Husband Hon. John Hoge Ewing 1 2 3
AKA: Maj. John Hoge Ewing 3 4
Born: 5 Oct 1796 - Fayette Co, PA 1 2 3
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Died: 9 Jun 1887 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 5
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Father: William Porter Ewing (1769-1827) 1 2 6 7 8
Mother: Nancy Conwell (1774- ) 1 7 9 10
Marriage: 12 Aug 1845 5
Other Spouse: Ellen Blaine ( -1840) 2 4 11 - 2 Nov 1820 5
Wife Margaret C. Brown 5
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Father: Richard Brown ( - ) 5
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1 F Clara Bascom Ewing 5 11
Born: 20 Jun 1846 11
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Died: Abt 1856
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 F Florence Bell Ewing 11 12
Born: 25 May 1858 11
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General Notes: Husband - Hon. John Hoge Ewing
He went to Washington College in 1810, and made his home with Hon. John Hoge, after whom he was named. Mr. Hoge and Mr. Ewing's father had been surveyors together in early days, and under Col. Thomas Stokely laid out large tracts of land, of the purchase of 1784, north and west of the Allegheny river. Mr. Ewing graduated at Washington College in 1814, read law in the office of Hon. Thomas McGiffin; was admitted to the bar in 1818, and for a year or two was partner with his preceptor. Later, he and his father, William P. Ewing, obtained a contract to construct the road-bed of the National road from Brownsville to Hillsborough, which contract was completed in 1820. Mr. Ewing never went back to the bar. He purchased the tract known as the "Meadow Lands," three miles north of Washington, Pennsylvania, where he lived until 1840, in which year he removed to the borough of Washington, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying at the patriarchal age of ninety-one years.
In 1835-36 Mr. Ewing represented Washington County, Pennsylvania, in the state House of Representatives in Harrisburg; for four years (1838-42) he was State senator; for two sessions (1844-45 and 1845-46) he rep-resented the old District of Washington and Beaver counties in Congress. In 1831 he was associated with Hon. Thomas H. Baird in the construction of a railway up the Chartiers Valley, but the people not being ready to support the undertaking, it was abandoned, to be renewed thirty years later, at which time the road-bed was partly graded, and in 1869 the road was successfully completed. The final success is to be attributed chiefly to Mr. Ewing's efforts and personal sacrifices. After declining a renomination to Congress, in 1846, Mr. Ewing did not again enter public life, but devoted his time mainly to his private business, which was quite extensive, as he was the owner of a large amount of property in both this county and in West Virginia. He was especially interested in the educational institutions of the county; from 1834 he was a member of the board of trustees of Washington (now Washington and Jefferson) College, and for many years he was a member of the board of trustees of Washington Female Seminary. In 1852 he was appointed a trustee of the First Presbyterian congregation of Washington, of which he was a prominent member. In old Colonial times, by the authority of law, "Peacemakers" were regularly appointed to compose the differ-ences of litigants and settle disputes without having recourse to law, and perhaps no other individual so often and so successfully intervened between parties in legal contests, and brought about satisfactorily a compromise of their controversies, as Mr. Ewing. [CBRWC, 47]
General Notes: Wife - Margaret C. Brown
After the death of her parents in her childhood, she was brought up and educated by her uncle, Bishop H. B. Bascom, of the Methodist Episcopal Church.