Husband Joseph McClurg 1
Born: - ? Ireland
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Died: 1825 - ? Pennsylvania 1
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1 M Alexander McClurg 1
Born: 1788 - Colerain, Northern Ireland 1
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Died: 6 Apr 1873 - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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Spouse: Sarah Trevor ( -1840) 1
Marr: 1817 1
Spouse: Margaret Caskey ( -Aft 1873) 1
Marr: 1845 1
General Notes: Husband - Joseph McClurg
from Colerain, Northern Ireland
He was a leader in the movement of the "United Irishmen" in 1798, and like so many other Irishmen who have loved their country, he incurred the bitter hatred of the English government. On the failure of the efforts of the patriots, his arrest was ordered, and he was compelled hastily to fly from the country he loved. He sought concealment on a small vessel which was about to sail for the United States, and though the vessel was twice searched for him before she put to sea, he escaped, and finally arrived safely, but alone, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He immediately made arrangements for his young wife and children to join him there, but when they arrived the yellow fever was raging so severely in that city that he pushed on farther west with them, and settled in the then young city of Pittsburgh.
Accustomed to the life of a country gentleman, Mr. McClurg selected for his home a beautiful spot on the south bank of the Monongahela, at some distance from the then small city, a site later shorn of its rural beauties, and embraced in the Twenty-fourth ward of Pittsburgh. Here he built what was at that time a capacious and comfortable old-style mansion, and, true to his love of the freedom in whose cause he had suffered, he named it "Liberty Hall."
In connection with his enterprising young son, Alexander, he erected and operated the first foundry built in Pittsburgh, and indeed the first foundry west of the Alleghany mountains.