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George D., who has been a clerk in the Gautier department of the C. I. Co. for five years; Oscar A., who is his father's assistant in business.     The subject of our sketch was educated in the common schools of Ebensburg, and took his first position in the store of A. A. Barker & Sons, where he remained for seventeen years. In 1877 he embarked in the insurance business, representing the following insurance companies: The Insurance company of North America, the Fire Association of Philadelphia, the Orient of Hartford, the North British, the Mercantile, the Travelers' Life and Accident company of Hartford, besides seven other fire insurance companies.     Mr. Kinkead is a conspicuous republican. He has served as county auditor, and has held local offices in his borough, being at present president of the council. He is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 312, F. and A. M., having been its secretary for twenty-five years.     During the Civil War he served in the Emergency department. Like his father, he is a ruling elder and valued member of the Presbyterian church. Like his father's, too, Mr. Kinkead's personal character has in it nothing that is unbecoming a good citizen and worthy man. In the discharge of his public duties he is zealous and indefatigable. In his private life he is sincere and unostentatious. DR. T. L. ARMITAGE, a graduate of the Royal university of Ireland, and a successful practitioner of medicine, at Lilly, this county, is a son of Thomas and Agnes (Shaw) Armitage, and was born in Northern Ireland, November 22, 1860. Thomas Armitage, grandfather of the subject of this memoir, was a native of Yorkshire, England.

Thomas Armitage, father, was born in Manchester, England, March 25, 1834, where he received his early education. When but a young man, he went to Ireland with his uncle, Thos. Firth, who was the first locomotive engineer of Ireland, and under whose direction Thomas Armitage followed railroading. He arose from one position of trust to another until he became superintendent of motive power of the Waterford and Limerick railray, and occupied this position until 1880, when he resigned. In 1883 he emigrated to America, locating in London, Canada, where he became foreman of a round house. He died October 31, 1891. His marriage with Agnes Shaw, who still survives him, resulted in the birth of twelve children, all of whom are living but one son, who died in infancy.     T. L. Armitage's early life was spent in Ireland; his elementary education was obtained in the Dundalk Grammar school and from private tutors. In 1876, when but sixteen years old, he entered Dublin university, of Ireland, from which renowned institution he graduated after a three years' course of study. On leaving the university he joined the medical staff of the British army and remained on the staff seven years, during which period he served in the memorable Egyptian campaign, and for active service rendered was awarded the Egyptian medal, and the Khedive of Egypt's Bronze Star, which is an emblem of faithful, effective service.     In 1891 he retired from the service and emigrated to America, where he first located in Michigan and practiced his profession two years. He then removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and took a special course in the Medico-Chirurgical college, of that city, where in six months he received a degree, and took twefth [sic] place in a competitive examina-

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