BIO: William W. 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 503 & 504.
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  WILLIAM W. McQUOWN, who has been a resident of Mahaffey, Pa., for the past 
quarter of a century, is senior member of the insurance and real estate firm of 
W. W. McQuown & Son, of that town, and has also been prominent in local public 
affairs for many years.  He was born in February, 1851, in Rayne township, 
Indiana county, Pa., a son of William and Margaret (Shields) McQuown, and a 
grandson of Colonel Shields, who held that rank during the War of 1812 and later 
became one of the leading farmers and lumbermen in Indiana county.
  William McQuown, the father of William W. McQuown, was also a native of 
Indiana county, Pa., from whence at the age of thirty-six years he enlisted in a 
Pennsylvania regiment for service during the Civil War, three months of his 
service being spent as a prisoner in a Southern prison.  Upon receiving his 
honorable discharge he returned to Indiana county, but several years later went 
with his family to a neighboring county, purchased a farm, and there spent the 
remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1906, when he was eighty years of 
age.  His wife passed away at Mahaffey when she was seventy-two years old.
  William W. McQuown was reared in Indiana county, and after completing his 
education took up lumbering in Clearfield county.  In 1885 he was elected 
justice of the peace on the Republican ticket, an office which he held for 
twenty years, and in 1907 he was appointed postmaster at Mahaffey.  He has also 
acted in the capacity of clerk of the council for nine years, city auditor and 
member of the school board.  For the past seven years he has been engaged in the 
real estate and insurance business, under the firm name of W. W. McQuown & Son.  
Fraternally he is connected with Mahaffey Lodge No. 147, Knights of Pythias, and 
Clearfield Lodge No. 540, of the Elks.
  In 1875 Mr. McQuown was married to Miss Susan Schaffer, of Indiana county, 
Pa., and to this union there have been born ten children.  William B.; Emma, who 
prior to her marriage to J. H. Bilhart taught school for three years in Bell 
township; M. L., who married Miss Louise Buterbaugh; Esther, who married Joseph 
Hineman; Robert, who died at Mahaffey at the age of six years; Victor; Ulrica, a 
graduate of the public schools and the Lockhaven Normal School, who taught 
school for three years and is now assistant principal of the Mahaffey High 
School; Andrew; Stanley, who died at the age of one year; and Thomas W.