Bios: G Surnames: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Marta Burns. marta43@juno.com USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ ______________________________________________________________________ Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania editorially managed by John M. Gresham assisted in the compilation by Samuel T. Wiley, A Citizen of the County Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co. Chicago: 1889 http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/fayette/gresham.htm Table of Contents. ______________________________________________________________________ NOTE: "Brnv & Bdgpt" stands for "Brownsville and Bridgeport" NAME LOCATION PAGE Gadd, Stephen Brnv & Bdgpt 270 Gaddis, Albert Uniontown 174 Gaddis, O J Menallen 334 Gaddis, W S Dunbar 437 Gallagher, John Uniontown 175 Gallatin, Albert Springhill 271 Galley, Henry Franklin 334 Gans, A J Springhill 272 Garwood, Abram Luzerne 548 Gibson, Dan P Uniontown 177 Graham, J B Menallen 340 Graham, T B Menallen 339 Grant, J B Tyrone 340 Greene, Wilson, Dr Nicholson 502 Griffin, G T Dunbar 483 Gummert, C L, Dr Brnv & Bdgpt 273 p270 STEPHEN GADD, a highly respected citizen of Brownsville township and a blacksmith by trade, was born in German township, Fayette county, Penna, March 7, 1824, is a son of Elijah Gadd and Mary Haney Gadd. His father was also a blacksmith by trade and a native of Redstone township, Fayette county, Penna. His mother, Mary Haney, a daughter of Samuel Haney, was born in German township, Fayette county, Penna, as was also Samuel Haney who died there. Joseph Gadd, an early settler of the county, was of Scotch Irish extraction and was in the business of farming and speculation on horses. Stephen Gadd was educated in the schools of German township and learned his trade with his father. He has been twice married. Elizabeth Balsinger, his first wife was a daughter of William Balsinger, born near New Salem, Menallen township, and was married July 17, 1866; Mary A Moss, his second wife, was the widow of Cunningham Moss of Luzerne township, to whom he was married the 4th of June, 1868. He is the father of nine children, of whom six are living: Sarah Gadd, wife of Wellington Reynolds; Mary Gadd, wife of James Ball Jr of Luzerne township; Curtis Gadd, born in Menallen township, April 1, 1851; Jennie Gadd, was born July 14, 1855; Stephen Gadd Jr, born May 4, 1869 in Luzerne township, and Frank Gadd, born in the same township, July 31, 1873. Stephen Gadd is a member and is now treasurer of Lodge No 613, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a strong democrat and is an efficient worker in his party. In 1888 he was a candidate for poor house director, but was defeated on account of discussions in his party. His father and grandfather were also substantial democrats. p174 ALBERT GADDIS was born May 30, 1849, in Franklin township, Fayette county, Penna, and was reared on a farm. He attended the common schools of the county and the normal school at California, Penna. In 1868-69 he taught district schools, and in 1872 went to Monongahela City, and was engaged in the grocery business there for five years. In 1877 he engaged in farming which he followed for nine years in North Union township. In 1880 he removed to Uniontown, and formed a partnership with A G Thomas in the milling business, the firm being Gaddis & Thomas. They bought the flouring mill opposite the Baltimore & Ohio depot, which burned July 9, 1886. In March, 1887, Thomas died, and Mr Gaddis rented the mill and continued to run it alone, until it was also burned. In September of the same year, Mr Gaddis formed a co-partnership with Barnard V Jones and Samuel W Jones under the firm name of A Gaddis & Co. They then built their present mill of a splendid roller process, which they have successfully run ever since, built up a large trade and run day and night, making sixty barrels of flour a day. Albert Gaddis was married in 1871 to Miss Ester V Jones, daughter of John Jones of North Union township. John Jones is one of the oldest men in North Union township, being in the eighty sixth year of his age. Mr Gaddis has one child, Jennie C Gaddis, born in 1873. He is a son of Robert Gaddis and Sarah Carter Gaddis; the former was a prominent farmer and a native of North Union township, Fayette county, Penna, born in 1809. The grandfather of Albert Gaddis, John Gaddis, was also a native of Fayette county. The Gaddises were of the first to settle here. Albert Gaddis is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Royal Arcanum. p334 OLIVER JENKINS GADDIS, deceased, who was a highly esteemed and very charitable citizen of Menallen township was a son of Jacob Gaddis and Sarah Combs/Coombs Gaddis. He was born on the old Gaddis farm near Upper Middletown, August 1, 1826, and died July 20, 1889. In the tide of emigration from Virginia that crossed the Alleghanies to the "Redstone country" in 1785 was John Gaddis, son of William Gaddis of eastern Virginia. John Gaddis was born near Winchester, Virginia, October 7, 1741, and died in Menallen township, April 12, 1827. He bought 295 acres of land called Gaddistown near the site of Upper Middletown and engaged in farming. He was a leading member of the Baptist church at Uniontown and was an industrious farmer. He married May 22, 1768, Sarah Jenkins, born February 9, 1751, and died January 2, 1802. They had five sons and six daughters. One of these sons, Jacob Gaddis, was born September 8, 1778. He married Sarah Combs, born September 3, 1805, and died August 20, 1887. He was an industrious farmer, and traded in furs. Oliver J Gaddis was raised on the home farm, educated in the old subscription schools of the day and was a fine penman and good accountant. He was married to Miss Mary E Allen, daughter of Jonathan G Allen, a merchant of Uniontown. Eight children blessed their union: Jacob E Gaddis, MD of Uniontown; one son who died in infancy; Charles Gaddis; Lizzie Gaddis, wife of Ewing Baily; Louisa Gaddis, wife of Judson Arison; Antoinette Gaddis, Drusilla A Gaddis; and Jesse M Gaddis. Oliver J Gaddis was a thrifty and prosperous farmer, was an ardent republican and deeply interested in the education of his children. He was noted for his uprightness and integrity. A prominent feature of his excellent character was charity, contributing freely to help the church and aid the worthy poor. None were ever turned from his door who sought food or shelter. p 437 WILLIAM S GADDIS, one of the most successful young merchants of Dunbar, was born in Fayette county, Penna, February 22, 1853, and is a son of Perry Gaddis, who was born in Fayette county about 1824, and Eliza J Shaw, daughter of Robert Shaw of near Uniontown. They were the parents of the following children: Ruth A Gaddis, William S Gaddis, Robert Gaddis, Emma Gaddis, Thomas Gaddis, Downie Gaddis (the latter is engaged in Montana as superintendent of the Montana Coal and Coke Company), Charles E Gaddis and Ralph Gaddis. William S Gaddis was educated at Waynesburgh College, Greene county, Penna. Leaving college he became a clerk in the store of R J Carter of Dunbar in 1873, and remained one year. He was next engaged with S Colvin & Co of Mt Braddock as a clerk, and remained with them for about one year, when he took charge of a store as manager for the Mahoning Coke Company for five years. In 1886 he engaged in the general merchandise business in Dunbar for himself. On November 25, 1888, he was married to Annie Nennon, daughter of Bernard Nennon of Dunbar. p175 JOHN GALLAGHER. James Gallagher, the paternal grandfather of John Gallagher, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and came to this country and settled in what is now Fayette county, Penna, previous to 1775, probably in 1769. On March 20, 1786, he obtained a patent for 203 acres of land with the allowance, adjoining the present site of Uniontown then known as Beesontown. The original patent for this land is now in the possession of his grandson, the subject of this sketch. This was part of a tract of land containing three hundred acres that he had purchased from Aaron Robinson, January 25, 1775. He was one of the original lot holders or owners in the village of Beeson's Mill in 1776. The name of the place was afterwards changed to Beeson's Town, and then again to that of Union, and later to Uniontown. All of the "North Addition" to the presently rapidly growing town is built upon what was once known as the "Gallagher property." Diana Askren Gallagher, wife of James Gallagher, was born in Harford county, Maryland; her father Thomas Askren was a native of Yorkshire, England, and her mother, Martha New Askren, an American by birth. The maternal grandparents of John Gallagher, Jacob Black and Catherine Fletcher Black, were of German descent but of American birth. John Gallagher was born in North Union township, Fayette county, Penna, the place of his birth being now inside the corporate limits of Uniontown; and was reared on the place where he now resides. He was educated in the schools of the borough and at Madison College. Leaving college he studied the law for a short time with Hon Andrew Stewart, and finished his studies with Judge John K Ewing. He was admitted to the bar in 1859, practiced law for about six years at Uniontown, and has been principally engaged in farming ever since. His parents were John Gallagher and Mary Black Gallagher, both natives of Fayette county, Penna. His father was a farmer and owned in addition to other lands, sixty seven acres of ground that is now within the borough of Uniontown, situated partly west of and including Redstone Creek, extending eastward including all of Lincoln, Maple and Walnut Streets, and the southern part of North Gallatin avenue. He was a soldier in the War of 1812-15, was orderly sergeant of the company in which he served, and the adjutant of the regiment. He died January 1, 1869, in the eighty fifth year of his age. His widow died February 26, 1872, in the sixty seventh year of her age. Their children: Evalina W Gallagher, James M Gallagher, Jane K Gallagher, Elizabeth D Gallagher, Jacob B Gallagher, Mary L Gallagher, and John Gallagher, all reside in Pennsylvania; Jacob B, Mary L and John live together at Uniontown on part of the original homestead. The Gallagher family is one of the oldest in the county. p271 ALBERT GALLATIN, a distinguished statesman of the United States and one of the illustrious citizens of Fayette county, was a native of Switzerland and a resident of Springhill township. He was born at Geneva, Switzerland, January 29, 1761, and was baptized on the 7th of February following by the name of Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin. In 1755 his father Jean Gallatin married Sophie Albertine Rolaz due Rose of Rolle. They had two children: Albert Gallatin and a daughter who died young. Albert Gallatin was graduated in May, 1779, from the University of Geneva first of his class in mathematics, natural philosophy and Latin translation. He declined the commission of lieutenant colonel in a German command and emigrated to America, and landed at Cape Ann, Massachusetts, July 14, 1780. In November of the same year he served his adopted country as commandant of a small fort at Machias, Maine; afterward he taught the French language at Harvard University; soon removed to Richmond, Virginia, where he acted as interpreter for a commercial house. At Richmond he became acquainted with many eminent Virginians, and acting upon their advice purchased lands in the Valley of the Monongahela, became the proprietor of "Friendship Hill" and a resident of Springhill township, Fayette county, Penna. In 1786 he purchased land and in 1789 located here as resident. He named the small village of New Geneva in remembrance of his trans Atlantic birthplace, and was largely engaged in the manufacture of glass. In 1780 he was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania, and served two terms as a member of the Pennsylvania assembly. In 1793 he was elected to the Senate of the United States, but by a strict party vote was excluded on the ground of constitutional ineligibility as he had not been naturalized a citizen of the United States for nine years. He became somewhat involved in the "Whiskey Insurrection," but full acquitted himself of all intention to oppose the enforcement of the laws. >From 1795 to 1800 he served as a member of Congress where he was recognized as the republican leader and regarded as a logical debator and sound statesman. May 14, 1801, President Jefferson appointed him secretary of the treasury. He successfully managed the financial affairs of the nation during Jefferson's administration, and under Madison's until 1813 when he resigned to accept service under his adopted country as minister to European courts. In 1813 he was sent to St Petersburg as one of the envoys to negotiate with Great Britain under the mediation of the Czar, and later was one of the commissioners who negotiated a treat of peace with England in 1814 at Ghent. From 1816 to 1823 he was resident minister at the court of France, and during this period was employed successfully on important missions to Great Britain and the Netherlands. In diplomatic services he never lacked in skill and judgment and was always successful in protecting the rights of America. President Madison offered him the secretaryship of State; Monroe offered him the navy department, but Gallatin refused them both. In 1824 he refused the second highest office within the gift of the American people by declining the nomination of vice president of the United States offered him by the democratic party. In 1824 he returned to "Friendship Hill" and there received and entertained his warm friend, the Marquis de Lafayette. In 1826 he was sent as minister plenipotentiary to England. His mission to the Court of St James was successful, and was the close of his long, arduous and successful political career. It was also the termination of his thirty three years of residence in Fayette county. In 1828 he became a resident of New York City, became president of a bank, assisted in founding the New York Historical Society, the American Ethnological Society, and a few days before his death was elected one of the first members of the Smithsonian Institute. His long and eventful life came to a close at Astoria, Long Island, on August 12, 1849, at the age of over eighty eight years. May 14, 1789, Albert Gallatin was united in marriage to Sophia Allegre, a beautiful young Italian lady of Richmond, Virginia. The marriage was consummated much against the wishes of the bride's mother. Gallatin returned to Friendship Hill immediately after his marriage, and three weeks later the spirit of his young bride fled from its tenement of clay. He was remarried November 11, 1793, to Miss Hannah Nicholson, daughter of Commodore James Nicholson, United States Navy. This marriage allied Gallatin with some of the first families of the land. Eighteen members of the Nicholson family had served as officers in the United States Navy. He made the first move in Pennsylvania (1792) toward establishing normal schools by his bill to locate an academy in each county for the training of teachers. His financial views were conservative and safe, and the United States enjoyed prosperity under their enforcement for twelve years. The Hamiltonian doctrine was that the United States should be a strong government, ready and able to maintain its dignity abroad and its authority at home by arms. Gallatin maintained that its dignity would protect itself if its resources were carefully used for self-development, while its domestic authority should rest only on consent. Which of these views is correct is still a subject of political agitation and debate. p334 Hon HENRY GALLEY was born June 12, 1819. He was the youngest of his father's family and when he was but two years old his father removed from Tyrone to Franklin township. Being the youngest, he had greater advantages in the way of schooling than his brothers. He attended school more or less each year from the time he was six years old until he became of age. Having acquired a good common school education, and a taste for reading at an early age, he became interested in political affairs and espoused the principles of the democratic party. At the time Ritner was elected governor on the Anti-Mason issue, he remembers well the scenes enacted during the buckshot war. As a boy, he hurrahed for Jackson. After having reached the age of twenty one, he cast his first vote in 1840 for Martin Van Buren; has voted for every nominee of the democratic party from that time up to 1888; and has voted thirteen times for president, his first vote being lost on the present incumbent's grandfather, and his last on the grandson. He has always been ardently attached to the democratic party; was elected to various township offices: judge and inspector of elections, assessor, supervisor of the road, school director, etc. At the age of twenty five he married Miss Ruth Freeman, daughter of Edmund Freeman of Franklin township. Their marriage has been blessed with nine children, three sons and six daughter: Elizabeth C Galley, Franklin M Galley, Allen Galley, Emma W Galley, Sabina Galley, J K Ewing Galley, Kate Galley, Belle N Galley and Henrietta Galley, and all lived to be men and women. Franklin M Galley died in 1874, aged twenty seven years, and his remains rest in Locust Grove cemetery on the hill; Elizabeth C Galley married Samuel Luce of Perry township; Sabina Galley married O F Arnold of Franklin township; and Allen Galley married Miss Belle Gallatin, daughter of Samuel Gallatin of Tyrone township. Henry Galley, being the youngest of his father's family, inherited one half of the old homestead farm on the banks of the Youghiogheny river, opposite Dawson, where he has since continued to live. During all of his active life, he has followed farming as his principal business; but has dealt in stock, bought and sold real estate and was for a time engaged in the mercantile business at Dawson. He contributed largely to the upbuilding of the town of Dawson. Among other improvements, he built the brick hotel near the B & O station, known as the "Central." Being a sober and industrious man, he gave his personal attention to his affairs, and has been successful in all his business enterprises. He was noted as a good farmer, raising heavy crops of grain, especially of corn. It was due to his adherence to the principles of the democratic party, his knowledge of political affairs, that he was prevailed upon to offer himself as a candidate for legislative honors, and permitted his name to be announced in the spring of 1858 for the nomination. He was nominated and in the fall of the same year was elected. He served during the session of 1859 and was a useful member of that body. He was renominated by his part in the spring of 1859, but was defeated on account of a split in the democrat party that grew out of the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act, or better known as the Lecompton and Anti-Lecompton contest in which Stephen A Douglas and James Buchanan were the principal actors. Although defeated, Mr Galley remained firmly attached to his party principles opposed to all sectional issues and hate and was in favor of all rights, absolutely conferred on our people by the Constitution. He firmly believed in the views expressed by General Washington, that sectional parties or sectional geographical division of the country would lead to war. Consequently he has always been opposed to the policy of the republican party, as in his opinion its policy and radical leadership were the primary causes that led to the Rebellion. He was opposed to war as a means of preserving the Union. For this expressing his views, he was denounced as disloyal; and several ineffectual attempts were made to arrest him. He is firm in his belief that war could have been averted if reason and patriotism had pervaded the country, instead of sectional hate and party frenzy. In regard to the question of slavery, he was willing to leave that with the States themselves; granting other States the same rights that Pennsylvanians expressed on the subject, believing as he did that the advanced civilization of time would correct all wrongs and eradicate all evils. He is a man of strong convictions and marked individuality, not easily carried away by other men's opinions or prompted by their suggestions. He is decidedly a man who thinks for himself. In his social capacity he is kindly disposed towards all men, a good conversationalist, always inclined to pry into causes rather than be blinded by effect. His father, Philip Galley, was of German descent. His grandfather, Peter Galley, emigrated from Germany to America in about 1770, came to Lancaster county, Penna, and married Sophia Stern. To them were born two children, a son and a daughter: the daughter died in infancy, leaving Philip as the only survivor. Peter Galley joined the army of the Revolution as a musician, died soon after his enlistment, thus leaving the boy Philip Galley to be cared for by his mother. After some two years, the mother married again and the boy Philip Galley was taken in charge by his uncle Philip Stern. He was raised to industry; learned the art of weaving and also that of grafting fruit trees. Subsequently, he married Magdalene Newcomer of Washington county, Maryland. She was the daughter of Peter and Catherine Newcomer. The Newcomers were formerly residents of Lancaster county, Penna, and from there removed over into Washington county, Maryland, where Philip Galley soon after followed and married the mother of the Galley family, consisting of eight sons and three daughters: Peter Galley, Catherine Galley, John Galley, Jacob Galley, David Galley, Elizabeth Galley, Samuel Galley, Jonathan Galley, Barbara Galley, Abraham Galley and Henry Galley. After settling on a piece of land in Washington county, Maryland, Philip Galley and wife sold their land, and with Peter, the only child at that time, moved to what was then known as "the West," settling in Tryone township, on a farm now on the line of the Broad Ford & Mount Pleasant railroad, Morgan Station being on a part of the same farm. There they lived until ten more children were born. Philip Galley was the first man in the county to engage in the nursery business, strong handed and very energetic, he accumulated wealth rapidly, so that he was not only able to pay for his Tyrone farm, but bought the Riverbottom farm, and removed there in 1821. With the help he soon had, he soon engaged in the nursery business, and after building the brick mansion house and barn, became a successful farmer. After assisting each of his eight sons to a farm, he retired from business and gave the home farm over to his two youngest sons: Abraham Galley and Henry Galley. He remained in the old mansion house until his death on the 31st of August 1852 aged seventy seven years. The wife and mother died the year previous at the same age. Their remains now rest on the hill in Locust Grove cemetery, the shadow of a beautiful granite monument. Mr Galley having just passed the seventieth milestone in his journey through life, has retired from labor and given his farm over to his two sons: Allen Galley and Ewing Galley. Great changes have been wrought within the past few years on the old homestead farm, due to the construction of the Pittsburg, McKeesport, &Youghiogheny railroad. Where lofty corn, wheat and grass once grew, there now stand railroad buildings: roundhouse, shops, sidings, weigh-scales, offices, etc. Instead of a well-cultivated farm can now be seen numerous railroad tracks covered with long trains of loaded coke cars, and a fair start for a town has sprung up, known by the name of "La Belle." Dickerson Run station is on a part of the Galley farm, and the branch railroad called by that name, intersects the main line near the center of the farm. Mr Galley has advertised lots for sale, and offers to donate any manufacturing company from five to twenty acres in case such company will erect works that will justify. In addition to his home farm, he now owns the adjoining farm, known as the Strickler fruit farm. Although he has passed his seventieth year, he is as active and walks as erect as many others do at forty five or fifty. He has within the past year erected a new residence for himself and family, some two hundred yards distant from the old brick mansion where he is spending his time in adding such improvements as he deems either necessary or ornamental. Religiously he adheres to the Christian religion, and as he terms it is a free man; free from all ecclesiastical combinations; free to read and interpret the Bible according to his own understanding and judgment. In his younger and less experienced days, he submitted to the ecclesiastical intolerance by uniting with the Cumberland Presbyterian organization. He threw off that yoke of intolerance, and proclaimed himself free from ecclesiasticism, accountable only to God, and not to "man, or man-made societies," accepting the Bible as sufficient directory to guide man from earth to heaven. p271 AMEDIE J GANS was born at Morris Cross Roads, Springhill township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, November 7, 1852. He is of German descent on his father's side; his mother is a descendant of an old Welsh and Irish family and was born in Monongalia county, West Virginia. He was brought up in his native township and attended the common schools until he was eighteen years of age. He then entered Georges Creek Academy at Smithfield, Penna, assiduously pursued his studies for two years, acquiring a thorough and complete knowledge of the textbooks in use in the schools. Leaving the Academy he engaged in teaching and has continued in that profession for the last sixteen years. He is eminently successful and popular as a teacher; always commands the best wages given by the board of directors and a premium by the district that secures his services. Mr Gans holds a permanent certificate that entitles him to teach anywhere in the State. A J Gans is at present engaged as principal of a select school in Point Marion, Penna. During vacation he is employed as agent for the United States Life Insurance Company of New York. A J Gans and Carrie L Hall were married August 30, 1879. Mrs Gans is a daughter of Isaac C and Ann C Hall, both natives of Springhill township. Mr and Mrs Gans have two children: Nellie Gans, eight years old, and Ray Gans, ten months old. Mr Gans is a member of the Mt Moriah Baptist congregation at Smithfield, Penna, and adorns his profession by a chaste and correct life. He is a democrat in politics and takes a lively interest in the success of his party. He owns a fine residence, lives comfortably and enjoys the society of his friends. He is industrious and frugal in his habits, and commands the respect of the community. His father, Jasper N Gans, was born in Springfield township, July 17, 1823, is a shoemaker by trade, a democrat in politics and a member of the Baptist church. He was drafted into the service of the United States in October, 1862, to serve for nine months; was mustered at Camp Howe near Pittsburgh, Penna, in the One Hundred Sixty eighth P D M under command of Col Joseph Jack, but before the expiration of his term of service, was honorably discharged at New Berne, North Carolina, on account of disability. p548 ABRAM GARWOOD, a leading citizen of Luzerne township, was born in Luzerne township, Fayette county, Penna, March 10, 1819, and is a son of Jesse Garwood and Lydia Roberts Garwood. Jesse Garwood, son of Obed Garwood of Southwestern Pennsylvania, was born in August, 1788, in Chester county and removed to Luzerne township early in life. He was a Quaker and an old line whig, and owned a valuable farm in the township where he died January 1, 1854. He married Miss Lydia Roberts and raised a family of six sons and five daughters. Mrs Garwood's father, Griffith Roberts, was a farmer, came from Chester county to Menallen township, but subsequently removed to Redstone township, where he died. He was an ardent and active democrat. Abram Garwood was reared in Luzerne township, and after attending the subscription schools engaged in farming. He continues successfully in that line of business until 1884, and then removed to Luzerne village where he is now residing in a very comfortable home. He was married to Miss Mary A, daughter of William Miller. They have had nine children: Lydia (deceased), William M Garwood, Rebecca J Garwood, Obed Garwood, Alice Garwood, Eli Garwood, Jason H Garwood, Oliver Garwood and Edith Garwood. Abram Garwood's people were honored members of the Society of Friends who by the simplicity and justness of their lives, beautifully illustrated the peaceful character of their religious belief, and Mr Garwood during his long and useful life has reflected no discredit on the teachings of George Fox, William Penn and their followers. p177 DANIEL P GIBSON. From the farm goes many a boy to win distinction or success in life, and among those who have become successful businessmen may be mentioned Daniel P Gibson. He was born on a farm in Fayette county, Penna, April 20, 1827. He attended the public school and worked on a farm until sixteen years of age when he apprenticed himself to learn the harness and saddlery trade at Petersburgh, Somerset county, Penna, with John Morrow with whom he remained five years. Upon attaining his majority he located at Upper Middletown and pursued the harness and saddlery business from 1848 to 1976-a period of twenty eight years. He built up a large trade and acquired the reputation of being an honest and reliable businessman. In 1876 he selected Uniontown as center for a wider field of operations and his subsequent success attests the wisdom of his selection. To his regular business he added in 1876, that of handling buggies. He visited the factories inspected the materials and examined the process of construction in its every stage, thus securing himself and customers from imposition in the buggies he put upon the market. Mr Gibson also engaged in farming and was in the general mercantile business from about 1862 to 1879, running two general stores, one at Upper Middletown, the other at Searights. After locating at Uniontown he started a grocery and hardware store but sold it in 1881, on account of ill health. Success has marked his ventures in every field. He owns valuable property in Osceola, also in Clark county, Iowa. He has acquired quite an amount of improved real estate in Uniontown of houses and lots that return a handsome rental. He is a Master Mason and holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a member of the Baptist church, and has been for many years one of the church's trustees. He is also one of the directors of the First National Bank of Uniontown. Daniel P Gibson is the son of Joseph Gibson and Rachel Philips Gibson. Joseph Gibson was born in Fayette county, Penna, and was a farmer. He died in 1830 aged fifty years. He was the son of John Gibson, a native of Ireland. Rachel Philips Gibson was a native of New Jersey, and came with her parents when quite young to the county. Her father was Benjamin Philips and a farmer by occupation. Daniel P Gibson was married in 1874 to Miss Hannah Jane Brown, daughter of William Brown, a well-known and prominent Fayette county farmer, and has one child: Della Pearl Gibson. Mr Gibson is a fine businessman, possessed of good judgement, but plain and quiet in conducting his business. Losing no chances, missing no opportunities, making no rash ventures or wild speculations, and satisfied with small but certain profits. He is truly one of Fayette county's most successful businessmen. p340 JACOB B GRAHAM is of Scotch Irish and German extraction and was born on the Graham homestead in Menallen township, Fayette county, Penna, January 3, 1824. He is a son of Hugh Graham and Margaret Black Graham. Hugh Graham, a sturdy, honest, genial and determined Scotch Irishman, was born May 2, 1796, near Londonderry and came to Philadelphia in 1818. He had learned carpentering in all its branches, and here in the employ of the celebrated Stephen Girard he built some of the finest houses in that city. He walked from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in six days and from thence to Uniontown. In 1822 he married Miss Margaret Black, daughter of Jacob and Catherine Black. They had eight children: Catherine Graham, dead; William Graham, dead; Jacob B Graham; Albert G Graham, college graduate, editor, and lawyer, died in Tennessee; Margaret Graham, wife of L B Bowie, now dead; Thomas B Graham; Hugh Graham, Jr, died at eighteen years of age; Jennie G Graham, married William Thorndell, deceased. Mrs Graham died in 1873. She was a daughter of Jacob Black who settled in Fayette county about 1788 and owned large tracts of land in the county. He received a fine education in the universities of Germany, and was one of the best educated men in the county. Hugh Graham had no superior as a workman in the county. He built the "Friendship Hill" mansion and erected the fine residences of the late Judges Nathaniel Ewing and A E Wilson. He erected fine buildings throughout the county, and died May 19, 1879, aged eighty three years. He was a great loss to Fayette county as a useful citizen, and to the Cumberland Presbyterian church as an efficient member. He was modest in demeanor but firm as a rock in his conviction of what he thought to be right, of fine judgment, keen wit, genial disposition, and unquestioned honesty; he was possessed of a very retentive memory, a vast store of information, he left behind him a character worthy of study and fit for imitation. Jacob B Graham received his education in the subscription schools of Menallen and engaged in farming for a livelihood. April 3, 1856, he married Caroline Gaddis, daughter of Jacob and Sallie Gaddis. They have had seven children: Margaret Jane Graham, born March 8, 1857, married Enoch Rossel May 27, 1877, has two children, Grethel Rossel and Ottis Rossel; Adaline Emmerson Graham, born March 18, 1862, married James P McGill MD of Chicago, December 29, 1886; Hugh Graham, born January 2, 1865, dead; Harvey Gaddis Graham, born April 19, 1868; Thomas E Graham, born May 11, 1870; William B Graham, born September 16, 1874. Mrs Caroline Graham was a daughter of Jacob Gaddis, who was born on Redstone Creek in 1776, and married Sarah Coombs, born in 1803. They had ten children. Jacob B Graham owns six hundred acres of good farming land in Menallen and North Union townships, and devotes his time largely to the management of his farms. He is a conservative democrat, and cast his first ballot for Franklin Pierce for president. He has been road supervisor and school director, and is one of the responsible citizens of Menallen. p339 THOMAS BAIRD GRAHAM. Of Fayette county's citizens who have seen something of the "West" by travel and experience and endangered their lives on Western fields of battle, one is Thomas Baird Graham. He was born July 5, 1833, on the Graham homestead in Menallen township, Fayette county, Penna, and is a son of Hugh Graham and Margaret Black Graham. His father, Hugh Graham, was an honored citizen of Fayette county, whose life is noticed in full in the sketch of Jacob B Graham. Thomas Baird Graham was educated in the common schools of Fayette county, in the primary schools of Jonesboro, Tennessee, in the Fall Branch Academy of the same State, and spent two years in Emory and Henry College, Virginia. On recommendation of Governor Johnson of Tennessee, he was appointed to a first class clerkship under Hon Thomas A Hendricks, commissioner of the land office and was a firm friend of that able statesman. After two years service as a clerk, he went to Jonesboro, Tennessee, where he read law with Chancellor Luckey, and graduated June 22, 1859, from the law school of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee. He was practicing law at Chillicothe in Livingston county, Missouri, when the late Civil War began, and was a third lieutenant and drill master in a regiment of State troops. He believed in "state's rights," but not in "secession," and while fighting in the Missouri State Guard to drive federal troops out of the State, yet he would not join the Confederate army. He fought at Carthage, was in the thickest of the fight at Wilson's Creek, and in the two battles at Lexington. After these last battles, he was appointed judge advocate of the Fourth Division of the Missouri State Guard, with the rank of lieutenant colonel for his bravery in the field. The rebels threatened to hang him for making a speech against uniting the State Guard with the Confederate army. He would not enter the Confederate service, and had only resisted what he considered the abuse of Federal power in his adopted State. In 1862 he returned home, was admitted to the bar at Uniontown, but soon after went to Pittsburgh where he practiced law until 1868 when his health becoming impaired he removed to Menallen township. On October 6, 1887, he married Mary Keys, daughter of Andrew Keys and Elizabeth Wood Keys. They have one child: Keys Graham, born August 8, 1888. Mrs Mary Graham is a California graduate and was vice principal of the public schools in Monongahela City. Mr Graham and wife are persons of literary taste and are members of Grace Episcopal church in Menallen. Mr Graham over the nom de plume of "Tempe" has many fugitive pieces, both of prose and poetry, published in various magazines and newspapers, which if gathered together would make a respectable volume. He thinks, though, that the life of a farmer is necessary to his health, and now resides at his country seat in Menallen, known as Selma. p340 JOHN B GRANT, one of the industrious citizens of Everson, Tyrone township, is a son of William Grant and Ann Bailey Grant and was born in England. William Grant was a native of Lincolnshire, England, born 1795, died 1840. He was a farmer, a good neighbor, and a member of the Church of England. His wife was born in 1800 and died in 1856. John b Grant was raised on a farm and received his education in the pay schools of England. In 1873 he emigrated to Pennsylvania, located at East Broad Top, Huntingdon county, and engaged in mining coal until 1876. In 1876 he attended the Centennial at Philadelphia; from thence he went to Europe, returned in 1879 to East Broad Top and again engaged in mining. After nine months' labor in the mines, he with sixteen other miners were discharged for joining the Knights of Labor. He then removed to Everson, engaged in coal mining and has since continued to mine. In 1866 he was married to Miss Martha Vance, daughter of Robert Vance of Glasgow, Scotland, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. John B Grant was treasurer of the Amalgamated Association during its three years' existence at Everson. He owns two large double houses in Everson, and is otherwise well fixed in life. p502 Dr WILSON GREENE, a prominent physician of Fayette county and a resident of New Geneva, was born in Monongahela township, Greene county, Penna, December 1, 1829. He is of English and German ancestry. William Greene, grandfather, was a native of New England and settled on Whitely Creek, Greene county, in an early day. He married Rebecca La Rue. They had five sons and three daughters. One of these sons, Matthew Greene, father of Dr Greene, was born February 17, 1806, and is now in the eighty fourth year of his age. Matthew Greene is a democrat, a member of the Baptist church and owns a valuable farm of 100 acres of first class land in Monongahela township, Greene county, Penna. In 1828 he married Miss Rachel Sycks, daughter of Henry Sycks and Barbara Seltzer Sycks, the former a native of Virginia, an early pioneer of Greene county and a soldier in several campaigns against the Indians. They had four children: three daughters and one son. Mrs Greene was born in 1796 and died in 1869. Dr Wilson Greene received his education in the common schools and by teaching several winter schools was enabled to complete a liberal English education in a select school at Brownsville. He read medicine with Dr John Stone, an able physician of Greensboro, Greene county, Penna. After five years' reading, he entered Cleveland Medical College and continued his studies there during 1858 and 1859. A diploma was granted him by the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. In 1859 he began the practice of medicine at Bristol, Perry county, Ohio, where he remained five years in the enjoyment of a good practice. In 1864 he came to Fayette county and located at New Geneva where he has successfully continued in the practice of medicine up to the present time. Probably no physician in Fayette county enjoys a wider practice than Dr Greene, extending as it does over the southern parts of Fayette and Greene counties and adjoining counties of West Virginia. March 23, 1859, he married Miss Pleasant M Evans, daughter of Evan Evans and great granddaughter of Rev John Corbly, the pioneer Baptist preacher whose wife and children were massacred by the Indians while on their way to church on Sunday morning, May 10, 1782, at Garrard's Fort, Greene county, Penna. They have two children: Isa D Greene and Willie W Greene. Isa D Greene is the wife of O J Sturgis, editor of the REPUBLICAN STANDARD, Uniontown, Penna, educated at Monongahela College and was graduated from Dana's Musical Institute, Warren, Ohio. She has a fine talent for vocal and instrumental music and possesses a sweet, clear and musical voice. Willie W Greene was educated at Monongahela College and is a graduate of Duff's Commercial Business College. Dr Greene has been for many years a useful and influential member of the Baptist church of which his wife and children are also members. He is a republican in politics and takes a keen interest in public affairs, but has never sought office. p438 GEORGE T GRIFFIN, time-keeper for the Cambria Iron Co, Dunbar, was born November 18, 1858, in Kent County, Delaware. His father, Jacob Griffin, was a native of Newcastle county, Delaware, removed to Kent county in 1855, where he engaged in farming and stock raising. His wife, Rachel J Bennett, was from the eastern shore of Maryland. The children are: Anna E Griffin, wife of John Dougherty of Altoona; Sallie Griffin, wife of Rufus Nourse, Boston; Edgar B Griffin and George T Griffin, the latter educated in the common schools of his native county, and was engaged in farming pursuits till 1871, when he came to Cambria county and engaged as a common laborer. In 1875 he began the study of telegraphy, soon after took a position as operator with the Penn R R Co, and was stationed at Scottdale, Westmoreland county. In 1879 the company located him at Dunbar. In 1883 he went to Ohio as an operator for the Pittsburgh, Ft W & Chi R R Co, and returned to Dunbar in 1886, when he was appointed to his present responsible position by the Cambria Iron Co. Mr Griffin was married to Miss Martha L Taylor, daughter of John Taylor, a coke operator of Fayette county, March 24, 1881. Their children are: John C Griffin and Martha E Griffin. Mr Griffin is a member of the I O O F K of P, and a member of the Presbyterian church. p273 DR LEWIS C GUMMERT, a prominent young physician and surgeon of Brownsville, is a son of Thomas C Gummert and Amanda A Clemmer Gummert, and was born in Brownsville, February 5, 1860. The ancestry of Dr Gummert's family goes back to Revolutionary days when Christian Gummert, his great grandfather, left Germany on account of religious persecution and landed at Richmond, Virginia. He entered the Continental Army and served throughout the war. After his discharge he settled in Virginia, and died at Shepherd's church, that State, after seeing twelve birthdays in the second century of his life. Christian P Gummert, the grandfather of Dr Gummert, was born in 1806 in Charlestown, Virginia, and came to Fayette county in 1820. He was a shoemaker and secured a contract for making the shoes for the men then employed on the National Roade between Uniontown and Washington, Penna. In connection with his shoe business, he did a profitable and successful banking business. He was one of the old members of Christ's Protestant Episcopal church. He married Miss Shutz and then Miss Sheppard of West Virginia, and died in 1856. He was a prominent and influential Mason, and was one of the first officers of Brownsville Chapter No 164, R A M; Gummert Lodge No 252, A F and M. Fayette City was named for him. He was for many years grand master of the Masonic Order of Pennsylvania, the most important office in that ancient order. Thomas C Gummert, the father of Dr Gummert, was born in 1832 and died in 1883. He was engaged for a while with his father in the banking business, afterward he was with John T Hogg in the banking business at Mt Pleasant, Greensburg, Pittsburgh and Brownsville. In 1854 he became assistant cashier in the Bank of Louisiana at New Orleans. In 1856 he returned home. In 1861 was employed in the United States commissary department during the war, and was stationed at Parkersburg, West Virginia. In 1865 he became chief clerk for Westley Frost, United States revenue collector of the Twenty second district. At Frost's death he became collector, and served as such until 1869 when the Twenty second annual district was consolidated along with the Twenty fourth. He was a democrat, and was once nominated by his party for register and recorder of Fayette county, but declined to run on account of his mercantile and other business at Brownsville. He was a member of the Episcopalian church, justice of the peace for sixteen years, a Knight Templar in Masonry, besides being a prominent member in five other secret orders. He was an active, useful, influential and honorable citizen of the county. Thomas C Gummert was married in 1858 to Miss Amanda A Clemmer of Smithfield. They had three children: Thomas N Gummert; C Lewis Gummert; and John S Gummert. Mrs Gummert was born in 1828 and died in 1879. Her father, Lewis Clemmer, was a native of Germany and a saddler by trade. His wife, Esther C Clemmer, was a niece of the Hon Benjamin Butler. Dr C Lewis Gummert was educated in the public schools of Brownsville, and on leaving school engaged as a clerk in a store for four years. He quit the store to read medicine with his uncle, the late Dr U L Clemmer, attended lectures at the college of physicians and surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland. From this school he was graduated March 2, 1882, ranking eighth in a class of one hundred eighty four. In addition to his regular graduation he received an honorary diploma for operative surgery. In May, 1882, he came to Brownsville and began the practice of his profession where he has practiced with great success ever since. He was appointed United States examining surgeon, August 4, 1885, and medical inspector to the State Board of Health in April, 1888. He is a member of the Fayette County Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and the Internal Medical Congress. He is medical examiner for eight or ten secret order associations. Dr Gummert was married September 11, 1880, to Miss Mary Hastings of Brownsville. She was born in 1859, and died May 5, 1881. He is a member of the I O O F, I O R M, and K of L. He is a solid democrat, a prominent citizen and an intelligent, skilled and careful physician.