ing first log buildings, later replacing them with frame structures. He
cultivated this land until his death, the property now known as the ShaflFer
farm. He married Prudence Hamilton, and had children: Ann, Lydia,
Christiana, Mathias, Thomas Hamilton, Jane, Daniel, Robert, of whom
further; Sarah, Prudence, Mary, Juliana, David. All of these thirteen
children grew to healthy and vigorous maturity.
(HI) Robert Cooper, son of Daniel and Prudence (Hamilton)
Cooper, was born in Moon township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May
21, 1817, died aged seventy-six years. He obtained an unusually good
education in the subscription and public schools, which latter he attended
for one term. He learned the carpenter's trade, specializing in that branch
of the carpenter's occupation devoted to boat building, following this
calling in Freedom, Pennsylvania, Louisville, Kentucky, and New Orleans,
Louisiana. He later cultivated one hundred and sixty acres of land in
Moon township, a part of which belonged to his father, and in the clearing
of which he had assisted. He and his family were members of the United
Presbyterian Church, and for more than forty years he was a member of
the session of that denomination. His exemplary life and nobility of char-
acter gave him unquestioned prestige upon the board of spiritual advisers
of the church, and in all the plans for extending its work and enlarging
its capacity for well doing his counsel held much weight. He married
(first) in 1841, Eliza Orr, of Raccoon township, Beaver county, Penn-
sylvania; (second) in 1846, Mary, daughter of Henry and Jane (Purdy)
Ewing; (third) in 1875, Mrs. Alice (Calvert) Laird, of Moon township,
Beaver county, Pennsylvania. Henry Ewing's father, Alexander Ewing,
and a brother of Alexander Ewing, Henry, also the father of Alexander
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and Henry Ewing, were soldiers in the Revolutionary War, while James
Purdy, father of Jane Purdy, also fought in that conflict, so that the
descendants of the second marriage of Robert Cooper have a triple claim
upon Revolutionary ancestors. Children of the first marriage of Robert
Cooper: William J. and Robert H. Children of the second marriage of
Robert Cooper: Margaret J., a teacher in the graded schools of Paterson
township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania; D. Austin, Henry E., David K.,
Mary Emma, Elmer C, John P., of whom further.
(IV) John P. Cooper, youngest son of Robert and Mary (Ewing)
Cooper, was born on the homestead farm in Beaver county, Pennsylvania,
December 15, 1863. He was educated in the township schools. When he
was nineteen years of age he left the paternal farm and passed the follow-
ing ten years in the middle west, where he taught school. In 1893 he re-
turned to the home farm and at the present time conducts general farming
operations, cultivating one hundred and sixty acres. Good fortune has
attended his agricultural undertaking and he has derived from the soil
gratifying yields, results which give him high place among the farmers
of the locality. The Republican is the party in which he places his con-
fidence, and in local public afifairs he has ever taken an active part, having
for nine years been a member of the school board and was township auditor
for six years. Mr. Cooper married, in 1903, Olive L., daughter of William
F. Dodds, of Nebraska. They have children: William Roy and Mary
Elizabeth.
The McNallys have come to America at various times, and
McNALLY the greater number of them have been identified with in-
dustrial callings. Some, however, are also to be found in
professional and diplomatic lines.
(I) Philip McNally was born in Ireland, and emigrated to the United
States in 1896. He settled at Braddock, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania,
where his death occurred the following year, and he is buried in Calvary
Cemetery, Pittsburgh. He married, in Ireland, Ann Haney, also a native
of that country, who died in 1891. They had children: Martin, see for-
ward ; Hubert ; Mary, deceased ; Bridget, deceased ; Michael ; Patrick, de-
ceased; Ann; John, deceased.
(II) Martin McNally, son of Philip and Ann (Haney) McNally, was
born in county Galway, Ireland, November 8, 1856. He emigrated to
America in 1881, arriving here in the month of May, and went to Albany,
New York, where he was employed until 1885. He held a position on
the steamboat "St. John," of the People's Line, and while in the com-
pany's employ had the misfortune to lose one of his legs. For the next three
years he was engaged in the fruit business, then removed to Braddock,
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, where he opened a hotel, of which he
was the proprietor and manager until he took a trip to Ireland in 1902.
He remained in his native land for the period of one year, then returned
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to Pennsylvania, and lived in the city of Pittsburgh until 1908. Aliquippa,
Beaver county, Pennsylvania, was the next scene of his activities, and
there he purchased the Columbia Hotel, and has been its proprietor since
that time. It is conducted upon the most modern and approved plan,
and is one of the finest hotels of its size and class. Mr. McNally was
one of the organizers of the Aliquippa National Bank, and is one of its
directors. He is a charter member of "The Owls," which was organized
in 1913, and is a member of the Republican party. He married, in 1887,
Bridget C. Conway, born in Ireland. They have no children.
The name of Whalen is one which has always been con-
WHALEN nected with honorable industrial enterprises. It is one of
frequent occurrence in Ireland, and many of the represen-
tatives of this family have come to the United States. Michael Whalen
spent his entire life in Ireland, where he married Mary Dorsey.
(II) Patrick Whalen, son of Michael and Mary (Dorsey) Whalen,
was born in Ireland, and emigrated to the United States in 1870. For a
time he made his home in Steubenville, Ohio, then removed to CollierSj
Brooke county, West Virginia, where he died in 1891. He had been in
the employ of the Panhandle Traction Company for a number of years.
His widow and children removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and later to
Aliquippa, where she established herself in the grocery business in which
she has been eminently successful and has amassed a competence. She
is now the owner of considerable real estate. Mr. Whalen was a Demo-
crat, and all of the family are members of the Catholic Church. Mr.
Whalen married, in Ireland, in 1868, Catherine, daughter of Patrick and
Mary (Dorsey) Trail, both of whom lived and died in Ireland. Patrick
Trail was a participant in the battle of Waterloo, and was active in many
of the battles which were fought in the East Indies. They had children:
Mary Catherine ; Catherine, who married Patrick Whalen ; Bridget. All
of these daughters are living. Patrick and Catherine (Trail) Whalen had
children as follows: i. Michael, was a general yardmaster at Connells-
ville, Pennsylvania, for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company; died
August II, 1910; he married Annie McGuinness, of Steubenville, Ohio, and
had children: Catherine, Leo, Mary Agnes, Regis, Inez. 2. Mary, died
at the age of nineteen years. 3. Margaret, married P. L. Cox, of Hazle-
wood, supervisor of the plant of Jones & Laughlin; has one child, Eliza-
beth. 4. Annie, married John Sullivan, yardmaster in the Jones & Laughlin
plant at Hazlewood; has one child, Eleanor. 5. Lizzie, married E. S.
Gallagher, an engineer at Aliquippa, has one child, Francis. 6. Katie,
married Thomas Jones, in the grocery business at Homestead, Pennsyl-
vania; no children. 7. Marcus, died at the age of twelve years. 8. Eleanor,
married Thomas Coyne, of No. 104 Thirteenth street. North Braddock,
Pennsylvania ; has children : Paul and Ilene. 9. James, an engineer, un-
married, lives in Aliquippa. 10. Patrick, deceased.
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Julius Zimmerman, born in Baden, Germany, in 1827,
ZIMMERMAN received an excellent educarion in his native country.
He came to the United States in early manhood, and
found employment as a steward on the "Robert E. Lee," remaining in this
position many years. His political allegiance was given to the Democratic
party. He married Sarah Ann Kane, born in Steubenville, Ohio, 1848,
daughter of and Ann (Jones) Kane, both natives of the state of
Maine, and who removed to Steubenville, Ohio. He was employed in
various capacities on the river, and died of yellow fever in New Orleans,
Louisiana. She removed to Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where
she died in 1889. They had children: i. A daughter, who died at an
early age. 2. Samuel M., who became the general manager of the Roch-
ester Tumbler Works, and was killed on the railroad. 3. Catherine. 4.
Sarah Ann, who became the wife of Julius Zimmerman; she was a mem-
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
(II) Joseph J. Zimmerman, son of Julius and Sarah Ann (Kane)
Zimmerman, was born in Steubenville, Ohio, December 25, 1870. His early
years were spent in that town where he attended the public schools, and
was then sent to Mount Pleasant, in Western Pennsylvania. From 1887
to 1890 he was a student at the Mount Pleasant Qassical and Scientific
Institution, and the Pennsylvania Military College, at Chester, Penn-
sylvania, after which he came to Rochester, Beaver county. He
formed a business connection with the Rochester Tumbler Works,
which continued in force until 1906, with entire satisfaction to all
interested. He had commenced in the mold making department, and had
worked his way upward through all grades until in 1900 he was made man-
ager of the Keystone Tumbler Plant, which had been erected in 1897.
In 1906 he severed his connection with the glass manufacturing business,
and established himself in the mercantile line, succeeding Sharp & Hoffman,
and was eminently successful until 1909. He then became the secretary of
the Rochester Mold & Machine Company, an office he is still filling with
remarkable executive ability. Mr. Zimmerman has been an active worker
in the interests of the Republican party, and was chosen as alternate dele-
gate to the national convention held in Chicago, in 1904, taking the seat
made vacant by the death of Hon. M. S. Quay. He has aflSliations with
numerous organizations, among them being the following: Independent
Order of Odd Fellows; Rochester Lodge, No. 229, Free and Accepted
Masons; Eureka Chapter, No. 167, Royal Arch Masons; New Castle
Lodge of Perfection ; and Scottish Rite Masons, of Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania, and for twelve years has been the secretary of the Blue Lodge
at Rochester. His wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church and Mr.
Zimmerman is an attendant of the same. In 1896 he erected the beautiful
dwelling at No. 170 West Park, in which he now resides.
Mr. Zimmerman married, October 12, 1893, Alice J., born in Rochester,
Pennsylvania, daughter of John J. and Elizabeth (Johnson) Hoffman, the
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latter now deceased. John J. Hoffman was a prominent merchant in
Rochester, where he is still living, and was a member of the Beaver
Valley Electric Company. Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman have children: Eliza-
beth Bell, born July 21, 1894; Nell Wilson, November 17, 1900.
In Beaver county, a region devoted chiefly to agricultural
McGUIRE pursuits, the McGuires of Ireland have been successful
farmers ever since that district has been their home, which
has been for one full century, Daniel McGuire having been the first of his
branch of the McGuire family to come to the United States.
(I) Daniel McGuire was bom in Ireland about 1763, and in that
country was a tiller of the soil. In 181 3 he came to the United States,
landing in Pennsylvania, and proceeding immediately to Beaver county,
where his descendants have since lived. He made farming his occupation
in the land of his adoption and owned land in Economy township, dying
on the homestead there in 1854. He became a supporter of the Democratic
party as soon as he obtained a thorough acquaintance with American
politics and political methods, and with his family was a member of the
Roman Catholic Church. He married Mary O'Connell, who died in Beaver
county, Pennsylvania, her birthplace being the same as his. Children of
Daniel and Mary (O'Connell) McGuire, all deceased: i. Grace, married
(first) a Mr. Dougherty, (second) John Ingles. 2. Charles, of whom
further. 3. Marjorie, married John Downey. 4. Nancy, married Nathaniel
Downey.
(II) Charles McGuire, only son of Daniel and Mary (O'Connell)
McGuire, was born in county Derry, Ireland, January i, 1800, died in
Economy township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1854. His education,
begun in his native land in the private schools, was completed in the United
States in institutions of the same character, his father having brought him
to this country when he was a lad of thirteen years. Completing his
studies, for a time he rented land from his father, on which he conducted
agricultural operations, and a few years later purchased his father's farm,
there residing until his death, which occurred when he was but little more
than in the prime of life. His religious convictions were those of his
parents, and he and his wife were faithful communicants of the Roman
Catholic Church. In politics his sympathies were identical with those of
his father, and his political activity was ever for the benefit and advance-
ment of the Democratic party. Many township offices were conferred
upon him by his neighbors, including school director, director of the poor,
road supervisor, and numerous others, his administration of all public
trusts being marked by a willing and capable attitude that made him an
ideal public servant, his efforts tending toward the best possible end, re-
gardless of the labor entailed.
He married Catherine Corby, bom in Limerick, Ireland, died on the
home farm in Economy township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. October
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22, 1874, daughter of John Corby, a merchant of Ireland, who in the
United States became a farmer, dying in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. He
married a Miss Sheehan. Children of John and (Sheehan) Corby,
all deceased: i. Catherine, of previous mention, married Charles Mc-
Guire. 2. John, died in Missouri; married Amanda Music. 3. William,
married, and spent his life in Missouri, where his death occurred. 4.
Mary, died unmarried. 5. Bridget, died unmarried. 6. Michael, died un-
married. 7. Frank P., married (first) , (second) a Miss Robedoux. Chil-
dren of Charles and Catherine (Corby) McGuire: i. Daniel, died unmarried.
2. John, deceased ; married Ann Llambias. 3. Charles, died unmarried^
4. Michael, of whom further. 5. Mary, died unmarried. 6. Joseph, mar-
ried Helena Zink, and lives in Pittsburgh; they are the parents of two
children, both living at home, Charles and Mary. 7. James, died aged
sixteen years. 8. Ellen, died unmarried.
(Ill) Michael McGuire, fourth child and son of Charles and Catherine
(Corby) McGuire, was born in Economy tovraship, Beaver county, Penn-
sylvania, February 24, 1839. As a boy he attended the township public
schools, living on the home farm, and after the death of his father he
managed the home farm for his mother until he was twenty years of age.
He then purchased the interests of his co-heirs in the home property and
became sole possessor of the one hundred and fifty acres of land that had
comprised the old homestead. Thus for practically sixty years he has had
full charge of the homestead, for the most of that time as owner. After
many years devoted to the dairy business, chiefly in the making of butter,
he later confined himself, in a great degree, to truck raising. For the first
named product of his farm there was ever a large demand because of its
sweetness, purity and freshness, and he encountered little trouble in finding a
ready market for his farm produce. He is now retired from active pur-
suits, enjoying a well earned rest. While found in his most familiar element
as an agriculturist, and the fact that he is vice-president of the Beaver
County Agricultural Association shows that his reputation among farmers
is one of merit in that line, Mr. McGuire has given no small share of his
time and attention to business matters, having for seventeen years been
president of the Wall Rose Fire Insurance Company, an organization of
which he has been secretary for the past eleven years, still continuing in
that capacity. As the head of the above-mentioned organization he placed
its affairs upon a business basis of unshaking firmness, and his works
show to the present day in that it is known as a responsible and reliable
institution, well-officered and well-managed. To the public service he has
also given generously, for ten years directing the educational affairs of
the township as school director, and for six years holding the office of
township auditor. The years of his life, seventy-five in number, in 1914,
have been spent in an activity that always tended toward useful ends, and
the scope of his connections bespeaks a man of wide sympathies and
equally broad abilities. His entrance into political life was as the repre-
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sentative of the Democratic party, although at the polls he was accorded
the support of his many friends, irrespective of party lines, and in religion
he adheres to the family faith, the Roman Catholic, as does his wife.
He married, June 13, 1871, Catherine Moore, born in Sharpsburg,
Pennsylvania, May 28, 1851, daughter of George and Margaret (Dorst-
witz) Moore, both natives of Prussia. George Moore was a brick manu-
facturer and farmer during his American residence, and died in Economy
township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, aged seventy-two years, his wife's
death occurring in that place. Children of George and Margaret (Dorst-
witz) Moore: i. Frederick, deceased; married Elizabeth Minick. 2. John,
served about four years in the Civil War in the Fourth Pennsylvania
Cavalry, under Captain B. F. Blood, was captured at Antietam, released
at close of war, held at Andersonville, Libby and Belle Island prisons;
married Mary Broadwick; lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; they are the
parents of : George ; Thomas ; Catherine, unmarried ; Clements, married
William Seifker; Adalaide, unmarried; John, married Augusta Moran;
Lawrence, unmarried. 3. Mary, married John Chisler; lives in Canons-
burg, Pennsylvania; children: Barbara A., married Matthew Mallory;
Margaret, married William Der; William, married Frances Wright; Eliza-
beth, married John Davis; Mary Estella, married Harry Stewart, of Pitts-
burgh. 4. Andrew, unmarried, lives in Economy township, Beaver county,
Pennsylvania. 5. George, died from disease contracted in the service in
the Civil War, served in the One Hundred and Sixty-first Pennsylvania
Infantry. 6. Elizabeth, lives unmarried in Economy township, Beaver
county, Pennsylvania. 7. Catherine, of previous mention, married Michael
McGuire. Children of Michael and Catherine (Moore) McGuire: i.
Ellen, married Gilbert Foran ; lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the mother
of Francis, Charles and Lawrence. 2. Delia, married George H. Davis;
lives in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania; they are the parents of one child, James,
aged four years. 3. Charles, married Jennie Irwin; lives in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, the father of one daughter, Catherine, aged six years. 4.
John M., married Gertrude Styelinger, deceased; she lives in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. 5. Mary, married William Hemmerle; lives in Pittsburgh.
6. Leo, married Ellen Kratzler; she is deceased. 7. Grace, lives at home.
8. Clair, lives at home.
The part that German settlers have played in Beaver
HAMMERLE county does not differ materially from that which those
of that nationality have to their credit in other regions
of this country, that of a sober, intelligent, industrious people, who, es-
tablishing institutions and precedents as the needs of their communities
called for them, built them after their own personalities, weaving into them
the elements of firmness and substantiality that make for permanence and
endurance. Among the many families that Germany has given to the
United States, and among the large number that have made Pennsylvania
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their home, is that of Hammerle, estabHshed in the United States by John
Hammerle in 1853.
(I) John Hammerle was a resident of Beaver county, Pennsylvania,
for twenty years prior to his death, which occurred in 1873, when he was
eighty-four years of age. These two decades had been spent in agri-
cultural pursuits, John Hammerle having been a son of the soil in the
Fatherland. There is in the possession of John (3) Hammerle, grandson
of John (i) Hammerle, the emigrant, an old trunk in which the first
John carried all of his worldly goods when he made the voyage from his
native country to the United States in 1853. He was a member of the
German Lutheran Church, then known as the German Reformed, as was
his wife, and reared his children in that faith. The maiden name of his
wife was Kuckenberger, her death taking place in Pennsylvania. They
were the parents of : Leonard, resident of Monroe, New York ; Rudolph,
deceased; Lizzie, lives unmarried in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; Catherine,
married (first) a Mr. Thomas, (second) Zinkham, and lives in
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; John, of whom further.
(H) John (2) Hammerle, son of John (i) Hammerle, was bom in
Baden, Germany, in 1832, died in Economy township, Beaver county, Penn-
sylvania, April 15, 1906. His early life was spent in Germany, and he
was there educated in the schools for which that land is justly famous,
coming to the United States with his father in the year that he attained
his majority. After his arrival he was for a time employed in Pitts-
burgh, later entering the agricultural field, in which he remained until his
death, meeting with good success and becoming one of the farmers of the
region whose undertakings were universally prosperous. In 1862 he en-
listed in the Union army and served for a term of nine months, at the end
of that time returning to the cultivation of his acres. He was a Democrat in
political sympathies and for three years served the township as school
director. For many years he was a trustee of the Lutheran Church, his
wife holding membership in the Presbyterian Church in her later years.
He married Elizabeth Shaffer, born in New Sewickley township, Beaver
county, Pennsylvania, who died in Freedom, Pennsylvania, October 21,
1912, aged seventy-eight years. She was a daughter of Casper Shaffer,
a farmer of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1878. Chil-
dren of Casper Shaffer: i. Elizabeth, of previous mention, married John
(2) Hammerle. 2. John, married Gudemoth, and lives in Unionville.
New Sewickjey township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania; they are the
parents of: Callie, married Jacob Shaney, and lives in Unionville, Penn-
sylvania; Nicholas, married, and lives in New Brighton, Pennsylvania;
Emma, married Frank Acher, and lives in Freedom, Pennsylvania ; Henry,
married Louisa Graham, and lives in Monaca, Pennsylvania ; Joseph, mar-
ried, and lives with his parents; Walter, unmarried, lives at Ambridge,
Pennsylvania; Harry, unmarried, lives at Freedom, Pennsylvania; Mary,
lives at home. 3. Henry, married Barbara Eckhart, and lives on the
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old homestead in New Sewickley township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania;
they are the parents of several children. 4. Eve, married John Knoupfe,
and lives in Butler county, Pennsylvania, the mother of four children. 5.
Mary, married Adam Fleener, and lives in Dougherty township, Beaver
county, Pennsylvania, the mother of several children. Children of John
(2) and Elizabeth (Shaffer) Hammerle: i. Pauhna, died aged twelve
years. 2. John (3), of whom further. 3. Benjamin, deceased. 4. Oiarles,
married Carrie Kemer, and lives in Pittsburgh, the father of two sons,
Elmer, married Lizzie Berry, and Harry. 5. Henry, married Jennie Fuller-
ton, and lives in Pittsburgh, the father of two children, Claire and Cora,
both married. 6. Joseph, married Mary Shirk, and lives in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, the father of two children, Norman and Maria, aged sixteen
and nine years, respectively. 7. George, married Ida Miller, and lives in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the father of two daughters, Esther, aged nine,
and Mildred, aged six years. 8. Mary, died aged twelve years. 9. Eliza-
beth, married W. E. McElheny, and lives in Conway, Pennsylvania; they
are the parents of two children, Walter and David, aged fourteen and
twelve years, respectively. 10. William, married Emma Gross, deceased;
lives in Freedom, Pennsylvania, the father of three children, Lenhardt,