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William Bennett married, July 3. 1865, Sarah A. Critchlow, and had children : 1. William J., horn July 20. 1866: married Elizabeth Armstrong. 2. Joseph S., born December 3. 1867 ; married Maria Davis. 3. Elizabeth, born August 2, 1869: married Thomas Hunter. 4. Annie, born October 22, 1870; married William Rothrouff. 5. Stephen. born August 26, 1872, deceased. 6. Daniel, born May 2. 1874: deceased. 7.
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Jessie, born September 17. 1875 ; married John Lowers. S. Albert, horn October 16, 1877. 9. Sadie, born September 5, 1879; deceased. 10. Her- bert, born May 5, 1881; married Rose Wall. 11. Benjamin Earl, born October 11, 1883: deceased. 12. Pearl, born October 11. 1886. 13. May, born August 23, 1890.
JOHN LLOYD, of Ebensburg. Pennsylvania, who is a merchant and the president of the American National Bank, is a native of that borough, born November 11, 1827, son of John and Jane (Tibbott) Lloyd, who were the parents of seven children. John being the only survivor. His father was born in Wales, about 1782. He was the son of Rev. Reese Lloyd, a Congregational minister, who came to the United States about 1796 with his family and located in the Chester valley, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was among a small colony which came together. They only remained there a few years and then settled in Cambria county, purchasing a portion of the old Dr. Rush lands, in what is now Ebensburg. A brother, Stephen Lloyd, was a surveyor, and later made an agent for the Rush lands. Rev. Reese Lloyd was the founder of the town of Ebensburg, he platting the place on lands which he owned. In 1818 he removed with a part of his family 10 Paddys Run, near Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resided until his death in 1839, he filling the pulpit up to his death. Upon his removal to Ohio, two sons, John and Stephen Lloyd, and a daughter Anna, wife of Major David Evans, remained in Ebensburg. A daughter Fannie re- mained in Wales with her husband. and about 1832, with her two daugh- ters, came to Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, thence to Ohio.
John Lloyd (father) learned the chairmaking and wheelwright trades, and was employed at chair making and the manufacture of all kinds of spinning wheels. He became a skilled mechanic and was the builder of three pipe organs. the first ever built in this section of the country. He was also a student in the science of electricity and built many experimental electrical contrivances, which were the wonder of his neighbors. He was the pioneer postmaster of Ebensburg, serving as long as he lived. During his service he went on horseback to the city of Washington to see the postmaster-general, Amos Kendall. He was hospitably entertained by the postmaster-general and also by President Jackson. In early life he worshiped in the Congregational church, but later became a Campbellite. Politically he stood firm for all that Democracy then meant. JJane (Tibbott) Lloyd, his wife, was the daugh- ter of William Tibbott: she was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, and accompanied her people to this country about 1800. They located in Saltsburg, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, but soon removed to Ebens- burg. Her father erected the first grist mill in this section of the coun- try. Mrs. John Lloyd died in 1842.
John Lloyd, son of John and Jane (Tibbott) Lloyd, was not eleven years of age when his father died and but fifteen when his mother died. For a short time after their death, he lived with an older brother. From early boyhood he assisted in the Ebensburg postoffice. In 1846 he went to work in the office of the Democratic Sentinel, but one year later the paper suspended publication. as its proprietor, John G. Givens, held a commission as lieutenant in the Mexican war. Mr. Lloyd taught school one term, and after Mr. Given's return from the war, he resuming the publication of the Sentinel, Mr. Lloyd was given his old position as a journeyman printer in the printing office. Later the publishing business was exchanged for a mercantile establishment, which was removed to
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Plane No. 2, on the building of the Pennsylvania & Portage railroad over the mountains. Mr. Lloyd went along as a elerk, remaining .one year, and then returned to Ebensburg to found the mercantile business of Davis & Lloyd, with William Davis as partner. This co-partnership continued to the spring of 1859, when Mr. Lloyd withdrew from the firm, and the following year he accepted the editorship of the Moun- trincer, a Democratie publication of Ebensburg. He had the full man- agement of the publication. Mr. Lloyd's personality was the dominating power in the publication during the heated campaign of Lincoln and Douglas, but in August. 1861, after the inauguration of President Lin- coln, Mr. Lloyd resigned his place and the following fall was appointed clerk of the county commissioners. In August, 1862, the county treas- urer, Thomas Callen, meeting with an accident, Mr. Lloyd was chosen to serve in his stead, in which capacity he served to the end of the term. In 1863, upon the election of Isaae Wike, Mr. Lloyd was employed by him to assume the duties of the office of treasurer for his full term. In March, 1866, Mr. Lloyd mourned the death of his wife, and for sev- eral months was not regularly engaged. Later he assisted his brother in the railroad agency, and in 1871 purchased the mercantile interests of Harry Shoemaker in the firm of Shoemaker & Myers, on the site of the present business stand. Upon Mr. Lloyd's entrance to the firm he suc- ceeded Mr. Shoemaker as agent for the Adams Express Company, in Ebensburg, which office he has held for thirty-five years. In 1878 Mr. Myers retired from the business, when Mr. Lloyd became sole proprietor. In 1882 he took in as equal partners his two sons, Fergus C. and Harry, since which time the business has been conducted under the firm name of John Lloyd & Sons, and has been very successful.
In 1902 Mr. Lloyd was one of the organizers of the American Na- tional Bank of Ebensburg, and was elected president, in which position he has sinee served. Ile owns valuable zine and lead properties in Joplin, Missouri, and valuable coal lands at Nant-Y-Glo, Cambria county. Mr. Lloyd is a stanch Democrat in his political party choice. The family are Presbyterian in their religious faith.
Mr. Lloyd married, in January, 1857, Sarah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fergus Cannon, of Indiana eounty. Pennsylvania. By this mar- riage were born three children, two of whom survive: Fergus C. and Harry. The mother died in 1866, and in 1874 Mr. Lloyd married Mar- garet, daughter of Evan J. Evans, familiarly known as "Evan Sawyer," from the fact that for many years he operated a saw mill. Fergus C. Lloyd, the eldest son, married Olivia Kinkead. daughter of J. Harrison Kinkead, of Ebensburg. By this union was born seven children, three of whom are living: Luella M., Susie A. and Fergus C., Jr.
WILLIAM DAVIS, who is justly entitled to rank among the leading members of the Cambria county bar, and whose success in life is directly due to his own unaided efforts. is a descendant of an old and respected family of Wales.
Evan Davis, grandfather of William Davis, and the founder of the family in this country, was a native of Wales, whenee he emigrated to America with his family in 1844. He located in Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania. for a short time and then removed to the Great Western Iron Works, at Brady's Bend, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, whence, after a short residenee. he removed to Ohio. He again changed his residence, this time locating in Barr township, Cambria county. Penn- sylvania, and then returned to the Great Western Iron Works, where
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he died in 1855. He was a member of the Welsh Congregational church. He married Mary Jones, a native of Wales, and had children: Mary, who died in Wales. Rachel, died in Wales. Margaret, who came to America with her brother Evan, and married Hugh Evans. David, de- ceased. Elizabeth, married Evan Watkins, deeeased. She is also dead; they resided in Brady's Bend, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. John D., see forward. Jane, who died shortly after coming to this country. Evan, deceased, formerly a resident of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
John D. Davis, second son and sixth child of Evan and Mary (Jones) Davis, was born in Cardiganshire, parish of Ystrad, Wales, June 28, 1814. His education was acquired in the common schools. While in his native country he worked in the iron mills and also en- gaged to some extent in farming. Upon his arrival in this country he obtained employment as a puddler and later as a heater in some iron works in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He worked for a time in the Great Western Iron Works, and in the spring of 1850 purchased one hundred and fifty aeres of land in Carroll (now Barr) township, Cambria county, and with characteristie pioneer industry went to work to elear the farm, on which he still resides and where he has sinee been engaged in agriculture. He has been a member of the Baptist church sinee 1838, and for a number of years was a deacon in Bethesda Welsh Baptist con- gregation. He was a lifelong Republican, and though not an office seeker, held several local offices.
HIe married, Angust 9, 1846, Mary Ann Griffith, born in Cardigan- shire, Wales, April 20, 1816. She was a daughter of Evan and Sarah (Davis) Griffith, who emigrated to America in 1840, locating first near Philadelphia, and from there removing to Indiana county, Pennsylvania, where they located on a farm and remained there about five years. They then removed to Cambria county, Pennsylvania, on a farm adjoining that of John D. Davis, where Evan Griffith died January 13, 1862. His children were: 1. Rachel, deceased, was wife of Thomas Michel, of Ebensburg, also deceased ; 2. Eliza, deceased, who was the wife of Will- iam Morgan, who lived near Ebensburg: 3. Daniel, died in 1836: 4. Catherine, died in 1893, was the wife of Jacob Edwards; 5. Mary Ann, married John D. Davis, as previously stated : 6. John, deceased ; 7. David, deceased; S. Evan, who went to California, engaged in gold mining, amassed great wealth, and died there; 9. Lewis, died in St. Louis, at the age of twenty years ; 10. Martha. deceased, who was the wife of David Reese; 11. Griffith, married Jane Jones. and resides in Ebensburg: 12. James, deceased : 13. Sarah, died in 1891, was the wife of Adam Tiger; 14. Gwennie, married Daniel Thomas, of Johnstown; 15. Margaret, mar- ried Alexander St. Clair, an enterprising farmer in the state of Illinois for many years. The children of John D. and Mary Ann (Griffith) Davis were : 1. Evan, born April 22, 1848, married (first) Veretta Fetzer, and upon her death he married (second) Alice Wells. He now lives in Brookville, Jefferson county; 2. Mary Jane, born May 9, 1850, died in Utah, September 12, 1891. She was the wife of W. W. Duncan, who died in Colorado, September 14, 1892, leaving three daughters to survive him : Mary E., Sarah M. and Annie B .: 3. Sarah, born November 25, 1851, married Evan Williams, an enterprising merchant, farmer and lumberman, who died September 16. 1895. His widow and six children - Henrietta B., Rachel A., Jessie H., Daniel W., Hazel J. and Alverda M .- reside in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, with the exception of Rachel A., sinee deceased; 4. Jonathan, born July 30, 1853, was engaged in silver mining in Colorado, died March. 1900: 5. David, born April 6,
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1855, is in the employ of the Cambria Iron Company, of Johnstown. He married Margaret Edmiston : 6. Daniel, born August 15, 1857, is also in the employ of the Cambria Iron Company. He married Mary E. Hart; 7. Thomas, born October 15. 1859. is engaged in silver mining in Colorado; S. William. The father died August 18. 1897: mother died November 27. 1904.
William Davis was born on the family homestead in Barr township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania. He was reared upon the farm, and his opportunities for securing an education were such as were afforded by the township schools which he attended during the winter months. He had a desire for a broader education than was afforded by the publie schools, and for one term attended the Huntingdon Normal school, at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and for two terms the Normal school at Ebensburg, and for two years the Indiana State Normal school, at Indiana, Pennsylvania. As he was compelled to defray his own expenses during his attendance at these schools, he commenced teaching at the age of twenty years, thus securing the necessary means with which to pursue his education. He taught three terms in Barr township, one in Reade, and served two terms as principal of the schools of Summerhill borough, Cambria county. He decided to study law, and in September, 1890, entered the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, from which institution of learning he was graduated in July, 1892. He immediately entered the law office of Alvin Evans, of Ebens- burg, and after serving the time required by a rule of the bar, was ad- mitted to the bar of Cambria county, April 10, 1893. He remained in the office of Mr. Evans, however, until May 1, 1894, and since that time has practiced on his own account. He served as solicitor for the board of poor directors of the county two years, for the county of Cambria nine years and has served as a conneilman of his borough for nine years. He is a firm believer in the principles of the Republican party, and takes a prominent part in their councils. He labors actively for the success of their measures, and frequently advocates the same from the hustings. He is a foreeful. eloquent and logical speaker; his argu- ments are concisely and convincingly presented, and he is an orator of no mean ability. Mr. Davis is a member of F. and A. M., Summit Lodge, No. 312, Portage Chapter, No. 195, and Oriental Commandery, No. 61, K. T., Jaffa Temple, Altoona. M. S. He is a member of I. O. O. F., Highland Lodge, No. 428; member of B. P. O. E., Johnstown Lodge, No. 175; member of Cambria County Bar Association.
Mr. Davis married, December 24, 1889, Annie C., daughter of D. A. Sipe, of Summerhill. They are the parents of two children, one dead. Eileen Gale, born April 9. 1899. died April 12, 1902; William Mahlon, born July 31, 1905.
FREMONT C. JONES, M. D., one of the ablest and most success- ful of the physicians of Cambria county, Pennsylvania, physician to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at Ebensburg, and the Cambria County Almhouse and Jail, is a descendant of sturdy Welsh stock. Thomas L. Jones, deceased, a self-made man and a successful farmer, of near Ebensburg. Cambria county, Pennsylvania, was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales. in 1833. He lost his parents when a very young child, and so had but little knowledge of his family, save that they were industrious, hardworking people, whose home had for many centuries been in Wales, where the name of Jones is an honored one. At the death of his parents he was adopted by Lewis Williams, and in
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1840 brought to near Carrolltown, Cambria county, where Mr. Williams died the following year. The death of this protector resulted in his being apprenticed to Evan H. Roberts, of near Ebensburg, with whom he remained until he was eighteen years of age. He then commenced the battle of life for himself, with nothing but strong hands and a fixed determination to succeed as his stock in trade. He accepted any kind of work that came to his hands until he had saved enough to invest in a team. He rented a farm, in 1857, which he tilled up to Angust 31, 1864, when he enlisted in Company C, Two Hundred and Ninth Pennsylvania Infantry. He saw service off the coast of the Bermuda Islands, and was then transferred to the Ninth Corps of the Army of the Potomac, where he was a teamster until the surrender of Lee. Shortly after this he was sent north, and was honorably discharged at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, June, 1865.
Returning from the army, he was employed in driving a team for Hon. A. A. Barker for nearly twenty years, then rented a farm from the same gentleman, which, in association with his son William G., he purchased a year later, and on which he lived until his death, October, 1904. This farm is a little distance southwest from Ebensburg, is well improved, and contains at the present time seventy-six acres. He was a general farmer, and was successful in every line of his business, from grazing to raising eereals. He was a member of the First Congrega- tional Church of Ebensburg, and had served as deacon for very many years. He was a stanch Republican in his political principles, and served for nine years as a member of the borough council of Ebensburg. At the time of his death he was serving his third term as director of the poor for Cambria county. Active in his political party, useful in his church. and efficient in the fraternal organizations with which he affiliated, Mr. Jones was appreciated as a public official, and respected and esteemed as a man and neighbor. He was a member of the follow- ing organizations : Past grand of Highland Lodge, No. 428. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Ebensburg, in which he enjoyed the distinc- tion of being the eldest initiate member, having joined in 1854, soon after its organization : member of Dr. John M. Jones Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Ebensburg.
He married, December 31, 1857, Martha Williams, daughter of William G. Williams, one of the early Welsh settlers of this community, of near Ebensburg, and they had children: 1. Chalmers C., formerly bookkeeper for the firm of J. T. & W. Griffith, of Kane, MeKean coun- ty. Pennsylvania. now hardware merchant at same place: 2. Elizabeth, married Hershel J. James, of Kane, MeKean county, Pennsylvania : 3. Dr. Fremont C .. of whom later: 4. William G., a farmer in Cambria township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania; 5. Anna M., teacher in Eb- ensburg public schools: 6. Professor Herman T., county superinten- dent of Ebensburg public schools; 7. Leonard S., educated at the Millersville (Pennsylvania) State Normal school, is principal of Hast- ings schools; 8 and 9, Frederick and Ruth (twins), the former a steam fitter in Ebensburg, the latter deceased.
Fremont C. Jones, M. D .. second son and third child of Thomas L. and Martha (Williams) Jones, was born in Ebensburg. Cambria county, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1861. His youth was spent under the parental roof, and he obtained his earlier education in the public schools of Ebensburg and under the private tutelage of Rev. Thomas R. Jones, of Ebensburg. He commenced teaching at the age of eighteen years, and continued this for two terms. In the spring of 1881. he
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took up the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Abner Griffith. He studied with him for one year and then entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in the spring of 1885. Immediately after graduation he returned to Ebensburg, opened an office and entered upon the actual practice of his chosen profession, in which he has been more than ordinarily successful. He has built up a lucrative private practice and has the confidence of all his patients. In addition to this, he has been for some time and is at present (1906) physician to the county almhouse and jail, and to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He is recognized as one of the ablest and most proficient of the physicians and surgeons of western Pennsylvania. He is a consistent member of the Congrega- tional church, in which he is a deaeon, and is an active member of the Republican party. He has served as school director for sixteen years. He is a member of the following associations and orders: National Medical Association ; Pennsylvania State Medical Society; Cambria County Medical Society; Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania ; Summit Lodge, No. 312. Free and Accepted Masons; Portage Chapter, . . No. 195, Royal Arch Masons; Oriental Commandery, No. 61, Knights Templar of Johnstown; Jaffa Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystric Shrine, of Altoona, Pennsylvania; Highland Lodge, No. 428, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Ebensburg; Johnstown Lodge, No. 175, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
He married, October 14, 1887, Mary E. Davis, daughter of David and Eleanor (Reese) Davis, and they have children: Marian and Martha, both at home.
JOHN WATSON CRAMER, at present (1906) deputy treasurer of Cambria county Pennsylvania, and who has filled, at various time, many of the public offices of the county with credit to himself and satisfaction to the community, is a member of one of the old families of the county, whose earlier members emigrated to this country from England in the pioneer days.
. Wilson Cramer, grandfather of John Watson Cramer, was born in New Jersey. His grandfather was a soldier in the war of the revolu- tion. He, himself, was a foundryman by trade and the greater part of his active life was spent in this occupation. He removed from Cumber- land county to Indiana county, and later to Johnstown, where the remainder of his life was spent. He married Roxanna Steelman, who was a descendant of two of the old families of New Jersey, her mother being a member of the May family in whose honor Cape May was named, and both the Steelman and May families were among the pioneer settlers of that section of New Jersey. They had a number of children, among whom was a son, Wilson.
Wilson Cramer, father of John Watson Cramer, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, February 1, 1837. He was brought up under the paternal roof, learning the trade of a foundryman, and later engaged in charcoal burning. Shortly before the breaking out of the Civil war he had removed to Scioto county, Ohio, but returned to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1861 in order to enlist in the army, and he remained in the service of the Union until the close of the war, earning well-merited praise for his bravery and endurance. When peace was once more established he took up his residence in Johnstown with his family, and was for some time in the employ of the Cambria Iron Company, but later educated himself for the ministry. He was or-
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dained as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and subsequent- ly of the United Brethren, and continued in the service of this church in various parts of Pennsylvania until his death, which occurred in November, 1903, at Johnstown. He was a forceful and eloquent speaker, with a flow of rich and varied language, and was greatly beloved by all the members of the various congregations to whose needs he had ministered. In politics he was a Republican, and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
He married Amanda Griffith, born in Indiana county, Pennsyl- vania, October 11, 1836, daughter of John Griffith. John Griffith was a native of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, was born in 1800, and re- moved to Indiana county in 1812, where he attained his manhood and engaged in farming, which was his occupation during his active years. He was a stanch Presbyterian and active in church matters until his death in 1882. Wilson and Amanda ( Griffith) Cramer had nine chil- dren, of whom six are now living: 1. James L., who is a mail carrier in Johnstown, Pennsylvania; 2. John Watson, of whom later; 3. Rev. Thomas E., minister of the Methodist Episcopal church of Keene, New Hampshire; 4. Mary C., teacher in the schools of Johnstown, resides at home: 5. Walter S .. of Johnstown, Pennsylvania; 6. Harry G., a graduate of Dickinson College, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, lives in Johns- town, Pennsylvania.
.John Watson Cramer, second surviving son of Wilson and Amanda (Griffith ) Cramer, was born in Scioto county, Ohio, September 4, 1861. His early years were spent in the home of his parents, and he enjoyed the advantages of an exceedingly good education in the public schools of Johnstown, the Johnstown high school, from which he gradu- ated in 1877, and some years later he attended the Indiana State Normal School, of Indiana, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1887. At the age of sixteen years he secured employment with the Cambria Iron Company, remaining in their employ until 1882, and then for several years devoted his time to educational work in the schools of Johnstown and its vicinity. He was elected clerk of the common council of Johnstown in 1895, and three years later, was elected city clerk of Johnstown, an office which he filled for four years, the term expir- ing in April, 1902. Immediately after this he was appointed warden of the city prison, and secretary to the mayor of Johnstown, in which capacity he served for three years. He then formed a copartnership with Alderman John C. Rutledge, of Johnstown, and engaged in the real estate business, which the firm is still carrying on very success- fully. Upon the election of William H. Sunshine to the office of coun- ty treasurer of Cambria county, Mr. Cramer was appointed deputy- treasurer, a position in which he is now serving. He is one of the most popular and prominent men of the county. He is a stanch Repub- lican, and his opinions carry great weight with the heads of his party in the county meetings. He is a man of pleasing personality, winning and courteous in his manner to all, and has made for himself an en- viable reputation as a man of indefatigable industry and sterling good qualities. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and of the following organizations: Woodmen of the World, Protected Home Circle and Sons of Veterans.
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