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BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA

Phoebe Reilly, of Johnstown, and to this union four children were born, of whom two are living. His wife died in 1853, and in 1855 he married Mrs. Mary H. McDowell; to this marital union ten children have been born, seven of whom are living. DR. SAMUEL ARTHUR PEDEN, dentist, was born February 2, 1848, in Franklin borough, Cambria county, and is a son of John and Eve (Arthur) Peden.     His grandfather, William Peden, who was a native of county Derry, Ireland, of Scotch parentage, emigrated to America in about 1821. He located in Philadelphia, at which place he remained but a short time. He then located in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Removing from there in about 1843, he came to Johnstown, where he resided until his death. The great-grandfather, on the maternal side, John Arthur, was a native of Bedford county, having been one of the pioneer settlers of that county. John Arthur served for seven years in the memorable war for independence.     John Peden, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1825. He was a carpenter by trade, and removed to Johnstown in 1843, where he industriously pursued his trade for many years. Politically, he was an old-line whig, until the disruption of that party in 1856, when he adopted the principles of the Republican party. He served as a member of the Johnstown borough councils several times, when that body consisted of but six members. In January, 1847, he married Eve Arthur, daughter of John Arthur, Jr., a native of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, who removed to Johnstown in April, 1828, being one of the pioneer settlers of the city. He served in the council of his town, and for several years was

keeper of the locks on the Pennsylvania canal. The greater part of his life was spent on a farm in Conemaugh township, near Johnstown. To the marriage of John Peden and Eve Arthur were born four children: Samuel Arthur; Mary, the wife of D.P. Petrikin, of Coopersdale borough, near Johnstown; and Keesey C., a salesman, with headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio; and Amanda. Samuel Arthur Peden was educated in the schools of this county, and at an early age became an apprentice in the Pennsylvania railroad shops of Altoona, where he learned the trade of a carpenter, serving a full apprenticeship. He worked at his trade for a short time, and then took up the study of dentistry in the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, at Baltimore, Maryland. In 1880 he graduated from that institution and located in Johnstown, where he has since practiced his profession. Politically he is a republican, and for four years represented his ward in the council, of which body he is now president. He is a member of Johnstown Lodge, No. 157, Knights of Pythias, and Mountain Castle, No. 77, Knights of the Mystic Chain; the Improved Order of Heptasophs, Johnstown Conclave, No. 140, and the Royal Arcanum, Johnstown Council, No. 401.     Mr. Peden married Miss Nettie S., daughter of John W. Haynes, of Johnstown, and to this marital union have been born two children, Alta and Julia. JOHN C. GATES, the popular clerk of the commissioners of Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is a son of Isaac and Mary (Troxell) Gates, and was born June 3, 1844, in White township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania.     He is of German extraction, the German spelling of Gates being Getz. This name,

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