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CORNELIUS MCCARTY, of Girardville, engineer of Connor colliery, was born in Ireland, in 1840; came to America in 1849, and has been an engineer for many years. Mr. McCarty is a member of several Catholic so- cieties of St. Clair.
WILLIAM MCENTYRE was born at Tamaqua, Pa., on the 31st of October, 1858; commenced business at Girardville in 1878, and has, by his exertions, built him- self up a fine business in gents' furnishing goods, barber shop, etc.
WILLIAM MEREDITH was born in Canada, October roth, 1856, but has lived in Ashland since 1858. He married Jane Ettingham, of Middle Creek, June 12th, 1875. Mr. Meredith is a stationary engineer, at present working at one of the Preston collieries.
REV. HENRY N. MINNIGH, pastor of the M. E. church at Gordon, was born at Gettysburg, Pa., April 7th, 1838, and married Miss E. J. Eppelman, of Bendersville, Pa. He was formerly a teacher. He served in all the cam- paigns of the army of the Potomac, entering the volunteer service as private, and receiving the regular line of pro- motions to captain.
Emerald Association. His office is on Centre street, Ashland.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL P. H. MONAGHAN, of the 7th Pennsylvania N. G., is the principal of Girardville's public schools. He served during the war for the Union, participating in 22 engagements. He married Bridget Derrick, of this county.
PATRICK J. MOTLEY, was born in Schuylkill county, in August, 1854, and in 1875 was married to Mary Maley; came to Girardville in 1877, and is an engineer at Preston colliery No. 2.
WILLIAM H. MOWERY was born in Womelsdorf, Berks county, in 1854, and came to Ashland in 1873. He has been a cigar manufacturer since 1877. He married Miss Kate Cleaver, of Ashland, November 24th, 1877. His shop is at 148 Centre street.
JOHN MURRAY, born in Mill Creek, Schuylkill county, December 8th, 1851, came to Girardville July 3d, 1872, as engineer at Preston colliery No. 2.
CARL NEUMANN, born in Germany, February 4th, 1829, came to America in 1848, settling in Schuylkill county- after a year on the Mississippi as fireman on steamboat- and worked at mining until 1869. In 1870 he visited Germany, and in 1871 commenced hotel-keeping. He is now proprietor of a hotel at Locust Dale.
DANIEL O'BRIEN, of Girardville, was born in Miners- ville, March 12th, 1858, married Mary Dougherty, of Ashland, in May 1877, and came from Glen Carbon to Butler township in 1866. He has been an engineer for ten years.
JOHN J. O'MALLEY was born in Wadesville, and came to Ashland in 1873 as shipper for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, in which capacity he is employed at the Tunnel colliery. Before that date he had been a teacher in public schools.
FRANK OMLOR, born in France, September 29th, 1836, married Josephine Beieschmith, of Germany, December 22nd, 1857. He came to Locust Gap in 1870, and took charge of the Monitor colliery, having been in the em- ploy of the firm of George W. Johns & Bro. for twenty years. His experience in colliery work dates back to 1852.
DAVID OWENS, an old British naval engineer, was the first man in this county to put up a coal burning steam engine. He came to America in 1836, worked as a ma- chinist in the coal region for many years, and resides with his son, Dr. William R. Owens, at Ashland.
WILLIAM R. OWENS, M. D., was born at Pottsville, December 15th, 1846; he has resided in Ashland since 1861. He graduated at Jefferson Medical College in 1869, and has been practicing in Ashland since. He is physician to the county prison, president of the school board, corresponding secretary of the County Medical Society, and is engaged in the drug business on Centre street.
RICHARD PALMER, of Girardville, was born January 4th, 1830, in England. He came to America in 1854, and settled in 1855 near William Penn colliery, where he has been inside foreman for the past eight years. He was married in 1854 to Margaret Watkins, of England. Mr. Palmer is a member of the Knights of Honor, also of the I. O. of O. F. of Ashland.
WILLIAM GEORGE PARKER, of the firm of Parker & Van Stone, Girardville, tin and metal workers, was born at St. Clair, October 30th, 1854, and established business here in 1876. He is actively identified with the temper- ance movements of the day.
JAMES F. MINOGUE, attorney at law, is solicitor of CHARLES LOESER PATERSON, born in Pottsville, De- Schuylkill county, and a prominent member of the cember 25th, 1856, is a member of the family of that
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name so actively identified with the early interests of this locality. For some years past he has been assistant engineer of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, and is located at Ashland.
JABEZ PAYNE was born on ship board, off the banks of Newfoundland, in 1827. His family settled above Port Carbon in 1831. He married Jane Burnheart, of Silver- ton, in 1846. Mr. Payne was for some time in charge of collieries for the Ashland estate. Since 1871 he has had charge of the real estate business of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company in this district, being their land agent at Ashland.
WILLIAM Y. PAYNE, farmer and teacher, address Girardville, was born in Devonshire, England, January 7th, 1847, and came to America in 1848. He was mar- ried to Esther Gregory, of Mahanoy City, December 25th, 1870. He formerly worked at mining.
THOMAS D. PEDLOW, outside foreman of Preston col- liery No. 3, was born May 17th, 1849, at Victoria, Dauphin county, Pa., and married, March 5th, 1874, Eliza Goyne, of Ashland. In 1876 he was appointed to his present position, and since that time has resided at Girardville.
THOMAS PEPPER came to Ashland in 1866; four years later he established the bottling business and opened a wholesale and retail liquor store. He was born in South Cass township, in 1842. In 1863 he married Elizabeth McDonald, of South Cass.
D. J. PHILLIPS, merchant at Girardville, is a native of Wales. He was born in 1854, and came to America in 1855. Mr. Phillips is a member of the I. O. O. F. and of Shenandoah Lodge.
JOHN PHILLIPS was born in Wales, in 1824, and came to America in 1863, coming to Ashland three years later. He married Mary Jones, of his native country, in 1845; she died November 15th, 1872. He is a member of D. Vaughan & Co., coal operators.
JOHN J. PHILLIPS, of Girardville, outside foreman of Hammond colliery, was born in France, in 1837; came to America in 1853; is a member of the I. O. of O. F. and the masonic fraternity; was married in 1858 to Esther Ritzman, of Gratstown, Pa., who died, and he was married in 1877 to Lydia Hepler.
JOHN B. PRICE was born in Dowlas, South Wales, No- vember 6th, 1827, and came to Ashland in 1860. He married Catharine Martin, of Northumberland county. He has been a merchant for twenty-six years, having two fine stores, conducted under the firm name of John B. Price & Sons. He has been a member of the board of education for three years.
WILLIAM J. PRICE, born in Wales, June 28th, 1840, came to America in 1869, settling in Ashland. He mar- ried Mrs. Elizabeth James, nee Harris, at Mahanoy City, in 1871. Mr. Price has worked in the mines since 1850, and in December, 1879, was appointed inside foreman of the Wadleigh colliery.
EDWARD PRITCHARD, born in Pottsville in 1853, came to Ashland to 1875. He has been in charge of the mam- moth hoisting engines at the Tunnel colliery since 1875. Northumberland county. He was formerly telegraph He is a member of the Sons of America.
CHARLES RAMSEY was born in Alberton, Prince Ed- ward Island, August 2nd, 1846. After his marriage to Miss Angela Courtney, of Calais, Maine, he moved to Ashland, and is at present employed as outside foreman of the Bast colliery.
HARRY RAUDENBUSH, born in Pottsville, January 13th, 1858, came to Locustdale in 1873, and married Kate Umlauf, of this county, in 1879. He was a telegraph
operator for three years, but is now shipper at the Potts colliery.
THOMAS W. RAUDENBUSH, born in Pottsville, Pa., Oc- tober Ist, 1859, has lived at Locustdale and worked at the Potts colliery since 1870, serving as fireman until 1876, when he was made an engineer at the same colliery.
WILLIAM M. RAUDENBUSH, born in South Manheim township, May 9th, 1828, married Mary Ann Lloyd, Jan- uary 8th, 1852. She was born in 1830 and died August 30th, 1878. Mr. Raudenbush has been the outside fore- man of the Potts colliery since 1867. He has spent thirty years about the mines in different capacities, and since 1873 has resided in Locustdale.
THOMAS B. REESE was born in South Wales, Decem- ber Ist, 1838, and married, September 25th, 1860, Har- riet F. Jackson, of the same country. He came to America in 1866, and to Girardville in 1874. He is in- side foreman at No. 2.
J. E. REILLY, railroad agent of the Lehigh Valley Rail- road at Ashland since 1878, was born near Pottsville, and married Mary Buoy, of Milton, August, 1879. He was formerly station agent at Centralia.
FRANK RENTZ, town clerk and secretary of the Ash- land Gas Light Company, is also prominently identified with several local corporations. He is a justice of the peace, and owns the Ashland marble works, on Centre street.
THOMAS D. RICHARDS, engineer at the Girard colliery, Girardville, was born at Port Carbon, Pa., December 2nd, 1853. He was married in 1875 to Anna Thomas, a na- tive of Wales, who died in 1877. Mr. Richards is a mem- ber of the Brotherhood of the Union, and of Company F 8th regiment Pennsylvania N. G.
LEWIS A. RILEY, of the firm of L. A. Riley & Co., of Logan colliery, at Centralia, and resident engineer of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, came to Ashland as agent of the Ashland estate in 1870. After its sale to the Coal and Iron Company in 1871, Mr. Riley had charge of the Philadelphia and Reading interests for two years; was two years manager of the Locust Mountain Coal and Iron Company, and in 1874 was placed in charge of the mining interests of the Lehigh Valley Company, covering 20,000 acres of coal lands, extending from Delano to Trevorton, and including twenty-five collieries. He em- ployes eight assistants.
JAMES ROBBINS, of Girardville, was born in Somerset- shire, England, in 1832; came to America in September, 1839, and has been at Packer No. 3 colliery since Janu- ary Ist, 1880, as inside boss. He was married in 1855 to Margaret Brown. Mr. Robbins is a practical miner and has received a thorough education fitting him for his responsible position.
GEORGE A. ROBETHAN, born in Minersville, has re- sided in Ashland since 1870. In 18,8 he opened a gro- cery store in Centre street. He is actively identified with the temperance interests of the day, and a member of the Sons of America.
HENRY C. ROEHRIG was born in Minersville, June 4th, 1856. He was married to L. E. Rohrer, of Shamokin, operator, but he is now clerk in the dispatcher's office at Gordon.
CHARLES F. RUSSELL, of Ashland, was born in Tre- mont, Schuylkill county, October 21st, 1848, and married Maria Deitzler, of Pine Grove. He is secretary of the Citizens' Savings and Loan Association and of the Miners' and Laborers' Saving Fund.
W. S. RUSSELL, the chief burgess of Ashland in 1879, and president of the Ashland Mutual Fire Insurance
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Company, is a green grocer on Centre street, and also the proprietor of Hagar's Electric Balm.
JAMES RYAN, of Ashland, inspector of mines for the Shamokin district, is a native of Ireland. His course as inspector has been prudent and his official reports of colliery interests, in the volumes published by the State, are superior documents.
PATRICK RYAN, of the firm of Campton & Ryan, fur- niture dealers of Girardville, is an intelligent citizen and good business man. The firm are doing an extensive business, including undertaking.
JOHN S. SAGER, of Gordon, was born in Pottsville, September 24th, 1852, and married Margaret Butler, of Coal Castle, August 18th, 1875. Mr. Sager was formerly pumping engineer at the Gordon Planes.
MARTIN SAGER, of Gordon, was born in Pottsville, December 15th, 1844, and married Miss Matilda Wilson, of Ashland. He is an engineer on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, having been employed by that com- pany in various capacities since 1861. He was in the war of the Rebellion for three months.
EDMUND SAMUEL, inside foreman at Keystore col- liery, was born in South Wales, May 16th, 1835, and married Mary A. Bower, of the same country, November 29th, 1856. He came to America in 1861, settling in Hyde Park, and in 1863 to Locust Dale and his present position.
CHRISTIAN SCHNEIDER, of Locust Dale, born in Ger- many. January 16th, 1842, came to America in 1874. He was a miner until 1877, opening a hotel in 1878, at Locust Dale. He married Josepha Steiger, of Germany, March 5th, 1867.
DR. COSMUS S. W. SCHOMO was born in Hamburg, July 26th, 1855; he married Amanda Jacoby, of the same place, and in 1876 settled in Ashland. He graduated from Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery February 28th, 1877, and i , a member of the Lebanon Valley Dental Association. Office on Centre street, Ashland.
JAMES A. SCOTT, born in Hazelton, January 26th, 1854, came to Locust Gap in 1860, followed mining for seven years, and is now a colliery clerk at the "Gap."
JOHN G. SCOTT, of Girardville, outside foreman of Connor colliery, was born at Mine Hill Gap, Pa., on the 25th of November, 1844. His father, George Scott, was a mine boss for more than thirty-two years. Mr. Scott has been employed in his present position for the past four years; was married the 6th of May, 1868, to Eliza- beth Briggs. His wife died in 1878.
H. H. SEITZINGER, agent for the Weed Sewing Machine Company, a member of the pioneer family of that name, was born in Pottsville, February 18th, 1834, and has lived in Butler township, at Fountain Springs, since 1850. He served as U. S. deputy marshal during the draft of 1862.
ISRAEL SEITZINGER, of Gordon, was born in Pottsville, August 27th, 1820, and was married to Margaret Heeoner, of Schuylkill Haven, March 16th, 1843. In 1850 his hotel property at Gordon was destroyed by fire. He held the office of postmaster for one year at Broad Moun- tain. He served during the Rebellion as a captain.
JOHN F. SHAW, druggist and stationer in Girardville, was born at Tamaqua, in 1853, and married Clara Ayers, of Mt. Carmel, Pa., in 1878.
AUSTIN BIRCHARD SHERMAN, M. D., was born at Jes- sup, Susquehanna county, Pa., on the 7th of July, 1829. He graduated from the Jefferson Medical College at Phila- delphia in 1865, having, prior to his graduation, practiced medicine for several years.
Girardville in 1865. and has practiced there ever since. He was married in 1858 to Miss B. M. Boyer, and has two sons.
SOLOMON SILLIMAN was born in Bristol, England, in 1847. He came to Ashland in 1872. He has worked in California, in England and on the line of the Pacific rail- way. He married Alice, daughter of William Williams, who was killed by the Mollie Maguires, and for the past eight years has been an engineer at the Wadleigh shaft.
THOMAS SIMPSON was born in England, in 1826. He came to America in 1856, settling in Philadelphia, and to Ashland in 1864. He has been an engineer for thirty-six years and has worked for the Philadelphia and Reading Company since 1870; is an engineer at North Ashland colliery. He married Margaret Robinson, a native of Scotland, in 1856.
WILLIAM H. SKEEN, tinner, was born at Pottsville, May 28th, 1852, and is at present employed at Girardville; was married in 1870 to Hannah Burton, who died in 1879.
SLOBIG & YOUNG, merchant millers, are successors to W. N. Baker & B. M. Slobig. Joseph B. Young became a member of the firm, under its present name, in 1880. The mills are in Lancaster county; the store is at the corner of Centre and 13th streets, Ashland.
F. J. SMITH, of Gordon, was born in Marchester, England, December 3d, 1833, and married Miss B. E. Novinger, of Ringtown. He has had charge of the sta- tionary engine at Gordon Planes for a term of fourteen years.
JOHN SMITH, a farmer at Gordon, was born in England, October 25th, 1815; he came to America in the year 1841, and was married to Ellen Ray, of Tamaqua, Oc- tober 31st, 1847; he was formerly an engineer.
C. W. SNYDER is bookkeeper in the leather and finding house of Hamilton Johnson & Co., on Centre street, Ashland.
ALBION P. SPINNEY, the oldest member of the bar of Ashland, has had an office here since 1856, and is well and widely known.
L. J. STEINHILBER, a merchant since 1875, was born in Minersville, and has resided in Ashland since a child. In the spring of 1880 he removed to the building erected by him two doors above Buck's hardware block.
WILLIAM STEINHILBER was born in Oakland, and mar- ried Christina James, a native of Wales. Since 1877 he has been a merchant on Centre street, Ashland; served in the war for the Union.
E. S. STELTZ, dealer in pianos, etc., was born Decem- ber 10th, 1849, at Limerick, Montgomery county, Pa., and married Katie Cahoon, of Pottsville. He has lived at Girardville since 1873.
MRS. HANNAH SULLIVAN, merchant at Gordon, was born in county Kerry, Ireland, April 16th, 1836, and was married to Patrick Sullivan, of the same place, in 1864. Mrs. Sullivan has lived in Gordon since her marriage. Mr. Sullivan died May 28th, 1869.
ROBERT THIRLWELL, born in England in 1826, came to America in 1833 with his parents. He came to Ash- land in 1861. He married Miss Thomas, of Ashland. Mr. Thirlwell is now an engineer at Big Mine Run col- liery. He served over three years in the war for the Union.
JOHN M. THOMAS was born in Llewellyn, Schuylkill county, August Ist, 1850, and married Johanna Miller, of the same place, June 20th, 1872. Since 1876 he has been an engineer at Preston collieries, Girardville.
JOHN W. TILEY, born in Pottsville, November 23d, 1847,
Dr. Sherman located in | married Louisa Umlauf, of Prussia, in 1869. He came
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to Locust Dale in 1869, and has since been an engineer at the Keystone colliery.
WILLIAM TILEY was born at Mill Creek, April 2nd, 1855, and married Elizabeth Powell, of Minersville, March 18th, 1876. Mr. Tiley has been an engineer at the Potts colliery since 1873, and resides in Ashland.
MRS. J. B. TRATH, dealer in sewing machines on Cen- tre street, has a large assortment of the most reliable and best known makes; she succeeds her husband, who es- tablished the business some years ago.
FERDINAND TRETTER, was born in Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, October 18th, 1830. He came to America in 1852, and to Ashland in 1857. He married Magdalena Schmeld- zer, of his own birthplace, in 1854, at Patterson. He was a miner until 1860, when he opened the hotel he still owns, corner of Eighth and Centre streets, Ashland. He has been president of the Ashland Banking Company, and is a director of two prominent savings institutions.
ZACHARY T. TROUT, druggest, Girardville, was born at Pottsville, April 5th, 1850, and is the manufacturer of Trout's Vegetable Worm Syrup; an active business man, and a practical chemist of considerable experience.
JOHN C. UMLAUF, born at Brockville, Schuylkill county, September 2nd, 1857, came to Locust Dale in 1858. He is an engineer at the Keystone colliery, which post he has held since 1875.
DAVID VAUGHAN, a native of South Wales, was born February 18th, 1828. He came to America in 1855. set- tling in Ashland, and in 1861 married Elizabeth Watkins, of Locust township, Columbia county. In 1872, in com- pany with several other experienced miners, he opened the Enterprise colliery, and has since operated it under the firm name of D. Vaughan & Co.
HERMAN F. VOSHAGE was born at Pottsville, Deceni- ber 2nd, 1852. He commenced business as a druggist. on Centre street, August, 1874.
WILLIAM WATERS, inside foreman at Girard colliery, Girardville, was born August 10th, 1830, in Wales, and came to America in 1852; has been at Girard colliery since June 9th, 1873. He was married in 1853, June 4th, to Ann Williams, of Pottsville.
WILLIAM E. WATERS was born in Bridgend, Gla- morganshire, South Wales, September 10th, 1826. He married Mary A. Burnett, of England. He worked as a miner in England, Ireland, and South Africa; received a silver medal for services in the latter coutry in the war of 1851-53; came to Ashland in 1860; at present he is serving as an inside foreman.
CHARLES A. WEBER, carpenter, of Ashland, son of Ludwic Weber, of Fountain Springs, was born at Miners- ville, October 5th, 1855. He married Jane Mahaffey, of Marion, Ohio.
LUDWIC WEBER was born in Germany, April 15th, 1821, and was married to Miss Sophia Pepper, October 23d, 1851. He is a watchman at North Ashland colliery. He moved to Fountain Springs in 1857.
LUCY A. WEISS, of Gordon, was the wife of Jonas Weiss, who was born in Northampton county, September 30th, 1817. Her husband was a soldier in the 17th Pennsylvania cavalry. He died on the 5th day of Au- gust, 1865.
JOHN WHITE, of Ashland, was born in Somersetshire, England, October 18th, 1827, and was married to Miss Eliza Far, also of England, April 7th, 1851. Mr. White followed mining until 1865, when he commenced farming at Fountain Springs.
ALFRED C. WILLIAMS, son of George Williams, of Gor- don, was born February 9th, 1859. Mr. Williams has been brakeman on the Philadelphia and Reading Rail .. road for a number of years.
GEORGE WILLIAMS, of Gordon, was born in Monmouth- shire, South Wales, August Ist, 1829, and came to America when quite young. He was married to Miss Lydia A. Summers, of Gordon, February 17th, 1859. He has been a locomotive engineer since 1856. He was a volunteer in the war for the Union.
R. CARR WILSON, of Ashland, was born in Montour county, February 14th, 1811; and was married to Maria Coulter, of Lewisburg, Union county. Mr. Wilson was one of the early settlers of Butler. He held the office of school director from 1847 to 1875; director of the poor from 1861 to 1867, and he is at present town auditor. His former business was lumbering, but he is now a farmer.
MRS. CAROLINE WINGERT was born at Pottsville, March 7th, 1835. She was married to F. B. Wingert about the year 1856. Mr. Wingert served as cashier of the First National Bank of Ashland from 1864 until his death, which occurred July 29th, 1872. Mrs. Wingert reared a family of seven children, six of whom are living. Three of the oldest boys are telegraph operators for the Philadelphia and Reading Company.
WALTER A. WOLFF, born at Hamburg, Berks county, in 1847, married Lizzie Beltz in 1871, and since 1877 has
H. S. WAGNER, of Shamokin, born at Cressona, Schuyl- been engaged in the fancy grocery trade on Centre kill county, October 8th, 1852, married Emma P. Man- street, Ashland. ning, of that place, March 16th, 1876, and since 1868 has been in the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company as trainman.
GEORGE H. YOUNG, of Schuylkill county, was born September 6th, 1853, and came to Locustdale when a child, with his father, who established himself as a mer- chant. He has been in the store since 1864, and has had charge of it since his father's death.
Besides the foregoing the following residents of the same territory contributed their support to this publica- tion: G. B. Bryant, A. M. Burt, M. H. Collier, D. S. Davis, Thomas Dawson, Michael M. Delaney, Rev. R. Duenger, Samuel Ernst, Rev. Samuel Evans, Jacob E. Fertig, Clement S. Foster, N. M. Frank, P. M. Gallaher, L. W. Gheen, John A. Gilger, William Goyne, W. G. Gwyther, Joseph L. Harper, John Hower, George Howell, H. J. James, George S. Keiper, Michael Kally, William Landefelde, Mrs. R. J. Lewis, W. H. Lewis, Lewis Love, P. D. Luther, S. McFarland, G. F. McKeman, James G. Maurer, Samuel G. Miller, M. J. Mellody, Charles G. Mock, Rev. Anthony Nothe, Daniel O'Connor, Joseph H. Parry, R. H. Phillips, D. D. Phillips, Rev. James Robinson, Joseph G. Smith, A. P. Spinney, B. J. Smith, Uriah W. Filey, E. C. Wagner, Albert J. Wagner, John Wandlass, J. H. Webber, J. W. and C. A. Wingert, Jo- seph Whalen, Joseph B. Young, R. A. Zimmerman.
BRANCH AND CASS TOWNSHIPS, MINERSVILLE BOROUGH.
JOHN A. BOWMAN, of Cass township, born in Norwe- gian township, November 8th, 1856, began mercantile busines in Cass in 1877. His father, John H. Bowman, was born in Switzerland, in 1815, and married Katharine B. Motchmann, a German lady, in January, 1856.
HON. JAMES E. BRENNAN was born in Ireland, in 1844,
and came to Cass in 1856. He married Ellen Shortall, of Northumberland county, December 23d, 1862. After holding several positions of trust in the township, in 1880 he was elected representative in the Legislature from his district.
THOMAS H. BRENNAN, of Cass township, was born in
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Minersville, in 1856. He worked in the mines when a boy, but in 1875 became a teacher in the public schools.
T. D. BRENNAN, teacher, of Minersville, was born in Columbia county, in 1839, and came here when quite young. He married Catharine Mohan, of Minersville, November 8th, 1870. She died August 27th, 1880. He was in the Union army a short time.
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