BIO: Reuben HEGARTY, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 506.
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  REUBEN HEGARTY, who maintains his home in the pleasant village of Madera, Pa., 
owns fifty-two acres of valuable land on the outskirts, in Bigler township, from 
which coal has been taken in large quantities since 1900.  He was born in 
Beccaria township, Clearfield county, Pa., July 22, 1845, and is a son of 
William and Jemima (Dunlap) Hegarty.
  William Hegarty was born October 11, 1806, in Ireland, and he was married to 
Jemima Dunlap, January 26, 1841.  They had seven children, namely:  Eliza, born 
October 19, 1841; Isaac, born January 15, 1843; Reuben; Susanna, born December 
25, 1847; Sarah J., born June 24, 1851; Adaline, born March 4, 1854; and Hannah 
C., born July 20, 1856.
  Reuben Hegarty grew to manhood on the old home farm and attended the country 
schools.  He learned the principles of farming and also the carpenter trade and 
also worked in the woods as a jobber.  He was gifted by Nature with an aptness 
for mechanics and together with other occupations he has worked as a civil 
engineer on the Coal Run Branch Railroad, for the Wallace & Reading Railroad 
Company.  He has invented a number of useful articles and one of these, patented 
and on the market, is an improved measuring pole, and another a folding 
extension table.  Since his marriage, in 1871, he has mainly followed 
contracting and building at Madera.
  Mr. Hegarty married Miss Susan Phebe Davis, who was born at Kerrmoor, 
Clearfield county, May 30, 1852, a daughter of Thomas C. and Rebecca (Kooser) 
Davis, who were married in 1849.  Mrs. Hegarty had one brother and two sisters:  
William C., deceased, Mary and Laura.  The father was a native of Clarion county 
and the mother of Somerset county.  Mr. and Mrs. Hegarty attend the Presbyterian 
church.  He is identified fraternally with the Odd Fellows and politically with 
the Republican party.
  Mr. Hegarty was one of the original men to try to make Madera a borough, he 
devoting both time and money with that end in view.