Husband Maj. Felix Casper Negley 1 2 3
Born: 28 Feb 1825 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 1 3 4
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Died: 5 Oct 1901 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1 3 4
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Father: John Negley (1778-1870) 1 3 4 5
Mother: Anna Elizabeth Patterson (1798-1835) 1 3 5
Marriage: 12 Oct 1848 3
Wife Margaret Ann Dickson 1 3 6
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Father: Thomas Dickson ( - ) 7
Mother: Mary Brown ( - ) 7
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1 M John Dickson Negley 8
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Spouse: Isabella Scully ( - ) 8
2 F Mary Elizabeth Negley 8
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3 M William Alexander Negley 8
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4 F Margaret Brown Negley 8
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Spouse: William W. Ramsey ( - ) 8
5 F Rachel Blair Negley 8
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6 F Minerva Susan Negley 8
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7 M Felix Casper Negley 8
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Spouse: Mary Seton Appleton ( - ) 6
8 F Jessie Patterson Negley 8
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Spouse: Joseph L. Mitchell ( - ) 6
9 M Henry Hull Negley 1 8
Born: 12 Nov 1868 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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Spouse: Annie St. Claire Williamson ( - ) 8
10 F Anna Scott Negley 6
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Spouse: George M. Schmidt ( - ) 6
11 M William George Negley 8
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Spouse: Martha I. Thomas ( - ) 8
12 F Alice Keziah Negley 8
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General Notes: Husband - Maj. Felix Casper Negley
He was a civil engineer by profession. At the commencement of the Civil War, he organized and equipped, at a personal cost of over $60,000, a battalion of cavalry, known as the Negley scouts, of which command he was major. This battalion saw active service during the threatened invasion of Pennsylvania and was the nucleus from which was formed the 1st Pennsylvania volunteer cavalry, of which organization Major Negley was lieutenant-colonel. He was also commissioned as major in the recruiting service by Governor Curtin, and performed his work well, which was that of enlisting negroes in Georgia and Alabama for the northern army. While in this latter service, he was twice drafted but on each occasion paid a substitute and continued in the recruiting branch of the army. At the close of the Civil war he returned to his home in the north and engaged in his customary pursuits. He was prominent in political affairs and was closely identified with the republican party. He held the office of school director in the second and fifth wards of Pittsburg for many years, was a member and president of the Pittsburgh central board of education for twenty-one years and represented the various districts as school director for over forty years. He amassed considerable wealth but lost heavily in the panic of 1873-74
He was identified with the coal interests of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served his country in the Mexican and Civil wars and was one of that party who in 1849 braved the hardships and dangers of the west in pursuit of gold in California.
The Negley family is indebted to Major Negley for his faithful efforts to preserve the genealogy of the family.