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Brethren Mutual Aid Society, of Pennsylvania, conducts its business of life insurance, he established its system and managed its affairs. He held the first policy the company issued, and was a director from its organization, in 1869, until his death.      Rev. Wagoner was distinguished for courageous maintenance of the right, and his readiness to uphold the weak and deserving. Affectionate, congenial, and lovable, his was a model household.     Dr. Wagoner's preparatory education was obtained in the Public High school, of Johnstown. Leaving school he worked at the printer's trade for two years in the office of the Johnstown Tribune. At the age of seventeen he published for one year (1873) The Literary Herald, an amateur weekly newspaper, thirteen by twenty-six inches. In connection with this he did a general job printing business. Having decided on a professional career, he, in 1875, began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. A. N. Wakefield, of Johnstown. He then entered the medical departement of the Western Reserve University, of Cleveland, Ohio, from which he graduated in the class of 1878, and at once located at Johnstown, where he has ever since practiced his profession. He is a member of the Cambria County Medical society, of which he was secretary from 1887 to 1889, and president from 1890 to 1891 of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania and the American Medical association. In addition to the above organizations of a scientific and fraternal nature, he has been honored with positions of honor and trust, an attestation of the high regard in which he is held professionally and as a citizen of the city. He was secretary of the United States pension examining board from 1884 to 1889; deputy medical inspector for the Penn-

sylvania State Board of Health after the Johnstown flood, having charge of the sanitary operations in one section of the flooded district covered with debris, and containing about three thousand five hundred people; was hospital director of the Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital, of Johnstown, from 1892 to 1896, when, having been elected mayor of the city, he resigned, bu still retains a directorship in the board of management, and from 1889 to the time of his resignation was secretary of the board. He is a director in each of the following organizations: Cambria Library association, Grandview Cemetery association, and the Johnstown Board of Trade. Fraternally, he is a member of Cambria Lodge, No. 278, F. and A. M.; Portage Chapter, No. 195, R. A. M.; Oriental Commandery, No. 61, K. T.; Syria Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Knights of Pythias.      Dr. Wagoner is a democrat, who believes in a Jacksonian enforcement of Jeffersonial principles, and has always taken an active part in the councils of the party of his choice, frequently representing it in its conventions and other bodies of deliberation. He served as ward committee-man a number of years; was delegate to the State conventions of 1884 and 1889; member of the State central committee; alternate delegate to the National Convention, at Chicago in 1884, and in 1896 was elected to the office of mayor of Johnstown. As mayor, his adminstration of municipal affairs has been characterized by a progressive spirit that has done much for the material interests of the city, and he has shown himself a competent executive officer. ISAAC EATON CHANDLER,  deceased, one of the most prominent and respected citizens of Johnstown, was born at Rising Sun,

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