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In 1889 he was a delgate [sic] to the Republican State convention, and two years subsequently was chairman of the Cambria county Republican committee, and in 1892 was elected a member of the legislature of Pennsylvania, leading all the candidates, and in 1894 was re-elected by the handsome plurality of 1691 votes. In the legislature Mr. Stineman was recognized as one of its most able members. During the sessions of 1893 he served on the following committees: Mines and Mining; Judiciary (Local), Iron and Coal, Bureau of Statistics, Printing, and Fish and Game; and during the session of 1895 he served on the following committees: Appropriations, Mines and Mining, Bureau of Statistics, Iron and Coal, and Printing. Recognizing his valuable service to the county as a legislator he was nominated in 1896 for the office of State senator to represent the Thirty-fifth district, composed of Cambria and Blair counties.     Mr. Stineman is an active Grand Army man, being one of the founders and the first commander of Daniel T. Stineman Post, No. 560, of South Fork.     On December 20, 1866, Mr. Stineman married Ellen Varner, and their union has been blessed in the birth of the following children: Albert Meade; Washington Irving; Harvey Camerson; Nettie May; Oliver Morton; Nora Lucretia, who died young; Jacob Wilbur, and one that died in infancy.     Mr. Stineman is a director in the Citizens' National bank of Johnstown, and a stockholder in a number of other business enterprises of Cambria county, and stands among the most prominent of Cambria county's business men. Energetic, prompt and painstaking he leaves nothing to chance or good fortune, and believes that good luck is but the result of good management. As a citizen he is highly

esteemed by all who have business or social relations with him, while his integrity and honor are unquestioned. DR. CAMPBELL SHERIDAN, who, for almost half a century, has been an active practitioner of medicine in Johnstown, is a son of John and Mary (Campbell) Sheridan, and was born on June 30, 1819, in Butler, Butler county, Pennsylvania.     Patrick Sheridan, the grandfather of Dr. Sheridan, was a native of Ireland, whence, desiring to escape the crowded economic conditions of his native country, he, after his marriage to Mary Spence, emigrated to the United States and settled in Westmoreland county, learned the trade of a blacksmith, and afterward went to Butler county, where he remained until about 1830, when he removed to Freeport, in Armstrong county. He was a man of considerable mechanical skill and genius, and attained quite a degree of efficiency in his trade. When the Pennsylvania canal, connecting the eastern with the western part of the State, was being built, he took a contract for the building of a section, between the Allegheny aqueduct and Leechburg, Armstrong county. After his services in this connection he took up his residence in Centreville, Indiana county, and for a time was employed by the State in building lock-houses on the canal. Later -- in about 1837 -- he went to Johnstown and took a position in the repair shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, but after a short service in this capacity opened a shop on his own account and furnished supplies to the same company.     In 1842 he transferred his residence to near Brookville, Jefferson county, Pennsylvania,

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