History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Volume III, Part 2

Author: Storey, Henry Wilson
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 940

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the Dibert building, where he has worked up a large and lucrative prac- tice. He is considered one of the rising young men of Johnstown, and a brilliant future is predicted for him. Itis political affiliations are Re- publican, and he is a regular attendant at the Presbyterian church. He is a member of the order of Free and Accepted Masons: of the Knights of Pythias; and of the Greek letter college fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi.

He married, October 23, 1901, at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Mabel Fussell Entwisle, a sketch of whose family follows. She received her education in the public schools of Johnstown and in the Walnut Lane School, at Germantown. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Camp- bell are: 1. Bruce H., junior. born Angust 11, 1902. 2. Edward Ent- wisle, August 25, 1905.

FOULKE FAMILY. The Foulke family is one of the most an- cient that settled in America. They trace their descent as far back as the early British kings.

(I) Edward Foulke, son of Foulke Thomas, was born May 3, 1651. He emigrated for Meriowethshire, Wales, July 12, 1698, with his wife and nine children, and settled at Gwynedd. Montgomery connty. Penn- sylvania. He married Eleanor, daughter of Hugh, who was the son of ('adwallader, and they had nine children: Thomas; lIngh, of whom later: Cadwallader: Evan; Gwen; Grace; Jane: Catharine; Margaret.

(II) Ilugh, second son and child of Edward (1) and Eleanor Foulke, was born 1685, died 1260. Ile married AAnn William>, born 1693, died 1223. Their ten children were: Mary: Martha: Samuel ; Eleanor; John, of whom later; Thomas; Theophilus; William; Edward : Jane.

(III) John Foulke, second son and fifth child of Hugh (?) and Ann (Williams) Foulke, was born 1722. died 1287. He married Mary, daughter of Edward and Mary Roberts. Mary ( Roberts) Foulke died in 1981. The children of Mr. and Mrs. John and Mary ( Roberts) Foulke were: 1. Edward, of whom later. 2. Ann, born 1260. married Israel Roberts, son of Thomas and Letitia Roberts. 3. Martha. 1163, married first, James Green ; married second, Daniel Walton. 4. Evan, married Sarah Nixon. 5. Margaret, married Thomas Gibson. 6. Aquilla. married Amelia Roberts. 2. Lydia, married Nathan Edwards.

(IV) Edward Foulke, eldest child of John and Mary ( Roberts) Foulke, was born November 16. 1:58, and died November 22. 1839. He married. 1:81, Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of Thomas and Letitia (Ray ) Roberts, and granddaughter of Thomas and Alice Roberts, who with his son Thomas emigrated from England, near the Welsh border. He mar- ried second, Ann Roberts, a sister of his deceased wife. His children were: 1. Jane, of whom later. 2. Rowland, born December 29. 1183. married Eliza Manss, died October 12. 1844. 3. Agnes. August 21. 1185, died, May 16, 1828. 4. Mary, September 29, 1782, died Septem- ber 19. 1842. 5. John. October 28, 1789. died January 20, 1863. 6. Edward, May 26, 1792, married Matilda Green, died February 2, 1859. (V) Jane Foulke, eldest child of Edward (4) and Elizabeth ( Roberts) Foulke, was born August 20, 1782, and died. May 9. 185%. She married William Fussell. (See Fussell sketch following. )

FUSSELL FAMILY. (I) William Fussell. the earliest mem- ber of the family of whom we have any record, lived in Yorkshire, Eng- land, with his wife, Elizabeth. They had two children: Solomon, of whom later : and Benjamin, who emigrated to America many years later

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than his brother Solomon, and one day, while walking in the streets of Philadelphia, saw the sign over the store of his brother, entered, and found his brother. Benjamin later went to the south.

(II) Solomon Fussell, eldest son of William (1) and Elizabeth Fussell, was born in Yorkshire, England, 1704. He emigrated to Penn- sylvania in 1721 and settled in Philadelphia. He was a chairmaker by trade. He married first, Susannah Coney, daughter of Jacob and Bar- bara Coney, and granddaughter of William Clinkenbeard. Their chil- dren were: 1. Elizabeth, born 1427; married Benjamin Dawson, 1744; died September 8, 1792. 2. William, of whom later. 3. Barbara, mar- ried John Burrows. 4. Susannah, married Thomas Crispin. 5. Jacob, married Esther McCullough. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Children who died in child- hood. He married second, Rachel Wilson, widow with ten children, and they had one child: Sarah, born October 12, 1751, married Benjamin Longstreth.

(III) William Fussell, second child and eldest son of Solomon (2) and Susannah (Coney) Fussell, was born in 1428 and died Feb- ruary 5, 1804. He and his wife are buried at Pikeland Friends' grave- vard. He lived at Phoenixville, and married Sarah Longstreth, born 1428 or 1229, died in 1800. She was the daughter of Bartholomew and Ann (Dawson) Longstreth. The children of William and Sarah (Long- streth) Fussell were: 1. Susannah, born January 29, 1453; married Aaron Dunkin, September 14, 1725: died July 26, 1819. 2. Bartholo- mew, of whom later. 3. Solomon, born December 20, 1755; died Oc- tober 20, 1793.

(IV) Bartholomew Fussell, second child and eldest son of Will- iam (3) and Sarah ( Longstreth) Fussell, born September 28, 1754; lied, October 12. 1838. He married Rebecca Bond, born October 9, 1:51, died March 4, 1851, daughter of Joseph' and Esther (Jeanes) Bond. Their children were: 1. Esther, born March 18, 1282: died February 8, 1848. 2. William, of whom later. 3. Sarah, September 10. 1284: died Angust 11, 1860. 4. Joseph, April 26, 1782 ; died October 15, 1855. 5. Solomon, June 28, 1989; died March 1, 1849. 6. Jacob, February 2, 1792; died August 7, 1855. 4. Bartholomew. January 9, 1794: died February 14, 1871. 8. Rebecca, April 21, 1796; died July 8, 1882.

(V) William Fussell, second child and eldest son of Bartholomew (4) and Rebecca (Bond) Fussell, was born June 30, 1783; died June 4, 1856. He married, September 28, 1809, Jane Foulke, born August 20, 1782; died May 9, 185%. (See Foulke sketch.) Their children were : 1. Elizabeth R., born July 31, 1810; died . June 10, 1888. 2. Edwin, June 14, 1813; died March 10, 1882. 3. Esther Ann, February 22. 1818; married Charles Pennell Jacobs, died about 1902. 4. Joseph. born August 2, 1820. 5. Milton, see forward.

(VI) Milton Fussell, third son and fifth and youngest child of William (5) and Jane (Foulke) Fussell, was born June 11, 1823, and lied November 17, 1902. He married Tamar J. Haldeman, October 31, 1848, daughter of Henry and Tamar Haldeman. Mrs. Fussell died in Narberth ( formerly Elm), Pennsylvania, January 26, 1895. Their children were: 1. William Henry, born January 18, 1850: died Novem- ber 26, 1901. 2. Annie W., of whom later. 3. Milton Howard, Novem- ber 24, 1855. 4. Elizabeth II., June 22, 1864.

(VII) Annie W. Fussell, second child and eldest daughter of Mil- ton (6) and Tamar J. ( Haldeman ) Fussell, was born July 16, 1852. She married, September 3, 1874, Edward B. Entwisle, born August 22,

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1851. They reside in Moxham, Johnstown. Pennsylvania. Their chil- dren are: 1. Elizabeth F .. born June 20, 1815. 2. Mabel F., of whom later. 3. Edward F., August 21, 1882. 4. Robert Morgan, May 2, 1887. (VIII) Mabel Fussell, second child and daughter of Annie (?) and Edward B. Entwisle, was born November 17, 1880. She married, October 23, 1901, Bruce Hall Campbell, as above stated.

JOHN FULTON, A. M., E. M., a valued citizen of Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, prominently identified with many and varied interests of the state, with a reputation throughout the United States and Canada as a mining and civil engineer, is of Scotch-lrish descent, his ancestors having emigrated from Scotland to Ireland after the reign of James VI. This migration was due to English persecution, and later many of the refugees, who had settled principally in the province of Ulster. sought more religious freedom in the new world. Some of the Fultons emigrated to the American colonies in the middle of the seventeenth century, and bore their share bravely in defence of the coun- try which they considered their home. The paternal ancestors of Mr. Fulton came originally from the Lowlands of Scotland, and his maternal from the Highlands.

Rev. Thomas Fulton, father of John Fulton, was born in Laughey, county Tyrone, Ireland, 1796. He was an excellent man, with many sterling virtues, but not practical in a worldly sense, and despite hard work and extreme frugality he found it a difficult matter to make both ends meet, with a large and growing family to support. He removed to the town of Dungannon, Ireland, and seven years were spent at Mill- town, a suburb of the city. He was occasionally engaged in surveying and later held a position as clerk at the Gortmerron Lime Works, man- aged by James Mackay. His circumstances, however, becoming more straitened. he determined to emigrate to America, and in 1848 sold his possessions, and in October of that year sailed from Liverpool in the sailing vessel "Sarah Siddons," Captain Cobb commanding, and landed at New York in November. He remained in that city abont one year and then removed to Public Works in the Beechwoods, Pennsylvania, and on the completion of the North Branch canal, settled on a farm in Lebanon township in 1852. After the Civil war he removed to a plan- tation in Virginia, called Buena Vista, where he remained with a part of his family until his death, which occurred June 24, 1890. He mar- ried Maria Mckeown, who died on the Wayne connty farm. November 14. 1864. She was an exemplary, consistent Christian woman. carrying the teachings of her religion into everyday practice, and a devoted and loving wife and mother. The children of this union were: 1. John, see forward. 2. Thomas. 3. William James, who for some time after the arrival of the family in this country worked in a grocery store. 4. Sophia, who obtained employment as a dressmaker. 5. Adam. 6. Al- fred. ". Edmund.

John Fulton, A. M., M. E., eldest child of Rev. Thomas and Maria (Mckeown) Fulton, was born at Drumard Cross, county Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland, October 16. 1826. His youth was spent on the farm of his father. and his elementary education was obtained at McKenna's school. He was then sent to the Ardtrea Classical School, under the supervision of Professor Kidd. He next attended the Erasmus school, perfecting himself in the study of higher mathematics, under Andrew Beatty. He made the acquaintance of Thomas S. Irwin, a civil engineer engaged in the survey of a large tract of land near Omagh, about 1845, and this

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was of great advantage to him. He was called to Dublin to assist in the survey of the Great Western Railway, across Ireland between Dub- lin and Galway, and was assigned as chainman to a corps of employes managed by Butler and Fortesene. He was later promoted to the office in Dublin in the department of Jonas Stowell. Two years later he was appointed to assist a Mr. Nevin on the English Government Relief Works, in the county of Westmeath, Ireland. The following year he came to America with his parents, and the departure from Ireland, the land which he dearly loved, was a great grief to him, as well as to the remainder of the family. When they arrived here, they found it diffi- cult to get work that paid properly, a laborer's wages being fifty-six cents per day, and even such a position was not easy to procure. John could obtain no employment in the engineering line, so he concluded to go to Wayne county, Pennsylvania, where he had a friend, Francis Blair, engaged in contracting on Public work. With a five dollar gold piece in his pocket and a small parcel of clothing he left New York to seek a betterment of conditions elsewhere. He spent a few days in Rileyville, Wayne county, where he met some friends and obtained work on a small canal near Honesdale, in the same county, which paid seventy- live cents per day, without board, and winter now having set in he be- gan the real work of his life with pick, drill and axe. The following spring he was advanced to the position of boss, and shortly afterward was further advanced to the position of walking boss and had control of all the other bosses. He sent for his parents and the remainder of the family and they settled in a shanty, and during the summer all worked on a railroad bed, the father acting as boss. In the fall of this year the unfinished North Branch canal was put under contract for com- pletion, and Mr. Blair secured two sections near Tunkhannock, and the entire Fulton family moved to that region. John continued to be the walking boss and was the general manager of the works and store. When these sections were finished new work was obtained in the same locality, and the father and some of the family moved to a small farm in Wayne county, as previously stated. John Fulton continued manager

at the Tunkhannock aqueduct, and the assistant engineer, T. T. Wier- man, hearing that he had some engineering training and that he was a good draftsman, engaged him to work in his corps. He worked from 1852 until 1855 on the Junction canal connecting the Pennsylvania and New York systems, at Elmira, New York. He was connected with this canal work until its completion and had in charge the filling of the canal with water. He was next employed in the construction of the Bar- clay railroad, and later accepted the position of resident and mining engineer in connection with mining for the Broad Top Mountain Rail- road and Coal Company. He continued with this company from 1857 until 1873, having charge of the railroad and the opening of the coal mines. His next appointment was that of chief engineer of the Bed- ford and Bridgeport Railroad, connecting Mount Dallas with Cumber- land, Maryland. This was for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and ended in 1874. Hon. D. J. Morrell general manager of the Cambria Iron Works sent for him, during that year, and offered him the position of gen- eral mining engineer in that company. This he accepted and at once or- ganized a corps of men for making surveys of the large mines of the company. His duties embraced the management of the coal mines and the coke works situated in Pennsylvania, and the iron ore mines sit- uated in the Menominee region in northern Michigan. During the years he occupied this position he enjoyed the confidence and friendship of

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Hon. D. J. Morrell, the general manager, and of E. Y. Townsend, the president of the company. He was advanced to the position of general superintendent of the steel works, under C. E. Chaplin, in 1882, and in the following year was given the important office of general manager of the Cambria Iron Company. This office he filled to the entire satis- faction of those most interested in the affairs of the company until 1892, when a severe attack of the grip and other causes induced him to retire from the exhausting labors.

About three years later he associated himself in partnership with Mr. Isaac Taylor in the purchase of some coal lands and the establish- ing of coke works named "Mount Hope" near Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and this has proved a very practical and profitable investment. He also opened an office in Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and resumed his practice of mine engineering and the ex- amination of the geological and economical conditions of properties. These varied occupations and interests have made him one of the busi- est men of his time. He has been assistant state geologist during the second geological survey of the state, and reported and mapped Cambria and Somerset counties. He has crossed the continent twice, visiting British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. His work has been over a large portion of the United States and Canada. and he has a wide-spread reputation as a coke expert. He is the author of a number of papers on scientific subjects, among them being a trea- tise on the "Manufacture of Coke and the Saving of Bi-Products," which contains three hundred and forty pages, well illustrated. He is con- nected with many societies and organizations, some of which are here mentioned: The Philosophical Society of Philadelphia; president of the Young Men's Christian Association ; president of the Park Commis- sion : president of Grand View Cemetery ; has been president and civil engineer of the Board of Health; is a member of the State Forestry Commission ; is a director of the Union National Bank: president of the Buena Vista Iron Ore Company of Virginia; is a member of the AAmerican Institute of Mining Engineers. The Lafayette College, at Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1870, conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts. He has also been awarded a number of testimonials and medals, among them being: Two from the judges at the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, one diploma and medal being in special recognition of "Active interest and efficient co-operation in the Universal Exposition of 1904," and the other for "developing the coke industry in the United States." His political affiliations are with the Republican party, but he has never sought or held public office. His church connections were with the Presbyterian church in Saxton, and when he removed to Johnstown he and his family became members of the First Presbyterian Church in that city, and having held the office of ruling elder in the Saxton church, he was tendered a similar office in his new home in the Johnstown church. He instructed a Bible class of adults for more that forty years, and was justly renowned for the excellence of his teachings. Mr. Ful- ton is a man of strong personality, keen observation, practical and meth- odical. His executive ability, which he can put into play without a moment's hesitation, is simply remarkable. His grasp of detail is won- derful, and his conclusions are formed rapidly and yet systematically. He is the ideal man at the head of a commission to enforce laws which are necessary to the masses, vet irksome to a few. The main factors in the success which he has attained have been his strong will power and his confidence in himself. He has had as his guide the old but true

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saying. "First be sure that you are right, then go ahead." There is no worrying after he has arrived at a decision; the matter has been well considered from all points of view, before one step is taken to carry it out, and when once begun there is no need for hesitation. He is a man of sound judgment and practical common sense.

Mr. Fulton married, in 1855, in Arthur, Canada, Anne Mackay, daughter of James Mackay, of Scotland, who emigrated to Upper Canada. He was a botanist of scientific attainments, and had extensive nurseries in Ulster, Ireland, prior to his emigration. Mrs. Fulton was educated in Dungannon, Ireland, at a private seminary for females. The children of John and Anne ( Mackay) Fulton were: 1. Marie, married John D. Ligon, in 1889. He is a proofreader in the Patent Office in Washington, District of Columbia, where they reside, and have one son and one daughter. 2. James Edmund, was educated partly at the state college and partly at the Hills' School, below Reading. He studied min- ing, and at the time of his death, January 18, 1885, was superintendent of the large coal mines of the Cambria Iron Company, located in the city of Johnstown. He had also had considerable experience in explor- ing for iron ore in the Adirondacks, in the state of New York, and in opening mines in Morrell in the Connellsville region. He is buried in the Fulton Circle in Grand View Cemetery. 3. Thomas Wierman, re- ceived the same education as his brother, and in addition attended the Columbia School of Mines in New York, in 1881. He died September 20, 1884, before his graduation. 4. Nannie West, the youngest child of the family, is still at home.

PRICE FAMILY. The surname Price in cach succeeding genera- tion of descendants of its American ancestor has been known in Pennsyl- vania history from the time of the founding of the Colony by William Penn and his followers in 1682. Beyond that time little is known of the family life and history in European countries, except that on all sides the ancestors in England, Wales, North of Ireland and Germany, were members of the religious Society of Friends.

The founder of that branch of the Price family in Pennsylvania of which this sketch is intended particularly to treat was Philip Price, who is mentioned in Colonial records as having come "with the first Welsh settlers, but in old age." He was of that colony of settlers of whom Proud in his "History of Pennsylvania," in treating of the period which included the last quarter of the seventeenth century, makes particular allusion in these words:

"Among those adventurers and settlers who arrived about this time (1682) were also many from Wales, of those who are called Ancient Britons, and mostly Quakers, divers of whom were of the original or early stock of that Society there. They had carly purchased of the pro- prietary in England forty thousand acres of land. Those who came at present took up so much of it on the west side of Schuylkill river as made the three townships of Merion, Haverford and Radnor; and in a few years afterward their number was so augmented as to settle the three other townships of Newton, Goshen and Uwchland. After this they continued, still increasing, and became a numerous and flonishing people." *

* . * "Divers of these early Welsh settlers were persons of worthy and excellent character; and several of good education, family and estate, chiefly Quakers; and many of them either eminent preachers in that society, and otherwise well qualified and disposed to do good, in various capacities, both in religious and civil, in public and private life."

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Philip Price brought with him to America his first wife, and set- iled in Haverford, near where the Buck Tavern afterward stood, on the old Laneaster road, about six miles from Philadelphia. On the 6th of the 8th month, 1691, as appears by a deed now extant, he purchased from Francis Rawle, for the price of one hundred and thirty-five pounds in silver currency, one thousand acres of land in Plymouth township. then in Philadelphia county, but now Montgomery county. In a deed from Philip Price dated the 5th day of August, 1403, he describes him- self as of Upper Merion, Welsh Tract. His will, dated the 11th day of 12th month, 1:19, which was probated at Philadelphia, 11th month, 22d day, 1720, describes him as yeoman of the township of Merion, county of Philadelphia, and makes provision in legacies to his various children and grandchildren, among the latter being the name of Isaae Price. Unto his second and youthful wife, Margaret Price, whose maiden name was Morgan, and whom he married at his age of eighty-five years and lived with about twelve years, making his own age ninety-seven years, he de- vised his "house and plantation, where we now dwell." Margaret Price lived until 1714.

Isaac Price, son of the first Philip Price, was married on the 4th day of the 1st month, 1696, to Susanna Shoemaker. This marriage is duly certified on the books of the Abingdon Monthly Meeting under that date, with the lawfully required names of twelve Friends as witnesses following. Susanna Shoemaker was one of the German Friends from Cresheim, in the Palatinate, on the right bank of the Rhine, below Heidelberg, having come to America with her mother, Sarah Shoemaker. and several other children in the ship "Jeffries," Arnold, master, from London. Sth month, 12, 1685. Susanna Shoemaker then was thirteen years old. This Isaac Price died before his father, in 1707. His will is dated 4th day, 4th month, 1:06, and was proved in the register's office in Philadelphia, on the 1st day of March, 1:07.

Isaac Price, son of Isaac and Susanna (Shoemaker) Price. was placed as an apprentice with Griffith Jones and Elizabeth, his wife. of Germantown. on the 7th of October, 1220, with several salutary restrain- ing stipulations in the indenture for his good conduct, with the con- sent of his mother, who then was Susanna Courten, wife of William Courten. In witnessing his marriage she signed her name as Kourten. Isaac Price married, on the 10th day of the 4th month, 1729, Margaret Lewis, whose father, Henry Lewis, came from Narbeth, in Pembroke, Wales, and settled in Haverford in 1682. He had been a pecuniary suf- ferer in Wales on account of his religion. and being otherwise persecuted he left that country and came to Penn's colony in America, where he was a man of consequence among the people. He held the office of peace- maker for the county of Philadelphia, and according to Dr. Smith's "History of Delaware County" he was foreman of the first grand jury of that county. Henry Lewis enjoyed the close friendship of William Penn, the proprietor, as is shown by a letter written by Penn in Lon- don to Thomas Lloyd in America, dated 1st month, 16, 1684-5, in which he requests to be dearly saluted to his "dear friends in their meetings. and particularly to dear John Simeoek and seventeen others by name, in- cluding Henry Lewis and the rest of the Welsh Friends." Henry Lewis died in 1688, leaving his wife and three children-Henry, Samuel and Elizabeth-all of whom were born in Wales. Henry married Mary Taylor, daughter of Robert Taylor of Springfield, and who had come from Cheshire. In speaking of this Henry Lewis, Dr. Smith's history says : "The second Henry became a man of considerable note; was a

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History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Volume III, Part 2

Author: Storey, Henry Wilson Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 940

Author: Storey, Henry Wilson
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 940