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Matilda (Veon) Moore is a daughter of John and Eliza (Christy) Veon, and a granddaughter of Henry Veon, of German descent. He owned a farm in Darlington township, where he died. He married and had chil-
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dren: John, of further mention; Henry; Scott; Dessie, married James Cal- hoon; Eliza, married Smith Miller; Maria, married Alexander Miller; Nancy, married Samuel Gibson; Amanda, married James McClymonds ; Matilda, married William Calhoon.
John, son of Henry Veon, was born in Darlington township about 1816, and there grew to maturity. He was a farmer and owned considerable land in Darlington township. He was prominent in local political affairs as a supporter of the Republican party, and he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. His widow, Eliza (Christy) Veon, of Washing- ton county, is still living, at the age of ninety-four years. They had children : Robert, deceased; Walter, who lives on the homestead; Henry, a farmer of Darlington township; Albert, the owner of a farm near the homestead; Frank, a farmer in Darlington township; Nan, married Joshua Newell, and lives in Darlington township; Matilda, married Alexander W. Moore, afore- mentioned; Eliza, married John Mellon, and lives in Signet, Ohio; Belle, married John Collins, and died in Washington county, Pennsylvania ; Jessie, married Jesse Moore, and lives in Darlington township; Mamie, died young ; Clara and Melinda, deceased.
(IV) Dr. Chalmers B. Moore, son of Alexander W. and Matilda (Veon) Moore, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, December 4, 1879. His elementary education was acquired in the public schools of his native township, and this was supplemented by a course at Peirsol's Acad- emy, after which he was engaged in teaching for a period of four years. He then studied at Beaver College and at Geneva College, at Beaver Falls, and finally matriculated at the University of Pittsburgh, from the medical department of which institution he was graduated in the class of 1910, the degree of Doctor of Medicine being conferred upon him. In the fall of the same year he established himself in the practice of his profession at Holt, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, removing at the end of one year to New Galilee, Beaver county, where he is rapidly gaining a lucrative and extensive practice. He has the happy faculty of gaining the affection as well as the confidence of his patients, and he has won the esteem of his colleagues by his conscientious labors. He is a member of the Beaver County Medical Society. His political support is given to the Republican party, and his religious connection is with the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Moore married, in 1910, Belle, born in Beaver Falls, a daughter of J. S. Donaldson. They have had children: Chalmers Donaldson, who died in infancy, and Louisa May Blanche.
JEFFREYS The name of Jeffreys is of Welsh origin, and is to be found in a variety of forms-Geoffrey, Geoffries, Jeffries, etc. The form at the head of this review is met with fre-
quently.
(I) John Jeffreys was born in Wales, where his entire life was spent. His death occurred in 1878 at the age of eighty-four years. He married
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Emma, also born in Wales, daughter of Robert Harry. They had children: Susannah, Ann, Emma, John, Ellen, deceased; Robert, married Jane Jones, and had thirteen children, all now living; an unnamed daughter, who died in infancy; Richard, of Aliquippa, Beaver county, Pennsylvania; Lettes, de- ccased; George, see forward; two daughters, who died unnamed in infancy. Mrs. Jeffreys died in 1880 at the age of eighty-four years.
(II) George Jeffreys, son of John and Emma (Harry) Jeffreys, was born in Wales, October 21, 1841. He received his education in his native country, where he was later engaged in farming. Coming to America in 1870, he lived for a time in Pittsburgh, where he was in business as a con- tractor. During the first five years after his marriage he was successfully engaged as a dairy farmer, and later became a hotel proprietor. Removing to Homestead, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in 1880, he built five houses there and established himself in the grocery business, and later the ice busi- ness. In 1892 he removed to Aliquippa, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and there built the Central Hotel, of which he was the proprietor and manager until 1903, when he retired to private life in Aliquippa Park, there owning a. beautiful home. In 1905 he removed to Beaver, Beaver county, and erected a fine residence on Wilson avenue, which he is occupying at the present time. Mr. Jeffreys built seven houses and a hotel in Aliquippa, and four houses and storerooms in Midland, Pennsylvania. He has shown himself to be a financier of remarkable ability and was the leading spirit in some of the most important financial enterprises of the county. He was one of the organizers and is now a stockholder of the First National Bank of Aliquippa ; he was one of the organizers and is now a director of the Aliquippa National Bank; is one of the directors and a stockholder of the National Bank of Midland; assisted in the organization of the National Bank of Monaca, Pennsylvania; is a stockholder of the Woodlawn Trust Company. Mr. Jeffreys is a Republican and served as a member of the first council of Aliquippa. He and his wife are members of the Catholic Church, and he is a member of the Holy Name Society.
Mr. Jeffreys married, November 1, 1873, Sarah, born in Ireland, 1851, daughter of John and Catherine (Gavin) Holland, the former of whom died in 1906, the latter in 1904. They had other children: William, Elizabeth, Catherine, John, James. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffreys had children : 1. John How- ard, see forward. 2. Emma, married D. C. Campbell, of Syracuse, New York, who is now in the employ of the steel works in Beaver, Beaver county ; they have children: Sarah, Ella and George Henry Francis. 3. George Francis, of Jamestown, New York ; married Ella Folland, of Monaca, Penn- sylvania, now deceased, and they had one child, Dorothy. 4. William Ray- mond, manager of the Jeffreys Amusement House at Midland, Pennsyl- vania.
(III) John Howard Jeffreys, son of George and Sarah (Holland) Jeffreys, was born in Pittsburgh, South Side, Pennsylvania, August 1, 1875. His early life was spent in this locality, and his education was obtained in
George Jeffreys
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the public schools of Homestead, being completed with his graduation from the high school of that place. In April, 1892, he came to Aliquippa, Penn- sylvania, entering the contracting business with his father, both abandoning contracting to manage the Central Hotel, which George Jeffreys had erected in 1892. From that time until 1903 he was his father's assistant in attending to the many details of the business, in the latter year becoming sole pro- prietor, as he has since continued. His management of the hotel has been along the strictest business lines, and under his careful supervision the house has prospered. His only other business interest in Aliquippa is as director of the Aliquippa National Bank, of which he was one of the organizers. His political action is in accord with the principles of the Republican party, his first presidential vote having formed part of the plurality of William McKinley in the election of 1897. Mr. Jeffreys has always evinced a deep interest in borough affairs, and has served as member of the council, and aside from official matters has always stood ready to forward any movement for the public good. His faith is the Catholic, his wife and son being mem- bers of the Episcopal church. He fraternizes with the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, belonging to Rochester Lodge, No. 283, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Coraopolis Lodge, No. 1133.
Mr. Jeffreys married, December 10, 1902, Celia Marion, daughter of D. R. Porter, of Beaver Falls, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. John Howard and Celia Marion (Porter) Jeffreys are the parents of one son, Howard Porter, born November 4, 1903.
The Riedel family, now represented in New Brighton, Beaver
RIEDEL county, Pennsylvania, has been well known in Germany for many hundred years. In the year 1600 they adopted the Protestant faith, and thereby incurred the displeasure of the King of Ger- many. Matters became very unpleasant for them in consequence of this proceeding, and the family left Saxony in 1618, and took up their residence in Austria, returning to Saxony in 1648. One of the earliest ancestors was a head forester, who received his appointment from the king.
(II) Karl Riedel, son of the preceding, was born in Saxony where he was an extensive land owner. He inherited the "Right of the Court," that is, he acted as a local justice to decide questions of inheritance, etc. He married Hannah Gottlief, also born in Saxony.
(III) Karl Gottholdt Riedel, son of Karl and Hannah (Gottlief) Riedel, was born in Saxony. He learned the jeweler's trade, and was well estab- lished in that business. He married Christiana Schwartzenberg, a native of Saxony.
(IV) Karl Gottholdt (2) Riedel, son of Karl Gottholdt (1) and Chris- tiana (Schwartzenberg) Riedel, was born in Saxony. He also followed the jewelry business. He married Wilhelmina an der Stanel, who was born in Saxony. Her father, Gottholdt an der Stanel, took an active part in the Napoleonic wars, and lived to be more than one hundred years of age.
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(V) Gustav Herman Riedel, son of Karl Gottholdt (2) and Wilhelmina (an der Stanel) Riedel, was born in Saxony, January 7, 1866. After the customary elementary education he was sent to a technical school at Mid- waida, where he specialized in chemistry and metallurgy, and was graduated in 1886. He then spent two years in study along the same lines in Leipsic, and a further six months in metallurgy at Ane. He was then appointed to the position of assistant superintendent at Chemnitz, and six months later was advanced to the position of superintendent. July 4, 1892, saw him on his way to New York, as an electrical chemist, from whence he went to Newark, New Jersey, and after a time to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he held an important position in the Westinghouse plant. He removed to New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1892, and there established himself as a manufacturer of enameled figures, letters and signs, locating his plant below the old city mill. He conducted this enterprise alone for a considerable length of time, later admitting his sons to the business, when it became known as G. H. Riedel & Sons. They erected buildings on Marion Hill, New Brighton, and also have a fine residence on the same piece of property. The family are members of the German Lutheran church. Mr. Riedel is a Republican in politics.
Mr. Riedel married Caroline Bertha Hoffman, and they have children: Gustav, Herman, Erich, Charles, Curtis, George, Roy, Spencer.
The name Chatley is another of the many Beaver county
CHATLEY surnames that trace their origin to Scotland, whence, for religious reasons, the family came to Ireland, in which country Francis Chatley, grandfather of William Sherman Chatley, of further mention in this record, was born.
(I) The birthplace of Francis Chatley was in the northern part of the island, where his parents, Seceders in religion, had settled. He married in that country, his wife being a native of his birthplace, and soon after- ward emigrated, in 1797 making their home in Darlington township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where descendants of the name have ever since resided, some on a part of the homestead of four hundred acres that Francis Chatley bought upon his arrival. The holder of the land at the time of the purchase by Grandfather Chatley was the government, and it was through dealings with that august body that he became possessor of the property. Finding after some time that the task of cultivating such an extensive area was rather more than stood within the capabilities of one man, he disposed of three-fourths of it, retaining title to only one hundred acres, on which he erected a capacious, comfortable farmhouse, and barns of exceptional size for that time, since hewed logs were about the only building material available. In this country the family affiliated with the Disciples of Christ, their church, the Seceders, not being repre- sented in that locality. He died on his farm in Darlington township, Jan- uary 29, 1849, aged seventy-six years, his wife's death occurring April 4,
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1852, aged seventy-two years. He married Rebecca Speer, and by this marriage was the father of: I. Samuel, a farmer of Mercer county, Penn- sylvania; married Catherine Carr. 2. Andrew, also a farmer of Mercer county, Pennsylvania ; married Rebecca Robbins. 3. John, a farmer of the same locality ; married Catherine Bowman. 4. Martha, married Joseph McClintock; resided in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania. 5. Margaret, married Sheldon Crooks; lived in Trumbull county, Ohio. 6. Jane, married William Andrews; their home was in Mercer county, Pennsylvania. 7. Polly, married James Steen; lived in Mercer county, Pennsylvania. 8. A daughter, died in infancy, unnamed. 9. Elizabeth, married John Campbell, of Mercer county, Pennsylvania. 10. Ahijah, of whom further.
(II) Ahijah Chatley, fourth son and youngest of the ten children of Francis and Rebecca (Speer) Chatley, was born in Darlington township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1822, died there November 12, 1897. His life-long home was on the old homestead, where he first saw the light, the other heirs of his father surrendering their inheritances in the farm to him through purchase. He was active in agricultural opera- tions and prospered, much of his early life being devoted to the raising of sheep, a subject to which he gave considerable time, carefully studying the best methods in their care and reaping a gratifying profit both from the sale of the wool and by selling them to the local butchers, who did the greater part of their slaughtering at their shops, there being no large abattoirs near by. He was a Democrat of the Jacksonian school, strong in his political convictions and heartily loyal to the interests of the party. He held the offices of school director and township supervisor. He was reared in the church of the Disciples of Christ and in his manhood clung to that faith, to which his wife was also an adherent, and held the position of elder in its organization. He married Ann Fowler, born in South Beaver township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, September 21, 1829, died November 10, 1905, daughter of William and Nancy (Mitchell) Fowler. William Fowler came to Beaver county from eastern Pennsylvania and rented farms, first in South Beaver and later in Darlington townships. His wife was reared in South Beaver township, the daughter of parents of Irish birth, and was born November 30, 1799. Her father, Oliver Mitchell, was born April 29, 1762, her mother, Jane Mitchell, in May, 1769. Children of William and Nancy (Mitchell) Fowler: I. Jane, mar- ried a Mr. Overlander; moved to Forest county, Pennsylvania. 2. Ann, of previous mention, married Ahijah Chatley. 3. Samuel Mitchell, a corporal of Company M, Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, his company being commanded by Captain Reynolds, contracted while in the service a disease that caused his death soon after he had re- ceived his honorable discharge at the close of the war. 4. William, died aged two years, scarlet fever being the disease that caused his death. 5. Isabella, was drowned in a spring when but two years of age. Children of Ahijah and Ann (Fowler) Chatley: 1. Nancy Jane, died aged seventeen
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years. 2. William Sherman, of whom further. 3. Samuel, a grocer of Warren, Ohio. 4. Frank, a partner in business with his brother Samuel in Warren, Ohio; married June McDermott. 5. Perry, married Laura Young; lives in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania. 6. Mitchell, a minister of the church of the Disciples of Christ; married Pearl Grove; lives at Rock Island, Illinois, where his church is located.
(III) William Sherman Chatley, second child and eldest son of the six children of Ahijah and Ann (Fowler) Chatley, was born in Darlington township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, on the farm where he now lives and which was the birthplace of his father, November 28, 1861. When a youth he attended the Douthitt district school, situated near the home farm, and was his father's assistant on the farm until his death, when he pur- chased the homestead, a place of one hundred and twelve acres, and there resides at the present time. His land, farmed by three generations of his family, is rich and fertile, and yields abundantly to the skillful care of the experienced agriculturist, words well applied to Mr. Chatley, who has spent his entire life in that business and is a practical farmer of a modern type. The Democratic party holds his allegiance in all political issues, and his support of that organization is as enthusiastic as that which characterized the political action of his father. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, to which church his wife also belongs.
Mr. Chatley married, June 16, 1909, Martha Anderson, born in Darlington township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Alexander and Rebecca (Reed) Anderson. Alexander Anderson was born in Hope- well township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1833, died April 8, 1898, son of Thomas and Jane ( Patton) Anderson, the former probably a native of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, the latter a native of Ireland. In 1858 Alexander Anderson bought what is now the Ira Duncan farm in Darlington township, Beaver county, and there lived until his death. For a time he conducted general farming operations, in his later years engaging in the dairy business with good success. For many years he was an elder of the Presbyterian Church, to which both he and his wife belonged. His wife, Rebecca, was a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Thompson) Reed, Samuel being a farmer of Greene township, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, both of Irish descent, she born in Ireland. Children of Alexander and Rebecca (Reed) Anderson: 1. William T., married Jane McElwee; lives on a farm in Beaver county, near Enon, Pennsylvania. 2. Jane, married W. S. Cook; lives in Beaver Falls. 3. Maud, died aged two months. 4. Madge (Margaret), married Joseph Biggerstaff ; lives in New- castle, Pennsylvania. 5. Martha, married William Sherman Chatley, both of previous mention. 6. Laura, died in 1890, aged fifteen years. 7. Frank, purchasing agent in the employ of a steel mill at Sharon, Pennsylvania; married Mabel Beggs; their residence is in Sharon.
Thomas & Hoyt.
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HOYT Thomas S. Hoyt, a prominent citizen of Koppel, Beaver county,
Pennsylvania, is of half New England, half old Pennsylvania ancestry, and was born at Rochester in that state, a son of Thomas Morgan and Margaret (Gordon) Hoyt. His paternal grand- father was Thomas Hoyt, a farmer and large landowner of Saco, Maine, where he was born, lived and died, and where he left a family of four children, of whom Thomas Morgan, of whom further, was the youngest.
(II) Thomas Morgan Hoyt was born in Maine and appears to have been a delicate boy as we learn of his going to sea for his health and re- maining for four or five years. Somewhere about 1832 or the year fol- lowing, he came to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and there met and was married to Margaret Gordon, a daughter of an old Beaver county family. Here Mr. Hoyt found employment as a steward on the Ohio river steamers, and worked at this for thirty-three years before retiring. He was a strong Democrat in politics, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His death occurred in 1890 and hers in 1900. To them were born eleven children, as follows: Lydia, now Mrs. Moses Debee, of East Liverpool, Ohio; Nancy, now Mrs. Jack Brown, of Monaca, Pennsylvania; Minerva, deceased; Rachel, deceased; Katherine, now Mrs. Harry Streit, of Rochester, Pennsylvania; Maggie, now Mrs. B. Lazarus, of Rochester, Pennsylvania; Jeannette, now Mrs. Thomas B. Price, of Rochester, Pennsylvania; Henry, died in infancy; Clinton, died in infancy; George B., a resident of Rochester, Pennsylvania, and an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Thomas S., of whom further.
(III) Thomas S. Hoyt was educated in the local schools, and learned the trade of glass cutting, finding employment in this industry in both West Virginia and Pennsylvania. In 1912 he removed to Koppel, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and bought the hotel there. This is a good sized building three stories in height and containing thirteen sleeping rooms, and measuring one hundred by twenty-five feet. Its construction is of brick. Here Mr. Hoyt has been located since 1912 and here he is doing a thriving business. Mr. Hoyt is a Republican in politics and takes an active interest in the affairs of the community. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, of the American Mechanics, and of Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Mr. Hoyt married, December 13, 1887, Kate C. Franklin, daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Frank) Franklin. Mr. Franklin was a native of Maryland, and came when young to Rochester, Pennsylvania, where he married Rachel Frank, a native of Monaca, Pennsylvania; he engaged in the business of making cigars for many years. His wife died in 1866, and five years later Mr. Frank disappeared and was never heard from. To Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt have been born six children, George Morgan, born July 1, 1888; Hazel May, born June 4, 1890, died September 9, 1897; James Alexander, born May 10, 1892, died in infancy; Jeannette Price, born February 22, 1894; Josephine Franklin, born June 22, 1896; Blanche Minerva, born July 19, 1898.
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The Mitchells of Pennsylvania descend from many sources MITCHELL and are found at early dates in Chester, Lancaster, Cumberland and Montgomery counties. They are of Scotch-Irish and English descent, and all through the years in Pennsylvania have produced leading men in law, medicine, politics, business and agri- culture. The direct antecedents of the branch under review here cannot be traced in an uninterrupted line as some of the early records have been destroyed.
(I) Robert Mitchell, who was born in Scotland, came to America either shortly before or shortly after his marriage to Susan -. He located on one hundred and sixty acres of land in what is now Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and there his death occurred. This land was only partly cleared when he took possession of it, and he did a great deal to leave it in an improved condition. He had children: David, see forward; Hugh, Robert, John, Elizabeth, Peggy.
(II) David Mitchell, son of Robert and Susan Mitchell, was born on the Mitchell homestead in Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1801, died in 1876. All his life he was engaged in general farming, and after the death of his father purchased a portion of the homestead farm from the other heirs, so that he was the owner of about one hundred acres. He sold a large portion of this land for building lots, factories, etc. He married, in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, Jane Davidson, born in 1803, in Delaware, while her parents were on their way to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, died about 1881. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Her parents, James and Ann Davidson, were natives of Belfast, Ireland, and emigrated to America after the Revolution, settling in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer, owning one hundred acres of land in Rochester township, and took an active part in the War of 1812. They had children: William, John, Alexander, Nancy, Jane, who married David Mitchell; Samuel. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell had children: Ann, died un- married; Caroline; Mary Jane; Emeline; Sabina, died in infancy; James R., married a Miss Rogers, lives in Ohio, and has five children; Charles D., see forward.
(III) Charles D. Mitchell, son of David and Jane (Davidson) Mitchell, was born in the borough of New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1845. His education was an excellent one, being acquired in the public schools, and in Duff's Business College. He assisted in the cultivation of the home farm, and inherited a large part of it which he sold in June, 1911, to William F. Higby, with whom he has made his home since the sale went into effect. He is a member of the Republican party, and has served in a number of township offices. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Mitchell is unmarried.
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The ancestors of the Allison family of Pennsylvania were ALLISON originally natives of Scotland who later made their homes in Ireland, in consequence of which all of the name are referred to as being of Scotch-Irish descent. While for ordinary purposes of identification this appellation serves well its purpose, by showing that the family came from Scotland to Ireland, the truth is that in their posterity the blood of the old Scotch forebears runs as pure as though it had never undergone foreign residence. This is because most of the Scotch families, though on terms of friendly intercourse with the inhabitants of the land that received them, refrained from contracting marriage alliances except with those of their own race, and there were places in Ireland as distinc- tively Scotch as any village in the highlands of Scotland, a fact which was even true of America in the early days of colonization. The Allisons as, after many changes, the majority of the family spell the name, have spread widely over all the eastern part of the United States, and in the land to the west the family is well represented.
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