Thomas B., son of Daniel and Christiana (Loughner) Delo, was born in Clarion, September 17, 1848. He was educated in the common schools, academy, and Carrier Seminary of Clarion. He taught a term of school in Leatherwood; clerked for some time in Thomas Moffit’s store, then for Nathan Myers in Clarion, and then worked in the Clarion Democrat office at printing. He went to Altoona. Pennsylvania, in September, 1869, as clerk for the P.R.R. Company. He was married in 1871 to Theodocia E. Moore, daughter of Johnston and Maria Moore, of Altoona, Pennsylvania. By this union there were two children: Ray B. Delo, now assistant cashier of the Second National Bank of Elmira, New York, who married Lily Mason, daughter of W.C. Mason; they have one child, Eleanor Louisa. Dr. J. Moore Delo, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; married a daughter of Mr. Hadfield, of Philadelphia, no children. After the decease of the mother of these children, Thomas B. Delo married Clara Adell Van Gorder, daughter of Jacob and Amanda M. Van Gorder, of Elmira, New York, and granddaughter of Colonel E.C. Frost, of Schuyler county, New York. There were no children by this union. Thomas B. Delo moved from Altoona, Pennsylvania, to Elmira, New York, as clerk for the Northern Central Railroad, and has continued in the employ of that company. He is a Presbyterian, and has been choir leader in Altoona and Elmira.
