W. J. McKean and Rebecca McBurney

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Husband W. J. McKean ¹

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           Born: 3 Sep 1834 - Lawrence Co, PA 2
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         Father: William McKean (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Anna Rice (Abt 1808-Abt 1893) 2 3

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       Marriage: 11 Oct 1859 4

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Wife Rebecca McBurney ⁵

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         Father: James McBurney (      -Abt 1855/1856) 6
         Mother: Mary A. [Unk] (      -      ) 4

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1 M Benjamin S. McKean ⁴

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2 F Eva C. McKean ⁴

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3 F Jennie McKean ⁴

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4 F Matilda McKean ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - W. J. McKean

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He was educated in the common schools, and at the age of twenty-five began the mercantile business at Mercer. Prior to his embarking in the mercantile business he was employed as a clerk by Burwell, Beach & Co. for eight years. This prepared him well for taking the responsibility of managing an enterprise for himself. He did business under the firm name of McKean & Porter for six years, when he withdrew and entered into the woolen factory then in Mercer. Later he was engaged in the lumber trade, after which he was again interested in the mercantile business with a Mr. McKinney for about eighteen months. In 1870 he entered the business of real estate and fire insurance. He was school director, a member of the borough council, burgess one term, and served several years as assessor of Mercer. He was secretary of the Mercer Central Agricultural Society. He enlisted in Company F, Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers in June, 1863, and served sixty days. He was a member of the Royal Templars and E. A. U., was a Republican, and, with his wife, belonged to the Second United Presbyterian Church.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 678, 683.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 683.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1104.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 684.

5 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 678.

6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 678, 695.