Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County Pennsylvania, p.238

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being the oldest initiate member of the lodge, having joined in 1854, soon after its institution. He is a member of Dr. John M. Jones Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Ebensburg. Mr. Jones is a staunch republican in his political principles, served for nine years, prior to removing to his present farm, as a member of the borough council of Ebensburg, and in 1895 was elected to his present position as a director of the poor for Cambria county. Active in his lodge and post, Mr. Jones is efficient as a public official and respected as a man and a neighbor.

DR. FREMONT C. JONES, one of the most successful and prominent physicians and surgeons of Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is a son of Thomas L. and Martha (Williams) Jones, and was born in Cambria township, Cambria county, October 26, 1861.
    Dr. Jones received his elementary education in the public schools of Ebensburg, and under the private tutelage of Rev. T. R. Jones. Subsequently, he entered upon the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Abner Griffith, of Ebensburg. Having completed the required course of reading, he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from which renowned institution he was graduated with honor in the class of '85. Immediately after graduation he located at Ebensburg where, by close application to professional duties and careful and skillful treatment of diseases, he has established a large and remunerative patronage.
    Progressive and energetic, he is alive to every movement which has for its object the advancement and improvement of the medical profession. He is a member of the Cambria County Medical society, and of the State
Medical society of Pennsylvania, and is an active worker in both organizations. He is a physician to the Pennsylvania Railroad company, at Ebensburg, and the cambria county almshouse and jail. He affiliates with the Republican party, but has never sought nor filled offices. Religiously he is a member of the Congregationalist church. Fraternally he is a member of Sunset Lodge, No. 312, F. and A. M.; Highland Lodge, No. 428, I. O. O. F. and Jones Camp, No. 227, Sons of Veterans.
    On October 14, 1886, Dr. Jones and Miss Mary E. Davis were united in marriage, and to their union have been born two daughters: Marian, aged eight, and Martha, aged six.
    Dr. Jones is a man whose standing, professionally and socially, is above reproach. Well read in the higher arts of his profession, and further fortified by a large and varied experience, he accurately diagnoses and skillfully treats diseases. He is public-spirited, interested in the education of the masses, and always in sympathetic harmony with all movements for the moral and economic well-being and advancement of those around him.

EMANUEL YOUNG, deceased, was a prominent business man, and one of the most highly respected citizens of Johnstown, and was born at Marietta, Lancaster county, this State, on July 19, 1826. His paternal grandfather was a soldier under Napoleon. After coming to this country he bought a farm near Reading, where he resided for many years. His father, John Young, who was a butcher, was married twice. To the first wife seven children were born, viz.: John, Henry, Benjamin, Jacob, Daniel, Catherine and Susan, all of whom are dead but Henry, who is in Illinois. To the second wife five children were born, whose names are as follows: Abram;

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