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Elgy Chamberlain was reared on the farm and at the age of eighteen became a traveling salesman at which he continued for a short time. He spent several years operating a photograph gallery on the road, and then two years on the farm near Bentleyville with his grand- mother Slusher. He came to Brownsville and engaged in milling for twenty years, and two years after his mill was destroyed by fire removed to West Brownsville, where in 1899 he erected an ice plant, which he operated in partnership with S. H. Piersol under the firm name of Piersol and Chamberlain for three years. He then pur- chased his partner's interest in the business, which was afterward known as the Brownsville Storage and Ice
Company, and of which our subject was president, and his son, C. D. Chamberlain was secretary. Since 1906 he has dealt extensively in grain, feed, hay, poultry, meats, eggs, etc.
Mr. Chamberlain was joined in marriage with Cather- ine MeCary and to them have been born three children: Estella (Mrs. Lewis), Harry C. and Paul. Mr. Cham- berlain is identified with the Masonic order.
WILLIAM J. BURNS, M. D.,* one of the leading physicians of Washington, Pa., who has been identified with the medical profession of this city since 1900, was born in 1868 in West Middletown, Washington County, Pa.
William J. Burns was about five years old when his parents removed to a farm near Claysville, and after obtaining an education in the common schools of that locality and the Edinborough State Normal, he taught five terms in the Washington schools. He then entered and graduated from the medical department of the West- ern University of Pennsylvania, after which he located at Salem, Ohio, for three years, at the end of that time came to Washington, where he has since been located and has been highly successful in practice. He is a member of the State and county medical societies, is a member of the medical staff of the City Hospital, and is a stock- holder of the Union Block and also of the Real Estate Trust Company. He holds membership with the Third Presbyterian Church, and is a Knight Templar Mason.
December 21, 1898, Dr. Burns was united in marriage with Bridgetta Stilwagon, of Claysville, and they have five children : William J., Jr .; Johanna J .; Emma. E .; Charles C .; and Alexander.
THOMAS JEFFERSON FAWCETT,* one of Union Township's substantial farmers and well known citizens, owns 200 acres of valuable land, residing on one tract of ninety acres situated on the Houston Run road, and also cultivating the second tract, of 110 acres, lying near Gastonville. He was born in Peters Township, Washington County, Pa., February 28, 1843, and is a son of Jonas and Nancy (McLoney) Fawcett.
Jonas Fawcett was born in the Fawcett settlement, near Fawcett Church, in Washington County, where for many years he was in business as a saddler and harness- maker. He married Nancy McLoney, who was a daugh- ter of John McLoney, who died at Monongahela City, a grandson of an old pioneer, who entered government land in Peters Township. She lived to be seventy-nine years old but Jonas Fawcett died at the age of thirty-eight years. They had six children: Jane, now deceased, who was the wife of C. E. Patton; John, who lives in Kansas; James, who was a member of Co. D, 155th Pa. Vol. Inf., and was killed in the battle of the Wilderness,
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during the Civil War; Thomas J .; William, who resides in Peters Township; and Caroline, who is the widow of John Foster.
Thomas J. Fawcett was only eight years old when his father died. He went to school until he was twelve years old and then began the industrial battle, going out to work on farms until old enough to learn the carpenter's trade. He worked as a carpenter for a number of years before he turned his attention entirely to farming, set- tling then in Peters Township. In 1883 he purchased the farm on which he lives, from Larmer Gilmore and later, in partnership with the late Dr. Gambel, bought his other farm from the John Finley estate. In 1906 he secured the Gambel interest. Thus quietly and persist- ently Mr. Fawcett has made advances and has great rea- son to take satisfaction in the progress he has made, knowing that all he owns has been honestly earned by his own industry and good judgment, his efforts having been supplemented by the housewifely frugality and careful home management of his estimable wife.
On December 27, 1864, Mr. Fawcett was married to Miss Margaret Rue, a daughter of Archibald and Mary Jane (Herron) Rue. She was born at Webster, Pa., where her father was a shoemaker. To Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett the following children have been born: James, who married Nancy Dow, and has five children-Lewis, Walter, Mayme, Charles, Anna Jane; Nancy Jane, who married Lewis Gillingham, and has two children, Mar- garet and Olive; Mary; Martha; Archibald, who was accidentally drowned at the age of twelve years; John, who married Bella Lynn; William, who married Maude Kayle, has three children-Phyllis, Irene and Harold W .; Harry, who married Nora Smith, has two children -Lois Viola and Anna Margaret; Frank; Olive; and Howard, who died at the age of seventeen years. Mr. Fawcett casts his vote with the Democratic party.
LEWIS LEHLEY,* a highly respected retired citizen of McDonald, Pa., where he has resided for a number of years, is one of the experienced oil operators of this section who was identified with the practical part of oil production at a time when all the oil shooting in Wash- ington County had to be done at night. He was born at Rochester, N. Y., December 12, 1858, and is a son of John and Anna (Kiser) Lehley.
The parents of Mr. Lehley died in the State of New York. They had the following children: John, who is deceased; George; Lewis; Julius; Jacob; William; Mary, who married Edward Reid; Matilda, who married George Shipley; Emma, who married Herman Kloten; Jennie, who married Fred Sager; and Annie, who married Fred Aulbers.
Lewis Lehley attended the schools of Angola, N. Y., in his boyhood, after which he worked on a farm and
later on the railroad. He came to the Bradford oil fields when work there was most profitable, and continued in- terested in the oil industry as long as he remained an active business man. He has been a leading citizen of McDonald, serving on the board of health and also for several terms in the office of street commissioner. He is Democrat.
In November, 1881, Mr. Lehley was married to Miss Nettie Pair, a daughter of Thomas and Helen (Newton) Pair, residents of Erie County, N. Y. The Pair family included the following children: Clark, Rozell, Orrin, Leroy, Nettie and Clara, the last named being the wife of August Zieman. Mr. and Mrs. Lehley have one daughter, Mabel, who resides with her parents. Mr. Lehley and family are members of the First Presbyterian Church at McDonald. He is identified with the Elks at Carnegie and the Odd Fellows at McDonald.
THOMAS MILLER,* who is a member of an old and respected family of Mt. Pleasant Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, resides on a valuable farm of 214 acres, which is situated three and one-half miles south of Hickory. He was born on this farm, April 7, 1859, son of Andrew and Sarah (Stewart) Miller.
Andrew Miller was born also on this farm and died here in 1900. He erected all the buildings now standing on the place and developed the land into a very pro- ductive state. He was a valued citizen, being a man of integrity and excellent judgment, and at times he served in local offices. In politics he was a Democrat and in religious connection a faithful member of the United Presbyterian Church. On March 11, 1852, he married Sarah Stewart, a daughter of Archibald and Rebecca (Reed) Stewart, and they had the following children: Thomas, James B., A. S., John, Reed, William, Alvin, David and Jennie. Three sons of those above mentioned are deceased-John, William and David-and all three were physicians.
Thomas Miller attended the Mt. Pleasant Township schools with his brothers and sister, and has always re- sided on the home place, of which he is joint owner with his two brothers, James B. and Alvin, and his one sister, Jennie. A large part of the farm is under cultivation but some forty acres is in valuable timber. The coal has been sold to the Pittsburg Coal Company. He raises cattle and sheep, keeping about 160 head of the latter. In politics, Mr. Miller is a Republican, and at different times he has served acceptably in township offices. He is a member of the United Presbyterian Cross Roads Church. Mr. Miller has never married.
O. G. LEWIS, M. D.,* who has been successfully en- gaged in the practice of medicine at Washington, Pa., since 1906, was born in Morris Township, Washington
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County, Pennsylvania, in 1877, and is a son of Horner E. and Elizabeth (Jordan) Lewis.
Horner E. Lewis, who has been engaged in the grocery trade at Washington for the past thirteen yaers, was born also in Morris Township, in 1852, and is a son of William Lewis, who was the founder of the Lewis family in Pennsylvania. He was one of the first school teachers in Morris Township. The father of Dr. Lewis was engaged in farming and stock raising in Morris Township until middle life and then removed to Washing- ton. He married Miss Elizabeth Jordan and they have had five children born to them, as follows: Frank C., who is in the drug business at Washington; Margaret, who is a student at the Conservatory of Music at Cincinnati; S. Lorena, who is the wife of I. Newton Sprowls, principal of the Wylie Avenue School, and re- siding at No. 27 Hull avenue, Washington; Howard Earl, who is connected with the Washington Brick Com- pany; and O. G., who is the second born member of the family.
Dr. O. G. Lewis received his early educational training in the public schools of Morris Township and then spent three years at Waynesburg College. Previous to en- tering the medical department of the Western University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1904, Dr. Lewis spent two years teaching school at Morris. After completing his medical course, he located at Amity, Pa., and two years later came to Washington. He is a member of the surgical staff of the Washington Hospital, and is identified with a number of medical organizations, in- cluding the Washington County and the Pennsylvania State Medical Societies.
Dr. Lewis was married in 1905, to Miss Olive May Ful- ·ton, of Dunn's Station, Washington County, and they have one little daughter, Annie Elizabeth. Dr. and Mrs. Lewis are members of Concord Presbyterian Church of Washington County.
JOHN H. MYERS,* who owns ninety-eight acres of excellent farm land in Union Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, situated on the Ridge road, about two and one-half miles east of Finleyville, Pa., is a well known citizen and successful farmer. He was born in Somerset Township, Washington County near Kammerer, January 16, 1859, and is a son of Samuel and Catherine (Wright) Myers. The grandfather, Jacob Myers, was an early settler in Somerset Township, where he died.
Samuel Myers was born on the old farm there and was a farmer all his days. After he was married he sold his interest in the homestead in Somerset Township and bought the farm on which his widow and his son John H. still reside. He paid the sum of $8,000 in cash for this land, to its former owner, G. F. Kammerer. Samuel Myers died on this farm in 1909, aged eighty-four years.
He married Catherine Wright, who was born in Somerset Township, April 17, 1829. Her father, Josiah Wright, was a prominent citizen of that township. Three chil- dren were born to Samuel and Catherine Myers-Ander- son, who died aged fifty-four years; Anna Belle, who died aged fifty-three years; and John Henry, who is the only survivor and was appointed administrator of his father's estate.
John H. Myers attended school and worked hard at his books until he secured a teacher's certificate. This he never made use of, however, having always devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. On September 13, 1883, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Wurley, a daughter of Thomas A. Wurley, of Union Township. Mrs. Myers died August 8, 1903. They had four children: Bessie Viola, born June 14, 1887, died June 21, 1903; Anna Pearl, born June 21, 1889, married W. Gadd, who is manager of a company store at Hackett, Pa .; Olive May, born March 6, 1893, married Samuel Hullenour, who is a farmer; Garnet Catherine, was born January 22, 1897. Mr. Myers takes no very active interest in politics beyond casting his vote in support of candidates who will carry out the laws. He is a Republican.
JOHN M. HARBISON,* general farmer and sheep raiser in Mt. Pleasant Township, owns 102 acres and a half interest in 160, and also in ninety-five acres of land, all of which is situated in this township. He was born in Chartiers Township, Washington County, Pa., March 22, 1850, and is a son of Adam and Nancy (Morrison) Harbison. The father of Mr. Harbison died June 5, 1904, and the mother, in 1903. They were good people, worthy members of the Covenanter Church at Miller's Run, and they were buried in the cemetery there.
John M. Harbison obtained his education in the Miller district school in Mt. Pleasant Township, after which he assisted his father, and has devoted his entire life since then to agricultural pursuits. All the substantial build- ings now standing, Mr. Harbison built and, although he has never married, with his brother Samuel, who is as- sociated with him in farming, he maintains a comfortable home, his brother also being unmarried. Formerly Mr. Harbison kept as many as 300 sheep over winter but he now has only about 100. The coal on the land was sold by his father and at present there are neither gas nor oil wells producing. The land is mainly given to the growing of grain. Mr. Harbison is a stockholder in the Hickory National Bank, and in 1906 he was one of its board of directors. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Covenanter Church at Miller's Run.
SAMUEL S. SIDLE,* proprietor of the Big Store at Bentleyville, Pa., the leading clothing and dry goods store in the borough, has been identified with the business in-
CAMPBELL L. REED
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terests of Bentleyville since August, 1906. He was born March 7, 1883, in Baltimore, Md., and is a son of Abra- ham and Fannie Sidle, both residents of Baltimore, the former a retired clothing merchant of that city.
Samuel S. Sidle was reared in Baltimore, where he at- tended the local schools until eighteen years of age, when he went to Pittsburg, and engaged as a clerk with A. S. Goldstein & McDonald for two and a half years. After his marriage in January, 1905, with Sarah Baer of Pittsburg he removed to Washington, Pa., where he opened a store, which he operated successfully for some months, when the entire stock, amounting to $6,000, on which he carried but $2,000 insurance, was destroyed by fire. Mr. Sidle then was a traveling salesman for the Reline Shirt Company, of Baltimore, until August, 1906, when he came to Bentleyville, and established his present business in the building adjoining the one he now occu- pies. The erection of his present building-a fine pressed brick structure-was begun December 7, 1908, and com- pleted June 8, 1909, the contractors being the Charleroi Lumber Company. Mr. Sidle carries a full line of cloth- ing, dry goods, notions, shoes, gents' furnishings, etc., and the prompt and courteous treatment accorded his patrons has resulted in the establishment of an extensive trade. Mr. Sidle is a member of the Eagles, and the I. O. O. F.
CAMPBELL L. REED, a representative citizen of Washington County and one of Houston's substantial and progressive men, has been in the lumber and build- ers' supply business for some nineteen years and is the senior member of the firm of Reed & Short, of Houston, Pa. Mr. Reed was born on his father's farm in Cecil Township, Washington County, Pa., near the village of Venice, June 29, 1853, and is a son of Joseph and Martha (Anderson) Reed.
Joseph Reed was born on the same farm as mentioned above, April 30, 1796, and died on the same farm, Octo- ber 4, 1885, in his ninetieth year. His father, David Reed, was a pioneer in Washington County, and it was at his pioneer home that Gen. Washington was enter- tained when the latter inspected his estates in this sec- tion. David Reed died on the farm which has been held by his descendants ever since and is now the prop- erty of Joseph Reed, brother of Campbell L. Reed. The mother of Mr. Reed, Martha Anderson Reed, was born October 2, 1816, and died October 2, 1882. She was the third wife of Joseph Reed, his first marriage hav- ing been to a Miss McClain, and his second to a Miss Alexander. Joseph Reed was the father of the following children : Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary Jane Ann, David, Matthew Anderson, John H., Thomas A., Joseph, George M., Julia and Campbell L. Of these: Elizabeth is the widow of David White and resides at Canonsburg. Mar-
garet married Robert Henderson and both are deceased. Mary (deceased) was the wife of John Nesbit. Jane Ann married John B. May and lives at Venice, Pa. David, who died in Iowa, was a physician and surgeon, served in the Civil War and later practiced medicine at Hickory, Pa. Matthew Anderson, who lives in Cali- fornia, formerly resided in Washington and Allegheny Counties and has a son and two daughters living in Pittsburg. John H., who died in Indiana, had just com- pleted his theological education and had been licensed to preach. Thomas A, for the past twenty years has resided at Passadena, Cal., is now retired. His wife died at Houston, Pa., while on a visit. Joseph owns and lives on the old homestead in Cecil Township. He married Ella Cubbage and they have one son and two daughters. George M., who has had charge of the United Presbyterian Church at Newville, Cumberland County, Pa., for the past twenty-five years, received the degree of D. D. Julia is the widow of A. F. Hemphill, formerly recorder of Washington County, and she re- sides at Houston. The parents of these children were members of the Chartiers United Presbyterian Church in which the father was a ruling elder.
Campbell L. Reed attended the schools of Cecil Town- ship and for a number of years engaged in farming and resided on the line between Washington and Allegheny Counties. About 1890 he moved to Cecil Township and there conducted a lumber yard for the firm of Short & Wade and later purchased the business and continued there until 1900, when he sold out all his interests and then came to Houston, where he embarked in the same business. Four years later he admitted Charles M. Short to partnership under the firm name of Reed & Short. This firm does a very large business in lumber and builders' supplies and stands high in commercial rating.
Mr. Reed was married (first) in 1880, to Annie D. Cowden, who was born November 18, 1858, and died April 8, 1887. She was a daughter of Joseph Cowden, of Cecil Township. Three children were born to this mar- riage: Ralph Rockwood, who died in infancy; Margaret Alberta, who is the wife of Dr. Albert E. Clark, of East End, Pittsburg; and Martha Maud, who resides with her mother's people. Mr. Reed was married (second) November 29, 1889, to Jennie M. Patterson, a daughter of James Patterson, of Mt. Pleasant Township. They had the following children: Catherine Pauline, a student in Westminister College; Clair Campbell; Glenn Patter- son, both at school, and Elva Edith, died at the age of eleven months.
Mr. Reed has been identified with the Republicar party ever since he reached manhood and has always been an earnest and law-abiding citizen, but never de- sirous of office. His fellow citizens, however, elected him
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burgess of Houston and he served out his term with a careful attention to the duties of the office. He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church. The family has always been rigid in the observance of its religious duties and it is a matter of family history that this was so well known in the days of the grandfather, that when General Washington had business to consider with David Reed he knew better than to attempt to discuss it on the Sabbath and spent that day in Canonsburg and visited at Mr. Reed's farm on Monday.
WILLIAM M. JOHNSON,* burgess of Bentleyville, and one of the representative business men of the place, being the leading druggist, is a native of England, born in the British Isles, April 9, 1866, and is a son of William and Mary A. (Pearson) Johnson.
In 1870, the parents of Mr. Johnson came to America with their children and settled first at Monongahela City, Pa .; from there they moved in 1883, to Venetia, where the father, entered into the grocery business in which he continued until his death, July 5, 1894. His widow still survives.
William M. Johnson attended school until old enough to be of assistance to his father in the store. He studied pharmacy and in 1880 entered into the drug business at Venetia, conducting a store there until he established his present one at Bentleyville, August 26, 1906. It re- quired but three years for the citizens of Bentleyville to decide the quality of Mr. Johnson as a citizen, and in 1909 they elected him to their highest office.
Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Jennie E. Crouch, a daughter of Nathan W. Crouch, whose family farmed near Bentleyville. They have two children: Oscar W. and Bessie. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is one of the stewards. Fraternally he is identified with Monongahela Lodge, No. 337, F. and A. M .; and Peters Creek Lodge, No. 248, Odd Fellows.
JONATHAN EALY,* a respected and well known citizen and successful farmer of East Finley Township, where he has spent an industrious life, was born July 3, 1844, and is a son of Henry and Hannah (Barney) Ealy.
Henry Ealy was born also in East Finley Township, in 1807, and was a son of George Ealy. Henry Ealy re- mained on his father's farm until aged twenty-one years and then started out for himself, with a cash capital of twenty-five cents. If he had little money, it is evident that he possessed industry, energy and the proper ideas of thrift, as he accumulated in the course of his average span of years, 1,200 acres of rich farming land. He married Hannah Barney, who was born in Greene County, Pa. She died in 1873 but he survived her until 1882.
They had the following children: Jeremiah, residing in East Finley Township; George, deceased; Philip, residing in Greene County; Jonathan; and Delilah, deceased.
Since the end of his school days, Jonathan Ealy has been engaged continuously in farming and has prospered in this industry. Soon after his marriage he settled on what was known as the old home farm situated two miles from East Finley, on which he resided for fifteen years and then moved to his present place on Gordon's Fork of Wheeling Creek, one mile below the old home place.
On September 12, 1869, Mr. Ealy was married to Miss Nancy Jane Sampson, of East Finley Township, a daugh- ter of David Sampson. Mrs. Ealy died in 1890. Of their seven children, five died young, the two survivors being : Libeus W., who was born in 1871, and Fannie E., who was born in 1874. The latter has charge of the household, making home comfortable for her father since her mother's death. Mr. Ealy attends the United Breth- ren Church at Fairmount. He is a Democrat in politics and is not ambitious to hold office, but has served as elec- tion judge.
JACOB M. STEWART, a representative and sub- stantial citizen of Washington County, Pa., formerly an extensive farmer and stock raiser in Chartiers Township, has been a resident of Hickory, Pa., for some sixteen years. He was born in Chartiers Township, September 28, 1835, and is a son of James R. and Elizabeth (Miller) Stewart, and a descendant of one of the pioneer families of Washington County.
James R. Stewart was born in Chartiers Township, Washington County, in 1812. His parents were Archi- bald and Rebecca (Reed) Stewart, the former of whom was born in Ireland and came to America in early man- hood. Archibald Stewart married Rebecca Reed in Pennsylvania and they settled in Chartiers Township where he followed farming and blacksmithing. They had the following children: James R .; Mary, who mar- ried Samuel Griffith, of Mt. Pleasant Township; Jane, who died in 1883 (was the wife of William S. White, of Canonsburg) ; Joseph, who married in Illinois, and is deceased; William, who died in Iowa; Margaret, who died in 1872 (was the wife of David Miller) ; Sarah, who married Andrew Miller, of Mt. Pleasant Township; John, who resided in Donegal Township and died in 1886; and Archibald, deceased.
James R. Stewart had few educational advantages. He remained on the home farm and learned the blacksmith's - trade with his father and carried on business as the latter had done. On May 23, 1839, he married Elizabeth Miller, a daughter of Jacob and Jane (Filston) Miller. The Millers came from eastern Pennsylvania to Wash- ington County soon after marriage and settled near Mc- Connell's mills, in Chartiers Township. Some years later
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