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ambitious, energetic, and willing, and soon worked his way up to the more responsible position of weighmaster of the mines, then clerk in the office. He embraced every opportunity which was presented for self-improvement, and in 1875 accepted a position as bookkeeper for the Sandylick Gas, Coal and Coke company at Du Bois, Pennsylvania. He resigned this position to become the superintendent of the same mines at Du Bois, where he remained until 1882, when he removed to Gallitzin and accepted the position of bookkeeper with Taylor & McCoy. He remained with them for eight years. In 1890 he came to Frugality as secretary and bookkeeper of the Cresson and Clearfield Coal and Coke company, which responsible position he holds at the present time. He is a member of the Roman Catholic church, and in politics is identified with the Democratic party.     June 27, 1876, he was united in marriage with Miss Rebecca Braniff, a daughter of Patrick Braniff, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, and their marriage has resulted in the birth of eleven children: Charles Faber, John Edgar, Mary Clare, Walter Lawrence, Mary Lorine, Mary Hortense, Thomas Ralph, deceased, Mary Agnes, deceased; Marie Audra, Bernard Eugene, and La Mar, deceased. CHARLES K. FRAZER, the efficient Chief of Police of the city of Johnstown, is a son of William and Bridget (Kelly) Frazer, and was born in Johnstown, November 2, 1865. His father died when he was young and he was reared under the care of an uncle, Chas. Kelly, who gave him a fair educational training through attendance in the St. John's Parochial High school, of Johnstown, nearly completing the course of that institution. Leaving school, he entered a drug store as a

clerk, intending to learn the profession of a pharmacist, but was compelled t give up that idea on account of failing healthy. He then entered the spring department of the Gautier works of the Cambria Iron company, where he remained for six years. He spent about six years more in the rolling mills and hammer shop of this company, and then, in 1893, took a position as a laborer in the works of the Johnson company, where his fidelity to every trust reposed in him was rewarded from time to time by promotions until he was given a responsible post in the order office of that company, where he remained until 1896. In April of the latter year he was elected by city councils to the office he now holds.     The organization of the city by bringing into it a number of boroughs, formerly adjacent, has contributed to make the duties devolving upon the chief and his assistants very onerous by reason of the great amount of territory lying within the district and the necessity of keeping the force at the minimum in numbers.     Mr. Frazer, with his able assistants, which consists of a lieutenant, a warden and eighteen patrolmen, has by the exercise of great vigilance succeeded in giving the city a very efficient police service and shown himself in every way to be the right man in the right position.     He married Miss Lucy McCoy, a daughter of Augustine McCoy, who was a foreman in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad company. To this marriage have been born the following children: Inez De Lellis, born April 27, 1890; Grace Columbia, born October 21, 1891; Charles Anthony, born October 15, 1895. T. MASON RICHARDS, D. D. S., one of the leading dental doctors of Cambria county, located at Ebensburg, the county's

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