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REV. MARCELLUS BETTGER, O. S. B., the young and popular pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church, at Patton, and St. Patrick's and Seven Dolors' Mission churches of Indiana county, is the youngest son of George and Eva (Wilhelm) Rettger, and was born at St. Mary's, Elk county, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1868. George Rettger was born, reared and educated in Nassau, Germany, and in 1844 came to St. Mary's, then a wilderness, and sixty miles from the nearest town or settlement. He was a carpenter, and worked at his trade during the years of his active life. He died September 25, 1886, aged sixty-eight years. He married Eva Wilhelm, of St. Mary's, whose father was a native of Herchenfeld, Germany, and an early settler in Elk county. Mr. and Mrs. Rettger reared a family of eight children, six sons and two daughters. Rev. Marcellus Rettger was reared at St. Mary's, where he attended the public schools and received his elementary education. He then entered St. Vincent's college, of Westmoreland county, in 1881, from which excellent and well-known institution of learning he was graduated in the classical, philosophical and theological courses in the year 1892. Immediately after graduation he was ordained to the priesthood by Rt. Rev. R. Phelan, Bishop of Pittsburg, and served for a short time as pastor of St. Boniface Catholic church, of Allegheny county, during the absence of its regular pastor. In the autumn of 1892 he came to Carrolltown as assistant pastor of St. Benedict's Catholic church, which position he held acceptably for two years, and at the end of that time, in 1894, he was appointed as pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church, of Pat- ton, this county, which has enjoyed his ministerial labors ever since. This church was organized in 1893, and under the efficient and active administration of Father Rettger has grown to a congregation of one hundred and sixteen families. To this field of labor was added St. Patrick's church, of Cammeron's Bottom and Seven Dolors' Mission church, of Indiana county. Energetic and practical, he has neglected no interest of his people, and is now making preparations for a commodious and tasteful parochial school building near St. Mary's church. Besides this school, Father Rettger has many other beneficial measures in contemplation for his different congregations when the proper time for their introduction arrives. A classical scholar, a pleasant gentleman and an energetic worker, his pastoral labors have been crowned with gratifying success, while his administration has been characterized by prudence and justice. [Source: Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, 1896 - Submitted by K. Torp]
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E. L. MILLER, one of Johnstown's leading young physicians, is a son of Rev. J. K. and Charlotte Henrietta (Ziegler) Miller, and was born July 15, 1859, in Friedens, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Centre Hall, Centre county, Pennsylvania. For about four and one-half years he was with his father and brother John in the drug business at Centre Hall. He clerked for a time in A. A. Kerlin's general merchandise store at Stone Mills, Centre county, then went into the lumber business for about a year and a half. Later he studied medicine under Dr. W. A. Jacobs, of Centre Hill, and, entering the University of Maryland, graduated in 1884. He first practiced in Philipsburg, Centre county, for three months, then for three and a half years at Unionville, Centre county, and in December, 1887, came to Johnstown, where he has remained ever since, a general practitioner of merit. He is a member of the Centre County Medical society, of the Pennsylvania State Medical society, and of the Cambria County Medical society, of which body he has served both as vice president and as secretary. His fraternal affiliations are with the Knights of the Golden Eagle. He is a republican. October 30, 1884, Dr. Miller married Joanna E. Atherton, a daughter of Nelson Atherton, and has two children. The oldest, Elvira May, was born February 1, 1886; the second, Clarence A., was born July 18, 1888. The authentic family history of Dr. Miller, on the paternal side, begins with his grandfather, Charles Miller, a native of Maryland, who emigrated, living successively in York, Cambria, Centre and Bedford counties. In the latter county he established himself at Bedford as a cigar maker, following this trade until the last twenty years of his life, when he became a paralytic. A sketch of the life of the father of our subject forms a very interesting portion of the family history. Born in Manchester, Maryland, 1823, he learned the trade of a cigar maker, but, being dissatisfied with his attainments, determined to make his way through Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This he did, overcoming difficulties which would have disheartened a less brave spirit, and graduated in 1850. In this college, a Lutheran institution, he took the full classical and theological course, requiring seven long years of hard study. He was then ordained to the Lutheran ministry, and served in that relation the remainder of his life, dying at Loganton, Clinton county, where he had been living, September, 1887. He was a thoughtful,suggestive preacher and a scholarly man, who always took an active, earnest part in church and educational work. He was for a number of years a trustee of Pennsylvania college, and was also the second county superintendent of the schools of Somerset county. Having had dyspeptic tendencies, he was induced to take the latter position on account of his health. He was a constant reader, and sought in all his preaching to pour light upon all great public questions, meanwhile uttering truths which lay at the heart of all ages. He was a man of keen sympathies and human instincts, who has been held in the kindest remembrance by many who knew him. He was a pioneer preacher of great religious influence, who yearned to carry to others the charities of a Christian faith. Being likewise an eloquent, forcible, convincing speaker, he was an acknowledged leader in the conventions of his church. In addition to these high qualifications, he was a business man of no mean ability, as is evidenced by important real-estate deals in Illinois and in Adams county, Pennsylvania, which he put through with honorable success. Politically he was a whig, but became a democrat. His first wife, and mother of our subject, was born in 1832. Their family consisted of ten children : Charles A., who died at Centre Hall, at the age of twenty-two years, a young man of fine education and high Christian character; John C., a traveling merchant for the drug firm of J. A. Williamson, Frederick, Maryland ; Eugene, of Lorain, Ohio, in the employ of the Johnson company; Dr. Miller, our subject; Jacob K., of Johnstown, an employee of the Cambria Iron company; with his brother John C.; Mary Grace, wife of Frank Singer, of Johnsonburg, Elk county, Pennsylvania, manager of a paper mill; Annie Gertrude, of Johnstown; Maggie, who died at Chambersburg, a child of two and a half years; Charlotte H., wife of C. H. Morris, druggist, of Millheim, Centre county; and William, who died in infancy. The father of our subject was married the second time to Barbara Ellen Lonebarger, of Centre county, and to this union was born one child, Nellie M., book-keeper for the hardware firm of Goodfellow, Melvin Co., of Altoona, Pennsylvania. Few families, it may be said, have been more fortunate than that of the Rev. J. K. Miller's in having the example of a noble father. [Source: Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, 1896 - Submitted by K. Torp]
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GEORGE MARTIN.-The subject of this sketch, Dr. George Martin, is a leading physician of Conemaugh, Cambria county, Pennsylvania. He is the son of David and Nancy (Hadden) Martin, and was born October 11, 1858, in Indiana county, Pennsylvania. November 21, 1888, he married Miss Mary Clark, a daughter of L. M. Clark, of Indiana county. December 25, 1889, Blanche, the first of his two children, was born; January 16, 1894, Almira, the second, was born. Dr. Martin was educated in the common schools and at Pine Flat Academy, Indiana State Normal school and a college at Champaign, Illinois. For six terms he taught school successfully in Pennsylvania and Illinois, and also clerked for a time in the store of his brother, at Martintown, Indiana county, a town named for the family. But Dr. Martin's ambitions led him into professional work, and in 1882 he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Thomas MacMullen, of Greenville, Indiana county. Later he entered Jefferson Medical college, and graduated in 1885. For four years after graduating he practiced his profession at Cherrytree, Indiana county, and then moved to Conemaugh, where he now has a profitable and congenial practice. He was a member of the Indiana County Medical society and of the Cambria County Medical society. He served for three years as coroner of Cambria county, this being the only office for which he was ever a candidate. At the same time he is a staunch democrat, and stands high in the esteem of his fellow-citizens. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. In his profession Dr. Martin is zealous and indefatigable, and in his character is manifested the best characteristics of the Scotch-Irish race. Dr. Martin is a great-grandson of David Martin, a native of Scotland, who emigrated to Donegal county, in the north of Ireland, noted as the cradle of the Scotch-Irish people. His grandfather, John Martin, was born in Ireland and came to America in 1801, at the age of twenty-one. He landed at New Castle, Delaware, but shortly afterward came to Indiana county, and located in what was then Cherry Hill township. Here he died at the age of ninety-six years. He was a farmer and a democrat up to the late Civil War, held township offices and took an active part in local politics. The father of our subject was born in Westmoreland county, January 4, 1814, and was three months old when the family moved to Indiana county. He lived nearly all his life in Green township, dying there in 1890. He also was a farmer and active in local politics. He married the mother of Dr. Martin, who was born near Indiana, in Indiana county, and to this union were born three boys and five girls. [Source: Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, 1896 - Submitted by K. Torp]
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S. McANULTY, a retired business man and respected citizen of Barnesboro, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is a son of Michael and Mrs. Mary Deane nee Simpson McAnulty, and was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, June 1, 1819. His ancestors on the paternal side of the family were of the sturdy Scotch race, renowned for its frugality, integrity, and sterling qualities of heart and mind. His grandfather, John McAnulty, was born in Scotland, and came to this country the latter part of the eighteenth century, and located near Chambersburg, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he married an Irish lady, and then removed to Indiana county. He engaged in the hotel business, which he followed the remainder of his life. He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. His family consisted of three sons and two daughters: Patrick, who served in the War of 1812, at the close of which he settled near Niagara Falls; Michael, father of the subject of this memoir; and John, who died in Jefferson county. Michael McAnulty was born in Franklin county, and removed to Indiana county with his parents, where he received a liberal education, considering the limited educational facilities of those days, and as a means of gaining a livelihood adopted the pursuits of a farmer, while during the winter he taught in the subscription schools of those early days. He married Mrs. Mary Deane (nee Simpson), and their union was blessed in the birth of seven children. In religious faith he was a member of the United Presbyterian Church. He died at the age of seventy-three years. Daniel S. McAnulty was reared a farmer boy, and received his early education in the old subscription schools. Since he reached the age of maturity he has been engaged in farming and lumbering, which pursuits he has followed with a marked degree of success. In 1856 he located on a tract of land which he owned, containing four hundred and twenty acres, upon which the town of Barnesboro, this county, is now located. In religious belief he is a member of the Church of God. He has always taken an active interest in the progress of the church, and has served as deacon for twenty-five years. He is a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and in political faith adheres to the principles of the Republican party. July 4, 1843, he wedded Mrs. Eliza Jane McDowell, and to this union have been born seven children : Michael, a sawyer, located at Barnesboro; Nancy, the wife of Samuel Hartzel, of Clearfield county, Pennsylvania; John, deceased; Mary, the wife of A. A. Grumbling, of Barnesboro; Henry McAnulty, sawyer, of Barnesboro; George, a farmer, in Indiana county; Sarah, the wife of Thomas Jones, of Barnesboro, and Frank, a merchant of Barnesboro. [Source: Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, 1896 - Submitted by K. Torp]
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