John Dickey McCaleb and Sarah Sherrick

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Husband John Dickey McCaleb ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 4 Aug 1824 - Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: John McCaleb (      -1850) 1 2
         Mother: Sarah "Sally" Hosack (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: Aug 1851 2 4

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Wife Sarah Sherrick ^{2 3}

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            AKA: Sarah B. Sherwick 4
           Born: 14 Oct 1827 - Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Father: Joseph Sherrick (1787-1864) 3
         Mother: Barbara Beitler (1788-1857) 3

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Children

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1 F Ella McCaleb ^{2 4}

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2 M J. Sherrick McCaleb ^{2 4}

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         Spouse: Katherine Johnson (      -      ) 4

         Spouse: Katherine Roberts (      -      ) 4

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3 M William Baird McCaleb ^{2 4}

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         Spouse: Mary Reed (      -      ) 4

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4 M George H. McCaleb ⁴

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 F Effie McCaleb ^{2 4}

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General Notes: Husband - John Dickey McCaleb

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He received his education in the subscription schools of his day. When only ten years of age he left the parental roof to work on the farm of Maj. Kean, where he remained three years. After two years on other farms he went to Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and was there employed for ten years as clerk in stores, seven years of this time being with Sherrick & Braden. In 1851 he engaged in mercantile business on his own account and successfully carried it on until 1866. He was postmaster during 1867 and 1868, and again from 1876 to 1887. In the latter year he was elected justice of the peace for the borough of Mt. Pleasant, doing in connection therewith a real estate business. He was for some time also interested in the foundry business and other mercantile pursuits outside of his store. He was a member of the Presbyterian church.

At the age of ten years, he left home and went to live with Major Kain, near Hannastown, Pennsylvania, where he remained for three years, then removing to Mount Pleasant, where he found employment in the firm of Cunningham & Anderson. After remaining there for a short time he associated himself with Peter Blystone, conducting his store for six months. At the expiration of this time he returned to Mount Pleasant and accepted a position in the store of Sherwick & Braden, remaining there for some seven or eight years, when he severed his connection with this firm and established himself in the wholesale dry goods business in Philadelphia. After six months he returned to Mount Pleasant and opened a general store which he conducted for some time with considerable success. He subsequently formed a partnership with one of his former employers, John Sherwick. This arrangement existed for several years, and Mr. McCaleb then sold out his interest in the business, and became interested in the oil business at Pithole. During these years of earnest work Mr. McCaleb had accumulated a fair competency, all of which he lost soon after entering the oil business. However, being undaunted by his misfortune, he immediately set himself to work to re-establish the fortune he had lost. He engaged in the foundry business at Mount Pleasant, where he erected a fine plant, besides buying out three other concerns in the borough. Owing to his inexperience in this line, Mr. McCaleb again met with financial losses, and after four or five years relinquished this business. He then opened a small store in Mount Pleasant, and met with considerable success. In 1885 he was appointed postmaster of the borough, serving two terms. After his retirement from the postoffice he received the appointment of notary public.
In politics he accords with the doctrines of the Republican party. He was elected a member of the board council, member of the school board, and other minor offices. In connection with his duties as notary public, Mr. McCaleb acts as representative of several of the steamship companies.
He erected two fine brick residences besides a number of smaller houses in the town. Mr. McCaleb was the first man to promote the organization of the First National Bank of Mount Pleasant (1863), which was the first organized National Bank in Westmoreland county.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 127.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 204.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 385.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 128.