John Irwin Marchand and Rebecca Barbara Logan

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Husband John Irwin Marchand ¹

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           Born: 8 Dec 1812 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 26 Apr 1877 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: Dr. Daniel Marchand (1773-1822) 2 3
         Mother: Jane Irwin (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 1848 1

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   Other Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Irwin (      -1846) 4 5 - 1 Feb 1838 1

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   Other Spouse: Rebecca Ann Conner (      -      ) 1 - 1 Feb 1851 1

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Wife Rebecca Barbara Logan ¹

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1848
         Buried:  - Long Run Cemetery

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         Father: William Logan (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth W. Fullerton (1800-      ) 6

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - John Irwin Marchand

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He was born at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and received his collegiate education at Jefferson College. He attended the Medical College of Philadelphia, after reading medicine with Dr. Porter, of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. He located at West Newton and practiced for a short period of time, and then removed to Jacksonville. There he appears to have devoted most of his time to the care of his various properties. He purchased of Andrew J. Byerly about five acres in Circleville, near Jacksonville, and erected thereon a large frame mansion, stables and other outbuildings. Some time in the 1850s he traded his Circleville home for the William Hindman farm, adjoining Jacksonville on the west, which was, in the palmy days of the Pittsburgh and Lancaster pike, a famous stopping place for wagons and stages. This place he remodeled and changed from a wayside inn to a country gentleman's home of great beauty and attractiveness. In politics Dr. Marchand was a Whig, later a Know-Nothing, and afterwards a staunch Republican. Although barred by lameness and his age from active participation in the Civil War, he was most energetic and unsparing in the spending of time and means to further the cause and provide for the comfort of the troops, being in this ably aided by his wife. In the spring of 1867, he removed to East End, Pittsburgh, where he established his residence on the corner of what became Shady avenue and Marchand street. He took an active interest in the advancement of that part of the city and became a large property owner. In company with Dr. John Perchment, he built the business block known as Liberty Hall. He built the city Deposit bank building, corner Penn and Sheridan avenues, assisted in organizing the bank and was chosen its president. He also built the bank building corner Penn and Frankstown avenues, and was a director in that bank. While officially superintending street improvements for the city his team became frightened, and notwithstanding the fact that he was an expert reinsman, it got beyond his control and he was thrown from his buggy and sustained a severe physical shock, which resulted in paralysis which eventually caused his death. He was buried in his family lot in Long Run graveyard, but his body was subsequently removed by his widow to a lot in Homewood Cemetery, Twenty-second ward, in Pittsburgh. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. [HWC 1906 III, 362]

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General Notes: Wife - Rebecca Barbara Logan

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She lived only a few months after her marriage to Mr. Marchand.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 362.

2 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 627.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 357.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 356, 362.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 135.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 155, 362.