James Ralya    

JAMES RALYA, farmer, P.O. Evansburg, was born in 1853, in Sadsbury Township, this county; son of Henry and Harriet (Newton) Ralya, the latter of whom is a daughter of Russel and Phebe (Sutton) Newton, natives of New Jersey and New York respectively. Henry and Harriet Ralya were married January 12, 1839, and were parents of seven children: Charles W., George W., Rachel H., James M., William C., Howard N. and Emma. Our subject lives on a farm of fifty, acres with his mother. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his brother William C. own the farm, through which runs the Meadville & Lineville Railroad. William C. Ralya was born January 7, 1857, and was married March 13, 1880, to Isadora Smead, whose parents reside in Michigan. By this union there is one child, Alvie, born November 6, 1881.  Mr. Ralya is in the employ of the Meadville & Linesville Railroad. In politics both our subject and his brother are Democrats.

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 991. 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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