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BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA

can, and has served as burgess of the borough of Ebensburg. Having been a teacher, Mr. Dick still takes a warm personal interest in the public schools and is at present an active member of the Ebensburg school board.     He is a member of the John M. Jones Post, No. 556, G. A. R., of Ebensburg. He is a consistent member of the Presbyterian church, holding the honored position of elder.     In 1867 Mr. Dick married Lucy E. Kern, a daughter of George W. Kern, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. This marital relation resulted in the birth of the following children: John B., a deliveryman in Vintondale, Cambria county; George K., who married Celia McCue, of Montana, and is in the employ of Butte, Anaconda and Pacific railroad, in Anaconda, Montana, where he now lives; Margaret M., the wife of John I. Bowman, of Grapeville, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania; James S., an assistant in his father's office, and also pursuing the study of law; Carl W., who is attending school, and Bessie G. ABRAM HOSTETLER, a well qualified business man and a very successful farmer and fruit grower of Richland township, is a son of Henry and Mary (Weaver) Hostetler, and was born in Richland township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, October 17, 1866. The American ancestry of the Hostetlers is traced from early settlers in one section of Chester county, to pioneers in one part of Somerset, and then in the first quarter of the present century to Richland township. Peter Hostetler, whose parents came from Chester county, was born and reared in Somerset county, and came in 1830 to Richland township, where he purchased a farm and passed the remainder of his life, dying April 1, 1863, aged fifty-two years. He was the father of

Henry Hostetler, whose son Abram is the subject of this sketch. Henry Hostetler was born December 1, 1841, and after receiving a common education, turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, in which he has been engaged ever since. Energetic as a business man and successful as a farmer, Mr. Hostetler has come to be one of the representative citizens of this township. His business and farm interests have not, however, rendered him indifferent to affairs connected with his township or having a bearing on the county. For many years he has served as supervisor and manager of the Johnstown and Scalp Level turnpike. He is a republican in political opinion, and has been for many years a consistent member of the German Baptist church.     Mr. Hostetler married Mary Weaver, who was born in Paint township, Somerset county, March 19, 1846, and is a daughter of Abraham Weaver, who was a native of Davidsville, that county, and died in the spring of 1895, aged seventy-seven years. The Weavers, like the Hostetlers, were of German descent and believers in the faith of the German Baptist church, also Amish and Mennonite. Abram Hostetler received a practical English education in a common school some distance from his home, and then attended a good normal school, after which he taught two terms in the public schools. In youth he became familiar with the labor of the farm, and assisted in its cultivation until his majority was attained, when he engaged for himself in farming, which he has followed ever since, except the two years partly spent in teaching. Mr. Hostetler owns a well-improved farm of eighty acres of good land, situated along the Johnstown and Scalp Level turnpike, and only two miles from Scalp Level post office.     Abram Hostetler, on October 30, 1887,

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