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sixty-one years; Catherine wedded Michael Latterner, and is now deceased; Peter, now engaged in farming in Carroll township; Elizabeth, who married John Flick, and is now deceased, and Squire John, the father of Thomas A. John Sharbaugh was born in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, December 16, 1827, and at an early age was brought by his parents to Carrolltown, where he received his education in the common schools. Upon attaining his majority he went to Ebensburg, and learned the trade of cabinet maker, which he followed for many years at Summit, where of late years he has reduced his business of furniture-dealer and undertaker to suit his declining years. While in active business he had a large and remunerative trade. He is a man of good judgement and business ability, and has been so highly esteemed for integrity and legal knowledge that he has been elected for ten successive terms as justice of the peace, and is now serving his fortieth year in that office. Squire Sharbaugh is a democrat in politics and a zealous member of the Catholic church. He married Mary Dougherty, whose father, James Dougherty, was a native of Ireland and successively resided in Brooklyn and at Summit, where he ran a stationary engine for the old Portage Railroad company. Squire and Mrs. Sharbaugh have seven children, four sons and three daughters: Dr. William, of Altoona, this State; A. J., an undertaker, of Clearfield county; J. B., a bookkeeper, of Peoria, Illinois; Thomas A.; Jennie, wife of Dr. Buck, of Altoona, this State, Annie and Aline, who are at home with their parents.     Thomas A. Sharbaugh was reared at Summit. The usual life of a business man's son was his, and such education as the public schools of the town and Houtzdale afforded

he acquired. Having a natural aptitude, and a strong liking for financial pursuits, he accepted in 1880 the position of assistant cashier of the Johnson, Shoemaker & Buck Banking company, of Ebensburg, now the Johnson, Buck and Company. Eight years later, when the company decided to open a branch bank at Carrolltown, he was selected as cashier on account of his valuable services at Ebensburg. This last position he has held ever since, and rendered satisfaction alike to the company and the public.     In politics Mr. Sharbaugh is a strong democrat, who believes in the simplicity, strength and purity of Democracy as taught by Jefferson, and enforced by Jackson. He is a member of the Catholic church, and unmarried. While not aggressively active in politics, nor desirous of offices of emolument or honor, yet he takes an intelligent interest in educational matters, and is now serving as president of the school board of Carrolltown. Mr. Sharbaugh is recognized as a good financier. He is an efficient cashier, whose good judgment and correct business methods have won for him an enviable reputation. THE LUKE FAMILY, of which Daniel W. and Dr. John C., of South Fork, are worthy scions, is of sturdy Scotch-Irish ancestry and origin. The grandfather of these representatives of the family was James Luke, who was born in County Anteroom, Ireland. Here he wooed and wedded Miss Mary McClain, a Scotch lady, and near the close of the eighteenth century, or shortly after the war for Independence, they sought a home in the newly-born republic across the Atlantic. They settled in the vicinity of the present town or Armagh, Indiana county, then a dense forest, broken at but rare intervals with the

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