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10, 1825; Martha, July 27, 1827; Thomas S., August 14, 1829; Joseph Smith, July 17, 1831; Mary, June 10, 1834; Sara J., September 29, 1836; David M., June 11, 1838; Susanna C., mentioned above as the wife of Mr. Anderson; Harriet A., April 24, 1842; Laura V., April 26, 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan had grandchildren as follows: Lucy B. Orr, born in Hollidays Cove, West Virginia, August 28, 1848; John D. Orr, June, 1851 ; Thomas E. Orr, September 28, 1853; William B. Orr, October 22, 1855; Mary J. Orr, July 14, 1858; Joseph Reed Orr, October 8, 1861 ; Hattie E. Orr, July 4, 1864. Ida Josephine Duncan, born in October, 1855; Joseph Smith Duncan, April 5, 1858. Luella Clark, born September 20, 1855; John Duncan Clark, April 30, 1861. Lily Luella Anderson, born June 28, 1869; Harry Anderson, June 25, 1871 ; Benjamin Anderson, May 29, 1873; Laura Bruce Anderson, May 3, 1878. Robert A. Bruce, born in September, 1873. John Duncan Jr. was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in farming, and he was a ruling elder in the Pres- byterian Church there.
(V) Harry Duncan Anderson, son of Alexander Thomson and Susanna C. (Duncan) Anderson, was born in Hanover township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, June 25, 1871. He was educated in the public schools of Beaver county, being graduated from the high school, then took a special course at Geneva College, Beaver Falls. In 1892 he engaged in the insurance business in Beaver, and has since that time been identified with these interests. He is the special agent for the Prudential Insurance Company, and is the general agent of the Aetna Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut. In political opinion he is a strong Democrat, and in religious affairs he gives his allegiance to the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally he is a member of St. James Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Anderson married, April 29, 1897, Mary C., a daughter of James and Elizabeth H. Wilson, and they have had children: Mary Elizabeth, born January 25, 1898; Alexander Thomson, March 22, 1902; Harriet D., De- cember 29, 1905.
This name is variously spelled Calhoon, Calhoun, Colhoun, CALHOON etc. The Calhouns of Scotland are the descendants of the ancient family of the Conquhouns and Lairds of Luss. The original name "Colquhoun" is still retained by some in Scotland, Eng- land and Ireland, but it is pronounced "Colhoun." The ancestor of the surname of Colquhoun was Humphrey Kilpatrick, in whose favor the Earl of Lenox granted a charter of the lands of Colquhoun in the reign of Alexander II. about the year 1200 .. The meaning of the term Colquhoun is "a seacoasting common or point," with which the former situation of these lands will agree. Humphrey Kilpatrick Colquhoun married the daughter of Godfrey, Laird of Luss, in 1392. The Colquhouns and Lairds of Luss were the most wealthy and illustrious clans of Scotland. The home of the clan was about the southern shore of Loch Lomond and all
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of this neighborhood is full of memories and traditions which preserve the family name. Among the neighbors of the Colquhouns were the wild McGregors of Loch Katrine. These two clans had frequent conflicts, and in 1602 about two hundred of the Colquhouns were slain by the Mc- Gregors with many acts of savage cruelty. Sixty of the wives of the slain Colquhouns took each the gory shirt of her husband on a pike and rode to King James at Stirling, demanding vengeance. This was the original flaunting of the "bloody shirt" and secured the outlawry of the McGregors, as told by Scott in a note of his "Lady of the Lake." Many of the Colquhouns fled to Ireland in the seventeenth century to avoid re- ligious persecution. The Calhoun coat-of-arms is as follows: Argent, a saltire, engrailed sable. Crest: A hart's head erased gules. Supporters, Two ratch hounds, collard sable. Motto: Si je puis.
(I) Andrew Calhoon, who was born in county Derry, Ireland, in 1761, died in Big Beaver township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1864, at the advanced age of one hundred and three years. He emigrated to America about 1785, and at first made his home in New York City. Later he removed to Chester county, Pennsylvania, and finally settled in Big Beaver township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he followed farm- ing many years. He married (first) Mary Kennedy, (second) Mrs. Rogers, of South Beaver township. Children, all by first marriage : Robert, of further mention; James K., John S.
(II) Robert Calhoon, son of Andrew and Mary (Kennedy) Calhoon, was born in the state of Pennsylvania in 1805, died April 1, 1859. He was a carpenter in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, for a number of years, then removed to 'New Brighton in 1848, and there attained a position of prominence in the community. He served as justice of the peace, as a member of the borough council, and as a burgess. He was a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church. Mr. Calhoon married, in 1828, Elizabeth Scott, of Darlington, Pennsylvania, and they had children: Mary Jane, Thomas, John C., of further mention; Margaret.
(III) John C. Calhoon, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Scott) Calhoon, attended the public schools until his fifteenth year, and was then appren- ticed to learn the trade of harness maker, serving his apprenticeship with James Baker, at New Brighton. In 1861 he was employed in the arsenal in Allegheny, and continued there for three and a half years, working on the saddles and harness for the United States government. He then opened a shop in New Brighton, where he continued this line of manufacture and also furnished a large amount of private custom work. He married Nancy, a daughter of Harvey White, and had children: Thomas, Harry, of further mention; Edwin, Robert, Harvey.
(IV) Harry Calhoon, son of John C. and Nancy (White) Calhoon, was born at New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, September 15, 1862. He received his preparatory education in the public schools of New Brighton and Geneva College. He took up the study of law with J. R.
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Harrah, and continued it in the office of Thompson & Martin. Admitted to practice at the bar in 1892, he at once established himself in New Brigh- ton, and in 1893 was elected solicitor of that township. In 1898 he was elected district attorney of Beaver county. He is a member of the Metho- dist Church, the Masonic fraternity, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and the Royal Arcanum. Mr. Calhoon married Florence, a daughter of Frederick Deitrick.
DOUGLASS The origin of this name, which is one of the most famous in the annals of Scotland, has never been definitely de- termined, and the ancient legendary border tales relative to the subject, formerly sung by the bards, are now considered an unsatis- factory solution of the problem. Its great antiquity, however, is unques- tionable, and history records many gallant and chivalrous deeds performed by bearers of this name, which for centuries has been one of the most prominent in the Scottish nobility.
(I) George J. Douglass of New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsyl- vania, was for many years a miller in that section. He married Matilda Mckay, and had children: George D. and Elizabeth.
(II) George D. Douglass, son of George J. and Matilda (Mckay) Douglass, was born in Fallston, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1854. For a period of twenty-five years he was connected with the Penn Bridge Company, of Beaver Falls, and is now living retired. He married Ellen G., a daughter of William Wilde. Children: Herbert W., of further mention; Thomas L., born October 14, 1884, now general man- ager of the Alberta Nail & Wire Company, at Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
(III) Herbert W. Douglass, son of George D. and Ellen G. (Wilde) Douglass, was born in New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, Jan1- uaury 22, 1882. The public schools of the town furnished him with an excellent education, and he was graduated from the high school. He then became a clerk in the employ of the banking house of G. S. Barker & Company. In 1900 the Beaver County Trust Company was organized, and purchased the business of G. S. Barker & Company. Mr. Douglass was retained in his position, and from this advanced successively to the offices of teller, assistant treasurer, and is now (1914) secretary and treasurer of this corporation, which owes much of its success to his executive ability. He is connected with other important financial enterprises, and is the sec- retary and treasurer of the Beaver County Insurance Agency, Incorporated. He is independent in his political opinions, and will not allow himself to be bound by partisan ties. His fraternal affiliation is with the Free and Accepted Masons. He is a member of Christ Episcopal Church, and su- perintendent of the Sunday school connected with it. Mr. Douglass mar- ried, September 1, 1905, Ida B., a daughter of O. C. Harris, and they have had children: Helen Elizabeth, born June 18, 1906; Herbert W. Jr., born May 9, 1908.
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The emigrant ancestor of the Cable family was John, who CABLE appears in Massachusetts records about 1631, his name occut- ring in public documents on numerous occasions, once as a petitioner to the general court in 1635 for permission to move to. the Con- necticut river region, and again in 1652, when he assisted in the capture of a Dutch vessel off the coast of Fairfield and was awarded 5€ by the general court of Connecticut. From him descended the branch of the family so numerous and so prominent in New England and New York. It is with a New York branch that this chronicle deals, that state having been the early home of John Cable, who came to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, when that region was little more than a wilderness. Braving all the dangers of pioneer life, from man as well as beast, he hewed a home from the virgin forest, cleared a farm, and there settled, the John the Baptist of the future wealth and greatness of that county. He was a devoted churchman, and a member of one of the first Lutheran churches in the county. He married Phoebe Goehring, a native of Germany, daughter of Jacob Goehring, who came to Beaver county from Germany. Both he and his wife died in the county. Children: I. Charles, lived all his life in Westmoreland county. 2. John, a hotel proprietor in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. 3. Susan, died in Butler county, Pennsylvania. 4. Phoebe, of previous mention, married John Cable. Children of John and Phoebe (Goehring) Cable: Charles, John, Edward, all deceased; George W., of whom further; Milo and Jefferson, both deceased; Henrietta, deceased; Lucinda, a resident of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania; and Belinda, lives in Rochester, Beaver county.
(II) George W., son of John and Phoebe (Goehring) Cable, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 16, 1838. His early life was spent on his father's farm, and it was in this environment that he became accustomed to muscle-hardening labor and formed vitality-giving habits that endowed him with a constitution strong enough to withstand the at- tacks of approaching old age. He attended the public schools, and as a vocation chose the trade of mason and bricklayer, at which he worked for a time, until acquiring sufficient capital, he branched out into a contracting business. In this line he has met with excellent success, his results from the first encouraging him to fresh efforts and many of the most important buildings of Beaver county and the contiguous country stand as monu- ments to his constructive ability. His first choice of a political party was the Republican, and his first presidential vote was cast for Abraham Lin- coln, but since that time his judgment as to the merits of the candidate has been the only force influencing him in the casting of his ballot. He married, in 1860, Sarah Jane, (deceased), daughter of Philip and Sarah (Fisher) Stetzell, of Rochester, Beaver county. Philip Cable was born in Germany, and came to the United States, settling in Rochester, where his entire life was spent as a farmer. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was anxious to go to the front, but the tears and pleadings of his wife for
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a time deterred him. At length, love of country becoming so strong as to defy resistance, he enlisted without her knowledge, and wrote her of his departure when he was too far on his way to be influenced by her pas- sionate persuasion. He was wounded in an early engagement and was sent home on a furlough to recover from his injuries and to regain his strength. Overanxiety to rejoin the army led him to attempt to return before he was in little more than the first stage of convalescence, and he died in Cincinnati, just before reaching the troops. Both he and his wife were members of the German Lutheran Church. He married Sarah Fisher, born at Wittenberg, Beaver county, daughter of William Fisher, who came to that locality from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Children of Philip and Sarah (Fisher) Stetzell: 1. Philip, a carpenter, died in Rochester. 2. Sarah Jane, of previous mention, married George W. Cable. 3. Mary Magdalena, married Charles L. Reno (deceased), an engineer, who served in the Civil War. 4. Ann Elizabeth, married Charles Rhodes, both de- ceased. 5. George Frederick, a carpenter, died at Irondale, Pennsylvania. 6. William Andrew, a carpenter, died unmarried; made his home with his sister, Mary. After the death of her husband, while on his way to rejoin his regiment, Sarah (Fisher) Stetzell never remarried. Children of George W .. and Sarah Jane (Stetzell) Cable: I. Emma Virginia, married William Fisher, and has sons, Frank and Harold. 2. Elmer, of whom further. 3. Laura, deceased. 4. William, married Daisy Clingelheimer ; children, Ken- nedy and Dorothy. 5. George A., married Mary Sherwood, and lives in Upland, California.
(III) Elmer E., first son and second child of George W. and Sarah Jane (Stetzell) Cable, was born in Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1862. He attended the public schools and learned his father's trade, and after working for several years as a journeyman engaged in contracting, in which line he does considerable work throughout Beaver Valley, keeping in his employ an average of eight men. In 1911 he pur- chased a farm of fifty-five acres in Brighton township, and has here ever since resided. He continues his contracting, deputizing many of his duties to a trusted foreman, and devotes much of his time to cultivating his land and to fruit growing, producing some of the finest peaches and berries raised in the county. He is a Republican in politics and belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. With his wife he is a member of the English Lutheran church.
He married, December 27, 1887, Olive F., born November 12, 1866, daughter of John and Mary (Rhodes) Fleschman, of Chippewa town- ship. John Fleschman was born in Germany, and when a lad was brought to the United States by his parents, who settled in Beaver county. Here his youthful life was spent, Chippewa township, where he died in 1913, being the scene of his later life, the birthplace of his wife, and her present place of residence. Children of John and Mary (Rhodes) Fleschman : Olive F., of previous mention, married Elmer E. Cable; Martin, John,
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Christina, Mary, Jacob, Minnie and Joseph, deceased. Children of Elmer E. and Olive F. (Fleschman) Cable: Harry, a mason of Rochester, mar- ried Ella Guthermuth; Laura Olive, died in infancy; Sarah; Howard. Successful in business and a citizen of good repute, Mr. Cable is held in high esteem by his wide circle of friends.
Examples of the thrift and industry popularly supposed to
MORROW be a radical characteristic of all claiming Ireland as their homeland are seen ni the cases of Hugh, the emigrant, and his son, Alexander P. Morrow. From being the owners of forty acres of land, father and son gradually added to their possessions until at the death of the latter, one thousand acres of land in Beaver county was owned by him.
Hugh Morrow was born in Ireland, of Scotch-Irish descent, married there when a young man, and came with his bride to the United States. He made settlement in Hopewell township, Beaver county on a forty-acre tract of land, clearing it of the woodland covering, and building a log cabin from the trees felled. He farmed his land and from time to time made acquisition of the neighboring land until at his death his farm had increased to one hundred and fifty acres. He lived a quiet, peaceful life, never mingling much with his fellows, and indulging to the full his love of home life, he and his wife being the best of companions. Both were members of the Presbyterian church, and regular attendants at its services. He died aged forty years. Children of Hugh and Agnes (Wallace) Mor- row: I. William, a farmer of Brighton township, near Beaver, where he died, having been twice married. 2. Alexander Prentiss, of whom further. 3. James, died unmarried, in Hopewell township, Beaver county, aged forty years. 4. Mary, whose entire life was spent in Hopewell township, mar- ried Robert McCartney.
(II) Alexander Prentiss, son of Hugh and Agnes (Wallace) Morrow, was born in Hopewell township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1812, died in Beaver, October 28, 1892. He attended the common schools and spent his boyhood days on his father's farm, a circumstance that made the choice of a calling a comparatively easy one, his later life being spent largely in the pursuit of that occupation. For a time he was proprietor of a grist and saw mill at Bucktown, and then purchased the old home- stead. Continuing the policy of his father, he constantly added to this until his estate reached one thousand acres, a farm of immense dimensions for that locality, and became a sheep raiser, his flocks, hundreds in num- ber, grazing over much of the land. He afterward moved to a farm on Two Mile run, in Brighton township, also making other places in this town- ship his residence, but finally laid aside the responsibilities of active life and spent his latter years in Beaver, where his death occurred. For many years he was a strong Democrat, and held many township offices, such as school director, as the candidate of the Democratic party, but later in life
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he broke all party affiliations and followed an entirely independent course at the polls. The United Presbyterian church ever claimed his earnest sup- port, and of the new Bethlehem church of this faith he was an elder. At his death, aged eighty years, he retained much of the mental vigor and fresh- ness of his youth, although his four-score years had left its mark upon his once sturdy and stalwart frame. During his long residence in the county he had become very well known and proportionally well-liked, the result of his friendly, genial nature and unselfish spirit.
He married (first) Agnes Creighton, (second) in 1853, Athaline Springer, died February 16, 1879, (third) in 1882, Julia Eckels, deceased, of Portersville, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania. Children of first mar- riage: I. Hugh, died at home unmarried. 2. Mary Jane, deceased; mar- ried Alexander Kennedy, of Allegheny City ( Pittsburgh, North Side). 3. John, a farmer, lives in Hopewell township. 4. Agnes, died in infancy. 5. William, a farmer, cultivates land in Independence township. 6. Alex- ander, lives retired at South Heights. Children of second marriage: 7. James, lives in Dixmont, Pennsylvania. 8. Nancy, married James Reis- inger, deceased, and lives in Beaver. 9. Elizabeth, died in infancy. 10. George W., died unmarried, when a young man. II. Cynthia, died aged twelve years. 12. Clarisa, married George Dobbs.
County Antrim, Ireland, was the birthplace of William MARSHALL Marshall, who was brought to the United States by his parents in 1845, when he was three years of age. His parents settling in Pittsburgh, that was his boyhood home, and in that city he learned the trade he still follows, that of plasterer. He is a Republican in political sympathies, and belongs to the Presbyterian church, in whose affairs he was at one time very active. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, having enlisted in 1861 in Company E, 155th Regi- ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and serving to the end of the war. He participated in all of the conflicts of the war engaging the Army of the Potomac, among them the Wilderness, Antietam and Gettysburg. He was twice wounded, once in the battle of the Wilderness and again at Gettysburg, neither time seriously, but each time causing short confine- ment in the hospital. He married Susanna Neal, died in 1897, daughter of John Neal. John Neal was a native of Pennsylvania, residing near Carnegie, Pennsylvania, a coal miner. Children of William and Susanna (Neal) Marshall: 1. William, a plasterer, lives at Webster Springs, Green- brier county, West Virginia. 2. Andrew, a plasterer, of Midland. 3. Dorothy, married (first) Frank Reed, (second) C. W. Welker, and lives at 2107 Wingate street, Pittsburgh. 4. John W., of whom further.
(II) John W., son of William and Susanna (Neal) Marshall, was born at Carnegie, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1873. He was educated in the public schools of Green Tree borough, and when a young man learned the trade of his father, that of plasterer, and also made a study of the
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uses of concrete in building. Long before he had attained his majority he began contracting work, in which he has ever since continued, mainly in Pittsburgh and vicinity, with uniform success. In April, 1912, he came to Midland and there organized the John Marshall Company, dealers in builders' supplies, of which he was president and manager for fourteen months. In June of the following year he severed his connection with the concern, and has since been engaged in general contracting and building in Midland. Since beginning operations in that town he has been connected with the erection of about one hundred and fifty houses. A Republican in politics, he has taken a great interest in the organization of the Midland government, and while a resident of Marianna, Pennsylvania, was council- man and school director. Mr. Marshall married, in 1900, Birdella B. Read, a native of Allegheny county, daughter of Wilson and Mary Read. Chil- dren of Wilson and Mary Reed: Aida, Frank, and Birdella B. of previous mention, married John W. Marshall. Children of John W. and Birdella B. Marshall: Clifford R., Bay Wesley, Marie, Wayne, and another.
Mr. Marshall's success in his chosen line of endeavor has been due largely to his aggressive perseverance. Circumventing obstacles with re- markable ease, he has added achievement upon achievemeet to his record as a contractor and builder, and at the present time holds high position among his associates in that occupation.
WIESEN At the time of the coming of the Wiesen family to the United States, no settler could with precision be called a pioneer, and yet Mathias Wiesen was, in a sense, the pioneer of his branch, inasmuch as he was the first to leave Germany and to seek fairer residence in the United States. He immigrated in 1854 and settled at Sharon, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, where he obtaind employment in the mines. This labor, however, did not appeal to him, and he embraces the opportunity to leave the gloomy depths and enter upon farm labor, later purchasing a farm of forty-four acres and there residing until his death in 1903, aged seventy-six years. He was a Democrat in politics, and with his wife a member of the Roman Catholic church. Children of Mathias and Annie Mary Wiesen: Mary, lives on the homestead, unmarried; Linda, married Frank Tuttle, and lives at Youngstown, Ohio; Nicholas, a mill employee of Allegheny county; John, a member of the police force of West Homestead; Mathias, a resident of Youngstown, Ohio; a daughter, died in infancy ; Peter M., of whom further; and two daughters, both died in infancy.
(II) Peter M., fourth son and seventh child of Mathias and Annie Mary Wiesen, was born at Sharon, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, March I, 1867. He attended the public school in his youth, and as a young man identified himself with the steel industry, remaining in that business until 1892. In that year he purchased the Eureka Hotel at Homestead, and was its proprietor for three years, later engaging in business at West
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Homestead for a like period. On October 25, 1905, he moved to what is now Midland, Pennsylvania, although at the time the present borough existed only in the minds of its promoters. Foreseeing the opportunity for business if a well conducted hotel were established at this place, he pur- chased a large building and the surrounding land and opened a hotel. With the Midland Steel Company as the original boomers, other companies located their plants there, and the growth of Midland became not only assured, but a realization, and Mr. Wiesen has ever since been the pro- prietor of the hotel he established. He is a member of the Roman Catholic church, and in the early days of the town, before a church edifice was erected, Father Gallagher held services in his hotel, a practice by no means unusual in the formative period of a town or village. One of the earliest residents of the town, it is but natural that he should have played a prominent part in its political affairs. He has been a member of the town council ever since the borough was formed, and for a year and a half was its president. Mr. Wiesen married, in 1889, Kate Magee, daughter of Patrick Magee, a native of England. They have been the parents of two children, both of whom are deceased.
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