Husband Judge Alexander Daniel McConnell 1 2
Born: 10 Mar 1850 - Loyalhanna Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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Father: David Kirkpatrick McConnell (1819-1900) 5 6
Mother: Harriet Sloan (1827-1908) 7 8
Marriage: 24 Mar 1876 4 9
• Additional Image: Judge A. D. McConnell.
Wife Ella J. Turney 2 9
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Father: Adam J. Turney ( - ) 9
Mother: Emma Eyster ( - ) 9
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1 M R. Kirk McConnell 9 10
Born: 8 Jan 1879 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 11
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2 M A. Turney McConnell 4 9
Born: - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
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3 M Alexander McConnell 4 9
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4 F Emma E. McConnell 9 12
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5 M Robert Sloan McConnell 9 12
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General Notes: Husband - Judge Alexander Daniel McConnell
He was educated in the public schools of Loyalhanna and Salem townships, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; the New Salem Academy, and Washington and Jefferson College. For several years he was the assistant of H. M. Jones, superintendent of public schools of Westmoreland county. He located in Greensburg, in September, 1873, as a teacher in the public schools, and soon thereafter was elected principal of these schools, and continued to serve in that capacity until June 1, 1876. On motion of Senator Edgar Cowan, August, 1877, he was admitted to practice in the several courts of Westmoreland County, and after that time devoted himself exclusively to the law. He prepared for admission to the bar in the office of Judge James A. Hunter. In politics he was always a Republican. He was chairman of the Republican county committee in 1878. In the following year he was nominated as a candidate for the legislature, but at that time the county was overwhelmingly Democratic, and a reduction of the amount of the Democratic majority was the full measure of his success. He received the nomination of his party in Westmoreland County for congress in 1882, but the rule of rotation that year threw the nomination in the district to Fayette County. He was nominated for judge of the court of common pleas in 1889. The Republican party, however, met defeat that year as it did for several years thereafter. A law was enacted in 1895, allotting two judges to the tenth judicial district, and Governor Hastings, on practically the unanimous endorsement of the Westmoreland County bar, appointed him, on June 17, 1895, to the new position thereby created. He received the Republican nomination, and in November of the same year was elected for a full term of ten years by a majority of about three thousand. He was, on April 15, 1905, without opposition, nominated to succeed himself by the Republican party, and on July 3, following, he was endorsed by the Democratic county committee and his name directed to be also placed on the Democratic ticket as the candidate of that party. During his term of office many important questions were presented for solution, notably among these was a question pertaining to the law governing the approval of the contract for the erection of a new court house. The correctness of the decision rendered by him in that matter was stubbornly contested but it was unanimously approved by both the superior and the supreme courts of the state. Westminster College conferred on him, June 18, 1902, the degree of LL. D., an honor which was, in that century, only conferred on four other members of the Westmoreland county bar, viz.: Justice Coulter, Hon. Edgar Cowan, Hon. H. P. Laird and Hon. James A. Logan. Judge McConnell was a regular attendant of the First Presbyterian church of Greensburg. He was one of the trustees of the Morrison Underwood fund which by its donor was devoted to certain educational purposes. He was also a director of the Westmoreland Hospital, located at Greensburg. He was a member of the Masonic society, and of the Scotch-Irish society of Philadelphia. [HWC 1906 II, 15]