(IV) Harold G. Kaylor, son of James J. (3) and Cecelia E. (Burke) Kaylor, was born at the County Home of Cambria county, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1867. He was reared on the old homestead and his home life was a model one, where education and intelligence were regarded as the choicest blessings of life, but this quiet atmosphere was unsuited to his temperament and he longed for a wider field of action. When but seventeen years of age he taught school for two years, and then attended college for four years, acquiring a classical education. After leaving college he commenced his business career as a canvasser for a Pittsburg newspaper, an occupation at which, as in all others to which he turned his attention, he was very successful, and which he followed for about two years. He started in business in Johnstown in 1893, having purchased for the sum of five hundred dollars all of the newspaper agencies in the city, and these he combined. While developing this business he conducted a book and stationery store, and this combination, which proved very profitable, continued for ten years. In the meantime he had acquired control of the newspaper agencies in Altoona and all the intermediate towns, and thus formed the largest newspaper agency in Pennsylvania. Mr. Kaylor sold this news agency in 1902 and purchased the Johnstown Book Store, the oldest concern in the city, and this he managed in connection with his larger establishment on Washington street. In 1903, although at that time conducting the two largest book and stationary stores in Johnstown, he formed a business association with his brother, R. J. Kaylor, of Ebensburg, who was then editor of the Cambria Tribune, and Harry M. Benshoff, a well known local printer, known as the Journal Company, for the publication of a new daily newspaper, the Johnstown Journal. Mr. Kaylor is the largest individual stockholder in this corporation. He has been the treasurer and business manager ever since incorporation. The Johnstown Journal is now recognized as one of the leading papers of this city, and much of its prosperity and success is duo to Mr. Kaylor's energy and capacity for hard work. His ambition and business acumen have been rewarded by considerable worldly wealth, and he is interested in a number of other corporations in Johnstown. He lives in an elegant home on Westmont, the choicest residence suburb of the city. He was married September 18, 1894, to Miss Margaret Cronin, and they have five children, who are all living.
Mr. Kaylor is justly regarded as one of Johnstown's most progressive and successful self-made men. He is first, last and all the time, a worker and when asked for the secret of his success replied: "A good home training as a foundation to build upon, and then persistent hard work. Being smart doesn't count. It is perseverance that wins."
FRANK T. CARNY, who fills with efficiency the onerous and responsible position of superintendent of the police and fire department of the Cambria Steel Company, is one of the well known residents of Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and is a representative of a family which traces its ancestry to Ireland.
John Carny, grandfather of Frank T. Carney, was a farmer by occupation. He married Bridget Devaney and had children: Thomas, married Catherine Kagen. John P., see forward. Patrick, married Mary Meehan. Lawrence, married Jane Murphy and emigrated to America, settling in California, where he died, August, 13, 1904. Julia, married Michael Riley. Katherine, married Thomas Waldron. Bridget, married Michael Canfield.
John P. Carney, second son and child of John and Bridget (Devaney)
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