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(IV) James McGeorge, only son and third child of William (3) and Nancy A. (Young) McGeorge, was born in a log house on the farm where he now lives, in Darlington township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1833. He grew to maturity on his father's farm, attending a small brick school in the woods known as the McGeorge school, finishing his studies at the Greersburg Academy, where Samuel B. Wilson and James Scott were the masters who directed the schooling. The only boy in a family of six, there were many duties for him to perform on the home farm, and he remained at home until his father's death, when he inherited the homestead, where he resides at the present time. The house in which he lives, a fine, sub-
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stantial country residence, was built by his father in 1846, the large barns on the property antedating the house by two years. These last are occupied by a herd of short-horn cattle of excellent stock, from which he obtains a large quantity of milk daily, and has for the past thirty years engaged in the wholesale milk business, supplying the local dealers with much of their product. Mr. McGeorge is a communicant of the family faith, belonging to the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and is the oldest member of the con- gregation. Four times he has been honored by election to the office of elder in the organization, but each time has refused the election, his modest and unassuming nature making his loath to place himself in the public eye. He has been prominent in local affairs as a private citizen, never having entered the public service, and in the cause of municipal improvements has labored with good effect. One of the patriarchs of the locality, he still is actively interested in all affairs of the day, and bears his four-score years remark- ably well, his five feet eleven inches of sturdy height belying the weight of so great a burden.
He married, November 17, 1864, Fannie Gettis Craig, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1847, died August 8, 1910, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Gettis) Craig. Both of her parents were natives of Ireland, he born in Belfast, about 1798, she in county Down, about 1807. They were married in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1825, in which city he was a manufacturer of hand-made nails. Their home was on the present site of the Nixon Theatre. Thomas and Margaret (Gettis) Craig were the parents of: I. Jane, born September 22, 1826, died March 2, 1828. 2. Hamilton, born July 18, 1828, died March 26, 1908; married Martha Bacon; in partnership with two of his brothers, he operated a brass foundry in Pitts- burgh which he conducted for many years. 3. Thomas J., born November 12, 1830, died August 21, 1856. 4. Margaret J., born September 12, 1832, died March 11, 1889; married Brice McGinston; lived in Pittsburgh. 5. Mary Ann, born May 19, 1834, died October 9, 1837. 6. Elizabeth, born April 4, 1836, died April 27, 1837. 7. Mary, born February 18, 1838, died November 25, 1856. 8. James, born June 1, 1840, died February 3, 1899; married Anna Armstrong; he served in the Civil War as captain of Com- pany H, Twenty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and was wounded at Cold Harbor. 9. Sarah Elizabeth, born June 18, 1842, unmar- ried; has lived with her brother-in-law, James McGeorge, since the death of his wife. 10. David Kerr, born October 12, 1844, died February 12, 1872, unmarried. II. Fannie Gettis, of previous mention, married James Mc- George. 12. Minerva Y., born June 16, 1849, died in February, 1913; mar- ried Thomas C. McAnlis; lived at Wampum, Pennsylvania.
Children of James and Fannie Gettis (Craig) McGeorge: 1. Margaret Blanche, born September 29, 1866; married Joseph Richards, a ranch-owner of Pacific Beach, San Diego county, California, their home. 2. William Cliffton, born April 14, 1870; manages the home farm for his father. 3. Minerva Craig, born November 1, 1873; lives unmarried at home. 4. Thomas
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Hamilton, born March 6, 1876; at the present time (1913) traveling in California. 5. Elizabeth Sterrett, born April 23, 1878; married Knox Young, a real estate dealer; lives in Belleview, a suburb of Pittsburgh. 6. Fannie, born February 9, 1880, died October 13, 1881. 7. Edward Glenn, born July 23, 1882, died October 28, 1887.
McHATTIE This is one of the many Scotch names which have been imported either directly or by way of Northern Ireland, and whose representatives have contributed to the material and moral advancement of the nation. A considerable number of these families still demonstrate the Scotch characteristics of thrift and industry which make for the best form of citizenship.
(I) Peter McHattie, a native of Scotland, came to the United States in 1859, with his wife, Isabella, also born in Scotland, to make his home with his son, James, who had already established himself at Leetsdale, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. In this home he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, retired from business cares. Both were members of the Pres- byterian Church. Children: I. George, married Jane Jelly; died at Patter- son Heights, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 2. James, see forward. 3. Peter, married Elsie Duff ; lives near Ellwood. 4. William, married -, and lives retired at Aliquippa, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 5. Adam, a merchant in California. 6. Belle, married William Russell; died at Sewickley, Alle- gheny county, Pennsylvania. 7. Ellen, married Lyman Woodworth; lives at Mckeesport, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. 8. Jessie, married Edward Tracy; died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 9. Elsie, deceased; married John Probert; lived in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. 10. Jane, died in early youth in Scotland.
(II) James McHattie, son of Peter and Isabella McHattie, was born near Glasgow, Scotland, March 7, 1828, died in 1883. His education was acquired in the common schools of his native land, and he emigrated to the United States in the company of an elder brother, George. They settled at first near Pittsburgh and a few years later rented a farm near Leetsdale, Al- legheny county, Pennsylvania, where they lived for some years. In 1875 he purchased a farm of two hundred and fifteen acres in Big Beaver township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, on which he resided until his death, and on which some of his daughters are living at the present time. His methodical and progressive management of this land was not without the desired results, and he became very prosperous. He erected a number of modern and commodious buildings, and improved the property to the utmost. He gave his political support to the Republican party, in whose behalf he was an ardent worker, and always took the deepest interest in whatever concerned the welfare of the community in which he resided. Mr. McHattie married, in October, 1858, Grace Lafferty, born in Ireland, died in New Galilee, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. Her parents spent their entire lives in Ireland, and she had a brother, William, and two sisters, Nancy (Lafferty) Waugh,
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and Margaret (Lafferty) Mclaughlin, who came to America, and are now also deceased. Mrs. McHattie died February 27, 1911, at the age of almost eighty years. She and her husband were members of the United Presby- terian Church. They had children: I. Rebecca W., married Charles Walker ; lives in New Galilee; they have children: James Arnot, a student in the Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia; Wendell Norwood, a farmer, lives at home. 2. James L., a farmer; married Anna Marshall, and has children : Grace Elizabeth and James Dale; he lives at New Galilee. 3. William G., a farmer of Big Beaver township; married Eva Patterson, and has children : Norman Patterson and Kenneth Wayne. 4. Anna S. 5. Edith F. 6. Isabella, died in infancy. 7. Jennie, also died in infancy.
McKALLIP Henry McKallip, a resident of Leechburg, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, was a merchant conducting a gen- eral store in that town until his death. He and his wife were Presbyterians. He married Mary Keely, and had children: Labanna, now deceased, was a resident of Pittsburgh; Amanda, married Dr. Arm- strong, now lives in Leechburg, Pennsylvania ; Josephine, married a Mr. Pin- kerton, of Leechburg, now deceased; John Keely, see forward; James A., of Leechburg; Mary H., married Henry Caldwell, and lives in New Ken- sington, Pennsylvania.
Rev. John Keely McKallip, son of Henry and Mary (Keely) McKal- lip, was born in Leechburg, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1846, died July 17, 1903. His preparatory education was obtained in the schools in Leechburg, and he then became a student at the Washington and Jefferson University, from which institution he was graduated in 1870. He next matriculated at the Western Theological School in Allegheny, and in due time was ordained a Presbyterian minister. His first charge was at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and from there he went in succession to Bellaire, Ohio, seven years; Beaver, Pennsylvania, eight years; Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, three years; East Brady, Pennsylvania, two years; about this time his health had become so impaired by reason of his devoted and strenu- ous labors that he was obliged to retire to Parnassus, Pennsylvania, where his death occurred. Rev. McKallip was a fine orator and a successful preacher. After his death his widow returned to the homestead farm in Borough township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where her mother and her brother and sister, John and Virginia, were living. Her mother died in 1907, but she is still living there with her brother and sister, on the old home place on the bluffs overlooking the Ohio river, the city of Beaver and the village of Vanport, Pennsylvania. Rev. McKallip married, December 11, 1888, Katherine M. Latshaw, born in Des Moines, Iowa (see Latshaw IV). They had children: Elizabeth, born October 19, 1889, married George Dando, manager of the Dando Brick Works, at Vanport, Pennsylvania; Archibald H., born January 27, 1891, resides with his mother; Catherine Virginia, born January 1, 1899, died August 25, 1908.
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(The Latshaw Line.)
(I) Peter Latshaw, born on the French borders of the Rhine in Alsace- Lorraine, emigrated with three bothers to America. One of these died at sea. Another, a jeweler by trade, settled in Baltimore, and was murdered there. Another, Christopher Latshaw, took up a section of land near Paris, Ontario, Canada, and was a millwright by trade. His descendants are still living there. Peter Latshaw, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Katherine M. (Latshaw) McKallip, was a farmer and settled at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. That he was a man of wealth is indicated by the fact that there is in the possession of his great-grandchildren a fine oil painting of him, a luxury which could be indulged in only by the very wealthy in those days. He married Anne Chase and had children as follows: John, see forward; Joseph, Christian, Sarah, Anne, Harriet, Elizabeth (Polly), Rebecca, Bar- bara, Mary.
(II) John Latshaw, son of Peter Latshaw, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1786, died in 1848. He grew to manhood in the town of his birth, and then engaged in the livery business, in which he was very successful. He was reared in the faith of the Society of Friends, of which his parents had been members. He married Catherine Haines and they had one child.
(III) Peter William Henry Latshaw, son of John and Catherine (Haines) Latshaw, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1826, died in 1881. At the age of about eighteen years he went to Pittsburgh, and there obtained a clerical position. Subsequently he removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where he engaged in the hardware business, with which he was iden- tified for a period of seven years. While there he was active in the interests of the Republican party, and served a term as mayor of the city of Des Moines. He then returned to Pittsburgh, where for a time he held a posi- tion as bookkeeper and then established himself in the malting business. He was also associated with Joshua W. Rose in the conduct and operation of the Eagle Cotton Mills. During two years of the Civil War he was located at Indianapolis and Columbus, as paymaster. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church. He married Elizabeth C. Aughinbaugh, born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1833, died in December, 1907. She was a daughter of Joseph and Mary Anne (Cook) Aughinbaugh, both born near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where he was a school teacher. When lie had reached middle age he removed to Pittsburgh, where he died at the age of seventy-six years. They had children: Mary, died in childhood; David, a tinner by trade; Susan; Anne; Eleanor; Sarah; Elizabeth C., mar- ried Peter William Henry Latshaw; Thomas, twin of Elizabeth C., died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Latshaw had children: 1. Virginia, unmarried, lives cn the old homestead. 2. John A., born November 6, 1852; spent his early years in Pittsburgh, where he attended the Birmingham and first ward schools; he was but fourteen years of age when he commenced to work for the Eagle Cotton Mills, remaining with them until he was twenty years
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of age; he next spent several years in farming, mostly near Smithfield, Ohio, and in 1881, with his mother, two sisters and brother, Joseph, came to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where they purchased the Oak Hill Farm, in Borough township, which he has since cultivated very successfully; he has served as township commissioner and as school directcor and is an influ- ential member of the Washington party ; he has been a member of the Luth- eran Church since his boyhood; he is unmarried. 3. William H., who died in 1911, was vice-president of the National Tube Company, and lived in Pittsburgh; he married Annie W. Filman, and had children: Frances, Henry, William. 4. Joseph W., manager of the Pennsylvania Tube Works, of Pittsburgh; married (first) Alice Scott, (second) Laura Bebout; chil- dren: Chester, Walter, Hart, Dorothy, Helen and an infant. 5. Katherine M., of whom further.
(IV) Katherine M. Latshaw, daughter of Peter William Henry and Elizabeth C. (Aughinbaugh) Latshaw, married Rev. John Keely McKallip (see McKallip).
The Douthitt family has been resident in the state of DOUTHITT Pennsylvania for a number of generations, and they were among the pioneer settlers in some sections of the state. At first they were only heard of in the eastern portion, but now they are to be found throughout the state.
(I) Joseph Douthitt, who was born in the eastern part of Pennsyl- vania, came to Beaver county, that state, with his parents, who located on a farm which still is the old Douthitt place in Chippewa township. They next removed to Darlington township in the same county, and settled for the time on Little Beaver creek. Later they purchased two hundred acres, this constituting a farm on which their granddaughter, Emma (Douthitt) Douthitt, now resides. Joseph Douthitt was an extensive cattle raiser, and the house in which he lived was on the old stage road between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. He kept a tavern on the farm for twenty-five years. He was a prominent factor in Democratic councils and served as director of the poor for Beaver county for many years. He married Jane McMinn, also born in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, and they had children: I. Robert, fell off a load of coal in childhood and was killed. 2. Emeline, mar- ried John McCarter; lived in Chippewa township; both now deceased. 3. Caroline, married Charles Walker; lived in Missouri. 4. Maria, married Frederick Beck; lived near Cleveland, Ohio. 5. Henry, see forward. 6. Eliza Jane, married Robert Barnes ; lives in Tennessee.
(II) Henry Douthitt, son of Joseph and Jane (McMinn) Douthitt, was born on the homestead farm in Darlington township, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, March 2, 1838, died October 10, 1899. He was reared on the home farm, with the cultivation of which he assisted at a very early age. After the death of his father he purchased the interests of the other heirs, and successfully managed it alone until his death. He was extensively en-
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gaged in the dairy business, and had a herd of about forty cattle Heowned two hundred and fifty-two acres of land, and his farm was considered a model of its size and kind in the section. He was a strong Democrat in his politi- cal views, and filled all the local offices in the gift of the township. Henry Douthitt married Mary Kane, born near Cannelton, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, April 2, 1838, died July 6, 1872 (see Kane II). They had children : I. Frank Kane, born August 28, 1863, died August 17, 1887. 2. Emma, see forward. 3. Joseph E., born March 29, 1867, died September 26, 1900. 4. Marian, died in infancy.
(III) Emma Douthitt, daughter of Henry and Mary (Kane) Douthitt, was born on the homestead in Darlington township, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, December 9, 1865. She was educated in the public schools and at the Greersburg Academy at Darlington. She married, December 5, 1900, Alexander C. Douthitt, born near Indiana, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1850. He attended the schools of his native county, and then learned the trade of bricklaying under the supervision of his father. Later he worked in Pittsburgh, and after his marriage he took charge of the farm owned by his wife. In December, 1912, he was stricken with paraly- sis, and has been in poor health since that time. Politically he is a Demo- crat, and he and his wife are members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. He is the son of John Douthitt, born in Chippewa township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, January 17, 1816, died in January, 1902, and Jane (Howe) Douthitt, who was born in Wales in 1822, died in this coun- try in 1900, having come here in childhood. John Douthitt was a bricklayer by trade and during his early manhood traveled to the west. He lived in Indiana county for many years and was a man of fine physique. At the age of eighty-four years he built an addition to the house in which his daughter still resides. He had children: I. Martin, deceased; was a news- paper reporter and lived in Pittsburgh. 2. John, a bricklayer; lives in Pitts- burgh. 3. Alexander C., who married Emma Douthitt, as above mentioned. 4. Joseph, a bricklayer ; lives in Oklahoma. 5. Edward, a bricklayer. 6. Richard, unmarried; lives in Beaver Falls. 7. Minerva, died young. 8. Ruth, unmarried; lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Alexander C. and Emma (Douthitt) Douthitt have had children : I. Henry Alexander, born October 21, 1903. 2. Clifford Taylor, born January 17, 1906. 3. Richard Kane, born September 23, 1909.
(The Kane Line.)
(I) James Kane was born in Ireland and came to the United States in early manhood. He located at Marietta, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he followed his trade as a carpenter, or "nailer" as it was called in Ireland. His death occurred in 1821. He married Jane Getty, also a native of Ireland, and also young when she came to this city, residing at Marietta, and they had children: I. John, see forward. 2. Sarah, married Thomas Morgan, and after the death of her husband she returned to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and made her home with her mother. 3. James, employed on
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the Ohio, was considered one of the strongest men on the river ; he was very tall of stature, and it is said of him that he picked up a refractory mule and carried it on the boat; after the death of James Kane, his widow married (second) James McCartney, also of the Presbyterian denomination ; he died in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and the widow removed with her family to Darlington township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where she died at the age of seventy-five years ; by her second marriage she had a son, Washington McCartney, a farmer in New Brighton; Mrs. McCartney was very strict in conforming to religious services, and her children were obliged to conform to her ideas.
(II) John Kane, son of James and Jane (Getty) Kane, was born in Marietta, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1814, died March 24, 1901. He was but seven years of age when his father died, and the follow- ing year the family removed to Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. From his tenth to his fourteenth year he was bound out to a Mr. Hood to learn the tanner's trade. He then became manager of the farm of John White, while his mother assisted in the management of the house at the same place, which was near Clinton, Pennsylvania, and there she met Mr. McCartney, whom she later married. In February, 1841, they removed to Darlington township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in order to take charge there of a tract of land owned by Squire White, and they were very successful in this undertaking. During one period they kept, raised and fed one thousand head of sheep for several years. All the male members of the Kane family were more than ordinarily large and strong men. Mr. Kane was a very uncompromising Democrat in politics, and served as a school director. Being frugal and industrious, he succeeded in amassing a sufficient capital to enable him to buy two hundred acres of land, this being a part of the White farm, and on this he lived until his death.
He married Sarah Brown Mahon, born near the town of Clinton, Alle- gheny county, Pennsylvania, July 16, 1817, died April 1, 1870, daughter of John and Mary (Brown) Mahon, the former born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, where he was a farmer near Clinton, the latter a native of Vir- ginia. They were strict Presbyterians. They had children: I. Josiah, a teacher. 2. John, a farmer in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 3. Sarah Brown, mentioned above. 4. Nancy, married T. B. Stewart ; lived in Pittsburgh. 5. William, a farmer in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 6. Elizabeth, died unmarried. There is still in the possession of his descendants a brush, which was used by Isaac Mahon, a great-uncle of Mrs. Kane, during the American Revolution, to brush his clothes while in service in the Continental army. Mr. and Mrs. Kane had children : 1. Mary, deceased; married Henry Douth- itt (see Douthitt II). 2. Margaret, deceased; married John C. Dilworth. 3. James, deceased; lived in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. 4. Eliza, unmar- ried; lives on the homestead; she acquired a fine education, mainly by her own unaided efforts, taught school for a number of years, and is recognized as one of the best informed women of that section of the country. 5. John
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M., the leading spirit in the management of the homestead farm. 6. Frank, employed in the Penn Bridge Works; lives in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. 7. William B., a miller; lives in Chester, Illinois. 8. Ella, married (first) Dr. James Sanger, (second) a Mr. Fowler. 9. Harry, a farmer ; lives on the family homestead. 10. Ida, unmarried; lives on the homestead. II. Dwight, lives on the homestead, takes an active part in local politics, and has served as school director and as secretary of the board of township supervisors.
The name of Moore is one of frequent occurrence in Penn-
MOORE sylvania and other parts of the United States. Both in America and abroad, many of this name have attained distinc-
tion. The family under consideration in this sketch is probably of the Scotch-Irish stock so important an element in the settlement of this state. Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, was largely settled by the Moores, and many of them also settled in the state of Ohio.
(I) Robert Moore was the first of his family to settle in South Beaver township, where he became an extensive land owner, and where his death occurred. He married, and had children; George, Robert, David, Joseph, of further mention; and several daughters.
(II) Joseph Moore, son of Robert Moore, was an old resident of South Beaver township, where he was a farmer and land owner. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. He married Jane Warrick and they had children: Margaret, married J. W. Rhodes, and lives in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; Nannie, married W. J. McMillen, and lives in Cleve- land, Ohio; Alexander W., of further mention; Mary, married Robert Dales, and died in Ohio.
(III) Alexander W. Moore, son of Joseph and Jane (Warrick) Moore, was born in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, in 1849. He there grew to maturity and followed the occupation of farming. After his marriage he bought a farm in Chippewa township, settling on a place of one hundred acres. Later he sold this and retired to Patterson Heights, where he is now living. He is a Republican in political matters, and has been honored with practically all the offices in the gift of the township. He is a Presbyterian in his religious affiliations, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Moore married Matilda Veon, born in South Beaver township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1855. They have had children: Florence, married Scott Moore and lives in Riverview, Pennsylvania ; Chalmers B., of further mention ; John, a mer- chant, who lives in Patterson Heights; James W., a fireman, who lives in Beaver Falls; Belle, died young; Lilly, married Elmer May, lives in Falls- ton ; Jesse, at home; Edith, a student at the Missionary School in Nyack, New York; Nannie, married Arthur Wall, and lives in New Brighton.
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