Divisipa uJ^ . Section ■ I '^ • ^^^^0 ^iir-^' ^MMHk*^' tf^ey- #7to cA{uHt4ff ^c C^tlrtL^ Yjr T^^ttc/^ ^^WVf /(? rps, designing engineer, Brooklyn water works ; engineer of various water works, canals, harbor works, and railways ; prominent expert in water power and other cases. In recent years he was the oldest hydraulic engineer in practice in the United States. He d. at his Brooklyn residence, from heart trouble, December lo, 1898, aet. seventy-three, and was buried in Albany. Married, February i, 1848, Catharine Knapp, of Albany, a descendant of the Clark, Haring and Kip families of New York. Children of Samuel and C.xtharine McElroy. 1. Irving^ b. Albany, January 19, 1849; ^n., July 17, 1873, Kate P. Williams. 2. Samuel Haring^ b. Albany, May 12, 185 1 ; m. Grace E. Fish, May 10, 1876. 3. Mary Haring^ b. New York City, March 9. 1854. 4. Margaret Sokoloflf^ b. May 18, 1857, Brooklyn ; d. Aug- ust 14, 1857. 5. Kate Knapp^ b. April 18, 1865, Brooklyn; m. Albert Banker, October, 1884. Alexander* McElroy (Thomas,^ Samuel, ^ David^) b. July I, 1832; m. Rebecca Adams, Lyons, N. Y., December 30, 1856. Civil engineer, Erie canal enlargement, various railways and other public works. Died at Pittsburgh, 1892. Their Children. 1. Mary Hamilton'^ b. June 13. 1858, Lyons. N. Y. ; m. W. A. Gangweyer, attorney. Burlington, N. J. 2. Georgia Lewis^ b. March 18, 1862, Brooklyn ; d. 1865. 3. James Adams^ b. September 15, 1864. Walden, N. Y. Died August 10, 1877. 4. Grace Alexander^ b. July 22, 1870. Brooklyn. John* McElroy (James K.,^ John.- ThomasM b. New York, April 4, 1812; m., November 2, 1832, Maria Gilbert Blinn, of Albany McElroys 107 Trenton, N. Y. His business was that of wagon and carriage making. In 1834 he removed to Delaware, Ohio, which proved to be his permanent home. He was a member from the age of thirteen in the Presbyterian church, and was for many years an elder in the Delaware church. He was five times a delegate to the Presbyterian General Assembly, including the Reunion Assembly of 1869. He d. at Delaware, September i, 1889. Children of John and Maria McElroy. 1. Ervin Butler^ b. August 6, 1835. Unmarried. California. 2. Amelziah Hovey'' b. July 22, 1836. 3. Milo Gilbert^ b. February 4, 1842 ; d. 1890, leaving some family. 4. Mary Ellen^ b. August 7, 1847; d January 9, 1851. 5. Stella May^ b. June 10, 1852. Irving^ McElroy (Samuel,* Thomas,* Alexander,^ Thomas^) b. Albany, January 19, 1849. Educated, public school, Brooklyn, N. Y., Trinity school. New York, St. Stephen's College, Annan- dale, and the General Theological Seminary, New York City. He took Bachelor's Degree in 1870, and that of Master of Arts, 1873. Ordained deacon, January 29, 1873, by Bishop Littlejohn, and priest, May 31, 1874. During the past twenty-seven years he has been busily employed in the duties of his sacred calling; on duty in the City and State of New York, in Baltimore, in Washington City, and for seven years in Iowa and North Dakota, where he was Archdeacon and Bishop's assistant. Since 1897 he has been curate of St. James', New York City. Married ist, July 7, 1873, Kate P. Williams, Fordham, New York City, who d. August 9, 1893; 2d, Mrs. Grace W. Birch, Fordham, July 17, 1898. Children of Rev. Irving and Kate P. McElroy. I. Margaret Edgar" b. May 30, 1874; m. George Rowland Hill, September 10, 1895. They have a daughter, Katharine Irving" Hill, b. May 24, 1896. io8 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys 2. Robert'' b. July 5, 1876; m. Mabel Coulter Ferris, Sep- tember 21, 1900. 3. Thomas Percy^ b. July 4, 1877. 4. Mary Howard® b. October 4, 1880. 5. George Glenwyn® b. October 4, 1881 ; d. 1882. Samuel Haring^ McElroy (Samuel,* Thomas,^ Alexander,^ Thomas^) b. May 12, 185 1 ; m. Grace E. Fish, May 10, 1876. A civil engineer. Kings County, N. Y. Resides at Bensonhurst, L. I. Their children: Georgia.^ Samuel Austin.' Jessie® (deceased). Evylyn.® Malcolm.® 5- The earliest McElroy name that has come down to us is that of John,^ of Scotland. A descendant, probably a son of his, bear- ing the same name, with his wife Jean, lived and d. in the southern part of County Down, Ireland. His granddaughter, Mrs. Stitt, lived at Kilked. He may be set down as John.- At Dromantine, near Newry, not far from Kilked, there is a home that has been occupied by the McElroys during four or five generations. One hundred years ago it was the home of a John McElroy, and his father before him had lived in the same house, and, as his descendants understand, had also borne the name John. These two are probably the third and fourth generations. Children of John McElroy* (John,^ John,^ John^). 1. William^ b. October 28, 1796; m. Jane McMullen. 2. John^ d. in Mississippi. 3 Joseph^ d. in New Orleans. 4. SamueP occupies the old homestead at Dromantine. 5. Richard.^ A farmer near Dromantine. 6. James^ m. Susanna Evertson. Residence, Albany. William McElkoy Of Albany, 1796 — 1887 Albany McElroys 109 7. Margaret^ m. William Tate. 8. Jane^ m. Andrew Beatty. 9. Mary^ m. A. M. Ligget. William McElroy^ (John,* John,^ John,^ John^) b. October 28, 1796. Came to America 1822. Landed at Quebec, went to Philadelphia, then returned north and found employment in his trade as a linen weaver at Schaghticoke and other places in the State of New York, In 1824 he came to Albany and went into business as a grocer in company with Mr. John Ewart. Later he sold out and embarked in the dry goods trade, in which he continued, a successful merchant, until he retired from business at an advanced age. He was an elder in the Reformed Presby- terian Church and widely known and respected. In 1876 his children and their families united in a celebration of the grand- father's eightieth anniversary. There were hospitality and mirth, and memorial exercises of high literary character, which were greatly enjoyed, and which will be long remembered. He d. November 16, 1887, at the age of ninety-one years. Children of William and Jane (McMullen) McElroy Andrew.*' Margaret.® John E.« William H.« Emma.® Charles E.® Of these, only three are now living, Margaret and John E., of Albany, and William H., of New York City. William H. McElroy® (William,^ John,* John,^ John,^ John^) of Albany is widely known as a journalist, lecturer, poet and ready speaker on important public occasions. He was at one time editor-in-chief of the Albany Journal, and later prominent in the editorial corps of the New York Tribune. In 1894 he removed 1 10 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys to Rochester, N. Y., becoming editor of the Rochester Post- Express. In 1898 he returned to New York, where he has since resided. In the Albany Centennial Celebration, several years since, Mr. McElroy was the poet of the occasion. He has been honored with the merited title of LL. D. He has four children living: John Curtis, Eloise, Margaret Bradford and one younger. John E. McElroy^ (William,^ John,* John,^ John,^ John^) is a well-known citizen and prominent business man in Albany. His wife was Mary Arthur, daughter of Rev. William Arthur, and sister of President Chester A. Arthur. Mrs. McElroy was well-known in Washington during the presidency of her dis- tinguished brother, occupying the position of "Lady of the White House," and nobly meeting its responsibilities. They have had four children : 1. Mary Cotton' who m. Charles H. Jackson. They reside at Boise City, Idaho, where they have a large prune ranch. Their children are Jessie* and Charles Henry.® 2. William.'' An attorney, who d. several years since. 3. Jessie.'' 4. Charles Edward.'' William H. McElroy, LL. D. MICHIGAN-ALBANY McELROYS About the year 1809, David McElroy, who was b. near Belfast, in County Down, Ireland, emigrated with wife and six children to the United States, and settled at Paterson, N. J. The maiden name of his wife was Elizabeth Mills or Milroy, probably the latter. Some of his descendants say that his place of birth was Bellamy — perhaps Bellamy Hinch, the name of a parish and of a town in County Down. He was a merchant in the old country, and the family record indicates that two of his children were b. in Limerick. The family remained in New Jersey only two or three years and then removed to Canada, settling in the Province of Ontario. His children were twelve in number : 1. David b. in Ireland in 1798; lived to be ninety-seven years old. 2. Barney b. in Ireland in 1800. 3. Francis b. in Ireland in 1802 ; d. in 1880, aged seventy- eight. 4. Andrew b. in Ireland in 1805, 5. John b. in Limerick in 1807 ; lived to be ninety. 6. Mary b. in Limerick in 1809. 7. Jane b. probably in New Jersey in 181 1. 8. Catharine b. in Canada in 1813. 9. Hiram b. in Canada in 1816. 10. James b. in Canada in 1818. 11. Sarah b. in Canada in 1820. 12. Elizabeth b. in Canada in 1823. Resides at Woodslee, Ontario. Mrs. Henry North — the only survivor of her father's family. Andrew McElroy was a prominent man and at one time mayor of Hamilton, Can. 112 Scotch-Irish McElroys Francis McElroy, third son of David, m., in November, 1827, Mary Surerus, of Flamboro, East Ontario. They had ten chil- dren, all b. probably in Canada. Their names were: Jacob* b. in 1828. Andrew* b. in 1831. David* b. in 1833. Crocket* b. in 1835. Worthy* b. in 1838. Francis* b. in 1841. William* b. in 1844. Mary* b. in 1846. Robert* b. in 1849. Wesley* b. in 185 1. The career of Francis McElroy was checkered, adventurous, long and highly honorable. When twelve years old he was bound out to the owner of a cotton factory, and for a trivial ofifense was whipped by a brutal overseer with a cat-o'-nine-tails. Soon after this he and a younger brother ran away and went to the City of New York. Later he worked on a farm, and then went into a blacksmith shop and learned the blacksmith trade. At Lockport, N. Y., he carried on smithing business when the Erie canal was being built. Removing to Dundas, Ontario, he continued in business, and to draw custom kept a keg of free whiskey in his shop. Whiskey was cheap and he and almost everybody used it freely. Discovering at length that he was on the high road to ruin he threw the whiskey out of his shop, and became and continued a strong temperance man. When the rebellion of 1835 broke out in Canada, he was noti- fied, because of his sympathy with the rebels, to leave the country within two days. He removed with his family to Lockport, N. Y., and finally went from there to Texas. In 1838 he returned to Canada, settling at Gait. From and after 1852, his residence was on Lake Superior, where he owned a farm in a beautiful location which he called "The Vale of Avoca." Michigan- Albany M c Elroys 113 He was a large, able-bodied man, with unusual power of endur- ance. He followed blacksmithing more than fifty years, was a great reader, and had a wonderful memory, and because of his wide information, and his familiarity with history and poetry, was sometimes called "the learned blacksmith." He d. in 1880, at the residence of his son Francis, in Lapeer, Mich. Four of his ten children are yet living, viz. : Andrew McElroy, of Marine City, Mich. Francis McElroy, of Lapeer, Mich. Hon. Crocket McElroy, of St. Clair, Mich. Wesley McElroy, of Windsor, Ontario. Crocket* McElroy, fourth son of Francis, and grandson of David, who came to Paterson, N. J., was b. in Dundas, Can., in 1835. His school studies were pursued at Gait, Ontario, and in Detroit. He was m. at the age of eighteen at Ira, Mich., to Miss Julia Chartier. The lower rounds of the ladder he has been climb- ing were : grocer's clerk, store keeping, school teaching and justice of the peace. Mercantile, manufacturing and vessel inter- ests gradually opened up to him and have occupied his attention with eminent success and usefulness, at New Baltimore, Marine City and St. Clair to the present time. He has served as mayor of St. Clair, and was for two terms Senator in the Michigan Legislature. He is a man of active mind and wide information, with literary tastes and capabilities of a high order. He wields a facile pen, and is an orator of more than ordinary power. The children of Crocket and Julia McElroy are twelve in num- ber, as follows : 1. Frank McElroy, of Detroit. 2. Julia McElroy, deceased. 3. Mrs. Mary Lamon, Millington, Mich. 4. Victoria. 5. Andrew. 6. Margaret. 7. David Crocket. St. Clair, Mich. 114 Scotch-Irish M c Elroys 8 9 lO II 12 Carrie McElroy. St. Clair, Mich. Worthy, wife of Rev. G. N. Kennedy, Flint, Mich. Mrs. Flora Beck. Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Etta Recor. St. Clair, Mich. Grace McElroy. St. Clair, Mich. Frank McElroy, son of Crocket and grandson of Francis, resides in Detroit. He was mayor of Marine City in 1887, and representative in the Michigan Legislature in 1889. In 1893 he was a commissioner attending the Presbyterian General Assembly in Washington City, representing the Presbytery of Detroit. He m., in 1885, Miss Susie Robertson, daughter of Capt. John Robertson, of Marine City. The Robertsons were related to Robert Edwards, of Wales, of Edwards' estate fame. Three children have been given them : Harry R. Now deceased. Frances Pauline, aged six. John Burnham, aged four. The above information in regard to the Michigan McElroys comes from Frank McElroy, of Detroit. He writes : "My grand- ■ father often spoke about relatives in this country. He used to- say he had some uncles in Albany, N. Y." We conclude that David, who came to Paterson, N. J., was a I brother to James and Samuel, of Albany, and have set forth the genealogy in that way. LANCASTER COUNTY (PA.) McELROYS Shortly before the Revolutionary war two young men, brothers, Daniel and James McElroy, came from County Donegal, in North Ireland, not remote from Coleraine, where other McElroys resided, and settled in Lancaster County, Pa., near what is now New Holland. They m. sisters, natives of Glasgow, Scotland, by the name of Wishart. Daniel m. Rebecca, and James m. Sarah Wishart. The name carries us back to the times of John Knox, and recalls Knox's spiritual father, George Wishart^ who suffered martyrdom at St. Andrews, March i, 1546. The father of these two McElroy wives fought and was wounded in the war of the Revolution^ and received a pension from the Government ; and their husbands, Daniel and James McElroy, were also Revolutionary soldiers. Both of them lived and d. in Lancaster County, and each had a family of nine chil- dren — four sons and five daughters in each. Children of Daniel and Rebecca (Wishart) McElroy. 1. Eliza b. August 19, 1798; d. 1875. 2. Archibald, merchant, Philadelphia. Born April 20, 1800,* d. August 27, 1875. 3. Sarah b. July 29, 1802. 4. James b. December 29, 1804; d. January 25, 1888. 5. Martha b. August 29, 1807; d. 1875. 6. Mary A., b. January 29, 1810. 7. Rebecca b. August 17, 1813; m. Benj. F. Hill. A mar- ried daughter and two or three sons reside at Prophet's Town, 111. 8. William J., b. December 11, 181 5. 9. George W., b. July 23, 1818. ii6 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys Archibald^ McElroy. Merchant in Philadelphia. Born April 20, 1800; m., October 8, 1828, Sophia Maria Repplier. who was b. 1804, and d. October 27, 1886. Children of Archibald and Sophia McElroy. 1. Anna Catharine b. September 18, 1829; d. March 28, 1894. 2. Louisa Rebecca b. December 21, 1831 ; m. William M. Beckley, M. D., now deceased. They have three chil- dren: William, George and Annie M. 3. Charles Repplier b. August 4, 1833 ; d. June, 1850. 4. Ellen Eliza b. February 8, 1835. 5. Thomas Elmo b. October 21, 1836; d. February 6, 1874. 6. Daniel Repplier b. November 30. 1838 ; d. June 23, 1866. 7. John George Repplier b. June 30, 1842 ; d. November 26, 1890. 8. Joseph Repplier b. December 9, 1844. James^ McElroy (Daniel^) b. December 29, 1804; d. January 25, 1888, at Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pa. ; m., June 5, 1837, Rebecca Keith, who was b. October 14, 1818. Children of James and Rebecca McElroy. 1. Mary Jane b. April 22, 1838; m., September 29, 1872, B. S. Rumberger, who is at the present time (1900) sheriff of Huntingdon County, residing at Huntingdon, Pa. They have two sons : James McElroy b. August 9, 1873. Walter Wray b. April 13, 1876. 2. Mattie Elizabeth b. Huntingdon County, Pa., October 8, 1839 ; m., Vinton, Iowa, March 3, 1859, ^y R^v. James Kirk, Abraham A. Gerberich, who was b. February 25, 1834, in Lebanon County, Pa. She d. November 25, 1896. He d. August 7, 1879. Their children : (i) Ella H. b. March 18, 1861 ; d. May 10, 1879. William W. H. McElkoy Lancaster County (Pa.) M cElroys 117 (2) Jennie E. b. April 3, 1864; d. April 19, 1864. (3) William C. b. December 8, 1865; m., May 9, 1899, Blanche Brooks, Cedar Rapids. (4) Anna Louisa b. July 6, 1867 ; m. May 9, 1893, William F. Bacon; d. November 4, 1896. (5) Charles E. b. April 21, 1870; m., June 14, 1899, Amy E. Sawyer. (6) Frank L. b. October 2y, 1871 ; m., October 5, 1898, Har- riet L. Butterfield. Marion G. Bacon, grandchild, b. September 12, 1896. 3. Hays Hamilton b. April 13, 1841 ; m. Sarah Maria Red- field, October 13, 1864, who was b. March 26, 1864. He is a hardware merchant at Vinton, Iowa. They have two children : (i) Winnifred Price b. March 30, 1866; m.. May 23, 1888, David Charles Main, a banker. Wayne, Neb. (2) George Dexter b. July i, 1868. Assistant Cashier Farmers' National Bank, Vinton, Iowa. 4. Rebecca Wishart b. May 12, 1843; d. April 2, 1844. 5. Susan Alice b. January 20, 1845 J m- J- A. Newling, December 26, 1867; d. December 19, 1869. 6. Anna Rebecca b. May 2y, 1847; "!•» December 12, 1867, J. J. Shirk, of Tyrone, Pa. ; d. March 12, 1876, leaving five children : Anna, Minnie, Ella and Maimie, who are single, and Grace, wife of John W. Cox, and mother of Hazel, Ruth and Ethel. 7. James Stevens b. July 7, 1849; d. April 13, 1885. 8. Cassandra Gibson b. November 22, 1851. 9. George Scott b. November 25, 1853. 10. Ellen Keith b. December 25, 1855 ; m. George W. Eichel- berger, April 17, 1878. He d. September, 1882, leav- ing two sons: James Cloyd b. November, 1879, and Marion b. September, 188 1. 11. WilHam Watkins Hicks b. July 11, 1858. Is deputy sheriff Huntingdon County, Pa. Married Anna Mary ii8 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys Ayres, June 21, 1886. Three children d. in infancy; two survive : Winifred Wray b. October 11, 1877. Rebecca Irvin b. September 3, 1894. George W. McElroy^ (DanieF) b. July 23, 1818; m. ist, 2d, ; d. November i, 1887. A lawyer at York, Pa. Mayor, district attorney, soldier, three years in Union army. His children: 1. Horace b. 1853. Graduate United States Naval Acad- emy. Attorney, Janesville, Wis. 2. Robert J. F. Lawyer, now in United States Land office, Washington, D. C. 3. George A. York, Pa. Telephone Company. 4. Sarah E. York, Pa. Cashier. 5. Samuel S., printer, and Grace E., teacher. York, Pa. 6. John B. United States Hospital Corps, at Zamboango, P. L 7. Daniel W. Stenographer, S. P. R. R. Co. Los Angeles, Cal. JoHN^ George Repplier McElroy (Archibald,^ DanieF) b. June 30, 1842; d. November 26, 1890; m., November 2, 1869, in Philadelphia, Anna Baldwin Clayton, who was b. November 2, 1847; d. August 31, 1897. John G. R. McElroy graduated from the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1862, and received the degree of A. M. later from the same institution. He taught in the City of Chicago for a time and in 1867 became Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and History in his Alma Mater. Two years later he became Assistant Pro- fessor in Greek and History. After seven years' service he was promoted to the Professorship of Greek and the English language, which position he retained until his death in 1890. He was a very genial man and a popular and successful teacher. He was author of "The Structure of English Prose," and of numerous articles in philological journals. Lancaster County (Pa.) M c Elroys 119 Children of Prof. John G. R. and Anna McElroy. 1. Clayton* McElroy b. September 4, 1872; m., November 10, 1896, Margaret Jolliffe Crenshaw, who was b. July 6, 1874. Their son, Clayton^ McElroy, jr., was b. January 28, 1898. 2. Katharine* Allgaire m. November 26, 1899, Seth B. Capp. Joseph Repplier^ McElroy (Archibald,^ Daniel^) b. Decem- ber 9, 1844; m. Annie Burkhart Sellers, who was b. January 28, 1848. Their children: 1. Archibald b. December 30, 1878; d. June 16, 1879. 2. Rebecca Bird McElroy b. January 16, 1883. Children of James and Sarah (Wishart) McElroy, of Lancaster County, Pa. 1. Samuel d. at Mifflin, Pa., leaving two children. 2. James d. young in 1823. 3. David d. at or near Pittsburgh, leaving a large family. 4. Thomas m. and went west. Lived in Ohio, then in Iowa, and d. near Lincoln, Neb. 5. Jane d. single. 6. Martha m., resided and d. in Lancaster County. 7. Margaret m., resided and d. in Lancaster County. 8. Sarah m., resided and d. in Lancaster County. 9. Elizabeth b. January 25, 1819. Joined the Mormon Church when twenty years old in 1839, entered the Mormon community at Nauvoo, 111., in 1845 ! was with them in their long journey across the State of Iowa, and across the plains to Salt Lake, where she has resided ever since. On that journey she was m., in 1848, near the Missouri River, to Jacob Weiler, known in later years as Bishop Weiler, who d. in March, 1896, at the age of eighty-eight. Mrs. Weiler is the last survivor among the eighteen children of the two McElroy 120 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys families in Lancaster County. For a woman in her seventy-eighth year she writes a remarkably clear and satisfactory letter. She has the distinction of being, so far as we know, the only one of Covenanter lineage and McElroy name who carries the name Mormon. How many sister widows share her grief over the loss of their one husband we do not know. DELAWARE STATE McELROYS James and Hugh. Shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war, probably in 1784, James McElroy and two sisters — all unmarried — came to America from the Parish of Bally-na-hinch, in County Down, Ireland. They had no brothers, and their parents had recently died. With them came, from the same place, a cousin, Hugh McElroy. Arriving at Philadelphia, they turned their faces southward and settled in Delaware. They remained there some eight years and m. there. James m. Nancy A. Smith, while Hugh m. one of his McElroy cousins. Soon after 1790 they removed westward and settled in Wash- ington County, Pa., about ten miles from the town of Washing- ton. Their post office is believed to have been Shelby. Both of them continued there for some years and had families. Of the history of Hugh and family our information is very meager. One of his sons we are told settled some place in Northern Ohio, and another located, many years since, in Philadelphia. James McElroy had six sons. The eldest, William, was b. in Pennsylvania in 1793. The other sons were: Glasby, Henry, James, John and Alexander. The family removed in 181 6 to Morgan County, Ohio, where the father d. some years later. William and family removed to the State of Indiana in 1837, where he d. in 1872, aged seventy-nine. A son of his, J. S. McElroy, b. in 1834, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Missouri Valley, Iowa, having moved to Iowa in 1855. •122 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys Rev. James C. McElroy. John, son of James McElroy, resided in Morgan County, Ohio, and was the father of five sons, viz. : James C, William, Stephen C, Calvin G. and John L. James C. McElroy, eldest son of John, and grandson of James, was b. in Morgan County, Ohio, October i8, 183 1. Studied at Hanover College, Indiana, and at the Western Theological Semi- nary. Was a soldier, first lieutenant in the Thirteenth Kansas Infantry, from July, 1862, to the close of the war. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Fairfield, at Summit, Iowa, in 1868, and has been a diligent and faithful home mis- sionary in Iowa and Kansas to the present time. His first wife was a Miss Paxton, daughter of Rev. J. D. Paxton, D. D., of Beyrout, Syria. His present wife was Miss Eunice E. Greer, of Murrysville, Pa. They reside in Topeka, Kan. They have one child. Miss Abigail C. McElroy, a graduate of Oswego Female College, and now engaged in teaching. BRADDOCK (PA.) McELROYS William McElroy of Braddock, Pa., is a son of John McElroy, of Tempo, Fermanagh County, Ireland. He lived at Lisburn, County Down, two years, and in Belfast four years. In 1891 he m. Miss Sarah McElroy, whose father resided at Omagh, County Tyrone. Her brothers, John and William, and sisters, Lizzie and Anna, live at Braddock. Two married sisters, Mrs. Mary Dodds and Mrs. Jane Dodds, reside in Allegany, Pa. Rev. James C. McEluoy John-, James^ LiGONiER (PA.) Mcelroys About the year 1787 James McElroy, from County Down, came to Philadelphia, and subsequently located in Chester County, Pa. He had been preceded a year or two or three by a brother from County Down whom he greatly desired to find. His descendants, a hundred years later, tell us their grandfather inquired and hunted for that brother far and near and never found him. It was probably for that reason that he located where he did, some miles west from Philadelphia, and on the main route traveled by Scotch-Irish immigrants who journeyed toward the frontier. It is highly probable that the lost brother was the Hugh already spoken of settling in the State of Delaware. There were no tele- graphs, no daily papers, no daily mails, no cables and no kind of steam transportation in those days. Hugh might almost as well have been in Algiers as in Delaware, so far as James's finding him was concerned. James m. Betsy Douglass and three children were given them while in Chester County. The Delaware sojourners concluded to go to the far west, and with wives and babies and pack-horses and a milch cow or two, struck out for Washington County, Pa., passing some distance south of Lancaster on their way west. Not long after this James and wife concluded to go to the further west. They had two stout horses. On one of these the wife was mounted, carrying with her the cooking utensils and some sup- plies and the baby. On the other horse bedding and things were securely girthed, and on top a bed tick, open above, filled in part with clothes and other movables, and then two of the children ; the head of one, seven years old, bobbing up on the south side, and the head of another, five years old, peering out on the north side. The father, wearing hunting shirt and belt, with bridle rein in hand and gun on his shoulder, walked along side. Thus they 124 Scotch-Irish M c Elroys journeyed some 200 miles, along bridle paths, across valleys and streams, camping at night, and moving forward in the morning. At length their long journey ended in Ligonier Valley, some fifty miles east of Pittsburgh, where they and their descendants found home and happiness for many years. The sojourners from Dela- ware made their way to Washington County, locating some thirty miles south of Pittsburgh. And. there the two brothers — if our facts and inferences be correct — spent the remainder of their lives, not more than seventy-five miles apart, each wondering, and long- ing to know what had become of his brother. James and Betsy McElroy had four children : 1. Joseph Alexander, who m. Jane Parks. They had one child. He lost his life in a sudden and tragic manner. Was carrying a grain-cradle on horse back. The horse took fright and threw him, with fatal result. 2. John Douglass m. Sarah Menoher, and lived and died on the old homestead. He raised a large family and lived to the age of ninety-two years. 3. Mary m. Robert Halferty and had large family. 4. James b. in Ligonier Valley, in 1799; m. Ruth Nesbit, and removed to Northern Ohio in 1835. These McElroy friends have been identified all along with the United Presbyterian — originally Associate or Seceder — Church. The late Rev. Joseph Scroggs, D. D., was for many years their pastor. The children of James and Ruth McElroy in Ohio were eight in number. Two sons d. young. Four sons and two daughters are living in 1900, viz. : Alexander McElroy. Bedford, Ohio. David McElroy. Twinsburg, Ohio. Samuel McElroy. Madison, Ohio. James McElroy. Cleveland, Ohio. 85 Ledyard Street. Mrs. P. A. Simmons. Denver, Colo. Mrs. Mary Laburty. Prescott, Ariz. Ligonier (Pa.) Mc Elroys 125 Frank McElroy (James,* James,^ James,'-^ James^). Resides in Cleveland. 1349 Harvard Street. Of the descendants of John Douglass McElroy we have only a partial account. His son, Squire James McElroy, quite ad- vanced in years, occupies the old home at West Fairfield, Pa. Of his children, we have the names of three: 1. William Barr McElroy resided at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Died October 4, 1889. Leaving a large family. 2. James McElroy. West Fairfield. 3. Mrs. Fannie Wood. New Florence, Pa. William Barr McElroy m., February 20, 1866, Miss Jennie Graham Lytle. Children of William Barr and Jennie (Lytle) McElroy. 1. Hugh Lytle m., June, 1896, Anna Benedict. Resides Youngstown, Ohio. 2. James Ira. 3. Edward Halferty m. Agnes Mary Shea. They have three children. 4. Harry Arthur. 5. William Barr m., February 20, 1900, Maggie Shea. 6. John Francis. Editor of Progressive Farmer. Quincy, 111. 7. Ralph Graham. 8. Susan Mary. Rev. W. N. McElroy, D. D. DESCENDANTS OF ADAM Among the McElroys there are certain names that occur very frequently, John, James and WilHam. Then there are names that are unusual. Solomon and Crocket belong to this class. Now we meet with Adam. We cannot call it a new name, nor deny that it is a good name, nor question its claim to respect and veneration. Adam^ McElroy lived in County Down, where he married and had a family. His wife's name was probably not Eve. He came to America between 1760 and 1770, and settled in Eastern Pennsylvania, probably near Easton. From "Pennsylvania Archives" we learn that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His son John- enlisted, although under age, in Washington's army as a musician, filling the position of fife-major. Alexander,^ son of Adam, came to America some years later, about 1780. His wife was Mary Donaldson and their home was in Huntingdon County, Pa. At least two of their children were b. in Ireland, John^ and Adam.^ Their son Robert^ was b. in Pennsylvania in 1784. Their four daughters were Mary,^ wife of Robert Taylor ; Rachel,^ wife of William Marshall, who lived near Cleveland, Ohio ; Margaret,^ wife of John Simpson, and uncle to Bishop Matthew Simpson, and Mary,^ wife of John Daugherty. Adam McElroy,^ jr., had one son, and a daughter, Rachel,* who m. Thomas Hughes. John,^ son of Alexander, and grandson of Adam, sr., had two sons, James* and John,* and several daughters. They are sup- posed to be residing in Oregon and California. Robert,^ son of Alexander, and grandson of Adam, lived in Harrison County, Ohio, near Cadiz, and had ten children. Three 128 Scotch-Irish McElroys of the daughters are now deceased, Mary J.,* wife of Robert Anderson; Lucretia* and Ehzabeth.* Mrs. Rachel Crowner,* of Holyoke, Colo., and Mrs. Margaret Moore,* of Moulton, Iowa. Two sons are deceased, John Alexander,* who d. in infancy, and Joseph W.,* of Rosamond, 111., whose only son, William H.^ McElroy, lives at Galva, 111. The three living sons are Robert Hamilton* McElroy, of Hol- lister, California ; John A.* McElroy, of South Pullman, Chicago, and Rev. W. N.* McElroy, D. D., of Springfield, 111. Passing to the fifth generation, William N.^ McElroy, jr., son of Robert Hamilton, is at Gilroy, Cal. Francis^ and Ray^ Mc- Elroy, sons of John A., are in Chicago ; and Charles G.^ McElroy, of Peoria, and Robert Walter,^ of Springfield, are sons of Rev. Dr. W. N. McElroy. Rev. W. N. McElroy, D. D., was b. near Cadiz, Ohio, in 1832. Came to Griggsville, 111., in 1840, and was educated in the public and high school of that town. After spending some time in teaching, he entered, at the age of twenty-eight, in i860, upon the work of the ministry in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His charges have been Naples, Havana, Shelby ville, Blooming^on First, Champaign, Danville First, Decatur First, Grace Church, Jacksonville, and First Church, of Springfield. He has been pre- siding elder in the various districts of his conference sixteen years, and was for a time Acting President of Illinois Wesleyan University, from which he received the degree of D. D.. He has been six times a member of the General Conference. He was also a member of the First Ecumenical Conference, held in Lon- don, Eng., in 1881. He has been a contributor to the various church papers — Advocate and The Quarterly Reviezv — for thirty years past, and is now editor of The Illinois Methodist Journal. At the age of sixty-eight he enjoys vigorous health, is full of work, and seems to know nothing of any "dead line" beyond which he may not go. He is proud of his Scotch-Irish ancestry, and thinks that next to being "born asrain" is to be well-born. Descendants of Adam 129 Recurring to John McElroy, fife-major in Washington's army: After the war closed he m. a Miss Baughman, of Easton, Pa., struck out for the "Far West," and settled at Warrenton, Belmont County, Ohio. He made the first survey of Government lands in Eastern Ohio. He had several sons and daughters. His de- scendants are now widely scattered, and of them we have no definite knowledge. John McElrov Son ot Adam McElroy — Fife Major in Washington's Army MEADVILLE (PA.) McELROYS Capt. Joseph C. McElroy. Samuel McElroy b. in Scotland about 1743, came to America and settled in Baltimore in 1784. He removed to Meadville in 1800, where he d. in 1829, at the age of eighty-five. From what place he migrated in Scotland we are not informed. His son, John McElroy, was b. in 1784; m., in 1812, and d. in Meigs County, Ohio, in 1869, aged eighty-five. He had four sons and four daughters. His son, grandson of Samuel, Hon. Joseph C. McElroy, was b. in Meigs County, Ohio, in 1831. He has led a very active life, and is very widely and favorably known. A steamboat man, a California miner, a soldier, being captain in the Eighteenth Ohio Infantry during the civil war. After the war he was sheriff of his county, and member of the Ohio Legislature. He resides at Pumroy, Ohio, and has been engaged in manu- facturing and coal mining. He has four children and six grandchildren. He and family are connected with the Methodist Church. His son, Rev. B. L. McElroy, D. D., is a methodist minister, lately transferred from Ann Arbor, Mich., to Columbus, Ohio. Captain McElroy has been on duty for two or three years past in Washing- ton City. In the Fifty-fifth Congress he was doorkeeper to the House of Representatives, and in the present Congress has the position of postmaster. VIRGINIA Mcelroys William McElroy b. in North Ireland in 1798, came to America in 1819, when twenty-one years of age. He settled in Leesburg, residing there some twenty years, then removing to Charleston, W. Va. At a later time he removed to Cumberland County, Pa., and then to Fayetteville, Franklin County,where he resided from 1842 to 1876. At Leesburg he m. Elizabeth Beatty. They had six children : Mary Ellen (Byers). John William McElroy. Robert Fulton McElroy. Josiah Beatty McElroy. Ann Elizabeth. Jane. Robert Fulton McElroy, son of William, was b. at Leesburg, Va., November 12, 1828. He m., in 1853, Agnes Jane Renfrew, and in 1866, Miss M. E. Black. He resides at Steelton, near Har- risburg. Pa., where he is a member and elder in the Presbyterian Church. His children are : John Renfrew McElroy. Fayetteville, Pa. Josiah Beatty McElroy. Philadelphia. Frank Thompson McElroy. Steelton. James McElroy, who came from North Ireland before 1787, was among the early settlers of Huntingdon County, Pa., residing in what is called Stone Valley. His son, John McElroy, was b. in 1788. His grandson, Jackson McElroy, was residing in 1896, in the town of Huntingdon, Pa. An uncle to Jackson McElroy used to reside in Baltimore, but is now deceased. 134 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys In the latter part of the eighteenth century, Daniel McElroy, from North Ireland, migrated to Virginia, settling according to tradition, in Berkley or Loudoun County. His son Daniel came to Ohio probably in 1803 or '4, from Petersburg, Va., settling in Green County, near Cedarville. He had three sons : 1. Archibald b. about 1820. Resides, in advanced years, at Cedarville. 2. John J. McElroy b. Green County, Ohio, October 14, 1827. A physician, residing at Rossville, 111. Was surgeon of the 125th Illinois Infantry during civil war. His only daughter, Netta M., b. November i, 186 1, is the wife of Rev. A. G. Bergen, Cumberland Presby- terian minister at Mattoon, 111. His only son, John Howard, m. Miss Cora M. Allen, August 31, 1899. and is an attorney in Chicago. 3. Melancthon McElroy. Blairstown, Iowa. 4. Alexander b. 1837; came to Paxton, 111., 1857; m., 1865, Mary Hanley, who d. 1898. He resides at Paxton. County Judge of Ford County. Has two children : (i) Mrs. Margaret M. Westbrook. of Paxton. (2) John H. McElroy. A resident of Chicago. Robert Fulton McElroy MONROEVILLE (PA.) McELROYS William McElroy, from North Ireland, settled near Monroe- ville, Allegheny County, Pa., some fifteen miles east of Pittsburgh, at an early date, which we are unable to give. His sons were : John, Thomas, Robert and James. He had also three daughters. Thomas (son of William) had four sons: Thomas, Johnson, John and William. A son of this William, grandson of Thomas, m. Miss Isabella Patterson, of Beulah, Westmoreland County, Pa. His name is John H. McElroy. He resides in Oil City, and is an elder in the Presbyterian church. Robert G. McElroy, son of Robert, and grandson of the original William, was b. August 2, 1832. He m. Miss Elizabeth Donald, who was b. January 27, 1832. Their marriage occurred March 30, 1854. They have thirteen children, as follows : Mrs. Phebe M. Loughridge. Mrs. Lila C. Gill. William Cunningham McElroy. Mrs. Nancy K. Warner. James Donald McElroy. Robert Dunlap McElroy. John Cote McElroy. Thomas McMaster McElroy. Joseph Collins McElroy. Mrs. Sarah G. McFarland. Charles Fetterman McElroy. Orlando Metcalf McElroy. Mrs. Mary J. Cameron. In this fruitful family there are — in A. D. 1899 — an army of twenty-seven grandchildren. i BEAVER COUNTY (PA.) McELROYS About the year 1800 Matthew McElroy came from North Ire- land and settled in Beaver County, Pa. He removed in later years to Scotland, Ind., and d. there. He had three sons : Alexander b. in 1812. Joseph, of Holmes County, Ohio. John, who settled at Pleasantville, Iowa, and who d. at Indianola, Iowa. Alexander (son of Matthew) had two sons, viz. : Matthew (2d) b. in Holmes County, Ohio, in 1837, and who resides at Percival, Fremont County, Iowa. James A. McElroy. He settled in the Northwest corner of Missouri. Went to California in 1849, ^^^ ^- i" 1893. He left two sons and two daughters. The older son Gilbert A. McElroy was, in 1896, a student in the State University at Iowa City. A New York Physician. Dr. S. H. McElroy has been for some years a practitioner in New York City. His ancestors were among the early settlers at Scotland, Franklin County, Pa. The details of their family his- tory we have been unable to secure. Robert McElroy, of Philadelphia was b. near Coleraine, at a place called Flower Hill, in the County of Londonderry, Ireland, about the year 1800. His father, whose Christian name we have not, d. when Robert was quite young, leaving a daughter Mary and a son Daniel, and perhaps others. Robert came to Philadelphia about 1820. He m. a Miss Clements, a native of Newton Savilla, in County Tyrone, Ireland. 138 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys The ancestors of both Robert and wife came from Scotland at the time of the persecutions. A nephew of Robert, John McElroy, still resides at Flower Hill. Two nephews came to Philadelphia about 1850, one of them, Robert McElroy, settling in Baltimore. The other, James Mc- Elroy, went to Australia, where, it is reported, he was successful and rose to prominence. Robert McElroy d. in Philadelphia about the year i860, his widow surviving him three years. They had three children, one of whom d. in infancy. Their only son, William J. McElroy, lived all his days in Philadelphia. He was a lawyer widely known and esteemed. Di. R. M. Patterson speaks of him as "a lawyer of capital standing in Philadelphia." He was a member and ruling elder in the Tenth Presbyterian Church, of which Rev. H. A. Boardman, D. D., was pastor. His sudden and deplorable death occurred October 4, 1877, in a railroad disaster near Milford, N. J., occasioned by the breaking of a culvert on the Pennsylvania Rail- road in the midst of a storm. He left a wife and five children, two of whom have since died. The oldest, William, has been for some years in Portland, Ore. The widow, with her two daughters, Jennie and Bessie, occupies their old home in Philadelphia. As a testimony of the high standing of Mr. McElroy, we insert the following, written by his pastor, the late Dr. Boardman : "A disciple of Jesus, from his childhood his whole life bore testimony to the vigor of his faith, the fervor of his love, the purity of his motives, and the unselfishness of his aims. It was his high distinction to maintain, amidst the conflicts of a labori- ous profession and in every sphere of life, a spotless reputation for truthfulness, in tegrityhororable dealing and unostentatious benevolence, the beautiful and harmonious outgrowth of deep- seated and all-pervading Christian principle. The Bar is left to mourn one of its bright ornaments, and the Church, one of its most faithful, useful and beloved members." Beaver County (Pa.) M c Elro ys 139 Isabella McElroy, only daughter of Robert, was m. in Phila- delphia, October 8, 1856, Rev. J. B. Dales, D. D., officiating, to Rev. George Patton, an Associate Reformed Presbyterian minis- ter. For fifteen years he was pastor of the United Presbyterian Church, at Seneca, N. Y. In 1871 he accepted a call to the Third Presbyterian Church, of Rochester, of which he was pastor until his death in 1897, in his sixty-ninth year. Mrs. Patton continues to reside in Rochester with her two daughters and a son and two grandchildren. A PITTSBURGH FAMILY William McElroy, from County Fermanagh, Ireland, came to Philadelphia in 1824. His father, Dennis McElroy, was a schol- arly man, a professor in some institution of learning in the old country. He had five or six sons. From Philadelphia, William came west and settled at Beallville, Washington County, Pa. His son, William McElroy, jr., d. in Pittsburgh, leaving a widow, Mrs. Jane McElroy. Their son, John M. McElroy, is a clerk of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, residing in Edgewood. Hon. John Scott, of Philadelphia. Some years since a Female College was established at Decatur, Georgia, through the liberality of Col. George Scott, of that place, and called "The Agnes Scott Institute," in memory of the founder's mother. At its dedication, Hon. John Scott, a brother to the Colonel, delivered an address in which he referred to his mother's ancestry as including some who bore the name McElroy, and some who were among the heroic defenders in the siege of Londonderry in 1689. In reply to a letter addressed to him at Philadelphia, Mr. Scott gave us some particulars which are deemed worthy of insertion here. "Upon referring to some notes I made in the year 1848 of information given me by my mother and grandmother, both of whom were then living, I find as follows: My grandmother, Mary Stitt, was m. June 22, 1793, to William Irvine. She spoke of there having been a John McElroy among her maternal ances- tors in Scotland before their emigration to Ulster, without giving date, however. She gave the names of John McElroy and Jane McElroy as her maternal grandfather and grandmother in Ulster. Their residences were all in County Down, Ireland, and my 142 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys grandmother resided at or near to the town of Kilkeel, in that county." Mr. Scott has since passed to the other shore. He was a dis- tinguished citizen, an elder in the Presbyterian Church, solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and at one time United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Rev. George B. RIcElroy, D. D. SLiGO Mcelroys Samuel McElroy, b. and brought up in Sligo, Ireland, came to America and settled in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1821. He was b. in 1788. His mother was Cecelia Knott. Mr. McElroy came to the United States through Canada. He was a nail maker, and worked at that trade for some years in Pittsburgh, and then learned the trade of cut nail making by machinery. He afterward built and operated the first machine for making spikes in the City of Pittsburgh. He was a man who had the courage of his convictions, and became prominent all over Western Pennsylvania for his pro- nounced views on the anti-slavery question and his close con- nection with the "Underground Railroad." He d. in 1868, at the age of eighty years. The maiden name of his wife was Ann Beamish. Their eld- est son, Rev. George B. McElroy, D. D. of Adrian, Mich., was b. in 1824, became a member of the Metho- dist Protestant Church at the age of sixteen, and was licensed as a preacher on his eighteenth birthday. For the next ten years he filled various appointments in Pennsylvania and Virginia. July 22, 1 85 1, he m. Mary Good, of Johnstown, Pa. In 1852 he became principal of the Preparatory Department of Madison College, at Uniontown, Pa., the beginning of a career of activity and distinguished success in the line of higher education. In 1857 he removed to Henry, 111., and took charge of the North Illinois Institute, continuing in that work and in public school work for seven years. From 1864 to 1866 he was principal of Alleghany Seminary at Sharpsburg, Pa. In 1866 he accepted a call to become Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Adrian College, Michigan, where he has con- 144 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys tinued to the present time. He has been active in the work of instruction, and as a member and officer in the Board of Trustees. For seven years, from 1873 to 1880, he was President of the College, and later was made Professor of Systematic Theology. In 1881 he was a delegate from the Methodist Protestant Church to the Ecumenical Conference of Methodism, in the City of Lon- don, and presented an essay which was printed in their pro- ceedings. Mr. McElroy has his full share of academic honors : B. A. and M. A., from Madison College ; Ph. D. from Western Maryland College, and D. D. from Waynesburg College. His life has been one of good influence, indomitable energy and high achievement, John H. McElroy, of Pittsburgh, the second son of Samuel and Ann, was b. January 12, 1828. He is a self-made man and his life has been one of good influence and marked success. He attended the public schools in his early boyhood, but before reach- ing his teens had been registered as a learner in the practical school of iron work, machinery and business. In later years he attended night schools. He visited the eastern cities and in their machine shops learned lessons that were of value to him as machinist and engineer. He assisted in building the first carding machines that were used in Pennsylvania. He was foreman of the Fort Pitt Foundry Company, and at a later time foreman for a large iron works, resigning in 1879, to take charge as chief engi- neer of the Pittsburgh Fire Department. For a number of years past he has been identified with the Pittsburgh Gas Company, as secretary and consulting engineer. In 1856 Mr. McElroy m. Miss Jane Macklin, of Pittsburgh. They have five sons : William M. A lawyer in Pittsburgh. Samuel M. Cashier of the Citizens' National Bank. Orlando M. Connected with the Philadelphia and Consoli- dated Gas Companies. Sligo McElroys i^c Harmon N., who resides in the City of Mexico, auditor of the International Railway. John H. McElroy, jr., who is with the Shoen Pressed Steel Car Works. The third and youngest son of Samuel and Ann was: Hon. Samuel McElroy, who was b. in 1834, and who d. in 1888, at the age of fifty-four. He was a man of recognized ability and of great popularity. He represented Alleghany County four years in the Pennsylvania legislature. John H. McElroy i DELAWARE (OHIO) McELROYS Between 1825 and 1830 Rev. James McElroy, D. D., a Protes- tant Episcopal clergyman, came to America from Ireland, accom- panied by his wife, whose maiden name was Burrowes. He was of strictly Irish descent and could trace his line back full 400 years through McElroys and McGuires. During those four centuries the McElroys were known as soldiers and fighters, tak- ing an active part in almost all the conflicts of the times. They were involved in the Irish Rebellion of 1642, losing their estates in County Fermanagh, and some of them probably also losing their heads. Dr. McElroy was b. in Spiter Island, County Cork, in the ex- treme south of Ireland. His father, Charles McElroy, was a major in the British army. He d. in 1846, being ninety-six years of age. Two brothers of the doctor were also in the public ser- vice ; Francis in the navy, and another brother a major in the army, on duty in Jamaica. Dr. McElroy was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. Upon coming to this country he accepted a professorship in Kenyon College, at Gambler, Ohio, which he held for a number of years. He was subsequently on duty at Delaware, Ohio, for twelve years. He then removed to California, where he d. at Oakland, in 1880, at the age of eighty years. He left two daughters residing at Oakland. His two sons were prominent as soldiers and as citizens. Col. James Newton McElroy was a cadet for two years at West Point. In the civil war he was major and lieutenant-colonel. Twentieth Ohio Infantry; lieutenant-colonel. Sixtieth Ohio; major and judge advocate of volunteers. After the war, was appointed to positions in United States army : lieutenant, captain, 148 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys major and lieutenant-colonel. Was honorably discharged at his own request in August, 1870. He d. in December, 1870. Hon. Charles H. McElroy b. 1830. Was captain in Twen- tieth Ohio Infantry and promoted major Ninety-sixth Ohio. He has been in law practice at Delaware, Ohio, and judge of the Court of Common Pleas. His wife d. several years since. His son Frank is m. and resides in Indianapolis. John McElroy, of Washington City. About the year 1820, Patrick McElroy, with his wife Bridget, came from Belfast, North Ireland, and settled in Pennsylvania. Some years later he removed west to Coshocton County, Ohio. He was a stone cutter and was employed on public works through that region. He was a strict Presbyterian, and a man of gigantic build and strength. Tradition says he had no ribs, but a solid plate of bone instead, and double teeth in front. His wife was a very expert lacemaker. John, the younger of their two sons, d. young. Robert Adams McElroy, son of Patrick, m. Mary Henderson, and moved to Greenup County, Kentucky, where he d. about the year 1857. John McElroy, son of Robert, was b. in Kentucky in 1843. After the death of his father, and while yet a boy, he went to St. Louis and became a devil-boy in a printing office. He learned to set type and also to write shorthand. He was with the Union troops in the earlier operations around St. Louis. Afterward he went to Chicago, where he enlisted in Company C, McClernard Body Guard, which subsequently became part of the Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry, and served with the Army of the Tennessee until after the fall of Vicksburg. Then his regiment was transferred to the Army of the Ohio, under Burnside. On the third day of January, 1864, the battalion to which he Delaware (Ohio) McElroys 149 belonged, being on a raid up Powell's Valley into Virginia, and about forty miles from Cumberland Gap, where were the nearest United States troops, they were surrounded, at Jonesville, by Gen. William E. Jones's rebel brigade, and after a stubborn resistance lasting all day, were compelled to surrender. The pris- oners were taken to Richmond, later to Andersonville, and before the war closed John McElroy had been in the prisons successively at Savannah, Millen and Blackshear, Ga., and at Charleston and Florence, S. C. The Illinois battalion went into the fight at Jonesville, Va., with about 325 men and lost about sixty-five killed and severely wounded before they surrendered. Of the remaining 260, the Official Report shows 157 who were known to have died. The company of which McElroy was a member almost disappeared, not over thirteen or fourteen known to have come out alive. John McElroy's prison life occupied a term of fifteen months^ or until the close of the war in April, 1865. Of this, about nine months were at Andersonville. After the war he went to Chicago and reentered a printing office. He furbished up his shorthand and became a reporter, helping to start the Inter-Ocean. Leaving Chicago, he went to Toledo, Ohio, to accept the position of city editor of the Toledo Blade. He was managing editor of the Blade ten years, when he left, in 1884, to accept the editorship of the National Tribune at Washington City, which position he still holds. He is one of the three owners of the paper, the style of the firm being "McElroy, Shoppell & Andrews." While at Toledo he published an octavo volume of 650 pages entitled "Andersonville : a story of southern prisons." The work has had an immense sale, and now, twenty years after its publi- cation, is still in demand. He has also published several other books, stories, etc. His pen is facile and prolific, and his interested readers are numbered by the ten thousand. Mr. McElroy may be justly characterized as printer, soldier, journalist and author. 150 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys He served as Commander, Department of the Potomac, G. A. R., in 1896. He m. Miss Elsie, daughter of Dr. C. T. Pomeroy, of Ottawa, Ohio. Their two Hving children are : Karl P. McElroy, an examiner in the Patent Office. Elsie Pomeroy, wife of H. D. Slater, editor and proprietor of the El Paso, Texas, Daily Herald. NORTH CAROLINA McELROYS It is probable that McElroys were among the earhest settlers in North Carolina. There are several connections of the name — unrelated so far as we know — in different parts of the state. Yet they are all, beyond doubt, of Scotch-Irish stock. There is a Samuel J. McElroy, at Hopewell, Mecklenburg County, and a W. E. McElroy at Charlotte. We learn of a Col. Hugh McElroy, in Transylvania County, in addition to Col. John S. McElroy, of Madison County, mentioned elsewhere as related to the Kentucky McElroys. A letter came recently to hand from David McElroy, of Waynesville, N. C. His grandfather, Henry McElroy, lived in Lincoln County. He had a son, David McElroy, who removed to the State of Indiana some sixty years ago. He had a large family, and was reported later as about moving to California. Another son of Henry settled in Georgia. The father of our correspondent, James McElroy, lived in Haywood County. He had ten children, eight sons and two daughters. Four of the sons are yet living, Abra- ham, William, Johnson and David. Their father d. about 1870. David McElroy was b. April 15, 1830. He was m. in 1856 and has seven children, six daughters, and a son seventeen years old, whose name is John Battle McElroy. George McElroy, a Patriarch in Iowa. At Eldora, Hardin County, Iowa, on the 19th day of September, 1900, occurred the death of George McElroy, in his ninety-eighth year. He was b. at Castle Blaney, North Ireland, in August, 1803. His people were of Scotch-Irish Covenanter stock. He was one of a family of twelve children. He came to America at the age of eighteen and located in Philadelphia. He learned the 152 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys trade of marble cutter, and worked at that business more than thirty years. When over forty years of age he m. Margaret Sproull, who d. in 1898, a sister of Rev. A. W. Sproull, D. D., now at Perth Amboy. In 1857 George removed to Iowa, settling on a farm in Hardin County. About 1875 he sold his farm and removed to Eldora, the County seat. Since the death of his wife, about two years ago, he has lived with his son-in-law and daugh- ter, Mr. and Mrs. D. Wills. He was a good citizen and reputable Christian, a member of the Congregational Church. His surviv- ing children are : 1. George A. b. 1846. Resides in California. A conductor on Southern Pacific Railroad. Married Sarah Hart- man, 1867. Is a grandfather. Two married daughters in Colorado. 2. James G. b. 1848; m. F. E. Westfall, 1874. Resides at Eldora, Iowa. Traveling salesman. 3. Eliza Jane b. 1850; m. D. Wills, 1874. Eldora. 4. Robert W. b. 1853 ; ^n. in 1880. Conductor on M., K. & T. Railway. NEW BRUNSWICK McELROYS In County Derry, North Ireland, about the beginning of the nine- teenth century, lived Patrick McElroy. He had a considerable family, most of whom remained in Ireland. His son, James McElroy, b. about 1810, migrated, when a young man, to America, settling in New Brunswick. His wife was Nancy Rankin, of Garvagh-on-the-Bann. His later years were spent in Brook- lyn, N. Y., where he d. at the age of seventy-five. He is said to have had a strong facial resemblance to Rev. Joseph McElroy, D. D., of New York. There were McElroys in Philadelphia who traced kinship with him. Grandfather Patrick McElroy claimed that certain McElroys who were related to him had settled in Kentucky. James McElroy had seven daughters and one son. The Rev. Solomon C. McElroy. He was b. at St. John, New Brunswick, October 8, 1840, graduated from the University of New York in 1862, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1865. The thirty-five years of his ministry have been spent chiefly in Eastern Pennsylvania and in New York. His present residence is Jonesville, near Albany. Mcelroy pennings and personals Tribute to a Mother, Mrs. Mary McElroy, by Her Son, Crocket McElroy. (From the St. Clair Republican of April ip, 1894..) My mother lived to be eighty-four years six months and twenty- six days old and died on the 12th inst., at Jackson, Mich., where she was living with her daughter Mary. Her body was laid to rest on the 14th, at Lapeer, by the side of my father, who pre- ceded her thirteen years in entering the great hereafter. She was the mother of ten children, eight sons and two daughters, all provided with stout bodies and strong constitutions. Three children died before reaching the age of maturity, one of small- pox, one of cholera and one of wounds received in battle while serving as a soldier in the Union army. The seven children who reached maturity were all large and able bodied. At one time my father and mother and all their children would average in weight over 200 pounds each. Only five of the children are now living, who are named in the order of their ages as follows : Andrew, of Marine City; Crocket, of this city; Francis, of Lapeer; Mary (Mrs. S. D. Bailey) of Jackson, and Wesley, of Windsor, Ont. In her prime my mother was a woman of pride, ambition and great usefulness. She was noted for her strict integrity, remarka- ble industry and wonderful powers of endurance. She was a worker, and nearly all her life worked almost incessantly from early morn until late bedtime. Usually the first one up and the last one to bed, she would almost invariably do a longer day's work than any other person in the household, which included mechanics in the employ of my father. In those days there were no sewing machines and no gas or electric lights, and for many long hours at night when the children were all in bed, my mother would sit by the light of candles made by her own hands and 156 Scotch-Irish McElroys ply her dextrous needles making all kinds of garments from shirts and socks, to coats and caps. Ready made clothing was not heard of in those days, at least in our town, according to my memory. My mother did all kinds of work about her home, she was an expert gardener, and took pride in her gardening as in all her work. She would be among the first in town to have ripe straw- berries, green peas, onions and such things in the garden every summer. She was an excellent cook, milliner, dressmaker, tailoress and in fact could do any kind of work that women in those days were called upon to do, and do it well. My mother was a housekeeper from her nineteenth year until she was past eighty-two, a period of nearly sixty-four years. She never surrendered the power to rule and run her own house, but old age at last took it from her. Not one of her children possesses the ambition, the energy, or the powers of endurance that my mother had. Some of her splendid qualities may be observed trickling through the characters of her children, but none of them will live to show a record of hours of labor done, equal to that of their mother. Overshadowing all her other good qualities was my mother's intense love for her children. She taught them to be good and ruled them through love, but did not hesitate to enforce obedience by harsher means when necessary. I have tried all my life to realize and appreciate the immeasura- ble value of a mother's love and no effort I have ever made brought me back such rich returns of consolation and satisfac- tion, and in closing this poor sketch I wish to say to all persons who read it, (especially to the young) who have a mother to love, — love your mother. Do it not only from a sense of duty, but for love's sake, no matter what may befall your mother let her have the benefit of your love. Her eyes may grow dim and her ears get dull, but so long as you have a mother to love, continue to love your mother, and you may rest assured of reaping a rich reward in the up-building of your manhood and in soul satisfying comfort. M c Elro y P ennings and P ersonals 157 From "City of the Dead." Written by William Montgomery McElroy in 1863. The City of the Dead ! How grand its solemn temples rise ; To deeds of fame its tenants sleep, Or soar immortal in the skies. Tears are of no avail ; The broken bleeding heart, Cannot bring back the dead to life, Nor bid their pulses start. Oh, holiest memory, Though time's swift years run fast, With busy steps our thoughts will turn Along the shadowy past. The past we know ; The future is our anxious care ; We paint a heaven of bliss on high, And dream that we are there. Opening Stanza from a Poem on "The Wisconsin River." By William Montgomery McElroy. No Roman walked on Arno's side Or mused on Ario's falling tide With more delight than I have stood And gazed upon Wisconsin's flood. Its booming roar to me more dear Than aught that could salute my ear, Invites me oft, at set of sun. When tasks are o'er and labor's done, To wander on its grassy brink, Forget the world and idly think. 158 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys The Irvine Mothers. From unpublished manuscript of the late W. T. Knott, Ph. D. With whatever pride and veneration and honor the generations of the McElroy clan of this day revert to their noble paternal ancestors of a hundred years ago, how much more may they in truth and justice accord to their maternal ancestors of that day. "For if we have any good in us is it not greatly due to our good mothers rather than to our fathers?" The Irvines, the three sisters, Esther, Mary and Margaret, the honored and noble wives of Hugh, Samuel and James McElroy, the mothers, twelve decades ago, of the Kentucky McElroys, were of a family of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, ever true to the great principles of political freedom and religious liberty ; ever found side by side with their brother Covenanters, the McElroys and others, in defence of those principles — with them in every trial and trouble — suffering with them in all the persecutions that it was their lot to endure. The Irvine name in Scotland reaches far back into the centuries that are past, and may be found all along the line of the meagre history of the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries, either in Scotland or North Ireland. Early in the eighteenth century, about the year 1729, we find the good ship "George and Ann" bearing the Irvines and their compatriots and kinsmen, the McElroys, McDowells, McKees, McCunes, McCampbells and many others over the broad waters of the Atlantic to the shores of America. Nor was the name Irvine more illustrious and noble among the hills of Scotland, and the counties of Irish Ulster, than it was destined to become in the colonies of America. The name is imperishable in the annals of early American history, and found among the bravest generals who directed the armies during the French and Indian wars. It found a place in every rank in the battles for American independence. The Irvines were educated men for that day, and while we find them foremost as statesmen and soldiers on the secular battlefields, we find also the name prominent as valorous. M c E Iro y P ennings and P ersonals 159 earnest, and zealous soldiers under the Great Captain of the armies of Jehovah as ministers of the Presbyterian Church. Then well may the generations of to-day, and those to follow, descendants of the McElroys and Irvines, be proud of their lineage, and of the commingled blood of those noble families that courses in their veins. A Poem by William H. McElroy. (Read on the occasion of the eightieth birthday of William McElroy of Albany, N. Y., October 28. 1876.) A truce to politics to-night; Let rival parties be; All patriotic toasts we slight — "My country" not "of thee" Our native land we will not sing. Nor e'en our native town, But each will hearty tribute bring To Erin's County Down. Beyond a waste of waters wild. Just eighty years ago, Above a lusty new-born child Fond hearts were bending low ; And, faith, his parents did declare That any honest jury Could call their boy beyond compare In Dromantine or Newry. The years transform the baby weak, And whisper tales romantic, That tempt him to his fortune seek Beyond the wild Atlantic. At length delay he will not brook, Tells Erin he "must leave her," And, presto! he's in "Schaghticoke" Her first "imported" weaver. i6o Scotch-Irish McElroys He did not take from Dromantine A bulgy pocket-book, Nor stocks, nor bonds, nor raiment fine, When he his home forsook. But in their stead he bore away What's better worth possessing, A help for every after day, — His dear, good father's blessing. The new world caught him to her breast That friendless Irish boy, And cried "Just up and do your best ;" You're welcome, McElroy ! I've room enough, and room to spare, My skies are free as sunny ; And those who will but do and dare Shall gain my milk and honey. He loved the new world, bluff and free, And with the rule that's golden. He won his way this side the sea As in the world that's olden. He did his best — was brave and true, Hewed close to honor's line. And friends and fortune came to him, That boy from Dromantine. PERSONALS Abby and Mary, daughters of Rev. John M. McElroy, were born in Ottumwa, Iowa, and trained in the pubUc schools and in the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, with the addi- tion of some experience as teachers in Ottumwa schools, and as helpers in the work of city missions at the East End Chapel. From this the transition was easy to the work of the Young Women's Christian Association, which, about that time, was be- ginning to attract public notice. Abby became secretary of the Association at Kansas City, Mo., and afterward had charge of a newly organized association at her home in Ottumwa. In 1897 she was invited to Newburgh-on-the-Hudson, where two full years of successful work followed. In January, 1900, an urgent call took her to Nashville, Tenn., where in a wide and important field, she has been on duty the past year, with appreciation and success. Mary began her work in the Association at Topeka, Kan., and was afterward State Secretary for Illinois, with headquarters at Galesburg. By the International Committee she was sent to New York City to take charge of the newly organized Harlem Associa- tion. It was the day of small things. The work was new and but little known, occupying rented rooms, with small membership and income. Nine years of service and management have witnessed gratify- ing expansion and progress, and have attracted a host of appre- ciative helpers. The association now has a membership of eleven hundred, with six hundred young women in educational classes, and three hundred in gymnasium classes, occupying their own property, a commodious home valued at $120,000. In the summer of '98 the two sisters were delegates in attend- ance upon the World's Association Conference in the City of i62 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys London. Mary remained, upon invitation of the London Council, and had charge for some months of their Central Institute, with a view to introducing certain American methods and plans which might be helpful in the London work. Returning the following winter, she resumed her position, where she continues, as General Secretary of the Harlem Young Women's Christian Association, of New York City. NOTES AND NAMES In the city directories of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago the McElroy names number, in each, between seventy and eighty. New York has fifty-nine names, Boston twenty-seven, New Orleans eleven, and Toledo eleven. A portion of these are Scotch- Irish, but a majority are Irish-Irish. If an enumeration were made of all the descendants of the McElroy fathers who came to America from Ulster, how many would there be? No one knows. Perhaps as many as fifty thousand ! A study of the Christian names in vogue among our people is interesting and instructive. Those Scotch and Celtic fathers were religionists. The name Hugh, which means "Fire," carries us back to the times and heathen rites of the Druids, beyond the pale of history. The name Patrick is not the exclusive property of the Catholics. There are many Scotch Patricks. All classes of Celtic Christians venerate the name of Saint Patrick, the devoted missionary who brought the Gospel to Ireland long before the opposing camps of Catholic and Protestant were established. The many Bible names, Abraham, Joseph, Sarah, Samuel, David, John, Mary, Elizabeth, show us what book they were most familiar with. They were patriots, naming their sons for the reigning sovereign, giving Jameses without number, and, after the acces- sion of the Prince of Orange, changing to William. In this coun- try they have had many George Washingtons, while it is note- worthy that in naming their boys those Scotch Presbyterians have honored John Wesley and George Whitfield more than Calvin and John Knox. Kinship among our different McElroy tribes is, from the stand- point of genealogy, worthy of notice. We are all one as to our Scotch origin. It is probable, too, that the number of our fore- bears who lived in Scotland was not large. More than half of 164 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys our American McElroys came from County Down, Ireland, and tradition has it that "all the McElroys in County Down are de- scended from three brothers who came from Scotland time of the persecutions." One of these, Hugh, bought a tract of land at Kate's Bridge, in the Parish of Bally-na-Hinch, in the central part of the county, where some of his descendants still reside ; and there at Bally Roney Church, in unmarked graves, the fathers lie sleeping. NOTES— KINSHIP There is a presumption that all our tribes which trace back to that parish, Bally-na-hinch, are related to each other. These in- clude the McElroys of Big Spring, of Ligonier, the Delaware State McElroys, and probably also those of Albany and Michi- gan. Wherever we find Hugh as a prevalent and honored name there is room for surmise that the tribe is descended from Hugh, of Kate's Bridge. The Sligo McElroys, now at Pittsburgh and elsewhere, have a claim, based upon tradition, of kinship with the Albany Mc- Elroys, but whether with William from Dromantine, or with James and Samuel from the northern part of the county, we are not sure. The large tribe of Michigan and Ontario McElroys are also pretty certainly related to those of Albany. The Bucks County McElroys, the oldest tribe in the country, have also a tradition, wide-spread and persistent, of kinship with those of Albany, relating probably to Alexander McElroy, who lived many years near Rome, N. Y. There is also good reason to believe that the McElroys of Bucks County and those of Kentucky are nearly related. James, the patriarch of the Kentucky tribe, upon arriving in this country with his young wife in 1729, stopped for a time in Bucks County, where the other McElroy family had located twelve years earlier. The Christian names of these two tribes are similar, Archibald being a favorite. The father of James probably bore that name. We ordinary McElroys must be on our guard against too great effort to establish kinship in certain directions. It would be a great honor to be related to Agnes McElroy Scott, the great- grandmother of Mrs. Carrie Scott Harrison, wife of President i66 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys Benjamin Harrison, and to Agnes's brother-in-law, Capt. Matthew Scott, who was the great-grandfather of Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes. None of us would feel humiliated by being classed with the Kentucky people, who have given to the country and to history the orator and statesman, Ex-Governor Proctor Knott. Nor would we be grieved to be compelled to acknowledge relationship with the Schaghticoke weaver, of Albany, whose family is con- nected by marriage with the late President Chester A. Arthur. Our McElroys in colonial times were not lacking in patriotism. In "Pennsylvania Archives" Vol. XHI, p. 151, we find, among the names of Revolutionary soldiers, the following McElroys : James, Daniel, Charles, James (2d), Adam, John and William. Among enrolled militiamen in Bucks County were George and Alexander, and Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald McElroy. In Virginia and the Carolinas there were at least three : John, Archibald and Samuel, and probably Hugh and James additional. In the war of 1812, as we know from traditional and other sources, the McElroys were not wanting in devotion to their coun- try's service. From official records I have obtained a list of McElroys who have served in the army and navy for which I am indebted to the courtesy of John McElroy, of Washington, D. C. Omitting names which appear elsewhere in this history, the following may be noted : 1. Capt. James F. McElroy, of Pennsylvania. Served in Six- teenth United States Infantry throughout the war with Great Britain. 2. William McElroy, Ohio. Captain Seventy-second United States Colored Infantry ; later first lieutenant Thirty-ninth United States Infantry. 3. James P. McElroy. First Lieutenant Sixth Ohio Battery. 4. James A. McElroy. First Lieutenant Second Ohio Cavalry. 5. Samuel D. McElroy. First Lieutenant 129th Ohio. 6. Clesson R. McElroy. First Lieutenant Thirteenth Ver- mont. Notes — Kinship 167 7. Samuel McElroy. Second lieutenant, 211th Pennsylvania. 8. William B. McElroy. Adjutant, Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry. 9. William J. McElroy. Second Lieutenant, Sixty-third Pennsylvania. 10. Robert McElroy. Captain, Third Missouri State Cavalry. In the Navy. Archibald, Lieutenant. Appointed May 11, 1798. Daniel R. McElroy. Second assistant engineer. Samuel McElroy. Third assistant engineer. Horace McElroy. Ensign. Thomas McElroy. Gunner (1861), master (1864). George Wightman. Appointed from Michigan. Graduated 1878. Now lieutenant with the Wisconsin. Among our Celtic forebears in the dim and distant past, the doings of heroes and families and clans and their chiefs were rehearsed, on special occasions, by the bards, in the numbers of rude verse, with pantomime and extravagance and with small regard for the line between fact and legend. The progress of civilization has retired the ancient bard and written history has taken the place of his rude poetry. In regard to family history, however, the pen has not come into universal use. There are intelligent people and good citizens busied with the activities of social and business life who have no written family record. That they may have had grandparents they do not call in question, but they do not know who they were. By and by they or their children will wake up to the importance of knowing something about ancestry. There may be an estate in question, or there may be a desire to establish connection with the honored ones of Colonial or Revolutionary times. Let us hope that this family history will tend to encourage and promote the Family Record, in the Family Bible, with fullness of names, dates, changes and localities. i68 Scotch-Irish M c Elroys The fullest and best record we have met with is that of the late Samuel McElroy, C. E., of Brooklyn. Another record of much importance comes to us from A. A. Cassil, Esq., of Mount Vernon, Ohio. When a lad of fourteen he wrote out the history of his tribe as given by his aged grand- aunt, dating back from 1769. Dr. Knott, however, gives us the fullest account of the most numerous tribe, the Kentucky McElroys, the early facts and inci- dents of which were given him by his venerated grandfather, who lived to be almost a centenarian. The preparation of this McElroy History has required some labor and care, and has involved a very extensive correspondence. We have tried to have it accurate, yet, we doubt not that errors will be discovered in it. Names and dates have been in some instances incorrectly reported to us, and the penmanship was not always easily deciphered. The author begs leave to say, however, that the work has accorded with his tastes and has afforded him some satisfaction. Our wide correspondence with many whose faces we have never seen has been very satisfactory ; marked by courtesy and appre- ciation and a just family pride. It is an honor to be identified with such a people and with their history. We cannot but admire their rugged strength, their conscientious devotion to what they thought was right, their fearlessness amidst peril, their patriotism, and their Protestantism. Two thoughts have been to us matters of special interest. First, the oneness of the Scotch-Irish Americans in general, and of the McElroys in particular, even amid some diversity of religious name. The greater part of us are Presbyterians, with high regard for John Knox, and loyal to Presbyterian faith and order ; and of this number some are United Presbyterians and some are Reformed Presbyterians, or Covenanters. Some of our num- ber are Episcopalians, admiring the conservatism and sound doctrine, and pleased with the order and worship of the Episcopal Church. Some are Methodists, admirers of John Wesley, and deeming it an honor to be seen walking in his Notes — Kinship 169 footsteps, even as he followed in the steps of the Master. Others yet, renouncing all authoritative human creeds, accept the Bible as their one symbol and desire no other name than Disciple or Christian. We do well to remind ourselves, that John Knox was for years an Episcopal clergyman, using the liturgy and assisting in its revision, and that he had the honor of declining a bishopric in the English church ; that Wesley was an Episcopal clergyman to the close of his long ministry, and that the form of govern- ment in the churches which bear his name is not Prelacy but Presbytery; and that Alexander Campbell was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, educated for the Presbyterian ministry. We are all one in acknowledging the supreme authority of the word of God, and we are one family in heirship to that civil and religious liberty for which our forefathers contended in Scotland. It is our right to be Methodists, or Disciples, or Episcopalians, or Presby- terians, without asking permission of any earthly power. Our remaining thought relates to our country ; of wide extent, with a teeming population, a heroic past, and a magnificent future. McElroys are found in every part of it, probably in every state in the Union, and north and south of every parallel of latitude. In our late deplorable civil war they were in opposing camps, and confronted each other on the field of battle. That was one trouble, there were so many Scotch-Irish on both sides, — conscientious, stubborn, heroic men, not easily whipped and who did not know when they were whipped. Let us be thankful that the war is over, and that the asperities and ill-feeling pertaining to it are passing away. As we received reports from southern correspondents, and read the names of soldiers — fallen, or surviving — Hugh, John, Samuel, William, Frank, it seemed like the roll-call of our own grandfather's family. And our Confederate kinsmen, as they look through this family history, may have a kindred feeling as they note the names of federal soldiers, Hugh, John, Samuel, James, Thomas, Robert, Charles and Joseph ! Time and Providence have had a wonderfully unifying power. One name, one history, one country, one flag! It is not claimed that we have found and registered all the lyo Scotch-Irish McEIroys Scotch-Irish McEIroys in America. It is only an approach toward it. We have done the best we could. A few — a very few — made no reply to our letters of inquiry, were "dumb with silence," and of course their names and records do not appear. There must be many of our people in California. From most of our cor- respondents came the report of some member of the family having gone to California, but no address given. Our inquiries have brought courteous replies from several Catholic McEIroys, of the class that Froude speaks of as Irish- Irish. Hugh McElroy, a merchant of Pittsburgh, Pa., and James W. McElroy, city attorney of Baltimore. From several sources we hear of a "Father John McElroy," Catholic priest, who died a few years since at Frederick, Md., at the age of ninety-five. We hear of a Professor McElroy, who figured as a teacher in New York City some forty years since, principal of public school in Baxter street ; a learned scholar, and a successful teacher, with humorous and fun-loving peculiarities which made him immensely popular with his "boys." He had a unique way of taking notice of Washington's Birthday. On the evening preceding, just before dismissal, he would have his boys all drawn up in line, and very gravely would say: "Now boys, what day is to-morrow?" In chorus they would answer, "Washington's Birthday." "Who was George Washington ?" the teacher would ask, still with solemn formality. The answer came promptly "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," and then all would go into a vigorous breakdown performance, stepping in unison, and yet with the gravity of a regular school exercise. "Right ye are," McElroy would reply, "take a holiday to- morrow." The boys did not forget this drill. Years later when their teacher was in his grave, the old boys appeared, during the Washington Centennial in 1889, upon the streets, in groups, ask- ing in unison "Who was George Washington?" Then giving the reply and the break-down. The prank took, and spread almost all over the city, though few knew its origin. The Professor's Christian name we did not learn, and whether he really belonged to the Scotch stock was a question that we did not care to press too far. Notes — Kinship 171 A Carolina correspondent writes under date of November 24, 1900, that a Mr. William McElroy, bachelor, died intestate at or near Asheville a few years ago, leaving an estate of $10,000, for which no heirs had been found unless very recently. The matter is believed to be still in the Probate Court at Asheville, N. C. Our latest item of McElroy news is from the San Francisco Chronicle of December 9, 1900. Sister Sanghamitta, the Budd- hist nun, had just arrived, returning from Ceylon. She was born in Texas, daughter of Captain McElroy, who is said to have been of old Pennsylvania stock. Her mother was a Castillian. Her early years were passed in Mexico. At the age of sixteen she married a Mr. Bates and resided in Oakland, where she was left a widow with three children. Her second husband was Count Canavarro, Minister from Portugal to the Hawaiian Islands, by whom she had a son, now sixteen years old. Some years ago she became enamored of Theosophy, and under the tutorship of Dharmapala, the Buddhist priest, who figured in the parliament of religions, was inducted into the mysteries of Buddhism. Three years ago she renounced Christianity and turned her back upon her family and native country and went to the Orient as priestess and missionary. She will return, later, to her mission and medita- tion in India. The McElroys are human, all of them fallible, and some, erratic. INDEX PAGE BUCKS COUNTY McELROYS 15 KENTUCKY McELROYS 21 Abram,* (Samuel,^ James^) 31, 34 Abram,* (Samuel,^ Samuel,^ James^^) ... 33 Addie,^ (Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel,^ James^) 36, 46 Alvey N.,* (James P.,' Samuel,- James^^) 34 Alice," Keturah,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ James^) 42 Anne," (Proctor,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ James^) 42 Annie," (Frank B.,* James P.,' Samuel,^ James^) 44 Apolita,* (James P.,* Samuel,* James^) 34 Archibald,^ (James^) 22 Archibald,' (Archibald,^ James^) 23, 24 Archibald,* (Archibald,* Archibald,^ James^) 26 Alice Ann,* (William I.,* James,^ James^) 30 Barbara," (Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,^ James^) 36 Belfield,* (James P.,* Samuel,^ James^) 34 Benjamin,* (Samuel,* Samuel,^ James^) . 33 Benjamin," (He-'-^y,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ James^) 41 Benjamin A.," (Benjamin N.,* Abram,* Samuel," James^) 44 Benjamin N.,* (Abram,* Samuel,^ Jamesi) 34, 44 Bettie F.," (J. A. B.,* Abram,* Samuel,^ James^ ) 44 Brenetta,* (James P.,* Samuel,^ James^) 34 Buckner," (Abram,* Samuel,* Samuel, ^ James' ) 42 Camilla,* (Wi»liam I.,* James,* James') . 30 Carrie L.,* (Hiram," Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,* James'^) 47 Caswell,' (Hiram," Hiram,* Hugh,* Sam- uel,* James'-) 47 PAGE Cecil,* (William E.,* Samuel,* James') 32, 39 Celia," (Robert,* William E.,* Samuel,* James') 39 Cetta,' (John," James C.,* John,* Sam- uel,* James') 36 Charles," (Franklin B.,* James P.,» Sam- uel,* James') 44 Charlotte,* (William I.,* James,* James') 30 Cicely Ann,* (Abram,* Samuel,* James') 35 Clarence U.," (Abram,* Samuel,* Sam- uel,* James') 42 Cordelia F.," (J. A. B.,* Abram,* Sam- uel,* James') 45 Courtney W.,' (Hiram," Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,* James') 47 Edward H.," (Robert,* William E.,* Samuel,* James') 38 Edward," (Addie," Hiram,* Hugh,* Sam- uel,* James') 46 Effie," (Samuel G.," Hervey,* Samuel,* Samuel,* James') 52 Eliza,* (William E.,* Samuel,* James,') . . 37 Eliza J.," (James M.,* Archibald,* Archi- bald,* James') 25 Elizabeth,* (James,* James') 29 Elizabeth,* (Samuel,* James') 31 Elizabeth,* (Samuel,* Samuel,* James').. 33 Elizabeth,* (Abram,* Samuel,* James').. 35 Elizabeth," (James C.,* John,* Samuel,* James') 32 Elizabeth M.," (Hervey,* Samuel.* Sam- uel,* James') 40 Ella,' (John," James C.,* John,' Sam- uel,* James') 36 Emma," (Hugh," Hiram,* Hugh,' Sam- uel,* James') 45 Eva M.," (J. A. B.,* Abram,' Samuel,* James') 45 Esther,' (James,* James') 29 Esther,* (William I.,* James,* James').. 30 Ellen," (W. C* Archibald,' Archibald,* James') 25, 27 Ella,' (Hugh," Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel,* James') 46 174 Index — Kentucky M c Elroys PAGE Rev. Franklin B.,* (James P.,* Samuel,^ James^) 34. 44 Franklin,^ (Franklin B.,* James P.,^ Samuel,^ Tamest) 44 Franklin.s (Robert,* William E.,^ Sam- uel,- James^) 39 Frank B.,^ (Samuel R.,* William E.,3 Samuel,^ Jamcs^ ) 40 George Whitfield,* (^amuel.s Samuel,^ James^) 33 George Whitfield,^ (Abram,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ James^) 42 George Sneed,^ (Hugh S.,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ James^) 43 Harvey,* ( ,* Hugh,^ James^) 42 Henry,* Samuel G.,^ Hervey,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ James^) 52 Herbert Lee,' (Robert,* William E.,* Samuel,- James^) 39 Hervey,* (Samuel,* Samuel,- James^) . . 40 Hervey,' (Hervey,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ James^) 41 Hiram,* (Hugh,* Samuel,^ James^) 36 Hiram,^ (Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,^ James^) 47 Hiram,* (Hiram,^ Hiram,* Hugh,* Sam- uel,2 James*) 47 Hugh,2 (James*) 22 Hugh,* (Hugh,2 Jamesi) 28 Hugh,* (Samuel,^ James*) 30 Hugh Sneed,* (Samuel,* Samuel,^ James*) 43 Hugh,^ (Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,^ James*) 36 Irvine,^ (Paul I.,* William E.,* Sam- uel,* James*) 38 Isaac I.,^ (Proctor,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ James*) 43 James* 21 James,* (James*) 29 James.* (Archibald,- Jarccs*) 23 James,* (Hugh,* James*) 28 James A.,* (James,^ James*) 29 James P.,* (Samuel,* James*) 33 James M.,* (Archibald,* Archibald,* James*) 25 James F.,* (William E.,* Samuel,* James*) 39 PAGE James C.,* (John,* Samuel,* James*) .... 31 James A. B.,* (Abram,* Samuel,* James*) 35 James D..^ (Samuel R.,* Archibald,* Archibald,* James*) 26 James,'* (Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,* James*) 36 James C.,' (Robert,* William E.,* Sam- uel,* James*) 39 James E.,* (Samuel R.,* William E.,* Samuel,* James*) .... 40 James A. B.,° (J. A. B.,* Abram,* Sam- uel,- James*) 44 James,^ (Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,* James*) 47 James,* (John W..^ John,* John,* Archi- bald,* James*) 23 James M.,* (William R.,^ Samuel R.,* William E.,* Samuel,* James*) 5^ Jennie,^ (Paul,* William E.,* Samuel,* James*) 38 Josie," (Samuel G.,^ Hervey,* Samuel,* Samuel,* James*) 52 John,* (James*) 22 John,* (Archibald,* James*) 23 John,* (John,* Archibald,^ James*) 23 John,* (Hugh,* James*) 28 John,* (Samuel,* James*) 31 John L.,* (Abram,* Samuel,* James*)... 43 John VV.,6 (John,* John,* Archibald,* James*) 23 John,' (James C.,* John,* Samuel,^ James*) 35 John S.,« (John W.,' John,* John,* Sam- uel,* James*) 24 John," (Hugh,' Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,* James*) 46 John,9 (Addie,' Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,* James*) 46 Keturah,* (William E.,* Samuel,* James*) 33 Keturah J.,* (Samuel,* Samuel,* James*) 33 Keturah,' (P. E-A-ards,* William E.,* Samuel,'' James*) 37 Laura B.,' (John L.,* Abram,* Samuel,* James*) 43 Len,' (Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,* James*) 47 Len,* Hiram,' Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,* James*) 47 Lilly,' (Samuel R.,* William E.,» Sam- uel,* James*) 40 Lilly,* (John.' James C.,* John,' Sam- uel,* James*) 36 Index — Kentucky M c Elroys 175 PAGE Litie,^ (Abram,* Samuel,^ Samuel,^ James^) 42 Lizzie,* (Samuel G.,^ Hervey,'' Samuel,^ Samuel,^ James^) 52 Lucy Ann,'* (William E.,^ Samuel," Jamesi) . 32, 39 Lucetta,^ (James C.,* John,^ Samuel,^ Jamesi) 31 Lucy,* (John,^ James C.,* John,^ Sam- uel,^ James^) 35 Margaret Y..,^ (James M.,* Archibald,^ Archibald,^ James^) 25 Margaret,* Archibald,* Archibald, - James^) 24 Margaret,^ (Hugh,^ James^) 28 Margaret,* ( James,^ James^) 29 Margaret,* (William I.,* James,^ James^) 30 Margaret,* (Samuel,^ James^) 30 Margaret,* (William E.,* Samuel,- James^) 32 Margaret H.,^ (Robert,* William E.,* Samuel,^ James^) 38 Martha,* (Archibald,* Archibald,^ James^) 27 Martha E.,^ (James M.,* Archibald,* Archibald,^ James^) 25 Martha E.,^ (Samuel R.,* Archibald,* Archibald,^ James^) 27 Martha,^ (Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,^ James^) 36 Martha L. R.,^ (Hugh S.,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ James^) 43 Mary,* (Hugh,^ James^) 28 Mary,* (James,^ James^) 29 Mary,* (Samuel,^ James^) 31 Mary M.,* (Abram,* Samuel,^ James^) . . 34 Mary E.,*- (James M.,* Archibald,* Archi- bald,- James^) 25 Mary Ann,^ (James C.,* John,* Samuel, ^ Jamesi) 31 Mary E.,^ (Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,^ James^) 36 Mary L.,^ (Robert,* WilHam E.,* Sam- uel,^ James^ ) 38 Mary R.,^ (Samuel R.,* William E.,* Samuel,^ James^) 40 Mary,^ (Proctor,* Samuel,* Sam.uel,^ James^) 43 Mary E.,^ (John L.,* Abram,* Samuel, ^ James^) 43 Mary L.,* (William R.,^ Samuel R.,* William E.,* Samuel,^ James^) . . . . 52 PAGE Mamie,^ (Franklin B.,* James P.,* Sam- uel,2 James^) 44 Mollie,^ (Hervey,* Samuel,* Samuel- James^) 41 Mollie," (Hugh,5 Hiram,* Hugh,* Sam- uel," James^) 46 Mollie* (Addie,^ Hiram,* Hugh,* Sam- uel,^ James^) 46 Maria,* (William E.,* Samuel,- James^) 32 Marion B,,* (Samuel,* Samuel,^ Jamesi) 33 Marion,^ (Keturah,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ Jamesi) 42 Mattie E.,6 (Archibald.* Archibald,* Archibald,^ James^) 26 Mattie," (John,5 James C.,* John,* Sam- uel, ^ James^) 35 Mattie,* (Addie,5 Hiram,* Hugh,* Sam- uel,^ James^) 46 Mattie,* (Samuel G.,^ Hervey,* Sam- uel,* Samuel,^ James^) 52 Milford,* (James P.,* Samuel,^ James^) . 34 Minnie,^ (Abram,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ James^) 42 Nancy,* (Samuel,^ James^) 31 Nanny,5 (Paul L,* William E.,* Sam- uel,2 James^) 38 Nellie,* (Charles,^ Franklin B.,* James P.,') 44 Nellie R..* (Hiram.^ Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,^ James^) 47 Nicholas,* (John W.,5 John,* John,* Archibald,^ Jamesi) 23 Paul L,* (William E.,* Samuel," James^) 38 Paulina,* (WilHam E.,* Samuel,^ Jamesi) 37 Proctor.s (William I.,* William E.,* Samuel,^ James^) 38 Proctor W.,* (Samuel,* Samuel,^ James^) 33 Robert A.,* (Hugh,2 James^) 28 Robert L.,* (William E.,* Samuel,^ Jamesi) 38 Robert,^ (Archibald,* Archibald,* Archi- bald,2 James^) 26 Robert L.,^ (Samuel R.,* William E.,* Samuel,- James^) 40 Robert,* (John W.,^ John,* John,* Archi- bald,^ James^) 23 Robert A.,* (James C^ Robert,* Wil- liam E.,* Samuel,^ James^) 39 Robert O.,* (William R.,^ Samuel R.,* William E.,* Samuel,- James^) 52 176 Index — Kentucky M c Elroys PAGE Sallie A.,* (William I.,^ James,- James^) 30 Sallie,8 (Hugh.s Hiram,* Hugh,^ Sam- uel,^ James^^) 46 Samuel,^ (James^) 30 Samuel,* (Hugh,^ James>) 28 Samuel,* (Samuel,^ James^) 33 Samuel R.,* (Archibald.* Archiliald,- James"^) 26 Samuel,* (John,* Samuel,^ James^) 31 Samuel R.,* (William E.,* Samuel," James"^) 40 Samuel D.,* (Samuel,* Samuel,^ James^) 41 Samuel J.,^ (James M.,* Archibald,* Archibald,^ James'^) 25 Samuel B.,^ (Robert,* William E.,* Samuel,^ James^) 39 Samuel A.,^ (William I.,* William E.,* Samuel,- James^) 39 Samuel G.,^ (Hervey,* Samuel,* Sam- uel,^ James*) 52 Samuel,^ (Proctor,* Samuel,* Samuel, - James*) 4 ? Samuel M.,^ (Samuel R.,* Archibald,* Archibald,^ James*) 27 Sarah,* (Hugh,^ James*) 28 Sarah,* (Samuel,^ James*) 30 Sarah,^ (Archibald,* Archibald,* Archi- bald,- James*) 26 Sarah A.,^ (Samuel R.,* Archibald,* Archibald," James*) 26 Sarah R.,5 (P. Edwards,* William E.,* Samuel, = James*) 37 Sarah F.,^ (S. Darius,* Samuel,* Sam- uel,2 James*) 41 Sue,^ (Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,^ James*) 36 Sue,' (Hugh,^ Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel- James*) 45 Susan E.,* (Archibald,* Archibald,^ James*) 24 Susan M.,5 (Cecil,* William E.,* Sam- uel,* James*) 39 Susie M.,8 (Benjamin N.,* Abram,* Samuel,* James*) 44 Sydney G.,* (James P.,* Samuel,* James*) 34 Thomas A.,'' (James M.,* Archibald,* Archibald,* James*) 25 Thomas C.,^ (Hervey,* Samuel,* Sam- uel,* James*) 41 Thomas S.,* (William I.,* James,- James*) 30 PAGE V^iola," (Hiram,5 Hiram,* Hugh,* Sam- uel,* James*) 47 Wallace W.,^ (Keturah,* Samuel,* Sam- uel,* James*) 42 Walter,' (Charles,^ Franklin B.,* James P.^) 44 Warner F.,^ (J. A. B.,* Abram,* Sam- uel,* James*) 45 William,* (Archibald,* James*) 24 William,* (Hugh,* James*) 28 William I.,* (James,* James*) 30 William E.,* (Samuel,* James*) 31 William C.,* (Archibald,* Archibald,* James*) 24 William I.,* (William I.,* James,* James* ) 30 William T.,* (William E.,* Samuel,* James*) 39 William I., 5 (Archibald,* Archibald,* Archibald,* James*) 26 William H..^ (Samuel R.,* Archibald,* Archibald.* James*) 26 William R.,^ (Robert,* William E.,* Samuel,* James*) 38 WilHam,6 (James F.,* William E.,* Samuel,* James*) 40 William R.,s (Samuel R.,* William E.,* Samuel,* James*) 51 William,^ (Franklin B.,* James P.,* Samuel,- James*) 44 William,' (John,^ James C.,* John,* Samwel,* James*) 35 William B.,« (Hugh.s Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,* James*) 46 William R.,' (William R.,^ Samuel R.,* William E.,* Samuel,* James*) 52 OTHER FAMILY NAMES Abell, R. W 46 Abel, Samuel 45 Allen, Gen. 29 Allen, Ida 39 Arnold, M. E 45 Bailey, J 46 Bellotte, Rebecca 26 Blackwell, Hundlie 35 Blythe, Dr 29 Bowen, Mrs 24 Briggs, Miss Marion 41 Brown, Daniel W 40 Index — Kentucky M c Elroys 177 PAGE Brown, Fannie 32 Buckner, !Niary 42 Campbell, Thomas W 30 Campbell, W. R 30 Carter, Thomas 31 Cassiday, Eliza 32 Chandler, Richard 38 Chapman, Mary 39 Cleland, Rosa 35 Clements, Mary 36 Craig, Susan 25 Craig, Martha 24 Cleaver, Dr. W. W 29 Curry, Mary 37 Curtis, Rev. E. L 45 Cleland, Keturah 32 Cochrane, Andrew 35 Chapman, James 37 Daniels, J 46 Dickerson, Benjamin F 51 Dickerson, VV. W 51 Edmonds, R. B 38 Ely, Anita 45 Ely, Rev. B. E. S., Sr 45 Ely, Rev. B. E. S., Jr 45 Ely, Charles W 45 Ely, George M 45 Ely, Laura 43 Ely, Rose Moore 45 Everhart, Martin 32 Field, Elizabeth 41 Findley, Cordelia F 35 Fogle, Mattie 35 Foreman, Calvin 44 Foreman, Eliza 34 Foreman, Paul F 44 Foreman, Laura Dean 44 Froman, Fannie 38 Froman, Mary 50 Fuller, Rev. J 44 Garten, G. H 29 Garten, Lizzie 41 Gates, Sarah 49 Gibbs, Lydia 32 Gibbs, Margaret 50 Gibbs, Margaret M 37 Gibbs, Thomas P 37 Gibbs, William E 37 PAGE Gilkie, Barbara 30 Goodpasture, J. B 42 Gorin, Rev. M. C 50 Gorin, Alice 50 Goiin, Fred 50 Gorin, Grant 50 Gorin, Maud 50 Greathouse, Grafton 46 Greathouse, James 46 Greathouse, McElroy 46 Greathouse, Tillie 46 Greathouse, W. R 46 Greathouse, W. R. Jr 46 Greathouse, VVaverly 46 Grundy, James A 35 Grundy, January 35 Grundy, John L 35 Grundy, Susan 35 Grundy, Felix B 29 Grundy, Jane B 33 Grundy, George W 35 Griffith, Dr. B. M 30 Handley, Alexander 31 Handley, James 31 Handley, Mary 31 Harrison, Lydia 43 Harty, P. C 38 Harris, Louisa 46 Higginson, Cyrus 47 Higginson, Green 47 Higginson, Birdie 47 Higginson, Ord 47 Higginson, Mattie 47 Higginson, Annie 47 Higginson, Vara 47 Higginson, Ruth 47 Hudnall, J. R 50 HudnaU, Annie Maria 50 Hughes, Elizabeth 38 Hughes, Lizzie 32 Howell, Joseph 35 Hubbard, Dr 33 Irvine, Rev. John 22 Irvine, Esther 28 Irvine, Margaret 28 Irvine, Mary 28 Irvine, Nancy 21 Kelly, May 51 Kimball, Marion 51 Kirk, Mary 32 178 Index — Kentucky M c Elroys PAGE Knott, Joseph P 32 Knott, William T 48, 158 Knott, Keturah 49 Knott, Samuel C 49 Knott, Minnie 36 Knott, J. Proctor 50 Knott, Edwards W 50 Knott, Annie M 50 Knott, Joanna 50 Knott, Joseph M 48 Knott, William Walter 48 Knott, William S 49 Knott, J. Proctor, Jr 49 Knott, Samuel Proctor 49 Knott, Annie Maria 50 Knott, Kate Grundy 49 Knott, Jennie Marion 49 Knott, Elizabeth 49 Knott, Joseph 49 Knott, Benjamin 49 Knott, Edwards 49 Knott, Minnie 49 Knott, Annie 49 Knott, Samuel 49 Ligon, Charles D. W 27 Ligon, Harriet S 27 Lindo, S. E 45 Logan, Annie 38 Lyle, Robert 35 McCarthy, Dr 39 Macauley, Mary 47 McColgan, William 43 McCoy, Mattie 50 McCuUy , Stephen 24 McCune, Sarah 21 McCurdy, A. H. P 38 McReynolds, Willis 30 Mason, Basil 31 Mason, Burgess Burr 35 Mason, William Basil 35 Mason, William B 35 Mason, Alexander H 35 Mason, Mary H 35 Mayes, A. Scott 37 Mayes, Keturah 37 Mayes, Eusebias 37 Mayes, William 37 Miller, Edward 38 Miller, Mary L 39 Montgomery, E . . . •. 42 PAGE Montgomery, Margaret 42 Moore, Minnie 44 Moore, Rev. Samuel F 45 Muldrow, Capt. John 28 Muldrow, Andrew 28 Muldrow, Hugh 28 Muldrow, Esther 29 Muldrow, James 29 Muldrow, Jane 29 Muldrow, William 29 Muldrow, John 29 Muldrow, Samuel 29 Muldrow, Mary 29 Muldrow, John A 44 Muldrow, Annie 44 Muldrow, Rose 44 Muldrow, Gertrude 44 Muldrow, Roda 44 Nesbitt, Robert J 49 Nesbilt, James 49 Nesbitt, Robert 49 Pierce, Lula 49 Priest, T. F 44 Priest, Willena 44 Porter, Ann 34 Radford, William 35 Raney, J. Cleland 32 Rawling, Wells 49 Rawling, William 49 Rawling, Proctor 49 Rawling, Minnie 49 Rawling, Mattie 49 Rawling, Annie 49 Ray, Samuel F 38, 39 Ray, Franklin 36 Ray, William E 38 Ray, Elizabeth 38 Ray, Priscilla 38 Ray, Anna E 38 Ray, Lucy 38 Ray, McEIroy 39 Ray, Maggie 39 Ray, Paul l' 39 Ray, Lee D 39 Ray, Charles F 39 Reed, Belle 33 Reed, Mary Belle 40 Rhodes, Mary 44 Ridout, V^'illiam, M. D 27 Index — Big Spring M c Elroys. . 179 PAGE Ridout, Harriet S 27 Ridout, John, M. D 27 Ridout, Prudence G 27 Robbins, George 31 Rose, Uriah M 51 Rose, John M 51 Rose, William G 51 Rose, Wallace D 51 Rose, George B 51 Rose, Fanny 5 1 Ro'e, Ellen 51 Rose, Emma 51 Rose, Charles C 51 Rose, Lewis Henry 51 Rose, Jessie Alice 51 Rowntree, Lillie 39 Rubel, Msttie 48 Senour, Hiram 46 Senour, Belle 46 Senour, Dish 46 Senour, Fanny 46 Senour, James 46 Shepard, James B 43 Simpson, Harriet 25 Simpson, James 29 Simpson, John 28 Simpson, Margaret 29 Simpson, Jane 29 Simpson, Esther 29 Simpson, William 40 Skiles, Lucy Ann 31 Skiles, Eliza 41 Skiles, Ellen 40 Spalding, Benedict. . 23 Steele, William 26 Steele, Robert Aaron 26 Steele, Sarah Jane 26 Steele, Martha Agnes 26 Tappan, Harry 40 Tate, Mary Ann 33 Tale, Sarah 42 Thomas, William 44 Turner, George 45 Turner, Francis 45 Twon)bly, Israel 34 Twombly, Mary E 44 Wakefield, Joseph W 39 Watts, Carrie 47 Webb, Clayton 25 Webb, William 25 PAGE Webb. Catharine 25 Webb, James, M. D 25 Webb, Annie 25 Webb, Charles Archibald, M. D 25 Webb, Robert 25 Webb, Florence 25 Webb, Margaret 25 Webb, Lou 25 Webb, Samuel R 25 West, John 44 West, Eva 44 Wilkes, Thomas, Sr 27 Wilkes, Thomas M., Jr 27 Wilson, James 30 Wilson, George 31 Wilson, N 30 BIG SPRING McELROYS 85 INDEX TO HEADS OF FAMILIES NAME OF McELROY Abram* 56 Addison H.,8 (John M^) 79 Alexander* 65 Andrew,^ (Hugh,- Hugh^) 54 Charles Murray,* (William M.,^ James E» 59 Charles Sumner,^ (Hugh,^ Ebenezer,*) . . 71 David W.5 80, 54 Ebenezer E.,* (Hugh.s John,^) 68 Ebenezer E.,« (Thomas G.,^ Ebenezer li*) 73 Hughi S3 Hugh^ 54 Hugh,3 ( John^ ) 64 Hugh,* (Andrevir,^ Hugh^) 54 Hugh,5 (Ebenezer E..* Hugh^) 71 Hugh Eddie,« (Hughs) 7^ Hugh Nevin,6 (Thomas G.^) 77 John,2 (Hughi) '55 John.3 (Robert^) 54 John,^ (John2) 55 John,* (John.s Robert^) 54 John,< (Robert,* Robert^) 54 John Andrew,^ (Hugh*) 55 John, 5 (Ebenezer*) 77 i8o Index — Rich Hill McElroys PAGE John M.,5 (Ebenezer E.,* Hugh*) 77 James* (John,* Robert^) 54 James Ervin,* (John' John^) 56 James Ervin,^ (James E.*) 57 James Kerr,^ (Hugh') 71 James F.," (Thomas G.,' Ebenezer E.*) 75 John Mercer,* (Thomas G.,'' Ebenezer E» 76 Joseph,* (John^) 55, 62 Joseph,* (John,* John") 59 Joseph K.,'' (Hugh,* Andrew*) 55 Mason K.,' (Robert D.,^ Joseph*) 61 Robert^ 54 Robert* 54 Robert Duncan,^ (Joseph*) 61 Robert N.,« (Thomas G.^) 74 Richard,* (John,* Andrew*) 54 Samuel,^ (John,* Andrew*) 54 Thomas,* (John,* Robert') 54 Thomas Gborrrley,^ (Ebenezer E.*) 72 Thomas Clifford,' (Ebenezer E.,« Thomas G.^) 74 William Montgomery,^ (James E.*) 58, 157 William J.,'' (James E.') 57 William O.,* (Hugh,' Ebenezer E.*) .... 71 O'lHER FAMILY NAMES Albee, E. A 57 Brown, D. S 57 Beard, Everett R 79 Cummin, Mrs. Levinia 67 Curran, James B 70 Curran, John M 71 Dickson, Rev William, D. D 81, 54 Duncan, Oscar 76 Griffith, Charles 68 Hart, William 66 Hart, Robert S 67 Hart, Hugh, M. D 67 Kerr, Robert 72 Kerr, James B 72 Kerr, T. Chalmers 72 PAGE Lee, Henry 1 61 Moir, James 79 Moir, Joseph M 61 Moir, Rev. William Wilmerding 79 Moir, Arthur D 62 Oxer. John 62 Parrett, Marcus A 72 Parrett, Lewis W 72 Rider, Lorenzo 56 Rider, William S 56 Robinson, Robert 66 Rodgers, Henry Harrison 66 Rodgers, William 67 Templeton, William 71 Templeton, Dr. K. M 71 Vanatta, Joseph 71 Van Epps, C. V 57 Winstead, Jacob P 71 Walker, John 62 Walker, James 62 RICH HILL McELROYS 85 Alexander,- (James^) 84 Alexander,* (John,- James^) 87 Alexander,* (James,* John*) 86 A 1 e X a n d e r,s (William,* Alexander,* John2) 88 • vlexander M.,* (James,* Alexander*)... 94 Alexander M.,' (James,* Alexander*)... 88 Ebenezer,* (John,* James^) 90 Ebenezer B.,* (James,* John*) 95 Edward,' (James,* Alexander,* John*) . . 88 Frank,' (William,* Alexander*) 88 James^ 83 James,* (James^) 95 James,* (John*) 85 James,* (James*) 95 James,* (Alexander*) 93 James,* (James,* John*) 86 James,* (John,* John*) 90 James,* (Alexander,* John*) 87 Index — Albany M c Elroys i8i PAGE John,2 (James^) 84 John.s (John2) 89 John,* Jaraes^) 95 John,* (James.s John^) 86 John,* (Alexander,* John^) 87 John,* (John,* John^) 89 Joseph,* (James,^ James^) 95 Joseph,* (Alexander,* John^) 88 Smith E.,* (James,* John^) 86 Thomas,* (Ebenezer,* John^) 91 William,* (Alexander,* John^) 88 William Lincoln,^ (James,* John,* John^) 92 OTHER FAMILY NAMES Aiken, John A 94 Brady, Samuel 93 Buchanan, James 91 Buchanan, Smith 91 Cassil, Alexander 90 Cassil, Austin A 87 Cannon, James 84 Christie, John 86 Cotton, Dr. A. M 93 Cotton, Christian M 93 Cotton, James 93 Cotton, L. S 93 Cotton, Robert H 93 Critchlield, C. E 90 Critchfield, Elmer 89 Critchfield, Fremont J 89 Critchfield, George 90 Critchfield, John M 89 Critchfield, Meshach 89 Critchfield, Roland 90 Critchfield, Wilson 90 Cunningham, Cyrus 95 Drake, Abram 8s Drake, Alexander 85 Drake, George 84 Dawson, George 87 Dawson, Joseph 86 Dodds, William 86 Ellis, Lyman 91 PAGE Gladden, James 95 Gladden, John Riddell 95 Gladden, Madison 95 Gladden, William 95 Graham, Alexander 91 Graham, James 91 Graham, James Burleigh 91 Graham, John 91 Kithcart, Joseph B 88 Lane, Thomas 86 Langf ord. Royal D 89 McClay, David 86 McDowell, Mrs. Nancy J 93 McGugin, David 91 McKeever, William 86 McKirahan, A. Roy 94 McKirahan, Joseph 94 Magers, Hiram 90 Osborne, Jacob 86 Peeler, Elias 90 Rea, Dr. Alexander M 93 Rea, Joseph V 93 Rea, William 93 Russell, James 95 Smith, John 84 Vincent, Alexander, Sr 90 Vincent, Alexander, Jr 90 Vincent, Jay 90 Van Vranken, Mrs 93 Wells, Campbell 88 Williams, Bazil 86 Wilson, Major S. L 88 ALBANY Mcelroys 99 Alexander,^ (Thomas^) loi Alexander,* (Thomas,* Alexander^) los Andrew,* (David,^ David^) m Andrew,* (Francis,* David^) 112 Barney,* (David^) 1 1 1 Charles A.,* (James K.*) 103 I82 Index — Albany M c Elroys PAGE Crocket,* (Frances^) 112, 155 David^ 99 David,^ (Davidi) 99 David,* (Francis^) 112 Francis,^ (David^) 112 Francis,* (Francis^) 112 Frank,^ (Crocket*) 114 Hiram,' (David^) 1 1 1 Irving,^ (Samuel,* Thomas^) 107 Jacob,* (Francis*) 107 Jacob,* (Francis*) 112 James,2 (David^) 99 James,* (SamueP) 100 James,* ( James,^ David^) 1 00 James K.,^ (John," Thomas^) 103 James,* (Alexander ,2 Thomas^) 105 James,* (David^) iii James,* (James K.*) 103 James,* (James,* Alexander^) 105 James,^ (John,* John,* John,^ John^) ... 108 John,* (John,* John,^ Johni) 108 John,* (James K.*) 103 John,* (ivavid") 1 1 1 John,^ (John,* John,* John,^ John^) .... 108 John E.,' (William,^ John*) no Milo Gilbert,^ (John,* James K.*) 107 Richard,^ (John*) 108 Robert,* (James,^ David') 102 Robert,* (Robert*) 102 Robert,* (Francis*) 112 Robert," (Irving^) 108 Samuel,^ (David^) 100 Samuel,* (Thomas*) 105 Samuel Haring,^ (Samuel*) 106 Samuel,^ (John,* John,* John,^ John^) . 108 Thomas,* (Samuel^) 100 'Thomas,* (Alexander^) 104 Thomas,* (James K.*) 103 Thomas Irvin,* (Thomas') 105 Wesley,* (Francis*) 112 William,* (Alexander,^ Thomas^) 104 William,* (James K.*) 103 William,^ (John,* John,* John,^ John') . 109 PAGE William H.,* (William^) 109, 159 Vv illiam," (John E.," William^) no OTHER FAMILY NAMES Allen, Dr. Stuart 103 Beck, Mrs. Flora 114 Banker, Albert 106 Beatty, Andrew 109 Craig, , M. D 102 Campbell, 100 Chapin, Ogden N 102 Dorr, John, Attorney 103 Frazier, Alexander 107 Gates, Rev. Cornelius 100 Gangweyer, W. A., Attorney 106 Goodrich, Abram 104 Goodrich, Alexander M 104 Hyde, John 102 Hill, George Rowland 107 Jackson, John 100 Jackson, Charles H no Kennedy, Rev. G. N 114 Ligget, A. M 1 09 Lamon, Mrs. Mary 113 McBurney, Joseph 102 Mcllvaine, Rev. Glendenning 102 McNaughton, Peter 102 Martin, Dr. David 102 North, Henry in Piatt, Chauncey A 105 Piatt, James 105 Piatt, John B 105 Piatt, William A 105 Piatt, William L 105 Polly, Daniel 105 Recor, Mrs. Etta 114 Salisbury, Stephen 104 Index — Miscellane ous M c Elroys 183 Scott, James P 105 Shaw, Samuel M 104 Stevenson, James Thomas 103 Stevenson, Samuel 103 Stevenson, William 103 Taylor, Rev. 103 Tate, William 109 Van Vorhees, George S 105 Webster, Rev. Chauncey 102 LANCASTER COUNTY McELROYS 115 DELAWARE STATE McELROYS.. 121 BRADDOCK McELROYS 122 LIGONIER McELROYS 123 DESCENDANTS OF ADAM MC- ELROY 127 MEADEVILLE McELROYS 131 VIRGINIA McELROYS 133 MONROEVILLE McELROYS 135 BEAVER COUNTY (PA.) Mc- ELROYS 137 ROBERT McELROY, OF PHILA- DELPHIA 137 PITTSBURGH McELROYS 141 Hon. JOHN SCOTT, OF PHILA- DELPHIA 141 SLIGO McELROYS 143 DELAWARE (OHIO) McELROYS.. 147 JOHN McELROY, OF WASHING- TON CITY 148 NORTH CAROLINA McELROYS.. 151 GEORGE McELROY, A PATRI- ARCH 151 NEW BRUNSWICK McELROYS. ... 153