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He married Margaret Quinn, daughter of James and Margaret Quinn, of Fayette county, and they are the parents of the following named children : Laura, resides at home : May, died at the age of sixteen years ; William, died when he was fourteen years old : Gertrude, Pearl, Thomas, Jr., James, Jackson, Mary and Leo, the last seven named residing with their parents.
JOHN W. SHUPE, one of the representatives of the farming indus- try in the township of Mount Pleasant, traces his ancestry to John Shupe, who was born in Bullskin township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where he fol- lowed the occupation of farming, and where his death occurred. He was a member of the United Brethren church, and cast his vote for the candidates of the Democratic party. He was the father of nine children, four sons and five daughters.
The line of descent is traced through his son, Isaac Shupe, who was born on the homestead farm in Fayette county. In 1844 he removed to Mount Pleasant township. Westmoreland county, where he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits, thereby gaining a lucrative livelihood. He followed in the footsteps of his father both in religion and politics, and was one of the in- fluential men of his adopted county. He married Margaret Barnhart, who was bern in 1822, a daughter of Abraham and Hannah ( Hugus) Barnhart, whose family consisted of three daughters. Abraham Barnhart was born and reared in Butler county. Pennsylvania, but in early life removed to Mount Pleasant township, where his death occurred. He was a large landholder, a successful farmer, an active and consistent member of the German Reformed church, and an old-time Democrat. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Shupe : John W., see forward; and Louis B., who married, September 13, 1877, Caroline Barnhart, daughter of William and Eliza ( Rugh) Barnhart, of Hempfield township. who bore him three children: Cyrus G., Isaac P., and Car- roll B. Shupe.
John W. Shupe. eldest son of the late Isaac and Margaret ( Barnhart) Shupe, was born in Fayette county, Pennsyvania, February 8, 1844. He was brought by his parents to Westmoreland county when an infant, received his education in the common schools in the neighborhood of his home, and re- mained with his parents on the homestead farm until their death, thus relieving their declining years of a large amount of responsibility and care. Since then to the present time (1905) he has given his attention to agricultural pursuits with the exception of two years, when he was engaged as an engineer for J. J.
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Hunt & Co., coal operators. Mr. Shupe is a member of the Reformed church, that being the faith in which he was reared. In politics he is a staunch Dem- ocrat, and has held the offices of judge and inspector of elections. He is un- married.
DAVID BAIR is a son of Jacob Bair, who was born in Westmoreland county in 1800, and became a cooper. He followed this trade for a number of years in connection with farming. He was a member of the Mennonite church. He married Abbie Rowe, and they had the following children : David, Christian, Margaret, wife of David Hull : Eliza, wife of Harry Sager ; Ann, married Samuel Milinger : Drucilla, wife of Cyrus Rylie; Christina, married James Barts ; and Sarah, wife of Jacob Swartz.
David Bair was born in Westmoreland county in 1838, and in early life worked at the salt works and milling. He subsequently gave his entire atten- tion to agricultural pursuits. In 1862, when the war of the Rebellion was in progress, he enlisted in Company I. One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served for a term of nine months. He is now a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Scottdale, Elsworth post.
David Bair married Margaret E. Dennison, and their children were : Will- iam H., deceased; John H., a traveling salesman for Sterns & Company, of Detroit, Michigan : Christopher L., see forward : C. Elsworth, Samuel, Mary E. and Albert, of whom the last four named died in childhood. Mr. Bair married for his second wife Nancy Smith, and to this union were born two children, namely: James H., a graduate of Alverton high school, now teaching, and Benjamin L., who resides on the homestead farm.
Christopher L. Bair was born in Kecksburg. May 16, 1861, obtained his education in the common schools of his native place, and at an early age started to make his own way in the world. He immediately turned his attention to agriculture, and has been occupied at this calling during his entire working life. He is an excellent farmer, and an industrious, useful citizen. In church rela- tions he is a Methodist, attending the Methodist Episcopal church at Alverton. Fraternally he holds 'membership in Moss Rose Lodge, No. 350, I. O. O. F., of Mount Pleasant. He married Hattie E. Porter, daughter of Samuel S. and Mary Ann ( Smith) Porter. To them four children have been born: Smith P .. July 1, 1893 : William G., August 6, 1894 ; Margaret E., May 23, 1898; and David R., November 4, 1902.
HENRY W. A. RHODY ( Rohde) was born in the city of Frank- furt-am-Main ( Oberrad ) August 27, 1870, was baptized in the Lutheran church September 11, 1870, and confirmed in St. Paul's Lutheran church at Frankfurt- am-Main, April 25, 1884. He came from an old stock of Lutherans.
He entered Mustershule in Frankfurt-am-Main at the age of five and one- half. Realshule erster ( first class) Ordnung, passed examination at the age of eight and one-half and admitted to the Gymnasium, where he studied under Professors Mommsen, Eiselen, Boettcher, Mauerer, Bode and other well known scholars, advanced as far as Unter Tercia, leaving school on account of parents emigrating to America. He was employed in a drug store in Pittsburg. Penn- sylvania, on arrival, later entered Duff's College, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1891. He entered the service of Booth and Flinn, Limited, Pitts- burg, Pennsylvania, 1893. as bookkeeper, located same year at MeCance as book- keeper for the same firm, holding the position for eight years. For the last four years he has had charge of the company store, where he holds the office of secretary and treasurer, is also postmaster of McCance, Pennsylvania. He has
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been an active member of the Ligonier township school board for the last six years, held office as secretary on the school board for five years, always active in politics, was a delegate to the Republican state convention at Harrisburg on the anti-Quay slate, while Senator Quay was in control of the Republican party in the state. He is a member and past master of Ligonier Lodge, F. and A. M., member of Zocco Lodge, I. O. O. F., member of Beulah Conclave, Heptasophs.
He married, April 24, 1899, at St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal church, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Sara Killikelly Kelso. Children born: Mary Eliza- beth, March 5. 1900, at MIcCance, Pennsylvania, baptized in St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal church, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Henry William, Jr., April 21, 1902, at McCance, Pennsylvania, baptized in St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal church, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Sara Luise, at McCance, Penn- sylvania, March 7, 1906, not baptized at time of writing, will be baptized in St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal church, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. His wife was. born June 14, 1879. in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Her parents died in her in- fancy ; they came from an old stock of Presbyterian clergymen in Ireland, and several of the cousins of Mrs. Rhody are Presbyterian clergymen in Pennsyl- vania. The three sisters of Mrs. Rhody are living in Pittsburg. She is a member of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal church.
William Gustav Rohde, grandfather of Henry W. A. Rhody, born in 1814, was a land owner, emigrated in 1859 to Brazil, South America, where he bought and located, engaging in a plantation. He resided in Rio Grando De Sul, Province of Brazil, South America. Wilhelm Gustav, his son, did not go along, being at that time in the service of the Prussian government. He mar- ried Susanna Hoffman Borntraeger, a native of Freienseen. Duchess of Hesse- Darmstadt, died at the age of eighty-nine in Frankfurt-am-Main. A Lutheran in religion.
Wilhelm Gustav Rhody ( Rohde ), father of Henry W. A. Rhody, was born in Neukrug, Prussia, January 3, 1842, educated in the Military Academy of Berlin, religion Lutheran, baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran church. (Ancestors were leading reformers in the time of the reformation). He graduated at age of nineteen and was commissioned and entered service in the Thirty-fourth Pommeranian Infantry, where he served as follows: Second lieutenant in the war of Prussia against Denmark, 1864; second lieutenant in the war of Prussia against United Germany and Austria, 1866, participated in the famous battle of Koeniggratezt, where he was advanced to captain of his regiment, but afterwards reduced to first lieutenant for reason in action during battle, not obeying orders, although he won his point in action, saving the flag and a lot of men, and was decorated with three orders. He served as first lieutenant in the war of Germany against France in 1870-71, in action battles of Spicheren Hoehe, and taking of city of Strassburg, entered Paris and was present at crowning of William First as emperor of Germany, at Castle of Versailles, France, received two decorations after war and also decorated with the Iron Cross, ( Eisernes Kreutz), made captain by brevet. In 1866 entered city of Frankfurt-am-Main after Austrian war, Frankfurt-am-Main being a free city previous to the war of 1866, and stationed there with his regiment. After the Franco-Prussian war he resigned from the army in fall of 1871 and took charge of the Officers Club in Frankfurt-am-Main, and then held the fol- lowing government positions : Assistant secretary to the postmaster in Frank- furt-am-Main, 1872-73: chief inspector at the state workhouse at Frankfort- am-Main till spring of 1876: assistant inspector on the government railways between Frankfurt-am-Main and Mainz on the Rhein till fall of 1879; pay- master for the government schools for the district of Frankfurt-am-Main till
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December, 1880 ; second assistant secretary to the mayor of Frankfurt-am-Main till stimmer of 1881 ; first assistant inspector in charge of government rail- ways between Frankfurt-am-Main and Hanau till July, 1884. when he re- signed and emigrated to America.
Wilhelm Gustav Rhody. ( father), emigrated to America by advice of sev- eral relatives on mother's side, who had made fortunes in the new world. John Hoffman, his mother's cousin, after serving in the war of the Rebellion as cap- tain of the Thirty-fourth Illinois Cavalry, took an active interest in politics, being a follower of Lincoln and a great personal friend of the late General Logan. He had great influence among the German-Americans in the city of Chicago, was elected twice as treasurer of Cook county, Illinois, once as sheriff of said county, became a wealthy real estate owner of Chicago, and it was on his advice principally that his father emigrated. His father, however, being independent, changed his mind and stopped off at Pittsburg, where he became acquainted with the late Judge White, of Allegheny county, and prominent German-Amer- icans. Being well educated, but not able to master the English language per- fectly, he settled on a farm near Sewickley, Pennsylvania, later moving to New C'astle on a farm, where he now resides, with his wife, Susanna Luise ( Im- melt ) Rhody, born in Freienseen, Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt, October 5. 1841. daughter of Henry Johann Immelt, who was a stage owner, running stages from different points to Frankfurt-am-Main, died 1860, at the age of forty-three years, at Freienseen. He was a Lutheran in religion.
William G. and Susanna Luise Rhody were married in 1868, and their children were: Henry W. A., born August 27, 1870. Chirist William, born March 21, 1871, now married and living in Chicago: connected with the Pull- man Company. Marie Amelia, born March 29. 1873. married and living at Perrysville, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburg. Herrman Gustav, born May 25, 1875. died at the age of five years. Johanna Marie, born June 13, 1878, single, living with parents at New Castle, Pennsylvania. All were born in Frank- furt-am-Main.
Nearly all of the relatives of Susanna L. ( Immelt ) Rhody are now living in Chicago: her father's folks were teachers in the schools in the Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt, and her maternal grandmother's relatives were merchants, most of whom also emigrated in the early forties to America and all settled in or about Chicago.
JAMES COCHRANE, well and favorably known in the industrial world of Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, is a representa- tive of a family which has been settled in Pennsylvania for several genera- tions, and have chiefly followed the occupation of farming.
John Cochrane, grandfather of James Cochrane, and the first of the fam- ily to emigrate to this country, was born in county Antrim, Ireland, and came to this country with his wife in the year 1812. He settled in Penn township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. They had three children : I. John, born December, 1814; died June, 1887. He was one of the prosperous farm- ers of Salem township, and married Mary Christy, daughter of David Christy, a farmer of Salem township. Their children were: Nancy Jane, wife of Samuel Dibel, a farmer in Armstrong county, near Spring Church : they have two children: May and Rose ; Margaret Anna, wife of John P. Moore, a farmer of Salem township, and they have two children: Mary Ellen and John M .: James Wallace, David Christy, Harriet Emma, wife of John A. McQuilkin, retired farmer of Washington township: resides in Greensburg.
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Mrs. John Cochrane died in 1877. 2. Robert, of whom later. 3. James, of whom later.
Robert Cochrane, second son and child of John Cochrane, boru April 5. 1818. died September 14, 1868. The greater part of his life was spent in farming in Indiana county, Pennsylvania. He married Caroline Miller, who died January 13, 1894. She was a daughter of Jacob Miller, a blacksmith of Adamsburg. Their children were: Anna Eliza, married F. N. Hare ; Belle. married Levi Portzer: Margaret, married David Rankin, and lives in Clay county, Kansas: Mary, wife of B. F. Marlin, of Salina, Kansas ; John, born February 27. 1851, died December, 1905: James, of whom later ; Wil- liam Wallace, born April 9, 1856; resides at Empire, Colorado; Maria Jane, born 1858, died 1861: Laura, born 1861, teaches school in Turtle Creek; a son who died in infancy.
James Cochrane, second son and sixth child of Robert and Caroline ( Miller ) Cochrane, was born March 24, 1853. He was educated in the Mart- land school house at Five Points, and upon leaving school was apprenticed to Levi Portzer, his brother-in-law, to learn the trade of plastering. an occu- pation in which he is still engaged. He is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church of Greensburg, and in politics is a staunch Democrat. He married, April 23, 1891. Lyda A. Gongaware, daughter of Lewis and Louisa (Miller) Gongaware, and they have three children: 1. Robert Miller, born July 26, 1892: Margaret Wallace, born August 4, 1895; Sarah Turney, born August 14, 1897.
James Cochrane, third son and child of John Cochrane, born 1822, died 1896. He was a leading farmer of Washington township. He married Jane Alcorn, five children : 1. John, married Anna Black, children : Laura, Homer, Florence, Hazel, Mary, Nina, Lloyd and Erma. 2. Margaret. 3. James Borlin, married Minerva Karns, daughter of Jacob and Nancy ( Blair) Karns, of Washington township, children: Frank K., James Clyde and Nancy. 4. Jennie, wife of Samuel Stout, foreman at the planing mill of Struble & Walthour, Greensburg. 5. Ella.
FRANK D. BRINKER. Among those farmers of the younger generation upon whom rests the duty of maintaining the reputation estab- lished by their predecessors is Frank D. Brinker, of Mutual. He is the son of Simon Brinker, who was born in Wales, and migrated to this country, be- coming a farmer in Westmoreland county. He married Elizabeth Truxell, a native of the U'nited States, and their son Frank D. was born May 15, 1879. He received his education in the common schools of his native county, which he attended until reaching the age of eighteen, when he became his father's assistant on the farm. In politics he is a Republican. Frank D. Brinker mar- ried. Augest 15, 1902, Lizzie, born April 15, 1882, in Latrobe, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth ( Welkins ) Goodman, and their children are: Robert, born May 5, 1903: Franklin, born June 2, 1904: George, born July 15, 1905.
WILLIAM HERSHEY, son of Jacob and Anna (McCreary) Hershey. residents of Penn township, was born February 12. 1849. at Old Rowan Farm. in Westmoreland county, and until the age of eighteen was engaged in the labors of the farm. He then went into a foundry at Irwin for three years, and at the end of that time entered the service of the West- moreland Coal Company at their North Side mine, near Irwin, since worked out and abandoned. There he remained for about six months, when he be-
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came brakeman on the shifting crew near the mine for the Pennsylvania railroad. After holding the position for two years or more he became brake- man on the Sewickley branch road, known as the Youghiogheny branch. In two years more he was promoted to the position of conductor, which he held for twenty-five years, when the branch was acquired by the Pennsylvania railroad. He served this corporation in the same capacity for another three years, and was then transferred to the Manor branch, running to Claridge, where he still remains. He belongs to the Royal Arcanum and in politics is a Republican. He is a member of the German Reformed church, in which for a number of years he has served as elder.
Mr. Hershey married, July 4, 1871, Sallie, daughter of George and Alice (Wise) Leffler, of Allegheny county, beyond Troy Hill, near Etna Post Office, and their children are: Harry DeWitt, born April 20, 1872, married Letty Good, and lives at Latrobe ; Daniel Lot, born March 28, 1875, married Emma Good, and lives at Irwin ; Annie Alice, born April 17, 1878, wife of Joseph Ayer, of Fairmount ; Jacob Edward, born July 1, 1881, married Mabel Darrah, and is a resident of North Irwin; Howard Albert, born January 26, 1885: Ida May, born October 20, 1888; and Charles Victor, born June 28, 1896.
WILLIAM B. BLAIR, of North Huntingdon township, Westmore- land county, Pennsylvania, traces his ancestry to William Blair, who was born in county Antrim, Ireland, in 1792. He was reared and educated in his na- tive land, and in 1819, at the age of twenty-seven years, emigrated to this country to make for himself a new home amid new surroundings. He first located in the Dominion of Canada, and not having sufficient capital to pay his expenses from there to Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, where he had friends, walked the entire distance, working at odd jobs along the way and arriving with five dollars in his pocket. He farmed there for some time, then secured employment in a distillery, later purchased property upon which he erected his own distillery, and in the spring of 1838 sold all his holdings at Mount Pleasant and purchased a farm near Irwin, which he operated until his death. He was a member of the United Presbyterian church, and a Dem- ocrat in politics. By his marriage to Margaret Vance, daughter of Squire John and Eleanor ( Neal) Vance, of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, the fol- lowing children were born: John, mentioned hereinafter ; James V., married Sarah Hurst ; Eliza J., died unmarried ; William W., married Martha Wray ; Eleanor, became the wife of Robert McGuire; Mary Margaret, became the wife of Frank Hurst ; Sibbet, died unmarried ; and Samuel N.
John Blair, eldest son of William and Margaret ( Vance ) Blair, was born in the vicinity of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, August 30, 1828. He re- ceived a common school education, and assisted with the labors of the home farm from his eighth year, thus gaining a thorough knowledge of agricul- tural pursuits. He has conducted extensive operations on the homestead farm near Irwin, and gained a reputation for progressive methods and hon- orable trasactions. He served as supervisor for two years during the period of the Civil war and also held the office of school director. He holds member- ship in the United Presbyterian church, in which he has been an elder for three decades. He is a Democrat in politics, and by his vote and influence has aided the candidates of that great party organization. He married, in 1856, Eliz- beth Barnes, daughter of William Barnes, of North Huntingdon township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Their children are: William B.,
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nrentioned hereinafter ; Margaret E., became the wife of J. K. Vance, and re- sides on the Blair farm; Nancy J., became the wife of William L. Martin, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work; and Elizabeth, became the wife of Wilson Fleming, and they reside in Irwin.
William B. Blair, eldest son of John and Elizabeth ( Barnes) Blair, was born on the homestead farm near Irwin, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools of Fairview and Irwin, thus acquiring a prac- tical education which prepared him for an active career. He has resided continuously on the Blair farm, which he still operates, and which is among the best cultivated and therefore most productive pieces of property in that section of the county. He is now serving as school director, in which capac- ity he renders valuable assistance. He is a Democrat in poltics. He is a member and trustee of the United Prsbytrian church, to the support of which he contributes liberally. On October 20, 1887, Mr. Blair married Rachel White, daughter of James and Harriet ( Marchand) White, of Jacksonville, Pennsylvania. Their children are: John H., born July 30, 1889; James W., born August 17, 1891 : Charles E., born June 16, 1894; and Alvin W., born June 8, 1898.
HARROLD FAMILY. The race which numbers Samuel Lincoln Harrold, of North Huntingdon township, among its numerous representatives, was planted in Westmoreland county by John Harrold, one of the original Ger- man settlers of Hempfield township, and founder of the Harrold settlement, near Harrold church.
Jacob Harrold, a descendant of John Harrold, married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Caspar Walthour, a member of one of the earliest and most notable families in western Pennsylvania. Their children were: William, born April 5. 1818, died unmarried June 24. 1883 : Caspar Walthour, born August 8. 1819. married, June 8, 1852, Lydia Snyder, of Kansas ; Matilda, born April 19. 1821, married, 1847, Jacob Weaver, of Ligonier; Marie Elizabeth, born March 16, 1823, married February, 1842, David Cort, and is now a widow, living in Illinois ; Daniel, mentioned hereinafter ; Sarah, born June 18, 1829, died unmarried September 29, 1904: Charlotte, born May 16, 1833, married, November 4. 1852, J. MI. Miller, and died February 9, 1902; Mr. Miller lives in Westmoreland City, Pennsylvania : Isabelle, born June 13, 1836, married June 23, 1857, James Caldwell, and lives near Irwin. Mrs. Harrold, the mother of these children, died June 9. 1874, aged seventy-six years and ten months, and the death of the father of the family occurred June 13, 1883, when he had reached the venerable age of ninety-two.
Daniel Harrold, son of Jacob and Elizabeth ( Walthour ) Harrold, was born November 10, 1825, on the Harrold farm, near Manor. This tract of three hundred and twelve acres came into the family with his mother, being an inheritance from the Walthours. It is traversed, for about a mile of its length, by the old Philadelphia and Pittsburg pike. At this time the Pennsyl- vania railroad runs a mile north of it and a portion of it is cut through by the electric railway. Mr. Harrold spent his life as a tiller of the soil, cultivating the acres which had descended to him frim his ancestors. He served one term as supervisor at Adamsburg, and in the sphere of politics adhered to the Republican party. He was a member of the Lutheran church. Mr. Harrold married, February 18, 1855, Lonisa, daughter of John and Christiana ( Holt- zer) Gress, of Adamsburg, formerly of North Washington, and their family consisted of the following children: Elizabeth, unmarried, and lives at Ma-
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nor : John, resides at home : Samuel Lincoln, mentioned hereinafter ; Elmer, died in infancy ; Jacob, died in infancy : Agnes wife of Dr. John S. Silvis, of Harrison City, Pennsylvania : Anson Forney, married Maude Hubley. lives in East Orange, New Jersey: George, married Jean Morrow, lives in East Orange, New Jersey : Mary Ann, taught four years in the township schools and lives at home: Sarah Della, lives at home; and Alice Louise, the first graduate from the schools of North Huntingdon township, has taught school in the township for six years. The death of Mr. Harrold occurred Septem- ber 17, 1888.
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