Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Cunningham, Newton F. December 10, 1848 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

NEWTON F. CUNNINGHAM,
a skillful and experienced workman, and the assistant foreman of the shops of
the freight department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Altoona, is a
son of John M. and Catherine (Wilson) Cunningham, and was born at Huntingdon,
Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, December 10, 1848.  John M. Cunningham was a
native of Mifflin county, and in early life came to Altoona, where he worked
for a short time in the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and then
removed to Huntingdon county, where he died in 1868, at sixty years of age. 
He was a carpenter and bridge builder by trade, and ran a foundry at
Huntingdon for several years before his death.  He was a whig and republican
in politics, and a regular attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church, and
married Catherine Wilson, a native of Georgetown, Maryland, and a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church, who died in 1873, aged seventy-one years. 
They reared a family of children.  One of their sons, James D., enlisted in a
Pennsylvania regiment during the late civil war, and was killed at the battle
of Cold Harbor, while another son, William F., was killed by an accidental
shot while serving as a policeman at Leadville, Colorado.
   Newton F. Cunningham was reared at Huntingdon, received his education
in the common schools, and then learned the trade of carpenter, which he
followed for some time.  In August, 1870, he came to Altoona, and on the 8th
day of that month went to work in the shops of the freight department of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, whose foreman then was Andrew Kipple.  He was
variously engaged in these shops until he fully mastered all the details of
the different kinds of work done in them, and in July, 1887, was appointed by
Mr. Kipple as assistant foreman, which position he has held ever since.
   In 1873 Mr. Cunningham was united in marriage with Ellen Young, of
Blair county.  To their union have been born six children, three sons and
three daughters:  Harry, Louisa, Myrtle, James, Raymond, and Minnie.
   Newton F. Cunningham is a republican in politics, has always given his
party an unfaltering support, and served one term as a member of the common
council from the Seventh ward.  He thoroughly understands the business in
which he is engaged, and to whose management he brings twenty-one years of
experience, both as a workman and a manager.  He is a member of Mountain City
Lodge, No. 837, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  Mr. Cunningham, at
different times, invested in real estate in Altoona, which has now become
valuable and desirable.  Skill marks his work, good judgment has
characterized his business transactions, and honor and honesty have stamped
all his dealings with his fellow citizens.
   The Cunninghams are of Irish descent, and the family has been resident
of the United States for nearly two centuries.

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