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bad these children: ( i ) C ora M ay, born May 5, 1879, married Aug. 10, 1902, Dr. Ambrose Shuman, son o f John T. Shuman. They have adopted a son, John Em il, bom Sept. to, 19 12. (2> Franklin Edw ard, bom Oct. 22. 1880. at Catawissa, graduated from Hahnemann Col­ lege, PhiiadelDhia, in 1903, and is practicing m ^ ic in c in Homestead. Alleghany Co.. Pa. H e married Hallie M cKee, o f Homestead, and they have one child, Dorothy Jan e. Another died in infancy. ( 3 ) L illy Alice, bom March 8. (882, is at home. (4 ) Deulah Bell, torn Feb. 16, 1884, married W. C. Ruckle, a jew eler o f Danville, and they have one child. Dorothy S. ( 5 ) Lottie Edna, bom A pril 29. 1886, married H arry Becklcy, o f Harrisburg, and they have two children, Wiitiam S. and Char­ lotte Adeline. (6) .Anna, born A pril a. 1888; died in June, 1893. ( 7 ) Kuth. bom Aug, 7. (892. married l^ester Billig, o f Catawissa. and they have one son. Robert Poe. (8 ) A child bom M ay 28, 1895, died unnamed. (9) Rus­ sell Iwce, born Ju ly 3, 1897, is attending school at Catawissa. ( l o ) Sarah, bom Ju ly 9. 1899. died March 20. 1900. ( i i ) Rhea Beatrice, horn March 20. (902. is attending school at Catawissa.

J o h n T. S h u m a n, son o f Jacob, was torn Ju ly 5, 1825, in >lain township. Columbia county. H e attended the country schools and liecame a farm er, owning a tract just on the line o f Catawissa township. He died Sept. 12, 1905. in Catawissa. Me married Cathe­ rine Breisch. and they had these children: W illiam K ., Clinton J .. Georpje W ., John E., Isabelle (H o w c r), Chivid C lark, Sarah Jan e (H artzel). M argaret and Ambrose. A m i i r o s k S i i r M. w, M. D., w as torn March 10, 1869. in Main township. H e attended the country schools and later the Bloomsburg .^tate Normal, after graduation from the lat­ ter teaching school for two years in Catawissa and Afain tow*nshi|>s. H e then entered the U niversity o f Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1894. and i t once began to practice the profession o f medicine in Trackville and (Jilbcrlon. mining towns o f Pennsyl­ vania. He then went to Mainville and remainc<l four years, in M ay. 1900. moving to Catawissa and opening an office, where he has remained ever since. He has built tip a line practice and is thoroughly establislic<l as one of the f<iremost physicians of the county. On .Aug. 10. 1902. he w as marric<t to Cora M ay Shuman, a distant relative. T hey have no children, hut have adopted a son.

F R E D E R I C K H E B E R E A T O N, president of the American C ar and Foundry (Company, was bom in Berw ick, P a.. A pril 15. (863, a son o f Ralph Hurlburt and Eliza Knapp (D kkerm an) Eaton. H e is descended from early Colonial stock, his first ancestors on this side of the .Atlantic. WiUiam and Martha (Jenkins) Eaton, o f Staples, County o f Kent. Rngland. settling in Watertowm, M ass.. in 1642. and later removing to Reading, M ass. Among their posterity w as Jacob Eaton, bom in Mere­ dith. N. H ., in 1757. who w as twice chosen surveyor o f highways in that tow n; served on a committee to d raft w ar resolutions: was ap­ pointed to select men fo r the Continental army, and served in the Revolutionary an n y under Lieut. Ebenezer Smith, participating in the siege o f Fort Tkondcroga. H is son, Jacob, to m in 1788, instructor in the Hiiic.sbufg; (*t.) Academy, served in the w ar o f 18 12. His son, Kalpli Hurlburt (fath er o f Frederick H cb er), wzs bom in Mount Pleasant, Pa., in 1830, cngagctl extensively in mercantile pur­ suits, and finally removed to Berw ick, Penn­ sylvania. Frc<lerick Hebcr Eaton attended the pub­ lic .schools o f Bcnvick. and, although he learned the moulding trade during his youth, has been identified with car m anufacturing en­ terprises practically ever since leaving school, commencing in i8 to. W hile chief clerk in the office of the Rcri^'ick Rolling M ill Company, a subsidiary of The Jackson 8: W oodin Manu­ facturing Company, his promise o f ability at­ tracted attention, and w as so well verified uii' dcr ever)* tc.st that he advanced rapidly through slieer merit. During the period from 1892 tn 1899 w as first sccrelaiy, afterw ard s vice president and eventually president o f The Jackson & Wootlin M anufacturing Comiuny. at Berwick, his achievements in the capacity of chief executive being sufficiently notable to draw the notice of the New Y o rk bankers and liQve the w ay fo r the recognition which has since come. In 1899 he was an active factor in the fonnation of the .American C a r and Foundry Company, which consolidated seven­ teen car building companies, iiKludlng The Jackson & Woodin Comjiany. and became its vice president and a member of the executive coinmiuce. In June, 1901, he suiTeedcd to the presidency and has since continuously otxupicd that office, as well as the chairmanship of the executive committee. M r. Eaton is atso a di­ rector of the .American .Agricultural Chemical Comjiaiiy, American Beet .Sugar Company, (olum bia T rust Company, Hoyt & Woodin M anufacturing Company. National Surety