William Backhouse Negley and Joanna Bruce

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Husband William Backhouse Negley ^{1 2}

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           Born: 5 Jun 1828 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 16 Jan 1894 2
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         Father: Daniel Negley (1802-1867) 1 2
         Mother: Jane Backhouse (      -1834) 1 2

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       Marriage: 17 May 1853 3

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Wife Joanna Bruce ³

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         Father: Rev. Robert Bruce, D.D. (      -      ) 3
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General Notes: Husband - William Backhouse Negley

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He was educated in western Pennsylvania, read law with Hon. Thomas Mellon, and graduated from the law college of Princeton University, with the degree of LL. B., in June, 1849, and following November he was admitted to the bar. From 1851 to 1855 he was a member of the law firm of Mellon & Negley, and from 1857 to 1886 was associated with D. D. Bruce, as junior of Bruce & Negley. At the outbreak of the civil war he was appointed chief of staff of Gen. James S. Negley, with rank of major, and served in that capacity during the service of that general with the Army of the Potomac. In 1864 he was a delegate to the national republican convention at Baltimore. He was elected to the lower branch of the city councils in 1870, and served in that body twelve years, being its president half the time. In 1875 he was appointed trustee in bankruptcy, without bonds, of the famous "Nation Trust Co. Bank;" became a director in the Western Theological Seminary in 1883, and two years later, in the Citizens' National Bank. Since May, 1884, he has been president of the Allegheny Bar association. Mr. Negley was one of the founders of the Shadyside Presbyterian Church, in which he was a ruling elder; was a delegate from the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. of A. to the general alliance of the Reformed churches holding the presbyterian form of government, at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1877, and again to a like alliance in London, England, 1888, and was a commissioner to the general assembly in 1883, from the presbytery of Pittsburgh.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 270.

2 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 107.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 271.