John McCreary Sr.    

JOHN MCCREARY, Sr., farmer, post-office West Middlesex, Penn., was born February 23, 1814. Our subject is a son of David and Betsey (McFarland) McCreary. His grandfather, John McCreary, was a native of Ireland, and immigrated to this country prior to the Revolutionary War. He enlisted in the American army and served through the entire struggle with Gen. Morgan. He subsequently settled in what is now Washington County, and died in Shenango Township, Mercer County. He had three sons: William, David and John. David, the father of our subject, was born in 1782, and died February 28, 1855, his wife having died in 1853. They had nine children: Ann, deceased; John, William, deceased; Jane, wife of William Long, of Ohio; David, deceased; James, of Shenango Township; Robert, deceased; Andrew, deceased, and Sarah E., deceased. James married Miss Jane, daughter of David Pathour, of Ohio, and is the father of five children: Elizabeth, Sarah, Mrs. William Ayres, deceased; Emma, deceased; Appeline, Mrs. E. E. Harshman, and Lurina, Mrs. G. E. McBride. Our subject has never married, resides in Shenango Township, and has always followed farming. He has never taken any active interest in the public affairs of his county, but after seventy-four years of quiet usefulness it is befitting that some mention be made of his identification with the development of Shenango Township. Mr. McCreary is a gentleman of genial manners and wide intelligence, and in politics he is a Democrat.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888, pages 855-856.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  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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