well known as dissuading his clients against going to law until this course
is absolutely necessary. His influence in business and commercial circles
is also very strongly felt, and he is a member of the Chamber of Com-
merce. He is also a leading man in religious as well as in secular matters,
and is an attendant of the Park Avenue Congregational Church in Mead-
ville. He is a Republican in politics.

Mr. Richmond is well known as an artist of remarkable talent and
achievement, having produced many very fine works in oils and in black and
white ; among the latter is his noted cartoon, "The Wondering Court."
Among his leading masterpieces in oil are "Working Out the Road Tax,"
"The Dissemination of Political Information," "Willie Scott," "The Hem-
locks," and many beautiful woodland scenes. By far the most noteworthy
of his paintings, however, is the celebrated, "Farnsworth's Charge and
Death," hanging in Allegheny County's Soldiers' Memorial Hall at Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania. It is a very large and finely executed canvas, six feet
by three, and depicts an incident of the third day of the battle of Gettys-
burg during the Civil War. On the afternoon of this day, July 3, 1863,
after Pickett had made his desperate charge and the situation of the Con-
federate army was precarious, two gallant attempts were made by the First
West Virginia Regiment to surmount the Confederate works, but failed.
Whereupon General Kilpatrick, who was in command of the Union forces,
ordered General Farnsworth, who had just been promoted for gallantry, to



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make a third charge. The sacrifice of his soldiers seemed so certain that
Famsworth hesitated to obey, but placing the responsibility of their slaughter
upon the superior officer, he dashed with his troops over rocks and tlirough
brush and timber to the Confederate front. In the charge Farnsworth's
horse was killed, but he remounted and continued with his men until he
fell pierced by five bullets, Sixty-five of his three hundred men also went
down in this reckless charge. The painting depicts General Farnsworth as
he falls from his horse, and commemorates his gallant death.

On October 19, 1882, Mr. Richmond married at Meadville, Pennsyl-
vania, Mary Grayson, who was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, but was
residing in Meadville at that time, daughter of Thomas W. Grayson, editor
of the Craivford Democrat, of Meadville. Mrs. Grayson, Mrs. Richmond's
mother, was Elizabeth Green prior to her marriage, daughter of Ammon
Green, of Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Grayson were the parents of
four daughters and one son: Annie, Mary, Martha, Lucy, Thomas Wray
Grayson. Mr. and Mrs. Richmond have one daughter, Gail, born at Mead-
ville, July 3, 1886. She received her education at Allegheny College, and
at the Art Students' League, in New York City, having inherited her father's
artistic talent.



John McCague, four generations removed from Ralph Leo
McCAGUE McCague, of this chronicle, was the pioneer of his name in

Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in which locality many of the
name still reside, others having moved to the adjacent counties, while still
others have taken up their abode in diflferent parts of the country. John
McCague was of a Scotch-Irish family. He married Mary English, one of
their sons being John English, of whom further.

(II) John English McCague, son of John and Mary (English) Mc-
Cague, was born near Mount Olivet Church, Beaver county, Pennsylvania,
died at Carnot, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. He attended the public
schools of his n?*ive county, and was afterward a teacher in the same in-
stitutions, later adopting farming as his calling. This he pursued in
Allegheny county, where his death occurred. He married Sarah, born on
the South Side, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Abiah and Jane
(Bell) Butler, her parents residents of Beaver county. Abiah Butler was
a soldier in the American army in the War of 1812, and was the father of
five sons, all of whom served in the Union army in the war between the
states: Stephen, captain of a company, killed in action at the battle of
Chattanooga; Abiah; John, killed in the Wilderness campaign; James;
Richard. Children of John English and Sarah (Butler) McCague: i.
Stephen, a farmer of Moon township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. 2.
John A., married Emma Parry; resides in Sewickley. Pennsylvania, chief
clerk of the freight tariflf department of all lines of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road west of Pittsburgh. 3. James E., of whom further. 4. Frank, a
rubber manufacturer of Austin, Illinois. 5. Benjamin.

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AlcCague, born in Moon township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in 1853,
died in October, 1880. He grew to manhood on his father's farm in Moon
township, attending the district schools and preparing for the teacher's pro-
fession in the Normal School. His studies completed, this was the field he
entered, and he was superintendent of the Chartiers township schools until
his death at the youthful age of twenty-seven years, his home being in
Temperanceville. His death was tragic in that his life had showed so much
of promise, the fulfillment of which was forbidden by his sudden sum-
mons, which came when his only child was an infant of eight months. He
and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. He married
Jennie E. Ferree. born in Moon township, Allegheny county, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1855, died April 6, 1902, daughter of Jacob F. and Nancy (Phillips)
Ferree (see Ferree VH).

(IV) Ralph Leo McCague. only child of James E. and Jennie E.
(Ferree) McCague, was born in Temperanceville, Allegheny county, Penn-
sylvania, February 22, 1880. His father dying when he was an infant of
eight months, his mother made her home with her father, and it was there
that he was reared, attending the public schools of Coraopolis. His studies
here completed he entered Westminster College, and after studying there
for five years defective hearing compelled his resignation when he was in
the midst of scientific studies. For nearly two years he was a civil en-
gineer in the employ of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, after which
he began an association with the Duquesne Foundry Company which still
continues. His first position was as checker, and he has risen through
several grades of service to the rank of foreman of the shipping department,
and still higher to general foreman of the shipping department, his present
capacity. His record with the Duquesne Foundry Company is of efficient
and faithful service, and he has as yet been entrusted with no mission that
he has failed to execute, a circumstance that has made a most favorable im-
pression with his employers. Politically a Republican, he fraternizes with
the Masonic Order and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, also
holding membership in the Presbyterian Church. He married, July 19,
1906, Mary Narcella (Dietrich) Stephenson, daughter of Daniel Dietrich,
of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. McCague are the parents of
one daughter, Mary Jean, born May 30, 1909.

(The Ferree Line.)

(I) The family of Ferree is of French derivation, John Ferree, with
whom this brief record has its inception, having fled his native land under
religious persecution, finding asylum in the Palatinate of Germany, where
he died. He belonged to the class known in history as Huguenots, his
widow, Mary, in 1709 coming to America accompanied by her six children,
Daniel, Catherine, Mary, Philip, of whom further, Jane, John.

(II) Philip Ferree, son of John and Mary Ferree, married Leah,
daughter of Abraham Du Bois, who was born in 1659, died in 1731, a son
of Louis and Catherine Du Bois, who immigrated to America in 1660.
Children of Philip and Leah (Du Bois) Ferree: Abraham, Jacob, Philip,



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Joel, of whom further; Isaac, of whom further; hJizaheth, Magdalene,
Leah, Rachel.

(IIIj Joel P^erree, son of Philip and Leah ( Uu liois) I-'erree, married
(first) Mary Copeland, hy whom he had no children; (second; Jane John-
son; (third) Susan, widow of Isaac Ferree; (fourth) Sarah Uavis, a
widow, and had children, Lsaac, Leah, Rachel.

(Ill) Isaac Ferree, son of Philip and Leah (Du l](jis ) l'"erree, married
and had a son Jacob.

(IV^) Jacob Ferree, son of Isaac Ferree, married Rachel, his first
cousin, daughter of Joel Ferree, and had children: Jacob, of whom fur-
ther, Joel, Jane, Rebecca, Elizabeth.

(V) Jacob (2) Ferree, son of Jacob (i) and Rachel ( Ferree j Ferree,
was a farmer on Peters Creek in the southern part of Allegheny county,
whither he had moved from Chester county, later becoming the owner of
land on the present site of Coraopolis, securing more than three hundred
acres of government land. This extended from what is now Montour
street along the southern bank of the Ohio river to the eastern boundary
of Coraopolis. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church.
He married (second) in Chester county, Pennsylvania, Alice Powell, both
being buried on the George Ferree farm in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. Chil-
dren of first marriage: Joel, born October 6, 1771, a gunsmith; Leah, Jan-
uary 26, 1774; Rebecca, December 30, 1775; Jane, September 19, 1778;
Elizabeth, January 19, 1781. Children of second marriage: Rachel, born
May 29. 1784, died in girlhood; Isaac, January 9, 1786; Olaf, January 10,
1788; iVIary, Alay 6, 1790, married Samuel Marks, and lived at Chester,
West \'irginia; Anna, May 31, 1792, died in girlhood; Lida, July 2. 1793,
died young; Jacob, July 17, 1795, held the military rank of colonel, being
stationed at Fort Meigs ; William Powell, of whom further ; Lavina. June
6, 1803, married Benjamin Jackson, and lived in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.

(VI) William Powell Ferree, son of Jacob (2) and Alice (Powell)
Ferree, was born on Peters Creek, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. March
29, 1798, died February 3, 1863. He inherited one hundred acres of land
from his father and to this tract he added two hundred and twenty-five
acres, purchased in small lots as they appeared for sale. He was a sur-
veyor by profession and performed a great deal of work of that nature in
all parts of Allegheny county. In politics he was a Whig, later an Aboli-
tionist and afterward a Republican. On the slavery question he held
opinions and views of the most decided nature, and his home was an im-
portant and busy station on the "L^nderground Railroad"' that was so strong
an institution in ante-bellum days. He supported his convictions with his
life, enlisting in the Union army and being killed in battle in 1863. His
religion was the Presbyterian. He married i\Iary Stoddard, born in ^loon
township. Allegheny county. Pennsylvania, August i. 1798. died December
2T^, 1888, and had children: i. Jacob F., of whom further. 2. Margaret
0., born March 10, 1826, died about 1863; married Andrew Shafifer. pro-



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prietor of a fulling mill. 3. Robert S., born January 30, 1828; married
Elizabeth Woods; living at the present time (1914); their home was the
old homestead, the house in which they resided still standing in the place
it has occupied for more than a century. 4. George M., born April 21,
1830, died in September, 1906; married Rachel Curry; lived on part of the
old farm in Coraopolis. 5. William K., born January 22, 1833; enlisted in
the Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves in 1861 and was discharged for
disability, his death occurring January i, 1865. 6. Sanford H., born May
28, 1835, died. in spring of 1914 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania; a veteran of
the Civil War, having served in the Union artillery; married Anna Mat-
thews. 7. Mary O., born in 1837; married Biddle Young; resided in St.
Louis.

(VII) Jacob F. Ferree, son of William Powell and Mary (Stoddard)
Ferree, was born in Robinson township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania,
died in that county, aged seventy-three years. He was first a resident
of his native township, later acquiring title to more than five hundred acres
of land in Moon township, bordering on the Ohio river for one-half of a
mile and extending back from the water-front for three-fourths of a mile.
For almost a quarter of a century he was justice of the peace in Coraopolis,
and he was an active worker in the activities of the Presbyterian church,
being a member of the session thereof. His entire life was spent in farm-
ing operations. At the time of the Civil War he was a member of the
Home Guards. He married Nancy Phillips, born in Robinson township,
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, died aged seventy-four years, and had
children: i. John W., deceased; was a retail furniture dealer of Allegheny
City (Pittsburgh North Side) ; lived on Stockton avenue. 2. Jennie E., of
previous mention, married James E. McCague (see McCague III). 3.
Harry W., general foreman of the car repair shops of the Pittsburgh &
Lake Erie Railroad at McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania ; resides on State
street, Coraopolis. 4. William A., a foreman in the shops of the Pittsburgh
& Lake Erie Railroad ; resides on State street, Coraopolis. 5. Sarah L.,
unmarried, resides on State street, Coraopolis. 6. Robert B., a physician
of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, residing on Ridge avenue. 7. Lillie E.,
married T. Edward Cornelius ; resides on State street. Coraopolis. her hus-
band an architect. 8. Frank, died young.



' This line of the Inks family, English in descent, was settled in
INKS Fayette county, Pennsylvania, by Thomas Inks, a native of New
1 Jersey, as was his wife. When his son Elisha was a lad of
twelve years, Thomas Inks moved to Putnam county, Illinois, there becom-
ing the owner of land and there dying. After his death his widow pro-
ceeded westward to Nebraska, where her death occurred. Both were mem-
bers of the Baptist church.

(II) Elisha Inks, son of Thomas Inks, was born near Uniontown,
Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1828, died in that state in 1908. He ob-



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tained a general education in his native county, where he lived until lie was
twelve years of age, when the family moved to Putnam county, Illinois.
Here he assisted his father in procuring farming land from the wild country
that they had bought, and after he had attained mature years returned to
Pennsylvania, learning the blacksmith's trade under the preceptorsiiip of
Colonel Daniel May, of Bedford, Pennsylvania. For several years after
mastering this calling he was employed by his former employer, leaving
his service to enlist in a Pennsylvania regiment being recruited for duty in
the Civil War. Returning safely from the front at the close of the war
he engaged in blacksmithing independently, owning shops at various times
at Bedford, Mann's Choice, and Shellsburg, Bedford county, later having
a shop on a farm he owned and operated near Bedford. He was a skilled
workman, his patronage always being generous. Elisha Inks was twice
married, first to a Miss Smith, who bore him one daughter, Ada, married
George Flagle, and who died soon after. He married a second time, Cath-
erine, born near Bedford, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1834, died in
1901, daughter of Samuel and Camilla (Wertz) Beegle, both natives of
Bedford county, Pennsylvania. The family is of German descent, the Ger-
man orthography of the name being Beichley, and was planted in the United
States by the immigration of three brothers, one making his home in Ohio,
another in West Virginia, and the third, the father of Samuel Beegle, set-
tling in Pennsylvania. One branch of the line he founded use the spelling
Beigel, the greater number conforming to the spelling used herein. Samuel
Beegle was a blacksmith by trade, his home being at what was then known
as "Dutch Corner," now named Pleasant Valley, near Bedford, Pennsyl-
vania. For many years he was the proprietor of a shop there, his place of
business being on land he owned and which he cultivated in connection
with his blacksmithing work, his death occurring when he was sixty-eight
years of age. He and his family were members of the German Lutheran
Church, German being the language used entirely in his household as it was
that of almost all of the community. Elisha and Catherine (Beegle) Inks
had but one child, Francis M., of whom further.

(II) Dr. Francis M. Inks, son of Elisha and Catherine (Beegle) Inks,
was born near Bedford, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1868. He
first attended school at Mann's Choice, Pennsylvania, completing a high
school course in Shellsburg, Pennsylvania, to both of which places his
father's business had called the family. As a youth he began the study
of telegraphy in the Pennsylvania railroad service, at Mann's Choice, sub-
sequently entering the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad as tele-
grapher, remaining with that road for one year. The five following years he
passed employed in the same capacity by the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Rail-
road, and was then for one year stationed in Toledo, Ohio, in the service of
the Hocking Valley Railroad. The Pan Handle Railroad was his next em-
ployer, and for twelve years he was located at Idlewood, a place now com-
prising the Third Ward of the borough of Crafton, Pennsylvania, abandon-



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ing railroad work to engage in the study of osteopathy, graduating from
the School of Osteopathy in 1906. Since that year Mr. Inks has been a
successful practitioner of his profession in Crafton, Pennsylvania, where
he has taken a position as one of the leading osteopaths of the region and
is held in high regard for the number of cases in which his treatment has
been efficacious after the failure of the exponents of the medical profes-
sion. Dr. Inks is the owner of a comfortable and attractive house at No.
53 Hawthorne avenue. Both he and his wife are members of the Crafton
Methodist Episcopal Church, while he holds membership in Carnegie Lodge,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a Scottish Rite Mason,
his lodge being Crafton, No. 653, Free and Accepted Masons.

Dr. Inks married, December 25, 1890, Dove E., born near New Castle,
Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, daughter of James and Elizabeth Stewart,
her father a retired farmer of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, now resid-
ing at Wampum, Pennsylvania.



All bearing the name of Sankey in this country are descended
SANKEY from the Sankeys who came from England, whose home was

near the border line of Wales, and for several generations
all the male members of the family were identified with work in the coal
mines.

(I) Francis Sankey was born in England, where he was a coal miner.
About 1834 he emigrated to America with his wife, and located at the
South Side, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his descendants are still to
be found. He opened the first mines on the South Side for Jones & Laugh-
lin, being foreman of these, and was held in high esteem by all. He died at
the age of fifty-nine years. He married Mary Jackson, born in Shropshire,
England: she was a member of the Methodist church. They had children:
I. William, a brick manufacturer; married (first) Mary Eynon, who died
in 1896, (second) Mary Lemon: lives at No. 14 South Fifteenth street,
South Side. 2. John, of further mention. 3. Martha, married Thomas
Davidson, a coal miner, both deceased. 4. Francis, enlisted in the Sixty-
second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the
battle of Gaines Mills in 1862. 5. Matthew, also engaged in the Civil War,
fell ill with camp fever, and died as a result of it : his remains were sent to
his home. 6. Hannah, married Herman Turner, now deceased; lived on
South Side. 7. Mary, married George D. Seibert, a general contractor in
Pittsburgh. 8. Sarah, married William R. Vogle, a baker; lived on South
Side. 9. Thomas, deceased; was a brick manufacturer, a member of the
firm of Sankey Brothers.

(II) John Sankey, son of Francis and Mary (Jackson) Sankey, was
born in Pottsville, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, in 1838. died December,
1884. He was reared at South Side, Pittsburgh, and was a very young lad
when he commenced working in the coal mines in which his father was
foreman. After he had attained his majority he, in association with his



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brothers, William and Thomas, engaged in tiie manufacture of brick, about
1864, the name of the firm being Sankey Brothers. Prior to engaging in this
enterprise he and his brothers, with the exception of William, who re-
mained at home to provide for the families, had taken part in the Civil War.
John Sankey served about ten months in Company L, Pennsylvania Heavy
Artillery. The brick manufacturing industry, from a small enterprise, grew
to one of magnitude, and is still continued under the name of Sankey
Brothers, although the second generation of the Sankey family is now in
control of its afifairs. The industry was always carried on in Pittsburgh,
the main plant now being located at the head of Twenty-first street, South
Side. Mr. Sankey lived at the corner of Thirty-third and Carson streets,
South Side, for many years. He was a Republican politically, and served his
community as school director. He and his family were members of the
Methodist Protestant Church. Mr. Sankey married Fannie Louise, born in

Pittsburgh, in 1844, a daughter of John and (Barrett) Dick, both

natives of Eastern Pennsylvania, and both of English descent. Mr. Dick
was a carpenter by trade, and both died when their children were still very
young, so that little is known of them or their ancestry. They had children :
Franklin V., lived in Pittsburgh, and his death occurred in Tarentum, Penn-
sylvania ; Rebecca, married George Gibson, a brickmaker at Braddock, now
deceased ; Fannie Louise, mentioned above. Mr. and Mrs. Sankey have had
children: i. Francis Matthew, of further mention. 2. Molly J., married
C. W. Kurtz, manager of the American Window Glass Company; lives
at Hotel Kenmeyer. 3. Martha R., married George B. Portes, a photo-
grapher of Connellsville, Pennsylvania. 4. Edwin W., assistant manager
of the music department in Kaufman's Store, Pittsburgh ; lives in Carrick,
Pennsylvania. 5. Jessie B., married George Rubridge, manager of the
Frederick Music Company in Pittsburgh; lives at Beechview. 6. Ohve A.,
married William Attridge, of British Columbia. 7. James L. lives in Car-
rick, and is in the auditor's department of the Union Line Railway.

(HI) Francis Matthew Sankey, son of John and Fannie Louise (Dick)
Sankey, was born on Sarah street, South Side, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, March 5, 1863. His preparatory education was acquired in the
public schools of the Twenty- fourth Ward. Pittsburgh, and he then took a
commercial course in the Pittsburgh City High School, from which he was
graduated with the class of 1881. From his early youth he had taken a de-
cided interest in the brick making industry, spending his spare time there
at the factory, and all of his Saturdays, and summer vacations, so that he
practically grew up with the business, and was well equipped to take his
place in its management when that time came. After he left the high school
he worked in the factory regularly in the brick yard, and later in the office
of Sankey Brothers. In 1884. after the death of his father, he and his cousin.
William E. Sankey, a son of William Sankey, were given the opportunitv to
try to manage the concern, and they have been at its head ever since that
time. As time passed on they were taken into the firm, which was in-



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corporated in 1900, with officers as follows: William E. Sankey, president;
Edwin W. Sankey, vice-president; Francis Matthew Sankey, secretary and
treasurer; Walter W. Sankey, manager. This official board has remained
unchanged up to the present time. They manufacture all kinds of red brick,
and the main office is at No. 21 12 Carson street. In 1903 Mr. Sankey re-
moved to Carrick, where he built a house at No. 2727 Church avenue, which
he still occupies. He and his wife are members of the Spencer Methodist
Episcopal Church, and he is affiliated with: Monongahela Lodge, No. 269,
Free and Accepted Masons; Duquesne Chapter, No. 193, Royal Arch
Masons; Pittsburgh Commandery, No. i. Knights Templar; Pennsylvania
Consistory.

Mr. Sankey married, January 14, 1897, Emma G., born at South Side,
a daughter of John and Ruth (Ruble) Gerrard, the former a glass worker,
born at South Side, died in April, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Sankey have had
seven children, four of whom are living, three deceased: Frank G., born
December 7, 1897; Gerald V., March 6, 1903; Malcolm Lee, May 28, 1905;