Thomas Harper and Margaret Swartz

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Husband Thomas Harper ¹

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           Born: 30 Jun 1799 - Jefferson Co, OH 1
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           Died: 30 Jun 1876 1
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         Father: Thomas Harper, Sr. (      -      ) 1 2
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       Marriage: Jan 1820 1

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Wife Margaret Swartz ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1798 - eastern Pennsylvania 2
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           Died: Sep 1873 - Cranberry Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: George Swartz (      -      ) 3
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Children

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1 M N. W. Harper ²

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           Died: Bef 1909 - Chicago, Cook Co, IL
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2 M George Harper ²

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3 M Oliver Harper ²

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4 F Catherine Harper ²

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5 F Margaret Harper ²

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6 F Eliza Harper ²

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           Died: Bef 1909
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7 F Sarah Harper ²

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           Died: Bef 1909
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         Spouse: Dr. D. L. Starr (      -      ) 2

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8 F Nancy Harper ²

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           Died: Bef 1909
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         Spouse: Frank Gaushell (      -      ) 2

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9 M Andrew Jackson Harper ¹

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           Born: 19 Apr 1832 - Jackson Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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           Died: Aft 1895
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         Spouse: Barbara Tinstman (      -      )
           Marr: 24 Mar 1859 1

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10 F Henrietta Harper ²

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         Spouse: Silas Gillespie (      -      ) 2

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11 F Marion Harper ²

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           Died: in infancy
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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12 M John Harper ²

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           Died: Bef 1909
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13 F Caroline Harper ²

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           Died: Bef 1909 - Nebraska
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         Spouse: [Unk] Taylor (      -      ) 2

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14 M Cyrus Harper ^{2 4 5}

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           Born: 1 Mar 1839 - Jackson Twp, Butler Co, PA 2
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           Died: Feb 1922 6
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Dalzell (      -1879) 5 6 7
           Marr: Jan 1866 7

         Spouse: Luella Sarver (      -      ) 7
           Marr: 1882 7

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15 M Thomas Harper ²

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Harper

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On reaching the age of majority, he remained in the vicinity of Steubenville, Ohio, and followed boating on the Ohio, Kanawha, and other rivers. In 1819 he visited Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he met his wife. In the spring of 1821, he and his wife, and two children, moved to Butler County, Pennsylvania. They settled in what is now Jackson township, and lived there until the fall of 1842, when they removed into Cranberry township. They were the parents of fifteen children, total; thirteen of whom grew to maturity, and eleven of the number were still living in 1895, six sons and five daughters, the oldest seventy-four and the youngest fifty-four years of age. The parents were Methodists and reared their children in that faith. Originally a Jackson Democrat, Mr. Harper was carried away with the Know-Nothing craze, and subsequently drifted into the Republican party. [HBC 1895, 1118]

He was born on Mingo Creek, Ohio, where he grew to man's estate. About 1820 he came to Butler County, Pennsylvania, and settled in Jackson Township, residing near Zelienople for about twenty years, when he purchased a tract of land in Cranberry Township, where he remained until his death. [TCHBC, 855]

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Swartz

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She was born in eastern Pennsylvania, and was of Pennsyl-vania Dutch parentage. Her father was a man of considerable means, kept a hotel, and also operated a saw and grist mill on his farm. At the age of six years she was left an orphan by the death of her parents, and was reared among strangers.

Her father was a resident of Elizabethtown, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1118.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 855.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 177.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 127, 177.

5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 171.

6 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 127.

7 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 856.