Standard history of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Part 134

Author: Wilson, Erasmus, 1842-1922; Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, 1852-1926. cn
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: Chicago : H.R. Cornell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1192

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the favorable notice of many of the leading people of his community. His natural aptitude for the management of important affairs and his knowledge of business methods led him to early take an active interest in the affairs of his section of the State, and to participate therein in a manner which left no room for doubt as to his ability to figure in the political life of his city and county. In 1881, therefore, he became a candidate for the position of county treasurer of Allegheny County, and was nominated by the Republican party against great political odds, which were exerted for the benefit of the opposing candidates. In spite of the factional opposition which he found necessary to overcome, he was triumphantly elected by an overwhelming majority. He filled the office of treasurer with credit during the three successful years 1882, 1883 and 1884. Since that time Mr. Witherow has held many public offices of honor and trust, in all of which he has demonstrated the same capacity for earnest work, and has given to the trusts imposed in him the same careful and conscientious. supervision. His interest in the affairs of his county by no means ceased when he had served his term as county treasurer, and he continued one of the most active men in the Republican party. In 1892 he was unanimously chosen as a representative to the Republican National Convention which met at Minneapolis, and in 1896 he was chosen an elector-at-large on the Republican ticket. When, in January, 1897, the Electoral College met, Mr. Witherow was honored with the position of messenger to deliver the vote at Washington, an office which, in the minds of the people of Western Pennsylvania, was one of much honor. In the public affairs of Allegheny, Mr. Witherow has always played an important part. He is at present a member of the board of managers of the Allegheny General Hospital, one of the most admirably managed institutions in the Keystone State. He is a director of the Pleasant Valley Railroad Company, and a director in the United States National Bank of Pittsburg. In these offices he has demonstrated rare capabilities and an acquaintance with the requirements of financial affairs which has greatly added to his reputation. Mr. Witherow's leading interests at present are found in his proprietorship and active management of what is generally known as the leading European Hotel in Western Pennsylvania, namely, the "Hotel Duquesne," and in the control of his various investments, particularly those in real estate, whereof he is a large holder. In view of this latter capacity, Mr. Witherow is very actively identified with the march of progress in Allegheny County and the contiguous districts, and his judgment is generally consulted in all great enterprises affecting the city of Allegheny and the surrounding county. On March 22, 1882, Mr. Witherow married Alice M. Douglass. They have three children, David M., Helen D., and William P. Witherow. Mr. Witherow's manner is genial and he is possessed of great force and character, which, added to his unbroken record of probity and honor, has given him in both public and busi- ness affairs a widespread influence.

Robert Christy. One of the leading drug establishments of Pittsburg is that owned and conducted by Robert Christy, whose birth occurred on February 27, 1844. He was the only son of James M. and Eleanor E. (Jones) Christy, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Ireland. The paternal grandfather, who also bore the name of Robert, came to Pittsburg carly in the present century. He was one of the early justices of the place, and held office by the Governor's appointment. In those early days he was a well-known figure, and for a long time held his office in the Diamond. His wife was Anna Gilchrist, a native of North Carolina. He died of cholera in 1852 or 1854. James M. Christy was a well-known man in Pittsburg for years. He served as city treasurer and advocated many reforms and improvements, being also a leading spirit in educational matters and in the political affairs of the day. He died in

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1896, the death of his wife occurring the following year. Robert Christy, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the Second Ward public school of Pitts- burg and at the Western University of Pennsylvania. In 1858 he went to Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, where he was engaged in the drug business with Henry Fess, Jr., an uncle, and a former Pittsburg man, and while there acquired a thor- ough knowledge of the business. In August, 1861, he returned to Pittsburg, but soon after proceeded to the oil regions, where he remained for several years and was successful financially. The first drug store in Carnegie was established by him in 1870, is still in active operation, and is the leading establishment of the kind in the place. In 1885 he became the owner of the drug store at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Smithfield Street, which from year to year has been en- larged, improved and beautified until it has become one of the finest and most complete drug stores in the world. Its location is in the very heart of the busi- ness of the city, and his trade has grown to marvelous proportions. In 1896 he refitted and renovated the establishment at an expense of $20,000. The first floor is now used exclusively as the salesroom for fancy goods and the usual drug store stock of sundries. The second floor is exclusively drug supplies and the prescription department, in which competent pharmacists, including one lady, are kept busy. The third floor is the physicians' supply department, while the laboratory occupies the fourth floor. The fifth floor is the cellar, but is a very important one, for there the engines and dynamos for the private electric plant are located, and every available square foot is devoted to the storage of goods. Every branch of this business is in operation night and day, with two sets of employes, and Mr. Christy's only trouble seems to be that neither day nor night is long enough to accommodate the customers which throng to this establishment. He is an extremely busy man, for besides his drug business he has other interests of importance. While residing at Carnegie he served as burgess of the borough and as director of the public schools. He was married in 1869 to Miss Lydia S. Brown, a daughter of Mansfield B. Brown, a native Pittsburger, and a member of a pioneer family of this section. He founded the town of Mansfield (now Carnegie). Mrs. Christy's maternal grandfather was William Hays, a pioneer of Pittsburg, and her mother was born at the corner of Fifth and Liberty streets, and the property at that point is still in possession of the family. To Mr. and Mrs. Christy the following children have been given: Jane (Brown), Eleanor E., Lydia B., Mary (Hays), Mansfield Brown, Melzina M. and James Monroe. The family are attendants of the Presbyterian Church.

Harry David Williams English, manager of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company for Western Pennsylvania, claims Pennsylvania as his native State, having been born at Sabbath Rest, Blair County, on December 21, 1855. His parents, Rev. George W. and Lydia H. English, were natives of that State also. The study of theology occupied much of the attention of the father during the early part of his life, but later he became interested in commercial pursuits. He was an eloquent and forcible speaker, and enthusiastically espousing the anti-slavery cause, did effective work for it in the community in which he lived. He was noted far and wide for his integrity and kindly disposi- tion, and was in every way fitted to guide and direct the footsteps of his youngest son, the subject of this sketch, who after a thorough training under the father's tuition spent four years at Milroy Academy, Hilroy, Pennsylvania. In 1871 he en- tered the office of the South Side Courier at Pittsburg, and soon became familiar with the printer's trade, afterward spending three years with thePittsburg-Chron- icle-Telegraph. In the fall of 1881 Mr. English became associated with his brother, George W. English, in the insurance business, representing the Berkshire Life Insurance Company, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, of which his brother was the

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Pittsburg agent. In 1883 Mr. English became general agent and manager for Western Pennsylvania for the company. When he assumed this position the agency had a large business, but in the fourteen years he has been at its head its transactions have more than trebled. Although the company is not one of the largest, the agency at Pittsburg stands with the leading companies doing business in Western Pennsylvania, owing to the excellence of the Berkshire and the per- sonnel of the management at the Pittsburg agency, and its patrons include the best business and professional intellect of the city and surrounding territory. Mr. English has never been identified with any other insurance company, having found in his work for this company a congenial occupation, and made an enviable record for it and for himself. He has always taken a decided interest in the ad- vancement of Pittsburg and Western Pennsylvania and has given abundant service to that end. For years he has been an active inember of the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce, and was selected by that body as a member of the com- mittee to advertise Pittsburg and Western Pennsylvania during the Columbian Exposition or World's Fair at Chicago, and was made secretary of the committee, a position which involved the expenditure of much time and labor. Later he was selected by the citizens of Pittsburg as a member of the executive council which provided for the entertainment of the great encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic held in September, 1894, and in 1896 was made a member of the executive board having in charge the Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar of the United States to be held in Pittsburg in 1898. The national convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew was held in Pittsburg in October, 1896, and Mr. English was chairman of the executive committee having the arrangements in charge. At the national convention of that body in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1895, he was elected a member of the National Council, representing the Council District of Western Pennsylvania in the Council of the United States. In char- itable and benevolent circles Mr. English is active. At the present time he is a member of the board of trustees, and secretary of the Kingley House Association, the Pittsburg College Settlement, and director of the Small Parks Association of Pittsburg, the object of which is to provide breathing spots for the poor of the city. Mr. English is a member of the Duquesne Club, and of the Americus Re- publican Club. He is a member of Lodge 45, F. and A. M., of Duquesne Chapter, Pittsburg Commandery No. I, Knights Templar, and Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, thirty-second degree, and also of Syria Temple, A. O. N. M. S. Politically he is an ardent Republican, and is active in his support of that party. He was chairman of the executive committee of the Americus Re- publican Club from 1884 to 1890. Mr. English is a member of Calvary Protestant Church of Pittsburg. He is married, and lives with his family on Fifth Avenue, Shadyside. He is a man of most genial disposition in the best sense of the term, and has a host of friends who thoroughly respect him as a man and citizen. He has strong belief in the future greatness of Pittsburg, and will do all he can to . make his belief a fact.

Francis Torrance, who died in 1886, and who was so well and favorably known throughout the two cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny, is justly deserving of more than a mere mention in a standard historical work. He was born in the town of Letterkenny, Ireland, in 1816, and is a brother of Finley Torrens, who is yet living in Pittsburg. Although brought up on a farm, he was enabled to secure a better education than usually fell to the lot of the average Irish lad. Being of an independent spirit he determined to cross the Atlantic and seek a home in America. At the age of twenty-two he bade adieu to the land of his birth and sailed for the United States, landing here an entire stranger, with only pluck and determination as his capital. His first location was in Pittsburg.

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where, for a short time, he was employed at bookkeeping; he later went to Wells- ville, Ohio, and, in partnership with a Mr. Orr, embarked in the grocery trade. Faithful to an attachment formed in Ireland, he returned there after a few years' absence, wedded Miss Ann Jane McClure, and settled down to merchandising in his native town. His brief residence in America had, however, instilled into him the spirit of true democracy and rendered him restive under the more restricted rules of Great Britain. After about seven years, together with his family, he sailed for Philadelphia, and upon his arrival at that place opened a grocery store, which he conducted a number of years. He then located permanently in Pitts- burg, which continued to be his residence until his death. Although he was here connected with mercantile pursuits, banking and various other business matters, he was, perhaps, better known as manager, for years, of the Schenley estate. Scrupulously honest and upright in all his dealings, he won the high opinion of the public. His first marriage was fruitful in the birth of three children, two of whom (Elizabeth, who lives in Ireland, and Mrs. C. A. Smiley, of Alle- gheny) are yet living. For his second wife Mr. Torrance married Miss Jane Waddell, who bore him one son, Francis J. Both Mr. and Mrs. Torrance were members of the Baptist Church.

Francis J. Torrance was born in Allegheny City, June 27, 1859, and is one of the brightest of Pittsburg's present business men. Educated in the public schools and in the Western University of Pennsylvania, he early connected (1875) himself with the Standard Manufacturing Company, of which he is now treasurer. He is also president of the Riverside Land Company and of the Pittsburg Nata- torium; is president of the Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society, president of the Washington Traction Company, of Washington, Pennsylvania, was one of the original directors in the Mercantile National and United States National banks, is treasurer of the Western Sanitary Ware Company, of Tiltenville, Ohio, and is managing director of the T. H. Nevin Company, lead and color manufac- turers of Allegheny. He was one of the incorporators of the Mercantile Trust Company, is a director in Mechanics' National Bank of Pittsburg, a member of the Board of Public Charities and Committee on Lunacy appointed by Governor Hastings in 1895. Was delegate-at-large for Pennsylvania to the St. Louis Republican Convention of 1896; was unanimously chosen chairman of the Re- publican City Exposition Committee of Allegheny to serve in 1896, 1897, 1898. He was married to Miss Mary R., daughter of David Dibert, of Johnstown, by whom he is the father of one child. Mr. Torrance, with Captain Murdock, of Wellsville, Ohio, and John Darragh, of Pittsburg, purchased the steamboat Columbiana, and in company with Mr. Murdock as captain, and Mr. Darragh as engineer, he engaged in the freight and passenger traffic between Pittsburg and Louisville. For several years he was the resident agent of Arbuckle & Avery's Cotton Mills at Louisville, Kentucky. In 1895, with James W. Arrott and John Fleming, he purchased the manufacturing concern now widely known as the Standard Manufacturing Company. Mr. Torrance was much interested in the public schools of Allegheny, and was for eighteen years director in the Third Ward School Board, and most of which time he was its president. Mr. Torrance was a member of the Sandusky Street Baptist Church. A trustee for over twenty years, the greater part of which he was president of the board.

Finley Torrens, now retired from active business pursuits, was born in Let- terkenny, Ireland, September 27, 1818, and is a son of Francis and Elizabeth (McClure) Torrens. The father was a farmer by occupation, and a notable fea- ture in the history of the family is that his father lived to the age of 106 years. Of the eight children of which Finley Torrens was one, five are yet living, three being over sixty years of age, and two over seventy. Finley Torrens remained

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on the home farm in Ireland until 1842, when he came to America and located in Pittsburg, where, for the first few months, he was employed as clerk in a whole- sale grocery house. In 1846 he was employed to superintend the building of the Maple Furnace, at Packer's Landing, on the Allegheny River, and after its completion served as superintendent for six years. With the exception of a short time spent at Johnstown, he next engaged in glass manufacturing in partnership with Captain J. O'Hara Denny. They erected and put in operation a plant at the intersection of Thirtieth Street and the Allegheny River, which is still in operation. This business they conducted about four years, when it was sold to other parties. During this time Captain Denny was managing the Denny es- tate, and Mr. Torrens was frequently called upon to aid in the work. After the sale of the glass factory, and owing to the ill health of Captain Denny, Mr. Torrens continued in the office of the Denny estate for a period of thirty-six years. Upon the death of Mr. McKnight he became sole agent; - and after the death of Mrs. Denny he was employed as attorney for most of the heirs, and continuing as such until the final settlement was effected in 1895. Mr. Torrens served as school director for twelve years, and was also a member of the City Council. In 1851 he was united in marriage with Miss Catharine Huber, and to their union a family of three children has been born, named Frank H., Lizzie L. (now Mrs. Davison), and Finley H. Mr. and Mrs. Torrens are members of the Presbyterian Church.

Judge Thomas Mellon. It is doubtful whether Pittsburg can exhibit a better representative of the wonderful transitional state of American civilization from the pioneer to the modern, sagacious business man than Thomas Mellon, whom everybody here knows and so highly esteems and respects. The wonderful changes which have taken place in social affairs and business methods found no one in this city quicker to grasp, master and appreciate them than this venerable citizen who has passed his four score years and can look back with pride on his long and honorable life. Like many of the early citizens of Western Pennsylvania, he is a native of Ireland; his birth occurring in County Tyrone, February 3, 1813. His father was a farmer of Scottish descent, whose ancestors at the time of the Norman Conquest located in the north of Ireland and there resided generation after generation. His mother's ancestors were Hollanders, who also entered Ireland about the time of the Conquest and became identified with the development of the country under the subsequent political changes. The parents were intelligent and thrifty, and in 1818 left the old world for the new, settling on a farm near Murrysville in Westmoreland County, Pennsyl- vania. His mother taught him to read in their humble home, and later, until nearly the age of thirteen years, he attended the nearest district school during the winter months, assisting his father at the hard work of the farm during the sum- mers. When in his thirteenth year, so apt had he been in his studies and so anxious to learn, he was sent for one term to the Westmoreland County Academy,

. then conducted by Thomas Will, a fine classical scholar, and a teacher of more than ordinary skill and repute. This, to young Mellon, was a formative period, when the possibilities of life first dawned upon him in splendor and the future beckoned him to fields of greater usefulness and renown that the methodical routine of the farm. His father desired him to adopt the occupation of farming, but he felt capable of greater duties, of sterner activities, and, although he re- mained upon the farm until his seventeenth year, his determination to leave it finally was unshaken. In 1832 his father having moved to Allegheny County, he entered the select Latin school of Rev. Jonathan Gill, where he fitted himself for college, alternating his studies with work on adjacent farms; indeed many of his hardest lessons were learned between the handles of the plow. During this period

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he grew to robust physical manhood and thoroughly tested the strength and capacity of his mind and measured the height of his ambition. In 1834 he entered the Western University of Pennsylvania, then under the eminent scholar, Robert Bruce, D. D., and after a highly successful and creditable collegiate career, graduated with honor in September, 1837. So quick was his capacity to learn that he found time from his college course to study law, and, continuing the same in the law office of Hon. Charles Shaler after his graduation, he was duly admitted to the bar in December, 1838. He was now ready for the active work of life. He immediately began the practice of his profession, and rose steadily to prominence, and soon had a large and profitable clientage. In 1843 he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah J. Negley, the accomplished daughter of a pioneer of Pittsburg, who had much to do with his subsequent success and happi- ness. By pure merit he acquired a practice so great that it became burdensome by 1859, at which date he was induced by his professional brethren to accept the nomination for Judge of Common Pleas Court No. I. He was elected and con- tinued to hold that responsible office to the entire satisfaction of the profession and to his own distinction for the period of ten years, when he declined a reëlec- tion. Upon his retirement from the bench he was tendered a farewell banquet by his associates, on which occasion they warmly expressed their appreciation of his talents and services, and announced their regret for his withdrawal from active and extensive practice. By this time himself and wife had acquired a large es- tate which demanded much of his time and attention. It was necessary also to devote great consideration to the literary and business education of their eight children-two sons having just returned from school and being eager for their first venture in the busy world. Accordingly, in 1870, he founded the banking house of T. Mellon & Sons, which ever since has had the unlimited confidence and patronage of the public. In recent years Judge Mellon, notwithstanding his vigorous constitution, has felt the hand of age pressing upon him, and has confided to his sons the establishment which he founded, and to the honorable maintenance of which he devoted his ripest experience and firmest principles of integrity. Under their care the prosperity of the bank has been constantly on the increase. In fact, their management of the institution has been noted for its conservatism and ability, and they now stand among the leading financiers of Western Pennsylvania. Judge Mellon possesses those broad qualities which would have made him successful in any walk of life. Had he entered politics he would have gone to the top. First a Whig, and then a Republican, with firm ideas of public duty, and an accurate insight into our principles of government, he has steadfastly supported the candidate he believed to be best suited for the office. He is a Presbyterian of liberal views, a great reader of general literature, and an honor to the city in which his busy life has been cast.

William McCully was one of the first to embark in glass manufacturing in Pittsburg, first as an employé, then as a proprietor. Born about the year 1800 in County Antrim, Ireland, he was brought to America by his parents when yet a mere child, and here, in the land of his adoption, the balance of his years were passed. He learned the trade of glassblower at the foot of Grant Street, on the Monongahela River, in the employ of Thomas Bakewell. In partnership with Captain John Hay, he erected a flint-glass factory on Railroad Street, at the foot of Nineteeth, which was destroyed by the flood of 1832. He was afterward actively identified with other glass factories, being latterly associated in partner- ship with his son, John F. McCully, and others. Not only in the glass industry was he conspicuous, but in various other enterprises as well, chief among which was his connection with the Farmers' Deposit and the Exchange Bank. He was possessed of keen business sagacity, was a man of indomitable perseverance and

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energy, and was the soul of honor. For his life's helpmate he selected Miss Mar- tha Zelley, their marriage resulting in the birth of eight children, some of whom are yet living in Pittsburg. He died honored and respected by all who knew him, in the year 1869.

Hon. John Dalzell is a man of national prominence, having achieved such distinction by reason of his long and excellent service as a member of Congress. Mr. Dalzell is a native of the city of New York, born April 19, 1845. His parents, Samuel and Mary (McDonnell) Dalzell, came from County Down, Ireland, to America about the year 1840, and moved from New York City to Pittsburg in 1847. He completed his literary schooling at the University of Western Pennsyl- vania and at Yale College, graduating from the last named institution in 1865. He began the study of the law, was admitted to the bar in 1867, and soon took rank with the ablest lawyers of Pittsburg. He began his public career in 1886, when he was elected a member of Congress. His recognized ability as a Con- gressman has kept him continuously in that position ever since. A pronounced Republican in his political views, a logician and orator of superior ability, Mr. Dalzell is one of the nation's best known public men.

Major Ebenezer Denny, whose history is contemporary with that of Pitts- burg, was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, March 1I, 1761, being the eldest son of William and Agnes (Parker) Denny. At the age of thirteen young Denny was intrusted with dispatches for the commandant at Fort Pitt, crossing the Alleghany Mountains alone and sleeping in the woods at night. Oftentimes during expeditions of this nature, he narrowly escaped death at the hands of wild beasts, or the more bloodthirsty Indians. When yet young in years he secured an appointment on board a vessel about to sail from Philadelphia carrying letters of marque, but after one voyage withdrew from such hazardous ventures, and was then commissioned ensign in the First Pennsylvania Regiment. He participated in many of the most important campaigns of the Revolutionary War, and towards its close was with General St. Clair in the Carolinas. In the subse- quent campaigns against the Indians he bore a conspicuous part, serving at times as adjutant and aide-de-camp to Generals Harmar and St. Clair, respectively. In the disastrous defeat of the army under St. Clair on November 4, 1791, Mr. Denny was a participant, and at its conclusion was sent with dispatches to General Washington. In July, 1793, he wedded Nancy, daughter of Captain John Wil- kins, Sr. Three years later he was elected one of the Commissioners of Alle- gheny County, and in 1803 was elected the first treasurer of the county, being reelected in 1808. In 1806 his wife died, leaving three sons and two daughters to mourn, with the bereaved husband, her loss. Upon the incorporation of the city of Pittsburg, in 1816, he was elected its first mayor. In religious belief he was an advocate of the Presbyterian faith. Major Denny was a giant morally and intellectually, and a credit to the city in every particular.

Hon. Harmar Denny was born in Pittsburg, May 13, 1794, and died January . 29, 1852. He was educated at Dickinson College, graduating in 1813; subse- quently read law and was, for a time, a partner of Henry Baldwin, who was after- wards a judge of the United States Supreme Court. As a lawyer, Mr. Denny excelled, and was identified with most of the great cases of his time. After serving in the State Legislature he was elected to Congress and served as such for a period of nearly eight years. In 1837 he was made a member of the con- vention to revise the Constitution of the State. In all measures of a progressive, enterprising character that had for an object the best interests of the people at large, he was a warm supporter. Particularly so was this the case in all educa- tional and Christian matters. He declined a nomination to Congress in 1850. Ten years prior to this event he was a member of the Electoral College which

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chose for President the hero of Tippecanoe. He was a consistent Christian throughout life, and died a member of the Presbyterian Church. November 25, 1817, he married Elizabeth F. O'Hara, daughter of General James and Mary (Carson) O'Hara. Mr. Denny was a son of Major Ebenezer Denny, appropriate mention of whom is made above in this work.

Nathaniel Holmes, founder of the banking house of N. Holmes & Son, was, like many other prominent men of Pittsburg, a native of County Antrim, Ireland. He was born in 1782, and in early manhood wedded Eleanor Kerr, the daughter of a near neighbor. Together they came to Pittsburg in 1807, Mr. Holmes en- gaging in mercantile pursuits, at which he was reasonably successful. In 1822 he commenced banking, and thus continued his employment until his career was closed by death, in 1849. His wife died in 1847. They were the parents of five children: Thomas R., Nathaniel, John K., Mary (Mrs. W. W. Wallace), and Jane, widow of W. B. Pusey. Mr. Holmes was a Whig in politics. In religion he belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

William Frew was born in Pittsburg, January 10, 1826, the only son of Samuel and Elizabeth (McCully) Frew. He attended the city schools in early youth, completing his education at the Western University of Pennsylvania. He began his career as a clerk in the grocery house of his uncle, James McCully, and later became a partner in the firm of James McCully & Co. Upon the discovery of petroleum in paying quantities, in 1859, he became interested with Charles Lockhart, and others, in the production of that oil, and as an oil-producer amassed a large fortune. As a citizen he was identified with many of the meas- ures calculated for the benefit of the city; he was liberal, charitable, benevolent, and was justly considered an ideal citizen. His death, March 9, 1880, left a widow and one son-William N. Frew.

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Standard history of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Part 134

Author: Wilson, Erasmus, 1842-1922; Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, 1852-1926. cn Publication date: 1898 Publisher: Chicago : H.R. Cornell & Co. Number of Pages: 1192

Author: Wilson, Erasmus, 1842-1922; Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, 1852-1926. cn
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: Chicago : H.R. Cornell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1192