. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . rks in iiliio and WestVirginia. In addition to its use for the manufacture of glass,it is extensively used for building purposes, and bythe railroad companies as engine sand. In 187C two quarries were opened, one in the bor-ough of Mapleton and the other in Union township,just beyond the borough limits. The one in the bor-ough, called the South Side Sand Quarry, was openedand it is still worked by Samuel Hatfield, Jr. Theother, named GlendowerSand Quarry, was opened byJ. M. Maguire & Co., but was purchased in the au-tumn of 1881 by Dul
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . rks in iiliio and WestVirginia. In addition to its use for the manufacture of glass,it is extensively used for building purposes, and bythe railroad companies as engine sand. In 187C two quarries were opened, one in the bor-ough of Mapleton and the other in Union township,just beyond the borough limits. The one in the bor-ough, called the South Side Sand Quarry, was openedand it is still worked by Samuel Hatfield, Jr. Theother, named GlendowerSand Quarry, was opened byJ. M. Maguire & Co., but was purchased in the au-tumn of 1881 by Dull, Wilson & Gray, the presentproprietors and operators. An average of fifteenhands is employed at e:icli of these works, and the car-loads. Prominently identified with the business interestsof the borough as well as tlie political interests of thecounty, we find the name of William H. Rex, merchantand manufacturer, of Mapleton, Huntingdon Co., whowas born in Adams County, Pa., April , 1827. Hi3f;Ulicr, William, wns a native of Adams Countv, as. >:^^^^?^_ UNION TOWNSHIP. 377 was also the latters father, Daniel. William Rex,who was a carpenter and farmer, married a daughterof Michael Minnich, of Adams County, and hadeight sons and four daughters, of whom nine areliving. William H. Rex was the third son and fourthchild. Early in life he felt ambitious to push hiseducation faster than the facilities of the commonschool could warrant, and so while working upon hisfathers farm he employed his evenings, and some-times late night hours, in teaching himself Hardstudy and close application soon bore fruit, and indue time he was sent to New Oxford to complete hiseducation. Upon leaving New Oxford he becamehimself a teacher, and in Adams and Clearfield Coun-ties taught eight successive winters and one he was teaching in Clearfield County he readtheology under Rev. C. Diehl, and at the end of ayear was licensed as a preacher in the Lutheran jChurch. He was for a while joi
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