John Gill McDowell and Catherine Boyd

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Husband John Gill McDowell ¹

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           Born: Aug 1828 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: John McDowell (Abt 1776-1842) 1
         Mother: Jane Gill (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1862 1

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Wife Catherine Boyd ¹

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           Born: 15 Jan 1835 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Thomas Boyd (1795-1869) 2 3
         Mother: Sarah Wilson (1804-1859) 2 3

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Children

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1 M Edward Howard McDowell ¹

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2 M George Wilson McDowell ¹

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3 F Sarah Jane McDowell ¹

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4 F Caroline McDowell ¹

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 F Maggie McDowell ¹

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 F Anna McDowell ¹

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - John Gill McDowell

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He attended school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and also in Patton and Versailles townships, Allegheny County. At the age of twenty-one he began teaching in Patton township, and so continued four years. He then took life easy for a few years, living on the income of his father's estate, but his marriage, in 1862, changed the course of his life, she being the main factor of his success in business.
After marriage he bought a small place in Patton township, but three years later he sold it and bought another farm, where he lived twenty-two years or more. He and his family were members of the Unity U. P. Church; he was a democrat, but later a prohibitionist.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 461.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 461, 693.

3 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 81.