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When he came to live in Johnstown Captain Bradley was a little more than twenty years old. He was born March 4, 1834. As a boy he was given little opportunity to attend school, but what he lost in that way he more than made up in learning by actual experience in travel and ob- servation of men. Having settled at Johnstown he at once found em- ployment as puddler in the old mill of the Cambria Iron Company, and worked there constantly until August, 1892, a period of nearly forty years. He then was given the position of watchman and janitor in the general office of the Cambria Steel Company, which he held until May, 1905. and then resigned at the urgent request of his sons. Captain Brad- ley was in the service of the Cambria Iron Company and its successor, the Cambria Steel Company, more than fifty years, with but one or two events to break that remarkable period of employment.
The first of these intervals came in 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil war, when President Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers for three months "to suppress treasonable rebellion." At that call, on the 18th of April, he enlisted in Captain John Linton's company of the Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Minier commanding. On the organization of the company he was elected and soon afterward was com- missioned first lieutenant. His service with the regiment was chiefly in the vicinity of Falling Water and Winchester, Virginia, where occasional skirmishes were had with the enemy. At the expiration of the term of enlistment Lieutenant Bradley would have re-enlisted for three years, but the objections of his good wife prevailed and kept him at home with her and their children. However, during the latter part of the war when the
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territory of Pennsylvania was seriously threatened with still another Con- federate invasion, he led a company of volunteers to resist the invaders. His company was not regularly mustered into either the state or govern- ment service, but it was there and ready for action. Previous to the war Captain Bradley was for five years a private in the militia organization known as the Home Guards.
The second period of absence from work came in June, 1899, when Captain Bradley returned to Ireland and visited his old boyhood home for the first time in fifty years. His parents were not there then and few in- deed of the friends of early days. He found relatives who treated him with the utmost kindness, but even they were almost strangers. In 1904 he attended the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic in San Francisco, California. In polities he always has been a firm Democrat, but never sought public office.
Ilugh Bradley has been married three times. His first wife, whom he married November 16, 1858, was Mary Riley, of New Florence, Penn- sylvania, by whom he had seven children. She died February 22, 1880. His second wife was Mary Bradley, daughter of John Bradley, of Alle- gheny township, Cambria county. She died after two and a half years of married life. His third wife was Katherine Blatte, of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, whom he married September 24, 1885. She was a daughter of Jerome and Susan (Mouse) Blatte. Jerome Blatte was born in Ba- varia, Germany, and his wife Susan near Frankfort, Germany. He was a millwright by trade, although his chief occupation was farming. He died March 12, 1903, but his widow still lives on the farm six miles above Hollidaysburg with her son-Frank Blatte-and her two daughters- Melinda and Jenny Blatte. Her four other children are Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Tierney, of Hollidaysburg; Mary, wife of William Brown, of Lily, Pennsylvania ; Susan, wife of William Crist of Braddock, Pennsyl- vania, and Margaret, who now is in the convent at Braddoek.
Children of Captain Hugh and Mary (Riley) Bradley: 1. Edward Riley, born 1859, married Agnes Curry, of Chicago. Mr. Bradley lives in Chicago, where he is the proprietor of the Del Prado Hotel, and owns a blooded stock farm in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky. He recently sold Aceountant, a fast runner, for forty-five thousand dollars. 2. James Francis, died in infaney. 3. Mary E., born 1863, married (first) Byron Gibbons ; married (second) Robert Scanlon. 4. John Roger, born 1866, a broker in New York eity, an extensive traveler, is known as one of the six great hunters of the world's big game. He has hunted in the Rockies, Alaska. Mexico. South Africa, Siberia, China, and has the finest collec- tion of heads of horned animals in the world. He is now a resident of New York City, and is a contributor to the columns of The Illustrated Outdoor News and other sporting magazines. 5. Hugh Patrick, born 1868, died aged eight years. 6. Peter Garvey, born 1870, a machinist now living in Boston, Massachusetts. 7. Katherine, wife of Edward W. Bailey, of Johnstown.
CHARLES E. BORN. M. D., one of the best known of the younger physicians in Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, who has served the city in a variety of ways, and is medical examiner for an unusually large number of life insurance companies, is descended from an old and respected family of Germany.
John Born, father of Dr. Charles E. Born, and the first of this fam- ily to come to America, was born December 25, 1840, and emigrated to the United States in 1861. His occupation was that of tea sorter. He served
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three years in the Fifty-seventh Regiment, New York Volunteers, in the Civil war. IIe was a member of the Lutheran church, and he died in 1884. He married Caroline Smith, daughter of John and Wilhelmina Smith, who was one of four children: Mary, married Berthold Nern ; Augusta. married Charles E. Popp; Caroline, mentioned above; and John, deceased. The children of John and Caroline (Smith) Born were: Four died in infancy. 3. Edward W .. deceased, was a sergeant in the Twenty-first Regiment during the conflicts in the Philippines, and died from the effects of malarial fever which he contracted while on duty there. 6. George M., unmarried, is a printer by occupation, and resides in Brooklyn, New York. 7. Dr. Charles E., see forward.
Charles E. Born, M. D., youngest child of John and Caroline (Smith) Born, was born at Maspeth, Long Island, New York, Angust 19, 1828. IIis preliminary education was received in the public schools of Maspeth, and Board of Regents, New York State University. He then commenced the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. V. E. Judson, of Maspeth. He next spent three years at the Long Island College Hospital and one year at the University of Baltimore, Maryland, from which latter institution he was graduated April 15, 1902. He then opened an office in Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, where he is at present (1906) associated with Dr. W. E. Matthews, at No. 425 Lincoln street, in the practice of his profession. He was city physician for a time, and also physician to the Municipal Hospital. Johnstown. He is medical examin- er for the following insurance companies: American Central Life of In- dianapolis; Reliance of Pittsburg: Equitable of Iowa; American Life of Pittsburg: American Casualty of Reading; North American Accident of Chicago and Fraternal Insurance. He is a member of the following fra- ternal organizations: Cambria Lodge, No. 538, Free and Accepted Masons : Portage Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, No. 195; Cambria Council, R. and S. M., No. 32: Oriental Commandery, No. 61, Knights Templar. all at Johnstown, Pennsylvania ; Williamsport Consistory. thirty-second de- gree, Scottish Rite: Jaffa Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Altoona ; Cambria County Medical Society: Pennsylvania State Medical Society ; American Medical Association ; Alpha Chapter, Phi Chi Medical Fraternity, south- ern jurisdiction ; Baltimore University Alumni Association. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and gives his'political sup- port to the Republican party. The excellence of his work in his chosen profession has drawn much favorable comment from his fellow practi- tioners, and he enjoys the confidence of a large number of patients.
He married, December 24, 1899, Rosa Allendorfer, daughter of John H. and Helene (Headrick) Allendorfer, of Johnstown, who had four children : Rosa, mentioned above ; Lucy, married Homer A. Wilson : Lill- ian, married B. Lynn Gobin ; and Harry, unmarried. Dr. Charles E. and Rosa (Allendorfer) Born have one child: Mildred M., born at Brooklyn, New York, May 15, 1901.
SAMUEL E. YOUNG, general manager and secretary of the Johns- town Passenger Railway Company, and in some prominent manner iden- tified with business interests in that city for more than thirty years, was born at Armagh, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1849, and comes of Scotch-Irish ancestors long resident in this state.
His father. Horace F. Young, was born in Central Pennsylvania, and was an early settler in Cambria county. In 1848 he removed to Armagh and two years later became partner with Absolom Thompson and James Johnson in establishing and operating a foundry at that place. In 1852
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Mr. Young removed to New Florence, Westmoreland county, and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1860. He then came to Johnstown and worked at his trade as a carpenter and joiner until 1864. In 1866 he met accidental death. On the occasion of the visit, September 14, 1866, of President Andrew Johnson and other distinguished officers of the govern- ment, he sustained injuries from which he died soon afterward, by the falling of the platform at the local Pennsylvania railroad station. He was a firm Democrat and a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Young's wife, Sarah (Johnson) Young, is a descendant of an old In- diana county family whose settlement in the locality of Armagh was made when the region was almost a wilderness, and when Indian troubles made life itself uncertain in that part of the state. During that early period the Johnson family was frequently driven from home, and on one occasion the buildings were plundered and burned to the ground. The log cabin was rebuilt, however, and is still standing, a monument of pioneer days. Samuel Johnson, Mr. Young's maternal grandfather, attained the age of eighty-one years.
Samuel E. Young was educated in the public schools in Indiana county and at a private school in Johnstown, which was kept by Rev. B. L. Agnew. His business career was begun as an employe of Wood, Morrell & Co., and later on he became superintendent for the Johnstown Manufac- turing Company in the operation of that company's woolen and flour mills at Woodvale, now a part of the city of Johnstown. This position he held until 1892 and then resigned to take that of general manager of Johns- town Passenger Railway, which position Mr. Young still holds, succeed- ing Mr. John B. Hofgen, resigned. Mr. Young is a Democrat. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, a life member of Lodge No. 175, Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Johnstown. He is a Presbyter- ian, as were all his ancestors.
Samuel E. Young married, November 18, 1873, Lizzie Rose, daugh- ter of Wesley J. Rose, of Johnstown. Of this marriage five children have been born: 1. Horace, deceased. 2. Wesley J., married Alice Williams and resides in Johnstown. 3. Walter R., married a Miss Schrader and resides in Johnstown. 4. Annie, married John Monaghen and resides in Johnstown. 5. Jessie.
JOHN DIBERT WEAVER SNOWDEN, of the J. D. W. Snow- den Company of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was born in that city. August 14, 1883, son of W. S. Weaver. The Weaver ancestors were natives of New England, whence they emigrated to the Genesee Valley, New York. From that locality they drifted to western Pennsylvania.
Henry Weaver, the great-grandfather of John D. Weaver Snowden, settled in the upper valley of the Allegheny river, probably in Armstrong county, near Kittanning, where Samuel E. Weaver, his son, was born. Samuel E. Weaver went west for a time, but in 1860 moved to Johnstown, where he died in 1893. He was for many years assistant superintendent of Wood, Morrells & Company's store, now the Penn Traffic Company. The wife of Samuel E. Weaver, Louisa Domm, was born in 1837, near Berlin, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Casper Domm, a native of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, who emigrated to America in 1825, locating near Berlin, where he lived until 1844, when he located perma- nently at Johnstown. Here he died in 1891, aged eighty-six years. Ile was a contractor and builder.
Walter Sinclair Weaver, father of John D. Weaver Snowden, was born at Wellersburg, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1856, coming
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to Johnstown at the age of five years. He received his schooling at the public schools of that place, and at an early age entered the service of the Cambria Steel Company. At the age of twenty he caught the western fever, went to California and traveled extensively throughout the west for three years. On his return to Johnstown he engaged in business for him- self on Main street, opening a bakery and confectionery store, in connec- tion with china and glassware. Here he continued until the great flood of 1889, which destroyed the buildings and ruined the stock. He sold his interest in the property and the following two years thereafter was the manager of the Engleside Brick Co. Leaving this he again entered the employ of the Cambria Steel Co., in the works order department, later was made the superintendent of that department, then special accountant, at the general office, later still assistant to the assistant manager. At the present time he is superintendent of structural and steel car department. After the death of his first wife (the mother of the subject) W. S. Weav- er married for his second wife, Josephine Moore, of Scranton, Pennsyl- vania, a sister of M. G. Moore, civil engineer for the Cambria Steel Com- pany, who married a sister of W. S. Weaver, Louisa by name. By his sec- ond marriage Mr. Weaver had three children: Catherine, Josephine and Walter Sinclair, Jr.
Concerning the first marriage of Walter S. Weaver, it may be said that he was united to Susan Blanch Dibert. She was the daughter of John and Martha (McLane) Dibert, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. By this union the following children were born: John Dibert, see forward ; and Martha, who with her mother was drowned in the Johnstown flood. The Diberts were of Holland stock, Mrs. Weaver's great-grandfather be- ing the immigrant ancestor. The place of their original settlement was Bedford county, Pennsylvania, whence John Dibert, the second in de- scent, removed to Somerset county, settling at a place afterward called Dibertsville. He was a farmer, distiller and a tanner until about 1816, when he removed to Johnstown, where he died at the age of forty-five years. At Johnstown he engaged in the mercantile and hotel business, becoming one of the most wealthy and prominent citizens of the town. Ilis son. John Dibert, the father of Mrs. Weaver, received a good mercan- tile education in his father's business and devoted himself to mercantile and banking pursuits all of his life. About 1850 he established a hard- ware business which was carried on for many years. In 1869. in partner- ship with John D. Roberts, he founded the banking firm of John Dibert & Co .. which continued until Mr. Dibert's death, at the time of the flood, May 31, 1889.
Mrs. Susan Blanch (Dibert) Weaver, with her daughter Martha, were ill-fated victims of the great 1889 Johnstown flood, in which they lost their lives. After this calamity, the son. John Dibert Weaver (sub- ject) was adopted by Mrs. Weaver's sister, Mrs. Robert Patterson Snow- den. nee Mary Dibert. The Snowdens and Pattersons were settlers in New Jersey prior to the landing of William Penn. After this event they removed to Philadelphia, where the major portion of both families have since resided. Mr. Snowden's grandfather, General Robert Patterson, was an officer in the Mexican war, and a personal friend of General Grant. Robert Patterson Snowden is connected with the Pennsylvania railroad, at Camden. New Jersey.
John Dibert (Weaver) Snowden was born at Johnstown. Pennsyl -. vania. August 14. 1883, and after his adoption into the Snowden family he was taken to Bordentown, their residence at that time. In 1893 he went to Raymond Academy, at Camden, New Jersey, where he remained
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three years, then to the William Penn Charter School, at Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1902. He was with the Cambria Steel Co. in their Philadelphia office for about eighteen months, and was then transferred to Johnstown for a year afterward. He engaged in the lum- ber business on his own account, in 1904, at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His business is entirely wholesale, selling to yards, mostly in Pennsyl- vania. A large portion of the lumber which he handles is bought from local mills throughout West Virginia. Mr. Snowden is a large realty owner in Johnstown, and is firm in his belief in its future. In his polit- ical views he is inclined to independent party operations, particularly in local matters. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and at Cam- den was the secretary of the Sunday school, president of the Young Men's Bible Class. as well as the president of the Ushers Association. He is a member of Americus Club, Physical Culture Club, and the Johnstown Country Club.
Mr. Snowden married, October 5, 1904, Irene Clift, daughter of Ulysse Chamacine and Mary Elizabeth (Danby) Mac Kee, of Camden, New Jersey.
REV. PETER FOX, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Conemaugh, Pennsylvania, was born in Ireland, June 6, 1871. He sprang from an old and respected family, who resided in the county Westmeath, near the birthplace of Oliver Goldsmith. The late Andrew J. and Rose ( Halion) Fox had eleven children, among whom was Peter.
At an early age he started to Tang National School. When twelve years old he entered the Jesuit College, Galway, and remained there three years. He was a student at St. Mel's College, Longford, for two years, where he became proficient in the higher branches, including French, Lat- in and Greek. From St. Mel's he went to Carlow. Among the students of this great institution of learning he was remarkable for refinement and culture, and his keen intellect could grasp the most abstruse questions in ethics and dogma. Under able professors he acquired a liberal education, and in difficult problems-theological, scriptural or otherwise-his opin- ion was always of much weight.
After six years of successful study he was ordained on June 28, 1896, by the Most Rev. Patrick Foley, D. D., for the Diocese of Pittsburg. Aft- er a vacation of three months he bade adieu to brothers and sisters. to home and country, and came to the Iron City. His first appointment was as assistant pastor at St. John's Church, Altoona, where he remained nearly five years. While in the Mountain City he proved himself a priest, a scholar and a man, and when he left, it was with the great regret of his parishioners, amongst whom he labored so faithfully and so fruitfully.
He was pastor of Holy Trinity Church, Huntingdon, for two years, endearing himself not only to his own people, but also to the good citi- zens of the town. From Huntingdon he went to Ebensburg, and remained there 'till February, 1906. when he took charge of his present parish. Here, as elsewhere, he has displayed great executive ability, not only in making extensive improvements but also in paying off large amounts of debt.
He is earnest, forceful and eloquent in diction, and his sermons are such that those who hear them must necessarily derive much spiritual good. Moreover, he has been beloved always by his people. His genial disposition, his earnest desire to advance their temporal welfare as well as their spiritual needs, and his untiring zeal for the salvation of souls, has won for him the esteem and affection of all.
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REV. JOHN MARTVON, pastor of St. Stephen's Slovak Roman Catholic Church, Cambria City, was born January 6, 1856, in Hruštin. Hungary, son of John and Theresa (Zilinec) Martvoň, the former of whom followed the occupation of a farmer.
John Martvon was thoroughly educated in his native land, passing four years at the Gymnasium of Trstená and three at that of Levoča. He studied philosophy and theology at Spis, and there received ordination April 15, 1884. During six years thereafter he ministered as assistant pastor at churches situated at Hrušov, Kluknava, Jablonka and Lipnica. In 1890 he set sail for the United States, and on July 25, of that year, landed in New York. Thence he proceeded to Cleveland, Ohio, where he took charge of the Slovak congregation of the church of St. Ladislaus, fulfilling the duties of that office over two years. At the end of that time he was transferred to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and placed in charge of the congregation of which he has been the guide for the last twelve years. having entered upon his pastoral duties in March, 1894.
The broad and liberal basis upon which the work of Father Martvon is founded and the spirit of kindliness by which it is animated are dem- onstrated in the fact that since he assumed charge of the congregation it has become representative of no fewer than four different nationalities, Greeks, Croatians, Poles and Magyars meeting and co-operating in a spirit of brotherly love. At first the Greeks, Croatians. Poles and Mag- yars with the Slovaks formed one congregation. Now they each have a congregation of their own, making five from one.
In 1895 a comfortable and attractive parsonage was erected, and in 1897 the work of the church was ie-enforced by the building of a con- vent to which was attached a parochial school. The congregation also purchased the property adjoining the convent at a cost of fifteen thou- sand five hundred dollars, and on this land the erection of a new church is contemplated. In 1895 Father Martvon introduced into his parish the Sisters of St. Francis, and since that time the school under their charge, which was organized with a force of two teachers and an attendance of sixty children, has increased to seven teachers and four hundred and fifty pupils. This fact is illustrative of the aggressive policy of Father Mart- von and his able coadjutors and of the rapid and abundant results already accomplished which contain in their fulfilment encouraging hopes for fu- ture achievement.
REV. JULIUS CSUCSKA, an able clergyman of the Greek Catholic denomination. in Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is one of the most widely known and respected preachers in that section of the state. He resigned the important position of professor and vice-president of the Greek Theological Institution at Unghvar to accept this call to work in America.
The laboring class of Hungary, though they may resign almost all the customs of their native country and adopt those of the land to which they have emigrated, cling with devotion to the faith of their forefathers. This is practically exemplified in the Greek Catholic congregation which has been formed in Johnstown. This congregation was organized in 1895 and there were but fifteen families that joined in the movement at that time, led by John Jerabinctz, Andrew Bohla and Stephen Staroschak. They erected the first church ever built in this county for the so-called Greek rites. This was a small, frame house located in Power street, Cam- bria City, and was under the direct supervision of the first pastor, Rev. H. Dzubay. The small congregation rapidly outgrew their place of wor-
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ship, for the co-religionists from all over the county came to take part in the divine service. The congregation therefore erected a large brick edi- fice close to the old church, in 1900, and this was placed under the spir- itual guidance of the Roman Catholic bishop of Pittsburg at that time. Right Rev. Phelan. Rev. Julius Csucska was appointed the second pastor of this congregation, in 1901, and so wise and able has been his manage- ment of the finances of this parish, and so strennous his efforts in its wel- fare, that within the space of five years the following improvements and alterations have been made and paid for and yet the congregation has a balance to its credit : The full amount of the church mortgage, amount- ing to twenty-three thousand dollars; a handsome altar screen at a cost of seven thousand five hundred dollars ; the old frame church building was remodeled into a school building at a cost of twenty-five hundred dollars, and there are now two teachers employed there regularly instructing an average number of eighty pupils in English and domestic science; ground has been purchased for a cemetery at a cost of three thousand three hun- dred dollars ; the Church Society's meeting house has been repaired at an expense of one thousand dollars ; the large cross on the church tower was gilded at an expense of one thousand dollars; a library containing a choir room was erected, cost one thousand dollars ; and about three hundred dol- lars have been spent in church vestments. The congregation has now grown to such an extent that some branches have been founded at Wind- ber and South Fork. The trustees of the church at the present time are: Michael Kesslak. John Brindza, John Kalybach, Mike Moroz, John Sandor and Michael Sejko.
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