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Since entering upon his private practice he, besides designing, construct- ing and engineering structures of various kinds for private parties has been consulting expert for important enterprises as follows: chief engineer of the proposed Pittsburg elevated and subway system; consulting engineer to the Pittsburg rapid transit commission : consulting engineer for the Pittsburg rail- ways company ; designing and supervising engineer for Pennsylvania state bridges ; consulting engineer for the United States Government in the matter if widening and increasing the headroom under the Allegheny river bridges, between Pittsburg and Allegheny City : consulting engineer for part of Boston elevated railroad : steel expert for the builders of New York subway and ele- vated, rapid transit, etc. Mr. Swensson is a member of the American So- ciety of Civil Engineers, is vice-chairman of its committee on concrete and re-
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inforced concrete : and member of the Engineers Society of Western Penn- sylvania, having been its president in 1897; a member of the American Society for Testing Materials ; a member of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science ; and a member of the Junta, Union, Duquesne, German and Country Clubs of Pittsburg. He married at Mount Pleasant, Westmore- land county, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1883, Catherine Elizabeth Jordan, as above mentioned, and has four children : Otto J., Christine J., Stuart J., and Henri J. Swensson.
JOHNSTON BORNDALLAR JORDAN, a prominent business man of Westmoreland county, was born June 27, 1824, at Bloody Run, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, a son of Samuel and Catherine (Myers) Jordan, and a grandson of David Jordan, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was of English origin. Samuel Jordan ( father) was a carpenter by trade, but during the greater part of his active career was engaged in the hotel business. His death occurred in 1854.
Johnston B. Jordan received his education in the common schools of his native place, and at the age of fifteen years left Bedford county and removed with his father to White Horse Tavern, Somerset county, remaining there for three years. He then went to Bedford, Bedford county, to learn the car- penter trade, and was there engaged in that work for six years. In 1848 he removed to Mount Pleasant and conducted the Green Tree Hotel for his father, until the death of the latter in 1854. He then established himself in the foundry business, associated with his two brothers, Henry and William, and for ten years they conducted a very successful business under the firm name of Jordan Brothers. At the expiration of this period of time they dis- posed of their plant, and for several years thereafter engaged in horse deal- ing. In 1878 he established himself in the hotel business, in which he has since been engaged, conducting a most popular and highly patronized house. He came to Pleasant Unity in December. 1897. rented the old hotel there and subsequently bought the same. He refurnished and renovated it, putting in some modern improvements, and made it one of the best hotels in the county. He is one of the most popular and best-known hotel men in western Penn- sylvania. Much of his success is due to his wife, who is a most estimable lady and known far and near for her good qualities and for her noted chicken sup- pers, which she gives at frequent intervals, and which are largely patronized by people all over western Pennsylvania.
In 1855 Johnston B. Jordan married Lavinia Christina Shoup, born Feb- ruary 4. 1835, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth ( Whitemore) Shoup, and their children were: Catherine Elizabeth, married C. P. Emil Swensson ; Daniel Shoup. Harrie Johnston married Eliza Rush, and they have four children : Gertrude E. Rush, deceased : Christian and Josephine Jordan. Edwin Debare. married Mary Johnson. They reside in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and are engaged in the millinery business.
PRICE J. COLE. Bernard Cole, grandfather of Price J. Cole, of Bracburn, was born in Ligonier and was one of the first merchants of that place, whence he moved to Latrobe where for some years he continued in the mercantile husiness. In early life he was a member of the Methodist Episco- pal church, but later joined the Roman Catholic. He married Gal- braith and their children were: Thomas, deceased : John, see forward ; Matilda, wife of Thomas Scaton : and Robert, died in infancy.
John Cole son of Bernard and (Galbraith ) Cole, was born in 1838,
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in Ligonier, and in early life was employed as a clerk in his father's store. Upon the death of his father he succeeded to the business at Latrobe, in part- nership with his brother Thomas. After some years he purchased his brother's interest, and during the remainder of his life conducted the business alone. He was a musician and organized the first cornet band of Latrobe in which, for years, he held the office of treasurer. He married Mary, daughter of James and Elizabeth Hudson, old residents of Westmoreland county, and their chil- dren are : Ella : Price J., see forward ; and Edward, steel worker at Latrobe. Mr. Cole, the father, died in 1878.
Price J. Cole, son of John and Mary (Hudson) Cole, was born September 8, 1868, in Latrobe, and was educated at St. Vincent's College. For eleven years he worked as telegraph operator for the Pennsylvania railroad. In 1893 he went to Millwood where for three years he was engaged in mercantile busi- ness, and in 1896 moved to Braeburn, being one of the first to settle in the vil- lage. From his arrival down to the present time he has been successfully en- gaged in business in that place. For two years he served as justice of the peace, having been appointed by Governor Stone. He is a member of the I. O. (. F., of Pittsburg. He married Margaret, daughter of Richard and Nancy Hotham, and they have three children : Frances M., born November 12, 1893 : Eunice Blanche, born January 29, 1897; and Price Joseph, born Feb- rnary 27, 1902.
JOSEPH C. HORTON. Robert Horton, grandfather of Joseph C. Horton, of New Kensington, was born and reared in Nova Scotia, where he was engaged as a fish merchant during his active life. His children were: Thomas, mentioned hereinafter ; John, Albert, Mary, Catharine, and Esther.
Thomas Horton, son of Robert Horton, was born March, 1812, in Nova Scotia, and in early life followed the sea. He afterward became a farmer and in his latter years was a cooper. Mr. Horton married Margaret Horton, and their children are: Elizabeth, wife of W. J. Stevenson ; Esther, wife of Willian John Scott ; Caroline, wife of William E. McMartin: John, of Canada ; and Joseph C., mentioned hereinafter. Mr. Horton, the father, died in 1902, in St. Mary, Algoma district.
Joseph C. Horton, son of Thomas and Margaret (Horton) Horton, was born February 15, 1849, in Nova Scotia, and received his education in the public schools of Canada. At the age of twenty he went to learn the car- penter's trade with L. and S. Lloyd, of Belmore, Ontario, with whom he re- mained three years. He then worked for two years as a journeyman, after which he went into business for himself in Canada as a contractor and builder. In 1878 he migrated to northern Michigan and there conducted his business until 1891, moving in that year to New Kensington, where he was one of the pioneers, and where he has ever since been successfully engaged as a contrac- tor and builder. He belongs to the Orange Association of Canada, and is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Horton married Jeannette McLaod, of Scotch parentage, and their children are: Charlotte, wife of Frank G. Matheson, of Detroit, Michigan; Joseph D., at home, was for five years as- sistant postmaster : Frank H., order clerk in Reduction works, New Kensing- ton : Ethel, graduate of New Kensington high school, now assistant teacher ; Gertrude, student at high school ; Margaret, at home ; and Bruce A., at home.
HENRY J. KRICK. John Krick, father of Henry J. Krick, of New Kensington, was born in 1827, in Germany, and when a young man emigrated to the United States, settling in Pittsburg, where he worked for some time
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as a teamster. Later he became for some years a farmer near Leechburg, Westmoreland county, and afterward moved to Hillville, where he was em- ployd as a puddler in the Leechburg furnaces. He was a member of the Ro- man Catholic church. Mr. Krick married Mary Keller, born in 1827, in Ger- many, and their children were: Tillie, wife of Christopher Mertz, of Pittsburg ; John P., roller in Parkersburg, West Virginia : Mary, wife of Peter Degohn, of MeKees Rocks; Maggie, deceased, wife of Peter Smith ; George, killed on the Pennsylvania railroad; Frank, died in childhood ; Agnes, also died in child- hood ; Henry J., mentioned hereinafter ; and James William, of New Ken- sington.
Henry J. Krick, son of John and Mary ( Keller) Krick, was born April 10, 1872, on a farm in Westmoreland county, and received a common school edu- cation. At the age of sixteen he began working in the Kirkpatrick mill at Leechburg, remaining there about six years. He then moved to New Ken- sington, where he was employed for six or seven years as a roller in the tin mill. In September, 1904. he leased the old Denmarck Hotel, which he re- christened the Park Hotel, and is now the proprietor of one of the prettiest hostelries in the Allegheny valley. He is a member of the Heptasophs. Mr. Krick married Elizabeth V., daughter of Bernard and Bridget (Lanagh) Hampsey, and four children have been born to them, two of whom died in infancy, the survivors bing : John Francis, born June 24, 1901, Henry James, Jr., born January 30, 1906.
DANIEL BURNS, son of Daniel and Susan (Fleming) Burns, was born October 31, 1872, in Salem, New York, and was but ten months old at the time of the death of his father. He was educated in the common schools, and at the age of ten years was employed as bell boy in the Bush House, Belfont, remaining six years. He then went to California and after prospecting for five months returned to Pennsylvania and settled in Jeannette, where he had charge of a pool room. He held this position until 1891, and then moved to New Kensington, one year before its incorporation. For one year he was pro- prietor of a pool room and then for about two years was bartender for Mulvi- hill & Herron. After this he purchased a pool room on Fifth avenue, which he conducted for one year, and then leased the Merchants' Hotel, now known as the Hotel Howard, of which he was proprietor for three years and a half. For eighteen months thereafter he conducted a livery business on Third avenue, after which he sold out and for two years engaged in business as a contractor. In July, 1903, he moved to Monessen and for one year conducted a newspaper business, at the end of that time selling out and returning to New Kensington, where he has since been engaged in the iron business. From 1901 to 1904 he was a member of the common council of New Kensington, and for two years served on the county committee. February 20, 1906, he was elected chief burgess of New Kensington for a term of three years. He being a Democrat and New Kensington being a Republican town by a large majority, shows his high standing and popularity with the people. He belongs to Lodge No. 512, B. P. O. E., of New Kensington, and is a member of the Roman Catholic church, to which all his ancestors have adhered. Mr. Burns married Elizabeth S., daughter of Samuel and Elmira Bricher.
AUGUST GLINZ. The parents of August Glinz, of New Kensing- ton, were Ludwick and Louise Glinz, natives of Germany, where their son was horn September 21, 1867. He landed in the United States, August 18, 1886, and for four years thereafter lived in Philadelphia, then moving to Pittsburg,
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where he was employed, as he had been in Philadelphia, in the capacity of bar- tender. In 1897 he opened a hotel for himself in Homestead, where he re- mained four years. In 1901 he purchased the International Hotel at New Kensington, of which he has ever since been the popular proprietor. Mr. Glinz married Amelia Mall, and their children, all of whom are at home, are: Louise, Alvire, and Lloyd. Mrs. Glinz is the daughter of Michael and Eliza- beth Mall, the former a veteran of the Civil war and a member of Post One Hundred and Twenty-eight, of Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
SIBLEY FAMILY. The first Sibleys in this country came from England in the fleet in A. D., 1629, and settled in the town of Salem, Massa- chusetts. They were supposed to be brothers and their names were John and Richard. They both had wives.
John Sibley was born in England, 1603, married Rachel Pickworth. He took the freeman's oath in 1635, and was selectman of Salem, Massachusetts, 1636, and selectman of Manchester, 1645-58. Grants of land, including Winter Island Harbor, were made to him. He died in 1661, leaving four sons and five daughters. His sons were: John, born March 4, 1648; William, July 8, 1653; Joseph, in 1655 ; and Samuel, February 12, 1657.
Joseph Sibley, third son of John, was born in 1655, in Manchester. On his return from a fishing voyage he was impressed on board a British frigate and put to hard service for seven weeks, after which he was released and sent home. He married Susanna Fallet, and settled in Sutton, Massachusetts. They had seven children, six sons and one daughter: Joseph, born November 9, 1684; John, September 18, 1687; Jonathan, May 1, 1690; Samuel, in 1697 ; William, September 7. 1700 : Benjamin, September 19, 1703 ; Hannah, August 10, 1722, married Ebenezer Dagget. Joseph's brother John was elected to the general court legislature.
Benjamin Sibley, sixth son of Joseph, born September 19, 1703, married Priscilla Rich. He moved from Sutton, Massachusetts, to Union, Connecticut. They had six children, as follows: Priscilla, born August 5, 1725 : Benjamin, August 17, 1727 : Joseph, Ezekiel, Samuel and Jonathan, of the dates of whose births there seem to be no record, Priscilla and Benjamin being the only ones recorded. In the history of the town of Sutton, Massachusetts, the statement is made that "very little is known of Benjamin (the father). He probably left Sutton very soon after the birth of his son Benjamin. According to Deacon Leland it appears by Sibley papers in the hands of Nathaniel Sibley, 2d, that he at one time lived in Ellington. Connecticut. The following scrap is found ir the handwriting of Mr. Baldwin : 'Benjamin Sibley was one of the original brothers and lived in Sutton a few years when he went to Union, Conn .. and died there.or in Ashford.'" Aaron Sibley. his grandson, was a representative of Westfield in 1827 or 1828.
Ezekiel Sibley, third son of Benjamin, married Sarah Yoemans.
John Sibley, son of Ezekiel, was born April 26, 1774, at Ellington, Con- necticut. He married, April 7. 1793, Esther Bellamy, who was born May 16, 1777, and was a relative of Governor Bellamy, of Massachusetts. John Sibley had three brothers: Ezekiel, Moses and Aaron, the last named being a half- brother. He also had three sisters. John and Esther had nine children, as follows : Esther, born March 15, 1794, died 1870: John, Jr., June 6, 1797, died June, 1878; Aaron, April 16, 1799. died April 28, 1812, came to New Albion with his brother Charles ; he never married ; he was killed while hunting squir- rels by a tree falling on him during a storm on April 25, 1842. Charles, Tulv 4. 1801, died December 14, 1869 : Orrin, April 14, 1803, died March, 1878; Ira,
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November 16, 1805. died November 2, 1891, also came to New Albion in 1811; he married Polly Hazen, in the town of Maryland, Otsego county, and to them were born Ira, Levi, Cyrus, Lorinda and a pair of twins. After the death of his first wife he married Miranda Rockwell Gowan, in New Albion. They afterward removed to Pittsburg and in that city there were born to them daughters: Emily, Eliza Jane, Matilda, Anna and Susan, the first and third of whom are still living. Sarah, in 1808, died in infancy. Cynthia, July 29, 1811, died 1870. Laura, December 12, 1813, died 1836. John Sibley ( father ) died in the town of Westford, Otsego county, in 1849. He removed from Ashford, Connecticut, to Otsego county, in 1807.
Charles Sibley, third son of John, was born in Ashford, Connecticut, July 4. 1801. When six years old he removed with his parents to Otsego county, New York. He married Sarah Darling, born February 15, 1798, died Febru- ary 21, 1885. They removed from Otsego county, New York, to the township of New Albion, Cattaraugus county, in October, 1832; in 1842 they moved into the town of Napoli, same county, where they resided during the remainder of their lives. They were married in Westford, Otsego county, May 19, 1818; there were born to them nine children, as follows: Harriet, born February 26, 1819, married Stephen A. Green, died in December. 1891 ; Sherman, Novem- ber 27, 1820, married Mary Ann Moshier, died March 14, 1888; Charlotte, September 6, 1822, married George S. Boyle, in 1850; she is still living : Amanda, February 27, 1824, married Francis Allen, March 16, 1838: Judson, May 30, 1826, married Ann Elisa Miller, October 1, 1850, he is still living, Horace C., November 16, 1827, married Mary Kendall, October 2, 1850, died January 30, 1852, in New Albion township; Orrin, November 11, 1829. left home with a drover of cattle in 1847, went to Philadelphia : he visited home once or twice thereafter, but his whereabouts have since been unknown ; Eben, July 20, 1831, married Sarah A. Gladden, January 1, 1851, after her death he married her sister, Mary Gladden. December 25, 1866; he died September 26. 1806. Amenzo, April 24. 1838, married Alzina Stratton, March 7, 1858 ; he is still living.
Ebenezer Darling, father of Grace (Darling) Sibley, born March 16. 1775. died October 9, 1815 : he married Rebecca Allen, who was born May 23. 1779. and died April 23, 1865 : to them were born four sons and five daugh- ters. viz. : Sarah, married Charles Sibley, born in Columbia county, New York, February 15. 1798, died in Napoli February 21, 1885: John, born September 15. 1799, died 1800: Allen, born April 11, 1801, died Tune 24. 1856: Phoebe, Forn April 3. 1803: Luther, born June 7. 1805: Dinah, born April 5. 1807 : Smyrna, born April 10, 1810, died September 5, 1856; William, born March 18, 1812: Rebecca, born December 25, 1814.
Claremont D. Sibley, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, is the son of Amenzo and Alzina (Straton) Sibley, and was born April 9, 1861, at Napoli, Catteraugus county, New York, where he received his primary education in the common schools, afterward attending the Chamberlain Institute at Ran- dolph, New York. When twenty years of age he entered the service of Hevenor Brothers as clerk in their department store, remaining with them nine years. On March 6, 1891, he entered into partnership with F. J. McAllister at Kinzna, Pennsylvania, where they conducted a furnishing store for two years. In 1892 they entered into business in New Kensington, being one of the pioneer firms of the town, and thenceforth their trade steadily increased. In conse- quence of this, in 1803. he consolidated both stores into one and built the fine store on the corner of Ninth street and Fourth avenue, which they now occuny and which is one of the best equipped stores of its kind in the county. Mr. Sib-
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ley is a member of Lodge No. 512, B. P. O. E. of New Kensington, and Lodge No. 242, Heptasophs, in which he has passed chairs. He also affiliates with. Lodge No. 533, F. O. E., of which he is now a trustee. In politics he is a staunch Republican. Mr. Sibley married Margaret, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Shea, of Salamanca, New York state, and they have one child, George WV., born July 12, 1894.
JAMES BUCHANAN BORLIN, a citizen of Greensburg, West- moreland county, Pennsylvania, who has been successfully engaged in the hotel and other business enterprises in Westmoreland county for a number of years, is a representative of one of the old and honored families of the state. The name as originally spelled was Borland, but the father of James Buchanan changed the form to Borlin.
James Borland, or Borlin, as he preferred to write his name, father of James Buchanan Borlin, was born in Salem township, January 19, 1820. He learned the trade of tanning, which he followed for a number of years in con- nection with the butcher business, and then engaged in the hotel business. His first venture in that line was the Western Inn (Cope House), and this was fol- lowed by the Harbaugh House, corner of Main and Pittsburg streets, and by The Exchange (New Fisher House). He removed to Chicago, Illinois, in 1864, where he conducted the Cass House, corner of Canal and Mitchell streets. He returned to Greensburg one year later and commenced business in the oil, livery and teaming lines, at Pit Hole. He built the Laird House in 1868 (burned in 1887), which he conducted successfully for a number of years. He was a large dealer in live stock of all kinds, part of his business consisting of taking horses overland to the state of Iowa. in the fifties, and he shipped horses and cattle to the New York and Philadelphia markets. He removed to Mc- Keesport in 1885, conducting the Jerome House there, then settling in Glen- wood, Pittsburg, in 1890, where, in association with his son, James Buchanan, he opened the Electric Hotel, which was a very profitable venture. He sold this in 1899 to his son-in-law, Charles A. Warfield, the present owner and pro- prietor, and returned to Greensburg, where his last days were spent, his death occurring September 26, 1899. He had been elected sheriff of Westmoreland county, in 1877, by the largest majority any candidate ever polled for any office in that county. He was a consistent member of the German Reformed church. He married (first) January 27, 1842, Hannah Reamer, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Kemp) Reamer, of Hempfield township. Jacob Reamer was one of the leading farmers of the township and owned a farm on the present site of Huff- town, on which he died. His father. Henry Reamer, owned three hundred acres of land at this place, including what is now known as the County and the Jerry Hammer farms. James Borlin had six children by this marriage :
I. Albert Sill, born April 4, 1843, a veteran of the Civil war. He en- listed in the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served under the following captains: Warden, Jordan, Newmyer and Alfred Robinson ; the name of the commanding general was John W. Geary. He was actively en- gaged in the following battles: Antietam, where he received a wound from a piece of shell, second battle of Bull Run, South Mountain, Chancellorsville, Bolivar Heights, Lookout Mountain, Gettysburg. Fredericksburg, the battle of the Wilderness, and a few minor skirmishes. He was honorably discharged in 1864. He married Elizabeth Steiner, and had children: Carrie, James C., Annie, married Daniel R. Ulery ; Bertie, Daniel R., and Emeline. 2. Eliza- beth Jane, married Simon B. Carpenter, of Oak Run, Shasta county, California, where she resides. 3. Jacob Reamer, married Julia Lahey, and had children :
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Lucy, married Michael Connolly ; Elizabeth, married Harry Lapman : James and Harry Laird. 4. Sarah Melissa, married David Hunter Kilgore, and had children : James Hunter, died in infancy ; David Kinkead, ( see sketch of John P. Kilgore). 5. Minerva Caroline, married Charles A. Warfield, of Howard county, Maryland, and has one child, Caroline Isabella. 6. Hannah Lucinda, married Edwin J. Gatchel, of New York City, and has children: J. Edwin, of New York City, married Ethel Kirk Fretts, daughter of Abraham O. and Mazie Fretts, of Greensburg, and they have one child-Katherine Kirk ; Min- erva Caroline, Alberta Marion, married George Michael, of Wisconsin ; Harry Lomison, Marguerite, Martin Hartzel, and Paul Hacke.
James Borlin married ( second) Caroline Regina Reamer, a sister of his de- ceased wife, and had children: 1. Agnes Cline, married Jesse Cunningham, ot Wilmerding, and they had children : Alice, Edgar, Mary, James B., Caroline, Agnes Selina, and Jesse. 2. James Buchanan, of whom later. 3. Amelia Anna, born April 23, 1859, died September 9, 1862. 4. Lucy Bigelow, mar- ried Robert C. Roberts, of Racine, Wisconsin, and has had two children : Nellie, deceased ; and Malcolm. 5. Mary Margaret, married William D. Wal- thour, and has children : Eleanor and William Borland. ( See sketch of W. D. Walthour. 6. Katherine Klingensmith, resides with her mother in Brushton. avenue. Greensburg.
James Buchanan Borlin, second child and eldest son of James and Caroline Regina (Reamer) Borlin, was born in the Western Inn ( Cope House) Greens- burg. Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1856. He was edu- cated in the Greensburg Academy, and in Duff's College, Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania. He commenced his business career by working in the capacity of clerk in a number of hotels-Laird House, Greensburg. Red Lion, Central Hotel (Griswold), Seventh Avenue Hotel, Pittsburg. He served as deputy sheriff under his father from 1879 to 1881. and was associated in business with him for three years in the Electric Hotel, Glenwood, Pittsburg. He very profitably managed the Fisher House at Greensburg from 1893 to 1901. He takes an active and intelligent interest in all the public affairs, is a man who keeps well abreast of the times, and is an ardent supporter of the Democratic party. He married, July 28, 1892, at Wheeling, Rev. A. Moore, Methodist Episcopal min- ister of Wheeling officiating, Louisa Belle Eastham, daughter of George and Mary Anna ( Kaempfer ) Eastham, of Lone Tree, Tyler county, West Virginia. They have had children : James Eastham, born July 3. 1893: Mary Caroline, August 28, 1894. died June 6, 1895: Albert Reamer, February 15, 1896, died August 13, 1897 : Alfred Adrian, March 19, 1898; Agnes Pauline, January 21, 1900.
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