William Allen McDonald and Susan B. McGovern

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Husband William Allen McDonald ¹

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           Born: 5 Jun 1860 2
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         Father: Allen McDonald (1828-1887) 2
         Mother: Sarah Murphy (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 1881 2

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Wife Susan B. McGovern ¹

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           Died: Aft 1898
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   Other Spouse: John Pentz (1841-Aft 1898) 3 - 24 Oct 1893 1

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Children

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1 M Joseph Francis McDonald ²

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           Born: 1882 2
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General Notes: Husband - William Allen McDonald

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He was educated in the public schools of Penn township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and the knowledge that he acquired there was greatly supplemented by extensive travel in later years. In 1879 he embarked in mercantile business in Grampian, associating with him E. F. Spencer, of that place. After continuing business for five years the firm was dissolved, after which time Mr. McDonald was in business alone, having one of the finest general mercantile stores in the place.
When quite young he accompanied his father on a trip through the coal regions of Lackawanna and Carbon counties, Pennsylvania, and in 1876 he visited the Centennial in Philadelphia. About twelve years ago, along with Cyrus Wood, Lewis Wood and L. C. Moore, he went to Florida, where he remained one month, visiting all the principal places of interest. Two years later he traveled extensively over central and southern California, visiting Los Angeles, Santiago, San Francisco, as well as many smaller towns, and five winters were spent in Arkansas, Missouri, Indian Territory and Texas. He also visited Old Mexico, crossing the Rio Grande at El Paso to Ju Rose; from there went to Galveston, Houston and New Orleans, where they took a boat down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, across the Gulf to Cedar Keys, Florida, and Jacksonville, and came home by the coast line, sojourning at Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia. This trip covered over eight thousand miles. He visited all the principal cities of the Union with the exception of Boston; saw Niagara Falls, Watkins Glen, the Mammoth Cave and Crystal Mountains, at Arkansas Hot Springs, and also took voyages on the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Great Lakes. He visited Canada, and the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, accompanied by Cyrus Wood and son, of Clearfield.

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General Notes: Wife - Susan B. McGovern

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from Jordan Twp, Clearfield Co, PA

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 564, 948.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 564.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 947, 983, 1657.