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HAMILTON, Peter J, classmate of President Wilson. He ranked second in his class and went on to be U.S. Circuit Court Judge for Puerto Rico.
HARRIS, Alexander Scott, graduated from Bellefonte Academy about 1883 and was also a graduate of Princeton University. Alexander was for many years an editorial writer for the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
HARRIS, George F, graduated from Bellefonte Academy about 1860. George also attend the University of Pennsylvania, graduating before he was twenty years of age. He served in the army hospitals in Philadelphia and Harrisburg and later was given a commission in the Seventh Pennsylvania cavalry and served in the army of the Cumberland for over a year when he resigned and, returning home, took up the practice of medicine. He was eminently successful from the start and he was soon regarded as one of the best practitioners in Bellefonte, which brought to him a large practice. He was one of the founders of the Bellefonte hospital and its chief of staff when he died. It was his belief in the good work of the institution that inspired the grand-children of Mrs. Andrew G. Curtin to place there their memorial for her, the magnificent operating room. He was the resident physician and surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., the district representative of the State Board of Health and Supervisor of the local state dispensary for tubercular patients. George died in 1911
HARRIS, James Petrikin, graduated from Bellefonte Academy about 1840, where he was educated by Headmasters Rev. James Linn and Prof. John Livingstone. He gave sixty-three years of continuous service in the banking business of Bellefonte with the First National Bank of Bellefonte and the Bellefonte Trust Company. James served on the Bellefonte school board for thirty-nine years which, at the time, was longer than any other man in the State ever served in a like capacity.
HARRIS, James, graduated from Bellefonte Academy about 1850. James was a member of the famed Bellefonte Fencibles during the Civil War. He was founder and partner of what would become Potter-Hoy hardware, one of Bellefonte largest mercantile stores of the era. Upon his retirement, he served as vice-president of the Centre County bank in Bellefonte. James died in 1908.
HARRIS, Wilbur F., graduated from Bellefonte Academy c1880, served in the Census Bureau in Washington D. C. during the 1890 census. He was manager of the Bellefonte Republican in the early 1890s and later served as chief clerk of the executive department during the Pennsylvania Governorship of Daniel Hastings between 1895 and 1899.
After his service to Governor Hastings, he was an executive with the Bethlehem Steel Co at Harrisburg, PA, from which he retired in the early 1930s.
HASTINGS, Daniel Hartman, Governor of Pennsylvania 1895 to 1899, in 1867 he was elected principal of the Bellefonte High School. His new honor and its responsibilities impressed him with the need of education in the higher branches, and under the tuition of Prof. Mundy of the Bellefonte Academy, he mastered Greek and Latin. While principal of the high school he began his connection with the press as assistant editor of the Bellefonte Republican . During this time, too, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Centre County in April, 1875, becoming a member of the firm of Bush, Yocum & Hastings. Biography
HOY, Albert Charles, also attended the Penn State College. Albert, the oldest son of Judge Adam Hoy, was prominent in the New England business world. President of John R White company, later president of Warren Manufacturing company, both of New York city
HOY, Edward Livingston, prominent Bellefonte businessman. He was co-owner of Potter-Hoy Hardware, one of the largest mercantile establishments of it's time in Central Pennsylvania. He also formed the Bellefonte Lumber Co. He died in 1908 at the age of 32.
HUGHES, James Robert, Headmaster of the Famous Bellefonte Academy from 1895 to 1934.
HULL, Dr. Blair, engineer for Frigadaire Corp, Detroit, Michigan
IRWIN, Ellis. born on the 17 day of June, 1805, near Bellefonte, Centre county. His parents were strictly pious people, members of the Society of Friends, under the teachings of which faith our subject was brought up and from which he has never since departed. His father was of Irish, and his mother of English descent. Such education as was received by Ellis Irwin, during the days of his youth, was in attending the Bellefonte Academy, and although an academic education at the time fell far short of the present standard, yet young Irwin, by diligence and close application, acquired a sufficient education to not only transact ordinary business, but which stood him in good stead in the various offices of trust and responsibility he was afterwards called upon to fill. In the year 1827, Mr. Irwin married Hannah Iddings, daughter of John and Ann Iddings of Centre county, and two years later, 1829 moved to Clearfield county and took their residence on the Grampian Hills (now Penn township), upon a farm with but very little improvement. Here for four years he battered his constitution over pine stumps and other impediments to easy farming, when finding that his physical strength was not equal to the strain imposed upon it by that occupation, he rented the farm and moved to Curwensville.
In the year 1835, Mr. Irwin was appointed by the governor to the office of prothonotory register and recorder, and clerk of the several courts of the county, which offices he held for three years. At the expiration of his term, he purchased the store of Richard Shaw in Clearfield and commenced merchandising. On the death of Prothonotary William C. Welch, Mr. Irwin was appointed by Governor Johnson to serve out the un-expired part of his term----about one and one half years. In 1846, he was appointed postmaster at Clearfield by Postmaster General Wickliff, during the administration of General Harrison. In 1843, he was elected sheriff of the county and served three years.
In all the offices of the county to which he as appointed and elected, Mr. Irwin served with fidelity and satisfaction,. He as a trusted public servant, honest and capable, performing promptly and well each and every day, without fear and wholly unbiased by party or political prejudices.
In 1856, Mr. Irwin moved to Lick Run, Goshen township, where in company with his brother, William F. Irwin he had a lumbering business and where our subject still lives an conducts that business, although at the advanced age of eight two years; still hearty, reasonably strong in the enjoyment of good health and the comforts of life, earned fairly and honestly in the busy fields of life, with a consciousness of having done well and right. In 1872, Mr. Irwin was appointed postmaster at Lick Run Mills, and has held that position ever since.
In the month of February, 1881 after a married life of more than 54 years, Hannah Irwin, the esteemed and devoted wife and companion of Ellis Irwin, was called from earth. She was a woman loved and admired for her true worth and endearing qualities; possessed of quiet and gentle disposition, true Christian character and all womanly virtues.
KELLER, Judge William H., attended Bellefonte Academy in 1885, William became one of the leading lawyers of the Lancaster County Bar and latter a member of the Pennsylvania Superior Court.
LEIB, Prof. D. M., graduated from Princeton after which he became head of Bellefonte public schools
LINK, Edwin A., attended the Bellefonte Academy during the early 1920s, after returning to his hometown of Binghamton, NY, he obtained his pilot's license. While struggling to become a pilot, develop a training device so that pilots could start learning to fly safely and inexpensively. "In the mid-1930's, after a series of air accidents, the Army Air Corps ordered six of Link's instrument trainers to enhance its pilot training program. Once public attention had been drawn to this practical device, orders for more came from all over the world. Ultimately Link's invention led to the development of the whole field of flight simulation. Ed ran a highly successful enterprise, Link Aviation, Inc., throughout World War II and until he sold the company in 1954." biography
LINN, Samuel, Judge
MONTGOMERY, W. W., Bellefonte Merchant
MARSHALL, James G., for many years superintendent of Union Carbide Company, Niagara Falls, NY
OLEWINE, John Irvin, graduated about 1886, a prominent Bellefonte businessman, operating a successful hardware business. In addition to his hardware store he was one of the projectors and a stockholder in the Bellefonte Electric company. He was one of the projectors of the Commercial Telephone. He was one of the original projectors and stockholders in the Chemical Lime and Stone company, and one of the incorporators and stockholders of the Centre County Agricultural Exhibiting company. He was also a stockholder in the Bel1efonte Trust Co.
ORBISON, Thomas, noted Los Angeles, CA psychiatrist.
ORVIS, Ellis L., graduated from Bellefonte Academy in 1872. That fall he entered the Pennsylvania State College and at the end of his junior year won the Kaine prize for the best English oration. Following his graduation in 1876 he took a postgraduate course in chemistry and modern languages and was awarded an M. A. degree in 1878.
He then entered the law office of the late Gen. James A. Beaver as a law pupil and was soon after admitted to the Centre County Bar.
In the winter of 1883 or 84, when he purchased an interest in the Centre Democrat, held by Samuel T. Shugert, and became the junior editor. Due to health concerns, he was quickly compelled to abandon newspaper work
Returning to law as the junior member of the firm of Orvis, Bower & Orvis, retentive memory and analytical mind aided him in the ability to collaborate the many intricate questions of law but also define and construct them in a common sense way which not only won the admiration of fellow practitioners but commendation from the appellate courts of the State as well as the Supreme Court of the United States.
He served eleven years as Judge of Centre County, 1904-1915.
He was one of the leaders in the organization of the United American Telephone company, which was an amalgamation of a number of independent companies throughout the State, and was president of the company. He helped to organize the Nittany Valley Telephone company and other subsidiaries.
He helped to organize and was financially interested in the Hayes Run Fire Brick company, the Centre Brick and Clay company, the Orviston Firebrick company, the Snow Shoe Brick company and the Silica Brick company, at Port Matilda.
He served for years as a member of the board of trustees of the Bellefonte Academy and also a member of the board of trustees of Pennsylvania State College.
OSMER, James H., a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Tenterdon (near London), England, January 23, 1832; when an infant his parents immigrated to the United States and settled near Bellefonte, Centre County, Pa.; attended private schools, Bellefonte Academy, Mount Pleasant College, Westmoreland County, Pa., and Pennsylvania and Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Pa.; studied law at Elmira, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of New York at Cortland in 1858 and practiced at Horseheads, near Elmira, until 1865, when he moved to Franklin, Pa., where he was admitted to the bar and practiced; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876; delegate to several State conventions; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); was not a candidate for re-nomination in 1880; continued the practice of his profession in Franklin, Venango County, Pa., until his death, October 3, 1912; interment in Franklin Cemetery.
PALMER, Rev. John Moore, born at Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pa., April 15, 1854. After graduating from Bellefonte Academy, John attended the Allegheny College, and the Philadelphia Divinity College.
He was licensed to preach July, 1877, by Rev. Cornelius Asbury. He was admitted with his brother to the Pittsburgh conference under Bishop Wayman at Salem, Ohio, October, 1878.
His first appointment was in 1878 to the Bellefonte Circuit. He pastored the following charges in the Pittsburgh Conference: Meadville, Crawford County, Pa.; Williamsport Station, Williamsport City, Pa.; Elizabeth Circuit, composing Elizabeth, West Elizabeth and West Newton, Pa.; Uniontown, Fayette County, from which charge he was transferred to the Philadelphia Conference, where he served as pastor of the Campbell A. M. E. Church, Frankford, followed by a period of three years' service as presiding elder of the then Lancaster District, under Bishop H. M. Turner.
He was a party Prohibitionist in 1888 and was the first colored man in Pennsylvania to run on a ticket for Congressman-at-large. He stumped the state with the late Hon. Chas. S. Wolfe, of Union County, who ran for Governor of Pennsylvania, and also with Governor John P. St. John, of Kansas, for President of the U. S., and received 30,675 votes in the election.
POTTER, George Latimere, also a graduate of Penn State College. Employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad, George was superintendent of motive power at Fort Wayne, Inand later general manager of the western division, headquartered in Pittsburgh. In 1900, George left the PRR and went to the Baltimore & Ohio railroad where he rose to vice-president. He retire in 1913 and died in 1925.
QUIGLEY, Judge Henry C. A prominent lawyer for many years, Judge of Centre county for nine years, he made law in at least two important cases, Stine vs. The Pennsylvania Railroad company, and Shaughnessy vs. The Pennsylvania Railroad company. In the latter case, particularly, there was no precedent to go by, but all his rulings were sustained by the higher court.
RHOADS, Rebecca Naomi, elected as president of the Centre Co. Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1915, replacing Mrs. John P. Harris.
Early in 1918 she offered her services to the United States government for war work in France but not being a trained nurse it was declined, undaunted she went abroad in July of that year, at her own expense, and engaged in canteen work under auspices of the Y. M. C. A. During her work in France she was stationed first at Nogent-en-Bassignv, HauteMarne, where she was the only American woman; at Millieres and later Donieux. She was in Paris the day the Armistice was signed.
She returned home on August 1st, 1919, and during the next year or two traveled throughout the State, in the interest of the Union. Early in 1921 she was commissioned by the United States government National Superintendent of Social Welfare, Department of W. C. T. U. She was assigned to work among the soldiers and sailors in the various camps throughout the United States.
RHYMAN, James, successful banker in Montana, director of University of Montana. At his death, left $500,000 to the University
SHUGERT, John McCoy, graduated about 1888. John was a member of one of the oldest families in Bellefonte, his ancestry tracing back to the original John Duplop, one of the founder, of Bellefonte. as a young man began his business career as a clerk in the Centre County Banking company, of which his father was cashier. When his father died in 1900 he was elected as his successor, a position he filled until the death of the late Thomas A. Shoemaker, president of the Banking company, when he was elevated to the office of president. He held that position at the time the banks doors were closed on Saturday, May 13th, 1922. John died in 1924
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