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574	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
CHARLES HOCHSTINE. Charles Hochstine, a veteran steelworker of Roxbury, Johnstown, was born March 11, 1858, in the eighth ward of that city, son of John Hochstine, who was born in 1828, in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and in 1856 emigrated to the United States. He settled at Bens Creek, Upper Yoder township, Cambria county, where he was engaged in coal-mining. He afterward moved to Johnstown and operated mines in the eighth ward, being for a time engaged in business as a butcher. The last years of his life were spent in retirement, his withdrawal from active business taking place twenty years before his death. John Hochstine married Christianna Smith, and their children were: Henry. Susan, wife of John Middersheim. William, married Amanda Frazer. Charles, of whom later. John, married the widow of Thomas Anderson.     Charles Hochstine, son of John and Christianna (Smith) Hochstine, grew up in the eighth ward of Johnstown, obtaining his education in the public schools. He began his active career as a helper of his father in the latter's coal mines, and afterward found employment in the rolling department of the Cambria Steel Works. After working a number of years for this company, he entered the service of the Lorain Steel Company, at Moxham, remaining some time, and then moved to Akron, Ohio, where for five years he was engaged in the hauling business. Ultimately he returned to Johnstown, and again found employment with the Cambria Steel Company. Subsequently he once more went into the hauling business, and is now employed by his brother, John Hochstine. His home is at Roxbury, where he has a comfortable and attractive residence. He advocates strongly Jeffersonian principles in politics. He is a member of the Evangelical church.     Mr. Hochstine, married Minnie Myers, and the following children were born to them: John, died in infancy; Ralph, Walter, Bessie, Ruth, Fay and Melvin. Mrs. Hochstine is a daughter of Jacob Myers, who was born in 1836, at Scalp Level, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, where he lived as a farmer for many years, afterward moving to Johnstown and engaging in the dairy business. Jacob Myers married Elmira Barnhart, and the following were their children: Henry, died in infancy. Minnie, wife of Charles Hochstine. Laura, wife of Nathaniel Blough. Emma, wife of William Blough. John, married Emma Kaufman. Benjamin, married Annie Shaffer. Webster. Mina. Jacob Myers, the father of the family, died in 1886, aged fifty years.     JOHN HENRY BOYLE, member of the board of auditors of Cambria county, Pennsylvania, now engaged in agricultural pursuits, formerly actively engaged in railroading, traces his descent to both Ireland and Scotland.     Daniel Boyle, father of John Henry Boyle, was born in Buffalo, New York, about 1827, and was of Irish and Welsh extraction. His father was of Irish descent, while his mother was a native of Wales. He was reared and educated in Buffalo, learned the trade of a stone mason, and as early as his eighteenth year entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and was associated with that company for upward of thirty years. He was employed upon the construction of bridges and tunnels throughout the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and later had charge of the construction of many of the tunnels for this company. While still connected with the Pennsylvania railroad system, he purchased a farm in Croyle township, Cambria county, on which he located his family, and on which he died in 1877. He was a highly esteemed

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