BIOGRAPHY: George HUNTLEY, 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. 81-2
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GEORGE HUNTLEY. -- The people of every race have some characteristics of which 
they are deservedly proud. The Frenchman has taste; the German, thrift; the 
Englishman, tenacity; the Irishman, keen wit; the Scotchman, sturdy habits. The 
native of New England, however, no matter what his race, has cause for greater 
pride than any of these. In his land the foremost men of America were born and 
bread. On his soil, and in his atmosphere, great men have grown, lived and died. 
Strength and hope must germinate in the heart of every one who feels himself so 
nearly akin to greatness, which is a heritage for self-gratulation. This 
heritage belongs to the subject of our sketch, George Huntley, a thriving 
hardware merchant of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, who was born in green Vermont, 
February 4, 1831, in Chelsea, the county seat of Orange county. He is a son of 
Selden and Dorothea (Spiller) Huntley. His grandfather was a native of England, 
who emigrated to America, and settled in Massachusetts. His father, who was a 
blacksmith by trade, was born in the state of New Hampshire, and lived there, 
and in the state of Vermont, all his life, dying in May, 1862, aged sixty-three 
years. The mother of Mr. Huntley was also a native of Vermont, and of their 
family of eight children five of those living reside in the same state. They 
are: Marinda, wife of John Conant, of Barre, Vermont; John, of Brookfield, 
Vermont; Erastus, a resident of Northfield, Vermont; Newcomb, of the same place; 
and Harriet, wife of Asa Harrington, also of Barre, Vermont. Two children, Sarah 
and Alma, are dead.
     The subject of this sketch married Miss Mary A., daughter of William 
Roberts. To this union have been born the following children: Alma, wife of W. 
R. Smith, of Aspinwall, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania; Carrie, wife of W. S. 
Humphreys, of Conemaugh, Cambria county, Pennsylvania; W. Selden, who lives in 
the state of Indiana; George W., deceased; Marinda and Leonard, who is his 
father's assistant in the store.
     Mr. Huntley was educated in the common schools of Vermont, and was reared 
upon the farm, following that occupation until he came to Ebensburg in the 
autumn of 1850. He at once entered into an apprenticeship to learn the trade of 
a tinner, and has followed it for a number of years exclusively, and since 1855 
has continued it in connection with the hardware business. His storeroom is well 
filled with everything found in a first-class store of its kind. His business 
apartments include two stories of a building one hundred and fifty feet deep and 
twenty-four feet wide, with hour or five warehouses, thus affording unusual 
facilities for a large trade.
     Mr. Huntley is a prosperous, wide-awake business man. In addition, he owns 
a well-cultivated farm of fifty acres adjoining the borough of Ebensburg.
     He is a staunch republican, and the confidence of his fellow-townsmen in 
his good judgment and stability has been manifested by electing him to the 
offices of school director, councilman and burgess. Apropos of this it may be 
said that confidence in a New Englander is seldom misplaced.
     Mr. Huntley is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 312, F. and A. M., of Portage 
Chapter at Johnstown, and of the Orient Commandery at the same place.