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Christopher Lobingier, father of Mrs. Painter, was a son of Christopher Lobingier, who came from Mecklenburg, Germany, and settled in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. Christopher Lobingier, Jr., settled in Mount Pleas- ant township in 1772, was a member of the Pennsylvania constitutional con- vention of 1776, and of the house of representatives from 1791 to 1793. In 1766 he married Elizabeth Mueller, by whom he had eight children : John. Christopher, Catharine, Barbara, Mary, Elizabeth, Susan and George. Mr. Lobingier died July 4. 1798. and was buried at the Presbyterian meeting house near Pleasant Unity. His wife died at Stoystown, Somerset county. September 15, 1815, aged seventy-one years.
George Painter, fourth son of Jacob and Catharine ( Lobingier ) Painter. was born on the farm in Hempfield township, Westmoreland county, Penn- sylvania, in 1803. During the civil war he removed to the Dinsmore (or Sloan ) farm, where he conducted extensive operations. He married Polly Stantz, daughter of Jacob and Mary ( Miller) Stantz, of Chambersburg. Virginia, and their children were: Jacob, born January 6, 1833, mentioned hereinafter ; Israel, born August 12, 1834. mentioned hereinafter ; Benjamin, born April 1, 1836, was a member of the Fifth Wisconsin Volunteers, and died about 1879: and Lemuel. born April 30, 1838, resides in Possum Hol- low. North Huntingdon township. Mrs. Painter, the mother of these child- ren, died August 12. 1840. In 1844 George Painter married for his second wife Anna Margaret Baughman, daughter of John Baughman, and their children were: Catherine. married Jacob Blyholder, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work: Christopher, married Catherine Kuntz, and resides in Missouri ; and George, married Alice Cope, and resides in North Huntingdon township. George Painter, father of these children, died in 1890.
Jacob and Israel Painter. the two eldest sons of George and Polly (Stantz) Painter, received a common school education. They farmed with their father, who moved to their present farm in 1841: During the war the father removed to the Dinsmore farm, where his son George Painter now resides, leaving the old homestead to Jacob and Israel. These two brothers have since resided continuously on this farm, which they have cultivated to a high state of perfection. Both are members of the Lutheran church, Jacob serving in the capacity of deacon at Irwin, and Israel at Adamsburg. They are Democrats in politics. Jacob casting his first vote for President Buchanan. Israel Painter is unmarried. Jacob Painter married. October 25. 1860, Hetty Louisa Kunkle, born March 17, 1841, daughter of John L. and Sarah ( Baughman) Kunkle, of Westmoreland county. Their children are: George W., born March 21, 1862, mentioned hereinafter; John L., born September 28, 1864, unmarried, resides at Irwin : Charles, born September 13. 1867,
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unmarried, resides at home : William, born April 23, 1871, died January 29 .. 1877. aged six years ; Sarah Annie Margaret, born August 13, 1874, became the wife of Jolin Walton, of Pitcairn, Pennsylvania ; David, born June 15, 1877. married Ada L. Silvis, and lives at the old homestead ; Mary, born Feb- ruary 7, 1882, unmarried, resides at home ; and Janet, born March 20, 1884, unmarried, resides at home.
George W. Painter, eldest son of Jacob and Hetty Louisa ( Kunkle) Painter, was born March 21, 1862. He received a common school education, and from the completion of his studies until he was twenty-two years of age farmed on his father's place. He then went to Kansas, located at Hazleton, and there engaged in the livery business and stock raising. After a residence of three years in that state he moved to Missouri, near Kansas City, and there followed farming and the raising of fine stock. He then returned to Penn- sylvania and settled on the Michael Clohessy farm, near Irwin, remaining four years. The following two years he engaged in the feed business in Irwin, after which he purchased his present farm, which is located in the vicinity of Irwin and consists of sixty-seven acres of productive land. The stone dwelling thereon is nearly a hundred years old. Mr. Painter is a member of the Presbyterian church, a member of the Royal Arcanum, and a Democrat in politics. He served as school director of his township for two terms, rendering valuable and efficient service. He married, November 24,. 1887, Margaret H. Fullerton, daughter of John and Margaret (Gaut) Ful- lerton, of South Huntingdon township. The issue of this marriage is as follows: John Thurman, born November 1, 1888: William Clymer, June 19, 1890: Margaret Jane, November II, 1894: Grace, December 1, 1896, died at the age of three months; Mabel Esther, May 2, 1898; and Wayne Fuller- ton, November 9, 1900.
BENDER FAMILY. The pioneer ancestor of the Bender family in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, was Jacob Bender, a native of Adams county, Pennsylvania, born March 16, 1796, who purchased a farm south- west of Greensburg, whereon he resided and which he operated successfully until his death. His wife, Catherine (Bush) Bender, whom he married De- cember 24. 1818, and who died February 10, 1854. aged fifty-seven years, bore him the following children : Isaac, July 6, 1820, mentioned hereinafter : Henry, June 14. 1822; David, April 8, 1824; Elizabeth, August 2, 1826, unmarried, resides in the vicinity of Irwin ; Hannah Sarah, July 4, 1828; Catherine, October 19, 1830, wife of a Mr. Milliron : Solomon, December 7, 1832; Mary Ann, October 11, 1834, wife of Reuben Henry ; and Benjamin, December 17, 1836, married Caroline Sunsil, and resides near Greensburg.
Isaac Bender, eldest son and child of Jacob and Catherine (Bush) Bender, was born July 6, 1820. He learned the trade of carpenter, which he followed for many years near Harrison City in addition to farming one of his father's farms. Later in life he rented different farms and pursued that vocation for the remainder of his active career. He married Mary Ann Heintzleman, daughter of Christopher and Mary Ann (Overcash) Heintzleman, and their children were: Sarah Ann, born January 6, 1846, deceased; Henry A., born August 7, 1847, deceased ; Joseph, born March 6, 1850, mentioned hereinafter ; Mary Ann, born April 4. 1852, deceased : Catherine E. born December 18, 1854, unmarried, resides near Irwin : Jacob, born February 18, 1856, deceased ; Lucy Ann, born April 2, 1859, deceased ; Samuel, born April 19, 1863, men- tioned hereinafter ; and John I., born April 4, 1866, married Anna Jacobs, and
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resides near Jeannette. Isaac Bender (father ) died July 6, 1897, aged exactly seventy-seven years. His wife died March 12, 1893, aged seventy years.
Joseph Bender, second son of Isaac and Mary Ann (Heintzleman) Ben- der, was born at Slabtown, near Harrison City, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1850. He received a common school education and farmed until the age of thirty- five, when he learned the trade of carpenter, later taking up contracting and building, which he has followed ever since. Ile came to Irwin about 1887, built his present home, and has resided there continuously since that date, a period of almost twenty years. He is a member of the Reformed church, and served as a member of the church committee for twelve years. He is a Dem- ocrat in politics. Joseph Bender married, June 9, 1896, Margaret E. (Elgin) Laughlin, daughter of James and Mary Elizabeth ( McCord) Elgin, of Clarion county, and widow of John L. Laughlin, who died May 12, 1893. By her mar- riage to Mr. Laughlin she was the mother of three children : Lucy Gertrude, born June 14, 1887; Sarah Cornelius, born November 30, 1888; and John L., Jr., born December 17, 1893. These children live with Mr. and Mrs. Bender in Fairmount, near Irwin. Mrs. Bender's great-great-grandfather McCord went from Ireland to Scotland, and from thence emigrated to America, settling in Delaware. His son was with General Washington at Valley Forge. Joseph McCord, son of the Revolutionary soldier, and grandfather of Mrs. Bender, came to Clarion county as manager of some of the first ore furnaces there, and his descendants are still to be found there.
Samuel Bender, fourth son of Isaac and Mary Ann ( Heintzleman) Ben- der, was born April 19, 1863, about half a mile from Murrysville, Pennsyl- vania. He received a common school education and farmed with his father until about 1893, when he began farming on his own account. He has resided in the vicinity of Irwin for more than two decades, and has been on his present farm, which is located just outside of the borough on the east, for four years. He is successful in his operations and both he and his brother are classed among the representative citizens of that section of the county. He holds membership in the Reformed church, and his political allegiance is given to the Democratic party. Samuel Bender married, March 19, 1896, Emma Ma- tilda Stump, of Penn township, Westmoreland county, born March 10, 1872, daughter of Henry and Carolina (Wolf) Stump. Their children are: John Lang. born November 1, 1896; Catherine Elizabeth, born June 20, 1898 ; Mary Margaret born March 22, 1900, died June 18, 1900; Emma Caroline, born May 25, 1901 ; Samuel Henry, born September 17, 1902, died October 14, 1902; and Howard Warden, born November 25, 1903, died September 13, 1904.
BARTON H. TOWNSEND, a roller in the American Sheet Steel and Tin Plate Company, at Vandergrift, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvama, and a well known and popular citizen of Vandergrift, is a descendant of one of the pioneer families of Pennsylvania, and one that has a remarkably inter- esting history.
(I) Isaac Townsend, the founder of the family in America, and the great-grandfather of Barton H. Townsend, emigrated to America, probably between 1770 and 1780, prior to the burning of Hannastown. He was one of three brothers who came to America and settled in the vicinty of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. One of these later settled near Philadelphia, Pa., and Isaac Townsend acquired some three or four hundred acres of the lands near Salina, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, which had been granted to the colonies. This was in the early days of the settlement, when the land was filled
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with Indians. Isaac Townsend cleared this land, converted it into a farm, and built a cabin upon it. The night before the burning of Hannastown, the In- dians, on their way to this work of destruction, encamped within a short dis- tance of the Townsend cabin. Both Isaac Townsend and his wife died on this homestead farm. Isaac Townsend married Rachel King and raised a family. Mrs. Townsend was called by the Indians, "The pretty black-eyed squaw." She was in great fear of them and when they came, as they frequently did, on their begging expeditions, she always acceded to their demands and made liberal donations.
(II) Isaac Townsend, son of Isaac and Rachel (King) Townsend, was born on the farm, near Salina, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, but in 1833. he went to Westmoreland county. Pennsylvania, and purchased the farm on which Vandergrift now stands. Later he purchased the Speers farm adjoin- ing his. thus making his farm one of about two hundred acres. He spent the remainder of his life on this farm, cultivating it diligently, and died there in his seventy-ninth year. Isaac Townsend (2) married Mary Hill and had a number of children: John H., Eden, Darius, Elizabeth, Levi, Delilah, Mary, Rachel, and Susan.
(III) John H. Townsend, son of Isaac and Mary ( Hill) Townsend, was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, across the river from Salina, in 1819. He received as good an education as was customary in those days, and at the age of fourteen removed with his father to the farm on the present site of Van- dergrift. This place was his home until his death, which occurred in 1885. Upon the death of his father he purchased from the other heirs their interest in the estate. The first grist mill ever built in this section of the country was built in Apollo by Mr. Townsend and his brother Eden, and was controlled by them for many years, with large profits. After the building of the railroad through his farm, Mr. Townsend frequently predicted that a town and manu- facturing plant would ultimately be erected on the site of his farm, but he did not live to see his predictions verified. After his death the farm was sold by the heirs to E. M. Hukel, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, who later sold it to the Apollo Iron and Steel Company. Mr. Townsend was a Democrat in politics and served one term of three years as county commissioner. This is the only time he sought or held publie office. He cultivated his farm in a very practical and scientific manner for those days, and was considered one of the most suc- cessful farmers in that section of the country. Mr. Townsend married Eliza Burkett and they were the parents of nine children, of whom five are now ( 1906) living, as follows: 1. Newton E., resides in Apollo. 2. Frank R., re- sides in Beatty Station, Pennsylvania. 3. Eaton A., resides in Apollo, Penn- sylvania. 4. Barton H., of whom a sketch is appended. 5. Grant B., resident of Apollo, Pennsylvania.
(IV) Barton H. Townsend, fourth child and son of the surviving child- ren of John H. (3) and Eliza ( Burkett) Townsend, was born on the present site of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, June 23, 1863. He spent the early years of his life on his father's farm, meanwhile acquiring a good education in the pub- lic schools of that section. Upon the death of his father the management of the farm fell into his hands, and he showed a great amount of executive ability, and conducted everything connected with it until the sale of the place in 1889. In the following spring he went to Apollo, Pennsylvania, and sought and ob- tained a position in the mills of the Apollo Iron and Steel Company, com- mencing at the bottom of the ladder as a laborer. Beginning in this way, how- ever, enabled him to acquire a thorough and practical knowledge from the very start. His faithful performance of the duties entrusted to him soon brought
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about his advancement to the position of assistant heater in the hammer shop. and shortly after as assistant to the heater in the bar mill. From this he was promoted to be heater in the bar mill. After the strike of 1893 he was trans- ferred to the sheet mills and was made a pair-heater and soon advanced to be sheet-heater. In November, 1896, upon the opening of the new mills in Van- dergrift, Mr. Townsend was transferred to them, and was one of the first resi- dents of that town. He thus became a resident of a city which had been erect- ed on the site of the farm on which he had been born and reared. In 1899 he was advanced to his present position of sheet-roller, and his services are highly valued by the company in which he is employed. Mr. Townsend is a man of great determination and force of character, and these qualities have enabled him to make such rapid strides in his calling. He is well liked by his fellow ·employes and has many friends in the town of Vandergrift. He is independ- ent in his political opinions, casting his vote for the candidate whom he thinks most suitable for the office to be filled. He has served on the com- mittee on streets for one term, and on February 20, 1906, was elected burgess of Vandergrift, to serve a term of three years. He is a member of the First Lutheran church, and also of Vandergrift Lodge, No. 1116, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Vandergrift Council, No. 1781. Royal Arcanum. He was also a member of the first town council of the borough of Vandergrift. He married, March 8. 1886. Ada J. Burkett, daughter of George W. and Mary ( Schall) Burkett, of Leechburg. To Mr. and Mrs. Barton H. Townsend were born the following named children: Rex E .. deceased ; Grant B., deceased : Veryl M. : Mary E.
FRANK R. ALTER. The family of which Frank R. Alter, of Parnassus, is a representative, had its origin in Holland. Jacob Alter sailed from Rotterdam in the ship "Beulah" and was qualified as a citizen in Phila- delphia. September 10, 1753. During the war of the Revolution he served in the Second Battalion, Pennsylvania Line, United States Infantry. He mar- ried, between 1760 and 1767. Margaret, daughter of Henry and Veronica (Graafe ) Landis, and their children were: Veronica, born October 9. 1769, wife of Lawrence La Fever : John. born September 13, 1771, married Helenor Sheets : Jacob, born January 1. 1773, married Elizabeth Foutz: David, men- tioned hereinafter: Esther, born February 28, 1777. wife of Michael Baer : Samuel, born March 17. 1779. died young : Susanna, born October 30. 1780. wife of Joseph Ritner ; Henry, born October 25, 1784, married Maria E. Rein- hard: Abraham, born March 13. 1787, died unmarried ; and Margaret, born March 23, 1700, wife of Mccullough.
David Alter, son of Jacob and Margaret (Landis) Alter, was born Feb- rnary 7. 1775. He purchased the Miller estate on which he erected the mills long known as the Alter mills, which for half a century ground large quantities oi grain for the inhabitants of an extensive area of the then thinly populated region. David Alter served in the War of 1812 with the rank of captain. His brother-in-law, Joseph Ritner, mentioned above, was at one time governor of Pennsylvania. Captain Alter married Elizabeth Mell. of German extraction, and they were the parents of a large family, among their sons heing Samuel, mentioned hereinafter : Jeremiah, and Joseph, father of Dr. David Alter.
Samuel Alter, son of David and Elizabeth ( Mell) Alter, was born in 1804, near Logan's Ferry, Allegheny county, and was a blacksmith by trade. As a young man he went to Allegheny township. Westmoreland county, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land and thereafter devoted him- sclf to farming. He served on the school board, was a Republican in politics
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and a steward and trustee in the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Alter married Ann Stotler, and their children were: David, Jeremiah, Jacob, men- tioned hereinafter : Samuel, Harvey, Emmanuel, Emma, wife of David Stotler ; and Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Coulter. The death of Mr. Alter, the father, occurred in 1882, when he had reached the age of seventy-eight.
Jacob Alter, son of Samuel and Ann ( Stotler) Alter, was born October 3. 1842, and was educated in the common schools. In 1862 he enlisted in Company I. One Hundred and Twenty-third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- teers, serving nine months. He returned home, but after a brief visit, re- enlisted for three years in Thompson Independent Battery, or Company C, Light Artillery, and served until the close of the war. He participated in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and received his dis- charge in Pittsburg, June 30, 1865. During the two or three years following he was employed as watchman on the steamers "Kenton" and "Leonidas." plying on the Mississippi river, and in 1869 became brakeman for the Alle- gheny Valley Railroad Company. While holding this position he suffered the loss of a limb, and one year later was made night watchman at the general offices of the company in Pittsburg. After serving in this capacity twelve years he solicited and obtained the position of freight and ticket agent and telegraph operator at Chartier's Station, a position which he held for many years, but has recently resigned, having retired from active labor. He be- longs to the Order of Railroad Telegraphers and the Railroad Station Agents Association, is a Republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Alter married, June 15, 1868, Jane H., daughter of Williams Morrison, of Allegheny township, and their children are: Frank R., mentioned hereinafter ; Fred S., Stella M., Nancy L., David, and John.
Frank R. Alter, son of Jacob and Jane H. (Morrison) Alter, was born April 3, 1871, in Pittsburg, where he received his education in the common schools. At the age of seventeen he entered the service of the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company as telegraph operator, and four years later was ap- pointed station agent at New Kensington, a position which he still retains. For six years he represented the borough of Parnassus in the council. He affiliated with Verona Lodge, No. 548, F. and A. M., of Verona, in which he passed all chairs, and his political allegiance is given to the Republican party. Mr. Alter married Minnie, daughter of Wesley and Susan Martin; three chil- dren : George H., Helen S., and John R.
FRANK D. SHEARER. Germany was the original home of the ancestors of Frank D. Shearer, of Braeburn, the emigrant progenitor being the father of Lewis Shearer, who was horn near Gettysburg, and was the father of John: Jacob: Peter, see forward; Mary, wife of William Ashbangh; and Sarah, wife of Peter Frantz.
Peter Shearer, son of Lewis Shearer, was born September 19, 1801, and passed his entire life as a farmer in Westmoreland county. He married Eliza- beth Snell, and their children were: Sarah, wife of Benjamin Younkins : Jane, wife of Nathan Arb; Arminta; Abigail, wife of Charles Abbott; Israel, see . forward : John : Hiram ; and Eli.
Israel Shearer, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Snell) Shearer, was born in Westmoreland county, and learned the ship carpenter's trade, which he follow- ed for a number of years, also engaging in farming. For twenty years he was an elder of the Natrona Presbyterian church, and at the time of his death was serving in a similar capacity in the Parnassus church. He married Alvira, daughter of Jackson and Elenore Sloan, and they were the parents of eleven
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children, two of whom died in infancy. The others were: William ; Ella, wife of A. J. Douglas ; Edwin, in business at Parnassus: Preslie, died at the age of twenty-seven : Frank D., see forward ; Harry L., engineer at Carnegie ; Lewis, of Pittsburg, also an engineer : Annie ; and Jesse, of New Kensington. The death of the father of the family occurred May 24, 1905.
Frank D. Shearer, son of Israel and Alvira (Sloan) Shearer, was born July 10. 1865. in Beaver county, and received his education in the schools of Parnassus. In early life he entered the service of the Allegheny Valley rail- road company, beginning as a fireman, and in 1889 was promoted to the posi- tion of engineer which he still retains. In February, 1905, he was elected school director. He belongs to the Bortherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Bainbridge Council, No. 128, Junior Order of I'nited American Mechanics. In politics he is a Republican. He and his family are members of the Natrona Presbyterian church. He married Louise, daughter of Henry and Maria (Cramer) Ellerman, and they are the parents of a son and a daughter : Rich- ard L., born June 4, 1893 ; and Helen M., born January 8, 1895.
THOMAS LAIRD, general superintendent of Hecla Coke Works, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, si a native of Glasgow, Scotland, born September 14, 1845, the son of Francis and Mary (Buchanan) Laird. He is the grandson of Thomas Laird. a native of the west of Scotland, who was born in 1792, and was a member of the Episcopal church. He married and had a son, Francis. Francis Laird, son of Thomas and father of the present Thomas Laird, was born July 12. 1824. in Glasgow, Scotland. He emigrated to America in 1848, settling in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. In his native country he followed the occupation of a printer, and it was his intention on coming to America to follow that occupation, but became interested in mining. From Schuylkill county he removed to Maryland, thence to Kanawha county, West Virginia, and while there held the position of mine boss for the Winifred Min- ing & Manufacturing Company. In 1861 he returned to Pennsylvania, lo- cating in Mercer county, thence to Trumbull county, Ohio, and subsequently settled in IIecla. Wesmoreland county. He married, in Scotland, Mary Buch- anan. a daughter of William Buchanan, a native of Dumbarton, Scotland, where he died when his daughter Mary was a small child. By this union, ten children were born, five sons and five daughters. The two eldest. Thomas, of whom later. and Elizabeth, were born in Scotland. Mrs. Laird's death oc- curred in Trumbull, Ohio. She was killed by being tramped upon by a horse. The death of Francis Laird occurred July 17, 1898.
Thomas Laird acquired his literary education in the common and high school of Sharon, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and entered into employment as a miner upon leaving school, continuing in this occupation until 1875. when he, associated with three others, engaged in the mining business in Mercer county, under the firm name of Baker, Snedden & Company. He continued in this business until 1882, when he removed to Armstrong county, where he was engaged in the coal business with Robert Snedden for one year, and then came to Allegheny county, and was for a time employed as clerk in the Pitts- burg Glass Works. In 1884 he removed to Westmoreland county, locating in Hecla, Mount Pleasant township. Here he assumed charge of the Hecla Mine & Coke Works, No. 1, which had been in operation for two years. At that time he had under his supervision 300 employees and 272 ovens. He gave his entire attention to this plant until the opening of Ilecla No. 2. in 1889. when he was given charge of this also, which has 500 ovens. In 1902, No. 3 Hecla was established, this also being added to Mr. Laird's superintendence,
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