ALEXANDER MELLON, farmer, P.O. Evansburg,
was born in 1819, son of Andrew, Sr., and Martha (Adams) Mellon, natives
of Ireland, and who came to this country about 1802. Our subject spent
his early life engaged in lumbering; afterward learned the miller’s
trade, which he followed for four years; he is now a farmer. He was
married November 4, 1844, to Elizabeth Ralston. By this union were four
children: Robert, who died in infancy; Henry A., born March 23, 1848,
died August 31, 1878; Martha J., born August 20, 1850, married to James
T. Reed, December 31, 1868; and Frederick S., born April 7, 1853,
married to Bertie Gehr, September 4, 1879, and died August 17, 1882,
leaving one child — Fred H. Mr. Mellon and wife are members of the
Presbyterian Church, in which the former is Elder; is also Sunday-school
Superintendent at Evansburg. In politics he is a Republican.
History of Crawford County,
Pennsylvania: containing a
history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools,
churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent
men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous
matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 990.
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