Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County Pennsylvania, p.251

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formed, known as the Committee on the Reinterment of the Unknown Dead, of which committee Mr. Shumaker was made secretary. He afterwards took full charge of the work, seeing in this a possibility of finding his lost wife. He gave the work his undivided attention, and although thirty-six bodies were identified during the progress of the work, yet it is to be regretted that his hopes were not realized, and that he is yet ignorant of her last resting place." He was also on the committee that purchased the tombstones, marking the graves of the unknown.
     Mr. Shumaker is a stuanch republican, and in the autumn of 1891 was elected sheriff of Cambria county, by a majority of five hundred and seventy-one votes, although the county was Democratic by some eight hundred votes.
     On June 28, 1877, he married Lena Streum, and to this union were born: John S.; James G., who died in 1885; Edith May, Irene G., and Walter S., all of whom were lost in the flood, except James G.
     He married, as his second wife, November 12, 1891, Antonia Lambert, and four children, Mabel, Warren, Donald E., and Esther, bless this union.
PETER CAMPBELL, is a son of John and Susan (Myers) Campbell, and was born in what is now Carrolltown, March 25, 1837. Patrick Campbell, grandfather, was a native of Ireland, whence he emigrated to America and probably settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where John Campbell, the father of our subject, was born. His parents died when he was but four years old, and he found a home in the family of Emericus Bender, who came from Philadelphia to Cambria county. John Campbell was reared in the Bender home, and re-
mained with his worthy benefactor until about seventeen years old, when he apprenticed himself to John Myers, who afterward became his father-in-law, and learned the trade of a carpenter.
     After his marriage with Susan Myers he bought a tract of one hundred acres of woodland adjoining the present site of Carrolltown, which he cleared, and on which he established his home. He followed farming in connection with his trade as a carpenter the remainder of his life. Previous to purchasing the above farm he had resided for a short time on a farm belonging to Mr. McDonald, who sold the place to Rev. Father Lemke. Father Lemke afterward gave the farm to the Benedictine society with which he was connected.
     Mr. Campbell was a man of considerable business ability, was a member of the Roman Catholic church, and died May 4, 1865, aged sixty-four years. His wife, who survived him many years, was born in 1800, and died August 31, 1890, at the advanced age of ninety years. Their union was blessed in he birth of nine children: Henry, a carpenter of Altoona, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Catharine Farrell; John, Joseph and Rebert, all deceased; Peter, Augusta, deceased; Mrs. Mary A. Kirkpatrick, deceased, and Susan, who died in childhood.
     Peter Campbell was reared on the homestead farm and learned the carpenter trade with his father, which he followed for a number of years.
     On the death of his mother, in 1890, Mr. Campbell purchased the homestead, which contains one hundred and twenty-five acres of well-improved farm-land, lying just outside the borough of Carrolltown, with the exception of the buildings and their surroundings. It is one of the most desirable farms in that locality.
    In political affairs Mr. Campbell is a staunch advocate of the principles of the Republican

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