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of 180 acres, and embarked in agricultural pursuits. In 1869 he disposed of this farm and bought another, containing the same number of acres, situated in Cambria township, two miles east of Ebensburg. He resided upon and tilled this farm until death ended his labors on January 16, 1882, his wife surviving him.     He was a careful and well-to-do farmer, and passed the latter years of his life in comparative comfort and ease. Politically he was a republican, and filled many local offices. His marriage with Magdalene Jones resulted in the following issue: Mary, the widow of David Davis; Evan, a soldier in the late war, died in service at a camp in Texas; Daniel J., the subject of this sketch; John and Elizabeth are twins (the former is a farmer and merchant of Blacklick township, and the latter is the wife of David Lewis, of Cambria township), Joseph J., a liveryman of Ebensburg; C. Jane, wife of Joseph Thomas, of Cambria township; and David M., of Cambria township.     Daniel J. Davis was reared and remained upon the farm until 1864, at which time he sought and found employment in a rolling-mill in Pittsburg for five years. In 1868 he returned to Cambria township, and three years later purchased a farm of 145 acres of arable and well-improved land. The land is fertile, well adapted to grazing and stock raising, and the buildings are nearly new, and commodiously arranged. Aside from this property, he owns three fine brick houses in Ebensburg which yield him a handsome annual rental. He is a member of the Welsh Presbyterian church, and takes a leading interest in church work.     December 31, 1868, Mr. Davis and Miss Jane Davis, a daughter of Richard B. Davis, a farmer and butcher, of near Ebensburg,

were joined in wedlock. The product of their union is two children: Anna and one son, who died in infancy, unnamed.     Richard B. Davis, the father-in-law of Mr. Davis, was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, in 1788, and died in Cambria township October 20, 1872. He married in Wales, and became the father of three children. Their mother and two of the children died in Wales. The other child, a son (Edward), accompanied his father to this country in 1836, and died in Cincinnati, O., of cholera, in 1849. In 1837 Mr. Davis married, as his second wife, Anna Bennett, a daughter of Richard Bennett, a Welshman by birth, but then a prosperous and successful farmer, and one of the oldest and most reputable citizens of Cambria township; and they became the parents of seven children, three sons and four daughters: Mary became the wife of William Davis, of Ebensburg; Richard, a soldier of the late war, was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg; Mrs. Daniel J. Davis; Anna, the wife of William Griffiths, of Pittsburg; John a farmer of Cambria township; Sarah and Edward, deceased in childhood. JAMES MELLON, justice of the peace of Patton, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is a son of Redmond and Bridget (Bradley) Mellon, and was born in County Derry, Ireland, in 1844.     The ancestors of the Mellon family were originally from the Isle of Man. Redmond Mellon, father, was a native of Ireland, from which country he emigrated to America in 1847, locating first in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and then finally, in 1850, he located on a farm near St. Augustine, this county, where for the remainder of his life he engaged in the pursuits of a farmer. In religious faith he

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