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BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA

Mr. Martin's family at present consists of his wife and four children:  John J., Mary J., Emma R. and Gerarldine.     In politics Mr. Martin is a staunch democrat, and takes an active interest in the success of his party, and in the campaign of 1896 was the nominee of his party for State Senator in the Cambria-Blair district of Pennsylvania. As an attorney Mr. Martin is noted for the earnest and enthusiastic interest with which he enters into a case for his clients. As a speaker he is earnest and forcible. MORGANZA A. BROWN, who for forty years was the faithful and efficient head of the saddlery department of the Cambria Iron company, is a son of Andrew and Mary (Green) Brown, and was born May 3, 1822, in Blairsville, Indiana county, Pennsylvania.     His father was born in Centre county, this State, and belonged to one of those sturdy pioneer families of central Pennsylvania. When a young man, the tide of emigration being westward, he removed to Blairsville, Indiana county, which was his home until death closed his active and useful and eminently successful life, September 19, 1830. He was a resident of that old borough at the time of the building of the old Pittsburg pike, and for him the upper portion of the borough was named, and, to this day, is known as Browntown. His trade was that of a stonemason, and in his craft was recognized as a skilled and reliable artisan. Just prior to his death he wa a contractor for the building of a lock on the Pennslyvania canal, which, in connection with the old Portage railroad, was the connecting link between the eastern and western part of the State. While thus engaged he caught cold, from which he never recovered, and which caused

his death. Politically he affiliated with the party of Jefferson, and being well-known as a man of discriminating judgment, clear conceptions and of the strictest integrity, he was appointed by the Governor of the State as associate judge, to sit on the judicial bench of Indiana county, a position for which his well-known qualities of head and heart rendered him eminently qualified to fill, and he discharged the duties of his office in a way that reflected great credit upon him and secured for him the esteem and respect of those who knew him. His marriage resulted in the birth of the following children:  Eliza, born January 3, 1800, died January 12, 1822; James G., born February 19, 1807; Harriet, born January 23, 1809; William B., born September 17, 1811; Susanna, born October 6, 1813, the wife of Elijah Smith, of Farmington, Fulton county, Illinois, and the only one living except the subject of this sketch; Joseph G. was born November 30, 1815; Mary Ann, born n n February 3, 1818, and died September, 1819; John B., born April 17, 1820, and died January 16, 1843; Morganza, subject, and Emily.     Morganza Brown secured but the elements of an education, by attending, for a short time, the subscription schools, as they existed before the common school system was established. His father died while he was yet young, and he was put to the necessity of going to work to help support and take care of the family. In 1839 he came to Johnstown and apprenticed himself to learn the trade of a saddler. After learning the trade he followed it for a time, but on account of failing health was compelled to give it up, and then for a time worked in and about the warehouses that were an adjunct to the transportation on the canal and Portage road. In October, 1854, he commenced working for the Cambria

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