Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John Taggart and Margaret Orr




Husband John Taggart 1 2

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         Father: John Taggart (      -1808) 1 2
         Mother: Mary Bell Carnahan (      -      ) 2


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Wife Margaret Orr 2

            AKA: Elizabeth Orr 1
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1 M John Taggart 1

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2 M Maj. Robert Taggart 1 2

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3 M Samuel Taggart 1

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4 F Mary A. Taggart 1 2

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5 M William T. Taggart 1 2

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6 F Elizabeth Taggart 2

            AKA: Lissie Taggart 1
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         Spouse: [Unk] Miller (      -      ) 2


7 F Tillie Taggart 1

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General Notes: Husband - John Taggart


He became a bank clerk in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his mother afterwards joined him. Later in life he became a manufacturer of shoes like his older brother.

His brother, James, was the first to leave their native land and located at Montreal, Canada, where he engaged in the shoe business. He was followed by his widowed mother and the remainder of the family in 1820. They remained a short time in Montreal, then Mrs. Taggart and the two younger sons located at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where John engaged in the shoe manufacturing business with great success. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Associate Reformed Church.


General Notes: Wife - Margaret Orr

from Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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Sources


1 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1195.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 153.


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