Mark McCandless and Mary M. Russell

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Husband Mark McCandless ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1807 - Center Twp, Butler Co, PA 1 3
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           Died: 22 Jan 1888 3
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         Father: David McCandless (      -1832) 4
         Mother: Martha [Unk] (      -      ) 4

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         Father: James McCandless (      -      ) 5
         Mother: [Unk] Kerr (      -      ) 5

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       Marriage: 1829 1 3

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Wife Mary M. Russell ^{1 6 7}

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           Born: 3 Jan 1812 7
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         Father: James Russell (1773-1841) 1 7 8 9
         Mother: Nancy Cunningham (1789-      ) 7

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Children

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1 F Elvira McCandless ^{1 10}

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         Spouse: John Blaine (      -      ) 1 10

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2 M James R. McCandless ^{1 6}

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           Born: 21 Sep 1832 - Parkers Landing, Armstrong Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: Eliza Jane McCallen (      -      ) 11

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3 F Martha J. McCandless ^{1 3 12}

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         Spouse: Jeremiah Hilliard (      -      ) 1 3 12

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4 F Eliza Ann McCandless ^{1 3 13}

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         Spouse: David Arner (      -Bef 1912) 3 13

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5 M Alexander Kerr McCandless ^{1 10}

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            AKA: Alexander Kirk McCandless 5
           Born: 10 May 1839 - Cherry Twp, Butler Co, PA 5
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         Spouse: Susan S. McCallen (      -1900) 5 10
           Marr: 1864 5

         Spouse: Mary McConkey (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 1902 5

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6 F Minerva McCandless ^{1 3}

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         Spouse: John Chambers (      -      ) 1

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7 F Mary McCandless ^{1 3}

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           Died: 1930 3
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         Spouse: James T. Bryan (      -      ) 1 3

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8 M Samuel B. McCandless ¹

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           Died: 29 Oct 1864 - Charleston, Charleston Co, SC 1
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General Notes: Husband - Mark McCandless

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He was born in the city of New York, upon the landing of his parents as emigrants from Ireland, they being of Scotch-Irish lineage. [HMC 1909, 432]
He was by trade a tailor, lived on a farm in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and kept a store at Pleasant Valley.

He engaged in the sale of merchandise soon after his settlement in Cherry township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, which he continued for many years. His tavern, however, was opened as soon as his house was built. He was located upon the highway upon which the raftsmen returned on foot to their homes on the head-waters of the Allegheny, and during the palmy days of rafting he frequently fed hundreds of those voracious, hardy river men in a single day. Scores of Indians also were in the habit of coming down in the river on rafts, being skillful pilots, and in great demand during the rafting seasons. On their return they would walk from Pittsburgh to McCandless' tavern without eating by the way, but, once there, their capacity for things eat­able was truly wonderful. Mrs. McCandless recalled that she had placed before three Indians six dozen boiled eggs, besides esculents in like proportion, all of which disappeared at one sitting. One of these Indians could eat enough at one meal to last two and three days without much apparent discomfort. [HBC 1883, 424]

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 424.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1173, 1411.

3 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 54.

4 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 53.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 432.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1173.

7 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 738.

8 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 975.

9 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 469.

10 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 57.

11 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1174.

12 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 134.

13 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1411.