Richard Forrest

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Husband Richard Forrest ¹

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         Father: John Forrest (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Jean Johnson (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Richard Forrest

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In 1837 he and his brother George set out together with their families for America, and were six weeks crossing the Atlantic in a sailing vessel, which was reported lost. Landing at New York, and their destination became Richmond, Indiana, so they traveled by rail, canal and other modes to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Here his wife and two children died and the brothers then concluded to remain at that place.
He was a marble cutter and sculptor, and became foreman of the Wallace Marble Works, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His last employer in the mother country had been Sir Francis Chantry, the eminent English sculptor, and he was in his employ at the time Allan Cunningham, the author and sculptor, was foreman of the establishment, and Forrest's duties consisted in the placing of statuary for Chantry.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 144.