William Patterson McJunkin and Adelaide M. Joyner

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Husband William Patterson McJunkin ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Oct 1845 - Washington Co, PA 2
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           Died: Aft 1915
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         Father: Alexander McJunkin (1819-1887) 3 4
         Mother: Margaret Couden Patterson (1819-1898) 1 2

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       Marriage: 22 Dec 1869 5

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Wife Adelaide M. Joyner ⁵

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           Born:  - England
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         Father: Martin Thomas Joyner (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Susanna Amelia Taylor (      -      ) 5

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - William Patterson McJunkin

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He was educated in the public schools of Plum township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and until he was thirty years of age worked on the home farm in that township. He then moved to Pittsburgh where he conducted a retail dairy business for twenty-five years. His business grew with each year and he was many times compelled to seek enlarged quarters, finally at Thirtieth and Liberty streets. In 1900 the business was incorporated as The McJunkin Straight Dairy Company with himself as president. The business became the largest in Pittsburgh, dairy products being handled in both wholesale and retail. In 1903 he retired and for some years resided in Oakdale. He was the first man in the United States to pasteurize milk for commercial purposes, and was the first dealer in Pittsburgh to realize the responsibility of his business and the fact that the health of his patrons depended on the quality of the milk he served. He accepted this responsibility and set an example of sanitary handling and distributing that raised the business in Pittsburgh to a higher level than ever before ever dreamed of. He was a director of the Boys' Industrial Home at Oakdale, an institution in which he took a deep interest, and was manager of its farming operations. He was a Republican in politics, and both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church.

1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 443.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 643.

3 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 442.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 642.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 644.