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The following is found at Blair County.
Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, Il: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 580-581
MARTIN M. YINGLING, senior member of the firm of M.M. Yingling & Son, manufacturers of roller flour and dealers in feed of all kinds at Claysburg, Blair County, Pa., is an enterprising and prosperous business man and a highly regarded citizen. For over a quarter of a century he has been proprietor of the Sarah Mills, located in Greenfield Township, near Sarah Furnace. Mr. Yingling was born September 25, 1840, in Huntingdon County, Pa., and is a son of ISAAC & ELIZA (CONDRON) YINGLING.
Abram Yingling, the paternal grandfather, was born in Maryland and in boyhood accompanied his parents to what is now Blair County, locating near Roaring Spring, where the great-grandfather operated a mill for a man by the name of Neff. This mill was later burned by the Indians. Abram Yingling subsequently engaged in milling near McKee, in Blair County, and died there.
ISAAC YINGLING, father of Martin M.,was born in a section of Huntingdon County that is now a part of Blair County, but later moved to Blair County and located near Williamsburg and there carried on a milling business for more than twenty-five years. He was a man of high standing in his community and served four terms in the office of justice of the peace at Williamsburg. He indentified himself with the Republican party and gave it his political support as long as he participated in public affairs. In his religious faith he was a Lutheran. Of his children there are six survivors, as follows: James A., residing at Martinsburg; Martin M.; Sarah, wife of Jacob Condron, residing at Williamsburg; Benjamin F., living in Huntingdon County; and Isaac, who is in business at Johnstown, Pa.
MARTIN M. YINGLING was reared until seven years of age in Huntingdon County, near Vineyard Mills, and then accompanied his parents to Pennsylvania Furnace, and when fourteen, to Williamsburg, where he obtained the larger part of his schooling. He learned the milling business with his father and remained with him until he was twenty-three years of age when he took charge of a grist mill at Spring Meadow, in Bedford County, where he continued in that capacity for eleven years. >From there he went to Shellsburg, in Bedford County, and was manager of a mill there for several years, moving then to Sherbourne in Fayette County, where he again managed a mill for some years. Mr. Yingling by this time had become well known as a reliable and experienced miller and subsequently entered the employ of the B.M. Johnson Company, a Hollidaysburg concern, which was engaged in the flour business at Alexandria, Huntingdon County, and for two years attended to the shipping of flour cars from that point. Prior to becoming proprietor of the Sarah Mills, over a quarter of a century ago, he also was manager for several years of the Mowery Mills in Bedford County. Mr. Yingling's mills are equipped with the latest improved machinery, the roller system being installed, and he uses both water and steam power.
In February, 1863, Mr. Yingling was married to Miss Susan Moore who was born in Blair County, Pa., a daughter of John W. and Mary Moore, former residents of Williamsburg. Mr. Moore was a native of Massachusetts and was a cooper by trade. A family of ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Yingling, of whom the following survive: Alonzo, who resides at Altoona; William W., who lives in Greenfield Township and is the junior member of the firm of M.M. Yingling & Son; Myrtle, who is the wife of Allen Feather, of Duncansville; May, who is the wife of Edward Sheafer, of Bedford County; Ross, who lives in Greenfield Township; Angus, who is a resident of Altoona, Pa.; and Wallace B. The latter served with the U.S. Army in the Philippine Islands and is still in the regular army, at present being stationed at Fort Ben Harrison, in Indiana. Mr. Yingling has reared a creditable family. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he is a Republican and he has served Greenfield Township in the offices of auditor and school director.
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