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rare musical talent, and a melodious voice that was the principal feature in entertainments given by the Churches and Societies, whose requests for his assistance were always cheerfully granted. And he, too, enjoyed the sobriquet of his father, "Honest". He died in Bellefonte on the 7th day of Nov., 1894, deeply lamented by all, leaving to survive him his wife and four children: (VII) Miss Elizabeth; Miss Mary; Edmund, a law student in the University of Pennsylvania; and John Blan- chard, an attorney of this county in full practice, the solicitor of the Pennsylvania railroad and other large interests.
Jane (VI), daughter of Joseph and Jane Miller Harris, was married to John S. Hendrickson, of Red Bank, N. J., the owner of large property interests in that vicinity; they at present reside in Bellefonte, and have the following children: 'Mary (1). Charles (2). Mrs, Hendrickson died in Bellefonte Dec. 29, 1897. Joseph Harris' (V) second wife was Jane Huston, sister of Gen. Hus- ton, iron-master at Hecla Works. They had one child: Sally Hopkins, who died quite young. Andrew Harris (V), son of James and Ann Dun- lop Harris, was born- -, and married Anna Bella Johnston (sister of Elizabeth Livingston and Jane Mulholland); they had one child, Dr. Lucien Harris, who died unmarried.
(IV) John Dunlop (4), son of Col. James and Jane Boggs Dunlop was born April 22, 1770, and was married June 9, 1797, to Eliza Findlay, of Franklin county, a granddaughter of Col. John- ston (her father and the father of Gov. William Findlay were brothers). John Dunlop was the first one of the family to locate in Centre coun- ty, and purchased among other lands the Griffith Gibbon tract, upon which the town of Bellefonte is situated, which he afterward conveyed to his father, Col. James Dunlop, and his brother-in- law, James Harris, who laid out and became the proprietors of the town. He was the most ex- tensive land owner in the county; among other lands, owning those adjoining the town of Belle- fonte, for a distance of six or seven miles east and west, and forty thousand acres of timber land (now Snow Shoe and Burnside townships). comprising the valuable bituminous coal field of that region. In the order of essentials first re- quired by the settlers of the region, being re- mote from supplies, he contracted for the digging of a head and tail race, and the erection of a grist or flouring mill and a sawinill, which after- ward became the property of his brother-in-law. James Smith, How ( 1897) Hale estate, and de- voted his time to the development of the iron ores and erection of furnaces, the product of which
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were hauled west to Pittsburgh with teams, or east by arks on the spring floods in Bald Eagle creek. He first built, in connection with Col. Samuel Miles, Harmony Forge on Spring creek (now (1897) Milesburg Iron Works, of McCoy & Shugert). He then built Logan Furnace, on Logan branch, south of the town, now the Valentine Iron Co., in the meantime having built the stone house, corner of the Dia- mond, known as the Judge Burnside property (now "Crider's Stone Building "), in which he for a time resided, and then moved to the large stone house he had built at Logan Furnace. He owned the furnace run by Boggs and Royer (both his relatives), and in 1810, in connection with William Beatty (whom he had brought with him from Franklin county), built Washington Fur- nace, east of Bellefonte, now in Clinton county. He was the most energetic iron-master in the county. On the morning of Saturday, October 8, 1814, he returned home from a business trip to Pittsburgh, stopping at his home only long . enough to get a fresh horse, determined to visit one of his mine banks before dinner, and imme- diately upon entering the bank noticed the dan- ger of the earth falling, and succeeded in getting all the miners out safely, but was himself buried beneath the fall and killed. His death was se- verely felt and lamented. He was fine looking, of commanding appearance, being over six feet in height, amiable in disposition and temper, and his moral and religious character irreproachable. His wife (nce Eliza Findlay) died August 16, 1836. Their children: (V) Jane (I) was born December 3, 1800, was married June, 1817, to William Cal- houn Stewart, a direct descendant of (1)John Stew- art, a Scotch Covenanter of the seventeenth century, who fled from Scotland to the County Down, in the North of Ireland, the refuge for proscribed Presbyterians and Covenanters in the reign of Charles II (1660-1685), and died in 1720; had a son, (2) Robert Stewart, born near Glas- gow, 1665. in reign of Charles II; died in 1730. Upon the death of his father he moved to Dru- more township, County Down, twelve miles from Belfast. The lives of father and son, John and Robert Stewart, therefore embraced an important period in the history of England, commencing in the reign of Charles I, under Cromwell. Charles II, James II, William and Mary, Queen Anne, George I, and into the reign of George II. Robert Stewart had a son (3) Samuel, born in 1698 near Glasgow, Scotland, died in 1770. He emigrated to the North of Ireland with his fa- ther in 1720. In 1735, accompanied by his brother Hugh, he crossed the ocean, landing in Philadelphia, and settling in Drumore township,
Lancaster Co., Penn., near Chestnut Level, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian settlement ministered to by Rev. John Thompson, of Donegal Presby- tery. He was married in Ireland to Mary Mc- Clay; among other children they had a son (4) Samuel.
STEWART.
(IV) Samuel Stewart, born in the County Down, Ireland, and brought to Pennsylvania in the emigration of his father's family in 1735, and on arriving at age settled as a farmer in Hanover township, Lancaster county, about 1750. His warrant for one hundred acres of land was dated May 17, 1754, and assessed for the King's use, 1759. From the date of this settlement therein, in 1750, until 1764, this region was subject to Indian raids, from which the inhabitants suffered fear- fully, and continued until the massacre in Lan- caster by the Conestoga Indians. The historic meeting in Hanover township, June 14, 1774, as the earliest recorded movement toward independ- ence, found faithful and active participants in the Scotch-Irish. Samuel Stewart entered as a private in Col. Timothy Green's battalion, June. 1776, in Capt. Rogers' company, destined for the camp in the Jerseys. On the erection and or- ganization of the county of Dauphin he was upon the first grand jury, composed of prominent citizens. He was a member of the old Hanover Church, eleven miles east of Harrisburg, the records of which show that on November 2. 1788, he and his wife were admitted to the Lord's Table. He died September 16, 1803, and was buried in Hanover church graveyard. He was married to Nancy Templeton, daughter of Rob- ert and Agnes Templeton, of Hanover, who died in 1788, and they had among others the following children:
(V) Robert Templeton Stewart, born June 15, 1773, who married Mary Dunlop, daughter of Col. James Dunlop. His father, Samuel Stewart, was married a second time, in 1789, to Agnes (Nancy) Calhoun, who was born in 1763, died August 29, 1823, and buried in the ceme- tery at Graysville, Huntingdon Co., Penn. She was a daughter of William and Hannah Calhoun, of Paxtang township, Dauphin county. They had a son, (V) William Calhoun Stewart, born in 1790 in Hanover township. Dauphin county. died May 31. 1850, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was an iron-master and member of the firms of Lyon, Shorb & Co .. and Shorb, Stewart & Co., of Cen- tre county, Huntingdon and Allegheny county iron firmas, and represented their interest in Cin- cinnati. He was married, as stated above, June. 1817. in Bellefonte, to Jane, daughter of John Dunlop and grandaughter of Col. James Dunlop
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(she was a niece of his half-brother, Robert T. Stewart's, wife), and died in Cincinnati, April 27, 1841. Their children are as follows:
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(VI) Helen, born in Bellefonte, died when a child. (VI) Laura born in Bellefonte, married Col. Charles Jones, planter of Red River, Cata- houla Parish, La. Col. Jones had some fifteen hundred slaves on his various plantations, and strenuously opposed the ordinance of secession until it was useless to contend against the over- whelming sentiment in the State, when he entered the Confederate service as an officer, and was shot in a dispute with Gen. Liddell, of Missis- sippi, in which also his eldest son William, as well as Gen. Liddell, lost their lives. Mr. Jones' family were all educated at Heidelberg, Germa- ny, and are as follows: Ella (1), married in Swizerland, and died abroad. William (2), shot in the dispute above referred to. Rosa (3), re- siding with her mother at Jonesville, La. Cuth- bert Bullett (4), of Washington, D. C. Francois (5), a linguist in the State Department, Wash-, ington, District of Columbia.
(VI) Rev. John Dunlop Stewart, born Febru- ary 23, 1824, married Margaret Schell, daugh- ter of John and Margaret Schell, of Birming- ham, and had a numerous family, of whom the survivors are: Alice (1), born February 25, 1849, married November 26, 1867, to Samuel Berlin. John A. Collins (2), born January 19, 1856, mar- ried Bertha K. Martin, of Hollidaysburg. Laura (3), born December 12, 1857, married Decem- ber 12, 1876, W. F. Meminger, Evangelist, and have children-William S., Paul Jones and Charles Richard. Jesse Smith (4), born May 16, 1866, a civil engineer in Tyrone. Charles B. (5), born December 31, 1868, married Car- rie E. Gray. Harry Lawrence (6), born Au- gust 13, 1873. (VI) Rev. William Calhoun Stew- art, born June 17, 1829, died in New York City, April 10, 1894; married (first) Mary Forgey Conklin, and had a son, William Calhoun (1), re- siding in California; he married (second) Laura, a sister of his first wife, and (third) Agnes, and had children-Deborah (2), Agnes (3), Anna (4) and Nemeha (5). (VI) Jesse Smith Stewart, born in Cincinnati, April 24, 1832, was first lieu- tenant of Company A, 125th Regiment Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, was killed in the battle of Chancellorsville, in 1863; was married to Mary M. Clark, of Birmingham, and had children- Jesse (1) and William (2); both died in infancy. (VI) Ella Stewart married Robert G. Bushnell, of Pittsburgh (of Park Brothers & Co. steel works), who died December 28, 1894. Their children are-Jesse Stewart (1), Elinor Gray (2), Douglas Stewart (3). (V) Eliza J., daughter of John and
Eliza (Findlay) Dunlop, was born April 15, 1803, and died April 29, 1826, unmarried. (V) Cath- erine Findlay, daughter of John and Eliza (Find- lay) Dunlop, born September 1, 1806, died in Bellefonte, August 27, 1881, unmarried. (V) Nancy Harris, daughter of John and Eliza (Find- lay) Dunlop, was born May 25, 1809, and died in Bellefonte, June 23, 1811. (V) Deborah Moore, daughter of John and Eliza (Findlay) Dunlop, was born February 24, 1812, and died September 8, 1869; she was married, by the Rev. James Linn, on the 2d of September, 1836, to the Hon. S. T. Shugert, son of Joseph Bishop and Mary (Mendenhall) Shugert, who was a descendant of Benjamin Mendenhall, who with his brothers, Moses and John Mendenhall, and sister, Mary Men- denhall, emigrated from England to this country with William Penn; they came from Wiltshire.
(I) BENJAMIN MENDENHALL was held in high esteem both in his religious society and as a citi- zen. In 1714 he served as a member of the 'Provincial Assembly, and died in 1740 at an ad- vanced age. His wife, Ann, who was a daughter .of Robert Pennell, of Chichester, survived him. They were married in Chichester Friends Meet- ing, of which they were both members, in 1689, and had nine children. (II) Moses Mendenhall was a son of Benjamin and Ann Pennell Men- denhall. (III) Caleb, son of Moses Mendenhall, had two sons, Moses and Caleb. They were or- phaned by the death of their father, when quite young; their mother married (again) a man by the name of Adam Redd, of Centreville, Del .. by whom she had one daughter, Miriam, who has descendants in that region. The two boys, Moses and Caleb, when they arrived at age, took the farm of three hundred acres on the right bank of the Brandywine creek, a mile below the battle ground, September 11, 1777, owned by their father, and held it as a divided inherit- ance until their death, the former dying in 1821, and the latter in 1825. Moses' part of the farm descended to his son Caleb, and Caleb's farm to his son Moses, who continued to hold them, respectively, until 1830, when the former sold and the latter died, and it passed out of the fam- ily, being held for over a century.
(IV) Moses, son of Caleb Mendenhall, the elder of the two brothers, married Mary, daugh- ter of Aaron and Ann James, then of the town- ship of Williston, county of Chester, and Prov- ince of Pennsylvania, on the 26th day of the second month, 1771, at a meeting of the Friends at the Kennett meeting house, in the county of Chester, a copy of which marriage certificate, with the signatures of those present, is given be- low (the Adam and Miriam Redd, whose names
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appear, were the half-sister and stepfather of the bridegroom):
Copy-Marriage Certificate of Moses Mendenhall of the fourth generation of Benjamin's line and Mary James (Daugh- ter of Aaron and Ann James) of the Township of Williston County and Province aforesaid. Having declared their in- tentions of Marriage with each other before several monthly meetings of the people called "Quarterly," one of which was held at Kennett in the county of Chester, and the other at Centre, in the County of Newcastle, according to the good order used amongst them, and having consent of Parents and others concerned, their said proposals of marriage was allowed of by said Meetings.
Now these are to certify all whom it may concern that for the full accomplishing their said intentions this twenty- eighth day of the second month, 1771, they, the said Moses Mendenhall and Mary James, appeared in a public meeting of the aforesaid people at Kennett Meeting House and the said Moses Mendenhall taking the said Mary James by the hand did in a solemn manner openly declare that he took her to be his wife, promising with Divine assistance to be unto her a loving and faithful husband until it shall please the Lord to separate them by death (or words to the same effect), and then and there in the same assembly, she, the said Mary James, did in like manner declare that she took him to be her husband, promising through Divine assistance to be unto him a loving and faithful wife until it shall please the Lord to separate them by death (or other words to the same effect), and moreover the said Moses Mendenhall and Mary James (she according to the custom of marriage assuming the name of her husband) as a further confirmation thereof did then and there to these present set their hands.
MOSES MENDENHALL. MARY MENDENHALL.
And we, whose names are here under also subscribed being present at the solemnization of said marriage and sub- scription have as witnesses thereunto set our hands the day and year above written.
Thomas Carlton.
Thomas Temple.
Jane Temple. Ann Lamborn.
Thomas Mithous.
Ann Way.
Caleb Pierce.
Hannah Baily.
Benjamin Ring.
Mary Way.
Thomas Carleton, Jr.
William Levis.
Jesse Cloud.
William Harvey.
Mary Cloud.
James Wickersham.
John Lamborn.
James Bennet.
Isaac Mendenhall.
Isaac Baily.
Miriam Redd. Adam Redd.
Enoch Wickersham.
Lydia Kirk.
Aaron James. Joshua Pierce.
Phoebe White.
Jacob Heald.
Joshua Gibson. John Gibson.
Samuel Grubb.
Hannah Levis.
Phoebe Kirk.
Mary Smedley.
Esther Marshall.
Abigail Kirk.
Caleb Mendenhall.
Adam Kirk.
(V) Moses and Mary James Mendenhall had eleven children. (V) Ann (ii), their second child, married Bennett Auge, a son of Daniel Auge, a wine and shipping merchant of Bordeaux, France, originally from Amsterdam, Holland. Bennett Auge was born in Bordeaux, France, 1778, and at twelve years of age joined an elder brother in business in the West Indies, and was overseer of the plantation at the time of the insurrection at San Domingo in 1701. He was in the army of defence, and left when the whites generally took refuge in the vessels, and came with his brother to the United States in iSot, and married in Chester county; had five children, one of whom,
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Moses Mendenhall Auge, born in Centreville, Delaware county, in 1842, married Mary Cow- den, of Plymouth. He was of a decided liter- ary turn, and author of Biographies, Essays, &c. One of the early Anti-slavery advocates, editor of The Norristown Republican; moved to Phila- delphia, where he died February 21, 1892, leav- ing two daughters, Annie and Ella Auge.
(V) Mary, daughter of Moses and Mary James Mendenhall, the eighth child, born 11th month 4th, 1782, married Joseph Bishop Shugert, whose father was a prominent citizen of York county, and sheriff as early as 1759. Joseph B. had received a fine education, was a great reader, fine penman and chose the employment of civil engineer and surveyor, and was for some years employed on the Pennsylvania canal be- tween Lewistown and York. Soon after his marriage he moved to Centre county. He was one of the earliest principals, if not the first, of the Bellefonte Academy, and one of the commis- sioners of Centre county in 1815 and 1816, and as such settled and receipted to Dunlop & Har- ris, proprietors of the town of Bellefonte, for the final payments due the county from the sale of town and out lots appropriated to the erection of the county buildings hereinbefore mentioned. A great portion of his active life was spent in the location of the public works of the State, and later in life as. a surveyor and manager of the large land interests of Gen. Patton, Col. Samuel Miles, Gilbert Lloyd, and others in the region or neighborhood of his home in the Qua- ker settlement in Half Moon Valley, near War- riorsmark, at which place he died on the 14th day of November, 1853. They had eleven chil- dren, viz .:
SHUGERT.
(VI) John Wilson Shugert, for many years ed- itor of the Democratic paper published at Harris- burg, and afterward in an official position at Washington, D. C., where he died, leaving a wife and two daughters. (VI) Moses M. Shugert married, and had a family residing near Cincin- nati. (VI) Aaron James was engaged in the iron business at Hannah Furnace, where he was killed by accident. (VI) Eliza Keitley married Elijah Merriman, and had two sons and two daughters. (VI) Mary Ann married Rev. Hugh Mulhollan, and had a large family. (VI) Caleb Mendenhall mar- ried, and has a family living at Titusville. (VI) Hannah married. (VI) Dr. William Brindle, for many years a practicing physician at Titusville, Penn., commenced practice in 1844 and continued until his death February 12, 1866, leaving a family residing at Titusville. (VI) Dr. Thomas Burnside, also a practicing physician at Titusville, now
Isaac Mendenhall.
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deceased, leaving a family residing at that place. (VI) Delinda married a Mr. Elder, and has a fam- ily residing at Corsica, Jefferson county. By a second marriage Joseph B. Shugert had two children. (VI) Lloyd, who was married, and killed in the battle of Gettysburg. (VI) Almeda was married, and had a family all now deceased. Joseph B. and Mary (Mendenhall) Shugert's fourth child was (VI) Hon. Samuel Townsend Shugert, born February 20, 1809, and married (V) Deborah Moore, daughter of John and Eliza (Findlay) Dunlop, on the 2nd of September, 1836.
(VI) S. T. SHUGERT commenced the publication of the Centre Democrat in Bellefonte, in 1835, and continued its publication until 1845 when he received an appointment in the U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C., where he remained until the administration of President Buchanan, when he was promoted to the office of Cominis- sioner of Patents, retiring at the expiration of that administration. During his residence in Washington, the old Centre Democrat having passed out of Democratic control, and the party without an organ at the county seat, he purchased and established, with Henry Hays as editor, the Democratic Watchman, the first issue of which ap- peared on the 28th of November, 1855, and upon his return from Washington he was elected to the Legislature and the State Senate, after which time he established another newspaper in Bellefonte, taking the old name of the Centre Democrat, which he continued a publication of until a few years prior to his death, which occurred on December 2 1, 1895. His wife, Deborah M. (nce Dunlop) having died September 8, 1869, he was (again) married to Fanny Alrichs Johnston, daughter of Ovid F. Johnston, a distinguished attorney general of Harrisburg, Penn .; by his first wife he had the following children:
(VII) John Dunlop Shugert (1) was mar- ried on the 23d day of December, 1869, to Mary S., the daughter of Dr. John and Jane Ann Stewart McCoy. He read law in the office of the Hon. Samuel Linn, and was admitted to practice on the ed of February, 1860. . In 1865 he was elected treasurer of the county, and upon the expiration of his terin, on the 6th of January. 1868, was elected cashier of the Centre County Banking Company, which he, in connection with Hon. A. G. Curtin, Hon. James Milliken, Hon. James A. Beaver, E. C. Humes, H. N. McAllis- ter. William P. Wilson, P. B. Wilson, F. S. Wilson, John T. Hoover, Constance Curtin and 1. P. Harris, had then organized, and in which it is still engaged. Mary S., his wife, died Sep- tember 29, 1883, leaving the following children:
(VIII) John McCoy (1); Deborah Dunlop (2), died October 13, 1872; Frank McCoy (3); Jean Stewart (4); Kate Dunlop (5); and William Findlay (6), died October 4, 1882. (VII) Mary M. (2), daughter of S. T. and Deborah M. Dun- lop Shugert, was married to John Moran; they have one child: (VIII) Townsend Shugert. John Moran died on - day of -, and she was married (again) to William E. Burchfield, and now resid- ing in Philipsburg. (VII) William Findlay Shu- gert (3), son of S. T. and Deborah M. (Dunlop) Shugert, was married - day of August, 1895, to Miss Margaret Mills, of Washington, D. C., sister of the wives of General William Mitchell and Major Dunwoody, of the regular army.
(VII) Eliza Dunlop (4), daughter of S. T. and Deborah M. (Dunlop) Shugert died when young.
PAXTON.
(IV) Jane Dunlop (5), daughter of Col. James and Jane (Boggs) Dunlop, was born in Cumber- land county, Penn., February 13, 1772, and died at Gettysburg, Penn., November 14, 1862. She was married on June 20, 1794, to Rev. William Paxton, D. D., of Adams county, who was born in Lancaster county, Penn., April 1, 1760, died in Adams county, Penn., April 16, 1845, and was a son of Capt. John Paxton, of Lancaster county. Penn .- Rev. William Paxton, D. D., was a sol- dier in the Revolutionary war, being a private in a company of which his father, John Paxton, was captain (Associated Company Pennsylvania Mili- tia, September 11, 1776, and Second Battalion Lancaster County Militia, Col. James Watson, in 1777). He was for fifty years pastor of the Presbyterian church at Lower Marsh Creek. Adams county, Penn., and was considered a wonderfully good preacher, and a man of excel- lent ability as a theologian. Their children were as follows: (V) Jane (1), died in infancy. (V) Col. James Dunlop (2), son of Rev. William and Jane (Dunlop) Paxton, was born on June 11, 1796, died at Baltimore February 10, 1864; was married March 18, 1819, at Millerstown, Penn., to Jane Maria Miller, who was born at Millers- town, Penn., January 18, 1797. and died at Baltimore April 29, 1870. She was the daughter of Hon. William Miller and Margaret Craig, and their children were as follows: (VI) Margaretta Eliza (1), daughter of Col. James Dunlop and Jane Maria Miller Paxton, was born at Millers- town, Penn .. November 29, 1819, and died at Lake George. N. Y., July 15, 1895, and was married at Gettysburg, Penn., Mayo, 1854, to John McPherson Stevenson, who was born in Bedford county, December 6, 1818. He was a son of John Mitchell Stevenson and Nancy Rus-
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sell. ' He was engaged in the mercantile business in Baltimore, Md., from 1850 to 1870. Their children are as follows: (VII) William Paxton (1), son of John McPherson and Margaretta Eliza Paxton Stevenson, was born February 24, 1855, and married on September 29, 1881, Marianne Witherspoon Woods (VIII); their children are: Walter Woods (1), born September 9, 1882, and Margaretta Paxton (2), born September 1, 1883.
(VII) Rev. Alexander Russell (2), son of John McPherson and Margaretta Eliza Paxton Steven- son, was born December 29, 1856, and was mar- ried on April 11, 1882, to Mary Margaret Ken- nedy (VIII); their children are: Thomas Kennedy (1), born November 10, 1883. Caroline Paxton (2), born March 5, 1888, died November 28, 1895. Alexander Russell, Jr. (3), born May 28, 1893, and Stuart Riddle (4), born November 14, 1896. 1
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