1800, and died in Scioto county, Ohio, about 1864. He was a farmer by
occupation and owned a tract of about two hundred acres in Cranberry
township, Butler county, Pennsylvania. About the year 1861 he removed
to Scioto county, Ohio, and died there three years later. He married Mary
Orr, a native of county Antrim, Ireland, who died in 1876, and they had
children: Margaret, deceased; James, deceased; Eliza, died in Scioto
county, Ohio, in 1913, at the age of eighty- four years; Sarah E. ; Mary,
deceased ; Emma ; Robert, served four years in the Civil War, and died on
the Mississippi in 1867, at the age of thirty years ; Lucy Caroline, who be-
came the wife of Mr. McCaw, as above mentioned. James Anderson, grand-
father of Mrs. McCaw, was born in Ireland, and was scarcely more than a
young lad when he emigrated to the United States. He was one of the
pioneer settlers of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and died at an ad-
vanced age, near Evans City, Butler county, Pennsylvania, where his wife
also died at an advanced age. They had children : Mary ; William Crow,
mentioned above ; David ; Eliza ; Margaret ; Eleanor ; James ; Hannah, Sarah.
(Ill) Charles Francis McCaw, son of William Magee and Lucy Caro-
line (Anderson) McCaw, was born in New Brighton, Beaver county, Penn-
sylvania, January 28, 1870. Having completed his education in the public
schools of his native town, Mr. McCaw took up the study of pharmacy in
a thorough and practical manner, and became a registered pharmacist.
For three years he was associated with his brother, George S., under the
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firm name of George S. McCaw & Brother, Druggists. He then established
himself in the tea, coffee and spice business, with which he was success-
fully connected for a period of twenty years. He manufactures his own
flavoring extracts, and does a considerable business in this line. His place
of business is at No. 908 Ninth street, and some of his customers come from
great distances. Like his father, he is a Prohibitionist in political matters,
and he is a member of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. McCaw mar-
ried, in June, 1905, Athalia C, a daughter of Alfred and Martha Stacy, the
latter deceased, the former residing on Eleventh street, New Brighton. Mr.
and Mrs. McCaw have two children: Lois and Louise, twins, born May
4, 1906.
Eaton, as a family name, under various forms
EATON-WILHELM of spelling, is found from a very early period.
There is no evidence that all of the families bear-
ing this name are descended from a common ancestor. It is quite probable
that several distinct families assumed the name, its signification being
"River-town," Aqua dunum, and it occurs before 1060 A. D. as Ettuna —
the name of several places in England. The principal founders of Eaton
families in America, who came to this country before 1700, were the fol-
lowing: Francis Eaton, of Plymouth, who came in the Mayflower in 1620;
John Eaton, of Haverhill ; John Eaton, of Dedham ; Jonas Eaton, of Read-
ing; Nathaniel Eaton, of Cambridge, and William Eaton, of Reading, who
settled in New England from 1630 to 1640; William Eaton, of North
Carolina, about 1670; Thomas Eaton, of Shrewsbury, New Jersey, 1670
to 1680; and John, George and Edward Eaton, of Philadelphia county,
Pennsylvania, 1683 to 1686. The lines of the last named have persisted
numerously in Pennsylvania, all indications leading to the conclusion that
it was from one of the Eatons of Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, that
Henry Eaton, who married Jane Gibb, father of John Eaton, was de-
scended.
(II) John Eaton, son of Henry and Jane (Gibb) Eaton, was born in
Findley township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1814, died
December 2, 1872. He was a coal dealer of Pittsburgh, owning many barges
carrying this product on the Ohio river. To his business associates he was
always known as "Captain," a title purely familiar, for he never commanded
one of the vessels used in his business. He was a Republican in political
faith, a member of the United Presbyterian Church, and affiliated with the
Masonic Order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His residence
was in Allegheny City (Pittsburgh North Side).
John Eaton married Nancy, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Maloney)
Morton, in 1845, her father a native of Ireland who, after immigrating to
the United States, settled in the Pittsburgh district. He became the owner
of a large amount of real estate in Pittsburgh and Allegheny City, and,
holding it through the rapid rise in value that came to property in that
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locality, realized a generous profit, part of that land which he retained
being now in the possession of his descendants. Children of John and
Nancy (Morton) Eaton: i. Edith A., born November 9, 1857, married
Henry Wilhelm, of whom further. 2. Sarah S., born in September, i860,
married William T. Gibb, and resides in Jacksonville, Florida, the mother
of one child, Bessie H. 3. John H., born in October, 1864, married Eliza-
beth Hamilton, and has children: John Morton, a graduate of Cornell Uni-
versity; Harry H. and Margaret E., twins.
Henry Wilhelm, son of parents of German birth who settled in Alle-
gheny county, Pennsylvania, after their immigration to the United States,
was born in St. Clair township, that county, February 21, 1845. He was
favored by a liberal education and was, through his German extraction, a
thorough master of that tongue. His boyhood and young manhood were
passed on his father's farm, one of his later acquisitions being a farm in
Moon township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he conducted farming
operations successfully for many years. He disposed of his farm in 1888
and moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he became a hardware merchant,
making that his line of activity until his death, which occurred January 21,
1893, fortune attending his ventures in that business as in agriculture. In
him the Democratic party found an enthusiastic worker, one who gave to
the party's advancement all of his influence and effort and who steadfastly
refused recognition of his labors in the form of political preferment, never
accepting office. He was a man of high principle, which he never lowered
to achieve any end, and because of his steadfast championship of the right
and the purity of his daily walk he was granted the respectful esteem of his
fellows. He made as fine a distinction between things worthy and unworthy
as he did between those right and those wrong, and throughout his life
lived true to noble ideals, passing his days in the approbation of men and
ending it confident of the approval of his Maker. He was a member of the
Lutheran Church.
Mr. Wilhelm married, November 28, 1878, Edith A. Eaton, of previous
mention, who now resides in Beaver, Pennsylvania.
There is much of the history of the Pflug family in its native
PFLUG land that is unwritten, much that, were a book to be made of
the records, would provide no thrills of interest to the reader
nor would it encourage a second perusal. It would contain no mention of
titled personages or royalty, the scenes would not be laid in palaces, man-
sions, or country estates, but would carry one into the heart of the industrial
world of that great manufacturing country, Germany, from there to the
useful arts and trades, and thence into the fields and meadows of rural
Germany, whence is derived a large part of the daily food and all the com-
forts and conveniences that make mansions, palaces and royalty possible. It
is a distinctively American idea to applaud the superiority of the worker
over the drone, of the supporter over the parasite, and to the American
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members of the family of Pflug it must bring genuine satisfaction to realize
that in the land in which their name originated Pflugs bore their part as
men and well, their labors adding to the stability and prosperity of the land
and materially aiding it in its advance among the nations of the world.
(I) This chronicle begins with Jacob Pflug, who like the ancestors of
his line was a follower of agriculture, and who left his native land to make
his home in the United States. Pennsylvania was the state that he chose,
Marion township, Beaver county, the place in which he finally settled, he
and his wife, whom he had married in Germany, both dying in that locality.
He married Sarah Householder, and among his children was Henry, of
whom further.
(H) Henry Pflug, son of Jacob and Sarah (Householder) Pflug, was
born in Marion township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1846, died in
North Sewickley township, that county, March 13, 1913. He was educated
in the public schools of his native township, and as a young man there
began farming operations, later moving to North Sewickley township,
Beaver county, where he purchased a farm of seventy-five acres, which
at his death had increased to three hundred and nineteen acres. He was
industrious and thrifty, and in addition to general farming, which he con-
ducted on a large scale, he maintained a herd of the finest stock, giving to
these two departments of farming his undivided attention. Among his
friends he was noted for his quality of hard-working persistency, which
never allowed him to abandon a project until it had been carried to a
successful consummation. His goal was ever in his mind's eye and he saw
no difficulty, obstacle or stumbling block, the completed idea, in all its
alluring desirability, being the spur that kept him to his task. This at-
tribute contributed largely to his success, for his achievements and acqui-
sitions along agricultural lines merit no other title, and marked the whole
course of his life, so that he was prominent among that small class of men
whose promise was received with as great satisfaction as the completed
pledge. He and his wife were at one time members of the German Re-
formed Church, later identifying themselves with the North Sewickley
Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member at his death.
Mr. Pflug married. May 29, 1873, Caroline, born in Marion township,
Beaver county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Michael and Caroline (Gardner)
Miller. Michael Miller and his wife were natives of Germany, and upon
coming to the United States settled in Marion township, Beaver county,
Pennsylvania, where he became a farmer. Children of Michael and Caroline
(Gardner) Miller: Henry, Frank, Caroline, who married Henry Pflug and
survives him, living on the farm in North Sewickley township, Beaver
county, Pennsylvania. Children of Henry and Caroline (Miller) Pflug:
Clara Elizabeth, Emelia, Frank Frederick, Charles Henry, Elmer Elton,
Amos Edmund, Vernelia Emelia, Eva Matilda, Arthur Lamont, Leslie Nor-
man, Edna Ethel, Ralph Jacob, all living and all married with the exception
of the last two.
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The part played by our Irish-American citizens in the history
RODEN and development of their adopted country is no insignificant
one, and no land has given us truer and abler men than those
who have come to us from the "Emerald Isle." The family under consid-
eration in this review is no exception to this general rule.
(I) William Roden, the first of whom we have mention, spent his entire
life in Ireland. He married Mary McCarroll, who was born in Ireland, and
also died in that country.
(II) James Roden, son of William and Mary (McCarroll) Roden, was
born in county Derry, Ireland, January 7, 1832. He was educated in his
native land and lived there until 1867, when he emigrated to the United
States. He made his home at New Brighton, Pennsylvania, where he has
since that time resided. Having found employment with the W. P. Town-
send Nail Mill, this connection remained uninterrupted for a period of
twenty-eight years, when Mr. Roden retired from active labors, and has
since lived retired, a matter of twenty years. He is the owner of a fine
residence at No. 1427 Penn avenue. He is a Democrat in political affiliation,
and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Roden
married in Ireland, in i860, Sarah, born in county Derry, Ireland, in August,
1832, daughter of Archibald and Mary (Aull) Gibson, both of whom were
born and died in Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Roden had children: Sarah Ann,
who died at the age of fourteen years; Robert John, born in 1864, un-
married, lives with his parents ; Samuel Aull, of further mention.
(III) Samuel Aull Roden, son of James and Sarah (Gibson) Roden,
was born in county Derry, Ireland, May 28, 1866. As he was but one
year of age when his parents came to this country he is in all, except the
actual fact of birth, an American citizen. He received his education in the
public schools of New Brighton, and since he was eleven years of age has
been in the employ of the Sherwood Brothers Pottery Company, a very
honorable and creditable record for employee and employer. He is a Repub-
lican in political affairs. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. His fraternal connections are numerous, and are as follows : Union
Lodge, No. 259, Free and Accepted Masons ; Harmony Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons; Beaver Valley Commandery, No. 84, Knights Templar; New
Castle Lodge of Perfection, No. 14; Pennsylvania Consistory of Pittsburgh;
Thirty-second Degree Mason; Roberts Lodge, No. 450, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, of New Brighton ; Social Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of
New Brighton.
Mr. Roden married, in 1898, Florence Ann Varley, born in Yorkshire,
England, March 28, 1874, and they had one child: James Edward, born
May 2, 1899, died in November of the same year. Joseph Varley, father of
Mrs. Roden, was born in Yorkshire, England, October i, 1839, and came
to the United States in 1881. He made his home in New Brighton, Penn-
sylvania, where he became a woolen manufacturer, a line of business he
had also followed in his native land. He and his wife are members of the
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Methodist Episcopal Church, and now reside in Enon Valley, Lawrence
county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Varley married, in i860, Ann Lee, born in York-
shire, England, March 24, 1843, and they had children: John, deceased;
Sarah Elizabeth, deceased; Joseph; Martha Hannah; Herbert; Florence
Ann, who married Mr. Roden, as above stated; Mary Alice; William Ewart.
The early history of this family, like that of many others, is
DALBEY clouded by doubt and uncertainty. Few records were, kept
in the early days, and of these few, many were destroyed by
fire and other agencies and thus lost to posterity.
(I) Josiah Dalbey married Ruth Poe, and had children: John Clark, of
further mention; Andrew Poe, Elizabeth, Hiram. All of these children
are now deceased.
(H) John Clark Dalbey, son of Josiah and Ruth (Poe) Dalbey, was
born in Hookstown, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, October 6, 181 8, died in
Mercer county, Pennsylvania, in 1904. His education was acquired in the
district schools near his home, and after farming in his native county for
some years he removed to Mahoning county, Ohio, in 1840, and lived on a
farm he had purchased there until 1868. He then removed to Mercer county,
Pennsylvania, where his remaining years were spent. Mr. Dalbey married
(first) Mary Bell, (second) Sarah Mayers, born in Mercer county, Penn-
sylvania, July 14, 1828, died in the same county, December 12, 1913. She
was a daughter of William Mayers, born in Ireland, died in Mercer county,
Pennsylvania, in 1868. At the age of seven years he came to the United
States with his parents, landing at Philadelphia, and they were early set-
tlers in Mercer county, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer, and in early days
a cattle drover, taking his cattle to Pittsburgh to market, a distance of sixty
miles, and making the return trip on foot in one day. He married (first)
Mary Walker, and had children: Sarah, who married Mr. Dalbey, and
Mary Jane. He married (second) Catherine Hill, a widow. By his first
marriage Mr. Dalbey had children: Clara Isabel and William Lumsden.
By his second marriage he had: Mary Jane, deceased; Josiah, of further
mention; Ruth; Albert; Homer, died November 15, 1913; Elizabeth; Mar-
garet, died August 10, 1888; John Andrew, died in 1894; Hiram Francis,
twin of John Andrew, was killed in 1903 on the Wabash Bridge, at Pitts-
burgh.
(Ill) Josiah (2) Dalbey, son of John Clark and Sarah (Mayers) Dal-
bey, was born in Mahoning county, Ohio, September 13, 1856. His earliest
years were spent in his native county, then for a time he resided in Law-
rence county, Pennsylvania, and at the age of ten years removed with his
parents to Mercer county, Pennsylvania. He was the recipient of an excel-
lent education which was acquired in the public schools and at Grove City
Seminary. At the age of seventeen years he commenced teaching, a pro-
fession with which he was identified for fifteen terms. In 1887 he removed
to New Brighton, Pennsylvania, and has since resided in that town. In
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his youth he had also learned the carpenter's trade, a calling he followed
successfully for a period of a quarter of a century, and has amassed a
moderate fortune. He is the owner of two houses in New Brighton. The
public affairs of the township have always had his serious attention, and
he has given his political support to the Republican party. For a period of
ten years he was a valued member of the board of school directors of New
Brighton, is a member of the Protective Home Circle, the American Insur-
ance Union and the Carpenters' Union. He and his wife are members of
the United Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Dalbey married, October 27, 1886, Mary Elizabeth Black, born in
Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, February 10, i860. She is a daughter of
Adam and Delilah (Stoner) Black, the former born in Lawrence county in
1828, died on the old homestead in 1871, the latter born in Lawrence county
in 1837, and living there at the present time. Mr. and Mrs. Black had chil-
dren: John Calvin, Mary Elizabeth, who married Mr. Dalbey; Margaret E.,
Almon Benton, Ada Zillah, Thaddeus Wade, James Byron. Mr. and Mrs.
Dalbey have had children: Gladys Eula, born July 21, 1889; John Leslie,
bom January 13, 1894, graduated from the New Brighton high school, mar-
ried, September 13, 1913, Catherine Knapp Jope, of New Brighton; Sarah
Margaret, born September 17, 1899, a student in the public schools; Theo-
dore Everett, born December 9, 1904.
The Shaw family has been identified with the agricultural
SHAW interests of the state of Pennsylvania for some generations,
the original bearers of the name in this country having come
from Scotland.
(I) William Shaw, a native of Scotland, came to this country with
his parents when he was nine years of age. The family settled in Alle-
gheny county, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Shaw became well known as a
prosperous farmer and extensive land owner. He was married, probably
in Allegheny county, to Mary Wallace, who also came to this country from
Scotland with her parents. They had children: Andrew, see forward;
William, a fanner in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, where he died;
George, also a farmer until his death in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania;
Lowry, a farmer, died in Jasper county, Iowa; Samuel, a farmer of Al-
legheny county, Pennsylvania, until his death; Eleanor, married James
White, and died at Braddock, Pennsylvania.
(II) Andrew Shaw, son of William and Mary (Wallace) Shaw,
was bom in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, November 12, 1807, died
July II, 1889. He was a farmer in Indiana township, where he owned
more than one hundred acres of land, taking possession of this in May,
1845. He and his wife belonged to the United Presbyterian Church.
Politically he was a Republican. Mr. Shaw married, April 6, 1849, Susan
Neflf, born October 9, 1826, died January 11, 1908. She was the daughter
of Peter and Jane (Ream) Neff, who were of Pennsylvania Dutch stock and
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born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. They removed at an early date
to Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, where they were large land owners
and engaged in farming. Both were members of the Presbyterian church.
They had children: Maria, married Thomas Moon; Eliza, married Gary
McCutcheon ; Jane, married Samuel Reed ; Anna, married Abram Carnegie ;
Susan, married Andrew Shaw, as stated above; Matilda, married John
Kerr; Sarah, died in young womanhood; Abram, died when he had at-
tained young manhood ; John, died in early childhood. Andrew and Susan
(Neff) Shaw had children: William, who was a member of Company K,
Seventy-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, during the
Civil War, is now retired and lives at Bellingham, Washington; Samuel
J., a wholesale candy merchant, resides in East McKeesport, Pennsylvania;
Andrew Neff, see forward; Jane Mary, married Robert Kerr, and lives
in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania.
(Ill) Andrew Neff Shaw, son of Andrew and Susan (Neff) Shaw,
was born in Indiana township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, October
31, 1857. He was educated in the public schools and his early life was the
usual one of a farmer's son. His education, however, was supplemented
by attendance for a time at the academy. He was engaged in farming on
the homestead until March 14, 1913, when he removed to Beaver county,
Pennsylvania, where he had purchased seventy-two acres of land in Chip-
pewa township, and resides on this at the present time. He devotes con-
siderable time to the growing of fruit, four acres of his land being utilized
exclusively for this purpose. For many years he has affiliated with the Re-
publican party, greatly to the benefit of that organization, and has capably
filled a number of township offices, among them being those of auditor and
treasurer. He and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian
Church.
Mr. Shaw married, April 10, 1880, Jane Logan, born in Butler county,
Pennsylvania, a daughter of Joseph and Margaret (McCandless) Logan,
and they have been blessed with children as follows: James L., a minister
in the United Presbyterian Church; Robert P., lives with his parents;
Erastus N., resides in New Kensington, Pennsylvania; William Raymond,
at present a student at Franklin College ; Gladys Margaret, at home ; John
Logan, died in infancy; two who died unnamed.
The Haley family, of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, undoubt-
HALEY edly is an offshoot of the family of H'Alee, of France, who
came to England with William the Conqueror, and from that
country migrated to Ireland, whence members finally came to this country,
where they have become highly esteemed citizens.
(I) Patrick Haley, who was born in county Tipperary, Ireland, in
1818, came to the United States in 1849. For a short time he lived in
New York, then came to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and finally made his
home in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. He commenced his upward course
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in this country at the very lowest round of the ladder, becoming a common
laborer. Being of an ambitious and enterprising nature, he was not satis-
fied with this humble position, and soon commenced as a peddler of jewelry,
traveling over a large extent of the country. He then worked on the Penn-
-sylvania Railroad for a time, and then took up farming in Darlington
township. Beaver county, where he died in 1884. His widow followed
him in 1898, and as none of their brothers or sisters ever came to America,
and as they never re-visited their native land, all intercourse with their
respective families was broken off. He was a Democrat in politics, and his
religious affiliations were with the Catholic Church. He married Margaret
O'Keefe, born in county Carlow, Ireland, about 1828, was a member of
the Established Church in her native country, and affiliated with the Pres-
byterian Church in the United States. They had children: Thomas, re-
sides in Indianapolis, Indiana ; William Cochran, see forward ; Edward M.,
lives in Beaver county, Pennsylvania ; Margaret, unmarried ; Catherine,
married John Kelloway, lives in Beaver county, Pennsylvania; John A., a
farmer of Beaver county, Pennsylvania; Evelyn, married John Davidson,
and lives in Beaver county, Pennsylvania.
(II) William Cochran Haley, son of Patrick and Margaret (O'Keefe)
Haley, was born near New Galilee, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, Feb-
ruary 12, 1853. H^e was educated in the public schools, and from his earliest
jears has been engaged in farming. In 1885 he bought a farm of one hun-
dred and six acres in Chippewa township, of which he subsequently sold
twenty-two acres. He lived on the remaining eighty-four acres, making
continued improvements, until his death in June, 1904. He and his wife
lived a quiet and retired life, and were members of the United Presbyterian