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solicitor of the municipality of Johnstown from 1875 to 1877, inclusive, and again from 1879 to 1889, inclusive.     Beside his civil and military honors, Colonel Kuhn has the following Masonic record: He was made a Master Mason in Somerset Lodge, No. 358, Somerset, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1866; a Royal Arch Mason, August 12, 1868, in Sackett's Harbor Chapter, NO. 59, Sackett's Harbor, New York; a royal and select master, June 15, 1876, in Cambria Council, No. 32, Of Johnstown; thrice illustrious G. M. C. C., No. 32, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885; Knight Templar, April 23, 1875, Greensburg, Pennsylvania; charter member of Oriental Commandery, No. 61, K. T., of Johnstown, October 2, 1883; eminent commander of Oriental Commandery, No. 61, K. T., 1886; division commander of the Grand Commandery, K. T., of Pennsylvania, 1888 to 1894, inclusive; grand marshal Grand Commandery, K. T., of Pennsylvania, in 1890; grand generalissimo of Grand Commandery, K. T., of Pennsylvania; Grand Lodge of Perfection, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; was made a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, November 17, 1887, in Pennsylvania Grand Consistory, S.     Pittsburg; received the thirty-third and last degree of Scottish Rite Masonry at the session of the Supreme Council of the Entire jurisdiction of the United States of America at Chicago, September 17, 1893. Colonel Kuhn is also a member of the Military Loyal Legion, an order to which none but officers of the army and navy who have distinguished themselves in battle are eligible to membership.     June 4, succeeding the disastrous flood of May 31, 1889, when James B. Scott assumed charge of affairs, Colonel Kuhn was placed in charge of the commissary department, and

charged with receiving and distributing the stores of food and clothing to the stricken. Seeing the necessity of organization, he formulated a perfect system of conducting the department, the plan being fully adopted and followed by the State authorities. On assuming control of affairs in the valley, June 12, he was assigned to duty by General Hastings as general inspector of all the commissaries in the valley. July 2, when the State authorities relinquished control at the instance of General Hastings and the flood commission, and at the request of the local citizens' committee, the department was re-transferred to his custody, which he conducted until October 5, 1889, at which date he closed the affairs of the department. He was highly complimented by the State authorities, the flood commission and the local citizens' committee on his able and successful administration of the affairs of the department. Colonel Kuhn is at present an aid-de-camp, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, on the staff of Governor D. H. Hastings. JOHN E. WILSON, a prosperous business man and the burgess of Portage, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is a son of Joseph W. and Margaret (Bermer) Wilson, and was born March 20, 1864, at Tipton, Pennsylvania.     His line of ancestry is traced on the paternal side to Scotland, where his great-grandfather was born, and whence he emigrated to America, locating near Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, where Samuel G. Wilson, the grandfather of the subject of this record, was born. He learned the trade of a blacksmith) and armored the first vessel that sailed on the Kiskiminetas river. He removed from Saltsburg to Clearfield county, where he was one of the early pioneer settlers, and helped to clear much of that territory. He removed from there to

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