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[ B ]
Balla, Mike
(Miner, ca.1918, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 52, married, wife
Ethel Balla, age 40, 3 children.)
Bass, Fred
(Superintendent, of the Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA, for Clearfield
Bituminous Coal Corp.)
Blixt, J. T.
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Bone, Stephen
(Miner, ca.1945, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Took the First Class Mine Foreman Examination, at Indiana State Teachers
College, June, 1945. [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana,
PA, June 8 1945.].)
Brady, Wm., H.
(Miner, ca.1945, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Took the First Class Mine Foreman Examination, at Indiana State Teachers
College, June, 1945. [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana,
PA, June 8 1945.].)
Burnheimer, Edward Alonzo
(Miner, ca.1950, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 63.);
(Killed. Killed in a mining accident, in the Commodore Mines,
ca.1950.)
[ C ]
Collins, Hugh
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Croyle, Harold
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
[ D ]
[ E ]
[ F ]
Fajak, Mike
(Slavonian Miner, ca.1923, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 31, 3
children.);
(Immigrated to the United State ca.1910 from Duplin in Slovakia. Then it
was Northern Hungary.)
[ G ]
Gates, Jacob
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Gaydosh, Andy
(Miner, ca.1920's to the mine closing, Commodore Mine, Indiana Co., PA,
married.)
Gill, Paul
(Engineer, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
[ H ]
Hawk, Lester W.
(Miner, ca.1945, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Took the First Class Mine Foreman Examination, at Indiana State Teachers
College, June, 1945. [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana,
PA, June 8 1945.].)
Howanec, John
(Miner, ca.1923, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Howorth, George
(English Miner, ca.1919, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Hudzick, Andrew "Andy"
(Austrian Miner, Commodore Mine, Indiana Co., PA, married.);
(Immigrated from Austria-Hungary.);
(b.ca.1894 - d. ca.1982.)
Hughes, Efgar Lee
(Doctor, Coal Company Doctor, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married,
wife Lena Hughes.)
[ I ]
[ J ]
Jaquish, George
(Miner, Mining Engineer ca.1919, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Supervised the opening of the Commodore Mines.)
[ K ]
Kelly, Francis
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
[ L ]
Lemmon, M.C.
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Linder, Gus
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Linder, Gust
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Lockhard, Obadiah
(Miner, ca.1919, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(A teamster who brought his horses and wagons to haul out the dirt and rock
from the opening of the Commodore Mines. Mines 1 and 3 were drift mines,
and 2 was a slope.)
Long, A. E. "Shorty"
(Miner, ca.1925, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.)
Lydick, Alvie
(Miner, ca.1919, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Born in Cookport, PA. Alvie placed the first timbers in the Commodore
Mine when the mines opened in the fall of 1919. He remembered that experience:
"We didn't have any machinery to do the work. All we used were picks and
shovels.
Lydick, Harry A.
(Miner, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA, married, wife Elvessa Nupp Lydick.)
[ M ]
Mathis, Ernest
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
McFarland, Rawle
(Miner, ca.1945, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Took the First Class Mine Foreman Examination, at Indiana State Teachers
College, June, 1945. [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana,
PA, June 8 1945.].)
[ N ]
Nelson, Isaac
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Nupp, Elvessa
(See: Lydick, Harry A; wife of Harry A. Lydick.) |
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[ O ]
[ P ]
Pearce, Joseph E.
(Miner, ca.1945, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Took the First Class Mine Foreman Examination, at Indiana State Teachers
College, June, 1945. [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana,
PA, June 8 1945.].)
[ Q ]
[ R ]
Rodak, Andy
(Miner, ca.1920, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 34, 4 children.)
[ S ]
Shaw, A. E.
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
Shaw, John
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
[ T ]
Trimble, Earl
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 2 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].)
[ U ]
[ V ]
[ W ]
Wanchisn, Andrew
(Miner, ca.1922, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA, Age 51, wife Anna Hruba
Wanchisn, 5 children.)
Wanchisn, Charles W.
(Miner, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Miner, ca.1948, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(He was a member of the Commodore No. 1 First Aid Team, ca.1948. [from
the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana, PA, Aug. 7, 1948.].);
(Worked 18 years in the Commodore Mines.);
(b. Dec. 26, 1908 - d. June 15, 2002.)
Worthington, Richard L. R.
(Miner, ca.1945, Commodore Mines, Indiana Co., PA.);
(Took the First Class Mine Foreman Examination, at Indiana State Teachers
College, June, 1945. [from the "Indiana Evening Gazette," Indiana,
PA, June 8 1945.].)
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