Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County Pennsylvania, p.115

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and the volume from which he obtained most of his information was the great book of nature. From this source, being a man of practical instincts and talents, he obtained much information of great value to him in the every-day affairs of life. He was a man of the strictest integrity of character and one in whom was reposed the confidence and respect of his neighbors by whom he was frequently elected to offices of trust. In religious matters, he adhered to the dogmas of the Lutheran church. He married Mary Croyle, a daughter of Thomas Croyle, a native of Germany, and who, in 1798, emigrated into what is now Cambria county, locating on the present site of Summerhill, on the Pennsylvania railroad. He was of German ancestry and one of the first settlers in that section of the county. Croyle township is named for the family. He was a man of more than ordinary mechanical skill and could turn his hand to various occupations, and was at once a tanner, a cooper, a farmer and a mill-wright.
    The children born to the marriage of Jacob Stineman and Mary Croyle were as follows: Elizabeth, deceased, was the wife of Jacob Seigh; Joseph P., a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, not actively engaged in business; George B., whose sketch follows; Daniel T., who entered the Civil War, in company F, One Hundred and Ninety-eighth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, and lost his life at the battle of Hatcher's Run, February 9, 1865. Daniel T. Stineman Post, No. 560, of South Fork, was named in honor of his memory; Jacob C., whose sketch follows, and Mary Ann, wife of Joseph S. Stull, of this county.

GEORGE B. STINEMAN, a retired merchant of South Fork and a soldier of the late war, is a son of Jacob and Mary
(Croyle) Stineman, and was born in Adams township, this county, May 17, 1837.
    A record of his father's life history and ancestors appears above under the heading of the Stineman family.
    His education was acquired in the common schools and academies of the county. Obtaining a liberal education, he followed the profession of teaching for three terms, prior to the Civil War.
    When the clouds of war hovered over the land and patriotic men had grave fears for the safety and perpetuity of the Union, he laid aside the profession of teaching for the profession of arms. He enlisted September 14, 1861, in Company I, Fifty-fourth regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry, in which he served until February of 1864, when his company was consolidated with company C, of the Veteran Volunteer infantry. Mr. Stineman entered the service as a private, but was promoted from time to time until he became a first lieutenant, and when the war closed had a recommendation for a captaincy. His is the record of no common soldier, as the story of thirty-seven well-fought battles and numerous skirmishes fully attest. At the battle of High Bridge he was captured just three days prior to the surrender of Lee.
    Coming out of the service, he again took up the pursuits of civil life as a lumberman. He built the first house erected in South Fork. This house remained standing until carried away by the remarkable flood of 1889. He continued in the lumbering business about three years, and then after five years in agricultural pursuits, returned to South Fork and took up mercantile pursuits, which he continued until 1892, a period of nineteen years. Since the latter date he has lived a retired life.
    He is a firm believer in the principles of the

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