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CURTIS GRAFT CAMPBELL, present secretary and treasurer of the Citizens' Light. Heat and Power Company, of Johnstown, Pennsyl- vania, is the son of Jacob M. and Mary R. (Campbell) Campbell. (See sketch of Bruce H. Campbell for antecedents. )
Curtis C. Campbell was born at Brady's Bend. Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. September 21. 1850, removing with the family at an early age to Johnstown. There he received his education at the public schools, worked on the Johnstown Tribune under Colonel James M. Swank from 1861 to 1870. then entered the State College. Center county, Pennsyl- vania. from which he graduated in 1814 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. While at college he became a member of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. After leaving college Mr. Campbell engaged in the drug business in Johnstown, which business he carried on successfully until about 1898. when he disposed of the property. In 1885 he was one of the organizers of the Johnstown Electric Company, later styled the Johns- town Light. Heat and Power Company. of which company Mr. Camp- bell was made treasurer. When in 1902 the business was incorporated as the Citizens' Light. Heat and Power Company, he was made its secre- tary and treasurer, which offices he still continues to hold. He is also a member of the P. A. Barnhardt Plumbing and Heating Company, or- ganized in 1900: also secretary and treasurer of the Cambria Forge Con- pany. organized in 1906.
Mr. Campbell is a member and past master of Johnstown Lodge No. 538, F. and A. M .: past high priest of Portage Chapter No. 195 ; past eminent commander of Oriental Commandery No. 61: belongs to Cambria Council No. 31. Roval and Select Masters: Jaffa Temple, An- cient Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and Sons of Veterans. In politics he is a Republican, and has served as councilman from the Fourth ward, borough of Johnstown, for three years, from 188 to 1890. In 1904 he was a member of the Board of Health. Mr. Campbell is a member of the Lutheran church.
Mr. Campbell married. December 13. 1817, Mary Magdalene Robb, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Matilda (Jones) Robb, of Johns- town, formerly of the Ligonier Valley, in Westmoreland county. Penn- sylvania. To Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have been born: Ida Rankin, Charles Orion, and Helen Robb, all unmarried and at home.
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THOMAS EDWARD REYNOLDS, of the firm of Woolf & Rey- nolds. clothing merchants of Johnstown, , Pennsylvania, is a native of Glen Alden, Isle of Man, born November 17, 1864. He is the son of Walter and Mary Jane (Bawden) Reynolds, natives of the same country. Walter Reynolds was a superintendent, or captain as it was called, in that country, of the lead mines at Snafell. In 1880 he emigrated to America and settled at Homestead, Pennsylvania, where he opened a butcher shop. Here he remained until after the great strike, which about ruined his business, which was largely a credit one among the steel workers, and the long continued lack of work and money, on the part of his customers, exhausted his own capital. He next entered the mills at Braddock, as a boiler tender in the wire mills, where he remained ten years and retired, the company pensioning him. He now makes his home with his son. Thomas E. Reynolds, at Johnstown. His children are: 1. George S., born November 19, 1866, married Jennie
he is a boiler tender at the Rankin wire mills. 2. Laura, wife of William Walters, a business man of Johnstown. 3. Thomas E., see forward. The
mother, Mrs. Mary J. (Bawden) Reynolds, died in England. After her
death Mr. Reynolds married Eliza Roberts, daughter of Roberts, captain of mines in Ireland, by whom he had one daughter, Theodosia, wife of Joseph Thompson, of Mckeesport, Pennsylvania. Mr. Reynolds has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years.
Thomas E. Reynolds received his education at the schools of his native land, and at the age of twelve years began his business career in the same line which he now follows-the clothing trade. He entered a store as an errand-boy at Barrow-in-Furnace, Lancashire, England, whither the family had removed. From there he went to Manchester as a clothing salesman, where he remained as a clothier until coming to America, two years after his parents had emigrated, arriving at Home- stead in 1882. After about one month there he went to Johnstown, where he worked with Joseph Levy for two years. From there he went to the employ of L. M. Woolf & Son, clothing merchants. (See sketch of Morris L. Woolf.) Ile became a member of the firm of Woolf & Rey- nolds in the spring of 1899, the elder Woolf having retired in 1892. When the firm was incorporated, February 14, 1903, Mr. Reynolds was made its treasurer, which office he still holds.
In politics Mr. Reynolds is a Republican; in 1898-1901 he served as a member of the school board in Stony Creek township. He is an exemplary member of the Episcopal church, of which he is a vestryman. He belongs to Cambria Lodge No. 278, F. and A. M., and Portage Chap- ter No. 195, R. A. M.
Of his domestic life it may be said that he married, July 17, 1888, Carrie, daughter of William and Eliza (Camp) Wilkinson, of Wood- stock, Ontario, of which place Mr. Wilkinson was for a number of years a contractor and builder, now making his home with Mr. Reynolds, at Johnstown. The issue by this union was: Lena P., Gladys M., Morris WV. and Dorothy.
ROBERT SAMUEL MURPHY, the third son of Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle, and Elizabeth Jane (Ginn) Murphy, his wife, was born October 18, 1861, in Louisville, St. Lawrence county, New York. His mother died when he was quite young, while they were re- siding in Portland, Maine.
He was educated at the Fryeburg Academy of that state, and sub- Vol. III-11
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sequently at Freeport, Sterling and Abingdon, in the state of Illinois, and completed it at Pennington, New Jersey.
In 1880 he entered the office of the Honorable William Horace Rose, an eminent lawyer of Johnstown, and having diligently pursued the study of the law he was admitted to practice in the courts of Cambria county on June 7, 1883. After his admission he located in the same place and successfully practiced his chosen profession in civil and criminal law. Within a few years he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Pennsylvania, and subsequently in the superior court when it was con- stituted, which is the second highest court of appeal in that state, and also in the circuit and district courts of the United States at Pittsburg.
In 1892 he was unanimously nominated. by the Republican party for the office of district attorney for Cambria. Although at that time the county was Democratic, yet after a vigorous and exciting campaign he was elected and served a full term of three years with distinction, when he was again re-elected and served another term with equal ability. He was a delegate from the Blair, Cambria and Bedford congressional dis- trict to the Republican National convention which convened in the city of Philadelphia in 1900, where Mckinley and Roosevelt were nominated and whom he supported. In the Republican gubernatorial campaign in 1906 he was a prominent candidate for governor to succeed the Hon- orable Samuel W. Pennypacker. A majority of the delegates in that convention substantially avowed that they could not agree to nominate him for the first place at that time. However, they all did agree that he was their first choice for the office of lieutenant-governor of the state of Pennsylvania, whereupon he was selected without a dissenting voice. After the nominations were made he accompanied Governor Stuart on a political tour of the state and eloquently presented the policies of the party in almost every county therein, which included all the large cities. In the general election held in November he was elected to that office by almost 72,000 plurality, and assumed the duties of his office in Jan- uary, 1907, for a term of four years. By virtue of the constitutional office he holds he will be lieutenant-governor, president of the state senate and member of the board of pardons for the state of Pennsylvania.
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In 1881 he and Ella Findlay Maclay Fritz were married in Johns- town. where they have since resided.
WILLIAM CHRISTIAN KRIEGER, son of Christian and Eliza- beth (Gerhardt) Krieger, was born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Jan- uary 24, 1869.
He attended the graded and high schools of that place, and at the age of fifteen years entered the service of the Cambria Steel Company as a messenger boy. Through various subordinate positions he forged his way to that of assistant cashier of the company. On his twenty-first birthday anniversary, January 24, 1890, he left the steel company to accept the position of assistant cashier of the Citizens' National Bank. which opened for business February 12 of that year. He remained with that institution until 1900, when he resigned both as a director and assistant cashier. For some time he had been promoting the organiza- tion of a trust company in Johnstown, and it became an accomplished fact during that year, opening for business, April 30, under the name of the Johnstown Trust Company. He became its secretary and treasurer and a member of the board of directors. which positions he still retains. In 1901 a private company-the Johnstown Brick Company-in which Mr. Krieger was interested, was incorporated and enlarged as the Johns-
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town Pressed Brick Company, of which he is president. This plant is located in Johnstown, and has a capacity of four million high grade pressed brick per annum, with a market within a radius of one hundred miles from the works. For the last fifteen years Mr. Krieger has been treasurer of two building and loan associations, the Johnstown and the Cambria. In his political views Mr. Krieger is an independent voter, a Cleveland Republican and a Roosevelt Democrat. In 1906 he was elected school controller from the sixth ward of the city on the Republican ticket. He is a consistent member of the German Lutheran church, and also a member of Johnstown Lodge No. 175, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. .
Mr. Krieger married, April 21, 1897, Annie Henrietta Zook, daughter of William and Julia (Von Lunen) Zook, of Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Krieger are the parents of three children: Julia Elizabeth, born April 21, 1898; William Christian, Jr., born May 31, 1900; Katharine Louise, born November 13, 1904.
J. LEONARD REPLOGLE, general superintendent of order depart- ment of the Cambria Steel Company, and whose service in the employ- ment of that corporation has been continuous since he left the school- room at the age of thirteen years, was born at New Enterprise, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1876. Through his father he is descended from Rinehart Replogle, who came from France about the year 1750 and settled at Morrison's Cove in Bedford county, where he was a pioneer farmer. He married and had a family of children, and from them have descended those of the surname Replogle, who have been so closely identi- fied with the civil and industrial history of southern and southeastern Pennsylvania during the more than last half century.
Among the descendants of Rinehart Replogle, the American an- cestor and farmer of Bedford county, was Rinehart Replogle second, who was the great-grandfather of J. Leonard Replogle, of Johnstown. His eldest son was David Long Replogle, who married Rosanna Zook, daugh- ter of David Zook, and by her had five daughters-Susanna, Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah and Mary, and five sons-Rinehart, Jacob, Elias, David and William Replogle. Rinehart Zook Replogle, son of David Long and Rosanna (Zook) Replogle, was born in Bedford county, April 24, 1846. His wife, whom he married October 15, 1868, was Mary Ann Furry, born July 26, 1849. Her father, Jacob Furry, had twelve chil- dren and Mary Ann was the eldest of them. The others were Dr. Samuel E. Furry, of New York; Leonard Furry, a ranchman in Nebraska; Daniel, Lee, David E., Preston B., Jacob (lawyer, attorney for the Atchi- son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company), Nannie, Hannah, Etta and Elizabeth Furry. Twelve children also were born to Rinchart Zook and Mary Ann (Furry) Replogle, viz .: Ella, Charles, Archie. J. Leonard, Rose, Preston, Phoebe, Robert, Roy, Herbert, Joseph and Mary Replogle.
J. Leonard Replogle received his early education in public schools in Bedford county and the city of Johnstown. In 1889, soon after the dis- astrous flood of that year, he entered the employ of the Cambria Steel Company in the capacity first of office boy, for at that time he was only thirteen years old. From the position of office boy he was in due time advanced to that of clerk. then shipper, then assistant superintendent of the forge and axle departments, then superintendent of the forge, axle and bolt departments, then assistant to assistant general manager, and
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finally general superintendent of order department, which responsible position he now fills.
In his present capacity in the company's service Mr. Replogle is a capable and reliable manager, and his knowledge of the business in all its detail has been acquired by constant attention and employment dur- ing the last eighteen years. In his higher capacity he is recognized as an expert, and on various occasions he has read papers on "Steel Axles" before railway clubs, conventions and other similar gatherings of expert mechanics and scientific men. In politics he is a Republican, and in re- ligion identifies himself with the Brethren church. He holds member- ship in the Western Railway Club of Chicago, Amicus. Club of Johns- town, Johnstown Country Club and is a member and ex-president of Johnstown Atheletic Club.
J. Leonard Replogle married, January 10, 1905, at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Blanche Kenly MeMillen, daughter of Frank Hay and Margaret J. (Kenly) McMillen. She was educated in the Johnstown public schools, graduating in 1900, and in Miss Mason's school-The Castle-at Tarrytown-on-Hudson, New York, graduating from there in 1902. Frank Hay McMillen at the time of his death in 1888 was private secretary to his father, and before that was manager of the Woodvale Woolen Mills. James McMillen, Mrs. Replogle's grandfather, at the time of his death was manager of the Penn Traffic Company and resident director of Cambria Steel Company. He also at one time was president of the First National Bank of Johnstown, Johnstown Savings Bank, Johnstown Water and Gas Company and of Grand View Ceme- tery Association, of which he was one of the founders and organizers. He died in 1897, at the age of seventy-five years.
LOUIS VON LUNEN. The death of Louis Von Lunen, which oc- curred March 26, 1906, after an illness of several years, in Hawthorn, Florida, removed from the city of Johnstown one of its representative citizens and successful business men, who during his active career con- tributed his quota toward the development of the varied interests of the community. He was a native of Lunen, Germany, born January 15, 1840, a son of Charles and Henrietta Von Lunen.
Louis Von Lunen, accompanied his father and brother to the United States in 1849, they locating in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood and attended the public schools. He worked on the farm and also conducted a milk route for his father, who was the proprietor of an extensive dairy. After his marriage he engaged in the dairy business with his father, and in 1870 purchased the homestead, which comprised upwards of two hundred acres. This he operated suc- cessfully, his energy and enterprise being resultant factors in making it one of the fine farming properties of the locality, and in addition to this conducted a dairy for a number of years. He continued farming up to 1888, when he sold the farm to the Johnson Company, reserving some twenty-five acres which has been kept intact and which still belongs to the family; on this was erected in 1901 a modern brick residence, which is the home of Mrs. Von Lunen. The greater portion of the orig- inal farm is what is now known as Moxham. Prior to selling his farm he had engaged in the manufacture of brick in connection with his farm operations, and this line of work he followed for a short period of time thereafter. Mr. Von Lunen was a man of domestic tastes and preferred the society of his family to public office, which he never sought or held, although he performed the duties devolving upon him as a citizen to the
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best of his ability. He affiliated with the German Lutheran church, to the support of which he contributed liberally.
Mr. Von Lunen married, March 17, 1864, Emily Griffith, daughter of Abner and Mary ( Reighart) Griffith, both of whom were natives of Jenner township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, removing to Cambria county when Mrs. Von Lunen was a child, and locating in Stony Creek township, where Mr. Griffith engaged in farming. He was one of the active citizens of the county, a member of the Freewill Baptist church, and both he and his wife died on the farm in Stony Creek township, he at the age of eighty-two and she at about the age of eighty years. Mr. and Mrs. Griffith were the parents of eight children: Nehemiah, of Walnut Grove, Cambria county. Elias, killed during the Civil war, while serving in the Fifty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer In- fantry. William, served in the cavalry during the Civil war, died about 1891. Cyrus, killed while in service during the Civil war. Emily, widow of. Louis Von Lunen. Ann Eliza, deceased, was the wife of Edward Ditzler, a soldier in the Civil war. Maria Marilla, wife of James D. Penrod, of Stony Creek township, who was also a soldier in the Civil war. Uriah, a farmer and merchant, residing in Stony Creek township.
The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Von Lunen : Ida, wife of Lewis Leventry, of Moxham. Julia, wife of Charles Leven- try, of Moxham. Ella, unmarried, resides at home. George, a plumber, resides in Moxham, married Jessie Leventry. Charles, died in child- hood. Effie, died in childhood. Mary, wife of W. W. Davis, assistant postmaster of Johnstown. Zora, died in childhood. Louis, a resident of Moxham, engaged in the livery business, married Zella Lavely ..
When Mr. Von Lunen's health began to fail, he sought relief by going south to Florida, but the quest proved unsuccessful, his death occurring in Hawthorn, Florida, March 26, 1906. His remains were brought back to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, his adopted city, and the in- terment was in Grandview cemetery.
DANIEL MORRELL STACKHOUSE, B. S., M. E., superintend- ent of the open hearth department of the Cambria Steel Company, Johns- town, Pennsylvania, and in some manner identified with the operation of that splendid industry for nearly twenty years, is a native of Johns- town, born May 5. 1866, son of Powell and Lucy (Roberts) Stackhouse.
Powell Stackhouse, great-grandfather of Daniel M. Stackhouse, was a son of Amos Stackhouse, grandson of James Stackhouse, great-grand- son of Robert Stackhouse and great-great-grandson of Thomas Stack- house. Powell Stackhouse, a cabinetmaker and foundry man, married Edith Dilworth, daughter of Charles and Mary Dilworth, and eleven children were born to them, as follows: Charles Dilworth, Emlen, father of Mrs. Dr. W. B. Lowman, of Johnstown; Joseph Dilworth, Sarah Dil- worth, Amos, Susan, wife of Daniel J. Morrell, Anna Dilworth. Powell, died about the age of two years; Powell, Dilworth, died in infancy ; Llewellyn.
Joseph Dilworth Stackhouse, third son of Powell and Edith (Dil- worth) Stackhouse, married Sarah Phipps Shaw and their children are: Powell, Mary Shaw (died in infancy), Rebecca Shaw, Alexander Shaw Stackhouse.
.Powell Stackhouse, eldest son of Joseph D. and Sarah P. (Shaw) Stackhouse, president of Cambria Steel Company, frequently and familiarly addressed in social and military gatherings as Major Stack- house, is one of the prominent figures in industrial cireles in Cambria
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county. He was educated in Philadelphia public schools, and in 1861, when President Lincoln first called for volunteers, he enlisted in the Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was appointed corporal and mustered into the United States service for three months on the 20th of April of that year. After the term of his enlistment had expired he again entered the service and was commissioned lieutenant in the One Hundred and Thirty-third Pennsylvania Infantry, and when honorably mustered out, June 4, 1865, his rank was that of major of the One Hun- dred and Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers. He is one of the first members of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion Lodge No. 202. He married Lucy Roberts, daughter of Judge Evan Roberts, and of an old respected Pennsylvania family.
Daniel Morrell Stackhouse acquired his earlier literary education at the Friends' High School in Philadelphia, where he was graduated, and his higher education at the University of Pennsylvania, where he took a full five years' course and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1887, and the degree of Engineer of Mines on completing the course of mining and metallurgy in 1888. After leaving the university he was employed in the blast furnace department of Cam- bria Steel Company from 1888 to 1890, then became assistant to the su- perintendent of the metallurgical department, still later was made super- intendent of the Cambria works order department, and since 1898 has been superintendent of the open hearth department of the Cambria Steel Company. Always a busy man, Mr. Stackhouse nevertheless has found time to take an interest in the public affairs of his home town, and while he is a firm Republican, he is not in any sense a politician or seeker after political office. For twelve years he has been president of Westmont Board of Health. At one time he was a director of Cambria Mutual Benefit Association, and now is a director of Johnstown Trust Company. He also is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
Daniel Morrell Stackhouse married, January 18, 1893, Katharine E. Benkert, a student of the Friends' Central High School, Philadelphia. They have four children-Rebecca, Powell, Daniel Morrell, Junior, and Katharine, all born at Westmont, Pennsylvania.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SWANK, business man of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, treasurer of the Swank Hardware Company, is a native of Johnstown, born February 22, 1870, son of Jacob and Catherine (Border) Swank, and a descendant of Jacob Swank, the American an- cestor of this branch of the family, and who was one of the pioneers of Somerset county in this state. The genealogy of the Swank family from the time of the ancestor is made the subject of more extended mention in the sketch of the life of Harry Swank, of Johnstown, to which reference is made.
Mr. Swank was educated in the public schools of Johnstown, and when about eighteen years old began work in the hardware store of his father and uncle, and there entered upon his active business career. On the death of his father, in 1889, he became one of the proprietors of the business, and in 1893, when the Swank Hardware Company was incor- porated, he was elected its treasurer. The other officers at that time were Harry Swank, president; Charles R. Glock, vice-president, and Morrell Swank, secretary. His attention is devoted closely to the company's financial affairs and the business in general, and much of the success which has rewarded the efforts of the company officers and managers is due to his capacity and judgment. In politics Mr. Swank favors the
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principles of the Democratic party, but he votes independent of party ties. He never has sought or held public office. He is a member of the First Lutheran Church, and at one time was a trustee of Trinity Luth- eran Church. He also is a member of Conemaugh Lodge No. 191, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, of Johnstown, and has passed all its chairs; member of Johnstown Lodge No. 245, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and of Johnstown Lodge No. 175, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
George W. Swank married, March 15, 1889, Martha Jane Ream, daughter of Isaac and Ellen (Rogers) Ream, of Somerset county, both descendants of old families of that region. Children of George W. and Martha J. Swank: Paul George, born January 28, 1897, died Novem- ber 17, 1904. Harold R., born July 30, 1898.
JOHN THOMAS, JR., son of John and Mary R. (Griffith) Thomas, whose sketch appears elsewhere, was born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, February 1, 1877.
His primary education was obtained in the public schools of his home town, and later he took a four-year classical course at Otterban University, at Westerville, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1898. After his return from college he became interested in the firm of M. L. Williams & Co., manufacturers of fire brick. After the consolidation of this company and that of A. J. Hams & Sons, Ltd., he became assistant general manager of the new company, which position he still holds. Mr. Thomas is also interested in the department store of John Thomas & Sons, an account of which business is given elsewhere. He is a firm be- liever in Republican principles and casts his vote with that political organization.
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