Armstrong County, Pennsylvania her people past and present, embracing a history of the county and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families, Volume II, Part 39

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 618


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William McMains, son of John and Mar- garet (Kinkaid) McMains, was a carpenter and builder, and was particularly skilled as a manufacturer of grain cradles. About 1843 he moved with his family to the Mononga- hela river, between that time and 1863 liv- ing along and near the river at several loca- tions, between Glassport and Peters Creek. He died at the age of fifty-six years, near Elizabeth, Armstrong county. His wife, Mary Ann (Moore), was a daughter of Wil- liam and Nancy (Wallace) Moore, the for- mer of whom came from Ireland with his parents at the age of four years, and lived on a farm in Baldwin township, Allegheny Co., Pa. Mr. and Mrs. William Moore had children as follows: James, who married Ann Hamilton; Hannah, Mrs. Thomas Large; Mary Ann, Mrs. McMains; Jane, Mrs. John Willock; Samuel, who married Elizabeth Stewart; William, who was twice Dec. 1, 1910. married, first to Margaret Cowen (there were


no children by the second union) ; Eliza, wife ried, by Rev. Samuel Jamison, to Joanna Reid, of Robert Curry; and Sarah, Mrs. Joseph McGibbony.


To William McMains and his wife were born six children: John K., Jesse Moore, William Wallace, Samantha (married W. C. Pollock), Mary E. and Sarah (who never married).


Jesse Moore McMains, son of William, was born June 12, 1839, near White Hall, in Bald- win township, Allegheny county. As pre- viously stated, his parents moved to the Monongahela river about 1843, living along and near the river at several places between Glassport and Peters Creek during the time he remained at home, until 1863. Meantime, after beginning work, he engaged in coal digging during the winter season, and in the


summer time followed the carpenter's trade and building. On May II, 1863, he entered the employ of Thomas Fergus, at Elizabeth, becoming a salesman, and he was with Mr. Fergus in that capacity for eleven years, dur- ing which time he kept his books for about ten years. He had attended Duff's business col- lege, at Pittsburgh, from which he was gradu- ated in 1862, and he has for many years given instruction in penmanship, being one of the best teachers in that art in this district. He continued his connection with the mercantile business until his retirement in 1910. Mr. Mc- Mains has always been an active man, and he has had numerous interests. Like his father he was a well-known singer, and they were popular choir leaders in the United Presby- terian Church for many years. On Aug. 29, 1863, Jesse M. McMains and his sister Saman- tha (Mrs. Pollock) united with the Bethesda congregation, at Elizabeth, their parents join- ing by letter from Mckeesport congregation at the same time. This was under the pastorate of Rev. Samuel Jamison. On Feb. 8, 1871, Mr. McMains was elected to the office of rul- ing elder in Bethesda congregation, was or- dained May 22, 1871, and has served continu- ously since-a period of over forty-two years. He was elected treasurer of the congrega- tion Jan. 22, 1881, and with the exception of three years continued in that office until Sept. I, 1901. He has been in the public service in the borough of Elizabeth, having been elected councilman Oct. 13, 1869, and served one term; for six and a half years he was a school director, and during that time acted as secretary of the board. He was clerk of the council for five and two thirds years, resigning


On July 4, 1865, Mr. McMains was mar- who was born Nov. 16, 1841, daughter of Thomas H. and Elizabeth Patterson Reid, and died Jan. 16, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. MeMains had the following children : Samuel Jamison ; Eleanora Patterson, born Dec. 15, 1868, who is married to L. B. Worley, Esq., of Pitts- burgh, Pa .; William, born Sept. 19, 1870, who died Sept. 23, 1886; Jesse Moore, Jr., born Nov. 14, 1875, a United Presbyterian minister now located at Springdale, Pa .; Van McKins- try, born Jan. 6, 1885, who was well educated, taught school for several years, and is now traveling in the South.


Thomas H. Reid, father of Mrs. Jesse M .: McMains, was a native of Southampton coun- ty, Va., born Feb. 22, 1795, and died Jan. I, 1861. His wife, Elizabeth Patterson, born


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April 27, 1800, died Feb. 4, 1894. They had a director of the Kiskiminetas Agricultural two children: Joanna, wife of Jesse M. Mc- and Driving Association; organizer of the Mains; and Sarah Elizabeth, born March 2, Eureka Natural Gas Company, operating near 1845, who died May 15, 1855.


William and Sarah Patterson, parents of Mrs. Elizabeth (Patterson) Reid, were born in 1760 and 1769, respectively, and died in 1830 and 1814, respectively. Their children were born as follows: David, 1791 (died 1837) ; Mary, 1793 (died 1872) ; Martha, 1795 (died 1884) ; Sarah, 1798 (died 1884) ; Elizabeth, 1800 (died 1894) ; Nancy, 1802 (died 1882) ; Eleanor, 1804 (died 1894) ; William, 1806; borough council for several years, was a mem- James, 1808 (died 1888) ; Jeremiah, 1810; Joanna, 1812 (died 1851). This family lived in Fayette county, Pa., and when General La- Fayette made his last tour through this coun- try they entertained him, at or near Tippe- canoe, that county. These eleven children were nephews and nieces of Gov. Jeremiah Morrow of Ohio, the first United States senator from Ohio, who served twenty-one years in that office. He went to Washington on horseback. On his return he was informed of his elec- tion as governor of Ohio, and served from 1822 to 1826. His only picture hangs in the Statehouse at Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Morrow was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church during all the period of his public service. He was a farmer by occupation.


Samuel Jamison McMains was born March 29, 1867, at Elizabeth, Allegheny Co., Pa., and there he began his education in the public school. He graduated from high school at the age of fifteen. Until he was twenty years of age he clerked in the Fergus department store at Elizabeth. Then he went to Pitts- burgh and engaged as clerk with Biber & Easton for one year. He then began the study of dentistry with Shaw & McBurney, on Penn avenue, in Pittsburgh, and on Sept. 12, 1889, he entered the Pennsylvania College of Den- tal Surgery, at Philadelphia. Graduating in 1891, he located at Leechburg, Armstrong county, on April 8th of that year opening an office and commencing the practice he has since built up to large proportions. He is now situ- ated on Market street.


Dr. McMains has been quite active in a number of local enterprises and has proved himself a man of good business judgment. He has been a director of the Leechburg Board of Trade; is president of the National Producer Company, manufacturers of mechanical arti- ficial gas producers; was the organizer of the Acme Natural Gas Company of Leechburg (of which he is still secretary and treasurer) ; and thence proceeding to Waynesboro, Frank- was one of the organizers and is serving as lin Co., Pa. On the same vessel in which


Saltsburg, of which he is secretary and treas- urer; and is interested in the real estate busi- ness, owing a five-acre tract in Gilpin town- ship, adjoining the borough of Leechburg, where he builds houses to order, for sale or rent. It is known as McMains' addition to Leechburg. The Doctor has served two terms as member of the borough school board, acted as president of that body, was secretary of the ber of the poor board, and in fact has been one of the all-around active citizens of Leech- burg. He is now State Registrar for Leech- burg, Gilpin and Park townships. He is a Republican on political questions, and in re- ligion a member of the United Presbyterian Church. Fraternally he is an Elk, holding membership in the local lodge, and is secre- tary of the Elks' Building Association.


Dr. McMains' numerous associations, pro- fessional, business, political, social, have wid- ened his interests and made his name well known all over the State, and in some con- nections, indeed, he has acquired a national reputation. As a glee club and campaign singer he has been a popular figure at many public gatherings, and his ability as a speaker has also created a demand for his services at political and other assemblages. His sincere manner and frank address attract friends wherever he goes.


On Nov. 28, 1894, Dr. McMains married Margaret Thompson Moorhead, who was born at Indiana, Pa., daughter of John Calvin Moor- head, of that place, and graduated from the Indiana State normal school in 1891. She taught public school at Leechburg several years before her marriage. Dr. and Mrs. McMains have two children, Charles Van and Eleanor, both of whom are attending school.


The Moorhead family, ancestors of Mrs. McMains, is of Scotch origin, the name (Scotch or possibly Norman) signifying "head of the moor." It is traced back to the sixteenth century in Scotland. Donald Moorhead and his wife Esther (Parkson) had William Moor- head, whose son Alexander Moorhead went to the North of Ireland. There he married Jen- nie Clyde, who was of Norman English ex- traction. They had one son, Alexander Moor- head, who was but fifteen years of age when his father died. He and his mother emigrated to America in 1764, landing at Philadelphia


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they made the voyage came a family named ber of the firm of Moorhead Brothers; John Morrow, and in 1769 young Alexander Moor- head married the daughter Mary Morrow. They had children, James, Margaret and Es- ther. In 1780 Alexander Moorhead brought his mother, wife and three children to Indi- ana county, Pa., and the name became one of the most distinguished in the pioneer annals of this region. The Moorheads have inter- married with other prominent families, and the name to this day is one of the most hon- ored in Indiana county.


James Moorhead, evidently son of Alex- ander and Mary (Morrow) Moorhead, mar- ried Nancy Thompson.


Alexander Thompson Moorhead, first child of James and Nancy (Thompson) Moorhead, was one of the well-known men of this sec- tion in his time. He used to haul merchan- dise from Philadelphia, at that early day a difficult and perilous undertaking ; usually sev- eral men would go together, and "double team" over the mountains. On June 12, 1821, he married Mary Morrow McKee, daughter of James McKee, a distinguished early set- tler of Indiana county, who built what was known as McKee's Mills. Four children were born to this union: James McKee; Joseph McCloud; Nancy Ann, who married Robert Lowry; and Alexander Thompson, Jr., for many years editor of the Indiana Progress, postmaster at that place and also in other connections one of the borough's most im- portant citizens. The mother dying May 31, 1836, Mr. Moorhead married (second) April 24, 1837, Jane H. Hart, who died Jan. 27, 1858. By this union there were five children, two of whom died in infancy, the others be- ing: Mary Jane, who married Joseph B. Adair; Margaret, who married J. Stuart Thompson, a merchant; and John Calvin.


JOHN CALVIN MOORHEAD, son of Alexander Thompson and Jane H. (Hart) Moorhead, was born Nov. 22, 1845, and is a resident of Indiana borough, where he is engaged in busi- ness as a dealer in lumber, farm implements, coal, etc. He is also interested in farming. On Feb. 18, 1868, he married Matilda J. Lint- ner, who was like himself of prominent pio- neer stock of this section, and they are the par- ents of ten children, namely : David Lintner, former county surveyor, in which office he served for twenty years, now a member of the firm of Moorhead Brothers, leading clothing merchants of Indiana ; Thompson Hart, who died in infancy ; Margaret Thompson, wife of Dr. McMains; Clara J., wife of Herbert B. Three of the sons are employed on the elec- Smith, of Johnstown; William Owens, mem-


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Porter, who died in infancy; James Egar, of West Newton, a civil engineer engaged with the Sanborn Map Company, of New York City; Calvin Henry, a merchant of Sunbury, Pa .; Charles Augustus, of Kittanning. Pa., representing the Sanborn Map Company; and Mary Elizabeth, who is engaged in teaching school. The parents are members of the United Presbyterian Church.


JOHN P. KNELL, a resident of Burrell township who has been engaged as engineer by the Philadelphia Gas Company for thirteen years and also has a farm in the township, was born there Feb. 2, 1878, and is a son of John and Sophia Ellen ( Woodside) Knell.


John Knell, the father, was born Nov. 13, 1848, in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, son of Jacob and Catherine (Poffinberger ) Knell, who brought him to America when he was seven years old. His mother had relatives in Baltimore, Md. The family located in the city of Allegheny, Pa., later moving to Bir- mingham (south side), Allegheny Co., Pa., and Jacob Knell was among the earliest glass workers at that place. In time he moved his family to Moon township, Allegheny county, and from there to Ross township, that county, being engaged in farming near Hulton, on White Oak Levels, for a time, and later for many years at Cochran Mills in Armstrong county, remaining there until he sold out, when he settled at Leechburg, Armstrong county. He has made his home there since 1910.


On July 15, 1875, Mr. Knell married So- phia Ellen Woodside, who was born Aug. 7, 1858, in Jefferson county, Pa., where her father, Nathan Woodside, was a farmer and lumberman. Her mother, whose maiden name was Rebecca Sheasley, was born in western Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Knell have had the following children : Ann Catherine is mar- ried to Jesse P. Remaley, of Burrell township; John P. is mentioned below; Louis George married Mary (Molly) Rupert, who died leav- ing four children, three sons and one daughter ; Nathan Emanuel married Edna Herron, of Bethel township, and they have two children. both boys; Pearl married Lee Hancock, of Bethel township, and has four children, three sons and one daughter; Daniel R. married Jessie Woodward, of Burrell township, and they have three children, all daughters; Win- field Clair lives with his parents at Leechburg. tric line, one is in the employ of the Philadel-


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phia Gas Company, and one in the employ of of Armstrong county. Their children, all now the Ford City Gas Company.


John P. Knell, son of John and Sophia Ellen (Woodside) Knell, was reared in Bur- rell township, and there received his educa- tion, and he has been interested in farming there for a number of years, owning a farm of thirty acres. For thirteen years he has been in the employ of the Philadelphia Gas Com- pany, in the capacity of engineer. He is an industrious and much respected man in his neighborhood, and is considered one of the reliable citizens of the community.


On Jan. 27, 1898, Mr. Knell was married to Maud Wareham, of Bethel township, this county, daughter of Smith and Estella ( Robb) Wareham, of that township, where her father is a prominent farmer, owning a valuable tract of seventy-five acres. Mr. and Mrs. Knell have had seven children, born as follows: La- verne J., March 10, 1899; Althea, Feb. 13, 1901 ; Paul, Jan. 17, 1903; Lester, May 13, 1905; Matilda, Sept. 26, 1907; Laurine, Nov. 26, 1909 ; and Robert T., March 2, 1912. Mr. Knell and his family attend the Bethel Luther- an Church.


JOSEPH M. SCHRECENGOST, a farmer of Rayburn township who has passed all his life in this section of Armstrong county, was born Feb. 15, 1845, in Valley township, where the family has long been settled.


Coonrod Schrecengost, his great-grand- father, was a native of Germany, who came to Pennsylvania and settled in an eastern coun- ty, where he remained a short time. He then came to Kittanning township, Armstrong county, where he purchased a farm and fol- lowed farming and his trade of gunsmith un- til his death. He spent considerable time in hunting. He was a Federalist in politics and a member of the Lutheran Church. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Zortman, had a family of nine children, six sons and three daughters, among whom were Daniel and Benjamin.


deceased, were as follows: Elizabeth, Mrs. Heilman ; George; Polly, Mrs. Schaffer ; Dan- iel; Joseph J., born April 29, 1829, who died May 30, 1910; Margaret, Mrs. McAfoos; Isaac, who married Catherine King, and Su- sanna, Mrs. Cook.


George Schrecengost, son of Benjamin, was born Feb. 2, 1815, in Kittanning township, at the Red Mill, and he followed milling and farming throughout the active years of his long life. He spent the greater part of his life in Kittanning and Valley townships, set- tling on a farm in the latter township which was then principally in the woods. He cleared up a farm, and became one of the substantial and respected citizens of his locality, serving as school director of his township. In politics . he was a Whig and Republican, in religion a member of the Lutheran Church. His death occurred about 1900. His wife, Hannah (Cravener), daughter of George and Regina (Yont) Cravener, old settlers of Valley town- ship, died about 1898, at the age of sixty- nine years. Mr. and Mrs. George Schrecen- gost had children as follows: Benjamin Ury (deceased), David Alexander (deceased), Daniel Levi (deceased), Joseph Mosgrove, Sarah Ann (deceased), George Cravener (de- ceased), Samuel Peter, Mary Elizabeth, Wil- liam Love, Isaac Adam (deceased), and Han- nah Susannah.


Joseph M. Schrecengost grew to manhood on the farm and received his education in the local common schools. He has been a farmer all his life. After his marriage he and his wife settled on a farm in Cowanshannock township, this county, thence moving to their present home in Rayburn township in 1897. Here Mr. Schrecengost has since devoted his time and attention to general farming, pros- pering in his work by dint of well-applied energy, up-to-date methods and efficient man- agement. He is recognized as an able man by his fellow citizens, who have honored him with election to various positions of trust, his services as school director and supervisor while in Cowanshannock township giving general satisfaction. In politics he is a Republican. His religious connection is with the Reformed Church.


Benjamin Schrecengost, grandfather of Joseph M., was born in Switzerland and was an early settler at Kittanning. He was a mil- ler by occupation, and built what is known as the old Red Mill and Stone House, grinding grist for all the old pioneers of his locality. On Dec. 21, 1864, Mr. Schrecengost was married to Nancy Hill, who was born in West- moreland county, Pa., daughter of John H. and Catherine Hill, and ten children have been born to this union : John E., Emma Jane (who Later he followed farming. He lived to be eighty-two years old. He was a Whig and Republican in his political views, and a mem- ber of the Lutheran Church, his wife belong- ing to the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Her is deceased), James Park (deceased), Samuel maiden name was Susanna Oury, and she was George, Joseph Frank, David Edward, Warren


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Grant, Benjamin Whitmore, Ida Catherine and William Bruce.


ELI DARBAKER, farmer, residing in Parks township, Armstrong Co., Pa., was born June 20, 1857, in the county, in what was then Allegheny (now Parks) township, a son of Jacob and Margaret (Eidam) Darbaker.


Jacob Darbaker and his wife were born in Germany, and when they came to the United States settled first in Center. Valley, Arm- strong Co., Pa., removing from there to Al- legheny township, where he bought seventy- two acres of land. He cleared this land and erected comfortable buildings, and spent the remainder of his life there, an honest, hard- working, practical farmer. His death oc- curred in 1892, when he was aged sixty-eight years. His wife also passed away on this farm, and they were interred in the cemetery attached to the Forks Church, in Gilpin town- ship. They were the parents of the following children : Elizabeth, who married George W. Myers; Caroline, who died young; Eli; Salin- da; Paulina, who married Sino Myers; and Theodore and Edward P., both of whom live in Parks township.


Eli Darbaker attended the district schools in boyhood and afterward assisted his father on the home farm, following which, as his brothers grew old enough to take his place, he worked for various neighboring farmers for several years. In 1892 he began business for himself, purchasing his present excellent farm of ninety-five acres, which he cultivates ac- cording to modern methods. The place is richly underlaid with soft coal. In addition to farming and stock raising, for his own needs, he does some trucking.


KLINGENSMITH. Peter Klingensmith, grand- father of Mrs. Eli Darbaker, died Aug. 22, 1840, aged fifty-nine years, seven months. He married Catherine Wanamaker, who died


Henry Klingensmith, son of Peter, married Elizabeth Heckman, who died July 15, 1860, when aged fifty years. They had five chil- dren : Israel, Isaiah, Sanford, Fannie and Jos- eph. In 1861 he married his second wife, who was Elizabeth Wagle, and they had one child, Flora. Henry Klingensmith died Oct. 2, 1881, aged seventy-one years, eleven months. His wife survived him until September, 1896.


LEWIS F. KROH, farmer, residing in Cowanshannock township, Armstrong county, was born in Jefferson county, Pa., March 2, 1856, a son of Jacob Kroh and a grandson of Jacob Kroh.


Jacob Kroh, the grandfather, was a black- smith in Northumberland county, Pa., and moved from there to Jefferson county, where he became interested in the lumber trade and was a leading man in Winslow township, dy- ing there at the age of seventy-three years. His children were as follows : Benneville; Ja- cob; Henry; Angelina, who married John Snyder; Kate, who married Michael McNitch and (second) George Jordan; Elizabeth, who married Levi Sugar; and Sarah, who married Peter Baum.


Jacob Kroh (2), son of Jacob Kroh and father of Lewis F. Kroh, grew to manhood in Jefferson county, where he followed farm- ing and lumbering. In the spring of 1872 he came to Cowanshannock township, Arm- strong county, where he bought 160 acres of land, to which he subsequently added eighty acres, and resided on his large farm during the remainder of his life, his death occurring Feb. 20, 1893, when he was aged sixty-four years. He was buried at Dayton, Pa. He married Mary Rabuck, daughter of Jonathan Rabuck, and they had four children: Lewis F., Charles, John and Alice, the last named being the wife of Harrison Seanor.


Mr. Darbaker married Flora Klingensmith, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Wagle) Klingensmith, and three children have been born to them: Clyde H, who married Grace Lewis F. Kroh obtained his education in the Weinel, resides on the homestead; Lillian A. public schools and since then has been engaged lives with her parents; Elizabeth died when in farming, always residing on the old Kroh homestead in Cowanshannock township. He is numbered with the successful farmers of twenty months old. The family belongs to the Lutheran Church, in which Mr. Darbaker has been a deacon. He is a Democrat in politics his section, and has a valuable property. Po- and for ten years has been a member of the litically he is a Republican, and is serving as a township school board.


member of the school board ; he has also been a councilman.


Mr. Kroh married Margaret S. Schrecen- gost, daughter of Michael T. Schrecengost, a member of a large and well-known family March 5, 1864, aged over seventy-six years. of Armstrong county, and they have five chil- They had the following family of children: dren: Lillie, who married James Sexton ; Henry (the eldest), Samuel, Peter, Joseph, Mary ; Laird, who graduated June, 1912, from Isaac, Annie, Barbara, Esther, and Elizabeth. the medical department of the University of


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Pennsylvania, and is practicing medicine ; James, who is a school teacher in Cowanshan- nock township, and Alton. There are two grandchildren in the family, George A. and Margaret E., born to Mr. and Mrs. Sexton.


We have the following record of the Schrec- engost family :


(I) Yost Schrecengost, the pioneer settler of this family in Pennsylvania, was born in Germany and grew to manhood there. The game laws are very strict in that country even at the present day, and it is said that Yost Schrecengost fled for fear of being arrested for having shot a deer out of season, and came to America, accompanied by his wife and four sons.


(II) Conrad Schrecengost, son of Yost, was born in Armstrong county, Pa., married and had the following children : Martin, who mar- ried Christina Oury ; Daniel; John, who was known as "Gentleman John"; Peter; Benja- min; Stauffer; Eva, who married Jacob Mc-


Pherson; and Mollie, who married Michael berland county, Pa., in 1796, and died in Arm- Truby.


(III) Peter Schrecengost, son of Conrad, married Polly Moyer, and they spent almost their entire lives in Kittanning township, Arm- strong county. They had the following chil- dren; Catherine, who married Jacob Schrec- engost; Alexander, who married Harriet Rupp; Mary A., who married Jacob S. Rupp; Josiah, who married Ellen Selfrich; Sarah, who married John Wolf ; Christina, who mar- ried Samuel Marks; Matilda, who died young ; Hannah M., who married Thomas Kirkpat- rick; Lucinda, who married John Fry; Lewis, who married Jennie Irwin; and Jefferson and Aaron, both of whom died young.




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