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Charles Anna, of Carrolltown; Helena, deceased, was the wife of Jacob Yahner, of Elder township, and John T., the subject of this sketch.     John T. Long was reared on his father's farm, received his education in the common schools and remained on the paternal acres until nineteen years of age, when he apprenticed himself to learn the trade of a carpenter. After learning his trade he followed journey-work throughout the west in the states of Ohio and Illinois, and at the time of the Chicago fire, in 1871, was in that city, and remained there until the following March, when he returned to Cambria county. He soon afterwards located at Summerhill and engaged in contracting and building. In 1877 he built a planing mill, which was then operated by means of water-power and on a small scale.     His business prospering, in 1886, he enlarged the mill and changed it to a steam-power plant and began the manufacture of all kinds of building material. His business continued to grow and expand, and it was necessary for him to increase his facilities from time to time until he now has a plant worth at least $10,000, and does a business of from $30,000 to $50,000 per year.     Politically, Mr. Long is a democrat who believes in a Jacksonian enforcement of Jeffersonian principles. Recognizing his reputation for good judgment and strict integrity and probity of character, the people of his borough have elected him justice of the peace for a period of four successive terms, and as the first burgess of the borough.     November 12, 1872, he married Miss Mary Stritmatter, daughter of Andrew Stritmatter, of Carroll township, and two children have blessed this union: Amelia and Bennett.

JOSIAH T. EVANS, mine inspector for the Sixth Bituminous Coal district of the State of Pennsylvania, is a son of Henry D. and Ann Lovett Evans, and was born in Pittsburg, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1848.     His paternal grandfather, Josiah Evans, was a native of Carmathenshire, Wales, but moved to Merthyr Tydvil, Glanmorganshire. His father, Henry D. Evans, was a native of that place, born April, 1812, but at the age of twenty-eight, in 1840, emigrated to America. He obtained a good elementary education in the schools of his native country, which he further improved and broadened by an extensive course of general reading. Naturally of a literary bent of mind, he contributed many articles to the press in the Welsh language, which were ably written and widely read.     Soon after landing in this country he located at Brownsville, on the beautiful and historic Monongahela river. Then he found employment with his uncle, Edward Evans, who had preceded him, and who was engaged in operating a rolling-mill. He remained there, however, but a short time, about one year, when he removed to Pittsburgh, where he spent about ten years, thence to Dravosburg, near McKeesport, being engaged in mining, his avocation, the remainder of his life. In 1854 he located at Johnstown, and died there June 12, 1883.     He was an old-line whig in politics in early life, but upon the dismemberment of that party in 1856, he associated himself with the Republican party, then in process of formation. Religiously, he was a baptist, and was one of the charter members of the Welsh Baptist church of Johnstown. He was kept in official position in the church organization all his life. A man of positive character, deep sympathy,

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