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William Croghan, Jr., Esq.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 WILLIAM CROGHAN, SR. [1752-1822]: A Pioneer Kentucky Gentleman. By Thomas, Samuel W. of Louisville, Kentucky, in Filson Historical Society (Louisville, Kentucky). The Filson Club history quarterly. (Louisville, Kentucky: The Club, 1930-2000)
43:30-61, Jan 1969.
Page 50 - William Croghan Jr. 1794-1850
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boucher, John N. (John Newton), and John W. (John Woolf) Jordan. A century and a half of Pittsburg and her people. (New York: Lewis Pub. Co., 1908)
2:406, 407.
WILLIAM CROGHAN, JR., was a son of MAJOR WILLIAM CROGHAN of the Revolutionary army and was born Jan. 2, 1795. He was brought up in Louisville, Kentucky. His mother Lucy Clark was a sister of GEN. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. A favorite outlet for the river towns of the Ohio in steam-boat days was Pittsburgh, and on a visit here he chanced to meet the O’HARA family. In 1821 the daughter MARY and WILLIAM CROGHAN, JR. were married. For some years after their marriage they lived near Louisville, where two children, a son and a daughter, were born.
MARY (O’HARA) CROGHAN died Oct. 25, 1827, and her only son, WILLIAM, died April 25, 1828.
After the death of his wife WILLIAM CROGHAN, JR., moved to Pittsburgh and was admitted to the Allegheny bar on May 2, 1835, when he was forty years old, he having practiced his profession previous to this time in Louisville.
MARY E. CROGHAN (pg. 407) was the only heir and she eventually inherited the whole of her mother’s estate. She was born at Locust Grove, near Louisville, on April 27, 1826, and spent the first eight or nine years of her life there. On his removal to Pittsburgh, her father established a residence and country seat called “Picnic,” which commanded a view of the three rivers and was one of the finest and most beautiful places in this community. There the only daughter spent several years. Her father sent her to a school for girls, a very fashionable one on Staten Island, New York, conducted by Mrs. Macleod.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Family Recorded, in Leach, Frank Willing, and North American (Newspaper : Philadelphia). Old Philadelphia families: a series of articles contributed to the Philadelphia North American. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1965, 1967).
Old Philadelphia Families LXVII-CARSON
Philadelphia North American
Date: Sunday 13 SEP 1908
... One of their daughters, Mary O'HARA, married in 1821 William CROGAN, Jr., son of Major William CROGAN, a famous Revolutionary soldier who was taken prisoner at Charleston, S.C., and was one of the original members of the Society of Cincinnati. ...
... William CROGAN, Jr. the husband of Mary O'HARA was admitted to the Allegheny County Bar May 20, 1835. He resided at Picnic, his country seat, which commanded a view of three historic rivers "Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio." He was, we are told, "tall and well built, with remarkable well-proportioned features, and an exceedingly keen and intelligent eye. He was a very Chesterfield in courtly manners, and a true gentleman in heart." He died September 22, 1850; his wife October 25, 1827.
They had two children, William, who died in infancy, and Mary E. who married Captain Edward W. H. SCHENLEY, an officer in the British Army. ...
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