Mary Hughes (Evans) Lawrence, was born in Machynlleth, Wales, and
was a daughter of Reese Evans, a celebrated clock maker of that town.
Many of his clocks are still doing good service, and some of them are sold
at fabulous prices. Mrs. Whiting's ancestors came to this country in the
latter part of the eighteenth century, and an account of them will be found
in detail below.

(The Smith Line.)

(I) John Smith, ancestor of this family in America, was a native of
England, coming to this country and settling in New Jersey, whence he
subsequently removed to Pennsylvania, in the year 1797. He made the
journey on horseback, returning afterward to New Jersey, where he married
and brought his wife back with him in the same manner, to Pennsylvania.
He took up a tract of two hundred acres of government land in this State
which he cultivated assiduously, and received a gift of two hundred addi-
tional acres. He became very successful in his farming and a leader in
the community. He was a member of the Methodist church, and died at
Dicksonburg, Pennsylvania. He had eight children, all of whom were
born in Summit township, and buried at Harmonsburg, Pennsylvania, and
all of whom, with but one exception, became farmers or farmers' wives.
They were: John, of further mention; Elizabeth; Euphemia; Benjamin;
Thomas ; James ; David Watson, who became a Methodist minister ; Joseph.

(H) John (2) Smith, son of John (i) Smith, the pioneer, was born
in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, December 4, 1779, died August 12, 1849,
at Harmonsburg. He was a farmer residing in Summit township, and was
a devout member of the Methodist church, helping to erect the Union
Church, of which he and his brother, David Watson, were among the first
communicants. On April 9, 1805, he married Anna Depue, born April 21,
1788, died December 19. 1863. They had nine children, all of them born
in Summit township : Daniel, born April 6, 1806, died at Harmonsburg,
October 28, 1846; Isabella, born May 30, 1808, died at Harmonsburg, July
5. 1835; James, born December 10, 1810, died at Harmonsburg, October 2,
1828; William Harrison, born February 25, 1813, died at Harmonsburg,
April 23, 1898; Anna Maria, born January 24, 1815, died at Harmonsburg,
September i, 1845; John Hiram, mentioned below; Elizabeth, born May 19,
1819, died at Falls City, Nebraska, May 3, 1899; David W., born September
9, 1822; Darius V., born February 12, 1825, died at Harmonsburg, January
19, 1892.

(Ill) John Hiram Smith, son of John (2) and Anna (Depue) Smith,
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1817, died at Meadville, and was buried at Harmonsburg, August 9, 1890.
He was educated at the local public schools and became a farmer and
merchant. He was a very prominent man among his fellow citizens and a
great leader in the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Smith married, May
24, 1843, Mary Keene, born March 16, 1823, died December 28, 1893.
She was the daughter of John and Mary (Fisher) Keene, who were married
January 20, 1820. John Keene, who was a native of New Jersey, was born
December 27, 1793, died in 1862; his wife was born September 9, 1797,
died March 15, 1878. They had children as follows: William C, born
November 11, 1820 ; Mary, who married Mr. Smith, as above mentioned;
Perida, born June 27, 1827; Clarissa, born April 27, 1831 ; John Joseph
Addison, born November 24, 1837; Eliza Amanda, born July 4, 1842. Mrs.
Mary (Keene) Smith took a very prominent part in temperance work, and
was an ardent believer in women's rights. In 1870 she took an active part
in the woman suffrage movement, making speeches in all the small towns
in Western Pennsylvania. Like her husband, she was greatly interested in
the cause of education, and accomplished excellent work along that line.
John Hiram and Mary (Keene) Smith had children, all of whom were
born in Summit township : Anna M. ; John William, born December 20,
1845, became a Methodist minister, married (first) January 9, 1868, Sarah
Ann Palmer, (second) Efifie Newton, and resides at Cherry Creek, New
York; Elizabeth C, married Hiram Fuller Whiting (see Whiting VHI);
Sarah M., born December 26, 1850, married Le Roy Brown, and resided at
Silverton, Oregon; Darius P., born July 11, 1852, died April 12, 1898, at
Conneautville, Pennsylvania, married, August 21, 1873, Eva Hammond, and
was a farmer; Jefferson D., born August 15, 1854, became a merchant,
and resided in Mexico City and Meadville ; A. Rose, born November 10,
1858, married (first) January 31, 1889, S. M. Smith, (second) November
27, 1903, E. S. Luce, and resides in Cassadaga, New York ; Jessie W. Trum-
per, who is a physician in Cleveland, Ohio ; Harry E. ; Myrtle.



Historic Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, is the city in which
ENGEL is laid the first scene in this record of the German family of
Engel, founded in the United States by Henry Engel. His
father, Charles Frederick Engel, was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, and
there passed his entire life; he rose to a position of importance and influ-
ence in the city, holding office in the municipal government and wielding
considerable power in public affairs. He married and was the father of
three sons, two of whom died in the fatherland, the other, Henry, of whom
further, coming to the United States.

(H) Henry Engel, son of Charles Frederick Engel. was born in
Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, died in New York City in 1889. He was
reared in his native land and there trained in the cabinet-maker's trade,
immediately after his marriage in 1854 sailing for the United States, settling
in New York City, where he at once obtained work at his trade, the quality
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in securing for him a situation than any references he might have procured.
At the beginning of the Civil War he enUsted in a regiment of artillery
organized in New York City, known as Sickles' Artillery, which was mus-
tered into service under General Sickles. His entire service lasted for three
years and four months, during which period he was in various commands
of both light and heavy artillery, notably the "Flying Artillery" under Mc-
Clelland, also participating in Burnside's "Mud Expedition." Although
severely wounded in the groin, an injury from which he never fully recov-
ered, his insisted upon returning to the front, at the close of the conflict
receiving an honorable discharge from the service. He returned to his New
York home and once more undertook business duties, being active in the
organization of the Centennial Desk Manufacturing Company, being con-
nected with its management until his death, which resulted from complica-
tions arising from his old wound received in battle. Both he and his wife
were members of the Catholic church. He married, in Germany, 1854,
Barbara Kerber, born in Bavaria, Germany, died in 1898, surviving her
husband nine years. They were the parents of: i. Charles F., of whom
further. 2. Pauline, married Albert Stock, and died in New York City.
3. Frank, superintendent of a soap manufacturing company, lives in Jersey
City, New Jersey. 4. A child who died in infancy.

(HI) Charles F. Engel, eldest son and child of Henry and Barbara
(Kerber) Engel, was born in New York City, New York, December 4,
1855. In his youth he was a student in St. Nicholas' parochial school of
the city of his birth. Learning in young manhood the wood-turner's trade,
he was for seventeen years employed by Jacob Gregorious, in 1887 moving
to McKees Rocks, where after superintending the erection of the Enter-
prise Hotel, he became its manager, holding that position for ten years.
In 1898 he was elected to the office of justice of the peace, serving a five-
year term. At the present time he is engaged in real estate and insurance
dealings, in the latter field representing the Hartford Fire Insurance Com-
pany, the German-American, National Fire Insurance Company of Hart-
ford, the Northern Fire Insurance Company, the Norwich Union, of Eng-
land, and the Maryland Casualty Company. His real estate dealings are
largely confined to McKees Rocks, and in this line of endeavor he has
likewise obtained favorable results. Mr. Engel is now treasurer of the
Chamber of Commerce of McKees Rocks, and in 1897 was elected chief
of the local fire department, a position he held for about ten years, during
that time inaugurating numerous improvements in the company and increas-
ing its efficiency and usefulness to a marked extent. His support in matters
political is rendered the Democratic party, while with his wife he belongs
to the St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church. He holds membership in the
St. Vincent de Paul Society and the Improved Order of Heptasophs.

Mr. Engel married, November 25, 1877, Caroline Spath, born in
Bavaria, Germany, daughter of Anthony Spath, and has children : i. Bertha„
born May 5, 1879, in New York; married Dr. C. M. Roland; resides in
McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania ; five children : Charles Francis, Maurice



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Frederick, Bertha Cecilia, Anna Marie, Caroline Rose. 2. Frederick C,
born December 5, 1881, in New York; a daughtsman; lives in Pittsburgh;
married Lucy Puder, one child, Dorothy. 3. Albert, born December 23,
1883, died February 21, 1884. 4. Adam T., born April 11, 1885; connected
with the United States postal service in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania ;
married Mildred Richie, one child, Mildred. 5. Carrie T., born September
9, 1887; married John McDonough, and lives in Wellsville, Ohio, where he
is superintendent of a mill; children: Bernice and John P. 6. Edward F.,
bom September i, 1889; an employee of the Pressed Steel Car Company;
lives in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania ; married Ella Burkhard. 7. Cecilia,
born August 26, 1891, lives at home, unmarried. 8. Frank G., born August
I, 1893, lives at home. 9. Barbara, born January 8, 1895, died December
31, 1899. 10. Marie, born April 26, 1901. On Thanksgiving day annually
they hold a family reunion at the home of Mr. C. F. Engel. The ceremonies
are opened by attending mass in a body. Each year finds an increase either
by birth or marriage.



James Galbraith, who was born in county Antrim,
GALBRAITH Ireland, emigrated to America about 1825, and died near

Burgettstown, Washington county, Pennsylvania, where
he had been a farmer. A number of his sons and daughters had come to
this country before he did.

(II) William Galbraith, son of James Galbraith, was born near Belfast,
county Antrim, Ireland, in 1800. and emigrated to America in 1818. He
settled in Cherry Valley, near Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, where he was a
school teacher, later a justice of the peace, and a man of prominence and
influence in the community. He affiliated with the Whig party in politics,
and he and his wife were devout members of the United Presbyterian
church, of which he was an elder. He married Isabella Welch, a native of

Washington county, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of and (Reid)

Welch ; the latter had married at the age of fourteen years, and had then
journeyed from the eastern part of the State in a Conestoga wagon. Mr.
and Mrs. Galbraith had ten children: i. Margaret, born October 21, 1823,
died in 1907 ; married, September 9, 1847, Samuel B. Shillito, who died at
Burgettstown; her son, William G., is a prominent Republican politician in
Washington county, and was a member of the Board of County Commis-
sioners when the present courthouse was erected, and a strong factor in
promoting this project. 2. Matthew W., of further mention. 3. James Alex-
ander, born March 30, 1829, died January 17, 1907, at Canonsburg. Penn-
sylvania ; he was also a politician, working for the interests of the Repub-
lican party, served as county recorder; formerly lived at Cross Creek.
4. Isabella, born May 16, 1832, died February 6, 1884, at Hoopston, Illinois ;
married James France. 5. Elizabeth, twin of Isabella, married James Scott.
6. Reid, born May 26, 1833, died February i, 1906, at Burgettstown: he
was a farmer and merchant, served as an elder in the United Presbyterian
church, and was in active service three years in a cavalry regiment during



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the Civil War. 7. Jane, married Xenophon Cook, now deceased, and lives
at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. 8. Robert, born in 1839, died March 17,
1871 ; served as a soldier during the Civil War, three years in Hooker's
brigade. 9. John, born June 3, 1840, died December 28, 1891, at Allegheny,
Pennsylvania; was a clerk. 10. Samuel Middleton, born February 20, 1842,
died September 2, 1898, at Hoopston, Illinois ; was also a clerk.

(III) Matthew Welch Galbraith, son of William and Isabella (Welch)
Galbraith, was born near Mount Pleasant, Washington county, Pennsyl-
vania, November 8, 1825, died February 17, 1905, at Carnegie, Pennsylvania.
During the business years of his life he was a farmer and agent for agricul-
tural implements. He was a Republican politically, and he and his wife were
members of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Galbraith married, about
1853, Phoebe Keys, born in 1836, died June 4. 1880, was a daughter of
John and Annie (May) Keys, both born in Washington county. She traced
her descent to Revolutionary ancestors. Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith have had
five children: i. William M., of further mention. 2. Anna Belle, born
November 10, 1857; rnarried James G. Dunbar, and lives on the old home-
stead at Carnegie. 3. Mary Etta, born April 6, i860, died February 17,
19CX); was a prominent school teacher of Pittsburgh, was a pioneer in the
field of instruction in domestic science, and had charge of the first cooking
school in Pittsburgh. 4. John Harry, born November 24, 1864; is a con-
tractor and lives in Carnegie; he married Nancy Harper. 5. James, born
December 24, 1871, died August 4, 1901 ; he was graduated from the Wash-
ington and Jefiferson College in the class of 1893, studied law and was ad-
mitted to the bar at Pittsburgh, and was engaged in the practice of his pro-
fession at the time of his death.

(IV) William May Galbraith, son of Matthew Welch and Phoebe
(Keys) Galbraith, was born May 10, 1856. He received an excellent pre-
paratory education in public and private schools, and the Sewickley Academy,
and after leaving this institution was associated four years with J. Warren
Lytle in the conduct of the Oakdale Academy. In association with the
same gentleman he founded the Pittsburgh Academy, and was connected
with the management of this for a period of two years. Mr. Galbraith had
been awarded a permanent teacher's license when he was twenty-two years
of age, but he had always entertained the idea of fitting himself for the
legal profession, and he accordingly commenced reading law in the offices
of Judge Christopher Magee and Henry A. Davis, and was admitted to
the bar in 1886. Subsequently, from 1893 to 1899, he was a partner of Mr.
Davis but when Mr. Davis retired from practice on account of illness, Mr.
Galbraith practiced alone, and never again took a partner. He is engaged
in civil practice only, making a specialty of corporation law. He is the
attorney for the Carnegie Trust Company and the First National Bank of
Carnegie. He is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association, and
was one of the organizers of the above mentioned corporations. He gives
his political support to the Republican party, and served a number of years
as borough solicitor. Since 1880 he has lived at Carnegie, his residence



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being at No. 815 Washington avenue. He and his wife are members of the
United Presbyterian Church, and he is also a member of the Royal Ar-
canum.

Mr. Galbraith married, May 19, 1898, Bertha Bayard, born in Elrod,
Pennsylvania, May 19, 1872. She is a daughter of Stephen and Lucy T.
(Goff) Bayard, the former tracing his descent to Colonel Stephen Bayard,
of Revolutionary fame, who settled in Pittsburgh and married the first white
child born there. He was a descendant of Petros Bayard, one of the French
Huguenots who came to New York with Peter Stuyvesant. Mr. and Mrs.
Galbraith have five children: Phoebe, born January i, 1900; Bayard, born
December 17, 1901 ; Stephen Bayard, born October 30, 1905 ; Frances
Bayard, born October i, 1907; Bertha Bayard, born November 26, 1909.



Walsh is a well-known name in Western Pennsylvania, and
WALSH one that has been borne with abundant honor, the three gen-
erations from the American immigrant mentioned in this
record having been identified in turn with the industrial, mercantile and pro-
fessional life of Allegheny county.

(I) The first is John Walsh, born in county Wexford, Ireland, in 1794,
died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1850. He was reared to maturity in
his native land, and after learning the shoemaker's trade followed that
calling for a time in Ireland, in 1825 coming to the United States and settling
in Pittsburgh. He purchased a home on Fifth avenue, in that city, and soon
after his arrival established in the manufacture of boots and shoes, em-
ploying in his little factory from four to six workmen, the dimensions of
his business at that time being considered more than generous. He was a
man of acute business faculties, always fair in his dealings, though keen
and shrewd, and prospered in his line. Because of his skill in the practical
working of his business he was easily able to detect flaws in the work of
his employees, and for a slovenly workman he had little time, a fact that
accounts for the uniform excellence of all products that left his shop. He
was a member of the Roman Catholic Church, a free and generous con-
tributor to all of the activities of that denomination requiring financial back-
ing, sincere in his devotion to its interests. His political faith was Demo-
cratic. The home in which he passed a quarter of a century of his life is
at the present time in the possession of his descendants. He married Cath-
erine Doyle, born at St. Mullons, Ireland, who accompanied her father to
the United States when nineteen years of age, her death taking place when
she was eighty-seven years of age. Children of John and Catherine (Doyle)
Walsh: i. John, deceased. 2. Joseph B., born in 1827. 3. Moses P., born in
1829. 4. Richard Ennis, of whom further. 5. Thomas, deceased. 6. Mary,
deceased, married James Caufield. 7. Catherine, married Henry Kennedy,
deceased. 8. Annie, married John Ward. 9. Nellie, died young. 10. Agnes,
died young.

(II) Richard Ennis Walsh, son of John and Catherine (Doyle) Walsh,
was born in the old homestead house on Fifth avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-



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vania, in November, 1837, died January 29, 1902. He was educated in the
public and parochial schools of his native city, and in early life formed a
partnership with his brother, Moses P., embarking in the grocery business
on the South Side. He began this partnership when but thirteen years of
age and continued until they went out of trade. Perhaps no more truly
confiding partnership ever existed in that community, wherein two brothers
were in trade a half a century and their large estates were never divided,
but were held and carried on as though but one man's interest for all those
years, and that without disagreement. At his home his life was shown in
its most befitting traits of character, and after his death the sorrow was
manifest in the community as within his family circle. He was of the
Catholic faith and never shrank from any known duty in contributing to-
wards its support. He was for many years in charge of the Sunday school.
He was an organizer and director of the Citizens' Insurance Company. He
was a director of St. Paul's Orphan Asylum, and in all that tended to build
up a community in virtue and industry he was excelled by none.

He was united in marriage by Rev. Father Tracy, of St. Bridget's
Roman Catholic Church, to Jennie Fitzpatrick, born in Ireland in 1842, who
came to the United States with her parents when eighteen months old and
who was reared in Brooklyn, New York. Since 1870 she has been a resi-
dent of Crafton, continuing in the family home after the death of her
husband, and holds title to a large tract of land on the South Side of the
borough, within its limits. She is a daughter of John and Bridget (McLan-
ahan) Fitzpatrick; the former died in 1843, aged forty-eight years, the latter
in 1885, aged eighty-four years. Bryan McLanahan, father of Bridget Mc-
Lanahan, attained the wonderful age of one hundred and eight years.
Children of John and Bridget (McLanahan) Fitzpatrick: i. Anna, married
Patrick McCann, and died in Perth. Canada, that place now being the resi-
dence of several bearing the name McCann. 2. Margaret, married Luke
O'Reilly, and died in Brooklyn, New York. 3. Sarah, died in Brooklyn,
New York, unmarried. 4. Arthur, a journalist, died in Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania. 5. Hugh, a gold-pen manufacturer, died in Washington, District
of Columbia. Children of Richard Ennis and Jennie (Fitzpatrick) Walsh:
1. Eleanor, unmarried, lives at home. 2. Anna, lives at home. 3. Sarah, lives
at home. 4. Arthur F., of whom furtlier. 5. Catharine, lives at home.
6. Richard, a dentist of Crafton, Pennsylvania, lives at home.

(Ill) Dr. Arthur F. Walsh, son of Richard Ennis and Jennie (Fitz-
patrick) Walsh, was born in Crafton. Allegheny county. Pennsylvania,
April 12, 1875. After finishing his elementary and preliminary studies he
entered the University of Pittsburgh, whence he was graduated M.D. in
1899. His first practice was in Homestead, Pennsylvania, where he re-
mained for six years, in 1905 becoming a practitioner of Crafton, where he
has been engaged in professional pursuits since that time. Dr. Walsh is a
member of the County, State and American Medical associations, and has
served as a member of the Board of Health of Chartiers township. A mem-
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informed upon all points of his difificult profession, and being universally
known as a gentleman of honor and integrity, he is now possessed of in-
fluence and prestige in the local medical world. He holds membership in
the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association.

Dr. Walsh married, in 1901, Florence Kenny, born in Kennywood
Park, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Anthony and Josephine
(Maggini) Kenny, residents of Homestead, Pennsylvania, her father a re-
tired coal operator. Dr. and Mrs. Walsh are the parents of: Mary Louise,
Richard, Jane, Josephine.



The orthography of this name as written by Gerret,
SWEARINGEN the immigrant ancestor, was "van Sweringen." The

dropping of the prefix "van" and the interpolation of
the "a" was probably done during the lifetime of his eldest son, the natural
effect of life in an English speaking community. "Swearingen" has been
the prevailing spelling of the name to the present time, and of the few
changes that have been made some were from preference, others uninten-
tional.

(I) Gerret van Sweringen was born in Beemsterdam, Holland, in 1636,
died at St. Mary's City, Maryland, 1698. He was the younger son of a
noble family and received a liberal education. He was employed when a
young man in the maritime service of the Dutch West India Company, and
in 1656 came to America as supercargo of the company's ship, "Prince
Maurice," sailing from Amsterdam, Holland, December 21, for the Dutch
colony on the Delaware river, with emigrants and supplies. The ending of
his voyage was tragic in the extreme, the "Prince Maurice" stranding off
Fire Island on the night of March 8, 1657. The next day the passengers
and crew landed on a small boat on Long Island, and for several days were
on that then barren shore without fire, although the weather was freezing.
On the third day they were discovered by a party of Indians, who carried
news of their plight to Governor Stuyvesant, he sending a sloop to their
relief, which carried them to New Amsterdam. A part of the cargo of the
'Prince Maurice" was saved, loaded on another ship and on April 21,
1657, was safely landed at the original destination on the Delaware river.
After this eventful voyage Gerret van Sweringen resigned from the com-
pany's service and located at Newcastle where he was sheriff, commissary
member of councils, engaged in trade and in agriculture. He married in
1659, and in 1660 returned to Holland, taking his wife with him, remaining
there one year in the interest of the colony on the Delaware at New Amstel.
In 1664, after New Amsterdam was surrendered to the English, New Amstel