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138	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
LOUIS FRANKE, Pharm. D. Louis Franke, Doctor of Pharmacy, was born in Johnstown on the 17th day of December, 1878, and is third in the order of birth of the seven children of Ephraim and Anna (Muehlhauser) Franke, of whom mention is made in an earlier part of this sketch.     Dr. Franke was educated in the Johnstown public schools, and in 1878, when he was sixteen years old, he was employed in C. G. Campbell's drug store. In connection with clerical work there he took up the study of pharmacy, and devoted much of his leisure to it for the next three years. In 1897 he matriculated at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, attended upon the courses of that institution for the next three years, and was graduated, Doctor of Pharmacy, in 1900. In June of the same year he opened a general pharmacy and drug store on the South Side in Johnstown, in partnership with Dr. A. N. Wakefield. After two years he sold out his interest in that store and then established his present business on Horner street. He is a member of Trinity Lutheran church; member and prelate of Linton Lodge No. 451, Knights of Pythias; member of Vestal Camp, Woodmen of the World; the Cambria County Pharmaceutical Society, and the State and National Associations of Retail Druggists. In politics he is a Republican.     On the 6th of November, 1902, Dr. Franke married Kate Estelle Weimer. She was born on the 6th day of February, 1879, a daughter of Hartman H. and Emina (Keyser) Weimer, now of Johnstown, and formerly of Donegal township, Westmoreland county. Dr. and Mrs. Franke have one child, Robert Louis Franke, born January 26, 1904.     WILLIAM HESLOP, of Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, comes of a family of artisans skilled in color making, color blending, and painting, and is of the third generation of Heslops in America who have followed that occupation in life and made a complete success of it. His American ancestor was James Gale Heslop, who was a son of Robert Heslop, the latter having been born in England and lived in the city of Manchester throughout the period of his life. Evidently he was a man of consequence, as he served as alderman of his native town of Manchester for sixty years, and for several years as its mayor. One of his sons was Joseph Heslop, who was killed at the battle of Waterloo. Others of the family were men of prominence in the generations in which they lived, but this narrative has chiefly to deal with the Heslop family and its life on this side of the Atlantic ocean; of James Gale Heslop, his son Gale and his grandson William, each in his time a prominent character in the business history of Johnstown and of Cambria county.     James Gale Heslop was born in England, on the 12th day of February, 1797, and was a British subject until he left that country for America in 1818, when he was twenty-one years old. He was skilled in the making and blending of colors, having acquired that art by an apprenticeship of eleven years' duration, and at a period when every workman in that particular occupation was required to make his own colors and blend them before he applied them. His genius as an artisan lay not alone in his ability to make and blend colors, but in his remarkable skill in applying them to wall papers--a process called staining--and in making colors for oils, calico prints, dyes and the like. Such workmen as he were not many even in England, and the British government forbade their emigration to America unless under the license of a passport, which was almost impossible to obtain. Although young Heslop was a master of his trade in England, he received small

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