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DAVID BROWN, born in Lockport, N. Y., in 1848, came to Cass in 1860, and was married to Ellen McGary, of Schuylkill county. Mr. Brown is a miner.
GEORGE L. BROWN was born at Milton, Northumber- land county, December 6th, 1838, and married Rachel J. Moore, of Berks county. He is a druggist and hardware merchant, corner of Third and Sunbury streets, Miners- ville. He was a soldier in the Union army.
JOHN K. BURNS, druggist at Minersville since 1852, was born in Berks county, April Ist, 1821, and married Anna M., daughter of Rev. Dr. I. W. Gibbs, of Newark, N. J. He studied medicine three years, and is a member of the American and Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Asso- ciations.
JAMES P. BUTLER, of Cass township, was born in 1850, and married Catharine A. Welsh, of Schuylkill county, December 31st, 1870. He commenced teaching school in 1873. His post-office address is Minersville, Pa.
MICHAEL C. BUTLER, born in Ireland, August 28th, 1844, came to America in infancy, and has spent most of his life in Cass township. He married Julia Walsh, of Minersville, March 24th, 1870. Mr. Butler commenced teaching in the public schools in 1865, and he is the present superintendent of schools in Cass township. He was elected justice of the peace in 1878.
MARTIN CAHILL, of Cass township, born in Ireland in 1824, married Ellen Groody in 1848. He has been a carpenter forty years.
P. J. CAVANAGH, of Cass township, was born in Ire- land, June 5th, 1853; he commenced teaching school in 1868. He married Bridget Delaney, of Cass, in 1879.
PHILIP CLARK, of Cass township, was born in Ireland, in 1843, and came to America in 1847. He commenced teaching school in 1867, and taught in one district ten years. He married Mary Langton, of Cass, in 1870.
THOMAS C. COCKILL was born in Llewellyn, October 28th, 1855. He married Mrs. Kate Tipton, of Middle Creek. He is a teacher, and is located at Branch Mills, Branch township.
THOMAS M. COCKILL was born in Philadelphia, Septem- ber 8th, 1818, and married Mary Thomas, of Silver Creek. He is a merchant and farmer, and resides at Llewellyn.
CORNELIUS COLEMAN, proprietor of a hotel at Llewellyn, on Tremont road, was born in Lykens, Dauphin county, March 27th, 1829. He settled in Schuylkill county in 1852, and married Sarah Ritzman, of his native place. He is treasurer and school director of Branch township.
MICHAEL CONNORS, of Minersville, was born in Nor- wegian township, October 15th, 1855. He is a teacher, but was formerly a miner.
JAMES CROWE was born in Limerick county, Ireland, December 24th, 1846, and married Catharine Dishart, of Iowa, in 1864. He is a miner, residing in Reilly town- ship; post-office Branch Dale.
JOHN CROWE was born in county Limerick, parish of New Castle, Ireland, June 21st, 1834. He married Catharine O'Connors in 1858. He is proprietor of a wholesale liquor store and a livery stable at Minersville.
THOMAS CUMMINGS, of Cass township, was born in Ireland in 1840; he came to America in 1844. He mar- ried Margaret White, of New Castle in 1863. He is a
colliery engineer in the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Company.
JOSEPH W. DANENHOWER, M. D., superintendent of the Minersville public schools, has been a resident since September ist, 1854. He received a diploma from the Pennsylvania College of Medicine, and practiced from 1853 to 1854.
JOHN R. DAVIS was born in Merthyr Tydvil, South Wales, October 15th, 1817. He married Hannah Row, of Minersville, April 9th, 1846. He is a coal operator, postmaster, and merchant. He resides in Cass township, post office Minersville. He has been township treasurer, and has held various other offices.
GODFREY F. DIETZ was born in Woolenberg, Gerinany, October 24th, 1833. He married Catharine Fisher, of Minersville. He is engaged in the flour, feed and lumber business, Sunbury street, Minersville.
JOHN DOLBIN, of Cass township, was born in Miners- ville, in 1835; he married Elizabeth Robinson, of Scot. land, in 1857, and in 1876 opened a store at Forestville. He is also a contract miner.
THOMAS W. DORMER was born in Cass township, in 1860. He commenced teaching school in 1876, and is conducting a hotel at Forestville.
JOHN ELTRINGHAM, post-office Minersville, was born in Northumberland, England, August 23d, 1817, and set- tled in Schuylkill county in 1845. He married Jemima Huddert, of England, and Mrs. Jane Eltringham, of Shenandoah. He is district superintendent for the P. & R. C. & I. Co., located at Phoenix Park, Branch town- ship; was formerly State mine inspector.
JOHN F. GALLAGHER, of Cass township, was born in Minersville, in 1850, and when fourteen years old com- menced running a colliery engine. In 1878 he married Margaret O'Brien, of Cass township.
SETH W. GEER, attorney at law, Minersville, was born at Lawrenceville, Tioga county, April 12th, 1826, and came to Minersville in 1854. He has been twice married-to Elizabeth L. Campbell, of Williamsport, and Helen W. Higby, of Pottsville. He studied law with Hon. John W. Maynard, of Williamsport.
B. F. GEIST was born in Northumberland county, De- cember 24th, 1848, and married Mary Dillman, of Mi- nersville, September 14th, 1871. He is a jeweller, located on Sunbury street, Minersville.
WILLIAM GODFREY was born in Gloucestershire, Eng- land, May 28th, 1838, and married Celia Mapstone, of South Wales. He is inside superintendent for the Phil- adelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and re- sides on New Castle street, Minersville.
JOHN GOOD, of Cass township, born August 25th, 1856, commenced work in the mines when a lad of seven years. He married Emma Stecker, of Northumberland county, January Ist, 1878; he has been a colliery engin- eer at "the Gap " eight years.
BENJAMIN C. GUEDIN, M. D., was born at Mount Car- bon, Schuylkill county, June 5th, 1849, and married Alice M. Roads, of Pottsville. He is a physician at Miners- ville, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, March 13th, 1870.
REV. G. F. W. GUENSCH, German Lutheran minister at Minersville, was born in Germany, March 13th, 1837. He married Miss Lydia Geuss, of White Haven, June 24th, 1865.
JOHN HAYS, of Cass township, a native of Branch Dale, Schuylkill county, was born October 10th, 1849. In 1872 he took charge of his first colliery engine, and mar- ried Martha Jones, of his native place.
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ABRAHAM HEXTER, born in Hesse Darmstadt, Ger- many, August 29th, 1821, married Augusta Strouse, of New York city, in 1849. He is a merchant tailor at No. 15 East Sunbury street, Minersville. Has been a mem- ber of the town council, president of the same, and has held other officers.
MICHAEL HILBERT, post office Minersville, was born in Bavaria, Germany, September 27th, 1834. He married Mary Klun, of St. Clair, July 12th, 1860. He is inside boss at Phoenix Park No. 3, and resides in Branch township.
JACOB F. HINE, justice of the peace of Branch town- ship, was born in Norwegian township, September 28th, 1825, and married Angeline Heine, of Llewellyn, in 1849. He is a carpenter, employed by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company since 1867. He has held several town offices.
ADAM HINKEL, of Minersville, was born in Hesse Darm- stadt, Germany, in 1848, and married Maggie Shaffer, of Pottsville. ' He was formerly a miner, but is now a lum- ber dealer, wheelright and blacksmith.
DANIEL HOCH, SEN., of Cass township, was born in Union county, March 9th, 1821; he came to Schuylkill county in 1828, and on the 31st of November, 1844, mar- ried Sarah Hoffman, of Dauphin county. Since 1865 Mr. Hoch has been a coal operator and mine foreman, and is now employed in the latter capacity at Forestville colliery.
J. J. HUGHES, of Cass township, was born in Coal Cas- tle, Schuylkill county, October 12th, 1846. He com- menced teaching school in 1859.
ENGELHART HUMMEL, cabinet maker and undertaker, West Sunbury street, Minersville, was born in Bavaria, Germany, July 21st, 1824, and has been married three times: to Barbara Weinruch, Gertrude Lehn, and his pres- ent wife, Barbara Ritzel, of Yorkville. He has held sev- eral offices.
DAVID A. JONES was born at Dowlais, Wales, May 9th, 1841. He married Miss Mary Beddow, of Minersville. Mr. Jones is an attorney-at-law, located at Pottsville and Minersville. He has been a lieutenant of a State militia company.
JAMES KELLAGHER was born in Fermanagh county, Ire- land, December 24th, 1826, and married Mary Brady, of Minersville. He is proprietor of a hotel, and liquor dealer, on Sunbury street, Minersville. He is director of poor from the Minersville district.
H. J. KELLY was born in South Wales, June 6th, 1844. He married Anna Jones, of St. Clair. He is inside fore- man at Richardson colliery, and resides in Minersville. He was a soldier in the Union army.
JAMES T. KELLEY, of Cass township, was born June 22nd, 1845, and in 1867 married Elizabeth Shortall, of Pottsville. He has been a public school teacher seven- teen years. He has served as treasurer of Cass.
WILLIAM F. KISTLER, physician and surgeon at Miners- ville, was born in Lynnville, Lehigh county, December 17th, 1852, and married Helen L. Krause, of Slatington. He was formerly a teacher. He graduated in medicine in 1874, in a medical college in Philadelphia.
F. C. LAWRENCE was born in Milton, Northumberland county, July 11th, 1829. He is a merchant, one of the firin of Lawrence, Merkel & Co., Sunbury street, Miners- ville. He is also a coal operator.
THOMAS LAWRENCE was born in England, February 16th, 1838, and married Sarah Lyons, of Minersville. He is superintendent of Thomaston colliery, Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and lives in Minersville. He was a soldier in the Union army.
WILLIAM LEVANS, of Cass township, was born in Phila delphia, August 8th, 1844. He served in the war for the Union. In 1873 he married Eliza Taylor, of Coal Castle. He has been a colliery engineer twenty years.
ROBERT LITTLEHALES, outside colliery foreman, in Foster township, near Mt. Pleasant, was born in Silver Creek, July 12th, 1846. He married Harriet O'Kom, of New Castle.
M. H. MASTER, proprietor of marble works, corner of Sunbury street and Delaware avenue, Minersville, was born in Hereford township, Berks county, September 21st, 1855. He married Lavina Hanich, of Minersville.
MARTIN MCAVOY, a native of Schuylkill county, was born in 1853, and has been a school teacher since 1869.
ALEXANDER McDONALD was born in Cass township, December 25th, 1843, and married Mary O'Connor, De- cember 25th, 1868. He followed mining for twelve years, and opened the hotel of which he is the proprietor, at Heckscherville, in 1877.
FRANCIS C. MCDONALD was born near Pottsville, June 14th, 1845, and married Mary L. McAvoy, of Pottsville. He is teacher of the public school at Phoenix Park, and resides in Llewellyn.
PATRICK MCGUIRE was born in Ireland, September 22nd, 1822, and married Ann McGovern, in 1849. He came to America the following year. Since 1838 he has been teaching in public schools, and in those of Cass township since 1850. Mr. McGuire is believed to be the oldest teacher in the county.
REV. PATRICK MCSWIGGAN was born in Ireland, March 17th, 1825. He was educated at St. Charles Seminary, in Philadelphia, and he is now the pastor of the Roman Catholic church at Heckscherville.
JOHN MOHAN was born in Minersville, May 7th, 1832, and married Harriet Malone, of the same place. He is a merchant and wholesale liquor dealer, on Sunbury street, Minersville. He has held several offices.
JOHN J. MURPHY, of Minersville, teacher, was born in Norwegian township, June 4th, 1844, and married Bridget Rogers, of Pottsville; she died May 12th, 1876.
THOMAS J. O'BOYLE, of Cass township, born at Heck- scherville, June 25th, 1856, suffered the loss of both of his hands by an accident in a coal breaker when he was only ten years old. Six years later he commenced teach- ing school.
MICHAEL O'MALLEY was born in county Mayo, Ireland, January 10th, 1844, and married Mary Derrick, of Cass township. He is a merchant, corner of 2nd and Sunbury streets, Minersville.
ROBERT F. POTTER was born in Elmira, New York, April 6th, 1841, and married Bessie P. Hodgson, of Minersville. He was formerly receiving teller at the Miners' National Bank, at Minersville, but is now cashier.
GEORGE OTTO PRAETORIUS was born in Detmold, Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, July 20th, 1836. He married Henrietta Labinais, of Cass township, December 3d, 1864. He is forester for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and resides on Front street, Minersville. He has held similar appointments in the old country, and served eight years in the German army.
JOHN H. REILLY was born in Schuylkill county in 1854, and married Mary McCabe, of Forestville, Decem- ber 11th, 1878. He was a miner and contractor, but in 1878 he opened a store at Forestville, where he is also the agent of the Singer Manufacturing Company.
MONROE T. SCHREFFLEN, of Minersville, was born in Behrersburg, Berks county, September 23d, 1843. He
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married Elizabeth Ann Goodfellow; she died December 14th, 1879, and he married Emma Briant, of Minersville. He is inside boss of Thomaston colliery, for the Philadel- phia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. He was soldier in the Union army.
WILLIAM F. SCHROPP, M. D., was born in Friedens- burg, August 3d, 1858. He was formerly a printer, but is now a physician, and resides at Llewellyn. He gradu- ated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Balti- more.
GEORGE SCOTT, sen., was born in Northumberland county, England, July 5th, 1817, and married Agnes Govan, of Mine Hill Gap. He is a merchant at Miners- ville.
HENRY H. SPAYD, teacher, was born at Myerstown, Lebanon county, October 25th, 1845, and married Sarah Donaberger, of the same place. He has been a resident of Minersville two years. He was a color bearer in a Pennsylvania regiment during the war.
J. S. STEIN was born in Greenwich, Berks county, August 29th, 1834. He was married to Catharine Fiery, in 1859. He is a farmer and proprietor of a grist-mill in Branch township.
CHARLES K. TAYLOR, attorney at law, was born in Minersville in 1847, and has since resided there.
CHARLES W. TAYLOR, a resident of Minersville for forty-two years, was born in Union county, February 8th, 1813. He married Susanna Christ, of Pottsville. He has been a justice of the peace for 30 years; was formerly a merchant.
JOHN W. TUCKER was born in Lower Augusta, North- umberland county, June 28th, 1828. He married Sarah Heilner, of Minersville, April 14th, 1853. He is a mer- chant on Front and Sunbury streets, Minersville.
WILLIAM TAYLOR was born in England, in 1844. He married Mary Williams, of Donaldson. He is inside foreman at Phoenix Park No. 2, and resides at Llewel- lyn.
JOHN TOOLE was born in Cass township, December Ioth, 1855. He married Sarah A. Donahoe, in 1877. He has been a public school teacher in the township since 1871. .
JOHN VOLPERT was born in Prussia, September 24th, 1816. He married Catharine Rosengarten, of Pottsville. He is a dealer in groceries and liquors, corner of Sunbury and Fourth streets.
JAMES M. WEISER, cabinet maker and undertaker in Minersville, was born November 30th, 1842. He mar-
ried Ellen E. Nealing, of Minersville. He was a soldier in the Union army.
HON. J. F. WELSH, of Cass township, was born in Ireland, May 12th, 1838, and married Susannah Kane in- 1865. Mr. Welsh served in the war for the Union. He has been actively identified with labor reform movements- for the past twenty-five years. He was elected repre- sentative to the Legislature in 1878.
D. H. WILcox, proprietor of the American House at Llewellyn, was born in Chenango county, N. Y., and married Miss A. J. Trautman. He was formerly a teacher, and represented the 4th district of Schuylkill county in the Assembly in 1877 and 1878.
JOHN WILCOX, of Cass township, was born in Ireland, in 1844. He married Jane Dolvin, of Schuylkill county, in 1877. He has been a colliery foreman for the Phila- delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and is now an engineer.
THOMAS P. WILLIAMS was born in South Wales, Feb- ruary 20th, 1841. He married Martha Evans, of Ash- land, and Dinah Morgan, of Girardville. He has been inside and outside foreman, but at present is assistant superintendent of mines for the P. & R. C. & I. Co. He resides on First street, Minersville. Mr. Williams en- listed as private in 1861, and was discharged in 1865 as captain of his company.
J. H. ZERBEY was born at Pottsville, June 14th, 1857- He married Cora E. Sigfried, of Pottsville. Mr. Zerbey has received an academic education, and is an editor and. publisher. He resides on First street, Minersville.
LEWIS ZIMMERMAN, merchant, formerly engineer, was born in Branch township, November 20th, 1842, and married Amelia Sponsler, of Llewellyn, May 6th, 1877. He is located on Brinton street, Llewellyn. He was a. soldier in the Union army, and lost his left arm.
Besides the foregoing, the following persons residing in the same territory contributed their support to this publication: John J. Bergen, Thomas Beach, M. D., Rev. H. Bodine, Charles A. Brunner, J. D. Brennan, J. W. Danenhower, John O. Donnell, Patrick Duffy, P. M. Dunn, T. J. Eckle, Samuel Felix, Daniel C. Ford, Henry Hammer, William H. Harris, Theodore A. Hel- wig, Jacob H. Hime, James Hay, David Jones, John R. Jones, H. A. Kear, James H. Levan, T. Mahan, James Mundy, M. P. O'Brien, H. P. O'Brien, R. P. H. Phillips, Felix Schloss, T. W. Schellenoehe, William Sherman, L. H. Stine, Samuel Taylor, John Trayer, John Wadlinger, James Welsh, William H. Zimmerman.
MAHANOY, WEST MAHANOY, UNION, NORTH UNION AND EAST UNION TOWNSHIPS, MAHANOY CITY, FRACKVILLE, GILBERTON AND SHENANDOAH BOROUGHS.
PETER ALBERT was born March 12th, 1825, and mar- ried Mary S. Hurtman October 20th, 1850. Both are natives of Germany. He came to Shenandoah seventeen years ago. He has been a mine boss and hotel-keeper, but is now an insurance agent. He is a member of the council of Shenandoah.
RICHARD AMOUR, a native of England, was born June 20th, 1850, and came to Shenandoah in 1869. He is foreman of Columbia hose and Shenandoah steam fire engine company. He is sergeant of Company H 7th regiment N. G.
ISRAEL APPLEGATE, born in Union township, August 24th, 1834, married Mary Clarke, of the same place.
He has always lived in the township. He served ten months in the 173d Pennsylvania volunteers as first lieutenant of Company A. He served the county as auditor from 1862 to 1865.
HENRY J. AREGOOD was born in Port Carbon, October 22nd, 1851; married Mary E. Shoener, of St. Clair, and since 1877 has lived at Frackville, where he is a dealer in house furnishing goods.
FRANKLIN BACHMAN was born in New Castle, Schuyl- kill county, November 13th, 1830. His wife was Susan Hummel, of Northumberland county. Has lived in Frackville since 1864, and is a locomotive engineer in the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
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WILLIAM H. BAILEY, born at Port Carbon in 1835, came to Mahanoy City in 1862, as an engineer for the East Mahanoy colliery. Since 1869 he has been night engineer at the North Mahanoy colliery. He married Priscilla Hædermast, of St. Clair. He is the inventor of a ventilating fan for mines.
THOMAS BAIRD, inside foreman of Kehley Run col- liery, was born in county Durham, England, May 20th, 1841, and married Mary Ann Cooper, of Tamaqua. He came to Shenandoah in 1870. He has been fire boss for the Philadelphia and Reading Company.
JACOB BAMBERGER, dealer in boots and shoes at No. 34 Main street, Shenandoah, was born in Memmelsdorf, Germany, August 30th, 1859. He married Minnie Stern, of Atenhomen, Germany.
P. M. BARROW, born in Delhi, New York, September 6th, 1822, married Rebecca Zimmerman, of Union town- ship, February 27th, 1849, and has lived at Ringtown since May roth of that year, having formerly resided for some years in Tioga county. Mr. Barrow carries on a tannery at Ringtown. He was justice of the peace from 1856 to 1861.
WILLIAM BASSETT was born at Minersville, January 4th, 1855; is an engineer at the Stanton colliery, Frack- ville, and an Odd Fellow.
EDWARD BATEMAN was born at Minersville, June 24th, 1860 He was formerly a breaker boss, and is now the breaker engineer of Merkle colliery. He has resided in Frackville since 1868, and is an officer of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America.
NATHAN BEACHER, miner, a native and resident of Shenandoah, was born October 22nd, 1849. He is a member of Company H, 7th Regiment, N. G. of Pa., and a trustee of Columbia Hose and S. F. E. Company.
JOSEPH A. BEATTY was born in Nova Scotia, April 4th, 1841, and married Elizabeth Griffiths, of Forest- ville. He is the chief burgess of Frackville, and since 1872 has been foreman of a colliery blacksmith shop; has also served as school director of his borough.
JAMES H. BECK is superintendent of the extensive Lost Creek store, at Shenandoah.
FREDERICK BECKER, born July 11th, 1826, in Prussia, came to America in 1856, and since 1863 has lived at Mahanov City. He is a miner, and was mine foreman for two years. He married Margaret Zang, of Hazleton, December 25th, 1862. He built the handsome building known as Becker's Hall in 1866.
S. A. BEDDALL is a mining engineer and inspector at Shenandoah, where he has resided ten years. He was born in Pottsville, April 7th, 1845, and married Mary M. Bedford, of Minersville. He was formerly a mine super- intendent. He served as sergeant through the civil war.
WILLIAM BENTLEY was born in Lancashire, England, January 23d, 1839. He married Mary E. Ellis, of the same county, in 1863, and came to America the follow- ing year. He has resided in Gilberton since 1877, and is a fireman at the Draper colliery.
ANTHONY BERDANIER was born in Alsace, France, January 31st, 1828, and married Henrietta Zerbey, of Port Carbon. He resides at Mahanoy Plane, and is fore- man of the carpenter shops of the Philadelphia and Read- ing Railroad. He was formerly employed in building breakers for collieries.
JOHN W. BLAIN, a native of Carbon county, was born in 1847, and came to Mahanoy City in 1865. He mar- ried Mary Wild, of Mahanoy City, July 10th, 1869. He has been an engineer for fifteen years, and for seven years at the Lehigh colliery, Mahanoy City.
D. A. BOWMAN, photographic artist on Mahanoy av- enue, Mahanoy City, was born in Carbon county, and came to Mahanoy City in 1872. He married Belle Hen- derson, of Port Carbon, in 1878. He owns the only es- tablishment of its kind in Mahanoy City.
WILLIAM P. BOWEN was born at St. Clair, October 26th, 1837. He married Eliza A. Evans, of the same place, October 27th, 1865, and after her death was mar- ried to Anna Miller, of Gilberton, in 1877. He was su- perintendent of machinery at Gilberton colliery twelve years; is now outside boss of Draper colliery, and a councilman of Gilberton borough. He served three years in the war for the Union.
JOHN BRADIGAN was born in Minersville, in Septem- ber, 1848, and married Julia Franey, of New Philadelphia. He came in 1863 to Shenandoah, where he is inside fore- man of Indian Ridge colliery.
S. H. BRADY, M. D., was born at Carlisle, Cumberland county, October 20th, 1852, and married Mrs. E. D. Guise, of Mahanoy City. He graduated at the Univers- ity of Pennsylvania, March 12th, 1875, and since that time has been in practice at Lost Creek.
NELSON BRANDON was born in the vicinity of his present home in Union, March 3d, 1831. In 1854 he married Rebecca Hartley, of Columbia county. She died, and in 1866 he married Sarah J. Rupert. He has been school director several years, and is a successful farmer.
JOSEPH A. BRECKONS was born in St. Clair, November 27th, 1856; he has resided at Gilberton eleven years. Since 1873 he has been bookkeeper at the Draper col- liery.
GEORGE F. BRENDLE, M. D., was born at Rehrersburg, Berks county, February 27th, 1837; he married Maria Smith, of Port Carbon. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, March 14th, 1862, and has since been practicing in Mahanoy City
JAMES BRITTEN, of West Mahonoy township, was born at St. Clair, July 9th, 1853. He has been an engineer for the past twelve years. He was married to Cordelia Gibbs, of Minersville, February 14th, 1872; she died April 29th, 1880.
JOHN BRITTON is an engineer at the Centennial slope, connected with West Shenandoah colliery.
JOHN BROWN was born in Belmont, in 1848, and mar- ried Miss Sydney Fry, of Catawissa Valley. He has resided in Shenandoah since 1868, and is assistant inside foreman of Plank Ridge colliery.
WILLIAM P. BROWN, of Lost Creek, was born in Potts- ville, December 25th, 1851, and is a son of Colonel David P. Brown. Mr. Brown has been station agent and tele- graph operator at Lost Creek station, on the Lehigh Val- ley Railroad, since 1878. He was married to Carrie R. Gauz, of Pottsville, April 15th, 1874.
WILLIAM BURDON was born in Northumberland county, England, November 21st, 1838. He married Elizabeth Charlton, of Shenandoah, December 4th, 1872. He served in the English army about five years. For four years he has been outside foreman of Gilberton colliery.
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