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Statler was born in Somerset County, Pa., May 10, 1862, and his wife was born there Jan. 2, 1868. They are residents of Windber and the parents of the following children: Elsie Minerva, married William Berkebile, lives at Arrow, Pa.; Hulda May, married R. C. Horner, lives at Windber; John Harrison, lives at Windber; Clara Belle, married Charles Horner, lives at Windber; Dorsey Alvin, died Sept 9, 1910; Ada Grace, married H. D. Hostetler, lives at Windber; Arthur Hobart, lives at Windber; Verna I. Seese, who graduated from Juniata College in 1924; Mayme Pearl, married Foster Lehman, lives at Rummel, Pa.; Vergie Margaret, a student at Elizabethtown College; Ernest Sylvester, lives at Scalp Level, Pa.; and Olive Marie, attends Windber High School.
Mr. Seese is a Republican and holds membership in the Church of the Brethren. He is capable in his work and is intensely interested in all educational movements of Cambria County.
Hon. Augustine Vinton Barker, ex-judge of the Cambria County courts, has been a leading personage in the business and political field of Cambria County for many years. He was born at Lovell, Main, June 20, 1849, the son of Abraham A. and Orsina P. (Little) Barker.
Abraham A. Barker, deceased, was born at Lovell, Oxford County, Maine, March 30, 1816. He came of Puritan stock and his ancestors were among the first immigrants. He traced his ancestry on his father's side to Robert Barker, a member of the Plymouth colony, and the Barker family is numbered among the fine old pioneer families of Main, where some of its members settled at an early date. Abraham A. Barker's education was confined to what he obtained in the country schools before he was 16 years of age. He was thrown on his own resources early and became a farmer and lumberman, which occupation he followed in Main until 1854, when he removed to Carroll Township, Cambria County. He became an important factor in the settlement and upbuilding of the northern part of the county. In 1856 he removed to Ebensburg to be nearer the shipping point of his product and also engaged in the mercantile business and the manufacture of pine and hemlock lumber. He was instrumental in having the Ebensburg & Cresson Branch Railroad built, and was its president until it was taken over by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He conducted his various business enterprises with great success until 1866, when he joined with his son, F. H. Barker, and under
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