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Joseph Horne married (first) May 6, 1851, Mary Elizabeth Shea, daughter of John Shea, who was born February 4, 1833, died June 15, 1862. Their children were Durbin, see forward, Sue E. and Joseph Otto Horne. Joseph Horne mar- ried (second) Emma Galway, daughter of Robert Galway. They had one son, B. S. Horne. Joseph Horne died in Pittsburgh, October 19, 1892, and is buried in Allegheny cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
DURBIN HORNE, son of Joseph and Mary Elizabeth (Shea) Horne, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1854. He received his preparatory education in the city schools and at Newell Institute, after which he entered Yale College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1876. He at once entered the store of his father as an employee, continuing until 1882, when he was admitted as a partner. When the business was incorporated as the Joseph Horne Com- pany he was chosen president of the corporation. They conducted a high grade, modern department store business at Fifth street and Pennsylvania avenue, Pittsburgh, and have a high standing in commercial circles. Mr. Horne, aside from the business mentioned, has other and varied interests in and around Pitts- burgh.
FRANK C. NEALE
FRANK C. NEALE, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, derives membership in the Sons of the American Revolution from the military service of Captain James Brown, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from Captain James Clark, the heroic defender of the fort at Hannastown, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, against the Indians.
DR. SAMUEL STANHOPE NEALE, grandfather of Frank C. Neale, was born in Burlington, New Jersey, January 15, 1792, died in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, August 27, 1857. He studied medicine at Jefferson College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated, then went west of the mountains, locating at Kittan - ning, where he practiced his profession for a number of years. As one of the organizers of St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Kittanning he was very active, and served as one of the vestrymen of the institution. He married, in Kittanning, July 4, 1826, Margaret Brown, born in Kittanning, April 29, 1803, died in the same town, March 18, 1851 (see Brown). Children: I. Rebecca B., married John P. Painter. 2. Charles Thompson, see forward. 3. James B., who served for ten years as judge in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania; married Annie Truby. 4. Phoebe I. 5. Alonzo Potter, married Martha Elizabeth Colwell. All of these children are now deceased.
CHARLES THOMPSON NEALE, eldest son and second child of Dr. Samuel Stan- hope and Margaret (Brown) Neale, was born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1832, died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1902. All his life he was engaged in the manufacture of iron and steel, and removed to Pittsburgh in 1859. He was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Kittanning Iron and Steel Company and was president of the corporation at the time of his death, having held that responsible office for many years. He was a member of the Episcopal church, and as a vestryman of the Church of the Ascension ren- dered excellent service in the cause of that denomination. As a member of the Republican party he acted with it only in a private capacity, never mingling in public politics further than to exercise his rights and prerogatives as a citizen. He was a member of the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Neale married, at Mahoning, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1854, Eliza Marlin Clark, who survives her husband and resides in Pittsburgh. She is a communicant of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, and is a valuable mem- ber of the Pittsburgh Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, as well as of other societies of a religious and philanthropic nature (see Clark). Children : I. James, born March 10, 1856, a member of the firm of Brown & Company, iron manufacturers; married (first) Jeannie Adams, of Erie, who died in 1893; (second) Hannah Mary Magee, of Pittsburgh. 2. Margaret E., born July 7, 1859, is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution; married George Heard, president of the Natural Gas Company of Wheeling, West Vir- ginia, and of the Pittsburgh & Butler Railway Company. Children: Georgia Neale, member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, married Frank A. Hamitton ; James Drayton, was graduated from Yale University in the class of
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1910; and Charles Clark. 3. Charles Thompson, Jr., born July 23, 1863, is a manufacturer of cereals at Buffalo, New York; married Mary Mackey and has children : Margaret Eliza, Charles Thompson, and Mary. 4. Frank C., see forward.
FRANK C. NEALE, youngest child of Charles Thompson and Eliza Marlin (Clark) Neale, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1866. His education was acquired in the public schools of his native city and in the Western University Preparatory School. At a suitable age he commenced his business career by entering the employ of Brown & Company, with whom he remained for one year, engaged in the manufacture of iron. He became associated with the Carnegie Steel Company in 1887, a connection which continued in force for a period of sixteen years. During this time he acted in various capacities, being manager of sales during the last ten years. He then resigned in order to accept the presidency of the Kittanning Iron and Steel Company, an office made vacant by the death of his father, and in which Mr. Neale is still active at the present time (19II). Mr. Neale is a Republican in his political views, is a member of the Episcopal church, and is unmarried. His social affiliations are with the Allegheny Country, Pittsburgh Golf, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Athletic and Duquesne clubs, and the Sons of the American Revolution.
(The Brown Line)
Captain James Brown, son of James Brown, of Ireland, was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1742, died at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1830. He is buried in the Kittanning churchyard, where a suitable stone marks his resting-place. He enlisted in December, 1776, as a private in Captain Alex- ander Patterson's company, Twelfth Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Colonel William Cooke. He also served in the Third Regiment, Pennsylvania Line. He was engaged at the battles of Monmouth and Brandywine, and at Piscataway and Short Hills, New Jersey. April 6, 1818, he applied for a pension and this was granted on account of his Revolutionary services. The name of his wife has not been preserved, but it is known that he was married and had issue.
Rebecca Brown, daughter of Captain James Brown, married her cousin, Rob- ert Brown, and the line of descent continues with
Margaret Brown, who married Dr. Samuel Stanhope Neale (see Neale).
(The Clark Line)
Joseph Clark and Margaret, his wife, both of Scotch-Irish descent, came to America in 1737, from the north of Ireland, and settled one mile north of Car- lisle, Pennsylvania. Children: William, born 1740, died 1804, married Margaret Elliott ; James, see forward.
Captain James Clark, son of Joseph and Margaret Clark, was born near Car- lisle, Pennsylvania, 1742, and died at Idaho, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, 1824. He was captain of a company of militia of Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, and a block house located at South Bend in this county was named Fort Clark. With a small garrison he successfully defended this fort from numerous attacks by the Indians. He was in command of the fort at Hannastown, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, when it was attacked by an overwhelming force of In-
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dians. Realizing that stratagem was the only means by which the fort could be saved, and to conceal from the Indians the weak and almost defenceless condition of the fort, Captain Clark had his few men mount and ride across the lower bridge, disappear and then reappear, thus forming a continuous line of mounted armed men and completely deceiving the Indians, who fled in terror before this formidable display of strength. Captain Clark was in command of a fort at Crooked Creek in Armstrong county, at the time of an attack by the Indians. His military services were chiefly in defending the settlers on the frontier front the attacks of the Indians. He married Barbara Sanderson, said to have been born at sea of Scotch-Irish parentage, and they reared a family.
William Clark, son of Captain James and Barbara (Sanderson) Clark, was also of Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Woodward, and both he and his wife died at a comparatively early age. Children: James; Wil- liam Barclay, see forward; Absalom; Joseph; Elizabeth, married James Maize; Sarah, married John Prothero.
William Barclay Clark, son of William and Sarah (Woodward) Clark, was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, 1812, died in Armstrong county, in the same state, 1856. He was the proprietor of Clark's Hotel in Indiana county, which he conducted for a number of years until removing to Armstrong county, where he led a retired life. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Clark married, at Indiana, Pennsylvania, 1834, Mary, daughter of Major and Eliza ( Williamson) Marlin, of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Children: I. Eliza Marlin, see forward. 2. Frank W., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 3. Harry L., of Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. 4. Sarah C., is a Daughter of the American Revolution, married M. M. Meredith, deceased, and resides in Philadelphia. Children: Mary, married Edward Casner, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Caro- line, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, married John C. Wensell, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Frank C., of Washington, District of Columbia; and Madison Monroe, of Philadelphia. 5. Evelyn, married James C. Nelson, deceased, of Chicago, Illinois. Children: Mary, married W. H. Cobb, of Chicago; Margaret, a member of the Daughters of the American Rev- olution, married John A. Stanton, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 6. Mary C., married Henry Fisher, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died September, 1893. Only child: John Henry, of Redlands, California.
Eliza Marlin Clark, eldest child of William Barclay and Mary (Marlin) Clark, was born in 1835, and married Charles Thompson Neale (see Neale).
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ROBERT G. S. RUFFNER
According to the most reliable records obtainable of the Ruffner family, they were established in America about 1750, by Simon Ruffner, a native of the Austrian Tyrol, who came here about that date, accompanied by a brother not named. They settled in Maryland not far from the present city of Baltimore. In time one of them moved into western Maryland or Virginia and nothing more is known of him except that persons of that name (Ruffner) believed to be his descendants, are now found in the Shenandoah valley. Seven generations of the family are traced in this record as follows :
SIMON RUFFNER, American ancestor, was a noted pioneer and hunter, and it is from him that Ruffner's Cave, one of the celebrated Luray caves in the Shen- andoah Valley is named, he having been lost in it for five days, and when res- cued was nearly dead. About 1769 Simon Ruffner came to Pennsylvania with his family, settling in the German settlement in eastern Pennsylvania, having for a missionary centre the little town of Goshenhoppen. The first mention of the name in the register at this place is on February 22, 1767, so that is assumed to be about the date of coming to Pennsylvania. Simon Ruffner and three sons, Philip, Simon and Christian, served in the Revolutionary War, in the Northamp- ton County Rangers. Simon's wife is named in the register only as Barbara. The order of the birth of his children is not known, but Philip appears to have been the eldest and Simon Jr. the youngest of the sons.
PHILIP RUFFNER, son of Simon Ruffner, married Catherine (named in Regis- ter) and on her death, Eva Koenig, the latter marriage is recorded as on January 29, 17II. Philip did not come to western Pennsylvania with his brothers. He died in 1794, in Moore township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and his will is on record at Easton, Pennsylvania. The other sons of Simon Ruffner were George, Christian and Simon.
HENRY RUFFNER, son of Philip and Eva (Koenig) Ruffner, came to wes tern Pennsylvania with his brother Simon and three uncles, Simon, George and Christian, with others, and settled in Westmoreland county near the present site of St. Vincent's Arch Abbey, in March, 1787. They purchased one acre and some rods of land near Greensburg and donated it to Father Carroll, afterward Archbishop of Baltimore. This was the first property owned by the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania, west of the mountains. Henry Ruffner was one of the garrison at Fort Pitt and during an engagement with the Indians had his hunting knife shot away but otherwise escaped injury. He served with Gen- eral Anthony Wayne against the Indians and was present when they were de- feated by Wayne in 1794. From Westmoreland county Henry removed to Arm- strong county, near Whitesburg, and from there in 1836 to Indiana county, where he died March 18, 1857. He is buried in the graveyard near Gettysburg. His wife was a Miss Stewart, and they had issue.
JACOB RUFFNER, son of Henry and - (Stewart) Ruffner, married Susanna
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Haney and had issue as follows: Thomas, Edward, see forward, Andrew, Wil- liam, David, Archibald, Jacob, Elizabeth, Nancy, Letitia and Susan.
EDWARD HANEY RUFFNER, son of Jacob and Susanna ( Haney ) Ruffner, was born December 8, 1820, died March 19, 1908. He served in the Civil War, a member of the Two Hundred and Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was present at the fall of Richmond. He married Mary, daughter of James M. and Sarah (Chapman) Lydick (see Lydick), and had issue: James Alexander Chapman, see forward; Camden P .; Almira Emma; Marshall; Lem- uel Clark.
JAMES ALEXANDER CHAPMAN RUFFNER, eldest son of Edward Haney and Mary (Lydick) Ruffner, was born near Gettysburg, Indiana county, Pennsyl- vania. He chose the legal profession and is a member of the Westmoreland county bar, resident of Greensburg, that county. He is a veteran of the Civil War, having served his term of enlistment with the Second Pennsylvania Vol- unteer Cavalry. He married Huldah Stephens (see Stephens) daughter of Robert and Martha (Jones) Stephens.
ROBERT GARRETT STEPHENS RUFFNER, eldest son of James A. C. and Huldah (Stephens) Ruffner, was born in Indiana, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, Octo- ber 4, 1873. He is unmarried and has been in the employ of the Joseph Horne Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, since 1895, a period of about fourteen years. He is much interested in matters genealogical and historical and it is to his re- search and interest that this record is due. He is a member of Pennsylvania So- city of the Sons of the American Revolution, Pittsburgh Chapter.
(The Stephens Line)
Mr. Ruffner is a lineal descendant of Alexander Stephens, the patriot soldier, from whose services to his adopted country in the Revolutionary War he obtains membership in the Sons of the American Revolution.
Alexander Stephens was born in England, March 17, 1726, died in Georgia, March 15, 1813. He came to America and settled in Pennsylvania near the pres- ent town of Duncannon, Perry county, where he married Catherine Baskins. After the war in 1795 he removed to Elbert county, Georgia, near Crawfords- ville, then to Wilkes county on the banks of Kettle creek, where he died and is buried within two miles of that town. The record on his tombstone is as follows :
"In Memory of Alexander Stephens died March 15, 1813 aged 87 years lacking two . days. Born in England, he emigrated to Pennsylvania early in life and was captain in the first war for the sovereign rights of local self government on the part of the people of the several states of this continent."
This inscription was written by his grandson, Alexander H. Stephens. This is the same ancestor from whom descended that great southern orator and statesman, Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president of the Southern Confeder- acy, congressman, and at the time of his death, in 1883, governor of Georgia. Alexander Stephens served under Washington, and was with him at Brad- dock's defeat in 1755. He was a private of Captain Joseph Shippen's company. Colonel William Clapham's regiment, in the French and Indian War in 1756. He is carried on the Pennsylvania Rolls as a private of the Fourth Company, Fifth Battalion, Cumberland Associators, of 1781. Alexander Stephens was one of
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the band of "Jacobites", who quitted England upon the ending of the disastrous attempt known as the "Forty Five". He married Catherine Baskins in Pennsyl- vania, and had the following issue: 1. James, see forward; 2. Nehemiah, set- tled in Tennessee. 3. Andrew B., married Margaret Greer and remained with his father as did his sister Jane. 4. Catherine (Mrs. Coulton). 5. Mary (Mrs. Jones). 6. Elizabeth (Mrs. Kellogg). 7. Sarah (Mrs. Hodgkins). 8. Jane. After his marriage Andrew B. made a home for his father and sister Jane until the death of Alexander Stephens in 1813. Jane died some years previous. Andrew B. had issue by his first wife Margaret Greer, Mary Aaron Greer, and Alexander. By his second wife Maheda, daughter of the Revolutionary soldier, Colonel John Lindsey, he had John L., Andrew Baskins, Benjamin F. and Linton.
James Stephens, first born of Alexander and Catherine (Baskins) Stephens, returned to Pennsylvania and settled in Juniata township, Perry county. He married Elizabeth, daughter of the Revolutionary soldier, Robert Garrett, who lived in Buffalo Creek, Perry county. The issue of this marriage: 1. Alexander, who moved to Ohio. 2. Robert, see forward. 3. William, married (first) a Miss Cameron, and (second) a Miss Elliot. 4. James, married Fannie Garrett. 5. Andrew, married Agnes Garrett. 6. Catherine, moved to Ohio, married Hearst. 7. Sarah, married Joseph White. 8. Jennie, married Robert Garrett. 9. Elizabeth, married Hugh Latta and moved to Ohio.
Robert Garrett Stephens, second son of James and Elizabeth (Garrett) Ste- phens, was born in 1804, in Perry county, Pennsylvania, and in 1856 moved to Indiana county, same state. He married Martha Jones and had issue : I. James, a veteran of the Civil War from Pennsylvania ; he married (first) Char- lotte Simpson, (second) Rebecca Neilson. 2. Martha J., married George W. Simpson. 3. Robert, unmarried; he met an accidental death, being killed by a falling tree. 4. Amanda, married William J. Ray. 5. John J., married Anna Trible. 6. David A., unmarried; he was a soldier of the Civil War, in the Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry and died at Camp Copeland, Pennsyl- vania, in 1862. 7. Samuel, married Margaret Kinter. 8. Silas, died at the age of four years. 9. Huldah, see forward.
Huldah Stephens, third daughter and ninth child of Robert and Martha (Jones) Stephens, was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania. She married James Alexander Chapman Ruffner, of Indiana, Pennsylvania (see Ruffner), and had issue: Martha May, Robert Garrett Stephens, Della Gertrude, Clara Maude, James Alexander Chapman, Edward Haney, Mary Huldah, Silas Moor- head Clark, Wilfred Roscoe, Willis Everett, Clarence Monroe and Walter Staunton.
KATE CASSATT MCKNIGHT
KATE CASSATT MCKNIGHT, who departed this life in 1907, in Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania, descended from a most distinguished line of Western Pennsylvania ancestors that date back to the beginning of things in Pittsburgh. They were valiant in war and served with both army and navy in every one waged in those times. In law, politics, literature and art they were equally prominent. They were leading business men and risked their fortunes in establishing and support- ing new industries then that are now the glory of their city. They were devout churchmen and hardly a church in the city but what owes its earlier existence to them. This is true not only of the earlier but of each generation, including the present. Miss McKnight was a great-great-granddaughter of Captain John Wilkins, who equipped a company for the Revolutionary cause and with them joined the regiment of Colonel Oliver Spencer, Pennsylvania Continental line, and was later quartermaster-general of the United States army appointed in 1796. She bore the same relationship to William Denny, emigrant ancestor of all the Pennsylvania Dennys. She was a great-granddaughter of General James O'Hara, Indian trader, captain of the Ninth Virginia Continental Line, first assistant, and in 1792 appointed quartermaster-general in the regular army of the United States, and the man who with Major Isaac Graig established the first glass making plant in the Pittsburgh district as well as supporting other early industries in that city. She was a great-granddaughter of Major Ebenezer Denny, Revolutionary officer, first treasurer of Allegheny county and first mayor of Pittsburgh. Hon. Harmar Denny, of spotless name and fame, was Miss McKnight's grandfather. These are names to conjure with in Pittsburgh. She was a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth O'Hara (Denny) McKnight, both of Pittsburgh.
Miss McKnight was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (North Side), and her life was passed in her native city. She was interested in many good works but had no especial interest in the patriotic work of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She early joined the National Society of that Order, her number being 597. Her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth O'Hara (Denny) McKnight, was an hon- orary life member of the National Society. Miss McKnight was a charter mem- ber of the Pittsburgh Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, was its first treasurer and served seven consecutive terms in that office, after which she served five years on the advisory board. She was in a manner born independent and under circumstances that made it possible for her to live a life of ease and social pleasure, yet rather than do this, she chose to devote her time, her influence and her strength to the advancement of those who were less fortunately situated then herself. With her it was never a question of what enjoyment she could get out of life but what she could give, and do for others. At a memorial ser- vice held in Pittsburgh shortly after her death, as a tribute of respect to her mem- ory, there were present representatives of all the organizations with which she was affiliated, many of which were founded and fostered by her. The mayor of
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Pittsburgh, Hon. George W. Guthrie, spoke in the highest praise of her work for the improvement of civic conditions and said that in paying honor to her memory the city did but honor itself. Representatives of the Newsboy's Home, the Juvenile Court, the Consumers League, the Child Labor Association of the Civic Club, all told of the tower of strength she had been to them, both in the organization of their societies and during all the years of their existence. The Congress of Woman's Clubs and the City Federation paid high tribute to her loyalty, her wise counsel and her able support. The Business Woman's Club and Young Woman's Civic Club of Allegheny told of their gratitude to Miss McKnight. One of their leading characteristics was her patriotism, as exempli- fied notably in her love of her native city-Pittsburgh. On one occasion at a gathering, each woman present was asked to speak three minutes on her special hobby-Miss McKnight announced as her subject, "Pittsburgh, the City Beauti- ful".
From her distinguished ancestors she inherited a keen interest and insight into matters concerning the advancement of the city and from them she also in- herited the high ideals to which she devoted herself, with a consecration that made her totally unaware of the sacrifice she was making. She was a member of the Twentieth Century Club of Pittsburgh, and gave it her hearty support and zealous interest. A short time before her death the club made her an honorary vice-president, the first time the club had ever conferred this honor upon any one. There was throughout Miss McKnight's entire life a blending of the good, the true and the beautiful, and this was strengthened by a per- fect and steadfast faith in the human family and in her beloved native city- Pittsburgh.
MARTHA PORTER EWING CARSON
MARTHA PORTER (EWING) CARSON (Mrs. Robert Carson Jr.), of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a descendant in the fifth generation of Ephraim Blaine, a lieutenant-colonel in the War of the Revolution, and later general of commis- sariat under General Washington, whose confidence and friendship he enjoyed.
James Blaine, American ancestor of Martha Porter Ewing (Mrs. Robert Carson Jr.), came from the north of Ireland, in the vicinity of Londonderry, to America prior to 1745, and settled in Toboyne township, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. He took up a large tract of land on the Juniata, as did each of his sons a few years later. He became an influential man on the frontiers of the Province, and was quite prominent in public affairs during the French and In- dian War, and towards the close of his life in the struggle for independence. He died at his residence in Toboyne township in July, 1792, well advanced in years, leaving a wife Elizabeth and children: Ephraim, of whom further; James Scad- den, Margaret, Alexander, Eleanor, Agnes, Mary, Isabella, William.
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