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stitutional convention, called to amend the Constitution in 1878. He is a member of Sugar Valley Lodge, No. 822, I. O. O. F.     Mr. Miller is a genial, seccessful business man, observing in his life the sound principles inculcated by his home training. DR. GEORGE MARTIN.  The subject of this sketch, Dr. George Martin, is a leading physician of Conemaugh, Cambria county, Pennsylvania. He is the son of David and Nancy (Hadden) Martin, and was born October 11, 1858, in Indiana county, Pennsylvania. November 21, 1888, he married Miss Mary Clark, a daughter of L. M. Clark, of Indiana county. December 25, 1889, Blanche, the first of his two children was born; January 16, 1984, Almira, the second, was born.     Dr. Martin was educated in the common schools and at Pine Flat Academy, Indiana State Normal school and a college at Champaign, Illinois. For six terms he taught school successfully in Pennsylvania and Illinois, and also clerked for a time in the store of his brother, at Martintown, Indiana county, a town named for the family.     But Dr. Martin's ambitions led him into professional work, and in 1882 he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Thomas MacMullen, of Greenville, Indiana county. Later he entered Jefferson Medical college, and graduated in 1885. For four years after graduating he practiced his profession at Cherrytree, Indiana county, and then moved to Conemaugh, where he now has a profitable and congenial practice.     He was a member of the Indiana County Medical society and of the Cambria County Medical society. He served for three years as coroner of Cambria county, this being

the only office for which he was ever a candidate. At the same time he is a staunch democrat, and stands high in the esteem of his fellow-citizens. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. In his profession Dr. Martin is zealous and indefatigable, and in his character is manifested the best characteristics of the Scotch-Irish race.     Dr. Martin is a great-grandson of David Martin, a native of Scotland, who emigrated to Donegal county, in the north of Ireland, noted as the cradle of the Scotch-Irish people. His grandfather, John Martin, was born in Ireland and came to America in 1801, at the age of twenty-one. He landed at New Castle, Delaware, but shortly afterward came to Indiana county, and located in what was then Cherry Hill township. Here he died at the age of ninety-six years. He was a farmer and a democrat up to the late Civil War, held township offices and took an active part in local politics.     The father of our subject was born in Westmoreland county, January 4, 1814, and was three months old when the family moved to Indiana county. He lived nearly all his life in Green township, dying there in 1890. He also was a farmer and active in local politics. He married the mother of Dr. Martin, who was born near Indiana, Indiana county, and to this union were born three boys and five girls. DANIEL S. McNULTY,  a retired business man and respected citizens of Barnesboro, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is a son of Michael and Mrs. Mary Deane nee Simpson McAnulty, and was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, June 1, 1819. His ancestors on the paternal side of the family were of the sturdy Scotch race, renowned for its frugality,

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