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ston, and soon after he entered into a late practice partnership with him. This partnership existed to the time of Mr. Johnston's elevation to the bench. Mr. Scanlan continued in practice until his death in 1886. Politically he was a Democrat, but never an office seeker. He was a member of the Catholic church, and one of Ebensburg's most highly respected citizens.     Robert Scanlan, the subject, remained at home until he was eighteen years of age. He was educated in the common schools and at the age just named he associated himself with the newspaper business, with which he was connected for a number of years. In 1887 he entered the private banking house of Johnston, Buck & Company, of Ebensburg, as a clerk, and remained with them until 1897, when he was made first assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Ebensburg. He served there until 1902, when the American National Bank was organized, and he was made its cashier and a director of the new financial institution, with which he is still connected. Mr. Scanlan is a supporter of the Democratic party, and is of the Catholic faith.     He has been twice married, first to Miss Caroline Gompers, of Indiana, Pennsylvania. By this union were born Mary E. and Richard G. Mrs. Scanlan died in 1893, and Mr. Scanlan married Mrs. May Gibbons, of Johnstown, June 12, 1900 by whom he has one daughter, Margaret Louise, born June 2, 1906.     OTTO HUEBNER, of the firm of Bader & Company, contractors in stone and street pavements, of Johnstown, was born November 4, 1857, in Langd, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, son of John Huebner, who was born at the same place, in 1834, and learned the trade of a stone mason, which he followed all his life. In 1870 John Huebner emigrated with his wife and family to the United States, landing in New York from the steamer "Germania" and proceeding thence direct to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he obtained employment at his trade. He afterward engaged in contract work, assisting in the erection of Alma Hall, Louther & Green's block, the old library building, which was destroyed by the flood, the Kimple block, on Clinton street, and others. He established his home in Pine street, now in the Seventh ward of the city, living there to the close of his life. During his residence in Johnstown he made many friends, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him for his excellent traits of character. In politics he always voted with the Democratic party. He was a member of the German Lutheran church. He married, in Germany, Elizabeth Shelt, and they were the parents of the following children: Otto, of whom later; Louis; Henry; Emma; Augusta, wife of August Koch, of Johnstown; John, and George, of Johnstown. Of these children, Otto, Augusta and George are the sole survivors. The father died in 1886, at the age of fifty-two, and the mother is still living, being now (1907) seventy years old.     Otto Huebner, son of John and Elizabeth (Shelt) Huebner, attended school in Germany until the age of thirteen years, when he accompanied his parents to the United States. At fourteen he began his apprenticeship to his father's trade of stone-masonry, and at twenty-one went into business with his brother Louis, and began taking contracts. The partnership was dissolved by the death of Louis in 1894, after which the firm of Bader & Company was formed, consisting of Charles Bader, John Kammer and Otto Huebner. The organization has remained unchanged to the present day and has carried on an extensive business. They furnished the stone-work for the Brownstown overhead bridge,

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