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(IV) James (2) Harper, son of Major James (1) and Elizabeth (Hay) Harper, was born June 1, 1828, died October, 18, 1908. He was a miller and surveyor, being the official surveyor of Beaver county for twenty years. He was a supporter of the Whig party, and a member of the United Presbyterian Church. He married (first) September 19, 1850, Alice Ann Carothers, born in Hanover township, Beaver county, June 15, 1826, died July 3, 1893, daughter of William C. and Elizabeth (Gilliland) Carothers. He married (second) 1898, Caroline S. Aley, who died June 3, 1913. Children: I. Mary, born July 12, 1851; never married. 2. James, born October 15, 1854, deceased; he married, October 30, 1890, Matilda A. Wack, who died in Pittsburgh, September 1, 1900; they had: Alice Catharine, Elizabeth Enid. 3. Clementina, born April 10, 1857, died October 7, 1876. 4. William Harvey, see forward. 5. Elizabeth Ella, born April 21, 1862, deceased; married Calvin B. Bell.
(V) William Harvey Harper, son of James (2) and Alice Ann (Carothers) Harper, was born in Hookstown, Beaver county, Pennsyl- vania, October 24, 1859. His education was acquired in the public schools of his native township, and at the age of eighteen years he accepted a clerkship in a store in Hanover township, Beaver county. Later he returned
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to his grandfather's farm, where he resided for about three years. For many years he has been identified with the insurance business, as manager of the insurance department of the Beaver Trust Company, an office of great responsibility. Mr. Harper is a member of the Masonic Order, being raised a Mason in St. James Lodge, No. 457, Free and Accepted Masons, of Beaver. Mr. Harper married, April 23, 1891, L. Luella Anderson, daughter of Alexander T. and Susan C. (Duncan) Anderson, and they have had children: Mary L., born April 2, 1897; Ruth E., born May 19, 1901. The family resides at West View, above Beaver Borough. Mr. Harper and family are members of the Presbyterian Church and he has held the office of ruling elder for several years.
WHITE Thomas White was born in Ireland and when a young child
came to America with his parents, prior to the War of the Revolution. They settled in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Thomas White enlisted in the Continental army and bore his share bravely in that momentous struggle. He also traveled extensively for that time, on one of his trips going as far as Mexico and encountering many dangers. At one time he was held up by a band of robbers, robbed of all his pos- sessions, and held prisoner for a half year. Later he returned to Allegheny county, where he bought four hundred acres of land. He took up eight hundred acres of land from the government in Darlington township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and this is still in the possession of various of his descendants. He was considered a very wealthy man for those days. He and his family were members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. White married - Martin, who was also a child when she came from Ireland to America with her parents, who became farmers in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. They had children: James, who left home in early man- hood and became a farmer in Texas; Jane, married - Duncan; Susan, married - Burns; John, see forward; Joseph; Nancy, married Judge Caruthers.
(II) John White, son of Thomas and - (Martin) White, was born at Murdocksville, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, about 1810, and died about 1900. He was very generally known as "Squire" White. He grew to manhood in his native township, where he inherited the large landed estate of his father. In 1850 he sold this and removed to Darling- ton township, Beaver county, on property which he purchased from Jona- than Morris. He resided in the brick house, erected in 1837, now in the possession of the widow of his son, Thomas Martin White. He was engaged in stock raising on an extensive scale, rarely having less than one thousand head of sheep each winter. In political affairs he was a Jeffersonian Democrat, and served as justice of the peace for many years. His religious affiliation was with the Presbyterian Church. He was more than six feet in height, and broad and powerful in proportion to his height. Mr. White married Polly Burns, born near Clinton, Allegheny
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county, Pennsylvania, about 1820, died about 1898, whose parents were natives of Scotland. Children: Thomas Martin, who died in 1909, lived on a part of the homestead, and was twice married, his first wife being Elizabeth Hall; John Burns, see forward; James, died unmarried at his father's home; Mary, married Charles Waterbury, a contractor of New York City, and both are now deceased.
(III) John Burns White, son of John and Polly (Burns) White, was born in Murdocksville, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1832. He was a pupil at a private school in Murdocksville, then took special lessons in penmanship at a school for this study in Pittsburgh, and finally attended, for several terms, Duff's Business College. He was eighteen years of age when his parents removed to Beaver county with their family, and he accepted a position as bookkeeper with the railroad at the coal mines at Cannelton. Later his father gave him a portion of the farm, and to this Mr. White has added by purchase until he now has a tract of six hundred acres. The country house in which he lives was erected by the Economites, and he has added to this and remodeled the older portion until, at the present time, it is a most commodious and comfortable mansion, and he has been resident in it for more than thirty years. He has been very successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising on an extensive scale, and has amassed a large fortune by these methods. For the past ten years he has had a coal and clay mine in operation on a portion of his property.
Mr. White married, in November, 1857, Elvira, born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, daughter of James Hoffman, who came with his wife and children from Allegheny to Beaver county, where he also was successfully engaged in farming. Children of Mr. and Mrs. White: John, manages the farm; James, married Lillian Patterson and has one child, Nancy D .; Harry ; Mary. With the exception of James all of these children are unmarried.
The American ancestor of this branch of the Lockhart
LOCKHART family is likewise the revolutionary member, William Lockhart, of Scotch-Irish descent, having come to America from Ireland prior to the Revolution. He held a commission as recruiting officer for the Continental army, and when Colonial indepen- dence had been achieved, moved to Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, where he followed farming until his death. He married and had issue, two of his sons being Hiram, Jephtha, of whom further.
(II) Jephtha Lockhart, son of William Lockhart, was born in Penn- sylvania, October 12, 1793. After spending his boyhood on his father's farm, he and his elder brother, Hiram, went to the western part of their native state, settling in Beaver county, where Jephtha purchased a farm that was originally a part of the Doak tract, now resided on by Samuel Scott. He here erected a frame house, a part of which is standing at the
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present time, later replacing this with a larger and more substantial dwell- ing. All his life he was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Mill Creek. He married (first) Margaret Lockard, born February 14, 1798; (second) Ada Applegate; (third) Mrs. Lovina (Applegate) Davis, a sister of his second wife. Children of first marriage of Jephtha Lockhart: Armeneus, Elizabeth, John, William, of whom further, Enos, Joanna, Alexander, Mary, Margaret, married William Doak, deceased, she being the only one of the nine children of her father's first marriage who is living at the present time (1913). Children of second marriage of Jephtha Lockhart: Jephtha, lives at Lincoln, Nebraska; Eleanor, deceased; Sarah Hannah, lives near Chicago.
(III) William Lockhart, son of Jephtha and Margaret (Lockard) Lockhart, was born in Hanover township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1823, died April 29, 1912. He attended the public schools, and becoming skilled in farming by his activity on his father's property, he adopted that as his lifelong occupation. He owned eighty-five acres near Hookstown, and there spent his entire life with the exception of nine years passed as a resident of Hookstown. He was also the owner of one hundred and forty-one acres of land in Hanover township, which he rented, conducting general farming and stock-raising operations on the home farm. He was a Democrat in political sympathy, although never very active in public affairs, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church, his wife belonging to the same congregation. His manner of life was plain and ordered upon principles of unswerving justice and fairness to all with whom he associated or came into contact. His friends held him in high esteem for his many admirable qualities, and the respect of his acquaintances was ever granted him in full measure.
He married Amanda Whims, born in Greene township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1832, died October 25, 1904, daughter of Caleb and Rachel (Kerr) Whims. Caleb Whims was a son of David Whims, of Scotch-Irish descent, his wife being of Dutch and Scotch-Irish ancestry. Both Caleb Whims and his wife were born near Hookstown, he spending his early years in the family of Rev. George R. Scott. After his marriage he lived in Greene and Hanover townships, his death occurring in Hooks- town, Mrs. Whims dying in Nebraska, whither she had gone to make her home with one of her children. In any gathering in which he happened to be Mr. Whims was conspicuous because of his remarkable size, his weight being three hundred and twenty-five pounds. He was one of the charter members of the Hookstown Presbyterian Church. Children of Caleb and Rachel (Kerr) Whims: Nancy, lives in Kansas; Cornelia; Jane; Sa- mantha, lives in Nebraska; Amanda, of previous mention, married Wil- liam Lockhart; Sarah, a resident of Monaca, Beaver county, Pennsylvania ; Joshua Kerr, died in California, served in the Civil War in Company H, One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, lost an arm in the service; Jasper, died in Kansas, served in the company
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with his brothers in the Civil War, receiving a wound that disabled him in the same manner; Newton C., likewise a member of Company H, and at one time captain of a colored regiment, died in California. Children of William and Amanda (Whims) Lockhart: I. George Washington, died in infancy. 2. Francis Marion, died aged four years; was the twin of George Washington. 3. John W., a retired physician of St. John's, Washington; married Isabella Watterman. 4. Sarah Geneva, deceased, married (first) David Cummings, (second) David C. Cameron. 5. David Oscar, of whom further. 6. Jesse A., a farmer of St. John's, Washington ; married (first) Anna Russler, (second) Ada Blaine. 7. James R., a car- penter of Wellsville, Ohio; married Lena Poe, who claims relationship with Edgar Allan Poe, the celebrated author, and descendant of either Andrew or Adam Poe, the frontiersmen, one of whom killed Big Foot, the Indian chief. 8. Charles Fulton, a railway engineer, has published two books rela- tive to his hazardous occupation; he is a member of the Masonic order; married Lottie Poe, a sister of the wife of his brother, James R. 9. Lidella Maude, lives with her brother, David Oscar, on the home farm; she at- tended the common schools; she is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
(IV) David Oscar Lockhart, fifth child and fourth son of William and Amanda (Whims) Lockhart, was born on the farm where he now lives, in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. As a youth he attended the public schools and Frankfort Academy. After the completion of his studies he became a farmer and followed this occupation in the west for a period of twelve years, with the exception of two years spent as a clerk in a drug store. The greater part of his western residence was in Nebraska and the Dakotas. Since returning to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, he has cul- tivated the home farm, and lived thereon with his sister, Lidella Maude. From the time of assuming the management of the home farm until their deaths Mr. Lockhart gave to his aged parents the kind consideration of a devoted son. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
McELVANEY This branch of the McElvaney family of Pennsylvania has had but a short residence in the western part of the state, Daniel McElvaney, born near Philadelphia, being the first to make that region the scene of his life's activities. He is a blacksmith by trade, and for many years followed his occupation in New Galilee and Beaver Falls, changing his residence between the two places as his business kept him in the one or the other. His present home is Marion, Ohio, where he lives alone, having survived his wife, Mary Jane, who died about 1880. He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church and formerly worshipped at its services with his wife. He married Mary Jane, daughter of John S. and Eliza J. (Paden) Hudson, who claim membership in the line of Hendrick Hudson, the Dutch navigator, who first explored the Hudson river, named in his honor. Robert D. Hudson was an early settler of Big Beaver township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania,
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and became the possessor of a large and exceedingly fertile farm, whereon he spent his entire life. He had a son, John S., who there grew to man- hood, and after farming for a time, he learned the carpenter's trade in New Galilee. He then, in partnership with two friends, named Atchison and Porter, built the Upper Ten Mill, but after two years he sold his interest in this venture, and entered the mercantile business. In this line he met with profitable success, and to accommodate his rapidly increasing patronage, he erected a building on the corner of Monroe and Washington streets, his place of business until his retirement. He is now (1913) eighty-five years of age, and lives with William Herbert McElvaney, his grandson. In the closing years of a long and useful life he may look with approval and satisfaction upon the works that he has wrought, and find them good. John S. Hudson married (first) Eliza J. Paden, who died in 1882, and (second) Mrs. Maria Rowe, who died January 1, 1908. Children of John S. and Eliza J. (Paden) Hudson: I. James, a merchant, died in Denver, Colorado. 2. Milton, an employee of an express company, died in Petersburg, Ohio. 3. Mary Jane, of previous mention, married Daniel McElvaney. 4. Albert, met an accidental death in boyhood. Chil- dren of Daniel and Mary Jane (Hudson) McElvaney: 1. William Herbert, of whom further. 2. A daughter, died in infancy.
(II) William Herbert McElvaney, son of Daniel and Mary Jane (Hudson) McElvaney, was born in New Galilee, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, November 18, 1878. As a boy he attended the public schools of New Galilee, later the Greersburg Academy at Darlington, completing his studies with a course in a business college at East Liverpool, Ohio. He was reared in the home of his Grandfather Hudson. As a young man he learned the barber's trade, moving then to East Liverpool, Ohio. In 1907 he returned to New Galilee and has since there resided, engaging in the fire insurance business, representing at the present time the Humboldt and Hartford Insurance companies. As the agent of two of the most reputable and reliable of insurance companies he has met with very favorable results, covering the surrounding territory in a capable manner and selling much of his company's paper. In 1909 he was elected to the office of justice of the peace for a seven-year term, his tenure of office expiring January 1, 1916. The Masonic order is the fraternal society that claims his mem- bership, Meridian Lodge, No. 411, Free and Accepted Masons, and East Liverpool Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, being the organizations to which he belongs. With his wife, he affiliates with the Presbyterian Church. Mr. McElvaney is well and favorably known in the locality in which he lives, popular with a large circle of acquaintances, and has attracted com- plimentary comment by his alert, energetic and forcible business tactics.
He married, November 24, 1904, Daisie Carrie, born in Columbiana county, Ohio, daughter of Thomas and Oella (Conant) Cope. Mr. and Mrs. McElvaney are the parents of one son, Charles Herbert, born Jan- uary 29, 1906.
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Milton Smiley, a prominent citizen of Koppel, Beaver
SMILEY county, Pennsylvania, is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was born in Big Beaver township, Beaver county, December 2, 1858, a son of Andrew and Elizabeth ( Beatty) Smiley.
Hugh Smiley, his paternal grandfather, was a native of Ireland but of Scotch descent. He brought his wife to America and settled near Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. The location which he chose for his home was, when he moved there, an uncleared wilderness, but by dint of hard labor he cleared and cultivated the property and transformed it into a flourishing farm. William Beatty, maternal grandfather of Milton Smiley, was a native of Scotland or Ireland. He also came to Pennsylvania and was one of the early settlers in the region where the town of Koppel now stands. Like Hugh Smiley, he, too, cleared and improved wild property, transforming it into arable land, and the farm which was thus the fruit of his labors descended to his son, Milton Beatty, and is now owned by the Koppel Company.
Andrew Smiley, father of Milton Smiley, was born in the year 1820, near Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, and lived on his father's farm for some years. He finally purchased a farm of one hundred and eleven acres in Big Beaver township and it is on a part of this property that the town of Koppel now stands. Here he passed the remainder of his life, and here he died, April 24, 1894. His wife, Elizabeth (Beatty) Smiley, was the fifth of the eight children of William Beatty and was born on the old Beatty homestead. After her death Andrew Smiley married (second) Ann Ferguson. He was a staunch Republican in politics, and a prominent man in the community, and served for a time as justice of the peace. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, and an elder of the same, and he was also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. To Andrew and Elizabeth Smiley were born seven children, as follows : Mary, now Mrs. James Sefton, of Wichita, Kansas; David, deceased; Clarinda, died at the age of sixteen; Abbey, now Mrs. Coston Burns, of Ellwood, Pennsylvania; Milton, of whom further; Annie, deceased, was the wife of John Huffman, of College Hill, Pennsylvania; James, now a resident of Springfield, Ohio.
Milton Smiley was educated in the local schools and passed his child- hood and youth on his father's farm. When he was of an age to be actively employed, he took up farming as an occupation and bought a portion of the old homestead, fifty-nine acres, which, however, he eventually sold to the founders of Koppel, buying out in turn his sister's share of forty-two acres, upon which he erected in 1909 a comfortable house. In the year 1912 he became the general foreman of the Clydesdale Stone Company, a position he still retains, and in which he employs forty men. The chief output of this company is bridge stone. Mr. Smiley's farm is also very profitable, six acres of it being devoted to fruit and the remainder to general farming. Mr. Smiley, like his father, is a staunch member of the
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Republican party, and like father is active in politics, having served his community in the capacity of school director for two terms and as su- pervisor for one term. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Smiley married, September 16, 1885, Elizabeth Dunlap, a native of Darlington, Pennsylvania, daughter of Wallace and Lovena Dunlap, of that place. To Mr. and Mrs. Smiley have been born three children, as follows: Leroy, who resides at home and is employed as night agent by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railway; David, who resides at home and is employed at Koppel; Mary Helen, who resides at home.
John Swick, the great-grandfather of Dr. Swick, was born in
SWICK New Jersey. During the Revolutionary War he took up the cause of the American patriots, and served his country with distinction in the capacity of drum major. About 1790 he came to Franklin township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he took up land, cleared and improved it, and where his death occurred. He married a Miss Reno, and by her had the following children: Jesse Martin; John, of whom further ; a daughter, who married a Mr. Reno; Lucinda, married Godfrey Yahn; Nancy, married Lewis Yahn.
(II) John (2) Swick, son of John (1) Swick, was born in Franklin township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1810. He was educated in the common schools of his day, and was brought up to engage in farming, an occupation he followed all his life, and which he pursued with such success that he was considered one of the successful men of his day. Until 1850 he rented his farm, when he purchased a farm in North Sewickley township, and there remained until the end of his life. He was a Whig in politics, but later joined the ranks of the Republican party, and held the offices of school director and supervisor. In religious faith he and his family adhered to the doctrines of the Church of God. He married Nancy Freed, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Mains) Freed, and by her had the following children: Addison; Jacob F .; Margaret ; John, died in Andersonville prison; Daniel W., of whom further; Mary J .; David M .; Eliza; Moses C.
(III) Daniel W. Swick, son of John (2) and Nancy (Freed) Swick, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1843. He grew to manhood in that region, as a boy attending the common schools and assist- ing his father on the homestead farm. Later he established in the grocery business in New Brighton, remaining there for a period of sixteen years, and catering to a wide and prosperous trade, whose patronage had come to him because of the universally business-like and courteous reception he ever accorded those engaged in dealings with him. After this long stay in New Brighton he moved to North Sewickley township, where he taught school and engaged as a farmer. About thirty years later he retired to his home in Beaver Falls, where he has since lived and he has passed his
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days in quiet enjoyment of the material prosperity that has come to him after manly participation in the world of trade. To be sure, his thoughts, too, now and then turn to his military career. At the outbreak of the Civil War he had just attained the age at which youths were acceptable to the government for military service, and he enlisted in the Union army, being identified with Company H, One Hundred and First Regiment Penn- sylvania Volunteer Infantry, and saw service at Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, these three being the most important battles in which he was engaged during his two years of service. He never rose above the rank of private; however, it was the men of the line of his stamp that made the armies of the North as well as of the South the terrible fighting machines they were. And though it was never his lot to lead a spirited charge or to direct a campaign, it was his part to aid in the accomplish- ment of the brilliant plans that matured in the brains of our geniuses of war, and to brave the hail of steel and the flare of cannon that the cause of universal freedom might conquer. That he returned from the front was due to the watchful mercy of an all-seeing Providence, for the call to battle ever found him in the front rank, prepared to follow his leaders or to march where they might direct, trusting only that his fate was kind. Because of his military service he is eligible to and holds membership in the Grand Army of the Republic, his Post being No. 164, of Beaver Falls. In political faith he is a Republican, and in religious faith he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he having been for a long time a class leader and an officer of the organization of that denomination in North Sewickley township.
Mr. Swick married Mary Ann Boots, born in Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, August 20, 1843, daughter of Samuel and Harriet (Wild) Boots. Samuel Boots was a native of England and came to the United States when he was fourteen years of age, making his home in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he grew to maturity and married. His occupations were those of cabinetmaker and farmer, and these he followed all his life, being as well a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for which he held frequent services in that locality. Both he and his wife died in Beaver county, his death occurring in 1896, when he was in the eighty- first year of his age, and his wife dying in 1875, aged sixty-three years. Children of Samuel and Harriet (Wild) Boots: Maria, Henry, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, of previous mention ; Amos, George, Nancy, Amanda. Children of Daniel W. and Mary Ann (Boots) Swick: I. Minnie I., married J. J. Stuber; lives in Dougherty township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 2. Elizabeth, married E. L. Frazier; lives in North Sewickley township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 3. Samuel, lives on the homestead in North Sewickley township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 4. Harry, died in 1901. 5. J. Howard, of whom further. 6. William A., a teacher in the high school of Monongahela City, Pennsylvania. 7. George B., lives on the homestead with his brother, Samuel.
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