Capt. David Alexander McDonald and Mary Frances Woods

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Husband Capt. David Alexander McDonald ^{1 2}

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            AKA: [Unk] McDonald 3
           Born: 4 Apr 1842 - Economy Twp, Beaver Co, PA 4
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           Died: 12 Oct 1910 - Beaver, Beaver Co, PA 4
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         Father: Capt. John McDonald (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Rachel Oliver (      -      ) 1 4

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       Marriage: 17 Jun 1869 4

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   Other Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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Wife Mary Frances Woods ^{3 5}

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           Born:  - Sewickley, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: Dr. William Woods, M.D. (1804-1885) 3 4 6
         Mother: Sarah St. Clair Wilson (      -      ) 3 4

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Children

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1 M Charles Woods McDonald ⁷

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2 F Sarah St. Clair McDonald ⁷

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3 F Mary Frances McDonald ⁷

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4 F Florence June McDonald ⁸

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           Born: 7 Aug 1879 - Woodlawn, Beaver Co, PA 5
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         Spouse: George Andrew Hoffmann (1877-      ) 9
           Marr: 1899 5

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5 F Julia St. Clair McDonald ⁷

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. David Alexander McDonald

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He was reared in the township of his birth, in boyhood attending the public schools and when a young man entered upon river work with Captain William H. Brown. From a penniless beginning, by his untiring industry, he prospered in his line of endeavor, and at the outbreak of the Civil War owned seven boats plying the waters of the Ohio. A large share of his well earned prosperity was taken from him during the war of the rebellion, when he was occasioned a fifty-thousand-dollar loss by the seizure of his boats for government uses, and he himself was impressed into service for a term of six months. He immediately began to repair his wasted fortune and continued as the captain of several boats on the Ohio until his retirement about 1900. During all of this time, with the exception of a few years passed in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, his home was in Beaver, Pennsylvania, where his death occurred. He was a Republican in politics, but the nature of his occupation prohibited the acceptance of public trust or responsibility. His church was the Presbyterian, of which he was for many years an elder, and he held membership in Rochester Lodge No. 229, Free and Accepted Masons.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 327.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 779, 1045.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 357.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 1045.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 779.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 110.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 1046.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 779, 1046.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 778.