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tion in the public schools and the Catholic parochial schools of Zanesville, that state. He learned milling and millwrighting, in which lines he was actively engaged in the east and south until May 31, 1889. In 1895 he opened his present grocery store at Morrellville. He made a speciality of changing flouring mills from the old burr to the new roller process, and had charge in New York of the first full roller process that was built in this country until the miller engaged was able to operate it. He managed and constructed roller process mills in Philadelphia, New York, Richmond, Atlanta, Brooklyn, and other cities. In 1889 he came from Selins Grove, this State, to Johnstown, and acted as manager of the Cambria Flouring mills, which were destroyed by the great flood of that year. He is frequently consulted and asked for advice by those who are constructing flouring-mills in this and other states. Mr. Farrell is a republican in politics, and evinced his patriotism during the Civil War, serving for two months in the Seventy-eighth regiment of Ohio volunteers, where he acted as drill-master. A part of the time during the war he was stationed at Philadelphia as inspector of flour.     In 1864, Mr. Farrell married Hannah Grigsby, a daughter of James M. Grigsby, a resident of Zanesville, Ohio, and to their union was born one child, Frank E. Farrell, who recieved his education in the public and private schools of Zanesville, Ohio; Brooklyn, New York, and Philadelphia, this State. He spent several months in the then great dry goods house of Hood, Bonbright & Co., in Philadelphia, and then entered the drug store of D. R. Baird, of Johnstown, which he and his present partner, Kredel, purchased in March, 1889. They also established a branch drug store at

Morrellville, and two months later the great flood swept their Johnstown property away. In a short time they reopened their Johnstown drug business in their present establishment, at No. 114 Clinton street. Mr. Farrell now personally surpervises the Morrellville branch and Mr. Kredel attends to the Johnstown branch of their extensive business. They carry a large stock of pure and fresh drugs and give special attention to the filling of recipes and compounding of physicians' prescriptions.     On April 28, 1896, Mr. Farrell was united in marriage with Bessie Somerville, a daughter of Edwin Somerville, a resident and well-known citizen of West Taylor township, Cambria county.     In politics Mr. Farrell has always been a republican, though neither partisan nor politician. He received his pharmaceutical education in the Chicago College of Pharmacy. He is persistent and pushing, and has achieved signal success in the large business that he has built up in such a short time. EDWIN R. STEWART, the courteous and very efficient station agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, at Conemaugh, is a son of Judge Robert and Elizabeth A. (Patton) Stewart, and was born on the Stewart homestead farm in Blair county, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1862. He attended the public schools of Williamsburg, in his native county, until he was fourteen years of age, and then went to Philadelphia, where he was employed in the office of the St. Cloud hotel for three years. At the end of that time he became a clerk in the office of the Pennsylvania Railroad company at Altoona, and in 1879 was transferred to Conemaugh and placed in

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