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bria Iron company, and in 1866, moved to Lewistown, Fulton county, Illinois, two of his wife's brothers being practicing physicians there at that time. Having been one of the founders of the First National bank of Johntown, his mind naturally turned to banking, and he organized the Lewistown National bank. In connection with his banking interests, he, with others, carried on a large real-estate and loan business in Chicago, and was also interested as a stockholder and director in a number of insurance companies in Chicago.     The great fire of 1871, that devastated so much of the city and ruined so many of the prosperous business firms of the city, materially affected this firm with which he was connected, and they closed up their business. In the division of their assets, Mr. King took as his share ten acres near the then city limits, and eighty acres about one mile distant; shortly afterward he sold the ten acres for $30,000 and the eighty acres for $70,000.     In 1872 he established a banking business in Mason city, Illinois, of which his son, Otho S., was made cashier. It is now known as the Mason City National bank and Otho S. is still cashier.     In 1874 he founded what is now known as the Havana National bank, his son, Newton C., becoming cashier, and has remained such to the present time.     During his residence in Lewistown and Chicago, he, in connection with others, under the firm name of Howes, King & Co., purchased and operated a woolen mill in Lewistown.     Mr. King has always taken a lively interest in real estate affairs in and about Johnstown, and at one time or another has owned a greater part of the realty in the environs of the city.

After the death of his wife, and in the absence of all his children, Mr. King returned to Johnstown, the scene of his early activities, in 1889, and, with the exception of one year visiting in the West, has resided there ever since, making his home with his daughter, the widow of the late Col. John P. Linton     Hon. George S. King has lived in every decade of the closing century; he has been a witness to the progress of an age unparalleled in the history of the world, and has contributed to a greater degree than is usually the privilege of man to that progress. His is a mind in which the power of construction and generalization are highly developed, whilst he possesses that executive and organizing ability that are so essential in the carrying out of enterprises vast in conception and far-reaching in their influence. Successful and honorable has been his career, and as he enters upon the closing scenes of a busy life, it is with that happy consciousness of having faithfully performed every duty intrusted to his care, and in such a manner as to draw to himself a host of appreciative and admiring friends. DR. WEBSTER BODINE LOWMAN, who ranks as a physician and surgeon second to none in the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is a son of Dr. John and Margaret Ann (Bodine) Lowman.     Dr. John Lowman was himself a physician of note in his day. He was a son of Andrew Lowman, and was born February 13, 1817, in Greencastle, Franklin county, Pennsylvania. The family of the paternal side enjoyed the distinction of being Hollanders, the great-grandfather of Dr. John Lowman having emigrated, first of the family, from that thrifty little country to this.     Dr. John Lowman was educated in the

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