Month: August 2025

Robert Morris The subject of this sketch, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Freeport, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, September 27, 1804, and came to this country with his parents, James and Elizabeth (McLaughlin) Morris, in 1819. The family first located in Indiana county, from which they soon removed, however, to Greensburg; … Read more

THE MILLER FAMILY Jacob Miler, the progenitor of this family, was one of the earliest settlers of Kiskiminetas township, where his descendants now reside. He was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1774, and his wife, Mary Uncafer, was born the same year. They emigrated to this county in the spring of 1803, the year … Read more

WILLIAM McKINSTRY The subject of this sketch is a namesake of his grandfather, who was a native of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania; emigrated at an early age to Westmoreland county, where he lived for a short time and then removed to Armstrong county, and settled two miles east of Apollo. After a three years� stay he … Read more

Henry Kipp McKallip Archibald McKallip, father of the old citizen of Leechburg whose name stands at the head of this brief biographical sketch, was the son of a pair of Scotch immigrants, and was born on shipboard while they were en route to America, in the year 1774. He married Catharine Kipp, who was of … Read more

Prof. Hugh McCandless The subject of this sketch, well known in his later years and at the time of his death as the principal of the Dayton Soldiers’ Orphans’ School, was born in Apollo, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1835. He was the son of Jared and Elizabeth (Ford) McCandless, the former from Washington county … Read more