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and soon made it one of the best managed and most popular hotels in Western Pennsylvania. It is one of the few hotels run successfully without a bar. He has entertained guests of state and national distinction, amont whom were Governor Pattison, Governor Beaver, Governor Hastings, Judge A. V. Barker, Judge Harry White, Judge Longenaker, and others.     Mr. Carpenter's business qualities are shown by the fact that, while he began life with no capital but his hands and brain, he has accumulated sufficient capital to build twenty thousand dollars' worth of buildings since the flood. Part of this was earned by his acting as agent for various mercantile companies while in the restaurant business. GEORGE R. GLASS, M.D., A rising physician and surgeon of Portage, this county, was born in Ennisville, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1867. At an early age he was thrown on his own resources, and being both ambitious and energetic, determined to secure for himself a liberal education. He received his early instruction in the Stone Valley academy, and on leaving this school taught for four terms. He then entered a business college at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1887. Having decided upon the profession of medicine as a life vocation, and lacking the means with which to pursue a professional education, he became a salesman of medical supplies, and in a year and a half had earned enough money to justify his commencing the studies preparatory to his profession. After a year's preparatory study in the University of Maryland, he matriculated in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, from which he graduated in 1891. On

June 1, 1891, he located in Portage, this county, and entered upon the practice of the profession for which he had been making such thorough preparation.     He is an indefatigable student, and as a practitioner is careful, patient, and painstaking, as is evidenced by his large and successful practice. He is progressive, and is deeply interested in all that promotes progress in medical science; is a member of the State Medical society, and of the Cambria County Medical association. In September, 1892, he was appointed railroad surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad company, from Gallitzin to Johnstown, and still serves in that capacity.     Fraternally, he is identified with the Ebensburg Lodge, No. 312, F. and A.M., in which he has reached the degree of Past Master. He helped to organize the South Fork Lodge, No. 838, I.O.O.F., and is a member of the Improved Order of Heptasophs. JOHN F. SEIGH, an enterprising merchant of Morrellville, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is one of the most prominent and influential men of that rapidly-growing borough. He is the son of John and Nancy (Arthur) Seigh, and was born on the old homestead in Coopersdale, May 31, 1851.     The Seighs are of German descent, and were among the earliest settlers of the Conemaugh valley. The Arthurs are of Irish descent.     John Seigh, the father of our subject, was born in York county. He came to the neighborhood of Johnstown about the year 1829, and was employed by the State, working on the old State canal. He acquired a farm of some two hundred acres near Coopersdale, and lived on it the remainder of his life. In connection with his farm he kept a dairy and

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