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Mr. Thompson is a Republican in politics, and takes a keen interest in that party's success. His counsel and aid are always sought and generously given, though he has never sought political preferment for himself, nor accepted any office save such as carried plenty of work and no salary.
On December 11, 1879, Mr. Thompson was married to Miss Mary Anderson, (laughter of John and Sarah (Redburn) Anderson. To them were born two sons, Andrew A. and John R. Mrs. Thompson died August 8, 1896 and no death in Uniontown has been more sincerely mourned than was hers by all those who enjoyed her acquaintance.
This sketch is a very inadequate representation of the impress which Josiah V. Thompson's remarkable personality has stamped upon the business community of Western Pennsylvania, but it would be still more so if it omit- ted to record certain lines of policy in the development of the First National Bank of Uniontown for which he is responsible.
STATEMENTS OF FIRST NATIONAL.
While Mr. Thompson did not become president of the bank until 1889, his practical direction of its affairs began with his assumption of the cashier- ship in 1887. His father, the president, was engaged in extensive and varied business enterprises and in his later years left the managment of the bank largely to his son. The latter was elected cashier on June 5, 1877. On June 22, of the same year the quarterly statement of the bank showed these items:
Surplus fund. Individual deposits. 143,255.54
$20,181.01
Loans and discounts. 176,186.98
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Rules Respecting Employes
In the quarterly statement of the bank on September 5, 1900, on the same capital stock of $100,000, the corresponding items were:
Surplus fund.
$446,000.00
Individual deposits .
2,198,478.76
Loans and discounts. 1,947,649.64
The complete quarterly statement of this financial institution, rendered September 6, 1904, follows and gives a more adequate idea of the un- paralled success of this bank:
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts
$1,584,208.32
United States bonds
25,000.00
Other stocks and bonds.
182,750.00
Banking house and other real estate.
913,235.39
Due from U. S Treasurer.
406.65
Cash and due from bank.
767,352.46
Total
$3.472,952.82
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock.
$100,000.00
Surplus.
800,000.00
Undivided profits, (net)
20,090.40
Circulation
24,900.00
Bills payable.
200,000.00
Deposits
2,327,962.42
Total
$3,472,952.82
RULES RESPECTING EMPLOYES
Once on being asked by a bank examiner what bond he required of his em- ployes, Mr. Thompson replied "None. I would not have an employe in this bank who had to give bond."
Mr. Thompson's rules respecting his employes are deserving the widest publicity and they rank him as a practical philanthropist of high order, and as one furnishing invaluable services to the community in lessons of industry, sobriety, clean character and correct habits. He is himself, strictly temper- ate, using tobacco in no form and never drinking any thing stronger than cold water, not even coffee or tea. He will have no employe in his bank who, either during or out of banking hours, will use intoxicating liquors of any kind, or smoke or chew tobacco. He wants only men who have the full use of all their powers of mind and body, and he believes that no man can have this who is addicted to drink or tobacco, or to any of the vices of dissipation or riotous living.
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PRESENT BANK OFFICIALS
Mr. Thompson's standard of fitness for service is that a young man must be bonded by his character, and his freedom from vices and habits that cn- slave and enfeeble.
The following are the present officers and directors of the bank: Josiah V. Thompson, president; Edgar S. Hackney, cashier; Francis M. Seamans, Jr., assistant cashier; Thomas B. Seamans, teller.
Directors, Joshia V. Thompson, Harvey C. Jeffries, James M. Hustead, Daniel P. Gibson, George W. Hcss. William Hunt, John D. Ruby.
NEWSPAPERS OF UNIONTOWN.
The newspapers of Uniontown have been as follows :- "Fayette Gazette and Union Advertiser, " 1797-1805; "Genius of Liberty," 1805-1904; Fayette and Greene "Speculator," 1811; "Western Register," 1816; "Pennsylvania Democrat," 1827-1854; "The American Banner," 1832; "Democratic Shield," 1834-1837; "Harrisonian Conservative," 1840; "Cumberland Presbyterian," 1847; "Fayette Whig, " 1849; "Democratic Sentinel," 1850- 1855; "American Standard," 1854-18; "American Citizen," 1855; "Our Paper," 1782; "Uniontown Enterprise," 1896; "Temperance Radical," 1878; "Uniontown Democrat," 1878-1899; "Fayette County Republican," 1878-1879; "Republican Standard," 1879-1893; "The National," 1879; "The Amateur," 1879; "Western Pennsylvania," 1884-1885; "Uniontown News," 1885-1893; "News Standard, " 1893-1904; "Peoples Tribune, " 1893- 1904.
The above is copied from Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and we believe is authentic.
PHYSICIANS OF UNIONTOWN ..
Among the carly physicians of Uniontown were Drs. Samuel Sackett, Henry Chapese. Lewis Manchland, Robert McClure Young, Solomon Drown, Adam Simonson, Daniel Marchand, Benjamine Stevens, Benjamine Dorsey, Daniel Sturgeon, Robt. McCall, Hugh Campbell, C. N. J. McGill, H. C. Martherns, Alexander Hamilton, David Porter, John F. Braddee, who scarcely deserves mention with honorable physicians as he ended his career in the penitentiary for robbing the mail at Uniontown in 1841. H. T. Roberts, Frederick C. Robinson, Robert M. Walker, Smith Fuller, A. P. Bowie, homeop- athist, and S. W. Hickman, W. J. Hamilton, M, D. Dunbar and S. C. Bosley of the same school at Connellsville.
For a list of the present physicians of Uniontown, see the business directory.
BURIAL GROUNDS.
In the old Methodist churchyard on Peter Street (the most ancient burial place in Uniontown) the oldest slab which bears a legible inscription is that
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Old Baptist Churchyard
which stands "Sacred to the memory of Suky Young, who departed this life the 20th of Sept., A. D. 1790, aged 2 yrs., 1 mo., 17 days." It has been stated, however, that a son of Jacob Murphy was buried here some years earlier. In this ground was buried John Wood, who was for many years a justice of the peace, and who died Nov. 12, 1813. Among other inscriptions are found those of the following-named persons :
Rev. Thornton Flemming, an itinerant preacher in the M. E. Church for 61 years, died Nov. 20, 1846, aged 82 years.
Hannah, wife of the Rev. Mr. Blackford, died Oct. 16, 1845.
Daniel Limerick, for eighteen years in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died April 28, 1837.
Rev. Alfred Sturgis, died Nov. 4, 1845. He had been for fourteen years an itinerant preacher of the Methodist Church.
The "Oak Hill Cemetery" is a burial ground lying on the northeast side of Redstone Creek, and formed of a graveyard fully ninety years old, with a later addition. The original ground was set apart for the purpose of burials by Henry Beeson some time before 1793. An addition was afterwards made to it by Mr. Gallagher. Many of the old citizens of Uniontown were interred here, among whom were Henry Beeson, the donor of the ground and proprietor of the town; Jacob Beeson, his brother, who died Dec. 16, 1818, in his seventy- seventh year; Jesse Beeson, son of Henry, who died June 8, 1842, aged seventy- three years and eleven months; John Collins, died Nov. 3, 1813, aged seventy- two years; Capt. Thos. Collins, his son, died Nov. 1, 1827, aged fifth-one years ; Joseph Huston, died March 5, 1824, aged 61 years; Dr. Adam Simmons, died Feb. 4, 1808, aged forty-nine years; Alexander McClean, the veteran surveyor, who took the leading part in the extension of Mason and Dixon's line.and in the establishment of the disputed boundary between Pennsylvania and Virginia, who was born Nov. 20, 1746, and died Dec. 7, 1834. On his head- stone is inscribed, "He was a soldier in the Revolution from Westmoreland County, in the Legislature of Pennsylvania at the time Fayette County was established, and was register and recorder of this county from its organiza- tion until his death. In his departure he exemplified the virtue of his life, for he lived a patriot and died a Christian."
OLD BAPTIST CHURCHYARD.
The ground on which the old Baptist Church and graveyard are located was purchased in the year 1804, but it had been used as a burial place several years before that time, as is shown by some of its headstones. The earliest of these which has been found is that of Priscilla Gaddis, who died Feb. 17, 1796, aged 78 years. One, marking the grave of Anna Gaddis, tells that she died, aged 17 years, on the 29th of March, 1796. Another, of Sarah Gaddis, gives the date of death Jan. 7, 1802, aged 50 years, and that of James Allen records his death on the Sth of April, 1SOS, at the age of 37 years. Among those interred here in the earlier years of the borough were Levi Springer, died March 26, 1823, aged 80 years; Dennis Springer, died April 0, 1823, aged 75 years; Morris Morris, died Feb. 1, 1825, aged 51 years; John Gaddis,
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died April 12, 1827, aged 27 years ; and Jonathan Downer, died June 8, 1833, aged 79 years.
The location of this old burial ground is on Morgantown Street, in the southwest part of the borough.
UNION CEMETERY.
In the year 1866 a number of gentlemen, whose names are given below, associated themselves in the purchase of a tract of nearly seven acres of land lying south of the National Road, and just touching at one point the northwest corner of the borough boundary, for the purpose of laying out a cemetery upon it. The land was purchased of Daniel Sharpnack, the deed bearing date November 5th in the year named. A stock company was organized and incorporated Feb. 12, 1867, as the Union Cemetery Company of Fayette County, with the following-named corporators: Smith Fuller, John K. Ewing, Elezer Robinson, F. C. Robinson, William H. Bailey, Hugh L. Rankin, Alfred Howell, E. B. Wood, Daniel Sharpnack, R. M. Modisett, Eli Cope, John H. McClelland, Andrew Stewart, L. D. Beall, Daniel Kaine. The company caused its grounds to be laid out in burial lots, with walks and carriage ways on the modern plan, and handsomely embellished with trees and shrubbery.
This cemetery is now the principal burial ground of Uniontown. Many tasteful and elegant memorial stones are found within its inclosure, and near its northwest corner there has been erected an imposing and appropriate Soldiers' Monument.
SCHOOLS IN UNIONTOWN.
The earliest reference found in any record or other document to schools or to places where they were taught in Uniontown is in the aet erecting the county of Fayette, passed Sept. 26, 1783, which directs that the court shall be held "at the schoolhouse, or some fit place in the town of Union, in the said county," and in the letter elsewhere written a few months later by Ephriam Douglass to General Irvine, describing the new county seat, he says it con- tains "a court-house and schoolhouse in one," etc. Several deeds of about that date mention in their description of boundaries, a schoolhouse lot evidently near the present court-house grounds. In a deed of lot No. 43, executed in 1783, Colin Campbell is given the title " teacher," which probably, but not as a matter of course, had reference to his occupation in Uniontown.
A school was organized in Uniontown before the year 1800 under the auspices of the Methodist Church. That school will be found more fully mentioned in the history of that church.
Miss Sallie Hadden, who was born in Uniontown in the year 1800, and always lived on the spot of her nativity, said the first school she remembered was taught by an Irishman named Burns in a log house which stood on the north end of lot No. 39, afterwards the property of Mrs. David Porter. After- wards she attended the Methodist school on Peter Street, taught by a Mr. Cole.
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Jesse Beeson, grandson of the original proprietor of the town, was born in 1806. He first attended school in a log house where the Methodist Episcopal house of worship later stood. The school was taught by a Mrs. Daugherty. He afterwards attended at the schoolhouse on Peter Street mentioned by Miss Hadden. A teacher in the Peter Street school about that time was Salias Bailey, father of William and Elias Bailey.
At that time, and for more than twenty years afterwards, Uniontown, like most other villages of its size and importance, (particularly county seats) was prolific of "select schools," and so-called "academics," some of them having merit, but the greater part being poor and of short duration. Gener- ally they were quite pretentious in their announcements, and nearly every scholar whose parents were able to incur the expense (which was not heavy) attended some one of them for a " term" of three months if not more.
In the Genius of Liberty of June 6, 1820, are found the advertisements of two of these schools. One is to the effect that " Mr. and Mrs. Baker present their respectful compliments to the people of Union Town, soliciting their support of a school for the instruction of Young Ladies in all the usual branches of an English education. Also plain sewing, marking cotton-work of all kinds, Embroidery, Tambour, Filagree, Fringe, Netting, Drawing, Painting, and Music, Vocal and Instrumental."
The following notice, which appears in the Genius of Liberty in April, 1817, is given here as indicating the progress which had then begun to be made towards the free-school system which was adopted in the State some years later:
" Mar. 25, 1817.
"To the Assessors of the County of Fayette:
"You are hereby authorized and required to notify the parents of the children hereinafter named that they are at liberty to send their children to the most convenient school free of expense, and also transmit a list of the names of the children as aforesaid to the teachers of schools within your township, agreeably to the eleventh section of an act of General Assembly passed April 4, 1809."
Uniontown now has four magnificent school buildings, the Central High and Grammar School building, the White Building, the Berkley Street Building and the Craig Building. Prof. H. F. Brooks is at present the efficient principal. There are 1,710 pupils enrolled and the town employs a corps of forty teachers.
PIONEER LODGES OF UNIONTOWN.
A Masonic lodge was chartered in Uniontown April 2, 1802, with the fol- lowing-named officers: Abraham Stewart, W. M .: George Manypenny, S. W .; Christian Tarr, J. W .: John Van Houten, Tyler. This lodge continued until 1817.
LAUREL LODGE, No. 215, F. AND A. M.
This lodge was instituted June 30, 1828, under charter granted by the R. W. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, June 2, 1828. Its first officers were
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Fayette Lodge, No. 228, F. and A. M.
Thomas Irwin, W. M .; L. W. Stockton, S. W .; Gabriel Evans, J. W .; William Salter, Treasurer; M. Hampton, Secretary. The lodge existed for a short period only, closing its work February 11, 1831.
FAYETTE LODGE, No. 228, F. AND A. M.
Upon the petition of John Irons, Zalmon Ludington, James Piper, John Keffer, P. U. Hook, John McCune, William Doran, Moses Shehan, Rev. S. E. Babcock, and Samuel Bryan, the R. W. Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted a warrant or charter to open a lodge in the borough of Uniontown, to be known as Fayette Lodge, No. 228, John Irons to be first W. M .; Zalmon Ludington to be first S. W .; James Piper to be first J. W.
UNION R. A. CHAPTER, No. 165.
A petition was forwarded to the Grand Holy Royal Arch Chapter of Penn- sylvania, signed P. U. Hook, John Irons, S. E. Babcock, William Searight, Daniel Sturgeon, and John McCune, praying that a charter be granted them to open and hold a chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Uniontown.
The Grand Chapter, having taken favorable action upon said petition, directed S. McKinley, Esq., D. D. G. H. P. for Western District of Pennsyl- vania, to convene the petitioners and constitute them into a chapter of R. A. Masons, which he did on the 15th day of May, 1849, when Union R. A Chapter, No. 165, was duly constituted and its officers elected, viz: P. U. Hook, H. P .; William Searight, K .; John Irons, S .; William Thorndell, Treasurer; Richard Huskins, Secretary.
ST. OMER'S COMMANDERY, No. 3, KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
Organized at Uniontown, December 14, 1853, under charter granted by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. The first officers were: Eminent Com- mander, John Bierer; Generalissimo, Andrew Patrick; Captain-General, William Thorndell, Jr .; Prelate, James Piper; Treasurer, William Thorndell, Jr .; Recording Scribe, Richard Huskins. The commandery was discontinued October 17, 1854, but was afterwards revived and removed to Brownsville.
UNIONTOWN COMMANDERY, No. 49, KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
This commandery was chartered May 13, 1874. Its first officers were Nathaniel A. Baillie, Eminent Commander; Charles H. Rush, Generalissimo; William Hunt, Captain-General; William C. Snyder, Prelate; Clark Breading, Treasurer; William H. Hope, Recorder; Silas M. Bailey, Senior Warden; William T. Moore, Junior Warden; John F. Gray, Standard Bearer; J. Austin Modisett, Sword Bearer; Thomas Brownfield, Warden.
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Fort Necessity Lodge, No. 254, I. O. O. F.
FORT NECESSITY LODGE, No. 254. 1. O. O. F.
Instituted August 6, 1847. The first officers of the lodge were Samuel Bryan, N. G .; M. Keely, V. G .; H. W. S. Rigdon, Secretary; M. Runion, Asst. Secretary; D. Clark, Treasurer; The lodge first met in Madison Col- lege building, afterwards in Bryant's Building, and now holds its meetings at its roonis in Concert Hall Block.
FAYETTE ENCAMPMENT, No. 80, I. O. O. F.
Chartered July 31, 1848. The first officers of the encampinent were Daniel Bryan, C. P .; James Piper, H. P .; H. W. S. Rigdon, S. W .; D. Merchand Springer, J. W .; James A. Morris, Secretary; James McDermott, Treasurer; David Clark, S.
TONNALEUKA LODGE, No. 365, 1. O. O. F.
This lodge was chartered June 18, 1849, and organized on the 11th of July following, with the following-named officers: James Piper, N. G .; Daniel Smith, V. G .; John K. Fisher, Secretary; William Barton, Jr., Asst. Secretary; Robert T. Galloway, Treasurer.
ROYAL ARCANUM COUNCIL, No. 388.
Organized in September, 1879; chartered May 3, 1880.
MADISON LODGE, No. 419, K. OF P.
The charter of this lodge dates December 10, 1873. The charter members were G. W. K. Minor, H. Delaney, J. M. Hadden, J. W. Wood, J. S. Roberts, J. S. Breading, G. B. Rutter, L. Francis, J. D. Moore, and George H. Thorn- dell, Sr.
WILL F. STEWART POST, No. 180, G. A. R.
This post of the Grand Army of the Republic was organized May 20, 1880, with twenty charter members.
RISING STAR LODGE, No. 533, I. O. G. T.
This lodge was organized June 21, 1880, by George Whitsett, and the fol- lowing-named officers were then elected and installed: W. C. T., P. C. Baxter; W. V. T., Miss M. V. Jackson; W. Secretary, Joseph B. Jackson; W. F. Secretary, Susan Moxley; W. Treasurer, William Albert Henry; W. Chaplain, C. A. Jenkins; W. Marshal, Eli Truly; Inner Guard, Samuel Miller; Sentinel, James Carter.
NOTE-A complete history of the Uniontown Churches will be found under the caption of "Religious History."
Biographical Sketches
HON. STEPHEN LESLIE MESTREZAT, LL. D., Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, is a son of Jean Louis Guillaume and Mary Ann (Hartley) Mestrezat, and was born in Mapletown, Greene County, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1848. His father was French and his mother of English and Scotch-Irish descent and Judge Mestrezat has inherited the better traits and characteristics of both nationalities.
Charles Alexandre Mestrezat, the grandfather of Judge Mestrezat, was an intimate friend of Albert Gallatin and was induced by the latter to come to America, in 1794. He settled in Greene County near Mapleton on the banks of the Monongahela River almost directly opposite the Gallatin man- sion in Fayette County. In France he had married Miss Louise Elizabeth Dufresne, but their children, ten in all, were born at Mapleton. One of these was the father of Judge Mestrezat.
Judge Mestrezat was taken into partnership by Hon. Charles E. Boyle when the former was yet quite a young man and the partnership continued uninterrupted for thirteen years, the firm being one of the most prominent that ever practiced at the Fayette County bar, or elsewhere, for that matter.
To the early and careful training of his parents, Judge Mestrezat ascribes, more than to anything else, his great success in life. They had decided in his childhood that their son, Leslie should be trained and educated for the law, and neither he nor they, lost sight of that resolution. After completing his common and high school courses he graduated from the Waynesburg College with the highest honors. Soon after this he entered the law department of Washington & Lee University of Virginia, of which Gen. Robert E. Lee was president. Judge Mestrezat graduated from this institution in 1871 with the degree of LL. B. He then returned home and was at once admitted to the bar at Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Shortly after this he went west, expecting to settle there if he could find a suitable location, but after some time spent in looking for what he considered a good place, he concluded that his chances were better in the cast than in the west so after teaching school one term or one winter in LaSalle County, Illinois, he came back and opened an office in Uniontown which has ever since been his home and where all his political honors took root, grew and still flourish.
In 1877 he was elected District Attorney of Fayette County on the Demo- cratic ticket. In 1884-5 he was chairman of the Democratic Committee of Fayette County, and a member of the Democratic State Executive Con- mittee. He was a delegate to the Democratic State Convention of 1882, that nominated Robert E. Pattison for Governor; to the Convention of 1886 which named Chauncey F. Black for Governor; and to the National Demo- cratic Convention of 1892 that nominated and afterwards elected Grover Cleve- land President In 1893, Judge Mestrezat was elected Judge of the Fourteenth
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Hon. Edmund Homer Reppert
Judicial District comprising the counties of Fayette and Greene, by a ma- jority of nearly two thousand. When Hon. Nathaniel Ewing retired from the bench in 1898, Judge Mestrezat became President Judge of the District.
November 7, 1899 Judge Mestrezat was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania over many deep and brilliant jurists, and is today filling that exalted and responsible position with great eredit to him- self and to the bench.
HON. EDMUND HOMER REPPERT, President Judge of the Fourteenth Judi- cial District of Pennsylvania, was born October 28, 1855. He is a son of the late Benjamin F. and Rhoda Kendall Reppert, the former a native of Greene County, the latter of Fayette County, Pa. Christian Reppert, Judge Rep- pert's paternal grandfather, came from Alsace, Lorraine, in 1791. Shortly thereafter he located in Greensboro, Creene County, and became interested in the tanning and glass industries. He died in 1851. His son, Benjamin F., the father of the subject of this sketch, became a resident of Nicholson Township, Fayette County, in 1854, and lived there until he died in ISSO. He was a farmer. His widow, Rhoda Kendall Reppert, now resides in Mt. Pleasant, Pa. The first comer of the Kendalls to this section was Jeremiah, a great-grandfather of Judge Reppert. He was a Virginian and settled in German Township shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War, in which he participated as a soldier of the patriot army.
In 1787 there was issued to him a patent for a tract of land called " The Twins," situated on Brown's Run, and containing two hundred and sixty- four and one-fourth acres and an allowance, the greater portion of which is still in the hands of the descendants. His son, also named Jermiah, the father of Rhoda Kendall Reppert, was a soldier in the war of 1812. Edmund H. Rep- pert prepared for college at Georges Creek Academy, Smithfield; then entered Bucknell College, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1877. The following two years he spent on the farm, then going to Union- town to take up the study of law under the preceptorship of Hon. Nathaniel Ewing. During the latter period he taught school, one year in South Union Township, and three years at Uniontown, serving as principal of the Union- town schools for two years. He was admitted to the bar in 1883. In 1884 he formed a law partnership with A. H. Wycoff which was dissolved in 1887. He then became associated with George D. H. Howell, which connection was not severed until Judge Reppert's accession to the bench, January 1, 1898. He was a candidate for District Attorney in 1892, when he was de- feated by George W. Jefferies. He was a candidate for the judgeship in 1893, when he received Fayette County's indorsement, but being unable to obtain the district nomination (Fayette and Greene Counties then com- prising the judicial district) was withdrawn. He remained in active par- tieipation in the Republican party work, and was nominated and elected judge in 1897. He was married June 12, 1889, to Ellen, daughter of the late Alfred Howell, a leading member of the Fayette County bar. Judge and Mrs. Reppert have one child, Elizabeth, and reside in Fayette Street, Uniontown. Judge Reppert is a member of the Baptist Church, Smithfield, with which he united in his youth.
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