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ness to the growth and progress of the city, and his memory is stored with reminiscences of its bygone days. He remembers that, during his boyhood, the last house on Bedford street was situated where Seifert's tailor shop now stands, and was occupied by a family named Shaffer. This is but one of the many recollections of the past which render Mr. Golde's conversation interesting and instructive to hearers of the present generation.
MARSHALL G. MOORE, of Johnstown, superintendent of the mining department of the Cambria Steel Company, was born October 19, 1859, at Washington, New Jersey, only son of Samuel Austin and Catharine (Mattison) Moore, and grandson of John W. Moore, who in 1846 moved from Belvidere, New Jersey, to Slocum Hollow, now Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Moore family came originally from Sussex county, northern New Jersey.
Marshall G. Moore was still an infant when his parents moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, which was his home until 1885. He received his preparatory education in the public and private schools of Scranton, and in September, 1880, entered Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, graduating in June, 1884, with the degree of civil engineer. In July, 1884, be entered the service of the Lackawanna Iron & Coal Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, as assistant mining engineer, and in October, 1885, became assistant engineer in the mining department of the Cambria Iron Company, now the Cambria Steel Company. In 1889 he was made mining engineer and in 1893 superintendent of mining department.
Mr. Moore married, October 4, 1888, Lulu M., daughter of Samuel E. and Louise (Dom) Weaver, of Johnstown, and they are the parents of the following children: Austin L., Walter W., and Christine G.
WILLIAM STREMEL, a well known and highly respected business man of Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, who has been closely identified with the business interests of the city for many years, is a representative of the second generation of his family in this country, he tracing his ancestry to Germany, the excellent habits which characterize the natives of that land having been inherited by Mr. Stremel, and used to the best advantage.
Henry Stremel, father of William Stremel, was born in Biedenkop, Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, December 24, 1813. He emigrated to the United States in the year 1835, settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he resided for a short time, and then removed to Baltimore, Maryland, whence he removed at the end of one year, and settled in Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, which he decided to make his permanent home. He had learned the trade of shoemaking in his native country, and followed this calling with profit for many years. In his later years, however, he turned his attention to agricultural matters, making a specialty of grape growing, in which venture he was exceedingly successful. He owned five farms in all, in Stonycreek, ranging in extent from five or six acres to thirty-seven acres, which was the size of his Moxham farm. He also owned ten acres of land where the Memorial Hospital is now (1907) located. He removed from Johnstown to his Stonycreek farm, but after a short time moved to his home at Hornerstown, where he died October 1, 1888. He was one of the pioneer business men of Johnstown, and one of the oldest residents. In politics he was a stanch Democrat, and in religion a German Lutheran. He married, March 17, 1839, Veronica Hasselberger, born in Faulbach
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