Hugh G. McKay    

HUGH G. McKAY, boot and shoe-maker, Evansburg, is a son of Joseph and Mary (Gilleland) McKay, who were the parents of seven children, three now living, viz.: Neal, Robert S. and Hugh G. Our subject has been twice married; on second occasion, July 4, 1839, to Elizabeth Walker. To this union have been born Joseph, married to Maggie Foust; Jennie; Uriah, married to Rosannah Wiser (he served during the late war in the Twelfth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry); Frederick, married to Hattie Brush; Josiah N.; Hugh O., married Eva Brown; Petter H., married to Mary McMichael; David M. C. and Henry L. Mr. McKay is a tanner by trade, an occupation he followed for several years. Since 1829, with the exception of eight years, he has resided in Evansburg. He is now serving his second term as Justice of the Peace, being first elected in 1878. He is an adherent of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A member of the I.O.O.F.; in politics 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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