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ADAMS-ANSHUTZ
Coming down in direct line from the earliest Colonial days in our country an.I pioneer days in western Pennsylvania, there is the family under consideration. It has a record of public service not compared by any. They are on record in every department of our nation's development. The early history of the Adams family is well known. The names of John Adams and John Quincy Adams are family words everywhere American history is read. They form the only in- stance where son succeeds father in the high office of president of the United States. In art, science, literature, religion, business and public service they everywhere are prominent. The other lines, Holmes and Anshutz, are equally famed in Pennsylvania annals. The pioneer iron maker of Pittsburgh was an Anshutz, and the Revolutionary records record the name of Holmes and Thorp. The development of the great Pittsburgh industries has been hastened by the energy of these allied families. The following lines will show the descent of the children of Stephen Jarvis Adams and his wife, Emma Virginia Anshutz, from their Revolutionary forbears, maternal and paternal, Obadiah Holmes, of Pennsylvania, and Lieutenant Aaron Thorp, of Connecticut.
EMMA V. ANSHUTZ (Mrs. Adams) is a descendant in the fourth generation from Obadiah Holmes, her Revolutionary ancestor, who was a scout and In- dian fighter. Obadiah Holmes, son of Obadiah Holmes, the western pioneer and first of his name to come to the Alleghanies, served in the militia and acted as a scout between Fort Pitt and Wheeling, Virginia. He was with the Colonel Crawford expedition in 1782 that resulted so disastrously and cost Colonel Crawford his life. He received a grant of land from the government for his Revolutionary service. He married Jane Richardson.
DR. SHEPLEY ROSS HOLMES, son of Obadiah and Jane (Richardson) Holmes, was born July 11, 1791. He was a practicing physician of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania. He married (first) Sarah Peters, born in 1795, died September 20, 1833. Children : Lewis Peters, Benjamin Rush, James Rush, Shepley Stod- dard, Obadiah, Eliza Jane, Anna May, Caroline Anita and Sallie Peters. He married (second) -- Stretton, by whom he had Americus V. and Louisa.
ELIZA JANE HOLMES, daughter of Dr. Shepley Ross and Sarah (Peters ) Holmes, was born November 9, 1821, died in Pittsburgh, January 24, 1891. She married, February 20, 1840, Alfred P. Anshutz, son of George Anshutz, and grandson of George Anshutz, the pioneer of the iron industry in the Pitts- burgh district. He built, owned and operated the first furnace in that now world-famed section. Alfred P. and Eliza Jane (Holmes) Anshutz were the parents of six children: Theodore, Emma Virginia, see forward, Margaretta L., Sarah Jane, Anna Eva and Edward Steele.
EMMA VIRGINIA ANSHUTZ, daughter of Alfred P. and Eliza Jane ( Holmes ) Anshutz, was born February 10, 1843, at Pittsburgh. She has all her life been an active worker in the church, and through the varied organized charitable or- ganizations. She is a member of Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, vice-
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president of the Ladies' Aid Association of the Homeopathic Hospital, vice- president and treasurer of the Free Kindergarten Association, and vice-presi- dent of the Society for the Improvement of the Poor. She is on the board of management of the Home for Aged Couples, the Home for Epileptics, and a member of the Pittsburgh Art Society. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and treasurer of the Block House Association, of the Pittsburgh Society of that order that preserved for posterity the historic "Block House" at the "Point" as well as numberless other deeds of patriotism. She married, November 17, 1862, Stephen Jarvis Adams, of Pittsburgh (see Adams). Children: Ida Janette, Calvin Jarvis, Alfred Holmes, Marcellin Cote and Ste- phen Jarvis (2).
STEPHEN JARVIS ADAMS is a descendant of the Revolutionary soldier, Lieu- tenant Aaron Thorp, of Connecticut. Aaron Thorp was born June 12, 1746, died in 1819. He enlisted September 1, 1777, for the period of the war, in Captain Mill's company, Second Regiment, Connecticut line, and was later transferred to Captain Parson's company. Previous to this we find the fol- lowing record: "Aaron Thorp, Sergeant, arrived in camp August, 1776; dis- charged September 10, 1776; in Captain Hickock's Company, Twenty-third Regiment militia". In October, 1779: "This Assembly do establish Aaron Thorp to be Lieutenant of the Second Company or train band in the Thirteenth Regiment of the (Connecticut) State troop". Aaron Thorp married Mary Curtis and had issue.
ANNA THORP, daughter of Aaron and Mary (Curtis) Thorp, married, Jan- uary 7, 1799, Thomas Adams, a descendant of Henry Adams, who came from England and settled in Boston in 1632-33, and was founder of the town of Braintree, Massachusetts. He was the founder of the great Adams family that has furnished the nation with two presidents and so many noted public men. Thomas Adams was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, August 18, 1766, died at Oak Hill, Greene county, New York, October 5, 1844. Thomas and Anna (Thorp) Adams were the parents of Norman, Mary Ann, Ansel, Janette, Cal- vin, see forward, and Minerva.
CALVIN ADAMS, youngest son of Thomas and Anna (Thorp) Adams, was born at Oak Hill, June 26, 1809, died in Pittsburgh, April 11, 1879. He located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that he might have the advantages that city offered as a coal and iron center. He started the first malleable iron business west of the Allegheny Mountains, which in after years became so well known as The Pittsburgh Novelty Works, which was always a prosperous and paying business. Mr. Adams had the genius of an inventor coupled with the business qualifica- tions of a manufacturer, and could not fail to succeed. Some of his inven- tions came into general use, among them a coffee mill, and the Janus faced lock. In 1872 he sold out and retired from the manufacturing world. He was a director in many of the companies and financial institutions of Pittsburgh. He was vestryman of Trinity Episcopal Church, chairman of the building commit- tee, and for many years a worker in the Sunday school, the welfare of the young being an especial concern with him. He was a director of the Dollar Savings Bank, and for many years was a member of the select and common councils of Pittsburgh. He was one of the board of managers of the House of Refuge and of Dixmont Hospital, and an inspector of the Western Peniten-
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tiary. He did his full duty as a "soldier of the common good", conscientiously performing all the duties of citizenship and proving a worthy son of his dis- tinguished sires. His political faith was intensely Republican. He married Cynthia Gifford in 1836. Children: Stephen Jarvis, see forward, Elmira, An- netta, William Calvin, Harriet Gifford and Janette.
STEPHEN JARVIS ADAMS, son of Calvin and Cynthia (Gifford) Adams, was born at Oak Hill, Greene county, New York, April 21, 1837. He was one year old when his parents removed to Wheeling, West Virginia, and still but a child when they located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he received his ed- ucation in the public schools. On attaining manhood he was associated with his father in the manufacture of iron specialties, and he remained with him until 1870, when he established the firm of S. Jarvis Adams & Company for the man- ufacture of a similar line of iron goods. His training qualified him to success- fully conduct this industry. The plant grew, developed and prospered, becom- ing one of Pittsburgh's great industrial enterprises. He inherited the inventive genius of his father and used it freely in inventing and perfecting machinery used in his own plant and in kindred industries. His inventions were numerous and contributed greatly to the development of his business, while many of them have come into general use. He is an active member of Calvary Episcopal Church, which he served as vestryman for several years. For twenty-one years he was superintendent of the Sunday school, a line of work that always specially appealed to him. He is on the executive board of the Homeopathic Hospital and the board of managers of Allegheny Cemetery. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic order in both the Ancient York and Scottish Rite. In the former he is a Kniglit Templar and in the latter he has attained the thirty- second degree. His ancestry entitles him to membership in the Mayflower So- ciety and Sons of the American Revolution, and with both of these societies he is connected. He married, November 17, 1862, Emma Virginia Anshutz, born February 10, 1843 (see Holmes). Children: 1. Ida Janette, married John Lake Garner and has Emma Virginia, Janette Adams and John Lake Garner Jr. 2. Calvin Jarvis. 3. Alfred Holmes. 4. Marcellin Cote, married Ida E. Bright and has one daughter, Emma Virginia. 5. Stephen Jarvis (2).
LOGUE FAMILY
The Revolutionary ancestor of Charles M. Logue was his great-grandfather, John Logue, whose birth occurred in Ireland in 1758 and his death in Pennsyl- vania, June 6, 1833; he enlisted and was sworn into the service, July 11, 1777, was a private in Captain John Ramsey's company, Chester County, Pennsyl- vania Militia. He married
CHARLES LOGUE, son of John Logue, was born at Toby township, Clarion county, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer by occupation. He married Rachel Morgan.
THOMAS M. LOGUE, son of Charles and Rachel (Morgan) Logue, was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, 1834, died August, 1903. He was a farmer by occupation. He married Mary A. Crozier. Children :
Charles M., see forward;
Laura R., m. James A. Hetrick; one child, John J .;
Jennie J., m. J. E. Wilson; four children ;
Minnie I., m. William C. Callear; one child, Cora Mae;
Harry A., see forward;
Herbert L., m. Emma Hartman; children, Helen and Mary; Nellie I., m. L. E. Stewart; one child.
CHARLES M. LOGUE, son of Thomas M. and Mary A. (Crozier) Logue, was born in Toby township, Clarion county, Pennsylvania, July 19, 1863. He first spent several years of his earlier life in working on the farm and attending the Independence Public Country School, afterwards attending the West Freedom Academy and the Calensburg Academy and later the Rimersburg Institute, all in small villages near their farm home. At the age of fifteen he began teaching his first term of country school at Meyers school house, Toby township, teaching there for three terms, then teaching at Blackfox, Perry township, Clarion county, Pennsylvania. The following year he had charge of one of the schools at Clarion county, seat of Clarion, or his home county, then he entered the Na- tional Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and graduated from this school at a later date. During the year 1882 Hon. James Mosgrove, of Kittanning, Pennsylvania, member of congress from Mr. Logue's district, appointed him as a cadet at West Point, New York, but due to his being under twenty-one years of age, it was required by the government to secure the consent of his parents to enter West Point and they refusing to consent, he was unable to go there but succeeded in having Mr. Mosgrove appoint a Mr. Charles Farren- worth in his stead, who entered West Point and graduated later with honors.
Mr. Logue at a later date became a candidate for county superintendent for the public schools in Clarion county, and due to his not being of age the state superintendent refused to allow a commission to be issued him. About this time he entered the fire insurance business in Clarion county, seat of his coun- ty, and at a later date, November, 1886, came to Pittsburgh and entered the fire insurance business at that place. In the year 1888 his brother, Harry A.
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Logue, joined him in Pittsburgh and they started in the produce and commis- sion business, this being managed and conducted largely by his brother, Harry A. Logue, Charles M. Logue continuing in the fire insurance business and as- sisting in the commission business from time to time and continuing this until December, 1902, when same was discontinued and Harry A. Logue joined in the fire insurance business under the firm name of C. M. Logue & Brother. In May, 1893, Charles M. Logue was elected vice-president and treasurer of the Collins Cigar Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and from that date on gave his attention to the cigar business and Harry A. Logue conducted the insurance business.
In the year 1901 Charles M. Logue, together with New York and Philadel- phia capitalists, formed the United States Cigar Company with $5,000,000 cap- ital, which concern took over and bought out the Union American Cigar Com- pany, Collins Cigar Company and several other leading factories, in same line, at various parts of the country, and Charles M. Logue was elected president of the new corporation-the United States Cigar Company. A few years later the United States Cigar Company was absorbed by the American Tobacco Com- pany, they consolidating their similar interests and forming a new corporation, taking over all the interests under an incorporated company, known as the American Stogie Company with $12,000,000 capital, with head office at III Fifth avenue, New York, having factories and warehouses all over the United States.
On the formation of this new company or corporation, owned by the Amer- ican Tobacco Company, Charles M. Logue was elected president of the Ameri- can Stogie Company, which place he filled for several years, or until he broke down in health, when he resigned and after spending a year or so recuperating, returned to Pittsburgh and associated with Harry A. Logue in the continuance of the fire insurance business, started by them several years previously. After his return they formed, in addition to the firm of C. M. Logue & Brother, a partnership of Logue Brothers & Company, consisting of Charles M. Logue and Harry A. Logue, and started in conducting a general agency business, having secured the general agency of several of the largest fire insurance companies. Active work was begun and they have succeeded in building up one of the larg- est fire insurance businesses there is in the state of Pennsylvania, as well as the largest local fire insurance business in the state. They are handling some of the largest manufacturing plants in the country, and in addition are doing con- siderable work in the installing of automatic sprinklers for their clients, as well as being interested in a large number of other enterprises.
Charles M. Logue has in the past served for several years as director in the German American Savings & Trust Company of Pittsburgh, the Guarantee Ti- tle & Trust Company of Pittsburgh and the Iron City National bank of Pitts- burgh. At the present time and for several years past he has been a director in the Bank of Pittsburgh, N. A., the oldest bank in the United States, west of the Allegheny Mountains. He is also at the present time a director in the Homewood People's Bank of East End, Pittsburgh, and a director in the American Stogie Company of New York, Union-American Cigar Company of New York, as well as interested financially in several leading manufacturing concerns of the city of Pittsburgh and mercantile concerns of the same city.
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He is a member of the Methodist church, served, in earlier days, six years in the Pennsylvania National Guards of Pennsylvania, a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, a Knight Templar, a Shriner, member of Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows, American Mechanics, Sons of the American Revolution, a member of the Aldine Club of New York, a member of the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, Fort Pitt Athletic Club, Pittsburgh Athletic Club, Country Club and Americus Club of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Logue married Ella M. Hendrickson, of Pittsburgh, February 20, 1890; they have two children dead and two living; Alice and Edward are now living. Mr. Logue's mother is living; his father died in August, 1893.
HARRY A. LOGUE, son of Thomas M. and Mary A. (Crozier) Logue, gradu- ated from Duff's College of Pittsburgh, and in 1888 joined in partnership with his brother, Charles M., as aforementioned. He served for ten years in the Pennsylvania National Guard, entering as private and mustered out as first lieutenant ; he served as sergeant in the Spanish-American War, Company E., Fourteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, from April 27, 1898 to October 13, 1898. He holds membership in the Free and Accepted Masons; Pittsburgh Country Club, Union Club, Pittsburgh Athletic Club, Fort Pitt Athletic Club, and Sons of the American Revolution. He married Maria Ogden. No issue.
OMAR SCOTT DECKER
It is to the military service of John Hull, a Revolutionary soldier from Vir- ginia, that Mr. Decker obtains membership in the patriotic orders of Sons of the Revolution and Sons of the American Revolution. Frances Hull, daugh- ter of John Hull, Jr., son of John Hull Sr., the patriot soldier, married Solo- mon Decker, the father of Omar S. Decker. It is through the maternal line as described that Mr. Decker descends. John Hull Sr. was born in Berkeley coun- ty, Virginia, died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the year 1805, having settled there in 1797. He enlisted April 26, 1777, and was discharged July 26, 1783, which makes his term of service in excess of six years. He was ser- geant and part of the time sergeant-major of Captain John Lemen's company, of the Thirteenth and Seventh Virginia Continental Line, Colonel William Rus- sell, as shown by roll of the company dated September 6, 1777. He was with the army of Washington at Valley Forge during the never-to-be-forgotten win- ter of 1777-78, as the company roll shows under date of November 10, Decem- ber 4, 1777, January 1; February 1, March 5, April 4 and May 4, 1778. During 1778 he was transferred to the western department, headquarters at Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh) and was sergeant of a company of Colonel John Gibson's Thir- teenth Virginia, as shown by regiment rolls dated April 5, 1779, at Fort Pitt, and another roll dated June 8, 1779, at Pittsburgh. He is named a sergeant of the Ninth Virginia, Colonel John Gibson, October, 1779, at Fort Pitt, and on February 13, 1780, same place, named a sergeant on the rolls of Captain Benja- min Bigg's Seventh Virginia, Colonel John Gibson, and on November 18, 1781, at Fort Pitt, to cover the year 1780, and the months of January to October, 1781. On subsequent rolls he is named as serving at Fort Pitt until the close of the war, final discharge dated July 26, 1783. He helped to build Fort McIntosh and Fort Laurens, being stationed at the latter fort from December, 1778, to April, 1779. He was in the second expedition against the Indians led by Colonel Daniel Brodhead (See Brady-Wetzel Mss. in the library of Wisconsin Historical Society, vol. I, sheet 66).
"Pay Roll of Captain Benjamin Biggs Company detachment from the Virginia line in the service of United States of America, for the months of February, March and April, 1783."
"John Hull, Sergeant, three months $10 per month." From Vol. I, sheets 68 and 71. "Muster Rolls for March, 1783." "John Hull Sergeant Command."
From Vol. I, No. 88: "Account of the men discharged at the garrison of Fort Pitt belonging to the Virginia Continental Line, July 25, 1783." "John Hull, sergeant enlisted January 1, 1777, discharged July 26, 1783. Pay received since January (1782), January, February, March and April 1783. Took arms with him."
From records of the land office Richmond, Vadalect Council Chamber, June 23, 1783. "I do hereby certify that the above non-commissioned (officers) and privates of the Virginia Continental line having enlisted for the war and served upwards of three years are entitled to the proportion of land allowed for such service."
(Signed) Thomas Merriweather. Benjamin Harrison, governor.
A warrant was issued to the above non-commissioned officers and soldiers,
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June 26, 1783. (Book No. I, page 200-four hundred acres.) Certificates filed, John Hull, sergeant, enlisted April, 1777, so it is uncertain whether the term of enlistment began January 1 or April 26, 1777. It is gratifying to know that the old hero got his land warrant for four hundred acres of land (No. 1095 on the books), but we learn that he assigned it to Thomas Rardin who patented it to the Virginia military district of Ohio, September 25, 1797. He was for six years a soldier in Fort Pitt where he learned rope making. In 1785 John Hull married Jane Hastings, born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, died at Pittsburgh, December, 1799. Their children were: William, Susannah, Jane, Margaret and John. John Hull and wife are buried in Trinity churchyard, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, both being members of the Episcopal church.
JOHN HULL, son of John and Jane (Hastings) Hull, was born in 1796 at Winchester, Virginia, died at Toronto, Ohio, 1855. He was married at Al- legheny, Pennsylvania, in 1817, to Sarah Carnahan, born in the north of Ire- land about 1793, died at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1840. He was a rope maker by occupation. He resided several years of his life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was an Episcopalian in religious faith. He was known as Captain Hull. His children were: Leititia, William, John, who was colonel of state troops in Montana, and the first territorial treasurer, Frances and Morrison.
FRANCES HULL, daughter of John and Sarah (Carnahan) Hull, was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1825, died at Rochester, Pennsyl- vania, December 5, 1868. She married at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, June 13, 1844, Solomon Decker, born in Frederick county, Maryland, April II, 1811, died at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1861. He was the son of Jacob and Mary Rachel (Barnhart) Decker, of Frederick county, Maryland, grand- son of George Frederick Decker and his wife, Maria (Spangler) Decker, of York county, Pennsylvania, and great-grandson of John Jacob Decker and his wife, Catherine (Wolff) Decker, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania; both came from Zweibrücken, Germany, in 1741. Solomon Decker was a carpenter and a building contractor. He was a member of the German Reformed church, but his wife was an Episcopalian, the Hull family religious faith. They resided in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where their children were born, eight in number. John, Mary, Harriet, Hannah, Horace, Eleanor, Omar Scott, see forward, and Adam.
OMAR SCOTT DECKER, son of Solomon and Frances (Hull) Decker, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of his native city. Early in life he entered the iron and steel business, passing through successive promotions of bookkeeper, auditor and sales manager. At present, 1909, he is in the iron commission business. In politics he is a Republican, but never sought or held public office. He is a member of the Shady Side Presbyterian Church. Elsewhere he has held the offices of deacon, elder and treasurer. He is a member of the Duquesne Club. Omar Scott Decker married Agnes Laurene, daughter of Robert Pitcairn, who was assistant to the president of the Pennsylvania railroad.
FRANCIS THOMAS FLETCHER LOVEJOY
The English ancestry of Francis T. F. Lovejoy is as follows :
JOHN LOVEJOY, born 1465.
THOMAS LOVEJOY, born 1490, died 1574.
WILLIAM LOVEJOY, born 1530, died 1577.
JOHN LOVEJOY, born 1571, died 1604.
ROWLAND LOVEJOY, born 1599.
ROBERT LOVEJOY, born 1621, died 1669.
JOHN LOVEJOY, born 1659, died 1702. The English ancestors who lived in Buckinghamshire were land owners and farmers.
His American ancestors were:
JOSEPH LOVEJOY, born in London, England, 1684, came to America and set- tled in Maryland, 1705. He bought a farm in Prince George county from Lord Baltimore, 1715. He died 1748. He married, 1720, Ann Lyon.
JOSEPH LOVEJOY, born 1721, in Maryland, died 1774, in Kentucky. He mar- ried, 1745, Eleanor Davis. He was a large landowner.
JOSEPH LOVEJOY, born 1746, in Maryland, succeeded his father as a land- owner in Prince George and Frederick counties. He died 1790. He married, 1774, Sarah Davis.
SAMUEL LOVEJOY, born 1779, in Frederick county, Maryland, landowner in Montgomery county, Maryland, died in 1828. He married, 1800, Elizabeth Cromwell.
SAMUEL LOVEJOY, born 1801, in Frederick county, landowner in Montgomery county, died 1835. He married, 1826, Sarah Shipley.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER LOVEJOY, born 1827, Montgomery county, landowner in Ohio, 1858, died 1894. He married 1852, Mary Jane Robinson.
FRANCIS T. F. LOVEJOY was born in Baltimore, Maryland, July 21, 1854. He was four years of age when his parents removed to Washington, Guernsey county, Ohio, where his boyhood days were passed and his education acquired. When he was sixteen years of age he left home to seek his fortune. The first six months he passed in Washington, Pennsylvania, and from there drifted into Titusville, then the center of the oil producing industry of Pennsylvania. Here he passed ten years, and engaged in as many different employments. He learned telegraphy, and worked for the Western Union Company; as bookkeeper and stenographer was connected with a newspaper; and with oil producing and oil refining-but all the time doing something and acquiring a mental and busi- ness equipment that was to serve him well in later years. In 1880 he came to Pittsburgh and worked for six months with the American Union Telegraph Company. On June 6, 1881, opportunity "knocked at his door", and he arose and followed. On that date he entered the employ of Carnegie Brothers & Company as clerk and stenographer. He was now in his rightful element, and his rise was rapid. In April, 1889, he was advanced to the position of auditor of the two companies in which Andrew Carnegie was the largest owner, Car-
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