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Jacob E. Wineman, having acquired his education in the common schools, entered business life at the age of sixteen years by buying and selling cattle.
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He seemed to have a natural aptitude for the business and became an expert buyer, so that he was enabled to realize a handsome profit from his investment. In 1891 he decided to open a meat market but, having worked for the firm of Bortz and Bierer, of Greensburg, he was persuaded by them to enter into a partnership and opened a branch shop on Mill street, Greensburg, the main shop being located on Pittsburg street. The same year Mr. Bierer withdrew from the firm, and Mr. Wineman and Mr. Bortz continued the business. In 1899 Mr. Wineman purchased his present farm of one hundred acres in Hemp- field township and removed to his new home the same spring. When the town of Youngwood was laid out he opened a butcher shop, and the firm are now conducting markets in Greensburg and Youngwood, carrying on an exten- tive business as dealers in meats. Mr. Wineman is a man of much business re- source and ability. He has made judicious investment in property, owning real estate in both boroughs as well as his farm. He was also one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Youngwood, and is now serving as one of its directors. He was also one of the organizers and the treasurer of the Youngwood Building and Loan Association, and he is a director of the Westmoreland county Agricultural Association, which has been his connection therewith since its organization sixteen years ago. He was married, Septem- ber 13, 1893, to Rebecca Bierer, a daughter of Amos Bierer, of Greensburg. They have become the parents of five children : Andrew, Amos, Mary R., Jolin and Catherine, all of whom are yet living with the exception of the second. In his political views Mr. Wineman is a Republican. He belongs to the Lutheran church, in which he served as deacon for many years, and in matters relating to the welfare and improvement of the county he is deeply and actively inter- ested, while in his business affairs he displays the enterprise, energy and adapta- bility that characterize the typical American citizen.
B. R. SMITH, M. D. Among the pioneer settlers of Sewickley town- ship, Westmoreland county, was numbered Samuel Smith, who was one of the first to locate in the Quaker settlement there who was not a believer in that religious sect. He purchased his farm from one of the original members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, and for many years carried on agricultural pursuits.
Cyrus Smith, son of Samuel Smith, was reared in Sewickley township on the farm which his father purchased, and in early life adopted carpentering as his chosen occupation. He has since worked as a builder, and for many years has resided in or near Irwin. He served for three years as a defender in the U'nion cause in the Civil war, and then took up his abode in the locality which has since been his home. He holds membership with the Grand Army of the Republic. He married Esther Biggs, and their children are: Edward, a busi- ness man of Irwin : Samuel, living in Mckeesport ; and B. R., of whom later.
Dr. B. R. Smith was born near Irwin, Pennsylvania, April 2, 1869. He spent his boyhood days under the parental roof, and acquired his education in the Irwin schools. When sixteen years of age he entered the H. K. Porter Locomotive Works, where he served an apprenticeship of three and a half years and later he was employed as a journeyman machinist in the Westinghouse plant, at Wilmerding. Pennsylvania, for two years. It was while there that he entered upon the study of medicine preparatory to making its practice his life work, and during the summer vacations of his college course he continued to work at his trade. He began the study of medicine in 1891, reading under the direction of S. E. Mowry, of Wilmerding, and in the fall of that same year 2 14
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he was enrolled in the University of the City of New York, from which he was graduated with the class of 1895, being one of the honor men of the class. Following his graduation he located in Irwin, Pennsylvania and for some time was associated in practice with Drs. C. E. and W. H. Taylor. Later he took charge for a short time of the practice of his former preceptor, Dr. Mowry, who was then ill, and in the fall of 1896 came to Jeannette, where in intervening years he has built up a large and enviable practice. He is a member of the county and state medical societies and the national medical association, and is one of the well known practitioners of Jeannette. Fraternally Dr. Smith is connected with Jeannette Lodge, No. 486, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he was one of the organizers. In politics he is a Republican, actively working in the ranks of the party for its growth and success.
EDWARD ALVIN MYERS. The Myers family, to which Edward Alvin Myers belongs, is of German descent. The grandfather emigrated from Germany to the new world and settled in Westmoreland county, where he pur- chasd a farm lying in Penn township, near the present borough of Jeannette. This property was later inherited by his sons, Solomon and John.
Solomon Myers was born in Penn township, about 1838, and upon the old homestead spent the days of his boyhood and youth and continued to re- side there until 1900, when he sold the property to his son John, and has since been making his home among his children. He has always voted with the Democracy, but has never been an aspirant for office. He belongs to the Lutheran church, and for many years served as one of its officials. He mar- ried Hattie E. Schrum, who died in 1891 at the age of fifty-one years. Their family numbered eleven children, of whom nine are yet living: Amos A. J., resides at Penn Station ; Morris W., a carpenter of Jeannette; Jacob E., a lumber merchant at Penn Station ; Zachariah, a carpenter at Penn Station ; Jennie M., wife of Aaron Mowery, of Lima, Ohio; Rev. Solomon D., a min- ister of the Lutheran church, at Vandalia, Illinois ; John S., living on the old homestead farm : and Charles C., employed by Edward A. Myers, the young- est member of the family.
Edward Alvin Myers was born in Penn township, January 18, 1874, and no event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of farm life for him in his boyhood days. After completing a common school course of study he entered the Greensburg Seminary, and at seventeen years of age began his business career as a clerk in the grocery store of Hess Brothers, at Jeannerette. He served in that capacity for four years, when, in recognition of his ability and fidelity, he was made manager of the business and remained in that posi- tion for two years, and September 1, 1897, with the capital acquired from his industry and economy, he established a store of his own. His straightforward business methods and earnest desire to please his patrons soon secured him a liberal patronage, and after seven years his store is to-day one of the lar- gest and best of the kind to be found outside of the principal cities. Mr. Myers gives his political allegiance to the Democratic party when national questions are involved, but at local elections votes independently. He belongs to the Improved Order of Heptasophs, and to the Lutheran church. He married, June 7, 1808, Lillian Grove, a daughter of Jacob Grove, of Jeannette. They have one son, Earl G., and a daughter, Catharine Arlile, born January 10, 1906.
WILLIAM F. EUWER is a representative of varied and important business interests in Jeannette. He was born in Allegheny county, Pennsyl- vania, March 31, 1870, his parents being Matthew G. and Elizabeth (Logan)
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Euwer. His father was born in New Texas, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and when seventeen years of age began teaching school, which profession he followed for three years, and then acceptd a position in a store in Allegheny City. Later he engaged in business on his own account, but met with failure in the widespread financial panic of 1873, when so many business men went down. He afterward accepted a clerkship, and thus worked until he had satisfied his creditors. He then engaged in business for himself at Parnassus, where he remained for six years. Later he transferred his business to Verona, where he remained up to the time of his retirement from business life. He then again took up his abode in Parnassus, where he is now living retired. He belongs to the Reformed Presbyterian church, in which he has served as elder for many years. To him and his wife were born seven children, of whom five are yet living : Norman L., Bertha S., Theodosia H., Nancy C. and William F.
William F. Euwer having mastered the elementary branches of learning, taught in the common schools ; he continued his education in Parnassus Acad- emy, and at the age of sixteen years entered the store of the firm of Arthur & Showdelmyer, at Allegheny City, as an errand boy. He was later made clerk, having charge of one counter, and subsequently was advanced to a gen- eral clerkship, continuing in the store for about three years, when he resigned and accepted a position with his father in Verona. After two years he became a stockholder in the firm. In 1897 he severed his connection with that house, removed to Jeannette, and in partnership with George Whitmyer, purchased the furniture and carpet business of E. G. Euwer. The firm style of Euwer & Company has since been maintained, and the business has steadily grown until they now carry a large stock of goods and enjoy a constantly increasing and profitable patronage. He has other business aside from merchandising, be- ing one of the directors in the Jeannette National Bank, the president of the Jeannette Oil and Gas Company, and the treasurer of the Jeannette and West Newton Street Railway Company. Mr. Euwer is a Republican, whose patriot- ism is stronger than his partisanship. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is serving as a trustee. He also holds membership with the Improved Order of Heptasophs and with the Maccabees. He is regarded as one of the progressive business men of Jeannette, having the ability of quickly discerning a good business opportunity and taking advantage thereof. His enterprise and energy have been the dominant factors in his success, and his position as one of the substantial citizens of the county is attributable entirely to his own efforts. Mr. Euwer married in 1894, Alice Whitmyer, a daughter of George Whitmyer, of Oakmont, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and they have three children : Margaret E., Paul, and Virginia.
C. E. MULLIN. A well-known name in the financial circles of Mount Pleasant is that of C. E. Mullin. The parents of Mr. Mullin were William D. and Mary A. (Shupe) Mullin. The former died in 1890, and the latter resides in Mount Pleasant.
C. E. Mullin was born March 8, 1861, in Mount Pleasant, where he re- ceived his primary education in the public schools and afterward attended the Mount Pleasant Institute, graduating in 1882. Prior to this, though in the same year, he graduated from the Iron City Business College. After com- pleting his education he engaged for a time in the grocery business in Mount Pleasant, and later went into the dry goods business under the firm name of The C. E. Mullin Company. Subsequently he closed the business, and in June, 1895, became cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank.
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This institution was incorporated in 1893, and carries on an extensive busi- ness, both foreign and domestic. Mr. Mullin has held the position of cashier continuously for the last ten years and still retains the office.
He was one of the promoters of the Mount Pleasant Tool Company, and is now a member of the official board of that institution. He was one of the organizers of the East Pittsburg National Bank, at Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, and now belongs to the board of directors. He is a stockholder in different financial institutions of Pittsburg, in the First National Bank of Irwin, in the First National Bank of Jeannette, and in various concerns at Greensburg. He has been a director in the Citizens' Building & Loan Association of Mount Pleasant since its organization. In 1902 he formed a partnership with W. A. Kalp under the firm name of Kalp & Mullin, and together they purchased the "James Neal farm," which was situated within the limits of the borough of Mount Pleasant. This estate, which consisted of ninety acres, they laid out in town lots, disposing of them by sale. Mr. Mullin is the owner and manager of several farms in different parts of the county. He is a member of Marion Lodge, No. 562, F. and A. M., of Scottdale, Greensburg Chapter, Greensburg Commandery, K. T., Valley Consistory, No. 320, of Pittsburg, the Heptasophs and Modern Woodmen of America. He is a member of the United Brethren church, and has been for years connected with the official board.
Mr. Mullin married, October 18, 1894, Lulu M., daughter of W. H. Evans, of the vicinity of New Stanton, Pennsylvania, and they were the parents of the following children: Charles E., Paul E., William D., Mary Genevieve, and Edward E. The mother of these children died October 2, 1901, and Mr. Mul- lin married, March 24. 1903, Mrs. Sallie ( Woodward) Shields, daughter of Joseph Woodward, of Columbia, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Mullin have one child, Emily Agnes.
WILLIAM FRANKLIN MORRISON. The family of which Will- iam Franklin Morrison is a representative is one well known throughout West- moreland county. Charles E. Morrison, the father of Mr. Morrison, was born in 1830, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and from 1860 to 1863 engaged in mercantile business in Mount Pleasant township. He established a branch store at Ruffsdale in 1863, and for several years conducted the two. He then went to Donegal where he engaged in the same line of business with his brother, Dr. Morrison, subsequently moving to Port Royal. In consequence of failing health he withdrew for a time from business and retired to his farm, afterward returning for a few years to commercial life. He was active in local politics and held several township offices. He was one of the charter members of the Mount Pleasant council of the R. A., and belonged to the K. P. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran church.
Charles E. Morrison married Sarah E., daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Corer) Hays. The former was a native of Westmoreland county, and spent his life in Mount Pleasant township with the exception of a few years passed in East Huntingdon township. His farm consisted of two hundred and fifty- eight acres. He was county commissioner in 1853-54-55, and later served as poor director. In politics he was a staunch Democrat. He and his wife were the parents of children : Sarah E., married Charles E. Morrison, as mentioned above; Kate and Mollie, died unmarried; Lucinda, married C. R. Booker ; Susan, married Anthony Leightey: a daughter died in childhood : Abraham was killed in one of the battles of the Civil war: John ; Peter : and Isarael, an attorney-at-law, died in Pittsburg. Mr. Hays lived to the advanced age of
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ninety-three. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison had children : Della, married John A. Ray, of Pittsburg, president of the Burgettstown National Bank, and of the First National Bank, of Hickory, Washington county, Pa., who is also agent and real estate manager for the Pittsburg and Buffalo Coal Company ; Charles Oscar, machinist in the Armor Steel Plate works, at Homestead, Pa .; and William Franklin, of whom later. Mr. Morrison died in 1885, in Ruffsdale where he had resided for a year previous to that event.
William Franklin Morrison, son of Charles E. and Sarah E. (Hays) Mor- rison, was born December 8, 1863, at Weaver's Old Stand, Mount Pleasant township, and was educated in the public schools and at Duff's Business Col- lege from which he graduated April 24, 1882. He then became his father's assistant in the latter's business, and continued to serve in that capacity until the death of the elder Mr. Morrison, when he closed the business and went to Johnstown. After remaining there one year as clerk he returned to his old home and entered the service of the United Coal and Coke Company, as book- keeper, but at the end of a year resigned in order to take a position as chief clerk and manager with the J. D. Boyd Coal Company, at Uniontown, Fayette county. This position he retained for nearly ten years when he resigned in order to enter the service of the Armor Beef Company, also at Uniontown. After remaining with them one year he tendered his resignation, accepting the position of secretary and treasurer with the Thompson Glass Company, of Uniontown, and continued to discharge the duties of his office for three years. He then went to Mount Pleasant where he engaged as district manager with the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York. He has had an eventful political career. In 1886 he was elected a member of the town council, and in 1888 was re-elected in Uniontown. He was chosen to serve on the board of education at Mount Pleasant in 1902, the same year was elected president of the board, and in 1905 was re-elected. He has been active in both local and state politics since 1887, and in 1902 was elected to the state legislature, being re-elected in 1904. During his first term he served on the committee of ways and means, law and order, mines and mining, iron and coal and manufactures. He is now serving his second term, and is chairman of the committee on manu- factures, and secretary of the committee on mines and mining. He also be- longs to the committee on law and order, iron and coal, pensions and gratuities and insurance. He is identified with the following fraternal orders: Fayette Lodge, No. 228, F. and A. M. ; Uniontown Chapter No. 165 : Uniontown Com- mandery, No. 49: Pittsburg Consistory; Syria Temple, Pittsburg: Olivett Council, Greensburg.
Mr. Morrison married (first) in 1884. Anna B. Weineman, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. In 1890 she lost her life through the explosion of a lamp which ignited her clothing, and burned her so badly she died the next morning. Their children were: 1. Charles Clyde, graduate from the Mount Pleasant High school, and then took a two years' course at Bucknell. He is now a student in the law department of the University of Pennsylvania. 2. Verna Mabel was drowned while in bathing in the Allegheny river, near Summer Camp, at God- frey, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of August 19, 1905. The accident was caused by stepping into a deep sinkhole, the presence of which was unknown to the bathers. She lost her footing and was carried down to her death. Her body was recovered twenty minutes later, and medical skill exhausted in an effort to save her life, but too late, the silver cord had been broken. Miss Morrison was twenty years of age and had graduated at the Greensburg Ihigh school with honors in June. 1905. about thirty days before her untimely departure. She
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was an exceedingly bright and amiable young lady with a large circle of friends- who most sincerely mourn her death. Mr. Morrison married (second), April 1892, Sarah R., daughter of Dr. B. A. Pichtner, of Somerset county, Penn- slyvania.
ALBERT B. STAUFFER, son of Henry W. and Mary C. (Booker) Stauffer, was born November 4, 1871, in Tyron township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. The great-grandfather of Albert B. Stauffer, Martin Stauffer, lived for a number of years at Eveston, following agricultural pursuits. He was a member of the Mennonite church. He had three children: Sarah, wife of Samuel Heuth ; John T., the grandfather of Albert B. Stauffer ; and Abram D. John T. Stauffer lived and died in Westmoreland county. In early life he was a farmer, but later entered the baker's business and was the pioneer of that industry in Westmoreland county. For some years he operated from twenty to thirty ovens near what is now called Stauffer Station. Politically he was a Republican, and held the office of constable for several terms. He was a member of the N. B. church. He died in 1900, at Mount Pleasant, his home for the last few years of his life. His children were : Henry W., David, Mary, wife of John Swain; Elizabeth, wife of Young Yetters ; Martha, Cath- erine, wife of Benjamin Kouchenour ; Joseph, James, Frank, Belle and Mead. Henry W. Stauffer was born and reared in Westmoreland county and followed farming and butchering for a number of years. During the last few years he has partially retired from active business. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has filled most of the offices. His children are : Alice, wife of Albert Herbert Martin, a butcher, of Scottdale; Charles W .: Susan, wife of James Murphy ; Elizabeth, wife of Hugo Wessing: Albert B., of whom later : Lucy: Laura, wife of John Beswick Rebecca: Emma; John T.
Albert B. Stauffer was reared and educated in his native place, attending the public schools until he reached the age of eightcen, then entering a rolling mill at Scottdale and continuing there for some six years. He then entered the butcher business and has continued at it since. He is the proprietor of per- haps the finest market in that section of the state, a market supplied with all the latest and improved machinery for working up the meats and stocked with the highest grades of fresh and canned meats. He slaughters all his own meats, and markets his produce in Scottdale and its vicinity. He is successor to his brother, C. W. Stauffer, in the business, having taken charge of it May 24, 1904. He is one of the best-known men of Scottdale, and is a member of the Eagles. His wife. Cazie, daughter of Daniel Fritz, died in 1902, at the age of twenty-four, leaving two children, Lulu Marie and Mary Frances Stauffer.
SMITH BUTTERMORE, son of P. M. and Eliza J. (Thorndell) Buttermore, was born February 7, 1880, at New Haven, Fayette county. Penn- sylvania. On the paternal side the family is of German and Scotch descent, and on the maternal side of English descent. The parents of Smith are both living, the father being a blacksmith of New Haven. The grandfather, George Buttermore, was a farmer but gave most of his attention to teaming on a route between Baltimore, Connellsville and Pittsburg.
Smith Buttermore was reared in his native town and educated in the pub- lic schools. In 1900 he went into business at Dawson, Fayette county, Penn- sylvania. He established the first bakery in that place, and remained in busi- ness there until June, 1904. He sold out and located at Scottdale, where he succeeded to the bakery business of W. H. Ellis, September, 1904, the oldest
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establishment of its kind in Scottdale, it having been established by J. C. Anawalt in 1882. At the death of Mr. Anawalt his son conducted the business until Mr. Ellis took charge of it in 1902. He in turn sold it to Mr. Buttermore, who has continued there since. In addition to a large bakery business he has an ice cream manufactory, and in both branches of his trade has been very suc- cessful. His establishment is one of the leading concerns of this part of the county, the business covering a radius of some six miles about Scottdale. He is one of the most prominent men of the borough and is active in politics, his sympathies being Democratic. While at Dawson he was a member of the central committee. Mr. Buttermore married, April 25. 1900, Cora Edwards, daughter of Roland and Margaret Edwards, of Councilsville. Mr. Edwards established the first bakery at that place. They have one child, Mildred Butter- more. They are members of the Presbyterian Church at Scottdale. Mr. Buttermore is a member of Royal Arcanum. A. I. O. K. M., Omar Com- mandery, No. 330, of Dawson, of the Eagles and of the Modern Woodmen of America.
ALEXANDER FLEMING was born October 27, 1872, in Airdry, Scotland, son of John and Elizabeth (Cunningham) Fleming. The family sailed to America in 1874 and located at Port Washington, Ohio, where the father was employed as superintendent of the blast furnaces. He was superin- tendent of various furnaces in Ohio, then removed to Pennsylvania, about 1881, settling in Mifflin county, later in Huntingdon county, where he was engaged as superintendent of a furnace, thence going to Wampum, Lawrence county, and then returned to Ohio, about 1884. He soon returned to Penn- sylvania and spent four years at Penn Furnace, then went to Bellefonte and operated the furnace for about two years, then engaged with the Cameron Coal and Iron Company, as superintendent. He is at present living at Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, and is virtually retired. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. His children are: Isabella, wife of J. A. Little, of Mckeesport ; Grahmey, wife of James Bryce, of Homestead, Pennsylvania ; David, deceased ; Magdaline, a music teacher at Mckeesport: Harry, a shipping clerk, Mckeesport : Alexander, of whom later.
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