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was a native of Huntingdon, and passed away in Huntingdon at thirty-two years of age. Mrs. Hoover is a woman of intelligence and energy, and a member of Coopersdale Methodist Episcopal church. Since her husband's death she has continued the mercantile business at Coopersdale under the name of Mrs. J. L. Hoover, and has a large and well-appointed establishment filled with suitable and first-class goods in every line of the general mercantile business. Ability, industry and tact have made her successful in holding former and gaining new patrons until a large and remunerative trade has been established.     James L. Hoover began life under peculiar auspices that promised the development of vigorous energies and a determined spirit of self-reliance. The promise was fully verified when opportunity came for opportune development, and he took a prominent position as a merchant and business man. He was a member of Coopersdale Methodist Episcopal church; Johnstown, Lodge No. 157, Knights of Pythias; Independent Castle, No. 133, Knights of the Golden Eagle, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.     He was a republican in politics. He was willing to aid every good work in the proper and right way, but with a proper business spirit was opposed to lavishness and undue expenditure in any line or for any object. His views were for adequate means appropriately expended and wise management under experienced superintendence.     James L. Hoover was stricken down by the grim reaper when in the midst of an honorable, active and successful business career. His final summons came on May 6, 1894, and his remains are interred in a pleasant spot in Grandview cemetery.     His death was a great loss in a community

of whose progress he had been a potential factor for quite a number of years. LIEUT. JOHN LYNCH, who was a brave soldier, and is now serving his fifth term as justice of the peace at Cresson, this county, is a son of Owen and Rose (McCullough) Lynch, and was born at Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 7, 1839. His father, Owen Lynch, was born in county Cavan, Ireland. In 1812 he left the land of the shamrock, with its crowded economic conditions, and crossed the Atlantic, seeking the greater freedom of the United States. He first located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where, for several years, he worked in a sugar refinery. He then accepted employment as a boss miner, and in this capacity worked in the Black Rock and Potomac tunnels. In 1844 he removed to Blair county, Pennsylvania, where he located on a farm, and for four years engaged in agriculture. At the close of this period, in 1848, he removed to Washington township, this county, where he resided until the time of his death, in 1859.     Rose (McCullough) Lynch, mother, was a native of county Derry, Ireland. She was a devout Catholic, and died at Cresson in 1889, at the advanced age of seventy-two years.     John Lynch's education was limited to the common schools of Washington township, and on leaving school he was employed as a lumberman until the beginning of the memorable conflict of 1861-65, when, true to his patriotic instincts, he enlisted, April 15, 1861, in company G, Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers, for three months, and re-enlisted August 1, 1861, as a second sergeant in company A, Fifty-fifth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, for three years, or during the war. November, 1861, he was promoted to

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