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HENRY STONER, assistant superintendent Adams Express, Wilkinsburg, was born in Washington, Lancaster county, Pa., in 1830. His parents, Christian and Martha (Correll) Stoner, were natives of that county, as was his grandfather, Abram Stoner, and all were of German extraction. Christian Stoner was born in 1800; was a miller by trade, and moved in 1831 to McVeytown, Mifflin county, where he died in 1859; his widow died in 1881, aged seventy-eight. Henry Stoner is the third of six children born to his parents, and the only son living, his only brother having been drowned when five years old. Our subject received a common-school training, and went to Philadelphia when sixteen years old, to earn his living. After being variously employed for five years, he became clerk for an uncle who was furnishing supplies to contractors on the construction of the Pennsylvania railroad over the Allegheny mountains. In 1855 he came to Pittsburgh, and drove for a time a wagon for the Adams Express company; subsequently he became messenger, was made route-agent in 1865, later general route-agent, and since March, 1885, has filled his present position. He attends the Presbyterian Church, of which his wife is a member, and has been an ardent republican since the outbreak of the civil war. Mr. Stoner was married June 6, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth Maquilken, a native of Uniontown, and daughter of William and Theresa Maquilken, both natives of Fayette county, of Scotch and Quaker descent respectively. In 1888 Mr. Stoner built his handsome residence on Rebecca street where reside with him his three children: Belle Therese, Edward H. and Elizabeth Rheem. Guy Christian, the second child, died when three years old.