Josiah Guy McCandless and Emma Jones

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Husband Josiah Guy McCandless ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1 Jan 1839 - Ferryville, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Dr. Alexander G. McCandless (1816-1875) 1 2 3
         Mother: Margaret Guy (1817-      ) 3 4

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   Other Spouse: Margaret E. Cluley (      -      ) 2 5 - 14 Sep 1876 2 5

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Wife Emma Jones ⁵

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Children

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1 M Guy McCandless ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Josiah Guy McCandless

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He received a common-school education in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attended the Cleveland medical college a year and was graduated from the Jefferson medical college in 1863. He also taught school for a time. Dr. McCandless served three years in the Civil war, enlisting as assistant surgeon of the 52d Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. He was afterwards made surgeon in charge of the Cotton Factory hospital at Harrisburg, and lived there until the close of the war, ranking as major. During his service he was under fire in the Peninsular campaign, at Fair Oaks, the Wilderness and Yorktown. Returning after the war to Pittsburgh, he then successfully engaged in the practice of medicine there. He also had a long and creditable career in the public service, and took great interest in republican politics. Dr. McCandless served on the school board as member and also as president of the Franklin board, and represented his ward in both the common and select councils of Pittsburgh, acting as president of each. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and the G. A. R., and was, for fourteen years, surgeon of the 14th regiment, Pennsylvania national guard. He was a prominent member of the Sixth Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder beginning in 1875.

1 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 38.

2 J. S. Burns, Biographical and Chronological History of the Stewart Family of Western Pennsylvania 1754-1912 (No publication data available), Pg 28.

3 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 432.

4 J. S. Burns, Biographical and Chronological History of the Stewart Family of Western Pennsylvania 1754-1912 (No publication data available), Pg 26.

5 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 39.