BIO: WINFIELD SCOTT McGAW, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 458
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    WINFIELD SCOTT McGAW, a member of an old and honored family of Cumberland
  county, is now a resident of Hopewell township. He is a son of Samuel and
  Elizabeth (Gurrell) McGaw, whose other children were as follows: Sarah, who
  died at the age of twenty-one years in Mifflin township, and was buried at
  Newville; James, who learned the milling trade, and went to Dayton, Ohio, and
  later to California by ox team, and was engaged in the dairy business, but is
  now retired; Isabella, who married Abraham Snyder, deceased, and she is
  living at Newburg; Jane E., who married Alexander S. Koontz, and died in
  Plainfield, and buried near Newville; Mary, who married Jacob Cline,
  deceased, and she lives at Leesburg; John A., who married Mary Ellen McCrea,
  and died in Port Royal, Juniata county, where his family are still living: G.
  W., who married Lizzie Gill, and enlisted in the army, was captured and
  confined at Libby Prison, where he died; Lewis C., who married Julia Carral,
  and lives in Kansas, being engaged in farming; Ellen, who married William
  Thumma, and died at Jacksonville.
    
    For about fourteen years, after reaching his maturity, Winfield S. McGaw
  conducted the stage business, but bought the "Exchange Hotel" at Newburg in
  1888, and has conducted it ever since, it being the only hotel in the borough.
    
    In 1862 Winfield Scott McGaw was married to Miss Sarah A. Sterick, and
  their children were: D. S. married Sadie Moler, and is engaged in business at
  Waynesboro; Minnie B. is at home; Thomas Edward died at the age of two years;
  Frank L. died at the age of eighteen years of typhoid fever; J. C. is at
  home; Mabel G. married J. C. Basehore. Mr. McGaw resides in Hopewell
  township, and is very active in the Democratic party of that locality. For
  many years he has been recognized as a solid and leading man of his township,
  and has many friends here and throughout the county.