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IV. Eliza Catherine Welty, daughter of Jacob and Jane ( Brady) Welty, was born in 1819. died 1882. She married John McCollogh, born in 1803, died in 1884. They had six children. The McColloghs came from Scotland and the name was there spelled McColloch.
I. John McColloch's parents removed from Scotland to the south of Ireland, where the father died when John was but six months of age. He was the only child in the family. The McCollochs were United Presbyterians. John came to Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and settled in Mifflin township, but was subsequently removed to a farm east of Newville. This farm is still owned by the descendants. He was born in 1740 and died in 1808. He married and was the father of eight children.
II. William McCollogh, son of John McCollogh, married Sarah McBride, and they were the parents of eight children, including John.
III. John McCollogh was born in 1803 and died in 1884. He married Eliza Catherine Welty (IV), born 1819. died 1882. They were the parents of six children.
IV. Welty McCollogh, son of John and Eliza C. McCollogh, was born in 1847, died in 1889. He was a graduate of Princeton College, and in 1886 was elected to a seat in congress. He married Ada B. Markle, by whom two children were born.
IV. Eliza Jane McCollogh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McCollogh, was born in 1849; married William Theodore Dom, born in 1844. They were the parents of three children-William Theodore, of whom later ; John, and Welty Dom.
IV. Anna Welty McCollogh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McCollogh, was born in 1862: graduated from the Pennsylvania College for Women ; mar- ried Denna Charles Ogden, born in 1860, and now a prominent attorney at Greensburg.
III. William Theodare Dom, son of William Theodore and Eliza Jane (McCollogh) Dom, obtained his education at the excellent public schools of Greensburg, his native city, and later attended the Greensburg Seminary and finished at Washington and Jefferson College. In 1894 he registered as a law student with his uncle-in-law, D. C. Ogden, and in 1896 was admitted to the bar of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. January 1. 1904. he formed his pres- ent partnership, as a member of the law firm of Ogden & Dom. For about one year he served as official stenographer of the Orphans court, and from May to September, 1903, was deputy register of wills of the Orphans court of West- moreland county, but upon the death of his chief, S. C. Stevenson, he resigned to resume the practice of law. Politically he is a Republican, and has been active in promoting the interests of his party. He made his first political
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speech in 1892, and during the Mckinley campaign was very active. In 1889 he stumped the state for his party, when Colonel Barnett was a candidate for state treasurer. He has been secretary of the Republican county committee several times. He is at present a member of the Greensburg borough council He is an exemplary member of the First Presbyterian church at Greensburg. In 1895 he joined the National Guard of Pennsylvania, being a member of Company I, Tenth Regiment, and served as company clerk until the Spanish war, when he was appointed corporal and was mustered into the service of the government at Mount Gretna and accompanied the regiment to the Philippine Islands, where he was detailed as battalion sergeant-major under Major Bierer. He also acted for a time as regimental sergeant-major for Colonel Hawkins. He was a charter member of the Order of Americus, which has been absorbed by the Grand Fraternity. He is a member of Lodge No. 511, B. P. O. E., be- ing one of its charter members ; has held various chairs and is now secretary of the order. He is also a charter member of Circle No. 2, Homeless Twenty- six, and Westmoreland Lodge, No. 518, F. and A. M. Mr. Dom married, No- vember 28, 1900, Lela M. Hudson, at Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Dom is the daughter of William and Mary ( Kepple) Hudson, whose people are farm- ers. She was educated in the public schools and is a graduate of Greensburg Seminary. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Dom are : Anna, born at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, November 7. 1901 ; Lela, born at the same place, May 3, 1903.
GEORGE SLAINE, a steamship agent, court interpreter and notary public, is a native of Hungary, born at Markusfalva, March 23. 1866, the son of George and Mary (Gavulish) Slaine. The father was engaged in the farm and dairy business. In religion he esponsed the Catholic faith, and in politics was independent. He received a good common school education and afforded his children the same.
George Slaine was educated in the common schools and took a five years' course in the Gymnasium College at Iglo, Hungry. He came to America in 1883. landing in New York City, March Ist. He served in the United States army as a member of the Sixteenth United States Regular Infantry Regiment. on the Western frontier, and was wounded and finally honorably discharged February 25. 1890, as a non-commissioned officer. He was discharged on ac- count of ill health. He was in the command of Major Chaffe ( now lieutenant- general). Politically, Mr. Slaine is a supporter of the Democratic party and has served as official court interpreter for Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, for the past sixteen years. Of his religious faith it may be said that he adheres to that of the Roman Catholic church, and is a member of several benevolent societies. After leaving the army Mr. Slaine did clerical work for the deceased Imperial and Royal Hungarian Consul. Max Schamberg, at Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania, and in 1890 was employed by John Dunhill, a steamship agent at Greens- burg, Pennsylvania. Since 1894 he has been engaged in conducting a trans- Atlantic shipping office, chiefly for passengers and foreign exchange business, issuing drafts, or letters of credit. He was married at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1892, to Anna C. Hoebing, daughter of Herman and Christina Hoebing. Mrs. Slaine's father was a carpenter by occupation. Their children were: Jos- ephine, born October 14, 1894, died November, 1896: Rose Amelia, born Octo- ber 28, 1896: Vincent R., born April 21. 1898: George H., born September 21, 1899: Joseph B., born March 20, 1902: Dorothy C., born January 28, 1905. These children were all born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Slaine has been
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U. F. Scheibler,
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an uncommonly active, aggressive citizen of his adopted country and has a fine education, both in English and in several other languages. He has been a loyal citizen and is a prosperous business man.
WILLIAM F. SCHEIBLER. The Scheibler family is German. The first member of the branch which located in Pennsylvania was George Scheibler (I), who came from Germany in 1700 and effected settlement in Montgomery county. His wife's christian name was Catherine. They were pioneer farmers, and reared two sons and one daughter: George, Catherine and Frederick Schiebler. They were of the Zwingle Reformed church faith. The son George went to North Carolina and became judge of the circuit court. Catherine remained at home, single.
(II) Frederick Scheibler, youngest child of the American ancestor and his wife, was born 1763, died in 1843, aged eighty years, and was buried in Hempfield township, in the old schoolhouse cemetery grounds known as Feightners. They espoused the Reformed religious creed and were devout members of that body. Politically Frederick Scheibler was a firm supporter of Jeffersonian Democracy. He owned a farm, and taught school in the Ger- man language in the borough of Greensburg in an old log school house. He had the honor of establishing the first bank of Greensburg, and used to drive back and forth from his farm nights and mornings while attending to the banking business. His early life was an exceptional one for hard experiences. hair-breadth escapes and real romance. When but fifteen years of age he. being well developed physically, was received as an enlisted soldier in the Continental army. He was soon captured and made a prisoner of war by the British forces and sent to the military prison on one of the West India Islands, but made his escape by being befriended by an American sympathizer who conducted a tavern on the island. When he entered the tavern he was a dejected, dirty, ragged youth, whose very condition appealed to the sym- pathy of the innkeeper, who told him unless he would disguise that very night the officers from the prison would be there in the morning and doubtless recapture him. Consequently it was planned that he be thoroughly cleaned and dressed in a good suit of clothes and provided with a wig, or queue, then commonly worn. To the queue as a disguise he attributed his escape, and he continued to wear the queue up to his death. The officer came to search the tavern in the early morning and was informed that no person of the de- scription given was there. He then went to the bar of the inn and there beheld his prisoner in the role of a neatly dressed bartender, so perfectly dis- guised that he was not detected. He, too, was questioned about the escaped prisoner of war. but feigned to be entirely ignorant of the person sought after by the British officer, who finally purchased a drink and drank with the new bartender. The sequel of this narrative was that he remained in the employ of the innkeeper for six years, during which period he accumulated a good sum of money, and then sailed for New York, but was shipwrecked off the coast and clung to the wrecked vessel for forty-eight hours, after which he was picked up by a passing boat and landed in New York. From that city he walked the entire distance to his home in Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania. having lost all of his possessions when ship was wrecked except two dollars in his vest pocket. His ambition while on the islands was to save his money, return home, purchase a fine team of horses and give his people a big surprise, but the fates decreed otherwise. The family during these seven long years of absence had never heard from him and believed
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him dead. Just as he was nearing the home place he met his father and brother, who were haying. A small stream had to be crossed by means of foot-logs, one of which was on either side of the wagon road. The father started on one and the "prodigal son" was about to take the same log, think- ing his father would know him, but the father then retraced his steps towards the other foot-log and they finally passed over the stream on different paths- the son going on to the house in which he was born. His shoes had given out and he was barefooted, and his attire covered with dust of travel made him present a sorry sight. He seated himself on the door step beside a sister who was spinning, and said he by her permission would rest a while. He asked many questions and finally called for the "lady of the house," from whom he requested something to eat. This was soon provided him. While eating he asked the good woman what had become of a lock of hair she had taken from his head in childhood, whereupon the mother carefully scrutinized her caller and soon discovered her own long lost boy. The timid maiden who had been so shy threw off her restraint and embraced her brother. He was of a roaming disposition, and after a short stay at home started west- ward, and finally halted in Hempfield township, Westmoreland county, having walked from Montgomery county over the mountains. Here he settled and married Salome Leichty, of a prominent family, and the greataunt of the late Hon. Eli Leichty. She was born in 1763, died February 5, 1839. By this union one son was born-John Jacob Scheibler. Frederick, the father, was of the Reformed church, and in politics a Democrat.
III. John Jacob Scheibler, only son of Frederick and Salome (Leichty) Scheibler, was born in 1788, in Hempfield township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, at a point near the present borough of Youngwood. He died October 7, 1861. He was a sturdy farmer, and supported the Democratic party. He, too, was of the Reformed church faith. He married Catherine Truxel, daughter of John Truxel and wife; she died May 4, 1841, and was buried in the cemetery aforementioned. To John Jacob and Catherine (Truxel) Scheibler were born: John, Jacob, William, Elizabeth, Hannah and Sarah. John and Jacob remained at home and fell heir to farms for- merly possessed by their father. William migrated to Iowa, where he spent the greater part of his life and where his descendants reside.
IV. John Scheibler, eldest son of John Jacob and Catherine (Truxel) Scheibler, born April 22, 1810, died October 2, 1887. He married, May 13, 1830, Mary Sell, daughter of Jacob Sell and wife, Rev. Nicholas P. Hacke performing the ceremony. Mrs. Scheibler was born April 4, 1811, died May 5, 1883, and was buried in the old cemetery, but the remains were removed to the St. Clair cemetery at Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The chil- dren born to Mr. and Mrs. John Scheibler were: Simon G., born March 25, 1832, of Greensburg, Pa .; Sarah, born June 7, 1834, married Jackson Baker, of Holton, Kansas; Hannah, born October 16, 1836, married Rev. T. F. Stauffer, of Sioux City, Iowa, and is now deceased ; Julia, born January I, 1839, married Josiah Rumbough; Uriah Frederick, born March 23, 1841, married Mary Sutman; he died June 7, 1905; John S., born January 29, 1844, married Sally Clarke, of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania; she died in 1881; he moved to Abilene, Kansas, where he still resides; Jacob, born August 24, 1846, died April 12, 1890; Isaac P. O., born June 23, 1849, died single September 8, 1873: William F., born September 28, 1851, of whom later ; Eli, born January 24, 1854, married Alice Weimer, resident of Hemp- field township.
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V. William F. Scheibler, the second youngest son of John and Mary (Self) Scheibler, born September 28, 1851, obtained a good common school education and attended the county normals. He then followed the profession of a teacher in the Westmoreland county schools for a period of eleven years. He farmed some during this time and taught winter school. In the spring of 1889 he removed to the Fifth ward of Greensburg borough, known as "Bunker Hill," where he engaged in general merchandising, which business has grown to one of large proportions and which he still conducts. His annual sales have been as high as $35,000. He began in a modest way and his good wife attended to the little store, while he "hustled" in the country purchasing and trading for live stock and country produce, until the town grew up around him, increasing his trade until his whole time with that of several clerks was required to handle the large volume of business. He also handled real estate to quite an extent, and became a prosperous business factor of the borough. For several years he has been engaged by the officers of the Street Railway Company to secure right-of-way along the rural lines. In brief his has been an active career, built up by energy and strict integrity. While other men have sought ease and trifling pleasures, Mr. Scheibler ap- plied his every energy in the direction of his business, which has been crowned with an almost phenomenal success. He is a Democrat in politics. While too busy in the marts of trade to seek out public office, he served his native township as school director, and upon moving to the borough of Greens- burg, where he has lived and operated the past sixteen years, he was made a justice of the peace, serving five years; also member of the school board. He and family are members of Reformed church.
He married, September 29. 1874, at Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Cath- erine E. Brugh, daughter of Jacob and Catherine Brugh, the ceremony being performed by Rev. T. F. Stauffer. Their children were: Stella L., born December 25, 1875, married Harry E. Blank, an attorney of Greensburg, and they have a daughter, Catherine Virginia, born September 12, 1902. Harry S., born July 27, 1877, married Jessie Overly, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and their children are: Ruth E., born March 13, 1900, and Helen Reed, born October 12, 1902. He is a traveling salesman for the Allen Kirkpatrick Gro- cery Company, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Florence Ethel, born November II, 1885, at home. At both the store and the residence of Mr. Scheibler are to .be seen the evidence of education and refinement. The family are greatly attached to one another, even to the rosy-cheeked grandchildren, who are of the seventh generation from the founder of the family in America, George Scheibler, who landed in a strange land in 1700.
THE MARTZ FAMILY is of German origin. Charles Martz and wife Katharine were the parents of Daniel Martz, who was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1820. He was a shoemaker. He married Sara Richard, born August 2, 1818. By this union were born : Lucinda (Mrs. Hill), born January 25, 1848; Maria (Mrs. Willard Stewart), born September 4, 1849: James Dougherty, born 1851 ; John, born February 25, 1854: Katharine born April 3, 1856, died June 8, 1885; Mary, ( Mrs. Updegraff), born March 18, 1860.
James D. Martz, son of Daniel and Sara (Richard) Martz, born 1851. married (first) Margaret Jane Amalong, born June 2, 1857. Their children were: Martha Jane, born December 13, 1876: George W., boru February 22, 1878: Lebens Bigelow, born March 12, 1880; Boyd Ellsworth, 2-7
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born October 6, 1881; Anna Maud, born March 14, 1884; Clara Edith, born February 2, 1886. The mother died September 8, 1886, and Mr. Martz mar- ried ( second) April 3, 1888, Lucy Melinda ( Fry ) Alexander, the daughter of George and Lovinia Fry. She was born November 10, 1851. By the last mar- riage one child was born, Leroy, August 14, 1889.
George W. Martz, son of James D. and Margaret Jane ( Amalong) Martz, was born February 22, 1878. He received a good common school education, and with his brother engaged in the billiard parlor and restaurant business at Greensburg, and is still of the firm of Martz Brothers in the same line of bus- iness. In politics he is a Republican, and is numbered among the members of the First Lutheran Church of Greensburg. Mr. Martz married, December 24, 1902, Mary Agnes Ashbough, daughter of William Jefferson and Julia Etta ( Cunningham) Ashbough. The father was born August 5, 1858, and the mother August 5, 1862. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Ashbough were : Mary Agnes, born September 26, 1885 ; Rose May, born April 30, 1887 ; Bessie Irene, born February 16, 1892: William Alvin, born September 8, 1894; John Milton, born August 21, 1897 ; Ruth Jenette, born February 6, 1902. The chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Martz are: Mary Zelma, born October 19, 1903 ; George Everett, born April 26, 1905.
CYRUS M. FUNK, a prosperous farmer and saw mill operator of Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, is descended from a family which was among the pioneer settlers of the state.
(I) Christian Funk, the founder of the Funk family in the United States, came from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and settled in Sewickley town- ship, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He had received a common school education, and pursued the occupation of milling and farming. He was a member of the United Brethren church. He married, and among his children was a son Abraham S.
(II) Abraham S. Funk, son of Christian Funk, (1), married, and had a son Christian.
( III) Christian Funk, son of Abraham S. Funk (2), was twice married. Two sons of the children of the first wife are prominent ministers in the United Brethren church, Abraham, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Ross, in Dayton, Ohio, where he is also at present publishing agent of the United Brethren Pub- lishing House. Several of the sons of the first wife were noted as being exceedingly stout and of great strength. Among the children of the second wife were: David, of whom later: Joseph, and Simon. All of these are de- ceased.
(IV) David Funk, son of Henry Funk (3) and his second wife, was born in Sewickley township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 25, 1817. He was educated in the common schools of the district, and followed the occupation - of farming. He was a Democrat, and a member of the United Brethren church. He married Hester Gross, born in New Stanton, Westmoreland county, Penn- sylvania, daughter of Joseph and Susanna (Zutzk) Gross, both native's of Westmoreland county. Joseph Gross lived in New Stanton many years, taught school there, kept a general store, was a justice of the peace, and was elected clerk of the court of the county. He was one of the founders of the United Brethren church in Greensburg, and spent the latter years of his life in that town. His wife survived him by but a few years. The children of David and Hester (Gross) Funk were: Joseph G., who was killed in the battle of Peters- burg, during the Civil war : Simon K., of Vinland, Kansas ; Cyrus M., of whom
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later ; Christopher, of New Stanton, Pa. ; William, of Cribbs, Westmoreland county ; Susana, died young ; Malinda E., deceased, was the wife of Cyrus Hodgekin : Mary E., wife of Robert F. Albright ; Henry Z., of Jeanette, Penn- sylvania ; Catherine, wife of John Irwin; two died in infancy ; and David M., of Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
(V) Cyrus M. Funk, son of David and Hester (Gross) Funk, was born in Sewickley township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1846. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, and upon leaving them turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, in which he has been very successful. His farm is a model of neatness and thrift, and as he understands farming thoroughly he has made his land very productive. During the Civil war he was ready to bear his share in the defence of his country, and served as a private in Company E, Captain Clark L. Brant, Two Hundred and Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. He entered the service September 1, 1864, and was honorably discharged June 26, 1865, at the close of the war, at Rich- mond, Virginia. He is a Democrat in politics, and is a member of the United Brethren church, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He contributes liberally to the Home and Foreign Missionary Society, and to the Church Erection Society.
J. K. LONG. Among the active and representative citizens of West- moreland county, Pennylvania may be mentioned the name of J. K. Long, who was born one mile south of the town in which he now resides, Greensburg, in Hempfield township, October 27, 1863. He is the youngest child in the family of Samuel and Mary ( Seepter) Long, and a grandson of Nicholas Long, who was one of the early settlers of Westmoreland county.
Samuel Long (father) was born in the vicinity of Adamsburg, West- moreland county, Pennsylvania, 1822. During early life he learned the trade of blacksmith, which occupation he followed continuously up to the year 1881, in addition to that of buying and selling coal, which latter line of work he en- gaged in for several years. He purchased in 1881, his present farm, which is now under a high state of cultivation, and therefore very productive. He has always been an active and earnest worker in the interests of the Democratie party, particularly in Westmoreland county, and being a careful student of polities his counsel was often sought and followed. He married Mary Scep- ter, daughter of Fred Seepter, in 1845. Their family consisted of six children.
J. K. Long attended the common schools of Hempfield township, thereby thoroughly qualifying him for an active, useful life. He accepted, in 1881, a po- sition as teacher in the common schools, and continued as such for eight con- seeutive terms, discharging his duties to the satisfaction of all concerned. In January, 1889, he was appointed deputy elerk by James D. Best, clerk of the courts of Westmoreland county, and the duties pertaining to this responsible position were performed in a highly ereditable and efficient manner, winning for him the approbation of his chief. He is a firm believer in the principles as laid down by Thomas Jefferson, and in the politics of Westmoreland county he takes a keen and active interest. Mr. Long was married in December, 1889, to Rosella Spiegel, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Spiegel.
JOHN H. MCINTYRE. Few names are more familiar to the citizens of Greensburg than is that of John H. MeIntyre. He is a son of John and Sarah (Wentzell) MeIntyre, and was born April 18, 1875. Ife received his education in the common schools of Hempfield township, finishing his studies at the age of sixteen, when he went to learn the painter's trade with his uncle L. P. Went-
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zell. That he was as diligent and apt to learn in the shop as he had been in the school room is proved by the fact that in the course of time he bought out his uncle, and has since successfully conducted a paint shop in Greensburg. He has displayed much business enterprise and is in all respects a useful and worthy citizen. He married Bertha, daughter of Joseph R. and Emma Kling- ensmith, and they are the parents of two children : William and Grace.
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