Alexander Semple and Eliza Irwin

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Husband Alexander Semple ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Castle Dawson, northern Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: 1861 3
         Buried: 

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         Father: [Father] Semple (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Eliza Irwin ^{2 3 4}

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           Born: 
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         Father: Maj. John Irwin (      -1808) 2 3 5 6
         Mother: Mary Pattison (      -      ) 2 3 4 6

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Children

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1 F Mary Pattison Semple ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Allegheny, Allegheny Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: Jan 1914 1
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Semple

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He was the youngest of three brothers.

For many years he was at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. About the year 1828 he came west with his belongings, crossing the mountains in his carriage, settling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Here after a time he with his nephew, William, opened a dry goods store on Market street, but the venture was short-lived, William Semple entering the iron business, founding a business later known as Semple & Bissell. Alexander Semple was a man whose greater interests were those of the church. For many years he was an elder in Dr. Elisha P. Swift's church in Allegheny City (Presbyterian). He was a man of most sympathetic nature. His presence was sought by the sick and dying of all denominations, when his prayers served to lead them to the very gate of heaven. A friend of the poor and afflicted, his was a busy and useful life. He was strongly opposed to human slavery, but unfortunately he did not live to know that the result of the Civil War was the freeing of all slaves in the United States.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 110.

2 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 410.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1578.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 344.

5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 343.

6 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 296.