James Verner and Ann Murry

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Husband James Verner ^{1 2}

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           Born: 30 Aug 1818 - Monongahela, Washington Co, PA 2
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         Father: James Verner (Abt 1783-1854) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Doyle (Abt 1785-Abt 1856) 2

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Wife Ann Murry ¹

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            AKA: Anna Murry
           Born: Abt 1824
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         Father: Gen. James Murry (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Priscilla Schaeffer (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Priscilla Verner ³

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         Spouse: Charles C. Scaife (      -      ) 3

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2 F Amelia Verner ³

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         Spouse: Arthur Malcom (      -      ) 3

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3 M James K. Verner ³

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4 M Murry Verner ³

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5 M M. Scott Verner ³

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General Notes: Husband - James Verner

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He lived nearly all his life in the Fourth ward of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended a private school kept by John Kelly in Allegheny, and Allegheny College, Meadville. He married and they settled on a farm of four hundred acres at the site which became the borough of Verona, which was first called Verner's Station. Mr. Verner cleared and fenced the farm and added to it. After the completion of the Allegheny Valley railroad he formed a company to lay out a village, which later constituted the First ward of Verona borough, and secured the location of the A. V. R. R. shops there. Returning to Pittsburgh, he became a partner in the brewing firm of George W. Smith & Co., in which he continued several years. He then became interested in and operated the Excelsior Omnibus company, which transferred passengers and baggage from the Pennsylvania railroad to the Ft. Wayne railroad. Selling out this, he applied for and obtained a charter for the Citizens' Passenger Railway company, which was put in operation in 1859, the first street railway operated west of the Alleghany mountains. This road was later consolidated with the Transverse road in the Citizens' Traction railway. Mr. Verner afterward organized the Pittsburgh Forge and Iron company, of which he was for four years its president, and a director much longer. He served several years as member of council from the Fourth ward, and was a whig and republican. He was noted for his love of field sports, and had the reputation of being the oldest "wingshot" in western Pennsylvania. He was one of the first to interest himself and others in the improvement in the breeding of hunting-dogs, and was one of the organizers of the Sportmen's Association of Western Pennsylvania, an association organized for the protection of game and fish, and which came to number over three hundred membership of the best citizens. Many years before he had purchased the ground, organized a company and laid out what came to comprise the larger portion of the Ninth ward, Allegheny; the railroad station was then called Verner's Station, on the P., Ft. W. & C. R. R. He attended the M. E. Church, in which his mother was an active member.

He and his wife had five sons and five daughters.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 618.

2 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 272.

3 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 273.