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Bios for Columbia County

Record of the Men of Lafayette: Brief Biographical Sketches of the Alumni of Lafayette College from Its Organization to the Present Time By Selden Jennings Coffin, William Baxter Owen, Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) Published by The College, 1879 (Contributed by Vicki Hartman)

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Clinton W Neal, Bloomsburg. - Born at Bloomsburg, November 9, 1839; entered Sophomore class; Frist Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster 132d Pa. Regiment, '62-3; engaged in coal and iron business since '63.

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Hervey H. Grotz, A.M., Bloosmburg. - Born at Bloomsburg, March, 1840; immediately after graduation he became teller in the First National Bank, and has since been cashier of a banking company; was also Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue.

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Rev. David Jewett Waller, Jr., A.M., Bloomsburg. - Born at Bloosmburg, June 17, 1846; received Fowler Prize, "Addison;" Tutor in Lafayette, 70-1; studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, '71-2, and at Union Theological Seminary, New York, '72-4; there graduated in '74; ordained November 30, '74; pastor of the Logan Square Presbyterian church, in Philadelphia, '74-6; pastor at Orangeville, '76-7; since August, '77, he has been Principal of the State Normal School at Bloomsburg.

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Lloyd Paxton Appelman, M.S., Easton. - Lawyer; from Bloomsburg; in General Scientific course; studied law in the office of A. B. Howell, of '68, and was admitted to the bar at EAston, December, '76.

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Frank Pierce Billmeyer, Bloomsburg. - Lawyer; born at Bloomsburg, December 31, 1852; entered Freshman, second term; Class Historian; studied law at Bloomsburg, and was there admitted to the bar, September 7, '75; Borough Treasurer in '77; and since '77 a memeber and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the State Normal School at Bloomsburg.

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Levi Ellmaker Waller, Bloomsburg, Columbia Co. - Layer; born at Bloomsburg, July 16, 1851; studied law with Senator C. R. Buckalew, and at Columbia College Law School, New York, '74-6; admitted to the bar, September, '76.

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James Boyd Robison, A.M., Bloomsburg. - Lawyer; born at Bloomsburg, Jan. 3, 1838; in college Freshman and Sophomore years; taught; read law until '61, when he became Captain of the 35th Pennsylvania Infantry; served through all the war; and was in Libby prison, '64-5; admitted to the bar, Nov., '63; District Attorney of Mercer county, '65-6; Nortary Public in St. Louis, Mo., '66; and at Bloomsburg since '67; received A.M. from Lafayette in '66.

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James K. Brugler, Butler, Mo. - Lawyer; from Bloomsburg; left college in Junior year, and graduated at Union college in '61; after practicing law in Philadelphia a few years, he located in Missouri.

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Clinton Creveling Snyder, C.E., Espy, Columbia Co. - Engaged in engineering.

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Olin Sargeant Boone, Espy, Columbia Co. - In college part of Freshman year.

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Clinton Creveling Snyder, C.E., Scranton. - Born at Espy, Columbia county, May 19, 1854; since graduation he has been draughtsman for the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company at Scranton.