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Welsh Congregatioinal church. She is now seventy-five years old.     The subject of this sketch was born near Ebensburg, Cambria county, July 13, 1845, and was married October 5, 1869, to Miss Mary C., daughter of the late Samuel Kinter, of Johnstown.     Frank H., employed as a clerk in the First National Bank; Ella F., a student at Wells College, Aurora, New York, where she will soon graduate after a five years' course, and Kinter, a student at the Kiskiminetas school, Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, are his children.     These children have the inheritance which can be bequeathed only by a father belonging to a good race, and possessing good habits and intelligence. DR. WILLIAM EDGAR MATTHEWS, one of the most prominent physicians of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was born in East Wheatfield township, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1860.     He was educated in the country schools, at the Armagh academy and at the State Normal school, Indiana county. His efficiency and high character as a teacher are proven by the fact that at the age of nineteen he was chosen to fill the position of principal of the Market street school of Johnstown. He has also held other responsible positions in the schools in the environs of Johnstown.     Having resolved to make medicine his profession, he studied with Dr. W. B. Lowman, and entered Jefferson college, Philadelphia, where he graduated April, 1887. After graduating he entered a competitive examination for a hospital position, and was one of the

successful ones out of a class of one hundred and eighty-seven.     For the first six months he was in St. Joseph's hospital, Reading, Pennsylvania, and after that for one and one-half years was at the Philadelphia hospital. This hospital is supported by the city of Philadelphia, and at that time embraced about two thousand patients. From the importance of this position, and his success in securing it, we have an early intimation of Dr. Matthews' attainments in his chosen profession.     April 11, 1889, after his hospital service, he came to Johnstown, where he has remained ever since, practicing his profession with uniform success, and winning by his generosity, honesty, affable manners and undoubted capacity, hosts of appreciative friends. Dr. Matthews deserves high credit for having made his way unaided from the farm through the schools to a position of importance in his profession. After the flood he was for one year chief medical inspector to the State Board of Health, doing excellent service. Prior to 1896 the State Board had but sixteen inspectors, and Dr. Matthews was one of them. Now there is an inspector for each county, and he is the one for Cambria county. He is one of the staff of the Conemaugh Valley Memorial hospital, is a member of the Cambria County Medical society, and of the Pennsylvania State Medical society.     He is a member of Johnstown Lodge, No. 538, F. and A. M., of Portage Chapter, 195, R. A. M., of Orient Commandery, No. 61, Knights Templar, and of the A. O. U. W., No. 245. He is also first vice-president of the Johnstown Board of Trade.     April 9, 1891, he married Cora Belle Greene, a daughter of Wesley Greene, of Johnstown, and an amiable and cultivated

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