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tion in a class of two hundred and fifty-two candidates for an appointment in Blockley hospital. In May Dr. Armitage removed to Lilly, this county, where he has since practiced his profession. He always keeps up to the high-water mark of his profession, and, while he has filled his mind with the best thoughts of the college and leading physicians of the age as a preparation, yet has preserved and developed his own individuality, and has thought and worked and grown into a careful, safe and progressive physican. His practice already extends along the Pennsylvania railraod from Altoona to Pittsburg, and he enjoys the confidence and respect of a large and increasing patronage. In politics he supports the principles of the Democratic party, and takes an active interest in all local issues. Dr. Armitage is interested in whatever pertains to the advancement of his profession, and is a member of the Cambria County Medical society, and of the Pennsylvania State Medical association, both of which organizations are in the interest of progress in medical science. While in England, Dr. Armitage was united in marriage with Miss Caroline Annie Hole, on March 22, 1888. She is a daughter of Jonas Hole, is a true Englishwoman and was born within the sound of the Bow Bells of Westminster, London. Their happy marriage has been blessed in the birth of the following children: Anna, Hazel and Thomas Leger Firth.
EVAN G. LEWIS, superintendent of the pattern department of the Cambria Iron company of Johnstown, is a son of David and Mary Lewis, and was born August 24, 1821, in Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, North Wales. |
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upon his own responsibilities, his mother dying when he was one year old, and his father when he was but ten years of age. Mr. Lewis was employed as an errand boy around several business establishments, among them being a bookbindery, a printing house, and later as helper to a physician and surgeon, being in the employ of the latter a number of years. At about this time his brother began the manufacture of carding machines used in the manufacture of wool, and Mr. Lewis took a position with him for three or four years. His brother closed out this business and came to the United States, and Mr. Lewis being again thrown upon his own responsibilities, again took up mechanical pursuits, working in the cities of Merthyr Tydvill, Tredeger and other places. In 1840, in company with a friend, he came to the United States, his destination being Portsmouth, Ohio, but owing to his lack of knowledge of the geography of the country, landed at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He soon went west, and engaged in various capacities as a laborer, finally securing work in the carpenter shop of the Scioto furnace. That his ability as a workman was appreciated, is shown by the fact that in a short time his wages were increased from sixty-two and a half cents a day to one dollar and twenty-five cents per day. In 1844 he came to Brady's Bend, in Armstrong county, this State, and worked at any good work that came to hand, until he was placed in the pattern-making department of the furnace at that place. This was his first work in the line of pattern making. Here he made rapid progress, but began to feel the lack of an education, and realizing that it was a great barrier to his progress, he resolved to procure a better one. Through the generosity of a friend, he was given a scholarship in Allegheny College, |
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