Commemorative biographical record of Washington County, Pennsylvania, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families, Part 71

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1540

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(3) James married Rebecca Patterson in 1790, who was born September 25, 1768; he sold his farm some seven miles south of Gettysburgh, and built the hotel there known as the "McClelland House," where he died October 1, 1806, aged forty-six. Their children were Hugh, born July 17, 1791, died March 25, 1874; Margaret, born 1793, died February 10, 1868; Dr. James Patterson, born in 1795; John, born 1798; William, born 1800, and Jane, born 1803. His widow afterward married Col. James Agnew, and died January 28, 1827. Capt. James, son of Hugh, first married Lena Spangler, and had one son, James, who was living in or near New Orleans in 1877. Capt. James' second marriage was with Margaret Dickson. Hugh

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died previous to 1877, in Gettysburgh, Penn., at an advanced age. Dr. James Patterson died suddenly. Margaret died a few years ago unmarried. Jane married a Mr. Ashman, and lived in Ohio. Of William and John there is no information.

(3) Hugh, born 1763, married Jane Latta, and emigrated with nine living children from Washing- ton county, Penn., in 1811, and settled four miles south of Newark, Licking Co., Ohio, where he died in April, 1849, aged eighty-seven; his wife, Jane (Latta), died in 1837, aged seventy. Their chil- dren were John Agnew, born 1790, died in Illinois, 1876; Isabella, born 1792, died in Illinois, 1867; Sarah, born 1794, died in Illinois, 1867; Jane, born 1796, died in Ohio, 1867; William, born 1798, died in Illinois, 1870; Hugh, born 1800, died in Illi- nois, 1863; Robert, born 1802, died in Newark, Ohio, 1879; James, born 1804, living in Marysville, Olio, in 1892; Abraham, born 1809, died in 1881.

(3) John, born in Adams county in 1772, mar- ried in Gettysburglı, Penn., about 1796, to Martha Patterson, who was born in Lancaster county, De- cember 10, 1777. Their children were all born in Washington, Penn. : Margaret, born May 10, 1797, married Robert Officer, May 4, 1819, died Decem- ber 12, 1880, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, where the family had resided a number of years; Jane, born May 12, 1799, died unmarried near Washington, Ill., April 19, 1869; Rebecca, born July 9, 1803, died February 24, 1818, of smallpox, at Washing- ton, Penn .; James Patterson, born November 6, 1805, married Margaret Sample, of Washington, Penn., April 23, 1835 (Patterson died August 21, 1866); his wife died April 11, 1884. They are buried in Washington, Ill. Their children were Elias Cornelius, born June 30, 1836; Martha Jane, born September 6, 1838, married David E. See- dom, December 22, 1887 (she died in Hubbell, Neb., April 6, 1890); John Workman, born September 28, 1840, died June 30, 1867; Sarah Olivia, born October 28, 1842; Elizabeth Gertrude, born Sep- tember 29, 1844, married September 29, 1870, to Marshall W. Woodbury; issue: Cornelius Welling- ton, born April 1, 1870, died August 30, 1875; Na- than Patterson, born February 28, 1881, lives in Hubbell, Neb .; Mary Roxanna, born February 25, 1846; Rebecca Violet, born May 7, 1849; Hester Ellen, September 17, 1851, married John M. Mar- ton, February 19, 1885, and had a daughter, Lucia Ethel, born April 5, 1887 (live in Ocoya. Ill.); Margaret Lucia, born February 4, 1854; James Patterson Scott emigrated from Washington, Penn. to near Washington, Ill., in 1837, where as a teacher and farmer he spent his life. Dr. John, born April 20, 1808, married June 18, 1833, to Margaret Sloan, of Pittsburgh, Penn., in which city he spent his after life in his chosen profession, dentistry (died October 19, 1888, on train while en route home from Duluth, Minn., where he had

been on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Cash); Hugh, born July 4, 1810; John Randolph, born December 12, 1812, married Asenath Hicks, November 25, 1847; issue: Anna Martha, born Jannary 13, 1849, married George Tobias October 8, 1874, and had a son, born December 29, 1879, died in infancy. Quincy A., born August 10, 1850, married Lucy J. Hatfield, October 26, 1882 (lives in Wayne county, Iowa); Emma Julia, born November 19, 1854. Roenna Elliott, born July 19, 1853, died September 30, 1853; Charles Sumner, born November 7, 1857, murdered (as supposed) in July, 1880; Lincoln R., born June 23, 1860, married Minnie R. Beck, October 24, 1888 (lives in Idalia, Col.); William Goodel, born February 18, 1862, married La Tina Myers, October 7, 1885 (lives in Peoria, Ill.); John Randolph emigrated from Washington, Penn., in spring of 1837, and settled on Government lands which he had entered the previous year, four miles south of Washington, Ill., where he yet resides, a wealthy, intelligent farmer.

(3) John Scott, Sr., was a general trader on the river to New Orleans and returned across the country with horses and mules. He established .the stage lines from Washington to Pittsburgh, to Brownsville to Wheeling, and to Steubenville, Ohio. Had three paralytic strokes at different times, and after the third could not walk; had use of his arms, but no control of his limbs; had to be lifted and fed for twenty years. He died from effects of cholera, October 17, 1834, taken the previous August; his wife, Martha Patterson, died of cholera about August 10, 1834. The father, mother and son, Decatur, are buried on the farm on which they lived, one and one-half miles east of Wash- ington, Penn., now owned by William Davis.

(3) Elizabeth married Edward Todd. They emigrated to the vicinity of Steubenville at an early day. Mr. John Jolinson, a grandson, writes under date of April 25, 1887: " My grandmother, Eliza- beth Todd, died in West Virginia, opposite Steu- benville, at the residence of her son-in-law, Daniel O. Neal. I have no dates. She had six daughters and one son, William, who died when a young manl. The oldest daughter, Jane Carroll, died in Cincin- nati two years ago, aged eighty-seven. Three of her children live in Cincinnati: Edward Carroll, Sarah Anne Clemens and Rebecca Mansure. Re- becca (Todd) Jewett died in Illinois; her family of five sons and one daughter live in Kansas. Le- titia (Todd) Finley died some years since; her husband, William Finley, and family are living near Brown Station, in Jefferson Co., Ohio. Sarah Todd died many years since; her husband, James Trumbull, and two daughters-Mrs. James Surratt and Mrs. John Olive-are living in Steubenville. Mr. Trumbull is very old and wealthy. Rosanna (Todd) Johnston, my mother, is the only one of the family now living; she was eighty-six years

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old February 22, 1887. Of mother's family there are five boys and two girls; Rebecca Mckinney lives in Steubenville, Elizabeth in St. Louis, Curtis and Edward in Iowa, Daniel in Nebraska, William in Kentucky, and your humble servant in Jeffer- son county, two miles west of Steubenville, Ohio."

(3) Sarah married John Jordan. Of her and her family nothing is now known, save that she and her husband emigrated to the Sandusky Plains, Ohio, at an early date.

(3) Margaret married James Ramsay, a cap- tain in the war of 1812; emigrated to the vicinity of Steubenville, Ohio, at an early date; had one son and four daughters; twin daughters married brothers by the name of Maxwell-Thomas Max- well, of Wintersville, and James Maxwell, of Steu- benville, Ohio, are grandsons.

(3) Josiah married Jane Darragh, born Feb- ruary 19, 1799. Josiah Scott died of cholera August 16, 1834, aged sixty-four. Jane Darragh, his wife, died December 20, 1841. These parents and their son Hugh, and her parents, John Dar- ragh, Sr., who died March 11, 1814, aged seventy- seven, and Margaret Darragh, who died August 20, 1824, aged eighty-seven, and the daughter Margaret, who died December 5, 1851, aged eighty- one, widow of Dr. Thomas Baird, of Washington, Penn., are buried in the Presbyterian Mingo grave- yard. Josiah's children were: (1) Margaret Mc- Kinley, born February 9, 1807; (2) James S., born April 27, 1808; (3) John Darragh and (4) Absalom Baird (twins) born August 31, 1809; (5) Hugh, born October 26, 1811, died November 2, 1832; (6) Archibald Darragh, born December 11, 1815; (7) Mary Jane, born February 15, 1819. (1) Mar- garet Mckinley, on February -, 1832, married Thomas Weir, born. September 2, 1802; issue: Adam, born January 13, 1833, married May 14, 1856, to Catherine Wilson, born December 26, 1831, and died without issue February 26,1889. Josiah Scott, born April 10, 1836, married November 29, 1859, Sarah Ann Hicks, born in Winchester, Ky., November 30, 1839; no issue; live at Stanford, Ill. Samuel Baird, born January 9, 1838, on December 2, 1863, married Margery Winnett, born June 4, 1843, died June 12, 1875; issue: Hugh Finley, born October 24, 1864; Mary Lizzie, born July 20, 1866; Ada Margaret, born January 13, 1873; Winnett Wallace, born February 3, 1875; Hugh, born June 3, 1840. At the close of his junior year in Jefferson College (1862), enlisted in Com- pany G, One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; was wounded July 2, 1863, at Gettysburgh, died in Rebel Hospital July 5, 1863; Mary Jane, born June 14, 1842; Margaret Lavinia, born April 20, 1847, married October 9, 1878, Samuel P. Fergus, born August 17, 1843; issue: Thomas Harold Weir, born August 11, 1879; Hugh Earnest, born January 16, 1881; John Addison,

born July 3, 1883, died May 14, 1885; David S. Littell, born March 5, 1885, died December 29, 1885; Margaret Josephine, born June 20, 1887.

(2) James Smith, born April 27, 1808, died Jan- uary 1, 1869, married February 14, 1832, to Mary Cubbage, born 1809, died May 14, 1877; issue: Josiah L., born March 20, 1834, died April 3, 1847; James Cubbage, born June 25, 1836, died Sep- tember 19, 1841; John Alexander, born March 8, 1839, died September 10, 1841; Almira Jane, born February 18, 1841; William Wallace, born January 30, 1843; James Herron, born August 10, 1846; George Winfield, born April 20, 1850; Louisa Maria, born February 20, 1845, died September 7, 1845. Almira Jane married John B. McBride May 1, 1873, died November 17, 1884; issue: James Scott, born November 23, 1874; John Bavington, born September 8, 1876; Charles Cubbage, born September 17, 1878; Samuel Bruce, born June 2, 1880; Mary Alice, born September 28, 1883, and George Wallace, born November 17, 1884. William Wallace married Mary J. Roddy May 14, 1868, at Sidney, Ohio; issue: Mary Winifred, born Novem- ber 27, 1870; Gertrude R., born November 5, 1872; Jean Alice, born December 3, 1874; William Wal- lace, born June 4, 1880 (live in Sewickley, Penn. ). James Herron married Mildred Agnes Bell in 1876; she died in Washington, Penn., in 1877. His second marriage was in 1879 with Frances Ramsey Kuhn, who died in Mckeesport, Penn., in 1887; living issue: John, Mary Ella, and Gertrude; he lives in Pittsburgh, Penn. George Winfield mar- ried Adeline Speer, October 26, 1882 (lives in Des Moines, Iowa).

(3) John Darragh was married May 28, 1839, to Sarah Vance, born October 16, 1811. John D. died March 6, 1880. He was a farmer. Issue: Sarah Jane, born February 1, 1840, died October 2, 1840; Mary Elizabeth, born February 3, 1843; Henry Vance, born September 5, 1841, died April 5, 1842; Margaret Jane, born May 16, 1845; Isa- bella, born May 3, 1848; John Vance and Josiah Lawrence (twins), born November 28, 1850. Of these Mary Elizabeth was married on August 15, 1860, to Hiram Winnett, born in 1836, died August 18, 1872; issue: John Hudson, born June 15, 1862; Finley Scott, born August 23, 1864; Elizabeth B., born November 15, 1866; Catherine A., born Jan- uary 23, 1869; Sadie E., born April 1, 1872; John Hudson was twice married, first time to Rebecca Devore, born July 5, 1862, and, second time, April 27, 1892, to Mary Winnett, born April 11, 1871. Scott married Bell Waller in 1891, and lives at Columbia Falls, Mont. Elizabeth B. married James McDonough in February, 1891, and has one son, George Otto. Catherine A. married Frank Wright April 15, 1891, and has one son, Winnett Wilson, born February 26, 1892. Margaret was married October 15, 1863, to Levi G. Rainey, born

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July 7, 1842; issue: Eunice Bell, born May 30, 1865, died September 7, 1868; Frank Wilbert, born April 17, 1871; Walter Scott, born August 20, 1874; Sadie Bell, born December 30, 1879, died September 11, 1880. Isabella married Dr. Finley B. Winnett, issue: a son, Elmer, who died May 3, 1892, aged twenty-four, and a son, Ray. John Vance married Margaret Miller November 30, 1876; issue: Maud, born August 2, 1878; Sarah Bell, born September 3, 1880; Wylie Vance, born December 1, 1883; Isaac S., born July 29, 1886; Waid W., born August 27, 1889. Josiah Lawrence married Tillie Ross December 21, 1876; issue: Pearl, born November 12, 1877; Eddie, born De- cember 11, 1879; and Ely, born May 13, 1882, and John V., Tillie and Otto.

(4) Absalom Baird was married September 18, 1834, to Rebecca Finley, born August 11, 1811; Absalom died May 1, 1861; Rebecca Finley died February 15, 1892; issue: Mary Jane, born Feb- ruary 14, 1836; John Finley, born April 2, 1838 ;. Josiah Scott, born July 27, 1840, died April 2, 1843; James Kerr, born December 18, 1842; Mar- garet Baird, born May 24, 1845; Hugh Clemens, born August 18, 1847; Frances E., born May 15, 1850; Sarah, born August 30, 1852, died January 29, 1892. Mary Jane married February 22, 1859, John D. Henry, born October 12, 1834; issue: Allie Margaret, born December 22, 1859; Edwin Absa- lom, born April 29, 1862; Frances Rebecca, born March 27, 1865; Etta Mary, born December 20, 1868; Reid Scott, born May 9, 1873. They live in Idlewood, Allegheny Co., Penn. John Finley married Maggie Davis, born January 16, 1842; issue: Mary Frances, born October 24, 1864, mar- ried Leaman Brownlee; Rebecca, born January 5, 1867, died November 13, 1875; George Davis, born November 29, 1869; Anna Maud, born August 9, 1872; Hugh Baird, born October 20, 1874, died August 5, 1875. James Kerr was twice married, first time November 16, 1865, to Sarah Ellen Rob- erts, born May 12, 1844, died November 2, 1875; issue: Laura and Albert; his second marriage was with Jennie Logan in 1891. Margaret Baird mar- ried Charles Jones November 25, 1883; issue: one son, Chauncey.

(6) Archibald Darragh was married October 30, 1839, to Tamar Crawford, born October 11, 1818; Archibald D. died March 2, 1891; Tamar, his wife, died August 8, 1863; issue: (1) James Crawford, born August 30, 1841, married May 4, 1872, to Mary Underwood, born August 15, 1850; no issue; live in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. (2) Nancy Jane, born July 11, 1843, died June 22, 1847. (3) Mary Elizabeth, born July 30, 1845, was married October 19, 1871, to Steven Beatty, who died February 5, 1883. (4) Margaret Jane, born December 28, 1847. (5) Josiah L., born January

4, 1850, was married December 25, 1882, to Mrs. M. L. Wise Shields, born January 22, 1862; live in East End, Pittsburgh, Penn. (6) Andrew Winfield, born May 16, 1852, married May 30, 1877, Dora P. Shields, born September 1, 1861; issue: Tamar Etta, born January 2, 1878; Archi- bald James, born November 30, 1880; and Josiah Vance, born February 10, 1882; lives in East End, Pittsburgh, Penn.

(7) Mary Jane married, in 1837, William Sample, born July 14, 1815; emigrated to Taze- well county, Ill., in 1838; William died June 5, 1871; Mary Jane, his wife, died November 15, 1874; they with three of their children (save the first) are buried in El Paso, Woodford Co., Ill .; issue: Josiah Scott, born June 20, 1839, died November 7, 1839; Hugh Workman, born July 27, 1843, died June 8, 1872; Theodore, born November 5, 1846; Sarah Jane, born September 9, 1849, died April 18, 1875; John William, born March 11, 1858, died February 14, 1881; Ida Violet, born February 16, 1861. Of these, Theo- dore married December 24, 1874, Jennie Toole, born in Ireland January 25, 1853; issue: Theo- dore Tilden, born July 20, 1876; Ida Mary, born June 12, 1878; William Montana, born July 22, 1885, and Harry, born October 11, 1888. Ida Violet was married December 9, 1879, to John Wesley Kennedy, born August 16, 1851; issue: Walter Scott, born August 15, 1882; Harry Sample, born January 19, 1885, and Ida Violet, born June 9, 1889, died August 23, 1889. Theo- dore and Ida Violet with their families reside in Logansport, Ind.

The following additional matter was written by Col. John Scott, of Nevada, Iowa: In the old cemetery near Washington, Penn., repose the ashes of one of the pioneers, over which is this inscription: "In memory of Josiah Scott, who died on the 20th day of February, 1819, aged 84 years. Having sustained a character exem- plary for honesty, piety and usefulness, he came to the grave in a full age, as a shock of corn cometh in his season. Job, 5th chap. and 26th verse."

Josiah Scott, the youngest son of (2) Abra- ham Scott, was born in Chester county, Penn., in 1735. His father was born in the same county in 1677, and was a son of Hugh Scott, a native of the North of Ireland, who came to Penn- sylvania about. 1670. At least two of the sons of Abraham Scott, Hugh and Josiah, were pio- neers in the county of Washington. They lived to an advanced age, both dying in 1819, and each of them leaving a numerous posterity, now widely separated. Josiah Scott married Violet Foster in 1760.

He was a blacksmith-a maker of edge tools, especially of sickles-and was a skillful and

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rapid reaper, being stout, muscular, and robust. He was of vigorous constitution, plain and simple in manners, habits, and tastes, and noted for his strong common sense and sound judgment. He was for many years an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and was highly respected for his ability and many virtues. His early home was at Peach Bottom, where the Susquehanna river crosses the State line. From thence he removed to the wilds of Washington county, and became a resident of Catfish, now Washington. This change of loca- tion occurred in 1773-74. He worked at his trade and at farming till his death, at the age of eighty- four.

To Josiah Scott and Violet (Foster) were born eight children, six of whom reared families, whose descendants are in many States. The two elder sons, Alexander and Abram, married, respectively, Rachel and Rebecca, daughters of Hon. John Mc- Dowell, and Agnes (Bradford), his wife. The late Hon. Josiah Scott, of Bucyrus, Ohio, a distin- guished scholar and jurist, for many years a judge of the Supreme court of Ohio, was a son of Alexan- der Scott. The late Hon. Josiah Scott, of Cadiz, Ohio, a member of the convention which passed the Con- stitution of that State, and his brother, the late Hon. William Scott, of Guernsey county, Ohio, were sons of Abram Scott. The latter was a min- ister in the Presbyterian Church; so, also, was his brother James, who for more that forty years was pastor of a church at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Josiah, the sixth child of the first Josiah, became a farmer, settled in Columbiana county, Ohio, and reared a large family. The elder daughter of Josiah, Sr., Mary, married William Cotton, and settled in Beaver county, Penn. The younger daughter, Elizabeth, married Robert Stevenson, and also settled in Beaver county. Their descendants are numerous, and widely scattered. By a second marriage Josiah Scott had four sons. Robert set- tled in Carroll county, Ohio, and has many de- scendants. Hugh and Gen. Sam. Scott remained in Washington county, where they are still rep- resented. Jolin died on the old homestead, near Washington, in his early prime, leaving a family of three daughters, Mrs. Workman Hughes being one of them.

Among the representatives of this old blood of Washington county may be named Hon. A. W. Scott, of Toledo, Ohio; Rev. W. W. Colmery, D. D., of Oxford, Ohio; Rev. R. C. Colmery, of San- dusky, Ohio; Rev. D. R. Colmery, D. D., of Los Angeles, Cal .; Rev. Alexander Scott, of Denver, Col .; Col. John Scott, of Nevada, Iowa; Prof. E. M. Cotton, of Chester, Iowa; Dr. J. E. Scott, of Chicago, and Hon. Lawson Scott, of Mendota, Ill .; all of whom are great-grandsons of "Old Josiah."

RA BEBOUT, prominent in agricultural circles as a well-to-do farmer and successful stock- raiser, is a native of Jefferson county, Ohio, born September 4, 1828, a son of Peter and Isabella (Cooper) Bebout.

John Bebout, grandfather of Ira, was a native of Holland, whence, when a boy, he came to Amer- ica with his parents, who made a settlement in New Jersey. Here John learned the trade of tan- ner, which, in connection with farming, he carried on in New Jersey and afterward in Washington county, Penn., for a period in all of some thirty years. In 1796 he came to this county, and pur- chased a tract of land (covering 300 acres) in what is now North Strabane township. At that time men never went abroad without their guns and a plentiful supply of ammunition. Here Mr. Bebout lived until he was seventy years of age, when he moved to Mercer county, Penn., and there died. He was a member of Dr. McMillan's Church . (Presbyterian), and while in New Jersey was an elder in the church there. As a Revolutionary soldier he served under Gen. Washington, rising from the ranks to a captaincy, and receiving a pen - sion. He was the father of nine children, Will- iam, Sarah, Peter, Susan, Elizabeth, Israel, Ira, John and Mary.

Peter Bebout was born in New Jersey in 1776, and was twenty-one years old when he first came to this county. In 1804 he moved to Ohio, where he took up a piece of wild land which he cleared and cul- tivated and lived on until 1830, when he returned to this county and settled in North Strabane town- ship, taking a portion of the home place his father had bought, and which he materially helped to improve. He died in 1859. Mr. Bebout was twice married, first to Betsey Kinney, who bore him children as follows: John, William, James, Levi, Peter, Israel, Sarah and Elizabeth. The mother of this family dying, Mr. Bebout married Isabelle, daughter of Joshua Cooper, of Jefferson county,. Ohio, and the children of this marriage were Mary (Mrs. William Hays), Susan (Mrs. William Be- bout), Ira (our subject), Margaret (Mrs. Cephas Cochran), David, Isabel (Mrs. John Crouch), Stephen (deceased), Joshua, Caroline (Mrs. Joseph Maines), Jane and Hermon H. Bebout. In poli- tics Mr. Bebout was a Democrat; in religious faith a Presbyterian. He served in the war of 1812, under Gen. Harrison, until the close of the struggle.

Ira Bebout, after a thorough educational train- ing at the common schools of his native district, settled down to regular agricultural pursuits on the old home place, and by his own unaided efforts. made a success of all his undertakings, being a. thoroughily representative self-made man, enter- prising and progressive. He was twice married,

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first time October 6, 1856, to Mrs. Jane Hamilton (nee Hamilton), a native of Ireland, who came to the United States at the age of seventeen, and was married to Charles Hamilton, a second cousin, who died. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Bebout were Isabella (Mrs. W. A. Patterson, who died August 20, 1892), Elmira (Mrs. William Scott), and Elmer, who married Jane Thomas, living in Hamilton county, Neb., where he carries on farm- ing operations. This wife dying in October, 1884, Mr. Bebout married, for his second wife, Mrs. Anna Raney, of Nottingham township. Our sub- ject, in his political preferences, was originally a Democrat, but since the outbreak of the Rebellion has allied himself with the Republican party. ' He is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Monon- gahela City, formerly of Dr. McMillan's Church, and of the U. P. Church at Munntown. He owns a fine residence on Main street, where he resides, renting his farms. He enjoys the confidence and respect of all.

OHN C. VAN KIRK. Among the many well- known and highly esteemed families of Am- well township, the name of Van Kirk ranks with the first. Jacob Van Kirk, grandfather of our subject, was a native of New Jersey, where he married Elizabeth Lee and in 1785 moved to Washington county, Penn. To this couple were born four children: Enoch, born April 14, 1796; Joseph, born January 17, 1798; Ann, born Febru- ary 13, 1806; and Leah, born May 19, 1817.

Joseph Van Kirk was born in Washington county, Penn., and passed his entire life in Amwell town- ship, the farm on which he was born. On Feb- ruary 27, 1823, he was united in marriage with Eliza Corwin, and his children were as follows: Hiram, Charles, William (deceased), Mrs. Charlotte. McElree (deceased), Mrs. Anna Van Kirk, Mrs. Sarah Van Kirk (the latter two having married dis- tant relatives of the same name), Norma (deceased) and John C. Joseph Van Kirk was a captain in the Pennsylvania State Militia, and was one of the most energetic and active citizens of Amwell town- ship. After a long and useful life he passed to his long home August 24, 1878, at the ripe age of eighty-two years.

John C. Van Kirk was born September 15, 1828, on the old home farm in Amwell township, which is now owned by his brother Charles. His youth and early manhood were passed in assisting his father to fell the forest trees and transform the rugged hills and valleys into fertile fields of grain. On April 1, 1851, he was married to Esther Buck- ingham, who died September 2, 1855, leaving a child that died four days later. On February 19, 1857, Mr. Van Kirk wedded Mary McClanthan, who bore him two children: Irena M., born March

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Commemorative biographical record of Washington County, Pennsylvania, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families, Part 71

Author: J.H. Beers & Co Publication date: 1893 Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers Number of Pages: 1540

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1540