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rolling-mill at Brady's Bend, Armstrong county, he came, in 1854, to Johnstown, and engaged with the Cambria Iron company. In 1864 he enlisted in company C, Sixty-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and was present at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox.     Just prior to entering the army he had embarked in the mercantile business on a small scale, and when he came back from the service, devoted his entire attention to it. The business grew and prospered, and at the time of the flood his loss was estimated at about $45,000. After the flood he resumed the same line of business and pursued it three years, when he sold out and removed to lower Yoder township, his present place of residence.     John L. Stibich remained with his father in business until twenty-three years of age, when he went into business on his own account.     The brewery of which he is superintendent and part owner, takes its name from Jacob Goenner, who was a native of Germany, and emigrated to America. After living for a time at each of the following places, Altoona, Gallitzin, Summit, Geistown, and Conemaugh, he came to Johnstown and purchased a brewery, and operated it until his death, which resulted from exposure during the flood. His wife was made executor of the estate, and after affairs were settled up, W. F. Goenner and Mr. Stibich were appointed managers of the brewery. This joint management continued until the death. of Mr. Goenner, January 2, 1896, when Mr. Stibich was made superintendent.     The plant is one of the best equipped in western Pennsylvania, and Mr. Stibich's long experience in the brewing business makes him eminently qualified to superintend the enterprise.

Mr. Stibich married a Miss Goenner, daughter of Jacob Goenner. CLARK J. DUNCAN, of Dunlo, this county, and owner and proprietor of the only hotel in Adams township, is a son of Alexander and Catherine (Uncapher) Duncan, and was born December 20, 1857, in Indiana county, Pennsylvania.     Mr. Duncan was at a very early age compelled to assume the responsibilities of life on his own account; his father entered the Civil War in defense of the Union and the Flag and lost his life in the service. Young Duncan attended the common schools for a time and then entered the lumbering business along the Susquehanna river, in Clearfield county, and as far east as Williamsport. Later he removed into the northern part of Cambria county and followed the fortunes of a lumberman until 1893. Upon the latter date he came to the town of Dunlo and built a hotel, which he has operated ever since.     In addition to his hotel business he interests himself in the material advancement and the public enterprises of his adopted town and township. He is secretary and treasurer of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Fund and Loan association, an institution through the benefices of which many of the miners of Dunlo have been able to secure comfortable homes.     He interests himself in the cause of fraternal organizations and belongs to a number of high standing, among which are the following: South Fork Lodge, No. 838, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Salix Castle, No. 345, Knights of the Golden Eagle, of Salix, and the Improved Order of Heptasophs of South Fork.

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