Edward H. McCue, second son and fourth child of Edward and Leah (Nagle) McCue, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1850. His early years were spent in his native county, where he obtained a limited education in the public schools of the district, and this he has supplemented by keen observation and enterprise, so that he may truly be called a self-made man. He resided with his parents until he had attained the age of nineteen years, assisting his father in the charcoal burning business. He was then apprenticed to learn the blacksmith's trade, serving for three years with his uncle, John Koplin, and upon the completion of his apprenticeship set out to work as a journeyman. He worked here and there until 1873, when he found what promised to be a more permanent position in the vicinity of Johnstown, with Jacob Sproll, with whom he later removed to Grumlingtown. At the expiration of six months he decided to establish himself in a business of his own, and accordingly opened a blacksmith's shop in Salex, a small village not far from Johnstown. Here he soon acquired an excellent custom trade, and remained in that location for some years, subsequently removing to the old reservoir, where, at the end of three years, he sold out and entered the employ of Senator J. C. Stineman, by whom he was employed for the long period of eighteen years and five months. His next undertaking was to establish himself in Sharon, Pennsylvania, where he followed his occupation for two years, and then retired from this line of business. He located in Walnut Grove, a very pleasant suburb of Johnstown, where he purchased a commodious and comfortable residence, in which he lives with his wife and only son. Although retired from active business life, he still occasionally undertakes special commissions. This was the case when he recently worked for the Ferro Concrete Company as a, blacksmith, forging the hooklike ends of the steel rods used by this company in the construction of the steel reinforced concrete buildings. Mr. McCue has earned an enviable reputation for probity and reliability, in the course of his long and active business career.
Mr. McCue married. December 23, 1879, Henrietta Beisel, born in Adams township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania., April 16, 1857, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Reichard) Beisel, and they have one child, Ira C., a promising young dentist of Johnstown. He was born December 6, 1880, and obtained a good education in the public schools of Adams township, and at the Central Pennsylvania College, in New Berlin, Pennsylvania. Later he took a three years' course in the Pittsburg Dental College, from which he was graduated with honor. Upon his return to Johnstown he worked for a time as assistant to Dr. Matthews, and then established himself in private practice, with elaborately equipped offices at No. 540 Main street, in the Bantly Building, where he is meeting with unqualified success, and has a large and constantly increasing practice.
CYRUS L. WISSINGER, a well known building contractor of Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, who has been prominently identified with all matters of public importance for many years, is a descendant of a family which took an active part in the war of the revolution, and which came originally from Germany.
Ludwig Wissinger, great-grandfather of Cyrus L. Wissinger, and the pioneer ancestor of the Wissinger family in America, emigrated to this country from Germany some time prior to the American Revolution. He settled in what is now (1906) known as Griffith Settlement, one and one-half miles southeast of Johnstown. He had served with distinction throughout the war of independence, and was honored by the government,
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