or aspirations and the support he has given the Republican party has been
without thought or hope of return. He holds membership in the Knights
of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Mr. Magaw married, in February, 1895, Margaret Smith, daughter of
Pym Kuhn, her father having been at one time a prominent attorney of
Beaver, Pennsylvania, a position her brother now holds. Mr. and Mrs.
Magaw are the parents of one daughter, Eunice Gray, born December 18,
1897, a student in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, high school.



The Maloney family, numerous in the British Isles, has in
MALONEY its adopted home, the United States, also gained a strong
footing, branches thereof being found in nearly all sec-
tions of the country. The branch of those who are herein recorded is not
numerous in this land, the latter half of the nineteenth century seeing the
first member come to the United States. This was James Maloney, born in
the northern part of England in 1849, who came to Pennsylvania as a young
man, immediately identifying himself with the steel industry of that state.
He was an employee in the steel mills at Homestead, Pennsylvania, before
they became the property of the United States Steel Company, and there
continued after the Carnegie interests had assumed control. He now lives
retired, making his home near the scene of his earlier labors, his residence
being in Munhall, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. His faith is the Roman
Catholic, and his political sympathies are with the Democratic party. He
married Mary Foley, born in the northern part of England in 1853. Chil-
dren: Hannah, John F., of whom further, James, Thomas, Catherine, Wil-
liam, Joseph, Edward.

John F. Maloney, son of James and Mary (Foley) Maloney, was born
in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1877. His boyhood home was
Homestead, their residence there being necessitated by his father's busi-
ness interests, and in that town he attended the public schools. After com-
pleting his studies his first business venture was in the wholesale confec-
tionery line, which he followed in Allegheny under the name of the American
Candy Company. He continued in this business for three years, abandoning
it in favor of real estate dealings in Homestead, in connection with which
he sold fire insurance. Homestead was the field of his operations until
1903, when he came to Ambridge, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he
has since been located. His business remains the same, and he is the owner
of considerable real estate in that place, some of which he rents, the re-
mainder being held for sale. During his Ambridge residence he has been



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the promoter of several operations involving numerous dwellings, all of
excellent grade and such as made an appeal to a highly desirable class of
citizens. Fire insurance is still a branch of his business and his agency-
protects many of the city's buildings. Mr. Maloney is a stockholder of the
Ambridge Savings and Trust Company. Progressive and modern in his
ideas and mode of business, genial and agreeable of manner, keen and de-
cisive in dealings with his fellows, his likeable personal attributes have
done much toward making his business of its present generous dimensions.
Honor and integrity form the major part of his business code, it being diffi-
cult to overestimate their component values in a structure such as he has
erected among his co-workers and competitors. A Republican in politics,
he confines his activities in matters public and political to the casting of his
vote, and his religious faith is the Roman Catholic. He holds membership
in Pittsburgh Council, Knights of Columbus, and Saint Veronica's Holy
Name Society.

Mr. Maloney married, in September, 1906, Mary E. McKay, born in
Mercer county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Michael McKay, formerly of
Mercer county, Pennsylvania, now living in California.



Prominence in the industrial world of one country and
EARNER eminence in the educational and religious life of another is

the fortune that has fallen to two generations of Earners, the
lot of one cast in Germany, that of the other in the United States. This
record has as its first object of mention Carl Earner, born in Germany in
1840, a manufacturer of leather. He was connected with this industry all
of his life, and in addition to the manufacture of his product was the pro-
prietor of a large wholesale house distributing the same. He and his wife
were members of the Lutheran church, in which faith their children were
reared. He married Augusta Otto, born in Germany in 1848. She came
of a family all of whom were educators, minister and professors. Children :
Robert, of whom further; Paul, Martha, Elizabeth, a child who died in
infancy; Ernest, William, Margaret. Carl Earner's death occurred in 1903,
he having survived his wife ten years.

(H) Rev. Robert Earner, eldest of the eight children of Carl and
Augusta (Otto) Earner, was born in Germany, October 10, 1866. He there
obtained his education, attending the public schools, and for his more ad-
vanced studies attending the Latin School and Academy of Prussia, at
Schivelbein, Pommem. At the completion of his classical education he
entered the Kropp Theological Seminary at Schleswig, where he finished
the course prescribed for ministers. He then came to Harrietsville, Ohio,
and became the pastor of the German Lutheran church, continuing in that
field for three years, in 1891 accepting a similar position in Kittanning,
Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. While in Kittanning he began his work
along educational lines by becoming principal of tlie Academy at that place,
and was so engaged, in connection with his pastoral work, until 1906, when




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he came to Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, as pastor of St. Paul's
Lutheran Church. Here he remains to the present time and, as in Kittan-
ning, he has added scholastic duties to those of the church, having been a
professor in Beaver College, and for the last two years instructor in German
in the Rochester high school. His value to the institution with which he is
identified at the present time is immeasurable, his complete mastery of his
native tongue and his familiar knowledge of all of the idioms so bewildering
to a teacher who has been compelled to study ceaselessly for his knowledge,
give him unsurpassed prestige as an instructor. His broad culture along
other lines and his intimacy with other scholarly pursuits furthers his
progress toward the goal of the ideal teacher, and the results he obtains from
his classes is gratifying in the extreme, both to the students benefited and
to those whose interest it is to guard the welfare of the institution. Rev.
Bamer's work among the youth of Rochester lends to his ecclesiastical value
to the community, and were his achievements confined to but one field or
the other his life would be indeed well spent. He is an earnest, inspired and
eloquent preacher, having a deep and firm conviction in the doctrines he ex-
pounds, and preaches with a heart-felt care for his parishioners. He does
not confine his labors in their behalf to weekly orations from the pulpit, but
in their need or extremity none ever lacks his aid, lighting the darkness,
explaining the misunderstood, and freshening the faith of those who had
begun to doubt the omniscience and mercy of an all-seeing Providence. This
is the place that Rev. Barner has made for himself in the Rochester com-
munity, this the outline of the richly rewarded labors in which he daily
engages. In 19 13 he passed several months in visiting his homeland and in
a tour of Switzerland, returning from his most enjoyable vacation invig-
orated and strengthened for the resumption of his duties which he has
since carried forward with fresh enthusiasm. He inclines toward sympathy
with the principles of the Republican platform, but has never been actively
associated with any political party.

He married, in 1890, Mary Lauer, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Kloss)
Lauer, born in Warner, Washington county, Ohio, January 10, 1871, died
in Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1907. Her parents
were born in Germany and early in their married life came to Washington
county, Ohio, where their deaths occurred. Children of Rev. Robert and
Mary (Lauer) Barner, all born in Kittanning, Armstrong county, Penn-
sylvania: I. Robert Paul, bom November 15, 1891 ; educated in music at
Beaver College, from which he graduated with degree of M. B. and M. M. ;
Geneva College; took a post-graduate course in the University of Chicago;
now Professor of Music in Beaver College. 2. Luther W., born April 10,
1893 ; a graduate of the Rochester high school, and Geneva College ; now a
senior in Washington and Jeflferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania.
3. Armin K., born September 4, 1896 ; a student in the Rochester high school.



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The Kinney family which is now so prominently represented
KINNEY in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, probably came to this

country either from Scotland or Ireland. They were located
at first in various parts of New England, and from there branched out to
other sections.

(I) Nathan Kinney was born in Massachusetts and from there mi-
grated to Kinsman, Ohio, where he became occupied with farming. He
married Ann Fry, probably a native of Kinsman.

(II) John Kinney, son of Nathan and Ann (Fry) Kinney, was bom in
Kinsman, Ohio, in 1847, died in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in February,
1910. He attended the public schools of Kinsman, and later established
himself in the lumber business, partly in Ohio and partly in Pennsylvania.
He removed to Forest Grove, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in 1895, and
to Beaver county in the same state in 1910. Mr. Kinney married, July 3,
1869, Hannah Maria Pennell, bom in Austintown, Ohio. She is the daugh-
ter of William and Sarah (Oliver) Pennell, she a native of New Jersey, he
born in Ireland, and came to America with his parents when he was four-
teen years of age. They located in Austintown, Ohio. The maternal grand-
parents of Mrs. Kinney were Andrew and Belle Oliver. Mr. and Mrs. Kin-
ney have had children : Albert Milton, see forward ; John Prosser, George,
Frederick Alvin, Emma Mary. They are all members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

(III) Albert Milton Kinney, son of John and Hannah Maria (Pen-
nell) Kinney, was born in Kinsman, Ohio, May 28, 1871. He was educated
in the public schools of both Ohio and Pennsylvania, attending the latter
but a short time. For a time he was engaged in business as a contractor
but abandoned this in order to become associated with his father in the
lumber business, an association which was continued until 1901. At that
time he established himself in the same line independently, with his head-
quarters at Pittsburgh. Two years later he organized a corporation which
bore the name of The A. M. Kinney Lumber Company, Mr. Kinney hold-
ing the office of general manager and treasurer. The company passed out
of existence in January, 1912, when Mr. Kinney bought out the entire
stock, and has since conducted it as a private enterprise, but retaining the
corporation name. He is also extensively interested in oil enterprises. He
resided at Forest Grove, Allegheny county, until 1909, when he removed
to a farm which he had purchased in 1908 in Hopewell township, Beaver
county, Pennsylvania. There he has a fine country home, and also a fine
stud of racing horses, which is one of the especial pleasures of Mr. Kinney.
In national politics Mr. Kinney is a staunch Democrat, but locally he is an
Independent. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.

Mr. Kinney married, March 27, 1894, Sarah R. Whittier, of Smithfield,
Jefferson county, Ohio, and they have had children: Dorothea Maria,
Frederick Lester, Helen May.



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Representatives of the Keeler family came to America at
KEELER an early date, and for a number of generations they have
shown mechanical ability of a more than ordinary degree of
excellence.

(I) Edward Lockwood Keeler was born in Hartford, Connecticut,
died at Beaver Falls, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, 1909. He early showed
decided mechanical genius, and as his parents died while he was still a
young child, he was taken to Pittsburgh and there worked in various shops
as a machinist. Finally he rose to the position of an inspector in Graft's
Axe Works, and in 1867, when the Joseph Graft Company removed their
plant to Beaver Falls, Beaver county, Mr. Keeler went with them as fore-
man, a position he held for many years. He had a sister, Deborah, who
lived in Brooklyn, New York, and an uncle, William Keeler, a very wealthy
man, who also lived in Brooklyn. He was of a quiet and retiring disposition
and never spoke much of his family. He and his wife were members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Keeler married, while living in Pitts-
burgh, Sarah Ann Myers (see Myers H), and they had children: William
E., of further mention; John M., lives in New Brighton, is a foreman at
the wire mills in Fallston, and married Laura Welsh ; Emma, unmarried,
lives at Beaver Falls ; Cora, married William E. Boyce, lives in New Castle,
Pennsylvania; Charles, unmarried, lives in Beaver Falls. Mrs. Keeler
died in February, 1912.

(H) William E. Keeler, son of Edward Lockwood and Sarah Ann
(Myers) Keeler, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1857. He
attended the public schools of Allegheny until he was nine years of age,
and then devoted himself to mechanical work, for which he was naturally
gifted. His first position was with the Newmyer & Graft Hinge Manu-
facturing Company, where he served his apprenticeship and became a
journeyman mechanic. When the factory removed to Beaver Falls in 1867
he went with it, and remained with this concern until 1879, by which time
he had become a mechanic of unusual ability. He then formed a connection
with his uncle's firm, the H. M. Myers' Company, shovel manufacturers,
and filled the position of engineer for this firm until 1893, when he was
appointed master mechanic of the company, an office he is still filling with
marked executive ability. Since Mr. Keeler was first associated with this
firm the name has been changed to that of the Ames Shovel and Tool Com-
pany, but his position has remained unchanged. When running at full
capacity this company employs in the neighborhood of two hundred men,
and Mr. Keeler has full control of these. He is recognized as an expert
in his line, and has invented and patented an electric level shovel, selling
the patent rights to the company in whose interests he has been so efficiently
working. He has frequently received advantageous oflFers from other con-
cerns, but is true to his allegiance to the company with which he has so
long a time been associated. He owns the house in which he lives. No.
1317 Third avenue, Beaver Falls, as also a number of other houses in the



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city. He is Republican in political opinion, and a member of the Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Protective Home Circle.

Mr. Keeler married Mary Catherine Lozier, born in St. Louis, Mis-
souri, now deceased; she was a daughter of Edward L. Lozier, also de-
ceased, who was for many years engineer on a river boat, and lived at
Beaver Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Keeler had children: Eva H., unmarried,
lives with her parents ; Edward L., a machinist, lives in Beaver Falls ; Ida
M., married R. F. Alstman, lives above Pittsburgh.
(The Myers Line.)

(I) Henry Milton Myers was born in eastern Pennsylvania, of Ger-
man descent, and there grew to maturity. About 1800 he migrated with his
family to Columbiana county, Ohio, where he purchased a farm about four
miles east of Columbiana. At that time the country in that section was
primeval forest, and Indians as well as wild animals were both numerous
and dangerous. He cleared the land, and by industry and economy died
a comparatively wealthy man, at the age of eighty-six years. He and his
family were of the Lutheran denomination in religious belief. Mr. Myers

married, before he "came over the mountains," Mary , also born in

Eastern Pennsylvania of German descent, and they had children: John,
who became a farmer in Columbiana county, Ohio; Henry, had a farm
near the homestead in Ohio, later removing to Elkhart county, Indiana,
where he also located on a farm; Joseph, studied medicine and was a
physician at Cary, Ohio ; Noah, a physician in practice at Erie, Pennsyl-
vania; Mary, married Levi Jennings, and lived on a farm in Columbiana

county, Ohio; Susan, married Rickabroat, and lived in Ohio; David,

lived on a farm in Ohio; Samuel, of further mention; Jacob, lived on a
farm in Ohio.

(II) Dr. Samuel Myers, son of Henry Milton and Mary Myers, was
born near Columbiana, Columbiana county, Ohio, 1806, died in Elkhart,
Indiana, 1861. His early years were passed in the usual manner of a
farmer's son, and he then learned the blacksmith's trade. He went to
Jamestown, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, to establish himself in his call-
ing there, and while there made the acquaintance of several doctors there.
They became interested in the intelligence and bright wit of the young
man and induced him to abandon his trade and take up the study of
medicine. For some years he studied in the offices of Dr. Gibson and Dr.
Clark, and then his father offered him all the profits of the farm if he would
come there and take charge of it and him. Considering it his duty to com-
ply with the earnest request of his father, Samuel Myers returned to the
homestead farm in Columbiana county, and remained there until the death
of his father. He then removed to Elkhart, Elkhart county, Indiana, and
there established himself in the practice of the medical profession, with
which he was successfully identified until his untimely and deeply deplored
death. He was thrown from his horse and injured, and before he had fully
recovered from these hurts he succumbed to an attack of typhoid fever,



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which his undermined constitution could not withstand. He was tall of
stature, being more than six feet in height, and stately and well propor-
tioned. Dr. Myers married, in Jamestown, Matilda Muntz, born in Balti-
more, Maryland, 1821, died 1890. She was robbed of both of her parents
by death before she was ten years of age, and then made her home with
her sister, Mrs. John Heffley, near Jamestown, Pennsylvania. Here she
met Dr. Myers and married him when she was only sixteen years of age.
Her only sister was the Mary who married John Heffley, and her only
brother was William, who lived in Baltimore, M'aryland. Dr. and Mrs.
Myers had children: i. William, who died young. 2. Henry Milton, located
in Beaver Falls, where he died a very wealthy man ; he was the founder of
the H. M. Myers Shovel and Tool Company, which later became merged
in the Ames Shovel and Tool Company; his widow, Ella (Miller) Myers,
lives in Detroit, Michigan. 3. Noah, married Mary Truby; worked with
his brother, Henry Milton, and died in Beaver Falls. 4. Joseph, died in
infancy. 5. Mary, widow of John W. Fry; lives at No. 945 Western ave-
nue, North Side, Pittsburgh. 6. Sarah Ann, married Mr. Keeler (see
Keeler I). 7. Elmira, now deceased; married Clark Hill; lived at Brook-
ville, Pennsylvania. 8. Matilda, married William Matthews; lived at
Beaver Falls, both deceased. 9. John, enlisted at the age of eighteen years
and served throughout the Civil War, is now deceased; married Jeannette
Mayer, also deceased, and lived at Beaver Falls.



An interesting point that would be immediately observed
HOFFMANN by one reading a record of the Hoffmann family herein

chronicled is the continued use of the name George for
the eldest son of each generation. Another fact that is unusual throughout
so long a period of time is that in each case the eldest child has been a son,
so that the first born of each generation has been a George. The George
with whom this record begins is George Von Hoffmann, who held the title
of major in the army of Napoleon I. In the host of that commander he
had risen from the rank of private and held an honored position, standing
high in the estimation of his leader. He was one of the vast army of more
than half a million men who invaded Russia under Napoleon's command,
and penetrating as far as Moscow were there compelled by famine and
suffering to retrace their steps, more than three-fourths of the gallant band
that had so boldly set out upon what they were confident would be a con-
tinuation of their successful compaigns falling by the wayside, victims either
of exposure or the deadly attacks of the Cossacks. George Von Hoffmann
was one of the survivors of this disastrous retreat, and died in Bavaria,
his birthplace.

(II) George (2) Hoffmann, son of George (i) Von Hoffmann, was
born in Germany, as was his wife, and there lived until 1845, when after
his marriage he came to the United States, settling in Allegheny City
(Pittsburgh, North Side), Pennsylvania. He later moved to Monongahela



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City, Washington county, Pennsylvania, coming there in 1858, and there
died in 1898, aged eighty-one years, his wife's death occurring in that
place five years later. He married Barbara Hoffmann, in all probability a
relative of his. Among their children was George Andrew, of whom
further.

(HI) George Andrew Hoffmann, son of George (2) and Barbara
(Hoffmann) Hoffmann, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1845, died
in Pennsylvania in 1893. He was educated in the public schools, Wesleyan
College, of Delavan, Ohio, and at Washington and Jefferson College. After
receiving his degree from the latter institution he creditably passed the
examinations for admission to the bars of Allegheny and Washington coun-
ties, and from that time until his death steadily gained in prestige and
reputation among his legal brethren, two years prior to his death, 1890-91,
filling the position of district attorney. His power and influence as an
advocate was known throughout the state, and few were the adverse deci-
sions that fell to his lot. Forceful, able and convincing in argument, in the
presentation of his cases he combined direct strength of statement with elo-
quence of expression, his appeal being always to the reason rather than the
sentiments of his hearers. He spoke and acted from a close familiarity
with all of the complex and perplexing technicalities of our legal code, his
clients being benefited by his years of assiduous study. He supported, with
the influence a highly regarded legal light always wields, the Republican
party, and belonged to Henry M. Phillips Lodge, No. 645, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons. He married Margaret Aughindobler, born in Germany,
now living in Monogahela City, Washington county, Pennsylvania, at the
home of her daughter, Mary Elizabeth. She is a daughter of Adam and
Elizabeth (Zeh) Aughindobler, both natives of Bavaria, Germany, who
came to the United States in 1852, settling in Washington county, Penn-
sylvania. In that place he was a farmer, in 1872 making his home in Monon-
gahela City, Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1908, aged
seventy-eight years, his wife's death occurring in 1913, when she had attained
the unusual age of ninety-three years. Children of Adam and Elizabeth
(Zeh) Aughindobler: i. Margaret, of previous mention, married George
Andrew Hoffmann. 2. Jane, married James Dickey, of Monongahela City,
Pennsylvania. 3. Anna, married John Starb, of Monongahela City, Penn-
sylvania. Children of George Andrew and Margaret (Aughindobler) Hoff-
mann: I. George Andrew, of whom further. 2. Joseph Adolphus, a resi-
dent of Monongahela City, Pennsylvania. 3. Mary Elizabeth, married Dr.
George H. Murphy, a physician of Monongahela City, Pennsylvania.

(IV) George Andrew (2) Hoffmann, son of George Andrew (i) and
Margaret (Aughindobler) Hoffmann, was bom in Monogahela City, Wash-
ington county, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1877. His public school educa-
tion was completed in 1896, when he was graduated from the Monongahela
high school, after which he enrolled at Curry University, of Pittsburgh,
where he took a business course. Finishing this course of study he pre-



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pared at Pittsburgh Academy for entrance at Washington and Jefferson
College, later matriculating at that latter institution. He never received
his degree from Washington and Jefferson, being compelled to leave the
college and enter business. His first venture was in the hardware business
in Monongahela City, in partnersip with a cousin, where he remained for