Mary Pattison Semple

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Wife Mary Pattison Semple ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Allegheny, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: Alexander Semple (      -1861) 1 2
         Mother: Eliza Irwin (      -      ) 1 3 4

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Pattison Semple

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After her father's death in 1861 she went abroad. After sojourning in Italy one year she returned, and for four years, until the death of her mother, they lived in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. She then left the large circle of relatives and removed to Boston, Massachusetts, where musical advantages (meagre at the time in Pittsburgh), and more especially the liberal faith of Unitarianism were the magnets. James Freeman Clarke found her an eager listener for ten years, when she again crossed the seas. Many years of travel and change brought her back to her home city, where she was satisfied with the faith which she loved and the music she delighted in. Surrounded by many friends of the past who, as the years traveled on, became more and more necessary, she led a happy, useful life, content with simple pleasures and doing good as occasion offered.

She was a member of the Society of Colonial Dames.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 410.

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

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 344.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1578.