ciating the conditions under which the medal should be awarded were promulgated. They emphasized the difficulty of winning the decoration and the great honor attaching to its possession.

In order that the Congressional Medal of Honor may be deserved, service must have been performed in action of such conspicuous character as to clearly distinguish the man for gallantry and intrepidity above his comrades, service that involved extreme jeopardy of life or the performance of extraordinarily hazardous duty. In other words, the Medal of Honor is a medal for super-heroes, for men who not only risk their lives in some extraordinary way, but who display such intelligence in the action that it stands out as something apart from conduct in the line of duty. Executive orders prescribe the way in which the medal may be gained. Recommendations for the medal will be judged by this standard of extraordinary merit, and incontestible proof of performance of the service will be exacted.

Among the men who have earned the Medal of Honor are Gen. Leonard Wood, Gen. J. Franklin Bell, Gen. W. H. Carter, Gen. Albert L. Mills, Gen. Earnest A. Garlington, Gen. Hugh Scott, the late Gen. Frederick Funston and the late Admiral George Dewey.

(144) WILLIAM YOUNG SIGGINS, b. December 14, 1835, at Tionesta, Pa., d. March 15, 1904, at Tidioute, Pa.; m. May 1861, at Stewarts Run, Pa.

Hannah Malinda Allender (1196). See Allender family. b. July 2, 1834, at Stewarts Run, Pa. Children: 159. i.

163. ii.

Dr. JACOB Siggins", b. December 13, 1863, at Tidioute, Pa.; married three times, his third wife was living in 1912. Children:

EARL Siggins',

ii. RALPH Siggins',

iii. CLYDE Siggins'.

ELIZABETH Anne Siggins", b. May 10, 1866, at Stewarts Run, Pa.; m. Sept. 3, 1885, at Stewarts Run, Pa.

164.

164a.

164b.

164c.

165.

166.

Joseph Clark Scowden, b. Oct. 11, 1857, at Meadville, Pa. Children:

i. FLORA Leona Scowden', b. June 16, 1886; m. December 22, 1908;

Albert William Zahnleiter, a civil engineer, b. 1885, at New Britian, Conn. Children: i. ANNE Jane Zahnleiters, b. Oct. 19, 1909. ii. ALBERT William Zahnleiters, b. Apr. 11, 1913.

iii. BERTHA Emma Zahnleiters, b. Aug. 22,
1915.

ii. MARY Essie Scowden', b. April 14, 1889.
iii. BERTHA Elizabeth Scowden', b. May 29,
1892.

(148) NATHANIEL SIMPSON SIGGINS, b. August 1841, at Tionesta, Pa.; d. January 26, 1893, at Bradford, Pa.; m.

Amanda M. Switzer, b. November 1912. Children:

167. i.

168.

169. ii.

170. iii.

171. iv.

172.

172a.

1839; d. May 9,

ESTELLA May Siggins", b. May 6, 1864; m.
June 22, 1885;

Walter Scott Churchill, of Kansas City, Mo., b.
June, 1855; (a son of Henry and Caroline
(McMasters) Churchill). Children:

LEATHA Estell Churchill', b. June 23, 1893. HARRY Scott Siggins", Manager of the "Siggins Stock Company." He is known from coast to coast as a talented actor, in high class vaudeville plays.

PERCY Wallace Siggins", b. March 18, 1879, at Branford, Pa.

MERTA E. Siggins", b. March 27, 1882; m. 1893;

William Fossel Noxon, of Bradford, Pa. Children: i. NANCY Alice Noxon, b. October 12, 1911. ii. WILLIAM Fossel Noxon, Jr.'.