John S. McKelvy and Ellen McGonigal Horner

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Husband John S. McKelvy ^{1 2}

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           Born: 22 Apr 1841 - Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: James McKelvy (Abt 1800-      ) 2
         Mother: Rosanna Swisshelm (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 16 Sep 1863 3

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Wife Ellen McGonigal Horner ¹

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            AKA: Eleanor Horner 3 4
           Born: 6 Dec 1840 - Wilkinsburg, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Father: John Horner (1793-1867) 1
         Mother: Mary M. Davis (1806-1887) 1

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Children

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1 F Rose C. McKelvy ^{3 4}

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         Spouse: Marshall D. McWhinney (1860-      ) 3 5
           Marr: 22 Oct 1885 4

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2 M [Infant] McKelvy ³

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3 M James P. McKelvy, M.D. ³

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            AKA: J. P. McKelvey 6
           Born: 1 Dec 1869 - near Wilkinsburg, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Sarah McKinney (      -      ) 3 7

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4 F Mary H. McKelvy ³

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         Spouse: Louis A. Raisig (      -      ) 3

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5 F Elizabeth H. McKelvy ³

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         Spouse: Dr. W. A. Sanderson (      -      ) 3

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6 F Eleanor G. McKelvy ^{3 8}

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         Spouse: Harry Willard McIntosh (1869-      ) 8 9

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7 M John Semple McKelvy, Jr. ³

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           Born:  - near Wilkinsburg, Allegheny Co, PA
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General Notes: Husband - John S. McKelvy

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He was born on the family homestead where he resided most or all of his life. He was educated in the public schools, at Wilkinsburg Academy and Allegheny College. He always had a liking for the freedom and independence of rural and agricultural life and maintained his home part of the year on the farm, near the borough of Wilkinsburg, in which place he owned a handsome residence property at No. 1100 Wood street. He invested much money and built several fine paying business blocks in the place. He was a firm believer in the public school system, and served on the Wilkinsburg school board for eighteen years or more. His chief aim in life seems to have been to give each of his children a college education, which he accomplished. In political tendencies he was a Republican, and among other local offices he held was that of borough councilman in Wilkinsburg.
He was a member of the Presbyterian church, contributing largely of both time and means in building and supporting the churches of the place in which he lived.
He was identified with the Masonic order, belonging to Braddock Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons.
The members of this family were much devoted to one another, and seldom did a Sabbath go by when they did not all meet at the old home and take Sunday dinner together.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 176.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 33.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 34.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 426.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 425.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 663.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 414.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 307.

9 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 487.