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John Byers (of further mention) ; Mary Herron (Mrs. George N. Coleman) Edgewood, (Pittsburgh) Pennsylvania ; Eliza Martha (Mrs. Samuel C. Patterson) New Alexandria, Pennsylvania; Agnes Beattie (Mrs. George S. Barnhart) near Greensburg, Pennsylvania; Helen Milligan (Mrs. Samuel O. Hugus) Unity Township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania; Margaret Elder (Mrs. Samuel B. Moore) near Latrobe, Pennsylvania; Clara Malinda, who resides at home; William Oliver, who died unmarried, 24 December, 1899; Joseph Walker, who lives at and manages the "Home Farm"; Sarah Jane, who lives at home; Henrietta Marie (Mrs. L. Albert Nichols) Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.
JOHN B., first born and eldest son of William and Sarah J. (Brown) Steel, was born February 17, 1861, at Hannastown, Pennsylvania. He was country born and farm bred, but with an energy and an ambition that was destined to lead him into entirely different channels of action. His early education was ob- tained in the district school, and his youthful labors were those of the average farmer-boy of that day. The district school was supplemented by a course at the academy in New Alexandria, and later by one at the Greensburg seminary. After these years of preparatory work, he entered Geneva College as a classical student and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1885. He had now determined on the law as his profession, and accordingly entered the law office of Judge James A. Hunter as a student. In 1888 he was admitted to practice at the Westmoreland county bar. He immediately began the practice of his
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profession in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, entering the law office of the Hon. Welty Mccullough, then member of Congress from the district. On the return of Mr. McCulloughi at the expiration of his term in the spring of 1889, the law firm of Mccullough & Steel was formed. This partnership was terminated six months later by the death of Mr. Mccullough. Mr. Steel con- tinued the business in the same office and at once sprang into a full practice at a bar composed of some of the best legal minds in western Pennsylvania. Later he admitted to partnership H. Clay Beistel, who had read under him and who was a former student of Dickinson Law School. Mr. Steel had always been a strong Republican and a leader in the propagation of the principles of that party. He served in 1894 as chairman of the county committee, becoming widely and favorably known to the leaders as well as the rank and file of the party. In 1899 he was the nominee of the party for judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas, his opponent being the present incumbent, the popular Democratic president Judge Doty. In a total vote of about thirty thousand, Judge Doty's majority was one hundred seventy-one. Mr. Steel was put forward as a candi- date of western Pennsylvania for congressman at large against the Hon. Gal- usha A. Grow, but in the interest of party harmony was withdrawn and elected by the state convention delegate at large to the national convention that placed in nomination McKinley and Roosevelt for president and vice-president. When the Separate Orphans' Court was created in Westmoreland county, he was ap- pointed, April 26, 1901, to serve as president-judge until the first Monday of January, 1902. He was conceded the unanimous nomination of his party and at the November election following was elected president-judge of the Or- phans' Court of Westmoreland county for the full term of ten years, beginning the first Monday of January, 1902, which responsible office he has since filled with dignity and honor. His energy has brought him well earned distinction for the utmost promptness in the dispatch of business, while his business judgment has enabled him to be of great value to the people of his county in controlling the immense amount of real and personal property in the hands of estates, guardians, trustees and others having business before his court. Beside his le- gal and official duties, Judge Steel has always been prominent in the business development of his county, banks, real estate and coal lands having been his principal lines of effort. He has organized several of the most important bank- ing properties and in financial positions has served them with zeal and ability. He is interested in the development and handling of the Pittsburg-Connellsville vein of coal in the counties of Washington and Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, and a recent purchase gives him several thousand acres of this same vein in the Captina valley, Belmont county, Ohio. Farm and town properties are also favorite investments. He is a member of a number of organizations; among others, the Americus Club of Pittsburgh, the Sons of the Revolution, and is chairman of the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Greens- burg. He is unmarried.
On his maternal side Judge Steel is also Scotch-Irish. The family came from Scotland with the covenanters and settled in northern Ireland, after the confis- cation act of King James. The Browns settled in County Donegal.
MATTHEW BROWN, the seventh grand-ancestor of Judge Steel, was captain in Colonel George Walker's famous Derry regiment, which rendered such valiant
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service and performed such prodigies of valor at the siege of Londonderry and at the Battle of the Boyne. His sword is still preserved as a priceless relic by Howard and William Brown, of Pittsburgh, two of his descendants. William Brown, a noted covenanter of Paxtang settlement-the uncle of the Rev. Dr. Matthew Brown for forty years the president of Washington College and Jef- ferson College, returned to Ireland in 1773 and brought over with him certain of his relatives and religious compatriots, among whom were Matthew Brown (I) and the Rev. Mr. Dobbin and the Rev. Mr: Lynn. Matthew Brown (1) was the grandson of Matthew Brown of Ireland (before mentioned). He left County Donegal, Ireland, with his family sailing for America and landing at New Castle, Delaware, December 13, 1773, with the Rev. Messrs. Dobbin and Lynn, later of "the seceder church", who afterward founded an academy of learning at Gettysburg and taught the first abolition doctrine at the very spot which, less than a century thereafter was the scene of the fiercest and bloodiest battle in that great civil war, waged over the establishment of the same doctrine they taught. Matthew Brown (I) settled at Green Castle, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he died and was buried leaving five children to survive him.
David Brown, the great-grandfather of Judge Steel, married Margaret Oliver who had been, like himself, a resident of near Londonderry, Ireland, and who was connected with other members of the same family in York county and western Pennsylvania. John, married Catherine Foster, a sister of Robin Fos- ter, of near New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, whose mother was Catherine White, moved to Sugar Creek township, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, about 1804. Andrew, lived first in Butler county, Pennsylvania; sold his farm there and bought a mill at Nicholson Falls, at the Allegheny river, then moved to Kittan- ning, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, where a part of his descendants re- side. Samuel, said to have moved to Virginia. Mary, intermarried with James Watt, Greencastle, Franklin county, Pennsylvania.
DAVID, son of Matthew Brown (1) married Margaret Oliver, whose mother was a daughter of the Rev. Henry Erskine, of Cornhill, England, and Marian Halcro, of Orkney, Denmark. Her father was descended from Halcro, Prince of Denmark. Her great-grandmother was Lady Stewart, daughter of Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney, and son of James V. of Scotland. Marian Halcro, (Mrs. Henry Erskine) was the heroine of the story (still told by her descendants and well authenticated) of an escape from premature burial. She was saved from this horrible death, through the cupidity of the undertaker, who opened her grave the night of the burial to remove from her finger a valuable ring he had observed there. In cutting her finger, the blood flowed and awakened her from a trance, mistaken for death. She afterwards became the mother of the two famous ministers, Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine; one of whom was the author of "Erskine's Sermons", and distinguished as the founder of the Se- ceder Church. David Brown was born July 13, 1758, and died January 23, 1841. He took the oath of allegiance before Humphrey Fullerton, a justice of Franklin county, the original certificate of which is still in the possession of the family. David Brown purchased, 1802, a farm at the mouth of the White- Thorn run, near New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, now owned (1909) by John Oliver Brown. Here were born to David and Margaret Oliver Brown, who was born 1769, and died June 26, 1843, Mary (Mrs. Nathaniel Alexander) Allegheny township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania; Thomas Oliver
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(grandfather of Judge Steel) ; Elizabeth (Mrs. Thomas Gailey) Clarksburg, Pennsylvania; David, married Maria Beattie, Salem township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania; Margaret (Mrs. John M. Coleman) Elders Ridge, Penn- sylvania; James, married Margaret Elizabeth Wilson, Salem township, West- moreland county, Pennsylvania. David Brown and his wife Margaret are buried in the New Alexandria (Covenanter ) church-yard, where he and his family were members; and his property was divided between his sons, Thomas Oliver and James Brown.
THOMAS OLIVER BROWN, born February 15, 1800, died June 8, 1866, married (first) Nancy Beattie, born 1800, died November 8, 1839, a sister of Maria Beat- tie, (above mentioned) and a daughter of Robert and Martha (Welsh) Beattie, and granddaughter of William Beattie, of Knockbracken, near Belfast, Ireland, who came from a family, several of whose members were banished for partici- pation in the rebellion of 1798. This was fitting blood to mate with the Browns. The children of Thomas Oliver and Nancy ( Beattie) Brown were as follows : Martha Welsh, ( Mrs. David P. Marshall) of Arkansas City, Kansas; David Oliver, married Mary Stewart, Saltburg, Pennsylvania; Sarah Jane, (Mrs. Wil- liam Steel). (See John B. Steel) ; Maragret Erskine, (Mrs. John M. Elder ) Derry township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania; Nancy Ann, (Mrs. Henry Seanor ) Gueda Springs, Kansas; Mary Elizabeth, (Mrs. James Monroe) Loyal- hanna township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Oliver Brown married (second) Sarah Patterson, born September 30, 1801, died December 30, 1857, of near New Alexandria, and (third) Margaret Campbell, of near West Newton. By neither of these last two unions was there an issue. He is buried, as is his wife Nancy (Beattie) Brown, in the Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter ) Church-yard, at New Alexandria, of which, like his ancestors, he and his children were members. All the persons mentioned in this Thomas Oliver Brown memoir, his ancestors and his children, are now deceased, the last survivor being Mrs. Sarah Jane Steel, who died March 25, 1906.
Eliza Steel (see John B. Steel) by her marriage with Andrew Machesney forms the connecting link between these two Westmoreland county families. The first settler, of record of the line we are following, was William Maches- ney, who emigrated from Tyrone county, Ireland, in the year 1786 and settled on a farm in Unity township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, about half way between Latrobe and New Alexandria. This farm was known as the "William Penn Machesney Farm."
James Machesney, brother of William Machesney, also came from Ireland to Pennsylvania. He settled on a farm near Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and has numerous descendants in the county. William Machesney's wife was Mary Buchanan, whom he married in Ireland. Their children were: John, married Miss Larimer; Andrew, see forward; William, married Betty McWherter; Margaret, married George McWherter ; Betty, mar- ried David McIlvaine; Jane, married Thomas Ferguson.
ANDREW MACHESNEY, SR., son of William the emigrant, was born in Ire- land in the year 1784, and died in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, Au- gust 25, 1864. He married Mary Henderson, who was born March 6, 1794, died January 7, 1868, and who was a daughter of William Henderson, of Unity township, whose farm is on the Forbes Road near Cochran's Fording. The Henderson family, with two exceptions, moved to Ohio, about 1830. Thir-
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teen children were born of this marriage: John, born January 10, 1811, died March 23, 1896, married Sarah Mccullough, their home was in Salem town- ship, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania; William, born May 15, 1812, died July 20, 1890, married Elizabeth Barber, the latter years of his life he lived in Anawan, Henry county, Illinois; Andrew, Jr., see forward; Jane, born Au- gust 15, 1814, died November 24, 1901, married Thomas Duncan, of Indiana county, Pennsylvania ; Alexander, born October 16, 1815, died August 31, 1904, in Derry, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, married Elizabeth Katen El- rick, who died in August, 1906, they had a married life of sixty-two years; James, born March 17, 1817, died March 4, 1904, in Henry county, Illinois, married Mrs. Selinda Johnston; Henderson, born April 5, 1818, died July 31, 1844, unmarried; Mary, born June 6, 1819, died July 27, 1896, a resident of Blairsville, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, married (first) Isaac Culbertson, and (second) Archibald Davis; Lewis, born May 20, 1822, died June 17, 1879, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, married (first) Mary Jane Larimer, and (second) Mar- tha Mccluskey; Margaret, born May 20, 1824, died August 9, 1891, married John Mourer and lived in New Alexandria, Pennsylvania; David L., born January 10, 1827, died July 21, 1890, married Martha Taylor, now Mrs. Mar- tha Morris, now living at Jacksonville, Florida; Jackson, born April 7, 1829, died March 6, 1894, married Elizabeth Machesney, they lived on the old "Home Farm" in Derry township, now owned by his son, John Machesney, Elizabeth Machesney now lives in Latrobe, Pennsylvania; Elizabeth, born March 4, 1833, died October 20, 1904, married Henry Lawbaugh and lived at Stuart, Iowa.
ANDREW (2), son of Andrew (1), and Mary (Henderson) Machesney was born near Latrobe, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1813, and died December 31, 1890, at Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He was a very successful farmer and stock raiser of Unity township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, until the last five years of his life, which were passed in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He was a member and trustee of the Presbyterian Church, of New Alexandria, Pennsylvania. He affiliated with the Republican party. He married, March 9, 1848, Eliza Steel, and they were the parents of :- John Steel Machesney, who died aged 7 years; William Henderson Machesney, who died aged 5 years ; Elizabeth Steel Machesney, resides in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, she was edu- cated at Blairsville and Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Female Seminaries, is a member of the First Presbyterian Church and Phoebe Bayard Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, both of Greensburg, Pennsylvania ; Mary Martha Machesney, married October 30, 1884, Henry Hargnett Mur- dock, assistant treasurer of the Barclay-Westmoreland Trust Company, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, son of Daniel and Catharine (Hartman) Murdock, of Ligonier, Pennsylvania, and of this union were born Helen Pauline, a senior at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and John Edgar Murdock; Andrew Steel Machesney, resides on the "Homestead Farm" in Unity township, he is an elder of the New Alexandria Presbyterian Church and a director of the New Alexandria National Bank; he is a Republican in politics; he mar- ried September 30, 1885, Nellie Nicol, daughter of William and Catharine (Francies) Nicol, of Mckeesport, Pennsylvania. They have three children : Glen Nicol, a senior in Washington and Jefferson College, Kathryn E., and Andrew Steel Machesney, Jr., at home.
CADW ALADER BIDDLE
The late Cadwalader Biddle belonged to a family of which probably more representatives were prominently identified with the public affairs of the city, province and state than any other of the early colonial families of Philadelphia, from the first half century of the city's history down to the present time. (For early ancestry see p. 161).
JOHN BIDDLE, youngest son of William and Lydia (Wardell) Biddle, born at Mount Hope, the ancestral estate of the family in Burlington county, New Jersey, came to Philadelphia with his brother William in 1730, and engaged successfully in the mercantile business there for many years. He married, March 3, 1736, Sarah Owen, daughter of Owen Owen, of the Welsh tract, and of ancient Welsh lineage, tracing back to the early kings and princes of ancient Britain, in Glenn's "Merion in the Welsh Tract."
John and Sarah (Owen) Biddle had five children, viz :- Owen, the eldest, born 1737, died March 19, 1799, a partner with his brother Clement in the shipping and importing business and one of the most ardent patriots of the Revolution, member of the provincial Committee and Council of Safety, dele- gate to the several provincial conventions and conferences, member of the Board of War, and constantly one of the most prominent members of special committee of these several organizations, and a man of high scholastic and scientific attainments, one of the prominent men and officers of the American Philosophical Society, etc .; Clement, of whom presently ; Ann, wife of General James Wilkinson; Sarah, wife of James Penrose; and Lydia, wife of the famous Philadelphia physician, Dr. James Hutchinson, Surgeon-general of Con- tinental troops, etc., during the Revolution.
COLONEL CLEMENT BIDDLE, second son of John and Sarah (Owen) Biddle, was born at the old Biddle homestead on Market street, between Second and Third streets, May 10, 1740. On arriving at man's estate he engaged in the shipping and importing business with his father and elder brother Owen, in which they were very successful, until the outbreak of the Revolution, after which he gave practically his whole time to the service of his country, Owen and Clement Biddle were among the first signers of the non-importation agree- ment, October 25, 1765. He assisted in organizing, and was one of the offi- cers of the "Quaker Light Infantry" later known as the "Quaker Blues", orig- inally formed to defend the town against the threatened invasion of the "Pax- tang Boys" at the time of the killing of the Conestoga Indians in 1763-4, which was re-organized in 1775, for the defense of American liberties, and served in the Jersey campaign. July 8, 1776, Clement Biddle was appointed quartermaster-general of the Flying Camp, composed of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other bodies of militia, with the rank of colonel, and as such took part in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown, was delegated by Washington to receive the swords of the surrendered Hessian officers at the battle of Trenton; and during the encampment at Valley Forge
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was active in securing supplies for the suffering soldiers, having his headquar- ters at "Moore Hall," Chester county, where his wife and family likewise re- sided. The next winter was spent with the army at Morristown, New Jersey. October 15, 1776, Colonel Biddle was at Amboy, New Jersey, when he was appointed by General Greene, as an aide de camp, and member of his staff, and during the remainder of that month and November was with General Greene at Fort Lee, on the Hudson. He however, returned to the Delaware with the retreating army across New Jersey, and participated in the heroic crossing of the Delaware on Christmas night, and the capture of the Hessians, as before stated. In the fall of 1781 he was appointed by the Supreme Executive Coun- cil. quartermaster-general of Pennsylvania, having served previously as com- missary of supplies, and co-operated with his brother Owen, in securing am- munition and stores for the use of the army in the field, like him pledging his own means to secure supplies, at a time when the state and nation was bank- rupt. He was also appointed, November 10, 1780, United States marshal of the Court of Admiralty. He held this office and that of quartermaster-general of Pennsylvania militia, long after the close of the Revolution, officiating as such during the Whiskey Insurrection of 1794. He was commissioned Pro- thonotary of the Common Pleas Court, of Philadelphia county, September 23, 1788, and judge of the same court in 1791, his commissions being still in pos- session of the family. He died in Philadelphia, July 14, 1814.
Clement Biddle married (first), at Arch Street Friends Meeting, June 6, 1764, Mary, daughter of Francis Richardson. She died in 1773, and their only child died in childhood. He married (secondly), August 8, 1774, Rebekah Cornell, daughter of the Hon. Gideon Cornell, of Rhode Island, who, at his death in 1765, held the offices of lieutenant-governor and chief justice of the province. Rebekah (Cornell) Biddle survived her husband seventeen years, dying Novem- ber 18, 1831. They had thirteen children: Francis who died young; Thomas of whom presently; George Washington, who died in Macon, Ohio, in 1812; Mary, who married General Thomas Cadwalader; Rebekah Cornell, who mar- ried Dr. Nathaniel Chapman; Colonel Clement Cornell Biddle, a distinguished officer in the second war for independence; Anne, Lydia, and Sarah, who died unmarried; Anne Wilkinson, who married Thomas Dunlap; John Gideon, who married his cousin, Mary, daughter of Captain Charles Biddle; James Cornell Biddle, of whom presently; and Edward Robert Biddle.
THOMAS BIDDLE, eldest surviving son of Colonel Clement and Rebekah (Cor- nell) Biddle, born in Philadelphia, June 4, 1776, entered the University of Penn- sylvania in 1788, and graduated in 1791. He was a banker and broker in Phila- delphia, and was one of the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania from 1837 to his death, June 3, 1857. He was long one of the active members of the American Philosophical Society, and identified with other prominent institu- tions of Philadelphia.
Thomas Biddle married, February 12, 1803, Christine Williams, daughter of General Jonathan Williams, born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1752. In his youth he entered the counting house of a prominent trading and shipping firm, and before coming of age made several voyages as supercargo to the West Indies and European ports. In 1773 he was sent to England with important political letters to his grand uncle, Dr. Benjamin Franklin. In 1777, he was
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appointed United States commercial agent and sent to France to procure mili- tary supplies, joining his distinguished relative there, he remained until 1785, when he returned to Philadelphia with Dr. Franklin, and later held many import- ant positions of trust and honor there; serving several years as judge of the Court of Common Pleas. February 14, 1801, he was commissioned major of artillery, and December 4, 1801, was appointed inspector of fortifications, and superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. July 8, 1802, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of engineers, and on February 23, 1802, promoted to the rank of colonel. With the outbreak of the second war for independence he was commissioned, July 31, 1812, general of New York militia. He returned to Philadelphia and was elected to the United States House of Representatives from there in 1814. He was vice-president of the American Philosophical Society, and contributed a number of articles to their annals. He was the author of a "Memoir on the Use of the Thermometer in Navigation", 1799; "Elements of Fortifications", 1801 ; "Kosiusco", and "Move- ments for Horse Artillery", 1808.
Thomas and Christine (Williams) Biddle had five children, viz :- Clement, (1810-1879) ; Thomas Alexander, of whom presently; Henry Jonathan, (1817- 1862), a graduate of West Point, a captain and adjutant of the Pennsylvania Re- serves during the Civil War, and killed at the battle of Market Cross Roads, July 20, 1862; Colonel Alexander, of the One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War, president of Board of City Trust, Philadelphia, manager of Pennsylvania Hospital, member of American Philo- sophical Society, Franklin Institute, etc .; and Jonathan Williams Biddle, father of Mrs. Richard McCall Cadwalader, Dr. Thomas Biddle, and others of the pres- ent generation of the Biddle family in Philadelphia.
THOMAS ALEXANDER BIDDLE, second son of Thomas and Christine (Williams) Biddle, was born in Philadelphia, August 23, 1814. He married, July 1, 1845, Julia Cox, daughter of John Cox, Esq., of Philadelphia, and his wife Martha Lyman, and they had issue, eight children, viz :- John Cox; Henry Williams; Anna Sitgraves, now wife of Alexander Blair, Esq .; Alfred; William Lyman, of whom presently; Francis; Julia, wife of Arthur Biddle; and Frances, who died in infancy.
WILLIAM LYMAN BIDDLE, son of Thomas Alexander and Julia (Cox) Biddle was born in Philadelphia, October 8, 1853. He received his elementary educa- tion in Dr. Ferris Select School, Philadelphia, and preparing for college at St. Paul's Preparatory School, Concord, New Hampshire, entered Princeton Uni- versity from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1874. After spending two years in foreign travel he entered a broker's office in New York city where he spent two years, and in 1878, returned to Philadelphia and engaged in the brokerage business as a member of the firm with his father, and has since followed that business in his native city. Mr. Biddle is a mem- ber of the Rittenhouse, Philadelphia Country, Racquet, Corinthian Yacht, Phila- delphia and Rabbit Clubs, and is also a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution as a descendant of Colonel Clement Biddle, before mentioned, one of the distinguished officers of Pennsylvania troops in the War of the Revolution.
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