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going from thence to Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he also remained for the period of one year. In 1893 he located in Beaver, Beaver county, in which place he has practiced uninterruptedly since that time. He owns a beautiful residence in that town, and is held in high esteem in the community. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, and he is a member of St. James Lodge No. 457, Free and Accepted Masons, Beaver county ; the County Medical Association, and the Nu Sigma Nu Fraternity of West Penn College, Pittsburgh.
Dr. Armstrong married Anna M., born in Wellsville, Ohio, March 8, 1870, daughter of Alexander and Emma (Hays) Fraser, and they have one child: John Alexander, born January 6, 1895, who was graduated from the Beaver High School in the class of 1913.
John Adams, the maternal grandfather of Dr. Armstrong, was born in 1794, was a blacksmith and a boat builder, and while serving as an apprentice, assisted in building the ship in which Perry fought on Lake Erie. He also shod a horse for Joseph Bonaparte.
The name of this family was originally Draveau or Drevou, DRAVO the spelling having been changed in the course of time. (I) Anthony Dravo, the American progenitor of the family, was born in Paris, France, August 16, 1769, died in Lawrenceville, a part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1851. In 1789 the Mar- quis de Lussiete owned a beautiful estate in the suburbs of Paris, France, and with him lived a young florist as confidential friend and companion. At the commencement of the French Revolution the Marquis and his young friend, Anthony Draveau, sought refuge in America. The home built by the French Marquis was in the Monongahela Valley, opposite the mouth of Turtle Creek, and is known as Hamilton Hall. This was in 1794, and Anthony Dravo subsequently located in Pittsburgh, his garden occupy- ing one-half of the square which is now the central business portion of the city. He was known as the pioneer florist, and the men of mark who came from France to visit this country always visited him, among them being General Lafayette. Later he purchased larger grounds at East Liberty, on Shady avenue, the present location of the Kenmar Hotel. He was naturalized in Pittsburgh, September 17, 1808. Anthony Dravo married Elizabeth Doussman, born in the Youghiogheny River Valley, Pennsylvania, 1777, died in Pittsburgh, August 28, 1858. Her brother, Michael Doussman, was a trader in furs and was a partner of the first Vanderbilt. They were of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Children: 1. Peter, born April 5, 1795, died April 7, 1849; married Charlotte Gray. 2. Catherine, died young. 3. Michael, see forward. 4. William Butler, born 1801, died May 19, 1876; married Deborah Blackburn. 5. Harriet, born 1803; married John Anderson. 6. A daughter, died in infancy. 7. John Doussman, born May 28, 1806, died August 16, 1877; married Polly Blackburn. 8. Sarah. 9.
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Francis Rouad, born October 9, 1809, died July 5, 1863; married Elizabeth Miles Moore. 10. Margaret, born May 5, 1813, died August 10, 1892; married Rev. John Wilkinson. 11, Anthony, Jr., died December 3, 1847; married Anna Belle Rutter.
(II) Michael Dravo, son of Anthony and Elizabeth (Doussman) Dravo, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 28, 1798, died in the same city May 28, 1890. He was in business as a coal merchant for many years at Mckeesport, Pennsylvania. He married (first) Mary Agnes Fleming (see Fleming III). Children: 1. John Fleming, see forward. 2. Anthony Wayne, married Sarah Black, of Meadville, Pennsylvania. 3. Mary, married James Skillman Cruthers, of West Newton, Pennsylvania. He married (second) Emeline Stewart. Children: 4. Harriet, born 1831, died 1837. 5. William McCray, born April 29, 1834, died October 18, 1904; educated at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, and was engaged in the coal, oil and gas business at Sewickley, Pennsylvania, where he lived; he mar- ried Maria, born February 25, 1836, died February 22, 1907, daughter of Robert and Eleanor (Hurst) McCurdy, and prominent in church and char- itable work; they had children: Eleanor Hurst, born October 8, 1866, at Webster, Pennsylvania, lives at Sewickley; William McCray Jr., born August 28, 1868, lives at Sewickley, and is with the Crucible Steel Com- pany of America at Pittsburgh. 6. Annie Belle, born 1839, died 1876; married James Collard. 7. Elizabeth, born November 13, 1846, died July 19, 1913; married William Vankirk; has one child, Annie. 8. Frank, was married and died in Louisville, Kentucky. 9. Adam Clark, married Phoebe McKee, and has children: Christian M. and Stewart. 10. James S., mar- ried Margaret McGuire, died October 8, 1913. 11. Margaret, married Joseph D. Long ; children : Clark D .; Elizabeth, married Eugene Mesaler.
(III) John Fleming Dravo, son of Michael and Mary Agnes (Flem- ing) Dravo, was born at West Newton, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1819, died at Beaver, Pennsylvania, September 30, 1905. He received the ad- vantages of a liberal education, attending the Pittsburgh Select School and the Allegheny College at Meadville. Upon the completion of his education he assumed the duties of his father's office, and thus familiarized himself with the details of the coal trade. In 1845 he embarked upon his first in- dependent venture-mining and shipping coal. The success of the next ten years enabled him to lay the foundation for a successful business career. In 1854 he founded the town of Dravosburg, now a flourishing mining borough. To him Connellsville is indebted for her large coke works. In 1868 he organized the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Gas, Coal and Coke Works, and as general manager and treasurer increased the output of the plant from forty to three hundred ovens in fifteen years. In 1860 he was elected president of the Pittsburgh Coal Exchange, holding the office for ten years. Recognizing the necessity of a Chamber of Commerce for Pitts- burgh, he commenced canvassing the question of organization, and the first certificate of membership was issued to him. He was elected vice-president,
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and appointed chairman of the river and harbor committee, positions he filled until the death of President Morehead in June, 1885, when he was elected to fill the vacancy. He resigned from this office in 1891 to assume his seat in the state legislature, having been sent there from Beaver county. He was continually working in the interests of the improvement of Mon- ongahela and Ohio river navigation, and appeared before congressional committees in Washington, District of Columbia, on numerous occasions. He also addressed many conventions in behalf of the improvement of western waterways. His first address in favor of a free Monongahela river was delivered February 12, 1886, before the committee on rivers and harbors of the National house of representatives, the committee subsequently ask- ing for a copy of the address and publishing it as a congressional document. Following is an extract from this forcible address :
But you are asked for large appropriations for other points; millions for the Mississippi; large sums for the Ohio; I have not one word in opposition. I only beg to suggest the importance and wisdom of first taking care of the waters where the freight originates; the points of development which make the waters of the Ohio and Mississippi necessary.
On October 23, 1895, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, Mr. Dravo addressed the convention assembled there on the improvement of western waterways. The fifty-fourth congress passed an act for the condemnation of the Mon- ongahela Navigation Plant, and the appointment of a board of viewers to fix the valuation of the property. This board finished its work at Pitts- burgh, March 25, 1897, and the secretary of war accepted the award of the viewers-approximately three and three-quarters millions, and on July 7, 1897, the United States government had become the owner of this plant, and the Monongahela river was free to commerce. In this magnificent result Mr. Dravo had been the chief factor. On all matters pertaining to naviga- tion and river interests Mr. Dravo was constantly selected by the river men as their advocate, and the obtaining of the desired legislation is the best tribute that could be paid to his untiring efforts. He was one of the life members and an early and earnest advocate of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad and for many years was a member of its board of directors. He was a director in the Tradesman's National Bank and the People's Insurance Company, and identified in official capacity wtih several other fiduciary corporations. His political career was as noteworthy as his business one. Radically opposed to human slavery, upon the dissolution of the Whig party, he aided in forming the Republican party, and stumped the state for all presidents from Fremont to Mckinley. Few men have delivered as many political speeches or addresses on public enterprises as Mr. Dravo. His delivery was peculiar, but pleasant; his style, clear and logical; his reason- ing, eloquent and forcible.
On May 23, 1881, Mr. Dravo was appointed by President Garfield, collector of customs and surveyor of the port of Pittsburgh, and served four years. In 1889 he was re-appointed by President Harrison. In 1887
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he was elected to the legislature by Beaver county, there served on the committee of ways and means, and that of constitutional reforms and made many speeches throughout the state in favor of the amendment.
From early life he was bitterly opposed to the liquor traffic, and his voice and hand were ever raised against it. His religious affiliations were always with the Methodist Episcopal Church but he did not hold the old orthodox views. He was a believer in Darwin's theory of evolution, and his newspaper articles on Evolution attracted the attention of able writers on this subject, and earned favorable commendation. Tolerant of creeds and opinions differing from his own, he was always an inde- pendent thinker, and had the courage of his honest and sincere convictions. In 1869 he erected a church edifice at Vanport, Pennsylvania, which is known as Dravo's Chapel, and is a substantial testimonial of his interest in the good of others. The field of education always had his warmest sympathy and support. At the time of his death he was president of the board of trustees of Beaver College; trustee of Allegheny College, at Mead- ville, Pennsylvania; for four years he had been president of the State Reform School; and for eight years he was a director at the Allegheny County Home. Generous to a degree, it is estimated that his contributions to church and charity amounted to more than one hundred thousand dollars during his lifetime, and at his death he bequeathed thirty thousand dollars to Beaver College, and twenty-three thousand dollars to the Metho- dist Episcopal Church at Beaver. In 1888 he was appointed a trustee of the State Normal School at Slippery Rock. At the time of the death of General Grant, Captain Dravo was selected to deliver the funeral oration, and it was a masterpiece of its kind. He was selected for the same office on a number of other notable occasions, and the addresses he made were always the subject of laudatory articles in all papers.
In 1868 Mr. Dravo removed to Beaver, Pennsylvania, where he pur- chased a home on First street, now Dravo avenue. This was destroyed by fire in 1891, and replaced by a handsome modern house of brick and stone. This home he surrounded with an atmosphere of culture and Chris- tian influence, and the beautifying of its surroundings was a constant source of pleasure. For many years he was superintendent of the Sabbath school, and also acted as a local preacher.
Mr. Dravo married, November 23, 1843, Eliza Jane Clark (see Clark III). Children: 1. Cassius Clay, born November 10, 1844, died January 28, 1845. 2. Margaret Jane, see forward. 3. Josephine Virginia, see for- ward. 4. Mary Emma, born March 8, 1851, died April 5, 1869. 5. Anna Maria, born August 1, 1854, died October 15, 1854. 6. Elizabeth Bell, born August 30, 1856, died in January, 1858. 7. Ida Clark, born December 16, 1858, lives in Beaver, Pennsylvania. 8. Lida, see forward. 9. John Stevenson, see forward. 10. Ettie Snyder, born March 30, 1865, died April 14, 1888.
(IV) Margaret Jane Dravo, daughter of John Fleming and Eliza Jane
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(Clark) Dravo, was born at Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, January 20, 1846, and is now living in Beaver, Pennsylvania. She married in that city, December 10, 1867, Robert Adams Wilson, born in Bridgewater, Penn- sylvania, September 15, 1843, died in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, January 15, 1881. He was engaged in the coal, coke and iron business. He was the son of Samuel Beatty and Julia Ann (Lyons) Wilson; grandson of James and Mary (Adams) Wilson; great-grandson of Dr. Samuel Adams.
(IV) Josephine Virginia Dravo, daughter of John Fleming and Eliza Jane (Clark) Dravo, was born at Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1848, and now lives in Beaver. She married, at Beaver, May 9, 1871, James H. McCreery, an attorney, son of Thomas and Emeline (Foster) McCreery, and grandson of James McCreery, all early residents of Beaver county. Children: John Dravo, see forward; Thomas Livingston, see forward; Mary Dravo, born August 16, 1876; Caryl, born September 29, 1878; Elsie Josephine, born November 5, 1880, died December 18, 1885; William Vankirk, born November 9, 1885.
(IV) Lida Dravo, daughter of John Fleming and Eliza Jane (Clark) Dravo, was born March 9, 1861, at Dravosburg, Pennsylvania, and now lives at Beaver.
(IV) John Stevenson Dravo, son of John Fleming and Eliza Jane (Clark) Dravo, was born at Dravosburg, March 9, 1861, and now lives in Beaver. He married, January 9, 1883, Sarah McClurg, of Beaver. Child : Eliza Jane, born September 4, 1884. She married, September 18, 1906, Dr. Clifford Bliss, born May 22, 1883, son of Howard Bliss, of Beaver. Children: John Dravo, born September 18, 1907; Margaret Jane, born at La Belle, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1910, died at Fredericktown, Penn- sylvania, August 20, 1913.
(V) John Dravo McCreery, son of James H. and Josephine Virginia (Dravo) McCreery, was born in Beaver, Pennsylvania, March 25, 1872. Since 1890 he has been with the H. C. Frick Coke Company and allied companies, Carnegie Building, Pittsburgh, and is secretary and treasurer of the United States Coal-Coke Company, and other corporations. He was married at Washington, District of Columbia, by the Rev. Alexander Kent, February 14, 1906, to Marie, born in New York City, May 30, 1883, daughter of Maurice and Maria Wahlgren. Children: John Dravo, born April 8, 1907; Elsie Caryl, May 10, 1909; Helen Wahlgren, Nov. 19, 1912.
(V) Thomas Livingston McCreery, son of James H. and Josephine Virginia (Dravo) McCreery, was born in Beaver, October 19, 1874, and still lives there. He is with the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, of Pittsburgh. He married, March 11, 1903, Lu Brylle, born April 16, 1876, daughter of George W. and Matilda R. Dawson. Children: John Flem- ing Dravo, born August 15, 1905, at Indianapolis, Indiana, died in Beaver, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1906; Matilda Dawson, born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, February 24, 1909; Margaret Jane, born at Beaver, Septem- ber 19, 1912.
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(The Fleming Line.)
The Fleming family traces back to Scotland, although some of the branches migrated to Ireland. Wigtown proper was founded in Scotland in 1267, and in 1341 the Earldom of Wigtown was created and bestowed upon Sir Malcolm Fleming, and has been the home of the Flemings for more than five centuries. After their arrival in this country the Flemings intermarried with the Livingstons and the Van Rensselaers, and with others of the most noted families of the colonies. Sir Thomas Fleming, brother of the fifth Lord Fleming, emigrated to Virginia in 1616, and settled in what became New Kent county. His granddaughter, Judith Fleming, married Thomas Randolph, and became the maternal ancestor of the distinguished Randolph family of Virginia. William Fleming, a son of the sixth Lord Fleming, Earl of Wigtown, came to America and made his home in the Virginia mountains. He arrived in America in 1755, and sympathizing with the colonists, he took an active part in the Dunmore War. He held a colonel's commission in this struggle and was ever in the foremost rank of battle. Being severely wounded he was incapacitated for activity in the Revolutionary struggle, but he nobly performed his part in the civil servcie. He was a member of the committee of safety, and second lieutenant and commander-in-chief of Botetourt county. In 1776 Colonel Fleming was a member of the first state senate of Virginia; in 1780, a member of the council of state; in June, 1781, acting governor of the state. In 1788 he was elected to represent Botetourt county at the con- vention which ratified the federal constitution. He did much to further the cause of education, and was one of the trustees of Transylvania University, at Lexington, Kentucky. He died August 5, 1795, at the age of sixty-six. Among other prominent members of this family may be men- tioned: Hon. Frank P. Fleming, governor of Florida; Hon. Aretas Brooks Fleming, governor of West Virginia; Sanford Fleming, C.M.G., LL.D., C.E., of Ottawa, ex-president of the Royal Society of Canada, an eminent scientist of America.
(I) John Fleming had a bleachery near Belfast, Ireland.
(II) John (2) Fleming, son of John (1) Fleming, was probably in the same line of business as his father. He married
(III) John (3) Fleming, son of John (2) Fleming, was born 1792, died June 2, 1842. He came to this country early in the nineteenth century, settled at first in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, then in the forks of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers in Rostraver. He married Nancy Agnes Neal. The Flemings were Covenanters, and the Neals Presbyterians. He was a weaver of fine linen damask. Children: I. John. 2. George, married a Miss Mills, of Braddock, and has children: Louise, Seraphine, John, George. 3. Margaret, unmarried. 4. Jane, unmarried. 5. Elizabeth, married George Thompson; children: John; Alexander, married Eliza Scott; Jane; James, married Ella Rogers; Elizabeth. 6. James, unmarried,
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owned a farm in Zanesville, Ohio, and laid out the city of Indianapolis, Indiana. 7. Mary Agnes, married Michael Dravo (see Dravo II).
(The Clark Line.)
(I) Roger Clark, born in Ireland about 1726, came to America in early manhood. Married (first) - Egnew, born about 1730, and settled in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. Children: Elizabeth; James, see for- ward; Nancy; Jane. He married (second) and had: Joseph and another child. Roger Clark died about 1765.
(II) James Clark, son of Roger and (Egnew) Clark, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, 1751, died September 4, 1833. In 1776 he removed with his family to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and in 1810 to Harrison county, Ohio, where the remainder of his life was spent. He married, about 1775, Jane, daughter of John and Ellen (Stephenson) Jack. She was born in 1753 in Cumberland county, died in Harrison county, Ohio, May 17, 1832. Children: John, Joseph, Samuel, William, Polly, James, Andrew, Thomas, Robert S., see forward; Frances E.
(III) Robert S. Clark, son of James and Jane (Jack) Clark, was born May 7, 1793. He married, September 18, 1817, Margaret, born May I, 1793, daughter of Alexander and Frances (Armstrong) Moore. Children : 1. Samuel, born July 10, 1819; married Eliza Haney and had seven children. 2. Thomas, born February 24, 1821; married Catherine Irwin and had four children. 3. Eliza Jane, born February 1, 1823, died June 27, 1906; married John Fleming Dravo (see Dravo III). 4. David, born May 9, 1825; mar- ried Sarah A. Kerr and had ten children. 5. Oliver, born April 9, 1828, died October 28, 1859; married Matilda Kerr and had two children. 6. Margaret Ann, born June 6, 1830, died August 8, 1902; married Augustus Leonard and had nine children. 7. Sanford, born September 1, 1835; married Harriet D., daughter of William Clark, and granddaughter of James Clark, and had eight children.
McDONALD Among the earliest settlers of Beaver county, who laid the foundation of that county's prominence first as an agricultural and more recently as an industrial strong- hold, was John McDonald, who owned a large farm in Hopewell township, bordering on the Ohio river. Here he passed his entire days living in quiet peace with all men, industriously tilling his acres. He and his wife Rachel were the parents of: William, John, Marshall, of whom further; David, Joseph, Sharp, Elizabeth, married David P. Scott; Anna, married Jack Jones; Martha, married a Mr. Fowler. John and Rachel McDonald were lifelong members of the Presbyterian Church, none more faithful in at- tendance or more sincere in worship than they.
(II) Marshall McDonald, son of John and Rachel McDonald, was born in Sewickley, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and there died. From
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his earliest business days, which began as soon as he had completed his youthful studies, he was engaged in the business of shipping coal, acquiring the reputation of being one of the largest shippers in that section and owning several boats which were constantly in use on the Ohio river. He built up a steady and lucrative business, and at his death was the possessor of a comfortable competence. He married Elizabeth H., daughter of Robert C. and Clementine (Harper) Scott. Children: 1. Clementine, married Seward Murray, and lives in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. 2. Luella, died in infancy. 3. Marshall H., married Rebecca McDonald, a member of another line of the McDonald family, and lives in Bellevue, Pennsylvania. 4. Jennie, died in infancy. 5. Robert W., an attorney of Pasadena, California. 6. Emma V., married Charles Arrott; she died shortly after marriage. 7. Joseph Clyde, of whom further. 8. Ione Florence, single. 9. Edwin N., unmarried, a business partner of his brother, Joseph Clyde. 10. Roy L. (III) Joseph Clyde McDonald, son of Marshall and Elizabeth (Scott) McDonald, was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1872. His. education was begun in the public schools of Sewickley, and completed in. the University of Western Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, an institution that he attended for one year. He then entered the coal shipping business with his father, coming to Beaver, Pennsylvania, in 1909, establishing in the sand business at Baden, Beaver county, transacting business as the Pittsburgh Sand and Supply Company, still continuing in that field, his brother Edin N., having since become a member of the firm. They are the possessors. of and lease some of the best sand pits of the state, and supply a large and remunerative trade. Although Mr. McDonald's business centers at Baden, he has his home in Beaver, commuting daily. He is a Democrat in political belief. Religiously the family are members of the First Presby- terian Church of Beaver.
Mr. McDonald married, in December, 1905, Leila, daughter of Andrew C. and Sadie (Smyth) McGowin; her father, born March 19, 1848, having been at one time a shoe merchant of Pittsburgh, now the shoe buyer for John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, Her mother, born July 31, 1848, is deceased. Andrew C. McGowin is a son of Alexander and Margaret Mc- Gowin. Children of Andrew C. and Sadie McGowin: Richard S., deceased, lived in Cynwyd, Pennsylvania; Leila, of previous mention, married Joseph Clyde McDonald. Children of Mr. and Mrs. McDonald: Sarah Elizabeth, born October 18, 1906; Alexander Scott, October 19, 1907; Josephine, De- cember 5, 1910.
HARTON John Harton, the immigrant ancestor of the Harton family of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, came to America while the Revolutionary War was in progress. He lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his death occurred in 1854. For a period of twenty years he was in office as market master of the city. He married Mary Bennit, born near Philadelphia, and they had one child.
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(II) James Harton, only child of John and Mary (Bennit) Harton, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1804. He was graduated from the Philadelphia Medical College but never practiced medicine. He lived in Beaver, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, owned a fine farm in Brighton township, and was engaged in the building, brick and stone business. He married Elizabeth, born in county Down, Ireland, De- cember 22, 1808, daughter of John and Elizabeth (McWilliams) Elliot, the former born April 9, 1774, whose other children were: Mary, born August 10, 1803; Sarah, July 5, 1806; Jane, May 7, 1813; Robert, October 22, 1815, died at the age of two years. Mr. and Mrs. Harton had children: 1. John E., see forward. 2. Elizabeth, born December 14, 1833; married David Shumaker ; lived in Beaver. 3. Sarah A., born January 8, 1838; she married Lemuel Edgar, who was a member of Company F, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, who enlisted at Beaver, April 22, 1861, and was discharged at the termination of his three years' enlistment; re-enlisted, December 18, 1863, in Company I, One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; was wounded at Five Forks, near Petersburg, Virginia, March 31, 1865, losing left arm as a result of this wound; received his final honorable discharge, July 4, 1865; children: Minnie L., born October 22, 1864, married Whitfield Aughenbaugh and had children: Charles L., born May 26, 1890, married Florence Featherstone; Dorothy N., January 26, 1898; Eliza Elliot, born May 4, 1867. 4. Martius C., born October 2, 1840; married Mary J. Weaver ; lives near Beaver. 5. James M., born June 4, 1843 ; married Mary Whipple; lives in Beaver. 6. Mary M., born April 14, 1846; married Samuel Dinsmore; lives in Beaver. 7. Emma E., born August 5, 1848. 8. Cornelia C., born March 21, 1851; married Simeon Dinsmore ; lives at Washington, District of Columbia, where he is employed in the government printing office.
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