Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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James Robinson Daugherty and Mary Ann Hart




Husband James Robinson Daugherty 1 2 3

           Born: 16 Nov 1813 - Westmoreland Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Oct 1893 - Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 3
         Buried: 


         Father: Hugh Daugherty (1770-1847) 2 3 4
         Mother: Mary Blaney (1775-1854) 3 4


       Marriage: 1839 2



Wife Mary Ann Hart 1 2 3

           Born: 5 May 1820 or 1822 5 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 Sep 1897 - Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 6
         Buried: 


         Father: William Hart (1791-1854) 5 6 7
         Mother: Elizabeth White (      -Bef 1880) 6 7




Children
1 M Robert Johnston Daugherty 5 6

            AKA: Robert Johnson Daugherty 8
           Born: 15 Mar 1840 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 5 May 1862 6
         Buried: 



2 F Mary Eliza Daugherty 6

           Born: 5 Sep 1842 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 4 Oct 1849 6
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


3 M William Sterrett Daugherty 2 6 8

            AKA: William S. Dougherty 9
           Born: 22 Jan 1846 - Saltsburg, Indiana Co, PA 2 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Sep 1934 6
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Martha V. Sansom (      -      ) 5 8 9
           Marr: 19 Sep 1876 5


4 F Martha Jane Daugherty 10 11 12

           Born: 17 Jan 1849 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Oct 1931 6
         Buried: 
         Spouse: John P. St. Clair (1848-Aft 1918) 6 10 12 13 14
           Marr: 4 Jan 1872 15


5 M James Robinson Daugherty 5 6

           Born: 24 Aug 1851 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Oct 1938 6
         Buried: 



6 M Frank Hart Daugherty 5 6 8

           Born: 10 Sep 1855 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 7 Jun 1938 6
         Buried: 



7 F Anna Mary "Annie" Daugherty 5 6 8

           Born: 3 May 1858 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Dec 1882 6
         Buried: 
         Spouse: D. Blair Taylor (      -      ) 6


8 M John Martin Daugherty 5 6 8

           Born: 14 Dec 1860 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



9 M Harry H. Daugherty 6

           Born: 29 Apr 1864 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 22 Aug 1865 6
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


10 M Silas Clark Daugherty 3 5 8

           Born: 27 May 1867 - Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Annetta Bunting (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 11 Aug 1892 6



General Notes: Husband - James Robinson Daugherty


He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and there spent his youth until he reached the age of fourteen years. He then came to what is now Saltsburg, Indiana County, to work on the old Pennsylvania canal. In 1863 he was elected sheriff of Indiana County and removed to Indiana, where he ever afterward made his home. After serving one term in that office, in 1866, he became a member of the firm of Coleman, Ewing & Co., in the planing mill business, withdrawing from that association in 1872, when he entered on his second term of service as sheriff. At the end of that term (three years) he purchased the planing mill of which he had formerly been part owner, carrying on the business until he sold it to his son William S. Daugherty, in 1889. Mr. Daugherty was one of the foremost citizens of Indiana county in his day. He held many important borough offices, and was one of the original trustees of the Indiana State normal school, serving for many years, until his death. In politics he was a Republican, in religion a member of the Presbyterian Church.

As a young man he learned the carpenter's trade in association with William Hart, who became his father-in-law. He not only built canal boats, but also erected several wooden bridges spanning streams close to Saltsburg, particularly the famous old wooden structure across the Kiskiminetas, which was burned many years later. He was burgess of the Borough of Saltsburg in 1845, 1848 and 1861, and in 1863 was elected sheriff of Indiana County, so serving for three years. He served a second term as sheriff beginning in 1872. He was elected a trustee of the Indiana Normal School, later known as the Teachers' College, on May 17, 1875, so serving for the rest of his life. After his first term as sheriff, he bought the old Coleman and Ewing Planing Mill and Lumber Yard, continuing that business until it was taken over by his son, William S. Daugherty, and his grandson, Hart Daugherty, who carried it on into the 1930s.

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Sources


1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 343, 393.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 829.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 570.

4 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 388, 390.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 830.

6 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 571.

7 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 393.

8 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 343.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 629.

10 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 343, 517.

11 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 621, 830.

12 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 157.

13 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 619, 830.

14 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 264.

15 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 621.


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