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WINDSOR. Frederic Ernest:
Sollier: born in Panama, Chantauqua County, N. Y., May 8, 1560; educated at
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Riverview Military Academy, Poughkeep- sie, N. Y., class of 1877; special course at Flushing Institute. Flushing, L. I., 1878. He entered the oil business in Mckean County field as rig builder, tool dresser, driller, contractor, oil scout, and pro- ducer in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Vir- ginia and Indiana. Ile located in Warren in 1SS1; Chief of Fire Department, 1SS6- 1SS9; joined Sixteenth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, October, 1855, as private, and rose to Major; served in his regiment at Homestead, Walston, Mt. Carmel and Shenandoah coal strikes; vol- unteered in Spanish-American War in 1898 and served with his regiment in Porto Rico; was recommended by General Miles for a brevet for gallantry in action at the battle of Coamo. Aug. 9, 1598; personally received the Spanish surrender; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of his regiment. He is a Director in several mining enter- prises; Colonel and Aide-de-Camp on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish-American War Veterans; Thirty- second degree Mason. Member of Penn- sylvania Society Sons of Revolution, Na- val and Military Order Spanish-American War. Society of Foreign Wars: Elk, Royal Arcanum, Marabee and various other fra- ternal societies: Republican in politics. Address, Warren, Pa.
WING, Asa S .:
. Vice President of the Provident Life & Trust Company of Philadelphia. He has been connected with this company since 1567 and is one of the best known bank officials in Philadelphia. Address, Fourth and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
WINGER, Benjamin Franklin:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; First Lieutenant Second Penn- sylvania Heavy Artillery. Aug. 23, 1862; discharged for promotion. Jan. 24, 1865; Captain Second Pennsylvania Provisional Heavy Artillery, April 30. 1\64; Major Sec- ond Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Jan. 21. 1465: Lieutenant Colonel. March S, 1865; honorably mustered out, Jan. 29, 1866. Elected March 7, 1966. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St .. Philadelphia, Pa.
WINSLOW, Reuben C .:
President of the First National Bank of Punxsutawney. Address, Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, P' ..
WINSLOW, William W .;
Lawyer; born May 7, 1862. at Punxsu- tawney. Pa .; son of ex-Senator R. C. Winslow: ancestors came to America in the Mayflower. He fitted for college at Shortlidge's Academy, Media, Pa .; was graduated at Harvard College in 1885; he subsequently studied in Harvard Law School; admitted to the bar in 1888, and has since practiced in his home town. He has been for twelve years a Director in the First National Bank, and in 1901 was made first President of the Punxsu- tawney National Bank, from which posi- tion he has since retired. He is a Knight Templar and Thirty-second Degree Ma- son. Address, Punxsutawney, Pa.
WINTER, D. G .:
President of the First National Bank. Address, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa.
WINTER. Emi !:
President of the Workingman's Savings Bank and Trust Company. Address, Al- legheny, Pa.
WINTERS, Rev. Peter C .:
Roman Catholic clergyman; born of Irish parents in Friendsville, Susquehanna County, Pa., March 31, 1863; he attended the common schools, clerked in his fath- er's country store, taught school, and af- terward completed his education at the Binghamton High School, Niagara Uni- versity and St. Mary's Seminary, Balti- more. Ordained to the priesthood hy Rt. Rov. William O'Hara, D. D., July 25,- 1859; appointed assistant at St. Peter's Cathedral. Scranton, serving two years; transferred to St. Vincent's Church, Ply- mouth. Pa., where he remained eight years with Rev. T. J. Donohue. Rector of St. Philomena's Church. Hawley, Wayne County, Pa., since January, 1599. Address, Hawley, Pa.
WIRT. R. M .:
President of the Hanover Saving Fund Society. Address, Hanover, York Coun- ty, Pa.
WISEHAUPT, George B. M .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Juniata County; born in Spruce Hill Township, Juninta County, Pa., Jan. 22. 1565; educated in the public schools of that township. also at Airy View Academy, Port Royal, Ile re- moved to Port Royal in 1ss) and was en-
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gaged in the butchering business for two years; elected Tax Collector in 1890; in 1891 he built the Port Royal grain eleva- tor, and since that time has been engaged in the grain, coal and lumber business. He was elected Chairman of the Deino- cratic County Committee in 1393, and re- elected in 1899; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Ad - dress, Port Royal, Pa.
WISHART, William Wilson:
Lawyer; son of John Wilson and Annie (Green) Wishart; born July 29. 1855, at Washington, Pa .; received preparatory education in the public schools of Pitts- burg, Pa., Rittenhouse Academy, Wash- ington, D. C .; was graduated from the Columbian University Law School, Wash- ington, D. C .; admitted to the bar at Washington, D. C., 1881; admitted to the Allegheny County bar, December, 1889. He practiced at Devil's Lake, Ramsey County, N. D., from 1883 to 1889, and was City Attorney and District Attorney of same for two years; he practiced in Washington, D. C., from December, 1881, to June, 1883; was admitted to the Aile- gheny County bar Dec. 9, 1889. Member of the Union and University Clubs, Pitts- burg. Address, 434 Diamond St., Pitts- burg, Pa.
WISTAR, Isaac Jones:
Penologist, etc .; born in Philadelphia, Nov. 14, 1827; educated at Westtown and Haverford; Sc. D., University of Penn- sylvania. He entered the military ser- Vice during the Civil War and was Brig- adier General of Volunteers, United States Army, 1862-1865; President Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1892- 1896; Inspector of Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania; President State Board of Charities of Pennsylvania; a writer and speaker on penology. President American Philosophical Society, 1901-1903; a mana- ger Philadelphia Library Company; foun - der and Secretary Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. Address, 269 Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, Pa.
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WISTAR, Joseph Walu:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; First Lieutenant Eighth Pennsyl- vania Cavalry, Aug. 19, 1861; Captain, Jan. 1, 1862; Major. Dec. 23, 1863; honor- ably mustered out, Nov. 4, 1864; elected April 20. 1865; Council of the Comman- dery, 1865-1866. Address, 517 North Alli- son St., Philadelphia, Pa.
WISTER, Annis Lee:
Author, translator; born in Philadel- phia, Oct. 9, 1830; daughter of Rev. Wil- liam H. Furness. Married, in 1854, Dr. Casper Wister. Translator of the works of many of the leading German novelists with Dr. Frederick H. Hedge of "Metrical Translations and Poems." Address, care J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
WISTER, Charles J., Jr .:
Secretary of the Reliance Insurance Company of Philadelphia; born at Ger- mantown, Pa,, May 26, 1868. He entered the service of the Reliance Insurance Company when eighteen years old as a clerk; in 1889 he became a special agent for the company, and in 1892 was elected Secretary, being then twenty-fours old. Address, 429 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
WISTER, Francis:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Captain Twelfth U. S. Infantry, Aug. 5, 1861; resigned and honorably dis- charged, April 5, 1866; Colonel 215th Penn- sylvania Infantry. April 21, 1865; honor- ably mustered out of Volunteer service, July 31, 1865; brevetted Major United States Army, May 3, 1863, for gallant and meritorious service at the battle of Chan- cellorsville, Va .; Lieutenant Colonel, July 2, 1863, for gallant and meritorious ser- vices at the battle of Gettysburg. Pa. Address, 1437 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Pa.
WISTER, Owen:
Author; born in Philadelphia, July 14. 1860; son of Owen Jones Wister and a de- scendant of Thomas Wynne, who emi- grated to Pennsylvania as one of the companions of William Penn; educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., 1878- 187S, and subsequently at Harvard Uni- versity, where he was graduated in 1882 as A. B., receiving the degrees of A. M. and LL. D. in 1SSS. Having made the law his study, he was admitted to prac- tice at the Philadelphia bar in 1SS9; his practice continued only until 1891, when he left the law to engage in the pursuit of literature, which he has since followed. In 1898 he married Mary, the daughter of William Wistar. Author of "The Dragon of Wantley: His Tail," 1892: "Red Men and White." 1896; "Lin MeLoan." 1898; "The Jimmy John Boss." 1900: "U. S. Grant. a Biography," 1900; "The Virgin-
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ian," 1902; "Philosophy Four," 1903; also many magazine contributions in prose and verse. Of his published works "The Virginian" was phenomenally successful. Address, 913 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa.
WITHEROW, William :
Proprietor of the Duquesne Hotel; born Nov. 7, 1843, in the City of Londonderry, Ireland; son of James and Esther P. Witherow, who were highly respected members of their community; educated at the common schools of Allegheny, and at the age of fourteen he began to earn his living. In early life he was employed in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's office, from which he went to the United States Depositary as bookkeeper, and from that place he was appointed to a clerkship in the Sheriff's office of Alle- gheny County. His natural aptitude for the management of important affairs led him early to take an active interest in the affairs of his section of the State. In 1SS1 he became a candidate for the office of Treasurer of Allegheny County, and was nominated by the Republican Party against great political odds; in spite of the factional opposition, he was elected by an overwhelming majority, and filled the office with credit during the three successive years; he has held many public offices of honor and trust since that time. giving them the careful and conscientious supervision that has always characterized his work. In 1892 he was unanimously chosen as a representative to the Re- publican National Convention, and in 1896 he was chosen Elector-at-Large on the Republican ticket. He is a member of the Board of Managers of the Allegheny Gen- eral Hospital, a Director in the Keystone Bank of Pittsburg, and the Second Na- tional Bank of Allegheny; his leading in- terests at present are in his proprietorship of the The Dequesne, and in the control of his various investments. On March 22, 1×82. he married Alice M. Douglass: they have three children. David M., Helen D. and William P. Witherow. Address, Du- quesne Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa.
WITHERSTINE, Christopher S., M. D. :
Physician and surgeon; born in New York City, Feb. 15, 1$54; son of Gaylord Hilts and Clarinda Adelia (Seybolt) With- erstine; descendant of John Witherstine, who was born July 12, 1762, and entered in his fifteenth year Captain Thomas De Witt's Company. Third Mohawk Bat- talion, under Colonel Peter Gansevoort,
serving at Fort Stanwix, Valley Forge and Yorktown, and died June 19, 1835. On the maternal side he -is a descendant in the tenth generation of Captain Ed- mund Greenleaf, a French Huguenot who fled from France to Ipswich, England, and emigrated to America, settling as a founder and public official upon a grant of 122 acres of land in Newbury, Mass., about the year 1635. Dr. Witherstine at- tended the old Fifth Ward Grammar School No. 44, at North Moore and Varick Streets, New York, from which he en- tered the College of the City of New York, taking the degree of B. S. in 1875, and receiving that of M. S. three years later; he also received the Ward medal in 1872 for proficiency in hygiene. His professional studies were pursued at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Co- lumbia), from which he was graduated in 1878. He was house surgeon in 1878-1879 at the Charity (now City) Hospital, Blackwell's Island, was for some time office assistant to the late Professor Alonzo Clark, M. D., LL. D., of New York, and completed his preparation with a four months' course of practice at the Maternity Hospital, receiving his diplo- ma from Charity (now City) Hospital in 1879. In October of that year he went to Germantown, Pa., and was associated with William Darrach, M. D., until the latter's death in 1881, since which time he has continued the general practice of medicine and surgery in that section of Philadelphia. Ile was visiting physician to the Germantown Almshouse, ISSO-1SS1; at the Germantown Hospital, 1881-1883, and surgeon to the Philadelphia & Read- ing Railroad, 1882-1886; was clinical as- sistant at the Jefferson College Hospital (Laryngological Department), 1SS4-1886, and was visiting physician to the Home for the Aged, Little Sisters of the Poor, from isso to 1809. He is medical exam- iner for the New England Mutual and the John Hancock Mutual, Boston; the Mutual Benefit, Newark, N. J., and the Michigan Mutual (Detroit) Life Insurance Companies. His contributions to medical literature include the editorship of the "International Pocket Medical Formulary" (ISS), and the associate editorship of the "Annual of the Universal Medical Sci- ences" (1858-1896), and of "Sajou's Annual and Analytical Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine" (1999), etc. He is a member of the American Medical Editors' Associa- tion: a foreign associate member of La Société Francaise d'Hygiene, Paris,
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France, and a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Republican in politics. Member of the Municipal League of Philadelphia. On April 12, 1883, he married Mary Grace Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones, who served in the Civil War as Sergeant of Company G. 109th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers; they have two daughters, Emma Grace and Clarinda Greenleaf Witherstine. Address, 5450 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.
WITMER, Lightner:
Physiologist; born at Philadelphia, June 28, 1867; entered the University of Penn- sylvania, and was graduated from that in- stitution in 1888, from the Law Depart- ment in 1889, and from the Department of Philosophy in 1891; Department of Phil- osophy, Leipzig, 1891-1892; A. M., Ph. D., 1892; Instructor of English and History, Rugby Academy, Philadelphia, 1888-1891; Director Laboratory of Psychology, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania,
since 1892. Member American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, American Philo- sophical Society, American Psychological Association, Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia National Educational Asso- ciation, National Council of Education, 1899, 1900; National Society for Scientific Study of Education, Nerological Society of Philadelphia: member First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry; served with troop in Porto Rico, 1898. Member of
University and Contemporary Clubs. Author of "Anylytical Psychology." 1902; editor of "Experimental Studies in Psy- chology." Contributor to technical and educational reviews on topics in experi- mental psychology. Address, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
WITTIG, Harry:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Philadelphia; born in Philadelphia. Sept. 19, 1838; educated in the public schools; engaged in the saloon and hotel business: for a number of years lie was manager for Donalson's, Broad and Filbert Streets. Philadelphia. He en- tered business for himself and after a few years retired from same: for seven years past has been in the employ of the Re- publican Campaign Committee. Elected to the House of Representatives in No- Vember, 1902. Address, 79 East Seymour St., Germantown, Pa.
WOHLSEN. William:
President of the Union Trust Company of Lancaster. Address, Lancaster, Pa.
WOLF, Daniel Mosser, D. D .:
Educator; born near Hublersburg. Centre County, Pa., June 15, 1837; he be- gan teaching at the age of fourteen and a half years; prepared for college while teaching, and was graduated from Frank- lin and Marshall in 1863; he entered the Reformed Theological Seminary, Mercers- burg. After serving as principal of sev- eral academies he was elected in 1868 Adjunct Professor of Mathematics and Languages in his Alma Mater, which po- sition he resigned in 1870 to accept the pastorate of the Bellefonte and several adjacent Reformed churches. He was re- called in 1872 to his college as Professor of Ancient Languages; in 1875, took charge of the Penn Hall-Spring Mills Academy; 1881, County Superintendent of Schools of Centre County, serving three terms. He again took up his favorite work, teaching. September, 1890; Aug. .. 1902. several thousand of his pupils and friends celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his educational work. Address, Spring Mills, Pa.
WOLF, Edmund Jacob:
Clergyman, author, educator; Professor of Church History and New Testament Exegesis, Theological Seminary, Gettys- burg Pa., since 1874; born in Rebers- burg, Pa., Dec. 8, 1840; son of Jacob and Mary Wolf; his early life was spent on a farm; he attended the public schools and afterward taught in them: was principal of Bellefonte Academy: entered Pennsyl- vania College, and was graduated with first honor in 1863. He served in army during the Civil War; studied theology at Gettysburg and at Tübingen and Erlan- gen, Germany; D. D .. Franklin and Mar- shall College, 1876; LL. D., Wittenberg Co !- lege, 1901; admitted to Lutheran ministry in 1865. Married Ella Kemp. Edgehill. Md. He served churches in Northumber- land County, Pa., and in Baltimore, Md. Ex-member of Board of Managers Evan- geneal Alliance of United States; member American Historical Society; member Ex- ecutive Committee of the Inter-Church Conference on Divorce and Remarriage; member of Education Committee of the American Bible League: Chairman of Joint Commission to Prepare a Common Book of Worship for all Lutherans; elected President Lutheran General Synod. 1903. Has been editorially connected with Luth- eran Quarterly and Lutheran World; a lib- eral contributor to religious periodicals and encyclopedias. Author of "Lutherans
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in America," 18$9; "Vol. X. of Lutheran Commentary," 1897; "Lectures on the Gospels of the Church Year," 1900, Ad- dress, Gettysburg, Pa.
WOLF, George Johnson:
Lawyer; born Oct. 15, 1852, at Roches- ter, Beaver County, Pa .; son of John and Mary Ann (Nowling) Wolf; was educated at the public schools of Allegheny City, the Western University of Pennsylvania and Professor Bogle's private schools. Al- legheny, and was graduated from Alle- gheny College, Meadville, Pa., with the class of 1873. He read law with E. S. Golden, Kittanning, Pa., and was admitted and practiced law in Armstrong, Butler, and Mckean Counties before moving to Pittsburg. Admitted to the Allegheny County bar, Dec. 11, 1876. Address, 307 Fourth Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
WOLF. Penrose:
President of the First National Bank of Rockwood. Address Rockwood, Somer- set County, Pa.
WOLFE, Charles P .:
Banker; born at Apollo. Pa., March 14, 1873; educated in the public schools of his native town and commercial college in Pittsburg. In 1S:S he married Ida K., daughter of J. F. Whitlinger, of Apollo. At the age of seventeen entered the em- ploy of the Apollo Savings Bank, remain- ing six years; in the employ of the Apollo Iron & Stoel Company for two years; tell- er of the First National Bank of Vander- grift, afterward assistant cashier. Since 1901 cashier of First National Bank of Apollo. Republican in politics. Address, Apollo, Pa.
WOLFE. Jacob Oscar:
Superintendent of Schools; born March 20. 1855. in Allegheny Township (now Betheb. Armstrong County, Pa .; educated in the public schools of his township and academies of Armstrong County. Began teaching in Isto and continued to teach for twenty-three consecutive terms; he served eight years on the Examining Committee for Permanent Certificates; since 1999 County Superintendent of Schools. Republican in politics. Home address, Kelly Station, . Armstrong Coun- ty, Pa.
WOLFE. James H .:
Lawyer; born on Dec. 2, 1848, at Mount Pleasant, Hilltown Township. Bucks
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- County, Pa. His parents were Samuel and Margaret Wolfe, both of whom were of German descent, the, German strain emanating from a number of generations back. He attended the public schools of Hilltown Township and the select schools of Leidytown and Sellersville and Oley, Berks County, Pa., and at Franklin and Marshall College. Lancaster, Pa., from which he was graduated in 1870 with the degree of A. B., and degree of A. M. in 1873; read law in the office of General B. Franklin Fisher and took a partial course in the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania; admitted to the Phila- delphia bar October, 1872, and shortly thereafter admitted as a member of the bar of the County of Bucks, and has ever since continuously practiced law individu- ally. Independent Democrat. Is now a member and was for many years Presl- dent of the Board of Trustees of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church on Race Street. Philadelphia. For more than twenty-five years Mr. Wolfe has been Solicitor of and Director in the Fi- delity Building Association, which he or- ganized. Since November. 1895, member of the School Board of the Thirteenth sec- tion. On Aug. 31, 1876. Mr. Wolfe was married to Annie E. Wambold, of Sellers- ville, Bucks County, Pa. Address, Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
WOLFEL, Paul Ludwig:
Chief Engineer of the American Bridge Company; coming to America from Ger- many in June, 1888, Mr. Wolfel has dem- onstrated his ability to occupy and satis- factorily fill one of the most responsible positions in the largest bridge-building concerns in the world. To-day he is ad- mittedly at the top of his profession. He was born at Dresden, Germany, April 19. 1862. It was in a private school and the Realschule at Dresden that Mr. Wolfei secured his early tuition. He was then a student at the Polytecknikum at Dres- den from 1960 to 1685, giving special at- tention to bridge work under Professors Fraenkel and Mohr. From 1885 to 1587 he was Assistant to Professor F. Steiner at the Polytecknikum in Prague, and also a Privatdocent at the same college. He served in the German army for a year and then came to America. He secured employment almost immediately under C. C. Schneider, the then Chief Engineer of the Pencoyd Iron Works. In 1992, he was appointed Assistant Chief Engineer of the bridge and construction department of the
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Pencoyd Iron Works. In 1900 he was made engineer of the railway department of the American Bridge Company, and at the same time Chief Engineer of the bridge and construction department of the Pencoyd Iron Works and of the A. & P. Roberts Company. In January of 1903, Mr. Wolfel was further advanced and made Chief Engineer of the Eastern dis- trict of the American Bridge Company. He is at present connected with the Bridge Company, the Pencoyd Iron Works and the A. & P. Roberts Company. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the New York Engineers' Club, the Philadelphia Engineers' Club, and the Pencoyd Club, of Philadelphia. He was married, in 1893, to Miss Emma Brecht, of Philadelphia, Pa., and they have one child, a daughter, Miss Emma Wolfel. Address. American Bridge Com- pany, Ambridge, Pa.
WOLFRED, Brother, F. S. C .:
Teacher; born in London, England, Nov. 11, 1858; son of Archibald and Honora Mulvena: educated at St. Mary's School, Halifax, N. S., and entered the order of Christian Brothers, June, 1872; entered on profession of teacher in Bishop's Acade- my, Montreal, Nov., 1873; Commercial Academy, Ottawa, Canada. September, 1874; Lessons in English, 1876; Commer- cial Academy, Quebec. September. 1877; Attached to La Salle College, Philadelphia. Jan. 1, 1SS7, and has been President of the institution since September, 1900. Ad- dress, 1240 North Broad St., Philadelphia.
WOLVERTON, S. P .:
Lawyer; born in Rushtownship, North- umberland County, Pa .. Jan. 28, 1637. He worked on his father's farm until the age of seventeen. he then became a teacher in the common schools and attended Dan- ville Academy during the summer ad fall, and taught during the winter months. In this way he prepared for college. He entered Bucknell University in 1\57; at the end of the sophomore year he left col- lege, during the junior year he taught school to raise money to complete his course. He returned at the commence- ment of the senior year in the fall of 159 and rejoined his class, and with the consent of the faculty he did the work of the junior and senior years in one year, and was graduated in 1860, taking the second honors of his class. He then went to Sunbury and taught an academy, and
read law with Hon. Alexander Jordan. He was Captain of a company of emergency men raised at the time of the battle of Antietam. In June, 1863.he became Cap- tain of Company F, Thirty-sixth Pennsyl- vania Volunteers. He was admitted to the bar in 1862, and has practiced his pro- fession actively up to the present time. He served ten years in the State Senate of Pennsylvania, having been elected in 1878 as a Democrat in a district with a Republican majority of from twelve to fifteen hundred. He was re-elected from the same district in 1880 and in 1884, the last two elections taking place during the Presidential canvass. He refused to ac- cept a fourth nomination. In 1890 he was clected to Congress from the Seventeenth District of Pennsylvania, and re-elected in 1892, and declined a further nomination in 1894. He has been counsel for the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Com- pany and Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company since 1868. and passed upon all the coal land titles required by the latter company in the County of Northumberland. He has also been at- torney for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and Lehigh Valley Coal Com- pany for many years, and for Coxe Broth- ers & Co. and their allied interests. He was largely instrumental in building the Danville, Hazleton and Wilkesbarre Rail- road and the Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewisburg Railroad, and other public en- terprises. Address, Sunbury, Pa.
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