October 1885 - Drowning near Johnstown - Plus the Usual Horrible Accidents

Drowning near Johnstown - victim Albert Thomas - Colored. Stonycreek at Grubbtown (Kernville). Alex Bogus.

Mrs. Felix Boxler - household accident - Conemaugh Borough. 

Jacob Miller - Cambria Iron Accident

Charley Michaels - going back to jail. 

Obit - James Maloy - Cambria City.

 

August 1882 - Derelict Husband Found Hiding in Cambria CIty & Two Obits that are buried in St. Columba Cemetery - Cambria Freeman

Francis Trabold found by his daughter hiding from his wife in Germany in Cambria City.

Miss Jennie Cox - Conemaugh Boro - buried in St. Columba Cemetery.

Mrs. Ann Markey - Cambria City - buried at St. Columba Cemetery.

 

April 7, 1882 - Smallpox Outbreak, Conemaugh Borough Man Goes Nuts & East Conemaugh Attack - Cambria Freeman

MIss Gussie Morgan daughter of John Morgan dies of smallpox in Johnstown.

David Londregan - Conemaugh Borough

Young window woman named Arthur lives with her father a Mr. Varner - attacked in East Conemaugh.

 

Johnstown Fireman - No year listed but I'd say around 1900 or so

J.W. Dick - Morrellville Fire Co. No. 10 and N.A. Long - Conemaugh Fire Co. No. 5
 

To Make Lawn Tractors - 1953 - The Tribune-Democrat

The Leckey Machine Shop - Conemaugh R.D. - Don Leckey - Lawn-All Corp.

 

Polish Lodges in Conemaugh 1914

 

DOGS FOR BLIND - 23 February 1943 - The Johnstown Tribune

Path Finder Dogs - Training dogs to help the blind at the Bridge Hotel in Conemaugh. The middle gentleman is Robert Brown of Stonycreek Street.

 

Gearharts

Conemaugh

Trolley Time

Heading to Conemaugh

1915 PRR Champs

1915 PRR Champs taken on the old Conemaugh Field.

Front Row - left to right: Wright, "Biz" O'Brien, Fred Fees, William Smith, "Dutch" Otto, John Stover and Jimmie Neilson.

Back Row - left to right: George B. Hunter, Bowen, Unknown, Reighard, Harper Emerick and Mike Wagner.

Title Song, Wins Holiday

Miss Margaret Miller of 468 First Street, Conemaugh is shown being interviewed by Bill Palmer after she won a national song-title contest. She'll get a free weekend trip to New York City.

East Conemaugh

All I know about this picture is that it was taken in East Conemaugh.

Child Swallows Acid - 1907

Child Swallows Acid - daughter of Mrs. Raymond Albaugh - from Conemaugh - clipping from 'The Weekly Tribune' - August 1907

Conemaugh

A reader sent in this shot of Conemaugh

Looking for Family

Sometimes the tables are turned and folks in Europe are looking for their ancestors here in Johnstown instead of the other way round. That is the case with a reader from France looking for family originally from Cambria City and Conemaugh. Richard Malec sent these pictures in of his family.

This well loved picture is from 1898 - the little girl is his grandmother Maria who was born in Cambria City. This is a wedding picture - her widowed mother Anna Trzeciak married John Kokoszka. They were married at St. Stephen's Church.
They left Johnstown about 1901 and went back to Europe. His great-grandfather John Kokoszka did come back to Johnstown around 1903 and died while in town sometime between 1904 to 1907. No trace of him has been found as to his cause of death or where he is buried.

This is Julia Trzeciak who lived in Conemaugh - she is the sister of Anna.

This is Boleslaw Hejnar 1918 - 2001 (probably William C. Hejnar). He was the grandson of Julia and lived in Conemaugh.

Conemaugh 1950 - The wedding at the Eagle Hotel Bar of Antoni Hejnar, grandson of Julia Trzeciak. Beside the bride is Zofia Hejnar, daughter of Julia and mother of Antoni. The Hejnar family had the Eagle Hotel Bar in Conemaugh at the corner of Railroad and Locust. 

This was taken around 1953 in front of the bar in Conemaugh - Zofia Hejnar, Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Skala and daughter.

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Johnstown Area - Trzeciak, Hejnar and Skala families.

Another shot of the families....this sort of looks familiar to me - the background houses I mean.....

Clipping of St. Stephens's Church - Cambria City. If any of the above names are familiar - please let me know by either commenting on this post or emailing me.

Conemaugh Borough

 

One of several little alleys of Conemaugh Borough leading down the hill from Huber Street.

Conemaugh

Vintage Repeat - Rare shot of Conemaugh - First and Main Street - click on the picture to enlarge.

Conemaugh Store

Reader Steve Chabra sent in this picture of a store in Conemaugh at the corner of 5th and Main Street. His mother is not sure if her grandmother Julia Babyak owned the store in the 1930's or just worked in it. They add that the store was called Pop's in the 1960's. If any of you readers know anything more about this - please feel free to let me know.

Typhoid Fever - Is Water Responsible?

Three new cases of Typhoid Fever reported at Conemaugh - August 1907 - Miss Mary Robinson of Greeve Street sent to Memorial Hospital - The other two cases are foreigners. My grandfathers Aunt Annie Lenz who was married to her cousin Charles Lenz died of Typhoid in 1905 - while they lived in Conemaugh. In my research - it seems that sections of Conemaugh had it worse than other parts of the city. But having said this - all Johnstown neighborhoods had their own sanitary problems. Especially parts of Morrellville - that lived near butcher shops.

Conemaugh Train Wreck

A reader sent in this picture of a train wreck in Conemaugh.