Husband James Sharp 1 2 3
Born: 10 Feb 1784 - near Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA 1 2
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Died: 12 Mar 1861 1 2 3
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Father: Matthew Sharp ( -1786) 2 4
Mother: Elizabeth Lindsay ( - ) 4
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Other Spouse: Isabella L. Stockman (1797-1873) 1 2 - 13 Sep 1822 1
• Residence: : Sharpsburg, Allegheny Co, PA.
Wife Sarah Thompson 1
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Died: Bef 1822
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Father: Moses Thompson ( - ) 1
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General Notes: Husband - James Sharp
As early as 1794, or when he was just ten years old, he left his home in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and came to Pittsburgh, where for many years he lived with his half-sister, Mrs. Hancock. In 1826 he purchased nearly a thousand acres of land, in two tracts, on the Allegheny river, originally the property of Gen. Wilkes. Not until the building of a canal through this tract of land did Mr. Sharp conceive the idea of building a town, for the land was valuable, part being a beautiful sugar-camp and the balance well adapted to farming. With an enterprising spirit, however, he commenced to build the town which was to be honored by his name. He was liberal, and the ground-space on which nearly all the churches and schools in the borough were located was given through his generosity. He built and paid for the first two schoolhouses erected in the borough, and paid the salaries of the teachers.
In character, Mr. Sharp was "a plain, unassuming man," of a very genial disposition, and no feature in his composition was more conspicuous than his habitual cheerfulness. His intercourse with others was marked by the greatest magnanimity, and while he loved freedom for himself, he cordially conceded the same to others. This cast of mind led him at an early day to espouse the cause of the slave, and his love of justice made him an earnest vindicator of equal rights. Long before it became a political measure, and when it was a reproach to be one, he was an abolitionist, not violent by any means, but conservative
General Notes: Wife - Sarah Thompson
She lived only a few years after her marriage to Sharp.