BIOGRAPHY: Henry Sullivan ENDSLEY, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 55-6
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HENRY SULLIVAN ENDSLEY, of Johnstown, Pa., is a prosperous attorney and 
assistant solicitor for the famous Cambria Iron company of that place.
     He is a son of Andrew J. and Catharine (Johnson) Endsley, and was born 
September 26, 1855, at Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
     His grandfather was Capt. Thomas Endsley, a captain of the old Pennsylvania 
State militia, and a native of Virginia, who emigrated to Somerfield, Somerset 
county, on the old National road, and died at Somerfield in 1852. He was a 
farmer, and owned a good sized fine farm surrounding that village, where he 
died. For a number of years kept the old stone tavern at Somerfield. He was an 
old-line whig and took an active part in local politics, although he never held 
nor aspired to office.
     Mr. Endsley's maternal grandmother was a sister of Judge Jeremiah S. 
Black's mother, being the youngest and eldest daughters, respectively, of 
Captain Sullivan.
     Andrew J. Endsley, the father of Henry S. Endsley, was born in January, 
1824, at Tomlinson, a town in Maryland, on the old National road, where his 
father lived for a short time prior to locating at Somerfield. He now lives in 
the town of Somerset. He was educated at Allegheny college, Pennsylvania, and 
being ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church followed this 
profession in the Pittsburg and East Ohio conferences a number of years, having 
been stationed in Pittsburg, Allegheny, Canton, Ohio, Johnstown and other 
places. He is a man of unusual ability and of acknowledged force and influence 
in the church and in society.
     He married the mother of our subject at Somerfield, Somerset county, of 
which place she was a native. Their family consisted of eight children, three 
boys and five girls. Henry S. Endsley was educated in the common schools and the 
High school of Canton, Ohio; studied law with Gen. W. H. Koontz, of Somerset, 
Pennsylvania; was admitted to the bar of Somerset county, August 7, 1878, and 
practiced in Somerset until April, 1892, when he removed to Johnstown, 
Pennsylvania, at which time he became assistant solicitor for the Cambria Iron 
company, and also practices generally in Cambria and Somerset counties.  
Politically he is a republican, taking an active interest in the affairs of his 
party, and performing creditably the duties of a loyal citizen.
     In April, 1880, he married Ida Margaret Hay, a daughter of Frank W. Hay, 
deceased, of Johnstown, and to this union have been born three daughters -- 
Eliza, Catharine and Margaret. Mr. Endsley performs his duties as an attorney 
with a fidelity and an evidence of strong capacity, which have gained for him 
high esteem.