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GENEALOGICAL AND
PERSONAL HISTORY
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FAYETTE COUNTY, ·
PENNSYLVANIA
UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
JOHN W. JORDAN, LL.D. Librarian of Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia
AND
JAMES HADDEN,
of Uniontown, Pennsylvania; author of "Washington and Braddock's Expeditions Through Fayette County," and the reproductions of Judge James Veech's work entitled "The Monongahela of Old, or Historical Sketches of Southwestern Pennsylvania to the Year 1800"
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· West Virginia. He owned a large estate, but was not a slave holder. He married Lyda Travitt, also born in Virginia, where both died leaving issue: I. Anna, married Joseph Young, a gunsmith, and resides in West Virginia. 2. Aaron, now residing in Fayette county ; he married a Miss Work- man. 3. Mary, married John Allen, a far- mer of Fayette county. 4. Martin, a miner of Fayette county, married and has issue. 5. William, of whom further.
(II) William, son of Aaron F. and Lyda (Travitt) Haney, was born in Marshall county, West Virginia, February 2, 1839, died in Putnam county, Virginia, February 2, 1889. He grew to manhood in Marshall county, receiving his education in the school of his neighborhood. He was a coal miner until his enlistment in a West Virginia regi- ment, serving two years in the Union army, during the war between the states. After the war he came to Fayette county, Pennsyl- vania, locating at Dawson. He worked in the Brown and Cochran coal mines until 1887, then moved to Putnam county, Vir- ginia, on the Big Kanawha river, where he died two years later. Both William Haney and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married Harriet Workman, born in Marshall county, West Virginia, in Septem- ber, 1842, who survives him. She is a daughter of Joshua and Rebecca Workman, born in Virginia, who lived on a farm in that state until death. Their children : I. Robert, deceased, was a miner of Fayette county ; married Jane Norris. 2. Ebenezer, a miner, now living in Charleroi, Pennsylvania ; mar- ried Mary Norris. 3. Harriet, of previous mention, widow of William Haney. 4. A son died young. 5. A daughter died young. Children of William and Harriet Haney : I. Henry, died aged two years. 2. Rebecca, married Henry Huffini, a miner, now re- siding at Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania. 3. Aaron, died aged twelve years. 4. John W., of whom further. 5. Lyda, married Wesley Goe, a fire boss in the employ of the W. J. Rainey Company at their mines near Van- derbilt. 6. Sarah, residing with her aged mother. 7. Job, unmarried, a railroad em- plovee in Ohio.
(III) John W., son of William and Har-
riet (Workman) Haney, was born in East Liberty, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1866. He attended the public schools in Lower Tyrone township, Fayette coun- ty, Pennsylvania, having previously attend- ed in Putnam county, Virginia. He re- turned to the latter county in 1887 with his parents, remaining until his father's death in 1889. In 1890 he came to Jimtown, Fay- ette county, Pennsylvania, where for seven years he worked in the coal mines in dif- ferent capacities. He was a clerk in hotels at Dawson and Brownsville, continuing in that business for three years. He then en- tered the employ of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad as brakeman, and after four years service was promoted to the position of conductor. After five years service as conductor he was appointed yard master at Dickerson Run, which position he now holds. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the United Brotherhood of Trainmen and of the Knights of Malta. He married, January 11, 1899, Ida M. Ramsey, born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, daugh- ter of John and Mary Ramsey, both de- ceased. John Ramsey was a contracting stone mason, moved to Dawson, Fayette county, where he died. Children of John W. Haney: Charles, born June 10, 1900; Donald. April 23. 1902; Gladys, March 7, 1904; Margaret, December 27, 1007; Mil- dred, twin of Margaret. The family home is in Liberty, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Haney built a residence in 1906.
RANDOL Five generations of this fam- ily have resided in America. The first of these generations emigrated from Ireland, and nothing much is known of that and the succeeding genera- tion in America. The third generation was represented by George Randol, who married Mary Kennedy, and both were natives of what is now northern West Virginia. He was a farmer, and later in life removed to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, where he died. George Randol and wife were the parents of seven children, as follows: I. Samuel, who lived in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania ; he served in the Federal army in time of the civil war. 2. William, also served in the Union cause in the civil war, after which he
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resided in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Alexander, served in the Confederate army. 4. F- was a well-to-do farmer. 5. Robert, was a farmer. 6. Jane, married and lived near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 7. Jo- seph, of whom further. The above family were all reared and lived on the old home farm until after the civil war when they became much scattered, most of them going to Allegheny county, Pennsylvania.
(IV) Joseph, son of George and Mary (Kennedy) Randol, was born near Fair- mont, West Virginia, in July, 1832, died in September, 1904. He was reared on a farm where he remained with his father until the breaking out of the civil war, when he engaged as a deck hand on a river boat. Later he returned to farm life where he spent the remainder of his days. Politically he was a Democrat, and in his church faith was a Methodist Episcopalian. He married Hannah Elizabeth Rodabaugh, born in Pres- ton county, Virginia, near the north line of the state, in August, 1825. She was of German descent, the family coming from the Fatherland, she being of the fourth genera- tion in America. The parents were sturdy farmers, and both natives of West Virginia. Joseph and Hannah Elizabeth (Rodabaugh) Randol had five children as follows: I. Maggie, married John Shaffer, a farmer now living in Monongahela county, West Virginia. 2. George A., of whom further. 3. and 4. (twins) William, deceased, married Almeda Hostetler and was the father of four children ; he was a railroad man. Frances, married Will Mollison ; she is now deceased. 5. Sarah, married Robert Dean and they re- side in Monongahela county, West Virginia, on a farm.
(V) George A., son of Josephand Hannah Elizabeth (Rodabaugh) Randol, was born February 19, 1858, near Morgantown, West Virginia. He was educated in the common schools of West Virginia, and at the age of twenty-one years commenced to mine coal at the old White mines in Fayette coun- ty, Pennsylvania. He gave all of his time up to the years of his majority to his father, then started in life for himself. Many years he dug coal, drew coke and was variously engaged in the mines of the Rainey Coal Company. In 1886 he went to the Fort Hill
works above Dawson, where he has gener- ally been engaged ever since in mining oper- ations. In 1900 he was promoted to yard boss at Fort Hill and still holds this posi- tion. He is thoroughly posted in most of the details in coal mining and shipping. He votes the Democratic ticket, nationally, but locally chooses the best man, regardless of party lines. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Wood- men and keeps abreast with the workings of these two orders. He married, March 15, 1884, Mary Jacobs, born near Laurel Hill Church, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, May I, 1856, daughter of John and Jane (Hainey) Jacobs, both natives of Fayette county. Her father is a farmer by occupation.
DULIERE The Duliere family of Point Marion, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, were origin- ally from Belgium, Europe, where Henry Duliere was born, a son of Leopold Duliere, of Ransart, Belgium, a contractor of mason work, and his wife, Marie Oome (Quinet) Duliere. Their children were: Fannie, Ono- rine, Joseph, Henry, Pierre, Louis, Paul, Lu- cien, Fortune.
(II) Henry, son of Leopold Duliere, was born in the town of Jumet, Belgium, Au- gust 16, 1838, died in Meadville, Pennsyl- vania, July 21, 1886. He was a window glass worker and until 1882 worked at his trade in his native land. In March of that year he emigrated to the United States, locating in Meadville, Pennsylvania. In the summer of the same year he sent for his fmily, and on September 15, 1882, his wife and five chil- dren sailed from Antwerp, Belgium, land- ing in New York, September 30, reaching Meadville, October 4, following. The fam- ily kept together until 1886 when Henry Duliere, the father, died. He had become a naturalized citizen, voted with the Repub- lican party, and was a Catholic in religion. He married Olphonsine Dufour, born in Jumet, Belgium, October II, 1844, who sur- vives him. She is a daughter of Nicholas Joseph and Henriette (Lechien) Dufour, both native Belgians. Children of Henry and Olphonsine Duliere : 1. Angele, born at Ju- met, Belgium, September 2, 1864. 2. Florise, born in Jemappes, Belgium, (also the birth
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place of all the following children). 3. Estel, born March 6, 1869, died January 26, 1870. 4. Este Zoe, June 9, 1871. 5. Olphonsine Blanche, September 18, 1873. 6. Gaston George, April 12, 1876. These five children all accompanied their mother to the United States and joined their father in Meadville. (III) Florise, eldest son of Henry and Olphonsine (Dufour) Duliere, was born May 25, 1867, at Jemappes, Province of Hainant, Belgium. He was educated in the public schools, and was fifteen years of age when the family came over to the United States.
He began his residence in Meadville, Penn- sylvania, October 4, 1882, continuing there seven years. He learned the glass blower's trade and worked at window glass making until 1907. His father died in 1886 and in 1889 he moved to Findlay, Ohio, working at his trade in that city four years. In 1893 he moved to Dunkirk, Indiana, remaining there seven years. In 1900 he located in Point Marion, Fayette county, Pennsyl- vania, where he established in business as a manufacturer of window glass. In 1902 he was elected secretary of the Jeannette Win- dow Glass Company, and since 1908 has been manager of the company. He has been very successful as a glass manufacturer and is the capable efficient manager of a pros- perous enterprise. He was one of the organ- izers and since August 9, 1909, a director of the People's National Bank of Point Marion.
He is a Republican in politics and in 1908 was elected a member of the borough council. He is a communicant of the Metho- dist Episcopal church, and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
He married, June 10, 1892, at New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, Or- lena Sherwood, born there, December 21, 1874, daughter of William Sherwood, a pot- tery manufacturer, and his wife, Esther E. (Couch) Sherwood. She has a brother, John Snellingburg Sherwood, and a sister, Mae Olive, married George Cable. . Children of Mr. and Mrs. Duliere, born at Point Marion, Pennsylvania: Sherwood Florise, born Au- gust 20, 1903; William Henry, January 21, 1908.
The present representative McSHANE of this family in South Union township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, although born in the state of Iowa, descends from an early Fay- ette county settler, Daniel McShane, born in Ireland, who accompanied by his wife, Jane (McDonald) McShane, came from the north of Ireland to America in 1780, settling in New Jersey, later coming to Fayette coun- ty, Pennsylvania. He had two sons: John, Barney, of whom further.
(II) Barney, son of Daniel and Jane (Mc- Donald) McShane, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1799, died in Linn county, Iowa, in 1879. Accompanied by his family, he removed to Iowa in 1852. He married Betsy Romine, a native of Virginia, whose death occurred in 1880. Children, all of whom are deceased but John : Frank, Luther, Jacob, William, of whom further ; David, Eliza, John, Porter.
(III) William, son of Barney and Betsy (Romine) McShane, was born in Wood- bridgetown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1829, died October 29, 1898, in German township. He was his father's as- sistant on the farm and in his stock dealings. He attended the public schools, receiving a fair education. He accompanied his father to Iowa remaining until 1865, then returned to Fayette county, settling in North Union, later in German township, where he became a farmer, also engaged in the buying and shipping of live stock. He was a good judge of cattle and made his business a profitable
one. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Baptist church. He married, in 1852, Elizabeth Hurst, born in Georges township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Nathaniel Hurst, a farmer and miller at what is now Ruble's Mills near Smithfield. He died in Uniontown in 1875, aged eighty years. He married Mary Eliza Wells. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Hurst: I. Sarah, married Thomas Batton. 2. Eliza- beth, of previous mention, died April 15, 1875, aged forty-five years. 3. Julia, mar- ried Lee Tate. 4. Isaac, married Catherine Griffin. 5. Rebecca, married Joseph Baker. 6. Martha, married William Rankin. 7. Porter, killed when a boy, while hauling logs. 8. Frances, married Stephen Hankins.
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Children of Mr. and Mrs. McShane : 1. Mary, born May 27, 1896; student in Uniontown married Hugh Cameron and lives in Linn high school. county, Iowa. 2. Elizabeth, lives in Union- town. 3. Anna, deceased. married George Strouble, now a farmer of German town- ship. 4. William, of whom further. 5. Julia, married Edward Porter, now assistant su- perintendent of the Union Supply Company at Uniontown. 6. John, died 1878, aged thirteen years. 7. Martha, married William Grove, a farmer of German township. 8. Porter, married Annie Mosier.
(IV) William (2), son of William (1) and Elizabeth (Hurst) McShane, was born near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 11, 1861. He was four years of age when his father re- turned to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, set- tling first in North Union township, later lived in other parts of the county, William attending different public schools. After growing to man's estate he spent seven years in Iowa and Colorado, farming and working in the gold mines. He then returned to Fayette county, spending three years in German township, then was five years in Uniontown. He then located on a farm in South Union township, where he is now living. He is a stockholder and for three years was a director of the Buchanan Coal & Coke Company of West Virginia. He has served as school director, the pres- ent being the fifth vear in that office. He is a Democrat in politics, and with his wife belongs to the Baptist church : is a Master Mason of Mahaska Lodge, New Sharon, Iowa.
He married, December 10, 1890, Anna Vail, born in Menallen township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Abraham Vail, of Welsh descent, a farmer of Menallen township, later of Iowa, where he died August 18, 1887. aged fifty-six years. He married Ellen Dixon, also born in Menallen township, who survives him, now living at New Sherwood, Iowa, aged seventy-two years. Children of Mr. and Mrs. McShane : I. Elizabeth, born November 9, 1892 ; a stu- dent at Vassar College, where she recently won signal honor in a discussion of the now vital question, Initiative, Referendum and Recall. 2. Edward, born August 2, 1894; student at Uniontown high school. 3. Ruth,
This family is of Irish de- McHUGH scent, the first record being of Bernard McHugh, born at Yellow Creek, Bedford county, Pennsyl- vania. He became interested in canal trans- portation and owned several boats. He died when comparatively a young man, and when his children were quite small, conse- quently little record can be obtained of him. He has a brother Edward living in Cambria county, Pennsylvania. Bernard McHugh married Elizabeth Sweeny, born in Hunt- ington county, now Blair county, Pennsyl- vania. Children : Edward, Albert and Will- iam A., the latter the only survivor of his family.
(II) William A., son of Bernard and Elizabeth (Sweeny) McHugh, was born at Hollidaysburg, Blair county, Pennsylvania, December 7, 1850. He was educated in the public schools of Blair and Huntington counties, adding to his knowledge by much study outside of his early years in school. His youth, after his father's death, was spent in Huntington county and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His early employment was with a butcher, and later he became a coal miner in Huntington county. In 1868 he came to Fayette county, locating in Con- nellsville, working in the mines and at coke burning for several years. In 1873 he opened a meat market in Connellsville, continuing successfully until 1883, when he disposed of his business. From 1884 until 189t he was engaged in the hotel business in Connells- ville. In 1893 he purchased the Central Hotel in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. In 1894 became proprietor of the McClelland House in Uniontown, continuing until 1898. In 1900 he organized the Fayette Brewing Company, of which he is vice-president and manager. He is also interested in the de- velopment of coal lands and other business investments. He is a Democrat in politics, and in Connellsville served on the school board. He is a member of the Roman Cath- olic church and of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks.
He married, September 18, 1876, Mar- garet, daughter of Francis McGrath, of Erie,
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Pennsylvania. Children : I. Francis D., now a resident of Uniontown. 2. Anna, mar- ried Dr. P. A. Larkin, of Uniontown. 3. Albert J., of whom further. 4. Margaret, re- siding at home. 5. William A., Jr., now a physician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. 6. Edward L., a student at St. Vincent's Col- lege, near Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
(III) Albert James, son of William Arm- istead and Margaret (McGrath) McHugh, was born at Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1881. When he was ten years old he removd with his father to Erie, Pennsylvania, but they after- ward returned to Fayette county and lived at Uniontown. At Erie and at Uniontown he attended the public schools. After leav- ing school and until 1901 he was a clerk in his father's hotel at Uniontown. His fa- ther having sold the hotel and organized the Fayette Brewing Company. he joined his fa- ther in the management of the brewery. In 1910 he came to Fairchance, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where he conducts one of the best hotels in the county. He was from 1896 to 1900 a noted bicyclist, and won many prizes and medals in contests in western Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Cath- olic Mutual Benefit Association, and an hon- orary member of Uniontown Lodge, Ben- ovelent and Protective Order of Elks. All the family are members of St. John's Roman Catholic Church, at Uniontown.
He married, April 27. 1903, Katharine, daughter of Leopold and Katharine (Beck- er) Kuth. Her paternal grandparents, John and Theresa (Kleinmacht) Kuth, were born in Baden, Germany, and married in Ger- many, in 1838. Several years later they came to the United States. They settled in Cleve- land, Ohio, but after a short stay in Amer- ica returned to Germany, where John Kuth died in 1893. Children, so far as known to us: I. Leopold, was a baker at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1870, but removed to Uniontown, where he followed the same trade. We suppose him also to have been born in Germany, and to be the older of these brothers. He married. November 4, 1869, Katharine, daughter of John and Kath- arine (Steinmetz) Becker, who was born in Kittanning, Armstrong county, Pennsyl-
vania, April 18, 1851. John Becker was a stonemason, builder, and contractor of Kit- tanning ; both he and his wife were of Ger- man birth. Children of Leopold and Kath- arine (Becker) Kuth: Mary; Katharine, married Albert James McHugh ; William, Alice, Charles, Rose, Josephine, Clara, Ger- trude, Amelia, Leona. 2. John, born in Baden, July 1, 1850; came to the United States in 1864, married, July 24, 1883, Eliza- beth Becker.
Children of Albert James and Katharine (Kuth) McHugh : Katharine, born Jan- uary 19, 1904; Margaret, September 20, 1906; Albert James, born June 25, 1909, died December 10, 1910.
The first Chalfant of the
CHALFANT line herein recorded to ap- pear in Fayette county
was Chads Chalfant, who came from Chester county, Pennsylvania. The Chalfants of that county descend from John Chalfant, who ob- tained a warrant for two hundred and fifty acres of land in Rockland Manor, October 22, 1701, having settled there two years pre- viously. He died in August, 1725, leaving sons John and Robert. Chads Chalfant sprang from this family, and probably ob- tained his name from the marriage of his father with a daughter of the Chads family of Chads' Ford, Chester county. The Chads descend from Francis Chads, who came from Wiltshire, England, in 1684, and after his second marriage in 1695 to Grace Marple settled on the Brandywine, at the ford that bears the family name Chads' Ford. His son, John Chads, built the old stone house at the north end of the village of Chads' Ford and established a ferry across the creek. This name is also written Chadds, Chadsey and Chadsi, but the emigrant wrote it Chads. The intermarriage between the families cannot be given, but the supposition is strong that in that way the name Chads came into the Chalfant family.
(I) Chads Chalfant was born at Chads' Ford, Chester county, Pennsylvania, about 1750. He grew to manhood there and mar- ried, then with his bride started westward in search of land and a home, even though it was to be in the wild and unsettled coun- try. He located in Brownsville township,
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where he and a Nathan Chalfant both owned farm land. When the village (now bor- ough) of Brownsville was first started they were buyers of several lots. In 1788 Chads Chalfant had a farm one mile from the vil- lage, but was the owner of several town lots. In 1804 he donated to the Methodist Epis- copal church the lot on which their church stood, and also owned a lot opposite the Ma- sonic Hall. His name appears in a list of "Taxables in Brownsville in 1818," although he always remained on the farm. Nathan Chalfant lived in the village and carried on boat building. Chads Chalfant was a wheel- wright by trade and probably had his shop on the farm, as he is not named among those in business in the village. He was a mem- ber of the Masonic order, worshipful master of Brownsville Lodge No. 60, that com- menced work January 23, 1794, under a dispensation of the Grand Lodge of Penn- sylvania. On June 14, 1811, he sold for fifty dollars the lot on Church street where the Masonic Hall was erected in 1834. He was a devoted Methodist, an exhorter and local preacher. He hewed and hauled the logs of which the first church was built, and was buried in the rear of the stone church that followed the rude one of logs. The pulpit in the present First Methodist Episcopal Church of Brownsville is directly over his remains. His wife, a Miss McManna, was an intensely devout, pious woman, and had read the Bible through fifty times. She read it through once on bended knees, assuming that attitude of prayer at each reading. The Chalfant home was much used for re- ligious meetings, and was a favorite stop- ping place for itinerant ministers of the gospel. They had one daughter, Elizabeth, who married Wesley McCracken. Their sons were James, Robert, Mordecai, Abner, Basil and Walter B.
(II) Walter Brown, son of Chads Chal- fant, was born in Brownsville township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1794, died October 16, 1865. He was a farmer of Jefferson township, and a man of strong deep, religious temperament. He was a de- voted Methodist, and like his parents most hospitable and generous in entertaining the ministers who came to his neighborhood. He was a strong abolitionist, and fought earn-
estly against human slavery; otherwise he was very independent in politics and not bound by any party prejudice. He married, March 24, 1816, Mollie Budd Brown, born at Mount Holly, New Jersey, December 9, 1793, died May 25, 1875. Children : Eliza, born February 8, 1817; Chads (2), born October 1, 1818 (q. v.) ; Samuel B., Septem- ber 24, 1820; James W., of whom further; Fletcher F., May 8, 1825; Henry Swatzer, March 23, 1828; Margaret, December 19, 1829; Charles B., October 21, 1832; William B., January 17, 1835; Duncan, October 25, 1836; Anna Swatzer, February II, 1840.
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