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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	265
Mr. Young removed to New Florence, Westmoreland county, and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1860. He then came to Johnstown and worked at his trade as a carpenter and joiner until 1864. In 1866 he met accidental death. On the occasion of the visit, September 14, 1866, of President Andrew Johnson and other distinguished officers of the government, he sustained injuries from which he died soon afterward, by the falling of the platform at the local Pennsylvania railroad station. He was a firm Democrat and a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Young's wife, Sarah (Johnson) Young, is a descendant of an old Indiana county family whose settlement in the locality of Armagh was made when the region was almost a wilderness, and when Indian troubles made life itself uncertain in that part of the state. During that early period the Johnson family was frequently driven from home, and on one occasion the buildings were plundered and burned to the ground. The log cabin was rebuilt, however, and is still standing, a monument of pioneer days. Samuel Johnson, Mr. Young's maternal grandfather, attained the age of eighty-one years.     Samuel E. Young was educated in the public schools in Indiana county and at a private school in Johnstown, which was kept by Rev. B. L. Agnew. His business career was begun as an employe of Wood, Morrell & Co., and later on he became superintendent for the Johnstown Manufacturing Company in the operation of that company's woolen and flour mills at Woodvale, now a part of the city of Johnstown. This position he held until 1892 and then resigned to take that of general manager of Johnstown Passenger Railway, which position Mr. Young still holds, succeeding Mr. John B. Hofgen, resigned. Mr. Young is a Democrat. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, a life member of Lodge No. 175, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Johnstown. He is a Presbyterian, as were all his ancestors.     Samuel E. Young married, November 18, 1873, Lizzie Rose, daughter of Wesley J. Rose, of Johnstown. Of this marriage five children have been born: 1. Horace, deceased. 2. Wesley J., married Alice Williams and resides in Johnstown. 3. Walter R., married a Miss Schrader and resides in Johnstown. 4. Annie, married John Monaghen and resides in Johnstown. 5. Jessie.     JOHN DIBERT WEAVER SNOWDEN, of the J. D. W. Snowden Company of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was born in that city, August 14, 1883, son of W. S. Weaver. The Weaver ancestors were natives of New England, whence they emigrated to the Genesee Valley, New York. From that locality they drifted to western Pennsylvania.     Henry Weaver, the great-grandfather of John D. Weaver Snowden settled in the upper valley of the Allegheny river, probably in Armstrong county, near Kittanning, where Samuel E. Weaver, his son, was born. Samuel E. Weaver went west for a time, but in 1860 moved to Johnstown, where he died in 1893. He was for many years assistant superintendent of Wood, Morrells & Company's store, now the Penn Traffic Company. The wife of Samuel E. Weaver, Louisa Domm, was born in 1837, near Berlin, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Casper Domm, a native of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, who emigrated to America in 1825, locating near Berlin, where he lived until 1874, when he located permanently at Johnstown. Here he died in 1891, aged eighty-six years. He was a contractor and builder.     Walter Sinclair Weaver, father of John D. Weaver Snowden, was born at Wellersburg, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1856, coming

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