Alexander Laughlin and Mary Ann Bailey

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Husband Alexander Laughlin ^{1 2}

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           Born: Nov 1790 - County Down, Ireland 2
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           Died: 1867 3
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         Father: James Laughlin, Sr. (      -      ) 1 2
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 27 Mar 1817 - County Down, Ireland 3

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Wife Mary Ann Bailey ³

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Children

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1 M Francis B. Laughlin ⁴

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           Born: 31 Dec 1835 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 4
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           Died: 9 Aug 1905 5
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         Spouse: Margaret Burtch (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 27 Apr 1858 - Vincennes, Knox Co, IN 5

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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Laughlin

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He was born in County Down, Ireland, and came to America in 1819, settling at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he formed a partnership with Francis G. Bailey, engaging in the provision and grocery business. Later Mr. Laughlin bought out his partner and conducted the business alone until about 1829, when his brother, with the remainder of the family except his mother, who had died in Ireland, came to America and became associated with Alexander. They engaged in the pork-packing business both at Pittsburgh and at Evansville, Indiana. This business prospered and was thus conducted until 1835, when the firm was dissolved. Alexander then built a store and warehouse at Pittsburgh at the corner of Canal and Etna streets. Later he added a lumber business to his other operations, and occupied the whole square bounded by Eleventh and Twelfth streets on the one side and Pike and Etna streets on the other. It was the most extensive establishment in Pittsburgh at that date. He also acted as the agent for the Peach Bottom Slate Quarries, having control of all the territory west of the Allegheny mountains. In 1850 Mr. Laughlin bought out the Stewardson Furnaces of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and a firm known as Laughlin & Phillips was formed. In time Mr. Laughlin purchased his partner's interest, after which he conducted the business alone during the remainder of his life. He was connected with many of the financial enterprises of western Pennsylvania and the city of Pittsburgh. He was a director of the Bank of Pittsburgh, the old Ninth Street Bridge and the Western Hospital of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Pittsburgh, in which he served as an elder until his death.

He and his wife had ten children. All were deceased before 1908.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 831.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 213.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 214.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 215.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 216.