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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	473
In 1870 he opened a retail meat market which he conducted in connection with his farm until 1900, when he retired. He now lives in Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1863 he was drafted, but paid the required sum of three hundred dollars for a substitute. He is a Democrat politically, and in religion a Roman Catholic. Mr. Farabaugh married Catharine, daughter of Jacob Hartman, from Berks county, and their children were: 1. Celestine, married Rose Phalen. 2. Elenora, wife of Joseph Willebrand. 3. Francis E., of whom later. 4. Helena, wife of Henry Swope. 5. Rosa, wife of Celestine Strittmatter. 6. Isadore, married Elizabeth Kline. 7. Anicetus, died at the age of twenty-three. 8. Margaret, died at five nears old. 9. Herman, died at twenty-five years of age. 10. Ambrose, married, lives at Greensburg. 11. Sylvester, married Anna McConnell, engineer on Pennsylvania railroad, lives at Altoona. 12. Emma, wife of George H. Langbein. 13. Adaline, wife of William Wetzell. 14. Felicitas, single, at home.     Francis E. Farabaugh, son of Edward and Catharine (Hartman) Farabaugh, was reared on a farm and received his education in the public schools and the select normal schools of Ebensburg. He taught for eleven terms in Cambria county, his first term being at the school known as the Eckenrod school, in Carroll township. In 1885 he opened a general store at St. Boniface, which he conducted for four years, and then closed in order to engage in contracting and building in Hastings and Patton, making his home at Patton in 1893. From that year until 1898 he worked as a miner and then returned to contracting. In 1904 he opened a wholesale liquor store, which he conducted until 1905, when he sold out and was again a contractor until December of that year, when he purchased the Patton feed and buckwheat mill, which he still operates. He has served the township in various offices, notably that of minority auditor of Cambria county, to which he was elected in 1897 and re-elected in 1902. He failed of nomination to the office of county commissioner, at the same time refusing to stand for auditor. His political principles are those advocated by the Democratic party, and he is a member of the Roman Catholic church.     Mr. Farabaugh married Thersa, daughter of Charles Anna, of Patton, and they have had the following children: 1. Regina, born September 1881, at home. 2. Herman, born September 25, 1887, died the following year. 3. Rosa, born January 10, 1889, teacher in public schools of Cambria county. 4. Bertha, born June 10, 1890. 5. Modestus, born December 4, 1892. 6. Anicetus, born March, 1894. 7. Mary, born November 8, 1896. 8. Alvin, born April, 1898, died 1899. 9. George, born January, 1900. 10. Agnes, born April 7, 1903.     FRANK P. DAWSON, of Gallitzin, was born August 15, 1867, and is a son of Jerome Dawson, and a grandson of Patrick Dawson, who came about 1810 from Ireland and settled in Lancaster county. In 1840 he moved to Cambria county, where he bought a large tract of land near Chestspring, and there passed the remainder of his days. He was the father of the following children: Jerome, of whom later: Bridget; Miller; and May L., wife of Bernard McFely, who was her father's homemaker at the time of his death, which occurred about 1846.     Jerome Dawson, son of Patrick Dawson, was born in 1814, in Lancaster county, and was a mason and bricklayer, following his trade until 1850, when he came to Cambria county and took up his abode in Gallitzin township. About 1848 he bought the old Storm gristmill and the farm connected with it, and during the remainder of his life operated the mill

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