David Magaw and Elvira Dicky Braden

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Husband David Magaw ^{1 2}

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           Born: 18 Apr 1820 - North Sewickley Twp, Beaver Co, PA 3
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           Died: 28 Apr 1893 - Beaver Falls, Beaver Co, PA 3
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         Father: James Magaw (      -      ) 1 2
         Mother: Eunice Dye (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 21 May 1856 3

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Wife Elvira Dicky Braden ^{3 4}

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           Born: 17 Oct 1834 - College Hill, Beaver Co, PA 3
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           Died: 17 Jul 1861 3
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         Father: John Braden (      -      ) 3 5 6 7
         Mother: Catherine McIntyre (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 M James A. Magaw ³

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           Born: 17 Mar 1857 3
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           Died: 24 Jan 1885 3
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M John McEntyre Magaw ³

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           Born: 27 Jul 1858 - New Brighton, Pulaski Twp, Beaver Co, PA 3
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           Died: Aft 1914
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         Spouse: Margaret Smith Kuhn (      -      ) 8
           Marr: Feb 1895 8

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3 M Davis Magaw ³

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           Born: 9 Dec 1859 3
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           Died: 4 Feb 1861 3
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - David Magaw

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His boyhood was spent on the home farm in North Sewickley township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and he obtained an excellent education, partly through instruction in the public schools, mainly through solitary reading and study, both of which he was very fond. Discovering that he possessed remarkable aptness in communicating his knowledge and ideas to others, he began teaching, and continued as a school teacher for fourteen years. In 1850 he entered the mercantile business in New Brighton, general merchandise being his line, and in this he continued for three years, for the six following years being proprietor of a saw mill and owner of a lumber yard. Retiring from the last named business he was for two years railroad division superintendent, then became proprietor of the Park Hotel, of New Brighton, which he established, in 1890 selling this property and becoming owner of the Central Hotel of Beaver Falls, which he conducted until his death. He was a farmer for three years, from 1884 until 1887, having purchased a farm of vast acreage in Macon County, Illinois, near Decatur. During the last few months of the Civil War he was a member of a regiment of volunteers, but his regiment was never pressed into active service. With his wife, he held membership in the Baptist church, and although never an office holder he was a sturdy champion of the Republican party. He was a man of cheery, genial nature, and as a hotel proprietor was famous for the entertainment he afforded his guests and the high plane upon which his house was maintained.

1 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 791.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 769.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 770.

4 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 792.

5 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 752.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 186.

7 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 595.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 771.