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I. Charles Albert, who at the time of his death, March 31, 1882, was a student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, having previously been graduated from Washington and Jefferson College. 2. Lizzie Leasure, edu- cated in the public schools of the township, the Latrobe high school, and at the Washington Female Seminary. She is her father's home-keeper and faithful daughter. 3. Jessie Quindora, died March 15. 1863. aged one year. 4. John Hamilton, educated in the township schools, and is a graduate of the Latrobe high school. He is a farmer and manages the homestead farm, where he resides near his father. He married, October 12, 1893. Nettie Beam, and has three children : Charles Albert, John Leasure, and Julia Elizabeth. John Hamilton is a Democrat 5. Sarah Stella, educated in the same schools as her sister Lizzie. and became a professional nurse, being graduated from the West- ern Pennsylvania Hospital at Pittsburg, where she is now one of the head nurses. 6. Lillian May, educated in the same schools as her sisters, and in addition was for three years a student at a Chicago kindergarten college. She is now director of the indergarten department in the Bryant public school, in
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Chicago, Illinois. 7. William Chambers, educated in the public schools, and is a graduate of the Latrobe high school, Greensburg Seminary and Wyoming Seminary. After this thorough preparation he entered Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, taking a four years' course in mechanical engineering, and graduating in 1903. After leaving Cornell he was successively employed by the Osborne Harvester Company and the Cambria Steel Company. He is now assistant superintendent and mechanical engineer at the Iroquois Iron Works, Buffalo, New York. He married, October 30, 1905, Edith R. Graves, of Ithaca, New York, who is also a graduate of Cornell University.
WILLIAM MCCARTY. Andrew McCarty, grandfather of Will- iam McCarty, of Parnassus, was born in Ireland, and in 1840 emigrated with his wife to the United States, settling in Allegheny county, New York, where he devoted the remainder of his life to farming. His wife was Margaret Hag- gerty, and they had one child : Daniel, mentioned hereinafter. The death of Mr. McCarty occurred in 1850.
Daniel McCarty, son of Andrew and Margaret (Haggerty) McCarty, was born in 1836, in Ireland, and was but four years old when brought by his par- ents to the United States. For a few years he engaged in farming in Alle- gheny county, New York. During the Civil war he served for a time in the Union army, and in 1865 settled in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, where he worked on the railroad and also engaged in mining in the oil regions. He was a member of the Roman Catholic church. Mr. McCarty married Mary Mc- Dermott, and their children were : William, mentioned hereinafter ; Catharine, wife of John McGregor : Margaret, wife of Frederick Opperman; Andrew, of Virginia ; Edward W., of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania ; John, of Oil City ; Mary, widow of Jacob Fechter; and Daniel, of Oil City. Mr. McCarty, the father, died in 1900.
William McCarty, son of Daniel and Mary (McDermott) McCarty, was born May 10, 1859, in Allegheny county, New York, and received his educa- tion in the common schools. In early life he began working in the mines of Clarion county, where he was employed for six years. He then entered the service of the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company as a brakeman, and in 1882 was promoted to the position of conductor, which he has held continuously ever since. He belongs to the Order of Railroad Conductors, and he and his family are members of the Roman Catholic church. Mr. McCaarty married Ellen Horne, and their children were: Daniel B., born September II, 1888, now learning civil engineering : Mary E., born August 27, 1895, died Novem- ber 18, 1904 ; and Elizabeth Virginia, born November 24, 1897. Mrs. McCarty is the daughter of Michael and Ellen Horne, and the granddaughter of Ed- ward and Nancy Horne, the latter couple having emigrated from Ireland in 1848 and settled in Vermont. Michael and Ellen Horne were also Irish im- migrants.
WALTER E. ROUTSON, general manager of the handle factory of Boucher, Huff & Company, at Ligonier, was born in Ohio, June 29, 1879, and is a representative of a pioneer family of that state. His paternal grand- father, Jacob Routson, was born in that state, where he followed farming throughout his business career. He had thirteen children: Samuel; Ora ; Joseph ; Ellen, the wife of Frank Branson ; Harriett, deceased wife of Isaiah Finefrock ; Eliza, wife of Daniel Swank; William; and four who died in in- fancy.
Ora Routson, father of Walter E. Routson, was born in Bloomington,
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Ohio, in 1856, and in early life worked on his father's farm. Later he was connected with the grocery business for several years, and subsequently was in the employ of the Standard Oil Company as pressman for nine years. Since that time he has engaged in business as a carpenter. He married Miss Jennie Hupp, and they have five children : Walter; Ernest; Taswell; Myrtle, wife of Samuel Cain ; and Ada Alice.
Walter Routson largely acquired his education in night schools, for neces- sity compelled his earning his own living from the time he was ten years of age. He began working in a handle factory, and has since been connected with similar enterprises, mastering the business in all of its departments, as his ability won him promotion from one position to another. In March, 1902, he entered the employ of Boucher, Huff & Company, as general manager of their handle factory in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, and by close application and unre- mitting diligence has developed this into a profitable, productive enterprise. He married Bessie Lusk, and they now have three children : Margaret, born March 22, 1901 ; James, born March 27, 1902 ; and Forest Harold, September 23, 1904.
EDWARD C. LAUFFER, a farmer of Penn township, Westmore- land county, Pennsylvania, a son of Jacob F. and Susanna (Cribbs) Lauffer, was born in Penn township, October 10, 1854.
Henry Lauffer (grandfather) was a farmer by occupation. His wife was a Miss Gress, and their children were: Hannah, Mary Ann, John, Jacob F., Samuel and Simion.
Jacob F. Lauffer (father) was born in 1822, and is still living, well and active, (1905). He is by occupation a farmer, and was an elder in the Re- formed church. He married Susanna Cribbs, a daughter of Christian Cribbs. Mrs. Lauffer was born in 1824 and died in 1891. The children of this mar- riage were : Priscilla, married Jacob Fry, ten children ; she died in 1904; Mary, wife of Z. Brinker, five children: Henry, married Josephine Beamer ; four children; Hannah, wife of James Steele, and mother of one child: Edward, mentioned hereinafter; Margaret, married Aaron Bushyeager, five children ; Sadie, wife of James Beamer, and mother of two children; Nettie, married Elijah Bushycarer, eight children : William, missionary in France ; Oliver, was shot while hunting.
Edward C. Lauffer follows the quiet but useful occupation of a farmer, and has achieved the most gratifying success in this line. He is the owner of a farm in Penn township, comprising eighty-five acres of well located land. This he has brought to a high state of cultivation and improvement, and it compares favorably with the finest farms in the county. In politics Mr. Lauffer accords allegiance to the Republican party, and in religious faith is a member of the Reformed church, in which he has been a deacon for seven years. Edward C. Lauffer married, June 24, 1880, Salome M. Waughaman, a daughter of Jesse and Frances ( Smith) Waugaman, and one of eleven chil- dren, viz: George, Albert, David, Sarah, Becky, Salome, (Mrs. Lauffer) ; Lucy, Ellen, Elizabeth Lydia and Laura. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lauffer have children : Harry G., born December 2, 1881; Jesse H., born June 27, 1883, is now attending the Franklin Marshall College at Lancaster, Pennsylvania ; Lloyd, born June 13, 1885 : Joseph I., born April 2, 1887 ; Clarence, born April 29, 1889: Mase, born January 15, 1801: Paul, born August 19. 1892, died September 4 1894: Lulu, born November 1, 1894; Edith, born September 2, 1896, died December 23, 1896: \della, born March 27, 1901.
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NATHAN N. FULLERTON. Among those prominently identi- fied with the varied interests of Sewickley township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, may be mentioned the name of Nathan N. Fullerton, a native of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, born January 4, 1844.
The paternal grandparents of Nathan N. Fullerton were William and Jane Fullerton, natives of Scotland, who emigrated to the United States in early life and who were united in marriage in the state of Ohio. Among their children was a son, Henry A., father of Nathan N. Fullerton, who was born in Ohio, reared and educated there, and also learned the trades of shoemaker and miller. Prior to his marriage he came to Westmoreland county, Pennsyl- vania, and conducted a grist mill near Buena Vista and later at Millville. He then accepted a position with the C. P. Markle and S. B. Markle paper mills, remaining in their employ up to his decease in 1851, which was the result of injuries received by being caught in the machinery. He was a staunch Whig in politics, influential in the councils of the party, but never an office-seeker. Throughout the greater part of his lifetime he was an active worker in the Meth- odist Episcopal church. By his marriage to Louisa Newlin, daughter of Nathan Newlin, a farmer of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, eight children were born, five of whom survive, namely: Nathan N., mentioned hereinafter ; Byram M., whose personal sketch follows in the work ; Margaret J., wife of Isaac Thomas, of Fairmount, Westmoreland county ; Henry B., of Washing- ton, Indiana ; and Mary, of Mt. Washington, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Nathan N. Fullerton was but twelve years of age when deprived by death of his father, and being the eldest of eight children he remained at home and assumed a portion of the burden of rearing the family, which was left in straightened circumstances, and the responsibility was no small one for a bov of such tender years. The summer following his father's death Nathan N. worked in the paper mills, but during the winter of that year attended school. The following spring he went to work on a farm, and this occupation proving congenial he decided to adopt it for his life work. He enlisted August 14. 1862, in Company A, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, serving until the close of the war and his record is an unusual one. He parti- cipated in thirty-three battles and skirmishes, was four times struck by minie balls and fragments of shells but never disabled, and served every day with his regiment up to the surrender of General Lee. He was then promoted to the rank of orderly under General Pearson, with whom he served up to his dis- charge in June, 1865. Mr. Fullerton was never arrested nor served a day in the hospital during his service, which was indeed a most remarkable record. After his return from the war he again took up farming, working for his form- er employer, Samuel Smith, he having entered his employ in 1859. Ten years after the latter date Mr. Smith became the father-in-law of Mr. Fullerton, and after his marriage Mr. Fullerton assumed charge of the property and farmed the same up to the death of Mr. Smith, when a portion of the farm reverted to Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, who now reside on the same. For one term Mr. Fullerton served as tax collector of Sewickley township, filled a similar period as auditor, and at the present time ( 1905) is acting in the capacity of assessor and president of the school board of Sewickley township. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Baptist church, in which he served many years as trustee ; member of J. W. Greenawalt Post, No. 399, Grand Army of the Republic, of Cowansburg, in which he served as commander for a period of between ten and twelve years. Mr. Fullerton married, February 14. 1869. Margaret Smith, daughter of the late Samuel Smith, and four children were the issue, two of whom are living at the present time : Edward, chief engineer
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for the Pennsylvania Gas Coal Company, at Blackburn ; and Samuel, a carpen- ter, who resides at home.
BYRAM M. FULLERTON, one of the active and intelligent citi- zens of Sewickley township, as well as one of its most substantial farmers, was born at Millville, Sewickley township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, July 21. 1846, son of Henry A. and Louisa (Newlin) Fullerton, and grandson of William and Jane Fullerton, the personal history of whom appears in the preceding sketch.
Byram M. Fullerton was about eight years of age when his father was killed by the machinery in the mill at Millgrove, Pennsylvania, where he was employed, and owing to this sad occurrence he received but a limited education. At this early age he worked for Archie MeGrew, and some two years later went to the family of Charles Goehring, residents in the vicinity of Irwin, where he resided some eight years. In 1863 he enlisted in Company K, Fif- teenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, known as the Anderson Cavalry, and served with them until the close of hostilities, being discharged at Nashville, Tennessee, in June, 1865. Upon his return to civil life he again took up his residence in Irwin, and the following year was employed in the brickyards at that place. He then went to work on the farm of Henry Greenawalt, of Sewickley town- ship, who subsequently became his father-in-law, and after his marriage he removed to the upped end of the farm and cultivated a portion of the estate up to the death of Mr. Greenawalt, at which time the division of the farm was made and Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton received ninety-four acres thereof as their share of the property. The ground is well improved and highly cultivated, and by using the latest improved machinery is made to yield a bountiful harvest, the products being readily disposed of in the nearby markets. Mr. Fullerton has served as supervisor of the township for sixteen years, and has also been a member of the school board for a number of years. He is a Baptist in re- ligion, a Republican in politics, and affiliates with Colonel J. W. Greenawalt Post No. 399. Grand Army of the Republic, of Cowansburg. Mr. Fullerton married November 10, 1870, Martha Greenawalt, daughter of the late Henry Greenawalt, of Sewickley township. Seven children were born to them, three of whom survive: Jacob, who assists his father in the management of the farm : he married Estella Derr. Henry, a machinist, resides at Smithton, Penn- sylvania : he married Bertha Lee. Anna, who resides at home.
JESSE LEE SNIVELY, an enterprising and highly esteemed resi- dent of North Irwin, born May 20, 1865, at Acme, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, is a son of Hiram Snively, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work.
His education was received in the common schools adjacent to his home. At the age of twelve years he went to live with his grandparents on their farm, one and a half miles from Mammoth, and here he remained until he attained the age of fifteen years, working and attending the schools, and then returned to his home and resided there for one year. At the age of seventeen he went to Ohio, braking on the Cleveland & Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania rail- road. Abandoning this he returned to his home, but after a short period of time went to West Virginia, near Kiser, and was employed with a railway construction company. Later he was employed for some time with a steam saw mill at Welty, near Mammoth, after which he procured a position firing on the Pennsylvania railroad, out of Derry, running to Altoona. This position he held for eleven years, coming to Irwin, June 13, 1888. on a night run. For
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three years he was the oldest fireman on the Pittsburg division, one of which was spent on construction train work. He received his promotion to the post of engineer, December 26, 1898, running on a coal train from Irwin to Derry. His present run is a day passenger from Irwin to Greensburg by the way of Youghiogheny and Hempfield branches. He is also interested in the real estate business in Irwin and in Pitcairn, in the latter place having an interest in the firm of Shultz & Enyeart, dry goods and groceries, and interested in the Su- perior White Oak Lumber Company. Mr. Snively is a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal church, and has served on the official board for more than ten years. He is a Democrat in politics, and a councilman in North Irwin, whither he moved in 1901, and purchased his present residence. He is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Mr. Snively married, April 26, 1892, Ruth Twigger, daughter of William and Mary (Armstrong) Twigger, of Irwin, Pennsylvania. They have one child, Mary Alta, born July 8, 1894.
JOHN R. LARIMER, a capable and prosperous farmer of the present generation in Stahlstown, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, is a descendent of a family which has cultivated the soil of Pennsylvania for many generations.
Thomas Larimer, the great-grandfather of John R. Larimer, was a farmer in Donegal, and was the father of a numerous family, one of whom was Rob- ert S.
Robert S. Larimer, son of Thomas Larimer, was also a farmer, and became the owner of considerable property in Donegal township. He was a supporter of Democratic principles, an elder in the United Presbyterian church. He married Eleanor Williams, and their children were: William Y., a farmer in Kansas ; Elizabeth, married Emmanuel Auman ; Rachel,married Jacob Barkley : David, deceased, was a veteran of the great war; Richard WV., died in Libby prison during the war ; Thomas, migrated to the west, and of whom all trace has been lost; Sarah Jane, died at the age of nineteen years ; Mary, married Wesley Morrison ; and Simon S., of whom later. Robert S. Larimer died in 1890, aged eighty-four years; his wife died in 1880, at the age of seventy-two years.
Simon S. Larimer, youngest child of Robert S. and Eleanor ( Williams) Larimer, was born on the home farm in 1845. He had a thorough and practi- cal knowledge of farming and adopted this as his life vocation. He is a Dem- ocrat in politics, and has served his township as assessor. He is a member of the United Presbyterian church, of which he is an elder. He married, 1868, Mary Amanda Miller, daughter of Jacob and Polly (Nedrow) Miller, and their children are: John R., of whom later ; Lizzie, married Nathan J. Mon- ticue, and has nine children ; Elmer E., a prosperous merchant of Stahlstown, married Prissie Kooser, and has two children.
John R. Larimer, eldest child of Simon S. and Mary Amanda (Miller) Larimer, was born in Cook township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1869. He was educated in the public schools of Donegal township. Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He remained on the home farm, assist- ing his father, until his marriage at the age of twenty-two, when he bought a farm of one hundred acres, one and one-half miles east of Stahlstown, and this he has since cultivated and on it made his home. He is an experienced and intelligent farmer, and the condition of his farm shows that it is control- led by a master hand. Following family practice, Mr. Larimer is a member of the United Presbyterian church, and affiliates with the Democratic party. He married, June II, 1891, Sadie Monticue, born December 26, 1869.
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daughter of Edward and Missouri (Kastner) Monticue. Edward Monticue served with honor in the union army during the civil war. The children of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Larimer are: Ina, born September 5, 1892; Simon, April 24, 1895; Earlin, July 12, 1897; and Ivan MI., July 29, 1901.
ALBERT GRANT WENGERT, a valued and highly respected citizen of Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, who holds a responsible position in the Kelly & Jones works, and is a school director in his district, is a representative of an honored family of Pennsylvania, which traces its ancestry to Germany.
Peter Wengert, grandfather of Albert Grant Wengert, and the pioneer ancestor of the family in America, was born in Germany, and emigrated to the United States in the early forties. He settled in Allegheny county, Penn- . sylvania, near Pittsburg, where he followed his trade of tailoring for a number of years. He then removed to Westmoreland county, locating on a farm in Ligonier township, in the Ligonier valley, and after a few years removed to Monroe county, Ohio, where he was occupied with farming for several years. He returned to Westmoreland county in 1858,and settled on a farm in Unity township. He married Louisa Schultz, in Germany, and had eight children :
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Mary Anna, born in Germany, married Jacob Wineman, a farmer of
Hempfield township, and had children: Louisa and Jolin. 2. Barbara, born in Germany, died in 1889. 3. Philip, a farmer of Hempfield township, married (first) Catherine Uber, and had children: Clark Harrison, Albert Philip, and Charles Arter. Married (second) Caroline Uber, a sister of his deceased wife, and had children: Minnie Eva, Ira Wesley, and Carrie Sa- lome, who died at the age of two years. He married (third) Mary Spindler, and they had children: Katherine Ada, who died at the age of eight years; Thomas Peter; and Clarence Harvey. 4. Henry, of whom later. 5. Ja- cob, died at the age of three years. 6. Michael, married (first) Ada Pool, daugliter of Joseph and Caroline ( Baker) Pool, farmers of Hempfield town- ship. He married (second) Capitola Hinkle, and they reside at Hopwood, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. 7. Louisa, married Daniel Armbrust, of Hempfield township, and they have ten children: Luella, married William Smith; Mary, married Charles Wengert: Sadie, deceased; Irene, deccased : George, Anna, John, Lucian, deceased; Ruth and Charles. 8. Margaret, single, resides in Pittsburg.
Henry Wengert, second son and fourth child of Peter and Louisa ( Schultz) Wengert, was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, September 29. 1847. He was educated in the district schools in Monroe county, Ohio, and returned with his father in the fall of 1858 to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where he followed the occupation of farming for the greater part of his life. He is a man of considerable influence in his community. affiliates with the Republican party, and has served in the common council of the borough of Hufftown for two terms. He is a member of the Baptist church. He married. November 5. 1872. Mary Emma Momyer, daughter of Joseph C. and Louisa ( Blackston) Momyer, of Unity townshy; and they have five children : Albert Grant, of whom later ; Della, born August 15, 1876, married Dallas Atkinson, who died February 1, 1899, and they had one child, Ralph, born September 12, 1807: George Robert, born February 28. 18,8; Married Emily Aman : Mary Elizabeth, married Cyrus Hayden, son of John R. Hayden ( see John R. Hayden sketch), and they have one child, I onise Dorethy, born December 24, 1901: Jessie Laura, born September 5, 1886.
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Albert Grant Wengert, eldest child of Henry and Mary Emma ( Mom- yer) Wengert, was born in Hempfield township, borough of Youngwood, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1873: He was educated at Todd's, White's and Barnhart's schoolhouses in Hempfield township. For five years he was engaged in various positions in the general store, and then as clerk in Kelly & Jones works, where he has been for the past three years, and where his services are duly appreciated. He is a member of the Baptist church, and is one of the most popular young men of his neighborhood. He is active in his support of the Republican party, and has served several terms as director of the schools of Hufftown, where he resides. He married, Octo- ber 18, 1898, Lorena B. Easton, born October 18, 1874, died May 4, 1902. daughter of William and Anna (Lynch) Easton, of Elizabeth, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and had two children: Mary Lorena, born January 4, 1900, and a child that died in infancy.
PHILIP H. WALTHOUR. Among the county's highly respected citizens must be numbered Philip H. Walthour, of Greensburg. Both the paternal and maternal grandparents of Mr. Walthour emigrated from Ger- many at least a century ago. His father, Conrad Walthour, was born in Westmoreland county, and married Christina Heck, a native of the same county, where their descendants have continued to reside.
Philip H. Walthour, son of Conrad and Christina (Heck) Walthour, was born October 24, 1825, in Hempfield township, and has always lived in his native county. His neighbors testified to the esteem and confidence in which they held him by electing him to the office of school trustee, the duties of which position he discharged in the most creditable and satisfactory manner. His political affiliations are with the Democratic party, and he is a member of the Lutheran church. Mr. Walthour married in 1855, Hannah Densmore, and their children were: Angeline, William, John Taylor, Lewis, Ida May, and Clarkson F. Mrs. Walthour was born March 27, 1837, in Westmoreland county, and was a daughter of John and Susan (Greenewalt) Densmore. Her grandparents came from Germany. Her death occurred June 26, 1903, an event which deprived her husband and children of a most excellent wife and mother.
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