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BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA

house, a farmer of Delaware county, where she has resided since her marriage.     Alexander Stackhouse received his education in the grammar schools of Philadelphia; learned the trade of pattern-maker in Chester and Huntingdon counties, and, at the early age of fifteen years, entered the employ of the Cambria Iron company,with which he has been connected ever since. Filling acceptably and efficiently position after position in different departments, he was a length promoted to superintendent of motive power, and shortly afterwards was advanced to his present position of superintendent of transportation. In 1876 he removed to the site of Morrellville, when it was then in a wooded state, and made one of the earliest improvements where he has his present residence. Politically Mr. Stackhouse has always been an active and ardent republican, and never failed to yield a generous support to his party in its most hotly-contested campaigns. Not only active, but popular in political affairs, he was elected treasurer, in 1885, of Cambria county, when it was Democratic, by twelve hundred majority. He served as a member of the first borough council of Morrellville, was president for one term, and was elected as a member at the last election. Aside from political matters, and the discharge of the many duties of his important and responsible position, he takes a deep interest in the affairs of his borough and the employees of his company, and is now serving as president of the Morrellville Fire company and the Cambria Mutual Benefit association. He is a thorough business man, and, wherever his services have been sought, he has always served acceptably and with the most unscrupulous integrity.     On January 4, 1875, Alexander Stackhouse married Margaret Maley, a daughter of Wil-

liam and Ann (Wiley) Maley. To Mr. and Mrs. Stackhouse have been born three sons and five daughters: Joseph D., time clerk of Cambria Iron company; Alexander, who died in infancy; William P., now in service of the Cambria Iron company; Rebecca, Annie, Margaret, Sarah P., and Rose M. RICHARD W. GITTINGS, substantial farmer of Cambria township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and a son of William, Jr., and Mary (Morris), Cambria, was born in Cambria township, May 14, 1838.     His grandfather, William S. Gittings, was a native of North Wales, who brought his family to America in 1819, and located in Georgetown, Virginia, where he resided for three years.     In 1822 he removed to Ebensburg, and soon after located on a farm, four miles north west of Ebensburg, in Conemaugh township. Here he bought about four hundred acres of woodland and cleared a farm, following farming the rest of his life. In 1869 he died on his farm, aged eighty-eight years. He was one of the early settlers of that part of the township, and an upright, industrious man.     Speaking of the longevity of William Gittings, the grandfather, it is said that the great-grandfather, William Gittings, Sr., a farmer of North Wales, lived to be one hundred and two and half years old.     William Gittings (2d) had a family consisting of four sons and five daughters, six of whom were born in Wales.     William, father of Richard W., was the oldest child, and was born in Wales. Andrew, Christopher, Sarah, married to Evan R. Evans; Margharetta, married to John Prosser of Pittsburg, Jane, married to David Prosser, late of Pittsburg, and Ann, are dead. Those liv-

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