James Christopher MacGregor and Edna Leonore Doverspike

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Husband James Christopher MacGregor ¹

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           Born:  - Pine Creek Furnace, Boggs Twp, Armstrong Co, PA
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         Father: William MacGregor (Abt 1840-Aft 1914) 1
         Mother: Hannah Gallagher (Abt 1843-Aft 1914) 2

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       Marriage: 8 May 1901 2

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Wife Edna Leonore Doverspike ³

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         Father: Isaac D. Doverspike (1842-1911) 4
         Mother: Anna Clara Fleming (      -1912) 5

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Children

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1 F Anna Gladine Doverspike MacGregor ³

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           Born: 1903 3
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General Notes: Husband - James Christopher MacGregor

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He moved with his parents to McWilliams, Red Bank town­ship, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, where his father engaged in the mer­cantile business. There he attended school and clerked in his father's store. When he was about seventeen his father sold the store and purchased a farm at Bryan, in Cowanshannock township, conducting a machine and wagon shop there besides looking after the cultivation of his property, and James helped with the farm work, as well as in the shop. He also clerked in the store of his uncle, W. M. Gallagher, at Bryan. Subsequently he went to Pittsburgh, where he worked in a grocery store for five years, at the end of that time returning to Armstrong county and locating at Eddyville, as clerk for the late Isaac D. Doverspike. After three years in his employ he married Mr. Doverspike's daughter, and he then aban­doned the plan he had in mind, to buy a store on Butler street, Pittsburgh, his father-in-law, who had decided to remove to Kittanning, persuading him to purchase his interest in the Eddyville establishment. A few years later he also purchased Mr. Doverspike's farm and homestead near that place, the farm property comprising 118 acres, to which Mr. MacGregor afterward added ten acres adjoining, and he also owned thirty-five acres of timberland ad­joining this 128-acre tract. Mr. MacGregor carried on the store at Eddyville for eight years, until it was burned, his loss by the fire amounting to $1,500. Following this disaster he gave his attention to the cultivation of his farm for two years, during which time he re­sided at Eddyville. Then, at the solicitation of Mr. Doverspike, he removed to Kittanning, and purchasing a large grocery store in the borough, was engaged in the business for a year, selling his interest at the end of that time. This was the grocery later run by MacGregor Brothers, and he was a member of that firm. After disposing of his store Mr. MacGregor devoted all his attention to his oil, lumber and sawmill interests, having two mills, one at Mosgrove, on the Pennsylvania railroad, the other at Nichola, on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh road. He was well known in the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the Blue lodge (No. 522) at New Beth­lehem; to Kittanning Chapter, No. 247, R. A. M.; Pittsburgh Commandery, No. 1, K. T. (the largest commandery in the world); Coudersport Consistory; and the Shrine at Pittsburgh. His political support went to the Republican party. [HAC 1914, 469]

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General Notes: Wife - Edna Leonore Doverspike

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She attended school at Rimersburg and Grove City College. At the age of eighteen years she took the active management of her father's store, attending to the book­keeping and buying, and was his assistant in the post office for years. The fact that she and her father were devoted companions made the association pleasant for both. She was organist in the Lutheran Church and the Re­formed Church for a number of years. At the time of her marriage she and her husband bought and took charge of the store at Eddyville. They later lived at Kittanning.

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 468.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 469.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 467.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 363, 464.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 363, 466.