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John King McClanahan/McLanahan[1, 2, 3]

Male 1828 - 1918  (90 years)


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  • Name John King McClanahan/McLanahan 
    Born 25 Mar 1828  Bedford Forge, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 13 Dec 1918  Blair County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Hollidaysburg Presbyterian Cemetery, Blair County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I19126  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 19 Aug 2019 

    Father James Craig McClanahan,   b. 23 May 1794, Greencastle, Franklin County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Aug 1865, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth King,   b. 7 Jan 1804, Shy Beaver Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Aug 1895, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 91 years) 
    Married 1826  Bedford Forge, Hopewell, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Marriage to Elizabeth King, d/o John King; b. Shy Beaver Huntingdon Co., PA 7 Jan 1804; d. 17 Aug 1895 at 92 years of age.
    Family ID F8047  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Ann Martin,   b. 1832,   d. 9 Mar 1903  (Age 71 years) 
    Married 21 Feb 1857 
    Children 
     1. James Craig McClanahan/McLanahan,   b. 22 May 1862, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Mar 1905, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years)
     2. Martin Hawley McClanahan/McLanahan,   b. 31 Jan 1865, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 May 1929, Atlantic City, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)
     3. John King McClanahan/McLanahan, Jr,   b. 27 Dec 1871, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Nov 1926, Pittsfield, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years)
    Last Modified 19 Aug 2019 
    Family ID F8090  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    John King McLanahan
    John King McLanahan
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    John King McLanahan-Obit
    John King McLanahan-Obit
    Altoona Times
    Dec 14, 1918

    Histories
    J. King McLanahan-Celebrates 90th Birthday
    J. King McLanahan-Celebrates 90th Birthday
    Altoona Tribune
    Mar 26, 1918
    J King McLanahan-Invented The First Fire Engine
    J King McLanahan-Invented The First Fire Engine
    Altoona Tribune
    Jan 15, 1916

  • Sources 
    1. [S82] Wikitree, https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_McClanahan_%2810%29.

      http://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?43,437119

      JAMES McLANAHAN James McLanahan, eldest child of James McLanahan by his wife Isabella Craig, was born at Greencastle, Pennsylvania on 10 January, 1763; died at Baltimore in 1844. He resided at one time at Towsontown, near Baltimore, Maryland. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Major John Boggs, and officer in the Revolution. She was born 17 January, 1775 Children of James McLanahan, by his wife Elizabeth Boggs: I. James Craig McLanahan, born 22 May, 1794; died 15 August, 1865; married Elizabeth King. II. Robert McLanahan, born at Baltimore?died at Baltimore, unmarried. III. Anna Maria McLanahan; died at Baltimore, unmarried. IV. Eliza Bell McLanahan; lived and died at Govanstorm (Goranstown)? Maryland; married Dr. James Robert Ward. I. Daughter?Anna M. Ward; died June 9, 1892. V. William Allison McLanahan; lived and died in Baltimore, Maryland; married Sarah Murray, born in Louisiana, died 16 September, 1907 in Baltimore, aged 86, buried in Greemount cemetery Baltimore. Children of William Allison & Sarah McLanahan 1. Robert C. McLanahan 2. Clinton W. McLanahan 3. Mrs Lavella Newman of Baltimore 4. Mrs M. C. Metcalf of Baltimore 5. Miss Anna M. McLanahan of Baltimore 13 grandchildren 9 great grandchildren

    2. [S82] Wikitree, https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_McClanahan_%2810%29.
      JOHN KING McLANAHAN, eldest child of James Craig McLanahan by his wife Elizabeth King, was born at Bedford Forge, Pennsylvania, 25 March, 1828: married by the Reverend A. E. Clark, Presbyterian clergyman at Altoona, 2 February, 1857, Mary Anne, daughter of John Martin. She was born at Casville, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, 25 July, 1832; she died 9 March, 1903, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. John King McLanahan, died; 13 December, 1918.
      Children of John King McLanahan and his wife Mary Anne Martin:
      I. Carrie Royer McLanahan, born 16 December, 1857; died 10 December, 1863.
      II. Mary E. McLanahan, born 10 March, 1860; died 22 April, 1861.
      III. James Craig McLanahan, born 22 May, 1862; died 4 March 1905: married, 25 April, 1893, to Katharine Jackson Baldrige, (this branch does not use the second ?d? in Baldridge), daughter of H. Malcolm Baldrige. She was born in 1866; died 2 May, 1904 in Saranac, N. Y. Children of James Craig and Katharine Baldrige McLanahan:
      1. Mary Katharine McLanahan, born 2 February, 1894; died 31 July, 1895
      2. Margaret McLanahan, born 14 September, 1895.
      2nd marriage Laura Mattern
      The marriage ceremony was by Reverend Dr. D. H. Barron, at the house of the bride?s father in Hollidaysburg.
      1V. Martin Hawley McLanahan
      born 31 January, 1865; died 28 May, 1929, Atlantic City, N.J., buried in Hollidaysburg. Married, 18 October, 1893, Elsie Schoen
      daughter of Charles R. Schoen, Esq., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by his wife Laura Jester North.
      I. Son, Alexander Hawley McLanahan, born, 10 November, 1895. Married 1 January, 1925; Frances Lamar Gurr, born 1 May, 1900.
      I. Son, Alexander King McLanahan b. 11 Dec 1925, Paris, France
      V. John King McLanahan, Jr. b. 27 Dec 1871; died; 14 November, 1926, Pittsfield, Mass.; Buried in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania: Married Ella, (daughter of Robert Henry Spendley by his wife Fannie Jane Dutcher). Ella was born 15 Jan 1871.
      1. Daughter, Helen Spendley McLanahan, born 20 June, 1894
      2. Daughter, Elizabeth Hawley McLanahan, born 3 November, 1897
      VI.?I. Helen Spendley McLanahan, born, 20 June 1894: Married William Hatton Stevens, born, 25 June, 1889.
      1. Son, John King McLanahan Stevens, born, 22 June, 1921
      2. Daughter, Elizabeth Spendley Stevens, born, 27 September, 1922
      3. Son, William Hatton Stevens, Jr., born, 7 January, 1924

      II. Elizabeth Hawley McLanahan, born, 3 November, 1897: Married Chauncey Chester Loomis, born 18 August, 1892.
      1. Son, Stanley Pennock Loomis, born 21 December, 1922.
      2. Son, John King McLanahan Loomis, born 25 December, 1925
      3. Son, Chauncey Chester Loomis, III, born 1 June, 1930

      BOGGS?JOHNSTON NOTE TO McLANAHAN LINEAGE

      Elizabeth Boggs, wife of James McLanahan, was a daughter of Major John Boggs by his wife Elizabeth Johnston.
      Major John Boggs, was a son of Andrew Boggs, an early and prominent settler in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The father is said to have possessed land in that county as early as 1730. On 21 August, 1738, he received a warrant of survey for 250 acres. In 1748, he was Ensign in Captain David McClure?s Company of the Associated Regiment in the ?West End of Lancaster County,? and was in service in the French and Indian War at the that time pending. (Pennsylvania Archives, Sec. Ser. Ii, 510). He was a member of the famous Donegal Presbyterian Church. He died in April, 1765, leaving widow Ann, and the following children: John, James, Jean, Andrew, Ann, Mary, and Alexander. His wife is said to have been at one time a prisoner with the Indians, and is probably the Mrs. Boggs who is mentioned in Watson?s Annals, ii, 188, as follows: ?Mrs. Boggs, of the same neighborhood, (frontiers of Lancaster County, 1755), while riding to a neighbor, (frontiers of Lancaster County, 1755). While riding to a neighbor?s house, ?was fired upon by Indians, and her horse killed. She had a ?suckling child with her, which they killed and scalped, the ?mother they took away.? Three of the sons of Ensign Andrew Boggs,--John, Andrew and Alexander, were officers in the Revolution. Jean, the eldest daughter, married Colonel James Dunlop, the founder of Belle-Fonte, Pennsylvania. Ann, the second daughter, married Joseph Lowery, brother of Colonel Alexander Lowery, and Mary, probably the youngest daughter, married Captain Zachariah Moore, also a Revolutionary officer.
      Major John Boggs was born about 1731, and died at Bellfonte in 1796. He resided at Greencastle, that town was part of Cumberland Count. In 1776, he was a captain in the Cumberland County militia, and was commissioned a major in January, 1777. On 21 October of the latter year, he was appointed a commissioner in Cumberland County ?to seize the personal effects of traitors,? and on 8 November, the same year, he was appointed a commissioner ?to collect clothing? for the Revolutionary Army.
      Major Boggs married, Elizabeth, daughter of James Johnston, one of the early Scotch-Irish settlers in that part of Lancaster County, which, became, in time, Antrim Township, Franklin County. Her brothers were all prominent men, and all held commissions in the Revolutionary service. There were: Colonel Thomas Johnston, Lieutenant-Colonel James Johnston, Dr. Robert Johnston, and Captain John Johnston. Dr. Johnston was a surgeon in the army, and it was at his house that his house that his fellow surgeon, Dr. Barnabas Binney, father of the illustrious Horace Binney, died. Dr. Johnston embalmed the body and sent it to Dr. Binney?s family in Philadelphia.

      Children of Major John Boggs by his Wife Elizabeth Johnston:
      I. Andrew Boggs, born 1 September, 1773: Married: (1.) Jane Johnston
      (2.) Sarah Biddle, cousin of Nicholas Biddle of Philadelphia

      II. Elizabeth Boggs, born 17 January, 1775: Married James McLanahan.

      III. Johnston Boggs, born 9 June, 1776; died in Natchez, Mississippi.

      IV. Francis Boggs, born 25 February, 1778; died at twelve years of age.

      V. Anna Boggs, born 24 October, 1779: Married William Wister Miller.

      VI. Mary Boggs, born 19 November, 1781: Married James Miller.

      VII. Jane Boggs, born 13 March, 1784: Married John Royer, and their daughter, Mary Letitia Royer
      , married the Honorable Cyrus L. Pershing, the late eminent jurist of Schuylkill County.
      VIII. John Boggs, born 18 August, 1787, became a prominent physician. (See ?Eminent Men of the Cumberland Valley?).

      IX. James Boggs


      King Note to McLanahan Lineage

      John King, the father of Elizabeth, wife of James Craig McLanahan, was born 25 December, 1778; died 25 August, 1842. He was the son of Alexander King, a Revolutionary soldier. The son (John King) was an Iron-master, and proprietor of Bedford Forge, at which he manufactured iron and chaffery fires. The iron was drawn out into bars, bent into loops, and carried to the Pittsburgh market in pack saddles on back of mules. He married Christina Berkstresser, born 9 July, 1790; died at Snake Springs, 10 January, 1846: daughter of Valentine and Elizabeth Berkstresser. Her father was a Revolutionary soldier.
      Children of John King by Christina Berkstresser
      I. Elizabeth born 7 January, 1804; died 17 August, 1895, she was aged 91 years, 7 months, and 10 days. She married, on 15 May 1827 or 26 James Craig McLanahan; they had seven children, three died in infancy.
      II. Alexander, born 17 September, 1805, the only blond in the family: Married Watson, they had a large family. Their eldest son Watson, died in the army at Port Royal, S. C., during the Civil War. One son Alexander, was a lawyer. Harry married a daughter of Henry Lloyd in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Henry and his wife had three children, Edward, Elizabeth & Sue. One daughter Christina died before the war. Alexander was a lawyer of some note, he was Judge of Bedford County for many years, associated with most prominent men of this county who visited Bedford Springs in its Balmy days. He was President Judge of Bedford, Franklin, Fulton, and Somerset Counties.
      III. Nancy (Agnes by Mother?s will), born 2 August, 1807: Married 1st Sheriff Bonnett, afterward Bell. The Bonnetts had three sons. One was killed by the Indians when crossing the plains on his way to California . She also had one or more sons and one daughter to Mr. Bell.
      VI. Margaret, born 5 June or January, 1809; died 20 February, 1897: Married Captain Louis Smith. They had 2 sons King & Samuel and one daughter Mame), who married Mr. Bare of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Louis Smith was a Captain in the Bedford Company in the Mexican War. Then he went out Captains of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Rifles in the Civil War, afterwards he was Colonel of one of the Pennsylvania Reserves, Pennsylvania?s best body of Civil War soldiers, later he was a Brevet Brigadier General. Both his sons were in the Civil War.
      V. Thomas, born 11, May, 1811; died 3 December or 31 November, 1891: Married, Matilda Hartley of Bedford. Had two sons, William Hartley and John H. Hartley. Both in the Civil War, and one daughter Sarah Bell. The Mother died when Sade ( Sarah) was between three & five years old. My Mother (Elizabeth King McLanahan) took Sade home and kept her until she was educated and could care for herself. She was crippled from hip trouble. She never married. She was a smart and noble woman. William Hartley King was an apprentice in the Gaysport Foundry, as a molder, he ran with the crowd in those days known as, ?Whiskey Bill.? After the War he went out to the oil regions and became a well driller. He made big money, but spent it as fast as he got it. His brother John was just the opposite. John?s company was always the high-toned class, rich folks, while Hartley traveled with the lower order. John went to St. Louis during the Civil War, or soon after, and became the leading Life Insurance agent in the City. Afterwards he organized the Life Association of America, and established it in many cities in the country. When I first knew Uncle Tom, he was a big powerful man. I have seen him take tongs in the Bedford Forge and shingle a bloom under the big hammer, as well as the best foreman. But he was a wild fellow, given to speeding, and sometimes got into fights. He was the only man who ever whipped ?Bully Pete Gates.? Gates was a great terror known over several counties as a great fighter. In their first fight Gates hit the end of Uncle Tom?s nose, which disfigured him for life. Yet he was a big handsome man in later years. He was an officer in the Civil War and taken prisoner in N. C. He was held in prison in Charleston, S. C., while I, (Samuel Calvin McLanahn) was on the Moniter Lehigh, blockading port. I got some word that he was in need clothing and I sent him something, which he afterwards told me he had received.
      VI. John King, born 17 December, 1813: Married; Margaret Scott, born Fort Landon, 11, January, 1829; died 15 September, 1916. She was the sister of Thomas A. Scott, the greatest Railroad man of his day, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Assistant Secretary of War during the Civil War. John King was a Major in the Civil War & Commissary General of Union Troupes in the Civil War. He was Provost Marshal of St. Louis; at the time it required a man of spirit and determination to handle affairs. But he settled in the rebels in St. Louis to the satisfaction of all. He had one son John, and six daughters. His son graduated at Troy. Soon afterwards was killed on Railroad, near Horse Shoe Bend, while on Railroad duty. The girls were all fine, beautiful girls. One or two of John?s daughters were born in Bedford Forge Big house.
      VII. Dr. James King, born in 1816: Married; Ann Russel, she was sister of General A. L. Russel, who was Adjutant General of Pennsylvania under Governor Curtin. She was also the sister of Alex Russel. They first settled in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, and then they went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He became a leading physician in that city. He had two sons, that died young & two daughters. Dr. King was in the Civil War, Surgeon of Regiment or Brigade. Afterwards Surgeon General of Pennsylvania. A great Noble Man.
      VIII. Henry King born 12 June, 1818; died 15 November, 1887: Married Ann Elliot born 12 June, 1818, died 19 December, 1907, in Seattle, aged 84 years old. He was from Lewistown and managed the Sarah Furnace. He was an Iron Merchant. At one time after the War they lived in Letona, Ohio & managed two large furnaces. He was a very successful furnace man. He was a Captain in the Civil War, Commissary of Paymaster Department. They had beautiful daughters, all were smart capable girls.
      IX. Caroline Jane King born 28 May, 1822: Married; General Alexander Russel, he was a Adjutant General of Pennsylvania in the Civil War. They had one son and three daughters. All died in early life , except Elizabeth, named for Elizabeth King McLanahan.
      X. William Rufus King, born 8 November, 1824; died 4 December, 1896, aged 73. He was the youngest family member. He never married. It is said his eyesight was bad. It was said that he was injured in college. He was an associate Judge of Bedford County. He was considered very smart. All of the Bedford people said he knew more law than all the Bedford Bar.
      Note: All of the Kings, except for Judge King and William were officers in the Civil War, also General A. L. Russell and Captain Smith.
      Their were no drones in the Kings. All men and women were workers. They were active, honorable people, commanding the love and respect of their fellow men. As a boy and young man, I had a great bunch of cousins, some boys and a lot of beautiful girls; but after I went to sea I lost track of most of them.
      Samuel Calvin McLanahan
      &
      John King McLanahan

      Martin?Hawley note to McLanahan Lineage.
      John Martin, the father of Mary Anne Martin, wife of John King McLanahan
      , was born in Martinstown Lisbreen, parish of the Braid, near Balymena, Co. Antrim, Ireland, 22 February, 1805; died at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, 23 May, 1864. He came to America alone, some members of his family coming later. He married at Albany, New York, 2 November, 1831, Amanda Hawley, born in Blandford, Massachusetts, 29 July, 1804, died at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, 9 October, 1865; daughter of John Hawley
      .
      Children of John Martin and his wife Amanda Hawley
      I. Mary Anne Martin, born 25, July 1832, in Union Township, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania; died 9 March, 1903, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania: Married 2 February, 1857, John King
      McLanahan
      .
      II. Martha Jane Martin, born in Union Township, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania; died at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, 4 July 1899.
      III. John Hawley Martin; died in infancy: Born, 13 April 1838, died 17 November, 1843,
      IV. James Logan Hawley Martin; died in infancy: Born, 6 March, 1840, died 15 May, 1840.

      John Hawley, the father of Amanda, wife of John Martin who was a native of England. The date of his coming to America is not known. He married Eleanor Nichols of Middletown, Connecticut. Their Children, so far as known, were:
      I. Russell Hawley
      II. Cornelia Hawley; married Porter King of Springfield, Massachusetts.
      III. Amanda Hawley; married John Martin as above.
      IV. Amelia Hawley; married ?Pub? Lazell.

      V. Melinda Hawley; married Hayden
      She was the mother of Ferdinand Vandesere Hayden, married M. D., Ph.D., famous geologist, born in Westfield Mass., 7 September, 1829; died 22 December, 1887 in Philadelphia??his fame as a geologist in Europe and America extraordinary.?
      ?Dr. Haydon first conceived the idea of setting aside for national use as a perpetual park, the region of the Yellowstone geysers. This idea he urged with such success upon Congress that a law prepared under his direction was passed to that effect. Such a notion would probably have not occurred to the mind of a geologist occupied with the purely scientific details of a new country; and it illustrates excellently well the practical turn of his character.?
      From Obituary notice by Professor J. P. Lesley, read before the American Philosophical Society, January 20, 1
      VI. Melina Hawley; married Israel Putnam

    3. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74790037.