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he was appointed assistant-postmaster of Johnstown under J. E. Chandler, and served for four years. He then was railroad mail agent between Altoona and Pittsburg for five months, and at the end of that time became a salesman in Wood, Morrell & company's establishment, where he remained until 1881. That year saw him and Nathan Miller as partners in a grocery house, which was washed out in the flood of 1889. When the city straightened up he opened his present grocery house, where he has a well-selected stock of goods, and a first-class and growing patronage. On August 3, 1884, Mr. Petrikin married Mrs. Frances S. Long, a daughter of Jonathan Horner. He has four children: Edna L., Irene, Bruce and Byron and three step-children, Elfra, Jennie and James Long. In politics Albert B. Petriken is a republican. He has been a member of Alma Lodge, No. 523, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, since 1864, and has held active membership in Cambria Lodge, No. 278, Free and Accepted Masons, for twenty-four years. Mr. Petriken, since early years, has been the architect of his own fortune, and that his history is the record of a busy and useful life is apparent at a glance. His aim in life is clearly mirrored in successful results, and the many obstacles that he has overcome but attest his business capacity and reveal the persistent genius peculiar to the Scotch-Irish race, of which he is a worthy member.
EDGAR O. FISHER, alderman of the First ward of the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is a son of John and Margaret (Osborn) Fisher, and was born in New Florence, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, August 30, 1863. |
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Somerset county, this State, born at Stoyestown, March 3, 1834. He was reared there until the age of sixteen, when, in 1850, he came to Johnstown, where he resided until after his marriage, in 1862, when he removed to Westmoreland county. Two years later he returned to Johnstown and resided there until May 31, 1889, where, along with his wife, six children, and some five thousand unfortunates, was drowned in the memorable Johnstown flood. In early life he was employed as a bookkeeper, but in the sixties he began the study of law under the preceptorship of Judge Cyrus L. Pershing, an able jurist, who is now president judge of Schuykill county, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the Cambria county bar in 1869, and practiced at that bar for some years. In 1871 he was elected justice of the peace in Johnstown, and held that office until death. He also served as treasurer of the Johnstown School district about nineteen years, and as borough clerk for twenty-two years. He was a republican, loyal and true, favored James G. Blaine's protective tariff, and was a strong advocate of the National Banking system of which Salmon P. Chase was the author. He was public-spirited and took an active interest in the improvement of his city and county. He married Margaret Osborn, a daughter of George W. Osborn, who was born near New Alexandria, Westmoreland county, and who, in about 1840, removed to Johnstown, where he died in May, 1886. Mr. Osborn was engaged in mercantile pursuits most of his life, and was a prominent and influential business man, whose history appears elsewhere in this work under the heading of George W. Osborn. He took a deep interest in politics, |
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