Husband Robert David Elwood 1 2 3 4
Born: 7 Apr or 17 Apr 1836 - Apollo, Armstrong Co, PA 1 2
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Father: John Elwood (1796-1872) 1 3 4
Mother: Mary Patterson (Abt 1800-1875/1880) 1 3 4
Marriage: 1866 5
Wife Mary H. Lewellyn 5 6
Born: - Apollo, Armstrong Co, PA
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Father: John Lewellyn ( - ) 5
Mother: Rebecca Hawkins ( - ) 5
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1 M Thomas Jefferson Elwood 5 6
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2 M John Franklin Elwood 5
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3 M Robert David Elwood 5 6
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General Notes: Husband - Robert David Elwood
He was reared in his native village, and received a common-school education. At the age of twenty he went west, and spent two years in Kansas, and, returning, ran a packet three years on the Pennsylvania canal. Sept. 16, 1861, he was enrolled in Co. I, 78th P. V., and was elected second lieutenant. Before the company was mustered into the United States service he was promoted to captain. This regiment was attached to the Army of the Cumberland, and among other engagements took part in the battle of Stone river. After being mustered out of service at the close of the war, Capt. Elwood became a member of the firm of Elwood Brothers, merchants at Apollo, and flour-manufacturers at Leechburg. On the dissolution of the firm, in 1872, the grain-dealing firm of Elwood & McCracken was established in Pittsburgh, which after 1880 became R. D. Elwood & Co. Capt. Elwood was also interested in the Iron City mills. He was the first president of the Pittsburgh Grain and Flour Exchange. In 1875 Capt. Elwood purchased property adjoining Verona borough, in Penn township, where he then resided. He and his wife were both active members of the M. E. Church. [HAC 1889 ii, 476]
He was also for some years president of the Iron City milling company, of Pittsburgh. He was one of the organizers of the First National bank of Verona, and was its president from the first. He was also a director of the Second National bank of Pittsburgh for a number of years. He was a Free Mason, a member of the Loyal Legion, Union Veteran legion, No. 1, of Pittsburgh, and the G. A. R.
He and his brothers, William J. and Thomas J. Elwood, became associated in the mercantile and manufacturing business at the close of the Civil war under the firm name of Elwood Brothers, the firm being dissolved in 1873. After this Robert D. removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he entered the grain and feed business, and became very successful. He was later living retired at Verona, in Allegheny County. He was one of the early burgesses at Leechburg.
He organized Company I, 78th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Sirwell commanding, General Negley's brigade, and served in the Civil war as captain of that company, taking part in the battles of Stone River, Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, and was mustered out with his regiment at Kittanning, Pennsylvania. He was a member of Pittsburgh Post, G. A. R., and of the Loyal Legion of Pennsylvania.