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HENRY M. LONG, broker, Pittsburgh, is a native of that city, born in 1836. His paternal grandfather was a native of Chambersburg, Pa., of Scotch-Irish descent, and in 1742 he located near Cannonsburg, Washington county, Pa. From that date until about A. D. 1800 he farmed the “Long farm,” now known as a part of the Morganza farm. His son Joseph, father of Henry M., was born in 1790, and was the youngest of thirteen children. He had only six months’ schooling, and worked on the farm until sixteen years of age; then was apprenticed to a country smith till twenty-one years of age, when he entered the United States army in the war of 1812, serving in the Pittsburgh Blues, Second company, Capt. Cooper; after the war he became a machinist, and carried on a large establishment in Pittsburgh, fitting out ships and steamboats, and supplying heavy iron-work for the Sault Ste. Marie canal, connecting Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, and other public improvements. He did the largest business in the western part of the state in his line, and from 1830 to 1850 he was an extensive steamboat owner. He died from injuries sustained by a fall January 17, 1862. He was a whig, abolitionist, republican and a Presbyterian. He was married in 1815 to Sarah, daughter of Reuben Miller, an old pioneer, a native of Philadelphia, Pa., descended from a family of English Quakers, who came to America in 1712 and settled in New Garden township, Chester county, Pa.

Henry M. Long, who is one of nine children, was educated in Chester county, Pa., and Morgantown, W. Va. In 1856, at the age of twenty years, he went west, steam-boated on the western rivers till 1861, when he returned to Pittsburgh, Pa., where he engaged principally in the oil business, producing and manufacturing. Eventually he became one of the editors and proprietors of the Pittsburgh Gazette, continuing from 1870 to 1876, and has been doing more or less newspaper-work up to the present time. Politically he is a republican. In 1874 and 1880 he was elected to the legislature, serving as speaker of the house for two years. Mr. Long is at present a broker in stocks, and contributes to the home papers and New York periodicals.