John William Canon and Margaret Elizabeth "Lizzie" McCaughrey

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Husband John William Canon ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 11 Feb 1844 - Mill Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1 4 5
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         Father: Robert Canon (1814/1815-Aft 1888) 4 6
         Mother: Catharine Steele (      -      ) 2 6

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       Marriage: 10 Mar 1874-1875 4 7

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Wife Margaret Elizabeth "Lizzie" McCaughrey ^{4 7}

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   Other Spouse: [Unk] Reeder (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M Robert Canon ^{4 7}

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           Born: Oct 1883 7
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General Notes: Husband - John William Canon

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He grew up in Mill Creek Township, Mercer County, PA, obtaining his primary education in the public schools, subsequently attended New Lebanon Academy, and in 1866 entered the Edinboro Normal School, where he graduated in November, 1868. He, however, had begun teaching in the winter of 1864-65, and thus obtained the means to prosecute his studies till graduation. He then taught in Cambridge-borough two years, and in 1870 became a member of the faculty of the Edin­boro Normal School, where he taught seven years, mainly the departments of mathematics and United States history. While teaching in the Edinboro school he pursued a regular course of study, adding much to the normal course. In 1877 he resigned his position and accepted the principalship of the Franklin High-school, where he taught two years. In August, 1879, he was elected principal of the Sharon public schools, and in 1882 was elected superintendent, under the law of 1881 allowing boroughs of 5,000 inhabitants to elect a superintendent with the same powers and duties in the borough as the county superintendent has in the balance of the county. He thereafter filled the position of superintendent of the Sharon schools, and was one of the best known educators in the Shenango Valley. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. [HMC 1888, 713]

He attended common schools of Mill Creek Township, Mercer County, PA. He also attended the New Lebanon Academy and Edinboro Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1868. He then commenced his career as an educator, teaching his first school in Sandy Creek Township, Venango County, PA; he taught two terms at Polk (Waterloo) public schools; then taught in the schools of London, Mercer County, one year, and then in the schools of Cooperstown, Venango County, for a year. He also taught in the public schools of Cambridge Springs, PA, several years. For seven years he was employed in the Edinboro Normal, in the department of Mathematics, and from there he went to Franklin, where he was principal of Franklin high school for two years. He then taught in Sharon, where he was superintendent of the public schools for seventeen years. He then taught in New Castle, PA, where he remained as superintendent of the public schools for nine years. He retired from teaching in 1905, having taught more than a quarter of a century. He then turned his attention to agriculture and stock raising, owning a farm of 325 acres in Mill Creek Township, Mercer County. [HMC 1909, 855]

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Elizabeth "Lizzie" McCaughrey

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She was a teacher of music in the schools at Edinboro, Erie County, Pennsylvania.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 496.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 713, 1084.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 854, 855.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 713.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 855.

6 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 854.

7 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 856.