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to the United States, landed in New York, and then traveled directly to Johnstown. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Roland had children: 1. Bertha, married William Pfefercorn, of Moxham, two children, Alma and Meta. 2. Emma died in infancy. 3. Louis, who was associated in business with his father, married Lizzie Hater, who was lost with other members of her family in the great flood; two children, 01ga and Georgia. 4. Julius, died in infancy. 5. Norma married Albert Wuensch, now deceased, and she resides with her mother. She has two children: Carl and Louis.
ALBERT DENY, one of the foremost business men of the city of Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, who is the head of the prosperous firm of Deny & Company, bankers, brokers, foreign exchange and steamship agents, and who is personally an Italian interpreter and notary public, is a representative of one of the oldest families of Italy. They trace their descent back to the Romans, and the name was formerly spelled Deni, from the Latin Doan. Many of them held positions of prominence and importance in the affairs of church and state, and others served their kind and country in the army.
Dominico Deny, grandfather of Albert Deny, was a resident of S. Stefano, Rogliano Provincia, Cosenza, Italy, and owed allegiance to the king of Naples before the provinces were united under one form of Government. He was a contractor of note in his time, and carried out many important and difficult orders. Among his children was a son, Paolo.
Paolo Deny, son of Dominico Deny, was born in S. Stefano, Rogliano Provincia, Cosenza, Italy, and followed in the footsteps of his father as contractor, succeeding to the business of the latter. He was fully as efficient and thorough in his work as his predecessor, and enjoyed the highest respect of all in the community. His death occurred June 7, 1904, at the age of fifty-six years. He married, in 1870, Maria Ortale, born in Belsito, a small village near Cosenza, died about January, 1883, at the age of thirty years. She was the daughter of Giovanni Ortale, who was a farmer, and had a brother who was renowned as a surveyor, two others who were well known contractors, and a sister who is in a convent in Cosenza. Paolo and Maria (Ortale) Deny had three children, one of them being Albert, of whom later.
Albert Deny, eldest child of Paolo and Maria (Ortale) Deny, was born in S. Stefano, Rogliano Provincia, Cosenza, Italy, July 21, 1877. He enjoyed the advantages of an excellent education in the public schools of his native city until he was nineteen years of age. The following year he entered the army and served for a period of three years. At the expiration of this time, in 1900, he emigrated to America, where he landed in New York city, but immediately continued his journey to Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania. He had no difficulty in obtaining employment in a wholesale house in the latter city, a position he retained until 1904, when he established his present business, which is in a most flourishing condition. Mr. Deny is a man of progressive and enterprising methods, and is possessed of great executive ability. His reliability, probity and many sterling qualities have gained for him the respect of all who have had any business dealings with him or the firm of which he is the head and the leading spirit, while his courteous bearing and kindly disposition have won for him many friends. He takes a deep and active interest in religious affairs, is a member of the Catholic Church of San Antonio, and is secretary of the building committee. His
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