Thomas Channing McPherson and Elizabeth B. Blount

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Husband Thomas Channing McPherson ¹

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           Born: 28 Jul 1872 - Beaver Falls, Beaver Co, PA 2
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         Father: Dr. Thomas Greer McPherson (1838-      ) 1 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Jane Riley (      -      ) 1 3

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       Marriage: 1897 2

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Wife Elizabeth B. Blount ²

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           Born:  - New Brighton, Pulaski Twp, Beaver Co, PA
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         Father: James Blount (      -      ) 2
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Children

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1 F Hazel McPherson ²

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           Born: 13 Apr 1902 2
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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Channing McPherson

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He attended the public schools, and after completing his studies prepared himself for work as a draughtsman, and for a time was employed in that capacity. About 1890 he began the manufacture of wire matting in an unpretentious establishment at Rochester, Pennsylvania, employing but a few men, and to a great extent experimenting to test the popularity of his product. He was the first manufacturer to make wire matting out of flat stock, and himself invented all the machines used in the process. Finding that his proposition was a paying one, he, in partnership with George W. Miller, deceased, organized the Keystone Wire Matting Company in 1898, with their plant at Pittsburgh. After a few years the seat of the business was moved to a rented building in Beaver Falls, which afterward burned down. The conflagration making their business homeless, in 1904 a two-story building, designed especially for their purpose, was erected at 607-609 Seventh street. In the same year the company was incorporated. The company's products consisted of wire mats and matting as well as wooden and steel matting. Both the machines and the articles they manufactured were patented, although Mr. McPherson sold some of the foreign rights, among them those relating to English and German manufacture.
Mr. McPherson was progressively independent in political action. With his wife he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was also a director of the Brighton Young Men's Christian Association.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 95.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 96.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 266.