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518	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
up; added the necessary buildings and made for himself a good farm home. He served the township in various official capacities. In his politics he was a Republican, and in church affairs a Lutheran. He settled in that location about as early as anyone, and was a man of more than ordinary prominence. He married Hannah Woolford, daughter of Conrad Woolford, and they reared seven children: 1. James, born May 14, 1849, died at the age of fifteen years. 2. Franklin, of whom later. Noah, born June 26, 1853, married Jane Lohr and they have two children: Ellen, born November 24, 1855, died at the age of twenty-eight years. 5. Isiah, born April 25, 1857, married May Ripple and they had six children: Harvey, Jackson, Anna, and Mary; two died young. 6. Jerome, born May 27, 1859, married Amanda Lambard, who had one child that died in infancy. 7. Lewis, born November 26, 1862, died at three years of age. In 1881 Mrs. Chrissey died and one of her daughters kept house for her father for about three years, at the end of which time he went to the home of his son Noah, at Hooversville, where he died.     Jacob Chrissey, grandfather of Franklin Chrissey, was born in 1774 and came to Shade township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, about 1800. He married and reared a family of six children: 1. Eliza, died at an old age, single. 2. Aaron, married a Miss Lambert, and they had six children: William, Frances, John, Mary, Eliza, and Jacob. 3. Thomas. 4. Mrs. Frances Walters, who had two children: Harmon and Jacob. 5. Samuel, married Mary Fry and had the following family: Henrietta, Rupert, Norton, George, James, and Samuel. 6. Mary, single. The father of these children lived and died on his old farm. The date of his death was 1872, when he was ninety-eight years old. His son Thomas purchased the farm. He was of English descent, a Lutheran and a Whig.     Franklin Chrissey lived on a farm until he came to South Fork, in 1887, and there he followed teaming and draying until 1900, when he engaged in the meat market and grocery business, which he still operates with his adopted son, Howard E. Mr. Chrissey is a Republican and has held the offices of borough councilman, constable and school director, holding the latter office for eighteen years. He is a member of the Evangelical church and stands for all that a Good citizen means.     Mr. Chrissey married Susannah Yoder, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Murphy) Yoder, the former a farmer of Cambria county, granddaughter of Urnill Yoder and great-granddaughter of Jacob Yoder, who came from Germany.     JOHN MINAHAN, proprietor and manager of the popular City Hotel, located at Nos. 144 and 146 Iron street, Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is a representative of the third generation of the Minahan family in this country, and is descended from a prosperous and well known family of Ireland.     John Minahan, Grandfather of John Minahan, was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1806. He received a good education, and at the proper age commenced farming on a large scale. He came to the United States with his wife and one child in 1844, leaving another child with relatives in his native land. They arrived in the city of New York and from there went to Troy, New York, where they made their home until 1849, Hr. Minahan being employed on public works. They then removed to Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania, where he worked in the coke pits until 1853, and then chanced their residence to Johnstown, where their home

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