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JOHN A. LAUCK was born in Cumberland county, married to Hannah Brown, daughter of Colonel D. P. June 29th, 1836. He married Emily M. Smith, of
Pottsville. Mr. Lauck has been a superintendent of public works, receiver of the Mountain City Bank of Pottsville, served as school director four years, and in 1880 was elected justice of the peace in Frackville, where he is proprietor of the Union House.
ADAM LECKIE, a native of Scotland, was born in 1841, and came to America in 1862. He married Jessie Miles, of Shenandoah, in 1866. He came to Shenandoah in 1867 and engaged in mining, and is now general inside superintendent of Plank Ridge colliery.
WILLIAM O. LENTZ, a resident of Mahanoy City, was born at Mauch Chunk, Carbon county, April 12th, 1860. He was educated at Crittendon Commercial College, in Philadelphia, and is clerk for L. F. Lentz, of the Copley colliery.
O. C. LEWIS is station agent for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, for the Adams and Central Express compan- ies, and general ticket agent for the west and south, at Mahanoy City.
ALEXANDER LIDDELL was born at Pottsville, Septem- ber 27th, 1848. He married Anna Skeath in 1875, and has resided at Mahanoy City fifteen years; since 1877 he has been an engineer at the Mahanoy City colliery.
FRANK LINKHORST was born in Germany in 1853, and came to America in 1857; has been an engineer at Wil- liam Penn colliery, West Mahanoy, since 1873. He was married to Elmira Makzerta in 1880.
MAURICE LITSCH, born in New York in 1854, came to Mahanoy in 1860. In 1880 he opened a cigar store on Main street, where he is also an agent for the Singer sew- ing machines and attachments.
JOSHUA D. LUTZ, liveryman, rear of the Exchange Hotel, on Main street, Mahanoy City, was born in Schuyl- kill township. He married Sybilla Kleckner, of West Brunswick. While a Union soldier he was wounded in
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the left lung at Amissville, Va., and taken prisoner by the rebels; he was sent to Richmond Hospital; thence, on a charge of attempting to bribe the surgeon, transferred to Libby Prison, thence to several other prisons, and finally to Vicksburg for exchange, having been a prisoner for eighteen months and inside of every prominent prison in the South. While at Andersonville he was robbed by the quartermaster, the infamous John Duncan, of $400. ' T. H. B. LYON, attorney, of Mahanoy City, is active in local affairs and identified with some of the most import- ant institutions of the borough. His office is on Main street.
JAMES WALLACE MADENFORT was born in Schuylkill county, and married a native of his county. He is out- side foreman of a colliery at St. Nicholas.
M H. MASTER was born in Hereford township, Berks county, September 21st, 1855. He married Lavina Han- ich, of Minersville. He is proprietor of the marble works corner of Coal and Jardin streets, Shenandoah.
WILLIAM G. MAURER, merchant at Mahanoy Plane, was born in Northumberland county, March 15th, 1841, and married Elizabeth Rothermel, of that county. He came to what is now Gilberton borough in 1870, as one of the operators of the Bear Ridge colleries.
JAMES MCCORMICK was born in Longford county, Ire- land, May 24th, 1830, and came to America in 1843. He worked in the machine shops of Snyder & Co., at Potts- ville, for fifteen years. In 1861 he put up the engines at the Mahanoy plane, and was placed in charge of one hoisting the first coal ever taken over the planes. He was appointed superintendent of the planes in 1870. He married Sarah A. Carlin, of Pottsville, Pa., August 28th, 1859.
THOMAS MCCORMICK was born in county Longford, Ireland, in 1838. He married Ellen Regan, of the same country, July 19th, 1859. He has been engineer on the Mahanoy planes since 1866, having previously served as colliery engineer at several places in the county.
B. MCDERMOTT is station agent for the Reading Rail- road at Shenandoah.
PHILIP MCGUIRE, liquor dealer, Centre street, Maha- noy City, and formerly a miner, was born in Ireland, in 1842, and came to America in 1858. He came to Ma- hanoy City in 1864, and married Margaret Fogarty, of Schuylkill county, in 1870.
PETER F. MCKERNAN, engineer at William Penn col- liery since 1868, and a machinist, was born at Beaver Meadows, June 26th, 1849. He was married to Ellen Clark, of St. Clair, in 1873.
RUDOLPH MESSERLY, born in Switzerland, came to America with his parents, who settled in Reading. He removed to Mahanoy City in 1871, and in 1878 com- bined a cigar store with his barber shop. He married Eliza Hoggets, of Mahanoy City.
CONSTANT METZ is a son of Ferdinand Metz, who came from Germany in 1857, settled in Luzerne county, removed to Mahanoy and opened a restaurant, and in 1872 built the City Hall block. He died in 1876, and his son succeeded him. Constant married Mary R. Deiter, of Mahanoy City; he is a member of the Silliman Guards.
REV. EDWARD D. MILLER was born at Rehrersburg, Berks county, January 19th, 1836, and married Miss Harriet Long, of Stouchsburg, Berks county, in May, 1858. Mr. Miller came to Ringtown from Shenandoah in 1877, and since that time has been the pastor of a church.
ELIAS MILLER, born in Berks county, September 11th,
1837, married Mary A. McCaffee in 1858. He came to Union township from Mabanoy City in 1873, and served as school director in Union for seven years. He is a farmer. He was formerly a butcher.
SAMUEL MILLER, engineer at Packer colliery No. 2, West Mahanoy, for 10 years, was born May 5th, 1845. He was married to Jane Wild, of St. Clair, January 14th, 1866. He was a soldier in the Union army from 1862 to the close of the war, and was wounded at Petersburg,
DAVID MORGAN, inside foreman of West Shenandoah colllery, came to Shenandoah in 1879; he was born in Schuylkill county, October 21st, 1839, and married Jane Richards, of Mahanoy City, in 1878. He was a member of the 48th Pennsylvania volunteers from 1861 until 1865.
JAMES H. MORGAN, assistant inside foreman of West Shenandoah colliery, was born in Minersville March 30th, 1853, and removed to Shenandoah in 1867. He married Elizabeth Williams, of St. Clair, April 15th, 1876.
MORRIS MORRISON, proprietor of the Columbia House, Shenandoah, was born in Ireland, February 2nd, 1828, and came to America in 1854. He married Eliza Con- nell, a native of Ireland, November 19th, 1852. He served four years in the State militia; has been superin- tendent of mines, a member of the school board, and a resident of Shenandoah eight years.
WILLIAM H. MOYER, of Mahanoy City, lieutenant of the coal and iron police, was born at Port Carbon. He has filled his position since 1875, having charge of a large territory.
PATRICK J. MULHOLLAND was born at Minersville, March 17th, 1857. He commenced engineering in 1878, and has been employed at Packer colliery No. 3 for the last eight years.
MICHAEL J. MURPHY, born at Hecksherville, Schuyl- kill county, June 5th, 1843, married Kate C. Quinn, of Port Carbon. He is one of the auditors of Mahanoy City, and superintendent of public schools in East Ma- hanoy township. He is also president of the Emerald Association in Mahanoy City, and a member of the fire department.
REV. J. G. NEFF, B. A., B. D., is pastor of Trinity Reformed church at Shenandoah. He was born in Kutz- town, Berks county, July 15th, 1850, and is a graduate of Keystone Normal School, of Uranus College, and of Yale College, and holds a diploma from each. He has been a resident since 1877.
ROBERT W. NELSON was born in England, in 1850, and married Henrietta Hufnogle, of Mifflin, in 1874. He is proprietor of a stove store at Mahanoy Plane, and coun- cilman of the borough of Gilberton.
A. J. O'CONNOR was born near Minersville, December 5th, 1854. He came to Mahanoy City in 1864, and com- menced teaching in the public schools when only fifteen years old. He taught in the borough schools until 1872; since then in East Mahanoy township. He married Kate E. Malloney, July 7th, 1879.
JOHN J. O'HARA is a member of the Shenandoah council, and a miner by occupation.
MICHAEL O'HARA, liveryman and wholesale liquor dealer, White and Lloyd streets, Shenandoah, was born in Bellinah, Ireland, September 29th, 1835, and married Mary Jeraney, of Pottsville, July 5th, 1864. He has been a resident of Shenandoah for 17 years, of which he was high constable in 1866, and chief burgess in 1873 and 1874. He has been county auditor for six years from 1874, and is a member of Columbia Hose and S. F. E. Company. He was formerly a superintendent of the Reading railroad under Irving Edwards's contract.
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RALPH OLIVER, born in England, in 1828, worked in mines in his native country, and since coming to America has held several important positions. He married Sarah Tatlow, of Swatara, and since 1875 has been inside fore- man of the Stanton colliery at Mahanoy Plane.
GEORGE ORMROD, of Philadelphia, is superintendent of Kehley Run colliery, Shenandoah. He built Girard Mammoth colliery at Raven Run in 1866, and was after- ward elected president of the Girard Mammoth Coal Company, and also president of St. Nicholas Coal Com- pany, of which he was the largest stock holder. He is one of the lessees of the Emmaus blast furnace, at Em- maus, Pa. Mr. Ormrod was born in Preston, England, in 1839, and was married to Permilla Johnson, of Tamaqua, Pa., in 1861.
PATRICK ORMSBY, a miner, was born in Ireland, in 1840. He came to Shenandoah in 1867, and was mar- ried to Bridget Roche, of Ashland, November Ist, 1877. Mr. Ormsby is a member of the town council, and a member of St. Patrick's Beneficial Society, of Shenandoah.
MOSES OWENS was born in Minersville, September roth, 1847, and maried Ann John, of Audenreid, Luzerne county. He is a shipper of coal, and has resided at Mahanoy Plane since 1873.
WILLIAM PALMER, of Girardville, inside foreman of Girard Mammoth colliery, at Raven Run, was born in South Wales, September 14th, 1843; he came to America in July, 1865, and has since been engaged in mining. He was married to Ann Watkins, in 1863. Mr. Palmer is an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias.
JOHN J. PARKER, born in New Castle, has resided in Mahanoy City since 1874. In 1879 he opened a drug store at No. 40 East Centre street. He is a careful druggist.
JOHN H. PARROTT was born in Manchester, England, November 30th, 1833. He came to America in 1854, settling in Schuylkill county. He has been superintend- ent at different collieries since 1859, and for nine years outside foreman of Packer colliery No. 2, West Mahanoy. He was married to Mary A. Morgan in 1861.
JOSEPH H. PARRY was born in Wales, April 28th, 1851, and came to Ashland in 1855. He was the first engineer employed at Packer colliery No. 5, West Mahanoy. He was married to Lizzie Campbell, of Ashland, Novem- ber 4th, 1873.
HENRY PARTON, blacksmith at Gilberton, was born at Staffordshire Potteries, England, in 1828, and married Lavina Ann Hampton, of Pottsville. He served in the war for the Union. He was the first president of the borough council of Frackville.
EDWARD PIERCE, of Gilberton, was born in 1837, and married November 4th, 1861, to Mary Evans, of Miners- ville. He has worked in the mines since a boy, and is now an inside foreman.
JOSEPH H. POMEROY, attorney at law at Shenandoah, was born in Philadelphia, March 2nd, 1849. He gradu- ated from Lewisburg University in 1872. He has been a resident of Shenandoah four years.
WILLIAM POOLER was born in Staffordshire, England, in 1833. He married Sarah Wild (deceased), of West- wood. He married Elizabeth Pitt, of Mauch Chunk, July 10th, 1880. He has been inside superintendent of Kohinoor colliery, Shenandoah, since 1870.
JAMES A. S. POTT was born at Pottsville, March 12th, 1854. His father, Frank Pott, died at Pottsville De- -cember 17th, 1866. He is telegraph operator and ship- ping clerk at Colorado colliery, West Mahanoy.
MORGANW. PRICE, born in Carbon county, in May, 1842,
married Ellen E. Pitt, a native of England. Mr. Price has been superintendent of the Middle Lehigh colliery for the last fourteen years, and has lived in Mahanoy City since 1864. He was a soldier in the Union army for nine months.
ROBERT N. RAMSEY, M. D., born in Bloomsburg, Columbia county, May 13th, 1857, was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1879. He has practiced in Mahanoy City since 1868.
W. POTTS RAMSEY, book and stationery merchant at Mahanoy City, is a native of Columbia county. Mr. Ramsey is an attorney, and has a wide circle of friends in the city.
FRANK F. REED, born at Llewellyn, December 22nd, 1844, married Laura Jones, of Minersville, August 17th, 1873. He has resided in Mahanoy since 1864, and is clerk at the Primrose colliery, having been in that com- pany's employ since 1870. Mr. Reed served in the war for the Union for three years.
JOHN J. REED, born at Pottsville, in 1848, came to Mahanoy township in 1863, and engaged in mining. In 1873 he was put in charge of a colliery engine, and he is now engineer at the Bear Run colliery. He married Emily Trego, of Minersville, in 1875, and resides at St. Nicholas.
ROBERT REED, born in Pottsville in 1857, came to Mahanoy City in 1871, and since 1872 has been an engineer-first at Boston Run, and now at the Mahanoy City colliery. He married Belle Parker, of Northhmber- land county, in 1876.
JOSEPH REESE, inside foreman of Packer colliery No. 2, West Mahanoy, since 1870, was born in Wales, July 16th, 1840; came to America in 1864, and commenced mining at St. Clair. He was married to Elizabeth Lewis, a native of Wales, in 1860. He has been in the mining business for thirty-two years.
JAMES W. REICHARD, the son and partner of Jonas Reichard, of Ringtown, was born in Schuylkill county, April 20th, 1854, and married Emma J. Giger, of Colum- bia county, October 18th, 1877.
JONAS REICHARD was born in Berks county, December 14th, 1811, and married Mary Ann Blew, of Schuylkill township, in 1835. He was formerly a mail carrier, but since 1855 has been in the hotel business. He is the senior member of the firm of Reichard & Son, of the Exchange Hotel at Ringtown.
ELI S. REINHOLD, teller of the Mahanoy First Na- tional Bank since 1871, was born in Lancaster county. He came to Mahanoy City in 1868, and served as prin- cipal of the high school. Since 1872 he has been clerk of the borough council. Mr. Reinhold has been statisti- cal secretary of the State Sunday-School Association for several years; he is a well-known mineralogist and has a valuable collection of minerals.
H. D. RENTSCHLER, M. D., a native of Upper Berne, Berks county, was born May 5th, 1841, and married Emeline Rumael, February 5th, 1869. He is a practic- ing physician, residing in Union. He was elected coroner in 1877.
JOSEPH RICHARDSON was born in St. Clair. He came to Mahanoy City in 1866, and in 1868 was appointed an engineer at the Glendon colliery.
BENJAMIN F. RICK, of West Mahanoy, was born near Cressona, May 31st, 1845. He has been an engineer for six years, and now runs a slope engine. He was married to Margaret Brennan in 1868.
JOHN O. ROORBACH was born at Tamaqua, Schuylkill county, February 10th, 1859. He is now a telegraph
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operator and manager of the local office at Mahanoy Plane.
WILLIAM THOMAS ROSIER was born in Baltimore coun- ty, Mayland, June 25th, 1846. He married Sarah E. Wilson, and after her death Sarah J. Wilson, of the same county. He has been employed by the B. M. and P. R. Railroad for seventeen years; as a locomotive engineer since 1872. He has lived at Frackville since 1863.
CAPTAIN JAMES RUSSELL, born in England, April 28th, 1810, came to Schuylkill county in 1830. He married Elizabeth Sigfried, of Berks county. He is a resident of Mahanoy City, and owns a saw-mill at Delano. He re- cruited a company at the outbreak of the Rebellion, of which he was made first lieutenant. Re-enlisting he served three years as a captain, for several months in command of the regiment.
MICHAEL J. RYAN was born at St. Clair, in 1850, and when sixteen years old was made an engineer, which position he has held since that time. He married Mary A. Keegan. of New Castle, in 1874, and has resided in Mahanoy City since 1862.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS W. RYAN, U. S. navy, born in Tamaqua, July 8th, 1857, has resided in Mahanoy City since childhood; he is a son of Patrick H. Ryan. He graduated at the U. S. Naval Academy, at Annapolis, in the class of '78, and was assigned to duty on the " Rich mond." He accompanied General Grant's party through Asiatic waters.
MICHAEL C. SCANLON, outside foreman of Colorado colliery, West Mahanoy, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oc- tober 4th, 1825. He was, during several years, a boat- man on the Schuylkill canal. He was married to Isabel- la McManoyle in 1853. In 1880 he was elected county commissioner by a large majority.
WILLIAM H. SCHAEFFER was born in Jefferson town- ship, Berks county, November 4th, 1841. He married Sarah Heister, of Upper Tulpehocken. Since coming to Frackville in 1874 he has been in the boot and shoe trade.
E. SCHERTZINGER, jeweler, was born in Germany, but came to America when a child. He traveled for a New York house for seven years, and in 1871 opened his store on Centre street, Mahanoy City. He married a Miss Schwartz, of Lycoming county.
ELIAS S. SEAMAN, born in Berks county, January 9th, 1834, married Amelia Ludwig, of the same county, De- cember 15th, 1856. He is a contractor and the proprie- tor of a temperance hotel at Mahanoy Plane.
SEAMAN & Co. are proprietors of a general store at Frackville, and successors to the firm of J. G. Berk & Co. The members of the present firm are A. S. Seaman, F. S. Seaman, and W. A. Kalbach, natives of Berks county, and new comers at Frackville. They are men of enterprise.
LEWIS SELGRATH was born in Schuylkill county, in 1851, and married Barbara Shafer, a native of New York city. He has lived in Mahanoy City since 1865, and been an engineer at the Primrose colliery for eight years.
MRS. MARY SEVERN, the postmistress at Mahanoy City, is the widow of Captain E. L. Severn, of Potts ville, and at his death succeeded him in the post-office. She has resided here since 1865, and is a native of Port Carbon.
EMANUEL SHAFFER, born at Delaware, Schuylkill county, September 7th, 1850, married Maria J. Cooper, September 16th, 1872, and has been an engineer since he was fourteen years old. He came in 1872 from Potts- ville to Mahanoy City, where he is employed at the Tun- nel Ridge colliery.
WILLIAM SHAW was born in England, in 1833. He is inside superintendent of Turkey Run colliery. He was married to Hannah Richards, of Minersville, in 1855. He came to Shenandoah and engaged in mining in 1872.
JOHN L. SHIPMAN, born in Northumberland county in 1840, came to Mahanoy City in 1863, and commenced working at collieries in 1866. He was made foreman in 1868 at Tunnel Ridge colliery. In 1871 he married Sarah Pitt, a native of England, who came to Providence, Luzerne county, in 1851.
JOHN SKEATH, born at Belfast, Schuylkill county, February 16th, 1844, married Kate A. Weber, of Maha- noy City. He is a miner and has held the position of superintendent of Webster colliery, in Clearfield county, outside foreman at West Shenandoah, and since 1876 in- side foreman at Boston Run colliery, at St. Nicholas.
SAMUEL SMAIL, of West Mahanoy, was born in Berks county, April 26th, 1836. His grandfather was a Revo- lutionary soldier. He was married to Johanna Campton, of Minersville, in 1858. He is an engineer.
EDWARD F. SMITH, wholesale and retail hardware merchant, 15 East Centre street, Mahanoy City, was born in Dauphin county, July 16th, 1837, and married Henrietta H. Hughes, of Catawissa. His residence here dates back to 1860.
F. J. SMITH was born in Luzerne county, March 20:h, 1847, and has lived in Mahanoy township since 1863. He served in the 13th Pennsylvania volunteer cavalry during the war for the Union. He has been station agent of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at St. Nicholas since 1875.
J. K. SMITH was born in New York city, in 1853; he has resided in Mahanoy City for seventeen years, in the employ of the Glendon colliery since 1864. For the past seven years he has been shipping clerk.
JOHN A. SNADDEN, breaker boss, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1836. He married Anna Jones, of Miners- ville, in 1868, and came to Shenandoah in 1867. He was a member of the 14th Pennsylvania volunteers in the three months' service, and a member of Company B 84th Pennsylvania volunteers; he was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6th, 1864, losing his left arm.
JOHN SNEDDON is fire boss of Plank Ridge colliery, and dealer in notions in Shenandoah, where he has re- sided since 1869. He was born in Scotland, December 13th, 1837, and married Agnes Oliver, of St. Clair, March 5th, 1863. He was a member of the 16th Pennsylvania volunteers, in the three months' service, and sergeant in Company B, 84th Pennsylvania volunteers, until the close of the war.
J. W. SNYDER, dealer in drugs and fancy goods, on Centre street, Mahanoy City, is a native of Lewisburg. He succeeded Dr. Hermany in the drug business. He served as a soldier in the Union army, participating in several battles.
LEWIS SNYDER, engineer, West Mahanoy, was born July 27th, 1856, and was married to Alice Reeser, Feb- ruary 3d, 1876. He was severely injured by a fall at a colliery.
WILLIAM J. SOLLY, born in Philadelphia, May 27th, 1845, married Ella C. Shulze, of Auburn, September 27th, 1876. He served one year in the Cumberland river gun boat service during the war of the Rebellion. He has been a railroad accountant. In 1880 he was a teacher in the Ringtown schools.
GEORGE W. SOMERS, a native of Delaware county, was born March 4th, 1844, and married Lydia A. Myers, of Mahanoy Plane. Mr. Somers is a locomotive engineer on
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the Broad Mountain and Shamokin Railroad, and resides at Frackville. He was a soldier in the war for the Union.
WILLIAM SPARGO, born in Cornwall, England, Septem- ber 3d, 1832, came to America in 1853, to Lancaster county, Pa., as foreman in chrome mines, and has resided in Mahanoy City since 1865, engaged in mining until 1871, when he became a sewing machine agent, and has also worked up an extensive business in musical instru- ments. He married Eliza Harry, a native of England.
THOMAS W. SPURR was born in Patterson, N. J. He settled in Mahanoy City in 1876. He is a music dealer on Main street, and a general sewing machine agent. While in Illinois, where he spent eight years, he married Elizabeth Jones, a native of Schuylkill county.
D. M. STAUFFER was born in Rush township, Schuyl- kill county, May 18th, 1831. He came to Union town- ship in 1840, and worked on a farm until eighteen years of age. He then taught twelve years. He married Amanda D. Frain, a native of Columbia county, March 20th, 1862. He has filled the most important offices in his township, and since 1870 has been a justice of the peace. He opened a store in Ringtown in 1866, and has acted as postmaster there for several years.
CHARLES J. STEIN, outside foreman of Girard Mam- moth colliery, Raven Run, was born at Tamaqua, April Ist, 1855. He was married to Emma L. Haneick, of Minersville, July 18th, 1879. He is also a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows' fraternities.
WILLIAM STEIN was born in St. Andrews, county Fife, Scotland, November 15th, 1834. In 1857 he became clerk in a prominent engineer's office in Glasgow, and in 1860 took charge of the pump shafts for a large colliery. He married Sarah, eldest daughter of Matthew Reid. He removed to America, and engaged in mining at Shenan- doah, and in 1877 became inside foreman of the Ham- mond colliery at Girardville.
LOUIS STOCKETT, son of Thomas R. Stockett, civil en- gineer, now of Pottsville, was born at Ashland, March 31st, 1861. He studied civil engineering, and is in the employ of the Philadelphia Coal Company as mining en- gineer at Packer colliery No. 3, West Mahanoy.
WILLIAM STONE, born in Gloucestershire, England, in 1844, has resided in Gilberton since 1868. He is a jus- tice of the peace in this borough, and foreman of the blacksmith shop at Gilberton colliery.
DAVID TAGGART, JR. M. D., was born in Northumber- land county, December 19th, 1856, and was educated in the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1879. Dr. Taggart is engaged in the practice of his profession at Mahanoy Plane.
LIEUT. FRANK TEMPLE, Shenandoah, was born in Kas. kawilliams, Schuylkill county, November 4th, 1852, and removed to Shenandoah in 1871. He is a laborer, a member of the borough police, and 2nd lieutenant of Company H 7th regiment National Guards of Pennsyl- vania. Residence, West Mahanoy.
WILLIAM THICKENS, outside foreman of Packer colliery, No. 3, since 1871, was born in North Wales, January 30th, 1830, and came to this country in 1854. He was married first in 1851, and again in 1863, to Caroline R. Thomas. He is a Knight Templar and an Odd Fellow.
THOMAS W. THOMAS, of West Mahanoy township, was born at Bear Ridge, Schuylkill county, in August, 1837; he
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