James Agnew and Margaret Todd

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Husband James Agnew ¹

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           Born: 9 Dec 1807 - Wigtonshire, Scotland 1
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           Died: Aft 1890
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         Father: John Agnew (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Janet Black (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Alice Leader (      -1868) 1 - 1829 1

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Wife Margaret Todd ¹

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General Notes: Husband - James Agnew

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He was born in Wigtownshire, an agricultural and pastoral county in the southwestern part of Scotland. He was educated in preparatory and academic schools and Glasgow college, from which famous institution of learning he was graduated in 1825. Soon after graduation he was elected professor of Greek in Bradmore college, London, England, and occupied that chair for four years. He then embarked in the mercantile business at Linlithgow, a prosperous manufacturing town sixteen miles west of Edinburg, an old royal city. While in business there he was seized with asthma with which he was afflicted the rest of his life and was compelled to remove to the country, where he was engaged in farming for a few years. Not liking the Scotch method of farming then in use in the district where he resided, he concluded to come to America and in 1843 arrived in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he located near Grapeville on a farm. This home farm consisted of two hundred and twenty-six acres of land in the Grapeville Natural Gas district and was underlaid with a heavy vein of coal. To this farm he has added many more acres by purchase.
In political opinion he was a democrat from principle but always kept clear of politics. He was a member of the Presbyterian church for over sixty years. He was a great reader and close student ever after leaving college and was well informed in literature, the sciences and the arts. He was six feet in height, of fine personal appearance and still well preserved in his older years.

The source states that he had three sons and four daughters, but lists only two sons.

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Todd

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She was the daughter of a Glasgow [Scotland?] merchant.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 650.