Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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William Galbraith McCain and Nancy Rowland




Husband William Galbraith McCain 1

           Born:  - Freeport, Armstrong Co, PA
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         Father: William McCain (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Galbraith (1803-1889) 2


       Marriage: 18 Feb 1864 1



Wife Nancy Rowland 1

            AKA: Nancy Roland 3
           Born: Abt 1838
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           Died: 29 Nov 1902 1
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Children
1 M William A. McCain 1

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2 F Elizabeth R. McCain 1

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         Spouse: Dr. J. M. Cooley (      -      ) 1


3 M James P. McCain 1

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4 M Samuel Howard McCain 1

           Born: 27 Apr 1875 - Freeport, Armstrong Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Adele Gilpin (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 18 Jan 1908 4



General Notes: Husband - William Galbraith McCain


He was born in Freeport, PA, and there reared, helping with the work at home in summers and attending school in winters. In 1855 he went out to California, where he was quite successful in prospecting for gold, accumulat­ing $10,000 before he decided to return home. Later he lived at Freeport, where he was in the lumber business for seventeen years, being a lumber manufacturer. He was later located at Bristol, TN, whither he moved about 1898, engaged in the manufacture of all kinds of lumber.
He and his wife had five children, four of them lived to maturity.

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Sources


1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 515.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 515, 665.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 288.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 516.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 342, 516.


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