Indiana County, Pennsylvania, her people, past and present, Volume I, Part 140

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 930


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"In his death the widow and the fatherless have lost a faithful friend, and Christian charity one of its surest supports."


In 1847 Mr. Taylor married Sarah Jane Bell, of Westmoreland county, who with three of the four children born to them survived him. She is now deceased. Alexander T., the eldest son, a resident of Indiana, married Lydia Wettling; John Bell is mentioned below; Alice married George Hart and removed to Kansas.


John Bell Taylor, son of Robert Cromwell and Sarah J. Taylor, was born in Indiana, Pa., March 20, 1851, in the house now known as the A. W. Wilson property, corner of Church and Seventh streets. He attended the public schools of Indiana until he was sixteen years of age, when on the advice of his physician, on account of his health, he left school, as he then expected only for a time, until his health would improve. After clerking in the A. M. Stewart hardware store in Indiana for a time, his uncle, Alexander Elliott, a merchant of Armagh, Indiana county, asked him to come to Armagh and clerk in his store, and he accepted the position in September, 1867, remaining in that store until March, 1873, when he was elected to a position in the First National Bank of Indiana, Pa. Having accepted this position he returned to Indiana, and continued as an employee in the First National Bank until 1877, when he was elected teller in the recently organized Farmers' Bank of Indiana. He was afterward made assistant cashier, and on the death of his father, in 1884, was elected to succeed him as cashier, being connected with the bank in that capacity until 1904, when, with a fast growing business, the insti- tution increased its capital from $100,000 to $225,000, and he was elected vice president. He is still (1913) holding that official posi- tion, and is a close, hard worker in the inter- est of the bank. He has also served as treas- urer of the borough of Indiana for ten or twelve years, and was treasurer of the school board for a number of years, in both positions


showed in his financial ability and acumen. He has a justly high reputation in banking and general business circles, never disappoint- ing those who have selected him for high responsibilities, and in all the associations of life has measured up to the high standard characteristic of the Taylors for generations.


Mr. Taylor is a man of rather quiet dis- position, never seeking publicity. He is a member of the First United Presbyterian Church, and socially of the Cosmopolitan Club and the Two Lick Country Club, being one of the promoters of the latter, and having a cottage on the club grounds. He is inter- ested in and fond of sports of many kinds, hunting, fishing, etc., and has always been very fond of horses, the greater part of his life keeping one or two good saddle and driv- ing horses. In politics he is a Republican, and with few exceptions has voted the regu- lar ticket.


In November, 1875, Mr. Taylor married Margaret Johnston, a daughter of Stephen A. and Mary E. Johnston, of Armagh, Pa., and to them were born: Royden J., a grad- mate of Cornell University, now living in Atlanta, Ga .; and Alice, at home. Mrs. Taylor died April 13, 1906.


JOHN WESLEY WATT, elder and founder of the Seventh Day Adventist colony in Indiana county, Pa., was born at Haworth, DeWitt Co., Ill., March 14, 1851, a son of Milton Asbury and Delilah (Morain) Watt, the former of whom was named for the noted Bishop Asbury of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


The boyhood days of Elder Watt were spent on the farm of his father and he attended the public schools near his home and contin- ued on the homestead until he was nineteen years of age, when he started out for himself and for a short time followed farming. He had always been of serious mind and in Feb- ruary, 1874, embraced the faith of the Sev- enth Day Adventists and began to prepare himself for the preaching of the Gospel. He devoted all his spare moments while at home to the study of theological books and thus pre- pared himself for the ministry, into which he formally entered at Nevada, Mo. While ministering to a congregation of 110 indi- viduals there for three years he supported himself by physical labor. In Missouri he was ordained and remained in that State for eleven years, and then went to Montana, recognizing that there was a great field for


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mission work. During his four years of evan- dell Kenerson and Lorain ; Paul and Dale re- gelistie work there 250 souls were converted. side at home.


From Montana Elder Watt went to the State of Indiana, where he became president of his church conference, with headquarters at Indianapolis, and there had under his ju- risdiction sixty churches and 1,600 souls, spending three useful years in that location. His next field of work was North Dakota, and one year later he went to South Dakota, which he left a year afterward with a prosperous church community behind him, next invading Vermont, where he became president of the conference, with headquarters at Barre. He remained in that office for six years, or until 1905, when he came to Pennsylvania and set- tled at Bradford. In 1906 he came to In- diana county and purchased the John K. My- ers farm in White township, known as the Snyder farm, and here he laid the founda- tion for great future usefulness, establishing a colony consisting of eight families. He built a church and schoolhouse, the students al- ready numbering twenty. Attention is given at this school to religious as well as secular education and a well-trained teacher is in charge, one who holds a State certificate.


Elder Watt is a man of wide vision and has shown it in the establishing of his different enterprises in the interest of the colony. A successful broom factory is in operation and farming and market gardening are thriving industries. He gives everything his personal supervision at this point, and is also in close touch with similar work in other sections. Personally he is a man to inspire esteem and veneration, and those who listen to his con- fident hopes for the future are apt to feel enthusiasm for his aims and respect near to affection for his sterling virtues.


At Nevada, Mo., Elder Watt was married, Nov. 17, 1873, to Mary E. Logan, who is in full sympathy with her husband and is also a heloved member of the colony. To Elder and Mrs. Watt the following children have been born: Delilah is the wife of Isaac Big- low, of Washington, D. C .; Pryor M., who is superintendent of the farm and broom fac- tory, married Carrie French; Mand, who was educated to be a trained nurse at Battle Creek, Mich., is engaged in that profession in Okla- homa; Charles Daelton, who is a graduate of the Philadelphia Dental College, and engaged in practice at Barre, Vt., married Lillian Kenerson, and they have two children, Len-


IRVIN ALFRED HEWITT, assistant elder and teacher of the above described col- ony, was born at Caledonia, Kent Co., Mich., June 18, 1874, a son of Alfred and Delephie (Everson) Hewitt. He was four years old when the family moved to Erie county, Pa., where he attended school, and later had ad- vantages at the Edinboro normal school and at Grove City, afterward teaching at Keep- ville and Lundy's Lane, Pa. In 1898 Elder Hewitt became a convert to the teachings of the Seventh Day Adventists and went to Bat- tle Creek. Mich., where he was engaged for some time in various occupations of a gen- eral intellectual nature. Later he returned to Pennsylvania and taught school at Conneaut- ville, and when the church colony was estab- lished in Indiana county by Elder Watt, he came here to take charge of the edu- cating of the youth. Elder Hewitt is par- ticularly well qualified for this important work, being heartily in sympathy with its aims and a thoroughly educated man, both in the Scriptures and in church history, as well as in other branches of learning.


At Erie, Pa., he was married to Lena Ward, a most estimable lady. The quiet, wholesome influence that prevails at the colony speaks well for those who may be fortunate enough to be reared and educated there.


MARDIS. The Mardis family is an old es- tablished one in Indiana county, and its rep- resentatives are upholding its honor in differ- ent walks of life.


George Mardis founded the Mardis family in Indiana county when he came here from Franklin county, Pa. He was of Scotch-Irish extraction, coming of a race which has pro- duced some of the most rugged stock and bril- liant men known in the history of this coun- try. George Mardis was twice married, his second wife being Catherine Staffell, daugh- ter of James Diekis, and widow of Thomas Staffell. Mr. and Mrs. Mardis had the fol- lowing children: Joseph, David, Samuel, Thomas, Sallie and Betsy.


Joseph Mardis, son of George Mardis, died in August, 1843, and his wife, Polly (Ber- ringer). died in March, 1850, and is buried in the U. P. Church cemetery at East Union. The children of this marriage were: Katy, who married Joseph Duncan; Susan, who married Sam Foy and (second) Washington Myers; Samuel L .; George, who married


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Nancy Stone; Sarah, who married John Mc- a large scale, and he became one of the wealthy Laughlin ; Thomas; John, who married Eliza and prominent men of his county. Origin- Felmey; Mary, who married William Smith ; ally a Whig, when the Republican party was Joseph, who married Jane MeNutt; James, organized he found in its doctrines a good ex- who married Maria Hickman; and Raymer. Mr. Mardis was a shoemaker and farmer, and followed both callings all his useful life.


Samuel L. Mardis was born June 27, 1812, and died July 24, 1881; he was buried in East Union cemetery, Buffington township. He married Eliza Morgan, daughter of John and Kate (Yertie) Morgan, who survives him, making her home on the old homestead with a daughter and son. The children born to Samuel L. Mardis and wife were as follows: (1) Eli Emerson, born March 10, 1846, died Nov. 2, 1894. He married Ella Newton, of Ot- tawa county, Ohio, and was a contractor and builder until he died. (2) George, born Sept. 8, 1847, died at the age of sixteen years, April 29, 1863. (3) Amanda, born Sept. 23, 1849, married Thomas C. Hogue, and died July 22, 1890. (4) John, born Feb. 27, 1851, died Nov. 17, 1878, aged twenty-seven years. (5) Scott, born Feb. 21, 1853, died May 10, 1880, aged twenty-seven years. (6) Sanford mar- ried Annie Miller and (second) Jennie Gib- son. He resides in Pine township, Indiana Co., Pa. (7) Jasper, a physician, resides at home and is in poor health. (8) Benjamin Franklin is mentioned below. (9) Agnes is mentioned at length below. (10) Samuel James is also mentioned at length below. (11) Minerva married Marlin Cameron, a contrac- tor and builder of Buffington township. (12) Curtis A. is unmarried and at home. (13) Flora married Clark Stein and resides at Pitcairn, Pennsylvania.


Samuel L. Mardis was a native of Frank- lin county, Pa., and came to Indiana county when young, settling with his parents iu Buf- fington township. His first employment out- side the homestead was on the Pennsylvania canal, as steersman, and he followed this line of work until he had saved sufficient money to invest in 260 acres of land. As soon as he bought this farm he began operating it. As there was considerable lumber on his prop- erty, he found it profitable to market it, and purchased two of the first steam sawmills that were in his locality, for the purpose of handling his lumber properly. These mills were located in different parts of Buffington township, and in addition to sawing his own lumber, he had a big trade from others. As his business developed, he added property to his original holdings and cleared off a large tract of timberland. His operations were upon


position of his political views, and he gave its candidates his hearty support the re- mainder of his life. Aside from serving as a school director he did not enter public life, his personal affairs absorbing his time and requiring his close attention. Few men of his locality were more active in the Methodist Church than he, as he not only contributed liberally towards its support, but was steward and class leader, and carried into his every- day life the principles he professed in his re- ligious creed. During his long and useful career he accumulated a large property, and at the same time built up a reputation for un- flinching honesty and integrity that nothing ever tarnished. The influence of such a man is always powerful, and it is still felt although he has passed away from this life.


DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MARDIS, son of Samuel L. Mardis, was born Sept. 21, 1860, on the old Mardis homestead, where he re- sided until 1881, after which he spent several years in the State of Ohio. On returning home, in 1887, he entered the dental depart- ment of the University of Baltimore where he graduated two years later, and in 1889 he lo- cated in the city of Johnstown, where he has been practicing dentistry up to this time. He has proved to be one of the most scientific dentists in western Pennsylvania. In 1890 he was united in marriage to Ida Lichtenfelts, daughter of Massiun and Katie Lichtenfelts, of West Wheatfield Township, Indiana Co., Pa., and children as follows have been born to them : Bertha, Ethel Clay, Apie Hazle and Frank. All are living except Ethel Clay. Dr. Mardis has handled his financial business in a very skillful manner, and has become owner of a number of very valuable properties in the city.


SAMUEL JAMES MARDIS, son of Sam- uel L. Mardis, was born Nov. 4, 1863, in Buffington township, on the old Mardis home- stead, where his widowed mother still resides. On Sept. 13, 1894, he married Elizabeth Johns, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Rich- ardson) Johns, whose home was in Seward, Westmoreland Co., Pa. The grandfather of Mrs. Mardis on the paternal side was the founder of Johnstown, Pa., and built the first house in that city. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Mardis have been: Sylvia, Ray- mond, Harry, George, Millard and Mildred


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(twins), Martha, Merle, Roy and Kenneth. Of these, all are living but the twins.


Mr. Mardis received his educational train- ing in the common schools of Buffington township. Mount Pleasant Institute, and the Morrell Institute at Johnstown. After leav- ing the latter institution he returned home and engaged in farming for a time. Seeing an opening. he embarked in the typewriter busi- ness at No. 110 Walnut street, Johnstown, Pa., and conducted same for a number of years. However, the call of the soil was too great for him to resist, and returning to Buffing- ton township he bought a farm of 170 acres, on which he carries on general farming and dairying. Ilis property is one of the best im- proved in the township, for Mr. Mardis is one of the advanced agriculturists, and carries on his operations according to scientific methods. He believes in intensive farming. and in order to make his land produce to its fullest extent has equipped his property with the latest im- proved machinery. which he operates with a gasoline engine. His residence is a commodi- ous one, fitted with modern conveniences, while his dairy barn was erected according to the most advanced sanitary plans. His other barns and ontbuildings all show that he he- lieves in housing his machinery and stock properly, while his fences and various im- provements are kept in fine condition. His dairy is large, and he finds a ready market for its products, the quality of which is up to every standard set by sanitary measures. In addition to his other interests, Mr. Mardis is agent for the International Harvester Com- pany, covering a large territory, and his sales aggregate a heavy amount each year. In con- junction with the selling of agricultural im- plements he handles fertilizers, and writes in- surance on farming properties. Such a man gives a decided impetus to agricultural in- terests and proves that the successful farmer of to-day must be about as good a business man as can be found in any line.


While attending to the multiple interests of his many undertakings, Mr. Mardis finds time to prove his worth as a good citizen, having been a school director for nineteen years, overseer of the poor for years and a member of the election board, and for five years he was a justice of the peace. The Re- publican party has had in him a strong sup- porter. For many years he has been a con- sistent member of the Methodist Church, and his contributions to its support are generous to a marked degree. A man of decided action, Mr. Mardis has not only known how to ac-


complish great things, but has gone ahead and done them, and his standing among the prosperous business men and farmers of In- diana county is enviable.


AGNES MARDIS in her useful, busy, happy life demonstrates that her sex is amply able to carry on large interests successfully, and develop heavy property holdings. Her father, the late Samuel L. Mardis, had full faith in her and an appreciation of her abil- ity, and chose her to carry out his plans for the large estate he left behind him. Present conditions prove fully that his confidence was not misplaced, and that he could not have done better than to name her.


Miss Mardis was brought up on the farm, and understands agriculture as well as her brothers. Under her active management the operation of the homestead is carried on, and the profits shown annually would do credit to any agriculturist in the county. In addition to attending to the many duties of business affairs, Miss Mardis gives tender care to her widowed mother in her declining years, and watches with gentle sisterly solicitude over her brother, Dr. Mardis, whose poor health is a source of anxiety to his family.


When Samuel L. Mardis bought his original farm he did not know that it was underlaid with a rich vein of coal, but he did appreciate the fact that it was bound to increase in value as the years went on, so declined an offer made to him in early days, of ten dollars per acre for the property. Miss Mardis has refused $110 per acre for it, this remarkable advance justifying her father's faith in the future of this locality.


Like the rest of the family, Miss Mardis is a Methodist, although her church work is somewhat curtailed by the heavy responsibil- ities that rest upon her shoulders, but she is very charitable, and believes in forwarding any movement she believes will work for the good of the majority.


The Mardis family is representative of the spirit of the people of this section of the coun- try. Coming here early in the history of In- diana county, its members invested heavily in land, buying it at a low price and holding it for the advance they were sure would come. They developed the natural resources. contrib- uted their share toward improving the neigh- borhood, and gave their support to the build- ing of schools and the establishment of re- ligious organizations. Their endeavors were directed along the avenues of peace, and the result of the years of labor, intelligently di- rected, of the various representatives of this


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family, is shown in the present condition of to 1864, under Col. Ilugh J. Brady. Ile was the community itself, as well as in the well- cultivated farms and flourishing business con- cerns that owe their existence to these same energetie people.


on guard at the Lee homestead, and was one of the first to march on to Richmond. At the close of the war he resumed farming, and continued actively engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred on his farm May 4, 1901. In him the German Lutheran Church had a faithful member and elder, he giving his support to the congrega- tion in West Wheatfield township, and he is erations have made him very well known. He buried in the Lutheran cemetery there.


WILLIAM BRUCE WAGNER is engaged in huber dealing and sawmilling and is also the proprietor of two general stores in south- ern Indiana county, where his extensive op- resides in Brushvalley township. The branch


Mr. Wagner married Sarah Walbeck, who of the Wagner family to which he belongs has died on the farm Dee. 30, 1886, aged seventy- been established in America for several gener- ations, and is of German origin. Michael Wagner, the first of the line to come to this country, was a native of Germany, and after crossing the Atlantic settled in York county, Pennsylvania. four years, one month, twenty-four days. She was a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Wal- beek, of West Wheatfield township. The fol- lowing children were born to Jacob and Sarah ( Walbeck) Wagner : Annie died when twelve years old; Lydia married John Huston and had children Harry and Edna; John W. is a farmer of West Wheatfield township; JJoseph W., a resident of Somerset county, Pa., mar- ried Neoma Specht and has children Fred, Dovel and Elizabeth; Jacob died young; Michael Walbeck is mentioned below; Sarah Emma is unmarried and resides in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.


Michael Wagner, son of the Michael Wagner mentioned above, was born in York county, Pa., and came from Little York to Indiana county in 1820, settling in what was then Wheatfield township, where he followed farm- ing. Hle resided on what is now the St. Clair farm of 200 acres and began improving it, carrying on the work of development until he had one of the valuable places in the vi- Michael Walbeck Wagner was born in West Wheatfield township May 5, 1850, and there received his education in the public sehools. Until sixteen years old he worked on the farm, and then he learned the trade of mill- wright with Daniel Breninger, of Cambria county, Pa., following that work for three years. After that he was engaged in lumber- ing for a year before he settled in West Wheatfield township on his grandfather's homestead, a tract of seventy-five aeres near the line of Brushvalley township. Ile still owns and operates this place, which he has developed considerably, having built several einity. He and his family belonged to the German Lutheran Church, which he helped to establish in his neighborhood, and he served on the building committee that had charge of the erection of a new place of worship. Po- litically he was a Democrat. He died in West Wheatfield township. Ile married Ann Sides, danghter of Adam and Ann (Stevely) Sides, and they are buried in the Lutheran Church cemetery in West Wheatfield township. Their children were: Jacob; John, who married Reberea St. Clair Campbell and resided in Brushvalley; Michael, who married Sarah Duncan and resided in Brushvalley; Sarah, houses and a blacksmith shop there; part of who married James Mack; Ann, deceased ; and Lydia, who married Levi Walbeek.


Jacob Wagner, son of Michael and Ann (Sides) Wagner, was born Jan. 20, 1821, in West Wheatfield township, and there at- tended common school. Ile became familiar with farming as his father's assistant, and when he was twenty-two years old bought the Craig farm of fifty acres, to which he later added 200 aeres, ereeting a large dwelling house and barn upon his property. He be- eame one of the prosperous farmers and stoek- men of his township. He was a Republican in politics, and during the Civil war enlisted in Company HI, 206th Regiment, Pennsyl- vania Volunteer Infantry, serving from 1861


the farm is known as Wagnertown, near Heshbon, and there he continues to reside. Ile has been an industrious and thrifty man, and has done well in all his undertakings. On June 18, 1872, Mr. Wagner married Susan Moek, who was born in Brushvalley town- ship, daughter of William and Mary Moek, and fourteen children have been born to them: Jaeoh Otis, who is on the farm; W. Brnee; Mamie, who died young ; John M., who is farming in West Wheatfield township; Pearl, married to James McCollough, a rail- road man of Derry, Pa .; Annie, wife of Leon- ard Shafer; Dessie, married to Robert Maek, of West Wheatfield township; Chester L., deceased ; Michael Karl, a lumberman, of Buf-


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fington township ; Emma, wife of George Rey- Robert R. and Nancy Sloan (Cochran) Cal- nolds, of Derry, Pa., an employee of the Penn- honn. sylvania Railroad Company; Jay Ord, who is deceased; Ray, who is engaged as store- keeper; Laura, deceased; and Dewey, de- ceased. Mr. and Mrs. Wagner are members of the Lutheran Church. Politieally he is a Republiean.


William Bruee Wagner, son of Michael Walbeck and Susan (Mock) Wagner, was born Oet. 30, 1874, near Heshbon, in West Wheatfield township, where he began his edu- cation at the district school. Later he went to Prof. C. A. Campbell's summer school. He farmed at home with his parents until 1891, when he went to Bolivar, working at that place for about five years in the Robinson fire who married Samuel Porter, also of Wayne and clay brick business. In 1896 he returned township; Mary, who married Thomas Richey, of Wayne township; William, a farmer, who went to Illinois and there died; Jane, who married James Calhoun, of Pine township, Armstrong county ; Samuel, who spent his life on the old home place ; and John A., who was an attorney at law of Kittanning, Pennsyl- vania. to the parental home in West Wheatfield town- ship, remaining a year, when he went into the lumber business on his own account, also opening a general store at Heshbon, on Black- lick creek, near the Pennsylvania railroad sta- tion. ITis wife and a elerk eonduet this es- tablishment, Mr. Wagner's time being occu- pied principally with his lumber dealings and his sawmill, which is located in Buffington township. He also owns another general store, conducted under the style of the Tall Timber Supply Company, in Buffington town- ship, and all his affairs are in prosperous con- dition. Ile employs a large number of men in his various operations, particularly in lum- bering, as he owns nearly a thousand acres of woodland; the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany is one of his best patrons. In addition to looking after these interests Mr. Wagner carries on a 100-acre farm. Ile has taken an active interest in public affairs, and has twiee (1908 and 1911) been candidate on the Re- publican ticket for county commissioner, but was defeated. In religious connection Mr. Wagner is a member of the United Presby- terian Church. He is generally regarded as a young man of high ability and character, one whose suceess is well merited.




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