Bios: FORSYTHE, George B: Allegheny Co, PA 
      
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   George B Forsythe, a retired farmer living on a ninety acre farm near
   Carnegie, was born in Washington county, Penna, November 24, 1836. His
   mother, Margaret Henry Forsythe, was of Irish birth, her father coming to
   Pennsylvania in 1760, while his father, George Forsythe, was for many
   years a prominent farmer in Washington county, and later in Knox county,
   Ohio, near Mt Vernon where he bought a farm of 250 acres and resided
   there until his death which occurred about 1852.
   
   His paternal grandfather was a Scotchman who settled in Mifflin township
   in 1755 where many of his descendants yet live.
   
   Mr and Mrs George Forsythe were members of the United Presbyterian
   Church. Mrs Forsythe lived with her son, George B Forsythe, the subject
   of this sketch, for many years, and later went to live with another son,
   Calvin Forsythe in Kansas, where she died at the age of eighty six.
   Mr and Mrs Forsythe had ten children: Harriet Forsythe, afterwards Mrs
   Millinger; Henry Forsythe, who served four years in the Civil War; James
   Forsythe, a Presbyterian minister; Margaret Forsythe, who married Joseph
   Ryburn (Rayburn?); Joseph Forsythe, a doctor who practiced and died in
   Salem, New York in 1855; George B Forsythe; Susan Forsythe, who married
   Judge Glenn of Colorado; Robert Forsythe, a twin brother of George B;
   Sarah Forsythe and Calvin Forsythe, the latter also serving in the Civil
   War. Of these, Henry, George B, Margaret and Sarah are still living.
   George B Forsythe attended the public schools, and had started advanced
   studies in Wilmington when the outbreak of the Civil War called him from
   his books to fight for his country. Enlisting on August 27, 1861, in
   Company B, 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, he served first in
   Sherman's army and then in the Army of the Potomac, then in Grant's army,
   and then again in the Army of the Potomac. During the war he fought with
   distinction in many engagements: at the second battle of Bull Run, at
   Chantilly; South Mountain, Maryland; at Antietam; Fredericksburg; the
   siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Blue Springs, Tennessee; Campbell Station,
   Tennessee; the siege of Knoxville, Tennessee; in the Wilderness ( 2 days)
   and at Spottsylvania, Virginia. At Spottsylvania on May 7, 1864, a rebel
   bullet struck him in the hip, inflicting an injury from which he has
   never fully recovered. This injury incapacitated him for further fighting
   and after many months in hospitals in Fredericksburg, Washington city and
   Staten Island, he was given a furlough and went to visit his brothers in
   New York. Returning to his regiment, he was honorably discharged after a
   service of almost four years.
   
   His war service over, Mr Forsythe took up farming in Allegheny county,
   Penna. Since 1884 he has resided on a valuable farm of ninety acres near
   Carnegie. On September 26, 1866, Mr Forsythe married Miss Margaret Henry,
   daughter of William Henry and has by this marriage two children living:
   Cora Forsythe is the wife of Harry Walk, a farmer of Allegheny county,
   and has seven children; and George H Forsythe, who resides near New Bern,
   North Carolina, married Ettie Young of Bloomington, Illinois, and has two
   children. The first wife died in December, 1897, and Mr Forsythe married
   Mrs Nettie Weller, a native of Montgomer, Orange county, New York. One
   child, Joseph W Forsythe, has been born to this second union. Mr and Mrs
   Forsythe are members of the Presbyterian church in which Mr Forsythe has
   been for many years an elder. He is a member of the Loyal Legion Post No. 1 
   of Pittsburg.
   
   Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; personal and genealogical.
   Vol. 1 p334