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married Barbara Illig, who died in 1881, aged seventy-four years. They reared a family of seven children, four sons and three daughters: John C., now dead; Joseph, a farmer of Chickasaw county, Iowa; Anna, widow of Earhart Farbaugh, of Allegheny township; Mary M., wife of Adam Schultig, of Cambria township; Andrew, Henry J., a farmer and Miller, and Catherine, widow of John McNulty, of Carrolltown.     Andrew Eckenrode was reared on the farm, received his education in the common schools, and at eighteen years of age left home to learn the carpenter trade, which he followed for eight years. He bought a farm and sawmill near the site of Spangler, in Susquehanna township, and was engaged in farming and lumbering up to 1880. In that year he came to Carrolltown and opened his present general mercantile establishment. He carries a very full stock of everything in his line of business, and has a good patronage.     On November 25, 1868, Mr. Eckenrode married Mary M. Gotner, whose father, Peter Gotner, was a resident of Carroll township. They have nine children: Ida M., assistant in the Carrolltown post-office; Etta, wife of F. N. Donahue, of Hastings; Melvina, William H., a printer; Henry E., attending St. Vincent's college at Latrobe, Westmoreland county, and Estella, Ellen May, Myrtle and Vera, who are still at home.     Andrew Eckenrode has always been a democrat in political opinion. He has served several terms as a member of the school board, of which he has been both secretary and president. In 1888 he was elected burgess of Carrolltown, and is a member of the present borough council, besides serving two terms as treasurer and as collector. In February, 1894, he was appointed by President

Cleveland as postmaster of Carrolltown, which position he still holds. He is a member of the Catholic church. Mr. Eckenrode is a pleasant and congenial gentleman, a good business man and a respected citizen, who never slights a duty nor neglects a friend. FREDERICK M. GEORGE, a Union veteran of the late Civil War, and the oldest justice of the peace of Cambria county in years of service, is a son of Paul and Margaret (Corigan) George, and was born on the old George farm, in Washington township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1824. His maternal great-grandparents, Peter and Nevy Corigan, came from Latrom, Ireland, and settled in Loretto, Pennsylvania, where they died at greatly advanced years, and his great-grandparents, the Georges, came from Holland, Germany, and settled in Maryland, where they reared a large family. Their grandson, Philip George, became the founder of the Pennsylvania branch of the family. Philip George left Maryland, and after stopping for a while in Bedford county, he came, in 1811, to the Turner farm, near Ebensburg, where he was engaged in farming. In 1821 they moved to Washington township, Cambria county, where they died at a very old age. Their son Paul was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1796, and after receiving the limited education of that day, turned his attention to earning a livelihood and some means of support. He was married by Rev. Prince Gallitzin, at Loretto, Pennsylvania, on September 16, 1817, to Margaret Corigan, a daughter of Peter Corigan, who was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, July 16, 1794, and died on the old homestead August 15, 1874. After marriage they lived near Cresson, Pennsylvania, where he

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