Ralph Hunter was born and reared in Westmoreland county until his death, which occurred in 1862, aged seventy years. He was an honest, peaceable and hard- working man. He was a whig in politics and an humble but earnest and useful member of the Presbyterian church. Whatever he under- took he went through with in a satisfactory manner to all concerned and never slighted any work entrusted to him. He married Rebecca Anderson October 10, 1805, who was a Presby- terian and died in 1858, aged seventy years. They had eleven children, six sons and five daughters : Thomas Q., William, James, Ralph, Samuel, Margaret, Jane, Elizabeth, Margaret the second and Rebecca.
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fourteen years. He also engaged in stock- raising and gives to that business the same assiduous care and attention which he bestows upon farming. He is an enthusiastic republican, attends many of the meetings and conventions of his party and always votes for its nominees. He has acquired all of his means by honest, hard labor and not by speculation and is very comfortably situated to enjoy life. Ilis farm is located two miles north of Pleasant Unity. He is unmarried and his two sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret, reside with him and keep house for him.
YSAAC JUNKINS, of Seward, is a native of Indiana county and was born August 29, 1822, and is a son of James and Christiana (Stienman) Junkins. James Junkins was born at Armagh, Indiana county, Pa., November 25, 1792. Ile was a day laborer and in the winter seasons worked at shoemaking. He was drafted. for the war of 1812 but did not go out. Ilis wife was born September 23, 1801, and was a daughter of Christopher Stienman, of Indiana county, who was a farmer of considerable wealth in his day. Hugh Junkins (grandfather) was born and reared in Ireland ; when a young man he immigrated to this country and settled at Armagh ; he was a stone-mason by trade, died in 1816 and was married to Susan Young, who was also a native of Ireland. Christopher Stienman (maternal grandfather) was born in in York county, Pa., from there he went to Bedford county where he married and then removed to Brush valley, Indiana county, where he followed farming pursuits and pruning apple trees. He was married to Catharine, daughter of Martin Loy, of Bedford county, Pa.
Samuel Hunter was reared to honest labor on : Germany ; after landing in America he settled the farm and trained to habits of industry and economy. He attended the common schools of his native township in which he received an ordinary business education. At an early age he engaged in farming which he has followed ever since. He has prospered well in all of his farming operations and now owns a farm of Isaac Junkins attended the subscription schools of East Wheatfield township in his native county. In 1837 he went to work at eight dollars a month on the old Pennsylvania canal where he continued to work for some time. two hundred acres of land, on which he has erected very good buildings and many important and valuable improvements. In addition to farming he ran a grain-threshing machine for
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In 1844 he engaged with the Bingham line and boated on the Pennsylvania canal from Johns- town to Pittsburg. He followed the canal for six or seven years when he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., working on the tracks and brakeing. In 1874 he became night-watchman for the company and was sta- tioned at Seward where he now resides. IIe has the esteem of the officials of the Pennsyl- vania system and is regarded as a man of honesty and truthfulness.
On November 21, 1861, he was married to Isabella Alcorn, born December 17, 1831, and was a daughter of William and Ruth (Forrester) Alcorn, of Indiana county, and of English descent. Her grandfather Alcorn was a native of Ireland and was among the early settlers in Indiana county. He was married three times ; one of his wives was stolen by the Indians and never rescued. Isaac Junkins has five children, all of whom are living: James, who was born August 25, 1863; Ruth A., September 1, 1865, died September 25, 1872; Mary A., July 28, 1867; David L., September 17, 1869, and Edward M., February 28, 1874.
Ile is independent in political matters and a respected member of the Presbyterian church. Ilugh Junkins, his grandfather, was a native of Ireland and immigrated to the United States with a colony that came from the vicinity of Armagh, Ireland, previous to the war of the Revolution. This colony settled in what was the Westmore- land county but a part of the settlement was on the Indiana side of the Conemaugh where the village of Armagh commemorates the location of the colony.
NDREW A. JOHNSTON. The late Andrew A. Johnston of Youngstown, a brother of Governor William Freame Johnston of Pennsylvania and one of the re- markably successful business men of the county, was a son of Alexander and Elizabeth ( Freame)
Johnston. He was born at Youngstown, West- moreland county, Pa., October 23, 1812, and died March 31, 1885, when in the seventy-third year of his age. His paternal ancestors were originally from Annandale, Scotland, where Capt. Alexander Johnston held the estates of Brackenside. Ile was killed at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745. Ilis family lost the estate through legal troubles and political strife and settled in Ireland where Alexander Johnston (father) was born at Scarbrae, county Tyrone, July 10, 1773. Ile came to Carlisle, Pa., where his cousin, Gen. William Irvine, advised him to seek a home west of the Alleghenies. His fam- ily located at Greensburg, where he married Elizabeth, second daughter of William Freame, who was a native of Belfast, Ireland ; had fought under Wolfe at Quebec, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he married Elizabeth John- ston, who came from Ireland in 1782. To An- drew and Elizabeth Johnston were born eight sons and two daughters. These sons varied in height from six feet to six feet six inches and in weight from two hundred to two hundred and fifty pounds. Two of them were Governor Will- iam F. and Col. John W., whose biographies are given in this work. After several years' resi- dence in Greensburg he removed to Pittsburg, where he was engaged in the mercantile busi- ness, which he relinquished some years later to embark in the manufacture of iron. He pur- chased large tracts of land in Unity, Derry and Ligonier townships and erected Kingston iron works. As an iron master he met with but poor success and soon removed to Greensburg where he remained until 1836. In that year he returned to Kingston house and resided there till July 16, 1872, when he was called from his earthly labors at the ripe old age of ninety-nine years and six days. From 1807 to 1836 he held several county offices-sheriff by election, justice of the peace, treasurer and register and recorder by appointment. He was a federalist until the dissolution of that political party when
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