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cal affairs of his township. Originally an old-line whig, he afterwards became a republican, in which political faith he has ever since remained. He served three years as constable, nine years as auditor, three years as supervisor and twelve years as school director. He was elected and served four years as justice of the peace, and his services in that office were so satisfactory that he was re- elected with hardly any opposition, but making his change of residence at the time to Stony Creek township, necessitated his resignation. Squire Hoffman is a member of the Lutheran church of Johnstown. He is a good business man. He is also a careful and successful farmer, and has given close attention to the improvement and development of his farm. NEWTON PRYCE, a farmer and carpenter of Cambria township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is a son of John Pryce, deceased.     The father was a son of William Pryce, and was born in Cambria township, and died December, 1866, on the home farm, in the northeastern part of the same township.     He was a member of the Congregational church, and an extensive farmer, owning two hundred and twenty-five acres of good farm land.     He was married to Miss Catharine Jones, and had five sons and two daughters: William, David and Evan are all farmers on the old homestead; Samuel is an employee in the planing-mill of Willie Bros., Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Susan is a dressmaker in Ebensburg, and Mary is at home.     The ancestors of Newton Pryce are of Welsh origin, and were among the early settlers of this locality, two facts in evidence of their being steady, sturdy people.

Our subject received his education in the common schools of his township, and has followed the carpenter trade for only a few years, the most of his life having been spent on the farm. ANDREW LANTZY, one of the substantial business men of Hastings, and a large wholesale dealer in wines, liquors and beer at that prosperous place, is a son of Squire John and Mary (Whitehead) Lantzy, and was born in that part of Chest, now Elder township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1859. The Lantzy family is of Swiss descent, and was planted in Pennsylvania by Joseph Lantzy, the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Joseph Lantzy was born in 1775, in Switzerland, where he owned a farm. He came in 1810 to Pennsylvania, married Mary M. Betters, and reared a family of four sons and five daughters.     Andrew Lantzy was reared on the farm; received a good common-school education, and assisted his father in farming, milling and lumbering up to 1888. In that year he came to Hastings and built the Hastings Hotel, which he conducted for one year, and afterwards sold. Retiring from hotel-keeping he sought for a wider field of operations, and established his present wholesale liquor-house, at 404 Beaver street, where he handles large quantities of wines, liquors and beer, and does an extensive and prosperous business. He handles pure and high-grade articles in his line of business, and enjoys a wide reputation as a representative wholesale liquor-dealer.     On August 9, 1881, Mr. Lantzy wedded Martha C. Woodley, who is a daughter of Peter Woodley, of Allegheny. To their union has been born one child, a son, Thomas Andrew, now deceased.

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