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Mr. Saylor married (first), August 27, 1876, Emma C. Lape, daughter of John and Rebecca (Hoffman) Lape. By this union were born the following children : Melda E., February 27, 1878; Nanne E., October 1, 1879; Parker, March 14, 1882; Sadie M., November 25, 1883; J. Scott, March 25, 1887; Will- iam E., April 22, 1890; Neva E., January 29, 1892; Emma G., December 3, 1893, died in the summer of 1894, aged about eight months. The mother of these children died December 21, 1894. Mr. Saylor married (second), September 6, 1900, Emma V. (Rhoads) Patch, daughter of Daniel and Caroline (Duppstadt) Rhoads and widow of Patch. Mr. Saylor and his fam- ily reside in a comfortable and commodious house at Somerset, which is provided with all modern improvements, and they en- joy the acquaintance of a wide circle of friends.
(IV) Andrew J. Saylor, son of Samuel S. and Caroline (Berkey) Saylor, was born July 10, 1846, in Brothers Valley township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. He received a lim- ited common school education. During the Civil war he enlisted as a member of the same company in which his father served, Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-third Pennsylvania Vol- unteers. After his nine months' term of enlistment had ex- pired, in 1864, he re-enlisted in Company H, Twenty-second
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Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, in which he served until the close of the war. He was but fifteen years of age when he first enlisted in the Union army. He was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg, the ball striking him in his left shoulder. He was then sent to Hammond General Hospital, at Point Lookout, Maryland. After his return from the war he was married, and worked as a laborer at whatever came in his way. Later he re- moved to the Ligonier valley, Westmoreland county, Pennsylva- nia, where he rented and farmed land for eight years. He then returned to his native county and followed a number of occu- pations, including that of peddler and salesman of sewing ma- chines, proprietor of a restaurant and manager and clerk in a store. About 1880 be moved his family to Furnas county, Ne- braska, for the purpose of taking up a homestead under his soldier right, which he did, but on account of the newness of the country and the homesickness of his wife, so far from rela- tives and friends of her childhood home in the east, he aban- doned his claim and returned overland by means of a mule team and covered wagon, in which he and his wife and their six chil- dren traveled. They were over eight weeks en route, the jour- ney being made in the months of August and September. Upon his return to Somerset county Mr. Saylor again rented farm land, and finally purchased a farm four miles to the east of the borough of Somerset, on which he resided until 1903, when he disposed of the same and purchased property just out of the borough limits of Somerset, where he still resides and con- ducts a grocery store. At the present time (1906) he is serv- ing as tax collector in Somerset township. He is a member of Grand Army Post, No. 210, at Somerset, and has been a mem- ber of Royal Castle, Knights of the Mystic Chain, which castle is now defunct.
Mr. Saylor married, January 6, 1866, Annie Pisel, who died in 1880. Seven children were born to them, as follows: Jenny, Lottie, Mary, Benjamin, Harvey, Franklin and Belinda. Four are now deceased. Mr. Saylor married for his second wife Angeline Hofford. a widow, whose maiden name was Masters, and by this union six children were born, all of whom are liv- ing at the present time (1906) : 1. James O., born July 10, 1880, is married and living in Chicago, Illinois, where he is taking a course in a medical college. 2. Leman G., born June 18, 1882, is a printer by trade, living in Johnstown, Pennsylva- nia, married Gertie Uhl, and they have two sons, Wilbur and Harold. 3. Lizzie A., born September 7, 1887. 4. Homer E., born March 13, 1890. 5. Freeman, born June 23, 1892. 6. Paul Dewey, born December 12, 1894.
(IV) Daniel Webster Saylor, son of Samuel S. and Caro- line (Berkey) Saylor, born July 3, 1854, at Rocksbury, Stony
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Creek township. Somerset county, Pennsylvania, acquired a good common school education and was reared on a farm. He learned the trade of shoemaker, serving a three years' appren- ticeship, and followed the same for a period of seven years. He then entered the ministry of the Evangelical Association and served his church about four years in Somerset township. About 1880 he migrated to Furnas county, Nebraska, where he claimed an eighty-acre tract of government land, upon which he lived, with a roadhouse for a dwelling. His stay in Nebraska was about two years, but, owing to lack of rain, he abandoned his homestead and returned with his family to his native place. He then located in Meyersdale, Somerset county, and there en- gaged in coal mining for about seven vears. He procured a certificate as mine foreman and served in that capacity at Gar- rett, Pennsylvania, for a Mr. Shoofly for a year, when he vol- untarily abandoned that work and returned to Somerset, near which borough he purchased a farm. He then was variously en- gaged at farming and in the conduct of a meat market, gro- cery establishment and restaurant. He conducted the basement restaurant in Knepper's block for about ten years and then sold it to his son, M. W. Saylor. For seven months thereafter he operated a variety store, which he then sold to Hoffman & Co., and in September, 1905, he purchased the grocery and res- taurant business of Messrs. Saylor & Young, of which he is still the proprietor. In political belief Mr. Saylor has never seen a better party to support than the Republican, and has always cast his vote for its candidates. He served two terms as town- ship supervisor in Somerset township and one term of three years as jury commissioner. He was formerly connected with the Evangelical Lutheran church, before the "split" in that body, but since then has held no regular church connection. He is a member of the order of Maccabees and was a member of the Mystic Chain and Sons of Veterans until the local societies of those orders became defunct.
Mr. Saylor married, September 28, 1875, Sadie M. Rhoads, daughter of Daniel and Caroline (Duppstadt) Rhoads. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Theodore Eisenhouer at Lam- bertsville, Pennsylvania. They were the parents of fifteen chil- dren: Ward M., born February 16, 1877, married Mary Way, October 28, 1902, and they have a son named Kenneth Way, born January 14, 1904: Charles D., born March 3, 1878, died March 31. 1881; Grace E., born October 17, 1879, died October 31, 1881; Jennie B., born July 15, 1880, died July 15, 1881; Sadie C .. born August 11, 1882, married Charles Snyder, June 23, 1903, and they have a daughter, Sarah Katharine, born No- vember 20, 1904; Clyde R., born March 31, 1884, mentioned hereinafter; Bessie E., born December 4, 1885; Minnie S., born
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March 28, 1887, married Alexander Saylor, August 16, 1905; Myrtle I., born December 31, 1888; Annie L., born August 10, 1890; Lloyd P., born March 20, 1894, died March 11, 1895; Mar- guerite M., born June 23, 1896, died February 13, 1898; Wilbert D., born December 20, 1897; Edythe E., born September 10, 1899; Daniel J., born November 29, 1902.
George M. Saylor, son of Samuel Saylor, was born in Som- erset county, Pennsylvania, December 27, 1829. He received a common school education and his active career was devoted to the business of painting and paperhanging, which proved ex- ceedingly remunerative. He assisted in the building of the first court house in Somerset county. He is a Republican in politics, a Lutheran in religion and an active member of the Masonic order. In 1852 he married Catherine Sufall, daughter of John Sufall, above mentioned, and the issue of this union was the following children, namely: Anna L., deceased; Norah, deceased; Harry L. Y .; Florence ; John T .; Robert G .; and Irwin W. Saylor.
(V) Irwin W. Saylor, youngest son of George M. and Catherine (Sufall) Saylor, was born in Somerset, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, November 30, 1874. He is indebted to the common schools of Somerset county for the educational ad- vantages he enjoyed, attending the same until he attained the age of eighteen years. He then served an apprenticeship at the trade of painting and paperhanging, becoming an expert work- man, and at the present time (1905) is taking contracts for that line of work. He is one of the young business men of Somerset who has achieved success by his own energy and enterprise. He is a very congenial, well-informed man, of excellent business qualifications, and is highly regarded by all with whom he is brought in contact. whether in business or social life. He is a member of the Woodmen of America, Knights of the Golden Eagle and Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
(V) Norman S. Saylor, son of Franklin Pierce and Harriet J. (Poorbaugh) Saylor, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1870. He acquired his educational training in the common schools of his native place, and im- mediately after leaving the schoolroom engaged as a clerk in a general mercantile house and followed this occupation for seven years. He then turned his attention to farming, in which he has since been engaged and in which occupation he has achieved the most gratifying success. He has been a lifelong Republican in his political relations and has ever been ready to lend his assistance to all enterprises tending to advance the in- terest of the community.
Mr. Saylor married, February 17, 1892, Miss Leora Sebert, born January 26, 1871, in Somerset county, a daughter of Solo-
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mon and Mary (Trent) Sebert. Solomon Sebert is a native of Somerset county and a carpenter and cabinetmaker by trade. He is a Republican in politics. He and his wife have children as follows: Ella; Frank; Hattie; George B .; W. A .; John H .; Leora (Mrs. Saylor) ; D. W .; Lottie; E. E., deceased; Milton, deceased; and Charles, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Saylor are the parents of the following named children: Ray S., born Jan- nary 29, 1893; and Ruth S., born September 13, 1895. They live at home with their parents.
(V) Clyde R. Saylor, son of Daniel Webster and Sadie M. (Rhoads) Saylor, was born in Somerset, March 31, 1883. He attended the common schools of his birthplace until reaching the age of seventeen, when he entered the ice cream business, in which he was engaged until his recent removal to Wilkins- burg, Pennsylvania, his dealings being both wholesale and retail. His political affiliations are with the Republican party. Mr. Saylor married, September 29, 1903, Rosa A. Long, daughter of Oliver J. and Sarah (Fisher) Long, who are the parents of the following named children : Harvey; Rosa A., born January 2, 1879, in Somerset township, and became the wife of Clyde R. Saylor; Sylvester; Susan; Mary, and Irven. Oliver J. Long, father of these children, was born in Shady township and is a farmer by occupation.
Josiah Saylor, son of Joseph and Eliza (Hipple) Saylor, was born in Somerset, Pennsylvania, June 1, 1840. He received his education in the common schools of his native county, and his active career has been devoted to agricultural pursuits. In 1861 he enlisted in Company A, Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, served three years and was discharged June 11, 1864. October 26, 1864, he re-enlisted in Company G, Sixty- first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the close of the war, receiving his discharge June 28, 1865.
Mr. Saylor married, October 15, 1865, Mary Houpt, and the following named children were born to them: Annie E., de- ceased, who was the wife of Walter McFarland, of Allegheny (Greater Pittsburg), and had one daughter, Edna; Mr. Mc- Farland is engaged in the transfer and storage business; Charles H., who married Anna Null and lives in Somerset. Dollie B., deceased; Milton A., who married Ida Belle, daugh- ter of Solomon and Sophia (Hemmington) Baldwin, the former a farmer; Milton A. and Ida Belle Saylor have two children, Margaret and Walter; Josie H., deceased; Louise, deceased; Bessie, deceased.
Mrs. Saylor, on the paternal side, is descended from Ger- man ancestors, her grandfather having emigrated from the Fatherland. Her great-grandfather on her mother's side came from Scotland and settled in Westmoreland county, Pennsylva-
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nia, where his son, John McAfee, was born. The daughter of John McAfee was McAfee, who married
Houpt, son of Houpt. They were the parents of a daughter, Mary, who became the wife of Josiah Saylor, as men- tioned above.
JACOB HOSTETTER.
Jacob Hostetter, father of Jacob Hostetter, of Somerset, Pennsylvania, was a native of Germany, from whence he came to the United States, settling in Meversdale, Pennsylvania, at the time of the invasion of that section of the state by the In- dians, and his family were all killed by the red men, with the exception of two sons. Jacob Hostetter married Mary Shultz, and their children were: John, Samuel, Jacob, Adam, Barbara, Polly, Lizzie, Katharine and Peggie.
John Hostetter, eldest son of Jacob and Mary (Shultz) Hostetter, married Barbara Meyers, and their children were as follows : Samuel, Elizabeth, Marv. John, Lillie, Sarah, Annie, William, Magdaline, George, Barbara, Eliza and Emma.
George Hostetter, son of John and Barbara (Meyers) Hos- tetter, was born near Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1833. He married Mary Spiecher, daughter of Jacob and Sally Spiecher, and they are the parents of six children: 1. Annie, wife of Samuel Thomas and mother of three children: Will- iam, George, and Jacob, who married Anna Meyers, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Miller) Meyers, and their children are: Ernest, Annie and Paul. 2. John, married and resides in the west. 3. Edward. 4. Sarah E., married C. W. Hetterly, and they are the parents of one child, Lester. 5. Robert, mar- ried Matilda Penrose. George Hostetter, by his second mar- riage, had three children : Frank, Mabel and George.
STEWART SMITH.
Stewart Smith, of Salisbury, is the eldest son of William and Caroline E. (Dively) Smith, of Salisbury. William Smith, son of Henry Smith, was born in Dauphin county, and at the age of twenty came to Somerset county. He learned the trade of a cooper and followed that occupation many years. He was a man of good education and for a time was a teacher in the public schools. He was for many years engaged in mercantile life in Salisbury, and in the seventies retired from active life. He is now (1906) eighty-one vears of age. Mr. Smith was in- strumental in securing for Salisbury a telegraph line, which the Western Union Company ran, from the "pike," Mr. Smith raising the required amount of stock. His daughter Victoria took lessons in telegraphy and was the first operator. Mr. Smith is a Republican and was postmaster of Salisbury under the administrations of Lincoln and Johnson. He is a member
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of the Evangelical Association, of which society he was one of the organizers and official members.
William Smith married, in 1848, Caroline E., daughter of Michael and Julia Dively, of Salisbury, and the children of this union were: Stewart, see forward; Victoria E., wife of S. M. Baumgartner, of Morgantown, West Virginia; Edward H., of Pittsburg .; Willis B., of Pittsburg; Ellett W., of Pittsburg; Harriet E., wife of C. E. Sperry, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania; and Caroline M., wife of Robert H. Johnson, of Salisbury, Penn- sylvania. The other children of the family learned the art of telegraphy from Victoria E., above referred to, and became ex- pert operators, both sons and daughters. The three sons hold high and lucrative positions in their profession.
Stewart Smith was born in Salisbury, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1852. He there attended the public schools until the age of sixteen, afterward taking a course in the Iron City Commer- cial College, Pittsburg. Until 1872 he was employed in his father's store at Salisbury, and then for ten years taught in the, schools of that and of other places in Elk Lick township, also one term in Greenville township. For two years he was operative in charge of the Western Union office in Salisbury, after which he entered the service of the firm of Ehlen Broth- ers, coal operators of Baltimore, Maryland, with mines at Salis- bury, and was still there when the business was sold to the Somerset Coal Company. During the period of his connection with the firm he filled the positions of store manager and mine superintendent. He still. to a certain extent, maintains his as- sociation with them, and is now manager of the Howard Meager & Company store in Salisbury. For a number of years Mr. Smith served as school director and for one term held the office of tax collector. He is a Republican in politics and a member and deacon of the Brethren church.
Mr. Smith married, June 27, 1872, Eliza A., daughter of Jacob Sipe, of New Centerville, Pennsylvania, and their family consisted of three daughters: Alice A., born August 17, 1873, married, September 14. 1904, Samuel P. Schell, of Connellsville; Isoline Rosamond, born January 20, 1875, married, October 27, 1901, Charles H. Beale, Jr., of Meyersdale, now of Salisbury; and Katherine C., born July 4, 1880, died August 22, 1900.
JOHN WIEGLE.
John Wiegle, a resident of Somerset, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, was born in Stony Creek township, October 8, 1838, a son of Jacob and Sarah (Raymond) Wiegle. His edu- cation was obtained in the public schools of the county. His political affiliation is Republican, and in church connections he is a Lutheran. When the Civil war was in progress he enlisted,
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in 1863, in Company H, under command of Captain Schrock, and served seven months. He married, in April, 1863, Maria Ring- ler, born January 27, 1846, a daughter of Levi and Susan (Sniter) Ringler. Of this marriage children were born as fol- lows : Lincoln, deceased; Isadore; Phoebe; Sarah; Rosa; Daisy; Lottie; Eva; Jane; Maude, deceased; James; Mary, deceased; Susan, deceased; Jeannette, deceased; Edward, deceased; and John W., deceased.
ALBERT HALBROOK.
The parents of Albert Halbrook, late of Somerset, were Frederick and Catharine (Presuhn) Halbrook, both natives of Germany, in which country their son Albert was born, April 9, 1858. During his childhood the family emigrated to the United States and he received his education in Somerset county.
At the age of fourteen Albert Halbrook left school, and until he was twenty-four worked on the farm with his father. He then engaged for several years in the brick business. In the sphere of politics he was a Democrat, doing all in his power to further the interests of the organization.
Mr. Halbrook married, March 8, 1885, Lucy Zarfoss, and their children were: Gertrude, Harry, Frederick and Edward. Mrs. Halbrook is a daughter of Adam Zarfoss, whose father, also Adam Zarfoss, emigrated from Germany. The son was born in Somerset county and all his life followed the calling of a farmer. He married Maria Keller, and their children were: Patterson; Susan; Cyrus S .; Lucy, born July 10, 1860, in Som- erset county, and became the wife of Albert Halbrook, as men- tioned above; Sara; Ida; and Harvey. Albert Halbrook died in October, 1905.
WILLIAM TAYMAN.
William Tayman, deceased, was born in Baltimore, Mary- land. He was a descendant of an English ancestry. About four- teen years prior to his death, which occurred December 23, 1845, he took up his residence in Somerset, Somerset county, Penn- sylvania, and secured employment with his brother, freighting from Baltimore to Pittsburg. Two years after taking up his residence in Somerset William Tayman was united in marriage to Eliza A. Lavan, daughter of David and Madaline (Young) Lavan, the former named having been engaged in the hotel busi- ness throughout the active years of his life. Six children were the issue of this union: 1. Belinda, deceased, was the wife of Captain W. M. Jordan, and they were the parents of three chil- dren : Mary, Jessie and Grace. 2. David L., married Frances Young, and their family consists of eight children: Captain Charles, Annie, Lilly, Norah, Mary. Floyd, Edwin and Thomas. 3. Austin A., married Jennie Bell, issue: William, Francis,
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George and Thomas. 4. George H., see forward. 5. Elizabeth M., married Curtis Grove, and they are the parents of three children: Bertha, David, and Roger. 6. William H., married Matilda Smith; issue, five children: John, Eliza, Leah, Nevin and James.
After the death of her husband Mrs. Eliza A. (Lavan) Tayman engaged in the hotel business, conducting the same successfully up to the time of her retirement from active pur- suits. She has since resided with her son, William J. Tayman, on the old homestead at Lavansville, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Tay- man and her son, George H. Tayman, built the Somerset House three times, the structure being destroyed by fire twice, which caused serious financial loss, but with the indomitable courage and persistence which is a characteristic of the family they set about the rebuilding each time, and it is now one of the best equipped and most largely patronized hostleries in Somerset county.
EDWARD A. SPANGLER.
Edward A. Spangler, of Rockwood, is a son of Samuel Spangler, who was born in Stoystown and devoted himself to farming in connection with the duties of a weighmaster. He married Mary Horner, a native of Somerset county, and their children were: Jolin; Edward A., of whom later; Laura; Jane; Cline; and Michael.
Edward A. Spangler, son of Samuel and Mary (Horner) Spangler, was born September 10, 1857, in Somerset township, half way between Somerset and Stoystown, and received his ed- ucation in the common schools of his native county. At the age of seventeen he left school and engaged in farming until 1885, when he went to work in a distillery, remaining until 1889. He was then employed until 1893 as a storekeeper for the gov- ernment, after which he devoted one year to farming and then for a few months returned to the distillery. In December, 1904, he was appointed chief of police, an office which he still holds. He is a Republican in politics.
Mr. Spangler married, September 30, 1883, Anna H. Critch- field, and their children are: Harry S., Willons J., Margaret M., Frank, George M., Mabel and Blanche. Mrs. Spangler was born in 1866, in Milford township, daughter of Jacob Critchfield, a farmer, who held the office of constable of Somer- set county.
THE MEAGER FAMILY.
John Meager, a retired business man, and John Howard Meager, his son, both of Salisbury, are the descendants of Eng- lish ancestors, the former being also of English birth and the founder of the family in this country, where it is already numer- ous and well known in Somerset county.
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Jolın Meager was born in 1842, in Cornwall, England, and in August. 1867, emigrated to the United States with his wife and his child, Josephine. He settled in Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, where he worked at iron-mining and rose to be mine foreman. In December, 1869, he moved to Frostburg, Maryland, where he worked in the coal mines until 1877, when he went to Glade City, Somerset county, and there held the position of foreman of mines for the Baltimore & Cumberland Coal Com- pany. In 1879 he moved to Hyndman, Pennsylvania, where he
was employed during the summer as superintendent by J. J. Hoblitzel & Company, building among other things, two large lime kilns. In September of the same year he went to Elk Lick township and opened the Frog Hill mines for the Baltimore & Cumberland Coal Company. In November of that year he moved his family from Hyndman to Salisbury, where he has since lived. He remained in the service of the same company for twenty years, as long as they were in existence, or until 1881, when he went to Coal Run and opened the Chapman mines for the Grassey Run Coal Company. In 1882 he returned to Salisbury and worked for J. J. Hoblitzel as superintendent of the Frog Hill mines until 1885. During the summer of that year he secured a lease from the Keystone Coal Company and has since been operating his own mines, now called the Grassey Run mines. He is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Salis- bury and is interested in coal land in West Virginia. He is a Republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Salisbury, of which he was one of the organizers. He is a local preacher of the church and for twenty years was super- intendent of the Sunday school, and in all church affairs an earnest worker. He is a Republican.
Mr. Meager married, June 29, 1865, Charlotte Truscott, born January 25, 1846, in England, and they were the parents of the following children: Josephine, born December 2, 1866, died February 10, 1881; she was their only English-born child; Martha, born September 29, 1869, wife of William McMurdo; Lydia Diamond, born August 29, 1871, wife of H. C. Shaw ; Bes- sie, born August 24, 1873, died September 1, 1873; John Howard, see forward; Lottie, born April 28, 1879, at home; William, born May 8, 1881, died August 20, 1881; Charles, born February 12, 1884, died August 20, 1902; and William (2), born October 30, 1889. died January, 1900.
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