William R. Kirkpatrick

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Husband William R. Kirkpatrick ¹

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           Born:  - Indiana Co, PA
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         Father: Rev. John H. Kirkpatrick (1791-1877) 2
         Mother: Jane McKee (1805-1875) 2 3

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       Marriage:  - Texas

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General Notes: Husband - William R. Kirkpatrick

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He attended the academies at Indiana, Glade Run, and Elder's Ridge, and graduated at Washington College, Pennsylvania. He was Professor of Mathematics in Alexandria College, Iowa; served in the early government surveys in Kansas; also served in the Confederate army as Major in the corps of Topographical Engineers, and was Professor of pure mathematics in Summerville Institute, Mississippi. By profession he was a civil engineer, and took a part in the construction of quite a number of the railroads in the southern states, and was Chief Engineer of the Mississippi Levees for several years, beginning in 1871. He went to Texas in connection with the Texas Pacific railroad, with its advance from Longview, Texas. He was later a farmer and stock raiser in Limestone County, Texas.

1 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 11.

2 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 10.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 538.