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REV. DAVID KENNEDY DUFF David Kennedy Duff was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1825. He left home when seventeen years of age to attend school at the academy in Darlington, Pennsylvania, and remained there two years; thence he went to college in Athens, Ohio, where he finished his literary collegiate course in 1849. … Read more
Rev. Thomas McConnell Elder The grandfather of the well-known citizen of Dayton, whose name heads this sketch, Robert Elder, was a soldier through all of those seven long years of the revolutionary war, and, soon after the close of that great struggle for liberty, moved with his family from the vicinity of Harrisburg to … Read more
James Elgin James Elgin, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in County Derry, Ireland, in the year 1760. In 1782, having attained his majority, he came to America, and in 1791 was married. He first settled where Elderton now is, at a time when the region around him was a perfect wilderness, … Read more
Glenn Family John Glenn, the progenitor of the Glenn family in Armstrong county and the great-grandfather of A. D. Glenn, came from Ireland when eighteen years of age, and settled in Center county, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Borland by whom he had two daughters, Ann and Mary, and four sons, Robert, John, James and Joseph. … Read more
THE GRAHAM FAMILY — JOHN GRAHAM Joseph Graham, father of John Graham, the well-known citizen of South Buffalo Township, was born in Scotland in 1768, and reared in Ireland, where he married a Miss Mary Ralston. In 1803 he and his wife and three children came to America and located in Baltimore, and thence in … Read more
THE CRAIG FAMILY THE CRAIG FAMILY of Madison township, is one of the largest in its territory, or, for that matter, in the county. George Craig was born in Butler county April 6, 1798, and came to Armstrong county in 1831, settling where his son Alexander T. now lives, where he resided and followed farming … Read more
Col. Samuel McCartney Jackson Samuel McCartney Jackson, who has attained considerable prominence, both civil and military, was born upon a farm near Apollo, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1833, and was the son of John and Elizabeth (McCartney) Jackson, both of whom were of Scotch-Irish descent. As boy and youth he shared the toils of … Read more
John Thompson Jackson The subject of this brief sketch was born February 23, 1837. February 25, 1864, he was joined in wedlock with Mary Jane, daughter of ‘Squire William G. and Elizabeth Watson. Four children, all of whom are now living, were the offspring of this union. The oldest son, William Murray, was born August … Read more
The Jackson Family � William J. Jackson James Jackson and his wife, Sarah (Thompson) Jackson, came to this county about 1798, and settled two and a half miles east of Apollo. He was born in Ireland, and his wife in America. James, their son, was born September 4, 1806, and his wife, Jane McCartney, in … Read more
Jackson Family Probably no one family have been more prominently identified with the settlement and material prosperity of Kiskiminetas township than the Jackson family. The family is of Irish extraction, and we learn that James Jackson came from Ireland with his parents when a lad about seven or eight years of age. The family first … Read more