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tracks of the Cambria Iron company, was at that time attending college.     Mrs. Sallie Zimmerman died on July 14, 1887, and Mr. Zimmerman married as his second wife Miss Lily Emerson, a daughter of Dr. Chauncey Emerson, of Johnstown, and to the union has been born one child, Jessie Lee, on November 13, 1891. EDWARD A. ZIMMERMAN, artist and photographer of Johnstown, this county, is a son of Charles Zimmerman, Sr., whose sketch appears above, and was born in Johnstown, May 29, 1847. The education of Mr. Zimmerman was limited to the common schools of his native town. Having an artistic turn of mind, he, in 1863, began its cultivation by pursuing lithographing work for a term of one year and three months. Then, after a short respite from this line of work, he further qualified himself for his craft by taking a course of instruction in portrait painting in the city of Baltimore, and then followed the latter business until 1879. In 1880 he went West and located in Plattsburg, Clinton county, Missouri, where he successfully plied the art of photography for five years. At the end of that period he again returned to Johnstown, where he has since been actively engaged as a photographer and portrait painter.     July 12, 1869, he married Miss Eliza Hicks, a daughter of Mr. Hicks. This marriage relation resulted in the birth of seven children Ernest, Kossuth, Garnet, Jacob, Guy, deceased; Paul and Fern, deceased. His first wife died March 26, 1887, and he afterward married Minnie Hoskinson. To this marriage were born three children: Greeta, Helen and Ione.

ALONZO G. NEFF, an intelligent and energetic business man, and a popular justice of the peace of Hastings, is a son of Daniel and Emily (Hurley) Neff, and was born at Glen Hope, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1854. He received his education in the public schools of Clearfield and Cambria counties, and taught for seven winters, two of which were spent in Kansas, while the summers of this period, extending from 1876 to 1882, he devoted to work on a saw-mill in which he was interested. Two years later he removed to Olanta, Clearfield county; acted one year as manager of a general store, at Madera, this State, and then gave his attention to the saw-milling business until 1890, when he became general manager of A. A. Long's mercantile establishment at Olanta, which place he left October 1, 1892, to remove to Hastings. After coming to Hastings he acted as assistant freight agent at the Pennsylvania railroad station for eighteen months, and then engaged in his present dray business, which has grown with the town and has proved profitable.     Alonzo G. Neff, on November 28, 1878, married Rose Shuff, a daughter of Abraham Shuff, of Woodward township, Clearfield county. Their union has been blessed with seven children, a son and six daughters: Lona, Harry W., Helen, Florence, Jennie, Grace and Katherine.     In politics Mr. Neff is a staunch and active republican. He served as justice of the peace in Pike township, Clearfield county, from 1886 to 1891, and on June 9, 1896, was appointed a justice of the peace, at Hastings, to fill the place of his brother, H. W. Neff, who had resigned. He is a member of Pacific Lodge, No. 402, K. of P., of Houtzdale, this State, and Washington Camp, No. 407, P. S. of A.,

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