Bibliography

Bibliography

The following works provide information about the people, places, and history of Cambria County. Many of these titles can be found in local libraries or requested through Interlibrary Loan. Together, they form a broad collection of historical, genealogical, and cultural resources.

Biography and History

General County Histories

  • Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County, Pennsylvania (1896)
  • John E. Gable, History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Vols. I–II (1926)
  • Henry Wilson Storey, History of Cambria County, With Genealogical Memoirs, Vols. I–III (1907)
  • Cambria County Historical Society, Sesquicentennial History of Cambria County, 1804–1954 (1954)

Local and Community Histories

  • Souvenir of Reunion & History of St. Bartholomew’s Church, Wilmore, PA (1909)
  • Souvenir of the Diamond Jubilee and History of St. Augustine’s Church (1922)
  • Thomas J. Chapman, The Valley of the Conemaugh (1865)
  • Dave Huber, The People of Cambria County, Pennsylvania (2003)

Johnstown Flood Accounts

  • Willis Fletcher Johnson, History of the Johnstown Flood (1889)
  • David McCullough, The Johnstown Flood (1968)

Specialized Studies

  • Frank P. Alcamo, The South Fork Story (ca. 1987)
  • Milton V. Burgess, Minute Men of Pennsylvania (1962)
  • John Alexander Caldwell, Historical Atlas of Cambria County (1890)
  • Anne Frances Pulling, Around Cresson and the Alleghenies (1997)
  • Israel Daniel Rupp, History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, Perry, Somerset, Cambria, & Indiana Counties (1848)
  • Joseph C. Schnaubelt, Cambria County Catholicity: The Patrimony of Prince Gallitzin (1999)
  • Lawrence Cardinal Shean, Father Gallitzin Comes to Loretto (1971)
  • Larry D. Smith, Mother Bedford and the American Revolutionary War (1999)
  • James M. Swank, Cambria County Pioneers (1910)
  • Modestus Wirtner, The Benedictine Fathers in Cambria County (1926)

Records

Cemetery Records

  • Jennie A. Amrhein, Gallitzin Township Cemeteries (1993)
  • Donna Davis, Headrick Cemetery (2003) and Lloyd Cemetery (1993)
  • Brian J. Ensley, Cemetery Records of Cambria and Somerset Counties, Vols. I–IV (1999–2003)
  • Phyllis M. Oyler, Sandyvale Cemetery (1986)
  • Des Warzel, Cambria County, PA Cemeteries, Vols. I–II (1995)

Parish and Vital Records

  • Blair County Genealogical Society, Early Parish Records of St. John Gaulburt Co-Cathedral (1987)
  • Ferdinand Kittell, Souvenir of Loretto Centenary (1899)
  • Rev. Albert H. Ledoux, Catholic Vital Records of Central Pennsylvania, Vols. I–V (1994–1996)
  • Betty J. Mulhollen, Births, Marriages, and Death Certificates: Cambria County, 1850–1855 (ca. 1979)
  • Barbara Brady O’Keefe, St. Michael’s, Loretto, Baptisms and Burials (1986)
  • Shirley G. M. Iscrupe, Marriages and Deaths from the Ebensburg Sky (1983)

Directories and Indexes

  • C. B. Clark, Johnstown Directory and Citizens’ Register (1889)
  • George T. Swank, General and Business Directory of Johnstown (1869)
  • Florence Clint, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Area Key (1974)
  • Bob and Mary Closson, Cambria County, PA Will Book Index, 1804–1900 (1983)
  • Patricia Wainwright Collins, Cambria County Willbook Index, 1804–1900 (1983)
  • Patricia Wainwright Collins, Marriages and Deaths from Cambria Tribune, Vols. I–V (1981–1989)

Other Reference Works

  • Cambria County Board of Commissioners, Inventory of the County Archives of Pennsylvania: Cambria County (1950)
  • Brian J. Ensley, Civil War Veterans Reference (1998)
  • Brian J. Ensley, Early Johnstown Biographies (2002)
  • Brian J. Ensley, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church: Biographical Sketch and Cemetery Listing (2001)
  • Myrna H. Slick, Genealogical Holdings in Somerset and Cambria Counties of Pennsylvania (1999)

Miscellaneous

Industry and Labor Studies

  • Sharon A. Brown, Cambria Iron Company: America’s Industrial Heritage Project (1989)
  • Barry P. Michrina, Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields (1993)

Family Genealogies

Major Family Histories

  • Anthony Bentivegna, The Farabaughs of Cambria County (1991)
  • David and Audrey Craig, The Joseph Johns Family History, 1768–1998 (1998)
  • Mary Ellen Sappington Good, History of a Good Family (1978)
  • Charles A. Lantzy, Genealogy of Joseph and Mary Ursula Lantzy (1986)
  • Charles A. Lantzy, Genealogy of the Weakland Ancestors (1998)

Biographical Genealogies

  • Thomas Heyden, Memoir of Rev. Prince Gallitzin (1869)
  • Albert L. O’Connor Jr., Ancestors of the O’Connor and Crilley Families (1978)
  • Ione R. Card Smith, Jacob Glass, and Descendants (1985)

Extended Family Records

  • Evelyn Sidman Wachter, Family Record of William Sitman (1973)
  • Evelyn Sidman Wachter, Rev. John R. Sitman and Descendants (1973)
  • Brandon Wiegand, Descendants of Barnabas Klein (1999)
  • Donald Owen Wissinger, Wisinger, Weisinger–Weissinger Genealogy (1976–1979)