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Mr. Sheridan was married to Miss Connintha Nancy Slater of Johnstown. To them the following children were born: Campbell, died in infancy; Jenivieve, their only daughter, died in 1912; William J., is a veteran of the World war, and is now serving in the United States Navy; George, lives in Homestead, Pa., where he is employed in the accounting department of the Carnegie Steel Company; Spear, in the sales department of the Pennsylvania Traffic Company; and Thomas M., a student, at home.
Mr. Sheridan is a Republican and a member of the Presbyterian Church. He has a wide acquaintance in Cambria County and is widely esteemed.
Marlin Bingham Stephens was one of Johnstown's prominent attorneys, a native of Pennsylvania. He was born at Dilltown, Indiana County, May 10, 1860, and is the son of William S. and Sarah Ann (Skiles) Stephens.
Marlin Bingham Stephens received his preliminary education in the public schools of his native town and engaged in teaching for several years before beginning the study of law. He graduated from the law school of the University of Michigan in 1886, and was admitted to practice in the Circuit Court of Washtenaw County, in the Supreme Court of Michigan, upon his graduation from the university. Mr. Stephens returned to Pennsylvania in 1887, and in that year was admitted to practice in Wyoming and Luzerne Counties. In 1888 he engaged in practice at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and the following year removed to Johnstown. He was admitted to the bar of Indiana County in 1890, and to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. In September, 1900, he was admitted to the District Court of the United States. Mr. Stephens had always takes an active part in public affairs, and in April. 1896, was elected city solicitor of Johnstown, which office he filled for two terms. He was elected to the office of district attorney of Cambria County in November, 1898, and re-elected in 1901. From January, 1905, until his death, Jan. 7, 1924, he devoted his time to his extensive private practice. In November, 1911, Mr. Stephens was elected presiding judge of the several courts of Cambria County on the Republican ticket. He served in this capacity for ten years, during which time he endeared himself to all the members of the bar by his ability as a jurist, his keen sense of fairness and justice, and his extreme kindness and courtesy to the attorneys practicing before him,
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