History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Part 152

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1868 .- Bargeen, George Lesvig; Constable, Josoph Kline; Counell, John Hagas, Joba Melfen, Jobn Saul, H. H. McGinley, G. W. Frick, George W. Aime; Clerk, John McMell.

1800 .- Burgess, Robert Black ; Constable, Joseph Kline ; Council, John Banl, George Klingensmith, George Keck, Joseph Walton, John T. Dickey (also clerk)-

1000 .- Burgess, W. D. Duffeld; Constable, Josoph Kline; Council, H. T. Metagar, Michael Hawk, George Mclaughlin, Simon Earnest, Hiram Hobaugh, Simon P. Lesig; Clark, H. T. Metzger.

1881 .- Burgess, Simon J .. Stick ; Constable, Heory Wagner, Jr .; Con- of, Henry Keck, G. W. Leighser, George Klingenemith, Simon Earnest, Daniel Blose, Cyrus J. Kopple; Clerk, Josiah Harvey.

1802 .- Burgess, C. J. Steck ; Constable, Henry Wagner, Jr .; Clerk, Josiah Harvey ; Treasurer, C. J. Kopple.

1883 .-- Burgess, George W. Frick ; Constable, C. J. Steck ; Connoll, Henry Hobangh, George McOray, John Earnest, Simon Hugues, Joseph Mo- Quailkin, Joseph Harvey (also clerk).

1884 .- Bargees, Cyrus J. Kopple; Constable, B. J. Bleck; Council, Wil- Ham Hugue, James Carothers, John G. Wagner, Simon Earnest, William J. Lightner, Urich Wongamen; Clerk, W. Huges. 1806 .- Bargees, George Lessig; Clerk, H. T. Metagar.

1800 .- Burgess, David White; Constable, 8. J. Steck ; Council, Dr. James A. Fulton, J. H. Welty, Charles Harvey, Peter Klingensmith, S. A. Linesabigler, David Hanan ; Clerk, Dr. J. A. Fulton.

1857 .- Burgess, John Doncaster ; Council, Simon Earnest, J. H. Welty, Dr. J. A. Falton, David Haben, Peter Klingensmith, S. A. Lineen- bigiler; Olerk, Dr. J. A. Fulton.

1806 .- Bargeen, George Lessig; Constable, S. J. Steck ; Council, Josiah Harvey, Dr. H. P. Hagus, Dr. John McNeil, H. T. Metzgar, Peter Klingensmith, C. J. Walton ; Clerk, John McNeil.

1800 .-- Bargees, George Lesaig ; Constable, S. J. Steck ; Council, Josiah Harvey, William Kunkle, Peter Klingensmith, Hiram Hobangh, Simon Earnest, John McNeil (also clerk).

1870 .- Burgess, Peter Klingensmith; Constable, 8. J. Steck ; Council, David Henon, H. Hobeagb, W. L. Kunkle, John McNet, Joelab Harvey, Simon Earnest; J. McNell, clerk.

1871 .- Burgess, W. J. Leighner; Constable, John Carson; Council, A. J. Klingermith, John Welty, Simon Hugue, L. B. Sayder, Riley Walton, Simon Keck (also clerk).

1872-Burgess, James Reed; Clerk, J. W. Borland ; Council, John Wangaman, John Haner, Hiram Hobangh, Michael Halk, J. S. Leighner, John W. Borland (also clerk).

1873 .- Burgess, James Reed ; Constable, Robert Dixon; Council, Zach- arish Zimmerman, John W. Borland, Peter Klingensmith, John Earnest, David Hanas, John McNeil (also clerk).

1874-Burgess, John W. Borland ; Constable, R. Dixon; Council, Z. Zimmerman, Thomas Waddell, Gideon Ginter, Daniel Potts, John Hagus, Peter Klingeormith.

1876 .- Bargees, John W. Borland ; Constable, Charles Thompson ; Coun- cil, Daniel Potta, Jobn Hugus, Gideon Ginter, Thomas Waddell, Z. Zimmerman, P. Klingersmith ; Clerk, Z. Zimmerman.

1878 .- Burgess, J. W. Borland; Council, Thomas Waddell, Z. Zimmer- man, P. Klingensmith, Daniel Potts, G. Ginter, 8. P. Earnest ; Clerk, Z. Zimmerman.

1877 .- Burgess, William Hugus; Council, Daniel Potts, L. B. Snyder, &. P. Keck, Daniel Blose, Robert A. Reed, Charles Harvey ; Clerk, R. A. Reed.

1878 .- Burgess, Jacob B. Ament; Council, Uriah Wangaman, Thomas Kinney, James Reed, Jacob Earnest, John G. Kirker, 8. 8. Dufield; Clerk, J. G. Kirker.

1879 .- Bargees, J. B. Ament; Constable, G. W. Haney; Clerk, James Reed; Council, Henry Hill, John Hugue, Riley Walton, Thomas Kinney, Thomes Waddell, James Reed.

1880 .- Burgess, Peter Klingensmith ; Constable, Henry Hill; Council, John Earnest, James Reed, Josiah Harvey, C. A. Huffman, M. B. Anderson, Samuel Shields; Clerk, James Reed.

1881 .- Burgess, Peter Klingenemith; Clerk, J. D. Patty ; Council, Thos. A. Kinney, John Klingensmith, H. J. Branthoover, S. A. Linsen- bigler, Albert Earnest, J. D. Patty; Constable, Henry Hill ; Street Commissioner, Thomas Kinney.

CARMEL LODGE, No. 542, I. O. O. F.,

was chartered by Elias Wildman, M. W. G. M., and William Curtis, M. W. G. Secretary, May 22, 1858. The first officers were : N. G., John Doncaster; V. G., Robert Black; Sec., Henry Mckeever; Asst. Sec., J. C. Shaw ; Treas., C. M. Johnston. The following are its Past Noble Grands still members of this lodge : Zachariah Zimmerman, James Nichols, Wil- liam Hugus, W. P. Humes, George Saul, L. B. Sny- der, A. B. Kline, William C. Sloan, J. D. Patty, Josiah Harvey, J. C. Kibler, S. M. Fink, Cornelius Berlin. The officers for 1882 are: N. G., C. J. Brant- hoover; Sec., C. E. Berlin ; Asst. Sec., L. B. Snyder; Treas., George Saul. Trustees, William Hugus, L. B. Snyder, J. D. Patty. It meets every Wednesday night in its hall on Pittsburgh Street, in the building erected and owned by the lodge. Number of mem- bers, twenty.

BOROUGH SCHOOLS.

The brick school edifice was erected in 1854, and is on Greensburg Street. The board of directors in 1882 consists of George Keck, President; J. D. Patty, Secretary ; Joseph Harvey, Treasurer ; L. B. Snyder, J. G. Kirker, Isaac Ringer. The teachers are W. L. Fennel, principal; Mr. Gordon, assistant; J. H. Ringer, W. H. Hensel, primary department.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

THE McQUILKIN FAMILY.

James McQuilkin was born near Edinburgh, Scot- land, and arrived in Philadelphia in 1773. He ves married in 1780, by Rev. James Power, near Mount Pleasant, to Miss Ann Robison, who was born in the Big Cove of Pennsylvania. Their children were Robert, John, Daniel, James, William, Samuel, Thomas, Joseph, Mary, and Isabella. James Mc- Quilkin died Dec. 2, 1802, and his wife, Ann (Robi- son), Sept. 18, 1828. Joseph, their second child, was born in Salem township, April 3, 1801, at the head of Thorn Run, where his father had located many years before. One of his brothers learned the blacksmith trade near Pleasant Unity, one that of a carpenter in Beaver County, two were boot and shoemakers, two

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were farmers, Samuel died, and Joseph remained with his mother nntil her death. The latter son, Joseph, married, May 81, 1882, Elizabeth Thompson, of Washington. He bought ont the interests of his brothers and sisters in his father's homestead place, and resided thereon until 1849, when he removed to Now Salem, where, Oct. 28, 1851, he purchased from Valentine Bossart the brick house on Pittsburgh Street. He and his wife united with the Presbyterian Church at Murrysville, in June, 1882, in which they remained until the pastorate of Rev. David Kirk- patrick at Poke Run Church, when they joined it, where they held membership until Salem Church was organized in 1850, when they connected themselves with it. His wife died Feb. 25, 1852. He was mar- ried Jan. 18, 1858, to Sarah Clark. She was born in 1819, and was the daughter of Moses and Agnes (Humes) Clark. Her grandfathers, Isaac Clark and Mr. Humes, were both emigrants from Ireland, and early pioneers in the county. Joseph McQuilkin was elected justice of the peace in 1862, was re-elected in 1867, again in 1872, and the fourth time in 1877 .. He settled the estates of scores of people, and for over a quarter of a century did the major part of the con- veyancing for this section of the county. He never had any living children by either of his wives, and died Nov. 6, 1881, leaving the heritage of a good name. He was a great humorist, and kept a diary of important local events that had transpired in this region for over half a century. He was a stanch Democrat in politics, a stern Presbyterian in religious faith, and a man whose public and private record was unsullied by a dishonorable act.

THE KLINE FAMILY.

John Kline, who had been a Revolutionary soldier, removed from Lebanon County when his son John was a small boy, and settled near Adamsburg, in Hempfield township, on Brush Creek. This son, John, moved to the manor near the church, where he died. John's son, Joseph Kline, was born near Adamsburg, and came to New Salem in 1851, where he has since resided. When a small lad, and plowing with his father's hired man in a field adjoining the battle ground of Bouquette, he saw plowed up many Indian relics, and in one field found well-preserved hair of the Indians, that had lain covered up for over half a century, and was as fresh and flexible as when the Indians were buried.

THE HUGUS FAMILY.

Jobn Hugus, the first of his name in this county, removed after the Revolutionary war from North- ampton County to Unity township. He was of French Huguenot extraction, and his father had emigrated to this country about 1745. His son Henry married Elizabeth Schwartz, and in 1818 removed from Unity

to Salem township, and purchased a farm one and a half miles south of New Salem. Their children were:

1. Catharine, married to Isaac Bosler, who removed to Richland County, Ohio.

2. Margaret, married to George Lose.

8. Sarah, married to George Keck.

4. Jobn.

5. Simon.

6. Isaac.

7. Jacob.

8. Henry.

9. William.

Of these, John, the first son and fourth child, was born Dec. 21, 1810, and married for his first wife Ann C. McGinley, and for his second C. A. Ford. Ho was elected sheriff of the county in 1849, and served three years. In 1876 he was elected to the State House of Representatives, and was for two winters a member of the Legislature. He was in the mercantile buai- ness in New Salem for over twenty years, and for a long time carried on a large distillery in Penn town- ship. He subsequently built one near New Salem, which burning down, he retired from the distilling business. His father, Henry, died in April, 1829, and his mother, Elizabeth (Schwartz), in June, 1854, while on a visit to her relatives in Unity township.

ROBERT GIVEN.

Robert Given, Sr., emigrated from County Tyrone. North Ireland, and after the Revolution, in which he served in a Pennsylvania regiment, he located in Lan- caster County. Some years after his arrival in Amer- ica two of his brothers came to this country, of whom George settled in Chester County, and Oliver in Lan- caster, near him. He married Mary Hawk, also an emigrant from North Ireland, and of the Presbyterian faith, while he adhered to the Established Church of England. He died in 1800, and his wife survived him until 1847. Of their children, three arrived to ma- ture age,-George, who died in Johnstown in 1861; John, who died in Huntingdon County in 1872; and Robert. The latter was born April 17, 1799, near Sowdersburg, Lancaster Co., and in 1821 came to Westmoreland County. and was several years engaged in teaching a subscription school in Derry township. Although he was not classically educated, he had re- ceived a thorough English education, and was one of the most popular and successful teachers in his day. He was married on Nov. 9, 1820, to Miss Mary Taylor, of Mifflin County, who died in 1835. The living chil- dren by her were John, now a leading merchant in Iowa City; Mary, married to William S. Lincoln, of Huntingdon County ; Robert, residing in Fayette County ; Martha, married to Wesley Rose, of Johns- town; and Elizabeth, married to Marshall Rose, of Sacramento City, Cal. In 1898 he married Eleanor Brown, of St. Clair township, in this county, who bore him the following children : Albert, George,

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William, a prominent attorney at Greensburg ; Mil- ton, Anna Maria, Harvey, and Eleanor. His son John served throughout the Mexican war, and was commissary at Vera Cruz. His sons George and Mil- ton were in the Union army in the late civil war, the latter, of Company F, First Pennsylvania Artillery, was killed at Gettysburg battle in July, 1868, in his nineteenth year. Robert Given was commissioned by Governor Wolf in 1881 as captain of the " Armagh Light Infantry," the best-drilled company in the Ninety-ninth Regiment of the Second Brigade, Fif- teenth Division, Pennsylvania militia. On Feb. 14, 1885, he was appointed by Governor Wolf justice of the peace for Wheatfield township, Indiana Co., and in 1840 (under the constitution of 1838) was elected to the same position in the same township, ro- coiving his commission from Governor Shunk. In 1857 he was elected magistrate for St. Clair township, of this county, in which he laid out the town of New Florence, and commissioned by Governor Pollock. In 1861 he was elected one of the two associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas of this county, and in 1866 was re-elected to the same judicial position, which was the first re-election in the county of any associate judge. . Judge Given on the bench won the esteem of the bar and the people for the ability and impartiality that characterized his rulings and course. When on the bench the president judge was often away, and here it was that his ability and judicial firmness were so signally noted. Judge Given has ever taken an active part in the politics of his country, and been for over half a century a leading man in the counsels of the Democratic party, with which he has been identified all his life. While a member of no church, his family has been connected with that of the United Presbyterians, but he has ever been a liberal contributor to all in his neighborhood. Since 1821 he has been a resident of either Indiana or West- moreland County, but for the past twenty-three years has resided in the latter, in which he has owned prop- erty in all that time. For over twenty years he was connected with the public works of the State, and aided in the construction of the old Portage Railroad and Pennsylvania Canal, and as a contractor graded three miles of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1882 he sold his elegant farm in the southern part of Salem township, and in April of the same year removed to Greensburg, where he shortly after, very suddenly died, full of years and honors,-a noble example of a self-made man who under our free institutions had arisen from a poor boy to competence and high posi- tion among his fellow-men.

ZECHARIAH ZIMMERMAN.

The name Zimmerman is of German origin, and is one of the earliest found in the German settlements of Pennsylvania. In the last quarter of the past century Jacob Zimmerman, of Berks County, married

Maria Magdalena, daughter of Chris. Braucher, of the same county. Their son Daniel was there born Feb. 9, 1794, and when a young man removed to Westmoreland County before New Salem was laid out. Here, in Franklin township, he married Rebecca, daughter of John and Anne Elizabeth Wangaman, who was born Jan. 25, 1796. When he came to Now Salem he purchased a lot just opposite the grist-mill, on which he erected a house, and in which he carried on his trade of tailoring, the first in the place. He was a strong advocate of the common school system adopted in 1834-85, and. for which he fought at the polls and elsewhere to establish. He was identified with the early temperance movements of the day, and was the first man in his neighborhood to raise a build- ing without the use of whiskey. In 1880 he removed to Mercer County, but a short time afterwards re- moved to Allegheny township, in this county, to a farm he had bought, and on which he died in 1876. His aged widow still resides there at the advanced age of eighty-six years. Their children were:

1. Elizabeth, born Dec. 1, 1816, died aged two years and eleven months.

2. Rev. Jacob (a Lutheran clergyman), born Feb. 2, 1818, and resides in Allegheny township.

8. John, born March 24, 1820, cashier of First National Bank of Greensburg, and ex-prothonotary of the county.

4. George Washington, born Jan. 5, 1828, died during the Rebellion in the United States service.

5. Anna Mary, born Dec. 29, 1825, married to Rev. David Mckee, and died April 11, 1869.

6. Zechariah, born June 27, 1828.

7. Sarah, born March 5, 1881, married William Shearer, and lives on the Zimmerman homestead in Allegheny township.

8. Benjamin, born Nov. 9, 1833, died young.

9. Lucinda, born Jan. 1, 1835, married William Artman, resides near Parker, Pa.

10. Amos Lafayette, born Feb. 22, 1888, resides near Leechburg, Armstrong Co.

11. Michael Jonas, born July 24, 1841, died aged sixteen months.

Their sixth child, Zechariah, was born in New Salem, and is probably the oldest living person born in that place." He was raised on his father's farm in Allegheny township (to which his father removed when Zechariah was two years old) until his twenti- eth year (1848), when he came to New Salem and clerked for his brother John in the latter's dry-goods store about a year. He then assisted in Mr. Red- path's store at Leechburg, after which he kept store at Howellton's Cross-Roads for several years. He then attended Duff's Commercial College at Pitts- burgh, and took charge of the company co-operative store in New Salem. Afterwards he was again a clerk in his brother John Zimmerman's store here, and in 1860 opened a drug-store, in which business he has continued to the present time. He was married Sept.

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15, 1858, to Catherine, daughter of John and Cathe- rine (Stotter) Walter. She was born Oct. 20, 1835, and died Feb. 6, 1857, leaving one child, Mary Cath- erine Walter Zimmerman, born June 24, 1856, and who married Albert J. Steel. On Sept. 1, 1859, he was married to Margaret A., daughter of John and Sarah Jackson, by whom were borne the following children : William John, Jennie Laura, Minnie Re- becca Harbison, and Sarah Etta Bertha. During the late war he was a member of the " Union Rangers," Capt. Duff's company of the militia (Company C, Twenty-second Regiment), which saw several weeks' service on the southern borders of the State. He is a member of Congruity Presbyterian Church, and worships with the congregation here that holds its services in the Methodist Episcopal Church edifice. In 1859 he became a member of Carmel Lodge, No. 542, I. O. O. F., of which he is a Past Noble Grand, and he is a life member of Ancient York Masonic Lodge, No. 225, of Greensburg, where he received its three symbolical degrees in 1868. He has served some twenty-five years as postmaster, first at Craw- ford's Mills, where he was appointed in 1850 by Nathan K. Hall, Postmaster-General under President Fillmore, and which he held until he resigned and moved away from that locality. In 1868, after John Doncaster, postmaster of this town, was burned out, he was appointed postmaster here, and held the office until March 4, 1881. He is a Republican in politics, and has been twice a candidate (for prothonstary) of his party, in the minority in this county, to help maintain its organization, and each time ran largely ahead of his ticket. He is one of the principal bus- inees men of the borough, and is ever identified with all projects for the best interests of the community, whose esteem he enjoys in an eminent degree.

ROBERT SHIELDS.

Among the early settlers in Franklin County was the Shields family, which had emigrated from the north of Ireland. James Shields was born near Chambersburg, in that county, in 1770, and came to Westmoreland in 1798, locating some four miles northeast of New Salem, in Salem township, on the farm now owned by his son David. He built a house on his two hundred-acre tract of land, to which he added subsequently one hundred and twenty acres more. He married Elizabeth Wilson, of the old and wealthy Wilson family, near Chambersburg. She was the eldest daughter of her parents, who had seven sons and three daughters. She became in 1872 sole heir of the extensive Wilson estate in Franklin County, embracing some five thousand acres of land, together with other valuable personal property. James Shields died in 1841, and his wife, Elizabeth (Wilson), March 23, 1873, aged ninety-nine years. Their children were Matthew, who died young ; John, living in Franklin County ; Robert ; James, a

resident of Chambersburg; David, residing in La- trobe; Matthew, living in Mount Pleasant ; Wilson, also in Mount Pleasant; Sarah, married to William Ray; and Mary (deceased), married to James Dickey. Of these, Robert was born in 1803, and when nineteen years of age went to Shieldsburg, where he learned the tanning business with Capt. Benjamin Hill, who there carried on an extensive tannery. In the fall of 1825 he removed to New Salem, where his father bad purchased two lots, with a little tannery sunk on them, of John Hutton, the owner, who had started it a few years before. Robert Shields made additions and im- provements to the establishment, and carried on the tanning business until 1870, a period of forty-five years. It was on the lots of his present residence on Pittsburgh Street, but the vats have been covered up for several years. He bought out the saddlery and harness-making business of John B. Plumer, which he conducted also for a long time, in addition to a boot and shoe factory carried on by him until the cheap Eastern manufactured goods began to be kept by the stores. He was married Aug. 31, 1826, to Mary Borland, daughter of Samuel Borland, by Rev. Har- per. His wife died Feb. 5, 1861. Their children were Elizabeth, born June 19, 1827, was married to George Lloyd, of Latrobe; Lydia Anne, born March 19, 1829, unmarried, and resided at home; Florinda Patton, born Oct. 3, 1881, married Henry Mckeever, and died Dec. 5, 1865; James, born Feb. 15, 1833,: died young; Mary Jane, born June 30, 1834, married Samuel J. Paul; Samuel Shields, born April 26, 1886; Sarah, born Dec. 6, 1888, unmarried, residing at home; David Wilson, born Oct. 4, 1839, died young; Rachel Maggie, born Oct. 16, 1841, married John F. Humes; William Wilson, born April 1, 1848, died young ; Nancy Sterritt, married to Dr. James A. Fulton; and Robert, an infant. Mr. Shields was raised and educated in the Presbyterian faith, and until 1849 (when the Presbyterian Church was or- ganized at New Salem) was a member of Con- gruity Church, where for nearly twoscore years he worshiped under the benign ministrations of Revs. Samuel Porter and Samuel McFarren, two distin- guished divines of their day. He is the only living head of a family who resided in New Salem in 1825, which was then a small village of but few houses, but a noted stopping-point for stages on the Pitts- burgh and New Alexandria turnpike. For over half a century he was very largely identified with its busi- ness interests, and contributed greatly to its growth in material resources as well as to the advancement of its educational and religious projects, to all of which he ever aided by his voice and purse. Since his residence here he has witnessed the erection of four substantial church edifices, the organization of good schools, and a rapid development of the borough in population and wealth, and in his old age enjoys the recompense of a busy and well-spent life, enjoy- ing the respect and confidence of his neighbors.

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SAMUEL J. PAUL.

One of the first magistrates in what was then Washington (now Bell) township was Samuel Paul, Eaq., one of the most popular justices of his time. He was of Scotch-Irish extraction, and a man de- scended from an old family very early settled in the provinces. He married Jennie Porterfield. . Their children were Robert; Mary, unmarried ; John; Jennie, married to Matthew Callen; Hannah, mar- ried to George Provard ; James; and Sarah, married to George Spalding. Of these, John, born in 1808, married Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Laugh- ery) Thompson, of Washington township, on Beaver Run. She was born in 1804, and was the grand- daughter of Col. Langhery, who raised and com- manded the Westmoreland County company that started to join Gen. George Rogers Clark, and which met an untimely fate in all being cut off and killed by the Indians. The children of John and Sarah (Thompson) Paul were Samuel Jackson; Robert Alexander; William Porterfield (deceased) ; Mary Jane, unmarried and deceased; Nancy Elizabeth, married to William Jack; Sarah Maria, married to Rev. J. Molton Jones, pastor of Pine Run Presbyte- rian Church ; James Laughery, chief clerk in the office of the State superintendent of public instruc- tion ; John Calvin, major in the late civil war and resident of Pittsburgh ; and Hannah Lucy, married to Rev. A. F. Boyd, pastor of Rehoboth Presbyterian Church.

Samuel J. Paul was born Nov. 13, 1825, in Wash- ington township, and when one year old his parents removed to the Kiskiminetas River, and shortly after they settled in Bell township on a farm on which is the site of the present village of Perrysville, where they remained until 1889. Then they came to Salem township to a farm below Tree's Mill. He was raised on a farm, and educated in the schools of his neigh- borhood. After his marriage he resided two years in Loyalhanna township, and then shortly afterwards (in 1856) came to his present farm, which he then purchased, and which lies one mile east of New Salem. The following year he erected his neat cot- tage residence. He is a general farmer, but in the past has given special attention to stock-raising. He was married Nov. 1, 1849, to Agnes, daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Porter) Jack. She was born April 8, 1823, and died Jan. 31, 1875. By this union the fol- lowing children were born : Nancy Jack, born May 28, 1851, married to John C. Davis ; Margaret Jane, born Feb. 14, 1856, married to Dr. Amos O. Taylor, of New Salem; John Calvin, born Jan. 16, 1859; Sarah Maria, born February, 1861 ; Samuel Jack, born Sept. 2, 1868. He was married June 14, 1877, to Mary Jane, daughter of Robert and Mary (Borland) Shields, who was born June 30, 1834. By this mar- riage was born one child, Robert Thompson, June 27, 1878. Mr. Paul's father and mother were married in 1824, at the ages of twenty and nineteen respectively,

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