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wife of John Farrel, has three children: Edward, John and Theodore. 3. Cinda, born November 19, 1880, single, at home. 4. Levi, born July 18, 1882, married Nellie McTigue, has one child, Aldine. 5. Dennis, born April 22, 1884, single, living at home. 6. Rose, born February 2, 1888. 7. Bertha, born January 7, 1890. 8. A child who died in infancy, this being the only link missing in the circle of this large family now represented by two sons and five daughters.
JOHN HONAN, who has been prominently identified with many movements for the improvement of the city of Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and who is the proprietor of Honan's Hotel in Iron street, in the fourteenth ward, is in the best sense of the word a self made man, owing his success to his own unaided efforts and ambition. He was born in Leeds, England, November, 1832, and was but a few years old when he lost his father by death. He was the grandson of William Honan, who was a weaver by trade.
John Honan was taken to Ireland, to the town of Roscrea, in the county of Tipperary, where a brother of his mother resided, and his home was with this relative until he had reached the age of nineteen years. The education of which he is possessed is entirely due to his own efforts to acquire knowledge, as his opportunities for attending school and studying were very limited. He learned the trade of shoemaking and at the age of nineteen years returned to Leeds, his birthplace, and there followed his trade for several years. He then determined to come to America, thinking that the new world offered a better field for his ambition and enterprise than the old. He took passage in a sailing vessel, "The Queen," which landed him in the city of New York after a voyage of five weeks. He immediately left for Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, arriving there August 15, 1859. He obtained a position as shoemaker in the store operated by the Cambria Iron Company, and retained this for two years, when he engaged in mining under the direction of Tom Butler, and was thus occupied for some eighteen months. He next obtained work in the blast furnaces of the Cambria Iron Company, remained there for several years and was then transferred to the steel works as a laborer. At this time he built his present hotel, about 1879, conducted it successfully for eleven years, and then retired for a time because of the opposition of president judge, on account of his political opinions. He resumed the conduct of his hotel during the second year of the term Judge O'Connor, and has been actively engaged in it since that time. It has an excellent reputation in every respect and is one of the most popular resorts of its size and kind in the city of Johnstown. He has always been a loyal adherent to the Democratic party, served one term in Minersville borough council, and one term in the city of Johnstown since it has been incorporated. He is a devout member of St. Columba's Roman Catholic church.
Mr. Honan married, 1853, in Leeds, England, Bridget White, of Roscrea, Ireland, daughter of William White, who was employed in a distillery, and they have one child living: Bridget, who is the wife of Otis Adams, of Johnstown.
FRANKLIN CHRISSEY, one of the business factors of the borough of South Fork, Cambria county, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, 1851, son of Thomas and Hannah (Woolford) Chrissey, the former of whom was born in Somerset county, 1815. He was a farmer in Shade township, where he bought timber land and cleared it
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