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GILBERT FAMILY. The ancestor of this family was John Gil- bert, a native of the county of Cornwall, England, who came to Pennsylvania about the year 1682, accompanied by his wife, Florence ( by some thought to have been his second wife), and some children. He has been supposed to be the subject of the following instance of Quaker persecution in Cornwall :
"In ye 9th month 1663 John Jenkyn & John Gylbert of ye Perish of Dew- loe beeinge mett together to waite vpon ye Lord in ye house of Richard Tre- gennow of ye same parish on a first day of ye weeke there came John Austice constable & by warrant from Jonathan Trelawny, Called Justice, took them out of ye house & had them before him whoe foorthwith comitted them to ve goale of Launceston for meetinge together to worshippe God although they were butt two beside them of ye family, where they remayned untill ye Ses- sions & then were freed."
He settled first in Bensalem township, Bucks county, but by deed of 12 Mo. 19. 1695, purchased from Nicholas Rideout a tract of six hundred acres on the south side of Poquessing creek, in Byberry township, Philadel- phia county ; the said creek being the dividing line of the two counties. He conveyed two hundred and sixty-five acres of this to John Carver, July 2, 1606, and two hundred and fifty acres more to his son Joseph Gilbert, June 5, 1701. About this time he removed to the city of Philadelphia and became a merchant until his death, 8 Mo. ( October, (). S.) 13, 1711. His children were John, Joseph, Sarah, Mary, Joshua and .Abigail, of whom Joshua was born in this country, 6 Mo. 10, 1684.
Joseph Gilbert was born about 1675, and about the year 1699 was mar- ried to Rachel Livezey, born II Mo. 15, 1664, widow of Jonathan Livezey, of Abington Meeting, and daughter of Robert and Mary Taylor, of Springfield, Chester ( now Delaware ) county, Pennsylvania. Tradition states that she was brought to this country by her father ( who came from Cheshire in 1682) to prevent her marriage to a person disapproved by him. . Her first marriage oc- curred in the spring of 1687. Joseph was married again 9 Mo. 16, 1744, to Sarah James, born 7 Mo. I. 1704, died in 1789, daughter of Aaron and Eliza- beth James, of Westtown, Chester county. He settled on the land obtained from his father, in Byberry, and carried on farming the reminder of his long life. Isaac Comly, in his sketches of Byberry, makes the following notice of him :
"Joseph Gilbert endeavored to maintain a strict moral discipline in his family ; he was rigidly temperate and bore such a faithful testimony against the slavery of negroes that Benjamin Lay could consider him as his intimate friend, and put up at his house when he came to this neighborhood. He also protested against the use of spirituous liquors, especially by abstaining alto-
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gether from them himself. He diligently attended religious meetings and en- couraged his family to a regular observance of the same practice. Even the workmen he occasionally employed were left at liberty to go to meeting with him in the middle of the week, but in case they did not incline to do so he enjoined them to suspend their labors till he returned. His bodily and mental powers retained their strength and vigor to old age. He generally led his reapers in the harvest ; drank nothing but water and that from the running brook, kept in a jug in the sunshine, but he provided beer for his workmen. After the decease of Abel Hinkson he occupied the head seat in Byberry Meeting and gave the signal for closing the meeting as long as he was able to attend it. He was at different times active both in the capacity of elder and overseer of the meeting. He died 8 Mo. 20, 1765, aged near go years."
Joseph Gilbert had at least five children: Sarah, born 1700. married john Baldwin ; Phebe, born 1701, married Henry Comly; Joseph, born 1703, died 1730, unmarried ; Rebecca, married Patrick Ogilby, in 1735: Benjamin.
Benjamin Gilbert is said to have been born in 1711, but probably earlier ; was married 6 Mo., 1731, to Sarah Mason, daughter of Richard and Abigail ( Seary ) Mason, of Dublin township, Philadelphia county. She died 12 Mo. 26, 1759, and he married again, in 1760, Elizabeth Peart, born 3 Mo. 27, 1725, died 8 Mo. 5. 1810, widow of Bryan Peart and daughter of Benjamin and Re- becca (Homer) Walton, of Byberry. He settled on a farm which his father purchased for him in Richland, Bucks county, where eight of his children were born. In 1749 he removed to a mill in Makefield, Bucks county, but in 1755, at the request of his father, returned to Byberry to take charge of the farm. He also purchased, in 1758, a farm of about one hundred and thirty-six acres near his father's, and erected a mill thereon, to which he removed the next year. His mind was not wholly absorbed in his business, and in 1748 he pub- lished a pamphlet of forty-eight pages in defense of the principles of the Soci- ety of Friends regarding war. Again, in 1769, he published a volume of about two hundred and fifty pages on "perfection" and "universal redemption," fol- lowed in 1770 by a volume of one hundred and thirty-nine pages on these and cognate subjects. By the will of his father Benjamin Gilbert inherited the homestead in Byberry.
His children by his first wife were nine in number: Rachel, born II Mo. 14. 1732-3, married, in 1754, Ezekiel Atkinson, and a second husband, William Walton ; Abigail, born 9 Mo. 3, 1734, married Benjamin Walton ; Sarah, born 2 Mo. 24, 1737, died 8 Mo. 23, 1738; Joseph, born 12 Mo. 10, 1738-9, died 1807, unmarried : Benjamin, born I Mo. 31, 1741, died I Mo. 1I, 1809, mar- ried, in 1771, Rebecca Watson, and in 1788, Margaret Anderson; John, born 5 Mo. 23. 1743, married, in 1768, Ann Stackhouse; Sarah, born 4 Mo. 26, 1745, married, in 1761, Daniel Walton : Joshua, born 12 Mo. 19, 1747-8, mar- ried, in 1771, Mary Randall : Caleb, born 9 Mo. 19, 1754, married, in 1779. Martha Stackhouse. The children by his second wife, Elizabeth ( Walton) Gilbert, were four in number: Jesse, born 5 Mo. 4, 1761, died 3 Mo. 10, 1829, married, 3 Mo. 26, 1780, Sarah Harding : Rebecca, born 1763, died 8 Mo. 23, 1842, married, 8 Mo. 29, 1785, Joseph Rakestraw ; Abner, born 3 Mo. 2, 1765, died 5 Mo. 31, 1831, married, 1 Mo. 18, 1799, Ann Cooper, born 7 Mo. 7, 1768, died HI Mo. 12, 1846, daughter of George and Susanna (Truman) Cooper, of Sadsbury, Lancaster county; Elizabeth, born 9 Mo. 14, 1767, died 12 Mo. 26, 1857, married, in 1786, David Webster, of Abington.
Either from a love of change or to provide a large estate for his younger children, Benjamin Gilbert disposed of his mill property in Byberry, in the spring of 1775, and soon after removed to lands he purchased on Mahoning
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creek, m Northampton (now Carbon) county, about nine miles from the Le- high river and on the frontiers of the settlements in Pennsylvania. Here he erected a dwelling house, barn and grist and saw mills, and seemed to be in prosperous circumstances, but on the 25th of 4th Month, 1780, about sun-rise, a party of eleven Indians appeared on the scene and made prisoners of Benja- min Gilbert, Elizabeth his wife, their four children, Jesse, Rebecca, Abner and Elizabeth : Thomas and Benjamin Peart, sons of Elizabeth Gilbert; Joseph Gilbert, son of Benjamin by his first wife ; Sarah Gilbert, wife of Jesse, recently married : Elizabeth Peart, wife of Benjamin, and their infant child, Elizabeth; Benjamin Gilbert, aged eleven, son of John Gilbert, of Philadelphia : Andrew Harrigar, a hired man of Benjamin Gilbert, and Abigail Dodson, a neighbor's daughter, who had come that morning to the mill; in all fifteen persons. After securing such plunder as they wished the Indians set fire to the build- ings and hastened away with their captives toward Niagara, which they reached about a month later. On this journey the prisoners suffered great hardships as well as much abuse, and Benjamin Gilbert was condemned to. death, but through the earnest pleadings of his wife the savages were in- duced to abandon their design. According to the custom they were com- pelled to "run the gauntlet." upon their arrival at the Indian town, and with clubs and stones they were sorely beaten and bruised. Through the kind in- tervention of the British officers at Niagara Fort Benjamin Gilbert, his wife, their son Jesse and his wife were soon released, and not long after were sent down the St. Lawrence by boat to Montreal; but owing to the hardships through which he had passed and the exposure in open boats, Benjamin Gil- bert died on 6 Mo. 8, 1780, and was buried the next morning under an oak near the fort of Coeur de Lac (or Coteau du Lac). The other captives were mostly adopted by various families of Indians in the place of relatives who had been killed, and were for a time widely separated ; but at length, thorugh the persistent efforts of the mother and the aid of the British officers, all were liberated and in the year 1782 were enabled to return to their former home and kindred. A narrative of their captivity, compiled by William Walton, believed to have been a brother to Elizabeth Gilbert, was published in 1784. and several editions have since appeared; the latest and best being issued by The Burrowes Brothers Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1904. The Gilberts being connected with many of the prominent families of Byberry and vicinity, their capture caused much excitement as well as sorrow and anxiety.
Benjamin Gilbert, Jr., son of the captive, learning that his relatives were in the neighborhood of Montreal, made his way thither about the time the last of them had obtained their release, and assisted them in their homeward jour- ney. They did not return to the Mahoning settlement, but to Byberry, where they arrived 9 Mo. 28. 1782. Two of Elizabeth Gilbert's brothers, Benjamin and Daniel Walton, who married her step-daughters, removed to Fallowfield township, Chester county, and she spent the last years of her life in that vicinity.
Abner Gilbert was in his eighthteenth year when he returned from cap- tivity to Byberry, the place of his nativity. When about nineteen or twenty he worked with Silas Parry at masoning ; he also did something at coopering in the winters, and lived with his brother Jesse. Ile likewise took a share of his father's land in Byberry, but sold it and removed with Jesse Gilbert and his family to Fallowfield, Chester county, in 1701. His half-brother, Benjamin Gilbert, having purchased lands in Westmoreland county, had removed and settled there about 1787. Benjamin owned a mill and farm in those parts, and being advanced in years and having no children persuaded Abner to come
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and superintend his business, with expectation of making him his principal heir. Accordingly the latter went there in the spring of 1798, and being pleased with the prospect returned eastward about the close of the year to get a wife in the person of Ann Cooper, of Sadsbury, Lancaster county. They should have been married according to the discipline of Friends, which re- quired a declaration of their intentions about five weeks prior to the wedding, but there being reasons for an early return to Westmoreland county they took the shorter method of marriage by a justice of the peace, on the 18th of Ist Mo., 1799, and made the journey to their future home by horseback in mid- winter. There being. much snow that year the bride did not see the earth for several weeks after her arrival. They made an acknowledgment to Friends for the way of their marriage and were ever after members in good standing of the Sewickley Meeting. Abner Gilbert realized the inheritance of a large portion of Benjamin's estate. This included a tract of nearly three hundred acres in Huntingdon township ( now Sewickley), patented to James Hunter, of Philadelphia, June 9, 1772, under the name of "Clover Hill." "Abner Gilbert departed this life the 31st day of the 5th month, 1831, aged about sixty-five (66) years ; and his memory is precious to his surviving friends, relatives and acquaintances, as a sincere Christian and an upright-hearted honest man."
Children of Abner and Ann ( Cooper ) Gilbert: Elizabeth (known as, Eliza ), born HI Mo. 4, 1799, died 5 Mo. 18, 1862; married, 4 Mo. 8, 1838, Joseph Cope, of Chester county, Pennsylvania, as his second wife; issue, Rachel W. and Gilbert Cope. Benjamin, born 12 Mo. 13, 1800, died 4 Mo. 7, 1887 ; married, I Mo. 8, 1829, Lydia Cope, born 3 Mo. 12, 1808, died 8 Mo. 26, 1882, daughter of Samuel and Sarah ( Willits) Cope, of Jefferson township. Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He inherited the homestead, "Clover Hill," and had issue: Sarah Ann, unmarried ; Mary, married Dillon Gibbons ; Eliza, married Joshua Cope, both deceased ; Samuel, unmarried ; Susan, married Jesse Edgerton, of Damascus, Ohio. George, born 4 Mo. 10, 1802, died at Winona, Ohio, 3 Mo. 25, 1872; married 6 Mo. 1, 1826, Hannah Cope, born 2 Mo. 26, 1805, died II Mo. 2, 1882, daughter of Josliua and Alice ( Fisher) Cope, of Washington township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He inherited a part of his father's land, but about 1870 removed to a farm near Winona, Ohio. Issue: Thomas Clarkson and David Porter, died in infancy ; Rebecca, married Alfred Megrail and Uriah Price: Ann Eliza, deceased, unmarried ; Alice, married Edward Y. Cope and now his widow, living at Winona, Ohio ; Joshua, married Deborah Hutton, both deceased ; Abner, married Anzonetta Walton, died in Indiana: Sarah, married Joshua Brantingham, died at Wi- nona : Edith. married William W. Newlin, both deceased ; Ellen, married Elisha Steer, living at Colerain, Ohio. Susanna, born 3 Mo. 12, 1804, died 9 Mo. 14, 1873 ; married, 12 Mo. 26, 1822, Archibald B. McGrew, born 12 Mo. 26, 1799, died I Mo. 1I, 1843, son of James and Elizabeth ( McFerron) Mc- Grew, of North Huntingdon township. Issue: Philena W., married William Graham and Samuel Little; Abner G., married Mary Ann Bruner and Sophia Williams; Elizabeth, married Abiram Blackburn; Margaret Ann, married John Ingram : Mary Jane, married Eli Price : Benjamin G., married Catharine S. Howell; Deborah, married Franklin J. Mckain; Isabella, married Dr. J. W. Blackburn ; Rebecca, married Jacob Greenawalt ; Phebe Catharine, mar- ried Emmor Shaner and John Naylor : James, died in childhood. Ann, born II Mo. 1, 1807, died near Harrisville, Ohio, I Mo. II, 1893 ; married, 12 Mo. 3. 1841, James W. McGrew, born 6 No. 17, 1808, died 6 Mo. 6. 1876, son of Nathan and Elizabeth (Winder) McGrew, of Smithfield township, Jefferson county, Ohio. Issue, Elizabeth Ann, unmarried ; Lydia B., married Clayton
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Haines, of Medford, New Jersey : Gilbert, married Eliza Hall : Susan Jane. married Robert Thomas; Eliza G., married Richard Ashton. Jesse, born 8 Mo. 26, 1810, died 12 Mo. 10, 1821.
WILLIAM M. PARK. The descendants of the old agricultural pioneer stock of Westmoreland county have always supplied an element of the very first importance to the common weal, and among these descendants Wil- liam M. Park, of Greensburg, maintains the family tradition. His father and grandfather both lived and died on the same farm in Manor Valley.
James Park spent his life in cultivating the acres which had descended to him from his father. He married Jane Watson, who, like himself, was the offspring of pioneer ancestry. Her grandfather was of Scotch-Irish stock, and emigrated from Scotland in 1769, settling in Westmoreland county. At a time when that part of the county was suffering greatly from the ravages of the Indians, his wife would go to the fort to pass the night, never knowing whether the house would be standing in the morning or not, as each night wit- nessed the burning of dwellings by the savages. Robert Watson. the son of these pioneers, and the father of Mrs. Park, was born in Westmoreland county, and was a farmer all his life.
William M. Park, son of James and Jane ( Watson) Park, was born June 29, 1840, in Penn township, and obtained his education in the common schools of his native county. His youth and early manhood were spent in farming, and in 1866 he began to work at the carpenter's trade, combining with it con- tracting and building. He is still successfully engaged in the same line of business. He belongs to the Protective Home Service and is a Republican in politics. He married Emma Elizabeth Harmon, and they have cight children : John. William J., Mary W., Samuel L., Fanny, Nellie, Emma, and Hillary C. Mrs. Park is the great-granddaughter of - Harmon, who emigrated from Germany and settled in Westmoreland county, where he was killed by the Indians about 1775. as were many others about that period. His son, Philip Harmon, was born in the county and followed the calling of a farmer.
MICHAEL KELLY. One of those old-time residents of Johnstown whose names and deeds still live in the memory of a generation now rapidly passing away, was Michael Kelly. Mr. Kelly resided almost his entire life in Johnstown, where he engaged in business as a contractor, and was also the proprietor of a hotel. As a business man his character commanded respect, and as a host his good management and genialty made him deservedly popular. Although equipped for the battle of life with nothing beyond a common school education, he turned to the best advantage cach one of his limited resources. He and his family were members of the Roman Catholic church. He mar- ried, and among the children was a daughter, Isabella, who was born April 5. 1837, in Johnstown, and became the wife of Francis, son of James and Mar- garet Layton. They were the parents of one child, Edward J., who was born January 31. 1862. Mr. Layton died June 17, 1865, and in 1872 Mrs. Layton married George, son of Tobis and Magdaline Fisher. By this marrigae she has no children. The death of Mr. Kelly, which occurred in 1848, was lamented as that of an estimable man and a good citizen. Mrs. Kelly is also deceased, and Mrs. Fisher is the only surviving member of the family. She is a resi- dent of Derry Station.
CAMERON H. EISEMAN, was born in Latrobe, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1872, the son of William Henry and Susanna
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( Keys) Fireman. William Henry Eiseman and his father both emigrated to this country from Germany.
Cameron Eiseman's education was acquired chiefly in the common schools of his native county, and after leaving the school-room he entered into the stock dealing business, being engaged chiefly in the trading of horses and cattle. In 1891. he established himself in the livery business, and twelve years later, 1903, he built a splendid livery barn and sale stable. He also deals extensively in wagons, purchasing them by the car load. In politics he is a straight Demo- crat, and held the office of mayor of his city, being elected in 1896, serving one term. In 1896 he married Rosanna Schenk, daughter of Frederick and Menesoia Schenk, of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and their children are : Floyd C., born August 20, 1897: Menesoia, January 26, 1899: John H., Jan- uary 9, 1901 : Ruth, September 18, 1903.
MICHAEL J. KELLY, proprietor of the Grand Central Hotel, Mount Pleasant, one of the finely equipped and well patronized hotels in that section of the county, of which he has had charge since December 25, 1903. is a worthy representative of the foreign-born citizen, who, upon making their home in this country, at once conform to the laws and regulations, and also take a deep interest in all that pertains to its welfare and prosperity. He is a native of county Roscommon, Ireland, born October 28, 1856, son of John and Mary (Mangle) Kelly, both deceased. His maternal grandfather, Mr. Mangle, served in the Crimean war and for said services received a grant of land in county Roscommon ; he formerly resided in the vicinity of Belfast, Ireland. When Michael J. Kelly was about two years of age his father, a farmer by oc- cupation, came to the United States and located at Worcester, Massachusetts, remaining there ten years, and then returned to his native land, where he died at the age of sixty-four years. He and his wife were the parents of fourteen children, three of whom are living at the present time ( 1905) : Michael J., see forward : Patrick, yard boss at the Standard Coke works ; and Daniel, who re- sides in Ireland. In 1879 he returned to the United States and located for a time at Bergen Point, New Jersey, about eighteen months. He then came to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and there began the life of a miner, finding em- ployment in Lycinging Mine No. 1. From there he removed to Pennville, then to Mount Pleasant, later to Bessimer, and finally returning to
Mount Pleasant, his present location. He followed coal mining in these various towns up to 1894, when he abandoned this line of work and engaged as bartender in a hotel, serving in that capacity for four years. He then went to Port Royal and purchased the Port Royal House, which he conducted until it was destroyed by fire, five years and four months later. He immediately returned to Mount Pleasant and purchased the Grand Central Hotel, which he opened December 25, 1903, and which he has successfully conducted up to the present time ( 1905). The hotel is pleasantly located, has ample accommoda- tions for fifty guests, and the genial and courteous manner in which the guests are treated make it a very desirable resting place for the traveling public. Mr. Kelly is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Mount Pleasant Lodge, No. 868, transferred from Greensburg. In the county of Durham, England, Mr. Kelly was united in marriage to Ann Eagan, daughter of Patrick Eagan, and their children are: John, Kate, Delia, Patrick, Michael. Annie, and Daniel. The family are regular attendants of the Catholic church of Mount Pleasant.
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SAMUEL PETRE McINTIRE. James Melntire, the earliest known member of the family in this country, was of Scotch descent, and came to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from New Jersey, some time during the latter half of the eighteenth century. James and Hugh Melntire enlisted from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Hugh Melntire was a private in Lieutenant Daniel Smith's company of the Eighth Battalion, Cumberland County Militia, in active service in January, 1778.
Hugh Melntire, son of James McIntire, the pioneer ancestor, located in the vicinity of Wilkinsburg, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, at the close of the Revolution. He farmed extensively and bred live stock. He married Jane Carr, of Chambersburg. Pennsylvania, and from this union nine children were born. His death occurred in 1847, and his remains were interred at the Old Stone Church at Nolansburg.
Hugh MeIntire, son of Hugh and Jane (Carr) McIntire, was born Sep-
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tember 14. 1814, on the farm near Wilkinsburg. After arriving at maturity he drove the stage for a number of years on the old Pittsburg and Philadelphia pike, between Pittsburg and Jacksonville, and also between Jacksonville and Youngstown. At the same time he conducted the Black Horse Hotel at Youngstown, which was located on the present site of Gibson's harness shop. Abandoning this in 1854 he moved to Jacksonville and operated the MeIntire House until his death in 1865, a period of eleven years. Subsequently his wife. Jane ( Siegfried ) Melntire, whom he had married December 23. 1840, con- tinted the hotel as a road house during the remainder of her life, her death oc- curring in 1894. The MeIntire Hotel, or Road House, was one of the princi- pal stations on the "U'nderground Railway" preceding the Civil war, its proprie- tor. Hugh MeIntire, having been a prominent Abolitionist. It was for many years a noted resort for pleasure seekers from miles in either direction. Its
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patrons came from Pittsburg, Allegheny and Mckeesport on the west, and from Greensburg and Jeannette on the east, and included many of the most notable residents of this section of the state. It was one of the most celebrated houses of its kind, and the last of the old stage houses on the pike. It is still standing, being at present ( 1905) occupied by Samuel P. Melntire as his private residence. Three children were born to Hugh and Jane (Siegfried) AcIntire: Annie, born 1841, wife of John Ayers, of Turtle Creek, Allegheny county ; Sarah Ellen, born 1844, wife of Andrew Bovard, of Greensburg ; and Samuel Petre, bern November 27, 1849.
Samuel Petre MeIntire, only son of Hugh and Jane ( Siegfried ) MeIntire, was born November 27. 1849. He married. August 9, 1895, at Jacksonville, Alice Miers, daughter of William and Susan ( Johnson) Miers, of that place. No children. Mr. MeIntire has always been a Republican in politics, while in religious matters, although not entertaining personal affiliations with any church, has leaned toward the United Presbyterian church, this being the de- nomination of which his wife is an active member.
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