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To Mr. and Mrs. James Allport were born seven children, four of whom are living. The youngest son, Hobart, was born in 1848, at Morrisdale, Clearfield county, being of a very delicate nature he was unable to study very hard while young, but as he grew older he grew stronger, and in 1875 he entered the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1878.     In 1870 he married Edith S. Nevling, niece of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. A. Boynton, late of Clearfield, but now residing in Philadelphia. He was surgeon-in-chief of the Cottage State hospital from the time it was erected until his death, and it was mainly through his efforts that the hospital was secured to the Clearfield mining region. His death occurred January 7, 1893, the result of blood-poisoning the previous summer; he is survived by his wife and six children, of whom James Hobart is the second. CHARLES WARNER, a successful farmer and lumberman of near St. Lawrence, is a son of John and Mary (Noel) Warner, and was born in Chest township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, November 25, 1848. John Warner was a native of Germany, being born near the boundary-line of that country and France in 1824. Reared in the same manner as the majority of the German youths of his day, he was employed in agricultural operations until he reached his twenty-first year. He then came to Cambria county, and having quite a taste for farming, purchased a two hundred-acre tract of woodland, near the site of the present village of St. Lawrence. He was one of the early settlers in that part of Chest township, and in the course of a few years had cleared out a good-sized and desirable farm, on which he died in 1886, aged seventy-two years. He was an industrious

man and faithful member of the Catholic church. John Warner married Mary Noel, a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and who is seventy-six years old. To their union were born seven sons and a daughter; Christopher A., who served three years as a Union soldier in the late Civil War, and died September 19, 1886, from the effects of a gunshot wound in the right shoulder, received at the battle of Chancellorsville; Matilda, wife of John J. Daniel, a farmer of White township; William, now engaged in farming, in Chest township; Henry, who is now dead, and Jacob and Sylvester, farmers and residents on the home farm.     Charles Warner was reared on the farm and trained to agricultural pursuits, and the routine labors of a farmer's son when the country was new and largely in woods. He received only the usual limited education of his neighborhood in the early common schools kept open only in the winter season, but he learned the invaluable lessons of self-reliance, honesty and economy, which go far toward making the successful business man. When he attained his majority he purchased, in Chest township, a tract of one hundred acres of choice timberland, on which he followed lumbering in winter and clearing and farming in summer for a number of years. He removed, in 1872, to his farm, which is now one of the finest farms in the township, being well improved and in a good state of cultivation. For several years Mr. Warner has purchased small tracts of timber, which he has converted into lumber during the winter seasons. He is well situated, with a desirable home and surrounded with all the needed comforts of life.     On July 2, 1872, Mr. Warner wedded Barbara Miller, a resident of Elder township. Their union has been blessed with ten chil-

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