COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES W A R R E N W. W E I X I V E R * propricior of the wholesale and retail hardware establish ment in Danvilje which he conducts under his name* and also a director of the W elliver H ardw are Company* a wholesale concern* hears a name w hkh has Ion? been associated with the hardware trade in this part o f Penn sylvania. H e is one of the most progressive merchants in the borough, a fact to which his up-to-date store and stock testify. M r. W elliver was born in DanviUe Ju ly 23* i86f>* son o f Samuel Jam es W ellivcr, and obtain al his education in the public schools of the borough. When only fourteen years old he started a modest business o f his own, sell ing [>aints. oils, leather* etc.* and a year later lie went to work for his father in the hard ware business. In 1884 he ivas sent to Nanti cokc to manage the store o f W elliver & Cole (his father and J . H. Cole)* and after he had Ijcen (here three years he tought the inter est o f Mr. Cole* from which time the business w as continued under the name o f S . J . WelUvcr & Co. In 1887 Mr, W elliver bought his father's interest and changed the name to the W elliver H ardware Company. He remained at Nanticokc until 1802. when he returned to DanviUe and entered the wholesale trade* in which he has since been interested. In 1894 the W ellivcr H ardware Company was incor|M>rated* with a capital of $25,000. which in w as increased lo $100*000. and W. W. W ellivcr became secretary and general man ager. continuing his connection with the con cern in that capacity for a period o f sixteen years, until he resigned, in 19 10 . He is still one of the directors, however. When he severed his active connection with the W ellivcr H ardware Co., he acquircti hy purchase the sole ownership of the wholesale and retail hardware business (hen being conducted by the firm known as S, J . W elliver’s Sons Coml>any. which he has since carried on under the name o f W. W. W ellivcr. In 19 10 he made extensive additions to the store occupied by this company, the building being now 25 feet wide and 500 feet deep, T lic slock is large and includes complete assortments o f all the lines carried, affording patrons the widest choke, and all the modern appliances and fit tings are to be found here. Mr. W ellivcr knows the business from the ground up* and he not only aims to supply the needs o f his cnscom crs.'but to offer them goods in ad vance of their demands, suggesting the up-todate productions of the trade and giving them the tonefit of his knowledge of wh,at is in the in*arkct.
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M r. W elliver married Elizabeth Lewis* of Pitiston* Pa,, and to them w*as born one child* Dorothy. In 1894 -Mrs. W elliver died* and M r. W elliver has since remarried* his second union being to Grace L Irland, o f Danville, daughter o f Jam es M . Irland* the photog rapher. .Mr. W clliver belongs lo the NIahoning Presbyterian Church, and socially he holds mctnbcrship in the B . P. O. E lk s (Lodge No. 754) and Slasons, Mahoning todge* No. $16, l & A . M.* Danville Chapter, No. 239, R . A. M.* and C alvary Commandery. No. 37, K . T,* all of Danville. J a m k s M c M . m i a n I s l, s d, father o f Mrs. W clliver, was born Sept, 23, 1846, in Northumtorland county, Fa., son o f John M. and Amanda (A fcM ahan) Irland. H is parents were n f Scotch-Irish stock, and settled early in Pennsylvania. Jam es M. Irland was reared to farm ing, and was engaged at such work un til his enlistment in the Union arm y, Aug. 17, 1864. H e became a member of C ^ ip a n y E . 9th Pennsylvania Cavalr)** and w as in the sendee until the close of the war. .*t Woodhiiry, Tcnn.* he was captured, Init paroled a short time later. Mr. IrUind lias been engaged in business as a photugrapher at Danville since 1866. He married I.ucy F . M axw ell, of Carhondalc, Pa., daughter o f Robert and Jan e (D ouglas) M axwell, the former a mercliant. M rs. Irland died Dec. 12. 189H. the mother o f four children: Grace I.* w ife o f W arren W. W ellivcr, o f D an ville; Robert D., a physician*of Kansas City, M o.; Thom as C.* agent at DanviUe for the Delaware. Lacka wanna & Western R ailw ay Company, and Helen C.. w ife o f Paul A . Vannan, an elec trical engineer, o f E lv ria, Ohio. M r. Irland is a mcmtor o f tocige No. 754. B. P. 0 * Elks* o f Danville, and the Mahoning Presby terian Church. E D W A R D P U R P U R, v k c president and superintendent of the Nam -Trah Knitting & Spinning Company, o f DanviUe* Montour Co.* Pa.. w*as born in that place M ay 2<>* 1873. son o f Frederick and Louisa (H orw art) Purpur, Frederick Purpur was with the Philadel phia Ik Reading Iron Company as a ptiddler for some years, and later with the Mahoning Rolling A fills Company as timekeeper and ptiddler toss* so continuing until his <leath, which occurred Nov. 28, 1898, at DanviUe* when he was sixty-two years old. H is widow* now eighty years o f age* still makes her liome at Danville. Edw ard Purpur was educated in the pub lic schools o f his native borough, and togan
