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PR EFACE.

A cknowledgment is gratefully rendered to M rs . O li veretta A O . Wharton , Dr . J oseph . Phillips and others of the family for assistance rendered in the preparation of this volume . The brief statement concerning the M ahon family is based , largely , on a more extended account written a number of years ago , loaned to the author by David W . M ahon ,

c Esq . , of Washington , D . C . The fa ts given in Mc Allister regard to the family have , as their main

A . authority , old family letters loaned by F . M itchel ,

J . Esq . , of East Orange , N . , corroborated by informa

A . tion furnished by Dr. Francis H . Orme , of tlanta , Ga

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B H on T M H OMAS EL LO N. y the .

S no portrait of J ohn Ormsby of is i u A in ex stence , the following graphic pen pict re I S of him will be appreciated . I t contributed by the H on . Thomas M ellon of ex judge of the court of common pleas of Allegheny county : I n reply to your no t e requesting my reminiscences a of your great great gr ndfather , J ohn Ormsby , I regret to say that I had no personal acquaintance with him as he died several years before I came to Pitts burgh , yet I have been in a position to hear so much about him from a reliable source that I feel con strained to give you such information as I have . -in- A M y informant was my mother law , M rs . nna W inebi ddl e. . née B N egley , She spent the last years l of her life in my family and delighted , as m ost c ear headed old people do , in telling about events and neighbors and friends of her youth . The Ormsby family were her neighbors and intimate friends when ‘ ’ she was in her teens , as she related , and according to her narrative J ohn Ormsby . the head of the family , was quite a character. H e was among the leading men of the town and was looked up to with defer ence , but was rather too aristocratic to be a favorite 8 A 5507! A rm a ni of Me

with the rough and ready inhabitants of the frontier .

The town was of small dimensions then , as she de i t A ll and scribed . east of Wood street north of roth street would have been assessed as rural and agricultural if the present law of taxation had been in force then . ecu li ariti es I I n regard to M r . Ormsby and his p have heard her describe them so often that I can almost fan cy I see him : a fi ne- looking man of medium size with a military air , rather haughty of manner but ex c eedingly kind and obliging to his neighbors and ‘ ’ friends . H e was always addressed as Colonel , not out of mere courtesy but be c ause he had held that office in the British army prior to the Revolutionary war. H e was regarded as a high - toned gentleman of the old school even then , about the beginning of the A s present century . a military man he was very par ’ tic u l ar about his dress , whether in citizen s clothes or with any of the insignia of his profession about him . H is military taste appeared in the fashion of his hat and other w ise when he appeared in full dress at parades or on other public occasions. H e would then have his dress sword in his belt and was noted for his immaculate breast and sleeve ruffles and the bright ness of his shoe and knee bu c kles ; but excepting elegance in quality and texture there was nothing peculiar about this for such was the fashion of dress at that time among those who were able to afford it and wished to be regarded as gentlemen , and even the dress sword at his side was not regarded as for display . The fighting spirit was then still in the ascendant and it was well understood that M r. Ormsby was quite willing and ready to meet an antagonist with a similar c h er weapon if oc asion required it , but according to account of him he was too much of a gentleman to ' b F a m zly of Or ms y . 9 give an insult and his opponents in politics or other ‘ ’ c wise had too much respe t for Sweet Lips , as they w called his s ord , to provoke a quarrel . i Wh lst he lived in town , his landed interests here o n lay mainly the of the M onongahela .

H e had several plantations over there , comprising between two thousand and three thousand acres , lying between the south end of the present S mith fiel d u street bridge and Six M ile ferry , and extending so th ward over the hills , in some places two miles , covering , in part , the whole of the former boroughs of South

Pittsburgh , Birmingham , East Birmingham and w Ormsby , and the greater portion of the to nship of w e Lower St . Clair , and , as know , a good deal of this property yet remains in the possession of his descendants . H e procured a portion of the bottom * land to be cleared and cultivated as his landed estate , and was regarded at the same time as a large land owner east of the mountains , on the J uniata . ! H e considered landed possessions essential to the position of a gentleman , as was then , and still is, the sentiment of the English aristocracy . Such was the way he appeared to one who saw him frequently at home and in public and fully knew the estimation in which he was held by his fellow citizens ; for , in a town of i m ts . ro i moderate size , such as Pittsburgh then was , p nent citizens are always well known to one another .

Homestead Farm . 11m 1ted 1 Originally to the farm of three hundred acres near Bedford , where he lived i m m e d 1a tel y after his marriage , but later comprehending many h u ndred acres ; one recorded transfer alone being for twelve hundred acres . e s The Ormsby tates were largely augmented in the time of Oliver Ormsby , who M V E owned , besides , large tracts in Beaver , ercer , enango , Crawford and rie C 1n c i n na ti i counties , ; in the towns of , Ch llicothe and Hamilton , G Y C i r c l e s v 1l l Ohio ; in reene county near ellow Springs , Ohio , and between e and M Columbus , same state ; in Lawrenceburg and near adison , Indiana ; and about fi - fteen hundred acres nearly opposite Big Bone lick in Indiana , twenty two miles by land from Cincinnati .

O RMSBY.

n O H N O RM S BY , the origi al of the name to

J settle in western Pennsylvania , was born in I re land in 1 72 0 ; he was the son of Oliver Ormsby by his wife Deborah Barry , daughter of Colonel

Barry . H e came of an ancient and honorable family , the first of the name of whom we have record being ,

Kt. Sir Richard de Ormesby , , who held the lands * of Ormesby in the county of Lincolnshire , England .

The king gave him , after the Conquest , all the lands he possessed before . H e had son , K t. Sir William de Ormesby , , who had two sons , one of whom was ,

Sir Oswald de Ormesby , Kt who was the founder of the priory of Ormesby in the time of H enry I I , and had son ,

Kt. A na Sir Oswald de Ormesby , , who , by his wife statia had son , a Rich rd de Ormesby , who had son , A nsketill A de Ormesby , who , by his wife gnes

Langton , had son , A William de Ormesby , who , by his wife nne

M eeres, had son .

Kt. A Sir J ohn de Ormesby , , who , by his wife nne , i L amw orth Kt daughter of Sir N cholas of Leake , . , had son ,

* No . Harl . MS , B . M. , 1408 . 1 2 A 57207 ! A ccou n t of Me

Roger Ormesby , said to have been third son , who had son ,

Richard Ormesby , who had son , Portow n Robert Ormesby, of , who had son , W illiam Ormesby , who had son ,

J ohn Ormesby , who , by his wife H eron , had son ,

William Ormesby , second son who had son , i n Philip Ormesby , of Portney , Lincolnshire , who had son ,

Thomas Ormesby , a younger son , who came over to I reland early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . H e was living in the year 1 569 . H e married a daughter c of H enry M alby , son of Sir N icholas M alby , hief commander of the English forces in Connaught in the * time of Queen Elizabeth .

H is eldest son , Edmond Ormesby purchased the lands of Clou h an m o nieg in co . Sligo in the reign of J ames I . H is third son by his first wife , Susanna Kelke , was, Es M alby Ormsby of Cloghan , co . M ayo , q , who ’ O N a h ten married Rose g , and was succeeded by his eldest son ,

J ohn Ormsby of Cloghan , co . M ayo , Esq . , who married Winifred J ordan , and was succeeded by his eldest son ,

Robert Ormsby of Cloghan , co . M ayo , Esq . Will 6 1 00 . dated December , 7 ; proved same year H e married M ary , daughter of Robert Blakeney . The extensive estates of Cloghan , situated near N ewton , c Gore and Ballina , by whi h this branch of the family is designated , descended to the eldest son , J ohn , and

* “ I n E n tsth . The nglish i Ireland in the Century (p the author , James Anthony r u d e i n F o , speaking of the condition of Ireland subsequent to the Desmond rebellion , “ : N M S ays Connaught, after a severe discipline from Sir icholas alby , was over x awed into outward quiet by a garrison at Athlone . For more e tended reference ’ - f . ! I . ! ! . 2 1 6 see the same author s History o England , vol , chap V II , pp 2 70 . a mi m o 1 F ly of Or s y .

on his death to his son , H enry , through whom they c A des ended to his daughter and heiress , lice M ary , wife of Edmund H enry Pery , Earl of Limerick ,

Viscount Limerick , and Baron Glentworth in the Peerage of I reland ; Baron Fox ford of Stac kpole

Court , co . Clare , in the Peerage of the United King dom . Of the other issue of Robert Ormsby ,

Oliver Ormsby was the third son , according to the * published pedigree , or the fourth and youngest son , on the authority of personal memoranda left by J ohn

Ormsby of Pittsburgh , and still in the possession of his family . H e married Deborah , daughter of Colonel “ Barry , descended from a junior branch of Lord

Barrymore , who lost his leg in the wars in Flanders , m and had son J ohn Ormsby of who we write . w as n J ohn Ormsby educated at Tri ity college ,

Dublin , as were many others of the name . H e came to A merica in 1 752 as we learn from a letter which

- he wrote to Sir William J ohnson , colonel , agent and sole superintendent of the affairs of the Six ” 2 N ations and other northern I ndians , dated 3 Sep “ 1 6 : tember, 7 4, in which he says I have often wished ,

Sir , for an Opportunity of being known to you but unhappily have not had that pleasure , though very intimate with several of your Relations , particularly that glorious H ero , the late Sir Peter Warren , and I n M . a your sister Reily in the county of M eath y , ’ 2 1 tool : m l ea ve o fi e? a nd Aer l ovel l i t tl e (l a u /z 5 , y f y g i er P oll a t Tr i m f! c y . M rs . Reily was a i ted with ” L Dr o sie m ore a p so am afraid she is no . i From a partial autobiography , written in a very clerkly a hand during the l tter years of his life , we find that he

* t e i Or m s b n Pedigree of h Fam ly of formerly of Ormsby in Lincol shire , now of

. i . . l . . : M 1 0 Ireland Com led by J F Ful er , S A London itchell Hughes , 4 War dour street Vk 1 886. , ’ S i r N w 1 . i i i . e Y . ! I 2 8 W ll am Johnson s Papers , ork State library , vol , p 1 4 A S lzor t A ccou n t of t/ce

1 was teaching school in in 753 when , t as he s ates , the young people came to my Seminary ” in numbers so that I had uncommon success ; in 1 t 754 he aught in Lancaster and York , Pa and A V a lexandria , ; he had seen previous service in the ’ Bri tish army and was offered a captain s commission ’ in t he colonial contingent of Genera l Braddock s army in 1 755 but was prevented from accepting by an attack of malaria! fever which lasted nearly three years ; in 1 758 he j oined the expedition agai nst Fort

Duquesne under General Forbes , as commissary of i prov sions , his strength not permitting of his accept i ng a more active commission as offered him by —6 1 be1n 1n . 1 0 several states I n 759 , Gene al Stanwix g c m ommand at , he was co missary of provis ions and paymaster for the erect i on of the new fort which is said to have cost the British crown sterling ; later embarked in the I n dian trade and t c sustained severe losses at his stores a Salt Li ks , Gich a a 00 g and Fort Pitt amounting to over g3 . 5 currency of Penna , through the depredations of the ’ 1 I ndians during Pontiac s war in when , besides being plundered of his horses and goods and his t property des royed , those in his employ were mur dered and he himself compelled to seek shel t er in

Fort Pitt which he assisted to defend , the I ndians endeavoring for nearly three months to effect off i ts reduction by cutting the supplies , at the same time keeping up a continual firing and harassing of ” t a “ the garrison , un il , fin lly , the Copper Gentry , as

J ohn Ormsby terms them , succeeded so well in their “ “ t s endeavors hat , as he relate , there was not a pound of good ! our or meat to serve the garrison and a num

* c k nr i d Ga z ette P u b l i c ati ons b H . H . B r a e ge ’ rS ee Wi l of o o 5 his letter to Sir liam Johnson and bi lp l sses, Sir William Johns n

I . 1 . Papers , New York State library , vol . ! , p 2 8 s q r ms o F a mi ly of O y .

ber of the inhabitants who joined me to do duty , which desperate situation was happily relieved by the arrival of the English troops under Colonel Boquet , with a large quantity of provisions and munitions of A s war. indemnity for their losses , the chiefs of the r Six N ations , at the t eaty of Fort Stanwix , 3 N ovem 1 68 - ber, 7 , made over to twenty two gentlemen , one of whom was J ohn Ormsby , a large tract of land bor i dering on the Ohio r ver above the Little Kanawha , comp1 isi ng about one fourth of the present state of

West Virginia , to which grant the traders gave the * name of I ndiana ; but owing to the disaffection of c ol o ni es the , which culminated in the Revolutionary

1 . war , the grant was neve confirmed by the king I ii 1 6 Mc Alli ster J uly , 7 4, J ohn Ormsby married J ane , Pittsbm h 1 1 1 fi ne 1 . b . 74 7, d g , 3 une , 799; of old Scotch f stock , prominent in colonial af airs and active patriots during the Revolutionary war. She was daughter A McA ll ister of rchibald , who emigrated from Scot A 1 2 land to merica in 73 and settled at Big Spring, “

P a . Cumberland county , , by his dearly and well " c A beloved wife J ean . 1 The other hildren of rchi McAlli ster : bald were J ohn , of M iddleton township , c P a Cumberland ounty , . ; quartermaster in the Revo M A li l u ti o nar . c l ster y war Richard , proprietor of P a c u niata . ville , J county , , whi h he laid out i colonel in the Revolutionary war . David , of Cumberland county , Pa . J ames , of M artinsburg , Berkeley county ,

V a . , later of Springfield , H ampshire county , Va . A c rchibald ; aptain in the Revolutionary war . Daniel , who lived on his farm about two miles from Carlisle , Mc Kni h t Pa . M ary , who married J ohn g , of M id dl eto n Pa township , Cumberland county , , who took part in the French and I ndian war, and was an

c c . A w early justi e of Cumberland ounty ! ndre ,

o See riginal deed in the western room of the old State House , Philadelphia . ‘ ' Mc A l l i ter . 2 1 s s . m See will of Archibald , Will Book B , p q , Register s O oe , Cum 1 6 A S /z or t A ccozcnt of Me who lived on his farm adj oining that of Daniel McA l lister A . fter his marriage J ohn Ormsby P a . opened a trading store at Bedford , , and lived there on his farm of three hundred acres until 1 0 77 , when he returned to Pittsburgh with his fam ily , where he had retained his landed and other interests ; was a firm adherent of the government of P ennsyl vania , although Lord Dunmore , the governor of Vir ginia , when he visited Pittsburgh , stopped with J oh n * e Ormsby and ndeavored , all to no purpose , to interest him in schemes to establish the claims of Virginia to o s uthwestern Pennsylvania ; but failing to do so , c o nse found a ready tool in Dr . Connolly , and in “ u ence q , as J ohn Ormsby relates , my Lord made him a deed of gift of acres of land at the Falls of the

Ohio , and more to M r . J ohn Campbell , late of Ken ” c tu ky , who was also supposed to be a party to these 0 schemes , which comprehended murdering those p posed to their purpose . J ohn Ormsby appears as a signer of a memorial to Governor J ohn Penn , dated 1 1 Pittsburgh , 4 J une , 774, asking for better protection I ndians ' against the gl and of another mem orial , dated 2 1 Pittsburgh , 5 J une , 774, in regard to the tyrannical proceedings of Dr . Connolly ; 1 during the Revolution ary war, was a stanch Whig and was one of the seven members of A ugusta county (V a ) standing commit tee o f correspondence appointed at a meeting held in 1 6 1 Pittsburgh , M ay , 775, only four weeks after the battle of Lexington , at which strong Whig resolu tions were passed . ! This bold stand was taken by the inhabitants of this section of country in spite of the fact that they were involved in hostilities with the

I ndians , and were almost on the verge of civil war

' ’ N See the latter s account of Dr . Connolly s plot, The Olden Time , by eville B . — Cra , vol . II , pp 93 4. ig \i . . . . 0 . t istory of estern Pennsylvania , by I D Rupp , app p 3 5 — er 1 s v l . c h i ol x merican rchives, Fourth S e o I , p . 83 4; Penna . A r v es , v . I V , p . 52 6. A A , — A i v o Ii . 6 12 merican Archives , Fourth Ser es, , pp 5; History of Augusta - . 206 8. County by J . Lewis Peyton , pp

1 8 A S nor t A ccou n t of tne ing the height of the excise excitement ; during the

- latter years of his life retired from active business , devoting his attention to his estates , which , in the u c vicinity of Pittsb rgh , omprehended surveys called ! in the original patents , Barry H all , Bergen op oom , ’ Ormsby s Villa, M ount Oliver and many other exten c 1 1 80 sive tra ts ; died 9 December, 5, at the town of house his son , Oliver Ormsby , corner of Water street and Chancery lane , Pittsburgh , with whom he had resided for some time prior to his decease , having given up his own establishment after the death of his wife . H e lies buried with his wife and others of the u c family in Trinity ch r hyard . Their epitaphs , fast becoming undecipherable , are given thus in Penna .

a 1 880 . . 1 . 1 2 : M ag , vol I V , no , p 4 I n memory of J ane Ormsby late wife of J ohn Ormsby who departed this 1 A 1 2 life the 3th day of J une . D . 799 , aged 5 years .

M rs . Ormsby was a virtuous wife , a fond a mother , nd an agreeable and f a fectionate neighbor, whose loss is greatly lamented by her family and friends .

h A 1 i t . 80 On the 9 day of December , D . 5 t a 8 he remains of the venerable J ohn Ormsby , ged 5

years , was interred agreeably to his desire with the ashes of his W beloved ife .

M r. Ormsby may truly be styled the Patriarch of the Western Ormsbys ; he migrated to Fort Du Qu esne about the time the British took possession of it ; at s which time he was Commissary of Provision , and Paymaster of Disbursements for the erection of Fort Pitt ; subsequently he entered largely into the I ndian

’ Y 1 G . . Allegheny County s Hundred ears , by eorge H Thurston , p 3 . F mi o Or ms é 1 a ly f y . 9 trade ; and in the year 1 763 was plundered of all his t proper y , his people murdered , and himself shut up in

Fort Pitt during the Siege . O r m sb w as c th e M r . y a large sto kholder in I ndian (a) c Grant , whi h would have remunerated him for all his losses by the I ndians , had not the Revolution c w c \V h i taken pla e ; not ithstanding , he was a Staun h g and gloried in o u r I ndependence . I ssue :

1 . J ohn Ormsby , J unr. 2 111 . Oliver Ormsby , . Sarah M ahon .

3 . J ane Ormsby , m . Doctor N athaniel Bedford . m u n . 4. J oseph Blakeney Ormsby ,

5. Sidney Ormsby , m . I saac Gregg .

O RM S BY .

1 Pa . J ohn Ormsby , J unior b . Bedford , , 6 B rack enrid e i n 1 A 1 . . . 7 5; d . ugust , 795 J udge H H g , “ n c his I ncidents of the Wester I nsurre tion , relates

that , as he and others were riding to General ’ N eville s house , which they wished to dissuade the

insurgents assembled there from burning , they met

Col . Pressly N eville , M ajor Lenox (the marshal) and young J ohn O 1 msby all armed and 0 11 h 01 se a dd1 ess in back and g himself to the young man , with 011 fr ie11 dsh i s whose family he was terms of p , said , “ ‘ “ “ What ! a rmed Yes said he . You will ” not go with us armed ? You may go as yo u ” l w 1 l . please , said Orm sby , we go armed These three then took a different road from the others and arrived at the house about the time it f was being fired , experiencing great di ficulty after insu r ents a art o f wards in escaping from the g , p y whom S tarted in pursuit of J ohn Ormsby , whose family h were known ad erents of the government , and would 2 0 A S /zor t A ccou n t of t/ce

certainly have killed him had he not been warned in t ime and sought shelter in the old fort at Pittsburgh . 2 - P 2 . . a Oliver Ormsby b Bedford , , 5 1 6 c February , 7 7; d . at his ountry seat , H omestead 2 6 Farm , now in Pittsburgh , South Side , J uly , 1 8 3 2 ; educated with the sons of the family at one c of the H arrison estates in Virginia , as a onsequence of the friendship existing between the heads of the ’ two families ; in continuation of his father s busi

ness , established a line of trading stores as far north as Erie and N iagara and west as Cincinnati ; h i s store i n Pittsburgh furnished large supplies for ’ offi Perry s squadron , and Perry and his associate u cers were freq ently entertained by M r. Ormsby during their stop in Pittsburgh ; owned steam flour O mill in Cincinnati , perated by his agent Daniel c Conner, by the burning of whi h he lost one hun dred thousand dollars ; owned cotton factory and c rope walk at Chilli othe , Ohio ; owned the Brighton

P a . industries at what is now Beaver Falls , , com

prising grist and saw mills , forge and charcoal iron n furnace , operated by his agents , J ames Gle and J ohn Dickey ; was on board of managers M onon

Co . gahela Bridge , and was director of United States Branch Bank at Pittsburgh ; was some t ime member town council of Pittsburgh ; was vestry ' man Trinity Episcopal church when chartered 3 L

1 80 I 8 1 . September, 5, and warden in 9 1 M arried at the residence of Samuel Creigh (who 2 dl married , y, J ane M ahon , sister to M rs . Ormsby) , 1 80 2 in Pittsburgh , 3 September , , to Sarah M ahon , 8 2 . 1 8 1 . 1 . b 7 ; d Pittsburgh , 5 M arch , 5; dau David

. 1 . 1 8 1 M ahon , b 745; d 5 October, 3 ; gentleman

* E . s . History of Pennsylvania by Wm . H . gle , p 343 q '

. 1 0 1 2 1 i S ee . 2 2 i pp , and 3 , B shop Scarborough s Farewell Sermon ; also p 9 , ’ Alleg h en y County s Hundred Years . F a mi l o Or m b 2 1 y f s y .

P a . farmer and slave owner of Shippensburg , , by

1 . 2 his wife Sarah Dougherty , b . 747; d 3 Decem P l 1 8 a . ber , 34; both buried M iddle Spring , , ower A c graveyard . David M ahon was son of r hibald l -V M ahon , whose father removed from ales , their native country , to Nuck , co . Londonderry , I reland , where he married , from whence his son came to A merica with the Mc N itt family and married J ane Mc N itt shortly after landing here , and settled on ’ Co nned o u i net the g creek , near H erron s branch ,

co . : Cumberland . , Pa I ssue

/ 1 . . J ane Ormsby , m Robert Graham Ormsby.

2 . A Sarah M ahon Ormsby , m . M ajor sher Phil A lips , U . S . .

3 . Sidney Ormsby , m . J ohn H arding Page .

4. Caroline Ormsby , d . young . E 5. M ary M ahon Ormsby , m . Lieut . lias Phillips ,

A . U . S .

6 . cl . J ohn Ormsby , young. u mm 7. Caroline Ormsby , d . . 8 li v eretta . O . . . Ormsby , m Lieut Col Clifton A Wharton , U . S . .

9 . J osephine Blakeney Ormsby , m . Commandant n Edward M adiso Yard , U . S . N . e” 1 0 ff . . Oliver H arrison Ormsby , m . J ane Eliza H o a

B E D FO RD . P a . 1 6 3 . J ane Ormsby b . Bedford , , 7 9 d .

8 1 0 . . J uly , 79 ; m Doctor N athaniel Bedford , b 2 1 Birmingham , England ; d . Pittsburgh , M arch , 1 8 1 8 ; a surgeon in the British army ; later , about 1 6 7 5, came to Pittsburgh and was first physician in what is now A llegheny county laid out the original w to n of Birmingham , now incorporated in Pitts 1 8 1 1 burgh , South Side , in the fall of and named it 2 2 A S nor t A ccou nt of t/z e

c after his native ity ; the main thoroughfare , Carson

street , being named after a friend of his , an old sea cap * tain li v i n in H e i s bu ried , g Philadelphia . at Pittsburgh ,

S . S . , where his grave is marked by an urn erected by e the Free M asons , of which order he was a promin nt f 1 1 member , being an o ficer in Ohio Lodge N o . 3 , the u Pi tts bu r h ' second reg lar lodge in g f i N o issue .

I deas at the interment of M rs . Bedford , the

wife of Doctor N athaniel Bedford of Pittsburgh , 1 J uly 9 , W o hether the spirit , d th survive Th e o o b dy ; and d th live , I n E of G k the lysium the ree s , O r H eaven of which the Christian speak s I k o not f n w ; but , i there be , S o to or uch imm rtality 1 thee me , ' F n c al l d air shade ; this thi g death , And o of the mere st ping the breath , No t to o i o o being bliv n br ught , I s of o a light matter in the scale th ught , A nd not o of the pr per sub!ect a tear .

Wh of M n o y then such shape ela ch ly here , A nd Chrysta l distillation o f the eye I s it because the form that there doth lie Wa s n f passing pleasi g in her li e , A nd n o ne s o fair and virtuous doth survive ?

F i I no t o air lad es , will say n ne ; N or even with the dead induce comparison B u t this will say Th e o n s ul that a imated that same clay , Wa s Goo wise and d , W x ith every e cellence , endued , That could the s ex ex alt Without a foible or a fault :

’ Uncens u r d and uncensurable ' H er ex i t answerable : F or I o o pure as nn cence and l ve , S h e fel t of the will Jove , With proper fortitude complied ' ' And k u ns tai n d d r o d li e an lily p her head and died .

H aA c NRI D E — ! E P B CAT N H . B GA ETT U L O S : G . 2 8 . I I . , pp 7 9

“! E Co . 1 A . . 0 History of llegheny L H . varts , p 4 ; also Pitts burgh Directory for 1 8 2 6, p . 9 . ’

l y Y Ge . . 1 0 . i A l egh en County s Hundred ears , by orge H Thurston , p 3 1: The despondent mind will doubt at times but where there is hope , there must ” be faith . F a mi o Or ms o 2 ly f y . 3

O RM S BY .

4. J oseph Blakeney Ormsby b . Pitts d 2 1 0 80 . burgh ; . December, 3 Studied for the law . The circumstances of his death are thus related by “ his father : My youngest son J oseph u nfo r tu h ately went upon a trading voyage to N ew Orleans and from thence to J amaica w here he took in a cargo of coffee in a vessel bound for N orfolk in

Virginia , and took a passage for himself in another u ns ea ship bound for the same place . But to my p k a ble sorrow my dear boy was shipwrecked and drowned “ii’ on that coast . H is will gives a touching insight into his character

’ ’ ’ l a m a c/z bel oz rea P a r en l / cl ea r H onor t . y , , Your son has left you by the mandate of him

who governs all it is perhaps for the best , I hope so 81 trust fully that I shall be saved ; my dear Father do not lament the loss of me but let my dear Worthy excellent Sister Brother with their

sweet offspring console you .

M ay I request that my dear Father will grant , will pay attention to the best wishes of his son in Giving J ohn Ormsby Gregg all that Property which e was destin d by you for J oseph Blakeney Ormsby ,

viz . the piece of land on the M onongahela the lot in the Town of Pittsburgh wish also all the advantage I might derive from the sales of this cargo may be extended to you my dear Father

and that you may live to enj oy it . A ny advantages of any kind whatever I might have derived in living that can be transferred I

wish extended to my dear J ohn Ormsby Gregg, but wish he may not dispose of the Property so

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l . 1 . 1 f o v o O fi ce o Co. . Will Bo k , , p 99, Register s Allegheny , Pittsburgh , Pa 2 4 A S nor t Accou n t of th e

a given at any time , but to derive every dvantage from it 81 could wish him an elegant education espec l i al . y in French Spanish I wish all my wearing ,

apparel , books , Flute , Bureau , and in fact everything I am possessed of may be delivered to J ohn Ormsby

t . Gregg , with he following encumbrances , viz Ten 81 Dollars to M r. H enry Woods Twenty Dollars to

H ugh H . Brackenridge which is all the money I owe

unsettled 81 which I wish paid . M B Y R S . J os . B . O N ew Or l ea ns M a ota 1 8 0 y ! , 3 .

Witness to the signing of the above . A ME TON J S H US .

GREGG.

1 5. Sidney Ormsby (J ohn b . Pittsburgh , 774; (1 111 . Pittsburgh ; . I saac Gregg , who , with their son , laid out th e town of Sidneyville in the spring of

1 8 1 2 . , on land originally patented to J ohn Ormsby w I t was named for M rs . Gregg and was after ards * absorbed in Birmingham .

( nt -ii ) O RM S BY . a

2

1 1 80 . . J ane Ormsby (Oliver b . 3 ; d

K 2 0 1 8 . Louisville , y. , J uly , 39 ; m Pittsburgh ,

1 1 8 2 0 . 3 M arch , , by the Rev William Richmond , c re tor Trinity Episcopal church , to Robert Gra

of . ham Ormsby , originally co Sligo , I reland , : later of Louisville , Ky . I ssue

1 . 1 8 H enry Graham Ormsby , b . Louisville ,

1 8 2 2 . 1 8 0 . M ay , ; d Pittsburgh , 3

2 . 2 Sarah M ahon Ormsby , b . Louisville , 9 1 8 2 2 1 8 t February , 4; m . 3 J anuary , 45, o Wil

* o . . . . E Co . . 1 0 History of Allegheny C unty Phila , L H varts , p 4 ; also Pitts burgh Directory for 182 6, p . 9 .

2 6 A S nor t A ccou n t of t/ce

2 1 8 8 1 8 . 5 ; m 7N ovember, 7 , to Eliza Thomas

H irsh , dau . William M . H irsh , of Pittsburgh : by his wife Cornelia Thaw . I ssue

1 Mc Kni h t. . Cornelia H irsh g

2 Mc Kni h t 1 8 1 88 2 . . William g , b . J une , i Mc Kn h t. 3 . Sarah Ormsby g i Mc Kn h t. 4. Eliza g Mc Kni h t 5. Louise g . i 2 Mc Kn h t . 0 5. Charles Phillips g , b J une ,

1 8 . t 54; ed M t . Pleasant mili ary academy ,

Sing Sing, N . Y . 6 Mc Kni h t 1 . H enry g , b . 4 February , 6 1 1 8 2 0 8 . 5 ; d . February , 57 Mc K ni h t 7. J ane Ormsby g . ni 1 8 . McK h t 1 6 A 88 Sarah g , m . pril , 4 to

William M organ Watson , b . Washington , Pa A 1 8 W atso n f , 3 pril , 55; son of J ames p o P a Washingt n , . , by his wife M aria Wood n bridge M orga , sister to Dr . William M c t A . Kennan M organ ; B . Washing on and f 1 J e ferson college 8 75; LL . B . H arvard law school 1 8 78 ; admitted to the bar of Washing P a 2 2 A 1 8 8 ton county , on ugust , 7 , and to P a A t . 1 the bar of llegheny coun y , , on 9

1 8 . : J une , 79 I ssue

1 . Pa Ormsby Watson , b . Swissvale , . , 6 1 888 . J une , 2 a . M ari M organ Watson . A Mc Kni h t 9 . Emmeline ddison g , m . 4

1 8 1 . N ovember, 9 , to the Rev Samuel M ax

well .

1 0 _ Mc Kni h t 2 . Edward g , b . September, 1 86 4; ed . Cheltenham military academy ,

Cheltenham , Pa . Mc K i 1 1 a n h t . 2 A . Thom s Reed g , b ugust , 2 F a m i ly of Ou ms oy . 7

1 866 . ; ed Cheltenham military academy ,

Cheltenham , Pa . Mc Kni h t 1 2 . . Florence g K 2 3 . Oliver Ormsby , b . Louisville , y. , 9

1 8 2 8 . . . N ovember, ; d Vevay , Ind ; m Patriot ,

A . : I nd . , to nna Lemon I ssue

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1 . 1 . Kate Ormsby , b Patriot , I nd d . 9

years old .

2 r . . Robe t Graham Ormsby A 3 . J oseph ugustus Phillips Ormsby .

4. Sarah M ahon Ormsby .

5. J ane Ormsby , d . young .

K 2 4. J ane Ormsby , b . Louisville , y. , Feb m 6 A 1 2 ru ar 1 8 2 . 8 . y, 3 ; pril , 5 , to Dr Wil Mc K ennan liam M organ , b . M organza , near P a 1 1 2 . 8 . Canonsburg, , 9 J anuary , 3 ; d Pitts 1 2 1 8 burgh , M arch , 54; son of George M organ of Prospect (now within the limits of Prince t on , N . J . and the present home of the presi o f dents Princeton college) , by his wife Elizabeth A ldrich Thompson ; read medicine L eMo ne - with Dr . y , the father of latter day cremation ; grad . in medicine , university of : Penna . I ssue

1 A . 2 . Eliza ldrich M organ , m 3 October , P 1 8 a . . 73 , Germantown , , to Dr Lawrence : Bainbridge H off . I ssue

1 o . William H enry H ff , b . 7 Decem

1 8 . ber, 75

2 u f . Thomas M ter H o f , b . German P a 1 A 1 (I 1 8 . town , . , 9 ugust , 77; there 9

1 8 8 . J anuary , 7

3 . J ames M organ H off , b . German

A 1 . o Pa . 1 8 t wn , , 5 pril , 79 A S /zou t A ccou n t of Me

. . W 4 Fredric Bancroft H off , b ashing A 1 2 . C . 1 88 . ton , D , 4 pril ,

. K y . . 5 J ohn Bustard Ormsb , b Louisville , y ,

a 1 8 . 1 1 5 Febru ry , 3 7; d Pittsburgh , J une ,

1 845.

P H I LLI P S .

2 . Sarah M ahon Ormsby b . H l 8 1 80 . ase l Pittsburgh , J uly , 5; d H ill , Pitts 2 m A 2 1 88 . t burgh , October, 5; o M ajor sher

A . . . J . 1 Phillips , U . S . , b Lawrenceville , N , 9

A 1 . 0 K . 2 1 1 8 pril , 79 ; d Louisville , y , M ay , 43 ; eldest son of M aj-or J ohn Phillips (who served - f as private , non commissioned o ficer and ensign in the N ew J ersey continental line during the

Revolutionary war, subsequently commissioned captain and major in the N ew J ersey militia and was sheriff of H unterdon county ; he belonged to a family distinguished for their military services and descended from the Rev . George so n L ainh am Phillips ! of Christopher Phillips of , n St . M artins , near Lo gham , county N orfolk , 1 6 1 England!, who graduated from Cambridge 3 , became a clergyman , j oined the Puritans and A 1 6 0 emigrated to merica 3 , settling at Water town , by his wife M ary Phillips . A sher Phillips entered the volunteer service in 1 8 1 2 the war of , was afterwards commissioned in the regular army and was appointed major and : paymaster ; resigned in 1 8 3 2 . I ssue 1 H asell . M ary Phillips , d . H ill , Pittsburgh ,

1 1 88 2 . 2 2 J anuary , ; m Pittsburgh , N ovember , 1 8 B u r w i n 49 , to H ill g , b . at The H ermitage ,

. C . 2 1 1 8 2 near Wilmington , N , February , 5; son of George William Bush B u rgw in by his F a mily of Or ms by 2 9

wife M ari a N ash ; ed . university of N orth Carolina ; admitted to the bar of th e state at 1 8 6 Raleigh in J anuary , 4 ; settled in Pitts 1 burgh in 851 . I ssue :

B u r w in . 1 George Collinson g , b 7 A i A 1 8 1 . . ugust , 5 ; B Trin ty college , H art

1 8 2 . . ford , 7 ; LL B Columbia college , 1 8 N ew York , 75; admitted to the bar of

A Pa. 1 8 llegheny county , , 7 September , 75; 1 1 8 8 2 m . 5 N ovember , , to M ary Blair, dau .

' J oh n Cu st Blair of Pittsburgh , by his wife : A nne Rebecca Robinson . I ssue 1 A B u r w in . . nne Robinson g , b Pitts

bur gh .

2 B u r w in . 2 . H ill g , b Pittsburgh , 5J uly ,

1 885. u in B r w . 3 . Gwendolen g , b Pittsburgh .

B u w in . . r . 4 M ary Blair g , b Pittsburgh

B u r w i n . 5. George Collinson g , b Pitts

1 1 8 2 . burgh , 9 J anuary , 9 i n x 2 . B u r w . H enry Phillips g , b Pittsburgh , A 1 2 1 1 2 8 . 88 3 pri l , 54; m February , 4, to

w . A . Euphemia Bake ell J ames , dau David

J ames of Clifton , Cincinnati , by his wife

Elizabeth Page Bakewell , dau . Thomas Woodhouse Bakewell by his wife Elizabeth

Rankin Page , dau . Benjamin Page by his

first wife Elizabeth Rankin (b . Cambridge

. 1 1 0 shire , Eng , 77 ; d . N ew York city , 3 Octo

1 80 . 1 0 1 1 . ber, 3 ; whom he m M ay , 79 , at St l e n M ary Bow , Cheapside , Lo don , the cele ” brated Bow church , designed by Sir Chris t r Oph e Wren . ) Issue

H a el u i n . 1 . s l B r w / H ill g , b Pittsburgh ,

2 1 8 8 . 9 September, 7 30 A S nor t A ccou n t of l kc

O 2. B u r w in . H oward J ames g , b Gras

1 8 0 . mere , Fla . , 9 J anuary , 9

B u r w i n . t 3 . J ohn H enry King g , b Pit s

6 A . 1 1 8 . burgh , 9 J une 5 B Trinity college ,

1 8 . H artford , 77

B u r in . w . 4. Sara Ormsby g , b Pittsburgh

A B u r w i n . 5. ugustus Phillips g , b Pitts A 1 1 860 . . burgh , December, ; B Trinity 1 88 2 college , H artford , ; admitted to the bar A co P a 1 88 . of llegheny . , . , 5 6 B u r w in . . M ary g , b Pittsburgh .

2 . ff Ormsby Phillips , b . J e erson Barracks ,

. 2 1 8 2 . 1 2 1 88 . M o , October, 9; d N ovember, 4; ed P enna Pittsbu r h Western university of . , g ; was c n e ommissio ed captain of Company C , Fifte nth 1 86 2 regiment of state militia , in , and served until the regiment was mustered out ; be came c dire tor Western penitentiary in N ovember , 1 86 c 7, a ting first as secretary , then as presi

dent ; director M organza house of refuge , and also served many y ears in connection with the Western Pennsylvania hospital and Dixmont insane asylum ; one of the promoters of th e Sanitary Commission fair ; was trustee o f Dol

lar Savings Bank for seventeen years, also ’ director Boatman s I nsurance Co . ; vestryman

and Sunday school superintendent of St . ’ A ndrew s Episcopal c hurch ; in 1 8 74 elected mayor of A llegheny as an independent candi

date , and it was largely owing to his vigilance and prompt ac tion that the Railroad riots of 1 8 Pittsburgh , in 77, were not repeated in the 1 8 A . . 1 8 sister city M October, 53 , to nnie teev ens n S o . Bakewell , dau J ohn Palmer Bake well o f Pittsburgh (who was son Benjamin l r F a mi y of O ms by .

A nn Bakewell of Pittsburgh , by his wife A n n S teev enson by his wife , Pl ace S teevenson (who was dau . Thomas by his wife

A nn . : H arding , dau . J ohn H arding) I ssue - 1 8 1 . 8 . J ohn Bakewell Phillips , m 3 to b . c Eliza Shallcross , dau . J oseph Shall ross of

Philadelphia , by his wife M ary M orris Cald : well . I ssue

1 . . 2 0 M orris Shallcross Phillips , b

A 1 88 . ugust , 4

2 . 2 2 . H enry Ormsby Phillips , b Octo

1 88 . ber, 5

3 . Patty Phillips .

2 . . Sarah Ormsby Phillips , m Professor

ff to . Francis Cli ord Phillips , son of William

Smith Phillips of Philadelphia , by his wife : Sarah Frederica I ngersoll . I ssue

ff teev enson . 1 . S Cli ord Phillips , b 5

1 88 . J uly , 7

2 . 1 . Frederic I ngersoll Phillips , b 3

1 8 0 . J une , 9

A teev enson . 3 . nne S Phillips

A . . r / 4 H en y sher Phillips

5. M argaret Edwards P hillips. 1 / 6 . ( . . J Ormsby Phillips , young

A . 3 . J oseph ugustus Phillips , b Louis K 2 c 1 8 2 ville , y. , 3 De ember , 3 ; educated W a estern university of Penn , Pittsburgh , c and s ientific school of Yale college , H artford ; graduated in medicine in 1 855 at University of a Penn , Philadelphia ; resident physician Kings Y 1 86 1 th county hospital , N . . ; in , surgeon 9

Penna . reserves for three years and assistant

- - surgeon general and surgeon general of Pen na . during last two years of the Rebellion . M . 3 2 A S nor t A ccou nt of too

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. t St M ark s Episcopal church , Pit sburgh , South 1 c 1 868 Side , 5 O tober, , to Kate Ormsby , dau . - Dr. Oliver H arrison Ormsby by his wife J ane : Eliza H offa . I ssue 1 A . J oseph ugustus Phillips , b . Pittsburgh , ' 2 1 6 Ph illi a ad em 8 8 . s c A J uly , 9; ed p y, ndover,

M ass . 2 . H arrison Ormsby Phillips , b . Pitts

2 1 8 1 . burgh , 7J une , 7 A 3 . lice Ormsby Phillips , b . Pittsburgh ,

1 8 . . 7 M arch , 74 ; d young B u r w in 4. George g Phillips , b . Pittsburgh ,

2 1 8 6 . 4 September , 7 in B u r w . 5. M ary g Phillips , b Pittsburgh ,

1 1 8 8 . . 3 M ay , 7 ; d young 6 u 1 . t Ormsby Phillips , b . Pi tsb rgh , 3

1 88 . October, 4 A 2 . . 1 8 . 0 4 H enry sher Phillips , b 3 4; d

1 8 8 . M arch , 4

5. Sarah Ormsby Phillips .

PA GE .

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. . 1 8 3 Sidney Ormsby (Oliver , b J uly ,

c 1 80 . 2 1 2 1 806 . 8 8 ; d 3 O tober , ; m 5 October, 5,

by the Rev . J ohn H . H opkins , rector of Trinity ’ - Episcopal church , at her father s country seat ,

. S . H omestead Farm , now in Pittsburgh , S , to 1 6 2 J ohn H arding Page , b . Pearl street , N o . ,

6 1 80 . N ew York city , N ovember, 4; ed Bethany V a . college , W . ; d at The Dingle , now in Pitts 2 A 1 1 - . 8 S . burgh , S , 9 ugust , 7 ; half brother to

N . Captain Benjamin Page , U . S . , and to the

Rev . Dr. David Cook Page , a prominent Epis

copal clergyman , and son of Benjamin Page

34 A S nor t A ccou n t of t/ze

K 1 8 2 6 . ; son of J ames H ughart of Paris , y , by

his wife Laetitia Katherine Oden . I ssue , b . Pit t sburgh :

1 (1. . Sidney Ormsby H ughart , young . 2 1 . J ohn H arding Page H ughart , b . A 1 2 1 8 . 2 8 December, 54; m 7 pril , 9 , to M ary

M orrison , dau . J ames M orrison of Green n H ill , Clifton , Cinci nati , O . A 111 3 . nnie Blanche H ughart , . Grand h 2 A 1 88 1 Rapids , M ic , 7 pril , , to William

Spencer H oward , son of the H on . William A lanson H oward , at the time of his death

governor of Kansas , by his wife Ellen J ane : Birchard . I ssue , b . Grand Rapids

1 A 1 . William lanson H oward , b . 4

1 88 2 . February , 2 . Sara Page H oward . 6 3 . Oden H ughart H oward , b . Feb

ru ar 1 88 . y, 7 1 4. William Oden H ughart , b . M arch , 1 1 1 Ada 8 . 88 59; m 3 December, 9, _ to Byron

. t M orton , dau George Byron M or on of

Grand Rapids , M ich . , by his wife Laura

J ackson Smi t h . 2 5. Oliver Ormsby Page H ughart , b . 4

1 86 1 . M arch , 6 O a . . Katherine den H ugh rt H 1 7. J ames M arkham ughart , b . 9 N o v ember 1 86 , 5. A 2 . a 2 8 M artha H rding Page , b . ugust ,

1 8 2 8 . 1 a 1 886 . 1 8 8 d 9 Febru ry , ; m J une , 4 , to

i . 1 1 a 1 8 2 . Will am Clinton Pears , b M rch , 4; d 2 1 8 9 December, 49; son of Thomas Pears of tt a : Pi sburgh , by his wife Sarah P lmer. I ssue F a mily of Ou ms oy . 3 5

1 2 2 . Sidney Clinton Pears , b . M arch ,

6 . 1 8 . 1 8 49 ; d 5 M arch , 4 K 3 . Benjamin Page , J unr. , b . Louisville , y. , n 2 0 18 0 . c N ovember, 3 ; ed Lawre eville school , i N . J. ; during the war of the Rebell on was ’ A master s mate U . S . S . Valley City , N . . 1 86 2 squadron , ; acting assistant paymaster

. . . 1 2 1 86 2 U S S Commodore Barney , J une , ; transferred to tenth district M ississippi squad 1 86 ron , U . S . S . Victory , 3 ; resigned at the 0 1 86 close of the war, 3 December , 5; one of c A the in orporators of the Y . M . C . . of Pitts

8 1 86 . 2 burgh , J uly , 9 ; d at The Dingle , 3

1 8 . . 1 1 8 J anuary , 74 M 3 J une , 54, at her ’ - father s country seat , M aple Grove , now in A P a llegheny , , to Ellen Strong Campbell , b . A 2 1 8 2 . . 9 J une , 3 , dau of the Rev llan Ditch fi D el d . Campbell , D . , by his wife Nancy White

Bakewell (dau . Benjamin Bakewell of Pitts A nn burgh , by his wife White) , niece of the

Rev . Dr. William H enry Campbell , president r 1 6 . . 8 Rutgers college , N ew B unswick , N J , 3

- 1 88 2 . , and grand dau of William Campbell by D his wife A nn itch fi eld . I ssue : 1 . Thomas Bakewell Page , b . M aple A 1 1 1 8 . Grove , pril , 55; d Sunny Side , 2 1 8 October 864.

2 i . . . Nann e Page , b Pittsburgh

3 . Sidney Page , b . Pittsburgh .

4. Sarah Roanoke Page , b . Pittsburgh . li 2 5. O ver Ormsby Page , b . Pittsburgh , ' 66 A 1 1 8 . 8 . 8 J uly , ; grad llegheny high school , 3 6 1 . Benjamin Page , b . Pittsburgh , 7July , 6 1 8 8 . 1n . d 4 Oliver Ormsby Page , b . Rising Sun , , A S /cou t A ccou n t of tne

J 1 1 8 . . . . 3 3 ; ed Lawrenceville school , N ; d 6 1 8 . N ovember , 5

1 8 . 5. Caroline Ormsby Page , b . M ay , 34; d — 1 836 7. 6 1 8 1 6 . . 1 J ane Elizabeth Page , b J anuary , 4 ; 6 m . 2 a 1 8 9 J nuary , 3 , to Clifton Wharton (whom see , p . 2 6 7. J ohn H arding Page , b . Pittsburgh , P 6 1 8 2 . a M ay , 4 ; m Philadelphia , , February ,

1 868 . , to Fannie Lytle , b at Oak Lawn , in P 1 co . a 8 . Blair , , 5 M arch , 47, dau of Edward

- H iley Lytle of Cincinnati , country seat at Wil l iamsbu r g, Ohio , by his wife Elizabeth Shoen : berger . I ssue

1 . . 1 M argaret Page , b Philadelphia , 3

6 . 1 868 . 2 1 8 N ovember , ; d 9 J uly , 9 2 2 . J ohn H arding Page , b . Pittsburgh ,

A 1 8 0. ugust , 7 u 2 3 . Oden H ghart Page , b . Pittsburgh , 3 6 1 8 . 1 1 88 . M arch , 73 ; d 3 N ovember,

4. Edward H iley Lytle Page , b . Pitts

2 0 A i 1 8 . burgh , pr l , 74

. r . a 5 Elizabeth Shoenbe ger Page , b Gr nd

Rapids, M ich .

6 . . P ew ank ee Sidney Ormsby Page , b , W is 1 2 1 8 8 . . , October . 7 ; d Palestine , Tex ,

2 0 1 8 . M ay , 79 Wi . . s 7 Fannie N oel Page , b M ilwaukee , ,

1 1 1 88 1 . 880 . 7 December , ; d 3 M arch ,

8 . . William H iley Lytle Page , b Rebecca P 1 " 1 2 a 0 88 . Furnace , , October, 3 ; d 7 J uly ,

1 884. i 2 8 . o se h ne . 8 J p Blakeney Ormsby Page , b

1 8 . 1 1 8 October , 44; m 3 N ovember, 73 , to

George Washington .Wharton of Philadelphia , a m F i ly of Ou ms oy . 3 7

. 2 1 8 . b 7 J une , 3 5; grad Philadelphia Central 1 8 2 high school , 5 ; son of

Wharton , who was bro . Lieut . Col . Clifton w Wharton , by his ife Emmeline Davis Stout . : I ssue , b . Philadelphia 1 . Elizabeth W harton . 2 . Sara Page Wharton . 2 9 . Sidney Ford Page , b . Pittsburgh 9 Feb

r u ar 1 8 8 . 10 1 8 0 y, 4 ; m February , 7 , to J ames

Pi bu r h b . 1 1 . tts 8 8 Laughlin , J unr , of g , J une , 4 7,

son of J ames Laughlin of Pittsburgh , by his

A nn 1 6 . . 8 8 wife I rwin ; grad Princeton college , I ssue :

1 . . M artha Page Laughlin

2 . Leila I rwin Laughlin . 2 6 A 3 . J ohn Page Laughlin , b . ugust ,

1 8 . 75; student The Belmont school , M ass b . r . 4 H en y H ughart Laughlin , _ 3 J uly ,

1 8 8 . 7 ; student The Belmont school , M ass

6 A 1 . . . 88 5 J ames Laughlin , b ugust , 3

P H I LLI P S .

’ 5. M ary M ahon Ormsby , (Oliver , J ohn b .

1 808 . 1 1 A 1 8 8 . 2 8 ; d ugust , 7 ; m Pittsburgh ,

1 8 1 . . September , 3 by the Rev S Brunot , rector of

Trinity Episcopal church , to Lieut . (by courtesy ,

A . captain) Elias Phillips , U . S . . , b Lawrenceville ,

J . 1 . P 1 1 . t a 0 8 6 N , 799; d Pit sburgh , , September, 5 ; second son of M ajor J ohn Phillips by his wife l 1 u 1 8 1 M a y Phillips ; J ly , 9 , appointed cadet in West Poi nt military academy by President M on 1 1 8 2 roe ; J uly , 3 , commissioned second lieutenant 0 1 8 1 in the Fourth regiment infantry ; 3 M arch , 3 , commissioned first lieutenant in the same regi 38 A S /cor t A ccou n t of too

ment ; later resigned , tiring of the inactivity of

. . : army life and settled at Pittsburgh , S S I ssue

1 . . M ary M uskogee Phillips , b Fort M itch

A l a . 2 2 1 2 d 8 . . ell , , J uly , 3 ; ; m Pittsburgh ,

6 . 1 8 . 5 , to the Rev J ubal H odges , son of Dr

Edward H odges of N ew York city , formerly

of England . I ssue : 1 . Elias Phillips H odges , b . Ormsby , 6 A 1 . S . 8 . now in Pittsburgh , S , pril , 57

2 . . M argaret Robertson H odges , b Orms

m . : by ; Winfield Lloyd Scott . I ssue

1 . . M argaret M ary Scott

2 . . K J ohn Ormsby Phillips , b Louisville , y. ,

A 1 8 . 1 1 8 1 . 2 3 pril , 3 5; d 7 November , 9 ; m 3 6 1 8 . N ovember, 5, to M ary H arris Briggs , b

2 1 8 . 5 J une , 45, dau J ohn H arris Briggs of P a A nn . H arrisburg , , by his wife J ulia Tod I ssue : 1 . J ulia Briggs Phillips .

2 . 1 . M ary Ormsby Phillips , m 4 January , 1 8 1 9 , to Louis Semple Clarke , son of Charles

J . Clarke of Pittsburgh , by his wife Louise

Semple .

3 . Belle Tod Phillips .

6 . . . 1 1 1 8 4 Ormsby Phillips, b J une , 7 ; d

2 1 8 . 9 October , 79

s . 1 1 5. J ohn H arris Briggs Phillip , b J une , 6 1 8 . 7 ; student Trinity hall , Washington , Pa

6 . J osephine Ormsby Phillips .

3 . Duncan Clinch Phillips , b . at The White *

no w S . 1 8 8 H ouse , in Pittsburgh , S . , March , 3 ;

ed . St . J ames college , M d and Brown univer it s . . y, Providence , R I During the Rebellion ,

Also called The Cot, one of the Ormsby establishments, situated on Carson street, between Second and Third streets . m o ms b F a ily f Or y . 39 was commissioned first lieutenant of Company 1 6 2 . 8 M , Fourth Penna cavalry , 9 September , ; was commissioned captain Company F , same 2 1 1 86 2 c regiment , N ovember , ; was ommis si oned 1 1 86 major of same regiment , J anuary , 5; was detailed military inspector i n purchasing

Y. 1 6 1 6 . 8 horses at Elmira , N , J uly , 4; resigned P 1 86 . i st a 1 8 O e February , 5; m , West Chester , ,

1 866 . tober , , Florence Ebbs , dau William Ebbs ,

n 1 8 0 . : d . St . Paul , M in , 4 February , 7 I ssue

1 . A . rthur Ormsby Phillips , b Pittsburgh , 6 Pa 1 1 8 . J uly , 7; d West Chester , , 9 Octo

b en 1 86 7.

2 . . Florence Ebbs Phillips , b Pittsburgh ,

6 . A . 1 1 2 A 1 8 . pril , 9; d tlantic City , N J ,

1 8 8 . September, 7 2 dl 1 1 88 M . y, Pittsburgh , 4 J une , 3 , to Eliza

I rwin Laughlin , dau . J ames Laughlin of Pitts

A nn . u : burgh , by his wife I rwin I ss e

1 . . J ames Laughlin Phillips , b Pittsburgh ,

0 1 88 . 3 M ay , 4

2 . . Duncan Clinch Phillips , b Pittsburgh ,

2 6 1 886 . June ,

- 4. Oliver Ormsby Phillips , b . at The White

2 2 A 1 8 0 . H ouse , ugust , 4 ; ed Brown university , A 1 1 I . . 1 8 Providence , R . ; m 3 pril , 7 , to M ar

. 2 1 r garet Shoenberger Crosman , b J anua y ,

1 8 2 . 5 , dau Colonel and Brevet M aj or General

A . H am d on . . George p Crosman , U S , by his : wife H annah Blair Foster. I ssue

1 . 1 . George Crosman Phillips , b 3 J anu

A t 1 8 . 1 8 . ary , 73 ; d 3 ugus , 73 A 2 . . 1 1 Oliver Ormsby Phillips , b pril ,

1 2 1 88 1 . 880 . ; d 4 M arch ,

3 . M argaret Crosman Phillips . 40 A S nor t A ccou n t of tko

- . . t 5 J osephine Yard Phillips , b a the White

1 0 1 8 . 2 0 A H ouse , J uly , 43 ; d at Ormsby , pril ,

6 . 1 880 . 1 1 8 ; m 4 J anuary , 4, to Lieut Frederick Eaton Crosman of the Seventeenth regiment

. . . s 1 8 1 U S infantry , b Roxbury , M as , 4 ; son of Colonel and Brevet M ajor General George

A . H am do n . . p Crosman , U S , by his wife H annah Blair Foster ; entered the regular army 6 1 2 A 1 8 . 0 as lieutenant in October, ; d ugust , 1 86 4, of wounds received at the battle on the V R . a i th t Welden R . , , on the 9 ins , while a : acting as adj ut nt . I ssue 1 a . Frederik Crosman b . Ormsby . \ 6. . J ane Ormsby Phillips , b Ormsby .

7. Clifton Wharton Phillips , b . Ormsby , 4

1 8 1 . M ay . 5 grad Trinity college , H artford ,

n 1 8 1 . 1 1 88 1 Con , 7 ; m st , N ovember, , Carrie

. 1 8 8 . 2 1 N icholson Gould , b October , 5 ; d Octo

1 88 2 . ber, , dau Thomas N icholson Gould of : Baltimore . I ssue 1 2 1 . Clifton Nicholson Phillips, b . Octo

1 88 2 . ber , 2 dl 1 1 . 8 88 M y, J une , 4, Florence N ichol

son Gould , second dau . Thomas Nicholson : Gould . I ssue

1 . Emily Ormsby Phillips .

2 . . 2 1 1 88 . Elias Phillips, b February , 7

A W H RTO N .

li v eretta ’ 8 . O s . Orm by (Oliver , J m Louis A 1 K . 2 1 8 8 ville , y , ugust , 3 , to Lieutenant Colonel

A . 2 2 1 1 . . . 80 Clifton Wharton , U S , b October, ; commissioned second lieutenant in the regiment of 2 8 1 8 1 8 t light artillery October, ; first lieutenan

42 A 5/1t A ccou n t of th e

u 4. Edward Wharton , d . yo ng . u A (1. . 5. J ohn Quincy dams W harton , yo ng B u r in 2 A 6 . w . J , 5 , osephine g Wharton _ d pril 1 8 1 8 1 . 0 9 ; m 3 J une , 75, to Pressly N eville : Chaplin . I ssue

1 . . Etta Ormsby Chaplin

A . 2 . N eville melia Chaplin

YA R D .

9 . J osephine Blakeney Ormsby , b . Pittsburgh ,

2 1 1 8 . 1 8 . 3 ; d Pittsburgh , 4 February , 54; m

by the Rev . J oseph P . Taylor , rector of Christ c Pa Episcopal hurch , N ew Brighton , , 3 M arch ,

1 8 . S . 53 , at Riverside , now in Pittsburgh , S , to

Commandant (by courtesy , captain) Edward M adi

N . . . 1 1 . 8 son Yard , U . S , b . Lawrenceville , N J , 3 ; 2 1 88 d . Trenton , N . J. , M ay , 9 ; son of Edward Wh o n Yard , was native of Exeter , Devo shire ,

n . . E gland , later of Trenton , N J , by his wife

A . bigail Phillips , who was dau M ajor J oseph 1 8 1 2 Phillips , first surgeon in the war of ; edu

cated . . for the law at Lawrenceville , N J ; later 1 entered the U . S . navy as midshipman , N ovem 1 8 2 10 1 8 ber , 7; passed midshipman , J une , 33 ; lieu 2 8 1 8 8 1 tenant , February , 3 ; commandant , 4 Sep

1 8 1 866. : tember, 55; resigned , 3 M ay , I ssue

1 . . J osephine Ormsby Yard , b 4 February ,

J . 2 1 1 8 . . 8 8 54; m Trenton , N , December , 75,

Ca tain J ames . . . C . to p Buchanan Breese , U S M ,

. 1 8 . 1 88 b 47; d 7Feb ruary , 7; son of Chief J us

tice Samuel Sidney Breese of I llinois, by his

Eliz aM rri so n . o . . . wife , dau Col M orrison , U S

senator from I llinois ; ed . West Point military academy ; left the army aft er the Rebellion and F a mil o Ou ms o y f y , 43

entered the U . S . M arine corps , resigned as

1 880. captain ; last command Paris exposition , I ssue : 6 1 . 1 . Edward Yard Breese , b Trenton ,

1 8 . M arch , 77

2 . . Elise M orrison Breese , b H avre ,

France .

J ames Buchanan Breese , b . Trenton ,

1 6 1 88 1 . September,

4. M ary Ormsby Breese , b . Trenton .

O RM S BY .

10 . . Oliver H arrison Ormsby , b at H omestead

S . 1 2 Farm , now in Pittsburgh , S . , October, 6 1 8 1 8 . 1 ; d Spruce street , Philadelphia , J anuary ,

1 8 2 111 . 1 8 . . 7 ; Pittsburgh , 4 by the Rev Dr

Riddle . of the Third Presbyterian church , to J ane

ff u . 1 A 1 8 2 0 . 0 Eliza H o a , b St . Lo is , M o , pril , ; W . 10 1 8 . d est Philadelphia , J anuary, 73 ; dau

William H offa by his wife Catherine Lee . Ed . Washington and J efferson college ; studied medi cine as a special pupil under Dr. William H omer, o pr fessor of anatomy , university of Pennsylvania ,

a . but never pr cticed his profession . I ssue , all b

Fayette Knoll , as H omestead Farm was then : called , except first 1 2 . Kate Ormsby , b . Pittsburgh , 3 October, ’

1 8 . c 43 ; m at St . M ark s Episcopal chur h ,

Pittsburgh , S . S . (to which church her aunt ,

Caroline Ormsby , had given the property and 1 which was largely built by the family) , 5 6 A 1 8 8 . October, , to Dr J oseph ugustus Phil

lips (whom see , p . 44 A S /cou t A ccou n t of t/z e

1 6 A 1 6 d 2 A . 8 . lice Ormsby , b ugust . 4 ; P 1 A u a 1 86 . Bedford , , 9 gust , 5 2 2 3 . Oliver H arrison Ormsby , b . February , P 1 8 8 111 . a 8 1 8 1 4 ; Rebecca Furnace , J une , 7 , 2 A 1 . 8 . to Florence Lytle , b ugust , 49; dau

Edward H iley Lytle of Cincinnati , country

seat at Williamsburg , Ohio , by his wife Eliza : beth Shoenberger. I ssue

1 . c . Elizabeth Lytle Ormsby , b Rebec a

Furnace . 2 c . Oliver H arrison Ormsby , b . Rebec a Pa 1 8 . Furnace , 5 J uly , 75; d M artinsburg, ,

6 1 880 . J uly ,

3 . Guy Morville Ormsby , b . M artinsburg,

2 1 8 . 3 September, 77

4. Edward H iley Ormsby , b . M artinsburg ,

2 2 A 1 880 . pril , Th e 5. Paul Elmer Ormsby , b . at Farms ,

2 1 88 2 . 9 M ay , 6 . Florence Lytle Ormsby , b . M artins

burg .

7. H arrison Ormsby , b . Pittsburgh , 3

A 1 888 . pril ,

4. H arry Wharton Ormsby , b . 3 February ,

1 8 2 . 1 8 0 . 5 ; d Fayette Knoll , 5

s . 1 6 5. J oseph Gazzam Orm by , b February , i P 1 8 2 . a 5 ; m at Oak Lawn n Blair county , ,

1 1 A 1 8 . 7 ugust , 75, to Caroline Lytle , b Oak

6 1 8 . Lawn , N ovember, 53 ; dau Edward H iley

- Lytle of Cincinnati , country seat at Williams

burg , Ohio , by his wife Elizabeth Shoenberger. I ssue : A 1 . . I da Lytle Ormsby , b llegheny , Pa .

2 . . Ellen Estabrook Ormsby , b at H igh

’ i h c lands Blair ounty , Pa . F a mi ly of Ou ms oy . 45

3 . J oseph Gazzam Ormsby , b . Pittsburgh , 6 A 1 88 . 4 ugust , ~ 6 . 2 . Sarah M ahon Ormsby , b 3 February ,

J . 1 8 1 8 . . 1 8 . 55; d Trenton , N , 5J anuary , 7; m 2 r 1 8 R o eb 5 J anua y , 77, to Charles Gustavus J e . . 1 8 ling , b . Trenton , N , 9 D cember , 49; A son of J ohn ugustus Roebling, the noted engineer , by his wife J ohanna H erting , both formerly of M uhlhausen , Prussia , later of

Trenton , N . J . ; grad . Rensselaer polytechnic a N institute , Troy , N . Y . I ssue , ll b . Trenton , . J 1 . H arrison Ormsby Roebling , b . 7

1 8 . J 1 2 N ovember, 77; d Trenton , N . . ,

1 88 . J anuary , 3

2 . . Emily M argaretta Roebling A t 3 . Washington ugus us Roebling, b .

2 1 88 1 . 5 M arch , '

4. H elen Roebling.

- 2 7. Sidney Gore Ormsby , b . 4 Septem ber , 6 1 88 1 8 6 . 1 5 ; m September, 4, to Estelle Rod 66 A . 1 8 . man lden , b 3 Septem ber, ; d 7 M arch , A 1 88 . 9 ; dau Farrelly lden of Pittsburgh , by A J . . . his wife nna Rodman ones , dau of the H on J A Glancy J ones , U . S . minister to ustria from 1 1 2 : 858 to 86 . I ssue 1 2 . J ohn Glancy Ormsby , b . 4 N ovem ber, 6 1 88 .

8 . . . 1 1 8 8 St Clair Ormsby , b 3 February , 5 ; 111 . Laura Lewis .

9. J eanie Earle Ormsby , b . 4 N ovember, 1 n 2 8 . 1 1 8 59 ; m Tre ton , N . J . , M arch , 8 3 ,

b. 1 8 1 8 8 Clarence Preston Eyre , J une , 5 ; son h is of I saac Preston Eyre of Philadelphia , by wife Sibyl Ogden ; ed . Swarthmore college ,

Pa . I ssue : F a mi l o Or ms o y f y .

1 8 1 . . 1 88 . Sibyl Ogden Eyre , b M ay , 4; d

1 88 . 4 J une , 4

6 . 1 2 . . 1 8 Ogden Eyre , b 5 J uly , 8 ; d 5 6 1 88 . J uly ,

. 2 2 1 888 . 3 . Ormsby Eyre , b February ,

. . 1 r 1 88 . 4 Ethel Eyre , b 3 Februa y , 9 - 1 6 1 86 2 10. . Caroline Ormsby , b J anuary , ;

1 880 . . m . , to J ohn J Thompson — 1 6 1 6 2 1 1 . . 8 . M ary Ormsby , b J anuary , ; d ‘ 6 1 8 . Fayette Knoll , M arch , 5 ERRA TA

8 l 1 80 8 1 80 . J u y , 3 , J uly , 4 SUB SCR I PTI ON L I ST

M rs . J ames Buchanan Breese .

M rs . Clarence Preston Eyre .

Mc Kni h t. 2 M rs . William g ( )

M iss J ane Ormsby Phillips .

M iss Sarah Ormsby Phillips . t M rs . William M organ Wa son . B u r w in A t . M r . ugus us Phillips g B u r w i n M r . George Collinson g .

M r. J ohn H arding Page H ughart .

M r . J ames Laughlin , J unr. McCammon H on . J oseph Kay . i h Mc Kn t. M r. Wharton g

M r . J oseph Gazzam Ormsby.

M r. Oliver H arrison Ormsby .

M r. Benj amin Page .

a . M r. J ohn H arding P ge

t . M r. Clifton Whar on Phillips

M r. Duncan Clinch Phillips. (3) A M r . H enry sher Phillips .

A . Dr. J oseph ugustus Phillips

M r . Oliver Ormsby Phillips .

Mr . . Charles Gustavus Roebling (3)

. M r. Clifton , Wharton

M r. Clifton Wharton , J unr.

M r. George Washington Wharton .

A a . Carnegie Free Library , llegheny, P

. a . Penna H istorical Society , Philadelphi