Samuel Porter, son of Daniel and Christiana (Loughner) Delo, was born May 1, 1830, in Beaver township, Clarion county. He was married twice, and has a son William by his first wife, who lives in North Baltimore; he is a locomotive engineer on the B. & O. R. R. A son by his second wife lives in Los Angeles, California, with his mother. Samuel P. Delo was a violinist and an expert on nearly all musical instruments. He had a common school education, and became a locomotive engineer on the P. R. R. between Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne. In an accident his arm was broken; after recovery he enlisted in Pittsburgh in the first call for volunteers in the civil war. After serving his term he re-enlisted and became a recruiting sergeant, when he was appointed chief clerk in the provost marshal’s office in Meadville, where he remained up to the close of the war. He then traveled for a number of years as a canvasser. Last he was employed as timekeeper for the Southern Pacific R. R. at Birmingham, Alabama, where he died in 1893.
