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LEVI HUBLER, farmer, born in Berks county, Septem- ber 24th, 1830, married Mary A. Maury, of Columbia county, December 17th, 1855. He came to Barry in 1837.
JERE. T. HUTCHISON was formerly a carpenter, but is now farming at Branch Dale, Reilly township. He was born at Warrior's Mark, Huntingdon county, Pa., May 8th, 1832. He married Mary Muir, of Philadelphia. He was in the 56th Pennsylvania volunteers from 186[ to 1864, and after that in the secret service of the Treas- ury Department until 1868.
MONROE R. KATERMAN, M. D., was born in Upper Mahantongo, April 5th, 1856, and married Tillie Maurer, of Tipton, Iowa. He graduated from the medical de- partment of the University of Pennsylvania, in 1877, and is in the practice of his profession at Hepler.
D. E. KAUFFMAN was born in Lower Mahantongo township, January 26th, 1826, and married Kate Kuhter, of Eldred. He was formerly a merchant, but is now keeping a hotel at Tower City.
JOHN KILE, fire boss, was born in Scotland, August 6th, 1854. He married Sarah Kries, of Tremont. He is located at Rausch Creek, Tremont township.
S. CLEAVER KIRK, publisher at Tremont, was born in Landisburg, Perry county, April 11th, 1845. He mar- ried Sarah Jane Netherwood, of Tremont. He was for- merly a teacher, and was a member of the Legislature in 1879.
FRED S. KLINGER, of Hegins township, son of Israel Klinger, was born at Valley View, February 6th, 1856, and is a teacher by profession.
GABRIEL K. KLINGER, of Barry, born June 12th, 1849, married Amelia Ramsey, of Mifflin county, May 23d, 1877. He is a farmer and school teacher.
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ISRAEL KLINGER, of Hegins township, was born in 1826, and married Caroline Schwalm, of Hubley town ship. He has for many years been a farmer and stock grower.
JOSEPH KLOUSER, of Hegins township, was born June 20th, 1843. In 1864 he enlisted in the 50th Pennsylvania volunteers and served eighteen months. He married Elizabeth Renn, a native of Mahantongo, in 1866. He is a farmer at Heginsville.
C. W. KRAMER, of Barry, was born August 24th, 1857, and married A. E. Hoch, December 12th, 1875. He is a graduate of Estman's Business College, and has been a school teacher. In 1880 he was serving a second term as township clerk and carrying on a farm.
CHARLES J. LAUDENSLAGER was born in Hegins town- ship, March Ist, 1849, and married Catherine A. Rom- berger, of Gratz, December 4th, 1870. He has been a school teacher and merchant, was a member of the Penn sylvania Legislature in 1875 and 1876, and is at present a sewing machine agent, located at Valley View.
W. VICTOR LEHMAN, amateur and collector of antiqui- ties, was born in Landingville, February 12th, 1848, and married S. Alice Holwig, of Tremont. He was a mem- ber of the 195th regiment P. V. He resides on Main street, Tremont.
WILLIAM N. LEHMAN, principal of public schools at Tremont, was born in that place, December Ist, 1853, and married Alice R. Sherk, of Grantville.
DAVID J. LEWIS, superintendent of mines at Tremont, was born in that township, February 27th, 1842. He married Elizabeth Edwards, of the same place.
ELI S. LEWIS, mining boss, was born in Tremont, and still resides in the township.
JOHN MARKS, jr., merchant in Tremont borough, was born in Tremont township November 4th, 1847. He married Kate Kopp, of the same place. He was a soldier in the Union army.
HENRY MAUS, hotel-keeper at Orwin, was postmaster there in 1876 and 1877. He was born at Tower City, March 8th, 1847, and married Caroline Bashore, of Le- banon county.
JAMES MCKOWN was born in Philadelphia, August, 1817; he married Henrietta Porter, in 1854. In 1829 Mr. Mckown came to Schuylkill county and in 1877 to Barry, when he purchased the hotel now kept by him on the Pottsville road.
CHARLES MARWINE, of Barry, born in Philadelphia, April 20th, 1805, is a son of one of Barry's pioneers. He married Elizabeth Geist, of Schuylkill county, September 24th, 1837. Mr. Marwine has been active in local affairs, holding several offices in the town and county. He is a farmer.
JOHN K. MAURER was born in Barry, June Ist, 1826; he married Susanna Boyer, May 26th, 1849, and opened the hotel now kept by him in Barry in 1873; he is also a farmer.
L. H. MILLER, outside boss at Tremont, married Miss Roberts.
EDWIN C. NEAL, superintendent of mines, resides in Tremont township. He has been a justice of the peace.
JAMES OPIE was born in Cornwall, England, February IIth, 1847, and married Persis Geist, of Weishample. He is a liquor dealer at Donaldson. He served in the 17th and 27th Pennsylvania militia during the Rebellion.
E. F. PHILIPS, M. D., physician and surgeon, residing at Tower City, was born at Minersville, January 31st, 1849. Mrs. Philips was Emma Acker, of Port Clinton. Dr. Philips has been deputy coroner and a school director.
RICHARD P. H. PHILLIPS, born in New Brunswick, Au- gust 20th, 1820, came to Schuylkill county in 1848, and married Margaret Bradley, a native of Ireland, July 20th, 1852; he served in the war for the Union and has been a merchant for thirty-two years. He is located at Mount Pleasant, Foster township.
ISAAC PRICE, mining boss, was born in Monmouthshire, England, August 22nd, 1847. He married Ida M. Fos- ter, Tykenstown, Pa. He is located at Lower Rausch Creek.
JOHN PURSEL, born in Northumberland county, March 18th, 1845, was married to Elvira L. Landbock, of Co- lumbia county, October 19th, 1869. He has been a mer- chant at Helfenstein since 1876, at which date he was appointed postmaster.
JOEL G. RAESSLER, M. D., was born in Hegins town- ship February 4th, 1846; graduated at Jefferson Medical College in 1870. He is secretary of the Northwestern Mutual Fire Insurance Company; was formerly a civil engineer and teacher. He married Mary E. Laudens- lager of Hegins township, and is engaged in the practice of his profession at Valley View, where he has a drug store.
CALVIN G. REED of Barry, born January 6th, 1848, married Ida V. Purchase, of Reading, March 20th, 1878. He has been a miller and school teacher, but is now en- gaged in farming and lumbering. He has served as school director of his town.
H. C. REED, of Barry, was born in that township, October 10th, 1850, and married Ellen B. Wilson, of Ashland, April 19th, 1873. His business is milling and farming. He is a member of the Ashland Dragoons.
JOHN REED, born in Hegins, July 7th, 1843, married Polly Sutzman, of the same place, in 1863. Mr. Reed spent nine years in Iowa as a farmer and returned to his native place in 1880, where he opened a general store at Heginsville.
B. O. REINERT, hotel proprietor at Mabel, was born in 1828 and married Lucy A. Maurer, who is a native of Schuylkill county. He served in the emergency corps in the war for the Union; was formerly a lumberman and farmer.
JONATHAN REINOEHL, inside superintendent of a col- liery at Donaldson, was born in Berks county, November 8th, 1841. He married Catherine Heffelfinger, of Leba- non county. He served in the Union army, through the Rebellion, as private and first duty sergeant.
JOHN RICE, of Barry, was born in Upper Mahantongo, November 26th, 1822, and married Sarah Ditzler, a native of Barry. He has filled several offices of trust in his town and has for many years been a farmer and lumberman.
JOHN ROBERTS, miner, was born in Pennell, North Wales, November 14th, 1825, and married Mary A. Williams, of Wales. He was formerly a weaver and re- sides at Tremont.
H. A. ROMBERGER, station agent and telegraph operat- or for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company at Tower City, is a native of Wiconisco, Dauphin county, Pa., and was born November 6th, 1854.
DANIEL SANNER, pastor of the German Lutheran church at Tremont, was born in Germany.
JOHN SCHLOTMAN, superintendent of mines, has re- sided in Tremont four years.
MICHAEL SCHNYDER, of Barry, was born in Northum- berland county, August Ist, 1829; married Salina Schropp, of Schuylkill county, April 27th, 1852, and has served as auditor and school director of Barry.
P. SCHWALM, farmer, Orwin, was born in Hubley town-
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ship, August 21st, 1836, and married Maria Schrope, of Hegins. He was formerly in the flour and feed business.
JOEL SHADLE was formerly an engineer. but is now a merchant at Tower City. He was born in Williams Val- ley, January 18th, 1855, and married Mary C. Tucker, of Tower City.
C. W. SHERMAN is a veteran in mercantile business, having been "raised in a store." He was born in Scot- land, Franklin county, Pa., April 30th, 1853. He is post- master at Tower City, and has been on the Republican standing committee of the county for the last six years.
WILLIAM R. SHERMAN, of Branch township, was born in that township, March 10th, 1853, and married Mag- gie Harris, a native of Wales, November 15th, 1875. He has been an engineer at Phoenix Park colliery No. 2 since 1878.
REV. JAMES SHOOP, a native of Dauphin county, was born October 17th, 1840, and married Sarah Hay, of the same county, April 9th, 1866. He is a selfmade man; served six months in the war for the Union, and is the pastor of a church at Valley View.
JOSEPH STOFFLER, collector at Tremont, was born in Baden, Germany, October 15th, 1823. He married Cath- arine Egi, of Baden. He has held the office of school director .;
HENRY S. STRONG, Donaldson, a native of Hubley township, was born June 15th, 1826. March 28th, 1847, he married Caroline Tobias. She died, and on the 13th of December, 1857, Mr. Strong married Sarah Ann To- bias, her sister, of Donaldson. He was formerly a teacher, but is now a carpenter. He has been a justice of the born in Barry, September 16th, 1855, and married Mary peace for ten years.
F. J. TOBIAS, formerly a clerk and now a merchant and postmaster at Donaldson, was born in Reilly, October 10th, 1846, and married Elizabeth L. Wood, of St. Clair. He was a member of Company I, 27th regiment Pa. N. G., and in 1863 enlisted for the "emergency " when Lee invaded Pennsylvania.
HENRY K. UPDEGRAVE, landlord at Tower City, is a native of this county, and was born September 28th, 1836. He married Susannah Herb, of Hubley. During the civil war he served as a private in Company G, 6th Pa. volunteers, or "First Defenders."
HARRISON WAGNER, born in Upper Mahantongo town- ship, February 3d, 1833, married Hannah Long, of Coal
township, July 15th, 1855. He has served in all the principal offices of his township. He is a prosperous farmer and lumber merchant. His address is Hegins- ville.
J. C. WAGNER, of Barry, was born in Eldred township, September 27th, 1841, and married Sarah Baxter, of Hegins. He served four years and three months in the Union army, enlisting a week after the firing on Fort Sumter, and being mustered out after the declaration of peace in 1865.
HENRY K. WEDDE, of Barry, was born April 28th, 1845; he married Cecelia Miller, a native of Switzerland, June 10th, 1866. He was formerly a miller, and is now a farmer, having settled on the farm where he resides in 1870.
JAMES WELSH, born in Philadelphia, August 19th, 1848, came to Foster in 1870, and married Ellen Reilly, of New York city, June 28th, 1880. He has been a colliery engineer at Forestville colliery since 1863.
NATHAN D. YODER, born in Eldred, Schuylkill coun- ty, September 4th, 1841, married Mary Hepler, of the same township, January 29th, 1864. He was a school teacher for seven years, and in 1865 purchased the farm on which he lives in Hegins township. In 1875 he was elected justice of the peace, and re-elected in 1880. In 1876 he was elected district deputy of the Odd Fellows order, and served two terms. Mr. Yoder is an earnest friend of popular education.
A. R. YODER, Orwin, has been a teacher for eight years, and was formerly a merchant's clerk. He was A. Breshler, of Hegins.
Besides the foregoing the following residents of the same territory contributed their support to this publica- tion: J. Amthor, D. B. Althause, P. W. Brannan, Ar- thur Brannagan, Josiah Brown, Abraham Carl, Benjamin Charlsworth, H. S. Crooks, Thomas Eltringham, Abraham Ernst, Anthony Ferguson, A. Frew, James B. Glover, Samuel C. Grow, George L. Haertler, C. N. Haertler, Rev. Israel Hay, J. M. Heilner, J. J. Hollenback, J. Jones, S. S. Kaser, Martin Kelly, Peter Kepler, George Y. Lehr, Josiah Major, Archy McDonald, Daniel McGinly, D. Meyer, C. T. Malony, John Monahan, J. F. Moore, W. Koch, George Reiner, E. A. Sanner, S. S. Shultz, William Straw, John D. Williams.
BUTLER TOWNSHIP, ASHLAND AND GIRARDVILLE BOROUGHS.
W. H. ANTHONY, of Gordon, was born in Lebanon county May 12th, 1836, and was married to Catherine A. Ruppert, of Reading. He has been a railroad man the greater part of his life since 1855. In 1873 he was pro- moted to dispatcher. Was a corporal in the war for the Union.
JESSE H. BABB, freight and ticket agent of the Phila- delphia and Reading Railroad at Girardville, was born on the 21st of December, 1848. He commenced work- ing for the company when 16 years old; was married in 1870 to Lizzie Entwistle. Mr. Babb is a member of the I. O. of O. F., and Sons of America.
ALFRED BANCROFT, born in Media, Delaware county, Pa., March 6th, 1832, married Susan Metz, of Danville, Pa. He is engaged in the flour, feed and grocery busi- ness on Centre street, Ashland.
JOHN BANGARNER, born in Germany in 1852, has worked around collieries since a child, and is now an en- gineer at Big Mine Run colliery, and resides at Ashland.
CHARLES H. BARNARD, druggist and apothecary on Centre street, Ashland, was born in Canada, April 3d, 1845, and married Fietta Fetterman, of New Media, Pa. He is captain of the Ashland Dragoons, a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church, Sunday-school super- intendent, and is a school director in the west ward of Ashland.
GEORGE W. BARNHARD, of Girardville, was born in Middleport, Schuylkill county, September 18th, 1850, and married Emma C. Hower, of Girardville. He has been in the mercantile and carpet business since 1865.
THEODORE F. BARRON was born in Pottsville, October
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20th, 1849; he has lived in Ashland since 1869; he is in the insurance business. Mr. Barron is superintendent of the English Lutheran Sunday-school. He married Emma S. Daniels, of Gallipolis, Ohio, October 13th, 1872.
CHARLES BECKLY, chief of police, has lived in Ashland since 1863, and has filled this responsible position for three terms. He is a barber by trade, and has a well- patronized shop on Centre street.
BENJAMIN D. BEDDALL, of Girardville, was born at Pottsville, February 2nd, 1843; received an academic ed- ucation, and since 1872 has been outside foreman at William Penn colliery; was married in 1865 to Jane Da- vis. Mr. Beddall is a member of the I. O. of O. F. and Masonic fraternities.
TOBIAS BICKEL, a native of Dauphin county, came to Schuylkill county in 1862. In 1870 he engaged in oper- ating the Diamond colliery; later with the Eagle, and at the same time with the Franklin, at Barry, of which he is still the superintendent. He was formerly engaged in the lumber business. He lives at Ashland.
P. J. BIRMINGHAM was born in Ireland, in 1849, and came to America in 1853 with his parents. He married Lizzie Hope, of Tamaqua, in 1877. He is now a teacher in West Mahanoy township, having commenced teaching in 1868. In 1880 he was one of the presidential electors on the Democratic ticket.
LOUIS BLASS, proprietor of the Grant House, Girard- ville, came here in 1861, and has lived here since 1864. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, March 2nd. 1835; came to America in 1854, and engaged in mining at Mid- dleport, in this county. He married Emma Schneider, of Germany, and in 1876 was elected commissioner of Schuylkill county, serving until 1879. He is now a mem- ber of the borough council.
GOTTLIEB BOEHME was born in Germany. In 1851 he settled at Mount Pleasant, in this county. Since 1874 he has been an engineer at the pump engines at the tun- nel. Has been an engineer since 1853. He married Elizabeth Yoder, of Mount Pleasant. Mr. Boehme is an Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias and member of the Harugari.
HENRY S. BONAR, of Ashland, was the founder of the Ashland Record, and established the first book store in that borough in 1862, afterwards engaging in mining coal and in the general insurance business. He was identified with the Lutheran church and the Masonic fraternity. He removed to Philadelphia in 1876, and engaged in business, and in 1878 he was elected superintendent of the Lutheran Publication House of the General Synod of the United States.
ALBERT BORDY was born at Dushore, Sullivan county, Pa., March 13th, 1843, and married February 10th, 1866, to Ellen Miller, of Schuylkill Haven. He has lived in this county since 1848, and in 1874 came to Girardville and established himself as a merchant, corner of Ogden and William streets.
WALTER S. BRITTON, a native of New Castle, in this county, was born in 1851. He married Mary A. Falkin, of Nova Scotia, in 1874. Mr. Britton has been an engi- neer since 1865; having worked at mining since thirteen years of age. He is now running an engine at Preston colliery No. 2, Girardville.
J. FRED BUCK came from Germany to Philadelphia in 1857, and to Ashland the following year. Since 1877 he has been an active member of the Washington Fire Com- pany, and in 1880 was elected chief fire marshal of Ashland. He married Hannah Acly, of Ashland, who died in April, 1880.
D. C. BURCHFIELD, born in Bloomsburg, Pa., is a son
of William H. Burchfield; he opened a saddlery shop in Ashland in 1876, and is now engaged in the business, making a specialty of general custom work and the sale of leather and supplies. His shop is on Centre street.
BURKE BROTHERS, undertakers and furniture dealers, 264 Centre street, Ashland, established in 1861. This firm is identified with various local interests. The broth- ers, James and John, are natives of the county, and sons of Michael Burke, an old resident of Pottsville.
DR. ANDREW BURT, born in Scotland in 1845, married Ellen Williams, a native of this State, and has been en- gaged in the practice of medicine since 1876 in Ashland.
MARTIN A. CAIN, of Ashland, was born in county Galway, Ireland, in 1846, and in 1857 came to Miners- ville. He was appointed foreman at North Ashland in 1870, where he remained until his appointment as outside foreman at the " Wadleigh." He married Mary McFad- den, of Minersville, July 3d, 1866; has served as borough councilman for two years, and was a soldier in the war for the Union.
CAPTAIN JAMES C. CALLERY, of Ashland, was born in Dublin, Ireland, December 19th, 1828, and in 1844 came to this country, settling in Schuylkill county in 1846. He served in the Mexican war as a private soldier, and when the Rebellion broke out enlisted and was made first lieutenant: he served through the war. He married, in 1848, Bridget J. Kelley, of Jersey City, N. J. He organ- ized the Wynkoop artillery at Silver Creek in 1855. He is secretary of the Ashland school board.
BENJAMIN C. CHURCH, a native of South Wales, was born in 1838. He came to America in 1863, and married Miriam Head, a native of Wales, that year. He came to Girardville in 1876 as an inside foreman of Preston col- liery No. 2, which position he now occupies.
JOHN J. CLARKSON & Co., general merchants of Ash- land, are an old established firm. Mr. Clarkson is a son of an old settler here, of Scotch descent, and the busi- ness of the firm is conducted on ideas of old fashioned honesty.
J. R. CLEAVER, lumber merchant on Catawissa road, is one of Ashland's oldest business men, and his well known reputation for integrity ensures fair treatment. He was one of the first magistrates of Butler township.
CHARLES CONNOR, of England, served in the U. S. navy from 1832 to 1841. He came to Schuylkill county in 1837, and in 1853 came to Ashland with his brother, Colonel J. J. Connor, for whom he was mine superin- tendent until 1870. Mr. Connor was a member of the first borough council of Ashland. He married a daughter of William Taylor, of Pottsville.
JOHN C. CONNOR came to Ashland when a child. He served during the late war in his father's regiment, Col- onel J. J. Connor's; was for some years in the coal busi- ness in Philadelphia. In 1869 he married Mary Ellen McGinnis, of Pottsville, who died at Ashland June 29th, 1880. Since 1871 he has resided in Ashland as a collec- tor for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com- pany.
JULIAS CONSTIEN, a native of Lasfelde, county Oster- ode, province of Hanover, was born May 11th, 1836, and came to America in 1858. He came to Ashland in 1878, where two years later he opened a merchant tailor- ing establishment. He married in Lancaster, Pa., E. Kate Kohler, a native of Heidelberg, Germany.
EDWARD COUGHLIN was born in 1852. He has been for seven years a fireman at the Girard colliery, Girardville. He was married in 1873 to Mary Daily. He was the founder of the first Catholic choir ever organized at Girardville.
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THOMAS COVANY, M. D., of Girardville, was born in Ireland, in 1834; he came to America in 1859, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He was married in 1855 to Mary Barrows.
WILLIAM P. DANIELL, of Girardville, outside foreman of Girard colliery, was born in Cornwall, England, May 17th, 1829; came to America in 1833 with his parents. His father was a noted rock miner. W. P. was married in 1860 to Emily Martin, of Beliot, Wisconsin. Mr. Daniell is a member of the Odd Fellows', Masonic and other societies of Girardville.
JOSEPH D. DAVIES, of Girardville, was born in South Wales, Great Britain, on the 21st of September, 1836; came to America in May, 1869, and has since resided in Girardville borough. Mr. Davies for the years 1879-80 held the office of chief burgess.
D. M. DAVIS, born in Indianapolis, came to Pottsville in 1859, and in 1864 entered the employ of the Philadel- phia and Reading Railroad Company, and since 1869 has been station agent at Ashland. He married Miss Mudy, of Pottsville, in 1864, who died in February, 1865. In 1867 Mr. Davis married a sister of his deceased wife.
GEORGE W. DAVIS was born in Wales, in 1830, and emigrated to this country in 1854. He resided in Min- ersville until 1862, when he removed to Centralia, his present residence, and became inside foreman at Big Mine Run, and afterwards at Freck's and Bear Ridge collieries. In 1880 he took charge of the workings at " the tunnel." He married Mary Edwards, a native of Wales, in 1854.
MORGAN DAVIES, born in Wales, September 25th, 1835, came to America in 1869, having spent nearly twenty years in the mines in Wales. He married Mary Hughes in 1858, and in 1871 came to Locustdale as inside fore- man of the Potts colliery.
STEPHEN DAVIS, of Ashland, born in Wales in 1846, came to St. Clair, this county, when twelve years old. In 1868 he commenced work as a miner, and married at Ashland in May, 1872, Ellen Jones, a native of Wales.
THOMAS M. DAVIS was born in Scranton, of Welsh parentage, July 3d, 1851. He came to Ashland in 1862, and married Elizabeth Owens, who died in March, 1877. He is a boot and shoe maker, a member of the Temple of Honor, and clerk of the Welsh Baptist church of Ashland.
JOSEPH DELANEY. of Ashland, came from Ireland to Schuylkill county when a child. He assisted in erecting the first breaker in Ashland. In 1864 he invented what is known as the Bancroft dumping car, which is now in general use, and he is the inventor of the mine " gunboat," as it is called. In 1880 he perfected a system for running cars on planes with an automatic check.
M. T. DONAHOE, dealer in music and books, Centre street, Ashland, is a successor of his brother, who estab- lished the business. He is an extensive dealer in musical instruments and all the minutiæe of a well-stocked book and music store.
JOHN DOOLING, proprietor of the hotel at Fountain Springs, was born in Queens county, Ireland, in 1838, and married Catharine Delany, of Cass township, Schuyl- kill county; address, Ashland, Pa.
BOAS DREHER, of Gordon, was born in Norwegian township, in 1822. He married Adeline Darknell, of Northumberland county. He is one of the best locomo- tive engineers in the employ of the M. H. & S. H. Rail- road.
F. E. DREHER, grocer at Gordon, was born in Cres- sona, October 27th, 1852. At the age of nineteen he took
charge of a large store for Mr. Thomas Seaborn, in Shen- andoah.
JOHN J. DUGAN was born at Schuylkill, Pa., in 1854. He has been engaged in the saloon business at Girard- ville for the past three years; was married February 23d, 1879, to Lizzie Hoven.
WILLIAM DUNKELBERGER, proprietor of a hotel at Lo- custdale, was born in Schuylkill county, January 16th, 1857. He worked in the mines at Locustdale from 1868 to 1880.
GEORGE W. EBRITE, M. D., was born at Harrisburg, Octo- ber 16th, 1840, and married a daughter of David Hanna, of Penn Hall, Pa. He read medicine with several prom- inent physicians, and graduated at Long Island College in 1869. He has been a teacher in this county and in the practice of his profession in Ashland since 187 1.
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