Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County Pennsylvania, p.175

You are here: Cambria > Books > Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia

OF CAMBRIA COUNTY. 175

other real-estate enterprises in the county and State.
    Mr. Lloyd is an ardent republican. He has served as a congressional conferee, and in many ways has been prominent in the councils of his party. It was largely through his influence that the county officers are Republican, and the political power was thus wrested from the Democratic party. All his work for his aprty has been strong and distinct, all his business enterprises have been ably and successfully conducted.
    Mr. Lloyd married Miss Mary Griffith, a daughter of Evan Griffith, and to this union have been born four children: Mazie, Elsie, and Charles Gardner are living; Joseph died young.

FESTUS LLOYD, of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, the enterprising editor of the Cambria Herald, and a son of Rees S. and Ann (Tibbott) Lloyd, was born April 17, 1849, in Cambria township, near Ebensburg, Cambria county, Pennsylvania.
    His ancestors were of the race characterized by Paxton Hood, in his "Life of Cromwell," as royal. "All Welshmen are royal," says that writer. Sure it is, that as a race they are a steady, reliable people, of indomitable energy, and unflinching integrity. This characterization applies, as will be seen, to the immediate ancestors of Festus Lloyd.
    His grandfather was Stephen Lloyd, a native of the principality of Wales, who emigrated to America and settled in Ebensburg, where he died. He was a pioneer settler in this section, and was a justice of the peace, a surveyor and superintendent of the Philadelphia and Pittsburg pike, each for a number of years.
    The father of Festus Lloyd was born in
Cambria township in 1816. When a young man, he received the appointment of postmaster at Ebensburg, and held the office for a number of years. In 1875 he was nominated by the Republicans of the county for the office of county commissioner, and was elected by a large majority. He filled this office for a term of three years in an altogether satisfactory manner, his highest ambition being to administer the affairs of the county honestly and justly and to the interest of the taxpayer. Although residing in the township, he served as school director for a number of years in his early live, in the borough of Ebenburg, and was always an untiring worker for the public schools.
    From early boyhood he had been identified with the Christian church, and he confirmed the honesty of his professions to the world, by the uprightness of his life. He was always a staunch, exemplary member of the Christian church, and uncompromising advocate of the right, and an enemy of the wrong; a temperance man, too, in the fullest sense of the word, whose character is written in letters so legible that "all who run may read." When he died, the church, the community, and his family missed him as a Christian man and a good citizen is missed, but he left the latter a legacy more precious than a heritage of lands and money - the legacy of a good name. His death occurred August 15, 1892.
    He married Ann Tibbott, the mother of our subject, and they had the following children: Maggie, deceased, who was the wife of W. H. Sechler; Nane, the wife of Edmund James, a druggist of Ebensburg; and Festus.
    The grandfather of our subject on the maternal side was Festus Tibbott, also a native of Wales, who settled about one mile south of Ebensburg, and built a grist mill, known as

Last Updated: