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Mr. Howley has been a prominent factor of political circles for many years, and, though but a young man, exercises great power in the Democratic ranks. In 1892 he was a candi- date for the legislature from the Fifth Dis- trict, which is a Republican stronghold, and succeeded in reducing the majority materially. During that campaign he was of great assist- ance to his party in stumping Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. He has also been very active in municipal politics, being a leader in the inauguration of reform move- ments; and in the spring of 1896 he was
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chairman of the Reform Club of the Fourteenth Ward, in which he reduced the majority below that of any other ward in the city. In May, 1896, he was a delegate to the Democratic State Convention at Allentown, where he was chosen chairman of the Committee on Perma- nent Organization. He there nominated the Hon. John M. Braden, of Washington, Pa., for Congressman-at-large, making the speech of the day. Mr. Howley was also a delegate to the Democratic convention at Chicago, and sustained the platform from the time of its adoption. On the resignation of Charles A. Fagin, a warm, personal friend, Mr. Howley was elected county chairman over his oppo- nent, John D. Larkin. Among his other per- sonal and political friends is William F. Harrity, a man of national as well as local prominence; and for a long time he has had a personal acquaintance with William J. Bryan, who came to Pittsburg during the Presidential campaign of 1896 through the efforts of Mr. Howley.
AMES A. WAUGH, Deputy State Veterinarian, residing in Allegheny, Pa., was born in Pittsburg, February 4, 1856, son of David and Catherine (Duggan) Waugh. His father was a son of James Waugh, who was born in Scotland, and re- moved to Ireland, where, a farmer by occupa- tion, he lived and died.
David Waugh was born in County Down, Ireland, near Downmore, about the year 1830. He was educated in Ireland, and lived there upon a farm until 1849, when at the age of nineteen he came to Pennsylvania, and worked upon a farm in the vicinity of Philadelphia. In 1854, having married in 1852, he removed with his wife and one child to Pittsburg, where he resided for a number of years. After the war of 1861-65 he bought a good farm of one
hundred and sixty-seven acres near Canons- burg, Washington County, Pa., and has since been engaged in general farming and stock- raising, being especially interested in blooded sheep, and also raising cattle, hogs, and horses for market. He is a stanch Republi- can, and, though not an aspirant for other office, was Road Supervisor for many years, and a pioneer of the movement toward good roads a number of years before the new ideas on the subject had been developed.
His wife, the daughter of Patrick Duggan, was born at Fethard, County Tipperary, Ire- land, and, early losing both father and mother, came to America with the Hogan family, well- known residents of the South Side, Pittsburg. Mr. and Mrs. David Waugh have four chil- dren now living. Their eldest-born, a daugh- ter Mary, died young. Their son William graduated from the Ontario Veterinary Col- lege in the same class with his brother James, and is now an assistant veterinary surgeon in the regular army; Maggie Jane resides in the city of Allegheny; and David was graduated at the Indianapolis Veterinary College in the class of 1897.
James A. Waugh in his early years received his education in the city schools and in the district schools of Washington County, and . until 1879 was with his father on the farm. He always took a great interest in the horses, and this decided his life work. . He entered the Ontario Veterinary College at Toronto, and took a full course, graduating March 31, 1882, in the same class with his brother Will- iam. In addition to their regular work both brothers attended the Saturday clinics at the medical school in Toronto General Hospital every Saturday afternoon, besides a course of chemistry in the School of Technology con- nected with the University of Toronto. Being thus thoroughly qualified to enter upon
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the work of his profession, Mr. Waugh re- ceived from Robert T. Lincoln, then the Sec- retary of War, the appointment of Veterinary Surgeon to the Sixth Cavalry of the United States of America, which he joined at Jeffer- son Barracks at St. Louis. The station of the regiment was frequently changed; and Mr. Waugh followed it through much Indian coun- try, seeing considerable fighting and hard riding. He was located at a number of differ- ent places in Arizona and New Mexico, being two years at Fort Wingate in the Navajo Ind- ian country, forty miles from Zuñi City, and four years at Fort Bayard near Silver City. He sometimes went over into Mexico, and his duties also took him to Texas and California to inspect the government purchases. For a while he held the important position of Veterinary Adviser to Cattle Sanitary Board of the State of New Mexico, a territorial po- sition filled by the Governor by advice of the commission. Mr. Waugh drafted the rules for the protection of the health of live stock, which were afterward adopted and are still in existence, prohibiting the bringing in of Texan and Mexican cattle at certain times of the year, and providing for the inspection of those brought in at other times. In 1892 he held the rank of Regimental Veteri- nary Surgeon, United States Army, which he resigned, returning to his Eastern home. He had spent a few months East in 1885, and again in the spring of 1889 at the time of the oil excitement at Washington, Pa., having leave of absence under full pay.
In the fall of 1890 he located in the central part of Allegheny, where he has since prac- tised his profession continuously and with success. Dr. Carter, with whom in 1896 he formed a partnership, retired at the end of the year; and Dr. Waugh now has his brother David with him as an assistant. The exten-
sive practice built up by Dr. Carter is of fif- teen years' standing; and his hospital, estab- lished eight years ago, gives accommodation to all kinds of animals. Under the old law Dr. Waugh did a good deal of work for the State in inspecting contagious diseases of animals; and under the new law he has been made a Deputy, which gives him a large field for the inspection of tuberculous cattle. He is much interested in the new tuberculin treatment, but believes that, after an animal is much affected, it should be destroyed.
Dr. Waugh has long been a contributor to the Veterinary and Live-stock and Humane Journal, having written largely on surgery. His wide experience, it need hardly be said, gives his papers unusual value to the members of his profession. During his army life he also read deeply on scientific, historical, and biographical subjects. He has delivered many lectures before farmers' institutes under the auspices of the State Board of Agri- culture. He is working for the organization of a local veterinary society, and is now a member of the United States Veterinary Med- ical Association, and has met with them in Washington and in Pennsylvania. He has read many papers before the State Associa- tion, of which he is a member and was at one time vice-president. As Dr. Waugh's one thought has been to continually better fit him- self for his profession, he has made a study of diseases of wild animals in captivity, so many being found in the different zoos. He is also making preparation to take a post-graduate course in the veterinary department of the Columbian University of Washington City. He was offered the chair of surgery in that college for the course of 1896-97. Press of outside work prevented his acceptance of this offer ; but he has not given up the plan, which will also enable him to study the diseases of
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the wild animals in the National Zoological Gardens, thus preparing for any need of that knowledge here. He is a member of Chartier Lodge, No. 297, F. & A. M., Canonsburg, Pa., which he joined before going West. He is Veterinary Adviser of the Western Penn- sylvania Humane Society, which office he has held for five years.
Dr. Waugh married September 19, 1886, Miss Mary Elizabeth Lindley, daughter of Benjamin F. Lindley, formerly a prominent farmer and stock-raiser of Macon City, Mo., now residing in Texas, where he is engaged in stock-raising. Mrs. Waugh's grandfather was Pittman Lindley, who was born in Eng- land, and went from Kentucky to Missouri, where he took up a large tract of land that afterward brought great wealth to himself and to his family. The family is Republican in a Democratic State. They are connected with the Christian church. The children of Dr. and Mrs. Waugh are Catherine and James A., : Jr., both infants.
ILLIAM D. KING, M.D., one of the leading homoeopathic physi- cians of Pittsburg, was born here, September 9, 1861, son of Calvin and Rachel (Chambers) King. The family came origi- nally from England. The great-grandfather of William D., Courtland King, crossed the Monongahela River at Elizabeth, and settled on a farm near Library, Allegheny County, where he spent the remainder of his life, and died in his sixty-second year. Among his · children were: John, the grandfather of Will- iam D .; Elijah, who resided at Indianapolis; and Isaac, who was a resident of Library.
John King, born in 1791, who was a babe of twelve months when his parents crossed the Monongahela, resided with his parents until
twenty-eight years of age. He married Jane Stewart, whose father, for his part in the Whiskey Insurrection, was seized and taken for trial to Little York, then the seat of gov- ernment. Mr. Stewart was included in the compromise pardon, however, and returned to his home rejoicing that the disturbance was settled, and a better basis of taxation secured to the people. After marriage John King settled. upon a farm near the homestead. In 1836 he removed to Forward, where he pur- . chased the farm of John Stover. Here he lived until 1873, when he took up his resi- dence in Central Block. His children were: Dr. James S. King, of Pittsburg; Mary L. King, who died in 1877; Dr. William H., of Monongahela; John, of Spring Valley, Minn .; Dr. Courtland, of Pittsburg; Jane, the wife of James Moon, who died in 1854; Dr. Calvin, of Pittsburg; Samuel J., of Forward town- ship; Robert; Harvey; an infant child; Dr. Milton S., of Pittsburg; and Allie M., who married Mr. Devon. The father had literary tastes, and was both a reader and a thinker. In early life he was a Whig. Subsequently he became an abolitionist. He was a rigid Baptist, cherishing at the same time Christian charity that knew no bounds save the brother- hood of mankind. His span of ninety years almost includes the life of the nation. He had lived under every President, and voted at every Presidential election since Madison's time. Since his birth, which ;occurred just after the death of Frederick the Great, eigh- teen governors of Pennsylvania had been elected. He remembered when Napoleon was entombed. He was forty-six years of age when Queen Victoria ascended the English throne, and he lived to see the successful issue of three wars. Dr. William H. King. the third child of John and Jane King, was born in Allegheny County, April 17, 1823.
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He lived upon the farm until twenty-one years old. Then he entered the Ohio College of Dentistry, from which he afterward gradu- ated. He practised his profession in Lancas- ter, Ohio, until the war broke out. On Au- gust 22, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, under Captain John Markell, was twice promoted for bravery in the service, and was mustered out as First Lieutenant. In politics he was a Republican, in religion a Baptist. On May 4, 1871, he married Jane Carpenter. With a genial temperament, Dr. W. H. King is a pleasant companion. Dr. Calvin King, the father of William D., is a most successful dentist in the city of Pitts- burg, where he has been located on Smithfield Street for the past forty-seven years.
William D. King graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia in 1887, and at once opened an office in Pitts- burg. Here he has risen to prominence as a homœopathic physician. He is obstetrician of the City Hospital Chief Dispensary staff ; is a member of the Allegheny County Asso- ciation, of the State Homeopathic Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. In 1891 he married Nancy Tripp, daughter of Alonzo Tripp. He is connected with the Baptist church, and is a Republican in pol- itics.
YRON WESTLEY KING, A. M., PH. D., * president of King's School of Oratory, Pittsburg, Pa., has won fame as a teacher, lecturer, and entertainer, not only in the Keystone State, but in other parts of the Union. His ability as an elocu- tionist is remarkable, since he has conquered by personal effort alone an early defect in speech which would have debarred an ordinary man from public life. Mr. King was born in
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He is a son of David J. and Mary Ann (Simpson) King, a grandson of John and Elizabeth (Hartzell) King, and a great-grandson of Moses and Sarah King. He acquired his pri- mary education in the public schools, and at the age of thirteen entered Mount Pleasant College, where he was graduated in 1877, with the honors of his class. In his boyhood he stuttered so badly that it was often im- possible for him to recite, and he was obliged to write his lessons. Making a special study of the causes of and remedies for stammering, he succeeded in effecting a wonderful cure in his own case; and as a teacher he has had pro- nounced success in curing vocal defects.
He began to teach some years prior to his graduation, from Mount Pleasant College; and, after receiving his diploma, he was professor of mathematics in Jefferson College, and sub- sequently teacher of elocution in Washington College, and professor of Greek and Latin one year at Mount Pleasant Classical Insti- tute. Travelling then for four years, he taught in sixty different schools in the Cen- tral States. He perfected his studies in elo- cution under private teachers in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. As a teacher he is possessed of marked ability, and has held a number of important positions. He was for- merly professor of Latin and Greek at West- ern Pennsylvania Classical and Scientific In- stitute; professor of higher mathematics and elocution at Jefferson Academy ; professor of elocution at Washington College, Waynes- burg College, Wooster University, Holy Ghost College, St. Joseph's Academy, and Curry University; and, latterly, special teacher of elocution and Delsarte philosophy at Rogersville Seminary, Maryville College, Tenn., and the University of Tennessee; and special lecturer at Martyn College of Oratory,
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Washington, D.C. He was also formerly in- structor at Bay View, Chautauqua.
In 1883 he opened King's School of Ora- tory in connection with Curry University, and the institution is now one of the leading schools of the kind in the State. It is located in the Heeren Building, Eighth Street, near Penn Avenue, Pittsburg, and has the finest rooms and most artistic equipment for elocu- tionary work in America. The school has a large faculty of expert teachers, each one a specialist ; and private lessons are given day and evening. Professor King is president of the faculty, and teaches voice culture and theory of speech, Shakspere, science of liter- ature and rhetoric, Latin, and Greek. He also instructs in all departments of elocution- ary and dramatic work, and Delsarte philos- ophy. His wife, Mrs. Inez Todd King, is his able coworker, acting as instructor in special departments of elocutionary work, teacher of stage action and dramatic selections for ladies, special teacher of æsthetic physical culture, Delsarte gymnastics, poses, attitudes, and movement. Throughout the year special private lessons are given for the cure of stam- mering, stuttering, and sore throat; and there is also a private clergymen's course, and special private training in physical develop- ment and coaching work.
The comments of the local press on the public performances given by the pupils and teachers are always of the most favorable nat- ure. Witness the following: "A cast from King's School of Oratory and Dramatic Cult- ure gave 'She Stoops to Conquer' at the Opera House last night. The play was well put on, well acted, and the audience well pleased."- Pittsburg Press. "It is certainly worthy of note that, on short notice and without rehears- als, the members of a dramatic school can put on several plays, as contemplated by
King's School of Acting. When the Opera House, through the illness of Julia Marlowe, was without a company, this school undertook to give some of the plays of Shakspere to finish up the week. As has been said, the school deserves more than a passing mention for being able to put forth, on short notice, such excellent casts." - Press, March 10, 1892.
Professor King himself as an elocutionist is in constant demand, and wherever he appears he carries his audience by storm. As a writer, too, he is widely known. He is the author of "Practice of Speech, and Successful Selections," a treatise on voice, action, and general elocution, which has been introduced into eighty colleges, academies, and high schools, and is used by many of the most noted teachers of elocution in America. It is designed for self-instruction, but is equally available as a school text-book. This book has been out of press five years, and has passed through nine editions. It is the most practical work of the kind published, and is recommended by Franklin K. Sargent, di- rector of the Conservatory of Dramatic Art, New York City; Dion Boucicault, late of the Lyceum Theatre School; Edgar S. Werner, teacher, and editor of The Voice Magasine, the largest and best elocutionary periodical published; Mrs. Nella Brown Pond, the well- known reader; Madame Ida Serven, teacher of pantomime and dramatic expression at the New York School of Acting, who uses it as her text-book; Madame Waller, the teacher of Mary Anderson; Margaret Mather; and many other authorities in the dramatic world.
Professor King was married November 29, 1883, to Inez E., daughter of Chester A. and Olive Todd, of Chautauqua County, New York. Professor and Mrs. King have one child, Olive May. Mrs. King also has won fame and popu-
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larity as a public reader. The following press notices, selected from a large number of the same tenor, give a general idea of her talent and charming personality: "Mrs. King de- lighted her audience. She charmed every one with her impersonations. Her Ophelia was up to the highest standard of professional work." -- Pittsburg Dispatch. "Inez Todd King gave a programme of selections not sur- passed by any reader at Bay View this season. She moved her listeners to tears and laughter at will." -- The Resorter. "A face like Mod- jeska, a form and movement that was grace itself -that is the reader. She has all the charms of girlhood and the dignity of a woman. "- Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. "She may have equals, but no superior to her has appeared this season upon the Chautauqua platform."- Chicago Herald. "Her Shaks- pere characters are exquisite. She seems to live in each portrayal." -- New York World.
HARLES A. O'BRIEN,* one of the foremost lawyers of Western Pennsyl- vania, is located at Pittsburg, where in the past few years he has had charge of many important cases, in none of which has he disappointed his clients in their manage- ment. He was born in this county, Novem- ber 27, 1853, a son of the late Dr. John H. O'Brien, who devoted fifty years of his life to the medical profession.
Dr. John H. O'Brien was born in County Cork, Ireland, and was graduated at the Uni- versity of Dublin. In 1832 he immigrated to the United States, locating in Allegheny County, Pa., where he continued in the prac- tice of medicine during his years of activity, dying in 1887, aged seventy-nine. His wife, whose maiden name was Jane Neel, died De- cember 6, 1895, aged seventy-four years. Of
their large family of thirteen children four died when young, and nine are now living, namely: Louisa, wife of J. A. Keenan, of Pittsburg; Ada, unmarried, residing in St. Louis, Mo .; Celia, wife of J. J. Roemer, Deputy Internal Revenue Collector at Erie, Pa .; Lena, wife of Frank Helbling, a mer- chant of St. Louis, Mo .; Amanda, the wife of John Campbell, an iron worker in Pitts-' burg; John A., a painter in this city; James H., a contractor in St. Louis; Charles A., the leading subject of the present sketch; and Frank, who is in the Internal Revenue service in Pittsburg.
The Neels, from whom Dr. O'Brien's wife was descended, were for many years residents of Maryland. James H. Neel, Mrs. O'Brien's grandfather, removed from that State to Alle- gheny County, Pennsylvania, in Colonial days, settling in Mifflin township, where a substantial brick house, bearing the date of 1797, which he built, is still standing. He owned a large farm, which was underlaid with coal, and has since proved the source of a good income to his descendants. His son, James Harvey Neel, the father of Mrs. O'Brien, was a lifelong resident of this county, dying here in 1863. For a time he was engaged as a trader between Pittsburg and New Orleans, taking a flat-boat load of merchandise to the Southern city, making the return trip by alternately riding on horseback and walking. His wife repeatedly . made horseback trips across the mountains between here and Philadelphia. She outlived her hus- band a number of years, and died in 1871 at the age of seventy-six. Her maiden name was Elizabeth, or, as it was then called, Betsey, Brierly. The Brierly family, who also were early settlers of this county, built a commodious brick residence, which has stood the ravages of wind and weather since 1795.
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Elizabeth, then a young girl, assisted in carrying brick for its construction, the entire family having been obliged to assist in the work, as help was scarce.
Charles A. O'Brien received his earliest education in the common schools; and after- ward he attended the Catholic College in Wheeling, W. Va., where he was graduated in 1872. The following three and one-half years he read medicine with his father in this city, and practised for a time at the West Penn Medical Hospital. In 1874 Mr. O'Brien took up the study of law with the late Samuel Schoyer, and since his admission to the bar, in 1876, has continued its practice in Pitts- burg. Among the notable cases of which he has had charge may be named the celebrated case of Moreland & House and the Pittsburg stamp cases in 1891. By this the whole system was overturned, Mr. O'Brien being sustained by the Supreme Court, to which the case was appealed.
Mr. O'Brien was married June 26, 1879, to Miss Lucy Bingey, daughter of George Bingey, and they have become the parents of four children; namely, Rose E., J. Paul, Allen N., and Elizabeth. Socially, Mr. O'Brien is a member of the Royal Arcanum; religiously, he is a Catholic; and, politi- cally, he is an unswerving Democrat, taking an active part in local affairs, and often speak- ing on the important political issues of the day.
ILLIAM CASSIUS STILL- WAGEN, of Pittsburg, a success- ful attorney and counsellor at law, was born in Claysville, Washington County, July 12, 1852, son of Andrew J. and Jane (Eagan) Stillwagen. His parents and grand- parents were natives of Washington County. His great - grandfather, Jacob Stillwagen,
served for four years in the Revolutionary War, as amply proved by papers relative to his service and discharge from the army, together with an old sword, musket, and bay- onet, in the family's possession. Jacob was buried in the Buffalo Church Cemetery. He married Johanna Shean, a native of Ireland, whom he first met on board the ship that brought both to this country, and who lived for a year in Eastern Pennsylvania before her marriage. They settled in Pigeon Creek, Washington County, in 1765.
Adam Stillwagen, son of Jacob and grand- father of William Cassius, was born near Monongahela City, and spent his active period in tilling the soil. His wife, Mary (Dough- erty) Stillwagen, who was born in the same locality, reared seven children - Jacob, Charles, Andrew J., Adam, Elizabeth, Susan, and Michael. Of these Andrew, Elizabeth, and Susan are living. Elizabeth resides in St. Louis, and Susan lives in Chicago. An- drew J. Stillwagen, who resides with his son in Pittsburg, was born October 25, 1820. He was reared in Washington County, and resided there for many years. His wife, Jane, became the mother of four children, of whom the only one now living is William C., the subject of this sketch. The others were: John J., Charles, and Edward J., all of whom died in childhood. Mrs. Andrew J. Stillwagen died February 11, 1892.
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