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Title: Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921, ed Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, 1862-1929, ed Spofford, Ernest, ed Godcharies, Frederic Antes, 1872-1944 ed Keator, Alfred Decker, ed
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Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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of the wellknown firm of Humphreys, Griffin &Company, the business interests of whichare of a most important nature, demand-ing the services of one whose ability isof a superior order, whose well balancedforces are prepared for any emergencyand who has a ready and rapid under-standing of any problem which may bepresented for solution. He is vice-presi-dent of the Powell Coal & Coke Com-pany, and a director of the Unity Mer-cantile Company. As a public-spirited citizen, Mr.Humphreys is always ready to give prac-tical aid to any movement which in hisjudgment would advance the public wel-fare. Although he has been and is fartoo busy a man to take any active part inpolitics, no man is more keenly alive tothe affairs of the city, concerning whichhis advice is often sought. His alle-giance is given to the Republican party,but he has steadily refused to participatein political controversies or to become acandidate for office. He is a man of largenature, deliberate in the formation of
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY plans, thorough, upright, clear-headed,and generous in his benefactions to char-ity but extremely unostentatious and everseeking to veil his good deeds from theeyes of the world He is a member ofthe Presbyterian church. The personalqualities of Mr. Humphreys are such asto win fur him the warm and enduringregard .if a large circle of friends. He isone of the managers of the PittsburghSanitarium, and is a member of the Du-quesne, Automobile, Country and Oak-mont clubs of Pittsburgh, and of theNew York Yacht Club. He is a great loverof sports, especially water sports, and isan enthusiastic yachtsman, owning thebeautiful yacht Halcyon. Mr. Humphreys married, November 10,1892, in Pittsburgh, Ellen M., daughterof John G. Stephenson, and they are theparents of the following children: Wil-liam Young, born 1893; John S., 1895;Elizabeth S.; Alan S., born 1900; Kather-ine S.; and David A., born 1906. Mrs.Humphreys is one of those rare womenwho combine with perfect woman

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