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farm which his sons worked. By his first wife his children were: John, Leo, William and Thomas; by the second wife: Joseph, James and Sylvester. He is spoken of as a man of great strength, and wonderfully kind in disposition. He was of English descent, and died in 1886, aged eight-five years.     Thomas H. Parrish, the subject, was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from 1870 to 1874; went to the Butler county oil fields in 1876, and remained until 1889, then moved to Summit, where he ran a stationary engine for six years, operating the pumping station for the Keystone stationary engine Company, familiarly known as the Mountain house. He is a Republican, and was supervisor of Cresson township, tax collector for five years, and town clerk six year. He is a member of the order of Red Men, Allegrippus Tribe No. 429 of Cresson, and is the junior sagamaugh of the tribe. In religion he is a Catholic.     Mr. Parrish married Mary Holder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Holder, of Wilmore, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1873, and they are the parents of five children: 1. Nora, born December 11, 1874, married Mark Adams, and they had one child, which died in infancy. 2. John, born April 1, 1876, married Jessie Plummer, and they have one child, Charles. 3. Otto, born February 17, 1878, died April 5, 1906. 4. Thomas, born August 9, 1879, died August 24, 1879. 5. Edwin, born 1880, single and at home. The eldest child, John, was appointed postmaster at Cresson in the spring of 1906. The youngest son, Edwin, is employed in the office of the C. & C. division of Pennsylvania Railroad Company as stenographer at Cresson. Otto (deceased) was for some time prior to his death express agent at Cresson; prior to this he was lineman for the C. & C. division. Mrs. Parrish died July 17, 1905.     FREDERICK BEULER, deceased, for some years a well known and popular hotelkeeper of Johnstown, was born 1831, in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and was reared by his widowed mother. He learned the plasterer's trade, which he followed in his native country. In 1853 he embarked at Bremen for New York, whence he immediately proceeded to Johnstown, Pennsylvania. In 1861 he enlisted in Company I, Fifty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the following engagements: Union Church, Virginia, June 26, 1862; Cedar Mountain, Virginia, August 9, 1862; Manchester, Virginia, May 23, 1863; Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 1-4, 1863; Seven Days' retreat, Virginia, June 26, 1863; and Newmarket, May 15, 1861. In this last engagement he received a bullet wound in the right leg which confined him to the hospital, the time spent there constituting his only period of absence from his regiment during his entire term of service. He was honorably discharged February, 1865.     When Mr. Beuler located in Johnstown he worked in the ore mine for a few years, then went into the coal mines at Mill Creek, then returned to Johnstown, locating on Sherman street, and working for the Cambria Steel Company. After serving for a period of almost twenty-five years in the employ of that company, he engaged in the hotel business on Portage street. He subsequently sold the property to the Cambria Steel Company, and moved to the corner of Railroad and Hudson streets, where he built a three-story, twenty-four-room hotel, which was destroyed by the flood, being carried as far as Kernville. Within at the time were Mr. and Mrs. Beuler, their son Frank and their granddaughter, Minnie Custer, aged three years. After the flood Mr. Beuler immediately rebuilt, erecting a neat three-story brick structure, of fifteen rooms, which

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