Hon. Patrick Farrelly and Martha Wright Alden

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Husband Hon. Patrick Farrelly ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1770 - Ireland
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           Died: 12 Feb 1826 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

       Marriage: 25 Mar 1819 3

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Mead (1786-1811) 1 4 - Jun 1806 3

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Wife Martha Wright Alden ³

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         Father: Rev. Timothy Alden (      -      ) 3
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M Patrick Farrelly ³

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           Died: 1852 3
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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Patrick Farrelly

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He was a native of Ireland, where he was also educated. Coming to America in 1798, he began his law studies at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1802 removed to Meadville, and was admitted to practice July 11, 1803. On the 15th of July, 1805, he was appointed as Register and Recorder of Craw-ford County, and on the 22d of August following, Clerk of the Orphans' Court. After serving as Major of militia in the war of 1812-15, and serving one term in the Legislature, to which he was chosen in 1811, he, in 1820, was elected to Congress, and re-elected twice in succession, dying at Pittsburgh, while on his way to Washington, D. C., aged fifty-six years. He was interred in the Catholic cemetery at Pittsburgh, in which faith he lived and died. After settling at Meadville he gradually built up a large law practice in Crawford and surrounding counties, without doubt the largest of any lawyer in that portion of the commonwealth. There was, perhaps, no man in northwestern Pennsylvania, at the time of his death, who wielded a more powerful influence in the political affairs of the State than Hon. Patrick Farrelly. Possessing a brilliant mind, a fine, classical education, and high legal abilities, and being a clear, graceful, fluent writer, and a good, forcible speaker, having always at his tongue's end an abundance of Irish wit, he was regarded, during his congressional career, as one of the leading members of the United States House of Representatives.

1 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 173, 304.

2 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 201.

3 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 304.

4 Spencer P. Mead, History and Genealogy of the Mead Family (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901), Pg 306.