Alexander Mellon    

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.  View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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