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at compount interest, and has compounded it every year to the present time. He then worked two years at learning the trade of a millwright, receiving for his services in this relation five dollars a month. Having thoroughly mastered his trade, and feeling himself a competent millwright, he soon secured work along the line of his craft. He solicited his first work, making at the same time the resolution that he would never again solicit employment. This resolution was easily kept, for the completion of his first workmanship was the strongest testimonial of his skill, and thenceforward the work sought him, and for forty-seven years he was kept so constantly employed that he lost but seventy-two days during this long and faithful period of service.      He followed his trade over the adjoining counties of Indiana, Cambria, Somerset, and Westmoreland, and earned the familiar sobriequet of "The Millwright Louther." From April, 1852 to 1855, he filled the responsible position of steward of the Westmoreland county almshouse. In 1868 he was called upon to superintend the building of mills for the Westmoreland Lumber company, and, after satisfactorily performing this work, again returned to his trade, which he pursued until 1892, since which time he has lived a comparatively retired life. He has lived in Johnstown since 1867.      Mr. Louther has always been a firm believer in the principles of the party of Lincoln, Blaine, and Garfield; keeps well posted on the current events -- political and otherwise of county, state, and nation, and, although never in any sense an office seeker or an officeholder, believes it the duty of every good citizen to interest himself in the cause of good government, and, although he had but meagre advantages himself for securing an education,

has always interested himself in the cause of popular education, and is counted as among the staunchest supporters of the common schools. He served twenty years as a director of the schools in Westmoreland and Cambria counties. He believes the church wields a most potent influence for good, and subscribed most ardently to the dogmas of the church of John Wesley. ANSON B. COOPER,  superintendent of farms for the Cambria Iron company, and a resident of Coopersdale, is a son of James and Elizabeth A. (Boyd) Cooper, and was born on the old homestead, at Coopersdale, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, August 13, 1860. He was reared at his native place, and after receiving his elementary education in the public schools, pursued his academic studies in private schools, and entered Mount Union college, Ohio, from which well and favorably known instutution he was graduated in the class of 1883. Immediately after his graduation he entered the service of the Cambria Iron company, and had received several promotions before his father's death, which occurred in 1887. He then succeeded his father as superintendent of farms, stables and teams, an important and responsible position under this company, whose lands are so extensive, and whose teams, used about their furnaces, mills and mines, far exceed in number those of any other company in western Pennsylvania. Under his immediate orders is a large force of hands, comprising laborers, farmers, stablemen, and teamsters. He is a practical man of business, as well as a man of education and general information. In his political views Mr. Cooper is a republican. He has seved as a councilman, was justice of the peace for several years, and has been active in

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