BIOGRAPHY: GORE Family, 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. 287-8
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GORE Family

GORE FAMILY.--Mrs. Ella P. (Gore) Taylor, the wife of Dr. J. Swan Taylor, is the 
youngest daughter of Thomas Gore, Esq., one of Johnstown's most esteemed 
citizens.
     Mr. Thomas Gore was born at Mann's Choice, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, 
and is a son of John and Catherine (Mowery) Gore. Catherine Gore was born in 
1792, and died October 18, 1880; she was the daughter of John Mowery, who had 
married Miss Hilligas, of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and located near 
Mann's Choice. The Hilligas family was a noted one. Mrs. Mowery's sister married 
Mr. Schell, for whom Schellsburg was named, and the Schells of Somerset are of 
the same family. Mr. Thomas Gore has been an active man. He was an assistant in 
the building of the Old Portage road, and was afterward fireman on the same 
road. He built the section boat "General Scott," of which he was owner and 
captain for many years, running between Pittsburg and Philadelphia along the old 
Pennsylvania canal. He married Miss Amanda Jane Mitchell, daughter of James H. 
and Saphronia (Thatcher) Mitchell. James H. Mitchell was born at Jersey Shore, 
Pennsylvania, and died November 12, 1869. His father was a minister. His 
relatives were the Mitchells, famous physicans and surgeons of Philadelphia. He 
married Saphronia, who died October 27, 1847. Of this union one of the children 
was Amanda Jane Mitchell, who became the wife of Thomas Gore. She died March 20, 
1891. Mrs. Gore was the eldest daughter of James H. Mitchell, who is remembered 
by the business men of half a century ago. She was born in Ligonier Valley, 
where most of her life was spent until she removed with her father to Johnstown. 
Here she was married, in 1848, to Thomas Gore, who survives her. She was the 
mother of eight children, of whom seven are still living. As one who knew her 
well has ex-pressed it: "Mrs. Gore was a humble and consistent member of the 
church from her fourteenth year. Of a retiring and unselfish disposition, she 
was always more thoughtful of the comfort and welfare of others than herself.  
She was constantly doing good by those little acts of kindness and love to her 
friends and neighbors which won a place for her in the hearts of all who knew 
her.  In the family circle her life was one of love and unselfish devotion. She 
knew in whom she trusted, and leaves a 'blessed memory.'"