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disposed of his practice to Dr. G. H. Sloan, a son of his preceptor, and in December, 1885, came to Summer Hill, where he has been in active practice up to the present time. On the 5th of October, 1874, Dr. John B. Green married Matilda Goss, a daughter of George Goss, of Hillsdale, Indiana county. To this Union have been born four children, one son and three daughters: Fannie A., who died March 29, 1887, aged thirteen years; Stella A., died June 2, 1890, aged twelve years, three months; Charles B., and Golda Adalina. Dr. Green's professional labors and business duties preclude any active interest on his part in politics. He is a democrat politically. He is a member of Cambria Lodge, No. 278 Free and Accepted Masons, of Johnstown, and has always contributed liberally to the Lutheran church. Dr. Green has always taken a deep interest in the struggle of working classes to secure homes, and to provide all classes with safe investment, and is now vice-president of the Pennsylvania Building and Loan Association of Altoona, Blair county, which was chartered February 26, 1892, and now has a subscribed capital of nearly $800,000, and mortgage loans approximating $200,000. He is an active member of the board of directors, which, by a conservative and careful course, have thrown additional safeguards around the management and funds of this popular business institution. Dr. Green and F. Linderman manufacture the famous Linderman piano polish, now coming into general demand. While ever active in business, yet Dr. Green does not neglect his patients, or his profession. He took the post-graduate course of the Rush Medical college, of Chicago, graduating April 19, 1884, and has kept abreast of every advancement in medicine during this progressive age. His practice, |
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which is general rather than special, is both extended and successful.
ULYSSES S. CROYLE, of near South Fork, is a worthy descendant of the old and well-known Croyle family of Cambria county. He is a son of Joseph and Barbara (Moyer) Croyle, and was born on the old homestead in the western part of Croyle township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1865. Of sturdy and honorable ancestry, the Croyle family of the United States has well sustained in every section of the Union where its members are settled, its old world reputation for industry, strength and integrity. The founder of the family in this country settled near Hagerstown, Maryland, and from there nine of his descendants, and all brothers, served as soldiers in the Continental armies during the Revolutionary War. They were all men of great strength and fine physique, and Thomas, the youngest and smallest, yet over six feet in height, removed to Bedford county, which he afterwards left to settle in Summerhill township, this county, where he built a grist mill in 1824, and had his nearest neighbor at Ebensburg. He owned the tract of land on which the village of Summerhill is located, and the township of Croyle was named in honor of him. He was a consistent member of the Evangelical church, and to his marriage was born four children: Samuel, Frederick, Mrs. Mary S. Stineman, and Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson. Frederick Croyle, the next to the eldest child, was a native of Summerhill, and a life-long farmer of Croyle township, and where he owned and cultivated a large tract of land. |
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