OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.

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Elias J., a farmer, of Johnson county, Iowa; Isaac J., a farmer in Summerhill township, Cambria county; Rebecca, the wife of David T. Edwards, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Ezekiel J., who died March 6, 1887, at the age of twenty-two years.     Thomas J. Hughes was brought up on a farm, educated in the public schools of his neighborhood and in the Ebensburg public school. He remained with his father upon the farm until 1864, when he entered the Civil War. He enlisted August 13th of that year in company D, Fifth Pennsylvania heavy artillery, at Pittsburg, and was honorably discharged from the Federal service at Vienna, Virginia, June 30, 1865, after the close of that terrible conflict. He participated in a number of skirmishes in the Shenandoah valley, against Colonel Mosby, the noted guerrilla warrior, and on November 5, 1864, was captured by his men and incarcerated in Libby prison, where he was confined until February 5, 1865, suffering such privations and miseries as were only known to southern army prisoners. Returning from the war, he engaged in farming and lumbering, near Wilmore, this county, for a period of four years, and then engaged in the saw-milling business, in which he continued until 1876. Returning to his farm that year, he continued the tranquil but remunerative pursuits of husbandry until 1895, when he was elected superintendent of the Cambria county almshouse, which position he is now acceptably filling. Mr. Hughes was made first lieutenant in command of company H, Fifth regiment Pennsylvania State militia, and rendered valuable service in the suppression of the great railroad strike of 1877, which completely tied up, as it were, the railroads and paralyzed business throughout the country. He was stationed at Pittsburg during the riots

in that city, and was subsequently transferred to Altoona to prevent the destructive invasions of the rioters. Lieutenant Hughes is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 312, F. and A. M., and John M. Jones Post, No. 556, G. A. R. In politics he is a republican and in religion a Congregationalist.     He has been thrice married. August, 1873, he married Eliza Ellis, of Wilmore, by whom he had six children: John T., May, Edna, Leah, Martha and Mary. His first wife died September 9, 1882, and he wedded as his second wife Miriam Roberts, of Pittsburg. They were married December 28, 1884, and became the parents of one child, Miriam, deceased. Mrs. Hughes died May 2, 1889, and Mr. Hughes took for his third and last wife Wilhelmina Young, of Clearfield county, Pennsylvania. The nuptials which made them husband and wife were celebrated on December 18, 1890. ALEXANDER B. PRINGLE, a representative of one of the old families of this county, is a son of William and Elizabeth (Bolwine) Pringle, and was born in Croyle township, this county, September 17, 1829.     His paternal grandfather, Philip Pringle, was born in the eastern part of this State, but at an early day, with his brother George, settled in the wilderness near what is now known as "Pringle Hill," and from these two brothers have sprung the numerous family of that name in this county. The Pringles are of Scotch extraction, whilst the Bolwines are of German origin. The mother of the subject of this sketch was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1798. Her father was Henry Bolwine, a native of Germany, but one of the early settlers of Somerset county.     William Pringle, father, was born in Croyle

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