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negie Bros. & Company, and Carnegie, Phipps & Company (Limited). At this time he acquired a financial interest and became a member of the firm. In June, 1889, he was elected secretary of Carnegie Bros. & Company, and two years later to membership on the board of both companies. In the years fol- lowing Mr. Lovejoy was active and instrumental in bringing about the colt- solidation of the two limited firms into one corporation, The Carnegie Steel Company, of which he was chosen secretary and manager. This was in 1892. The same year the great "Homestead Strike" occurred. Henry C. Frick was chairman of the board of managers, and he selected Mr. Lovejoy for the deli- cate duty of giving out to newspapers daily reports, that the public might have official and authentic information, and not be misled by sensational reports from untrustworthy sources. So well did he perform his task that he was con- tinued and given other offices of trust and honor.
In January, 1900, when the differences between Mr. Carnegie (the largest stockholder ) and Mr. Frick became acute, Mr. Lovejoy refused to take part in the controversy, and resigned all his official positions with the company. He could therefore act with unquestioned propriety and with the full confidence of both parties in interest to conduct the negotiations for a compromise of the suit in equity brought by Mr. Frick against Mr. Carnegie. The negotiations resulted in an agreement, written by Mr. Lovejoy, March 19, 1900, under which a new company was formed. He served on the committee to carry into effect the terms of the agreement entered into and ratified by all parties to the litigation. The committee effected a speedy settlement of the differences that had been submitted to the slow processes of law. Mr. Lovejoy soon afterward retired from active connection with the company's affairs, and devotes his time to personal concerns. He has extensive realty and financial investments, but is not solely "a man of affairs". He is devoted to athletic sports, and his books are his friends. He is a member of numerous social and athletic clubs and those for amateur amusement.
Mr. Lovejoy married, June 22, 1892, Jane Clyde, daughter of Robert James Fleming, of Zanesville, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Lovejoy have three children : Francis Fleming, Kenneth Frick and Marjory.
EDWIN RUTHVEN SULLIVAN
COLONEL EBENEZER ZANE, of Colonial and Revolutionary fame, is the great- grandfather of Edwin R. Sullivan. The line of descent is by way of Colonel Zane's daughter, Rebecca, whose daughter, Helena Louisa Clarke, married Alexander Sullivan and they were the parents of Edwin R.
COLONEL EBENEZER ZANE was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, October 7, 1747, died in Wheeling, Virginia, November 19, 1812. He was a noted In- dian fighter, and was in Port Henry (Wheeling, Virginia) during five different attacks by Indians and the last time the fort was attacked by British and In- dians Colonel Zane commanded the defenders. The Zanes were pioneer set- tlers of Wheeling, and the Ohio Valley, and endured all the dangers and priva- tions of Indian warfare. Two of the family were taken prisoners and held for a long time, eventually marrying squaws. Betty Zane of "Powder" fame was a sister or sister-in-law of the Colonel John McCulloch, who took the "fly- ing leap" over Wheeling Hill to escape the savages. He was a brother of the Colonel's wife Elizabeth McCulloch. Colonel Zane was a great-grandson of Robert Zane, of Ireland. In the "Pennsylvania Magazine of Biography and History", vol. xii, p. 124, may be found the following copy of an old paper :
"Robert Zane came from Ireland in the year (date torn off) and landed in Elsin- barra near Salem, West Jersey, and stayed there about four years, in which time he built a canoe and went in search of a settlement and paddled along the side of the river and up the creek till at last he chose a place up Newton Creek in Gloucester county, which place is called Newtown; here he settled, having only one child whose name was Na- thaniel, and was about two years old when he landed". (From another paper). "Robert Zane of Newtown, came to America in the year 1673, he was three times married, his last wife was Henry Willis's daughter by whom he had five children, namely : Robert, Nathan, Elnathan, Hester and Rachel. Nathaniel Zane, of Newtown, was by his first wife, who she was and from where there is no account; he died the last day of the 12th month of 1728 or 29, aged fifty-five years, and left eight children, namely: Margaret, Abigail, Jo- seph, Hannah, Jonathan, Ebenezer, Isaac and William, who were all living when the youngest (William) was thirty-four years old". *
* * "After the death of the above Nathaniel Zane, Grace, his widow, who was a daughter of William Rakestraw, married David Price. * * * Colonel Ebenezer was a son (in all probability) of Ebenezer, above mentioned, and a grandson of Nathaniel and not a son. Ebenezer (above) was born in 1708, which would make him entirely too old a man to bear the part in pioneer fighting life that Colonel Ebenezer did."
Colonel Ebenezer Zane was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, October 7, 1747, died in Wheeling, Virginia, November 19, 1812. The "History of the Ohio Valley" says "Ebenezer, Jonathan and Silas Zane came from the South Fork of the Potomac to Wheeling in 1760, immediately after the treaty of Col- onel Boquet". The first town lot was sold by Ebenezer Zane in 1793. Colonel Zane's house was built on the corner of Eleventh and Main streets, and Fort Henry was built on the opposite corner. He was a soldier stationed at Fort Henry, Wheeling, Virginia, September 1, 1777, and was one of the defenders of the fort, when it was attacked by British and Indians on that date. This was the first battle on the frontier, during the Revolution, with the English and In- dians allied. The fort was attacked on five different dates, the last one on
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September II, 1782, by the same allied forces. The defence lasted three days and was under the command of Colonel Zane. The fort was not taken. Colo- nel Zane was a surveyor and located Zane's Trail, now the Maysville turnpike across Ohio from Wheeling to Maysville, Kentucky. The town sites of Zanes- ville, Lancaster and Chillicothe all lie along the line of Zane's Trail. He re- ceived large grants of land from the government for surveying and locating Zane's Trail and it is on this land that the sites of the town mentioned are lo- cated. Zanesville, Ohio, was named after the Colonel. Colonel Zane married Elizabeth McCulloch, who had a brother killed and scalped by the Indians.
REBECCA ZANE, daughter of Colonel Ebenezer and Elizabeth (McCulloch) Zane, was born in Wheeling, Virginia. When a child she was in Fort Henry when it was attacked by the British and Indians. "Betty" Zane was her aunt. From this it may be seen that this was about the fiercest period of Indian fighting that our frontier ever saw. Rebecca Zane married John Clarke, at her father's residence in Wheeling. He owned a farm in Ohio near Wheeling and owned property in the towns of Lancaster and Chillicothe, Ohio, which his wife had inherited from her father. Zanesville, Ohio, was named after Colonel Zane and was located on part of the land granted him. John Clarke and his wife, Rebecca (Zane) Clarke, were the parents of Dorcas, Sarah, Elizabeth, Maria, Helena Louisa, Julia Rebecca, George Washington, Leander, John F. and Ebenezer Clarke. John Clarke was a son of Thomas Clarke and his wife, Martha Dunlap, who were married in Ireland. They settled in Delaware coun- ty, Pennsylvania, where John was born at Chad's Ford. It is family tradition that Thomas Clarke's house was Washington's headquarters during the battle of the Brandywine. John Clarke was but a young man during the Revolution but he held a captain's rank in the Eighth Pennsylvania, to which he had been transferred from the Thirteenth Pennsylvania. From the Eighth he was trans- ferred in 1781 to the Fourth Pennsylvania. As the original Pennsylvania State Regiment of Foot the Eighth Regiment fought at Brandywine.
HELENA LOUISA CLARKE, daughter of John and Rebecca (Zane) Clarke, was born in 1818 in Belmont county, near Wheeling, Virginia. She married, at Bloomingdale farm in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1837, Alexander Sullivan, born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1808, son of Judge Samuel Sullivan of the Dela- ware family of that name. It is well established that this branch of the Sul- livan family came to Delaware with Lord Baltimore. Judge Samuel Sullivan left Delaware and was a resident at different times of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, St. Clairsville and Lancaster, Ohio, finally settling in Zanesville, Ohio. He became a very prominent man in the public life of Ohio. During the ad- ministration of President Jackson Judge Sullivan was treasurer of the state of Ohio, and came into open conflict with the president, whose orders he re- fused to obey in a matter pertaining to state finance. He aroused the wrath o1 President Jackson but did not quail before it. He was sustained by the State Legislature, which passed a vote of thanks, commending his course and sup- porting him in the position he took, opposing the chief executive of the nation. The family is an old one in Zanesville, Ohio, where for nearly a century they have lived. One of Ebenezer Zane's daughters, Sarah Zane McIntyre Young, lived there and left her fortune to build two Methodist churches and to estab- lish a fund for the education of the poor children of Zanesville; that fund now
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amounts to about one million of dollars. The children of Alexander and Helena Louisa (Clarke) Sullivan are: Charles, born in 1840; Rebecca, born in 1842; and Edwin Ruthven Sullivan, born in Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, February II, 1844. Alexander Sullivan passed his whole life in Zanes- ville, Ohio, where he was born. He was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and one of the original members of the Order of Sons of Temperance, a cause that had his earnest support, as did the cause of Abolition. Originally he was a Democrat, but voted for Henry Clay and became a Repub- lican and a devoted supporter of Abraham Lincoln.
EDWIN R. SULLIVAN was graduated from the high school at Zanesville, Ohio, and from Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. He spent two years at the Union Theological Seminary, New York City. He next entered the Methodist Theological Seminary at Concord, New Hampshire, (now Boston Theological Seminary) and was graduated with honor. Having thoroughly prepared for the ministry Mr. Sullivan preached the gospel under the author- ity of the Methodist Episcopal church in Massachusetts and Ohio, but lung trouble accompanied by violent hemorrhages caused him to abandon his chosen profession and seek another line of activity. Mr. Sullivan resided in Zanes- ville, and as printer, bookseller, and publisher of the Daily Morning Times, was until 1892 a prominent and influential figure in Zanesville. On the date men- tioned he removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Here until the year 1908 Mr. Sullivan was a dealer in investment securities. In 1908 he retired from active business life, but retains his residence in Pittsburgh. Politically Mr. Sullivan is a Republican and an ardent believer in pure politics and pure men in politics. He was chairman of the Municipal League in the fourteenth ward in the first campaign made by the League, against the political bosses of Pittsburgh. The League began a fight against ring rule in Pittsburgh, which accomplished much good for the city. In 1863 while a student at college, Mr. Sullivan entered the service of the Christian Commission. He left college and joined the Union army at Nashville, Tennessee. He returned to school and just before the fall of Richmond, left Union Seminary and joined the Army of the Cumberland in the same service. His Greek letter fraternity is the Beta Theta Phi, which he joined at Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio. He is a member of Pittsburgh Chapter Pennsylvania Society Sons of the American Revolution. His church affiliation is with the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh.
Edwin Ruthven Sullivan married, in Pittsburgh, July 19, 1892, Mrs. Jennie P. Arthurs, born in Beaver, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Wil- liam Bruce Clarke and his wife, Sarah Anna Duncan (Clow) Clarke. Mrs. Sullivan had two sisters, Agnes and Nina, and a brother, Frank Clarke. Wil- liam B. Clarke was an attorney practicing in Beaver and Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan have no children.
JOHN REED SCOTT
The Revolutionary and Colonial ancestor of John Reed Scott was Moses McClean, son of William and Elizabeth McClean, who was born in Upper Dub- lin township, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, January 10, 1737, died at Chil- licothe, Ohio, September 10, 1810. His military career began very early in the struggle for Independence. On July 28, 1775, he was elected major of the Second Battalion York County Pennsylvania Associators. On January 9, 1776, he was commissioned captain of the Fourth Company, Sixth Pensylvania Line. He was with the army invading Canada, and on June 21, 1776, was captured at Isle Au Noix, Canada. On the rolls he is returned as captain of Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment of the Line (organized from the Sixth). On March 9, 1777, he is designated "Prisoner". On March 20, "Prisoner on parole", and left out of the arrangement. He was exchanged March 27, 1777. He re- mained as captain of the Seventh Pennsylvania Line on the supernumerary list of officers, Pennsylvania Line, as late as 1780. While so rated he was lieu- tenant-colonel of the Second Battalion, York county, Pennsylvania Militia Com- mission, dated June 17, 1779. He was a man of importance in his district, which he represented in the State Assembly during the years 1780-81-82-83. Moses McClean married Sarah Charlesworth, and had issue:
MARGARET McCLEAN, daughter of Moses and Sarah (Charlesworth) Mc- Clean, married Abram, son of Hugh and Janet (Ayers) Scott. Hugh Scott was born in Ireland in 1726. With his parents he crossed the ocean and settled in Donegal, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1730. In 1738, in company with James Ayres, who had married his aunt, Rebecca Scott, he removed to York county, in the Marsh Creek settlement. In 1741 he took up a tract of four hundred acres which he improved and converted into a fertile farm. In 1773 he removed to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and later to Washington county. He was prominent in the events preceding and during the Revolution. In 1781, when Washington county was created from Westmoreland, he was by special act of assembly named chairman of the commission. He married Mae Janet, daughter of James Ayers by a previous marriage. His son Abram was the oldest child. He removed with the family to Westmoreland county, where he remained until the fall of 1781, when he returned to Adams, then York county, and settled upon the old farm his father had left in 1773. He ac- cumulated considerable property and was regarded as a man of means. He had three wives, Margaret McClean being his first. His second wife was - - Kerr, his third - McMellan.
HUGH SCOTT, eldest son of Abram and Margaret (McClean) Scott, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, 1788, died in 185 -. He married Elizabeth Kerr, a sister of his father's second wife. Their children were: Abraham, John, see forward, Elizabeth and Margaret.
JOHN SCOTT, son of Hugh and Elizabeth (Kerr) Scott, was born in 1812, died in 1882. He was a resident of Adams county, Pennsylvania, and for many
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years was the most prominent and influential militia officer. For several years he served as brigade inspector. He married Martha McAllister and had issue :
HUGH D. SCOTT, eldest son of John and Martha (McAllister) Scott, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, 1845, died 1899. He grew up on the farm but left that for railroad work. He rose through various promotions to be superintendent of the W. M. railroad, and the highest railroad official of the county. He married Mary Harris.
JOHN REED SCOTT, only child of Hugh and Mary (Harris) Scott, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, 1869. He prepared for college in private schools, later entering Gettysburg College, from which he was graduated, class of 1898. He qualified for the practice of law and from 1891 to 1898 practiced his profession in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He then removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was in active practice until 1907. He was a member of the law firm of White, Childs & Scott, of that city. Since 1907 he has not been in active practice and is living a retired life at his boyhood home, Gettys- burg. He is well known in literary circles and devotes his time to literature, his favorite pursuit. He is the author of "The Red Hussars" (published in 1906), "Beatrix of Claire" (1907), "The Princes of Dehia" (1908), "The Wo- man in Question" (1908). He married, in 1898, Frances White.
WILLIAM PIPER DE ARMIT
WILLIAM PIPER DE ARMIT is a lineal descendant in the fifth generation from Lieutenant-Colonel James Piper, an officer of Pennsylvania line troops who gave up his life in the great struggle for liberty. James Piper was born about 1735, in the North of Ireland, and came to this country with his father's family, about 1750, settling in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania. He en- listed in the First Rifles, Continental Regiment, Pennsylvania Line, and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel, March 13, 1776. He was engaged with his command at the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. He was wounded and fell into the hands of the British. The date of his death is not known, as he was one of the victims of the inhuman treatment accorded the prisoners on the British prison ships in New York harbor. The wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Piper was Lucy Long.
WILLIAM PIPER, son of Lieutenant-Colonel James and Lucy (Long) Piper, was a resident of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Thompson and had issue.
COLONEL JOHN PIPER, son of William and Sarah (Thompson) Piper, was born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. He married Julie Ann Fletcher, of Bed- ford, Pennsylvania, about the year 1824. He was a merchant and a contractor, a Whig in politics and later a Republican. He was a member of the Presbyter- ian church. His military title was gained as colonel of the Bedford County Pennsylvania Militia. The children of Colonel John and Julie Ann (Fletcher) Piper were: William K., Annie M., Julie Ann, see forward, and Thompson Fletcher.
JULIE ANN PIPER, daughter of Colonel John and Julie Ann (Fletcher) Pip- er, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. She married, in 1848, Alexan- der De Armit, born in Blair county, Pennsylvania. He was a blacksmith by trade. Until 1861 Mr. De Armit acted and voted with the Democratic party but after that date with the Republican. He served in the Civil War as a com- missioned officer of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel J. Ir- win Gregg. The children of Alexander and Julie Ann (Piper) De Armit are: William Piper, born August 24, 1850, see forward; Jacob Peters, July, 1852; Harry Collins, September, 1854; Thompson Berry, September, 1856; Annie Pip- er, November, 1858; Julie Ann, August, 1860; Samuel Calvin, May, 1862.
WILLIAM PIPER DE ARMIT, son of Alexander and Julie Ann (Piper) De- Armit, was born at Hollidaysburg, Blair county, Pennsylvania, August 24, 1850. He received his education in the public schools of his native county. His early business experience was with the Blair Iron & Coal Company, at Hollidaysburg, where he spent three years. The next three years were passed in Cresson, Penn- sylvania, where he was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In 1869 Mr. De Armit removed to Pittsburgh which has since been his home. He was with the Union Line (Pennsylvania Railroad Company) for three years and then began his long connection of twenty-nine years with the New
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York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, of Pittsburgh. Mr. DeArmit's politi- cal preference is Republican, and he belongs to the Duquesne and Country clubs of Pittsburgh, the Oakmont Country Club of Allegheny, the Pennsyl- vania Society of New York and the Sons of the American Revolution, Pitts- burgh Chapter. Mr. De Armit married, in Pittsburgh, June 24, 1874, Margar- etta Spencer Dixon, born February 18, 1851, near Williamsburg, Blair county, Pennsylvania; one child, Lillian, who died in infancy.
ROBERT STURGEON ROBB
ROBERT S. ROBB traces his Revolutionary descent through two distinct lines of ancestry-the Robb and the Sturgeon families. On the Robb side he is of the third generation from John Robb Jr., a Revolutionary soldier, as was also his father, John Robb Sr .; and of the sixth generation from Joseph Robb, the immigrant ancestor. On the Sturgeon side, his grandmother, Mary Stur- geon, was a granddaughter of Lieutenant Henry Sturgeon Sr., of the York Coun- ty (Pennsylvania) Associators and Militia.
JOSEPH ROBB, the American ancestor, emigrated from county Down, Ire- land, in 1730, and settled in Pennsylvania with his wife and three sons: John Robb Sr., William and Andrew. There were a number of Robb settlements in Chester, Lancaster and Cumberland counties. Joseph probably settled in Lan- caster county, as there the sons are first mentioned as being land owners.
JOHN ROBB SR., son of Joseph Robb, was born in 1730, died in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1804. His birthplace was about six miles from what is now Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Octorara creek. He married Barbara Mc- Knight, a daughter of a neighboring farmer. To them were born ten children: William, John, James, Andrew, David, Joseph, Samuel, Moses, Isabella and Nancy. They were all members of the Reformed Presbyterian church. In 1775 John Robb Sr., and his son John came to Pittsburgh, then a mere village, intending to buy a farm nearby and remove his family to Western Pennsylvania. They examined several farms on Chartier's creek, and finally decided on one belonging to Andrew Walker, on Robinson's run, a tributary of Chartier's creek, laying about a mile north of what is now McDonald, on the Pittsburgh, Cincin- nati, Chicago and St. Louis railroad. They did not purchase the farm at this time, but later returned and entered into articles of agreement with Mr. Walk- er for the purchase of the farm, which contained about four hundred acres. The date of his coming with his family to settle on the land is not definitely known, but it was subsequent to 1779, as on December II, 1778, John Robb Sr. and John Robb Jr. enlisted as teamsters or wagonmasters in Captain Wil- liam Steel's company, Third Battalion Lancaster County Militia, taking with them from their farm in Drumore township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, their teams for transporting baggage, army supplies, etc. The length of service is not stated. When the family finally settled on their western farm it was under the most discouraging conditions that they labored. While building their home and fencing in the cleared portions, as fast as it could be done, they were in con- stant fear of the Indians. So dangerous was their situation that each night they were compelled to retire, after the day's work was done, to one of the two forts that had been built in the neighborhood for the protection of settlers. One of these forts was at what is now Gregg's Station, on the Panhandle Road, called Fort Riddle, the other called Fort Little, near Venice, in what is now Washington county, Pennsylvania, than Monongahela county, Virginia. Many times the Indians were in the woods on the farm where the two Johns were
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at work, but we do not learn that they were ever attacked. The work was finally completed and the family safely installed on the farm that has never since been out of the Robb name, nor has there ever been a mortgage or judg- ment against any part of it since the first one was given to Andrew Walker as part of the original purchase price. John Robb Sr. (probably prior to his death) divided this farm into three parts, giving one to his son John Jr., one hundred and seventy-six acres ; to his son James one hundred and fifteen acres; to his son Joseph one hundred and twenty acres. This peculiar division proba- bly arose from the fact that the other children had married and settled on farms of their own in other parts and in Ohio.
JOHN ROBB JR., son of John Sr. and Barbara (McKnight) Robb, was born in 1758, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, died in Washington county, same state, 1849. Prior to the enlistment previously mentioned, he had been a sol- dier in the army of Washington, ranking as ensign. He was one of that intre- pid band who crossed the Delaware with Washington and fought the battle of Trenton. His length of service under this enlistment is not stated, but his second term began December 16, 1778, as before stated. It was after the ex- piration of the second term of enlistment that he came to Western Pennsylvania and settled on the farm in Washington county that he and his father had se- lected in 1775. He bore his full share of the toil, privation and danger of the pioneer family, and was rewarded by the larger third of the farm by his father.
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