Links:
http://www.nps.gov/jofl/members.htm
Members of the Club that owned the Dam where the flood started
... Cyrus Elder...
 "The only member of "South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club" from Johnstown in 1889, Elder was the
  attorney and chief counsel for the Cambria Iron Company."

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   " Among the early citizens of Johnstown most active in the organization
of the Johnstown Water Company were.... Cyrus Elder, ..."

Cyrus ELDER's wife and dau listed as missing in the Flood.
Map of floodpath includes their home at Walnut street .
1870 census has Cyrus and wife N.J. (Nancy Jane Swank in LDS and DAR)
also: George, 8, Nanie, 4, J.C. 5 mos.

Cyrus ELDER in:
Encyclopedia of American Biography (Ancestry.com)
"public official, author, poet, was born June 16, 1833, in Somerset, PA.
He was a revenue commissioner of PA; and the author of Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise;
Man and Labor; Short Studies; and My Gift, a volume of poems (in DLC).

 http://www.johnstownpa.com/journal/journal4.shtml
Article about Johnstown bicentennial event of 1900, Cyrus Elder "addressed the crowd"...

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nancyelder/ElderCensus1790.htm
PA and other states with ELDER names in 1790 Census

More ELDER names:
Elder Township in Cambria Co., founded by Catholics named ELDER from Frederick MD.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacambri/elder

Worldconnect for CYRUS ELDER,  Father: CLIFFORD ELDER, by Becky Baker-Hall
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2984059&id=I338

Wood Co OH also has some of those relatives in Troy Township, also related to:
Archbishop William Henry ELDER, Cinncinnati, OH, b. Baltimore, MD.

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