Charles H. McLaughlin and Sue Herrington

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Husband Charles H. McLaughlin ¹

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           Born: 13 Nov 1860 - Unity Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: John T. McLaughlin (1835-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Lavinia Bell (1836-1910) 3 4 5

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       Marriage: 18 Apr 1889 1

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   Other Spouse: Jennie Elliott (1869-      ) 6 - 12 Oct 1891 6

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Wife Sue Herrington ¹

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         Father: Hiram Herrington (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Frances [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Charles H. McLaughlin

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His early education was obtained in the schools of Unity township, Westmoreland County, PA, and later at Jefferson Academy, Canonsburg. After leaving school he engaged in farming for four years. Leaving the farm in 1887 he came to Latrobe and began mercantile life as a partner in the general store of Anderson and McLaughlin. This firm did a successful business, and continued for twelve years, when Mr. McLaughlin sold out his interest to Mr. Anderson and retired from the firm. He then began the erection of a brick business block at No. 910 Ligonier Street, and in 1899 formed a partnership with S. P. Reed, under the firm name of McLaughlin and Reed. On the completion of the building they opened the only exclusive dry goods and carpet store in Latrobe. The block in which this business was conducted was of modern design with the exterior walls of buff brick. The basement was used mainly as a stock room, the first floor was devoted to dry goods and notions, the second floor carpets and ladies’ cloaks, with a special department for showing wall paper. The third floor was the lodge room of the Masonic Fraternity. The firm enjoyed a very prosperous business from the first, and its volume steadily increased. They employed thirteen clerks in addition to the two partners who were active and daily workers in the store. They not only enjoyed a local patronage but developed a growing mail order business from the surrounding territory. Mr. McLaughlin was the executor and satisfactorily settled estates, and served as guardian of orphan families. Politically he was a Republican. He was elected burgess of Latrobe in 1890. From 1893 to 1899 he was a councilman, and for three years of that time was president of the council. Mr. McLaughlin became a member of Unity Presbyterian church in 1878. When he removed to Latrobe in 1887 he connected with the First Presbyterian church of that place. He was trustee and treasurer during the erection of the new church edifice in 1891, and a member of the building committee. He was elected elder in 1892, and was also assistant superintendent of the Sabbath school. At the age of twenty-one he became a Free Mason, joining Loyalhanna Lodge No. 275, at that time being the youngest member of the lodge. He was a charter member of Meridian Conclave, Order of Heptasophs.

At the time of his first marriage he was erecting a new home for his bride, but she contracted typhoid fever and on the day the house was completed, she died, after only ten weeks of happy married life.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 81.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 79.

3 Linda (Francis) Hanna & Roberta (Francis) Hamilton, The Descendants of Walter Bell (Franklin, PA: Self-published, about 1990), Pg 2.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 80.

5 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 304.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 82.