ried John Stevenson ; Ellen, mentioned above ; Sarah A., now deceased,
married John McCullough ; Eliza, deceased, married Robert Withrow;
James, deceased, married Clara McGinnis ; William, a farmer, married Mar-
garet Kiefer, and died in Pittsburgh; John, who married Martha Finnegan,
died at Uhrichsville, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Carothers had children; Emeline,
born July 8, 1848, died December 31, 1866; Sarah Agnes, born February
16, 1852, died January 5, 1867; James White, see forward; Jeannette, bom
March 8, 1857, died January 12, 1867; Ella, born June 3, 1864, married A.
D. Matchett, a carpenter, and lives in Hollidays Cove, West Virginia.
(IV) James White Carothers, son of John J. and Ellen (Ewing) Car-
others, was born in the borough of Frankfort Springs, Hanover township,
Beaver county, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1855, and was educated in the
public schools and at the Frankfort Academy. With the exception of five
years spent in the employ of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, when he
lived at Pittsburgh, his entire life has been spent on the homestead farm.
He obtained this by inheritance, and sold twelve acres. Until 1912 he was
a breeder of registered short horn cattle, and is still engaged in breeding
Delaine sheep, and always has about one hundred and fifty in his flock.
He also has a coal bank and has supplied the town for about thirty years.
He and his father erected a number of new and improved buildings on the
place, which are kept in the best condition. He is a staunch supporter
of the Democratic party, but has consistently and persistently refused to
hold public office. His fraternal membership is with Glasgow Lodge, No.
485, Free and Accepted Masons.
Mr. Carothers married, December 30, 1880, Margaret Forner, born in
Beaver county, Pennsylvania, September 18, i860, and they have one child,
Mary Janet, born January 29, 1882; she married Charles B. Scott, and lives
in Florence, Pennsylvania. They have two daughters : Margaret Kathryn,
born in October, 1903, and Mary Janet, born May 13, 1914. Mrs. Car-
others is the daughter of Barnett and Mary (Figley) Forner, the latter
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born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, July 21, 1830, died December 5,
1898. Barnett Forner was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in February,
1818, died February 8, 1880. He came here in young manhood, and was
at first a miller at Florence, Washington county, Pennsylvania, then re-
moved to Independence township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. There he
bought a mill on Raccoon creek, which he operated until his death.
(Ill) William Allen Carothers, son of John and Nancy McGlester
(White) Carothers, was born in Patterson township, Beaver county, Penn-
sylvania, April 30, 1833, died in Chippewa township, same county, Decem-
ber 31, 1894. The school at Patterson Heights was the scene of his youth-
ful hours of study, and when a young man he began cultivating the home-
stead farm, now owned by the McHattie Brothers. After his father's death
he left the homestead, purchasing his father-in-law's farm in Chippewa
township, a tract of one hundred and eighty-three acres. Before endeavor-
ing to make his newly acquired property a paying proposition he made
numerous improvements, such as the erection of new buildings for both
man and beast and the general renovation of the entire place. Farming
was the only business to which he devoted his attention, and to this occu-
pation he gave the methodical, thorough care that a business man uses in
scrutinizing his books, quick to adopt innovations of value and never the
last to abandon habits and practices that had outlived their day and use-
fulness or had been proven fallacies. The practicality of his method was best
shown by his uniformly good crops, in which he ranked second to none
of his neighbors, among whom were some of the best farmers of that
locality. On his farm he kept stock of good blood, doing no dealing therein
but merely maintaining sufficient for his farm and household needs, raising
a large part of their feed on his land. As a Democrat he was elected to
numerous township offices, the duties of which he faithfully discharged, and
was with his wife an adherent of the Presbyterian faith. His only fraternal
relation was with the Masonic order.
Mr. Carothers married Mary Jane, daughter of James and Rachel
(Murphy) Scott, born in Chippewa township, Beaver county, July 17,
1833. Children of William Allen and Mary Jane (Scott) Carothers: i.
Jessie, born 1864, died 1881, diphtheria causing her death. 2. Cora B., born
February 4, 1866; married Gustavus Brittain; lives at No. 2027 Seventh
avenue, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. 3. Edna, born in March, 1868, died
at the same time and of the same cause as her sister, Jessie. 4. Mary, born
June 3, 1870, died unmarried in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 1910. 5. Wil-
liam Allen Scott, born April 28, 1872, the third victim of the disease that
claimed his two sisters in 1881. Since June, 1907, Mrs. Carothers has
lived in Beaver Falls, having Hved on the farm from the time of her hus-
band's death until that year.
James Scott was a son of Hugh Scott, who was a native of Ireland and
who came to America while the war for independence was being waged,
sending for his wife and two children when peace had been restored. Their
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home was for a time in Chester county, Pennsylvania, after which they
journeyed westward and located in Chippewa township, Beaver county,
Pennsylvania, where Hugh Scott became owner of a tract of one hundred
and eighty-three acres. He prepared a place for a house, built the same,
and then began to remove the dense woods, gradually increasing his arable
area until he had a farm of generous dimensions, capable of supplying the
needs of his little family. He here died while still in the prime of life and
with apparently many years of active usefulness before him, his widow,
Jane, living on the home farm until she attained a great age, her death oc-
curring in South Beaver township. Children of Hugh and Jane Scott,
the first two born in Ireland, the two others in Pennsylvania: i. Jane,
married Samuel Cunningham; died in Chippewa township, Beaver county,
Pennsylvania. 2. Maria, married John Porter; died in Ohio. 3. Isabella,
married William Barclay; died in Beaver, Pennsylvania. 4. James, of
whom further.
James Scott, son of Hugh and Jane Scott, was born in Chester county,
Pennsylvania, March i, 1806, died in Patterson township, Beaver county,
Pennsylvania, October 22, 1856. When but a child he was brought to
Beaver county with his parents, and he here grew to maturity, attending the
public schools and marrying. He acquired the shares of his sisters in the
homestead and lived thereon until 1846, when he bought the Murphy farm,
there living until his death. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church,
and as a Democratic candidate was elected to numerous township offices,
being at one time justice of the peace. In military affairs he was also
actively interested, for many years being a captain of militia in the local
organization of the state troops. He married Rachel, daughter of John
and Mary (Stratton) Murphy, born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, April
I, 1813, died March 8, 1885. After his death she married a second time,
her husband being James Wrigley. John Murphy, father of Rachel Murphy,
was born in Ireland, leaving his native land for the United States prior to
1812, settling in Patterson township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, from
which locality he enlisted in the company being there raised to go to the
front in the war of 1812-14. While he was in the army, his wife made her
home with a family by the name of Brooks, close friends and neighbors.
Children of John and Mary (Stratton) Murphy: i. Sarah, died in Beaver
Falls, Pennsylvania, aged ninety-six years; married (first) Isaiah Thomas,
(second) Hugh Woods. 2. Valariah, married Frank Vesey; died in Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania. 3. Rachel, of previous mention, married James
Scott. 4. Nancy, married George Dunning; moved to Iowa, where she
died. 5. Sophronia, married Alexander Brown ; died in Illinois. 6. Grace,
died unmarried in Beaver county, Pennsylvania 7. Cynthia, married John
Reeves; died in Patterson Heights, Pennsylvania. 8. Mary Ann, married
William Grant; died in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. 9. Caroline, married
John Knight; died in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. 10. Samuel, died in
Beaver Falls. 11. William, a cooper; died in Beaver Falls. 12. John, a
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soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, died in the service. Chil-
dren of James and Rachel (Murphy) Scott: i. Mary Jane, of previous
mention, married William Allen Carothers. 2. Valariah, born December
21, 1835, died in infancy. 3. Hugh Franklin, bom December 31, 1836; a
carpenter; enlisted in the Civil War, and after its close died, the cause of
his death being general physical weakness, the rigors of his many campaigns
having proved too great a strain upon his physique. 4. Sarah Ann, born
February 26, 1839; married John Wells; died in Crestline, Ohio, in Sep-
tember, 1913. 5. Maria Isabel, bom April 8, 1841 ; married Ethan Brittain;
lives in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania. 6. John Jackson, born June 8,
1845, died aged about eight years. 7. Joseph Frazier, born December 8,
1847, died in childhood. 8. James, born March 4, 1850, died aged twenty
years.
The Cowden family has been resident in the state of Penn-
COWDEN sylvania for a number of generations, and during the
greater number of these years has been prominently identi-
fied with agricultural interests.
(I) John Cowden was born near Hickory, Washington county, Penn-
sylvania, and died about 1909. He was educated in the district schools of
his native county, and at an early age became active in farming interests.
He was very systematic and painstaking in whatever he undertook, and
worked his way up from small beginnings to a position of wealth and in-
fluence. At the time of his death he was the owner of a farm of two
hundred and thirty-seven acres in Washington county, one of one hundred
and sixty-six acres in Kansas, and a third of one hundred and seventy-six
acres in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. In addition to farming he was
largely engaged in stock raising, in which he was equally successful. While
he was never desirous of holding public office, he gave his political support
many years to the Republican party, and later joined the ranks of the
Prohibitionists. Until about ten years prior to his death he was a member
of the church at Venice, Washington county, and then joined the church at
Houston. Mr. Cowden married Louisa Scott, born in Washington county,
Pennsylvania, and they had children : Isaac Paterson ; Joseph Scott ; Mary
Bell ; Esther Ann ; Lily, deceased ; James Nelson ; William Anderson ; John
Alexander, of further mention.
(II) John Alexander Cowden, son of John and Louisa (Scott)
Cowden, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, November
3, 1872. He received his early education in the public schools of
Washington county, and this was supplemented by attendance at
the Hickory Academy. Upon the completion of his education he became an
active assistant of his father in the cultivation of his various farms, and
became thoroughly familiar with every detail of farm management. About the
year 1903 he removed to the farm owned by his father in Hanover township,
Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and is residing on this at the present time. He
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has brought it to a fine and profitable state of cultivation, and is progres-
sive in his methods. He raises general farm products, and is also to a con-
siderable extent a stock raiser. He and his wife are members of the United
Presbyterian Church, and he gives his political support to the Republican
party. Mr. Cowden married, September 28, 1904, Mary, daughter of Mrs.
I. L. Campbell. They have no children of their own, but have given a home
to David A. Kennedy, whom they are giving all the advantages in their
power. Mr. Cowden takes an active interest in all that concerns the welfare
of the community, and is a man of unusually broad-minded views on every
subject.
The ancestry of the Gormley family of Beaver county is
GORMLEY Irish and it was from that country that the emigrant an-
cestry of the line herein recorded came to Lawrence county,
Pennsylvania, where he purchased a farm, married, and spent all the years
of his life. Among his children, of whom three were sons, was Robert, of
whom further.
(II) Robert Gormley was born near Newcastle, Lawrence county,
Pennsylvania, 1828. He there spent his boyhood days, and when a young
man purchased a farm in that county, where he still resides. He is a Re-
publican in politics, and is a member of the United Presbyterian Church.
He married Margaret Moak, whom he survives.
(III) Dr. James Renwick Gormley, son of Robert and Margaret
(Moak) Gormley, was born near Newcastle, Lawrence county, Pennsyl-
vania, October 14, 1867. His early life was spent on the old homestead,
still the home of his father, and he attended the public schools, later study-
ing at Grove City College. After his graduation from the latter institution
he was for four years a school teacher, later beginning the study of medi-
cine at Western Reserve University, of Cleveland, Ohio, completing his
medical education in the Medical Department of the University of Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, whence he was graduated in 1893. For one year after his
graduation he was house physician in Christ's Hospital, and in 1894 moved
to Monaca, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his pro-
fession, his able knowledge of his art speedily winning him a large number
of patients. In 1897 he became a member of the Beaver County Medical
Society, to which he still belongs, also holding membership in the Pennsyl-
vania State and American Medical societies. A Republican in politics he
has held both county and local offices, having been coroner of Beaver
county for two terms, a member of the Monaca council for six years
and for five years a member of the school board. He is a member of
Saint James Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Eureka Chapter, No.
167, Royal Arch Masons, of Rochester, Pennsylvania; Commandery No.
84, Knights Templar, of Beaver Falls ; and Saint George's Lodge of
Perfection, of Pittsburgh, thirty-second degree. He also affiliates with
the Knights of Pythias, of Monaca, and the Benevolent and Protective
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Order of Elks, of Rochester, Pennsylvania. With his wife he is a mem-
ber of the Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Gormley married Lydia E. Ronshausen, of New Brighton, Penn-
sylvania. Children: James Renwick (2), born April 4, 1909; Anna Mar-
garet, bom March 13, 1910. Prominent in all public works, conspicuous
in fraternal circles, and one of the leading physicians of the vicinity. Dr.
Gormley's active and successful career has been both a credit to him and
to the town of his adoption.
This family was originally resident in England, the
INGLEFIELD grandfather of the present generation in Beaver county,
Pennsylvania, having been Charles Inglefield, a shoe-
maker in Lancaster, England.
(II) William Inglefield, son of Charles Inglefield, was born near Lan-
caster, England, and came to America with his wife and two children. His
wife and the children became very ill at sea and died not long after their
arrival in this country, at Philadelphia, where they were buried. Mr.
Inglefield migrated to the western part of the state of Pennsylvania, and
was one of the contractors engaged in the construction of the Panhandle
Railway. He had, however, learned the trade of shoemaking under the
supervision of his father, and in later life he took this up again, at
Murdocksville, Washington county, Pennsylvania. Still later he bought out
the general store of McClarn, and conducted this very successfully until
his death. He affiliated with the Republican party, and was active in the
interests of the Hebern Church, although he would never consent to hold
office, either in the church or public matters. He was once elected to serve
as elder in the church, but declined the honor. He was of a very quiet,
retiring nature, always thoughtful and considerate of others. Mr. Ingle-
field married (second) Hettie Withrow, born September 14, 1833, at
Hood's Mill, south of Murdocksville, Washington county, Pennsylvania,
and they had children: Sophia, now Mrs. Oliver; William W. ; R. B. ;
John S., died at the age of two years; Edward S., see forward; James
Oliver; Charles Oxford; David Patterson.
(III) Edward S. Inglefield, son of William and Hettie (Withrow)
Inglefield, was born at Murdocksville, Washington county, Pennsylvania,
June 5, 1864. He was educated at the district schools of Murdocksville,
and then engaged in farming with which he has been continuously identified.
For the past twenty-four years he has also made a specialty of threshing
and baling, and also operates a saw mill. He is the owner of sixty-two
acres of land which he keeps in a fine state of cultivation. He has been
active in local politics in the interests of the Republican party, and is now
serving as a member of the board of school directors. He has also served
for some years on the board of trustees of the Hebern Church. Mr. Ingle-
field married, December 23, 1886, Ada Martha Anderson, born in Beaver
county, Pennsylvania, but reared in Washington county. They have had
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children: William Elmer, of Murdocksville ; Sarah Elizabeth, married
Charles Cain, and now lives in Ohio ; a son who died unnamed ; Mary H. ;
Ada B., a teacher; James Ralph; Sophia; Edward Earl. James R. Hender-
son, father of Mrs. Inglefield, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania,
where his father, Thomas Anderson, had taken up a tract of land, and
farmed, the land being in the family up to the present day. James R.
Anderson married EHzabeth, daughter of Joseph Cully, a pioneer farmer
of Washington county, Pennsylvania. They had children: Edward, who
died in childhood ; Ada Martha, who became Mrs. Inglefield, whose mother
died when she was two years of age, and she was brought up by an
aunt; Maria Armour.
John Conkle came over the mountains and settled in Hickory,
CONKLE Washington county, Pennsylvania, about 1700. He was one
of the earliest settlers in that region. He acquired a large
tract of land which he cleared and cultivated successfully. He lived until
the advanced age of ninety-nine years. In 1795 his sons were located at
the following places : Henry, at Hookstown, Pennsylvania ; Adam, at
Washington, Pennsylvania; John, at Washington, Pennsylvania; Peter, at
Little Beaver, Ohio; Jacob, at Calcutta, Ohio; George, at Cannon's Mill,
back of Liverpool, Ohio. He married (first) Charlotte Settler, who died
at the age of seventy-seven years. He married (second) Christine Shaffer,
who died at the age of sixty years. Children by first marriage: George,
John, Jacob, Samuel, Sallie, Polly, Betsey, Ann. Children by the second
marriage : William ; Henry, see forward ; Mattie, twin of Henry.
(II) Henry Conkle, son of John and Christine (Shaffer) Conkle, lived
to the age of seventy-six years. He had a farm of one hundred and four
acres. On this he built the first log house, it being within three rods of
the present dwelling.
(III) Henry, son of Henry Conkle, was born in the log house on
the family homestead, November 2^, 1821, and died at the age of seventy-
one years. He built a second log house and put up an addition to the first
one, and still later erected a frame house which was burned. He married
Catherine Metz, who died July 27, 1903. She was born on the Jesse
Mercer place in Greene township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, a great-
granddaughter of Peter Metz, who was born east of the mountains, and
settled in the western part of the state about 1800. He died at the age
of seventy-eight years. He had a daughter, Mary Camathan, who died at
the age of forty-four years, and his son, Adam Metz, who was the father
of Mrs. Conkle, died at the age of eighty-eight years. Henry and Cath-
erine (Metz) Conkle had children: Robert Franklin, died in May, 19 10;
Anna Mary ; Samuel M. ; Elihu R. ; Sarah Martha ; John S. ; George E. W.,
see forward; Hattie R.
(IV) George E. W. Conkle, son of Henry and Catherine (Metz)
Conkle, was born on the farm on which he now resides, in Greene town-
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ship, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, November 13, 1861. He was educated
in the pubhc grammar and high schools of Hookstovi^n, Beaver county,
and then engaged in farming with which he has been identified all his
life on the homestead farm. In 1903 he had a fine house erected to take
the place of the one which had been built by his father and destroyed by
fire. His farm is cultivated for general produce, and is a very profitable
one. He is a member of the Presbyterian faith, as have been all his an-
cestors, and is an attendant at the Mill Creek Church. The political al-
legiance of the family has been given to the Democratic party for many
years.
Mr. Conkle married, in 1897, Amy G. Massey, and they have had
children: Wilbur Clayton, Wayne Hampton, Robert Franklin, Edna May
and Anna Mildred. Hampton Massey, father of Mrs. Conkle, was bom
October 15, 1850, in Hanover township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and
is a son of Jesse and Caroline (Adams) Massey, of Columbiana county,
Ohio, where they were farmers. He was a carpenter by trade and was in
demand for the erection of buildings in Beaver county. He married
Lousia, daughter of Eli and Rebecca (Stephenson) Massey, and they had
children : Nora May ; Amy Georgette, who married Mr. Conkle ; Ella
Viola ; Charles Morrison ; Sarah Bessie ; Mary Ethel ; Helen. All the mem-
bers of the Massey family are attendants at the Mill Creek Presbyterian
Church.
The name of Calhoon, in various forms of spelling, is a
CALHOON familiar one in this country, and has been borne by men
distinguished in various walks of life. They have been
especially numerous in the state of Pennsylvania.
(I) Milton Calhoon, born in Greene township, Beaver county, Penn-
sylvania, was educated in the early district schools there. He was the
architect of his own fortunes, and from comparative poverty, worked his
way upward until, at the time of his death, he was a man of considerable
wealth. During the summer months he engaged in farming, occupying
the fall by towing keel boats, and in the winter was a teamster. He never
wasted a minute, but was always engaged in hard work. He commenced
with a small farm, to which he added from time to time, until he was
possessed of three hundred and twenty-five acres at the time of his death.
In later life he was also actively interested in sheep raising, and was suc-
cessful in this undertaking. In political matters he cast his vote for the
Republican party, and he was a member of the Presbyterian Church at
Hookstown. M'r. Calhoon married Phoebe Mackall, a sister of Samuel
Mackall, and a native of Greene township, Beaver county, where her
family had long resided. They had children: Mary A. Elizabeth; James
Mackall, of further mention; Thomas; William Walter; Sarah; Ida;
Samuel E., of whom further; Hamilton.
(II) James Mackall, a son of Milton and Phoebe (Mackall) Calhoon,
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was born one mile south of Hookstown, Beaver county, Pennsylvania,
March 24, 1849. He was educated in the public schools of his native
township, and from an early age assisted his father in his farming opera-
tions, and thus became practically familiar with all farming details. He
very naturally turned to farming as his lifework, and now is the owner of a
fine farm of one hundred and twenty-two acres near Georgetown, Beaver
county. He and a brother also own another farm of eighty acres in
partnership. Mr. Calhoon has put many improvements on his home farm,
both in the nature of buildings and methods of cultivation, and he has
greatly increased the value of the land since it came into his possession. He
is engaged in general farming, but makes somewhat of a specialty of
fruit growing. He has been active in the interests of the Republican party,
and has filled the office of road supervisor very capably. He and his
family are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Calhoon married,
in 1878, Adele Mary, a daughter of Thomas Laughlin, one of the pioneers
of this region. They have had children: Clara May; Phoebe Maude;
Sarah, deceased; Nellie; Ada; Lelia. A great-grandfather of Mr. Cal-
hoon, Benoni Dawson, whose wife was a Mackall, brought slaves to George-
town, Beaver county, and later freed them.