BIO: J. S.McQUOWN, 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, pages 638 & 639.
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  J. S. McQUOWN, a representative citizen of Lumber City, Pa., who has been 
interested in lumbering for many years and is an expert timber estimator, was 
born March 2, 1848, in Indiana county, Pa., and is a son of John and Hannah 
(Wall) McQuown.
  J. S. McQuown was early made an orphan, his father dying in Indiana county 
when the son was but eleven years of age and the mother's death following in the 
next year.  He attended school and academy at Covode, Indiana county, and 
afterward taught one term of school at Richmond in his native county.  He then 
came to Grampian, Clearfield county, and worked at making square timber and 
later began rafting on the river, for thirty years serving as a pilot.  For 
several years he operated a saw-mill at Bower, for J. W. Bell, and then moved to 
Lumber City, where he resided for five years, afterward buying eighteen acres of 
land near Lumber City, from Caleb Moore.  This land he has improved with 
substantial buildings.  For twenty years Mr. McQuown has followed the difficult 
calling of timber estimator and in this capacity he has been called to twenty-
three States of the Union, and also in the interest of an eastern syndicate, 
visited the Bahama Islands, as a professional expert.  He has estimated tracts 
that have sold for immense sums and is not surprised at a million-dollar 
proposition.
  In 1876 Mr. McQuown was married to Miss Rebecca Amich, who was born at Big 
Run, Jefferson county, Pa., a daughter of John and Sophia Amich, and they have 
five children:  Edna, who is the wife of William Hepfer, of DuBois, Pa.; Alta, 
who is the wife of E. B. Ferguson, of Clearfield; Wayne S., who married Daisy 
Folks; J. Roe, who is a teacher in the schools of Clearfield county; and C. R., 
who is a telegraph operator for the New York Central Railroad.  Mr. and Mrs. 
McQuown are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.