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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	325
opening a general store on Bedford street. Each year he added to his stock of goods and increased his patronage until he became the possessor of a fine establishment and enjoyed a large, paying trade. This store was located where Dr. Zimmerman now carries on his drug business. Mr. Stull made specialties of groceries and dry goods, together with boots and shoes. His stock, however was of the general variety line of goods. He continued in this business until 1898, when he had a good opportunity to sell to W. R. Lohr. Since that date Mr. Stull has been successfully engaged in the real estate business. He now owns thirteen good properties in the borough and in Johnstown in which he has twenty-four tenants.     Mr. Stull has always been a stanch Republican; he was one of the first councilmen of his borough and served two years as auditor of his borough and one term as clerk of the council. He has been active in school matters and served as director several terms. He is a member of the Protective Home Circle, No. 138, and Moxham Lodge, No. 1044, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member and the secretary of the Dale Building and Loan Association, of Dale, Pennsylvania. He is a member and one of the trustees of the United Evangelical church. He is of that stirring type of men who give stability and reputation to the community in which they reside. With but little means he embarked in business, but abundant success has finally crowned his efforts. He is thoroughly energetic, honest and possessed of a rare good business judgment.     He married, September 8, 1874, Mary J. Maurer, daughter of George J. and Eliza (Zimmerman) Maurer, of Stoyestown, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. George Maurer was a prominent and wealthy farmer of his township, operating a farm of two, hundred acres. In his younger days he taught school, and at the outbreak of the civil war enlisted and served the Union cause with bravery and distinction. He was much interested in the public schools of his township and was its school director several terms. His farm is now being operated by his sons, Josiah and Robert Maurer. Two other sons, John H., and Franklin, reside in Dale borough, and one daughter, the wife of August Perlin, of Philadelphia. The children of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Stull are: 1. Howard W., formerly assistant postmaster at Johnstown, now assistant auditor in the foreign auditing department at Washington, D. C. He married Jennie McGaghan and they have three children--Margaret, Franklin and Webster. 2. George B., a practicing physician and an alumnus of the Chirurgical Medical College of Philadelphia. He is now in practice at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and is assistant surgeon of the Harrisburg Hospital. 3. Annie May, deceased. 4. Ivella Pearl, at present a teacher in the Dale borough grammar school. 5. Arthur Maurer, a student.     HENRY EDMUND HUDSON, who died at the Hudson residence at No. 796 Railroad street, July 2, 1902, was one of the oldest residents of Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania. He was an engineer in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and had a remarkable career in railroading, not alone in point of time, but in the fact that in all the years of his service he was never suspended from duty or fined, and never even earned a reprimand.     Henry Hudson, father of Henry Edmund Hudson, lived in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and was a surveyor by occupation. He married Esther Burke, and had children, all of whom are deceased, as follows: Henry Edmund, see forward. William, died in Altoona in 1901. Ter-

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