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HAWLEY, Lucius Everett, A, M .:
Proprietor of the Woolsey School for Young Men, Pittsburg, Pa .; born at Pots- dam, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1853; graduated from the State Normal School in that village in 1873; graduated from Union College, Schenectady. N. Y., in 1877; for twenty years a teacher of classics and mathemat- ics. In November, 1877, married Miss Frances M. Meeker of Franklin County, N. Y. Republican in politics. Address, 219 Oakland Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
HAY, Albert L. G .:
Lawyer; born in Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, Pa., Aug. S, 1868; taught in public schools of his home dis- trict; was graduated from Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster, in 18SS, with degree of A. B .; degree of A. M. has since been conferred upon him by his Alma Mater. He studied law in the office of his uncle, Valentine Hay, Esq .; ad- mitted to the bar at Somerset, Sept. 26, 1892. In partnership with Charles W. Walker, 1893-1897; now in partnership with his uncle, Valentine Hay, which is one of the leading firms in prac- tice at the Somerset bar. Since 1897 County Solicitor; Vice President and Di- rector of the Farmers' National Bank of Somerset, and Director of the Interna- tional Savings and Trust Company of Pittsburg, Pa. On Feb. 3, 1898, married Emma, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Wil- liam J. Baer. Address, Somerset, Pa.
HAYES, Charles Harold:
Lieutenant United States Navy; born in Lewisburg. Pa., Jan. 7. 1861; entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis as a Cadet Midshipman, September 25, 1880; was graduated in 1964 and honorably discharged June, 1856. Associated with
the Winona Lumber Company of Winona, Minn., and in 1889, in accordance with an act of Congress, was appointed an As- sistant Engineer in the Navy; promoted to Passed Assistant Engineer, 1896, and to Lieutenant, March 3, 1899. On Oct. 18, 1892, married Maud Smith of Tacoma, Wash., daughter of the late Edward S. Smith. He made his first cruise after graduating on the Hartford, and from 1890 to 1893 served on the Yorktown; was Assistant Inspector of Machinery at Cramps' ship yard for two years, and served during the Spanish-American War as First Assistant Engineer of the Mas- sachusetts; Chief Engineer of the Cas- sius and Abarenda, and after the war spent eighteen months as senior watch office of the Concord in the Philippines and China. His present duty is navigat- ing officer of the Massachusetts, belong- ing to the battleship squadron of the North Atlantic Fleet. He received a com- mendatory letter from the Secretary of the Navy for meritorious conduct in en- tering the dynamo room of the Massachu- setts and shutting off the steam on the night of Aug. 17, 1896, when the room was filled with live steam, resulting from one of the dynamo engines being com- pletely wrecked. He is a son of Alfred Hayes of Lewisburg, Pa. Address, Lewis- burg, Pa.
HAYES, George Washington:
Civil engineer and surveying expert; born July S, 1854. at Philadelphia, Pa .; educated in Philadelphia public and pri- vate schools; graduate (C. E.) of the Polytechnic College of the State of Penn- sylvania, 1874; Ph. G. of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 18$2. Married Ag- nes Ida Uhler, Sept. 4, 1884. Republican in politics; was City Engineer of Lebanon and County Surveyor of Lebanon County; was a United States juror at the Paris Exposition of 1889; won the Allaire. Woodward & Co. first prize for the best essay upon the purity of powdered drugs. Was President of Common Council. Ad- dress, Lebanon, Pa.
HAYES, John Russell:
Author: Assistant Professor of English Literature, Swarthmore College; born in West Chester, Pa., June 25, 1866: son of William M. and Rachel H. (Russell) Hayes; his ancestors on both sides were of old Chester County and Lancaster County Quaker stock: was graduated at West Chester High School, 1884; at
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Swarthmore College, 1SSS; and at Harvard University, 1889. He studied law with his father, and at University of Pennsyl- vania Law School; was graduated LL. B., 1892. Married Emma Gawthrop of Wil- mington, Del., June 30, 1892. Practiced law, 1891-1892; studied English literature at Oxford and Strasburg, 1892-1593; has taught in the English Department. Swarthmore College, since 1893. Pub- lished "The Old-Fashioned Garden and Other Verses," 1895; "The Brandywine." 1598 (second edition, 1899); "Swarthmore Idylls." 1899; "In a Brandywine Harvest
Field," 1903; "The Shepherd's Hour Glass" (songs and reveries beside the Brandywine), 1904; has written odes for the twenty-fifth anniversary of Swarth- more College, the West Chester Centen- nial, the Delaware County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, etc. He is a mem- ber of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and one of the editorial contributors to The Book-Lover, New York. Address, Swarth- more, Pa.
HAYES, Timothy D .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Lackawanna Coun- ty; born in Ireland, March 28, 1858; re- ceived a common school education; when quite young he went to Wales, and at twelve years of age went to work in the coal mines. In September, ISTS, he emi- grated to the United States and secured work as a miner in the anthracite coal mines, which occupation he still follows: has made a special study of mines and mining, and during the past twenty years has been very active and prominent in labor organizations, and has held many important positions connected with them; served three years as District Master Workman of District No. 16, K. of L .; was delegate to the General Assembly, K. of L., in New Orleans, in 1991, and National delegate to the United Mine Workers' National Conventions at Indian- apolis, Ind., in January. 1900. 1901 and 1902. and to the special convention in July, 1902. Elected to the House of Rep- resentaties in November, 1902. Address. Scranton, Pa.
HAYMAKER, John Carothers:
Allegheny County bar July 17, 1875; was elected Assistant District Attorney of Al- legheny County in 1887 for a term of three years from January. 18SS, and was re-elected in 1890, serving in all from: January, 1SSS, to June, 1894, when he re- signed. In the election of 1894 he was elected District Attorney for three years; was re-elected to this office in 1897, and again in 1900, making nine years in all as District Attorney. He is a Republican in politics. Member of the Crucible and Country Clubs, Pittsburg. Address. 440 Diamond St., Pittsburg, Pa.
HAYS, E. R .:
President of the First National Bank of Newville. Address, Newville, Cumber- land County, Pa.
HAYS. I. Minis:
Physician; born in Philadelphia. July 26, 1847; son of Isaac Hays, M. D .; was graduated from the University of Pennsyl- vania, 1866; M. A. 1869; Medical Depart- men. 1868; Secretary General of Interna- tional Medical Congress, Philadelphia. 1876; Secretary American Philosophical Society. Member of Association of Amer- ican Physicians. College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Historical Society of Penn- sylvania, etc. Formerly editor of the American Journal of the Medical Sci- ences and of the Medical News; editor of American edition of Soleberg Wells on Diseases of the Eye, Philadelphia. 1573. Author of article on "Blindness-Its Fre- quency, Causes and Prevention in Sys- tem of Diseases of the Eye," Philadel- phia, 1897, "The Chironology of Benja- min Franklin," Philadelphia, 1904; and of numerous articles in medical and other periodical publications. Address. 266 South Twenty-first St., Philadelphia, Pa.
HA), John:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion: Second Lieutenant 130th Penn- sylvania Infantry. Aug. 14. 1862: First Lieutenant. Aug. 17. 1\62; First Lieuten- ant and Adjutant. Feb. 18. 1863: honor- ably mustered out, May 21, 1863; elected April 7. 1869. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion. 1535 Chestnut St .. Phil- adeiphia, Pa.
Lawyer; born Sept. 2. 1953. in Patton Township,' Allegheny County, Pa .; sou of William and Mary (Simpson) Haymaker: HAYS. Thomas: comeated at the public schools and at Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Butler County: Laird Institute. Muraysville, Westmore- land County, Pa. He was admitted to the ! born near Brady's Bend. Armstrong Coan-
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ty, Pa., Jan. 19, 1840; educated in the common and high schools of his neighbor- hood. At the call for troops in Septem- ber, 1861, he enlisted in the 103d Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, and took part in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines and Seven Days' Fight; in Novem- ber, 1862, he was transferred to Battery L, Fourth United States Artillery, and took part in many battles of the Army of the Potomac. After the war he bought a farm near Fairview. Butler County. Pa., where he engaged in raising horses and cattle; is now engaged in the oil. real estate and banking business: served as School Director five terms. Was elected to the House of Representatives in No- veniber, 1902. Address, Butier, Pa.
HAYWOOD, Benjamin J .:
State Treasurer; born in Mercer Coun- ty, Pa .. April 12, 1849: educated in the Iron City Business College, Pittsburg; in 1873 he became a bank teller in West Middlesex, which position he held for five years, when he was appointed Post- master of West Middlesex; in the legis- lative sessions of 1885 and 18Si he served as message clerk of the Senate, and was then elected Prothonotary of Mercer County: in 1891, on the failure of the First National Bank of Clearfield, he was appointed receiver of that defunct insti- tution, and managed its affairs so ably as to win him the highest commendation. He was appointed cashier of the State Treasury in 1894, and in 1895 became a candidate for State Treasurer. and was elected by the large majority of 174.264, holding this office till 1898 and perform- ing its duties in a very satisfactory man- ner. He has been very active in the Re- publican councils of Mercer County. Ad- dress, West Middlesex, Pa.
HAYWOOD. J .:
President of the First National Bank of Ambler. Address, Ambler, Montgom- ery County, Pa.
HAZARD, Willis Hatfield:
Clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church: son of Willis Pope and Susan Robinson (Gilpin) Hazard; born July 26. 1866, at West Chester. Pa .; in 18ST was graduated from Haverford College, Penn- sylvania: also graduate of the Theological Seminary, New York, in 1891; at the University of Pennsylvania in 15AS was a graduate student in English philology: graduate student in Semitio philology at Columbia University in 1591; Schiff Ara-
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bic prizeman and Cary scholar, also A. M. with honors, at Harvard in 1892. In 1594 he took his degree of Ph. D. in Semitic philology at Harvard; was ordained deacon in 1891, and afterward. in 1896, ordained priest. Married Mary Dunbar Creigh. November 14, 1898, at West Chester, Pa. Rector of St. John's at Concord, Pa .. 1896; also of St. Mark's Worcester, Mass. In 1899 was editorial writer on The Churchman, New York; was also in the editorial department of D. Appleton & Company. New York. He is an associate of Victoria Institute of Great Britain; also a member of the American Oriental Society, Society of Biblical Lit- prature and Exegesis. Oriental Society, New York: Salmagundi Club, New York. Address, West Chester, Pa.
HAZELTINE. A. J .:
Banker: born in Busti, Chautauqua County, N. Y .; educated in the common schools: member of Councils and School Board: President of the Young Men's Christian Association at Warren, Pa. Member of United States Assay Com- mittee. 1900. President of the Warren Savings Bank. Married Hattie E. Davis, June 4. 186S. Republican in politics. Ad- dress, Warren, Pa.
HAZLETON. Dwight Wesley:
Member of the Pennsylvanin Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Twenty-second New York Cavalry, Dec. 12, 1863; discharged for pro- motion, March 3, 1864; Second Lieuten- ant Twenty-second New York Cavalry, March 4, 1864; First Lieutenant, June 22. 1865: honorably discharged. Aug. 1, 1865: elected, May 3, 1899. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chest- nut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
HEAP, David Porter:
colonel United States Army; born in Asia: appointed from Pennsylvania: cadet Military Academy, July 1. 1\60; First Lieutenant Engineers, June 13. 1861: Captain, March 7. 1567; Major, June 23. 1\\2; Lieutenant Colonel, May 10, 1895; Colonel Engineers, April 13, 1903; bre- vetted Captain. April 2, 1865. for gallant and meritorious services during the siege of Petersburg, Va. Address, Flood Build- ing, San Francisco, Cal.
HEATON. Edmund H .:
President of the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit Company. Address. Milton. Northumberland County, Pa.
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HEATON, W. H .:
President of the Citizens' National Bank of Ashland. Address, Ashland, Schuyl- kill County, Pa.
HEBERTON, George Alexander:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Battery F Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Aug. 8, 1862; Corporal, Aug. 8, 1862; discharged for promotion, March 4, 1863; First Lieutenant 110th Pennsylvania Infantry, March 10, 1863; honorably discharged, Nov. 30, 1864; elected May 5, 1886. Address, 401 West Chelten Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.
HEFFELINGER, Jacob:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Corporal Thirty-fifth Pennsyl- vania Infantry (Seventh Reserve), May 8, 1861; Sergeant, Dec. 1, 1$61; First Ser- geant, Feb. 1, 1863; discharged for pro- motion, March, 1863; Second Lieutenant Thirty-sixth Pennsylvania Infantry, March 1. 1863; First Lieutenant, July 31, 1863; honorably mustered out, March 11, 1865; brevetted Captain United States Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant conduct at the battle of the Wilderness, Va. Elected Nov. 5, 1884. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chest- nut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
HEFFENSTALL, Sam .:
Merchant; born Nov. 23, 1842. in Shef- field, England: educated in Sheffield, Eng- land. Married Alice Talbot. Superinten- dent of Henry Disston; Manager Howe. Brown & Co .; President of the Heppen- stall Forge and Knife Company. Address, care of Heppenstall Forge and Knife Company, Forty-seventh St., Pittsburg, Pa.
HEGER. Anthony:
Colonel United States Army; born in Austria, appointed from Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon Aug. 29, 1856; Major Surgeon Sept. 17. 1862; Lieutenant Colo- nel Surgeon Jan. 21. 1886; Colonel Sur- geon Jan. 2, 1891; brevetted Lieutenant Colonel March 13. 1865, for faithful and meritorious service during the war; re- tired Dec. 4, 1892. Address, Worthington, Hampshire Co., Mass.
HEIDELBAAUCH, MIton:
State Senator from Lancaster County: born April 19, 1843, in Bart Township:
was educated in the common schools and at Maple Grove Academy; taught school for three years and was merchandising at the nickel mines for twenty years; at present is manufacturing hard wood lum- ber with steam portable mills; served as member of the House of Representatives. sessions of 1885, 1893, 1895, 1897 and 1899; elected to the Senate, November, 1900. Address, Bart, Pa.
HEIL, William Franklin:
Minister; born May 1, 1857, at Berlins- ville, Pa .; son of Nathan and Lydia (Meister) Heil; received early education at public school, in Berlinsville, and later attended Cedar Hill Seminary and Nor- mal School, Pa. In 1880 was ordained. He was elected Bishop of United Evan- gelical Church October, 1902, for a term of four years. Address, Allentown, Pa.
HEILPRIN, Angelo:
Naturalist; born in Satoralja-Ujhely. Hungary, March 31. 1853; came to the United States in 1856; was educated in Europe, making special study of natural history. Successively Professor Inverte- brate Paleontology and Geology, 1880-1900; and Curator, 1883-1892, Academy of Natu- ral Sciences, Philadelphia; Professor Geol- ogy. Wagner Free Institute, 1885-1890; President for seven years of Geological Society, Philadelphia: Vice President Am- erican Alpine Club, 1903; leader Peary Re- lief Expedition. 1892. Exhibited paintings at several exhibitions. Author of "Town Geology." "The Lesson of the Phila- delphia Rocks," "Geographical and Geo- logical Distribution of Animals," "Ex- plorations on the West Coast of Florida. and in the Okeechobee Wilderness." "The Geological Evidence of Evolution," 1887; "A Contribution to the Physical History and Zoology of the Somers Archipelago." "Principles Geology," 1890; "The Arctic Problem and Narrative of the Peary Relief Expedition." "The Earth and Its Story," "Alaska and the Klondike." etc .. Address, Academy of Natural Sciences. Philadelphia, Pa.
HEILNER. Lewis Cass:
Commander United States Navy; ap- pointed from Pennsylvania. Naval Acad- emy. July, 1866: Ensign, July. 1871; Mas- ter. September. 1873: Lieutenant. June. 1879: Saco. Asiatic Fleet. 1871-1874: Brook- lyn, 1871; Ossipee, North Atlantic Station. 1875-1877: receiving ship Colorado, 17- 1878; Coast Survey, 1878-1883; training
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ship Portsmouth, 1853; Naval Observatory, 1885-1889; Pensacola, special service, 1889 to August, 1892; Naval Observatory, August, 1892-1895; battleship Texas, Aug- ust, 1896, to 1899; Navy Yard. New York, March 16, 1899. Promoted to Lieutenant Commander Dec. 9, 1998. Commander, May 12, 1901. Commanding Yankee since April 30, 1902. Address, care Navy De- partment, Washington, D. C.
HEILNER, Samuel A., D, D., LL. H .:
Clergyman; born Port Carbon, Pa. After attending private and public schools, he was sent to the Arcadian Institute, at Orwigsburg, Pa. On the death of his father, he, with his mother and brother, took full charge of his father's business at Lykens, Pa .; for two years studied in Dickinson Seminary at Williamsport. Pa. In 1864, was appointed pastor of a churchi in Harrisburg, Pa. In 1865, was received into the Philadelphia Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and admitted into full membership, remaining an active member ever since, and hold- ing pastorates at many different points within the State; graduated as Bachelor of Laws, Law Department of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, in 1SS1. Prominently identified with the enactment of the Mar- riage License law of Pennsylvania; is President of the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia Annual Conference, Secre- tary of the Philadelphia Conference Edu- cation Society, a member of the Board of the Church Extension Society, a Trier of Appeals. Chairman of the Conference Board of Examiners. a Trustee of the Educational Fund. a Trustee of the Meth- odist Hospital in Philadelphia, a Director of the Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. and President of the Philadelphia Tract and Mission Society. In 1856, he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Hedding and Allegheny Colleges, and in 1889 the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Texas Wes- levan College, now Fort Worth Univer- sity. Married in 1864 to Ella Thompson. in 1867 to Annie E. Jacobs. Address, 137 E. Tabor Road, Philadelphia.
HEINER, Gordon Graham:
Captain United States Army; born in District of Columbia; was appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet. Military Academy. June 15, 1882: Second Lieutenant, Second Artillery, June 12. 1893; transferred to Fourth Artillery. Nov. 29, 1993; First Lieutenant, March 2, 1893; Artillery Corps,
Feb. 2, 1901; Captain, July 1, 1901. Ad- dress, West Point, N. Y.
HEINLY, David:
Merchant; born in Albany Township, Berks County, Pa., March 31, 1836, on the farm on which he now resides; educated in private schools and at an academy in Camden, N. J. In 1861 started in the mercantile business at Albany village; al- so kept hotel for several years; elected Justice of the Peace in 1865; was one of the projectors of the Schuylkill & Lehigh Railroad: Secretary for a number of years of the Albany Mutual Fire Insurance Company. which he was instrumental in organizing; established the Steinsville creamery, and engaged in numerous other local enterprises. Married, May 28, 1$60, Amanda Levan. In politics is a Demo- crat. Address, Reading, Pa.
HEINSLING, W. J .:
President of the Union Trust Com- pany of Altoona. Address, Altoona, Blair County, Pa.
HEINZ, H. J .:
Manufacturer; born in Pittsburg, Oct. 11, 1844; educated in the public schools and local business college. As a young man, engaged part of the time in ope- rating a garden in the vicinity of Pitts- burg and in disposing of the product in the city market; assisted his father in conducting the brick and contracting business: 1869. gave his entire time and energy to the pickling and preserving business, now one of the notable business 'successes of this country, and the largest of its kind in the world. The organiza- tion now has its ramifications, in both production and distribution. in almost every country in the civilized world. The parent plant is reinforced by ten branch factories, sixty odd salting stations. or depots for the assembling of raw products and their partial preparations; twenty-five branch warehouses in commercial centres. including one in London, and fifty-two agencies. Three thousand four hundred people are employed regularly; the prod- ucts of 20,000 acres annually, and the labor of 40.000 people to tend and harvest these crops are required. Aside from a thor- ough familiarity with every detail of his business, Mr. Heinz gives much time to other interests. Is identified with Pitts- burg business institutions as follows: Director of Western Insurance Company. Director of Union National Bank, Presi-
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dent of the Central Accident Insurance Company, President of the Aspinwall Land Company, member of the Board of Trustees of Greenwood Cemetery. Sharpsburg; Vice-President of the West- ern Pennsylvania Exposition Society. and a Director of the Chamber of Commerce. In educational work his interest is shown through his relation to these instituions: The Kansas City University, of which he is a Trustee and for years was Presi- dent of the Board; the Winona Agricul- tural Institute, of Winona, Ind., and the Winona Technical Institute, Indianapolis, Ind. He is also a member of the Ameri- can Missionary Board. the oldest mis- sionary board in the country. Address. Pittsburg, Pa.
HEISLER. I. F .:
Minister Evangelical Association; born in Tamaqua. Pa., April 16, 1862; educat- ed at Schuylkill Seminary, Reading, Pa. Minister of the Gospel of the Evangeli- cal Association. Married Miss Emma L. Leippe, Jan. 13. 1885. Prohibitionist in politics, Address, Allentown, Pa.
HEISLER, John C., M. D .:
Physician and Professor of Anatomy in the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadel- phia; born at Jersey Shore, Lycoming. County. Pa., Feb. 27, 1862; educated in public schools and by private tutors; was graduated from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1SS3; graduated from Medi- cal School of University of Pennsylvania in 1857: interne at St. Mary's Hospital, Philadelphia, from 1887 to 1988; began the private practice of medicine in Philadel- phia in 1SSS; teacher in Medical School of University of Pennsylvania in various ca- pacities from
1888 to 1897-Assistant Demonstrator of Obstetrics, Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, Prosector to the Chair of Anatomy; Instructor in Dis- eases of the Chest in Philadelphia Poly- clinic for.two years (1889-1991); Professor of Anatomy in the Medico-Chirurgical College since 1897. Member of Philadel- phia County Medical Society; of Phila- delphia Pediatric Society. Pennsylvania State Medical Society, American Medical Association. Association of American An- atomists. Fellow of College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Author of "A Text Book of Embryology." (W. B. Saunders & Co., Philadelphia, 1999; second edition, 1901). Married, in 1892, Anna M. Reardon. Ad- dress, 3529 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
HEISLER, William H .:
Banker: born in Pemberton, N. J., Nov. 19, 1842; educated in the Pemberton pub- lic schools; employed in a drug store in 1559, remaining there till 1563. when he entered the Mount Holley National Bank. In 1866 he removed to Philadelphia, hav- ing acquired a good knowledge of the banking business, and seeing there a more- promising field. Obtaining a position in the Seventh National Bank, his ability and energy brought him to the post of cashier in 1871, a position which he held for sev- enteen years. In 1888 he entered the Manufacturers' National Bank as cashier and Vice President, serving till 1893, when he was elected President of that institu- tion. This position Mr. Heisler still holds, and is also concerned in other business bodies, being a Director and the Treas- urer of the Schlichter Jute Cordage Com- pany. He is a Director of the Seaside Park Association, Treasurer of the Penn- sylvania Seamen's Friend Society, and Treasurer of the Philadelphia Layman's Association, taking an active part in its charitable work. Address, Pemberton, N. J.
HEISTER. Joseph B .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Westmoreland County. Pa .: born in Bowerstown, Carrol County, Ohio, Dec. 2, 1859; in 1867 he re- moved with his parents to Mansfield Val- ley, Allegheny County. Pa., and was edu- cated in the common schools of that place; is a bricklayer by trade, but for the past fifteen years has been engaged in con- tracting; served in the Town Council for three years; in 1891 he removed to New Kensington, where he now resides; elect- cd to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Address, New Kensing- ton, Pa.
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