Henry Wilson Storey's History of Cambria County, V.II, p.441

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History of Cambria County, V.2

HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY. 441

“Wages in Wales, per month of 31 days, U. S. Currency $35.16
Wages in Penna., “ “ “ “    “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $53.01"
and continues with a comparison of the cost of living.
    In 1876 he published “Man and Labor,” a collection of informal talks which he had given to free classes in political economy in the Cambria Scientific Institute. It dealt with the history of labor, mental and muscular, and its reward; of the family; the community; of co-operation; and man's right to the possession of land and the imaginary wrongs incident thereto. Mr. Elder was especially gifted in public speaking and in the many addresses which he was called upon to make his subject matter was liberally treated in a style polished and easy.
    Thomas J. Chapman was born in Blairsville, and came to Cambria county about 1860. He taught the common schools at Franklin, which was then a small railroad town across the river from Conemaugh station. He served as superintendent of the county schools from 1866 to '75, during which time he resided in Johnstown. He always had a taste for journalism and historical events of a local character, and did much writing for the Democratic and educational papers. In '65 he published a small volume, 202 pages, entitled “The Valley of the Conemaugh,” which he dedicated to his younger brother, “Rev. Alva Riley Chapman,” of which McCrum & Dern of Altoona were the printers. His viewpoint was the Valley, and not the little town of Johnstown, and he describes the towns and their industries and prominent men. After his service as county superintendent he located in or near Pittsburg, where he became engaged in the school work of that city. While there he gave much attention to and was a careful student of historical affairs, and in 1887 he published another volume, entitled “The French in the Allegheny Valley,” and in 1890 another on “Old Pittsburg Days.” Mr. Chapman died a few years since at Ingram, a suburban town of Pittsburg. His books are in the Carnegie Library at Schenley Park.
    Although Judge Robert Lipton Johnston was a naturally gifted lawyer, a decided taste for literary work would have won him recognition in that line had he devoted his talents to it. As a trial lawyer, however, his reputation was firmly established, and for fifty years he was one of the leading men of his adopted county. Attracted to newspaper writing, as early as 1841, he edited the Journal for a short time, and began contributing to

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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	441
“Wages in Wales, per month of 31 days, U. S. Currency $35.16 Wages in Penna., “ “ “ “ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $53.01" and continues with a comparison of the cost of living. In 1876 he published “Man and Labor,” a collection of informal talks which he had given to free classes in political economy in the Cambria Scientific Institute. It dealt with the history of labor, mental and muscular, and its reward; of the family; the community; of co-operation; and man's right to the possession of land and the imaginary wrongs incident thereto. Mr. Elder was especially gifted in public speaking and in the many addresses which he was called upon to make his subject matter was liberally treated in a style polished and easy. Thomas J. Chapman was born in Blairsville, and came to Cambria county about 1860. He taught the common schools at Franklin, which was then a small railroad town across the river from Conemaugh station. He served as superintendent of the county schools from 1866 to '75, during which time he resided in Johnstown. He always had a taste for journalism and historical events of a local character, and did much writing for the Democratic and educational papers. In '65 he published a small volume, 202 pages, entitled “The Valley of the Conemaugh,” which he dedicated to his younger brother, “Rev. Alva Riley Chapman,” of which McCrum & Dern of Altoona were the printers. His viewpoint was the Valley, and not the little town of Johnstown, and he describes the towns and their industries and prominent men. After his service as county superintendent he located in or near Pittsburg, where he became engaged in the school work of that city. While there he gave much attention to and was a careful student of historical affairs, and in 1887 he published another volume, entitled “The French in the Allegheny Valley,” and in 1890 another on “Old Pittsburg Days.” Mr. Chapman died a few years since at Ingram, a suburban town of Pittsburg. His books are in the Carnegie Library at Schenley Park. Although Judge Robert Lipton Johnston was a naturally gifted lawyer, a decided taste for literary work would have won him recognition in that line had he devoted his talents to it. As a trial lawyer, however, his reputation was firmly established, and for fifty years he was one of the leading men of his adopted county. Attracted to newspaper writing, as early as 1841, he edited the Journal for a short time, and began contributing to