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ELMER M. EDWARDS, a prominent resident of Sharpsburg, was born near Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio, April 26, 1866. He is a son of Wallace and Electa (Barnett) Edwards, of Scioto county. Mr. Edwards was educated at Xenia, Ohio, graduating from the schools there in 1881, and then worked for a time in Chicago and other places as an electrician and a telegraph operator. On April 1, 1902, he was elected for a one-year term as superintendent of the water-works at Sharpsburg. In politics he is a republi- can and an influential worker in local party contests. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Sons of Veterans, Independent Order of Heptasophs and Modern Woodmen of America, and belongs to the Presbyterian church. Mr. Edwards was married, in 1890, to Caroline, daughter of W. H. and Mary A. Swaby, of Ohio. They have four children : Ethel, Wallace and Robert, in school, and one younger child, Paul. Mr. Edwards and family reside at No. 1724 Main St., Sharpsburg.
ALBERT LONABAUGH, butcher and proprietor of a meat market on West Railroad avenue, Oakmont, was born in West Deer township, Allegheny county, June 20, 1859, and is a son of Jacob and Sarah (Lawson) Lonabaugh, the father a native of Philadelphia, and from 1844 until his death in 1897, a resident of West Deer township, and the mother a native of Allegheny county. Jacob Lonabaugh was a butcher all his life, and taught his son that trade. He served in the Civil war from 1862 to the close as a member of Company B, 63d Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. Albert Lonabaugh, whose name heads this article, has received his edu- cation more from travel than from books, being a wide traveler, who has visited thirteen of the States of the Union. In 1882 he started a meat business in Oakmont, and has spent most of his time since then in business in Oakmont, where he owns considerable property. He spent a year, from 1883 to 1884, in Carleton, Thayer
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Co., Neb., and, in 1894, went to Findlay, Ohio, where he remained three years, but has since that time been a resident of Oakmont, where he is engaged in the care of a flourishing business. As was his father before him, so Mr. Lonabaugh is a republican in politics, and has served six years in the council of Oakmont. He was mar- ried, in 1882, to Miss Mattie Weickel, of Ohio township, Allegheny county, daughter of Henry Weickel, who lived on his father's farm all his life and died at the age of eighty-four. Mr. and Mrs. Lonabaugh have had two children, Edna and Pauline, of whom Edna is now deceased. Mr. Lonabaugh has gained considerable reputation as a hunter, and has shot game in many parts of the United States.
ULYSSES GRANT WILLIAMS, pres- ident of the Turtle Creek savings and trust company, is one of the younger and more prominent business men of Turtle Creek. He was born in Braddock, Pa., July 11, 1865, son of Jacob and Sarah (Miller) Williams. Jacob Williams was the son of John and Elizabeth (Washa- baugh) Williams, of Westmoreland county, and his wife was the daughter of John and Anna (Steiner) Miller, old set- tlers of the same county. Ulysses Grant Williams attended school in Braddock and Pittsburg, and pursued his studies in Duff's commercial college, graduating from that institution in 1882. After graduation he entered the employ of the Braddock National bank, where he remained for nine years. Mr. Williams was the leading spirit in the organization of the Citizens' bank, of Turtle Creek, in 1896, and when that organization gave way, July 1, 1902, to the Turtle Creek savings and trust company, he became president of the new bank. This institution was incorporated with a paid-in capital of $125,000, and has been steadily growing, so that it is now well established and holds the confidence of the citizens of the progress- ive community of Turtle Creek. Mr. Williams is a member of Valley lodge, No. 613, F. and A. M., of Turtle Creek ; Mckeesport chapter, No. 282, R. A. M. ; Pittsburg commandery, No. 1, Knights Templars; Pennsylvania consistory, S. P. R. S., and Syria temple, A. A. O. T. M. S. He is a member of the First Christian church of Braddock.
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WILLIAM W. HEZLEP, a well-known carpenter of Turtle Creek, was born in that city, Oct. 14, 1876. He is a son of Samuel and Eliza (Curry) Hezlep, the father born May 7, 1851, and died Jan. 27, 1883, and the mother died at Turtle Creek, June 28, 1894. Joseph B., father of Samuel Hezlep, a prominent merchant of Turtle Creek for forty-three years, died May 13, 1900, and his wife, Aug. 10. 1899. William W. Hezlep was reared in Turtle Creek, and educated in the public schools of that place, after which he became a carpenter, following that vocation up to the present time. Mr. Hezlep was married, in 1892, to Clara, daughter of John and Rosa Mensdorf, of Wilmerding, and to them were born two children, Joseph and Henry, both at home. Mr. Hezlep is a member of the United Presbyterian church of his native city.
ROBERT D. ELWOOD, president of the First National bank of Verona, was born in Apollo, Armstrong county, Pa., April 7, 1836, and was educated in public and private schools. He began business life as a clerk in a store, engaged for a time in the canal business, and, in 1861, enlisted as a soldier in the union army, in Company I, 78th Pennsylvania volun- teer infantry. He served three years and four months, taking part in most of the engagements in which his regiment participated. Shortly after enlistment he was made second lieutenant, and afterwards was promoted to the position of captain. The war over, Captain Elwood engaged in mercantile pursuits in Apollo from 1865 to 1871, and, in 1872, went into the wholesale grain business in Pittsburg, in which he has since that time been successfully engaged. He was also for some years president of the Iron City milling company, of Pitts- burg. He was one of the organizers of the First National bank of Verona, and has been its president from the first. He was also a director of the Second National bank of Pittsburg for a number of years. Captain Elwood has been for twenty-eight years a resident
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of Verona, and is one of the most prominent and influential citizens of that place. In politics he is a republican, and in religion a Pres- byterian. He married Miss Mary H. Lewellyn, of Apollo, and has two children living, Thomas J. and Robert D., Jr. Captain Elwood is a Free Mason, a member of the Loyal Legion, Union Veteran legion, No. 1, of Pittsburg, and the G. A. R
ABRAHAM OVERHOLT TINST- MAN, for a quarter of a century a resi- dent of Turtle Creek, was born in East Huntington township, Westmoreland county, in .1834. He is of German descent, his maternal grandfather, Abra- ham Overholt, being one of the prom- inent early settlers of Westmoreland county. Abraham Overholt married Maria Stauffer, of Fayette county, and had a daughter, Anna, who was married, in 1830, to John Tinstman, father of the man whose name heads this article. Abraham Overholt Tinstman was the third of ten children. He was educated in the common schools of his native county, worked on a farm until he reached the age of twenty-five, when he became manager of the estate of his grandfather, Abraham Overholt, the estate embracing a mill, distillery and valuable lands, at Broad Ford, Fayette Co., Pa. In 1864 he became partner with his grand- father, and continued in this capacity until the death of the latter, which occurred in 1870. Mr. Tinstman has long been extensively interested in coal and coke. In 1868 he formed a partnership with Col. A. S. M. Morgan, of Pittsburg, under the name of Morgan & Co., and engaged in making coke near Broad Ford, Pa. In 1871 he formed a partnership with Messrs. Frick and Rist, under the name of Frick & Co., and continued with this concern in the manu- facture of coke until 1880, when he established the firm of A. O. Tinstman & Co., in Pittsburg, being engaged in the same business for some years. Since 1885 he has dealt extensively in the pur- chase and sale of coal lands, his office being at No. 425 Fourth Ave., Pittsburg. In 1870 Mr. Tinstman was one of the organizers of the Mount Pleasant & Broad Ford railway company, and was president of the company until the road was purchased by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company, six years later. Mr. Tinstman was married, July 1, 1875, to Harriet Cornelia, daughter of Gen.
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C. P. and Sarah (Lippincot) Markle, of Westmoreland county, Pa., and has one son, Cyrus P., who has completed the civil engineer- ing course at the Pennsylvania military college, at Chester, Pa. Mr. Tinstman and family have lived in Turtle Creek since the erection of their beautiful home there in 1879. The site of a pioneer cabin, long since gone to decay, and the home of a Mrs. Myers, who gave food and shelter to George Washington, are on the Tinstman grounds. During the Civil war, when General Morgan was making his famous raid through the State of Ohio, Mr. Tinstman raised a company in twenty-four hours at Broad Ford, Pa., and went to Salineville, where they arrived just in time to assist in Morgan's capture.
LOUIS M. STEPHENS, vice-presi- dent of the National bank of Tarentum, was born in Crawford county, Pa., June 3, 1819. When three years old he went to Mercer county with his parents, John and Hannah (Mattox) Stephens, remain- ing there until 1845, when he moved to Tarentum, his present home. He was the oldest of five sons and four daugh- ters. Mr. Stephens received a limited education in a primitive backwoods schoolhouse, and learned the trade of a carpenter, at which he worked for many years. He was also a contractor and builder up to about the time of the Civil war, after which he engaged in the lumber business and was for some time a skiff builder. Mr. Stephens has been unusually successful in business, and has, entirely by his own efforts, amassed a considerable fortune, part of which is invested in property in Tarentum. He is also a stockholder and vice-presi- dent of the National bank of Tarentum. In politics he has been a life-long democrat. Mr. Stephens was married, in Allegheny city, to Isabel Gregg, and has had four children, of whom one is living, Lawrence, now in the oil business in Ohio. Mr. Stephens has been in his day a great hunter, has shot deer and other game, and is well versed in the habits of wild animals, of which he has made partic- ular study. He is a man of limited schooling, but educated in the school of life, a close observer of human nature, and a man of excellent judgment.
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EDWARD I. BALDWIN, of Cora- opolis, a prosperous oil producer, was born in East Troy, N. Y., now Water- vliet, on June 9, 1845, and is a son of John G. and Martha (Town) Baldwin. His father was a tailor, very quiet in his tastes, a man possessing a great fund of humor, and a disciple of Izaak Walton. He was a veteran of the Civil war, serv- ing in the 15th New York infantry, and also in the 15th New York cavalry. Mr. John Baldwin was twice married, first to Martha Town, of Massachusetts, who bore him three children-E. I., A. R. and Annie E .- and the second time to Ruth Barnes, by whom he had two children, Jessie K. and Olin J. Besides our subject, the surviving children of Mr. Baldwin are: A. R., well known in banking and real estate, of Syracuse, N. Y. ; Olin J., one of the leading contractors of Ithaca, N. Y. ; Mrs. Jessie Barnes, a highly cultured woman, now princi- pal of two schools at Auburn, and Mrs. Annie E. Barnes, of Mas- sachusetts, who is deeply interested in temperance, missionary and religious work. Edward I. Baldwin was educated in the public schools of Fayetteville, N. Y., and when fourteen years of age began work on a farm, where he remained until the beginning of the Civil war. At eighteen years of age he enlisted in Company B, 15th New York cavalry, commanded by Col. R. M. Richardson, of Syracuse. The 15th was in the 3d cavalry corps commanded by the illustrious general, George A. Custer, who later met his fate at the famous massacre of the Little Big Horn, and served until mustered out in Louisville, Ky. At the close of the war, Mr. Baldwin went to the oil regions at Petroleum Center and Pithole, Pa., and engaged in teaming, hauling crude oil on Oil creek for two years. He then went to California, where he spent three years, being, as he says, "chief cook and bottle washer" on a wagon train, and a general rover on the plains. Returning to the oil regions in 1868, he engaged in the oil business at Pithole, in which he has been very successful financially, operating at one time nineteen wells in Mckean, Butler and Allegheny counties. Mr. Baldwin was married, in 1870, to Lucy Norris, of Venango, Craw- ford county, and their union was blessed with ten children, six girls and four boys, seven of whom are living, the four sons being in the oil business. Mr. Baldwin is senior partner of the firm of II-16
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Baldwin & Son, in the general repair work, and agent for the Braden gas engine, the firm being known as the Star machine com- pany, of Coraopolis. In 1877 he, his wife, three daughters and one son joined the Baptist church in Bradford, and are very prominent in the active duties of the same. Mr. Baldwin is a member of numerous fraternal organizations, among them being the F. and A. M., the I. O. O. F., John Melvin post, G. A. R., T. E. A., and others. He has taken prominent parts in the orders, represented a number of them in their respective grand lodges, and stands high in the opinions of his fellow members. He is a member of the board of health in his town, in politics is a republican, but is always willing to vote for the temperance man. His youngest son, Fred Custer Baldwin, served two years in the 47th regiment of the United States volunteers, and saw active service in the Philippine islands. Mr. Baldwin is a man who is well known and esteemed for his many sterling qualities, and possesses the friendship of all who know him.
WALTER NEWTON HUMPHREY, M. D., of Sharpsburg, Pa., a prominent general practitioner of medicine, was born at Portersville, Butler Co., Pa., June 7, 1870, son of William and Eliza- beth (Riddle) Humphrey, both of whom are now living. His father is engaged in the mercantile business at Portersville, and is one of the leading men of that sec- tion of the county. Dr. Humphrey was educated in the public schools of his native city, graduated from the classical department of Grove City college in 1890, matriculated at Jefferson medical college the same year, and was graduated from that famous institution in 1893. He came to Sharpsburg, opened an office at No. 611 Main St., where he remained until 1900, when he removed to his present location, No. 1407 Middle St. He was married, in 1898, to Florence, daugh- ter of James and Elmira (Gulick) Depue, both descendants of French Huguenots and residents of Belvidere, N. J., and to Dr. and Mrs. Humphrey has been born one child, William Depue Humphrey. Dr. Humphrey is a member of the Presbyterian church, the Heptasophs, the Allegheny county medical society and the Pennsylvania medical association, and in politics is a republi-
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can. An uncle of Dr. Humphrey, James Humphrey, was a mem- ber of the Pennsylvania State senate and an original forty-niner; another uncle was county commissioner in Butler county for two terms. Mrs. Humphrey had an uncle who was judge of the supreme court in the State of New Jersey for thirty-five years, and though a republican, was appointed to that honorable position by a democratic governor. Mrs. Humphrey's father was for many years a manufacturer of fertilizers, but has now retired from active life and is living quietly at Belvidere, N. J. Dr. Humphrey has made a decided success of his professional career, and is one of the leading physicians of that part of Allegheny county.
RACHEL A. CLAY, one of the first settlers of Braddock, was born on the lot on which she now resides, Nov. 8, 1843. Her father, Isaac Mills, the first burgess of the borough, in 1829 purchased prop- erty on which was a log house, and, later, supplanted it with a better dwell- ing. The home in which Mrs. Clay now resides was built in 1848, but was re- modeled in 1902, and is now a beautiful mansion surrounded by spacious grounds. Isaac Mills was a son of Stephen and ISAAC MILLS. Elizabeth (Osborne) Mills, natives of Morristown, N. J. He was born in New York city, Dec. 13, 1801, and came to Braddock with his parents in boyhood, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was very closely identified with all the growing interests of the city. He was extensively engaged in agricultural pursuits, his farm including over 300 acres, all now comprised in the borough of Braddock. He was a charter member of the First Christian church, built the first church, and always took an active part in church matters, contributing liberally whenever called upon. Of the ten children of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Mills, Mary S. died when twenty-six years old; Eliza L. died in 1900 at the age of sixty-two; Isaac, who served three years in the 63d Pennsylvania volunteers, died in March, 1902, at the same age; Helena E. married C. C. Lobingier, and resides now at Fitzgerald, Ga. ; Rachel A. is the subject of this article; Nancy Jane died April 14, 1870, at the age of twenty-four; Charles died in April, 1890, at the age of forty-three; Samuel S. was killed in August, 1864, when fifteen years old, by the accidental discharge of a pistol;
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James K. and Stephen D. are now prominent quarrymen and brick- makers of North Braddock. Mrs. Clay was a daughter of Isaac Mills and Elizabeth Betsy (Snodgrass) Mills, a daughter of Col. Samuel and Mary (Mckinney) Snodgrass. She was born near Elizabeth, in Allegheny county, Jan. 14, 1813. Her ancestors were very early settlers in Pennsylvania. Rachel A. Clay, the subject of this sketch, graduated from Pleasant Hill seminary in 1862, and, after teaching for a time, was married, Dec. 5, 1876, to Henry Clay, city engineer of Elizabeth, N. J. Henry Clay was the son of John Clay, of New York city, and his mother was a descend- ant of Danvers Osborne, the first colonial governor of New Jersey. Henry Clay, husband of Rachel A. Clay, died one year after the birth of his only child, Elizabeth Mills Clay, who was born March 10, 1878. She was educated at the Bishop Bowman insti- tute, of Pittsburg, from which she graduated in 1897, and was mar- ried, Feb. 2, 1898, to Louis Ashton Drexler, son of Joseph A. Drexler, a veteran of the Civil war. To Mr. and Mrs Drexler have been born two children, Louis Ashton, Jr., born Oct. 2, 1899, and Henry Clay, born Aug. 7, 1901.
THE CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY, at Braddock, Pa., which stands on Library street, just off of Main street, is a hand- ---- some structure built of granite and pressed brick, which was erected by Andrew Carnegie, the multi- millionaire steel magnate, at a cost of about $250,000. It is a building of three stories and a basement, and is 92 feet wide by 162 feet long. The library proper is on the sec- ond floor, where there is a spacious reading-room elegantly furnished and well lighted. The building was commenced in 1889 and was subsequently greatly enlarged, and was not completed until 1894. Mr. E. H. Anderson was superintendent from 1892 to 1895, when he was called to be superintendent of the Carnegie library at Pitts- burg, Miss Helen Sperry taking his place at Braddock. She was succeeded by Mr. Walter Crane, who took charge Jan. 1, 1898, and continued as superintendent, until his untimely death, which occurred Oct. 18, 1902. It was Mr. Crane who made the library a workingman's library, and established branches at Wilkinsburg, Turtle Creek and Monongahela City. The library also has an
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important station at East Pittsburg, one at California, Pa., and one at Belle Vernon, Pa. It also furnishes a great abundance of reading-matter for the schools of Braddock and surrounding boroughs. At the close of business, Dec. 31, 1903, the library and its branches had on its shelves 34, 101 volumes, and a total of 12, 450 registered readers, not including some 5,000 pupils who were draw- ing books through the schools. The total number of books drawn for home use during the year 1902 Was 202,238. The entire staff of the library and its branches consists of eleven persons. The Braddock building is also the home of the Carnegie club, and is equipped with baths, billiard tables, a swimming pool and bowling alley. Walter Crane was born in Scotland in 1856. When a young man, he worked several years in libraries in England, and, in the early eighties, he came to America, and, after a brief residence in Boston and Chicago, located at Joliet, Ill. At Joliet he had an opportunity to try his unique ideas about a workingman's library, and established there the first library of its kind in America. Here he remained nine years, and was then called to take charge of the library which Mr. Carnegie had built for the workingmen of Brad- dock. March 1, 1903, Mr. G. H. Lamb, who was at that time superintendent of the Braddock schools, accepted the position made vacant by Mr. Crane's death.
JACOB DIETERICH, of Etna, Pa., a prominent citizen and member of the council, was born in Hesse, Germany, Oct. 11, 1842, son of John C. and Eliza- beth (Rock) Dieterich, his father having been a native of Germany and come to America in 1856, settled in Etna, and there his family have since resided. Mr. Dieterich attended the public schools of the Fatherland until thirteen years of age, when he came to America with his parents. He went into the nail mill of Spang & Co., remaining with this concern for fourteen years, working at different jobs, and then was employed in the mill of Bennett & Co. for two years. Subse- quently he worked for Lewis, Bailey, Dalzell & Co., of Sharpsburg, until that firm sold out to Morehead Bros., when he went with the new firm as shearman of nail iron. Prior to this, in 1866-1868, he made mattresses under the firm name of Jacob Dieterich, and in 1888
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retired from active business, and now resides at No. 251 Butler St., Etna. He was married, in 1868, to Henrietta, daughter of Jacob and Katharine Murlock, formerly of Würtemberg, Germany, and they have one child living, Anna, wife of Fred Molder, a suc- cessful farmer of Butler county. Mr. Dieterich is a member of the German Evangelical Lutheran church of Etna, and is closely identified with the republican party. He has served in his present position as a member of the council of Etna for twelve years, and is a prominent member of that body, being the chairman of several important committees and taking a leading part in their deliberations.
DANIEL A. SNYDER, of Sharps- burg, Pa., general superintendent of Morehead Bros. & Co.'s iron and nail works, of Sharpsburg, was born in Indiana, Indiana Co., Pa., Nov. 14, 1860, son of David and Mary Snyder, the for- mer a native of Germany, who, when a boy, came to Mobile, Ala. ; later removed to Indiana county, Pa, and there pros- pered as a farmer until his death. He was a member of the 55th Pennsylvania volunteers during the Civil war, and died in the hospital from the effects of wounds received in the fights around Petersburg, Va. His mother died in 1882. Daniel A. Snyder was educated in the public schools of his native county and at the Phillipsburg orphan school in Beaver county. When he was sixteen years of age he began to learn the trade of carpentering in Homer City, and for four years worked at his trade in Sharpsburg. He entered the mills of Morehead Bros. & Co. as a carpenter, serving in that capacity for seven or eight years; next was appointed millwright, which position he held until 1898, when he was appointed to his present position of general superintendent of the works. He was happily married, in 1883, to Lucy, daughter of E. P. and Susan (Fry) Hill, of Nineveh, Indiana Co., Pa., and to them has been born a daughter, Irene, a student of the schools of Sharpsburg. Mr. Snyder is a member of the Royal Arcanum, the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and of the republican party. In 1903 he was elected a member of the city council of Sharpsburg, and is a prominent member of that body, holding the chairmanship of several important committees.
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JAMES H. PATTERSON, postmaster at Sharpsburg, was born in Elizabeth township, Allegheny Co., Pa., Dec. 11, 1859, son of John G. and Sarah (Bugh) Patterson, of Washington John G. Pat- terson was for many years pilot on the Monongahela river. Postmaster James H. Patterson was educated in the public schools, then entered the employ of the Tibby Bros. glass company, where he remained twenty-five years, holding for some years during that time the respon- sible position of manager of the works. He was appointed to his present position as postmaster, Feb. 8, 1901. During his administration he has proved himself a capable official, and has succeeded in having a much needed free delivery system established in Sharpsburg. Mr. Patterson is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, being a member of the Zere- dathah lodge, No. 448. He is also a member of the Jr. O. U. A. M. and belongs to the Presbyterian church, in which he holds the position of trustee.
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