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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	371
Colonel Davis married, November 3, 1870, Sarah Jane Evans, who survives him. Their children were: Emory Hubert, Mary Elizabeth (wife of B. F. James), Elmer Clarkson, Lylyan June, Ralph Hunter, Willis Everett, Nannie Marguerite, Parke Meade and Reginald Samuel. There was also a child named Orin, who died twenty-six years ago, at the age of four years.     In the death of Colonel Davis, which occurred June 1, 1905, from Bright's disease, his family sustained a severe blow in the loss of a kind husband and loving father, and the community lost one of its best citizens, broad-minded, public-spirited, conservative and yet enterprising. He was a man of strong personality and of the most kindly and charitable disposition, leaving behind him a name and memory which will be cherished with respect and affection by all with whom he was in any way associated. Many a poor and unfortunate one will miss his generous yearly benefactions, and the wants which he supplied are left to the charity of others.     ELMER C. DAVIS, clerk in the prothonotary's office of Cambria county, at Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, was born in that borough January 13, 1880, a son of Colonel Samuel W. and Sarah J. (Evans) Davis.     Elmer C. Davis received his education at the public schools of Ebensburg, and in the spring of 1891 after leaving school, was appointed deputy prothonotary, under his father, serving to January, 1902. Upon the election of C. E. Troxell as prothonotary he was retained by him as his clerk, in which capacity he still serves. Politically he is a hearty supporter of the Republican party. He is a member of the Congregational church.     HENRY H. HOFFMAN, who is a prosperous merchant at No. 209 Horner street, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was born at Sipesville, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, July 29, 1849. His great-grandfather came from Germany to America, settled in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and was by occupation a farmer. His son Philip, who was the grandfather of Henry H. Hoffman, was born in Somerset county, reared on the farm, but later learned the trade of blacksmith, which he followed the greater part of his life. He married Elizabeth Kimmel, of the same county, and they both died in Somerset county, the former about 1850 and the latter about 1868, aged over eighty years. They were of the Lutheran church faith. He was a Whig in politics.     Their children were: Reuben; Nancy, married a Mr. Umbarger, who was murdered by Joseph and David Niceley on his farm in Somerset county; Philip, died in Westmoreland county; Susannah Wyand, died in Somerset county; Magdalena Sipe, died in Somerset county; Elizabeth Belle, of Des Moines, Iowa; Solomon, died in Andersonville prison; Abraham, of Allen county, Kansas; Levi, died at Des Moines, Iowa.     Reuben Hoffman, father of Henry H. Hoffman, was born on the old homestead, near Sipesville, in 1822. He grew to manhood there and learned the trade of blacksmith with his father, whose farm he also succeeded to. He bought and sold farms, in which he made considerable profit. He farmed and followed blacksmithing all his life. He purchased a farm of two hundred and twenty acres in Jenner township, Somerset county; he died there in 1878, aged fifty-six years. The wife moved to Johnstown after the death of her husband and survived him until 1904.     Reuben Hoffman married Susanna Ankeny, daughter of David and

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