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HEADER William K Kuhns WILLIAM K. KUHNS, a veteran of the Civil war, long a farmer of Gilpin township, Armstrong county, was born in Allegheny (now Gilpin) township, Sept. 19, 1839, son of David and Hettie Esther (Steck) Kuhns. Bernard Kuhns, great-grandfather of William K., was one of the early settlers of Northampton county, Pa. … Read more
HEADER Andrew Arnold Lambing ANDREW ARNOLD LAMBING, A.M., LL. D., pastor of St. James ‘ Roman Catholic Church, Wilkinsburg, near Pittsburgh, Pa., was born in Manorville, Armstrong Co., Pa., Feb. 1, 1842. He is the son of Michael Anthony and Anne (Shields) Lambing, the family being of German extraction on the father’s side , and … Read more
HEADER S.A. Lambing S. A. LAMBING, a resident of Kiskiminetas township, was born April 2, 1870, in Maysville, Armstrong Co., Pa., son of Adam and Mary (Ashbaugh) Lambing. Adam Lambing was born in Pennsylvania, and died in this state Dec. 28, 1894. His widow, also a native of Pennsylvania, now eighty-six years old, makes her … Read more
HEADER George W Larkins GEORGE W. LARKINS, Ford City, Armstrong Co., Pa., was born in Flemington, Clinton Co., Pa., Jan. 1, 1861, son of John Larkins and Eliza (McGill) Larkins. He was educated in public and private schools, and worked at the drug business, and on dams and bridges on the Susquehanna and Baldeagle rivers, … Read more
HEADER John H Lasher JOHN H. LASHER, of Kittanning, painter and decorator, has been successfully engaged in that business in the borough for several years. He is a native of Washington township, this county, where the family has been established for several generations. Benjamin Lasher, great-grandfather of John H. Lasher, came from east of the … Read more
HEADER E.B. Latshaw HON. E. B. LATSHAW, of Kittanning, present representative of his district in the State Legislature of Pennsylvania, has passed all his life in this region, having been born in Clarion county, where the family has been settled for many years. Peter Latshaw, his grandfather, was of German parentage. He came to this … Read more
HEADER Wilbert Earl Lauster WILBERT EARL LAUSTER, has followed milling ever since he commenced work, having learned the business with his father, Henry F. Lauster, who was well-known in that connection in his section of Armstrong county. In fact, he is a member of the third generation of the family to follow it in Cowanshannock … Read more
HEADER William P. Lauster WILLIAM P. LAUSTER, proprietor of the Yatesboro Roller Mills, at Yatesboro, Pa., was born March 2l, 1874, in Cowanshannock township, Armstrong county, son of Henry and Christena (Koch) Lauster, and a grandson of Eniest Martin Lauster. Ernest Marti Lauster was born in 1800, in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, where he followed milling until … Read more
HEADER PROF. DAVID W. LAWSON PROF. DAVID W. LAWSON, deceased, was born in the Ligonier valley in Westmoreland county, Pa., May 21, 1836, son of Joseph Lawson. Joseph Lawson was born in 1787, and died Jan. 31, 1872, aged eighty-four years, five months; his wife, Rebecca McLaughlin, born in 1797, died Feb. 25, 1872, in … Read more
HEADER Jefferson Reynolds Leason JEFFERSON REYNOLDS LEASON (deceased) was one of the younger members of the Armstrong county bar and a progressive citizen of Kittanning, in which borough he was born Aug. 11, 1883, son of Mirven F. and Hannah (Reynolds) Leason. Robert Leason, his great-grandfather, was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., of Scotch-Irish ancestry. … Read more