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Cambria Iron company for two years had saved sufficient money to enable his parents, and his three brothers and sister to come to this country. He was steady, reliable and skillful, and was advanced from one position to another until July 1, 1895, when he was made superintendent of the company's waterworks, at Coopersdale. A republican in politics, Mr. Leckey has declined all offices other than those connected with his borough, and thus in 1889, 1891, 1892 and 1893, served as a councilman at Morrellville. While not desirous of office yet he is active in the true interests of his party. He is a member of Cambria Lodge, No. 278, F. and A. M.; and Morrellville English Lutheran church, of which he is an elder and the present treasurer.     On June 26, 1869, Mr. Leckey married Elizabeth Myers, a daughter of Christian Myers, of Johnstown. To their union have been born eight children: Harry, William, Catherine (Mrs. Harry March), Mary, Albert, George, John and Elsie.     It is not accident or luck that helps a man in the world, but determined purpose and persistent industry, and by such purpose and industry Louis Leckey, commencing at the bottom has won his way to a fair measure of success. Mr. Leckey is one who believes that children should honor their parents and that around the home circle should cluster the happiest memories of youth. He states that the happiest moment of life was when his parents and brothers and sister stepped from the railway train at Johnstown after their long journey from Germany and a separation of many months. We cannot honor too highly home affections out of which all others should grow, and we should recollect that it is in the home circle that we form the habits of thought, speech, and action

that shape our future lives. Neither should we be stinted in our meed of praise for him who honors his parents or who finds his sweetest solace in the home circle, whose influence "holds the empire of the heart and rules life." HENRY SALY, of the firm of Saly & Lucas, reliable contractors and builders of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is a son of Peter and Susanna (Dunn) Saly, and was born in Johnstown, this county, October 1, 1861. His maternal grandfather, William Dunn, who is of Irish extraction, is a native of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, where he still resides at the age of eighty-five years.     Peter Saly (father) was born in Germany. When eighteen years old he emigrated to America and located in Johnstown, where he engaged in the mercantile business. He is still a resident of Johnstown, He married Susanna Dunn, of Hollidaysburg. In religious faith both he and his wife are devout members of the Catholic church.     Henry Saly was reared in Johnstown, and educated in the public schools of that place. On leaving school he learned the trade of a barber, which trade he followed for eleven years, and for the next nine years engaged in the hotel business.     In 1894 he entered into a partnership with J. E. Lucas, under the firm name of Saly & Lucas, and embarked in the contracting and building business, to which was added, as a necessary adjunct, the lumber and planing-mill enterprise. This business venture has been very successful. They have erected many of the new buildings in Johnstown, and the firm now employs from thirty-five to forty-five men. Mr. Saly is also a stockholder in the Morrellville and Cambria Water company,

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