Person:Edward Dougherty (5)

(III) Edward Dougherty, son of John Dougherty, was probably born in 1770. He followed the family occupation and was a tailor by trade. He married Margaret Stackpole, whose father most probably came direct from Ireland to Philadelphia as there is a record that Isaac Stackpole landed in that town in 1780. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Dougherty: i. Rosanna. 2. Margaret. 3. Nancy. 4. Barbara. 5. John, of whom further. 6. James, a merchant tailor.

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Edward Dougherty
Birth: 1766, Ireland
Death: Jan. 10, 1841
Pennsylvania, USA

Edward Dougherty was a tailor, and in 1821 opened a tavern on the Diamond, when the turnpike was building from Blairsville to Harrisburg. He died in 1842 at his home. His son John remained at McVeytown and engaged in mercantile business until 1831, when he went to Hollidaysburg as a contractor with James Stackpole. They graded the summit-level of Allegheny Portage road and Incline Plane No. 6, and the first incline from Hollidaysburg. He invented, in 1834, the section boats, the first one passing over in October of that year. In April, 1848, he moved to Mount Union, which he laid out, and where he still resides. Rosanna, a daughter of Edward Dougherty, married Dr. Elijah Davis, of McVeytown, who for many years kept the tavern on the Diamond.

(Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys embraced in the Counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, Pa., Everts, Peck & Richards, Philadelphia: 1886.)

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