Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Fay, George January 16, 1829 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

GEORGE FAY,
ex-sheriff of Blair county, was born at Williamsburg, Blair county, January
16, 1829, where also his father, Joseph, was born, in 1800, and there also
died in 1876.  Joseph had six sons: George, John, William, James, David and
Robert.  Joseph Fay, the elder, married Catharine, daughter of John Miller, a
cabinet maker of Williamsburg.  She died in 1872.
      George Fay remained at home until his marriage, in 1852, to Martha K.,
daughter of Samuel Fluke.  For some years after his marriage he was engaged
in farming.  In 1863 his wife died, and in 1866 he married again, his second
wife being Sarah C., daughter of Francis McCoy.  By the first marriage there
were four children, and by the second, two.
      In 1866 Mr. Fay went down to Mississippi, and engaged there for a year
in the raising of cotton.  In 1867 he returned to Blair county, and in 1868
he, with others, organized the Williamsburg Manufacturing Company, and
purchased the Juniata furnace and mill.  Mr. Fay was placed in charge of the
business as manager, and for eight years conducted it with skillful
ability.  He then turned his attention to lumbering and grain dealing at
Williamsburg, and in 1878 associated with him Mr. James Patterson.  In 1882
Mr. Fay was elected upon the republican ticket to the office of sheriff, by a
majority of eleven hundred and forty-six.
      Mr. Fay is eminently a man of the people.  He made his way by hard
knocks early in life to a place among substantial men, and learned the lesson
of self-reliance in that most valuable of all schools, experience.  He has
been among the people of the county all his life, and his career is familiar
to all.  That he has worthily earned a place as a representative man is a
truth to which the county has already borne abundant testimony.

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