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ALEXANDER POOL, of Greensburg, son of William and Eliza (Seanor) Pool, was born July 29, 1841, in Hempfield township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. His grandfather Pool was a native of Germany and settled in America many years ago in Westmoreland county, where he married Polly McAfee, of Irish descent. William Pool and Eliza Seanor were born in Hempfield township.
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Alexander Pool got such education as the schools of Hempfield afforded fifty years ago. At the age of twenty-one he enlisted in Company B, One Hun- dred and Forty-Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served two years and eleven months. While in the service he was sick two months, and was subsequently put on duty in the hospital for four months. After his return from the war he went to the oil fields of Pennsylvania where he worked at well drilling. Returning to his native township he worked one year for his uncle, Samuel Pool on a farm. He followed farming for himself until 1874 when he engaged in the mercantile business at Hunkers ten years, then engaged in the insurance business for three years. He then purchased a tract of timberland, and for two years was in the lumber business. In 1888 he purchased his pres- ent property, being the first lot sold in south Greensburg. He followed team- ing one year, then entered the employ of Kelley and Jones, as inspector, remain- ing about thirteen years, and one year in the employ of the Hempfield Foun- dry Company. He then retired, and is now enjoying the fruits of his many years of industry. Mr. Pool was elected, February 20, 1906, tax collector for three years. He married December 25, 1866, Mary Jane Evans, born in Stark county, Ohio, April 23, 1837, daughter of Henry and Hannah ( Jones) Evans. Their children are: William H., born October 20, 1867, married Ida Barnhart, and they have one child, Vern Pool ; 2. Linda May, born June 5, 1868, married F. H. Byers, and their children are : John A., Herbert, Harry, Winifred, Mary, Anna and Clifford.
ROBERT A. RANKIN. The Rankin family, of which Robert A. Rankin is a member, came to Westmoreland county from Allegheny county in 1866. Robert Rankin, the grandfather of Robert A. Rankin, came with his family from county Derry, Ireland, in 1837, and settled in Allegheny county. The tradition is that four brothers had lived about four miles north of Lon- denderry, and that two of them came to America, from one of whom Robert, mentioned above, was a descendant.
John Rankin, Jr., the oldest son of Robert Rankin, was born October 21, 1821, and came to America as a member of his father's family, as above indi- cated, when he was sixteen years old. He was brought up on the farm and in his early years learned the tanner's trade, which he abandoned to resume farm- ing, to which vocation he has given his entire life. He married in 1845, Eliza Jane Kelley, of Allegheny county, a daughter of Samuel Kelley. She died in March, 1879, and was buried in West Newton cemetery. They had nine chil- dren : Margaret C., intermarried with J. E. Cunningham, who lives in Ros- traver township ; Mary E., intermarried with A. G. Cunningham, who lives in Johnston county, Missouri ; Martha Jane, intermarried with J. H. Smith, who lives in Rostraver township : Samuel Stewart, deceased ; Robert A., referred to hereafter ; Eliza Ann, unmarried and living at their home ; John C., intermarried with Annie Culbert ; William J., intermarried with Mollie Stevens, who lives in Rostraver township ; and Sallie B., intermarried with John Rader, who lives in Mckeesport. John Rankin, Jr., their father, although now past four score years and four, is yet living and in good health on the old homestead in Ros- traver township.
Robert A. Rankin was born May 8, 1857, and brought up as a farmer. He entered the common schools and later spent three years in Jefferson Academy, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, after which he returned home and engaged in farming. He was thus engaged tintil 1880 when he was appointed clerk in the prothonotary's office under John Rial. In June, 1889. he married Margaret
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Belle Finley, of Rostraver township, a daughter of Thomas G. and Elizabeth T. Finley. Her ancestors were early settlers in the county. Her great-grand- father was Rev. James Finley, who assisted in organizing and was the first pastor of the old Rehobeth Church in Rostraver township, a church so noted in Westmoreland history. Among her family were other noted men: Rev. Samuel Finley, president of Princeton College in 1776; and Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the inventor of the electric telegraph. Robert A. Rankin was also clerk in the prothonotary's office under R. A. Hope, and was deputy pro- thonotary under Lewis Thompson. He was elected prothonotary of Westmore- land county in November, 1897, and filled the office in 1898, 1899 and 1900. In April, 1900, on the organization of the Westmoreland Savings & Trust Com- pany of Greensburg, he was elected assistant secretary and treasurer of the in- stitution, and filled that position until September, 1903, when the governor ap- pointed him register of wills and clerk of the Orphans' court to succeed Samuel C. Stevenson, deceased. At the close of his term of appointment he was elected to the same position in 1905 by a majority over his opponent of 7823 votes. He has been president of the First National Bank of Webster since its organization, and all these positions he has filled with credit to himself and friends. Since coming to America the Rankins have been energetic and active in politics. The older members of the family were Whigs, who became Re- publicans upon the birth of that party. Robert A. Rankin has been twice elected chairman of the Republican committee, in 1900 and 1901, in which campaigns the party was successful, the majorities reaching from 4000 to 6000. For the last sixteen years he has been a resident of Greensburg. Both he and his wife were communicants of the old Rehobeth Church in Rostraver township before coming to Greensburg, since which time they have been members of the West- minster ( Presbyterian) Church of Greensburg, of which Mr. Rankin has been a trustee and treasurer for many years.
JOHN GUY, a well known citizen of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and the possessor of a large farm which is justly prized for the size, variety and quality of its products, is a descendant of good Irish stock, as are many of the sturdy farmers of that vicinity.
William Guy, father of John Guy, was born in Ireland, in 1794, and emi- grated to the United States in 1820, locating in Westmoreland county, Penn- sylvania. William Guy became identified with the Democratic party, and was a member of the Episcopal church. He was a weaver by trade, but took up the occupation of farming in Hempfield township, Pennsylvania. He married (first) in Ireland, and had two children : A daughter who remained in Ireland when her father came to America : Richard, born November 1, 1816, who came with his father to America, and died in 1873. Richard Guy married Catherine Allshouse, of Hempfield township, and they were the parents of seven children, as follows: Mary, Samuel, Henry, Hester, Josephine, Sarah, and Frank, who lives in Kansas. William Guy married ( second) in 1824. Sarah Frazer, of Se- wickley township, Pennsylvania, and they had ten children, as follows: I. Eliza- beth, born February 6, 1826, married Robert McGill, of Hempfield township, Pennsylvania, and had five children : Frank, Elizabeth, Alexander. Annie, and Irwin. Mrs. McGill died in 1875. 2. James, born September 9, 1827, married Mattie Bortz, and had the following children : William, Sarah, Richard, Joseph, James. Andrew, Irwin, Jennie, and Adelia. 3. Susanna, born April 27, 1829. married Jonas Bortz, and they were the parents of nine children, four of whom died within a period of three weeks of diphtheria. Their only children now
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living are: Albert, Annie, and Elizabeth. 4. William, born April 8, 1831, married Hannah Kepple, and had one child, Henry M., a carriage and wagon manufacturer in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. 5. Jacob, born June 7, 1833, mar- ried (first ) Catherine Long, and they had one child, Elmer, a carpenter. Jacob. married (second) Catherine Kistler, and they had the following children : Mil- ton, Cora, Lydia, Sarah, Grace, Ettie, Jesse, Robert. 6. Sarah Jane, born March 10, 1836, married William Nipple, and had five children : Mary, Edward, Oliver, Ellen, Emery. 7. John, of whom later. 8. Henry, born April 5, 1841, a stone mason by trade, and has helped to build many of the most important of the public buildings in Greensburg, Pennsylvania; among these may be men- tioned the old Greensburg Academy, the Greensburg Seminary, the Masonic Hall, and others. Mr. Guy is a member of the Second Lutheran Church of Greensburg, and is a Democrat. He married, November 19, 1868, Mary Anna Smail, daughter of John Smail, who was a farmer of Hempfield township. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Guy were the parents of three children : Ella L. Melissa, John and William. Ella L. Melissa was born July 10, 1869, married Frank Shuey, a farmer of Hempfield township, and they had three children : Elsie, Edna and Charles. John was born April 23, 1873, married Susan Allshouse, a daughter of Reuben Allshouse, of Berry. They had one child, Helen. John Guy lost his life as the result of an explosion in the Edgar Thompson steel works at Brad- dock, December 26, 1904. William was born March 29, 1876, married Sarah Shuey, a daughter of John M. Shuey, a farmer and thresher of Hempfield township. 9. Anna, born June 21, 1843. She married (first) William Keppler, and they had two children : Margaret Sarah and John. Mr. Keppler died in 1870, and his widow married Elijah J. Bricker and they have one child, Harry Bricker. 10. Agnes, born March 5, 1846, married Henry Piper, of Jeannette, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and they have three children, as follows : Emma, George, and Willliam.
John Guy, fourth son and seventh child of William and Sarah ( Frazer) Guy, was born in Hempfield township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1839. He was brought up on his father's farm and received a good education, attending the common schools. He then learned the trade of a mason and plasterer, and has followed this occupation all his life in connection with the cultivation of his farm, which is very extensive. For some years, however, his time has been devoted almost exclusively to the farming industry, as was made necessary by the increased size of the crops, which was due to his progressive methods. Mr. Guy is always on the lookout for new and improved farming machinery and methods, and is ready to give them a fair and practical trial. As a result of this his farm is in excellent condition, and the yield of all crops-wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, etc .- is abundant beyond measure. His farm consists of a choice tract of forty acres. Mr. Guy is always ready to lend his assistance to any movement which will tend to the improvement or advance- ment of the community in which he lives. He married in 1862, Mary Elizabeth Kelly, daughter of John Kelly, a farmer of Hempfield township, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Guy had one child, Ida, who died in 1875.
HENRY M. GUY, only child of William and Hannah ( Kepple) Guy, was born November 25, 1860, in Hempfield township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and is a well known carriage and wagon maker of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Guy is of Irish descent, and a full account of his ances- try is given in the preceding sketch. William Guy, father of Henry M. Guy, was born April 8, 1831, was reared on a farm, educated in the common schools,
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engaged in farming and in connection with this pursuit, engaged in carpenter work with his brother Richard. He followed farming and carpentering in Hempfield township until March 25, 1880, when he removed to Greensburg. He is a member of the Zion Lutheran church, and in politics is a Democrat. He married Hannah Kepple, and they had one son, Henry M.
Henry M. Guy received his education in the public schools of Hempfield township, and at the age of seventeen years closed his school life. He re- mained on the old homestead and acted as assistant to his father in the manifold duties of farm life. He continued this for about one year, and in the spring of 1880 moved to Greensburg and entered into a business engagement with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for one year. He then came to the conclusion that the wagon making field held out better prospects of success for the future. He engaged in this line of business, and has now ( 1906) continued it for a per- iod of twenty-four years, with an unvaried degree of success. He is a member of Camp No. 18, W. W. He married, May 30, 1891, Anna M. Johnson, daugh- ter of John and Martha (Anderson) Johnson, born in Unity township, near Youngstown, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1860. Mr. Guy is a member of the Lutheran church, and Mrs. Guy of the Reformed church of Greensburg, Penn- sylvania.
SAMUEL DILLINGER, a leading man of affairs in the early de- velopment of Westmoreland county, was a native of Pennsylvania, born in East Huntingdon township, Westmoreland county, October 28, 1810. He was of German descent in both parental lines. Daniel Dillinger, his father, was born in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, August 6, 1787, and while yet a boy crossed the Allegheny mountains and located in Westmoreland county, near Bethany. Here he was brought up on a farm, and when he arrived at manhood married Mary Myers, a daughter of Samuel Myers. Their children were: Samuel, Christian, Joseph, Jacob, Abraham, Daniel, Elizabeth (married Alexander Myers), Sarah, (married Michael Sheets), and Mary, married John Billheimer. Daniel Dillinger lived in the vicinity of Bethany until his death, which occurred February 9, 1847, at the age of fifty-seven years, his widow surviving him twenty-six years. After her husband's death she lived with her son Samuel, at the home farm, where she died June 19, 1871, aged eighty-one years. The husband and wife were buried in the Mennonite cemetery, at Alverton, West- moreland county.
Samuel Dillinger, eldest child of Daniel and Mary ( Myers) Dillinger, was brought up on the parental farm, and received but a limited education. Early in life he was employed by Martin Stauffer, near Jacob's Creek, where he learned the business of distilling. He married Sarah Loucks in 1831, and soon after they purchased and located on what is now known as the "Home farm," near Alverton. Their children were: Annie, married Joseph Hixson ; Mary, married Abraham Sherrick : Catherine, married Moses Hixson ; Sarah, married Jacob C. Fox ; John L., married Mary McIntire ; Elizabeth L., married C. T. Hanna : Eliza L., married A. A. Hasson ; Daniel L. ; and Samuel L., married Katie Hutchinson.
Samuel Dillinger followed the business of farming, buying and selling cat- tle and horses, etc. He had for some years a large Conestoga wagon with six horses, with which he traversed the National Pike, transporting merchandise between the cities of Pittsburg and Baltimore. He subsequently engaged in contract work, building school houses and churches, and other edifices. He was an untiring worker for the free school system, and was an efficient member of
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the board of school directors for many years. In his prosperity he added by pur- chase additional farms adjoining his "Home farm," until he owned upward of six hundred acres in one body, all of which was underlaid with Connellsville coking coal. In addition to his farming interests, about 1850 he purchased a custom grist mill in old Bethany, and soon afterward erected in connection with the mill a distillery, both of which he operated successfully for about thirty years, until 1881, when they were entirely destroyed by fire. The following year, with his two sons, Daniel L. and Samuel L., he built a new distillery at Ruff's Dale, in Westmoreland county, which until his death was successfully operated under the firm name of S. Dillinger and Sons. The business has been continued by his sons up to the present day, and is one of the largest and best known in the state of Pennsylvania. It has a daily capacity of five hundred bushels of grain, or a product of fifty barrels, and has six warehouses with a combined storage capacity of fifty-five thousand barrels of whisky. With his sons, in 1872, he erected a number of coke ovens at Hawkeye, and in 1879 extended the coke business by the erection of additional coke ovens at Tarr and Pennsville, and later with the McClure Coke Company at Alverton, the latter being known as the Donnelly plant. Dillinger and Sons are therefore entitled to rank among the pioneer coke operators of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Dillinger's activities were also extended to important interests in other directions. He was one of the projectors of the Southwest Pennsylvania Rail- way in 1871, and served upon the directorate for some years. As a business man he was distinguished for the order with which he conducted all of his af- fairs, for his firmness and decision, promptness, great energy and punctuality. He was gentle to his employees, and straightforward in all his dealings. As a citizen he was what his character would indicate as a business man, and which commanded for him the highest respect of his fellow citizens. He was public spirited and zealous in politics. During the administration of President Buch- anan and prior to that time, he was affiliated with the Whig party. While he was opposed to slavery, he was also opposed to confiscation and the Civil war, believing that slavery would terminate its own existence by the education of the people to the fact that it was wrong, and that this course would at the same time better prepare the slaves for their freedom. In this, like all his other mo- tives, he was conscientious in what he believed, and naturally united with the Democratic party. He was never an aspirant for political office, but always ad- vocated the nomination of the one whom he thought to be best qualified for the position. He was an honest man, and never feared to express the convictions of his conscience. He was a constant friend and neighbor, and was ever ready and willing to lend a helping hand to the weak and erring or downtrodden. His last illness was paralysis coming upon him suddenly, and from which he never regained consciousness. He died August 25, 1889, at the age of seventy-nine years. He was buried in the Mennonite cemetery, at Alverton. His bereaved widow, Sarah, to whose energy, faithfulness and frugality a large portion of his prosperity may be attributed, survived him about nine years, during which time she made her home with her son, Daniel L. Dillinger, at Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She died August 19, 1898, in the ninetieth year of her age. She was buried by the side of her husband in the Mennonite cemetery, at Al- verton, Pennsylvania.
GEORGE WASHINGTON HOWELL, one of the progressive busi- ness men of Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, engaged in the heating, ventilating and tinning trade and kindred branches, is a representative in the present generation of an old Westmoreland family.
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William Howell, father of George Washington Howell, was born in West- moreland county, Pennsylvania. He was for many years a farmer, and then engaged in the occupation of transporting coal on boats down the Ohio river. He was thus engaged at the time of his death. His body was found floating in the Monongahela river, at Port Perry, February 12, 1857. His pockets had been turned inside out, and a murderous blow on the side of his head left little doubt as to the manner and cause of his death. He married in 1847, Elizabeth Michaels, born in 1832, daughter of John and Mary Michaels, of Westmore- land county. They had three children that grew to maturity: Josiah, George Washington, of whom later; Julia. In 1859 Mrs. Howell married John Me- haffey, and had three children : Thomas, James, Annie. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and died Febru- ary 26, 1905.
George Washington Howell, second son and child of William and Eliza- beth ( Michaels) Howell, was born in Braddock's Field, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, November 30, 1852. He was the first child born in the house which stood close to the spring where, tradition says, Braddock took his last drink and where Washington took command. In memory of this he was given the name of George Washington. He was reared and educated partly in Alle- gheny and partly in Westmoreland county, attending the common schools of Wilkinsburg in the former county, and those of Cavettsville in the latter. In 1871 he went to work for James F. Ryan to learn the tinsmith trade. He fol- lowed this business all his life, having made it a profitable one. He worked in Pittsburg and Wilkinsburg, Allegheny county, and in Greensburg, Westmore- land county, being foreman for the following firms in the hardware business : Shields & Mechling ; Turney Brothers ; and D. W. Bortz & Brothers. In 1899 he established himself in business in the same line, making a specialty of tinning and heating by means of hot air. He has made a decided success, being very methodical and systematic in his manner of conducting his business, and in the execution of orders entrusted to him. His political faith is pinned to the Dem- ocratie party, of which he is a staunch adherent. He is a member of Zion Re- formed church. He is also a member of the following organizations : Greens- burg Council, No. 44. R. A., and J. O. C. A. M. He married ( first ). June 26, 1873. Jennie Alexandria, born March 20, 1852, in Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Alexandria. Mrs. Howell was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and died there February 27, 1887. The children of George W. and Jennie ( Alexandria) Howell were: Frank William, born March 29, 1874; Clyde Marsells, June 28, 1880; Mabel Loren, April 24, 1882. Mr. Howell married (second) July 19, 1888, Emma C. Smith, born January 30, 1859, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, daughter of John and Nancy Smith, of East End, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. John Smith, born in Reading, February 9, 1826, died July 11, 1885, was a tailor by trade and followed that occupation for a number of years in Greensburg be- fore removing to East End, Pittsburg, in 1881. His wife, Nancy Smith, born December 31, 1824. died April 29, 1883. By his second marriage Mr. Howell had three children : George Wilber, born January 8, 1896; Clarence Smith, De- cember 4, 1897 ; Mary Edna, November 2, 1899.
JAMES LAYTON RUFFNER. Among Greensburg's busy busi- ness men is James L. Ruffner, who represents the "Singer." Illinois and Do- mestic Sewing Machine Companies in this part of Pennsylvania.
His grandfather, Simon Peter Ruffner, (I) of German descent, was among
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the very early settlers in Derry township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He died aged about sixty years. His wife was Jane Layton, who was of an Irish family at the village of Derry. The children born to Simon Peter and Jane (Layton) Ruffner were: Nancy, married Daniel Murray : John, married Catherine Geary ; Sarah and Mary (twins) ; Sarah married Charles Larkins and Mary married Joseph Miller ; James, of whom later.
II. James Ruffner (father), born September 9, 1835, in Derry township, died March, 1904, in same township. He was a prosperous farmer and at his death owned several big farms. He was in politics a Democrat, and belonged to the Roman Catholic church as did also his family. He served as supervisor of Derry township. He married, November 25, 1856, Elizabeth Bridge, born Oc- tober 24, 1835, the daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Stahl) Bridge, of German descent. She died suddenly of heart failure, June 30, 1904, and is buried be- side her husband in the Catholic cemetery at Blairsville, Pennsylvania. Their children were: Catherine Jane, born August 20, 1857, married Albert Short ; James Layton, born December 27, 1860, of whom later; Annie Elizabeth, born June 17, 1862, married Samuel Connor, of Derry township : John E., born De- cember 26, 1864, married Zora Enfield : Mary, born September 2, 1866, married Charles F. Ehalt, hotel proprietor at Greensburg, Pennsylvania : Elizabeth and Peter. died in infancy ; Margaret and Agnes ( twins), born June 9, 1872; Mar- garet, married William Kilgore, and Agnes married John W. Luther; Sarah Gertrude, born September 3, 1875. married Harry Fisher, of Derry township.
III. James L. Ruffner, born December 27, 1860, son of James and Eliza- beth ( Bridge) Ruffner, II, received a common school education in Derry town- ship, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and later attended the academy at Blairsville, Pennsylvania. After leaving the school room, full of laudable am- bition, he engaged with the Singer Sewing Machine Company as salesman. First he was stationed at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, but after one year was sent to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, where he managed the agency for the well known company for a period of fifteen years. He then returned to Greensburg. where he has been located the past eight years. Besides his Singer sewing ma- chine business he has been active in many other lines. Since 1902 he has been a wholesale agent for the Illinois Sewing Machine Company, whose factory is at Rockford, Illinois. While never neglecting his duties in the role of whole- sale and retail machine salesman, he has dealt in real estate and been connected with building and loan companies both here and in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was the manager for the Washington National Loan Association of Washington, District of Columbia, for three years. He also helped organize and build two large brewing plants, one at Ha- gerstown, Maryland, and one at Shire Oaks, Washington county, Pennsylvania, both of which became successful and which he has disposed of some time since. He has erected several residences and now owns the commodious one in which he lives at No. 637 East Pittsburg street, Greens- burg, Pennsylvania. He also owns the Commercial Hotel property at Scott- dale, Westmoreland county. During the winter of 1905-6 he went to Florida ann there spent some two months, during which time he invested in a fine orange grove near DeLand, Volusia county, Florida. He also has in embryo the erection of a brewing plant at Jacksonville, Florida.
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