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Ranking as a teacher to whom his profession was more than merely a source of income, Professor Peirsol keenly felt the opportunities within his grasp and the responsibiliteto closely connected with them. He strove always to hold in mind a vision of a generation of greater intellectual power than the preceding one and gave the best of himself to promote the attain- ment of this ideal. He maintained that when education had ceased to be an incentive to better things it had lost its value, and had little patience with those of his pupils who dawdled through their tasks in a lethargic, disin- terested manner. He will be long remembered by students as a fair-minded master and a stern disciplinarian, a sympathizer with youthful pranks, even though he could not publicly countenance them.
Professor Peirsol married (first) Elizabeth Weaver, daughter of Captain and Mrs. James Weaver, of Newport, who died in 1870; (second) in 1876, Mary Maxwell Chambers, died in 1902, who had been associated with him as assistant teacher in the Soldiers' Orphans' School. Children of first marriage: Joseph, a physician of Bellaire, Ohio; George, lives in West Bridgewater; Catherine, married Sampson Allaman, of Dallison, West Virginia, where her home now is; Sue, married R. J. Marshall, of East Liverpool, Ohio; Fannie, married Frank W. Neely, of Beaver, Pennsylvania. The only living child of his second marriage was Scudder H., of whom further.
(IV) Dr. Scudder H. (2) Peirsol, son of Scudder H. and Mary Max- well (Chambers) Peirsol, was born in Bridgewater, Beaver county, Pennsyl-
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vania, July 2, 1880. He obtained his education in Peirsol's Academy in West Bridgewater, later matriculating at the University of Western Pennsylvania, now the University of Pittsburgh, and was graduated from the medical department in the class of 1901. He immediately started practice in Rochester, where he has acquired a reputation as a skillful and reliable physician and surgeon. He is a member of the staff of the Rochester Hospital, his colleagues placing much reliance in the dependability of his judgment and the keenness of his diagnosis. Dr. Peirsol stands high in the ranks of medical men in the county and holds the confidence and respect of a large practice in Rochester. He is also examining surgeon for the Beaver County Board of Pensions. A close student of all the progressive movements and new departures in his profession, he takes great interest in the activities of the Beaver County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania Medical Society, and the American Medical Association, holding member- ship in all three. His only fraternal affiliation is with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The Democrats receive both his vote and his earnest support.
Dr. Peirsol married Fanny E. May, born March 10, 1884, daughter of Charles E. and Fanny E. May. They are the parents of one child, Dorothy May, born August 14, 1904.
HAY The United States, since its founding, has found occasion to frequently use, to mutual advantage, the services of those owning
the patronymic Hay, and members of various branches of the family are found in nearly all parts of this country. It has been only of late years, however, that this line of Hays left its native home in the mountains of Scotland in favor of American life.
(I) This record first introduces James Hay, father of Robert Hay, who throughout all of his active years was a chemical dyer in Scotland, a line of endeavor in which were then, as now, few of really expert ability, the compounding of colors containing ingredients harmless to the most delicate fabric being an art of which there are an inconsiderable number of masters. He was one of the best in that land and his services were in con- stant and pressing demand. He married Jean, daughter of Robert Whyte, and had among other children, Robert, of whom further.
(II) Robert Hay, son of James and Jean (Whyte) Hay, was born in Edinburgh, county of Midlothian, Scotland, July 26, 1840, died June 30, 1908. After completing his studies in the public schools of his birthplace he became associated with his father in business, and when about twenty- seven years of age came to the United States, staying for a short time in New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, returning to his native land after brief residences in those cities. His visit to this country evidently impressed him favorably for in a short time he returned, locating for a time in Alle- gheny, later New Brighton, Pennsylvania. His occupation was that of chemical dyer, but he abandoned its pursuit to accept the secretaryship of
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Sherwood Brothers Pottery Company, and was identified with that concern until his retirement, three years before his death. He was a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, and held membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His life was upright and well-ordered, his daily conduct beyond reproach, and to his wife and family he was a devoted husband and father, solicitously caring for their slightest wish, anticipating unspoken desires and gladly fulfilling them.
He married, in 1873, Mary, born in Fallston, Beaver county, Pennsyl- vania, daughter of Ephraim and Ann (Lee) Smith, both natives of Eng- land. Ephraim Smith was a son of Alexander and Sarah (Ellsworth) Smith, Alexander being a son of Jonas Smith. Ephraim Smith was a woolen manufacturer in his native land, and upon coming to the United States located in Fallston, where he established a mill, continuing in the business in which he had been engaged on the other side of the ocean. His wife Ann was a daughter of Abram and Mary (Smith) Lee, both natives of England, her father having also been connected with the woolen business. Children of Robert and Mary (Smith) Hay: Fannie, Ephraim, deceased; Jean E.
Whatever may have been performed in the name of King in the KING country from which the members of this line trace their ancestry, Ireland, this record does not reveal, but if the same qualities of constancy, fidelity and industry characterized its bearers in that land as in this, the achievements of previous generations have indeed been to the credit of the name and to the benefit of the communities in which Kings dwelt.
(I) Hugh King was born in Ireland and came to the United States when he had but lately attained man's estate, settling in Dutchess county, New York, where he married, about 1855 moving to Belmont county, Ken- tucky. In that locality he organized a company, and obtaining sufficient capital erected the Belmont Blast Furnace, in which he was interested and in active supervision until his death, resulting from an attack of pneumonia, the date of his demise being 1859. He was a strong man of robust health and had survived serious injuries incurred in an earth slide in a mine, only to be overcome by a more insidious foe. He married Ellen Boland, a native of Ireland, and was the father of five children, four sons and one daughter, namely: Michael, of whom further; Patrick, John, Kate, Hugh.
(II) Michael King, son of Hugh and Ellen (Boland) King, was born in Dutchess county, New York, September 16, 1855. Taken to Belmont county, Kentucky, by his parents as a child, he was educated in the schools of that county, and at the early age of twelve years began his long term of service with the Colonial Steel Company. This is the only concern that has ever held his services and in the fifty-two years of his continuance in their employ he had filled many grades of duty, first coking, molding, pull- ing out, and in 1869 being made melter, in which department of steel man-
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ufacture he is engaged at the present time. In January, 1902, the Colonial Steel Company established a mill at Colona, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and since that year he has been connected with the mill at that place, still in the capacity of melter. His over a half a century is a wonderful record, creditable to the one making it and to the firm worthy of such devoted faith- fulness. His knowledge of all departments of the steel industry is so thor- ough and minute as to be almost second nature, and long association with the various elements used has made him completely their master. His work is fraught with danger and often in his long career has he seen men meet a terrible fate at the hands of the silent, white-hot monster that has broken beyond their control. It is not an ordinary occurrence, but once seen it inspires a wholesome respect for a force capable of administering such punishment and engenders a care more than watchful, and a caution con- stant and intense. Strong, sound and robust, Mr. King has excellent pros- pects of rounding out his years of service to a still greater number, unless his inclinations should lead him to lay aside business cares, and look back over that long stretch of years and find that his tasks have been well done, his duty nobly discharged.
He married, May 25, 1874, Anna Moore, born in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, daughter of Sylvanius and Alcinda (Smith) Moore, her mother now living at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, aged ninety-eight years, longevity extraordinary. Two of the sons of Sylvanius and Alcinda Moore were in the Union army in the Civil War, Richard being a captain in the First Virginia Regiment, and another son, Albert Ulysses, holding the rank of sergeant in a different regiment. Children of Michael and Anna (Moore) King: Ellen Alcinda, Hubert, Frank, Mary, Catherine, Herman, John, Michael Jr., Frances Arthur, deceased; Lillian, deceased.
SUTHERLAND Of Scotch-Irish origin, this family evinces many of the fine qualities of that noble race, and its prosperity in the new country to which it has come at so com- paratively recent a date, is due to the sturdy characteristics of thrift, industry and shrewdness which have so conspicuously distinguished its members.
(I) John Sutherland was born in Brighton township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May, 1808, and died June 7, 1855. He was a farmer, and at the time he lived there the country in that section was still a partial wilderness, and wolves and other wild animals were no rarity. He married (first) October 27, 1834, Sarah Jane, born March 23, 1813, died May 2, 1892, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (McBride) Rhodes, the former of Holland descent. He was a cabinetmaker by trade, and he and his wife located in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in early days, their log cabin being below the present Market street school in Beaver, and later they re- moved to a tract of land two miles out of the town. Children: I. Sarah Jane, born April 5, 1836; married, January 6, 1859, Samuel F. Gillespie. 2. Nancy, born August 10, 1837; married James H. Douds, November 28,
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1860. 3. Ann Eliza, born March 18, 1839, died September 12, 1840. 4. William Harrison, born February 20, 1841. 5. Minerva, born August 17, 1842, died August 22, 1865; married, January 23, 1862, Thomas J. Mc- Creery. 6. Joseph Alexander, born July 22, 1845; married Isabella Barto. 7. John Smith, born May 27, 1847; married, June 2, 1875, Jennie Cummins. 8. Hugh Ayers, of further mention.
(II) Hugh Ayers Sutherland, youngest child of John and Sarah Jane (Rhodes) Sutherland, was born in New Brighton township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1852. He has had a very successful career in every branch of journalistic work. Making the best use of his oppor- tunities while a pupil at the public schools of his native county, he was fairly well equipped when he entered upon his apprenticeship in the office of the Beaver Argus, which was at the time conducted by John B. Butler, as foreman. Upon the termination of his apprenticeship he went to Mercer county, Pennsylvania, where he obtained his first position as a journeyman, and was subsequently employed in a similar capacity in various towns and cities as follows: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Olean, New York; Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he worked on The Crawford Journal for one year; then returned to Beaver county, in which he has worked on almost every paper of note. In 1883 he accepted an excellent position which had been offered him by The Beaver Valley News, which was published at New Brighton. He was engaged in soliciting advertising in the lower valley towns for The Daily News, and worked as a reporter for this paper for about one year. In the fall of 1886 he purchased the job printing office of M. D. Barnes, in Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and has made a great success of this business. His work has gained a reputation for accuracy and attention to detail, and the artistic manner in which orders are executed has also been a matter of universal commendation. Mr. Sutherland is a member of the Congregational Church. He was formerly a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World, but his only fraternal affiliation at the present time is with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Sutherland married, October 12, 1892, Georgeanna (Lindsay) Cunningham, widow of Frank Cunningham, by whom she had two daughters, Clara Elizabeth and Margaret. No children by last marriage.
The city of Greiz, Thuringia, Germany, was the birthplace of
HETCHE Jacob J. Hetche, grandfather of Charles M. Hetche, of this narrative, his wife, the grandmother, being born in Marburg, Prussia, the seat of the famous University of Marburg, noted for its mag- nificent library of two hundred thousand volumes. Jacob J. Hetche was a blacksmith by trade and followed that occupation throughout his entire life in his native land. He was the father of five sons, of whom three lived their lives in the homeland, the other two, John, Jacob J., of whom further, immigrated to the United States, and there casting their lot with the fortunes
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of that republic. John was a wagon-maker, a trade he had learned in Germany, and as are most artisans of that land was a remarkably skilled workman. The pursuit of his business carried him to Evansville, Indiana, where he made his home and where his death occurred. He married and became the father of two daughters, Anna and Dora.
(II) Jacob J. (2) Hetche, son of Jacob J. (1) Hetche, was born in Germany, January 23, 1836, died near Rochester, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, April 18, 1896. He attended the public schools of Germany and there obtained his entire education, apprenticing himself when a young man to the cabinetmaker's trade. Soon after the completion of his ap- prenticeship he came to the United States with his brother John, settling in Pittsburgh, although John continued further west, in search of a better field for the practice of his trade. Not long after his arrival, Mr. Hetche was married, his wife having been a native of Germany, who had come to the United States at about the time of his immigration and had made her home in Rochester, where the marriage ceremony was performed. They decided to reside in Rochester and he obtained a position in a coffin factory at that place, not a difficult task because of the excellency of his workman- ship. He purchased a small farm in the vicinity and took a great deal of pleasure in its cultivation, to which he attended in the hours not devoted to his factory work. After a few years spent under these conditions the firm maintaining the factory in which he was employed became insolvent, and the place was closed, compelling Mr. Hetche to seek a new position. This he found in a factory of the same nature at Beaver Falls, and here he was employed for about eight years, still residing at Rochester and making the trip between his home and his place of business every night and morn- ing. At the expiration of this time he resigned his position at Beaver Falls, purchased a farm of approximately one hundred and twenty acres, and after making various improvements, among them the erection of some new buildings, he embarked in the milk dealing business. He possessed all the qualities so essential to one engaged in business relations with his fellows, honor, integrity and a strict sense of fair dealing, and continued his bus- iness successfully until his death. With his wife he was a member of the German Methodist Episcopal Church, of Rochester, and until his last illness, was a regular and conscientious attendant at its services. It was not his nature to be much in the public eye, although there was none more genuinely concerned for the welfare of the community, but just prior to his death he was elected a member of the school board, his final summons coming before he had assumed the duties of that office. As a husband he was kind, con- siderate and thoughtful; gentle, loving and sympathetic with his children; while to those with whom he came in contact in daily life he was ever the courteous and neighborly gentleman. His wife survives him, living on a part of their old farm near Rochester, aged seventy years.
Jacob J. Hetche married Elizabeth Mengle, born in Germany, Septem- ber 10, 1843, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ingle) Mengle. They were
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both natives of Germany, where he was a farmer and small landowner, being the possessor of a farm of fifty acres. In 1853 they sold their prop- erty in their native land and came to the United States, settling in New Sewickley township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where John Mengle rented a farm. Both he and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church, devout and earnest in their devotions. He died at the home of his son, Elias, in Freedom, Pennsylvania, in 1883, his wife surviving him seven years, her death occurring in 1890. Children of John and Elizabeth (Ingle) Mengle: Margaret, married Jacob Earp, deceased, and lives in Rochester ; Mary, married Lewis Snyder, deceased, a butcher of Rochester, where his widow resides; Elizabeth, of previous mention, married Jacob J. Hetche; Sophia, married Adam Eckart, a butcher of Bellevue, Pennsylvania, where they live; John, a butcher, married Mary Spohr, and lives in Bellevue, Penn- sylvania. Children of Jacob J. and Elizabeth (Mengle) Hetche: Emma, deceased, married Lewis Smith; Dorothy, married (first) Thomas Hair, deceased, (second) Lewis Gross, and lives in Rochester; Charles M., of whom further.
(III) Charles M. Hetche, youngest child and only son of Jacob J. (2) and Elizabeth (Mengle) Hetche, was born in Rochester township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1868. In his youth he attended the public schools of what was then Pulaski township and completed his education at Peirsol's Academy. He engaged in independent farming operations for a time, but his assistance being needed at home, he discontinued his own operations and took charge of the home farm. After his father's death he sold the share of the homestead that he had inherited and purchased a farm of fifty-seven acres, composed of fifty-three acres of the old George Porter farm and four of that of Michael Stone. Here he erected a com- modious and fine appearing dwelling, and equipped his farm with all the necessary appliances for conducting a dairy along modern, scientific and sanitary lines, erecting, for the promotion of the last named purpose, a large, well-lighted, concrete-floored barn. Until 1912 he was engaged in the dairy business and commanded a generous patronage, the people of the surround- ing neighborhood realizing and appreciating the fact that he was using every precaution to protect them from the ills so often traced to establish- ments such as he maintained. In that year, however, he changed his activi- ties to that of wholesale milk dealing. In this, as in his previous under- taking, he is prospering, owning a herd of twenty-one fine cattle, all good milk producers and all in a most healthy condition, Mr. Hetche knowing full well the importance of a well kept herd and its immediate relation to the supply, and being entirely free from the delusion of the dairyman of earlier days, "a cow's a cow." He is a follower of the faith of his parents and with his wife is a member of the German Methodist Episcopal Church. He fraternizes with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Fra- ternal Order of Eagles. His political sympathies are strongly Republican,
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and as the representative of that party he has served on the local school board for a term of thirteen years.
Mr. Hetche married Annie, daughter of Conrad Fehr, a native of Pittsburgh. Children of Charles M. and Annie Hetche: 1. Gertrude, mar- ried Melvin Crislip, and lives in Rochester; they are the parents of one son, Charles. 2. Stella, married John Moehrle, and resides in Rochester. 3. Annie, lives with her parents.
STONE Stephen P. Stone was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in
1852. He occupied a prominent position in the public life of
his native county, serving as United States marshal for a period of nine years. At the present time (1914) he is engaged in oil construction work in Oklahoma. He married, at Philadelphia, 1887, Louisa M. Knox, whose ancestral lines will be found below. Children: 1. Joseph Knox, graduated from the University of Philadelphia; a practicing lawyer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; resides in Beaver county; married Essie Naugle. 2. Stella Louise, married James H. Welch ; resides in Los Angeles, California. 3. Virginia Knox, resides at home with her mother. Both young women are members of the Society of Daughters of the American Revolution. The home of the family, which is a very beautiful one, is pre- sided over by Mrs. Stone with the openhanded hospitality of the true Amer- ican combined with the tact and grace which she has inherited in rich measure as the distinguishing characteristics of her foreign ancestry.
Joseph Knox, grandfather of Mrs. Louisa M. (Knox) Stone, was a resident of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was the seventh son of Thomas Knox, of Franklin county, Pennsylvania ; his brother James was the grand- father of James Knox Polk, president of the United States. He married Mary B. McClure, whose ancestry will be found below. Children: John, James, Margaret, William, Charles, Joseph, George W., Rebecca.
George W. Knox, son of Joseph and Mary B. (McClure) Knox, and father of Mrs. Louisa M. (Knox) Stone, was a graduate of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and later was a practicing lawyer in the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Jewel, great- granddaughter of Joseph Jewel, who came from San Domingo to Charleston, South Carolina, with his brother Benjamin and sister Juliana. He pur- chased a plantation of eight hundred acres in the state of Louisiana, upon which he resided and which he cultivated. He married Louisa Mathilde Badon, daughter of Catolina (Montelimar) Badon and a descendant of Charles Montelimar, who came to America with Ferdinand De Soto. In addition to Mrs. Stone, mentioned above, Mr. and Mrs. Knox had four children, as follows: Mary J .; Joseph J., was a lawyer of Philadelphia, died, unmarried, in California in 1893; Catherine, resides at the Martha Washington Hotel in New York City; Stella R., died in 1907.
(The McClure Line.)
The McClure family settled at an early period in the Cumberland
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Valley, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. They were of Scotch-Irish line- age, alike respected and influential. The following is a record copied from books of reference in the Congressional Library of Washington, D. C., show- ing the military service of various members of the McClure family: David McClure served in military service, Colonial army, from 1747 to 1748. William McClure was appointed ensign, May 11, 1760, served in Captain William Vander(s)pool's company, Colonel John Burd's battalion. William McClure was appointed July 31, 1777, in the Fifth Company, Second Bat- talion ; appointed captain of Fifth Company, May 14, 1778. David McClure was appointed chaplain of the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, September 12, 1776; served until May, 1777; died June 25, 1820. William and David McClure took oath of allegiance (directed by act of general assembly of Pennsylvania) July 13, 1777. Charles McClure was appointed quarter- master of Second Battalion of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania; A. C. P. in army in 1780. James McClure was appointed first lieutenant of Second Company, Fifth Battalion of Pennsylvania troops, July 31, 1777. Captain Jonathan McClure appointed, April 11, 1781, Company Eight of Lancaster County Militia in Colonel Robert Elder's battalion. Samuel McClure, pri- vate in Captain Sanderson's company, Colonel Chamber's battalion in spring and summer of 1779; he served in Bedford and Westmoreland counties.
Robert McClure was a ruling elder of Rev. Samuel Thompson's church and as such had a seat in the Presbytery in 1743. Rev. Thompson's church was at Meeting House or Silver Springs, congregation from Upper and Lower Pennsborough. Record at meeting of Donegal Presbytery, Nottin- ham, Chester county, September 3, 1735: "Mr. Craighead was ordered to supply people of Conodoguinnet, or beyond Susquehanna." In this meeting occurs name of Robert McClure, Rev. Thompson's elder, and it is thought this is the same person.
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