Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Ambrose, William A. October 26, 1854 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

WILLIAM A. AMBROSE,
a successful lawyer, and the junior member of the able and well known law
firm of Neff, Hicks & Ambrose, of Altoona, is of Scotch-Irish extraction on
the maternal side, and was born at Milton, Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, October 26, 1854. Patrick Ambrose was a native of County
Armagh, Ireland, and a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, who came to the United
States in 1754, served as a non-commissioned officer in the revolutionary
war, and died in 1793 at his home on Spruce Creek, Huntingdon county, where
Alexander Ambrose, the grandfather of William A. Ambrose, was born in 1790.
He was one of the most expert furnacemen in the state, "blew" nearly all the
furnaces in Huntingdon county, and in 1857 came to Fostoria, where he died in
1879. He was a Methodist and a democrat, and had served as a justice of the
peace. He was a hale and hearty man, who retained all his mental faculties
unimpaired until his death, had excellent descriptive powers, which he used
to great advantage in relating stories and events of the past, and when in
the eighty-ninth year of his age his health and physical strength were such
that he planted and cultivated a field of potatoes from which he gathered,
unaided, a crop of over one hundred bushels.
   William A. Ambrose was reared at his grandfather's home, in Antis township,
and after attending the common schools, entered the Pennsylvania State Normal
school, of Lock Haven, Clinton county, from which excellent educational
institution he was graduated in the class of 1880. Before entering the normal
school, and during its vacations, he had taught five terms in the public
schools of Blair and Clearfield counties, and immediately after graduation he
became a law student in the office of Judge G. R. Barrett & Son, of
Clearfield. He was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1883, and opened an
office at Phillipsburg, but only remained a few months, when he came to the
city of Altoona, where he has practiced his chosen profession successfully
ever since. In 1884 he formed a law partnership with William L. Woodcock,
which continued one year, when he withdrew to become a partner with Capt.
Robert Johnson, in the real estate business, under the firm name of Ambrose &
Johnson. Their partnership existed until August, 1890, when it was dissolved,
and Mr. Ambrose became a partner with D. J. Neff and J. D. Hicks in the
present firm of Neff, Hicks & Ambrose, which has one of the largest law
practices of central Pennsylvania.
   On April 13, 1881, Mr. Ambrose was united in marriage with Mary E., daughter
of James L. and Sarah J. McCoy, of Altoona. Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose have one
daughter, named Florence.
   William A. Ambrose is a republican in politics, and a member of the Eighth
avenue Methodist Episcopal church of Altoona. He has always been active in
the best interests of his party and church, enjoys a good law practice, has
served since 1885 as United States Commissioner for the western district of
Pennsylvania, and is a stockholder and director of the Altoona, Clearfield,
and Northern railroad.

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