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has followed engineering for more than twenty years. He enlisted in August, 1862, and served until July 25th, 1865. He was married to Mary Anstock in 1867.
JOHN P. THOMPSON was born in 1851. He has been an employe of both railroad and colliery companies, and he is at present switch tender on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, a position held by his father during many years. He was married to Mary Dixon, of Allen- town, in 1874.
SIMON TRIER, a native of Germany, is the proprietor of a merchant tailoring establishment in Mahanoy City. He came to America in 1857, and established his busi- ness in Mahanoy city in 1867. He married Gertrude Mayer, of New York, in 1860. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, Masonic fraternity, and Knights of Pythias.
GODFREY WADE, principal of the Mahanoy City high school since 1874, is a native of Switzerland, and came to America when a child. He was educated at the State normal school, and has been a public school teacher since 1868, teaching in Hegins township until he came to Mahanoy City.
GEORGE WASER, a native of Germany. was born Feb- ruary roth, 1826, and married Anna Dorothea Kate, of the same country. He has been in the employ of the M. & S. Railroad, at Frackville, since 1854, and a locomotive engineer since 1862.
JONATHAN WASLEY, deceased, was born in England, in 1832. He married Sarah Johnson, of St. Clair, in 1859. He died by suffocation July 26th, 1880, in the Kehley Run colliery, Shenandoah, ot which he had been general superintendent since 1868. He had previously been a coal operator.
JOHN WEBB was born in Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1836. He married Margaret Lewis, of Coy- carch, Glamorganshire, Wales, in 1855. They came to America in 1863, settling in Mahanoy City. He was made foreman in 1873, and has worked in mines since he was nine years of age.
PHILIP WEBER, M. D., graduated at the University of Heidelberg in 1840, and came to America in 1846, set- tling in Tremont, in this county. In 1862 he commenced practicing in Mahanoy City. He married, in Germany, Amelia Fuche, a native of Prussia, in the year 1842. He is one of the oldest physicians in the city.
HENRY WEIDERHOLD was born at Saratoga, N. Y, August 11th, 1853, and was married to Phoebe Hyde, of Frackville. He was formerly telegraph operator at
CHARLES M. STUART was born in Philadelphia, March 27th, 1849. He married Mary Speidel, of Frackville. Mr. Stuart is a locomotive engineer, in the employ of the Shamokin, and since 1872 has been an operator in the Midland and Southern Railroad, and has been at Frack- dispatcher's office at Mahanoy Plane, but resides at Frackville. ville since 1870.
MICHAEL J. WELSH, machinist, was born in Minersville, Pa., December 25th, 1854, and married Mary Gallagher, of that place. He is now an engineer at Bear Ridge col- liery No. 2.
D. R. WHEWELL was born in England; he came to America in 1863, and has been cutside foreman of Cuyler colliery, West Mahanoy, seven years. He married Mary A. Bickelman, of Schuylkill county.
MARTIN P. WHITAKER, teacher, superintendent of schools of East Mahanoy township from 1875 to 1879, was born in Yorkville, October 22nd, 1851, and married Mary C. Barry, of St. Clair. He removed to Shenandoah in 1876, and is one of the school directors.
ENOCH WILD was born near Port Carbon; he is the son of an old English miner who settled near Port Carbon in 1840. He is a shoemaker, and has a store on Main street, Mahanoy City; is also a dealer in ice. He married Emma Krebs, of Mahanoy City.
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ABRAHAM WILLIAMS, born in Monmouthshire, Wales, August 4th, 1824, married Anna Whitehead, of Miners- ville He came to this country in 1848. Prior to com- ing to Mahanoy Plane he owned an interest in a small colliery at Shenandoah. He has been superintendent of various mines, and at present is foreman at Bear Ridge No. 1.
DAVID R. WILLIAMS was born in Schuylkill county, in 1849, and married Hannah Chester, of Schuylkill county. He has been a colliery engineer for fourteen years, and a resident of Mahanoy City since 1861. He is now an engineer at the Primrose mine.
JOHN WILLIAMS, born in Wales, March 20th, 1844, was married to Mary Powell, of Carbon county, January 6th, 1860. He came to America in 1853, and has lived in Mahanoy City since 1865. He has been a colliery en- gineer for twenty-five years, and is now employed at the Glendon mine.
JOHN L. WILLIAMS, general mine superintendent of the Shenandoah district, was born in Wales, May 4th, 1840. He came to Shenandoah in 1870. His wife, Sarah Ed- wards, is a native of North Wales. Mr. Williams was formerly inside foreman of Indian Ridge colliery.
JOHN R. WILLIAMS, miner, and afterward merchant, was born in Llanelluy, South Wales, May 31st, 1816. He married Mary Williams in 1841, and came to Amer- ica in 1842. His wife died in 1852, and he married Rebecca Jones in 1855. He died November 16th, 1870.
REESE WILLIAMS, born at Eagle Hill in Schuylkill county, in 1854, has lived in Mahanoy City since 1861, and has been an engineer at the Mahanoy City colliery since 1870. He is a member of the Citizens' Cornet Band.
JOSHUA WILSON was born in Baltimore county, Md., February 11th, 1838. He married Harriet J. Trambo, of Washington township, Schuylkill county, December 23d, 1860. He is a locomotive engineer on the M. & S. Railroad; is assistant preacher in the Evangelical church at Frackville, and has been a local preacher of that de- nomination since 1872; has lived at Frackville since 1876.
HENRY WINGER, born in Berks county, June 12th, 1852, married Louisa Neuman of that county, December 24th, 1875; he is a blacksmith by trade and has lived in Ma- hanoy since 1863.
JAMES WOOLEY is postmaster at Shenandoah, where he has lived since 1865. He was born in England, April 15th, 1830, and married Elizabeth A. Bedford, of Min- ersville, October 23d, 1857. He was formerly a watch- maker and jeweler, and was appointed notary public by Governor Hartranft in 1875.
GEORGE H. WREN was born at Pottsville, November 12th, 1847, and married Lillie A. Beddall, of Port Carbon, November 8th, 1870. He worked in the iron foundry and machine shops of his father until 1866, when he be-
came a member of the firm of Lee & Wren, of the Grant Iron Works.
JAMES WYNN, superintendent of the Primrose colliery, Mahanoy, since 1876, was born in South Wales, April 27th, 1845, and came to America in 1856. He married Margaret Thomas, of Schuylkill county, in 1871; he has worked as a colliery engineer for ten years.
HENRY WYNN was born at Merthyr Tydvil, Wales, Oc- tober 17th, 1850, and married Maria Williams, of Miners- ville, in 1879. For the past seven years he has been a member of a firm of coal operators at Mahanoy City; he is a machinist and engineer by trade.
PETER YOEDER was born in Berks county, March 9th, 1843, and married Anna Fertig, of Cressona. Mr. Yoeder served in the war for the Union. He came to this county in 1865, entering the employ of a railroad company, and is now a locomotive engineer, residing in Frackville.
ROBERT YOUNG was born in Mill Creek, Schuylkill county, August 24th, 1845, and married Joanna Lumsden, of Pottsville. He has been a mine engineer, outside foreman at Bear Run and St. Nicholas collieries, and is now a part owner and foreman at the Eureka colliery, in Gilberton borough. He has lived in Mahanoy City since 1873-
PERCIVAL ZIMMERMAN, carpenter, was born in Lebanon, March 3d, 1848, and married Louisa Spindler, of Potts- ville. He has resided at Gilberton for twelve years.
Besides the foregoing the following residents of the same territory contributed their support to this publica- tion: William Agin, G. W. Bartch, Edmund Barrett, E. Barlow, J. C. Beck & Co., J. C. Biddle, M. D., Charles F. Bretz, Charles S. Boner, Will H. Carter, John Cather, Richard Coombe, John M. Correll, William Cowley, Alicia A. R. Cope, R. L. Cummock, Martin Delany, Deetrick & Keck, David Faust, P. J. Ferguson, T. J. Foster, J. J. Franey, Thomas Ferguson, M. F. Gallagher, Samuel Gay, Mrs. Jane Grant, Charles Haldeman, J. D. Hadesty, John D. Hay, E. P. Haupt, Henry E. Heffner, T. H. Hess, J. G. Hutton, George W. Johnson, D. Todd Jones, J. K. Kehler, P. P. Kirlin, Rev. Frederick F. Kolb, M. R. Karterman, M. D., Rev. H. A. Keyser, Rev. C. J. Kilgour, Michael D. O'Hara, John Parker, Rev. E. H. Pohle, C. S. Phillips, E. J. Phillips, J. J. Price, John F. Quinn, W. D. Reynolds, Esau Reese, J. L. Ritter, Rev. M. A. Ryan, Patrick H. Ryan, C. L. Reagan, M. D., John A. Reilly, John F. Reynolds, J. O. Roads, Robert W. Roberts, J. P. Rowse, John F. Schoener, A. G. Smith, E. A. Sunerbrey, George Scott, jr., P. H. Schultz, M. D., C. F. Smith, S. C. Spalding, M. D., John Tanner, Stephen F. Terrill, Rev. W. D. Thomas, William L. Torbert, Howard L. Williams, Rev. A. M. Woods, Peter Wooding, George Wapsner, C. M. Wasley, Weiderhold & Bro., C. W. Wengler, J. P. Williams, Rev. L. N. Worman, William Wragg, J. L. Youmans.
NEW CASTLE, NORWEGIAN AND EAST NORWEGIAN TOWNSHIPS, POTTSVILLE, ST. CLAIR AND PORT CARBON BOROUGHS.
REV. JOHN H. ACORNLY, of St. Clair, was born Decem- ber 28th, 1842, in Burnley, England. He came to America in 1870, and entered the ministry the year following. He has been instrumental in building four churches on the Wilkes-Barre circuit and one at Williamstown, where he organized the society.
A. M. ALLEN, Pottsville, photographer since 1850, was
born in Deerfield, Mass., March 31st, 1823. He mar- ried Catharine McMurtrie, of Middletown, Pa., May 10th, 1853.
JOSEPH ALLISON and wife were born in England, in 1802, came to America in 1829, and settled in St. Clair in 1847. They have living eight children, forty-eight grandchildren, and thirty-one great-grandchildren. For
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nineteen years Mr. Allison was employed as outside fore- man, and clerk at Hickory colliery.
GEORGE ALLTON was born at Heage, England, March 24th, 1821; he came to America in 1841, and settled in Wadesville. He married Margaret Cliff, of Flowery Field, August 15th, 1844. He has been miner, mine boss, and coal operator. He is now supervisor of New Castle.
GEORGE ASH, foreman of Palo Alto Iron works, Potts- ville, is a native of Scotland. He came to this country in 1858. He has been in the employ of the company thirty-two years; ten years as foreman.
JOSEPH ATKINSON, coal operator, was born in Durham, England, June 11th, 1821. He came to America in 1844, settled in St. Clair in 1845, and married Harriet Jones, a native of England, July 15th, 1857.
PAUL ATWOOD, grocer, was born in Clutton, England, November 10th, 1824. He married Mary Ann Williams, of South Wales, in 1847, came to America and to St. Clair in 1851. He worked in New Castle mine until 1857, when his eyesight was injured by an accident. He was president of the borough council one term.
WILLIAM BAUR, a druggist at St. Clair since 1867, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, February 29th, 1839. He came to America in 1850, and to Schuylkill county in 1864; he married Mary Ann Buechly, of Schuylkill Haven, in 1865.
G. A. BERNER was born in Pottsville, February 20th, 1860. He is a teacher in the secondary school.
JOHN P. BERTRAM, secretary of the Pottsville Mutual Fire Insurance Company, was formerly editor and pub- lisher of the Free Press and the American Republican. He has been assistant U. S. marshal for the eastern dis- trict of Pennsylvania and assistant assessor of internal revenue, and is now jury commissioner of Schuylkill county, having been elected in 1879. He was born near Harrisburg, Berks county, May 11th, 1820, and married Anna M. Fernsler, of Pottsville, October 3d, 1843.
D. W. BLAND, M. D., physician and surgeon, Potts- ville, was born there, January 28th, 1837, and married Emily Pearson Baber, also of Pottsville. Dr. Bland was surgeon of the 96th Pennsylvania and medical inspector of the 6th corps during the Rebellion, and has been eleven years chief medical officer of the 2nd division N. G.
R. BOONE, merchant since 1865, was born at Blooms- burg, January 14th, 1823. He was married in 1848 to Sarah A. Thomas, who died June 18th, 1852. He was again married in 1854, to Annie E. Hughes. He came to St. Clair in 1862, where, in 1873 he bought his present property.
JONATHAN P. BOWEN, superintendent of the Pottsville district for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, was born in Wales, April 12th, 1830; he came to America in 1831. He was superintendent for several collieries from 1859 to 1872, when he accepted his pres- ent position. He was married Christmas, 1859, to E. Evans, who died July 3d, 1877.
WILLIAM J. BOWEN was born in Orwigsburg, in 1825. He married Susan Wesiser, of York, Pa. He has been in the ice business since 1862.
WILLIAM H. BOWLER was born at Mount Laffee, Feb- ruary 22nd, 1844. He has been teamster and stableman at Beechwood colliery, New Castle township, nearly all his life. He served three months in the war of the Union. He married Mary Head, of Wadesville, Septem- ber 19th, 1870.
THOMAS BRAMLEY, JR. was born at Terry Hill Station, England, March 26th, 1850, and came to America in
1853. He married Annie Bramley, of England, Septem- ber 9th, 1876. He has been an engineer sixteen years, coming to Pottsville colliery, where his father is outside foreman, in 1873.
ARTHUR H. BRANAGAN, of Pottsville, was born in Girardville, March 7th, 1839. He has been a surveyor for the Philadelphia and Reading Company since 1871. He was a soldier in the Union army.
MATTHEW BRANAGAN was born in county Down, Ire- land, and married Ellen McLinden, of the same county. He is a mine boss and contractor at Pottsville; was for- merly a hotel-keeper.
GEORGE M. BRETZ was born in Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pa., June 6th, 1842. He served in the United States army as clerk in the quarter master's department at the headquarters of generals Buel and Rosecrans, at Nashville, Tenn., and generals McPherson and Grant before Vicksburg, Miss. He has been for some years a resident of Pottsville, where he has established a reputa- tion second to none as an artistic photographer. He married Miss Emma L. Gilbert, a native of Pottstown, but then a resident of Pottsville, June 6th, 1872. The photographs from which were engraved many of the portraits in this work were made by Mr. Bretz.
MICHAEL BRIGHT was formerly general superintendent of the Delaware Coal Company and the Mount Carbon Railroad Company, but is now living retired at Pottsville. He was born at Morgantown, Berks county, February Ist, 1820, and married Margaret King Davis, of Genesee, N. Y.
THOMAS BURKE, of St. Clair, was born at Wigan, Eng- land, April 12th, 1843. He came to America in 1864 and to St. Clair in 1876, and commenced coal operating. He has worked in mines both here and in England. He married Julia Williams, a native of England, April 17th, 1875.
A. P. CARR, M. D., was born in Bengal, India, May 14th, 1840. His father was a colonel in the British army. Dr. Carr graduated at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., and at New York University in 1857. He came to St. Clair, where he commenced practice in 1860. His wife was Jane Dungant, of Philadelphia.
BENJAMIN CHRISTIAN, of Pottsville, was born there, July 8th, 1836, and inarried Elizabeth Kantner. He is proprietor of a hotel. He was a soldier in the Union army.
WALTER S. CHURCH, civil and mining engineer, Potts- ville, was born at Angelica, Allegany county, N. Y., Au- gust 31st, 1833.
THOMAS COOCH was born in New Castle township, October 2nd, 1806. He married Mary A. Beeder, of Harrisburg, and Catharine S. Miller, of Harrisburg. He is retired, and resides at 120 N. Coal street, Pottsville.
JOHN J. CONNORS, of New Castle township, was born January 25th, 1854, at Hazelton. He came to Mount Laffee in 1855. He married Margaret Bambrick May 23d, 1880. He is a teacher. His father, Charles, emigrated from Ireland about. 1845.
DANIEL B. CRAWSHAW, of St. Clair, was born at Potts- ville, December 31st, 1839, and married Mary C. Kull, March 16th, 1870. He has been engineer at Pine Forest shaft since 1864, succeeding his father, Joshua, who came to America in 1829. He was a soldier in the Union army.
ELIAS DAVIS, of New Castle township, son of William S. Davis, was born at Wadesville, November 16th, 1855; commenced working in mines when eight years of age; has worked most of the time since 1870 at Wadesville shaft.
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H. B. DAVIS, druggist and hardware dealer, was born at Pottsville, and commenced his drug business in St. Clair in 1860. He was married in 1864, to Sally Saylor, of Pottsville.
JOHN H. DAVIS, of New Castle township, was born in Minersville, November 17th, 1849. He married Mary E. Bomboy, March 28th, 1879. He became a colliery su- perintendent at the age of nineteen, and now superintends Ellsworth colliery. He has served as supervisor, post- master and treasurer of the township school board.
MORDECAI C. DAVIS, of New Castle township, was born at Minersville, September 12th, 1858. He married Har- riet Laudeman, July 28th, 1829. He has worked as shipper, engineer, and, since January, 1880, outside fore- man at Ellsworth colliery.
WILLIAM DENNING, of New Castle township, was born at St. Clair, November 7th, 1845, and was married to Josephine Burgett, of St. Clair, in February, 1880. He commenced work at Flowery Field colliery with his father, Joseph Denning, who is one of the oldest residents of St. Clair. William is now at Monitor colliery.
MICHAEL DEVLIN was born at Minersville, December 26th, 1842. He married Ellen Mckeown November 23d. 1863. He was the first inside foreman at Pottsville col- liery; since 1878 he has been inside foreman at Beechwood colliery, New Castle township.
SAMUEL DEWALD was born at Rherersburg, Pa., March 16th, 1818; he came to this county in 1832, and settled near Orwigsburg. He has resided in St. Clair twenty- six years. He married Sybilla De Long. His business is preparation of timber for Pottsville colliery.
MICHAEL DOLAN, of St. Clair, a grocer since 1855, was born in Galway, Ireland, in 1820; he came to Amer- ica about 1847; married Mary Henney, of Ireland, July 12th, 1832.
THOMAS DOYLE, of Pottsville, was born in Norwegian township, December 19th, 1838. He married Julia Kane, of Blythe, deceased, and subsequently Margaret Riley, of Pottsville. He is mine inspector.
JOSEPH DUTFIELD was born at Cotterell, England, January 14th, 1838. He married Cilicia England, at Merthyr Tydvil, Wales, May 16th, 1864, and emigrated to St. Clair in 1866. He has worked at Wadesville shaft, first as miner and since 1876 as repairer of safety lamps.
DANIEL EDWARDS, of New Castle township, was born at Rhuynney, South Wales, August 8th, 1813, and married Margaret Morgan; he came to America in 1836, and settled in Wadesville. He was engaged as a coal operator from 1843 to 1857. Mr. Edwards says the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad carried coal in 1843 from Pottsville to Port Richmond for $1.oo per ton, and to Philadelphia for $1.10 per ton.
BALDWIN J. EVANS was born at Romansville, May 10th, 1819. He came to St. Clair in 1833, and married Mary Rees, of Wales, April 19th, 1840. He has been employed mostly at Pine Forest colliery, first as breaker boss, later as shipper.
CLAY W. EVANS, merchant of St. Clair, was born at Pottsville, February 10th, 1844. He married Emily E. Allison, of St. Clair, September 3d, 1867. He has served in the town council, and school board, and was meniber of the State Legislature in 1879 and 1880. Was also a soldier in the Union army, ascending from private to captain.
HARRY T. EVANS, of St. Clair, clerk, was born January Ist, 1854. He was sergeant of the National Guard of Pennsylvania five years; he married Carrie Saylor, of Pottsville, December 16th, 1875.
JOHN EVANS, of East Norwegian township, was born at Mount Hope, September 13th, 1850. He has been blacksmith at Pine Forest since 1870. His father, John Evans, came from Wales about 1845, and died March 3d, 1868, from injuries received at Pine Forest colliery. His mother died June 16th, 1877.
FERGUS G. FARQUHAR is an attorney at Pottsville, where he was born February 21st, 1845. He married Fanny Margaret Gunniss, of Glasgow, Scotland.
MICHAEL J. FITZPATRICK resides at Port Carbon, where he was born June Ist, 1839. He was married to Jane McAllee in 1863, who died in June 1873. He is engineer of "the Witch," used by officials of the railroad coal and iron department. He has been engaged on the railroad since 1866.
JOSEPH FOSTER was born in Congleton, England, Oc- tober 22nd, 1800; he came to America in 1828, settled in St. Clair in 1830, and commenced mining in 1831, continuing forty-eight years. He married Eliza- beth Bell, of England. He lost two sons in the army.
URIAH GANE, who is carrying on a hat and shoe store and also a brick manufactory at Port Carbon, has filled nearly all the offices of that borough, and was post- master there for eight years from March, 1861. During the civil war he was in the 4th Pennsylvania regiment, and was deputy provost marshal two years. He was born in Somersetshire, England, May 15th, 1816, and married Mary Ann Davies, of Exeter, Devonshire, Eng- land.
E. J. GAYNOR, clerk of the mining district of Schuyl- kill county, was formerly a railroad contractor. He was born November 24th, 1833, at Coatesville, Chester county, Pa. Mrs. Gaynor was Miss Anna J. Kerns, of North Manheim township. Mr. Gaynor was one of the "first defenders" when the Rebellion broke out; was first lieutenant of Company H, 19th Pennsylvania militia, and was deputy prothonotary of this county in 1876-78.
REV. JAMES GEORGE, of New Castle township, was born on the sea, May 10th, 1817, landing at Quebec. In 1848 he came to Wadesville. He taught school twenty years, resigning on account of ill health. He has been a local preacher since 1871.
ROBERT C. GREEN, jeweler at Pottsville, was born at Philadelphia, October 21st, 1824. His wife was Miss Mary Shelley, of Pottsville.
T. D. GRIFFITH, of St. Clair, merchant, was born in Merthyr, South Wales, August 25th, 1837. He came to America in 1863, and married Ann Lewis March 6th, 1870. He worked in the mines in Wales and here until 1873. He has been borough treasurer and councilman.
LESLIE GRISCOM was born at Lutherville, Md., July 3d, 1846, and came to this county in 1866. He married Mary Anna Bassett, of Philadelphia. He was formerly book- keeper at the William Penn colliery; is now as- sistant manager for the Diamond Drill Company.
THEODORE GROSS was born in Langenaubach, Amts Dillenburg, Nassau, Germany, May 6th, 1841. He was there engaged in mining engineering; is now a draughts- man for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, at Pottsville.
THOMAS K. HALBAUR, M. D., was born at Philadel- phia January 17th, 1850, of German ancestry. He grad- uated at the Pennsylvania State University in 1870, and began practice in St. Clair the same year. He married Laura Allison, of Port Carbon, in 1874.
JAMES M. HEALY was born at Douglassville, Berks county, October 10th, 1854. He graduated at George- town University in 1872, and is an attorney at Pottsville. He married Mary Haven Fisher, of Pottsville.
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H. H. HILL, justice of the peace and pension agent, was born in Pottsville, February 5th, 1841. He married Martha J. Kirkly, of Pottsville, April 5th, 1871. He is located at 429 East Market street. Was formerly in insurance business. He was a soldier in the Union army.
MICHAEL HILLAN, of St.Clair, was born in Ireland, Jan- uary ist, 1839; came to America in 1850, and settled here the same year. He married Mary A. Durkin, September 13th, 1861. He is a wholesale and retail liquor dealer. He is also proprietor of a livery stable.
CONRAD HOCK was born in Kurhasse, Germany, May 19th, 1825, and married Mary Catharine Appel, of Ger- many, August 20th, 1850. He is engaged in the lime business at Pottsville and Cressona.
WILLIAM JARVIS, merchant in St. Clair, was born in Dawley Green, England, August 27th, 1833. He came to America in 1862, and commenced mining in St. Clair. He married Elizabeth A. Wildman April 11th, 1870.
THEODORE R. JOHNSON, of St. Clair, was born at New Hope, in 1827. In 1849 he married Mary J. Williams, who died in 1855. In 1857 he married Elizabeth Davis. He has been a teacher more than thirty years; ffteen years in St. Clair, and during the last five years in Shen- andoah.
ENOCH JONES, of St. Clair, was born December 20th, 1822, at Lilshall, England, and married Jane Davis in 1845. He came to America in 1855. He served as en- gineer at several colleries, and came to Pottsville col- liery in 1877. He served in the war of the Rebellion.
GEORGE W. KENNEDY, apothecary, Pottsville, was born in Philadelphia February 22nd, 1844. He married Lizzie C. Morris, of Pottsville. He served three years in the civil war. He has been chairman of the executive com- mittee of the National Pharmaceutical Association and is now secretary of the association; is also president and was two years vice-president of the Pennsylvania Phar- maceutical Association. He has been vice-president and president of the alumni association of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and has written about forty papers on chemistry, pharmacy and materia medica. He has been a member of the Pottsville school board five years.
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