. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . of Ten, where lie was engaged in tanning. In183,l he moved to what later was Altoona, purchasedtwo hundred and twenty acres of land, and occupiedit until ls4., when he to Mr. Wright as beforementioned. He then went to Morrisons Cove, andthence to near Hollidaysburg, where he died in was most of his life a farmer. He married, first, Moore, of an old family in Allegheny town-ship, , a dan-liter of Kobert Irvin andsister of .lud,-e Irvin. She i- ^till liviuj; near Hol-lidaysburg. I »f their -on- tlier
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . of Ten, where lie was engaged in tanning. In183,l he moved to what later was Altoona, purchasedtwo hundred and twenty acres of land, and occupiedit until ls4., when he to Mr. Wright as beforementioned. He then went to Morrisons Cove, andthence to near Hollidaysburg, where he died in was most of his life a farmer. He married, first, Moore, of an old family in Allegheny town-ship, , a dan-liter of Kobert Irvin andsister of .lud,-e Irvin. She i- ^till liviuj; near Hol-lidaysburg. I »f their -on- tliere are living,—Andrewin Tyrone town-lii|i. .lolm in Scotts Valley, Samuel inAllegheny township. KoIkm tat El Dorado, Horace nearHolHdaysburg. and .Vlbert in Wyoming Territory, orthe far West. The two daughters were successivelythe wives of .lohii London, of Altoona. The Roldson farm-house was the only building onthe site of Altoona when the land was purchased ofDavid by Mr. Wright. This log building was for rut is said to be a faithful>er hilBIsc I notdile cluriLter u i> Nuk Virueu atenant on the Robison farm alter Mi \N light s pur-chase, and foi many } ears the occupant of the oldlog farm-house His wife was Marv Oanalt, a nativeof Centie County, Pa He is remembered bj theolder citizens of the place as quite a genius, a jack-at-all-trades, and a jovial, obliging, good-heartedsoul, but ijuite a harum-scarum. He flourished inAltoona lor some years, and then moved with hiswile and lamily to Iowa, in which State, not farfrom Cedar Rapids, he is said to be still living. Asister, wife of the late Mr. Stevens, of Tyrone, andthe mother of A. A. Stevens, an attorney there, re-sides in that borough. Samuel Noble, son of John, an old resident, wasborn in the old log house above mentioned. Thebuilding has disappeared, and so have its , if any, of all who ever dwelt within its wallsremain in this vicinity, and nearly all are numberedwith the dead. Sa
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