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tive business. During the following five or six years he was engaged in the butchering business at Blandburg. In 1889 he opened the Bland mine, near the above place. This mine has an average annual output of 30,000 tons of bituminous coal of a good quality, and is still in operation. In the same year Mr. Bland opened a large general store in Blandburg, where he carries a complete and well-selected line of general merchandise, and in 1895 he purchased the old McCammant farm near Tifton Station, Blair county, containing two hundred and twenty-six acres of well-improved farm-land. Fraternally he is a member of Allemansville Lodge, No. 900, I.0.0.F., of which he is past grand master. In political opinions he supports the principles of the Republican party, and, while not a politician, he takes an active interest in both local and national issues. For twelve years he has served as school director in his district. September 5, 1871, he celebrated his marriage with Miss Annie Newhouse, a daughter of Ludwig Newhouse, of Cambria county. To this marriage ten children have been born: George, who is a clerk in his father's store; Amanda, the wife of William Clawson, of Bellwood, Pa.; Ludwig, at home; Fred., Jr., a farmer; James and Mary, both deceased; Wellington, at home; John, Bessie and Adam. In 1873 Mr. Bland built the first house where the village of Blandburg is now located.
STEPHEN STUTZMAN. --About the middle of the eighteenth century a German, filled with the spirit of enterprise, left the environs of his native land and settled in what is now the little mountain republic of Switzerland. The German referred to was Abram Stutzman, in all probability, the great-grand- |
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father of the subject of this sketch. In that land of the mountains Abram Stutzman, grandfather, was born. Abram Stutzman continued the journey to the west begun by his father, and emigrated to the United States, settling at the very old German settlement in Franklin county, this State, on the waters of Conococheague creek, where he lived the remainder of his life, following the pursuits of a shoemaker and farmer. Jacob Stutzman, father, was born in Franklin county in 1777, and died in Taylor township, this county, in 1859. He was reared in Franklin county, and learned the trade of a shoemaker with his father, and when a young man came to Cambria county, seeking work along the line of his craft. In those early pioneer days it was the custom of the trade to travel from house to house seeking employment, and it was while thus engaged that he became acquainted with a family by the name of Ulery, one of the daughters of which family he afterwards took as his wife. Jacob Stutzman was an industrious worker, and carefully husbanded his earnings and purchased a farm of two hundred and thirty-one acres, now known as Osborn, or the Seventh ward of the city of Johnstown. He lived upon this homestead until 1853, when he sold it to his son Stephen, and removed to Taylor township and spent the remainder of his days with his son, Samuel Stutzman. He married, when a young man, Susanna Ulery, and their marriage was fruitful in the birth of ten children: Daniel, Abraham, Jacob, John and David, all deceased; Elizabeth, deceased, was the wife of Abraham Weaver, now also deceased; Hannah, wife of George Knable; Susanna, wife of John Knable, deceased; Mary, who married the first time Samuel Berkey, and afterwards Christian Good, who is deceased; Samuel, a resident of Taylor |
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