OBIT: J. A. McGILL, 1915, of interest in Blair County, PA

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  Rev. J. A. McGill, father Mrs. W. I. Laird, of Tyrone, who died of 
old age being, in the ninety-first year, was buried at Petersburg 
Tuesday, February 9.  Rev. Mr. McGill was for sixty-six years a 
minister of the United Presbyterian church.  His first pastorate was in 
New York city, from which he removed to become president of a seminary 
in Butler, Pa.  During his long ministry, he held a number of 
pastorates, but for the past ten years he had led a retired life, going 
to Petersburg last August.  He is survived by his second wife, four 
daughters and four sons, one of the latter being a missionary in Egypt 
and two are ministers of the gospel.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., February 18, 1915, page 2