William James Hopper and Mary Melissa Ewing

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Husband William James Hopper ¹

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           Born:  - Allegheny Co, PA
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           Died: 11 Dec 1904 - Crafton, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Samuel Hopper (1815-1849) 1 2 3
         Mother: Margaret McClelland (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 7 Aug 1873 4

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Wife Mary Melissa Ewing ^{4 5}

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         Father: Capt. Samuel W. Ewing (1818-Aft 1889) 4 6
         Mother: Mary Lorraine (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 F Margaret Hopper ⁴

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         Spouse: John W. Taylor, Jr. (      -      ) 4

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2 M Samuel Ewing Hopper ⁴

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         Spouse: Hannah Evans (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - William James Hopper

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After obtaining a public school education, he mastered the machinist's trade. He was actively engaged at his trade for several years, in 1903 moving to Crafton, Pennsylvania, where he established in the plumbing business, in which he remained until his death. He had prospered in his line and had invested in real estate, at his death owning three houses that had been erected at his direction. During the Civil War he served two enlistments in the Fourteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, one of nine months, the other of one year, and while in the Union service contracted rheumatism, from which he suffered to the end of his life. His political party was the Republican.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 824.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 675.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1154.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 825.

5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 496.

6 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 475, 496.