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JAMES POLLOCK CHURCHFIELD, conductor, post office Turtle Creek, is a son of John R. and Margaret Ann (Pollock) Churchfield, of Welsh descent, and was born in New Bedford, Pa., March 24, 1853. His mother died when he was small, and he and his younger brother, William J., were brought up by their grandfather, John Churchfield. Their father was a carpenter and enlisted in 1861, in Co. B, 100th P. V., serving as a drummer through the war in the Army of the Potomac. After the war he dwelt in North Versailles, but his constitution had been broken by military service, and he died in 1888, in his sixtieth year. When about thirteen years old James began to earn his living, working at farm labor, and later spent three years with his father learning his trade. Since 1880 he has been employed by the railroad company most of the time as conductor, and is now doing good work for the P. R. R. Co. He is a member of the Conductors’ Brotherhood, and a democrat, and he and wife are associated with the M. E. Church. Mr. Churchfield married, Nov. 16, 1876, Mary M. Roberts, and they have three children living: John, Howard and Katy; Harry and Myrtle, the eldest, died in infancy.