That hotel on Miller Street was built by Jacob Krug m to Minerva Mechling. They are buried in Hastings at St. Bernard's. Krug sold it to David A Houck, brother of A.J. Houck, the newspaper editor and it was called the American House. The Houck family lost the liquor license and it has been a private home since that. I don't think that was the Gray Hotel. David Houck was married to Catherine Gessler, whose father, Civil War Veteran Erhard Gessler, owned a dry goods store there at Millerviller. I am not sure but this may have been the store that later belonged to the Abel Family and then to Fred Gunther. The second hotel was along the RR tracks at Millerville, cater-corner from Strittmatter's Planing Mill, beside the Grove. One of the Houcks owned the Grove amd Dance Plavillion which later was made into the Baker's Garage. The garage is still in operation. The churches held picnics at the Grove and held socials and dances at the Plavillion. The Grove Hotel was along the tracks, and Simon Strittmatter owned it. He rented it to Anton Ignatius Kline m to Mary Ann Huber for several years. It is still there, turned into a Memorial building for tombstones, still run by Harry Kelly and his descendants. Bertha Warner married Peter Kline, and her sister Salome Warner married his brother, Henry Adam "Harrry" Warner. Bertha had 4 children and died, then Peter married Bertha Nagle [she had a son, Francis] and she died. He then married Scotia Mitchell Miller and they had two children. Marilyn Kline Washington -----Original Message----- From: JCTripp <[email protected]> To: marilyn <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 12:44 am Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Brain Fever Hi Marilyn, Ah this is Bertha Warner, dau of William Warner. I have William Warner's brother Charlie Warner married to Barbara Miller. Their granddaughter, Helen Albright (dau of Adam Albright Jr & Ada Warner), was my grandfather's 2nd wife. My line is with his 1st wife, so there is no relation here, but Mom had a good memory of her Albright step-mother & aunts AND the Albrights seemed to have the oral family history so I recorded them for Mom. I did purchase the 5 vol set of marriages & deaths from the Cambria Tribune, but vol 5 ends 1885, so no help there. Without death certs or obits with really good info, this seems to be one of those we'll never really know situations. By the way, I looked everywhere for an answer to your Snargozzle Hastings and found nothing so I didn't reply. I did read in the 1890 Atlas that C. A. Gray was the proprietor of Gray's Hotel in Millerstown, or East Hastings. Regards, Jane Peter A Kline married [PaCambria website marriage list] 1st) Bertha M Warner in 1903; 1910 census has Bertha mother to 4/3 living - Mary E b cir 1905; Edna R b cir 1907 & son Germain b cir 1908. 2nd) Bertha T Nagle in 1911; 1920 census has Peter as a widower with Warner's 3 children (listed above) & Florence b cir 1913; George b cir 1915 & Martha b cir 1917. Also in the household is the widow Scotia Miller and her 4 children - Agnes b cir 1909; Evelyn b cir 1912; Nellie b cir 1915 & Lawrence b cir 1917. 3rd) 1920 Scotia B Mitchell Miller [her name & her 1st husband's name from one of your e mails] in 1930; Akron Ohio census has Peter A & Scotia B and son Germain [1909] - (with Warner); son George [1915] (with Nagle); dau Martha [1917] (with Nagle); son Paul [1922] (with Scotia); dau Roseleen M [1924] (with Scotia); step-dau Evelyn A. Miller [1912] (of Scotia & Edgar Wm); step-dau Nellie J Miller [1915] (of Scotia & Edgar Wm); step-son Lawrence Miller [1917] (of Scotia & Edgar Wm) >From one of your emails 07 Feb 2005 you wrote - - Bertha Warner died of "softening of the brain" Bertha Nagle died of "heart trouble" You may now have more updated info of "brain fever" for both gals. softening of the brain is another term - one definition has due to hemorrhage or inflammation, usually indicates symptoms of a stroke. Peter had married #1 Bertha Warner,and they had four children before she died of "softening of the brain." He then married Bertha T. Nagle, and they had four children before she died of heart problems. Before her marriage to Peter, she had a son whom Peter wished to adopt, but the son stayed with her parents. Peter advertised for a housekeeper by sending out postcards with a picture of him and his children. When Scotia moved into the house with her four children, he built on an addition. Peter was a carpenter for the mines. Peter and Scotia had two children of their own, and moved to Akron during the Depression. Peter A Kline married [PaCambria website marriage list] 1st) Bertha M Warner in 1903; 1910 census has Bertha mother to 4/3 living - Mary E b cir 1905; Edna R b cir 1907 & son Germain b cir 1908. 2nd) Bertha T Nagle in 1911; 1920 census has Peter as a widower with Warner's 3 children (listed above) & Florence b cir 1913; George b cir 1915 & Martha b cir 1917. Also in the household is the widow Scotia Miller and her 4 children - Agnes b cir 1909; Evelyn b cir 1912; Nellie b cir 1915 & Lawrence b cir 1917. 3rd) 1920 Scotia B Mitchell Miller [her name & her 1st husband's name from one of your e mails] in 1930; Akron Ohio census has Peter A & Scotia B and son Germain [1909] - (with Warner); son George [1915] (with Nagle); dau Martha [1917] (with Nagle); son Paul [1922] (with Scotia); dau Roseleen M [1924] (with Scotia); step-dau Evelyn A. Miller [1912] (of Scotia & Edgar Wm); step-dau Nellie J Miller [1915] (of Scotia & Edgar Wm); step-son Lawrence Miller [1917] (of Scotia & Edgar Wm) >From one of your emails 07 Feb 2005 you wrote - - Bertha Warner died of "softening of the brain" Bertha Nagle died of "heart trouble" You may now have more updated info of "brain fever" for both gals. softening of the brain is another term - one definition has due to hemorrhage or inflammation, usually indicates symptoms of a stroke. Peter had married #1 Bertha Warner,and they had four children before she died of "softening of the brain." He then married Bertha T. Nagle, and they had four children before she died of heart problems. Before her marriage to Peter, she had a son whom Peter wished to adopt, but the son stayed with her parents. Peter advertised for a housekeeper by sending out postcards with a picture of him and his children. When Scotia moved into the house with her four children, he built on an addition. Peter was a carpenter for the mines. Peter and Scotia had two children of their own, and moved to Akron during the Depression. ----- Original Message ----- From: marilyn To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 8:11 PM Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Brain Fever Both women were named Bertha, Bertha Warner and Bertha Nagle. Both married my g-uncle Peter, both had 4 children before dying. "Brain Fever" is what was written in the church records, and no one knew any more than that. Nervous Breakdown and Brain Fever were listed as synonyms in an dictionary of diseases that someone sent to me. Didn't seem too likely to me, either. Marilyn Kline Washington -----Original Message----- From: JCTripp <[email protected]> To: pacambri <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Sep 9, 2011 9:01 pm Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Brain Fever Hi Marilyn, Please tell me if your g-aunts died in Cambria Co (and perhaps neighbors that both picked up the same infection) and approximate dates. I did see meningitis, brain fever, and inflammation of the brain used as causes of death in the latest (1880) Cambria Co mortality schedule. In other on line cause of death lists, the authors say "brain fever" has been used to describe meningitis, encephalitis and occasionally heat troke. Did not see that "brain fever" and a "nervous breakdown" were interchangeable terms. Depending on the year of death, the death certificate might list "immediate cause of death" and a separate "due to" diagnosis . You probably won't be ble to determine which disease the brain fever term is referring to without that information and even then you still may never know. egards, Jane Tripp ---- Original Message ----- rom: marilyn o: [email protected] ent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 8:02 PM ubject: [PACAMBRI] Brain Fever I found the death certificates [actually cause of death listed in church records.] Two of my g-aunts had "brain fever" listed as the cause f death. Both women were in their 20s and had four healthy children. Recently I read a phrase in a novel that said someone died of "brain fever" and then said "what we would today call a nervous breakdown." That oes not make sense to me. Anyone know the answer? arilyn Kline Washington - - - - - - - - -