John McIntosh and Elizabeth R. Barkley

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Husband John McIntosh ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 29 Jul 1822 or 20 Aug 1823 - Wellsville, Columbiana Co, OH 2 3
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         Father: James McIntosh (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Nancy [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 1859 2

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Wife Elizabeth R. Barkley ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 17 Aug 1830 - Indiana Co, PA 3
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         Father: John Barkley (1801/1802-1879) 1 2 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Rankin (Abt 1799-1838) 2 4 5

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Children

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1 M Norman C. McIntosh ^{2 3}

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2 F Laura V. McIntosh ²

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            AKA: Laura B. McIntosh 3
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         Spouse: William Montgomery (      -Bef 1908) 2 3

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3 F Alice B. McIntosh ^{2 3}

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         Spouse: Perry D. Mackey (      -      ) 3

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4 M Harry Willard McIntosh ^{2 3}

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           Born: 6 Sep 1869 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Eleanor G. McKelvy (      -      ) 3 6

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5 M John C. McIntosh ³

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6 F Martha G. McIntosh ³

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General Notes: Husband - John McIntosh

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Wilkinsburg, Allegheny Co, PA - a real-estate dealer

His parents were natives of the highlands of Scotland, who came to America and dwelt on a farm in Ohio, where he received a common-school education. He left home when twenty years old, and was employed at carpenter-work for several years, but later, for twenty-eight years or more, he was superintending coal-mines. Towards the end at Turtle Creek, for the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal company, and prior to that for eleven years on the Monongahela river. When Mr. McIntosh took charge of these mines there were sixteen saloons in the immediate vicinity of the works, but he soon rooted them out, and until there were none in Patton township. For two years his life was threatened, but he pursued his duty without fear, and later had the gratification of receiving the thanks of men who then imagined that he was encroaching on their liberties. The company came to employ three hundred men who were noted among miners for their sobriety, and largely owned their homes; the latter fact was mostly due to the interest and encouragement of their superintendent.
Politically Mr. McIntosh was a strong prohibitionist; he and Mrs. McIntosh were among the active workers of the M. E. Church.

He was born at Wellsville, Ohio, and came to Pittsburgh when sixteen years of age, securing a position with James Hayes, the pioneer coal dealer, to whom he apprenticed himself to the trade of carpenter and boat builder. However, the salary being too small, after some two years he left that position and followed the canal from Pittsburgh to Blairsville, working with James A. Garfield, with whom he became very intimate, but little dreaming he was associating with a future president of his country. Subsequently he returned to his former employer, completed his trade and became foreman of the boat-building yards. Later he associated himself with W. H. Brown as foreman of his river docks, and in 1873 accepted the superintendency of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, being located at Turtle Creek. Here he continued until 1888, when he retired from active life and became a resident of Wilkinsburg. He was a Republican, and served one term on the borough council, but never cared to hold public office. He was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was an active supporter of that denomination wherever he resided. He was one of the foremost spirits in the construction of the "Mifflin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church," and was a member of its official board from when the church was erected.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 371, 507.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 487.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 307.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1155.

5 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 371.

6 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 34.