BIO: Robert H. McGARVEY, 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 691.
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  ROBERT H. McGARVEY, one of the representative citizens of Chest Township, a 
general farmer operating 180 acres, was born on this place, the old Anthony 
McGarvey homestead, June 10, 1855, and is a son of Anthony McGarvey.
  After he had finished attending school, Mr. McGarvey engaged in farming for 
his father until 1881 and then went to Utahville, where he was in a lumber 
business for eighteen months.  He moved from there to Jordan Township, where he 
followed farming for one and one-half years and in 1884 moved to Ansonville.  
In 1885 he moved to Gazzam, Pa., where he conducted a mercantile business and 
was postmaster for three years, when he returned to the homestead and conducted 
operations here until 1893, when he moved to Cambria County, where he resumed 
merchandising and also was again appointed postmaster.  In 1894 he was elected 
a justice of the peace for that borough and served for five years.  In 1900 he 
again came back to the farm and has done a large amount of clearing here, 
cutting timber for the saw mill.  He has been an active business man for so 
many years and at different points that he is widely known.
  Mr. McGarvey was married first, in May, 1879, to Miss Emma McQuown, who died 
February 2, 1888, at the age of thirty-one years, eleven months and three days.  
He was married second, June 25, 1890, to Miss Anna Martha Fowler, a daughter of 
Robert and Eliza (Fleming) Fowler, and a granddaughter of James and Sarah 
Fowler and William Fleming and wife, all natives of Ireland in the older 
generation.  The parents of Mrs. McGarvey settled in Chest Township in 1849, 
where the father followed farming during all his active years, his death 
occurring in 1899, at the age of seventy-one years.  The mother of Mrs. 
McGarvey lives at Ansonville.  The Fowler family consisted of the following 
children:  Sarah, who is the wife of J. W. Straw, of Jordan Township; Richard 
James, who is deceased; John Fowler, who lives in Cambria County, married Eva 
McCully; Emma, who died in infancy; William, who is in the lumber business in 
West Virginia; and Mrs. McGarvey, who is the third in order of birth.
  To Mr. and Mrs. McGarvey nine children have been born, namely:  Minta Ellen, 
born September 24, 1891; Olin A., born December 6, 1892; Lois Edna, born May 9, 
1894; Genevieve Marie, born November 24, 1895; Alvin Delmont, born November 29, 
1897; Hazel Eliza, born March 9, 1900; Joel Wilson, born April 22, 1903; Olive 
Delrose, born November 13, 1904, and Delma Belle, born December 8, 1907.  Mrs. 
McGarvey is a member of the Methodist Protestant church.  Mr. McGarvey has been 
identified with the Masonic fraternity since 1897, attending lodge at 
Ebensburg, Pa.  In politics a Republican, he has frequently been the choice of 
his party for office.