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MELCHIOR BELTZHOOVER CHAPLIN, son of Lieutenant William Craig and Sarah J. (Crossan) Chaplin, was born on Neville Island, Neville township, Al- legheny county, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1852, died in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania, May 21, 1904. Upon reaching manhood he entered mercantile life as a clerk. In 1883 with Lewis B. Fulton he established the well known Chaplin- Fulton Manufacturing Company and began the manufacture of gas and steam fitting specialties. The business was very successful and later was incorporated. Mr. Chaplin was treasurer of the corporation until his death. Mr. Chaplin was a Republican in politics, but never took an active part in public affairs, being pre- eminently a business man.
He married Kitty S., daughter of Andrew and Mary Ann (Houston) Craig
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(no relation of the Major Isaac Craig family), and had children : William Craig, see forward; Mary Craig (Mrs. Alexander M. Brooks), of Sewickley, Pennsylvania ; Sarah C.
WILLIAM CRAIG CHAPLIN, only son of Melchior B. and Kitty S. (Craig) Chaplin, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July II, 1882. He was educated in the Pittsburgh schools and at once entered on an active business career. Af - ter the death of his father he succeeded him as treasurer of the Chaplin-Fulton Manufacturing Company. Mr. Chaplin is a member of the Sewickley, Edge- worth and Allegheny County Country clubs of Sewickley, and votes with the Republican party.
The first of this branch of the English Huntington family to emigrate for America were Simon and Margaret (Baret) Huntington, who were born in England. He died on ship board, off the coast of Massachusetts in 1633.
Christopher Huntington, son of Simon and Margaret (Baret) Huntington, was born in England. He was on the ship with his father when he died, came to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1633, was of Norwich, Connecticut, in 1660, and died there June 28, 1706. He married Ruth Rockwell, of Windham, Connec- ticut, born in England, August 1, 1663, daughter of William and Susan (Chapin) Rockwell, who were married in England, April 14, 1624. William Rockwell came to America in the ship "Mary and John" with one hundred and forty Puritan families. His family was of Norman origin, running back to Sir Ralph de Rockville, a knight of the tenth century. William's wife, Susan (Chapin) Rockwell, survived him and became the wife of another member of the colony, Matthew Grant, the ancestor of President U. S. Grant.
Deacon Christopher Huntington, son of Christopher and Ruth (Rockwell) Huntington was born at Norwich, Connecticut, November I, 1660, died there April 24, 1735. He is said to have been the first male child born in Norwich. He was a large land owner and deacon in the church from 1695 to 1709. He married (first) May 26, 1681, Sarah Adgate, born in January, 1663, died in February, 1706, at Norwich, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Deacon Thomas and Mary (Bushnel nee Marvin) Adgate. Mary was a daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin, who were born in England, coming to America in 1635. Deacon Christopher Huntington married (second) Mrs. Judith (Ste- phens) Brewster.
Colonel Jabez Huntington, son of Christopher and Sarah (Adgate) Hunting- ton, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, January 26, 1691, died there Septem- ber 25, 1752. He was prominent in civil and military affairs. He married (first) June 30, 1724, Elizabeth, daughter of Timothy and Esther (Stoddard) Edwards. She was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, April 14, 1697, died in Windham, Connecticut, September 21, 1733. He married (second) May 21. 1735, Sarah Wetmore, a widow, who died March 21, 1783.
Colonel Jabez Huntington, son of Colonel Jabez and Sarah (Wetmore) Hunt- ington, was born in Windham, Connecticut, in 1738, died November 24, 1782. He was by profession a lawyer, a graduate of Yale College, class of 1758. He was a member of the Connecticut General Council in 1764-81 and high sheriff of Windham county in 1782. Colonel Jabez Huntington married, August 6, 1760, Judith Elderkin, born March 2, 1743, died September 24, 1786, daughter
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of Jedediah, born 1717, died March 3, 1793, and Anna (Wood) Elderkin, born 1721, married August 31, 1741, died June 14, 1804. Jedediah Elderkin was an attorney of Connecticut, a very prominent public and business man. He was a member of the Connecticut Committee of Safety under General Trumbull, dur- ing the Revolution, and Colonel of the Fifth Regiment Connecticut Militia. He was one of the very first men to introduce silkworms into the state and success- fully manufactured silk. In December, 1775, "Liberty is given Judiah, Peter- kin and Nathaniel Wales to erect a powder mill in Windham" (see records of the General Council of Connecticut, 1775). This mill furnished powder for the use of the Continental soldiers until it was destroyed by explosion, December 13, 1777. Jedediah descended from John Elderkin, born in England in 1612, who came to Massachusetts in 1637, to Connecticut in 1664, and died in Nor- wich, Connecticut, June 26, 1687, aged seventy-one years. His wife, whom he married in 1660, was Elizabeth, widow of William Gaylord, of Norwich, Con- necticut. Colonel Jabez and Judith (Elderkin) Huntington had a daughter Amanda Sarah, who married William Chaplin, and it was their son, John Huntington Chaplin, who married Harriet Craig, daughter of Major Isaac Craig. (see Chaplin).
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JOHN W. HERRON
JOHN W. HERRON obtains his title to membership in the Patriotic Societies, from three Revolutionary ancestors, viz: Honorable Phillips White, of New Hampshire who was his maternal great-great-grandfather ; William Anderson, of Ireland, who was his paternal great-grandfather; and Captain Stephen Hills, of New Hampshire, his maternal great-grandfather. The first mentioned an- cestor, Honorable Phillips White, was born in 1729, and died at Southampton, New Hampshire, August 11, 1811. He was a patriot, who rendered his coun- try valuable service in framing and enforcing laws, in the legislative bodies of his state and Congress, and on the Bench. He was a member of the Provincial Congress of New Hampshire, held in Exeter, December 1775, which adopted on January 7, 1776, the first state constitution. He was a member of the Committee of Safety and of the New Hampshire State Assembly, of which body he was chosen speaker of the House. He was judge of probate for Rockingham county, New Hampshire, from 1776 to 1790. He was a member of the Convention that met at Concord, New Hampshire, June 10, 1778, and in 1780 he was elected to Congress. He married Ruth Brown.
RICHARD, son of Hon. Phillips and Ruth (Brown) White, married Sallie Stewart.
SALLIE, daughter of Richard and Sallie (Stewart) White, married Dr. Rufus Hills, a son of Captain Stephen and Anna Hills.
LOUISA JEANETTE, daughter of Dr. Rufus and Sallie (White) Hills, was born July 21, 1822, died December 21, 1903. She married Colonel William A. Herron, son of John and Clarissa (Anderson) Herron, October 23, 1843. (See Herron).
The first of the Herron family to come to America settled in Lancaster coufi- ty, Pennsylvania, from thence to Franklin county, and finally in Allegheny county, on land near and now part of the city of Pittsburgh (Herron Hill) the old Thirteenth ward. Francis Herron, whose line we follow was born in county Antrim, Ireland, and came to America in 1734, with brothers, David, William and James, and sisters Mary and Elizabeth. Their first home ( for the family seem to have remained together), was at Pequea, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where they remained until 1745, when they settled on Herron branch, Franklin county, where Francis Herron married Mary McNutt, of a Scotch-Irish family of the county. Francis Herron (as were the others) was a farmer and cultivated large tracts of land. Mary McNutt bore him sons John (see forward), James, William and daughters Mary and Sarah. James Herron joined the Continental army and rose to the rank of major.
JOHN HERRON, one of Pittsburgh's pioneer business men, was born April 3. 1792, at Herron's branch, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish an- cestry, and died at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May, 1863. He was the eldest son of Francis and Mary McNutt Herron. John received as good an education as the day afforded. He worked on his father's farm and attended school in
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winter. In 1812 he left the farm and went to Pittsburgh, where he became a clerk for Ephraim Blaine, a large lumber dealer and manufacturer. After a few years close attention to business he bought out Mr. Blaine and began on his own account. He enlarged and extended his operations, added a brick yard, coal mining and shipping, contracting and building. With him was as- sociated his brother-in-law, Colonel James Anderson, son of Major William, also a most energetic and capable business man. The various lines comprised a very large and lucrative volume of business. In 1833 John Herron removed to a tract of land he had purchased and was developing as a coal mining propo- sition. The tract was at Minersville (Herron Hill) and is now a populous ward of Pittsburgh, (the old Thirteenth, now the present Fifth ward), but then far out in the country. He was an elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Pitts- burgh.
John Herron married Clarissa, daughter of Major William and Mary A. (Cann) Anderson (see Anderson). The issue of this marriage was a family of nine. I. James A., died July 4, 1842, aged twenty-five. 2. William A., see forward. 3. John D., married Emma Thompson. 4. Richard G., a colonel in the Union army. His wife was Annette Tomlinson. 5. Francis J., the young- est Union major general in the Civil War. 6. David R., lieutenant of an Iowa Battery. 7. Mary Ann, married Rev. George A. Lyon, D, D .. of Erie, Penn- sylvania. 8. Eliza, married Richard Sill, of Erie. 9. Margaret D., married William C. Friend, of Pittsburgh. Mrs. John Herron, the mother of these children lived to an advanced age and died in May, 1873.
WILLIAM A. HERRON, son of John and Clarissa (Anderson) Herron, was born at Pittsburgh (corner of Eighth street and Penn avenue) August 7, 1821. He received a good education and began his business life as a clerk in the dry goods store of A. Way & Company at Pittsburgh. He gave up his position then to go with his father in the coal business; at the mines in Minersville. In 1864 he became a member of the firm of Herron, Brown & Company, coal producers and shippers. Later he associated with his brother-in-law, Richard Sill, in the lumber business and had partnership interests in a brass foundry, glass manu- facturing, steamboats and barges, for the river coal trade. In 1855 he engaged in banking and was one of the organizers of the German Bank, now German National Bank. He cooperated in the formation of other of the city banks, notably the Iron City Trust Company, now the Second National Bank, The Third National and the Mechanics National. In 1862, with two others he se- cured a charter and organized the People's Saving Bank of which he was the first president. In 1860 he was elected clerk of the Allegheny County Courts and re-elected in 1863, serving in the office six years, after which he engaged in the real estate business. In 1877 he admitted his son, John W., as a partner, and in 1883, another son, Rufus H., under the firm name of William A. Herron & Sons. Ill health kept him out of the army, but he was an intense Union man, and rendered such service as he could. At the time of Lee's invasion of Penn- sylvania, Major General J. G. Barnard, Chief of Engineers, United States Army, was sent to Pittsburgh to select site for fortification and defences for the city. Mr. Herron was a great assistance to him in locating the best sites and was warmly commended by letter for his services. He served on the staff of Gov- ernor Curtin, under the rank of colonel. In 1879 he was appointed pension
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agent at Pittsburgh by President Hayes. He was a member of the Select Coun- cil, serving from the fourth ward. He early became a communicant of the Presbyterian church and served the Third Church of Pittsburgh as trustee, dea- con and elder, and superintendent of Sunday school. He has on many occasions represented his church (Third Presbyterian), at Synod and Presbytery and in 1888 was delegate to the Centennial General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church held at Philadelphia. He has had active official relation with many of the city's benevolent, educational and religious institutions, thus: vice-president of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital; vice-president of the Homoeopathic Hospital; vice-president of Dixmont Asylum for the Insane; president of the Blind Asy- lum of Western Pennsylvania; director of the Young Men's Home and mem- ber of the Young Men's Christian Association; President of the Presbyterian Union ; vice-president of the Scotch-Irish Society, and a director of the school board. His ancestry entitles him to membership in all the patriotic orders and he is an ardent member of the Sons of the American Revolution of which order he is an ex-president. He belongs to Pittsburgh Chapter.
WILLIAM A. HERRON married, in 1842, Louisa Jeannette Hills, daughter of Dr. Rufus and Sallie (White) Hills. She was interested in many good works, and of her it was written "She was the friend of every needy family." She was one of the organizers in 1865, of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, in Pittsburgh, and the first president. She was president of Association for the Improvement of the Poor, and of the Free Kindergarten Association. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. William A. Herron, three of whom died in infancy. 1. James A. Herron, died in 1876. He was a civil war veteran and served on the staff of his uncle, General Francis J. Herron. James A. Her- ron, his wife and all their children are deceased. 2. Sallie A. Herron, married Ogden M. Edwards, of Pittsburgh; they have Ogden M. Jr., George D., and Ruth Edwards. A daughter Louise is deceased. 3. Rufus Hills Herron, mar- ried Jennie Shugart, of Titusville, Pennsylvania, and has Irwin, Edith and Paul Anderson. He is in the oil business in California, residing in Los Angeles. 4. John W., born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was educated in the city schools, Newall Institute and Western University of Pennsylvania. He began business life in an insurance office as clerk in 1868. In 1871 he entered the em- ploy of Zug & Company, iron manufacturers, as clerk. In 1877 he became a partner of William A. Herron & Sons, real estate dealers. In 1902 he with others organized the Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania, of which he was the first and (in 1910) the present president. Mr. Herron in political and religious preference has not departed from the faith of his an- cestry. He is a deacon of the Third Presbyterian Church and a Republican. He belongs to many of the city's social and athletic clubs: the Duquesne, Pitts- burgh Golf, University, Greensburg Country and Pittsburgh Athletic. He is a member of Pittsburgh Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Her- ron married, January 25, 1894, Jane Ross, daughter of Washington and Mar- garet Ross, of Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. The children of John W. and Jane (Ross) Herron are: Ross, who died in 1900; Alice Virginia, 'sorn De- cember 1, 1898; Dorothy, born October 26, 1901.
Third line of descent of J. W. Herron, Captain Stephen Hills, of New Eng-
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land. He was a member of Captain Josiah Crosley's Company, Colonel John Reed's Regiment, New Hampshire troops, until August 1, 1775. He was then transferred to the Artillery and served with Captain Papkin's Company in the New Hampshire Artillery Regiment, commanded by Colonel Richard Gridgley until September, 1775. In 1777 he served in Captain Moses Baker's Company, New Hampshire Volunteers, marched to Saratoga, where he participated in the battle there fought and witnessed the surrender of Burgoyne. Stephen Hills rose to the rank of captain. He married Anna -. Dr. Rufus Hills, born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, son of Captain Stephen and Anna Hills, married Sallie White, granddaughter of Hon. Phillips White. (See J. W. Herron III). Their daughter Louisa Jeannette, married Col. William A. Herron, and they are the parents of John W. Dr. Rufus Hills was a leading physician in Erie, Penn> sylvania.
Second line of descent of J. W. Herron: William Anderson, a soldier of the War of the Revolution, was born near Belfast, Ireland, in the year 1747, and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1820. He came to America in the year 1772, and settled at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In 1776 he enlisted and was orderly sergeant of Captain Rippery's volunteer company, Colonel William Irwin's regiment, Pennsylvania troops. He marched with the army invading Canada, and was at the battle of Three Rivers. He was afterward transferred to the commissary department and commanded a wagon brigade and foraging parties under General Wayne. He rose to the rank of major and served with dis- tinction until the close of the war. He was with the patriot army at the cross- ing of the Delaware and the succeeding battle of Trenton, also with them dur- ing their privation and suffering at Valley Forge. He was a contractor and builder and after the war he journeyed westward. At Huntington and Bedford, Pennsylvania, he erected public buildings for the county. He also secured the contract for the erection of the first executive mansion (the White House) at Washington, D. C., the cornerstone of which was laid by the Masonic fraternity October 13, 1792. He settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the year 1797. He at once entered into active business life. He built and operated the first steam saw mill and the second steam grist mill, west of the Alleghanies. He dealt in lumber and logs, had a brickyard and erected many private and pub- lic buildings in the city and vicinity. In 1820 his health being gone, he re- moved to Mercer, Pennsylvania, where he had land interests. Here he died in 1821. His wife was Mary A. Cann, who was born in Wales, and died in 1816. She came to America with her only brother, while the Revolution was in pro- gress. The brother at once joined the Patriot Army and was killed at the bat- tle of Brandywine. The three sons of William and Mary A. (Cann) Anderson were William, Paul and James, all of whom served with credit in the war of 1812. James inherited his father's ability, was a colonel and a noted philan- thropist of his day. He gave to Allegheny City the first public library, and was equally generous and public spirited in many other directions. Paul Anderson settled at Cincinnati, Ohio. The Pittsburgh family of Herron descend from Major William Anderson through the marriage of his daughter Clarissa Ander- son to John Herron. (See Herron).
HENRIETTA SALISBURY EVANS
HENRIETTA SALISBURY (Mrs. Thomas Evans), of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, her native city, descends in the fourth generation from the Revolutionary sol- dier, Henry Lane, of New Jersey. Henry Lane was born in Morris county, New Jersey, April 12, 1762, died at Wheeling, West Virginia, at an advanced age. He served out many terms of enlistment as a private of the Eastern Bat- talion, Morris county, New Jersey militia. The first enlistment was May I, 1778, and his last service was at the battle of Springfield, New Jersey, in June, 1780. His term of service was almost continuous. He was wounded in some of the engagements in which he participated, for which he received the pension alluded to. He married Mary Hazlett, born April 16, 1761. Children: Sarah, Patti and Elizabeth. Henry Lane was a son of Henry Lane, a sea captain, who died at sea three months before the birth of his son, Henry; he married Eliza- beth Rice; children: Mathias, Ishmael, Mary, Sarah, Henry.
ELIZABETH LANE, daughter of Henry and Mary (Hazlett) Lane, was born August 25, 1779. She married, in 1803, James Salisbury, in Morris or Essex county, New Jersey. James Salisbury was born in New Jersey, August 15, 1774. He removed with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1817. He did not remain long there, but located in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Vir- ginia), where he was one of the contractors that built the National Pike, run- ning from Washington, D. C., to Wheeling. James Salisbury and his wife are buried in the latter city. They were the parents of fifteen sons and daughters.
JAMES SALISBURY, son of James and Elizabeth (Lane) Salisbury, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1809. He came with his parents to Pittsburgh in 1817, that city becoming his permanent residence. He lived to be eighty-four years of age, dying in 1893. He retained to the last a vivid recollection of early events and customs, of how the pack saddle was relied on as a means of transportation, of when the road wagon and the stage coach was introduced and afterwards the canals and the railroads. In 1852 he was elected to represent his district in the Pennsylvania state legislature. In 1862 he was elected justice of the peace and served twenty-five years in that office. He was interested in the manufacture of glass, and was one of the pioneers in that bus- iness. He married, October 6, 1829, Lydia Gallagher, born in Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1811, but came when very young to Pittsburgh, ever af- terward her home. Her mother, Lydia (Sanderson) Gallagher, was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and her father, James Gallagher, near the Susquehanna river. There were nine children in the Salisbury family, all attendants of the Presbyterian church, among whom was Henrietta, see forward.
HENRIETTA SALISBURY, daughter of James and Lydia (Gallagher) Salisbury, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1851. She married, January 7, 1875, Thomas Evans, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1842. He is a manufacturer of glass under the firm name of Macbeth, Evans Glass Com- pany, one of the noted institutions of Pittsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Evans are
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the parents of two sons: I. Howard Salisbury, born January 29, 1876, he has two children: Thomas Raymond and Evelyn Fawell. 2. Thomas Raymond, November 18, 1878, he has three children: Margaret Gray, Raymond Flaccus, William Howard. Both sons are associated with their father. Mrs. Evans is a communicant of the Presbyterian church, as are all the family. She is a mem- ber of Pittsburgh Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.
WILLIAM T. LYON
JOHN LYON, emigrant ancestor of William T. Lyon, emigrated from Eniskillen, county Fermanagh, province of Ulster, Ireland, to the province of Pennsylvania in the year of 1763. He was not the first of his family to come to America. His son William preceded him in 1750 and with his uncle, John Armstrong, laid out the town of Carlisle in 1751. William became a man of great promi- nence and influence and figured conspicuously in the public affairs of his day. Prior to the Revolution he was a lieutenant of a Pennsylvania regiment, and a magistrate appointed by Governor John Penn in 1765. During the Revolution- ary period, William was a member of the Committee of Safety, prothonotary of Cumberland, county clerk, register and recorder of the Orphan's Court of the county. In 1779 he was appointed by the Supreme Executive Council to re- ceive subscriptions to a loan of twenty millions of dollars authorized by Con- gress. He died in Carlisle in 1809. John Lyon, the emigrant, on arriving in Pennsylvania, settled in Cumberland county, in what is now Milford township, Juniata county, about two miles west from Mifflintown. His warrant for a tract of land containing two hundred and seventy-three acres is dated Septem- ber 18, 1766. In 1773 the proprietaries granted to John Lyon, et al., twenty acres of land for the use of the Presbyterian church of Tuscarora, where he is buried. He died in 1780. John Lyon married, in Ireland, Mary Armstrong, sister of Colonel Armstrong, mentioned above, one of the prominent and pa- triotic Pennsylvanians of Provincial times. Mary Armstrong was a woman of bright intellect, remarkable intelligence and a fine conversationalist. She died in the year 1792 and is buried at Tuscarora. The issue of John and Mary (Arm- strong) Lyon: William, before mentioned, who married his cousin, Alice Arm- strong. James, married a Miss Martin. Samuel, married Eleanor Blaine, daughter of Colonel Ephraim Blaine; was colonel of the Fourth Battalion, Cum- berland County Militia and commissioner of purchases. John, see forward. Mary, married Benjamin Lyon. Frances, married William Graham. Margaret Alice, married Thomas Anderson. Agnes, unmarried.
JOHN LYON, son of John and Mary (Armstrong) Lyon, was born in Ireland and came with the family to Pennsylvania in 1763. On the death of his father he came into possession of one-half of the homestead farm, his brother Samuel inheriting the other half by the will of their father, dated December 3, 1779. John resided on the farm for a time and then disposed of it to the Sterrett fam- ily. John Lyon removed to Butler county, Pennsylvania, where he died in the year 1820. His wife was Mary, daughter of Captain Thomas Harris. The issue of their marriage was: Thomas Harris, John, see forward, James, Mar- garet, Mary, Catherine and Nancy.
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