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ROBERT A. MAXWELL, the genial and enterprising editor and proprietor of the Commercial, published at Sinclairville, New York, is the son of the Rev. J. Allan Maxwell, and was born in Amsterdam, New York, June 8, 1856. His grandfather, whose name was also J. Allan Maxwell, was a native of New York city, but died in New Orleans, Louisiana, when about twenty-eight years of age. His son, Rev. J. Allan, father of Robert A., was a Presbyterian clergyman of acknowledged learning and eloquence, and was stationed at different points in the States of New York and Pennsylvania. He died on November 27, 1890, at the age of fifty-seven years.

Robert A. Maxwell lived in South Orange, New Jersey, until the age of fourteen, when he removed with his parents to Hazleton, Pa. He received his education at the academy in Blairstown, New Jersey, and at the Hazleton schools, after which he learned the trade of printing and engaged in that business in the adjoining cities. In January, of 1891, he came to the village of Sinclairville and took charge of the Commercial, the only paper published in the village, a weekly having a circulation of about six hundred. Since embarking in this enterprise Mr. Maxwell has met with unqualified success and the future of his journalistic enterprise still continues to grow brighter. Politically he is a republican and is a member of the Equitable Aid Union.

On December 29, 1883, Mr. Maxwell was united in marriage to Marietta, daughter of E. Rust, of Cambridgeborough, Crawford county, Pa. Their marriage has been blessed by the birth of one son, Allan R.