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334	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
of land in what will be the basin of the new Quemahoning dam. This tract consisted of two hundred acres of land, on which he resided with his family until 1874, when he removed with his family to Cambria county, where his death occurred in 1895. He married Polly Kaufman, daughter of Isaac Kaufman, a well known farmer of Somerset county, who was at one time one of the directors of the First National Bank of Johnstown. Mr. and Mrs. Miller had children: Mary, married Peter Blough. Elizabeth, deceased, married Henry Faust. Isaac T., see forward. Josiah K., married Sarah Dunmire. Henry married William Pebley. Pauline, deceased. John D., married Emma Potter. Silas C., married Maisie Arthur. Annie, deceased. Jacob W., married Minnie Shank.     Isaac T. Miller, third child and eldest son of Tobias T. and Polly (Kaufman) Miller, was born at Davidsville, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1858. His early years were spent on the old homestead, and he was educated in the public schools of his native township. Until he had attained the age of sixteen years he assisted his father in the cultivation and management of the home farm, and was then apprenticed to learn the trade of tanning in Swank's tannery, in Davidsville, in the same county. There he remained for four years, at the end of which time he took up the trade of carpentering and learned this thoroughly. He then went to Ohio, where he spent one a and a half years, and in 1881 returned to Johnstown, intending to make that his permanent home, and established himself as a carpenter. Four years later he accepted a position with the Cambria Iron Company as a pattern maker, and has been in the employ of that company continuously up to the present time. His faithful and conscientious work is highly appreciated, and he has the esteem and respect of his fellow employes as well as that of the officers of the company. In politics he is a stanch supporter of the principles of the Republican party. He is a member of Cambria Lodge, No. 278, Free and Accepted Masons.     Mr. Miller married, October 11, 1883, Emma J. Gochnour, daughter of Daniel W. and Harriet (Lenhart) Gochnour, and they have had children; Vera G., married Edward Coleman, and has one child, Leroy. Elsie Claire. Leroy.     JAMES A. McCLAIN, who is one of the prime movers in all matters which have tended to the improvement of Spangler and its vicinity for a great many years, and who is intimately connected with all affairs of commercial and financial importance in that community, is a representative of a family which originally came to this country from Ireland.     Stephen McClain, grandfather of James A. McClain, and the pioneer ancestor of the McClain family in this country, was born in the county of Derry, Ireland, emigrated to the United States, and settled in Blair county, Pennsylvania. He was a linen weaver by trade and followed this occupation throughout the active years of his life. He married Mary Phlesnian, a native of Cambria county, who died in 1846, and lead children: James, Richard, Augustine, David, Frank, Henry, Bernard, and Matilda, who died unmarried. All of these children are deceased with the exception of David, who is a resident of Altoona, Pennsylvania.     Bernard McClain, seventh son of Stephen McClain, was born in, Blair county, Pennsylvania, 1820. died at State College, Pennsylvania, 1858, at the early age of thirty-eight year. He married Nora Brew, daughter of Thaddeus and Mary Brew, who is still living at Bellefonte,

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