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Politically, the doctor is a republican, keeps well posted on the political events of the day, but has never been an aspirant for office, except in his own borough, where he held the office of school director for twenty-three years; for sixteen years he was a member of the town council, postmaster for eleven years, and burgess one year.     April 19, 1853, Dr. Maucher and Mary A., daughter of Michael Steigerwald, of Carrolltown, were united in marriage, and eight children have blessed this union: Amelia, wife of John L. Walters, of Carrolltown; Rudolph, assistant inspector in the custom-house at Newport News, Va.; Adelaide, deceased; Albert, deceased; who having graduated from the Baltimore College of Physicians and Surgeons, successfully practiced his profession ten years—three of them in Nicktown, this county, and seven of them in Carrolltown—and was a young man having very flattering prospects for a successful professional career; William, a member of the Benedictine order, known as Rev. P. Alcuin, located at St. Vincent's college; he is an artist of considerable skill and taste, and an electrician of ability. He was ordained at St. Vincent's Abbey, near Latrobe, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1886; Joseph V., who graduated from the Baltimore College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1885, and is now engaged in the drug business at Carrolltown; Victor, who graduated from St. Vincent's college, and is now a music teacher in Johnstown; and Rosa, at home with her father. LIEUTENANT EDWARD R. DUNEGAN, a merchant of St. Augustine, this county, and a justice of the peace of Clearfield township for over a quarter of a century, was born in Croyle township, this county, Janu-

ary 19, 1835, and is a son of Michael and Catherine (Rudden) Dunegan. His father was born in county Fermanage, Ireland, in 1792. In his native country he followed the avocation of a farmer. In 1829, shortly after his marriage, he emigrated to the United States. He landed at the city of Quebec, thence he went to Montreal, whence he drifted into the State of New York, and later into Eastern Pennsylvania, and in 1833 located in Croyle township, on the old and famous Portage railroad at the time it was being built, and became a sub-contractor in the construction of it. After the road had been completed he held the position of foreman at the foot of plane No.5. He remained on the Portage road until 1845, the date upon which he removed to St. Augustine. In that vicinity he purchased several large tracts of woodland, and cleared considerable portions of it for cultivation. To agricultural pursuits and lumbering he devoted the remainder of his active life, dying May 19, 1888, at the advanced age of ninety-six years. He was a man of great energy and enterprise, and was quite successful in all his undertakings. He was a lifelong democrat of the Jefferson school, and held various township offices, and voted or every democratic candidate for president from Jackson to Cleveland. In his religious belief and practice he was a devoted Catholic.     A few months before he left Ireland he had married Catherine Rudden, of County Cavan and to their union were born three sons: Patrick, deceased, was a farmer and teacher, and died March 16, 1879, at the age of forty-nine years, leaving a family of three sons and two daughter; Edward R., subject; Michael J., deceased, who died May 16, 1889 at the age of fifty-two years, leaving a family of five sons and three daughters.

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