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134	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
in the siege of that town until it capitulated, October 27, 1869. The next scene of battle was at Orleans, where the contest at arms was waged for three days. The German troops entered the town the first day, were driven out the second day, occupied the town again on the third day and compelled the surrender of the enemy. After this the remainder of his term of enlistment was spent in and around Orleans, doing guard duty, with an occasional skirmish with the French.     Having completed the required period of service, Mr. Faber left Germany and sailed for New York, landing at that port in 1872. Since that time America has been his country, and with the exception of five months spent in the city of New York, Johnstown has been his home. On coming to Johnstown he soon found work as a rail heater in the Gautier works under Superintendent Alexander Hamilton, and thereafter for a period of nineteen years he was steadily employed in that establishment. He then became proprietor of a hotel on Railroad street, in Johnstown, and in 1897 purchased the Alhambra Hotel, conducted it four years, and then built and opened the Rathskeller on Washington street. In 1905 he leased this property and retired from active business pursuits. Living in comfortable retirement, Mr. Faber has devoted considerable time to travel. During his residence in Johnstown he has twice visited Germany. His last trip abroad occupied five months, and during that time he visited both Germany and France, particularly his old home in Hesse Darmstadt, where both he and his wife found warm friends to welcome them. He is a member and past grand of Cambria Lodge No. 785, I. 0. 0. F.; member and past sachem of Kickinapoling Tribe, No. 60, I. 0. R. M., and a member since 1874 of Johnstown Turnverein. Mr. Faber was brought up in teachings of the German Lutheran church.     On October 12, 1876, Carl Faber married Carolina Dinier, daughter of Louis and Elizabeth (Voenisch) Dinier. Mr. Dinier came to America from Permasens, Bavaria; his wife came from Hesse Darmstadt. She died in 1877. Children of Carl and Carolina (Dinier) Faber: 1. Edward Faber, born September 13, 1877; died at the age of six years. 2. Eliza Faber, born July 2, 1879 ; died in infancy. 3. Carl Faber, born October 13, 1882; married Lena Blum (born July 10, 1880) October 15, 1903. Mr. Faber is a business man of Johnstown.     JOSIAH TUCKER EVANS, state mine inspector for the Sixth Bituminous District of Pennsylvania, born July 24, 1848, in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, is the descendent in the following genealogical line:     Josiah Evans, the grandfather, was a native of Merthyr Tydville, Glanmorganshire, South Wales. He was a coal miner all his days. He was a member of the Baptist church and a strict churchman. He died in Wales, 1817. He married and had children as follows: Ann, married Thomas Davis, a merchant, both now deceased. Henry, see forward.     Henry Evans, born in 1810, came to America in 1840, and first went to Brownsville, Pennsylvania. An uncle had operated for some years there in an iron foundry, and with him Mr. Evans worked for a year or two. One son of this uncle, Captain Edward Evans, commanded a steamboat on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; another son operated a brass foundry at Covington, Kentucky. So far as is now known, these three were the only members of this Evans family in this country, in direct line. Leaving Brownsville Henry Evans went to Pittsburg, where he

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