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ALFRED G. LOYD, paymaster of the Spang Steel & Iron company, Sharpsburg, was born in Etna, Allegheny county, Pa., January 19, 1860, a son of Alfred G. Loyd, who was a practical iron-man, and for many years superintendent of the Etna Iron-works, now known as Spang, Chalfant & Co. Alfred, Sr., entered the employ of that company in the capacity of clerk, and rose to the position of superintendent by his knowledge of the iron business. He married Julia Fitzgerald, who bore him two sons and two daughters. No man in his day was probably more widely known in Allegheny county than Mr. Loyd. He was for a number of years revenue collector, and was regimental quartermaster of the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania regiment. Alfred G., 2d, was educated at the schools of Massachusetts, and took up a preparatory course at Harvard, but on account of ill-health abandoned his studies. In 1881 he entered the employ of the Spang Steel & Iron company at Sharpsburg, as clerk at the works at that place, which position he now holds. He married, in 1884, Bertha A. Petereins, and has one daughter and one son. Mr. Loyd is a member of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church; is a member of the Jr. O. U. A. M., S. V., A. O. K. of M. C. and K. O. T. M. He was elected school director in 1888; politically he is a democrat.