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of Jenner township, Somerset county. She was the daughter of William Coleman. Mrs. Hoffman died December, 1899; she was a devout member of the Lutheran church. By this union were born: 1. Ira M., now of Johnstown, married Leona Molsie. 2. Clara F., wife of Martin S. Lambert, of Johnstown, 3. Eugene, married Etta Penrod, and they reside at Johnstown. 4. Arthur C., married Gertrude Smith, and they reside in Johnstown. After being a widower for four years, Mr. Hoffman married Mrs. Clara A. Reed, daughter of John Watters, of Altoona, Pennsylvania.
JOHN C. WALKINSHAW, of Johnstown, who for many years and at different places served as yardmaster for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, was born January 9, l840, on a farm in Derry township, Westmoreland county; son of James Walkinshaw and grandson of William Walkinshaw.
William Walkinshaw was born in county Derry, Ireland, and was by trade a weaver. In 1810, with his wife and two children, he emigrated to America, settling at one of the Canadian ports, and after about two years sailing for Baltimore. The war of 1812 was then in progress, and the ship was captured by a British man-o-war's--man and detained for some time. After reaching Baltimore he worked at his trade in that city, and then went to New Jersey, where he remained but four or five years before migrating to Ligonier, Westmoreland county, which was then included in the phrase, "the West." In this region, albeit a comparative wilderness, he yet found employment at his trade, moving after a time to Derry township, in the same county, where, in addition to following his trade, he developed a small farm, on which, in the course of time, he established an inn, Situated a mile and a half north of the town of New Derry. About 1854, being then about ninety-three years old, he left the farm and spent the remainder of his days at Blairsville, Pennsylvania. He was a "rockribbed" Democrat, but no politician. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church.
William Walkinshaw married Margaret Robinson, and their children were: 1. John, cooper and farmer in Indiana county, married Rachel Doty. 2. James, of whom later. 3. Nancy, wife of John Sloan, farmer of Derry township, both deceased. 4. Hugh, worked on boats running to New Orleans, then lived for a time in Derry township, afterward settled in Latrobe and engaged in training, and finally died on his farm in New Derry. He married Mary Cummins. 5. Hettie, married Isaac McLeester, farmer at Salem, Westmoreland county, who sold his farm and worked on the public roads. When the Pennsylvania railroad was building he moved to East Conemaugh and died there. His widow is still living in Franklin borough. 6. Margaret, died unmarried. 7. Sarah, also died unmarried. 8. Robert, conductor on Pennsylvania railroad, ran the first train into Blairsville on the branch, and in 1860 engaged in mercantile business at Blairsville, whence, at the end of two years, he migrated to Lebanon, Missouri, where he followed the same line of business and is now living in retirement. He married Mary Devinney, who died ten years ago. 9. Margaret, married John McCurdy, of Jacksonville, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, and died at their home in Blairsville. 10. Andrew Jackson, employed on Toledo & Wabash railroad, died, unmarried, from the effects of an accident. William Walkinshaw, the father of this family, died shortly after his retirement to Blairsville, having survived his wife four years.
James Walkinshaw, son of William and Margaret (Robinson) Walk-
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