Alfred McCabe and Margaret S. Hall

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Husband Alfred McCabe ^{1 2}

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           Born: 26 Jul 1836 - Moon Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1 3
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           Died: 28 Sep 1893 3
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         Father: James H. McCabe (1782-1850) 1 4
         Mother: Margaret White (      -      ) 1 5 6

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       Marriage: 22 Dec 1887 - Robinson Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1

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   Other Spouse: Margaret McDermott Nesbit (1845-1886) 3 - 22 Sep 1859 1

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Wife Margaret S. Hall ¹

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         Father: John Hall (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Silk (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Alfred McCabe

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He was educated at Coraopolis, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and worked on his father's farm. He inherited a talent for music, and learned both instrumental and vocal branches of that art, and taught music for some thirty years. He was leader of the Sharon Church choir nineteen years, and of Forest Grove choir four or five years. At the organization of the Middletown First Presbyterian Church, now the First Coraopolis, he became leader of the choir. [HAC 1889 ii, 706]

The house in which he was born, originally a log structure, later weather-boarded and enlarged, was still standing at No. 1514 State avenue into the twentieth century. He grew to manhood in the place of his birth, attending the public schools, and as he reached mature years he came into full possession of a voice of exceptional sweetness, range and power, indications of which had been seen in the clear treble of youth. Besides the endowment of his great talent he was also an ardent lover of the best in music, and he chose vocal teaching as his profession, a calling for which he could not have been more admirably fitted by nature and inclination. In some instances the gifts of a beneficent Creator are wasted upon one who has neither the ambition nor the desire to exercise and develop them, but of Alfred McCabe this was far from true, for he entered into his work with interest and vigor, gaining a worthy reputation in his profession and giving private lessons to pupils within a radius of fifteen miles. As a teacher he was sympathetic and skillful, inculcating, as he developed whatever of talent his pupil might have, a love for the compositions of the greatest composers, guiding their tastes so that, known as one who had studied under his instruction, none might rebuke them for grossness or indelicacy in choice or selection. He was not only in great demand as a teacher but was constantly in receipt of requests for solo work, many of which he granted, refusing many more for lack of time. He was a popular leader of choruses, which he frequently trained for concerts and cantatas in the local churches, meeting with general success in this branch of his profession because of his accuracy in placing voices and his original effects in melody.
He was the owner of a farm adjoining the family homestead, and was a member of the first school board elected in Coraopolis, under the rule of which the first school building in the borough was erected. A Republican in politics, he was a member of the Presbyterian church, being leader of the choir in that organization.
The plant of the Consolidated Lamp and Glass Company, of Coraopolis, later occupied land that was originally part of his farm, which he sold when the town was laid out. [GPHWP, 1579]

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 706.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1577.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1579.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 470.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 471.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1576.