J. M. Gormly    

J. M. GORMLY, justice of the peace and engineer, P.O. Industry, was born in Industry township in 1838, and is a son of Samuel and Rachel (Marker) Gormly, the former a native of this county, a printer by trade in his youth, but in later life a boat builder. He was a justice of the peace in Industry township for ten years, and, from the first opening of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railway till within two years of his death, was ticket agent for that company. Our subject learned steam-boat engineering when about twenty-one years of age, and has since followed that business, chiefly on the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers. He was married in 1859 to Maggie, daughter of Joseph Allen, and by her has had five children, two now living: Ivy M. and Josie F. Mr. Gormly was elected in 1885 to the office of justice of the peace. In politics he is a Republican.

History of Beaver County, including its early settlement; its erection into a separate county; its subsequent growth and development; sketches of its boroughs, villages and townships; portraits of some of its prominent men; biographies of many of its representative citizens; statistics, etc. by J. F. Richard; A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888. More Beaver County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file! Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com