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Mr. Merrill married, July 9, 1893, Alice, daughter of Cor-
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nelius Judy, of Brothers Valley township, and they have been the parents of five children: Charles; Emma; Bryan; Harold; and Howard.
MITCHELL E. MCNEAL.
Mitchell E. McNeal, of Windber, was born October 8, 1862, and is a lumberman, having operated in several places. He spent two years at Dunlo, Cambria county, and then for a time took charge of a mill at Hastings, Pennsylvania.
He went thence to Hver, Braxton county, West Virginia, and after disposing of his business there moved in 1898 to Wind- ber, where he has since been engaged in the lumber business. He is a Republican and a member of the Roman Catholic church.
Mr. McNeal married, in 1892, Catharine, daughter of Jo- seph and Mary Murray, and they are the parents of the fol- lowing children: Leonard, born November 27, 1893; Mary A., born May 24, 1895, died September 12, 1895; Inez, born March 18, 1898; Margaret, born May 6, 1901; Thomas M., born Feb- ruary 8, 1902; and Catharine, born March 26, 1903.
Mrs. McNeal is a granddaughter of Barnard Murray, who in 1828 came from Ireland to the United States, settling first in Massachusetts, where he remained five years, and then mov- ing to Blossburg. Pennsylvania, where he passed the remainder of his life. Joseph Murray, son of Barnard Murray, was born in 1832, in Massachusetts, and in 1837 was taken by his par- ents to Blossburg. He was a miner and married Mary , by whom he was the father of a daughter, Catharine, wife of Mitchel E. McNeal. Mr. Murray died November 8, 1898, at Arnot, Tioga county, Pennsylvania.
ANDREW WOY.
Andrew Woy, a resident of Somerset, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, was there born October 26, 1838, the son of John Woy.
Andrew Woy obtained his educational training in the com- mon schools of his native place. After leaving the schoolroom he was engaged for ten years, in partnership with his brother, in' the conduct of a sawmill. He is by occupation a farmer and owns a well located farm in Somerset township. This farm is well laid out and is finely cultivated. In his political relations he is a Prohibitionist.
He married, November 29, 1867, in Stony Creek township, Catherine Walker, born March 21, 1847. The following named children are the issue of this marriage: Edmond S., born Oc- tober 14, 1868, married Ida Swank, a daughter of William and Catherine (Kimindill) Swank, and they have children as fol-
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lows: Catherine, Earl, Edna, Hobert, Myrtle; Margaret, born October 13, 1870, resides in Pittsburg; Mary, born December 25. 1873, married Charles Cook, a son of Jones and Emma (Stutzman) Cook, and they have one child, Emily Catherine; Charles, born April 13, 1875, married Carrie Young, daughter of William and (Queller) Young, and they have two children, Ernest and Lloyd; Elizabeth, born August 19, 1878, married Irvin Rhodes, son of Alex and Mary (Staffert) Rhodes, and they had no children; Mr. Rhodes died in 1900; Rose E., married Edgar Fogle, son of George Fogle, and they have one child, Lydia; Harry W., born September 5, 1881, married Mary Emmert, daughter of Oliver and Minnie (Smith) Em- mert; they have no children; Jacob F., born May 22, 1887, is unmarried and resides at home.
CHRISTIAN BLOUGH.
Christian Blough, a prosperous farmer of Friedens, Somer- set county, Pennsylvania, is a descendant of one of the old and well known families of the state. The name Blough, or Blau or Blauch, as it was originally spelled in Switzerland, from which country the family came, signifies "blue." Some claim that the family were originally French Huguenots who fled to Switzerland to escape religious persecution. The entire family has always taken an independent stand as far as matters of re- ligious liberty were concerned. They must, however, have adopted the German language at an early date, as a Bible pub- lished in that tongue was in their possession in 1543.
(I) Christian Blauch (or Bleich, as given by the record of emigrants of the time) and his brother, John (Hans) Blauch, sailed from Berne, Switzerland, on the ship the "Brotherhood," Captain John Thomson. with one hundred and fifty passengers, and reached the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 3, 1750. Christian had with him his three sons: 1. John, settled in Lebanon county, and his descendants are scattered through- out Dauphin, Lebanon and York counties. They generally spell the name Blauch or Blaugh. One of his descendants is a manu- facturer in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and another, Dr. Blaugh, of Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, represents his district in the state legislature. 2. Christian, who was about seven years of age at the time of his arrival in this country. He bought a farm in Lebanon township, Lebanon county (at that time Lancaster county), Pennsylvania, in 1761, from the Penn brothers. He removed to Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1773, located about one mile from Berlin, where he died in 1777, and is buried. He had eight children : Jacob, Christian, John, Peter and Henry, who were twins, David, Anna and Magdalen. 3. Jacob, see forward.
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(II) Jacob Blough, son of Christian Blauch (1), was but a few years old when he came to this country with his parents. He came to Somerset county about 1788, and located in Cone- maugh township, near Quemahoning, where he died and is buried on the farm. He was six feet in height and weighed over three hundred pounds. He was the father of eight children : 1. Jacob, who was also very tall and corpulent and possessed of a very powerful voice, was the first bishop of the Mennonite church in that district. 2. Christian, see forward. 3. John, who died young, left an only child, Elizabeth, who married Abraham Hoshberger. 4. Henry, died at Hollsopple in 1877, at the age of ninety-four years. He left two children: Mrs. James Ashe and Mrs. James Weaver. 5. Mary, married Henry Hoshlegen, one of whose daughters died at the age of eighty, and is buried in Johnstown, with her son. 6. Veronica, married James Bor- key and moved to Canada in 1804, where she raised a large family. 7. Elizabeth, married John Saylor. 8. David, married twice, and of his first children are living: Henry, and Mrs. John Thoms, of Thoms Mills; of the children of his second mar- riage there are living: Samuel and D. D. Blauch, the latter en- gaged in the real estate business in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
(III) Christian Blough, second son of Jacob Blough (2), was better known as "Big Christ," he being an unusually large and powerful man. He was born in or near Quemahoning, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and later resided near Stan- ton's Mills. He was a farmer, and a member and deacon of the Menonnite church. He married Sallie Cable and had children : 1. Jacob, married Kate Horner, and some of his grandchildren are residents of Indiana, and others, of Johnstown, Pennsyl- vania, among the latter being Henry D. and Nelson Blough. 2. Benjamin, married Mattie Baker, and they were the parents of twelve children, of whom are now (1906) living: Abraham, of Illinois, who has nine children, forty grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. 3. John, see forward. 4. Joseph, married Sarah Barnhart, had three children: Henry, who married Susanna Kimmell, and is the father of Dr. Milton Blough, or Blouck, as he spells his name, who is one of the prominent phy- sicians of Chicago, Illinois; Mary, married George Gardner; and Eliza, married Gable Bigley. 5. Rachel, married John Di- bert, and was the mother and grandmother of the Diberts of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. 6. Sallie, married George Specht. 7. Nancy, married Daniel Specht. S. Polly, married Daniel Knupp. 9. Fannie, married Solomon Horner. 10. Susanna, married John Zimmerman, and had one child, Jacob, who married Sarah J. Stufft, and had children: Cyrus, Daniel Burnside (a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work), Maggie, Annie and Al- bert.
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(IV) John Blough, third son and child of Christian (3) and Sallie (Cable) Blough, was born in 1795. He married Fan- nie Schrock and had eight children as follows: 1. Elizabeth, married Jacob Fike, of near Waterloo, Iowa. 2. Christian, see forward. 3. John, now deceased. 4. Aaron, of Krings Sta- tion, Cambria county, Pennsylvania. 5. Sarah, married Joseph Cable. 6. Emanuel. 7. Rachel, married David Schrock. 8. Susanna, married Edward Keller. Several of the grandchil- dren are prominent residents of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
(V) Christian Blough, eldest surviving son of John (4) and Fannie (Schrock) Blough, was born in Quemahoning township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1822. His oppor- tunities for educational advancements were but limited, his at- tendance at the common schools ceasing at the early age of ten years. At that period he commenced to assist in the labors of the farm, and he has devoted his long life to agricultural pur- suits. He has been a stanch Republican in politics. He mar- ried Magdelene Buckley, born December 14, 1822, near Stoys- town, daughter of Joseph and Susan (Miller) Buckley, and they are the parents of: Ephraim, born January 28, 1848; and Eliza- beth, born November 16, 1855, housekeeper for Samuel Y. Blough, near Davidsville.
DANIEL BURNSIDE ZIMMERMAN.
Daniel Burnside Zimmerman, one of the most enterprising and successful men of affairs in western Pennsylvania, has, perhaps, contributed in a larger degree than any other to the industrial and commercial development of Somerset county through his labors as one of the pioneers and principal factors in the opening up of its vast coal fields. He is also widely known throughout the west for liis immense operations in live stock. In all his achievements he has been the architect of his own fortune. He is a descendant, on both the paternal and maternal sides, of ancient German stock which was planted in America in the colonial days. (I) Zimmerman, the pioneer ancestor of the Zimmerman family in this country, emigrated to America from Germany and located in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, where he purchased a large tract of land, which he cultivated as a farm. He was the father of three sons-Jacob, of whom see forward; Michael and Adam-all of whom removed to Somerset county, Pennsylvania, at the same time, when they were young men, and purchased farms in Quemahoning township and were among the earliest settlers of the county.
(II) Jacob Zimmerman, son of the preceding, married Elizabeth Gibler and had children: Catherine, married Jacob Swank; Elizabeth, married George Smith; Magdalena, married
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Jacob Barnet; Susanna, married Joseph Smith; George, mar- ried a widow of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania; Jacob, married Margaret Smith; Michael, migrated to Ohio, where he died unmarried; Henry, married Nancy Shaffer; John, see forward.
(III) John Zimmerman, son of Jacob (2) and Elizabeth (Gibler) Zimmerman, was born in Somerset county, Pennsyl- vania. He was extensively engaged in farming. He was a man of retiring disposition; never sought official distinction, but was influential in the community. He was a stanch adherent of the German Reformed church. He married Susanna Blough, who was a member of an old Somerset county family, also of Ger- man extraction. She was the daughter of Christian Blough and the granddaughter of Jacob Blough, the latter presumably born in Germany and among the first settlers of Somerset county. Christian Blough was better known as "Big Christ," he being an unusually large and powerful man. He was born in or near Quemahoning, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and later resided near Stanton's Mills. He was a farmer and a member and deacon of the Mennonite church. He married Sallie Cable and had children: 1. Jacob, married Kate Horner, and some of his grandchildren are residents of Indiana and others of Johns- town, Pennsylvania, among the latter being Henry D. and Nel- son Blough. 2. Benjamin, married Mattie Baker, and they were the parents of twelve children, of whom are now (1906) living : Abraham, of Illinois, who has nine children, forty grandchildren and one great-grandchild. 3. John, married Fannie Schrock, had ten children, of whom the following are now living: Chris- tian, now nearly eighty years of age, of Friedens, Somer- set county, Pennsylvania ; Aaron, of Kring's Station, Cambria county, Pennsylvania; Elizabeth, who married Jacob Fike, of near Waterloo, Iowa; Sarah, married Joseph Cable; Rachel, married David Schrock; Susanna, married Edward Keller. Sev- eral of the grandchildren are now prominent citizens of Johns- town, Pennsylvania. 4. Joseph, married Sarah Barnhart, had three children: Henry, who married Susanna Kimmell and is the father of Dr. Milton Blough, or Blouck, as he spells the name, who is one of the prominent physicians of Chicago, Illi- nois; Mary, married George Gardner; and Eliza, married Gable Bigley. 5. Rachel, married John Dibert and was the mother and grandmother of the Diberts of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. 6. Sallie, married George Specht. 7. Nancy, married Daniel Specht. 8. Polly, married Daniel Knupp. 9. Fannie, mar- ried Solomon Horner. 10. Susanna, married John Zimmer- man and became the grandmother of Daniel Burnside Zimmer- man, the subject of this sketch. John and Susanna (Blough) Zimmerman had one son, Jacob, see forward.
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(IV) Jacob J. Zimmerman, only child of John (3) and Su- sanna (Blough) Zimmerman, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the common schools of his native township. He was a prosperous farmer and a highly respected man, always interested in promoting any good cause and worthy enterprise. He was an official member of the Ger- man Reformed church, and was a Republican in politics, and a soldier in the late war, but was never a seeker after office. He married Sarah J. Stufft, a descendant of a family as old and worthy as his own. Her father, Daniel Stufft, was one of the most extensive farmers of Somerset county in his day, a man in affluent circumstances, well educated and of much ability. For several years he rendered efficient service in the capacity of county superintendent of schools, and for five years sat on the bench as an associate county judge. He was a consistent mem- ber of the Lutheran church, and in politics was an unswerving Republican. He married Catherine Byers, born in Somerset coun- ty, a daughter of Jacob Byers, who was a native of Lancaster county, whence he came to Somerset county soon after his mar- riage. They were the parents of four children: Sarah J., who became the wife of Jacob J. Zimmerman and the mother of Daniel B. Zimmerman; Mary, married Alexander Rhodes; Mar- garet, married Josiah Good; and Jerome, married Annie Baush. George Stufft, grandfather of Mrs. Jacob J. Zimmerman, was born in Somerset county and was a farmer. He married Sarah Berkey and their children were: Daniel; Mary, married Josiah Ankeny ; Samuel, married Catherine Maurer; John, married An- nie E. Beisecker; William, married Catherine Barndt; Eliza, married Josiah Miller. The great-grandfather of Mrs. Jacob J. Zimmerman, George Stufft, was born in Bedford county, was a farmer and one of the first settlers in Somerset county. He was a member of the Lutheran church.
Jacob and Sarah J. (Stufft) Zimmerman were the parents of five children: Cyrus, died in infancy; Daniel B., see for- ward; Maggie, wife of Russell Stewart, a business man of Som- erset; Annie, wife of Samuel G. Shaffer; and Albert, a merchant of Ralphton, Pennsylvania.
(V) Daniel Burnside Zimmerman, second son and child of Jacob and Sarah J. (Stufft) Zimmerman, was born in Som- erset county, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1862. He received a practical education in the common schools of his native county and prepared himself for a business career by taking a course of instruction in the Easton Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York. His earlier years were passed in labor on the pa- rental farm, and at the early age of seventeen years he taught a winter term of school in what was then known as the red schoolhouse, and acquitted himself so well, despite his youth,
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that in the following winter he was engaged to teach in the California school, in the same township, making such a record as to inspire the conviction that he would have become an ac- complished educator had he chosen that field for his lifework. But he had a predilection for more active and broader pursuits. In connection with farming operation, he engaged in a live stock business, breeding and dealing in horses, cattle and sheep, and in 1892 visited the prairies and bad lands of North Dakota and Montana, which was at that time settled by the red skins, where he engaged in ranching and ranging cattle on a large scale, gradually extending his operations until he came to be recog- nized as one of the most extensive and successful rangers in the west. His locations in ranges were Billings county, Dunn county and Hettinger county, North Dakota, his shipping point Dickinson, North Dakota. For more than ten years past he has numbered his cattle and sheep by the thousands, extending his operations from his original field, North Dakota and Mon- tana, to Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska and Texas.
While thus busily employed in these immense distant fields, he was also most actively engaged in the development of enter- prises of much importance in his native Somerset-operations which, while enhancing his own fortune, were a vast public benefit in opening up industrial and commercial avenues. He was one of the first to discern the possibilities of the county in the uncovering of its vast coal deposits, and in 1899 was the first Somerset county man to open a mine within its borders, and pushed the work with such vigor that he now has hundreds of men busily employed in his various mines. He also owns and directs the operations of the lumber and grist mill busi- ness, and the cultivation of several fine and productive farms, being known as one of the extensive farmers in the county. A man of broad public spirit, he lends his effort cheerfully and contributes liberally of his means to the advancement of every enterprise promising of benefit to the community at large. All his large achievements have not only been the result of his own individual effort, but the means employed have been the fruits of his own industry and sagacity, entitling him to the fullest to the consensus of opinion which pronounces him a truly self-made man. He bears the burdens of his many and large concerns with the equanimity which marks the man of rare self-poise, and is held in high regard for his affability and at- tractive personal qualities. He is affiliated with Somerset Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He and his family are members of the Lutheran church and active in promoting its interests and usefulness.
Andrew J. Colburn
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Mr. Zimmerman married Lizzie M. Snyder, daughter of Samuel Snyder, of Somerset county, born in Brothers Valley township. Mr. Snyder was a farmer and blacksmith and a man of great public spirit, who took an active interest in community affairs and was called to various important official positions. He served for five years as associate judge, for one term as director of the poor and more than ten years as justice of the peace. He was a devout member of the Lutheran church and for more than twenty years was an honored elder and deacon. In poli- tics he was a Republican. He died March 11, 1895. He mar- ried, February 19, 1857. Sarah Shaffer, daughter of Valentine and Christina (Gardner) Shaffer, and they were the parents of four children: Lizzie M., wife of Daniel B. Zimmerman; Emma Mary, at home; Charles W., a farmer, married Annie Bru- baker; Minnie Belle, at home. To Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Zim- merman have been born two children, Ralph Snyder and Sallie Alma.
ANDREW JACKSON COLBORN.
Andrew Jackson Colborn, an attorney-at-law, and promi- nent citizen of Somerset, was born in Turkeyfoot township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, May 30, 1822. He was a son of Abraham and Eleanor Woodmansey Colborn, a grandson of Robert and Effie Wortman Colborn, and a great-grandson of Michael and Sarah Mitchell Colborn, the former named having been a life-long resident of New Jersey, born in Woodbridge, and there married Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Robert Mitchell, of England, by whom he had six children.
Robert Colborn, grandfather of Andrew J. Colborn, who was named for his maternal grandfather, Robert Mitchell, of England, was born January 16, 1753, in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. At the age of eighteen years he was bound in appren- tice to Reuben Skinner, a forgeman. After serving his time out and arriving at man's estate, he married Effie Wortman, daugh- ter of John Wortman, of Morris county, New Jersey. In the year 1770 he and his family, consisting of his wife and three children, together with seventeen families of the same neighbor- hood in New Jersey, removed to Turkeyfoot township, Bedford, now Somerset county, Pennsylvania, where he followed the oc- cupation of farming and where he lived until he died, May 16, 1836. That part of Turkeyfoot township where these early set- tlers lived was named and is known from that time to the pres- ent as the Jersey settlement. They were the pioneer settlers of this part of the Keystone State. In 1775 he was one of the founders of the first church in Somerset county, the house of worship being built that year and has been known as the Bap- tist church in the Jersey settlement.
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A few years after the settlement, the revolutionary war broke out, when he, with several others, returned to New Jersey, and enlisted as a private throughout the revolutionary war. The adjutant-general's office of Trenton, New Jersey, shows that Robert Colborn enlisted as a private in Captain Joseph Luse's company, Western Battalion, Morris County, New Jersey Mili- tia, under Lieutenant-Colonel John Starke, in June, 1776, and served every alternate month for four years. He afterwards enlisted as a private under Captain Nathaniel Horton's com- pany, Western Battalion, Morris County (New Jersey) Militia. He was also a private in New Jersey State Troops. He was wounded in the foot at Amboy during the Revolutionary war.
His farm, located near Draketown, is known as the Colborn farm to the present day. His wife, Effie Wortman Colborn, daughter of John Wortman, was born in Morris County, New Jersey, in 1753, and died in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, November 25, 1826. They reared a family of seven children, among whom was a son, Abraham Colborn. Robert Colborn died May 16, 1836, at the venerable age of eighty-six years.
Abraham Colborn, father of Andrew J. Colborn, the eighth in order of birth of the children of Robert and Effie Wortman Colborn, was born in Turkeyfoot township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, December 23, 1789, but became a farmer from choice and followed that line of work during his entire lifetime. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, keen judgment and was looked upon as one of the progressive men of the commu- nity. He was prominently identified with the Baptist church at the Jersey settlement and held the offices of deacon and elder for many years. He was united in marriage to Eleanor Wood- mansey, born in Turkeyfoot township in 1790, a daughter of David Woodmansey, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Of this union there were nine children born to them, three of whom are living at the present time. Abraham Colborn died on his farm in Turkeyfoot township, October 11, 1843, and his wife, Eleanor, passed away July 11, 1858.
Andrew Jackson Colborn was reared and educated in Som- erset county, and at the death of his father, in 1843, he left the parental homestead and conducted the farm successfully until 1849. On account of sickness he gave up farming and sold his possessions and removed to Harnedsville, where he resided un- til 1854. He studied and taught in the public schools. He mar- ried Susan Hartzell, April 14, 1845. He studied surveying with Henry L. Holbert and there are very few, if any, of the town- ships of Somerset county in which he has not run the boundaries of many tracts of land. He was one of the engineers who helped lay out the Pittsburg and Connellsville railroad in 1851. He was county surveyor from 1869 to 1875. In the examinations
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of the titles by attorneys of the younger age, he was a copious source of information on questions of older conveyances and lines. During his residence at Harnedsville he devoted a con- siderable portion of his time to the reading of law, of which profession he had a taste and inclination. He removed with his family to Somerset, March 23, 1854, and studied law with Col- onel John R. Edie, and was admitted to the bar February 7, 1855. He immediately formed a law partnership with Hon. A. H. Coffroth, which continued for five years. Afterwards he was associated with attorneys William J. and Herman L. Baer, un- der the firm name of Baer & Colborn. This partnership con- tinued until 1863, after which he formed a partnership for the practice of law with Judge F. M. Kimmell, from 1863 to 1874, under the firm name of Kimmell & Colborn. Judge Kimmell had shortly before retired from the bench and taken up his resi- dence at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, however, he returned to his old home at each term of court, and this firm became one of the leading law firms at the bar. Upon the admission of his son, Louis C. Colborn, they practiced law under the name of Colborn & Colborn to the time of the senior member's death; in fact, the junior and surviving partner of this firm still conducts his busi- ness under the name of Colborn & Colborn. As a lawyer he met with eminent success in his professional labors. becoming one of the leading lawyers of Somerset, and his career was dis- tinguished by sterling character, a display of comprehensive knowledge of the law and a steady devotion to the best inter- ests of his clients.
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