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dren, five sons and five daughters: Agnes, Adaline, Frank, Laura, Emma, Urban, Albert, Jeannette, Levi, and Clinton.     Charles Warner has given his time chiefly to farming and lumbering, in which he has been quite successful for over a quarter of a century. In religious faith and church membership he is a Catholic, belonging to St. Lawrence church, of that denomination. Mr. Warner has never sought political preferment, but has decided opinions on the great questions of the day, and is a democrat. Never asking for an office, yet when elected at different times, as supervisor, auditor and school-director, he accepted and served acceptably and creditably. JOSEPH C. WAKEFIELD, MD., of Vinco, Cambria county, is a son of Thomas P. and Annie (Sides) Wakefield , and was born in West Wheatfield township, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1853.     His father was born in the same township and county, where he lived until his death in 1865, at the age of thirty-five years, He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1863 he enlisted in the Second battalion of six months' Pennsylvania volunteers, serving out his term of enlistment, and later serving several months in the quartermaster's department at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1864, when he returned home and died from the effects of the service.     The paternal grandfather, David Wakefield, was a native of eastern Pennsylvania, and when a young man moved to Indiana county, and took up a large tract of land. He was a wagon-maker and farmer. He died in 1848, aged fifty-five years.     The family history of the Wakefields is interesting. They are supposed to have de-

scended from two Italian priests who espoused the cause of the Reformation and escaped to England, afterward coming to this country and locating at Baltimore.     Mother Wakefield was born in West Wheatfield township, Indiana county, and died in 1864 (the summer previous to her husband's death), at the early age of thirty-three years. She also was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church.     Grandfather Joseph Sides was born in York county, Pennsylvania. He was of Pennsylvania German stock, and one of the early settlers of Indiana county, where he engaged in farming. In religion he was a protestant and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died in West Wheatfield, Indiana county, in 1873, aged seventy-three years.     Dr. Joseph C. Wakefield was reared in his native township, and was educated at the Mechanicsburg academy and the Homer City academy, in Indiana county. After leaving school he decided to fit himself for the practice of medicine, and with that view took a course of study under the preceptorship of Dr. B. F. Tomb, of Mechanicsburg. In 1878 he graduated from the Cleveland Medical college, Cleveland, Ohio, and the same year located at Penn's Run, Indiana county. Six months later he formed a co-partnership with Dr. T. J. Davison, at Strongstown in the same county. This partnership continued for one year, when it was dissolved, and Dr. Wakefield located at Vinco, where he has been in the active practice of medicine ever since.     Dr. Wakefield was twice married -- first to Miss Mary J., daughter of David Stewart, of Brush valley, on March 15, 1878. It was a happy union, but was ended in 188o, by the death of Mrs. Wakefield. Two years later, in 1882, the doctor was again married, this

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