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322	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
in recognition of his valuable services, with a grant of land of three hundred acres. The country at that time was practically a wilderness, and Mr. Wissinger cleared it of timber, commenced its cultivation and soon had a productive and comfortable farm. He subsequently sold the entire tract for the very moderate sum of three hundred dollar, which at that time was considered a very fair valuation of the land. At his death his remains were interred near what is now Moxham. He married and raised a family, among whom were: 1. John, see forward. 2. Lewis, who lived to the remarkable age of one hundred and three years, and died in Conemaugh. 3. George W., at one tine constable of Stony Creek township. 4. Daniel, who was a farmer and who married a Miss Goughnour. 5. Esther, married to Jacob Snyder. 6. Isaac, lived near Scalp Level. 7. Samuel, lived in Westmoreland county. 5. David, lived near Plumb Creek, Indiana county.     John Wessinger, eldest child of Ludwig Wissinger, was born in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, about 1785. He was a farmer by occupation and owned considerable land in what was at that time Richland township, and is now called Adams township. He won great renown as a hunter and for his fine marksmanship in general. He married Eve Stineman, and had children: 1. Jacob, married Mary Shank. 2. John S., see forward. 3. George, married Lydia Beyers. 4. Daniel, married Peggy Miller. 5. Sarah, married William Shank. 6. Barbara, married Samuel Livingston. 7. Catherine, married Samuel Noon. 8. Elizabeth, married Joshua Shank. 9. Esther, married John Hay. 10. Eve, married Daniel Boyles.     John S. Wissinger, second son and child of John and Eve (Stineman) Wissinger, was born in Richland township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, April, 1821. He was a farmer by occupation, and in 1856 purchased a farm of ninety-five acres near Salix, Adams township, Cambria county. On this land he passed the greater part of his life, and is now residing with his son, Isaiah J. Wissinger, in Lovett. In politics he was always a stanch Democrat, and was a man of influence in his former township, holding the offices of school director and supervisor. He married Lydia Stull, daughter of Jacob Stull, Jr., and they had children: 1. Delilah, died in childhood. 2. Cyrus L., see forward. 3. Lorenzo, married Mary Costlow, and has children: Ella and Cora. 4. Isaiah J., married Hannah Kuepper, and has children: John Vernon and Stanley.     Cyrus L. Wissinger, second child and eldest son of John S. and Lydia (Stall) Wissinger, was born on the farm of his father, near Salix, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, 1857. Until he had attained the age of twenty years he spent his life on the paternal farm, and attended the public schools of the district, in the meantime assisting his father in his spare time. He then came to Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, with McCreery & Long. Upon the completion of his apprenticeship he found employment with David Teeter in a planing mill in Rosedale. At the end of two years he returned to Johnstown, and engaged in the contracting business, associating himself in partnership with Samuel Strayer. This partnership was subsequently dissolved, and Mr. Wissinger continued the business alone on an extensive scale, contracting for and building about two hundred and sixty houses in Johnstown and the adjoining boroughs. He associated himself in partnership with Albert Heinze, in 1901, and since that time they have erected more than twenty buildings, some of which are among the finest dwellings in the city, notably those of Daniel Cauffield, at Moxham, and Professor J. M. Berkey, superintendent of city

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