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active in church matters. For a half century he was a faithful, consistent member of the United Brethren church. He held various local offices in borough and township, and held membership with Emory Fisher Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Johnstown. Of his wife it should be added that she was born in Johnstown, December 12, 1833, and educated in the public schools. Her father, William Barnett, was a county official for many years and was well known and highly esteemed. He died in Johnstown at an advanced age. His wife, Margaret Hamilton, was a sister of David Hamilton, a well-known gentleman of this section of Pennsylvania.
JOHN M. FERRELL, M. D., of Conemaugh, Johnstown, is of Irish ancestry, tracing the history of his family to its original home across the sea. His grandfather, William Ferrell, was born in New Salem, Jefferson county, Ohio, where he led the life of a farmer.
Thomas C. Ferrell, son of William Ferrell, was born at New Salem, Ohio, and was educated in the public schools and at the State Normal School, Ada, Ohio. He studied law at New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where he was admitted to the bar and afterward practiced his profession for twenty-five years. He served one term as county clerk, and for two terms held the office of mayor of New Philadelphia, where he now lives in retirement, having relinquished his professional labors. He has always been an unswerving Democrat and is a devote member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Ferrell married Jennie, born in Carroll county, Ohio, daughter of James and Mary (Messenger) Mowls, and four children were born to them: Edith, wife of Thomas Shott, of Sandyville; John M., of whom later; Minnie, deceased; Michael T., a student in the Bennett Medical College, Chicago, Illinois.
John M. Ferrell, son of Thomas C. and Jennie (Mowls) Ferrell, was born November 20, 1882, in New Philadelphia, where he attended the public schools until 1900. He then spent one year at Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, and for one year thereafter served as traveling salesman for a mercantile house. Having made choice of the profession of medicine, he entered Bennett Medical College, Chicago, and on September 17, 1906, graduated from that institution with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Since that time he has been in active practice in Johnstown. Dr. Ferrell, like his father, is a stanch Democrat. He is identified with no religious organization, but attends the services of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which denomination his mother is a member.
PETER C. SCHULLER, a well-known business man of Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, with important interests in the commercial and financial world of that city, and proprietor of the Imperial Ice Cream and Bottling Works, is a representative of an honored family of Germany.
Joseph Schuller, father of Peter C. Schuller, was born in Regensburg, Germany, and there received a good common school education. He learned the trade of shoemaking, which he followed in his native country for some years, and then emigrated to the United States in 1852. He was in the city of New York for a short time and then migrated to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he followed the occupation of shoemaking for some years, after which he located in Conemaugh township, where he cultivated a farm, and finally removed to Johnstown, where he commenced a shoemaking establishment in Railroad street, where he died
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