Alexander Clark Pollock

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Husband Alexander Clark Pollock ^{1 2}

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         Father: Samuel Pollock (1813-1883) 2 3
         Mother: Esther McNary (Abt 1814-1890) 1 2 4

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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Clark Pollock

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He owned the homestead farm, on which is the famous log house erected by Judge McDowell in bygone days, and in which his parents lived the first eleven years of their mar-ried life. This house was built of hewn logs, per-fectly joined together; was 40x60 feet square, two stories in height; contained seven rooms, all the in-side work-ceilings, partitions, cup-boards, floors, door, etc.-made of finished walnut lumber. The whole structure, being completed in the best me-chanical manner, was considered in those times a very fine edifice. Said farm (belonging to A. Clark Pollock) was part of the tract patented as "Mount Pleasant" in the year 1784. It was situ-ated in North Strabane township, three and one-half miles south of Canonsburg, Washington County, on the State road known in times prior to railroad transportation, as the Drove road, from east to west, and was headquarters for travelers in those days.
A. Clark Pollock was a progressive business man, and held a number of positions of trust-such as chief burgess, bookkeeper, treasurer of various associa-tions, guardian for a number of children, etc. He was a member of Greenside Avenue United Presby-terian Church, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, which congre-gation he served as treasurer. He was always actively interested in the success of the Republican party. He served two consecutive terms as chief burgess of Canonsburg, being the youngest man ever elected to the office. He was a stockholder in the Oak Spring Cemetery Company, made so by the will of his mother, to whom it was left by her husband (Samuel Pollock), who was one of the organizers of the company. After the death of his father, he was given power of attorney by his mother over her stock, and elected by said company one of the business di-rectors, in which capacity he served, being re-elected some ten consecutive years. He was a member of the National Guard of Penn-sylvania for a number of years; was quartermaster-sergeant of Company H, Tenth Regiment, and experienced a little of soldier life during the riots in Pennsylvania. [CBRWC, 614]

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 606.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1113.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 605.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 874.