Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Col. Charles McClure and Margaretta Gibson




Husband Col. Charles McClure 1 2 3

           Born: Abt 1804 - Cumberland Co, PA
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           Died: 1846 1
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         Father: Charles McClure (1739-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Rebecca Blair (1753-1826) 1 4 5 6


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Wife Margaretta Gibson 1 3 7

           Born: 1813 8
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           Died: 15 Dec 1893 8
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         Father: Hon. John Bannister Gibson (1780-1853) 1 3 9
         Mother: Sarah W. "Sally" Galbraith (1791-1853) 3 10




Children
1 M Charles McClure 2 10

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         Spouse: Annie Getty (      -      ) 10


2 M William McClure 2

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         Spouse: Ella Crane (      -      ) 10


3 M George Gibson McClure 2 10

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Charles McClure


He was graduated from Dickinson College; read law in Carlisle, and was there admitted to the bar. He was elected a Representative to the State Legislature in 1834, and subsequently served two terms in Congress.

He represented Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in the Legislature in 1835; was Secretary of the Commonwealth under Governor Porter; and a man of much prominence in public affairs.

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Sources


1 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 384.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 584.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 664.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 579.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 985.

6 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 18.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 286, 584.

8 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 286.

9 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 92.

10 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 385.


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