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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	527
in 1887, aged eighty-five years, the mother having died in the same place about fifteen years before.     Charles Maneval, son of Jacob and Sarah (Miller) Maneval, was born September 5, 1949, on the homestead farm, near Williamsport, and attended school during a part of every winter from the age of six to that of fourteen, when his father sent him to learn the butcher's business with John Kline, of Williamsport. After serving his time he remained with Mr. Kline three years, and then, upon the death of his employer, abandoned the business, which was not to his taste. He found employment in the lumber woods, working in the saw mills and cutting and floating logs, and continued to labor in the lumber camps until 1881. In that year he was invited to Johnstown by his brother-in-law, Mr. Kast, proprietor of a hotel in that city, and on going thither was employed by Mr. Kast until the latter's death in November, 1882. He then undertook the management of the hotel on behalf of his sister, continuing until the building was destroyed by the flood and Mrs. Kast lost her life. The hotel had been known as the Kast House and stood opposite the site of Mr. Maneval's present hotel.     Immediately after the flood Mr. Maneval put up a temporary frame structure on the same site and conducted the business until the spring of 1892, when he purchased the building which stood on the site of his present hotel. In December, 1892, this building was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt in the spring of 1893, being replaced by the present structure of three stories, containing eighteen rooms and furnished throughout with all modern improvements. He belongs to the I. 0. 0. F. and the I. 0. R. M., and in politics is an Independent, voting, without regard to party, for the man whom he deems best fitted for the office. He is a member of the English Lutheran church.     Mr. Maneval, married, July 5, 1870, in Williamsport, Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick and Lydia (Bird) Drum, of that city, both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Maneval had two children: Alice May, wife of Horace W. Ross, an Adams Express messenger; and Clarence, who lost his life in the flood, at the age of fifteen.     JOHN BISCHOF, proprietor of the Hotel Imperial, Johnstown, was born December 19, l857, in the town of Klein Mohr, Austria, sun of Emeric Bischof, a native of the same place. The father of Emeric Bischof died a comparatively young man, and Emeric, as a boy, began working in the ore mines of his native place, and throughout his live followed the calling of a miner. Emeric Bischof married Rosella Fitz, and their children were: Frank, of Johnstown. Charles, of the same place. John, of whom later. Rosella, deceased. Theresa, who lives in the old home.     John Bischof son of Emeric and Rosella (Fitz) Bischof, attended the schools of his native place until the age of twelve years, when he began herding cattle on a large estate and for a year thereafter was thus occupied. In 1871 he went to work in the ore mines and continued to labor there until 1875, when the company suspended business, and he found employment in a rolling mill, Frank Olberich Son & Beligan, where he remained until his emigration to the United States. He sailed from Bremen, April 28, 1880, on the steamship "Saber," and on landing in New York, May 16, went immediately to Johnstown, where he found employment as a laborer in the Cambria Steel plant. After a short time he was placed in the rod mill of the Company, and in 1882, when the rod mill shut dlown, went to work in that department of Gautier's plant,

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