Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Col. Theodore McGowan and Alice Lyon Chambers




Husband Col. Theodore McGowan 1 2

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           Died: 17 Dec 1891 2
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         Father: Dr. Daniel Stewart McGowan (1808-Abt 1855) 1 2 3
         Mother: Anna Thomson (1809-1877) 1 2 3


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Wife Alice Lyon Chambers 2 4

            AKA: Alice Armstrong Chambers 5
           Born: 9 Sep 1848 2
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           Died: 9 Dec 1894 2
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         Father: William Lyon Chambers (1823-1889) 4 6
         Mother: Emmaline Kennedy (1829-      ) 4 7




Children
1 M William Chambers McGowan 2

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2 F Bessie McGowan 8 9

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         Spouse: John Stauffer McIlvaine, Jr. (      -      ) 10 11
           Marr: 4 Oct 1904 9


3 F Annie T. McGowan 2

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Theodore McGowan


As a young man he taught in a classical academy in South Carolina, and afterward served with distinction in the Civil war. After the war he studied law and was admitted to the Franklin County Bar, Jan. 25, 1867. He practiced his profession in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

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Sources


1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 785.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 16.

3 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 398.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 391.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 43.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 12, 43.

7 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 16, 43.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 16, 621.

9 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 287.

10 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 621.

11 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 278.


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