of William H. and Elizabeth Ligget (Robinet) Rosensteel, of Johnstown, by whom were born three daughters: Marian, and Elizabeth Lydia, at home; Annie Rosensteel, wife of Herman E. Baumer, an attorney of Johnstown, and they are the parents of two children-Herman Dibert and Scott Dibert.

WAKEFIELD FAMILY. The surname Wakefield, under the various spellings of the times, appears frequently in very early English history; as Wacansfel, a town in county Berks, under grant of King Athelbard; the towns of Wacarfeld and Wackarfield; in "Doomsday Book," A. D. 1086, as Wachefeld and Wachefelt; Thomas de Wakefield, chancellor and sub-dean of York, 1301; Henry de Wakefield, archdeacon of Canterbury, lord treasurer of England, 1375, and many others.

Of the Wakefields who settled in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey nearly if not quite all immigrated direct from Ireland, and are descendants of a common ancestor who came from England before the middle of the seventeenth century. This ancestor was John Wakefield, an officer of the English army stationed in Ireland for the purpose of protecting a forcibly established colony there. Tradition says. he shared with this colony a division of land, and that trouble was encountered in holding the granted estate until the complete subjugation of Ireland by Cromwell in 1649-1650.

A John Wakefield is mentioned officially first in 1637; again, John Wakefield is enrolled among the 1,649 commissioned officers who served Charles I before the 5th of June, 1649, in the various wars of Ireland. The official records therefore confirm the assumption that this John Wakefield was the original progenitor of this branch of the family; and it is also a fair assumption that he was one of two brothers (the other being "Alderman Thomas Wakefield, Ulster's Office, Dublin, buried in St. Werburgh's Church, February 19, 1658"), mentioned in "Burke's General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales." The armorial bearings clearly indicate his descent from the Wakefields of Pomfret, Kingston-on-Hull and Seassey, Yorkshire, England.

It is believed that this John Wakefield was the father of Dr. Albert Wakefield, a surgeon of the staff of William of Orange. On the Irish invasion of the latter, William was severely wounded at the battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690. Dr. Albert Wakefield dressed the wound so skillfully and so won his confidence and good will that on the completion of the conquest at the battle of Aughrim, July 12, 1691, by William's request an estate comprising the site of the battleground was granted him and is now the property of the male line of descendants. A lineal descendant still possesses a piece of the waistcoat worn by William on the memorable occasion referred to.

Dr. Albert Wakefield had an only son, Robert, who in turn had, possibly among other children, three sons-Robert, Matthew and Andrew Wakefield. Robert (2) lived on the family estate on the road between Aughrim and Ballinsloe, Galway county. Connaught, Ireland, where he died. His eldest son, David Wakefield, born on the estate, married Mary Jane Wade, daughter of Jeremiah Wade, a wealthy landed proprietor of that region.

David Wakefield immigrated to America between 1768 and 1773. With his brothers he had been implicated in the plot against Catholic rule in Ireland, and when detected David was concealed by his wife in a hogshead of clothes with which she embarked on an American bound

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vessel, and was three days out at sea before the captain of the ship knew that he was on board. Of his brothers who were concerned with David in this affair, Robert was beheaded, Gilbert imprisoned for life, and Samuel escaped to Scotland.

On his arrival in this country David Wakefield first settled in Path Valley, between the Tuscarora and Conecocheague mountains, in Perry (then Cumberland) county, Pennsylvania, where some of his younger children were born. After living there about fifteen years he settled on the north of the Conemaugh, opposite Squirrel Hill, then in Cumberland county, but now Indiana county, and where now stands the village of Centerville, Pennsylvania. Two years later, finding his title to the land defective, he moved five miles northwest to near the head of the west branch of Richard's Run, in Wheatfield township, somewhere between the years 1788 and 1794. There David died and is buried. After his death his widow removed to Mercer county to live with a daughter, and died there.

Thomas Wakefield, eldest son of David and Mary Jane (Wade) Wakefield married Elizabeth Morton, niece of John Morton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Wakefield enlisted from Chester county in the Continental army under General Washington, and among other services he spent the terrible winter that so tried men's souls at Valley Forge. Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Morton) Wakefield: 1. Robert Wakefield, married his aunt, Mary Wakefield. 2. James Wakefield, born April 25, 1787; married first, Martha Moore; married second, Susan Sanderson; died August 31, 1846, near Allegheny City. 3. John Wakefield, married first, Mary Bracken; married second, ➖➖➖➖; removed to High Prairie, Illinois, and died there. 4. Thomas Wakefield, married Elizabeth Haymaker. 5. David Wade Wakefield, born February 3, 1796; married first, Susanna Wilson; married second, August 25, 1818, Mrs. Kate Conrad. He was a farmer, millwright and contractor, and died in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1878. 6. Samuel Wakefield born March 6, 1799, died September 13, 1895. 7. Mary Wakefield, married Dill Sanderson. Their son, Colonel Thomas Sanderson, is a prominent lawyer of Youngstown, Ohio. 8. Elizabeth Wakefield, married John McNutt, and died in Indiana county, Pennsylvania. 9. Catherine Wakefield, born, June 1, 1810, died April 17, 1899, at Rock Island, Illinois; married Dr. John Farrell.

Rev. Dr. Samue! Wakefield, sixth son and child of Thomas and Elizabeth (Morton) Wakefield, a distinguished clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church for more than half a century, a scholar of eminent abilities and an author of wide repute, was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1799. When he was one year old his parents removed to Westmoreland county and located three miles from Armagh, a small Irish village; and still later moved farther west in the state and made a home for himself and his family in a wilderness region. When very young Samuel was put to work, and at the age of seven years he assisted in cultivating the land. In that wild country the opportunities for acquiring even a rudimentary education were almost wholly lacking, and on that account the boy was compelled to rely entirely on his own efforts to obtain instruction in the primary branches; but he was determined to gain an education at some cost, and fortunately possessed the native force of character to accomplish that difficult task. The particular occasion which determined him in this direction was that on which he and several other lads were sent to the

mill with grain for grinding. While waiting for their work to be done, the other boys amused themselves with reading the handbills posted near the mill, much to the chagrin of young Samuel, for he could not read a single word; and that day he carried home a determination to acquire an education. In such an undertaking, under similar conditions, no one was ever more successful than Samuel Wakefield, for without tutors and almost without assistance of any kind he established for himself a systematic course of study, adhered to it nobly, and continued it into the higher collegiate branches. In 1813, then being fourteen years old, he enlisted as a drummer boy in a company serving at Black Rock, near Erie, in this state, in the second war with Great Britain. At seventeen he established and successfully conducted a subscription school in the Ligonier Valley, near Fort Palmer, and at eighteen he was licensed as a local preacher by the quarterly conference of the Methodist Episcopal church; and in that capacity he taught and preached for fourteen years. In 1834 he joined the Pittsburgh conference and served in the regular ministry until 1880, when he was placed on the superannuated list. West Newton, Pennsylvania, was his last regular appointment, and he afterward lived in that town until his death. His honorary degree of Divinitatis Doctor was conferred by Allegheny College in 1854, and that of Legum Doctor by the same institution in 1856.

Dr. Wakefield was the founder of a large number of Methodist Episcopal churches throughout western and southwestern Pennsylvania, and was one of the most zealous, determined and self-sacrificing workers for the promotion of the doctrines of that church this state ever has produced. After being licensed to preach his first location was at West Newton, and notwithstanding the opposition and coldness with which he was received by those of other denominations, he continued his labors at that place until he had established a flourishing society of Methodists there, and had won the friendship of many persons who at the time of his settlement had not given him a warm Christian welcome. He was a good Hebrew, Greek and Latin scholar, and his attainments in systematic theology were of high order. He was author of "Wakefield's Systematic Theology," which was first published about the time of the end of the late Civil war. That work is still recognized throughout the Methodist church as an excellent authority, and is used as a text-book in several theological seminaries of that denomination and various others as well. He also abridged and prepared for publication "Watson's Theological Institutes," which was done at the request of a committee of the Methodist Episcopal publishing house in New York city; but the committee on learning that Dr. Wakefield was preparing his own work on that subject did not publish the revision. In September, 1893, at the ripe old age of ninety-three years, he prepared for the press and published a volume of sermons entitled "Gospel Tidings. He also wrote a work on moral philosophy, but it was not published during his lifetime. More than this, he was author of an English grammar which bore his name and was pronounced by competent judges a work of decided merit, and which later was adopted as a text-book by

many schools.

Dr. Wakefield's musical talents and tastes were of the finest quality and early showed him the need of improvement in this important part of church service. To this end he was author in 1828 of "Wakefield's Sacred Music," and he wrote and published in all seven different works on that subject: "Ecclesiastical Harmony," "American Repository of

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Sacred Music," "Western Harp," "Christian Harp," "Minstrel of Zion," "Sacred Choral" (in German), and "Select Melodies." more than half a century these works have been universally and deservedly popular in Methodist Episcopal churches of the United States. And in addition to his literary and musical ability Dr. Wakefield possessed considerable mechanical genius, which he also devoted to his church. He constructed with his own hands the first pipe organ ever used west of the Allegheny mountains. At an early day also he invented and patented a system of tailoring.

On August 21, 1821, Dr. Samuel Wakefield married Elizabeth Hough, daughter of Paul and Catherine (Weigle) Hough, of Westmoreland county. She died September 29, 1894, being then in her ninetysecond year; Dr. Wakefield died September 13, 1895, in his ninetyseventh year. On the occasion of the celebration of the golden wedding of David H. Wakefield, eldest son of Dr. Wakefield, the New York World said of his father:

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"Rev. Samuel Wakefield is one of the most wonderful men of the present century. His entire life has been one of activity. He has been minister, author, tailor, farmer, and representative of his district in the Legislature during the Civil war. Dr. Edward Everett Hale years ago recognized Dr. Wakefield's ability and commented upon it in one of his works. Dr. Wakefield was the earliest expounder of the theology of the Methodist church in North America, as Wesley was in England. All his clothing was the product of his own skillful hands after he had reached the fourth score milestone of life's journey. At seventy years he shod his own carriage horses. He has made several violins and other musical instruments of excellent workmanship, which are now treasured as relics by various members of his family. In the early part of this (the nineteenth) century Dr. Wakefield preached on a circuit of three hundred miles. There were no railroad trains, and stage coaches did not pass except at long intervals through the country which he had to cover, and which he did well cover. He rode to and fro on horseback, preaching every day in the week at different log cabins to which the faithful for miles around would flock on foot, on horseback, and in Conestoga wagons.

Children of Rev. Dr. Samuel and Elizabeth (Hough) Wakefield:" 1. David Hough, born August 16, 1822; married Mary Covert; was a teacher and farmer, county commissioner, and justice of the peace forty years. 2. Rev. John S., born August 6, 1824; married, May 27, 1845, Martha Boyd, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania; he was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church from 1852 until his death at East End, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, July 28, 1901. 3. Mariah, born January 29, 1827; married Martin Overholt. She died at Irwin, Pennsylvania, and he at East Liberty, Pennsylvania. 4. Kate, widow of John Coulson; now living at Pawnee City, Nebraska. 5. Samuel C., married first, Clara McMaster; married second, Carrie Bowman; a farmer living at Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. 6. Elizabeth, widow of David Hassler; lives at Indianapolis, Indiana. 7. Ella, born June 21, 1839; married John Brown, of West Newton, Pennsylvania; died in 1905. 8. Dr. Alfred N., see forward. 9. Mary Emma, born June 21, 1845; married Bela W. Sheplar: lives in Golden City, Missouri. 10. Dr. James Byron, born October 29, 1847; married Jennie Singer, lives in Jeanette, Pennsylvania.

Alfred Newlon Wakefield, physician and surgeon of Johnstown, and the pioneer physician of that part of the city in which he now