Susan is the wife of A. J. Waldam, of Ebensburg; Kate married John C. F. Jones, of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and J. C. resides at home.
HON. EDWARD T. McNEELIS, the well-known and popular attorney-at-law, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is a son of Edward and Annie (McCole) McNeelis, and was born April 23, 1863, in Johnstown.
The father of our subject was a native of Ireland, was born January 28, 1826, and emigrated to America in 1851. He at first located at Tyrone, Pennsylvania, but in 1855 he came to Johnstown, and entered the employ of the Cambria Iron company, and remained in their employ until his death, which occurred October 4, 1892.
Our subject received his early education in the schools of Millville borough, then a suburb of Johnstown; but at an early age went to work in the mills, where he was employed as a laborer until 1881, when he entered the machine shop as an apprentice and learned the trade of machinist. He was ambitious and eager to accept all chances for self-improvement, and while out of other employment for a short time in 1887, he improved the time by attending a term of school, at the Indiana State Normal school.
He was employed as a machinist by the Cambria and the Johnsson company mills until February, 1887, when he went to the Normal school, as above noted, after which he began the study of law with the late District Attorney H. G. Rose. He was admitted to the bar of Cambria county, September 5, 1889, and opened an office in Johnstown, where he has practiced his profession ever since.
In October, 1893, he was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
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In politics Mr. McNeelis has been a staunch democrat, and frequently advocates the doctrines of his party from the rostrum. In 1890 he was elected a member of the State legislature, and proved an active and influential legislator. He was renominated for the succeeding term, but subsequently declined the nomination. Since then he has devoted himself exclusively to the practice of his profession, and now has a large and growing practice.
THOMAS F. HAMILTON, superintendent of the mills of the Gautier department of the Cambria Iron company, is a son of Alexander and Mary (Jaquette) Hamilton, and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ancestral history of Mr. Hamilton appears under the heading of Alexander Hamilton, his father.
The career of Thomas Hamilton has, since the age of fifteen, been closely identified with the Cambria Iron company, that wonderful industrial and mechanical school to which so many of the successful business men of western Pennsylvania owe their training. In 1865, he entered the draughting rooms of that company, where he was employed two years when he was transferred to the mechanical department, and remained in it six years, and then after a service of ten years as a boss roller, was promoted to the position of assistant superintendent of the Gautier mills. In every position in which he has been placed, Mr. Hamilton has proved himself competent and trustworthy, and in 1890 was promoted to his present position, a very responsible one, which includes the overseeing of a department that gives employment to from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred men.
Although Mr. Hamilton never sought nor held office, yet he takes an active interest in the success of the Republican party and its
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