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GEORGE W. SNYDER, a prominent grocer of Turtle Creek, was born in Pat- ton township, Allegheny Co., Pa., March 2, 1858. His father, John Snyder, kept a general store at Export, Westmoreland county, for many years, while his mother, Elizabeth (Weaver). Snyder, was the daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Weaver, who came to this country from Germany. George W. Snyder was educated in the Pittsburg schools, and then devoted sev- eral years to agricultural pursuits. In 1891 he started in business in company with R. T. Henderson. He later purchased the store of R. S. Craig, on Penn avenue, and established the business in the C. H. Snyder building. As his business was constantly increasing, Mr. Snyder erected, in 1898, the two-story brick building at 143 Penn Ave., Turtle Creek, which he now occupies, and where he has
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built up an excellent trade. Mr. Snyder was married in February, 1882, to Eva, daughter of John and Mary (Glenn) Oyler, of West- moreland county. John Oyler was a son of Jeremiah Oyler, an early settler of Franklin township, Westmoreland county, while his wife came from Armstrong county. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Snyder, Elizabeth, born July 21, 1883, is now tak- ing a course in music at Bethany college, in West Virginia; Ida, born Sept. 25, 1885, is also attending Bethany college; John died when seven years old; Harry, Homer, Frank and George W., Jr., are younger children at home. Mr. Snyder and family are mem- bers of the Turtle Creek Reformed church. Mr. Snyder was elected school director in 1901. He lives in a handsome residence on Show avenue, which he purchased in 1890.
JOHN F. LOWERS, assistant post- master of Braddock, was born in Brad- dock, April 23, 1873, son of Samuel and Annie ( Hunter) Lowers. Samuel Lowers, who was a son of Robert and Nancy Lowers, was born in Blairsville, Pa., Aug. 4, 1842, and was a painter in Brad- dock for many years, almost up to the time of his death in 1896. His brothers, James, Moses and Smith, were soldiers in the Civil war, as were also John and George Hunter, maternal uncles of our subject. His wife, Annie Lowers, is a daughter of George and Euphemia (McDougal) Hunter, both of which families came to America from Scotland about the middle of the past century.
Of the children of Samuel and Annie (Hunter) Lowers, besides John F., the subject of this sketch, Nancy is the wife of Levi Goughenour, a merchant of North Brad- dock; Samuel B. clerks at Alexander Brothers' laundry; Euphemia is the wife of I. W. Duncan, a Braddock milk dealer; Mary died in infancy; Carrie is a bookkeeper; George is special delivery clerk in the postoffice, and Roy is at home. Mrs. Lowers lives at No. 228 Rebecca St., Braddock. Her mother, Mrs. Euphemia Hunter, resides with her. John F. Lowers was married, in 1895, to Jessie O., daughter of William Bennett, chief of police in Braddock. Mr. and Mrs. Lowers have one child, Ione, born in September, 1900. Mr. Lowers received a grammar school education, and, at the age of sixteen, began working in the steel mills, where he was a stationary
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engineer seven years, and for three years inspector of rails. He was appointed to his present position of assistant postmaster in July, 1892, and has proved himself a capable official. Mr. Lowers is a member of Monongahela council, No. 122, Jr. O. U. A. M., and is chairman of the board of directors of that organization; financial secretary of the Knights of the Ancient Essenic order; member of the Edgar Thompson council of the Royal Arcanum. He is president of the North Braddock volunteer fire department, chairman of the auditors of North Braddock, and treasurer of the John Dalzell republican club of that city.
MATTHEW L. McCLURE, a promi- nent architect of Homestead, is a brother of Daniel R. McClure, and a son of Abdiel and Anne (Risher) McClure. The genealogy of the McClure family is given in another place in this book, in connec- tion with the life of Daniel R. McClure. Matthew L. McClure was born on the site where Homestead now stands, Dec. 24, 1841, and was reared and educated in Mifflin township. At the age of sixteen he began as apprentice at the carpenter trade under his father, and continued at this vocation until Sept. 28, 1862, when he became a soldier in the Civil war, enlisting as a private in Company H, 14th Pennsylvania cavalry, where he served until the close of the war, being honorably discharged May 30, 1865. During the war he fought with distinc- tion in the battles of Rocky Gap, Droop mountain, Winchester, Martinsburg, Strausburg, Lynchburg and others. He was present at the burning of Chambersburg, and was among those who pursued and punished those who were responsible for the burning of that city. After his return home, Mr. McClure was for three years engaged in the manufacture of boxes in Pittsburg, returning to his vocation as a carpenter, which he followed for several years in Erie county. About 1878 he became a contractor and builder, and was successfully engaged in this work in Homestead until 1888. Since then he has given all his attention to his profession as an architect, and has met with flattering success. Mr. McClure designed the First National bank building, the McClure building and many of the finest residences in Homestead, and his field takes in all territory along the Monongahela river as far as Monongahela
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City. Mr. McClure, in 1866, married Hannah S., daughter of Rev. James F. and Mary Reed, of Union City, Pa., and has two chil- dren, Abdiel Reed, associated in business with his father, and Florence L., now Mrs. Amos E. Gillespie. He also has two grand- children, Helen McClure Gillespie and James Reed Gillespie. Mr. McClure and family are members of the Presbyterian church, of which Mr. McClure has been for several years an elder. He is a member of Alexander Hayes post, No. 3, G. A. R., of Pittsburg, and Encampment No. I, Union Veteran legion, of Pittsburg. In politics he is a republican.
GEORGE JACOBS, real estate and insurance agent at Homestead, was born in Franklin county, Pa., Aug. 10, 1850. His parents, Adam and Charlotte Jacobs, were natives of Germany who came to America and located in Franklin county in 1844, where Adam Jacobs followed his vocation as a shoemaker until 1850, and then moved with his family to White county, Ill., where he was a farmer up to the time of his death, in 1852. He left a widow and six children: Adam, Nicholas (deceased), Charlotte (deceased), Cather- ine (Mrs. William Briggs), George and Barbara (deceased). After the father's death, the family returned to Franklin county, remov- ing later to Homestead, where Mrs. Jacobs, then the widow of Jacob Kohler, died in 1886. After a common-school education in the public schools, George Jacobs became an apprentice at the bakers' trade, at which he served with one firm for three years, and then worked as an employe of the same firm for four years more. Embarking in business for himself, in 1874, on the South Side, Pittsburg, he conducted a bakery there for eight years, and, in 1882, started a similar business at Homestead, which he main- tained for twelve years. From 1894 to 1902 Mr. Jacobs kept one of the largest groceries in Homestead. He has recently given his attention to real estate and insurance, and is a member of the firm of Jacobs & Blackley. In 1871 Mr. Jacobs married Emma C., daughter of John Greemroth. Of five children born of this union, two are living, Ella C. and Florence F. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs are members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Jacobs is a member of Homestead lodge, No. 582, F. and A. M .; Homestead lodge,
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No. 355, A. O. U. W .; Boaz council, No. 814, R. A., and Amity conclave, No. 96, Heptasophs. He has been a member of the Homestead school board for the past nine years, and secretary of . that organization for the past two years. He is president of the Homestead business men's association, and of the borough council of Homestead, in which he is serving his first term. In politics he is an ardent republican.
JOHN HAYES, station agent of the P. C. & Y. railroad, at- Carnegie, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, April 14, 1861. His parents were Dennis and Catherine (Kelley) Hayes, natives of Ireland, who came to Ohio in the latter forties, and were married at Steubenville, Ohio, in 1853. After a short residence in Steubenville, they moved to West Wheeling, Ohio, and in 1868 to Beaver, Pa. At both places Mr. Hayes was employed as section boss for the Cleveland & Pittsburg rail- way, being employed in the same capacity for the same railroad over forty years. He died, March 1, 1902, when seventy-five years old, and his wife, Dec. 30, 1895, at the age of sixty-six. Both were prominent and well-known people, and active members of the Roman Catholic church. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Hayes. Of these, William died when twenty-three
years old, and Dennis in infancy. Of the surviving children, besides John, the subject of this sketch, Catherine is now the wife of James Mahoney, a member of the police force at Allegheny; James, a resident of Wellsville, Ohio, is supervisor in the employ of the C. & P. R. R. Co .; Mary is now Mrs. James O'Grady, of Wellsville, Ohio .; Johanna is now Mrs. Cornelius Cain, of Beaver, Pa., and Dennis (the second of that name) is foreman in a Pitts- burg mill. John Hayes attended school when a boy in Beaver county, Pa., and after school days worked on the section with his father for three years. He became station agent at Beaver, Pa., where he remained one year, and in 1884 came as station agent to Mansfield, now Carnegie. This position he has held in Carnegie nineteen years, and his faithful attention to duty and uniform courtesy have won him the confidence of his employers and the good-will and esteem of the community. On June 10, 1886,
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Mr. Hayes was married to Miss Mary Sullivan, youngest daughter of Michael and Julia Sullivan, natives of Ireland, both deceased. One sister of Mrs. Hayes, Catherine, afterwards Mrs. Daniel Carey, is now deceased, but a brother, Timothy, who lives at Delta, Col., and one sister, Julia, how Mrs. Andrew Miller, of Douglas, Ariz., are living. Mr. and Mrs. John Hayes are the parents of ten children, all living: Catherine, William E., John L., Mary, Nellie, Margaret, Joseph, Elsie, Sullivan and Geraldine. All but the three youngest, Joseph, Elsie and Geraldine, are in school. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes are members of St. Luke's Roman Catholic church. Mr. Hayes is a prominent member of the Catholic Mutual Benefit association, of which he has been president, secretary and financial secretary. He is also a member of the Knights of Columbus.
ARTHUR E. ROOSE, a prominent physician of East Pittsburg, was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., Nov. 1, 1869, son of Henry Noah and Malinda (Trump) Roose. Henry N. was the son of Henry and Sarah (Haines) Roose, German pio- neers who settled first in Ohio and later moved to Westmoreland county. His wife was the daughter of John and Hettie (Zuck) Trump, who came from Germany to Westmoreland county in the early part of the last century. Dr. Roose graduated from the Greensburg seminary in 1892, and received his diploma from the Jefferson medical college of Philadelphia in 1895. Soon after graduation he located in East Pittsburg, then a hamlet of about 300 inhabitants. The population has now grown to 4,500, and the doctor's practice has kept pace with the growth of the city. In August, 1891, he commenced the erection of his beautiful brick residence and office building, which is centrally located on Linden avenue. Dr. Roose was married, March 17, 1895, to Lena, daughter of John C. and Hannah (Kintigh) Fox, both of Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland county. The children born of this union are: Robert Lisle, born Sept. 17, 1896, and Arthur Eugene, born July 3, 1901. Dr. Roose and his wife are members of the First United Brethren in Christ church. The congregation of this church is now erecting a neat $15,000 building in which to worship. The doctor is a member of St. John's lodge,
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No. 487, I. O. O. F. ; Court Busy Bee, No. 174, Foresters of Amer- ica, and of the Turtle Creek lodge, Knights of Maccabees. Dr. Roose has been too busy with his profession to give much time to politics, but was prevailed upon to serve as councilman, and elected, in March, 1902, for a three-year term, is proving himself an able legislator, being president of the council.
HAMILTON MACILVANE BLACK- LEY, of the firm of Jacobs & Blackley, real estate, insurance and mortgage brok- ers, was born in Pitt township, now thirteenth ward, Pittsburg, Nov. 10, 1862, son of Joseph and Isabella (Cokain) Blackley. His paternal grandfather was James Blackley, a native of Scotland, who spent most of his life in Ireland as a stone-cutter, and was killed while build- ing a jail at Belfast. He married a Miss MacIlvane. Thomas Cokain, the mater- nal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Scotland, came to America in the early forties, settled in Pitt township, and was for many years engaged in the manufacture of coke. He married Isabel Parks, a native of Ire- land. Joseph Blackley, son of James Blackley, came to America from Ireland in 1846, and located in Lawrenceville, Pa., where he was engaged in the dairy business up to 1861, when he moved to Pitt township and became a partner with his father-in-law, Thomas Cokain, the firm being the first to engage in the manufacture of coke in Allegheny county. He continued in this business up to 1890, and was also interested in coal and coke in other parts of Pennsylvania. He has, since 1893, retired from active life, and lives on his farm in Deemston borough, Washington county. He had two children who grew to maturity, Hamilton MacIlvane, the sub- ject of this sketch, and Ida B., who is now the wife of John P. Magill, of Youngstown, Ohio. Hamilton M. Blackley was reared and educated in Allegheny county, where he attended the Pitts- burg public schools, graduated in 1879 from the twenty-sixth ward school, and in the same year graduated from the Iron City business college. He began his business career as a bookkeeper for his father at the coke works, and owned a share in the business from 1885 to 1890. In 1892 and 1893 he was employed as clerk with the Carnegie steel company at Homestead, and has been, since 1893 up
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to the present time, a clerk in the office of the recorder of Allegheny county. In 1899 he became a member of the firm of E. H. Morton & Co., in the real estate and insurance business at Homestead. The firm of Jacobs & Blackley, of which he is now a partner, was formed Nov. 1, 1902, and is doing a rapidly increasing business. He was treasurer of Mifflin township, Allegheny county, for five years, being legislated out of office when the township classification act went into effect in 1900. Sept. 14, 1882, Mr. Blackley married Miss Anna M. Carney, daughter of William and Mary (Ward) Carney, of Homestead, and has three children, Bryce E., Joseph H. and Mabel H. Mr. and Mrs. Blackley are members of the Episcopal church at Homestead. Mr. Blackley is a past master of Homestead lodge, No. 582, F. and A. M .; a member of Duquesne chapter, No. 193, R. A. M., of Pittsburg; Pittsburg commandery, No. I, K. T., and Boaz council, No. 814, R. A. M. In politics he is a stanch republican. Mr. Blackley is an ex-member of the old "Duquesne Grays," of Pittsburg. He was, in 1897, president of the Western Pennsylvania farmers' association, and has been, since 1895, a member of the Pennsylvania State Association of Volunteer Firemen.
WILLIAM KAGBY VAN SCIVER, a prominent painting and paper-hanging contractor of Homestead, was born in Washington, D. C., April 7, 1867, son of Levi and Susan (Beatley) Van Sciver. Levi Van Sciver, a fisherman by occupa- tion, was a son of Velonvi Van Sciver, also a fisherman, who was born in Phila- delphia, of Dutch ancestry. On his mother's side, William K. Van Sciver is a grandson of Kagby Beatley, a native of Virginia, who spent most of his life as a fisherman, and was captain of a boat which plied up and down the Potomac river. Mr. Van Sciver, the subject of this sketch, is the only survivor of a family of seven children. He was reared in Washington, and attended the public schools until he reached the age of sixteen, when he began his apprenticeship as a painter and paper-hanger. Coming to Home- stead in 1884, he worked as a journeyman for several years, and also spent a short time at his trade in Youngstown, Ohio. Since 1896 he has been a contractor in Homestead, and now owns the
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largest paint and wall-paper store in the city, where he carries a very complete stock and does a flourishing business. On April 30, 1888, Mr. Van Sciver married Miss Margaret Mahoney, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Hartey) Mahoney, of Hubbard, Ohio, and has four children living, Pearl, Edward, Beatrice and Eliza J. Mr. Van Sciver is in religious belief a Presbyterian, and in politics a democrat. He is a member of the senior and junior orders of A. O. U. W. and the Heptasophs.
JOHN ANDREW WOLFF, a well- known contractor and builder of Home- stead, and vice-president of the Kilgore & Atkinson sporting goods company, was born in Washington township, Armstrong Co., - Pa., Jan. 5, 1858. His paternal grandfather was a pioneer farmer of Armstrong county, and was married to Margaret Sandle. Valentine Wolff, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Armstrong county in 1828, and still resides there, where he has been for many years a successful farmer. He married Catherine Croyle, daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Mainer) Croyle. Joseph Croyle was a potter by trade. Mr. and Mrs. Val- entine Wolff reared a family of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, as follows: John A., Rose C. (Mrs. Ernest Pattrell), Samuel H., David, Christian (deceased), Elizabeth (Mrs. Dwight Wolff), Wilbur, Joseph, Nannie, George and James. John A. Wolff, the subject of this sketch, was reared on a farm in his native county and educated in the common schools. In 1881 he located in Pittsburg, began to work at the carpenters' trade, then as a jour- neyman, up to 1889. In 1890 he embarked for himself as a carpen- ter and builder, and has been successfully occupied in this work continuously since. On Sept. 10, 1885, Mr. Wolff married Miss Jennie E. Barnhart, daughter of Henry and Margaret Barnhart, of Braddock, and has three children, Annie B., Louretta Jean and Frederick William. Mr. and Mrs. Wolff are members of the First Presbyterian church of Homestead. Mr. Wolff is a member of Homestead lodge, No. 1049, I. O. O. F .; No. 288, Carpenters and Joiners of America, and No. 21, Order of Americus. In politics he is a republican.
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HERMAN J. McBRIDE, a popular and successful druggist of Etna, Pa., was born in Paxton, 111., in 1873, and is a son of M. B. McBride, who was a prominent attorney in Butler, Pa., up to the time of his death, in March, 1900. Mr. McBride's mother is still living in Butler, where she was reared, although born in Pittsburg. She is the daughter of Her- man J. Berg, who was an oil producer in Pennsylvania in the early sixties. She has three sons, Herman J., Frank and Eugene. Herman J. McBride learned the drug business, and, in 1899, started a drug store at Etna, where he enjoys the confidence of his many customers. He was married, Oct. 24, 1900, to Miss Mary Ganster, daughter of George and Philomina (Ackerman) Ganster, of Etna. Mr. and Mrs. McBride have one child, George Herman, born Jan. 16, 1902.
JOHN H. GILLEN, the oldest estab- lished funeral director at Homestead, was born near Delmont, Westmoreland Co., Pa., Nov. 9, 1854, son of Allen and Julia A. (Hill) Gillen, both natives, of Pennsylvania. His paternal grandfather, Allen Gillen, a native of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish parentage, was one of the pioneer settlers of Allegheny county, while his maternal grandfather, James Hill, who was of German descent, was a farmer in Westmoreland county. Allen Gillen, father of the subject of this sketch, was reared in Allegheny county, and when a young man ran a stage-coach between Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Later he located in Westmoreland county, where he spent the rest of his life as a farmer. He was twice married, first to a Miss Bair, and had one son by this marriage, William S. He married as his second wife Julia Ann Hill, and had by this marriage three sons, Jacob, John H. and Allen. John H. Gillen, the subject of this sketch, was reared in Westmoreland county, educated in the public schools and at Delmont seminary, graduating from the seminary in 1874. For several years Mr. Gillen was a farmer, and, in April,
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1882, located at Elizabeth, Allegheny county, where he was engaged for two years in the livery business. Coming to Home- stead in 1884, he embarked in the undertaking business, at which he has been successfully engaged for over eighteen years. Mr. Gillen was married, March 20, 1877, to Sarah S., daughter of James and Harriet (Dewalt) Irwin, of Westmoreland county, and has two children, Anna M., wife of Oliver H. Blakely, and Laura. Mr. Gillen and family are members of the First Presbyterian church of Homestead. Mr. Gillen is a member of Homestead lodge, No. 582, F. and A. M .; Boaz council, No. 814, R. A .; Magdala lodge, No. 650, B. P. O. E .; No. I commandery, K. T .; Mystic Shrine, and Zerubbabel chapter, No. 162, R. A. M. In politics he is a republican.
JACOB J. BRAUN, of Sharpsburg, Pa., a well-known merchant, was born on the Sharp farm near the present town of Sharpsburg, Allegheny county, Dec. 12, 1856, and was educated in the common schools of his native county. His educa- tional training was limited to a few years, on account of the death of his mother and the prolonged sickness of his father, and when ten years of age he secured employ- ment in an oil refinery. He remained with this concern for five years, and then engaged as a clerk for P. Kiel, Jr., in the grocery business, continuing in that capacity for six years. Mr. Braun has had a diversified business career, having been a butcher, drover, rougher in the Lewis, Bailey, Dalzell & Co.'s mills, heater in steel works, and then worked in the rolling mill of Morhead Brothers & Co., until the strike in 1891, when he began his present business at No. 111 Eighteenth St. Mr. Braun has made a success of his mercantile venture, and his business has prospered from its inception. He was married to Elizabeth Neyoma, daughter of William K. and Artliza (Miller) Mulholland. To them were born four children : Robert J., a machinist in the Carbon steel company, of Pittsburg; Charles A., clerk for Heinz & Co., of Allegheny city ; Albert H., an employe of the West Pennsylvania railroad company, and Leona May, wife of Albert Krotzer, a leading grocer of Kit- tanning, Pa. Mr. Braun is prominently identified with the leading secret orders, holding membership in Sharpsburg lodge, No. 752,
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of the 'Odd Fellows, and representing that lodge in the grand lodge on five different occasions; in the Masonic fraternity; in the George Washington lodge, No. 423, of the Junior Order of Ameri- can Mechanics, and representative to the State council for eight terms. He is a member of Grace Methodist church, and in politics is a republican. Mr. Braun has resided in Sharpsburg during his business career, and is a substantial citizen of that city.
DAVID KING CALHOUN, a promi- nent farmer of West Homestead, was born in Mifflin township, Allegheny Co., Pa., April 3, 1831. He lives on the farm patented by his maternal grandfather, Robert Hays, in 1803. Robert Hays was a native of Ireland, but spent a great part of his life in Mifflin township, where he died. His wife was Nancy Reid. Mr. Calhoun is descended, on his father's side, from James Calhoun, who was born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1723, and came to America in 1733. He died in Allegheny county, Feb. 4, 1799. James Calhoun's son, David Calhoun, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, married Eleanor King. David Calhoun was among the first settlers of Mifflin township, where he located in 1784. He was born in Lancaster county, Pa., in 1757. He served in the Revolutionary war, and took part in many of the battles of that war. He fought at Brandywine; at Camden, under General Gates; at Guilford courthouse, under General Green, and saw General Cornwallis deliver up his sword at Yorktown. His patent for 320 acres of land in Mifflin township was granted in 1803. At the beginning of the War of 1812, David Calhoun, then fifty-four years old, shouldered his musket and marched to General Harrison's headquarters, but, on account of his age, was ordered back to guard Fort Pitt, where he remained during the rest of the war. During this period he held the rank of captain. He died Aug. 18, 1834, and his wife, Eleanor (King) Calhoun, died April 12, 1831, both being buried in the Mifflin church cemetery. The parents of David King Calhoun, the subject of this sketch, were John K. and Mary (Hays) Calhoun. They were married Dec. 30, 1824. John K. Calhoun followed farming all his life. He was born Oct. 17, 1796, and died Dec. 13, 1869, and his wife. Aug. 2, 1873. David King Calhoun, the sub-
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