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borhood, a Lutheran and an old-time whig and republican. To his union with the mother of our subject seven children were born: Franklin, a farmer of Ligonier; Daniel H., who died in 1867 at Ligonier; Susanna, wife of Franklin Walters, of West Mills, Somerset county; Eliza, of Hills View, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania; Lydia, wife of G. W. Beck, of Hills View, Westmoreland county; Lavina, widow of John T. Beam, of Waterford, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and the subject of this sketch.     S. A. Weimer married Elvira Beck, a daughter of David B. Beck, and had four children: Daniel, a justice of the peace of upper Yoder township, married Millie Hershberger; David P., a student preparing for the profession of law; Ora, who is at home, and Catharine, who died in infancy.     Mr. Weimer's second wife was Mrs. Almira Vickroy (nee Osborn), who has been to him a helpmeet indeed.     He was educated at Centerville, Somerset county, and in local normal schools, and taught acceptably ten successive terms, three in Somerset county and seven in Westmoreland county.     He was well equipped for making his way in life, having learned the carpenter trade, as well as the teachers' profession. He followed contracting from 1867 to the present time, formerly doing an extensive business in that line. In addition he owns a farm of sixty acres in Upper Yoder township.     He has always been a staunch republican, and an influential member of the Presbyterian church. The esteem in which his fellow-citizens hold him has been manifested by electing him to various offices within their gift. He served as first burgess of Grubtown, as school director, and for nine years as jus-

tice of the peace of his borough, and when that borough became the eighth ward he was elected alderman, serving ever since. Like every good citizen, he takes an active interest in local politics. REV. WILLIAM ALFRED SHIPMAN, the eloquent and popular pastor of the First Evangelical Lutheran church of the city of Johnstown, was born at Springtown, Warren county, New Jersey, September 9, 1852, and is a son of Dr. William and Annie E. (Young) Shipman. His paternal grandfather, Matthias Shipman, Sr., was of English descent, and passed his life in New Jersey, the state of his nativity. He married and reared a family of children, of whom one was Isaac Shipman, who, like his father, was a native and life-long resident of New Jersey. Isaac Shipman married, and his son, Dr. William Shipman, was born May, 1818.     Dr. Shipman received a good education, read medicine under Dr. Clyde Kennedy, of Easton, this State, and Dr. George McClellan, father of General George B. McClellan, and then entered Jefferson Medical college, from which he was graduated in 1840. After graduation he opened an office at Finesville, New Jersey, and two years later removed to Springtown, that state, where he was in continuous practice for fifty-two years. His long and useful life closed in 1893, when he passed from earth on February 5th of that year.     Dr. Shipman married Annie E. Young, whose grandfather, Captain John Young, owned a large tract of land near Springtown, and had served under Washington, being at Trenton, and receiving a severe wound at at [sic] Monmouth. Mrs. Shipman died May 5, 1884, aged sixty-one years. Dr. and Mrs. Shipman had two sons, Rev. William Alfred,

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