Joseph Francis McKenrick and Margaret Eleanor Read

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Husband Joseph Francis McKenrick ¹

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            AKA: J. F. McKennick 2
           Born: 9 May 1845 - Adams Co, PA 3
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           Died: 26 Aug 1913 - Ebensburg, Cambria Co, PA 4
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         Father: Charles McKenrick (1818-1892) 3
         Mother: Anna Barbara Cole (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 1869 5

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Wife Margaret Eleanor Read ⁵

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            AKA: Margaret Ellen Read 2
           Born: 21 Sep 1843 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 5
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           Died: 26 Mar 1922 - Ebensburg, Cambria Co, PA 6
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         Father: Ross Read (1807-1881) 2 5
         Mother: Mary Thompson (1811-1885) 2 5

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Children

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1 M Paul Lossing McKenrick ⁵

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           Born: 19 Mar 1870 - Curwensville, Clearfield Co, PA 5
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           Died: 29 Mar 1947 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 5
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         Spouse: Eva S. Gates (      -1949) 5
           Marr: 9 Jun 1898 - Flinton, Cambria Co, PA 5

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2 F Frances Read McKenrick ⁵

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           Born: 8 Apr 1872 - Curwensville, Clearfield Co, PA 5
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         Spouse: Emory Hubert Davis (      -1924) 5
           Marr: 18 Nov 1896 - Ebensburg, Cambria Co, PA 5

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3 F Lulu Jane McKenrick ⁶

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           Born: 28 Aug 1874 - Clearfield, Clearfield Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: Dudley Blanchard Lytle (      -1945) 6
           Marr: 18 Apr 1917 - Ebensburg, Cambria Co, PA 6

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4 F Blanche Marie McKenrick ⁶

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           Born: 8 Nov 1876 - Clearfield, Clearfield Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: James Stuart Dick (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 28 May 1902 - Missoula, Missoula Co, MT 6

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5 M Carl Ross McKenrick ⁶

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           Born: 29 Jul 1880 - Clearfield, Clearfield Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: Letitia Eleanora Damer Sandys (1877-      ) 6
           Marr: 25 Jul 1903 - Lutherville, Baltimore Co, MD 6

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6 M Leo Frederick McKenrick ⁶

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           Born: 4 Oct 1882 - Clearfield, Clearfield Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: Blanche Buck (      -1942) 6
           Marr: 8 Jan 1903 - Ebensburg, Cambria Co, PA 6

         Spouse: Bernice E. Shunkwiler (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 16 Dec 1943 - Cherry Tree, Indiana Co, PA 6

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7 M Judge Ivan Joseph McKenrick ⁶

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           Born: 27 Dec 1884 - Clearfield, Clearfield Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: Marian Jones (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 11 Oct 1916 - Ebensburg, Cambria Co, PA 6

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8 F Mary Elsie McKenrick ⁶

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           Born: 31 Oct 1887 - Clearfield, Clearfield Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: John Kurtz Mentzer (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 30 Oct 1918 - Ebensburg, Cambria Co, PA 6

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Francis McKenrick

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When a boy of sixteen he had learned the carpenter's trade, the technique of farming as applied to a rock-imbedded soil and the arts of trapping and hunting which were the chief diversion. No industrial phase beyond sawmills had stirred the rural calm. His early educational advantages were limited to the short sessions at Raccoon School House with very brief courses at the Shippensburg Institute. Coming to Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, in 1865, at a time when the lumber industry on the West Branch was thriving, he pursued his trade or whatever offered in summertime and through assiduous night study prepared himself for school teaching in winter. He had the ability and the confidence to undertake many of the smaller construction jobs then available and was the architect and builder of numerous barns, schoolhouses and rural churches in the county. Occasionally opportunity offered the thrill of a log drive down the West Branch with the spring floods. Always there was some definite job in sight and a vision of something greater beyond it.
In 1869 he entered Eastman College at Poughkeepsie, New York, for a special course in business training and ornamental penmanship. In 1869 he entered Eastman College at Poughkeepsie, New York, for a special course in business training and ornamental penmanship.
The first two years of his married life were spent at Curwensville. Being appointed principal of the Primary Department of the Leonard Graded School at Clearfield about 1873, they moved to the county seat where he continued teaching for about five years and, meanwhile, registered as a law student in the office of Honorable William A. Wallace, then United States Senator. He was admitted to practice at the Clearfield Bar in 1878. The following year he became a candidate for District Attorney. With a growing family and wholly dependent upon his own resources, he undertook to canvass the county for votes and managed to cover the remotest rural sections on foot. He gained the election, with reelection for a second term, making six years service in that office. During his incumbency he conducted a number of notable criminal trials, reaching in certain cases the Supreme Court of the state. He retired to a general civil and criminal practice in 1886 and did not thereafter seek political office. It was in the year 1892, when the neighboring county of Cambria seemed to present a broader prospect through its exceptional industrial activity and growth in population at that period, that Mr. McKenrick opened an office on Centre Street, Ebensburg, one which had formerly been occupied by Judge A. V. Barker. He brought his family there the following year and cast his lot in a new, and an eminently fair field. His practice was of an active and varied character, frequently leading to trials on behalf of individual clients but rarely to representation of large corporate and financial interests. He was expert in criminal, land, probate and municipal law, representing a number of the boroughs of the County.
In politics he was a Democrat and in religion a devout Roman Catholic. At the time of his death he was a master fourth degree of the Knights of Columbus.

1 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 11, 79.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 660.

3 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 74.

4 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 79.

5 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 11.

6 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 12.