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Mr. Short married, December 23, 1899, Mary L. McElheney, born in Hopewell township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, daughter of William J. and Josephine (Fisher) McElheney. William J. McElheney is a grandson of John and Mary (McGee) McElheney, who settled in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and there passed their entire years, his death occurring in Raccoon, hers in Hopewell township. She was a daughter of William McGee, born in Ireland, an early resident of Beaver county. Children of John and Mary (McGee) McElheney: Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Lydia, Nancy, George, of whom further; William, John. George, son of John and Mary (McGee) McElheney, was born in Raccoon township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1813, died in New Sheffield, same county, in 1892.
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The paternal farm was his early home and while living there he attended the local schools, in later life becoming owner of a farm and also con- ducting mercantile operations near New Sheffield. He married Maria Crooks, born in Ohio in 1815, died in 1909. Children of George and Maria (Crooks) McElheney: Mary Jane, deceased; Eliza Ann, deceased; John, deceased ; Josephine, married Christopher Miller, deceased; William J., of whom further; Thomas, deceased; George Oscar, deceased. William J., son of George and Maria (Crooks) McElheney, was born near New Shef- field, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1847, and while spending his boyhood on his father's farm attended the common schools. He owned a farm and followed agricultural pursuits for a time, later learning the carpenter's trade, in 1888 journeying to South Dakota, for nine months working on a farm in that locality. He then went to Nebraska and was there a farmer with prosperous success until 1898, when he returned to his native county and resumed farming operations. In 1911, following his old trade, he came to Aliquippa and since that year has been engaged in the furniture and hardware business on Main street in that borough. His home is on Beaver avenue. Mr. McElheney is in political sympathy a Republican, and for two terms has served as a member of council. His church is the United Presbyterian. He married, in 1886, Josephine Fisher, born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Children: 1. Edwin, a resident of Lockport, New York. 2. John Victor, lives in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. 3. Mary L., married John H. Short Jr., both of previous mention. 4. Willa, lives at home. They were also the parents of three other children who died in infancy.
No nationality coming to our shores has taken greater advantage HARE of the natural benefits of soil and forest than the Germans. This is true from their first arrival here several centuries ago down to the present time. They form a large part of our agricultural and manufacturing population in many sections, and reared to habits of industry, they make very desirable citizens and rapidly forge to the front as farmers, lumbermen, manufacturers, and also in public life. The record that follows is that of a family scarcely a century in this country, but they have amply proved their worth.
(I) Casper Hare was born in Germany, and came to this country in early manhood with his wife and family. He was a farmer at Mechanics- ville, where he died at the age of sixty years, having spent thirty years of his life in the United States. He cast his vote in favor of the candidates of the Democratic party, and was a member of the German Lutheran Church. His wife died at Mechanicsville, Pennsylvania, at the age of sixty-five years. Their children were: John, who married Catherine Welch, and had two daughters and four sons; Michael, of further mention; Cas- per, who died at the age of twenty-four years.
(II) Michael Hare, son of Casper Hare, was born in Germany, and
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was fourteen years of age when he came to the United States with his parents. His education was acquired in the public schools of his native land, and after some time devoted to the same purpose after his arrival in this country, he commenced the business activity of his life. For a time he worked on the canal, and then was occupied in Oil City during the in- tense excitement of the early days of drilling and pumping. He then com- menced farming in Marion township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and after a time removed to Wisconsin, where he also cultivated a truck farm, and where his death occurred at the age of eighty-two years. He was a Republican in political affairs, and a leader in the Methodist church, where he was an active member, and a teacher in the Sunday school. Mr. Hare married Mary Elizabeth Van Pool, born in Old Virginia, daughter of Anthony Van Pool, a blacksmith, in Old Virginia, who died at the age of eighty-four years at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hare, in Marion town- ship, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. He married a Miss Thair, and they had children: Lewis, married, and died in the army at the age of fifty-seven years; Mary Elizabeth, mentioned above; Sarah, married John Lewis in Wisconsin, and had ten children. Mr. and Mrs. Hare had children : George, married - Paul, had one child, and lived in Wisconsin; Sarah, mar- ried Joseph McCreary, now deceased, and had three children; Maude, died in infancy, in Wisconsin; John, married (first) Emma Johnston, (second) Ella Wharton, and lives in Pennsylvania near the Virginia line; Thomas Stewart, of further mention; Lucy, married James Shell, has ten children, and lives in Beaver Falls, Beaver county; Albert, of Wisconsin, married, and has one child; Tiney, of Wisconsin, married and has four children; Sophy, of Wisconsin, married and has two children; Charles, of Wisconsin, married. Mrs. Hare died at Richland Center, Wisconsin.
(III) Thomas Stewart Hare, son of Michael and Mary E. (Van Pool) Hare, was born near Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1862. He was five years of age when he removed with his parents to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and his entire life has been spent there. He was educated in the public schools of Marion and North Sewickley townships; worked on a farm for a period of twenty years; was employed in a portable mill in Beaver county for eight years; was a glass worker in Rochester for twelve years. He then engaged in farming independently, followed this seven years, then established himself in the glass business, and abandoned this in favor of conducting a store in Conway, with which he is successfully identified at the present time. He gives his earnest sup- port to the Republican party, but has never cared to hold public office. He and his wife are members of the Evangelical Church, in which he is a trus- tee at the present time, and of which he has been treasurer. Mr. Hare married, February 10, 1897, Lizzie Strohbach, and they have had children: Charles Frederick, born January 10, 1900; Grace Marie, November 16, 1903; Martha Elizabeth, December 1, 1906.
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This surname has undoubtedly been handed down from the JONES Welsh of a period within the twelfth or thirteenth century, and while the name perhaps prevailed among that people for cen- turies, it eventually spread throughout England, and with the emigration of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, found numerous representatives in America. The name itself is only one of the many derivations of the simple root John. In England there are at least seventy-three distinct families of the surname Jones, each with its own coat-of-arms, and from these have sprung the later numerous families of the name in America,
(I) James Jones, the first of this particular line of whom we have record, was born in Wales, emigrated to America and settled at Mckees Rocks, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. He remained there but a short time, then removed to Aliquippa, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he was a farmer, and died when upward of seventy years of age. He married Hannah Baird and had children: John B., James, of further mention; Thomas, M. G., Thaddeus, Alexander, Margaret, Moriah, Charles.
(II) James (2) Jones, son of James (1) and Hannah (Baird) Jones, was born in Hopewell township, near Aliquippa Park, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, February 19, 1849, and died December 16, 1899. He was educated in the public schools of Aliquippa, and there his early years were spent until he was about twenty years of age. His occupation in later life was that of a river pilot, and he followed this calling on board the "J. W. Ales," and a number of coal towboats, plying between Pittsburgh and Louisville, for a period of thirty years. His death occurred at Cables Eddy, three miles above Steubenville, and his body was brought to his home at Baden where he had lived since 1877. In political matters he affiliated with the Republican party, and he was a member of the Lutheran Church, and a member of the church council. He married Rebecca Ann Calhoon, born near Baden, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. Her paternal grandparents were John and Eliza (Powell) Calhoun, and those on the maternal side were John and Martha (Brown) Gray. Her father was Andrew Calhoon, born November 18, 1825, died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. His occupa- tion was that of school teacher in Beaver county. He married, May 7, 1846, Eliza Jane Gray, and they had children: 1. Martha Jane, married William Bennett, and had one child: Hannah Belle, who married John For- man. 2. John, died in infancy. 3. James Gray, married Amanda Bruce, and had several children; lives in Aliquippa. 4. Sarah Elizabeth, married James Carson, of Mckees Rocks, and has: John, Martha, Viola, Roy, Eleanore, Sadie, George. 5. Rebecca Ann, married Mr. Jones, as above mentioned. 6. Isabella S., lives in Portland, Oregon. 7. Samuel Elsworth, married Rachel Holderman, and has children: Requa, Frances, Elmer, Charles, Margaret, the latter deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had children : I. Charles Elmer, of further mention. 2. James Walter. 3. Lucretia. 4. Paul Baird, married Margaret Strayer, and has children: Madeleine, Mar-
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garet Reb, Paul Rich; he is the proprietor of the Wilkinsburg Theatre. 5. Carrie May. 6. Marion Rebecca, at home.
(III) Charles Elmer Jones, son of James (2) and Rebecca Ann (Cal- hoon) Jones, was born in Baden, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1878. He acquired his education in the public schools of Beaver county, and at a suitable age commenced his business career. He followed several different lines of industry for some years, then became brakeman on a passenger train for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, a position he has now held for the past ten years. He is a staunch supporter of Republican principles in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Jones married, June 27, 1906, Deta May Dobbins, born in Ada, Ohio, June 14, 1879, who was graduated from the common schools in 1897, and from the Scientific Department of the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, in the class of 1901. They have one child: Jeannette Dobbins, born June 28, 1908. Mrs. Jones is a daughter of Lewis L. Dobbins, a farmer in Ada, who was born in Lima, Ohio, a son of John and Mary A. (Skilling) Dobbins, the latter a native of Ireland. Lewis L. Dobbins married Almira Thompson, and they had other children: Ray R., now deceased, a lieutenant in the Sec- ond Ohio Regiment during the Spanish-American war, married Annette Wilt, of Convoy, Ohio; Sarah Almyrah, also deceased; Neta Beth, at home.
DIPPOLD John Dippold was born in Germany, March 29, 1816, and was killed by a train at Baden, Beaver county, Pennsyl- vania, January 13, 1901. He was but eleven years of age when he lost his father, and the early history of his family cannot be traced. He was educated in the public schools in Germany, and at a suitable age was apprenticed to learn the stone mason's trade, which he followed after his arrival in the United States. He combined this with contract work and was a very successful man of business. Along in the early sixties he took the contract and built the stone arch bridge over Tinkers Creek at Bedford, Ohio; this is a four arch bridge and one hundred and fifty feet high; this is still standing but not in use, simply because no contractor could be found to widen it from a single to double track. In 1862 he entered into the coal business, having purchased a number of coal boats, and carried coal down the river during the Civil War. One of his boats, the "John Dippold," was pressed into the government service, and towed stone down for Eads' Jetty, below New Orleans. In politics he was a staunch Demo- crat. Mr. Dippold married Anna Hoffman, born in Germany, January 21, 1817, died at Baden, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1899. After her marriage her parents made their home with her, her father dying in West Economy. Mr. and Mrs. Dippold had children: 1. Frederick, born November 18, 1840; is captain and pilot on steamer "Donaldson" on the Ohio river; married Abby Logan, who lives in Sewickley. 2. Mary Ann, born March 29, 1843, died June 19, 1875; married J. Sharp McDonald. 3. Barbara, born June 5, 1845, died December 20, 1912; married Charles
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Londer. 4. John H., see forward. 5. Martin F., born May 5, 1849; mar- ried Frances Wacker; lives in Portland, Oregan. 6. Katie, born August 5, 1853, died December 13, 1910; married Philip Fabel. 7. Jacob H., born January 29, 1855, died December 8, 1913; married Belle Brisben; lived on the Old Dippold Homestead at Baden, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 8. George S., born September 16, 1859; married Jessie Cunningham; lives in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania.
John H. Dippold, son of John and Anna (Hoffman) Dippold, was born in Shousetown, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1847. Until the age of sixteen years he lived in West Economy, where he attended the schools. He was still but a lad when he commenced to assist his father in the latter's business affairs, and went on the boats as a pilot. At nineteen years of age he was captain of the "Tigress," and followed steamboating until the combine came into control. For one year on the river he used the "Joseph B. Williams," which was considered a very large boat for those days. He also used the "Sprague," but it was with the former that he took the largest tow that ever went down the Ohio river from Pittsburgh to Louisville, December 14, 1899, containing eight hundred and twelve thousand bushels of coal. He made three trips with the same amount of cargo and this has never been equaled. Aside from vessels named above Captain Dippold has been cap- tain and pilot of the following vessels: "John Dippold," "Charley Mc- Donald," "Lioness," "Alice Brown," "Sam Brown," "Joseph Bighley," "Reindeer," "Time," "Defender." He is a strong supporter of Democracy ; has served as councilman for many years, and is now burgess of Baden borough. For the past fifteen years he has been a justice of the peace, and is still in office. He and his family are members of Christ's Lutheran Church. His fraternal affiliations consist of membership in Rochester Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Allegheny Commandery, No. 35, Knights Templar ; Syria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Mr. Dippold married, November 8, 1866, Isabella J. Bryan, a daughter of Price Bryan, whose ancestral history will be found in the sketch of Aaron Price Bryan. They have one child: Anna D., who married James K. Scott, chief clerk in the Pennsylvania Union Depot in Pittsburgh; four children: John Dippold, born July 16, 1892, died February 21, 1897; Mary Emma, born October 10, 1897; Jean Morrison, born March 29, 1899, both of whom are in the Beaver College Preparatory Department; Anna Dippold, born November 8, 1913.
Stephen Kristufek, the immigrant ancestor of this fam- KRISTUFEK ily, was born in Jablonitz, Nitra county, Hungary, in 1848, and emigrated to the United States in 1889. For a time he made his home in the coke region of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, then went to Homestead and lived there several years. He returned to Hungary in 1895, and after spending a few years there he came back to America in 1906, and again took up his residence in Ambridge, where he is
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now living retired, having amassed a considerable fortune. He and his family are members of the Catholic church. He married (first) Mary Hlasnicek, born in the same town as her husband, in 1853, died in 1886; he married (second) Regasek Hedvick, who died about 1893; he married (third) Mrs. Mary Kosovic; he married (fourth) 1905, Mary Mahaj. Children by first marriage: Mary, married Andrew Bires, proprietor of a general store in Ambridge, Pennsylvania ; Charles, a very successful business man of Ambridge, formerly a building contractor, now engaged in the gen- eral mercantile business, married Mary Skapik; Stephen P., of further mention. Children by second marriage: Helen and Hedvick. There were no children by the other marriages.
(II) Stephen P. Kristufek, son of Stephen and Mary (Hlasnicek) Kristufek, was born in Jablonitz, Nitra county, Hungary, May 8, 1874. He received a good education in the public schools of his native country and this was supplemented by a full course in a Merchants' College, an institu- tion corresponding to our business colleges. He came to America at the same time as his parents, and while living in Homestead, Pennsylvania, worked in the steel mills for some years. He was then engaged in the building and general contracting business for some years, and removed to Ambridge, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1903. He purchased the lot on Merchant street, between First and Second streets, on which he is located at the present time, erected a store on this property, and established himself as a general merchant. In the course of time he added a grocery depart- ment, and next went into the bakery business. The increasing demands of his growing business made larger quarters imperatively necessary, and Mr. Kristufek made additions to the building, so that it consisted of four- teen rooms with a flat above it. In the year 1908 this property was com- pletely destroyed by fire, but the courage and enterprise of Mr. Kristufek were equal to the new demands made upon him. He at once rebuilt his establishment on the same site, erecting a building which is fireproof through- out, and equipped in the most modern manner. Until six months ago he conducted a general department store, including a meat and grocery depart- ment, but at that time he dispensed with those two departments, installing a furniture department instead. The building was remodeled at the time to enable this new venture to be shown to the best advantage, and the results which have already been achieved have amply warranted the expensive changes necessary. Mr. Kristufek is now considered one of the most suc- cessful business men of the town, and this success is entirely owing to the indefatigable energy and ambition which have dominated his character. In the earlier portion of his business career, when he was just commencing to establish himself, it was his custom to commence his working day at three o'clock in the morning, and work unceasingly until eleven o'clock at night, and in this he was always assisted by his wife. If the success of any man is well merited it is that of Mr. Kristufek. He also owns eight lots on the hill, directly opposite his store. His political views are those of the
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Socialist party, and he and his family attend the Catholic church.
Mr. Kristufek married, in 1895, Mary Vagosky, and they have had children : Stephen, Mary, Jennie, Philip, Rosa, Catherine, deceased; Ledie, Charles, John. Stephen is in Duff's Business College, and Mary graduated in the class of 1914, high school. The children are all bright, intelligent and progressive in their educational work, and the family is one of the most harmonious and lovable. Mr. and Mrs. Kristufek are certainly proud of their family of eight children, and are bringing them up to be useful and prosperous citizens of this country, and have cause to believe they will be among the brightest and most intelligent in Beaver county.
It sometimes happens in families that ability in a certain
LOCKHART profession is transmitted from father to son, and intensi- fied, and this appears to have been the case with mem- bers of the Lockhart family, of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, of which Dr. Clarence James Lockhart is an honored representative.
(I) Jephthah Robinson Lockhart was a native of Scotland, and emi- grated to this country in young manhood. He engaged in farming and stock raising in Hanover township, where he became a man of prominence in the community in which he resided. He was active in the interests of the Republican party, and for some time served as a justice of the peace. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and served as an elder in that institution. Mr. Lockhart married (first) - Applegate, by whom he had children : Jephthah, James Robinson, and two others. He married (second) , and had one child.
(II) Dr. James Robinson Lockhart, son of Jephthah Robinson and (Applegate) Lockhart, spent his early years in Hanover township and attended the public school at Hardscrabble, going from this to the Fairview Normal School from which he was graduated, and from thence to the Edinboro (Pennsylvania) Normal School. At the age of eighteen years he commenced teaching school, abandoning this occupation at the outbreak of the Civil War. He served in Company H, One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was honorably discharged. Upon leaving the army he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he took a two years' course in medicine, and upon its completion he was associated for the period of one year with Dr. W. H. Brown, of Cincinnati. He then took a post-graduate course in the Rush Medical College, this covering one and one-half years. In 1868 he located in Freedom, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, where he was in active practice for a period of forty years. He died in that town June 15, 1908, at the age of sixty-eight years. As a staunch supporter of the Republican party he achieved prominence in political affairs, serving in the town council seven years, and as school director for the long period of thirty years. During three of these years he was president of the school board. In 1907 he was honored by election to the state legislature, but could not accept the office by reason of ill health.
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Dr. Lockhart married Emma Frances McCaskey, born in Freedom, Pennsylvania, daughter of John McCaskey, deceased, who owned and con- ducted a boat yard at Freedom, and who married Frances and had children: Robert; George, deceased, married Mollie Kerr; Alfred, deceased, married Martha -; Emma Frances, mentioned above; Freeman; Thalia, married Charles T. Fowler; Joseph, died unmarried, when about twenty-two years of age; Anna, deceased, married Harry Luker. Dr. and Mrs. Lockhart had an only child. They are both members of the Methodist Church, and he was president of the board of trustees. Mrs. Lockhart is living in Freedom.
(III) Dr. Clarence James Lockhart, son of Dr. James Robinson and Emma Frances (McCaskey) Lockhart, was born in Hanover township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1888. His early years were spent in Freedom, where he attended the public and high schools, being graduated from the latter institution in the class of 1907. Matriculating at the Western University of Pennsylvania, now known as the University of Pittsburgh, he studied in that institution two years, when ill health obliged him to abandon his studies for one year. He resumed them at Cleveland, Ohio, at the Pulte Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1912, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Returning to Freedom he had charge of the practice of Dr. Cloak for five months and then spent one year as house surgeon with the Cleveland City Hospital, and upon his return to Freedom, he was again associated for a time with Dr. Cloak. Having now had an unusually large amount of actual practice for a young man of his age, he decided to open an office for independent prac- tice, which he did in June, 1913. He has been very reasonably successful in the short time which has elapsed since he has been in practice, and he makes a specialty of anaesthetics and diseases of children, in both of which branches he has had great experience. In political matters Dr. Lockhart is a Republican, and he is a member of the Methodist Church. Dr. Lock- hart is a member of Beaver County Homeopathic Medical Society, also American Institute of Homoeopathy and is medical examiner for the Pro- tective Home Circle and on May 1, 1914, in association with Dr. J. H. Boal, of Baden, opened an office at Conway, Pennsylvania. Dr. Lockhart will divide his time between Freedom and Conway.
Dr. Lockhart married, January 28, 1914, Nan M. Dodds, of Oil City, Pennsylvania, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Dodds.
For the three generations of this name of whom authentic EATON record is obtainable, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, has been the home. Henry and Jane (Gibbs) Eaton, the earliest of which we have record, were both residents of that locality. They were the parents of several children, one of their sons being John, of whom further.
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