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Somerset county in 1812, and died in the city of Altoona in June, 1887. He was a miller by trade, but in middle life purchased a farm in Croyle township, and dealt to some extent in lumber in Summerhill township. He was an earnest Lutheran, and supported the Democratic party until the whigs went to pieces, and then became a republican. He was a careful business man, and a much-respected citizen. Mr. Sherbine married Annie Crum, a daughter of Evan Crum, a native of Maryland and a resident of Croyle township. To Mr. and Mrs. Sherbine were born nine children, five sons and four daughters: Aaron; Philip, now deceased; George, a farmer of Summerhill township; Sarah, wife of Clarence Gonsaulus, of Altoona; Mary, who married John England, of Altoona; Catherine, wife of George Treese, of Gallitzin; Matilda, and Isaiah, who is engaged in farming in Summerhill township.     Aaron Sherbine was reared on the farm, and carefully trained to all kinds of agricultural work in a day when machinery to lighten and save manual labor was but little known. He received his education in the common schools, and has followed farming all his life. In 1856 he rented his present farm, which he purchased in 1870. His farm of two hundred and sixty acres is highly productive and well improved, and underlaid with coal. In connection with farming, he was engaged for several years in the lumber business. Mr. Sherbine is a member of Lodge No. 537, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Wilmore, of which he is past grand, and has served continuously as treasurer since 1873, and has represented it as a delegate to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania five different times. He is a staunch republican in political affairs, and has served his township as supervisor for one term, as school director

for two terms, and as justice of the peace one term of five years. He has fought the battle of life successfully in his chosen occupation of farming, where he has been successful in making a comfortable home for himself and acquiring a competency.     On October 16, 1853, Aaron Sherbine was united in marriage with Caroline Crum, whose father, Ephraim Crum, was a resident of Croyle township. To their union have been born nine children, who grew to maturity: Milton A., an engineer, and resided at Summerhill; Samuel, Charles, Grant and George Lee, who are now dead; Lucy and Emma, at home; Joseph, deceased; and Lyman, who is successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits in Croyle township. WILLIAM DAVIS, who is justly entitled, to rank among the leading young members of the Cambria county bar, and whose success in life is directly due to his own unaided efforts, is a son of John D. and Mary Ann (Griffith) Davis, and was born on, the old homestead, in Barr township, this county, on December 13, 1861. He was reared upon the farm, and his opportunities for securing an education were such as were afforded by the country schools which he attended during the winter months. Having a desire for a broader education than was afforded in the public schools, he attended for one term the Huntingdon Normal school, at Huntingdon, this State, and also two terms at the Normal school of Ebensburg, and two years at the Indiana State Normal school, at Indiana, this State. As he was compelled to make his own way through school, he commenced teaching at the age of twenty, securing in this way the necessary means with which to pursue his education. He taught three terms in Barr

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